WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:15.800 Mummy bear, it's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for August 2 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.920 fourth, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, let me 3 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.079 help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live with Me 4 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:27.480 Jeff Grab Today, a Pokemon Presents is incoming and boulders Gate three is impossibly 5 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.800 popular. But first please join me and welcome me today's co host to Game 6 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.960 Mess Mornings. It's Tamoor who's saying everybody, tam how are you doing for 7 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.960 Dregs Day? I am doing fantastic, Jeff. I am excited for Drag's 8 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.280 Day. As always, we got the dregs. I've looked through this, 9 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.479 uh this run show and let me tell you this. Some dregs in here, 10 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.320 some big drags in here. They're gonna get the energy up and we're 11 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.359 gonna have a nice time because, as you all know, we are yummy 12 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.600 like a gummy bear. We are yummy like a gummy bear. We made 13 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.320 it to Friday. That means, you know, it's it's it's shut the 14 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.480 fuck up Friday, it's flat fuck Friday. We're doing it all. We're 15 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:10.200 making it all happen today. Uh I it was listen, good week here 16 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:11.239 and Giant Bomb. I had a lot of fun. Glad to get back 17 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.879 in the swing of things. Uh, there are I mean, we say 18 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.760 it. There's too many video games, and the games are bigger than ever 19 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.519 I am. I'm afraid of Boulder Skate three. That's where I'm at. 20 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:23.719 I know you guys did that quick look. You guys did a good job 21 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.879 on that. I believe there was some love in there. Oh man, 22 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:34.599 if you have not seen that quick look, is it up? It is 23 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:42.640 a moment where, oh my god, we were not expecting. I love 24 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:49.200 the just like Genitals Off is like the thing we all do remember before breaking 25 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:52.599 content, genitals off. Genitals Off? But uh, yes, that that 26 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.359 game seems like it's going to have a lot of magical moments that just can 27 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:57.799 happen. You're like, oh my god, where it's come from? So 28 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:04.319 yeah, but I just it's so massive, overwhelming it and it's it's coming 29 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.480 at a time of year where there's a lot of other stuff happening. Like 30 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.039 I am like side I in my email every once in a while, like 31 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:13.199 I'm red Course six. Maybe something happening there or something going to happen. 32 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.159 Yeah, Scott By Soon it's gonna missen to be soon and then you know, 33 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:19.360 not long after that Starfield like we're in the realm of possibility of like 34 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.719 you know, Coats could show up at any moment, who knows. And 35 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:24.439 it's so it's like, yeah, lots of stuff, lots of big stuff 36 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:30.479 happening. But I think I'm going to give Balder's Gate three the college try. 37 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:32.240 That's where I'm at with that, where I'm actually want to give it 38 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:37.039 a real chance. I think you have to. So this is an approach 39 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:40.439 I tooked with Tears of the Kingdom, which I've fallen off of in a 40 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:44.719 major way. I have a lot of time thinking about that game, and 41 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.120 I've got some things to say about it, but I will not be saying 42 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:51.479 it yet. I approached that game knowing that I will not beat it. 43 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.800 I'll not finish it immediately. It's just a game I'm going to casually dip 44 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.879 in and out of. I think for a lot of people that is probably 45 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.840 a good way to think of Bother's Gate three, where you kind of like 46 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:06.719 jump in, play a bit, have some fun, and then if you 47 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.280 can come back for another session soon, great, If not, you just 48 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.080 give it a little bit of time. Like what is based on a Dungeons 49 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.919 and Dragons campaign. Yes, I think that if you're in a position where 50 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:21.879 you can play and I know you are, Jeff, on a steam Deck 51 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.280 or a rock Ally, that is even better. So I've played it on 52 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:30.400 both and it performs well. Okay, fantastic. This is literally literally the 53 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:34.400 question I've been asking and we've been looking to get answered. So to hear 54 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:38.639 you try it on both. Okay, I think steam Deck, even though 55 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.800 the rock ally is more powerful. I think the steam Deck occasionally having like 56 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.159 the touch pads I think will help. Yeah. Yeah, I've been playing 57 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:50.159 it primarily on the rock Ally. I will say the steam Deck version, 58 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.800 although it worked for me and it was running well, it is also quite 59 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:58.879 finicky and it seems like it's not as consistent with some people who are like 60 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:01.639 mine is not running particularly well. And I think direct extra eleven like when 61 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.719 it gives you that option VULK is the way to go. Yes, yeah, 62 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:10.280 the eleven, and it's also like switching some proton stuff. And but 63 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:14.680 I found the rog ally to be a little more consistent with it, and 64 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.519 especially like I have been playing in like one or two hour stretches because of 65 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:23.040 the physical makeup of that piece of hardware. It's less taxing on holding it 66 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.680 for a really long time. Yeah, if you have a Steam deck, 67 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.959 give it. I mean try it on both and see what happens. The 68 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.600 issue I have with the rog ally is when I'm playing it over speakers, 69 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:35.839 there's a lot of popping, so I have to put headphones in for that 70 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:43.560 one. Yeah, that's it seems like an ideal game for well, obviously 71 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:46.560 it looks great. Playing it on a BFPC is wonderful, But then having 72 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:48.600 those sessions where it's like, you know, I am going to play this 73 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:53.000 before bed and I'm just playing it on the handheld would be ideals. So 74 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:58.439 yeah, i mean get yourself that that Larry and account and let Steam saves 75 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.560 also work with it. It's just cross say, if you can play on 76 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.160 that, pick up on that so you can go for that. That's what 77 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.959 I'm gonna go for. All Right, Well let's get into this mess. 78 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.240 But before we do, let's explain what we do here. Most week days, 79 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.399 I Jeff Greb will help peace your gaming life back together. That includes 80 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.040 breaking news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. For all these 81 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.199 topics, I'll get the input of a Bona fide expert who will make me 82 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.959 look smart? You were watching live on twitch Welcome. You can always listen 83 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:26.480 to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game mess Mornings, or 84 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:30.560 find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch the show 85 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.399 later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. All right, we 86 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:39.360 have a lot to get into, so let's start dregs Day with a Pokemon 87 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.399 Presents live stream is confirmed for next week. This is from Jordan Midler at 88 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.439 VGC the Biggest Pokey Freak I know a new Pokemon Presents stream is taking place 89 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:50.399 next week. It's been confirmed Pokemon Presents We will return on August eight at 90 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:56.160 two pm UK nine am Easterns to six am Pacific, the Pokemon Company said 91 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.160 on Friday. A teaser for the streams shows the Pokemon Presents logo before it 92 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.160 is quickly replaced by a purple glitched version of the same logo. The broadcast 93 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.279 will be thirty five minutes long. It's currently unclear what we'll be shown as 94 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:11.000 part of the event, but we'll likely hear more about Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's 95 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:15.279 upcoming DLC. What do you What do you want from Pokemon these days, 96 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.720 Tam, Hey, you know what I want from Pokemon these days? Nothing? 97 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:25.000 Well, good news, It's probably gonna be this DLC and then a 98 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.800 whole lot of I know, the thing I want most is like, whoa, 99 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:32.519 what happened there? And that was me? I banged my micro arm 100 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.000 with this remote control to the TV because the kid really wants to play video 101 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:42.600 games. Yeah, I think that. I just the thing that I want 102 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.199 most is something I probably won't get, which is like technical improvements, Like 103 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:50.839 that's the thing that I want most out of Pokemon games on the Switch especially, 104 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:55.480 is like improve the performance, fix up some of the weird shit, 105 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.959 Like it's gotten a little bit as far as I know, but like still 106 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:03.319 not particularly great. But yeah, of the thing is that they are probably 107 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:06.800 going to add is that content focus, which is you know, new Pokemon 108 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.560 maybe like some new quest or some shit like that. I don't know. 109 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:18.319 I generally I like the Pokemon games still, but I don't stick with them 110 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.519 for extended periods of time, Like, yeah, these all these Pokemon I 111 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:26.959 look at them, I'm like, you know, that's cool, those the 112 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.879 old ones, I think I'm I think I'm in the same thinking with with 113 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.959 Pokemon these days where I I don't really harbor anything, you know, ill 114 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.519 will against them or anything like that, and when I play them, I'm 115 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.079 usually fine. I like the Legends a lot, but even that I didn't 116 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.160 stick with. So yeah, I'm just not sticking with these games for very 117 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.319 long. But you know, going back to the thing of like wanting to 118 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.079 have those technical improvements, that's something that early on the word was, or 119 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:55.480 the implication from the Pokemon company was that's what they would do with Scarlet and 120 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:01.120 Violet. I don't think I believe them anymore. I don't ever expect them 121 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.439 to really do much to actually fix quote unquote Scarlet and Violet and give it, 122 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.279 like, you know, a solid thirty frames per second across the board. 123 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.879 I think the game is what it is, and they they are, 124 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:15.120 like you said, just gonna make new content because that's the thing that the 125 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:18.040 people that show up for these Pokemon presents actually care about. Let me ask 126 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.839 you a question. This is gonna sound a bit dumb, but I've got 127 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.279 a terrible memory, so maybe you actually remember it. Has there been a 128 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:33.919 game on Switch from Nintendo where they've like actively stayed on top of and for 129 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:39.639 a let's say a long term period, have updated it on a feature and 130 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.399 technical perspective. Is there any game which they've done that way? Yeah? 131 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.840 I not really they've done I don't think so there's been Oh, splatoons are 132 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.799 good, like but yeah, but okay, no, but like content, 133 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:54.559 like, is there any game whether like, hey, we improve the performance 134 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.480 on this one. Hey you know, we've you know, tweaked it so 135 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.840 you can now do this you right, this feature now. The kinds of 136 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:07.639 things they have done are like add stuff slowly over time to their sports games 137 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.159 as part of like their marketing plan in terms of you know, all being 138 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:15.840 like, okay, a year later, we have this new update out of 139 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.799 nowhere that fixes a bunch of problems that people have with the game. There 140 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.799 hasn't been much of that. Uh, they're not not really so yeah, 141 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.919 yeah, I think it's just about it. No, That's what I was 142 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.759 gonna say. I wonder, like Nintendo doesn't think about that, Pokemon companies 143 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.440 the same. I wonder if there's like a perception around constantly updating your games 144 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.720 that is different from you know, Nintendo approach to everyone else where. It 145 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.240 feels like if you're constantly updating your games, what you're saying about that game. 146 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.480 I don't know. There's got to be some sort of like ethos or 147 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:52.960 thinking behind why they don't. It comes down to resources and yeah, like 148 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.600 also, like a lot of their games launched fine, yeah, good. 149 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:01.480 Pokemon is the one exception, like even the most ridiculous games or somehow rock 150 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.639 solid for the most part, with like because of the Kingdom being one example 151 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:09.200 of that. That game should break constantly, but it seems to be largely 152 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.360 right solid, and it's you know where it is the word the frame rate 153 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.879 drops and it's like, oh, it would be nice if they could optimize 154 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:18.399 this even further. It's clear they optimize it as much as they could, 155 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.320 and this is it's just pushing up against the physical limitations of what the switch 156 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.639 can do. And so it's easy to forgive something like that, Pokemon being 157 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:31.759 very difficult to forgive, although a lot of people have yeah, well before 158 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:33.840 we like, yeah, I know, the Pokemon fans are gonna be like, 159 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.080 I can't believe they're talking about Pokemon. The only thing they're talking about 160 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.960 is fucking resolutions. This shit, Like I don't want it, but I 161 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.279 want to see what this means. I hope they do the thing where it's 162 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:48.120 like, treat it like a major Fortnite event where it's like, you know, 163 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.679 oh no, the glitches have taken over the Pokemon Island. All the 164 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.519 Pokemon are corrupt. You have to go around and purchase the Pokemon of the 165 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.120 dark Energy because if you don't this peak, you will consume the entire world. 166 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.720 Oh no, well, I like that. I would. I would 167 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.200 appreciate that they should just lean into it hard. They just they should have 168 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.120 like one Pokemon go Giganta Max or Giganta Max and it's the only one, 169 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.039 and it's like Godzilla on the island, the way Bowser is in Mario DLC. 170 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:24.320 He's like approaching a giant Bowser's size Pikachu coming and you need to get 171 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.000 a squad together before the peak giant Pikachu gets to the island and you can 172 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.200 only use that squad to fight, and if you don't win, you get 173 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.360 wiped and you have to start all over again. Uh yeah, I love 174 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.120 and I'd like the idea of it's like Mario gets big and turns another cats 175 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.240 suit in that and Bowser's fury just a giant Pikachu shooting fat bolts of lightning, 176 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:48.080 just thick lights. That's what I want. It's it's the fat Pikachu 177 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.799 from the first Genel Pokemon, and it's come back and it's like vengeance, 178 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:56.559 like I was replaced. Now I've returned my furious home building for decades down 179 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.879 and here I am at revenge. I went nuclear. You guys would not 180 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.440 watching. And then it turns into a Kojima game. Fantastic. I love 181 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.000 it. I love it all right. Boulders Gate three is twenty twenty three 182 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:11.120 second biggest Steam launched so far. This comes from Jordan Midlery of VGC. 183 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.000 Newly released RPG boulders Gate three has enjoyed the second biggest Steam launch of twenty 184 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.159 twenty three so far. The game, which has been in early access for 185 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.600 years, was officially released on Thursday on Steam, where it saw peak concurrent 186 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.480 players account of four hundred and twenty seven thousand according to independent steam tracker steam 187 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.039 dB, and apparently according Lexie and Chat, just crossed five hundred thousand concurrents 188 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:37.919 right now. So that's like a it must be popular across like Europe and 189 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.320 Asia as well, yeah, because I mean that's where people are playing games 190 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.720 right now. So five hundred thousand very good. While impressive, it's still 191 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.799 a long way off of twenty twenty three's biggest Steam released to date, Hogwarts 192 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.720 Legacy, which saw a peak concurrent player account of eight hundred and seventy nine 193 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.320 thousand, three hundred and eight during its launch period. But real cutting five 194 00:12:54.440 --> 00:13:00.399 hundred thousand concurrent players for any game is amazing. It is a huge, 195 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:05.240 huge number. Most games come out and don't do that. That's that's just 196 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.799 it's a gigantic Badski three was develop by Larry, who previously helmed pathbeck Style 197 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.639 two. Uh def any original sin too. I don't think they weren't pathbaxtile 198 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.440 to what's going on over there with Jordan or was that them as well? 199 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.639 A playable single player, a multiplayer RPG. It's it's very popular, it's 200 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:26.120 getting good reviews. You you've played how many hours tam So I played? 201 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.639 I believe it was six hours in the early access, many many many years 202 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:37.960 ago. And then basically I started, I played seven or eight hours starting 203 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:43.600 from scratch, and now I'm going to restart again because like I've got a 204 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.039 little better understanding, and I realized the character I made is quite boring. 205 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.080 It's a rogue character. Which is a character I always make, and then 206 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:54.159 once you start playing, you realize, oh man, there's so much going 207 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.679 in this game when I picked the most boring character. So my plan is 208 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:01.919 to remake a character and make patches. The Hyena from the Souls series. 209 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:09.440 Yeah, because there's a there's a there's ability called shove, which is you 210 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.320 can just push yeah off like sides of cliffs, which is a patch's classic. 211 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.200 And there's also like a I can't remember, it's like dark there's a 212 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.120 version of the Dark Passenger as a personality trait where every time you see someone 213 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:28.360 you have violent tendencies in your head. That so I'm just going to combine 214 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.679 that into making patches and playing patches. Uh that that's that's beautiful. I 215 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:39.639 I just I did select Asterion, a starian who's like the first guy on 216 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:41.360 there, like, hey, the created characters that we made for you, 217 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:46.840 and he's like an elf rogue or something like that. And I think what 218 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.799 I'm gonna do is we we're trying to do this for the multiplayer mode for 219 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.559 UPF today. They I'll create a character for multiplayer and just kind of mess 220 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:56.279 around with that instead, and that will like kind of be my multiplayer character. 221 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.720 But yes, this game is just more popular than imagined. It really 222 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:07.120 could be. It is, and I think it goes to show that publishers 223 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:13.360 don't know what they're doing, like because there's a world in which, like 224 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.480 you know, BioWare and Butts, they're still making RPGs like they used to 225 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.159 and aren't like leaning into what we've got to make all our stuff online multiplayer 226 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.039 shooters let you play with your friends. Clearly, there is a thirst for 227 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:31.480 these kinds of games and it's and someone has like is feeding this audience and 228 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.720 it's getting rewarded for it with one of the biggest releases of twenty twenty three, 229 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:37.720 a year filled with great games, people are showing up for this. 230 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:41.039 Do you think this is a lesson that could be learned or do you think 231 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.000 it's a kind of a one off special thing. I don't think it's a 232 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.799 one off special thing. I also feel like I wish it was a lesson 233 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.440 that could be learned. I want it to be a lesson that could be 234 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:56.399 learned. But I think there's enough considerations, realistic considerations, that someone in 235 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.919 a publisher's position would be able to arguing against it, or like at least 236 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.519 temper the kind of lesson that is being learned because is it a case of, 237 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:10.200 you know, is this a unique thing that happened, or is it 238 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:14.919 a case of like the fact that these games don't exist as much anymore and 239 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.559 a lot of publishers have moved away from them now means that this is as 240 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.000 popular as it is. So if if a lot of publishers see this now 241 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:25.679 and they flock to bringing back major RPGs, then probably not going to hit 242 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:29.000 the same levels of success as Bald's Gate three, because there'll be a Diamond 243 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.200 dozen by that point. Everyone will have one a little bit. Yeah, 244 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:34.919 yeah, exactly, so I think balds Gate, especially in Bald's Gate three, 245 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:41.159 it's this perfect intersection of a brand that has a lot of nostalgia but 246 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.440 also has a lot of name recognition and also has a lot of kind of 247 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.759 word of mouth, like people who will advocate for it and be like, 248 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.720 oh, this this is a series from the old days that you know, 249 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.679 is like really good and super heavy RPG stuff. Larry and are really really 250 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:02.440 good about, you know, how they are messaging around games and also making 251 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:07.480 games that are very very enjoyable to play. Like between this and Divinity, 252 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.640 like they have hit their stride. I feel like they are to like these 253 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:17.000 kind of RPGs what from Soft is to their own games. It's like they 254 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.920 are like they figured out their thing and they're just like exceptionally good at it. 255 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.000 And then on top of that, it's just like the timing of it, 256 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.079 like it came out, you know, at a time when people wanted 257 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.400 it, there wasn't a lot of it. And also you know, people 258 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.559 are just hanging about waiting for big games. I mean, I mean they 259 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:36.920 think about, like, what is this based on Dungeons and dragons never been 260 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:38.480 more popular than it is, right, Yeah, So it's like between that 261 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:42.079 stuff worked in its favor as well, Yeah, people playing it during the 262 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:47.079 pandemic as a way to kind of connect and the popularity of stuff like Critical 263 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.319 Role and that kind of stuff dn D and the DND movie, which is 264 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:55.599 good and like it could not be more popular. So it just so happens 265 00:17:55.720 --> 00:18:00.000 fituitously, like they release the most DND game that has ever been made. 266 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.160 Yeah, so I feel like the lesson to be learned is, yes, 267 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:11.680 stop making ship that is generic and give people a me single player rpg and 268 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.960 like this kind of stuff that they want, But at the same time, 269 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.440 there's a very good chance that if you don't have something unique about your game, 270 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.039 if you just make a generic RPG of this ILK, you probably will 271 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.000 get left behind. And and like if if they like I mean, by 272 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.880 the way, is making a new dragon mass Effect and dragon Age and in 273 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.640 that dragon Age was it's going to be a single player RPG after they debated 274 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.279 making a multiplayer once. So it's like they are in right direction. Yeah, 275 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:45.279 so I feel like Baldle's Gate three is gonna provide a very very fertile 276 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:51.240 ground for games like dragon Age and Mass Effect when it when it times. 277 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.279 I also like I think the like it's not maybe not a major portion of 278 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.079 it, but like the ease of getting into PC gaming currently because this is 279 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:03.680 just PC right, Like this is not a major console factor in yeas of 280 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.839 getting into PC gaming with a lot of like you know, buying computers that 281 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.519 are pre built bars very good, not like the old dells. While you'll 282 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.319 buy it and you'll be like you're trying to open a calculator. Get fucked. 283 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.079 Now, it's like you buy a pre build and it's like top of 284 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:22.039 the line, it's a gaming PC. And then like playing on cloud stuff, 285 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.200 and then also these handheld devices, like it's more consumer friendly to get 286 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.440 into PC. So it's playing a game like this is no longer no longer 287 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.359 has major barriers. This is the kind of thing that only PC nerds will 288 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:34.960 be able to do. Previous Yeah, PC gaming is at a place where 289 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:38.680 it's like, I think what happened is like that a lot of the console 290 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:44.039 games since like the Xbox three six years started coming to PC and people are 291 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:45.000 like, oh, I could just play both games with a controller on my 292 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.559 PC. And then suddenly they're like, well, I'm on PC and there's 293 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:52.440 all these other games here. I guess I'll try them. And then a 294 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.119 computer ass RPG comes out and it's like, yeah, of course I'll try 295 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.720 this. There's no there's nothing scary about trying Boulders game three. I think 296 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.519 you're right, those barriers have come down. Think Minto and Chat also points 297 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:06.039 out kind of what I was thinking and where it's like those D and D 298 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:07.480 podcast I listened to a handful of them, or I have in the past. 299 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:10.400 I don't listen to many anymore, but I have in the past, 300 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:14.880 and I'm like, I've never really played dungeons and Dragons. This feels like 301 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:19.960 a safe, confined, well polished way for me to get a similar experience 302 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:23.079 without having to do the effort of getting a bunch of people together to like 303 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:26.319 kind of teach me how to have fun playing D and D. So I 304 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.359 think a lot of people might be feeling that as well. The other side 305 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.960 of this is early access. This game was an early access for what three 306 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:38.880 years. That is to me, early access has always obviously been a good 307 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:44.200 thing. I think after this and after Haites, I hope more and more 308 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:48.240 studios and even big publishers consider early access. Just refine your game over years, 309 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.559 sell it to people during that time, and then when you go to 310 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.359 one point zero, you can still have this big launch day, as is 311 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.200 evidenced by this game right here. Like the people weren't like, oh I 312 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.920 played in early access, I don't know, I'm not going to check it 313 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.400 out like everyone just jumped in. Still yeah. The caveat I have that 314 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.960 from a personal perspective is like there's two types of games that come out the 315 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.279 games, especially on early access, where there's early access games that feel like 316 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:21.160 genuine and there's early access that I feel exploitative. It's like some games. 317 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:25.480 Like the reason this worked was because that original version, the early access version 318 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:27.920 that they put out was a banger, like you could play it wasn't complete, 319 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:30.759 but you played it and you're like, oh, this is really good. 320 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.440 It's like already polished, and I can see what they're going for and 321 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:37.960 they're going to carry on work at the same with Hades, Like Hades was 322 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:44.599 like the core game that they released very good. There's there's a whole like 323 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.000 gluttony of early access games that are like we put this dog shit together and 324 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:51.000 now help us like make it better. And it's like I don't I don't 325 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.319 want to do that, and I think I think yes if if the answer 326 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.519 there is your game still has to be good, Yeah, absolutely, that 327 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.240 is still going to be key. But it's like I can see a world. 328 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:03.680 And this came up on games de sides last night, so the someone 329 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.759 to Chat mentioned this and like, what like that Knights of the Old Republic 330 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:10.720 game that is seems like it might be in development. How as it got 331 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:17.319 moved from developer to developer over under the Embracer group label over there. Imagine 332 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:18.640 they just put that in early access for a couple of years while they tried 333 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.279 to figure out some of that stuff, Like we already know that that game 334 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:26.599 has some pretty decent mechanics underneath everything, and it's like, you don't want 335 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.400 to worry about story spoilers because we've all played the story before everyone's aware of 336 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:33.880 them. Or if you want to avoid you just continue avoiding them. I 337 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:36.720 think putting something like that, given a couple of years to get it refined, 338 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:40.400 get it to a point where it is like this, please just do 339 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:41.680 that, I think it's the right answer for a lot of games. I 340 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.440 mean, yeah, I think that would be great. But I think convincing 341 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:51.240 yes license holders an IP holders that early access is a valuable thing is very 342 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:52.319 different, because it's like, oh, we're gonna put out this game. 343 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:56.880 It's not gonna be done, but we're gonna work on it and people we're 344 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:59.839 gonna up. Don't worry about people saying this sucks, because that's the point. 345 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.960 And then if you're in charge of Stallwar's IP, you're not doing that. 346 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:04.960 Yeah, I know, I don't want that. I think it's probably 347 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:10.720 something that gets picked up by like the Warhammer IP holders, like we'll be 348 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:14.079 like, yeah, we will do that. But Star Wars YEA three I 349 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:15.759 think should prove to a lot of people who are hesitant before that it can 350 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:19.200 work. I think you're still right. Disney's gonna be like, no, 351 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:22.759 thank you, no thank you. We're not doing that. All right, 352 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:27.079 Let's keep going here. Balds Gate three devs want to stay independent because it 353 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:30.799 keeps it more creative. This comes from George Yang at game Spot. Balder's 354 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:34.920 Gate three developer. Larian Studios wants to stay independent and its founders have no 355 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:40.160 plans to sell the studio anytime soon. In an interview with Bloomberg, Larian 356 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:45.200 Studios founder Swin Vink said the prospect of being acquired by a large company was 357 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.880 flattering. Here's the quote. The strength of this company is that I'm very 358 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.440 invested in the gameplay, and I also make the ultimate decisions. We could 359 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.079 do things and service and the service of the games we're making. This was 360 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.720 a response to a rumored list on social media detailing which studios Microso was allegedly 361 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.000 considering acquiring. Among the list were Larrying Studios and Sega, as well as 362 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.599 a bunch of others. Microsoft is also busy trying to finalize Activision, Blizzard 363 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:15.519 and all that stuff. This, I mean this sounds right, because if 364 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.160 you are having your like breakout moment like you mentioned from software, I think 365 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:22.599 that's a very good analog for Larrying studios, Like Larrying studios working in their 366 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:27.279 wheelhouse, completely dominating the space, redefining what that looks like, and then 367 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:32.799 having a huge breakout success after I was several very successful games before this, 368 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:37.279 but this is a breakout success. They can kind of write their own checks, 369 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:38.440 they can write their own future. They could do what they want. 370 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:42.720 They're probably not going to give that up, right, No. I mean 371 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:48.359 also, like, as we're pointing out that Microsoft, that list of studios 372 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.559 that Microsoft was looking at, Quiet had every studio and I'm pretty sure, 373 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.720 I'm pretty sure I was on that list. Quired me at some point, 374 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.440 Like that's just normal. I saw that. Might that makes sense, Yeah, 375 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:04.039 that's that makes sense. But yeah, I feel like this is the 376 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:10.240 smart play, but it's also a play that can only be made by a 377 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:15.559 company that is successful. Yeah, it has a vision, and they've got 378 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:19.519 a bunch of extremely successful games behind them. I don't want to oversell how 379 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:25.039 the impact of that, you know, because they are also like they are 380 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:27.599 still a relatively small team compared to the likes of Microsoft, EA, that 381 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:32.319 kind of stuff, but they have put a lot of time and effort into 382 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:36.599 becoming the developer that they are, which is a relatively small team that is 383 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:41.359 punching so above its weight that it's wild. And I feel like, if 384 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.160 you've done the work to get to that point, you want to preserve the 385 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:51.000 working environment, the ethos, the workflows, the kind of thing that you've 386 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:55.200 got going, the magic that you have and you have created to get that 387 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:57.920 to that point, instead of like allowing a big company to come in and 388 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:02.240 just like start stick in their fingers and potentially ruin the source. You know, 389 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:04.400 these days, most big companies, especially in Microsoft, they have an 390 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:07.640 approach which is like we're not going to touch you. We'll just give you 391 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:12.000 money, which is a better scenario than previously. But I think for a 392 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:17.640 studio like Larry and which is I mean now at the top of their game, 393 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.640 it makes perfect sense to just stay independent, let themselves call the shots. 394 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:27.079 And Swend We've interviewed him a bunch of times on game spots and he 395 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:30.680 does not feel like one of those you know, executives that is just like 396 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:37.640 in an ivory tower looking down at his developers. Right, No, no, 397 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:40.880 no, he's kee making the games. Yeah, he is in the 398 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:42.519 thick of it, he wants to say in some stuff like you know, 399 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.799 he's he understands, like he talks to his other developers, and he seems 400 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:51.799 very very well adjusted for the leader of a studio, which is rarely these 401 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:55.559 days. So I think everyone had that team unless where like you know, 402 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:57.240 who knows what could be happening behind closed doors. But like, I think 403 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:00.039 everyone that team would also probably agree that, like, let's keep we've got 404 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.920 a good thing going. Let's not break up the band just yet, Let's 405 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:06.839 not introduce any new singers or bass players to this, Like, let's just 406 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:08.960 keep how we're going for now. And I think that's the right move for 407 00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:12.039 them. I think so too, although if I if I am like a 408 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:15.559 company like Microsoft, it's like, man, I could go get larry In 409 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:18.880 and make them make a Fallout game. That would be real nice. But 410 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:23.720 yeah, I think I think Larian's gonna be doing their own thing for at 411 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:27.039 least a couple more games, Like they'll probably sell to someone eventually. The 412 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:32.000 eventually that juice runs out and you're like, yeah, we'll sell them that 413 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:33.880 way. We have that financial financial security and we'll keep making games the way 414 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.240 we were before. But I don't expect that to happen until at least you 415 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.720 know, they'll do with do many original sand three, they'll probably come. 416 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:42.519 They're definitely going to do a Fallow Up the boulders Gate. There's just no 417 00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:47.960 way after this game. That's that's my major question now, like do they 418 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:53.599 continue with I was gonna say their own IP but like the games that they 419 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:00.160 want to make and put their own stamp on, or do they because right 420 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.440 now, you know, there's every IP holder is looking at them as being 421 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.319 like, we need them to make up one of our games, like it 422 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.160 does Do we have a situation when Marvel comes knocking and says like, hey, 423 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:14.720 we'd love you to make the next Guardians of the Galaxy game or whatever, 424 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.640 or like we'd love you to make a Doctor Strange game RPG? Could 425 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:21.160 you do that? Is that something they do or are they like, now 426 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.359 we like this extremely nerdy RPG ship, like we're going to stick to this 427 00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:30.720 because there is that's the kind of half step between like having creative vision and 428 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:33.559 being acquired by someone else working with a license IP holder where you have some 429 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.160 of that creative vision but you also have this, you know, IP holder, 430 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.119 who's like, do it this way because we need it this way. 431 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:41.920 That would be that would be interesting. This is a lot of this is 432 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.440 like a foking a road that a lot of major developers reach at some point. 433 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:48.920 Like I think of Platinum when like they made banging games and eventually they 434 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:53.599 were like we got a channing out somebody's straight ass license games for a while. 435 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:57.880 Yep, It's like that fork of the road is real. I'm I'm 436 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:00.519 looking forward to seeing how this video handles it, but for now, I'm 437 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.160 just gonna enjoy Bolder's Gate three and not be like, hey, what are 438 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.799 you doing next? What are you doing next? Which is I'm always guilty 439 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:11.559 of. I'm always thinking about them, all right. One billion Switch games 440 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:15.559 have been sold. This is from Eddie McCoo at game Spot. As part 441 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.079 of Nintendo's latest financial briefing, the company updated its list of the top selling 442 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.440 Switch games of all time, and Mario Kart eight Deluxe continues to reign supreme. 443 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.880 Nintendo Olscar firm that more than one billion Switch games have now been sold 444 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.799 since the system arrived in twenty seventeen. Mario Kart eight Deluxe of course the 445 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.720 top selling game. There's whole bunch of top selling games. This is the 446 00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:37.480 first Nintendo system to surpass more than one billion games sold, I believe. 447 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.319 Yes, the Nintendo DS had nine hundred forty eight point seven six million games 448 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:45.480 sold for it, and the we had nine hundred twenty one point eight five 449 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.640 million, and those were the closest. And for you know, Nintendo, 450 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.680 though, that was great, that was really good. Getting across the billion 451 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.359 was difficult for them because they've always not always but and for most of the 452 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.519 recent consoles have lacked call of duty games like Battlefield A lot the big first 453 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.640 person shooters that sell a ton, and the annual sports games that also sell 454 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.119 a ton don't always come to their systems, and that's also been true for 455 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:12.400 the Switch. And yet the Switch just powering across the billion behind the strength 456 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.319 of obviously Mario Kart eight, but like a game like Two Tears of the 457 00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:19.440 Kingdom coming out and selling nearly nineteen million copies in two two months like that, 458 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:22.119 they are just mostly still doing it on the strength of their own games 459 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:26.359 and then a ton of very very popular indie games and a handful of third 460 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.480 party support. But that's a barrier they've never gotten across before, so the 461 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:36.200 Switch really kind of does feel like their most successful system ever in a lot 462 00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.720 of ways, perfect time for rumors of a success in to a pit. 463 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:44.960 Yeah yeah, yeah, man, I mean switch to those rumors keep you 464 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.119 know, bubbling up right now, The talk is eight inch screen sounds like 465 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.920 something that that's being discussed in a five hundred and twelve gigabytes of internal storage 466 00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:57.319 and it's again that sounds about right. This thing is almost certainly going to 467 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:00.880 have switch in the name, right, Like, yeah, it has to, 468 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.240 But then I don't know, Like the Wu had we in the name. 469 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.240 Yeah, was the supers and yeah, yeah they did. Yeah, 470 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.799 if they did super Switch, that would be so I would love that. 471 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.279 But I feel I feel like in this day and age is a marketing nightmare. 472 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:25.160 But yeah, I don't it all have Switch in the name. I 473 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.799 wouldn't be surprised if they just went switched to like honestly, like Nintendo doesn't 474 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:34.440 traditionally do the number in the name of a piece of hardware, but if 475 00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:38.319 anything called for it, it was it would probably be the game or the 476 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:42.599 platform that has a billion game sold, just to make sure that people know 477 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:48.640 it's a successor it's a better one, or the new switch the Apple style 478 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.119 or switch to the better switch. Yeah, I think I think it's a 479 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.480 difficult one. But I think after the we you was this that weird thing 480 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.160 where it's like the people don't really understand it and it can't switched too, 481 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.079 like you said, does make a lot of sense. Why if they do 482 00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.400 come combination, we switch where it is we switch? Yeah, that's uh, 483 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:13.200 just a lifestyle everybody. So I weren't doing it, Okay, let's 484 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:15.559 move along here. Damn. Every time I feel like you're on the show, 485 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.519 something happens with Kojima and I do you manifest? This is he's my 486 00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:24.279 He is my boy's animal. He knows that drags Day has come in. 487 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:27.680 He's like, let me give let me give him a homie something, Let 488 00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:31.559 me give him something. Uh. Hideo Kajima explains why he rewrote Death Strandy 489 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:37.759 two from scratch after the pandemics say I wanted too because I'm Hideo Kajima, 490 00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:42.000 I do shit. Okay, this is from Chris Scully and a VGC. 491 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:45.839 Hideo Kajima has explained that he had to completely rewrite Death Strandy two due to 492 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:47.960 the COVID nineteen pandemic. After the first trailer for the game was shown at 493 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.680 the Game Awards twenty twenty two, Coajima spoke on stage and revealed that he 494 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:54.720 had to rewrite the game story, but was vague as to the reasons for 495 00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:59.240 this. I had the story written before the pandemic, but after experience the 496 00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.160 pandemic, I just rewrote the whole story from scratch, he said. At 497 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.960 the time, I also didn't want to predict more of the future, so 498 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.839 I rewrote it now. In an interview with Japanese entertainment news sites Natalie Uh 499 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:14.680 guess the name of the site, Cojima gives more information on the impact of 500 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.759 the pandemic that the pandemic had on the interpretation of the story. Before the 501 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:22.000 pandemic, I'd actually already conceived the narrative for Death Stranding two, Kojima said, 502 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.839 Uh wait, what, asked the interviewer, Japanese pop Star, You 503 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:32.319 guys, I don't know. Nachi pop Star was writing for Natalie, but 504 00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:36.599 Death Stranding came out. Came out right on the brink of COVID nineteen. 505 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:39.319 I was under the impression that DEAs Stranding two's plot was developed with the pandemic 506 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:44.759 in mine, not exactly, Kojima replied. However, when the pandemic did 507 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.359 strike, it led us to restructure the entire script and death stranding. We 508 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:52.240 championed the act, We championed the act of connection. But as the pandemic 509 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.559 took hold, digital connections like remote work gained prominence. I also realized that 510 00:33:55.640 --> 00:34:01.599 digital connections alone couldn't satisfy human needs we are inherently explores, he added. 511 00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:06.759 Right now we're dealing with seclusion and division, and the world is undergoing significant 512 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:10.280 transformations. We can't rewind to our pre pandemic reality, so we've had had 513 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:15.679 to reassess the conception of connection in destrating to the interpretation of strand evolves. 514 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:20.320 You'll notice at the end of the teaser trailer a message says that should we 515 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.320 have connected, That's the crux of what we're trying to articulate in the sequel. 516 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:29.920 You can I can like already like imagine how that manifests. Here's what 517 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.320 Kajima does. He just like researches a bunch of stuff and reads a lot 518 00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:37.000 and watches movies all the time, and then those ideas get manifested in his 519 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:39.760 games, and he expresses them, and he's just he's a good sponge for 520 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:45.440 that stuff. He is Okay, he is the most empowered Wikipedia rita in 521 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:50.679 the world exactly. And also, if you think about it, he's Alan 522 00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:54.840 Wake. Everything he writes, Yeah comes the boss Man is Alan Wig. 523 00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.519 I think a lot of that is just like, yeah, he he reads 524 00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:02.960 the whipped articles that I think make his hair stand on edge on his arms. 525 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:05.920 And the reason it does that, it's because he could tell like, 526 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.599 oh, we are moving in this direction and that's true, and then he 527 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.719 puts in his game and it does come true. Because I think it's actually 528 00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:14.599 just he's got a good beat on that stuff. Now, of course he's 529 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:16.679 His writing is also completely absurd, but that just actually makes it fun. 530 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:22.440 I think it makes it more like what Paul Verhoeven right where it's like Paul 531 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:27.400 Verhoven's trying to make it grounded down to earth movies, but everything he says 532 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.079 it's true and it's going to come true. Yeah. This is the thing 533 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.880 that I always like, I enjoy about Kajima's writing and people are like, 534 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.639 oh, so bad, why did you do this? It's like, do 535 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:42.800 you want the idea of forming connection to be told? In the most boring 536 00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:49.079 way that everyone does all the time. Or do you want some batshit wild 537 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:54.280 circumstances and context to tell you this story that eventually becomes about connecting. That's 538 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:58.079 what I want. The second one. I don't need to be like you 539 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:02.159 should meet someone on in a meat cute in a cafe again, and I 540 00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.320 don't get shure about that. Like I want big whale and oil and by 541 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.039 the end of it, I want to be like learning the lesson and somehow 542 00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:13.920 it's like that's what I want from him. I want to be thinking about, 543 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:15.719 like what does this have to do with Moby Dick, And I'm like, 544 00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:19.320 I want to start thinking about like, oh shit, this this does 545 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.880 make sense now, That's what I want. Absolutely. Then the thing is 546 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:28.159 like, consistently, you will never play a story the way Kajima and his 547 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:31.679 team because the number of writers work on it. Tell a story I like 548 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:35.719 it or not, that's a different thing. But when you leave, you 549 00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:38.039 definitely will say no one. I've never had a story told to me like 550 00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:43.360 that. It's ridiculous. I am never played middle Gear Solid too, and 551 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:47.000 I think it's time, dude, I'll get Solid two is so good. 552 00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:51.119 I still play it every now and by the time you reach the end, 553 00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.440 you're going to be like, what is going on? And I was this 554 00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:58.480 game made all the way back then? Yep, I think I gotta make 555 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:01.360 that happen at the Stranded movie is currently in the works, could you recently 556 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:05.440 said he'll be heavily involved in its production, but won't be in the director's 557 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:07.679 chair. God damn it. I want to see that. I want to 558 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.480 see him direct a movie so bad. But uh yeah, that's this is 559 00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:14.119 obviously where he was always going. Where it's like, we are at my 560 00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.320 own studio, make it our nip. We are going to try to make 561 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:19.559 movies based on that stuff as well. He said that from the beginning with 562 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:22.760 this new yeah yeah, Death Running was supposed to have like an anime adout 563 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.039 Hey Shanny, He's like, I want to make action figures. I want 564 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.159 to make it all like he's he was into. He was very clear about 565 00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:34.320 wanting to merchandise and franchise a lot of his stuff. Yes, I'm adapt 566 00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.719 it all right, let's I'm wanna jump ahead here to two hours of Assassin's 567 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:40.960 Creed Jade footage have leaked online. This is from Jordan Miller of BGC. 568 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.000 Over two hours of footage from Assassin's Creed Jade has appeared online. The footage, 569 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.239 which was brief briefly on YouTube before it being taken down, is now 570 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:53.239 circulating online and it shows large portions of the mobile only Assassin's Creed Adventure. 571 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:58.719 Dam have you have you seen this? Have you missed it? Did it? 572 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:00.800 I'm gonna I'll put it up on the on the thing right now. 573 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:06.039 It just it does just straight up look like an Assassin's Creed. Uh It's 574 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:08.239 it's I'm like, I guess that's what they always said it would be. 575 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:10.199 But it's just like a kind of surprising to me, like, oh yeah, 576 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:15.880 this actually looks better than even like an Xbox three sixty year PlayStation three 577 00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:21.000 kind of looks about equivalent to like early PS four games. Uh yes. 578 00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:23.440 The footage also includes a surprising cameo from Cassandra, the lead, the female 579 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:27.840 lead from Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Assassin's Creed Jade, which is currently in beta 580 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.679 testing, is a free to play game set to be published by ten cents 581 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.440 level Infinite Division. After you be Soft announced a major strategic partnership with the 582 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:38.159 Chinese company last year. The game promises to offer a huge open world to 583 00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:43.000 explore, where they get their quoted as saying explore the path of Zia. 584 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.360 In Assassin's Creed, Code named Jade is set in the third century BC, 585 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:51.599 during the time of one of the first first unified dynasties in China. It's 586 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.840 a listen. I think this is impressive. Damn, I don't think I'll 587 00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.800 ever play this. We'll play it because I, for my sins, have 588 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.880 a long history with Assassin's Creed. I've enjoyed many entries in that franchise. 589 00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:12.519 I feel like they've become bloated to the point of being frustrating, which is 590 00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:17.159 why I'm excited for Mirage in a big way. I still dabble in all 591 00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:21.519 the Assassin's Creed. I'll play a little bit just to see what it is. 592 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:22.599 And if it's one of those this is an open world. We've got 593 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.480 way too much stuff to do and none of it is mostly good, so 594 00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:30.559 I play that. If it's one of those, I'm out. If it's 595 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.519 something a little more focused, I'm definitely in. I hope this is a 596 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.719 little more focused, in which case I would enjoy that way more. But 597 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.239 we'll see. Well, let me I mean, let me ask, then, 598 00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:45.199 as someone who has a history of sin with Assassin's Creed, does this 599 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:50.320 make sense as a like a free to play game, Like can you imagine 600 00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:53.000 how that would work? That is the tricky part of it, So the 601 00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:55.599 free to play part of it. At the moment they said free to play, 602 00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:59.840 I was like, oh God, there we go. There is a 603 00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:05.760 world where you know, they they create a standard Assassin's Creed game in the 604 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:09.599 model of a one of the newer ones, which is basically an RPG focus 605 00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:15.599 thing where everyone's got levels, there's weapons and they have different effects and that 606 00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:20.199 kind of stuff, and then monetize the crap out of like you know, 607 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:27.000 like charms and weapons and outfits and upgrade shortcuts and et cetera, et cetera. 608 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:30.719 I felt like that might have some limitedness, given that if it's a 609 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:35.519 traditional Assassin's Creed game, it will end up you run out of the story. 610 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:37.480 And the only way that is like long term viable is if you have 611 00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:43.320 a repeatable gameplay experience. Right, So either it must mean that this is 612 00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:47.119 like mission based or some sort of rogue element to it, but that isn't 613 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:53.480 immediately evident in the footage or anything that I said so far, it looks 614 00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:57.159 just like Assassin's Creed, Like right, it just looks like an Assassin's Creed 615 00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:00.599 game. Yeah, I mean this could be like the game player you could 616 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:01.400 be seen here. It could be like a rogue like side of thing ware 617 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.400 this lad dies or this person dies. It's it's a fresh start and a 618 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.000 different wall than that kind of thing. Or it could just be like this 619 00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:15.039 is one of many missions that you do repeatedly as part of dailies or whatever 620 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:17.559 it may be. But you can see in this footage, Like for people 621 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:22.320 who aren't watching, they can just imagine something like Odyssey Origins, which is, 622 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:27.000 you know, open a world and it's gone numbers over their head. 623 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.719 Yeah, every enemy's got a number of their head and you are damaged. 624 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:32.559 Numbers are coming out of it, which is the thing that I don't want 625 00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:39.239 in Assassin's Creed games. But like there's various monetization routes in that framework of 626 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:43.360 game design. Yeah, I wonder if it's they they'll have a feature like 627 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:47.679 brotherhood where you like you're sending off you're a fellow Assassin's Creed assassin members after 628 00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:52.039 your missions. Like I could see that being like yeah, I mean that's 629 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:53.679 going to take a day, but if you want to speed it up, 630 00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:55.599 you could just pay to speed it up. Like that's the kind of thing 631 00:41:55.679 --> 00:42:00.239 that would have would fit with Assassin's kind of also like we're building up the 632 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:04.760 Assassin's Brotherhood in China and you need to you can take a companion or with 633 00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:08.400 you on a mission, and then like has you need to? It just 634 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:13.960 turns into gingch and impact. It's like, yeah, has a recruit you've 635 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:17.719 pulled Cassandra. Good for you. Cassandra will now give you some advice and 636 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.760 how to build the Assassin's Brotherhood hair because she's done it in ancient Greece or 637 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:25.159 whatever. Yeah, you're right. I think it's gonna be ginching. You're 638 00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:28.960 right. That's it's probably gonna be a lot of that. Okay, now 639 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.400 that starts to makes sense. I'm cure. I've always been curious about this 640 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:36.000 one. I'm it's cool to see it. Even if it's great, I 641 00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.840 just don't I hate seeing my battery drain on my phone, and games just 642 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.880 destroy your battery. So it's like I usually don't play games on my phone, 643 00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.960 but I'll pay. This is something that people end up liking great. 644 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:50.519 Happy for you, one of the best schmupps of all time is finally coming 645 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.320 to PC. This is from Stephen T. Wright at game Spot. If 646 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:57.000 you're a fan of Shoot him Up Schmups, go back there. If you're 647 00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:00.519 a fan of Shoot him Up or Schmup games, you're probably familiar with Radiant 648 00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:02.960 Silver Gun. Developed by legendary studio Treasure. The game is famous for its 649 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.320 high difficulty, it's color based scoring system, and for the fact that it 650 00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:10.559 was only available on the Sega Saturn for many years, very very very expensive 651 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:14.880 after a while, as it Steam page reveals, Radiant Silver Gun Gun is 652 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.960 coming to PC soon. Though the page doesn't have a firm release date, 653 00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:21.280 the trailer that we do have, which i'll show here in a second, 654 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:24.960 does say August eighteenth. That would be very very soon. You were you 655 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:29.840 ever Radiant Silver Gun fan, Treasure fan Shoot him Up fan time. I 656 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:35.760 was an Ikaruga guy too, yeah, but Radiant Silver Gun I think I 657 00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:39.639 did not play mainly because of the restrictions that you mentioned that it was on 658 00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:45.039 sat and like prohibitively expensive to get that console or that game afterwards, and 659 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:49.000 I just did not do the emulation part of it. I guess I could 660 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:51.880 have at some point. I think it came out somewhere. I think is 661 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:54.480 it on Switch now I want to say I can't. Maybe it came out 662 00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:57.639 somewhere recently. I've been meaning to get it and I'm like, well, 663 00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.519 now I'll just get it on Steam. Yeah. I've still play a schmup 664 00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:05.239 in a really long time, unless you spend the rules of what a schmup 665 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.440 isn't think of, you know, like Cophead as a schmup or something like 666 00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:10.199 that, which it can be at times. It has like those kind of 667 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:16.199 gameplay sections, but neuro Automata has some schmucke stuff. Yeah, exactly, 668 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:20.280 I've not played a honest to god schmup in a real long time, and 669 00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:22.960 generally I don't I didn't really play a lot of them. I played Like 670 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.159 It Could Go is the main one that I just repeatedly played over and over 671 00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:30.760 again. And if you count Rez as a potentially as a show up, 672 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.440 that it might be one as well. But yeah, I I it's a 673 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:37.719 genre that I would love to get more into, but I think I have 674 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:43.119 a limited interest in like the narrative list schmups, so it would have to 675 00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.239 have like a story or have some sort of importance in the history of games 676 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:50.199 or the genre for me to be super into it, which is raised Silver 677 00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:53.719 Gun definitely has. That's the like Beat them ups have had a moment over 678 00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:57.719 the last couple of years, and it's like they've like figured out like, 679 00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.480 well, they came from the arcades and obvious, so the Streets of Rage 680 00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:06.639 two and Streets Lists series, which was for consoles, but it was mostly 681 00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:09.039 coming from the arcade and it had a lot of arcade sensibilities and that caused 682 00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:12.280 it to sort of stagnate at a time, and then it went away for 683 00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:14.719 a long time. And now the genre is back in a big way as 684 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:15.559 a lot of other developers are like, no, we can figure out how 685 00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:20.599 to make this work as like a replayable game that has value as a purchase 686 00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.119 instead of as an arcade game. And it's like, I wonder if the 687 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.039 same thing could happen with Schmumps and like, yeah, just kind of building 688 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:28.559 a narrative or something like that. I think maybe that's a good start. 689 00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.079 Honestly, I'll let the professionals handle it, but I hope that they can 690 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:35.280 figure it out. But I am going to check out Radiant Silver gunn Steam. 691 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.360 I'm going to play because, like you said, I played a lot 692 00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.760 Ikaruga. I know this is the other really big one from Treasure in terms 693 00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:43.360 of shoot him up, shoot him up. So yeah, I'll check this 694 00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:49.119 out. I hope it's radiant silver fun. Lego animal Crossing sets are coming 695 00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:52.840 next year. Lego Insider claims this is from Chris Scullion at VGC. The 696 00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:55.719 next big video games series to get the Lego toy treatment maybe animal Crossing, 697 00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:00.960 according to new reports. The claim was originally posted on Instagram by Lego leaker 698 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:07.800 Extra Bricks leg Go go uh, and it was then backed up by YouTuber 699 00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:14.519 brick Clicker. I'll brick clicker, I'll click your bricks. It relates to 700 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.039 five sets which have been discovered on brick Merge, a site which runs a 701 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.679 bot that discovers new Lego sets as soon as they're listed. Although brick Merge 702 00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.199 simply lists sets by their product numbers, which run from seven seven zero four 703 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:28.559 six to blah blah blah and provides no further information, it's since been claimed 704 00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:32.719 by leakers such as Extra Bricks Lego Go that they're animal crossing sets and then 705 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.000 they're going to go for fifteen dollars, twenty thirty dollars, forty dollars, 706 00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:42.079 and seventy five dollars respectively. These five sets merge sounds like the worst like 707 00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:46.400 block change shit claim. Yeah, Like isn't the worst brick merge Yeah. 708 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:52.559 It sets will be released in March twenty twenty four, and that the character 709 00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:58.840 minifigs will have special molded heads like the Lego Sonic and Saga and Simpson's minifigs 710 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:04.119 instead of say standard Lego heads. This makes sense. I can see how 711 00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:07.599 they do this where it's like, what is something that has a broad appeal 712 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:12.519 that we can turn into Lego? That's so? So what is something built 713 00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:17.920 around obsessing over collecting characters and bringing them to your island? And it is 714 00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.840 this ip like this is the number one I want to make friends want them 715 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:28.000 on my island. I I'm sorry, just all Lexi and chats and a 716 00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:31.000 blotching company invited me onto a yacht today. That's gotta be like, I 717 00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:36.000 assume that you're on the yacht now, it's got to be like a timeshare 718 00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:37.840 thing right where they get you on the yacht and then you're you have to 719 00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.960 like sit in a room with a projector while they do a presentation right before 720 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:45.400 you have many fun? Is a man not entitled to the sweat of their 721 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.960 brow? And then before you know, you're in rapture. And here's why 722 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:53.239 we're on but investing in game stop. Yeah, I think Animal Crossing lego 723 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:57.559 sets, that's cool. I want Zelda and stuff. I want Animal Crossing 724 00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.639 too, don't get me wrong, But I hope they keep keep at this 725 00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:04.400 so that we kind of sport of everything. One day they're gonna announce the 726 00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:08.119 Pokemon one and it's gonna be over for these hos. Like everyone's gonna be 727 00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:12.679 on that. Like it's gonna be you know, that's the big red button 728 00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:17.679 Pokemon lego. It's just gonna it's it's like unlimited and unstoppable. Yeah, 729 00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:22.840 just a big Pikachu set. It's gonna be eight hundred and fifty dollars and 730 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:27.000 people are every They're gonna sell it instantly, absolutely right. Uh. Japanese 731 00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:30.199 charts for the physical game sales last week, Pickman four maintained its dominance as 732 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:36.440 Switcher passes thirty million units sold from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. This week's 733 00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:40.360 Japanese charts are in courtesy of for Midzu, and it's Nintendo's own Pickman four 734 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:44.039 out in the lead again with an additional one hundred and fifteen thousand, six 735 00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:49.199 hundred ninety seven physical units solds that doesn't include digital. So far Pickman four 736 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:53.000 has sold five hundred thousand copies in Japan alone, and again that's physical only. 737 00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:59.159 Just say, you gotta like add another two hundred and fifty thousand at 738 00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:02.880 least digital sales in Japan for that, and then that that's already almost a 739 00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.599 million in one country for Pickman four. That's just bonkers success for that for 740 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:10.719 that franchise, a series that I don't think has sold more than three million 741 00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:15.320 copies before. Clearly it's going to do that. Yeah. Else Where, 742 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:19.480 there's some newcomers in terms of game releases, not souman A twentieth Century Summer 743 00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:24.719 Vacation coming in at number two, Crime Machina or Crimachana for Switch and PS 744 00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:29.840 five at positions six and ten, respectively. The Western launch of Crimacana will 745 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.719 follow on October twenty fourth, and Disney Illusion Island debuted at number seven with 746 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:37.800 a total seveny one hundred and seventy two copies sold. And speaking of hardware, 747 00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:40.719 the Switch O led was on top. Play Station five was right behind 748 00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:45.039 that, but overall the big thank news series. Switch is at thirty million 749 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:51.519 consoles sold in Japan alone. Console sales for Switch in Japan have sped up. 750 00:49:51.559 --> 00:49:53.960 Actually they're up sixty percent, like sixty six percent year over year, 751 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:59.199 which is a massive A lot of that comes down to Zelda obviously, but 752 00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:02.599 it's not just sell. But yeah, the Switch more successful than ever and 753 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:07.199 in Japan and that then of course, what you said, it's like a 754 00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:09.480 perfect time to launch Switch to right, It's it's weirdy. This is why 755 00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:14.920 Nintino keeps like pushing it off and you know kind of laxadaisically is going to 756 00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:16.599 be like, no, we'll just launch the follow up late next year. 757 00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:22.159 We're no rush, all right. You know what this last story, Linux 758 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.639 surpasses Mac amongst steam gamers. This is about hey, steam deck is actually 759 00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.559 making a dent on that because that runs Linux. So it kind of interesting, 760 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:34.719 I thought, but not too surprising either, right, Yeah, I 761 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:40.000 mean I have nothing to say to Linux uses. Yeah, the streets of 762 00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:44.719 the feat. No, I just I just like, not my head, 763 00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:50.239 I respect you, I fear you stay at my head, don't I don't 764 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:58.920 approve of your lifestyle for myself, enjoy your linuxing over there, they definitely 765 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:02.320 will enjoy it. Accuses though, absolutely pulling their pants down and like yeah 766 00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:06.599 in public and running away and then like giving them spirlies and that kind of 767 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:10.079 us. They don't even know what's happening. They're completely oblivious. All right, 768 00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:14.360 I gotta pull question from yesterday. Let's see here. Do you resent 769 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:19.119 Shadow the Hedgehog? Yes? Or no? I mean I would refresh this 770 00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:21.320 real quick because I think there were some more votes. Yeah, there we 771 00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:23.960 go, five hundred votes. Thirty five percent of you resent Shadow the Hedgehog. 772 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:27.639 Only sixty five percent or I'm sorry, sixty five percent of you do 773 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:30.119 not say? Okay, fair enough. I'm not gonna kink shame. You 774 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:32.960 gotta gotta do what you gotta do. This this came from out the story 775 00:51:34.039 --> 00:51:37.639 yesterday where they said at second they're not going to put Shadow the Hedgehog into 776 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:40.039 like the classic style games because he's only a New Sonic games. I'm like, 777 00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:44.119 okay, that's weird, but all right, fair enough. I love 778 00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:46.679 the framing gun framing of I love the framing of this looks like it's a 779 00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:54.199 information that has been published by me at the bottom. All right, yeah, 780 00:51:54.239 --> 00:52:00.920 the whole imagine sonic but edgy and has guns. Know where that came 781 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:05.719 from, but it's had quite a divisive impact on the Sonic fendom. Yeah, 782 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.840 and it's it's He's way more popular than I ever thought he would because 783 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:12.119 it's me. It's like, it's just silly, but kids love him, 784 00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:15.559 kids love show. So yeah, Uh, we have a new poll question 785 00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:20.440 we're gonna put up on the YouTube channel. It's at YouTube dot com Slash 786 00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:22.199 Giant Bombs Slash community. You just hit the community tab. You can find 787 00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.239 it there. But before we talk about that, Tam, what do we 788 00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:28.599 have happening? What do you got going on next week? Whatever? Tell 789 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:31.199 people about what's going on. Oh man, there's a new Jeff Jeff's out 790 00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:37.800 upf is happening today? Are you doing Baldo's Kate and Baldos Kate three? 791 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:39.079 I think it's the plan. There's a chance it could be Fortnite, but 792 00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:43.360 I think we're gonna be bald Jan's getting set up for that, so that 793 00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.000 should be funny. You do it? Multiplayers is the idea? Yeah, 794 00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:51.360 So that's the rest of this week, which is today. I guess next 795 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:55.519 week, Uh, mutual stuff, Bomb Costs will have I don't know what 796 00:52:55.719 --> 00:53:00.119 else. It's weird because like we're talking about a lot of things and I 797 00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:05.519 can't remember the timeline on some of them is and whether we talk publicly about 798 00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:08.639 them. But let's just say people should be excited because there's a lot of 799 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:13.760 care things coming. We're working on making sure that they are core things coming, 800 00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:17.000 and a lot of that takes. It takes a lot of time and 801 00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:22.199 effort to line the ducks up to get that done properly, but everyone will 802 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:28.760 be treated to a variety of fun new and existing content. Yep, it's 803 00:53:29.239 --> 00:53:31.440 we're exactly we're working on the timeline in TAM's right. It takes it takes 804 00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:35.760 some time, but it's we found our social position where we can reset up 805 00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:37.239 some stuff and get going again. It's very exciting what we're gonna say. 806 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.000 Yeah, well, I was also going to say evils this weekend, So 807 00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:44.760 that's going to be a big deal and maybe we'll try to do something with 808 00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:49.800 that next week. Turbo Sean is competing again. He might go against Foodos, 809 00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:52.119 so try to watch it. He's going against FOODO and good luck. 810 00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:58.360 Jean Lucy, Jean Luca is also competing. I don't think he's playing foodo 811 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:00.719 though. Sean, it was funny because he's like what people who don't know 812 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.079 fighting games are like, well, maybe you'll win, And then you tell 813 00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:08.719 someone who does know fighting games, I'm fighting fudo and TAM's like, you're 814 00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:14.599 this guy is a clinical scientist of a fighting game, but he has he 815 00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:17.360 has no time for nonsense. This is like decimates you. It moves on 816 00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:21.280 with his life. I love it, and good look to Jean Luke as 817 00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:24.440 well. All Right, the one thing I'll butt you is on Monday, 818 00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:28.079 I'm planning to do a Mortal Kombat stream where I'm going to start playing through 819 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:30.239 the stories of nine, ten, and eleven in preparation for Mortal Kombat one. 820 00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:34.000 Uh, people come hang out with me. But I'll be doing that 821 00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:36.519 after after Game Mess Mornings. A little bit after Game Mess Mornings, we 822 00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:38.599 have a meeting, but after that in the afternoon on Monday, So look 823 00:54:38.599 --> 00:54:43.639 out for that. Yes, so the new poll, let's take a look 824 00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:45.840 here. I am going to ask you, are you checking out boulders Gate 825 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:50.079 three? Yes? I love I love the previous boulders Gates. Yes, 826 00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:52.639 I am a D and D fan, Yes, I want to romance a 827 00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:55.360 bear and no. Those are your options. You can get that again on 828 00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:59.840 the YouTube community page. Vote for that. We'll discuss it on Monday. 829 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:02.280 Jibomb dot com, Tam, thank you so much for taking your time to 830 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:06.360 talk with me today about video games. I appreciate it. Man, thank 831 00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:08.239 you for having me. I love doing the show, I miss it when 832 00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:13.000 I can't, and I'm excited to be back next week, hopefully borrowing any 833 00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:17.199 catastrophic changes in my life or schedule. We love having you here. I 834 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:21.679 love having you here. The audience love having you. You're the best audience 835 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:23.480 of gaming. Until next time, have a good one, take care of 836 00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:24.760 yourself. Goodbye.