WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:14.839 Don't be bad. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for 2 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.480 March twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.760 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live 4 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.000 with me Jeff Grubb Today, Oh my god, we have a lot of 5 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:29.160 news, including a potential delay for Grand Theft, Auto Larry and not making 6 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:34.039 boulders Gate four, and Capcom responding to criticisms of Dragon's Dogma two. That's 7 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.079 just the start, though, But first, please join me and welcoming today's 8 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.560 co host, the Game Mess Mornings. It's Emma Fife. Everybody. Emma, 9 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:45.079 how are you doing. I'm great, you know, all things considered. 10 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:50.159 It's a Monday morning, and I am awake ish. It's early for 11 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.320 me on the West Coast. But boy, oh boy, we got a 12 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:57.520 lot of video game news to talk about. Even though there might be no 13 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.039 more video games for the rest of the year possibly time. Uh huh, 14 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:03.640 there's plenty to talk about. Well we'll see if there's gonna be plenty to 15 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:07.159 play starting in April. But yeah, I mean listen, I got plenty 16 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:11.200 to catch up one, so really not complaining at all. I did I 17 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:12.280 did get your message this morning, seeing you were ready to go, and 18 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.599 that I think it was like six thirty year time. Is that you in 19 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:18.920 bed seeing you if you have to wake up? Or is that like you 20 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.040 going to the gym, like what's your morning? H okay? So I 21 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:26.319 that is me waking up on Mondays to do this show. I work out 22 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:30.239 on my lunch break on Mondays. Sometimes I do like six thirty or seven 23 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:36.120 thirty am workout, but I don't have time to do that and then also 24 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:41.640 make myself look somewhat presentable to be on camera to do the news, So 25 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:46.640 lunch break workouts on Mondays. But yeah, I've been on the six thirty 26 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.719 beat. I think I went to three two or three six thirty classes last 27 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:53.159 week. And it's hard to get up that early. Yeah, but it 28 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.000 feels so good when it's like seven thirty in the morning and I'm like, 29 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.480 man, I already did a whole work out today. This is great. 30 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:06.239 I've already accomplished something. And then I inevitably take a very long nap in 31 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:09.159 the middle of the afternoon. Yeah. There was a period of time when 32 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:14.319 I had very young children. They're still young. When they were very young, 33 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.520 very very young and I was working a full time job and they were 34 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:22.080 home with me all day and the wife went just went to school to teach 35 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.360 teacher for work and so for work, and so she was gone all day. 36 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.639 And I was like, man, no second of this day belongs to 37 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:32.080 me, and it's like, I've made these decisions. That's fine. And 38 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:35.759 I started like, you know what, maybe I can rearrange things a little 39 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:39.919 bit. And that turned into eventually waking up for about about an entire year 40 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:44.479 at four thirty am every day, and then that that I'm like, okay, 41 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.759 we will get everything done for me between four thirty and when everyone wakes 42 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.479 up starting around seven. And then I was like, now at that point, 43 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:54.120 when if the rest of the day belongs to other people and I got 44 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.439 to give them my time, I'm like completely okay with that. That's fine. 45 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:00.919 At that point, that was the only way I can make that work. 46 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:02.879 Now it's like I could sprinkle in time throughout the day. It's a 47 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.639 little bit easier. But yeah, I'm glad I was able to do that. 48 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.520 I don't think I could ever do that again though. That's not really 49 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:15.439 an option anymore. And I did have I've told this story on voicemail dump 50 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.120 truck when we were at packs. But I should tell for the game mess 51 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:23.439 Morning's audience. I won a bet on my birthday. Oh yeah, I'm 52 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.719 putting some money for the super Bowl a while back, and I'm been. 53 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.400 I didn't lose all the money. I'm like, oh, I bet all 54 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.919 that on like that Mike Tyson, Jake Paul Flight, that'll be fun. 55 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.680 But we were talking about it on my birthday or a little bit before, 56 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.599 and we were like making some bets. And I had made like a bet 57 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.800 the night before of it's an eleven game parlay and every game has to hit 58 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:45.080 to win. And as it was like the clock was clicking over to my 59 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.639 birthday, I was looking at it and I put nine dollars in whatever, 60 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.840 and I was looking, I'm like, oh my god, I'm everything's hit 61 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:57.479 so far, and these like last like two to four games are looking pretty 62 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.039 good. And then for like the next hour, it's like one. They 63 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:01.960 just kept hitting, kept hitting, kept hitting. I had to hand my 64 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.439 phone over to Jeff Backlar, who kept saying stuff like you're definitely gonna win, 65 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:09.840 and I had to yell at him not the jink sitting stuff. And 66 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:12.639 then yep, I'm like, I walk away and I come back. He's 67 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:14.960 like, do you know what happened? No, He's like, you won, 68 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:16.839 and I'm like, oh my, it was ten thousand dollars. Emma, 69 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:21.920 I want ten thousand dollars on a nine dollars bet one ten thousand dollars 70 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.360 the hour it became my birthday, the hour it became my birthday. Yeah, 71 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.240 it was kind of the craziest thing that's ever happened to me. It 72 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:36.279 was nuts. Oh my god, what are you going to do with you 73 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:43.000 have credit card debt? Yeah, let's go. That's being an adult. 74 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.959 No. My favorite thing though about that that Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight is 75 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.600 that I saw this really funny meme where someone basically they took a screen cap 76 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:58.319 of Mike Tyson versus Glass Joe in punch Out and said, and Teddo has 77 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.439 been warning us about this for years. Yeah, I hope. So, 78 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:05.639 I hope that's exactly how it goes. That would be fantastic. Yeah, 79 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:10.879 people are like, oh the taxes they actually we were. The reason Backler 80 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:13.560 didn't come to tell me right away is because he was waiting to see the 81 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.959 money go into the account. And I'm like I'm like, it takes sometimes, 82 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.360 it takes a little bit of time, but I'm like, you know, 83 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.240 I go to bed, get in bed like a couple hours later, 84 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.199 and it still had it still wasn't in there. And then I woke up 85 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:27.959 the next day and I got an email from them being like, we reviewed 86 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.040 your big win and I'm a human being and I'm looking at this and he's 87 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.800 like, it looks all cool, so I'm gonna put it in your account. 88 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.040 And then I looked and it was there, but they withheld the taxes 89 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:39.279 for me, so that that's like really nice. I'll get it. I'm 90 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.639 gonna get a ten ninety nine from god damn DraftKings at the end of the 91 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:46.360 year, I guess, but whatever, I'll take it. No complaints over 92 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.800 here. But hey, the adult thing, Yeah, I'm paying off the 93 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.560 credit cards, but then I'll probably just go right back in the debt when 94 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:54.920 we go to disney Land that we are planning to try to do that this 95 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:59.240 year Disney World, So yeah, yeah, whatever, it's worth it. 96 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.240 That's cool. I spend your money Disie Parks. That's the They deserve it, 97 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:06.279 right, They've earned it, haven't they All right, we should stop 98 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.680 wasting texts. We really do have so much news to get into. First, 99 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.560 let's explain ourselves. Most weekdays, I Jeff gravelhel piece your gaming life 100 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:17.720 back together. That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our own original 101 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:20.920 reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the input of a bona fide 102 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:25.480 expert who will make me look smart. If you are watching live on twitch 103 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.199 welcome, you can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching 104 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.319 for Game Mess Mornings, or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. 105 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:38.279 You can also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello 106 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:41.360 YouTube. All right, we have a lot to get into, so let's 107 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:46.439 start the morning mess with GTA six. Production is reportedly falling behind, Rockstar 108 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:51.000 urges staff to return to office to avoid delay. This is from Zach Swizen 109 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:56.240 at Kotaku. Grand Theft Auto six is likely one of the most anticipated games 110 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.439 in history, with millions of players around the world waiting for any crap of 111 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:04.600 info or screenshot of the upcoming open world crime simulator. However, as remote 112 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:10.959 workers struggle with an unwanted return to office mandate from Rockstar Games, Kataku has 113 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.800 learned from sources with knowledge of the game's development process that GTA six could miss 114 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.319 its twenty twenty five release window and slip into twenty twenty six. Officially unveiled 115 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:25.680 in December twenty twenty three after a massive twenty twenty two league, GTA six 116 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:30.279 is the hotly anticipated fall up to twenty thirteen's GTA five. Over a decade 117 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.560 after that game's release and its massive, still growing sales numbers, Rockstar Games 118 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.199 is hard at work on the sequel, which is set in Vice City, 119 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:40.439 a fictional take on Miami, Florida. The game is set to come to 120 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:45.439 PS five and Xbox series sometimes sometime in twenty twenty five, and internally that's 121 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.560 still the plan. Kataku was told by sources with knowledge of the situation that 122 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:54.519 early twenty twenty five is the current goal or is currently the goal. However, 123 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.759 Kotaku has also learned that it's becoming more and more likely that the sequel 124 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:03.040 might not land until late five. It's also possible that it could even slip 125 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.560 into twenty twenty six as production reportedly falls behind. We'll get more into the 126 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.000 remote work versus in office work here in a second, but just like starting 127 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:18.879 there, it's GTA. These games are massive. They are also in a 128 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:24.040 world where these games are are so much bigger than they ever were, and 129 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:31.360 they have this changed dichotomy of we have gt online, GTA online, which 130 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.240 we need to continue supporting. We don't want to mess anything up there that 131 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.759 continues to print money. GTA five continues to sell because of that, So 132 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.840 we don't want to mess anything up there. And I think that gives them 133 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:46.039 a little bit more hesitation when it comes to GTA six, and I think 134 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.600 that's leading into this as well. But if GTA six doesn't come out to 135 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.480 twenty twenty six, that is not surprising to me. I don't know about 136 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.519 UMO. What do you think It's not surprising to me at all. I 137 00:08:54.600 --> 00:09:01.960 mean, here's the thing is that they're so much expectation attached to these games 138 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:09.799 now that once you find yourself in a situation wherein you are a gigantic franchise 139 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:18.120 like a GTA, you are basically in an impossible situation at all times. 140 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.039 And a lot of that is again because there is this expectation and this anticipation. 141 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.039 So you have people who are so excited to play this new game, 142 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:31.519 but and they're going to be frustrated by taking a long long time. However, 143 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:35.639 if you deliver something that is not up to expectations, and in some 144 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:41.240 ways it's impossible to meet expectations because the expectations are so astronomical at this point 145 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.679 that I mean, do yourself a favor and take the time. That's I 146 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:50.600 mean, that's the way that I feel about it. The other aspect of 147 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.519 this, the return to work mandate notwithstanding, right, and you know, 148 00:09:54.559 --> 00:10:01.639 I think this is I'm sure that rockstar slash To would love this to be. 149 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:03.240 Hey, you will be more productive if you come back to work, 150 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.080 and that's why it's getting delayed. I think what the story gets at is 151 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:11.000 is that there might be even some delays because of the disagreement because some people 152 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.639 don't want to come back in the office. They are they have already made 153 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:18.039 peace with being remote, and now a rockstar wants them return the office for 154 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.279 whatever reason. Maybe they do believe it'll make them more productive. But actually 155 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.120 what's going to happen here is some people are going to be like, well, 156 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.360 no, I'm not going to come back in the office, so I'm 157 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:31.840 going to leave, and that itself could cause delays. Whatever I mean, 158 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.080 at this point, it's not like these games haven't been delayed when everyone was 159 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.120 forced to come in the office and forced in so many ways to come in 160 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:41.759 the office for sixty to ninety to one hundred and twenty hours per week. 161 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.600 You know that these are the kinds of games where we know that people were 162 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.399 sleeping out of the office previously, and they were trying to get away from 163 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.200 that. And you know, it's not like people aren't going to crunch because 164 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.960 they're working from home. That's still going to happen. This just seems to 165 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.240 be the kind of thing where it's like another wrench in the works or a 166 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:07.159 production that was already going to be massively complicated and really just challenging in a 167 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.480 variety of ways to get a GTA six made. It's already taken ten years, 168 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.600 yeah, ten years, like more than ten years at this point, 169 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.960 and so the idea that it's going to take another yeah, a couple more 170 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.519 years, Yeah, I'm just not surprised by that. It comes back to 171 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.519 though, that, hey, they do have to follow up GTA GTA five, 172 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.480 They do have to make something that is a successor to Grand Theft Auto 173 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:37.120 Online, And if GTA six comes out and is in any way a spoiler 174 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:41.960 to that or gets people more angry than excited. They have a chance of 175 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.840 having a game that's a dud and something that kind of pulls people away from 176 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.879 GTA online only to disappoint them, and then maybe those people don't come back 177 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.440 into GTA online. So like they're right now, they're playing with house money 178 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.559 and they're afraid that maybe things could go wrong. So I think that's where 179 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.679 that hesitation comes in, where how do you make something that makes sense after 180 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.759 Grand Theft Auto Online? Absolutely, and that is such a good point as 181 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.320 well, the GTA Online of it all. You don't want to be in 182 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:16.879 a situation wherein you launch something that is a disappointment and then draws away long 183 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.440 term from your thing that you know you've been supporting for a number of years 184 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:26.879 and has been doing relatively well. Again, it's an impossible situation to be 185 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:33.840 in. So I think they just take the time that they need and keep 186 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:39.320 supporting online in the meantime and it'll happen. It'll it's being worked on. 187 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.879 Yep. And maybe not confusing thing. Maybe the slightly surprising thing to me 188 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:50.919 is that Take two was so cavalier with promising big, big numbers for a 189 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.200 game coming out in that next fiscal year, which would have been the fiscal 190 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.840 year that we're going to be entering here in April for them, and they're 191 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.080 like, it's going to be our biggest year ever buy a like a margin 192 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.519 of several billion dollars. And that was always going to be yeah, because 193 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.279 because Grand Theft Auto five is going to come out by the end of March 194 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.840 twenty twenty five, and so they can rely on that and then probably like 195 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:15.279 Civilization seven could drop and those the combination of those two would help them like 196 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:20.399 reach new heights. Now we know internally that they're already or non they've pretty 197 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.840 much said it's not going to come till the earliest of spring twenty twenty five, 198 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:26.360 and I know they're still saying that, but just to be like telling 199 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:31.399 investors that this could be happening and then having Tod already toe investors, well, 200 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.039 no, we are lowering our expectations because Grand Theft Auto five actually not 201 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.720 going to come out in this fiscal year. I I if I were them, 202 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.519 I would just set expectations so much lower because it does feel like that 203 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.559 game could slip into late twenty twenty six, like it that's possible. Right, 204 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:52.519 Yeah, I completely agree with that. And it's it's again that that 205 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:58.000 sort of delicate balance between investors and also fans. And I want to say 206 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:03.919 that the vast majority of the consumers the fans are because again, at this 207 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:09.879 point, it's been over ten years since GTA five, So who cares if 208 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.440 it's another two years, Because once you get into this long of a time 209 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:18.480 frame, years become a smaller percentage. Yeah, But there is also the 210 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:26.080 aspect of again we were talking about fiscal years earlier or fiscal quarters whatever, 211 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:31.480 and the fiscal we're here, everybody, we did it. Yeah, So 212 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:35.480 you also have those people to answer to. And that's again where you get 213 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.600 into the complicated thing of courcing people to return to work and the crunch that 214 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.960 happens around these games, and how crunch is going to happen around this irrespective 215 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:48.240 of whether or not they are in the office. So you might as well 216 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:54.200 let people work in an environment where they feel focused and most capable. Yeah, 217 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:00.200 yep, it's just and I mean I think we've seen several games now 218 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:05.360 ship with either mostly remote teams or entirely remote teams. If people want to 219 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.840 continue telling other people how they need to work because they want a video game 220 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:13.720 real bad. I would suggest not doing that's that's unnecessary. Like you're actually, 221 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.720 you're almost certainly wrong. You almost certainly don't understand what's actually going into 222 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.559 getting these games made. If you want to imagine a world in which, 223 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.399 oh, this game will come out faster if these people go into the office, 224 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.039 I can't stop your imagination, but keep in mind it's your own imagination, 225 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.679 and you almost have there's almost certainly no evidence that you have that proves 226 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:33.240 that so. And the games that are in front of us that you know, 227 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:39.639 Respawn Ships, Star Wars, Jedi Survivor entire almost entirely remotely, and 228 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:46.080 the optimation optimizations aside, that game was really well put together. All right. 229 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.679 Moving on here, Larian says it's moving on from Baldersgate to make a 230 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.759 new thing. This is from Tom Ivan at VGC. This is a two 231 00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:00.240 part headline here. Larry and studio CEO Spinn Vinke has said the company he's 232 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:04.120 moving on from boulders Gate and the Dungeons and Dragons universe. Speaking at GDC 233 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.240 via PC Gamer, the boulders Gate three directors said the company has no plans 234 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:14.559 for no plans to make DLC expansions or a sequel to one of last year's 235 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:18.799 best selling and most critically acclaimed games. Instead, the Belgium indie developer and 236 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.159 publisher, also known for its Divinity RPG series, wants to work on something 237 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.000 new. We are a company of big ideas. We are not a company 238 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:30.559 that's made to create DLCs or expansions. He tried that. We tried that, 239 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.399 actually a few times. It failed every single time. It's not our 240 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.279 thing. Life is too short. Our ambitions are very large. And I 241 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:42.000 think like two things here. One, I think that's perfectly fine. I 242 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.639 don't. I'm not someone whoever feels like a game is not a real, 243 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:51.200 like not complete until we get an expansion, or that any great game would 244 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:52.919 only be better if it did have an expansion. Nintdo said they're not gonna 245 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.080 do expansion for Tiers of the Kingdom. That's completely fine with me. And 246 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:00.000 the other thing, I'm glad a studio is not forcing them and tying themselves 247 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.119 into a pretzel to make something like that if it's not coming out of them 248 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.519 sort of naturally. Now, yeah, that's like a privilege. A lot 249 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:11.240 of studios got to do what they have to do to make the money that 250 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.240 they need to keep running. Larryan is maybe in a very unique position where 251 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.839 they clearly have made enough on this and are in a position of strength, 252 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:22.920 and they're acting on that position of strength, and they should they should have 253 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.599 every right to do that. If you make a game that good, you 254 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:30.799 should be able to do that right, exactly right. Again, Larian is 255 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:38.279 in an unusual and extremely advantageous position wherein they made balders Gate. So with 256 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.880 Balder's Gate, it's it's twofold, it's you have the Balder's Gate of it 257 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.640 all, which, again, these games have been going on for a very 258 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:51.200 long time. I remember playing like the og Baldersgate on PC back when I 259 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:55.279 was first getting into Dungeons and Dragons, And I know plenty of people that 260 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.720 were into the balders Gate games who weren't necessarily like tabletop Dungeons and Dragons people, 261 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.240 but they enjoyed that world, they enjoyed those mechanics, they liked those 262 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:07.319 games. And you also have the Dungeons and Dragons of it all, So 263 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:08.960 you have a bunch of people who are D and D players that are going 264 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:15.440 to naturally be attracted to this. So you have this gigantic license and a 265 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:23.200 legacy gaming title, and it was incredibly successful. So Larryan has proved that 266 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:27.119 they can make a really damn good game. In some ways, it's not 267 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:33.400 dissimilar from like a CD project read that did the Witcher games. And then 268 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:37.000 you know, obviously like Cyberpunk again, you're dealing with something that was a 269 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.319 pre existing IP. There's the cyberpunk, you know, tabletop role playing games, 270 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.559 but they're also in a position where and it's like, cool, you 271 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:47.119 made this game that people love, that is a Game of the Year winning 272 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:52.599 game, So you don't have to rely on IP anymore. Like you're in 273 00:18:52.640 --> 00:19:00.559 a great position now to take your sort of skeleton for these types of games 274 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:07.519 and develop an IP that is completely original to you. With having Baldersgate under 275 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.440 your belt and having a whole new audience of people who didn't play the Divinity 276 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.160 games coming in and saying, Wow, I really love what Larryan did with 277 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:19.799 Baldersgate three. I want to see what else they do, what they do 278 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.039 next, Like it's Larry and I'm automatically going to play it, yes, 279 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.599 And I think that's where they are. Larryan is DP. Larryan is the 280 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:30.799 star and they should take advantage of that. And I mean there's part of 281 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.960 me that's like, even as someone that didn't play a ton of Balderskate three, 282 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:37.640 I played some of it and enjoyed it. I played some of the 283 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.599 Divinity Original Sin too and really enjoyed that. And it's like part of me 284 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.319 is like, I like when they have to like work within this the confines 285 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.279 of D and D something that I've also barely have experience with. But just 286 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:51.720 part of me is like, I like things that have this long history, 287 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:55.000 and I look around and there's all these people that have strong feelings about it, 288 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.559 and then that makes me want to look into it more and experience experience 289 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:02.960 it myself. All those things aside. If they put out a new game, 290 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:07.759 it's the new game completely from the ground up, original from the developers 291 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.680 of Divinity Original Sin to and Balderskate three. People are gonna show up. 292 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:15.119 And it's at this point it feels like the right move to get away from 293 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.440 having to work with these other companies. In fact, let's let's get to 294 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.119 the other headline here. Larryan CEO denies that moving on from Baldersgate was due 295 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:27.240 to Wizards of the Coast conflict. This is from Chris Scullion at FGC Larryan 296 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:32.640 Studio CEO. Sinn Vink says the decision to move on from the Bolder Skates 297 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:37.319 series had nothing to do with Wizards of the Coast. Wizards of the Coast 298 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:41.720 is the owner of the Dungeons and Dragons ip which bald which the Baldersgates series 299 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.920 is based on. However, despite the enormous critical and commercial success of the 300 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.240 latest entry, Balderskate three, vin k has said last week that Larryan was 301 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:52.640 moving on from the Dungeons and Dragons universe to try its hand at something else. 302 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:56.319 Vink's comment led to speculation online, particularly on Reddit, where it was 303 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.799 claimed that the decision was down to a falling out between larry and Wizards of 304 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.960 the Coast. To address this, Vinque, who also directed Balderskate three, 305 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.240 has now taken to Twitter to dismiss those theories, saying there are no hard 306 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.440 feelings and that Larian just wants to do something new. Basically, this is 307 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.599 the quote reading the reddit threads. I would like to clear up some things. 308 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:19.440 Wizards of the Coast is not to blame for us taking a different direction. 309 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.920 On the contrary, they really did their best and have been a great 310 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.480 licenser for us, letting us do our thing. This is because it's what's 311 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.559 best for Larryan, and I believe that. And also they don't want to 312 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:32.960 work with Wizards of the Coast. It's I mean, come on, but 313 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:36.839 yeah, we don't have to pretend like we don't know what's going on here. 314 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:41.799 Wizards of the Coast is laying people off at probably people that Larryan worked 315 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.279 with closely, and now those people are gone, and now you got to 316 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:47.079 deal with some schmuck that shows up to cash the checks of all the hard 317 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:49.319 work that you did with those people. Come on, we know what's really 318 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:52.759 happening here. And at the same time, even if all that stuff did 319 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.000 work out great, I bet Larry would be like, oh my god, 320 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.119 look at where we're at. We should be betting on ourselves. And I 321 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:02.279 bet that's number one on the bullet point. But come on, no one 322 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:03.400 wants to work with Wizards of the Coast the way they are right now. 323 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:12.680 Absolutely not. And again it's not necessarily that there was any particular disagreement with 324 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:22.319 their licenser, you know. I but I look, did they directly influence 325 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.319 this happening, not exactly, but just by existing as they do now. 326 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.720 Of course they don't want to work with Wizards of the Coast yep. You 327 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.119 know. And again they're in a good position wherein they don't have to like 328 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.599 they don't have to license anything to make a new video game, focus on 329 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:44.279 an original ip. Like we've had this conversation before. We were talking about 330 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:48.319 it last week of like every game six million dollar budget or whatever. I 331 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:49.680 mean, I was talking about film specifically, but I think you could do 332 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:56.039 something very similar with games. But you know where they are in that ideal 333 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:03.839 position of they had an extremely successful game and now instead of continuing to capitalize 334 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.359 on the success of that game by directly making sequels to that game, they're 335 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.720 doing something totally different. And that is what you want to see, right, 336 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:15.240 yes, you want Very few developers are in this position right now. 337 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:21.200 Everyone else is kind of scrambling. So when someone was able to time it 338 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.519 perfectly, which is you can't time the market, so you just luck out 339 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:27.240 Larry and release their game right as like funding is going out the window, 340 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:30.920 and it's like, well, if anyone's gonna be able to fund their game 341 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.039 through through you know, their own making of money, or by partnering with 342 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.400 people who will be like, well, we trust Larry and they are in 343 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:40.880 a position to actually make that happen. So again, why wouldn't they They 344 00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:45.759 should, and and that that's going to set them up for long term success 345 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:48.799 when they do make something new and now this is their ip that they can 346 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:52.279 continue to build out going forward, and then then they will be the Licenser. 347 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.599 They will be the one making tabletop games based on the thing that they 348 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:59.079 create, and they will be making you know, movies and TV shows and 349 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:02.880 licensing stuff to Amazon and Netflix, and that's where they are going to want 350 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:06.000 to be in ten years, So why not start now? And on the 351 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.000 core of that will be an amazing new game that builds on what they've done 352 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:12.279 with Divinity and Balderskate three. Yeah, and in a way that again is 353 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:17.400 investing in their own future as a studio and not in their Licenser. Yeah, 354 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:18.680 and you know we'd be like, well, is this going to be 355 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.920 Divinity Original Sin three? Basically there's a quote from Sin where he says, 356 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:26.400 we're going to move on, We're going to move away from D and D 357 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.039 and we're going to start making a new thing it does sound like it probably 358 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:33.559 won't be Divinity, which makes sense, right, Like why not give people 359 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:37.079 like you? I think you mentioned this too. You're like a fresh entry 360 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:40.319 point for people who didn't spend a lot of time with Divinity but did play 361 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:44.160 Balderskate three and now they're looking to spend more time with Larian. But maybe 362 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:45.599 they don't have time to go back and invest in Divinity, And even if 363 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:48.839 they do, the new thing will be even that more important to them, 364 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:52.000 but it will still be this entry way for a ton of new people. 365 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.079 I think. So. Yeah, it's exciting. I'm looking forward to it. 366 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:00.160 Larian's kind of got right now. It feels like they have it all 367 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:04.160 figured out, and I'm glad that they are making business decisions with confidence because 368 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:07.079 I think that gives the people that are working there a lot of reasons to 369 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:10.440 stick around. It's like, why would you want to go somewhere else where? 370 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:14.079 It's like they're governed by fear. This won't last forever, But if 371 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:18.640 Larryan is operating with confidence right now, that can filter down and create a 372 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.440 much better working environment for everybody. And I hope that's the case. Yep. 373 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:26.720 All right, moving on Capcom has responded to criticism of Dragons Dogma to 374 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:32.559 Dogma two's pay I hate the possessive in the middle of the name. Dragons 375 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:40.559 Dogma two is paid DLC and performance issues from Tom Ivan at VGC. Capcom 376 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:44.400 has responded to drag Dragon Dogma two oh my God once again players who have 377 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.599 criticized the game's use of micro transactions as well as performance issues on PC. 378 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:52.359 While the game received glowing pre release reviews, following today's launch, it has 379 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.240 been a mixed reception on Steam, where just forty of over nine three hundred 380 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:02.640 user reviews are positive. Players discovered on Friday that there are twenty one separate 381 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:07.000 DLC purchases available on day one. Disappointment appears to stem from the fact that 382 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.880 some of them are for things that players feel should be easier to obtain in 383 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:15.160 game for free. Players have also complained about performance issues and the inability to 384 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.240 start a new game, and a message published on Steam, Capcom said it 385 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.359 has received numerous comments from the community on these subjects. To all those looking 386 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.960 forward to this game, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. They also went 387 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.799 on to talk about the performance issues, where they said a large a large 388 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:37.839 amount of CPU usage is allocated to each character and calculating the impact of their 389 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:42.359 physical presence in various areas. In certain situations where numerous characters appear simultaneously, 390 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.079 the CPU usage can be very high and may affect the frame rate. We 391 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:51.759 are aware that in such situations settings that reduce GPU load may currently have a 392 00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:55.920 limited effect. However, we are looking in two ways to perform or to 393 00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:02.039 improve performance. In the future, that's going to be challenging the CPU limiting 394 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:04.160 what they can do with the simulation of each character. In terms of physics, 395 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:07.960 it's just going to be They're only gonna be able to do so much, 396 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:11.160 and I don't want them to lose the magic of kind of the anything 397 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.759 can happen nature of Dragon's dogma, because everything is being accounted for by the 398 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.720 physics system. As for the micro transactions, this is it's a weird one, 399 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:22.920 emma. I want to start by saying people should be able to complain 400 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:27.119 and criticize this stuff whenever they want. Some people are pointing out that Capcom 401 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:32.319 has done this with a lot of their games. Resident Evil, The Devil 402 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:36.400 May Fry. There's several games I think Monster Hunter had very similar things all 403 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:41.559 from launch or maybe after launch even and people were mostly quiet about those. 404 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:44.880 There was some complaining, but not like it is here. And to them, 405 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:47.759 I'm like, you know what, you're allowed to criticize whenever you notice 406 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:49.200 something. If you didn't notice it with Resident Evil and you notice it here 407 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:52.039 and it bothers you, Now people should be able to criticize, because what 408 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:56.319 companies are actually afraid of. They're not afraid of us coming on this show 409 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.680 and talking about this stuff. They are afraid of keep on social media getting 410 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:04.480 a brew haha going and everyone starting to complain, because that's what really moves 411 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.480 the needle. And it moved the needle for this game where it got negative 412 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:11.720 reception for the most part on Steam. So complain, criticize, But they 413 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:18.000 have done this before. And while I appreciate the idea of when you start 414 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.480 a game and you see these micro transactions, it is a poisoning of the 415 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.240 well. It is something where it's like you imagine in your head, like 416 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:29.519 did they craft this game in such a way to encourage me to use these 417 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.839 things? By most accounts, it doesn't feel that way. But you don't 418 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:36.559 know, No, you just don't know. And when you go to start 419 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:40.279 a game. If that is a something that a thought that occurs to you, 420 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.519 that is still a negative experience that you're having where you're like, am 421 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:45.640 I being manipulated to spend money? And even if you don't, even if 422 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:51.119 you aren't, just thinking that and ruin some of the experience. So again, 423 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:52.880 I think people should be able to criticize. And at the same time, 424 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.319 Emma doesn't feel like that big of a deal to me. I don't 425 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:57.359 know, no, I well, I mean, I think you bring up 426 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:03.680 a good point too, about the social media frenzy around these things and the 427 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:10.079 way that it can negatively impact people's experiences, or at least negatively impact the 428 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:12.720 way that the game is being received by the general public. And I think 429 00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:19.880 that some of it comes from just this kind of groupthink, and people are 430 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:27.680 not going into it and making their own decision as far as how they personally 431 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:32.799 feel about the micro transactions. They go with the court of public opinion, 432 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:37.759 which is micro transaction's bad, ruining experience of game. Now, there are 433 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.759 plenty of games out there, and certainly Capcom you know, falls under this 434 00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:49.279 kind of umbrella wherein yes, there are these microtransactions that are highly optional and 435 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.920 in a lot of cases, and you know they're saying this with Dragon's Dogma 436 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.440 two as well, that these things that can be obtained through micro transactions can 437 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:03.160 also be obtained naturally through progression within the game or yeah, or is paid 438 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.079 DLC, which again I haven't played Dragons Song About You, but I assume 439 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:08.039 that they're you know, there's a lot of the times, you know, 440 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:11.079 when these games released, they come with these kind of like DLC packages that 441 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.880 you basically can buy, like I remember buying like the DLC pack for a 442 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:21.319 Firearm Home Game or something like that, where it's like you just automatically get 443 00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:26.400 all of the DLC as it comes out. So yeah, but again it's 444 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:33.279 like I as soon as you put the possibility of a micro transaction in your 445 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:36.960 game, you are playing with fire right. Yeah, you know, the 446 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.240 the you know, the presumption of guilt, like people like or people like 447 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:42.720 look at something and if it feels like it's a possibility, you don't even 448 00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.839 want to suggest it as a possibility. But you know, these companies are 449 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.640 willing to do that because I think they probably do make some money from this. 450 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:53.599 But by all accounts, and anyone who reviewed this game didn't use these 451 00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:57.680 things because there was no micro transaction store up on Steam at the time that 452 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:00.359 they were playing that, and there is no store inside the game to purchase 453 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:04.440 these things. And now that sense you're like, Okay, then there's some 454 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.559 criticism of well, then the reviewers didn't know about these things, and then 455 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.640 that we went live after all the reviews, isn't that a problem? I 456 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.400 am very sensitive to that sort of thing. I am very I'm at my 457 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.000 WIT's end with that sort of thing when it comes to games that add that 458 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.039 stuff weeks after their launch in the review period. But once again, in 459 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:26.480 Capcom's defense, this stuff was mentioned in the reviewer's guide. Now I've never 460 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:30.640 read a reviewer's guide in my life, Emma, I don't like doing that. 461 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:32.559 I'm like, I would have tried to have the experience that most people 462 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:34.039 are going to have, and most people are not going to have a curated 463 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:37.599 curated and the guide is not like, here's how to beat a boss. 464 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.519 Usually the guy meet is like, here are all the features, here's what's 465 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:44.559 in the game, here's what you need to know. It's pr trying to 466 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:45.880 get you off on the right foot. But I usually don't read that. 467 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:48.960 But that is them doing their due diligence, and that is so the company 468 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.680 did their part of it. Me not reading it or whoever not reading the 469 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.279 reviewers guide at that point that you know they did their side. That's on 470 00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.319 the reviewer, I suppose. So, yeah, Mike, the micro transactions 471 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:07.480 are not bothering me so much. The performance is pretty nuts, how well, 472 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:12.599 the PS three of it all. Yeah, so it's like okay on 473 00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.720 console my understanding. I haven't played on console, but the frame rates uncapped 474 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:20.400 and it just barely sometime gets over thirty frames per second. So you're getting 475 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.279 like thirty into forty and then it's jumping back down to twenty. It's going 476 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.680 all over the place. Again. I haven't paid too much attention to the 477 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:30.480 console version. On PC, I have a forty ninety and I have an 478 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:35.640 I nine I think thirteenth gen or fourteenth gen CPU in here, and and 479 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.680 I do I do think my system is CPU bound when playing the game, 480 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:43.279 and it's like it will go between forty to sixty frames per second in a 481 00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:45.720 way that I think is kind of insane. Especially when I'm playing. I 482 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:51.240 think I'm trying to get it like the ten ADP maybe fourteen forty P it 483 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:58.319 is very unoptimized, so CPU bound, I get that they're trying to simulate 484 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.200 a lot, and I think that's important. I think that the game camean 485 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:04.680 hot, is undercooked, isn't finished, and that's what we're seeing, That's 486 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.839 what it feels like. And if people should be criticizing that because most people 487 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:10.359 are not gonna be able actually to enjoy this game on PC, it seems 488 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:16.920 like no. And what a bummer too, because that character creator is right 489 00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:21.519 robust. So you want to do a thing like I do want to have 490 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:23.400 like three pawns with me at all times, but it's like that's going to 491 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:28.160 make every situation just that much more difficult. Now, things don't really get 492 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:31.680 out of hand until there are then enemy characters and in NPCs on the screen, 493 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:36.960 the all at the same time for me usually, but that is maybe 494 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.279 happening more frequently that I would expect, even for a game that is unoptimized 495 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:44.359 like this. It's like, Okay, I have my crew of four and 496 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:49.519 now we have one n PC and like five birds and it's chugging. Sometimes 497 00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:52.240 it's like that that feels bad for someone who got who had in ZXT send 498 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.200 them like a top of the line system, and now I'm like struggling. 499 00:33:55.200 --> 00:34:00.400 It's like, what the hell are we doing here? But you know it 500 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.960 is the Ari engine Reach for the Moon Engine. They they've not done open 501 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.920 the world before, and I think they are having some learning curves, which 502 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:08.719 I think happens with most of these engines. So I'm willing to give this 503 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:13.159 team that's been very good tech wise a little bit of time to figure it 504 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:17.239 out. Not much time, though, get it fixed, please? Yeah? 505 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:22.119 All right? Up next time for the Sonic news. Sonic Toys Party 506 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.280 leaked basically Sonic Fall Guys. This is from Ryan and Bevin at the Gamer. 507 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:31.559 Gameplay from a new Sonic game has seemingly leaked online alongside its apparent title, 508 00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:36.760 Sonic Toys Party, which sounds kind of naughty. If the gameplay is 509 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:39.360 real, then it confirms that previous rumors were right and the upcoming the Sonic 510 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:43.559 game will play an awful lot like Fall Guys. This comes from a leaked 511 00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:46.320 Japanese trailer for Sonic Toys Party, which also confirms that it will be a 512 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:52.000 mobile release. In brief gameplay sequences, we see players racing across Sonic themed 513 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.480 obstacle courses, all based on levels from the mainline games. However, unlike 514 00:34:55.519 --> 00:35:00.079 Fall Guys, Sonic Toys Party also features enemies from the Sonic seri with combat 515 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.719 straight out of the three D platformers. Oh good, something like this does 516 00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:07.800 sound kind of promising to me. I like the idea of Sonic being like, 517 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.519 listen, we tried to put out a two D Sonic game the same 518 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:14.400 time as Mario, didn't go great, didn't go What should we be doing 519 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.280 with Sonic? Well, keep doing those games, try to make them better. 520 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:21.599 Yeah, I thought Sonic Frontiers is fine. Do more of that. 521 00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:23.000 I bet the next one will be better. Yes, keep making those, 522 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:28.239 but then just look around, see what works, and make Sonic versions of 523 00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:30.719 those and just put actual effort into it. And I think that goes a 524 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:36.400 long way because the Sonic characters are very appealing. Even I can admit that. 525 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:37.800 So if you want to give me some like ways to expe like to 526 00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:40.800 go play a game with my kids where we all get to play a Sonic 527 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:44.639 characters, I will probably show up for that. I think this is just 528 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:45.320 a fine idea. Well, I don't know, what do you think? 529 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:52.119 Yeah, I mean it's like embrace the goofy and that's like what worked so 530 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:57.239 well about Fall Guys when it launched, is there was so much chaos, 531 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.360 Like I remember when it first came out, and I play a fair amount 532 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.440 and I would just get together with some friends. It was twenty twenty and 533 00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:09.000 we would play Fall Guys and I would just laugh and like, and there 534 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:14.960 is this I don't know, there's this level of as you say, like, 535 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:19.280 I think casualness is not the right word for it, but is. 536 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.199 But it is that ability to pick up and play with friends, with your 537 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:27.960 kids and find yourself in a situation wherein you're just like having a nice time, 538 00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.199 which is how I felt about the entirety of Super Mario Brothers Wonder. 539 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:34.159 I was like, I'm just having a nice time, and I'd love to 540 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:36.920 see that from Sonic, and I think that this is a good fit for 541 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:42.840 that, and that you know, Sonic hasn't quite locked into the we also 542 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:46.039 make Sonic in these kind of games in the way that say Mario has obviously, 543 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:49.320 you know, you have things like Mario Kart and Mario Party which have 544 00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:53.880 been tremendously successful, and I think that you know, Sonic needs that and 545 00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:58.760 this is a this is a good formula to play with the Sonic characters within 546 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:00.719 Yeah, I mean, I think it's a good way to use the Sonic 547 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:05.039 aesthetic of not just the characters, but like we're looking at the trailer trailer 548 00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:10.039 now and the classic look of Genesis Sonic Games, where you know, it's 549 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:13.880 it looks like green hill Zone, and it's like, oh, yeah, 550 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:16.039 that's a really good fit for this kind of game. It's simple, it's 551 00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:20.840 very easy to parse visually, and it's very nostalgic, and I think you 552 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.400 hit those things and you're halfway towards having something that people are gonna have a 553 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:27.559 good time with. Yeah, then the what they're actually doing needs to be 554 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.559 fun. We'll see. But as it stands, it's like, I like 555 00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:34.599 the way this looks. It's maybe not popping off the screen as much as 556 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.159 I could even imagine it could, but you know, they're probably trying to 557 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:43.440 keep it simple visually for mobile devices. Now that said, hopefully this is 558 00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:46.199 not just mobile devices. I think this would be great if it switched as 559 00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:50.280 well. Yeah, right, not on console especially, it's free to play, 560 00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:53.039 just throw it up on the store. I'm probably not gonna spend a 561 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:55.119 lot of time with this if it's just on mobile. I don't know what, 562 00:37:55.119 --> 00:38:00.679 how about you. Yeah, when it comes to mobile game, I'll 563 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:07.079 love I do. I'm pretty strictly a single player experience mobile games kind of 564 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:13.559 gal. I know that children enjoy multiplayer mobile games. I don't think I 565 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.719 have the thumb dexterity for it anymore as an elder millennial. And also the 566 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:22.519 screen's really small, so yeah, I mean to me, I'm like, 567 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:28.599 I'm especially if there's going to be any platforming involved whatsoever, Like I need 568 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.760 a controller in my hand, Like that's that's how you platform. That would 569 00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:37.800 be ideal. I hope this comes to like Switch at the very least PC. 570 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.480 That would be great. All the other consoles, let's make it happen. 571 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:44.800 We'll see. But a sonic Fall Guys game, like Nintendo did this 572 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:46.920 with like a new Mario Party that was basically Fall Guys. I think that 573 00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:51.320 would be a great idea as well. It's a really good new concept, 574 00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.519 and I think like Fall Guys occupies this kind of a certain space. You 575 00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.639 could do a lot of twists on the formula to make it even more kid 576 00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:01.239 friendly or whatever, and I think that'd be ideal. All right, We're 577 00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:04.679 gonna take a quick break and then We got a lot more headlines to get 578 00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.280 back to right after this, including what's going on with Ben Studios, the 579 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:19.920 Zelda movie, and more. Alright, moving on here to the next headline. 580 00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:24.519 Day's Gone. Studios New IP is a live service game. Ben Studios 581 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:28.599 New IP is a live service game. According to some newly emerged evidence, 582 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:34.119 the Sony subsidiary hints appears employees to join its parents ongoing live service FORAY, 583 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.639 which is bound to put Ben's Studio well outside its comfort zone. The Oregon 584 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:42.800 based company with the Bend Oregon Actually that's what it's named after. Latest game 585 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:46.280 was Da Day's Gone, which reached the PS four in April twenty nineteen before 586 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:52.119 making its way to PC two years later. Ben's Studio subsequently confirmed it's working 587 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.639 on a new IP, but the group has yet to share any concrete information 588 00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:59.360 about that project. Even so, the company has now offered some indirect hints 589 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:04.719 about the nature its upcoming title. According to a recently serviced surfaced Bend Studio 590 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:08.440 job ad reviewed by game Rant, the developer's New IP is a live service 591 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:14.960 game. Lilisting, which advertises an ongoing or opening for a lead project manager 592 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:20.559 explicitly mentions live service games thrice, both in the context of the eventual hires, 593 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:28.320 everyday responsibilities, and the ideal candidates required and preferable experience. We do 594 00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.559 know Sony was moving in this direction. I think there was some questions about 595 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:35.800 how hard are they going to continue moving in this direction? But I would 596 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:40.199 imagine that when Ben's studio was pitching games to get funding within Sony for their 597 00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:45.519 next project after days gone, and we know that they pitched a couple of 598 00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:47.639 things that they did like have like two other ideas that were maybe going to 599 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:52.880 get green lighted, they did not. The time that they were pitching was 600 00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.519 right in that meaty part of the curve where the thing that was most likely 601 00:40:55.559 --> 00:41:00.440 to get green lighted was a live service game. And now here we are, 602 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:05.039 uh, you know, all these studios are having to figure out how 603 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:07.639 to do how to do live service games was always going to be a challenge. 604 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.440 I don't think it's going to be an especially like a specific challenge just 605 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.360 for Ben's studio, Like, Oh, they're gonna have such a hard time 606 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:16.199 with this. I like everybody has a hard time with this transition. And 607 00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:20.320 yet I don't I do not envy them having to figure it out. This 608 00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:23.039 is going to be kind of probably a rough transition for anybody, Like we 609 00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:27.960 said, but I kind of hard have a hard time imagining what this looks 610 00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:30.559 like. I don't think that they would go with like a gritty, realistic 611 00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:34.880 game, and yet they said triple A. So what does that look like 612 00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:44.119 to you? Yeah, I just I don't know, is it. Look, 613 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:50.920 we've got GTA online if you want anarchy on on the internet in a 614 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:55.119 in a triple A kind of setting. So I just yeah, Again, 615 00:41:55.159 --> 00:42:01.679 it's complicated because everybody when they make that transition to live service game, there 616 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:07.159 is a big learning curve involved, and a lot of the time the games 617 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:14.400 that are really successful as live service games started off being not successful at all. 618 00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:16.440 You look at an example like a, you know, a Final Fantasy 619 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:22.079 fourteen, which they completely re overhauled the entire game, and it just feels 620 00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:28.239 like, no matter what they do, they'll likely find themselves in a situation 621 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:36.000 like that. Yeah, it's just I don't know. Good luck Bench Studio. 622 00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:38.800 Yeah, I feel for that, you know. It's yeah, I 623 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:42.599 mean I think you nailed it where it's uh, you know, you talk 624 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:45.320 about some of the most experienced developers in the world trying to make a live 625 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.679 service game, even the ones that have made live service games before, like 626 00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:52.760 Bungie. They made Destiny, and they went through all of those growing pains 627 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.079 with Destiny, and it's like, you know, Dessie, a great game 628 00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:59.199 that a lot of people found very fun out of the jump, but then 629 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.199 they're like they get they get to the ongoing live service game part and people 630 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:05.559 might not remember. I think a lot of people will, But at that 631 00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:08.400 time, it was a lot of like, this is unsubstantial, and where's 632 00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:10.599 the new stuff? Because if they want to keep me around, there better 633 00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:13.960 be new stuff. And it's taking a long time. And even when the 634 00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:16.000 new stuff gets here, it's kind of who it's not really what I was 635 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.760 expecting or wanted. It took a bunch of a long time to figure it 636 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.679 out with Destiny one, and they learned all those lessons, and then they 637 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.239 go to Destiny two and there's either a whole new crop of problems or they 638 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.599 have very similar problems. Once again, it's just hard to make a live 639 00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:32.880 service game. And then we saw everyone like look at Destiny and be like, 640 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:36.480 well, we're gonna do one of those, and everyone else made the 641 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.280 same exact mistakes because you kind of can't learn by watching. You can only 642 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:42.800 learn how to do a live service game by doing, At least from where 643 00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.599 I'm sitting, That's what it seems like, and so the expectation would be 644 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:49.199 Ben Studio is gonna have to learn those lessons the hard way as well, 645 00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:52.920 despite the fact that Sony now owns Bunchie and can bring them in to consult. 646 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.760 I think I think it's very easy to point out something isn't working and 647 00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:01.360 why it's not working. Implementing the soul or the answer is the art of 648 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:05.960 it all, and it's very challenging to actually do that ahead of time. 649 00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.039 It kind of takes some several iterations. So you know, all these are 650 00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:13.559 not reasons to pursue live service games in these companies' opinion, and that's fine, 651 00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:15.559 they're going to keep making these. But when it comes to Bend, 652 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:17.880 I don't necessarily know that they're like, hey, we would like you to 653 00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:22.320 make Days Gone two, so it's just a better use of your time. 654 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.079 I guess. I don't know. We're going to see. I do wonder 655 00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:29.119 if we get on the other side of this, though, and if they 656 00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:30.760 were to just make a Days Gone too instead, everyone be like, actually, 657 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.480 this is way better. They're gonna they do have experience making that they 658 00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:38.079 can apply that experience directly to make a better game. Maybe that would be 659 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:42.559 a better use of their time, especially since it feels like live service games 660 00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:45.719 are increasingly a risk your bet, and more so than they were even just 661 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:49.639 a couple of years ago. Yeah. I mean, especially when you do 662 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:54.960 have the pressure of it being like a Triple A level live service game. 663 00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:59.719 You know, there's enough pressure on Triple A titles as it is, and 664 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:05.360 then you want to also add the layer that is live service. Yep, 665 00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:07.639 exactly, all right, we gotta go move. I'm a good at the 666 00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:13.159 time, so much left. Legend of Zelda movie director teases awesome idea and 667 00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.880 says he wants to create something serious and cool but fun, fun and whimsical. 668 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:21.880 This is from Bradley Russell and Kim Taylor Foster at games Radar Plus. 669 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:24.719 A live action Legend of Zelda movie is on the way from Westball and Now 670 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:30.079 The Maze Runner director has outlined his exciting vision for the upcoming Nintendo project. 671 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.800 I have this awesome idea, Ball tells Total Film in our new issue out 672 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.320 on Thursday, March twenty eighth, which features the fall Guy on the cover. 673 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:42.159 I've been thinking about it for a long freaking time of how cool Zelda 674 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.719 movie would be. I want to fulfill people's greatest desires. I know it's 675 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:49.440 important this Zelda franchise to people, and I want to make I want it 676 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.400 to be a serious movie, a real movie that can give people an escape. 677 00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:55.000 Paul even points to that escapism. I want to live in that world, 678 00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:58.840 he says, as the driving force behind this the legend of Zelda movie. 679 00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:00.800 That's the thing I want to try to create. It's got to feel 680 00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:05.840 like something real, something serious and cool, but also fun and whimsical. 681 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:12.360 I think that is the right goal. I do. Yes, I think 682 00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:15.719 it's going to be an order of magnitude more difficult to achieve that with a 683 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.639 live action movie as opposed to something that is animated. Yeah. OK. 684 00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:23.440 I also would just like to point out that literally all this man said is 685 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:27.440 I want to make a good Zelda movie. Yes, exactly, yes, 686 00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:32.039 right, everybody wants a good Zelda movie. Okay, Like you have said 687 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.639 nothing about what your actual vision for this film is. You basically are saying, 688 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:43.760 Zelda cool. I make cool Zelda movie. Of course, Yes, 689 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:49.480 okay, and right, it's yeah, so you're encompassing all the things that 690 00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:53.360 Zelda could potentially be. Uh, you're right, And I think that lies 691 00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:57.599 the challenge here, where where you're gonna have to kind of pick a tone 692 00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.239 and yeah, you could deviate from that tone every once in a while, 693 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.280 But here it just feels like, I, yeah, I like it when 694 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:07.320 Link fights Gannon and Gannon is big and scary, and that's pretty serious and 695 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:09.800 cool. And I like it when Tingle shows up and dances in his underwear. 696 00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:13.559 That's whimsical and fun and it's like, yeah, homie, we all 697 00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:15.239 like all those things. Are you going to be able to make that all 698 00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.719 work? There is no indication here that that's the case. Uh. And 699 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.519 again, I think people are much more skeptical of this because it's live action. 700 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:27.079 I think if you were saying all this and then promising and we're going 701 00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:30.000 to animate it, I think that gives you so much more leeway to have 702 00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:34.519 fun with it, uh than having Timothy shallomeg dress up as Zelda or Link 703 00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:37.480 and then and then uh, and then trying to talk to Shalamada plays Zelda. 704 00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:43.519 Yeah, Timothy Challame is Zelda. Hell yeah, that would rule it's 705 00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:52.199 like Zandeya is BEECHI Zelda no. I Yeah, Look, there's a lot 706 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.679 of really great Zelda ip to work with. Part of me feels like just, 707 00:47:55.920 --> 00:48:02.079 I don't know, make majoras ask, makes something super freaking weird and 708 00:48:02.599 --> 00:48:07.920 just lean into that rather than trying to be like, here are all the 709 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.599 things I think are cool about Zelda, and we're going to put them in 710 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:14.320 one movie. That is not going to work. I'm just telling you that's 711 00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:15.599 not going to work. And the thing, the thing I would really want 712 00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:20.719 is like a ten part animated series based on Links Awakening, because there's so 713 00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:23.639 many like little stories you could tell in each episode that lead into the next. 714 00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:25.360 I mean, that's what the whole game is. It's just these little 715 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:30.000 quests that lead into a bigger quest, and then that the meta story there 716 00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:32.480 of overall of what's happening, what's really happening to link what's really happening in 717 00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:36.119 this world would be a nice, fun, litteral deal for people who aren't 718 00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:39.159 familiar with the story. That could work, but that's something they maybe do 719 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.400 later. I get why that's not going to be the first thing that they're 720 00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:44.719 going to try here. They're probably just gonna make Aquarey enough time, and 721 00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:49.800 that's fine. We'll see uh, director says Final Fantasy nine references in Final 722 00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:52.119 Fantasy fourteen again another story that could be like the top story. The Final 723 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:58.519 Fantasy nine references in Final Fantasy fourteen Dawntrail are there as a secret amid remake 724 00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:02.960 reports. This is from Jordan Mide at VGC. Final Fantasy fourteen director Naoki 725 00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:07.239 Yoshita has said that the reason for many references to Final Fantasy nine and the 726 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:12.239 upcoming expansion is a secret. You may have noticed a lot of Final Fantasy 727 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.039 nine references here. The reason is a secret, Yoshida said at Packs East 728 00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:20.800 while announce in several pre order and digital bonuses for Final Fantasy fourteen Dodge Trailfence 729 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.280 that referenced the game. I was in that room for the panel because my 730 00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.280 panel was next. That was kind off to the side, and when he 731 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:28.360 was saying that, I'm like, Mike, call me. I read the 732 00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:31.079 Nvidia leak. We know what's going on here. Yeah. In twenty twenty 733 00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:36.599 one, a Final Fantasy nine remake was one of the many unannounced titles listed 734 00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:39.840 in a g Force Now database league. These included several Square innex games that 735 00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:44.920 would later be officially confirmed, such as the PC version of Final Fantasy seven 736 00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:49.000 remake, a Crono Cross remaster, and Kingdom Hearts four. Well, a 737 00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:52.599 Final Fantasy nine remake has yet to be announced. Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb 738 00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:55.519 claim last year, I will say I heard very recently once again, Final 739 00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.199 Fantasy nine remake is real. That is real and happening. I forget say 740 00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:01.880 these things. So I'm glad that Jordan's got my back here. That's why 741 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:05.880 I remember that now. I remember that. Yes, I mean yeah, 742 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:07.079 again, let's say we know it's real because the Nvidia League. But it's 743 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:09.119 just nice like at that time to like, oh, yes, someone called 744 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:13.639 me separately. That is happening. It's happening everybody. And guess why we 745 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:16.840 know for sure? Now all these references have to do with them making a 746 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:22.920 big deal out of Final Fantasy nine. So yeah, I mean not surprising, 747 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.800 but only because the league has been so confirmed so many times at this 748 00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:32.039 point that we know we could trust that in video database, and I think 749 00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:35.400 this is a cool way of doing it. People love Final Fantasy nine, 750 00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:37.559 so I hope that this is everything that they want big time. Yeah, 751 00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:40.360 I mean, look, I'm all for a Final Fantasy nine remake, and 752 00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:50.760 especially with Yoshp's team working on it. Look, there were things about Final 753 00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:57.440 Fantasy sixteen that I didn't necessarily love, mostly that it was you know, 754 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:04.440 I really enjoyed Clive as a main character, but I did miss having the 755 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:07.199 kind of emotional connection that you get to the other characters who are in your 756 00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:10.000 party because they weren't in your party. And also I think there was some 757 00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:15.360 feedback around Final Fantasy seven remake where they're like, everybody talks to each other 758 00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:17.159 too much in battle, and so they basically have them not talk to each 759 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:22.239 other at all in battle in Final Fantasy sixteen, where you really really needed 760 00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:25.760 it because you just don't get those kind of incidental interactions with the characters, 761 00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:30.039 so I just don't care about them as much. But that being said, 762 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.679 I do think that this team does a really nice job with your more like 763 00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:39.400 Classic Fantasy Final Fantasy, and I think it'll be really nice for them to 764 00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:45.960 take on something like a Final Fantasy nine, which lives very firmly in that 765 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:51.159 Final Fantasy sort of traditionally what we would think of with the word fantasy, 766 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:58.679 but still has the fun that the Final Fantasy sixteen is intentionally missing, because 767 00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:01.280 again, it's like they made the choice to make it a very serious story 768 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:05.639 and not to say that Final Fantasy nine is not, but I just think 769 00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:07.280 it would be. I think that the they would do a great job, 770 00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:12.719 and I'm excited to play this. Yeah, people are in chatter wondering, 771 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:15.159 hey, why are they skipping eight for the remake? And I guess that 772 00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:17.400 My real question to you, Emma here is what is your expectation for the 773 00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:22.000 scope of a Final Fantasy nine remake, because we're not this is not going 774 00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:24.719 to be any close, anywhere close to what Final Fantasy seven remake is, 775 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.199 right, Oh no, no, not at all. I mean, that's 776 00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:31.159 the thing is that I think Final Fantasy nine is like pretty nice the way 777 00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:37.639 that it is. It's still relatively playable. You know. Obviously we're going 778 00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:40.679 to get graphics that are more on par with what we would expect today, 779 00:52:40.679 --> 00:52:44.679 and I assume that, you know, there'll be certain expansions to it, 780 00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.119 But this is not This is not going to be a Final Fantasy seven like 781 00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:51.719 fully re I mean, yes, fully rebuilt from the ground up, but 782 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.519 story probably not fully rebuilt from the time up. I don't from the ground 783 00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:01.920 up. I don't see multiple universes and converging timelines and is this character debt 784 00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:07.559 or not happening in Final Fantasy nine. It's just not that game. No, 785 00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:10.199 And for me, you know, these games are mostly one big GRPG 786 00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:15.000 mush in my brain, and so I'm trying to I know that Square did 787 00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:17.800 that. Was it Children of Mona or the Mono remakes where there's a lot 788 00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:22.119 of there's a lot of manner remakes, and they like did a pretty big 789 00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:25.000 overhaul to the visuals and made them look like modern games. But that was 790 00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:29.079 kind of the big change, or I suppose the one I didn't mess around 791 00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:31.599 with a little bit was what is the PSP game, the Final Fantasy one 792 00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:36.440 Crisis Core? Oh yeah, yea Chris score that did get a remaster. 793 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:39.400 That's, you know, particularly a remake because they swapped out every piece of 794 00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:45.400 assets for modern assets, but then underneath very similar games except for the cut 795 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:49.679 scenes, which they kept the cut scenes from the ps P version of the 796 00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:52.440 game, And now the cut scenes look worse than the in game engine, 797 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:57.840 mostly because the character's skin doesn't have any texture and it's creepy. So I'm 798 00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:01.760 expecting something along those lines, maybe maybe Final Fantasy nine gets the benefit of 799 00:54:01.800 --> 00:54:06.440 actually new cut scenes, but we'll see in honestly, they maybe makes two 800 00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:09.239 in game cut scenes at that point. That would make sense, all right. 801 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:13.719 Residentvial nine will be open world. Leaker suggests This is from Vicky Blake 802 00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:17.039 at Eurogamer. Resident Evil nine is reportedly being developed as an open world game. 803 00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:22.599 That's according to noted leaker Dusk Gullum, who said that following Capcom's improvements 804 00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:27.159 to the ARI engine when developing open world experiences like Dragons Dogma two, Capcom 805 00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:30.800 is eager to capitalize on the expanded tech when making Monster Hunter Wild and Resident 806 00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:35.199 Evil nine. So here's a little tidbit I'll share, dusk Gullum said on 807 00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:39.239 Twitter. Capcom often will green light new initiatives in threes closer together. Decent 808 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:44.000 examples are Resident Evil seven, Residuable two, and Devil May Cry five. 809 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:49.280 We're all green lighted fairly close together to take advantage of their new ARI engine, 810 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.840 and the idea to remake RI two inspired them to also take on RI 811 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:59.400 three and RI four for a remake initiative. Dragon's Dogma two expanded RI engine 812 00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:02.719 functional for open world games. The two other games building on this tech is 813 00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:08.639 Monster Hunter, Wild and Resident Evil nine. All three project goals have been 814 00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:14.039 to retain the series DNA. Dragon's Dogma two is still clearly Dragon's Dogma Wild 815 00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:16.679 is still clearly Monster Hunter. Same will be true for Resident Evil nine. 816 00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:22.639 With Resident Evil Uh yeah, so, I mean I think that obviously Monster 817 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:25.960 Hunter going open world is kind of something where they've only they've been faking that 818 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:29.159 for a very long time. They like, they want to feel like a 819 00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:31.360 connected, stitch together world, and you're usually going to these open zones, 820 00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:36.360 so stitching those all together and making it work that way kind of only makes 821 00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:39.119 sense, Like why wouldn't you do that? Resident Evil nine, That's the 822 00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:42.679 one where it's like, oh, the reason you say they're going to try 823 00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:45.760 to keep the serious DNA is because people are going to immediately worry is this 824 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:51.079 going to lose the DNA of the world. And I think that for me 825 00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:54.039 experimenting with a whole new way of doing things with Resident Evil nine, it's 826 00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:57.639 probably the right time. Right. So the you know, they had Residuval 827 00:55:57.679 --> 00:56:00.360 one, two, three, and then the sm offshoots Code Wonica. They 828 00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:02.320 changed things up with four, they do five and six. They change. 829 00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:07.639 They change things up with seven seven eight. Uh, you know, maybe 830 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.800 we're kind of having a period where it's like two games in one style with 831 00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:14.480 how long they take to develop. Maybe that makes more sense. And now 832 00:56:14.519 --> 00:56:16.800 doing something different with nine. I think Get's probably right, and I believe 833 00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:22.239 that they probably can maintain some of the uh the DNA here with Residevil game. 834 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:27.320 The big thing for me is in Dragon's Dogma, monsters will follow you 835 00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:30.519 around the open world in a way that they don't and like a Gene Park 836 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:32.360 pointed this out on Twitter, So shout outs to Gene where it's like like 837 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:37.719 a big dragon in Elder Ray. Yeah, they like stay, they stay 838 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.559 in there, like there they're contained zone area and they won't ever leave that. 839 00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:45.039 It's like in Resident Evil nine. The idea of like hiding these monsters 840 00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:49.800 around or or having something actually literally chase you across an entire landscape. Uh. 841 00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:52.719 That that is something I think Residevil has always had in the backs. 842 00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:57.599 It's like Resuvil three with Nemesis, or you know with Rezuval two with mister 843 00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:01.760 X whatever's name is PlayStation right, So having them someone stalk you through an 844 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:07.760 open world, I think is there's potential there, So I'm hopeful and at 845 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:10.360 this point I think we're giving the benefit of doubt the capcom right, yeah, 846 00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:15.639 I mean at this point there they're dealing with their finding the limitations of 847 00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:22.519 our engine with Dragon's Dogma two. Yes, so they can come back swing 848 00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:24.639 in with Resident Evil nine. They will know how to do Open World at 849 00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:29.519 that point. And you know, Resident Evil has got to be up there 850 00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:34.400 in terms of their best selling franchise. If it's not their best selling franchise 851 00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:38.400 these days, you know, I'm hopeful. I'm in agreement with you like 852 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:42.960 this. This is the right time to experiment, right, yes, definitely, 853 00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:46.199 all right, last couple of things here, Microsoft reportedly reaches agreement with 854 00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:51.400 crash Bandicoot developed Toys for Bob for a new game. This is from wes 855 00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:54.000 Lean Pool at ig In. Basically, the story here is Toys for Bob 856 00:57:54.760 --> 00:58:00.400 was able to like get itself out from Microsoft after the acquisition of Activision and 857 00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:05.079 Toyster Bob is now independent and at the same time they're going to immediately make 858 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:08.079 this deal. Now the deal's confirmed with Microsoft to make a game with Microsoft. 859 00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:12.199 We don't know exactly what it is, but the reporting here is that 860 00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:15.000 is going to be something very similar to what Toyster Bob does, probably a 861 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.760 three D platformer, and then you can speculate on whatever that's actually going to 862 00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:22.039 be. Is it going to be a new Spiro, New Crash. Are 863 00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:24.159 they going to work on Banjo Kazui? Probably not them working on Banjo? 864 00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:29.519 Yes, that was green lighted a while ago. So yeah, so I 865 00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:31.719 think that there's the possibility here that they could be doing any one of those 866 00:58:31.840 --> 00:58:36.079 or maybe something new. Either way, they are on their own, and 867 00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:38.559 this is better than the alternative I guess where they would have been shut down 868 00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:43.559 and not able to like get funding or whatever when they went independent. So 869 00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:45.679 this is mostly good news, I hope. Yep. I liked the last 870 00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:49.679 Crash Bandicoot game. I thought it was very fun. Yes, so like 871 00:58:49.719 --> 00:58:52.840 Crash Bandicoot four, Crash Bandicoot four is the best Crash Bandicoot in my fine 872 00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:59.000 definitely yeah. Yeah, And in Final Fantasy six I said Banju was green 873 00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:01.760 light that's the rumor out there. I'm it's not like New Confirmation. Everybody, 874 00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:07.800 Please don't go post that headline everywhere. Jeff Grubbs. I'm just I'm 875 00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:10.360 seeing it flashed before my very eyes. I gott to fix what I say 876 00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:15.760 here? All right. Finally, Final Fantasy sixteen's final DLC gets a release 877 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:19.320 date. This is from willow Row at Kotaku. The last major piece of 878 00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:22.400 content for twenty twenty three's Final Fantasy sixteen now has a release date. The 879 00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:27.480 Rising Tide, the second of two planned post release DLC's, is coming to 880 00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:30.480 PlayStation five on April eighteenth. It will cost you twenty dollars you get as 881 00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:34.679 part of the twenty five dollars Expansion Pass, though that includes the Rising Tide 882 00:59:34.719 --> 00:59:37.920 and the first DLC echoes of the Fallen Falling. Are you checking out this 883 00:59:38.039 --> 00:59:42.960 DLC, Emma, Well, I get all of it with the version of 884 00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:50.840 Final Fantasy sixteen that I was kindly gifted by Squaring Nicks, So yeah, 885 00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:52.480 I'll check it out. Listen. At that point, I think I'll have 886 00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:58.800 stomped every fool in the land in Queen's Blood. I will have conquered every 887 00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:01.079 single Chocoba race. So I'll be you know, I'll be looking for some 888 01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:06.119 more Final Fantasy, and I'll swing right on back to sixteen, which again 889 01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:09.599 liked overall. All right, that's going to take us to the poll question 890 01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:15.360 for today. Let's get right into it. I guess this is the last 891 01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.239 one I asked at this point, I don't remember. Do you have a 892 01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:22.400 PSVR two? No? I don't want Once it was eighty three percent, 893 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:24.559 nine percent says no, but I planned to buy one and eight percent said 894 01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:29.400 yes? Or was it actually the last one is here? It doesn't This 895 01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:30.639 is not actually. We didn't make this a poll, so we messed this 896 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:34.440 up. Do you ever buy the physical release of a game that comes out 897 01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:37.880 much later than the initial digital only release like Balderskate three? There we go, 898 01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:42.599 now the polls popping up for me. Thirty four percent said yes, 899 01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:47.199 sixty six percent said no. That's actually, again a pretty big number of 900 01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:51.239 a respondent saying yes, I will buy the physical version of a game I 901 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:54.239 liked and played digitally first. Or I suppose in that number there could be 902 01:00:54.239 --> 01:00:57.679 a lot of people like I won't play a game until it comes out physical 903 01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:00.559 and then I'll buy it then, especially if people are praising it, like 904 01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:04.760 something like a Boulderskate three. How about you, Like when Boulderskate three came 905 01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:06.880 out, you're like, hey, if this ever comes out fiscal I get 906 01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:08.559 it. And now that Collector's edition's coming. Are you going to pick that 907 01:01:08.679 --> 01:01:15.440 up? You know, I haven't purchased physical games in quite some time. 908 01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:21.280 I like the instant gratification of being able to just download it. However, 909 01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:28.599 I also am aware that all of my friends who are snobs about physical media, 910 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:32.880 they might be justified the way that now it's not happening so much with 911 01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:38.199 games, but certainly with streaming services and people losing their licensing agreements, so 912 01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:45.559 then you lose access to content that you had previously purchased. I'm still probably 913 01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:47.079 not going to do it, but I understand, is what I'm saying. 914 01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:50.519 I get that I'm part of the problem. I'll say that I know I'm 915 01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:52.880 part of the problem. Not going to change, but I know I'm part 916 01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:55.679 of the problem. Absolutely not the new Pool question. We're going to get 917 01:01:55.719 --> 01:01:58.960 that up here in a second. Before we do that, Emma, why 918 01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:00.079 don't you tell people where they can on you on the internet, what you 919 01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:05.320 have going on and all that good stuff. Yeah, so you can find 920 01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:09.719 me on the internet at my name em A Fife on Twitter, on Instagram. 921 01:02:09.880 --> 01:02:15.280 I don't really use social media very much these days, but I'm still 922 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:21.159 there, you know, find me, find me in the Giant Bomb Discord 923 01:02:21.239 --> 01:02:23.280 server. I'm also am a fife in there, so if you if you 924 01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:27.440 got burning questions for me, you can just tag me right in there. 925 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:31.360 Uh yeah, and then yeah, that's that's me. I got lots of 926 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:37.400 stuff happening, so you know, just check out Giant Bomb, checkout game 927 01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:42.719 Spot. I'm I'm around, I'm doing stuff. Uh fantastic, and you'll 928 01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:45.960 be back here next Monday, probably if we can make it so fantastic. 929 01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:49.760 All right, new poll question. This will go up on YouTube dot com 930 01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:52.599 slash at giant Bomb. Under the community tab. There you can find are 931 01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:55.880 you okay that Larry and Sto's next game isn't going to be Bolder Skate? 932 01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:00.159 Yes or no and listen. If you're disappointed, you win more bolders Gate 933 01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:01.760 from Larrying Studios. You're allowed to feel that way. You could say no. 934 01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:07.559 We'll discuss the results of this poll on Game mess Mornings on Giant Bomb 935 01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:10.039 on Wednesday. When we come back with a new episode on Tuesday, we 936 01:03:10.079 --> 01:03:14.239 will have the BombCast. Be sure to tune in for that. Everybody. 937 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:17.280 There's gonna be more happening this week. I'll probably play Dragon's Dogma two on 938 01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:21.559 the website at some point, maybe later today, de Benson, how things 939 01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:24.440 go with taking the kid to her therapy session, and then when I get 940 01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:27.480 back, we'll see you how we'll see we'll make that happen. And then 941 01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.519 for the rest of the week, expect stuff like blight club back on Wednesday, 942 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:34.159 voicemail, dump truck on Thursday. Upf maybe there'll be a Jeff Jeff's 943 01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:36.199 I don't know. We're gonna go to the meeting right now and figure it 944 01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:38.840 out. Actually, everybody, Emma, thank you so much for spending today 945 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:43.000 talk with me about video games. I really appreciate it, of course, 946 01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:45.719 and thank you all for watching and listening. You're the best audience in gaming. 947 01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:49.800 Until next time, have a good one, take care of yourself, 948 01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:51.039 and goodbye.