You'll be luck don't bet bit it's the internet. You're busy. Oh my
god, my tongue wouldn't work. I had to like try to get it
around that word the there, and it was not happening. Let's do this
for September six, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so,
let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game US Morning's Live
with Me Jeff Grubb Today. Nintendo may have a direct next week, but
it won't have any Zelda DLC. But first please join me and welcoming today's
co host a Gamess Mornings. It's Lucy James. Everybody, Lucy, how
are you doing. Oh you're fine? There, you are there? You
are we gonna? I think I just have I just have dodgy connection.
No, I'm I'm well, but I'm tired. As I was saying to
you before the show. I got a weighted blanket the monday, the monday
we got back from Pack's, I napped in the afternoon for three hours and
and I slept for twelve hours that night. Oh yeah, last night,
last night, I fellasy for ten day, woke up a seventh thirty.
You two can sleep like me if you get a chronic illness to my friends.
So this is yeah, just like a recovery week for me. But
weighted blanket, Yeah, that's it. That seems real good. I weighted
blanket. See when I was growing up, it was electric blankets. You
plugged in this blanket, it would get hot and stuff that was all the
rage or like or like heating powder. Sorry I've got one of those two.
Yeah. Uh now, but the weighted blanket seems to be the meta
these days. That seems what like what everyone's going for. I think I
would. I think I could use one. I'm I like to sleep pretty
light during the summer, but during the winter I like one big heavy blanket,
so like usually comforter. But I'm wondering if I wonder if I could
switch that up with a weighted blanket instead. So I also, Lucy slept
a ton when I got back, and that's it. Still wasn't enough,
tired, still off? Yeah have TG here tgg sounds like a man who
lives under a bridge, and I know I've never met him. Now,
how do you how do you know how how thick your duvets are? The
girth of my duvet is in none of your business. Frankly, uh,
I don't know. We have weights, so like in the UK, you
you have like, you know, a three point five for maybe around like
the summer, when it's really hot, you have a ten point five for
like a middle, and like maybe even if the twelve was a thing when
it's a bit colder, you don't do dog Maybe maybe we do. I
just I've never gone duvet shopping all that many times enough to like have to
commit this to memory. So maybe maybe it exists, but I've I've never
I've never seen it used. So I used to have a duvet which was
two duvets and they snapped together and one was a three point five and one
was a ten point five, and then when it was too hot, you
would like it was great. Oh we spent like did they like layer up
kind of? Is that what you mean? Like they could they literally popped
like snap together. Okay, fastness that's used and it was great. TOG
is a measurement of divided by W. I don't know what that means.
We have thread counts, which I don't think it is real either. I
think thread counts is always kind of a made up thing. It doesn't really
matter. I don't think it really has anything to do with the softness of
the sheets or anything like that, but that's what we have. We have
thread counts, bullshit marketing terms. We got plenty of them, just maybe
not togs. Uh yeah, all right, you know what. We got
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Okay, we have a lot to get into, so let's start the
Morning Mess with A traditional direct is rumored for next week before Tokyo Game Show
twenty twenty three. This is from my Nintendo News Portuguese website Universal Nintendo,
which has previously gotten some weeks correct states that A states that a traditional Nintendo
Direct presentation is happening next week, specifically between the eleventh of September and the
fifteenth of September. Nintendo typically holds a Nintendo Direct presentation at September, just
before the Tokyo Game Show, where some of the showcase games are playable on
the show floor. Nintendo has not officially announced a Nintendo Direct, so this
information is currently just a rumor. If there are any updates, you'll hear
about it here Lucy. Okay, So we were at Nintendo Live and they
had a They had a direct leading into that about Super Mario Brothers Wonder,
which was playable on that show floor, and I was like, coming out
of that direct, like they cannot they maybe they won't do an actual traditional
style Nintendo Direct later in September, because that while that happened in August thirty
first for us, it was September in Japan, so I think we could
qualify that as a September Direct, and but but coming out of Nintendo Live,
it's like, well, they probably needed to talk about Super Mario Brothers
Wonder publicly before that because people were going to be playing it very soon at
at the Nintendo Live showcase. And I think you they won't at games comment
that game, right, at least as far as we know, that game
wasn't there, so so yeah, that was like its first big public appearance,
so they needed to talk about that. So they had a special direct
just for Super Mario Brothers Wonder. Now, I could imagine a world in
which next week we get a a Nintendo Direct, and that would be a
little bit in line with what I've heard about, like, oh, maybe
something's happy when Metroid Prime two remaster and that could get announced there. Again,
it's not for sure, but like it's like I've heard that's happening relatively
soon, and direct would happen in September, and maybe that maybe those things
are related. So I could see this happening. And while Nintendo has a
lot already announced for this fall, they could always announce a couple more things.
There's things like that Final Fantasy Tactics remaster that's always getting thrown out that
could show up here, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean, isn't
this This is a usual kind of time frame for a direct, going into
the last question of the year, going into the busy season makes sense.
With Super Mario Wonder, a lot of positive buzz from it at the show.
Yeah, we played it, we loved it. Yep, yeah,
it makes sense. Timing, timing checks out. Yeah, so yes,
they've done a September direct, like a full traditional direct every year for at
least the last ten years. I believe something along those lines. It's like
one of the more reliable times of the year for them to do something.
And it makes sense even if they don't have a ton of new stuff to
talk about, having a big opportunity to get eyeballs going into the holiday to
even just say, hey, we are we already announced it, but we're
launching the Animal Crossing, Nintendo switch lights, and there's a new Mario Kart
bundle. Just put those things on your radar because you're watching this direct that
that makes a lot of sense for a Nintendo even if it's not necessarily gonna
be chock full of things that we haven't seen before. And a big part
of it comes down to Nintendo makes these arrangements with these outside companies that show
up in these Nintendo directs, and Nintendo needs to honor those things and throw
a Nintendo Direct because that's like, you know, a contractual agreement. They
say, Hey, we're gonna do a certain amount of promotion for your thing
or whatever, or you know, we're gonna be putting an a Nintendo direct.
Even if it's like a verbal agreement, they feel that they need to
honor those, so I wouldn't be surprised. It's like, hey, all
year, they've been assuming they're gonna have one of these. They're gonna go
ahead with one, but we'll see. It's not going to happen this week
for sure, because this is Labor Day week and they're coming off Nintendo Live,
so next week makes a lot of sense to me. If I'm like
thinking about it, it's like, yeah, that's the time where I would
have imagined it was going to happen. That's the rumor. Maybe we'll see
any I know, I know you didn't grow up in it with Nintendo.
There any like obscure Nintendo franchises you would like to see come back. No,
again, I didn't grow up in Nintendo. I just genuinely just got
an Ola switch. So I'm starting to play Pickman. I tried to start
to play it on the flight back, and I was sleepy, sleepy,
so I know, too sleepy the Lucy James story, I know, I
mean, I don't know. I'm just I get excited when you're you're all
excited. I mean, I don't think this is going to be New switch
Time. I'm happy. I'm happy to be wrong about that, But it
feels like New switch Time will be like February after you know, this year's
releases are out the way, and next year they could fully focus on new
hardware. Alight, come here, what's the problem. I got someone thrown
up? Just okay? Come on, Oh you want to get your food?
Okay, well I can do that as soon as my show's over?
All right, didn't Can we just talk about it quick? It's going to
be okay? Yeah, she's got her pickman here, looks show everybody your
pickman, the yellow and the blue guy. Yes, it's okay. Hey,
why don't you go play a game? And as soon as I'm done,
will belong? All right, she's she's she's hungry, but that'll be
like her third breakfast. Can't land you know it's almost lunch time? Hey?
Hey, no, hey, maybe she's just hobbit pilled. Oh yes,
absolutely, I got my little hobbits run around this house constantly. All
right, there's a bunch of Nintendo news kind of not related to the direct,
but I'm gonna relate it to a direct possibly anyhow, if there is
a direct next week, maybe that's where we finally get that video with Shigiro
Miyamoto and Charles Martine. Because Martine still needs to be told what it means
to be a Mario ambassador. This is from Levi Winslow at Kataku. Charles
Martine, the iconic voice behind everyone's favorite Mestachio Plumber for over twenty five years,
has traditioned transition from playing the character into being a Mario ambassador instead,
and that's according to Nintendo recently. But there's one problem. Martine still doesn't
know what his new role at Nintendo entails. Towards the end of August,
Nintendo revealed that Martine would be stepping back from voicing Mario effective immediately. He'll
continue to travel the world, sharing the joy of Mario and interacting with you
all. The company said in its announcement. However, that what this new
role evolves will it was under wraps, as neither Martine nor Nintendo's shared details
of exactly what Mario's form of voice actor would be doing, aside from sharing
the joy and traveling the world. Well, it turns out Martine also has
no clue what he'll be doing though he's Though he said he hasn't retired,
he did go on to say that you might have seen the news. I'm
a Mario ambassador, Martinez said, I don't know what that is yet.
I'm not retired, as it were, but I am an ambassador, and
as we step forward into the future, I will learn We'll all learn what
exactly that is. But in the meantime, you know, I'll be ambassading
as I always have. I'm always an ambassador of Nintendo and Mario at all
of those events because I just cherish every moment of it, and I hope
that you know, your love of the game continues to grow the way mind
does. So thank you very much. Is this like change like color,
like anything about like that initial reaction of like what happened there? It This
doesn't so I kind of assumed Martine was retiring. To hear him just flat
out and say I'm not retiring makes it sound like Nintendo being a little bit
weirder than I was expecting. I mean, I guess maybe they were like
looking to have a succession plan in place. So that and then they're like,
let's just jump forward to that, get a new voice. But I
don't know, I think this is weird. How about you. Well,
now that you've said that, unfortunately, the only thing going on in my
mind is succession. But Charles Martinet is logan of course, so you've got
like the little Mary was going that was Mickey Mouse though, yeah, it's
at me. I'm not a serious of Pomer. It's very weird. And
also I don't think I think the timing on this is funny because it's also
the exact same time that Major Nelson's out. Yeah, and that and that
feels weird too, although like you know, everyone at Microsoft was like,
you know, best delicious to to you on your future endeavor. So it's
like, yeah, it's hard to like read into these things. But I
don't know, you know, a certain at a certain point doing something for
over twenty thirty years, it's like at any moment, like the other company
that you're working with could decide, hey, we we do want to have
like someone in mind that could do this thirty years from now, and that's
not you, that's yeah, I mean, I mean, unless like maybe
he could still do the voice though that's the way a thing. I mean,
yeah, the way that this is kind of rolling out hasn't necessarily been
the very clean way that Nintendo usually does things, especially if you've got the
ambassador himself going on a panel and going I have no idea what this is.
But I mean, if he's still traveling the world, and if Nintendo's
still footing that bill, then I'm sure he's going to be pretty happy and
to meet fans and stuff. But it does it does feel weird to not
have him as into as a wait, oh god, jan no, one
tell Lucy that I started getting cabbage soup t no. And so yeah,
I just I just hope he's being treated all right. I think, you
know all Accountcy is being treated well. But it is just it's just weird.
It's like, I mean, come on, we've already lost the Queen,
Okay, I can't deal with this much. We're losing the king absolutely,
Charles Martinet. I do wonder if it's like this is a monkey spawl
situation. I don't know, this feels a bit extreme, but like,
hey, everyone complained about the stagnation of new Super Mario brothers looking the same
and and feeling the same and sounding the same over you know, four generations
or three generations of Counsoles or whatever it was. And uh, and they're
like, Okay, well we gonna change it up, but we're gonna change
everything. And then we get Super a Super Mario Brothers Wonder and it looks
very different and it has a completely different sort of feel and like the like
they took away the timers and there's no lives and you've got a badge system,
so it's almost like an RPG mechanic in this two D Mario. And
the voice is different, and it's and then and all of these levels are
got all those cool stuff. It's like, wait, wait, wait,
go back on, what do you mean the voice is different? We didn't
mean that needed to change, but Ninten was like, we thought you wanted
something different. Uh. They do seem to be in a state where they
are resetting a lot of stuff, like someone the Champ pointing out they they've
redesigned Donkey Kong recently and stuff like that. I suppose this could just be
them freshening up everything. And that means even like the Mario voice, right,
yeah, who's because like obviously we know Charles Maltine, But who are
the other voice actors in the games? Plays Peach Charles Martinet, No,
he does a lot of the voices. I don't know who does Peach.
That's a good point. I absolutely your idea. That's h But I bet
it seems does seem like they've replaced everybody for Super Mario Brothers. Wonder and
then who are the new voices? They say they won't tell us, and
we won't know until the credits roll to yes, until the credits get out
there. So it's gonna be someone getting the game early and putting it in
their discord, and that's how we're all going to find out which is the
way it's meant to. We're gonna see some like really badly photoshopped crap too
on me. Oh yeah, yes, yes's just a lot of Chris Pratt
jokes. I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be a gonna be a
feast of cross Chris Pratt jokes. All right, Moving on, the next
Zelda will offer a new experience. Nintendo has no Tears of the Kingdom DLC
plans, though This is from Darren Bonthus at Game Spot. The legend of
Zelda producer ig Alanuma. I think ig is how you say a G there
you go that I knew it was wrong. Ag Alanuma and game director hit
Tomorrow Fujibayashi have spoken about the future of the franchise and what the development team
has planned for the next installment. Naturally, the pair aren't ready to divulge
any details, but Fujibayashi did mention that a fun factor will be a core
element and the next Zelda game, and Alanuma added that fans can look forward
to a new experience when it eventually arrives. Alanuma added that there are currently
no plans to release extra content for Tears of the Kingdom, which launched back
in May. For the Switch, the producer explained that this particular incarnation of
High Rule and overhauled version of twenty seventeen Spread of the Wild area had been
tapped dry and that the development team had put everything possible into the base game.
At this time, we are not planning to release additional content, Alanuma
said to Famitsu. We feel like we have already fully explored and exhausted the
gameplay possibilities in this world. Initially, the reason we decided to develop a
sequel was because we believe there was still value in experiencing new gameplay within that
particular high rule. If in the future we find a component reason, we
may revisit the world once again, whether it's another sequel or an entirely new
title. I believe the next game will offer a completely new experience. I
hope you'll look forward to it soon. They didn't say soon. I added
that part because that would be crazy. The no DLC for Tears of the
Kingdom a little surprising. I mean, up to this point they've not said
anything about DLC, and with Breath of the Wild they were like, right
away, even before the game is out, hey, get ready for the
DLC coming later, And they do that with most of their games. They're
like, hey, we have DLC, it's coming later, and we're going
to tell you about it before the game is out. They never said anything
about extra content for Tears of the Kingdom, and this seems to be why
they're they're not planning to do any And as someone who who's played a lot
of that game and has a lot to like still doing that game if I
were, if I were to choose to go back to it, that makes
sense. This does feel like you know in a lot of ways that it
is like a DLC expansion for for Breath of the Wild, And I know
that's like there's a pejorative of nature to that that people feel, but I
don't. I don't feel that way. It's like, no, take all
the ideas that you left on the table and then like one hundred thousand more
from on this game into the same world that you've already built. And it's
like, okay, well, if you're doing that, a DLC kind of
doesn't makes sense because you're do this is that's just like more about the same
idea. So I think this is completely fair. What do you think I
mean, yeah, I wasn't. The biggest fanity is the Kingdom, to
be honest. Oh hang on, oh the YouTube chat. This is something
that we'll talk about. YouTube is getting like those random ads in the middle
of again, so they've had to move over to Twitch. Okay, we're
going to figure that out, everybody. I don't know what's going on with
YouTube. I'll figure that out, yes, yeah, But anyway, No,
tis the Kingdom, I mean, honestly makes sense. If there's new
hardware coming next year allegedly, then it makes way more sense to just focus
your attention on that and a brand new game to launch this sooner rather than
later. Yeah, I mean even like I don't, I didn't want even
think that I played the DLC for I didn't finish Breath of the World.
Yeah, I don't. I don't for the World, and so like,
yeah, Master Trials Champions valid. It didn't seem like very very meaningful DLC
update. It's like, certainly not one that are going to change the way
the game is played, like Master Mode added that like passing anything. I
don't know. There was some stuff in there that's like difficulty spikes and stuff
like that that we'll change it on that level. And then there was some
extra stuff in that DLC. But yeah, I think for the most part,
I'm just not someone who engages with DLC in general. For the most
part, it takes a it takes a lot to bring me back to a
game, and for the most part, DLC is stuff where I'm like,
dam I'm glad that's happening. I'm playing other things now. If I've already
moved on, I've lost my momentum going back. I did try to go
back to the DLC for for Breath of the Wild and never really could get
back into it. It was like, I'd rather just start this game over,
and obviously they have, like them Master Mode to do that, but
it was like even that, I'm like, well, I don't have time
to then play another one hundred hours of this game. So I'm kind of
glad that they're just leaving this all as one complete experience. I suppose,
Like glad is maybe not the right word. Oh, I'm glad they're not
giving more people more stuff, but I'm like it doesn't efface me all that
much, and I would rather than take that time and put it into the
next Zelda or put it into or let like, instead of a DLC for
Zelda, let something else come out, like a two D Zelda from a
team like a Grezo or something like that. I think that would be much
more welcome for me personally. Uh, do switch that they're working on this
fun thing? Yes? Yeah, I think my internet is really bad today,
By the way, is it there's a little bit of a delay.
We'll we'll work around it. But it's like it's it's totally fine, We're
gonna be okay. You're you're coming through clear. You sound you sound like,
you sound good and you look fine. It's just a slight delay,
that's all. It's interesting. I don't know why, but I was gonna
say, I'm really interested in them thinking about this fun thing A fund factor.
Yeah, yeah, what is that? What does that mean? Yeah?
Who knows. I guess they've probably, like I'm sure they did,
still have to leave some ideas on the on the ground where like that makes
more sense for a sequel to a whole other result of game. So let's
just go ahead. And you know, Fuji Baiyashi has talked about that a
little bit previously, where he's like, yeah, I'm already thinking about the
next thing. And I bet a big part of that is we tried some
stuff in this game it didn't work or we couldn't get it figured out in
time, and this thing already had enough stuff, So we'll just put that
into the next game. And I think that's that's totally okay. All right,
let's see here. New switch hardware bundles are on the way ahead of
the holiday season. This comes from Christine Joy at Destructoid. Nintendo has announced
three upcoming Nintendo Switch bundles featuring Mario eight so Mario Kart eight Deluxe, and
Animal Crossing New Horizons. All three are set to go on sale on October
six from select retailers. The first bundle is in Nintendo Switch console with blue
and red joycons a digital download of Mario Kart eight Deluxe, and a three
month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online. The MSRP for this bundle is two hundred
and niney nine dollars in ninety nine cents, the price of a Switch on
its own. The bundle does not include the Booster Course Dee Boost of Course
Past DLC. The other two bundles are handheld only Nintendo Switch Light consoles,
paired with a digital download of Animal Crossing New Horizons. These new switch Light
features of the classic turqoise and pink colors with a special leaf design on the
back. The turk Cooise version Timmy and Tommy's Aloha Addition will be sold exclusively
at Walmart, while the Pink Isabel's Aloha Addition will be found at Target.
These are two hundred dollars, also the price of a switch Light without a
game and these and these ones also won't include the Happy Home Paradise DLC use
these are bundles that like are pretty familiar. I guess Nintendo's never bundled Animal
Crossing with the Switch. I don't think so that's a little bit big.
But these are also like maybe the right games, even though I think Mario
Karts sold like fifty five almost sixty million copies and Animal Crossings sold more than
forty million copies. If you are getting a gift like a Switch as a
gift for someone, these are still the games you're probably thinking of first,
as like, Hey, someone who hasn't bought a Switch yet, they probably
they probably don't care about Mario or Zelda all that much. They might have
fun playing Mario Kart with friends and maybe Animal Crossing this third thing instead.
And it's like, oh, yeah, so I could see this making a
lot of sense for the holidays. At the same time, not too exciting.
Everyone's kind of looking forward to the next switch. So these are fine
bundles. But what do you think, Well, this is big for me
because my sister just let let slip that my nieces have become obsessed with Mario.
There it is, but only the movie, and isn't it. Yeah,
so I'm thinking, oh Christmas, I could I could really have the
chance to do something here. I could really, I can really do something
this year. Yeah, I mean, at this point in the life cycle
of the Switch, these bundles make a lot of sense. It's yeah,
I mean, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart eight, like huge, huge hitters
for Fintendo Family favorites, like if You're Gonna and like, you know,
we know that Sony does really really well with bundling things, and it also
like really increases sales of games because people are after the console too. Yeah,
that's what they did with Horizon that really helped Horizon out. Yeah yeah,
yeah, so no, I'm I think it's great because as well,
like when I remember when I was a kid and I got my PS two
for the first time, I didn't have any games bundled with it, and
so the only thing I had other than like the one game that I bought
with it was the demo Disks, and so I didn't even know that it
was a good game. I think of the first game I had was like
the Harry Potter and the philosophy. We're gonna lose Lucy first second life,
try to fix this all right, We're back there there we are, yes,
And so no, like getting bundled with with such like games that have
a like that are great and b that still have a lot of life in
them. I think that's very spot yes, and it's the kind of thing
where I am I already have these games, but it's not it doesn't cost
anything extra because it's like that's the that's the price. So it's like even
for me, I'm like, hey, my switch light is kind of busted
up, and so I might want to get a new one, especially for
my kids, and that I think these new switch lights are very cute,
but I wasn't going to pay extra to get the game included. I already
have the game. Well, good news. I can get these, get
the game code, and give that to a friend and still get the cool
system at the same price. This is the way that you know price cuts
are going to happen on these consoles going forward. They're not really going to
lower the price. They will give you more value at the same price.
So it feels a little bit like a better deal, feels like you're saving
some money. In reality, you're giving them the same amount of money on
something that they've they've already sold forty or fifty million copies of so for them,
it's like, hey, this is all just money in the bank.
We're good on this. So it makes sense from both sides, especially if
we're not going to get those big price decreases later in the console generation.
Microsoft says that's not going to happen anymore. Microsoft is not going to lower
the price of their consoles. Nintendo definitely isn't all right. Let's see here.
F zero producer comments on a new entry in the franchise, This is
My Nintendo News and a recent interview with VGC, Toshihiro Negoshi, the producer
of F zero GX, expressed his openness to returning to work on the beloved
Nintendo series. The conversation revolved around his experience with the GameCube Classic, which
recently marked its twentieth anniversary. Nagoshi shared his fond memories of working on the
game and mentioned his willingness to consider another project within the F zero universe.
He stated, this is a very nostalgic game title for me, and that
was when I learned how to create a high quality game to satisfy a fan
base. I learned a lot, and if there was a chance, I
wouldn't mind working on it again. When asked about his current role as the
founder of his own studio, or about how his current role as the founder
of a new studio might affect the likelihood of collaborating with Nintendo on a new
F zero installment, Nigoshi humorously deferred to Nintendo, emphasizing that it's ultimately their
decision. Fans have eagerly awaited a new F zero game since the last entry
F zero Cli Max for the Game Boy Advanced nineteen years ago. Lucy F
zero is one of those franchises that Nintendo fans always call for and and asked
to return, and Nintendo always says, hey, if we do that,
we got to do something new, and they don't do that with all their
franchises F zero for some reason, they'll has to like change up in some
fundamental way for them to feel like they're going to bring it back. That
said, I think most fans would be pretty satisfied if they did just do
a remaster F zero GX for the GameCube version, and that seems maybe more
likely. Dagoshi did go on to say that they should Ninteno shouldn't like hire
a third party studio to kind of come in and work on it, and
there are a handful of studios out there that make those kinds of games.
Snap might make sense, but I don't expect to expect us to get an
F zero anytime soon. What do you think? No, this has huge
gal Gado saying how much she wants to play Wonder Woman again energy definitely where
it's like just saying it and hoping that Warner Brothers will agree. Yes,
the momentum from fans will build up and like overwhelm them or something. Yeah,
But I mean, ultimately, I don't necessarily I think you're right in
that they should really just try a remaster gauge interest that way, because at
the same time, it is all very well and good people on the internet
saying that they want something like we all do that all the time, But
ultimately you have to pay with your wallet, and so they're not going to
invest in a brand new video game of F zero without maybe like testing the
Wars a little bit first. But also you'll clambering for F zero. Yeah,
the people clambering drafts zero and some Natuna fans are I do wonder like,
is it yeah? Is it these snakes on the plane thing where we
are all in the echo chamber on line. I think F zero would do
pretty well. You know, listen, if Metroid is going to sell three
million copies and that's going to be really really good for that franchise, I
think F zero would be in that same zone in terms of success. And
man, man, if they could due an HD F zero with the same
sense of speeds as GX and the really excellent music, I mean, I'll
be there for it. I don't I don't know these days. I don't
know if that wins over in new crowd. But yeah, anything that's related
to Smash Brothers and you know, Captain Falcons Big and Smash Brothers, I
think has a chance of selling like two three million copies. So Nintendo might
come back around to it eventually. Last Nintendo story here, Nintendo expands Switch
onlines game Boy Color, Super Nintendo in a NES library with four more games.
This is from Liam Doolan at Nintendo Life. Nintendo has added four more
games to the Switch Online library today, but it's not the sort of lineup
you might be expecting. Three of these games are Japan only and we're never
translated into English. Starting off with the NES lineup, there's the nineteen ninety
three release Joy mech Fight. This is a fighting game developed and published by
Nintendo during the Famacom era. In addition to this is the Technos Japan Corps
Kunyo Kun Action sports titled Downtown Nikatsu March Super Awesome Field Day, which was
originally released in nineteen ninety on the Famicon UH and on the Super Nintendo front
It's Hall Laboratories Kirby's Star Stacker. This puzzle game made its debut on the
game Boy, and the remake for the Super Famicom was then released in nineteen
ninety eight ninety nine. Last, but not least is the tightest interactive action
RPG, Quest for Camelot, originally released on the Game Boy Color in nineteen
ninety eight and based on the Warner Brothers animation of the same name. Uh,
these are you know, there's a trailer showing all these off. The
Quest for Camelot one really threw me off, Lucy. That's that's a movie
that it's based on. So it's like, technically, I think that's that's
the only one I recognize. Yeah, and it's like it's kind of like
a you know, a licensed Zelda like or something like that. Uh,
it is that movie. It's that Max. This is a license game.
That movie came out in nineteen ninety eight as well. Apparently Nintendo published the
game though back in the day, so that's where why this actually is happening,
because it's Nintendo hasn't put a lot of license games on the Nintendo Switch
online because that would be a lot of extra work and they're just gonna not
gonna do that. Apparently this one was easy enough to pull off, so
we're getting it. But yeah, people claming it for Quest for Camelot can
now rest ec I suppose, all right, biggest update yet update yet for
Star Wars Jetti Survivor adds deep learning, super sampling and improves console performance,
as comes from Grace Spinfel at GameSpot. Star Wars JETI Survivor just got what
EA says is its largest update yet. According to the publisher, it improves
performance on PS five and Xbox Series X and S and adds DLSS support on
PC and fixes numerous bugs. Performance mode on Xbox Employee Station have been completely
revamped. The patch introduces new GPU and CPU optimizations and disables ray tracing,
which enables the game to run at sixty frames per second in Performance mode.
However, cinematics on console are locked at thirty frames per second. Quality Mode
also got some upgrades which should reduce frame rate fluctuations and improve visuals. Additionally,
PS five got variable refresh rate support, which is always nice. Most
TVs these days support that, so you should take it manage of that.
DLS is also on PC. That's a that's a big deal. I will
take advantage of that. People who waited to play this game, Lucy,
getting that was maybe the right move because this thing was pretty rough in terms
of performance at start, and now you're gonna be able to play this and
it sounds like most of the issues will be fixed with this patch, which
I think is about the sixth or seventh patch that they put out. So
it took some time, took a lot of effort, but they got there.
Is this something that you I don't know if did you play it?
Did you go back to this? I know you're not super into Star Wars
these days. It's no Lord of the Rings. I completely understand that,
but do you check back into this now that it's running better. I enjoyed
what I really what I played of it. I played about maybe ten hours
or so. Yeah, However, Yeah, I just don't care Bosts anymore.
Yeah, I don't care about It's also a busy year, right,
there's plenty of other things to play. And that's the thing. By the
time that I was playing this one, uh what came out? Was it?
Resident Evil came out like the next week or two weeks after Zelda is
out, like soon after something something something huge. Yeah, yeah, oh,
I'm I'm I'm never watching and Or. I'm never going to watch a
Disney plus Star Wars. That's completely fine. I'm watching Ahsoka right now,
and I don't. I don't really like it, so yeah, don't don't
do it. Even though Andor's the best thing ever made. You don't have
to save yourself. It's totally It's totally okay. This is this is something
that makes me think I should get back to it. I played about I
probably played about it maybe five to six hours before Zelda cam and I'm like,
well, now I gotta play Zelda. And I'm like, I will
get to Star Wars right after I beat Zelda. And then, notoriously,
I took months to beat Zelda. I just kept playing that and kept playing
that, and then I played Pickman four in between and Pickman four is fantastic,
but that was like also thirty thirty five hours or something like that.
Uh, and now we're now we're in the fall, and I'm looking down
the barrel of Assassin's Armored Court. Well, I guess Assassin's screen arrage.
Probably not gonna play that right away. But Armored Course six, which is
fantastic, stick Balder's Gate three, Starfield, all these things that are like
taking up all my time, and they it's not like, oh, I
got a big game. There's like multiple gigantic hundred hour plus games, and
then there's multiple fifteen to thirty hour games, and I want to get back
to Star Wars, especially before the end of the year, but it is
moving down the priority list even as they get it into a good shape.
Now, I'll say, if this makes it run really well on the Roger
ally or the Steam deck, that might make it easier, because that's where
I'm playing Armored Course six, And that's why I'm planing, because it's I
got a good game that fits in, that fits in that system, and
that fits into my life. And boy, that's been great because Armored Course
six fucking rules. So maybe when I get done with that this will be
the game that goes in there. I don't know. I haven't I haven't
tried Armored Core yet. I'm still doing I'm still doing Balder's Gate. But
then, like, I want to read, dude, I want to replay
on the remedy stuff. I don't have time. Yeah, I know I
have that same urge, the masculine and feminine urge to re play all remedy
stuff before Alan Lake two comes out is real, and I'm right there with
you. I just I don't know. I really I started reading House of
Leaves yesterday. Okay, that's how No, that's how remedy pilled I am.
I'm like, okay, I need to just read House of Leaves.
Allen Lake two continues to be very exciting. Of course, Alone in the
Dark head to get out of its way. That happened earlier this week.
That got oh yeah, that got delayed tilled early next year now, so
yeah, uh all right, let's uh let's keep moving here. Stray that
cute game from last year about a cat is getting an animated movie. This
is from Zachswisen at Kotaku. Last year, the internet and gamers went wild
over Stray a platform or about a lone cat wandering around a futuristic city.
Now, Annapurna's animation studio is actively developing an animated film based on twenty twenty
two's most famous cat game. Stray was first announced during the twenty twenty PS
five reviewal event, and it immediately went viral do the fact that people online
like cats, oh, and the game which starts a cute cat looked very
nice. In our review of Stray, former Kataku Trader writer R. A.
Nortis called the game a deeply profound meditation on what it means to be
alive and praised its urban exploration through dense environments. Anyway, a profound experience
starting a cat in a robot city sounds like it could make for a pretty
good movie, which is probably why it's becoming a movie. On Tuesday,
Entertainment Entertainment Weekly exclusively revealed that Annapurna Animation, the animated films division of Annapurna,
is developing a feature film based on Stray. According to EW, this
is just one of many upcoming films from the studio following the success of its
first feature on Netflix, Pneumona. This makes sense. I think this makes
more sense than the game because Stray I could have take or leave, But
I like that setting. I like that cat cute. Yeah yeah, not
like Game of the Year nominated game, but but cute. Yeah. So
I think this is a This is a fine idea in any of those games
that, especially for something like Anna Parna that has a lot of the things.
I think, is it there an Annapurna like film side or am I
thinking of something else? But yeah, I think Annapurna already makes films,
so it's like this is a natural fit for them. We're like, hey,
this is part of our core competency. We could just hand this over
to the other side. Obviously they have the animation department working on this,
and for something like Stray that has that virality to it and people recognize it,
I think that's a very good idea. I just what do you think
it like for an animated film like that? You think it's kind of like
what's the Pixar Robot movie where there wasn't a lot of talking? Yeah,
Wally, thank you, my brain's just not working well there's Yeah, do
you think there's like limited dialogue and the cats are kind of walking around and
maybe the robots that talk to you occasionally. You think that's how that the
movie works. Honestly, I really hope that's what they do. And just
see your little droid friend is the only thing that says it. I think.
Yeah, I think it would mean make way more sense if it wasn't
like voiced fully and just way more interpretation because that's what worked you well with
the game. Yeah, I think it's Yeah, it makes a lot of
sense that this one's getting a movie like Robot City, here week go.
What if it's Chris Pratt. Let me get a Chris Pratt cat Christ Chris
Catt. I'm sorry, everybody, very good, very good. Yes,
that was terrible. No, I think I think it makes a lot of
sense. Like Stray was a big hit, it went viral a lot people
on the internet like cats like, you know, everything's lining up for this
one. It's gonna be fine, It's gonna be great. Yep. And
I you know, I would probably check it out. I'm not gonna ever
finish that game, but I would. I would watch a movie based on
that. Starfield Players Pirate It's d LSS mod after its creator puts it puts
it behind a paywall. This is from Chris Sculling in at VGC. Players
have started pirating a popular upscaler mod for the game after its creator put it
behind a pay wall. Last week, Modern Pure Dark created a mod called
Starfield Upscaler, replacing FSR with DLSS. As the name suggests, the mod
removes the FSR two upscaling tech present in the game, which is designed for
AMD graphics cards. It's actually it's designed for all graphics cards, but am
D does design it and replaces it with DLSS, the equivalent tech used in
Invidious graphics cards. That also that does actually only work in in Vidius graphics
cards. The mod, which supports the second generation version of the upscaler DLSS
two, has been downloaded nearly two hundred and eighty thousand times so far.
However, as Kotaka reports, Pure Dark has now released a second version of
the mod, which supports DLSS three, the newer version of the upscaler,
which is supported by more recent Nvidia cards and has the frame generation. I've
used this, Lucy. I could pay the five dollars, so I gave
this man his money and I'm getting like three hundred frames per second now in
Starfield. It's it's real nice. It's like, oh, this is how
this game is actually meant to be played. Instead of releasing this mod for
free like the previous one, you can still get the DLSS two one for
free. Pure Dark has placed the DLSS three version behind a paywall, only
make it available to players who pay five dollars, and then you have to
like when you when you actually load it up in the game, there's like
an authentication step you have to go through inside of Starfield, inside this little
menu for the mod to prove that you've paid the five dollars. Once you
do it once, it works forever, so it's not like you've got to
keep paying five dollars every month. But it was still weird. But people
have rebelled against this, Lucy. People believe all mods should be free.
So people have started pirating this mod for Starfield, and they cracked the DRM
on it so they can install it them without having to pay the five dollars.
And that's not too surprising. People do have a sort of a real
rough time with the idea of paying for mods, and I guess I don't
blame them, but also I don't mind giving someone money for doing work.
If you know, work is work, as they say, and kikiS delivery
service, so this is a weird one. But would you ever crack a
mod or what would you just or would you even like use a mod in
the first place, Lucy, I don't know. Oh I use a lot
of SIMS modes, so I'm well versed in, you know, throwing money
towards a coffee or a Patreon just so I get access to something. Okay,
yes, that's pretty normal in that community. Okay, this is more
I think these days, giving moders money is more normal, right. Oh
yeah, although EA tried to crack down on it for the SIMS of course,
and then people have revolted, so you know, yes, uh yeah,
that's that kind of thing where but that's the previously tried to do pay
to mods like they've tried to I think make like a market place or something
like that, and there was a huge, huge backlash and that was like
almost ten years ago now, and since then they found other ways where it's
like we'll just include these mods in a new version of the game, sell
it at full price, and cut in these models on some of the profits
of that. It's like, okay, that's a pretty good way to do
it. But these days, if people, if the community is doing an
extra work to make a game like this run even better, five bucks is
nothing. I think that's totally worth it. But I also am not gonna
be like, oh, come down hard on anyone who's pirate anything. I
just you know, whatever you do, whatever your feel is right. GameStop
Boss says disc drives should be required on game consoles. Is from Eric Frederickson
at GameSpot. Shout outs to Eric. Whenever any chief officer within the company
speaks publicly, you can assume that they're speaking in the best interest of the
company. It's no different with Ryan Cohen, the CEO of game Stop,
who said he thinks game console makers should be required to include optical disk drives
on their system and a tweet this weekend, big win for consumers, Cohen
said, replying to a new story about Apple's move toward USBC charging and away
from its proprietary lightning port. Consumers have also invested in their hard earned money
into physical video games. Disc drive should be required on consoles. Cullen,
as a CEO of game Stop, has invested interest in people buying physical games,
games media alongside accessories, while PC games began to shift towards digital in
the early two thousands with the opening of Valves Steam Store. Digital console games
only became prevalent with the previous generation of consoles to PlayStation four and Xbox one.
Industry dot Is noted at the end of twenty twenty two that only about
twenty eight percent of console game sales were box copies of games, with seventy
two percent going towards digital purchases. Kellen's choice of venue for the sentiment is
a bit on Apple shift towards USBC changing is a result of a push from
the European Union for Apple and other mobile device makers to embrace a universal standard
for better interoperability and future mitigation of electronic waste from having a regularly replace multiple
different kinds of chargers. I don't think. I think that's exactly what Ryan
Cohen wants, is for someone like the European Commission to come along and say,
hey, console makers, you have to include optical disk drives, right
that that would be a benefit for him. Yeah. I mean, it's
say, it's you know, the bread and butter of the game stop business,
so its a lot of sense. Yeah, it's just unfortunately it's kind
of not really how the world is working these days, or is going towards
unfortunately. Like I love physical media, to get me wrong, but like,
yeah, everything's digital. Turboshawan says, a benefit for everyone because physical
games are good. Yes, of course, if the EU came along and
said that they had to do this, I would be totally fine. I
would still keep buying my games digitally, and then people who want their physical
games can be assured that they would have a way to play. That these
companies are going to be able to argue very I think accurately that hey,
we'll lower the like we'll have a lower cost of hardware if we don't have
to include this thing and that. Then we'll have an option. And if
you want to say, if you want to mandate us to have an option
to have an add on for a disk drive, we'll do that. Sony's
already maybe going in that direction. But then it'll be like a fifty dollar
thing we sell separately and you have to get it through our store, and
it'll be so such an annoyance that most people won't do it, and then
they'll buy games digitally. And so I don't think that even if the regulation
comes down on this, which is very unlikely. I don't think it's going
to work out to the be like, oh, this is going to guarantee
that physical media will live in new games forever. I think the thing that's
going to keep physical media around is a lot of money still comes from people
buying physical games and changing consumers behavior by forcing them to do something different is
is always a bad idea and gaming, because people are very set in their
ways, you kind of want to just nudge them along gently. If you're
trying to get them to change over digitally, you have to make it so
much more convenient. And they've basically done everything that they can on that other
than maybe have more aggressive pricing, I suppose, and the people who have
who are going to change their behavior have already done so. So yeah,
I just how likely do you think it is that in the next generation of
consoles that they do have a physical disk drive? Do you think the next
generation of consoles that the base console, the number one console for each for
each company, has a disk drive? Yes or no? No? Yeah,
I think I'm with it. I don't think so. I think with
the move to cloud digital downloads, Sony Microsoft wanting to cut out brick and
mortar. Yeah, I don't think so. I think Nintendo yes, but
everyone else know. I think I'm with you. And they will have maybe
the optional add on disk drive and that'll be weird, and but that'll that'll
be how it works. I think we'll see. All right, let's see,
let's get to the poll question from last week. Uh, you know
what why I do that? Why I get the set up? Lucy?
Why don't you tell people where they can find you where we have stuff going
up about our pack stuff things like that, Where they can find our panels
things like that. Yeah, uh, so we can find me everywhere,
at least James Games packs stuff. So our panel with Jenna, I think
is up already. I think so. We we did obviously a voice smiled
Stump truck panel too. I was on a game's uh trivia panel that which
we're going up in a few weeks. Who won the bomb cast that we
shot is No, I'm not gonna spoil. I'm not gonna spoil, but
it was. It was a really fun time and I love doing it.
Oh, both finals are up, and then yeah, we've got a BombCast
that we recorded that is also up and Jan is working on like the train
vlog and all the travelog stuff. There's a lot of Super Mario Wanda.
Yes, yes, Super Mario Wanda gameplay is up. Am I missing anything?
We did a lot? We did a lot. Yes, Jenna does
rule. Yeah, Jenna was very nice. She did a great job on
that. Yeah, I don't think you're missing it. Like there will be
several sort of travelog sort of things Nintendo Live. Like you said, yeah,
the train, all that stuff will come in due time. It's a
lot, so we'll see when when Jan's able to get to it, because
we also have to do just our normal daily stuff. All right, let's
see here. I have the poll question from last week, which do you
think we'll look better in ten to twenty years Sonic Madias Pixel Art or Sonic
Superstars three d Art. Nine percent said Sonic Superstars three d Art and ninety
one percent said Sonic Madias Pixel Art. Letucy, I think we talked about
this last week right where that's that new story about the producers saying, hey
intend it twenty years, super three yeart will be more viable. I while
I think that this poll is correct, and I agree, I voted for
the pixel art will be more timeless looking in ten to twenty years. I
still understand what that producer was saying, and that viability means next generation.
And when I showed my kid, she thinks the three D art is much
better than the pixel arts. She's the one that's gonna be buying games intend
to twenty years. So, and yeah, we'll all be dead. You
could too, Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. I'll be in a
convalescent home. I don't know. All right, I'm gonna put up a
new poll question. Actually we'll Jam will probably do it. If there's a
direct how many farm sims will be in it? Zero, one, two
or three plus? I think the easy answer is three plus because it's probably
gonna be like seven or eight of farm sims in there. It's gonna be
all farm sims. I can't wait. We'll talk about that on Games Morning
tomorrow, right because it's Wednesday, Yes, with tomorrows Thursday. We'll have
a new episode tomorrow with Jam on giant bomb dot com. Speaking of Bomb,
later today, we should be doing some sort of b light club.
We haven't fully decided. Mike is gonna be on a baseball game, so
it's just gonna be me and Dan. Maybe we'll do something else fun.
Not not quite sure yet, but there will be something in that two thirty
pm Eastern time slot here on johnbomb dot com. Fight it then, Lucy,
thank you so much for spending today talking with me about video games.
I really appreciate it. It was really really good time. Yeah, it
was. It was just awesome to hang out. You're you're very like,
You're like we're talking, You're a very social you know everybody, you're social
butterfly. And then I'm like, how does she know she's got that exhaustion
thing? How did she do it? And then of course you just go
home and sleep for twelve on hours and like, you sleep later, right,
you pay for it later. I recoup it, Yes, I get
it back exactly. All right, Thank you everybody for watching. You're the
best audience in gaming. That was proven when you showed up in droves.
They packs meant a lot to us. Until next time, have a good
one, take care of yourself and goodbye. Three