It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for August tenth, twenty
twenty three. For the next hour or so, let me help you sort
through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live with Me Jeff grub Today,
Jeff Keeley sets expectations low for opening night Live and if you don't shape
up, We're only gonna give you seven or eight more chances to stop making
people miserable on Xbox. But first please join me and welcoming today's co host
a Game Mess Mornings. It's Lucy James. Everybody, Lucy, how are
you doing? I'm doing well well now I feel like I've been told off.
Yeah, well listen Xbox Papa was Papa film mad at me. He's
just he's not going to give you that many more chances. You go in
there and you've grassed people thirty forty times a day, You're only gonna get
seven or eight times a day. Ryan, Okay, bye about soon,
Lucy. I've done the thing. I have shifted Twitter to only so I
only see people i'm following. Now I've done it. I've had to make
I made the choice. You I did not do that before. We see
here's the thing quality filter used to work. There's things, Oh it's fucking
I've been broken since guests we took over, And that was like a really
good feature. It kept the ratio at the right, the right balance where
boy never applied to my tweets exactly. Of course, yes, this will
very low quality, Lucy, what can I do? And it was like
kept the ratio right, Like I was getting responsive for people who like were
interested in in in like having a conversation whatever, And I'm fine with that.
I actually really enjoyed that kind of stuff. And now it is most
of those people have either left or they are getting subsumed by just idiots.
They're just really dumb people who don't understand how anything works. And so yeah,
I've had I've had to shift it, and now here I am.
I think that I think this is like step one on actually getting off of
the platform. Eventually. I think it's I think I'm gonna slowly wean myself
off off. I hope we'll see you. Do you actually think people I
don't think people are gonna leave. Well, I think I think I don't
think there's a replacement. I just don't think I think we are all too
uh, notification pilled. Do you want to find something else? Yeah?
Yeah, it already like our brains are already conditioned to work the way Twitter
works. No even if no matter how much he tries to break it,
it's still the other sites don't quite have don't quite fit into that that peg
as well. So yeah, I mean, but I don't. I've never
said I was going to leave, and until like now, I'm like,
I would like to, but it's probably not going to happen. I don't
know. I'll be there to the bitter end. Yeah, I will too
much. I was. I was talking about this last week, but like
there was I logged onto Twitter one day and there was just a picture of
a shock with boobs and it was like, this is what would happen if
a shock slide, And I was like, I'm never leaving this website.
There's been some like good tweets from like just people out there putting out like
that are doing the good tweets. It's just the interactions I've been off,
So I bet follow only is going to fix it. So I think so
hopefully might have been fine. Okay, so like you've done this for a
while though you is yours on follow only No, okay, yeah, but
you're better at tweeting than I am. I'm I think I just attract people
that are I'm hilarious. Yeah exactly, and I'll I'm just state my bad
opinions and then people feel the need to come and tell me how opinions don't
work. And that's the thing. I just don't really have opinion, no
idea save my opinions. I save my opinions for a podcast where I can
talk about them and things won't be has taken out of context? Right?
I think the only thing that's ever really been taken out of context was like
ten years ago, I said the Xbox One UI was bad. And you
know what has stunned by it? Yeah, it's say they still have that
same UI pretty much. I got. I got used to it to the
point where I kind of like it. Yeah, I don't say it's good.
I don't think any of the us. I haven't used the good UI
in like ten years. I have no idea what a good you I looks
like anymore. All right, let's get into this mess. But before we
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timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. All right, we have a lot to
get into, so let's start the Morning Mess with Jeff Keiley says this year's
Game Gamescom Opening Night Live is quote less about announcing brand new projects. This
comes from Liam Dulan at nintend of Life. Games COM's Opening NightLive is taking
place next week on August twenty second. Holy shit, it's next week and
ahead of the events. Yeah you're going? When do you like? You?
Are you like leaving next week or what? I leave Monday, Monday
mid day ish? Okay, to arrive at like four pm on Tuesday,
and I go straight into a dinner like actually we land get changed at the
airport, goes straight to a dinner. Okay, good luck with that.
Let's see Yeah, that's that's rough. That's rough stuff. Jeff Basically he
smoked up BGC and he mentioned how this year's show would be less about announcing
brand new projects and more focused on updates for previously announced games and the quote
he said, this year's Opening Night Live is less about announced brand new projects
and more about giving fans updates some of the biggest games due out over the
next year. It's going to be an exciting show with new looks at many
announced upcoming games like Allan Wake two and Black Like Black Myth Wu Kong.
As highlighted by The Source, there were more than thirty five games featured in
last year's Opening NightLive broadcast. Unfortunately, the host didn't name drop any specific
titles or series, but there will be a lot of exhibitors at the show,
including companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sega. This this feels like,
that's right, that would that's the You don't need to be announcing new
games. Look at what's happening right now with game releases. Even like it's
too many, it's too many, there's too too much stuff happening. And
I mean really that's just that's like for one thing, that's just people are
overwhelmed a little bit, I think. But also I think most of the
games that were like in the works finally came out this year, and now
a lot of studios are reloading. Of course, there's always going to be
new games coming, but I wouldn't be surprised if not maybe next year,
but the year after that. It's like feels a little bit slow in comparison
to the previous years, as the pandemic sort of you know, the dam
that built up over the pandemic burst, and now here we are in it.
We're flooded by all these games and then a couple of years like,
okay, now everyone is resetting. So yeah, updates on projects that we
already know about sounds about right. So I mean, let's I know what
you're most excited about, alan Wick two. We won't be playing it long
after this, But anything else that you kind of hope that we hear about,
I mean, judging on where this lands in the calendar, this is
basically where I'm expecting to see a lot of Q three, Q four's big
hitters. So I'd be surprised if maybe there wasn't a cyberpunk in there.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't an Assassin's creed. I think for me,
the big ticket item is Alan Wake, which is wild because if you told
me thirteen years ago that Alan Wake two would end up being one of the
most anticipated games of twenty twenty three, what I would have told you,
even though I loved I gave so much, it's just very strange to hear
it, like, oh, Alan's back, Yeah, don't know in it,
He's back in park form, He's back in the Dark Place form.
I'm yeah, going, you don't know, that's it. I just I
don't know what to expect. I mean, the thing is as well.
I'm ast be very careful because I have my appointments lists. I'm just checking
that I'm not accidentally breaking any indears. I don't think I am. I
mean, I'm definitely not, but like, I'm not saying anything further about
what I'm seeing. Yeah, fair enough, I would. I look at
Opening Night Live, of the lives of the past, I'm like, I
don't remember very many big announcements, And again, I think that's fine.
I think Opening Night Live being sort of this little slot where people give us
updates on stuff that we know about, it serves its its purpose and it
could be fun in its own way. You know that they're still rumors.
Sm A game Fest was not long ago, right, A game This was
a very like barely a month and a half ago in my mind. Yeah,
I mean that, I really I feel I mean even like we're supposed
to get a Nintendo Direct in early September, and I was thinking that the
last direct was not that long ago. Uh, like that's we're already getting.
But it like they always do one in September, so uh, it's
like, Okay, I guess they usually do this, so this it'll be
fine. But it's like, yeah, it feels like we just got a
bunch of announcements over the summer and yeah, I guess they did the Nintendo
Direct over the summer later than normal and that's why my brain's going in that
direction. But uh, for Opening Night Live, yeah, I think we'll
probably come out of it being like, Okay, the games I was already
excited about, I'm even more excited about now. And I'm sorry, I
just got super distracted. YouTube has like an affliction. Font did something happen
to my computer? Or is that like something that YouTube is doing a lot?
I don't know the YouTube logo on YouTube. Okay, it's a stroke
of genius. It's not affliction. I don't know what that is. That
was not going to be able to continue unless I talked about that. Sorry
everybody. Yeah, althetica strikes again. Yeah, this is also could be
Jeff Keeley doing his thing where he recognizes this dance. Now, he's done
this a bunch of times, and his stance going into a lot of these
shows has been like he wants to get people excited, but I think he's
more willing to be like, let's lower expectations because I know people are gonna
watch no matter what. Now. I think at a certain point in time
he was like, I got I kind of have to be the salesman no
matter what, even if we don't have the goods, because I need people
to watch this because that's how I make money. And I think now he's
in a comfortable spot where the audience will show up for these things. They
are hungry for these big presentations that might have announcements in them, and he
can set expectations low and then overcome those expectations and kind of get both sides,
get a huge viewership, and get good sentiment coming out of it.
Do you think there's any chance that maybe there is some surprises in there and
he's trying to like purposely set the expectations low. My experience of Games Come,
so I have been I believe seven or eight times, which is possibly
too many. Yeah, maybe, but it was always it was always you
would everything would be announced at E three. There would be behind closed door
stuff, maybe some hands on, but Games Come would more or less be
a lot of the same builds you would have at E three. That's kind
of how the pipeline works, and it would just be that these would be
available to the public. Games Come. Back in the day when Sony,
Microsoft, EA, whoever, used to have their own press conferences, they
would still hold announcements, They would still hold off different things. PlayStation,
I want to say, went really big with indies and the Vita around Games
Come, so it be its own separate beat. Now those have all peeled
off, and it feels like Games Come. It feels Jeff Keely correct me
if I'm wrong. It feels like Opening NightLive is much more of a games
Com contacted him to make this show kind of thing, to make it a
tent pole that's not that's a feeling I get because I feel it's a mutual
but I think I know what you mean. Yeah, it's a mutually beneficial
partnership. But it feels like Jeff saves his announcements of the Game Awards and
Summer game Fest for sure, and games Come is this strange stop gap in
the middle where it is just extended looks at things we've already seen, because
at the heart of it, it is more of the consumer show. These
days it used to be I think, much more balanced in terms of big
announcements, business stuff. The business center still pops off. But yeah,
that's just how it feels to me. And so I think as well,
Jeff is very aware of the scrutiny he gets when it comes to talking about
and planning these shows. You see what happens. I think, I think
Game Awards every year he consistently delivers. And then I think he's learned some
a Game Fest is that people expect Game Awards level reveals that, but he
just it's a different show. So he's become very aware of how to navigate
those conversations when speaking about the shows publicly. And I think, yeah,
I think that he's just being careful with regards to what he says about opening
our life. Yeah, I think I think I agree, And you're right,
like the timing of this show and like the way that it fit into
the schedule, Oh like it handcuffed him a little bit. And I think
you're right, Like he's got these other masters of Summer Game Fest and the
Game Awards. Yes, jan asked about the possibility of a PS five Slim
getting announced. Sony won't be there, but it does. It feels like
this would have been a good place to do it. Sony can just do
it wherever, though, But Sony'll do their own digital thing and then they'll
show it off and we'll all be like Slim, Yeah right, Yeah,
it looks pretty fatomate. Uh. But then you know, there are the
rumors that Nintendo could have something announced for a like next gen system around the
time of Games Come. If not at games COM's that still feels strange,
not of nowhere, but Nintendo is there. And then they got Nintendo World
Hangout Zone at Seattle during packs just a few weeks later. Oh, go
to that. Yeah that sounds like fun, But yeah, I don't know.
I mean, do you think there could be big announcements like that.
I don't know, man, Yeah, it's tough. I hope so.
I hope so. But at the same time, it just feels like the
mind schet is on everything else that's coming out this year, right, I
mean, I seem we'll talk about Starfield s gold Yep. I'm just I
feel like everyone's just gonna be getting on with it. Yep. Speaking of
which, Yeah, this is uh the Starfield has gone gold. I just
saw this. Uh, this just will actually happened right when we went live.
Steinken here posted on Twitter Starfield has gone gold from bethesta game studios prepare
for launch. This is what this really is, gone gold. Yeah.
I think we talked about it on the bomb Cast yesterday and I talked about
on Twitter a little bit. It doesn't mean really what it used to mean,
because like going gold meant we've finished the game, put it on a
gold Master disc, send it to the facility, and now they're printing that
disc and they're selling it and some of us get to go home and go
on vacation, and that hasn't hasn't meant that in a very long time,
because these games get continual updates through the first two few weeks of launch,
and so nothing really changes other than it's a it's a nice milestone for the
developers, but it commute. Like most developers, most publishers do not communicate
going gold to a lot of to the public because I think they it implies
something else about the game. Oh, the game is finished, and so
we can expect a perfect game at launch, and I think a lot of
studios try to avoid that. But the way that they like, They're Big
Image here from bethesta Game Studios doesn't say gone gold. It says preload begins.
That is a marketing term. That is something that people can get,
can go and act on, and that is beneficial. Doesn't say like they
does say it's gone gold in the tweet itself. But the Big Image says
Starfield preload begins August seventeen, August seventeenth to August thirty. So yeah,
now people can go ahead and get this ready to go on their systems,
so they can be ready to play on September first. If you got the
special edition, or if you want to go ahead and get the just wait
for the game Pass version or the cheaper version, get it on what is
it September sixth? I think six Yeah, uh yeah, that sounds about
right. Uh Lucy, how are what's your sort of temperature on Starfield?
I know that you happen to be playing a lot of boulders Gate three.
Uh spend an hour getting a mace? Is my understanding? Oh my god?
Okay, I hit. I hit fifty hours yesterday. Hell yes,
and I'm just in act two. God, I wish we could have got
you on the Bond. I know you were basically, but man, you
know you're gonna be a games comm I want to talk to you about this
so bad. I want to find another the week. Well, the thing
is that I'm going to take it on my Steam deck, so I will
be playing in three Games Comes. So the week the week after I get
back from Games Comes, we'll do the fifth. Yes, but I'll be
Starfield and Balder's Gate one because I bet the embarko about the fifth will be
up because it'll be out for most people. Well, because that's the thing.
I'm just like, I love it so much and I'm really excited with
star Field. Starfield is basically a game made for me. But I want
to finish Bulder's game. And I know that if I start Starfield, I'll
fall off because those are two very systems driven video games, ye coming out
at the same time, and I'm like, oh man, I just want
to I just want to shag my fultry vampire companion. Then go into space.
You could probably mod him in the Starfield and just have sex with them
in there. I bet that's possible. Not with those what would they not?
With those lines? It was like, oh, get a jet pack
next time. You know Starry and he's got Starr in his name right there.
He's Tim Curry like the Neil like the Tim Curry voice, and then
he's basically sort of a bit of a listat. Yes, oh yeah,
they are going for a listat definitely. Yes, Schlungs of Starfield. Shout
out to hell Adilos in chat for that's it's a great mod for the Sky
and the Schlungs Starfield is the names right there. It's ready to go.
Which we also killed a Starian in our playthrough when we did the multiplayer playthrough
day Yeah, well I said I was, I was against it, but
while we were playing with Dan, so he had to die. Yeah,
So okay, So preload agains. Well, we'll have plenty of talk about
Starfield when it happens. You're trying to finish boulders Gate. I'm still trying
to finish Tears the Kingdom. I'm right there. I'm gonna do it.
It's gonna be I'm gonna try to finish it literally tonight. Uh. I
did finish Pickman four now, But my big problem is I really do want
to get in the Boulder Skate three and win. Yeah, I don't know,
it's so good. No, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get to
the Indus year without planing a significant portion. But so I'll find some time
for it. What's Jan's bet? Jan's got to bet? So Jan says
that, Okay, so you know how we're gonna be a Pax right,
Yeah, I'm going yes, exactly, yes, And you might need to
help him because you'll be in a situation where you can maybe aid him for
a few hours. By the time our panel begins at five pm Civic time
on Saturday at the Blue Jay Theater at Pax West, Jan has to have
beaten Tears of the Kingdom, and if he hasn't, he's gonna shave his
head at the panel. My sweet boy. Listen, he said this on
the bomb cast, so you know that's legally binding. Well, the thing
is is that channel was hot. So how do we know that he hasn't
already shaved his head? Very good point, but I mean we'll have to
ask him to remove the hat. We'll see what what happens. But listen,
I think one he can do this if he sets his mind to it,
and he can do anything. He can do anything if he sets his
mind to it. But if he doesn't, listen, I get it.
Sometimes you got to reset the hair and sometimes you sell the hair. Sure,
I think you could do anything. I just there might be laws against
it. I don't know. I don't yeah exactly. That's those are optional.
We can just like throw handfuls at the audience, right, that'll be
all right. Let's see. Here's switch ports specialist Farrell Interactive teases another two
games. This comes from Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life. There are constant requests
for more switch ports and one company working around the clock in this particular field
is the UK team at Farrell Interactive, and a recent post on social media,
it shared a cryptic message about a few new sightings on its games on
It's gown, It's gaming Radar. If you head over to its website,
you could see two games coming quite soon to the Switch. Although there are
no names attached, we do have some text and pictures. One features the
Switch logo next to an image of dolphins and the text over our heads.
The other one has a Switch logo in front of what appears to be a
pool table and the words now You've got to play the part. You could
see the some fan theories and speculation on the Nintendo subreddit. All we really
know for sure is that these titles are upcoming releases for Feral Interactive and they
will be coming quote quite soon. This quite soon, Lucy probably does refer
to that September direct that is almost certainly happening, so we probably won't have
to wait too long. This is the same company that recently wrapped up work
on the Lauracraft collection from the Nintendo Switch, Alien Isolation and Grid Auto Sports,
so they're pretty good at handling the switching and doing that sort of thing.
But yeah, I wonder what's happened. Listen, everyone knows me.
If I hear dolphins, i'ming to think echo the Dolphin. I think that
Dreamcast Echo the Dolphin Defender of the Future, I think is the name of
the subtitle. That would be a pretty good fit on Switch. That could
be a pretty good game. It gets pretty tough as soon as the sharks
get introduced. Yeah, so that the rules, that's right. So it's
that probably means it's actually Saga's Hyena's game. Sure, why not? Yeah?
Are there any like ports that you can think could give you a good
fit for the Switch or anything that you were like? But I mean,
I don't know. Are you someone who like does port begging for the Switch?
I'm like, oh, I would love everything on the Switch? How
about you? I think this? Nope, I don't. I have a
steamed exactly. Yeah, I honestly, when you asked me what I would
like to see on the switch, may pretty dead. Redemption is coming to
the Switch, so all bets are off. I did not anticipate that announcement
at all, So I don't know. Unless it's done properly, the Switch
can be the worst place to play third party titles, So I'm not you
know, I don't mind. Yeah, right, I think that this could
you know, it's always exciting when like games that you wouldn't expect get announced
for the Switch and then I rarely end up actually playing them. I think
it was cool that the witch Or three got put on the switch. It
was fun to see it work and get the game and miss around with it.
It's like, that's not how I'm gonna I'm gonna play that game.
I'm good. Yeah, no, no. I Also I also got witch
Or three for the switch. I got Dark Souls, Overwatch and all of
them. I was like, it's really really cool and impressive that these games
run on this machine. But I have Consuls and now I have steamed up.
Actually I have a rog Ally now too, which I'm excited about.
This is gonna be my my games come machine. Yeah yeah, it was
good. You're traveling a lot here pretty soon. Is it like it's gonna
be on the Roger Ally Roger Ally? Uh yeah, well I think so.
So I shall say what Xbox provided it to me. Let's check it
out. So a little disclosure in the I'm excited to see it just work.
I was talking a skill up about it and he was like, yeah,
I was playing stuff on like maxill like high settings, and the battery
life wasn't so great. So, yeah, you gotta I would want to
fiddle around with that. Yeah. So it's it's a tin ADP screen,
which is completely unnecessary on a system that that's small with a screen that's small,
and so that uses a little bit more battery life. Uh. And
you know, it's got a higher, more powerful system on a chip and
that uses more battery life. It's also Windows not the most optimized operating system
for for mobile kind of computing. Uh. And it's a it's a little
bit annoying to to like use Windows on a device like that without a mouse
and a keyboard. But when you're playing a game, it's great. It's
fantastic and they run really well. And it's like it's much easier to get
stuff like uh like Xbox PC games working or you know, Epic Game Store.
That stuff just works. It's much lighter as well, much lighter as
well, which I kind of like, we help this kid real quick.
What is gimmick doon? So no, so that's gonna be my my gaming
I guess when I'm traveling. Hopefully the left Tanza has a decent powers.
Yeah, it's a thing like that. I think if you find the right
game on the switch. You probably can't get through most of a flight,
but these handheld gaming PCs here, you probably still are going to need a
power out. Don't worry about it. I hit up my docton and I
asked for that good uh, the good drugs. Oh sweet, you just
so you're gonna time forravel? Yeah? Yeahs oh, it's what I do.
It's it's what I've saw I doing because I used to have a very
I used to have a very intense fear of flying, So now I just
require He'll but no, it's fine. I could fly, totally fine,
but it just it helps me. Yeah, well, I mean, why
not, and why not do it? If you can? If I could
go in a sleep pod, I would And that's yeah, that sounds fantastic.
Yeah all right. Xbox launches new Strike system to help weed out the
jerks. This comes from Eddie mccoch at game Spot. Microsoft's ongoing f to
curtail bad behavior to help promote an environment free of harassment and bullying on Xbox
continues with the announcement of a Strike system. This comes not long after Microsoft
rolled out an Xbox feature that allows players to capture and submit chat clips to
help fight toxic behavior in online games. The Xbox strike system is similar to
the demerit strike system used on a driver's license in many countries. A player
that has received two strikes will be suspended from the platform for one day,
whereas the player that receives four strikes will be suspended for seven days. Microsoft
said there are a total of eight strikes. Once that number is reached,
players will be suspended for for messaging parties, party chat, multiplayer, and
other features for twelve months. Strikes against against accounts will be retained on a
player's record for six months before being wiped. Players will receive one strike for
profanity and cheating and two strikes for sexually inappropriate and harassment and bullying. Anyone
using hate speech will receive three strikes. This actually sounds like a pretty good
system, Lucy. The big thing here is that the orsement is going to
have like a strike team attached to it. People like human beings are going
to be looking at these reports, but they're trying to like automate a lot
of it. But then at the end, if you get a report,
someone's going to be looking at that and deciding whether or not you deserve deserve
the strikes or not, that's good. But then yes, uh, three
three strikes automatically four hate speech and that gets you what a week or an
automatic week band like band. And if you do that two more times and
you're just off for a year, that seems pretty good. I think maybe
it could be a little bit harsher even, but you know, you also
hope that maybe people can learn lessons. I don't know how much faith I
have in that, but I don't know. How do you feel about this?
I think it's a really positive step in the right direction. I'm just
looking up Ryan McCaffrey's Ryan McCaffrey was not a fan of it. I saw
yesterday on the day before. But Phil replied with the feedback, Yeah,
feedback is helpful. I'm sure we'll have to continue to tune the system so
that. Yeah, considering this was Ryan's issue, do you know it's a
it's a long one man. Man's got the blue tick, so's he's not
beholden the sweat of his tweets? Come on, Surely Xbox P three had
to sign off on xboxes new enforcement strike system. Phil, Why does it
take eight strikes to get a one year ban? Here's why that doesn't make
sense to me in xboxes own words. But then it doesn't seem like he
yeah, it doesn't seem like he recognized that you get multiple strikes, you
know, you know, so that's what Phil's replied. So it's like and
then there's a back and forth with Phil was like, this is being worked
on. This is you know, this is what we're launching with, but
it is constantly being monitored and changed. So right, if it was like
someone had to do hate speech eight times before getting banned for a year and
nothing happened for that, I would agree, But that's not the system is.
I think overall this sounds good and if anything, they will probably like
increase the rapidity of how comedy strikes you get per in fraction, So like,
I don't think they're gonna be like, well, you know, we've
we've softened on hate speech. Now you only get two strikes instead of three,
Like it seems like they'll be like, no, you get four,
so you do it twice and you're out for a year. And I kind
of hope they get to that point. That sounds about right to me.
But I could see why they're because you know, there's degrees to all this,
and I think they're trying to build that into the system. But it's
like a at a certain point, like yeah, I always say this on
my discord. The rule is no line stepping, like you just don't.
You don't even we know when you know, we know when you think you're
being cute. Just no line stepping. But that's you know, a small
community like do when you're doing it this big I get why you need to
have this these sort of rigid rules and rigid system. Yeah. I mean,
with regard to content moderation on a platform as big as Xbox Live,
that is an unenviable task. And so I think any step is a step
in the right direction because it's kind of been pretty I mean, it used
to be the wild West, and now it's much better. And so now
I'm actually saying, hey, yo, we have laid out all the rules
for you. This is I think I think it's a good I'm interested to
see it in action. I will say, have you ever seen that?
I think it's a foreign post where it's reasons why I got banned from Xbox
Live. Yeah, I think I do remember the old support stuff where it's
like some poor person from Xbox has to reply and go like, oh,
well you cold your game attag like ass blasters or something. I don't know,
Uh, fantastic. We're about to get to all the ass blasters playing
Modern Warfare three here pretty soon. But first we're gonna to a break.
We'll be right back, all right. Modern Warfare three brings back all of
two thousand and nine Modern Warfare twos maps. It seems this comes from Eddie
mccocha Game spot. Sorry, we do breaks now, have about that?
I know. Yeah, it was just so funny that just as you said
that Jan put grub take a break, you've already in spirit Like it took
over my brain for a second, so we got there. It appears this
year's Call of Duty Modern Warfare three will bring back maps from two thousand ninees
Call of Duty Modern Warfare two. Charlie Intel said it texted the Call of
Duty marketing campaign phone number and received confirmation that all sixteen maps. What does
that mean from the two thousand and nine game will be in Modern Warfare three?
Is there a hotline that you could text and get scoops from? Lets
see? I don't know that. This follows a leak from earlier in the
week that said Modern Warfare three would include the sixteen maps at launch. The
maps include high rise, sub Basis, state, so on. A remastered
version of two thousand nineths Call of Duty Modern Warfare two was released in twenty
twenty, but it only included the campaign and didn't have any any multiplayer support.
With the release of map of the maps from Modern Warfare three, it
seems fans or finally get what they wanted in a way at least. Back
in twenty twenty, Activision alluded to bring in classic Call of Duty maps to
Modern Warfare to the Modern Warfare universe eventually, and now here we are it
seems like this is something that's is pretty much confirmed. I was a big
Call Duty player back at that time, Lucy. This is the kind of
thing where I'm like, oh, those maps were very good. I have
a lot of nostalgia attached to them. Just being in those spaces would be
good. I will I will probably go back to this. But it also
makes this year's Call of Duty feel a little bit like a Frankenstein that they've
like pieced together to make it feel like a seventy dollars game. Still,
because you know, there were those rumors that they were going to skip this
year, and then a few months ago like, no, they're definitely not
skipping this year. Sledgehammers worked on stuff, they have a campaign, they
have multiplayer, they have all this stuff ready to go, and it's like,
Okay, what does that look like. I'm very curious and we haven't
seen much from it, but that it does feel like yes, like our
Will says, it feels like DLC packaged as a new release. That's what
it feels like to me. Do you get that sense as well? This
feels like such a weird yea for cool to g I also I kind of
not worry. Worrying is not the right term for this. But I'm very
intrigued by the fact that the big cell point for this game is old maps.
Yeah, I mean, and it feels like that's the that's the line
that going down. People have heard anything, right, so it's like that
maybe they listen. They put up some teases and stuff. I think the
like the other selling point is not like some big new feature. It's like
all the stuff that you purchased at Modern Warfare two is going to carry over.
Well, that's okay, that's that's new and neat and and okay,
let's see what that looks like. But what is what? What still?
What is Modern Warfare three? And we're pretty late in the marketing game and
they have been pretty quiet on all that stuff. Now, I'm sure there
will be a big reveal eventually and what we will know what the real selling
point is. But right now Old Maps being the sell that does that does
make it feel like a big nostalgia play DLC pack that is going to be
seventy dollars, And at the end of the day, that's probably what this
game is going to be, and maybe it might surpass that with Actually the
campaign is surprisingly good. Who knows, he's back with a new hat,
Yes, and the same apps exactly. Yes, it's probably still gonna be
the best selling game, Like even in a year with Baldish Gay three and
Zelda and all these other things. Call of Duty, He's probably still gonna
outsill all of that, even if it feels like off in some key ways.
So you kind of at a certain point like if I was running a
business and I had the option to do what they're doing to make a lot
more money, yeah, I'd probably do it too. And that's I wouldn't
feel good about it. Bandai Namco has multiple major titles planned for the remainder
of twenty twenty three. This is from Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life. Bandai
Namco has shown strong support for the Switch and multiple other platforms this generation and
it's US and it's set to continue this in the second half of twenty twenty
three, and its latest financial report it mentions how it plans to release a
number of major titles in the in this half of the year. One game
in particular reference is Naruto x Borudo, but it's also got games like Baton
Cados, Bottenkados one and two. I can never murra how to say that
Botten Cados one in two HD Remaster, Armored Corps, and Tech and eight
arriving in the near future. Techn Ads not this year, that's got to
be the first half of next year. Maybe another project gets used earlier this
year. Tech and eight, that's yeah, I thought it was mince be
this year. Am I mixing up with something else? I thought? I
thought techn was it doesn't have a release date, so tech it has no
dates, so not officially If it's coming this year, that I guess it
could come in December, right, that's the game that like could sneak in
this year, I suppose, but I don't know. We'll see. Yeah,
I mean, do you think by now would have a release date?
Yeah. And they've been you know, that game's been showing up in a
lot of places, and they've been talking about a lot. I mean,
obviously we saw the Beastcakes at Summer Games Fest. But yes, yeah,
okay, tech in seven World Championships are in January, so it's it will
likely be after that, Thank you, Marino. That sounds right. I
think first quarter of next year. So yeah, that that that could be
fair. I mean, they could be talking about their fiscal year. That's
probably what happened here and they got a little confused in their fifty year.
The first this half of the fiscal year, it's probably the holiday quarter and
then the first quarter next year. Another project that teased earlier this year was
the revival of its Dragon Ball Buddha Budha Kai or Buddha Budoki Tinkachi series,
with a new game currently in the early stages of development. There are potentially
more announcements just around the corner as well, with another game show with a
number of game shows coming up, so apparently Banda Napco could I don't know.
Is Banda Namco supposed to be at games Com? Do we know?
I'm not sure. I am not sure. Yeah, I mean they'll be
half the heels of Oh I'm a cool. We'll be releasing jarring games Com
right right, Yes, it will be out. It wouldn't surprise me if
it's if they are there and Armored Core is playable on the show floor,
because a lot of games that kind of would release around Games Come time would
do that to get people excited about it. So, okay, I gotta
I have to defend myself. It is written here as budoki, not budha
kai. I thought it was budha kai taichi. Okay, okay tinkaichi.
I did say wrong, all right. So it's a little bit of both,
a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.
But it's written here by Liam Douelan. Sorry, leam, I gotta throw
you under the bus as fudoki tin kaichih tinkaichi. Okay, we'll get it
right next time, all right. Bungee's approach to Destiny two PvP is changing
after Bunchee posted a Destiny two State of the Game update that received some big
pushback from players. Game director Joe Blackburn uploaded an almost seventeen minute blog in
which you responded to community criticism. May it looked like a YouTuber apology.
I saw that comm feet. I was like, Joe did it almost just
like he like turned on the camera himself, sat down and then like that
like the exact YouTube apology thing. In it, Blackburn apologized for recent decisions
from from Bungee, promised a major increase in new PvP content, and addressed
several other complaints. The biggest point of criticism from Desty two players in the
wake of Bunchee's big update on the game was the studio implying that it simply
didn't have the resources to deliver a more regular flow of PvP content, a
section of Destiny two that has become notorious or being drip fed new maps and
modes over the years. Blackburn explained that Bungee is now aiming to deliver a
big drop of new maps in twenty twenty four, which will be free for
all Destiny two players. Next year, We're going to change our philosophy instead
of a slow trickle of maps throughout the year. We're going to focus our
efforts into a single map pack that's free for everyone, Blackburn said, So
imagine new maps coming in one drop so that we can make a bunch of
new experiences that can all be good at at specific things and has a big
variety and a single drop next year. I have friends that still play a
lot of Destiny two Lucy, and I not many of them. I hear
talk about PvP, and I don't think that's because there's they don't want to
be playing the PvP. I think it's because there's just not a lot to
be excited about there. These live service games are you know, it's a
relationship between them and the player, right, and they kind of have to
put in you know, you have to put energy in to keep that relation
strong, relationship strong, and it feels like that is at a certain point
you just run out of, as they said, resources. So I get
them, like, Okay, you know what you're asking for this, We're
gonna put the effort in here. But you think they'll get that return on
investment? Is? I mean, they got what other choice do they have?
I know, it's uh, it's I wish I had space in my
life for a kind of game that I could keep, you know, like
checking in on occasionally. You know, I wish I can have had that
used to be that game I just don't have time for anymore, especially this
year. But I can definitely understand the frustrations with for the Destiny community.
The last big content drop did not go down very well. I'm really interested
in I always feel like Destiny that communication Bungee's a studio is pretty good.
You know. They have like all of the what do they call it,
like this week of Bungee stuff going on. They seem to be very open
or at least compared to what you used to get when you were getting communications
from developers. It's kind of a whole different world, and I feel like
they are actually taking the feedback on board. I would say I'm very interested
in this new approach. It's something that you know, the over Watch team
does and Aaron Keller the Diablo team does, where they put the dev front
and kind of make them do the apology video kind of thing. I get
that it's humanizing, and part of me thinks that's a really good thing,
but the other part of me thinks, do you want to put someone who's
already in a high stress position, who is sensibly the face of the game
up against more scrutiny this way. So I'm interested to see how this plays
out for him, because you get the sense that bungees like pulled away from
that a little bit, right. They used to be Yeah, go away
for it. Yeah, So I wonder if this is Joe wanting to do
it because he feels like he needs to. But yeah, you you you
cann you can. Yeah, it's just yeah, I don't know, we'll
see. I mean, talking about how Twitter is accesspool at such a recent
day, it feels like it's kind of strange move, but you know,
yeah, it does feel like because it feels to me like over a Bungee
they've come up with a set of best practices for keeping people over there sane
and safe, and that involves a lot of not communicating until you're completely ready
to communicate, and then when you do, it is blog posts and then
a handful of like produce videos and stuff like that. Whereas in the Pasty,
you know, Luke Smith would just like go and talk to people online
and on message boards, and then the bad harassment compaigns. Campaigns happened and
they had to sue people for for being harassed and that like they're like,
this is a huge financial effort to you know, to you know, to
prosecute these people, and we won and we're gonna get paid back for that,
But does that person have a capacity actually pay it back. We're just
actually trying to like show people an example of what we'll do if you harass
us. But the best way to avoid harassment is just to not put ourselves
out there so we're not a target. So yeah, it's it's it is
interesting to see them out here doing this again, so he must feel it's
important. Uh, And I hope the community like Grocks that is, they're
like, oh they are, they must be taking this seriously if they're out
there talking about this. But really, people won't be happy until the thing
they like is the way they want it to be and that is and then
it's then they're only happy for a little bit, and then it's like,
well, what have you done for me lately? So again, these live
service games are it's a tough business. That's said. I think it's still
like the alternative is hoping you get a big hit for a release as a
product, and there's no guarantees there either. So maybe being in these relationships,
as abusive as they might be sometimes from the get from the players towards
the debs, uh, it still seems like that the business makes sense for
a lot of these games. So yeah, yeah, that'st they too,
not gonna not gonna change too much. Huge sales of Zelda Tears the Kingdom
could be what upheld Japan's GDP increase. This is from Minetendo News. Japan's
Cabinet Office has said it recorded a two point eight percent GDP increase during the
period of April to June twenty twenty three compared to the previous quarter for personal
consumption. Japanese news site Menischi Shinbun reports that the growth could be attributed to
the massive sales success of the critically acclaimed The Legend of Zelda Tiers of the
Kingdom. The period for the increase of GPD was the was from April to
June twenty twenty three. The site says that one of the Japanese Cabinet Office
officials attributed the significant growth to large new releases of video game software from various
Japanese companies, including Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda, Tiers of the Kingdom,
Capcom Street Fighter of six and a Square Enix's long awaited Final Fantasy of sixteen.
Tiers the Kingdom was so highly anticipated in Japan that people reported on social
networking services that they took a holiday from work to play links latest adventure that.
I mean, boy, that's it sounds absurd. But also those games,
especially those three games all put together around the same time, I probably
did have like a percentage effect on a country's entire GDP, like they are
that big, especially Tears in the Kingdom. Yeah, it's wild to see
it kind of on paper, especially when Japanese Cabinet Office officials say it doesn't
because I mean, I feel like the gamers could say it right exactly.
Say, when I first saw the story, I was expecting to be like,
you know, I game came out during that month. They're like come
on, but it's like, no, the cabinet officials are crediting video games
for that. So yeah, I mean, Nintendo is still among the most
valuable companies in Japan. There was a point where it was straight up the
most valuable company in Japan. And I think it goes back at forth at
times. But it's like, so yeah, that like if that's the case,
as go Nintendo so goes about one percentage point maybe of Japan's economy at
the most. So you know, but now now we can say bigger than
movies and TV shows combine and helped Japan's economy. That's you're right, That's
how I'm going to say it from now on. That's fantastic anytime that I'm
guessing on CNN or whatever. All right, let's see Final Fantasy sixteen producer
wishes there was only one game platform. This is from tom Ivan at VGC.
Final Fantasy sixteen producer Naoki Yoshida I said he believes it would be better
if there was just a single game platform. According to an IGN translation of
an interview with a with a Taiwanese YouTube channel, Yoshida said it would be
better for developers and players alike if there weren't competing console platforms. I just
want to like reminder, stuff's translated so like like which could be softer here
maybe apparent I did see people quot be like it was very clear he was
joking in this Yeah, and exactly that as well, Like, but I
think it's like a joke that's like comes from a place of wo Like he's
not full on Dennis diak care. He is not saying the one console future
is the only future that is possible. He's just probably currently in a situation
where he's like, yeah, I make the ship for peace, see how
and you fucking idiots are still using car drives hard drives. Yeah, and
like they have. The relationship with the Xbox has been you know, it
seems healed since the new CEO took over and the Xbox Series S is gonna
be you know, pretty annoying for developers that were just developing for the PS
five only and now you got to go deal with this thing that doesn't have
enough RAM and in certain situations, like there's ways around it that you know,
they are gonna have to make it for PC and there's definitely PCs that
are less powerful in the Xbox Series S. But still, like he's a
developer. He wants things to be as straightforward as possible, and the way
that this whole system works isn't I do think that, you know, for
the most part, while at the time when Dennis Diek was saying this for
people don't know. Dennis Dyak was a He's was the leader at Silicon Knights,
the studio that did Eternal Darkness. He later became more famous, maybe
not more famous, but equally as famous for just sticking his foot in his
mouth and yeah, and two Human, two Human, and that X Men
Dimensions game that got delisted, and for suing Epic Games and losing the suit
and all this stuff because he's like, Unreal Engines fucking sucks, I'm gonna
sue you. And then for having a bunch of fell kickstarters. Yes,
infamous. Uh. He he had this thing for a while. He had
a lot of things for a while, but one of his things was the
one console future and and for him, he's like, no, there should
just be one console from one from one company, and that's how it should
work. And his reasoning was pretty much like it would be easier in developers.
And I think in the end it didn't work out exactly that way.
But the PS five and the Xbox systems are pretty much the same thing.
They're very and they are like PCs. So he got what he wanted in
the end pretty much. So I think that like for as much as uh,
you know, she'da is joking here. It's like, you know what,
It's not as complicated as it once was. It's not like you're working
with you know, a GameCube, is a was a power pc or maybe
that was Xbox I can't even remember. It's like, but these whole completely
different CPUs that are so different from one another that they're a huge headache.
It's like, now this is this is all X eighty six for the most
part, and then you got the switch over there, which you're not going
to be putting in your yoheta Final Fantasy Games out on it all all right?
Gioma Detro reaches out to Konami on PT's ninth anniversaries from Andrew Heaton at
Destructoid. Many of US horror fans are giddy about the fact that Silent Hill
is making a comeback. However, the loss of PT, which is the
Silent Hill project that was being developed by Hideo Kajima and Pan Lap Pans Labyrinth
director Giamo de Toro as a teaser for Silent Hills way back then, will
always be a store point, not just for fans either, as even those
involves still feel the pain. Recently, people on Twitter have acknowledged the nine
that nine years have elapsed since PET was released. Many have been reminiscing,
yeah, right, that does not feel real. Games Come. I remember
it really, I remember sitting around I think it was my first games Come
with game Spot. It was sitting around a table at the Airbnb and we
watched the streamer beat it because yeah, I think it was a woman and
she she was playing it and she figured out what the thing was and we
were like, oh shit, it's a Kajima thing and that is It was
a fun time when everyone was doing that. Uh, there's not There's not
much that's been said by the director other than asking Konami, what sayest thou?
He basically added acted Konami and said, what's say it thou? About?
Like doing something with PT. This was followed by the phrase iromabo konamatus,
which when translated from Latin to English says I will visit Konami Latin doesn't
Toro and he could do what he wants. Hel God, It's like he's
you know, how are we fucking demons in horror movies? We'll speak in
a line or something. Imbosoms, Yeah, sure, why not? Given
that Silent Hill is making a triumph and return hopes will remain that Cochims taken
the series well one day count itself among the many other upcoming Silent Hill games.
Uh, Andrew heating, you gotta let that go. I listen on
the long scale of time, the long you know spectrum of time. I
could see a world in which Kojima eventually does something with Caught on Me again,
but not anytime soon. This is like like when he is in well
into his semi retirement phase, I think, and he like lends his name
to a project and then actually does maybe come in does some work on it,
but for now it is still bad beef, and I don't think he's
gonna want to go do anything with them while he's got his own projects at
Cojima Productions going on. Yeah he's yeah, I mean I think I think
Silent Hills is uh, it's no coming back for a bid, is it?
No? Yeah? Yeah, right, And even when it does,
it's not going to be whatever that was, that they would just do something
different and have someone else take it over or something like that. You know,
we remember g g DT's gamut towards other game Insane also canceled. No,
I don't remember this at all. I'm clicking. I'm clicking. And
same was originally announced at the twenty ten Spike Yeah Man developed by volition.
Geez okay, well THHQ Rest in Peace. That must have been one of
those games that didn't get bought when when THHQ collapsed or whatever. Yeah,
okay, that's gonna do it for the News. I got a pull from
yesterday. I'll bring it up here in a second. But while I'm getting
that up, Lucy, why don't you tell people what's going on you have
going on where they could find you all that stuff. So today we've got
the latest episode of Jeff Justice Our Adventure. We've got two episodes of Cowboy
Beepup that we are recapping yesterday. Thank you so much to Jan for putting
together the Mammoth san Diego coming on and travel Ef. I don't know if
you could tell I'm pretty drunk at the pot. You be happy, I'll
say that much. I'm gonna rewatch. That was fine, I think genuinely.
The biggest point, like the biggest highlight of that night was seeing Kim
Joy from the Great British Banker. I can tell that was like number one
with the bullet for you that. Yeah. I saw her from over the
party and I was like, yo, is that Kim Joy. It turns
out that her husband, who we also met, who was lovely, owns
Traveling Man. So if you're in the UK, Traveling Man is a comic
book shop. And the thing is that I didn't I should have said it
at the time, but it was so funny because Traveling Man in the UK
has the exact birthday that I do, Like the shop was founded on the
same day, and every year I would go in and be like, oh,
it's my bo Anyway, they Traveling Chay is a great shop if you're
in the UK, especially the one in Leads and the one in Newcastle.
I hope they're both still around because they're fantastic. I really enjoyed the travelogue
Backlar being replaced by Tam. When Tam becomes the hockey Man. That was
pretty good. I like watching like why could you guys? Like watching you
guys make your own funko pops? Those the only funko pops or whatever want?
Oh yeah, yes, oh fantastic, All right, here we go.
Everybody good? See So she designed it on a touch screen there at
their I guess they're booth at Comic Con. Uh. And it looked like
a lot like a me character creator situation. But I guess that makes sense
for Funco Pops. And I was hoping so in the video the screen made
the hair not look brown. I think that the hair came out round.
Yes, I was hoping that would be the case, so I was happy
when you settled on the brown that looked black. So I'm like, I
bet the final version is going to look right. That looks fantastic for audio
listeners. She's holding a bottle of wine. She's got she's got peanut next
to you. You guess that, Yeah, you got a little pee.
And I've also got a game controller. It has my exact outfit from the
day before, so that worked out really well. However, at the end
of the day, it is a Funko Pops, so it will be going
in the back of my closet again. Next time we have a summer game,
pest couch, bring that and we'll put it on the set. That
would be fun. Yes, okay, the poll I have it right here.
Me fade in real quick. Would you go see a four K transfer
of the nineteen ninety three Super Mario Brothers movie in theaters, thirty eight percent
said yes, sixty two percent said no, and sixty two percent of you
are cowards. You're cowards? Yes, damn oh well, I have a
soft spot for that movie. I would totally go see I've never seen it.
There's the reason we asked this. There was a there's a four K
rerelease in Japan only right now. But it's like, man, if they're
doing in Japan like in Nintendo's not stopping it or something like that, there
must be a possibility we could get this over here, and I really hope
we do. I think so. All right, the new poll four tomorrow,
I don't know. I said, have you ever seen yohp and Dennis
Diek in the same room at the same time? Yes, no, they're
probably the same person everybody, So go ahead and vote. We'll have a
new show tomorrow here on Giant Bomb. Speaking of Giant Bomb, Uh,
was there is there Jeff Jeff's? So there was Jeff Jeff's Today speaking of
Yoship, we had him and Takai on for audiologs that came out yesterday all
about the creation of EFT In final Fantasy sixteen. And also it was a
very fun time doing that because there's a bit in the video Yoshi goes I
didn't want to set everyone on fire, nothing like that. So when did
you record this one? Is this the one that you guys summer games?
Yeah? I remember it like if we were waiting at the office and they
were going to show up, and I was like, at this point,
I had done the couch for the three days in a row and I just
went in the corner like I don't I don't want to talk to anybody,
so I'm still let them work best and like just like not the guy compact.
But it was, it was, it was very fun. That was
very cool. It was it was really fun. It was they were they
were great on camera. They had a lot of bands. But yeah,
we shot that on the Monday after simchame first, and I was just like,
Okay, note for future, don't record it at the end of a
game stain on my shirt or something. I was just like, yeah,
I'm gonna go be embarrassed over here. Lucy, thank you so much for
talking with me about video games today. I really appreciate it. Thank you
for me as usual. I'm sorry I won't be around next week, but
I will be no problem. Get exactly ahead. What's their beer? I
can't remember, but going yeah colch, there we go, yeah whatever.
Yeah, and it's better in Germany. I'm sure it is because it comes
in like tiny little glasses. Oh yeah uh. And thank you everybody for
watching. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a
good one, take care of yourself and goodbye. Ye