WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:17.960 You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello, and welcome to 2 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:21.399 another edition of Video Games to the Max. This is episode three hundred and 3 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:26.359 ninety six, and here with me as usual, mister mac Morrison, I'm 4 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:30.719 your host, Seana Garmer, and here we are for another episode. This 5 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:34.600 is like a quieter week, but people are kind of just catching up on 6 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:39.399 all the the games that have been releasing, so, you know, including 7 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.359 Mark who's now he's now played star Blade, so we're gonna get marks thoughts 8 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:49.039 on sother Blade here. I haven't been able to play that much this week. 9 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:53.000 The last week, my grandma's going to be here. She's going off 10 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.240 to Arkansas. I don't know if she's gonna come back or not. But 11 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:00.640 we've been busy kind of just getting all the stuff ready for that, and 12 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.880 you know, started going to the gym again, so that takes up time 13 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.480 too. So probably next week I'll be able to get back into like a 14 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.680 rhythm of playing and have more time. So but thankfully Mark's been playing it, 15 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:15.959 so we'll get to talk about that. We'll talk about the ID at 16 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:23.439 Xbox Showcase thing as well, the Big Lass at Square Enix and what that 17 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.319 might mean for the company going forward and some of your favorite games, the 18 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:33.480 shocking closures that Take two that I don't think anybody expected. 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But you got to 44 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:28.919 plaice other blade. Now, yep, what do you think? It's pretty 45 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.680 good? I think the starting area goes on for too long, or they 46 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:37.639 should get you into the city quicker, because yeah, it's like five hours. 47 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:43.800 Yeah, let's move this along a little. But it's really good. 48 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.159 Did you ever see a movie Battle Angel or that? Yeah? I love 49 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.919 that movie. Yeah, that's about as close as we're gonna get a sequel 50 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:54.120 in this thing. I think. James Cameron said he actually does want to 51 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:57.800 make a sequel. I don't know if it's gonna happen or not, but 52 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:02.360 he he said he wanted to says a lot of things. So yeah, 53 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:08.599 but I just unlocked, like I basically did the first area and then the 54 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:13.439 second area, the like desert, so now I have to hit the third 55 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.600 area, but like I'm locked, like the double jump, which is helpful, 56 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.360 and then get a different role where I can do like a different like 57 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:27.000 a double roll, which is good. Uh the double jump twirl thing that 58 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:32.120 she does. Yeah, uh, I wish there was more. You even't 59 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:34.399 got into it yet, I don't think. But there's a pretty bad stealth 60 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:40.759 section that I just did, where like you don't have access to your blade, 61 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:44.000 so you just have to use your gun. Oh that's the rest the 62 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.720 survival horror type sections. Yeah, yeah, that's not fun. You don't 63 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:51.600 like those. I mean it was easy enough, I guess, but it's 64 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:57.279 just like this is this is weird, Like and there's actually one part or 65 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.240 I kept dying because you're like locked in a like a laser cage or like 66 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.480 a laser arena, and I kept accidentally like one hit on the laser and 67 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:09.920 you're dead. And I kept accidentally dodging into that because you know, I'm 68 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:15.199 trying to avoid enemy attacks. But yep, I actually like I'm at a 69 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.480 pointing out where I have like too many skill points, like I haven't I'm 70 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.560 not doing on the menu or you know, the skill of the skill tree. 71 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:25.680 But it's like I don't care about the rush attack at all, so 72 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.279 I don't dump points into it because it's like, well, I don't use 73 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.480 it, yeah, so who cares, you know. But I have actually 74 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.839 there's like two hit like locked trees, and I'm like, can these open 75 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:39.000 up? Because I have like eighteen skill points that are just kind of sitting 76 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.560 here, you know. Yeah, I think you have to like just kind 77 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.759 of unlock, you know, because it's all based on the skill tree. 78 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.439 You have to unlock stuff even if you don't want to necessarily. No, 79 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:54.120 No, I'm not like to like locked like big trees like completely. Yeah. 80 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.800 Well you know, they got to make you get some stuff from progressing 81 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.399 later in the game, so that it kind of rights. Yeah, but 82 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.879 it's good because then you can just unlock them as soon as they're available instead 83 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:08.759 of, oh, now I gotta grind more points or right, yeah, 84 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.560 yeah, and I'm just saving them. Yeah. The costumes are all cosmetic 85 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.959 except for like that one. I guess, but I think I I have 86 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.720 access to it, but I haven't used it. But I'm wearing this like 87 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:27.199 yeah, I don't know if I actually have it or not. Well you 88 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.920 have that because it's the first one she gets technically, along with the green 89 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.439 one. Okay, yeah, the green one makes me think of I don't 90 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:38.639 know if you saw it, if you see that Power Rangers movie from a 91 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.439 few years ago, the one on the one where they all like they came 92 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.360 back or no, then that's the one that actually came in theaters like when 93 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:51.600 they you know, I didn't that look look it up because the initial suit 94 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:57.480 she's wearing makes me think of Rita Rapulsa from that movie Elizabeth Banks. She's 95 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.759 like wearing the same like green outfit, which is like really funny. Oh 96 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.399 okay, now I know it's I mean I've seen the trailers, so yeah, 97 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:08.879 I know what yet, But I like it. I don't have one 98 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:13.199 hundred percent or anything, but I really do like the world. I actually 99 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.759 think the story's fine, Like I know people are ditching about that or like 100 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:21.560 you know, it's hackneyed or it's predictable. It's well, so what, 101 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:27.639 we don't get a ton of these games out every year, So I'm happy 102 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:31.199 with that already. Yeah, I mean I get it when you're talking about 103 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.079 like other games that have better stories. This is not like I mean, 104 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:40.720 the characters are not very emotive. It's kind of just feels very you know, 105 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.600 kind of bog standard. I could just kind of skip a lot of 106 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:48.040 this. Yeah, and that's that's not great. Like when the best thing 107 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.279 people say is, oh, you know, player for the combat, and 108 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.879 then we got to wait till like the last five hours when it all comes 109 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:58.560 together, and it's like, I mean, obviously the combat does a lot 110 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.639 of heavy work there. It's it's great combat. It's fun boss battles, 111 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.959 it's all that stuff. Uh, I don't, I don't know what you 112 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.399 think about Like the sidequists, it's I don't, Yeah, it's fine, 113 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.399 just kind of exploring the world. Uh. Actually, I'm I'm kind of 114 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:18.399 the opposite, like the combat is something to kind of be uh, you 115 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:24.040 know, just dealt with or you know. But I like the story and 116 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.879 like the city and stuff a lot more than That's one of that great and 117 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.200 like the actual basics of combat. Yeah, I mean I'm not saying that, 118 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.559 you know, it's just I think it's more about people. Just there 119 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:43.639 is stuff there right too to keep you like hooked in. Yeah, just 120 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:48.399 you're not it's not going to be the story, right, So and that's 121 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:54.120 fine. I mean that not every game has to have this amazing That's the 122 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.600 thing. I think for most people tend the story. But for me it's 123 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.120 good enough or yeah I like it so far. So yeah, I like 124 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.759 the uh. I just I just like that they give you that ability to 125 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:09.720 like explore stuff because that you know, they have that kind of just standard 126 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.039 side quest that you get off the like noticeboard thing, and then they have 127 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:22.360 the exactly yeah, like the hair cutting salon or you know, like what 128 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.399 do you think about the guy that does your does your hair? It's definitely 129 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.519 funny because you know he looks at the most like agro guy in the world, 130 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.159 but he's not. Yeah, he's not. And then it's like, 131 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.360 I mean, you can't forget the face either or the no faith, right, 132 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.480 That's what I mean by like battling like that Elita movie, because we're 133 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.440 all fucked up and it's like this I love the fact that they have like 134 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:52.600 so many different Nativa too. Like you think, okay, the the ones 135 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.600 you get at the beginning, okay, you'll get like different bass ballals, 136 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.519 but it's like, oh, we're gonna just fight these, and then they 137 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.799 actually have so many. I think they made thirty four different ones. It's 138 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:07.600 like that's pretty great for this being like their big first you know, Triple 139 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.840 A studio or kind of release. Yeah, so how far did you get 140 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.679 into it? So far? I got into it like when you get to 141 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.759 the city and you start going, like you're getting the ability to go on 142 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.320 the side the side quests that are longer. Okay, okay, remember that 143 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:31.039 that one part. We have to get to the information of the hallow records, 144 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.240 and it's like going to flooded zone. Yes, you can actually like 145 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.360 I got a quest actually to like drain the water, so like you can 146 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.679 actually explore all that all that crap like underneath. And I thought that I 147 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:43.919 was kind of interesting because you'd expect that to just kind of be like a 148 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:48.519 static level or e static zone, right, but it's not. No, 149 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.440 And they do that too, where like you can go back and so like 150 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:56.279 those those code boxes that you can't open, right, Yeah, I would 151 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:01.919 get side quests to go back and get those, yep. And I think 152 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.320 that that's cool too, you know, so it makes it desperation worth it 153 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:09.399 too, because you can find you find so many things. It's not just 154 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:15.480 like okay, go here, fight thing, go you know, so like 155 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:20.200 actually spending time in the world feels like it's worth it and and you're getting 156 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.440 something out of it instead of just kind of playing through. So I would 157 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.799 still say, like, you know, there're the demo's there, but it's 158 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:33.120 it's worth the seventy dollars. I've been enjoying it for what I've played, 159 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:35.960 and like I said, it's not my kind of game usually, so I 160 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.120 think that that says a lot. I know, you're more familiar with with 161 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.159 the kind of combat and stuff like that with these, but yeah, but 162 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.960 it's it's you know, it's traditional. It's like a weird blend of like 163 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.679 you know, Devin my Crier or like a good Rising and then dart Souls. 164 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.240 Yeah, I mean, and that's that's good. Like you can make 165 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:00.759 this its own genre, I guess if they want to, all right, 166 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:07.279 so that I think this is super positive for them. Hopefully this keeps going 167 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:11.559 forward for him, you get more as time goes on. I'm sure this 168 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:16.879 will go on a sale later and everything, so it'll probably just help moving 169 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.279 forward. But yeah, well we'll keep playing it. I'm I'm sure as 170 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.600 that, you know, the weeks go on and hopefully beat it and we'll 171 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:28.879 get to like I guess, give a final. Yeah, I've heard it's 172 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.679 kind of you got a long game if you want to do everything. So 173 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.200 yeah, it's like thirty hours if you want to. I think it's like 174 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.759 fifty if you want to do everything, and then thirty just to kind of 175 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:41.120 get through most of it. I know people that are just going from point 176 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.960 A to point B. I think I saw like they were beating it in 177 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.159 like thirteen or fourteen hours something like that. I was like, well, 178 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:52.399 okay, I mean I get it if you you need to beat games quickly 179 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:54.960 or something, but I don't I don't see why you would a game just 180 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:01.240 to just plow through that and not in experience it. But hey, everybody 181 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.600 plays against differently, so it is what it is. Play any any more, 182 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:11.080 no rest for the wicked or anything or nope. Also, also, 183 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:13.039 okay, I want to play something next, you want to want to play 184 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:20.279 to play, Well, yeah, that's true. Always better to play stuff 185 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.879 you you do want to play, So I guess that'll do it for us. 186 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:31.480 Talking about games we played here, so getting into the news stuff, 187 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:37.600 the one that made the most noise is, at least for my timeline and 188 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:46.639 all the RPG folks, Square Enix lost some big money on content abandonment losses, 189 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.840 approximately twenty two billion point one billion, one hundred and twenty one million 190 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:58.480 dollars. That's not anything to sniff at at all. This, of course, 191 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:03.759 to be fair, this is what the new person in charge has been 192 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:09.120 saying, that they're spending too much on things that don't make them a lot. 193 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:16.559 So probably the unfortunately, if you wanted a sequel to Harvestella or you 194 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:22.879 know, Various Day Life or hope not, but possibly even like the Star 195 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.639 Ocean remasters or I mean, I don't know how well that did honestly, 196 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:30.600 but that was actually a good one. But just because somethingse good doesn't always 197 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:35.399 mean that everything is going to sell. The deluge of games that they released 198 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:39.840 all in twenty twenty two, like between September and December, you can't do 199 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:46.840 that again. That was absolutely ridiculous, and that killed sales for all of 200 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:52.080 those games, right, Why are you releasing a bunch of mid tier games 201 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.720 that all need their own marketing, all next to each other. You basically 202 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:00.080 put them out there to let people know, Ah, these aren't really that 203 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.440 that important, you know, right, It kind of feels like those are 204 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.559 the ones that are gonna get affected the most. I also thought people were 205 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:13.639 worried that Dragon Cluster remake three and the Fall Fantasy none remake that we don't 206 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.720 even know if it actually I mean it's a lot of conjecture and a lot 207 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.759 of rumors and a lot of Hey, we pretty much know it's there, 208 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.759 but they haven't announced it. What do you think this means for a square 209 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:31.159 Just basically we're gonna drop the duds and focus on the big hits. Or 210 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.600 I mean, I don't think they necessarily should, because even their quote unquote 211 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.679 big hits, you know, there were reports that those didn't sell too well, 212 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:43.039 Like Rebirth had like half the sale as a remake. Yeah, we 213 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.679 talked about that last week. Why that might yeah, yeah, I mean 214 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.200 I think they I think they also tend to okay a lot of projects if 215 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.279 they don't think about like that Phone Stars game, it's like who Yeah, 216 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.240 like who asked for this? Or you know, like I feel like it's 217 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:07.200 them trying to that. Yeah, but like I don't think this. It's 218 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.120 been proven time and time again that what happens in a Nintendo console doesn't necessarily 219 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:17.039 translate to other consoles, right, ah, so then just do you know 220 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.679 then just going like oh we can make that's no. I mean technically you 221 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:25.919 can, but if the audience isn't there, then why bother? Uh? 222 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.240 Yeah. I also think it's weirdly like I think it's like they don't give 223 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:34.639 people necessarily what they want. Like I think, you know, for years 224 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:38.720 people have been wanting like a parasit eaverymake and you know squirres like no, 225 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:45.759 fuck you, we're gonna make. Uh stars. My whole closet just came 226 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:56.200 apart. Cool and I got an untaped okay or spill out in front of 227 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.960 me and knock the computer over. Yeah that's Emerald beyond game. It's like, 228 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.839 I'm sure it's fine, but how many people were wanting for that? 229 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.200 I am to be fair? What has it been Like Scarlett Grace came out 230 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.920 a while ago. Yeah, you know, it's not like they just had 231 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:21.039 a Saga game. Well, I think my bigger point is just like they 232 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:23.839 don't you know, they should be more selective what they what they want, 233 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:29.039 but they should also try to give people what they want. Yep. I 234 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:33.480 mean the thing is like they can only I don't. I know that they 235 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.720 have a lot of Saga people. They're at at square right now, so 236 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:41.079 like that's kind of why they're they're going after that. They did all the 237 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.480 remasked, you know, they they poured it all those games or most of 238 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:52.200 them into the new systems right now. This is twenty sixteen, looks like. 239 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:56.599 But yeah, so we're talking about eight years from one SACER release to 240 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.680 the other. So that's kind of fair. It makes sense why you had 241 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.920 released that. But yes, I don't know why we have Harvars Stella was 242 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:11.960 actually an interesting concept of trying to meld like file Fantasy and the farming sim. 243 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:17.440 It just it kind of needed. There was stuff missing and quality of 244 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:21.200 life stuff that probably would have made that game a lot better and more tolerable 245 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:26.640 for a lot of people outside of the just farming sim stuff. And yeah, 246 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:33.240 man, it's it sucks to see that. Probably you know your your 247 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:37.759 favorite like lesser loved game is going to suffer from this, but this will 248 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:42.599 teach them to kind of appreciate the stuff that is doing well that maybe we 249 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:48.240 think is small. Right, like the team Asano folks said that they are 250 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.799 going to be doing more games, right, and we're worried about them not 251 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:56.519 doing Traveler three or I don't know if they'll do a Triangle Strategy too or 252 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:02.519 something like that, or another Bravely Default. So it's good to know that 253 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.680 apparently that team is well thought of. The lead person got promoted and everything. 254 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:11.319 So I don't think Dragon Quests, I mean, other than Dragon Quests 255 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.319 being in trouble because of what they've already said, you know, development issues, 256 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:22.160 and obviously I don't know how much Toriyama's work was ongoing at that point 257 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:26.599 before hit untimely passing, so you know, but then you had the Dragon 258 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.440 Quest, the anime game that was just kind of put out there. I 259 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.640 mean, they made a big deal about it, but it didn't do well. 260 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.799 That kind of makes sense, But then you know, it's those kind 261 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.279 of things that like you have to be you have to know that, you 262 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:44.440 have to see that there's a once for that, right, do people really 263 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.920 want this? I don't know Forespoken is another thing that like, it's awesome 264 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.440 that there was an opportunity for a game like that to get made. Now, 265 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.000 look what happened to the studio They had to get you know, merged 266 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:03.000 into spur Indix Proper, and that game got really bad press. It's actually 267 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:07.160 not a terrible game. You liked it. I still want to play it 268 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:12.640 at some point. It's just unfortunately didn't didn't meet the expectations that they Obviously 269 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:19.079 they have extremely ridiculous expectations as well at times. But for them, I 270 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:23.480 kind of get it right, like you got. You can't just keep making 271 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:27.000 a bunch of other things. But like it would be nice if oh, 272 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:33.400 is there gonna be like actually go through your catalog and figure out stuff that 273 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:41.200 people actually want, like you said, like you know, like remake remake 274 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:47.079 Parasity. Yeah, I think Van Story will be cool personally. Yeah, 275 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:53.240 and finally make too technically isn't that Tally the City? No? Because good 276 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:59.759 and the City is not? Yeah? Would would we get something like the 277 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.960 I can't think of it now, the final Fantasy with chaos, but we 278 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:08.440 even get something like that now, Yeah, they're in com paradise because of 279 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:12.960 this, you know, look fourteen is not going anyway. We know we 280 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:18.680 got seven Part three. Hopefully it doesn't mean I mean we'll get comp Fantasy 281 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.279 seventeen down the line. I'm sure DragonQuest twelve is still that there's something wrong 282 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:26.319 with that Dragon Quest three remakes happening, that they're probably too far along with 283 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:32.279 that to canon. I'm sure, right, But yeah, it's this is 284 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:36.519 actually a good thing. I feel like I think they're going to like prepare 285 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:41.960 projects more before they start just going in development with it and going, oh, 286 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.119 this is actually going to sell well, or hopefully they learned that, 287 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:49.720 you know, marketing is important and you can't release things all bam bam bam. 288 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:52.400 They're gonna get less releases from them, but hopefully they'll all get their 289 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:56.480 time now instead. Well they can't now. They just can't blame everything on 290 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:00.799 the American game, so I think the Western games for their failure. So 291 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:03.759 now they have to look at like their own. Yeah, everything is now 292 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:08.839 a you know, basically a big some kind of known quantity for the most 293 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:15.000 part, but it sucks for like the Valkyrie profile, macy Elisium type stuff 294 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.359 to you know, have Star Ocean. It was nice seeing like a new 295 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.079 thing. I do feel Chronicle that now is not going to get a sequel 296 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.559 probably or they won't do something like that again because it didn't do well. 297 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.880 But also like are you looking inward and saying, well, we did that 298 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:36.160 game of disservice? So hopefully this, this this new guy that seems like 299 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:42.480 he has a good look towards the future for Square is really going to to 300 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:48.039 kind of push them to let's focus on quality not quantity and and get good 301 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.519 stuff out for Square. And they, I mean they already said probably aside 302 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.480 from Rebirth, they're not going to do these exclusive deals, it seems like 303 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.200 anymore. They're going to try to kind of put it on everything so they 304 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:02.759 can get the most out of the sales. So that's another thing that helps 305 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:06.960 you as well. Right, I don't know, I don't I don't think 306 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:11.160 we need to rehash it. But I don't think that Rebirth and sixteen. 307 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:15.000 I think not being on PC day one is hurtful. I don't know necessarily 308 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:21.240 that being not being on Xbox is like hurtfle for them. But also I'd 309 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:25.640 rather the game come out faster and then you take later for the PC release 310 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:29.279 than oh the game takes a year longer. To make because we also have 311 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:30.559 to have it come out on pieces at the time. I mean, I 312 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:33.480 can also kind of do the math even like the old like Kingdom Like look 313 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:37.880 at like Kingdom Heart's three, be like, okay, that was on you 314 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.559 know, PS four and Xbox one. How many copies did each, you 315 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:47.480 know platform To be fair, that game, Xbox had never had Keendom Hearts, 316 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:49.759 So like you're gonna tell everybody, Oh, we got to quickly play 317 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:56.759 through all these other games for Keendom Hearts three. You know, like you're 318 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.960 gonna get a lot of people excited about the fact that you can own them. 319 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.960 But there's also like there's not that history there most people associated with PlayStation 320 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:11.720 So well, yeah, I'm just saying like at least Final Fantasy has been 321 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.240 on Xbox or four. They made that big effort of putting a lot of 322 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:21.240 the old games on there. So like the seven remake series is not being 323 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:26.559 on there is a big deal or four Xbox not being at sixteen not being 324 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:29.039 on there is a big deal for Xbox. They just now got fourteen, 325 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:34.039 even though it's apparently it's got its own issues, right, So yeah, 326 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:37.319 this is something that obviously it's gonna take time to play out. I don't 327 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:40.240 know if we're ever going to find out what some of these canceled projects are. 328 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.039 It would be cool to find out if somebody ever, you know, 329 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:48.440 did figure it out, but yeah, it will probably take some time before 330 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:55.440 we get that, if at all. So, but yeah, that's that's 331 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:59.759 gonna be further down the line for sure, probably till we see like fruits 332 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:03.440 of it. But at least it's good that they are they're doing this. 333 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:07.400 On the other side of things, unfortunately, the trend of this year continues 334 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:15.160 with not only the Deliverers from Mars team getting laid off, which that's really 335 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:21.920 unfortunate. Both of those games are Deliverers from the Moon and from Mars or 336 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:26.000 kind of both thought of other people that played them. You know, it 337 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:32.119 sucks to see this really, right They said that they tried everything they could 338 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:36.920 to kind of keep the people in, but right now it's just I mean, 339 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:40.440 I can't imagine those games like huge sellers, So no, it's not. 340 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:44.960 Yeah, it's hugely surprising necessarily, but still a game. Yeah, 341 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:49.680 definitely not. The biggest one is Take two, not only you know we 342 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:52.720 talked about previously that they had laid off like five percent of its workforce. 343 00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:57.279 But then they just announced all of a sudden that not only is it just 344 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:02.440 laying off people, they are closed studios. So they're closing Roll seven, 345 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:07.400 which is a team that just not too long ago made Rolodrome and all the 346 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:14.519 all the World the two well thought of, wonderfully loved any games. Really 347 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:18.000 sucks to see that. And then Kurbl Space Program too, which was still 348 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:23.480 in development, that studio that's in but that has been closed as well, 349 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:30.119 Intercept Games and like they made a big deal about buying their Curbl Space IP. 350 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:34.559 Yeah, like that's amazing that they just closed like that without even letting 351 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:41.079 Curbl Space Program two just come out and see how it goes. Yeah, 352 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:44.599 when it's broke. A few days ago, I rude on Twitter, like 353 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:48.720 I was like, isn't curbal two still in early access? Like yeah, 354 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.440 like that tweet kind of blew up a little, which is surprising. Yeah, 355 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.400 I mean it's it's it's crazy, like this is the this is a 356 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.519 company that makes money, Like you know, I mean there's still taking money 357 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.680 off GTA five. I know GTA six development probably costs a lot, I'm 358 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:07.759 sure. Uh. I guess for me, here's The thing is, like 359 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:12.799 I can understand it when a game an early scheme early access gets abandoned, 360 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.599 like the developer rending the money or just kind of rent away or whatever, 361 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:22.599 but it's not typically not a game or from a company that is on the 362 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.440 fucking like New York Stock Exchange, or it's not like an established company, 363 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:33.079 like they need to do right by this game somehow either have another team start 364 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:38.359 working on which seems unlikely because they don't seem to care, or to straight 365 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:44.480 up offering like refunds. Yeah, that's I don't know. I mean technically, 366 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.160 could they just release this so people can that that body and early access 367 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.240 can can keep using it. Well, I mean you can still like buy 368 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:55.920 it, like it's not like oh the developer went under it. You know, 369 00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:59.599 the games can't be. But are they going to keep but not going 370 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.240 to keep importing it or yeah that's the point, right, Yeah. I 371 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.799 think about like how long Cribble Won is in development, Like I think it 372 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.720 was an early access for like years, so oh yeah, it's not like 373 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.119 this thing was like a finished product or anything by any scratch. The way 374 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.920 that game is, it makes sense for them to have released it that way. 375 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:23.359 Yeah, you know, it's not. It just sucks that it didn't 376 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:27.799 get to fully come out and have its moment because they do just close it. 377 00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.079 Go seven is really just shocking to me because those both those games, 378 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:37.279 I don't know how much they sold. Obviously, Bulodrome got helped by the 379 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:42.160 fact that being on PS Plus that got it more attention, and then went 380 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:48.640 to Game Pass now, so they've obviously been trying to get the most they 381 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:51.920 could out of those. But man, its just it sucks for all the 382 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:56.039 people involved with the developers, everybody that they you know, are having the 383 00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:00.519 studios closed. Hopefully some of them get to put on something else aside, 384 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:04.480 uh take two, you know, maybe can go back to the original company. 385 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:11.480 Maybe they don't exist anymore either. Over the way investment is going in 386 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:17.880 games right now, I doubt it unfortunately. Yeah, but they'll they'll keep 387 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:22.079 the that p and they're probably not gonna just give it to someone. Man 388 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:27.680 it whatever. It's one of these where it's unbelievable that a huge company like 389 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:33.000 this just does that, Like and Man, but I guess the same thing, 390 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.920 like Sony, right, they closed the London studio, that that one, 391 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.839 the UK studio and and all that. So we've seen this with with 392 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.400 some of the bigger names. They're closing studios there lay people. I mean, 393 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:48.559 I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but this just kind of hit like 394 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:55.920 a wow. Okay, you know that one was kind of interesting. Speaking 395 00:29:55.960 --> 00:30:02.480 of indie stuff, I'd get Xbox show happened. They did show off some 396 00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:06.839 of the bigger games, you know, like thirty three Immortals, which kind 397 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:11.759 of looks like Haites but co Op and more stuff for Power World and which 398 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:17.759 includes that like where now you can fight with the pals, make it even 399 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:22.039 more like Pokemon and stuff like that, so it's like almost like a Pokemon 400 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:27.160 stadium type thing now you can do with them, which okay cool. Kind 401 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:32.880 of had to feel like that was coming. There's gonna be a Jackbox Naughty 402 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:36.519 Pack now, which I'm sure that will be a lot of fun at the 403 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:41.680 parties. Anything spit out to you or I tried to watch the thing, 404 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:45.640 I thought I was like really distracting for some reason, like the actual showcase. 405 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:49.440 I don't know why, maybe just like how Egene presented it is. 406 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:55.839 It's weird, but that cyberpunk came kind of neat that like turn based RPG 407 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.359 thing. Yeah, I forget the name of it, but because they had 408 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:08.319 a bunch of crap, they were going key locker. Okay, yeah I 409 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.680 did not. I think Tells of Iron was going to get a sequel. 410 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.960 But it's awesome that it is actually liked as of Iron. That's like the 411 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:21.279 game where you play is the like rat and it's a soul sych. Yeah, 412 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.759 Dungeons of Hinterberg keeps looking awesome every time I see it. So very 413 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.839 excited for this. This is one of the games I'm actually really excited about. 414 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:37.480 So yeah, I'm glad to see it got more time Vampire Survivors getting 415 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.079 more stuff expected, but every time they do, it's like, wow, 416 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:45.960 okay, we're just doing more. Like how they made the joke about you 417 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:52.880 know, they may have a driple a game going on to Yeah, anything 418 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.000 else that stood out to you, not really, you know, a lot 419 00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:01.519 of it seemed okay, but maybe not personally. Sofa is another one too 420 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:06.559 that sit out to me a lot. I like those like old school action 421 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.960 adventure kind of things, so it definitely wants to go check out. Like 422 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:15.039 I'm sure that they have trailers for a lot of these that you can go 423 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:21.880 watch without having to watch the whole showcase. So it's Scott saying the live 424 00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:24.559 sex are pretty cringe in the showcase, but it wasn't too agreed to see 425 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.119 to his length of time. Personally, it's kind of like the PC gaming 426 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.880 one where they try to be too funny and too silly, and it's like 427 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:37.039 sometimes it's like, really, guys, these jokes feel like they were from 428 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:42.440 a decade ago, like you know, just sometimes it's okay to just show 429 00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:46.920 trailers and we're good, you know, we don't have to so yeah, 430 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:52.880 let's and Scott says he's also a fan of key Locker, so good to 431 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:57.079 know that we have another fan of key Locker there. Yeah. But overall, 432 00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.680 like if you like any games, you know, and a lot of 433 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:04.519 stuff coming to game Pass too, so that's something to make it work that 434 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.400 there's some that are not even coming to that a lot. I saw all 435 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.079 people are making a big deal about there's some that are like PC only and 436 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:15.480 they're like, well, this is showing more about how Microsoft is trying to 437 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.799 make it it's not about Xbox, And it was like, look, the 438 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.920 name is ideat Xbox, but they also fund PC only stuff. There's PC 439 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:29.880 only game Pass for a reason, because there's games that are only on PC. 440 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:35.000 Yeah, so you know they've tried and tried to get you to understand 441 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:38.200 that Xbox is also PC, PC Xbox. You know, they made those 442 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:42.200 together, So that's kind of part of it. I think people need to 443 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:46.279 stop making it like this bigger deal than it already is, or making it 444 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:50.319 too big a deal when it's not. You know, just you're just trying 445 00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:53.960 to find something stupid to complain about instead of just understanding, hey, it 446 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:57.880 is, it is what it is. Speaking of Xbox, so there is 447 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:01.039 a new the Starfield expansion is going to become in the fall. That's that 448 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:06.920 Shattered Space one that we've been kind of waiting to hear moren he was, 449 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:10.840 of course he did and every kind of funny very recently this week, you 450 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.079 know. Uh so they did a lot. They apparently redid some of the 451 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:22.000 map stuff, so they have you know, city map stuff, and I 452 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.039 guess they'll probably release it around the same time Starfield did, or uh or 453 00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:32.519 a little bit later. Are you was you think about playing it if this 454 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:37.280 expansion is good? Or if I had the game? Sure, you know, 455 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:40.679 but I don't, so I have to wonder how much how many more 456 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:45.719 expansions they'll do, if it'll be like smaller packs or bigger ones until they, 457 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:49.360 you know, the PS five version eventually comes out or they announced that. 458 00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.840 If yeah, it feels like that rumor is is actually you know, 459 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:59.480 I wouldn't be surprised I wouldn't be surprised if after they released this they kind 460 00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:04.400 of announced that the PlayStation version is coming, like yeah, next year. 461 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.079 You know that way, you still have exclusivity for Xbox for a while, 462 00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:13.800 like maybe six months or something, and then in the middle of next year 463 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:16.920 they have it come to the PlayStation. And you know, the way that 464 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:22.480 the Fallout games have been selling everywhere, I think, especially considering it's a 465 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:27.679 big bethesa game of the Todd Howard game. I know, listen, I'm 466 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:32.360 gonna I'm with you. I'm with you for the Xbox people that if you 467 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:37.239 want to sell your console, have any exclusive matter. They still want to 468 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:40.920 sell consoles, but Xbox has made it apparent that consoles are not everything for 469 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:46.440 them. They want to make money, and eventually, I think you're gonna 470 00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:52.199 have to put one of the big hitters on PlayStation to to really see how 471 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.599 much you can do. Because okay, cool, high fire rusk rounded see 472 00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:59.480 a Thieves Pensaman, I'm sure they're all do fine. I'm sure see a 473 00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:04.320 Thieves will have wonderful numbers or has wonderful numbers already. You know. I'm 474 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.199 sure there's gonna be keep on PlayStation that are gonna be so excited they can 475 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:09.039 play it now and all that stuff, and it's gonna keep that game going. 476 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:14.679 Grounded is done well apparently on Switch as well, so like, that's 477 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:20.239 great, but I think to really see what this does for you, Unfortunately 478 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:24.559 for the Xbox only people, I think Starfield is kind of a no brainer. 479 00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:30.599 It's coming. It's coming at some point, I think. But does 480 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:34.000 the sees that with the Fallout games and all that, and they're old other 481 00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:37.400 scroll styles and stuff that says I think we why why if all of our 482 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:43.159 other stuff so many multi platform, why not make our latest one multi platform? 483 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:47.079 You know, as well raking the benefits. You could tell maybe some 484 00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:52.039 of the Hallout people that Bob Fallout you can that kind of got into because 485 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.199 of the TV show. You can tell them all this is also from them, 486 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:58.119 and you get sales that way too. I don't know if there's gonna 487 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:00.639 be that much correlation with its two different world, you know. But yeah, 488 00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:02.599 I just feel like that's a no brainer. Now the rest of the 489 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:08.239 stuff, the Foorzo's and Halo's and gears and all that stuff, I don't 490 00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:15.760 know, you know, but I think that definitely is. Yeah, Scott 491 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.599 brings it up to I'm sure the Fallout getting a lot more traction on all 492 00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:21.960 platforms, and the team should help with that mentally too. Yeah, it's 493 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:23.760 Todd Howard talked about it. He said he didn't even know. He didn't. 494 00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:28.880 They expected it to do decent, right, like they expected, and 495 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:31.679 there'd be some numbers happening with the games, but not not this right, 496 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:37.840 not the second most watched show on Amazon Prime ever, like you know, 497 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:42.719 behind the load of the Rings thing, which isn't even which is depending on 498 00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:45.760 who you talk to, you is not that great. So it could literally 499 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:51.599 be the best thing that's ever been on Amazon Prime. And and that's a 500 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:55.440 credit to everybody involved with that. So of course it's going to explode the 501 00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:59.599 games and and of course, yeah, that definitely helps them. I'm sure, 502 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:01.800 like we talked about a bunch of times, everybody is scrambling to figure 503 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:06.679 out how the heck can we put it out a new fallout thing now, 504 00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:12.400 but putting starfill Out on more systems would definitely help with that than just Xbox 505 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:17.480 at PC and having that DLC. If it does decently on Game Pass or 506 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:22.280 Xbox whatever you get it on or PC, I'm sure it will do heck 507 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:27.079 numbers on PSIB, especially if it's well received after Starfield kind of had that 508 00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:31.679 like middling you know, kind of like mostly positive but also a lot of 509 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:37.360 negative. And it was like very depending on who you talked to, was 510 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:40.320 a it was really good, or it's definitely not the game of the generation 511 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.880 that everybody want to be on the Xbox side, so you're right, man, 512 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.760 it's a game of the century. Yeah, in the game of the 513 00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:57.360 century. Definitely. So a cool thing that I'm sure you probably considering. 514 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:00.639 You like Tetris and all seven to eleven is going to partner with Tetris on 515 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:07.360 a line of merchandise which also includes like having testas on these like flippy cups 516 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:13.000 and it's like a heads this a little controller and including it. Yeah, 517 00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:16.840 yeah, it looks fun, you know. Yeah, it's a neat idea. 518 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:21.599 I mean, I'm sure it'll be completely unplayable, but still still at 519 00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:25.039 school. Why not? I mean people could play like Doom on a fridge 520 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:29.639 or whatever, now, so why not put Tetris on a little handheld like 521 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:32.880 that? You know, I think I think the smaller you get with a 522 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.920 with a electronic device, at least with like you know, gaming, the 523 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:43.360 worst it gets. Oh no, definitely, yeah. I mean, like 524 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.800 if you're gonna make like the play date kind of the playdate thing that that's 525 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.119 kind of neat, Like it's, oh, it's its own little Tetris machine 526 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.360 and something you can just kind of turn on. I play. It's different 527 00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:57.840 a little for me because that's actually like the games made for that are designed 528 00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.480 for it. But like all those like little arcade cabinets like oh you can 529 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:06.079 buy Galaga and it's like you know eight inch arcade, you know eight inch 530 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:08.639 arcade thing you put in your desk or you know, stuff like that. 531 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:12.880 It's like this is unplayable. Like I feel like they're going to break out 532 00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:15.599 the like the stick on this thing. You know. Scott says, the 533 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:19.440 Tetris is not running on my watch in the future, what is even the 534 00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:23.719 point of an advancing technology? Yeah, he's not wrong, Like that's true. 535 00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:27.920 We just want it available on everything. Let's just let's do that. 536 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:32.519 I mean it'd also gets tetris like merchandising and stuff too, So that's that's 537 00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.119 good to see. Why not do this, Let's see if it makes you 538 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:42.400 some money, because it could. X to Find has got a release date 539 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:46.079 now. It's apparently gonna go live with May twenty first, after it failed 540 00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:51.280 certification in September last year. Yeah. I feel like it's been delayed over 541 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:52.840 and over and over, and you know, don't put it past. You 542 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:58.599 just have to delay it again, right, you know Skull and Bones. 543 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.000 Yeah, they got a kind of call the money from sall them bone. 544 00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:07.519 So yeah, So the preseason is going to start on that May twenty first, 545 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:10.280 and it's gonna last six weeks before they have the first proper season. 546 00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:15.239 Uh. You players are gonna have access the fourteen mats, five modes, 547 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.639 twenty four weapons. Okay, I mean people that have seen the people that 548 00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:22.320 play it. Says if there's a lot like Call of Duty, I don't 549 00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:27.679 know anyone who's interested or cares. I do. But again, it's that 550 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.960 crowd, right, It's the crowd that likes to play all the shooters. 551 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:35.519 Right. The thing is stick with what they know or what they you know, 552 00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:38.679 right, this will get big numbers at the beginning, and then it'll 553 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:45.760 keep taper off as you and then I don't work for three now like exactly, 554 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:51.559 hopefully it does okay for you to be sold. It is free, 555 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.360 so you know, that means more people can play it. Just uh, 556 00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.079 just I don't think it's going to do right, yeah, whatever, but 557 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.920 it is what. It is good that it's finally coming out at least and 558 00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:09.960 not just sitting in more development. Hell ah, although I don't collect these 559 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:14.880 anymore, even though I did go to a like we have like a japan 560 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:22.039 sort of focused store in Kendle, and I went with an eye and a 561 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.559 friend and there was so much stuff there, and a lot of it was 562 00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:30.840 still like anime funkos, and I was like, holy crap, they went 563 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.079 this far with one piece. Thank God I don't collect these anymore. I 564 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:38.480 would have gone nuts bying all this stuff, even though now they have those 565 00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.079 like little small figures that can actually fit on my desk. And I'm sitting 566 00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:45.639 there mentally pulling myself away and saying, no, nope, we're not going 567 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:52.760 to start this, you know. But still funkal Fusion the latest game, 568 00:42:53.559 --> 00:43:00.360 remember the Gears Pop thing. The latest game, the game Funko is making 569 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:02.960 is going to come out September thirteenth. It's going to be on everything. 570 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:09.639 Basically, this is from that UK studio ten ten Games. And you know 571 00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:15.199 this is has people that were including the previous founder of Lego, the Lego 572 00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:21.280 games, the TT games folks. Right, I mean that's fine. Like 573 00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:24.679 I watched a trailer, like you know, all the it's the problem that 574 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:28.639 I always bitch about with like the Lego stuff. It's like, okay, 575 00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:32.199 you get all these like and I guess Lego dimensions that she did fix this 576 00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.800 a little, but like you get all these properties together, but you had 577 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:37.920 on it. They had no voice acting at all in this thing, right, 578 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.119 and you damn sure to know they're not going to get any of the 579 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:45.679 actual actors, you know. I mean that would balloon the development costs, 580 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:49.760 right, But it also get me. You know, that's a reason why 581 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:53.079 I'm not interested in this stuff is because like they they just cheap out or 582 00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:59.679 it's like I don't need to have two hundred different uh franchises in this thing, 583 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:05.000 five that are actually well represented. Then well you might as well tell 584 00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:08.960 Funko that that's what they are. They just pour out all these franchises until 585 00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:14.880 I don't know when the it's gonna hit south for them. Yeah, but 586 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:20.079 they somehow keep making bigger and bigger deals to get I can't like. I 587 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.880 seriously, when the Pokemon stuff started, I didn't think they were gonna get 588 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:25.159 that far, and now they've done so many. I'm just like, Wow, 589 00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.440 Nintendo really let them just do that many. I guess they sell so 590 00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:34.440 well, why not, right, Yeah, but it's incredible how much it 591 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.920 feels like they are just overdone at this point. But then they still keep 592 00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:42.599 keep doing it and keep selling, so I guess props to them. Hey, 593 00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.119 if this makes any money, I'm sure this just helps, right, 594 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:49.599 Like, there's development costs, but that's why they cheap out. Because if 595 00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:53.360 this makes anything, if this catches on at all with you know, let's 596 00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:59.559 say even a third or a fourth of the Funco fans or people that are 597 00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.960 just fans these franchises that are in this game, it could help, right. 598 00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:08.679 Will it probably be a good game? Probably not. I think it'll 599 00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:13.679 be fine, but it'll be perfectly like passable, but it'll probably be just 600 00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:19.400 be like a Lego rip off or you know, the environment to get not 601 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:24.199 bolts, but you know, but some other currency and you can build new 602 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:29.159 stuff somehow with that, right. That's that's what they want to do though. 603 00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:32.519 They that's why they they brought in people from t T Games. They 604 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:37.239 just want to make something like that. Those games do well, maybe you 605 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:42.119 get the kids on it and you're sold there, that's good. Yeah, 606 00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:45.760 Limited Run is going to sell CDR games. No, no, that yeah, 607 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:55.039 they already have sold CDR games, right, People getting pissed about at 608 00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:59.800 least at least like with it with a good reason, Like if you buy 609 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.840 and it doesn't work in your system, you should Yeah, that's not cool. 610 00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:07.639 So explain this to me, like why why so they're they're selling it 611 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:13.760 with like the readable these are the readable discs? Well, like are there 612 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:20.199 are differences between what CDRs and then what they call pressed discs, like those 613 00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.119 are like disc you'd actually like if you go into a store and buy a 614 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:28.519 CD, that's what you get like a press disc. And CDRs are cheaper, 615 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:34.480 but they don't work in one hundred percent of consoles, right, especially 616 00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:38.199 like three ds you know which there were a few different varieties and they're also 617 00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:43.559 thirty years old. I mean, they would have had a better shot of 618 00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:46.760 just saying, oh, this is not for gaming or not for actual game, 619 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:51.159 this is just a display item or something like that. Yeah, exactly, 620 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.079 because if you have the wrong three D oh, they can't read it. 621 00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:58.159 Yeah, And I guess they've other they've had other issues where they've sold 622 00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:04.519 I think it's a Monkey Island anthology and some other thing where they just burn 623 00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:08.280 it too, like a DVD R instead of having like an actual wow like 624 00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:13.920 disc, you know, real disc, and like it had problems installing off 625 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.880 that. So I actually think a lot of it is when Embracer bought and 626 00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:24.880 uh limited run like quantity controlling the ship and well they yeah, exactly trying 627 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:30.440 to make more games and then also like trying to do it cheap, right, 628 00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.360 Yeah, because they're the ones doing the physical for Hi Fi Rush and 629 00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:39.159 PAM. I wonder how those were. I'm sure those will be fine because 630 00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:45.000 those are they're still making like PS five and Xbox games. But it's a 631 00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:47.320 lot of this is just like the old style or older stuff, and it's 632 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.840 like that's what you're known for, you know, that's the whole fucking point 633 00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:55.880 of your company, just to put out old games. On like new platform 634 00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:59.920 or you know, like new consoles and platforms, and if you can't even 635 00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:04.599 that correctly, what's the point. Well, and then now they're doing their 636 00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.960 own publishing, right, They had that game that came out a couple of 637 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:15.239 months ago, which was actually pretty well, pretty decently received. So yeah, 638 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:19.320 but yeah, I just think it's a real shame. Like you can 639 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:22.800 tell the limited to run, it's kind of slowly circling the Draine. Yeah, 640 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:24.880 it sucks that, like this is the company that people are making a 641 00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:28.559 big deal about. Oh, they're going to help, you know, preserve 642 00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:32.119 games or make make additions of games that don't have physical editions. It was 643 00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:37.519 cool when you get all the like these any games that they didn't have physicals. 644 00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.360 Now you do, and then now you're kind of doing it on the 645 00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:45.719 chief and that that's really poor. And also another another thing is like CDRs 646 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:50.440 go bad way quicker than I can. Oh yeah, press disks, So 647 00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:55.360 that doesn't the whole any anybody has that made stuff with CDRs knows how quick 648 00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:02.079 those things the tower, right, Yeah, they're meant to be disposable or 649 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:05.280 you know, even if you get like a good burn. But it's like, 650 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:07.440 yeah, it's not gonna last you know, five years, ten years, 651 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:10.639 you know how long you want to keep it. So yeah, unless 652 00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:14.280 you just like never use it and it's there, like you said, as 653 00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.119 a display item and you play it every once in a while, then okay. 654 00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:21.639 But if it's not gonna I mean hopefully it's one of those where it's 655 00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:22.960 like, okay, well maybe they thought they weren't going to sell that many, 656 00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:27.079 so they found a way to cheap out. So this three d oh 657 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:31.000 game or whatever. But hey, man, plumbers don't wear ties is a 658 00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:37.760 big game. So but anything else you wanted to mention, No, that's 659 00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:40.840 about it. Or I don't think any of dys watch that Knuckles show. 660 00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.280 I have not meant to and instead of watching something else and got onto that. 661 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:50.519 But I'll probably try to make a bigger effort to watch it. It 662 00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:53.400 is certified for us, it's doing it seems to be doing well. I 663 00:49:53.440 --> 00:50:01.320 think it's the most like watched thing on Paramount for that Well yeah, yeah, 664 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:05.719 exactly. It doesn't. It doesn't say much because it's not like Paramount 665 00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:09.280 outside of sports is like this huge Uh they're they're again, I think I've 666 00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:15.519 mentioned a few times they're like hoping and wishing and everything that like Peacock will 667 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.920 do this merger so that CBS can kind of get rid of it. But 668 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:25.960 yeah, well okay, then that will be the end of the show here. 669 00:50:27.119 --> 00:50:31.440 I guess let's just uh go through some of the stuff that is coming 670 00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:37.239 out here in the next week. Uh, some of this This next week 671 00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.119 is gonna be like the big one for the the indie games. Like everybody 672 00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:46.280 decided that they wanted to release on May ninth for some reason, so that 673 00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:50.920 is kind of what's going to happen, or a little bit before that May 674 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:55.280 eighth. The Indica is coming on the eighth. That's getting some some decent 675 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:02.079 reviews and I'm sure it will get a lot of hohum from the indie folks. 676 00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:07.599 Animal wel also coming. That'll be on PS Plus as well. The 677 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:12.880 Little Kiddie Big City actually got moved up to the second so that's already out 678 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:17.119 right now actually that you can play. I should actually go play that to 679 00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:24.239 talk about for next week. That Vampire Surbsvivor's Contra thing comes out this week 680 00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:30.119 as well, or before we do the podcast, So yeah, definitely everybody 681 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:35.320 check that out. There's a pac Man Mega Tunnel Battle Chomp Champs that also 682 00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:38.000 comes out that day. That's coming out on everything. The Rainbow Cotton remaster 683 00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:43.039 also comes out that day too. If you're a Cotton fan, I know 684 00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:50.480 there's folks from there, so you know there's some cool stuff coming for the 685 00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:54.360 indie folks. Some don't they know? Well, I think Paper Mario A 686 00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:59.960 thousand of Your Doors, like the biggest releases. So and then you got 687 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.039 that like the gos to Tsushima, like the Director's cut that's coming for the 688 00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:09.360 PC popes. A lot of Nettunia stuff coming for a switch and then there's 689 00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:15.199 the new one I think too. So yeah, some cool stuff, especially 690 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:20.199 if you're in indies. Go like, like Satt said, Neptunia month. 691 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.880 He's the one that reviews them all for Addam Haven. So if you want 692 00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:29.400 your lowdown on Neptunia, Scott is your man to go give you that. 693 00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:35.519 But okay, so until next week, everybody. I had a shorter show 694 00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:38.880 this week. We do appreciate your watching listening. I go like and subscribe 695 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.679 wherever it is you do watch or listen. That helps us. Go write 696 00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:45.280 a review if you can, and we'll see you next week, all right,