You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello, and welcome to
another edition of Video Games to the Max. This is episode three hundred and
ninety six, and here with me as usual, mister mac Morrison, I'm
your host, Seana Garmer, and here we are for another episode. This
is like a quieter week, but people are kind of just catching up on
all the the games that have been releasing, so, you know, including
Mark who's now he's now played star Blade, so we're gonna get marks thoughts
on sother Blade here. I haven't been able to play that much this week.
The last week, my grandma's going to be here. She's going off
to Arkansas. I don't know if she's gonna come back or not. But
we've been busy kind of just getting all the stuff ready for that, and
you know, started going to the gym again, so that takes up time
too. So probably next week I'll be able to get back into like a
rhythm of playing and have more time. So but thankfully Mark's been playing it,
so we'll get to talk about that. We'll talk about the ID at
Xbox Showcase thing as well, the Big Lass at Square Enix and what that
might mean for the company going forward and some of your favorite games, the
shocking closures that Take two that I don't think anybody expected. It's specially considering
that they you know, the the games that they have in those those studios
there. So aside from that, we're gonna go ahead and talk about all
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get into ogrim playing, which is really just smart. But you got to
plaice other blade. Now, yep, what do you think? It's pretty
good? I think the starting area goes on for too long, or they
should get you into the city quicker, because yeah, it's like five hours.
Yeah, let's move this along a little. But it's really good.
Did you ever see a movie Battle Angel or that? Yeah? I love
that movie. Yeah, that's about as close as we're gonna get a sequel
in this thing. I think. James Cameron said he actually does want to
make a sequel. I don't know if it's gonna happen or not, but
he he said he wanted to says a lot of things. So yeah,
but I just unlocked, like I basically did the first area and then the
second area, the like desert, so now I have to hit the third
area, but like I'm locked, like the double jump, which is helpful,
and then get a different role where I can do like a different like
a double roll, which is good. Uh the double jump twirl thing that
she does. Yeah, uh, I wish there was more. You even't
got into it yet, I don't think. But there's a pretty bad stealth
section that I just did, where like you don't have access to your blade,
so you just have to use your gun. Oh that's the rest the
survival horror type sections. Yeah, yeah, that's not fun. You don't
like those. I mean it was easy enough, I guess, but it's
just like this is this is weird, Like and there's actually one part or
I kept dying because you're like locked in a like a laser cage or like
a laser arena, and I kept accidentally like one hit on the laser and
you're dead. And I kept accidentally dodging into that because you know, I'm
trying to avoid enemy attacks. But yep, I actually like I'm at a
pointing out where I have like too many skill points, like I haven't I'm
not doing on the menu or you know, the skill of the skill tree.
But it's like I don't care about the rush attack at all, so
I don't dump points into it because it's like, well, I don't use
it, yeah, so who cares, you know. But I have actually
there's like two hit like locked trees, and I'm like, can these open
up? Because I have like eighteen skill points that are just kind of sitting
here, you know. Yeah, I think you have to like just kind
of unlock, you know, because it's all based on the skill tree.
You have to unlock stuff even if you don't want to necessarily. No,
No, I'm not like to like locked like big trees like completely. Yeah.
Well you know, they got to make you get some stuff from progressing
later in the game, so that it kind of rights. Yeah, but
it's good because then you can just unlock them as soon as they're available instead
of, oh, now I gotta grind more points or right, yeah,
yeah, and I'm just saving them. Yeah. The costumes are all cosmetic
except for like that one. I guess, but I think I I have
access to it, but I haven't used it. But I'm wearing this like
yeah, I don't know if I actually have it or not. Well you
have that because it's the first one she gets technically, along with the green
one. Okay, yeah, the green one makes me think of I don't
know if you saw it, if you see that Power Rangers movie from a
few years ago, the one on the one where they all like they came
back or no, then that's the one that actually came in theaters like when
they you know, I didn't that look look it up because the initial suit
she's wearing makes me think of Rita Rapulsa from that movie Elizabeth Banks. She's
like wearing the same like green outfit, which is like really funny. Oh
okay, now I know it's I mean I've seen the trailers, so yeah,
I know what yet, But I like it. I don't have one
hundred percent or anything, but I really do like the world. I actually
think the story's fine, Like I know people are ditching about that or like
you know, it's hackneyed or it's predictable. It's well, so what,
we don't get a ton of these games out every year, So I'm happy
with that already. Yeah, I mean I get it when you're talking about
like other games that have better stories. This is not like I mean,
the characters are not very emotive. It's kind of just feels very you know,
kind of bog standard. I could just kind of skip a lot of
this. Yeah, and that's that's not great. Like when the best thing
people say is, oh, you know, player for the combat, and
then we got to wait till like the last five hours when it all comes
together, and it's like, I mean, obviously the combat does a lot
of heavy work there. It's it's great combat. It's fun boss battles,
it's all that stuff. Uh, I don't, I don't know what you
think about Like the sidequists, it's I don't, Yeah, it's fine,
just kind of exploring the world. Uh. Actually, I'm I'm kind of
the opposite, like the combat is something to kind of be uh, you
know, just dealt with or you know. But I like the story and
like the city and stuff a lot more than That's one of that great and
like the actual basics of combat. Yeah, I mean I'm not saying that,
you know, it's just I think it's more about people. Just there
is stuff there right too to keep you like hooked in. Yeah, just
you're not it's not going to be the story, right, So and that's
fine. I mean that not every game has to have this amazing That's the
thing. I think for most people tend the story. But for me it's
good enough or yeah I like it so far. So yeah, I like
the uh. I just I just like that they give you that ability to
like explore stuff because that you know, they have that kind of just standard
side quest that you get off the like noticeboard thing, and then they have
the exactly yeah, like the hair cutting salon or you know, like what
do you think about the guy that does your does your hair? It's definitely
funny because you know he looks at the most like agro guy in the world,
but he's not. Yeah, he's not. And then it's like,
I mean, you can't forget the face either or the no faith, right,
That's what I mean by like battling like that Elita movie, because we're
all fucked up and it's like this I love the fact that they have like
so many different Nativa too. Like you think, okay, the the ones
you get at the beginning, okay, you'll get like different bass ballals,
but it's like, oh, we're gonna just fight these, and then they
actually have so many. I think they made thirty four different ones. It's
like that's pretty great for this being like their big first you know, Triple
A studio or kind of release. Yeah, so how far did you get
into it? So far? I got into it like when you get to
the city and you start going, like you're getting the ability to go on
the side the side quests that are longer. Okay, okay, remember that
that one part. We have to get to the information of the hallow records,
and it's like going to flooded zone. Yes, you can actually like
I got a quest actually to like drain the water, so like you can
actually explore all that all that crap like underneath. And I thought that I
was kind of interesting because you'd expect that to just kind of be like a
static level or e static zone, right, but it's not. No,
And they do that too, where like you can go back and so like
those those code boxes that you can't open, right, Yeah, I would
get side quests to go back and get those, yep. And I think
that that's cool too, you know, so it makes it desperation worth it
too, because you can find you find so many things. It's not just
like okay, go here, fight thing, go you know, so like
actually spending time in the world feels like it's worth it and and you're getting
something out of it instead of just kind of playing through. So I would
still say, like, you know, there're the demo's there, but it's
it's worth the seventy dollars. I've been enjoying it for what I've played,
and like I said, it's not my kind of game usually, so I
think that that says a lot. I know, you're more familiar with with
the kind of combat and stuff like that with these, but yeah, but
it's it's you know, it's traditional. It's like a weird blend of like
you know, Devin my Crier or like a good Rising and then dart Souls.
Yeah, I mean, and that's that's good. Like you can make
this its own genre, I guess if they want to, all right,
so that I think this is super positive for them. Hopefully this keeps going
forward for him, you get more as time goes on. I'm sure this
will go on a sale later and everything, so it'll probably just help moving
forward. But yeah, well we'll keep playing it. I'm I'm sure as
that, you know, the weeks go on and hopefully beat it and we'll
get to like I guess, give a final. Yeah, I've heard it's
kind of you got a long game if you want to do everything. So
yeah, it's like thirty hours if you want to. I think it's like
fifty if you want to do everything, and then thirty just to kind of
get through most of it. I know people that are just going from point
A to point B. I think I saw like they were beating it in
like thirteen or fourteen hours something like that. I was like, well,
okay, I mean I get it if you you need to beat games quickly
or something, but I don't I don't see why you would a game just
to just plow through that and not in experience it. But hey, everybody
plays against differently, so it is what it is. Play any any more,
no rest for the wicked or anything or nope. Also, also,
okay, I want to play something next, you want to want to play
to play, Well, yeah, that's true. Always better to play stuff
you you do want to play, So I guess that'll do it for us.
Talking about games we played here, so getting into the news stuff,
the one that made the most noise is, at least for my timeline and
all the RPG folks, Square Enix lost some big money on content abandonment losses,
approximately twenty two billion point one billion, one hundred and twenty one million
dollars. That's not anything to sniff at at all. This, of course,
to be fair, this is what the new person in charge has been
saying, that they're spending too much on things that don't make them a lot.
So probably the unfortunately, if you wanted a sequel to Harvestella or you
know, Various Day Life or hope not, but possibly even like the Star
Ocean remasters or I mean, I don't know how well that did honestly,
but that was actually a good one. But just because somethingse good doesn't always
mean that everything is going to sell. The deluge of games that they released
all in twenty twenty two, like between September and December, you can't do
that again. That was absolutely ridiculous, and that killed sales for all of
those games, right, Why are you releasing a bunch of mid tier games
that all need their own marketing, all next to each other. You basically
put them out there to let people know, Ah, these aren't really that
that important, you know, right, It kind of feels like those are
the ones that are gonna get affected the most. I also thought people were
worried that Dragon Cluster remake three and the Fall Fantasy none remake that we don't
even know if it actually I mean it's a lot of conjecture and a lot
of rumors and a lot of Hey, we pretty much know it's there,
but they haven't announced it. What do you think this means for a square
Just basically we're gonna drop the duds and focus on the big hits. Or
I mean, I don't think they necessarily should, because even their quote unquote
big hits, you know, there were reports that those didn't sell too well,
Like Rebirth had like half the sale as a remake. Yeah, we
talked about that last week. Why that might yeah, yeah, I mean
I think they I think they also tend to okay a lot of projects if
they don't think about like that Phone Stars game, it's like who Yeah,
like who asked for this? Or you know, like I feel like it's
them trying to that. Yeah, but like I don't think this. It's
been proven time and time again that what happens in a Nintendo console doesn't necessarily
translate to other consoles, right, ah, so then just do you know
then just going like oh we can make that's no. I mean technically you
can, but if the audience isn't there, then why bother? Uh?
Yeah. I also think it's weirdly like I think it's like they don't give
people necessarily what they want. Like I think, you know, for years
people have been wanting like a parasit eaverymake and you know squirres like no,
fuck you, we're gonna make. Uh stars. My whole closet just came
apart. Cool and I got an untaped okay or spill out in front of
me and knock the computer over. Yeah that's Emerald beyond game. It's like,
I'm sure it's fine, but how many people were wanting for that?
I am to be fair? What has it been Like Scarlett Grace came out
a while ago. Yeah, you know, it's not like they just had
a Saga game. Well, I think my bigger point is just like they
don't you know, they should be more selective what they what they want,
but they should also try to give people what they want. Yep. I
mean the thing is like they can only I don't. I know that they
have a lot of Saga people. They're at at square right now, so
like that's kind of why they're they're going after that. They did all the
remasked, you know, they they poured it all those games or most of
them into the new systems right now. This is twenty sixteen, looks like.
But yeah, so we're talking about eight years from one SACER release to
the other. So that's kind of fair. It makes sense why you had
released that. But yes, I don't know why we have Harvars Stella was
actually an interesting concept of trying to meld like file Fantasy and the farming sim.
It just it kind of needed. There was stuff missing and quality of
life stuff that probably would have made that game a lot better and more tolerable
for a lot of people outside of the just farming sim stuff. And yeah,
man, it's it sucks to see that. Probably you know your your
favorite like lesser loved game is going to suffer from this, but this will
teach them to kind of appreciate the stuff that is doing well that maybe we
think is small. Right, like the team Asano folks said that they are
going to be doing more games, right, and we're worried about them not
doing Traveler three or I don't know if they'll do a Triangle Strategy too or
something like that, or another Bravely Default. So it's good to know that
apparently that team is well thought of. The lead person got promoted and everything.
So I don't think Dragon Quests, I mean, other than Dragon Quests
being in trouble because of what they've already said, you know, development issues,
and obviously I don't know how much Toriyama's work was ongoing at that point
before hit untimely passing, so you know, but then you had the Dragon
Quest, the anime game that was just kind of put out there. I
mean, they made a big deal about it, but it didn't do well.
That kind of makes sense, But then you know, it's those kind
of things that like you have to be you have to know that, you
have to see that there's a once for that, right, do people really
want this? I don't know Forespoken is another thing that like, it's awesome
that there was an opportunity for a game like that to get made. Now,
look what happened to the studio They had to get you know, merged
into spur Indix Proper, and that game got really bad press. It's actually
not a terrible game. You liked it. I still want to play it
at some point. It's just unfortunately didn't didn't meet the expectations that they Obviously
they have extremely ridiculous expectations as well at times. But for them, I
kind of get it right, like you got. You can't just keep making
a bunch of other things. But like it would be nice if oh,
is there gonna be like actually go through your catalog and figure out stuff that
people actually want, like you said, like you know, like remake remake
Parasity. Yeah, I think Van Story will be cool personally. Yeah,
and finally make too technically isn't that Tally the City? No? Because good
and the City is not? Yeah? Would would we get something like the
I can't think of it now, the final Fantasy with chaos, but we
even get something like that now, Yeah, they're in com paradise because of
this, you know, look fourteen is not going anyway. We know we
got seven Part three. Hopefully it doesn't mean I mean we'll get comp Fantasy
seventeen down the line. I'm sure DragonQuest twelve is still that there's something wrong
with that Dragon Quest three remakes happening, that they're probably too far along with
that to canon. I'm sure, right, But yeah, it's this is
actually a good thing. I feel like I think they're going to like prepare
projects more before they start just going in development with it and going, oh,
this is actually going to sell well, or hopefully they learned that,
you know, marketing is important and you can't release things all bam bam bam.
They're gonna get less releases from them, but hopefully they'll all get their
time now instead. Well they can't now. They just can't blame everything on
the American game, so I think the Western games for their failure. So
now they have to look at like their own. Yeah, everything is now
a you know, basically a big some kind of known quantity for the most
part, but it sucks for like the Valkyrie profile, macy Elisium type stuff
to you know, have Star Ocean. It was nice seeing like a new
thing. I do feel Chronicle that now is not going to get a sequel
probably or they won't do something like that again because it didn't do well.
But also like are you looking inward and saying, well, we did that
game of disservice? So hopefully this, this this new guy that seems like
he has a good look towards the future for Square is really going to to
kind of push them to let's focus on quality not quantity and and get good
stuff out for Square. And they, I mean they already said probably aside
from Rebirth, they're not going to do these exclusive deals, it seems like
anymore. They're going to try to kind of put it on everything so they
can get the most out of the sales. So that's another thing that helps
you as well. Right, I don't know, I don't I don't think
we need to rehash it. But I don't think that Rebirth and sixteen.
I think not being on PC day one is hurtful. I don't know necessarily
that being not being on Xbox is like hurtfle for them. But also I'd
rather the game come out faster and then you take later for the PC release
than oh the game takes a year longer. To make because we also have
to have it come out on pieces at the time. I mean, I
can also kind of do the math even like the old like Kingdom Like look
at like Kingdom Heart's three, be like, okay, that was on you
know, PS four and Xbox one. How many copies did each, you
know platform To be fair, that game, Xbox had never had Keendom Hearts,
So like you're gonna tell everybody, Oh, we got to quickly play
through all these other games for Keendom Hearts three. You know, like you're
gonna get a lot of people excited about the fact that you can own them.
But there's also like there's not that history there most people associated with PlayStation
So well, yeah, I'm just saying like at least Final Fantasy has been
on Xbox or four. They made that big effort of putting a lot of
the old games on there. So like the seven remake series is not being
on there is a big deal or four Xbox not being at sixteen not being
on there is a big deal for Xbox. They just now got fourteen,
even though it's apparently it's got its own issues, right, So yeah,
this is something that obviously it's gonna take time to play out. I don't
know if we're ever going to find out what some of these canceled projects are.
It would be cool to find out if somebody ever, you know,
did figure it out, but yeah, it will probably take some time before
we get that, if at all. So, but yeah, that's that's
gonna be further down the line for sure, probably till we see like fruits
of it. But at least it's good that they are they're doing this.
On the other side of things, unfortunately, the trend of this year continues
with not only the Deliverers from Mars team getting laid off, which that's really
unfortunate. Both of those games are Deliverers from the Moon and from Mars or
kind of both thought of other people that played them. You know, it
sucks to see this really, right They said that they tried everything they could
to kind of keep the people in, but right now it's just I mean,
I can't imagine those games like huge sellers, So no, it's not.
Yeah, it's hugely surprising necessarily, but still a game. Yeah,
definitely not. The biggest one is Take two, not only you know we
talked about previously that they had laid off like five percent of its workforce.
But then they just announced all of a sudden that not only is it just
laying off people, they are closed studios. So they're closing Roll seven,
which is a team that just not too long ago made Rolodrome and all the
all the World the two well thought of, wonderfully loved any games. Really
sucks to see that. And then Kurbl Space Program too, which was still
in development, that studio that's in but that has been closed as well,
Intercept Games and like they made a big deal about buying their Curbl Space IP.
Yeah, like that's amazing that they just closed like that without even letting
Curbl Space Program two just come out and see how it goes. Yeah,
when it's broke. A few days ago, I rude on Twitter, like
I was like, isn't curbal two still in early access? Like yeah,
like that tweet kind of blew up a little, which is surprising. Yeah,
I mean it's it's it's crazy, like this is the this is a
company that makes money, Like you know, I mean there's still taking money
off GTA five. I know GTA six development probably costs a lot, I'm
sure. Uh. I guess for me, here's The thing is, like
I can understand it when a game an early scheme early access gets abandoned,
like the developer rending the money or just kind of rent away or whatever,
but it's not typically not a game or from a company that is on the
fucking like New York Stock Exchange, or it's not like an established company,
like they need to do right by this game somehow either have another team start
working on which seems unlikely because they don't seem to care, or to straight
up offering like refunds. Yeah, that's I don't know. I mean technically,
could they just release this so people can that that body and early access
can can keep using it. Well, I mean you can still like buy
it, like it's not like oh the developer went under it. You know,
the games can't be. But are they going to keep but not going
to keep importing it or yeah that's the point, right, Yeah. I
think about like how long Cribble Won is in development, Like I think it
was an early access for like years, so oh yeah, it's not like
this thing was like a finished product or anything by any scratch. The way
that game is, it makes sense for them to have released it that way.
Yeah, you know, it's not. It just sucks that it didn't
get to fully come out and have its moment because they do just close it.
Go seven is really just shocking to me because those both those games,
I don't know how much they sold. Obviously, Bulodrome got helped by the
fact that being on PS Plus that got it more attention, and then went
to Game Pass now, so they've obviously been trying to get the most they
could out of those. But man, its just it sucks for all the
people involved with the developers, everybody that they you know, are having the
studios closed. Hopefully some of them get to put on something else aside,
uh take two, you know, maybe can go back to the original company.
Maybe they don't exist anymore either. Over the way investment is going in
games right now, I doubt it unfortunately. Yeah, but they'll they'll keep
the that p and they're probably not gonna just give it to someone. Man
it whatever. It's one of these where it's unbelievable that a huge company like
this just does that, Like and Man, but I guess the same thing,
like Sony, right, they closed the London studio, that that one,
the UK studio and and all that. So we've seen this with with
some of the bigger names. They're closing studios there lay people. I mean,
I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but this just kind of hit like
a wow. Okay, you know that one was kind of interesting. Speaking
of indie stuff, I'd get Xbox show happened. They did show off some
of the bigger games, you know, like thirty three Immortals, which kind
of looks like Haites but co Op and more stuff for Power World and which
includes that like where now you can fight with the pals, make it even
more like Pokemon and stuff like that, so it's like almost like a Pokemon
stadium type thing now you can do with them, which okay cool. Kind
of had to feel like that was coming. There's gonna be a Jackbox Naughty
Pack now, which I'm sure that will be a lot of fun at the
parties. Anything spit out to you or I tried to watch the thing,
I thought I was like really distracting for some reason, like the actual showcase.
I don't know why, maybe just like how Egene presented it is.
It's weird, but that cyberpunk came kind of neat that like turn based RPG
thing. Yeah, I forget the name of it, but because they had
a bunch of crap, they were going key locker. Okay, yeah I
did not. I think Tells of Iron was going to get a sequel.
But it's awesome that it is actually liked as of Iron. That's like the
game where you play is the like rat and it's a soul sych. Yeah,
Dungeons of Hinterberg keeps looking awesome every time I see it. So very
excited for this. This is one of the games I'm actually really excited about.
So yeah, I'm glad to see it got more time Vampire Survivors getting
more stuff expected, but every time they do, it's like, wow,
okay, we're just doing more. Like how they made the joke about you
know, they may have a driple a game going on to Yeah, anything
else that stood out to you, not really, you know, a lot
of it seemed okay, but maybe not personally. Sofa is another one too
that sit out to me a lot. I like those like old school action
adventure kind of things, so it definitely wants to go check out. Like
I'm sure that they have trailers for a lot of these that you can go
watch without having to watch the whole showcase. So it's Scott saying the live
sex are pretty cringe in the showcase, but it wasn't too agreed to see
to his length of time. Personally, it's kind of like the PC gaming
one where they try to be too funny and too silly, and it's like
sometimes it's like, really, guys, these jokes feel like they were from
a decade ago, like you know, just sometimes it's okay to just show
trailers and we're good, you know, we don't have to so yeah,
let's and Scott says he's also a fan of key Locker, so good to
know that we have another fan of key Locker there. Yeah. But overall,
like if you like any games, you know, and a lot of
stuff coming to game Pass too, so that's something to make it work that
there's some that are not even coming to that a lot. I saw all
people are making a big deal about there's some that are like PC only and
they're like, well, this is showing more about how Microsoft is trying to
make it it's not about Xbox, And it was like, look, the
name is ideat Xbox, but they also fund PC only stuff. There's PC
only game Pass for a reason, because there's games that are only on PC.
Yeah, so you know they've tried and tried to get you to understand
that Xbox is also PC, PC Xbox. You know, they made those
together, So that's kind of part of it. I think people need to
stop making it like this bigger deal than it already is, or making it
too big a deal when it's not. You know, just you're just trying
to find something stupid to complain about instead of just understanding, hey, it
is, it is what it is. Speaking of Xbox, so there is
a new the Starfield expansion is going to become in the fall. That's that
Shattered Space one that we've been kind of waiting to hear moren he was,
of course he did and every kind of funny very recently this week, you
know. Uh so they did a lot. They apparently redid some of the
map stuff, so they have you know, city map stuff, and I
guess they'll probably release it around the same time Starfield did, or uh or
a little bit later. Are you was you think about playing it if this
expansion is good? Or if I had the game? Sure, you know,
but I don't, so I have to wonder how much how many more
expansions they'll do, if it'll be like smaller packs or bigger ones until they,
you know, the PS five version eventually comes out or they announced that.
If yeah, it feels like that rumor is is actually you know,
I wouldn't be surprised I wouldn't be surprised if after they released this they kind
of announced that the PlayStation version is coming, like yeah, next year.
You know that way, you still have exclusivity for Xbox for a while,
like maybe six months or something, and then in the middle of next year
they have it come to the PlayStation. And you know, the way that
the Fallout games have been selling everywhere, I think, especially considering it's a
big bethesa game of the Todd Howard game. I know, listen, I'm
gonna I'm with you. I'm with you for the Xbox people that if you
want to sell your console, have any exclusive matter. They still want to
sell consoles, but Xbox has made it apparent that consoles are not everything for
them. They want to make money, and eventually, I think you're gonna
have to put one of the big hitters on PlayStation to to really see how
much you can do. Because okay, cool, high fire rusk rounded see
a Thieves Pensaman, I'm sure they're all do fine. I'm sure see a
Thieves will have wonderful numbers or has wonderful numbers already. You know. I'm
sure there's gonna be keep on PlayStation that are gonna be so excited they can
play it now and all that stuff, and it's gonna keep that game going.
Grounded is done well apparently on Switch as well, so like, that's
great, but I think to really see what this does for you, Unfortunately
for the Xbox only people, I think Starfield is kind of a no brainer.
It's coming. It's coming at some point, I think. But does
the sees that with the Fallout games and all that, and they're old other
scroll styles and stuff that says I think we why why if all of our
other stuff so many multi platform, why not make our latest one multi platform?
You know, as well raking the benefits. You could tell maybe some
of the Hallout people that Bob Fallout you can that kind of got into because
of the TV show. You can tell them all this is also from them,
and you get sales that way too. I don't know if there's gonna
be that much correlation with its two different world, you know. But yeah,
I just feel like that's a no brainer. Now the rest of the
stuff, the Foorzo's and Halo's and gears and all that stuff, I don't
know, you know, but I think that definitely is. Yeah, Scott
brings it up to I'm sure the Fallout getting a lot more traction on all
platforms, and the team should help with that mentally too. Yeah, it's
Todd Howard talked about it. He said he didn't even know. He didn't.
They expected it to do decent, right, like they expected, and
there'd be some numbers happening with the games, but not not this right,
not the second most watched show on Amazon Prime ever, like you know,
behind the load of the Rings thing, which isn't even which is depending on
who you talk to, you is not that great. So it could literally
be the best thing that's ever been on Amazon Prime. And and that's a
credit to everybody involved with that. So of course it's going to explode the
games and and of course, yeah, that definitely helps them. I'm sure,
like we talked about a bunch of times, everybody is scrambling to figure
out how the heck can we put it out a new fallout thing now,
but putting starfill Out on more systems would definitely help with that than just Xbox
at PC and having that DLC. If it does decently on Game Pass or
Xbox whatever you get it on or PC, I'm sure it will do heck
numbers on PSIB, especially if it's well received after Starfield kind of had that
like middling you know, kind of like mostly positive but also a lot of
negative. And it was like very depending on who you talked to, was
a it was really good, or it's definitely not the game of the generation
that everybody want to be on the Xbox side, so you're right, man,
it's a game of the century. Yeah, in the game of the
century. Definitely. So a cool thing that I'm sure you probably considering.
You like Tetris and all seven to eleven is going to partner with Tetris on
a line of merchandise which also includes like having testas on these like flippy cups
and it's like a heads this a little controller and including it. Yeah,
yeah, it looks fun, you know. Yeah, it's a neat idea.
I mean, I'm sure it'll be completely unplayable, but still still at
school. Why not? I mean people could play like Doom on a fridge
or whatever, now, so why not put Tetris on a little handheld like
that? You know, I think I think the smaller you get with a
with a electronic device, at least with like you know, gaming, the
worst it gets. Oh no, definitely, yeah. I mean, like
if you're gonna make like the play date kind of the playdate thing that that's
kind of neat, Like it's, oh, it's its own little Tetris machine
and something you can just kind of turn on. I play. It's different
a little for me because that's actually like the games made for that are designed
for it. But like all those like little arcade cabinets like oh you can
buy Galaga and it's like you know eight inch arcade, you know eight inch
arcade thing you put in your desk or you know, stuff like that.
It's like this is unplayable. Like I feel like they're going to break out
the like the stick on this thing. You know. Scott says, the
Tetris is not running on my watch in the future, what is even the
point of an advancing technology? Yeah, he's not wrong, Like that's true.
We just want it available on everything. Let's just let's do that.
I mean it'd also gets tetris like merchandising and stuff too, So that's that's
good to see. Why not do this, Let's see if it makes you
some money, because it could. X to Find has got a release date
now. It's apparently gonna go live with May twenty first, after it failed
certification in September last year. Yeah. I feel like it's been delayed over
and over and over, and you know, don't put it past. You
just have to delay it again, right, you know Skull and Bones.
Yeah, they got a kind of call the money from sall them bone.
So yeah, So the preseason is going to start on that May twenty first,
and it's gonna last six weeks before they have the first proper season.
Uh. You players are gonna have access the fourteen mats, five modes,
twenty four weapons. Okay, I mean people that have seen the people that
play it. Says if there's a lot like Call of Duty, I don't
know anyone who's interested or cares. I do. But again, it's that
crowd, right, It's the crowd that likes to play all the shooters.
Right. The thing is stick with what they know or what they you know,
right, this will get big numbers at the beginning, and then it'll
keep taper off as you and then I don't work for three now like exactly,
hopefully it does okay for you to be sold. It is free,
so you know, that means more people can play it. Just uh,
just I don't think it's going to do right, yeah, whatever, but
it is what. It is good that it's finally coming out at least and
not just sitting in more development. Hell ah, although I don't collect these
anymore, even though I did go to a like we have like a japan
sort of focused store in Kendle, and I went with an eye and a
friend and there was so much stuff there, and a lot of it was
still like anime funkos, and I was like, holy crap, they went
this far with one piece. Thank God I don't collect these anymore. I
would have gone nuts bying all this stuff, even though now they have those
like little small figures that can actually fit on my desk. And I'm sitting
there mentally pulling myself away and saying, no, nope, we're not going
to start this, you know. But still funkal Fusion the latest game,
remember the Gears Pop thing. The latest game, the game Funko is making
is going to come out September thirteenth. It's going to be on everything.
Basically, this is from that UK studio ten ten Games. And you know
this is has people that were including the previous founder of Lego, the Lego
games, the TT games folks. Right, I mean that's fine. Like
I watched a trailer, like you know, all the it's the problem that
I always bitch about with like the Lego stuff. It's like, okay,
you get all these like and I guess Lego dimensions that she did fix this
a little, but like you get all these properties together, but you had
on it. They had no voice acting at all in this thing, right,
and you damn sure to know they're not going to get any of the
actual actors, you know. I mean that would balloon the development costs,
right, But it also get me. You know, that's a reason why
I'm not interested in this stuff is because like they they just cheap out or
it's like I don't need to have two hundred different uh franchises in this thing,
five that are actually well represented. Then well you might as well tell
Funko that that's what they are. They just pour out all these franchises until
I don't know when the it's gonna hit south for them. Yeah, but
they somehow keep making bigger and bigger deals to get I can't like. I
seriously, when the Pokemon stuff started, I didn't think they were gonna get
that far, and now they've done so many. I'm just like, Wow,
Nintendo really let them just do that many. I guess they sell so
well, why not, right, Yeah, but it's incredible how much it
feels like they are just overdone at this point. But then they still keep
keep doing it and keep selling, so I guess props to them. Hey,
if this makes any money, I'm sure this just helps, right,
Like, there's development costs, but that's why they cheap out. Because if
this makes anything, if this catches on at all with you know, let's
say even a third or a fourth of the Funco fans or people that are
just fans these franchises that are in this game, it could help, right.
Will it probably be a good game? Probably not. I think it'll
be fine, but it'll be perfectly like passable, but it'll probably be just
be like a Lego rip off or you know, the environment to get not
bolts, but you know, but some other currency and you can build new
stuff somehow with that, right. That's that's what they want to do though.
They that's why they they brought in people from t T Games. They
just want to make something like that. Those games do well, maybe you
get the kids on it and you're sold there, that's good. Yeah,
Limited Run is going to sell CDR games. No, no, that yeah,
they already have sold CDR games, right, People getting pissed about at
least at least like with it with a good reason, Like if you buy
and it doesn't work in your system, you should Yeah, that's not cool.
So explain this to me, like why why so they're they're selling it
with like the readable these are the readable discs? Well, like are there
are differences between what CDRs and then what they call pressed discs, like those
are like disc you'd actually like if you go into a store and buy a
CD, that's what you get like a press disc. And CDRs are cheaper,
but they don't work in one hundred percent of consoles, right, especially
like three ds you know which there were a few different varieties and they're also
thirty years old. I mean, they would have had a better shot of
just saying, oh, this is not for gaming or not for actual game,
this is just a display item or something like that. Yeah, exactly,
because if you have the wrong three D oh, they can't read it.
Yeah, And I guess they've other they've had other issues where they've sold
I think it's a Monkey Island anthology and some other thing where they just burn
it too, like a DVD R instead of having like an actual wow like
disc, you know, real disc, and like it had problems installing off
that. So I actually think a lot of it is when Embracer bought and
uh limited run like quantity controlling the ship and well they yeah, exactly trying
to make more games and then also like trying to do it cheap, right,
Yeah, because they're the ones doing the physical for Hi Fi Rush and
PAM. I wonder how those were. I'm sure those will be fine because
those are they're still making like PS five and Xbox games. But it's a
lot of this is just like the old style or older stuff, and it's
like that's what you're known for, you know, that's the whole fucking point
of your company, just to put out old games. On like new platform
or you know, like new consoles and platforms, and if you can't even
that correctly, what's the point. Well, and then now they're doing their
own publishing, right, They had that game that came out a couple of
months ago, which was actually pretty well, pretty decently received. So yeah,
but yeah, I just think it's a real shame. Like you can
tell the limited to run, it's kind of slowly circling the Draine. Yeah,
it sucks that, like this is the company that people are making a
big deal about. Oh, they're going to help, you know, preserve
games or make make additions of games that don't have physical editions. It was
cool when you get all the like these any games that they didn't have physicals.
Now you do, and then now you're kind of doing it on the
chief and that that's really poor. And also another another thing is like CDRs
go bad way quicker than I can. Oh yeah, press disks, So
that doesn't the whole any anybody has that made stuff with CDRs knows how quick
those things the tower, right, Yeah, they're meant to be disposable or
you know, even if you get like a good burn. But it's like,
yeah, it's not gonna last you know, five years, ten years,
you know how long you want to keep it. So yeah, unless
you just like never use it and it's there, like you said, as
a display item and you play it every once in a while, then okay.
But if it's not gonna I mean hopefully it's one of those where it's
like, okay, well maybe they thought they weren't going to sell that many,
so they found a way to cheap out. So this three d oh
game or whatever. But hey, man, plumbers don't wear ties is a
big game. So but anything else you wanted to mention, No, that's
about it. Or I don't think any of dys watch that Knuckles show.
I have not meant to and instead of watching something else and got onto that.
But I'll probably try to make a bigger effort to watch it. It
is certified for us, it's doing it seems to be doing well. I
think it's the most like watched thing on Paramount for that Well yeah, yeah,
exactly. It doesn't. It doesn't say much because it's not like Paramount
outside of sports is like this huge Uh they're they're again, I think I've
mentioned a few times they're like hoping and wishing and everything that like Peacock will
do this merger so that CBS can kind of get rid of it. But
yeah, well okay, then that will be the end of the show here.
I guess let's just uh go through some of the stuff that is coming
out here in the next week. Uh, some of this This next week
is gonna be like the big one for the the indie games. Like everybody
decided that they wanted to release on May ninth for some reason, so that
is kind of what's going to happen, or a little bit before that May
eighth. The Indica is coming on the eighth. That's getting some some decent
reviews and I'm sure it will get a lot of hohum from the indie folks.
Animal wel also coming. That'll be on PS Plus as well. The
Little Kiddie Big City actually got moved up to the second so that's already out
right now actually that you can play. I should actually go play that to
talk about for next week. That Vampire Surbsvivor's Contra thing comes out this week
as well, or before we do the podcast, So yeah, definitely everybody
check that out. There's a pac Man Mega Tunnel Battle Chomp Champs that also
comes out that day. That's coming out on everything. The Rainbow Cotton remaster
also comes out that day too. If you're a Cotton fan, I know
there's folks from there, so you know there's some cool stuff coming for the
indie folks. Some don't they know? Well, I think Paper Mario A
thousand of Your Doors, like the biggest releases. So and then you got
that like the gos to Tsushima, like the Director's cut that's coming for the
PC popes. A lot of Nettunia stuff coming for a switch and then there's
the new one I think too. So yeah, some cool stuff, especially
if you're in indies. Go like, like Satt said, Neptunia month.
He's the one that reviews them all for Addam Haven. So if you want
your lowdown on Neptunia, Scott is your man to go give you that.
But okay, so until next week, everybody. I had a shorter show
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