WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:14.519 Yo, go be bait. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do 2 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:18.160 this for November twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or 3 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:21.280 so, let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess 4 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.679 Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today, Beyond Good and Evil is back 5 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:29.079 and the Fallout TV show looks kind of good and we see shadows feet. 6 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.719 But first, please join me and welcome today's co host the Game Mess Mornings. 7 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:37.039 It's Steve's sailor everybody. Steve, how are you doing. I'm doing 8 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:40.479 good, sir. How are you? I'm excellent. Great to hang out 9 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:45.840 again. I saw you at Summer Game Fest and then and then we've talked 10 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:48.079 in DM since then. But it's like, okay, we hung out there. 11 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.320 That was great. We're gonna try to hang out again soon. Looking 12 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:52.799 forward to that. Yes, orty, good stuff. You're gonna come over 13 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.200 to GB at nights and come hang out on the couch again. I was 14 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:56.759 like, yes, sir. It was like think, I'm like, who 15 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:58.880 was at Summer game fust I gotta get back. I'm like, well, 16 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.480 Steve was great a couplet. That was a fun time. Yeah, it's 17 00:01:03.519 --> 00:01:11.120 a very unhinged slash like you know, like controlled setting that couch its Yeah, 18 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:15.000 you're right, it's because it's got like it feels very professional when you 19 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:19.239 like look at it, and then you walk in and it's the least professional 20 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.120 thing ever. So of course, yeah, because one minute you got Phil 21 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.680 Spencer in the couch and the next minute you got us idiots, and we 22 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.560 had a lot of fun being idiots exactly. Looking forward to that. That'll 23 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.840 be a Wednesday, December sixth, everybody that evening definitely come hang out with 24 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:34.840 us. But yeah, how are you doing otherwise? Like how did this 25 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.719 year go for you? Gaming wise? How are you feeling about it? 26 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.519 It's honestly like gaming wise is kind of you know, and then we'll talk 27 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.760 probably a little bit about it today too. It's like it's been that kind 28 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:48.560 of double edged sword. It is that there's been a lot of really great 29 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.599 games that come out this year, including some great accessible ones, but you 30 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.719 know, like it just the way the industry kind of has been. Uh, 31 00:01:56.760 --> 00:02:00.200 it's it's it's rough out there for game devs, and so it's just 32 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:05.959 been it's just trying to navigate the year that is twenty twenty three with backlog 33 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:07.199 and all. Yeah, and I guess now would be a good time that 34 00:02:07.199 --> 00:02:09.520 you want to tell people a little bit about like your work and what they 35 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.639 should know about you in case they aren't aware of Steve sailor the way that 36 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.680 I am. Yeah. Sure, so, yeah, I am a content 37 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:22.879 creator, Twitch ambassador, and accessibility consultants. I have worked with several studios 38 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:27.039 to help make their games more accessible to disabled players, but just really honestly 39 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.759 accessible to everyone, regardless if you are disabled or not. You may have 40 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:35.879 heard, like I've worked on games like The Last of Us two, last 41 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.719 I worked on in the Last US Part one remake, Assassus, Creed, 42 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.960 Valhalla, Marvel's Guard into the Galaxy. I'm currently working on the Call of 43 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:47.840 Duty franchise, and yeah, just talking about and advocating for accessibility all around. 44 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.560 Yeah, I always appreciate it because like, my stuff is like ADHD 45 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:57.759 and it's hard to pay attention, and so all this accessibility stuff happens and 46 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.960 it's like, well, we're going to give you multiple streams of the same 47 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.639 information, and I'm like, boy, that helps me a ton. So 48 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:07.840 it really does just benefit everybody. So yeah, I appreciate the work as 49 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:09.960 always, but well, I'm sure we'll find way angles to talk about with 50 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.840 some of the stories today, but we'll also just talk about video games. 51 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.520 So I say let's get in here and explain what we do most weekdays. 52 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:20.879 I, Jeff Greb, will help piece your gaming life back together. That 53 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.520 includes breaking news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. For all 54 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:27.240 these topics, I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who will make 55 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.280 me look smart. If you are watching live on twitch welcome, you can 56 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.879 always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game Mess Mornings, 57 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.639 or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch 58 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:43.039 the show later with chapters in timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. All right, 59 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:45.120 we have a lot to get into, so let's start the Morning Mess 60 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:49.800 with the Sonic three movie reveal shows off shadows feet, although there's an argument 61 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.960 in chat right now about whether or not shoes or feet because he is wearing 62 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.759 like those Sonic sneak heres, but I think that counts anyway. They're confirming 63 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.840 that the movie is in production. It will be coming to theaters December twentieth, 64 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.520 twenty twenty four, so about a little bit more than a year from 65 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:09.879 now, thirteen months from now, we will be getting this movie. How 66 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:12.319 are you. How do you feel about Sonic two. That's actually when I 67 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.199 kind of only barely watched over my kids shoulders while doing something else. Yeah, 68 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:18.279 I think I've seen it once and I was like, yeah, okay, 69 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.480 sure, it's just more of relatively the same of what we saw in 70 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:25.639 Sonic One, which you know, hey, it's a it's a good movie. 71 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:30.160 So I don't know, I think I'm happy that we are getting more 72 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.959 Sonic movies because I think it's like now we're kind of getting into, you 73 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:38.560 know, actual video game adaptations that are actually, you know, pretty good. 74 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.240 So like I've been seeing Sonic kind of taken that and being like in 75 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.680 the forefront of it, even though obviously with that in the CG sort of 76 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.600 a fiasco that we saw a couple of years ago before Sonic One came out, 77 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.639 which was funny, but I mean, hey, they redeemed themselves. 78 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.639 It sucks at that that studio Clothes that was working on it, but hey, 79 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.839 like it's we got a good movie out of it at least, and 80 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:02.680 then you know they're continuing on with the franchise, like it's it's gonna be 81 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:08.639 interesting to kind of see what Shadow is gonna be. Like I have, 82 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:14.879 I would have I would have pegged forres Elbow to actually play Shadow, honestly, 83 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:16.319 but the fact that he came back it came as Knuckles. I was 84 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.560 like, right, So who who would Who do you think should play Shadow? 85 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.720 Yeah? It's uh, it's I think they should since they have established 86 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:29.920 Idris Elba as Knuckles, and I think like him kind of being very Idris 87 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:31.720 Elba, but like turned up to eleven in that role. You have to 88 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.600 go in a completely different direction with with with with Shadow, I think, 89 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:36.839 or or you know what, actually, you know, I can change my 90 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:40.480 mind right in that moment, you do the Niles and Frasier thing right, 91 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:45.519 You make Shadow even more so that it's like it's the only character that can 92 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.319 actually annoy Knuckles in that way of like you are out doing me at every 93 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:53.480 turn. So who's a good person for that? God, that's a tough 94 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.879 one. I think you nailed it, honestly, Kelsey Grammar, let's do 95 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:00.839 Oh my god, you're right there. It is yes, one million percent. 96 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.399 Kelsey Gramer would be a fantastic Shadow. Oh my god, that blows 97 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:10.879 me away. Listen I'm glad that these movies are doing well and then we're 98 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:15.279 getting more of them. I do wonder like where like Sonics places overall right 99 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.680 now, because it's it does feel like, hey, as a movie, 100 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:21.560 it's working really well, even though the games aren't working as much as or 101 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.480 not in every single instance. Some of them I think hit better than others, 102 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:28.000 but you know, they kind of come and go with a lot of 103 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.639 these games. It's like at this point, I think he has fully transitioned 104 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.959 Sonic the character in the universe into just being a media star instead of like 105 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.680 some gaming icon the way he used to be. Right, yeah, yeah, 106 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.199 although it's kind of interesting too. I can't remember what happened in Sonic 107 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.879 too, But like, didn't Jim Carrey like officially retire, retire, Like, 108 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.560 isn't he out? He's he says that a bunch, right. I 109 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:54.079 don't know, it's hard to tell. I think he's I think he's like 110 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:59.439 definitely always considering it. I bet that he'll keep doing these roles because it 111 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:00.519 seems like it's like touching. He has fun with it, and they don't 112 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.160 ask too much of him. But I don't think he's going to be trying 113 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:06.879 to do you know he had that those couple of years where he was going 114 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:12.439 after oscars and taking on like heavy hitting roles and then also doing stuff where 115 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.959 he was in the full Grinch scuba gear where every inch of his body was 116 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.959 covered in and in a plaster or whatever. So I would imagine that he's 117 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:23.120 like done with that sort of thing. He could do a light retirement and 118 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.800 still come in and do these Sonic movies every once in a while. I've 119 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.000 been sure they'll probably phase him out though, because he's not, like he's 120 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.240 not gonna be under contract for forever, so I imagine they will try to 121 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.680 move on from him, and maybe that they set that up with this movie 122 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:35.839 in some way. I don't know, what do you think. I think 123 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:39.720 that, Yeah, I think you're right in a good transition into into someone 124 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.680 else I think could be could be fun. Maybe not obviously not, I 125 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:46.680 don't I want to see him like recast, but you know, there's there's 126 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.319 definitely, you know, plenty of other opportunities for for more Sonic villains that 127 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:53.439 kind of come into the fold, So that'd be interesting to kind of see. 128 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.800 But I mean, yeah, that was honestly, to be honest, 129 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.759 like I mean, I grew up, I played Sonic, but I wasn't 130 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.639 really like a huge like super Sonic fan. I was definitely more than Nintendo 131 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:07.639 side. But I mean the draw for me for watching that movie was definitely 132 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:09.759 Jim Carrey. So I was like, all right, I want to see 133 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.040 with him, like basically have fun with it. So if if he's coming 134 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.800 back for three, great, I'll go see him in that like that'd be 135 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.759 great, and then see whoever they're gonna cast a shadow YEP December twenty twenty 136 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.720 four. Once again, I'm sure they'll have plenty of teasers and trailers coming 137 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.199 up in the in the months to come throughout next year, but right now, 138 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.000 the only actually I haven't shown this yet, but there you go. 139 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.440 Now we everyone could see his feet slash. Here's a question, do you 140 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.600 think that now that we got a teaser photo, do you think that it's 141 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.000 too early to be able to see a potential trailer at the Game Awards next 142 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.919 week? You know, they could they could do a teaser, but it's 143 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.200 like there's a lot of these instances right now of these things that could you 144 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.960 know, get announced with a small little asset at the Game Awards that are 145 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.919 doing stuff outside of the Game Awards. Obviously, Dragonstagma two had a big 146 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:00.799 blowout, but it's like they could have just moved that blow out to the 147 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:03.000 other side of the Game Awards and done like a little teaser at the Game 148 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.759 Awards, but they didn't want to do that. And there's you know, 149 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.360 Grand Theft Auto six. Clearly we're expecting to hear about that any minute now 150 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.960 and not at the Game Awards. Maybe something that wilap with the Game Awards 151 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.480 with that, but it seems pretty unlikely. So a lot of these companies 152 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.279 are choosing to not go with the Game Awards, even though it's like, 153 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:26.120 by all accounts the event itself gets millions and millions of eyeballs. So yeah, 154 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.600 I guess I don't really know what the thinking is there to avoid it. 155 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.200 I know that Jeff Kelly does have sort of a menu of Hey, 156 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.240 if you are at a certain level and you still want to be on the 157 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.399 Game Awards, you have to pay some money. But I would I don't 158 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.600 think like big companies like Sega, you have to do that. I think 159 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:43.440 he's happy to just take their content to because that improves the quality of his 160 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.879 show. But who knows what the balance of that is and what these companies 161 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.399 are actually considering when they're making that calculus. Yeah, because it was wondering, 162 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:56.360 like with obviously with the category of Best Adaptation being at it last year, 163 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.200 I would that was sort of my kind of like clue into like maybe 164 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:03.120 Jeff wants to be able to expand out to any video game kind of property 165 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.559 or adaptation that Hey, they want to be able to, you know, 166 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.360 tea something or put out the first trailer of whatever on the thing, which 167 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.159 I know one story we'll talk about today. Obviously, I think that could 168 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:18.559 be potentially the maybe at the Game Awards this year. So I don't know, 169 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.639 I think it's I think he's trying to expand out, you know, 170 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:22.360 kind of bring a little bit more of the Spike TV kind of a Day's 171 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.720 back a bit. But I like, hey, if it does show up 172 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.039 at the Game Awards, I mean there's gonna be a lot of fans happy. 173 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.399 Yep, absolutely all right. So related to Sonic this next story, 174 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.840 Sonic Superstars sales were slightly weaker than Sega had anticipated. This is from Ali 175 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:43.360 Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Sega Sammy has released its financial results for fiscal year 176 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.840 twenty twenty four, Q two, confirming that sales were Sonic Superstars released earlier 177 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.879 this year on October seventeenth, we're slightly weaker than the firm had anticipated. 178 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.919 Despite this, Sega remains confident in the title, emphasizing that the Sonic IP 179 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.679 tends to sell much better during the months of November and December, and so 180 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.600 his ramped up marketing for the game to facilitate this. Ultimately, Sega is 181 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.799 hopeful that Sonic Superstars can at least match the sales for Sonic Frontiers, which 182 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.559 managed to shift almost three million copies as of February twenty three, greatly exceeding 183 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.720 Sega's expectations. They have some like a quote about this, but it kind 184 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.159 of repeats a lot of those details. I was I was always wondering about 185 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:26.159 Sonic Superstars, Steve. I remember we had this conversation like at the time 186 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.360 when they were talking about, Hey, this is what we do this because 187 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.080 this we're setting up the future of two D Sonic and we want this to 188 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.879 be appeal to future generations. And you know, I asked my four year 189 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:35.960 old what you like better? And I showed her Sonic Mania versus Sonic Superstars. 190 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.080 And without a doubt, Sonic Superstars that's what she likes better. But 191 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:46.440 I'm wondering the audience that does still show up for Sonic are people who have 192 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:48.039 a lot of nostalgia for it? I think still, So if you're gonna 193 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.120 have Sonic Frontiers be like the three D game and it's going to look the 194 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.559 way it does like one of those unreal engine demos made by a fan or 195 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.279 whatever, and then over on the two D side, I think it's probably 196 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.000 so smart to go with sprites and really play on the nostalgia. And maybe 197 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.360 that was a mistake. I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, 198 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.279 I think potentially it could have been a mistake because it really only appeals 199 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:16.120 to those like with the nostalgia factor of like remember playing the Sonic games back 200 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.799 in the day, and and anyone who has kind of become new to a 201 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.559 Sonic, whether it was through Frontiers or through the movie, I think they 202 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.919 would kind of see this like it'd be like I don't want to play that 203 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.279 looks too older, that looks too retro. I mean it sucks because you 204 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.440 know we're kind of at that age that we did play those, and it's 205 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.639 like, yeah, it's not at retro what are you talking about? Yeah, 206 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.600 but I think that could be it. But also as well, I 207 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:39.919 mean you got to think of like the like the forecast of what will what 208 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.000 October was like, I mean you had Mario Wonder, you had Spider Man 209 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.320 two, you had Alan Wake two, Like, there's gonna be a lot 210 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.879 of there was a lot of games that kind of grabbed our attention, and 211 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:54.559 I don't remember seeing really a lot of marketing at all for Sonic Superstars for 212 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.240 that, Like, I until I read the story this morning, I was 213 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.960 like, I did. I forgot that it came out to be honest. 214 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.159 So I mean, yeah, sure you can have expectations of how it's going 215 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.399 to be based on you know, previous games, but it's like when you 216 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:11.679 have a year like twenty twenty three where there's just hit after hit after hit, 217 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.399 almost like on a weekly basis, there's bound to be games that are 218 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.480 going to slip through the cracks and sort of and also like not meet expectations. 219 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:22.919 So I hope that there's no like like dev blowback for this being like 220 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.919 ah, we got to lay offs because you know, it didn't meet our 221 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.080 expectations financially, but or at least, you know, I hope it doesn't 222 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.840 really abandon the idea of making more two D Saunic games because they like I 223 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.960 think Sonic Mania was my favorite Sonic game that I've ever, like, ever 224 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.200 played. It was great. I loved this I loved everything about it. 225 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.600 It was modern but still kind of had that nostalgic value, so I didn't 226 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.200 Yeah, it would like. It sucks that it didn't sell well, but 227 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:50.080 hopefully, you know, maybe they can put some more marketing back and be 228 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.919 into it and be like, Okay, hey, you know this game, 229 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.720 we can kind of have it out, you can buy it now. Yeah. 230 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.720 I do think they probably can have a pretty decent holiday. I do 231 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.399 also remember when we were talking about this game at launch and looking at it, 232 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.720 it's like launch week sales in Japan where it just it barely charted at 233 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.159 all. I actually I don't even know if it made the top twenty in 234 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:15.960 Japan. And that was like the same week obviously that Mario Wonder came out 235 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.240 and sold like six hundred and fifty thousand copies physically in Japan alone, and 236 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.679 it's like, oh my god, this is a completely different story for these 237 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.120 two games. I wonder if it's saying, Okay, the game's just not 238 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:30.399 selling well domestically in Japan. Maybe it's doing a little bit better internationally and 239 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.559 they can pick up some of that momentum through the holidays. I think if 240 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.679 they, you know, cut the price a little bit and do go hard 241 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:41.639 on marketing, it's a good game for people who like the Sonic characters. 242 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.519 I think I didn't love it very much actually playing it, but I'm also 243 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.159 someone who just doesn't like two D Sonica that much. So, yeah, 244 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:52.360 what is the market share of the footprint between like Nintendo and Saga with in 245 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.960 Japan nowadays? Like, is it still like Nintendo pretty much dominates everything or 246 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.000 is it kind of the opposite. Yes, so if you look at those 247 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:05.039 charts, Nintendo dominates andthing, and that includes PlayStation where the PlayStation hardware is 248 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:09.559 selling. Okay, it definitely with the PlayStation four generation, PlayStation's kind of 249 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.039 really dipped in terms of overall sales in Japan. It's picked up a little 250 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:18.279 bit with the PS five, and that might just be people changing their habits 251 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.519 a little bit from playing all on their phone to going back and saying, 252 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:22.840 yeah, I'll play a little bit on the PlayStation. But when you look 253 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.360 at the software charts, it is almost every slot of that the twenty game 254 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:31.879 chart is either a Nintendo published game or something on the switch. And you'll 255 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.840 get a couple months where it's like two or three things are on PlayStation five 256 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.200 or maybe PlayStation four. But no, it's it is Nintendo dominated in that 257 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.120 country in a really big way, to the point where it's like Nintendo still 258 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.200 really cares about what it does there because it gets a hit like Pickman four 259 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.600 is like a million seller in Japan alone. It's like that, Wow, 260 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.120 if they could do that with a franchise like Pickman, they could still make 261 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.960 a lot of money there and in a way that PlayStation just can't. Right, 262 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:02.639 all right, let's see here. Let's get on to this next story 263 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.320 before we take a quick break. Dragons Dogma two confirmed for March twenty twenty 264 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:08.879 four, priced at seventy dollars. So we've been hearing this over and over 265 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:14.360 and over again, March twenty second for Dragons Dogma two. Yesterday they had 266 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:18.000 a video that actually went into big, great detail about this game and they 267 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.919 confirmed that that is the re release date. The new information here is is 268 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.039 that was this going to be Capcom's for a seventy dollars game. Turns out, 269 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:29.279 yes, that is the case, and I don't know. They are 270 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.200 setting up Dragons Dogma two in a way that I was not expecting them to. 271 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:34.600 A big part of that is I was not expecting this game this soon. 272 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.600 The fact that it's coming out in a matter of months now, Q 273 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.840 one of next year. But on top of that, it's like, Okay, 274 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:44.240 yeah, they talked about it a little bit, but they're going to 275 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.399 take their time to really build up the anticipation and talk about it in the 276 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.440 terms of, oh, this is going to be up there for us with 277 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:55.120 Monster Hunter and with Resident Evil because we have huge expectations for it. It's 278 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:59.879 like they talk about those expectations and now they're setting the seventy dollars price. 279 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.279 Do you feel that this game is reaching those levels where it's going to be 280 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:07.440 able to justify though those those expectations. I think so. I mean, 281 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:12.680 it's kind of well, nowadays, everyone you know, like is sort of 282 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:15.640 money is tight. Obviously, you know, trying to be able to buy 283 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:21.720 a game or justify buying a game at seventy dollars is definitely quite a bit 284 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.000 of a you know, a financial hit, especially with just all the games 285 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:27.640 that we've either had to purchase or just had to get this year alone, 286 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:32.000 just with all the good games we've had, so going into now twenty twenty 287 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:33.359 four, I could definitely see a lot of people sort of like looking at 288 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.359 the seventy dollars price tech and being like, yeah, I could probably wait 289 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.160 for this to either you know, maybe show up on Game Pass or PlayStation 290 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:47.119 Plus sort of a free game of the month potentially. But I think when 291 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:48.960 it comes to like a game like this, when it looks like it has 292 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:56.119 that kind of a long sort of like playtime with its RPG sort of elements 293 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.119 and all that, like there is a little bit more time investment, I 294 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:03.799 think the seventy dollars is just you know, that's just how you know, 295 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.559 how games are priced now nowadays. I think with Capcomy, like this will 296 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:10.960 be their first one. Yeah to me, like it's kind of it's kind 297 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:12.759 of hard to sort of like just looking at it and telling, yeah, 298 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.920 this looks like a seventy dollars game, But just based on what they showed, 299 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.599 it's like it looks like that there's a lot of effort into it. 300 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.640 I mean we'll see closer to I guess like because of the sort of the 301 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:26.000 biggest the preview we've had of it so far, I think that we'll like 302 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.279 I think you'll have to see a little bit more just an order able to 303 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:32.319 see like, Okay, yes, this one hundred percent justifies the seventy dollars 304 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:33.920 price tag. But I mean here's the thing too, is that, like 305 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.880 it's seventy dollars for you guys, but it's like here in Canada, it's 306 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:41.519 like ninety bucks because the exchange rates. Talking about that, it's like ninety 307 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.359 five Canadian dollars, and I mean that that's not a news story. That's 308 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.759 been it's been the way it is for a while now for y'all up there 309 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.440 in Canada, where every game it's significantly more expensive. And it's not just 310 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:53.720 like well the exchange rate, well, you guys Canadian dollars, you get 311 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.039 paid. No, No, it's like it really does costs more, yes, 312 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.920 yes, yeah, And now there's even an excess ability angle to it 313 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:03.839 as well. We kind of I talked about this. It's actually a while 314 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.519 ago. I think probably like maybe the backing like twenty twenty two or twenty 315 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:10.880 one on game spot. It was something that we kind of called the disability 316 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:15.279 tax, and it's because a lot of games are still we're not knowing what 317 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.440 accessibility is kind of out there. We're having to be able to spend this 318 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:22.519 amount of money and on a game just to see if we can be disabled 319 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:25.279 players can be able to play it, and if they find that they can't, 320 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:29.599 getting a refund for these games, especially if it's digital, is extremely 321 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:32.759 hard to be able to get. Yes, it is. I like, 322 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.279 like I tried to. I actually purchased and paid for for Spoken because I 323 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:37.839 was like, you know what, I'm going to give it a try, 324 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.119 see what it's like for accessibility. Found out I basically couldn't be able to 325 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:44.000 play it. And trying to be able to get a refund for PlayStation it 326 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:45.960 took me two weeks just to try to go through the loop of an AI 327 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:51.519 chatbot and to try to get to anybody to ask like, hey, I 328 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.079 need a refund. No one will like picked up or anything, so I 329 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:59.200 couldn't even get that. Nintendo is, honestly, and you can go look 330 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.599 this up on others like an faq, they have the worst refund policy. 331 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:06.359 It's like basically they if you buy digitally tough, like you can't get a 332 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.359 refund. They're like no, like you should have and their excuses. You 333 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.160 should have looked at reviews and screenshots to see if this is a game work 334 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.440 for you. I'm like, what, so it just sucks. It's like 335 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:19.440 when we have the like that's why disabled players we rely on services like PlayStation 336 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.119 Plus or game passes that we can be able to. It's easy for us 337 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:25.119 to you know, download it, try it, if it doesn't work, 338 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.519 then you know, delete it and find in no sweat. But having this 339 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:32.880 seventy dollars eight or the plus the price tag, it's especially for disabled players, 340 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.799 it's a lot harder to be able to unless we know what accessibility is 341 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:37.559 going to be in there, and if whether or not it's going to be 342 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.920 accessible to our specific disability, it's gonna be very harder. It's gonna be 343 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.920 harder for us to be able to justify that price tag even more. How 344 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.079 do you like, do you think this this theme refund way of like two 345 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:53.920 hours with the game under two weeks and it's no questions asked refund? Is 346 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:59.039 that acceptable? Do you think that works for you? Uh? Yeah? 347 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:03.079 Actually I think that because it gives us enough time to be able to because 348 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:07.039 we can jujual disabled players can usually try a game and we'll kind of know 349 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:10.720 within that first few hours whether or not it's something that is playable for us. 350 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:15.119 Because the majority of the main gameplay loop is introducing those first few hours. 351 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.200 It's very rare that we'll see like other new elements being added on later 352 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.720 into the game, unless there's like a like an RPG skills based mechanic where 353 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.559 you're basically upgrading skills and then by upgrading those those skills are actually do become 354 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:32.799 accessible. That's kind of rare. But I think it's having that kind of 355 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:34.079 like extra like you know a little bit of like, ok, you play 356 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:37.400 a couple hours of it and see if it works, and then you can 357 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:40.599 be able to at least get a full refund, Like that'd be great. 358 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:44.839 I mean Xbox actually even has it where literally like like they they don't. 359 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.599 It's not sort of like in today that you can be able to like get 360 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:51.240 a refund if it's for accessibility reasons, you do have to fill out a 361 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:52.759 form and they do it on a case by case basis, but basically you 362 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.319 just mentioned it's because accessibility. They automatically like refund, they don't even bother 363 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.079 with it. But I think that steam sort of like let's give it a 364 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:02.400 bit of time, just we can try it. Like I would love to 365 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:04.319 be able to kind of see that adopted pretty much across the board. Yeah, 366 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:08.319 And I mean I think for a lot of people looking at reviews does 367 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.920 make sense. But I mean the specific scenarios that you're talking about, Like 368 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:17.920 everyone's disability is different. Figuring that out even from a disability review and an 369 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:21.440 accessibility review, it's like, Okay, yeah, I think I have a 370 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.200 good idea, but you need to experience it yourself at a certain point, 371 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.559 right, Yeah, exactly, And like whenever I tried to do an accessibility 372 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.119 review, I try to cover as many of the disability spectrum as I can, 373 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.759 but I know that there's going to be areas where like I can say, 374 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.839 yeah, this is like it covers a lot of what we're looking for 375 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:41.279 for this particular type of disability, but it always is dependent on the game 376 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:44.279 itself. Like for instance, a friend of mine actually the you know, 377 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:48.319 friend of the show that you had on Grand Stoner. He like we've always 378 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.279 talked about the Last of Us two being sort of the most accessible game that 379 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:56.119 we've ever had. He can't play it because he couldn't be able to hold 380 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.240 a like a PlayStation controller. So he's so even though it has all the 381 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:03.720 accessibility that the game has for multiple disabilities, he's kind of one that basically 382 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.039 that didn't fall into that disability spectrum of like that he could play it. 383 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:11.960 And so I'm actually curious ability, Like he's got the access to access controllers, 384 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:12.839 so I'm curious to see what his review of it, to see if 385 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:17.599 he can be able to play these games finally. But it's yeah, stuff 386 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:19.759 like that. It's like you never know until you actually try it, and 387 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:25.519 whenever I sort of give my review of score, it's generally based on a 388 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:27.680 kind of general sense, but I always kind of say it's like, hey, 389 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:30.599 if you're curious, if you think it kind of covers a lot of 390 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:36.480 disability aspects or accessibility for you, then try it. But it's it's still 391 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:40.839 that kind of risk, especially with the price tags of games nowadays. Excellent 392 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:44.160 Stragon is talking but two once again. March twenty second, twenty twenty four. 393 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:48.720 I'm I'm looking forward to this seventy dollars. Like you said, it 394 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:52.440 is just kind of the standard for the market. Now, I'm not surprised, 395 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:55.960 and you know, there's a certain element of Capcom saying, no, 396 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:59.240 this game is that important. We do think it should be our first seventy 397 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:00.640 dollars game. Is going to be a big deal. We have put a 398 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.359 lot of work into it, and it is gonna sell millions copies. And 399 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:07.160 then they've also said to their investors about this game, so kind of like 400 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.279 putting on their big boy pants and saying and telling us this is a big 401 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:14.480 deal is a good way to make us believe it's a big deal. So 402 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.039 now they just got to deliver on it. And I'm sore ready for I'm 403 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:21.599 watching this trailer as it's happening. I've only had a chance to skim through 404 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.799 it before, and I really like what I'm seeing so looking forward and it 405 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:27.279 looks good. I'm curious to to try it out. All right, we're 406 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:30.720 gonna take a quick break. We get back a lot more news. We'll 407 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:40.720 get to all that right after this. All right, we're back, and 408 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:45.559 we're talking Beyond Good and Evil's twentieth anniversary edition re emerging with first details and 409 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.759 screenshots. This is from Nintendo everything after it was first leaked at the end 410 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.680 of August, Beyond Good and Evil twentieth Anniversary Edition has now come back into 411 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:56.519 the spotlight with first details and screenshots. The game could be dropping on Switch 412 00:24:56.599 --> 00:25:00.720 very soon, as a listing has now appeared on the xbo store page. 413 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:03.440 This is a yet and Nintendo Everything sites, that's why they're phrasing it like 414 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:07.640 that. The description mentions that it will include improved graphics, controls, and 415 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.480 audio, along with brand new auto save and cross saved features. I think 416 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:15.960 this looks pretty good, Steve. Were you ever a Beyond Good and Evil 417 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.440 player? No? Funny enough? So my best friend who grew up in 418 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:23.119 the next door to me, he like he played it, but I never 419 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:26.200 really got a chance to played. Like there was a period of time where 420 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.880 I couldn't really play a lot of games, especially like on stuff like the 421 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.160 N sixty four PlayStation and forward, so this was definitely one of those. 422 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:36.640 I'm like, it looked really cool. I was like, I really wanted 423 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:40.839 to give it a try, and then I've completely forgot about it until whatever 424 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:44.279 they said Beyond Good and Evil Too was kind of being teased or whichever, 425 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:47.599 which, by the way, is that ever happening? Do you know anything 426 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:49.519 about this, Jeff, or you have the pulse, you're figure on the 427 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:52.920 pulse of things. What's going on with Beyond Good and Evil Too? I 428 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.759 mean I always say that if it's being worked on, which maybe it is, 429 00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:00.720 if it's being worked on, it's not gonna look anything like to Beyond 430 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.759 Good and Evil Too that they first introduced all those years ago, and then 431 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:07.519 they've shown off in a couple of trailers. I think that version of the 432 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.920 game, the Joseph Gordon Levitt version of the game is don say jg L. 433 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:15.960 He is out. They got someone else in there to steal everyone else's 434 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:22.799 work. Yeah, I think something called Beyond Good and Evil to will eventually 435 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:25.960 come out. I just don't think it's gonna look anything like that, And 436 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:29.720 really, who cares. I think most fans be Good Evil too. It's 437 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:32.319 like or Beyond Good Evil one. We'll, yeah, just make another one 438 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:36.039 of those instead of whatever this thing you were trying to do is so Yeah. 439 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:40.119 But also like this was this twentieth anniversary edition, like I think could 440 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.920 potentially be like that sort of gauging the pulse of like is it, can 441 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:47.079 we do another? Could we actually you know, let's could we work on 442 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:48.839 A two. Could we get back to it at some point, And I 443 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:51.920 mean, hey, I'm curious am able to try it out, to actually 444 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.759 be able to play it, like if it's gonna have any sort of modern 445 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.880 control schemes or stuff like that, or potentially any accessibility, I mean, 446 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:03.319 any zoobiesof So I'm like it's Alwa has been very good about about making a 447 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:06.680 lot of accessibility happen in a lot of their games across all franchises, and 448 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.279 uh, so I'd be very curious to see what that's what that would be 449 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.960 like. So, I mean, hey, I'll that We'll see you when 450 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.880 it comes out. I'm looking forward to. Hey, I'll give it a 451 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.559 try. Yeah, it's the game itself, I think looks decent in some 452 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.640 screenshots. Some look a little spartan and maybe like there's some weirdness in the 453 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.920 visuals a lot. I mean, this would just have coming down to actually 454 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:33.079 getting hands on, like like they keep saying, uh, some of the 455 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.480 things that they are promising here four k sixty frames per second with improved graphics, 456 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:42.559 improved controls, improved audio. Uh and that that aforementioned a brand new 457 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:47.480 auto save and cross saved feature, which yeah, I always appreciate that was 458 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.519 what I'm playing Super Mario RPG right now, and that that has obviously so 459 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:53.119 as it's old safe system of like jumping on a little block and going up 460 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:56.359 to the save menu. But they also just like, oh, we're going 461 00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:57.200 to auto save now as well, and it's like, oh, yeah, 462 00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:00.720 man, that's that's nice. If you're gonna do one of these remasters, 463 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.279 that's a quality of life feature you kind of can't go without. Some glad 464 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:07.559 they're doing that. But do you think four K sixty frames on a switch? 465 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.720 You really think? Do you think that that? Yeah? Right, 466 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:12.920 that that's not gonna be four K on the switch? This is good. 467 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:17.720 The switch version will be like Canady, it will be sixty frames per second 468 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:21.720 probably. I mean this game with sixty frames per second on the game cube. 469 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:26.039 God, imagine that would Yeah, and if they're doing a straight up 470 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:29.240 port, not doing it in an emulator. Although I'm trying to think some 471 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:33.039 of those emulated GameCube games that have that Nintendover released. I think some of 472 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:34.960 those were sixty frames per second. Mario Sunshine was thirty, but it was 473 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:40.240 always thirty. So yeah, it won't be four K obviously, but it 474 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:42.039 will probably be four K on some of these other platforms because it's coming to 475 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.799 Xbox and things like that as well. So yeah, yeah, they have 476 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:48.359 a what's there? What's the program that they have for the fps when they're 477 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.880 for older games like three sixty games. I can't remember the were they were. 478 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.960 They basically like they increased the backward compatibility program. Yeah, yeah, 479 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.279 the sort of yeah, or the and they've I think they've gone like, 480 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:00.960 yeah, they have a special where they they increased the frame rate of a 481 00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:04.359 lot of these older games, right, yes, totally. So so hey, 482 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:07.640 great, okay, I'll you know, hey, I was gonna play 483 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.880 on probably on Xbox anyway, so let's I'll play on that. Yeah, 484 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.759 I wonder if this is get because back the Young Good and Evil was on 485 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.000 Xbox. I wonder if that's backward compatible and has some of those features already, 486 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:22.799 and it'll be interesting. Yeah, Okay, moving on here. Unity 487 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:27.200 is laying off two hundred and sixty five employees at Weda Digital as part of 488 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:32.279 the company reset. This is from Hayley Williams, a game spot. Unity 489 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:37.039 has announced a new round of layoffs and the closure of Weda Digital after it 490 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.240 decided to end its agreement with Peter Jackson's Way to FX. The layoffs will 491 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.599 impack two hundred and sixty five employees, a total of three point eight percent 492 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.119 of its workforce. Reuter's reports. Back in December twenty twenty one, Unity 493 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:53.400 acquired a part of Peter Jackson's wet of Digital, including what A Digital's tools, 494 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:56.640 pipeline, technology, and engineering talent, and a deal worth one point 495 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:03.079 sixty two five billion dollars. The remainder of WETA Digital remained under Jackson's ownership 496 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.359 and rebranded to Weta FX, with the company maintaining an agreement to use WETA 497 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:12.119 Digital's tools and services. Basically, what's happening here is they are It sounds 498 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:18.519 like they're winding down the dedicated development of these tools, and if these tools 499 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.480 continue, it'll just happening over at Unity proper and they'll be I mean, 500 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:26.119 they were always getting integrated into Unity's overall tool set a. Weta obviously the 501 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.960 best known for working on the efs of Lord of the Rings, but they 502 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:32.880 do a lot of work. They've worked on Star Wars, like you know, 503 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:36.160 the Disney owns ILM now and they still work with Wetta, So it's 504 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:37.920 like, oh yeah, that's how much work they're doing, and wet FX 505 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.680 should still continue doing that stuff using a lot of these tools. They were 506 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:47.680 just like licensing these tools now from Unity, and it seems like they will 507 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:52.079 still exist, but Unity is pairing it back in such a way that it 508 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.680 does feel kind of like an end of something here. I don't know. 509 00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.119 I guess I didn't know what to make of this from the beginning. It's 510 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:00.480 like they always said, Hey, we're gonna we're gonna bring all these tools 511 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:07.039 into Unity's overall tool box, and it's gonna revolutionize making real time graphics for 512 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.200 video games as well as you know, a video game or a video production 513 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.440 for stuff like commercials and movies and television. Uh. I don't know if 514 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:19.119 that ever really came to pass. I don't know of anyone using Unity for 515 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.960 filmmaking. Maybe they are and I just haven't heard about it, But either 516 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.160 way, Unity still a mess, right Yeah. I think I wondered if 517 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:29.079 this was sort of like a shift of being like, Okay, well, 518 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:30.880 if we can't get the money from the developers, we're just gonna go and 519 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:33.799 you know, sell off some of our eyessets. But it feels weird. 520 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.640 It's like they're you know, they're giving it's almost like they're giving back the 521 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.960 toolbox to Weeta, but they're taking the tools with them, which is kind 522 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.880 of like, uh, okay, but the hot does that work? And 523 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.359 then apparently they're saying like, oh, they they like Wetta can still be 524 00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:55.799 able to hire the dev's back. So it's many of them as possible back, 525 00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.720 is what they're saying. Yeah, so it's it's it's a layoff but 526 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.279 not really a layer. But it's why do they even have to, like, 527 00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:05.160 you know, go through that way. I don't know, it's it's 528 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.839 it's a unity is such a mess at the moment. I'm just like, 529 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.480 I just don't even know what the heck is going on over there, and 530 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:15.519 like at this point, and I the unfortunate thing is again it's like, 531 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.880 you know, it's the devs that suffer out of all this, and uh 532 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:23.440 and it just on just mistakes that are happening up top, and I like, 533 00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:27.759 I like, I know that you have these conversations many times this year, 534 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.480 but it just it just seems that we're we're like we're in that kind 535 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.079 of like that that that period of the industry where it's like when you have 536 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.160 like over eight thousand people that have been laid off just this year alone. 537 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:42.759 It like something has to be done, and whether it's acknowledgment from some at 538 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:45.119 the top, whether like I saw that letter going uh, or that that 539 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:49.720 basically the thing about that should be brought up at the Game Awards essentially, 540 00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:54.119 and or at least something you know from like we need something needs to change. 541 00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:59.079 And if we're gonna if we want to have more years like twenty twenty 542 00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.519 three, when it comes to amazing games, we're gonna need to be able 543 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.720 to step up and make sure that you know that devs can be able to 544 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.680 at least work on the the games are, whether it's our favorite franchise or 545 00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:12.960 soon to be our favorite game. Yeah, it's the stability in the industry 546 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.279 was something that was like it was it's never been real, but it felt 547 00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:19.599 like, oh, we are approaching a place where hey, some of these 548 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.279 live service games they have really predictable income, and so you can could just 549 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.680 if we're selling services, we're going to be fine and the money will just 550 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:29.759 keep coming in and we could just keep a steady team around twenty four to 551 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.119 seven, three hundred and sixty five days a year, and not have these 552 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:34.920 high tide low tides. We just put out a game, and now we're 553 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.480 not gonna get make money again for because all the pre orders already came in, 554 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:38.680 and so we got to like lay people off for years. And it's 555 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:43.279 like, no, actually, we're right back to that point. So they're 556 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:47.599 all of these promises of steady income in the gaming industry to cover over these 557 00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.480 years of keeping people hired on these teams. So no, that that is 558 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.000 not available, it's not real. And so these companies are right back to 559 00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:59.160 being like, oh god, we are in panic mode anytime. We don't 560 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.680 see where the big paycheck is coming from. So yeah, something needs to 561 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:07.319 be figured out there. I don't know, I don't know what it looks 562 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:13.159 like, but spreading out the revenues and probably unionization figuring out a way to 563 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:15.000 say, hey, we actually looked at your books, we know that you're 564 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.400 able to support this team for longer, and let's just figure out a way 565 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:22.920 to make that work. Hopefully they can figure something out, but this year 566 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:27.519 is a rough, rough time for the industry. Overall, Unity will maintain 567 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.719 ownership of the tools, and Weta FX will be able to keep using those 568 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.480 tools as they have been, so not much it's going to change, for 569 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:40.880 like Weta's visual effects work in Hollywood and things like that just sounds like Unity 570 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.280 doesn't want much to do with it. They are quoted here saying Unity believes 571 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.360 that we a digital team, are a remarkable but Unity needs to become leaner 572 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:52.360 as it focuses its expertise on its core business. It also believes it makes 573 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.719 more sense for wet to FX to own full Endo end production activities directly. 574 00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:00.000 Unity will be focusing its expertise and people on the matters on other matters. 575 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:06.880 The whole idea here originally was Unit was going to build this cloud environment where 576 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.840 anyone could do work the way WED has been doing it, and now it's 577 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:14.760 like, no, they are fully abandoning that. So yeah, company resent. 578 00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:20.280 Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is launching in twenty twenty five. 579 00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:22.920 There was a new trailer for this. This comes from Nintendo Everything. 580 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.559 Professor Layton and the New World of Steam just popped up during the Level five 581 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:30.559 Vision twenty twenty three to two event with the news that the Switch game is 582 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.039 launching in twenty twenty five. Professor Layton in the New World of Steam was 583 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.599 revealed during Revealed four Switch during a Nintendo Direct earlier this year. Not counting 584 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.639 Layton's Mystery Journey, which focused on Catriel, this will be the firzy for 585 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.639 the series's first new entry in a decade. Professor Layton and the as Ran 586 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:52.440 Legacy previously came to three DS in twenty thirteen. This is also I'll just 587 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:54.679 kind of get to this next story since it's also Level five Deca Police delayed 588 00:35:54.960 --> 00:36:00.039 launch moved to Post twenty twenty four. This is from Nintendo Everything. The 589 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.880 latest on Decca Police was shared today during the Level five Vision twenty twenty three 590 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.039 to two presentation with a delay now with a delay announcement. According to president 591 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.880 Akijarro, he Know, the game's launch has moved to Post twenty twenty four. 592 00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:15.719 It was originally announced for this year. I Know explained that the title 593 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:21.280 possesses a vast open world of unprecedented size, and the team decided to take 594 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:22.880 a little more time. He added, we aim to build a dense, 595 00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:28.360 an immersive world filled with the opportunities to play. Various incidents will occur in 596 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.719 many different locations. That's always a big promise to make. It's still a 597 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:37.079 very generic promise to make too very generic, promise to make yes. So 598 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:39.519 Level Five's it does always seem like it has a ton going on. But 599 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:43.360 Deca Police seemed like the one that was going to be coming out the soonest, 600 00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:45.880 and now that's not even coming out for more than a calendar year, 601 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.880 and then Priser Layton is not scheduled for twenty twenty five either. I don't 602 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.000 know. I'm a fan of Level five, but it always just does feel 603 00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:55.760 like they are scrambling in a way that they shouldn't be. It's like they 604 00:36:55.800 --> 00:37:00.599 have several successful franchises that people like, maybe go back to me Nokoni or 605 00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:04.079 something like that, but it's like no, they they're like, oh, 606 00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:06.199 we're gonna try this other thing, and it's going to take several years. 607 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.079 I guess at a certain point, making big swings is part of being a 608 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:13.360 video game publisher these days, but it's like, I don't know, Level 609 00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:15.159 five always felt felt like they were in that in between stage where they're like, 610 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.639 should we be making much bigger swings trying to make Professor Layton feel like 611 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:22.760 a Triple A game, or should we keep making the small little things that 612 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.599 sell, you know, not not a million copies, but you know, 613 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:28.880 somewhere in the five hundred thousand copy range and be happy with that. I 614 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.320 don't know. In the situation where they are delaying games by more than a 615 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:35.559 year, it's like, oh, that's that's tough to see how that works 616 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:38.599 out financially. What do you think? Yeah, I think it's unfortunately. 617 00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.280 That's kind of like an A Level five is kind of an example of like 618 00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:46.920 what we used to have as the Double A studio and they're not necessarily indie, 619 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:52.039 but they're not necessarily in that like Triple A I guess sort of status 620 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:53.800 as it were. And it just shows that, you know, the struggle 621 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:55.559 of how it is like how it is be able to you know, make 622 00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.239 games that at least they have an audience for, but you know, when 623 00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.320 they have like a team that maybe not necessarily a huge amount of money that 624 00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.079 they would want to be able to commit to making these big swings, it's 625 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:09.360 just not there. And as investments kind of like you know, studios like 626 00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:13.800 especially like Embracer buying up pretty much a lot of those Double A studios that 627 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.679 we used to have and then now selling them off or closing the closing the 628 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:21.360 doors. It's just it sucks for those kind of studios that are still that 629 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.960 have like are not Indy, but like they're kind of in that in between 630 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:28.679 stage and it's we don't know where they were we want to place them, 631 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:30.639 like the obviously yeah with Professor Layton, like not having a game in the 632 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:36.559 past like decade, like that's like they could have they could have been able 633 00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:38.519 to make more games in those and a lot of their franchises. It just 634 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:42.400 it just seems like anytime that they try, it's just like it's a it's 635 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.400 a stuttering start for a lot of their a lot of their franchises. So 636 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.039 I I hope them, well, I really love to be able to kind 637 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:50.599 of see them, you know, have that sort of breakout game and being 638 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:53.480 like, yes, this is that in Level five is essentially back quote unquote, 639 00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:59.199 but yeah, it's just sad to see, yeah it is. And 640 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:05.320 I I apparently the DECA Police Post twenty twenty four thing was mistranslated. They 641 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.719 came out on Twitter and confirmed no, it's coming out in twenty twenty four 642 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.719 now, so it was delayed from this year to next year. Much more 643 00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:15.880 reasonable and maybe I'm less worrisome because it's like you who knows maybe eventually he 644 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.679 does get delayed to twenty twenty five. But going from it's coming out this 645 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:22.679 year to a man, it's not coming out for at least like fifteen months, 646 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:25.519 that feels extreme and that's not what's happening here. Now. Just don't 647 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:31.039 mind everybody. Deca Police is Level Five's kind of open whirlish or open worldish 648 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:36.719 crime suspense RPG that has you know, obviously it's Level five, so very 649 00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:39.960 anime tones, and it looks it looks promising. But yeah, now it's 650 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.880 coming out next year. And if that game comes out and it's like kind 651 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:45.760 of hits its stride, I think it could signify like a new era for 652 00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:50.320 Level five. But otherwise I think you're right, that's the stuttering starts for 653 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.320 a studio that's done a lot of great games in the past. So yeah, 654 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:57.719 let's hope that they can get some momentum going so that we can actually 655 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.119 get it, like yeah, Professor Layton and Ninocunny like some good games out 656 00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:04.920 of that after the Deck of Police comes out, all right. Next story, 657 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.599 Amazon's Fallout series gives us a look at power Armored Gules and a new 658 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:13.280 Vault. This is from Austin Goslin at Polygon. This is Prime Videos Fallout 659 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.880 series, and it has finally given us our first glimpse and it's post apocalyptic 660 00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:20.360 world. There's new photos and I'm just gonna just gonna show those off. 661 00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.920 Let me make sure that this is framed up well enough. Yeah that's good. 662 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:24.840 Yeah, did you get a chance to take a look at these? 663 00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:30.079 I think this looks pretty good. Yeah, they look amazing, Like this 664 00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:31.760 armor said, like, it just looks like it just jumped out of the 665 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:36.199 screen of the game, Like I absolutely love it. Like and and also 666 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:39.239 like seeing Walter Goggins as a ghoul. I mean like that's I forgot that 667 00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:42.960 he was cast in the in the show and I'm like, yes, I 668 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:45.760 really want to see it as even that. And yeah, I know the 669 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:51.159 photos look look amazing. I it's I hope that like this kind of like 670 00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:52.360 I was gonna alluding to earlier, I would hope to be able to see 671 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:57.159 like a trailer at the at the Game Awards next week or at least relatively 672 00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:00.039 soon, because like man like, yeah, these are let's suit of armored, 673 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:04.440 Like, oh, it's dope as l Yeah, I mean I think 674 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.920 the power armor looks really great on film in a way that I was not 675 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:10.400 expecting it to. I thought this would be really tough to translate, and 676 00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:16.440 I think there's a chance still that it could look cheap when we're actually seeing 677 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:21.000 it in motion. But part of me is like, Fallout can pull that 678 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:25.440 off. And Ton Howard is speaking to the in those terms somewhere in this 679 00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:28.719 article. Somewhere he's basically like, yeah, it's good, We're gonna take 680 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:32.400 it seriously, but we're also there will also be the Fallout winks of like, 681 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:35.840 we know what's going on here, we know like what we're making, 682 00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:38.960 we know the kind of cheese that we're sprinkling on this otherwise serious topic, 683 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:43.320 and say, okay, I mean I'm a little bit hopeful. I know 684 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.280 that Fallout, the Fallout series for a lot of fans, lost some of 685 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:51.119 its bite and it's it's satire when it went when it did go to Bethesda 686 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:55.760 from the studios it was at previously. But I imagine a show that if 687 00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:59.719 you're taking on this topic and you're making it a show, you gotta be 688 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:01.960 doing it with the satirical bend. And I hope that that the stuff really 689 00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:06.840 comes through. But in terms of just the way it looks instills. They 690 00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.840 nailed it. Yeah, no, like these these shots look amazing. Do 691 00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:16.880 you think that this will potentially or like the would be would allude to some 692 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:22.079 sort of Fallout game announcement at some point, whether we're talking like a remaster 693 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:25.400 or of like either something like three or New Vegas. This is something that 694 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:30.639 our friends talked about on a gaming podcast that we do literally it's called the 695 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:35.559 Gaming Podcast, and we had this literally discussion of just like, okay, 696 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:38.599 could we like could now that you know Xbox owns Bethesda and they have a 697 00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:42.039 few studios, including up City and that worked on New Vegas, Like, 698 00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:45.559 do you think we're going to see a potential be Like okay, yeah, 699 00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:49.639 we even though Elder Scroll six is supposedly the next game from from Bethesda, 700 00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:51.840 do you think we're going to see it fall Out on the Horizon? Well, 701 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:54.280 I mean that's that's been the trend with everyone else right right now. 702 00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:58.760 Like Sony's big thing is, hey, we have all the synergy we could 703 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:00.760 do between our Sony pictures in our games, so let's try to have a 704 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:05.000 game ready to go for these things. Or if we released the game three 705 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.159 years ago, let's remaster it. So we can put it back on the 706 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.719 shelf for people who are going to be super into the Last of Us because 707 00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:13.239 of the HBO show, and that's like, that is the strat right now, 708 00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:16.320 and so it's like you do begin to wonder, It's like they must 709 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:21.880 be doing something. I think what the likely scenario here is that any new, 710 00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:25.440 brand new, big Fallout game is still years and years away, but 711 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:30.679 they will probably find ways to re release some of those games with extra features 712 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:35.559 or improved in some other way to get something on the shelf, and then 713 00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:38.960 they will probably have an announcement at some point to be like, yes, 714 00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:43.519 something is in the works. And what I've heard was that Obsidium was talking 715 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:47.239 about coming back and working on some follow up to New Vegas, but that 716 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:52.599 was very early conversations and who knows if that ever turned it into anything real. 717 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.519 But the point is that they know they want to make more Fallout, 718 00:43:54.840 --> 00:44:00.199 and it's like this is it's just tough because even though they have a ton 719 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.199 of studios, there's not a lot of obvious people to just go make that 720 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.400 happen and make it happen quickly. It probably will still take several years. 721 00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:08.280 So I think they'll be happy if this is like a big hit, but 722 00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:10.199 the part of them will be like, damn, I wish we had a 723 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.199 new game to release alongside that, because what we saw from The Witcher on 724 00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:17.079 Netflix and all these other things is they tend to to help sell those games 725 00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:21.079 a ton. They saw a ton of copies, So yeah, I think 726 00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:22.440 they wish they had one. I don't think they actually will. Do you 727 00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:25.760 think we'll see a resurgence of Fallout seventy six or at least a new kind 728 00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:28.559 of been like, you know, it's not that bad now? Yeah? 729 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:30.960 I think that that is the key thing that they probably will try to make 730 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:37.199 it happen is they will include some Fallout seventy six updates that take on some 731 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:39.760 aspects of the show, and that'll be where that stuff lives. And I 732 00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:44.199 think that is effective to a certain degree. I mean, obviously that game 733 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:45.960 is doing much better than a Dead at launch, and it does have its 734 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:50.960 fans. I don't know if it's the kind of thing where you could take 735 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.519 people who like a show and be like, go play this online version of 736 00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:57.800 the game. Some people will, but it's not going to be like when 737 00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:00.800 people go to the store to get the Witcher three because they watched The Witcher 738 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:02.519 where that's like, no, this is just the story and you're gonna be 739 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:05.280 able to play this and you're gonna get a lot of the same feelings you 740 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.679 get when you watch the show that's not sure. They're not gonna be able 741 00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.559 to sell fall at seventy six on that too much. Yeah, yeah, 742 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:14.320 now that it's not gonna be this synergy is like the last of a show 743 00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.280 with the Last of Us game. Yeah that makes sense, yes, exactly, 744 00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:19.599 but I don't know, it looks it looks good. And yes, 745 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:22.960 that is Walton Goggins. Uh, jerff, you were asking about that. 746 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:27.320 That is our boy, Walt looking real cool at I love the Western look 747 00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.920 like I'm I'm a huge Western fan, and it's just like I've always loved 748 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.719 that aspect of Fallout, so uh and then with obviously yeah, with the 749 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:38.119 kind of the the sixties sort of vibe of a Fallout shelter like it's it's 750 00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:40.199 so good, Like I just I can't wait to be able to see this 751 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:43.880 on screen. Yeah, I was gonna I think that's Jonathan Nolan, Chris 752 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:46.400 Nolan's brother who is the showrunner on the show, and that is ja Yep. 753 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:50.239 Yeah, that makes sense Westworld and to fall out. Yeah, that 754 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.800 makes sense. I can say, yes exactly. I think you can make 755 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:57.039 this work. Uh yep, this has got to be like a flashback scene 756 00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.480 maybe and maybe not. I don't know. Yeah, probably interesting to see. 757 00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:02.920 If there's gonna gonna be any like flashback scenes pre vault like that would 758 00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:07.400 be interesting. I don't know. They look at the big like the tails 759 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.559 of all the nukes over there. All right, cool, I'm excited. 760 00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:15.760 I like any show that deals with any sort of radiation or bombs going off. 761 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:21.119 I'll watch a million documentaries about nuclear weapons because I just I'm fascinated by 762 00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:23.280 that stuff. So, yeah, this is you, Barbenheimer. This this 763 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:27.400 summer. Did you do that? It's hard for me to get to the 764 00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:29.679 theater because of the kids, but I did. As soon as I was 765 00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:31.440 able to watch that at home. I did. Yes, nice, Yes, 766 00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:36.400 definitely. I hit the wrong button there, everybody, Sorry about that 767 00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:38.480 too up vertical. There we go, No more music, all right, 768 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:43.039 next couple of stories here. Marvel Snap Team says it will carry on as 769 00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:45.880 Byte Dance pulls back from games. This is from Gabor and Gray at Destructoid. 770 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:50.920 After developing social media apps like TikTok. Byte Dance made a push, 771 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:53.679 a big push into gaming with its New Verse brand. Now the company may 772 00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:58.760 be reversing course. New Verse is a developer behind titles like Marvel Snap, 773 00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.920 One Piece of Voyage and Warhammer forty thousand Lost Crusade. They're kind of like 774 00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:07.920 a co developer slash publisher because Less Supper or whatever that studio is who made 775 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:12.519 Marvel Snap. According to a report from Reuters, Byte Dance is scaling back 776 00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.840 New Verse and looking to sell off Moontown Technology, it's other development brand. 777 00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:23.039 We regularly regularly review our businesses and make adjustments to center on long term strategic 778 00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:29.159 growth areas. A Byte Dance spokesperson told Reuters following a recent review, we've 779 00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:35.039 made the difficult decision to restructure our gaming business. The studio over there that's 780 00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:37.719 making Marvel Snap says they will continue making the game and it should be mostly 781 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:43.679 unaffected by this. But yeah, it's one of those things you would think 782 00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:45.719 Marvel Step would be successful enough that you look around like, okay, yeah, 783 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.079 one of our things hit. We tried some other stuff. This was 784 00:47:49.079 --> 00:47:52.159 the only one that hit. But we understand it's a hit driven business and 785 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.960 if you're able to get one that's pretty impressive on its own merits. So 786 00:47:55.039 --> 00:48:00.360 the fact that even a big Chinese conglomerate like Byte Dance is pulling away from 787 00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:04.800 gaming in some ways and get signifies just the volatility volatility of the overall market, 788 00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.039 right yeah, and just looking at like kind of like I so I 789 00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.559 used I used to teach like a college course here in Toronto, and it's 790 00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:15.320 all about social media, and I talk about like that kind of the history 791 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.360 of of TikTok, and it just Byke Dance always kind of like popped up 792 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:21.719 and being like Okay, well they're buying this the studio or buying this company, 793 00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:24.199 and it just it was always like interested in acquiring things and then selling 794 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:28.719 things and then combining things and and things. I mean that's how we got 795 00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:30.679 TikTok in the first place with Byte Dance, and I think it was new 796 00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:35.480 yeen, I think how to pronounced it was that's what blended into TikTok. 797 00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:37.960 And By Dance bought musically back in the day. So it just like it's 798 00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:42.800 like this is by Dance, mo o. But this is like it's one 799 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.480 of those things of like yeah, it's a hit, why don't you you 800 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:47.280 know, why don't you sort of capitalize on on on just that and you 801 00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:50.639 know, hey, let's just keep it like if it ain't broke, don't 802 00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.400 fix it kind of deal. And it just sucks that, Like, I 803 00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:58.039 don't know, I love Marvel Snap. I play it occasionally at't I'm not 804 00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:00.440 on a on a on the daily driver like a like a lot of my 805 00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.760 friends are. But uh, it's just sad to see kind of like you 806 00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:08.800 know, the behind the scenes like who knows what's gonna happen like or you 807 00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:12.559 know, I just I still want to be able to see what like what's 808 00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:15.719 his name come up on the on the Jeff Keeley stage and just you know, 809 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:22.159 go very enthusiastic about about Marvel Snap. So I can't remember his last 810 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:24.039 name now. Yeah, but I mean, hey, I just hope that 811 00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:30.159 basically that that doesn't mean that uh Finbro Marble. Yeah that Marble Snap is 812 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:35.519 going to be ending anytime soon, so let's see, we'll see. Yeah. 813 00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:37.960 I mean I think that as long as that game is able to get 814 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:42.039 out of that orbit and continue on, fine, almost no harm, no 815 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:44.719 file, because yeah, it's that is the game that people care about from 816 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:47.119 from that studio. Uh, all right, last story here, Silent Hill 817 00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:52.119 Ascension isn't written by AI. The dev insists, saying the suggestions otherwise is 818 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:57.800 a veiled insult, and I don't think it's too veiled. This is from 819 00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:00.719 Cameron co at Game Spot after a viral tweet a qu Silent Hell Ascension of 820 00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:06.039 being written by artificial intelligence. That viral tweet written by Voidburger, the CEO 821 00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:08.320 of the studio behind the interactive Choose your Own Adventure series, has insisted it 822 00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:13.199 was written by real people. Yeah. That added that any insinuation that it 823 00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:16.079 wasn't is just a failed to availed insult to talented humans who have been who 824 00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:20.920 have worked hard to create something they are proud of. Uh. The scene 825 00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:24.119 in question that like, I really hit this off, and again Voidburger tweeted 826 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:28.920 this since it was a hit tweet. It is a man coming out of 827 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:31.880 the woods and saying that he's hunting for berries look to make jam, and 828 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:37.119 then he just disappears and like that's his only interaction with the story. Uh. 829 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:40.159 It does feel weird, but it does just feel like bad writing at 830 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:44.800 a certain point. And I know Steve that humans are capable of bad writing 831 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.800 even without the help of AI, right, yeah, exactly like it did, 832 00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.400 Like just because you know you could write and you're a human doesn't mean 833 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.639 you're you can write well yeah, and uh and then it just yeah, 834 00:50:55.719 --> 00:50:59.239 I get it looks like people are sort of training to be like oh, 835 00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:02.639 like only they think anything that's sort of written poorly is is kind of potentially 836 00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:08.679 could be AI. But it's just it's just because there's so much unknown about 837 00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:14.679 AI and like right now, and like who's integrating want into into where I'm 838 00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:17.719 I'm I'm here's the thing, Like I am all for AI being used as 839 00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.880 a tool, but not to be able to replace art and uh, if 840 00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:25.159 people are using this as sort of as as a shortcut or a scapegoat to 841 00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:29.559 buildle or to kind of get pasted or you know, the kind of you 842 00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:31.559 can just get this stuff through, then no, I'm like, I'm like 843 00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:34.880 the replaces humans. No, I'm not a big fan of that, but 844 00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:37.559 I mean, yeah, you're right, it's like just because you're a human 845 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:39.239 doesn't mean you can't writ you can't write bad stuff. Yeah, yeah, 846 00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:44.280 I'm right there with you. Where it's like people are gonna use the tool 847 00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:46.119 and the tools available to them, but it has like that. The key 848 00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:51.039 firm there is people like people have to be involved, and we've seen the 849 00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:54.599 results when people aren't involved in in help in helping to guide AI in whatever 850 00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:59.880 process, it almost always is just drivel and nonsense and not really worth any 851 00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:04.639 one's time, or it's a novelty like those like that Seinfeld show that was 852 00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:06.960 on Twitch for a while, and I think it still is where it's like 853 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.039 it's just a bunch of random words mushed together to kind of like resemble a 854 00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:13.679 Seinfeld like thing, and it's like, well, that's that. This is 855 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.519 weird and a novelty, and then it wears off really fast, and that's 856 00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:21.360 what we can expect from AI without really human involvement this though it does. 857 00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:23.119 Just someone who chat mentioned it's like a scene out of Birdemic when like a 858 00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:28.079 bad mystery science Theater three thousand movie. Yeah, and I think that's just 859 00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:31.280 what this thing is. It's a bad video game movie. Uh. And 860 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:36.639 that is possible without the help of AI, for sure, Uh, exactly. 861 00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:38.119 And well, but also it's like we don't know the context of this. 862 00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:42.360 We don't know like what like what it is really kind of happening. 863 00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:45.760 It's just sort of like it's just one clip that's just taken like and just 864 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:49.079 you know, like, yeah, anything that basically put up with with this 865 00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:52.360 kind of context, it's without anything. It's like, you don't know what's 866 00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.159 gonna what's going on with this? And yeah, you know and hey, 867 00:52:55.280 --> 00:53:00.280 and like people are like, well, like, how would you get hired 868 00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:01.400 if you're if you're all like that, But it's like, hey, you 869 00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:05.440 know, junior writers, you know, they have to learn somewhere. So 870 00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:07.280 if they get as long as they're able to get you know, get the 871 00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.440 bad writing out then and then you know, be able to elevate and get 872 00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:14.960 better than that, then hey, let's let's do that then. But yeah, 873 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:16.119 where else the junior writer is gonna be able to go and get get 874 00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:21.559 at least some sort of work in Yeah, And it's it's at a certain 875 00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:23.639 point there may they're feeling up hours and hours of content with this thing, 876 00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:28.320 right like it's an ongoing thing, or at least it's ongoing at the moment. 877 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:31.800 Uh, there's gonna be a lot of scenes that are just stinker and 878 00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:36.039 unless they you know, they put a ton more effort into it, it 879 00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:37.920 just doesn't seem like that kind of project. It seems like the kind of 880 00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:40.639 thing where it's experimental and they don't really know what's going to work and what 881 00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:45.760 doesn't, and they probably aren't hiring uh great screenwriters come in there and figure 882 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:47.599 this stuff out, because that would be a waste because they don't even know 883 00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:52.559 if that's going to be effective. So yeah, hey, uh sound Hill 884 00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:54.360 fans, I get it, I get it. You guys are in a 885 00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:59.960 tough spot and this is not helping. Hopefully those other games start coming out 886 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:01.960 and they live up to your expectations. That seems something. Are you feeling 887 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:07.760 about the Bloomber game, Silent Hill, how do you feel about that? 888 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:10.119 It seems like it's gonna have a tough time being able to win over those 889 00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:15.159 fans. But I don't know. I bet it comes out and is better 890 00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:20.960 than expected because the amount of scrutiny that it's gonna get externally, I think 891 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:23.159 will increase the scrutiny it gets, maybe not from Konami. Who knows if 892 00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:28.239 Konami actually cares, But I think Bloomer's afraid of upsetting a lot of people, 893 00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:30.519 so they will take their time and hopefully they could do a decent job. 894 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:35.480 And really what they could do is just recreate that that the old game 895 00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:38.119 almost exactly, so you can like wash your hands of any creative decisions and 896 00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:43.199 just say, hey, we did what they did and we tried to portray 897 00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:45.400 it in a respectful way, and who knows if they're gonna be able to 898 00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:47.360 pull that off, it will still be tough. So I am you. 899 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:51.760 I'm worried for that studio in that game. Yeah, did you talk about 900 00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.320 that sort of like that that post that they made. Was it yesterday or 901 00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:58.719 the day before like that, They're like, yeah, no, we're happening. 902 00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:00.400 We did. Yeah, we did talk about that, And the question 903 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:05.039 was like, like what caused that to happen? It was like, the 904 00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:09.440 theory is people are so upset about this, this Silent Hill ascension, that 905 00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:13.000 the studio working over there felt the need to come out and be like, 906 00:55:13.039 --> 00:55:15.440 hey, don't worry, the good things still coming, although there's still questions 907 00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:19.440 about whether that's going to be the good thing or not amongst Silent Hill fans. 908 00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:22.679 We'll see cher all right, that does it for the news. I 909 00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:27.280 got a pull question from Monday in here somewhere. Let's see if I can 910 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.920 find that. There we go. Are you going to update the last most 911 00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:34.719 part two. Nope, let's refresh. There we go. There it is 912 00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:37.880 RoboCop is working security at the Game Awards. What is his prime directive? 913 00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:43.400 Serve the public trust, protect the Kili, or uphold gamer Law. I'm 914 00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:46.280 gonna go with uphold gamer Law. Twelve percent said serve the public trust, 915 00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:51.599 thirty two percent set uphold gamer Law, and fifty six percent said protect the 916 00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:54.519 Kilee. And that probably would that would vote. That's what that probably is 917 00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:58.960 the thing that is actually going to be his number one prime directive. Well, 918 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:00.800 I have a new poll question we will talk about on the show tomorrow. 919 00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:04.519 But before we get to that, Steve, why do you tell people 920 00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.039 where they can find you what you have going on? All that good stuff? 921 00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:09.440 Yeah, so I've actually been be able to find me pretty much Steve 922 00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:14.559 Sailor pretty much everywhere on YouTube, Twitter, threads, but Instagram, whatever. 923 00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:16.760 But you can also be able to find me on Patreon. I actually 924 00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:21.119 I've been trying to be able to do some more accessibility content over there, 925 00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:22.679 and so you can be able to find me at patreon dot com, slash 926 00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:28.719 Steve Sailor. Awesome, and Steve, thanks so much for hanging out with 927 00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:30.519 me today talking about video games. I really appreciate it. Man. Oh, 928 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:34.719 of course, thank you so much. And yeah, definitely looking forward 929 00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:37.920 to seeing seeing you all next week. Yeah, person next week. Are 930 00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:39.960 you ready for it? Are you like ready to go? I think so. 931 00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:45.239 I mean it's it's I'm more interested of course. Like I just love 932 00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:46.519 being able to see my friends. That's really the kind of the main reason 933 00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:49.760 why I go to the game wards is to see friends. And you know, 934 00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:51.880 hey, it's cool to be able to see like new stuff that the 935 00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:53.760 announced too, but you know, we get to get to hang out with 936 00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:57.320 folks, and yeah, I'm excited for it as it's always a good time. 937 00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.320 It's like also like just before my birthday too, so kind of like 938 00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:01.840 an early birthday gift to myself. So that's kind of like, yeah, 939 00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:05.320 I'm really excited for it. Fantastic. Okay, Well, now that we 940 00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:07.519 know that, well maybe we'll make something of it. I'll say, well 941 00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:10.480 you come hang out GB at night that I'm glad you're coming. Well we 942 00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:13.800 will have a lot of friends there, so it'll be a good time, 943 00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:16.880 all right. The new poll question before we get out of here, have 944 00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:22.840 you played Dragons Dogma before? Yes or no? I half played a little 945 00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:23.679 bit, but I want to play it more. I want to like put 946 00:57:23.719 --> 00:57:28.119 in some real time into that game so I kind of actually figure out why 947 00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:31.400 people like it so much. But I'm looking forward to Dragons Dogamun two regardless. 948 00:57:32.159 --> 00:57:35.559 Don't remember if I asked you, have you played Dragons Dogma one before? 949 00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:38.639 No, I haven't, so this will probably be my first time giving 950 00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:43.239 it a try. So hey, we'll see what Dragons Dogma two comes out 951 00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:46.280 like. So really I'm really looking forward to it. All right, we'll 952 00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:52.920 talk about that on Game mess Mornings tomorrow on Giant Bomb. Speaking of Giant 953 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:55.639 Bomb, we will have Blake Club later today. I'm going back to Ride 954 00:57:55.679 --> 00:58:00.239 to Hell Retribution. Unfortunately, I'm going to continue that doesn't seem like I'm 955 00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:04.960 anywhere near the end of that game, so that'll be a rough one, 956 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:07.320 but turn tune into that at two thirty pm Eastern time is when we'll start 957 00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:12.519 that. Also, I don't know if tickets are still on sale for the 958 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:15.480 live event, the Game of the Year Finale, the Real Game of the 959 00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:20.239 Year getting announced on Saturday, Saturday, December ninth, in LA at the 960 00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:23.599 Teagram. Tickets were selling out yesterday, so if you if you want to 961 00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:27.280 get him. Go check now, Go check now. And then one final 962 00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:30.360 mention, Store dot GiantBomb dot com a bunch of new merch. If you're 963 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:34.039 looking to get gifts of the Giant Bomb fan in your life, it'd probably 964 00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:37.239 be good to check that out. I am very excited to hop in there 965 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:40.960 and get the the the fanny pack myself. It looks really cool. All 966 00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:44.320 right, what's good Steve? Thank you, Thank you everybody for watching. 967 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:46.280 You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one, 968 00:58:46.599 --> 00:58:49.400 take care of yourself and goodbye.