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Mess Mornings Live with me Jeff Grub. Today we have Sonic Team Boss Thinking
you can't even understand what is happening and Sonic Frontiers. We have Final Fantasy
seven remake news Dropping, and Dragon's Dogma two is real. But first,
please join me and welcoming today's co host for Game Mess Mornings. It's Jan
Ohow everybody who Yeah, I know we're in front of a live studios.
Let them sneak into your house. I gave them the building code and just
let them steak in there. Oh hello, Jan, how are you doing?
They're wearing a mask. At least you gotta respect that there's no clothes
in a mask. At Yeah, that's the good look. How are you
doing to look? I feel great because my team won last night. Congratulation
three finally got the missing trophy in his case, finally got that well earned
finals MVP. We proved we could do it without k D. I'm a
new sports boy, so I'm like really jazzed about all the sports. That
was a pretty good show and for Golden State last night, so I think
were you you were just tuning in the game. What you were like eating
beef jerky, drinking beer, like really going full sports boy or what I
ordered a pizza boy. Yep, that's the way to do it, man.
That sounds like a good night. There were multiple times where I just
stood up and just started clapping for no reason and just like it's when let's
go. Multiple times it was great. Now great. When you're doing these
things, do you feel self conscious at all? Like your partners around like
they're like what way do you feel like like you need to tone it down?
Or you're just like you're into it, You're not even paying attention to
the world around you. It was her thing that I should have been more
into being a sports boy earlier. So I think now I fulfill that prophecy
of being more sports boys. It was always within you, and now you've
lived up to the to the possibilities that were always there. Yes, my
my close friend group used to joke that I don't like sports, so they
got me a shirt that said sports ball. But now jokes on them.
I'm into but I was always at the baseball but they're real sport yeah,
yeah, they did not acknowledge the Giants, even though the Giants are another
modern dynasty in baseball. Absolutely, yes, definitely. I don't know about
Jason Tatum being better than Steph Curry. Not the best performance last night.
Also did not look too hot last night. No. Also, Draymond Green,
love that guy. He's still my favorite player. Just rum it in
Chat's face because you know they you know they're in there. They don't like
the love it. The great stat that I saw Jason Tatum was what the
first player in NBA playoffs history need to have one hundred turnovers? So it
sucks a mare through my teeth. Again. Yeah, Jason Tatum, he
is super young, so he's going to be fine. Yes, absolutely,
yes, I don't actually can I ask you the reference for like his relationship
to Kobe like people, because people saying like like he disappointed Kobe or so
like was he like friends with Kobe or like an acolyte of some sort?
From from my loose understanding of the basketball canon and uh, over lying over
language whatever one comes here for us the loose understanding, Yes, yes,
uh, Kobe was just like his his person like Euro okay, and then
you know with with with Kobe's passing and everything the way wall Luigi is the
Dan reicherd Yes, yes, you definitely see uh Dan Reicher texting Wa Luigi
that like this one's for you, Bud. Let's get into this mess everybody.
Each day, I, Jeff grab will help you piece together your gaming
life. That includes breaking news. We're gonna be talking about some news that
happened late last night. That also includes the catch up where we discussed the
biggest stories of the day, and maybe even some occasionally some of our original
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Uh. For for all these topics, I will get the input of
a bona fide expert like Jiano Chia, So please see two notes. It's
not always gonna be Jan, but I'm very happy that two days in a
row we got Jiano Choa. I have to Advan, I'm very excited about
that. I'm excited to be here. Let's let with all that. Let's
let's get into the news. And Jen, it was a final Fantasy Day.
I don't know where your expectations were when this thing was was starting at
three pm Pacific time six pm Eastern my My feeling was like, I don't
know, they're doing this at the tail end of everything. It's going to
be an update on a couple of things, and then maybe a to like
PC or to Steam, and then maybe still to Xbox. I wasn't sure.
Yeah, although we've heard, we've been hearing that I'm sorry for Final
Fantasy seven remake was not going to become an Xbox But I'm like, I
don't know, maybe, but yeah, what were you gonna say? I
was in a similar camp as you. I didn't think that there'd be anything
substantial to show. I feel like that they would have saved that for one
of the big like the State of Play or the Xbox joint. Uh.
But I guess they really wanted to time it out for the twenty fifth anniversary.
Yeah, and that the timed it out they did. There was a
lot of news at this thing. They pretty much announced everything that everyone would
want from a Final Fantasy seven specific event. Let's let's work our way up.
We're gonna start from the bottom of this period and work pyramid or work
our way up and maybe it's the top and work our way down. Who
knows. You guys can figure it out. As I go along up Final
Fantasy Ever or Final Fantasy seven. Ever Crisis got a new gameplay trailer and
they confirmed a closed beta is coming later this year. This is the mobile
remake of Final Fantasy seven, completely separate from the other remake of Final Fantasy
seven. This one uses chibi graphics, and it uses and it uses some
of the storylines from some of the other games, and it's gonna bring it
all into one package, and you're you're gonna be able to play through it.
And it's obviously it's gonna have more you know, light touch gameplay because
it's it's mobile, but also it's it's like, uh, it's a way
for them to take this content that is, you know, storied and very
popular and reach an entirely different audience that probably isn't playing on PC or PlayStation
four, PlayStation five. Jan you got any any chance you're gonna check out
Ever Crisis, you know, I'm mildly curious. I checked out the Final
Fantasy fifteen mobile game with the also in the chibi arts style. I've I've
never actually played through all of Final Fantasy seven, or at least I don't
remember it because it was so long ago. Uh, that I wouldn't mind
like a quick refresher or a light semi refresher with with this game, it's
kind of where I'm at, and I don't depending on how intensive it Like.
My thing with mobile gaming is always like when I see my batteries start
to drain, I get those you know, the ants and my pants about
it, and I'm like, oh no this, I'm gonna do my phone
for other things. And I don't really but I feel that way, and
so I end up like, Okay, I'll start a game once and then
not play it again. But if it's like you know, if it's light
enough and it's really easy to get into and sort of just breeze through,
I probably will check this out. At the very least. I don't know.
For something about it has always seemed appealing to me. I think I
like the light atmosphere of the chibi look really morse for me A lot of
times where I'm like, Okay, this isn't as serious. I can just
like, you know, half pay attention to the story and still probably get
most of it. But yeah, Clothes beta coming later this year. We'll
see if they put up like a pre registration thing or whatever, anytime soon.
Then they announced the Final Fantasy seven Remake Integrade, which is the upgraded
version of Final Fantasy seven Remake that was already out on PlayStation. I believe
it also came to Epic Game Store. Well, now it is making the
jump to Steam from a game store on PC that is available now today.
You can go get that today and it's Steam Deck verified. Jano cholla,
Oh boy, I need Q three to come so much sooner so I can
get my hands on a dang Steam deck. When when did you pre order
yours? Like the day it happened? Okay, so the day the day
it happened, and I had no idea how everyone else got into Q one
and two and I slipped into Q three. Uh yeah. So it's like
there's a tool on Reddit that people have been using where if you go in
there, it says like how many minutes of pre orders happened that day before
you got yours? So yeah, like if you wanted to get down into
that level of like, oh man, I can't wait for this to come,
you'll see like, oh, there's like three minutes of people pre ordering
ahead of ahead of you or whatever. So I don't know if you want
to do that to yourself or it feels like it's a little bit of a
torturous thing. I have a Steam Deck. I am going to install this
today that I've played through a good Final Fantasy seven remake on PS four,
and then because I am someone who is easily distracted, like that's probably the
biggest part of this, but also someone our kids and someone who feels a
little bit of guilt about putting games on the TV, where like it's communal
space and there could be stuff for other people on the TV. I really
enjoy having the handheld stuff, So I was I always just kind of fault
back to playing stuff on Switch, and now the steam deck is here,
I've been doing, Like I was able to play one hundred fifty hours of
elden Ring no problem because I played it all on the steam Deck. So
so yeah, So like, now that this is here and it's very easy
to get on the steam Deck, you probably could have figured out ways to
install the Epic Games version, but it was it was a bit of a
hassle. Actually, I had tried a little bit and then I gave up.
Now that it's here and it's just steam Deck verified, it probably is
going to run pretty well, especially because it's the PS four game originally.
I I'm very happy to check this out and I'm probably gonna try to play
through as much of as much of it as I can. I'll start it
over no problem. This is pretty exciting for me, so I'm gonna check
it out. The game did hit Epic Game Store in December, so this
is a six month turnaround for this, So that's a Usually those windows are
about six months or a year, and it was probably for a game like
this, probably pretty a pretty penny for Epic, although they seem willing to
often pay that those pretty pennies. That that makes sense. Then. Some
of the bigger news Crisis Core Final Fantasy seven Reunion coming to console and PC
this winter. So we talked about this yesterday. I think we manifested this.
Yeah, we did. We've done it everybody. How do you feel
like? This? Is? This? Did this look? Have you got
a chance to check out like what they put out there? Are you excited?
Yeah? I'm excited, uh for for the same reasons as yesterday,
just or this being much more easier for folks to play, for myself to
play and whatever. Mild updates that they're going to try and roll out.
I saw people were saying the Crisis Core yesterday was not actually a good game,
and that I was in saying, but I'm willing to give it another
shot. I'm scanning through the trailer again right now, and I don't know,
I'm kind of pumped for it to just dip back into the world of
Final Fantasy seven and flesh out that story that is that may not even matter
if Fantasy seven remake. Let's be honest, I think that this is one
where I'm like, I'll probably like just listen to what my friends have to
say about this one. I'll be like, yeah, you guys, you
guys play it. Let me know if it's if it's like super duper fun,
if they do something to make it, oh like feel like modern and
very compelling, I'll probably maybe we'll check it out. We'll see, but
I'm not going to be dipping my toes in before everyone else. I'm like
checking the water for everyone else. But we'll see this winter though that's coming,
you know, this year, or if like it's hard to tell with
companies because they always everyone has a different idea of what what winter is.
They could mean as early as November, although December twenty feet is winter,
that's when the winter actually begins, but other places sometimes could center winter to
be like anytimes it starts to get cold, but that could also easily mean
like the first part of next year as well. So there's like a good
four or five months chunk at the end of this year, beginning and next
year where it could come out when they say this winter, but speaking of
wintertime, the following winter after that again whatever that means, but the following
winter. Final Fantasy seven Rebirth is coming. And if you're asking what the
hell is Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, that is the sequel. It's the second
part of the Final Fantasy seven remake trilogy, which we now know for sure
is a trilogy. They confirmed that they already are beginning, like you know,
working on the third one as well. But Rebirth is coming. It's
going to be part two, and they showed a little bit of it,
and I think I haven't right here, let me know, switch over to
assets, But Jan, what do you think about this? You know?
I I think seeing winter of next year kind of makes me feel better that
there's somewhat of a projected date. I still don't believe in any date that
is listed for the future, because that just feels way too far away,
right exactly, any like at that time, like could just expand at any
moment, right with every game we've seen that. So but still it's like
they did give a time frame, which is more than we've gotten for a
lot of games recently. Yeah. Yeah, and I god, I guess
I'm just curious as to how much of the original story they're going to change.
We see we see our good old goth boys separateth there and then you
see Zach at the end. I'm interested interested. Yes, it's uh.
I think that they are doing exactly what they need to do for for what
they've well, I mean, this is Nomura, right, the Nomura is
involved in this, so like, of course he was gonna make it wild,
but it seems like he's really going out and making it very wild,
and they're going to play into that. So the original Final Fantasy seven still
exists, it still is what it is, but now we have them going
off on this new path and they're really going to explore that and really play
with players expectations even more this time around. So yeah, I'm excited as
well. Because that's I think that's a very cool way of doing these things.
I'm not a huge, like I've never got a huge Final Fantasy guy,
but when I started realizing what they were doing with Final Fantasy seven remake,
it made me way more interesting. So I'm like, that is a
cool way to play with gaming history. This is such an important game to
yeah, the PlayStation and we'll talk about that in a little bit actually,
but it's so important too RPGs in America, and to like the marketing of
games, Like it was like the first game that I really remember having this
massive, like sort of adult but like wide reaching marketing campaign that was just
primetime television and the commercial would come on, and it's like, it's so
important to then have the confidence to be like, and we're gonna play around
with with what you expect. That means when we do a Final Offensasy seven
remake. I'm into it. I'm very Yeah. Yeah, it makes me
curious if seeing the success of that, if that is partially why Capcom decided
to not remaster Ari four, But you know, maybe, yes, reconfigure
a couple of things to make sense in the modern world we're in now.
As long as more batshit crazy. Yeah, as long as they leave Ramon
Salazar as the perfect little child he is, then yes, then I'm fine.
Uh. We also got another event at the exact same time yesterday.
Dragons Dogma two is now real and confirmed. There's not a ton of details
here. Basically did they said ten years or Dragons Dogma. They talked very
earnestly and and like with a lot of love about the original game and then
darker risen the update to the rich game, and then at the end of
the video they're They're like, okay, and here is our T shirt,
Like I got the video here, We'll bring that in. But Jan,
are you excited about Dragons Dogma two? I wish I could say that I
was. It seemed like a very select portion of the internet was very very
excited yesterday. So I'm happy for them. Same here. That's kind of
where I'm at. Two. I've definitely started Dragons Dogma a couple of times
based on that. On the Dragons Dogma perverts that we all know so well,
and I'm like, they see, I'm like, I want to be
one of them, Like they seem very happy. I want to be happy.
And so I've started up and I've just bounced off. One of the
problems is I probably played it. And you can see here in the video
they're taking off their their hoodies and stuff to reveal Dragons Dogma two and this
guy it's Zuno, I think it's the producer here. His face is just
mac. It's perfect. He's so excited about his game, and I kind
of can't help but really love that. But yeah, I'm with you where
I'm like, I tried to get into a place with the game where I'm
like, oh, yeah, I want to play it as well and really
enjoy it. But I played it on Switch and I think I need to
just like actually get it on the Steam deck now and boot it up there
and try to give it a real chance again. But it's it's It was
always described to me as like what if Japan made Skyrim and that like that
sounds fantastic, that sounds very good. Yeah, so what doing it like
that? Now? I think I'm more more obviously curious, Yeah, more
obviously curious of course. Uh, this guy they didn't like provide details about
like when it's coming or anything like that. I did write some details here,
like the announcement was made by director Had Hit Hit It Hockey It's Uno.
At the conclusion of the celebration, though only a logo for the game
was shown. It's in development, but how far along it happens to be
is still a mystery U and I can't. I think I got that from
BGC, so sorry, sorry about that. But yeah, we're gonna have
to wait to see more from this game. But them confirming it's real,
it's pretty big. I don't think we're gonna have to wait too long though,
because this is one of those games. And this is another thing we'll
talk about today that was in the Nvidia League, and it was in the
Nvidia League quite smmer time ago, but even before that, it was in
the big Capcom Hack, which was this major like someone breaching Capcom security and
getting a ton of data. And Dragon's Dogma two was always slated for I
think like next year, maybe even like at one point it was slated for
this year or something like that. It's supposed to it was supposed to be
coming up soon. This was a few years ago, and again we talked
about how those timelines expand rapidly, so who knows, maybe by now it
is twenty twenty four, But that means even if it is twenty twenty four,
that means we're gonna be seeing some stuff in this game within the next
six months to a year. We're gonna be seeing quite a bit of it.
So it's not it's not like they're going to announce this and then go
dark for five years. That's not where they're at with this game. So
that's okay, that's good. Up next, Sonic Team Boss says fans don't
yet understand what this new gameplay is in Sonic Frontiers. This is by Andy
Robinson at VGC. First of all, a quick note this game apparently,
and this comes from IGN and IGN's first which has like a lot of the
exclusives in this game. Uh, this game is gonna take twenty to thirty
hours to complete. How does that? How does that work for you?
Jan That doesn't seem fast. That does not seem fast. That's right.
Uh, this is a franchise that has always had like you know, we're
gonna breeze through these levels and run through them, and it's like twenty to
thirty hours means there has to be a lot of stuff to do if they're
going to maintain that same like you're you're joking, but you're also not wrong.
Like there's something about the speed of Sonic that may mix his games so
usually a little bit shorter. Uh will they be able to maintain that sort
of brisk pace while giving us twenty to thirty hours of content? I don't
know without you know, resorting to a lot of repetition we'll store. Uh
so yeah, this, like I said, this comes from VGC and they
write delay. Sonic Frontiers was briefly trended on Twitter earlier in June, after
many Sonic fans took the social media platforms to vent their disappointment over the first
video showing the game in action. At the recent Summer Game Fest play Day's
event in Los Angeles. Hands on sessions also resulted in wildly mixed reactions from
the press. And then this is a quote from Ayazuka, who is the
producer of the game. It's not really that surprising, he says, Uh,
he's going to He's going on. He goes on to argue that fans
didn't yet understand the brand of open zone game, so that the game that
Sonic team is making an open zone is that phrasing that they keep using to
say that this is what's different about this game from other games, but he
doesn't. When he goes on to sort of explain what it is, it
still sounds a lot like an open world game. But I mean, this
is a little bit of the explanation. Unlike previous games in the series,
Sonic Frontier deviates from its linear format in favor of something closer to an open
world structure. Ayazuka explained that while Frontiers appeared to allow players to go wherever
they want in a sprawling environment, that's not quite how the game works.
And then that's kind of where we're left. We'll less quote here and then
we'll discuss this. The team is going out and creating this new game format
for Sonic and we're calling it an open zone format, and this new game
system itself is something that doesn't really exist in any other comparable titles. So
we really hope that from here until launch, we can really explain what open
zone gameplay is. Jan I am, I'm I just don't know if I'm
buying this this marketing term. It's it's blast processing all over again. I
was gonna say, did they just think they invented open world format? It
happens, right, Like Nintendo's called the open areas of Zelda like open air
gameplay, and so to say an open world. They're like, this is
like it's an open air game and like, but there's something about what that
Zelda team was talking about, Like that makes a little bit more sense to
me. Maybe once we play this game, we'll see. But right here,
the way they're explaining it, I'm not like they're admitted themselves that.
They're like, we need to explain this more so people understand. Maybe there
is something more to this, But to me, it just sounds like Sonic
runs around in zones. These ones are more open, so they're open zones,
right, Yeah, I'm curious. Maybe it's going to be something like
Bowser's Fury where you're you know, you're running around an open area, but
there are segmented, curated levels in the open zone of for Sonic or and
the Sonic team probably hasn't played a Bowser's Fury, so they wouldn't know about
that, right, that makes sense? Yeah, right there, they're still
keeping traditional alive and hating everything Nintendo's making, so they're not paying attention to
the competition. Yeah, I see someone bring up it could be something similar
to Mario Galaxy, right where yeah, in the same vein there are maybe
little planets to approach, maybe there's little zones that are open. Sonic just
turns its keyton It's like, oh, look at this, You're right,
like you're bigger containers for Sonic to run around in. It's it's hard to
get that from the trailers. And I know you only looked over people's shoulders
who were playing, but I mean, from what you saw, did it
mostly look like Sonic was able to run around a vast open space? I
mean like it was it's bigger than like this the field and in zel to
sixty four right, yes, yes. And and from the couple of folks
I talked to that they got the chance to play it, it was it
was like what you would said. It's very middling across the board of like,
oh, there's good stuff to it, but there's also not so good
stuff about it. I just I think I've still hung up on the art
style that they're going for, and I think this just highlights a problem that
I have with a lot of next gen or I guess now current gen games,
where we gotta go super photo realistic versus some type of arts her aesthetic.
You know, I don't mean to poke fun at chess with like there
being too many colors in Horizon Forbidden West. I would love too many colors
in Sonic Frontiers. Maybe they should swap, they should swap their stuff,
like let's have let's Sonic have some of those colors please. I That's where
I'm at with with this game. I don't like looking at it, and
so everything else is sort of falling flat for me because I just really find
it kind of hideous to look at It's it's it's just, you know,
it's a gap of expectations. Sonic should be this gorgeous game. It always
was, and so it's always been its appeal. It's fast and it's beautiful
in a way that many other games weren't, especially at that time. And
this game just feels like it is like a subpart for what today's games are
doing, let alone where a Sonic game should be in terms of just wowing
you with colors and style, and it just doesn't have any of that.
So yeah, I don't know why, Like, especially looking back at like
the trailers just now, it just seems like why does Sonic seems so dour.
Yeah, I wish they had taken a gosh. I forget what the
game is called, but it came out last year. You were roller skating
on fluffy clouds of ice and fighting giants space Kaiju, Gods, God,
I need to double check with that. Yeah, I might know what you're
talking about, but I can't remember the name while you're checking on that.
Let's let's let's get onto this next one Overwatch too. This is seven Ways
Everything is Changing by Lucy James at game Spot work with her. Yeah,
we know, Lucy, it's that's very helpful. She spins over and I
was like, thank you so much, Lucy. So this comes directly from
Lucy James the script for the video, which you can watch on game Spot,
which is very very helpful, So go watch that as well. But
the seven things are it's free to play, there's a new seasonal model,
there's a year one roadmap that is going to give like distinct details about what's
coming up. Lootboxes and new cosmetics are changing. There are no more loot
boxes PVEE a big difference, and Junker Queen is the new character. And
then there's gonna be new maps. So just to dive into these things a
little bit more, especially the free to play and the seasonal model. These
are the big ones for free to play. Aaron Keller, who is the
director of the game now, he said, rather than releasing another box that
players would have to buy in order to opt into the experience, we'd rather
open the game to as broad of a population as possible. Overwatch is a
game of teamwork and cooperation and strategy, and we feel like it's played best
in a social setting with your friends, and so removing that barrier to entry,
the price as a barrier to entry is hopefully a way for you to
be able to play with more of your friends and have a better experience with
the game. This is some benefits are coming with this, for example,
cross platform progression. When sure that if you have unlocks him one version of
the game, they will now get bunched together and you'll get him on all
versions of the game. So if you've played on PlayStation and PC before,
well, now all that stuff's going to be in one account for you,
and they're gonna migrate or what is it called when they put over they unify,
They're gonna unify all your stuff together. So that's something again, like
where are you at with Overwatch and going free to play? Does that increase
the likelihood that you'll check out this what is essentially a big update in Overwatch
two. I guess knowing that I'm not going to have to pay for anything
right out the gate or friends to pay things like, that's always the thing
for me, Like you don't have to ask a friend to go pay,
just go download this and we can play, right Yeah. I mean that's
been like the easiest sell for folks or for my friends to get his stuff
like Roller Champions or Knockout six last year. From what I played from that
early network test a couple of weeks ago, I'm still not one hundred percent
sold. But that was still the PvP. I might be interested to see
what the eventual PV is gonna look like. Overwatch had a couple of seasonal
modes where they introduced something similar to PV stuff, and that was okay,
But I think that it might not have been fully baked because it was just
like a seasonal special thing versus a full on dedicated mode. I could.
I am mildly intrigued. I'm mildly intrigued. I'm not looking to doing PvP
because I had miserable experiences playing that network test. Right, maybe if I
was playing with you know, on Mike, with folks that I knew and
and maybe one of us knew actually how to play the game and its current
state in the meta, that might be a different experience. But like just
popping into those random games where like outright like garbage, well, if they
are able to get you back in, there is a new seasonal model that
might be more appealing to keeping you around. Over the past couple of years,
Overwatch has definitely had a bit of a content problem, writes Lucy James
in our video. Yes there's been timed events and regular competitive seasons, but
the last new hero we got was Echo, and she launched over two years
ago. With overlaunched two becoming free to play, the Overwatched team is being
more transparent with players, changing how they approach releasing new content and making sure
there isn't there's enough frequent updates to keep players coming back. And then this
is another quote from Aaron Keller. One of the big changes that we're making
to Overwatch, and one of the big changes that the team has really embraced,
is that we really want to bring players along on this journey with us,
so we want to be more transparent about what we're doing, and we
want to give greater detail with what our plan is. So one of the
big things with Overwatch too that they've kind of talked about in all these details
is these these seasons are going to come rapidly and they're gonna last for about
at most. It sounds like a two and a half months around that range.
And when they come, they're going to usually bring a new character with
them and a bunch of other stuff, potentially new maps. So if you
do get into it, there is going to be a lot of new content
coming all the time to keep things fresh. To be that almost seems a
little bit overwhelming, But where what do you think, jan It does seem
incredibly overwhelming, because you know, I fall into this with Destiny, where
every time a new Destiny update or release comes out, not release Season of
Destiny comes out, I'm like, Ah, this is gonna be the time
I get into Destiny. But then I see the overwhelming mountain of content that
I'd have to work my way through, and I'm already trying to do that
with Final Fantasy fourteen, that I can't think that I physically have time.
So it's like it's not like your one game, which is like if you
if this was your one game, these wouldn't be problems, but like exciting
to make it maybe one of those new the one games having a lot of
content. Like I said, it's overwhelming for me, I know fans,
for fans of the game, this is a very exciting thing. Yes,
one hundred percent. If this Overwatch and Overwatch two is going to be your
game, especially if it's your game with friends, and this is a good
problem to have. But for someone on the outside that has been overwatched,
curious, or at least dipping back in and out over the past couple of
years, it's intimidating. Else Yes, they are trying to make it a
little bit more friendly though with ways of getting new content, or at least
maybe maybe this might appeal more to people like us Jan where it's they are
getting rid of lootboxes, so instead of forcing you to play a lot to
earn some goal to get a couple of loot boxes, there's just going to
be a battle pass. So if you do end up paying a little bit
of money just by playing you'll regularly unlocked stuff, and I think they think
this is a little bit more friendly, and maybe it sounds good to me,
But I'll talk a little bit more about like maybe why big fans of
this game might not feel as great about it. But they said leveling up
in Overwatch two won't net you that sweet sweet lootbox anymore. When we ask
Aaron why, he had this to say. As the game has grown,
and especially as we go into a free to play version of the game where
adding more and more cosmetics, it becomes a lot harder to earn what you
want with a lootbox system. By losing those and moving over to a shop
for Overwatch too, it gives players the actual agency and the choice to go
after what it is they want to have in the game. So trying not
to sneeze, it's there is gonna be a battle pass, but they also
are just going to have the shop available for you to spend money. And
again, this sounds pretty He's similar to how it works in Apex Legends.
So I think some games have been doing this free to play shooter stuff for
a while. Now it sounds like Blizzard is looking at them and taking some
lessons and they're going to try to do what they're doing. I'll say that
I have a friend, Mike Manady, huge Blizzard fan. He's played a
ton of Overwatch. You met Mike. He's a he's he's a good boy.
He's a good boy. He played like so much Overwatched that he almost
never spent any money and yet was able to get many of the skins he
wanted because he would just grind and get gold, and then he would get
loot boxes, and when he had doubles, that would turn into gold,
and so when a new event would come along, he would just use that
gold to buy a few loot boxes and he would get a lot of the
stuff he wanted. So to him, he was like, I like that
old system. This new system sounds like if I want to have a chance
of getting the stuff I really want, I will have to spend some money
and we'll see. We'll see they offer like a solution for him, But
also I think like they want him spending money, right, That kind of
seems like if he's playing them that much, they probably want like, okay,
he was ways to not monetize, So maybe there's that side of it
as well. Do you think this is at all due to the fact that
in places like Belgium, ludeboxes have become illegal. You know, this is
probably a very good point. Yeah, there's a couple of countries where you
can't do this at all, and maybe they're just like, hey, let's
avoid any potential of like that becoming more widespread. Like what they've done a
lot of companies have done is they just don't release their game in Belgium instead
of like making changes, I know, like FIFA I think doesn't work in
Belgium anymore. You have to use a VPN. So yeah, you might
be onto something there. That's a really good point. And so this is
ensures that they're like, hey, we could still use the most modern concept
of what good monetization looks like. And then also it's much more aligned with
where the law is at. So yeah, I bet lawyers had to say
on this and they're like, hey this, Yeah, thumbs up, we
approve. So that's probably a big part of it. Yeah, and then
there's the p V which they say is coming in. It's gonna be a
big part of the game. I still feel like we're early on hearing more
details about that. And if you want to see stuff with the Junker Queen
again. Go watch Lucy James's video. It was it was very in depth.
Next story, eight bit Dough, which is a controller company. I
have one of the controllers right here. I'm gonna bring up on video everybody.
It's a big one. Hang on, show and tell. I got
one of their big controllers. It's big and heavy and but I like it
all. I'm gonna use it to play Turtles when we do six player Turtles
on the sight here pretty soon. But they are releasing the eight bit Dough
light Se, which is a new Bluetooth controller for gamers with limited mobility.
This is by Nathan Edwards at the Verge. Eight bit Dough is launching a
Bluetooth controller for gamers with limited mobility. Developed in coordination with a dad and
his young son who has spinal muscular atrophy type two. The light Se works
with a Nintendo Switch and Android and is available for pre order at eight bit
Dough for thirty five dollars with a ship date of July fifteenth. Just real
quick thing. The thing that like sets the light se apart is it's putting
all of the button so that you need to use to play a game on
the face, so there's no more buttons on the shoulders. It has like
sticks, but it also has all of the buttons for the analog sticks mapped
out as individual buttons and stuff like that, so it's really just kind of
putting everything there on a flat surface. It has an anti grip back.
Well, let me read the rest of the description from the Verge. The
light SEC, which looks a lot like the light controller ipitt dough launched in
twenty nineteen. It is designed to be used either handheld or flat on a
table. The trigger and bumper buttons are gone, replaced with L one,
L two, R one, and R two buttons on the front of the
controller, L three and R three, which is when you press the sticks
in they have their own buttons as well, rather than relying on any analog
stick click and all of the impitts puts are more sensitive and easier to press.
There's an anti slip map built into the back of the controller to keep
it from sliding around when used flat. And then the one thing I added
this note because I'm not sure if they've said this or not explicitly, but
has its ultimate software which when you install it or use it on the console,
you could remap the controls. So this should enable like these people to
be anyone who needs to use the controller to uh if they want certain button
to do a certain thing, or to add macros, you should be able
to just do that in this software. And it should work now. And
again, I don't know if apidough has confirmed that, but I think that's
the way that it should work. This it's a pretty cool thing, right,
Like the apidough is like already well known for cool stuff like this,
where it's just like, hey, that's there's something that appeals to an old
man like me, a big arcade stick that looks like the nes advantage controller.
And it does seem like they're going a little bit out of their way
to be like, hey, we have the ability to design these things,
and let's just see if we can work with someone. And they put out
a video where they do work with this family and uh and and this kid
is just like, hey, I love to play games. I try I
find ways to do it. My family has built controllers for me, but
they're rickety and they're built on cardboard. And here's the company's coming up and
solving these problems for me. This is pretty cool, right, Yeah,
this is super cool. I'm all about helping folks with disabilities or mobility issues
be able to play the games that they want to play. Yea Xbox controller
was like a super need idea that came out like what three Yeah, the
adaptive controller. Absolutely, yes. And the thing with the adaptive controller is
it has all of the inputs that all sort of these peripherals that people already
like plug into the like wheelchairs and assist of devices. There's a lot of
common ports that they use, and it's usually like almost like a phone jack
and stuff like that. The adaptive controller has all of those ports and makes
it very easy to just plug in anything that you might already have to make
it super accessible. This is like kind of going in a different direction where
it's like, let's make something that works really well for a kid who has
limited mobility, and it's like okay, and think about the adaptive controller.
It is big and you do have to plug in other stuff. This is
just like okay, if you want something that's just going to be right in
front of you and has all the inputs you need, this is like solving
the problem in a slightly different way and maybe that's what this market needs.
This uh, you know, really large mind. I remember I talked to
Stephen Spahn, who is one of the founders of able Gamers, and and
he was like, there is no one size fits all solution. There is
never any solution where it's like if a developer just does this, they are
going to serve this, uh, this market of people with limited mobility.
But if you, if you, if you do put stuff out, this
is also a market that does have money to spend. And he was like
very adamant about this where it's like people just think that all they ever here
are the stories of people struggling to pay medical bills, and he's like,
yeah, that stuff happens, and we need to talk about that. But
there are people when they go home at night, they still find entertainment in
the same way as everyone else. So them having access to these games is
super important. And I think this was very cool. Yeah, Steve put
something in perspective to me that I actually had never thought about games like Tower
Unite or VR chat or these social hubs of games. I thought they were
just made for degenerates. But then Steve had put it in a perspective,
like you know, for for folks like in Steve's position, that is,
that is a way where they can go hang out with their friends that is
so easy, and they can go to a dance club listen to music.
So I there's never anything wrong with more accessibility. I see a couple of
folks complaining about build quality for eight bid Do stuff, so I think,
yeah, I was gonna say, I've occasionally had issue, but it's like
companies like Razor, I think are have way worse bill quality and I I've
like used some eight bid Do controls for a very long time, but they've
also have been pretty good about like like refilling orders. If like you have
an issue, they will you know, RMCA and get replaced pretty quickly.
But uh yeah, if other people have had that shoe, then yeah,
that's important to bring up as well. M All right, let's let's get
this next story. Activision clears itself of all wrongdoing by Ethan gack Over at
Kataku nearly a year after an explosive lawsuit by the California Department of Fair Employment
and Housing kicked off a firestorm of sexual harassment and discrimination allegations. Act at
Activision, Blizzard, a board of Directors working group investigating the company has released
its findings, led by a twenty five year veteran of the Call of Duty
publisher. The group concluded there was never any systemic issue with harassment, discrimination,
or retaliation at Activision Blizzard. I'm shocked. Wow, activisions at Activision
did nothing wrong right, and I'm shocked and believe them. I don't believe
them. This is this is uh, this is a you know what here?
Let me read another quote. Contrary to many of the allegations, the
board and its external advisors have determined that there is no evidence to suggest that
Activision Blizzards see your executives ever intentionally ignored or attempted to downplay the instances of
gender harassment that occurred and were reported the workplace where this is the Workplace Responsibility
Committee wrote in a shareholder message on June sixteen, and it was in an
SEC filing for everyone to see. While there are some substantiated instances of gender
harassment, those unfortunate circumstances do not support the conclusion the Activision senior leadership or
the board were aware and tolerated gender harassment, or that there was ever a
systemic issue with harassment discrimination or retaliation. Ethan goes on the right here.
These findings are aimed squarely at refuting allegations in the Dfeach lawsuit and those raised
in the November twenty twenty one Wall Street Journal investigation. The latter reported that
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Cottick failed to report a twenty eighteen settlement with an alleged
rape victim at Call of Duty Vanguard makers sledge Hammer Games to the company's board.
The summaries also hard to square with the landmark eighteen million dollars settlement with
the EOC for recent them it's a harassment discrimination at the company, At which
point Activision itself said, what we have come to realize over the over the
past several months is that there are many truths about our company, individual and
collective, experiential and data driven, and sometimes they could be difficult to reconcile.
The board wrote, it does not it does not elaborate on the details
or nature of those opposing truths, But that goes on to complain about being
wrongly more maligned by an unrelenting barrage of media criticism. So this it sounds
like a group that set out with a goal in mind of like, I
mean, their whole perspective here is was the board complicit or not? Like
even if like we were to take what they were doing and believe that they
were doing it in good faith, the goal here was not to like suss
out what happened. It was to suss out whether the board was complicit or
not. And to me, it's very hard not to be cynical. It's
very hard not to assume that they are doing that with the intention, especially
knowing who pays their who pays their checks, who writes there, whose name
is on their check. Mister activision apocotic. What else do we expect from
them to say? It's it's mildly insane. I know, it's full on
insane to for this to happen and everything, because of course, this person
conducting this, I don't want to say that they are coming into this with
a certain mindset to try and sway things to one way, to feel that
way, right, and also with the the sale to Microsoft, of course
they don't want any bad things to pop up because that might affect that or
certain people's pay days. Right. I mean, that's exactly the group that
we're talking about, the group that stands to benefit the most that would.
Maybe it's the stuff that Elizabeth Warren brought up when she was like, we
want more scrutiny on this deal between Microsoft in Activision, not because they're even
that worried about like what it means from the market. Their biggest concern was,
like, we feel like the people in Activision that were complicit and responsible
for bad things happening to many of its employees and burying that stuff are gonna
stand to get a windfall of cash. They're gonna get a huge payday,
and we think that is unfair. And she's absolutely right about that. And
that's the scrutiny that could still come before the steel closes, and it seems
like this is directly aimed at avoiding that. And again I use the word
seems because it just seems that way to me. I don't know if it
is, but it does seem that way to me. My biggest thing here
is, like that original EOC, this is a settlement where Activision basically they
I don't know if they probably said that we don't admit wrongdoing in that thing,
and then yet we're still giving the money and we're still going to look
at ourselves and all that stuff, but probably the wording of the settlement usually
is we admit no wrongdoing on a legal basis or whatever. So maybe they
believe this doesn't conflict. But the way they talked about how they have a
lot of truths they need to reconcile with and then now it's like, no,
we don't, it's it's it is real whiplash. And then also it's
not like this is a a rogue Department of Fair Employment and Housing employee doing
this lawsuit. The people there was a whole team responsible for this, many
of whom, I think some of whom at this at that groups have now
resigned in protest of the meddling that has happened from the governor of California.
And then the Wall Street Journal report, the Wall Street Journal is not like
this is a These are two different entities corroborating what is happening inside of activision.
There's just so much evidence that we can tell what kind of environment was
happening there, and and and again like the like when this story stories came
out, there was stuff like Bobby Coda tried to protect one of the leaders
of Call of Duty back when he was accused of harassment and I think sexual
sexual misconduct on a gross level. And when that, when that came out,
that guy finally resigned at that point, so he had been there this
entire time. So if he was protect him, he was protecting them that
entire time. I don't know how you can't say that isn't complicit in creating
an atmosphere of people feeling like we are unsafe here. Yeah. Do you
do you think that there is any type of loose promise from Microsoft leadership as
this transition continues to go along, that like, hey, stuff will be
different, there will be cultural changes, or has it mostly as of right
now still been pretty hands off in terms of Microsoft operating. Microsoft and Activision
operating as different entities. So Microsoft and Activision. Microsoft cannot interfere at all
with Activision at this point. They can't. They can't tell them what they
want anything like that. What Microsoft can do is have a team, an
onboarding team, ready to go, prepped and ready to go that when the
deal closes, they can just launch that shuttle over to this other ship and
say, Okay, now here's how it's going to be. Microsoft has real
a real strong desire to both appear very progressive, but also to keep it
cool with Washington. Microsoft went through it all once already in the nineties with
the anti trust lawsuits, and since then they have kept a very strong and
positive relationship with people in Washington. While Facebook and Twitter and even Apple and
a bunch of other companies have repeatedly had to come up to Capitol Hill and
explain themselves over and over again, they rarely do that with Microsoft. Microsoft
usually gets to scape by as not one of these companies that is invading our
privacy and all that stuffy and they spent a lot of time and money creating
that reality and anything that threatens that they are going to deal with. And
I think a situation where they bring in a company and they don't deal with
its culture threatens that. It's something that Elizabeth Warren has already talked about,
and so they were gonna want to deal with it. Now are they going
to deal with it? Because it's the right thing to do. I think
it part some for a lot of people, and they're hiring people who really
do want to do that sort of thing because it's the right thing to do.
At a certain point, what else can you ask from a corporation,
right, corporation is just a an entity that hires and fires certain people,
and who it hires is is who the company corporation wants to be. And
so if they're hiring people that truly believe that, I think that's the best
we can really kind of ask for. But then really this is again about
keeping that strong relationship with Washington and doing what's good for business, which is
not being a company that is seen as enabling sex pests. Speaking about enabling
sex pests. I don't know if you have an eye on the chat,
mister grub, but someone tweeted an article written by Imron bringing up that,
oh God, that there's going to be a vote on how Activision has been
handling these harassment claims. If they vote one way, Codik gets back his
old salary And it's just very transparent, isn't it, and a twenty two
million dollar bonus. So this is from Mron on over at fan By.
I'm just gonna read his tweet. So the reason they did this is because
the investors are about to vote on whether they're satisfied with how Activision has been
handling the harassment claims if they are, and it's rigged that they will be
Coda gets his old cellar back and a twenty two million dollar bonus. Jesus,
it's again just seems very transparent to me. What is happening? And
I believe this reporting from Embron that sounds exactly like what's happening? All right?
Well, on my uhame on my podcast, we have a section.
I got a guy that helps you do news, a canoeble, and he
has a section that's always just labeled Albecotick is an asshole. And so maybe
we'll bring that section over here to this show every day. Uh. Pokemon
Snap comes to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack on June twenty fourth. This is
by Tom Ivan at VGC. Not much else to say here, but this
is available. You know what I think I do. I have the trailer.
Let's just let's let's try, let's cut over to it, let's watch
this while let's yeah, exactly, this is pleasant listening there. Switch Online
Expansion Pack. This is the fifty dollars a year one, so you have
to you have to upgrade, but if you do, you get the n
sixty four version of Pokemon Snap, not new Pokemon Snap, which just came
on the Switch last year. But this the original game that was maybe the
best rental of all time because you just rank it and you go through and
you take pictures of the Pokemon jan you gotta play this. Probably I played
through this for the first time. God, I don't even remember what year
it is, but sometime during the pandemic. And this was actually one of
the harder games on the N sixty four to get working on modern hardware.
Yes, like just throwing this in your emulator of choice did not completely work
yet to do a couple of things to get it working. But I really
enjoyed this, I want to say, maybe more than the New Pokemon Snap.
Yeah. I just never got around to playing that New Pokemon Snap,
and I was I guess, I don't know. I thought I wanted it,
and then you know, the reaction to it was like what you just
did right there? Kind of like what was wrong with it? What was
wrong with New Pokemon Snap? You know? I you remember how in the
original Pokemon Snap there are your branching paths and you gotta do a couple of
things to tragger, like the room Goldberg of everything. They were a little
there was a little bit too much of that going on and replaying and grinding
levels on the new Pokemon Switch all right, not Pokemon Switch, the New
Pokemon Snap. Yeah, it's uh. I'm probably gonna go back and just
play this original one. And if I get the urge and I have extra
money burning money burning a hole in my pocket, maybe I'll pick up New
Pokemon Snap because I do want to play it, but I don't know why.
I think the kids would love it, probably, but they may get
They might get super frustrated though, like how come the new levels aren't unlocking?
Why do I have to keep doing this one over and over again?
Yeah, fair enough, she does. She does get frustrated when the I
have the tablet sets so it won't play ads because it goes to like a
you know, an ad hole where they all disappeared, so like you can't
unlock some of these other levels that need you to watch the ads first.
But so she just keeps playing the first levels over and over, so maybe
she'll be okay with them, all right. Call of Duty war Zone in
Vanguards Season four start times are Listen to hear this one's by e Si Doster
at game Spot. New content is arriving to Vanguard in War Zone with the
launch of Call of Duty Season four on June twenty second. Season four is
called Mercenaries of Fortune, which is themed around vanguards, once allied operators who
are now feuding over an abundance of gold figure. I'll just give you guys
the dates on that one. This is from Jordan Miller at VGC. Console
supplies could remain rocky through twenty twenty two, says Xbox CFO. This was
part a they called that Baird, which is a financial services company. Like
whenever you listen, if you ever listen, and I don't know this is
just me, maybe I'm talking about if you ever listened to an earnings call
from a company, you'll have to a point where a bunch of people come
and ask questions. One of those people's from Baird. That they had the
CFO, Tim Stewart of Xbox come on and he said that he expects that
the supply chain environment could remain rocky through twenty twenty two and the holiday season.
He says that multiple issues are facing the supply chain. These include part
shortages which were which reportedly favor series as consoles, and elevated logistics pricing pressuring
margins, So like even when they can find a part, like these companies
are like hesitant to pull the trigger because like maybe we can find a cheaper
part to keep our margins high, because that that there's a pressure on the
people making these purchasing decisions. Uh, that does it for the news?
Jano choa. Should we get to the ketchup? I love ketchup. Slap
some ketchup on this mess? All right? So first I wanted to ask
you a question about what everyone's kind of been talking about since that event yesterday,
other when they're getting excited about Fonna Fantasy seven. Absolutely, there's all
kinds of stuff to get excited about. But then if you're on Xbox,
you say, am I ever gonna get Final Fantasy seven remake on the Xbox?
It seems like Sony has locked up as much Final Fantasy it can as
it can, or that it cares to lock up. I was I'm like,
just I didn't know yesterday if they would pull the trigger, But when
they didn't, I wasn't too surprised. What was your reaction, Were you
surprised that it's not coming to Xbox? He still, I was surprised.
I was definitely surprised that it that Final Fantasy seven remake has not made its
way onto game passed or Xbox platforms just yet. I'm now of the mindset
that I feel like Final Fantasy fourteen will actually make its way to game Pass
sooner than Final Fantasy seven will. Yeah, I almost see it as a
joint of like, once part two of the remake is out maybe six or
so months, then it'll hit PC year old, they'll do the epic deal
again, and then eventually it'll make its way to game Pass. I feel
like Final Fantasy fourteen, I don't want to say it's bigger than the remake
seven remake, but I feel like that is more of an attainable thing to
get onto game Pass versus seven for some reason. Yeah, and it's well,
it just seems like Sony thinks at Final Fantasy seven is a big deal,
and it's it's probably like in the right range of being a big deal
and yet still pretty affordable in terms of what they have to pay to Sony
or pay to score Enix to keep that exclusivity deal expanding and expanding. What's
probably happening here is like every time they have to go renegotiate for the next
part of the series. It's like, well, let's just you know,
at lengthen the time that we get the first game exclusive as well, or
you know exclusive, like the time that we keep it off of Xbox.
Uh. So, I mean to me, it seems like Sony is happy
with it. It's going to keep happening. It's not like, you know,
Final Fantasy seven Remake came out and sold a ton right out of the
gate. When it launched on PS four, it was like five million copies,
which is good, but it was like that's you know, not as
big as like some other console exclusive games. So again that probably still makes
it pretty affordable, where like Sony is like, okay, we could pute
on an Xbox, but really Sony's giving us a ton of money and it
makes makes it a big deal with that audience, and so maybe this maximizes
our potential return on investment in this game. So I'm I think I'm with
you where it's like Final Fantasy four Team probably isn't coming Xbox anytime soon,
but I still think you're right that it's more likely in Final Fantasy seven remake,
which is weird. And then I have this list of in video leaked
games that have been confirmed. Dragons Dogma two was the most recent one,
and now we can check that off. And now we knew that was coming
again because of the Capcom League is attacked. But still this is another game
on the video league list that has now been checked off. There's some other
games on this list. I want to ask you about if you think we're
gonna get them any time soon? Monster Hunter six, you think we get
that soon? I know that would make Jason very happy, and I want
Jason to be happy. I'm gonna say because of that as well. Yeah,
So whether or not it's an actual likelihood of happening, I just want
Jason to be happy. Yeah. And then, speaking of Jason being happy,
Tech In eight that make it all happy. I actually don't know about
the tech and series. I feel like I have been out of touch with
what the development process would be like. But sure, even get familiar with
Tech in May. I recommend ranking of tech and endings to you. I'd
love to check that out. Yeah. Uh. Final Fantasy nine remake and
Final Fantasy Tactics remaster grub my favorite Final Fantasy And this is always like a
fun question to ask anyone in Games Media. It is Final Fantasy Tactics and
Tactics Advance, right, so gosh, bring me back to Evily's show me
them crystals, baby, Yep. I'm I'm hopeful that these gets. I
mean I was expecting these at the squareen Ex Savander or the Sony event that
happened recently. And then they announced like the Deo Field Chronicle, but that
was the new strategy game, another game that was on the ENDDIA League list,
so yeah, uh, let's see. And then I guess these three
from Take two that we haven't heard anything about x Com three, BioShock RTX
Remaster, and BioShock twenty twenty two, but like BioShock twenty twenty two is
less and less likely to be twenty twenty two probably not gonna. They have
not even say that they're working on that. I think I think they've said
they were working on it, but uh, they have not showed us anything
from that game. So yeah, okay, well, Kate that I'd be
really interested in an RTX remaster. I'm not normally one for RTX stuff,
but they do global elimination, which is like when like they would do all
of the lighting and all the lighting behaves as it really should in reality,
that would I would be I'd be down for them. Let's see. Xbox
Summer Game Fest Events is to include over thirty game demos next week. H
This one I picked up just from Tom Ivan a VGC and this is where
I will put like stuff like if you could play some games and stuff.
We'll put these in the ketchup from June twe first of the twenty seventh,
over thirty demos of unreleased indie games will be available to sample, accessible via
the Xbox Dashboard. They'll be playable for one week, and while some might
be made available again at a later date, most will simply be removed.
So get in there and check that out. A cool thing to note here
is this is from Jessica Ronald, who's one of the Idea Xboxes Events at
Community Management Leads. These game demos are not the norm, she says,
Typically the demos you see in our demo channel are created after the game is
completed or nearly completed, and represent an almost final version of the game.
These are more akin to show floor demos and are not necessarily indicative of the
final product. She added, What that means is that you'll get to experience
these games early and some way early, which is awesome since you'll have the
chance to provide your feedback. So these are equivalent to the vertical slices that
we would have seen at an E three twenty nineteen or something like that.
So if you want to get like more experienced with unfinished games and stuff like
that, this is a really good way to do that, and I recommend
it to people. All Right, too quick things I want to show off.
Let's see, uh, let's see Atari Mania. Jan have you heard
of Atari Mania? No? But you have an interesting uh yes, bullet
point? What have I written here? Atarimnia trailer. It looks like retro
Warrior where it looks like retro Warrior where it looks like Atari games, but
warrior ware they call them micro games and everything. So I'm I am very
down with this idea. It's kind of what I wanted from ans Remix,
and anys Remix is a bit too slow paced for me. Why haven't more
developers or studios done this? I don't know. I wonder the same thing.
It's like you have Breakout, you have like yeah, like that the
tank game whatever it's called, Like, Yeah, there's so many things that
they can just warlords. These are games that just are custom made for just
playing in short bursts and go into the next game. So I think they've
done it, and it looks pretty good like it looks it doesn't just look
like old Atari games. They maintain that style, updating them to a way
that something that looks pretty pretty neat. The other thing here that I'm actually
this is very exciting because I've never played this game, and I'm like,
maybe this is how I'll play it. Jack and Dangster has been decompiled and
now it's been fully ported to the PC. So you can look at all
these PC modes, all these PC options that you get and stuff. But
there it is. It's just running on the PC. Oh man, don't
I don't need this? Yes, so this is available on GitHub. You
could just make this happen right now. No one can stop you. Nothing
can stop you now internet. Oh no, I'm probably gonna check this out
at some point. All right, yesterday I asked have you played Crisis Core
before? And I have this right here? Where do I put it?
Let's see news assets. Let's uh switch over to just having that. It
means we've got to close that and then transition here we go. I asked,
have you played Crisis Core Final Fantasy seven before I put this in the
discord in the news channel for the Giant Bomb discord, So if you want
to vote on these things in the future, I think I'll probably keep doing
this. We're gonna I might play around with some other ways of asking questions,
but for now this is working. Thirty five people said yes they have,
eighty eight have said yes. I think that's actually grown a little bit
more to on negative sides since I captured this, But yeah, I'm not
too surprised that. I'm not surprised at all that most people haven't. I'm
actually surprised as many people have that I have voted yes here, Like thirty
five versus eighty eight. That's actually a pretty good ratio for Crisis Core.
I was expecting much more closer to like ten percent of people at la Crisis
Core. Yeah, that's surprising numbers there. Yeah, absolutely, I think
that this is one of the reasons where it's like, yeah, there's a
huge audience of people that have gotten a gaming since like the last five years,
let alone when Crisis Core came out. So it's a great opportunity for
them to bring in a huge new audience. What's up, Jen, I'm
so ready for gaming history to be rewritten that like, I just look for
like these opinions to dramatically swing the other way. I forgot what game it
was recently, but I had wound up as just get watching it as a
refresher of like someone younger than us and their interpretation of like the Final Fantasy
series. Oh, they were explaining Stranger of Paradise because I wanted to make
sure I had all my ducks in a row. And I think they must
have been like early twenties. And then their reverence for Final Fantasy is completely
different than anyone like around our age and Fantasy do treat them. It's a
kind of just like another video game or what. I don't they don't treat
like the one through six with as much reverence or as much weight. Seven
to ten to two and up to twelve, I guess you know. So
let's just say seven to twelve is probably like their bad of like their era
of nostalgia. Peale says, it's like the Star Wars prequel things. Suddenly
there are a bunch of adults that think they're amazing because they were kids when
they came out. That's happened. It's happened. Oh man, Yeah,
you're right that that that history is being like, we're not even gonna know.
We're gonna look around one day and be like, everyone's gonna be like
this is how you're supposed feel about Final Fantasy, be like wait, what
are you talking about? So, yeah, it's gonna happen. But that
that question doesn't matter anymore. Here's your question of the day for tomorrow.
Do you play any of the Summer game Fest Slash Theme, Next Fest Slash
whatever demos? So like, when these companies do these demo events, do
you ever participate? Do you download the demo? Do you try it?
And I don't know, maybe like like tweet me if you like have a
reason why you don't. I'd be interested to hear that. But yeah,
well we'll talk about these results tomorrow on the show. Uh, Jan,
I think that's that's a whole episode of Game mess Mornings in the Can I
believe that we've done my job here? I need to take a shower after
this. We got mad messy, We got way too messy. Like listen,
I know the show. That's the idea, but still maybe we gotta
rein it in in the future. It's it's Friday, Jan, what's happening
on Giant Bomb On Friday's? Normally around this time, Jess and I would
be running for the hills or running to the hills, but we are postponing
that one more week. Will conclude that next week. Today we also have
unprofessional Friday's upf Grub. I believe you're going to be around for that.
Yes, I am, Yeah, I think I have compas what games I
might play, so look good forward to it. Absolutely lovely if you missed
it yesterday, A whole boatload of things went up yesterday. I'm not even
one hundred percent sure I know everything that went up, New Voicemail dump Truck,
we had an unfinished of a MythBusters game, the Very Online Show,
and the Game mess Mornings episode one. Yes, yes, that MythBusters game.
Grub really made me sad. I'm gonna be watching that. Actually seems
like I'm gonna go eat a lunch and I'm gonna watch you play that.
I'm gonna watch you get sad and be like, sorry, Jan, I'm
so sorry. Everybody, Thank you so much for watching I really appreciate.
I love doing this show. This has been really good time. I'm gonna
enjoy my weekend, you know, Jan, you know I'm doing what's you
doing. I'm staying up tonight and I'm getting on a train at like three
and three am to go pick up my van tomorrow. Yes, I'm pretty
sure the transmission got there. They said it should be a quick fix once
the transmission got there. But I'm like, okay, well, i gotta
just get on a train. I guess that's the easiest thing to do.
It's nice because the train is like the train station is like right in the
next town over here, and then Indiana it's the next town over where my
van is at. So I'll just take a couple of overs. Overs are
the buses or whatever. It's gonna be great. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
be streaming some Mario Strikers stunt on my channel and then I'm gonna gonna go
straight from that to the train station. So do we want to tease Grub
you loosely alluded to it. Let's do it. There may be a good
chunk of us playing uh tmnt Shredders revenge, right, that's the revenge.
That's right, yep, Trader's revenge next week. Yeah, we have enough
codes to do six Let's see what get everyone online at the same time to
make it happen. But yes, next week, gonna play through all that
sixth player really looking forward to it. All right, everybody, enjoy your
weekend, take care of yourself until next time. Have a good one and
goodbye. I think we need an outro. I'll make one eventually. Yeah,
we'll get to a eventution Bye, everybody,