WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:12.359 You bet it's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for the next 2 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:15.560 hour, so let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game 3 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:21.920 Mess Mornings Live with me Jeff Grub. Today we have Sonic Team Boss Thinking 4 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.640 you can't even understand what is happening and Sonic Frontiers. We have Final Fantasy 5 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:31.800 seven remake news Dropping, and Dragon's Dogma two is real. But first, 6 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:37.240 please join me and welcoming today's co host for Game Mess Mornings. It's Jan 7 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:45.399 Ohow everybody who Yeah, I know we're in front of a live studios. 8 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:48.640 Let them sneak into your house. I gave them the building code and just 9 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:55.280 let them steak in there. Oh hello, Jan, how are you doing? 10 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.119 They're wearing a mask. At least you gotta respect that there's no clothes 11 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.200 in a mask. At Yeah, that's the good look. How are you 12 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.680 doing to look? I feel great because my team won last night. Congratulation 13 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:11.480 three finally got the missing trophy in his case, finally got that well earned 14 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.359 finals MVP. We proved we could do it without k D. I'm a 15 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.359 new sports boy, so I'm like really jazzed about all the sports. That 16 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.840 was a pretty good show and for Golden State last night, so I think 17 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.879 were you you were just tuning in the game. What you were like eating 18 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.519 beef jerky, drinking beer, like really going full sports boy or what I 19 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:36.560 ordered a pizza boy. Yep, that's the way to do it, man. 20 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.359 That sounds like a good night. There were multiple times where I just 21 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:44.120 stood up and just started clapping for no reason and just like it's when let's 22 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:47.840 go. Multiple times it was great. Now great. When you're doing these 23 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.040 things, do you feel self conscious at all? Like your partners around like 24 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.719 they're like what way do you feel like like you need to tone it down? 25 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.640 Or you're just like you're into it, You're not even paying attention to 26 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.040 the world around you. It was her thing that I should have been more 27 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:05.719 into being a sports boy earlier. So I think now I fulfill that prophecy 28 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.919 of being more sports boys. It was always within you, and now you've 29 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:13.560 lived up to the to the possibilities that were always there. Yes, my 30 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:15.800 my close friend group used to joke that I don't like sports, so they 31 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:20.000 got me a shirt that said sports ball. But now jokes on them. 32 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:25.599 I'm into but I was always at the baseball but they're real sport yeah, 33 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:30.879 yeah, they did not acknowledge the Giants, even though the Giants are another 34 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:36.240 modern dynasty in baseball. Absolutely, yes, definitely. I don't know about 35 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:39.479 Jason Tatum being better than Steph Curry. Not the best performance last night. 36 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:44.960 Also did not look too hot last night. No. Also, Draymond Green, 37 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:50.560 love that guy. He's still my favorite player. Just rum it in 38 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.159 Chat's face because you know they you know they're in there. They don't like 39 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.800 the love it. The great stat that I saw Jason Tatum was what the 40 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:04.599 first player in NBA playoffs history need to have one hundred turnovers? So it 41 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.560 sucks a mare through my teeth. Again. Yeah, Jason Tatum, he 42 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:14.360 is super young, so he's going to be fine. Yes, absolutely, 43 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:19.000 yes, I don't actually can I ask you the reference for like his relationship 44 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:23.400 to Kobe like people, because people saying like like he disappointed Kobe or so 45 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.319 like was he like friends with Kobe or like an acolyte of some sort? 46 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:32.840 From from my loose understanding of the basketball canon and uh, over lying over 47 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:37.560 language whatever one comes here for us the loose understanding, Yes, yes, 48 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:44.159 uh, Kobe was just like his his person like Euro okay, and then 49 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.479 you know with with with Kobe's passing and everything the way wall Luigi is the 50 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:54.159 Dan reicherd Yes, yes, you definitely see uh Dan Reicher texting Wa Luigi 51 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:01.599 that like this one's for you, Bud. Let's get into this mess everybody. 52 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.879 Each day, I, Jeff grab will help you piece together your gaming 53 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.520 life. That includes breaking news. We're gonna be talking about some news that 54 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.120 happened late last night. That also includes the catch up where we discussed the 55 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.319 biggest stories of the day, and maybe even some occasionally some of our original 56 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.879 reporting that we bring to you either from me or from folks at game Spot. 57 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:24.800 Uh. For for all these topics, I will get the input of 58 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:28.360 a bona fide expert like Jiano Chia, So please see two notes. It's 59 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.879 not always gonna be Jan, but I'm very happy that two days in a 60 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:32.879 row we got Jiano Choa. I have to Advan, I'm very excited about 61 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.480 that. I'm excited to be here. Let's let with all that. Let's 62 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:42.639 let's get into the news. And Jen, it was a final Fantasy Day. 63 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.759 I don't know where your expectations were when this thing was was starting at 64 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:53.959 three pm Pacific time six pm Eastern my My feeling was like, I don't 65 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:56.279 know, they're doing this at the tail end of everything. It's going to 66 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:00.519 be an update on a couple of things, and then maybe a to like 67 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.360 PC or to Steam, and then maybe still to Xbox. I wasn't sure. 68 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:08.040 Yeah, although we've heard, we've been hearing that I'm sorry for Final 69 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.879 Fantasy seven remake was not going to become an Xbox But I'm like, I 70 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:13.319 don't know, maybe, but yeah, what were you gonna say? I 71 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.199 was in a similar camp as you. I didn't think that there'd be anything 72 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.959 substantial to show. I feel like that they would have saved that for one 73 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:24.800 of the big like the State of Play or the Xbox joint. Uh. 74 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.279 But I guess they really wanted to time it out for the twenty fifth anniversary. 75 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.800 Yeah, and that the timed it out they did. There was a 76 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.120 lot of news at this thing. They pretty much announced everything that everyone would 77 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:41.480 want from a Final Fantasy seven specific event. Let's let's work our way up. 78 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:43.920 We're gonna start from the bottom of this period and work pyramid or work 79 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.240 our way up and maybe it's the top and work our way down. Who 80 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:47.720 knows. You guys can figure it out. As I go along up Final 81 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:53.279 Fantasy Ever or Final Fantasy seven. Ever Crisis got a new gameplay trailer and 82 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:57.439 they confirmed a closed beta is coming later this year. This is the mobile 83 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:02.519 remake of Final Fantasy seven, completely separate from the other remake of Final Fantasy 84 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.879 seven. This one uses chibi graphics, and it uses and it uses some 85 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.959 of the storylines from some of the other games, and it's gonna bring it 86 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.959 all into one package, and you're you're gonna be able to play through it. 87 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.680 And it's obviously it's gonna have more you know, light touch gameplay because 88 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.199 it's it's mobile, but also it's it's like, uh, it's a way 89 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:25.879 for them to take this content that is, you know, storied and very 90 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:30.800 popular and reach an entirely different audience that probably isn't playing on PC or PlayStation 91 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:34.160 four, PlayStation five. Jan you got any any chance you're gonna check out 92 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.240 Ever Crisis, you know, I'm mildly curious. I checked out the Final 93 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:46.040 Fantasy fifteen mobile game with the also in the chibi arts style. I've I've 94 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.040 never actually played through all of Final Fantasy seven, or at least I don't 95 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:54.720 remember it because it was so long ago. Uh, that I wouldn't mind 96 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.879 like a quick refresher or a light semi refresher with with this game, it's 97 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.600 kind of where I'm at, and I don't depending on how intensive it Like. 98 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.160 My thing with mobile gaming is always like when I see my batteries start 99 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:08.120 to drain, I get those you know, the ants and my pants about 100 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.800 it, and I'm like, oh no this, I'm gonna do my phone 101 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.399 for other things. And I don't really but I feel that way, and 102 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.040 so I end up like, Okay, I'll start a game once and then 103 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.279 not play it again. But if it's like you know, if it's light 104 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.040 enough and it's really easy to get into and sort of just breeze through, 105 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:23.839 I probably will check this out. At the very least. I don't know. 106 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:25.959 For something about it has always seemed appealing to me. I think I 107 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:32.000 like the light atmosphere of the chibi look really morse for me A lot of 108 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.480 times where I'm like, Okay, this isn't as serious. I can just 109 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:38.800 like, you know, half pay attention to the story and still probably get 110 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.040 most of it. But yeah, Clothes beta coming later this year. We'll 111 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.839 see if they put up like a pre registration thing or whatever, anytime soon. 112 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:50.759 Then they announced the Final Fantasy seven Remake Integrade, which is the upgraded 113 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:55.480 version of Final Fantasy seven Remake that was already out on PlayStation. I believe 114 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:58.519 it also came to Epic Game Store. Well, now it is making the 115 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:03.639 jump to Steam from a game store on PC that is available now today. 116 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.319 You can go get that today and it's Steam Deck verified. Jano cholla, 117 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.600 Oh boy, I need Q three to come so much sooner so I can 118 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.639 get my hands on a dang Steam deck. When when did you pre order 119 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.759 yours? Like the day it happened? Okay, so the day the day 120 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.040 it happened, and I had no idea how everyone else got into Q one 121 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.120 and two and I slipped into Q three. Uh yeah. So it's like 122 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.240 there's a tool on Reddit that people have been using where if you go in 123 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:33.960 there, it says like how many minutes of pre orders happened that day before 124 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.279 you got yours? So yeah, like if you wanted to get down into 125 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:41.080 that level of like, oh man, I can't wait for this to come, 126 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.679 you'll see like, oh, there's like three minutes of people pre ordering 127 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.799 ahead of ahead of you or whatever. So I don't know if you want 128 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:50.679 to do that to yourself or it feels like it's a little bit of a 129 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:56.360 torturous thing. I have a Steam Deck. I am going to install this 130 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:01.720 today that I've played through a good Final Fantasy seven remake on PS four, 131 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:07.279 and then because I am someone who is easily distracted, like that's probably the 132 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.759 biggest part of this, but also someone our kids and someone who feels a 133 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:16.159 little bit of guilt about putting games on the TV, where like it's communal 134 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:18.600 space and there could be stuff for other people on the TV. I really 135 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.159 enjoy having the handheld stuff, So I was I always just kind of fault 136 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.480 back to playing stuff on Switch, and now the steam deck is here, 137 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.320 I've been doing, Like I was able to play one hundred fifty hours of 138 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.200 elden Ring no problem because I played it all on the steam Deck. So 139 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.320 so yeah, So like, now that this is here and it's very easy 140 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.759 to get on the steam Deck, you probably could have figured out ways to 141 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.159 install the Epic Games version, but it was it was a bit of a 142 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.279 hassle. Actually, I had tried a little bit and then I gave up. 143 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:45.919 Now that it's here and it's just steam Deck verified, it probably is 144 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:48.120 going to run pretty well, especially because it's the PS four game originally. 145 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.200 I I'm very happy to check this out and I'm probably gonna try to play 146 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.759 through as much of as much of it as I can. I'll start it 147 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.559 over no problem. This is pretty exciting for me, so I'm gonna check 148 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.720 it out. The game did hit Epic Game Store in December, so this 149 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.679 is a six month turnaround for this, So that's a Usually those windows are 150 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:09.240 about six months or a year, and it was probably for a game like 151 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.039 this, probably pretty a pretty penny for Epic, although they seem willing to 152 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:18.120 often pay that those pretty pennies. That that makes sense. Then. Some 153 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:24.320 of the bigger news Crisis Core Final Fantasy seven Reunion coming to console and PC 154 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:30.039 this winter. So we talked about this yesterday. I think we manifested this. 155 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.120 Yeah, we did. We've done it everybody. How do you feel 156 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:33.879 like? This? Is? This? Did this look? Have you got 157 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.399 a chance to check out like what they put out there? Are you excited? 158 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.000 Yeah? I'm excited, uh for for the same reasons as yesterday, 159 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.200 just or this being much more easier for folks to play, for myself to 160 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:54.559 play and whatever. Mild updates that they're going to try and roll out. 161 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.039 I saw people were saying the Crisis Core yesterday was not actually a good game, 162 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.240 and that I was in saying, but I'm willing to give it another 163 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:09.240 shot. I'm scanning through the trailer again right now, and I don't know, 164 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.519 I'm kind of pumped for it to just dip back into the world of 165 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:20.519 Final Fantasy seven and flesh out that story that is that may not even matter 166 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:28.039 if Fantasy seven remake. Let's be honest, I think that this is one 167 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.080 where I'm like, I'll probably like just listen to what my friends have to 168 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.039 say about this one. I'll be like, yeah, you guys, you 169 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.320 guys play it. Let me know if it's if it's like super duper fun, 170 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.360 if they do something to make it, oh like feel like modern and 171 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.440 very compelling, I'll probably maybe we'll check it out. We'll see, but 172 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.200 I'm not going to be dipping my toes in before everyone else. I'm like 173 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.360 checking the water for everyone else. But we'll see this winter though that's coming, 174 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.879 you know, this year, or if like it's hard to tell with 175 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.960 companies because they always everyone has a different idea of what what winter is. 176 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.879 They could mean as early as November, although December twenty feet is winter, 177 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.840 that's when the winter actually begins, but other places sometimes could center winter to 178 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:13.320 be like anytimes it starts to get cold, but that could also easily mean 179 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.879 like the first part of next year as well. So there's like a good 180 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.639 four or five months chunk at the end of this year, beginning and next 181 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:22.000 year where it could come out when they say this winter, but speaking of 182 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:28.080 wintertime, the following winter after that again whatever that means, but the following 183 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:33.399 winter. Final Fantasy seven Rebirth is coming. And if you're asking what the 184 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.600 hell is Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, that is the sequel. It's the second 185 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.919 part of the Final Fantasy seven remake trilogy, which we now know for sure 186 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:45.679 is a trilogy. They confirmed that they already are beginning, like you know, 187 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.240 working on the third one as well. But Rebirth is coming. It's 188 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.120 going to be part two, and they showed a little bit of it, 189 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.879 and I think I haven't right here, let me know, switch over to 190 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.120 assets, But Jan, what do you think about this? You know? 191 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:07.000 I I think seeing winter of next year kind of makes me feel better that 192 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:13.320 there's somewhat of a projected date. I still don't believe in any date that 193 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:18.159 is listed for the future, because that just feels way too far away, 194 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.480 right exactly, any like at that time, like could just expand at any 195 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:24.679 moment, right with every game we've seen that. So but still it's like 196 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.720 they did give a time frame, which is more than we've gotten for a 197 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:35.200 lot of games recently. Yeah. Yeah, and I god, I guess 198 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.320 I'm just curious as to how much of the original story they're going to change. 199 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:43.360 We see we see our good old goth boys separateth there and then you 200 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.759 see Zach at the end. I'm interested interested. Yes, it's uh. 201 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.480 I think that they are doing exactly what they need to do for for what 202 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.559 they've well, I mean, this is Nomura, right, the Nomura is 203 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:58.759 involved in this, so like, of course he was gonna make it wild, 204 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.799 but it seems like he's really going out and making it very wild, 205 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:09.559 and they're going to play into that. So the original Final Fantasy seven still 206 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.480 exists, it still is what it is, but now we have them going 207 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.919 off on this new path and they're really going to explore that and really play 208 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:22.759 with players expectations even more this time around. So yeah, I'm excited as 209 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.279 well. Because that's I think that's a very cool way of doing these things. 210 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.080 I'm not a huge, like I've never got a huge Final Fantasy guy, 211 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.039 but when I started realizing what they were doing with Final Fantasy seven remake, 212 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.480 it made me way more interesting. So I'm like, that is a 213 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.919 cool way to play with gaming history. This is such an important game to 214 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.320 yeah, the PlayStation and we'll talk about that in a little bit actually, 215 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:46.240 but it's so important too RPGs in America, and to like the marketing of 216 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.240 games, Like it was like the first game that I really remember having this 217 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:54.200 massive, like sort of adult but like wide reaching marketing campaign that was just 218 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.000 primetime television and the commercial would come on, and it's like, it's so 219 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.519 important to then have the confidence to be like, and we're gonna play around 220 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.279 with with what you expect. That means when we do a Final Offensasy seven 221 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.159 remake. I'm into it. I'm very Yeah. Yeah, it makes me 222 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:18.480 curious if seeing the success of that, if that is partially why Capcom decided 223 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:24.240 to not remaster Ari four, But you know, maybe, yes, reconfigure 224 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.759 a couple of things to make sense in the modern world we're in now. 225 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.399 As long as more batshit crazy. Yeah, as long as they leave Ramon 226 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.639 Salazar as the perfect little child he is, then yes, then I'm fine. 227 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.000 Uh. We also got another event at the exact same time yesterday. 228 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.919 Dragons Dogma two is now real and confirmed. There's not a ton of details 229 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:52.279 here. Basically did they said ten years or Dragons Dogma. They talked very 230 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:58.399 earnestly and and like with a lot of love about the original game and then 231 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.759 darker risen the update to the rich game, and then at the end of 232 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:06.559 the video they're They're like, okay, and here is our T shirt, 233 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:08.480 Like I got the video here, We'll bring that in. But Jan, 234 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:14.120 are you excited about Dragons Dogma two? I wish I could say that I 235 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:18.279 was. It seemed like a very select portion of the internet was very very 236 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:23.759 excited yesterday. So I'm happy for them. Same here. That's kind of 237 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.639 where I'm at. Two. I've definitely started Dragons Dogma a couple of times 238 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:33.000 based on that. On the Dragons Dogma perverts that we all know so well, 239 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:34.080 and I'm like, they see, I'm like, I want to be 240 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.039 one of them, Like they seem very happy. I want to be happy. 241 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.320 And so I've started up and I've just bounced off. One of the 242 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:42.679 problems is I probably played it. And you can see here in the video 243 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:47.519 they're taking off their their hoodies and stuff to reveal Dragons Dogma two and this 244 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.320 guy it's Zuno, I think it's the producer here. His face is just 245 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.000 mac. It's perfect. He's so excited about his game, and I kind 246 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.360 of can't help but really love that. But yeah, I'm with you where 247 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.559 I'm like, I tried to get into a place with the game where I'm 248 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:03.319 like, oh, yeah, I want to play it as well and really 249 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:06.480 enjoy it. But I played it on Switch and I think I need to 250 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:08.279 just like actually get it on the Steam deck now and boot it up there 251 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.519 and try to give it a real chance again. But it's it's It was 252 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.680 always described to me as like what if Japan made Skyrim and that like that 253 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:22.240 sounds fantastic, that sounds very good. Yeah, so what doing it like 254 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.640 that? Now? I think I'm more more obviously curious, Yeah, more 255 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.960 obviously curious of course. Uh, this guy they didn't like provide details about 256 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:36.039 like when it's coming or anything like that. I did write some details here, 257 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.720 like the announcement was made by director Had Hit Hit It Hockey It's Uno. 258 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:42.119 At the conclusion of the celebration, though only a logo for the game 259 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.440 was shown. It's in development, but how far along it happens to be 260 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.680 is still a mystery U and I can't. I think I got that from 261 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:53.799 BGC, so sorry, sorry about that. But yeah, we're gonna have 262 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:57.039 to wait to see more from this game. But them confirming it's real, 263 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.160 it's pretty big. I don't think we're gonna have to wait too long though, 264 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.200 because this is one of those games. And this is another thing we'll 265 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.200 talk about today that was in the Nvidia League, and it was in the 266 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.559 Nvidia League quite smmer time ago, but even before that, it was in 267 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:15.799 the big Capcom Hack, which was this major like someone breaching Capcom security and 268 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:21.480 getting a ton of data. And Dragon's Dogma two was always slated for I 269 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:23.559 think like next year, maybe even like at one point it was slated for 270 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:26.359 this year or something like that. It's supposed to it was supposed to be 271 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.519 coming up soon. This was a few years ago, and again we talked 272 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:33.680 about how those timelines expand rapidly, so who knows, maybe by now it 273 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.480 is twenty twenty four, But that means even if it is twenty twenty four, 274 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.440 that means we're gonna be seeing some stuff in this game within the next 275 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:41.720 six months to a year. We're gonna be seeing quite a bit of it. 276 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.880 So it's not it's not like they're going to announce this and then go 277 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.599 dark for five years. That's not where they're at with this game. So 278 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:52.519 that's okay, that's good. Up next, Sonic Team Boss says fans don't 279 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:56.720 yet understand what this new gameplay is in Sonic Frontiers. This is by Andy 280 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:02.599 Robinson at VGC. First of all, a quick note this game apparently, 281 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:04.240 and this comes from IGN and IGN's first which has like a lot of the 282 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.720 exclusives in this game. Uh, this game is gonna take twenty to thirty 283 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.480 hours to complete. How does that? How does that work for you? 284 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.960 Jan That doesn't seem fast. That does not seem fast. That's right. 285 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.720 Uh, this is a franchise that has always had like you know, we're 286 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.400 gonna breeze through these levels and run through them, and it's like twenty to 287 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.720 thirty hours means there has to be a lot of stuff to do if they're 288 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.400 going to maintain that same like you're you're joking, but you're also not wrong. 289 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:34.200 Like there's something about the speed of Sonic that may mix his games so 290 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:38.680 usually a little bit shorter. Uh will they be able to maintain that sort 291 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:44.559 of brisk pace while giving us twenty to thirty hours of content? I don't 292 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:48.240 know without you know, resorting to a lot of repetition we'll store. Uh 293 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:51.640 so yeah, this, like I said, this comes from VGC and they 294 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:56.079 write delay. Sonic Frontiers was briefly trended on Twitter earlier in June, after 295 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.640 many Sonic fans took the social media platforms to vent their disappointment over the first 296 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.759 video showing the game in action. At the recent Summer Game Fest play Day's 297 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.680 event in Los Angeles. Hands on sessions also resulted in wildly mixed reactions from 298 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:14.559 the press. And then this is a quote from Ayazuka, who is the 299 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.599 producer of the game. It's not really that surprising, he says, Uh, 300 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.400 he's going to He's going on. He goes on to argue that fans 301 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.759 didn't yet understand the brand of open zone game, so that the game that 302 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.079 Sonic team is making an open zone is that phrasing that they keep using to 303 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.559 say that this is what's different about this game from other games, but he 304 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.960 doesn't. When he goes on to sort of explain what it is, it 305 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:40.720 still sounds a lot like an open world game. But I mean, this 306 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:42.319 is a little bit of the explanation. Unlike previous games in the series, 307 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:48.279 Sonic Frontier deviates from its linear format in favor of something closer to an open 308 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.079 world structure. Ayazuka explained that while Frontiers appeared to allow players to go wherever 309 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:56.720 they want in a sprawling environment, that's not quite how the game works. 310 00:20:56.119 --> 00:21:00.319 And then that's kind of where we're left. We'll less quote here and then 311 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:04.000 we'll discuss this. The team is going out and creating this new game format 312 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.680 for Sonic and we're calling it an open zone format, and this new game 313 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.440 system itself is something that doesn't really exist in any other comparable titles. So 314 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.119 we really hope that from here until launch, we can really explain what open 315 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:21.720 zone gameplay is. Jan I am, I'm I just don't know if I'm 316 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:26.039 buying this this marketing term. It's it's blast processing all over again. I 317 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:30.480 was gonna say, did they just think they invented open world format? It 318 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:36.680 happens, right, Like Nintendo's called the open areas of Zelda like open air 319 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:38.200 gameplay, and so to say an open world. They're like, this is 320 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:42.559 like it's an open air game and like, but there's something about what that 321 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:47.680 Zelda team was talking about, Like that makes a little bit more sense to 322 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:49.839 me. Maybe once we play this game, we'll see. But right here, 323 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:53.279 the way they're explaining it, I'm not like they're admitted themselves that. 324 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.920 They're like, we need to explain this more so people understand. Maybe there 325 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:00.000 is something more to this, But to me, it just sounds like Sonic 326 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.519 runs around in zones. These ones are more open, so they're open zones, 327 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.680 right, Yeah, I'm curious. Maybe it's going to be something like 328 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:12.480 Bowser's Fury where you're you know, you're running around an open area, but 329 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:21.400 there are segmented, curated levels in the open zone of for Sonic or and 330 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:25.200 the Sonic team probably hasn't played a Bowser's Fury, so they wouldn't know about 331 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:26.720 that, right, that makes sense? Yeah, right there, they're still 332 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:32.240 keeping traditional alive and hating everything Nintendo's making, so they're not paying attention to 333 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:37.119 the competition. Yeah, I see someone bring up it could be something similar 334 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.839 to Mario Galaxy, right where yeah, in the same vein there are maybe 335 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:47.000 little planets to approach, maybe there's little zones that are open. Sonic just 336 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:48.599 turns its keyton It's like, oh, look at this, You're right, 337 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.400 like you're bigger containers for Sonic to run around in. It's it's hard to 338 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.599 get that from the trailers. And I know you only looked over people's shoulders 339 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.400 who were playing, but I mean, from what you saw, did it 340 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.039 mostly look like Sonic was able to run around a vast open space? I 341 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:07.759 mean like it was it's bigger than like this the field and in zel to 342 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:11.480 sixty four right, yes, yes. And and from the couple of folks 343 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:14.400 I talked to that they got the chance to play it, it was it 344 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:17.519 was like what you would said. It's very middling across the board of like, 345 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.440 oh, there's good stuff to it, but there's also not so good 346 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:26.599 stuff about it. I just I think I've still hung up on the art 347 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.440 style that they're going for, and I think this just highlights a problem that 348 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:33.839 I have with a lot of next gen or I guess now current gen games, 349 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:41.200 where we gotta go super photo realistic versus some type of arts her aesthetic. 350 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.039 You know, I don't mean to poke fun at chess with like there 351 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:51.319 being too many colors in Horizon Forbidden West. I would love too many colors 352 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:55.240 in Sonic Frontiers. Maybe they should swap, they should swap their stuff, 353 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:59.480 like let's have let's Sonic have some of those colors please. I That's where 354 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:02.960 I'm at with with this game. I don't like looking at it, and 355 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.240 so everything else is sort of falling flat for me because I just really find 356 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.839 it kind of hideous to look at It's it's it's just, you know, 357 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:17.200 it's a gap of expectations. Sonic should be this gorgeous game. It always 358 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:19.759 was, and so it's always been its appeal. It's fast and it's beautiful 359 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.839 in a way that many other games weren't, especially at that time. And 360 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:27.519 this game just feels like it is like a subpart for what today's games are 361 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:32.599 doing, let alone where a Sonic game should be in terms of just wowing 362 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.400 you with colors and style, and it just doesn't have any of that. 363 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:41.160 So yeah, I don't know why, Like, especially looking back at like 364 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.960 the trailers just now, it just seems like why does Sonic seems so dour. 365 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:49.519 Yeah, I wish they had taken a gosh. I forget what the 366 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.680 game is called, but it came out last year. You were roller skating 367 00:24:53.720 --> 00:25:00.359 on fluffy clouds of ice and fighting giants space Kaiju, Gods, God, 368 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:03.839 I need to double check with that. Yeah, I might know what you're 369 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.920 talking about, but I can't remember the name while you're checking on that. 370 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:12.039 Let's let's let's get onto this next one Overwatch too. This is seven Ways 371 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:18.039 Everything is Changing by Lucy James at game Spot work with her. Yeah, 372 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.079 we know, Lucy, it's that's very helpful. She spins over and I 373 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:25.680 was like, thank you so much, Lucy. So this comes directly from 374 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:27.519 Lucy James the script for the video, which you can watch on game Spot, 375 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:30.799 which is very very helpful, So go watch that as well. But 376 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:36.400 the seven things are it's free to play, there's a new seasonal model, 377 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:40.960 there's a year one roadmap that is going to give like distinct details about what's 378 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:45.079 coming up. Lootboxes and new cosmetics are changing. There are no more loot 379 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:49.880 boxes PVEE a big difference, and Junker Queen is the new character. And 380 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:53.240 then there's gonna be new maps. So just to dive into these things a 381 00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:57.000 little bit more, especially the free to play and the seasonal model. These 382 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:00.480 are the big ones for free to play. Aaron Keller, who is the 383 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.920 director of the game now, he said, rather than releasing another box that 384 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.240 players would have to buy in order to opt into the experience, we'd rather 385 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:11.440 open the game to as broad of a population as possible. Overwatch is a 386 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.960 game of teamwork and cooperation and strategy, and we feel like it's played best 387 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.960 in a social setting with your friends, and so removing that barrier to entry, 388 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.400 the price as a barrier to entry is hopefully a way for you to 389 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.480 be able to play with more of your friends and have a better experience with 390 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:30.000 the game. This is some benefits are coming with this, for example, 391 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.079 cross platform progression. When sure that if you have unlocks him one version of 392 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:37.599 the game, they will now get bunched together and you'll get him on all 393 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.519 versions of the game. So if you've played on PlayStation and PC before, 394 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:42.799 well, now all that stuff's going to be in one account for you, 395 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:47.200 and they're gonna migrate or what is it called when they put over they unify, 396 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:51.599 They're gonna unify all your stuff together. So that's something again, like 397 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.319 where are you at with Overwatch and going free to play? Does that increase 398 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.680 the likelihood that you'll check out this what is essentially a big update in Overwatch 399 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.440 two. I guess knowing that I'm not going to have to pay for anything 400 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:08.599 right out the gate or friends to pay things like, that's always the thing 401 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:11.440 for me, Like you don't have to ask a friend to go pay, 402 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:14.440 just go download this and we can play, right Yeah. I mean that's 403 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.000 been like the easiest sell for folks or for my friends to get his stuff 404 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:23.640 like Roller Champions or Knockout six last year. From what I played from that 405 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:29.880 early network test a couple of weeks ago, I'm still not one hundred percent 406 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:36.039 sold. But that was still the PvP. I might be interested to see 407 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:41.400 what the eventual PV is gonna look like. Overwatch had a couple of seasonal 408 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:45.319 modes where they introduced something similar to PV stuff, and that was okay, 409 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:49.079 But I think that it might not have been fully baked because it was just 410 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:56.160 like a seasonal special thing versus a full on dedicated mode. I could. 411 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:03.519 I am mildly intrigued. I'm mildly intrigued. I'm not looking to doing PvP 412 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:08.240 because I had miserable experiences playing that network test. Right, maybe if I 413 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:11.839 was playing with you know, on Mike, with folks that I knew and 414 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.960 and maybe one of us knew actually how to play the game and its current 415 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:19.119 state in the meta, that might be a different experience. But like just 416 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:26.680 popping into those random games where like outright like garbage, well, if they 417 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.039 are able to get you back in, there is a new seasonal model that 418 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.319 might be more appealing to keeping you around. Over the past couple of years, 419 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.279 Overwatch has definitely had a bit of a content problem, writes Lucy James 420 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.440 in our video. Yes there's been timed events and regular competitive seasons, but 421 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.240 the last new hero we got was Echo, and she launched over two years 422 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.000 ago. With overlaunched two becoming free to play, the Overwatched team is being 423 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:53.160 more transparent with players, changing how they approach releasing new content and making sure 424 00:28:53.160 --> 00:29:00.200 there isn't there's enough frequent updates to keep players coming back. And then this 425 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.359 is another quote from Aaron Keller. One of the big changes that we're making 426 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.279 to Overwatch, and one of the big changes that the team has really embraced, 427 00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:08.400 is that we really want to bring players along on this journey with us, 428 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:12.079 so we want to be more transparent about what we're doing, and we 429 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:18.079 want to give greater detail with what our plan is. So one of the 430 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:21.240 big things with Overwatch too that they've kind of talked about in all these details 431 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:25.680 is these these seasons are going to come rapidly and they're gonna last for about 432 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.279 at most. It sounds like a two and a half months around that range. 433 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.759 And when they come, they're going to usually bring a new character with 434 00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:37.599 them and a bunch of other stuff, potentially new maps. So if you 435 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.440 do get into it, there is going to be a lot of new content 436 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.519 coming all the time to keep things fresh. To be that almost seems a 437 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.839 little bit overwhelming, But where what do you think, jan It does seem 438 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:53.680 incredibly overwhelming, because you know, I fall into this with Destiny, where 439 00:29:53.759 --> 00:30:00.480 every time a new Destiny update or release comes out, not release Season of 440 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.039 Destiny comes out, I'm like, Ah, this is gonna be the time 441 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:08.119 I get into Destiny. But then I see the overwhelming mountain of content that 442 00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:12.400 I'd have to work my way through, and I'm already trying to do that 443 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:17.680 with Final Fantasy fourteen, that I can't think that I physically have time. 444 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.559 So it's like it's not like your one game, which is like if you 445 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:25.720 if this was your one game, these wouldn't be problems, but like exciting 446 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.880 to make it maybe one of those new the one games having a lot of 447 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.160 content. Like I said, it's overwhelming for me, I know fans, 448 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:34.000 for fans of the game, this is a very exciting thing. Yes, 449 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:38.119 one hundred percent. If this Overwatch and Overwatch two is going to be your 450 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.880 game, especially if it's your game with friends, and this is a good 451 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.799 problem to have. But for someone on the outside that has been overwatched, 452 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:51.680 curious, or at least dipping back in and out over the past couple of 453 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:56.200 years, it's intimidating. Else Yes, they are trying to make it a 454 00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.960 little bit more friendly though with ways of getting new content, or at least 455 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.960 maybe maybe this might appeal more to people like us Jan where it's they are 456 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:08.519 getting rid of lootboxes, so instead of forcing you to play a lot to 457 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:11.359 earn some goal to get a couple of loot boxes, there's just going to 458 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.400 be a battle pass. So if you do end up paying a little bit 459 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.319 of money just by playing you'll regularly unlocked stuff, and I think they think 460 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.920 this is a little bit more friendly, and maybe it sounds good to me, 461 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:25.079 But I'll talk a little bit more about like maybe why big fans of 462 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.559 this game might not feel as great about it. But they said leveling up 463 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:32.440 in Overwatch two won't net you that sweet sweet lootbox anymore. When we ask 464 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.519 Aaron why, he had this to say. As the game has grown, 465 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.240 and especially as we go into a free to play version of the game where 466 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.880 adding more and more cosmetics, it becomes a lot harder to earn what you 467 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.319 want with a lootbox system. By losing those and moving over to a shop 468 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.359 for Overwatch too, it gives players the actual agency and the choice to go 469 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.559 after what it is they want to have in the game. So trying not 470 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:56.440 to sneeze, it's there is gonna be a battle pass, but they also 471 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.039 are just going to have the shop available for you to spend money. And 472 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.039 again, this sounds pretty He's similar to how it works in Apex Legends. 473 00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:06.599 So I think some games have been doing this free to play shooter stuff for 474 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:10.119 a while. Now it sounds like Blizzard is looking at them and taking some 475 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:14.519 lessons and they're going to try to do what they're doing. I'll say that 476 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:16.559 I have a friend, Mike Manady, huge Blizzard fan. He's played a 477 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:21.039 ton of Overwatch. You met Mike. He's a he's he's a good boy. 478 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:23.559 He's a good boy. He played like so much Overwatched that he almost 479 00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:27.000 never spent any money and yet was able to get many of the skins he 480 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.079 wanted because he would just grind and get gold, and then he would get 481 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:31.720 loot boxes, and when he had doubles, that would turn into gold, 482 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:35.240 and so when a new event would come along, he would just use that 483 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.240 gold to buy a few loot boxes and he would get a lot of the 484 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:42.119 stuff he wanted. So to him, he was like, I like that 485 00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:45.519 old system. This new system sounds like if I want to have a chance 486 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.720 of getting the stuff I really want, I will have to spend some money 487 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.319 and we'll see. We'll see they offer like a solution for him, But 488 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:55.400 also I think like they want him spending money, right, That kind of 489 00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:59.599 seems like if he's playing them that much, they probably want like, okay, 490 00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:01.079 he was ways to not monetize, So maybe there's that side of it 491 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:07.000 as well. Do you think this is at all due to the fact that 492 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:13.519 in places like Belgium, ludeboxes have become illegal. You know, this is 493 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:15.480 probably a very good point. Yeah, there's a couple of countries where you 494 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.240 can't do this at all, and maybe they're just like, hey, let's 495 00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:24.160 avoid any potential of like that becoming more widespread. Like what they've done a 496 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:29.200 lot of companies have done is they just don't release their game in Belgium instead 497 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.680 of like making changes, I know, like FIFA I think doesn't work in 498 00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:37.000 Belgium anymore. You have to use a VPN. So yeah, you might 499 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:39.279 be onto something there. That's a really good point. And so this is 500 00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:45.480 ensures that they're like, hey, we could still use the most modern concept 501 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:49.839 of what good monetization looks like. And then also it's much more aligned with 502 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.680 where the law is at. So yeah, I bet lawyers had to say 503 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:53.440 on this and they're like, hey this, Yeah, thumbs up, we 504 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:58.279 approve. So that's probably a big part of it. Yeah, and then 505 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.519 there's the p V which they say is coming in. It's gonna be a 506 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:05.000 big part of the game. I still feel like we're early on hearing more 507 00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:07.400 details about that. And if you want to see stuff with the Junker Queen 508 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.079 again. Go watch Lucy James's video. It was it was very in depth. 509 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:15.000 Next story, eight bit Dough, which is a controller company. I 510 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.599 have one of the controllers right here. I'm gonna bring up on video everybody. 511 00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:22.159 It's a big one. Hang on, show and tell. I got 512 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:23.880 one of their big controllers. It's big and heavy and but I like it 513 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:27.320 all. I'm gonna use it to play Turtles when we do six player Turtles 514 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.679 on the sight here pretty soon. But they are releasing the eight bit Dough 515 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.960 light Se, which is a new Bluetooth controller for gamers with limited mobility. 516 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:39.320 This is by Nathan Edwards at the Verge. Eight bit Dough is launching a 517 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:44.800 Bluetooth controller for gamers with limited mobility. Developed in coordination with a dad and 518 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:49.920 his young son who has spinal muscular atrophy type two. The light Se works 519 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.400 with a Nintendo Switch and Android and is available for pre order at eight bit 520 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:58.199 Dough for thirty five dollars with a ship date of July fifteenth. Just real 521 00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.119 quick thing. The thing that like sets the light se apart is it's putting 522 00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:05.639 all of the button so that you need to use to play a game on 523 00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:09.119 the face, so there's no more buttons on the shoulders. It has like 524 00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:14.360 sticks, but it also has all of the buttons for the analog sticks mapped 525 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:17.000 out as individual buttons and stuff like that, so it's really just kind of 526 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:21.079 putting everything there on a flat surface. It has an anti grip back. 527 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:22.519 Well, let me read the rest of the description from the Verge. The 528 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.159 light SEC, which looks a lot like the light controller ipitt dough launched in 529 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.320 twenty nineteen. It is designed to be used either handheld or flat on a 530 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:35.000 table. The trigger and bumper buttons are gone, replaced with L one, 531 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.679 L two, R one, and R two buttons on the front of the 532 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.039 controller, L three and R three, which is when you press the sticks 533 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:44.840 in they have their own buttons as well, rather than relying on any analog 534 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:47.880 stick click and all of the impitts puts are more sensitive and easier to press. 535 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.920 There's an anti slip map built into the back of the controller to keep 536 00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:55.840 it from sliding around when used flat. And then the one thing I added 537 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:59.800 this note because I'm not sure if they've said this or not explicitly, but 538 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:05.559 has its ultimate software which when you install it or use it on the console, 539 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:07.760 you could remap the controls. So this should enable like these people to 540 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:14.559 be anyone who needs to use the controller to uh if they want certain button 541 00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:16.800 to do a certain thing, or to add macros, you should be able 542 00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:22.159 to just do that in this software. And it should work now. And 543 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.440 again, I don't know if apidough has confirmed that, but I think that's 544 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:29.239 the way that it should work. This it's a pretty cool thing, right, 545 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:32.559 Like the apidough is like already well known for cool stuff like this, 546 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:36.360 where it's just like, hey, that's there's something that appeals to an old 547 00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:39.440 man like me, a big arcade stick that looks like the nes advantage controller. 548 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:43.639 And it does seem like they're going a little bit out of their way 549 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.239 to be like, hey, we have the ability to design these things, 550 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:49.440 and let's just see if we can work with someone. And they put out 551 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.360 a video where they do work with this family and uh and and this kid 552 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.760 is just like, hey, I love to play games. I try I 553 00:36:55.800 --> 00:37:00.079 find ways to do it. My family has built controllers for me, but 554 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.239 they're rickety and they're built on cardboard. And here's the company's coming up and 555 00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.239 solving these problems for me. This is pretty cool, right, Yeah, 556 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:13.400 this is super cool. I'm all about helping folks with disabilities or mobility issues 557 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:17.280 be able to play the games that they want to play. Yea Xbox controller 558 00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.119 was like a super need idea that came out like what three Yeah, the 559 00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.840 adaptive controller. Absolutely, yes. And the thing with the adaptive controller is 560 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:31.880 it has all of the inputs that all sort of these peripherals that people already 561 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:36.719 like plug into the like wheelchairs and assist of devices. There's a lot of 562 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.159 common ports that they use, and it's usually like almost like a phone jack 563 00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:44.599 and stuff like that. The adaptive controller has all of those ports and makes 564 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:47.079 it very easy to just plug in anything that you might already have to make 565 00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:51.960 it super accessible. This is like kind of going in a different direction where 566 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.320 it's like, let's make something that works really well for a kid who has 567 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:59.960 limited mobility, and it's like okay, and think about the adaptive controller. 568 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:01.679 It is big and you do have to plug in other stuff. This is 569 00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:04.639 just like okay, if you want something that's just going to be right in 570 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.119 front of you and has all the inputs you need, this is like solving 571 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.760 the problem in a slightly different way and maybe that's what this market needs. 572 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:14.440 This uh, you know, really large mind. I remember I talked to 573 00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:17.639 Stephen Spahn, who is one of the founders of able Gamers, and and 574 00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:22.679 he was like, there is no one size fits all solution. There is 575 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.320 never any solution where it's like if a developer just does this, they are 576 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:30.320 going to serve this, uh, this market of people with limited mobility. 577 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:34.920 But if you, if you, if you do put stuff out, this 578 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.239 is also a market that does have money to spend. And he was like 579 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:43.239 very adamant about this where it's like people just think that all they ever here 580 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.119 are the stories of people struggling to pay medical bills, and he's like, 581 00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:49.599 yeah, that stuff happens, and we need to talk about that. But 582 00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:53.119 there are people when they go home at night, they still find entertainment in 583 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:58.360 the same way as everyone else. So them having access to these games is 584 00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:01.639 super important. And I think this was very cool. Yeah, Steve put 585 00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:06.719 something in perspective to me that I actually had never thought about games like Tower 586 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:09.920 Unite or VR chat or these social hubs of games. I thought they were 587 00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:13.960 just made for degenerates. But then Steve had put it in a perspective, 588 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:17.719 like you know, for for folks like in Steve's position, that is, 589 00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:22.000 that is a way where they can go hang out with their friends that is 590 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.960 so easy, and they can go to a dance club listen to music. 591 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.440 So I there's never anything wrong with more accessibility. I see a couple of 592 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:37.960 folks complaining about build quality for eight bid Do stuff, so I think, 593 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.880 yeah, I was gonna say, I've occasionally had issue, but it's like 594 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.079 companies like Razor, I think are have way worse bill quality and I I've 595 00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:49.960 like used some eight bid Do controls for a very long time, but they've 596 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.679 also have been pretty good about like like refilling orders. If like you have 597 00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:57.239 an issue, they will you know, RMCA and get replaced pretty quickly. 598 00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.719 But uh yeah, if other people have had that shoe, then yeah, 599 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:06.559 that's important to bring up as well. M All right, let's let's get 600 00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:12.119 this next story. Activision clears itself of all wrongdoing by Ethan gack Over at 601 00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:16.920 Kataku nearly a year after an explosive lawsuit by the California Department of Fair Employment 602 00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:22.119 and Housing kicked off a firestorm of sexual harassment and discrimination allegations. Act at 603 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:25.840 Activision, Blizzard, a board of Directors working group investigating the company has released 604 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:30.400 its findings, led by a twenty five year veteran of the Call of Duty 605 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:35.440 publisher. The group concluded there was never any systemic issue with harassment, discrimination, 606 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:42.280 or retaliation at Activision Blizzard. I'm shocked. Wow, activisions at Activision 607 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:47.320 did nothing wrong right, and I'm shocked and believe them. I don't believe 608 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:52.039 them. This is this is uh, this is a you know what here? 609 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.039 Let me read another quote. Contrary to many of the allegations, the 610 00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:58.880 board and its external advisors have determined that there is no evidence to suggest that 611 00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:04.400 Activision Blizzards see your executives ever intentionally ignored or attempted to downplay the instances of 612 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.519 gender harassment that occurred and were reported the workplace where this is the Workplace Responsibility 613 00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:14.119 Committee wrote in a shareholder message on June sixteen, and it was in an 614 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:17.360 SEC filing for everyone to see. While there are some substantiated instances of gender 615 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:23.239 harassment, those unfortunate circumstances do not support the conclusion the Activision senior leadership or 616 00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:29.119 the board were aware and tolerated gender harassment, or that there was ever a 617 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:35.599 systemic issue with harassment discrimination or retaliation. Ethan goes on the right here. 618 00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:39.119 These findings are aimed squarely at refuting allegations in the Dfeach lawsuit and those raised 619 00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:44.719 in the November twenty twenty one Wall Street Journal investigation. The latter reported that 620 00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:49.400 Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Cottick failed to report a twenty eighteen settlement with an alleged 621 00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:52.280 rape victim at Call of Duty Vanguard makers sledge Hammer Games to the company's board. 622 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:58.119 The summaries also hard to square with the landmark eighteen million dollars settlement with 623 00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:01.400 the EOC for recent them it's a harassment discrimination at the company, At which 624 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:06.599 point Activision itself said, what we have come to realize over the over the 625 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.519 past several months is that there are many truths about our company, individual and 626 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:15.079 collective, experiential and data driven, and sometimes they could be difficult to reconcile. 627 00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.440 The board wrote, it does not it does not elaborate on the details 628 00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.239 or nature of those opposing truths, But that goes on to complain about being 629 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:30.519 wrongly more maligned by an unrelenting barrage of media criticism. So this it sounds 630 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:35.199 like a group that set out with a goal in mind of like, I 631 00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:37.960 mean, their whole perspective here is was the board complicit or not? Like 632 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:40.559 even if like we were to take what they were doing and believe that they 633 00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:45.960 were doing it in good faith, the goal here was not to like suss 634 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.199 out what happened. It was to suss out whether the board was complicit or 635 00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:52.119 not. And to me, it's very hard not to be cynical. It's 636 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.280 very hard not to assume that they are doing that with the intention, especially 637 00:42:57.039 --> 00:43:00.480 knowing who pays their who pays their checks, who writes there, whose name 638 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:04.480 is on their check. Mister activision apocotic. What else do we expect from 639 00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:08.440 them to say? It's it's mildly insane. I know, it's full on 640 00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:15.360 insane to for this to happen and everything, because of course, this person 641 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:21.960 conducting this, I don't want to say that they are coming into this with 642 00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:25.320 a certain mindset to try and sway things to one way, to feel that 643 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:31.719 way, right, and also with the the sale to Microsoft, of course 644 00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:37.440 they don't want any bad things to pop up because that might affect that or 645 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.880 certain people's pay days. Right. I mean, that's exactly the group that 646 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:44.920 we're talking about, the group that stands to benefit the most that would. 647 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:49.559 Maybe it's the stuff that Elizabeth Warren brought up when she was like, we 648 00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.800 want more scrutiny on this deal between Microsoft in Activision, not because they're even 649 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:57.280 that worried about like what it means from the market. Their biggest concern was, 650 00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:00.800 like, we feel like the people in Activision that were complicit and responsible 651 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.320 for bad things happening to many of its employees and burying that stuff are gonna 652 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.719 stand to get a windfall of cash. They're gonna get a huge payday, 653 00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:13.119 and we think that is unfair. And she's absolutely right about that. And 654 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:17.320 that's the scrutiny that could still come before the steel closes, and it seems 655 00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:22.000 like this is directly aimed at avoiding that. And again I use the word 656 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:25.000 seems because it just seems that way to me. I don't know if it 657 00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:30.400 is, but it does seem that way to me. My biggest thing here 658 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:40.119 is, like that original EOC, this is a settlement where Activision basically they 659 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:44.519 I don't know if they probably said that we don't admit wrongdoing in that thing, 660 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:46.039 and then yet we're still giving the money and we're still going to look 661 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:49.800 at ourselves and all that stuff, but probably the wording of the settlement usually 662 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:53.039 is we admit no wrongdoing on a legal basis or whatever. So maybe they 663 00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:57.599 believe this doesn't conflict. But the way they talked about how they have a 664 00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:00.239 lot of truths they need to reconcile with and then now it's like, no, 665 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:06.360 we don't, it's it's it is real whiplash. And then also it's 666 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:10.159 not like this is a a rogue Department of Fair Employment and Housing employee doing 667 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:15.400 this lawsuit. The people there was a whole team responsible for this, many 668 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:20.000 of whom, I think some of whom at this at that groups have now 669 00:45:20.039 --> 00:45:23.320 resigned in protest of the meddling that has happened from the governor of California. 670 00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:27.360 And then the Wall Street Journal report, the Wall Street Journal is not like 671 00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:32.639 this is a These are two different entities corroborating what is happening inside of activision. 672 00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:37.400 There's just so much evidence that we can tell what kind of environment was 673 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.599 happening there, and and and again like the like when this story stories came 674 00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:45.840 out, there was stuff like Bobby Coda tried to protect one of the leaders 675 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:50.000 of Call of Duty back when he was accused of harassment and I think sexual 676 00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:54.280 sexual misconduct on a gross level. And when that, when that came out, 677 00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:58.639 that guy finally resigned at that point, so he had been there this 678 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:00.360 entire time. So if he was protect him, he was protecting them that 679 00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:06.239 entire time. I don't know how you can't say that isn't complicit in creating 680 00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:10.719 an atmosphere of people feeling like we are unsafe here. Yeah. Do you 681 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:17.760 do you think that there is any type of loose promise from Microsoft leadership as 682 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:22.280 this transition continues to go along, that like, hey, stuff will be 683 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:28.280 different, there will be cultural changes, or has it mostly as of right 684 00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:34.719 now still been pretty hands off in terms of Microsoft operating. Microsoft and Activision 685 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:39.119 operating as different entities. So Microsoft and Activision. Microsoft cannot interfere at all 686 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:43.119 with Activision at this point. They can't. They can't tell them what they 687 00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:45.960 want anything like that. What Microsoft can do is have a team, an 688 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:50.440 onboarding team, ready to go, prepped and ready to go that when the 689 00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:53.039 deal closes, they can just launch that shuttle over to this other ship and 690 00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:59.880 say, Okay, now here's how it's going to be. Microsoft has real 691 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:05.239 a real strong desire to both appear very progressive, but also to keep it 692 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:08.679 cool with Washington. Microsoft went through it all once already in the nineties with 693 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:14.480 the anti trust lawsuits, and since then they have kept a very strong and 694 00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:20.199 positive relationship with people in Washington. While Facebook and Twitter and even Apple and 695 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:22.480 a bunch of other companies have repeatedly had to come up to Capitol Hill and 696 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:27.559 explain themselves over and over again, they rarely do that with Microsoft. Microsoft 697 00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.800 usually gets to scape by as not one of these companies that is invading our 698 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.719 privacy and all that stuffy and they spent a lot of time and money creating 699 00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:39.920 that reality and anything that threatens that they are going to deal with. And 700 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:44.079 I think a situation where they bring in a company and they don't deal with 701 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:47.119 its culture threatens that. It's something that Elizabeth Warren has already talked about, 702 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:52.320 and so they were gonna want to deal with it. Now are they going 703 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:53.599 to deal with it? Because it's the right thing to do. I think 704 00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:57.320 it part some for a lot of people, and they're hiring people who really 705 00:47:57.320 --> 00:47:59.679 do want to do that sort of thing because it's the right thing to do. 706 00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:01.840 At a certain point, what else can you ask from a corporation, 707 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:07.360 right, corporation is just a an entity that hires and fires certain people, 708 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.960 and who it hires is is who the company corporation wants to be. And 709 00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:14.360 so if they're hiring people that truly believe that, I think that's the best 710 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.119 we can really kind of ask for. But then really this is again about 711 00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:22.519 keeping that strong relationship with Washington and doing what's good for business, which is 712 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:28.239 not being a company that is seen as enabling sex pests. Speaking about enabling 713 00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:30.599 sex pests. I don't know if you have an eye on the chat, 714 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:37.760 mister grub, but someone tweeted an article written by Imron bringing up that, 715 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:44.880 oh God, that there's going to be a vote on how Activision has been 716 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:50.280 handling these harassment claims. If they vote one way, Codik gets back his 717 00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:55.320 old salary And it's just very transparent, isn't it, and a twenty two 718 00:48:55.360 --> 00:49:00.159 million dollar bonus. So this is from Mron on over at fan By. 719 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:02.960 I'm just gonna read his tweet. So the reason they did this is because 720 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.239 the investors are about to vote on whether they're satisfied with how Activision has been 721 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:12.199 handling the harassment claims if they are, and it's rigged that they will be 722 00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:17.199 Coda gets his old cellar back and a twenty two million dollar bonus. Jesus, 723 00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:22.440 it's again just seems very transparent to me. What is happening? And 724 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:28.519 I believe this reporting from Embron that sounds exactly like what's happening? All right? 725 00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:34.039 Well, on my uhame on my podcast, we have a section. 726 00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:36.960 I got a guy that helps you do news, a canoeble, and he 727 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:40.000 has a section that's always just labeled Albecotick is an asshole. And so maybe 728 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.760 we'll bring that section over here to this show every day. Uh. Pokemon 729 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:49.960 Snap comes to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack on June twenty fourth. This is 730 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.039 by Tom Ivan at VGC. Not much else to say here, but this 731 00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:55.519 is available. You know what I think I do. I have the trailer. 732 00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:58.800 Let's just let's let's try, let's cut over to it, let's watch 733 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:04.719 this while let's yeah, exactly, this is pleasant listening there. Switch Online 734 00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:07.400 Expansion Pack. This is the fifty dollars a year one, so you have 735 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:08.639 to you have to upgrade, but if you do, you get the n 736 00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:13.079 sixty four version of Pokemon Snap, not new Pokemon Snap, which just came 737 00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:16.719 on the Switch last year. But this the original game that was maybe the 738 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:20.559 best rental of all time because you just rank it and you go through and 739 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:25.000 you take pictures of the Pokemon jan you gotta play this. Probably I played 740 00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:29.519 through this for the first time. God, I don't even remember what year 741 00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:32.840 it is, but sometime during the pandemic. And this was actually one of 742 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:38.000 the harder games on the N sixty four to get working on modern hardware. 743 00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:44.239 Yes, like just throwing this in your emulator of choice did not completely work 744 00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:47.559 yet to do a couple of things to get it working. But I really 745 00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:52.199 enjoyed this, I want to say, maybe more than the New Pokemon Snap. 746 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:54.599 Yeah. I just never got around to playing that New Pokemon Snap, 747 00:50:54.599 --> 00:50:58.039 and I was I guess, I don't know. I thought I wanted it, 748 00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:00.760 and then you know, the reaction to it was like what you just 749 00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:04.800 did right there? Kind of like what was wrong with it? What was 750 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:08.559 wrong with New Pokemon Snap? You know? I you remember how in the 751 00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:15.159 original Pokemon Snap there are your branching paths and you gotta do a couple of 752 00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:19.719 things to tragger, like the room Goldberg of everything. They were a little 753 00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:23.519 there was a little bit too much of that going on and replaying and grinding 754 00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:29.079 levels on the new Pokemon Switch all right, not Pokemon Switch, the New 755 00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:34.480 Pokemon Snap. Yeah, it's uh. I'm probably gonna go back and just 756 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:38.239 play this original one. And if I get the urge and I have extra 757 00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:42.360 money burning money burning a hole in my pocket, maybe I'll pick up New 758 00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:45.360 Pokemon Snap because I do want to play it, but I don't know why. 759 00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.000 I think the kids would love it, probably, but they may get 760 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:54.000 They might get super frustrated though, like how come the new levels aren't unlocking? 761 00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:58.960 Why do I have to keep doing this one over and over again? 762 00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:01.360 Yeah, fair enough, she does. She does get frustrated when the I 763 00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:05.840 have the tablet sets so it won't play ads because it goes to like a 764 00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:09.519 you know, an ad hole where they all disappeared, so like you can't 765 00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:13.559 unlock some of these other levels that need you to watch the ads first. 766 00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:15.920 But so she just keeps playing the first levels over and over, so maybe 767 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:19.320 she'll be okay with them, all right. Call of Duty war Zone in 768 00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.920 Vanguards Season four start times are Listen to hear this one's by e Si Doster 769 00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:27.519 at game Spot. New content is arriving to Vanguard in War Zone with the 770 00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:30.280 launch of Call of Duty Season four on June twenty second. Season four is 771 00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:35.639 called Mercenaries of Fortune, which is themed around vanguards, once allied operators who 772 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:38.760 are now feuding over an abundance of gold figure. I'll just give you guys 773 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:43.960 the dates on that one. This is from Jordan Miller at VGC. Console 774 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:49.599 supplies could remain rocky through twenty twenty two, says Xbox CFO. This was 775 00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:52.000 part a they called that Baird, which is a financial services company. Like 776 00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:54.360 whenever you listen, if you ever listen, and I don't know this is 777 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:58.800 just me, maybe I'm talking about if you ever listened to an earnings call 778 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:00.199 from a company, you'll have to a point where a bunch of people come 779 00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:04.559 and ask questions. One of those people's from Baird. That they had the 780 00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:08.280 CFO, Tim Stewart of Xbox come on and he said that he expects that 781 00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:13.599 the supply chain environment could remain rocky through twenty twenty two and the holiday season. 782 00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:16.840 He says that multiple issues are facing the supply chain. These include part 783 00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:23.039 shortages which were which reportedly favor series as consoles, and elevated logistics pricing pressuring 784 00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:29.039 margins, So like even when they can find a part, like these companies 785 00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:31.360 are like hesitant to pull the trigger because like maybe we can find a cheaper 786 00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.639 part to keep our margins high, because that that there's a pressure on the 787 00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:39.000 people making these purchasing decisions. Uh, that does it for the news? 788 00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:45.239 Jano choa. Should we get to the ketchup? I love ketchup. Slap 789 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:50.199 some ketchup on this mess? All right? So first I wanted to ask 790 00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:54.239 you a question about what everyone's kind of been talking about since that event yesterday, 791 00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:58.880 other when they're getting excited about Fonna Fantasy seven. Absolutely, there's all 792 00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:01.239 kinds of stuff to get excited about. But then if you're on Xbox, 793 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:06.880 you say, am I ever gonna get Final Fantasy seven remake on the Xbox? 794 00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:09.159 It seems like Sony has locked up as much Final Fantasy it can as 795 00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:14.599 it can, or that it cares to lock up. I was I'm like, 796 00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:16.039 just I didn't know yesterday if they would pull the trigger, But when 797 00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:20.719 they didn't, I wasn't too surprised. What was your reaction, Were you 798 00:54:20.719 --> 00:54:23.280 surprised that it's not coming to Xbox? He still, I was surprised. 799 00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:29.159 I was definitely surprised that it that Final Fantasy seven remake has not made its 800 00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:34.719 way onto game passed or Xbox platforms just yet. I'm now of the mindset 801 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:40.880 that I feel like Final Fantasy fourteen will actually make its way to game Pass 802 00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:45.679 sooner than Final Fantasy seven will. Yeah, I almost see it as a 803 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:53.079 joint of like, once part two of the remake is out maybe six or 804 00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:58.280 so months, then it'll hit PC year old, they'll do the epic deal 805 00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:02.320 again, and then eventually it'll make its way to game Pass. I feel 806 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:07.639 like Final Fantasy fourteen, I don't want to say it's bigger than the remake 807 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:13.159 seven remake, but I feel like that is more of an attainable thing to 808 00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:17.440 get onto game Pass versus seven for some reason. Yeah, and it's well, 809 00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:21.960 it just seems like Sony thinks at Final Fantasy seven is a big deal, 810 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:24.800 and it's it's probably like in the right range of being a big deal 811 00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:28.920 and yet still pretty affordable in terms of what they have to pay to Sony 812 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:34.400 or pay to score Enix to keep that exclusivity deal expanding and expanding. What's 813 00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:37.599 probably happening here is like every time they have to go renegotiate for the next 814 00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:38.960 part of the series. It's like, well, let's just you know, 815 00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:42.800 at lengthen the time that we get the first game exclusive as well, or 816 00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:45.800 you know exclusive, like the time that we keep it off of Xbox. 817 00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:50.000 Uh. So, I mean to me, it seems like Sony is happy 818 00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:52.360 with it. It's going to keep happening. It's not like, you know, 819 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:57.119 Final Fantasy seven Remake came out and sold a ton right out of the 820 00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:00.679 gate. When it launched on PS four, it was like five million copies, 821 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:01.920 which is good, but it was like that's you know, not as 822 00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:06.599 big as like some other console exclusive games. So again that probably still makes 823 00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:08.519 it pretty affordable, where like Sony is like, okay, we could pute 824 00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:12.800 on an Xbox, but really Sony's giving us a ton of money and it 825 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.039 makes makes it a big deal with that audience, and so maybe this maximizes 826 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:20.000 our potential return on investment in this game. So I'm I think I'm with 827 00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:22.599 you where it's like Final Fantasy four Team probably isn't coming Xbox anytime soon, 828 00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:27.079 but I still think you're right that it's more likely in Final Fantasy seven remake, 829 00:56:27.079 --> 00:56:31.239 which is weird. And then I have this list of in video leaked 830 00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:37.320 games that have been confirmed. Dragons Dogma two was the most recent one, 831 00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:39.159 and now we can check that off. And now we knew that was coming 832 00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:44.320 again because of the Capcom League is attacked. But still this is another game 833 00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.079 on the video league list that has now been checked off. There's some other 834 00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:49.920 games on this list. I want to ask you about if you think we're 835 00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:52.679 gonna get them any time soon? Monster Hunter six, you think we get 836 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:57.559 that soon? I know that would make Jason very happy, and I want 837 00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:00.079 Jason to be happy. I'm gonna say because of that as well. Yeah, 838 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:04.000 So whether or not it's an actual likelihood of happening, I just want 839 00:57:04.079 --> 00:57:06.679 Jason to be happy. Yeah. And then, speaking of Jason being happy, 840 00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:12.039 Tech In eight that make it all happy. I actually don't know about 841 00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:15.360 the tech and series. I feel like I have been out of touch with 842 00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:19.239 what the development process would be like. But sure, even get familiar with 843 00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:22.599 Tech in May. I recommend ranking of tech and endings to you. I'd 844 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:27.840 love to check that out. Yeah. Uh. Final Fantasy nine remake and 845 00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:35.039 Final Fantasy Tactics remaster grub my favorite Final Fantasy And this is always like a 846 00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:38.760 fun question to ask anyone in Games Media. It is Final Fantasy Tactics and 847 00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:45.079 Tactics Advance, right, so gosh, bring me back to Evily's show me 848 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:49.880 them crystals, baby, Yep. I'm I'm hopeful that these gets. I 849 00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:52.960 mean I was expecting these at the squareen Ex Savander or the Sony event that 850 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:55.320 happened recently. And then they announced like the Deo Field Chronicle, but that 851 00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:59.599 was the new strategy game, another game that was on the ENDDIA League list, 852 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:02.800 so yeah, uh, let's see. And then I guess these three 853 00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:07.280 from Take two that we haven't heard anything about x Com three, BioShock RTX 854 00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:14.119 Remaster, and BioShock twenty twenty two, but like BioShock twenty twenty two is 855 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:19.159 less and less likely to be twenty twenty two probably not gonna. They have 856 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:22.840 not even say that they're working on that. I think I think they've said 857 00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:25.039 they were working on it, but uh, they have not showed us anything 858 00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:30.000 from that game. So yeah, okay, well, Kate that I'd be 859 00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:34.400 really interested in an RTX remaster. I'm not normally one for RTX stuff, 860 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:38.719 but they do global elimination, which is like when like they would do all 861 00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:43.199 of the lighting and all the lighting behaves as it really should in reality, 862 00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:46.400 that would I would be I'd be down for them. Let's see. Xbox 863 00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:52.679 Summer Game Fest Events is to include over thirty game demos next week. H 864 00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:54.480 This one I picked up just from Tom Ivan a VGC and this is where 865 00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:57.760 I will put like stuff like if you could play some games and stuff. 866 00:58:57.880 --> 00:59:00.960 We'll put these in the ketchup from June twe first of the twenty seventh, 867 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:05.079 over thirty demos of unreleased indie games will be available to sample, accessible via 868 00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:07.559 the Xbox Dashboard. They'll be playable for one week, and while some might 869 00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:10.960 be made available again at a later date, most will simply be removed. 870 00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:15.920 So get in there and check that out. A cool thing to note here 871 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.599 is this is from Jessica Ronald, who's one of the Idea Xboxes Events at 872 00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:22.960 Community Management Leads. These game demos are not the norm, she says, 873 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:27.280 Typically the demos you see in our demo channel are created after the game is 874 00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:30.239 completed or nearly completed, and represent an almost final version of the game. 875 00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:36.360 These are more akin to show floor demos and are not necessarily indicative of the 876 00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:38.400 final product. She added, What that means is that you'll get to experience 877 00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:43.440 these games early and some way early, which is awesome since you'll have the 878 00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:47.000 chance to provide your feedback. So these are equivalent to the vertical slices that 879 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:50.960 we would have seen at an E three twenty nineteen or something like that. 880 00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:54.119 So if you want to get like more experienced with unfinished games and stuff like 881 00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:57.800 that, this is a really good way to do that, and I recommend 882 00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.320 it to people. All Right, too quick things I want to show off. 883 01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:05.400 Let's see, uh, let's see Atari Mania. Jan have you heard 884 01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:09.599 of Atari Mania? No? But you have an interesting uh yes, bullet 885 01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:15.400 point? What have I written here? Atarimnia trailer. It looks like retro 886 01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.320 Warrior where it looks like retro Warrior where it looks like Atari games, but 887 01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:24.119 warrior ware they call them micro games and everything. So I'm I am very 888 01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:28.519 down with this idea. It's kind of what I wanted from ans Remix, 889 01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:35.639 and anys Remix is a bit too slow paced for me. Why haven't more 890 01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:39.400 developers or studios done this? I don't know. I wonder the same thing. 891 01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:43.320 It's like you have Breakout, you have like yeah, like that the 892 01:00:43.559 --> 01:00:45.760 tank game whatever it's called, Like, Yeah, there's so many things that 893 01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:50.800 they can just warlords. These are games that just are custom made for just 894 01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:53.079 playing in short bursts and go into the next game. So I think they've 895 01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:57.239 done it, and it looks pretty good like it looks it doesn't just look 896 01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:00.280 like old Atari games. They maintain that style, updating them to a way 897 01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:06.239 that something that looks pretty pretty neat. The other thing here that I'm actually 898 01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:08.159 this is very exciting because I've never played this game, and I'm like, 899 01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:13.119 maybe this is how I'll play it. Jack and Dangster has been decompiled and 900 01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:16.360 now it's been fully ported to the PC. So you can look at all 901 01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:20.920 these PC modes, all these PC options that you get and stuff. But 902 01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:25.400 there it is. It's just running on the PC. Oh man, don't 903 01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:31.320 I don't need this? Yes, so this is available on GitHub. You 904 01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:35.599 could just make this happen right now. No one can stop you. Nothing 905 01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:40.320 can stop you now internet. Oh no, I'm probably gonna check this out 906 01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:45.400 at some point. All right, yesterday I asked have you played Crisis Core 907 01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:49.320 before? And I have this right here? Where do I put it? 908 01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.719 Let's see news assets. Let's uh switch over to just having that. It 909 01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:57.440 means we've got to close that and then transition here we go. I asked, 910 01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:00.639 have you played Crisis Core Final Fantasy seven before I put this in the 911 01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:02.239 discord in the news channel for the Giant Bomb discord, So if you want 912 01:02:02.239 --> 01:02:05.719 to vote on these things in the future, I think I'll probably keep doing 913 01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:07.320 this. We're gonna I might play around with some other ways of asking questions, 914 01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.840 but for now this is working. Thirty five people said yes they have, 915 01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:15.880 eighty eight have said yes. I think that's actually grown a little bit 916 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:20.079 more to on negative sides since I captured this, But yeah, I'm not 917 01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:23.480 too surprised that. I'm not surprised at all that most people haven't. I'm 918 01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:28.320 actually surprised as many people have that I have voted yes here, Like thirty 919 01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:31.079 five versus eighty eight. That's actually a pretty good ratio for Crisis Core. 920 01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:35.800 I was expecting much more closer to like ten percent of people at la Crisis 921 01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:42.079 Core. Yeah, that's surprising numbers there. Yeah, absolutely, I think 922 01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:45.559 that this is one of the reasons where it's like, yeah, there's a 923 01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:50.159 huge audience of people that have gotten a gaming since like the last five years, 924 01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:52.480 let alone when Crisis Core came out. So it's a great opportunity for 925 01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:57.920 them to bring in a huge new audience. What's up, Jen, I'm 926 01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:05.280 so ready for gaming history to be rewritten that like, I just look for 927 01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:10.480 like these opinions to dramatically swing the other way. I forgot what game it 928 01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:15.840 was recently, but I had wound up as just get watching it as a 929 01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:21.920 refresher of like someone younger than us and their interpretation of like the Final Fantasy 930 01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:27.280 series. Oh, they were explaining Stranger of Paradise because I wanted to make 931 01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:30.360 sure I had all my ducks in a row. And I think they must 932 01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:37.639 have been like early twenties. And then their reverence for Final Fantasy is completely 933 01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:43.280 different than anyone like around our age and Fantasy do treat them. It's a 934 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:46.800 kind of just like another video game or what. I don't they don't treat 935 01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:52.960 like the one through six with as much reverence or as much weight. Seven 936 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:55.679 to ten to two and up to twelve, I guess you know. So 937 01:03:55.760 --> 01:04:00.760 let's just say seven to twelve is probably like their bad of like their era 938 01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:04.440 of nostalgia. Peale says, it's like the Star Wars prequel things. Suddenly 939 01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:08.119 there are a bunch of adults that think they're amazing because they were kids when 940 01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:11.719 they came out. That's happened. It's happened. Oh man, Yeah, 941 01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:14.400 you're right that that that history is being like, we're not even gonna know. 942 01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:15.480 We're gonna look around one day and be like, everyone's gonna be like 943 01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:17.760 this is how you're supposed feel about Final Fantasy, be like wait, what 944 01:04:17.760 --> 01:04:21.639 are you talking about? So, yeah, it's gonna happen. But that 945 01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:25.719 that question doesn't matter anymore. Here's your question of the day for tomorrow. 946 01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:30.000 Do you play any of the Summer game Fest Slash Theme, Next Fest Slash 947 01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:32.119 whatever demos? So like, when these companies do these demo events, do 948 01:04:32.239 --> 01:04:35.079 you ever participate? Do you download the demo? Do you try it? 949 01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:40.079 And I don't know, maybe like like tweet me if you like have a 950 01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:42.440 reason why you don't. I'd be interested to hear that. But yeah, 951 01:04:42.519 --> 01:04:45.960 well we'll talk about these results tomorrow on the show. Uh, Jan, 952 01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:50.639 I think that's that's a whole episode of Game mess Mornings in the Can I 953 01:04:50.719 --> 01:04:55.000 believe that we've done my job here? I need to take a shower after 954 01:04:55.039 --> 01:04:58.400 this. We got mad messy, We got way too messy. Like listen, 955 01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:00.039 I know the show. That's the idea, but still maybe we gotta 956 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:04.119 rein it in in the future. It's it's Friday, Jan, what's happening 957 01:05:04.119 --> 01:05:09.320 on Giant Bomb On Friday's? Normally around this time, Jess and I would 958 01:05:09.360 --> 01:05:13.119 be running for the hills or running to the hills, but we are postponing 959 01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:16.239 that one more week. Will conclude that next week. Today we also have 960 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:20.920 unprofessional Friday's upf Grub. I believe you're going to be around for that. 961 01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:24.280 Yes, I am, Yeah, I think I have compas what games I 962 01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:29.760 might play, so look good forward to it. Absolutely lovely if you missed 963 01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.840 it yesterday, A whole boatload of things went up yesterday. I'm not even 964 01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:36.480 one hundred percent sure I know everything that went up, New Voicemail dump Truck, 965 01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:41.239 we had an unfinished of a MythBusters game, the Very Online Show, 966 01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:45.000 and the Game mess Mornings episode one. Yes, yes, that MythBusters game. 967 01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:48.639 Grub really made me sad. I'm gonna be watching that. Actually seems 968 01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:50.880 like I'm gonna go eat a lunch and I'm gonna watch you play that. 969 01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:56.119 I'm gonna watch you get sad and be like, sorry, Jan, I'm 970 01:05:56.159 --> 01:06:00.679 so sorry. Everybody, Thank you so much for watching I really appreciate. 971 01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:02.320 I love doing this show. This has been really good time. I'm gonna 972 01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:05.239 enjoy my weekend, you know, Jan, you know I'm doing what's you 973 01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:08.719 doing. I'm staying up tonight and I'm getting on a train at like three 974 01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:13.760 and three am to go pick up my van tomorrow. Yes, I'm pretty 975 01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:16.000 sure the transmission got there. They said it should be a quick fix once 976 01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:19.119 the transmission got there. But I'm like, okay, well, i gotta 977 01:06:19.239 --> 01:06:21.239 just get on a train. I guess that's the easiest thing to do. 978 01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:25.119 It's nice because the train is like the train station is like right in the 979 01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:28.400 next town over here, and then Indiana it's the next town over where my 980 01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:30.320 van is at. So I'll just take a couple of overs. Overs are 981 01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:33.360 the buses or whatever. It's gonna be great. So I'm gonna I'm gonna 982 01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:36.440 be streaming some Mario Strikers stunt on my channel and then I'm gonna gonna go 983 01:06:36.599 --> 01:06:41.559 straight from that to the train station. So do we want to tease Grub 984 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:45.599 you loosely alluded to it. Let's do it. There may be a good 985 01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:50.360 chunk of us playing uh tmnt Shredders revenge, right, that's the revenge. 986 01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:54.880 That's right, yep, Trader's revenge next week. Yeah, we have enough 987 01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:58.079 codes to do six Let's see what get everyone online at the same time to 988 01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:00.039 make it happen. But yes, next week, gonna play through all that 989 01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:04.360 sixth player really looking forward to it. All right, everybody, enjoy your 990 01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:08.559 weekend, take care of yourself until next time. Have a good one and 991 01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:13.639 goodbye. I think we need an outro. I'll make one eventually. Yeah, 992 01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:15.079 we'll get to a eventution Bye, everybody,