You know it's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for August twenty
three, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, let me
help you sort through the world of gaming on Games Morning's Live with me Jeff
Grub Today, Sony will let you into its PlayStation portal if you have two
hundred dollars and Tarak is back again. But please join me and welcome today's
co host a game This Morning's it's Mike McNaughty everybody, Mike, how are
you doing? Tarak was always better than gold And I I mean, I
know I'm not wrong. You know, that's why. That's why you sigh.
That's why you're I think I think it is why I sigh. I
think you're probably right. I like Taraca hold Tarrak is was held up better
than Golden Eye for me personally, although me and if I could get because
gold that Golden Eye remaster came out on Xbox and switch right, but it
didn't come out on PC. If I could play that with mouse and keyboard,
I'd probably be pretty happy, which which one? Sorry? Oh and
I yeah, yeah no. Meanwhile, Tarrock is getting an incredible remasters,
making them super easy to play. On all the platforms. So yeah,
yeah, I really like those remasters. Nike Dive does a very good job,
which whish they would do the goal and I one. But yeah,
Mike, how's it going? How's the week going? You? I think
you just put up a review? How'd that go? I did? I
just put up my review for Armored Cores six Fires of a Rubicon, which
I did enjoy a good bit. I gave it a four point five out
of five stars on a giant where am I uh, you know, the
meta critics are still accumulating over there placed on right now. It's like an
at An eighty eight, the PlayStation five version that's only based off of like
six reviews or seven reviews right now, it looks like and I played it
on PC myself, but yeah, you know, I mean, like a
lot of people, this is I imagine this is my first Armored Cores,
but I kind of really did get into it was a lot of fun.
I think anybody expecting dark Souls but with Mex is going to not be let
down, but they're going to find something very different than that. There's certainly
some similarities, especially like there's some big boss fights where it's very much about
finding those dodge windows and some things like that. You have all that customization,
which is you know, a big draw here for sure, and it
is really fun working on your mech and finding a mech that is going to
work for sure. But yeah, I think it's going to be worth checking
out for a good amount people. If you think you're gonna like a giant
met game, this should be the giant met game for you. And I
want to say too because selivil Monkey asked me about Armory cores. The performance
with PC Forrest was great for me on my PC. Good, yeah,
very good. Actually, it's very very good looking game. I mean I
love the art of it in general. The whole kind of frozen planets,
industrial wasteland kind of vibe like that was really good. But a general game
ran and looked very good for me. Yeah, I mean from Zart design
always unparalleled. So paring that up with the game that runs really well.
And you know, this is not an open world game, so not too
surprising that they were able to scope it in such a way that it runs
well. But you think you and Jan were playing the PC version and no,
no no issues, Jen and I did do a quick look, but
we're gonna post that up tomorrow just because the embargo weirdness, I believe if
Jim I corrected, if that's not the case, but yeah, look at
things are still taking time to accumulate. But man, like the PC version
based off of twelve reviews on Metacritics at a ninety two, which is honestly,
like, I thought there would be more people thrown off by this,
yeah, higher than I was. You're just gonna be some self selection,
right because it's gonna be from fans who are going to be more patient because
they're like, no, we know that the from gunness is probably in here
somewhere, And then there's gonna be the Armored core fans send I'll review this.
But like, that happens to a lot of games, and not many
games are able to get a like above a ninety. Even the eighty eight
score you said, I'm like, wow, that's really really good for this
game. So good for it. Yeah, you know, basically I basically
gave it a ninety if you convert four point five or so. I definitely
like a lot. I thought there'd be more people that would maybe bristle against
it a bit, but I think, you know, that's so some people
are just willing to be down with what from Software is throwing any other There
probably are Armored Core fans. I mean they didn't make more than six of
them, so these fans do exist, but they're probably really feasting because look,
you could see the dark souls out of ring money being put in this.
Like I said, it's a very pretty game. Yep. We will
check in on that those reviews here by the end of the show and see
what other people are saying and see if those scores settle in any particular way.
But first, let's talk about what we do here most week days,
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we have a lot to get into, so let's start the Morning Mess with
PlayStation's first remote play dedicated device, PlayStation Portal Remote Player, to launch later
this year at two hundred dollars. This comes from Hideaki Nishino at the PlayStation
Blog. Since launching the PS five, we've been amazed to see how players
around the world have embraced the generational leaps we made in the gaming experience,
such as the heightened feeling of immersion delivered by the haptic feedback and adapted triggers
in the dual Sense wireless controller. Our PlayStation community continues to give us a
reason to challenge ourselves to bring new innovations to the market for all players to
enjoy. That's why today we are especially pleased to share new updates about our
upcoming hardware products. In May, we gave a quick peek at our dedicated
PS five remote play device now called PlayStation Portal Remote Player, and our first
wireless earbuds called Plus Pulse Explore Exume Pulse Explore not Plus Explore. Today,
we're pleased to share our more details about these products and reveal a new PlayStation
over the ear wireless headset, Pulse Elite. Both Pulse Elite and Pulse Explore.
It sounds like a nightclub that sounds like a strip club. I'll just
say it, Elite eight. I mean, listen, there's plenty of hat
stuff happening in the champagn room. And Pulse Elite. Both Pulse Elite and
Pulse Explore deliver low latency, lossless audio from PS five and PlayStation Portal using
our new PlayStation Link wireless technology. All right, let's see here. So
PlayStation Portal Remote Player brings the PS five experience to the palm of your hand.
It includes the key features of the dual Sense wireless controller, including adapter
triggers and haptic feedback. The vibrant eight inch LCD screen is capable of ten
ADP resolution at sixty frames per second, providing a high definition visual experience that's
expected from the high quality games created by world class developers placed Portal. I
want to say portable, of course I do. But PlayStation Portal is the
perfect PSP. You can't kill the PSP. The PSP has the perfect device
for gamers and households where they might need to share their living room TV or
simply want to wait play, wait, wait to play, or simply want
to play PlayStation five games in another room of the house. PlayStation Portal will
connect remotely to your PS five over y five, so you'll be able to
swiftly jump from playing your PS five to your PlayStation portal. PlayStation Portal could
play supported games that are installed on your PS five console and use dual Sense
controller. It also includes a three point five millimeter audio jack for wired audio.
PSVR two games which require the headset, and games that are streamed through
PlayStation Plus Premiums cloud streaming service are not supported. What why not? What?
Okay? The VR? Of course? Of course, of course,
why wouldn't you be able to stream from the cloud to this streaming device?
Mike is is such a weird, weird thing. I thought that was no
time, right, So when I first first talked about this, I talked
about in those terms because I just assumed. But everything we've heard since then
has been and you hear the in the description what they're saying right in the
household, I believe this still this game, this system works inside your house
to stream it just from your system there locally, and it doesn't work if
you leave the house and you can't stream from the cloud. Oh okay,
So you know it's funny is that at first I saw the two hundred dollars,
I was like, well, that's at least on the lower end of
what we feared this thing could cost, because Sony can can jack up prices.
But man, without the cloud streaming, I mean, two hundred dollars
for a screen for tablet for you tablet that has no use once you leave
your home. Yeah, I just don't know. I just don't get it.
I mean, like, I never needed the advice like this anyways.
I don't have a pesky family to take over my PlayStation five, so there's
no appeal for me. But what about for you? Because you do like
these kind of devices. You do like being able to play games in a
way where you could still like hang out with your kids. Well they watch
Frumpy Pumpy TV Bunny or whatever. It's a huge hit right now from pump
Py TV Bunny. Yeah that's I will get this, and I will use
it in that exact scenario, and I will mostly be fine with it as
long. I just hope the connection is strong. I hope it works really
well. I hope it's a strong Wi Fi radio and all that stuff.
Apparently I gen asked and said it does work outside the house, But it's
of course it's still just streaming from your PS five. It's not going to
work with the cloud. But I just if that's the case, that's they
don't say that anywhere in this blog post. Again, the blog post says
it's perfect for people for gammers in households where they might need to share their
living room TV. They don't then say, and then you can use it
in a hotel room, or you can use it on the go. You
can connect it to your phone and do that. They don't say anything like
that. So maybe it's possible, but they are not talking up that feature.
They are. That is not what they're trying to sell this device on.
For whatever reason, we'll see. I think I know that people had
some hands on today. Greg Miller played it. I think I wanted to
watch the video before we started. Us just got too busy, I know.
He Apparently in the chat people are saying he asked about the battery life,
and they're like, we're working on that. And again, this thing
is just a streaming screen. It should have a long battery life. But
the reports we've heard is that it does not have a long battery life,
and it's got to come down to the dual sense features that this thing will
fully support, which is nice. And then you hope you turn that stuff
off and maybe you get of seven hours of battery. That would be great.
So yeah, I don't know's it is a weird thing, but it
does. It does still appeal to me enough that two hundred dollars is not
some egregious price. If this thing was more than that, then we would
be having some issues, I think, and I think a lot of people
will be like, two hundred dollars for this thing doesn't make any sense for
me, but I think enough people will probably buy into this. Yeah,
I think that's right. You're they are lucky they price it where they did
it. It still seems like like it should be a one fifty maybe one
o your thought advice, I don't know, I mean a controller itself.
These these duel shocks alone, uh not due shops what how they call now?
Dug dual sense, that's right, dual senses alone costs a lot.
Throw a ten ADP screen in the middle. I guess that's going to be
some more also, but yeah, uh, just just just not for me
for sure, it is. I wonder why the half measure in some sense
I wonder why we're not just waiting until maybe some day we can just make
a portable PlayStation five the people would be willing to spend like six hundred and
seven hundred dollars for I mean, these days are going to come at some
point, Jeff, I assume where you know, I almost kind of keep
thinking at some point we're going to get a portable Xbox Series S at some
point this generation. Maybe, Yeah, I mean it would be pretty hard
play station five, yeah, but especially even harder for Playtion five to be
sure. Yeah, but uh install, Yeah, to have a game or
assistant that can run these things locally on hardware that you hold in your hand.
Uh, that'd be pretty tough even for the Xbox Series S for the
next couple of years. They will get there, probably by the end of
this generation. I think you're right about that. But for the next couple
of years, that's going to be pretty tough. But you know, I
think when I like look at Sony's overall like hardware initiative, when outside of
the consoles themselves, a lot of this stuff feels like other parts of Sony
glomming onto PlayStation like PlayStations is successful. So it's like, you know,
the computer division and the hardware divisions of other you know, in other parts
of the company, and the headphone division, like we're gonna make some PlayStation
branded stuff and we're just gonna put it out and you're gonna have to deal
with it. And Jim Ryan's like, oh, okay, I guess fine.
I mean that's that's my understanding of how the PSVR two even worked,
right, So if that, if the PSVR two is that, it makes
sense that this thing is also coming from that sort of direction as well.
And and so it's like, from that perspective, I could see be like,
well, PlayStation you know, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment as
it's called now, would be like we control the hardware for actual PlayStations.
You can tap into the PlayStation, but you can't do anything with actually doing
like doing any computing on your other things. We need to be in full
control of that and deciding what that looks like. And so you can have
these peripheral sort of things, but beyond that, we're not really interested in
letting you to take a piece of our pie. There. Uh, that's
just me speculating and guessing but it does seem like that's probably what's happening.
In addition to the PlayStation portal, the PlayStation Elite wireless headset and Pulse Explorer
wireless earbuds are going to be one hundred and fifty for the over the year
ones, which I think is that the Elites, and then two hundred dollars
for the the Pulse Explore or whatever. I can't I don't know which ones
which, but the earbuds basically are going to be two hundred dollars, so
uh yeah, I mean that's how much those things. Yeah, accessories can
cost that much, especially these in your baseballs of flame thrower. Yes,
merchandising, merchandising. Yeah, I have no need for PlayStation earbuds, but
I bet some people will pick them up. PlayStations made some good over the
ear headphones, so if people feel like they need to get those, go
to town, especially because I think both of these will have Bluetooth and we'll
be able to like work with your other devices, so you can just have
a good pair of headphones going forward. Uh yeah. In any chance,
So any chance you end up with a PlayStation portal, I know you like
you talked about and said, it's not for you, but any chance I've
been telling you, I've been feeling guilty about not using my Steam Tech right
right, Like I feel bad about that. It's is out that if I
am going to play one of these hold in my hand things, it is
going to be a switch ninety nine point nine percent of the time. They're
just that's just a platform I have devote a lot of time to already.
It's a platform that I already have a lot of games I want to play
in a giant backlog two So I'm kind of just good. There's what I'm
realizing. We ran a poll at the Giant bomb Chat initial thoughts in the
PlayStation portal. Thirty seven says now I'll pass, and zero said cool,
I'll get one. That is That's incredible. I don't know if I've ever
seen an actual zero, right man? Not like no one was just like,
oh whatever, I'll just see I'll lie to make Sony feel better.
No one cares. I ran a poll too, or I asked what's better
Truck and gold and I and turrok won. It wasn't like a blow everything,
But man, I remember before that Golden and I re release, people
would scream at me when I would say Turrok was better than Gold and I
I think the Giant Bomb audience, of course, very sophisticated, and they
know they know. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break and we get
back. We're gonna go over games. Colm, Opening Night Live, Night
Dives, got that Turrock game. We keep talking about, a whole bunch
of Charles Martine is probably gonna be in that Warrior war game, a whole
bunch of news. We'll get back to it after this. Okay, Mike,
we're back and we're talking about games. Colm Opening Night Live. Starfield
was one of the first things that showed up. But of course, I
mean, we just want to talk about it's some crash of stage again.
It was dumb. There's people would stop doing it. Yeah, it's it's
real weird, it's real uncomfortable. Uh. You know, the first time
happened, we were all like, huh, it's kind of funny and like,
you know what happened. I did what I was like freaking out,
like, oh my god, I can't believe it. Yeah, I didn't
know what the thing of DNA sees it. It was. I was like,
man, this is kind of scary and weird. Now I don't like
it. Yeah, And you know, it's it's pretty easy to be like,
guy, that's that's taking things to too seriously and no one's getting hurt.
But it's like, you know, people getting bolden getting hurt. Yeah,
people getting boldened pretty quickly, and you know it could hurt. Like
the people willing to participate in this sort of thing, they're like, I
don't want to deal with this. We do have crazy fans, Like we
see the hate mail that we get. Why would we be in a situation
where we could be face to face with someone like that. That guy got
hurt. Hope those two got hurt. Like I know, in wrestling,
when you do that stuff, they're they're allowed to just actually beat the shit
out of you. You do just pick the shit out of you? Yes,
yeah, I feel like, you know, you should have got taken
the back and Phil Spencer should have gotten to like beat the shit out of
you with three hours or something. Yeah, I tweeted it, but Zack
Snyder could just do his three hundred a Spartan kick right off the stage.
Yeah, well we know that. Jeff Keeley always demands that there be a
bottomless pit at behind all the stages he works at. So that could have
been an option comes in handy. They just needed take advantage of it.
You got it, yeah, I mean you have it there, why not
use it exactly? H Yeah. The worst audience in gaming, that's right,
Jeff Keeley's freaks that come on stage. The worst audience in gaming.
Okay, so we have the Rock, Paper, Shotgun collection of announcements here,
there's a whole bunch of stuff. Mike, I highlighted the ones I
care about. I highlighted three games. I'm the ones I like super care
about in terms of announcements, only highlighted three. Yeah. I mean,
look, there's a lot of games here. One we are are known quantities.
There's so many games. Usually we get these at games Com, where's
like they showed them. I'm like, Okay, that looks all right,
I guess, and then I feel like I never hear about them ever again.
Anyways, I don't know. Well, we'll see, but you know,
I think expectations are rightfully appropriate for most people for games come. We
know what to expect, and that's what we got. It was a fine
show, just yeah, nothing incredibly exciting, but still some stuff we're talking
about. I'll talk about a couple of things I thought was a size from
yours. Sure, Oh yeah, So I mean I'm just gonna hit some
of these big ones. That kind of opened the show. The Starfield live
action cinematic trailer. The marketing has started for that. That game is out
in basically a week. So that's how this is how they're doing. I
think they knew games are playing it now now better and more important than you.
That's right. Please hope that if you take anything away from this show,
take away that me and Mike are more important than you. Uh uh,
this trailer was pretty good. I'm usually you know, I don't even
expect the live action hype cinematic trailers anymore. That's something that used to happen
more frequently back in the day. We got a little bit at with allen
Wick two and now and this as well, and both Alwick has always had
a live action component. Get Games, Remedy Games always has live action stuff
like that is even more surprising than that. Yes, this is and and
but you know, I'm glad that this is, uh this is happening because
it's like, okay, yeah, they are putting an effort into this marketing
campaign. Uh so yeah, I think watching this if people get excited and
that's about right. But that that said, you know, you can't take
too much more away from this. This is just kind of setting the tone,
which is, you know, cool, but you can't take away like,
oh, how am I gonna feel about playing the game? Who knows
those those good Halo three It's right, yes, Halo three. Okay,
a little night about the game, but it's cool. Yeah, yeah,
exactly right. And they're memorable, right, those Halo Halo live action trailers
are always memorable. So oh yeah that Diorama one, the Diorama one especially,
So yes, Little Nightmares three is launching in twenty twenty four. I
know people like Little Nightmares in Little Nightmares two. I never played them.
Yeah, same, don't have much of a thought about that. Blackamith Wu
Kong. We We've this has been one of those games that like surprised everybody
a couple of years ago with a trailer that like looks really really good and
everyone's like, man, this is great. It's coming out of China.
Uh this is this, you know, Wu Kong. It's that's based on
the same thing as Goku's based on, so let's get a Goku game.
Uh. And yeah, this trailer I think brought expectations back down to earth
a little bit. It looks like a video game, yeah, I mean
it looks like a good Soul's Last absolutely right. Yeah, but but it
looks like it looks like a real video game now right exactly. Killing four
three is coming. We don't have a date for that. Ajian Empires four
is coming to Xbox. It is on Xbox. It happened, it didn't
it dropped. Maybe I'm making that. Maybe I'm making that up now.
It was. It was definitely on PC before, and now it's like,
this is the official coming to Xbox. Yeah, I'm right, okay,
Yeah, so it's on Xbox now it is okay, So it's okay,
that's great. They've Age of Empires two was already on Xbox and that played
very well. I know people really liked playing it on there, So yeah,
why not do Agi of Empires four. That's kind of embarrassing, asked,
like, do people like Ajmpires four because like it was weird. It
felt like it kind of came and like, but people were playing it for
sure. But I just missed it. It wasn't. What happened was Age
Empires four came out after they did it. Agi of Empires one, two,
and three remasters, and an Agi of Empires four is like, we're
here, we're modern and it's like, yeah, this is like also kind
of a remaster of Aji Empires two. It like it's very very true to
what Agian Empires was. And people are like, we love that because Age
of Empires two is fantastastic. We really appreciate that. But in a lot
of ways, there's not a lot new to talk about here. It's still
just Agia Empires. But hey, I don't like that though, I should
try it exactly. I'm I'm like, yes, this is probably the one
I will go in actually really give a shot too, because it's like why
wouldn't I At this point, Crimson Desert I think actually looks pretty good.
This is I think this is some of the people who did Black Desert online,
but this is not an Yeah, it's kind of Assassin's Creed kind of
other things, and it's like he's riding on a goat or whatever. I
don't know what that a horse with a hair or with a feathers excuse me.
I don't know. It looks like there's a lot of cool stuff happening
in this game, and I hope that it is as robust as it looks
in this trailer and that all these gameplay mechanics that we're seeing are actually fun,
because it's like, I don't know, I never put really played Black
Desert Online, but I bet that plays like an MMO, and I well,
I hope this plays like as good as they're showing here. But right,
well, yeah, this definitely is not an MMO. Man. Yeah,
there's a lot going on here, so it could be cool. It's
a bit of the I'm skeptical because there is so much going on here.
Does this all really come together? Does this all really run very well?
This seems very ambitious for so but you know, Black Desert Online was known
for its fidelity. It was a very pretty game, exactly, and that
now you're getting that in a what I'm assuming there's a single player adventure game
and you know, hot air balloons and fishing and all the Yeah, it's
if all this stuff works, it seems like, you know, one of
those games that has everything in it. And I'll give I'm ready to give
it a shot. At the very least, I think it definitely stood out.
Yes, pay Day three had a ice featuring Iced Tea. This is
a game that I think is going to come out, not get very good
reviews, and then be very big a couple of years from now. Oh
yeah, people, Yeah, there are a lot of people who play pay
Day two as like their games. Pay Day three will do well. Personally,
don't have much interest Sassa's Creed Mirage trailer. I like this just because
Bagdad looked really cool. I like the you know, the circular city.
They really emphasized the round city of Bagdad is in the trailer. That's the
name of it. It looks really cool. I'm like, I'm ready for
this game. If it's just too bad, it's there's so many other things
to play where I'm like October. Yeah, I'm not going to play this
in October, but maybe December I'll get around to it. I don't know,
because I do have I have a soft spot for Assassin's Creed one.
I remember, even back when everyone's like, oh the sat Screed one is
okay, I like the Sassin's Creed one even so, just kind of capturing
that aesthetic again and going back to that gameplay loop that really is pulling me
in a good bit. I hope it kind of a delivers, because yeah,
I do have some excitement for this. Yeah. This trailer also did
the cool thing of all the voice acting was Arabic and they had English subtitles,
so it felt they every authentic And I really like, right now,
is that an option or is that just how the game's going to be.
I bet it's an option because this is you be soft. So yeah,
they they want to make their games as broadly appealing as possible, and they
know that enough people will be upset about only having subtitles as an option for
their language. I just saw the old that's one of my favorite video game
constructs, where pulling a person off of a ledge to their death is considered
a stealth killing. Yep, it kin doesn't matter what else they call it
on. That's a They could scream and nope, no one hears that scream.
Oh yeah they got Yeah, that's the rules tag You've been stealth killed?
Quiet because I get the Call of Duty trailer we're going to get to
where they still shoot a guy to death. It takes a few shots,
but he knows to be quiet because he was shot by a silence social construct.
Yes, exactly right. We live in a society. Tech In eight
has an arcade moved with chibi avatars. Mike, you had an opinion on
this. Yeah, chibi avatars look real bad, but whatever, it's not
that big a deal. It's you know, your avatar and some arcade lobby
whatever. I just and I see any of these avatars that remind me of
Xbox three sixty avatars at all? This shit, right, I'm like,
yeah, I really pass this whole aesthetic. But no, I'm still very
excited for tech and eight. We got a release date. It's January twenty
fourth of what was it, Yeah, January twenty fourth, that's that's right.
Excuse me, January twenty sixth. So yeah, well we'll get the
tech ind World Championships January twelfth, I think, and then just a few
weeks later. If this is dropping, it says earlier than I was expecting.
Actually, so this is a pretty cool news. I'm my boy,
Yoshi Mitsu. I haven't played much tech in, but I love soul Cavern.
Yoshi Mitsi is my main there, so pretty excited to jump in on
this. Fun game. You're gonna doesn't really like it. I'm sure Call
of Duty Modern war Warfare three new trailer is definitely Call of Duty. It
was very dark. I'm not there. This is aid restricted here and I'm
not going to click through to actually watch it. It's a ten minute gameplay
thing. It's mostly in the dark anyway. It's literally like pitch black dark.
It was wild. I was watching in the showcase, like when they
had that Call of Duty Modern Warfare two showcase, you know, last shared
was like on that ship and it looked really cool. At least this one.
I kind of like stopped paying attention about a minute in. Yeah,
I don't know. I saw some good like contrasting of like your characters in
the dark, like amongst some like really just pitch black dark containers. And
then like he was like looking through, uh you know this this walk away
and then on other side with some lights and some rain coming down, and
that looked really atmospheric. And I'm I'm once I'm playing this game. I
bet this level is gonna be feel very cool watching it in a trailer show
where it's a bunch of commercials and this is just one of mini and this
is ten minutes long, and that's like seven minutes into the thing. I
was bored and ready to move on. But that's that's just what they do
with Call of Duty. They really usually do give it like ten to twelve
minutes of gameplay, and it's yeah, you know, it's worked for him.
I guess they're gonna keep doing it. Uh. Gas Lamp Fantasy Survival
game Nightingale gets an early access release date. I think that's I don't know
if there has the date here, but I also wasn't very interested in this,
so that's why I'm conscious. Grand Blue Fantasy Relink is. This is
not the Grand Blue Fantasy Fighting game or the mobile game. I think this
is an actual RPG, right, yeah, Hey, Jeff, what do
you say Grand Blue is? It's like, just like so blue. You
think it's an actual shade. It's a shade of definitely definitely is. Yes,
I don't know what a Grand Blue is, but they make they make
stuff based off of Grand Blue, that's for sure. Oh yeah, totally
yeah, it's blue af that's right. Uh well, listen, I do
know Grand Blue is. The video chat was like it's one of the biggest
games in the world. It's like, yeah, I know, again a
huge mobile game. I know the fighting game, but really I don't know
if they have they had console RPGs before. H this thinks so I think
this is a first. This is a February four I guess. I think
it looks pretty good. Of the anime games they showed, I thought this
one looked particularly good. There there's quite a few of these anime games.
There was the one where they had the anime voice overs during it, and
it was it just seemed like they literally had ai randomly picked game. Sounds
right for Grand Blue Fantasy, Yes, okay, it's like these voicelines are
not like conveying a message whatsoever, Like what are you doing here? What
is this? Yep? That that that sounds like what they did. I
think that was Grand Blue, although it could it could have been most of
them. Uh. The anime games could have also bits of these later ones.
Immortals of Avum out now. Gina Torrez came out and was like,
Hey, for some reason, I'm not the start of this game. You're
gonna play as this white guy, but hey, I'm here too. Uh,
Mike again, any chance you play Immortals of Avum This year, there's
a chance I don't and I really think about it, not much of what
I downloaded it, So I think I'll play. I'll play a little bit,
but just for maybe to talk about it on the BombCast. But next
week's BombCast is gonna be pretty busy with other stuff. So yeah, there's
like some there's some weirdness around this game, like because some people just look
at this like this looks great. Then I people like being here look at
this like nah, and I think like both sides are having a hard time
understanding where the ones coming from. Like some people like, what do you
mean you don't think this right? This is what I wanted from video games.
I wanted to This is exactly what I'm I'm like, I've gotten this
from video games a million times, and I need something more at this point
to get excited. At least I'll try it. We'll see. I bet
it's I bet it's perfectly serviceable. I mean it got Hey we do our
Metacritic prediction game I predicted I was gonna get seventy one and it got a
seven easily. Yeah, there is Well, maybe this is the game that
actually had all the randoms and sims. Zone zero. Yeah, I did
this one easily could have been as well. I'm not gonna play any of
the audio from it. But uh, just yet another anime game. Let's
yeah, this is another one straight up from the Genschen people though, right,
yeah me the ho Yo ho Yo verse or whatever. They had a
whole bunch of announcements. I think I've never played Ginchen, so it's like
I was gonna play anything, I would probably start with Genchen. I'm not
gonna play Honky Star Rail, that's for sure. That's not true. I
have nothing against honk Kai star right. I liked watching Jam play honk Kai
Star Rail and just showing him be into it. Yeah, that's what I
really I don't like this Wolfman by the way, man, Yeah, I
think I'm against them too, but I bet, I bet we are very
alone in that opinion. Mister Driller inside this game, they just put a
mister Driller and it looks snake. Yeah, look at that. What is
this game? Yeah it's okay. You just go to an arcade. You
can play mister Driller and Snake and okay, and you get a face of
assists. Uh, then there's Hawkeye. Star Rail is getting a PS five
technical tests soon. That game is I think on PC and mobile right now,
and gonna be coming to PS five. Yeah, let's see here against
an Impact concert series is touring the world over next year. People like the
music from Gensen quite a bit, so that's not too surprising. Lord go
to any of those like video game concerts. I think they're doing another obviously
Distant Worlds near me some point this fall. I gotta check when I didn't
see if they can go? What about? But you got ever been to
any of this? I don't think, not really. I've been to a
couple ones for like wing movies, like how sure for uh Lord of the
Rain, Yeah, it was great, it was really really good. I
would go to more of these. I just uh, I'm not like a
person who's like paying attention to tour dates like that, so it's like by
the time I realize it's here, it's usually too late. But I would
definitely check that out. This Lord's of the Fallen is something that people seem
to be excited about. I just the name is so generic that I've never
registered it in my brain. Mike, I don't know how about you?
Well, no, yeah, pretty generic name that sounds it sounds like a
nineties show. Is there a ninety show that had a similar name as Lords
of the Fallen, because gosh, that sounds probably I'm like, TNT it
sounds like a T and T show. Yeah, so I don't know,
but you know it's a soul's like. I bet it's gonna be pretty decent.
And uh yeah, well we'll see. This game is out October thirteenth.
Busy, busy October. That's another reason why. But haven't registered it.
It is not going to be the game I'm playing in October. I'll
have to hear. It's very good for that to change. Sonic Superstars launch
is October seventeenth. This is three days before Super Mario Brothers Wonder But you
know whatever, it's Sonic hast its audience. I'll tell you what. Right
now, my kids are getting more into Sonic all the time. Tales is
a very popular character. Sure, so it's gonna it's gonna be just fine,
even if it was right against Mario back Tomor's of the Falling Late So
there was a game in twenty fourteen called Lords of the Fallen, and then
this game was supposed to be called The Lords of the Fallen. Didn't they
just change the names that the sequel is also called Lords of the Fallen.
Oh yeah, I'll get this. It even says here in the story Lords
of the Fallen sequel lords of the Fallen and then creative naming. And that
is the worst thing I've ever heard. This is deeply upsetting. What are
you talking about? Why would Lords of the Fallen too? Why would you
do that? I'm like, okay, I'm like, actually against this game
now. I still must be drawn here, how dare you? Uh?
Yeah? Jan Jan? By the way, there some expert insight in Chatta
says, I guess Sonic is faster than Mario. Yeah, I think that
might be. Yeah, thank you. I mean it's just evident there.
I'll do a poll just to make sure. Okay, faster, I'll make
sure we got it consents. I mean, we don't even need it.
We know he's coming three days earlier, So there you go. Sonic for
Tears is getting a free story update, which will also feature new playable characters.
Yeah, new story stuff. There's a doctor the spoilers doctor Igman's daughter.
What do you think about Doctor Igman having a canonical daughter? Now,
who's like a Flying Magic Child Wednesday Adams vibes. Yeah, Flying Magic Child
is exactly the kind of daughter I always imagine Doctor Egman having. So I'm
very happy that they deliver on my dreams, my fantasies and my diary posts.
I know people are very exciting. Apparently maybe Sonic is turning into Sonic
Super, saying stage two in this trailer. Yeah, that's a first.
It does seem like that. It seems like that's he's a super Sonic and
and they're playing it up so much speech to go beyond, you must be
even more super because a supersonic was in Sonic Frontiers, right, like the
standard version of Supersonic. I thought it was, yeah, oh yeah the
standard version SUPERSTARO. Yeah, you become a Supersonic all the freaking time.
Yeah, that's the loop and song Frontiers is in an open zone. You
get all the cast cum rolls, you turn to Supersonic, you fight a
boss, and then you like lose them again you go to the next zone.
So yeah, that's how that one just works. Okay, that's coming
September twenty eight to all the places where you can get Sonic Frontiers. The
first fix a draw distance much in that game is. That was definitely the
biggest technical issue. Probably they probably haven't made too many changes to that.
I don't think that game is just kind of what it is. The First
Descendant is a third person looter shooter with gigantic bosses. I think this game
also has like a it's pretty good for one of those ones that's like,
oh, this is obviously made in Korea or one of those school because it's
got that art style, and like I like that art style where it's like
super hot slick ladies. And here's this like super like hunky bro do right
and britty world in tech but just smoking hot people. Yeah, and I'm
like, that's that's pretty cool. I like that. And then there's a
ton of like particle effects. It's a pretty decent looking part. Yeah,
it looks nice. I just I'm skeptical anybody pulling off the leader shooter exactly.
That's where it's like, that sounds like a hobby, and I don't
have time for one of one of these games to be a hobby. Right
now, we have a dead dead heat on the Who's faster Mario or Sonic?
It's a tie. Wow geez right, no consensus. I guess Jan
breaks the tie because he said that Sonic is faster, so we'll give it
the Sonic all right. Under the Waves is a third person adventure game from
quant Quantic Dream Is Publishing. Now I believe. Yeah, it's not like
it's not gonna have a white robot quoting Martin Luther King and yeah it's not.
Or a three thousand page script that he sends out to press and it's
all blank. He's like, but you just imagine if they had words on
it, which he's done multiple times. That's a weird Devil four Soulis has
some intense corridor scenes, and I gotta be honest, this is the point
of the show, Mike, where it's like, yeah, I mean I
have to play some of these games to know if I care about him.
This is the point show we realize that this thing is going to go on
for two hours. Yeah, we're just kind of like heppen in for it.
But then the show was saved by Expeditions, a mud Runner game.
Let's go, I'm so excited about this for you, Jeff, happy for
you. I love spin Tires, which turned into a mud Runner, which
turned into a sequel snow Runner, and snow Runner was like the one like
really figured out what it should be as a game. It's like all the
missions were much much more well thought out. Now Expeditions, a mud Runner
game, seems to be like, Okay, let's like kind of just turn
the dial in a slightly different direction, and it's gonna be much more about
exploration and seeing these certain locations without having to necessarily haul, you know,
twelve logs to someplace. So you're fixing bridges, which I love. I'm
glad that we have snow Runner, but I'm glad Expeditions isn't trying to be
that again, just more it's like, no, let's like kind of make
a map game version of these a little bit. And it's like, God,
that's actually a really good idea because I do one thing I really do
like doing. It's just like taking my pickup truck in and snow Runner getting
to the top of a mountain, and this game seems to be all about
that. But then you also get metal detectors, So who knows what's going
on in this game, but it looks fantastic. I'm so excited truck games
are are thriving. Mike in twenty twenty three. It does look pretty cool.
I'm definitely gonna check it out myself. Or yeah, and these games
have had a better and better co ops, so I'm like, I hope
this one really nails. Are these actually the only other strand games? Yeah?
Yeah, these are the original strand games. This is admitted admitted the
strand genre. Yes, exactly. Okay, it makes sense. What do
you need, dude? You went turn on the video game. Have you
picked up the control and shook it? Show me it? Just show me,
show me the controller. Yeah you don't believe her. I don't believe
her. Okay, so hit it. Yeah it's not yeah, shake it
harder. There you go, there you go. That should work, all
right, Let's see if it happens. If it doesn't turn to the input,
I'll come over and help. Is the switches in there, that's the
big that's the problems problem. It's right in front of me, and I
should have noticed that, mystery saw. I'm gonna plug this in for I'll
be right back, everybody. Michael Vamp really well for you, yeah Vamp
and not just playing my tin whistle for sure, absolutely not go Okay,
they almost they almost certainly aren't hearing that dang it. Yeah, you're stupid
Gate. Yeah, sorry, I'll humans. Uh, okay, there its
beautiful all right? Where are we at expeditions? Yes, that's fantastic.
The crew Motorfest is Fort's Horizon at home. Uh, and we have it,
I Mike, I don't know. I think it looks pretty fun.
I can't. I can't help it. I'm like, I actually kind to
trust you because I kind of just I tuned it out just hearing the words
the crew. It's just its Forts the Horizon, Like, couldn't be more
Forts Horizon. It's more Fortsizon than some of the Forts and Horizon games.
Is it? Is it a little bit less of you? You put this
so well the one day it was making me laugh, like the vibe like
yeah, we're partying and you're on social media. This is that's the thing
this game is like we're partying it and we're offso on social media, like
you could just it's everything. Every last inch is exactly like Forts the Horizon.
Yes, great value Forts Horizon. You go to Costco, this is
gonna be on the shelf right next to it for cheaper. That's showing me
on it. Uh, what's the location? What's the local here, because
that's a big point. Is it a Hawaii or is that what Forts Horizon
is doing. I think this is Hawaii. Yes, oh that's pretty cool.
Actually yeah right, like hey, that's a good direction for the crew
that all the other directions sucked kind of. This is much better. So
yeah, September. Okay, maybe I'll give free trial try the game for
five hours. Okay, maybe I'll try it. Yeah, right, and
I'll give it in like, hey, people on PlayStation, now you get
a fourth sechristing game. Yeah, there you go. So yeah, Cyberpunk
twenty seventy seven, Phantom Liberty. Cyberpunk looking pretty good these days. Mike
still never played Cyberpunk. I want to meet everyone. This looks really good.
People seem to really like it when they try this. I will,
Well, I could do it this year. Maybe not, we'll see.
Let's see. Uh. Storm Gates is at the New Arts this is yeah.
Frost Giant Studios is farmer Blizzard people, right, warmer Blizzard people.
This is yeah. There's there's some hopes and dreams pin on this one because
we haven't really had a Blizzard style RTS in a long time, and that's
just straight up what they're going for here. I mean, when you look
at it, it really does look like StarCraft two meets Warcraft three. This
trailer is the one that aged me because they say we're inspired by classic RTS
is like StarCraft two, and I was like, oh my god. I
thought they're just gonna say StarCraft like StarCraft two. I'm like, oh god,
that game's old. Now it is, huh, all right, fantastic,
but yeah. You know a lot of people who like RTS, specifically
that Blizzard style. They've been a little bit left out in the dark for
a while now, so I hope that this delivers for them. This storm
Gate name and logo, Oh, it's that's rough. That's really generic.
That is uh the logo you know what. It reminds me of that firefoll
logo. Yeah, exactly. Wow, it's very like two thousand and ten
ish. Uh. The guy is bothering me more like he has Pixar eyes,
but as a monster right, Like, it's not designed very well.
There's something wrong there. I think the RTS stuff does look pretty good though,
Like stuff looks good. I bet, I bet I will play well.
Yep. Uh. Last Epoch is getting a new class. The room
Master. Good for you, Marvel snaps. Do update finally brings wide screen
to PC? Did they show that off? What does it even look even
look like? Yeah? That's look. It's not gonna drastically changed the way
you play the game, but it's nice when because when this first came out,
it basically was just still like that U vertical ut mode, right,
yes, with like stuff on the side. Yeah, they fix that,
so that's nice. Cool. H There was an Arbor Core sixth launch trailer,
but that game is is out tomorrow right, yeah, yes, twenty
fourth that's correct, so everybody doesn't have to wait long for that one.
I have ability playing it literally tonight. Then. Warhaven is a free to
play multiplayer medieval death match game. I think this one looks pretty good.
Okay, so chivalry esque Chivalry too, Yes, there was. There's a
lot of fun stuff to happen in chivalry, and free to play makes it
like, oh okay, so everyone will just be playing this. Uh.
I will definitely check this out. It'll be a fun thing to do.
On Giant Bomb. We can't play that unless you go find the Mario Kart
toy, which I don't know what you guys did with it. That's the
one she's trying to play, specifically that game. Yeah, she'll just boot
up anything on this which I never know what she's gonna play. Mortal Kombat
One shows off some brutal fatalities. There's I don't know if I've actually watched
this whole thing yet, but people are like kind of squirming about this one.
Were they really that brutal? I mean, they've been pretty brutal in
general. Now they all are this one. I came here specifically, remember
what they were. My biggest takeaway was Shujenko, the player character hero of
Mortal Kombat Deception story Mode is a cameo character. Let's go Shujenko. Love
to see it. Very cool stuff, all right? Where do I see
Shujinko in this trailers? Near the end we're definitely closer to the end.
He doesn't show up a whole lot. He just looks like a theory is
that's him doing the punches? Yeah, okay, okay. He's the guy
who you probably would accidentally assume is the bad guy from the first game,
who I'm baking on all of a sudden, not Shao Khan. I kept
saying, Shaka Shoukan's here. He's not Shoo Khan anymore because Khan is a
title. He's done real shaw. Yeah sounds blanking on that, but yeah
no, it's Shujinko everybody. So yeah it looks good. Yeah, and
Sandel looks really cool here. So the two new playable characters we saw are
Sindel and General shall not show Khan now. Then Montaro and Shujinko are two
new cameo fighters that we see here. We're not gonna have to wait too
much longer for this game. I played some of the beta weekend that was
going on, was having a good time. I am very excited for this.
Yep, me too. There it is. You see that like hair
pulling, the lead, the growing apart. Woo yep, that's yeah,
good, good good. Oh yeah, I finish him here is there we
go? Yeah? Oh yeah, ripping the arms off fantastic stuff. She
is Sindel, the one that ripped off Jackson's arms in Mortal Kambat nine that
we just bought. Yeah, that was the one who showed up and killed
everybody everybody. Yeah, I can't remember exactly. Uh oh sorry. Our
history untold allows you to rewrite history in grand strategy fashion. This one also
looks pretty promising. There have been a significant number of four X games recently.
They've tried to like take Civilizations Crown because turns out civilization Civilization sells very
very well, so everyone's like, we should do one of those. This
one seems like it's going for even like a much more realistic vibe. But
you still are going to play as George Washington, for example, So yeah,
that's still very just straight up we're doing that. Aspect of it is
almost surprising just how much it's going exactly. I think people that think that's
what people want, and I kind of do want that, actually, yeah,
but you know, like a sieve with a bit more city building stuff
because your actual city building options in a civilization are pretty limited usually, so
a game with more of that. They're mixing the popularity of Grand strategy now,
which is a huge thing that has sprung up since civilizations. Popular civilations
forever old, so of course that play I popped up since them, but
a civilization has never really incorporated the Grand strategy stuff, and this is doing
a lot more of that. Diablo is funny because I'm sorry, I just
I see these games. I see the city building I'm always into it.
Then they show like combat, I'm like, yeah, I don't want to
do that. I don't want to like make legions and like think about formations.
I just want to build my Eiffel Tower next to the Colosseum. So
there is a game like is it Old World or I think it's Before We
Leave? Before We Leave is one where it's like you are building up a
civilization to get ready to leave the planet and there's no combat. So it's
it's basically a four X without combat. If that's weird. I know the
Ano games, those are like the best kept secret gaming. I love.
I should play always talk it up and I never have played it. I
should. Uh. Diablo four's season of Blood brings vampiric powers in five new
in game bosses in October. Any chance to check on Diablo four's new season?
Yeah, maybe I fell off of the first season. I don't say
quickly, but after a while I did. Part of it is because there's
a zillion things to play, but yeah, you know, it was like,
you know what, I beat Diablo four. I played some more of
it. Then I feel like I'm probably be good, Like you know,
maybe I won't come back in until they do like the big season where the
new classes in or the expansion or something like that. Who knows, maybe
I'll have some downtime. We're playing diabbo again. Sounds fun. I'm surprised
they announced this so early. This is pretty early to be announcing an October
season, But here we are. Yeah, people get mad at me because
I was like, I'm not sure if who ripped off Jack's arms, and
because and and and like, oh no, you send out to the Of
course the attack. It wasn't send out the ripped off Jack's arms. It's
Irmac. That's why I was confused, because I was remembering it wasn't Sindel
who did that. So it was that happened earlier in the game than that
big attack. Jack's had robotic arms, Right, you're asking who's ripped off
his arms, not who killed him my mistake. Yes, that kills him,
definitely kills him at the throat, yes, right, yeah, I
know you're right. Dust Borne sends you on a road trip across the divided
States of America. Uh. This is uh, it's hard to pin this
one down in terms of like I think it's life is strange ish, kind
of the thing it does look but I think there's more you know, verbs
than than Life is Strange. But I've never played Life Is Strange slash.
I don't really know for sure, but yeah, it looks very very narrative
heavy, a lot of characters. I think we've seen it before, and
I think people have like said they're pretty excited about it when they've had gone
hands on. It's gonna be in twenty twenty four. I'm keeping mine on
it. Uh and then thank goodness you you're here? Is an absurd comedy
platform or this one I am going to try to get. I think this
one looks pretty. It looks really good. Let me see if I can
turn off. Yeah, we promise we're old enough for it. Got like
that gravity Falls style. Yes, it's definitely got cartoon network of vibes.
Gravity Falls is Disney well, but yes, but it has Caltech Cartoon Network
vibes. I'm sorry, it just does like yes, I know, I'm
sorry. Yeah, it looks less gravity falls as it goes off forward anyway,
so that's fine. It looks like all these things we're seeing are just
like gameplay, mini game, and it's like that's if it is, like
yeah, like exploring this world and then you can get into like a warrior
wor style like micro game. Yeah, I love that, and it looks
it looks fantastic. It looks really good. So yeah, this is definitely
a standout for me. All get back here. If nice to see a
game with like fun, tudy visuals that isn't a cozy game. That's nice.
Yes, I'm happy for you, Mike. You can actually play it
not without throwing up Alan Wegg through the Dark Place trailer got that live action
Remedy back in at them. I love I love remedies blending together of a
gameplay and live action. Whenever that pops up in anything they do, I
get excited. It's gonna it's probably gonna be better here than ever before.
It looks like it is. This game looks so good. This is a
fantastic trailer like the live action sequences are fun. And the fun thing about
live action in a video games that there is something off putting about it.
Like Metal Gear Solid One was able to kind of convey that well, and
I think that's why it still works in Remedy, because they do use it
in a way that is supposed to be off putting. It still does work
like that, but yeah, there's just some cool looking stuff in this trailer.
I think Allen Wait two has been having an incredible blow up throughout the
year. Going to a game that like another game that's coming out this year
too, I think, being a highlight of the rest of the year.
Now, I mean, okay, closed off this show right, this two
hours show, and it's looking fantastic. I think this game could do pretty
well. I'm very excited for it. I am too. All right,
we got a whole handful of other stories I want to get and we're running
super long, so let's move on here. Epic Games Store is offering developers
one hundred percent of revenue for six months of exclusivity. This is from Chris
Scullion at VGC. Epic Games has announced a new exclusivity scheme that will see
developers getting a revenue share for the first six months. The Epic First Run
program allows developers in any size to claim one hundred percent of the revenue if
they agree to make their games exclusive on the Epic Store for six months.
After the six are up, the game will refer to the standard Epic Game
Store revenue split of eighty eight percent for the developer and twelve percent for Epic
Games. I wonder before this they were probably just giving developers a lot of
money up front, and I wonder if that's actually better than this, And
this like looks eye catching, it's like one hundred percent, but eighty eight
twelve is really good, especially compared to that seventy thirty you're gonna get on
Steam for the first few million sales. And yet that wasn't enough to keep
it away when they were getting a million millions of dollars probably up front,
or one hundreds of thousands of dollars at the very least upfront, and then
also that eighty eight twelve split. But maybe for smaller developers this might be
a kind of a no brainer because it's just automatic. It just works if
you if you do it, if you make it exclusive, you're gonna get
this. And that's six months and then you could still launch it on Steam
and anywhere else. Six months later, you probably launch it anywhere else on
day one, you just not Steam. That's probably the one thing they're talking
about here. I don't know, you think developers will take a manager this,
I don't know. I kind of hope. So I hope. I
always hope it does well, so that Steam has to do more than a
seventy thirty split. But in a world where now Battleneck games are showing up
on Steam, I just don't know. I think we are inevitably going to
be going back to a one Steam future here at some point. Yeah,
I mean this, this tells me, Like I think the subtext here is
Epic is sort of conceding that trying to pay people to stay off Steam doesn't
move the needle enough for them. It didn't really get them the users and
the change of consumer behavior that they were looking for. And so this is
like them, like, what can we like settle, like fall back a
little bit and find something that's more sustainable and instead of just spending millions and
millions of dollars and not getting much out of it, not getting an actual
return on investment, which is you know what a lot of people. I
mean, we were definitely saying it on shows like this and Game mess Sides
and and way back with grub Snacks when we were talking about this a lot,
when this was hot issue about exclusivity on Epic Game Store. It's like,
yeah, they people go and show up for the free games. Yes,
when you have a service that gives away free games, they'll take the
free games. But even that doesn't really get them to change their behavior of
how they spend money, Like, oh, I have a library and Epic,
I could just buy games there now. No, they have their library
on Steam. That's where they're spending money. So yeah, I think that
Epics strategy of doing things like publishing remedy games and be like, hey,
we're just gonna help pay for these games from the ground up, and then
those are going to be exclusive Epic Game Store that continues to be their best
bet, like supporting developers to make the games they want to make that and
then that people are really excited to play, like making Allen Wake two possible.
That is the sweet spot. People would just be like, thank you,
Epic. There's like no caveat there. It's just straight up a good
thing. And then if otherwise, though, if you're just paying or doing
weird things to keep games off Steam, most people are going to see through
that and not want to not want to deal with it. Nightdive Studios announces
TROK three Shadows of Oblivion coming to PC and consoles this is from the press
release today at Gamescom twenty twenty three, Nightdive Studios, renowned video game remaster
studio and subsidiary of Atari Forgot About That, announced the final chapter in the
trilogy, Turrock three, Shadow of Oblivion. Shadow of Oblivion was created in
collaboration with Universal Games and created in digital platforms. It's coming to digital platforms
and releases on Windows, PC, Steam, PlayStation four, five, Xbox
one, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch on November fourteenth of
this year. It's gonna be a faithful adaptation. That Truck one remaster they
did was very good. Apparently Trok two one even better. I'm expecting great
things from this. I think this is the one that has the cerebral bore,
which is one of my favorite weapons, where it's just like it locks
onto the brain waves of the enemy and it shoots this drill missile that drills
in the brain and then explodes. That could have been Tarrok too, but
yeah, a surrebol board was three is the one that I think was a
bit more narrative heavy. We're definitely in a post half life world right at
this point, and I think maybe it wasn't as well liked back then.
I think it'd be very interesting to see what that looks like now. Yeah,
it's just really Nightdive does fantastic work, especially with its first person shooter
remasters. They just did great stuff with Quake two. Everybody should still pay
play Power Slave. Yeah, I'm very happy that they have done this.
We may have just received a new look at Monolith's Wonder Woman game. I'll
just bring this over here real quick. We'll take a look at this art.
Someone put this in their LinkedIn profile, someone who's working on the game
at Monolith, a senior motion capture technician. It's been removed since, but
this looks like concept art from the game. I will for audio listeners,
I'll describe it. Wonder Woman is upfront, doesn't look like gal Gado,
just looks like Wonder Woman. But she is flanked by a lady soldier who
is in like a mex suit, a motorized armor, and then and she
has a gun. And then on the other side it looks like an Amazonian
warrior who has a sword and a shield. Are these people just also Wonder
Woman? Are they doing a multiverse thing? Also? So is this a
multiverse? Those these are also Wonder Woman and that enables them to do coup.
Oh no, what do you think what has happened? Yeah? Is
this a service game? Yeah? Is this a live service game? Oh
no, they're making another Suicide Squad? Yeah? Is that not a service
game? It is. It's just but boy, looking at this, my
my head goes straight to the anxieties about the kinds of games, so that
this would be very bad to be. And it's like, well, you
could make it like the Arkham games. You could make this like the Spider
Man games, or you could make it like the Suicide Squad game, or
you know, or get Gotham Knights. Yeah, what are maybe read Yeah
we're maybe reading too bunches exactly. We might be reading too much into it.
But I just I do have those anxieties about w B superhero games,
so when I see an image like this, it kind of sets those off.
Believe that there are people who like are still going into work every day
if for like the next six months, like all right, time to go
work on Suicide Squaw. No, that's I mean, listen, I know,
not trying to make them feel bad or make that or like ruin morale
over there. But Mike no, I cannot believe that man's right. Charles
Martine isn't involved with Warriorwear move It either. You know, we already know
he's not involved in Super Mario Brothers. Wonder now it's confirmed he's not working
on that new Warrior war game either. This is from Jonas Maki at Game
Reactor. Yesterday we reported that Mario has lost his voice. Charles Martine has
officially been removed as a voice actor from Mario. But Mario wasn't the only
Mushroom character character that Martine voiced, as he also did Luigi, Will Luigi,
and Warrio to name a few. He has also stopped doing those characters,
and now Warriorwear move It will have a different voice actor. That trailer
did come out in that last direct, and we do get one line from
Warrio. I'm not gonna pull it up here. It just sounds like Warrio
still. So I think that they've found someone that can do the full range
of these characters, or maybe different people for some of these characters, but
Warrio still sounds like Warrior, and that was the one I was actually more
worried about Mario. Okay, but Warrior actually sometimes has voice lines in his
warrior war games and things like that. There's actual voice acting. I want
him to sound right, but so far, the like noise that he makes
in that trailer sounds accurate. Atari revealed the Atari twenty six hundred plus from
Brendan Sinclair at Games Industry Dot biz. Atari has taken the raps off the
Atari twenty six hundred plus. It's a modern reinvention of its most popular home
console. It's shipping in November. It plays original twenty six hundred and seventy
eight hundred cartridges. It also comes with a ten games in one cartridge featuring
some of the system staples, such as Combat Adventure, Missile Command, and
Yards Revenge. I like Yards Revenge a lot. Is this? It is
this It Mike, You're gonna get this and this is how you're finally gonna
beat Adventure. No, it's funny how much I yell at children because they
don't like the games from before they were born that I liked. But I
also have no interest in you know, I'm a giant h the grip.
But yeah, it's like, you mind my little No, those weren't good,
you see, it was the issue. But h I just I don't,
you know, I got Atari forty. That's probably gonna fulfill my Atari
needs for the rest of my life. Man ten less than the Atari fifty.
I got fair enough whatever that it was forty. What would it be
forty? I don't know. Uh. The system is one hundred and thirty
dollars additional joysticks or twenty five dollars seeper than PlayStation the Strip Club whatever it's
called, the Yes, Yes exactly, the PlayStation Strip Club the Uh.
The Tari is also selling Autary twenty six center paddle controllers with a four game
bundle for forty dollars, and that's always fun. I actually got one of
those Autari paddle controllers that they sold with their VCS computer thing that they released
a couple of years ago, and I like that. I like having that
as like a USB thing for my computer. The next Zeno Blade will be
vastly different sis monolitht Software Soft director. Uh. This is from Alana Heggs
at Nintendo Life. Basically, the Zeno Blade serious creator said it that like
he wants to keep challenging his studio to rest on their laurels things we've heard
from Nintendo recently. And then if if we get another Zeno Blade game.
He basically says, it's going to be very different and unexpected, but in
a good way. What do you think do you have any idea what that
might mean? Mike No. I mean, you know they've done three of
these now four really with X and you know you've had these dealc campaigns.
I do think that it's time for a bigger departure. And you know,
one, two, and three have all been kind of connected in a way
that I think is maybe played out. I think it would be time for
the next Zeno I don't know if we need Zeno Blade again, right,
I mean we had Zeno gear Zino Saga before. Maybe it is time for
a new Zeno sub series with like vastly different combat. I honestly think that
combat is a weaker part of the series anyway, So I'd like to see
that overhauld and then let's see here. I thinks the last one we're gonna
talk about. Amazon's fall Out TV show is coming in twenty twenty four and
takes place in Los Angeles from Tom Ivan at VGC. But that's in.
Amazon have confirmed that the Fallout TV shows will be released in twenty twenty four
and is set in Los Angeles. Amazon released the poster below, and they
have it posted up on BHC if you want to check that out. The
teaser, which aired following a Starfield presentation for for press at this event,
won't be publicly released, but Bethesis Todd Howard said bigger looks at the show
will be coming soon, and that's according to people from games Radar who were
in attendance. Mike, I always think it's fine when a show that's going
to be big and expensive as set in Los Angeles, because that like lowers
costs for their production because they're all in Los Angeles. I always think that's
a good idea. It's also a good post apocalyptic city, so I think
it's funny. Sure, Yeah, I heard us it was a Dead Island
too. Yeah. I'm upset because it's like you did multiple things there at
Dead Island two and it is Dia Island two and then but Dead Island also,
and it just really threw me off. Mike, I wish you wouldn't
do that at the end of the show. You're welcome. H Halflight two
is getting ray tracing the UK charts. Mario Kart eight Deluxe is now number
one on the goddamn UK charts. What the hell is going on? That's
just insane. And then this headline is what I really wanted to share today
from Owen Good at Polygon, who I believe it is leaving Polygon and this
was his last headline. Stick with me, everybody, Razors makers team with
razor makers to make a razor razor. Uh and I just love that.
So if you can't pars what that means, Razor the computer company, you
know, the peripheral company is making a razor blade for your face with Jillette.
And so razors makers team with razor makers to make a razor razor.
That is just a really good work there. And then the Game Awards confirmed
for December seventh. There we go, that's the birthday. Yeah, I
will likely be in town for that. Hopefully Jeff Keilly invites me. I
should probably stop ship posting about him. Yeah, well should Oh I'll make
everybody celebrate my birthday and what la they do that? Yeah? Yeah,
that'd be great. I would love that. We'll go to We'll take everyone
a cheesecake factory. That'll be great. You go, so Armored Course six
is at an eighty six on Open critic right now ninety four percent. Recca
mend So, yeah, there you go, doing well. I don't the
ghost you have to like that's like the final boss, kiddo. I think
you have to like shine the flashlight at him and then at weekends him and
then you can vacuum them up. But why don't we start this game over
and we'll play it together. She's playing Luigi's Mansion. Three nice. She
on Kingboo. She's playing King Boo. Yeah, I'll have trouble with King
Boy. Maybe I had trouble with this, So let's work on it together
in a little bit. Yesterday on Giant Bombs Game Mess Mornings, I asked
Charles Martine great or greatest. Sixteen percent said great, eighty four percent said
greatest. So there you have it, everybody, at least one people think
he's great. I will have another poll tomorrow. But in the meantime,
Mike, what are you have going on? We'll work tell people where they
can find that Armoured Course six or if you again, yeah, please go
to GamesBeat dot com and check out my Armored Core six Fires of Rubicon review.
Check out all the other coverage we've got there. We have Dean over
at Gamescom right now, so stuff coming out from there. We are all
keeping very busy, and then soon I'll be heading off to packs. Yep.
Just a busy, busy, busy, Jeff, Yep. It's it's
NonStop. We've got to get ready for that packs the new Paul, are
you getting the PlayStation portable portal for two hundred dollars that it's yes, no,
or I'll wait for sale. You can probably vote on that here in
a couple of minutes. We'll have that live on YouTube dot com slash giant
Bomb under the community tab. You can vote there and then we'll get the
results. We'll discuss them on tomorrow show on Giant Bomb. Speaking of Giant
Bomb, later today me, Dan Jan and Jeff Bacalar, I'm gonna play
Labyrinthine, which is a new coop cooperative horror puzzle game on Steam that should
be happening about two thirty. Yeah, I think it's two thirty Eastern.
Maybe too eastern. I think it's too eastern for Baccalars, so look out
for that. But we'll definitely have to let you guys know on social media
and stuff when we're going live, because we have social media anything else.
Yeah, we'll have a trailer trash round up from games Com. We're gonna
try and make that happen tomorrow. There's enough stuff I was thinking for that,
Mike. I might do a thing where we use that buzz in dot
Live that we use for Jeopardy, and we'll just maybe play every trailer and
when people get sick of it, they can buzz in and if we get
like enough buzzes, we'll just have to skip the trailer no matter what.
So we're what we're doing. The voice voice, Yeah, the opposite voice,
yes, exactly. You know what what does it get off the hook
on the stage? It's the voice? Actually, Yeah, America's got talent.
There you go, exactly, America's got trailers. There's there's your show
right there. Everybody. That's pretty good. I like that. Actually,
Uh okay, well we'll let you guys know. I'll know when all that
stuff is happening. For now, though, Mike, thank you so much
for speaking with me today about video games. I really appreciate it. Man.
Thank you for having me again. Jeff always fun, and thank you
all for watching. We'll be back again tomorrow. Until then, you're the
best audience in gaming, have a good one, take care of yourself and
goodbye Aye.