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Hello and welcome to Side of Quest. This is our video game show here

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at Gie Versus. I'm your host, Dyl must night with me the trainer

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in the field. Let me go
on with my friend. It's going very

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well. Happy to be here.
Nice fresh start of the week being your

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guest on today's episode. Yes,
the freshest way to start a week.

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Very excited for this episode. We
kind of a mishmash of topics. We're

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mainly talking about Power World, which
is the biggest game in the world out

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of absolutely know where that happens,
So we'll talk about all that and we'll

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just talk about something games have been
playing a little more Avowed. We talked

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about a Vowed last week with the
Xbox Direct and they had an even deeper

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dive with some more info that came
out like right after that. They didn't

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even like announce as part of that
director Very us. But we have some

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more Vowed stuff to talk about,
so should be a fun, shortened sweet

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episode later this week. There it
was announced that there is a PlayStation Sony

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State of Play happening on the thirty
first, that's Wednesday. If it's super

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juicy mean Travis are probably gonna do
an emergency side Quest episode will probably record

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that Wednesday and put it upright away
sort of thing. If not, which

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I know they announced like Cellar Blade
and Rise the Roan and A're gonna be

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there, which makes me think those
might be like the two big schames there.

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If that is the case, then
we might just roll into next week's

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side Quest or just stay tuned to
the feeds on that. You might have

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a bonus episode this week or early
I guess. And then Taylor, I

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don't know if you have seen these
Metacritics scores, but two games from our

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draft have already come out and we
have a start to this race. So

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you had tech and eight on your
list, which is out now. Travis

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had like a Dragon Infinite Wealth,
which also came out. Here's the funny

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thing with this is like the all
the different versions, like you know,

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PC, PlayStation, Xbox, slightly
different scores, and it actually both of

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you picked the version that did weaker, if that makes sense. So here's

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the breakdown of it. You picked
teke An eight on Xbox. The Xbox

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version has an eighty seven. PlayStation's
had a clean ninety and pieces at in

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ninety three, so that's actually like
a fairly big difference, like six whole

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points of difference there. I'm surprised
I picked that for Xbox in retrospect because

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I feel, yeah, those fighters
always seem to do better on PlayStation.

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Yeah, I mean, I don't
know, maybe like maybe Street Fighter six

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or Mortal Kombat one where the opposite
last year and you had looked at that,

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I'm not sure. And then for
Travis, he picked Like a Dragon

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on PlayStation. PlayStation was at an
eighty nine, but the Xbox version was

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out in ninety three, so both
of you kind of missed out on like

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a big, juicy ninety three opportunity. Now it's still early. Things could

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change, more reviews could get added, you know, within a month or

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two. It should all be.
I don't know how long it usually takes

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for sort out. I don't really
count the numbers until the end of the

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year anyway, but interesting start of
the year. So technically Travis has the

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early lead by two points there.
But yeah, man, I was,

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I was especially for tech and like
six whole points worth of Metacritic difference.

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That's like it's not a ton,
but it's it's a notable amount. So

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I don't know if Xbox version is
just worse, or if there's just less

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reviews on that version and therefore it's
I don't know, the numbers a bit

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more random in that way. I'm
not not too sure, but we'll keep

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it on that and maybe maybe who
knows, maybe you'll climb up, maybe

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his will go down. Not too
sure. Does Metacritic compile the reviews like

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regardless of what console it's on,
Like if there was like a division to

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see why people are choosing to put
it at this on this console or this

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one, let me open that up. I feel like they might have implemented

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something like that recently because it made
me think, like, oh, yeah,

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I guess there's a universal acclaim.
Maybe is that what? Or that

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might be that what that means and
that would equal it at a ninety.

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Yeah, that would equal it at
a ninety, So I guess going.

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I think that is a newer thing. Maybe that's why we didn't do it,

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So maybe that's the thing in the
future. I kind of like rolling

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Dace of picking a column. It's
the same time. I feel bad for

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you in this case because you kind
of got screwed over, and so did

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Travis, even though both picked opposite
versions, So yeah, I don't know

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that that is something to consider though, Like that just a that could be

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really funny for like a game though
that has like a switch port or something

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that is just really bad and that
gets way lower or something. I don't

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know if that really happens. But
anyway, good start to the draft.

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So that's fun. I have a
couple of games on there. Let's just

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get right into We're gonna talk about
Power World here. So first of all,

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did you have any time over the
beginning to check this game out at

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all? Cool? So we will
talk about our thoughts, but I first

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I want to talk around this because
this has been such a big surprise,

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I guess at the start of this
year because I remember, you know,

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last year, maybe even the year
before, seeing a trailer for this game

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and thinking like, oh, it's
it's Pokemon with guns. That's like there

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their little I don't know if that's
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tag on they used, because then
that would get them in maybe some murky

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water there on the marketing. But
that's what the community has called it.

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Even I was looking through some of
the YouTube like trailers, and that's what

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like IGN put in their big like
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was just like pell World trailer in
brackets Pokemon with the guns, So like,

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you know, when IGN's pushing that
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But that's very much like the vibe
that the game had, and I thought,

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you know, it's gonna have its
audience. People are gonna be into

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this. But man, it is
exploded. It's already sold and these numbers

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could change and are probably even higher
than this number I have, but it's

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apparently sold over eight million copies on
Steam already, which is absolutely insane.

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It's the second game in Steam history
to ever hit more than two million concurrent

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players. Yeah, like two point
two point one, I think it hit,

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which is just I think PUBG is
the only game that has had more

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concurrence in it. So it's beat
Out Counterstrike Global Defensive, like Do to

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two, like I don't know,
Cyberpunk, Skyrim, all these huge games

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that have a ton of people on
there. It's beat that, which is

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insane. Uh And on Xbox they
don't really have numbers for that yet,

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but like quietly, this game just
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I'm sure there's a ton of people
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the sales would be, and actually, can you while I'm talking, can

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you look up how much this game
costs? Because it is an early access

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on Steam and then game previews what
they call that on Xbox, So I

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don't know if it's maybe just a
really low price because of that, and

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that could obviously inflate some sales more
people jump in there. But yeah,

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randomly, just an Xbox console exclusive
on game Pass, that's a really big

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deal right now, So I don't
even it's kind of weird that that just

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kind of came as a surprise too
for the Xbox community over there. I'm

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seeing twenty nine at ninety nine USD. So that's a really solid price.

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I mean, for early access,
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But for a game like this,
that seems like a pretty solid price.

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I have to imagine that's like same
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of course, if we don't have
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if it's game Pass PC, which
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make me wonder if those why those
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I mean, that there's not that
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PC, but still that would be
maybe a bit of a surprise there.

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But maybe people see the thirty dollars
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So yeah, and then you know, I even I went back because I

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wanted to see, like how many
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this game bound to be massive?
And like the announcement trailer from their channel

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had like four hundred thousand views.
That IGN trailer was talking about had like

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one point eight million, which is
like, that's pretty big. That's still

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IGN. But I'm still just shocked
at how much this game has exploded.

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But at the same time, maybe
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is a appetite for Nintendo like games, and specifically like Pokemon type of games

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that are of just like a higher
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Right, We've seen that with Pokemon
recently. Scarlet and Violet is a

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big detractor of this, where it's
like, man, that game just ran

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like garbage. It probably feels like
an early access game, but they still

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just put it out there for ninety
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and eighty out of a lot of
people a lot of money, or even

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like Archaias, like, sure it's
a great game, maybe, but it

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absolutely dogshit graphics looks horrible. Not
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we'll talk about the quality of it, but I think maybe there is

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an appetite for you know, this
is like an Unreal Engine five game,

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like this big, higher quality version
maybe has features that Pokemon refuses to do

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because they kind of just release the
same game every year with a couple of

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new creatures and one one to two
new mechanics. But yeah, it's it's

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pretty crazy how much this game has
exploded. Do you have any any thoughts

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or any theories as to why that
is? Especially like, I'm curios about

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your perspective here because you are a
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I think you've pretty much been in
there for like most generations of Pokemon,

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at least, I really just jump, like I do have Sword and Shield

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and I play the odd spinoff game. But I'm definitely not the be all

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and do all in terms of Pokemon, that's for sure. Yeah, I'm

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usually there for every generation. Now, as to why this game has popped

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off, I could not understand or
have them that reasoning. It's beyond my

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so uh, I think that it's
it's just falls into that mysterious category of

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being something that people just latch onto
and love and it's just been memed and

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it's blown out of proportion. Then
when you see Nintendo come in with their

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lawsuits, people get even more excited, and that only stokes the fire of

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people like I gotta try this game
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expedites a little bit more. Yeah, that could be a thing too,

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where people like, man, I
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down. That's like genuinely a concern
that people have because I'm sure like all

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the articles have that all over their
their headlines to get to the good clickbait

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going on. But like, I
don't know if this game is actually going

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to be in any sort of legal
trouble with Nintendo. I think at the

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most they might do some sprite at
like character changes or something like that,

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But I don't think the game is
going to be pulled off the shelves anytime

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soon. Yeah, I definitely I
wanted to read that. So this this

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was Nintendo made a post. They
didn't specifically call out POWERLD, but it's

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pretty obviously right here, but it
was just inquiries regarding other companies' games.

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We have received many inquiries regarding another
company's game released in January twenty twenty four.

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We have not granted any permission for
the use of Pokemon and ellectual property

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or assets in that game. We
intend to investigate and take appropriate measures to

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address any acts that infringe on electual
property rights related to the Poke, related

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to the Pokemon. We will continue
to cherish and nurture each and every Pokemon

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and its world, and work to
bring the world together through Pokemon. In

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the view, I had never even
read that in that far to the statement

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that's a weird ddition that's from the
Pokemon company, so you know under Nintendo

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there. Yeah, I don't know, like I really don't foresee this actually

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going anywhere in terms of there being
any sort of legal trouble. How many

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games have we seen before that like
really borrow art styles from other things,

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And this game is certainly egregious in
some cases, especially after playing the game

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and seeing somebody's I'm like, oh
my god, this is this is very

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close. But I still don't feel
like there's gonna be any negative repercussion here.

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I'm very curious to see if that
does happen. If anything were happened,

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I think it would take years at
this point. Like, I don't

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think we'll see Steam taking this down
or Xbox taking off their marketplace in the

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next month or anything like that.
But yeah, what do you what do

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you think now, because you have
more, you know, history with these

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Pokemon when the more you're seeing these
characters in game and whatnot, are you

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you think there's any any danger there
for for this developer? I get like

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I said, I don't think there's
danger for the game to be pulled.

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I think the only danger is just
having to re change the skins of some

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of these these pals, you know, getting into this world immediate, it's

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like, okay, this is like
a whole new next gen uh situation of

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Pokemon. Now they all totally look
like Pokemon. It's actually hilarious. So

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that's madest, Like mass, what
do you think? What do you think

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that these are? What do they
remind you of? Oh? These are

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Pokemon playing a Pokemon game? No, no, no, yeah there is.

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There's one of those dirty little guys
that came across early who is this

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is just Ditto with like a slightly
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It's like that is that like the
green and brown one? Yeah, like

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that thing looks exactly like Ditto.
I think. I think it looks cool,

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but of course it doesn't feel entirely
entirely new in that way. It

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feels like it's definitely heavily inspired by
maybe one of the developer's favorite games or

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series. I'm not too sure.
The dot for eyes just like exactly right.

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That puts it over the top.
Oh, that's hilarious. I do

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think as well, though, the
depending how things progress, I think that

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Nintendo might be afraid of confusion.
I don't think they'd want people to get

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like misrepresentation, Like it's one thing
to like steal full on cop carbon copy

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or content, but I think they
may be afraid in the future, like,

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hey, people are talking about Pokemon
and they're mistakenly referring to Power World

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and especially taking a game that is
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Pokemon Guns where you're shooting Pokemon down
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in terms of making them do all
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so I could see them taking an
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don't know if there'll be much of
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it. Now. On that note
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you're gonna transition to this at some
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also saw looking into some stuff with
Power World. Really, what is that

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about? I think it was the
animal cruelty, yeah, because I mean

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there's definitely some animal cruelty going on
in this. I don't see Peta going

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after last most part too, when
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So I don't know. I don't
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fictional creatures that are very It's not
like they're bleeding everywhere and their heads are

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chopped off, like their eyes just
get crossed out, and they roll around

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like on the ground. That one
seems like they're just trying to maybe drum

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up some people to go to the
Peter website and get some hits there.

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So this, you know what,
in retrospect, maybe maybe this is my

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bad. I have to redact what
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that this is oh yeah, PETA's
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because how they're treating at all.
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really funny to me if if they
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after Rings of Power and they're going
after Power World. That's there. Two

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things. The things you do to
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it does blow my mind. And
I think I was watching some videos

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when you get a meat cleaver and
you're like attacking them, it actually blurs

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out what you're doing, okay,
because it's very bad, but again it's

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not like chopping up or anything like
that. I appreciate how they mimic the

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Pokemon fainting aspect, or the Pokemon
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they're fainted with their eyes the same
design too of Pokemon as well when they

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faint. So yeah, you're right
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with cleavers and you had guns and
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because you know, there's been copycat
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or gameplay mechanics. There's obviously all
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off, and whatever genre is popular, of course they're gonna take inspiration from

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other games that are popular in that
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many other companies are gonna try this
sort of tactic, which is like really

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on that razor's edge of plagiarism in
terms of art style. And you know,

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that's what surprised me the most when
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that this game doesn't really play at
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is the palas, you're collecting them, and maybe some mechanics are similar,

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and there's a thing that looks a
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same animation that it's blue and has
like you know, some little gold tips

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on either end, so it's different
from the legal standing. But it's like

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this doesn't really play like Pokemon.
It all plays a lot more like a

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combination of Minecraft and Breath of Wild, you know, which are just very

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popular. Just any sort of crafting
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game that takes inspiration from that Breath
of Wild style. So maybe that was

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the big thing that surprised me.
I mean, I guess, I mean,

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when people are talking about the plagiarism
element of this, it's not that

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they're stealing everything from Pokemon. It's
really just specifically that art style and the

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Pokemon in the palas is the is
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But yeah, do you feel like
this is going to inspire other companies to

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just try to mess around with some
of this infringement stuff? Like I remember

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this was the thing recently where I
think it was Last Fall. There's this

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game that released on Nintendo Switch and
it was I forget what it was called.

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It was called like The Last survivor
something generic like that, and it

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just looked exactly like The Last of
Us, you know, like a kind

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of a derby version that someone probably
made in you know, three months or

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something like that, but just very
much take And it's not that Last of

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Us is set in some crazy cartoony
world with a distinct art style or something,

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but it just borrowed so much the
point that Intendo did take that down

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from their E shop I believe.
I don't know if there's a resolution to

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that, but obviously other games of
this and failed in the past, and

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this one's not on Nintendo. I
would be shocked at this point of where

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to allow a port of this game
to their console. Maybe that would be

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the most surprising thing. Of course, it is Xbox exclusive. We don't

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know for how long or anything,
but yeah, I don't know. Do

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do you think we'll see a rise
of this just because of the raw monetary

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gain that this company has seen from
this. I think that it's very,

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very possible. I copyright is definitely
its own, its own thing, but

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I do think that there is a
lot of value in being able to allow

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people and teams to really work and
fendangle very closely to those lines of copyright

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and build better off of it.
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I mean, they just do amazing
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So I think when I look at
certain elements that this game has,

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I'm wondering if it's going to be
the reverse and if Pokemon, like they

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did certain things the way you catch
these pals, when you do certain things

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in this world that it makes me
feel like this is really what the next

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iteration of Pokemon games should have been. Ten years ago at least it should

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have been working its way towards this, because I really appreciate a lot of

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the detail, even things that were
implemented back in Pokemon Sapphire and Ruby with

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like hidden building secret forts and stuff
like that, very baseline stuff. Of

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course it was on a handheld,
but this has just been expanded beyond belief

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with what you can do in here, and I really appreciate that, and

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again capturing the pals as well.
So I'm wondering, Okay, is this

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something that Nintendo is going to try
and copy in the future. But then

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also there's a big significant risk here
because you look at this kind of a

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game done with like probably a quarter
of the team size that Pokemon has.

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It's selling for a quarter of the
price of a Pokemon game, and it's

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much It has so much more going
for it, so much more you can

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do, so that I feel like
Nintendo should be shaken in their boots.

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Well game freak, I guess game
free not really Nintendo. Yeah, yeah,

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same same. I mean yeah,
like Pokemon are still those games always

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sell insane even though it is locked
to I guess one console at this point.

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But I guess for me, like
where I would deviate from the point

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you made there is that like I
don't really feel like this game. This

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is maybe my biggest issue with the
game so far, as I don't feel

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like this game has any identity of
its own right, it is borrowing that

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Pokemon artslet it's about monster collecting in
a very similar way, but then it

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is just a classic rock and stick
game like Minecraft. You know, it's

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such a basic crafting game in that
way, and then it has a fucking

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freaking glider in there, and it's
like third person combat, so it feels

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like more like Breath of Wild.
So to me, it's like, if

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anything, Pokemon Company is looking to
those games as their inspiration. I don't

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really know what they would look to
this and say like, oh, we

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need to enhance. It's like they
those games have been out for so long,

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and I think that's just how Pokemon's
going to go because they have such

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short development times for those games.
They just rush them out and don't really

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do much with them, and they
do spin off which maybe do the more

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interesting things there. Like Archaias seem
to be a game that a lot of

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people wanted that is closer to the
Breath of Wild formulas, like they've already

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tried part of that here, So
I don't know. Maybe they would see

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the success of this, but I
don't know. Do you do you feel

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like that when you're playing this game? Do you feel like it's just such

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a rip of other games and it
doesn't really have its own identity as a

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game. I haven't played enough,
really, I don't even know how I

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could count on my fingers probably how
many minutes I've spent playing Breath of a

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While. That's something I need to
get more and I go to. But

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as far as h like Pokemon,
like, I love just the feel of

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throwing the pal spheres. I think
that was really cool, just the way

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it just felt so it felt so
updated from what I'm used to just throwing

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the pok ball. Maybe kind of
think a Fortnite a little bit with what

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you're harvesting materials to a slight degree. You didn't play Archias, right,

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No, I didn't, so I
don't have a comparison for that, Yeah,

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because I feel like that might have
that that better game field, like

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throwing the poke balls and like sneaking
up on Pokemon. I don't really know

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what the like in those games,
but I mean it is like a third

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person game, right, You're like
throwing the balls at them in more real

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time sort of way. Was it
motion like throwing? Because I think like

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Pikachu and Ev had that. I
think right, Yeah, maybe they had

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at that in the control scheme.
I'm not too sure. Actually that could

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help two other things. So I
saw that Nexus mod is a big moding

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site, like, you know,
probably a million sky or mods on it

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for every game. And I saw
that Nexus mod made a post that they

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are not going to allow modding for
this game, like on their website,

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just because they don't want people to
do Pokemon modding and risk them having any

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sort of legal trouble with people modding
like Pikachu's into Pale World and stuff like

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that. So I've thought, but
I don't know if Nexus mod is the

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biggest modding site in the world at
this point. I mean, I'm sure

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Steam, like the Steam itself like
boding community is bigger than Nexus Mod,

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but I'm sure it's Nexus mod really
is the only one I've ever heard of,

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so I'm sure that's a pretty big
deal. But I found that to

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be an interesting thing. And then
I was also feeling like, man,

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I feel like this is one of
those games that is like never really gonna

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leave early access. I feel like
they just like put that out there,

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They're gonna kind of cash in and
move on. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe

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this game does have a lot of
passion and great ideas behind it, but

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to me just feels so deridive that
I don't know if they're really I feel

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like they maybe at this point could
say, like, man, we've already

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got like our money out of this, we could move on to the next

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thing. But I don't know,
can you really get bigger than Pokemon in

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terms of ripping something off. So
maybe they do keep milking it for years

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and years to come, and then
they have that big one point oh launch

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in the future and that gets a
bunch more people to jump in. I

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don't know. I don't really know
what the future that they've announced like a

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roadmap which has a bunch of new
features like PvP and big raids and all

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these sort of new mechanics in there. So I'm not saying they're gonna just

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abandon it this month or anything like
that, but I could I could just

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see this being one of those games
that never really is finished and they just

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kind of forget about it one day
move on to the next project. I

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agree it's funny with the the mods
because I don't know the name of this

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guy, but he was one of
the people that put in some Pokemon and

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I think he just put like a
tweet saying that Nintendo's come for me and

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he had to take things down,
right, So yeah, that's us.

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Nintendo is just absolutely savage when it
comes to mods of their games, even

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old ship like Melee, they still
care that you made that game. It's

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like, come on, really,
well yea, yeah you probably. I

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don't know how it works with copyright
claims and whatnot, but I'm pretty sure

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a company would go through like a
third party or the government group or something

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to file a CLA or probably like
oversee your claim that you filed the YadA

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YadA YadA. But I'm pretty confident
that Nintendo actually has like a strike team

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that is actually investigating and doing things
themselves, a team of assassins, like

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a sleeper cell. Essentially, they're
like in every country all over the world,

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just ready to strike at any moment. Yeah, they would do something

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like that instead of letting people just
play with there's already people are playing like

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Mario Odyssey on their Steam deck and
stuff like, I don't know, there's

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you can't stop it, Nintendo,
just stop get out of the way talking

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about the game itself. I want
to hear from you first, So it

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seems like it seems like you're into
this game, seems that you're enjoying it.

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And I think you have a very
valuable perspective here of someone who's you

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know, really big into Pokemon and
plays every generation, and this feels like

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it's maybe hitting a new niche for
you or something that you've at least some

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features you've wanted Pokemon to try for
a while. Yeah, some new features,

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And again it's it's probably a lack
there of knowledge of what this game

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actually was beforehand. I kept paying
the term Pokemon with guns, and I

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thought legitimately that you were just playing
as one of these cu creatures and you

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had guns and it was just a
run around, shoot them, very basic

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game. So I started hearing about
all the craziness people going crazy about this

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game, and then my too,
my friends got into it and they were

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talking about it, and they talked
about some like building things or whatnot,

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Like, okay, that's like I
didn't put much stock into that at the

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time. I just went over my
head. And finally when I sat down

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and I played it, I was
taken aback by not playing as one of

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these pals. I was taken aback
by just the open world and seeing how

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all these pals are maneuvering around,
and then saying that there's basic skill tree,

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seeing that there is crafting capabilities and
harvesting resources, finding treasures and stuff

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all around the map. I was
really really surprised how much of this worked.

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And I think that's something else that
I really liked, because well,

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you say that a lot of this
is like the breath of the wild and

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Minecraft kind of feel to it,
those types of things mixed in with this

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Pokemon vibe. It's uh. I
think that's one of the biggest things I

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really really enjoy, is having such
a a world like this, And I

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think Pokemon might benefit to a slight
degree with this kind of thing, but

407
00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:14,960
I think it's still limited because it
can be very overwhelming when you have such

408
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,720
a huge world like this and detract
from maybe some Pokemon stuff. But that's

409
00:26:18,759 --> 00:26:25,720
besides the point. When I when
I started making weapons and actually like fighting

410
00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:30,839
these these pals, I didn't I
couldn't properly determine like what pals are stronger

411
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,680
than others, and I just like, you know what, Okay, I

412
00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:34,039
killed a couple of little killed a
couple of little ones, but let's just

413
00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:37,519
go after one of these big suckers. And I just got inset killed a

414
00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:41,319
few times. Yeah, there's one
of the he's the level fourteen. I've

415
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,519
I've challenged him a couple of times
because I feel like, okay, I'm

416
00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:47,119
like level nine or ish now,
like I sh you'l be able to take

417
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,759
this guy. He just keeps spawning, like roaming out to my base and

418
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,279
just continually over and over again.
He keeps wrecking me and all like hit

419
00:26:53,319 --> 00:26:56,359
him once and I see like,
oh, I'm doing like no damage,

420
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,400
so I just leave him alone,
but he just he never forgets. He

421
00:26:59,599 --> 00:27:02,759
just until I'm dead. He will
not leave me alone. Then I had

422
00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:06,799
some like wolves raid my base at
the exact same time. It was pretty

423
00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:10,680
brutal timing have you gotten guns yet? Because I have not. I've just

424
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,519
got the bow and arrow, and
I was curious when the guns come in.

425
00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:17,039
I was wondering the exact same thing
because I'm still like technically in the

426
00:27:17,079 --> 00:27:19,279
tutorial. I guess that seems I
think I only have like one more thing

427
00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:23,039
in the tutorial to do, and
it's like, go challenge this boss and

428
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,519
make sure you're you got a good
equipment, and you're leveled up. I

429
00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:29,960
have no idea where that is supposed
to be. Maybe it's on my map

430
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,440
somewhere, but I just feel like
I'm still I haven't even really explored around

431
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,680
my base a whole lot yet,
so I'm still doing that. But yeah,

432
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,160
I've not seen a gun yet.
I also have the bow and arrow,

433
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,400
so it sounds like we've played maybe
a similar amount of this game.

434
00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:47,680
Yeah, so that's something that I
wanted to bring up, is like,

435
00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:52,920
so far, the combat is like
really boring and not very engaging, just

436
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,119
like baseball bat and these Pokemon down
and or these palads sorry, and you

437
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,279
know, the bow and arrow is
fine, but nothing special. And that's

438
00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:03,079
where I'm thinking, like, Okay, maybe this is more fun when it

439
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,960
gets to the third person shooter part
of it, because that's always fun in

440
00:28:07,039 --> 00:28:11,440
games. So that's maybe what I'm
hoping for. Maybe it'll get get a

441
00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:12,880
bit better at that point, a
bit more engaging, because so far,

442
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:17,880
I'm finding the combat to be pretty
dull. I don't feel like I'm fully

443
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,519
understanding like how I'm supposed to use
my pals in this game. It seems

444
00:28:21,519 --> 00:28:23,279
like you can only have one out
at a time, but you have like

445
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,880
six in your bag, I guess
at a time, so you can like

446
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,319
switch between them. So I don't
know if that's the idea, is that

447
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,720
you're kind of switching which one you
have out in the active way, which

448
00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:37,599
I guess is similar to how Pokemon
works. But then also, like you

449
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,160
know what, you're kind of sending
those palace to like do tasks for you

450
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,559
at your base. So I don't
know, I'm a little confused about how

451
00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:48,599
it all works. Like there's a
ton of things introduced early on in terms

452
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,920
of like base building and whatnot.
But yeah, are you finding much enjoyment

453
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,920
with the combat? I think my
favorite part is just throwing the I don't

454
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,920
even know what the poke balls are
called in this game, but the puspheres

455
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,480
pala spheres. Yeah, Like throwing
those is fun, just because that animation

456
00:29:02,599 --> 00:29:06,319
is always great in Pokemon when it
just bounces off the light, pops out,

457
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,599
absorbs them in you wait for it
to like shake around like that's always

458
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,079
great. So that's part I'm liking
the most. But so far, I'm

459
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:17,000
not caring too much for the bow
and arrow or the baseball bat. Yeah,

460
00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:22,880
I uh am not really enthrolled the
combat system, it's just just hold

461
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,640
the trigger down and you just keep
boom boom boom, swinging away, very

462
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,559
very basic stuff. So it's it's
no different from harvesting resources essentially, and

463
00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:33,839
that's kind of a shame. I
feel like the two should be at least

464
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:38,200
marginally different of an experience point.
Yeah, they are pretty much the same.

465
00:29:38,599 --> 00:29:42,759
Yeah, and maybe when you like
building, you just whole x yeah

466
00:29:44,039 --> 00:29:48,480
structure for something to I'm hoping that
at least maybe the guns have a different

467
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,960
a different vibe to it, but
I'm really doubtful. Yeah, I mean,

468
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,839
even just looking at the U,
I guess what would you call it,

469
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,839
Like the crafting menu and how you
get like new row and then you

470
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,279
can choose what you want on lock
there like that list. There's so much

471
00:30:04,319 --> 00:30:07,599
in there, so many things I
haven't even built that I've just gone right

472
00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:11,759
past. And I'm sure you get
tons of guns and weapons and all sorts

473
00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:14,720
of crazy things in there. Like
I've seen a couple of videos of people

474
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,319
who are very far in this game
and have like huge bases where they just

475
00:30:17,359 --> 00:30:18,759
have like I don't know how many
Pokemon, but it seems like tens and

476
00:30:18,759 --> 00:30:23,200
tens and hundreds or something that are
all like doing tasks and just running this

477
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:27,720
huge factory essentially, and I don't
think I'm gonna get to that point.

478
00:30:27,759 --> 00:30:30,599
Like, I don't think i'll play
much more of this game. I'll probably

479
00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:33,519
look it up to see how long
it takes to get a gun, because

480
00:30:33,519 --> 00:30:36,720
I just want to see how that
feels and if that's more fun. But

481
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:40,240
I think I'm just a bit overwhelmed
by it and a little uninterested because I

482
00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:42,480
just feel like I'd rather go make
a new Minecraft save, or like I

483
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:45,759
never finished Here's the Kingdom, so
I'd rather go do that, and I

484
00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:48,279
just don't or like even like Sword
and Shields, a game I've kind of

485
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:52,359
been playing on and off for years, still finished, I might just want

486
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,359
to go do that instead. I
feel like it's maybe the lack of focus

487
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,000
that is taking me out of this. But I also feel like this game

488
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,200
would probably be a lot more fun
and co op. I mean, most

489
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,039
games are more fun when you're playing
with friends. But I also just feel

490
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:07,000
like with how long it takes to
build, like how much I just have

491
00:31:07,039 --> 00:31:11,039
to go collect wood in this game, it takes forever. Clexstone constantly running

492
00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:14,480
out and I feel like some of
those things would be a lot more fun,

493
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:17,039
unless tedious, when if you had
a group of friends, and maybe

494
00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:18,279
the combat would be a lot more
fun too, because it before you beaten

495
00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:22,400
up on these guys and okay,
I'm gonna try and take the egg or

496
00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:23,759
of them by like going up in
my baseball bat and a couple of people

497
00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:27,640
in the back with their bows and
guns different Pokemon types, Pala type.

498
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,519
Sorry, I feel like that could
be a lot of fun, and it

499
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:34,559
does seem in a lot of ways
like that's how the game was designed,

500
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,200
and I don't any criticism you throw
this game right. It's also like this

501
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,440
is an early access game and it's
not finished yet, so it feels like,

502
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,440
okay, you're grain assault here where
maybe this game is just not done

503
00:31:45,519 --> 00:31:48,559
yet. Well, it isn't done
yet, but that's definitely the feel I

504
00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:51,799
got. Did you play with your
friends who were telling you about this game

505
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,480
or are you playing solo? No? I was doing solo, and I

506
00:31:53,559 --> 00:31:56,480
think I might go back and see
if they are open to just trying a

507
00:31:56,519 --> 00:32:00,160
little bit of a world experience.
I don't know if you like bring your

508
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,279
character in and start from where you
are, or if you have to make

509
00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:06,119
a new save together. I'm not
sure how that element of it works.

510
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,160
Yeah, that that I found confusing. I just ended up making, like

511
00:32:08,279 --> 00:32:10,920
I think it was, on my
own server and just making my own solo

512
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,319
guy and whatnot. I would suggest
we played together, but I don't know

513
00:32:14,319 --> 00:32:16,559
if I I'm gonna play a lot
more so I might not be the best

514
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:21,599
companion to go on this journey with
you. I just wish there was a

515
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,079
little bit more clarity of information upon
booting it up. Yeah, I feel

516
00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:30,720
like the tutorial element of this game
is pretty bad, and like there's pop

517
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:31,920
ups that go on and like very
early on in the games, like go

518
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,160
to this page in the menu,
and there's more info here, and in

519
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,839
that page there's like all these different
tabs you can go down. But like

520
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:43,440
that's not a great engaging way for
me to learn how to play this game.

521
00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:45,880
So that's something I really hope that
they refine over the course of this

522
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,680
early access period. And when the
game finally goes one point zero, maybe

523
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,519
at that point that would be a
better time for me to jump in,

524
00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:55,039
because I genuinely don't play things in
early access. I'd rather just wait,

525
00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:58,880
even for things I'm excited for I'd
rather just wait. I just had to

526
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,319
see what this one was like,
because it's the talk of the town at

527
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:02,759
this point. But maybe that's the
way to do it. Maybe I'll come

528
00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:07,880
back and maybe we could play at
that point if you haven't played enough at

529
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,640
this point in time, because uh
yeah, just not really captivating me at

530
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,000
this point. I do like,
you know, as much as the Palas

531
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,720
are very much ripping off Pokemon a
lot of ways, I think they're really

532
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,200
creative and fun so far. Some
of them, of course, feel a

533
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,440
lot more derived than others. But
like as much as that guy does look

534
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,240
a lot like Diddo with that tuke, I think Diddo looks cool, and

535
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,160
I think tukes are cool, so
you can mind the two. And it's

536
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,519
like I'm into the sky, Like
this guy's my favorite one that I have

537
00:33:30,599 --> 00:33:34,079
so far. I just got this
wolf that's pretty cool. So I'm liking

538
00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:36,960
the designs of them, and some
of them, like there's this huge,

539
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,160
like elephant looking one. Have you
seen that one? He's kind of like

540
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:43,279
a grassy sort of elephant. Yeah, and he's way too He's love like

541
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:45,119
forty, So there's no way I
could catch him. I'd probably have a

542
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,640
one percent chance to catch him if
I threw a ball at him. Uh

543
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,079
if he didn't one shot me,
Like, I would love to have that

544
00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:51,960
guy at my party. I think
you can ride some of them, and

545
00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:55,119
I'm sure you can ride like flyers
and whatnot. And there's there's definitely like

546
00:33:55,119 --> 00:33:59,559
I've seen one that looks exactly Garretto, So I'm sure there's water combat in

547
00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:01,640
this game. There's little lake by
my base, a little pond, even

548
00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:07,880
there's no like water based pals in
there, so I mean that part is

549
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,800
fun for me. It is like
just straight up the collecting element of it,

550
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,480
and I guess I maybe wish the
game was more about that instead of

551
00:34:14,599 --> 00:34:17,519
building a huge base. I feel
like that's maybe a bit of a disconnect

552
00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:21,239
there. And once again, that
is very much something that I think can

553
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:22,679
co op would not so much be
an issue. But for me, it's

554
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,679
just I'm just finding like the base
stuff to be really tedious and the building

555
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,239
collecting resources part to be really tedious, and I just wish I could more

556
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:35,679
quickly level up and go do combat. But then the combat is not super

557
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:37,119
fun because I don't have the guns
yet, so I just feel like,

558
00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:42,599
no matter what element I look at
the game at, I'm a little unimpressed.

559
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,519
And that's, you know, once
again, early access. But I

560
00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:50,119
feel like, you know, one
video that people kept posting when Scarlet and

561
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:54,000
Violet was coming out was just like
how Pokemon in the background would be going

562
00:34:54,039 --> 00:34:58,119
at like a ten frame rate or
something right because they're like not part of

563
00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:00,079
the focus, you know in those
videos of like oh my god, chugging

564
00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:04,199
that happens in this game. This
is an Unbrell Engine five game. This

565
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,000
seems like this big hut next gen
Pokemon game, but it's really not like

566
00:35:07,039 --> 00:35:12,239
it's pretty. It chugs a lot, it's very glitchy, bad tutorials,

567
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,840
like, it seems like it has
a lot of those same problems that Pokemon

568
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,800
has. So I, once again
early access, you take it with a

569
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,400
grain salt, But yeah, that's
definitely been top of mind for me too

570
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:27,199
when I'm playing this game, is
is that it just doesn't feel very polished

571
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,960
or refined. It feels like it's
a rush to market, you know,

572
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,760
to get a bunch of money,
and you know if straight up they don't

573
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,239
have enough money to fund this game
and they need to get it in early

574
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,880
access to make the money to keep
developing that sure, go ahead, And

575
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,880
I don't know. Once again,
that's just me not being an early access

576
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:47,119
game fan. I suppose are the
worlds differently generated every time? I would

577
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,800
assume not. Okay, I started
like up on this hill and I kind

578
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,559
of continually got gone down this hill. Like very early on there was like

579
00:35:53,599 --> 00:35:57,239
a lake or you know, not
a lake, a pond with like a

580
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,960
river going down and like a very
flat area there seemed like this is where

581
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,119
your first bass should go. Does
that kind of sound like similar to SZ,

582
00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:07,519
Yeah, but I did. I
also right off the start though,

583
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,840
I'm pretty sure you can like go
up and exit through the mountain. Like

584
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,960
there's two different ways you can go, so probably right off the start you

585
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,599
could probably go a very different way. But it doesn't seem like the maps

586
00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:20,599
are randomly generated. It seems like
they are pre built, so not like

587
00:36:20,639 --> 00:36:23,360
Minecraft in that way. If it
was randomly generated, I'd be pretty impressed,

588
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,000
because it looks pretty well put together. In that way, I would

589
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,920
say, mm hmm. I found
the character creator to be freaking hilarious in

590
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:36,039
this game. I mean, my
character it looks like hot SUNI Miku or

591
00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:38,960
something. He's got like bright teal
hair, like purple skin. I just

592
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:44,239
felt like the customization you have is
like you can change essentially the width of

593
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,159
like your arms, you're like,
I think Torso, and then your legs

594
00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:52,360
and mud MUDs was watching me play
and I just like maxed out the bar

595
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:53,960
for the arms and the thighs,
and you can have just like the most

596
00:36:54,119 --> 00:36:59,400
monster thighs I've ever seen in the
video game. It is hilarious. I

597
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,599
ended up tony it down. But
my character, you know, like this

598
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:06,519
kind of like anime sort of white
people looking girl, but then she just

599
00:37:06,519 --> 00:37:09,599
has huge fucking arms, like she
is jacked. But it works is I'm

600
00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:14,880
like chopping down these rocks and trees
and I'm just swoll out of my mind.

601
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,920
It's perfect. So yeah, my
character is just a total monstrosity.

602
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,639
So even though you have very few
options, I found it really, uh

603
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,440
really fun all the customization you had
in there. I like that, that's

604
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:30,800
great. Yeah, what else is
there? I mean, like I said,

605
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,199
I'm not maybe super into the base
building stuff yet and maybe I just

606
00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:35,280
have to unlock more. But I
think for me, it really just comes

607
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,480
down to, like, man,
getting these resources takes a long time getting

608
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,400
wood and rock, and like,
I have that gravel pit thing now,

609
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:45,360
so I can send my pal over
there to work in that gravel pit.

610
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,400
But I'll be gone like collecting things
for like twenty minutes. I come back

611
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,400
and he's got like eight stone.
I'm like, I can do that in

612
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,480
fifteen seconds. That like this is
so slow, and that's where I'm sure

613
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,800
it scales up when you get more
and more of them, but then you

614
00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:00,960
probably need more and more resources to
build the next things. I just feel

615
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,519
like it's always gonna be one of
those sort of things. So yeah,

616
00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:06,119
I don't It seems like you can
build some really crazy stuff, and already

617
00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:09,039
there's been some fun customization. I
think you unlock things really quick in this

618
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:13,480
game, which also is pretty good, and you level up pretty fast as

619
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,800
well. Yeah, I just wish
it maybe wasn't quite as tedious, but

620
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,519
it seems like there's and once again
from some of these videos I've seen,

621
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:21,840
they all look very janky, but
some of the structures you can build and

622
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,079
the huge, huge stuff you can
do is pretty insane. Seems like they

623
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:28,360
aren't really limiting you in a way
that like Fallowout four had like a build

624
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,920
limit that you would very quickly hit. It doesn't seem like this game really

625
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:35,719
has much of that, or maybe
those are modern pictures I've seen. I

626
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,079
don't really know, but that stuff
has been pretty cool. I just wish

627
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:43,519
it was, yeah, but maybe
easier to engage with it. Mm hm.

628
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:50,239
Any other thoughts from you on this
game? Hmmm, I don't think

629
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,119
so. I think that's pretty much
all my minds on, all my my

630
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,800
thoughts on it. I always ask
you this, but are you going to

631
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,920
keep playing this game? I would
like to go back and try it with

632
00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:02,519
friends. I think that would be
That'd be the the only thing I would

633
00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:06,840
really like to experiment with. And
I would like to know where the guns

634
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,760
come into play. Yeah, I
would like to try that. I mean,

635
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,719
I think that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna look up how soon

636
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,400
I'm going to get that based on
where I am, and then I just

637
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,679
like to try it. But if
not, I think I'll I'd come back

638
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,639
if it's when it's like one point
zero, when it's fully released, if

639
00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:22,360
it's still on game pass. I
don't think i'd buy this game out right

640
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,119
based on what I've played here,
But yeah, there's just so many like

641
00:39:25,159 --> 00:39:30,159
crafting games that I've missed over the
years. Even Lord of the Rings Returned

642
00:39:30,199 --> 00:39:32,000
to Moria came out at the end
of last year, which is just like

643
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,440
a Lord of the Rings crafting ga
where he plays a bunch of dwarves and

644
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,840
a dwarf in minds, Like,
that's a cold game as well. I

645
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,280
really want to play that game,
Like, I'd rather go do that then

646
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,000
invest more time here. Which that's
a game that me, you and Kirkland

647
00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:46,519
should find time to all play together. That'd be super fun. Is more

648
00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:51,519
than like two op to two up
twas, I assume it's like four player.

649
00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:53,280
Well that's awesome. Let me see, let me see if I can

650
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,599
find the answer to this. I
did not know. I did not know

651
00:39:55,639 --> 00:39:58,800
it was a crafting game. I
don't know it was a co op game.

652
00:39:59,079 --> 00:40:02,880
Sounds a way better than Oh no, kidding, that's really cool.

653
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,880
I don't know if the game's any
good, but I just feel like,

654
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,239
because of the setting alone, I
would I'm sure we'd have good enough time

655
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:13,360
to mess around with our silly dwarves
and stuff. So yeah, that's that's

656
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,599
what I want to check out.
Let's take a quick break when we'll be

657
00:40:16,039 --> 00:40:22,880
right back. Okay, we are
back. So, as I mentioned,

658
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:28,480
avowed was in the Xbox Developer Direct
last week two weeks ago whenever that was.

659
00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:31,920
And then they did a interview to
those devs people you would see in

660
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,679
the Developer Direct. The I guess
I think it was creative director and the

661
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,559
gameplay director or combat director, one
of those two did an extended interview where

662
00:40:40,559 --> 00:40:44,960
they talked about some more features of
the game. We didn't really see any

663
00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:46,880
much more. We did see a
little bit more new footage. Actually it

664
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,920
was mostly that same sequence, that
same like kind of sandy area with those

665
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,840
lizard creatures, but you saw like
more of a five minute chunk of it

666
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,880
rather than like a bunch of cuts
of different combat sequences. So you got

667
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,280
to see a little bit more there, got a little bit more info here.

668
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,159
So one thing that we didn't really
know for sure, but we kind

669
00:41:04,159 --> 00:41:07,599
of know now is that this game
does have a three man party in the

670
00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:09,440
way that the Outer Worlds did,
So that makes sense, it's cool.

671
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:14,559
And then they talked about how the
players and your party that aren't currently equipped

672
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,159
are equipped as the wrong word maybe
makes them sound like objects, but the

673
00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:21,480
people who are not currently, your
party are gonna go wait at like a

674
00:41:21,519 --> 00:41:24,400
player camp that you have, which
I'm curious how that will be implemented in

675
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,199
to the game, because that was
very much the thing in the Outer Worlds

676
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,039
right where you had your ship,
the Unreliable, and that's where your crewmates

677
00:41:30,079 --> 00:41:34,039
would wait if they weren't in your
active party, and that was one of

678
00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:36,760
my favorite parts about the Other Worlds. I love the companion system in that

679
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,639
game, and I love The Unreliable
as this place that you just go and

680
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,519
you'd hear your companions talking, you'd
see what they d up to, what

681
00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:44,960
they're up to. A couple of
them have like tasks, their jobs and

682
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:46,760
things that they're doing. And so
I'm curious to this how this camp will

683
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:51,559
set up. I'm guessing just in
each major loading zone, they'll be like

684
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,320
a camp set up with a campfire
and some tents and whatnot, and in

685
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,880
there is where you can talk to
your companions and and just have the do

686
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,360
some crafting and whatever you're gonna do
at there, which is very much the

687
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,440
thing that balders Gate three has.
With Baldersgate three, it's more like for

688
00:42:05,559 --> 00:42:09,800
each kind of designed area, there'll
be a sort of general a pre generated

689
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,880
player camp that you go to,
and it's kind of more like a disconnected

690
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,039
from the actual world. But I'm
assuming these ones are gonna be more integrated,

691
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,119
but I'm curious to see that.
So so far, that stuff is

692
00:42:20,159 --> 00:42:23,280
sounding pretty good. This might sound
like a little thing, but we saw

693
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,719
in this extended gameplay. We saw
it that you can swim in this game.

694
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,119
Swimming is confirmed. Oh, which, yeah, there wasn't really water

695
00:42:30,159 --> 00:42:34,079
in any meaningful way in the outer
worlds that I can remember. There's just

696
00:42:34,119 --> 00:42:37,440
like maybe some rinky, dank little
rivers that you couldn't swim in, and

697
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,400
it actually looked really nice. It
looked like, especially in those just like

698
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:45,039
this shiny like shiny tail sort of
water, all the kind of coral reefs

699
00:42:45,039 --> 00:42:50,280
and whatnot underneath looked really nice.
And I think that's perfect too, because

700
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,920
this game does have sort of an
island setting, and so I think having

701
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,639
that as just will be good for
exploration. But they went through some caves

702
00:42:57,639 --> 00:43:00,039
just swimming underwater, doing some underground
like splunk almost to get to these other

703
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:04,519
hidden areas, so it looked really
cool. I'm into that. There was

704
00:43:04,559 --> 00:43:07,639
also this thing that they talked about
we didn't see where I guess some of

705
00:43:07,639 --> 00:43:12,039
the spells, you know, in
the gameplay thing, we saw that you

706
00:43:12,079 --> 00:43:15,159
could freeze one of these lizards,
you know, just pretty basic freeze spell

707
00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:16,559
and you can go up and stab
them. But you can also freeze like

708
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:22,280
chunks of water too, to make
platforms like icy platforms that you can then

709
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,559
walk on and use to get to
other areas. So that looks cool.

710
00:43:24,679 --> 00:43:28,679
I hope all this, yeah,
I hope all the spells have kind of

711
00:43:28,679 --> 00:43:31,000
ways that they can interact with both
enemies and like the world at large.

712
00:43:31,039 --> 00:43:37,039
I think that'll be pretty fun.
And then so all that stuff so far,

713
00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:39,440
like that's all the positive stuff,
but always with it's always like a

714
00:43:39,519 --> 00:43:43,519
positive and then a negative for me. And one thing they talked about here

715
00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:46,760
that it really bummed me out was
them talking about the RPG systems in this

716
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,679
game. We talked about how that
gameplay section like they didn't really talk about

717
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,920
that stuff at all, and that's
something I was very curious about. And

718
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:59,280
they've talked about how this game is
gonna have more of a Skyrim style RPG

719
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,079
system too. It there's no class. You don't make a player class in

720
00:44:02,079 --> 00:44:07,000
this game. No thief warrior mage
and instead you're gonna have like a Skyrim

721
00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:12,760
style skill tree. So this really
bums me out because one, I think

722
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,000
the RPG system in Outer World was
really good and I was hoping they'd iterate

723
00:44:15,039 --> 00:44:17,480
on it, and I'm sure they
will in some ways, but this seems

724
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,760
to me like a bit of a
step back. It seems like a bit

725
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,559
more casual fied. But also like
I've been playing some of Pillars of Eternity

726
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,719
recently to try to just get into
this world of Aura. You know,

727
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,400
their previous game set in this world, and that's very much like a balders

728
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:36,599
Gate like D and D style RPG
stem really in depth. And the class

729
00:44:36,599 --> 00:44:38,079
I picked in that game for my
character was the Chanter, which is like

730
00:44:38,119 --> 00:44:43,320
this musical based class that is like
based on rhythm and you're doing like certain

731
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,599
chants that give you bonuses based on
this thing. It's like a really really

732
00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:47,320
cool stuff, And I was like, man, I can't wait to see

733
00:44:47,639 --> 00:44:51,559
those class, all the classes they
had in that game, tons of races

734
00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:57,039
and classes brought into avowed here and
see that interpretation. But it seems like

735
00:44:57,159 --> 00:45:00,000
they're not really gonna get that.
Like there's no there's no class whatsoever.

736
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:02,159
And it's gonna be more of a
free form Skyrim system. So I understand

737
00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:06,719
why they do that, and I
was obviously very successful for Skyrim, but

738
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,039
I was hoping for more of an
in depth RPG system similar to Pillars of

739
00:45:10,039 --> 00:45:14,079
Eternity, and it kind of like
makes me not really care as much to

740
00:45:14,119 --> 00:45:16,480
play Pillars. Like I know,
there's characters and it's the same world,

741
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,320
so there is relation there. But
I was hoping that, okay, I'd

742
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,599
maybe learn about some of these RPG
systems and would carry me into this,

743
00:45:22,639 --> 00:45:27,639
but it seems like not so much. So anyway, that's a lot of

744
00:45:27,639 --> 00:45:30,000
been further. I know through you
lot at you at once, but any

745
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,079
of that interests you or I know, I know you love Skyrim, so

746
00:45:32,119 --> 00:45:36,760
maybe that RPG system is intriguing for
you. I'm not sure. I like

747
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,480
the simplicity of it. I do
like how at least in Skyrim they have

748
00:45:39,559 --> 00:45:44,880
certain really those totems that you could
find that kind of emphasize what paths you

749
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,599
do, like stones or like melee
or range or mage that kind of stuff.

750
00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:52,519
Something like that is all I really
need. I'm okay with. I

751
00:45:52,559 --> 00:45:58,360
love the idea of magic actually having
effects on the world around you and interacting

752
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,599
with your environments. I'm super aga
into that kind of the thing. Uh

753
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,119
yeah, so that works. We
talked about how there's like bramble like bramble

754
00:46:06,199 --> 00:46:08,239
the overgrown areas too that you can
like burn down with your fire spell to

755
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:14,639
access hidden areas, and showing this
like I know it should have shown so

756
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,599
much of this info in here.
It's it's insane to me that they didn't

757
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,480
even the swimming like that's that's it
looks like it was some janky footage that

758
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,079
they were trying to hide, like
it looked really nice. Yeah, and

759
00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:30,400
I feel like that opens up a
lot more exploration, a lot more of

760
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,639
the world to interact with. So
it's just so peculiar that they didn't feature

761
00:46:34,679 --> 00:46:37,840
these things. M yeah. So
yeah, I don't know if there's much

762
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,440
more to say there, but of
course I'm still I'm still excited for this

763
00:46:42,519 --> 00:46:45,239
game. I just my hypher level. I feel like I've just set my

764
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:49,239
expectations really low, so hopefully that
means that they'll get exceeded because I've done

765
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,280
so. But still a game I'm
very intrigued in because I just love Obsidian's

766
00:46:52,679 --> 00:46:57,480
games so much, so there you
go, Taylor. What have you been

767
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:01,519
playing lately other than other than Powell
World? Well? I have. You

768
00:47:01,519 --> 00:47:05,320
know, it's a new year,
and I've been taken upon myself to kind

769
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:10,599
of commit to some resolutions of playing
games that have maybe even left behind.

770
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,920
So I've been sitting down. I've
been really trying to commit with sanns cried

771
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,559
Mirage, really trying to get get
to roll credits on that. That's been

772
00:47:19,679 --> 00:47:23,519
my a huge part of my focus. It's dedicating to completing it and then

773
00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:29,360
I'll probably move on to another game
that's still that I haven't been Maybe there

774
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:30,840
could be like a cyber Skull and
Bones coming out soon, man, so

775
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:36,039
you better ruin your calendar. Well
that was the other thing that I was

776
00:47:36,079 --> 00:47:39,480
going to bring up, because I
am really getting pet like interested in Skull

777
00:47:39,519 --> 00:47:45,039
and Bones, like really really interested, and it scares me because I'm very

778
00:47:45,079 --> 00:47:47,280
much it scares me. I'm afraid
that this is going to go the way

779
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:52,800
of Anthem, and I am I
don't I don't know if I how do

780
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,920
I spend the money to buy this
game? New when Avatar came out,

781
00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:00,079
and Avatar has been on sale since
it's like the week after its release like

782
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:04,679
twenty five percent off or something like
that. So I'm very afraid and I'd

783
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,199
like to try it beforehand because everything
I'm seeing, I'm looking at videos for

784
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,599
this game, and I saw that
they drop their roadmap and there's just a

785
00:48:12,639 --> 00:48:16,440
lot of really cool things going on. I'm gonna I mean, this is

786
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:20,079
a show that are but I'll send
an email that us off so you can

787
00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:22,559
get a code for you. That
would be Maybe that would be the way

788
00:48:22,599 --> 00:48:25,199
to do it if you need something
like they're gonna want everyone in the world

789
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:29,039
reviewing this. They're gonna try and
get that more yeah out there. So

790
00:48:29,079 --> 00:48:30,880
who knows, maybe we can maybe
we can swing for the fences on this

791
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,599
one. See if we can.
I'll flaunt my Assassin's Creed page, like,

792
00:48:34,639 --> 00:48:37,519
hey, I got all these followers
on Facebook. That would be a

793
00:48:37,519 --> 00:48:40,360
good thing to plug for sure.
Yeah, but it's it's something. It's

794
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:45,039
something that's been on my radar for
a prominent amount of time. Now the

795
00:48:45,039 --> 00:48:47,440
more I see these videos, people
talking about it, people saying that there

796
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:52,760
are some things that could be refined
a little bit more, But other than

797
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,679
that, it's just people seem to
have a lot of fun with the customization

798
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:59,639
and the way that you can build
your fleets of ships and have support ships

799
00:48:59,679 --> 00:49:02,280
deep yes ships, tank ships,
like all these classes of ships just blows

800
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:06,199
my mind. And then you have
all these sea creatures. I saw like

801
00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:07,880
a Moses sword jump out of the
ocean that they were firing on, Like

802
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,320
I was just so into this.
Yeah. No, I mean I feel

803
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,239
like a lot of the dialogue of
this game has been oh, it's getting

804
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,199
delayed again, like what is the
chance that this really state sticks? It's

805
00:49:19,199 --> 00:49:22,519
gonna get delayed, And that's kind
of what we talk about. But really

806
00:49:22,559 --> 00:49:23,519
you could look at that from the
other lens that like, man, this

807
00:49:23,559 --> 00:49:27,880
game has been in development for a
long time, and that probably means that

808
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,320
this game is like be super polish
or have a ton of features, like

809
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,880
I don't know, you could look
at it that way too. So that's

810
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,880
pretty cool to hear that they're from
what I've seen, like other than the

811
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:42,719
just absolutely atrocious amount of like icons
and things on the screen, like,

812
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,840
it seems like they're fulfilling their vision
here, or at least fulfilling a vision.

813
00:49:46,119 --> 00:49:49,840
Maybe it's not what your game originally
was supposed to be, perhaps,

814
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,880
but I think they've come a long
way, and like it looks pretty solid,

815
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,119
so I know it is expensive,
so I'm not going to force you

816
00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:59,039
to get or anything, but I
definitely would love to hear your opinions on

817
00:49:59,159 --> 00:50:00,039
But it sounds like, you know, even if you don't get at launch,

818
00:50:00,119 --> 00:50:02,599
you'll probably get it later this year. Because that's a great point,

819
00:50:02,599 --> 00:50:06,320
man, with anything, you be
soft, like I am at a point

820
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,119
now where they've conditioned me to like, I will never buy any of your

821
00:50:08,159 --> 00:50:14,679
games at launch because it's gonna be
within a year, like fifty or more

822
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:22,000
percent off, reliably consistently. So
like even you know Mario Rabbids the sequel,

823
00:50:22,679 --> 00:50:24,360
I was like, I remember I
got that original one for like fifteen

824
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:28,599
dollars eventually, so I'll just wait
and I'll play Mario Rabbits sequel. It

825
00:50:28,599 --> 00:50:30,960
looks great, but I'll just play
it a couple of years in the future

826
00:50:31,159 --> 00:50:36,000
for fifteen dollars instead of playing it
right now. So I don't blame you

827
00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:39,039
for having that mentality, and I
don't know you will already give you be

828
00:50:39,079 --> 00:50:45,559
soft enough with your Assassin's Creed purchase
day one every every time around, right,

829
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,599
It's true, Yeah, I do. And I'm also thinking there's a

830
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:52,840
chance that maybe it could just go
on to that ub Plus on Xbox,

831
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,639
and maybe I just pick pay a
month for that, and at some point

832
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:59,440
I'm going to hop on there for
a month or two and just blast through

833
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,800
a bunch of bunch of things.
Forward to doing that. The other thing

834
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,360
too. Just in my last note
with you, be Soft is I don't

835
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,239
know if you saw this, that
comment that they put out recently that really

836
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:15,119
really uh has really pissed off a
lot of the gaming gamers out there,

837
00:51:15,159 --> 00:51:21,480
consumers. I'm just trying to find
the exact quote, so I'll paraphrase it

838
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,599
a little bit here, but essentially
Ubsoft wants you to be comfortable not owning

839
00:51:24,639 --> 00:51:28,440
your games. Oh right, I
did see that. Yeah. Yeah,

840
00:51:28,559 --> 00:51:31,639
And so everywhere I see Skull and
Bones being advertised, everyone comments below like

841
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,719
I'm not buying this because I'm not
gonna technically own it, Like it's just

842
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,719
flaming v soft. Yeah, it's
It is a weird time we live in,

843
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:44,400
man, because I like, I
play so many things on game Pass

844
00:51:44,599 --> 00:51:46,280
or I've played through so many games
on Nintendo Switch Online, and like,

845
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:52,239
at any point they could just take
those things away from you, and it's

846
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,559
scary. Yeah, even like certain
digital purchases, not just like online only

847
00:51:54,599 --> 00:52:00,360
games, but things can just go
at any moment, So I hate that

848
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:05,719
mentality that they have there. But
at the same time, like I support

849
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,079
those those subscripts and services. I
put a lot of money into them every

850
00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:13,920
year. Game Pass isn't cheap,
nintend Search online is pretty cheap. But

851
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,280
yeah, and like I'm whenever I
get Plus five, I'm definitely gonna get

852
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:20,159
that for access to some of those
older games. So I'm part of the

853
00:52:20,199 --> 00:52:22,679
problem there, I suppose, But
yeah, I definitely. I don't know.

854
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,039
I wish there was more option for
some of these things, and I

855
00:52:25,039 --> 00:52:30,559
think what Xbox does is pretty nice
where hey, we've subscribed a game pass.

856
00:52:30,599 --> 00:52:32,159
Any of these games that you see
on here, you get a discounted

857
00:52:32,159 --> 00:52:35,960
price on if you're a game Pass
subscriber, So that way, if it's

858
00:52:36,039 --> 00:52:37,719
leaving, you can pick it up
and now you own that thing. But

859
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,599
in general, like you can just
buy things for a cheaper way, and

860
00:52:40,639 --> 00:52:43,760
that way you do own them,
you at least own them for now.

861
00:52:44,199 --> 00:52:49,000
That's just that's may downside with online
is you're playing all these games for who

862
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,679
knows how long until they decide to
stop supporting this app, and then you

863
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:53,559
don't own any of these things and
they'll just be lost to obscurity again,

864
00:52:53,599 --> 00:52:55,679
and then you'll be forced to pay
for them again in a different way.

865
00:52:55,719 --> 00:53:00,320
So yeah, I wish there was
just better options, I think for some

866
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:04,800
of these particularly older games, like
even for UH Sony. I'm not sure

867
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,480
how that works for some of that
back catalog like PS one PS two emulation

868
00:53:07,519 --> 00:53:09,880
stuff like I don't know if you
you can buy those outright or if you

869
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:15,320
can only play therem through that subscription
service, which there's obviously a lot of

870
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:19,239
issues with that kind of thing in
terms of being limited there. So m

871
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,960
hmm, yeah, fuck you'd Besoft
for having that point of view. I

872
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,159
don't like that at all. Well, but when I got it back to

873
00:53:25,199 --> 00:53:30,000
thousand screed though, any any new
uh developments or thoughts as you're as you're

874
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:35,320
playing through that based like I guess
just different from the review, Still still

875
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,519
enjoying it, any like new mechanics
or any new things that have popped up?

876
00:53:38,559 --> 00:53:42,719
Has there any I'm guessing there hasn't
been any new like content yet.

877
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,000
No, No, you know this
game is getting like DLC. It might

878
00:53:45,039 --> 00:53:50,280
just be kind of like a one
done story situation. I'm not expecting.

879
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,320
I usually the do two DLC,
but I'm not really expecting a roadmap or

880
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,559
anything. I feel like this game
was set out to just be a homage

881
00:53:57,599 --> 00:54:00,400
to the original and that's all it
is. I feel like I've been seeing

882
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,960
a little bits of rumors here and
there about a code name red with an

883
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,639
assassinate Japan that they're kind of like
working on that a little bit more now,

884
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:14,039
So that's okay for me. With
the game, I've seen more people's

885
00:54:14,039 --> 00:54:17,719
feedback that they don't like how short
it is, and it's people like Valhalla,

886
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:22,320
they like Odyssey more, and that's
not really for me. Mirage is

887
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,679
definitely where I'm thriving, and so, I mean, they're still making those

888
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:28,199
kind of games, So I don't
know why those people are what they're on

889
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,800
about. Like, it's not like
you're you're still getting tons of Assassin's Cree

890
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:34,400
games. You're getting less than you
used to, but you're still getting a

891
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,760
lot of them. They absolutely five
or six different ones announced right at this

892
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:42,119
point. Absolutely. Yeah. So
as for things that are they're new with

893
00:54:42,199 --> 00:54:46,000
the game, there's not really anything
else new that I've really uncovered. I'm

894
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:50,000
pretty sure I mentioned it, but
they had like a fast assassination method,

895
00:54:50,159 --> 00:54:52,280
kind of like red deb redemption,
where you slow mo and highlight a bunch

896
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:58,119
of targets that it's like like quick
fire off on them. I think I

897
00:54:58,119 --> 00:55:01,519
mentioned that during the review. But
aside from that, it's just discovering new

898
00:55:01,559 --> 00:55:07,159
places, exploring the map, and
just working away at the skill tree,

899
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,800
not not necessarily the skill tree,
the I guess like the equipment tree and

900
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:15,800
walking new equipment stuff like that and
and whatnot. So yeah, that's pretty

901
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:20,320
much it. You talked about how
you're thinking about what what's next. Would

902
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:23,239
you think you know what you're gonna
knock off the list next after you're done

903
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:28,760
with Mirage, assuming you don't get
Skull and Bones and that doesn't consume your

904
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,239
time for Yeah, so I know
i'd have to look at my shelf,

905
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:38,320
but I know I've wanted to at
some point. Cyberpunk and Red Dead two

906
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:43,719
those are big ones on my list
that are just very daunting for me.

907
00:55:44,679 --> 00:55:52,400
Ah but good lord, Aliens,
I think you're still playing through Dark thank

908
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,239
you. Yeah, that's another one
that's that's a main one actually that I

909
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:58,679
really want to get back into and
actually indulge in Oh that one that was

910
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:00,519
so good, and I did play
a little bit more of it a couple

911
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:06,039
of weeks ago, and it's just
it's it's just such a wonderful game.

912
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,199
That world, just from a top
down perspective is just so beautiful, and

913
00:56:09,519 --> 00:56:14,519
I just appreciate everything they did for
that game. Oh, they did such

914
00:56:14,519 --> 00:56:17,920
a good job. Cool. Uh
Yeah for me, nothing too major,

915
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:22,679
Like I'm still just working my way
through boulders Gate three. That's a very

916
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:27,559
time consuming game, and certain encounters
I have to like reload my save and

917
00:56:27,559 --> 00:56:30,239
try them over and over again.
So I sometimes I feel like I'm doing

918
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,960
one encounter for an entire week.
So it's slow, slow moving, but

919
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,199
I'm still playing through that a couple
quick hits for me. So did you

920
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:42,679
hear about this game turn Up Boy
Commits Tax Evasion? Do you ever see

921
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,039
that game? I think it was
on game Pass at some point. I

922
00:56:45,079 --> 00:56:46,440
haven't. It's a very silly,
like I never played it, but it

923
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:51,760
was like a very silly kind of
top down action hack and slasher sort of

924
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,559
game, and I feel like it's
intentionally trying to grab you with like a

925
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,679
goofy over the top title and the
kind of the way that like untitled Goose

926
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:00,760
game, like it's a whole shtick
and like its whole marketing beat is like

927
00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:06,000
being kind of silly and stupid,
and I feel like that's what that first

928
00:57:06,039 --> 00:57:07,679
game was doing. But they just
had a new one come out, and

929
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,079
it's a game pass game, so
I wanted to check it out. It's

930
00:57:10,119 --> 00:57:14,239
now. This new one's called Turn
a Boy Robs a Bank, and it's

931
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:15,679
very much the same thing. I
don't know what the gameplay was like of

932
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:19,239
the first one, like I said, somewhere in that genre, but this

933
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,960
one's more of a roguelike, it
seems like. But there's a million like

934
00:57:22,039 --> 00:57:25,719
side quests you're doing. It's a
funny game. It's making me laugh,

935
00:57:25,719 --> 00:57:29,599
which not a lot of games tend
to do because you just have all these

936
00:57:29,639 --> 00:57:32,800
silly characters. I really like the
pixel art. The music's nice. It's

937
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:37,320
it's kind of fun. It's a
bit of a mindless hack and slashy sort

938
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:42,039
of game, but I like the
setting of it. It's kind of been

939
00:57:42,039 --> 00:57:44,239
fun to go through. So I
don't know if I'll finish it by any

940
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:45,639
means, but kind of a funny
thing there. Check it out. It's

941
00:57:45,679 --> 00:57:50,599
on game Pass. And then the
other one I checked out is this game

942
00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:54,119
called Cameo Elements. I forget what
the subtitle is, it's Elements something,

943
00:57:54,119 --> 00:57:57,760
But this is like a game from
like two thousand and five or six.

944
00:57:58,159 --> 00:58:02,320
It's a rare developed game. And
the reason I checked this out is I

945
00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:07,480
some pomet went last year. I
had downloaded the Rare Rare Replay Collection,

946
00:58:07,599 --> 00:58:10,400
right, which is just all those
old rare games. A couple of them

947
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:14,440
have like a new couple of new
things added in. But I was going

948
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:19,159
through that and Cameo was one that
seemed interesting to me. And so this

949
00:58:19,199 --> 00:58:22,119
game just like Reeks of like two
thousand and five, Like it's definitely feels

950
00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:23,840
like the era it comes from in
like good and bad ways, and that

951
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:28,480
it feels a little bit dated,
but it also it's just like a fun,

952
00:58:28,639 --> 00:58:32,440
rare three D kind of platforming collectithon
some combat boss fights in there.

953
00:58:34,199 --> 00:58:37,199
The main stick of it is that
you are kind of transforming into these different

954
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:42,800
elemental sort of creatures. So you
have like this like piranha plant type thing

955
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:46,480
who's like a boxer, or like
this yetty type character. My favorite one

956
00:58:46,519 --> 00:58:51,199
is you can transform into. It's
just like pile of rocks, and they're

957
00:58:51,239 --> 00:58:54,119
like the way they're like jostling around
and rolling around is really satisfying. You

958
00:58:54,119 --> 00:58:57,599
can like shoot the rocks out,
but then if you like hold the triggers

959
00:58:57,599 --> 00:59:00,400
down long enough, you kind of
like explode and just the physics all these

960
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,920
rocks flying across the screen like a
grenade, and then you're just like the

961
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:07,159
one rock left that's like the head
bouncing around, and then all the rocks

962
00:59:07,199 --> 00:59:09,760
slowly come back to you and you
start piling up again. It's just really

963
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:15,119
really satisfying. So I just love
Rare as a developer. I think they

964
00:59:15,119 --> 00:59:17,239
make just such fun, playful games, and they're one of those developers that,

965
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,880
like, you know, you look
at the N sixty four and they

966
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,559
just had so many games released in
that era, and then I feel like

967
00:59:22,599 --> 00:59:25,920
after that people kind of forgot about
them a bit. That was like a

968
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:30,440
big Heyday there with like Banjo Kazoo, Don Kong sixty four, GoldenEye,

969
00:59:31,159 --> 00:59:35,840
and then it's they kind of had
this weird era there where they're still making

970
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:37,760
games, but like like this game
for example, and like Banjo KAZOOI,

971
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:42,800
Nuts and Bolts and other weirder things. And then I feel like they didn't

972
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,400
really do much for a few years
and then they got acquired by Microsoft.

973
00:59:45,519 --> 00:59:47,800
Now they've been they made Seve Thieves, and like they're just very slowly kind

974
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,840
of releasing things now and rare replay
at some point. But this was a

975
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,719
fun It's been a fun game to
go back to, just because it feels

976
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:58,559
like an N sixty four game,
but it's it is like I think,

977
00:59:58,679 --> 01:00:00,920
I guess a three sixty era game, early three sixty era, so it's

978
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:05,559
a bit at higher fidelity, but
it just it's just fun, silly,

979
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,960
kind of stupid. It feels very
much like a DreamWorks movie in terms of

980
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:13,239
the tone. So yeah, I'm
enjoying that. That's been a good time

981
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:17,400
checking that one out. So another
another easy game pass recommend there. And

982
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,360
then last I just wanted to showed
out Call of Duty that meet you and

983
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,079
Travis and Emily have been playing.
I guess the new it's not even really

984
01:00:24,119 --> 01:00:27,239
new anymore. The map's note for
a couple of months at this point,

985
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,960
but I always forget the name.
What's it called. Yeah, so I

986
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:36,519
had very I think my first impressions
of the map were like, ah,

987
01:00:36,559 --> 01:00:38,719
this is kind of boring, not
that interesting. Not really liking this mode

988
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:43,519
necessarily, but the more we've played
it, the more I've come to enjoy

989
01:00:43,559 --> 01:00:46,000
it. It's very like the map. The matches are a lot shorter,

990
01:00:46,079 --> 01:00:51,159
right because the starting zone is like
so such a small chuck of the map,

991
01:00:51,159 --> 01:00:53,360
and the games go by pretty quick. But we've got a ton of

992
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,519
wins on there now. We had
one night, I think it was it

993
01:00:55,639 --> 01:00:59,360
was not this previous weekend, but
the weekend before two weekends ago, where

994
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:01,400
we got like three wins almost back
to back, which was really sweet.

995
01:01:02,239 --> 01:01:07,599
We kind of got slobbered on this
week just destroyed this last weekend, but

996
01:01:07,679 --> 01:01:08,960
still had a couple of decent games
in there. But yeah, that's been

997
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:14,079
a lot of fun playing playing more
of that, and excited because I think

998
01:01:14,119 --> 01:01:16,440
the new mode's coming out somewhat soon, right or Rebirth Island going back to

999
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:20,079
the old map plan. Yeah,
Rebirth Island will be coming out at some

1000
01:01:20,079 --> 01:01:22,960
point, I think later twenty twenty
four. And I keep seeing rumblings over

1001
01:01:22,039 --> 01:01:30,519
Dance returning. I still think that's
my favorite of all of the Warzone maps,

1002
01:01:30,519 --> 01:01:34,559
So hopefully that does come out again. That'd be fun. So some

1003
01:01:34,599 --> 01:01:37,159
revamps, some new features on there, or something M. Yeah, no,

1004
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:40,559
it's been good. Yeah, no's
that's pretty much it. I think

1005
01:01:40,639 --> 01:01:45,000
that will do it for here at
Side Quest. And yeah, like I

1006
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,519
said, maybe later this week we
will have the Sony Say of play coverage.

1007
01:01:47,559 --> 01:01:51,840
If not, we're back with me
and Travis next week for covering that

1008
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,440
on the regular weekly episodes. So
thank you everyone so much for listening and

1009
01:01:54,480 --> 01:02:23,079
we'll see you again next time.
But bye.