WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:15.519 He'll be a gon be bea. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's 2 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.719 do this for October twenty six, twenty twenty three. For the next hour 3 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:21.719 or so, let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game 4 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:26.199 Mess Mornings Live with me Jeff Grubb. Today Allen Wake two reviews are out 5 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:29.559 and each Uban is taking a loan out from Tom Nook. But first, 6 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.560 please join me in welcoming today's co host of Game Mess Mornings. It's Jana 7 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.719 Choa. Everybody, Jan how are you doing? I was gonna comically sip 8 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:40.880 my coffee, but then I realized I reheated it, so it was a 9 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.640 little too hot to do that, and I didn't want my mouth to burn. 10 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.079 What's the strata, great grub, what's the strata on reheating coffee and 11 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.520 just pop in the Mikey, I just pop it and chef Mike, you 12 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:53.799 know, give it to him for a little bit, let him heat him 13 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:58.200 up. I've always been curious whether or not I should just put my coffee 14 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:03.520 at home in a to keep it warmer, like you know, ushi joint. 15 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:04.959 Yeah, I think it's a totally fine move. Yeah, why not? 16 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.159 Just yeah, I guess you associated with like, Okay, I'm gonna 17 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.840 go out and do manual labor or something. Yeah, and I'm not about 18 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:17.359 manual labor. Like, my hands have become soft, and I intend to 19 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:19.840 keep them this way exactly. It took a lot of work to get them 20 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:26.560 this soft exactly, other people's work, specifically, but exactly. And I've 21 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.079 been curious. Folks at home, please let me know if you've had one 22 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:36.439 of those mugs that stay warm or whatever, like an ember mug I think 23 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:38.920 they're called. Are those are the ones that have like the USB ports or 24 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.239 whatever. Yeah, like the little heating plate for sure, Like, let 25 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.000 me know if those are good. I've been curious. It seems like the 26 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.920 kind of thing you're just gonna end up with as a Christmas gift eventually, 27 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:51.879 Jan It's just gonna appear in front of you. It's shocking. I haven't. 28 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.599 Yeah, I'm a little bit surprised. That's a commentary on my friends. 29 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:57.319 Do you think do you think that they're afraid to get your coffee stuff 30 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:01.840 because you're just so honed in. Yeah, it's one of those It's like 31 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:07.400 you can't get a hobbyist a gift that involves their hobby, like I wouldn't 32 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.159 get Jeff backlar anything to do with keyboard. No, no, no, 33 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.360 he would scoff. He'd be like, you got me? What this is? 34 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.319 Me? Do you switchers? This is PCB plastic, this is horseshit? 35 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.520 How dare you offend me with this? And I'm like, I know, 36 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:23.080 I'm sorry, I didn't know. I didn't know. I'm sorry. 37 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.159 I just I thought he would like it. It would goes click any clack, 38 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:32.159 like the keyboards you like. Uh, he chimes in, but there 39 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:37.080 it is no notes. All right, Let's explain what we do here most 40 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.199 weekdays, I, Jeff Greb, will help piece your gaming life back together. 41 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.759 That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. 42 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.800 For all these topics, I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who 43 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:50.199 will make me look smart. If you are watching live on twitch welcome. 44 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.680 You can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game 45 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:57.599 Mess Mornings, or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. You can 46 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:02.000 also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. 47 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.800 Okay, we have a lot to get into, so let's start the Morning 48 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:10.120 Mess with Alan Wake two review roundup critics way in on a sequel thirteen years 49 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:14.759 in the making. This is from Eddie mcoo at game Spot. Remedy's long 50 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.680 awaited horror game, alan Wick two is launching tomorrow, October twenty seventh. 51 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:22.479 Ahead of that, reviews for the game have begun to appear online, shining 52 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.800 the light on the critical reaction to the title. Here. A game Spot 53 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:30.120 allen Wake two received a ten out of ten. Reviewer Mark Delaney said allen 54 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:35.560 Wick two is a miracle illuminated with visually striking worlds across its dual campaigns. 55 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.560 Delaney also praised the game for being extremely meta in a way that should please 56 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:45.520 longtime fans of the series and longtime fans of Remedy. What was that, 57 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:52.400 I honestly have no idea. It sounded like a cat crime. Oh Niko, 58 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:53.719 what are you doing down here? Big guy? Hey, com here. 59 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:59.080 He's got food coming today. So I had to give him a food 60 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.639 cup, like a wet food and he's like, no, I want my 61 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:05.039 normal food, And so I think he's kind of freaking out. What's up? 62 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:09.479 Hambo? Okay, he's heading off, all right? Yeah, that 63 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.719 guy's he's like twenty five, twenty six pounds. He's a big boy. 64 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.639 That's a big go. That's a big piece of meat over there, just 65 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.959 a little bag of rice. Yes, he's a Norwegian forest cat. They're 66 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:25.079 big anyhow, and he's big for a Norwegian forest cat. They are just 67 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:28.720 he's got a lot going on over there. Okay, let's see. So 68 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.199 the game is doing very well, Jen, can your favorite check the Metacritic 69 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.279 while I go through some of these Yeah games, So I gave it a 70 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:39.160 ten. It said, Yeah, the mere existence of alan Wick two would 71 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.240 have, at different points over the years, felt like a minor miracle. 72 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.360 But for it to be this one that feels singular in its achievements and coming 73 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.680 from a studio that refuses to shy away from the paths less traveled, makes 74 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:55.439 alan Wake to a miracle. Illuminated game rate. Gam Rent game Rant, 75 00:04:55.519 --> 00:05:00.000 meanwhile, gaving a two point five out of five, said pro's absolutely stunning 76 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.399 graphics, incredible audio design, brutal and engaging combat, while the cons are 77 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:09.639 disappointing story, some areas are confusing to navigate, frustrating technical problems, and 78 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:13.680 too many cheap scares. And GameRant apparently ran into a lot of technical issues 79 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:16.439 with the game and that's one of the main reasons that their score is at 80 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.439 that point. IGN gave it a nine out of ten, says Allen Wick. 81 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:24.040 Two is a superb survival horror sequel that makes the cult classic original seem 82 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:28.399 like little more than a rough first draft. By Comparison, and games Hub 83 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.680 gave it a five out of five, said Alan Wake two almost feels mad 84 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.959 in its approach, with an overwhelming array of threads in the tail that threatened 85 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.879 to collapse under the pressure at any moment. Yet with clear and incisive logic 86 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:44.639 match with a devotion to delightfully delightful absurdity, the team at Remedy has managed 87 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.000 to craft a breathtaking story. VGC gave it a five out of five. 88 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.199 The Guardian gave it a four out of five. Games Radar gave it a 89 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.720 five out of five. How's it doing over there on Metacritic? It is 90 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:59.600 sitting currently at eighty nine. That is really impressive stuff for It's really hard 91 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.279 to get that on Metacritic, and anything like eighty nine and above is a 92 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.879 huge success. Jan You've been playing now like two as I a little bit, 93 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:11.439 I've not gotten to the titular parts yet, so I'm still pretty early 94 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:17.199 on How are you doing, Jeff Grub? Again, I don't review website 95 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.160 or I don't review, but I don't review. He does review websites, 96 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.319 but not publicly. He just does this in our slack. He's like, 97 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.279 this one fucking sucks, guys, this one's bad. These guys, what 98 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:31.560 the fuck? But I don't review video games on the website. I'm merely 99 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:35.680 just giving my impressions on Tuesdays. I would give this a five out of 100 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:41.040 five wholeheartedly. Jeff Grub, I haven't really had time to codify my thoughts. 101 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:45.319 But I also don't know where in the grand scheme of this game I 102 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:49.160 am in. I'm about like ten to fifteen ish hours in, and a 103 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:53.480 lot of that is just me just bit basking in the obbiance of this world. 104 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:58.519 But Jeff Grub, I think this is a heavy hitting year and I 105 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.040 was trying to explain that to my partner. Weird, how like, in 106 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:04.839 the past week we've had someone here in Chatch playing like just efforts. Going 107 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:10.120 by Metacritic, it's like a ninety three and an eighty nine in the last 108 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:14.639 week, right, Yeah, yeah, what an insane run? You know, 109 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:19.439 that's like and it's it's amazing to be witnessing it and like being taking 110 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:26.240 part and living through this amazing time in video games. And you know, 111 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.199 I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but this can be a 112 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:34.000 very exhausting style of job where you just have to kind of churn through and 113 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:38.600 play as many video games as possible to to, you know, help give 114 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:43.720 an opinion on them. But it's this year that is kind of giving me 115 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.399 a love of video games back and just really remind me and give me a 116 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:56.240 waypoint of as to and remap where I stand on video games and how much 117 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:01.079 I love them right and how effective they are as a medium. But Alan 118 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:07.160 Wake two specifically, Jeff Grubb, I think very well, maybe my game 119 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.759 of the year. Man, that's because so crazy. It's like there's been 120 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.120 like seven of those for you this year, and I'm not exactly it seemed 121 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.120 like I was playing, I'm like, this just got so much atmosphere and 122 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.360 attitude, and then you were like, why did anyone tell me this is 123 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:24.199 so my shit? So I'm like, okay, jans into it. And 124 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:30.199 so here's the thing, Like, for to give context to folks, I 125 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.600 have not played through Quantum Break. I remember playing an hour of Alan Wake 126 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.360 one thirteen years ago at a friend's house and being too spooked. And then 127 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.720 I did play through all of Control and I really enjoyed Control. Yeah, 128 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:48.960 Alan Wake two, like just jumping into it pretty fresh given that context, 129 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:52.960 it was still able to sink its hooks in me and pull me in in 130 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.960 such a way that like I haven't been able to look away grub and you 131 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.440 know what, Give Sam Lake every fucking award, Give that man all of 132 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.759 his flowers, Give that whole team at Remedy all of their fucking flowers because 133 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:11.279 they've fucking stuck the landing. And then some I sure I can see there 134 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.320 are some frustrations with some of the level design and being a little bit stuck, 135 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:20.080 but like it is a game that really rewards you for exploring when you 136 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:26.000 do get stuck and just taking the time to just bask in all of the 137 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:31.360 darkness of everything. Like this really ackles like a lot of weird parts of 138 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:39.440 being a creative and just really embracing how being a creative can really bring out 139 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.600 the darkness in people, but like in a good way, in like harnessing 140 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:52.360 that darkness and like really utilizing that to in someone's ability to tell a story, 141 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.919 and I think it's really it's a fantastic, gorgeous looking game, but 142 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.000 also the underlying messages underneath it, of like existing as a creative and like 143 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:07.559 having to deal with having that creative block of there being thirteen years since the 144 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.720 last Alan Wait game and contending with that and contending with the pressure and contending 145 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.440 with all of that surrounding you, but being able to stick the landing. 146 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.559 And also, you know, some of the reviews I've read through today talk 147 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:24.080 about how it handles being meta in a very unique way, and that is 148 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:31.879 not an easy thing to do, especially melding gameplay with live action cutscenes and 149 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.759 having you sit through them and having like all this meta context of like, 150 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.559 hey, these people are in the game, those people are in the game, 151 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.919 this is also happening. That's also happening. This is all kind of 152 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.080 all in one jumbled universe. But it makes sense. It just it's awe 153 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:54.120 inspiring, and it especially where we are in movies where the whole thing is 154 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.320 just like all these multiverses and everything. And I'm a Marvel fan, so 155 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.519 I'm not pooh poohing on all of that, but it just becomes very oversaturated. 156 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:07.279 The way that the team is able to pull this off absolutely amazing and 157 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:13.279 it just it fits. It works, Grub. This is a hard fucking 158 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.120 year award any type of game of the Year, and I was just thinking 159 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.279 that, like we were like, I'm glad we changed to what we did 160 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.879 last year, where it's like, let's just narrow down to twenty games and 161 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.759 then we'll go in there and do Eurovision. Even getting to that twenty games, 162 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:28.639 like at that twenty twenty one, twenty two to twenty three spot, 163 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.279 there's gonna be some hard cuts this year. Actually, it's gonna be kind 164 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.039 of tough to get to get to. People are gonna have their like like 165 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.600 I got my Shadows of a Doubt, which is early access. I'm gonna 166 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.759 be okay with that one not making the top twenty. But it's like, 167 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.399 man, any other year, I would be like, no, that should 168 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:50.279 be in the top twenty. That's doing some real wild stuff. That is 169 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:52.679 It blows me away. It's the game I've always wanted, I've always imagined 170 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.120 it, But this year's like, no, no way, no way, 171 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.919 is that gonna make a top twenty. And it's like, so it's like 172 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:03.279 if I'm cutting stuff like that already there's gonna be some harder cuts in there. 173 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.519 Yeah, and that's and that's with twenty games. So it's gonna be 174 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:13.080 difficult to argue that this is not the best year in gaming. And really, 175 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.799 I mean, as as a wise poet once said best time maybe playing 176 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.080 video games, it really is. Yeah, And and you know, like, 177 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.279 maybe we'll have time if the rest of the crew can continue to play 178 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.639 through Alan Awake too, maybe we can sit down and have like another little 179 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.759 review cast or whatever. But I'm very, very interested in trying to put 180 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:35.039 together a spoiler cast, maybe with like the AFT game spot after Dark Homies 181 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.480 yea as well. I'm you know what, I'm gonna blaze through this thing. 182 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.840 So I'm gonna like, this is the game I'm playing now. I 183 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:45.639 did start it. I was kind of hanging out in Discord after I was 184 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.759 recording something with Mike and we was playing it and it was like, man, 185 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.240 this is this is They're doing some cool stuff here, and I'm and 186 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.720 really it's like the all the Twin Peaks coded stuff of yeah, look, 187 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:58.039 I get the guys and they're drinking their coffee. But then it's like, 188 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.240 oh, this lady's just gonna be really weird and like, well, what's 189 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.559 that string? What's that thread? And then obviously like one of the main 190 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.720 things is like, oh, the pages are describing what's going on. That's 191 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.919 a classic Allen Wake thing and yet still very intriguing. I can't wait to 192 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.159 see how these characters react to it, what it means for them. I 193 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.919 think Saga is a great character immediately, fantastic name, yes, cook really 194 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:26.240 good name, and of course they like set her up like wait is there 195 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.120 more going on with her? Like they know the tropes they're playing with them, 196 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:31.879 and you can only do that if you're someone who's been doing this for 197 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.600 a really long time, and I mean makes it. It kind of gets 198 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:37.759 me to a point where I look at you know, it's you know, 199 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.840 Sam like his whole creative team. But Sam Wake and his creative team remind 200 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:45.440 me a lot of like Wes Anderson, not in terms of like the product 201 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.240 they're putting on there, but like they go back to the same toolbox every 202 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:54.240 time, and then they use those tools in new ways every time and explore 203 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.279 it. They go deeper and deeper and deeper and going back and always having 204 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:01.879 like the like you said the real time live action video and mixed it with 205 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:03.159 gameplay, and so, okay, you were doing that again. No, 206 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.320 it's not like that. It's not like, oh, we're just doing that 207 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:09.840 again. It is they are using it and yet another way to unveil new 208 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.960 ways to feel about a video game. So just popping hard for this game, 209 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:18.960 really enjoying what they have so far. In similar ways where I felt 210 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:24.519 like, and again I'm not familiar with Quantum Break or Alan Wake one, 211 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:31.320 semi familiar with control, but I do feel like the parts where it is 212 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:39.159 live action, where there are illusions to stuff like Twin Peaks and other pieces 213 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.879 of film or media like that, it just feels like a love letter to 214 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.559 film too, noir, to mystery stuff like that. In the same way, 215 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:52.320 I felt like Immortality was really like throwing flowers at the movie industry and 216 00:14:52.440 --> 00:15:00.279 really kind of like showing how you can meld movies, cinema, TV and 217 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.120 video games together. And this is like a perfect execution of that. Yep, 218 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.879 totally agree. And so you said you're about fifteen hours in that range. 219 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:11.360 You feel like you said, you no real idea of like when it's 220 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:16.000 going to wrap up on you, mostly because like I'm just basking in everything, 221 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.879 and I'm just pouring over every single thing, And despite this game spooking 222 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:24.159 me a lot and me being very intense wle playing through it, I'm just 223 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:28.759 trying to comb through every single piece just so I have my precious resources because 224 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.600 I'm a scaredy cat. Yep. And it's true. It really is a 225 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.519 super duper survival horror game. They said they were going to make one of 226 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.200 those, and they did, and that means it is. I think I 227 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.200 find it very scary and also you know, you are going to be scraping 228 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:45.679 by trying to get through these these enemy encounters. So yep. My prediction 229 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:48.879 is alan Wick two is about to blow the hell up. It is going 230 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:54.279 to be one of these horror franchises in gaming that is now going to be 231 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.440 a staple that people are going to be asking for more of for the rest 232 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:00.840 of time. Alongside you know, obviously like Resident Evil, but like Silent 233 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:06.720 Hill, fear of fear not fear effect. Maybe this with the camera one 234 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.799 fatal frame fatal frame fear effects, the one about the lesbians jam we always 235 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.840 get those mixed up over here. I'm always thinking about them. I'm always 236 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:17.440 thinking about them, but it's it is going to be in that canon now 237 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.720 coming out of this game, I think, and that's an achievement of its 238 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:25.600 own. This is I started grubb. I started taking notes as if I 239 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:27.639 was going to write a review for this kid. I mean, why not. 240 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:30.320 I want to write a review about Mario. So I'm like, man, 241 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:34.000 I should take some time to do that. But we'll see. We'll 242 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.960 go ask everyone for writing advice. There you go. Absolutely, Okay, 243 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:45.080 let's move along here. Japanese charts have Super Mario Brothers Wonder absolutely smashing in 244 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.360 its debut. This is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. The latest Japanese 245 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.879 charts are here courtesy of Famitsu, and it showcases in absolutely stellar debut from 246 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:57.639 Super Mario Brothers Wonder. Nintendo's latest flagship platformer has managed the shift in astonishing 247 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:02.799 six hundred and sixty eight thousand, six hundred and thirty four units since its 248 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:07.640 launch, and that's just physical units, that managing a full six hundred thousand 249 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.359 more than Marvel Spider Man two, which debuted at number two. The only 250 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:17.240 other newcomer this week is Sega's Sonic Superstars for the Nintendo Switch, which managed 251 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:22.519 managed to shift four and twenty eight units, not quite as many. It's 252 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.839 not the most spectacular of start for the Blue bur Blue Blue Blur, But 253 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.119 Sega's mascot has always been more popular in the West than in Japan, so 254 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.799 maybe don't take that to be indicative of what that game is going to do 255 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:36.599 elsewhere. So, yes, one week on the chart for supermar Brothers Wonder, 256 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:38.960 you know, not even a full week. Six hundred and sixty eight 257 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:44.279 thousand units sold. That is really good. I mean to put in perspective. 258 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:47.880 We've been talking about how great Pickman four has been doing in Japan, 259 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.000 and it has been doing very very well in Japan. It continues to do 260 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.039 very very well. But it's at nine hundred and twenty two thousand after months 261 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.799 of being on the chart, and that's like week after week of being number 262 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.319 one or number two on the chart, and most of the time number one. 263 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.119 So I'm selling everything and it's only about three hundred thousand copies ahead. 264 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.119 This is the least surprising thing in the world. Jam, we got another 265 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:11.200 story coming up at right after this effect. Let's just do it right now. 266 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.960 Super Mario Brothers Wonder is the fastest selling the Super Mario game in Europe 267 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.079 fast fell selling Super Mario game in Europe. This is from Nintendo Everything. 268 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.640 Nintendo has just announced that Super Mario Brothers Wonder is off to a great start 269 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.200 in Europe. In its first three days, it has already become the fastest 270 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:32.960 selling Super Mario game in the region, overtaking twenty seventeen's Super Mario Odyssey. 271 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.079 Not the least bit surprising because two D Mario is always just such a massive 272 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:42.279 seller for Nintendo. This is this was definitely true in like the wee days, 273 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:47.640 where like Super Mario brother and New Super Mario Brothers, we would just 274 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.799 sell and sell and sell and that got to like twenty million copies or something, 275 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:55.519 and everything else was in even like half of that except for Mario Kart. 276 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:57.359 So not too surprising. Yeah, part of me was like, maybe 277 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:03.440 maybe the audience has moved on to and like Odyssey will kind of actually outperform 278 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.920 this pretty easily. Seems like it could be on a path to outsell just 279 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:10.480 about everything. This game could get to twenty five million copies sold pretty easily. 280 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.480 Yeah, I meant, part of what helps this is like the massive 281 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:21.400 install base for within right, But on top of that, it's an amazing 282 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:26.960 game. It's a wonderful game. But the appetite for a proper two D 283 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:32.440 Mario game is out there. And when you compile that with all of the 284 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:36.720 Polish and all of everything that's been added to this game, it is absolutely 285 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:41.279 no brainer. Also, add that to the rising popularity of the Mario movie 286 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.640 from was that this year last year? Last year, No, that was 287 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:48.319 earlier, this is before summer, but it was this year, this year, 288 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.359 it was this year. Yeah, And and combine that with like the 289 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:57.599 popularity of the Universal Studios park in Japan and here the upcoming one in Florida's 290 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:03.559 Universal Studios. It's a hot time for Mario. Yes, it's all right, 291 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:06.880 it's all coming together, and it's like, even if it wasn't all 292 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.559 coming together, the expectations for this game would be pretty similar in terms of, 293 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:12.960 yeah, maybe being the fastest selling Mario game of all time, but 294 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.319 boy that that it does have the wind at its back right now. Clearly 295 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.799 Jamie H. Christmas even Chad points out that Odyssey did two point five million 296 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.279 worldwide in three days. So if we kind of like look at, oh, 297 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:29.559 fastest selling in Europe, you know, six hundred thousand, six hundred 298 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.519 eighty thousand whatever it was in Japan, just physical at another four hundred thousand 299 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.920 top on that to be conservative, a million in Japan alone already, it's 300 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.440 crushing it. It's crushing. That's that's physical copies, right, hundred thousand, 301 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:45.920 six hundred thousands physical only in Japan. Yes, insane, one county 302 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.720 happen. And obviously Japan huge on Mario, but boy they're not. I 303 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:52.640 mean, they used to be huge on a lot of things that they're not 304 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.240 huge on anymore. Mario maintaining in a way that very few things actually do. 305 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:00.200 It's insane to think, like, you know, then perspective which you 306 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.680 were talking about with Pickman four, and I feel like we've talked about Pickman 307 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:10.000 four being number one of the sales charts for weeks since it came out, 308 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:15.079 yep, since it came out, and for Super Mario Brothers Wonder to absolutely 309 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:22.319 obliterate that is insane yep. And it's it goes to show like Nintendo's very 310 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:26.599 good at turning these some of it's i want to say new or Pickman's twenty 311 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.160 years old, some of it's lesser franchises. It makeing him feel bigger on 312 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.400 the switch and in Japan. They've had a lot of success doing that. 313 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:36.079 Around the world, they've had a lot of success doing that. But it's 314 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:41.160 not like that's to the detriment or to the lessening of what happens with Mario 315 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:44.920 and Zelda. No, those are big and also getting bigger at all times, 316 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:48.839 So pretty good for this game. Also, it's like, man, 317 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.039 why didn't you do this a long time ago? Why why didn't you have 318 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:56.319 a new but not new Super Mario Brothers game at the two D game at 319 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.480 the beginning of this generation for the Switch, you probably would have done even 320 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.240 better and this thing would still be selling, Like this thing's going to sell 321 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:04.960 for years. I just I'm like so confused, like what they're gonna do 322 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:07.759 with that transition for the new system and how these games are going to look 323 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.440 on the shelf. If they sort of just be like, no, that 324 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:12.759 game is gonna work on here so you could keep buying it, or if 325 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.799 there's gonna be a new version of it or something, they might deluxe it 326 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:18.200 like they did Mario Kart. Either way, they will find a way to 327 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.240 keep selling this game, though, jan for sure, Well it's it really 328 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:29.079 cements grub Switch one of the like mount Rushmore of consoles at this point. 329 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:33.279 Oh yeah, oh yes, that's kind of without a doubt at this point 330 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:36.400 in my mind. But I'm like, I want to like talk it out 331 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:40.000 and like see what else could he even be up there? Boy? Yeah 332 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:44.359 Switch? Uh. I have not had a better time with a console this 333 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:48.440 consistently ever. I mean maybe the Xbox three sixties up there, that was 334 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.400 really good thanks to all that good online stuff. And that's when back when 335 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.640 playing online games on console was really fun. There's some other stuff that's not 336 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.519 fun anymore. There's some other stuff that like we can have in that conversation, 337 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.160 but yeah, Switch feels like number one with a bullet right now. 338 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.279 All right, talk to Mario. We talked alan wake two. We got 339 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:08.359 a lot more coming up, but first we're going to take a quick break. 340 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:18.319 We'll get back to it right after this. Wake up, jan We're 341 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:22.440 back. Our boy got a nap. That means we can continue along with 342 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.839 a little bit more Mario news paper Mario the Thousand Year Door has already been 343 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.960 rated for Switch. This is from Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life in case you 344 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:34.799 somehow missed it. The highly praised GameCube exclusive paper Mario the thousand year Door 345 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.200 is making a return on the Switch at some point next year. In an 346 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.559 update, it's been revealed that the turn based RPG has now been rated in 347 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.480 both Brazil and Korea. South Korea specifically, I don't know if North Korea's 348 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:49.400 rating games out there, suggesting everything is running on schedule. The title was 349 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:55.599 originally announced during Nintendo's September Direct showcase. When it does eventually arrive, fans 350 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:59.319 can expect the same classic game with updated graphics. It's a similar approach to 351 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:03.240 the one Nintendo seems to be taking with Super Mario RPG, due out next 352 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.119 month on the Switch. As highlighted by the person who posted posts this on 353 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.680 Twitter, this earlier than expected classification for rating could mean the GameCube hit might 354 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.759 be returning a lot sooner in twenty twenty four than people were expecting. I 355 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:22.200 was expecting sometime in summer. Usually the way it works out with these ratings 356 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.640 is the rating happens, and then it's six to ten weeks we get the 357 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.920 game. So maybe early twenty twenty four we're getting this that that timing might 358 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:33.799 change here or there, but I think I've heard that timeframe in the past 359 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:36.720 for the stuff and when you kind of look back, like, oh, 360 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:40.359 got rated in South Korea and then we get an announcement and it comes out 361 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:44.720 pretty soon afterward, so hey, we might be playing this pretty early in 362 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:48.839 the year next year. That kind of just leaves that Princess Peach game, 363 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:52.559 which I think is slated for next summer, and then the Luigi's Mansion to 364 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.960 re release from three DS onto the Switch. Not probably not much else is 365 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.279 going to be happy with the Switch, but yeah, get that out early 366 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:03.559 and not I think it's smart to do this jam because the last time that 367 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.000 they had a big RPG Mario remake at the end of the generation and overlapped 368 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.759 with the Switch launching, that game got completely lost and Alpha Dream made those 369 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.880 Mario Luigi games had to close down because the game's performed so poorly. So 370 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.880 getting this out early and then leaving a lot of room for the Switch to 371 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:22.400 to do whatever it's doing later in the year makes a lot of sense, 372 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:29.000 right, Yeah, especially when you are riding off the momentum of Mario right 373 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:33.359 now. Yeah, and there's an appetite for more Mario games, and this 374 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.039 is definitely the thousand of Your Door is definitely going to be a title that 375 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.039 people will be visiting for the very first time. So getting that way before 376 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:45.880 any inklings of a switch to or any solid inklings of a switch to coming 377 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:51.079 out will We'll continue that momentum and you know, hopefully this will reach audiences 378 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:56.319 that it missed the first time or is hitting for the first time. Yeap. 379 00:25:56.599 --> 00:26:00.440 People pointed out that Peaches March twenty second, which is my birthday. 380 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:06.200 Thanks thanks Marino, Thanks super Bummy, Superlummy. Yeah, uh super Helmy. 381 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:11.680 Uh yeah, I listen. I think Mario getting like kind of a 382 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:15.319 bang bang bang bang game releases, especially since those genres can be so disparate, 383 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.000 uh, that that makes a lot of sense. It just makes me 384 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.319 wonder, like, why are they like one Zelda per year and sometimes not 385 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:23.920 even that I know that, like in the past they said like one Zelda 386 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:26.720 per year, and I say that like kind of thinking. Also at the 387 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.359 same time, Nintendo treats Zelda with a little bit more reverence than it even 388 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:36.240 does Mario. Yeah, like the Mario three D collection Super Mario three D 389 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:38.839 All Stars, it's kind of a bummer collection when you get into it and 390 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:41.440 it's like, man, it's super mart Sunshine's still gonna be thirty frames per 391 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.160 second. You didn't even want to do anything about that. But then like 392 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:48.880 the Zelda remix are like, hey, we we hd we hdd everything, 393 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.880 and we made the game better in all these really subtle ways. We went 394 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.440 in there and edited it and curated it and made sure that like all these 395 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:59.359 things that weren't quite as fun are now super fun. And it's like they 396 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:02.279 never do that with with the Mario games. But at the same time, 397 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:04.519 then we do get Mario game after Mario game, and I don't know, 398 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:11.160 do you think, well, how do you think Nintendo views of Mario something 399 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:14.480 they can always rely on on trotting now and it's never gonna wear at its 400 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:21.119 welcome. I think they treat Mario that way and that they have to be. 401 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:26.640 Sometimes it feels like they are more precious about how they roll out Zelda, 402 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.039 and sometimes it just feels like they forget about all the other stuff that 403 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:36.160 they have in their pocket, Like you could be rolling out more spinoff Metroid 404 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:40.720 games, right, you could be rolling off out more spinoff Zelda games. 405 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:45.759 Especially. It's weird and it's interesting to see how you have so many spinoff 406 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:51.400 Mario games, like you have the Home Tour Live Tour Circuit whatever it's called, 407 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:55.279 still don't remember. But you have like the mobile game Mario Run and 408 00:27:55.759 --> 00:28:00.640 all these experiments where I think Mario has proven to be a known quantity that 409 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:10.599 they can consistently rely on it and the Mario family to produce returns for them, 410 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:12.960 Like that's why we have so many Mario playing so many sports with his 411 00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:18.559 homies. What Zelda doing, you know how comes Zelda link could be playing 412 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.960 lacrosse perhaps, And and that I mean obviously part of that is back of 413 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.880 the day on you know, Game Boy Advance on Super Nintendo in sixty four, 414 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.400 even Tho Wei. Those games were easier to produce than it requires many 415 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:34.039 you know, heart like difficult assets, like you know, making HD assets 416 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:37.599 is more time consuming. They're going to be moving on maybe to like four 417 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.240 K assets, although we'll see I have no idea what the next system, 418 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.559 and that's gonna be more time consuming. So these companies, I think Nintendo's 419 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:45.880 like, ah, we're gonna be more picky and choosy about what we do 420 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.880 with these things, and maybe we don't get a Metroid pinball game anymore because 421 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.279 of that. I'm like, oh, I hope they just continue to find 422 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.200 a way to do that stuff. They do do it with Mario do Doo 423 00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:00.279 like, and then that includes like the Oreo games and all these other things, 424 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:03.359 this extended universe, and I'm like, Okay, I'm glad that they 425 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:07.160 still do that with with with that those characters. I just wish maybe they 426 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.480 could get in there and mixed up with with Zelda and even Metraid a little 427 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.599 bit. I remember thinking when Cadence of Hirol came out, being very excited 428 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.079 because of what the possibilities would come from one hundred percent with you from that 429 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.480 afterwards, Right. I was such a fool for thinking that that would be 430 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.359 like were that was indicative? Yeah, we were so innocent and didn't know 431 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.359 where our stupid pretty low heads knew nothing. Completely empty. Uh. Sean 432 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:34.880 does point out that I'm I completely forgot that Metro Prime four is still supposed 433 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:37.960 to come out. Uh. And I when I think about it, I'm 434 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.039 like, when I actually think about that game, which I try not to 435 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:42.440 because they don't talk about it, so why should I think about it? 436 00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:45.400 I don't want to get my hopes up, But when I think about it, 437 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.119 I'm like, no, that will still come out on the switch. 438 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.519 They would have said something by now if that wasn't going to happen, Uh, 439 00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:52.440 I mean, I guess they don't have to. Maybe then after they 440 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.160 announced the next systems, when they would maybe do that, maybe announce it 441 00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:57.480 at the same time. But my head it's like, no, that thing's 442 00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:02.759 probably still going to come out on the switch. So I suppose that's their 443 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:07.160 big game for next year. All right, we'll see. Hey, there's 444 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.960 some breaking news over from Tom Warren at the Verge. Microsoft reorgs its Xbox 445 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:17.319 and marketing team to prepare for an AI and gaming future. Let's take a 446 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:21.759 look here. Microsoft is reorganizing its Xbox gaming and market leadership less than two 447 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:26.599 weeks after requiring activision Blizzard. Microsoft is promoting Matt Booty to President of Game 448 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.400 Content and Studios, including the new responsibility of ZeniMax. Sarah Bond is being 449 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:36.720 promoted to Xbox President, overseeing all Xbox platform and hardware work. On the 450 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:41.920 marketing side, Chief marketing Officer Chris Copasela is stepping down after thirty two years 451 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.720 at Microsoft. The Xbox changes mean Booty will now lead an expanded organization inside 452 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:51.839 Microsoft Gaming that now includes Zenni Max and Bethesda zinny Max will continue to operate 453 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:56.039 as a limited integration entity led by Jamie Letter, President and CEO reporting to 454 00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:00.880 Matt, explains Microsoft's Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in an internal memo obtained by The 455 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:06.799 Verge. Booty's expanded role should help Microsoft Gaming avoid scenarios like Redfall in the 456 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:11.200 future. With Microsoft clearly focusing on better collaboration between the teams that acquired with 457 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.799 Zinimax at Slash Betesta acquisition, great games are fundamental to everything we do, 458 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:21.599 explain Spencer and his memo. We believe that an expanded gaming content organization one 459 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:26.799 then enables Xbox game studios and Zinimax's development studios to collaborate effectively. Together will 460 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.880 empower those world class studios to do their best work in the growing and growing 461 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.559 our portfolio of games players love. Bond will now take over the hardware and 462 00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:38.680 software platform of Xbox to manage the platform of today and build the platform up 463 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:42.559 tomorrow. We are bringing together the team that will make this possible, explain 464 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:48.039 Spencer. Sarah Bond will lead this team as President of Xbox, bringing together 465 00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.880 devices, player and creator experiences, platform engineering, strategy, business planning, 466 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.920 data and analytics, and business development. I think we know now, or 467 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.920 at least have an idea. Now, why, oh my god, his 468 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:06.000 name is escaping me. Homeboy just left Bethesda just announced his retirements. It's 469 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.960 still gonna escape me. But yes, Pete Heines, thank you, Yes, 470 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:15.160 thank you, Chad, thank you Jan. It is also the kind 471 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:19.680 of thing that I think fans of Xbox and critics of Xbox have sort of 472 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.319 been asking for, at least when it comes to how Zenni Max is being 473 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.720 handled. Hey, you don't have to go in there and micromanage, but 474 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.640 have hands on the reins a little bit. How does a red fall happen? 475 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.319 And I think we are all still pretty confused about how a red fall 476 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.519 happens. You spend all this money buying this buying this company, they are 477 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.319 working on this game. You don't tell them to cancel the game. You 478 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:45.000 let them keep working on it, presumably thinking that it's going to be you 479 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:46.680 know, good good, But then, like you, you couldn't go there 480 00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:49.920 and see for yourself that it probably wasn't going to be, and then you 481 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.559 did nothing about it. So this seems like an answer to that, But 482 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.559 I don't know, how do you feel about it? Chan? It's similar 483 00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:02.279 to how it it feels baffling that Disney announced to like, hey, we're 484 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:06.839 gonna have showrunners for all of these shows. Now we're gonna every show is 485 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:09.400 gonna have a bible, one million production bible. Yes. What it's like 486 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:15.319 you threw all that money to solve a problem, but you weren't actually solving 487 00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:20.319 the problem. And and you know, I'm not a fan of micromanaging, 488 00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.880 but you're right, grub some light reins. Maybe put them, uh, 489 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:27.599 put people on a train track and they can go right, give them a 490 00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:31.079 destination. Yeah, and build processes that processes that people can rely on to 491 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:35.440 be like, here's how we solve this, here's how we create these ideas 492 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.799 and things like that. And if there's if there's a Tim Shafer out there 493 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.559 that you know is gonna be doing Tim Shafer shit, be like, no, 494 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.720 no, you don't. You don't do this process. You do your 495 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:46.119 own thing. You have your own thing. And it's been fine. But 496 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.839 if like we're working with these other teams and they're feeling a little bit lost 497 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:52.759 or like looking for some guidance, just have support there all up and down 498 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.119 the chain of like here's what that looks like. And again, I think 499 00:33:55.160 --> 00:34:00.519 you're with not no micromanagement. I think typically the people working on the problem 500 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:06.680 better understand the issues with the problems itself than anyone from a central location looking 501 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.440 down and telling them what to do. But like, in terms of establishing 502 00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:15.440 a certain level of expectations, heavy high expectations is beneficial, you know. 503 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.400 I always think about the Year of the Dragon thing, where it's like in 504 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:22.320 China when kids are born, they're born into a certain year and like, 505 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:24.000 oh, the year the rat, you're the wolf or whatever. I don't 506 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:27.400 know them off the top of my head, but the year of the Dragon 507 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:29.880 one is like, oh, those kids actually always perform super well, and 508 00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:31.119 they're like, is there something special about the year of Dragon. It's like, 509 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:34.599 yeah, the parents have high expectations, so they put a lot more 510 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:37.760 effort into those kids, and they like they get them tutors and all these 511 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.559 other things because they think, no, you're a dragon kid, You're gonna 512 00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:45.719 do really well. High expectations work. So establishing those expectations and then and 513 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:51.920 then providing the hand to like pull the studio up to those expectations can make 514 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:55.400 a difference. But that was not happening with something like Redfall obviously. Yeah, 515 00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:02.280 the other hope is that creating some type of process or having some type 516 00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:09.440 of oversight can also prevent studios from being employees, specifically from being exploited and 517 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:14.760 preventing crunch that if there are proper measures put into place that like hey, 518 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:16.039 hey, hey, hey, like you know, like this is the timeline 519 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:22.480 for this, or like there are people overseeing studios of like yo, stop 520 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:28.199 being a dick. And you know, there has been a lot of complaints 521 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:37.400 and cases brought up within an activision Blizzard, allocations of very very disappointing and 522 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:42.800 bad behavior that hopefully shit like that gets tamped out. Yeah, you would 523 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.400 like I also hope like, hey, now Sarah Bond and being in charge 524 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:51.679 of Xbox, you know, a prominent woman in gaming who has been in 525 00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:54.159 a leadership position for a long time, clearly has the chops now coming in. 526 00:35:54.280 --> 00:36:00.719 She can establish some a culture that spreads throughout the entire organization. And 527 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:06.360 then this this tip, this reorganization that doesn't seem like it involves layoffs. 528 00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:07.719 So I guess that's something. You know, the one person did say they 529 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:12.280 were stepping down, although that was after decades, thirty two years, kind 530 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.639 of maybe a natural stepping off point anyhow, Yeah, I hope that they're 531 00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:20.679 able to accomplish exactly exactly what you described. Just Hey, let's be the 532 00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:23.679 mature company that we always claim Microsoft is. These days, we say this 533 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:28.280 all the time. Were we're the adults in the room. Twitter is a 534 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:31.000 mess, and Facebook wants all your weird shit, and Apple charges you way 535 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.559 too much money for hardware. We're the adults, and in Congress you could 536 00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:37.639 trust us, regulators, you could trust us. Even after this whole uh, 537 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.280 you know, the TIF, with the with with the activision, still 538 00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:44.559 it's like they're coming out of that looking pretty clean, and I think they 539 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:49.239 want to project that that that vision of themselves. Well, now it's time 540 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:51.880 to like for the rubber to meet the road and actually accomplish that. So, 541 00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:57.360 uh, we'll see. Uh. I think that this is a sign 542 00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:04.199 that they are actively They're active in trying to establish Xbox as a long term 543 00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.199 success and not being like, well, we spend all that money, now 544 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.840 it's just gonna happen, right. It's the opposite of the Embraser situation. 545 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:20.440 Yeah, yeah, where Embracer literally threw money and act acquiring several many many 546 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:25.719 studios and because they did not deliver, because there was no type of oversight, 547 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:30.320 right, or any any type of care put into those studios, no 548 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:35.639 vision whatsoever, no vision, and just leading an expectation for them to have 549 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:39.559 some type of return that. Of course, now they're trying to get rid 550 00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:44.960 of all of that and Embracer is pooping the bed. Meanwhile, the hope 551 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.039 is that Microsoft can can deliver. And we talked about this on the bomb 552 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.400 cast, but like with the head of Microsoft saying like we're doubling down on 553 00:37:52.480 --> 00:38:00.000 games, Uh, this definitely feels this very structured reorg feels like hopefully feel 554 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:01.000 like a step in the right direction. Yeah, I hate that. I 555 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:06.159 still see Bobby Ka's face on this graph though, yes, uh yeah, 556 00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:08.079 I agree to take a look at that. Actually, what a goober. 557 00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:13.280 Yeah, that's a real shame he is. They keep saying he's gonna be 558 00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:15.840 out by the beginning of next year. So yeah, it's like Phil Spencer 559 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.840 at the top, and then yeah, they're probably like Bobby kotticks there because 560 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.559 that is a slot that exists, and then Bobb Kotta's gonna leave and we're 561 00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:27.840 not gonna just like absorb Activision Blizzard into like that's not gonna be Phil's responsibility, 562 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.280 so there will be someone in that spot hopefully. But you're right, 563 00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:35.679 I hate seeing this stupid goddamn face. All right, let's move along here. 564 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:37.840 You don't body shame, but I Bobby's shame. Yeah, we got 565 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:40.960 a Bobby shame. We gotta keep Bobby shaming as a tool in our toolbox 566 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.519 as well. Over here. All right, there was an Xbox Developer Partner 567 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:50.000 showcase yesterday with a bunch of third party games. It was pretty good. 568 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.719 I had a pretty good time watching that because it was brisk and fast, 569 00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:55.199 and they showed a cop some like things I wasn't expecting, Like it wasn't 570 00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:59.599 new announcements for the most part, but like, oh, I was not 571 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:04.280 expecting to see metal Gear Solid Delta's first in engine look, and it makes 572 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.480 it all worth the wait. And that's from Christina Ebanez at twin finit. 573 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:12.840 If you were already blown away by metal Gear Solid Delta's first reveal, then 574 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:15.800 you'll undoubtedly be more astonished by its first in engine look, taking you back 575 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:20.639 to the jungles of Soviet Russia. This trailer I thought looked really good, 576 00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:22.840 but this is this is our first chance to actually see this game really in 577 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:29.039 action and John I thought it looked fantastic all the It's really the details on 578 00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.519 everything and how alive the game looks and feels, which is important for a 579 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:37.320 game that does take place in a jungle. M hm. I can't help 580 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:45.000 but be ever so slightly hesitant, though grub just knowing that Gema is no 581 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:49.079 longer involved, and of course Nomy is still involved. I mean I'm still 582 00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:52.599 very involved. Yep. Where I feel or I hope that a lot of 583 00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:59.800 the intentions of the game are still intact and that it's not just like it's 584 00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:04.280 just metal Gear again, but you're just killing dudes without all the weird shit. 585 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:07.000 Yeah. I think it'll be very easy for them to do paint by 586 00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.960 numbers here with that stuff. But we know like what metal Gear looks like 587 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.960 without Kojima, and it's metal Gear Survive, and that's not what I want 588 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.360 personally. I think that game has some defenders. I think for like what 589 00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:21.519 it was trying to do, but not necessarily for trying to be a metal 590 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:27.280 Gear game. When it comes to this one. I think Virtuous, which 591 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:31.599 is the studio in South Korea I believe who's doing this. They seem to 592 00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:35.079 just be like, hey, let's make that game again, but let's make 593 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:38.559 it look as beautiful as possible, and I think they can pull that off. 594 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:42.800 I'm just worried about what happens with Metal Gear going forward after this point, 595 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.320 Like if they try to make Ariel sequel or something like that, or 596 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:47.199 continue that story, then they're going to be completely lost in the woods. 597 00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:50.800 Kanami is not going to know what to do with that stuff. They have 598 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.400 enough games so that they can remake for now that it's probably gonna be just 599 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:59.280 fine. You know, this happens. Time moves on these games, the 600 00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:01.960 great move on to other stuff, the IP still exists, and then we 601 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:05.079 have to be like, Okay, they're just gonna go away forever, and 602 00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:08.159 obviously it never does. So I kind of hope for the best case scenario 603 00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:13.199 of it feels true to the original vision, which this does seem like it 604 00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.760 is according to people who know a bunch of the story. Actually here. 605 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:20.960 Christina Abana is from twein Finite, huge Metal Gear, Solid three Snake Eater 606 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.400 fan, and she kind of goes through a bunch of stuff with like how 607 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.320 she's feeling pretty good about what she sees here and why I heard the same 608 00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:30.079 from like you know Dan and Mike yesterday, so good to hear, yes 609 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:36.440 exactly. Also from that Xbox event, the new Yakuza game goes full animal 610 00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:39.559 crossing. This is from James car at GameSpot. Like a Dragon, Infinite 611 00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:44.880 Wealth will feature a side activity called Do Don't Go Do Dooco Yeah, don 612 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:49.400 Doco Island, which looks like an animal crossing game. Don'dko Island features in 613 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:53.119 island life sim separate from the usual crime field chaos of the Yakuza series, 614 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:58.920 giving the characters a chance to relax. And we say that goes full animal 615 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:02.599 crossing. It's just so animal crossing in such a cool way. The idea 616 00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:06.840 of like, yeah, Yakuza can be anything like a dragon. Now it's 617 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:08.400 what it's called, but yeah, like a dragon could be anything you can. 618 00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:15.199 These characters have the breadth to be very serious and have stories about their 619 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:17.760 traumas and then in the next moment you can be doing you know, fun 620 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.480 dance parties or you know, running a bar or something like that. The 621 00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:27.079 reality of man have the duality of man, So them like recognizing that that's 622 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.199 a strength of this series and leaning into it hard and be like what if 623 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:31.719 we just we love animal crossing? What if we just did one of those. 624 00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:37.320 I'm really excited about this jan Yeah, and I'd like a fresh take 625 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:44.440 on the animal crossing formula and combined with the silliness that comes with the Yakuza 626 00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:47.760 series. I just can't wait for each e ball and to take a loan 627 00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:52.920 to just get an island. Nope, get deep into debt and then just 628 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:57.280 pay it back by just slowly getting apples off of trees. Just really up 629 00:42:57.679 --> 00:43:00.360 upsetting Mike Manatti. It's gonna be good stuff. I can't wait to party 630 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.400 with Ichiban on an island. Me too. I mean, listen, go 631 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.320 in Hawaii with this franchise alone, Like that's really interesting. I mean, 632 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.400 just the idea that they're getting out of the coma road show that they've been 633 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.159 in. It's like, listen, I like that they had that same setting 634 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.039 for game after game after game. I thought that made a ton of sense. 635 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:24.039 It's working for Spider Man, works for Yakuza, but they look like 636 00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:29.679 they're putting a ton of love into this Hawaii setting and then having this whole 637 00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:32.960 other separate island mini game in there. It's very cool. Grub. Why 638 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.400 is Sega so confusing? I don't, I mean because they're they're relatively pretty 639 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.199 good at making video games. They're just bad at figuring out what to do 640 00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:44.559 with those video games. A lot of times, they're just bad at being 641 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:47.559 running a business. Really, it's the big guys. It's so silly over 642 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.960 the silly is what they are. A bunch of silly gooses, all right. 643 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:58.079 Our Survival assnd did launches to mixed reviews on Steam due to trash optimization. 644 00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:00.920 This is another game that kind of had it moment at that Xbox event. 645 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:06.679 This comes from Kyle Knight at Dual Shockers some tidbits here. Arc Survival 646 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:12.119 Ascended. The Unreal Engine five remaster of Arc Survival Evolved has been heavily criticized 647 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.719 for poor optimization and stuttering frames. The game received backlash for its original price 648 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:22.000 and lack of included DLC packs, causing delays in its release. Studio Wildcard 649 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:25.320 has also announced the delay and the console release of of Survival Ascended due to 650 00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:32.599 critical issues in the multiplayer version of the game. This seems like if you're 651 00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:36.519 gonna, if you're gonna like not rush a game at any point in history, 652 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:37.480 it feels like right now is the time not to rush a game, 653 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:43.280 because you're gonna rush this out into this climate. Now, I suppose survival 654 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.800 games have the survival game audience and they are separate from everyone else that that 655 00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:52.760 survive or built the surviv They are built different. But still, man, 656 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.440 you could have just released it early next year, take a little bit more 657 00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:59.519 time and not have come out in a week where we had three games that 658 00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:02.519 are eighty nine a Metacritic or higher, and then you've got several more still 659 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:07.639 coming and you have like twenty Game of the Year considerations already happening. But 660 00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.440 whatever, this game is also going to be completely fine. This stuff is 661 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:14.639 going to happen, They're gonna fix it, and then this game's gonna have 662 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:19.000 fifty thousand to one hundred thousand concurrent players every day three years from now. 663 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:21.800 So I at the same point, it's like, Okay, this doesn't ever 664 00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:23.840 really hurt these things all that much, so why wouldn't they do it this 665 00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:31.760 way? It's so baffling, rob whenever you re like come across forks in 666 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:35.840 this industry where it's like, Wow, there's a whole mess of people over 667 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.400 there. How the fuck did they get here? Why are they there? 668 00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:45.079 And it is very interesting. I'd love to see like a piece on the 669 00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:49.800 ARC heads out there that our ride or die for ARC. Because at the 670 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:53.360 same time, I have zero interest in this that trailer that they showed yesterday. 671 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:58.639 Anything I've ever heard from ARC zero interesting, nothings can ever grab me. 672 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:05.159 Even though I am okay with Vin Diesel and support the Fast family, 673 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:09.679 ARC does nothing for me. But you said it perfectly, Grubb. Three 674 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:14.480 years from now, this game is still going to have an obscene and shocking 675 00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:19.800 amount of people still playing it because reasons. Yep, Because I mean, 676 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.639 yeah, it's a kind of game that you could just play like my dad 677 00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:27.519 played golf, right, you just get down there with your friends and you 678 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:30.440 go out there and you're doing kind of the same stuff. You're going through 679 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:35.079 the patterns, but it's it's still challenging and there's fun challenges you could take 680 00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:38.480 on. So yeah, and we say all this ARC Survival Ascended is the 681 00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:43.639 top selling game on Steam right now, so that's how it goes. I 682 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:46.119 actually want to see if it's on the most played because yesterday we talked about 683 00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.039 this when it's like, oh, it had like fifty thousand for ARC Survival 684 00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:57.199 Evolved. Now ARC Survival Ascended has forty eight thousand concurrent players for eight hundred 685 00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:00.199 and that's its highest point ever, so it's still on the rise. See 686 00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:02.760 where it settles in later today maybe, but it's at number twenty four on 687 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:07.360 the mostplayed games on Steam at the moment. Right above, let's see Lost 688 00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:12.760 Arc, which is not confusing, and right behind Love is All Around, 689 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:16.159 which looks like an FMV game where pretty ladies kiss you from Japan. What 690 00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:19.360 I'll say it to you, Jane, I'll seck it se you. Don't 691 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.679 worrybody, anyone got our code for this? Okay? But finally from this 692 00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:28.000 The Finals open beta kicks off this week, with unlocked rewards carrying forward to 693 00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.920 launch. This is from Camera Co at GameSpot. This is another game in 694 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.000 that Xbox showcase. The Finals, the free to play shooter from developer in 695 00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.199 Bark Studios, will kick off its open beta on October twenty sixth. It 696 00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:43.400 will be the game's first beta test, supporting cross platform play and cross progression 697 00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.880 between current gen consoles and PC. Players will be able to test out the 698 00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:51.920 fast paced action shooter from the x Battlefield devs for a little over a week, 699 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:55.239 with the beta ending on November fifth. There's still no release date for 700 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.079 this game jan But I have to imagine if this is like a carrying over 701 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:02.280 from the beta situation, they're probably going to announce a really state soon for 702 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:07.480 this thing. It's probably out before the end of the year. Didn't this 703 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.840 one strike your fancy at all? It was just kind of a cacophonous noise 704 00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:15.920 to me. I couldn't really make heads or tails of it. Mildly interested. 705 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:22.440 It shows very well, but you are right about the cafist nature of 706 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:27.039 it. It seems like a lot of flash in the pan, and it's 707 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.199 going to be interesting to see when it is slowed down how it actually plays, 708 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.320 like right, because you can make as flashy of a trailer as possible, 709 00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:37.880 but when you're playing something actually like Siege, you know there is a 710 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:43.519 lot of slow down and there is a lot of quieter moments in the games. 711 00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:46.000 I'm wondering how this will take with like the greater audience, also, 712 00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:51.119 especially if it's a free to play game, which can go one of two 713 00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:54.880 ways, actually one of several ways these days. But also it's like, 714 00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:02.119 is the appetite there for style of game? Is the appsite there for Battle 715 00:49:02.199 --> 00:49:07.079 Royales still? And I know that PUBG is one of the most played games 716 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:09.559 on Steam right now. Yeah, Fortnite is still incredibly, incredibly popular. 717 00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:14.119 But those are behemoths. Those are machines that have already been set into place 718 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:17.840 and have their player bases like arc I guess that are still tuning in. 719 00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:22.199 It's going to be very hard and it's an uphill battle for the finals to 720 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:27.400 uh to try and stick the landing here. Also, what was that Ubisoft 721 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:31.559 game that had to delay their beta even Oh, there's so many fine oh 722 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:37.320 y X defiant X Fine got like it's it's delayed indefinitely in terms of like 723 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.840 we don't know, like it's it hasn't been defined its new release date, 724 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:43.159 but it's got got pushed way off to the point where it's like, eh, 725 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:45.199 maybe next year sometime or something like that, and not not canceled or 726 00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:49.880 anything like that, not even on ice, just delayed indefinitely. Also, 727 00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.199 Grub, I just saw what you put on the screen, and I thought 728 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:53.559 you were showing my screen at first, and I got a little scared. 729 00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:59.440 Uh, I was gonna bring your screen, jan because I'm looking at the 730 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:06.800 same trailer audio listeners. I grub temporarily put up The love is all around 731 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.199 trailer on Steam, and I was gonna bring this up before grub asked me 732 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:15.360 a question. But there's some intentional marketing going around and intentional color schemes going 733 00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:22.599 around for a game with pretty ladies in it to have maybe a menu color 734 00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:27.519 palette of white, black, an orange, you know, and it's a 735 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.199 very specific queue of orange. It's gonna I'm not put that out. I'm 736 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:32.320 not in like, I understand what's what he's getting at here, but I 737 00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:36.320 don't. I don't know if i'm you'll know what I'm talking about. There's 738 00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:42.440 a specific sound, all right, yeah, totally, Oh yeah, of 739 00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:46.280 course, yeah, my bookmarks here, Okay, there we go. Uh, 740 00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:51.679 fair enough. They're definitely trying to suggest it here. But this one 741 00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:54.000 is not even like it's just single player dating some and visual novel FMB. 742 00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:58.039 So this one doesn't even get to like the porny stuff. I think it's 743 00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:00.719 just like, hey, girlfriend experienced sort of thing. So knock yourselves out, 744 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:05.039 kids. That is one of the most played games on Steam right now. 745 00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:07.159 Steam is a magical place. I just can't be mad at it. 746 00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:16.280 Ever, speaking of asked it for the asking for it, We'll just avoid 747 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.840 it. No, Sean folly. Well, there we go. Love is 748 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:24.119 all around. Girlfriend experience is very porny stuff greb Okay, hey, lesson 749 00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:27.519 learned, all right? I put stuff out there. You correct me. 750 00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:30.119 That's how this works, That's how we do this show. Uh. Valve 751 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.719 is speaking of Steam. Valve is dropping Turkish and Argentinian currencies on Steam. 752 00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:38.440 This is from Sophie McAvoy at Games in the Street dot biz. Valve is 753 00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:43.719 changing the currency used for sales in Argentina and Turkey on Steam to US dollars 754 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:47.320 next month due to ext exchange rate volatility. Really, what this means is 755 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.960 people in Argentina have been the peso is very up and down. I know 756 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:55.800 this because because Christian, but also I listen to the news a little bit. 757 00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:58.960 I don't know what's going on with Turkey. I assume it's probably something 758 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:04.119 pretty similar. Lots of inflation causing the like one day you have this amount 759 00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:07.519 of money and the next day you can't even buy anywhere near this is the 760 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:12.639 thing you were going to get yesterday. Like that's pretty volatile, and Valve 761 00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:15.800 has done pretty good job of like trying to like keep that stuff like still 762 00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:16.480 like hey, we're still going to use it. We're still going to use 763 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:19.840 it. Hey, it's reached a breaking point where they just can't do it 764 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.639 anymore. The same thing happened when they were like we're accepting bitcoin, and 765 00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:25.159 like, okay, we'll accept bitcoin, and then it was like, by 766 00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:30.039 the time the time between when you bought the game for bitcoin and when we 767 00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:35.119 received the bitcoin, it dropped fifty five percent. We can't do this anymore. 768 00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:38.639 So I think they're trying to avoid situations like that, and the reality 769 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:43.199 is there's no there's no end in sight for the volatility of many of these 770 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:46.760 currencies. So yeah, it's it's rough stuff out there. What it means 771 00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:51.039 for other people is, hey, if you were doing the thing of setting 772 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:54.800 your region to Argentina and buying games really cheap over there, they have gotten 773 00:52:54.880 --> 00:53:00.320 rid of that loophole. So yeah, that was definitely happening. People are 774 00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:06.840 definitely doing a lot of that. Okay. I well, he kept saying 775 00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:08.840 love is all around, and I wanted to sing the Mary Tyler Moore theme 776 00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:13.280 song, but then you started talking about serious things again. I was like, 777 00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.119 maybe I'd better just let that lode Hub. Isn't that serious, Mike. 778 00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:17.880 I know you considered very serious, but bub is all around, No 779 00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:22.719 need to waste it. You can have the town. Why don't you take 780 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:29.400 it? Jeff's gonna make it, after all, I am the Mary Tyler 781 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:31.880 Moore giant bomb. I voice considered myself that Jack, we say this about 782 00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:36.719 you all the time. Thank you for that, Mikey. All right, 783 00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:40.719 we have a pull question from some point this week, yesterday even I'm gonna 784 00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:44.679 bring that up right now, after I get it resized, after I tried 785 00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:46.280 to make love is all Around fit into this screen. There we go. 786 00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:51.719 What do you want Insomnia to make after Wolverine? That is that's from yesterday, 787 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:53.880 right, that's the one from yesterday? Or I posted yesterday. Let 788 00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:55.960 me refresh here, let me do that. There it is there, I 789 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.960 found it. I'm a very smart boy. Who was cooler? Kyle Katar 790 00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:02.760 dash Rendar? Or who the hell are these people? Fifty two percent said 791 00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:07.440 who the hell are these people? Because I'm old, thirty percent said Kyle 792 00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:10.840 kataran and just eighteen percent said dash Rendar. I personally voted for dash Rendar, 793 00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:15.840 even though I know Kyle Katar is cooler. I know it, I 794 00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:20.079 know, I get it. Dash Rendar feels like a knockoff. Of a 795 00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:22.039 Star Wars character. We totally and yet I love him all the same, 796 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:28.159 A deep, deep respect for dash Rendar. It's Mike, Okay, he 797 00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:31.039 just keeps saying, oh no a lot does he? Did he realize he's 798 00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:34.400 old? I think he might be realizing he's old. That seems possible. 799 00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:38.119 Yeah, that's totally seems likely here. All right, let's see it. 800 00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:40.119 What do we have going on a giant bomb this week? While we get 801 00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:44.599 the next potally realize I'm old. I come in here singing the fucking Mary 802 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:47.000 Tyler Moore theme song, and now that people don't know who dash Rendar is, 803 00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:52.119 it's not good. I'm dying. Ah. I did wonder why, 804 00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:55.079 like he seemed committed to this Mary Tyler Moore thing. I saw him in 805 00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:59.000 chat saying that. I'm like, he's gonna realize that that's going to get 806 00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:00.320 him called a boomer by and he's going to give up on it. But 807 00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.679 it's Mike. He doesn't give up. And I respect that about him. 808 00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.960 I yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I respect that about Mike as 809 00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:10.880 well. Jan What do we have happening? What we have happening today is 810 00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:15.239 another episode of the Voicemail Dump Truck followed by Friday Night forking. Everybody, 811 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:19.119 it's the fork in July. Get your forks out. Nothing bad can happen 812 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:24.079 with Jeff Backlar. But before the dump truck. Today we have the Mario 813 00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:29.920 Wonder Grand Prix. What that's gonna look like still up in the air. 814 00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:36.599 We're figure now some ideas and gosh, what else is going on? Games 815 00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:43.199 mornings tomorrow as well as a UPF which looks like we might be busting some 816 00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:45.719 stuff. I think we should do that. I would love to do that. 817 00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:47.800 We just gotta we got to also find some spots in this calendar for 818 00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:52.280 Allen Lake too, because people are gonna I might want to stream some of 819 00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:54.079 me playing that from the very beginning. Just we can do a stream like 820 00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:59.639 that so people don't forget worry about spoilers. There's a setting. Oh there's 821 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:04.280 okay, there's a setting. There's a little there's a specific You started the 822 00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:06.360 game, right, yeah, I started it. I saw it. Well, 823 00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:10.079 it starts with a certain A lot of the that's a penis. Yes, 824 00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:15.000 I think there is a setting to hide all of that. There's a 825 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:19.800 puritan setting, okay, set the puritanity to one hundred. Please for us 826 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:25.320 here in America that boy had. That's a big boy, slightly bigger than 827 00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:31.000 my cat, just slightly. All right, let's see here, new poll 828 00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:36.039 question. Let's see I wrote it down here. Okay, have you played 829 00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:38.559 the original Alan Wake before? Yes? Or no? I'm just kind of 830 00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:42.800 curious going into this game what people are going to be bringing into it. 831 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.280 Uh, Jen, you said you played an hour of it. Have you 832 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:50.000 felt to lost? Have you felt like a boy? I wish I would 833 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.639 have played Allan Wake or even like watched something about it. How are you 834 00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:57.480 feeling about it? I think initially I wish there was some type of last 835 00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:00.119 time on Allan Wake type of like some because I feel like, yes, 836 00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:05.760 the series kind of lends itself to it, But I didn't find myself too 837 00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:13.320 lost, especially because you know, you jump in initially as Saga and she's 838 00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:16.199 new to everything, so it's like, Okay, well you are like you're 839 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:21.719 you're an analog for the player jumping into this, and you, through Osmosis 840 00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:24.440 have picked up on stuff regarding Alan Awake, so yep, it mirrored my 841 00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:29.320 own experience. Yeah, And I'm I'm like, I don't think people should 842 00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.960 hold themselves back from playing Allen Lake to at all, jump into it. 843 00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:36.559 It is a game worthy of the scores it's getting and the praise it's getting. 844 00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:38.800 And don't like be like, oh well I got to play on wink 845 00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:42.440 from even allow it go and allow myself to play this one. No, 846 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:45.039 you're gonna be fine. Yeah. The game's spot crews put together a bunch 847 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:49.880 of videos as well to kind of catch you up on the lore of everything. 848 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:52.400 So I highly suggest you go watch those. Yeah, they hate Allen 849 00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:55.239 Lake over there, and I'll just despise it's all remedy games. Don't have 850 00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:59.559 any love for them at all. Yeah, so joke, because that's all 851 00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:02.559 they talk. They love those games over there. Very excited about this, 852 00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:07.920 and I'm excited for them, all right. Anything else we mentioned, Although 853 00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:10.039 we got the Mario pre coming grant pre coming up later today? What time 854 00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:15.679 is that? We said one pm? One pm or maybe one thirty. 855 00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:17.599 It's going to be happening a little bit later, guys, at least an 856 00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:21.000 hour from now, but we might move it around a little bit to accommodate 857 00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:23.719 schedules. So just keep an eye on our social media, keep an eye 858 00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:28.079 on the Twitch page. We'll have that going live in the meantime. Though, 859 00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:30.599 Jan, thank you so much for spending time today with talking with me 860 00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:32.480 about video games. I appreciate it. Man. Thank you Jef Greb. 861 00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:37.199 It's the best way to start a Thursday morning. Thank you all for watching. 862 00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:40.440 You are the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a 863 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:46.000 good one. Take care of yourself. And is delaying the game? Maybe 864 00:58:46.039 --> 00:58:50.559 a Star Wars game. We don't know. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Goodbye,