You'll be don't bear, it's the internet. You're busy. Let's do this
for August thirty, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so,
let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live
with me Jeff grub Today, we might get a new switch soon and three
D Sonic is more timeless than two D Sonic. But first, please join
me and welcome me today's co host the Game Mess Mornings. It's Lucy James.
Everybody, Lucy, how are you doing? Hi? I have a
cald but otherwise I'm okay. You You sound like you're getting better, but
I bet it's but it doesn't feel that way. It's just still like kind
of Oh yeah, I mean Monday morning in the meeting. You heard how
bad it was. Yes, No, I feel much better than I did
on Monday. And it's not Corona good, which which is good because I've
been testing every day in prep for packs. It's not COVID. It's just
a really miserable cold. So I got from games Calm. But honestly,
if that's the only thing I got from games Calm, I'll take it.
Yeah, I'll take it. Lucy, What do you mean by that isn't
like COVID. Okay, COVID all right, I thought we established no COVID
And then she like, that's the only thing I brought home, Like what
would you like? You're bringing home a dark passenger, Like, what's going
on here, dysenterry? I don't know that German dysenterry that hits different?
For sure? Does tiny German beers hit different? Let me tell you,
Oh that I totally believe. But yeah, game's gone. Was it a
good time? It was a really fun time. I have missed games Calm.
I haven't been since twenty eighteen. It's good to know that it is
exactly the same and I uh yeah, like got to see all the usual
suspects for being in time. It was really good to see all the folks
of the UK and Europe who we used to kind of like pal around with.
But honestly, like it was just a fun show we had. I
thought our schedule was pretty light and then it was not. It was really
busy, but good to see some really cool stuff. You know, got
to see all the like I got to see that stuff and presentation. Good
to see it. But the fall our TV show, the biggest highlight for
me obviously was Alan Wake two. We went off site, which was even
better. We got to we want to go down Sam Lake's Sam Lake?
Did you have a lake that you went to that'd be good? At a
little lake house? Now, they actually did it in a little theater that
was not anywhere near games Calm. They made like posters like in Universe posters
of like Alex Casey and Alan Wake's books and stuff, and then they showed
all the game playing stuff. I guess pretty recorded demo, but they showed
it all on like a big TV screen, a big cinema screen even,
and which was a very awesome way to do a preview, and it was
very chill. I was looking at my Fantasy Critic League that I do with
my community on my discord, and uh I yeah, pick I counter picked
Alan Wake two, which means that I was expecting it not to come out
this year. This was at the beginning of the year I Wake, So
there's no way that is actually going to come out this year, And now
it's like the most anticipated game for so many people, and I'm so boned.
I'm so sweet. So when you saw that they were delaying it,
you were like yes, by ten days. No, no, there's no
cheer. Yes, I absolutely, it was just like because there's no money
involved or anything like that. But it's so it's just like for bragging rights.
Oh yeah, absolutely, and it was just like the Honestly, now
it looks like one of the worst picks. It's very frustrating because Mike manah,
he has we have two leagues and he's on the other one. He
spent all of his almost all of his budget drafting Final Fantasy seven Birth or
whatever the second one is, and everyone comes like, that's not coming out
till next year. What do you? Looks such a bad move. And
now he's like projected to win his league. So it's like it's flipped.
He looked like the bone head and now I look like the complete bone head.
So oh well, you know what, I'm just gonna play our wig
to and enjoy it. That's that's the solution, exactly. Just have a
good time with your video games, etcetera, etcetera. One more question.
You mentioned that like you're powering around with like old UK friends and stuff like
that. Did you do you now in those situations bring that American air of
superiority and arrogance to those situations or do you just slide right back into being
you know, UK buds? Oh you go by k to being UK buds?
Okay, okay immediately, But I did have right, Yes, I
did see a couple of people go, uh, what happened to r accent?
Don't no comment, no comments, We're sorry you're lucy everybody. Yeah,
but also after a few tiny beers, none of that match. Yes,
of course. All right, we got a lot to happen in today,
so let's explain what we do here most weekdays, I, Jeff Greb,
will help piece your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news and
maybe even some of our own original reporting. For all these topics, I'll
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lot to get into, so let's start the morning mess with a Mario red
edition switch oled has seemingly leaked. This comes from Chris Scullion at VGC.
Nintendo is set to release an all red version of the switch Old, according
to a reliable leaker, deal Labs user Bill bill Con, who has been
consistently revealing unannounced products for years, says the product will be called Nintendo switch
O led Model Mario Red. Addition, according to the report, the console
will have two red Joycons and a red DOC that won't feature any other Mario
branding. Of course, the two main models of the switch Oled are a
version with two white Joycons and a white and a white DOC, and a
version with a Neon blue Joycon and a Neon red Joycon and a black DOC.
Bill boo Coon's report claims the Joycons and the docks for the new Mario
Red edition will be the same shade as the standard Neon red Joycon. Lucy,
this sounds like Nintendo. Hey, we got a big two de Mario
game coming out that people are going to buy a lot of we and Mario's
big obviously right now, you know it's always been big. But the movie
people who are gonna be looking for Mario stuff, Let's do the bare minimum
of what we can call something Mario and just paint something not even paint something
red. Just take the red paint we already have for the Joycon, paint
a dock that color and call it a day. It's uh, we're probably
gonna get this at that Nintendo Direct tomorrow. But it's a bit underwhelming,
but also it kind of feels like the kind of thing that would happen at
the end of us a console generation, right, I mean at this point
and I say, this is someone who got a switch oled last week,
So I'm I'm really out of the times. Yeah, I got one.
Thank you to rock Star. They sent me one for to play Red Dead
on because of that whole weirdness where you have to have an old led to
play. We call that the mic Manadio effect. Who I think, who
we believe is responsible for that. Yes, yeah, so I only just
said at my old ed like the other day while I was feeling sick,
and I was like, damn, this is so much nicer than the other
one than my day one launch switch. Oh, it's very nice compared to
that. Yes, that's screen. It's so good. I'm actually kind of
yeah, like kicking myself and not kind of going old a little bit.
Sooner. But whatever, well, I mean, I don't think that's your
fault because that Nintendo. Because it's like the only upgrade was the old ed
screen, and it's very easy to be like do I really need all the
time? Know? The buttons feel nice on the package, It's like they're
the thing that they're selling it on. Like, yes, once you play
it, it's like you do feel day difference. It's it's like the opposite
of how it normally is with Nintendo stuff. We're like, oh the new
three, yes, it's they're like they hype up all the other stuff.
You're like, you're gonna love the analog nub that no game ever used,
and I was excited about Kan was a fool, But it's like now,
but this one, they're like, it's just the old screen. It's like,
actually, it's nicer in a lot of other ways as well. But
at this point in the life cycle, I feel as well, like just
for Nintendo, it's just like screw it, yeah, throw it at the
wall, whatever, do whatever, get get rid of these things that we've
got lying around. I'm amazing amazed that it's like not as if it is
just red. I'm kind of amazed that it's not as made up as the
Animal Crossing one. Yeah, the Zelda one or the didn't like Splatoon Hard
one and you know, like Original Switch, yes, and so was the
Animal Crossing one. But yeah, in terms of the Olett, the Zelda
one wasn't Olett, I think. So it's like they have done that a
little bit. So yeah, I mean, they know how to make this
console look nice when they are doing the branding. I suppose I like the
red that they use on the Red Joy Con and I think it probably will
look pretty nice. But I definitely wouldn't mind a little bit more Mario branding
on there, especially if that's you know, if people are getting it with
their Super Mario brothers, wonder that would be cool. But yeah, this
is them just kind of doing a little bit of something to have a new
system, you know, a new quote quote quote unquote new system for the
holiday before we get into the next gen for them, which is going to
be coming next year. And so the idea of them not going all out
is just not surprising in the least. I guess maybe at this point,
you know, of the previous console and portable generations, they were putting out
stuff like Gameway micros and and and other like similar things like that, where
it's like, oh, they were still making relatively big revisions. They were.
They clearly decided not to do that with the Switch, and so this
is what we're gonna get. And I mean, I'm very happy with Myolette.
I wouldn't upgrade. But if people are coming to the Switch now for
real stuff and like this holiday, they're looking to get something like this,
or they're looking to finally hop on an old lad, this is going to
be a fine option. Yeah, I think so. And I mean as
well, I'm kind of I'm not amazed it's Nintendo, but the way that
PlayStation and Xbox at this jen are recognized how much people will want to customize,
and so you know, it got Xbox with wraps, PlayStation putting out
the different shells show whatever the hell you call those shell Yeah, I'm kind
of amazed that Nintendo's not really get doubling down on that stuff as much as
possible and cutting out the third pie. Yeah, even when they have done
that in the past, the three DS or the New three DS and the
and the New three DS XL like we only got the XCEL and then Japan,
they got the new three DS and it had all those awesome face plates
and it's so well, we always miss out on that customization from Nintendo.
It's frustrating. Yes, Gabway Micro had a bunch of face plates as well.
I think they were swab. I like that a lot, but is
it as good? And I've talked about this. I was on kind of
funny before. I remember, did anyone else have the Xbox three sixty mass
effect armor plate? And it was Commander Shepherd's chest armor and it was an
Xbox three sixty cover and it basically like just yeah, it was a mistake.
It was a misstake, and they don't make him like that anymore.
They do not your your bosomy Xbox Systems or you're going to get that online
from I will say it was it was. It was mail chep. What
was still I want my Xbox three sixty face plate to be like the George
Cooney bat nipples. That's what I need. That's yes, of course,
agreed, agreed, all right, Sonic team head things, Sonic Superstars art
is art style, excuse me, is future proof. This comes from my
Nintendo News Games Radar sat down with Sonic team head Takashi Ayazuki to talk all
things Sonic. The Hedgehog are Excuse me now, he's saying, Iazuka,
I think it is. Iazuka says that when they looked at the various art
styles they could implement in Sonic Superstars, they wanted something that would be future
proof. He went on to say that the team didn't believe pixel art would
be viable for Superstars, so they went with the current art style, which
admittedly also looks good. Iazuka concluded by saying that they are constantly thinking about
the future of the beloved Sonic franchise. Regarding both two D and three D
Sonic games, who wanted to say when we talk about the brand, we
definitely need to have a modern Sonic three D game, Iazuka said. We
also feel we need to have classic Sonic two D games. Those are our
fundamental pillars that we need to have. We're expanding into movies and TV,
but we still need to have both three D and two D lineup for our
gaming audience. Last year, we released Sonic Frontiers, and what Sonic Frontiers
was doing is taking the open zone concept. Everyone drank because we said open
zone to cement that the three D Sonic gameplay as something we can build on
for the next ten to twenty years to continue bringing new gameplay experiences to players.
It was really the evolution of where the three D Sonic space was going,
and we feel very proud in what the team was able to deliver.
He went on to talk about pixel art. He says, we look at
the pixel art and it's great, but when we think about ten to twenty
years in the future, we don't think it's going to be a viable art
style or presentation for our players, And in order to advance and really step
things up, we did want to make sure that we're presenting something that ten
to twenty years down the road we're still evolving and creating new content for Essentially,
what I think what he's saying here is that the reason like Super Sonic
Superstars is a three D art style base instead of like Sonic Mania, which
was pixel art, is that intend to twenty years, the pixel ar it's
going to look out dated and the three D art is going to still look
more timeless. And I couldn't disagree more. Lucy, I think that's crazy.
I don't think that's how that works. Has it ever worked that way,
can you think of an example. I can't Okami in terms of a
three D art style that is still timeless, but that's because it was heavily
Yeah, it's a heavily stylized. It had nothing to do with the PS
two tech they were working on. It had everything to do with the auto
direction cells shading in that game. And so saying out right, this three
D is going to be timeless when two D is not is bizarre because it
ultimately doesn't come down to that, It comes down to the direction. Yeah,
and I listen, I think Sonic Superstars looks pretty good. It looks
that's a pretty good good art style for three D. But I think Sonic
Mania in ten to twenty years he is going to look more timeless than Sonic
Superstars. Sonic Superstars will look like of its time, because I mean maybe
maybe it's just the fact that, like three D art is more than likely
going to change over time, and for two D pixel art, we sort
of decided decided like, this is what we're going for, this is what
we wanted to look like, and if you do more stuff with that,
that's fine, But there is kind of an ideal like Sonic Form and it
is that that two D sonic style. I wonder if the subtext here is
kids like three D more than two D, which I also find it hard
art. Again, think they think that kids Maybe maybe they do, yes,
may maybe they just think kids don't know what's good. That's definitely true.
The kids love trash. That's their motto on this show. You know,
the Disney and dream Works and all these companies that make animated films have
mostly stopped making two D animated pictures because kids, like kids get excited to
go see three D films or you know, three D animated computer films more
than two D, and even like, you know, I remember Jeffrey the
quippy guy. Now I can't remember his name, Thank you, Katzenberger.
Yeah, back he was like Kats, Yes, Jeffrey Katson. Yes.
He he left Disney. There was a whole fall out there and we went
to dream Works. He's like, listen, yeah, we're gonna work on
computer animation, but I'm gonna beat them at two D animation. I think
that's still like the Bread and Butter here. And they tried a bunch of
stuff. They had prints of Egypt, and they did a handful of other
things. And they just did not perform as well as they're as Shrek.
And now you see everything dream Works makes is three DS. So I wonder
if like Sega's kind of thinking along those lines, and and yes, like
that younger audience that we need, that's who we actually care about ten to
twenty years from now. And so I like, I'm not gonna sit here
and say they shouldn't do this. But at the same time, I just
don't agree with this idea that the Sonic Superstars or even Sonic Frontiers is gonna
look better in ten to twenty years. That seems wild. All Right,
we're gonna take a quick break, everybody. When we get back, we're
gonna continue with the news, talk about a little bit of Starfield sweak it
in all that right after this. All right, we're back, and we
have some news about Starfield's sales so far, it's not even out yet,
but Starfield is Steam's top game to the surprise of no one. This is
from Andrew Heaton at Destructoid. The amount of out yet and I am exhausted
by Oh boy, yes it is getting It's already rough. I'm not I'm
so glad that I'm gonna be traveling tomorrow. That's what I'm so glad that
I'm going to be on a twenty four hour train. The amount of hype
that for Starfield easily rivals the biggest games of this year, which is really
saying something. In fact, the anticipation is so enormous that Bethesda's upcoming sci
fi RBG is already topping the Steam charts. If you head over to the
website, you'll see that at the time of this writing, Starfield is currently
at the number two spot on Steam's top sellers. The only thing being in
it is Valve's own Steam Decks device, which means the upcoming sci Fi Opus
number one in terms of actual games. You know, this puts it ahead
of Boulter's Gate three, which is crushing it on Steam still, and we
expect that, you know, sales will probably continue as it comes out,
But the hype, the anticipation is there, and that I think that explains
why there's so much anxiety out there, one way or the other for people
who want this game to fail, for people who want this game to succeed,
they are losing their minds Lucy, And it's been real dumb this week.
It's been done for the past couple of weeks, but this week is
really reaching its zenith. I mean, dude, dude. I first of
all, let's even begin. Every single fucking take I see about Starfield from
whoever is just absolutely ridiculous. I am so exhausted by it. And I've
been doing this a long time. Okay, I've been in the industry for
over ten years. I've been a game so I'll be ten years next year,
and just like, nothing has exhausted me more than the Starfield a discourse
and the game isn't even out yet. And the thing is, it's like
Mitchell jam You're saying, like, don't read Twitter. That is absolutely correct.
However, unfortunately part of my job, and it's just like everyone is
Console wars are inherently very very stupid, and this one I don't know why,
but the hackles are up about Starfield, and I'm like, I'm even
exhausted, you know what, I'm just gonna say it publicly. I'm really
exhausted by seeing everyone post like I've got the game and here is when my
review will be. And it's like that felt really weird to see everyone kind
of doing that about this game, and it's just like no one does that
for anything else, Like if you have an embargo to say when you can
say the embargo just post it from your outlet. Yeah. I think it's
different if your content created and you could say, hey, like I have
the game. But like seeing people post it with like pictures of staffield mugs
and stuff, that was where I was like, it's weird, weird.
Yeah, sure, yeah, definitely. I definitely seen people do that before
with the other big games in the last couple of years, and it's it's
strange because like the embargo has to be framed in a very specific way to
enable that, where like they say, hey, you could say you have
the game and you could say when the review review embargo is and they did
that here and that's I've only seen that a couple of times before. But
it's also from like big companies like Sony that have done that, and but
yeah, rarely every time, it is always strange. It's like yeah,
yeah, okay, what do we do with this information? But I guess
people do want to say when the reviews are coming out? So but you're
right post from your own and I get I get the nuance of like,
you know, if you're a content creator and you're on the up and up
and you're excited about getting a code for a big game. I completely understand
and appreciate that, but like that just felt like I just loved those Twitter
and every book I was posting the same thing and it was like posted from
Igana and game spot on whoever like that is in news beat Yep, it's
it. Just it just felt very weird. And then every like you can
say shit about this game without PlayStation or Xbox people just getting all up in
there, like I don't even want to post what I think about Staffield,
Yeah I might. I might just talk about it on podcasts and that's it,
Like, yes, definitely, you can conversation. And it's because you
can already. I mean, it's already happening. Like the reason it is
so frustrating out there is because things will leak or people will say one thing,
or people discover something, and you can tell that one side is automatically
going into defensive mode and the other side is like, how can I frame
this in the worst possible way to make people feel as miserable about this game
as possible? And it's like, why are these heathens out here? Trying
to either like no one's playing games. They're just out here trying to ruin
other people's time playing games one way or the other, and it's it's it's
exhausting. And then I mean, and then this kind of mercury, it
makes the pool murky for conversation because euro Gamer will be like, hey,
we didn't get a code. We have we we got code and they told
us we weren't allowed to have it. We had to give it the Digital
Foundry, and no one from Digital Foundary could would allow us to play it.
And it's like, okay, this is a conversation worth happening. And
then then of course that just becomes more weapons in the console wars for these
way like obviously this they're afraid of what euro Gamer's going to say about this
game, as if it's like one outlet that it's gonna move things one or
the other. Once you're Gamer posted like that story saying here's why we don't
have it. A couple of hours later, they did get a code,
and I fully one hundred percent believe the reason they didn't get the code is
a grudge. I think that Potesta is a studio that had that is very
good at holding grudges. I don't necessarily know where that comes from. I
have my hunches, but they need to get over that. It is twenty
twenty three. They need to stop. That is such a bad move these
days because like every like, we got so many codes, and everyone else
I know got so many codes. Everyone's playing this. So the idea that
you're leaving out like one or two people, I think, skill up,
right, he didn't get a code, right. Yeah, it's just like
these big content creators are big sites getting out like it's like that just looks
bad for your studio. No matter what the reasoning is, you shouldn't do
it. It's a bad idea. So yeah, we're one day away.
By this time tomorrow, we'll be there. We'll be past this and again
I'll be traveling and I'm just going to talk about it. We got a
quick look going up everybody. That was a fun experience trying to do that
and bring it into spoilers that I couldn't avoid and stuff like that. But
we're doing our best mixture that's going to be ready and edited in such a
way that I won't ruin the game for anybody. But yeah, thats Starfield
is like this big thing that's big, big and important and it just feels
like people are losing their mind and it's so frustrating and we can move on
after this, but like we're at the point where we have so many games
coming out, like this is an incredible time to be like interested in video
games, to play video games, and it's so sad to me that we
can't as community celebrate that and we have to be me and you and not
you. But like, the big thing in our community is that we just
tear each other down based on something that we don't like, and it is
exhausting and pointless and it's just so frustrating. And I think as well,
we just haven't had one like Starfield come around in a while in terms of
things that have got people really invested in the Console Wars Console Wars as well.
Stupid temp for it of course. Yeah, you know, it's just
it's just exhausted. And maybe it's because it's eight thirty on a Wednesday and
I'm feeling ill. But I've had it. I've had it, Jeff had
you losers, get a life, grow on it, and then grow up.
The words of one who's sang grow up grow up anyway. Goodbye.
Unami's Sweaking in one and two HD remaster have been delayed or has been delay
because it's one product. This is from weam Dulan and Nintendo Life. If
you were anticipating the return of the gr j RPG Classics Sweaking in one and
two this year, you might want to read on. Konami has issued a
new notice on sufficial website and via social media about a slight delay Sweaking in
one and two HD remaster, gate Rooin and doing in Unification Wars, which
is a name that they actually chose to call that thing. We'll require additional
development time to deliver the experience fans expect. The aim is now to release
the package as soon as possible, and they're going to kind of explain what's
going on here. Hey, I think delay in a game like this is
like right now, is a great idea, What a wonderful idea. Get
out of this, get out of this time zone. I fail. I
felt so bad for immortals of Avium. I feel so bad. I mean,
see, if Star's got one hundred K in like a day, that's
great. Goodbye Volcano High. Like this particular release window between Star of August
to the end of the year, absolute Nima. If you're a delay in,
that's probably the best bad for you right now. Yeah, there's there's
a certain balance where when a lot of games are coming out and people are
excited that, I think it can be good for other games because people are
like, man, I'm just having so much fun playing games. I want
to get my switch out or get my Steam deck out, or get on
get on the computer, get on the console and just kind of pop on
there and see what's available to play. Well, I wait for the next
big thing I'm really excited about. This is like beyond that to the point
where it's like, now people are completely strapped for time, so they are
making some tough choices about what they're going to play, let alone what they're
gonna buy. So yeah, I mean as well, like you can't even
say, you can't even say that December is a viable release window anymore because
the game Will. I mean, if you want to go in for game
Will, it's like, because the cutoff is you've got to be in at
least in November. Yeah, November, yes, you don't. You don't
stand and then no one remember remember, And like I think even last year.
And this is a testament to it is that I can't even remember what
game it was. But something came out in like December last year or the
efore, and we're like, okay, everyone remember this for game of what's
next year? Ye No, I don't like that. It doesn't look like
that anymore. Remember, we're like, Cyberpunk came out of December, like
that'll be, That'll be for next year's awards, And that didn't worked out
for that game. Not as a Cyberpunk defender. That's a good game.
I like it. I like it too. I gave it three out of
five because I like it. It's a good game, all right. See
if Stars sold. That onefore mentioned one hundred thousand copies on release days comes
from my Nintendo News. The long awaited Pixel Art Adventures Sea of Stars received
some excellent review scores earlier this week, just before the game launched across multiple
platforms, with critics critics comparing it to some of the strongest RPG entries in
the sixteen bit era. The game finally released yesterday and sales have been tallied
and it has already sold one hundred thousand copies across digital marketplaces, including the
Nintendo E Shop. Developer Sabotage Studios thanked fans for the success. That's really
good, and I expect the game to continue selling. It's probably, but
next time we're gonna hear about it will be a couple of weeks, and
I bet it's going to be about a million copies sold pretty easily. This
feels like one of those games that, especially an indie R JRPG on the
Switch. I mean, it's gonna sell well everywhere, but these games sell
us special well on the Switch. I think it's gonna just be It's gonna
be like the New Hades or the New Golf Story on that system. I
think yeah, And I think as well, you know, Kenn of coming
out, people are obviously very interested in it. Then Refus came out,
tends across the board and yeah, folks in chat saying rightfully, So it's
on PS day Pass and it's still selling one hundred thousand, that's awesome,
Like good for them, yep, that's uh. And of course that mean
that means people a lot of people on those systems are just going to play
in the subscription service, but a lot of people are just still choosing to
buy it, So yeah, it's all around. That's I mean, that's
the ideal scenario is that you have a game that looks pretty good, you
can, you get good review scores, you put it in these online services
so you get money upfront, and then people discover it that way and they
tell their friends, and then people start buying it as well, and it's
like everything is hitting for Sea of Stars. So just a good thing for
that game and another one that are like I'm eyeing, but I don't know
if I'll ever really get around to it this year. I would love to,
but I don't know. Have you played it in all? No,
Gerard is completionist, is really big into it. He's been singing its praises
for a few weeks now, kind of in the FPS chat. I it
doesn't I never really grew up with those games, so maybe this is going
to be the one that like gets me into it, But I just don't
have time right now. Like im I'll be going from I'm still on Boulder's
Gate Starfield going into the October craziness. I'm traveling a lot. Also,
also A may have downloaded done Alan Wake, Quantum Break and Control. Oh
my god, Lucy. I thought you were just going to say Alan Wake
no, because I've replayed on the universe, right, you don't have to
do this, okay, So right, Uh, Sean Ashmore is back.
Ashmore is in Alan Wake too, So first of all, I don't want
to throw people under the bus. But in the session that we were in,
we saw him pop up on screen and me and Tam were like,
oh, he's Jack Joyce Babies back. He's playing character called like Tim Tim
Breaker or something breaker. Well well because anyway it's like me and Tim like
And then there was like a group Q and a after and no one asked
about him, and I was like, are we just gonna ignore the ice
man in the rim anyway? Apparently? And I never I never played Quantum
Break, so I and also remon' eve been saying like, you don't need
to have played any of the other stuff before getting this. And as I
was watching the Alam Bake two stuff, I was like, oh, there
are so many Easter eggs just in this demo, Like I want to enjoy
that, So I am gonna anyway, I put it on the rack.
Ally, So that's mostly bad at you because I've been imagining doing the same
thing at least with Control and now on Wake. Yeah. I did not
enjoy Quantum Break, but I would go back and play some Control for sure.
I would like to replay before this, but I'm not Control. So
it's a good game. That's how much I love to control. I think
about objects of power all the time. What a good concept, What a
great all around, like well thought out world that they made there. Uh,
Larry And says it's discussing potential Boulder's Gate three DLCs potential, they're discussing
potential e these rumors. Is disgusted by Boulder's Gate three DLC. This is
from Tom. I've been at VGC. Larry and Studios is discussing the possibility
of expanding Balder's Gate three with DLC ex Senior product manager Tom Butler told IGN
that the studio is currently focused on releasing the console version of Boulder's Gate three
and that it will be occupied with it with patching the base game for the
foreseable future. We'll talk about that patch here in a second, however,
he said. He also said Larry and is thinking about ways in which it
could potentially expand the game, which was released for PC on August third.
We'll carry on patching for a while and then we're all going to take a
holiday and then we'll figure out what we do x he said. But at
the moment, we genuinely have discussions. We want to do more. We
don't know what yet. Larry and released the first major Balder's Gate three patch
last week, addressing over a thousand bugs and so on. A patch two's
coming up again. I'll mention, we'll get to a story about patch two
here in a second. What do you want from DLC? Where when do
you expect it? I know you're super into Balder's Gate three. It seems
to the kind of thing where if they were to drop DLC next holiday,
like this game could have another surge of popularity, a lot of people would
come back to it. Is that kind of the timeline that you're expecting.
Oh yeah, dude, leave me alone. Hilarious, hilarion, Get out
of here. I need to finish your game first. I'm still in Act
two. I'm like fifty plus hours in. I'm still in Act two.
I honestly, the main thing I want from them right now immediately is I
wanted to run better. I'm at the kind of apex at the game where
performance is definitely suffering, maybe because as well I have I'm switching between handheld
and Yeah, it's apparently gets much worse even than Act three. So if
you're an act you're probably gonna get probably gonna get even rougher as you go
forward. Yeah, So I don't know. I just want them to keep
like it's rating fixing on stuff DLC. Why, I don't know. I
mean, I don't know where this story goes, so I don't even know
where or what I could do with it. Like I mean, okay,
let's say that this story wraps up in a very conclusive way, which I
have no idea if it does, but let's just say it does. Do
you think that they could just do a whole new campaign as DLC. Oh
Probably, I mean not to speak for the devs, but not easily.
I would love, I would love, genuinely like a mass effect citadel,
just like like a like a one shop. Yeah, to use DNT,
DND polance, something that doesn't really tie into the main story, but it
could still be ideal. Oh my gangs. Ideally, I think that's exactly
right, and in a perfect world where they're able to do those with,
you know, in an affordable and quick way. I think it'd be really
fun if they could do some like themed one shots, like a sort of
a holiday themed one that they put out next Christmas and stuff like that,
and I think a Halloween one. I think that could be really funny.
Obviously it would be more D and D themed, but that could be a
very fun thing to do. They probably won't have the resources to pull that
off, because I'm sure they're going to do it. Do DLC their biggest
prior priority going forward. It's going to be a sequel to this game.
I mean, you don't put a game out that cells like this that then
you don't follow up with relatively and then in the next four or five years
and they're going to get to work on that. So yeah, but I
think that the mass effects style is probably the right way, and there's a
lot of good examples of that, the Citadel one obviously being the best.
Just having the characters to be able to have like a party where like low
stakes and everyone kind of getting together and having the characters interact with one another
in that way, that could be really fun. Yeah, I mean,
someone's going to do it because it doesn't look like by Aware of doing it.
Yeah, how are you feeling about that news about what's happening over by
Aware? I mean, I don't feel great about it. I was kind
of cautiously optimistic about that game to talk about mass effect anyway, kind of
cautiously optimistic about it. But like, yeah, it doesn't look good getting
rid of all of the old veteran veteran writers. Not a great look.
Game has been in development for a very long time. Same with Dragon Age.
There's no way, e A, you're recouping those costs at this point.
I'm I don't know. I think they're just gonna want to shove it
out the door and say goodbye to it. Yeah, that's so I'll say
that. I'll start off by saying internally at by Aware, they're still mostly
very happy with Dragon Age dread wull. I know, I know all of
the news surrounding it is pretty grim. And what I talked about last week
with like, you know, the game keeps getting delayed internally and stuff like
that. Yeah, that's happening, but that's like normal video games stuff.
Like they haven't talked about it publicly for a reason, and so it like
they haven't announced a delay. It's just internally they keep moving because they have
they've been afforded the opportunity to keep moving it. But they when they talk
about like how they feel about the game, they're pretty happy with it.
So I like, I want to like give people some hope that like things
could turn out well for Dragon Age dread Wolf. That said, you know
that studio is definitely feeling the pressure to deliver, and they aren't feeling the
pressure to cut costs, which is never a great thing. And the fact
that that, I mean, I'm not going to ever get over lucy them.
Basically the week or the month that Balder's Gate three comes out and destroys
the world, firing the writer of Balder's Gate one or lay enough that that
is kind of a crazy thing, and it shows that like, Okay,
something went wrong here with eam BioWare right, Yeah, all right. That
Balder's Gate three patch is coming soon. It will improve it will improve performance.
The big thing that they're going to focus on this comes from Ali Welship
Polygon. The second major patch, or balders Gate three, will improve the
game performance, particularly in Act three where it often struggles, and it will
begin a push to expand on the game's epilog, including freshening out freshening out
the endings for the Carlack character, as many fans have requested. That's according
to a new community update that that developer Larrying Studios, posted to Steam on
Tuesday. The developer wasn't specific about the timing of patch two, but said
it was just around the corner. Have you like as you encounter more of
these performance problems as you get later in the game, and I don't know,
maybe you've encuntered some bugs, Have you like slowed up in hopes for
the patch, or you just playing as much as you can whenever you can.
I have. I just haven't played for the last week. It just
because I've been traveling, right. Yeah. I took my rage Ally too
Geminy and back. However, I took a bunch of pills, legal pills,
and so I passed out on the flight there and back because I didn't
play anything. Sean quick, you get me an audio clip of that,
real quick, Legal pills, legal bills. Actually they had controlled substances which
I had to get my doctor to prescribe me. So no, I just
haven't played in a while, and then I came back and I've been sick,
man like I have just I've been I'm in a big movie phase right
now watching Oh okay, so I love this. I love movie era,
Lucy. I'm getting big on Letterbox as well. I don't know if I'm
following you there. I will though, Lucy. This James Games everywhere.
I watched The Prestige just before I left. I watched Sunshine last night.
I watched Easton Promises the night before. I was going to watch Lady Vengeance,
but then I was like, I'm two tied with the Prestige. I
was thinking about the yesterday because kind of funny was doing that pizza thing where
they're like Roger like boiled down mountain dew and put it on the pizza and
it looked like pesto and then crushed up to RINOs and stuff on there,
and I was looking at it and all I can think is that scene from
the Prestige where the guy's like it's been a very long time since I've seen
real magic, and it's like, I'm just completely I'm astonished at what you've
accomplished here, Roger McCarney. So Prestige it's definitely want I always think about.
But so I don't like foot double. I've just had five people following
the letter box. Thank you. People love following up one letterbox. That's
that's the real social media. That's where I'm gonna spend all my time when
Starfield comes out is letterbox. Yeah, I'm going to review everything on on
on the train. You should totally do that. Absolutely. I started watching
Tenant the other day because I was at a big Nolan kick, I watched
Interstellar. I'm sorry anyone who says Interstellar is a good story. Oh it's
not a good story. It's a great stime. No, see you listen,
Okay, no one storytelling it really does require you to They say it
in Tenant, Uh feel don't think. You gotta feel it. You can't
think about it. And that's definitely true for Tenant, but it's also true
for Interstellar. Here's here's my recommendation. Actually, everyone's right. If you
have kids, Interstellar becomes a great movie. It's it doesn't matter. You
don't in a rational way, yes, you know, and I would just
I and I was texting people yesterday when I was watching when I was watching
Sunshine, and I was like, would you go into space? Would you
go into space? You're asking me if I would go into space? I'm
asking you, would you go ow in space? Yes? Space is like
interstellar, if it's like sunshine, if it's like if I'm okay, I
would hozon, I would go into orbit? For sure? Would I go?
Would I travel near the speed of light to the point where then the
relative time is changing so that I'm anging slower than my children? Almost?
Certainly? Not? No, Well it's okay, because you love try and
signs time in space. Well listen, I know that absolutely, But I
don't know if I could t happened to it. I don't know if I
have the bookshelf. I got a keya bookshelf. I don't have the Magical
Time bookshelf. So I'm missing some features that he had. Yeah, yeah,
I just I just don't understand people who want to go into space.
I don't understand it. Why would you want to? You would die up
there? You will die up there? Yeah, but we're gonna die down
here. Yeah. But like my PC's here, Okay. I thought you
were like, there's like trees here and it's nice outside, said and Lucy
James but yes, hell, yes, here, these are very good arguments,
and you're right. I don't know. I like space travel, I
like the idea of it. But yes, Interstellar is kind of a horror
film when you start actually thinking about the implication. Music. Music is great.
I no, I think the setup for Interstellar is fantastic. I just
think he loses it with all the black hole stuff. I definitely felt that
way the first time, and then since we watching it a bunch of times,
I'm like over it in very much. The emotions do work for me.
But yeah, all right, you know what, let's take off the
rails here. Uh, last couple of stories here. Excited By sixty four
is now available for Switch Online Expansion Pack members. This is from my Nintendo
News. You may recall that Less Than We Could Go Nintendo announced the Excite
Like sixty four would be arriving on Nintendo Switch Online Plus Expansion Pack on August
thirtieth. As usual, the date was actually referring to Japan's time zone,
so August thirtieth in Japan would be late on August twenty ninth, in the
middle of the night for the western regions, depending on your time zone.
It's been out since last night people are playing it. One of my favorite
in sixty four games, so it's an all time classic. I think most
people are going to try it out and be like, this is weird because
it's a bit more simi than you might be expecting. It's still an arcade
racer, but they try to simulate a lot of like the power sliding and
what you need to do to pull those that stuff off, and if there's
kind of a high technical skill ceiling, and I love that stuff. But
it's definitely a different game than just like Mario Kart. That said, I'm
looking forward to them getting through the other two games they have for Nintendo sixty
four Expansion Pack, which is Mario Party three and then ten eighty Snowboarding,
and then we'll see what they put out after that. But yeah, excited
back sixty four. I would not recommend playing this one on the train.
You guys can skip this one. You guys have my permission. You guys
can just help Jan play Tears of the Kingdom while he's watching. I was
gonna say, we're gonna have multiple screens. I am. I'll be playing
Pickman as well. I've got Red Dead Pickman and Baldest Gate and the aforementioned
remedy connected universe. I'm sorry whenever someone says they're playing have you ever played
a Pickman before? No, but I played Tiny Kin, which I understand
is basically it's the platform. It's the platform version of Pickman. Definitely,
Pickman four is? Is you kind of a perfect game? I want to
over something. Boy was so good. No, everyone has been talking about
it, like Mike has been. I've seen you and Mike post about it.
Stella over Ign posted that she was playing it on the on the flight
back. I'm just like, all right, alright, I'm very it's very
very good. It's just got such a good loop and they really nailed it.
So I'm very excited about that. Glad to hear it. I'm like,
I was like, oh, that's gonna be the game that I'll be
very excited about and come game of the year. Won't have a chance.
Maybe we get enough people to play it and maybe we'll have a chance.
We'll see or maybe you won't like it. We'll see, we'll see.
The two on the UK Charts Armored Course six Fires of Rubicon dethroned Mario Kart
eight Deluxe. This week. This comes from my Nintendo News. The latest
box to video game software charts have come through from the largest video game market
in Europe at the United Kingdom. This week's there's a new number one.
It's the long awaited Armor Armored Course six Fires of Rubicon, which just just
eked out Mario Kart eight Deluxe. That's not true, but Mario Kart eight
Deluxe is number two on the chart. It was number one last week,
which is just messed up that Mario Kart eight Deluxe was the number one best
selling game in the UK at physical retailers last week. But Armor of Course
six number one. That game is is absolutely demolishing everything. I finally started
playing it, and I get it. It's un't I haven't played it yet,
like it's it's really good on the Rodger, runs really good on the
ally. Oh okay, I say, I limit the frame rate or the
resolution to seven twenty, and I limit the system frame rate to forty five
frames per second, and it runs kind of perfect in that in that scenario,
it might work at ten eighty, but it works really well at seven
twenty. That's all I've tried it at. But I really recommended playing playing
it that way because it's I'm like having no issues, it's it's a great
way. I've gotten through that first boss, well, the first like tutorial
boss, the helicopter. But yeah, it's a beautiful game, and the
action is as advertised where people are gay. You're like big mechs moving around
fast and doing cool stuff and uh and or if you want them to feel
big and lumbering, you're gonna get to that as well. But right now
you start off with a mech that can you know, it can fire it's
missiles and lock on all that stuff, and then if you can get close
enough and do this big sword swipe, it just feels so good. It's
a it's and we people go back and forth on this where it's like,
oh, it's it's definitely not a so Souls Born game, but when you
play it, it's one thousand percent of from software game where there's some like
animation priority on things and and underneath everything. Yeah, they made it armor
core, but it's with all the lessons learned from recent from software games,
and that felt very good. Stop giving me more games, man, I
know it's crazy. What are you gonna do? I mean, I'm in
my film era pretend that you really gotta just not because they don't. You
can't even hear what they're saying in that movie, so you just gotta just
it's a vibe. I watched everything with subtitles. Oh yes, I'm also
as I as I'm in my not because I'm in my film era, but
because I'm also in my PC gaming era. I want to get an o
led TV and that's like you do, maybe use that as like your PC
monitor? No to replace that because I have a PC plugged in. Okay,
okay, ok it's okay, same difference, No, no, januine
it. I went to the Nvidio booth at Games Club. Yeah, what
they have and they okay, first of all, the Nvidia aut x remix
stuff that they made, the Half Life two stuff on unbelievable, the new
technical ndia that these these could past few weeks that they' announced that DLSS three
point five, I cannot get over it. Well yeah, so we saw
that in Alan Wake and in Alan Wake too. I cannot wait till we
fucking crush that with these forty nineties. Oh man, that is so exciting.
I mean, Ray Tray seems been promised for years. It finally looks
like it's delivering on that promise. I'm like, legit into it. It
looked so good, and I was like, I have a twenty eighteen TV
that like, I need a steak and no lad Man. Yeah, I
mean, if you that's that would be my recommendation. If you're plugging it
into a PC, get an LG LEAD because that's gonna have all the features
that you want. I'm I'm using a Sony uh TV that's pretty good for
my PC over there when I've been playing Starfield and it's it's good, but
it doesn't it does have any support for any sort of GC like or free
Sincy, and you know the old from LG just straight up has g sinc
Support and all that stuff, And that would make a huge difference, especially
in any game that has any performance issues. So yeah, yeah, god
damn it. Yep yep. In a game like anything that's running Ray Tracy,
youre probably gonna have variable frame, right, so that would be very
helpful. Okay, all right, Well let's get out of our news and
out of our film eras and talk about the poll from yesterday. Well,
actually, while I get that up, Lucy, what do you have happening.
What do you have going on that we want to tell people about?
You got any game spot videos going up later this week while you're traveling.
Yeah, So, I mean we have all this stuff from games come So
Tam and I saw Alan Wake, We did Impressions on that one. We
did spot On where we had an interview with Rott Ferguson and Chris from Blizzard
about Diablo and how it's actually pretty difficult to fix a live service game.
Who knew? And then we are shooting spot On today, so I think
we'll get it. We'll probably end up doing a bloody episode about Staffield despite
you know, refews don't coming out until tomorrow, but I'll be going up
on Friday, and then tonight nine thirty pm, Tam Jam Jams the collective,
the three of us, we are gonna we are going to be boarding
the amtrack in Emeryville and it's gonna take us like twenty two hours to get
up to Seattle. I'm so excited, so jealous. What what that's gotta
I mean, just to be able to disconnect for that like continuous hours and
like if you want to connect, you still can and do stuff, but
like you have an excuse for everything. I'm traveling. I'm on a train.
I can only do so much. I'm very yeah, I wanted to
make that happen, but man, I'm happy you guys are gonna actually have
that. We're going. Uh do you have like any I mean, listen
you, I know you just talk about playing some games. Do you have
multiple screens? Maybe some movies? Do you have like any other plans about
like maybe like live streaming i RL or something like that. I mean,
that's I I'm gonna leave that in Jan's hands. He's just posted that he's
bringing Jenger, so I'm down. But also I'm train trainer. I'm gonna
make Ia. I'm sorry. I'm gonna make Jan play Tears of the Kingdom
to save those beautiful locks. But no, I mean, I'm I am
genuinely the Kate of person. I must be a nightmare to travel with.
Actually, tam Can. Tam Can attests I'm not a nightmare. I just
don't like to talk to people. I every time, like every time I
go back to the UK, I have to get the train between Newcastle and
London, and I will just sit in silence. Even if I'm traveling with
someone I'll go no, no, I will see you on the other side.
Yeah, Tam. TAM's in twitch chat, he says, luck at
him the same. Yeah, we just we could just we just sit in
silence until we have to move to our gate or something. I'm just excited
to, you know, obviously we'll hang out. There's going to be you
know, restaurant and stuff. There's a bar on the train in and whatever.
I'm just excited to not really do anything, well obviously be filming a
lot of it, and just like chilling out because it's been such a busy
couple of weeks, it's going to be a busy couple of months. I'm
excited just to trains Like it feels like the end of the year and it's
like, no, it's only September now, basically not even we're in August.
Still. The thing is as well, like I feel I'm single,
no kids, no other commitments really, and so I feel for everyone else
who has like sicking for good others and kids and then everything else is going
on and finding the time to balance all that. So that is Yeah,
she had breakfast this morning, and then ten minutes later she asked for another
breakfast. She wanted to. She's playing. Oh, it's good. Okay,
she says, it's good. I heard that a little yeah, he
had a little list. Yep. She's over there making it happen. She's
been playing this NonStop. She's pretty good attitude. She's four years old and
figuring out Pickman. It's I think that's impressive. That is awesome. All
right. I got the poll from yesterday. Let's uh get yeah, well
when was it? Yeah, yesterday, Monday. I don't remember. We'll
go try Saints Row and PlayStation Plus. Twenty percent said yes, nine percent
said I've already played it. Seventy one percent said no, no, thank
you, I'm good. I announcing the price increase with Saints Row. Yep,
it's a move. Yep. So that's that's right. We did that,
actually did have let's talk. Let's talk about that real quick. That
they'll be our last actual news story from Warrior sixty four. PlayStation Plus has
increased its prices for twelve months. Essential is now eighty dollars a year,
Extra is now one hundred and thirty five dollars a year, and Premium is
one hundred and sixty dollars per year. This the details are up on the
PlayStation blog. Let's see. I'm as see if there's got if they have
the monthly pricing, if that's going up, I don't. I just I
just buy yearly whenever I go back back to the UK, because I have
a UK account. Annoyingly, all my shit's tied to that to make it
difficult to upgrade your account here. You can't change the payment to be my
American car. That's annoying. That's very frustrated. Yeah, okay, because
I have it's my primary account, so anything I have, I can.
My American account is on there. And because the English account is the primary
account, I could play whatever on the same machine, which is fine.
So my trophies are in the same place. But in terms of payments paying
the art, I have to have two Nintendo accounts Xbox though. Steam thank
you for making it easy for me. Yeah, an immigrant in a different
Steam doesn't care. Absolutely. They will still I had whatever money you've got
that you got bitcoin will take bitcoin. They actually don't take bitcoin anymore,
but they did for a while, which was weird. It's a little strange.
Yeah, okay, yeah, but I don't see any monthly in price
increase here. I don't see the Canadian pricing, so pay shout outs to
our Canadian friends who are probably gonna playing significantly more than that. The europric
scene is yeah, kind of equivalent and stuff like that. It's gonna it's
eighty dollars for twelve months of essential and it's a sixty great British pounds.
Is that six sixty great British pounce a lot of money. That's nothing great
about that anymore. I'm kidding. I'm sorry. I'm allowed to say,
yeah, sixty quid for the years. It's actually not two terrible, but
I mean I get I have the Premium, which I never use. I
only got it because we were doing a bunch of videos on PS Plus and
then I think I'm just gonna go back to regular. Maybe maybe the Middle
Ones. I've got the game catalogs. The Middle Ones is the sweet spotted
it is. It's weird, yes, because the older PlayStation classic games that
they put on there just really haven't been worth it for the most part.
Okay, New Paul four tomorrow, which I will be doing an episode.
I'm traveling later in the day, so I'll have an episode tomorrow. I'm
gonna have tom Caswell one. We're gonna go live right after the Starfield and
Bargo basically is up, and actually after the Nintendo direct. Oh no,
I'm sure this is the show will end, and then the starbott Field and
Bargo will go up. So me and Tom we'll talk a little bit about
it at that point, but our quick look will be up on all that
stuff, so look out for that. In the meantime though, the poll
for tomorrow which do you think will look better in ten to twenty years Sonic
Mania, Pixel Art or Sonic Superstars three d Art. You can vote now
go to YouTube dot com slash Giant Bomb and find it under the community tab
there. Okay, Lucy, thank you so much for spending today talking with
me about video games. I really appreciate it. Films and films of course,
and yes in your film era and everybody, thank you for watching,
Thank you for listening. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time,
have a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.