WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:15.599 Be bad. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for January 2 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:18.640 nineteenth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so, let me 3 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:22.079 help you sort through the world of gaming on Game mess Mornings Live with me 4 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:27.760 Jeff Grubb today, Xbox's developer directs sets up the company's twenty twenty four and 5 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:31.960 is it time for Elden Ring DLC. But first, please join me and 6 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.240 welcome to today's co host a Game Mess Mornings. It's t more who's saying, 7 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:38.840 everybody, dam how are you doing on this dregs Day? You said 8 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:44.200 the magic words, So I'm hey, you know the magic words, Jeff 9 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:47.520 dregs Day, Yeah, exactly, That's what I'm talking about. What are 10 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.759 you talking about? Well, I don't know. I got lots of magic 11 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.119 words over here, all right, listen, I'm studying under the masters like 12 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:57.280 Randy Pitchford and Randy Pitchford, that's who I got. I can't, for 13 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:02.640 the life of me figure out why you would fuck me on this great the 14 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:07.040 greatest Brandy quote. I think about it all the time all the time, 15 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:08.760 and it's like one of those things where it's like I can I'm glad you 16 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.799 can, like drop the reference here, and we're working out it works out 17 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.120 well. I want to reference it all the time, and I'm like, 18 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.159 most people in my life are not going to understand what I'm talking about here. 19 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:19.680 Yeah, yeah, exactly, but it's very important to me. That 20 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.879 is a precious quote to me. Yes, I know, how are you 21 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.920 doing this? Is? You know, we're like halfway more than halfway through 22 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:33.359 January twenty twenty four. Let's go through twenty twenty four. Do you feel 23 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:34.760 like you got the hang of twenty twenty four? I think I think I'm 24 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.280 getting there. I'm not quite there that yet, though, how about you? 25 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.719 No? Oh no I am. I am like I'm still crawling my 26 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.840 way up out of twenty twenty three. Yeah, I'm slowly getting there. 27 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:52.799 Like twenty three was a quagmire, a pool of quicksand that I'm just now 28 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:57.840 figuring out how to get out of. So but you know, it'll be 29 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.879 good, It'll be it will be fine, it will be okay. Well, 30 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:06.079 we are figuring it out slowly, but surely we're figuring it out. 31 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.039 Yeah, this is exciting. Things have happened, you know. We we 32 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.680 announced that we're going to Pax. Yeah, I'm very it's going to be 33 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:15.719 great. I've never been, so this is gonna be I'll have been to. 34 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.960 We went to the lost PACs. Pax West, Yes, Pax West. 35 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.919 Now I'm going to pack s East for the first time. Is paxist 36 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.039 a good one? Well, Pax was, He's not a good one. 37 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:24.919 Pass West it was awesome as well. But I mean, like, is 38 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:30.080 the Pax East the one that everyone is like? So yeah, I think 39 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.280 the way it went down is Pax West was Pax Prime for a long time. 40 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:36.560 That was like the originator, and then they started up Pax East a 41 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.039 long time ago, and it was basically equivalent to Pax West in about every 42 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:43.199 way. And now they're both. They're both equal and huge and big, 43 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.639 and they were still like a little bit of Oh I go to pax Prime 44 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:51.159 net these days they are equal. I had a lot of fun at Pax 45 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.680 West. It was like really cool, and I am so excited to go 46 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:57.360 to Pax East now. Yeah, it's great. It's great to just see 47 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.400 the you know, the East Coast Games people out there that don't tend to 48 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.479 go out to Paxwest. That's always fun and it's a different time of the 49 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:09.039 year. Favorite East Coast Games person let's see here from Alex Navarro. Hell 50 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:14.199 yeah, there, we got the right there, he is a right uh. 51 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:15.840 All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays, I, 52 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:20.120 Jeff Greb, will help piece your gaming life back together. That includes breaking 53 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.919 news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. For all these topics, 54 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:25.319 I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who will make me look 55 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.960 smart. You were watching live on Twitch Welcome. You could always listen to 56 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:34.120 the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Games Mornings, Hello YouTube, 57 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.680 or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. See he's still getting the 58 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:39.199 hang of the year, everybody. You can also catch the show later with 59 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:46.680 chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello Hello YouTube. There it ish No, 60 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.400 No, that was pretty on our side, sounded perfect. We're good. 61 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.080 Yeah. And I definitely said Alex Navarro, one because it's true, and 62 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:58.879 two because he controls the rains on Blake Club and at any time can step 63 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.599 in and fuck U. So yeah, and I can't believe he would. 64 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:09.199 Vinie would never, so yeah, ethnically exactly. All right, Let's let's 65 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:13.439 hop into this news, starting with everything we saw at Xbox's January Developer Direct. 66 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.920 This comes from Kenneth Shepherd at Kotaku. Xbox just held its January Developer 67 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.959 Direct, which showcased a handful of upcoming first party games. If you missed 68 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:23.759 the fifty minute stream and want to watch the whole thing, you could do 69 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:27.319 so, but here's a way to catch up as well, starting with Obsidian 70 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:31.279 Entertainments fantasy RPG Avowed, which is set in the same universe as the team's 71 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:36.399 Pillars of Eternity series. The game is launching on Game Pass in the fall 72 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:42.519 of this year. They showed off some gameplay, they showed off some more 73 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.720 action. They also, finally actic showed off for the first time. Really 74 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.560 the kind of RPG, talk to enemies, talk to NPC's sort of nature 75 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:54.439 of the game, things that people were expecting from an Obsidian RPG, Well 76 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.480 now they confirmed. Yah, it's going to be one of those. Of 77 00:04:56.519 --> 00:05:00.600 course. How are you feeling about Avowed now, Tam, I'm a little 78 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.639 bit harder on this preview than I was on the one at Summer Game Fest 79 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:09.480 last year. How about you? If I'm being completely honest, I am 80 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:12.720 kind of ambivalent about it, right, Yeah, I don't think you're I 81 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.759 think a lot based on what I've seen, based on my excitement, I'm 82 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.759 excited for about But my excitement for it comes entirely from the fact that it's 83 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:25.319 Subsidian. Sure and Obsidian make games that I really enjoy, and they make 84 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:29.639 like on different scales, whether that's you know, like Fallout or Pillows or 85 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:34.480 whatever it may be, or yeah, Pentiment or also like our worlds at 86 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:40.319 the World's Yep. Yeah, so like that is, and and it seems 87 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:45.759 like format and like kind of construction wise, structure wise, it looks like 88 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.439 they're going something like that where it's like a bunch of areas that are like 89 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:54.680 yeaing together. The thing about it is like from the combat side of it, 90 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:59.399 there was I have this like thing now where a lot of these dev 91 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:03.759 diaries when these happen, not specifically the Microsoft one, I've seen them happening 92 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:09.240 all over the place. Yes, present things as if they're brand new, 93 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.480 and it's just like, okay, man, like that sounds barely plain and 94 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.079 normal, like not saying it's bad, but they're like you can wield things 95 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.720 different hands to spells or like a sword, and so I was like I 96 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:24.519 expected to do that. Yeah, yep, that's what games I've been doing 97 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.439 for a really long time, and they're like, and the combat is like 98 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.600 strategic and technical. I'm like, yep, that's yep, that's whats are 99 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.720 for sure. I'm not saying again, I'm not saying it's bad, but 100 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:40.079 it's like presenting things as if it's like wildly brand new and innovative. I 101 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:45.399 was like, Okay, this looks like a a functional, maybe satisfying kind 102 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:49.800 of combat system. And then they it looked I thought it looked pretty good, 103 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:55.120 like it looked interesting. We talked about this on games Part after Dark. 104 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:59.680 I haven't not an issue, but I really do wish that in situations 105 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:04.120 like this where rpg's're showing off on RPG and you're talking about the narrative, 106 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:10.680 that people don't try and show off what like the narrative is like through being 107 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:15.720 like, here's a very very fast, reductive explanation of a quest line, 108 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.519 and be like and at this point you make decisions. I feel like we've 109 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:23.560 reached the stage now where it's pretty clear that the way you do it is 110 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:28.360 by focusing on specific characters for people to go wild about. Definitely, And 111 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.279 again I talked about this on after Dark and I was like let's take it 112 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:35.800 within the context of Balder's Gate. Blsgate has a lot of really cool narrative 113 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:41.040 and plot threads. Trying to explain that in something like a you know, 114 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.240 director of this style. I think Larry and had longer stuff where they would 115 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.680 like really break things down as good. Trying to explain that in the context 116 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.079 of like what Xbox was doing extremely difficult. However, you can put a 117 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.160 character like a Starian on show, or like Karlac on show and say like, 118 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.240 this is one of our characters. Look at Karlak. She's awesome and 119 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.959 hot and you'll want to bone her, you know, sorry, And he's 120 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.399 a bit of a menace, but he's also kind of sexy. I feel 121 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:09.279 like that's here's a bear, you can fuck it. Yeah, yeah, 122 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.439 exactly. I feel like that's how you get people like talking and excited about 123 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:18.120 the potential there. I trust that Obsidian will do good narrative, good story, 124 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.319 and good characters. I did not get a good sense of that through 125 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.319 what they showed. What they effectively showed me was they are making a game. 126 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.959 It's an RPG, it's got combat, and it'll have a story and 127 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.960 you'll make decisions. That's all I took away from it and the vast majority 128 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.039 of my excitement, which again to be clear, there is a lot of 129 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.960 excitement, comes from the fact that I know what they can do and what 130 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.039 they have done and their consistency with it. I think, yeah, you 131 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:46.639 know, the way you put that there. I fully agree that the the 132 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:52.279 specifics of the content of that of that video, the things that like spiked 133 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:54.559 my interest. The most of what they showed was definitely like design. I 134 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.879 think the looks of like the lizard characters that look like they have their own 135 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.399 culture and stuff like that. That that and you know you're fighting it mostly 136 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:07.360 but the being British mate, oh the lizard people, of course, yes, 137 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.519 it's it was I'd like, Okay, this looks cool. This is 138 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:13.840 like striking my fancy. It is, uh, they are building up something 139 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:18.399 where like they know what looks cool and they know what's going to make someone 140 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:22.200 go, I wonder what's up with these people? And then you know you're 141 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.399 right. They would show they would try to go a little bit deeper on 142 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.559 some of the quests, and it's it's hard to like keep track of what 143 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.720 they're saying and whether or not it's going to be interesting. You kind of 144 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.039 need to feel ownership of a quest before you actually begin to understand whether or 145 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.600 not you care about it or not. And it's just really tough to get 146 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.679 to get that across on the video. So yeah, you're right, that's 147 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:41.600 exactly how I felt when they were like, and here is an MPC talk 148 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.519 at you and you're making a decision. I'm like, Okay, you make 149 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.399 decisions. It's one of those games. And that's all I could take away 150 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.679 from that. So all that said, I still feel more positive about the 151 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.559 game now than I did after the last preview. The last like sort of 152 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:00.000 a showcase for this game, and we're gonna be playing it later this year. 153 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:01.799 I hope we get like another update maybe later, and it's like, 154 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.080 Okay, now now we really understand how to show up this game, now 155 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:07.759 that we're in a stronger position with it, and we really do know when 156 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.279 it's coming out, and you know it's a game pass for that ass you 157 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:16.960 a good points that I I again like aut Welds was massively underrated, I 158 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:24.799 think, And and I'm excited for a new RPG from Obsidian, same yeah, 159 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.200 right, and even if it's and I'm like excited for a Skyrim adjacent 160 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:33.000 sort of idea of a fantasy RPG where you're walking around the world and doing 161 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.120 stuff. Now, it's not going to be It's the scale of Skyrim is 162 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.000 just not going to be there, going to be closer to Outer Worlds. 163 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.799 You know what Outer Worlds did kind of it worked, It was enough for 164 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:46.320 me, so I'm hoping it for the same here. Speaking of man, 165 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:52.559 yeah, how good is out a wild Still? There was a company reaching 166 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:56.159 out about like an outdoor television and I'm like, what would I do with 167 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.759 that? I'm like, no thanks, And then mean a TV that can 168 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.879 like survive being in the elements or whatever, So you could just leave it 169 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:09.320 outside, yeah right, exactly. Yeah, it's gonna drink its own piss 170 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.840 exactly. You could like hang out, you could mount it on like uh 171 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.919 in in like your I don't know, if you have like an outdoor patio 172 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.440 or something like that and just leave it it will be fine. And I'm 173 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.000 like, I'm not gonna do that. That's crazy. And then I'm like, 174 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.000 well, you know, it'd be really fun to play Outer Wilds outside 175 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.399 and like this like summer, like like like late night summer camp playing through 176 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.759 Outer Wilds again. And having that like, you know, future banjo music 177 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.480 playing. I want to play that real bad again. Yeah. I think 178 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.759 I'm going to replay it soon. I'm on best Buy and I did not 179 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.840 know that outdoor TVs was just a genre of thing that you could buy. 180 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.639 You have so much to learn about white suburban people. Yeah, I was 181 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:58.759 gonna say much to learn. Why don't you just get a projected uh? 182 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:03.480 The many and mostly because we don't, there's no good reason. No. 183 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:11.120 Yeah, yeah, I really want to replay Our Wild It means it's one 184 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.879 of those things where I'm very grateful to have a ship memory because I'm like, 185 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.240 I bet I could get a lot out of that game again and won't 186 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.840 remember most of it. So I have got a book mode, but I 187 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.360 believe there's a von mode for it. That'd be cool. I wonder if 188 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.639 they have a randomizer for Outer Wilds. Can you randomize that? I feel 189 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:31.240 like you need to listen to about what people are able to randomize. You're 190 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.399 right that one seems like it'd be especially difficult to do that, but I 191 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.480 wonder. I wonder, all right, Sticking with the Xbox Developer direct up 192 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.159 next was Ninja Theory, who showed off sin you was saga hell Blade two. 193 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.720 Uh. The game got confirmed from May twenty. First, they showed 194 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.480 off some more gameplay, more more combat. It definitely looks like hell Blade, 195 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.600 but but bigger. They did confirm afterwards, tam not that much bigger 196 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:01.159 eight hours. It's going to be a fifty dollars game. It is like 197 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.679 hell Blade one, but like with the seems like a slightly bigger budget, 198 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.600 maybe a significantly bigger budget. But they're not trying to say this is going 199 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.120 to be like a God of War. This is like, no, this 200 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:15.120 is another hell Blade. I'm pretty fascinated that they did that. But it's 201 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:16.879 like, I guess it makes a ton of sense. They never ever said 202 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.440 or suggested they were going to like try to turn this into something else. 203 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.120 They always just said they were making hell Blade too. So I'm so I 204 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.759 should have not been surprised by this. This this is an assumption that a 205 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:33.480 lot of people have made based on the business and studios structure changes of that 206 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.960 studio. Ninja theory is because Microsoft acquired them. Yep, they got a 207 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.960 brand new studio and they added people to the team, and people naturally just 208 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.600 assumed bigger, bigger, badder, and more exactly what I did, and 209 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.120 and like I saw, I've seen a lot of people doing the same, 210 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.240 and like, I'm glad that they finally confirmed, like, hey, we're 211 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.919 not going well. But at the same time, I don't expect them to 212 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:58.840 be like, oh, yeah, this is an al game. It's pretty 213 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.720 much exactly how you remember. I think like they're going for like this is 214 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.120 one of those eight hour games that is going to be crazy detailed. Oh 215 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:11.200 yeah, like really really, like the production values are going to be super 216 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.320 high, and we did spend a lot of money on it, but we 217 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:18.480 spent that money like on a an experience that does deep instead of like, 218 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.039 you know, world exactly deep instead Abroad is exactly what I was thinking. 219 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.720 They aren't going to add fifteen other systems just to flesh out a game to 220 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.039 make it feel like, well, this is why it's worth seventy dollars. 221 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:31.919 It's like, no, no, they're going to make the game. They 222 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:33.960 will make it, but deeper and more detailed. I think that's an excellent 223 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:39.840 way of putting it, I think, And I think it's like people will 224 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:41.960 be really happy about that, and some people would be like, oh, 225 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.120 why doesn't this compete and look exactly like a prestige first party Sony PlayStation game. 226 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.759 But again, they never said they were going to make anything like that. 227 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.200 They were just saying they're making more hell Blades, so I think fans 228 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.480 of that will be happy. I've was never two into hell Blade. I 229 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.759 have nothing against it, It's just not for me. I do think that 230 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:03.840 this game looks stunning. It really does look really really good in motion. 231 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.799 The visuals are are are very high fidelity, and that's the part of me 232 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.399 that's like, I want to like check it out a little bit and I'll 233 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:13.759 mostly though, I bet I'm gonna bounce off, and I'll be happy to 234 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.159 hear other people who got a lot out of it. Are you a hell 235 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.320 blake person, Tam, I'm a big time help lady, and I'm like, 236 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:24.559 I'm a known in ninja theory like her so much so that the other 237 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.879 day I tweeted that dmc do McCrae was my favorite dover McCray and it had 238 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:31.360 a good story, an interesting story, and and I did a little cool 239 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.480 things. And let me tell you, I still received death threats about people 240 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:41.879 are very upset and I was like a weird years grow up man, Jesus 241 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:45.759 man. I do like that MC game a lot. It's just really good. 242 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:50.759 And I say that as a longtime fanatical Devil May Cry fan. I 243 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:56.720 remember playing the first one and it was one of my most like treasured gaming 244 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:02.200 experiences. I feel like I'm gonna I feel like it's time for people to 245 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:07.240 recognize that Dante was cool and then he became the Corneus motherfucker in this he 246 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:11.639 is definitely and I understand. I understand that's part of the charm and it's 247 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.879 part of the point. But man, as I grew up, I was 248 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:18.840 like, it's embarrassing. Yeah, he's definitely like U in part of the 249 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:23.279 lineage, the Spawn lineage, right that there was like the cool spawna Deadpool 250 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.279 characters in the nineties and they quickly were like huh okay, And I love 251 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:32.120 him for that and he pulls it on, and especially when they like to 252 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:36.360 introduced Nero and like had him being like annoying a little bit and you're like, 253 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.360 oh, Dante, I love you, man. But like I also 254 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:42.480 really loved like what they did with that other version of Dante where it was 255 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:47.799 like the spirit of Rebellion and yeah, you know that punk rock and people 256 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:52.720 just could not see past the fact that it wasn't original Dante made by Japanese 257 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.559 people, yep. And I was like, hey, actually, man, 258 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.000 that's pretty cool. I'm very glad to hear you say that, team because 259 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:00.480 I'm like, I really I that DMC game. Do I just have bad 260 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:04.880 take the special edition? Also on PC? I believe like is this I 261 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.319 think they updated people have updated it to be like the best version of that 262 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:12.559 game. So it rocks man music in that game rules. I'm getting the 263 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:17.119 craven and go back to that as well. Square Enix made a surprise appearance 264 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.160 to show off Visions of Mana, the latest entry in the long running fantasy 265 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:23.599 RPG series Mana. You see Mana or Mana? Mana? Mana? That 266 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:26.960 Mana's right. The game was initially announced that the twenty twenty three Game Awards 267 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.599 and looks like a return to form for the Mono series after spin offs and 268 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.920 Dead Mobile games. Squares presentation included looks at the open world, cute critters 269 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:40.359 in the series' return to action RPG combat. Visions of Mana will launch on 270 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:44.720 PC, PlayStation four, PS five, Xbox Series X and S in summer 271 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.119 twenty twenty four. This one was a little bit of a surprise that it 272 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.599 showed up there, but I don't think it looked to so out of place 273 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.039 it broke up. The sort of pacing was a nice breath of a fresh 274 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.440 air after help Bla. It's, you know, a little bit of oppressiveness. 275 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.599 I thought looked very cute and cool. I thought the action combat actually 276 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:03.759 looked really fun as well. I'm not a huge minor person, but this 277 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:08.000 looks neat. Yeah, I mean like I'm not a maze. I played 278 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:12.759 secrets and that kind of stuff. Sure, yeah, I'm not a huge 279 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:18.480 minor person. I think it's it's really interesting to contrast that with like the 280 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.000 statements from SQUARENENX that will get to later on. We're like, we need 281 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:27.720 to make less RPG, like anyway, there's an RPG kind of funny. 282 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:32.160 But I know this is a series that a lot of people held a lot 283 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:37.519 of like love for, and Squarens has been recently been quite good about bringing 284 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:44.160 these franchises back and doing good with them, so I am interested to see 285 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:49.960 what they do with this. It looked more it looked very like actually like 286 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.799 I don't remember Mona being like that, but like it had like air juggles 287 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:57.440 and stuff, and I was like, what's going on here? But uh 288 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.039 yeah, I mean like it's got some of that spirit of the original in 289 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.880 the lot. I just got like the charm of it, and I like 290 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:07.200 the way it looked. Definitely me too. Yes, I saw that, 291 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.680 and I was like, man, I want to go and go back to 292 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.640 playing Tales. I forgot Tales of a Rise. I never finished that, 293 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.400 and I was like, Damn, that game is good. Yeah. I 294 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:21.119 even started that game and enjoyed some of it. And I'm not a huge 295 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:26.039 REPG guy. Vision's amount of looks pretty cool again summer twenty twenty four, 296 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:29.039 but it's out on everything. I think they'd even like announce this for Game 297 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:30.079 Pass. It was just hey, no, we've got to got friends over 298 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.519 at Square Enix will show off their game. Felt like this was this was 299 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:40.319 your annual reminder that Xbox exists in Japan. Yeah, you're angele reminder that 300 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:42.880 Phil Spencer occasionally takes a plane flight to Japan. It talks to people. 301 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:48.759 That's what this is. Yeah. Uh, and I respect them for us 302 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:51.720 saying yeah, glad that you're still doing it. Yeah, absolutely doing it. 303 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.279 All I'm saying is it'll be much easier if you just commissioned a Lost 304 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.880 out toy remake. Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's the easiest answer right 305 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:03.039 here. Side games showed off are History Untold. Next, the studio calls 306 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:07.720 it a living world in a strategy game with their decisions as leaders influencing the 307 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.440 world. This one is do Out This Fall as well. It is Former 308 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:15.160 Civilization People. It's a for a Grand strategy four X game. I'm a 309 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:19.400 four X person. I dabbled into some grand strategy stuff. I don't necessarily 310 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:23.519 know what separates one from the other other than like making massive decisions that affect 311 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:27.279 your world, and maybe that's maybe that's exactly what it is. But I'll 312 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:32.160 say that this one fascinated me because it seemed like they were simulating a lot 313 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:34.160 of stuff in the world, and I like this idea of a feedback loop 314 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:38.319 of your decisions affecting the world and then world changing affecting like what you can 315 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:42.599 do, and kind of that continuing throughout the entire lineage of a playing through 316 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:47.640 one of these four X games. That could be really neat. I have 317 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:49.440 tried to find games that aren't SIV, that are similar to SIEV that like 318 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:52.319 kind of fill that gap. None of them have quite hit hit for me 319 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:56.200 the way SIV five did. Maybe this will be the one, maybe won't 320 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:59.200 be. I think SIB seven's not not too far off, so we'll see. 321 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:00.640 But I'm at least going to check this out. I think it looked 322 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:06.200 pretty interesting. You have any interest in four X games? Dam I had 323 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:10.839 my time with CIEV, I played it. I think I've played pretty much 324 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:15.799 all the SIEV games. I think SIV five or four were the one I 325 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.680 played the most of those CIEV games, But the one I played in that 326 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:26.279 franchise overall the most was CIV Revah. Yeah, i think I'm past my 327 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.799 time on four X games and a lot of ways, I feel like it 328 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:37.720 requires a level of attention that I'm unable to give them anymore. And like 329 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:41.240 me as well, Yeah, yeah they don't. They also like aren't doing 330 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:45.960 things where they can evoke and kind of capture that attention for a long period 331 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.000 of time. Basically, the colors and the flashing lights aren't enough for me 332 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:52.359 these days. I need like more from it. When I was a young 333 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:55.559 man, the promise of colonialism was all I needed. Yeah, just like, 334 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:57.480 let me just conquer a world and I'll feel good. Now these days, 335 00:21:57.480 --> 00:22:00.880 I'm like, I do think I do need a little bit more strategy. 336 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.119 Stuff will be more here, I don't know. Yeah, for me, 337 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.359 it was like the promise of revenge against colonialists of course, of course, 338 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:11.799 and these days I just do that outside the video exactly. Don't ask 339 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:18.880 me how. I'm never going to a crime. But however, speaking of 340 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:25.240 oxide games, are you are you familiar with the musical work of English DJ 341 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:29.400 and MC garage MC, Oxide and Neutrino. I can't say that, I 342 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:36.319 am. Okay, well, I recommend you and everyone watching go to Spotify 343 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:42.240 Oxide and Neutrino, Oxide and neutrino neutrino. Yeah, so they have some 344 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:48.079 absolute bangers that you will probably not understand the world of Okay, fantastic everyone, 345 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.480 I want to I want to understand a word of it because it's not 346 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:56.160 English, or it's because it's extremely that's it was the other side of the 347 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:03.480 spectrum. It's two English to understand. I love that. Okay, Yeah, 348 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.039 yes, I'll lie down. I will try not to hurt myself while 349 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:10.799 listening to it. There was an area of m seeing in the garage days. 350 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:15.039 So garage music is is a kind of like I think it's very British 351 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:21.000 like originated, but it's like a precursor to grime music and almost like it's 352 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:25.359 like imagine hip hop, but with more of a dance approach to high bpm. 353 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:27.640 And there was a period of time where m seeing or wrapping over garage 354 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:33.279 was effectively British version of scatting. Oh wow. Okay, so it was 355 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:38.559 like a bizarre period of time in British music. If I listen to this 356 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:42.240 and I close my eyes, well I have flashbacks to wipe out XL or 357 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:47.240 is that a different kind of you? You may, okay, I mean 358 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:51.839 like it's it's not as like electronic all right, but it is. It 359 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:53.799 is very good. Okay, it is very very good. I wonder if 360 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:56.319 we can play some in the in the post show. Yeah, yeah, 361 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:59.960 if you give me a give me a linking, we'll go for it, 362 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.960 all right. Then closing out the show was the headliner Machine Games is Indiana 363 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.559 Jones and the Great Circle, but there's the Big Boss. Todd Howard talks 364 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.839 about how he's had an Indiana Jones game in his head for a long time, 365 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.240 down to the period of the Adventurer's life. He wanted to write around 366 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.359 between Greaters of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, and he believes the 367 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:22.359 Machine Games was the right studio empathet the stables to make it work. The 368 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.799 game is due out in twenty twenty four. They're not getting more specific than 369 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.319 that. I think probably what happens here Tam And just to kind of get 370 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:33.759 the schedule out of the way real quick, they said, see which one 371 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.400 was coming, helpful A two US in May, and then they're gonna have 372 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.599 Ara in the fall. I think they'll probably have like some of these other 373 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:44.359 games come out, like AVOWT. I think it's also the fall. Those 374 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:48.720 games will probably be early fall, like September October, and then Indiana Jones 375 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:52.359 is November. Right, that's the thing that makes them if it can come 376 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:53.759 out this year. Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. 377 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:59.880 The game looks pretty good. It is first person and everyone freaked out about 378 00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:04.960 that. That name, Okay, they did the name is bizarre is how 379 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.200 do you like the Great Circle? Okay? Like I feel like they it's 380 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:11.680 like they use all their creative energy and then they went into a meeting about 381 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:15.319 the name and they're just like big cool. I think, I like, 382 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.000 legitimately I think like George Lucas was like really good at coming up with like 383 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:22.920 really cheesy hockey names that worked, And I think it's an art form that 384 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:26.599 most other people have never even thought about. Like we're like, okay, 385 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.160 we need a pop fiction y name, and it's a great circle and it 386 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:33.960 just comes out sounded real bad. You gotta just dress it up a little 387 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.279 to make it the circle of something. Yeah. Yeah, Indiana Jones in 388 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:40.319 the Circle of Rebirth. I did it. Yeah, there it is. 389 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.720 There you go. And it's like there have been like good video games. 390 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:47.559 Yea, Impress Tombs not great, But Indiana Jones in The Infernal Machine, 391 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.440 that's good, that's strong. Great, the Lost Art Yeah, in the 392 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.839 Fate of Atlantist, like, that's good. People of Kingdom of the Crystal 393 00:25:55.880 --> 00:26:00.640 Skull, Yeah, these are once that actually worked very very easy to I 394 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:03.920 don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's a case of like the Great 395 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.079 Circle. Maybe it's a case of like when we play the game and see 396 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.039 the story, we regret our woods and deeds and all that kind of shit. 397 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:14.519 But I I don't know, man, it's not a very strong like 398 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.519 I feel like you could have done literally anything like it. Reminds me of 399 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:21.559 a there's a movie called Miami Connection. It's so famously bad movie, and 400 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:23.680 there's a scene where they're a computer programming class and the teacher has like one 401 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:27.359 line where he just walks up to the star and says, good circle because 402 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:33.359 they're probably she's programming a circle or something. It's good circle something. Indiana 403 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.119 Jones, Indiana Jones and the retunal trib Baker there he is. Yeah, 404 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.440 Hey, finally Troe Baker, Trey Baker getting work. Hey, listen, 405 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.200 he did a real good job. He sounds a lot like Harrison Ford. 406 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:45.440 Do you know what a lot of people are like, Oh god, it's 407 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.400 Tribaker. I'm just gonna say it. He's he's good at doing Yeah, 408 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.960 he's turns out he's better than most people have tried Harrison Ford before. Let 409 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:56.480 that man live like. He's like, I'm good at a thing and everyone's 410 00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.960 mad at me. I'm not gonna stand in his way. Yeah. It's 411 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.359 like for Maker again. If you were good voices and doing voice Oliver, 412 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.119 and you kept getting work and everyone was like, can we stop giving that 413 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.440 person's work, you'd be so pissed off. Yeah, you would hurt your 414 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.559 feelings I don't want to Baker. Leave Troy Baker alone. That's all I'm 415 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.240 saying. He did. He did a real good job. They also got 416 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:23.480 Harrison Ford's likeness. Uh So that's kind of surprising, but also not too 417 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:26.920 surprising. That it's Microsoft money. They should be able to make that happen 418 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:29.680 if it was possible. Turns out was possible. So they got young, 419 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.079 young Harrison Fords. Like this, Troy Baker doing a really decent Harrison Ford. 420 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.279 More than decent. It's a it's a good Harrison Ford. Uh. 421 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:37.920 And I'm I'm all on board. I think this looks great. I'm someone 422 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:42.839 who does like Indiana Jones. Uh, I think that the machine games first 423 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.839 person action combat with that where like you got the whip and your whipping people 424 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:49.079 nazi's feet and you're tripping them and then you're shooting them that stuff and then 425 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.440 you're getting on in their face and punch him a bunch. All that stuff 426 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:53.920 looked really good. And then you know, if it if we base it 427 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:56.599 on what we understand from Wolfenstein and then what we saw on this trailer, 428 00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:03.799 they're gonna give you plenty of opportunities. They see like Indiana Jones emoting they're 429 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:06.160 going to get up in his face with camera shots and the cut scenes, 430 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.839 and I bet it's going to be very moving and well done because machine games 431 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.480 very good at that stuff. They're very good at that. They also exception 432 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.799 I think there's some of the best. I think they might be the best 433 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:19.319 in the business that creating villains. Yeah, villains, they are. No 434 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.960 one does villains like them like And it's not even just like it's Hitler, 435 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:27.839 because the Hitler we got was Pissedes shitting and farting constantly, remember it was 436 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:32.319 it was the other the villains that was like that were like, oh man, 437 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:34.440 this person sucks and I really want to shoot him in the face or 438 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:40.759 drown him. So like, I am very excited for a very very like, 439 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:45.839 charismatic and compelling villain in this game. There's an extremely, extremely good 440 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:51.000 and extremely high chance that this game will be the best Indiana Jones thing since 441 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:56.880 what the original movie could. High chance it could have a more positive impact 442 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:03.640 on the relevancy of Indiana Owns than anything including the movie, except for Indiana 443 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.160 Jones being in Fortnite. Other than that, yeah, it'll be the most 444 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.039 impactful thing. And I think that's very I think it's likely at this point. 445 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.279 I like everything that they're saying, everything that they're doing. I like 446 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.039 how the whole people are pointing out like it looks vaguely immersive seen me. 447 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:22.400 Yeah, I like I like that they're like, fake this whip for a 448 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:25.559 bunch of things. Yeah, I think it's a good fit for this, 449 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:29.359 for this, for the series. I'm there's a lot of authored puzzles and 450 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:33.079 stuff, but I think giving you the chance to express yourself as Indiana Jones 451 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:34.880 with that whip in a bunch of different ways, that's a smart move. 452 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.640 How do you feel about first person Well, I'm I'm a fan of first 453 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:42.319 person I always thought this game would be third person though, even though it's 454 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:45.839 machine games and it should clearly they should stick with what they're comfortable with. 455 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.440 It's like, I do think they're going to try to make it uncharted. 456 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.039 I do think they're going to try to copy that formula, and maybe they 457 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.240 should. I think that's what most people want. Seeing it in action as 458 00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:57.880 a first person game, I got very excited because I'm like, this is 459 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.759 my shit, I really do like this. And then and then I was 460 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:04.680 aware of like there's a lot of people, especially people who have primarily played 461 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:07.960 on console. I think I just saw a poll that someone did, like 462 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:11.240 a couple of weeks ago where it's like, do you prefer playing first person 463 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:14.880 or third person? And do you play on console or PC? And it 464 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:17.480 was pretty split. On PC, people like I don't really have that much 465 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.240 of a preference. I'll play whatever, And on Console it's say, by 466 00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.680 far third person, And I think that's just like the distance you sit from 467 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:29.000 the TV and stuff like that does play a factor, and people definitely have 468 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.000 a preference. I don't blame anyone for for that. I just like, 469 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:33.680 let's give this game a chance, because I bet it's gonna win those people. 470 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:37.079 I think from I'm not saying this is why people are upset, but 471 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.200 I think for me, one of the things I was like, huh, 472 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:45.480 that's interesting is it does change the kind of perception of that game. And 473 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:49.799 it also a marketing perspective is I feel like it's more advantageous to being third 474 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:56.359 person because purely because in third person you are looking at an iconic character model 475 00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:00.559 Indiana Jones, and he's very extremely like Silhouette is enough of that game. 476 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:04.039 The first person you don't have the advantage of putting that out there, and 477 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:07.839 it's not as much of a draw like I think if you took the average 478 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.640 Joe Schmoe and they were like, do you want to play this game or 479 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.480 this game? And they were both the game the same Indiana Jong games, 480 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:15.359 and one was in first person, one was in third person where you could 481 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.279 see Indy. They would be like, I want to play that. I 482 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.519 want to play. Yeah. I think like that's a big deal in terms 483 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:27.000 of, like, I want to be able to see the legendary cultural appropriator 484 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:34.160 hero that everyone loves number one culture appropriation and Nate Drake. I think that's 485 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.440 a big part of it. I think it's a I think it's like it's 486 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.759 one of those back of the mind things that people probably don't really factor in 487 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:44.680 for a lot of times. But when I when I saw them doing it, 488 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.519 I was like, Oh, it's got to be third person because they 489 00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:49.200 want people to be able to see the character they are, and it's an 490 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:52.759 easier thing to market if it's third person. Yeah, it's you can think 491 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.279 of it as the same in the same way that Tom Rader in first person 492 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:00.400 will be weird because then you're like, right, why would you not Laura 493 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.680 Croft on the screen. That's crazy, right, You spend all this time 494 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:06.200 building up but an affinity for these characters. Yeah, you want to you 495 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.759 want to emphasize that and exploit it, because that's the whole The whole idea 496 00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:13.799 is like, do you put all this investment into making people love Indiana Jones 497 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:17.240 or Laura Croft or Nate Drake, And yeah, you're not gonna want to 498 00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:22.519 squander that. And I think with this game doesn't feel like they're necessarily squandering 499 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:24.200 it. I'm just a little surprised that it's first person, and then I 500 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:27.559 think about it, so obviously they're good at it. And then they showed 501 00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:30.359 it that there was third person segments. Uh, you're gonna be able to 502 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.319 see the character in some gameplay stuff when you're like climbing ropes. I bet 503 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:37.519 they have really thought about the ways to make that have the biggest impact and 504 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.400 feel like, Okay, and this is stuff we can use in marketing and 505 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:44.480 it's gonna look good, and it's we're still gonna make it fun. Let's 506 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:46.519 really think about it, and then let's think about like the first person first 507 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:52.160 person segments and try to make them feel as Indiana Jones as possible. I 508 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.640 think there's people like pointing out how like the shadow the silhouette of Indy pops 509 00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:59.839 up a lot and you can kind of see yourself, and like that alone 510 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.079 does a lot to convey Oh my god, I am that iconic silhouette. 511 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:06.000 Like that's the first thing we see in Raiders of the Lost Arc is Indie 512 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.799 silhouette putting on the fedora and all that stuff. So it's like they can, 513 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:12.359 if they think about it, they could still get most of the way 514 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:16.160 there. I think there's no denying that the marketing would have been easier if 515 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:20.200 this was a third person game. Yeah, I think also they could. 516 00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:21.960 I hope they do that thing. I can't remember what game it is, 517 00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:23.359 this first person game, but one of the emote it like pulls out the 518 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.880 third person so you can see it, right, they should. They just 519 00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:31.039 said you should have like shit tons of Indiana emotes and just yeah, just 520 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:36.680 like dropping the gun or whatever. Yeah, uh okay. Then overall, 521 00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:38.680 Developer Direct pretty good. I was entertained. I thought they did a judge 522 00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:45.079 because I think it was a very very very good show from kind of announcement 523 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:50.480 to kind of execution, mainly because announcement they were they could not have been 524 00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:52.519 more clear about what this thing was gonna be, what was going to be 525 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:57.279 there. They were like, four fucking games. These are the games. 526 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:01.079 There's gonna be nothing else. Please don't lose your shit over it. Exactly, 527 00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:04.519 that's exactly what it was. They had one surprise, which was like 528 00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.400 okay, cool, that's fine, but no one went in there being like 529 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:12.440 finally Silk Song is happening, like all right, calm down everyone, and 530 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:16.239 then it was like a nice kind of tour around these studios. I think, 531 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:20.119 like we talked about this again on Games after docias like it felt a 532 00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.840 bit sanitized in a lot of ways. From a discussion point of view. 533 00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:27.960 It felt a bit like read from the script, and there was personality there 534 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:32.119 for sure, but I would have loved a little more like human element to 535 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:37.280 it. You know. Yeah, it doesn't feel quite as personalized as maybe 536 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:39.800 and the direct is kind of pretty similar, but like the Indie World Showcase, 537 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:43.639 like when the indie studios sit in their videos and they kind of like 538 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:45.760 just do what they want, there's none of that. Yeah, yeah, 539 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:51.239 yeah. And also I think it's like I think the tricky part of it 540 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.599 is like it's a bunch of studios under the Microsoft umbrella. Now we haven't 541 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:59.119 seen them for a while, and people are like and it's a very corporate 542 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:01.679 look, a very like we packaged this up in them to the most slick 543 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:06.119 way possible and here it is. And I think like now these days, 544 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:08.599 people what they want is like the human side of it, where it's like 545 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:14.239 you go to you know, the Game Awards and you see people like genuinely 546 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.559 emotional about showing games and that kind of stuff. That's not to say this 547 00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:21.159 is bad. I don't think so at all. I think that there's there's 548 00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:23.519 a way to create a good balance. Because they had like Dave in the 549 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:29.840 background where he walked in. Everyone's like, yeah, they felt that felt 550 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.079 good. It felt like it was fun, it was cute. Yeah, 551 00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.079 And they had like outro outtakes at the end, that kind of stuff, 552 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:37.199 and that kind of stuff like weaving it in a bit more it could be 553 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:43.079 cool. But nevertheless it was like tight. It was like to the point 554 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.840 it didn't waste any time. What's very well paced, good amount of gameplay, 555 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:53.519 a really good like level of insight. I mean, for the most 556 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:59.519 part, mostly developers were saying interesting things. Yeah, the the kind of 557 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.760 like they are a part where it was like explaining the basics of a four 558 00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:06.800 X game, sure, saying things that were like we've got this thing. 559 00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:10.119 It's like, yeah, that's what man, Yeah, it's I think these 560 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:15.719 are the things where it's like next time they'll they'll probably try to rebalance it 561 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:16.119 and be like, Okay, we'll do a little bit more of this, 562 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:19.679 should we lose a little bit of that, And it's like it's never gonna 563 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.320 be exactly right because people have different expectations for these things. But it feels 564 00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.519 like they're at least like always considering how these things look when they're presented the 565 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:29.840 way they are, and it's like that's kind of all I'm not really asking 566 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.159 for is be mindful and think about it. You're taking up my time. 567 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:36.519 Do your best to try to entertain me. That's all that's all I'm asking 568 00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:39.039 for. But in all other ways it was I thought it was fantastic. 569 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:42.920 Yeah, very well. I would love to see more of this me too. 570 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.159 Yeah. I think Microsoft said they're gonna be doing a lot more. 571 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:50.559 Uh, they're gonna have more places to show their games. I think that 572 00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:52.360 does mean more dev directs, but they'll be at more events as well, 573 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:54.480 all right, you know what, We're gonna take a quick break when we 574 00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:58.159 get back. We've got a lot more news, spend a ton of time 575 00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:07.320 at Xbox, so we're gonna get everything right after this. All right, 576 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:09.840 we're back, and let's see here we go, let's talk about this for 577 00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:14.679 Square Nix wants to make fewer games. This is from John Walker at Kotaku 578 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:17.599 during an investor call in November twenty twenty three, which was made public this 579 00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:22.760 week and spotted by My Nintendo News. Square Innox CEO Takahashi, Yeah, 580 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:28.199 Takashi, excuse me. Takashi Kiriyu acknowledged the company's failure to market much of 581 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.920 its recent catalog and raise and raised attentions to slim down the publisher's lineup. 582 00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:37.000 As in publishing fewer games. Square Inox has been in a funny place for 583 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:39.599 a while now. The company's apparent obsession with Web three bullshit like blockchains and 584 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:45.119 NFTs escorted controversy as of late, and just as that now we started a 585 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:50.880 phase a form of following former replacement or excuse me, following former CEO and 586 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:55.920 blockchain stand Yoske Matsuda's replacement. The new CEO Takashi Takashi Kiu decided to go 587 00:37:55.960 --> 00:38:00.840 all in with artificial intelligence in the most tone deaflyable. That news was rapidly 588 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.920 followed up by the revelation that Splatoon cloned film Stars has AI generated art. 589 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:12.159 But basically, they go on here to say they want to increase our development 590 00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.800 proficiency by strengthening our internal development capabilities so that we are able to achieve a 591 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:20.480 greater diversity in our title portfolio. And at the same time they say they 592 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:23.400 want to make fewer games so they can focus more on making games better and 593 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:28.719 more high quality. What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, that's 594 00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:31.519 what tam. What can you tell me what you think square Enix's problems are 595 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:35.840 and how you do you have any ideas of how to solve them? I 596 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:43.320 genuinely don't know if they have a problem. I feel like squarenix is kind 597 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:52.719 of perception of itself is the problem. They are effectively a boutique RPG developer, 598 00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:57.880 but they are operating much high on a scale, much bigger than anyone 599 00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:00.760 else. They make the biggest RPGs, right Final Fantasy, they make Kingdom 600 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:06.159 Hearts, they make Dragon Quests. The problem that they have I personally think 601 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:12.079 is they still see themselves as a multi game publisher that operates, you know, 602 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:15.599 like a Take two or a two K, whatever it may be, 603 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:19.960 a sony where they have a bunch of different games and different genres and different 604 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.280 studios's that's not what they're about anymore in my mind, and they could not 605 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:28.480 have made that more clear. And it's incredibly wild that they're saying this, 606 00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:34.119 given that they sold pretty much every valuable IP they had so that they could 607 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:38.639 focus on RPGs and the franchises that really do the job for them, like 608 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:45.519 Dragon Quest, like Final Fantasy, and then experiment with stuff that is close 609 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:49.880 to that, with things like Octopath and those kind of like two D three 610 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:54.400 D RPGs still RPGs. This is a case where they're like, what if 611 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:58.679 we started making other games and made a few of them. It's like, 612 00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:05.199 no, you did this. You gave away one of the most like beloved 613 00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:08.920 ips, multiple of the most beloved eyeps. You got rid of tomb Raider, 614 00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:14.840 you left legacy of kin to rot in your in your dungeons for really 615 00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:17.639 ip dungeons. For a very long time, you could not see that hit 616 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:22.400 Man was one of the coolest things that had been made in the last decade 617 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.559 of video games, and then you got rid of it. You solid to 618 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:30.239 embrace the probably the shittest company you could have sold it and for cheaps early, 619 00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:34.360 Yeah, for dirt cheap. And now they're like, what if we 620 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:44.079 tried to kind of win back some some kind of uh positive will after just 621 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:50.119 doing this blockchain bullshit and like NFT nonsense. I guess I might like long 622 00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:54.039 and short of it is like square Enix needs to realize that it makes RPGs, 623 00:40:54.239 --> 00:41:00.159 it makes opgs from Japan. It can occasionally branch out and make, 624 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.000 you know, other types of games if it wants to. But like, 625 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.400 there's no way you're going. Let's make different, Let's diversify our portfolio, 626 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:12.599 make less games and be okay and feel like you can compete. Just understand 627 00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:15.880 what you are now. You chose to be this. You got rid of 628 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:17.679 the ips that would have allowed you to do what you want to do. 629 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.599 Now you made a conscious decision. Sleep in the bed that you make. 630 00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:25.000 Yeah, own it, And it's like they don't own it if you like 631 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:28.800 look back, look back to twenty twenty two. Yeah, also like not 632 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:30.760 to just to put a point on it, like they make the best, 633 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.840 they make some of the best op eg yeah yeah, and be okay with 634 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.159 that, right, and then they kind of don't know what to do with 635 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:38.400 them a lot of times, and they have a bunch of different games. 636 00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:44.840 Twenty twenty two is like Bablonce Fall, Triangle Strategy, Chocobo GP, Stranger 637 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:50.840 of Paradise, Chronocross, The Radical Dreamers Edition, the Various Day Life, 638 00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:54.679 Live a Live or Live Alive, Let's see the deal Field, Chronicles, 639 00:41:55.239 --> 00:42:00.719 Valkyria Valkyri, Elysium, Valkyrie Profile, Linith, Star Oceans, Divine Force, 640 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.800 Harvestella Tactics, Ogre Reborn. This is still twenty twenty two Romancing and 641 00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:09.519 Saga, Dragon Quest, Treasures, and then they finished up with a Crisis 642 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:14.280 Core Final Fantasy seven Reunion. It's like, go back to twenty twenty two. 643 00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:16.960 What was Squaring Nix marketing in that year? A handful of those Final 644 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:22.519 Fantasy Strangers Paradise a little bit. The rest kind of were left, for 645 00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:27.480 the most part to dwindle. And I don't like that's the problem. Like 646 00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.199 a lot of these games are decent and some of them are very good, 647 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:35.800 and it kind of felt like Squarenx is like they'll they'll just find their way. 648 00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:38.199 I guess they don't know how to make a lot of these games and 649 00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:42.000 then talk about them and market them at the same time. And it feels 650 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:45.079 like, why is the answer make fewer? Listen, maybe the answer is 651 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:47.679 make fewer, But why does it make fewer instead of we need to ramp 652 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:51.119 up our marketing? Is it because you can't afford it? So okay, 653 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:52.960 if that's the case, I definitely scale back. Yeah, yeah, I 654 00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:58.519 think like the good point of comparison and the company doing it correctly and making 655 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:05.400 inroads into growing into new ideas again is capcom Like they they realize what is 656 00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:08.239 what is our bread and butter? And they pared back in a lot of 657 00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:12.400 major ways, and they focused on Resident Evil. They went back and they 658 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.400 were like, let's just make remake these Resident Evil games and make them awesome. 659 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:20.039 And that's exactly what they did. And they use the residin the stability 660 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:24.400 of very very good Resident Evil remakes, maybe with the exceptional Residual three. 661 00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:29.159 Even though that's it. I guess it's an interesting game. Yeah, it's 662 00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:32.719 the best one, but like the Yeah, so they did that and they 663 00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:36.639 were like, Okay, we'll carry on making these Monster on the games, 664 00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.079 which are like knocking it out of the park every single time, and then 665 00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:44.039 on top of that, we'll stop thinking about getting a bit weird. Like 666 00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:46.320 you know, they're like, okay, we made a good Devil Mad Cry 667 00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:52.400 game. Next step, they're doing the smart thing and putting some effort into 668 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:57.000 Dragons Dogma again that you know, not a you know, not going to 669 00:43:57.079 --> 00:43:59.760 set the world on fire, or the original didn't set the world on fire, 670 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.199 but a lot of buzz around it already, right, And it feels 671 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:06.440 like they're like, Okay, we have these marquee top of the world game 672 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:10.159 franchises, and now let's take what we've learned to accomplish that with all these 673 00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:14.599 franchises, reach your hand back down the ladder and pull one of these other 674 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.719 franchises that could be up here on this tier up there. It feels like 675 00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:21.079 it's exactly what they're doing. Dragon's Dogma and squaren Enigs feels like they don't 676 00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.559 even own a ladder because that they don't know how to do that at all. 677 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.480 It is just can we get people to care about like these offshoot final 678 00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:31.320 fantasies. Oh they don't even care about that? Really? Okay, great 679 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:35.079 spoken son you want to pay us to make for spoken that's what they're doing. 680 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:39.159 It's bizarre. Capcom is taking like random shots as well, like Exo 681 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:43.760 Primal is one of them. It's like yeah, but it's like you can 682 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:49.360 the messaging from Capcom isn't like we need to reorient this entire company to what 683 00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.760 the fuck is that? That's my monkey? What do you mean? They're 684 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:57.079 not trying to reorient the entire company to be like we need to be about 685 00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.880 making more Exo Primal style stuff. No, they are. They understand like, 686 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:04.480 no, our bread is buttered with Monza Hunter a resident Eagle street Fighter, 687 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:07.920 and we'll we'll keep we'll keep making those games. In the meantime, 688 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:13.519 we'll like ensure that we're still pumping out Phoenix Right games as tenny games. 689 00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.159 We'll take a shot every now and then on something weird like a you know, 690 00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:21.840 Excel Primal, but the foundation will remain what it is. Let's not 691 00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:27.000 try and do anything crazy with it. And yeah, yeah, you're right. 692 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.920 I think it's the right approach. I think Extra Primary even seemed like 693 00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:30.559 I had every advantage. It was in game pass. Uh, it had 694 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:34.039 a lot of people talking about it more than was like talking about a lot 695 00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.039 of these screendex games that kind of just come and go yeah, yeah, 696 00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.079 and you know what, Capcom, I respect it. I will never respect 697 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:47.880 you until you give us God hand return Gene to his rightful place in the 698 00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:52.800 in the pantheon of video game grades. Okay, we're rooting for you, 699 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:59.119 tam all right, Bandai Namco EU in America YouTube accounts have both been updated. 700 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:07.639 They updated their elder playlist, specifically, damn, let's go ring music. 701 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.039 I'm getting my hopes up for this that this is the real thing. 702 00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:15.000 This has happened before in the past where they did this right before the second 703 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:17.639 trailer at TGA. I love the idea of doing an office style like cut 704 00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:24.119 to a intern you like I added a song by accident, and they're like, 705 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:29.199 what playlist? But this happens to me with my YouTube channel all the 706 00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:31.480 time, where like Mike will be like, you added some random like workout 707 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:35.840 video to our podcast playlist, and like I did show I was just I 708 00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:40.000 think I was trying to watch later if the software band like I added Prodigies 709 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:49.800 Firestar to the Elder ring fucking playlist. Now everyone thinks there's a Prodigy DLC 710 00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:52.559 coming for this game. What's going on? It would be incredible to get 711 00:46:52.599 --> 00:47:00.039 fired to Firestarter a Firestar. I think this is probably though, this is 712 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:04.199 probably it. I do think this is probably it. This this is happening 713 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:07.000 soon, right, I mean like it's happened. Like there was also that 714 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.360 that other leakue on that website. What was it again, Like they put 715 00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.960 up some special edition or some another clu control of the Eldern Ring themed control 716 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:16.840 of that right, Yeah, yeah, I need that ship badly. It 717 00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:21.280 looks like ass I want to. I'm glad. How fucked up? It 718 00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:25.159 looks absolutely and you're that controller was like hey February or whatever. I can't 719 00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:28.360 remember the exact details we talked about it on this show, but yeah, 720 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.599 like that was like yet more circumstantial evidence, and that was like relatively strong 721 00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:37.159 evidence, relatively speaking, more than just like, oh this is when they 722 00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:38.920 do this kind of thing. It feels like, no, that that could 723 00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.000 be pointing in this structure really hard. Now we have this and it's just 724 00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.719 things. Everything feels like it's lining up for an early part of the year 725 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:51.639 release for this DLC to line up with the release of the original game two 726 00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:55.079 years ago. Yeah, and I'm too God, is that fucked up? 727 00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:59.599 Yeah? I think it's because I still play that game, and I like, 728 00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:05.119 what like our friends r KG are doing like a very very very long 729 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.639 let's play kind of serious about it on retry and I watch that like every 730 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:13.400 week. So elder Ring is a constant presence in my life. But yeah, 731 00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:16.400 two years. Actually realize it's been two years. I'm very very ready 732 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:22.480 for another dose of elder Ring. If I'm honest, let's just put a 733 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:24.800 final stamp on it before Jones and the elder Ring. Easy. Oh, 734 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:30.400 that's that's real good. Damn do you believe? Is this it? Oh? 735 00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:32.760 I always believe? You know that I am. If anyone's believing it's 736 00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:35.760 me, Yeah, I mean, what's the worst that happens? You get 737 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:38.119 your heart broken, you could survive, Like I, I like worst case 738 00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:43.719 scenario. It's it's easier to believe in something that is eventually going to happen 739 00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:46.559 than something that you don't know if it's gonna happen, we come out eventually 740 00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:51.760 sorry about leg Yeah, like you know, I I that's the one thing 741 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:53.519 I believe in that it was probably not gonna happen for a very long time. 742 00:48:54.920 --> 00:49:00.519 Anyone out there wanna work with me on getting at Me? Power World 743 00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:05.920 is currently Steam's best selling game, and it passed three hundred and fifty thousand 744 00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:10.039 concurrent users on the platforms from Eddie McCoo at GameSpot, pow World, the 745 00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:14.800 Pokemon with Guns game from developer Pocket Pair, is off to a hot start. 746 00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:17.719 The game released today January nineteenth, and has already surpassed three hundred and 747 00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:22.360 fifty thousand concurrent users on Steam. It only trails the free to play games 748 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:28.079 PUBG Dota two Encounter Strike two in terms of concurrent players. Powerworld is available 749 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.719 now for twenty seven dollars. That price is temporary and we'll go up to 750 00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:37.280 thirty after January twenty fifth. What the fuck? I just love the idea 751 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:43.320 of like the Pokemon Company office where someone's just sitting there being like if we 752 00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:46.400 gave them a gun, I forget one of them my gun, hey, 753 00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:49.559 and they're like, what are you talking about? They're like this entire game 754 00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:51.719 where they will go guns when we gave one of them my gun, and 755 00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.599 it's it's like, the videos are incredible, just like four people run around 756 00:49:54.719 --> 00:50:01.679 just unloading machine guns into these giant slow Pokemon. It's wild. We're gonna 757 00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:05.719 play this today. People, I have a question in Chad if you know, 758 00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.320 is it cross play? If someone gets the game Pass version, can 759 00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:10.360 they play with me if I have the Steam version, let me know. 760 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:15.039 I hope so. I would imagine so. But we'll see. I counterpicked 761 00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:19.880 this game and people seem to like it for Fantasy credit. I counterpicked it. 762 00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.599 No, No, it's bad. If people like it, I counterpicked 763 00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.920 it. So if people like it, I'm gonna be screwed because because if 764 00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:28.639 it gets like an eighty, I'm gonna lose points yea, and Nicky will 765 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:30.440 get those points. Nicky will get the points no matter what happens to me. 766 00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:37.360 We'll see. I am I'm I'm worried. I'm not not too excited 767 00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:38.719 about the fact that people love this game, except for we're gonna play it 768 00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:43.559 today, and maybe I'll be excited then. Yeah. Uh eight percent of 769 00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.199 game to have say they're making they're making a game on switch Accessor. This 770 00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:52.000 is a GDC survey from my Nintendo News what. Yeah, well this I 771 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.920 was like a lot of people expecting Nintato Switch Accessor to come out this year. 772 00:50:55.360 --> 00:51:00.519 Uh, like, who's piping that into a fucking so well, I 773 00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:05.119 mean I think I think the survey is like the GENCU survey is like really 774 00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:08.360 elaborate and has like a bunch of different options for all these different questions. 775 00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:10.440 It's like what kind of game are you making or what do you make it 776 00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:14.119 stuff for? Uh, and I just like this is for mind Attendo News. 777 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.639 So they picked up the Nintendo aspect of it. But uh, eight 778 00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:19.519 percent, I don't know, it seems low to me. I don't know, 779 00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:22.360 it just feels like it seems like, you know what, right now, 780 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:28.280 I'm making a game in the switchure success in my mind, Yeah, 781 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:34.719 let's fucking go. Yeah, that's all it took to move it tone it. 782 00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:42.199 So we had the MPD report yesterday and uh, it's just a quick 783 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.519 correction on that. Uh the MPD report, I mentioned that it doesn't have 784 00:51:46.039 --> 00:51:50.679 full tracking data that's just for title sales. When it comes to like the 785 00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:54.360 overall market sales, all that data is whole, like is complete. Especially 786 00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:59.079 because they're like they work with like directly with platforms on that stuff. They 787 00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:04.360 just can't include stuff like Larian game data on the title charts because they don't 788 00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:08.199 have a deal with Larryan include that that sort of thing. So yeah, 789 00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:12.119 again, Like, I think the weirdest part of this is it's only eight 790 00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:15.000 percent. I think that's probably because people are actually saying I'm working on this. 791 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:17.519 There's a whole lot of people who have been like, you are never 792 00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:22.119 catching me break. Potentially, I think that's a possibility too. And like, 793 00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:25.239 the reason I brought up the MPD is because yesterday we were like Mapis 794 00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:30.480 can tell in one of his quotes, was saying, there's a lot riding 795 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:36.639 on the switch success successor, Like the industry is kind of stagnating a little 796 00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:38.719 bit. It's not like collapsing, but it's not growing as fast as we 797 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:40.920 thought it was going to grow. It was good, it grew one percent. 798 00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:45.320 We were expecting three percent. So now everyone's kind of like, Okay, 799 00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:47.559 the switch too needs to hit, and it's like, oh yeah, 800 00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:51.079 I bet a lot of developers are looking around being like, oh, right, 801 00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:52.480 once the switch two hits, we're gonna jump on board that and try 802 00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:55.480 to get some momentum going right away. And then we see, oh, 803 00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:59.840 eight percent or make it make it switch successor games with the Switch Successor. 804 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:01.320 It's like, yeah, I think you're probably right. Most developers are like, 805 00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:05.639 no, man, I'm trained I'm I know not to say shit about 806 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:10.239 shit. Yeah, I have heard a tale of Nintendo tail and I will 807 00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:15.840 not be putting myself anywhere in error. Let's see, let's start getting through 808 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:20.440 these last few ones. A third of developers saw layoffs at their workplace last 809 00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:22.519 year. Fifty six percent worry it'll happen this year. This is from Chris 810 00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:27.199 going at VGC. This is also part of that GDC State of the Games 811 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:31.800 Industry survey. It can't be a good thing for the industry that more than 812 00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:36.119 half of game developers TAM are worried that they're going to lose their jobs. 813 00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:40.239 That is no place for the industry to be in. I think back to 814 00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:45.719 EWATA talking about like, hey, we need people to be joyous when they're 815 00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:47.840 making these games, and they just can't do that if they're worried that they're 816 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:50.760 going to be losing their jobs. So I'm going to take a pay cut 817 00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:55.039 instead of laying people off so that we can keep making good games. Absolutely 818 00:53:55.199 --> 00:54:00.519 just to all time move just a hell of a guy. And then we 819 00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:05.159 get to like, you know, years later, rippy water, we're looking 820 00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:07.000 in the industry that's just like any one could lose your job at any second, 821 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:09.920 and everyone's worried about it. I think it. You know, we 822 00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:15.079 talk about okay, yeah, the layoffs and in the pandemic, these things 823 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:19.559 causing delays and games. Uh, people just having low morale is also going 824 00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:22.400 to hurt games in the long run. Uh. This is something we got 825 00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.320 to get past. I feel like we've talked about this a bunch of times 826 00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:34.119 before, But like these, the overreach of executives resulting in the everyday developer 827 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:37.559 who just wants to make games and make art and you know, impact the 828 00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:44.199 lives of others suffering for it is bad enough as it is, but like 829 00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:49.119 these, the result of this is far reaching in that it is creating, 830 00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:54.800 both actually and in terms of perception, the image that the video game industry 831 00:54:54.960 --> 00:55:00.320 is completely unreliable, unstable, and a bad decision to invent in both from 832 00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:04.880 actual people who want to invest in games and that kind of stuff and also 833 00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:09.199 people who want to invest themselves through educating themselves and joining the industry. Is 834 00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:16.239 awful. We are the amount of people who have probably looked at this industry 835 00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:20.119 and been like, I want to make video games and then seeing all the 836 00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:22.480 shit going down and being like this would be the worst decision of my life. 837 00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:27.400 The talent we're probably not even aware of the fact that we're losing is 838 00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:31.800 unbelievable. And the thing is, the people who are making the decisions at 839 00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:35.960 the top of the executives, who are chasing the money and the trends and 840 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.000 that kind of stuff, they're never going to think about this. They do 841 00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:40.840 not care about the future of the industry. The only thing they care about 842 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:45.960 is right now, how do they make the money, satisfy the investors, 843 00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:50.880 chase those trends, and then give them enough runway to get out while they 844 00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:57.400 can and get out on top. Is I do not trust the big cooperations 845 00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:01.159 at all to think about the future of the industries. I think I'm hoping 846 00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:05.360 that the smaller studios that are popping up are where it's going to happen. 847 00:56:05.559 --> 00:56:09.119 Like I want nothing but the most successful these new studios that are popping up, 848 00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:13.480 just so that it's proof that it's viable and you can join a smaller 849 00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:17.000 team and you can be successful, and you can earn a good wage and 850 00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:21.960 have a good work life balance, and also you know, engage in that 851 00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:25.039 creative game making that you desperately want to do and you don't have to throw 852 00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:30.760 yourself become like join the meek, random machine of the corporate world just to 853 00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:35.280 just to have the chance at these dreams. Yeah, the you write, 854 00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:38.760 the corporations have built this sort of mode around them where it's they don't have 855 00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:42.000 they don't think about it. Whole the whole system works this way, where 856 00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:46.480 it's like layoffs are normal and it's just a levery pole and because of that, 857 00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:52.039 they like they can dehumanize the act in a way and just these are 858 00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:54.679 human resources and we need to reduce that because it's a cost and that's a 859 00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:59.480 risk, And it's all these words terms that never really bring the humanity into 860 00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:02.719 it, and that it feels normal to us now. But I bring this 861 00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:06.000 up. I brought it up all week and I'm gonna keep bring it up. 862 00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:09.360 It's not normal. This is not how humanity works. It's not how 863 00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:15.639 markets worked, it's not how industry worked for the vast majority of our history. 864 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:19.840 This is a relatively new phenomenon of wighoffs just being a tool you can 865 00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:22.679 use. But the system is here now and it's it's hard to undo that 866 00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:27.840 in these companies. It does benefit these corporations to be that way because it 867 00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:30.519 enables them to take bigger risks because then who gets to pay for it, 868 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:32.880 Well, you just cut you cut jobs, and then the people pay for 869 00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:37.840 it and not the corporation itself. I also, like, I think that 870 00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:40.519 it's worth saying and it's worth being aware of the fact that it is not 871 00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:45.280 normal, but there is an effort to normalize it, like there is a 872 00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:50.159 there are discussions happening, and the way it's treated, the way it's done 873 00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:53.679 is designed to just become a low hum in the back of this industry that 874 00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:58.559 people, certain people want you to think is normal. And I have seen 875 00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:06.559 much to my life like chagrin and disheartenment, like random everyday people getting behind 876 00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:09.280 this kind of stuff where yeah, I know Twitter is not a good indicator, 877 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:12.800 but I've seen it beyond there where it's just like, well, maybe 878 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.760 these developers deserved it. And that is the most terrifying part of it. 879 00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:23.920 When the everyday person who loves video games is like glazing up corporations that are 880 00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:30.239 just cutting people to hit number market numbers mouthstones, and then you've got the 881 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:35.800 gamers being like, I think they deserve this because the last update was terrible 882 00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:38.840 or they did not give me this game that is the scariest part of it. 883 00:58:39.239 --> 00:58:44.519 And what the reason I say that is because like I feel like we're 884 00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:46.960 talking to our audience here, so I know that this is how they are, 885 00:58:47.119 --> 00:58:52.800 but like being able to empathize and understand the plight of these developers who 886 00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:57.119 spend their entire lives trying to make games the best as they can and a 887 00:58:57.119 --> 00:59:01.159 lot of the key decisions are taken away from them, showing them support and 888 00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:07.960 help and understanding that you know, the industry as a whole is hurt by 889 00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:13.480 these layoffs. Is the way that the only way that it stands a chance 890 00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.719 of bouncing back if we just get behind this shitty kind of normalization that is 891 00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:22.320 happening. We are just fast tracking the demise of this industry, and you 892 00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:24.679 do not want that. That is how shit like AI takes over. That 893 00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:30.079 is how like artists are pushed out of the roles that you know they need 894 00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:34.559 to have to make sure games are interesting and not homogenized by fucking, you 895 00:59:34.599 --> 00:59:37.440 know, typing into computers and letting it do all the work for you. 896 00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:45.039 Like, you've gotta remember the human element of game development, which somehow I 897 00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:50.599 can actively see being lost in front of me. Yeah, Corporation's never made 898 00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:52.519 a video game. Never, Nintendo's never made a video game. It's the 899 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:57.800 people that made the games. And god, we got to just keep remembering 900 00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.760 that because otherwise we do end up in like letting the system is ever present. 901 01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:05.239 It's hard to notice. It feels like it's natural. It feels like 902 01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:07.440 it's always been there. But like lock of Chat's like, you know, 903 01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:12.360 I'm a kid of a steel worker. This isn't new. It's it's no. 904 01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:14.360 I mean, yeah, that's kind of right. Right when it started. 905 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.199 That's when that's when it began. Where like this generation of corporations that 906 01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:22.599 have just began laying people off in mass starting around like the late seventies early 907 01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.119 eighties, and then ever since, it's just been like these companies been like, 908 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:28.000 oh, we got away with that, we can keep doing that. 909 01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:34.159 And we succeeded that ground and we you know, the strength of unions became 910 01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:37.079 become pretty weak, and it was hard to fight against that, and it's 911 01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:39.760 like we got to stand our ground somewhere, and at a certain point, 912 01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:45.360 the like standing in our ground at that the humanity recognizing the humanity of the 913 01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:49.280 people responsible for these products that we got to stop there the line must be 914 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:52.679 drawn there, agreed. All right, let's see, we got to get 915 01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:57.320 to the poll question. We have this from yesterday. Have you played Plants 916 01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:00.159 Versus Zombies? Seventy six percent say yes, twenty four percent say no. 917 01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:05.280 They new Plants Versus Zombies coming out. That's a pretty high number, a 918 01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:07.880 pretty big ratio. I suppose Plants Versus Zombies is one of those games where 919 01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:12.320 it's like, yeah, everyone just played that, and seventy six percent yeah, 920 01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:14.800 I guess everyone did just play that. I mean that's why there was 921 01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:22.800 a period of time early in the iPhone's kind of lifetime relatively speaking, where 922 01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:24.599 it was the game to have on your iPhone. Remember, it was like 923 01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:28.159 it had a I think it was a summer or like a year where it 924 01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:30.119 was this is the game that everyone played, in the same way that Angry 925 01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:34.519 Birds and Cut the Rope had it. I think Plants for the Zombies definitely 926 01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:37.159 had a period where it was like this is every every everyone is playing this, 927 01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:42.079 and it was on Facebook, it was on iOS. So I am 928 01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:46.239 completely unsurprised that probably everyone on Earth that has a iPhone probably played at one. 929 01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:50.679 And as we mentioned with that, Plants Versus Zombies three news Plants for 930 01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:53.440 versus Zombies is one of the biggest brands in China, huge massively popular in 931 01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:59.400 that massively populated country. It's also playable on the shitty device that you pay 932 01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:04.119 on on all of gotten. Oh that's right, yeah, I always get 933 01:02:04.119 --> 01:02:05.960 that. They're like two nine and a half games. I'm like, that's 934 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:09.400 future Jeff's problem. I'm paying the later the time I get that stuff, 935 01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:15.679 ADHD, What can I do about it? All? Right? A new 936 01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:19.159 Pool question here in a second. In the meantime, Tam, what do 937 01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:21.639 you got going on? What should we tell people about Giant Bomb and game 938 01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:27.039 Spot and all that good stuff? You know what? We've got Polwood coming 939 01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:31.880 up in a bit. The season or the finale of the Cowboy Bebop kind 940 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:37.079 of side story of jeffef Bizarre Adventure is now available is the very very end. 941 01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:40.079 So we watch it kind of we did it in a different way. 942 01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.639 We we record a bit, watched the episode together and then record after again, 943 01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:50.800 and it's kind of like an immediate before and after reaction from everyone. 944 01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:57.239 So we will be returning to Jojo very soon. Beyond that, that's pretty 945 01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:00.519 much everything I can think of right now. We've got stuff cooking for next 946 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:04.239 week obviously, but we'll leave that for next week. Yeah, yeah, 947 01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:07.280 some fun stuff happening. Dance fingers are gonna heal, and we might do 948 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:12.039 some uh Mario Mario kart racing, something along those lines. I've got a 949 01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:15.960 bunch of ideas. I'm trying to figure out a game to stream like regularly 950 01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:21.440 on the site. It was going to be deaf stranding, but it could 951 01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:23.119 be fun. I don't know. I just wanted to have like a slot 952 01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:28.239 where ice stream a game. Let's see anyone in the chat, Yeah, 953 01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:30.559 check out what you want recommendation. So let's come over with a bunch and 954 01:03:31.079 --> 01:03:35.559 next next Dregs Day, maybe we can uh, maybe we decide something. 955 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.639 There's there's like something, there's probably perfect. There's probably a perfect Yeah, 956 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:43.239 hit me up on Twitter as well. Just send me, send me what 957 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:46.840 you reckon? All right, everybody, let's see here. New poll question. 958 01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:51.719 I did do? I did buy a hip Box style leave a less 959 01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:55.320 controller yesterday, so excited. I got the casun out for reasons and uh 960 01:03:55.559 --> 01:03:58.920 boy, I like that thing a lot. How are you enjoying yours? 961 01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:03.920 I have one from Ali Express. Oh really? Oh no, that's awesome? 962 01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:06.519 Is it, like, so, how did it hold up? It's 963 01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:11.199 I haven't got it yet. I saw someone that I follow was like, 964 01:04:11.199 --> 01:04:14.079 I got it from oly Express for eighty dollars and I was like oh, 965 01:04:14.239 --> 01:04:15.840 and he was like playing it and he was like, this thing rules. 966 01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:20.280 I did a bunch of reviews. I read a bunch of reviews and videos 967 01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:24.440 on it, and they were like, yeah, this is a this is 968 01:04:24.519 --> 01:04:29.440 a budget version of these Labalist controllers, and it is better than most of 969 01:04:29.480 --> 01:04:33.320 the like high end ones because you know, it's easily remappable and all this 970 01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:39.639 kind of other business. I'm trying to remember what it was called, said 971 01:04:39.639 --> 01:04:43.239 a sally Box in chat. Is it the sally Box? Sally Box? 972 01:04:43.400 --> 01:04:45.519 Yeah, no it is. What is it called? I've got I've got 973 01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:50.440 a YouTube video here. It is by a company called There's a Ton of 974 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:57.000 Them bur Garden. Yeah, okay, hot h a U t E forty 975 01:04:57.119 --> 01:05:00.800 two Okay, that is that is the one. It's the it's the company 976 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:08.760 that makes them, and and yeah it is. It is very good. 977 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:14.239 The one that I got is called a let me grat it so cool. 978 01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:19.519 I'm just lovingly holding my kidsune with its archie being forty two m sixteen. 979 01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:27.079 Okay, h a U T e forty two eighty dollars is eighty dollars early 980 01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:30.760 express, which is pretty cool. Uh yeah, and it's got a rathererry 981 01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:35.719 pie in there. Okay you yeah, yeah, it is like super easy 982 01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:40.119 to customize as well. I feel like, worst case scenario, it works 983 01:05:40.119 --> 01:05:43.039 for a couple of months, and if it is like cheap ship and breaks 984 01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:45.760 at least by then I'll be like, I know how to I'm good comfortable 985 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:49.199 using these now and I can switch fully because I still have my Victrix pro 986 01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:53.760 f s, which I adore, but my hands are crippled now, so 987 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:58.840 you know, be careful when you start using it, because that I did 988 01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:00.840 have some pain, like switching. It took took a second to like figure 989 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:04.079 out what was comfortable and how to relax the hands in the right way. 990 01:06:04.159 --> 01:06:08.079 So going there, ger I got. Yeah, the one I got is 991 01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:11.199 actually pretty big, so it's got a lot of handspace to like get comfortable 992 01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:15.119 that. There's a smaller version of it which apparently has like much better feeling 993 01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:17.480 buttons, which I almost got, but like it doesn't have a lot of 994 01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:20.440 handspace. But so what I'm gonna do is I also bought some separate like 995 01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:25.760 buttons and stuff. I'm just gonna switch them over. Very excited to hear 996 01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:30.119 about your exploits with this. Maybe when we get together play some fighting games 997 01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:31.840 on this website here pretty soon. That would be a lot of fun. 998 01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:34.480 But yeah, people let me know what they want me to stream on a 999 01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:40.079 regular hit us hits up on Twitter like tamda on Twitter. And then if 1000 01:06:40.079 --> 01:06:43.079 you want to bring your suggestion next next Friday for Dregs Day in chat, 1001 01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:45.440 we'll keep an eye open. All right, are you going to play Power 1002 01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:48.119 World? Yes or no? That's the new poll question. We're going to 1003 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:51.800 talk about that on Monday. My answer is yes, I'm I'm I think 1004 01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:56.079 I think this is I guess I should have realized at some point there would 1005 01:06:56.079 --> 01:06:59.519 be like one of these Pokemon games that would know this has a big advantage. 1006 01:06:59.559 --> 01:07:00.960 It's going to be big in China, and I think that they're gonna 1007 01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:06.119 like really kind of give this thing a boost at the beginning here and then 1008 01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:10.320 it could take over the world. I could see that happening. We'll see. 1009 01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:13.199 I don't know. There's been a bunch of Pokemon style games, right 1010 01:07:13.239 --> 01:07:16.840 there was that? Yeah, yeah that that like they do they do well 1011 01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:20.320 for a little bit, and then they just like yeah, and then both 1012 01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:24.840 of them like, don't ever remember, right? That one actually was like 1013 01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:27.199 people are like, yeah, we'll see you, and then never really didn't 1014 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:30.079 much. I think it was still one of the bigger ones though, this 1015 01:07:30.119 --> 01:07:32.599 one three hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand current players that I've seen that 1016 01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:36.280 I've seen a picture of what looks like an electro buzz with a mini gun, 1017 01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:41.119 so I have to at least give it a try. Exactly. All 1018 01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:43.639 right, everybody, we're gonna get out of here. Tam, thank you 1019 01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:45.920 so much for hanging out with me today and talking about video games. I 1020 01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:49.239 really appreciate it. Look at my T shirt. Oh there he is. 1021 01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:54.880 He's got to come here son with vegeta going super Saiyan. And then on 1022 01:07:54.920 --> 01:08:03.360 the bat is a let's see it can't see the booty. There's a very 1023 01:08:03.400 --> 01:08:09.679 small, sad looking trunks on the back because it's it's from that episode where 1024 01:08:09.679 --> 01:08:13.679 the is like coming son and then he just fucking absolutely smacks his son into 1025 01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:19.439 Alright, that is Mondo cool and thank you everybody for watching. Yes, 1026 01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:23.000 all right now, I do just have my hands resting on my consune because 1027 01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:25.720 it makes me feel happy. Until next time, have a good one and 1028 01:08:25.800 --> 01:08:27.840 take care of yourself and goodbye.