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You are listening to Video Games to
the Max. Hello, and welcome to

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another edition of Video Games to the
Max. I am your host, Shauna

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gar right here with most of the
time. Mark Morrison, good to finally

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have you back here. Haven't missed
the last few weeks. Hopefully you can

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be good for a while there.
Yeah, well, we got a lot

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to talk about today. Is I've
been playing Allen a Wake two, so

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we'll have thoughts on that. Markston
playing Spider Man two, Nsster Cree Mirage,

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and I've also been playing so much
Super Mario Brothers. Wonder getting to

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cover the big games that have come
out fairly recently or recently, that's always

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good. And then big changes going
on at Xbox and so I expect the

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change is happening at PlayStation that have
led to some uncomfortable situations already, and

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somewhere news about delays and layoffs that's
been rather typical of this year. So

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we'll get into all that and more. All right, Well, let's go

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ahead and get the housekeeping stuff out
of the way here. Just you know,

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I'd have to deal with that after
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I is not in school today the
teacher planning day, you know those things,

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so we're going to start a little
bit later. Let me play a

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little bit more out of Wake too, and I'll talk about that in just

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a sec. But yeah, the
the Routs folks of course doing their usual

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House of Usher. They had the
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haven't watched yet, that's just my
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for you. So with that being
said, let's get started here. I

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guess let's start with uh, make
him wait for a little bit for for

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the newest one. What do you
you know? I had Randy had just

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barely started Spider Man two when I
had him on last week. So where

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are you at in the game right
now? I'm about halfway through it.

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I think, oh, well,
I've done like most, if not all,

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the Tide stuff I can do at
the moment to defend an issue,

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to kind of mop it up as
I go along. What did he say

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on it or his I mean,
well, I mean he had really just

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gotten through like the editorial stuff,
so he's super early. Yeah, it

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was. So. My my view
is it's a very well made game,

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but it's kind of a regression in
a few steps. And it's also oddly

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buggy in spots, which I wasn't
really expecting because I don't remember having any

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issue with the first game or the
first two games really, so that's been

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weird. Well what I mean,
like buggy. They crashed on me once.

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I mean, that's kind of fine, I guess, okay. And

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then a very early fight like this
is like the first hour or so,

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I had just stopped this museum or
stopped this bank commuting robbed, and the

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bunch of these sand piles on the
ground and guys were with guns were like

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around it, and I somehow managed
to knock a guy into the sandpile,

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which we weren't supposed to be able
to do, so it was kind of

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clipping out of it or clipping into
it, and like the game wouldn't progress

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until I beat him, and I
said, I can't get to him because

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he's in this fucking in the sand
pile. And I eventually, like after

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like about a minute of this kind
of randomly punching the sandpile enough hits connected

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where he just went down. But
it's like this is all this is weird.

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Oh wow, And there's a pretty
infamous bug apparently had this happened more

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than more than me. There's a
few Reddit starts about it, like you

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go to Coding Island with Harry Osborne
and Mary Jane Watson as a kind of

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a friend date or like a friend
meet up, and there are a few

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benches on the around where you can
like sit down with one of them talk

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to them. Only I sat down
with Mary Jane, but the talking didn't

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happen. So the game is kind
of like soft lock. Or it was

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like I can look around, but
that's all I can do, Like I

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can't get up from the bench or
I can't do anything else, And I

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was like, am I being dumb? Like yeah, I like the cussing.

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Yeah, but other than that,
it's fine. But the regression stuff

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is more about like, Okay,
you have all these different suits. You

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know that they're like, oh,
we got sixty Spider Man suits or whatever.

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It's like, Okay, they don't
do anything. It's all this visual

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or you know, the last game
had the suit power for the suit tech,

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so it's like, oh, and
you could like when you bought a

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new suit, you got a new
suit power, So it's like, oh,

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you like this one Ghost Riders suit
but you like the Spider Man twenty

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ninety nine suit tech, you can
like marry them together. This is just

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no suit power at all, and
they dramatically scaled back the amount of gadgets

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or like the amount of combat options
you have. The skill trees I find

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are very lackluster. It's like you
can increase your you know, Venom ten

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drolls by three up from three to
six. It's like, okay, I

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guess, but it's not like super
impactful or you know, super great,

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I guess. And there's also like
no traversal mini games at all in this

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game or that I found, like
no like race, you know, race

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to the city. You ta get
to this point, you know. I

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mean, did you miss those particularly
like you wanted it was something to do?

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I mean, I guess, sure, I mean a lot of it's

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a lot of it's just combat focused, and it's say, okay, combat

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is good, but it's you know, it's getting kind of weary fighting fucking

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hunters constantly, just doing the same
things over and over. So overall I

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like it, but I'm out.
I out. I gave a Spider Man

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the originally like a ten probably like
a nine. I think it's just like

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an eight. Also, it's really
weird that, like, have you ever

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played many Spider Man games? Yes, I've played quite a few. Yeah,

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play Spider Man webshat, I'm the
three sixty or PS three. Yeah,

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when it first came, yeah,
I decade ago if not. But

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that game was cool because you could
alternate between like Red Suit Spider Man and

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like the Venom Suit, and they
were like dramatical gameplay differences between the two.

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And this game the Venom Suit can
do like one or two unique things,

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but it's still the same kind of
crap that you know, the the

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Regular Suit can do. It sounds
great, yeah, but I mean it's

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well acted, looks looks beautiful.
Obviously, the writing is really good.

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Like the story, like the you
know, this main mainten story is good,

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but also like the side stories are
really good also, so I'm enjoying

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it. I was happy to get
rid of Asassine screened and rash you get

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it, So that doesn't it's done
well that you got rid of one of

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the games you're talking about here,
uh to get the other one. Just

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it's the side quest, Like you
said, the side stories are good to

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the side quest stuff. Is that
pretty much the same as No, they're

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like side like they're like friendly neighborhood
side missions. I think because they got

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like some stupid name. Those are
more like curated or like we wrote,

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we wrote dialogue, or you got
to do some stuff for this. That's

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fine, but those are those are
good parts. But like the random random

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crimes or like, oh, go
take out this hunter, blind to go,

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you know, do this stupid mini
game experiment when you fly around and

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destroy you know, bees or whatever, like yeah, who cares. I

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mean, it's it's you do it
once, It's all right, I guess,

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and then you do it a few
more times. All right, I'm

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now it's over. Some happy I
mean, the game's not littered with this

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stuff. Does that helped most of
us just kind of you know, pattying

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it out. I did a venom
heavy house, the venom powers that they

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feel different, then, No,
that's what I was saying, Like,

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No, they don't. Like you
get like this kind of cool alternate or

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like ultimate move where you can like
really kind of like hulk out and you

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look a lot of damage. But
that's about it. You know, you're

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still kind of the same stuff.
The male stuff is pretty good. Also,

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he's a lot better, Like you
can infiltrate these hunter bases and take

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out like a whole bunch of guys, and he is dramatically better at that

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because of his like cloaking technology or
cloaking ability, and yeah, that helps

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quite a bit. Well, that's
kind of disappointing to hear that. It's

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not like this big it is.
It's it's good. I actually say it's

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great. But yeah, and just
like a few smaller spots, it's like

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a weird step back from the last
Spider Man game. I'm sure they did

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it for like simplicity's sake, or
like you don't want to get too bogged

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down, but it's like some of
those options in the last game are kind

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of fun, like calling in like
holographic Spider Man to help you out or

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stuff like that. You know,
I love that move in the first time.

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Yeah, that seems like I think
that's exactly what they said that they

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wanted to streamline the game and remove
some of the stuff that kind of cluttered

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it up a little bit, and
it's much more easier to get into combat

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and everything. So it feels like
they accomplished what they wanted on that end,

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So does that make you feel less
than ever with the Apostle Venom spin

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off? Or I mean, it
depends on how they do. If they

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actually have a separate move move set
for like fan disabilities, that'd be fine.

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But how it is right now,
I'll be like, Oh, I

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mean, it's just kind of a
skin for Spider Man and he has like

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one alternate move that's about it.
Yeah, I mean you think he won't

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change at all in the parts of
the game you haven't played yet, Or

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well, I haven't gotten to like
actual Venom yet because I'm still a Spider

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Man wearing the Venom suit. Oh
okay, maybe it will change a bit

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there. Yeah, well, so
we'll see. I'll keep playing it.

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I'll playly finish it by the time
we do this next week. Well,

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you mentioned in the SASA screen Maraz
having already turned the game in, doesn't

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Yeah, I got that. You
have great thoughts on it. No,

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I got it. I played it, I beat it, and nine hundred

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percent of it and then it's like, okay, is that quick? Huh?

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I finished it in about onto thirty
hours. It's a dramatically scaled back

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Assassin's Creed game, it is like
not even as fully featured as Assassin's Creed

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too. Wow, they really went
back to the beginning there. Huh Yeah,

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Like there's no even like sense or
like a system of like improving the

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city or like economy, Like there's
no like, oh you can invest in

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this art dealer and now you can
you know, you get you get money

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back now from it or anything like
that. It's fine, I guess.

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I mean, I've read a review
of it. I think it gave it

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a five out of ten because I
was like, you know, it's not

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even broken technically. There's a yanky
spots here and there. It's like,

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if you're going at this from a
new game, it's perfectly serviceable. But

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if you're going at this from like
an Assassin's Creed fan, or you know,

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if you're a fan of the franchise, like you're gonna go to quit

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the whole happened, or like,
you know, why is this so dialed

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down or you know just so bare
owns so like I guess for people that

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have only played the let's say you've
gotten into Assassa's Creed because of the the

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RPG ones, necessarily the old Assassa's
creed, So like is it a detriment

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that it goes back at all,
or as somebody that started with the old

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ones, did you welcome? No, it's mine that it goes back.

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But there's just not enough content there, Like there are only three enemy types

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total, maybe four, and the
fourth one is like only when he like

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really puts out the guards and this
like elite soldier guy comes out and he's

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hard to deal with. But you
know, the other three are like like

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normal soldier, like armored soldier,
and like flame bagpipe soldier. He has

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this weird flamethrower thing. It's like
I don't know if this existed in the

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ninth century, but okay, and
like doing the assassinations are still fine,

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but there's no like hidden crip or
no side mission like there are I think

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there's like four what they call tales
of bag Dad. It's kind of like

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typepider Man two act where it's like
these more like bespoke or more like we

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wrote some dialogue for this mission type
of thing. And then there's like fifteen

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or so assassin's creed or like assassination
missions or it's like hey, go go

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here and kill this guy, or
go here and rescue this person, but

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that's it. They're not like infinitely
respond or anything, and you do it.

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There is like a leveling system in
the game, but it's all just

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tied to like you don't get experience
from like just killing people or you know,

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just fighting. You just you get
experienced when it's tween missions. So

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by the time you one hundred percent
the game, where you do all the

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missions, you'll be at max level
because it's like, yeah, nothing else

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to do. Yeah. So if
someone let's say they're playing this because they

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like the other ones, and they
go, oh, let me see how

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this goes, would you say,
is it what would be difficult for them?

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Is it harder to know? Is
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or no? Because it's just like
they're like three pips on the notoriety system

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and then if you get one,
you can just run around and fill post

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responds and then tear town back to
zero. Yeah. It's a lot like

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Brotherhood or I mean it's great too, but it's just not enough there at

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all, and it really doesn't help. The main character is like insufferable or

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unlikeable protagonists ever, because he's like
the bad guy in Valhalla and it's like,

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Okay, now it's just like weird
origin story. But about this guy,

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I don't give a shit about uh
okay, like kind of ye ride

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on your hopes from this guy and
it's like he's like he reminds me like

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a bootleg Aladdin or something like that. It's a man's Yeah, that's like

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it's a perfectly fine game or like
this said, serviceable. But I think

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for like the new players, they
are going to go like this is really

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easy because not it's like one big
city and it's about it and there's like

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a few like outlying towns, but
not not anywhere near the scope of like

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Valhalla or Origenser Odyssey. And then
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they're just gonna go like what happened
or like why did they scale it down

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this like this much like that's a
way to do it correctly, like but

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they didn't do it. And there's
also this like weird and like past games

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you could just like hire mercenaries or
hire courtisans or whatever to like screw with

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the guards or fight for you like
with this cash, and this game is

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like this weird token system where you
got like a crew tokens and there's like

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three types of tokens, and it's
like, oh, you need a scholar

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token to use the musicians you can
distract the guards. It's like, why

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can't I use cash or you know, like I guess because there's no economy,

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you really don't get a lot of
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that's kind of a failing on you. Then not me, right, I

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mean, I guess they're trying to
be a little bit authentic there. I

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mean, I just think I don't
know if it's like, actually it's sparkly

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accurate or not. It felt like
pretty gamely to me. I'm gonna say,

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but yeah, who knows. But
I got the trophy and then out

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like the next day, I'm like, all right, I kind of sell

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this piece of crap because I think
they said there's no DLC for it,

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and even if there was, I
don't care. Yeah, they're probably just

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moving on to the next one,
whether it's the this or I mean,

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I know there were rumors, but
this really did feel like it was supposed

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to be like some like planned DLC
or like basically like top gap measure for

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like the next big one. Mm
hmm. Yeah, they did say they

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wanted to make a smaller Assassin's Creed. They did that, they went back

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to that, maybe went back too
far. I mean I would say I

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would actually say Brotherhood is exactly the
right scope of of like one of these

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games as far as like Rome,
like it's going Rome and stuff, but

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also just like the gameplay systems,
like you had the whole Assassin's Creed like

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Brotherhood system where you could like you
know, recruit people to fight for you

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or some amon missions, or they
had a more more of an economy,

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and like, yeah, this game
has none of that. You're just gonna

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do kind of do the missions over, you know. That's about it.

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Kind of had a few like AI
scripting problems where like you get this a

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blow dart which can cause enemies to
berserk and like kill other they you know,

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they start fighting one another, and
like half the time that they didn't

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actually work, and it's like I
remember this working in better in a task

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game, So what's going on here? At least, like you said,

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they lived up to the point of
you can beat it quick and move on

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to something else. Yeah, if
I just mainlined it, I probably could

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have finished it in twenty hours or
maybe twenty two or something, but I

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wanted to get that platinum trophy.
And it's like, all right, I

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guess i'll do. I'll find all
the stupid hidden books or whatever crap you

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know you want me to find.
He is there one of them that you're

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excited? I guess that's coming up
soon that I don't know which one is

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the one that's the of the sixteen
Assassin's Creed games. Yeah, no,

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I I can't keep up with that
franchise like that anymore. I don't care

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about next. Uh. If they
do actually make that Asian one, that

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might be cool. We'll see.
Yeah. I think I think Ghoes to

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Tushima kind of really damp into that
enthusiasm. Uh, like rightfully so,

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because they actually gave people what they
wanted. Like, I don't know who's

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clamoring for this game at all.
That's like the weird thing. It's like,

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who wanted a ninth century game about
a character no one likes? Said

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in that Baghdad if you raise your
hand, you're fired. You know,

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well enough people did that they made
it. But yes, I get what

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you mean. I don't worry.
Just has to be firing them eventually anyway.

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So we'll see, we'll talk about
you. You saw it a little

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bit later, as well as one
of their other big games. Yep's going

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through something, So I get anything
else that you have that you want to

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talk about for a moment. I
played the Sky seven. It's more to

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sky They they said that they simplified
it, but they were lying. I

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don't. I just don't like to
like the structure those games, with the

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whole item world system. It's like, oh, improve your improve your item

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by going into it and facing enemies. It's like, now I just want

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to use a blacksmith or you know, I just do something like that got

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remnant to I played it for like
two hours. It's hard. I can't

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beat like the first level, and
I think I just rubbed the ends into

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buying it. So that'll be interesting
speaking. Yeah, well he went like

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this one more. It is a
little different. He had a lot of

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specific problems the last one. This
might do a little do a little better

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for him. Speaking of him,
though, we finished Saints Row. That

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is a miserable game, like surprise, played it all the way miserable.

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He was, well, he did
it. I did it to humor him,

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and it's because it was free.
He did it because he looked at

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it as like the historical last game
of Volition or you know, Keepsake or

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whatever. And he's like, oh, I also did the same thing for

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Duke Nukem Forever. It's like,
yeah, stop doing that. I don't

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want to play bad games, you
know. You know. It's like,

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yeah, he was fell for a
reason, He's gonna put up ship like

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this. Yeah, yeah, Saints
were always miserable. The story like makes

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zero sense in that game whatsoever.
It's it's really impressive. The last mission

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bugged out on it's pretty bad where
we did. We're doing the last mission,

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and he got dropped or maybe the
game kicked him or something out of

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my game, and I couldn't reinvite
him because the game has like a this

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is like the point of no return, like once you start this mission,

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it's iran, right, And because
we were in that mission, I couldn't

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get back to my city. I
couldn't go back to like a neutral like

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a neutral place, uh place in
the game. So I'd like to restart

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like like an hour with the progress
or get like do like another like revert

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back to an earlier save, and
then do like a one or two missions

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and then say all right, well, no, I can reinvite you,

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but we lost some progress because we
did. Of course we did, and

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they starts have to do in that
game, like we didn't a hundred percent

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or anything. There's a lot of
crap in that game, but so much

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of it is garbage, especially these
hidden history things where it's like, oh,

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you're in this yellow circle, go
find these five podiums to get history

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of this town. It's like,
and they're all like some of them are

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kind of easy to find, a
lot of them are just like really like

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they make it intentionally hard to find, and it's so maddening. I bet,

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well, there you go. That's
why you, you know, try

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not to. I mean, I
get a you're big fan of the franchise,

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and I get why Yen's wanted to
write. At least I've been able

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to say that it's not good.
I think he wanted I think he wanted

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it to be good. I kind
of knew going in a Head is gonna

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be fucked up, but like it's
beyond the pale, and especially like just

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the writing of like there's no good
reason why these characters are friends and if

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actually funny in one of the missions, YenS actually got really indignant and pissed

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off because it's like the bad company
in the game, Like your character works

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for him in the start of the
game, but then quits informs the Saints,

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and like the bad company like sues
the scenes to get the company,

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or it's like, oh, you're
in an NBA, so now we own

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you, and Young is like furiously
pissed about that. You think it's not

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a company's work. God damn it, Like you can't be a private security

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company. And also like own a
street gang, like I mean they could,

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but the street gang would be unofficially
part of them, right, Yeah

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that's funny, But yeah, that
is funny. How's Alan wake too?

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Uh well, let me talk about
Supermyer Brothers Wonder really quick. Just I

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guess give a little bit more thoughts
on that. I've gotten to world like

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two and a half, I played
some with Anaya, so the co op

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is a little bit. They still
haven't really fixed the co op from the

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new Supermara Brothers games that much.
It's not as chaotic if you don't have

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the four player, to be honest, but they have this. I hope

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they patch us out pretty quickly,
but they have this really stupid somebody as

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the player one after a while,
like if you die too many times.

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I mean, it's understandable if your
character just completely dies, right yeah,

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but if you die a couple of
times and you're trying to get the other

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character back, which you can do
because they show up as like a ghost

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or whatever, you have like five
seconds to hover over them so they can

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come back. If they don't have
a lot of lives, Like Yoshi is

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one of those that like the character
never goes away, but I was playing

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as Luigi, who's my normal character
that I play as. He does eventually

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went out of lives and go away, so you know, it's times where

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and I was left by herself.
And then when I came back or we

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restarted the level, it still had
her as the auto for one, and

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she's she's not very game averse,
so she's not really understanding, you know,

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what to do and like buttons to
press and things like that. And

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then what stucks is that she's learning, so she's not I'm having the kind

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of teacher, Okay, hey you
got to press the button down hard,

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you get a press? Why all
that stuff? And it makes me have

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to like auto follow her after a
while, so it's annoying. I really

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hope they take that out because it
makes playing with people unnecessarily difficult. It

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really shouldn't be that. Other than
that, playing by myself. The getting

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to the next world, which is
like a snow world or whatever that you

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go to, is really fun.
I've gotten I feel like people that are

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kind of hating on the bubble power
are not sort of understanding what it's for.

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And I kind of like the fact
that it exists, like you can

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easily take on enemies and then you
get coins every time you use it,

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so it's actually pretty cool. I
haven't gotten to the I don't know when

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you get to drill power thing,
but yeah, the vowel power is school

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because then you can jump on bubbles
and get to little areas that you haven't

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been to yet and things like that, and just and I love the way

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the world looks. It looks so
it's very pretty. The colors bounce off

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on the switch supposed to when you
play on TV. I played a little

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bit as Peach as well. It's
fun to use her because she kind of

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does that thing when she floats in
the air and things like that, So

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yeah, I mean, and the
Elephant power is obviously as I talked about

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last week, it's just awesome love
just hitting things with his trunk and then

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just squash getting watching the enemies get
squashed. And then the things to make

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you go back to all the levels
is the Wonder powers because the wonder effect

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things because they're different in every level. There's times where I completely missed it

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because I could I didn't hit some
secret that you have to find, and

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I wouldn't say that the game is
necessarily hard. There's one where I just

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couldn't beat it. It was like
a four star level. Thankfully, it

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was like option. You don't have
to beat every level to get enough Wonder

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Seeds to progress, so that's another
thing too. If you get stuck,

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it's not like you can't just go
and find another level to go beat and

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get the two Wonder Seas and go
on. And then they have the stuff

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with the badges where you get different
powers and things like that too, which

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make it fun. So yeah,
I really enjoyed the game. It's great

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for like those moments where you just
need something to do really quick, or

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if you you don't have to spend
hours and hours with it. You can

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like I was, I had to
take my girlfriend's dog to the vet because

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she had an accident. I ended
up with a little toe fracture because she

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got decided to go out in the
street and get have her foot run over

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by a car. So I was
at the vet for like five hours.

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So that's largely what I did with
Slay Super Mario Wonder while I was in

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there, you know, because they
don't let you go in there with the

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dog after you do the initial talk
to the doctor thing. So yeah,

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it's like I said, you can
play a cough, you can hit by

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yourself, but some of the co
op is still really chaotic. I wouldn't

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play with the four people, and
you could play online too if you don't

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have people at home to play with. But I'd still suggest maybe like keep

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it to two maybe three if it's
like a mom and dad and their their

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kid. But the four is just
too crazy for me. That's I did

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that once online and I was like, Okay, never again. So and

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the online actually works me. Well, it's not as buggy as some of

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the other online games are. Yeah, the other game I was I've played

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about, like I want to say, the first four hours of the game.

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00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:44.000
I played like an hour last night, and then I played like three

407
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:48.599
or three and a half ish hours
today. Alan Wake two and of course

408
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:52.519
that came out today. If you
are listening to this and didn't know that

409
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:55.920
for some reason, so you can
go pick it up. I got it

410
00:27:55.960 --> 00:28:00.240
on Xbox just because when I think
of Alan Wake, because the original was

411
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:06.519
an Xbox only game, I kind
of just wanted to have something to be

412
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:10.160
playing on my Xbox for a while. There is some game Pass games I'm

413
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:12.759
going to be probably be on there
pretty soon, like Thirsty Shooters that comes

414
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:18.200
out like next week. But I
you know, it is just a thing.

415
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:21.960
I could have got it on PlayStation
easily as well. But also my

416
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.680
Xbox is a little bit easier to
do with the remote play things, so

417
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.880
because sometimes the dual sense doesn't always
work with everything, you have to have

418
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:37.960
a certain power of Android, whereas
the Xbox doesn't require that necessarily. So

419
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.519
for times where I do need to
play it like remotely, like yesterday,

420
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:47.440
I had to play the first hour
on my laptop because my daughter wanted to

421
00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.240
go to sleep. So but yeah, I did get to play on the

422
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:56.839
TV today. It looks great.
The atmosphere of it is absolutely just fantastic.

423
00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:03.200
You feel the eerie like you feel
like the little It's not like let's

424
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.480
say, like hell Blade where you
hear voices or whatever, but it kind

425
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:11.200
of feels like you're hearing voices,
like, yeah, you're hearing things in

426
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:15.359
the in the you know, most
of it's in the woods, so you're

427
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.720
gonna get that sense of it too. Like you find this, I've just

428
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:23.839
gotten to the where you fight the
first there's a tutorial boss that you fight

429
00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:27.319
that kind of starts the story,
and then there's a first boss that you

430
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:32.279
fight that you've probably seen the trailer
where the deer comes out. That first

431
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:37.960
boss, yeah, uh that you
fight there. He was particularly difficult,

432
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.039
but because you're in a store,
you're kind of an enclosed area. The

433
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:44.599
game does have a dodge button,
so it's a little bit easy to kind

434
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:47.640
of tell, Okay, he swings
his axe, let you hit dodgs.

435
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:48.559
When he does that, it's I
can get out of the way. And

436
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.160
you do still have to do the
same mechanic that you do in the original

437
00:29:52.160 --> 00:30:00.440
Allen Wake where you have to do
the flashlight first and then do the where

438
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:03.000
it actually shows like a weak spot
for them, so you can either shoot

439
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:06.039
him in the head or you're shoot
in a little like bright Red, you

440
00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:10.000
know weak spot that shows up.
And like I said, it's it's fun.

441
00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:12.319
It's the first one. There's probably
gonna be ones that are more challenging

442
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:18.599
later on, but I've already enjoyed
playing a saga. I think she adds

443
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:26.440
a lot to the to the game
because her gameplay component is different than Alan's.

444
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.559
So hers is more like the murder
mystery, the detective part of the

445
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:34.559
game, like you're an FBI agent. Yeah, I've read that. Like

446
00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:38.119
she has a case like file,
like a you know, big so she

447
00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:45.279
has like this mind palace that you
go back to constantly, and she will

448
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:49.880
make you go through case files and
then you get to like put it on

449
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:55.640
the board like you're watching like True
Detective or something like that. And I

450
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:59.000
love that part. I love games
like that. I love series like that,

451
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:02.920
so that that part is interesting to
me. Obviously, Yes, they're

452
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.519
doing some of this stuff for you, so you're not really playing the detective

453
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.319
and figuring out stuff. You're kind
of just putting stuff on a board and

454
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.640
then she tells you like, oh, this is the connection to this,

455
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:19.160
and this is the connection to that, and then you kind of go and

456
00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:22.799
play out the next part of it. So I'm sure that that will probably

457
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:29.200
upset some people that want to actually
be able to do the whole detective part.

458
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:33.559
I trust me. There's enough ridiculous
just in the four hours that I've

459
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:42.119
played already, there's enough crazy ridiculous
stuff that you're sitting there going, Okay,

460
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:48.000
I'm ready for this. Like if
you love the Twin Peaks odes and

461
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.960
all that stuff about Alan Way,
that's here for you. They definitely have

462
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:57.720
that already at the beginning. So
definitely I would tell you go ahead.

463
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:00.000
Well, I was gonna say,
it's funny, you know, original Alan

464
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.599
Wake was was to be like a
big open world or you know for the

465
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.440
city and stuff like that, but
that fizzled out, you know, that

466
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:13.119
reality kind of crunched that. Well, they did that more of this game,

467
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:15.039
because there's a lot more of the
woods that you can explore. Yeah,

468
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.279
that's what I was gonna say,
is like, it's this is kind

469
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:21.200
of the game they wanted to make
back then, but they couldn't get end

470
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:23.839
the money too. Oh yeah,
definitely, I feel like they've accomplished that

471
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:28.920
like you can move. There's obviously
parts where it eventually will make you,

472
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:35.960
uh turn around and she can't go
any further. But you can explore pretty

473
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.839
much a lot, and there's like
hidden items that you find and little odes

474
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:45.279
to other things. And obviously Sam
Lake is in the game. He's your

475
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:51.680
partner. He plays the uh,
the the actual like detective that Alan Wake

476
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:54.680
is making a story of in the
first game, and then he's also in

477
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:59.200
both He's in Alan Wake's part,
and then he's also in the Saga's part

478
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:02.119
as well, but a different character
in alan Wakes part, and they have

479
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:07.960
those different gameplays. Alan is stuck
in the mind and the Dark Place,

480
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:12.839
so he's like trying to do more
of like solving puzzles and trying to get

481
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.759
out of the dark place. There
is still combat of both of them.

482
00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:20.319
Saga's doing more of the detective stuff. So yeah, I'm really enjoying it.

483
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.480
I'm think I'm about to get to
the part where you start playing as

484
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.640
Allen. Yeah, man, this
is this was well worth the wait.

485
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:32.000
It's already getting a game in the
year contender, Buzz add another one to

486
00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.559
the list. This is gonna be
nuts. How to do this? We'll

487
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:38.960
be able to place twenty five games, but figuring out where they should all

488
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:43.319
go. It's gonna be interesting because
so many of these games could be Game

489
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:45.920
of the Year. But I love
that. I love that we have that

490
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:50.359
choice. It's gonna be interesting for
Jeff Keely when he does it Game Awards,

491
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:57.839
which ones is he gonna select for
that too? Yeah? But yeah,

492
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:01.680
I'm loving it. Like there's parts
of manuscripts that you collect here and

493
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:07.599
then you have Alan in the background
like reading it as she's kind of reading

494
00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:12.760
through it as well, and like
how they blend like the live action stuff

495
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.679
with this as well as like so
good, Like it's just they really could

496
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:21.159
make a TV show out of this
if they really wanted to, and it

497
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:28.280
would work wonderfully. So yeah,
just I'm loving it so far early on,

498
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:32.599
so I probably I have a lot
more thoughts next week, but yeah,

499
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:37.119
definitely. You know, everybody that's
been waiting on this game, it's

500
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:40.320
well worth it. Go spend the
sixty bucks or if you want to get

501
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.760
it out PC fifty bucks. And
even though you know, the thing is

502
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:51.639
that, remember that this is using
high specs, you they really wanted it

503
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.880
to make it feel like next ghin
so probably most a lot of people's PCs

504
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.760
are not going to run it,
but that's why they have consoles, and

505
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:00.760
it looks great on there too,
And that's kind of the only two games

506
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:02.760
I've been playing. I play a
little bit more ever Crisis, but that

507
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:07.599
thing is kind of the same.
So I think we can move on from

508
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:13.519
the games we've been playing and talk
about the news here. There's kind of

509
00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:20.480
been I guess let's start with Sony's
part. David Jaffee kind of came on

510
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:24.000
earlier in the week hinted at this
thing. Obviously you put it behind his

511
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:32.599
paywall because you know, whatever do
make money, and he he alluded to

512
00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:38.079
the fact that Sony wouldn't be the
same And this is a big deal because

513
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:42.360
this is one of the Sony the
PlayStation people that have been around for a

514
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.920
long time. And it turns out
that Connie Booth, Sony's head of internal

515
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:52.760
production, has been let go from
the company. Sony has confirmed that now,

516
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:58.360
so it's that's that part is no
longer rumors. That has been confirmed

517
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:04.079
by Sony. But David Jeffey also
kind of alludes that there's a lot of

518
00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:08.440
the studios that are uncomfortable with the
whole games and service pivot that they did

519
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:15.679
with jim Ryan, and that factions
not working out or having to get delayed

520
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.880
again or whatever's going to happen with
that, and some of the other things

521
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.159
that have been happening because of that. She's gotten blamed for it, and

522
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:30.599
so she's been let go due to
that. Again, Sony is probably never

523
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:36.320
going to confirm that, and we
don't really know if that's what happened.

524
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.880
It's what Jeffie says. According to
sources that he still has within the company.

525
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:45.000
Anti Smet's of Gorilla is going to
be taking over. She'll be the

526
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:50.000
head development strategy of Puationing Studios.
I mean, she's great, so I'm

527
00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:52.800
sure they will be fine there.
But there were other reports that came out

528
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.639
kind of alluding to this as well, that there's a lot of kind of

529
00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:01.960
inner discussion on went into the Wan
direction. And now you know, jim

530
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:06.800
Mine is the longer going to be
the CEO. So it looks like they're

531
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:12.039
trying to change. It feels like
a lot of gamers can now say we

532
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.000
told you so, right. I
Mean, they haven't even put out like

533
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.519
one of their own games as a
service, you know, really I mean

534
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.880
aside from like multiplayer crap and I'm
Charted or Last Pus or something, but

535
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:28.559
it's not like a dedicated game.
And after the failure of some Microsoft stuff

536
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:32.480
like Halo, which you know,
ten years ago was bulletproof and now is

537
00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:37.840
like a shambling corpse, you look
at that and go like, why would

538
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:42.320
we make games as a service like? It hits so infrequently? When it

539
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.480
when it does hit, you know, yeah, no, you're right about

540
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:49.760
that. It does. They'll keep
desking you two around, or they'll make

541
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.639
it desking you through at some point
probably, but that's that never quite I

542
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:55.719
don't think that ever, like was
like as big as they wanted it to

543
00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:59.480
be, obviously. I mean that's
why Activating got rid of the studio.

544
00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:05.360
Yeah, I mean never, our
Activision just wanted to keep making new destinies

545
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:08.079
every time after they got through a
couple of expansions, and that kind of

546
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:14.719
got tiresome because you're discharging people for
stuff and they never truly got to actually

547
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:17.880
take the time to fix what was
wrong. That's the thing I think that's

548
00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:22.400
worrying them also is that like,
Okay, we got this, uh they

549
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:28.400
do Destiny Bungee should know they're the
ones that are that have the successful games

550
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:30.880
with service. So if we get
them, then they can turn all these

551
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:36.159
studios into these games with service hubs
or whatever. And I think, what,

552
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:37.599
you know, Jim Yan didn't really
think about it, is like,

553
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:42.599
that's a lot of resources that you
got to put towards all these games.

554
00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:46.519
Like you got to have all these
employees that are now switching from one type

555
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:51.360
of game that they know how to
make really really well to this other game

556
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:54.400
that they may have no experience with
at all, and it's not the same

557
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:58.679
thing. And they're looking at it
kind of from the respectful of like,

558
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.679
well, what if half but these
don't hit at all? Right? You

559
00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:07.519
know what if by the time you
know who whatever the games are that that

560
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.559
are like about to come out or
soon to come out, By the time

561
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:14.559
these games come out, what if
we've hit another part of the games of

562
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:20.079
service where it's gone even further down
and there's not that many people playing.

563
00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:22.920
And I think, because as Randy
was talking about last year when we kind

564
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:27.599
of talked about this a little bit, is there's some people that already have

565
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:32.280
their game that they play like they're
not gonna change from Apex or Fortnite or

566
00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:38.159
whatever. Right they're playing that game. I mean as smart as Sega ultimately

567
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:42.800
to cancel that Hyenas game. Yeah, but would have been smarter though for

568
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:46.400
Sega five years ago or four years
ago and Togo, let's not make it

569
00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:51.639
at all, like let's no make
another Accusa or you know, a good

570
00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:55.280
Sonic game or then like not waste
the money. No, I mean you

571
00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:59.280
know a lot about that because they
they wasted resources on that. But yeah,

572
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:01.000
something thats it, Like you know, Apex kind of came out of

573
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:06.519
nowhere and you know it's still doing
well, but you know, for every

574
00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:08.159
Apex, there's s fifty million battle
Borns out there, or you know,

575
00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:15.599
fifty other Marbles Avengers and stuff like
that or Anthem, yeah, or the

576
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:21.960
one that screenix is released last year
that they then ended in the same year.

577
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:27.079
Like so yeah, that's the thing
is like just because you're a big

578
00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:31.400
company with big resources doesn't mean that
you are able to whether the store you

579
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:35.960
might be were able to weather the
storem better than some of these like indies

580
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:40.639
that come out or like double A
ones that come out that they're just hoping

581
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.000
they catch slightning in a bottle,
but still you're gonna run into the same

582
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:49.719
problem. You already have this issue
with Destruction All Stars, you know,

583
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:54.639
so like you have games there to
show that this protectularly is just such a

584
00:40:54.760 --> 00:41:00.000
volatile part of the industry, Like
you have, you're gonna get way more

585
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.440
misses that hits. And I get
it that you're trying to make twelve so

586
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.760
that maybe you can get to one
or two that hit, But like,

587
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:09.239
what do you do in all those
studios, man, like they could be

588
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:13.679
making something else. Yeah, I's
say two out of twelve. I mean,

589
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:16.159
it's what I want out of six
odds. It's like, okay,

590
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:22.000
but it's the one success gonna outweigh
the five failures. No, like do

591
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.280
the math, but no, So
why don't you just make six more Ghosts

592
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:31.840
of Tsushima or Intimacies or whatever that
Sony wants that Sony you can sell well

593
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:36.599
and go from there. I mean, like, I'm all for expanding your

594
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:39.599
portfolio, right, they definitely need
to do that, Like you have way

595
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:45.159
too many games that are very similar, But do that in other genres,

596
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.960
not a genre that it'll be we
don't know what it's going to be like

597
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:55.280
in five years, and not like
other genres where you can kind of like,

598
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:59.119
let's say, okay, like roguelikes, right, those are kind of

599
00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:02.480
big in the indie space. A
lot of games are going that route.

600
00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:07.719
You could make other games off that
genre, like games of service. Yes,

601
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:10.719
you can make different kinds of games
and service games, but they're all

602
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:16.760
it's all the same inherent games as
a service, so people don't play them.

603
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:21.920
Doesn't matter how cool you make it. You're gonna get tired of that

604
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:27.679
whole feeling like I gotta constantly play. I've got to constantly be doing something

605
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:32.400
in the game, and it gets
tiring for people. You know, a

606
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:36.760
lot of people prefer the I'm not
saying that they don't like multiplayer games,

607
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:39.960
but sports games and multipler games that
I can turn off. I can play

608
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:44.480
with my friends a couple of rounds
or a couple of games, do a

609
00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:47.679
league or whatever, play like five
games in a row, and then that's

610
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:51.159
it. And then whenever I want
to go back to it, it's there,

611
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:54.679
like it's just it's too much of
a too much problems to PlayStation.

612
00:42:54.840 --> 00:43:00.000
But the thing is that now whoever
this new CEO is going to be,

613
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:06.679
got to deal with what's happening and
what ends up occurring and how they're gonna

614
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:08.760
pivot, because I mean, I
don't know if they can cancel all these

615
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:13.679
titles. That's why you always hear
about some of them getting delayed and stuff,

616
00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:16.480
because they might be starting to realize
it's not But I mean, if

617
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:21.000
we're gonna talk about the person that
left, right, Connie Bousch. She

618
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:24.920
was a huge part of PlayStation from
the beginning. Almost She was involved in

619
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:29.280
the production of over one hundred games, including the original Crash Bandicoot. She

620
00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:34.679
was a senior producer. She worked
on in some form of production on Spirro,

621
00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:39.079
Watching Klank, So Calm, even
Destreating GHEs to Tsushima. So,

622
00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:45.000
I mean, she's also part of
the Academy of Interactive ARTSEN and Science Hall

623
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:47.280
of Fame. I mean, that's
that's a big person to lose there.

624
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:52.320
I guess my point is, like, do you feel like it's a more

625
00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:55.920
of a I know, she got
technically, I guess let go. But

626
00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:00.840
do you feel like at that point
maybe it's more of like a retirement and

627
00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:04.280
not a yeah, like you could
see like the writing end of the wall,

628
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:07.000
or like you know, if Jim's
leaving now, it's kind of a

629
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:12.320
good chance for me to go possibly, and you have to imagine she's probably

630
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.039
at least fifty, maybe sixty.
And I don't know her age, but

631
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.440
if she's been at the job thirty
years, I mean, let's say above

632
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:22.280
thirty one, so she might just
want to kind of step back from it

633
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.559
all. She is eighty two,
yeah, that'd be a good reason to

634
00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:28.920
retire then, I mean, yeah, I know you're right about that beat

635
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:31.079
about that she was actually married to
John Cleats for a while. I think.

636
00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:35.800
So it's like, I think this
is something that we don't need to

637
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:39.079
make a little, you know,
a whole big deal about it. I

638
00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:44.960
think it is big for losing someone
that's important. Yeah, but it's not

639
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:49.760
like Miamoto leaving Nintendo or you know, yeah, it's not. At some

640
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.000
point the old guard is going to
go. Like at some point we may

641
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:58.960
we may not hear about it,
right, Like we may not hear about

642
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:06.400
Miliamoto leaving Nintendo or whatever, but
at some point that's gonna happen. And

643
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.920
like, you know, I think
people need to start because of the whole

644
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:14.960
console word nonsense. We've got to
try to make this the thing about,

645
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.559
oh my god, Xbox is promoting
people and Sony's like letting people go and

646
00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:22.559
whatever, and it's like, yeah, go ahead. My question would be

647
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:28.960
to them is how many of those
original ass Xbox people are still at Microsoft?

648
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:32.639
And then and so it would be
approaching one maybe two, yeah,

649
00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:38.440
and then not to mention the amount
of Microsoft people that have stepped down just

650
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:43.119
in general and Sony. I mean, you can make you could probably make

651
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.119
the same case for Sony, but
at least it got like Mark Serni is

652
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.960
still around, but there's a few
other people. I'm assuming that it's still

653
00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:52.199
there also. And then looking Nintendo, like me and Mino is never gonna

654
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.840
leave. He's chained to the desk. He'll just die there someday those prop

655
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:02.679
them up like right, but like
Nintendo's obviously much more of a well Japanese

656
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:06.400
company, but much more of like
you know, you're here for life,

657
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:12.639
whether you want to be or not. Yeah, but not necessarily always that

658
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:17.639
more of also the the fact that
you know, you have people that have

659
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.480
just wanted to stay there, right
the way that the company is is made.

660
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:27.679
But again the fact that she's been
there for twenty five years, thirty

661
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:30.079
years, that is a huge amount
of time to be there. Same thing

662
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:35.360
with Jim Ryan, Like maybe his
is more about because he had to do

663
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:40.199
transcontinental flights constantly or whatever and that
was wearing on him and his family and

664
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:44.559
all that. But he'd also been
there a long time, like you know,

665
00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:47.880
let him, let him do his
thing. Sony will find people that

666
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:55.199
they will pick the right people to
replace her, and yeah, right,

667
00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.239
yeah, that would be interesting,
Like right, like what if you did

668
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:04.400
join Sony, Well, how would
Nintendo pill about that? Just yeah,

669
00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:10.400
you have uh, you've gone to
the other side, Yeah, I mean

670
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:15.639
the the other to me, the
the interesting more interesting things is Sony having

671
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:21.719
to suffer layoffs at some of their
studios and a medium moleca got hit.

672
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:30.440
Yeah, Media Molecule. That's not
usually surprising, right uh. Any of

673
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:35.840
the other big ones I think their
visual Arts studio also that had been helping

674
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:42.880
with various games lost some devs as
well, included some senior level people.

675
00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:46.360
The Minion molecule ones not necessarily surprising, like you said, because of the

676
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:54.599
whole they banked their their whole thing
on dreams and it did well. Yeah,

677
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:00.559
it hit for like a small subgroup
of people, and hey, it

678
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:04.800
lasted longer than like Project Spark.
Remember that Xbox thing. Yeah, but

679
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:08.679
no one in the mainstream mainstream cares
about it or has even heard of it.

680
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:12.760
Oh yeah, but it's more of
a dev thing, right, Like

681
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.960
it's more people that want to create
levels and make things, and not everybody

682
00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:20.280
is that, right. Most gamers
just want the game. They want it

683
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:22.440
made for you, they want it
made it well and that's it, you

684
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:27.159
know, And it didn't. It
also didn't decide like a little Big Planet,

685
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:30.719
where a little Big Planet had this
story mode that's also included in there

686
00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:36.400
along with that. This doesn't have
that. So, I mean, it

687
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:38.079
has a story mode, but it's
like two hours and it's really a tutorial

688
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:42.800
on that kind of shows you some
of the things you can do with dreams.

689
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:45.840
Yep, and dreams. Cool concept
thing, but it's not something that

690
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:51.559
was going to sell a bunch for
them, right, Hopefully it was only

691
00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:55.480
twenty of one hundred and something employees. But that's another good example of why

692
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:00.599
did you okay this or you know, did you expect to do well or

693
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:05.280
not? You know? Well,
remember that game had been involvement for like

694
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:10.400
a while a long time. Didn't
they show off the PS four with that

695
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:17.599
game? Or was it the PS
three yes, Yeah, and then it

696
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:21.239
took a long time for that game
to come out, and I think they

697
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:23.159
got to the point where they found
were like, think, we just need

698
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:30.239
to release this thing, right,
And yeah, kudos to Sonny for letting

699
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:31.800
them make something they wanted to make. But again, like that was one

700
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:37.000
of those things where you have to
kind of make the decision of money over

701
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:43.400
art or art over money, and
I guess that's what they did there for

702
00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:46.199
quite a while. So yeah,
that's true. And it's again it's not

703
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.440
like the whole studio. It's twenty
people out of one hundred and ten.

704
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:52.639
Look, one loss is one loss. One person losing their job. That's

705
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:57.519
not good. Hopefully that you get
to go on and make their next project

706
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:01.679
and it does become a I sell
there for them and Medium Molecule can keep

707
00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:07.280
on doing their thing. There's been
Look, this is a non controversy.

708
00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:12.760
Also, I just want to bring
it up because it is news. But

709
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.920
did you have any thoughts on the
whole the detachable disk drive. If you

710
00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:22.800
buy a PS five Slim Digital that
you have to pair it with the console

711
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:28.480
the first time you use it,
it's not a big deal, right,

712
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:32.880
Like it's a big it's a big
deal fifteen years down the road. But

713
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:38.440
you know who cares, Like,
I assume the full thing. If you

714
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:44.000
buy the disc version, it'll be
already like prepaired. Oh yeah, that's

715
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:47.639
so many people. Yeah, and
by the time like that archivists will care

716
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:52.519
about this nonsense. There'll be plenty
of PS five's clogging up good wills and

717
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:58.639
game shops just all around for forty
bucks that you can get the disc for.

718
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:02.320
Like the old disc version problem,
I view it as more as of

719
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:07.320
a DRM issue of anything, like
oh yeah, you know, Xbox had

720
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:10.800
to do that with the original DVD
player software. I think the PS three

721
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.320
did it also, like go online
for the Blu ray Drive to like play

722
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:22.480
movies. So kind of a weird, but you know, it's one time,

723
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:24.079
it's not all the time or anything. And I'm sure they're doing this

724
00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:30.599
to like prevent piracy or prevent you
know, some scandaloushit from going on to

725
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:35.320
Oh that's definitely what it's for.
I mean, yeah, they don't want

726
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:39.239
people picking up a used optical,
you know, a used drive, or

727
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:45.599
third parties will eventually start making these
and I out that actually, well,

728
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:51.880
but like okay, let's say somebody
else makes some kind of illegal third party.

729
00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:55.159
Yeah. Right, it's like,
uh, it's not actually a discrive,

730
00:51:55.199 --> 00:52:00.480
it's just a terribyte hard fu terabyte
hard drive and it's five in thinking

731
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:05.960
you have, you know, a
destrive. Yeah, exactly, So that's

732
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:09.599
that's what they're trying to avoid.
They don't want people pirating and using that

733
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:15.920
to be able to let's say,
I don't know, bring in older games

734
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:21.280
or whatever their reasoning is for doing
that. And I'm sure that at some

735
00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:25.039
point whenever the digital whenever we get
to the point where PS five stuff is

736
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:30.480
starting to go down, I'm sure
they will probably remove this. Yeah,

737
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:34.880
some like last update, it's like
okay, if you're a discrive plug Dan,

738
00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:38.079
we know, we don't care.
That's like yeah or something like that.

739
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:42.239
Yeah, when they're no longer making
any money out the PSI, they're

740
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:44.440
not going to care at that point. Like I think people need to just

741
00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:50.840
kind of when the ps TEX announced
and yeah, it's just sometimes we make

742
00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:53.119
too much of a big deal about
Look, I get it that we have

743
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:58.440
digital stores going down and things of
this nature, and so it makes you

744
00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:06.079
weary, right of oh man,
more trying to take out the physical games.

745
00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:08.039
Look, I don't Wake isn't even
available physically at all. Yeah,

746
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:13.159
I don't like to you. I'm
sorry you have to go and buy digitally.

747
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:19.119
So do you think it will be
released physically at some point? Yeah?

748
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:22.639
Maybe once they they are doing a
lot of dlc are they doing two

749
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:28.039
DLD packs and they DU's a gonna
be a new game plus mode as well

750
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:31.760
for the games, so maybe release
everything. They'll do a disc version.

751
00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:36.480
Yeah, it would be like the
complete complete edition, or maybe you're in

752
00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:40.079
like a limited limited run lest put
something out there. You go right and

753
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:46.079
there putting out physical copies of Persona
three and Portable and four of Golden Yeah.

754
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:50.840
Yeah, So I don't see when
there will be plenty of people that

755
00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:53.119
are gonna want to buy that,
that really care about having the physical stuff.

756
00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:59.559
Just you know. Uh, this
is one of those times where like,

757
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:01.400
I think we need to let it
be around for a bit before we

758
00:54:01.480 --> 00:54:07.079
start freaking out about the detestable dis
drive or whether it's gonna work ten years

759
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:10.840
in the future or not, or
hey, if you actually are concerned by

760
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:15.239
the disc one, they're like here
you go, yeah that too, because

761
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:22.079
you're having to pay more to get
the one with the disk drive. Well,

762
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:23.800
I mean, yeah, take at
the count or you know, the

763
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:28.519
disc on, let's one, it's
four point fifty, but like the disk

764
00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:30.920
drive is like eighty bucks. So
it's like, why did you spend the

765
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:36.480
extra thirty buying to drive separately when
you just buy the disc one for five

766
00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:40.400
hundred? Yeah, exactly. It
kind of makes less sense at that point,

767
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:45.480
But it's there people that aren't planning
on getting any disks and they're just

768
00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:49.079
wanting to do that. I guess
it's good to have a choice. Yeah,

769
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:52.679
but those people don't care about preservation
either, so yeah, that too.

770
00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:58.320
So on the other side of things, Xbox had their first Partner preview,

771
00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:04.239
like the first time where they show
like non indie I guess, like

772
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:08.800
non super indie third party stuff.
Right. They did show Alan Wake two

773
00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:14.519
there because it came out, you
know it it aired two days before this

774
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:21.400
game came out. So they showed
off some other games, probably the two

775
00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:25.960
biggest ones I guess we're talking about, like sort of Triple A Ish,

776
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:31.239
Mittiger Sawa three Delta got some gameplay. They kind of showed you how it's

777
00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:37.199
gonna look, not necessarily so much
the gameplay or the story stuff, and

778
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:42.400
then I like a Dragon Infinite Wealth
is going to have an animal crossing type

779
00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:49.559
mode where you can just have a
whole island to yourself and and build things.

780
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:55.159
Yeah, franchise, Right, what
do you think about that? Does

781
00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:58.880
that, you know, make you
want to play the game war at all

782
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:01.119
or no? But I'm sure there'll
be some dumb way to earn money,

783
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:07.239
so yes, that'll be fine.
This replaces that business game or whatever from

784
00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:12.880
lack of Dragon Yeah. They always
have like a mini games that do that,

785
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:15.679
like you, Cusation had like a
farming mini game that was really bad,

786
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:22.320
but it's like it's pointless and it's
automatic enough, kind of like do

787
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:23.599
it for five minutes and earn a
bunch of cash and then move on.

788
00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:29.119
Yeah, that's what I would imagine. It's there for you to earn extra

789
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.679
money if you want. It's also
a good distraction from the original store from

790
00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:36.920
the main story as well. It's
not required, so right, that is

791
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:43.400
something to take in. And there
will be a demo of the game included

792
00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:46.000
with lack of Dragon guide In.
I'm not sure if they're going to make

793
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:50.039
that digital because lack of Dragon guide
In is going to be on game Pass,

794
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:53.679
so I wonder if they're going to
put that digitally at some point as

795
00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:59.000
well. Dungeon of Hinterberg, which
is one of the games that I've been

796
00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:02.239
excited about is it showed it off
at the Summer showcase, got a new

797
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:07.039
trailer. We kind of get to
see that they have like social aspects and

798
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:13.639
things that help you gain abilities,
which at school you gain things from talking

799
00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:19.039
to people, different gameplay elements as
well in there. There is some combat

800
00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:24.199
also, so I'm madium more excited
for the game. Was there anything in

801
00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:28.199
here? I don't know if you
watched it, but I watched a little

802
00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:31.440
that city building game that kind of
interesting, like that old timey one ah

803
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:39.840
oh the manor Lords. Yeah,
and they showed more ARC two so yeah,

804
00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:45.239
there's that. Oh. Also that
Ikaru Will Not Die looked awesome as

805
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:50.960
well. The Yeah action game.
I've heard that like that R two thing

806
00:57:51.079 --> 00:57:54.320
or or Survival or whatever the fuck
is called is like a massive clusterfuck right

807
00:57:54.360 --> 00:58:00.920
now, right, yeah, because
it's going to completely replace the original all

808
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:06.360
yeah, Like yeah, it's just
like a huge weird mess. It's like

809
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:10.360
a lot of games like that type
of typically are. Yeah, It's it's

810
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:15.760
funny to me that you know.
That's uh, that's what they decided to

811
00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:20.679
do instead of just allowing people to
have the original as well, Like you

812
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:23.800
think that that was just gonna be
easy to do replace all that. What

813
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:27.280
are you gonna do? You're gonna
give everybody a free copy? Well,

814
00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:29.079
I mean, I guess what they
said. They made it free, but

815
00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:32.280
it's a savement a word, right, Yeah, that's that's a lot to

816
00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:37.000
uh to deal with. I think
they do it honestly because I think they

817
00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:43.480
teach secretly know that, Like if
they put out Contract two but people don't

818
00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:47.559
like it, they'd so rather play
just play Contract go and or the best

819
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:52.119
examples Overwatch. You know, I
would much rather play Overwatch one than Overwatch

820
00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:55.880
two. Yeah, that's why I
think a lot of people would have that

821
00:58:55.960 --> 00:59:00.280
same settiment with either. So they're
like, oh, well, this is

822
00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:02.440
the only way you can right now, go fuck yourself, all right,

823
00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:06.320
I could just not play the name
at all. That can be into this

824
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.960
relationship not so much. And they
kind of said that it wouldn't do that,

825
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:15.239
and then it kind of did.
Yeah, that's not not great either,

826
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:20.400
said a lot of an Overwatch too
that didn't actually happen. So but

827
00:59:20.599 --> 00:59:22.800
I mean, that was a good
partner preview. I feel like for being

828
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:28.039
a first one, it had some
interesting stuff in there. You had,

829
00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:31.199
you know, the two big games
that kind of bookended it, and then

830
00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:36.639
you had some some of the smaller
stuff that they've already announced giving you updates.

831
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:39.559
If they do these kind of like
a state of play, you know,

832
00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:45.079
three four times a year, that
wouldn't be bad. Yeah, you

833
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:49.880
know, so I think maybe you
do kind of need a voice at some

834
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:52.639
point, like some kind of narration
or Yeah. I always think about like

835
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:57.480
they need they always need hosts.
Yeah, right, they need good hosts.

836
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:01.760
That's the thing. M hm.
A good host does matter unless you're

837
01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:07.239
a Nintendo and maybe it doesn't,
but the good host is snapping fingers on

838
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:12.159
effect. Yeah. Well I have
to see if they keep that going with

839
01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:15.159
whatever, if it's going to be
called the switch to or not it become

840
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:22.079
like a hand clap. Well.
There was more good news for Xbox.

841
01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:28.960
Starfield brought in the most one day
game Pass subs in Xbox Game Pass history

842
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:35.400
that you know, hey, this
is what your your first party games are

843
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:39.360
supposed to do. This is finally
proves not only that but also the fact

844
01:00:39.400 --> 01:00:45.119
that they were the most the best
selling game of last month in the US,

845
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:50.519
even though they were on game Pass. Two things that proved that if

846
01:00:50.559 --> 01:00:55.440
you make a landmark, big time
first party game helps that they were from

847
01:00:55.480 --> 01:00:59.960
a known studio, right, Like, but that's in Todd Howard's team.

848
01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:05.400
But people will go and buy your
game and play it and get game Pass

849
01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:08.280
as a result. Hey man,
it's number one now, but you know,

850
01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:13.679
you know what it displays is red
Fall. That's well, it's not

851
01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:19.079
the number one game, but yes, it does give them some good news

852
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:22.639
after Red Fall. But I mean
again, this is the stuff that you

853
01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:24.920
need to hear. If your Microsoft, that's good that you you got what

854
01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:29.840
you wanted from Starfield, you got
the notoriety, you got it feel.

855
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.599
You know. There's there's kind of
varying opinions on the game, but it's

856
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:39.599
mostly positive and that's what you need. You need more things like that.

857
01:01:39.679 --> 01:01:43.320
I think you're not getting a lot
of people talking about Fords though, because

858
01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:49.239
that version, of course is just
very niche like that is a very particular

859
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:52.159
crowd technical. Yeah, it's not
like the biggest horizon. It's like,

860
01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:57.800
now you're gonna run their nerve burggering
twenty times and like a goddammit. All

861
01:01:57.880 --> 01:02:06.880
right, So they've also had promotions. Sarah Bond got promoted and we had

862
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:12.719
Matt Booty also get promoted. So
Sarah Bond is now the president of Xbox.

863
01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:15.719
She's going to be basically bringing everything
together, the devices, player and

864
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:20.719
creative experiences, platform engineering, strategy, business and all that stuff. Matt

865
01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:28.480
Booty is now the head of Xbox
Game Studios and also will oversee Zenmax of

866
01:02:28.559 --> 01:02:34.320
Bethesda because of Pete Heines leaving.
This is why they did that move.

867
01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:42.760
Bethesda and Xbox are still going to
be separate companies for the most part within

868
01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:47.440
Microsoft, but they are going to
have an Xbox person overseeing them now because

869
01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:51.880
of behinds leaving. So it'll be
kind of like what's going to happen when

870
01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:57.159
Bobby Kotik leads for Activism Wizards.
Phil Spencer will be overseeing what happens there,

871
01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:02.960
which he did go with Sarabon and
visit the Blizzard campus and that.

872
01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:07.639
You know, they pretty much call
them the Pixar of gaming, although that

873
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:13.280
term probably isn't as endearing as perhaps
it used to be considering all the Pixars.

874
01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:19.119
You know, that's so great.
The thing about Pixar is they were

875
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:23.159
all they were actually also creative,
like in Mister Lyon three Franchises Forever.

876
01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:30.679
Yeah, it sucks for them because
those movies actually are good. It's just

877
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:34.360
they don't like I watch Elemental with
my daughter. I liked it. I

878
01:03:34.440 --> 01:03:37.400
enjoyed it. It just for the
movie crowd. It's apparently going to the

879
01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:42.760
theater. It's not doing Elemental.
He had a lot of strong feelings on

880
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:47.199
it. Uh, but yeah,
he he wants Blizzard to be able to

881
01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:54.039
accomplish their dreams as a publisher,
uh, and do whatever you know they

882
01:03:53.800 --> 01:03:59.079
they they want to do basically.
I guess Activision at certain you know,

883
01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:03.320
and that last kind of year or
two they were kind of telling them what

884
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:09.440
to do more so than they were
at the beginning. And I guess Xbox

885
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:11.519
is kind of letting them know,
we're gonna go back to the hole,

886
01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:15.599
letting you guys kind of dictate more
of what you want to do. Think

887
01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:20.440
we'll see how long that lasts.
I think as long as they produce hits

888
01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:25.119
and things like that, it will
all go well. They start running into

889
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:28.639
trouble, then you know, we'll
see how that goes. I mean,

890
01:04:28.679 --> 01:04:31.360
do you feel like as somebody that
lacks a lot of Blizzard stuff, do

891
01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:36.360
you are you excited to see that
perhaps maybe they're going to do different things

892
01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:41.440
now or it'd be nice, But
I don't have a lot of faith in

893
01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:45.920
them anymore, you know, Like
I would say the real kind of ends

894
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:47.679
for me is like when they put
out StarCraft two, it's like two separate

895
01:04:47.719 --> 01:04:51.320
games. It's like, what kind
of nonsense is this? Like StarCraft one

896
01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:55.639
had all three races or you know, was a complete game, and I

897
01:04:55.679 --> 01:04:59.079
was playing some of the three games
like three like parts of one game,

898
01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:03.280
like what? And then their remakes
were terrible, like StarCraft Remaster was okay,

899
01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:08.960
but like that Worker was terrible,
and their expansions don't hit well anymore.

900
01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:12.360
Over Watch two is a mess.
Don't care. I mean, I

901
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:16.159
think like Hurston is bottoming out,
So it's like, what what do they

902
01:05:16.199 --> 01:05:18.840
want to do? You know,
if it's like making new rock and roll

903
01:05:18.920 --> 01:05:23.639
racing, sure, or go for
it. But this is there's another lot

904
01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:26.000
expansion. This is really good.
It's gonna save the game, It's I

905
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:32.639
doubt it. Yeah, I wonder
if maybe somebody I heard some some podcasts

906
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:36.840
talking about like what if they dis
reboot well, like what if we just

907
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:45.800
start with something totally different and reboot
the story? And yeah, like because

908
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:50.800
I mean it's starting to run to
the point where, you know, how

909
01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:55.199
many more stories can you tell?
With the way all this lore is set

910
01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:59.519
up? Can you even comprehend the
lore anymore? Like you know? No,

911
01:05:59.800 --> 01:06:03.119
I'm mean especially this last expansion was
okay, but the one before that

912
01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:09.679
was like you were literally going to
the afterlife and like facing death or you

913
01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:12.800
know, facing the jailer, who's
like where do you go from here?

914
01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:15.159
But it's the same problem with like
dragon Ball, like z It's like,

915
01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:19.599
yeah, the power creep is so
slow of a gradual that's like yeah,

916
01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:23.880
at some point in that series you're
like literally facing down gods. And also,

917
01:06:24.159 --> 01:06:27.840
hey, Goku's a god as well. And that's why that Diima thing

918
01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:31.000
looks kind of halfway interesting because like
that's basically I was about to ask you

919
01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:34.679
that, Yeah you think about that. I mean it looks goofy and it

920
01:06:34.679 --> 01:06:40.360
looks like the Muppet babies and dragon
Ball, but it's kind of needed because

921
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:44.800
it's like, yeah, like what
what obstacles are there for Goku with this?

922
01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:47.159
Yeah, I mean it's also a
nice like throw back to the original

923
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:51.440
dragon Ball. Yeah right, my
friend. My friend actually doesn't like she

924
01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:55.519
likes dragon Ball Z. Okay,
she didn't really like Super that much,

925
01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:00.559
but she loved dragon Ball the original
show. Uh, so's okay, here's

926
01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:02.079
a show that looks just like that
kind of but everyone's not a kid.

927
01:07:02.679 --> 01:07:08.840
Yeah. I actually I love Dragon
Ball as well, the show more so

928
01:07:08.960 --> 01:07:15.239
than Z. I like Super a
lot, but just so I it drew

929
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.440
me in and I like Dragon Ball
GT as well. So like having those

930
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:23.480
and then you know you're announced that
you're gonna have Dima. That's that's pretty

931
01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:27.519
cool when they look like that.
So I'm totally down for whenever this finally

932
01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:31.159
comes out. But yes, Blizzard
does kind of need to go back to

933
01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:35.400
the drawing board a bit and see
what they look at any of their franchises.

934
01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:40.199
Does somebody feel like they could do
something? Hey, you know what,

935
01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:44.440
maybe Toys Sir Bob could work on
a Lost Vikings sequel or something.

936
01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:49.159
You know, maybe somebody, maybe
the Playground team could go and take rock

937
01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:53.679
and roll racing and do something with
that and then let Blizzard kind of do

938
01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:58.280
something totally new. And I'm very
interested to see what happens with that game

939
01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:02.239
that they have in development, right, yeah, and what they're going to

940
01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:08.000
do with that, and how does
that get changed at all by the fact

941
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:14.079
that now Microsoft you know owns them
or anything. So yeah, Blizzard as

942
01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:18.199
a company, they're very slow to
make makeing new ideas, right, Like

943
01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:23.079
the last one is Overwatch and that
was twenty sixteen, and that was nine

944
01:08:23.119 --> 01:08:28.920
years ago. Like, yeah,
sorry, if you're hearing people in the

945
01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:31.079
background, they have a house full
of folks and they all have to get

946
01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:34.439
loud every now and then. Yeah, it's gonna be Yeah. I just

947
01:08:34.479 --> 01:08:39.840
want to see what Blizzard does if
they make anything new, or if they're

948
01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:43.159
just going to keep good, you
know, doing what they do and and

949
01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:47.039
that's kind of it or whatever.
But either way, better for their work

950
01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:56.000
structure and employees that they're h and
it have different overlords. I guess now

951
01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:01.119
that this is officially working together.
Solid Collection is also a game that came

952
01:09:01.159 --> 01:09:06.680
out, the volume one that came
out this week. Any interest in that

953
01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:10.600
at all for you? I would
play it if I had it, But

954
01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:14.199
it has pretty mixed opinions by like
just some uber nerds about like, oh,

955
01:09:14.199 --> 01:09:16.560
it's not sixty fraint per a second, it's like who cares? You

956
01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:20.920
know, Yeah, this is so
tiring, or like if that's the only

957
01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:25.359
criteria basic game on, like go
play crime Killer for the PS one and

958
01:09:25.439 --> 01:09:29.560
leave me that all alone, right, you know it seems fine? Or

959
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:34.000
I play it. I really like
NA one and two. I less like

960
01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:39.319
three, but maybe that new one
will be good. Well, how do

961
01:09:39.359 --> 01:09:43.520
you feel about four or five and
peace Walk? Because there's allusions to that

962
01:09:43.640 --> 01:09:46.800
in volume one, which I'd imagine
if you're making calling something volume one,

963
01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:50.800
that means you have a volume two. Right, the big one is Muderga

964
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:55.359
Salt four. I really want that, right, Five already got, so

965
01:09:55.399 --> 01:09:58.359
I don't care. Peacewalk would be
cool, but like why not? Do

966
01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:00.920
also like portable ops and met your
Acid? Yeah? I feel like you

967
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:02.720
got to add those in them,
right if you're going to make this the

968
01:10:02.760 --> 01:10:08.199
whole collection, you know, And
also like those games aren't there's already like

969
01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:12.399
a decent Vita or psp EM Leader
out there, so it's saying, okay,

970
01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:15.560
touch you to graphics a little,
but they aren't like the full But

971
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:19.199
I think that Medica Solid four is
obviously the one that will need the most

972
01:10:19.239 --> 01:10:24.399
work, right, So it's okay, get that running first, and if

973
01:10:24.399 --> 01:10:28.600
you've got time, you can do
Acid too, I guess too. Yeah,

974
01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:33.119
I do hope we see those for
sure, especially Minigar Solid four from

975
01:10:33.199 --> 01:10:40.720
a preservation perspective, because it's stuck
on the PS three, right, So

976
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:45.239
it would be good for that game
to be more available for people. You

977
01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:47.840
know, I don't know. I
was guessing that would be a switch to

978
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:53.000
thing. I don't know that it
would work how well it would four and

979
01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:57.920
five would work on switch But will
be the Scream versions, the cloud versions?

980
01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:01.640
Yeah? Those, thanks on that. But hey, hopefully this happens

981
01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:04.720
at some point, I imagine.
So again, you're not going to start

982
01:11:04.920 --> 01:11:10.159
with volume one and then not have
a volume two. Right. That's good

983
01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:15.359
that that has happened before, so
it wouldn't surprise me either way. Yes,

984
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:20.640
Well, something that's also not surprising
Ubisoft has most likely delayed Star Wars

985
01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:27.840
Outlaws. This wouldn't be like the
first of many games that you be sawt

986
01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:33.159
has delayed. They delayed Xified,
they delayed Skull and Bones for the million

987
01:11:33.239 --> 01:11:38.319
times. But this was actually kind
of for a good reason. They're saying

988
01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:45.640
that they made enough income from their
quarterly reports here that they feel that they

989
01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:50.840
are good with what they have coming
out, I guess, including Mirage that

990
01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:56.239
just came out and Cream Motorfest or
whatever. Also, they just came out

991
01:11:56.720 --> 01:12:00.640
that they can delay this game.
They don't have to rush it out.

992
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.319
I guess always better that they don't
do that, because this is a Star

993
01:12:04.359 --> 01:12:08.800
Wars game. You really don't want
to screw that up. So now instead

994
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:14.479
of coming in fiscal March Study first
twenty twenty four, it may come fiscal

995
01:12:14.560 --> 01:12:18.880
twenty twenty five, instead giving it
another actually year development and all that.

996
01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:24.199
Is this mostly good? Or are
you worried about it that they deleted already?

997
01:12:24.479 --> 01:12:28.239
It's probably fine, but they have
a we saw that in particular,

998
01:12:28.319 --> 01:12:33.680
has a nasty habit of announcing shit
and then it being years before it comes

999
01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:38.720
out. You know, yeah,
for sure, hopefully that's not the case

1000
01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:40.920
for this because this is a game
that I really want to play. I

1001
01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:45.720
know a lot of people really want
to play this game, so Holly,

1002
01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:48.720
we see it at some point,
But I also don't want them to rush

1003
01:12:48.760 --> 01:12:53.760
it out, and you know,
it's not as good as it could be.

1004
01:12:54.359 --> 01:12:58.720
Yeah, because of that, So
don't worry when all the millions they

1005
01:12:58.720 --> 01:13:01.560
make from the Avatar game come rolling
and they'll all it'll be said for life.

1006
01:13:02.079 --> 01:13:08.199
Yeah, exactly, that's what will
be the uh the trigger there.

1007
01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:15.640
I think that's it for all of
our news items. There are I mean

1008
01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:20.279
I just mentioned one, but there
are several games uh coming out today or

1009
01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:25.039
this week. Of course, I
don't Wake two again. If you uh

1010
01:13:25.479 --> 01:13:28.680
don't know or have been waiting for
this game, I like Too is out

1011
01:13:28.760 --> 01:13:31.640
right now, you can go get
it. Do you have c e A

1012
01:13:31.720 --> 01:13:36.800
sports you f C five is out
today as well on Xbox series of PS

1013
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five. I know some people that
have been wanting to play this game.

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I don't know that. It's like
I feel like every since you know,

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EA got the license or whatever,
it's kind of becoming like every other EA

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game where there's less and less ant
for this because it's just to feel the

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same. Yep. So there's that. Uh, there's the Terminator game.

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Terminator Resistance is coming today as well. Residuable Village is coming to iPhone Pro

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or whatnot. So if you haven't
played that yet for some reason you want

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to play on your phone, go
ahead. Two games coming to game Pass.

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The head Banger's Rhythm Royale is also
coming. Everything else it's basically a

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rhythm game that is a battle royale
with pigeons. So that looks It's looked

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fun ever since I've seen it,
so I decited to try it out.

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And that Juice Saw game is the
one where he's like mountain climbing and has

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this really cool like art style whatever. That's coming to PlayStation five and PC

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as well. And then Ascension is
also coming out on Halloween. So are

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you excited for that? Never cared
about No, friend, I don't know

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about you, but I've cared about
it. So I moved. That first

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movie was fine? That was it? Yeah, I agree with you on

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the first Nivvy that was actually better
than expected there. But yeah, uh,

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not something that I'm totally looking forward
to. But uh. The Dead

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Island two DLC is coming the House
on Thursday, and Song of New New

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and other League of Lessonds game is
also coming. This one kind of like

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a buddy story between a looks like
a mountain ice troll or something and one

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of the characters. And then a
game I've been waiting on for a while,

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Thirsty Shooters is also coming, and
that's coming to Game Pass and Star

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Ocean. The second story are also
coming the same day and the Rogo cop

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01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:46.920
Rogue City game also coming that same
day too. I wanted to play that

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demo, but it's only on PC, so I forget it. Well you're

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are you're kind of interested in it
or no? Oh yeah, I'm really

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interested in Never Lookout game. I
actually have the reviews for the I'm over

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really positive, like surprisingly, so
yeah, and you know what about Tallas

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01:16:05.479 --> 01:16:10.680
Principal too, that's coming to I
don't like that. I didn't play.

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I played the first one. I
didn't beat it. I mean I just

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got too hard. I played I
headed on console because then it gives had

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the PC up running YouTube this is
we got to do to beat this puzzle

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videos. Oh, and that first
w r C game from EA Sports,

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that's going well. I excited for
having another review of Don't Get Anymore.

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So yeah, oh adam, I
still get a code though, be like,

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hey, I want to review this. Here you go. So yeah.

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But that being said, that's it
for this week. Hopefully enjoy a

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lot of games to go play right
now. So hopefully you have one that

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you're you're playing and getting through and
I as we get towards the end of

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the year, because it feels like
everything released in like October and now November

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01:17:08.039 --> 01:17:12.159
is kind of I think after you
get past Call of Duty, November has

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my possible game of the year.
What is that Mario RPG. Oh,

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that's right, Marvig. It's after
Mario RPG that things start to slow down.

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But yes, I'm I'm hoping I
can get through some of this stuff

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where we get to Mario RPG and
I we'll both be playing that and talking

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01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:33.600
about it. But well, until
next time, everybody, subscribe, follow

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01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:39.279
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than what you think about some of the

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01:17:39.279 --> 01:17:44.279
things we talked about in the comments, Go listen on podcasts and give us

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01:17:44.319 --> 01:17:47.720
a review there, or just subscribe
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Everyone Later, later,