Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly video game show
here at Geek. First recording so many episodes is our third side Quest episode,
recording in one night, it's probably a record, but as Dexter would
say, tonight's the night I am joined by the clownference of outlaws. Travis
and I have the mentor Taylor with me here. We've been going for a
while, so we're gonna get right into it. Taylor, You be self
Forward, mister you Be Soft, I called you series, but you're you're
the mister of many's. What did you think of this year's You Be solf
Forward? Oh? I liked it. I thought it was a quick cut.
It was dishing out lots of stuff and it kind of goes over my
head as I was watching this, because I felt like, man, all
these different titles and it just kind of it's like, wow, these are
all you Be Soft? Because I felt like it's actually pretty diverse when you
think about it, because we go through Star Wars, Avatar and a couple
other things to like Home Bones, Rainbow six, Calling Bones. Yeah,
there's a whole decent catalog of different games. And you know, people hate
on You Be Soft because you know, you don't technically own your games or
whatever, and there's there's reasons to be pissed. But uh yeah, the
one reason people I think it was I think it was a pretty good show,
though I was quite happy with with a lot of what I was seeing.
So number one to five, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go three
point seventy five out of five. Holy wow, kinder Xbox, Travis Nell,
what do you got here? Yeah? I actually thought this was a
pretty good one because to me, we have many years the Ubisoft show when
we did E three has always been in the bottom. It's overstand's welcome,
It's had producers talk about the Assassin screaming with the no idea about Assassin screen.
They got celebrities, there's just dance things. This was like an hour
four. I liked it because it felt like it was bringing back those E
three nostalgia vibes. It's one on stage, an orchestra crowd getting excited.
I they had Star Wars at the beginning, Assassin's create the end. That's
a perfect placement other than Prince of Persia because they're twenty fifth or thirty fifth
year anniversary. That got a showcase of multiple games. Other than that all
these updates, which I was with Taylor, I was like, man,
they do like there's so many games that usoft does produce that we don't even
talk about. But I feel most the updates, especially there's like this block
in the middle where it's just a montage of update, update, Update.
I thought that was the way because we've seen so many years where a dev
comes out, and not that that's a bad thing, but it's just when
you're trying to do and show that semi entertainment as well, you want to
save those more for the interviews or day of the days and stuff like.
There's different ways for that, especially because you want to I feel like that
those are better because people that are interested in your game seek you out versus
your kind of just throwing all this info that they really don't care about or
they don't want to hear right now. So I thought that was good.
We've got a few musical performances, but no, I thought it was good.
I'm with you. I think we like a three point five four.
To me, it seems like there has to be a certain really really goodness
to this. But this to me is like a like a above average passable,
Like I don't know, like that even sounds bad, I would still
say it's good. That's what i'd say. So maybe four is like a
great, so I'd say this was a good conference. I think they hit
well on Assassin's Creed, even though I'm not interested in it, and I
think they hit very well. I think they actually knocked at the park with
Star Wars because they just feel like the reception is a lot better. And
I'm we're gonna talk about more, but I'm very curious how that game is
gonna go for them, because I think if it hits right, that could
be a really big win for Ubisoft and people might look at them in a
different way because it's not just oh, Assassin's Greed over and this over.
So No, I think that they delivered well and like I said, our
four, that's like, that's great, that's exactly all these people Summer's games
fast other ones, like even State of Play. It's like you didn't even
need to do one. Uh. They did the right amount of time show
what they needed to, and I think they did a good job because you
got to you got to preview at least those two big ones, so you
could have just done those two and then be fine, but I think they
wanted to showcase a few things, so uh nope. I was was good
overall, so nice. Yeah, I think I'm lower on this just there
wasn't really much hyped about this for me, and like I didn't gain any
new info here really, Like you know, they are new showings for Star
Wars. I learned some stuff about those games, but like there wasn't any
surprises. I guess that's more of the word I'm looking for, and I'd
like to have some of those. Sometimes I didn't really expect them, but
I don't know. Like, to me, this all, I'll throw two
point five on it. You know, it's good enough, got the job
done. It was good for Pace and wise in terms of what they've done
before. But yeah, nothing really particularly blew me away, But I'm not
offended by it. It's fine. The first game here, Star Wars Outlaws,
of course, coming out at the end of August. They showed a
lot. I don't even know where to start. They showed off space battles,
they showed off some arcade games and just messing around. They showed some
cities. I think to me, they showed off. One of my big
questions has been, Okay, they've talked about all these different planets. This
game is open world, but like how open world is it if you have
all these different areas, And I think they showed how that's going to go
in terms of like transitions between screens, and I thought that was really cool.
So yeah, I don't know what was the highlight for you guys.
I don't know who wants to go first here, but what was just maybe
your highlight for Star Wars at laws what surprised your blew you away? Go
ahead, dude. I can't remember if they revealed this in the previous like
gameplay, but the space battles caught me off guard. When she was going
up into the system and then she chose to just do this this mission here.
I was like, man, this feels like Starfield all of a sudden.
Then she's helping out the ship and like taking out the enemy fighters that
are around it. I really really like that. That was a highlight,
and I just I'm I'm so flabbergasted. I get it's it's tied in a
little bit with a cinematic feature, but for the most part, I think
it's a very seamless transition. I love going to the planet, going through
the clouds, through the atmosphere, and then coming in and just and then
your ship just docks, And I think that that's really really, really fantastic.
I like, you can Starfield do that. Why do I got to
go to the main menu every time and select the planet? You know,
how did you we saw figure it out and then what's going on here?
That was questionable? So yeah, I think that's great. Other things too
that I really like is the factions that you're dealing with as well, and
how you can do different things to increase your popularity or decrease your popularity with
those factions. That's neat We mentioned you mentioned earlier Travis this week the Wanted
level. That's a factor too with the Empire, which is very sweet.
So there's so many cool little things that I'm really really driving with. My
only con with this game is, and you mentioned this Travis before, Like,
I got nothing wrong with being a human, but I'd really like to
be an alien. That'd be a lot of fun, especially in this world
with the crime syndicates. I feel like an alien would be like perfect for
this kind of setting because you're dealing with that. I mean, you got
the week way in there, you're with the Hot Cartel and a whole bunch
of other so I think that's just kind of a miss. But everything that
I've seen with Zip Brown your speeder bike is fun. The combat's cool,
how you're sneaking around and basically you're trying to track down different characters to increase
your skills that you can be better whatnot. And you're pulling off the greatest
Star Wars heist of all time, which I guess we'll see what that's all
about. But everything I saw on this because I perordered the game and you
guys were talking about how it would be available and you'd be soft plus,
and so I thought, okay, well I'm gonna go count my preorer.
But legitimately, after seeing this, I thought, I kind of don't know
if I want you. I'd like to own this game, and i'd like
to send that message that hey, I feel like this is justified and I
want you to keep doing more. Now. I'm not gonna drop the like
one hundred and fifty bucks whatever for the Collector's edition, because that's just fucking
outrageous, but I think i'd be inclined. If it's only a twenty dollars
difference between the subscription that you got, you you did the math, Travis,
and then maybe thirty well for you to buy Assassin's Creed and this that's
a yeah, that's that's that's the difference here. You got the service for
a year. I think it was, yeah, for a year, that's
what I was saying, right, Yeah, So I gotta think about it.
I gotta think about it. One well, one thing I based on
the wording here, and I don't know if they confirm this, but to
me, it seemed like they're offering those uh you know stars at Wilson we're
talking about Asassin's Creed shadows as well as yeah you'd be soft uh plus.
But it seems like maybe those are limited time, like maybe they'll be in
there for a month and then they're gonna like remove them. Oh really,
I don't know, that's the word. When I was reading the wording,
that's what it seemed like was the case to me, which would be weird.
But also it seems like you be self sort of thing to do.
So I don't know, keep an eye on that, like, and I
think in your case Taylor like, this seems like maybe a game. I
mean, Assassin's Screed. You probably want that physical I need it thing on
your shelf. And it was like, maybe these games make sense for you
to buy because that way you can play the DLC and when they can come
out and you have access to them forever because you're not normally a subscriber to
you be soft like you own so many of these games already. It's nine,
yeah, nineteen a month, I think, right, and I own
most of their games. The only reason I've thought about trying it is because
Avatar hasn't gotten sale yet because Cameron wants money, so I haven't picked that
up. And is that in the service right now? It's on the service?
Yeah, so there's that Skull and Bones I'd like to play. Have
they been doing this? Have they been putting their games in their services day
one for a while now? I know that till today because when the way
this ended, before they had everyone's stage, it was like a mini teaser
for you play or you'd be plussed. And when they were showing day when
I was like okay, And that's when I started to look at the website
and Assassin's Creed had that Star Wars had that I didn't know if it is
like the time the exclusive thing where it's like, oh, Outlaws only on
here for a month, so that could change something. But at the same
time, I wonder like, would your save data still change like go over
imagined, like would it be like it should because like Skull and Bone is
like, here's a free trial and you don't have to have you be soft
plus. And then to me, if I had like a month of Outlaws
and I really liked it and it was worth buying, then it's like,
okay at that point, then I'd throw the money down and then just keep
it. But at the same point, after a month, I think I'd
be able to decide, uh, like I've played enough of this game and
when it comes back, I'll do that. So and even then with the
time, I think, both with Assassin's Creed and this, you're getting them
like two to three days early, which always helps me always like having games
early for the reviews. So but yeah, that's I did not know about
this, and that's like terrible marketing for people that are in this ecosystem to
just be hearing about the dape and that's a good thing. That's today where
you do it right, is a day like today where most eyes are on
it. But the fact that we're still like is the first time we've heard
new releases being day one on Ubi Plus is very very odd. So yeah,
yeah, no, I mean because of that, like I want to
play this game now. I was very much on the fence just because of
the price of it, even though it's looked good. But of course my
Star Wars hypes at an all time low. But I think this game looks
great, like the I love the bar games and like the arcade games that
you do, like that kind of stuff is fun. And think the density
of the cities looks cool. Visually, I think it looks great. I
mentioned the transitions. I think that's cool, Like they almost took like the
from the movies, like the almost like Movie Maker. Yeah, when you're
going to a new area, it's like they make it seamlessly, like okay,
now you're going on this little travel sequence. So rather than it being
like a bland loading screen because of the loading capability of these new consoles,
it seems like and I don't know if this is on like PS four or
Xbox one, but if it isn't like it seems like that stuff's really seamless,
and I think that's a really cool creative idea. It's got the classic
you'bist off stuff of like you you can sneak around or you can go in
guns a blazing, and like, you know, that's always gonna be fun.
Another thing I really thought was cool about this is, uh, the
way you are leveling up certain abilities, And this seems like a big narrative
string of why you're playing this game and what you're doing is like going around
and finding these experts who maybe there's like a guns expert or like a ship
expert or something. So you're going to locate these across the galaxy and you
find them and then they help you level up skills. And that's like just
a really smart way rather than just like this boring ass skill tree. Instead,
you're having to go explore find in a world, right like you would
learn a skill from somebody immersive And I'm sure like once you go to the
one of those guys who're can be like here, go do this fetch quest
and then you'll learn the skill. But like, I don't know, I
think that's like a really well integrated way to do it. And I think
it's like, it seems cool of you have this almost chart at the beginning
of the game that's like, here's these different experts, what kind of character
do you want to be, what skills do you want to focus on?
Go try and find this person. I'm sure there's gonna be some like you
know, critical path or like some intended like order of way you're going to
do these things, But to me, that seems like a very cool open
way to do it and fit to like the outlaw setting of going around these
different places. So and like, yeah, the GTA element of it,
like the Empire coming after you a different level way, Yeah, seems super
cool. I don't like space battles. I think they're boring and that's not
my vibe. So I don't like that element of it, but it seems
like the kind of game where I can kind of skip that stuff if I
want and just focus on the ground. It's definitely go around in my speeder,
which I can upgrade. So yeah, I was really impressed by this.
And yeah, like I even though I was impressed, I was like,
yeah, am I gonna drop ninety bucks on it? No, But
I will definitely get a month of Ubi self plus to pick this one up.
So I think that was a very successful showing from them, and yeah,
shows them for you know, getting me excited for Star Wars, which
is not happened in a long time. Mm hmm. Yeah. No.
I think what's weird for me is it does not feel as big as like,
of course, like a Witcher or Grand Theft Auto. But then there's
things about that don't feel like a Ubisoft kind of open world game. It
feels like there is. It feels almost more and again not even as big
as a Bethesda game, but it feels and I get the comparisons. I
think they're completely right. It does feel like a Starfield B where the dog
fighting looks similar the landing, you know, that's funny. But I think
it's almost things that we talked about before Starfield coming when there's one hundreds of
plants and we're like, oh, would be better to pick five or something
like that, and that's what this game is doing right where it's like these
are three five, these are what you can explore, and this is where
it's like truly open world. So it's like, okay, So it kind
of feels like a you know, a multiverse version of start Field, but
with Star Wars Skin there's been lots of because embargoes up that there's lots of
people to have had their hands on it. And one of the big things
they say, which I took from the trailer, like but just emphasize that
the world just kind of always feels alive with conversations and things going on.
And I think that's a good thing you need in Star Wars because it has
to feel you got to feel that kind of magic going on. So I
think that's just impressed me that there's so much stuff I was going to shout
out before you did, so I'm glad you agree. Is like I love
that idea of the different people you find to give your skills, Like that
makes so much sense and like a story wise and is something way more interesting.
And plus it's like I feel like it's almost like I'm sure you'd have
to go talk to them all eventually, maybe for some missions, but maybe
there is some where It's like if you aren't a big fighter, I'm not
gonna go looking to get my gun up. Like if you're just happy with
your one shot gun, I'm gonna go to these other people or sometimes skill
trees they'll do. I'm not sure what's gonna be. I hope it's something
where it's like, well, to keep going forward, you go unlock all
those three bars. I would like it if it's just I don't have to
go talk to the shooter guy for maybe levels and levels, because I'm just
happy with the gun I have. I don't need to do that, right,
So, yeah, like you guys said, there's options of sneaking or
not sneaking. There's the classic you know, work with Jaba, don't work
with Jaba. I am curious at the end of the game how much of
those really because it did sound like a baby's version of like a Red Dead
Redemption, like Outlaw versus Cowboy Hero and that's thing like do you actually have
a bar or is it just certain things certain missions? But if it just
felt bigger than what I thought it was going to be. When I initially
heard ubisoftas doing this, at first, it was just Okay, I want
to play an outlaw, non Jedi and Star Wars great, and I'll have
some fun with this. But just all the little details, even like the
lock picking that reminds me of Starfield as well, which I've heard that's supposedly
fun. So I think for me, I got questions about the RPG and
choice elements because of course they're like, oh, and you can make friends
or enemies with the huts, but it's like, how far does that really
go, you know? Or is it just kind of and and I don't
know, they didn't highlight this in that trailer, so we'll see here that
showcase. But yeah, it's it keeps looking better and better, and that's
where I'm just waiting for like the shoe to drop, like it looks too
good to be true in a sense of you be saw, like I said,
you be Saft putting out a game that I think they would get like
lots of acclaim for was not what I thought was gonna happen. And uh
so, yeah, I'm really really excited for this when I think this was
a good show because because, like I said, my time was just filled
with positive stuff. It's the same thing though, like Mike's and the Discord,
same thing of like it's like because it's ubisoftick, everyone has this like
trepidation of like is it gonna be really this good? Like what are they
hiding? Like that's the thing, like, what is wrong with this game?
Didential transaction? Yeah, but and maybe there's not. Maybe there's nothing
wrong, but I think they're doing all all things. I really hope you
can actually play like Subac in the world. And again we talked about a
little bit, but the GTA threat level, that's fantastic, even if it's
just a carbon copy of GTA, but with Star Wars aesthetic, that's that's
some good stuff right there. So I'm yeah, I'm very curious. So
my hype just keeps going up with each showing. It's the opposite of some
games we've talked about this weekend where it's like, Okay, stop showing Skate,
stop showing this. This is like they've been pitch perfect with their showcases
each time and what they've gone out and gave detail why. So I'm I'm
looking really forward to this game, and now I'm setting myself up for disappointment
though, So we'll see. But yeah, I can't wait anything else from
you, Taylor on this one. Lando is caught in there briefly. Yeah,
and they know that we know Kira is obviously, and their Crimson downs
and they were just kind of cool. I don't think you're gonna get mall
or anything, but I mean it's a little easter egg would be welcomed.
Yeah, yeah, cool. Next up was Skulling Bones. That was Prince
of Persia. Yeah, there was kind of three and one here. First
it was some DLC coming for Prince of Person of the Lost Crown. I
just got to say, I think my least favorite type of showcase is just
twitch streamers screaming. I agree, I don't like it. He hated that
so much. That's the worst thing ever. Remember that's why we hated Sea
Thieves originally, because that was the whole thing, like, well look at
this, and it was like always doing this. They want to show you
people having fun playing people play our games. I swear they're playing them.
Yeah. They did another time too. I can't remember where they did it.
For Avatar. The guy was going to the tunnel. He's like,
oh crap, look how beautiful this is. Oh my god, I didn't
watch. It's hilarious. Yeah right twice. I like though, they like
in there because I I didn't watch this live, so I watched afterwards when
they had the time stamps in there, and it's like they had like Avatar
Streamer Reaction, Avatar gameplay, Avatar Deep Dive, Like they actually broke it
out, so it's like, okay, I can just skip past the super
Tree one, but they really broke it down, which I appreciated, so
it was cool. Rogue Prince of Persia. We got a bit of an
update on that game. And then I laughed out loud watching this when they
said and something about time or like it's time. I forget what the pun
was, but something, and then they had the sense of time, you
know, font a little little sizzler twenty twenty six. I was like,
yeah, this game is still two years away. That's crazy here. I
understand why they showed it because it's like an anniversary year. But when I
saw twenty twenty six, I just laughed because Summer game Best Xbox, Like,
no one's throwing that number. Oh there was so far away. My
numbers, so it's sci fi numbers and what to me? I didn't know
because I knew this remake had been rumored, but I didn't know. I
guess they at some point did officially announce it, so I guess from the
announcement, I think to switch to a new studio and then like okay,
got restarted in development or I don't know, it's been in quite a rocky
road. So from the announcement too, if this game comes out in twenty
twenty six, it's a seven year span from the announcement to the date and
for just a remake, and it's like, yeah, that is that's something.
But they seem to be they're putting a lot of their eggs in their
Prince of Persia basket. So it's it's curious and I'm curious how that remake
will do. But uh, yeah, it was twenty twenty six. That
was a that was quite a trip to see that one. So mm hmmmm.
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora has some DLCA July sixteenth, and I think this
is just kind of part one and there's some other stuff House time Taylor.
Yeah, are you you're gonna be jumping now? You're gonna be jumping into
be Soft. You want keep only to call the service forward, but it's
called you be Soft plus. Yeah, since you're gonna be a subscriber to
that soon enough, do you think you'll jump into Pandora for a little R
and R. I'll jump into it. I've it's This has been on my
watch list for a while. I really wanted to kind of immerse myself in
there and wish for your backlog. But your watch list my watch list.
I got a watch list, a wish list, beautiful in a backlog list.
Yeah, I'll be streaming like, oh, it's amazing, please on
this list. This just looks fantastic and it looks like it's it's right out
my alley. I really want to experience it, and uh yeah, I
think I feel bad that I wasn't there day one, but I swear like
it went on sale really really quick, but not a good enough sale where
I wanted to pay that price for it. Yeah, yeah, but I'll
play it. I'll play it. Yeah, don't Travis any edition, never
ever touching this game whatsoever unless it's out of twenty four hours stream. Yeah,
I would happily watch Taylor play it though. Well that's what I would
say. True. Yeah, my next notice, as thousand screed, I
definitely skipped over some update things. Travis. You seemed hyped by those things.
Anything you wanted to show do. No, I wasn't hype. I
was hype how they did them. I was hyped that I liked that.
I feel like there's been many times where it's like, oh, you know,
like even the crew when they came out, which I surprised at going
he was there for like two three minutes tops. There are times they come
on stage. There's a fucking car there, there's a there's a guy that's
some race or that we don't care about. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
But there's just like even just little stuff. If they did like that
bra haul a thing like in the past, it would be like a dev
comes up for each of these for the most minor update. I think I
liked how they did the montage of them, so I appreciate how they did
it because in previous years they have not They've made a big deal out of
little things. So you can tell I skimmed this conference. Relative to the
Xbox there's not much there. Uh okay, sos SASAE screen is next up
for me. Sorry, Did you have any other things that I skipped over
that is? Yeah, I didn't think so, So that's the screen shadows.
We got quite a lot of gameplay here. Was also a little bit
in the Xbox Showcase, and there's been a lot of info even in the
last couple of weeks that just haven't had you on side Quest recently to talk
about those things. Taylor, So, how are you feeling about Shadows?
What did you think of what we got here? I am so ready for
this game, coming a hot and heavy off of Showgun, Like, I'm
just the whole set piece era here has just been Oh, I'm primely ready.
And what I've seen from this game looks like they've really really refined so
many things. The weaponry that we're getting into, particularly I hope I'm saying
this right. The kush Regama. It's like those like sites that are on
the chains that they're spinning around. That's the coolest things show Yeah, I
can't wait to be using those. That's gonna be great. The way that
you can just really capitalize on being an assassin where you're going pro and crawling
around, you're taking out light sources, you're playing with like a character's kind
of like they're psyche a little bit. The way you're sneaking in like it
just feels like it's they've combined being an assassin with and just now, I
haven't played Ghost of Tsushima, so I don't know exactly how that is in
comparison to this, But I love too that you can basically not be limited
by certain missions, Whereas you have to play a certain character. With the
Sabuscrete Syndicate, you had Ev and Jacob Fry and you could switch between them
at any point in time, but when you wanted to do certain missions,
you had to play as those certain characters. With this, though, just
tossed her own and then like anger, what were the like attributes that they
had? Again, I don't remember you remember that we were a testosterone Yeah,
I thought it was. It was especial power. Yeah, it was
just anger and being like manly supid. So yeah, I was gonna ask
you how that mechanical works. Do you think it'll be like at any point
you could switch between them or it'll I believe they came out and confirmed it
that it's it won't impact the story, Like you can go through the whole
story and just pick whichever character you want to do whatever, which is back
and forth like GTA five style, you can yeah, yeah, so you're
not limited to it. And then you have Yeah, I mean the characters
themselves, like they're both very very enticing. I like her, they both
are very very unique, like you can choose to be the assassin Shnoby or
the samurai. And I think, how did they say her name? It
was like nail uh NOI or I hope, I'm probably not saying that right.
She's fucking fantastic and I'm probably gonna spend like seventy five percent of my
time just enjoying playing as her, while I'll use either twenty five percent playing
as you suit k the Samurai. The samurais are very cool, but like
the Shnoby Assassin, that's fucking That's like, Yeah, I'm with you on
that. I'm playing the assassin or the Samurai like five percent of the time
just to say I did. But then I'm playing her like the way she's
like doing backflips off buildings and like flipping around and obviously I'm more of a
stealth guy than like the solsy type combat whatever they have going on here.
So I'm with you on that. I mean, once again, because of
you, we so off. Plus, I'll be playing this game, Taylor,
I'll join you for in a thousand screen review. Isn't that crazy?
Nice? I love it? I love it? Yeah, So I'm excited
to jump into this. Yeah, I mean, I think for me,
the hype level is definitely lower, Like I'm checking it out because that's subscription
service. Otherwise I definitely wouldn't be just because, like I don't know,
when I've tried to play these games in the past, they just don't really
do it for me necessarily. And I have Ghosts Sushimo, which I love,
and I'm you know, I'm gonna play that sequel when it comes out,
so I feel like my I've had my fix in that way. But
I think there are some cool things they showed off here. And obviously the
stealth I love a good stealth gameplay, and this stuff looks really fun,
and like rating camps and stuff was just one of my favorite elements of Ghosts
and so to get you know, more set pieces for that, all sorts
of crazy stuff going on here, some new mechanics and different mechanics. I'm
into it. So I'm excited for this one. How about you? And
Travis? Not really, And I'm sorry, And I don't think it looks
bad. I think it's it's just that it's like what Dylan said, I
just I had that with a lot of other games too, where it's like,
oh, it's like what's the other one is the Rise of Ronan.
No that's out right now or something like that are coming up. There's just
other games that I just see if there's anything that's not even that Monkey game
that's coming out to an extent, like if it doesn't look none of them
have sold me on why do I need to play this? In addition to
Ghosts, you know when that already kind of hit all the boxes I wanted.
And then I also see some of these games doing things lesser where this
game doesn't look bad, but it doesn't have the beauty of Ghost of Ssushima,
right, that's the thing. And in the combat like the air point
out that one weapon like man, I wish I could have that because that
looked like tons of fun. But one weapon does not make you know,
a great game. I'm not saying this gonna be a bad game, or
that's to say one weapon does not make Travis want to get said game.
I'm with you, guys. I would completely be with the Assassin the Samurai.
There's some elements too. It looked like very similar to how Gin would
fight in certain areas, but was Gin as that would be in certain areas
you could be the assass and you go all over where this is taking almost
the Gin character from Gohoes and like like ripping him apart, and here's the
battle one and here's like the Assassin one. So for me, I would
definitely play as her most of the time because I liked all the moves,
set the ideas. I did really like some of these, like the bigger
kills when they did like the black and white and the red came up,
So that I think is I don't know if Assassin's Creed done that before,
but it felt a bit more like a stylistic choice and Assassin's Creeds done in
the past, So I think that's smart to step aside from the franchise and
like what else can we do? And that's an element that's different than Goes.
So yeah, it's a tough thing where I would like to There's lots
of Assassin Creed games where I'd like to play, because I did like the
original two that I did, but they're just so much further down on the
backlog. And this is the same thing like if they came out and said,
hey, we're done with Goshushima, We're never making another one, then
I may, Okay, maybe I'll do this, but because like Dylan said,
we know at least next two to three years, it's gonna be there,
and I'm gonna get my itch scratch. Plus we already had legends.
So yeah, and I don't think I look bad. I think I'm very
happy for the Assassin's Creed fan and I'm happy for people that don't have a
PlayStation because I think this will be if you are a Prime Xbox Switch person
and you haven't played Gsushima, but you've always won a game kind of like
that. I think that'll be the equivalent to this. I don't think it
will be nearly as good, but I think it will get the job done.
And like I said, it feels maybe a little too late on some
aspects, but I think there's still enough people that are hyped and I think
it still looks good. It doesn't necessarily look bad, doesn't it Just I
can't personally invest in because I have, you know, the the just the
version I prefer already, right, So it's just uh, and who knows.
Maybe when it comes out, people will play it say oh there's X,
Y and Z, but same thing. It's I think the story will
be kind of basic, but I think a good showing overall, because I
think people are still generally genuinely excited for to, you know, be in
Japan with the Assassin's Creed type of lore. So, Taylor, any other
juicy details from what we've gone here that's interesting, new or different to you.
Big thing is the season's changing. I think that's that's huge. The
weather mechanics are cool, and so you're gonna you're gonna be going into areas
that they were highlighting here that it's wintertime. The water's frozen over. You
can't go swimming, you can't get in there, it's iced over. So
you got to like do your thing. You can come back when it's spring
or summer and all of a sudden you can get back in there. So
you're gonna have certain accessibility when it comes to assassinations, certain buildings you're trying
to get into. And I think weather affecting that is really really cool.
Uh Yeah, there's so many other cool, unique little things that they've they've
added in there, which I really really enjoyed. Yet you mentioned, Travis,
the dynamic of just getting that final killing blow and just like that flash.
That's new and that's very very welcome. I think that's it's beautiful.
I love that. I guess the combat system. I think they've really kind
of fine tuned and honed it in quite well after they've revised it with Origins
and kind of been tweaking it since then. So I like that they really
are focusing on just finding that opening and your weakness and your opponent finding his
weakness and take advantage of it. This game is just it's fantastic. And
as I said, my goal is to complete Mirage well in advance before this
comes out, so well, you don't go much time. November is right
around the corner. Really, I know, fuck so goes by fast.
So you got a cup four months there, no more call duty, just
some more call duty, and then you got Star Wars in August. So
you gotta I feel like you gotta kind of finish. I feel like you
gotta. You gotta start in that Assassin's Creed journey right now and finish before
I'm almost I am almost done. I'm more than halfway. So that's not
almost done. That's fifty one, my friend, do it. I believe
in you. Anything else from this showcase, my friends, No, that
was about it. They delivered where they needed to, and I think that's
a good thing. Yeah for sure. Okay, thank you everyone for listening
to these Trio of episodes here. Next week we'll be back to the regular
scheduled programming, you know that Nintendo Direct who knows what's happening. If it
does drop on some random day, we might do a cast early to cover
it. We'll just kind of wait and see and see how it goes and
all that, so stay tuned all that, and uh yeah, thank you
for listening. We'll see you again next time. Bye.