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Yo, wet beer. It's the
Internet. You're busy. Let's do this

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for August seven, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so,

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let me help you sort through the
world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live

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with me Jeff Grubb. Today we
have lots of news out of Ebo and

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rock Star finally confirmed some recent links
out of its studio. But first please

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join me and welcoming today's co host
to Game Mess Mornings. It's lex Lutty.

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Everybody, Lexie, how are you
doing. I got a lot of

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problems with you people? Here we
go. Yeah, is Seinfeld? Is

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that the one? Is that the
one that like crosses generational or is it

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still friends? No, it's mainly
friends. But I'm like, I'm an

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ancient person living in a young person's
body. Okay, So I do appreciate

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Seinfeld and more than anyone else my
No one else my age knows what Seinfeld

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is. Though, give it time, Give it time. It gets everybody

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in the end. Yeah, I
have a lot of problem with you people.

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Is always in my head. I'm
always always just kind of saying that.

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Absolutely. I don't know how you
being. You have a good weekend,

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you get any time to play any
games you're playing that boulders Gate three.

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I see all the kids are playing
boulders Gate three. I've been playing

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a lot of boulders Gate three.
My current playtime on my steam Deck apparently

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is about twenty hours, but then
my save file is only about ten hours

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because I've been saves coming so much
and the load times are so bad on

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steam Deck. And I also have
a fun story about Giant Bomb related and

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content in the physical sense, and
I when I finished my workplacement at the

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gamer I bought myself some fine Giant
Bomb merchandise saw dot giant Bomb dot com,

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and I had it accidentally posted to
my apartment that I was moving out

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of. Oh yeah, I'll move
Yeah yeah. And I tried to get

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it redirected, but that was right
around the time that when Roy was leaving,

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and also you were changing over merchandise
partners. So it's like, grand,

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that's fine, they'll hold on to
it for me. They're like nice

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enough people. And I sent them
an email and they're like, yeah,

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we'll hold whatever package drives, like
an email in May saying oh, your

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package has arrived. I finally got
back up to my apartment this or last

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week and I arrived there and I
told them like the package number, and

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they handed me an envelope and I
was like, oh no, and the

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envelope said please open immediately, and
I was like, oh no. And

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Inish was a customs charge back from
May that was like, please pay this

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as soon as possible and if not, we'll send it back. So I'm

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willing to bet my merchandise is now
with whoever your previous supplier was. Okay,

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well that's yeah, shipping globally seems
complicated. I'm glad I never have

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to think about that. Yeah,
that was that was a fun expirit.

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So I was like, man,
I was on a bus for two and

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a half hours to pick this up. And then I was like, why

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would why would you get a letter
that says please open immediately for a ten

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and that has left and then just
send them an email being like, oh,

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you have something in the like to
pick off. Yeah, just take

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a picture of it and send like
they're like, this looks so this looks

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important. I don't know, this
looks like it looks like something you should

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open immediately. I don't know if
something's giving me that sense. Yeah,

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yeah, absolutely, that's that's thanks. I don't know. Well, we'll

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get in contact with the ghost of
Rory get it figured out. Who knows?

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All right, that's a mess,
so is this. Let's explain what

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we do here most weekdays. I, Jeff Grebill, help piece your gaming

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life back together. That includes breaking
news and maybe even some of our own

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original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the input of a bona

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fide expert who will make me look
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You can also catch the show later
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YouTube. Okay, we have a
lot to get into, so let's start

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the morning mess with. Rockstar is
bringing Red Dead Redemption to modern platforms.

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This comes from Michael mcwarter into Cole
Carpenter at Polygon. Rockstar Games is rereleasing

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the original Red Dead Redemption on two
modern platforms, giving Nintendo Switch and PlayStation

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four owners a chance to play the
open world western adventure. Natively, Red

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Dead Redemption will be released digitally on
Nintendo Switch and PS four on August seventeenth,

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the developer announced Monday, excuse me, a physical release is planned for

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October thirteenth. Let's just start there, Lexie, you've actually picking me the

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smart say it looks like this has
happening, and what I'm like, Yeah,

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yeah, it does look like this
happening. That did happen. Here

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we are. Fifty dollars is going
to be the price it's going to be

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on the shop the PlayStation stores.
This seems like to me, it's basically

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the equivalent of the backwards compatible version
you could already get on Sparks just now

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also on switch in PlayStation right,
So that was actually the thing I was

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gonna say to you was I did
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this this morning, and what I
was told is it is that version.

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It is them basically running the same
style systems that Xbox Backwards Compact does automatical

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or not automatically. The devs still
have to do some work for it,

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but it's them doing that on a
PlayStation and then also them porshing that down

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for a switch. So it is
literally the same game running under the hood.

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I know the studios that's working on
this is a butish studio, and

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they seem to have some pretty good
people there, so I'm sure it will

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be an okay ish porsh And it's
pretty hard to mess up a Porsche of

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of a game this big, and
this you know well known at this point,

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it would be it would be disastrous
for OSA if another one of their

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ports was messy, especially considering this
is basically just the back Compass version,

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right. This doesn't seem like what
they were doing with the Grand Theft Auto

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Games, which is like running it
through a bunch of sort of shoddy,

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half baked AI filters to uh,
oh, we're gonna improve every texture in

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the game or whatever, like yeah, like you said, the Xbox version,

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this is also like I think it's
gotta be a little bit of a

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relief for Xbox always, you know, frequently these days getting left out of

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games like in this case, No, it's just because you were there first

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and you like made this easy for
this game to get to this almost yeah,

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yeah exactly. And it's like like, and that's probably benefited red Dead

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redemption in terms like it seems like
it's a benefit to a lot of those

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games that are on the backwards capat
list. People go back to them they

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buy them. Now, this is
going to be a chance to do the

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same thing on Nintendo and PlayStation It's
PlayStation four, not PlayStation five, because

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PlayStation four, you know, it's
the backwards capatibility there. Once you get

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on PlayStation four, it basically is
a PS five game. There's not much

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difference, so you might as well
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bigger audience and then switch. I
mean, it should run fine on switch.

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This was an Xbox three sixty game, right, Yeah, And I

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think like an old led screen would
be really interesting. How we will look

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on that pop pretty nicely. And
yeah, I mean it's it's still a

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really good looking game, Like for
the error, it is an incredible looking

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game. So it will be pushing
the switch. But I imagine at this

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point everyone has had so much time
working with the switch, like you,

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you have to have some confidence that
it will at least be thirty fames locked

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and probably seven twenty similar to the
witcher, Like, if they get the

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witcher running, they can get this
running. Yeah. Absolutely. I think

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the one of my favorite things about
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they got the backward comparibility was the
auto HDR. It looked really good in

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Red Dead Redemption. It's like,
that's the thing with the switch. They

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still blugs me. It's like,
listen, I like the old well,

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I love the old screen. I
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But an HDR, boy, I
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eventually. So I mean, if
you are someone who's been waiting for this

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and and like that's cool, I
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is being left out still that's PC
Dead Redemption never came to PC. Doesn't

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feel like that's going to change here, right. Yeah. It's a weird

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one because if you are doing the
work, surely moving it to PC isn't

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as difficult as like downpatching it to
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makes it literally impossible to get it
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and computer like catching fire. Like
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there's any problem there or if it
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don't want it on PC for whatever
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because Red Dead Redemption two is on
PC. Yep, yeah exactly. And

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I mean maybe for red Dead Redemption. It's like their their vision is like

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this has to run a thirty frames
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that, we can't have that PC. And you know they're gonna use their

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sick magics to make it run faster
than that. Let's see. Yes,

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the four version of Red Dead Redemption
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We talked about that, and then
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A developer, Double eleven is responsible
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Red Dead Redemption rock Star set in
as a news release. The studio's previous

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work include console versions of Minecraft Dungeons, Rust and the Lego Harry Potter games.

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So that's controversial Minecraft Dungeons. That
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That's right, yes, well wait
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with the FTC trial? I don't
remember, and they were basically the judge

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or the FTC. We're trying to
prove, like O, you didn't make

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a PlayStation five nature version, and
you are obviously going to be giving You're

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not going to be giving the best
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PlayStation five pot You'll needed a PlayStation
four Porsche that was then backwards compatible,

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and all of that. Entire part
of of the trial felt a bit lost

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on the judge because it was so
in the weeds of console terminology and like

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trying to explain what backwards compatibility is, and then a game coming to PS

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four and being playable on a PS
five but like not natively playable, and

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like it was a fucking mess.
A lot of that trial was a mess

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when you listen to it live.
Oh yeah, yeah, it was the

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whole thing over there. Uh oh
go ahead please. Yeah. I was

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gonna say my big question is am
I going to finish it this time?

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Because I've never finished the first one. I love redo played a lot of

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it. Yeah, I adore that
second game like way more than anyone else

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left at this website does. But
yeah, because it's a good game,

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and you're all wrong. It's a
it's a good story. Maybe I'll give

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you that. It's you know what, it's a it is an impressive feat.

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I will not deny that. At
the very least, I do not

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enjoy playing it as a video game. Okay, I dislike Sonic. You

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just like this game. Yeah,
I was gonna try to think of like

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a game that I also like,
dislike that you way high on I don't

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like Metroid There we go, Yeah, okay, there you go. That's

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that's fair. I get that all
the all the kids are coming at me

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these days not liking Metroids. So
that's uh, that's because that that has

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that Uh you have to backtrack,
right, and that's the whole thing like

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these days, like they have been
played again, we have to backtrack.

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This is absurd doing Dark Souls,
I suppose. Also, someone in chap

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just said, I am the expert
that you invited on today, so you're

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not allowed question anymoy. That's right, Okay, all right, fair enough.

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I've never beat Read Dead Redemption one
either. I think I would like

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to someday, But the idea of
doing that this year, there's no.

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Oh yeah, no way, no
way, that's not happening. Absolutely not.

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Uh okay, let's move on here. Killer Instinct to get tenth anniversary

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update later this year. We're gonna
have a lot more of the EVO headlines

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here in a second, but let's
start with this one. Uh. This

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is from Ben Leone at game Reactor
Smart ten years of Killer Instinct developer Iron

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Galaxy Studios has announced that it will
be launching a free anniversary update later this

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year. The title will be getting
some long awaited features, including an actual

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balance patch, improved matchmaking, and
even four K support for Xbox Series X

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and S on the X and S
consoles. Microsoft and Iron Galaxy like tweeted,

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like our friend's Iron Galaxy are backed
and together We're bringing you Killer Instincts

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free tenth anniversary update later this year, including a balance update. Blah blah

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blah, all the stuff we just
said. This is cool and mostly unexpected.

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I've been hearing for a long time
Killers. They want to do something

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with Killer Instinct. They want to
do something with Killer Instinct. And then

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the other thing I would hear is
there's no one to work on Killer Instinct.

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There is no studio available to do
that. We've I mean, this

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goes back to grubs next. We
talked about this, so this lines up

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with that exactly. Because Iron Galaxy
was busy working on Rumble Verse, still

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doing a lot of their work for
higher business. They were I always heard

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Iron Galaxy way too well. Rumble
Verse is no more, you know,

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rip it deserved better. But we're
in a world where we don't get good

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things, so they are. They
had some more time, and it's not

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too surprising to me that with that
extra time and resources, they're like,

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let's kind of go back to Killer
Instinct. We know Microsoft wants to do

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something there. That's a sure thing. Let's just go for it. That

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sounds right right, Yeah, Yeah, I'm like, I wonder, is

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Killer and Sincch probably the most fondly
Thosh of Xbox One exclusive at this point?

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Yeah, maybe it's like up there
maybe a thieves. Yeah, it's

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in the conversation for sure. And
the people who like Killer Instinct really like

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Killer Instinct. Yes, yes they
are, Yes, exactly, Turbosh,

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they are. They are super horny
for Killer Instinct. I get it.

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I've always enjoyed Killer Instinct, even
though back when it wasn't actually a very

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good game on in the Arcades and
the Super Nintendo originally, but the series

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got very cool over time, and
then that that Xbox game was actually surpris

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rising ly excellent. Iron Galaxy,
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I think Double Helix was the original
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turned it, maintained it as a
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It was always a free to play
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they know this series now really well. So then returning to it is

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I think a good sign of well, let's do this ten year anniversary update.

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That's cool. Uh you know it's
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in there and excited about any of
the changes and the improved visuals. But

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they're probably going to work on a
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right, Yeah. I was going
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a case of them testing the water
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this resonation you know, bringing a
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if people do come back to it
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this is still really good, do
they then say like, hey, what

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about a new project? Yeah?
I think that's It's definitely along those lines,

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right. I likely they already everyone
involved knows a new project would would

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work fine, and they would go
for it. And this is uh rare,

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I'm sorry, Iron Galaxy, Jesus, Iron Galaxy is saying, let's

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kind of get our legs back underneath
us in terms of developing this. Let's

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let's get people who are new to
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before. Let's get them familiar with
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while also building up goodwill among the
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to support that game that you love. Here's one more big update and then

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and then guess what after that comes
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like, oh, what is that
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they have a confirmity of that,
but that's that sounds like what's going

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to happen here? And Killer Instincts
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like it actually not just well loved
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hey, there's a lot of people
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this is a good move. It
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also rans from you know, the
Moral Combat ever, like literally just trying

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to imitate moral combat has survived so
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was still coming out and people are
like, hey, fight Is History is

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just as good as Street Fighter,
you know, Fighters Histories. Which one

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was that? Is that the one
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sure that's the one they took to
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that is right. Okay, uh
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of Mortal Kombat sort of clones at
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of them to come back. I'd
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Primal Rage, was a Primal Rage
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I think I played the prototype Arcade
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cool. And then god, there
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never remember. Uh yeah, but
either way, the Dark Will Dark Stalkers

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should come back. That's a that's
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wouldn't call that a Mortal Kombat clone, would you. I guess it's kind

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of dark and maybe a little bit
more bloody than other Capcom games. I

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don't know what we're gonna say.
We'll probably get onto this, but a

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friend of mine, Scott McClay,
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him and me have always had the
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Jeff Gersman has also bought this up. But like they should totally just do

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Capcom versus Capcom at this point.
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half the like rooster be fighting game
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rooster be like other capcom characters,
like they have the catalog to do it,

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and just make it in the style
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you can't get the license, just
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the catalog, yep, exactly.
And Eternal Champions is the one I was

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thinking of when shipping Abbsby got that. Thank you so much, dj T

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money. Thank you all for that. I appreciate it. Okay, moving

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along here. Square Knicks share price
drops amid claims the Final Fantasy sixteen didn't

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say the things Square Knicks meet expectations. This is from Chris Scullions. Yeah,

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we we did it, everybody.
Congratulations. Square Enix's share price and

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fan is dropped by nearly fifteen percent
following the company's latest earnings release. The

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publisher reported it's Q two twenty twenty
three earnings on Friday, during which it

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stated the revenue had increased around fourteen
percent year on year, but profits had

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dropped around sixty five percent. When
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square Enix's share price sat at about
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yen when it opened earlier Today,
however, that price had dropped to five

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thousand, five hundred and sixty six
yen and stayed around this figure throughout the

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day, dropping a little bit more. This is the lowest the company's share

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price has been since May twenty twenty
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the worst entry day drop in three
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the reasons for square Enix's underwhelming financials
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The publication sites Three separate sources who
attended Square Enix's post earnings call, all

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of whom who, all of whom
claimed President Takashi Kiyu said he's said,

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said the game's initial sales and Bloomberg's
words did not meet the high end of

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the company's expectations. Okay, you
gotta be in your maths exam. What

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are we sending you a school for? Yeah, okay, Square, let

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me just there's only so many PlayStation
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many Oh, I mean, there's
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What the fuck were you expecting what
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this every time? The sat that's
like really six out here is the revenue

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is up fourteen percent, but their
profits have dropped sixty five per cent.

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How much fucking money did they spend
on the promotion for this game? That?

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Yeah, that they racked up that
much of a like real end that

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they couldn't make back on, Like
Jesus Christ, what did they What are

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they doing? Okay, so Spider
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that is also PlayStation five exclusive.
It it probably is going to sell better

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than Final Fantasy sixteen. It's fucking
Spider Man sells better than not gonna Yeah,

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it's not gonna sell as well as
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few years. Exactly. It will
eventually get there, but Sony are like

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probably well aware of that factors,
right, and yes, exactly, like

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it's not going to sell as fast
as that original Spider Man game. Yes,

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you're right, that's and that's the
point here. And so when you

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look at three millions sold or whatever
they said it was in the first week,

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whatever the time frame was, it's
yeah, I mean that sounds right

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like the high end up expectations and
it is that's clearly their way of like

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softening saying it didn't meet their expectations. That's what they're actually actually trying to

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say, Uh, I don't know
how much more you could have expected than

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three million. It's it's bizarre,
but here we are, and this is

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Square Enix, and this they do
this every time. Well, they haven't

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done this with their Final Fantasy and
Japanese games pretty much. They used to

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just do this to their Western studios, but they don't have those anymore.

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So now it's like, well,
we gotta turn our eyre to these other

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children of ours. It's bizarre.
Yeah, it's like they can't blame you

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know, Crystal Dynamics, and they
can't give out to Eugenaka anymore. So

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they're like, who do we turn
our anger on? Oh shit, the

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only people who are left a Final
Fantasy. But like the wild thing is,

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if you look at other PlayStation five
exclusives, other games that have only

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released on the PlayStation five, you
have stuff like Ternal, you have Ratcheling

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Clank, and that's kind of about
ish, Like what those weren't selling that

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much more than three million? They
returnal I Bet has only recently. If

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if it has surpassed one million,
it was below one million through all those

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early years in the wild. Yeah, and Rachel Clink isn't much more over

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a million either. I don't think
in Ratchel and Clicks a fantastic game,

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but it's you know, it's Ratchel
and Clink. I guess we can you

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know, maybe doesn't fit that well
with the modern PlayStation audience whatever, but

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that those are the numbers we're talking
about so far there are you know,

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there's twice there was twice as many
PlayStations fours, maybe more than that out

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in the world with five Fantasy seven
Remit came out. This is selling about

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as fast as that, and we
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I just don't get it. I
don't I don't get it. It's it's

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it's weird. Now, let me
ask you. Do you think that them

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saying this getting the reaction from investors
that they are going to rush out the

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PC version and try to get done
faster than they originally thought? Oh yeah,

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totally Like that seems like a total
short sighted move that Square would be

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way into and they love their washed
PC ports. I wouldn't be like half

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suplies if they're like, it's an
epic game, so exclusive because they'd give

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us like a couple of million dollars
just to have it now, only because

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they did that with Final Fantasy seven, And like I could totally see a

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world where they go down that roush
again. I don't know. I think

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that game is really good. That
game is really solid in a way that

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like previous Final Fantasy mainline games haven't
been solid. Like it's a game that

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I'm perfectly happy to look at and
go the loads and like glaring errors here,

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like the way it writes women is
super fucked up. Some of its

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pacing isn't grage, but like I
still enjoy the moment to moment combat so

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much, and like it really does
feel like a soft reboot of the series

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in a new direction that I'm looking
forward to seeing where they go with next.

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But like they you can't completely change
a genre of a game, change

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the style of a game, change
everything about the like franchise, and then

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expected to like outsell a game that
came out previously, that was on a

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console with more like consoles in the
wild. I don't know where the expectation

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even came from. Who is crunching
their numbers, that they even thought that

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that would be that they would be
selling more than this. Yeah, it's

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you know, there was a glory
Days for Final Fantasy more than twenty years

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ago now, I think, and
they've it's always it's still popular, it's

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still huge, it's still beloved.
I mean, you can just look at

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the reaction to Final Fantasy susteen in
the in fighting among fans, Like that

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doesn't happen unless you're one of these
top franchises where everything everything is the worst

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thing and everything's the best thing.
It doesn't happen on that scale. I

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suppose. Listen, there's messagepoorts for
every game, but it's not. It

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is not Spider Man, it's not
even Zelda. It hasn't had like these,

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it has not had this continuous growth
that some of these other franchises have

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had. Persona yeah, persona yeah. At this point, it's it's a

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ORPG that has like its niche and
like not everyone's going to jump on it,

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but like it's a dedicated fan base
and it's might be going, it

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might be shrinking. You can argue
about it whatever, but it's not the

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biggest game in the world. Anymore
and the Archpidegual Games who do really like

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Final Fantasy in a way they don't
like other games because of the nostalgia factor.

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But like that, you can't bank
on Nash entirely. Yep, really,

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I think it comes down to this. The simple thing here is they

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should be excited about how well it's
selling because I think this is a strong

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jumping off point. You can you
can put it on PC. Maybe it

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probably can't come to Xbox for for
a very long time, but you can

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come to PC. Uh maybe you
know it comes to the next switch that

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might be possible. Who knows what
contract looks like with Sony, and then

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you know, Final Fantasy seventeen.
I think it's only going to be bigger,

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and now it's it's it's not gonna
be Spider Man still, but it

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is probably still gonna be even bigger. I think this is a good way

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to like they are well on their
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audience I think they were going for. And I think the next time there's

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a Final Fantasy game, they're going
to be able to build on that.

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But that is steady growth and there
they clearly are not interested in that that's

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not what they were going for it. They were looking for a Grand Slam

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home run right now, and they
that's it's not that, but it's still

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you know, it's still a home
run. I think it's just not you're

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not batting in three runs just channel
the base is loaded, and they're acting

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like you know they lost the Yep, it's uh and yeah yeah again,

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like Seawan says, seven and fifteen
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the main stream. Fifteen had the
benefit of being on everything and being like

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this exciting first final fantasy like that's
HD, I think, right, because

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yeah, four team was uh this
weird thing. Yes, uh, no,

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I guess our team was HD.
But yeah, it's it's still like

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the fifteen like had was on everything, got everybody excited and people showed up

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for that. Yeah. I don't
know. I think that this just comes

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down to Square nix's expectations. Everyone
knows this story. Here it is again.

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All right. So EVO had a
bunch of announcements over the weekend.

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Here are we're gonna do the big
reveals. We're gonna separate these headlines out

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discuss each one, and then we'll
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this comes always come from Michael mcwordur. A Polygon shout out to Michael.

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EVO twenty twenty three aka the Evolution
Championship Series brought the best of the best

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fighting fighting game players to Las Vegas
this past weekend for a three day tournament.

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This year's EVO was the biggest yet, with nearly fifteen thousand registrants and

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turboshean committee across the eight games featured
in its main competition. More than seven

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thousand players duped it out in Street
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the pre eminent fighting game tournament,
EBO twenty twenty three has also become a

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major news event. Publishers and developers
like Capcom, band and Namco, Netheralm

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Studios, and Arts system Works dropped
new game reveals, character announcements, and

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release dates at EBO, starting with
Mortal Kombat one, Reptile, and more.

404
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.359
After much teasing from Mortal Kombat co
creator Ed Boone, nether Realm confirmed

405
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.039
that Reptile is headed to Mortal Kombat
one. He'll be joined by three d

406
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:40.519
Era fighters Havoc and Ashtray. No
astra I read that as Ashtray my brain

407
00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.839
bent first and I'm like, that
can't be right Astra, both of whom

408
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:48.119
have been reimagined for Mortal Kombat Once
reset timeline. A new gameplay trailer revealed

409
00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:51.720
more cameo fighters in action, including
a relatively deep cut from the three D

410
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:56.000
era Serena. I have a little
bit here. I'll bring this up and

411
00:27:56.119 --> 00:28:02.599
let this play a little bit.
This is a cool thing because reptile is

412
00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:07.240
human form reptile, which I've always
preferred over lizard man reptile. Do you

413
00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:11.160
have an opinion on this? Yeah, I can't believe they did it.

414
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.359
They finally made reptile hot. They
made him hot. Yeah, exactly,

415
00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:18.119
That's what we've been waiting for.
I'm a big fan of this. He

416
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.079
looks great. He obviously he can
turn into a lizard man like that's his

417
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.480
whole thing and make a big deal
out of it. And then here's some

418
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:30.039
of these other characters. Yeah,
I'm excited about this. I think that

419
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:34.000
Mortal Kombat one is still actually one
of my most anticipated games right now.

420
00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:37.480
I really enjoyed what I played at
SGF. I do. My understanding is,

421
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:42.039
though the fighting game scene is a
little bit more hesitant about this game.

422
00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:45.039
They're not sure about how fast it
plays and all that stuff, But

423
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.920
I'm like, the blood is goopy
and the characters are all really hot.

424
00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:52.079
It's cool. I don't know,
how are you feeling about it? Yeah?

425
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.039
As a non fighting game person,
I look at all the moral combats

426
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:59.640
as like I know that the three
d ones are bad, and like I

427
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.240
I look at nine, ten and
eleven as all similarly equal, and I

428
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:08.240
really do just look at them like
enjoy them for the soy which you need

429
00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.799
to get onto that play through all
of them, because I haven't seen the

430
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.440
buy of eleven. Start today.
Actually, I'm gonna start today, so

431
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.119
and I'll be in this room.
If you're gonna hop in at any point,

432
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:21.920
feel free, we'll play some of
that will be a good time.

433
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.160
Uh yeah, So yeah, I'm
looking forward to this. Human reptile is

434
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:30.279
the is the thing for me?
I like, actually I like all the

435
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.480
ninjas, but that green costume Ninja
was always great. I think that's going

436
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:36.559
to be the poll questions today.
By the way, everybody's gonna ask what

437
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:40.359
do you prefer to you for a
lizardman, reptile or human reptile. I

438
00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:45.519
expect human supremacy to reign once again, Lexie, You're you're massively underestimating how

439
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.599
many like people have like a thing
for reptiles. I'll be happy to find

440
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:53.319
out. Let's find out firsthand.
Let's see what happens. Uh. Street

441
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:59.200
Fighters six is getting acky and the
Ninja Turtles. Capcom released the first add

442
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.279
on character Act. Let me just
get this video gone right now, let

443
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:06.200
me loop it too. Capcom released
the first add on character for street Fighter

444
00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:08.880
six, Rashid and July, just
ahead of EBO twenty twenty three. We

445
00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:14.640
already know who's next. Newcomer Aki, who has slated for release sometime this

446
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.480
fall. Beyond the Beyond, the
mysterious Chinese Fighter ed from Street Fighter five,

447
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.440
is set to return this winner with
a vulnerable, venerable World Warrior a

448
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.799
Kuma peg for Spring twenty twenty four
release. Yeah he loves to be pegg

449
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:29.920
in Spring twenty twenty four. On
Friday, Capcom gave fans a morsel of

450
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:34.079
news showing off new costumes for Street
Fighter six characters Gyle, Marissa, DJ

451
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:40.920
and Jury. Let's I mean I
got these here? There there they are.

452
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:45.440
That's that's yeah. I saw fin
off for the Joey costume before I

453
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.759
actually solve the Joey costume. That
that sounds quick. Yep, Oh my

454
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:53.480
god, Jerry Jesus, Uh yep, that's that's the stuff right there.

455
00:30:53.599 --> 00:31:00.319
Man. Okay, DJ's costume is
fantastic. That looks great and got good

456
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.079
at creation, like character art for
women that I would let beat the shit

457
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:08.880
out of me. Yes exactly,
they're Oh man, guy looks like a

458
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:14.240
real dirt bag. I love it. Uh yeah, Onesie jury is everywhere

459
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:17.440
online. Yeah, that's that sounds
right. That's this looks like the kind

460
00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:21.119
of thing that's this looks the kind
of thing that was already on they're doing.

461
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:26.160
Yeah exactly, Yeah, they know
who plays that game. I'm excited

462
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.039
about this stuff. There's also let's
see here, uh, teenage Mutan Ninja

463
00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.240
Turtle stuff. Let's see on Friday, where do I have this? As

464
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.039
part of the crossover. Okay anssume
On Sunday, Capcom Teast Hockey, but

465
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.279
did not show any of her gameplay, and in a far more unexpected move,

466
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.960
Capcom revealed a new Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles collaboration for Street Riter six.

467
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.160
As part of the crossover, players
will be able to get Teenage Mutant Ninja

468
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.119
Turtle, steamed gear, emotes,
titles, stamps, and end game device

469
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.559
wallpapers, along with camera frames in
photomode. Additionally, they'll have the option

470
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.519
to dress up their custom avatar and
Street Riter six We're Tour and Battle Hub

471
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:06.400
as Don Tello, Leonardo, Michael
Angelo and Raphael Let's. You should be

472
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.359
able to do that and then go
out and carol and sing some Christmas Carroll's

473
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:13.119
teenage Christmas Carols. Mike, you
could finally make your dreams come true in

474
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.240
Street Fighter. Congratulations, Uh,
this is this is cool. Teenagetet and

475
00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:21.039
Ninja Turtles are cool, Lexie,
I don't know, did that? It

476
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.160
feels like one of those things that
obviously it's popular. Again, it's popular

477
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.640
when I was a kid. Did
it skip you or did you guys get

478
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:29.200
any TMT you love when you were
a kid. No, So it was

479
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.960
popular when I was a kid because
we got all of the American TV shows

480
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:37.559
like ten years later, okay,
fantastic like the same thing. Yeah,

481
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:42.319
So I got a bunch of TMNT
stuff and I really dug it, and

482
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.799
but like we didn't get them in
order, and sometimes they were only in

483
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:49.480
the Irish language channel. So for
me, like Don Tello has like a

484
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:54.319
thick Kelly accent, and I can't
understand them any other way. Yeah,

485
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:58.480
and I like that a lot.
That's really fun. It's even weirder when

486
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:04.720
it's Avatar the Last Airbend. You're
like this fields racist. Oh yeah,

487
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.680
that's that's gonna happen. All right, another one here, Tech and eight,

488
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:15.880
Raven and newcomber Azuchina Azusina a zuc
I'm gonna say, Azusina, all

489
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:20.400
right, let's play this. Vanda
Napko has said plenty about tech and eight,

490
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:24.039
confirming sixteen fighters for the game's roster
and recently holding a closed network test.

491
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:27.559
We're still waiting on a release date
for tech and eight, but the

492
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:31.279
developers officially added two more to the
roster on Sunday, Raven, who made

493
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:37.759
his debut in tech and five,
and newcomer Azusina mill Gross Ortiz Castile aka

494
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:43.480
the Peruvian Coffee Queen. Let's fucking
go. It's just like me. He's

495
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:47.079
just like, let's go. As
you've seen, his final fighting style is

496
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:52.599
based on mixed martial arts techniques.
According to tech and eight director kohe Akita.

497
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:57.720
Her signature move is the Liberty Libertator, a post that provokes the opponent,

498
00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:01.119
Akita said on the PlayStation blog.
She shifts into a stance where she

499
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:07.160
can no longer block, but instead
instinctively instinctively detects and dodges her opponents high

500
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:10.840
and low attacks. This special stance
and her movement allows her to keep her

501
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:17.719
opponents from gaining momentum. The libertator
pose becomes even more powerful in heat state,

502
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.840
whereas you're seeing that automatically launches a
counter attack after dodging an attack,

503
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.519
putting more pressure on her opponent.
I live my entire life in heat state.

504
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:34.639
I don't know about you. I
know some dogs sty like that too,

505
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:38.440
but you know, yeah, that's
a real problem. Yeah yeah,

506
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:43.119
that's humping legs at SGF for everyone. Everyone got real mad at me.

507
00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:49.159
Yeah, i'd say what watching the
Top six of EVO, I watched a

508
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:51.800
fair bit of it last night.
I was up too late and I woke

509
00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:57.079
up early as well for the Street
Fighters stuff. But teching is still like

510
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:02.480
maybe the most watchable ESPOSH around because
it's just like it is basically UFC.

511
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:07.159
It is flashy UFC, and it's
very easy to understand, even if you

512
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:10.840
don't know how they're doing the ship
it is. It's it reads more as

513
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:15.199
a real sport than like any other
fighting game because there's that slight three D

514
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:19.199
element to it. Ye, so
I love competitive tech and just watching the

515
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.079
high level stuff. I'm fucking awful
at it. I am terrible at teching,

516
00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.599
but it's also the one that I
would try to get into the most,

517
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:31.639
Like I think I am. Remember
it's spending some time with tech at

518
00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:37.320
seven and it feels like two years
ago. But that game is way older

519
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:42.000
than that, right, and he's
sixteen twenty seventeen. Man, that's that's

520
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:46.079
but nanas so we're over due.
Tech it Age's coming. I think people

521
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:47.920
are getting very excited for it,
like you said, like, and I

522
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:52.400
agree with everything. It is so
flashy and pretty and makes it so much

523
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:55.719
fun to watch, and it you
know, it is it feels like the

524
00:35:55.760 --> 00:36:00.639
one real three D fighting game standing, not three arena fighter and not two

525
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:06.000
D fighting game with three D visuals. You know, there's others calibers upset

526
00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:09.639
with you now, so caliber as
much of a going concern as Tech End.

527
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.719
It's not. I wish it was, but it's not. You know.

528
00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:15.320
They they've had their attempts. They
did, like what was the last

529
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.639
one, like a free to play
one that felt like a rerelease of a

530
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:22.000
previous game. I can't remember exactly. I would love for Soul Caliber to

531
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:23.360
be back, but techn is the
one, and I'm glad for that.

532
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:29.400
I I really have had a lot
of good times with techns So, but

533
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.639
they should just say, should do
a Yakuza fighting game in the silo techn

534
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.039
and it's just held your characters from
RUSA. That would be fucking just table.

535
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.559
Just take the Virtual Fighter engine and
put cure you in it and let's

536
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:46.360
go. They already did that as
DLC for Virtual Fighter five on the PS

537
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:49.760
five when they bought it to the
PS five. That's right, here's here's

538
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:53.880
as Usina. Uh yeah, there
you go. That's very good. Okay,

539
00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:59.639
let's see. There's a few more
headlines here from EVO, including Fatal

540
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.760
Fear. Every City of the Wolves
is re revealed. The game, formerly

541
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:07.400
known as Galu two Garrow, How
do you say the Wolves go? I

542
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:12.199
think yeah, grow there we go, Grow two is now called Fatal Fury.

543
00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:15.280
City of the Wolves. S and
K announced that EVO the King of

544
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.400
Fighters developed developed or Developers showed off
some in game visuals confirming a Cell shadd

545
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.599
look for characters Rock Howard and Terry
Boguard, and potentially teasing a few others

546
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:28.679
by highlighting various locations. S and
K said a Fatal Fury City of the

547
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.400
Wolves is furiously in development, but
did not reveal platforms, earliest timing for

548
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:37.960
its next fighting game. I'm glad
that they even if it is still lays

549
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:39.639
off, I'm glad that they reconfirmed
it like this and say, hey,

550
00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:44.039
we're still working on it. Here's
like the official name where this is like

551
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:47.400
really actually happening. I'm excited about
this. I always like to see other

552
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.199
the listen. I love the Street
Fighters, the King of Fighters. I

553
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:57.039
like it best when these fighting game
studios are also dipping into their like their

554
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:01.880
secondary and tertiary franchises like the Shan
said bring back Dark Stalkers obviously, but

555
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:07.519
Mark of the Wolves coming back is
also something that is fantastic for us and

556
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:12.199
K. Yeah, this game is
I think the Fatal Purity stuff has always

557
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.800
just been like the coolest shit.
Like everyone in that series just seems like

558
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:22.360
the most badass motherfucker around. I
really appreciate the art style. I think

559
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:28.199
it could have been easy for them
just to redo the King of Fighters art

560
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.159
style again, and now that they've
sort of because they do so many of

561
00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:35.280
those King of Fighters games, but
trying to do something new and like,

562
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:37.960
you're never going to be able to
live up to the you know, pixel

563
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:43.599
arsh of those originals because they're just
so incredible, and so yeah, this

564
00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:47.280
seems like the most the play.
This seems like the smart move, all

565
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:52.280
right, do you think so?
Yeah, and Sean points out Chair Guru

566
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:54.440
is a Fatal Fury game. Yeah, I thought it was always in that

567
00:38:54.599 --> 00:39:00.840
universe, all right, but do
you think that the Fatal Fury name like

568
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:05.599
they went with that because they feel
like, oh, Terry Bogard got some

569
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:09.519
shine from Smash. Yeah, that's
what happened, right, Yeah, And

570
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:13.760
it was either Bat or the Fatal
Fury game that they made where they like

571
00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:17.000
Jenda swapped all the characters and was
fucking terrible. Yeah. God, we

572
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.480
were just talking about that name of
that game and now I can't remember what

573
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.760
it was called. Again. They
gave Scutomania boobs. The only good thing

574
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:29.760
about that game was the special edition
hash that I've always wanted to buy that

575
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:32.639
says Fatal Quest. Yeah, like
fantast that's a good yeah s and K

576
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:36.599
heroines. That's it, y s
and K heroines, and they did apparently

577
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:40.400
did. They did one for the
Neo Geo Pocket or something back in the

578
00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:44.360
day called like gall Fighters or something, and it was pretty similar, well

579
00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:47.400
not similar, but it had the
same idea. Okay. Other EBO headlines

580
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.159
Guilty Gear, Strive ads, Johnny
Nickelodeon All Stars, Brawl Too, ads,

581
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:57.360
Plankton. Project El's new champion is
Yasuo, which I think is like

582
00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.320
one of the obvious ones that was
always going to but people in now it's

583
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:06.039
confirmed for Project Out, and an
under Night in birth to sis sell Us

584
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:09.400
was announced. I know that there
are a lot of Undernight fans out there

585
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:14.599
in the world, but that is
just a fucked up name. It's such

586
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.119
a bizarre name, but hey,
what can you do about it. EVO

587
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:21.599
seemed pretty successful, Like always,
it seemed like a good time. People

588
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:25.199
really enjoyed themselves, and I think
these news headlines, I'm glad that EVO

589
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:29.679
presents a chance for the fighting game
fans to like get their news all in

590
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.000
one place. So it's pretty cool. Yeah, it felt bigger this year,

591
00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:36.800
probably because they had, you know, a year or two back,

592
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.400
from the COVID stuff, and like
it just felt like everyone had news in

593
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:44.679
which makes sense because this fighting games
coming out again all of a sudden.

594
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.760
Yep, absolutely all right, A
couple more stories here. Assassin's Creed,

595
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:51.920
fall Well, and Final Fantasy are
coming to Magic the Gathering. This is

596
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:54.719
from Jason Finelli at game Spot.
With half of twenty twenty three behind us,

597
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:59.280
Wizards of the Coast took the opportunity
to announce the future of Magic the

598
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.039
Gathering at it's gen Con twenty twenty
three panel. However, not only did

599
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:06.679
the company reveal their plans through twenty
twenty six, but it also confirmed three

600
00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:10.679
huge names in gaming for its ever
growing universes beyond portfolio. Assassin's Creed,

601
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.559
Final Fantasy, and Fallout. Fallout
will receive the Match of the Gathering treatment

602
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:21.760
first, and it will be represented
through a set of common Commander predecs set

603
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.719
to release in March twenty twenty four, following names like Warhammer forty K and

604
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:30.199
Doctor Who. The Fallout Commander decks
will feature a mixture of brand new and

605
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:35.599
reprinted cards, all featuring characters,
enemies, factions, and locations from Bethesda's

606
00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:39.679
posted post apocalyptic Osaga Assassin's Creed will
come next as a full booster set spanning

607
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:45.320
the entire Assassin's Creed universe, and
it will launch in July twenty twenty four.

608
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.920
The set will include both new and
reprinted cards, all featuring Assassin's Creed

609
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.800
artwork. And then the last of
the three video game centric announcements, Square

610
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:57.880
Enix's massive RPG franchise, Final Fantasy
will receive a full booster set expansion in

611
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.679
twenty twenty five, with car that
will span the entire the entirety of the

612
00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:07.239
mainline Final Fantasy franchise, from the
original game to the recently launched Final Fantasy

613
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:10.400
sixteen. The set will also be
available for Digital Magic the Gathering players via

614
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:15.800
Magic the Gathering Arena. People love
these things, I think, Well,

615
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.079
I don't know if they love it, but people collect him, that's for

616
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.199
sure. Post Malone is going to
show up your goddamn house and take all

617
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:23.960
your Magic the Gathering cards. He'll
give you money, you will, but

618
00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:27.920
he's still going to show up your
house. You didn't invite him. They're

619
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.960
going to do a special event where
there's only one three dog Card's gonna buy

620
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:37.039
it. Hell, yes, I
do sometimes feel like a fake trans person

621
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.239
because I don't like Sonic and that
has me on thin ice. Yeah,

622
00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:45.039
I don't like Magic the Gathering,
which like they really are. The commissie

623
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:47.280
really isn't okay with that. So
like if I say anything bad about Fallout

624
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:51.599
New Vegas, I'm out of the
club. You just yeah, you just

625
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:53.920
sound confused. It's a phase.
You'll you'll come around the Sonic and Magic

626
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:58.199
the Gathering eventually. That's what That's
what's gonna happen. Happens to everybody.

627
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:02.280
Uh, that's that. It is
always like when you're in like a group

628
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:06.920
of like friends and you like everything
and pretty sim and then there's like that

629
00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:08.840
one thing that they all get into. You're like, this is stupid,

630
00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.760
guys, I don't like any of
this. Yeah. I actually I had

631
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.079
a great convass when I interviewed Josh
Sawyer. I tried to get this turned

632
00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:20.519
into an article, but I could
never get it picked up. I said

633
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:22.400
to him, like, are you
like aware that like follow up New Vegas

634
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.519
is like kind of big in like
the trans community and like there's a weird

635
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.000
following around it like that I'm blood
born And he was like yeah, like

636
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:31.960
there was no like it wasn't like
we were sending out a signal or anything.

637
00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:34.880
I was like, wait, what
were those radio signals? Was not

638
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:39.400
not one of the DLC radio signals? Josh Sawyers Homie. I like that

639
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:44.239
guy. He's so he's so great, he's lovely. That's fantastic. Uh

640
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:51.559
yeah, I think that this is
an I needed to pop in. Please.

641
00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:58.880
I whoever runs MTG Magic the Gathering
specifically has it out for me because

642
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.679
they managed to get me into Lord
of the Rings, and god damn it,

643
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:05.760
now they're going after Doctor Who.
This is the one thing I've been

644
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.000
trying to hide on this website of
how much of a I am? What?

645
00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:12.239
Really? Yes, we don't need
to get into it. Do I

646
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.199
have two costumes of the fourth Doctor
of the eleventh Doctor. We don't need

647
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:20.199
to get into it. And you
used to wear bow ties. I remember

648
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.039
this being revealed. Once you you
will the bow tie for a while.

649
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:28.880
Yes, exactly, I need to
leave. Yeah that was Janet Joe from

650
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:32.440
Giant Bomb. Everybody, Janet,
thank you. I have always been Doctor

651
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:38.320
Who Who curious, it's never really
given it a shot. The season's not

652
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:43.599
worth watching? Are the Christopher eccleston
one because he's Northern out. Why would

653
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:47.960
you say that you're curious about Doctor, I've always been like, it's it's

654
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.360
it's sci fi and it looks cheesy
and I like that stuff, so I

655
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:57.280
should give it a chance. And
then I'm like, here we go,

656
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.159
here we go. Hey. I
also, you also want to use this

657
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:06.119
platform. BBC, please get in
contact with me because I still have the

658
00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:10.760
doctor who Instagram handle and I'm tired
of people dming me literally every single day

659
00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:15.119
trying to get this account. BBC
get at me. Yeah, wait,

660
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:21.320
what wait? Why does he have? Of course you know what, You're

661
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:23.119
right? Never mind? Why am
I asking questions? Of course he has

662
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:28.639
that. Oh? Actually, just
can we redirect that to John? No,

663
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:32.599
never mind, Okay, next story. John Cena joins Overwatch two as

664
00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:37.199
the Enigma. I don't know.
I guess I don't get it either,

665
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:42.119
from Jess Howard at GameSpot. Contrary
to his iconic tagline, you can now

666
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.760
see John Cena in Overwatch two.
After a week of teases leaked during the

667
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:52.639
during popular streamers such as shroud Emong
other popular streamers who names are impossible to

668
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.519
pronounce, Blizzard has revealed that the
wrestler turn Actor is joining the game as

669
00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:01.159
the Enigma, a mysterious figure seemingly
aiding over Watch his heroic efforts. Blizzards

670
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:05.760
shared the news in a brief trailer
showcase in Sina's Enigma. In the video,

671
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:09.599
the Enigma is seen hunched over computer
working in the shadows as he observes

672
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:15.440
omniic uprisings emerge in Rio, Gothenburg, and Toronto. The Enigma then begins

673
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:20.760
a transmission to the former agents of
Overwatch, alerting them to these invasions,

674
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:23.199
before stating, answer the call,
heroes, it's time to fight back.

675
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:27.639
That's my John Cena voice. After
city of the message, he removes his

676
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:34.159
hood, revealing not an animated character
but actual human being. John Sina.

677
00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:37.679
I don't really fully understand what's going
on here, Lexie. What is why

678
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:43.239
is John Cena? Is this just
like you know, he does Honda commercials

679
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:45.559
now he does this? So I
was thinking about the heat death of the

680
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:52.480
universe. That's fair. I mean, listen, what other options do you

681
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:54.480
have. It's either think about John
Sen or heat death of the Universe.

682
00:46:55.559 --> 00:47:00.360
I'm a long suffering Overwatch League fan, and the thing that you yeah,

683
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:05.039
the thing that you need to like
know about Overwatching its current stage is a

684
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:08.239
lot of the game is born from
the E sports side of things. A

685
00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:12.920
lot of the community rallies around that. A lot of the conversation and around

686
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:19.840
balancing is around the highest level of
balancing, and that has like affected the

687
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.119
game in so many negative ways to
the point that like, I think everyone

688
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:27.559
over there working on that game is
just a little bit E sports piled if

689
00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:30.400
that makes any sense, and stuff
like this, it's still twenty seventeen in

690
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:35.880
their head. They're still getting DJ
Khalid to perform at the Overwatch League finals

691
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:39.000
like this, Still there's still that
weird feel of, like, I know,

692
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:45.400
maybe E sports is the way forward
as they like continually defundition and Overwatch

693
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:52.599
is a fucking mess man, Like, can you this next part here?

694
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:55.119
This is actually pretty amazing that,
like how fans figured out that John Cena

695
00:47:55.239 --> 00:48:00.000
was going to be in the game
through scen those seen this inclusion is certain

696
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.199
certainly a bit of a bit surprising. This is the first time Blizzard has

697
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:07.719
added a real life they figure to
Overwatch. Particularly sleuthy fans predicted he'd be

698
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:12.159
coming to the game thanks to some
serious detective work. Last week, a

699
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:15.480
Reddit user shared a clip from one
of Emong's recent streams, noting that the

700
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:22.679
code was in the font family felix
Antony, which are John Cena's middle names.

701
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:25.800
What? First of all, John
Cena's middle names are felix antony.

702
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:31.199
Second, there's a font family called
felix antony, like John Cena's middle names.

703
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:35.840
What is happening? Why? How
does that work out? Is John

704
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:39.039
seen this secretly out there just doing
font work, doing typeface? Like I

705
00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:43.000
don't, I wouldn't actually be too
surprised by that. The extra funny thing

706
00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:45.840
about this is like they say that
it's the first time that a wheel piss

707
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:49.559
and has been added to Overwatch.
But they used to at the end of

708
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:53.639
every season add the league's MVP as
a skin. They name a skin after

709
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:57.800
them and they add them to it. They had to stop doing that and

710
00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:00.960
change the names of the previous skins
because one of them turned out to be

711
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:04.199
very problem magic. Yeah, that's
how it always goes, isn't it.

712
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:07.840
And it was one of the guys
who was on Jimmy Fallon. Uh of

713
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:13.440
course, Uh yeah is wait,
so is he gonna be playable? Because

714
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:17.800
I think I think, yeah,
he's just like introducing new like uh like

715
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:22.239
PVEE kind of stuff, right,
like new missions you can do with friends.

716
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:25.760
Yeah, he'll probably be an announcement
announcer for whatever. Like they're played

717
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:30.639
down PV stuff is, which,
from what I gather, is just new

718
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:37.440
version like yeah, versions of yeah, of the previous stuff. Uh,

719
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.199
what are they doing? I don't
know, I don't know, you know

720
00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:49.480
what I mean? The energy here
is very much twenty eighteen Mobile Games super

721
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:53.239
Bowl ad with Supermodel getting into a
bath of milk saying come play with me.

722
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:59.000
Lord. It's like it's like,
hey, we are well passed the

723
00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:01.800
point where we're going to I have
actual exciting stuff. So what is an

724
00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:06.039
effective marketing campaign? What is it? What is a cost effective way to

725
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:09.719
acquire new users? That's where they're
at, and celebrity endorsements are one of

726
00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:13.760
those things that these companies have turned
to when they are well passed, like,

727
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:15.599
oh, well the thing's just exciting, it's attracting users on its own.

728
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:20.639
Well no, now it's like it's
weird little ads with with with superstars

729
00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:22.519
in it. So that's what it
feels like to me. Yeah, who

730
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:27.360
do you think John Cena plays an
Overwatch? Which character? I mean,

731
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.800
listen, he definitely soldier seventy six. But I think he occasionally dabbles with

732
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:37.039
like, what's the what's the little
hamster Guymond? Yeah, he dabbles in

733
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:42.639
hand yeah, backing ball. Yeah, that's just Tobo. Sean says Samba.

734
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.480
Yeah, yeah, Sam, I
could see that. Yeah, absolutely,

735
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:50.119
all right, that's gonna do it
for the news. Let's get to

736
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:54.000
the poll question. Excuse me,
I have that right over here somewhere from

737
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:59.960
Friday. There we go, get
that back up. Are you checking out

738
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:04.840
boulders Gate? Three sixteen percent said
yes, I love I love the previous

739
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.119
boulder Gates. Twenty percent said yes. I am a D and D fan.

740
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:12.719
Twenty five percent said yes, I
want to romance a bear. Forty

741
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:19.199
percent said no. That is sixty
percent saying yes. That might explain how

742
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:25.320
the game got eight hundred thousand concurrent
players over the weekend. This game's inconceivably

743
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:30.880
huge. Yeah, okay, it
is. Yeah, for what it is,

744
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:35.079
it is incredibly big. It seems
like it. I mean it's kind

745
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:37.840
of big, period, right,
because like that's eight hundred thousand OC current

746
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:43.519
players. That puts it in the
top ten most played game on Steam at

747
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.280
any one time. Uh, it's
like number nine. I think on that

748
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:50.840
list that makes it bigger than every
other game except for those eight other games,

749
00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:53.920
many of which are like the biggest
multiplayer games and some of the biggest

750
00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:58.199
releases. Ever, this is now
one of the biggest releases on Steam ever,

751
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:04.000
like it just is and I you
listen, it's hard to list a

752
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.280
hit driven business. It's really hard
to choose pick and choose what's going to

753
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:08.920
be a hit. And when you're
in that business of like, let's build

754
00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:13.280
the next hit, you get really
risk adverse. I get that, but

755
00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:17.199
clearly so many of these publishers have
to be kicking themselves right now, right

756
00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:22.159
They just got to be like,
how did we not see the thirst for

757
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.920
something like Boualder's Gate three out there? How did we not like predict that?

758
00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:28.440
And then you know, and then
I think over at screens, they're

759
00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:31.639
like, how are we not capturing
that same level of excitement? And so

760
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:35.800
well, I mean, I think
there's probably some reasons if we dissect it,

761
00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:38.000
but does anything jump to mind,
like why is Boulders Skate three so

762
00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:44.320
popular? I think a lot of
developers and publishers probably have identified that,

763
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:46.239
like, oh shit, D and
D would be a huge mark to tap

764
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:52.280
into, but also have gone trying
to create a experience the fields organically and

765
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:57.639
free flowingly like D and D,
where like shit can just go along and

766
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:01.039
the game continues, like it is
a very good That game is a really

767
00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:06.000
good DM and that's all it is. It's really good at going at flowing

768
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:08.920
with the punches and saying like okay, lets yes, and let's keep going.

769
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:13.719
And like other publishers were probably just
like that's fucking hard to do,

770
00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:16.000
Like that is an incredible ask.
And when you look at how long that

771
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:21.840
game has been in development, like
three years and early access, god knows

772
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:27.760
how long before that pre early access, like it was a big swing and

773
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.480
it took a lot of resources to
get there. So like I'd say,

774
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:34.760
a lot of developers and publishers are
just like that is such a big commitment

775
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:39.159
that if it didn't tish, it
would actually be disastrous. Yeah. Yeah,

776
00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:44.719
And I think it's a combination of
things Zali Pie and chats like mentioning

777
00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:50.119
that people the CRPGs have been growing
steadily and people have been getting excited,

778
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.480
like The Divining Original Sin and a
bunch of others primed the pump, and

779
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:55.400
I think that's true like that that
like it's been building from that side of

780
00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:59.480
things. I think, obviously the
excitement around Dungeons and Dragons has been building

781
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:02.480
from the other side and people.
I think a lot of people listen to

782
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:07.199
Real Real Play podcast. Millions of
people do like that, that's reality,

783
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:09.360
and then I think they want a
safe way to tell their own stories.

784
00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:13.199
And Bald Skate three is just like, hey, here here is exactly a

785
00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:15.840
lot of people are like me where
they can't find a group, they can't

786
00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:17.159
find a DM, or they can't
find a group. They have a bunch

787
00:54:17.159 --> 00:54:20.719
of people that want to play D
and D, but they can't find someone

788
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:24.119
who feels confident in being a DM
and having a game be that DM for

789
00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:30.639
you really like allows you to actually
just play D and D in a way

790
00:54:30.679 --> 00:54:35.679
that feels like you can't otherwise.
And I just want to make sure chat

791
00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:37.440
nobody tell me that I can't fix
Shadow. How I'm going to fix her?

792
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:43.400
She she I can fix her?
Uh huh? Absolutely, that's what

793
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:45.679
was what was the racist lady from
Mass Effect? I can fix Ashley.

794
00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:49.320
Look out, everybody, no,
no, no, one can fix Ashley.

795
00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:52.599
All Right, we got a new
poll question. We'll get up here

796
00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:57.000
in a second, but in the
well before we do that, LEXI,

797
00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:59.639
where can people find you? What
do you have going on all that good

798
00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:01.599
stuff? I think there's a podcast
episode that you put out recently that I'm

799
00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:06.960
on tell people about all the good
things. Yeah, so you can find

800
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:10.000
me at or on stat menu.
I'm on that website at the start Menu.

801
00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:14.760
It's a website for young and upcoming
journalists who have a safe space to

802
00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:19.960
get their worked shown and work with
an editor, find opportunities. And you

803
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can also check out the podcast episode
that me and Jeff and two of other

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stat menu regulars did where we talked
about working games conventions and what it's like

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working at games convention compared to attending
one as a member of the public.

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And you can find some my writing
in Play Magazine. I think one of

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the ones I can talk about now
is I think it's the next issue is

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going to have an exclusive interview with
Andrew shouldeis the creator of Tunic, and

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that was really fucking cool. He's
a great interview, and there's some never

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seen before screenshots of some early versions
of that game that people might find interesting

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in there. And I also have
a retrospective on a game that people might

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be interested in considering. It's tied
to this website, and I'll also be

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at games Calm if any editors are
listening. I have a bunch of really

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nice previews lined up and I don't
have anyone booked for me to revite about

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them, so pay me to write
about them. Oh yeah, alright,

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LEXI, thank you so much for
coming on today. The new poll here,

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it's simple, it's reptile question mark
and then you can either vote for

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human or lizard. That'll be a
bund YouTube dot com. Not well,

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I was convinced it was going to
be like smash or passed. Well,

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I mean that to gets inherently when
I would smash the lizard. Yeah that

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listen. We have plenty of time
this week come up with other questions.

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Reptile, smash or pass. That's
just in our hearts at all times.

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LEXI, thank you so much for
submitting today talk with me about video games.

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I really appreciate it. Yeah,
it was fun episode. It's a

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good time. Thank you everybody for
watching Giant Bomb. We'll be back with

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Game mess Mornings on Wednesday. We
got the BombCast tomorrow. I'm gonna be

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playing some Mortal Kombat on this site. I think a little bit later today

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I'm gonna be doing the first one
of those, and the idea is to

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play through the stories of nine,
ten, and eleven before Mortal Kombat one

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comes out. So I'm gonna start
that with nine today. What time you

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doing that, because I might swing
by. I think i'll be on two

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pm Eastern ish. We've got a
meeting and I gotta eat and all this

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stuff, but we'll put it on
Twitter when we're going live everybody, and

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I'll just be hanging out in this
room. So if any friends of the

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side are watching you want to bump
in, just let me know. Just

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kind of hang out and play through
that a little bit. Okay, you're

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the best audience in gaming. You
just are. We're gonna get out of

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here until next time. I have
a good one. Take care of yourself

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and goodbye.