WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:14.519 You'll be like a dummy beer. It's the internet. You're busy. Let's 2 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:17.839 do this for November eighth, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or 3 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:21.000 so, let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess 4 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.920 Mornings Live with me Jeff Grebb. Today, this is me a moto and 5 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:29.000 we have major grand theft Auto six news, a shocking announcement from Nintendo, 6 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.799 and a tease for a beloved franchise that is still years away from an actual 7 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.200 new entry. But first, please join me and welcomeing today's co host to 8 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.439 Game Mess Mornings. It's tomorrow. Who's saying everybody? Tam, how are 9 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:45.679 you doing? I am doing okay. I know people on Wednesday tune in 10 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:51.119 to find and hope to see Lucy, but unfortunately you get me today. 11 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.600 I'm a poor fac simile for Lucy, but I will you know what, 12 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:59.840 I'll do my best and hopefully that is enough for everyone. It's all British 13 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:03.840 to so I can't tell I literally can't tell you part just and not even 14 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:08.680 couldn't begin to tell you the differences. We have a shorter week uh here, 15 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:12.840 so so we wouldn't be doing dregs day, uh Tam? This couldn't 16 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:17.480 be more the opposite of a dregs day. I have fun. I finally 17 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:22.040 caught some good luck, the opposite of a dregs day for once. A 18 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:26.760 what's the opposite of dregs day? I don't know. It's uh an everything 19 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.760 day. It's it's just everything is happening, all the news is happening. 20 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.400 It's a it's a certified pop off. That's what we call. Yes, 21 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:36.519 we are popping off, calling it a pop off for sure. I don't 22 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.400 know how you been though, you like I know you are busy doing a 23 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.200 million different things. Last time we talked last week last Friday, so it's 24 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.280 not been even been a full week. We were talking about our struggles keeping 25 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.120 up with games in general. I'm still right there. I'm still there. 26 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.799 I'm still and you'll be surprised to learn that I've played. I've completed zero 27 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:59.719 games in the times since I have be more aware. But that hardly counts 28 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.760 because you can beat that in a sitting. So yeah, but that's my 29 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.959 latest one, so I'm gonna count it as a win. I've been playing 30 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.479 Thirsty Suitors, which is real fun. Yeah, it's a good time. 31 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:14.280 I want to make time to that I've been playing Humanity. That's been my 32 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.199 like one of my clean up games for the year, and I've been enjoying 33 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:21.159 that a lot. But that's like going way back, and then these new 34 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.560 ones like Thirsty Shooters comes out. Okay, this one looks like it's worthy 35 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:28.400 of my time, so we'll see. I'm gonna try to fit it in. 36 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.960 It is Actually when I look at the time of oh, you know, 37 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:36.719 really three four weekends before we're deciding a lot of this stuff, that's 38 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.919 that's not enough time. That's scary. That's scary. So uh yeah, 39 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.479 BG three is still the thing I am trying to fit in enough time with 40 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.560 so that I can speak to it and when I know everyone else is going 41 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:51.639 to want to speak to it. So we'll see. That's the tough it's 42 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.319 gonna be. It's gonna be fun though. Game of the Year is going 43 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:58.599 to be exciting. We have been working on it for so there's two scenarios. 44 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.560 Either it goes exactly as we plan right, and it's gonna be fantastic. 45 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:07.120 Second scenario, it goes completely as we planned and it will still be 46 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.879 fantastic in a different way. Yes, yes, you guys will all enjoy 47 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:15.759 how it doesn't go fantastic. Yeah, Jins and chat all caps grub. 48 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.560 It's not gonna happen for us with Balder's Gate three. I know, man, 49 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.759 but we'll still have those co op sessions. Jam will always have that. 50 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:24.520 No one could take that away from us, except for Dan Riker, 51 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:29.120 who did definitely try to take that away from us. All right, you 52 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:30.520 know what, let's let's get into this news. There is a lot to 53 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.319 talk about, so let's explain what we do here most weekdays. I, 54 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.840 Jeff Greb, will help piece your gaming life back together. That includes breaking 55 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:40.280 news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. Tiny bit of that 56 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.280 today for all these topics, I'll get the input of a bona fide expert 57 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:46.280 who will make me look smart. If you were watching live on twitch, 58 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.840 welcome, You can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds Best Mornings, 59 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.360 or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch 60 00:03:54.400 --> 00:04:00.680 the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello, Hello YouTube. 61 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:01.840 All right, we have a lot to get into, so let's start the 62 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:04.759 churning out one a second. Hey, you know, don't pay attention to 63 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:10.199 me when I talk. I'm not all right, Grand Theft Auto six trailer 64 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:15.280 is coming in December, and that is confirmed by Rockstar Games themselves in a 65 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.000 tweet, this series of tweets, and in a press release they send out 66 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.199 this morning to our emails, Sam Hauser from Rockstar Games. Who is Sam 67 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:29.800 Houser. This is Sam Houser, he says, blah blah blah. Next 68 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:31.879 month, this is twenty fifth anniversary of Rockstar Games. He says, we 69 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:36.120 wouldn't be anything about without the fans. The pertinent bit of info here for 70 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.079 most people is going to be We are very excited to let you know that 71 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.639 in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft 72 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.439 Auto. We look forward to many more years of sharing these experiences with all 73 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:51.879 of you. Thank you, Sam Hauser. That reads like he always wait, 74 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:56.639 let me let me see the original thing. Always get someone to double 75 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.600 check what you're saying, because it reads like we look forward to many many 76 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:06.879 more years of sharing the experience of giving you trailers. I mean what we 77 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.480 want. It's actually not what we're in this for. Thank you, Sam. 78 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.279 Though, copy of it, copy of it, copy of it. 79 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.879 You got a dingly modifier there? Best thing everything up? Hey? What 80 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:23.800 I mean, listen, this game has to come out eventually, but why 81 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.199 are they sold to send an email? I don't know, I mean about 82 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.759 this trailer. Why would they just drop the trailer? I mean, I 83 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.519 mean like the elaked of course, like or to a degree like like Shryer 84 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.639 reported it yesterday, but he reported that they were going to say this exact 85 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.439 thing. We're going to say this, yeah, yeah, I mean like 86 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:45.160 there's also various other factors, like business things that go behind it. People 87 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:50.160 are now already being like game old games, which is like, come man, 88 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:54.040 I don't think so, I don't yeah, probably not, but they 89 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:58.560 just don't need to. So there's two scales of like I would love to 90 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.439 say again once that would be amazing, but like separate from that, there's 91 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.759 two like now, be outside of showing it at a place like Game Awards, 92 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:10.560 you you have two like echelons. Either you're big enough like a Nintendo 93 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.079 where you host your own thing and you put on a direct yeah, and 94 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:20.079 that is what draws everyone to you, or you're even bigger like Rockstar and 95 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:26.240 you just put it on YouTube and it kills everything compared to it, Like 96 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:31.160 Rockstar is so big that they can like just just put it on wherever they 97 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.680 could put it out on, Like if they put it on MySpace tomorrow, 98 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:41.560 it would revitalize MySpace for the next ten years. Like that is that is 99 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:46.399 the power that that rockstar has, so they could they I feel like this 100 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:48.160 is them just being like, yeah, man, we're just gonna do our 101 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:54.560 thing. Well, we're flexing on these release hose and we're out of here. 102 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:59.639 It does it does seem that way. I mean, it's we'd be 103 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.600 remissed and point now. Hey, Take two's stock price is up seven percent 104 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.160 this week on this. I wonder why. Yeah, I could have called 105 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:10.360 the right So I mean, listen, Take two is not going to hate 106 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.959 that they're out there talking about this. That definitely is going to move the 107 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.279 markets. Uh, it's you know, to what end, Like, hey, 108 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.240 whether that the price the stock price goes up now versus the stock price 109 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:24.120 goes up in December when the actual show the trailer. Uh maybe you know, 110 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.079 maybe they're hoping for a double dip there. I don't know the stock 111 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.519 price is going up from now until that thing is out. Yeah, exactly 112 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.199 right, it's built in now. Yeah, it ain't going anywhere. Yeah, 113 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.319 Yeah, that thing is up and it will stay up or the only 114 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:39.560 thing will knock it down is like some wild ship, like some real like 115 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:43.879 economic shit or like well, I mean some you think, let's kill the 116 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:48.199 man on camera. Yeah, but it's like this is their way of insulating 117 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:51.000 themselves against bad news that might be coming. Again. I'm just like that. 118 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:54.680 This email just feels strange to me. But I think you're you're probably 119 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:57.319 right that they do things their own way. They can get away with it. 120 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:59.480 Hey, we're going to be doing that. This is the twenty fifth 121 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.240 anniversary. We're in a market in some way, and why not tell them 122 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.240 we're doing a trailer next month. Let's just hurt Yeah, yeah, next 123 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:07.519 month. She's like yeah, I mean, like I don't want to speculate 124 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.759 on anybody, So like this is I'm taking it for a ways, which 125 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.800 is a good thing, right now. What the what in the world sweet 126 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:18.839 Io Interactive wants to make more than one Bond game? Yes, yeah, 127 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.800 So I think what is happening here is like they just taking the classic strategy 128 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.600 and just making it a little less chaotic for people, you know, because 129 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:33.799 like previously there would just be like rumblings of a thing happening and then and 130 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:39.000 like maybe a site appears where you know, people are watching a countdown for 131 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.399 a little bit and then it just breaks everything in the Internet. So now 132 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:43.159 that's just like, hey man, we're going to do this. Yeah, 133 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.480 don't worry about it. So just like priming people, it's still very much 134 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.600 the same, but it's it's still in line with their classic strategy, which 135 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.879 is, yes, girl, give us nothing up until give us something. 136 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.480 So that's that's what it is. I think. Uh okay. Well, 137 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.600 then for Theft Auto six trailer debuting in early December, almost certainly not at 138 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.240 the Game Awards, on its own, what do you want from it? 139 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.840 Do you have? I want I want them to show the exact same footage 140 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.399 that got leaked, like nothing changed, and they're just like, you're right, 141 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.039 man, this is what we got. See. I'm a little bit 142 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.600 bummed that they didn't tell or that their tonus that it's coming, because I 143 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.080 would love for them to do a bait and switch where it's like the rock 144 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.519 Star logo, everyone freaks out and then it does just start up with that 145 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:35.440 exact same GTA five trailer like that we've seen twenty times in various forms since 146 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.759 it came out, and then it's like from the makers of GTA five and 147 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.639 then finally going to GT six, just that Whip Last would rule. That 148 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:48.120 would be so good. The thing is, like, it's hard to really 149 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.919 gauge what this game is going to be. I don't remember what the rumors 150 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.320 were, but like, I feel like it's it could go either way. 151 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.440 Like you, I feel like the technology that they came up with for the 152 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:07.840 multiple protagonist element of it conventional with them traditional thinking says that that will be 153 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.320 some sort of core element to the new one. It's like a foundational element, 154 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.440 right, Like it's you don't put that much time effort and get it 155 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:18.240 working that well to just throw it away, I feel But then Rockstar is 156 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.960 exactly the kind of company that would throw it away and be like we came 157 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.120 up with something entirely else. I feel like that element of it will still 158 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.759 be there to some degree, maybe not in the three character or four character 159 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.399 two character approach. I feel like it will be utilized in some other fashion, 160 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:41.919 and that's exciting for me. As for what else you're going to know, 161 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.120 there's that there's that rumor it's going to be a female protagonist, which 162 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.759 is like, sure, man, whatever I don't. I just don't care. 163 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.200 I'm not one of those weird in cell people on land that's like, 164 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.960 no woman, Yeah, I'm down for that. I would listen. We 165 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.240 live in an age of I'm to put my dumb, dumb speculation hat on 166 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.440 and just just get crazy to do it. We're living in an age of 167 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.919 shared universes. Okay, everyone is putting everyone else in their games. Okay, 168 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:20.240 and for the longest time, there's been you know, a lot of 169 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:26.000 love for a character that was a rockstar character that was born on the PlayStation. 170 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:31.200 Okay, a little miscreant that has been knocking around schools. Huh. 171 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:33.080 Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, and I love this 172 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.799 idea. Who do you think it is? Well, okay, I was 173 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:43.000 good now and you're gonna put a fast on me. Bully the Titcher Jack 174 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:52.200 is back Jack Fuck no Roman Bellck spin off, That's what I'm now. 175 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:58.960 Yeah, Jimmy from Bully Protagonists for the new I think you see that would 176 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.440 be I think a cool way to do it with multiple characters. Now, 177 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.360 so you can have the female protagonists, you probably have a male lead as 178 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.519 well, and then I think, like a teenager in high school and they 179 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.519 are working on something together and and each of them has to get things in 180 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.559 place in their own sphere. And yeah, I don't know, I would 181 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.720 appreciate that. I mean, I think that's pretty similar to what they did 182 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:24.559 with five. But I think having different kinds of characters in vastly different settings 183 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.639 could be very cool. I wouldn't even like hate like a little bit of 184 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.320 a different time settings because I think this the rumors like they're doing some Vice 185 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.000 City eighties stuff again. Yeah, but maybe maybe like you, yeah, 186 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.200 yeah, life, like you like to play a different eras of that character 187 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.840 and it's jumping between them, you know, paulp fiction style or something like. 188 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.159 That's that's how they bring back that like character switching mechanic. When you 189 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.960 switch you switch eras, yes exactly, instead of like characters that would be 190 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.679 so sick. It's like, oh, I'm going to switch to this character 191 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:58.840 in the future or in the past, and then you get a different version 192 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:03.720 of that city or like you get a different version of your whatever surroundings, 193 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:09.960 and that would be pretty sick. Real Quick did leak under Steam early, 194 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.480 and I'm see if I can download it real quick. No, it doesn't 195 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:15.240 work anymore. If people were able to get it for a little bit. 196 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:16.919 I was in the shower in this s happen, and I forgot to get 197 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.480 it as soon as I got out. My man was getting clean when PERSONA 198 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.759 five was being accidentally released. Yeah, getting a little dirty and on steam 199 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:30.559 ah okay. And then as for the you know, the humor, the 200 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:35.399 style, the writing of GTA six, everyone everyone, It's difficult, right, 201 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:39.480 but whatever. That's why I'm I'm most interested in seeing, like how 202 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:46.000 how does Rockstar adapt to the times, because I know, I mean, 203 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.399 like I think one of the houses said this before, like the stuff that 204 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:52.840 they put in that game, in that series is no longer parody, Like 205 00:13:52.960 --> 00:14:01.440 real life is much more ridiculous than anything a writer writing parody kind of material 206 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.960 could ever conceive of. You know, it's it's wacky in ways that are 207 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:09.360 like what do they keep going on the extreme or they do they try a 208 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:16.720 more like grounded actual, you know, do a Godfather style tale where it's 209 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:18.039 like, oh, this is going to be one of those big ones, 210 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.480 you know, those kind of like we're trying to add to the mythos of 211 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.039 you know, the mafia or whatever it may be, the life of crime 212 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:30.559 thing. I feel like it's still going to have that cheeky Rockstar tone at 213 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.440 the end of the day. I'm just I hope that it's not as previous 214 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:39.399 games have been slightly immature, like in the way that they in the way 215 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.840 that they approach it. I feel like GTA five was much better about it, 216 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:50.159 but they're still kind of like enough rope for them to hang themselves with 217 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:56.919 by being like childish and appealing to that kind of like immature dude bro humor. 218 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:01.120 But I trust Rockstar to be better than that, especially having come off 219 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.679 like Red Dead too. So it's like, yeah, this, uh, 220 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.600 last point for for this story. Uh, this will be the first Grand 221 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.759 Theft Auto game without Dan Hauser, not Dan Housen. That's a different that's 222 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.519 a wrestler, it's a different guy. Dan Hauser is moved on, has 223 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.440 his own studio doing a thing I don't know if we know much about it. 224 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:28.600 And also Leslie Binsay's who basically made Grand Theft Auto Online like with his 225 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.000 own team, completely separate from the Housers, who weren't interested in it until 226 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.919 it started popping off after release, and then they sort of you know, 227 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:41.279 took ownership of it at that point. So it's gonna be interesting to see, 228 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.159 you know, but you know, this is a slightly different team. 229 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:46.120 You know, Sam Hauser is still there, but uh, you know, 230 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.440 the creative makeup could be slightly changed, and it will be interesting to see 231 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:56.159 if we can glean any sort of effect of that in this trailer. Probably 232 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.200 not, it's probably can get grand Theft auto trailer. Yeah, I feel 233 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.759 like, you know, the houses are a core part of it, and 234 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:07.080 more so than other like aute situations where you slowly learn that, oh, 235 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:11.440 it's actually just more of a team effort than we most people realize. Like 236 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.960 that is still very much the case, but the houses definitely had a more 237 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:19.639 noticeable impact on the games as as a duo. I don't think that completely 238 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.720 goes away when one of them leaves, you know, I think the more 239 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.799 interesting. I feel like the rest of the team that has been there a 240 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:30.440 really long time does a lot of that same work to you know, make 241 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.480 a GTA game what it is. There's a lot of people that work hard 242 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.759 to make that thing. I think more interesting. Aspect of it is like 243 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:42.960 rock Star had to change in a lot of ways post Red Dead Redemption too, 244 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:48.720 when there was a lot of revelations that were not entirely surprising about corporate 245 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:56.840 culture and like the the balance of work life and too from for all based 246 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:03.600 on reports like they have been improving that sayignificantly. So I'm interested in seeing 247 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.920 how that impacts the studio and whether I mean, like we barely hear from 248 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:14.240 Rockstar employees, so but like they will find a way, Like news will 249 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.599 definitely come out about what it's like there. But yeah, how much of 250 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.400 that kind of manifests in the next cycle is going to be interesting because once 251 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.400 you open the door to a GTA game, it's not like just that it 252 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.400 like you will hear every more things about Rockstar. You more hear more things 253 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.400 about the game. You'll probably hear more things about the process as well. 254 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:40.200 Ideally, So yeah, it's it's an interesting time for for for Rockstar and 255 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:47.279 us as games people. But I wish it was in decetbook. Uh and 256 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.160 Jack Thompson, you think we'll hear from him? Remember that name? I 257 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.960 hope so, man, I hope he comes back because like I feel like 258 00:17:55.119 --> 00:18:00.440 the Internet has been in the hyperbolic time chamber figuring out how to like clown 259 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.400 on weirdos on the internet. So like we are like now more than ever. 260 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:11.200 If he showed up, it would be yes, he's already be We 261 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.119 would just be dancing on his grave and oh my god, it would be 262 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:21.200 so funny to watch this man get like absolutely wrecked by modern day like just 263 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:25.839 says anything and just like bombarded with L L l L you fell off, 264 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.640 you fell off, you fell off, turn him into a TikTok ai. 265 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:33.240 This man's done, He's never he's never coming back. Jeck Topson was the 266 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:37.599 lawyer that that brought those lawsuits against the game for causing school shootings or whatever. 267 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:44.519 Jack Thompson was a failed lawyer that had no fucking prospects that clung to 268 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:51.079 relevancy by trying to vilify video games. And sadly, the American legal system 269 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:55.160 is built in a way where it allows fucking morons to just wreak havoc for 270 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.720 extended periods of times. That's what That's what. He was played by Bill 271 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.720 Pax in the movie where Dan Daniel Radcliffe played I think Dan Hauser. I 272 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:08.960 think he played Dan Hauser. And then uh, that thing is have I 273 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:12.759 have that on my Plex server? Because they Rockstar headed destroyed off the Internet 274 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:18.640 and you can't watch it anywhere on BBC's ship. There is a tweet about 275 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.559 it. Oh fuck, what is this? Uh? I think it's like, 276 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:30.079 what is this basil brush bullshit? But it was like you could tell 277 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:34.319 it was one of the houses got the keys to the to the the Twitter 278 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:38.920 account and tweeted some wild ship. It's like it's basically saying, like, 279 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:44.200 what is this Willy won Cup bullshit from the BBC? Yep, exactly funny. 280 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.559 I think that movie is really weird and fun. Just the idea of 281 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:55.880 Bill Paxton playing Jacktop what do you what did he say? He said was 282 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:03.240 basil brush busy? What exactly is this random made up bollocks? And that's 283 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.599 at BBC from the Rocks from the main rock Star Games account and then and 284 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.519 then I think they shoot the BBC and had it, or they at least 285 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:17.839 did Ceases and Sisters. So I'll send it to you on on Select just 286 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:21.000 so people know that we're not joking, but like, honestly, it's one 287 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:26.279 of the most impressive and hilarious flexes I've ever seen on the internet. Just 288 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:30.359 someone taking the corporate account is just like, what the fuck? Shut up 289 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:40.759 all really bring that up here quick. And then, uh, versus the 290 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:45.839 obs. But yeah, it's it's it's exciting, Like I'm glad that we're 291 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:52.839 finally at the stage where we're going to see the game. That's the worst 292 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.920 part of the lead up to all of this stuff, where it's like people 293 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:00.759 just making it up in an escalating fashion until like, you know, we've 294 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:06.440 got these wild ideas for what a video in the next ETA is. Yeah, 295 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:11.000 I think that they are probably going to just keep doing their own thing, 296 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:12.799 and the game is going to look and feel very expensive and probably has 297 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:18.559 some really great, great tech in it, and it'll set its own expectations 298 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:21.960 and then we'll see if it can overcome those. So what do you what 299 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.400 do you reckon for GTA Online? Yeah, that's I mean, that is 300 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.839 the big question, right, Like can they do they reset the clock? 301 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:32.440 Do they go GTA online too and say everybody move on to this. I 302 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:37.599 think they probably actually do, but but you know, I also I wouldn't 303 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.200 be surprised if they are like, oh, you know, gt online continues 304 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:44.000 here, it's a complete refresh and and we'll slowly move everyone over, but 305 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.559 it's still the same basic client. I could see them doing that, but 306 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.799 I think Rockstar's gonna want to go big and and try to do their whole 307 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:55.799 whole new thing they now, right dead Redemption Online might have scared them away 308 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:59.759 from that, but I don't know, I feel like they I feel like 309 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:07.240 they create more of a kind of distinction between them by not having them, 310 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.160 you know, trying to message them concurrently. Yeah, I feel like that's 311 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.240 a big part of like the initial when GTA online it was first announced, 312 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:19.039 it was like kind of competing against itself in a lot of ways around GTA 313 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:23.319 five as well. So I feel like I feel like they just do the 314 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:26.799 thing where it's like we're going to talk about the main story campaign and some 315 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.160 multiplayer elements, and then we'll come back to gt online and another point they'll 316 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:36.160 say something generic like the future of GTA Online is looking bright and we've got 317 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.839 some major plans for it. And then they eventually do the full overhaul thing 318 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:41.480 where it's like, hey, we we redid this. We got a brand 319 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:45.319 bunch of brand new shit, We're dropping all the new assets in there. 320 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:48.640 Let's let's go. Do you think there's a chance that they kind of from 321 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:55.720 software it a little bit and have online functionality in your single player campaign where 322 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:57.720 you flip on a switch and now you see other players doing things at the 323 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:02.640 same time as you, maybe not necessarily ghost form, but maybe in form. 324 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:06.720 I think I think that there I had there has to be some elemental 325 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:10.640 I think that it feels like necessary at this point community. Yeah, like 326 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:14.440 especially in this like you think about it, like what's the next stage of 327 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:18.920 this crime fantasy? Like it is like having a gang and and being like 328 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.200 actively present around them in a way. I mean, they could do that 329 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:26.039 with AI, but I imagine that they'll figure out some way to represent like 330 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:32.279 other people, clans or whatever it may be in the game, whether they 331 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:36.599 have like I don't think they'll have an active impact on your world, Like, 332 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:40.759 yeah, that seems wild because people do the wackiest shit in DTA games. 333 00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:45.359 You can't be in the middle of your your your mission and someone's suddenly 334 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:49.240 like driving a car off a roof and rocket launching it or car jacking you 335 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:55.640 like you're supposed to be the power fantasy. Yeah yeah, uh yeah, 336 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:57.920 you know what. Okay. GT six will know more in about a month, 337 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:00.960 so we'll we'll talk about it then. I'm sure there'll be a lot 338 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.039 to speculate on between now and then. And then we'll see what the lead 339 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:07.039 up is to the actual games release, but seems like that's going to be 340 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.319 happening relatively soon after this, within the year after this gets announced. That 341 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.880 seems to probably what we can expect, all right. The new Mass Effect 342 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:19.519 teaser finally confirms what we've all been guessing. This is from Kenneth Shepherd at 343 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:25.079 Kotaku, the New Mass Effect Game. Yes, Shepherd, the next Mass 344 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.440 Effect game. I think I don't know if that's a pen name, but 345 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:33.839 I know that Kenneth Shepherd is a big Mass Effect fand the New Mass Effect 346 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.160 game has been shrouded in mystery since its twenty twenty Game Awards reveal. November 347 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:41.880 seventh is in seven day when by War and fans celebrate the science fiction RPG 348 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:47.119 series, but this year's is a little different. The studio gave us a 349 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.799 couple teasers for the next game at the same time as laidoff QA workers are 350 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:55.880 picketing the company's demand while demanding severns. The teasers finally gave us some solid 351 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:59.359 clues regarding what the next Mass Effect is going to be about. The December 352 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:03.559 twenty twenty two suggested it would take place long after the original trilogy while returning 353 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.519 squad mate Learra to Sony, making an appearance but looking notably older than her 354 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:11.920 youthful age of one and nine in the original series. Yeah, this is 355 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.759 a Kenneth Shepherd is a fan. I think BioWare developers also hinted on social 356 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:19.519 media that the next game would be a sequel to both the original trilogy and 357 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:25.039 mess Effect Andromeda. Now, the first teaser is a five second well it's 358 00:25:25.079 --> 00:25:27.119 five seconds long. They actually have piece these all together now at this point. 359 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:32.319 But while this story got written while they're piecing it together still, and 360 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:36.759 it had related texts associated with it that said things like Epsilon, which is 361 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:40.160 the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, so the fifth Mass Effect game. 362 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.160 And then they would say maybe the most notable line is Andromeda distress signal detected. 363 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.160 No, boy, that game was distressed for sure, but oh man, 364 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:56.079 Andromeda definitely made me. I was sending out many playing Andromeda. I 365 00:25:56.160 --> 00:26:00.759 took time off to play that game, and at one point there was what 366 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:06.400 the fuck's the Krogan's name? Oh shit, I can't even remember. It's 367 00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:10.160 not a grunt, it's I don't know. I walked into a room and 368 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:15.400 there were is it drags drags? Yeah? Yeah. I walked in and 369 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.920 there were three of them, just Rex wait Rex no, no rexes no, 370 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.920 Rex is the good one? Drack okay? Is it crack drag drag? 371 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:25.640 That's why we got there. I walked into a room and there was 372 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:27.920 three of them. One of them was like, one of them was like 373 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.119 it was so funny, one of impressive. Actually, one of them was 374 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:37.119 leaning on like a railing and looking cool. The other one was just staring 375 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:40.200 at a wall. And there was a third one just kind of like sitting 376 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:42.519 on the ground clip through, and I was like, this is distressing, 377 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:47.359 distressing, distressing. I got to point in that game where I was in 378 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:49.559 whatever their makeo was called, and I'm supposed to be driving it up to 379 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:52.759 this big place on a hill and it's like you could drive all the way 380 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.680 around this hill to find the way up, and I drove around it three 381 00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.519 times without finding where I was supposed to go, and there was no waypoint 382 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.559 to help me. No wh was saying anything, and I was like, 383 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:04.200 I'm never fucking playing this game again. I had that such a mad sense. 384 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:08.400 I had this amazing moment where you go to whatever those dungeons were the 385 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:12.680 way you'd go inside one of those weird like structures. And I got in 386 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:18.039 there and I was doing one of the platforming challenges and like fucked it up 387 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.640 and went into a pit and I respawned, and it respawned. The car 388 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:27.559 with me in this little in this little like very small space, and I 389 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:30.400 was like, hell, yeah, I'm doing this. I got in that 390 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:36.480 car and I was driving around one of these places that was not built to 391 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:40.319 have a car in it. I'm just like, it was so fucking dumb. 392 00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:44.960 H Kenneth continues the big reveal Here is Andromeda. Andromeda to a stress 393 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.400 signal detected, confirming that the interstellar migration movement from the fourth game will be 394 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.160 part of the story. Buy Where tells next. Fans are speculatingly Area and 395 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:56.799 A crew might be responding to the distress to call, as it was confirmed 396 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:00.920 in and Andrameda she was in contact with the Initiative through their departure from the 397 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:06.440 Milky Way. Blah blah blah. The final trailer did come out and blah 398 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:08.839 blah blah. Mass effect. Law. Yeah, okay, all right, 399 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:11.240 you want to get in there, All right, let's go. What is 400 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:15.920 the distress call. It's not quite clear, but given that the cat invasion 401 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.039 was still happening at the end of Mass Effect and Drama Up, it's not 402 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.960 like that crew is lacking in danger of course. Uh. The actual video 403 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.759 doesn't show much beyond someone perhaps the Aura, walking through what looks like a 404 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.319 space station before it abruptly cuts to black. I have this video somewhere, 405 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:37.440 but basically the trailer is a small teaser of a person in a cool outfit 406 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:42.400 walking down a hallway and that's it. And people, you want some original 407 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:47.599 reporting, this game is just nowhere near coming out. This is not this 408 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:51.960 is oh no cha. I was told like so when they announced or when 409 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:56.759 they revealed Dragon Age Dreadwolf in twenty eighteen. Uh, this is similar in 410 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.440 terms of timeline where that was announced in twenty eighteen, and we're not getting 411 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.519 that game to maybe next year. So now do the math for that, 412 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.039 and we're talking twenty twenty nine for Mass Effects five Dog. This this game 413 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:12.039 is. But I'm thinking that as well. And this game is so far 414 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:18.599 away. It is so far away another galaxy right now, fucking know. 415 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:26.920 Uh, it's so hey, Tam, why they do this? Maybe you'll 416 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.680 find out and you'll hear a discussion about this on the latest episode of spot 417 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:37.640 On Game Spuffriend. We definitely will have a conversation about this. Yeah, 418 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:40.079 Like when I asked, it was just like, hey, is this just 419 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.720 because they thought they had to do stuff for n seven day? Yes, 420 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:47.000 for this, for this thing. That's exactly that's all this is. You 421 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:52.200 got to imagine like they would be having like they have to talk about like, 422 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:53.440 hey, is this a good idea? Who knows if they thought it 423 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.680 was a good idea or not. But it's a proof of life. It's 424 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.640 it's just proof of life we're supposed to Yeah, it's I think fans would 425 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.279 probably rather have it than not, right, Yeah, yeah, I think. 426 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:11.880 I mean it's annoying because like it is does it have. The thing 427 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:17.319 that frustrates me is it's a teaser that is mysterious, that presents no like 428 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.680 tangible kind of points to really connect to and go like, oh, this 429 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:25.720 is where we're at. Like I would like it if they showed something like 430 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.799 maybe I haven't scoured over the tea. I am a massive mass effect man, 431 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.720 but I haven't like poured over it yet and I will. But I 432 00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:36.400 wish there was like give us something, let us know something right now. 433 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:40.039 It feels like smoke and mirrors, which is as a fan, the thing 434 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:44.039 that's worrying. It's like, if you if you're going to do the small 435 00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.680 teaser, give me some insight into what's going on. And I feel like 436 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:52.920 the Andromeda thing is probably what they're what they're like pinning that on being like, 437 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.039 oh, we told you it's connected turn, but you told us that 438 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:56.799 before we knew that Andromeda was going to be part of it. To some 439 00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.640 degree, Like, I feel like there needs to be something that tells us 440 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.079 a little bit more about this game, just so that you give us the 441 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.279 confidence that you're not like sitting there with a blank piece of paper and then 442 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.720 last minute coming up with a cool jacket, which undeniably call jacket. I'm 443 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.319 sure that you're going to charge me seven hundred dollars and I will consider paying 444 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:21.799 it and it will look absolutely awful fit me at all. Yeah. I 445 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:26.160 think also the other thing is like it needs to be a proof of life. 446 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:32.039 They have more reason than ever to need to do that from a developer 447 00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:37.480 perspective and from a publisher perspective. By a way, had Layos obviously on 448 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.400 the Star Wars side, but I imagine there was those that impacted the studio 449 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.920 as a whole. By Way's reputation has sadly kind of tanked in a lot 450 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:51.240 of ways because you know, we haven't had a game from them in a 451 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:55.240 really long time. People have been exiting. The main names that people know 452 00:31:55.359 --> 00:32:00.359 of have have like exited, and and people want some sort of indication that 453 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:05.519 they're still alive. And then also there's like the on the EA side that 454 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.359 the EA is not looking good right now again, layoffs this game protest against 455 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:14.000 their picketed and they need some sort of like, hey, we need to 456 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:17.759 show people we're still making games that people care about as opposed to Ultimate Team 457 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.400 Forever and whatever this thing is. So I feel like there's a lot of 458 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:25.839 reasons to have this beyond N seven. Whether those who are factored in is 459 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.559 another matter entirely. It could very well be that they wanted something to tease 460 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:35.599 people with on this day that is they've marketed as being a big deal for 461 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:37.839 them, But I suspect that it also had it plays like double duty for 462 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:43.400 EA and by Away to a degree. Whether it successfully improves the outlook of 463 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:46.799 those companies right now, I don't think so, like it's it's a you 464 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:52.640 need to give us something more than that. Like I'm not overly excited about 465 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:54.720 mass effect. And if you're not overly exciting me about mass effect, like 466 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:59.799 you're doing something wrong. I just I just don't. It's not enough to 467 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:01.400 make me go, oh, bye ways back, We're back, baby, 468 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:06.319 bye ways in this ship. Because you don't have dread Wolf. I've seen 469 00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.079 little to nothing of dread Wolf. I don't know anything about mass effect, 470 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:14.119 and that has been that way for years. Maybe game or as we get 471 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:17.599 something more, but for now, fine, it looks like mass effect. 472 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:20.759 You've got the lens flair, you got a nice coat, looks kind of 473 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:22.960 likely are a nice one. Yeah, I think if they can, if 474 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:28.759 this teaser can eventually be a w if we do get a decent amount of 475 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.680 info about Dreadwolf soon game wards sounds right to me. They've done stuff at 476 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:36.200 the Game Awards before. I'm kind I'm expecting them to be there. If 477 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:38.880 they're not, better be soon after because red Wolf was. You know, 478 00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:42.839 there's a there was a chance Dreadwolf could have came out this year. Obviously, 479 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:46.000 it did keep moving internally, as I've reported before, it's now look 480 00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:50.400 they're looking at you know, by By the mid next year or something like 481 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.440 that. If that game comes out and is good, people get can they 482 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.240 look back at this teacher and be like, okay, let's start thinking about 483 00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:00.160 mass effect. We can get excited about that. And then there's a couple 484 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:01.400 of years where we don't hear anything. It's like, yeah, mean, 485 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:05.319 yeah, the Dreadwolf came out and that's great, we're loving that, and 486 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:08.639 then they could start talking about mass Effect five in a little bit more terms 487 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:13.960 after that. So here's what they do. Game Ward's okay, black screen, 488 00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.400 Okay, Jeff introduces the trailer. We have something new from byway Nee. 489 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.519 We get that quintessential mass effect moment. You know, they're light breaking 490 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:27.920 over the planet and it creates that curvature and was like slowly pulling out and 491 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.719 people are like, oh, hell yeah, it's it's it's mass effect. 492 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.719 Everyone knows that curving light thing. And as it pulls out, it's Soulless's 493 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:39.639 bald head from dragon Age. And then we get Dragon Age trailer and it 494 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:44.599 was like, all right, fair enough, it's perfect perfect, no notes, 495 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:46.639 all right, we're gonna take a quick break when we get back a 496 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:52.000 lot more news, including Nintendo announcing another movie. We'll talk about that right 497 00:34:52.000 --> 00:35:04.559 after this. All right, we're back, and Nintendo is teaming up with 498 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.599 Sony to create a live action the Legend of Zelda movie. This is from 499 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:09.599 Jess Howard, a game spot. It's official. The Legend of Zelda is 500 00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:14.719 getting the live action treatment. Nintendo shared the news via its official website earlier 501 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:17.599 today, writing that the film is going to be co financed by Nintendo and 502 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.719 Sony Pictures Entertainment, with the Nintendo veteran and the Legend of Zelda creator Shagiro 503 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:30.440 Miyamoto overseeing as a producer, alongside Marvel Studios and longtime like Sony collaborator collaborator 504 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:34.760 a vi Arod. According to the press release, Nintendo has already found the 505 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:39.079 Legend of Zelda's director in West Ball. Yeah go hit hit me. Fucking 506 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:44.760 Why do we Why do people keep saying avi Aard like it means something anymore, 507 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.239 like, yeah, this man was attached to fucking morbists. Yes, 508 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.599 we're talking about like the man's got more ls than w's at this point, 509 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:55.360 at least he's got enough big l's that people going like, oh, we've 510 00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:00.599 got a vi Arod on board. Who knows that guy's name is a fuss 511 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.280 i name in the early days of superram movies because a spider Man, and 512 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.880 then after that, it's been really spotty record to me, as someone who 513 00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:13.440 pays attention to movies to a degree, saying it's gonna have Avi Aard involved 514 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.400 is a bad thing. Yes, no, thank you, get him away. 515 00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.320 There's between like bad projects, failed projects, and projects that never showed 516 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:27.440 up. Like Avi Aard was attached to Metalkit wasn't he, Like where's that 517 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.760 movie at? Yeah? Was he? Yeah? Fuck? Like he's attached 518 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:34.400 to everything, like we get it, he made those he was part of 519 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:40.000 those Spider Man movies. Right, games industry and movie industry. The current 520 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:45.400 generation does not give a fuck about Avi a don't mention him, Like we've 521 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.760 got this old fart from the movie world who has put ed some really questionable 522 00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:55.760 movies and recently dealing with the most beloved of video game properties of all time, 523 00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:59.960 like one of them, and we've got this guy and he shambles in 524 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.440 like I made mobs a little morebs. The kids were talking about that on 525 00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.199 the internet. Uh do you think he got this because his name because Avi 526 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:12.840 sounds like Navi. That's if he compan He's like, hey, listen, 527 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:17.559 great, I'll tell you that. Uh yeah, okay. So Avi Rod 528 00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:22.159 producing west Ball directing Westball has done the Maze Runner trilogy, which I've never 529 00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.159 seen. Some people hate him, some people think they're okay, he's just 530 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:28.760 he just finished Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which would be out 531 00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:30.239 soon. No idea how that's going to turn out. I like those Planet 532 00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:35.079 of the Apes movies, but this is his first one. Nintendo says it 533 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.719 will be deeply involved in the movie production, with the aim to put smiles 534 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:43.840 on everyone's faces through entertainment. By producing visual content on ninto ip by itself, 535 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.760 Nintendo is creating new opportunities to have people from around the world to access 536 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:52.960 the world of entertainment which Nintendo has built. Blah blah blah uh. And 537 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.599 then of course there was a tweet where Miomoto just said, this is me 538 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:58.960 Amoto. I have been working on the live action film of the Legendozelda for 539 00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:04.639 many years now with a A Rod's son who has produced many mega hit films. 540 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.079 I've asked Avi San to produce this film with me, and we have 541 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:12.039 now officially started the development of the film. With Nintendo itself heavily involved in 542 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:14.920 the production, it will take time until it's completion, but I hope you 543 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:20.760 look forward to seeing it. Man, just Meboto loves making friends in Hollywood, 544 00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.039 is what it sounds like to me. Everyone gives Kajiba shit for it. 545 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:30.960 Yes, right there too. I mean, like I it's gonna be 546 00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:37.280 a billion dollar success probably, and it would be who knows. Like if 547 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:38.760 I had to, if you put a gun to my head and said is 548 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:43.960 this movie gonna be good? I would probably say probably not, probably not 549 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:47.159 fine, It'll probably be absolutely fine. It'll be like I'm expecting uncharted levels 550 00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:52.920 of quality so common like personally mediocre. Yeah, we tried to make a 551 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:57.800 Lord of the Rings kind of style fantasy movie, but we made it colorful. 552 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.840 Isn't it cool? And like fifty percent of people who watch it are 553 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:05.840 going to be like, is this? Are these cosplayers? What's going on? 554 00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:08.360 Yeah? Yeah, then they'll have really work hard to avoid that look. 555 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:15.159 So so I don't understand why they went live action. That's my big 556 00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:19.239 question, Like why live action? Like you you do you play in the 557 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.920 anime, You could have played in the animated space and not alienate or your 558 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:28.519 entire fan base, Like I feel like having a Zelder movie is a difficult 559 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:30.119 ask from fans, like knowing that the yeah, we're going to make a 560 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:34.119 movie out this is difficult, especially with the way like I'm not being shitty, 561 00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.920 I love Zelda, or but like the way the law is delivered is 562 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:42.480 it's tricky, right, Like it's it's hard to adapt to movies, but 563 00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:46.480 like doing it in live action is a doubly hard pill to swallow. If 564 00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:51.960 they had gone, we're making an animated, a CGI animated wherever it may 565 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:53.840 be, Zelda movie, it's going to be stylized. We've seen all the 566 00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:58.960 success around into the Spider Verse. Across the Spider Verse, We're taking a 567 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:04.280 similar approach to the legend of Zelda to big screens. It's gonna be stylized. 568 00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:08.719 Is again, it's a movie built entirely around grouse from Windwaka, You're 569 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:13.639 gonna love it. That would have been the move like and and that people 570 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:15.119 would have been like, Okay, they did Mario. Mario was decent, 571 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:20.480 it was fun. I trust them to go and do it again with it 572 00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.239 with the other big puppy. But no, they went live action. I 573 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:27.760 just I've not seen a live action video game movie that I've been like that 574 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:32.440 was exceptional. I just I wonder if, because okay, so Sony co 575 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:38.079 producing, Avio Rod producing, I wonder if like Avi Rod and Sony approach 576 00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:42.400 Sony Pictures approached Nintendo and are like, yeah, I mean, let's you 577 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:50.480 could do another animated feature film with universal and illumination for Zelda. But that's 578 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.719 like, animation is really good for family films, for action movies and and 579 00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:59.440 and things that are more Uh, I don't know, dramatic like you would 580 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:00.840 want to make Zel you got to go live action. And I wonder if 581 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:04.639 they've gotten Nintendo's ear and convince them to that. I don't think I think 582 00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.400 what you said is true. I think what you said about hey, live 583 00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:12.280 or animated for Zelda could have worked because it's Zelda and it's Nintendo, and 584 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.559 their audience would totally show up for that. But I think Hollywood might not 585 00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:20.679 believe that. They might have less of a faith in the ability for Nintendo 586 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:22.639 to win over that audience for something that isn't supposed to be a funny, 587 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:29.360 comedy, family thing that's you know, lighthearted or whatever. I think that 588 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:31.679 if that's the case. If that's what's happening here, that sounds like, 589 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:35.719 oh, that's troublesome already, because they are going are they going to try 590 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.079 to make this dark and gritty Zelda thing or something, because that would be 591 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:43.159 just the more I think about it, the more problems you create by going 592 00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:46.360 live action, Like the costing now is going to be a complete boondoggle. 593 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:51.760 Right. They could get it very right, but they even if they pick 594 00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:55.599 the most perfect person for link now, there's still going to be a massive 595 00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.679 like pr and marketing wa to sell that, right. Whereas if you did 596 00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:04.880 it animated or CG. You get the link that everyone knows, Yeah, 597 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:09.000 you get the point link that everyone knows and love. You get the young 598 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:13.159 link that everyone knows and loves. But instead you've got we've got like a 599 00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:19.760 I just I Every time I see a movie from like an animated world or 600 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.599 or from a video game world being pitched as live action, I always think 601 00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:28.440 of Shamalon's Avatar movie. And that's the only thing I can think of in 602 00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:32.719 my mind. Every every live action, every live action adaptation of animated things, 603 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:37.360 comic things, not no comic things like among the Things and video game 604 00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:42.880 things is just Shamalon's avata over and over again in my mind, and just 605 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.679 why did you do that? This was an unforced error. You didn't need 606 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:47.840 to do that. That's idea, That's that's the real fear here. Do 607 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.719 you have anyone in mind, like you know, fantasy casting or anything like 608 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:53.840 that. Do you care about that, because I'm like, at this point 609 00:42:53.840 --> 00:43:00.159 in my life whatever link? Yeah for link, John Cena Jancene, it's 610 00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:04.760 gotta be it, right, Yeah, yeah, Like he's built for for 611 00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.679 that role. I think someone did your depatista for Gannon and I love that. 612 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:12.519 I really do love that. That would be really fun. Uh. 613 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:16.039 People also wants Elba for for Gannon, but now make eris elbow link link. 614 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:22.000 That would be sick. That would rule. I would I would watch 615 00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:30.280 that version of of of Here we Go, Andy Samberg. Yeah, but 616 00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:35.559 it's it's the it's the animated series. Link. So he's walking again. 617 00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:42.679 We'll excuse, Can I get a kiss? H Jan points out it was 618 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:45.880 him who said depatista for for Gannon, so credit where credit is due. 619 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:51.000 I'm now sold on a live action z Elder movie that is a live action 620 00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:55.119 movie based on the animated series. That is the one way that you make 621 00:43:55.199 --> 00:44:00.599 that work and everyone goes, all right, you definitely is all movie based 622 00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:04.440 on Zelder's Elder, not the one that we wanted, but you did it. 623 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.360 But yeah, Andy Samdberg, that's my pick. And Andy Samberg animated 624 00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:12.559 link that's what I want. I think that's a beautiful thing. We all 625 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.920 deserve it. You know, had any guts, they would make that happen. 626 00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:19.400 Can someone shown and I know he's watching this, he has to watch 627 00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:22.440 this because it's part of his job. You get, like Andy Samberg, 628 00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:27.599 any sort of shot from him and have the excuse me princess on there. 629 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:32.199 Somehow we need to mock together Andy Samberg as link. Simply listen, nick 630 00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:35.440 you wanted to throw that up on Nicky, Nicky, you want to do 631 00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:37.679 that, go for it, throw it up there. We need to put 632 00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:40.079 that, We need to put that out into the world. Yes, it's 633 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:43.360 got to say, well, excuse me princess on this. Uh huh. 634 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:47.039 You just can't have him with his face from I throw it to the ground. 635 00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:51.840 Just put a brain cap on there and you're good to go. Yeah, 636 00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:53.840 it's it's a pot that he's throwing on the ground. That's exactly. 637 00:44:54.159 --> 00:45:00.440 Yes, that's stupid and I like it. Okay, let's we got some 638 00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:05.119 other Nintendo news here. Nintendo's share price jumps to its highest in two years 639 00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.880 following the Zelda movie news, just because they one hundred percent is because they 640 00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:12.800 said the ivy rod was in both. Oh yeah, it's not. It's 641 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:17.960 the obvious. I run. Oh yes, all right, let's see here. 642 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:21.920 I'll be the second kiddo just told on. I just want to point 643 00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:25.719 out earlier your child, your gimmick came up and wiped the nose on your 644 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:29.519 sleeve, which was impressive. Look, she was just like, fuck you, 645 00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:34.920 dad. Yeah, there's no regard. There's no respect, absolutely zero. 646 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:37.480 And I'm just at this point, I'm like, yeah, that's right. 647 00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:40.119 I am just a tissue. I am just a walking cleanex That's fair, 648 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.639 all right. Nintendo share price jumps Zelda movie. This is from Chris 649 00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:50.000 Scullion at VGC. Nintendo's share price has jumped in value following the announcement of 650 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:52.800 a Zelda movie that is in the works. The company's share price closed at 651 00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:59.480 six thousand three two yen on Tuesday, after which Nintendo after when Nintdo made 652 00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:04.880 the announcement, which reradi started again today the price immediately surged by such by 653 00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:09.159 as much as six point seven percent. Not not too I guess, not 654 00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:13.000 too surprising. I just it's always surprised. I guess it does a little 655 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:16.559 shock me a little that investors cared this much about big Hollywood movies. Here's 656 00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:20.719 the thing, right, here's what I think whenever I see these kind of 657 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:28.480 stories about financials improving, When will I get some of that money? Yeah, 658 00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:30.159 you deserve some of that money, because if you're telling me that you 659 00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:36.280 have better shares and more money, unless unless I'm getting someone will give a 660 00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:40.079 shit. That's okay, that's that's fair. The tam dibdends need to pay 661 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:43.440 off right now. Yeah, timp to you Vaan for a second. While 662 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.159 I help this kid. I'll be right back. So the fact of the 663 00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:50.239 matter is like, obviously this is gonna go up. Shares are going to 664 00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:54.960 go up. Anytime a company that's says they're going to do something that people 665 00:46:55.079 --> 00:47:00.679 potentially want, shares generally go up. Unless you're I don't know, say, 666 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.760 the owner of a social network that you were forced to pay multiple billion 667 00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:09.079 dollars for because you made a joke on that social network, and then you 668 00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:14.920 have no idea because you've got literally one brain cell just bouncing around like a 669 00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:20.840 single player pong game in your brain. Usually your shares will go up if 670 00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:22.639 you say you want something, So it's something cool is gonna happen. So 671 00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:28.480 unsurprising that Nintendo's shares go up. Also, isn't there like some stuff knocking 672 00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:34.519 around about a switch potential two thing happening, like people are speculating again about 673 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.800 it or yeah there's been I mean they've gone back and forth, you know, 674 00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:42.800 really so yeah, this elder news happened. But there's been a lot 675 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:46.000 of news stories a coming out of the late this earning support where Nintendo's just 676 00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:52.079 like it, dude, we are doing real good. Like everything we're doing 677 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:57.079 turns to gold. In fact, that's our next couple of stories. And 678 00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:00.880 Nintendo says many series games have grown on Switch and many are long term sellers. 679 00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:05.599 It is from Nintendo everything. Nintendo talked about Switch software sales during a 680 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:09.639 financial results briefing today, and there are three key key takeaways. First, 681 00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:14.679 mini series have seen an increase in sales with games released on the Switch platform. 682 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.119 A number of titles have also gone on to become long term sellers. 683 00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:22.679 Finally, games like Animal Crossing and Kirby have seen more success outside of Japan 684 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:28.280 on the Switch. There's actually some data here. Let's bring it up here. 685 00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:35.280 Starting with Zelda. Zelda saw dramatic growth in its A series sales. 686 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:37.800 In November two thousand and six, they released Twilight Princess on the Wii. 687 00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:43.960 That game did about seven and a half million copies versus thirty one point one 688 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:47.239 five million for Breath of the Wild and already twenty million for Tiers of the 689 00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:51.519 Kingdom. But you know, you, okay, yeah, are these games 690 00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:53.039 just popping off? It's like, no, they are long term sellers. 691 00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:57.320 Yeah. Breath of the Wild sold eight and a half million copies in its 692 00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:01.960 first and second fiscal year, since then sold twenty two point six million copies 693 00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:07.400 for a game that almost never goes on sale. Has been consistently sixty dollars 694 00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:13.719 this entire time. And it's also up in every region they point out here. 695 00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:16.960 The America's you know, four million for Twilet Princess, seven and a 696 00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.159 half million in the Americas, things like that, But the other region and 697 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:27.480 Japan are way up there. Just to finding more people who care about Nintendo 698 00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.239 in Japan somehow, and then they are also doing better around the world. 699 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:36.280 I bet most of that comes from China. This stuff is echoed for other 700 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.559 franchises where Mario Card eight Deluxe obviously a huge success. Mario Kart has always 701 00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.280 been the best selling game on most platforms from Nintendo, but like thirty seven 702 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:50.920 point three eight million for Mario Kart Wii versus fifty seven million for Mario Card 703 00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:55.000 eight Deluxe, Animal Crossing forty four million versus thirteen million and twelve million for 704 00:49:55.320 --> 00:50:00.519 the previous three DS and DS entries, Smash Brothers at thirty two million versus 705 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:05.960 like, you know, the Smash Brothers Brawl for We was the highest one 706 00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:08.559 before that, that was thirteen and a half million. So just in every 707 00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:13.880 case, it's true for Mario as well. The switch factor really is just 708 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:17.239 popping off in a way that they have not ever really seen before, which 709 00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:22.599 I think puts them in a situation where whatever they do next has got to 710 00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.760 maintain this, right, Yes, yes, absolutely they need to. Well, 711 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.760 there's also the element of like an I'm gonna sound a bit this is 712 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:32.480 gonna sound kind of like negative, but I don't mean it in that way, 713 00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:37.360 Like they make all the good games on that console. Oh, on 714 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:39.760 that device. Like I there's plenty of amazing game games and there's a lot 715 00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:45.559 of great India major the games that you see on store shelves when you when 716 00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:49.920 you go and buy a game or a switch, or the games that are 717 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:53.599 packaged with a switch when you buy on Nintendo games like the best games that 718 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:58.599 you are on the switch on Nintendo's games. So to some degree, like 719 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:02.239 a zung as, sales of the switch are healthy, sales of the software 720 00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:07.960 are probably going to be somewhat correlating to that as well, because they just 721 00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:12.760 make all the good games that are on that thing, so's that's a big 722 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.239 part of it as well. But as you said, yes, I feel 723 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:19.199 like the next thing that they make here now needs to maintain what they have 724 00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:24.519 to kind of keep that momentum going. I they tried that before, and 725 00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:29.079 I hope that they have learned their lesson from the WIU, because that was 726 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:32.079 what that thing was designed to be, right, But I feel like they 727 00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:39.239 misunderstood a lot of like the the why people enjoyed the Wei and try to 728 00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:45.519 do a weird thing at the same time as maintaining That's when Nintendo starts to 729 00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:49.199 really like not fall apart but like that's when you're like it's just a good 730 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.840 idea, when it's like we've got a crazy idea, but we're gonna bolt 731 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.920 it onto the thing that is a success already. Yeah. I feel like 732 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.119 if they did the boring thing here, that's the smart thing where they just 733 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:07.360 crank up the power on a switch, add like a make all led screens 734 00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.559 the default, add some little bit of features here in there, and just 735 00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:14.280 put that out as a new version of the switch, like the switch to 736 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:19.599 switches back switch here. That is the move that that is the move that 737 00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:24.000 gives them a little more road to work with without kind of upending the existing 738 00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:29.000 interest in it. Yeah, they also seem like the one company that has 739 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:32.320 maintained a lot of the positive stuff that they got out of the pandemic, 740 00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:40.079 which is establishing the Switch as this ever growing library that new people can come 741 00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:45.239 to. And they aren't shocked that a game from a couple of years ago 742 00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:46.760 is still sixty dollars. They don't think about in those terms. They think 743 00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:50.840 about it like you said, come here for Nintendo games. The Nintendo games 744 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:54.480 cost us much. And so when they do have long term success and every 745 00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:58.599 single one of these games that's on the screen right now, like Mario Kurt 746 00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:00.679 Smash Brother, Zelda mar You want to see Super Mario, Party, Ring 747 00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:05.960 Fit Adventure, Super Mario Brothers You Deluxe, and Splatoon two. Every single 748 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:09.320 those ones I just mentioned their first year sales have since been doubled, so 749 00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:13.800 they or more than doubled. So they did, you know, really well 750 00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:16.000 in their first year. But then they don't drop off. Even though they 751 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:20.679 don't go down and price that often, they continue to sell well into the 752 00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:23.960 you know, for many years following that. And when that's the case, 753 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:28.159 it's like, Okay, Nintendo doesn't have to rush, they don't have to 754 00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:31.159 over react, they don't have to think about what other people are doing and 755 00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:36.920 freak out and and and have to adjust to the market realities. They are 756 00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:39.760 building their own market onto itself, and that is something that you know, 757 00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:43.599 Sony at the beginning this generation is definitely kind of eyeing, Hey, how 758 00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:46.119 can we get closer to this and just establish Sony games as these things that 759 00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:49.639 are going to be this price for a little bit longer and people are just 760 00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:51.599 going have to accept the pay of them because they're that good and you can't 761 00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:53.719 miss out on them. But Nintendo's been the one company so far that's been 762 00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:58.519 able to figure that out. Yeah, for sure, Jeff, You know 763 00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:02.119 that I am just full of just incredible ideas, as you know, like 764 00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:07.360 I've given multiple ideas in this one episode of Game Mess Mornings that I feel 765 00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:10.519 like our billion dollar ideas. Yeah you're an idea guy. Yeah, yeah, 766 00:54:10.760 --> 00:54:19.079 here's the idea. Okay, what was the last huge successful Nintendo I 767 00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:25.199 mean in terms of game releases or no hardware before the Switch? I would 768 00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:30.800 say the WE or the three DS, the DS. Now, imagine a 769 00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:38.039 switch with a switch hinges. You open a switch and you've got to switches, 770 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.440 the switch and the switch. I love that idea tam of just a 771 00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:45.599 hinge like a door hinge on two switches and you cram them together and the 772 00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:52.280 analog sticks are breaking, and shit, Yes, this is what we this 773 00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:59.360 is what we need. Okay, the switch three DS hybrided that makes the 774 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:05.400 world just blow up with how much they love this thing. Oh god, 775 00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:08.000 ny Luck, and Chat says, the sandwich. There you go, there, 776 00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:12.239 you go. There, it's a billion dollar idea that's perfect people, 777 00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:14.880 a sandwich. They'll do it. It will be incredible, and they still 778 00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:19.159 won't play out and you metrid a game on it fucked. It's kids trying 779 00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:22.119 to play Mario Odyssey and is getting frustrated because you can't leave the planet. 780 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:24.079 I'm going to try to teach her. Okay, go run over to your 781 00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:30.079 ship. No, okay, you gotta throw the hat at the globe and 782 00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:35.000 then you can select a different planet. All right, context, you sound 783 00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:38.480 like an absolute crackhead of it. Oh yes, I'm in context too, 784 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:43.039 buddy. All right, let's let's get through some of these other stories a 785 00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:45.559 little bit quicker. We're running out of time. Super Mario Wonders has sold 786 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:50.119 four point three million units in its first two weeks. That's more info kind 787 00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:54.599 of coming out of their their financial report. That makes it the fastest selling 788 00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:59.920 Mario games since they started tracking these sales. I don't think that's surprising that 789 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:04.360 at all. How about you, No Mario game does good? Where's my 790 00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:06.760 cut the check for me? Uh huh? I remember what I said about 791 00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:09.159 the sales earlier. Good job Mario selling Mario. Hey make a new two 792 00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:12.719 D Mario game that is interesting. I wonder if it would do well. 793 00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:16.519 Yes, I wonder if we do well? Oh surprise, Uh, there's 794 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:22.119 a series of bad news here for studios around the world, starting with Embracer's 795 00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:25.199 times Splitter studio Free Radical, which is facing closure. Uh. This is 796 00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:30.239 from Andy Robinson of VGC. Times Splitter's developer. Free Radical Design is at 797 00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:32.960 threat of being closed by owner Embracer Group, just two years after it was 798 00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:37.679 re established, sources have told VGC. For the past six months, Embracer 799 00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:40.480 has been carrying out a restructuring program which is basically a panic we don't have 800 00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:45.639 any money program, which has already seen some game studios closed and some projects 801 00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:50.480 canceled. This includes the closure of studios like Sansor Developer, Volition and Campfire 802 00:56:50.519 --> 00:56:53.239 Cabal, while others have reportedly been put up for sales, such as Borderland's 803 00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:58.360 Maker Gearbox. According to people close to Free Radical Design, the Nottingham, 804 00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:01.840 UK based studio has part of the evaluation and employees have now been notified that 805 00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:07.719 it could close. That's required by UK employment law. Play on the embrace 806 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:12.039 Or division which runs Free Radical must consult employees for a minimum of thirty days 807 00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:15.639 before making any redundancies, including exploring ways to avoid them. There remains a 808 00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:20.679 possibility that the studio could remain open. Then should Embrace or receive interest from 809 00:57:20.719 --> 00:57:25.840 third parties and interested in acquiring it. Yeah, I think this could be 810 00:57:25.880 --> 00:57:32.199 more illustrative of where Embracer's at. Hey wouldn't be cool to buy time splitters, 811 00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:36.360 get a studio, bring back free radical to make it. Is it 812 00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:38.320 everybody excited about that? Yeah? Sure, let's is it going to be 813 00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:42.679 good? Well, actually no, we're closing the studio before anything happens with 814 00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:46.119 it. There's no vision except for old thing would be cool to bring back, 815 00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:50.480 and that's going to make us money. And of course it's going to 816 00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:55.039 be a bunch of people paying the price for some silly aside from a big 817 00:57:55.320 --> 00:58:00.559 corporation. Yeah, it's kind of like this is the story of the modern 818 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:06.159 age with a big corporation thinks that it's gonna make the next billion dollar thing 819 00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:10.800 happened by an overreaches and now it's paying the price, not itself but through 820 00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:17.559 layoffs people, you know, the people who made no kind of had no 821 00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:22.519 part in making those stupid decisions on now paying the price of it. Let's 822 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:28.679 just keep going with this report Sega Samy to continue belt tightening in Europe and 823 00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:34.800 more layoffs at Creative Assembly is from Alberto Garrido at Game Reactor. While yesterday 824 00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:38.840 we reported on Nintendo's healthy quarterly earnings in which it adjusted its Nintendo Switch console 825 00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:43.719 figures and the million dollar sales of its games, and now it's the term 826 00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:47.679 for its former competitor Sega with a much less enthusiastic balance sheet, in which 827 00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:52.519 they advanced more steps of the restructuring in Europe that they advanced a few weeks 828 00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:57.039 ago. In the document explaining the results report, there is a mention that 829 00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:02.559 there is a mention of restructuring and actually more layoffs at studios, mainly Creative 830 00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:07.960 Assembly, which had their their game Hyenas canceled a little bit ago. Uh. 831 00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:13.800 There's also a downward forecast of their overall financial expectations. The report briefly 832 00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:16.199 explains that the restructuring plan will be to focus on its best known and established 833 00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:21.920 properties, something they've said before, and to reduce the number of active development 834 00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:28.239 developments, as well as to open up to multi platform markets. You were 835 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.079 kind of waiting for us to get on the other side of like a lot 836 00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:34.079 of this this bad news. I was kind of I thought, like, 837 00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:37.440 hey, okay, they did some cuts a Creative Assembly. Uh, they 838 00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:40.960 are stepping back and focusing on their biggest games. I thought it was done 839 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.320 the idea that oh, you know, they need to lay off even more 840 00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:46.199 people, especially at a studio like Creative Assembly, like we said, we've 841 00:59:46.199 --> 00:59:52.920 talked about last time Carried Carried Sega on its back, when all Sega had 842 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.880 was what it was, its successful PC games like the Total War series and 843 00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:01.519 and and the other strategy franchises that Creative Assembly worked on. So just more 844 01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:06.039 bummer news and you just wish there was some other answer to all of this. 845 01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:08.119 Yep. I mean, I don't know what to say at this point. 846 01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:15.000 Like it's the whole situation in this industry is bad, Like we talked 847 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:20.199 about this in on spot on last week, and it's just like why would 848 01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:22.840 anyone want to be in this industry now, like come in into it, 849 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:27.079 Like even if you're like the most upbe aspirational person and you're like, I 850 01:00:27.079 --> 01:00:31.159 want to make games, this surely is not enticing at all, Like these 851 01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:37.719 kind of bad decisions that lead to and also like to a degree, the 852 01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:42.280 economic changes that people can't predict. But this is this is leading to like 853 01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:46.719 a real stagnation in the in the industry that I find quite scary. Uh 854 01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:52.079 Sega so just says they're gonna going to combine their European and American publishing divisions 855 01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:58.039 into one and that mobile games will be more actively explored, supported by the 856 01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:02.840 recent acquisition of Rovio and then over at Ubisoft, the brutal year continues. 857 01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:07.280 One hundred more people, actually more than one hundred more people have been laid 858 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:10.719 off. This is Eddie MCOO at GameSpot. Ubisoft is undergoing further restructuring that 859 01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:15.559 will result in additional layoffs. The company confirmed a game Spot that it is 860 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.440 eliminating ninety eight positions from its Canadian workforce and one hundred and twenty four positions 861 01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:22.760 overall in its latest headcount reduction. Twenty twenty three has been a year marked 862 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:25.679 by layoffs in the games development scene, and the trend is not stopping. 863 01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:30.800 In a statement game Spot, a spokesperson for Ubsoft said, every team inside 864 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:35.440 Ubisoft has spent the past few months exploring ways to streamline its business. Layoffs 865 01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:37.400 are a part of that. In this context, today we announced that we 866 01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:44.079 are reorganizing our Canadian studios, general and administrative functions and reducing headcount in Highbride, 867 01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:47.360 our VFX studio based in Montreal and in our global IT team, which 868 01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:52.440 impacts one hundred and twenty four positions. Overall, these are not decisions taken 869 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:55.119 lightly, and we are providing comprehensive support for our colleagues who will be leaving 870 01:01:55.239 --> 01:02:00.679 Ubisoft during this transition. We also want to share our utmost gratitude respect for 871 01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:07.079 their many contributions to the company. It's for most of these studios, most 872 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:12.440 of these publishers, they are making probably enough money to make this all make 873 01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:15.480 sense if it weren't for the fact that coming out of the pandemic, they 874 01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:16.599 are like, Hey, everything's gonna keep going up. We're gonna make big 875 01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:22.719 bets. And then of course the money markets tightened up and capital became more 876 01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:27.960 difficult to come by because interest rates went up. Ye, And it's these 877 01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:30.800 are things so far outside of the control of people who make games, and 878 01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:35.800 yet the things that these people usually can control, they are for the most 879 01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:38.599 part making pretty good games, and people want these games, and they're selling 880 01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:43.760 pretty well. The last Assassin's Creed game was a big hit for Ubi, 881 01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:50.039 soelf Assassins Cream Mirage did surprisingly well. It's just the disconnect between the games 882 01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:52.280 that we're getting, the quality of games people figuring this stuff out and doing 883 01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:55.000 really well with that side of things. So then oh, everyone's got to 884 01:02:55.000 --> 01:03:00.320 get laid off because of some unrelated reason. It's very us straining to him. 885 01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:05.320 Yeah, I again like this extension of what I was saying previously, 886 01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:09.440 Like it is people. It feels like people are like dug themselves holes so 887 01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:15.400 deep that even like the best case scenarios of games doing well do little to 888 01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:19.599 nothing to improve the situation. And as a result, you know, the 889 01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:22.920 developers, like as you said, that had no impact there and no decision 890 01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:28.960 making ability in these giant swings that are now biting people or hitting people in 891 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:32.320 the back of their head, is had any impact on that are now suffering 892 01:03:32.360 --> 01:03:39.280 because of it. It is part of like the kind of cruel cyclical nature 893 01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:44.119 of video games where people think that they can go from being like, oh, 894 01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:46.800 well this you know, very high revenue industry, but we need more, 895 01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:50.800 like we always need more. We need more control, we need more 896 01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:53.800 revenue potential, we need to take over more of gamers' lives, we need 897 01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:59.440 to monetize every moment of it. It's just it's insidious, like in a 898 01:03:59.480 --> 01:04:02.679 way that is like destructive, and the sad thing is like people who make 899 01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:08.639 these decisions are often people that have little to know interest in the health of 900 01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:12.440 video games. They are here to make that money, get out as quick 901 01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:16.599 as possible, and then let someone else deal with the repercussions. I can't 902 01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:20.320 think of a single person who I would genuinely say, like, this is 903 01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:25.280 an executive or a person decision making a bity in video games that I honestly 904 01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:30.199 maybe feel Spencer actually probably feel like that. I honestly believe cares about video 905 01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:34.840 games and wants to do things to kind of improve the situation around them. 906 01:04:35.039 --> 01:04:39.280 There are people probably I'm forgetting, like I don't know, like Reggie was 907 01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:42.760 that kind of person as well, But these days I'm just like everyone just 908 01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:47.880 feels like they are just really leaning into the like gross you know, CEO 909 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:54.679 stereotype, and whether they are or not, like it certainly looks that way 910 01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:58.920 when you look at all these layoffs happening and these people earning crazy money at 911 01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:02.079 the top just being like, sorry, we thank you for your contributions, 912 01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:08.639 will take care of you. Maybe fucked up. Yep, uh, last 913 01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:11.800 start here real quick. The Anta Crusis is launching out of early access in 914 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:17.280 December from Cameron Wooseley at Destructoid. After nearly two years of toiling away in 915 01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:23.719 early access minds, developer Stray Bombay has announced that the Anta Crusius officially launches 916 01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:27.400 this December. Of course, this is the slat master himself, Little Smith's 917 01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:30.400 game. Uh, he's getting jiggy with it over there, making a left 918 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:33.719 for dead like they are taking it into one point zero in December. I'm 919 01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:36.559 ready to check this game out again. They did a versus mode that when 920 01:05:36.559 --> 01:05:39.920 this game launched it was just co op. I think a versus mode where 921 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:43.000 it's like some people can play as the the aliens that you go up against. 922 01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:45.079 That seems like it would be a good thing to mess around with, 923 01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:47.960 So we'll check I'm to check out as well. One more story that you 924 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:54.519 crossed off Blizzard president but leaves okay, yeah, okay, Like Blizzard president 925 01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:59.400 Mike y Obara called out players for having no patience nowadays they expect content all 926 01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:01.760 the time while also hoping that it reached a certain level quality. Why do 927 01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:05.159 you think that is, Mike? Is it because maybe you fucking train them 928 01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:11.079 to do that? Mike? You and everyone else like, is Mike really 929 01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:16.320 their fault? Mike fucking Mike like a match people saying Welsh it right now, 930 01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:21.559 I don't know, Like fucking Mike your bar is a very smart person 931 01:06:21.679 --> 01:06:27.719 and from all from every from every like report like a nice guy as well. 932 01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:32.519 But like that was a stupid thing to say. The industry literally reinvented 933 01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:39.760 itself to make it so you're constantly drip feeding content and you're play turning, 934 01:06:39.920 --> 01:06:43.559 turning the game on expecting something new there. This is your fault, all 935 01:06:43.599 --> 01:06:45.320 right, don't blame the player. You've been making games like that for a 936 01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:50.039 very long time for a reason. It always whenever people come out with and 937 01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:54.440 speak about like the realities in the market. Also, like also, just 938 01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:56.960 to be clear, game is all very entitled. Oh yeah, I agree. 939 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.639 I agree gamers we could say that, Mikey Barr. We don't want 940 01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:03.440 to hear it from you. What we want to hear from you is how 941 01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:06.239 is Blizzard contributing to the realities of how things work? That's what I was 942 01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:09.320 gonna get at. So I was like, yes, exactly, Like, 943 01:07:09.679 --> 01:07:13.199 if you are the executive of a company, you are in control of a 944 01:07:13.239 --> 01:07:15.360 lot. Speak about the things that you control. We'll talk about hey, 945 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:18.960 as gamers, maybe we are entitled and all this stuff that we definitely are, 946 01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:25.039 but let's just be realistic about our position in this space. And Mikey 947 01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:28.599 Barrus is very different and probably could speak to some other factors that are causing 948 01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:32.599 that. All right, whole question from Monday, Do you play Call of 949 01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:38.280 Duty campaigns? Yes? Usually got thirty four percent. No, I don't 950 01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:40.880 play Call of Duty at all got fifty eight percent, And No, I 951 01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:43.880 just played multiplayer is eight percent. I went with No, I just played 952 01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:46.679 multiplayer because that's what I ended up doing over the last several Call of Duty 953 01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:49.599 games that I did play. Is I just played the multiplayer and didn't really 954 01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:57.320 touch the campaign. So I guess you could see why Activision rushed out a 955 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.440 campaign for this game, because people claim to care about it even though it's 956 01:08:00.559 --> 01:08:03.320 trash. It's probably still just a bullet point on the back of the box 957 01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:08.000 and that's going to help them. But I haven't touched this yet, Tam. 958 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:13.119 Have you gotten around to trying out the campaign a tiny bit enough to 959 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:18.960 be able to verify our reviewer yet? And yeah, there's a real discussion 960 01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:21.720 to be had about what Call of Duty is in this day and age, 961 01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:25.479 Just as like Set the table because it's not one of the There was a 962 01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:29.439 time when Call of Duty was this experience that you played because it was a 963 01:08:29.479 --> 01:08:32.359 tight single player campaign that was awesome, like four hours, five hours, 964 01:08:32.359 --> 01:08:36.000 and it was always like a hell of a great time. Now it is 965 01:08:36.319 --> 01:08:43.720 not that at all. It is a repeatedly kind of iterated on online game 966 01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:49.319 that has a single player desperately attached to it, and it's just pure gobble. 967 01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:54.079 We have a new pole question we'll get to in a second. First 968 01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:56.720 though, let's see what do we have going on in Giant Bomb and TAM 969 01:08:56.760 --> 01:09:00.319 What do you have going on that we should plug? What do we have 970 01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:06.199 going on? So after this, I continue playing Allen Wake two Yes, 971 01:09:06.600 --> 01:09:12.920 Yes, and voicemail Dump Truck is happening later on and then yeah, that's 972 01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:16.720 today. So Ed, Jeff and I are going to be recording spot on 973 01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:24.000 Lucy's away for a little while. So I'm bringing in a ringer to help 974 01:09:24.039 --> 01:09:28.600 me out. Young Jeff. Interesting, Jeff grub. Yeah, we're going 975 01:09:28.600 --> 01:09:31.800 to talk about teasing video games, but we're talking about what the hell they're 976 01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:38.359 thinking. Let's see, people are asking about b Light Club. Mikey's out, 977 01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:42.800 So no blight Club today, obviously, but we were going to do 978 01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:45.680 a B light club. But since we're off on Friday, we're moving things. 979 01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:48.159 We're kind of like compacting the week. So we're doing Voicemail Dump Truck 980 01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:55.119 on a Wednesday. We're doing a BombCast Revengeance on a Thursday. So I 981 01:09:55.119 --> 01:09:59.479 figure we'll play Allen Wake two today. We'll get back to Blake Club next 982 01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:00.840 next week. Uh, we have some ideas for a B light club. 983 01:10:00.880 --> 01:10:03.479 There's just not enough time in a shorter week with the amount of people we 984 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:06.439 have working on stuff. But yeah, thanks to get back to normal next 985 01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:12.479 week. Let's see that poll question. Grand Theft Auto six is real and 986 01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:16.600 your options are look at us who would have thought and not me? I 987 01:10:17.319 --> 01:10:20.880 know you should do a Grand Theft all six is real? Uh, and 988 01:10:20.920 --> 01:10:26.000 then do yes. No, maybe we can do both. Let's let's see 989 01:10:26.039 --> 01:10:31.680 here. I just want to to go No is real. You should do 990 01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:38.560 Grand Grand Theft six main character Jimmy Uh, jim what's his name? Jimmy? 991 01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:43.520 Is it Hopkins? Jimmy Bully? Yeah, Jimmy Bully, Uh, 992 01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:55.359 Roman Bellick, Daniel Radcliffe. Okay, yep, no problem, thanks, 993 01:10:55.960 --> 01:10:58.800 Oh yeah, you go get the other kid. That's fine. Yeah, 994 01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:01.239 yeah, we'll get'll get a fan, don't worry, all right posting that 995 01:11:02.479 --> 01:11:09.199 as well. We'll talk about both of those on the show tomorrow. Until 996 01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:11.840 then, you won't. You won't see me on Fridays. No Dregs Day, 997 01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:14.439 no Dregs Day this week, so yes, we're wrapping up the week 998 01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:17.920 on a Thursday Dregs Day until then. Now, Tam, thank you so 999 01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:20.960 much for spending today talking with me about video games. I really appreciate it 1000 01:11:21.119 --> 01:11:26.600 for having me as always. Until next time, everyone, take care of 1001 01:11:26.640 --> 01:11:30.119 yourself. You're the best audience in gaming. Have a good one and goodbye. 1002 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:33.920 I did everything right and they indicted me.