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Bad. It's the internet. You're
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twenty twenty three. For the next
hour or so, let me help

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you sort through the world of gaming. On Games Morning's Live with Me Jeff

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Grab, today, Bungie talks about
losing trust and super Mario rpgg sonic he

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Head Chunk Donkey Hunkry. But first, please join me and welcome today's cost

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the Games Morning. It's tomorrow,
say hard, best food. Damn.

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How are you doing Bud? I'm
doing good. I'm doing good. How

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you know It's Friday is Gregs Day, so you know I always do.

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You know what we say, Jeff
Grab, Dregs Day, best day,

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That's what we say. So we're
gonna try and bring the heat and we're

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gonna enjoy a good old Friday,
Dregs Day. That's right. We're gonna

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get through this. Didn't n in
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That's a very important video to me. We were talking about before we

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get started. Uh, yeah,
that's that's that's the good stuff. People

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don't know what that video is.
Yeah, that's right, we know what

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that video is. That's not a
man, that's no way can we do

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like a live view? Yea,
yeah, let's just can we just what's

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watch it? Now? Let me
give me a yeah, it'll just take

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me like people know, there's no
way I'm gonna play it and they're gonna

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be like, oh this, oh
yeah yeah, Channel James. Did I

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break this or did you break this? I think I broke it? Let

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me tell let me see here,
you know, no, update day.

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We're gonna do update day everybody.
That's good. What time is it in

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Japan? All right, let's go
to update Boston? Overbeat makes you just

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want to oh yeah, all right, there we go there that everyone sit

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down. Yeah, it's time for
a giant bomb viewing of update date.

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Yeah, buckle in all right.
Oh crooked View, crooked oppose it,

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croocket Crooked View did something, has
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the same thing, and I will
I will talk about this afterwards. He's

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written the words I reckon, I
reckon, and I have some very sad

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news for it for you. All
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let me okay, let's let's do
this all right here it is everybody,

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Well, I fix this camera?
Yeah, update date? What bathrooms?

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Update date for the WE Shopping Channel. It's funny because normally they it's

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like eleven time. What time does
your fan turn that up? What kind

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of music is that? Like?
A boss? And Nova beat makes you

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really want to just can you?
Can you turn up the sound on it?

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Yes? You know what we should
do. We should write We should

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write a song for you're hearing it
just fine? Right titles of games?

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I right, I write it because
everybody knows about WE Shopping Channel and everybody

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loves to shop on it every Wednesday. So we will do is write a

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theme song for the WE Shopping Channel. Watch this, Watch watch us,

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watch us. You can sing to
the titles of the Super Mario RPG,

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Super Mario three, Mega Man Neo, Turf Masters, break in start you

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know what I mean, Jared?
Like every start you say, the LuSE

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of the Let me let me try
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p G, Sonic, The Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, three Dentures, Vent

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Loads, Kings Night Dig, Don't
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right? Nevermen earl and panic on
Funko Try Pennsylvania, Fatal Theory, Ninja

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judging my road comment, Razor basing
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com Cybernator, Rolling Thunder, Dynastic, he Roub Zero, I get it,

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you remembers and Donkey Kong, Junior
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Gaiden, Chicken, and D three
three. She was using, all right,

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you got okay, now you know? Now you know the chat?

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How dare you not? No,
I'm actually upset with some of you,

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So I can't remember who it was. I said it was a cricket view

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said, I reckon, I reckon. Sadly, it's not I reckon,

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I reckon, which Lucy said the
same thing. It's a little bit problematic.

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Oh, yeah, it's a little
bit problematic. Yes, this is

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from fifteen years ago. Yeah,
he's doing an impression of an Asian person.

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He is. I like it,
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it. I remember telling Lucy that
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I was like, oh no,
I should have kept that to myself.

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Yeah, it's it's like one of
the things I wish I could get the

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you know, the other F word, the the edit that takes that out

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of all my movies I like from
the eighties, I was watching Master Squad,

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we Dossary see Zick right, we
in this community. It's I riker,

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Yes, yes, I Riker's so
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right, perfect? I like it
and I rikered all right? Damn.

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And how's your week, Ben?
Yeh? Yeah, how you feel about

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everything? It's but we're good with
games? Are we caught up? Are

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we are we feeling behind it?
Anything? Right? I am? I

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am struggling. I am struggling.
I am like most of the way through

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all To most of the way through
Allen Wei to which I'm hoping I'm going

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to finish this weekend. I got
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anyway for my for the review verification, but I just haven't had the time

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to like wrap it up. I've
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want to play, including like Thirsty
Suits just came out. Yeah that was

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want to finish Chance of Scenaria.
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There's a bunch of other things that
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this week. I last week actually, I got ready to start streaming again.

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Since moving to my new place,
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I was like, all right,
I'm back, baby. So I started

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it all up, and then for
for for some reasons, I had to

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not be very available on the internet
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wait and and and until like people
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And then yeah, so that happened, and then oh man, there's

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still so many other games to play. I still haven't finished boorders Gate three,

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but I feel like that's going to
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Wonder. I played a decent chunk
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much stuff. It's a lot of
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I was. I was at in
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which is a show that Gerard puts
on charity event, and it was incredible.

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Have you guys heard of robo Dunk? Dan Ryker is in this chat.

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I know it, Dan robo Dunk. Get it. It's NBA Jam.

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It's NBA Jam with Robots is out
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it is unbelievable. It is so
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it, and we played it.
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I was like, oh no,
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And is it gonna, am I
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This played that straight hour, just
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is it is that same it is. It's two and two NBA jam and

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you play different robots. They look
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different like classes and abilities and and
you just basic stuff pass, shoot and

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and like you you hold down the
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down, the more flashy the dunk
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four bars, you jump into space
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between like half so you you kind
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to give them powers like oh I
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or like I can use a you
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someone who tries to knock you down, you could you hit at the right

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time you parry. It is system
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and it has like a element to
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is a fantastic like it's one of
the games that came out of that show,

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being like, I am, I
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a jump into Yeah, they're like
Dolphin Olympics. I remember playing that forever

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ago and getting that dolphin to go
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more games should have exactly that.
The I don't think it has online

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play right now. We can do
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I guess so. I'm also like, I don't know if you guys

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are somehow, you know, getting
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that sounds like a lot of fun. I'm getting this game right away.

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All right, let's explain what we
do here most weekdays, I,

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Jeff Greb, will help piece your
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news and maybe even some of our
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we have a lot to get into, so let's start the Morning Mess with

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Bungee sort of wrapping up their week
with one more apology. They tell about

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Destiny fans. We know we have
lost a lot of your trust amid layoffs

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and delays. Bungie throwing up plasma
grenade at his feet another time, just

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self owns left and right here.
This is from Michael mcorder at Polygon,

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in the wake of layoffs at Bungee
and reports of an impending delay to Destiny

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to expansion the final shape and in
place of its usual this week in Destiny

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update, the studio instead posted a
sober contrite message from the development team that

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acknowledges player player's dissatisfaction with the game. In its note, Bungee addressed the

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layoffs at the studio, saying we've
parted ways with people we respect and admire.

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About one hundred Bungee workers were laid
off this week after Destiny two player

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counts plummeted by nearly half, according
to a report from Bloomberg. While Bungee

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doesn't directly confirm reports of a four
month delay for Destiny two's next expansion,

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the statement certainly implies it. We
want to acknowledge the feedback and concerns you

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have about Lightfall, Bungie said,
referring to the most recent and coolly received

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sixth expansion for Destiny two and recent
seasons, as well as your response is

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to the reveal of the First Shape. We know we have lost a lot

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of your trust. Destiny needs to
surprise the delight. We haven't done this

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enough, and that's going to change. As part of its path forward,

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Bungie said, it needs to make
the Final Shape an unforgettable Destiny experience on

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par with beloved Destiny expansions for Sake
and the Witch King, which Queen blah

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blah blah blah blah blah, I
understand this, and I do too.

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I kind of like, here's the
thing that I really dislike, yes in

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in in statements like this, the
the apologies should be squarely focused on the

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people that were let go, yes
okay, and how they were treated.

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I really dislike it when companies are
like, we know that our game needs

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to be better because you're not.
You're speaking now to consumers, and you

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kind of use that to cover for
the fact that you should be talking to

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the people you just did dirty like
you you like. It feels really disingenuous

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to be like, we know Destiny
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Destiny right now. I do not
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I do care about those people that
you just dumped, and like, I

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feel like you shouldn't be out here
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have a care voice the next time. I promise I don't care. Ye,

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No, I personally know your shit. I know there some destiny freaks

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out there that are like, yeah, this is all we want to get

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what we hear about. But like, how insulting is it to have like

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to be let go and then have
a statement from the studio being talking shit

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about the work that you were doing. See, like this stuff wasn't good

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enough. We get it, we
know, we understand. It kind of

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creates this implication that those people were
let go because the content that we produced

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was bad, which is a really
shitty way to cover for yourself when you

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know that it's probably not the content
that was the cause of this. There

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are other factors in place. I
don't know what it was, but in

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this world of corporate America, where
games are like studios are overreaching constantly,

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I'm willing to bet a certain amount
that it probably wasn't the quality of the

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game that resulted in this. It's
probably some business decisions overreach wherever it may

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be that resulted in some way to
you know, the necessity to get rid

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of people to a degree. But
like that isn't something that you put your

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hand. No no ceo or corporation
ever comes up and be like, listen,

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we spent too much money on this
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paying for it. They always do
this, like, ah, the game

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was, you know, not up
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It said, no, stop trying
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go Like that is very it's a
very shitty way of offloading blame onto other

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people. And it happens so much
in the video game industry and I really

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dislike it's it's so shy, like
you don't need to put a statement out

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to don't put a statement out and
try and like assuage gamers because we're not

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buying it. Like it's just such
a shitty weight of throwing the people that

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you just kicked out under the bus. That fucking sucks. You know what

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they should be saying, We're sorry, we fucked up. We did X,

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Y and Z with our decisions.
And sometimes these creative decisions are out

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of these people's hands as well.
They could. They could probably turn and

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be like, we knew that was
gonna suck. We know we tried to

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say that, we that was going
to say that wasn't gonna work. They

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always know, yeah, and then
people push it through for one reason or

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another, like you should be apologizing
to them, not to us. Yep,

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that the decisions of executives put the
team in this position. And I'm

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sure this because they always do know. Whenever we talk to developers there,

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they're like, yeah, man,
you said exactly all the stuff we've been

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saying for literally years when you're with
your criticisms, we know better than anybody

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they know, and so they were
definitely saying it internally. And then they

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get ignored for meeting deadlines for whatever
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squarely on executives. And then but
the you know, the when the acts

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comes down and someone has to pay
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it's not the executives. It's it's
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and over again this year especially,
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Yeah, they said, we want
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about Lightful. I don't have any
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have some feedback and concerns about what
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were doing, why did this happen? I also would like to know,

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like what sacrifices have those senior executives
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rank and file for better for lack
of a better term, are paying the

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price for this now. But what
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now given up to make up for
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Fall. You never hear about that, like probably nothing, right, Like

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I know obviously Pete passes ones on
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sorry about this, and everyone's like, what did you lose about my field

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and take a pay cut? Did
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say about that. He didn't say
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a pr moment for him, like
I took a X amount of pay cut

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to try and you know help as
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be like, okay, cool.
At least we know that someone else is

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taking the leadership is stepping up to
take some of the blame. And maybe

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they are and for ways that we
don't know, but like we acknowledge your

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feedback and concerns about life, well
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got feedback and concerns about your staff
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on your team, because you are
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Live service games are in a situation
where they need to be so much

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to so many people, and I
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the morale on the staff spreads out
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and everyone needs to be feeling pretty
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the momentum. It needs to just
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if your team isn't feeling good and
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project, the community gaming community is
going to honing in on that. Know

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that that's what's happening, and then
and then it's gonna make it's gonna poison

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the well of your entire game that
you need to be surviving for years and

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years and years and now you're you're
digging a deeper hole for yourself. So

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just from a selfish like business point
of view, I think these companies just

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are so short shortsighted with these decisions
to be like, hey, we see

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tough times ahead. We're in tough
times right now, let's hit the panic

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button and cut a bunch of people. It's just cut staff. It's like,

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man, I think you would be
so much better served if you can

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take some of that new Sony money
and and just try to weather the storm

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a little bit better and and talk
it up with your community and explain that

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things are are at a low point
and try to try to say, hey,

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here's what we're going to work on. That would be seen as a

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strength. They would respect it.
And I think no respect for Bungie right

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now. No no, And someone
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Like we have to make these decisions
otherwise the hit is much harder and

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the studio, you know, more
people have to be let go. But

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it's like you just announce marathon.
You know who wanted that? Shiit No

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one, Yeah, that's who wanted
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It's like they're having to convince people
that we want that, and like,

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what is the faith now in you? If you're not able to do your

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you know, your crown, if
you're not have your like your shining jewel

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destiny to make it like pop off, why should And you just laid off

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a bunch of people and you did
it in the ship. You wait,

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why should we give a shit about
Marathon? Why? I mean the Sony

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acquisition. Internally, A bunch of
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that as Hey, we know that
the game is is not having enough players,

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but we're feeling pretty secure because Sony
did just acquire us. So that's

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why most of them were shocked when
these uh yeah, when these layffs went

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through, does it shock you?
Do? You are you? Like,

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what is Sony's strategy here? I
feel I don't, Well, isn't Wasn't

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there some like report about Sony had
no involvement in this entirely? Yeah,

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they said it was Pete Parson's decision, not Sony's decision. But Pete Parsons

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is a Sony employee. Yeah,
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Like it is in a way the
thing that like probably not a great

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time to plug it. But like
today's episode of spot On is about this

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exact topic. So Lucy and I
were like discussing it yesterday and like we're

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trying to write the notes and figuring
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And I think the thing that we
kept talking about was like, it's not

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safe for anyone out here, like
traditionals or like most people. You'd ask

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them and you'd be like, oh, once I get under the umbrella of

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a major corporation, I'm probably quite
safe. Right, I'm less like I'm

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part of a big machine that's got
a lot of money, and I should

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be okay. Like Sony, you'd
expect people to be. You know,

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Sony acquires Budsy, Sony's got crazy
money. They sell consoles, not as

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much as they used to. You
know, consoles are kind of you are

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there, kind of sales have normalized
and but like a digital sales and Sony's

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a big company, et cetera,
et cetera, so you should be okay.

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Same with Epic. Epic had had
layoffs this year. Epic is making

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Fortnite money. They're making money.
They have more money than some nation states,

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which is crazy. Like you you
joined that company, and you're probably

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like, I'm all right, you
know, and I don't think i'll be

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hit by layoff. But in this
industry, somehow you are even less safe

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when you join these companies because the
disposability of you is much higher. It's

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actually the opposite way. When you
work out like a small team, you

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scale to operate at that size and
you kind of like everyone is essential.

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If you're part of that team,
you have a role to play and it's

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important. Whereas at these big companies
is like they're really nearly like they're just

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doing things that beyond their means in
you know, shooting the shots that make

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no sense and hoping like they're exactly
they're going to do NFT artworks or some

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bullshit like that, and then before
you know it, you're like, oh,

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I just got cut because some executive
thought this would be a good idea,

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idea, and now I don't have
healthcare anymore. Yeah. I think

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it is important to look at what's
happening with a lot of studios, with

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Bungee included through the lens of reverberations
coming out of the pandemic stell, these

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companies are making a lot of money
in the pandemic and then, like you

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said, a lot of moonshots,
a lot of big bets that. Yeah,

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they were just like, well,
listen, yeah, we we know

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the pandemic high tide is not going
to last forever. We realized that.

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And it's like, it doesn't feel
like they really realized that, but they

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probably did to some extent. But
they're like, well, we can't just

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be like, well, squirrel away
all this money. The way that we're

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going to survive this is to be
optimistic and make big bets on a bunch

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of different things. And it turns
out, as always, that's a really

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risky thing, and these guys that
actually don't know what they're doing and don't

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know where to put that money.
And for for Sony, it definitely was

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a bunch of live service stuff.
For Epic, it was every bad idea

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anyone whispered into Tim Sweeney's ear that
was just ever sing like you got to

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got that worm tongue, just hey, fucking NFT's the metaversel blah blah blah,

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okay wow uh and so and then
here we are a couple years later,

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we'd say, okay, well,
has the rubber met the road?

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Yes? What's happening with any of
these things? Nothing? No, all

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of it's bad. All of it's
bad, all of it's not working.

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Uh. You could have maybe stuck
your core competencies. Uh, when you

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did stick to your core competency,
Epic publishing a fucking video game from Remedy

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that worked out pretty well. Could
have done a lot more of that,

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these other big bets where you sort
of worked yourself into a shoot about we

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can make the future happen. We're
that powerful. It's like, I mean

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over Epic at least, so you
you borrowed a bunch of ideas and put

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them into your engine that you owned, and then that turned into a gold

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mine, and it's like good for
you, like that, Sure, yeah,

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whatever you want, applause for that. Yeah, that's cool, But

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don't pretend like you're the company that's
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they are in such a tough position

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at PlayStation where they need to find
out what their other pillar is gonna be.

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They have two pillars, and that
is Big Trip, a blockbuster games

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and a really strong PlayStation network service
that has a pretty good subscriber base,

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and these things make a lot of
money, but they are pretty much tapped

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out. They aren't growing at some
alarming rate. They are kind of just

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making as much money as they can
and everyone understands they're gonna make about that

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much money. And then the rest
of Sony is just dwindling. And so

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this is there's a strong PlayStation that
needs to get bigger to hold the rest

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of the boat up. And it's
and so they do make these bets and

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there live services, live service is
it and now here we are we know

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that's not really going to be the
answer. And it's just like, oh,

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it feels like it's gonna get worse
before it gets better when they when

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they have to actually figure out what
is going to happen with all these acquisitions

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and all of these these bets that
they have made. So and but and

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then who's gonna pay for it?
Not the executives. Yeah, Jim Ryan,

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he's out, man, he's dipping, he's gonna be gone, He's

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done. Yeah, Yeah, that's
that's the West Pop. The executives are

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like childing, big chillin. They're
fine, that'll be okay. Like even

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the ones that take a hit are
still probably better off than all of us

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combined, and you, like an
executive could leave and be like, I'm

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want to sell up your studios.
Fine, yep, all right, uh

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let's move along here. Super Mario
RPG indicted me. Super Mario RPG preview

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round up. It's faithful and fresh, according to a bunch of previews.

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This comes from Isaiah Colbert at Kotaku. Super Mario RPG, the remake of

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squaring Enix's nineteen ninety six two D
Pixel Art Classic, will be out on

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Nintendo Switch on November seventeenth. Man, that's two weeks away. The charming

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looking turn based game sees Mario Peach
joined forces with a dastardly bowser and a

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whole bunch of others. Destructory's called
it a faithful remake with subtle improvements.

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That's not to say that the only
alterations are quality of life related. There

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are also cute visual touches that,
while seemingly small at a glance, added

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a lot to my experience. Mario
and his companions now have fun, little

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idle animations while they wait for their
turn in battle, which appropriately reflects their

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personalities. For example, you might
see Mario take a couple of practice swings

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while he waits for his turn.
He's holding a hammer in that case.

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Ig And says it recreates a classic
while breathing new life into its combat.

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Timing your attacks and blocks has also
been made more important, even against pushover

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enemies who could be cleared in a
single area of effects smash. That's because

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Super Mario RPG he keeps track of
how many successfully time presses you've completed in

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a row, even between fights.
I loved seeing how high it could get

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that number, and you're rewarded the
better you do with small buffs and a

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slowly changing gauge meter. And then
at games Beat Super MARIORPG preview, what's

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new with the Geno Crew Well,
Mike Minatti writes, if you struggled with

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hitting those action commands before and those
being the timed button presses during combat,

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the remake will give you a little
help. When you first have a new

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ability, exclamation marks will appear to
help you learn the timing for its action

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command. Those exclamation marks will disappear
on their own once you nail the action

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command five times in a row.
Some moves also have new visual elements to

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help you with timing. Geno Beam
for example, now shows a row of

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stars that give you a good idea
of how long you need to charge the

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attack for I feel like that happened
in the first one, but maybe not

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either way, though, that one
right there, that little tidbit tam is

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big for me. I'm a big
super Mario RPG fan. I love the

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game as it is. If they
never remade this, I'd be perfectly fine.

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This remake looks pretty good, though, and what I like to hear

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is the combat action timing sequences are
going to be a little bit more informative

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about when to interact with them.
It was a lot of guesswork on the

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Super Nintendo, so improving that is
kind of all I really needed, and

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all this other stuff is just butter
on top or icing on top. I

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should say, Uh, so,
I'm excited about this. You are a

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super Mario RPG guy. You ever
played it? You excited about this?

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Oh? Yeah? I mean like
I am a super Mario RPG enjoyer.

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I mean I love those those,
all of those Mario arpages. I think

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I fundamentally good on some level.
Yeah they all get some star star but

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yeah, yeah, even stick a
start, it's like got a little bit

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of chance. I know, yes, yeah, I mean, like,

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I don't think it's the best of
the bunch. I don't think it's like

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an amazing game either, Like,
but I still have fun with it and

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it's charming, and I'm like,
oh, it is cute, but like

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Super Mario RPG is definitely the one
that is like the standout, So I'm

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excited to play more of it.
For a minute, I was like,

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did the reviews come out? What's
going on? Because it's like the way

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you're reading stuff of us, like
a very definitive statements. Yeah, and

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I don't even know if people got
a chance to play. I thought a

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lot of this these were hands off
previews, but people are excited about it.

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I think Nintendo just did a lot
of like one on one, hands

407
00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.160
off previews with people, and so
they're feeling pretty good about it. But

408
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:21.839
we could probably expect reviews in about
a week and a half. I would

409
00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:25.480
think I know exactly when the reviews
are coming. I was just confused the

410
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:27.720
other one. Don't even don't even
tell me because I don't want to know,

411
00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:33.640
because still but hurt about my Nintendo
jail problem. Yeah, I'm still

412
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.279
very excited about this. I'm actually
gonna like when I read these, I'm

413
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:37.920
like, oh, yeah, I
should just go pre order that game.

414
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.519
And so I've done that. I
cannot wait. It is going to be

415
00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.640
preloaded on my switch and ready to
go as soon as possible. And then

416
00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:49.480
yeah, then it's like after that, we got a thousand year door probably

417
00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:53.279
early next year from Nintendo. So
it's like Mario RPG fans. Yeah,

418
00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:57.119
it's the remakes or re releases or
whatever, but who cares, that's great.

419
00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:00.720
I want those on the switch.
So looking forward to it. All

420
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.480
right, we're gonna take a quick
break, everybody. When we get back.

421
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.920
We got Sonic news, we got
EA talking about the Microsoft acquisition and

422
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:10.839
what that means for them. A
whole lot more. Right after this,

423
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:23.200
we're back. We're talking about we're
talking about air Horns and Sonic front Tiers

424
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.039
has now sold three point two million
copies worldwide. Not a huge story,

425
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:34.200
Jan excuse me, Tam, listen. Oh wow, Oh no. Jeff

426
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:40.440
Grubb thinks that all of us people, all of us, we're all the

427
00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:44.319
same. All of us people,
we have three Lettin names, all the

428
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:53.319
same. Mollie, Wow, I'm
sorry. Yeah, it's my get up

429
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.880
for Blake Club. Now I just
use it whenever I need it. I

430
00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:02.039
need to escape into my other persona
Sonic Frontiers three point two million copies,

431
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:07.480
damn uh really, I just want
to know they've they've been talking up about

432
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:14.680
how they want Sonic. Someone's getting
canceled, canceled. I love that.

433
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:19.319
That's good stuff. Do you think
Sonic could actually sell significantly better than three

434
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:23.799
point two million copies if the games
were even better? Like I think Frontiers

435
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.680
is okay, but if they put
extra effort into it, would it make

436
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.440
that much of a difference. Or
are they like, we're gonna put up

437
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.279
kind of the game and it's gonna
do just fine. Anyhow, is the

438
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.960
question hit with Sonic solo if it
was good? Yes, yes, it

439
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:45.839
is? No, no, no. We had a story earlier this week

440
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:49.720
where it's they said, hey,
they still view Mario as the thing to

441
00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:53.680
beat, and they their their goal
is to one day have Sonic bigger than

442
00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:59.000
Mario. And here's an idea.
I'm gonna pulse it. Sonic is no.

443
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:03.160
Sonic's popularity outside of the game dwarfs
his popularity in games. I don't

444
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:08.319
think Sonic is Sonic is no longer, right, Yeah? Yeah, the

445
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:14.119
Sonic is no longer a video game
icon like he Sonic used to be a

446
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:18.160
video game icon. Sonic now is
more of a multimedia entertainment icon than a

447
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.079
video game one. I don't think
about Sonic when when people ask me,

448
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.799
like, what are the you know, the major characters in video games right

449
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.039
now? I do not think of
Sonic at all. I'm a Sonic boy

450
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.119
as well. I grew up playing
Sonic over Mario, even though I wanted

451
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.799
Mario. I had a Mega Drive
and I had to play Sonic. But

452
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.000
I just do not think about about
Sonic as a factor in the video game

453
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:44.880
world. I feel like it's a
nostalgic one. Like every now and then

454
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.279
there's a game that comes out,
I'm like, oh, Sonic cool,

455
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.400
But like I do not. I
feel like Sonic's popularity is huge outside of

456
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.960
video games, just not within video
games. I think that's that seems rape

457
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.000
and I think when people like people
bring that fandom back to the games.

458
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.319
Yeah, I mean, I look
at the comments for that new Apple Arcade

459
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:07.720
Sonic three D game that looks I
think it looks pretty cool. Who knows

460
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.799
what's gonna end up being, but
I think at least In terms of aesthetics,

461
00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:15.079
I think they did a good job
of capturing the look and feel of

462
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.079
Sonic in a three D world in
a way that I don't think really has

463
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:22.079
happened before. It's it's been like, oh, we're going to do a

464
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.359
different aesthetic for the real world stuff. You're gonna get San Francisco and grinding

465
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.640
down rails. So to see them
like, oh no, this is just

466
00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:30.799
going to look like those Zone Genesis
gameplays, but in three D it's pretty

467
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:35.680
cool. But I look at the
comments and it's like, oh, we're

468
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:37.000
really glad cream the rabbit is here. And I'm like, listen, no,

469
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.640
i am not yet at anyone rabbit, but I'm not going to cream

470
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.599
a rabbit exactly. And it's oh, that's that's what they care about.

471
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:47.799
Their their lore and the characters that
they learn about in some other games,

472
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.400
and probably from the cartoons and the
comics and and all, and from their

473
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:54.759
merchandising. And I think that's perfectly
fine. But I do think it leads

474
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:59.319
from the it's kind of like backwards
now, where it's like they have certain

475
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.079
things that they care about and it's
not really so much about oh, let's

476
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:04.839
improve the Sonic game so much,
and not to say that there can't be

477
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.920
good Sonic I think Sonic Mania is
great. But yeah, but I think

478
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:13.400
if I think if Sonic Frontiers was
a nine out of ten, I think

479
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.519
it still sells about three and a
half million copies. Yeah, I feel

480
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.160
like you can make a ten out
of ten Sonic game and it starts roughly

481
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.160
it. Yeah. I feel like
the benefit of making a ten out of

482
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:24.880
ten nine out of ten Sonic games
is that people buy Sonic plushes comics and

483
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:29.640
watch the TV show more. Yep, that's pretty much it. Whereas with

484
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.680
Marios like Mario sells crazy amounts.
Yep, it's it's just stop raating in

485
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.960
a completely different different way, know
what. You know? What is popping

486
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.359
off right now that I'm excited about
sanche Sonic Mania, the team that Team,

487
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.839
Christian Whitehead and Evening Style Games.
Then next game, Penny's Big Breakaway.

488
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.359
Yeah, looks awesome. Have you
seen more of it since we saw

489
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:52.319
that first trailer? Oh? Yeah, Like we indieland they while we were

490
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.799
there, they did the first gameplay
reveal and they played it for like an

491
00:33:54.920 --> 00:34:00.039
hour or something, and it looks
awesome. It is so cool. I

492
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:01.279
don't know if it's going to be
amazing, but based on what I saw,

493
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:05.839
I was like, this, this
looks like someone went, what if

494
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.599
we took some of the ideas from
Sonic and and some of the other like

495
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:13.400
mascot platformers and mess with it a
bit, and what can we come up

496
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.920
with? And it's this platforming game
with a yo Yo character assenting it yo

497
00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:21.800
Yo and it's it's really charming,
and I got some great music. It's

498
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:27.880
got quite a noticeable like rare NAIs
era energy to it. Okay, So

499
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:30.920
like that's that is what I'm excited
about now, because I do miss games

500
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:36.159
like Sonic game yeah, and the
classic three D platform style. We don't

501
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:37.920
get as much of it these days. But so I'm like I saw the

502
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:42.440
Christian Whitehead Evening Star working on this
game. I was like, okay,

503
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:44.519
I'm excited to keep an eye on
that. And then I saw the game

504
00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:46.320
and I was like, oh,
I like this, Okay, that's very

505
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:50.719
exciting. It's got like skill based
traversal in it and like fun stuff like

506
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:52.000
that, and like, oh,
I'm down. I am very down for

507
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.840
that. I'm gonna go back and
check that out. I wish we had

508
00:34:54.880 --> 00:35:00.400
time on upf to like watch some
of those segments from indie Land and react

509
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:01.440
to them. That could be fun. But maybe we'll find another time for

510
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.280
that. At the very least,
I'm gonna be spending some time watching that

511
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.599
this weekend, so looking forward to
it. Penny's Big, Penny's Big Breakaway,

512
00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:13.360
Right, That's the name of the
game. I always always slips my

513
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:15.760
mind, but I'm gonna remember it
from now on, I promise, all

514
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:21.639
right. EA boss says I think
that active Microsoft and Activision is a great

515
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:24.000
thing. This is from Jonas Mackey
at Game Reactor and tam I'll read a

516
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:28.000
little bit of this, but want
you're like put yourself in his shoes and

517
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.079
tell me why you think he thinks
this is a great thing. While Sony

518
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:35.159
was fierce opponents to Microsoft buying Activision, Blizzard, a lot of other major

519
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.599
companies have been more positive, and
we have previously reported how leaders for companies

520
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:43.480
like Nintendo, take To and Valve
supported the deal. EA also seems to

521
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:45.039
be happy about it, and the
Boss, Andrew Wilson even calls it a

522
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:50.199
great thing in a CNBC interview.
I think that Microsoft Activision is a great

523
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:52.280
thing. It means that one of
the world's largest companies is going to continue

524
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.599
to invest in our industry to help
us grow the industry over time. But

525
00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:00.199
as we think about our position,
certainly as an independent developer and published of

526
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:05.119
the world's leading interactive entertainment content,
we feel really good about our opportunity,

527
00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.519
and to the extent that there are
opportunities for us to be acquisitive, we

528
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:12.880
would of course look at those.
Well, the fuck is it? I

529
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.400
mean inquisitive? Does that mean him
acquiring others or them being acquired? I'll

530
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:20.239
say, okay, Tim, I'll
say that I've heard following the activision,

531
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:25.559
you'll being announced that immediately EA was
like, sound the alarms. We need

532
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:29.519
to go look at every opportunity for
us to be acquired or for us to

533
00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:37.039
merge. See if I mean acquisitive
means means to like acquire things? Okay,

534
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:43.400
So then them acquired? Okay,
okay, but they like I wait,

535
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.000
what is the context he used?
Then he says, h we feel

536
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:49.800
really good about opinion, and to
the extent that there are opportunities for us

537
00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:52.880
to be acquisitive, we would of
course look at I don't think Andrew Wilson

538
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:58.559
knows that acquisitive means to be like
excessively acquiring stuff to a level that's greedy.

539
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:07.360
Yeah, well, or he doesn't
make anything wrong with that, Okay.

540
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.000
Just to put it plainly here,
I think that most of these executives

541
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:14.760
think it's a good thing because it's
always a good thing to have someone above

542
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:16.840
you that has a ton of money
that would enable you to exit the market

543
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:21.960
while getting a big payday. That
is why these fucking layoffs happen. This

544
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:25.920
is why this this student has gone, Oh no, someone else bought a

545
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:30.920
thing. I would like to buy
a thing. Why you know how this

546
00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:36.519
is gonna go. You're gonna end
up having to do all this bullshit and

547
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:39.480
people are gonna lose their jobs because
you're spending loads of money for no reason.

548
00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:44.079
Just shut I mean we look at
like, look over at Square makes

549
00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:49.960
a good fucking game, right like
sort Battlefield out? Do that? Keep

550
00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:54.360
your money and battle Field out.
Make a new Apex Legends or make a

551
00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:58.480
new Titan For, make a new
Titan Fall, make a new Titan for.

552
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:04.239
Shut up about acquisition and just make
better games because your games aren't popping

553
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:08.440
that hard respawn is carrying your company
on its back, and its better with

554
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:10.800
that on the way out, so
it's like you better figure something, you

555
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:15.920
better help them figure something, Like
I like, I'm sure like the fucking

556
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:20.599
EA Sports Soccer Club or whatever the
hell is called now is making a lot

557
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:23.199
of money, But are they in
a good enough position, like Catalog broad

558
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:29.519
Catalog wise to be thinking about acquisitions
like that when genuinely respawn is pretty much

559
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:31.599
all they have, Like Dice is
I like Dice as a studio, but

560
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.239
like Battlefield is not popping at all. Yeah, I think that they're doing

561
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:38.960
They're probably they might think it's a
necessary thing, so they'll just have to

562
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:43.800
figure it out. But I would
imagine that a company like EA, they

563
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:45.519
have money on hand, that this
is that they would have been in a

564
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:50.119
better position to acquire things when interest
rates for zero and they could just go

565
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:52.719
out and borrow a bunch of money
for cheap. So I don't know,

566
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.440
I do know that, Like when
the deal was was announced for the Activision

567
00:38:55.480 --> 00:39:00.159
deal, they were just laid off
people at buy Away. Yeah, but

568
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:07.119
al this is exclusively about acquiring other
things, Like they when it was about

569
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.159
coming out of the Activission deal,
they were like, no, we want

570
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:12.360
to be acquired. We are going
to go talk to a bunch of big,

571
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.400
bigger companies than us, and we're
going to go talk to other publishers

572
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.880
about merging. Like they had real
conversations with some of the other biggest publishers

573
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.480
that are out there and saying,
hey, do you want to acquire us?

574
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:24.800
And then some other publishers came to
them too, and EA was like,

575
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:29.000
no, we don't want to work
with you. Not you you you

576
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.880
you not you. Uh So it's
like they're looking up and down. I

577
00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:37.119
don't know what really they could be
spending money on to acquire in any major

578
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:42.400
way right now that would make a
difference for them. Yeah, I mean,

579
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:45.159
like financially, I am sure they're
doing perfectly fine because like I said,

580
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:50.440
like responsorship is popping, They've got
Star Wars, that game's doing well.

581
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.760
And also like the sports ship they
do is that they can crank out

582
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.239
some absolute turds and they will still
sort of like crazy. But as far

583
00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.320
as I can tell, the new
FIFA is good to fine, which is

584
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.440
so like they're probably fine. Just
a matter of should you be doing this

585
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.880
right now? What like is your
house in order to the point where it's

586
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:12.480
diffinitely can you can look around and
start thinking about buying other things when your

587
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.559
core franchises aren't doing that well,
Like they don't have the prestige that they

588
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:20.360
ever had. Like, instead of
trying to make up for a lack of

589
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.639
prestige by just owning a lot of
shit, why don't you spend that time,

590
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:28.320
money, and effort on raising the
profile of your existing franchises and having

591
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.639
them be a kind of bedrock to
then build expansion on top of. I

592
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:35.360
just don't I don't know. Maybe
I'm dumb and I don't know anything about

593
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.360
businesses, which is probably true,
but like, I just don't understand it.

594
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:40.679
It's like it feels very greedy every
time. Yeah, and you did

595
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:45.320
use the word acquisitive, and that
is greedy acquisitions. So I think that

596
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:50.559
you diagnosed it pretty well there where
it's like their house isn't in order enough.

597
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.639
They are This is not exclusively EA, This is a lot of publishers.

598
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:58.880
This is sonny we were just talking
about. They are successful. They

599
00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:01.360
do make a lot of money.
That money is understood to already be there.

600
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.960
The investors know. EA. Sports
games are going to make a lot

601
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.840
of money, and they've done a
good job about growing into these live service

602
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.280
things that continue to make a lot
of money. But now that those expectations

603
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:16.199
are now built in, so EA
now needs to find for infinite growth to

604
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:20.159
happen. You got to find the
next thing, and there is no obvious

605
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:22.000
next thing. This is the same
question we come back to for every single

606
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:24.639
one of these companies, and none
of them have a good answer for it.

607
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:28.239
It was going to be live service
there for a few years. EA

608
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.559
got off that tip a little bit
earlier than some of these other companies,

609
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:34.800
but it wasn't like they turned to
and they had another answer similar to that.

610
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.320
It was, Okay, we're going
to bide our time by trying to

611
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:40.159
make some good games again, and
so we're going to make another one of

612
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:44.360
those Star Wars Jedi games, and
we're gonna let buy away instead of making

613
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:46.119
the live service games. We are
going to actually let them make Dragon Age

614
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:49.719
and Mass Effect. But those are
going to take a while, and those

615
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:53.599
aren't necessarily going to be Hey.
The solution to Hey, Live service isn't

616
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:57.760
working anymore. But if those games
are good, it can still help them

617
00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.480
get a little bit of growth.
But the expectations is for those games to

618
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.760
hit and do really well. So
they're in a tough spot. But they

619
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:10.480
just continue to be flailing with their
answers for these questions, and it's always

620
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.400
ends up again with these big executives
making decisions that end up hurting people below.

621
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:22.320
So yeah, we'll see I at
the very least, I don't think

622
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:24.679
Microsoft's is looking over at EA to
acquire them, And I really I don't

623
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:30.199
know if any big company is.
Maybe beyond that Disney story we heard a

624
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:31.400
little bit ago about Disney. Think, ay, let's just buy EA and

625
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:35.679
then we could be in games.
But bob Igo doesn't seem too keen on

626
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:39.559
that either. Uh okay, just
made all my text really small. Let's

627
00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:45.159
move along here. Xbox startup screen
is now a full page Modern Warfare three

628
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.039
ad. This comes from Claire jack
Jackson at Kotaku. If you fired up

629
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.840
your Xbox today, you might have
seen something you didn't expect. A d

630
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.400
a darn full screen advertisement for the
latest Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare

631
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.320
three. Though Microsoft has done this
before with exclusives like Starfield, it's already

632
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.599
rubbing some gamers the wrong way.
Though twenty twenty three's Modern Warfare three isn't

633
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.880
technically coming out in full form until
November tenth. Those who want to get

634
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.480
on the campaign can do so right
now by pre ordering pre ordering any edition

635
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:14.760
of the game. So while that
early access period might be enticing for those

636
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:17.000
eager to follow the story of Task
Force one four one, it's far from

637
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:22.199
a universal desire, making the full
screen Call of Duty add on Xbox's start

638
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.480
screen feel intrusive. The Modern Warfare
three marketing blitz comes just weeks after Marcus

639
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:30.320
Microsoft wrapped its acquisition of Call of
Duties publisher Activision Blizzard. Uh, and

640
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:35.039
then they're going to talk about what's
actually in the ad. Hey, you

641
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.880
had a sound that you made when
I when I read that, and I

642
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:44.440
think that's the correct take on this. We're already in your ecosystem. We're

643
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:50.519
already pretty locked in getting aggressive and
throwing it in our face. Does it

644
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:52.960
it doesn't, It stops making it
feel like. The reason we're in your

645
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:58.320
ecosystem for consoles is because it mostly
it's pretty pleasant. Mostly my friends are

646
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.159
playing games over there. I get
stuck the game. It's just gonna work

647
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:06.079
if I buy micro transactions. I
have a general sense that these things are

648
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:09.440
going to last. These are all
things that sort of build this network effect

649
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:15.679
of keeping me attached and stuck to
this, to this ecosystem. This feels

650
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:20.239
like actively repulsing me away where it's
like, hey, spend more money on

651
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.199
our ship and it's just like chill
out where we already are. Come on,

652
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.840
I I just I'm just trying to
remember when did we pass the point

653
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:31.840
where we like were okay with this, because I remember the other time when

654
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:36.239
we all had like the Xbox dashboard, Yes, and then they were like,

655
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:37.679
we're gonna put ads on hand.
People were like, you're gonna do

656
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:42.880
what yep, where we pay you
money for this and you're gonna put ads

657
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:46.159
on here, and like that was
a big deal back then. And now

658
00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:51.519
we've reached the point where they don't
even ask anymore. They just like full

659
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:57.119
screen ad immediately in not even like
in a in a kind of like here

660
00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:00.320
is the you know the dashboard,
here's where the ad is. It is

661
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:06.239
fundamentally a core part of the system. The startup sequence is now an advertisement.

662
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:08.920
That's that's a bit cheeky, man. I don't I'm not I'm not

663
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:13.199
sure if I'm into that. Like
I think I would be more into it

664
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:16.800
if it wasn't for call of duty
or if it happened for more than just

665
00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:21.000
call of duty, you know what
I mean? Like this, this feels

666
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:23.840
like the cheapest, most bullshitty way
to try and advertise to me. It

667
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:28.159
has no nuance, it's got no
subtlety to it. It's just like here's

668
00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:31.760
a big fucking logo. Enjoy it, like by this game please. That's

669
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:35.079
not going to help. It's like
you said, that's going to turn me

670
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.280
off. Whatever your advertise. If
it was a case of like, here's

671
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.800
a random indie game that we did
it for as well, isn't that cool,

672
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:42.639
I'd be like, yeah, that's
kind of fun, like you maybe

673
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.679
you know this, you know random
check like Immortality for example. It feels

674
00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:51.519
like here's a full boot up sequence
for Immortality that's fun, or like you

675
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:55.159
know, here's like a dragon boom. Isn't that fun? No, it's

676
00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:00.280
just for like fucking Activision Blazzers paid
US ten trillion dollars in now are going

677
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:04.320
to make a boo sequence so that
you you are even more aware of how

678
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.480
much money they have. And it's
like when I'm starting up the console,

679
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:10.159
really like if I was starting up
the store, yeah, Pam, and

680
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:15.119
this happened, zero issue. That's
exactly thing I expect to be advertised to

681
00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:20.159
when I go into a store,
that is where commerce happens. Like when

682
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.719
I walk into a store, I
expect to see advertisements. When I boot

683
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:24.559
up a digital store, I expect
to see advertisements. I think it's I

684
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:29.239
think it's a good thing that developers
can pay money to make their things more

685
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:31.519
visible, because that means smaller developers
could do that as well. It's probably

686
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:35.599
maybe out of the price range for
a lot of them, but it's like,

687
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.159
if you can make it happen,
it probably has a pretty good effect

688
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.960
on your sales. So I want
that to be an option. And if

689
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.119
there's an option to take over the
whole screen when I start the store whatever,

690
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:46.159
But just starting out my console trying
to get to my games that I

691
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:51.079
played that I paid for already,
we are now, that is intrusive.

692
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:54.639
That is sad. This is this
is you going to the store and someone

693
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:58.880
coming and shouting in an infomercial at
you in the parking lot. Yeah yeah,

694
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:00.679
when you're driving that way, can
yeah, let me get into the

695
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:05.960
store, like like you've already bought
the things and you're going home, and

696
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:07.920
like right before you walk in your
home to use the things that you bought

697
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:12.559
already. That's when they come at
you with the ad. This just feels

698
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:16.239
out of the pre unis an advert
for a game published by company they own.

699
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:20.440
It's like, what fucked up?
Man? Yeah, and it's I

700
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:23.639
don't even know if Activision Blizzard is
paying them because they have the exclusive marketing

701
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:27.519
deal with PlayStations, so it's like, I think the only way that this

702
00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:30.840
could happen is if Microsoft just did
this of their own accord, which is

703
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:36.440
even weirder. There's nothing Sony's not
doing that. No, definitely, absolutely,

704
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:37.960
if I was Sony, I'd be
like, what the fuck? Man?

705
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:40.519
Yeah, I think they probably are
a little bit, and I bet

706
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:45.400
Letter of the Wall like Microsoft probably
okay, because yeah, yeah, but

707
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.880
still it still feels, uh,
it's it's weird, it's unnecessary, and

708
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.480
you know, just don't do it. Let's uh get the fervor going a

709
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:53.760
little bit for this one to stop
them and let them know that this is

710
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:58.800
pretty stupid. Don't do this again
unless you've got a good advert for a

711
00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:02.159
game that unless it's just do it
for pentiment every day, for the advertised

712
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:07.280
pentiment on your fucking screen every time, and will take it do that,

713
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:15.960
and I don't know, like,
actually bring pegal two back, cowards.

714
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:20.440
Let's go. Uh all right,
so let's see Modern Warfare three. Players

715
00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:22.880
are being asked for Modern Warfare two
before they start the game. This is

716
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:30.960
from Jonas Game Reactor some PlayStation four
users advertising but full screen. There's a

717
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:35.639
lot of fun stuff with this game
apparently, where the the achievements in the

718
00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:39.559
trophies are actually nested under Modern Warfare
two the same way DLC is, And

719
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:43.719
it's like, boy, they they
really did just turn this DLC into a

720
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:46.519
real game and did a kind of
a half assed job at that. So

721
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:50.760
yeah, some PlayStation four unit users
trying to play called due to Modern Warfare

722
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.480
three's campaign, which was released earlier
today for people who pre ordered one of

723
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:58.960
the more expensive editions, aren't counting
a peculiar issue. The game demands a

724
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:01.920
Modern Warfare two to start. Okay, wait that I actually misread this when

725
00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:05.840
I first put this in here.
That's weird. This has raised concerns about

726
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:08.280
the game's origins, as it was
rumored from several good sources last year,

727
00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:14.679
including Bloomberg's very trustworthy journalist Jason Treyer, that it was intended as DLC expansion

728
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:17.760
for its predecessor, something that was
reportedly changed only a year ago. Another

729
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:22.320
thing pointing towards this is that the
game lacks a Platinum trophy for PlayStation five,

730
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.760
as the titles listed as DLC for
Call of Duty Modern Warfare two.

731
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:30.000
It's like they kind of makeing it
pretty obvious at a certain point. Now

732
00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:37.159
whatever, people are allowed to like
change up their products, but they're asking

733
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.400
seventy dollars for this thing. This
is a seventy dollars video game, and

734
00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:47.559
it speaks to a certain lack of
respect for your audience and for people spending

735
00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:52.639
money on your game that you're not
even going to make the effort to opt

736
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.159
to obfuscate the fact that this was
once just DLC and probably would not have

737
00:49:55.280 --> 00:50:01.239
been seventy dollars. And so,
yeah, did everything right they indicted mesh.

738
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:06.519
Yeah, it's just weird. It's
not into the world. But damn,

739
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.599
it just feels like these publishers are
getting kind of spotty with these things.

740
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:16.639
I don't know, how do you
feel that was an impression of gigs

741
00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:24.039
from the UK crime scene? I
I I am not surprised by this.

742
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:30.800
Yeah, and I think I've reached
the point where I'm gonna be honest with

743
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:34.440
you, Jeff Grubb, I don't
care. Yeah, and you know what,

744
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.800
that's fine. I think whatever.
Man, Like this is a call

745
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.800
to you. Is a room that
I walk into once a year for a

746
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:45.199
little bit and then leave, and
sometimes it's on fire and it's like,

747
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:46.480
well what can I do? Sometimes
I walk in there and I'm like,

748
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.039
man, what can I do?
So it's on fire, So I'll just

749
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:52.039
come back and hope that it doesn't, you know, completely burn the entire

750
00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:57.920
world down. But yeah, I
don't think it's great. Like, I

751
00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:01.360
feel like they need it makes perfect
sense from a technology perspective as well,

752
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:05.199
right, Like this is a platform. Quality is a platform, and that's

753
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:07.599
how the game works. Yeah,
that's how the game works. It's understandable.

754
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:09.960
I feel like what they need to
figure out is the optics of it

755
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:15.440
a bit better, or like the
transparency, like just explain what you're doing,

756
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:17.280
is tell us why this is happening
or TELP, I understand why it's

757
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:20.679
happening. You understand why it's happening. But like, and I think a

758
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:22.679
lot of the audience does understand it, but not all of the audience.

759
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.679
Yeah, Yeah, like random,
Gary, the game on X is gonna

760
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.440
be racist to me, on on
on on the social networks. When I

761
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.159
tell them this is how it should
be, speak to them and say like,

762
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.639
hey, this is an you know, this is a code base that

763
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:39.280
we've got out there, or we've
got like, you know, a whole

764
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:44.519
infrastructure already set up. We're going
to inject new qual of duty into this.

765
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:47.119
It's going to override the old one. You are getting a new game,

766
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:52.760
Gary, relaxed. Uh, we're
just making We're making it quicker for

767
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.119
you so we don't have to upload
a bunch of shit and make you download

768
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:59.239
it up a bunch of times and
and you know, clog up your system.

769
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:02.159
Gary, Stop being racist. I
think Gary's biggest problems when he called

770
00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:05.960
you by Jan's name just because you're
brown too. I think that was that

771
00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:09.400
was really messed up. Gary.
Shouldn't have done that. Uh, okay,

772
00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:12.199
Okay, the other side of this, and then we're gonna move on.

773
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:21.400
Apparently this is still a two hundred
gigabyte download. What the fuck many

774
00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:24.599
games doing a gigabytes? Man?
What's going on? Holy smokes? Okay,

775
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:30.320
Gary, fuxt drive you correct?
Fucked Gary? All right? Next

776
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:34.400
story, this one you will care
about. Silent Hill game disables chat after

777
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:40.280
too many posts about come uh,
this is slea bartam at Kentaku Silent too.

778
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.960
I knew this was gonna happen,
and I was like, I got

779
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:46.119
to get into these these episodes so
I can be there when it happens.

780
00:52:46.159 --> 00:52:49.480
And it's just like nine pm Eastern
time. It's a bad time for me

781
00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:51.960
and putting my kids to bed,
making sure everything's taking care of some if

782
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:53.119
I've got a show. So I
haven't been in there, but we're gonna

783
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:57.360
keep up with this story as much
as possible. Silent Hill Ascension carried the

784
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:00.039
weight of the entire Souldent Hill franchise, of which they're hasn't been an official

785
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:05.400
installment in about a decade, and
immediately fumbled it during a disastrous October thirty

786
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:08.599
first premiere. The series, essentially
an extended choose your own adventure cutscene progressed

787
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:14.880
but progressed by a live audience,
already suffers from wonky ui and a useless

788
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:20.039
battle pass, which requires you to
pay twenty dollars among other things. You

789
00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:24.079
paid twenty dollars for, among other
things, a legendary breadsticker, an unexpected

790
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:30.559
number of people are watching. Developer
develop jimvid CEO Jacob Novic told Kotaku over

791
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:34.320
email, making it so that several
systems were strained during its launch. A

792
00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:37.960
lot of those people were also posting
about the game director Hideo kojimas come.

793
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:44.800
So Jenvin disabled Ascensions Chat for its
second night of streaming on November first,

794
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:51.800
Ascensions fifteen ish minute episodes air nightly. I did see some some tweets about

795
00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:58.400
Hideo Kajima's come so that that seemed
that tracks with the reporting on the ground.

796
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.519
Yeah, this was gonna happen.
Have you seen any of the footage

797
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:07.840
of this tam though, so they
talk about wonky Ui. It looks like

798
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:13.480
a nightmare. It looks like an
old AOL flash game popped up over footage

799
00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:16.559
of a Silent Hill game or a
Silent Hill like bad TV show, And

800
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:22.679
it's just so fucking bad and weird. Uh. I've really got to I

801
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:24.400
do have to see it for myself. I think they're doing new episodes every

802
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:28.320
night at nine pm, so I
might try again tonight. We'll see.

803
00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:35.239
Uh. Yeah, Konami, right, I mean that's the question, tam

804
00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:39.840
Konami. Konami, Like I don't
know Konami when they did the Silent Hill

805
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:44.440
stuff that I was like, Okay, some of this sounds pretty interesting.

806
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.320
This was the one where I was
like, what are you doing? Man?

807
00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:51.760
This is where you went one step
two. It's a sign that Konami

808
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:55.239
doesn't actually know how to pick winners
and losers when it's like doing some things

809
00:54:55.519 --> 00:54:59.760
does seem like there's some winners,
you know that. Who knows what's gonnappen

810
00:54:59.800 --> 00:55:01.920
the Blue Uber Team remake, I
don't know. I'm not a Bluebird guy.

811
00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:07.199
I never probably played their games,
but the Soilon came in. Yes,

812
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.199
it feels like someone came in and
was like, here's a seven papers

813
00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:14.719
of Silent Hill ideas, which one
would you like? And they went yes,

814
00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:19.239
yes, and everyone was like what
okay, cool, let's just do

815
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:22.239
that then. Yeah. Like I
feel like the smart thing would have been

816
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:27.400
to start with the Silent Hill to
remake and be like, hey, is

817
00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:29.320
a Silent Hill too remake? What
do you guys think? Well? The

818
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:32.039
Silent amazing. The sign Hill community
is in a good place because they're at

819
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:37.079
they're already doing the conspiracy theories,
where like they released this first so that

820
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:40.519
when the Bluebird team's uh Silent Hill
remake comes out, and it's terrible.

821
00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:46.599
It will look better in comparison as
a longtime Southern Hill fan has well,

822
00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:52.000
say, Sane Hill two community is
fucking unhinged like sny Hill two community,

823
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:57.000
and Kingdom Hall has two community on
that far off from each other. So

824
00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:00.800
it is what it is. Yep. Well, good luck Silent Hill community.

825
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:04.840
You guys seem like you're gonna need
it. As a Silent Hill fan,

826
00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:08.960
I know that my my chances of
being heartbroken im much higher than my

827
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:14.119
chances of being excited, So I
have, like I laser focus on the

828
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:16.159
things that I care about exactly.
You got a shill to remake. I'm

829
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:21.199
paying attention to that, and maybe
a couple of those other like interesting side

830
00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:24.119
projects that are come great. I
didn't. I never played and this game

831
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:28.559
is apparently good that like Zelda a
light gun game for the Wii. It's

832
00:56:28.639 --> 00:56:30.639
like, I get it just didn't
strike my fancy, so I just ignored

833
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:34.039
it. I'm a big Zelda fan. I think Zelda light gun game for

834
00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:38.320
the Wii. What you mean?
Link's crossbrow train Stross training, king Hell,

835
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:42.639
get the name around, let's act
just think I ignored it because it's

836
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.360
just wasn't for me. But it's
I think that's what you know, people

837
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:47.519
can learn from me. Right,
that was a good thing for me.

838
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:53.079
That it was like it was asked
what I thought people liked that. I

839
00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:59.239
could never know a lot of times
where people like link, Okay, that's

840
00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:02.000
what. This is great? This
is this is great. It's got the

841
00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:06.400
green kid in it. The green
kid. Oh man, I love that

842
00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:10.320
green kid. All right, let's
say this last story. Good legging games

843
00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:16.760
on. We were dead? No, there was dead space extraction was good?

844
00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:21.639
That? Yes, that one was
fine. Was there a house of

845
00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:24.239
a dead wine? I don't know? Overkill? Yeah, ok, yes,

846
00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:28.519
all right, let's do this last
story because that's part of the poll.

847
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:34.320
France gave I g Aluma Knight of
the Order of the Arts and Letters.

848
00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:38.639
This is from my Nintendo News stay
Away from a fronts As and the

849
00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:42.039
rest of the Dead team behind the
Legends, all the Tears of the Kingdom.

850
00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:44.920
It has been been a very busy
year for them. The game was

851
00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:46.679
finally released on the Nintendo Switch,
so it's only a matter of time before

852
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:50.880
the arrival of the Gaming Awards season
will result in the game winning some Awards.

853
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:54.440
However, Aga has already received some
recognition this year that may surprise you.

854
00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:59.800
In France, a has been named
Knight of the Order of Arts and

855
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:02.960
Letters. For all intents and purposes, Anuma is now a Knight. It

856
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.840
is actually very common for France tonight. Non French people, for example,

857
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:12.440
Shigeru Miyamoto is also a part of
the Order of Knights of Arts and Letters

858
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:15.960
in France. All right, well, I'm gonna skip today's full question,

859
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:21.119
tam. Which one of these giant
bomb staff members is the most likely to

860
00:58:21.199 --> 00:58:23.840
become a Knight? Is it gonna
be Lucy James, Dan Reckert, Jeff

861
00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:29.960
Backlar or Janachoa. We all know
it's Dan. It's Dan. We all

862
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:36.960
know it. We know it's Dan. That will be like that will be

863
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:39.639
like, okay, how did this
happen? And it's like, yeah,

864
00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:43.519
there will be no good explanation for
how it happened, and yet it will

865
00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:47.360
happen. It's like everyone will be
like hmm, everyone else make it well,

866
00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:51.199
everyone will make it a good case
for literally everyone else, and then

867
00:58:51.239 --> 00:58:52.639
somehow Dan will be the knight and
it will be like, oh, yeah,

868
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.280
that makes perfect sense. Yeah,
it makes any of her walking around

869
00:58:55.679 --> 00:59:00.440
with a sword, just flailing about
being like I'm a knight. I'm just

870
00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:06.599
just drinking Miller Lite and with this
sword and walking down the street. That's

871
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:08.119
yeah, I'm a night with the
middle of Light. I'm a night with

872
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:13.920
a middle light. I'm the middle
of Light. Six Miller like box and

873
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.119
puts it on his head like a
crown. Yeah, Doc Cells like a

874
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:22.480
boss that he comes up as Night
of Miller Light. Yeah, oh boy,

875
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:24.079
oh boy. All right, let's
let's get to the poll question from

876
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:29.320
yesterday, what do you want from
God of War Ragnarok DLC? I want

877
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:32.519
it? Sixty percent said they want
a Dan Reikert or an expansion connected to

878
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:37.159
the main game. Thirty nine percent
say they want a standalone expansion and expand

879
00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:40.599
alone similar to Miles Morales, and
forty six percent say no, DLC,

880
00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:45.440
just make God of War three.
Sam, do you where do you fall

881
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:49.599
fall in on this? Because I'm
I'm the one and Milescott like, I

882
00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:53.920
want to see Cratos trying to be
a dad like not like a you know,

883
00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:57.559
I'm gonna teach you how to kill
dad ad. I'm talking like I

884
00:59:57.639 --> 01:00:00.039
gotta change this little ships nappies.
Yeah, you know, I mean,

885
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:05.320
I I want, like, what's
that Vin Diesel movie where he's the pacifier.

886
01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:07.199
Yeah, the past fire. I
was gonna say, mister Nanny,

887
01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:10.039
but that's the different one. Yeah, the past is what I want from

888
01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:14.400
I want Kratos to be doing that
ship being like, oh God, I

889
01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:17.000
gotta look after this child, whereas
my wife, Oh she's a tree or

890
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:22.039
whatever. I gotta take her ashes
pa, But I gotta feed this boy.

891
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:23.480
I got no milk. Boy.
It should should just be like a

892
01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:28.400
life sim like just a trace,
just like summer break from school or whatever.

893
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:30.920
And so he's like at home all
the time, and and and Critis

894
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:34.599
is always like, go out and
do something, go clean the yard,

895
01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:36.440
go play with your friends, and
he never does. He just wants to

896
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:38.519
hang out with his dad. Yeah. I a real talk, though.

897
01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:43.880
The thing that I want now is
the Middle Gates solid cutification of God of

898
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:46.559
War. That's what you get,
that's what that's what's getting my character.

899
01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:52.480
You play as a character who has
to hunt creoles. Oh okay, yeah

900
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:54.519
you get so, Like the best
thing about Middle Gate solid to is you

901
01:00:54.679 --> 01:00:59.199
get to write and it is not
great. Okay, I I don't mind

902
01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:01.639
him this in this this point but
like, the coolest moments are when you

903
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:07.079
are fighting alongside Snake and you get
to see why Snake is who Snake is

904
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:09.599
and why he's revered in the way
he is because he's fucking badass, really

905
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:14.039
big. How cool would it be
if you were a huge, huge,

906
01:01:14.119 --> 01:01:17.519
way huge time Well, how cool
it would it be if you were like,

907
01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:22.159
Okay, I need to I need
to hunt this god of war who

908
01:01:22.199 --> 01:01:25.880
has been going around You play a
character from the Greek Pantheon who has like

909
01:01:27.079 --> 01:01:34.880
now been the entire life vowed revenge
to kill, destroyed everything. He destroyed

910
01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:38.400
everything, so he's grown up hating
Kratos his entire life, and he has

911
01:01:38.519 --> 01:01:44.760
no context for why this happened.
So you begin this like realm hopping journey

912
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:49.360
to find and kill this god murderer
and you have no idea of the history.

913
01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:52.679
But that means that you have to
go on the bloody like you have

914
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.719
to be on the trail of Kratos, after he's gone through his war path

915
01:01:57.039 --> 01:01:59.800
through the Greek pantheon, through the
Norse one. You can maybe add some

916
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:02.719
the you know, pantheons through there, and along the way you like have

917
01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:08.679
to you get to experience the kind
of the full magnitude of his wrath right

918
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:14.480
without actually facing him up until the
eventual points where you do run into him

919
01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:17.559
and you're like, this guy is
fucking unreal and they could do so much

920
01:02:17.559 --> 01:02:20.880
to subvert that right where it's like
you have to track him down through this

921
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:24.079
other pantheon, and as you fight
those guys, you like realize how messed

922
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:28.320
up most gods are, and so
you're maybe a little bit conflicted by the

923
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:31.360
time that character gets the credos and
then that yeah, have all this emotional

924
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:36.000
build up. That would be fantastic, and you're being manipulated by by these

925
01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:38.960
other gods because they know that they
fucked up. Age Gun then next on

926
01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:44.079
the list, because this board motherfucker
is killing everyone, So it'll be like

927
01:02:44.559 --> 01:02:46.199
that could be like, oh cool, that's a new way to look at

928
01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:51.119
craters through the lens of someone else, to show how like how much of

929
01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:53.519
a beast he is. That would
be really cool, I think. And

930
01:02:53.599 --> 01:02:57.199
you can even have like a trece
ap pear at some point and be like,

931
01:02:57.320 --> 01:03:00.599
yo, but that's actually pretty cool, man, Relax. That would

932
01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:02.360
be fantastic. All right, Well, there you go. That was a

933
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:05.920
time to Monica. I enjoy.
That wasn't an option, but I'm sure

934
01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:07.159
that would have got one hundred percent
of the votes if it was up there.

935
01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:12.159
All right, we already talked about
that new poll. It's gonna be

936
01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:15.599
who's going to get the knighthood most
likely to get the nighthood from the Giant

937
01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:17.880
Bomb staff. Talk about that on
Monday. Before we get to all that,

938
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:20.880
though, Tam, what do you
have going on this week or we

939
01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:22.239
were next week? I suppose?
And where can people find you on the

940
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:28.599
internet? All that good stuff.
You can find me on Twitter there,

941
01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:30.239
you can find me on Twitch.
I will be three milli again very soon.

942
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:36.119
But I've been shadow banned on Twitter
right now for reasons, so it's

943
01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:39.320
a bit hot for me everywhere,
and so I'm being very careful about my

944
01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:44.280
availability online, as I said,
But we'll be back soon. I will

945
01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:49.960
be on the Bomb Cost today,
Bomb Cost Revenge, BombCast Revenge. It's

946
01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:53.039
BCR coming actually everybody after UPF.
It'll be like a little bit after UPF,

947
01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:57.639
it'll be live, so go ahead
and watch. Yeah, so we'll

948
01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:00.639
be doing that and then UPF is
happening as well well, uh yeah,

949
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:03.719
and then I think next week we
have do we know we don't have a

950
01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:09.719
Jeff Chess next week. Yeah,
we'll figure that stuff out. We'll figure

951
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:13.519
out that's plenty to do. Okay, we're planning some stuff or end of

952
01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:17.119
the year. Please be excited.
Please be excited, especially if you're in

953
01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:20.800
LA. Yes. Yes, that's
what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

954
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:26.159
Yes. Also, Sean, I
think put up a little blog post

955
01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:29.400
about extra life on the site today. So oh yeah, some w' is

956
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:30.440
in the chat for Shan. Yeah. Yeah, he's been doing a ton

957
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:35.519
of work on that. It's actually
hurting cats, so tough stuff. And

958
01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:39.880
then what time is you? PF
UPF should be in about an hour,

959
01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:42.840
we'll start around one ish. We'll
see that. That's when we've been doing

960
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:45.079
it recently. So yeah, okay, let's see here. Let's wrap up,

961
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:47.599
Tam, thank you so much for
spinning today talk with me about video

962
01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:49.480
games. Man, I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. As

963
01:04:49.480 --> 01:04:55.880
always, another Drags day down.
Stay tuned for the ship survey of the

964
01:04:55.960 --> 01:04:58.960
week. Thank go for watching you
the best artis and game. Until next

965
01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:01.519
time, have a good one,
take care of yourself and goodbye, goodbye

966
01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:06.000
YouTube, goodbye. I did everything
right and they indicted me