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He'll be don't be bait. It's
the Internet. You're busy. Let's do

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this for April tenth, twenty twenty
four. For the next hour or so,

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

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Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today, the woke mob better watch out because

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Sega just announced that twenty twenty four
is the year of Shadow the Hedgehog.

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But first please join me and welcome
me today's co host of Game Mess Mornings.

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It's Lex Lutty. Everybody, Lexi, how are you doing? Just

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like Shadow of the Hedgehog, I
too, am oppressed by the woke mob,

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right, the woke mind virus comes
for Jordan Peterson. Uh, Shadow

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of the Hedgehog and Lex Luddy?
These are these aren't don't like any of

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that group? Can't see why?
I can't see the problem there. Yeah,

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well listen, people already get me
mixed up with another Lex and that's

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problematic. So let's let's fucking not
go there. But yeah, I'm not

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doing too bad. How are you
doing? Go up? I'm doing good,

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you know, busy doing the lot
all the time. I was doing

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my podcast last night and then my
mod's guilted me for not streaming on Twitch

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anytime recently. So now I'm like, oh, you know what, They're

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right, I should be working more. That's a good point. I should

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Yeah, I should be creating more
content, not doing enough. So I

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have that. A little while ago, someone asked me, like, when

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I was going to bring back the
STOCKMANU podcast, and I was like,

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when I finished doing like fifty exams
and also trying to get to LA and

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also trying to make money and also
like trying to survive. But it's on

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the way. It's on the way, on the way. Uh. The

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other thing I noticed is that is
that I've been the clinched jaw, Like

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my jaw feels tight, and I'm
like looking for like shortcuts to not have

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it be tight anymore. And I
look, I went on the Google Machine

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Lexi, and I discovered this thing
where it's like, if you like,

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let your jaw hang and that little
button next to your ear opens up,

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and I'm rubbing that and it feels
real nice. It feels real good.

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I don't know if it's helping,
but I'm getting in there and I'm ah,

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ah, yeah, that feels good. I'm at the point where like,

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I'm almost twenty four and for the
last month my back is just hirsh,

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just like really fucking hirsh. And
so I'm really hoping that it's just

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stress, because otherwise I have to
contemplate the idea that I am actually getting

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older and that can't be happening.
No, that's impossible as far as I'm

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aware. Yeah, I don't think
I believe that's allowed for you to happen.

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Yeah, so it's it's definitely the
stress that's doing it. I should

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shout out. I was actually I
went to a thing. I went to

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a thing in person, I met
people. Yeah, it turns out the

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people who play video games in Ireland. There's people who make video games in

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Ireland. What. Yeah. I
was at the Fush game Summish in Galway

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on Friday where I interviewed a bunch
of people and those will be going up

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on Shack News. Someone in Chad
said, just Danny, come on now,

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we don't count from as Irish anymore. How many former like Rock Star

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Ireland employees were there, like people
that used to work there and now just

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have their own thing. None,
none, it was there wasn't even any

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black shamrock people it was just like
indie game developers. Wow, okay cool.

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So it was really fucking grassroots.
It was set up by the Galway

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Film Council. They've been doing it
for like three years now, and last

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year as well, I interviewed Josh
Sawyer. This year I interviewed Cello Ramanan

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and one of the creators of Sable
and they were great speakers. Mark Brown

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was also there from Game Makers tool
Case. He did he did a really

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good talk on game jams. But
yeah, it was a really great event.

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And it's like it's cool to go
to these small events and be like,

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oh shit, the people who make
games are fucking mad, and like

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as negative as the Internet can be, even at like these small scale things,

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like the people who are making games
are just cool and nice people,

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and they want to hang out and
talk and tell you about the cool shit

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they're doing. They don't fucking care
about the other stuff. They're just they'd

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have fun. Yeah, it turns
out that even the people who play games

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are cool the second you get in
person. That's the thing I've recognized over

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time is like all of the bullshit
that happens online disappears in an instance the

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second, like we all get in
person and we're hanging out and none of

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that stuff ever comes up. No
one ever comes up to be and brings

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up some stupid woke bullshit or whatever, like oh you you said something that

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made me feel like you're woke,
and like no one's ever said anything close

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to that. It's all that's just
all online bullshit. So uh, I

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think it's almost like no one likes
hanging out with those people, so they

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stop part of the things because they're
fucking loses. Yeah, and I think

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some peop are really good at like
sort of compartmentalizing that stuff and keep it

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online or like not even notice it
in the first place, and I envy

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them. They're better better than I
am. But it's always a strong reminder

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like, hey, get in person. You can see some people who are

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just going to be human beings about
everything, and that's always great. I

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did have a great moment d during
the weekend where someone had told me that

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I was part of like the woke
leftist cabal on the West Coast, and

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I was like, dude, I
live in Galway. What coast is closest

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to Galway the West coast, so
technically they were like again, so what

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do you complaining about? I do
live on the wild Atlantic Way, so

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like, yeah, maybe it's the
woke Atlantic Way. Hell yeah, all

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YouTube, All right, let's get into

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this. Oh no, just tell
me Team Electricity or Team Sanity. No,

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team, It's fucking easy. It's
it's the English language, motherfucker,

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it's not. It's not. Yeah, they're talking about the thing that they

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are talking about. People don't speak
in double entendres. It's weird that they're

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talking about the thing they're talking about
though, LEXI, that's weird. They

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don't do that in movies. All
Right, I'm sorry, everybody. I

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can't I can't let it Go.
Sega announce this Year of Shadow. This

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is remind Ntendo News. Today,
Sega announced its latest campaign, Fearless Call

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in Year of Shadow to celebrate the
amazing fans of Sonic and Shadow. I

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think what happened here. The reason
I'm doing like, oh, this is

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like uh a Sega standing against the
woke mob is the there's a right wing

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conservative sports commentator called Jason Whitlock who
has been fired from every job he's ever

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had, and now he works for
Glenn Beck and he has a show on

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the Glenn Beck Network called Fearless.
And so I saw that and I'm just

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like, what are you talking about, Sega? But that's just me,

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that's just my brain going there.
Yes see, the last year, Sega

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launched the Fast Friends Forever program,
And there's a period between each one of

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those words, which is why I
said it like that, which highlighted the

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special bond that Sonic and Friends,
Tails Knuckles and Amy Rose share with their

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fans. This year, the focus
shifts to everyone's favorite brooding hedgehog, Shadow,

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who has set the star in the
upcoming video game Sonic Across Shadow Generations,

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as well as the highly anticipated movie
Sonic the Hedgehog three later this year.

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The campaign celebrates what it means to
be fearless and embracing your inner shadow

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by bravely facing challenges head on with
a gun. Doesn't say that part,

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but I'm sure that's telling us to
go out and buy a block. I

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think they're tomas to go. It's
like a desert eagle, right, He's

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got a degal, he's got the
biggest handgun you could possibly have. Yeah,

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Okay, hey, Shadow the Hedgehog
is here, and I've accepted that

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we cannot do anything about Shadow the
Hedgehog anymore. I guess I keep forgetting

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though, over and over again,
that he is someone that Sega can like

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rely on to like get kids excited
about stuff, so they can have a

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whole year based on Shadow, and
that is going to be the central theme

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of their marketing campaign. But he
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the New Sonics Generations with the remake, whatever that is, and he is

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going to be a big part of
the movie. So clearly they think Shadow

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is important. How important is Shadow? Young person like Lutty? So this

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morning I went and I got coffee
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and Bevin, who is a reporting
lead over at The Gamer and number

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one Sonic Shiger. So I asked
her. She was very excited, but

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also so acknowledged that all this ship
is fucking lame. Yeah, and I'm

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listen, maybe the coolest thing Shadow
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Shadow has taken Luigi out back and
murdered him because the year Luigi is

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no longer. I can't do that. You can't do a year Luigi again

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after we've had a year of Shadow. Absolutely. Yeah, So yeah,

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I think Shadow killed him executions.
I don't. I don't care, is

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what I'm saying. This is fine. If you like this, good for

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you. I don't, I don't
care. None of those games are fucking

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good. Generations, wasn't that good? You're being stupid. If those games

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are fine, some are fine.
Lex Latti says, mobile game event.

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Okay, there's a wholeunch of stuff's
gonna happen here. They go have a

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mobile game event, play the Fearless
Mobile events in Sonic Forces and Sonic Dash

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for a chance to unlocked powerful Shadow
variants including Super Shadow, Vampire Shadow,

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Sir Lancelot, and Dragon Hunter Lance
a lot. Okay, they're gonna make

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lego based on Shadow the Hedgehog.
I guess. Sonic Speed Cafe, the

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official Sonic Hedgehog themed restaurant, is
serving up new locations, menu items,

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merch, and much more featuring Shadow
product themes, photo opportunities and menu items.

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Fans can come celebrate the year's shadow. Stay tuned for updates. There's

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gonna be new locations and I can
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do that. I'd see what that's
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make that happen. They will of
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Pancakes where Shadows Chaos Chocolate pancakes will
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So, well, here's the biggest
issue I have with this. That will

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be on the menu when we get
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That was so we can't all just
go there and get our Shadow the

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Hedgehog on to be able to have
a successful show. So we're screwed.

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Yeah, and we all know there's
nothing more chaotic than chocolate pancakes. That's

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actually true. That six year old
trying to eat one of those. Yes,

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it's a war zone completely, it's
a mess. This does weyhs a

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good question about something I do actually
care about, what food should I eat

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when I'm in LA And because I
care about that way more than a shoutow

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of the Hedgehog. Yeah, there's
a couple of good restaurant restaurants to get

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chicken and waffles. They got some
really good chicken waffles out in LA.

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Korean food that we have, there's
a huge Korean scene in uh in Los

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Angeles. One of the biggest Korean
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in Los Angeles. And last time
I ate Trean food, I gout the

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ships in Germany, so they should
go. Yeah, that's that's Germany.

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That doesn't count. Like this is
the real deal, and this is like

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Korean barbecue is the slam, So
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I mean, obviously, if you
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Mexican food, which is awesome in
Los Angeles, that's worth having as well.

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Jan is asking if I've heard of
cheesecake factory, and I'm pretty sure

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that's one of the games. Ben
soars in, Yes, that's right,

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and yes, and we're the one
that put him there, So absolutely we'll

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go to cheesecake factory as well.
Let's fucking go ohella. EA's iron Man

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developer is now working on Battlefield as
well. This is a story we talked

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about on the BombCast yesterday. I
have a slight update to it, just

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kind of like put some stuff in
context. So let's recap. This is

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from Eddie McCoo at Game Spot.
EA's Motive Studios, which is working on

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a new iron Man game, is
now assisting Dice and developing the future of

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the Battlefield franchise. This doesn't mean
the Iron Man game is taking a back

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seat, though, as Motive gm
Patrick Klaus said in a blog post,

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the game remains a priority for the
studio and that it recently passed a development

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milestone. Klaufs said a group of
developers from Motive are now working with Dice,

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Criterion, and Ripple Effect on creating
experiences that lead to the full potential

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of Battlefield. Motive joining the Battlefield
team comes not long after EA close Battlefield

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co developer Ridgeline Games. Okay,
so a couple things are happening here.

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Let's let's start with Motive and then
we'll kind of get to the wider like

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what the hell is going on over
the EA. So they said that they

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have they're going to be a two
project team going forward, and that's going

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to be iron Man and Battlefield,
Lex Luddy, What does that leave out

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that came out last year? Does
that leave out like maybe a dead Space

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game? Which literally, literally the
second I saw this was, oh,

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we'reever getting that dead Space two?
We make AWI. So they were working

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on it. They were working on
dead Space two and they are no longer

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working on it. It is on
the shelf because the first games had lackluster

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sales, is how it was phrased
to me. Yeah, that's so if

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you were looking forward to a dead
Space two, it's bad news. It's

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straight up is just bad news.
I does this mean it never happens?

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they were working on it. It
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something like it was still in production. And now that work has been put

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on the shelf and they are done
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making iron Man and Battlefield, which
brings me to the yeah or go ahead

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questions? How o the fuck have
we go on to a point where remakes

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are no longer safe besh, Like
are no longer safe enough? Besh.

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I don't know how have you made
this whole thing so fucking unsustainable and expensive

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that remakes now can't sell enough.
Remakes with huge fan bases that sold quite

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well, like that game shifted copies. They were talking about it shifting copies,

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Like anyway, yeah, condition,
I mean, it feels like some

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kind of thing where it's like they
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to justify what they did with the
first one, but they're like they were

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expecting big enough sales to be like, all right, and this will power

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us through remaking a bunch of dead
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Dead Space games, and maybe the
numbers just weren't there. And I'm like,

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man, if you just kept going, I bet it would grow over

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time. But what do I know? All right, So battlefield, that's

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the answer that so EA is like
looking around like, hey, we got

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this with a lot of unknowns.
Putting all of all of our teams on

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call of duty is working out so
well, Factivision, right, And let's

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be clear, Battlefield is not call
of duty. It just straight up isn't.

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Now, I understand the thinking here
to a certain extent, Battlefield is

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the closest thing they have to something
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that they're looking to get to,
and so being like, okay, let's

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it's a risk. I bet they
know at EA that this is going to

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be a challenge and there's no guarantee
that they're going to be able to turn

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Battlefield into what they want it to
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well, okay, well maybe you
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that's the case, because Battlefield is
a smaller project, like a remake or

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you know, something that you can
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as close as Battlefield is compared to
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to getting that stratosphere, it's still
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ways, where it's like, if
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that doesn't really necessarily move the needle
like it once did, it will get

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a lot of sales, it could
do very well, but you're still going

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to be competing with a several free
to play shooters, including your own in

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Apex Legends, but Fortnite and Call
Duty, war Zone, and pubg.

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There's a million things that people have
out there that they can play for free.

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So the idea that you're gonna put
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well, maybe that does change,
all right, all right, maybe

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you do a free to play Battlefield
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multiplayer or a slice of the multiplayer
is free to play. That is not

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necessarily some easy transition as well.
How do you make Battlefield feel important?

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How do you make Battlefield monetizable with
micro transactions? When people had a backlash

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to like seeing like prosthetic limbs in
that one game, and they they lost

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their minds and they just couldn't handle
it, Battlefield doesn't feel that malleable to

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me. So they're putting all their
recent into this, It's going to be

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a big challenge. I just don't
see this ending. Well, I don't

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know, what do you think,
Lexi? Yeah, I mean Battlefield.

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I grew up in a weird time
where Carl of Duty was very much so

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in the process of winning the war, like the PS three was like the

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console I was playing when I was
a teenager, when I was a young

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teenager, and so I was very
much so there when everyone was trying to

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get in on this, I wasn't
allowed in on any of it because my

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parents were like, you're not allowed
like Carl of Judy. But I remember,

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you know, like Medal of Honor
tried to do this, Bawlefield tried

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to do this. They tried to
have these smallest scale games that could compete

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with Car of Jugy and were more
close quarters or whatever, because they thought

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that they could take on Carl of
Jugy, and it turned out no,

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people just wanted Carl of Judy.
They didn't want something like Carl of Judy.

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They wanted Carl of Judy. And
ultimately that's why things like Apex Legend

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succeeded, was because it's not like, you know, not Fortnite, but

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you know, it's a very different
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It's a very different thing. And
like, I don't there are so

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many teams working on this, like
you named out the developers that there are

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so many people working on this project. It just seems like a huge,

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huge investment for something that like,
yeah, we'll probably make its money back,

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but like, is it the tenth
Pole franchise that once was like,

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I really don't know unless they have
data that says otherwise, unless they have

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data that says like people are chomping
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I mean, I think their numbers
probably look better for the excitement for Battlefield

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than a lot of other things.
And I think they're just kind of stuck

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in a place where like everything looks
so risky, which is why you have

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a team like Motive and you're like, hey, you work on an IP,

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You're gonna work on Iron Man,
and you're gonna work on what rips

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that is already established with all of
our other other teams, and you're gonna

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work to just make it bigger and
bigger rather than go make your own small

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thing off to the side. That
doesn't mean there's not like multiple variations of

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Battlefield that we probably do get some
free to play multiplayer thing. We probably

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do eventually get a Bad Company follow
up that feels like a breakas glass in

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case of emergency sort of situation that
they are likely in. Right now,

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Do you think odd company like Bad
Company means something to you? But Bad

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Company wasn't that big four people of
my generation? No, no, no,

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yeah, right, But I think
that there is. There's two things

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there. I think one is keeping
that audience that is like constantly asking for

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Bad Company giving throwing them, throwing
them that bone creates enough goodwill that can

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maybe then, you know, especially
if there's a there's a Bad Company crossover

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stuff with the multiplayer game and you
could take some of your content in there

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and take some of your items in
there. I think they're hoping that that

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goodwill can spill over. And then
also I think we've seen a bunch of

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times now that if there is something
of a classic franchise or a classic story

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that our previous generations have cared about, when it gets announced and there is

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that excitement, that huge pop for
that, people are like look around.

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Younger people look around, I think
sometimes and go, oh, you know,

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I'll check this out. I want
to see what all these olds are

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talking about. I think that is
a tool that these companies use sometimes,

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and I think Bad Company is one
of those that can actually pull that off.

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Personally, I never want to check
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I disabout everything you said. Well, that's completely fair, that's fine,

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you know. That's that's why we
are gonna give the worth earth to

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you eventually listen, you gotta give
me some time here. Don't take everything

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away from me, please, All
right, Battlefield is going to never go

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It was never gonna go away.
We were always gonna get more Battlefield.

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I just think when I look at
these companies and the way they operate,

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and they sort of have this black
hole mentality of we have one thing that

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it has this gravitational pull that pulls
everything else into it to the detriment of

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the rest of our roster. It
hasn't worked out. And it felt like

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they were on the right path with
stuff like a dead Space remake, where

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it's okay, yeah it probably did
it probably did do fine, It probably

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did well enough. Can't you just
give it another chance? Keep pushing down

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in that direction, make people realize
how important you think dead Space is.

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A lot of people really do like
Dead Space. I think if you announce

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a dead Space to remake and also
promise like and there's a new game coming

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as well, I think that builds
up the excitement and people go back for

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Dead Space one over and over again, like you know, Evil, so

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they really are unlucky launched in the
same years as in Evil four. Yeah,

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it wasn't exactly, but Resident Evil
wasn't built in a day, right.

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The current, the current feelings around
Resident Evil weren't like, Okay,

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look if you go back to the
Resident Evil remake on GameCube, like that

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probably wasn't like the best seller ever, but it was a really solid seller

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for them, and that led them
into Resivil four and then they've had ups

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and down since then. But the
current like track of Avil remaking these games

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one after the other after the other
and making new games, it makes people

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feel like investing their time in the
franchise is worth it. And what EA

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has done is like, oh,
this was just one and done for you.

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I'm glad I didn't spend my time
and money on dead Space one because

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you're not even going to do Dead
Space two, where you make let alone

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like do something new in that franchise. I never believed you in the first

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place. That's what happened here.
I think so EA did not sell that

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their commitment to Dead Space was there, and surprise it wasn't. Yeah,

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and it does feel like everyone says
they're hunting for a new ip. Everyone

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says they're hunting for a new thing
that they own that they can make stuff

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about and when given the option to
invest in something that they could reboot and

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have as their new IP and go
in a new direction with EA, has

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gone Actually, no, we're just
going to try Battlefield again, which they've

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tried to reboot several times. So
yeah, it's it seems perplexing. All

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right, We're going to take a
quick break. When we get back.

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Persona has a color. I suppose
I want to ask you about this,

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LEXI because I need someone to really
explain it to me. We'll be right

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back after this. All right,
we are, and Persona six main color

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might have leaked. This is from
Georgiang at game Spot. We might already

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know quick important thing. Yeah,
just go ahead. It was bought my

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attention on Twitter that Mike Manati now
has a goatee. Yeah, and thus

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the ritual of Dark Mitch's complete.
Yeah. I was worried about this.

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I was like, I'm pretty sure
that this is an evil doppel ginger all

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along. But I do think that
Dark Mitch has escaped the confines of Capcom's

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Dragon's Dogma two and has been been
unleashed upon the world. This is a

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reverse Tron situation, is what I
was saying. He had the power and

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it's out now, so clearly his
electricity is gonna go all right. Persona

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six's main color is probably green.
I don't know. A bunch of bunch

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of weirdos online are freaking out about
this. Uh, there is a green

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paint can or like a bucket of
paint that green paint. And then Sean

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explained something to me about how if
you look at the characters backwards, they

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somehow spell out the hex code for
a color of green, a shade of

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green. I didn't really understand what
he was saying. I just not smiled

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because I'm afraid of Persona fans what's
going on here? So what it was

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was they put out a piece of
artwork for the twenty fifth anniversary of the

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series last year, and the order
that the characters were in, if you

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applied the number of the game,
like Persona one for the Persona one characters,

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Persona five for the Persona five characters, if you had that backwards,

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then that would be a hex code
that was the same shade as green as

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the green that was in the bockish
next to them. And the reason people

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were like getting so excited about it
is because Persona fans are fucking weird.

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But also I think a lot of
the tone of those games comes with the

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color and the clearly how stylistic game. Yeah, and having sort of a

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basis of like where that style exudes
out of. I get it. I

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get it, like lessons from looking
for a distance, like those games look

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slick, And I think the things
for Persona fans is they lead so much

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into that stuff because even when you
know, Persona five Royal came out and

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it added more gold to the color
scheme, like that felt like it was

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part of the story and the tone
and the narrative that they were going for.

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what they're trying to convey is that

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the next Persona game will be sessh
in Cork. So yeah, it's gonna

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be irish. Everyone's gonna be from
Cork. And I'm gonna say, like

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a bunch of what's up. It's
great, everybody, great from lan in

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Persona, let's fucking go, we
did it. Whoa, Sorry, there's

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confetti going down for audio listeners and
pizza slices in elf. I have this

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scene. I'm gonna use it,
everybody. That's just how it is,

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all right, Yeah, there's still
good things to the bit rate that that

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really does. Yeah, yeah,
loves that. Man. When I first

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did that, I was still at
like four thousand kilobits per second on a

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ten eighty sixty stream and it was
just destroying it. It was just when

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in chat says a Japanese take on
Ireland would be something. Let me tell

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you about a game called Folklore.
Oh, is that that skills game?

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No, it's a PS three orpg
sessh in Ireland and it's not very good.

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Okay, well is it Blake club
worthy? No, it's just one

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of those not that great turn based
PS three orpgs where like they hadn't figured

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out they hadn't figured out how to
move those systems into the HD era and

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like maybe make them a bit more, a bit less turn based on a

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bit more like dynamic. It's it's
fine. Uh when does Persona six get

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announced? I think the question is
less when does it get announced? And

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how? And it's more how many
times does it get delayed after it's announced?

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Sure? Okay, and give me
that, cause like these games are

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always delayed, Like Persona five was
announced in like fucking twenty thirteen, twenty

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fourteen, and then didn't come out
until twenty seventeen, and there were loads

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like that game went through a really
hard reboosh. Yeah, Sean saying announced

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maybe next year. I could see
being announced at the Game Awards. I

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could see it being announced at a
TGS early next year. And those are

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like the two options I think for
them. And the Persona franchise is definitely

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still growing, like the most recent
ones sold a million in a week,

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which is better than any other ones
previously. So I definitely think that there's

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maybe a chance of them going for
a Western event like the Game Awards or

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something. But if we're talking about
like first look at the game, it

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would definitely be at TGS before one
of the Western shows, fair enough.

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Yeah, And then I mean,
it just feels like a game that should

404
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.880
be here sooner rather than later.
You got but you all seem to be

405
00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:02.680
expecting very similar sort of development,
like beats and release memes, and that's

406
00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:07.480
Persona team have been working on a
bunch of games recently because they are.

407
00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:12.279
They've released Persona three just this year
for releasing mesh fo We Fantasio this year

408
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:18.680
right, and technically Persona five Tactica. Some of the internal persona team worked

409
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:22.119
on Mash so like they have been
working on a lot of different games,

410
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.720
so I don't expect it to be
super soon. Cool all right, Well,

411
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:30.599
hey, Blizzard Games are returning to
China this summer. This is from

412
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.359
Alex Hopley at Game Reactor. Blizzard
and net Ease have confirmed a new deal

413
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:38.119
which will see the Formers games brought
to China for the first time since Blizzard

414
00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:42.799
and net Ease's old partnership died last
year. We at Blizzard are thrilled to

415
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:48.160
re establish our partnership with net Ease
and to work together with deep appreciation for

416
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:52.920
the collaboration between our teams to deliver
legendary gaming experiences to our players in China.

417
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.559
And that's according to Blizzard. It's
a president Johanna Ferries. We are

418
00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.519
immensely grateful for the passion the Chinese
community shown for the Blizard games throughout these

419
00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:04.440
years, and we are focused on
bringing our universes back to players with excellence

420
00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:10.039
and dedication. Of course, this
is notable because these had these companies had

421
00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:15.119
a very public breakup of like last
year or two years ago something like that.

422
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:17.759
They had a pretty it was probably
last year because it was like near

423
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:22.880
the end of the deal between Microsoft
and Activision, and as part of that

424
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.160
public breakup, net Ease was like, hey, we're gonna give our employees

425
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.160
sledgehammers and they're going to destroy all
these World of warcraft things that we have

426
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.400
on our like in our office park. And they were just like going to

427
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:36.440
make someone go outside and like put
them back together. Yeah exactly, Like

428
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:37.240
what are they gonna do. They're
gonna put it back together, right,

429
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.839
Yeah, but whatever, it's all
business in the end. Also, I'm

430
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.440
sure it helps that Bobby Kottick is
gone. This is Phil Spencer making this

431
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.240
deal, is my understanding. Uh, And also net Ease nuts, that's

432
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:53.240
great. Yes, back there you
go, everybody, And yeah, this

433
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:56.799
was it was inevitable. I guess
that these games will be back in China.

434
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.559
I think I'm a little surprised that
it's back with net ease. They

435
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.559
didn't like find a new partner,
just because the breakup was so messy.

436
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:04.400
And at the same time, it's
like, well, yeah, that's the

437
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:07.880
path of least resistance, so it's
not too surprising, right. Yeah.

438
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:12.599
I think I actually had this conversation
just today of it's really interesting looking at

439
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:17.759
Microsoft at the moment, because it
seems like a company where their relationship with

440
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.880
third parties is really really good at
the moment, Like they're very good at

441
00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:23.559
managing their third party relationships, getting
things on game Pass, you know,

442
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:29.240
working with Japanese developers, getting them
in showcases, working with neshies now,

443
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:33.799
and getting Blizzard back into China,
and like Overwatch was huge for them in

444
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.440
China when it launched, and it
was a huge part of the esports scene

445
00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:38.640
too, and they're trying to make
another push for the esports scene of Overwatch,

446
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:41.960
So it makes sense that they're trying
to get it back up there.

447
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.319
But then when you look at the
internals and Microsoft, a lot of the

448
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:49.440
stuff that you see are like,
hey, like why are you not shipping

449
00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:52.119
any first party games? Why are
the first part of games that are shipping

450
00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:56.319
not living up to, you know, the standard that people are expecting and

451
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.799
what's going on there. So you
do have to want at some point if

452
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:06.599
there's so much attention being given to
third parties that some of the management of

453
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:12.880
first party studios has been lost or
that it was never even there. So

454
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.160
I'm kind of curious about that.
Yeah, it does feel like, you

455
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:21.079
know, they're spread so thin,
right, But I mean, I think

456
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.559
part of it just comes down to
for first party and like what we perceive

457
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:27.920
as getting a little bit less love, a little bit less juice, is

458
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:34.200
maybe a lack of vision in the
in the first place of you know,

459
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:38.359
there's no one coming down from the
top and providing like this sort of the

460
00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:42.160
strong leadership that says this is what
our games can be. It's more stand

461
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.359
office and saying, hey, your
games can be what you guys think they

462
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.759
can be, go ahead and make
that thing. And I think that is

463
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.240
beneficial to a lot of these teams, and it's a detriment to many of

464
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:56.480
these many of the other teams.
And then as far as like these big

465
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.400
deals, clearly they have to be
taking some attention and resources away from establishing

466
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.359
a vision like that, because you
know, it does seem like though Spencer

467
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:09.039
Legit just traveled to China went to
go talk to these partners, and we

468
00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:12.920
know he's constantly traveling to all these
places. He's been to Japan a bunch

469
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.720
of times talking to partners there,
and that, Yeah, that's got to

470
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.240
be very distracting at the very least. And at the same time, these

471
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:23.279
are things they couldn't ignore China's a
massive market. Getting back into there,

472
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:28.759
I'm sure was a priority. It
also probably makes Blizzard games financially make a

473
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.279
lot more sense all of a sudden. Again, so not surprised that.

474
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.039
Yeah, it's definitely an evaluation of
which one is that you're going to get

475
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:43.480
more value out of. But I
think it's something that you saw with the

476
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:47.359
Donalduire document John Pentiment where they talk
to Josh about getting the game made,

477
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:51.519
and this is something I talked to
him about as well when I interviewed him.

478
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.359
Of like, getting that game greenlit
was much easier because the game Pass

479
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:58.440
and Xbox were like, yeah,
we're fine for you to go work on

480
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:00.920
your own thing and like we're not
really going to be temperate tampering with it

481
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.200
and like go make your weird stuff, and that works for them. And

482
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:09.000
then you also have the story of
Arcane and Red Fall, where they weren't

483
00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:13.519
getting that much feedback from Microsoft and
they were like, oh, well,

484
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:16.839
Microsoft probably want us to make a
live service game. And then you get

485
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.440
Red Fall and you don't have someone
coming in and saying like, hey guys,

486
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.039
this probably isn't your core competency,
Like you we bought you to do

487
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.319
this one thing. So yeah,
it's it's hard to know what's going on

488
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.000
in myself at the moment, and
it's always been hard. It's a very

489
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:38.119
lockdown company, it's a very secretive
company, and so it's it can be

490
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:42.799
hard to figure out what their grand
plan is and if there even is one.

491
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.799
But this seems like just like a
no brainer thing that needed to get

492
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.200
done as soon as we signed Blizzard. Yeah, and you know in Red

493
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:52.160
Fall definitely started under Prothesda before they
rent Microsoft. But it's the kind of

494
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.200
thing where like they were continuing that
project, making it the way that they

495
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.920
were making it, with the understanding
of that like, this is the kind

496
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.559
of game that our leadership if we'd
want, and what we heard is like

497
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:07.079
there was just not really that you
know, come to Jesus moment where everyone

498
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.719
came together and was like, Hey, what what are we really doing here?

499
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.800
Is this what we should be doing? Is this what you want us

500
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:15.360
to be doing? Microsoft? Could
could you help us make this better?

501
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.440
And none of that ever happened,
and they've admitted that publicly a bunch of

502
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:21.880
times now, and you got to
hope that's like, you know, you

503
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.760
have teams dedicated to these different these
different problems of third party partnerships, and

504
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.559
then you have teams dedicated to making
sure the first parties are are making games

505
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:36.320
as well as they can. But
yeah, we just haven't seen that manifest

506
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:42.480
yet. Is behind sil Apathesta Because
I lap that I loaded up the I

507
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.199
could have sworn I saw him when
I loaded up the Elder Skulls announcement then

508
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:49.400
for the new DLC, and he
was talking at it and I was like,

509
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.599
I thought you left, So I
need I need to figure out why

510
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.000
he's hanging about. Is he just
hanging around the offices of Bethesda being like,

511
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:59.079
hey, guys, I still want
to hang out here. I don't

512
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:02.039
know. Yeah, maybe it's like
one of those slow transitions out of the

513
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:05.320
business or something like that. I
think he said he announced he was leaving.

514
00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.000
I don't know if he's necessarily gone
yet. Maybe that was something that

515
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:12.800
is going to happen later this year. I'm not entirely sure. Uh all

516
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:17.519
right, Prince of Persia Sands of
Time remake has apparently been completely redone from

517
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:21.960
the ground up. This is from
my Nintendo News. There was a fair

518
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.199
amount of fan criticism leveled at Ubisoft's
Prince of Persia's Stands of Time remake,

519
00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:30.280
so much so the game was passed
off to another developer. Today, further

520
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:34.119
details have emerged regarding the remake of
the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia title,

521
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.840
and this comes from Insider Gaming specifically, and it would appear as though the

522
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.719
game has been completely rebooted from the
version we originally saw. The team at

523
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:45.000
Ubisoft is approaching the game with a
more realistic art style and everything has been

524
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.519
built from the ground up on the
project. Here's the details. The game

525
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.480
is completely redone Ubisoft Mumbai and Prune. Previous work is seemingly not used at

526
00:35:53.519 --> 00:36:00.079
all. Prince of Persia Sands of
Times remakes overhaul also includes a more realistic

527
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.440
approach. Everything has been built from
the ground up, which includes a complete

528
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:07.880
graphic graphical overhaul, new animations and
mechanics for combat and Parker and much more.

529
00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:12.760
Starting from scratch has meant that the
game has been rewritten, recaptured in

530
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.360
mocap and more, and Uri Loenthal
is not reprising his role as the Prince.

531
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.960
This is the most the most blowback
from like a handful of screenshots.

532
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:28.400
Yeah, like the biggest issue that
we've seen in development, because like there

533
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:30.599
was obviously stuff like Wall Guy back
in the day with Perfect Dark, but

534
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:37.639
like, this is literally an entire
game being scrapped based off of a handful

535
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.719
of screenshots on a couple of seconds
of footage. Yeah, I mean the

536
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:43.440
game didn't look great, but I
was just like I was the opinion,

537
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:45.639
like, yeah, I mean,
look, it's a remake of an old

538
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:46.559
game. They're not going to put
that much into it. I bet it's

539
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:50.719
still fun. I'm like worried about
like, what what do you mean like

540
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:54.679
redoing the combat and parkour? Like, Okay, maybe you could add more

541
00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:59.199
to the combat. I suppose that
could always be more complicated and have some

542
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:02.760
like fun like little things salted across
the various features you have there to make

543
00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:07.639
it a little bit more engaging these
days. Sure, the partcore you kind

544
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:08.679
of don't need to touch it.
We don't get a lot of those games

545
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:13.079
that work that way. I suppose
they could be improving that too. I'm

546
00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:16.119
being pessimistic, but I just like, this is not necessarily what I'm asking

547
00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:22.480
for. I'm not asking for a
super realistic remake of Prince of Persia Stands

548
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:24.920
of Time that has different mechanics than
what. I just want to play that

549
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:29.039
game again, and I wanted to
look a little bit better. That's a

550
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:31.239
game that I think was fantastic at
the time. I bet it still mostly

551
00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:34.840
holds up. I've not played it
in a long time, and I was

552
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:37.159
looking forward to this remake to do
exactly that. I don't know, have

553
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.480
you ever played Sands of Time?
It was definitely like a like something I

554
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.239
played coming out of high school,
so like, that's how long ago it

555
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.239
was. No, I've never properly
gone into any of the Prince of Persia's

556
00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:52.519
because when I was when I would
have been playing them was when they were

557
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.639
like bouncing between rebooting the universe.
I'm not rebooting the universe. Yes,

558
00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:59.960
like they did that one game,
then they rebooted it, then they would

559
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:04.519
back to the old version for a
different sequel. So I just found it

560
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.079
like I was way too fucking confused
by it. I saw the movie when

561
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:09.519
I was eight, and I thought
it was that because I was fucking a

562
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:14.360
dumbass, and I was like,
oh, Jake Joenhall's in this he's handsome,

563
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:16.679
and that was kind of like my
critical thinking of that at the time.

564
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:22.159
And have you seen it again recently. I've not seen that movie before.

565
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:24.519
I've always been curious about watching it. I've been tempted. One of

566
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:29.840
these days, I'm going to watch
like the Assassin's Creed movie Vash, I'm

567
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:34.239
like the hit Men movies all back
to back, and that'll probably have a

568
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.599
heart at Shack and Die. Yeah, that's that sounds about right. They're

569
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:42.119
they're going hard on Prince of Persia. So we have that Prince of Persia,

570
00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.400
the Lost Crown game that came out
earlier this year. We have rumors

571
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:51.480
of that Dead Cells developer making a
Prince of Persia rogue light, which sounds

572
00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.800
very very promising. Uh. And
then they're still and then they're putting a

573
00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.840
lot of extra effort into this.
Uh yes, So it it seems like

574
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:02.719
the kind of thing where I'm like, Okay, they seem like we have

575
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:06.239
Yeah, sure, we have Assassin's
Creed. We have some of the other

576
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.239
projects, and we've really focused on
those and we've been been doing that for

577
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.840
years and years. But maybe we
can build Prince of Persa back up to

578
00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:15.119
that place of prominence as well.
Do you think it has the pot,

579
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:20.239
like the standing to get back to
that point, like to think so like

580
00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:22.800
that franchise is super important to video
games when you look at it, like

581
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:28.400
it's incredibly important to original computer games
back in the day, the Jordan Macna

582
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:32.119
stuff. It's super important to the
foundation of modern open world games in that

583
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.719
it basically like created Assassin's Creed and
that templation. Yeah, I think would

584
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.760
be cool if they could find a
way to bring it back and make it

585
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:44.239
its own thing that is unique from
Assassin's Creed, because Assassin's Creed is now

586
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:46.599
so much of its own thing.
And Mike's and chat saying like he has

587
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:50.119
a story, but I think he
just means that it's his turn on Black

588
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.639
Club next. I think that's right. I think that's what he's trying to

589
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:54.960
say, and not anything else that
would cause him harm in any way.

590
00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.079
Yeah, the Peeves exicle in chats
has. I watched Sants a time in

591
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:06.079
the hospital on morphine and remember it
being a blast. So all right,

592
00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:07.239
I think I know what I'm doing
this weekend. Let's have a real good

593
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:13.199
time watching some Jake, Jill and
Haul everybody. I can't I can't get

594
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:16.599
that Roadhouse movie out of my head. It's not good. It's not And

595
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:22.199
I think it's I think the original
Roadhouse is bad in a fun way where

596
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:23.039
it's not actually, at the end
of the day, not that bad,

597
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:27.559
because it holds up over time and
gets better the more times you watch it.

598
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.440
So it's like, technically, no, this is not a bad film.

599
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:32.239
It's just made in a way that
like resembles a bad movie. This

600
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.480
new Roadhouse is bad in the way
that I think people will will mostly forget

601
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:40.840
about it. And yet, as
for shitty as he is, every time

602
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:45.400
Connor McGregor came on the screen,
it was the most terrifying thank I've ever

603
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:51.199
seen. He's just it's terrifying and
hilarious. Turns out Batman being a massive,

604
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.159
like dirt bag shit hedge. Yeah, it turns out she's just like

605
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:57.800
that, Like not much acting was
going on. I really think that's exactly

606
00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:00.039
true. They're like, hey,
just pretend you're gonna go fight someone that

607
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:05.639
you think is pathetic and poach a
woman. But he's also like, thatsh

608
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.880
right, and he seems to have
some actual issues, like some serious mental

609
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:15.599
issues beyond just like what he's going
on with what going on with this ultra

610
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:21.119
nationalist scumbag, Like Irish people hate
him. Bush I'm just kind of bummed

611
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:23.000
that, like Doug Limon made that
and he's not allowed to go make Edge

612
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:28.199
of Tomorrow too, Like, fucking
isn't there a rumor that he's making Edge

613
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.400
of Tomorrow too? Or is that
there's been a movement he's making Edge of

614
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:35.280
Tomorrow two for like a decade now, that's been on his IMDb page.

615
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:37.280
Tom Cruise is constantly being asked about
it and he's like, oh, yeah,

616
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.639
I want to do it, Like
everyone wants to do it, but

617
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:45.400
no one can like get it off
the ground movie fucking rips. That would

618
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.239
be that would be fantastic. This
that The other think about that Roadhouse movie

619
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:52.199
is like they use so much weird
CG to like fish like a bunch of

620
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:57.719
fights and punches and stuff, and
like the virtual camera takes so weird.

621
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:01.880
Yeah, they use a new approach, like a new technique that they were

622
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:05.400
like hyping up and how people are
looking at and they're like it's weird.

623
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:09.480
This isn't murdy ash. Yeah,
it's a weird movie, all right.

624
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:15.239
Epic Mickey Switch remake translates Mosha controls
to analog sticks and enhances the camera.

625
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:20.320
This is from Liam Dulan at Nintendo
Life. Earlier this year, during the

626
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.519
Nintendo Partner Showcase, it was announced
that the twenty ten we title Epic Mickey

627
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:28.159
would be making a return to the
Switch this year in a brand new faithful

628
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:34.039
remake titled Disney Epic Mickey rebrushed the
remix. Senior producer Pan Schroeder has now

629
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.199
shared more information about this applican upcoming
release and revealing how there will be quality

630
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:42.400
of life improvements, camera enhancements,
analog stick controls and more. Here's what

631
00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:45.039
he had to say during a recent
chat with game Spot. The video is

632
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:49.079
up now on GameSpot. By the
way, everybody, we had to change

633
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.920
the controls, we had to enhance
the camera, and we needed to translate

634
00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:55.039
Mosha controls to analog sticks while needing
to keep the heart of the game intact.

635
00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:58.679
And don't worry, if you want
to play this title like the original

636
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:01.320
release, Mosha controls will still being
an option for you freaks out there.

637
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:06.719
I guess so you could channel the
Nintendo WEE days GameSpot. Game Spot also

638
00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:08.159
shared eight mints of gameplay and again
that's that footage. It's on there.

639
00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:13.480
Jan says it was pretty good when
he played it, and I've I know

640
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:15.639
Kurt Indovina, who did this video, was like, yeay, like it's

641
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:22.760
it's pretty good. I think for
me hearing that the analog controls work and

642
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:25.360
the camera has been has been improved, that's like a big step up for

643
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:29.800
me as someone who's like, whenever
I touched that game very briefly at the

644
00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:34.400
time, was like, oh,
a three D platformer that isn't Mario Galaxy

645
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.079
where you can't control the camera seems
like a bad time, And it turns

646
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.599
out for the most part in that
game it kind of was. So I'm

647
00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:43.639
like, oh, if that,
if that, like if that edit fixes

648
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:47.280
a lot of that those elements of
this game, maybe you can more quickly

649
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:51.559
get to the fun of what Epic
Epic Mickey had, Not that it had

650
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:54.440
some not that it was like a
bountiful feast of fun. It's a pretty

651
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:58.199
solid game underneath all that. So
I'm hopeful. I don't know how about

652
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:01.480
you. The real question is like, even if it makes a good,

653
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:06.719
will it make it important? Well, Listen, I'm no Jeff Beckler.

654
00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:09.960
I don't feel confident competent to comment
on such a thing. But we do

655
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.519
know Epic Mickey not nearly as important
as I don't know what we do mint

656
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:17.360
air force Gater, sure, yeah, a bunch of other things. Yeah,

657
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.800
I mean he's the public domain now
he doesn't count anymore. He's not

658
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:28.039
doesn't even register. That's how that
works, right, does me? I

659
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:31.719
wonder what Epic make what Mickey Mouse
being in the public domain means for like

660
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:37.119
setlling that game, if it changes
anything, and how they have to write

661
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.679
their legal copy of like, hey, you can't just rip assets from this,

662
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:45.079
Probably not much because so much of
that game would be well, I

663
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:49.199
suppose if Epic is in the public
domain, that means that fucking Rabbit that

664
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:52.639
they were all freaking out about that
was before that predates Mickey Mouse. He

665
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:55.639
would also be public domain, so
there would be stuff in there that you

666
00:44:55.639 --> 00:45:00.159
would be able to like riff on. But if they did anything like original

667
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:04.639
with the story or had new character
elements, would that with stuff would be

668
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:08.440
now under a new copyright that started
in twenty ten, So it's really messy

669
00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:12.760
with that kind of thing. You
would not be able to rip assets from

670
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.480
the game, though that actually wouldn't
work. That would be copyrighted by this

671
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:21.599
team. Still make aficionados in chashes. How are they going to make that

672
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:23.239
porn now I know, right,
They'll have to find some other way to

673
00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:28.960
do it. Epic mckney's steam filmmaker. Porn is my favorite genre, though

674
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:34.159
all right. Star Wars Outlaws season
pass is already causing controversy. This is

675
00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:37.079
from Kyle Knight at Dual Shockers.
Yesterday afternoon, You'd Be Software revealed the

676
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.800
very first story trailer for you for
its upcoming open world adventure game, Star

677
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:45.760
Wars Outlaws, alongside a new trailer
of the studio also confirmed in August thirtieth

678
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.880
release date and the various pre order
bonuses and additions which are now available for

679
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.039
pre order. However, shortly after
pre orders for the next big Star Wars

680
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.880
game went live, fans quickly took
to Twitter and read it to express their

681
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:00.320
outrage at not only the pricing,
but at the encclusion of a season pass

682
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.559
as well. Over the year,
season passes have become the go to way

683
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.519
for studios to add extra monetization to
games, even if they already come with

684
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:10.800
a hefty seventy dollars price tag.
While there are plenty of free to play

685
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:15.559
games on the market that also offer
season passes, such as Fortnite, Apex

686
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:17.800
Legends, and Call of Duty Warzone. A trend has started to emerge where

687
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.000
single player games also offer the same
incentives. Some believe there's no harm in

688
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.679
giving players the option to purchase additional
content, but others believe it has no

689
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.639
place in the world of single player
games. So, yeah, a season

690
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:36.679
pass for a single player game does
feel strange to me. It's the kind

691
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:38.719
of thing of like, why not
just make it a DLC pack so when

692
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:43.559
I buy it, I get all
that stuff, But apparently they care about

693
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.199
engagement, so they're doing a season
pass. I'll say it the very for

694
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:50.920
this game, Star Wars Outlaws Legacy. They are throwing everything at it,

695
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:54.840
Like there's multiple versions that are special
additions that are like one and one hundred

696
00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:58.280
and thirty dollars. If you get
one of those versions, you get the

697
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.599
game three days early. They're like
doing all of the tricks to try to

698
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:06.519
maximize their return on investment here,
and we know why Star Wars license is

699
00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:09.079
expensive, So I'm not like shocked
that they're doing these kinds of things,

700
00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:13.599
but it does feel like, hey, a season pass is the kind of

701
00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:15.559
thing that could spoil some of that
fun where it's like, why are you

702
00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:20.519
making your game this way when you
could just make it better and have some

703
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:22.559
other way of monetizing it instead.
But their life, it seems like their

704
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.960
answer to that is, well,
no, we're doing all of the ways

705
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:27.760
of monetizing it. I don't know. How do you feel about it,

706
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:30.199
Lexi, Yes, it's the like
a Dragon problem. It's the Persona problem

707
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:35.440
of like the things that they put
behind the DLC paywall feel like things that

708
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:38.480
probably should have been in there.
The DLC for Like a Dragon. You

709
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:42.880
didn't play it, but it's a
post S game dungeon, and like it's

710
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:45.519
a fun dungeon, and there's some
good stuff in that, and there's some

711
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:49.000
really go to writing and it's like, oh, this is like just like

712
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.679
a non canonical fun goof or whatever, and it would have been cool if

713
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:58.559
that was included. Persona three is
probably more egregious because it's the answer DLC

714
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.360
and that was part of one of
the pre games, and that like ties

715
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:06.360
up some of the story and shit, and I think it will very much.

716
00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:08.360
So. The thing I always wonder
about these is like, how many

717
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:12.239
people go back and play the DLC. How many people go back and play

718
00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.320
DLC for these single player games after
their release. How many people are going

719
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:22.280
back and playing the Final Fantasy sixteen
DLC and things like that. Also,

720
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:28.159
did you see that fucking adding the
lady from Solo into this? Yeah,

721
00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:31.960
Kira, uh yeah, I mean
I don't love that, But that's very

722
00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:37.239
specific to my Star Wars fandom,
where I think that that movie wasn't very

723
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:40.320
good in terms of establishing Hot Solo
as a character. But the movie's fine

724
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:45.679
otherwise for a lot of reasons.
But it once again reinforces the canonical existence

725
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:50.480
of Terras Cassie, which is very
important. That is actually important. She

726
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:52.639
is the character that said Taris Kazi
I believe, right. Yeah, she's

727
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:55.559
the one who's trained in that fighting
side, that's right. Yeah. So

728
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.280
she's the leader of the Crimson Dawn, which is that the crime send that

729
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:06.119
I think was established originally in Solo
by Darth Maul spoilers for fucking Solo,

730
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:10.480
and then she takes it over and
so she's the leader at the point of

731
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.400
this also means that she's still alive
between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the

732
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.039
Jedi, which I guess did we
know that. I suppose we might have

733
00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.360
known that. I also like just
As a side note, I really hope

734
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:28.760
there aren't like lightsabers in this game, like not like you know, there

735
00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:32.760
can't be any Jedi, but like
they just hope there. I just think

736
00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:37.280
it would be fucking better if they
made the Outlaw game an Outlaw game and

737
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:39.800
instead of trying to tie it into
the Grand Narraship. The only way that

738
00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:44.519
a lightsaber could well not the only
way. The primary way a lightsaber could

739
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:47.119
show up in this game is if
Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader show up,

740
00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:51.639
and that's pretty much it. I
suppose the Emperor could bring out his lightsaber.

741
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:54.079
Well, I mean, Yoda's still
alive. You go see Yoda,

742
00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:58.639
So you go see Yoda and he
pulls out his tiny lightsaber and that's a

743
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.280
fun time for everybody, which is
a fun sentence to say, Yeah,

744
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:07.679
I'm pretty hopeful that they are making
the Outlaw game that you are talking about.

745
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:08.480
Le See, that's what I want
them to make. That's what they're

746
00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:15.320
selling here. Well we'll see though. The people curious to see what the

747
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:19.440
gameplay loop of this game actually is
and what the progression is, and like

748
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:24.679
there's one world where this is very
similar to a Jedi Survivor and Fallen Order

749
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:29.360
where you just go to different planets
and they're quite linear within that, but

750
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.760
they have this metroidvania design so you
can double back and explore them more.

751
00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:37.119
Or there's a world where like these
are small open worlds and I'm super curious

752
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.320
to see which route they went and
see how much it is, Like I

753
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:44.400
really hope this game is it.
We made a bunch of small open worlds

754
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:47.840
and now you go do nuclear bases
and you liberate these planets and then eventually

755
00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:51.400
it's your planet. Like I don't, I mean, I can tell you

756
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:53.719
exactly what it should be like.
It should be like Sid Meier's Pirates.

757
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:58.039
It should be you are going from
town to town. I was not the

758
00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:01.119
game I was expecting. They can't
be exactly like that. But Sid Meyers

759
00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:06.760
Pirates is a game where it's like
you are on the high seas most of

760
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.519
the time. You're going from town
to town and you're spotting things like the

761
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:14.440
chances to do arbitrage selling where you
see something selling for really low in one

762
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:16.280
town, you take it to another
town and you sell it for a higher

763
00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:21.960
price, and so like the smuggling
element, and then there's definitely gonna be

764
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:28.119
like factional requests where you can like
endear yourself to these factions and unlock more

765
00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:30.840
quests. I just hope that stuff
stays interesting. But I also hope there's

766
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:35.280
a chance for me to be like
sort of on my own doing my own

767
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:37.719
thing, and all of the factions
hate me, and yet there's still like

768
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:39.199
a path through the game for me. That's ideally what I would want to

769
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:45.559
do. Someone in Shot also said
that apparently people aren't happy about how this

770
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:47.519
game is in sexy enough, and
I'm not sure if they saw that droid.

771
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:51.360
That droid is real fucking sexy.
Fuck the hell out of that droid.

772
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:53.960
Have you seen that droid's hips?
What the fuck? I'm that fucking

773
00:51:54.039 --> 00:52:00.239
drench code? Jesus Christ. Absolutely, it's fucking wild, all right.

774
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:05.679
Sometimes you just say, yeah,
try hot to gamers. You're just not

775
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:08.519
trying how to walk off to the
game. Yeah, try harder to whack

776
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:14.000
off to the video game. Everybody, Come on, I'm excited about this

777
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:16.000
game. That's that's the real story
here is. I'm excited about it.

778
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:21.159
I think it looks pretty good.
The pricing, yeah, listen, they're

779
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:23.079
gonna try to get more money out
of you, especially if you're a big

780
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:27.039
Star Wars fan. That's what these
things do. I was kind of conflating

781
00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.000
the season passing battle pass earlier.
Still a season pass for a game like

782
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:37.000
this is maybe a little bit annoying, but of course they're gonna sell that

783
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.880
shit these days, and of course
they're going to include it in the big

784
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:44.000
ultradition that you could spend one hundred
and ten dollars on. I've accepted these

785
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:45.760
things, Lexi, and I'm also
someone who's like accepted. I bet if

786
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:49.760
I bought just a bass version and
play through that I won't feel like I'm

787
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:54.280
missing anything probably, So yeah,
all right, last story here. H

788
00:52:54.960 --> 00:53:01.960
fans claim that the eighty dollars Call
of Duty King Glove cosmetic is quote not

789
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:06.880
worth it. This is from Jordan
Miller at VGC. The item, which

790
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:10.480
is a beast glove inspired by the
New Kong Cross Godzilla film, is acquired

791
00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:15.159
by purchasing four separate skin packs in
the game. The glove is a melee

792
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.239
weapon that could be equipped as part
of a loadoun and it's only accessible to

793
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:22.559
players who've purchased all four separate skin
packs. Each of these packs, which

794
00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:25.559
included an operator skins which include operator
skins and weapons inspired by the film,

795
00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:31.960
cost twenty dollars each. Okay,
where are you at with cosmetics these days?

796
00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:36.559
Lex Luddie? Are you someone who
is like, Hey, I'm going

797
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:38.599
into shops in any of these free
to play games and I'm gonna buy a

798
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:42.880
thing here or there. Do you
try to complete sets? Are you someone

799
00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:45.440
who would ever spend eighty dollars for
a set with the goal of getting a

800
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:49.840
glove in mind? I was going
to say that, like, I just

801
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:53.119
don't buy any skins at all in
games anymore, but then I realized that

802
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:58.239
I did upgrade to the special edition
of Hell Divers because I was enjoying that

803
00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:01.239
so much. On us Actually,
I think this game is worth sixty dollars,

804
00:54:01.239 --> 00:54:07.840
not for or sixty or forty.
And but I can't think of a

805
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:12.480
single one of these crossover events where
I've been like, yeah, I want

806
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:15.599
the fucking Cheech and Chong skin,
Like it just always seems like the lamest

807
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:21.920
shit, And it's something that like
people have talked about very eloquently before and

808
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:25.719
written about before, of like the
fortnitifacation of all these different games where like

809
00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:30.800
suddenly no multiplayer game is allowed be
serious or have its own universe or have

810
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:34.280
its own correct like storyline anymore.
But it's one of the main problems with

811
00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:37.440
the Naughty Dog Last of Us multiplayer
game, is they they couldn't figure that

812
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:40.159
out. Yeah, because how do
you insert crossover events into it? How

813
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:44.559
do you get co marketing deals?
How do you get people to sponsor things

814
00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:50.639
in ish? And I fucking hate
that shit? And I really like I.

815
00:54:50.639 --> 00:54:52.400
I know that it's fucking funny to
see this, you know more dab

816
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:58.400
I enjoy that. But also I
could just rig a Zeno morph to dab

817
00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:00.840
in unity if I wanted to,
Like, I could get that done if

818
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:07.440
I really wanted to get it done. As someone who love loves those recent

819
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:13.760
monster movies from Legendary, this isn't
fucking with it. Who's the fucking's bhind

820
00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:16.360
this? Who the fuck is watching
that movie? I'm going I want King

821
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:22.880
Kong's fucking glove, his metal glove. That's a pretty cool glove, to

822
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:27.960
be fair. I'm not gonna spend
eighty dollars to get it though. In

823
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:30.079
chat, I think it was Death
Metal Dance said just don't buy something if

824
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:32.639
you don't like it or don't think
it's worth it. It's it's easy,

825
00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:36.320
and I'm like, that's mostly where
I land on these kinds of things.

826
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:39.760
Let's see where it's like this is
I go into a store every single day,

827
00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:44.199
and I don't buy ninety nine percent
of the things in that store.

828
00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:45.719
Like every time I go into a
store, it's not like, oh my

829
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:49.559
god, I'm being bombarded with all
these options. I'm just like, I

830
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.159
came here to buy the thing I
came here to get, and there's other

831
00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:54.360
stuff on the shelf. I can
ignore it and I can leave. And

832
00:55:54.480 --> 00:56:00.159
yet I think it's probably it's probably
still valuable that we occasionally have some pushback

833
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:02.639
against these companies trying to raise the
price on everything and trying to like do

834
00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:07.000
these little tricks of here's an item
you can only get if it's really like

835
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.920
the people are right, it's really
an eighty dollars item. Sure, it's

836
00:56:10.199 --> 00:56:15.760
a bunch of other items that come
with four different twenty dollars packs, but

837
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:19.559
the fact that one item is locked
behind all of that, clearly what they're

838
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:21.559
trying to do is to get you
to spend eighty dollars. You're like,

839
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:24.000
I already spent the twenty and I
have half the stuff, I might as

840
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:29.199
well get the rest. Some pushback
here is beneficial. These companies are going

841
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.679
to get away with whatever you let
them get away with. I'm super for

842
00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:35.719
people saying like, hey, this
is not fucking worth the money, Like

843
00:56:36.239 --> 00:56:37.880
what are you trying to? Like
that's how you phrase this. You don't

844
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.920
say like, hey, this is
a scam, because the scam is very

845
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.039
clearly trying to trick you. It
is just like, hey, this isn't

846
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:47.840
worth the monetary value that you've attached
to it, because it's not it's not

847
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:52.480
worth the value, like this is
not worth a video game and a bish

848
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:55.840
yep, And so yeah, if
you don't think it's worth that fucking tell

849
00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:59.880
them, tell them that that isn't
worth your money. I wonder how like

850
00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:05.599
the money situation works for all these
where it's like Godzilla Cross Kong comes out

851
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:07.880
and and they're going to do a
big event with Call of Duty, like

852
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:12.519
who is pain? Who for that? Is it? Like something like maybe

853
00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:15.079
maybe just split I don't know.
It's the Jeff Chili thing of like what

854
00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:20.239
game developers pay to get into those
conferences and what developers just Jeff go to.

855
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:25.079
Yeah, so yeah, I'm super
curious as to how those things work

856
00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:28.719
out. But I just hope Dan
Stevens is getting paid because that guy is

857
00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:30.920
great. He's fantastic in that movie. What a fucking weirdo, What a

858
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.760
handsome man who just loves being a
weird movie. Did you go see it?

859
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:37.079
You want to go? You want
to go see Congresses Godzilla or cong

860
00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:42.000
Yes? Great, there's a there's
a there's a scene where Kong posed pocket

861
00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:46.960
sand in Godzilla's trail that owns Yeah, and then Godzilla suplex Kong. It's

862
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:52.199
real fucking good. It's stupid as
hell. I it's definitely like, it's

863
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:55.159
not like Godzilla minus one, which
is, you know, a massive piece

864
00:57:55.159 --> 00:57:59.199
of I've got to get you,
you got to get you a Kaiju that

865
00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:02.199
can do both. Absolutely, yeah, I genuinely do kind of love that.

866
00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:06.960
Adam Wingard was this guy who made
your Next and everyone was like,

867
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:09.000
oh, he's the next horror maestro. We'll give him a Blair Witch movie.

868
00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:12.199
And then that didn't do too well, and they're like, okay,

869
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:14.960
we'll give him a license thing.
And she goes and he makes that terrible

870
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:16.280
death note thing, and then he's
just gonna like, fuck it, I'm

871
00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:20.119
just gonna play with my toys.
I'm just gonna like make these movies where

872
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:23.280
these monsters fight each other and like
barely even have human characters in them,

873
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:28.679
because that shit's fun and like I
appreciate that it's dumb fun and like,

874
00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:32.000
yeah, I had a good time. All right, Well, apparently that

875
00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:36.079
movie is doing very well. I'll
check it out eventually. At some point.

876
00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:38.440
I'm just ready to watch June two
again. That's what I'm so Monkey

877
00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:43.480
man, fantastic monkey see that as
well, Dad, Tell what if he's

878
00:58:43.480 --> 00:58:45.280
handsome for a man, I'll say
that, Jesus fat that public. That

879
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:50.840
man is incredible looking in that movie
and everything. All Right, that does

880
00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:52.079
it for the news. I'm gonna
get to the pole question. While I

881
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:54.199
get that set up, Lexie,
why don't you tell people where they can

882
00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:58.639
find you, what you have going
on, whether or not you're gonna be

883
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:01.800
in Los Angeles for Summer Fest,
all that good stuff. Yes, So

884
00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:07.239
over the next few days you can
catch my stuff on Shack News. I

885
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:09.639
interviewed some people at the Fish Game
summits and I'll be going up there and

886
00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:15.880
you can also find my community start
menu, trying to help people break into

887
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:17.960
the video games industry. We're at
the start menu on Twitter, or you

888
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:24.000
can email us hello at satmanu dot
co dot UK. I will be at

889
00:59:24.119 --> 00:59:29.920
LA for Summer Games Fest. If
you want to commission me, please fucking

890
00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:35.000
commission me, because it's really hard
to get appointments without a sche commissioning you

891
00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:38.320
to get an appointment. So yeah, if you need help covering the show,

892
00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:42.880
reach out. I'll be there for
pretty much the entire week, so

893
00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:46.360
any events going around the play days
and the actual event itself. I don't

894
00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:49.599
think they've confirmed the play day,
so I won't say when I'm there.

895
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:54.599
And yeah, if I'm allowed anywhere
near the fandom officers, I'll probably mill

896
00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:58.559
around there because I'm sure as I'll
not get invited to any after parties.

897
00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:00.440
I don't know any Americans. You
can you could try that. We're not

898
01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:02.800
gonna be at the Phantom offices this
time last, as far as I'm aware.

899
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:06.840
Less time I discussed shit, well, a secret location that I will

900
01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:08.239
inform you about. You come hang
out with us, absolutely, I'd be

901
01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:12.679
great. I want to go someone
that I won't fucking die. Yes,

902
01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:15.480
yeah, oh well listen, no
promises, All right, it's Los Angeles.

903
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:17.840
You're right, I've said a lot
of shit about Mike Manatti, not

904
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.280
time. I'm worried about the LAPD. We don't we can't control them.

905
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:27.320
That's that's the one thing I'm worried
about. All right, Let's see which

906
01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:31.119
do you prefer higher frame rates or
higher resolutions? Eighty three percent says higher

907
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:35.920
frame rates. Only seventeen percent are
going with higher resolutions. I think this

908
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:39.159
is one thing where I agree with
this, I do. I voted for

909
01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:44.360
higher frame rates Lexi. But you
know, if resolutions got down low enough,

910
01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:46.480
I would start to say, okay, let's get the resolution back up

911
01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:51.199
from four eighty or five, you
know, sixty or whatever the next one

912
01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:54.079
is. You know, can we
at least get seven to twenty p like

913
01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:57.519
an even that feels kind of low
these day, especially when I'm playing on

914
01:00:57.519 --> 01:01:01.480
my four K TV over here that
I sit pretty close to. But if

915
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:05.480
I had to choose one or the
other, I'm choosing I'm choosing frame rate.

916
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:07.480
That's where I'm at. I don't
know how about it. Yeah,

917
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:10.320
I have a super like funny thing
where because I had the p S three

918
01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:14.880
when I was growing up, and
I used to play loads of boardlands too,

919
01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:16.400
and I'd played like high level Boardlands
too, where you were at like

920
01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:21.760
max level and you were two rocket
launchers and was just like killing the fucking

921
01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:24.639
frame rate. Whenever a game dips
down into a low frame rate, I'm

922
01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:30.119
like, yeah, good, shit's
happening. Fuck yeah means what Yeah,

923
01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:32.800
it's like, oh yeah, well, fucking breaking ship Like I like that

924
01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:37.880
feeling, but also yeah, a
nice time lights weigh at it. I

925
01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:39.639
have a terrible memory, but like
one of the one of the best like

926
01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:44.679
gaming moments that's just I could see
in my head perfectly, Like Crystal Clear

927
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:51.400
is when I was playing hard hard
Ship or hard line shipbreaker that Shipbreakerreak,

928
01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:54.360
yeah, Hardship, and uh it
was like early on, I think it

929
01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:59.039
was still an early access and I
had my laser being cutting apart the ship

930
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:01.800
and I just went right cross its
nuclear reactor and all of a sudden,

931
01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:05.800
I'm like, I just get it
explodes and like it flings me away,

932
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:09.159
and then the game just like completely
freezes and then it's like one frame per

933
01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:13.719
second for like twelve straight seconds as
I'm like turning my character back around to

934
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:16.480
look at this giant nuclear explosion in
space, and it just it ruled so

935
01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:21.679
hard. That was so cool?
Was the real understated beauty to playing Guy's

936
01:02:21.719 --> 01:02:24.920
Mode on a computer without a graphics
card and what you can do to that

937
01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:30.559
computer? Boy, I fucking probably
messed up some laptops by doing that.

938
01:02:31.079 --> 01:02:36.239
Hell yeah, yeah, that's right. It's it's hard, bull boiled shipbreaker,

939
01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:40.320
That's what it is. Yeah,
all right. There was another poll

940
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:45.039
question because we did two Are you
excited about Star Wars Outlaws? Forty eight

941
01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:47.559
percent said yes, fifty two percent
said no, you know, fifty to

942
01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:52.760
fifty. I suppose. I think
this is where all major ips are at

943
01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:55.840
right now. I think if you
had a shocking kind of new IP come

944
01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:59.960
out of or like an IP that
hasn't been overdone in a lot of media

945
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:01.079
right now, I think people would
be like, yeah, I'm excited about

946
01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:06.199
that. But I think there's a
lot of people for whom Star Wars and

947
01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:10.480
Marvel these massive, pervasive ips have
been everywhere for so long that they're like,

948
01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:14.320
why would I be excited about this? I haven't had a chance to

949
01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:17.440
miss it, So I'm not surprised
that this is at forty eight percent versus

950
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:20.800
fifty two percent. How do you
feel about it? Like se like really

951
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:22.840
deep down like Star Wars Outlaws,
like just as like if you were someone

952
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.639
spending your own money on these games
showing up, like, how would you

953
01:03:25.639 --> 01:03:30.440
feel about it? As someone who
usually is spending my own money on these

954
01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:36.079
games? And I am excited for
it in the sense that I am afflicted

955
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:39.280
with consuming most Star Wars media and
I'm cursed that way. Same with Marvel.

956
01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:42.840
At some point my brain went,
yeah, you should watch all of

957
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:45.280
these and then I got through,
like halfway watching the in Humans, and

958
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:47.239
I was like, what the fuck
am I doing with my life? I'm

959
01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:51.039
not. I watched the rest of
it. Oh my god, all right,

960
01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:53.039
you don't do that. Listen.
I made it into content for a

961
01:03:53.079 --> 01:04:00.440
podcast. It was worth it.
Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah. I

962
01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:03.719
think like it looks good, so
I'm excited for it. It's kind of

963
01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:08.800
as simple as that. So as
long as like it keeps on looking good,

964
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.000
then I'll sick continue to be excited
for it. But yeah, I'm

965
01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:14.360
hopeful. I want to play it. Yeah, And I didn't even like

966
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:16.920
think about this don Fiasco and Chad
says this is more about Ubisoft than Star

967
01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:19.519
Wars for them, and it's like, oh, yes, a lot of

968
01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:21.719
people are going to be that they
do have that thing where like, I

969
01:04:21.719 --> 01:04:25.559
don't play Ubi Soft games, and
I think the assumption here is this is

970
01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:28.639
going to be another one of those, And in my heart, I'm like

971
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.280
hoping it's not just another one of
those. Even if it has some elements

972
01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:34.079
of that, I would be fine. I just need to give ub Soft

973
01:04:34.119 --> 01:04:39.320
credit. Like as much as Avatar
was one of those, it seems like

974
01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:42.719
they're trying to deviate and that was
trying to and that was massive as well.

975
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:47.000
Yes, yeah, so I am
curious to see what other directions they

976
01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:50.519
can go. Yeah, but I
wasn't thinking about that, and I bet

977
01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:54.880
that is a significant number of the
no's are people who are like I don't

978
01:04:54.880 --> 01:04:57.559
trust the Ubi Soft game until it's
in front of me, and I don't

979
01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:00.679
put it in front of me until
it's thirty dollars. I'm not gonna get

980
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:03.440
excited about it until that point.
All Right. Finally, the new poll

981
01:05:03.559 --> 01:05:09.519
question PERSONA, is green, true, false or what the hell are you

982
01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:12.840
talking about? Those are your options. We will discuss the results of this

983
01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:17.119
poll on Game Mess Mornings on Giant
Bomb tomorrow. Speaking of Giant Bomb,

984
01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:19.760
later today, there will be a
Blake Club. As far as I'm aware.

985
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:24.119
I'm pretty sure that's gonna work out
just fine. That will be at

986
01:05:24.199 --> 01:05:27.400
three pm Eastern. Again, the
time is shifted around a little bit as

987
01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:30.880
we've moved things around on our internal
schedule. Tomorrow we will have a voicemail

988
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:33.559
dump truck. I think we will
also be playing Hell Divers too, and

989
01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:38.320
then on Friday upf I'm gonna mod
the hell out of a out of a

990
01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:41.480
Fallout game, I think I'm gonna
do. I keep going back and forth

991
01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:43.760
between New Vegas and four, but
I'm gonna be working on that. To

992
01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:46.239
you, you shouldn't do New Vegas
because it's the perfect video game. Yeah,

993
01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:49.559
but I want to mod it to
hell so it's imperfect and weird.

994
01:05:49.719 --> 01:05:54.360
And I know that New Vegas has
a certain threshold where like it breaks,

995
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:57.000
but I think it's like one hundred
and thirty mods and I probably won't be

996
01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.639
using the hot reminds me when I
did meet Josh, it was like a

997
01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:03.360
week before my brother got married.
And my brother's favorite franchise is Fallout and

998
01:06:03.360 --> 01:06:06.840
his favorite game is New Vegas,
and so I bought a copy of Fallout

999
01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:10.719
three for the PS three, well, Fallout New Vegas for the PS three,

1000
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:12.360
and I was like, hey,
can you sign this, and he

1001
01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:15.760
was like, why is it the
PS three version. I'm like, listen,

1002
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:17.559
it's important to me that it's the
PS three version. I know it

1003
01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:23.199
fucking sucks, but please just say
Europe just like, yeah, okay,

1004
01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:27.920
this is what they give us there, all right. Yeah. I'll probably

1005
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:30.559
will end up doing Fallout four for
this, and then I'll play Fallout New

1006
01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:32.320
Vegas for real, because I've never
really played through that game and I would

1007
01:06:32.360 --> 01:06:35.360
like to do that. But that
reminds me. If anyone has any like

1008
01:06:35.480 --> 01:06:40.960
funny or fun or weird mods for
a Fallout four, send them to me.

1009
01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:43.960
Hit me on the discord, hit
me on Twitter. I appreciate that.

1010
01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.719
I'm gonna be doing that work tonight, all right, and then anything

1011
01:06:46.760 --> 01:06:49.639
else PCR will happened on Friday,
all that good stuff. Yeah, look

1012
01:06:49.679 --> 01:06:54.360
out for it on giant bomb dot
com. In the meantime, LEXI thank

1013
01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:57.199
you so much for spending today talking
with me about video games. I really

1014
01:06:57.239 --> 01:07:00.679
appreciate it. Anytime. I'll be
able to annoy you in person at some

1015
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:03.559
point this year too, so that'll
be fun. That sounds good. Mike's

1016
01:07:03.559 --> 01:07:05.679
asking me if he's on anything today. Just Blake Club. I think I

1017
01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:10.760
don't think we have anything until then
there's other other Oh yeah, Jan's also

1018
01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:15.039
got WrestleMania VIDs coming. He's back. The poop flight has landed. He

1019
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:17.280
is safe. You should listen to
the BombCast yesterday if you're wondering about that.

1020
01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:20.360
Oh my god, was the poop
city slammer Jama? What happened in

1021
01:07:20.440 --> 01:07:24.400
the airplane? I mean, honestly, at this point, I'm wondering if

1022
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:28.199
maybe Jan himself is the poop city
slamm of Jama. It's impossible to say.

1023
01:07:29.079 --> 01:07:31.840
We'll dive into this, investigate further. Lexi once again, thank you,

1024
01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:34.360
what's good. Thank you everybody.
You're the best audience in gaming.

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01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:39.079
Until next time, have a good
one, take care of yourself and goodbye.