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for July seventeenth, 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 Live

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with Me Jeff Grubb. Today,
we finally know what I'm reading the one

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from yesterday because I open it up
to see what the poll was. Sean

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today end and has a new peripheral
for old JOYCN controllers and Xbox gave its

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controller a big butt. But first, please join me and welcoming today's co

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host the Game Mess Mornings. It's
Sean Turbo, Sean McDowell. Sean,

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how's it going. It's going going
as well as it possibly can. All

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right, everyone's gone all in this
together as best we can. Yeah,

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this week, I had to be
me. I had to be Jan.

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I'm preparing for a trip. I'm
a busy I'm hand out in like four

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hours right now to do a whole
string of traveling methods that I'm putting together

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to get out to Vegas. Yeah. Well, what is it that look

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like? Is it? Is it
like a bus to the airport? What

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it's it's bus to another city to
the airport, right right, Jesus Christ,

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because hey, look, saving like
three hundred dollars on flight, you

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do what you have to do.
Three hundred dollars. It's a huge amount.

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Yeah difference, all right, Yeah, that would I would take a

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bus, for sure. I always
tell the story. But I did take

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a greyhound back from packs West in
Seattle to Columbus, Ohio, back when

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I lived in Columbus still and uh
that was enough greyhound maybe for a lifetime.

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And yet it wasn't so bad.
It wasn't so bad in the end,

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Jeff, I grew up dirt poor, all I know. You know

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what though, I got every time
we talk about this, European's gonna be

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like, what are they talking about? Because buses in Europe when we were

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traveling there, stuff like planned our
travel And she's no, the busses are

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great and they all feel like you're
being like you're on an airplane. Basically,

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it's really good because they take care
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them and it's real nice. And
they have a lot of great bust like

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manufacturers there, Mercedes and stuff like
that. Okay, so you know,

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Jeff, Jeff, I'm doing good. I want to ask you. I

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want to ask you because Okay,
it looks like it looks like we might

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you know, we got the Sirkana
report and Butler seems like maybe slow news.

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Jeff, I think we can have
five minutes of therapy. How are

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you doing? You? You had
a rough day yesterday, you had some

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bad news about game. You were
really looking ford to look. I know

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what that's like. I'm not just
a Nintendo fan. I'm a Pokemon fan.

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Oh boy, nobody knows disappointment the
way we do, Jeff. So

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I know I know where you're coming
from. You had to play Dai Katana

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for three freaking hours. I went
to the store, I took a shower,

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I got ready for the trip,
and you were still playing that damn

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game was great. Now knows what
else has been going on? No,

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No, you probably didn't buy Squidward
and heard about that. I've decided I

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will buy squid Word and I'm going
to hang on to it until she like

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really earns it sometime soon, so
ok maybe like maybe a birthday or Christmas.

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We'll see. Okay, Yeah,
I am I'm doing okay, I'm

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hanging in there. Dai Katana was
rough for me and I think me alone.

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Everyone else seemed to enjoy it.
Well, I don't know, after

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like so long in that level,
maybe no one was enjoying that level anymore.

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But it's frustrating because I'm like,
okay, no, clearly this is

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going to be the longest game.
You guys were incorrected, like taking how

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long to beat? They're like,
well, no, how can it be

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soft? Because everyone who plays that
game goes right into the options. Even

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if you don't do the fan update
fan patch, there is options in the

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menu to basically make your companions turned
off in a lot of ways, so

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like you don't have to deal with
them nearly as much, and there is

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unlimited saves right there, and everyone
just does that. No one uses the

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save gems. So it's like I
am playing in such a way that very

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people have actually played this game,
and so it's gonna go so much longer,

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and you end up in situations like
this where start with not a lot

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of health, I don't have enough, ammo. I could reload an old

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save, which is probably what I'm
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we started up. But I did
play a lot of Nintendo World Championships last

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night a lot of I've gone through
about half the Mario stuff, and then

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I did the online tournament where it's
like it is like a championship, where

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like they picked five events from these
one hundred and fifty smaller events and you

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do all those who sit your best
time. It's weird, and we'll talk

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about moral, find someplace to talk
about it, but for now, it's

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weird because normally with the situation,
you would complete your thing and you would

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get the leaderboard for that event or
the very least. It's like, this

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is a leader board that we are
going to get for this World championship for

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this week at the end of this
week. So in this moment, I

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don't know how I'm doing. I
don't know if I should go back and

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try to improve my times. So
I tried to get like really good times

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on all the levels, but it's
like I'm kind of off it, like

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isolated, and I don't feel like
I'm part of a competition really other than

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I know at the end of the
week, these scores are going to be

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counted up, and you know,
I still feel a drive to go in

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there and try stuff, but it's
it's frustrating when you are like, Okay,

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I think I could be doing this
level better. Is there like ghost

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data or something, and go and
look and see if I am at least

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on the right track. It's toward
getting that S rank on this level,

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and it's like that stuff's not there, so it's pretty isolating on that side,

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and then yet everything else when you're
playing it, I think anyway,

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they nailed it. It's really good
with the way it's presenting the challenges.

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A big part of that is several
of these early challenges that are like that

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they've selected and like a lot of
the Mario stuff, these are things that

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I would just do when I was
playing the game anyhow, like trying to

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hit every every brick at the beginning
of the stage of one two in Super

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Mario Brothers as quickly as possible by
bouncing off the doumbus, that sort of

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thing. I would just do that
every time I was playing to kind of

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keep myself engaged and entertained. And
now they've turned that into a little challenge,

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and so my okay, well,
this is clearly just made for me,

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and I'm feeling that way. So
I'm really enjoying that aspect of it

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and going online and sharing the times
on Twitter is something. But boy god,

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this game would just be perfect if
it had leaderboards on everything that it

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should have leaderboards on. So to
be clear, because I saw a lot

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of people parroting there are no leaderboards
in the game, and I think that

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evolved into there's no online connectivity.
We were lied to because the Internet is

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the Internet, which is not the
case, but it feels that way.

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It is. Yeah, it is
Devil's advocate here. They set out to

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recreate the Nintendo World Championships back in
and they did that for not really even

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for better, but just for worse, right, because that's you score your

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best time as best as you can
get it in these selected challenges for the

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week, and that at the end
of the week, like a tournament,

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you see how well you do against
everyone else. That being said, that's

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not what anyone expects in twenty twenty
four. No expect to just be able

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to see how your friends are doing
so you can instantly compete against them,

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right, That's that's just how we
assume competitions work now. So yeah,

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it's strange. You know, there
is a you know, technically head to

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head online mode in a way,
it's a synchronous you're going against ghost data,

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so that feels a little strange.
Okay, yeah, it's and there's

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like the easy one, which takes
the easy weekly challenges. They're the easier

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weekly challenges and you do those really
quick. And then there's the hard stage,

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which it takes the harder challenges.
I think it also picks like harder

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ghost data as well, because I'm
going up against several people who were able

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to get s rinks every time on
their first try, because that's how it

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works here. So uh yeah,
very very uh interestingly affiliate things and mostly

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it feels like you are disconnected from
other players in a lot of ways.

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So what Okay, so there's ghost
data but no leader board. What does

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that look like? The ghost data. It's not like you're selecting the ghost

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data. It's like it's it pretends
to be matchmaking. You started up,

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Oh, it gives you a random
person, it gives you it gives you

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seven random people to go against.
And yeah, and it even like weird

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slowly slots them in as if it's
matchmaking to make it feel like it's online.

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It's weird again. Yeah, again, that's very much a film recreating

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a tournament setting, which is what
they intended, now what people expect.

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I was thinking about this yesterday because
I was like, is is the lack

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of what people expect really going to
ruin the game? Because this is something

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that brought up when we were talking
not to open old wound or fresh wound

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when we were talking about Concord last
week, the difference between player expectation and

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developer intents. Where you know,
they made a hero shooter, we expected

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this earned something at least us on
the site, we expected to overwatch.

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Basically wasn't that okay? So developer
intent is that still good? And we

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weren't really feeling it? So I
was thinking about this, Yeah, where

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what people what the player expected was
to have this instant updating leaderboard with your

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friend's scores and everything. But we're
not getting that. So is the game

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still good? Is? My question
is like, Okay, clearly a subpar

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product. Clearly they should have done
more. What's going on here? Is

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this still fun to play? Yeah? I think everything else is pretty spot

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on. The presentation is fantastic.
I really like the way it looks.

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The people were calling out some of
the colors when I posted a couple of

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videos on Twitter, and I think
just a really good style. There is

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this effect that I couldn't tell if
it was the Colrado Night or if it

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was just actually happening in the game, but like there's a cheering effect where

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when you start the level, they
go yay, and then they like kind

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of murmur in the background. And
what it felt like is as I was

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doing button inputs to like hit a
and as my character was like like jumping

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up, it felt like the audience
was just having slight little responses to what

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I was doing in the background,
which kind of kept like, MA feel

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like, oh man, there's really
not really an audience watching, but it

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feels like there's something people are getting
excited as I'm playing, and then you

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know exactly that definitely feels like you're
like an a tournament in front of an

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audience. All that stuff really good. I think the challenges they've selected are

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pretty good. I might on this
side of things, putting out like taking

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out the online stuff. Putting that
aside my concern here, and it's just

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a concern at this point. It's
not actually a problem in this moment,

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is that we're gonna get to a
point where you get through these one hundred

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and fifty challenges, you s rank
all of them, which is what I

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think that's gonna be my goal for
this. And then it's gonna be like,

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Okay, now they are filtering in
these challenges over and over again.

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This game would be better if there
was sort of a larger library that they

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are maybe like filtering in here and
like that, they are swapping them in

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and out, and it's like,
okay, now this is the set of

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challenges, and this is the current
one hundred and fifty from you know,

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even like a thousand, that would
be better. So in the moment,

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though, I'm having a blast setting
these times, there are ones that are

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like I can on my third time
I'm setting an S rank, and there's

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others where it takes me. I
don't fifty sixty tries. I mean it's

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like sometimes they're like three seconds,
sometimes they're thirty seconds. In either way,

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so it's really good, Okay.
I think I think this is just

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our example of Nintendo kind of being
Nintendo. They got the Secret Sauce and

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they you know, the presentation is
there, but they're hilariously lacking in some

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regard. Usually it's online. Yep, this is going on here. At

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the very least, I'm slightly optimistic. I saw some people saying that,

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oh, Nintendo doesn't update their games
ever in the Switch era, they actually

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do put out like yeah, life
up they almost just don't talk about them.

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Yeah, they And they do two
kinds of updates. They do the

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updates that actually do respond to criticism. You're in there, not like all

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the time, not enough that I
have some hope. And then they have

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the other one where it is like
the Mario Sports games that we talked about,

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where they have this stuff ready and
waiting and it's just going to get

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at least as an update a few
weeks after it comes out or a few

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months to kind of make it feel
like a little bit of an ongoing game,

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which I think there's a potential that
that is going to happen here.

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I almost get the sense that that's
going to happen because clearly they're gathering your

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your data for the leader board,
so there's the potential that they could just

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update it so that there is a
live update and leaderboard, which is what

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people want. There is no way
that there was never a version of this

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game with leaderboards. They definitely had
that in there at some point and they

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made some decision at some point for
whatever reason, and we could speculate on

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that. I'm sure it's a variety
of things. Like we said that,

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maybe they're intent and maybe they just
want to minimize toxic toxicity or something like

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that. There's all kinds of possibilities. They always have that car reasoning,

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Yes they do, so whatever.
I think there's a chance still that that

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leaderboards get added. That could be
copium though, so yeah, Kobe could

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just be autimism. Hey, it's
a thirty dollars product. It's subpar.

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If people don't like it, don't
buy it, simple as that. And

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it does sound interesting. Sure,
I personally think this feels like you Masha

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been twenty dollars product, but I
think any S remix the same way felt

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like twenty dollars game. They sold
it for thirty. I think this will

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have been a really good addition to
Sol plus expansion pack. Yeah, personitely,

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It's it seems a little disappointing.
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this one and be frustrated. But
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many other things. I totally get
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Scarlet Violet. You'll learn, Yeah, I will. I will live.

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That's a good point. The worst
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and it had like selectable ghost data, this would be a five star game

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for me. This would be it
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of just we're just like right there, and without those things, it's actually

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like three stars. It's like it's
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they put together a decent package that
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morning mess with. Nintendo announces official
switch Joycon Charging stan. This is from

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Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life in twenty
twenty four. The switch joycon are quite

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easy to charge, but the catches
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With this in mind, to Todow
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stand allowing these controllers to be easily
charged without the console. The new accessory

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will be arriving in Japan on the
seventeenth of October twenty twenty four for threeenty

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three hundred yen, which is around
twenty one dollars. That it's better than

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I was expecting, and it's available
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the my Nintendo Store. Nintendo UK
tweeted later that it's coming to the UK

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as well, and then I think
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I think it did, but maybe
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story is here, Sean is what
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The joy cons are old, I
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be moving past them. Why release
this peripheral now at like when the switch

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to feels imminent and could replace the
joy Con? I don't know. Yeah,

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that's right, the pants and everything. People think that, well,

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it's probably gonna be joy Cons,
but with a different design, right.

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My assumption would be like the rail
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to charge them will not work exactly
the same and would be different enough that

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the new joy Con might not.
I don't think you're gonna be able to

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slide new joy Con onto the switch
one. Do you think that would be

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the case. I mean, I
guess there's a possibility. Well, I

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mean, it depends on what the
whole magnets thing everybody I was talking about

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is actually going to look like.
If that's the only way they connect to

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the console. That's because what they
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where they were compared to something else, and so I heard a little bit

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more about the tech. Apparently this
is the thing that has existed on our

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products where it's the type of electromagnet
where it's not active, it's passive to

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activate a magnetic lock, so you
send a small current through the magnet and

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so that way like instantly locks on
and then it just won't let go until

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you send a current through it again
to like reverse the polarity or whatever its.

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joy Cons to make them very easy
to take on off Leu's were on the

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rails, then yeah, this wouldn't
work between the two generations, right if

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it's if it's that different and it's
not like just a little bit something extra,

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the exact same rail and then there's

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also those magnets to keep it more
secure or something like that. Yeah,

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but we don't know. This is
this is just odd because you know,

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the third party even officially licensed charging
stance a bear on forever. I got

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one right over there that someone sent
me for a review. Like years and

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years ago. And most of the
time I'm not really using it because you

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know, I got the joy Con
on the on the switch. I'll just

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use those. But occasionally when the
kids want to play something, I'm like,

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oh, I'm glad that, I'm
glad I have these charged and ready

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to go. Yeah. For audio
listeners who can't book at right now,

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Minders saying is that I think of
like the Joycon grip. It looks like

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the middle portion of the joycond grip, or if you have the charging Joycon

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grip, it looks like that where
it's like just that little rectangular bar you

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slide the joycns onto and then I
it's like that can stand up. But

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it looks like you can also fold
flat, so you can like use it

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as a Joycon charging grip while I
was charging or something like that. It's

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just an odd thing to put it
out right now, you know, Yeah,

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I mean at twenty dollars though it's
uh, it's toy bucks, that's

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not it's not bad, right,
especially when Nintendo, especially right especially when

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their dock costs ninety dollars or whatever. And these are the kinds of products

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you put out because they do have
high margins. Right, there's two bucks

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worth of parts in this thing,
and they're gonna Oh yeah, I used

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to work in retail. You you
would be amazed at how cheap is the

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manufacturer, controller and access rasia.
Uh so, I guess then the big

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question, as always over the last
couple of months, what does this mean

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for the switch to if anything?
Sean, I think nothing like I think

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people underestimate how much Nintendo supports the
console until that console is dead dead Definitely.

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That sounds simple solution, Yep.
Yeah, Ill vary depending on the

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system. You know. Obviously some
had longer legs through the next generation,

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like GBA into DS because of the
whole third pillar thing, and then you

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have stuff like that WEU where they
drop it like a bad habit, you

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know it. It all depends.
The switch is just and I keep trying

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to remind people where they get super
hype about the potential of switch to switch

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is still sell like hotcakes. So
they're still gonna keep supporting in small ways.

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I mean, if it says anything,

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it just continues to say that that
there is money in supporting the switch,

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and that's really what's driving these decisions. This does. I don't think

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this says I, Oh, well, you know, switch too is much

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further away because of anything else other
than the switch is successful. And then

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that is the reason that you put
out something like this, because they think

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people will buy this. I think
it's no more complicated than that. That

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said, I don't think I need
it. I'm good. I already got

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one. Yep, same, all
good mine. It looks fine enough,

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but doesn't look at anything that much
better than any of the third party ones.

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So some plastic a USB sport that's
it. Yep. Actually, and

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actually my doc has four rails,
so I could charge four of them at

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a time, So I'll just I'll
keep answering that, yes, exactly.

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I'm living the high life over here. Split eight two has been announced and

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set for a twenty twenty five launch
on PC and consoles. This is from

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Ben Lions at Game Reactor. Just
the other day we reported on the news

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that developer ten forty seven Games had
announced it had an announcement in the pipeline,

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an announcement that seemed to refer to
the reveal of Split Gate two,

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and that was absolutely true. Ten
forty seven has now lifted the curtain on

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split Gate two and affirmed that it
will be a bigger and better follow up

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that will launch in twenty twenty five
on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series

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X, and s PS four and
PS five twenty twenty five, and we're

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still getting the last gen consoles.
The game will again offer first person action

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in portal hoppy mechanics, but will
boaster bolster it with three unique factions to

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choose from that offer unique gameplay styles, competitive strategies, and loadouts. This

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will be complemented with a selection of
arenas, weapons, and modes, and

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the game will be playable either alone
or with friends. Well that's huge advancement

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there, Yeah, split Gate,
remember that, like twenty twenty one,

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everyone's going wild for split Gate and
then yeah, and it was like this

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darling of the shooter scene for good
reason. It was a fun game to

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play, and it just what Okay, let me ask you, why do

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you think Splitgate one sort of faded
in such a strong way that it seemed

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to like it just seemed to like
go away in a way that I wasn't

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expecting. I mean, it was
just like a smaller indie is yeah,

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like indie level game, like I
don't know, those never really take off

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in big way. Went's multiplayer at
the very least, so such a huge

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infrastructure to support that sort of thing, right, you need like advertising,

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which this game probably just never got. You need to put it everywhere and

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to you know, have those individual
platforms, market and everything. I don't

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know that. To me, Split
Gates seemed like you just had de Ka

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community and that's maybe all the game
ever needed at that level. It like

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first stopped off for like a few
months there, and it was mostly probably

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because streamers, like a lot of
streamers were playing it, and then you

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know, those streamers moved on to
something else. Yeah, I think because

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what the official official release was twenty
twenty two, early access was like yeah

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on consoles twenty twenty one. Yeah, I saw a lot of people picking

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up because they were like, Heylo
Infant is the worst game ever, and

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so let's go play slick it.
It's sure, whatever, dude, But

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I think that's why it popped off. For me, I'm more interested in

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why the two And when you have
a smaller game like this, it seems

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like, again this is bigger than
ever for them. I'm always curious why

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the sequel obviously with Triple A games
in multiplayer, it's been basically marketing at

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this point, overwatched two happened,
and then well, I guess before that,

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even Destiny to happened, and it's
just marketing ever since. But I

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was something small like this. There's
usually is technical reasons for them to do

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the two. I think of like
Nickelodeon All Stars they put two, and

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everyone's like, why not just like
update the old game. It's because they

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did enough under the hood changes and
everything, and frankly they needed to recuperate

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some costs that it actually made sense
for that team. And now looking at

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this, yes, split A one
was unreal. Four this is on reel

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five. It seems like they're just
like building something, probably not from the

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ground up, but really ractly overhauling
things in the background and under the hood,

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and that's why they would put out
a new version. So that makes

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sense to me. Yeah, It's
it's sort of circular right where it's they

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have technology technological reasons why it's like, Okay, maybe we should have something

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that feels more like a real seqel
And at the same time they probably have

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like business reasons and one enables the
others you know, we're just putting out

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a game that feels like a fresh
start. Gives you a chance to start

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at the marketing machine again, gives
you a chance to, uh, to

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reintroduce yourself to players who would be
like who would likely never jump in on

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a game late because they're like,
ah, there's too much. The scene

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is already established. I don't want
to get butt kick, And so that

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enables you to be like, okay, and since we have these business needs,

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what can we do to really make
it feel like a sequel? And

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jumping from Unreil four to five is
just one of those things. But and

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you know, adding voices to Nickelodeon
All Stars Brawl or whatever, it's another.

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I'm hopeful, hopeful for them.
I think that the scene of shooters

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is something that could would always benefit
from having more of these games sort of

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drawing people away for at least for
a little bit from the big established games

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that have sort of cemented themselves at
the top and have been for years and

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years and years. Now. You
know, we're looking at Apex Legends still

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has two hundred thousand active daily users
on Steam or something like that, and

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that's just Apex Legends. Let alone
like Fortnite, like the real top of

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the Pile that just takes so much
oxygen out of the room that I think

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having some of these games chip away
at the side one of them, I

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think we'll eventually down the line crack
the code and be like, and now

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this is actually the replacement for Fortnite. People are actually gonna move on from

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that. Maybe that maybe that doesn't
happen this time. That's how it's happened

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in the past. Uh, but
it will come probably from games like this

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at some point in the future.
Yeah. Uh, all right, Next

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story, Microsoft just gave the Xbox
controller a huge ass. Uh. I

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chose I was. I had to
choose between this headline or Kotakus, which

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is Xbox enables you to play with
Deadpools but or something like that, which

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is also very good. Michael yep, this is for Michael bick Order at

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Polygon. The Xbox Teams tradition of
strange movie themed extremely limited edition wireless controllers

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continues with a new Deadpool inspired version
that adds of luminous and juicy booty.

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Yes, there's a new Xbox wire
wireless controller with a smooth round butt,

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and we can thank Deadpool and Wolverine
for this blessing. Yeah, the h

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the actual announcements like designed by Deadpool
and yeah, I saw you. I

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saw you put this in here,
and I was like, what the hell

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is Jeff talking about? It is
boody there. Yeah, video watchers could

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just see there, there, it
is there, it is. There's the

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backshot of controller of course. M
uh huh. And yeah, I don't

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know, it looks absurd. These
things are are fun. I think this

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one's especially stupid in a fun way. Uh, but but yeah, this

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is good stupid. Not like the
fuzzy Sonic the Hedgehog one, right,

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that one is like an Eldritche horror
nightmare. Yes, you read that in

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a book that's supposed to keep you
up at night. This, I think

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that you could only win. This, I guess is just a giveaway.

408
00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:40.960
Yeah what These over design controllers are
usually giveaways. They do on Twitter right

409
00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:47.000
exactly. But speaking of I have
beef with our buddy Mikey O'Leary the the

410
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:51.960
ign Twitter account. For whatever reason, the image of this controller was flipped

411
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:53.440
and so that was the first thing
I saw. I was like, that

412
00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:57.759
would be the sickest thing ever.
If they put out a controller would like

413
00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:02.240
the anlong stick on the right hand, the buns on the left hand,

414
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:07.839
and no man, man, that
would be a dead controller. So you

415
00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.599
want a controller with the buttons on
the left. Look, Jeff, if

416
00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.519
I'm buying a controller with a huge
ass, I want to be as stupid

417
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.799
as possible. Oh want use the
damn thing. I want to display it

418
00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:21.359
in a case. All right?
Okay. You wanted to be a true

419
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:25.039
like a piece of art that people
be like, what is this thing?

420
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:26.400
What's going on in the front You're
like, wait, did you cross their

421
00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.079
eyes when they enter my roy?
Yeah? What is going on here?

422
00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:33.200
It's like, wait, see you
see the ass? It's got a huge

423
00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.720
ass. Sorry, I am always
got to do a little bit of heat

424
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:40.559
there for everybody. All right,
of course, we'll take a break when

425
00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.319
we get back. Plenty more headlines. I promise that's the last one about

426
00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:52.720
butts, though, right, we'll
be back right after this. And ass

427
00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.480
promised. We have returned. We
have mass promised, ass promised. We

428
00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.960
have a lot more headlines here for
you. Start here. Eighty two percent

429
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.440
of American players made an in game
purchase last year. A survey suggest this

430
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:08.920
is from Andy Robinson of VGC.
Eighty two percent of American video game players

431
00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:12.920
made an in game purchase last year. That's according to COMSCOREES twenty twenty four

432
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.200
State of Gaming Report, published by
gip Biz, which was made in partnership

433
00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.880
with the in game advertising platform en
Zuo and zoo and Zuo. According to

434
00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:25.880
the report, sixty two percent of
adults over the age of eighteen played a

435
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:30.559
video game, with millennials comprising forty
nine percent, followed by gen Z at

436
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.039
thirteen percent. Of the people surveyed, seventy seven percent play on more than

437
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:38.480
one platform, and over a third
regularly use a combination of console, PC,

438
00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:42.160
and mobile. It's claimed that video
game enthusiast in the US spent forty

439
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:47.720
five billion hours on gaming sites and
apps last year. With esports becoming increasingly

440
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:52.119
popular, eighty six percent of gen
Z and eighty percent of millennials surveyed said

441
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.119
that they watched esports what while fifty
three percent of gen Z sixty one percent

442
00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.400
of millennials said that they engaged with
esports content. Our twenty twenty fourth State

443
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.839
of Game report highlights the cultural significance
of gaming and the vital role blah blah

444
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:08.319
blah They also went on to say
eighty two percent of American players made a

445
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:12.279
purchase in game last year. So
if you play a game and you're American,

446
00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:18.400
you've made there's a four out of
five chance that you spent money on

447
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.519
an in game item. And I
think that that sounds mostly right to me

448
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.559
at this point, but I maybe
a bit high. I'm a little bit

449
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:33.039
skeptical of a full eighty two percent. Now, it's we live in a

450
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.240
different times. Sorry, I gotta
pause this spending deadpool ass that I still

451
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:40.079
have played for me over here.
We were in a different time than when

452
00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.519
it was like all about whales.
Remember, like ten years ago, it

453
00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:45.640
was like you would always hear it's
like, well, so they don't care

454
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.200
if you don't spend money, because
they're gonna get the whale to spend money

455
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:51.680
and then they're going to pay for
everyone else. And that's definitely still happening

456
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:55.200
and definitely still important, but it's
changed a lot to the point where it's

457
00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:59.519
like, actually, the lifetime average
value from any player is about twenty dollars,

458
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.640
and there are still some that don't
pay, so they offset the average,

459
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:06.640
and there are still whales that spent
a ton, but you could expect,

460
00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:10.680
like someone that comes into this game
eventually spend about twenty bucks. So

461
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:14.359
that lines up with that sort of
thinking, which has been the case for

462
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:18.240
the last few years. Sean,
what do you think? First of all,

463
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:19.720
are you someone who has bought something
in game in the last year?

464
00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:23.079
Well, first of all, you
were on a roll. I didn't want

465
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.039
to stop you to say that,
as it was totally ban as manager.

466
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:32.799
Second of all, if you play
a multiplayer game nowadays, yeah, of

467
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.559
course you've bought something, right,
But at this point, I feel like

468
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:42.119
if you play multiplayer games at all, you've probably spent just like even once,

469
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:47.920
just once, like bought a skin
in a shooter. You put like

470
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:52.519
a dollar into Pokemon Go, you
bought a battle pass in some game,

471
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:57.680
like, there's so many. What
they're counting here is, at least seemingly

472
00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:03.079
is any purchase in a free to
play game would count as a name game

473
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.599
purchase. So yeah, I just
feel like if you engage with those games

474
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:10.519
at all in a way, shape
or form, you've you've probably chipped in

475
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:15.319
something. Yep. I think the
the number of people who are let's face

476
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.759
it, let's face it, you
know, as people with an old school

477
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.920
mentality ourselves. It's a kind of
an old school mentality to like put your

478
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.480
foot down. I will not I
will not spend money on these games,

479
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:29.799
like I will not buy this horse
armor. Like no, I'm like it's

480
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:32.920
a buck or you know, it's
it's five dollars or something that looks cool,

481
00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:36.400
like everyone does nowadays. You play
fighting games like I do. Of

482
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:40.000
course you're gonna buy a costume for
like your favorite character if it looks sick

483
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:45.119
enough. I know that we can't
make sweeping terms and say absolutely everybody,

484
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.079
but yeah, yeah, and yes, and it's you know, we are

485
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.799
a long way away from the horse
armor tobaccle for Skyrim. Yeah, like

486
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.279
that was forever ago at this point, and the world has changed a lot

487
00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:01.359
and now it's very normal. And
and while there are plenty of games that

488
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:05.880
are very popular, especially on mobile, where people are playing free, and

489
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.880
they're always playing free, and they're
going on to YouTube to find the best

490
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:13.720
way to get the most stuff by
playing for free, a lot of people

491
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.680
eventually are like, man, it's
just going to be more convenient if this

492
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.240
time I just spent a little bit
of money. And these games are designed

493
00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:24.720
to extract that from you by rocket
scientist and economists, so we're at a

494
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:29.480
disadvantage. We were always going to
lose this fight. So it's kind of

495
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:34.920
at this point seeing this number again
not too shocking, although I think this

496
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.160
does kind of like go in It
ties into that story we're talking about,

497
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:40.319
like, oh, only two thousand
people bought Resident Evil seven and you know,

498
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:46.880
only ten thousand bucks in these other
games on iOS. This is settled

499
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:52.400
at this point, right. The
monetization scheme is the way people think about

500
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:57.279
buying stuff on mobile is always going
to be in app purchases for mostly free

501
00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.079
to play games, and the idea
that we are going to be able to

502
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:06.559
take the console experience and sort of
migrate it over to mobile is kind of

503
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.079
laughable at this point to me.
Does that sound right to you? Well,

504
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:13.680
yeah, and this is some I
talked about the BombCast this week,

505
00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:19.680
where it's just you can't just put
full games on a platform where people don't

506
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.559
expect the full games. I expect
that to work out, that people are

507
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:25.240
going to expect you to do something
like what leads to this, have a

508
00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:29.720
free to play a game that then
people can spend a couple of bucks on

509
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:34.640
to get something in you got joked
a little bit about the the like losing

510
00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:39.680
the battle year and all this,
And I think to some degrees, some

511
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:45.880
games are better for it. Like
think about the fact that like something like

512
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.519
I'm looking at why I play like
war Zone. I didn't have to pay

513
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:54.920
seventy dollars on war Zone, right
And while there's absolutely insidious business practices in

514
00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:00.960
that game that I personally encourage people
to just stay away from because it is

515
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:05.559
insidious, at the same time,
me and my buddy's got a game for

516
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:07.880
free that we like playing all the
time. They didn't have to pay a

517
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.079
dime because first of all, they
can see, oh yeah, I'm not

518
00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:15.039
spending thirty dollars on skin or whatever
hell it is. I'm not like going

519
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:20.880
to this loot boxy sort of battle
pass that I'm not messing with any of

520
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.360
this. So I think some games
are better for moving in that direction,

521
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:30.320
even if there are business practices like
Gotcha that are that should be criticized rightfully.

522
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:32.920
Yeah, and this is there's always
this the risk of us getting into

523
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.280
a slip ray slope argument or me
worrying about concerns. It's like where like

524
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:39.679
this means that and that we're gonna
lose this. But part of me does

525
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:45.239
begin to feel like when I look
the way these companies behave and when I

526
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:46.960
see them being like, can we
make it happen on mobile? Can we

527
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:51.920
make cloud gaming happen? You know? Xbox says their Amazon Fire TV sticking

528
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:53.840
thing now, And I'm looking at
all this, it's like, Oh,

529
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:59.880
they are trying to find a way
to make their current business model make sense

530
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:02.639
by attracting this huge audience of people
who are playing games. But they're all

531
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:07.480
playing free to play games and it's
just not gonna It's not gonna happen.

532
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.639
So because of that, I am
going to lose something in that the way

533
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:15.559
that gaming has worked for me in
my entire life is being sort of deprecated.

534
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:20.519
It's being put to the side,
and there are attempts to make it

535
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:22.360
make sense because they still do want
my money, and it has been a

536
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:24.719
very good business model for them because
it's like they get to charge a lot

537
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:29.039
of money up front, and that's
I think they do prefer that. But

538
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:32.360
it just feels like, Oh,
it's not going to go away completely.

539
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:37.119
But most of the energy which has
been happening for some time now, it

540
00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:39.599
feels like is going to go into
free to play and service games and things

541
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:45.679
like that. It's Nintendo still be
there, PlayStation's still going to make stuff.

542
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.280
PC gaming is a safe harbor in
a lot of ways. But yeah,

543
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:52.639
if you want these big companies involved, I think they are going to

544
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:54.239
be kind of continuing to glance their
eye over it, like we tried to

545
00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:59.400
make the premium game happen still,
but nope, we're making free to play

546
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:05.079
games now, all right. Sirkana
shares the top ten best selling Star Wars

547
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:07.760
games from January nineteen ninety five through
May twenty twenty four. This is from

548
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.960
Matt Piscatello, who works at Sirkana, put this on Twitter. Basically,

549
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.800
I think he was just thinking about
Star Wars because those Outlaw previews have been

550
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:17.800
coming out and stuff like that,
and he updated the list. He's done

551
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:22.400
this before, but the updated list
is as follows. Number one is Star

552
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:27.000
Wars Battlefront twenty fifteen. Number two
is Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. Then

553
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.800
it goes Battlefront two twenty seventeen,
Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, Lego

554
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:36.039
Star Wars The Complete Saga, star
Wars The Force Unleashed, Battlefront two two

555
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:38.920
thousand and five at number seven,
Star Wars, Jedi Survivor at number eight,

556
00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:43.639
Lego Star Wars to the Original Trilogy
at number nine, and Lego Star

557
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:49.239
Wars the Original at number ten.
Yeah, that's about right. I was

558
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.400
expecting a lot of Lego games up
there. I forgot that Jedi Fallen Order

559
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.039
did that well, got all the
way up to number two, and then

560
00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:59.920
Jedi Survivor number eight not there not
doing nearly as well. But also that

561
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.079
what was next gen or new gen
only the current gen consoles, and they

562
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.360
are making last gen ports of those
games right now, specifically probably because what

563
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:12.559
we see on this chart, any
surprises here for you. Ah well,

564
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:16.960
just on that before I forget again
when you mentioned Splitgate coming to last gen.

565
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:21.960
Yeah, the reason we're getting last
gen ports of some games is where

566
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:23.599
those consoles can run it, you
may as well put on Oh yes,

567
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:28.199
for sure, yes you might as
well, especially for a multiplayer shooter like

568
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.920
without a doubt. But I know
so many people who still just have PS

569
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:35.320
four play Dan have not gone off
to PSI. All their games probably still

570
00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.320
work, the ones that they actually
care about still still work. Absolutely.

571
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:42.280
Yeah, when it comes to this, first of all, you and MATCHI

572
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.960
along pray, well don't you me? And who now Matt Piscatl Oh yeah,

573
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:49.760
yeah for sure, yes, okay, because Gause he seems like the

574
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:52.960
guy who's a very smart person handling
all this data. And then it's just

575
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:58.519
around like, fuck is Star Wars
list Listen, let's do this. Matt's

576
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:01.039
perfect, He's great. I love
it. Yeah, he's a good he's

577
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:04.679
good at tweeting, he's good at
like doing his business. Yeah. I

578
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:09.679
appreciate him a lot, for sure. Yeah. Star Wars Battlefront twenty fifteen

579
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:15.920
and number one. Yea interesting to
at number three, right, and then

580
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.960
they're like, well we got to
stop making these okay, Yeah, every

581
00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:25.679
someone someone got very mad at someone
there. Maybe that's why that happened,

582
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:30.320
because those games were very good.
Belfront too, talking about bad business practices.

583
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:36.199
Malfront two got uh you know,
you know, rightfully criticized for that.

584
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:37.880
Oh yeah, oh no, this
this kind of does all settle where

585
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:40.360
I thought it would. Like you
said, a lot of lego games,

586
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.400
Yeah, makes sense to me.
I think maybe the one absence is Knights

587
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:46.679
of the Old Republic. But you
know, when you think about it,

588
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:55.000
that was mostly exclusive to Xbox when
it launched, and yeah, it's and

589
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.800
even like when it got remastered stuff
like that, that was always at a

590
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:00.800
discounted price. I'm not too surprised
that it's not in the top ten.

591
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.960
Yeah I did, Oh god,
I did miss it initially from nineteen ninety

592
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.239
five to twenty that's when that's when
MPD started tracking I think nineteen ninety five.

593
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:16.719
Yeah, huh yeah. Battlefront twenty
fifteen being better than all of those

594
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:20.480
that is slightly surprising. Yeah,
you know, at a certain point,

595
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:23.440
like Battlefront twenty fifteen, it's going
to come out when there's more people playing

596
00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:27.239
than ever. It was the first
big Star Wars and a long Star Wars

597
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.079
game in a long time, you
know, a decent amount of time.

598
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:32.920
It's also you know, Battlefront and
the battle as we know now, Battlefront

599
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.239
stands are crazy for Battlefront and they
didn't necessarily know this wasn't going to be

600
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:40.760
the Battlefront that they were asking for, and people do like that game actually,

601
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:44.480
so Battlefront twenty fifteen is a game
that a lot of people really enjoy

602
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:46.920
as well as Battlefront two. It's
one of the first games that me and

603
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:52.159
my friends picked up when bought our
PS four's for what I got my PS

604
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:55.400
four because I woned Melgiar Slid five
to run better and I wanted to play

605
00:39:55.440 --> 00:40:00.880
three Far five without the jank PC
port they were playing out and one of

606
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:02.199
the first games I got. Me
and my buddies, we all picked up

607
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:06.880
Bellfront Real. Yeah, the return
of an ip that we love in right,

608
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.280
Star Wars Ballofront looks good, sounds
good. They're talking about how accurate

609
00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:15.760
is the movies and earthing? Sure, yep, absolutely the photogrammetry, so

610
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:21.480
the rocks looked really good. I
like that all right. Europe's best selling

611
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:23.400
games of June and the first half
of twenty twenty four. This comes from

612
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:28.880
Nintendo Everything, but this this data
includes everything, not just Nintendo stuff.

613
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:31.880
GSD data provides a look at the
best selling games across Europe in June,

614
00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:36.199
as well as the first half of
twenty twenty four. It's based on data

615
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.360
for all physical games released in major
markets, plus digital game sales from most

616
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:44.960
major publishers from June. Specifically,
we just mentioned two HD charted the highest

617
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:47.800
out of the new releases at number
seven, and that's without digital data considered.

618
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.400
Believe it or not, it was
only four thousand copies away from being

619
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:54.519
the fastest selling switch game this year. Excuse me, paper Mario one thousand

620
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:59.199
year Doors still holds that record.
A note that Luigi's Mentioned two HD sold

621
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.960
just under a third of what Luigi's
MANSIONED three achieved during the opening week in

622
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.280
twenty nineteen. Uh yeah, that's
that's pretty wild. So number one best

623
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.280
selling game of June was e Sports
FC twenty four because Europe, of course,

624
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:16.440
and then Elden Ring bouncing back up
to the near the top DCFC exactly,

625
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:20.159
and then Great Theft Auto five.
It's a lot of familiar faces,

626
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:24.239
City Day five back again baby,
and then SIV six and that's like kind

627
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:27.280
of a similar thing. Two k, It's got a lot of that stuff

628
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:30.320
going on there. Take two,
I should say, Red Dead Redemption two.

629
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:32.039
Okay, hold on, hold on
Europe? What are you doing?

630
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:36.519
Are we all doing? First?
First? Okay, first boy, I

631
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.840
got beef with Europe today too,
as they mass occurred with Europe. They

632
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:45.119
massacred my boy on the cover of
what was I found the CRDA was doing

633
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:49.719
a video a super Monkey Ball Adventure. Jeff, you guys, you guys

634
00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:52.519
thing you know what, I'll send
it over after the show. Okay,

635
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:55.320
I'll put it on Twitter or something, but like, what are you all

636
00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:00.239
doing earlier? You're up red Dead
Redemption two in the top five yeap,

637
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:05.440
and then Hogwarts Legacy Luigi's Mansion too
at number seven F one twenty four.

638
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:07.719
At number eight Grand Theft Auto Online? What the fuck does that mean?

639
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:14.000
What? Wait? What are they
selling a grand theft auto online? Separately?

640
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:19.039
Did they start doing that? No? Is there? Like, how

641
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.760
are are they like tracking shark cards
and like these are just just the money

642
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:29.519
from shark cards of June. Oh, LEXI is saying you can buy a

643
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:31.960
box ORGS and GT online. I
wouldn't. I'm not too shocked to hear

644
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:36.800
that, And I'm also not shocked
that we don't remember that happening. It

645
00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:38.280
also might not be here, like
it might be a thing that's like in

646
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:42.719
Europe or something, and that could
be like regulator, that could be regulation.

647
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.679
I do see John Leman every once
in a while. We'll post ways

648
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:53.159
in like this German electronics store,
like the wild boxed like PC copies that

649
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:57.559
they have there sometimes. Yeah,
so maybe that would make sense, okay.

650
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.880
And then number ten for June was
NBA two K twenty four for the

651
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:04.400
first half of the Year EA Sports
FC number one because it's Europe, and

652
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.280
then number two is Hell Divers two, and number three is Grand Theft Auto

653
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:10.639
five. Then Howkwarts Legacy, Red
Dead, Redemption two, Call of Duty,

654
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:15.559
Modern Warfare three, Fallout four at
number seven. Actually, that's pretty

655
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:20.440
wild. It takes two at number
eight. What really, Tom Clancy's Rainbow

656
00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:22.519
six, Siege at number nine,
and The Last of Us Part two Remastered

657
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:27.079
at number ten. It takes two. Who has got to be the most?

658
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.280
Like, I shocks me how successful
that game is? It like ten

659
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.519
million copies or something like that.
I know it was like Game of the

660
00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:36.079
Year at the Akills, but I
didn't know it was going to get that

661
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.559
kind of bump. That's pretty crazy. Your Europeans do love Divorce, that's

662
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:43.159
right, mento, I forgot.
But Fallout four at number seven also very

663
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:46.280
impressive. But I don't know again, any surprises here. Okay, so

664
00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:52.039
that's best selling games previously was okay, so that would be revenue in the

665
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:54.519
previous list, right, I think
it's revenue, Yes, it's These companies

666
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:59.039
normally do it by revenue. That
may sell little more sounds though, yes,

667
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:05.440
typically yeah, yeah, I don't
know if this does speak to the

668
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:08.480
year a little bit. I think, you know, Europe's a very specific

669
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.119
market when it comes to what they're
looking for in terms of like, oh,

670
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:16.400
what's going to be the best selling
games. But still when you see

671
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:21.920
Grand Theft Auto five still there in
the top three, and you know,

672
00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:25.519
something like a Final Fantasy Sei Rebirth
is nowhere to be seen on this list,

673
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:28.679
it's like, oh boy, okay, what are we doing here?

674
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:31.920
Well, I mean, you still
get a group of friends who haven't tried

675
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:36.119
GTA five out, or they want
to play it on their new platforms.

676
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:37.559
They buy a new version of it, and that's like, you know,

677
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.360
you get like three or four copies
sold right there, as opposed to again,

678
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:46.760
these traditional, especially console exclusive single
player of games not not gonna hit

679
00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:50.840
as hard, you know. Yeah, And it's like, I think it's

680
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.440
just part of the zeit guys still
in young kids are growing up and they're

681
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:55.360
like, okay, what are we
going to after roadblocks? It's like,

682
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:59.159
should we try GTA online? It's
right there waiting for them. They probably

683
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:01.880
see their favorite content creator's plant all
the time. Those role playing servers are

684
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:07.599
still very popular, so yep,
yep, fair enough, all right,

685
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.440
Silent Hill creator shares his thoughts about
the closure of High Fi Rush studio.

686
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.039
This is from Blair Marnell at game
Spot. There have been numerous layoffs in

687
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.719
studio closures in twenty twenty four,
but one of the most surprising most Microsoft's

688
00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:22.079
decision to shut down Tango game Works, the studio behind High Fi Rush,

689
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.519
The Evil Within and more. Now, Silent Hill creator and Bouquet Game Studio

690
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:32.760
founder K Trio Toyama has shared his
thoughts about why Tango Game Works didn't survive.

691
00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:37.400
Tango Game Works was founded by Shinji
Mukami, who made his name in

692
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:42.440
the survival horror genre with Resident Evil. Just as Toyama established himself with Silent

693
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.719
Hill, Mkami stayed true to his
survival horror roots with Tango's first two games,

694
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:49.880
The Evil Within and The Evil Within
two. According to Toyama, the

695
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:53.559
decisions to branch out from that genre
may excuse me may have harmed Tango's long

696
00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:57.880
term prospects. He says, I
don't feel it's my place to give them

697
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.960
advice, but I think going back
to what I said earlier about the balance

698
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:05.480
of routine and preserving the style of
your games is relevant. Said Toyoma while

699
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:08.719
speaking with VGC, you look at
an example like from software. They keep

700
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:13.639
making different games, but certain styles
and aspects of their games stay the same.

701
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.719
That's an obvious example of how a
studio is successful. Not changing everything

702
00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:22.159
every time might be the key to
life and surviving. Yeah, deep,

703
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:28.159
I'll say that I do. I
do notice like that. I appreciate from

704
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:31.559
software style showing up across the genres. So when Armor Corps six I'm playing

705
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:37.000
that, and the Estes flasks for
the Giant mech is on the same button

706
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.440
as the sts flask for all the
other from software games, I'm like,

707
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:43.559
Okay, yeah, I feel a
little bit more at home. I kind

708
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:45.559
of maybe have some idea of what
to expect from this game. Uh.

709
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.079
And so when I get to a
boss and it's and it's beating me up,

710
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:52.159
It's like, well, no,
it's a from software game. I

711
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:57.039
understand what this challenge is kind of
expecting from me. That said, I

712
00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.599
don't think I would extrapolate that to
be like and that's why Tango game Works

713
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:07.519
shut down. That's I mean.
I don't think Hi Fi Rush like on

714
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:10.719
its own is the reason that the
studio shut down. I think it's just

715
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:15.400
as simple as as they didn't make
enough money for Microsoft to make it make

716
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:19.280
sense. So when everything else,
all the other pieces shifting around there and

717
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.440
Microsoft wanting to save money. I'm
a fan of the Red Wings. Recently

718
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:28.719
they they transferred. They basically did
a trade for one of their best defensive

719
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:32.199
players that everyone loves and that did
like kind of did everything right and was

720
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:37.719
had one of his best seasons,
but he just cost too much money and

721
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:39.880
and so, and they needed to
make room under the salary cap, and

722
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:43.480
so they traded him, and it
was like, it looked like a terrible

723
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:47.239
trade. They basically paid this other
team to take this awesome player. Definitely

724
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.239
similar vibes here where it's like that
I feel like Microsoft has something of a

725
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:58.639
salary cap imposed by or a feeling
that they should have a salary cap.

726
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.119
So whenever Phil goes to talk to
Satia and Adela, he could be like,

727
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:04.519
look, we're kind of saving money
here and there. And I think

728
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:08.159
that Tingo Game Works was the victim
of that. Hmm, yeah, that

729
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:12.559
that might check out because the whole
first of all, when it comes to

730
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:16.159
design thing, I mean, you
were kind of alluding to a more positive

731
00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:20.679
version of this take where this songing
that I've been saying a lot recently.

732
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.519
If a company has solved a system, use that system, both in their

733
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:28.480
own games and in games externally.
The hour people are making like just don't

734
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:31.679
be afraid to use that, just
use it exactly. But when it comes

735
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:35.880
to High Fight Rush, first of
all, I take it. I'm I

736
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:40.840
started out so positive this episode and
then the news happened High Fight Rush.

737
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:43.800
Guy. I love High five Rush, but you really it was your game

738
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:46.480
of the year, right, uh? Runner up? Right? Right?

739
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:50.760
Right? Right? That's right?
But none, Yeah, it was very

740
00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:53.000
very close to staying that top spot. I love High Fight Rush. That

741
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:58.320
is a phenomenal game. It's what
I want to see more of in gaming

742
00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:01.400
here in twenty twenty five. Or
it was a breath of fresh air.

743
00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:07.280
And frankly, I don't like any
of Tango's other games at all whatsoever.

744
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:12.199
Right, And so they were literally
I can speak to this personally, reaching

745
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:15.320
a new audience with this game,
and hey, that's awesome. Like that

746
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:20.880
means that the studio is versatile if
they can have their evil withins and their

747
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.760
ghost wires that are appealing to that
crowd, but then also put out something

748
00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:29.840
completely different and it appeals to that
crowd as well. To me, that

749
00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:36.480
does scream success. And this entire
thing is about Microsoft just dropping the ball,

750
00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:42.880
like the Xbox division messing up yet
again. Because nothing about High Fight

751
00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:46.559
Russia's closure spoke to me as a
problem with the studio itself, it did

752
00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:52.639
speak to mismanagement in all of this, So yeah, I think a little

753
00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:58.400
bit of issue was sort of implying
that they made a bad move in making

754
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.639
this very critically bl game that people
are talking about positively on social media and

755
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:07.239
everything. Everyone's favorite content creator was
talking about Glowing Matter, so it was

756
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:14.280
getting good buzz online and somehow studio
closes. The only thing that doesn't add

757
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:17.719
up there is again management, So
yeah, I don't think it was on

758
00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:22.079
Tango at all. Yep, I
think you're right. I think it's the

759
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:28.079
expectations and being able to sort of
plan ahead for a studio that was in

760
00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:30.239
between games at this time when the
Microsoft is at a low point and the

761
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:35.760
studio was definitely not like explicitly the
studio was not at a low point,

762
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:40.079
even though it may not have been
as profitable as as Microsoft wanted. I

763
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:44.159
think kind of can't blame anyone but
Microsoft at a certain point for that.

764
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:49.360
All right, last story here,
Star Wars Outlaws is outdated. That's quote

765
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:53.239
from some fans. A ten minute
preview causes concerns six weeks from releases from

766
00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:58.039
Joe Craig at Duel Shockers. Basically, IgM put up a ten minute gameplay

767
00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:01.440
real that people can watch one of
their igen first things, and fans are

768
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:07.239
reacting, well, you know,
mostly kind of lukewarm or with some concerns.

769
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.079
And I can't tell with this one, Sean, if it's puddle news

770
00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:13.599
where it's like, hey, I
people are just anxious. They really want

771
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:15.239
to like this game, so they're
really nitpicking on all the stuff that is

772
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:19.360
making them worry that it's not going
to live up to their expectations, or

773
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:22.320
if there's some legitimate stuff here,
I know some of this stuff is this

774
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:27.159
puddle news. Like one of the
uh the comments against this was it looks

775
00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:30.000
so empty, and I think they
were referencing there's like a bit at the

776
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:35.400
beginning of the video where she's like
riding a speeder through tattooing. Yeah,

777
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:37.800
I was gonna say she's on tattooing. What do you mean? It's what

778
00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:40.239
are you dumb? Or are you
stupid, Like what is happening here?

779
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:45.440
Yes? Yeah, but well you
know, the graphics are quiz. I

780
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.559
don't know. I continue to think
this game looks pretty good. Uh.

781
00:51:51.559 --> 00:51:54.760
I think this is frankly the Internet
being stupid. I'm like, I'm leaning

782
00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:59.639
in that direction. I'm I'm hoping. Now, there were some previews a

783
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:01.800
few weeks back that people are like, oh, yeah, look, maybe

784
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:06.239
it's not gonna be that great,
but it still seems pretty okay. I

785
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:08.039
don't know. I'm hoping the thing
comes together and it really nails it.

786
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:12.599
But I'm not getting the vibes from
this trailer that that it's in some deep

787
00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:15.039
trouble or something like that. No, like if the game, if the

788
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:22.440
gameplay comes out and the gameplay sucks, then sure absolutely. I've seen mental

789
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:24.920
in chat says it might be tattooing
fatigue. Sure, I think that might

790
00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:30.760
be valid, because especially trying to
move away from the Skywalkers and Arthur a

791
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:34.679
little bit more tattooing with this stuff. Anything. Yeah, maybe you go

792
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:37.559
somewhere we haven't seen a lot of
or again, get it because it's like,

793
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.400
oh, like you need your scoundrel
character, you need to be dealing

794
00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:45.039
with the criminals and the you know, the Hut cartel being well established on

795
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:49.199
tattooing, but no, go actually
just go to now Huda, go Narhuda.

796
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:51.639
I can't remember how to say it. Whatever, the home planet of

797
00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:52.679
the Huts, and they have a
moon there that has like a bunch of

798
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:57.280
scoundrel stuff on it. Deal with
that first and then have like tattooing.

799
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.239
Maybe is something that like gets referenced. I don't need to be back on

800
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:04.519
it, so I appreciate you me. Do we know how much this is

801
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:08.440
going to branch out in terms of
locations? There are there's a handful of

802
00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:10.880
planets, right and I think there's
some new ones. I know there's a

803
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:15.960
I think they have a new enemy
or a new criminal syndicate is going to

804
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:20.039
get introduced to this game. I
think I remember that. Yeah, okay,

805
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:24.159
yeah, now out, thank you
Aldy Yeah, Erdie Cooper, Yes,

806
00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:28.920
yeah, if the bridge is out, that'd be something that good.

807
00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:34.679
Yeah. I think people need to
remember what marketing is always focused on.

808
00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:38.119
Marketing is not focused on us.
If you are listening to this podcast right

809
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:43.400
now, you are not the core
demographic for marketing from an age, especially

810
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:45.800
in the last several years. They
stopped spending money on us because they know

811
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:49.760
we spend our money anyhow. So
exactly, we are plugged in, like

812
00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:54.159
everyone hearing my voice right now is
plugged in enough to know already whether or

813
00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:58.760
not they're going to buy this game. And so what they are focusing on

814
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:04.519
here is going in iconic location and
iconic Star Wars imagery to people who went

815
00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:07.800
otherwise identified. They want people to
look at this and say, oh,

816
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:13.320
that's the first Star Wars movie.
I know that, Like they're they're they're

817
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:16.519
gonna get that nostalgia. They're gonna
think to themselves, I could use a

818
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:21.800
Star Wars that is like the good
old Star Wars, not the new Star

819
00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:24.960
Wars that I didn't really like.
So I think it's smart marketing, even

820
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:28.079
if, yeah, it's gonna be
fatiguing for us. Yeah, and it

821
00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:30.440
kind of it hits multiple generations,
right because it's like, oh, the

822
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:35.239
first Star Wars and also Phantom Menace, so you get both groups of fans

823
00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:37.000
there. Yeah, and then there's
a lot of people who love those prequels.

824
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:44.039
That is what is with the zoomers
and loving the prequels. I thought

825
00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:45.960
this was something the bridge generations and
we could all agree. They said,

826
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:50.400
no, they were kids. You
were a kid, right, How were

827
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:54.320
you in the camp? Were you
alive when episode apparely? When episode one

828
00:54:54.360 --> 00:54:58.199
came out? What ninety nine?
I was four years old, So yeah,

829
00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:01.280
I was in that audience. And
that's what Jeff, I maintain this.

830
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:07.880
I like episode two more than episode
one because episode two is a bad

831
00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:12.159
movie that I can laugh at.
Episode one is a boring movie that I

832
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:15.840
fall asleep during every time. Yeah, I like I said, I'm nostalgic

833
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:20.920
for that time, not necessarily,
not necessarily for those movies. So that's

834
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:24.320
about it, all right. I
think what we should do now is wrap

835
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:28.079
up the news. I got a
pull question. We get that up and

836
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:31.360
ad them so everyone can take a
look at the question to be gay answer,

837
00:55:31.519 --> 00:55:35.519
we'll see. I'll refresh. Usually
people rush in there. We got

838
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:39.320
four hundred votes. That's plenty,
good enough, that's a good critical mass.

839
00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:43.320
I just frame it up properly.
Here there we go. All right,

840
00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:51.199
are you still interested in Amy Meo
Ameo the Smiling Man Famicom Detective Club?

841
00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:53.599
Twenty nine percent said yes, thirty
three percent said no, and then

842
00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:59.599
thirty eight percent says, I still
don't know what that is. Yeah,

843
00:55:59.639 --> 00:56:04.599
that's pretty good for FORMEO twenty ninety
three percent, so almost fifty to fifty

844
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:08.599
there. Uh. I was like, I think my immediate knee jerk reaction

845
00:56:08.760 --> 00:56:15.119
to learning that THEMEO game that was
being teased last week was a Famicom Detective

846
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:16.480
Club. I'm like, oh,
I don't know, but I'm like,

847
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:20.280
I don't know what I was expecting, and I love detective stuff, So

848
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:22.360
why am I complaining I should just
try it. I never tried the Detective

849
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:25.719
Club games try. I'm just I
should just try it. So I'm gonna

850
00:56:25.719 --> 00:56:29.280
do that here with this one,
and I'm looking forward to it. How

851
00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:32.639
about you? Is this something that
that would interest you ever? I wanted

852
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:37.760
to try the remake so bad it
those also, as I recall, came

853
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:42.199
out while I was like very focused
on something else. I don't know if

854
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.079
it's like a fighting game had come
out or some single player game had come

855
00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:49.719
out, but something, but we
were focused on that. Yeah, why

856
00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:53.840
are Yeah? But no, I
mean this would be a good excuse to

857
00:56:54.440 --> 00:56:58.920
actually like give this series a try. Now it's a new one, everyone's

858
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:02.800
gonna be talking about it. Remakes
are harder to go back to, you

859
00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:07.639
know, because so many people know
the story. To me at least,

860
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:10.679
it doesn't feel as special. But
with this, you know, a new

861
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:15.039
story that people don't know and we
can all sort of talk about together as

862
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:17.159
we experience it. That's a little
more exciting to me. So I probably

863
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:22.000
will end up checking this one out
because I love visual novels like that's that's

864
00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:24.280
one of my not guilty pleasure.
But you know, like soft Spot games,

865
00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:28.800
like I really got into them with
Ace Attorney back in the day and

866
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:31.079
ever since, Like you know,
I'm not I'm not just pick up every

867
00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:35.599
random anime visual novel that comes out. But when people are like, oh,

868
00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:37.719
here's a really good one, like
like the Dongan Rampa series I really

869
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:40.519
got into, like, I check
them out and usually yeah, they really

870
00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:45.000
hit with me. So I'm looking
forward to this one as well. How

871
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:46.800
much puzzle stuff do you think is
in these games or is it like all

872
00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:52.079
just is it just visual novel whatever
that means. I think it is just

873
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:55.320
visual novel, maybe with dialogue choices, I don't know, like chat If

874
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:58.920
you've played these feel free lesus know, but as far as I know,

875
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.440
they lean more into visual novel rather
than Astorney, which has playing a puzzle

876
00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:07.119
solving it. We'll give it a
shot. I've loved visual novel adjacent stuff

877
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:13.679
in the past, the Telltale Telltale
games a little bit. Sure. Yeah,

878
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:16.679
Telltale is like a modern take on
viciall novel may mix with you know,

879
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:20.880
adventure. The dialogue choices where we
have were like the thing for me

880
00:58:20.920 --> 00:58:23.400
in those games. So yeah,
yeah, all right, I have a

881
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:25.760
new pole question. We'll get to
that in a second before I do.

882
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:29.320
Sean, what do you have going
on? Where can people find you on

883
00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:32.239
the internet? All that good stuff? Of course, Turbo Shawn Underscore on

884
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:37.519
Twitter dot com. Find me doing
stuff here on Giant Bomb. And then

885
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:39.840
of course, speaking of stuff I
do for Giant Bomb and going to be

886
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:44.400
out at EVO this weekend. Have
a good time. First and foremost,

887
00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:47.360
I am not competing. Unfortunately,
this was kind of a last min thing,

888
00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:52.519
so I couldn't quite get a registration
in for competing. But also I

889
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:57.840
got my ask kicked at Combo Breaker. I'm not sure I need that to

890
00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:05.119
two times a row this summers instead. Look, Jason Fonela is gonna be

891
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:09.440
out there. I some money,
I'm teching or something else. I am.

892
00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:12.840
I'm gonna I think I think I'm
gonna make this work. Jeff,

893
00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:15.840
I'm gonna do if you are at
EVO, first of all, say hi.

894
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:19.840
Not for my ego, but because
I'm working on something where I would

895
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.639
love to get a bunch of cameos
from duders in there. So if if

896
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:24.960
you're gonna be there, make sure
to say hi. Also. I think

897
00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:29.559
I might try to do this where
at any point as long as I'm not

898
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:31.440
like running to appointment, because that's
part of the reason I'm not compete as

899
00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:35.360
well. I'm I'm there for work
stuff as well, as long as I'm

900
00:59:35.360 --> 00:59:38.920
not running to appointment anytime anywhere,
we can throw it down. I'm a

901
00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:43.800
street fighter and teching and a few
other games on my steam deck. I'm

902
00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:45.880
gonna have a dock with me and
I'm just gonna bust out the steam deck

903
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:49.880
and Peel can challenge me if they
want to perfect You know, you know

904
00:59:49.880 --> 00:59:53.239
you should get one of those like
really cheap portable monitors so you can just

905
00:59:53.239 --> 00:59:58.800
like plug in and it just works. Those are very good. So next

906
00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:02.039
time, Uh, all right,
so you got to like a couple hours

907
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:07.079
you're getting on that bus. What
time is your flight? Late? Yeah,

908
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:13.719
plaid furthersk with time zone. It's
not like insane, I'm gonna get

909
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:17.480
around midnight, so it's like I
still get a good night's sleeps Yes,

910
01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:21.599
okay, perfect. Are you staying
with somebody or you get a hotel room

911
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:24.039
or whatever? No, I'm going
solo this time. You well, because

912
01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:27.840
he was like these things with friends, but because it was a last minute

913
01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:30.199
then right, yeah, I just
yeah, I'm going going okay, so

914
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:32.239
yeah, your room will be ready
and all that stuff. All right,

915
01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:37.519
very cool, good deal, all
right, new pole question I almost read

916
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.519
Wednesdays again. Uh, have you
made an in game purchase in a free

917
01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:44.239
tom pay you know what, let's
just make that. Have you made an

918
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:46.159
in game purchase in a game?
Because it seems like that's what game.

919
01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:52.039
Yes, and this would include DLC
as well. Yes, my understanding in

920
01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:54.360
the last year. Yes or no, those are your options. We'll get

921
01:00:54.360 --> 01:01:00.480
that posted up on yes and no, zero no and then no or something

922
01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:05.320
you know that is zero my eyes
because it's just bad. The Uh let's

923
01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:08.079
see what I was gonna say that. We'll have the pull up on YouTube

924
01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:12.920
dot com slash at giant Bomb under
the community tab. If you're ever looking

925
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.960
for our content. It's usually there
under the live tab on YouTube. So

926
01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:20.000
I don't think I don't think I've
mentioned this on a show yet. I

927
01:01:20.039 --> 01:01:22.519
did clean up the YouTube page a
little bit, yea, thanks. So

928
01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:24.920
if someone does just go to YouTube
dot com slash Giant Bomb or slash at

929
01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:30.159
Giant Bomb, you should be the
first thing you see is it might be

930
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:31.960
melt your scaling actually with the way
I said it up. But then like

931
01:01:32.039 --> 01:01:36.159
right below that should just be our
live streams, and then right below that

932
01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:39.440
is most recent upload videos. So
perfect. The home page should show you

933
01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:43.480
everything indeed, but then yeah,
I usually all of our step Center live

934
01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:46.920
tab since we live streamed YouTube.
Excellent. That's that's fantastic. Speaking of

935
01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:51.599
metal gear scaling, go check that
out. All that's up there on YouTube.

936
01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:55.199
Now, all right, let's see
so the poll question, well,

937
01:01:55.199 --> 01:02:00.920
have the results on game Mes Mornings
on Giant Bomb tomorrow speaking a Giant Bomb

938
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:04.920
later today, we'll we will have
voicemail dumb Truck. Don't don't know if

939
01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:07.440
I'll do a stream between then and
now, probably not. I got some

940
01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:10.719
other stuff going on, but voicemail
dump Truck at the normal time. Expect

941
01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:14.519
that I kind of make sure I
got enough people to do that. I'll

942
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:19.760
double check. But then tomorrow Friday
games mornings, then we will play any

943
01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:23.599
S World Championships on this website and
then BCR to probably talk about that,

944
01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:28.119
maybe some other things as well,
and and Cay and I win. Yes,

945
01:02:28.199 --> 01:02:30.320
a squid word update. I've decided
I've not bought it yet. I

946
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:34.280
will buy it, and I'm going
to keep it hidden away, so it's

947
01:02:34.360 --> 01:02:36.719
it's here. I'm just not going
to give it to her yet surprise squid

948
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:39.400
word. There will be a surprise
skid word at some point, So everyone

949
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:43.239
deal. She did ask for something
else yesterday. I'm like, you were

950
01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:45.280
just asking me for squidwards, see
why I don't just get things? And

951
01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:46.920
she's like, well, wait,
no, I do want squid word more

952
01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:51.519
so that helps. That makes it
a little bit easier to actually pull a

953
01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:54.360
trigger on it that she still prefers
that. All right, Sean, thank

954
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:57.920
you so much for spending today talking
with me about video games. Man,

955
01:02:57.920 --> 01:03:00.760
I really appreciate it a lot.
Doing show Jeff Pleasure be back, travel

956
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:04.039
safe, get to you get there, have fun. Everyone. Make sure

957
01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:06.880
you do say hi. Don't don't
hesitate if you're in the there's a giant

958
01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:08.360
bomb, FGC discord or something.
You're in there, tell everyone like,

959
01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:12.400
look out for Sean, post his
picture like a mug shot, and then

960
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:15.440
hunt him down like the dog he
is. Yeah, Hey Marino, I

961
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:20.079
think Marino's gonna be there, Come
fight me. Yeah, hell yes,

962
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:22.159
I'm glad you're gonna be able to
meet Marino. And all those folks out

963
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:25.719
say, I can't believe I'm gonna
meet Jason before I meet you in person.

964
01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:29.800
This is the one that's messed up. I should have gone to EBO.

965
01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:32.400
That would have been great. Next
time. Until next time, everybody,

966
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:35.639
in fact, have a good one. You're the best audience in gaming.

967
01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:37.880
Take care of yourself and goodbye.