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for July seventeenth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so,
let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live
with Me Jeff Grubb. Today, we finally know what I'm reading the one
from yesterday because I open it up to see what the poll was. Sean
today end and has a new peripheral for old JOYCN controllers and Xbox gave its
controller a big butt. But first, please join me and welcoming today's co
host the Game Mess Mornings. It's Sean Turbo, Sean McDowell. Sean,
how's it going. It's going going as well as it possibly can. All
right, everyone's gone all in this together as best we can. Yeah,
this week, I had to be me. I had to be Jan.
I'm preparing for a trip. I'm a busy I'm hand out in like four
hours right now to do a whole string of traveling methods that I'm putting together
to get out to Vegas. Yeah. Well, what is it that look
like? Is it? Is it like a bus to the airport? What
it's it's bus to another city to the airport, right right, Jesus Christ,
because hey, look, saving like three hundred dollars on flight, you
do what you have to do. Three hundred dollars. It's a huge amount.
Yeah difference, all right, Yeah, that would I would take a
bus, for sure. I always tell the story. But I did take
a greyhound back from packs West in Seattle to Columbus, Ohio, back when
I lived in Columbus still and uh that was enough greyhound maybe for a lifetime.
And yet it wasn't so bad. It wasn't so bad in the end,
Jeff, I grew up dirt poor, all I know. You know
what though, I got every time we talk about this, European's gonna be
like, what are they talking about? Because buses in Europe when we were
traveling there, stuff like planned our travel And she's no, the busses are
great and they all feel like you're being like you're on an airplane. Basically,
it's really good because they take care of them and they take care of
them and it's real nice. And they have a lot of great bust like
manufacturers there, Mercedes and stuff like that. Okay, so you know,
Jeff, Jeff, I'm doing good. I want to ask you. I
want to ask you because Okay, it looks like it looks like we might
you know, we got the Sirkana report and Butler seems like maybe slow news.
Jeff, I think we can have five minutes of therapy. How are
you doing? You? You had a rough day yesterday, you had some
bad news about game. You were really looking ford to look. I know
what that's like. I'm not just a Nintendo fan. I'm a Pokemon fan.
Oh boy, nobody knows disappointment the way we do, Jeff. So
I know I know where you're coming from. You had to play Dai Katana
for three freaking hours. I went to the store, I took a shower,
I got ready for the trip, and you were still playing that damn
game was great. Now knows what else has been going on? No,
No, you probably didn't buy Squidward and heard about that. I've decided I
will buy squid Word and I'm going to hang on to it until she like
really earns it sometime soon, so ok maybe like maybe a birthday or Christmas.
We'll see. Okay, Yeah, I am I'm doing okay, I'm
hanging in there. Dai Katana was rough for me and I think me alone.
Everyone else seemed to enjoy it. Well, I don't know, after
like so long in that level, maybe no one was enjoying that level anymore.
But it's frustrating because I'm like, okay, no, clearly this is
going to be the longest game. You guys were incorrected, like taking how
long to beat? They're like, well, no, how can it be
soft? Because everyone who plays that game goes right into the options. Even
if you don't do the fan update fan patch, there is options in the
menu to basically make your companions turned off in a lot of ways, so
like you don't have to deal with them nearly as much, and there is
unlimited saves right there, and everyone just does that. No one uses the
save gems. So it's like I am playing in such a way that very
people have actually played this game, and so it's gonna go so much longer,
and you end up in situations like this where start with not a lot
of health, I don't have enough, ammo. I could reload an old
save, which is probably what I'm gonna I'll do something like that next time
we started up. But I did play a lot of Nintendo World Championships last
night a lot of I've gone through about half the Mario stuff, and then
I did the online tournament where it's like it is like a championship, where
like they picked five events from these one hundred and fifty smaller events and you
do all those who sit your best time. It's weird, and we'll talk
about moral, find someplace to talk about it, but for now, it's
weird because normally with the situation, you would complete your thing and you would
get the leaderboard for that event or the very least. It's like, this
is a leader board that we are going to get for this World championship for
this week at the end of this week. So in this moment, I
don't know how I'm doing. I don't know if I should go back and
try to improve my times. So I tried to get like really good times
on all the levels, but it's like I'm kind of off it, like
isolated, and I don't feel like I'm part of a competition really other than
I know at the end of the week, these scores are going to be
counted up, and you know, I still feel a drive to go in
there and try stuff, but it's it's frustrating when you are like, Okay,
I think I could be doing this level better. Is there like ghost
data or something, and go and look and see if I am at least
on the right track. It's toward getting that S rank on this level,
and it's like that stuff's not there, so it's pretty isolating on that side,
and then yet everything else when you're playing it, I think anyway,
they nailed it. It's really good with the way it's presenting the challenges.
A big part of that is several of these early challenges that are like that
they've selected and like a lot of the Mario stuff, these are things that
I would just do when I was playing the game anyhow, like trying to
hit every every brick at the beginning of the stage of one two in Super
Mario Brothers as quickly as possible by bouncing off the doumbus, that sort of
thing. I would just do that every time I was playing to kind of
keep myself engaged and entertained. And now they've turned that into a little challenge,
and so my okay, well, this is clearly just made for me,
and I'm feeling that way. So I'm really enjoying that aspect of it
and going online and sharing the times on Twitter is something. But boy god,
this game would just be perfect if it had leaderboards on everything that it
should have leaderboards on. So to be clear, because I saw a lot
of people parroting there are no leaderboards in the game, and I think that
evolved into there's no online connectivity. We were lied to because the Internet is
the Internet, which is not the case, but it feels that way.
It is. Yeah, it is Devil's advocate here. They set out to
recreate the Nintendo World Championships back in and they did that for not really even
for better, but just for worse, right, because that's you score your
best time as best as you can get it in these selected challenges for the
week, and that at the end of the week, like a tournament,
you see how well you do against everyone else. That being said, that's
not what anyone expects in twenty twenty four. No expect to just be able
to see how your friends are doing so you can instantly compete against them,
right, That's that's just how we assume competitions work now. So yeah,
it's strange. You know, there is a you know, technically head to
head online mode in a way, it's a synchronous you're going against ghost data,
so that feels a little strange. Okay, yeah, it's and there's
like the easy one, which takes the easy weekly challenges. They're the easier
weekly challenges and you do those really quick. And then there's the hard stage,
which it takes the harder challenges. I think it also picks like harder
ghost data as well, because I'm going up against several people who were able
to get s rinks every time on their first try, because that's how it
works here. So uh yeah, very very uh interestingly affiliate things and mostly
it feels like you are disconnected from other players in a lot of ways.
So what Okay, so there's ghost data but no leader board. What does
that look like? The ghost data. It's not like you're selecting the ghost
data. It's like it's it pretends to be matchmaking. You started up,
Oh, it gives you a random person, it gives you it gives you
seven random people to go against. And yeah, and it even like weird
slowly slots them in as if it's matchmaking to make it feel like it's online.
It's weird again. Yeah, again, that's very much a film recreating
a tournament setting, which is what they intended, now what people expect.
I was thinking about this yesterday because I was like, is is the lack
of what people expect really going to ruin the game? Because this is something
that brought up when we were talking not to open old wound or fresh wound
when we were talking about Concord last week, the difference between player expectation and
developer intents. Where you know, they made a hero shooter, we expected
this earned something at least us on the site, we expected to overwatch.
Basically wasn't that okay? So developer intent is that still good? And we
weren't really feeling it? So I was thinking about this, Yeah, where
what people what the player expected was to have this instant updating leaderboard with your
friend's scores and everything. But we're not getting that. So is the game
still good? Is? My question is like, Okay, clearly a subpar
product. Clearly they should have done more. What's going on here? Is
this still fun to play? Yeah? I think everything else is pretty spot
on. The presentation is fantastic. I really like the way it looks.
The people were calling out some of the colors when I posted a couple of
videos on Twitter, and I think just a really good style. There is
this effect that I couldn't tell if it was the Colrado Night or if it
was just actually happening in the game, but like there's a cheering effect where
when you start the level, they go yay, and then they like kind
of murmur in the background. And what it felt like is as I was
doing button inputs to like hit a and as my character was like like jumping
up, it felt like the audience was just having slight little responses to what
I was doing in the background, which kind of kept like, MA feel
like, oh man, there's really not really an audience watching, but it
feels like there's something people are getting excited as I'm playing, and then you
know exactly that definitely feels like you're like an a tournament in front of an
audience. All that stuff really good. I think the challenges they've selected are
pretty good. I might on this side of things, putting out like taking
out the online stuff. Putting that aside my concern here, and it's just
a concern at this point. It's not actually a problem in this moment,
is that we're gonna get to a point where you get through these one hundred
and fifty challenges, you s rank all of them, which is what I
think that's gonna be my goal for this. And then it's gonna be like,
Okay, now they are filtering in these challenges over and over again.
This game would be better if there was sort of a larger library that they
are maybe like filtering in here and like that, they are swapping them in
and out, and it's like, okay, now this is the set of
challenges, and this is the current one hundred and fifty from you know,
even like a thousand, that would be better. So in the moment,
though, I'm having a blast setting these times, there are ones that are
like I can on my third time I'm setting an S rank, and there's
others where it takes me. I don't fifty sixty tries. I mean it's
like sometimes they're like three seconds, sometimes they're thirty seconds. In either way,
so it's really good, Okay. I think I think this is just
our example of Nintendo kind of being Nintendo. They got the Secret Sauce and
they you know, the presentation is there, but they're hilariously lacking in some
regard. Usually it's online. Yep, this is going on here. At
the very least, I'm slightly optimistic. I saw some people saying that,
oh, Nintendo doesn't update their games ever in the Switch era, they actually
do put out like yeah, life up they almost just don't talk about them.
Yeah, they And they do two kinds of updates. They do the
updates that actually do respond to criticism. You're in there, not like all
the time, not enough that I have some hope. And then they have
the other one where it is like the Mario Sports games that we talked about,
where they have this stuff ready and waiting and it's just going to get
at least as an update a few weeks after it comes out or a few
months to kind of make it feel like a little bit of an ongoing game,
which I think there's a potential that that is going to happen here.
I almost get the sense that that's going to happen because clearly they're gathering your
your data for the leader board, so there's the potential that they could just
update it so that there is a live update and leaderboard, which is what
people want. There is no way that there was never a version of this
game with leaderboards. They definitely had that in there at some point and they
made some decision at some point for whatever reason, and we could speculate on
that. I'm sure it's a variety of things. Like we said that,
maybe they're intent and maybe they just want to minimize toxic toxicity or something like
that. There's all kinds of possibilities. They always have that car reasoning,
Yes they do, so whatever. I think there's a chance still that that
leaderboards get added. That could be copium though, so yeah, Kobe could
just be autimism. Hey, it's a thirty dollars product. It's subpar.
If people don't like it, don't buy it, simple as that. And
it does sound interesting. Sure, I personally think this feels like you Masha
been twenty dollars product, but I think any S remix the same way felt
like twenty dollars game. They sold it for thirty. I think this will
have been a really good addition to Sol plus expansion pack. Yeah, personitely,
definitely free with expansion pack or it's like thirty dollars MSRP or whatever.
I think that might have been nice, but whatever, I don't know.
It's it seems a little disappointing. I would appreciate some quality of life updates.
But at the end of the day, personally, I'm not gonna tell
anyone else how I react. But personally I'm kind of just over getting mad
about this stuff. It's it's disappointing. I'll probably just yeah, you know,
I yes, this is the one that's like very particularly in my wheelhouse.
So this is the one where I get that I'm gonna get mad about
this one and be frustrated. But it's like I feel that way about so
many other things. I totally get it. Yeah, Jeff, it's no
Scarlet Violet. You'll learn, Yeah, I will. I will live.
That's a good point. The worst thing here is like if it had leaderboards
and it had like selectable ghost data, this would be a five star game
for me. This would be it would be that good. So it's kind
of just we're just like right there, and without those things, it's actually
like three stars. It's like it's that big of a gap. But still
they put together a decent package that could just be better. We'll see.
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morning mess with. Nintendo announces official switch Joycon Charging stan. This is from
Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life in twenty twenty four. The switch joycon are quite
easy to charge, but the catches you have to attach them to the system.
With this in mind, to Todow has announced a new switch Joycon charging
stand allowing these controllers to be easily charged without the console. The new accessory
will be arriving in Japan on the seventeenth of October twenty twenty four for threeenty
three hundred yen, which is around twenty one dollars. That it's better than
I was expecting, and it's available now in this location for pre order via
the my Nintendo Store. Nintendo UK tweeted later that it's coming to the UK
as well, and then I think did in a way actually confirm eventually.
I think it did, but maybe not either way though no real reason the
story is here, Sean is what you said. It's twenty twenty four.
The joy cons are old, I hope, and that we are going to
be moving past them. Why release this peripheral now at like when the switch
to feels imminent and could replace the joy Con? I don't know. Yeah,
that's right, the pants and everything. People think that, well,
it's probably gonna be joy Cons, but with a different design, right.
My assumption would be like the rail upon which that you are sliding these joycn
to charge them will not work exactly the same and would be different enough that
the new joy Con might not. I don't think you're gonna be able to
slide new joy Con onto the switch one. Do you think that would be
the case. I mean, I guess there's a possibility. Well, I
mean, it depends on what the whole magnets thing everybody I was talking about
is actually going to look like. If that's the only way they connect to
the console. That's because what they were talking about on actually a tech podcast
where they were compared to something else, and so I heard a little bit
more about the tech. Apparently this is the thing that has existed on our
products where it's the type of electromagnet where it's not active, it's passive to
activate a magnetic lock, so you send a small current through the magnet and
so that way like instantly locks on and then it just won't let go until
you send a current through it again to like reverse the polarity or whatever its.
So that if Nintendo is implementing a simple version of that for the new
joy Cons to make them very easy to take on off Leu's were on the
rails, then yeah, this wouldn't work between the two generations, right if
it's if it's that different and it's not like just a little bit something extra,
My stumph would be they could do the exact same rail and then there's
also those magnets to keep it more secure or something like that. Yeah,
but we don't know. This is this is just odd because you know,
the third party even officially licensed charging stance a bear on forever. I got
one right over there that someone sent me for a review. Like years and
years ago. And most of the time I'm not really using it because you
know, I got the joy Con on the on the switch. I'll just
use those. But occasionally when the kids want to play something, I'm like,
oh, I'm glad that, I'm glad I have these charged and ready
to go. Yeah. For audio listeners who can't book at right now,
Minders saying is that I think of like the Joycon grip. It looks like
the middle portion of the joycond grip, or if you have the charging Joycon
grip, it looks like that where it's like just that little rectangular bar you
slide the joycns onto and then I it's like that can stand up. But
it looks like you can also fold flat, so you can like use it
as a Joycon charging grip while I was charging or something like that. It's
just an odd thing to put it out right now, you know, Yeah,
I mean at twenty dollars though it's uh, it's toy bucks, that's
not it's not bad, right, especially when Nintendo, especially right especially when
their dock costs ninety dollars or whatever. And these are the kinds of products
you put out because they do have high margins. Right, there's two bucks
worth of parts in this thing, and they're gonna Oh yeah, I used
to work in retail. You you would be amazed at how cheap is the
manufacturer, controller and access rasia. Uh so, I guess then the big
question, as always over the last couple of months, what does this mean
for the switch to if anything? Sean, I think nothing like I think
people underestimate how much Nintendo supports the console until that console is dead dead Definitely.
That sounds simple solution, Yep. Yeah, Ill vary depending on the
system. You know. Obviously some had longer legs through the next generation,
like GBA into DS because of the whole third pillar thing, and then you
have stuff like that WEU where they drop it like a bad habit, you
know it. It all depends. The switch is just and I keep trying
to remind people where they get super hype about the potential of switch to switch
is still sell like hotcakes. So they're still gonna keep supporting in small ways.
Yep, at the very least. I mean, if it says anything,
it just continues to say that that there is money in supporting the switch,
and that's really what's driving these decisions. This does. I don't think
this says I, Oh, well, you know, switch too is much
further away because of anything else other than the switch is successful. And then
that is the reason that you put out something like this, because they think
people will buy this. I think it's no more complicated than that. That
said, I don't think I need it. I'm good. I already got
one. Yep, same, all good mine. It looks fine enough,
but doesn't look at anything that much better than any of the third party ones.
So some plastic a USB sport that's it. Yep. Actually, and
actually my doc has four rails, so I could charge four of them at
a time, So I'll just I'll keep answering that, yes, exactly.
I'm living the high life over here. Split eight two has been announced and
set for a twenty twenty five launch on PC and consoles. This is from
Ben Lions at Game Reactor. Just the other day we reported on the news
that developer ten forty seven Games had announced it had an announcement in the pipeline,
an announcement that seemed to refer to the reveal of Split Gate two,
and that was absolutely true. Ten forty seven has now lifted the curtain on
split Gate two and affirmed that it will be a bigger and better follow up
that will launch in twenty twenty five on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series
X, and s PS four and PS five twenty twenty five, and we're
still getting the last gen consoles. The game will again offer first person action
in portal hoppy mechanics, but will boaster bolster it with three unique factions to
choose from that offer unique gameplay styles, competitive strategies, and loadouts. This
will be complemented with a selection of arenas, weapons, and modes, and
the game will be playable either alone or with friends. Well that's huge advancement
there, Yeah, split Gate, remember that, like twenty twenty one,
everyone's going wild for split Gate and then yeah, and it was like this
darling of the shooter scene for good reason. It was a fun game to
play, and it just what Okay, let me ask you, why do
you think Splitgate one sort of faded in such a strong way that it seemed
to like it just seemed to like go away in a way that I wasn't
expecting. I mean, it was just like a smaller indie is yeah,
like indie level game, like I don't know, those never really take off
in big way. Went's multiplayer at the very least, so such a huge
infrastructure to support that sort of thing, right, you need like advertising,
which this game probably just never got. You need to put it everywhere and
to you know, have those individual platforms, market and everything. I don't
know that. To me, Split Gates seemed like you just had de Ka
community and that's maybe all the game ever needed at that level. It like
first stopped off for like a few months there, and it was mostly probably
because streamers, like a lot of streamers were playing it, and then you
know, those streamers moved on to something else. Yeah, I think because
what the official official release was twenty twenty two, early access was like yeah
on consoles twenty twenty one. Yeah, I saw a lot of people picking
up because they were like, Heylo Infant is the worst game ever, and
so let's go play slick it. It's sure, whatever, dude, But
I think that's why it popped off. For me, I'm more interested in
why the two And when you have a smaller game like this, it seems
like, again this is bigger than ever for them. I'm always curious why
the sequel obviously with Triple A games in multiplayer, it's been basically marketing at
this point, overwatched two happened, and then well, I guess before that,
even Destiny to happened, and it's just marketing ever since. But I
was something small like this. There's usually is technical reasons for them to do
the two. I think of like Nickelodeon All Stars they put two, and
everyone's like, why not just like update the old game. It's because they
did enough under the hood changes and everything, and frankly they needed to recuperate
some costs that it actually made sense for that team. And now looking at
this, yes, split A one was unreal. Four this is on reel
five. It seems like they're just like building something, probably not from the
ground up, but really ractly overhauling things in the background and under the hood,
and that's why they would put out a new version. So that makes
sense to me. Yeah, It's it's sort of circular right where it's they
have technology technological reasons why it's like, Okay, maybe we should have something
that feels more like a real seqel And at the same time they probably have
like business reasons and one enables the others you know, we're just putting out
a game that feels like a fresh start. Gives you a chance to start
at the marketing machine again, gives you a chance to, uh, to
reintroduce yourself to players who would be like who would likely never jump in on
a game late because they're like, ah, there's too much. The scene
is already established. I don't want to get butt kick, And so that
enables you to be like, okay, and since we have these business needs,
what can we do to really make it feel like a sequel? And
jumping from Unreil four to five is just one of those things. But and
you know, adding voices to Nickelodeon All Stars Brawl or whatever, it's another.
I'm hopeful, hopeful for them. I think that the scene of shooters
is something that could would always benefit from having more of these games sort of
drawing people away for at least for a little bit from the big established games
that have sort of cemented themselves at the top and have been for years and
years and years. Now. You know, we're looking at Apex Legends still
has two hundred thousand active daily users on Steam or something like that, and
that's just Apex Legends. Let alone like Fortnite, like the real top of
the Pile that just takes so much oxygen out of the room that I think
having some of these games chip away at the side one of them, I
think we'll eventually down the line crack the code and be like, and now
this is actually the replacement for Fortnite. People are actually gonna move on from
that. Maybe that maybe that doesn't happen this time. That's how it's happened
in the past. Uh, but it will come probably from games like this
at some point in the future. Yeah. Uh, all right, Next
story, Microsoft just gave the Xbox controller a huge ass. Uh. I
chose I was. I had to choose between this headline or Kotakus, which
is Xbox enables you to play with Deadpools but or something like that, which
is also very good. Michael yep, this is for Michael bick Order at
Polygon. The Xbox Teams tradition of strange movie themed extremely limited edition wireless controllers
continues with a new Deadpool inspired version that adds of luminous and juicy booty.
Yes, there's a new Xbox wire wireless controller with a smooth round butt,
and we can thank Deadpool and Wolverine for this blessing. Yeah, the h
the actual announcements like designed by Deadpool and yeah, I saw you. I
saw you put this in here, and I was like, what the hell
is Jeff talking about? It is boody there. Yeah, video watchers could
just see there, there, it is there, it is. There's the
backshot of controller of course. M uh huh. And yeah, I don't
know, it looks absurd. These things are are fun. I think this
one's especially stupid in a fun way. Uh, but but yeah, this
is good stupid. Not like the fuzzy Sonic the Hedgehog one, right,
that one is like an Eldritche horror nightmare. Yes, you read that in
a book that's supposed to keep you up at night. This, I think
that you could only win. This, I guess is just a giveaway.
Yeah what These over design controllers are usually giveaways. They do on Twitter right
exactly. But speaking of I have beef with our buddy Mikey O'Leary the the
ign Twitter account. For whatever reason, the image of this controller was flipped
and so that was the first thing I saw. I was like, that
would be the sickest thing ever. If they put out a controller would like
the anlong stick on the right hand, the buns on the left hand,
and no man, man, that would be a dead controller. So you
want a controller with the buttons on the left. Look, Jeff, if
I'm buying a controller with a huge ass, I want to be as stupid
as possible. Oh want use the damn thing. I want to display it
in a case. All right? Okay. You wanted to be a true
like a piece of art that people be like, what is this thing?
What's going on in the front You're like, wait, did you cross their
eyes when they enter my roy? Yeah? What is going on here?
It's like, wait, see you see the ass? It's got a huge
ass. Sorry, I am always got to do a little bit of heat
there for everybody. All right, of course, we'll take a break when
we get back. Plenty more headlines. I promise that's the last one about
butts, though, right, we'll be back right after this. And ass
promised. We have returned. We have mass promised, ass promised. We
have a lot more headlines here for you. Start here. Eighty two percent
of American players made an in game purchase last year. A survey suggest this
is from Andy Robinson of VGC. Eighty two percent of American video game players
made an in game purchase last year. That's according to COMSCOREES twenty twenty four
State of Gaming Report, published by gip Biz, which was made in partnership
with the in game advertising platform en Zuo and zoo and Zuo. According to
the report, sixty two percent of adults over the age of eighteen played a
video game, with millennials comprising forty nine percent, followed by gen Z at
thirteen percent. Of the people surveyed, seventy seven percent play on more than
one platform, and over a third regularly use a combination of console, PC,
and mobile. It's claimed that video game enthusiast in the US spent forty
five billion hours on gaming sites and apps last year. With esports becoming increasingly
popular, eighty six percent of gen Z and eighty percent of millennials surveyed said
that they watched esports what while fifty three percent of gen Z sixty one percent
of millennials said that they engaged with esports content. Our twenty twenty fourth State
of Game report highlights the cultural significance of gaming and the vital role blah blah
blah They also went on to say eighty two percent of American players made a
purchase in game last year. So if you play a game and you're American,
you've made there's a four out of five chance that you spent money on
an in game item. And I think that that sounds mostly right to me
at this point, but I maybe a bit high. I'm a little bit
skeptical of a full eighty two percent. Now, it's we live in a
different times. Sorry, I gotta pause this spending deadpool ass that I still
have played for me over here. We were in a different time than when
it was like all about whales. Remember, like ten years ago, it
was like you would always hear it's like, well, so they don't care
if you don't spend money, because they're gonna get the whale to spend money
and then they're going to pay for everyone else. And that's definitely still happening
and definitely still important, but it's changed a lot to the point where it's
like, actually, the lifetime average value from any player is about twenty dollars,
and there are still some that don't pay, so they offset the average,
and there are still whales that spent a ton, but you could expect,
like someone that comes into this game eventually spend about twenty bucks. So
that lines up with that sort of thinking, which has been the case for
the last few years. Sean, what do you think? First of all,
are you someone who has bought something in game in the last year?
Well, first of all, you were on a roll. I didn't want
to stop you to say that, as it was totally ban as manager.
Second of all, if you play a multiplayer game nowadays, yeah, of
course you've bought something, right, But at this point, I feel like
if you play multiplayer games at all, you've probably spent just like even once,
just once, like bought a skin in a shooter. You put like
a dollar into Pokemon Go, you bought a battle pass in some game,
like, there's so many. What they're counting here is, at least seemingly
is any purchase in a free to play game would count as a name game
purchase. So yeah, I just feel like if you engage with those games
at all in a way, shape or form, you've you've probably chipped in
something. Yep. I think the the number of people who are let's face
it, let's face it, you know, as people with an old school
mentality ourselves. It's a kind of an old school mentality to like put your
foot down. I will not I will not spend money on these games,
like I will not buy this horse armor. Like no, I'm like it's
a buck or you know, it's it's five dollars or something that looks cool,
like everyone does nowadays. You play fighting games like I do. Of
course you're gonna buy a costume for like your favorite character if it looks sick
enough. I know that we can't make sweeping terms and say absolutely everybody,
but yeah, yeah, and yes, and it's you know, we are
a long way away from the horse armor tobaccle for Skyrim. Yeah, like
that was forever ago at this point, and the world has changed a lot
and now it's very normal. And and while there are plenty of games that
are very popular, especially on mobile, where people are playing free, and
they're always playing free, and they're going on to YouTube to find the best
way to get the most stuff by playing for free, a lot of people
eventually are like, man, it's just going to be more convenient if this
time I just spent a little bit of money. And these games are designed
to extract that from you by rocket scientist and economists, so we're at a
disadvantage. We were always going to lose this fight. So it's kind of
at this point seeing this number again not too shocking, although I think this
does kind of like go in It ties into that story we're talking about,
like, oh, only two thousand people bought Resident Evil seven and you know,
only ten thousand bucks in these other games on iOS. This is settled
at this point, right. The monetization scheme is the way people think about
buying stuff on mobile is always going to be in app purchases for mostly free
to play games, and the idea that we are going to be able to
take the console experience and sort of migrate it over to mobile is kind of
laughable at this point to me. Does that sound right to you? Well,
yeah, and this is some I talked about the BombCast this week,
where it's just you can't just put full games on a platform where people don't
expect the full games. I expect that to work out, that people are
going to expect you to do something like what leads to this, have a
free to play a game that then people can spend a couple of bucks on
to get something in you got joked a little bit about the the like losing
the battle year and all this, And I think to some degrees, some
games are better for it. Like think about the fact that like something like
I'm looking at why I play like war Zone. I didn't have to pay
seventy dollars on war Zone, right And while there's absolutely insidious business practices in
that game that I personally encourage people to just stay away from because it is
insidious, at the same time, me and my buddy's got a game for
free that we like playing all the time. They didn't have to pay a
dime because first of all, they can see, oh yeah, I'm not
spending thirty dollars on skin or whatever hell it is. I'm not like going
to this loot boxy sort of battle pass that I'm not messing with any of
this. So I think some games are better for moving in that direction,
even if there are business practices like Gotcha that are that should be criticized rightfully.
Yeah, and this is there's always this the risk of us getting into
a slip ray slope argument or me worrying about concerns. It's like where like
this means that and that we're gonna lose this. But part of me does
begin to feel like when I look the way these companies behave and when I
see them being like, can we make it happen on mobile? Can we
make cloud gaming happen? You know? Xbox says their Amazon Fire TV sticking
thing now, And I'm looking at all this, it's like, Oh,
they are trying to find a way to make their current business model make sense
by attracting this huge audience of people who are playing games. But they're all
playing free to play games and it's just not gonna It's not gonna happen.
So because of that, I am going to lose something in that the way
that gaming has worked for me in my entire life is being sort of deprecated.
It's being put to the side, and there are attempts to make it
make sense because they still do want my money, and it has been a
very good business model for them because it's like they get to charge a lot
of money up front, and that's I think they do prefer that. But
it just feels like, Oh, it's not going to go away completely.
But most of the energy which has been happening for some time now, it
feels like is going to go into free to play and service games and things
like that. It's Nintendo still be there, PlayStation's still going to make stuff.
PC gaming is a safe harbor in a lot of ways. But yeah,
if you want these big companies involved, I think they are going to
be kind of continuing to glance their eye over it, like we tried to
make the premium game happen still, but nope, we're making free to play
games now, all right. Sirkana shares the top ten best selling Star Wars
games from January nineteen ninety five through May twenty twenty four. This is from
Matt Piscatello, who works at Sirkana, put this on Twitter. Basically,
I think he was just thinking about Star Wars because those Outlaw previews have been
coming out and stuff like that, and he updated the list. He's done
this before, but the updated list is as follows. Number one is Star
Wars Battlefront twenty fifteen. Number two is Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. Then
it goes Battlefront two twenty seventeen, Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, Lego
Star Wars The Complete Saga, star Wars The Force Unleashed, Battlefront two two
thousand and five at number seven, Star Wars, Jedi Survivor at number eight,
Lego Star Wars to the Original Trilogy at number nine, and Lego Star
Wars the Original at number ten. Yeah, that's about right. I was
expecting a lot of Lego games up there. I forgot that Jedi Fallen Order
did that well, got all the way up to number two, and then
Jedi Survivor number eight not there not doing nearly as well. But also that
what was next gen or new gen only the current gen consoles, and they
are making last gen ports of those games right now, specifically probably because what
we see on this chart, any surprises here for you. Ah well,
just on that before I forget again when you mentioned Splitgate coming to last gen.
Yeah, the reason we're getting last gen ports of some games is where
those consoles can run it, you may as well put on Oh yes,
for sure, yes you might as well, especially for a multiplayer shooter like
without a doubt. But I know so many people who still just have PS
four play Dan have not gone off to PSI. All their games probably still
work, the ones that they actually care about still still work. Absolutely.
Yeah, when it comes to this, first of all, you and MATCHI
along pray, well don't you me? And who now Matt Piscatl Oh yeah,
yeah for sure, yes, okay, because Gause he seems like the
guy who's a very smart person handling all this data. And then it's just
around like, fuck is Star Wars list Listen, let's do this. Matt's
perfect, He's great. I love it. Yeah, he's a good he's
good at tweeting, he's good at like doing his business. Yeah. I
appreciate him a lot, for sure. Yeah. Star Wars Battlefront twenty fifteen
and number one. Yea interesting to at number three, right, and then
they're like, well we got to stop making these okay, Yeah, every
someone someone got very mad at someone there. Maybe that's why that happened,
because those games were very good. Belfront too, talking about bad business practices.
Malfront two got uh you know, you know, rightfully criticized for that.
Oh yeah, oh no, this this kind of does all settle where
I thought it would. Like you said, a lot of lego games,
Yeah, makes sense to me. I think maybe the one absence is Knights
of the Old Republic. But you know, when you think about it,
that was mostly exclusive to Xbox when it launched, and yeah, it's and
even like when it got remastered stuff like that, that was always at a
discounted price. I'm not too surprised that it's not in the top ten.
Yeah I did, Oh god, I did miss it initially from nineteen ninety
five to twenty that's when that's when MPD started tracking I think nineteen ninety five.
Yeah, huh yeah. Battlefront twenty fifteen being better than all of those
that is slightly surprising. Yeah, you know, at a certain point,
like Battlefront twenty fifteen, it's going to come out when there's more people playing
than ever. It was the first big Star Wars and a long Star Wars
game in a long time, you know, a decent amount of time.
It's also you know, Battlefront and the battle as we know now, Battlefront
stands are crazy for Battlefront and they didn't necessarily know this wasn't going to be
the Battlefront that they were asking for, and people do like that game actually,
so Battlefront twenty fifteen is a game that a lot of people really enjoy
as well as Battlefront two. It's one of the first games that me and
my friends picked up when bought our PS four's for what I got my PS
four because I woned Melgiar Slid five to run better and I wanted to play
three Far five without the jank PC port they were playing out and one of
the first games I got. Me and my buddies, we all picked up
Bellfront Real. Yeah, the return of an ip that we love in right,
Star Wars Ballofront looks good, sounds good. They're talking about how accurate
is the movies and earthing? Sure, yep, absolutely the photogrammetry, so
the rocks looked really good. I like that all right. Europe's best selling
games of June and the first half of twenty twenty four. This comes from
Nintendo Everything, but this this data includes everything, not just Nintendo stuff.
GSD data provides a look at the best selling games across Europe in June,
as well as the first half of twenty twenty four. It's based on data
for all physical games released in major markets, plus digital game sales from most
major publishers from June. Specifically, we just mentioned two HD charted the highest
out of the new releases at number seven, and that's without digital data considered.
Believe it or not, it was only four thousand copies away from being
the fastest selling switch game this year. Excuse me, paper Mario one thousand
year Doors still holds that record. A note that Luigi's Mentioned two HD sold
just under a third of what Luigi's MANSIONED three achieved during the opening week in
twenty nineteen. Uh yeah, that's that's pretty wild. So number one best
selling game of June was e Sports FC twenty four because Europe, of course,
and then Elden Ring bouncing back up to the near the top DCFC exactly,
and then Great Theft Auto five. It's a lot of familiar faces,
City Day five back again baby, and then SIV six and that's like kind
of a similar thing. Two k, It's got a lot of that stuff
going on there. Take two, I should say, Red Dead Redemption two.
Okay, hold on, hold on Europe? What are you doing?
Are we all doing? First? First? Okay, first boy, I
got beef with Europe today too, as they mass occurred with Europe. They
massacred my boy on the cover of what was I found the CRDA was doing
a video a super Monkey Ball Adventure. Jeff, you guys, you guys
thing you know what, I'll send it over after the show. Okay,
I'll put it on Twitter or something, but like, what are you all
doing earlier? You're up red Dead Redemption two in the top five yeap,
and then Hogwarts Legacy Luigi's Mansion too at number seven F one twenty four.
At number eight Grand Theft Auto Online? What the fuck does that mean?
What? Wait? What are they selling a grand theft auto online? Separately?
Did they start doing that? No? Is there? Like, how
are are they like tracking shark cards and like these are just just the money
from shark cards of June. Oh, LEXI is saying you can buy a
box ORGS and GT online. I wouldn't. I'm not too shocked to hear
that, And I'm also not shocked that we don't remember that happening. It
also might not be here, like it might be a thing that's like in
Europe or something, and that could be like regulator, that could be regulation.
I do see John Leman every once in a while. We'll post ways
in like this German electronics store, like the wild boxed like PC copies that
they have there sometimes. Yeah, so maybe that would make sense, okay.
And then number ten for June was NBA two K twenty four for the
first half of the Year EA Sports FC number one because it's Europe, and
then number two is Hell Divers two, and number three is Grand Theft Auto
five. Then Howkwarts Legacy, Red Dead, Redemption two, Call of Duty,
Modern Warfare three, Fallout four at number seven. Actually, that's pretty
wild. It takes two at number eight. What really, Tom Clancy's Rainbow
six, Siege at number nine, and The Last of Us Part two Remastered
at number ten. It takes two. Who has got to be the most?
Like, I shocks me how successful that game is? It like ten
million copies or something like that. I know it was like Game of the
Year at the Akills, but I didn't know it was going to get that
kind of bump. That's pretty crazy. Your Europeans do love Divorce, that's
right, mento, I forgot. But Fallout four at number seven also very
impressive. But I don't know again, any surprises here. Okay, so
that's best selling games previously was okay, so that would be revenue in the
previous list, right, I think it's revenue, Yes, it's These companies
normally do it by revenue. That may sell little more sounds though, yes,
typically yeah, yeah, I don't know if this does speak to the
year a little bit. I think, you know, Europe's a very specific
market when it comes to what they're looking for in terms of like, oh,
what's going to be the best selling games. But still when you see
Grand Theft Auto five still there in the top three, and you know,
something like a Final Fantasy Sei Rebirth is nowhere to be seen on this list,
it's like, oh boy, okay, what are we doing here?
Well, I mean, you still get a group of friends who haven't tried
GTA five out, or they want to play it on their new platforms.
They buy a new version of it, and that's like, you know,
you get like three or four copies sold right there, as opposed to again,
these traditional, especially console exclusive single player of games not not gonna hit
as hard, you know. Yeah, And it's like, I think it's
just part of the zeit guys still in young kids are growing up and they're
like, okay, what are we going to after roadblocks? It's like,
should we try GTA online? It's right there waiting for them. They probably
see their favorite content creator's plant all the time. Those role playing servers are
still very popular, so yep, yep, fair enough, all right,
Silent Hill creator shares his thoughts about the closure of High Fi Rush studio.
This is from Blair Marnell at game Spot. There have been numerous layoffs in
studio closures in twenty twenty four, but one of the most surprising most Microsoft's
decision to shut down Tango game Works, the studio behind High Fi Rush,
The Evil Within and more. Now, Silent Hill creator and Bouquet Game Studio
founder K Trio Toyama has shared his thoughts about why Tango Game Works didn't survive.
Tango Game Works was founded by Shinji Mukami, who made his name in
the survival horror genre with Resident Evil. Just as Toyama established himself with Silent
Hill, Mkami stayed true to his survival horror roots with Tango's first two games,
The Evil Within and The Evil Within two. According to Toyama, the
decisions to branch out from that genre may excuse me may have harmed Tango's long
term prospects. He says, I don't feel it's my place to give them
advice, but I think going back to what I said earlier about the balance
of routine and preserving the style of your games is relevant. Said Toyoma while
speaking with VGC, you look at an example like from software. They keep
making different games, but certain styles and aspects of their games stay the same.
That's an obvious example of how a studio is successful. Not changing everything
every time might be the key to life and surviving. Yeah, deep,
I'll say that I do. I do notice like that. I appreciate from
software style showing up across the genres. So when Armor Corps six I'm playing
that, and the Estes flasks for the Giant mech is on the same button
as the sts flask for all the other from software games, I'm like,
Okay, yeah, I feel a little bit more at home. I kind
of maybe have some idea of what to expect from this game. Uh.
And so when I get to a boss and it's and it's beating me up,
It's like, well, no, it's a from software game. I
understand what this challenge is kind of expecting from me. That said, I
don't think I would extrapolate that to be like and that's why Tango game Works
shut down. That's I mean. I don't think Hi Fi Rush like on
its own is the reason that the studio shut down. I think it's just
as simple as as they didn't make enough money for Microsoft to make it make
sense. So when everything else, all the other pieces shifting around there and
Microsoft wanting to save money. I'm a fan of the Red Wings. Recently
they they transferred. They basically did a trade for one of their best defensive
players that everyone loves and that did like kind of did everything right and was
had one of his best seasons, but he just cost too much money and
and so, and they needed to make room under the salary cap, and
so they traded him, and it was like, it looked like a terrible
trade. They basically paid this other team to take this awesome player. Definitely
similar vibes here where it's like that I feel like Microsoft has something of a
salary cap imposed by or a feeling that they should have a salary cap.
So whenever Phil goes to talk to Satia and Adela, he could be like,
look, we're kind of saving money here and there. And I think
that Tingo Game Works was the victim of that. Hmm, yeah, that
that might check out because the whole first of all, when it comes to
design thing, I mean, you were kind of alluding to a more positive
version of this take where this songing that I've been saying a lot recently.
If a company has solved a system, use that system, both in their
own games and in games externally. The hour people are making like just don't
be afraid to use that, just use it exactly. But when it comes
to High Fight Rush, first of all, I take it. I'm I
started out so positive this episode and then the news happened High Fight Rush.
Guy. I love High five Rush, but you really it was your game
of the year, right, uh? Runner up? Right? Right?
Right? Right? That's right? But none, Yeah, it was very
very close to staying that top spot. I love High Fight Rush. That
is a phenomenal game. It's what I want to see more of in gaming
here in twenty twenty five. Or it was a breath of fresh air.
And frankly, I don't like any of Tango's other games at all whatsoever.
Right, And so they were literally I can speak to this personally, reaching
a new audience with this game, and hey, that's awesome. Like that
means that the studio is versatile if they can have their evil withins and their
ghost wires that are appealing to that crowd, but then also put out something
completely different and it appeals to that crowd as well. To me, that
does scream success. And this entire thing is about Microsoft just dropping the ball,
like the Xbox division messing up yet again. Because nothing about High Fight
Russia's closure spoke to me as a problem with the studio itself, it did
speak to mismanagement in all of this, So yeah, I think a little
bit of issue was sort of implying that they made a bad move in making
this very critically bl game that people are talking about positively on social media and
everything. Everyone's favorite content creator was talking about Glowing Matter, so it was
getting good buzz online and somehow studio closes. The only thing that doesn't add
up there is again management, So yeah, I don't think it was on
Tango at all. Yep, I think you're right. I think it's the
expectations and being able to sort of plan ahead for a studio that was in
between games at this time when the Microsoft is at a low point and the
studio was definitely not like explicitly the studio was not at a low point,
even though it may not have been as profitable as as Microsoft wanted. I
think kind of can't blame anyone but Microsoft at a certain point for that.
All right, last story here, Star Wars Outlaws is outdated. That's quote
from some fans. A ten minute preview causes concerns six weeks from releases from
Joe Craig at Duel Shockers. Basically, IgM put up a ten minute gameplay
real that people can watch one of their igen first things, and fans are
reacting, well, you know, mostly kind of lukewarm or with some concerns.
And I can't tell with this one, Sean, if it's puddle news
where it's like, hey, I people are just anxious. They really want
to like this game, so they're really nitpicking on all the stuff that is
making them worry that it's not going to live up to their expectations, or
if there's some legitimate stuff here, I know some of this stuff is this
puddle news. Like one of the uh the comments against this was it looks
so empty, and I think they were referencing there's like a bit at the
beginning of the video where she's like riding a speeder through tattooing. Yeah,
I was gonna say she's on tattooing. What do you mean? It's what
are you dumb? Or are you stupid, Like what is happening here?
Yes? Yeah, but well you know, the graphics are quiz. I
don't know. I continue to think this game looks pretty good. Uh.
I think this is frankly the Internet being stupid. I'm like, I'm leaning
in that direction. I'm I'm hoping. Now, there were some previews a
few weeks back that people are like, oh, yeah, look, maybe
it's not gonna be that great, but it still seems pretty okay. I
don't know. I'm hoping the thing comes together and it really nails it.
But I'm not getting the vibes from this trailer that that it's in some deep
trouble or something like that. No, like if the game, if the
gameplay comes out and the gameplay sucks, then sure absolutely. I've seen mental
in chat says it might be tattooing fatigue. Sure, I think that might
be valid, because especially trying to move away from the Skywalkers and Arthur a
little bit more tattooing with this stuff. Anything. Yeah, maybe you go
somewhere we haven't seen a lot of or again, get it because it's like,
oh, like you need your scoundrel character, you need to be dealing
with the criminals and the you know, the Hut cartel being well established on
tattooing, but no, go actually just go to now Huda, go Narhuda.
I can't remember how to say it. Whatever, the home planet of
the Huts, and they have a moon there that has like a bunch of
scoundrel stuff on it. Deal with that first and then have like tattooing.
Maybe is something that like gets referenced. I don't need to be back on
it, so I appreciate you me. Do we know how much this is
going to branch out in terms of locations? There are there's a handful of
planets, right and I think there's some new ones. I know there's a
I think they have a new enemy or a new criminal syndicate is going to
get introduced to this game. I think I remember that. Yeah, okay,
yeah, now out, thank you Aldy Yeah, Erdie Cooper, Yes,
yeah, if the bridge is out, that'd be something that good.
Yeah. I think people need to remember what marketing is always focused on.
Marketing is not focused on us. If you are listening to this podcast right
now, you are not the core demographic for marketing from an age, especially
in the last several years. They stopped spending money on us because they know
we spend our money anyhow. So exactly, we are plugged in, like
everyone hearing my voice right now is plugged in enough to know already whether or
not they're going to buy this game. And so what they are focusing on
here is going in iconic location and iconic Star Wars imagery to people who went
otherwise identified. They want people to look at this and say, oh,
that's the first Star Wars movie. I know that, Like they're they're they're
gonna get that nostalgia. They're gonna think to themselves, I could use a
Star Wars that is like the good old Star Wars, not the new Star
Wars that I didn't really like. So I think it's smart marketing, even
if, yeah, it's gonna be fatiguing for us. Yeah, and it
kind of it hits multiple generations, right because it's like, oh, the
first Star Wars and also Phantom Menace, so you get both groups of fans
there. Yeah, and then there's a lot of people who love those prequels.
That is what is with the zoomers and loving the prequels. I thought
this was something the bridge generations and we could all agree. They said,
no, they were kids. You were a kid, right, How were
you in the camp? Were you alive when episode apparely? When episode one
came out? What ninety nine? I was four years old, So yeah,
I was in that audience. And that's what Jeff, I maintain this.
I like episode two more than episode one because episode two is a bad
movie that I can laugh at. Episode one is a boring movie that I
fall asleep during every time. Yeah, I like I said, I'm nostalgic
for that time, not necessarily, not necessarily for those movies. So that's
about it, all right. I think what we should do now is wrap
up the news. I got a pull question. We get that up and
ad them so everyone can take a look at the question to be gay answer,
we'll see. I'll refresh. Usually people rush in there. We got
four hundred votes. That's plenty, good enough, that's a good critical mass.
I just frame it up properly. Here there we go. All right,
are you still interested in Amy Meo Ameo the Smiling Man Famicom Detective Club?
Twenty nine percent said yes, thirty three percent said no, and then
thirty eight percent says, I still don't know what that is. Yeah,
that's pretty good for FORMEO twenty ninety three percent, so almost fifty to fifty
there. Uh. I was like, I think my immediate knee jerk reaction
to learning that THEMEO game that was being teased last week was a Famicom Detective
Club. I'm like, oh, I don't know, but I'm like,
I don't know what I was expecting, and I love detective stuff, So
why am I complaining I should just try it. I never tried the Detective
Club games try. I'm just I should just try it. So I'm gonna
do that here with this one, and I'm looking forward to it. How
about you? Is this something that that would interest you ever? I wanted
to try the remake so bad it those also, as I recall, came
out while I was like very focused on something else. I don't know if
it's like a fighting game had come out or some single player game had come
out, but something, but we were focused on that. Yeah, why
are Yeah? But no, I mean this would be a good excuse to
actually like give this series a try. Now it's a new one, everyone's
gonna be talking about it. Remakes are harder to go back to, you
know, because so many people know the story. To me at least,
it doesn't feel as special. But with this, you know, a new
story that people don't know and we can all sort of talk about together as
we experience it. That's a little more exciting to me. So I probably
will end up checking this one out because I love visual novels like that's that's
one of my not guilty pleasure. But you know, like soft Spot games,
like I really got into them with Ace Attorney back in the day and
ever since, Like you know, I'm not I'm not just pick up every
random anime visual novel that comes out. But when people are like, oh,
here's a really good one, like like the Dongan Rampa series I really
got into, like, I check them out and usually yeah, they really
hit with me. So I'm looking forward to this one as well. How
much puzzle stuff do you think is in these games or is it like all
just is it just visual novel whatever that means. I think it is just
visual novel, maybe with dialogue choices, I don't know, like chat If
you've played these feel free lesus know, but as far as I know,
they lean more into visual novel rather than Astorney, which has playing a puzzle
solving it. We'll give it a shot. I've loved visual novel adjacent stuff
in the past, the Telltale Telltale games a little bit. Sure. Yeah,
Telltale is like a modern take on viciall novel may mix with you know,
adventure. The dialogue choices where we have were like the thing for me
in those games. So yeah, yeah, all right, I have a
new pole question. We'll get to that in a second before I do.
Sean, what do you have going on? Where can people find you on
the internet? All that good stuff? Of course, Turbo Shawn Underscore on
Twitter dot com. Find me doing stuff here on Giant Bomb. And then
of course, speaking of stuff I do for Giant Bomb and going to be
out at EVO this weekend. Have a good time. First and foremost,
I am not competing. Unfortunately, this was kind of a last min thing,
so I couldn't quite get a registration in for competing. But also I
got my ask kicked at Combo Breaker. I'm not sure I need that to
two times a row this summers instead. Look, Jason Fonela is gonna be
out there. I some money, I'm teching or something else. I am.
I'm gonna I think I think I'm gonna make this work. Jeff,
I'm gonna do if you are at EVO, first of all, say hi.
Not for my ego, but because I'm working on something where I would
love to get a bunch of cameos from duders in there. So if if
you're gonna be there, make sure to say hi. Also. I think
I might try to do this where at any point as long as I'm not
like running to appointment, because that's part of the reason I'm not compete as
well. I'm I'm there for work stuff as well, as long as I'm
not running to appointment anytime anywhere, we can throw it down. I'm a
street fighter and teching and a few other games on my steam deck. I'm
gonna have a dock with me and I'm just gonna bust out the steam deck
and Peel can challenge me if they want to perfect You know, you know
you should get one of those like really cheap portable monitors so you can just
like plug in and it just works. Those are very good. So next
time, Uh, all right, so you got to like a couple hours
you're getting on that bus. What time is your flight? Late? Yeah,
plaid furthersk with time zone. It's not like insane, I'm gonna get
around midnight, so it's like I still get a good night's sleeps Yes,
okay, perfect. Are you staying with somebody or you get a hotel room
or whatever? No, I'm going solo this time. You well, because
he was like these things with friends, but because it was a last minute
then right, yeah, I just yeah, I'm going going okay, so
yeah, your room will be ready and all that stuff. All right,
very cool, good deal, all right, new pole question I almost read
Wednesdays again. Uh, have you made an in game purchase in a free
tom pay you know what, let's just make that. Have you made an
in game purchase in a game? Because it seems like that's what game.
Yes, and this would include DLC as well. Yes, my understanding in
the last year. Yes or no, those are your options. We'll get
that posted up on yes and no, zero no and then no or something
you know that is zero my eyes because it's just bad. The Uh let's
see what I was gonna say that. We'll have the pull up on YouTube
dot com slash at giant Bomb under the community tab. If you're ever looking
for our content. It's usually there under the live tab on YouTube. So
I don't think I don't think I've mentioned this on a show yet. I
did clean up the YouTube page a little bit, yea, thanks. So
if someone does just go to YouTube dot com slash Giant Bomb or slash at
Giant Bomb, you should be the first thing you see is it might be
melt your scaling actually with the way I said it up. But then like
right below that should just be our live streams, and then right below that
is most recent upload videos. So perfect. The home page should show you
everything indeed, but then yeah, I usually all of our step Center live
tab since we live streamed YouTube. Excellent. That's that's fantastic. Speaking of
metal gear scaling, go check that out. All that's up there on YouTube.
Now, all right, let's see so the poll question, well,
have the results on game Mes Mornings on Giant Bomb tomorrow speaking a Giant Bomb
later today, we'll we will have voicemail dumb Truck. Don't don't know if
I'll do a stream between then and now, probably not. I got some
other stuff going on, but voicemail dump Truck at the normal time. Expect
that I kind of make sure I got enough people to do that. I'll
double check. But then tomorrow Friday games mornings, then we will play any
S World Championships on this website and then BCR to probably talk about that,
maybe some other things as well, and and Cay and I win. Yes,
a squid word update. I've decided I've not bought it yet. I
will buy it, and I'm going to keep it hidden away, so it's
it's here. I'm just not going to give it to her yet surprise squid
word. There will be a surprise skid word at some point, So everyone
deal. She did ask for something else yesterday. I'm like, you were
just asking me for squidwards, see why I don't just get things? And
she's like, well, wait, no, I do want squid word more
so that helps. That makes it a little bit easier to actually pull a
trigger on it that she still prefers that. All right, Sean, thank
you so much for spending today talking with me about video games. Man,
I really appreciate it a lot. Doing show Jeff Pleasure be back, travel
safe, get to you get there, have fun. Everyone. Make sure
you do say hi. Don't don't hesitate if you're in the there's a giant
bomb, FGC discord or something. You're in there, tell everyone like,
look out for Sean, post his picture like a mug shot, and then
hunt him down like the dog he is. Yeah, Hey Marino, I
think Marino's gonna be there, Come fight me. Yeah, hell yes,
I'm glad you're gonna be able to meet Marino. And all those folks out
say, I can't believe I'm gonna meet Jason before I meet you in person.
This is the one that's messed up. I should have gone to EBO.
That would have been great. Next time. Until next time, everybody,
in fact, have a good one. You're the best audience in gaming.
Take care of yourself and goodbye.