Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Games Mornings with Me Jeff Greb,
your host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for
tuning in. In this episode, we're gonna be talking about
whether another Nintendo Direct is actually happening next week or not,
and what should PlayStation fans expect from tomorrow's state of play.
It's gonna be a good one because we have Jesse
Norris on the show. Jesse, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm very tired. How are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good. I'm good, but I'm not over your
rebranded or anything. I'm not. I don't have a lot
going on. I'm fine. How about you?
Speaker 2: It is? It is a lot. It's been great.
Speaker 1: Tell what's going on and what what goes into this
this change? Tell everyone like the.
Speaker 2: Basics first though, I mess it up for jan here,
but I'm gonna show. Look, I've got all the consoles now.
I mean I already before we were a website focused
on Xbox first Xbox Era. We have finally after five
years of really wanting to rebranded. A lot of people
are like, you rebranded to day one to get away
from Xbox, and It's like, no, I actually really wanted
to get away from et cetera. Because they're awful.
Speaker 1: Sure right right? The era name, Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
So what what's gone into it? I mean you said,
you say your tire set's keeping you busy, Like I
can't imagine like where it would be begin if like
we were to rebrand or something like that. What all
goes into that entirely?
Speaker 2: Changing the website from Xbox Era it's now Playday dot one.
We're dropping Patreon and we're going to have our own
memberships on there much like you guys do.
Speaker 1: And I am to deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is everything, brand new looks on every show,
brand new website, built from scratch. I have no skill
for art or for coding, so for me, it's mostly
been trying to pick up the slack for John who's
been on here before and pre Drag, who are just
non stop working on everything. Changing the names legally, it's
it's a lot, and there's more games than ever coming
out to try and keep up with.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, and you you've been keeping up with it.
I know you've got a couple of games you're going
to be reviewing this week, So that work normal work
on top of the rebrand's gotta gotta be a lot.
Is it exciting though, Is it like, Okay, finally we
can like do the things that we've been planning to do,
like you said for five years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of the sheckles a bit of being always
in that Console Wars thing, which, by the way, part
of the rebrand. We also announced we are working within
award winning UK developer on Console Wars the card game.
Speaker 1: The video game. Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were in the works. John's actually at Dice
in Las Vegas right now, our site founder and the
creator of the game, working on trying to make that
more of a reality. So there's we always have like
nine hundred irons in the fire, despite their only essentially
being two full timers and a bunch of volunteers. I'm
already at Jesus if you count the Fallout TV show.
I think I'm at like ten reviews this year already,
along side all the news we do, like, we do
a lot of stuff, and we're trying to not change
what we do. Like there still will be a big
focus on Xbox because it's just what we've all used
for a long time. We're just trying to add on
top of it because we're very stupid and we like
making life even harder.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, you do do a lot of reviews,
that's said like your main thing you think? Like I said,
would you consider yourself a reviewer? First?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I and our fake made up job titles.
Speaker 1: I don't have the card.
Speaker 2: I made a business card and it's as reviews editor
and lead producer because I produced most of the live
streats as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, how do you feel about reviews these days?
Speaker 2: They're fun if you just treat them like fun, and
a lot of the times when you're doing an embargoed review,
you're not trying to spoil anything, so it is more
it's very much an impressions piece and you can't dive
into it. Like doing a Fallout. Reviews was really fun
because I just treated those as complete episode recap breakdowns,
go over everything because I can er game, because like
the game I was talking to you about that I
just finished. All the best parts of it are things
you've got to go find for yourself. So I can
point in a direction or say I like things, But
trying to find a way to say that differently every
time gets hard. Plus we do videos for most of
our reviews, which makes them take like seven times longer,
but is the most fun. It is very fun to
video edit.
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I remember this. Just basically people know the game. At
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been made over and over again. I could just say
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it's fun. I enjoy doing that. I don't know if
I would never have the time to do it the
way you do your machine, but yeah, I definitely enjoyed
occasionally dipping my toe back into that space. It's fun.
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we have a lot to get into, so let's start
the Morning Mess with Nintendo Direct, apparently in third week
of February with a three D Mario announcement according to rumors. Yeah,
whatever this is for my Nintendo news. Let's go ahead
and read what they've written here. Leakers attech Tobaccolo and Nashwheedel,
who is generally considered to be unreliable but may have
gotten a couple of things right, claim that we should
expect a mainline Nintendo Direct on the third week of
February that is not at all as the Nintendo Earth
that is not all as the Nintendo director will apparently
give us the first look at the next three D
Mario title for the Nintendo Switch to It's been nearly
ten years since we work grace with Super Mario Odyssey,
but people always forget them. We also got a Bowser
Fury as part of the re release of Super Mario
three D World, so it could well be Mario's time
to shine once again. This strikes me as desperate, hopium Jesse,
what do you think?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think that the Insider game is full
of guesswork and garbage, and if it's not from a
handful of a few people that seem to get it
right all the time. Annoyingly enough, Nick from our team
is mostly accurate on Nintendo.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, over and over there now recently, I don't.
Speaker 2: Believe he's heard anything. I haven't asked him directly, but
like none of the people who generally seem to have
actually that's right, sources are saying this, and at that
point I'm just like, yeah, probably not.
Speaker 1: And circumstantially it's just we had Tomodacci direct, we had
the partner direct. A lot of third parties also are
going to probably show up in that state of Play tomorrow,
so it's like that's going to take some of the
oxygen out the room for a Nintendo Direct. There is
a Pokemon Day on February twenty seventh. There's all kinds
of stuff happening. It's already been a very busy month.
I think there's this sense though that people are like, well,
you know, they got to announce some first party stuff
here pretty soon. I don't know they will. We won't
go into the summer without them saying something for sure.
But I don't think it's that much of a rush either.
They have some games for the immediate near future. The
second half of the year maybe is a little barren,
but there's plenty of time for them to get to
that point. Uh yeah, I don't buy this. I don't
think it's happening. I would love to be I would
love to be wrong, and I would love for them
to talk about a three D Mario, but I don't know.
It doesn't doesn't seem likely, do you do You get
the feeling like that's where this is coming from, that
people are just kind of like getting antsy about the
lineup of the switch to so far a bit.
Speaker 2: But also there there seems to be this undercurrent in
the smaller leaker space where things really started to die
off from people who had like one or two sources
that were good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing it a lot for people who have YouTube
channels that are like just throwing shit out there, and
then the few people that actually know come out and say, nope, yep,
it's it is a grifting living and it's a game
I don't respect, so I always laugh when they're wrong,
and it's just it's weird timing. It's almost as weird
as Sony showing off Horizon and then announcing a state
of play instead of just having it there. But whatever
that that actually did happen Nintendo, though, Nintendo sticks to
their guns, they stick to their schedules, and there are
some people that know what's going on there, and unless
those people are saying it, I generally just don't believe it.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah. And then the three D Mario aspect. I
know it's not your favorite genre, but we.
Speaker 2: It's a mechanically amazing game. I'm just not that into
collectithons though, if you can see behind me, I am
now a proud switch to owner without a penny because
one of our patrons just said, hey, by the way,
their best buy near you, and I said, yeah, there's
this one, and then these were all that pick up fantastic.
That was his congratulations on going multi platform.
Speaker 1: Well listen, if you have one of those, you might
as well play Donkey Kong Binanza that games. That game
is still.
Speaker 2: Prison one I asked for. When he said, I was like,
of all the things, like, I was pretty disappointed in
what I've seen a Metroid Prime. I'm going to go
Donkey Kong. But also I need a case to use
that thing because that feels like crap when you hold it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I understand. I've kicked I kicked the kickstand
out and hold that and that helps a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's kind of well, he five me a couple of
broke controllers, so it's mostly just going to be docked anyways.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I know there's people that play with
I just played entirely handheld, so I've I've come up
with some strats. Yeah, hey, three D Mario is going
to happen. At some point. We were kind of going over.
I was talking to Mike last night about it. There's
someone sent in a message being like, here's like the
timeline where if it's by July of twenty twenty six,
if there's no Mario game by then, it'll be the
longest other than the NES, if you don't count the NES,
which kind of like didn't have like that's before there
was a precedent. Not counting the NES, it'll be the
longest we've gone into a new Nintendo console without getting
a new main Mario game. And I'd say, well, that's
July is not happening, Like there's no way there's a
new Mario game by July.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But that that does like kind of light the fire
a little. But it's like they will have to have
that game event like sooner rather than later, right, But
they just that team just had Bonanza. How long do
you think they can go without a three D Mario
on the switch to? It is?
Speaker 2: That is like the big question really on because the
switch to has been a rocket chip to start. How
long are they not affected by all the prices? We
kind of be we might, I don't know if you
bring it up later. Actually forgot to look at the showrunner.
I'm very smart sor right, uh, but we just saw
the steam decks like completely out of stock right now.
Speaker 1: I didn't prevent the rundown, but we should talk about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Steam Deck is completely sold out in North America.
The LCD has already gone now, both old units have
nothing like the ram apocalypse seems to only be getting worse.
How long can they keep their pricing where it is,
because that is it is now. It is more expensive,
but people are buying the hell out of it, But
once you need to start converting more and more people.
Like That's why we've seen such a different trend for
them where they're really focused on cross gen in a
way where they we just weren't even handing out deb
kits to a lot because unless you were working on
Switch one and let back Compat get it on the
switch too. They didn't want people to feel left out.
It seems like and is the next big three D
Mario game just switched to like Bonanza was, because it
has something that's just going to run like crap on
previous gen and so they're just waiting because they're just
trying to keep their one hundred million plus people on
Switch one happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Nintendo makes you know, a lot of
these companies do, but especially in Nintendo kind of uses
every sort of piece of the buffalo. So anytime they
have any sort of direct or overall announcement, structure and plan,
they want to make sure it all serves a bunch
of different purposes. And you're right. I think one of
the things that they are concerned with, like messaging and
teaching consumers is, Hey, this thing might have to go
up in price. The switch to that is and maybe
we need to kind of keep Mario in waiting so
it's ready to go, so we can justify that price
increase at some point and make people go, look, it's
more expensive, but you're going to get a new Mario.
Isn't that You just watched that movie and you go,
you people spend a billion dollars to watch that movie.
You're still excited about Mario. You're going to pay the
extra fifty bucks for the system to get that game.
And it's like, Okay, they're probably thinking along those lines.
I wouldn't be surprised as far as let's let's talk
about that steam Deck right now. So the steam Deck
sold out across the board in the United States. Only
only in the United States. It's available in Canada, available
to the rest of the world. That's so it's like
to there, it sounds like it's a combination of the
rampocalypse and tariffs, and it's like, oh, so the United
States is especially bad to sell these kinds of products
in right now that you know that, does that say
price increase for the Steam deck coming up soon? Man?
Speaker 2: It does show that when it comes to like the
Steam Machine and how into it people are, that Valve
really isn't like a big player in hardware Nintendo is,
Sony is to a lesser degree, Microsoft is, but there's
still like an enormous company. So they've got a lot
of push and they're all in retailers, right, so they're
they are like the canary. They're like the first thing
that goes as it starts working its way up to
the bigger hitters. Because Sony's talked about they've got enough
everything stockpiled through this year.
Speaker 1: Yes, well every said like six months, but yeah that
was their fiscal year.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, well they said count they I think
at one point it was also calendar year, Like Okay,
they seem pretty confident. I could be wrong, but they
seem pretty confident that it was six months.
Speaker 1: So it's like at least six months, I bet it's
somewhere between six months and through the into the calendar year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Microsoft is pretty much like, eh, we don't
want to lose money on this, so we're just not
going to make many. Nintendo is they've had the best
stock that any console has ever had to begin with,
so you'd have to imagine they're still pretty good for
a little while, but eventually it's it's going to hit everything.
And I know they've already up, like they're the frigging
can controllers and the the oh my god, the just
looking at a second dock is like one hundred and
twenty five bucks or something. Yeah, it's nice, like it's
already gone up there. I think the one thing a
lot of them has realized is that they can't keep
pushing game prices up. So holding on to a Mario
in your back pocket for it's like, yeah, the consoles
may be a little more expensive, but hey, you're gonna
want a freaking Mario game. That's the type of type
of move I could see them making. Hopefully they don't
have to, but it does not seem great right now.
Speaker 1: I mean in the tariff's side of this, like the RAM,
it's like this memory the chips like that is something
that there's not a lot could be done about. The
terriff situation is so you know, blows left and right
on the whims of one insane man. And you know,
the Supreme Court has not issued its final decision yet
on on tariffs. It does really seem like they might
come down and be like the President doesn't have these powers,
especially the way he talks about it, where it was
like he was talking to the president I don't know
the exact title of Switzerland, and she was like, hey,
these tariffs suck, and he's like she was I didn't
like her attitudes. So instead of like a thirty percent tariff,
I and she wanted to go down, I raised it
to thirty nine percent. And it's like, so, what does
that have to do with the powers that you're claiming
you have to enact tariffs.
Speaker 2: Or Switzerland exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's like you you're just doing this because you
want to. This is literally the best argument someone could
make for why you shouldn't have these powers, and the
Supreme Court could could come down that way. We should
get a decision in June, and then that's like, you know,
you still have to hope that the Supreme Court has
some sanity left and comes down and says that you know,
it says in the Constitution you don't have these powers.
But do we care about that? And we don't know
if they care about that. So that's still a deep
uncertainty and uncertainty we know is poisoned at these companies.
And so yep, you raise the price right now while
you still can justify it for all of those reason
and then if things break good for you on the
other side of that, you have the opportunity to lower
prices later if you want. You probably won't.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's about it, not maybe right.
Speaker 1: Maybe occasional discounts, right exactly. So it's like, oh, things
are just going to keep getting worse for us for now,
especially in the United States, and not primarily but like
at least fifty percent of it due to no one's
fault but our own for for who we elected. So yeah,
I don't envy any of these companies. I have to
figure out hardware. I don't figure I don't envy anyone
on the teams at PlayStation and Microsoft trying to figure
out their next gen hardware plans and how to message
those things, how to make them sound and feel special.
It sounds like Xbox has some idea of like we're
changing things up completely for the PlayStation six to sort
of be the next one in that line. That's going
to be such a hard one to be, Like, here's
a game that couldn't run up PS five and so yeah,
I bet it could. I bet it couldn't.
Speaker 2: Well, if they're doing a handheld that is, yes, because
the handhaker is likely mostly about PS four, maybe some
PS five because even like low power mode as amos
still like one hundred and ten watts, that's not useful
for a handheld.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they'll they will do low five versions
of the PS file. They will. They will make as
many of those games run on that thing as possible,
and it'll be just fine and not everything obviously.
Speaker 2: But in the way they do it, it'll be you
have to patch it, and you can patch of course, yeah,
then even lower and then it works. But then that
means it's it's a mess of what works and what
doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's like that's a that's a problem that
they're going to just figure out because that's like the
one card they have to play to kind of make
that next gin feel a little bit different.
Speaker 2: If you have the an Xbox Series X or a
PlayStation five or Series S or a Switch to, you're
probably gonna have games for them for a decade to
fifteen years.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's keep going here. Leaker claims we Nintendo,
Nintendo DS and Sigacity are coming to Nintendo Switch Online.
This is for my Nintendo News video game Leaker special Nick,
but it's been rather hit and miss at leaks. It
stated that listens no, not with Nintendo Leaks. I disagree
with this mind of news. Uh that they just.
Speaker 2: Rumors subreddit and we're like, we hate that guy exactly.
Speaker 1: The there's nothing to be said. Reputation on the internet
doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: People we love to crap on Nick, but he has
been annoyingly accurate on Nintendo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's uh. People create these characters in their
head and it has nothing to do with the reality
of the person usually. Uh. He has stated that we,
Nintendo DS and Segacy D will be coming to the
Nintendo Classics range for Nintendo Switch on lines just online subscribers.
WE and DS will naturally come, but Segacy D games
could be a nice extension of the current Sega Mega
Drive range currently available on Nintendo Classics. Nick says a
WE remote peripheral for WE games won't need a WE
censor bar to be used, which is handy if true. Yeah,
I it does feel like this is going to happen.
I I agree with this that that's the kind of
stuff where we've heard for a while. DS was like
they were thinking about something with a DS. What that
actually ends up looking like, we'll see. But the WE stuff,
they have a game cubeimulator, they'll be able to figure
out WE pretty easily on top of that, and then
Segacity is like a fun addition that's like a clever
one to add in there and their.
Speaker 2: Place like Hideo kojimas Snatcher.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you could play Willy Beamish right, everyone loves you?
Should you should? Probably not, because you'll be spending most
of your time waiting for load times, although I'm sure
they'll speed those up. Yeah, I'm I'm all for this.
I like Nintendo switch Online, but I'm a Nintendo homer,
so that makes sense. I don't know. Does this? Does
reading this do anything for you?
Speaker 2: No? Finally, yes, because I joined Nick's family account, So.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to get them marg Yeah, all right,
good stuff. Yeah. I think uh WE is one where
I was like, I'm curious if they'll add that to
Nintendo Switch Online or if they'll do like a WE Many,
because I feel like they did like a standalone WE
Mini that just had a couple of those WEI games,
especially WE Sports. They could sell that thing to a
bunch of old folks homes again and like it would
it would crush. They might still end up doing that,
but kind of step it back. It's like, oh yeah,
they Nintendo Switch Online seems pretty important to them. All
these companies really like that subscriber money and continuing to
add to that is very important to ensure that when
that comes time to renew. At that time when they
first introduced it and they got the big influx of
people joining the the NSO subscription in the first place,
well right around that time, announcing something like this is
the kind of thing you would do to be like, Okay,
now we're gonna get a bunch of new people and
ensure that all those people that we already have resubscribe.
And it's it's like if it wasn't we DS And
then you know, working with their partners at Sega, what
would it be And it's like turbographics and it's like
that doesn't move the needle all that much, right, So
these are the ones that feel plausible and and like
they do move the needle. And also now we're here
into that that it's that it's likely. Is there anything
else they could add to nso that would have as
much of an effect as like we in ds.
Speaker 2: Man christ I don't think so, because when you think
of what they would go back to, like because they could, No,
you can't really. I mean, the WEU is a very
specific thing in the way it worked, and they've already
poorted most of the most the most anyways, Yep, Yeah,
I am curious because like with everything, I imagine it's
a subscription price they wanted to go up eventually, so
these might be some of the biggest hitters to get
that in a timely manner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've raised the price of their games and they've
not raised the price of their subscription since they introduced it.
Is that, right, chat? You can help me out there,
But I don't know. I don't think they have I
think it's still twenty and fifty and it was twenty
and fifty when they both when they introduced each tier,
the introduced each one separately. It feels like that is.
Speaker 2: Uh, their party chat has finally caught up to like
two generations ago. So if they get last generation, very exciting,
gonna have to double it. Almost five frames per second,
you know, double that. You got double digit frames per
second on those camera feeds. A lot of bandwidth.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Chief Magic Tech says, I don't think so.
Don't think that they've raised the price.
Speaker 2: Sacy though, says it went up in Canada. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Colonel Center says, think they increased in some markets, all right,
so it'll probably go up in the US here pretty soon. Then,
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Game as Mornings. Jesse Norris, Jeff Grubb, Marvel's Wolverine seemingly
won't be at tomorrow's state of play. This is from
Ben Lyons at Game Reactor, with an hour's worth of
state of Play broadcast to consume tomorrow evening. One might
assume that many first party PlayStation games will be served up,
particularly with a focus on projects coming in twenty twenty
six So surely Marvel's Wolverine will be a key player,
right Seemingly not. When queried about when we'll see Marvel's Wolverine,
developer Insomniac Games as stated that it is sticking to
its Spring twenty twenty sixth timeline, which it previously said
meaning mid February. State of play doesn't align with that
at all. Perhaps this implies that another state of play
will happen in a month or two that is dedicated
to Wolverraine. That sounds very likely.
Speaker 2: May they always have one at the end of May, right?
Speaker 1: Usually? Yeah, yeah, they do, you know, they have one,
a bigger one sometimes kind of going into that into May,
going into that June timeline for Summer Games Fest into
Summer Game Fest, yes, exactly. Perhaps this implies that done
to have similarly to what we've seen with the past
for Ghost of Yota, and Borderlands for as it is,
We're expecting Wolverine to launch sometime in autumn of twenty
twenty six on PS five, although this has yet to
be confirmed. I'm hopeful. I think it's supposed to.
Speaker 2: Probably it would avoid November, so October September.
Speaker 1: What do you think then will be at this hour
long state of play? Hour plus state of play?
Speaker 2: I'm curious. They've already shown Marathon and Sarah's a few times.
You think they'll probably be there? Phantom Blade zero has
its release date in September.
Speaker 1: I think so far, I thumbs up to all these.
I agree. I think Tokon will get a big up.
Speaker 2: Tokon leaked themselves on Steam by mistake with their character
counting stuff, so that seems like a.
Speaker 1: Lock a lot.
Speaker 2: They've got a pretty good year this year from what
we know already, so it will be interesting to see
if the god a war thing shows up. I know,
uh Shanobi and Nate the Hate. We're going back and
forth about the Corey Barlog sci fi game at Sony
Santa Monica.
Speaker 1: Mostly like not there, but I don't think that one
will be there. I yes, yeah, that one's not going
to be at the state of play. Koach of Madies
I saw this this morning, Jimmy H Christmas Eve says
Kojima is editing another trailer. I think we're getting death
straining to director's cut and or the PC port or
just an update some sort of like any anything's possible.
But he's he was had a timeline that he posted
to like Instagram or some shit today.
Speaker 2: So he keeps saying, like, I really want to edit.
I love editing. He does edit because of these stupid
video games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a.
Speaker 2: Delivery out the door, so I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: I can't leave it. No, I understand, go get it
completely as far as I'm concerned. So yeah, I think
Token leaked. That's the lock marathon. Feels like that's got
to happen because someone pointed out this is the last
time that Sony is going to have like a showcase
or state of play before that game is out, so
it's like that is necessary. Beyond that, I will say
that the word going around from a lot of people
is that it's weirdly quiet. It is weirdly quiet from Sony,
and that is part of what I've heard recently that
Sony's really locked things down, they become very good at
keeping these secrets. But you know, I bet they'll have
a handful of surprises, maybe maybe two three surprises from them.
That means the bulk of this is still going to
be third party though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a rumor about a sequel to a beloved franchise.
I want spoil it for people there. It will be
interesting because most of what we know they were working
on was either things we've already talked about or live
service stuff canceled. Like I don't blue Point would be
deep enough into or d would have anything.
Speaker 1: Blue Point might have. Bluepoint could have a like a
teaset like at the most, like a logo for what
they're working on. At most, I would.
Speaker 2: Expect fair Games, right, fair Games.
Speaker 1: This fair Games show up here is that one where
it's like they kind of wait until Marathon gets out
of their system and then they reassess, because you know,
the last time we heard about fair Games, and I
think this was reporting, was that, uh, They're like, okay,
we're not canceling it, but also we're not not going
to cancel it. Jay Raymond's gone, yeah, right, that happened.
That happened. And then sort of in the wake of that,
it was like, okay, so what's the future of this thing?
And it's like it sounded like they were just biding
their time before. It's like the dollar sign. They did
drop the dollar sign, didn't they. That's officially Yeah, that's
just weakness. That's Eticett's cowardice. I still think sixty minutes.
I don't think a ton of that's going to be
first party. It'll be four to five games or first party.
Maybe they do have an extended look at Marathon to
be like, no, we really believe in this game now.
Speaker 2: Because there there's a ton of leaks from a event
in China of people playing it and yep, talking about
it because nda is don't mean anything.
Speaker 1: So those are will make believe.
Speaker 2: What do you think more first party games or more
psv R two games?
Speaker 1: More more first party games? I don't. I don't think
PSVR two even comes up. I don't. I think we're
I think we're past that. I don't think PSVR two
is a going concern. Would I love to be surprised.
I would be shocked if that weren't toadset. Yeah, it's
great technology, absolutely, and you know there's always the possibility
that Alex finally goes to PSVR two. It's a shocking
it hasn't yet.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing what the steam frame coming?
Speaker 1: No, exactly. At this point, the steam frame is the
first concern for Alex. So it's well the third party,
What the hell? What is going to fill out the
rest of this show? And there it's like I could start,
like all these rumors we've heard for years, this is
where we finally see it Castlevania, Right, finally, this is
where we're going to see Castlevania. No idea, but I
would love that to be tried.
Speaker 2: They still called it a state of play, even though
it's an hour long, which is weird like that, you
think when it's that big and long, it might they
might finally you know, it's that big and long showcase,
right yeah, yeah, Why wouln't you call it a showcase?
Why is it still just a state of play? Because
I guess maybe showcases for them are only September. Yeah
maybe logically internal.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've had SEPTEMBERI and they've had him in
June during late May. That's when they've done the showcases.
And then they've not done a showcase since the PS fives.
Speaker 2: Like Wolveran and Spider Man two to one is the
last one.
Speaker 1: I remember that was one years ago, right years, like
literally years, So it's like they might just be done
with those and it's all just state of places and
so that's why they're not making no distinction anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, they've had enough content for them, like, but they
always it out like, yeah, we'll just do a bunch
of small things instead of one longer one. They're barely
at things like summer games, faster games, calm anymore. It's
been it's been interesting to see the internal ships where
for how big their first party was last Gen and
it can still put out some amazing games, like it
just has not been the same. But it also it
really feels like and if you look at their financials,
they really have pulled back on the budgets a lot,
and some of the first budgets to go are like marketing.
Oh yeah, so it will be interesting to see if
they ever get back into that swing of things.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think they're like our state of plays
is how we pay for marketing, which is pretty cheap
for them, so and it is effective. They get a
lot of people watching these things and then they can
let the media and creators kind of do the work
for them, and we do when we talk about these
things kind of like just look at through chat here
at least on Twitch real quick. I go back and
forth everybody. I used to be able to like look
at both YouTube and Twitch at the same time. Now
each day I'll go back and forth. So tomorrow I'll
be looking at YouTube chat. Uh yeah. People are like, oh,
the Venom game, I know because they with Wolraine's not
showing up here, They're not going to talk about Venom
yet if that is even still something that will happen,
which I'm I'm still thinking it might, but not yet.
A Siphon Filter remake, probably not, although who knows what
Blue Point is gonna end up doing. Trying to see
if like people have any third party guesses blue Point.
Speaker 2: It's like nothing for like nine years at this point.
Speaker 1: Which is yeah, I mean they had that, you know
what what what was the thing that they were making.
Speaker 2: It was a military online shooter, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But they didn't they weren't. Weren't they working on
some live service, uh spin off of like not God
of War was it?
Speaker 2: It was blue Point? Blue Point was on I was
like going a bend on my right, right right, the
bees got me and was on like an online military shooter.
Blue Point was on a God of War.
Speaker 1: Yeah, live service sort of thing. Yeah that and then
they that got canceled. Thank god, who wanted that? And
uh now now they've only had a couple of years
to like shift over to whatever they're working on. Now
it's like again, if they do show up, I think
that is a logo at most Okay, let's see. Yeah,
and then a lot of a lot of other people
are hoping for, like crash five. G t A.
Speaker 2: Strauss said they're going to ramp up marketing in the
summer because even GTA it needs to be closer to
coming out. Nowadays, you just can't do the six to
nine months of.
Speaker 1: Marketing disruptive to the studio. Yeah, because all that stuff
requires time and attention and assets.
Speaker 2: And people attentions. It's too much to pay.
Speaker 1: Attention, it's not worth it, and it's expensive to do,
and it's disrupted to the developer. There's a ton of
reasons why marketing schedules have compressed.
Speaker 2: And before two weeks after is your main thing, and
then a table after. But it's it's very close to launch.
Speaker 1: Things things start longer, things start happening about two months
before in the BI I guess case scenarios these days. Okay,
let's keep going here. A new Silent Hill Transmission presentation
is coming this week with new info on Silent Hill
town Fall. This is from Chris Sculli and FVGC. Konami
has announced that a new Silent Hill Transmission presentation will
take place later this week. According to Konami, presentation will
reveal the latest updates from the Silent Hill series, with
a particular focus on Silent Hill Town Fall. The transmission
will take place on Thursday, February twelve at four pm.
That goes right into the State of Play, right, that's
like literally like an hour before the State of Place.
Oh no, wait, this is after.
Speaker 2: Well no, it's what's the time?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Completely four pm Pacific time, seven pm Eastern, So
this will be a little bit after the State of Play.
Speaker 2: So we'll probably see it at the State of Play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably see it at the State of Play exactly. Okay,
Given that PlayStation has already announced the State of Play
presentation for the same day, this means the Silent Hill
transmission will take place roughly an hour after the state
of play ends. Town Fall is the last of four
Silent Hill projects that were announced during a Silent Hill
transmission back in twenty twenty two October, And that's longer
than I realized it was. Way back in twenty twenty two,
that presentation, designed to mark the return of the Silent
Hill series as a going concern, announced a remake of
Silent Hill two, a jap Japan themed entry called Silent
Hill f Or Silent Health, and streaming series Silent Heill Ascension,
which everyone loves, as well as a short teaser for
Silent Held Townfall. While Ascension was critically panned, both the
Silent Hill two remake and Health were praised by critics
and fans alike. Townhall is being published by Anna Pirna
and Konami and is being developed by Scottish studio Screenburn,
formerly known as No Code, which previously released Stories Untold
and Observation, both of which were published by published by
Devolver Digital. Yeah, that's one where it's like it did
not stick out to me at the time because I
don't think we saw a lot of information about it,
Like we didn't get a lot of details, but it
was like Anna Perna is working on this one, and
they're working with the people that did Observation, which is
kind of like a spooky sci fi game to my memory,
and I played a little bit of it. Maybe Oh okay, yeah,
I'm ready to see more. Do you think that they
just focus on this or do they begin teasing what's
next next for Silent Now.
Speaker 2: They've already talked about their work that I think blueber
Team has strayed to because of the way the rules
are in Poland you just have to say sometimes. And
they're doing Silent Hill one remake, so maybe we see
that it might be a little early after just getting
Chronos done. But it also they're I think they're fairly big,
so it could have been worked on in tandem.
Speaker 1: Yep, I'll watch this. I'm glad that Silenthill seems to
be delivering. The fan base has not done their normal
thing of like spending most of the time sort of
whining about the games. They seem like they're just kind
of enjoying them, which is weird for this that's like,
oh my god, Knama's kind of figured it out a
little bit. I'm sure there's still problems here and there,
But that's got to be like, Okay, this company that
has this property that a lot of people deeply love,
they seem to understand how to treat it now, and
that's that's new for that fan base. So I think
that this transmission maybe can continue to deliver on that
promise and we'll see, we'll see what town Fall looks like.
At this point, it feels like because they have Blueber
working on those remakes, and because Health Was was so
well received and was like just a little bit different
but still kind of kept the spirit of those games,
it feels like town Fall has the potential to be
like and here's another thing that Silent Hill can be,
and people will go, we're okay with this now because
we feel very reassured that these other versions of Silent
Hill that we are deeply attached to are going to
keep happening over there. So, yeah, what are your expectations
for this?
Speaker 2: I as someone who absolutely adored Silent Hill, f quite
enjoyed Silent Hill to remake, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, As a as a franchise, it was it was
on the downward trend for a long time, so seeing
it immediately bounce back up like this shows that they've
really put a lot of thought and effort into it.
So yeah, I'm coming into it feeling positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy about Maybe I was thinking observe of observer
as well, like I always mix those up. Observer and
observation are different games. Okay. Uh po Copia previews are out.
It sounds very promising, like things are sounding like this
game might hit hard. Uh So I kind of was.
I did a real quick consensus here, kind of looked
at some talked to some friends who played it. Middler
over at VGC was singing its prices to me.
Speaker 2: Beguest friend who played it.
Speaker 1: Yes, the biggest friend and the biggest Pokemon fan, both
in stature and in emotional attachment to Pokemon. Middler's into it.
Omega Force did the dragon Quest Builder games, and it
sounds like they are bringing that same juice to this
so early hands on previews describe Pocopia as a cozy
core masterpiece, just an incredible genre that successfully blends the
social simulation of animal crossing with the creative building depth
of Dragon Quest Builders. Critics are calling it a refreshing
departure from the traditional RPG formula. The protect players control
a Ditto that has taken on a human form, which
is also just incredible. While you can customize your appearance previews,
note that characters retain Ditto's iconic dot eyes, providing a
humorous touch to the avatar. Instead of catching Pokemon in
the wild, you build specialized environments to lure them to
your island. For example, placing a punching bag near a
bench might attract them a chop Jesse, is this Aviva pinata?
It is? Let's go what a good idea. I love this.
I'm very excited about this possible. I went, I rushed
to get it on Fantasy Critic, jam were you the
one that got it? Instead? Someone already got it in
our Fantasy Critic And I was pretty upset, motherfucker. I
am looking forward to kind of seeing more people are gonna, like,
the public's gonna get a chance to play this this
weekend at the European Pokemon Championships. I don't know if
that's what it's sactually keep getting on a plane, Yeah
I'm not. I'm gonna stay at home and just let
the let the freaks over there tell me what's going
on the freaks for the game freak. But yeah, when
you hear all this as someone who I have no
idea what your relationship is to Pokemon, what do you think?
Speaker 2: I played the game Boy version for three hours and
thought this was neat mm hmm. That's meant about it.
This version of it definitely sounds a little more up
my alley as a a big Viva Pinata fan. And
also I love van of Dragon Quest Builders, like I
would trust that deb to find the fun in shifting
genres for an ip because they're real good at it.
So everything you have said sounds good. And now that
I actually have one of these things, maybe it'll be
my Maybe it'll be my first review for it.
Speaker 1: Unlike Animal Crossing, the world is fully destructible and reconstructible.
It uses voxels, so that's cool. That's similar to Dragon
Quest Builders as well. Previews from a Mega Force collaborators
highlight the polished, intuitive nature of the building tools. The
game is set on it to deserted island where humans
have vanished, while the tone is relaxing previously just a
deep underlying lore regarding the human disappearance, which is capitalized.
So that's fun. Yeah, And then there's a bunch of
a Pokemon that show up that have new regional forms,
so I'm sure the freaks will be excited about that
as well. It supports four player online co op for
building and resource gathering, and it has an estimated twenty
to forty hour length for its main campaign. Okay, yeah,
looks I think a lot of Pokemon spinoffs kind of
usually squarely fall into that mediocre to good range, you know,
on the open critics scale, something like a seventy to
a seventy five. And that's usually fine because the people
showing up for those games, look, I want the cute
Pokemon characters that right, Yeah, the quality is like aside
from delivering Pokemon cuteness, this sounds like it might be
the one that kind of break that rhythm a little bit.
Not expecting nineties here, but if it got into like
the eighties on open credits.
Speaker 2: What if it's a secret Pokemon and the Leftovers spinoff
and all the humans just instantly disappeared.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, if this is a Left Behind with
Kirk Cameron but Pokemon, uh yeah, count me in absolutely.
Kirk Cameron the world's greatest thespian. I'm saying that's pn
I just can't pronounce peas. Everybody don't worry all right.
As the backlash to Discords age verification grows, company insists
changes won't impact majority of adult users. This is from
Tom Phillips at ign UH. There's been been a backlash.
Discord wrote a lengthy post on Twitter where they're just like, no, look,
this is why most you don't need to worry about
sending us your ID. We have machines that can figure
out your age. We already know, we already know everything
about you. This is this is good. So wait what that?
We don't like that even more? That sucks what you're
what you would just said? And then and they're like,
well then the people that do have to send in
their ideas, don't worry. We don't keep the ideas. We
just get the age and the ideas. We never touch those.
And everyone's like, do you think we're dumb? Do you
not remember when you told us like last year that
the third party service you used was hacked and seventy
thousand IDs were stolen. We don't care if it wasn't
you you that lost those. You took it. You're responsible,
And now you're saying that you're not responsible for it.
We're not dumb. We know how this goes. There's got this,
can't They got to do something to stop this before
it goes into because this is just poison for a
company like Discord, right.
Speaker 2: I fear that it's coming for everything. It is different
coming old people both don't know how the Internet works
and don't care to know how the Internet works, and
they're happy to give companies disability to just track everything
we do and sell that information it. They will do
every they will do and say everything they can. But
you know what it is, just by the fact the
nature of what it is, and they'll they'll do it
globally because there are places like the UK where you
have to do it now, in Australia and others, and
again there are laws that even if they come from
a good place, it's a bunch of people that don't
know how anything works and how easy it is to
get around all of it. Anyways, like their entire websites
that just will not especially adult entertainment websites that are
just like we're out of America or because you've got
ten states now that want to go after us. While yeah,
if we don't do incredibly your konian measures to know
exactly who's watching their footporn like it's it sucks. The
Internet is only going to get worse, and it's because
we don't have anyone to choose generally who actually understands
how it works.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: They just they're all old. They have no clue how
it works, and the few that do are correc thing
don't care, and they just want to sell your information anyways.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, the most the most like politician that
was most involved with tech is jd Vance and he's
literally just owned by the worst in tech.
Speaker 2: So the whole thing was being a hillbilly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, and then and then Peter kills like you
belong to be now boy, and here we are, motherfucker. Yes,
So it's time for i r C. Chuck get us
an i r C hosted on our website Internet relay Chat.
It's back now. Open source and sort of self hosted
solutions can be something. But there's a reason people default
to the path of leashed assistance, the sort of centralized tool.
There's a reason that the Internet is like seven companies
now because it's easiest for the vast majority of people.
And uh, it would probably be better if we could
just create an environment where these things could be open
and free rather than lockdown, uh to the least common
denominator rules made by people who don't understand how any
of this stuff works. And in the meantime, discord just
needs to like this messaging is awful, it is own.
They're digging a hole deeper and deeper every time they
open their mouths about this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they are so ingrained into my kids' lives
that I don't know what they could do to actually
ever get them to quit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, although hey, incredible thing happened yesterday, I don't
talk about in my house. Like, my kids watch like
quite a bit of YouTube these days, and a lot
of this the YouTube stuff that comes across their feed
is this AI created stuff and it's garbage. But a
lot of the stuff they watch was garbage already. So yeah,
So I'm not sitting there being like, you understand that
this is AI and it's bad, right because the stuff
was bad before. And I'm just I'm living my life
in a way where it's like if it's bothered me,
I'm just going to go turn off the TV. I'm
not going to sit there and explain to them why
each individual digital thing is bad on our own. Emmy
nine years old, is like, why is all this a
stuff looks so fake? Well, why can't they just make
this stuff look better? I'm like, the kids are gonna
be all right. She just knows. It's inherent, it's intrinsic.
She just knows. I have never said this stuff to her,
not once, and she just knows on her own. I'm like, Okay,
it's maybe the tightest turning. Maybe our friends are having
these conversations, but that's also a good sign. So that
was I kind of felt like, yeah, small win in
this life going by it, and I'm like, okay, you've
opened up the door now we can talk about this.
And I'm like, okay, So that's That's been fun to
see happen just just since last night.
Speaker 2: The mom you're here, a little kid say hey.
Speaker 1: I swap exactly. It's the most beautiful phrase in the
English language from the mouth of babes. All right, last
couple of stories here Early Tokyo Scramble reviews. I'm only
including this because it has that insane four player mode.
Let's explain what that was. It was this like weird
survival game that showed up in that Nintendo Partner Direct.
It looked pretty bad, but it has a four player
co op mode where you're like, oh, yeah, so four
players are trying to survive in this co op world. No,
it's four people controlling one character. One person moves them,
one person attacks, one person controls the camera or something.
Who knows what the fourth person does just cheers everyone on.
I need to see it for myself, but it only
has two reviews so far. The embargo went up today.
I think it's out now.
Speaker 2: Two on Open Critic and one on Metacritic.
Speaker 1: Yes, this one. I have the two on Open Critic,
one from Portuguese website Pete sa Fria from Luca Yeah,
Luca de as a Veddo Sirez. Yeah, I think that's
close enough. So he gave it a seven out of
ten and said Tokyo Scramble is worthwhile for those seeking
a survival experience focused on tension and style, but less
so for those expecting a stealth thriller with deep strategic
construction and way too many games. Gave it a five
point five out of ten and said Tokyo Scramble isn't
a bad game by any means. It's very much middle
of the Road. It does look exciting at times, with
some areas standing out more than others, and overall it's
a pretty good looking game. That is not what I
got from that trailer.
Speaker 2: Four disagrees, four Noisy Pixel disagrees, and they get okay,
four out of ten, calling it ambitious, but it pretty
much struggles with everything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just it looked sloppy and cheap to me
in that trailer. But maybe there was more going on.
There's always the possibility it's like it's one of those
systems games, so it looks cheap for a reason so
they can have all these things happen. It doesn't seem
like it's that either. There was also let's see, you
know what I think. Someone mentioned that Reanimal began getting reviews. Yeah,
eighty one, eighty one on Open Critic. We refreshed to
make sure that's still the case. Yeah eighty one on
oprah Critic. Not bad. No quote on the poll here
from Open Critic for GamePro that gave us sixty five
out of one hundred is that game pro Game Pro.
Speaker 2: I have to add that to Open Critic for us.
Speaker 1: Although yeah, Nintendo Life gave it a nine out of ten.
Nile Bowie said, with re Animal, Tarsier Studios delivers it's darkest,
boldest work yet, expanding on the Little Nightmares formula. With
non linear exploration, striking audio visual design, and bombastic set pieces,
this is an imaginative horror experience that confidently delivers its
vision while offering accessible co op play that fans of
the developer have long clamored for. Seventy four from PC Gamer,
eight point five from PlayStation Universe, ninety out of one
hundred from Frank Montez at A Generation Xbox. Okay, yeah,
sounds sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2: I am adding our nine out of ten?
Speaker 1: You uh, okay? Nine out of ten?
Speaker 2: What was our CEO and founder? Whatever? The editor in chief,
John really liked it. Little bit or two was his
game of the year back when it came out. He
gave it a nine, with his final thing being Animal.
Oh he's British. Animal doesn't give us all the unces ball,
the tone, the credits roll. There's no comfort enclosure here.
It's a game in the world that lingas well. Have
so many ununc questions, so many theories.
Speaker 1: Beautiful are repors of the game. So he could be
a leva polar He's a metro bowne Levapol Beautiful Ringo
is a great reviewer, absolutely all right, last story here.
Some of February's PlayStation Plus Game Catalog titles have leaked,
including Spider Man two. According to Bill Bill Kuhn, the
major big additions this month is Marvel Spider Man two.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: It will be joined by Test Drive Unlimited, Solar Crown
for the PS five, and Never Neva I never knew
how to say that one, which never okay, I never ever,
with all three games set to be added to the
game catalog on February seventeenth, Okay, there you go. I
know people always like to get updates on the stuff.
A lot of subscribers for those things. Everyone always wants
to know what's coming up soon. Last month, eight new
games were added for PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, So if
you haven't checked in recently, there you can get Resident Evil,
Village Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth Expeditions, a mund Runner game,
Just Banger after Banger Here, a Quiet Place, The Road Ahead,
Darkest Dungeon two, the Exit Eight. They're making an Exit
eight movie.
Speaker 2: Have seen that it has been reviewed. It's at ninety
on Rotten Tomatoes. With like thirty two reviews.
Speaker 1: It looked really good. Yeah, I'll count that's amazing. I'll
check that out.
Speaker 2: You play that the best video game adaption movie ever?
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, that's even higher than that weird wolf
Man movie from that was based on a Ubisoft VR
game that did really well with the guy from Detroiter's
Art of Rally, which is a really good rally racing
like isometric game A Little to the Left, which I
think is that organizational game. A lot of good stuff
already on there, and now they're adding Spider Man two.
All right, that does it for the headlines. Let's go
ahead and get to the pole question from yesterday. Pole. Yeah,
let's see, I have the poll for you right here.
If I go to that, I'm gonna get the most
recent Yeah, I voted no. Okay, let's see here I
started playing music instead dot Com slash at, Giant Bomb
slash posts. Here we go from yesterday. Are you still
excited about the future of RGG games after Yakuza Kawami
three and Dark Ties review scores? Only forty five percent
said yes, Fifty five percent said now or ques yeah?
Speaker 2: Because go at Yakaza Kwami three wasn't really them when
you go get the credits Yakaza Kwami three, wash, let's
get this out for our.
Speaker 1: Gent and a bunch of others.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it sucked. It didn't look great. The
underlying game of Yakaza three is still fun in ways.
But while I wasn't as low as Lexi at two,
I was six point five. And I'm kind of shocked
at some of the nines. Yeah, that Dark Ties and
the the change to the ending is just so dumb
and poorly done. And but like Stranger than Heaven and
Virturofighter look awesome, so for their future. Still excited for
the future of Yakuza not as much.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's do a let's do a similar question,
uh for today? Are you happy with the current state
of Silent Hill? Yes or no? And I think most
people are going to agree with you, Jesse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I forgot in the chat they said Kawami
three is the last Kawami and that the rest of
the series is being rebooted as the Didoji Universe. I
guess they have to do. They splintered the timeline so
much with the ending change that the following games really
don't make sense.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, weird.
Speaker 2: I guess they're just I don't know what. I don't
know what they're doing. I'm what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to be excited for their Virtual
Fighter game and for Project Century, which I can never
remember with the Stranger than Heaven, Stranger than Heaven, Yeah,
the promise, I'm like, it's not Stranger than Stranger of Paradise.
That's wrong, It's no, it's not stranger Chaos chaos? All right?
Are you happy with the current state of Silent Hill.
We'll get the results of that talk about on tomorrow's show.
Here on Giant Bomb, speaking a Giant Bomb, we have
happening on the website today is Yeah, it's time for
Mike to go back to Virtue, so it's here everybody.
Blight Club returns. Me and Dan should be recording a
quick look for Mario Tennis that will be able to
go up later this week. Just because the embargo stuff.
It's just easier if we put out when the game
is fully launched, so you can expect that then. Other
than that, yeah, tomorrow will be normal stuff for the
most part. We'll have a voicemail dump truck and all
that stuff. I'll be back with Game mess mornings. All
that out of the way, though, Jesse, why do I
tell people whe they can find you on the internet
telling about the new website, rebrand one more time and
all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: Now we're day one. You can pretty much find us
at Playday dot one is the website where Playday one
on Blue Sky, where Playday Underscore one on Twitter. Though
I can't imagine we stay on that garbage site that
much longer. But yeah, everything is going to be at
playday dot one. By the end of the month. We'll
have our whole new membership program ruled out. We are
same content, different wrapper. Essentially. If you like what we
did before, it won't be gone. There just will be
more stuff added on top of it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Yep, thank you. I appreciate you coming on ton us
all about it. Everyone should go check out playday dot
one right now. Okay, let's see we talked about what's
happening on Giant Bomb. Oh yeah, Abby's gonna be on
voicemail dump truck. You might have something to say everybody,
so it'll be one to watch, uh And then yeah,
I think with all that out of the way, let's
do this. Jesse, thank you so much for hanging out
with me today and talking about video games. Man, I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: It is very fun. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for watching. You are the best audience
in gaming. Until next time, have a good one, take
care of yourself and goodbye.