Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Greb,
Speaker 1: your host from giant bomb dot com. We're brought to
Speaker 1: you by MSI. We'll talk about that more later, but
Speaker 1: thank you for tuning in. In this episode, we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking about what happened at games Com and
Speaker 1: switch to getting a beloved final Fantasy. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good one because we have Jason.
Speaker 2: Bonelli on the show. Jason, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm feeling good. It was very productive yesterday during
Speaker 3: opening night live covering it over on Game Spot. I
Speaker 3: think I had seven six or seven articles all told,
Speaker 3: go up throughout the day.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay.
Speaker 3: I had a couple of pre rights that I was
Speaker 3: able to do, and then I covered some of the
Speaker 3: big things during the show. It was there was a lot.
Speaker 3: There was a lot coming at here from different angles.
Speaker 3: Some people, you know, they love to say that the
Speaker 3: shows like this are bad or whatever grade this show,
Speaker 3: but honestly, as far as like quantity is concerned, there
Speaker 3: was a lot of take in quality obviously, give or take,
Speaker 3: but there were some things I was excited about. How
Speaker 3: about you, Bubsy, Yeah, no, there it is.
Speaker 1: I am well listen at least that Bubbsy game looks
Speaker 1: all right. So if I'm if this is gonna be
Speaker 1: my lot in life, I'll maybe I don't have to
Speaker 1: suffer quite as much. Yeah, I I like, well, that'll
Speaker 1: be the poll question Today'm gon to. We are gonna
Speaker 1: ask people who grade the show I do. I always
Speaker 1: do wonder like what rubric people use when they are
Speaker 1: deciding that, because it's going to be a very personal thing. Right,
Speaker 1: do you want to be entertained during the show? Do
Speaker 1: you only care about making a list of games that
Speaker 1: you're excited about? Like for me, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's always a combination of those factors. I just never
Speaker 1: want to feel like we're like we're wasting our time,
Speaker 1: And sometimes those shows can have that that sensation of like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of this feels like it was
Speaker 1: a waste or filling in a filling in time when
Speaker 1: I have other stuff I could be doing. But there
Speaker 1: are plenty of games that I'm like, Okay, at the
Speaker 1: very least I want to try those, not a ton
Speaker 1: of like, well, I know I'm gonna love that, but
Speaker 1: you know that that's fine, that's completely okay.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, we always get to
Speaker 1: a point with these KILLI shows where it's like, you know, oh, Killey,
Speaker 1: what is he doing.
Speaker 2: He can only show off.
Speaker 1: The games that are actually ready that the companies actually
Speaker 1: want to show off. So this is what was available,
Speaker 1: and you know, at a certain point, maybe, okay, maybe
Speaker 1: he was charging too much. I don't think so, because
Speaker 1: people keep coming back to him, they keep paying that money,
Speaker 1: and the price keeps going up, which to me tells
Speaker 1: me that people in these companies do believe that going
Speaker 1: to a Jeff Keey show is worth it and it
Speaker 1: gets them the attention they need.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think you should still have the pick
Speaker 2: of the litter.
Speaker 1: And at that point, I'm like, yeah, this just comes
Speaker 1: down to there's not enough games from these big companies
Speaker 1: to like make one of these shows completely shine. So
Speaker 1: for what it is, I get it. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you were busy yesterday. I'm glad you were
Speaker 1: able to get a bunch of stuff written up. We have,
Speaker 1: you know, I think kind of setting up the table
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year with shows like this.
Speaker 1: Are you how are you feeling about gaming for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. I'm like, oh, you have plenty
Speaker 1: of games for me to look forward to.
Speaker 3: I'm not like there's not anything that really sticks out
Speaker 3: to me as like I need to play this right now,
Speaker 3: at least until Metroid Prime gets a date. Right, But
Speaker 3: I'm excited for Pokemon, I am now excited for Kirby
Speaker 3: Air Riders. Holy crap, that was nice. Looked like a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. There's a couple of other things here
Speaker 3: and there that I remember is coming out this year
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, that looks like that looks like
Speaker 3: it could be a lot of fun. But I'm not
Speaker 3: in a spot where I'm like desperate for games, right
Speaker 3: because if it's not something that's coming out like brand new,
Speaker 3: my backlog is so full. I can chip away at
Speaker 3: some things, like as Claire Obscure is still staring me
Speaker 3: in the face, like come on, man, when are you
Speaker 3: going to play this? And we don't know if any
Speaker 3: of the games in this presentation could be the next
Speaker 3: Claire Obscure, right, Like Claire Obscure debut at the Xbox
Speaker 3: Showcase last year and then became a smash hit. So
Speaker 3: we might have seen like the people who did a
Speaker 3: No Trea, right, Geama Games. They threw me a curveball
Speaker 3: because when I saw that fella from La vi in
Speaker 3: a Comedia come out, I thought it was Ea bringing
Speaker 3: back Dante's Inferno. He had the same little thing on
Speaker 3: his head, which is all from Dante's Divine Comedy. But
Speaker 3: like to see a souls like approach on that and
Speaker 3: plus a Notrea is fine. It's it's it's it's a
Speaker 3: serviceable souls like for what I tried of it. And
Speaker 3: what I mean by that is I played a demo
Speaker 3: and it beat the ship out of me. It's exactly
Speaker 3: what I expected. And then there's like other stuff. The
Speaker 3: pre show was surprisingly strong. Yeah, like the Battlestar Galactica game.
Speaker 3: The aforementioned nineties mascot Bubbsy was he man in the
Speaker 3: pre show as well. Yes, then there was the there
Speaker 3: was the one where you're just sitting at the controller,
Speaker 3: the planetary Canon PVKK or Planeton, vert Planet and Vertie
Speaker 3: Oh I had I practiced this planet and Vertidi gus
Speaker 3: Canon and comment there it is. We got ah, how
Speaker 3: do you ever screw that up? So easy? It's so easy?
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean that that looks interesting. That looks
Speaker 3: like it's got papers please, thing going on, but instead
Speaker 3: of like collecting papers and verifying things, you're like just
Speaker 3: defending this planet with this one canon. So I don't know,
Speaker 3: could be could be something down the line that came
Speaker 3: from this show that I'll forget came from this show,
Speaker 3: and I'll be like, oh shit, that was a lot
Speaker 3: of fun and we'll see what goes on.
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Speaker 1: All right, we have a lot to get into, so
Speaker 1: let's start the Morning Mess with everything that happened at
Speaker 1: Gamescom twenty twenty five opening night. It says that I
Speaker 1: went through this story. There's some holes here. That's fine.
Speaker 1: We talked about some of them already a he Man
Speaker 1: and some of the Battlestar Galactico game. Yeah, some of
Speaker 1: that stuff isn't in here. I try to add some
Speaker 1: more stuff from the pre show. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1: This comes from Jamie Tugaiev at Dual Shockers. We mentioned
Speaker 1: Bubbs four D that is actually coming from the studio
Speaker 1: that did Demons Tide or Demon Tides I should say,
Speaker 1: which was a three platformer.
Speaker 2: They actually got a sequel a little bit a little
Speaker 2: bit ago.
Speaker 1: It's from the last couple of years, and they have
Speaker 1: a really really good look to them, where like you
Speaker 1: are a two D sprite character running through a three
Speaker 1: D world and the animation this looks really nice. I
Speaker 1: played that game and thought it felt pretty good. Like
Speaker 1: a lot of other indie three D platformers, it's never
Speaker 1: it never feels like they're quite over the hump of like,
Speaker 1: oh man, this, we don't even need three D platformers
Speaker 1: from the big companies anymore.
Speaker 2: Indie games got have this.
Speaker 1: It's not like none of those games have quite been
Speaker 1: there yet, but they are getting closer. And this was
Speaker 1: definitely one where I was like, Okay, this is pretty close.
Speaker 1: This feels how I wanted to feel. So seeing them
Speaker 1: come in there and tackle Bubsy, oh boy, can't wait
Speaker 1: to see what that's all about. Sonic and pac Man
Speaker 1: are exchanging DLC Crossworld is going to get pac Man.
Speaker 1: Pac Man World to Repack is getting some Sonic stuff.
Speaker 1: Hollow Night's Silk Song is real coming at twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Jason we're getting that real. Just deep dive into this game.
Speaker 1: Apparently tomorrow they held off, didn't put a lot of
Speaker 1: details into Opening Night Live, although people are playing it
Speaker 1: right now right.
Speaker 3: Yes, the first level I believe is available in a
Speaker 3: via demo on the show floor.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: The public day is not until tomorrow. I believe today
Speaker 3: is media only at games Com, so that would make
Speaker 3: sense as to why they're waiting until tomorrow to do it.
Speaker 3: The public will be there. I imagine they'll be on
Speaker 3: some sort of maybe a little stage, maybe Xbox is stage.
Speaker 3: I don't know it is a specifically Team Cherry stream
Speaker 3: or the video that's going around, so it may just
Speaker 3: be pre recorded, but I imagine that they will be
Speaker 3: on stage with Xbox at some point, considering they're so
Speaker 3: intrinsically linked with the rug L, which we will talk
Speaker 3: about a little bit later in this show based on
Speaker 3: the rundown. But yeah, it's very weird to see actual
Speaker 3: gameplay of Hollow Night moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you sawtime breaking news, everybody, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: PlayStation with PlayStation five price changes in the United States.
Speaker 1: This comes from the PlayStation blog.
Speaker 3: Put in your.
Speaker 1: Bets Now, do you think the price is going up
Speaker 1: or down.
Speaker 3: Everybody, Let's find out. Let's find out together, whole question. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: This is from Isabel Timades at PlayStation What they shouldn't
Speaker 1: have someone have to attach their name. This should go
Speaker 1: right to the president or whatever. All right, here's the
Speaker 1: blog post. Similar to many global businesses, we continue to
Speaker 1: navigate a challenging economic environment. What about my fucking challenging
Speaker 1: economic environment.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: As a result, we've made the difficult decision to increase
Speaker 1: the recommended retail price for PlayStation five consoles in the
Speaker 1: United States starting on August twenty first, that's tomorrow. The
Speaker 1: updated recommended retail price for PlayStation five consoles in the
Speaker 1: United States are as follows. For the PlayStation five, the
Speaker 1: standard version, which I guess and now is the that
Speaker 1: updated version. But whatever, PlayStation five is going to be
Speaker 1: five hundred fifty dollars. Now, the PlayStation five Digital Edition
Speaker 1: is going to be five hundred even four hundred ninety
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine, and then the PlayStation five Pro will
Speaker 1: be seven hundred fifty dollars. I think these are all
Speaker 1: going up by fifty bucks.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, a fifty dollars increase on each one. Yikes,
Speaker 3: just sikes.
Speaker 1: They are not raising the price of their accessories, but
Speaker 1: they have and they have no other price changes to
Speaker 1: announce for additional markets at this time.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The reason for that is they already raised the price
Speaker 1: in a lot of other places. We've kind of been
Speaker 1: waiting for this to happen. I imagine that they were
Speaker 1: like looking for maybe ways around this because they do
Speaker 1: want to sell more PlayStations. They do, but that these
Speaker 1: companies want to raise prices when they can get when
Speaker 1: they can get away with it, and then they also
Speaker 1: sometimes feel forced to do so. This definitely feels like
Speaker 1: we're on that path of them, like looking at Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: right now, we could probably get away with continuing to
Speaker 1: charge the same price for the PlayStation if ever then
Speaker 1: goes perfec from here on out. But the way the
Speaker 1: world has gone, maybe we should not assume that, and
Speaker 1: so we can get away with raising prices right now.
Speaker 1: People still understand, like the tariffs are a factor there
Speaker 1: as well as a bunch of other things. So let's
Speaker 1: just do it, even though it's.
Speaker 2: Going to look bad.
Speaker 1: You know, at a certain point, if you're a console
Speaker 1: gamer and you're looking at PlayStation it's like, what other
Speaker 1: choice do you really have?
Speaker 2: I mean, you can go with Xbox.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna kind of feel like you are just
Speaker 1: waiting to get those or waiting to get some games
Speaker 1: and other games you'll never get, or it's PlayStation will
Speaker 1: eventually just get those Xbox games. So maybe Sony feels
Speaker 1: emboldened and on a lot of fronts, and I think
Speaker 1: they probably do. What is your read here, inevitable? Small
Speaker 1: part of me is like, I'm glad it's only fifty bucks, right.
Speaker 1: It could have been more. They could have justified more,
Speaker 1: but they only went up fifty dollars. I hope it
Speaker 1: is not a longer term plan with incremental release increases
Speaker 1: that would be rough. I find it interesting that they're
Speaker 1: trying to bury it in the game's calm news cycle.
Speaker 1: That's week we're on to you, Sony. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1: It's it's rough.
Speaker 3: It's just a sign of the times that we live in,
Speaker 3: the insane, hard to explain crazy times that are the
Speaker 3: world at the moment. It's not great. It's it's uh,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's unfortunate, and there's really not much more
Speaker 3: you can say about it than this medium that we
Speaker 3: love this art form, whatever however you feel about it,
Speaker 3: is simply getting harder for the layman, the normal casual
Speaker 3: gamer to enjoy, and that ultimately hurts the whole thing
Speaker 3: in the long run. They can we can talk about
Speaker 3: all the games from games Com all we want, all
Speaker 3: the reveals, all the trailers, all that good stuff till
Speaker 3: we're blue in the face, and we will. But if
Speaker 3: there ain't people to play it, if the people can't
Speaker 3: afford the consoles or the PCs to get in on
Speaker 3: the ground floor, what the hell does any of it matter? Right,
Speaker 3: It's just it's it's it's I hate I hate it.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no other way to put it. I
Speaker 3: hate it. I mean.
Speaker 1: Then they kind of they stewed this up themselves in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, these big corporations, to deflating wages
Speaker 1: for decades, lobbying to make sure that it stays that way,
Speaker 1: kind of building it through the culture, putting out propaganda
Speaker 1: and that to make people feel like we don't raise
Speaker 1: the minimum wage, that'll get rid of jobs. And now
Speaker 1: here we are like so far removed from like where
Speaker 1: the purchasing power was once for minimum wage jobs, where
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, you could work here and eventually afford
Speaker 1: a house. That is just not that's a whole other
Speaker 1: planet at this point, is what it feels like. And
Speaker 1: these companies are responsible for that sort of thing. So
Speaker 1: when people don't have the money to get into this
Speaker 1: hobby anymore, which is what we're seeing from the younger generations,
Speaker 1: gen Z doesn't buy video games. They don't buy any
Speaker 1: fucking video games. So and like, can you justify that? Well, no,
Speaker 1: I get it, because they have given them these others.
Speaker 1: Get into our free to play games, get on a treadmill,
Speaker 1: and then we'll find the ones of you that do
Speaker 1: have money, and we'll turn you into Wales and we'll
Speaker 1: extract that. And we're not really interested in the rest
Speaker 1: of you because you don't have any money. And so,
Speaker 1: and that means are we interested in making console games
Speaker 1: anymore traditional games? And they clearly are losing their appetite
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. They're losing their the belief
Speaker 1: that these things can grow, or else these prices wouldn't
Speaker 1: be going up. The prices simply would not be going
Speaker 1: up if they believed in these products long term, because
Speaker 1: they would be like, no, we want to get more
Speaker 1: people into here.
Speaker 2: They don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: It is about getting more money from us, and that
Speaker 1: is like the beginning of a death.
Speaker 2: Spiral in a lot of ways. Now is it that grim?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Things will change, they always do in
Speaker 1: video games. It's like the one constant is the constant
Speaker 1: is that things are dynamic, and one day is very
Speaker 1: different from the next, and one year is especially very
Speaker 1: different from the next year. But we have stagnated in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, and it's like, Okay, maybe that
Speaker 1: truth is not as true as it once was, or
Speaker 1: it will take longer than it has in the past
Speaker 1: for that sort of change to come.
Speaker 2: And when it does, what does it look like? Does
Speaker 2: it just keep getting worse? Right now? It feels that
Speaker 2: way a little bit. So it's it's rough, you know.
Speaker 2: We can't compare this.
Speaker 1: The Xbox Series consoles did go up in price as
Speaker 1: well a few months ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was like earlier in the summer.
Speaker 1: The Xbox Series X two Terabyte Galaxy Special Edition is
Speaker 1: now no longer the most expensive console. Remember that went
Speaker 1: up from six hundred dollars to seven hundred and thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: So now the PS five Pro is only a little
Speaker 1: bit more expensive than that. And then you know that's
Speaker 1: not an Xbox Series X Pro, the Xbox Series X
Speaker 1: like the one that has the disk drive that most
Speaker 1: people would probably get.
Speaker 2: That's six hundred dollars, so right in line with the PlayStation.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, yeah, well, how does PlayStation sort of come
Speaker 1: out and like like sort of distracting this themselves? Like
Speaker 1: are they going to have games here pretty soon to
Speaker 1: kind of really get people to be like, you know,
Speaker 1: what it's worth that price?
Speaker 3: I do believe you yourself was starting a pot a couple
Speaker 3: of days ago saying that there was a showcase coming
Speaker 3: in September. Then we're still to play. Yeah, might want
Speaker 3: to move that up, maybe until before Memorial Labor Day.
Speaker 3: Excuse me if if that is something you're planning to
Speaker 3: do just to get this sour taste out of people's mouths.
Speaker 3: I don't think people are gonna be want to be
Speaker 3: sitting on this for a month if that's how long
Speaker 3: it's taking you to get the State of Player showcase out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean they're gonna especially first party stuff, especially first
Speaker 3: party stuff. They do have Ghost of Yota coming out here,
Speaker 3: they do? Is that a console sellerround.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know what, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it is in some places, and I think
Speaker 1: for some people that would be like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: should I should get this.
Speaker 2: I love ghost Sushima.
Speaker 1: We are forgetting the other thing that is going to sell,
Speaker 1: specifically PlayStations, and maybe a good reason if you're one
Speaker 1: of these companies to do the price increase now so
Speaker 1: you're ready for when that launches. And that's Grand Theft
Speaker 1: Auto six next year, which it's kind of like, throw
Speaker 1: all this shit and we're staying out the window.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: People will buy that game.
Speaker 1: Z will buy that game right because it'll become a
Speaker 1: cultural thing, their favorite stream will be playing it.
Speaker 2: That will move the needle.
Speaker 1: So kind of everything they do before that is just
Speaker 1: like maneuvers to maximize the value of call of duty,
Speaker 1: of well, call duty, but Grand Theft Auto, that's that
Speaker 1: is what they're trying to do here. So you know,
Speaker 1: the PlayStation five has continued to sell like really well
Speaker 1: in terms of just hardware sales.
Speaker 2: It's like two.
Speaker 1: Million when you launch launch a line the PlayStation five
Speaker 1: up against the PlayStation four. I think it's about two
Speaker 1: million behind the PS four. That'll probably flip as soon
Speaker 1: as Grand Theft Auto six is here, so and you
Speaker 1: know another thing that might flip is the you know,
Speaker 1: PlayStation five so sold a certain amount this year, and
Speaker 1: then next year it'll probably sell more than that. So
Speaker 1: it's like, we're gonna see this like bell curve and
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be a new spike. So I just
Speaker 1: think Sony's feeling very confident because of that one game.
Speaker 1: And then meanwhile, and in the meantime, if you're buying
Speaker 1: that system to play PlayStation games, it's still continues to
Speaker 1: feel a little bit like when.
Speaker 2: Is this going to get started? And I just don't
Speaker 2: know if that's ever gonna change.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so either. I also, just because
Speaker 3: of the world that we live in right now and
Speaker 3: the whole Steam and Itch situation, with the whole banning
Speaker 3: of sales and things like that, there's this small nagging
Speaker 3: part in the back of my head. I don't even
Speaker 3: want to say it out loud, that by the time
Speaker 3: Grand Theft Auto six is getting ready to come out,
Speaker 3: Fearless Leader is going to get some evangelicals in his
Speaker 3: ear and he's gonna be like, well, we're not gonna
Speaker 3: let you sell that anymore.
Speaker 2: And then always possible.
Speaker 3: It's a possibility, and the fact that it's even a
Speaker 3: goddamn possibility just the sign of the times that we
Speaker 3: live in fucking sucks.
Speaker 1: I mean, it could be the kind of game that
Speaker 1: where it's like, if they don't do that, it could
Speaker 1: be the one where it's like, well, let's introduce or
Speaker 1: force like a face recognition cameras onto these consoles so
Speaker 1: people have to like show their ideas or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that would be a violations
Speaker 1: to the First Amendment, and yeah, but they don't care.
Speaker 2: So we'll see they don't care.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's just hit the highlights for the
Speaker 1: rest of games com here or you know, you can
Speaker 1: read each one Call Duty. Black Ops seven had another
Speaker 1: like long sort of stage presentation. It's weird. I think
Speaker 1: it's weird in some interesting ways. But god, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna make time for a Black Ops seven.
Speaker 1: Lords of the Fallen two was announced. The Secrow No
Speaker 1: Defeat anime was shown off. It had leaked previously, but
Speaker 1: now people got a chance to see the crunchy roll show.
Speaker 2: It looked pretty good to me.
Speaker 1: And then you know, of course people found the studio
Speaker 1: talking about how they're using AI. So we'll wait and
Speaker 1: see Lego Batman. Legacy of the Dark Knight. This is
Speaker 1: this was the standout for a lot of people. I think, Jason,
Speaker 1: are you a fan of this?
Speaker 3: I think that's uh, I think it's cool. I M sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm still stuck on the PlayStation thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it, Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3: It's I want to get excited for this stuff, but
Speaker 3: it's just sitting there in the back of my head.
Speaker 3: It sucks. Yeah, I think I think my fate, my my,
Speaker 3: uh my thoughts. Going back to Black Ops for a
Speaker 3: second here, A lot of the positive feedback coming out
Speaker 3: of Battlefield six was how pure it was, like a
Speaker 3: pure short of military shooter, and Black Ops didn't really
Speaker 3: do much to get away from like to try and
Speaker 3: match that. Right, it's all like shooting robots and futuristic
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So I think I think they're
Speaker 3: in a They're in a bad spot there. Legacy the
Speaker 3: Dark Knight looks very cool.
Speaker 2: I know what's promising, right.
Speaker 3: I think the fact that they have made that into
Speaker 3: like it's it's following the Dark Knight movies. That's the
Speaker 3: or is it all is it everything.
Speaker 1: It's so I think that like the I would say,
Speaker 1: the core pillar appears to be The Batman, the most
Speaker 1: recent Batman movie, and then it has everything sort of
Speaker 1: orbiting that and it's like all the.
Speaker 2: It's taken from all the Batman.
Speaker 1: So like we didn't see Adam West, but he's gonna
Speaker 1: show up and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Right, yes, but like, yeah, so you saw Bain, you
Speaker 3: saw the Joker and he said why so serious? Clearly
Speaker 3: a nod to Heath Ledger. But yeah, it looks and
Speaker 3: the fact that it's sort of evoking Arkham and its
Speaker 3: gameplay a little bit, is is really really neat that.
Speaker 1: I think that's the promise inside of it, because it
Speaker 1: feels like, oh that that could feel like a really
Speaker 1: fresh turn for the Lego games. So yes, it looks
Speaker 1: like they play like Arkham and then it's open world,
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's kind of like, okay, they're just
Speaker 2: kind of doing more.
Speaker 3: They're doing more. Very very excited man who came out
Speaker 3: to speak after the trailer showed was like, it's oh,
Speaker 3: good world. It's like the one thing I took from that,
Speaker 3: but you've been hearing well. It was very cool, All right,
Speaker 3: let's keep going.
Speaker 1: Warhammer forty K Dawn of War four was revealed. Will continue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: was the rough third game. It does seem like they're
Speaker 1: trying to make this a make good we'll see. Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter Wilds is doing its crossover with Final Fantasy fourteen,
Speaker 1: as those franchises are one to do any Mushot Way
Speaker 1: of the Sword got a new trailer. I believe Tam
Speaker 1: and Lucy checked that out and put out a preview today.
Speaker 1: I've heard, you know, secondhand, I haven't read that yet
Speaker 1: or watched it yet, that they were pretty impressed by it.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm ready to check that game out, and
Speaker 1: I hope it's good. Arc Knight's Infield, a spinoff is
Speaker 1: coming to PS five and PC Europa. Universalis five got
Speaker 1: a pretty good, pretty good trailer that looked nice. Damon
Speaker 1: x Makina Titanic Scion had a play or has a
Speaker 1: playable demo that got announced. Void Break Yeah, the Rogue
Speaker 1: Light FBS void Breaker is out now in early access.
Speaker 1: Fallout TV got a The Fallout TV series Season two
Speaker 1: got a new trailer. Let's see Indiana Jones and the
Speaker 1: Great Circles coming to switch to They also showed off
Speaker 1: some of the DLC that's coming soon. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty big one to see on on switch to. It's
Speaker 1: a graphically impressive game. It doesn't run great on Steam Deck,
Speaker 1: so I will be interested to see how they get
Speaker 1: it running on switch To, although I think you know,
Speaker 1: the GPU will help there as.
Speaker 2: Long as it's not held back by CPU. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: Deadpool v R got a new trailer. World of Tanks
Speaker 1: is I mean, it's two point zero update. Although this
Speaker 1: story you're says despite a difficult year, I wonder if
Speaker 1: there's something happened with the World of World Tanks is
Speaker 1: appalling a part over.
Speaker 3: There the list before this. The last uh news I
Speaker 3: remember about these games like World of Warships World of
Speaker 3: Tanks is that they were leaking military secrets.
Speaker 2: That sounds familiar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the one thing like they were they were
Speaker 3: talking about schematics for the vehicles in the game, and
Speaker 3: then they were like, oh, these are actual classified military secrets. Oops.
Speaker 3: But no, the world the two point er update for
Speaker 3: World of Tanks is finally going up to tier eleven,
Speaker 3: which is something that the.
Speaker 2: Fans work under said chat chat, wrong one, wrong one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, it's it's going up to tier eleven,
Speaker 3: which which the fans have really wanted for a very
Speaker 3: long time, I understand, which is also neat. Warhammer had
Speaker 3: another announcement further down the list, which is a ten
Speaker 3: v ten Hero Tank Shooter, So you're you get a tank,
Speaker 3: you get an agent that has certain abilities, and you
Speaker 3: can like customize your tank and then play ten v
Speaker 3: ten matches over Tank Tank Watch whatever you want to
Speaker 3: call it Tank Rivals, I guess now because that's the
Speaker 3: most popular one. Seems interesting, seems different, different way to
Speaker 3: play World of Tanks. I don't know if it's gonna
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's gonna really last that long
Speaker 3: because if you remember, back in December at the Game Awards,
Speaker 3: Wargaming also announced that Steel Hunters online battle reale multiplayer
Speaker 3: game thing, and that one's already shut down, like it's
Speaker 3: already gone. So I don't know if they just move
Speaker 3: those resources to this or what. But yeah, so that's
Speaker 3: that Wargaming. Other than World of Tanks. Anything they do,
Speaker 3: I hold at arm's length because I don't know how
Speaker 3: long it's going to last. With Steel Hunters being the
Speaker 3: first one there, Toxic Commando going further down the list
Speaker 3: here look earlier, so Toxic Commando looked very cool. Want
Speaker 3: to give that it's due Earlier in the show, Jeff
Speaker 3: said Ron Gilbert, and I went Ron Gilbert neat and
Speaker 3: then death by scrolling happened. Then I'm like, is this
Speaker 3: the Ron Gilbert game?
Speaker 2: What it was? The Ron Gilbert game?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And the more I the more I look at it,
Speaker 3: the cooler it seems. It seems like a weird little
Speaker 3: rogue thing.
Speaker 1: He's tried some different kinds of games before, so I'm like,
Speaker 1: and usually those pan out pretty well, So yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: be interested to see if he's able to make this work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it looks like a vertically scrolling Vampire Survivors with
Speaker 1: maybe some Ron Gilbert humor.
Speaker 3: I wonder if they were going to name it Going Vertical,
Speaker 3: but that got taken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have on the trademark there, so back off, Ron,
Speaker 1: Get out of here, Ron road Kings from Saber. It
Speaker 1: looks like European truck simulator, but like a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a game. They showed a lot more of
Speaker 1: like fist bumping people when you complete a mission, and
Speaker 1: then the traffic just like looked really realistic.
Speaker 2: I was impressed by it. I'm definitely I.
Speaker 3: Thought of you when that trailer played, I'm like, Jeff's
Speaker 3: gonna love that that. It seems like it's right up
Speaker 3: his alley.
Speaker 2: And I did. I thought it was.
Speaker 1: It looked really impressive and its saber and so I
Speaker 1: know they know they're big machines, and I'm like, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a good sort of offshoot of.
Speaker 2: What they've done in other areas in this space. Zaoom
Speaker 2: is back. It was funny. Keeley was like, you know.
Speaker 1: They've had some stuff happened since the last game came
Speaker 1: out Discalesium. Anyway, Zero Parades It's like, oh, yeah, what stuff, Jeff,
Speaker 1: what happened? It's completely fell apart, and who knows who's
Speaker 1: even making this game? Either way, Zero Parades looks exactly
Speaker 1: like Disco Elysium. It's crazy. The Darkest Files director discusses
Speaker 1: the power of the of games as tool against tools
Speaker 1: against oppression. RPG Neverness to Eagerness has open registration. Now
Speaker 1: there was let's see, yes, Bachi the Rock meets Celeste
Speaker 1: in Unbeatable, which is coming out November six. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: looked pretty promising. Honor of King's World. It's well, another
Speaker 1: spinoff for one of these games. It's huge in other
Speaker 1: parts of the world. Squid games, Yeah, Squid game collaboration
Speaker 1: is happening in Fortnite and Call of Duty. Now Delta
Speaker 1: Force is finally coming out on console. They showed off
Speaker 1: Ninja Guide in fours gameplay in a new trailer.
Speaker 2: Looked fantastic.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Cinder City is a co op shooter that has looks
Speaker 1: like battlefield with monsters.
Speaker 2: Who reads this story? There was the Survival is Time Takers.
Speaker 2: I thought that was.
Speaker 3: Yeah game, Look that looks interesting.
Speaker 1: It's got Robbie Williams running around with a gun. Now,
Speaker 1: let's see. Silent Hilps got its English voice over trailer.
Speaker 1: That was Mike joke and I am still laughing about it.
Speaker 3: The joke. The joke I made was Silent Hill f
Speaker 3: which is named after the sound I make whenever I
Speaker 3: play a Silent Hill game.
Speaker 2: Uh, Dante is back. You mentioned this one? Uh?
Speaker 3: La Divina Comedia is that close enough? La Divina Comedia
Speaker 3: is this studio Giama based in Milan, Italy, so very
Speaker 3: steeped in they made They made a not tree of
Speaker 3: the last song, which was Soul's like but Comedia del Arte. Uh,
Speaker 3: so to see them tackling Dante A makes sense and
Speaker 3: B is very cool.
Speaker 1: U kingdcom Deliverance two's getting some DLC. Legacy of the
Speaker 1: Forge looks like a new crafting system. Vampire the Mass
Speaker 1: Grade Bloodlines two that reappeared, and I think it's coming
Speaker 1: out soon.
Speaker 2: They didn't write a date here. I've meant to do that.
Speaker 3: I think October twenty one of this year.
Speaker 1: That's so bananus, But I mean, I guess the game's
Speaker 1: been in development for a long time. I just kind
Speaker 1: of considered it as a game that would never come out,
Speaker 1: so compared to that, this is extremely soon actually compared
Speaker 1: to anything.
Speaker 2: October soon.
Speaker 1: Delta Force has a new project. The doves behind that
Speaker 1: game have a Project Spectrum, which is a co op
Speaker 1: horror shooter World of Tanks introduced Heat, which is a
Speaker 1: has like a futuristic spin on their gameplay.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Goes to YOTEG gets an extended trailer and the reveal
Speaker 1: of the Legends DLC. So the co op multiplayer thing
Speaker 1: that was in the first game that got released as
Speaker 1: free DLC later on is also happening here. That'll come
Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty six, Resident Evil Requiem got a
Speaker 1: new trailer as well. Thought I thought it looked good,
Speaker 1: But you know, I think a lot of people are like, man,
Speaker 1: if we're holding back that game the entire time we
Speaker 1: knew it was happening, I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: were hoping for.
Speaker 2: A little bit more.
Speaker 1: I think people are really waiting for is to see
Speaker 1: if there's other characters in the game. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people believe that there will be other characters,
Speaker 1: and they're still not confirming that, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're probably going to keep holding that back for a
Speaker 1: while now.
Speaker 3: This morning, so you mentioned the Onna Musha game play earlier,
Speaker 3: capcom Relea, the embargo went up on three different games, Pragmata,
Speaker 3: which does exist, only Musha and this. It's all hands
Speaker 3: on gameplay and it's basically everything we saw at SGF
Speaker 3: but now hands on. Right. So if you go watch
Speaker 3: the Resident Evil Requiem demo, hands on demo that all
Speaker 3: the websites have posted their gameplay off, that's what we
Speaker 3: the theater presentation we watched in SGF at SGF, and
Speaker 3: that's Leasta Trevor right. It has to be has to be.
Speaker 1: I think that's what everyone is thinking. Yeah, Jen played
Speaker 1: that stuff yesterday. We might still my time to do
Speaker 1: something with that. He got some gameplay footage and we'll
Speaker 1: find places to talk about that and go over it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, last thing here from the rundown Black
Speaker 1: Myth Jeong Qui I believe is However, I'm going to
Speaker 1: say that a sequel, spin off, standalone DLC. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's something new from the Black Myth series.
Speaker 3: Rumors made it sound like it is a standalone sequel
Speaker 3: or standalone game because Jeff also made the comment that
Speaker 3: the Wukong's Journey to the West is also not done.
Speaker 3: Then he pulled out his little fan because he's a
Speaker 3: cool guy. So I think it might be them having
Speaker 3: a whole new project to go alongside a quick yes shank,
Speaker 3: there it is. But yeah, I think I think this
Speaker 3: is going to be a standalone thing and not related
Speaker 3: to Wukong. I think Wukong is going to continue on
Speaker 3: the side.
Speaker 1: Some stuff yeah that we didn't like that wasn't in
Speaker 1: this rundown, but he man, that one looked really good.
Speaker 2: It's like Golden.
Speaker 1: Axe, yes, and big and heavy. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be like stream to Rage four, which is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fantastic. We have streets of Rage four. There are
Speaker 1: other beat m ups you should be drawing from. I
Speaker 1: talked to Audie about it. He also mentioned the capcom
Speaker 1: D and D beat him ups. He's drawing from that
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm like, oh cool, that's yeah. Chronicle was awesome. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, I just think this is going to
Speaker 1: be one of these that really hits. The beat him
Speaker 1: up genre just got left behind because people didn't realize
Speaker 1: how much more you could do with it. And I
Speaker 1: think giving these games a chance to come back and
Speaker 1: trying different versions of it, like I'm ready for the
Speaker 1: Golden next version of this.
Speaker 2: That's that sounds perfect.
Speaker 3: Chat reminds me Outlaws.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, exactly right, that that did the leak.
Speaker 1: But it was like and then when you like start
Speaker 1: thinking about it's like night Dive has already done Dark Forces.
Speaker 1: This is the same engine, so sure they should do this,
Speaker 1: but it's still it's surprising that someone's going because that's
Speaker 1: just not a game people talk about a lot. But
Speaker 1: now that it's here, I'm like, yeah, that looks awesome.
Speaker 1: That's a Lucas Arts shooter. With a Western style, like
Speaker 1: a kind of a spahetty Western style to it. And yes,
Speaker 1: it looks a lot like Dark Forces, but in the
Speaker 1: Why West. And give me more of that. All right,
Speaker 1: we got to get to the break. We're gonna do
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Speaker 1: Let's get back into the show, Like, let's wrap up
Speaker 1: is what happened over a Games comes Opening Night Live
Speaker 1: with a little bit more details about Lego Batman Legacy
Speaker 1: of the Dark Knight. They are not saying how much
Speaker 1: it's going to cost that I think this is the
Speaker 1: move right now, Like why say it?
Speaker 2: Because you might want to continue to see what like
Speaker 2: what you can get away with.
Speaker 1: But it does feel like we are maybe steadying out
Speaker 1: at seventy dollars. I do expect this game to be seventy,
Speaker 1: but it was like I think people are used to that.
Speaker 1: If they said this game with seventy dollars, I think
Speaker 1: everyone would go, yeah, okay, I think like that battle
Speaker 1: is lost. So it's like why not just say it?
Speaker 1: And is it because you're thinking about eighty. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can do that, but but yeah, what
Speaker 1: do you expect here?
Speaker 3: This being so this being a Lego game, they may
Speaker 3: actually be thinking perhaps a little lower, depending on the
Speaker 3: scope of this game and really how big it is.
Speaker 3: Lego games tend to be like back when when in
Speaker 3: the Xbox three sixty PlayStation three era, when the Lego
Speaker 3: games will come out, they come out at like fifty
Speaker 3: instead of sixty sometimes, So maybe.
Speaker 1: Things have changed, right, Yes, Star Wars the Skywalker Saga.
Speaker 1: The whole point of that one was like, this is
Speaker 1: the massive one, and we're making a ton of improvements,
Speaker 1: and so it's going to be a big, full game.
Speaker 1: I think them making these these these games, I think
Speaker 1: that was part of it, is they had to justify, Hey,
Speaker 1: we want these to be big sellers and we want
Speaker 1: them to have a premium price, So make those games
Speaker 1: the way that they need to be made to justify that.
Speaker 1: And this definitely feels like that. So I just won't
Speaker 1: be surprised if it's like I guess, I guess I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Maybe sixty, Yeah that's still possible, but I'm gonna guess.
Speaker 3: It's seventy seventy would be my guest too, if I
Speaker 3: really had to think about it. I hope, I hope
Speaker 3: it's not ey. This goes eighty, Everything's going eighty.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for real.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's keep moving here. Starfield is coming to
Speaker 1: switch to next year, it has been claimed. This is
Speaker 1: from Chris Scollion at VEGC. A port of Starfield will
Speaker 1: reportedly be released on switch To next year. That's according
Speaker 1: to industry insider Nate the Hate, who has a track
Speaker 1: record of breaking stories about unreleased games. Indiana Jones in
Speaker 1: the Great Circle won't be the only Bethesta game coming
Speaker 1: to Nintendo switch To in twenty twenty six. He posted
Speaker 1: on Twitter, see that planet you can go there. Aside
Speaker 1: from landing out PS five, Starfield has planned for release
Speaker 1: on Nintendo switch To in twenty twenty six. Starfield has
Speaker 1: yet to be officially confirmed for even the PlayStation five,
Speaker 1: but numerous reports, including one earlier this month, suggest Bethesda
Speaker 1: sci fi RPG is being readied for Sony's console. Microsoft
Speaker 1: and Bethesta confirmed during Gamescom's Opening Night Live presentation that
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones The Great Circle will be released on Nintendo
Speaker 1: switch To in twenty twenty six, making it the first
Speaker 1: major Xbox first party title.
Speaker 2: To be announced for Nintendo's new platform. As always, as.
Speaker 1: A reminder, Xbox is a target of the BDS boycott
Speaker 1: movement for it's providing services that are causing an ethnic
Speaker 1: cleansing in Gaza. Starfield is probably going to come to
Speaker 1: switch To just because, like all these games are probably
Speaker 1: going to come there. But that is a game that
Speaker 1: also doesn't run very well on the Steam Deck, So
Speaker 1: I will be interested to see how they get it
Speaker 1: to run on the switch To, which is you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit more powerful than the Steam Deck for sure.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: But the other question here, Jason would be does this
Speaker 1: Starfield move the needle anymore? I mean, is anyone going
Speaker 1: to care this time around?
Speaker 3: No, the only way the PlayStation users were going to
Speaker 3: care about Starfield is when it launched, because it has
Speaker 3: since launched and it was not good, at least not
Speaker 3: in Bethesda terms. So PlayStation, maybe some die hard it's
Speaker 3: going to be, well, let's see what happens and then
Speaker 3: they'll try it and whatever goes on now Switch that's different.
Speaker 3: I feel like even people who may have already played
Speaker 3: it on Xbox may give it a shot on switch
Speaker 3: To just to be able to play it wherever they want.
Speaker 3: That seems like the kind of game for a long
Speaker 3: flight or like like like a road trip, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, like where you just sit down and
Speaker 3: mess around in the in space for a little while,
Speaker 3: complete some missions or go get lost in some solar system.
Speaker 3: It seems a good, a good past the time game
Speaker 3: for something like that. And while you could technically do
Speaker 3: that with Xbox Play Anywhere on your phone or Xbox
Speaker 3: Cloud Gaming or what have you. Yes, I almost chucked
Speaker 3: my phone into my face, but I think having it
Speaker 3: on switch To where it will actually run and not
Speaker 3: need the Wi Fi on the plane to make that
Speaker 3: cloud connection will be better for it. I also am
Speaker 3: kind of hoping maybe that if is planning anything with Fallout,
Speaker 3: be it a collection or a remaster or something like that,
Speaker 3: that Starfield going to switch To, if this is real,
Speaker 3: could perhaps be the bridge for something like that, because
Speaker 3: I think Fallout on switch To would be wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that does feel like they will just keep moving.
Speaker 1: That Oblivion remake or whatever it was didn't come to
Speaker 1: switch one, so I met that also comes to switch
Speaker 1: to here pretty soon.
Speaker 3: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: That didn't get announced, right, Yeah, it was kind of
Speaker 1: like a little bit too close. It launched and then
Speaker 1: the switch To was getting announced all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: they didn't mention that.
Speaker 2: Elden Rings the kind of a game that.
Speaker 1: Filled that spot for me in my head, just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the big port that they'll do that does well at launch,
Speaker 1: that'll probably happen soon.
Speaker 3: I think Oblivian Remastered actually shadow dropped the same week
Speaker 3: as the or maybe the week after the switch To reveals,
Speaker 3: right the same time, sounds right, Yeah, So yeah that
Speaker 3: Oblivion Remastered would also be a very good bridge to
Speaker 3: the switch To if they decided to do that either way.
Speaker 3: Is it's not the first salvo of Microsoft putting their
Speaker 3: games onto Nintendo's switch or switch to, but I think
Speaker 3: this might be a little more notable in how powerful
Speaker 3: this game is, Like Pentiment good as good of a
Speaker 3: game as it is not the most powerful game in
Speaker 3: the world. So if they can get Starfield on there
Speaker 3: without blowing up switch To batteries, then that kind of
Speaker 3: bodes well for the rest of Microsoft's portfolio. Just getting
Speaker 3: ever so closer to the inevitable Halo switch To experience
Speaker 3: it's going to happen eventually.
Speaker 2: Yep, it does feel inevitable as well.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, the rog Xbox Ally handheld launch day
Speaker 1: is set for October features steam Deck style compatibility guide.
Speaker 1: They have a handheld optimized thing where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we'll test these games. We'll tell you if it's mostly compatible,
Speaker 1: should perform well, should perform great, which means sixty frames
Speaker 1: per second or above, and then if we haven't checked
Speaker 1: the performance, we haven't done any testing of the game.
Speaker 1: They're going to basically have the check Ark style thing
Speaker 1: similar to what steam Deck has. The release date is
Speaker 1: in October. Let's see, do I have yeah, October sixteenth.
Speaker 1: They still aren't talking about a price though themselves. A
Speaker 1: price has leaked from Bill Bill koon Over at deal Labs,
Speaker 1: who is very good at like tracking down what's happening
Speaker 1: at retailers, and the price that he's found is five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars for the Xbox rog Ally and
Speaker 1: then nine hundred dollars for the Xbox rog Ally X.
Speaker 3: These are the prices.
Speaker 1: I think this is right in the range where the
Speaker 1: rumors had been for a while, so I don't think
Speaker 1: people are too stunned, And yet I just man nine
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for one of these handhelds, even knowing that
Speaker 1: that is actually kind of a fair price compared to
Speaker 1: like where these handhelds were a few years ago, and really,
Speaker 1: like you know, the Steam Deck subsidizing the price, so
Speaker 1: it kind of has had a deflationary effect on the
Speaker 1: entire market, kind of having forcing everyone else to compete
Speaker 1: with that. Even with that in mind, I'm just not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna spend nine hundred dollars on a
Speaker 1: handheld like this. I just can't. I can't justify that.
Speaker 1: I wonder who will do that though, Jason.
Speaker 3: I think Xbox diehards who don't have a handheld yet
Speaker 3: and have been waiting for this one will be the
Speaker 3: person that that will buy this. I am perfectly happy
Speaker 3: with my Legion. Go my Legion go s. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you're perfectly happy with the Steam Deck or whatever we
Speaker 3: have other ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a rug ally the original Rock. I
Speaker 1: don't have the r I X Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm perfectly happy with that. It runs the
Speaker 3: Xbox Games fine on the Xbox App. It runs the
Speaker 3: Steam Games fine. As I found out, it ran the
Speaker 3: Battlefield six Beta pretty good too, right, So I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm fine, like I don't, I don't need
Speaker 3: to do this. That price is steep, and I will
Speaker 3: say Billy Billy did report that, but also best buy
Speaker 3: listings went up that had these prices and then took
Speaker 3: them deck. That's right, So I think we find out
Speaker 3: what these prices are. They say it's for macroeconomics. There
Speaker 3: was a reporter in i GN saying they didn't want
Speaker 3: to give the price for macroeconomical reasons. That seems to
Speaker 3: be the running excuse. Now we're not going to give
Speaker 3: you the price yet because we don't know where the
Speaker 3: market's going to be, which is understandable. But I think
Speaker 3: they already know what the price is, and by the
Speaker 3: end of games come, I think we may find out
Speaker 3: how much we're going to be spending on this thing.
Speaker 3: And if these are the prices, then I might be
Speaker 3: out for the time being. I don't know that I
Speaker 3: can swing nine hundred bucks when I have a perfectly
Speaker 3: good Like I said, lead you go sitting on the
Speaker 3: table behind me, that'll have to do, right.
Speaker 1: And it's like having that out there makes the more
Speaker 1: affordable model feel like, well, why would I spend six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to get something that's not going to be
Speaker 1: as good. It's just a tough position. Yeah, I'm probably
Speaker 1: out for now, although I'm curious. I continue to be
Speaker 1: curious about like how this is going to work. At
Speaker 1: the very least, I just hope that this isn't like
Speaker 1: some stunted and aborted thing where like the Microsoft doesn't
Speaker 1: try to continue to improve its operating system on handhelds.
Speaker 1: I want them to keep doing that, just so that
Speaker 1: steam Os has some competition and it improves both sides.
Speaker 1: We'll see Final Fantasy fourteen dev on switch to version
Speaker 1: says there's been quote positive discussions with Nintendo.
Speaker 2: This is from Nintendo everything.
Speaker 1: Could we see Final Fantasy fourteen on Nintendo Switch to
Speaker 1: one day? Producer Naoki Yoship Yoshida has indicated that Square
Speaker 1: Enix is in talks with Nintendo and it sounds like
Speaker 1: things are going well so far, he said in an
Speaker 1: interview with VGC when asked about potentially getting Final Fantasy
Speaker 1: fourteen on the Nintendo Switch too. For me, it's just
Speaker 1: my aim to provide Final Fantasy fourteen and sixteen to
Speaker 1: as many players as possible, and I hope that as
Speaker 1: many players as possible will be able to we'll be
Speaker 1: able to enjoy these two games. We are putting in
Speaker 1: our best efforts to ensure that this happens. So it's
Speaker 1: fine to convey to your readership that I consider the
Speaker 1: possibilities very positively and we are putting in our best efforts.
Speaker 1: So I hope players will look forward to the possibilities
Speaker 1: in the future. But I just ask for a little
Speaker 1: bit more time. Yeah, this does feel like one that
Speaker 1: will happen at least Final Fantasy at sixteen for sure.
Speaker 1: Fourteen it's like, yeah, that's it went to Xbox, and
Speaker 1: I think the Switch to is an even better fit
Speaker 1: than that kind of obviously, So yeah, I do expect
Speaker 1: them to get around to doing this, And I think
Speaker 1: this is like where the Switch two is now at,
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, is it going to get every
Speaker 1: massive nude triple a blockbuster game that is like taking
Speaker 1: the full advantage of PCs and PlayStation five pros. Probably not,
Speaker 1: or at least not without some severe compromises, but it
Speaker 1: at least is at the point where it's like all
Speaker 1: of those big live service games that have been going
Speaker 1: for years now should make sense on the switch to
Speaker 1: at least in terms from a technical perspective, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of where it needed to get because live service
Speaker 1: games are not going to evolve much in terms of
Speaker 1: like their visual requirements because they want them to run
Speaker 1: on everything, and so it's like, okay, Switch two is
Speaker 1: good on that front. It'll get Nintendo games, it'll get
Speaker 1: indie games, and it'll get quite a few of the
Speaker 1: big new releases from third parties. So I think they've
Speaker 1: kind of now covered a lot of their bases and
Speaker 1: this feels like a part of that.
Speaker 3: My thing is the so with Final Fantasy fourteen specifically,
Speaker 3: MMOs are very hood intensive and you only have so
Speaker 3: much screen real estate to use there, So I wonder
Speaker 3: how that would work, at least in a handheld situation.
Speaker 3: I think I've switched to primarily as a handheld, so
Speaker 3: I wonder about That's probably one of the biggest hurdles
Speaker 3: I think they would have to cross. They do have
Speaker 3: a console version. It did launch on Xbox, and it's
Speaker 3: always been on PlayStation, right, so they had I'm sure
Speaker 3: they've already figured this part out, or they're going to
Speaker 3: figure this out for Nintendo's console. That would be my
Speaker 3: only caveat, my only issue or potential problem. But I
Speaker 3: think it makes perfect sense, Like strategically, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: I was talking about the airplane ride earlier. If you
Speaker 3: can if the airplane Urin's WiFi is good and you're
Speaker 3: a FFFF fourteen fan, you're good. You're good for that
Speaker 3: whole cross country flight. So yeah, I mean, if they
Speaker 3: can make it happen, I think it definitely makes a
Speaker 3: lot of sense. But I would just need to see
Speaker 3: the logistical side of it, like the way it looks,
Speaker 3: the HUD stuff like that, before I would fully be
Speaker 3: on board.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, Final Fantasy fourteen is definitely a game.
Speaker 1: You know, they built it with consoles in mine, so
Speaker 1: and I've not played it ever, so I don't have
Speaker 1: any first sand experience, but it seems like people are
Speaker 1: like pretty happy with the way that works.
Speaker 2: And now you have a lot of people on chatter saying.
Speaker 1: Hey, I have a friend that plays it on steam
Speaker 1: Deck and it's completely fine on there, It's.
Speaker 2: Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1: So the apparently they've already built in a lot of
Speaker 1: tools for customizing how like you interface with the game,
Speaker 1: So people should be able to just make it work
Speaker 1: the way they needed to work on one of these handhelds,
Speaker 1: and then you know, you do the touch screen.
Speaker 2: Maybe that helps. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't, and I probably sound like an idiot when
Speaker 3: I'm saying stuff like that with you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: My experience with Final Fantasy fourteen is I did the
Speaker 3: tech test on my computer to see if it worked.
Speaker 3: That's as far as I was going in that game.
Speaker 3: I just don't have the time. But if hey, if
Speaker 3: it's working on steam Deck and the other handhelds, then
Speaker 3: switch to is not an issue. And I'm making a
Speaker 3: mountain out of a non existant molehill.
Speaker 1: That's good, jam, Were you the one that wanted one
Speaker 1: of those? Oh, dear allen Wick two thermoses? No, it's
Speaker 1: gonna restock in like nine minutes according to ABC, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll buy it for you. I don't want that, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Oh okay, yeah, this is the next story.
Speaker 1: I am just baffled that this is the headline. Roadblocks
Speaker 1: bans all erotic content. This is from Marcus Person and
Speaker 1: game reactor Jason. There was erotic content on Roadblocks. What
Speaker 1: the fuck is happening?
Speaker 3: I don't let your kids play roadblocks. And you've seen
Speaker 3: me get heated before. Do not this is your kids
Speaker 3: play fucking roadblocks. Don't do it? Not allowed, Get them
Speaker 3: the fuck off that platform. It is. They do not
Speaker 3: care about your children, They do not care about their
Speaker 3: well being, They do not care about their safety. They
Speaker 3: they banned a guy who was Chris hansening sexual predators
Speaker 3: on their platform. They went after the freedom fighter, the
Speaker 3: defense mechanism instead of their the vigilante.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're shitty, Thank you. They're shitty ass platform that
Speaker 3: allows this shit to happen. And now you're gonna say
Speaker 3: it bans erotic content, this sweeping thing. So let me
Speaker 3: ask you a question. Dressed to impress, right, one of
Speaker 3: the biggest games on that platform. Some fashion can sometimes
Speaker 3: seem erotic when it's just people wearing bathing suits or whatever.
Speaker 3: Are they gonna go after that? If the Lady Gaga
Speaker 3: just partnered with them? Oh man, this is so if
Speaker 3: you have all platform just needs to go away. If
Speaker 3: it's me, but I know that's unfeasible.
Speaker 1: I just I mean, something needs to be done because
Speaker 1: it's like you're only doing this now because the backlash
Speaker 1: that happened recently, so you could have always done this,
Speaker 1: you did not. What else are you not taking care
Speaker 1: of because of outside pressure? So let's bee It's more
Speaker 1: than just a banning all erotic content. They also have
Speaker 1: some changes to how children can interact with the game.
Speaker 2: This is also crazy, so through the whole thing here.
Speaker 1: Roadblock's one of the world's largest digital platforms for gaming
Speaker 1: and social so interaction, is tightening its rules regarding adult content.
Speaker 1: The company has announced that all material that could be
Speaker 1: perceived as erotic or sexual is now prohibited, even content
Speaker 1: that only hits hints at such activities. The policy change
Speaker 1: comes just days after Roadblocks was sued by a state
Speaker 1: judge in the United States, who argued that the service
Speaker 1: is filled with potentially harmful content and environments for children.
Speaker 1: Critics have long pointed out that the otherwise child friendly
Speaker 1: platform has struggled to keep inappropriate content under control. Under
Speaker 1: the new rules, unrated material will only be visible to
Speaker 1: developers themselves. Roadblocks is also working on methods to quickly
Speaker 1: identify and handle users who engage in inappropriate or violent behavior.
Speaker 1: That's like your whole thing. You need to have done
Speaker 1: this a long time ago. Matt Kaufman Roadblocks's chief safety
Speaker 1: officer explained, we've seen that social hangouts experiences where the
Speaker 1: primary purpose is to chat with other users as their
Speaker 1: user or their avatar, can sometimes contain inappropriate user behavior
Speaker 1: when they include certain settings. Although these settings are not
Speaker 1: against our current policy, we've observed higher rates of inappropriate
Speaker 1: user behavior in them, so we're further restricting some of
Speaker 1: them from our younger users. So what they're doing is, uh,
Speaker 1: read this one. I read this, Yeah, read this one,
Speaker 1: because this is crazy. This is so insane.
Speaker 3: Additional changes apply to younger players. Users under seventeen will
Speaker 3: no longer be able to access private virtual spaces such
Speaker 3: as bathrooms, bedrooms, bars, or nightclubs. Why the fuck were
Speaker 3: they in there to begin with?
Speaker 1: Yes, especially like private spaces like these aren't like public rooms.
Speaker 1: Like someone invites you into a bathroom to hang out.
Speaker 3: What the fuck?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I just listen. It makes me angry because my older child,
Speaker 3: who probably hears me right now, Sorry, kid, she's up there. There,
Speaker 3: they're here, they're there. We're going on vacation tomorrow. But uh,
Speaker 3: she's been asking let me play roebucks. Why can't I
Speaker 3: play rodbucks. This is why I will not. I refuse
Speaker 3: to allow this game to be played in my house
Speaker 3: other than me. I had to write guides for it
Speaker 3: for Google Play at one point, so that's the only
Speaker 3: experience I have with it, and it's the only experience
Speaker 3: I goddamn one. They built second life in this social
Speaker 3: hangouts and then didn't remember the eighteen plus restriction? Yes,
Speaker 3: what the not to sound like the the the the
Speaker 3: you want to talk about brain rot roadblocks? Brain Rot
Speaker 3: starts at the fucking top. It's that simple. Get this
Speaker 3: platform out of here. I hope they get sued.
Speaker 2: They are acting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're getting so they're getting sued the state at
Speaker 1: the state judge is suing them. But also Chris Hansen
Speaker 1: said that they've been looking at this site now for months.
Speaker 1: Chris Hansen himself, not just Evngelanti acting like Chris Hansen,
Speaker 1: which was.
Speaker 2: Cool, but they banned him.
Speaker 1: Uh Now, Chris Hanson himself's got a team and they're
Speaker 1: going to do a special on it. It's like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I should so, but first I should short roadblocks it
Speaker 1: stopped because I think this is it's probably gonna go
Speaker 1: in the toilet here, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: And two it's in all way. I'm not a financial advisor,
Speaker 2: don't do anything I say or so.
Speaker 3: In the chat, somebody asked, is Roadblocks a game? No,
Speaker 3: it's a platform where you make your own you can
Speaker 3: make they call them experiences, and you can make you
Speaker 3: can make games, which is where like Dressed to Impress
Speaker 3: and Rainbow Friends that like fanaff rip off horror game
Speaker 3: and a couple other Doors is another popular horror type thing.
Speaker 3: In Roadblocks you can make these experiences, but they also
Speaker 3: have these social hangouts, which is basically I said second
Speaker 3: Life but for the console minded PlayStation Home. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: PlayStation Home had the wherewithal to not include shit like
Speaker 3: this from the start. Also, older console minded people, if
Speaker 3: you know what PlayStation Home is, time to schedule your
Speaker 3: annual I just it will always confound me how this
Speaker 3: platform was able to get away with this for so
Speaker 3: fucking long. I mean, I know how it was YouTube
Speaker 3: YouTube players getting on Roadblocks like that, that kid Ryan
Speaker 3: who makes more money in a day that I'll ever
Speaker 3: make in my lifetime playing Roadblocks games. That's where my
Speaker 3: kids fan out about it. That's what made them want
Speaker 3: to watch it. I want to play it. Excuse me
Speaker 3: that they're the little like they ripping off lego heads,
Speaker 3: rip off lego heads. They're not actually ripping off lego
Speaker 3: heads there. I just it's a long time coming. I
Speaker 3: have been tooting this horn for years, and now it
Speaker 3: seems like the rest of the world has finally come
Speaker 3: to their goddamn senses. Time to go. I'm so I
Speaker 3: am planning on watching this fire, dumpster fire with popcorn
Speaker 3: and champagne. Get them out of here.
Speaker 1: I think the even sadd reality is five years, we're
Speaker 1: probably having this conversation again, and it's right back roadblocks,
Speaker 1: still just chugging along, and it's a behema the platform.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, exactly. All right.
Speaker 1: Last story called duty devs explain how we're getting new
Speaker 1: Black Ops games in consecutive years. Well, they just did
Speaker 1: it again, all right, This from Eddie McCoo had GameSpot.
Speaker 1: For the first time ever, Activision is releasing new call
Speaker 1: due Black Ops games in consecutive years. Beyond that, the
Speaker 1: same two developers that led the production of Black Ops six,
Speaker 1: Treyarch and Raven Software, are once again co leading the
Speaker 1: development on Black Ops seven, with Activision previously stating how
Speaker 1: important it is to have a three year production cycle
Speaker 1: for each new Call of Duty game, many are wondering
Speaker 1: how it's even possible. Treyarch Associate creative director Miles Leslie
Speaker 1: told IGN that development on Black Ops seven actually began
Speaker 1: at the same time as Black Ops six, that the
Speaker 1: game had a franchise longest four year development cycle. They
Speaker 1: were started at the same time, Leslie said, So, obviously
Speaker 1: they have different production ramp up times, but they were
Speaker 1: started in parallel and green at the same time. That
Speaker 1: was a really unique challenge but also fun.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: To me, what this sounds like is, you know, back
Speaker 1: in the day, the teams would have like release a
Speaker 1: game and then they would spend some time and but
Speaker 1: know that they were going to do this, they were
Speaker 1: going to release map packs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That was like a Call Duty business model early on.
Speaker 1: Just sounds like do that but for another immediate follow
Speaker 1: up games. So like, you know, take some stuff like
Speaker 1: you know that you're going to be releasing this soon,
Speaker 1: so maybe this stuff that you were planning for six
Speaker 1: can just go into seven and you know, be ready
Speaker 1: to do that. And they're making the campaign like a
Speaker 1: co op a multiplayer thing, so it's like, yeah, and
Speaker 1: you can just you see how it kind of feels
Speaker 1: like in some ways DLC like an expansion, but like
Speaker 1: a standalone thing.
Speaker 2: At the same time.
Speaker 1: Obviously, no one's talking about Black Ops seven still though, right,
Speaker 1: I just don't, you know, maybe a little bit after yesterday,
Speaker 1: because it did they did show it at games Come,
Speaker 1: but I don't know the excitement I'm just not hearing
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 3: There was a story floating around that the number one
Speaker 3: comment on the Black Up seven Games Com segment YouTube
Speaker 3: video was this made me pre order Battlefield six.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean that's basically where we are here.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Call of Duty, I think played with fire by opening
Speaker 3: Pandora's Box with its out of left field collaborations and partnerships,
Speaker 3: and it really drove away the people who are looking
Speaker 3: for that pure military experience, and Battlefield six is going
Speaker 3: to slip right in there and uh and and fill
Speaker 3: that void. Granted, it would be naive for people to
Speaker 3: think that that that Battlefield six is going to stay
Speaker 3: away from partnerships. I think may be smarter about it,
Speaker 3: but I don't think they're going to be completely devoid
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, whether they're gonna or at least they're going
Speaker 1: to walk around right now acting like that. It's not
Speaker 1: going to be that. People will be happy to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll accept it. That'll change over time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that there they Call of Duty
Speaker 3: is in a weird spot. Man, It's in a weird
Speaker 3: precarious position at the moment, which is so weird to
Speaker 3: say about cold. I guess it kind of applies to
Speaker 3: Xbox as a whole.
Speaker 2: Noil, Yeah, it's just it's the tide right though.
Speaker 1: It's like like Call of Duty will be back on
Speaker 1: top in a couple of years, like it always has
Speaker 1: when they kind of make when they change up from
Speaker 1: this current stretch of the way of doing things and
Speaker 1: they kind of come back like now we've figured out
Speaker 1: we're going back to the basics again.
Speaker 2: It'll be fine. That's kind of been the story of
Speaker 2: Call of Duty this entire time.
Speaker 5: Oh no, we've been invaded all right now, Listen, we
Speaker 5: know we were just kind of confirm if it was real.
Speaker 5: So have you confirmed that that is a shoot reveal
Speaker 5: out of games? Calm Mike Manatti who has joined us.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not a reveal per se.
Speaker 6: It's just there's a booth for Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection,
Speaker 6: and like in their little video thing on the booth
Speaker 6: is where you see them scrolling through all the games
Speaker 6: and highlighting Mortal Kombat mythologies, sub Zero and Mortal Kombat
Speaker 6: Special Forces. Now, look, maybe somebody's playing a very big prank.
Speaker 1: We were talking before it past the eye test, at
Speaker 1: the very tests.
Speaker 3: The eye test, but not the spell test. I have
Speaker 3: two feelers out right now. One is a DM to
Speaker 3: somebody I know at Digital Eclipse. The other is an
Speaker 3: email to official through official channels to see if we
Speaker 3: can get some answers here. Apparently Atari is going to
Speaker 3: be part of Xbox's live stream and we will we
Speaker 3: will see what's going on there. It's apparently apparently the
Speaker 3: gang's all here. Everyone is here. Get mess Turbo, do
Speaker 3: you have to say?
Speaker 7: Sean, Yes, Independent reporter Turbo Sean from Giant Bomb reporting it.
Speaker 7: I would just like to say that I did double
Speaker 7: check and this does look like the picture that Dan
Speaker 7: Amrick just posted on Blue Sky of their booth at
Speaker 7: games Com. And he told me at EVO we have
Speaker 7: more games to announce, and he heavily implied the would
Speaker 7: be PS one, so PS one, yes's legit to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's that's why I've kind of been leaning towards this
Speaker 1: being real, because when they were talking about, hey, don't
Speaker 1: expect stuff from like PS two, I might, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so what about PS one games?
Speaker 2: Then they're not say anything about that?
Speaker 8: And then you and then oh I'm the chief content
Speaker 8: officer dot Com, I named day record.
Speaker 3: Oh Dan Riker, what can we do for you? Oh?
Speaker 8: I just I had some ideas for content here, you know,
Speaker 8: as generalation, media creators and so forth. I do think
Speaker 8: it's important that we give a comprehensive look at this
Speaker 8: and we do an expert on it.
Speaker 3: That's why I figured out how to move Dan away.
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Do you think he's probably still talking there right? He
Speaker 2: doesn't know? Yeah.
Speaker 6: Isn't it wild that three Blood Club games are getting
Speaker 6: re released this year?
Speaker 3: That's great?
Speaker 6: Well, goodbye to did great.
Speaker 1: I'll see you later.
Speaker 2: Okay, we will.
Speaker 1: We will have to do something about that, all right. Uh,
Speaker 1: that does it for the headlines. Let's get to the
Speaker 1: poll question from earlier this week, which I have right here. Uh, okay,
Speaker 1: do you think fair games will get canceled?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: That was a rumor that got debunked, but everyone's still
Speaker 1: not sure. Tell you what, most people seem to think
Speaker 1: it's gonna get canceled. Eighty eight percent say yes, it
Speaker 1: will be canceled. Twelve percent say no, what do you think, Jason?
Speaker 3: Was this the Jade Raven game?
Speaker 2: That is right? Well, not anymore, but it was.
Speaker 3: Yes, did she leave? Yeah, it's canceled. There's no, that's it.
Speaker 3: It's it, dope, Nope, it's a I don't. I have
Speaker 3: no confidence in it because she's gone, and I have
Speaker 3: no confidence in it because PlayStation Live Service like just
Speaker 3: those names next to each other. I have zero confidence.
Speaker 3: Prove me wrong, Please prove me wrong. I would love
Speaker 3: for you to prove me wrong, but I don't see
Speaker 3: that happening any time soon now, honest. I gotta tell
Speaker 3: you sidetle side thing right here. I am now nervous
Speaker 3: that we're gonna get in dated by Jurf. He's the
Speaker 3: only one who hasn't showed up yet.
Speaker 1: Just be careful, be careful what you wish for. You'll
Speaker 1: come in here? Keeps hockey hockey? Oh don't say three times?
Speaker 1: I warned you, uh, any minute. He's probably busy. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think he actually is out today, so that seems unlikely. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see here, we'll have a new pole question. Get
Speaker 1: to that in a second. Before we do that, though,
Speaker 1: Jason Fonell where cad people find you on the internet?
Speaker 2: What do you have going on? What's all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: That good stuff? Jasonfidelli dot com on Blue Sky, big
Speaker 3: Man Fidelle everywhere else. Most active on Blue Sky and Instagram.
Speaker 3: You can see me writing news at game Spot, do
Speaker 3: some reviews and stuff for MMO RPG, the occasional feature
Speaker 3: for Epic Game Store, as well things coming up. I
Speaker 3: finished last night Sort of the Sea, which I will
Speaker 3: be reviewing for MMO RPG. The game by Giant Squid,
Speaker 3: who made ab Zoo very much in line with their
Speaker 3: aquatic themes, a nice climate message in this game. I
Speaker 3: thought it was very very cool, had a little more
Speaker 3: action in the end of the game than I expected.
Speaker 3: That was pretty neat. I'm hoping to have that done
Speaker 3: today because tomorrow I'm taking a little family vacation up
Speaker 3: to the mountains before school starts with like the airbnb
Speaker 3: up there, sit on the lake. So if you like
Speaker 3: picture x picturesque views of rural mountainous Lake. You know,
Speaker 3: lakeside areas. You're about to get those all weekend long tonight,
Speaker 3: though I might go deaf. I'm going to a concert
Speaker 3: with the Family Descendants and Zombies World Tour. Pray for me.
Speaker 3: It's at the Disney Show.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My kids just.
Speaker 1: Got super into the into the Descendants, which one has Bonyellow.
Speaker 2: Jane, do you know descending the new one? The newest one? Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, well they're not there.
Speaker 3: I have read that we had to watch in preparation
Speaker 3: for this a couple of nights ago.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been watching him back to back like it's
Speaker 1: been all descended, like they this is like the first
Speaker 1: like live action movie they've really given their attention to.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's been different.
Speaker 3: I've been trying to get them to watch K Pop
Speaker 3: Demon Hunters, but they won't do it. So my kid's
Speaker 3: got into that.
Speaker 1: The first time I put it on, Addie ran out
Speaker 1: of the room because I was like, I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it on for my phone in the basement on the
Speaker 1: TV upstairs. I'm not going to tell them. I'll just
Speaker 1: have to start playing and I'll go up there'll check
Speaker 1: it and see if they actually liked it. I put
Speaker 1: it on and Addie came running like screaming because she
Speaker 1: was scared of the first five seconds. It's not scary,
Speaker 1: but it just a movie started playing, and I think
Speaker 1: that is really what happened there. But now they've watched
Speaker 1: that movie like ten times and they love it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, cool.
Speaker 2: Keep trying. Uh oh yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: And then so you're asking who was excited about the Thermis,
Speaker 3: I would like to show you my Google calendar notification
Speaker 3: that just says Thermis for ten minutes before it went live. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I did manage to get one while we were speaking.
Speaker 3: So so apparently as GF twenty twenty three, they were
Speaker 3: supposed to give those out after the Allan Way two demo,
Speaker 3: and then like something happened, and then they gave him
Speaker 3: out at the press event that I couldn't go to.
Speaker 3: So this has been sitting in the back of my head, like, man,
Speaker 3: I really want that Thermis. I could have had it,
Speaker 3: but for whatever reason, didn't happen. I finally, finally the
Speaker 3: Thermis is coming my way. I'm very excited. I want
Speaker 3: to drink so much coffee out of that shit.
Speaker 1: I like Thermiss. I like vacuum technology.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 1: That's a cool thing. All right, let's wrap up this show.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, we gotta have a few things we
Speaker 1: should do. New poll question here we go grade games, Calm,
Speaker 1: Opening Night Live.
Speaker 2: ABCD or lower.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about those results here on Giant Bombs game
Speaker 1: mes morning tomorrow. Speaking of Giant Bomb later today, Blake
Speaker 1: Club's back. I'm gonna go check out that that trespasser
Speaker 1: a little bit more Trespasser, gott to.
Speaker 2: Find a blue key.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 2: It's a game that I really like, but not necessarily.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily when I'm playing it, Jason, like playing it's
Speaker 1: maybe not good, but everything else about it, I'm really
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 3: The reaction of your health tattoo was everything I dreamed of,
Speaker 3: and I just I can't believe I didn't know anything about
Speaker 3: it until they mentioned that you were gonna be playing it.
Speaker 3: So I immediately googled it because I didn't. I'm not the
Speaker 3: one playing it. I can look up whatever I want.
Speaker 3: And when I saw that for the first time, I
Speaker 3: was he's gonna lose his mind. Awesome stuff, Awesome. It's
Speaker 3: been fun to kind of discover what that game is. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I got a despite the name, Blake cub is
Speaker 3: a beacon of light. Man. It's just just makes me
Speaker 3: laugh every single episode, whoever's playing of you three goobers,
Speaker 3: It's just it makes me. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: These games are terrible, and watching you react to them
Speaker 3: is terrible. It is fun because they're terrible. It's it's
Speaker 3: just it's it's exactly what I need if I need
Speaker 3: a laugh, that's where I go. Blake Club stuff. Keep
Speaker 3: it up. It's awesome.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Yeah, I love doing.
Speaker 1: It's definitely the thing where it's like, as I've discovered
Speaker 1: the things I've enjoyed doing, it's like, yeah, we'll just
Speaker 1: do Blake Club forever, no matter what kind of no
Speaker 1: matter what happens, I'm gonna be playing these bad games
Speaker 1: for people on the internet.
Speaker 2: It's been it's special to me at this point. All right,
Speaker 2: let's see.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: All I can think about now is like, you're going
Speaker 1: to a concert and last night with that riff tracks
Speaker 1: a live thing, I'm like, I wish I could have
Speaker 1: gone to that. You're not doing it again, so I'll
Speaker 1: just have to wait for that to come out on
Speaker 1: video and watch it at home. All right, everybody, let's
Speaker 1: wrap the show up. Jason FANEWI thank you so much
Speaker 1: for hanging out with me today and talk about video
Speaker 1: ms man.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I always appreciate the invite sir anytime.
Speaker 1: And thank you everybody for watching and listening. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Jans for producing. Until next time, everybody, have a good one,
Speaker 1: take care of yourself.
Speaker 2: Goodbye.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking my