Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the internet. You're busy. Let's do this for
Speaker 1: February fifth, twenty twenty five. For the next hour or so,
Speaker 1: let me help you sort through the world of gaming
Speaker 1: on Game mess Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today,
Speaker 1: Nintendo says switch to we'll have a price, so you
Speaker 1: could stop worrying about that, everybody, But first please join
Speaker 1: me and welcoming today's co host the Game Best Mornings.
Speaker 1: It's Lucy James. Games. Everyone. How's it going?
Speaker 2: Lucy doing okay? Thank you?
Speaker 3: In the middle of decorating, How obvious is it that
Speaker 3: I ran out of wallpaper?
Speaker 1: It's you know what? I can't I actually can't tell.
Speaker 1: It looks like it could be on purpose. I'm legitimately not.
Speaker 1: That's probably just on cam. If I was there, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it looked terrible. Lucy. Is that we want me
Speaker 1: to say? Oh? There it is? Okay, there it is.
Speaker 2: No, I'm other than a slight cold, I'm doing okay,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 3: I yeah, it's it's been really cold in the Bay recently,
Speaker 3: and I mean, I know it's not very cold by
Speaker 3: you know, the rest of the world's standards, but in California,
Speaker 3: everyone is human.
Speaker 2: Well, because that's so chilly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like, and let's be clear, the homes
Speaker 1: where you're at are not built for variations in temperature.
Speaker 1: They're built for one temperature because that's traditionally what it's
Speaker 1: always been. So yeah, like seventy degrees yep, not a
Speaker 1: lot of insolation, not a lot of air conditioning. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that could be, that could be rough. We are we're
Speaker 1: doing okay here now, although I think just the way
Speaker 1: it's worked recently where Dan will complain about how cold
Speaker 1: it is and then two days later it's that cold here.
Speaker 1: So yesterday it was like six degrees at his house,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's like forty here now, that's great, And
Speaker 1: I think it's going down to his temperature again. So
Speaker 1: it turns out whether it just moves that way, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, I'm fine, the kids are starting to
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better. I'm going to still keep
Speaker 1: going outside. I'll just bundle up because it's been too
Speaker 1: long of not really going outside. This has been a
Speaker 1: rough winter, so going to do that.
Speaker 3: Have you got a sauna? You know, you could be
Speaker 3: like the Fins and have a sauna. It's a lot
Speaker 3: on Facebook marketplace over here, for some reason.
Speaker 1: Were they just like like a portable ones, So like, well,
Speaker 1: like what's something okay interesting?
Speaker 3: So you can get you can get some that are
Speaker 3: you know, basically like a tent and you can move
Speaker 3: pop up tent, but you can get like kind of
Speaker 3: a built right.
Speaker 1: I'd have been in one of those tent ones in
Speaker 1: Dan Record's basement and I had to try to super
Speaker 1: Mario Brothers three while in there, and uh like it
Speaker 1: was that was unpleasant actually because I was clothed and
Speaker 1: a head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, you could you know, that
Speaker 2: was a traumatic experience. You could, you know, take back.
Speaker 1: Control face the demons.
Speaker 3: Face the demons face the demons in in heat and
Speaker 3: what's the word when it's like really of humid y?
Speaker 2: What'd be great? Great for your pause?
Speaker 1: That's right?
Speaker 2: An't forgetting out any gunk, that's right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I I I, uh just I was just sweat
Speaker 1: when I was done in there, and my clothes were
Speaker 1: a mess. I probably should not have done that, but
Speaker 1: it was very fun because like it was very humid.
Speaker 1: Dan gave me his worst Chinese handheld to go in there,
Speaker 1: because that thing has to have been destroyed because it
Speaker 1: was just so wet by the time I was rough
Speaker 1: in there. All right, let's explain what we do here
Speaker 1: most weekdays, I, Jeff Greb, will help peace your gaming
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Speaker 1: to get into, so let's start the Morning Mess with.
Speaker 1: Nintendo confirms timings for the Switch to Direct in Ale.
Speaker 1: This is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Nintendo has
Speaker 1: provided a smidge more information regarding its upcoming Nintendo Direct
Speaker 1: in April, focused entirely on the much anticipated switch to console,
Speaker 1: scheduled to commence on the second of April, which we
Speaker 1: already knew. We now know that it will be broadcasted
Speaker 1: at the following times in North America six am Pacific
Speaker 1: daylight savings. That's not right, It's got to be a
Speaker 1: still standard time at that point.
Speaker 3: Yes, six all, I will also be enjoying that at
Speaker 3: a reasonable hour of nine am instead of six am
Speaker 3: grown Nintendo.
Speaker 1: Yep, come on, yeah six am, so Jan I don't know,
Speaker 1: you could just sleep there. It will be fine. We
Speaker 1: can handle that. And then nine am Eastern and then
Speaker 1: and the UK that's two pm BST a real time,
Speaker 1: I'm sure throughout the rest of Europe.
Speaker 2: Three summer time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, British summertime. That sounds real. I think this is
Speaker 1: central European summer time three pm there as yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: although again I don't think summertime would have started by then. Asia,
Speaker 1: Oceania will be ten pm and your local time. You know.
Speaker 1: It's just there's the whole thing here that I'm going
Speaker 1: to read that apparently because it only applies to me.
Speaker 1: It would be nine am my time. That's what really
Speaker 1: matters everybody. This is just like slightly more information, although
Speaker 1: I'm like surprised. It's like, why'd they wait to tell
Speaker 1: us this? And then also why tell us this early
Speaker 1: if you weren't going to tell us originally in that
Speaker 1: video where you announced this was happening on April second.
Speaker 1: But whatever, that's just Nintendo being a little strange. I'm
Speaker 1: like still not sure like how to set my expectations
Speaker 1: for this thing other than hey, I hope they show
Speaker 1: me at all of my dreams, show me all the
Speaker 1: games that I want to see, as well as like
Speaker 1: all the kind of obvious stuff like, hey, three D Mario.
Speaker 1: You already talked about a new Mario Kart Animal Crossing.
Speaker 1: You just talked about how well that sold, So probably
Speaker 1: another one of those pretty soon. I'm like beginning to
Speaker 1: build probably an impossible list in my brain. Lucy, I
Speaker 1: don't know where where should I be setting my expectations.
Speaker 3: I love that you said I I'm going to be
Speaker 3: I'm going to set my expectations, but I also I
Speaker 3: need them to give me everything I've a dream exactly.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a broken person.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that this has potential to be
Speaker 3: pretty big.
Speaker 2: You know, it feels like they've been cooking for a while.
Speaker 3: New console Switch finally on the decline, didn't meet its expectations.
Speaker 3: They need to kind of stir up some excitement and
Speaker 3: if GTA slips, it's gonna be Nintendo's yeah, right, Like,
Speaker 3: so I think they have the chance to go all
Speaker 3: out with this. I really hope they do, because I mean,
Speaker 3: even from that first look at.
Speaker 2: The hardware, I'm not particularly excited about what I've seen
Speaker 2: so far.
Speaker 3: Shoot, Heyshida said the other day something about like the mouse,
Speaker 3: the rumored mouse part of it, and so I'm interested
Speaker 3: to see what that's going to be.
Speaker 2: But I I don't know.
Speaker 3: It feels like it's been so long since we've had
Speaker 3: a new a new console and that new exciting slate moment.
Speaker 2: So I really hope they go all out with it.
Speaker 2: I really hope that like Metroid gets a date.
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to think because yeah, like I said,
Speaker 3: I've never been the biggest Intendal person, just purely because
Speaker 3: I didn't grow up with it, right, So while I
Speaker 3: love Nintendo games, I don't have the same connection, And
Speaker 3: so I think the thing that would excite me most
Speaker 3: at the moment certainly not third party. But I do
Speaker 3: think a new three D Mario because I was obsessed
Speaker 3: with Odyssey when it came out, and yeah, I think
Speaker 3: Animal Crossing was such a moment. I didn't expect to
Speaker 3: get into it as much as I did, and then
Speaker 3: that obsession carried over to Dundoko Island. Uh yuck is
Speaker 3: so I don't know, I'm yeah, I'm just hoving with
Speaker 3: some good stuff. I am really intrigued to see.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe this is where Hollow Night shows up,
Speaker 2: shows up.
Speaker 1: Yep, there's a possibility. Yeah, there is that rumored, unconfirmed
Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit weird now because they are
Speaker 1: talking about the timing more of this direct. But apparently
Speaker 1: they're going to have a direct this month. I've heard
Speaker 1: that as well, and this would be focused on Switch
Speaker 1: one and that's probably where they could give us the
Speaker 1: date for Metroy Prime four. People keep pointing out to
Speaker 1: me that when they open up their switch and go
Speaker 1: to the e shop or like the little news page that, yeah,
Speaker 1: before you actually click into the fully open your switch,
Speaker 1: they'll see stuff like, hey, Metroy Prime four a Switch
Speaker 1: one game still coming it being marketed there. So Nintendo
Speaker 1: is still very much treating that as a Switch one game.
Speaker 1: So we could get more information about that here in February.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, like it does feel like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: if that's happening, why are you talking so much about
Speaker 1: this April one when you could have just like waited. Honestly,
Speaker 1: they could have announced the timing for this one at
Speaker 1: the end of a February direct So it just feels
Speaker 1: a little strange thing. Yeah yeah, but it's Nintendo, so
Speaker 1: it's like trying to figure this out is pointless. They
Speaker 1: are a weird company and they will do things their
Speaker 1: own way. Speaking of which, switch to price will consider
Speaker 1: the affordability customers expect from Nintendo, says president. This is
Speaker 1: from Chris Scullion at BGC. The price of the switch
Speaker 1: to hardware will take into account numerous factors, including Nintendo's
Speaker 1: trademark affordability, its president has said. During a Q and
Speaker 1: A following Nintendo's Q three financial results, Nintendo President Shuntaro
Speaker 1: for Okawa was asked about the company's thoughts on hardware pricing. Specifically,
Speaker 1: for Okawa was asked if there was any chance to
Speaker 1: any change to Nintendo's stance on what constitutes an acceptable
Speaker 1: price point given various global economic factors. For Akawa replied
Speaker 1: that not only does Nintendo have to take into account
Speaker 1: Japan's increased inflation rate, it also has to consider the
Speaker 1: exchange rate environment has changed considerably since the switch launched
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. However, he noted that Nintendo has also
Speaker 1: has to excuse me, has to consider the affordability that
Speaker 1: our customers expect from Nintendo products, saying that the company
Speaker 1: needs to take all these factors into account when considering
Speaker 1: the price of its products. This is still the main
Speaker 1: thing that people are now focused on, since we had
Speaker 1: everything confirmed about the hardware, and we know that there's
Speaker 1: a date to talk about all the software and all
Speaker 1: the stuff after that, and that's probably where they'll talk
Speaker 1: about the price as well. But the price is like
Speaker 1: just going to be a point of contention people. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to spend four hundred to five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: on something, and so people are thinking about that right
Speaker 1: now and trying to like dial in where they think
Speaker 1: this thing is going to land. And Lucy, I think
Speaker 1: I've been kind of at a point where it's like,
Speaker 1: I think this thing is going to be four hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for quite some time, and I think this mostly
Speaker 1: convinces me of that, although I mean people are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe three fifty still like the O lead, and then
Speaker 1: of course it could be more as well. I don't
Speaker 1: know where are you at. Does any of this change
Speaker 1: like what you're expecting?
Speaker 2: I honestly don't think it does.
Speaker 3: I think really proof is going to be in the
Speaker 3: pudding when it comes to pricing, because we can speculate
Speaker 3: all we want, but as we know, we are living
Speaker 3: in unprecedented time.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, man, but I'm kind of
Speaker 2: fed up of how unprecedented these times are becoming. Yep,
Speaker 2: are they going to be tarriffsed by then? They're not
Speaker 2: going to be by? Then? Is the I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Let's let's not bring the mood down.
Speaker 3: However, let's just talk about the fact that, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: things are subject to change. They're probably finalizing that stuff
Speaker 3: on their end too. I I think I think this
Speaker 3: is the point where I think I've made it on
Speaker 3: this show, if not another show before, where it's like,
Speaker 3: I am less excited about the box. If the box
Speaker 3: is what I feel is going to be a reasonable price,
Speaker 3: because it's the software that I am the most interested in.
Speaker 3: So if Nintendo comes out with a compelling enough slate
Speaker 3: of games that I want to play and can only
Speaker 3: play on switch to, then that is the ultimately the
Speaker 3: thing that I take into consideration when I am making
Speaker 3: my purchasing decisions because right now, I mean my I'm
Speaker 3: sorry Nintendo fans, my my switch is gathering dust because
Speaker 3: I'm I'm in a PC era, And yeah, I do
Speaker 3: want to be able to you know, I want to
Speaker 3: go back to the heyday of I remember when you know,
Speaker 3: we were all locked into was an animal crossing and
Speaker 3: I was in multiple discords and group chats.
Speaker 2: And then the other thing would be like, you know, when.
Speaker 3: When Tears the Kingdom came around, me and my friend
Speaker 3: Andrew went around to TAM's place and Tam was playing
Speaker 3: on the TV. Andrew and I both handheld and we
Speaker 3: all just playing Teas of the Kingdom together, and it's
Speaker 3: like I want, I want those moments again.
Speaker 2: So I'm excited. But again this feeds into like the
Speaker 2: first one where it's you know, the first story words.
Speaker 2: I need to know what what games they've got we
Speaker 2: got for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think people have a much easier time just
Speaker 1: to find four hundred to five hundred dollars if there
Speaker 1: are just games you can't possibly miss out on. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think I am most curious about that
Speaker 1: as well, because I think it is very easy for
Speaker 1: Nintendo to look at, Hey, here's what's sold well on
Speaker 1: the switch. Let's just just do the new versions of
Speaker 1: those and not have a lot of stuff that's new
Speaker 1: and exciting met.
Speaker 2: The new switch, yes, same as the old switch.
Speaker 1: Yes, And that's you know, I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: quite a bit of potential for that to happen. They
Speaker 1: are already like starting off with Mario Kart, but we
Speaker 1: don't Hey, maybe there's a gimmick to Mario Kart that
Speaker 1: we don't know about. Yeah, twenty four players, right exactly,
Speaker 1: and then maybe a new Animal Crossing is a big
Speaker 1: expansion to the idea of what Animal Crossing could be.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I imagine mostly it's going to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, here's the Breath of the Wild remaster
Speaker 1: that we've we've been showing off to developers, and here's
Speaker 1: a lot of like filling in the slots of like,
Speaker 1: here's this franchise on this console that will just sell
Speaker 1: for the entire generation, and that maybe like there are
Speaker 1: some surprises like Mario Paint or something along those lines,
Speaker 1: But I do I think Nintendo understands that surprise and
Speaker 1: delight like coming to people and like giving them experience
Speaker 1: they didn't know they wanted is important and crucial to
Speaker 1: making the switch feel special, and they'll want to recreate
Speaker 1: that with the switch to as best they can. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've been spending years figuring out what that
Speaker 1: looks like as far as like for them dialing in
Speaker 1: a price themselves. I think you're right, they're still finalizing that.
Speaker 1: It's not finalized yet. They're still fine analyzing that because
Speaker 1: of the uncertainty of the world, and I think that
Speaker 1: will probably lead them to leaning towards a slightly higher
Speaker 1: price than they might have gone with otherwise, just so
Speaker 1: they can bake in that uncertainty. Will they'll be Terriff's
Speaker 1: wool there, Well, that doesn't doesn't matter. They don't know.
Speaker 1: They can't, like just on a whim every time something
Speaker 1: crazy happens in the world change the price of the
Speaker 1: switch to so they sort of have to try to
Speaker 1: guess what things are going to look like. And it's
Speaker 1: probably safest to go with a worst case scenario assumption.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I think they probably still lean towards
Speaker 1: something that can be argued to be affordable while still
Speaker 1: being relatively high priced at this point, though I'm not
Speaker 1: expecting it to be five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: But hey, we'll see, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's see here. EA had their financial results.
Speaker 1: We talked about Nintendo's yesterday on the BombCast, but EA
Speaker 1: had theirs as well and said that they were not
Speaker 1: the financial performance we wanted or expected. This comes from
Speaker 1: Sophie McAvoy at gi dot biz. Electronic Arts Is published
Speaker 1: its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year
Speaker 1: twenty five, experiencing declients in revenue and netbookings. CEO Andrew
Speaker 1: Wilson said it was not the financial performance we wanted,
Speaker 1: which was driven by the temporary underperformance of EA Sports
Speaker 1: FC twenty five. So I like temporary. They're going to
Speaker 1: make more money in the future. Don't worry everybody. EA
Speaker 1: pre announced its Q three results last month, in which
Speaker 1: it revisited its full year and third year guidance due
Speaker 1: to due to two factors that are due to two
Speaker 1: of its franchises excuse me, EA Sports FC and Dragon
Speaker 1: Age not meeting financial expectation. Here's what you need to know.
Speaker 1: The revenue was down or was down three percent to
Speaker 1: one point eight eight billion. Net income was up one
Speaker 1: percent to two hundred ninety three but million and then
Speaker 1: net bookings, which is just like any business that they've
Speaker 1: been able to get a contract for that will come
Speaker 1: in at some point in the future, was down six
Speaker 1: percent to two point two two billion. Highlights. EA Sports
Speaker 1: FC twenty five experienced a high quality, stable launch, but
Speaker 1: it did not carry its momentum through the quarter, and
Speaker 1: that's the biggest culprit here for why EA missed its targets.
Speaker 1: But they also like point out, like you know, Apex
Speaker 1: Legends was down, although that was down with like within
Speaker 1: its expected range, but now they're like also kind of
Speaker 1: changing up their their story on that a little bit,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that more here in a moment.
Speaker 1: And then of course Dragon Age the Veil Guard also underperformed.
Speaker 1: I think this came up several times when we were
Speaker 1: looking at those Nintendo numbers. Lucy Mario Kart eight Deluxe
Speaker 1: in the last three months of the year sold two
Speaker 1: million copies, and according to EAU, Dragon Age the Veil Guard,
Speaker 1: a multi platform release, had one point five million players.
Speaker 1: So it's like kind of puts into perspective how like
Speaker 1: something that big and important can miss the mark pretty hard.
Speaker 1: And when we talk about what well, you know, those
Speaker 1: are unfair expectations. It seems like those are should have
Speaker 1: been pretty fair expectations for dragon Age, and they just
Speaker 1: could not get a broad community, broad audience excited about it,
Speaker 1: which is what Andrew Wilson said. They are promising to
Speaker 1: like double down on here here. Actually, I'll just read
Speaker 1: what CFO Stuart Canfield said, the importance of our actions
Speaker 1: or this reinforces the importance of our actions to reallocate
Speaker 1: resources towards our most significant and highest potential opportunities. So
Speaker 1: they're once again understanding, Hey, we are going to hunker
Speaker 1: down and really focus on the stuff that we think
Speaker 1: can be the biggest successes. And right now that still
Speaker 1: includes something like mass Effect, But it feels like we're
Speaker 1: in a world where maybe one day that doesn't even
Speaker 1: include that. I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think mass effect is the last
Speaker 3: shot bioare has at this point.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean to talk about the story from
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of the reporting that came out
Speaker 3: of this last week was obviously focused on Dragonage and Dragonage.
Speaker 3: It's an unfortunate reality, it is true. But I think
Speaker 3: the positioning of EA's down financials just purely on Dragon
Speaker 3: Age when.
Speaker 2: FIFA, let's just call it FIFA. Maybe, dude, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe removing the branding from one.
Speaker 3: Of your highest earning and most icon series for the
Speaker 3: last thirty years wasn't the best move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, you're right. I guess I got it.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, I get it. You don't want to
Speaker 2: pay FIFA for the use of their rights.
Speaker 3: But oh no, dude, if you're talking about like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe what was it like EA Sports.
Speaker 2: Football Club shit name? Yeah, no, terrible.
Speaker 3: Name anyway, and also yeah, you're looking at again global uncertainty,
Speaker 3: but anyway, So yeah, the thing with Dragon Age is
Speaker 3: like I was disappointed by the game, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 3: but also, you know, a lot of people did like it,
Speaker 3: and I think it is sad because the way that
Speaker 3: franchise has kind of.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just it's gone now, right, it's it.
Speaker 2: There's no coming back to Dragon Age at this point.
Speaker 1: Feels like they are saying themselves as we are not
Speaker 1: focusing on a game like that going forward.
Speaker 3: And I mean the writing was on the wall even
Speaker 3: when they said, like there's definitely going to be no DLC,
Speaker 3: you know, looking at was it creative director John Eppler,
Speaker 3: You know, I was.
Speaker 2: I was on Blue Sky and I saw that he'd
Speaker 2: already been moved to Skate.
Speaker 3: Corin Bush left the company, a lot of developers left,
Speaker 3: and they were having layoffs and it was just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: the writing was on the wall there, and you know,
Speaker 3: it's sad. Game development is very difficult. That game took
Speaker 3: ten years and went through multiple iterations. By all accounts,
Speaker 3: it sounds like a miserable not completely miserable, but like
Speaker 3: a challenging dev experience. And the fact that they managed
Speaker 3: to ship anything anything at all, always a miracle. But
Speaker 3: I think especially so with Dragon Age and yeah, with EA,
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, Apex is in what it's twenty something
Speaker 3: season and like coming up they have Black Panther, what else?
Speaker 3: Same stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm also intrigued to see how much Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: because Marvel's the Yeah, I don't know, it's it's not
Speaker 2: the same environment for Marvel as it was when those
Speaker 2: games got signed. I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, if you could do with
Speaker 1: Spider Man, Spider Man sells very well everything Spider Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm also I'm also like, I'm really intrigued to see
Speaker 3: about this the SIMS stuff. So again, by all accounts,
Speaker 3: they released the legacy collection of SIMS one and SIMS two.
Speaker 3: That's incredible because you know, SIMS one has never been
Speaker 3: available digitally. I don't think SIMS two has been either,
Speaker 3: And unfortunately they've kind of whipped it, uh the subreddit
Speaker 3: on fire at the moment, because.
Speaker 1: I'm just not surprised. We talked, I talked about this
Speaker 1: last week when they got announced, and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait to see what that community has to say
Speaker 1: about this, and here we are.
Speaker 3: It just you know, I've got a code. I need
Speaker 3: to play it to see for myself. But like a
Speaker 3: lot of people just saying straight up, they just can't
Speaker 3: play it, Like the game just crashes and it's.
Speaker 1: Kind of working Windows ten and eleven and it doesn't
Speaker 1: work on Windows ten and eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean, look, taking the crown for the
Speaker 3: most unplayable SIMS game from the SIMS three am I right,
Speaker 3: little simple little SIMS joke.
Speaker 2: There, But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's it is that kind of triple a bubble contracted
Speaker 3: slush popping and EA still making a bottle load of.
Speaker 2: Money yeah, yeah, and I think still making a lot
Speaker 2: of money.
Speaker 3: And then Battlefield of this year, so we'll see how
Speaker 3: see how that one does.
Speaker 2: I'm really intrigued to see.
Speaker 3: How people react to Battlefield because it feels like, I mean,
Speaker 3: what was what was the last Battlefield game that really
Speaker 3: hit it was?
Speaker 1: It was Battlefield one, which I think was twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Yeah, and that and that one did not
Speaker 1: hit like four, as Nelick put puts out in chat
Speaker 1: four hit much harder than even one did. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: one did very well. Yeah. And then after that we
Speaker 1: had Battlefield five, which missed, and then Battlefield twenty forty two,
Speaker 1: which missed even more so. And listen, I think part
Speaker 1: of that is that they have a hard time figuring
Speaker 1: out how to present Battlefield in the first place, and
Speaker 1: how to make it feel fresh and like essential.
Speaker 2: And also it's the least one they did Oddline yeah.
Speaker 1: Hard Life, yeah, oh god. And then it's like they
Speaker 1: also these are seventy dollars games, seventy dollars multiplayer Shooters
Speaker 1: twenty forty two is only a multiplayer shooter, no campaign,
Speaker 1: and there are other ways for people to play online
Speaker 1: multiplayer shooters for free and you know we just talked
Speaker 1: about you know, Marvel not really popping off. Well it
Speaker 1: does pop off. It's a free play rivals with very yeah,
Speaker 1: of course very attractive character designs, and it's free and
Speaker 1: anyone could try it, and it just and everyone understands
Speaker 1: how to play because everyone played Overwatch, Like there are
Speaker 1: some ways to make that stuff work for sure.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Going back to what Andrew Wilson said about a Dragon Age,
Speaker 1: one of the things he said that the players need
Speaker 1: and why they didn't, you know, connect with this game
Speaker 1: on a broader way as they want shared worlds, which
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not sure exactly what he's trying to
Speaker 1: say there, although I think if I like had to bet,
Speaker 1: I would say I think he's saying, you know, with
Speaker 1: this game actually should have been online cooperative live service
Speaker 1: game in the first place. It's not.
Speaker 2: It's not the point of Dragon Age.
Speaker 1: It's also just not the problem with Dragon Age. The
Speaker 1: problem was it was too smooth down, it was too
Speaker 1: polished because they had this online live service game that
Speaker 1: they were trying to turn into an RPG, and they
Speaker 1: didn't have time to sort of build up new bones.
Speaker 1: They had to just shave off all the bones they
Speaker 1: didn't want anymore, and you're left with an uninteresting product
Speaker 1: at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: And that makes me nervous about mass effect. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've been nervous about mass effect.
Speaker 2: I know those people who really enjoyed massfactories multiplayer. Don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong.
Speaker 3: I remember they put it in an inquisition. I didn't
Speaker 3: even touch it. They try to do the same thing.
Speaker 3: But like, yeah, I mean by away games, it's the story.
Speaker 2: It's your story through that character.
Speaker 3: You know, I am the gray Warden, I am the
Speaker 3: hero for Eldon, I am Shepherd. I don't want to
Speaker 3: have that shared experience with someone else. It'll be like
Speaker 3: you know, it's also baffling to me because you know,
Speaker 3: boulders Gate three did so well there is alia market
Speaker 3: for those people who want that single player experience.
Speaker 2: So for him to say people want this shared world thing,
Speaker 2: I think it's such a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think, like, there's no chance he's talking
Speaker 1: about like the kind of shared gameplay you can do
Speaker 1: in balder Skate three, right, Like, that's not what he
Speaker 1: means when we talk.
Speaker 2: About he he means lobbies.
Speaker 3: He means anything you can jam micro transactions into.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think you're right. That's the assumption
Speaker 1: I'm making as well. But it's like not balder Skate
Speaker 1: three is a shared world experience technically, and if you
Speaker 1: talk about that, fantastic, we just I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: thinks he's talking about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, having seen what EA has been
Speaker 3: up to for the last like fifteen years, you can
Speaker 3: definitely read between the lines.
Speaker 1: Yep, that that's right, and reading between the lines of
Speaker 1: all this stuff is yeah, no more dragon Age. That
Speaker 1: Mass Effect could be a very different thing. They already
Speaker 1: talked about reimagining development of that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you know what, you know what hang
Speaker 3: on right by right. My prediction for Drive, my prediction
Speaker 3: for Mass Effect. You are a miscellaneous N seven marine
Speaker 3: and you get sent on strike missions around the galaxy.
Speaker 3: That's the game. Yeah, that's it's going to be a
Speaker 3: live service bullshit games. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But you also, yeah, there will.
Speaker 3: Be they will have to have recruitment missions to build
Speaker 3: up a squad.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that's going to be it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. At this point, I'm I'm toning down my expectations
Speaker 1: and excitement for mass Efect five.
Speaker 2: So because they're not they're not showing like obviously they
Speaker 2: don't want to say if it's Shepherd's going to be
Speaker 2: back or whatever.
Speaker 3: But like the fact that Leara is there Liara makes
Speaker 3: me think that like she's going to be some kind
Speaker 3: of faction leader and you go to her and you
Speaker 3: get missions from her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's I think that's what they'll.
Speaker 3: Do with key people from Mass Effect who could be
Speaker 3: alive still at that point, Like obviously some of them
Speaker 3: will be dead, but you know, sorry lived for.
Speaker 2: A one thousand years.
Speaker 1: Yep. I think I bummed myself out.
Speaker 2: My hypothetical scenario, and I'm bummed myself out. Oh yeah, no, no, yes,
Speaker 2: Bungus is right. Leara is the shadow broker. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: EA had other stuff to say. Uh. In fact that
Speaker 1: they talked a little bit about switch to. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're like hooking their wagon to switch to,
Speaker 1: but they're definitely like, hey, we know investors like to
Speaker 1: hear switch to right now. It's one of the things
Speaker 1: that you know when when investors talked to their analysts,
Speaker 1: their analysts are all saying, hey, switch to and GTA
Speaker 1: six those are things they're going to turn around this industry.
Speaker 1: So e A saying hey that, uh, the EA Sports
Speaker 1: FC and Madden could find real energy on switch to.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take that three and now e A is
Speaker 1: going to be all in on this system. But that
Speaker 1: that is something that Wilson said. This is from Andy
Speaker 1: Robinson at VGC Electronic Arts has spoken about its potential
Speaker 1: support for switch to and name checked franchises like Madden
Speaker 1: and EA Sports FC. Now, FIFA did come out to
Speaker 1: the switch consistently throughout that entire thing, throughout the entire life.
Speaker 1: Madden never did. Uh, So that is a sign of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're going to try something, and I think we get
Speaker 1: at least a Madden on there in the first year.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that does. But I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel like trying to make it. I mean the my
Speaker 1: I think my SIMS Cozy Bundle they mentioned that as well,
Speaker 1: that did very well, better than they expected. And I
Speaker 1: think part of it is it sold really well on
Speaker 1: switch It's like maybe it's in the home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the thing is as well.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 3: Let's not forget the FIFA port switch port is notoriously dreadful,
Speaker 3: leading to IG and doing one of the funniest things
Speaker 3: I've ever seen them do, which was I think the
Speaker 3: line was because EA has just copy pasted the game
Speaker 3: from last year's game, and we're going to copy paste
Speaker 3: last year that's for you and just change the number.
Speaker 1: So yep, and that that's in it. It's just a
Speaker 1: roster update every year. That's all that game is. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, switch to will have more power. They probably
Speaker 1: will update it for Switch too, but then I don't
Speaker 1: think they'll update it after that. They'll kind of do
Speaker 1: the same thing. That's the kind of token sport the
Speaker 1: Switch gets from EA. There was that period there where
Speaker 1: they did I think they put like Burnout Paradise Remaster
Speaker 1: on the Switch.
Speaker 2: And they yeah.
Speaker 1: Come to it too. Yeah, yeah, see, some of the
Speaker 1: party games do come to the Switch. They actually tend
Speaker 1: to do pretty well on the Switch. I think it
Speaker 1: takes two sold very well on the Switch. I think
Speaker 1: it's on there.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean it takes two sold.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love that game, but I didn't expect
Speaker 2: it to be a twenty million A.
Speaker 1: Million apparently a big part of that is China, but
Speaker 1: I think I think it's half so even if they
Speaker 1: could take out like China falling a lot of this
Speaker 1: game for whatever reason. Apparently divorce, like legit, divorce is
Speaker 1: huge in China right now. Apparently that was the that
Speaker 1: was the reasoning that was set in some story somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, China's hottest trend divorce.
Speaker 1: Divorce, separation. Even if you take that out ten million
Speaker 1: copies ever where else in the world, still super impressive.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a great game. I love to h.
Speaker 2: Oh, mate, you should play. We should stream it with
Speaker 2: like Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I will actually.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, because you can't do you have to talk
Speaker 2: to get through stuff.
Speaker 1: So maybe not Dan.
Speaker 2: No, I think you should play with it.
Speaker 1: Oh, damn it a married couple. Dannit. Dang it, dan it? Yes, God,
Speaker 1: dann it all right. Uh, there's still one more from
Speaker 1: EA here. E A CEO says a more meaningful update
Speaker 1: of Apex Legends is in development. This is from Sophie
Speaker 1: McAvoy at g I Do Biz. Despite performing in line
Speaker 1: with expectations, netbookings for Apex Legends were down year over
Speaker 1: year during EA's Q three fiscal year twenty five, e
Speaker 1: A CEO Andrew Wilson reflected on the franchise's future during
Speaker 1: the earnings call Q and A, where he laid out
Speaker 1: the firm's plans to implement changes to improve Apex Legends,
Speaker 1: including the idea of Apex two point zero. This is
Speaker 1: a change. This is different than what they were doing
Speaker 1: with Apex Legends just a few months ago, and maybe
Speaker 1: a long longer than that. Who knows what happened internally,
Speaker 1: But the whole idea was, let's cancel the titan Fall
Speaker 1: Legends stuff that we're working on because we don't want
Speaker 1: to invest in Apext Legends, because we don't think that
Speaker 1: investing in it will be worth the return that we
Speaker 1: will get. So instead, let's just let it slowly dwindle
Speaker 1: and do minimum investment and let that money sort of
Speaker 1: just keep creeping in from a legacy audience while we
Speaker 1: figure out something new years down the line. Now now
Speaker 1: that now EA Football Club is underperforming and they're the
Speaker 1: rest of like the EA publishing division that does stuff
Speaker 1: like dragon Age doesn't have a lot of answers, I
Speaker 1: think they are panicking and being like, we got to
Speaker 1: figure something with the Apex Legends. Let's go back there
Speaker 1: and try to like rejuvenate that. And I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of furious. It's like, well, why did you cancel the
Speaker 1: Titan Fall stuff in the first place.
Speaker 2: The one thing people are a bit excited about.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, I mean that's the video games industry at
Speaker 3: the moment right.
Speaker 2: Its Spanish infuriating.
Speaker 1: They're all just they're all frightened of everything. They're unfrightened
Speaker 1: of spending money on investing in ideas. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: they're they're frightened when they see their shadow when just
Speaker 1: one thing underperforms and they just completely change what like
Speaker 1: the eas flip flock back and forth from like we're
Speaker 1: supporting single player games live service, single player live service.
Speaker 1: That we've seen them do that a half dozen times
Speaker 1: now over the last fifteen twenty years, and it's just Okay,
Speaker 1: at a certain point, you guys are not deciding. You're
Speaker 1: not you don't have a vision for what you need
Speaker 1: to be, and so you're just reacting, and so you
Speaker 1: are doomed to just eventually fail, because that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that can happen if you are always just reacting
Speaker 1: to things instead of deciding, this is what EA is
Speaker 1: and this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I I want them to remake Dead
Speaker 3: Space two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dead Space remake was so good.
Speaker 1: Yep, and I definitely considered it. The whole idea of
Speaker 1: the dead Space remake was, hey, let's just like restart
Speaker 1: this and then things go really well, we will maybe
Speaker 1: do a new take on dead Space too. It was
Speaker 1: going to be it was never going to be exactly remake. God,
Speaker 1: but yes, there was definitely something considered. And then they
Speaker 1: knew very early on, pretty much even before the game
Speaker 1: came out. It just wasn't tracking the way they needed
Speaker 1: it to pre orders and the way we wanted it to.
Speaker 2: But it bangs. Maybe I'll replay that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good idea. I started that and I
Speaker 1: had some issues with it on my PC and so
Speaker 1: I didn't see it through. That'd be a fun one
Speaker 1: to play.
Speaker 3: I played it on PlayStation, and the audio design in
Speaker 3: that game is outrageously good. Like I hadphones on the
Speaker 3: whole time.
Speaker 2: It was so so good.
Speaker 1: All right, anyway, yep, no, no worries. Let's take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. Capcom had their little showcase yesterday and
Speaker 1: not a ton from that, but we got a few tidbits,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that right after this. Right, we're
Speaker 1: back into it, and we're talking about capcom Monster Hunter
Speaker 1: Wilds Open Beta two starts later this week, offers bonuses
Speaker 1: for the full game. This is from Chris Going at VGC.
Speaker 1: Catcom has shared details on second open on this second
Speaker 1: open beta for Monster Hunter Wilds due to start later
Speaker 1: this week. Open Beta Test two will be available across
Speaker 1: PS five, Xbox Series, x N S, and Steam and
Speaker 1: will take place over the next two weekends February seventh
Speaker 1: through the tenth, and then February fourteenth through the seventeenth.
Speaker 1: So now you have plans for Valentine's Day ahead of
Speaker 1: the game's full release on February twenty eighth to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. We held an open beta test in November
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Capcom says, in response to requests from
Speaker 1: players who were unable to participate the first time or
Speaker 1: simply wish to play again, we've decided to hold a
Speaker 1: second open beta test now. This game is coming out
Speaker 1: later this month, so this is definitely the one of
Speaker 1: those the tests that's like half marketing, half final check
Speaker 1: on this game before it goes live, and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I think I'm going to try to get
Speaker 1: into this and maybe we'll try to play it on
Speaker 1: the website. If we don't play it like for this UPF,
Speaker 1: maybe next week's UPF for That's kind of the general
Speaker 1: plan right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and got activated there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there there is that. Let's go. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: hoping we can make that happen because I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: ready for some Monster Hunter Wilds. How about you, Lucy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well that's the thing because one of
Speaker 2: these weekends is also the elden Ring Network test.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, God, okay, it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, no gamer has plans around Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm intrigued because, like, I have.
Speaker 3: Never really been a big mons Hunted person, but I
Speaker 3: did enjoy what I played of World's World back in.
Speaker 2: What twenty seventeen or whenever when it came out.
Speaker 3: I played with my buddies, and you know, it was
Speaker 3: one of those games where it was just like a
Speaker 3: good hangout game. And so I'm really intrigued about Wilds
Speaker 3: because everyone I know who's seen it or just been
Speaker 3: playing it or you know, even just watching any of
Speaker 3: the capcom stuff, I have been really into it something
Speaker 3: and a good Yeah, I'm still looking for that live
Speaker 3: service game, you know, to fill that Overwatch Like.
Speaker 2: This is how bad I'm doing right now.
Speaker 3: I've been watching twenty sixteen twenty seventeen Overwatch videos because
Speaker 3: I want to recapture that magic.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you're down, shout out to salty Fish. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm in a similar space where it's like,
Speaker 1: and this is the time that I just throw myself
Speaker 1: into Monster Hunter and yeah, hopefully can just make a
Speaker 1: ton of stuff with that. That'd be fun.
Speaker 3: But then there's also like Pirate Yakaza coming out and
Speaker 3: I Vowed and.
Speaker 2: A bunch of other stuff, and I'm just like, there's
Speaker 2: just so much going on. I haven't I need to
Speaker 2: someone seventy to do a wellness check. I do. I
Speaker 2: do need to. I do need to try Rivals? I do.
Speaker 1: Oh you've never tried it? Yeah you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, look, I've been I've been moving, and
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 2: A lot more stuff than I thought. That's Jan Jan
Speaker 2: I will play with you.
Speaker 1: Really into it. He's been playing a lot on his
Speaker 1: own time, but every time we played on the site
Speaker 1: as well, it's just it's a lot of fun. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those games recently, where you know,
Speaker 1: I'll get done with one of my late night, late
Speaker 1: night shows and we'll be in the discord chat and
Speaker 1: then someone's like, well, I'm starting Marvel Rivals, and then
Speaker 1: everyone's immediately playing Market Arrivals. So it's it's got that
Speaker 1: infectious nature to it. I think you'll really enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely want to. I definitely want to try it.
Speaker 3: But also right now I'm a bigin to my crochet again,
Speaker 3: crocheting a sweater.
Speaker 1: So it's how long did it take you to get
Speaker 1: to a point where you could crochet a sweater?
Speaker 3: Crocheing off and on for a long time. Crochet is
Speaker 3: actually once you get into it.
Speaker 2: Big thing.
Speaker 3: You gotta have the right yawn, right, because yeah, so
Speaker 3: I crocheted a doll the other day and now I'm
Speaker 3: crocheting a sweater. So basically I haven't played playing a
Speaker 3: video game because I've become an eighty year old woman.
Speaker 1: It happens to everybody, and it'll come for us all
Speaker 1: in the end, so you're just getting ahead of the curve.
Speaker 1: A few other tidbits from this Capcom Fighting collection. To
Speaker 1: release date is set for May May sixteenth, specifically, that's
Speaker 1: pretty exciting. I was that there's a good trailer. I
Speaker 1: wasn't even I wasn't watching this Capcom showcase, and this
Speaker 1: trailer popped up on like the Nintendo YouTube channel, and
Speaker 1: I watched them just like helly, I didn't even notice
Speaker 1: the date. I'm like, these games just look awesome. There's
Speaker 1: Powerstone and Plasma Sword, I think Powerstone Cop and then
Speaker 1: of course Capcom Versus S and K is really the
Speaker 1: big the big number there that everyone's gonna be very
Speaker 1: excited about. All these games have rollback net code, so
Speaker 1: I'm excited, and May sixteenth not that far away, especially
Speaker 1: considering they just released that Marvel Versus Capcom Fighting collection
Speaker 1: just recently, so Capcom really really charging ahead. I wonder
Speaker 1: if that, like Bese before they released the Marvel Versus
Speaker 1: Capcom collection, they announced this, I wonder if they have
Speaker 1: another collection ready to go, whether it's a fighting game
Speaker 1: collection or maybe the Mega Man Legends collection that I
Speaker 1: know some people out there have been clamoring for Capcom
Speaker 1: can absolutely keep getting away with doing these. When you
Speaker 1: look at like, hey, they're new games and they're full
Speaker 1: on remakes are so good that everyone just say, hey,
Speaker 1: of course if you want to also make money by
Speaker 1: sewing us your old games, we will line up to
Speaker 1: do that. We just feel good about the stuff you're doing.
Speaker 2: Congrats to fighting game plays, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, exactly. They deserve a win here and there,
Speaker 1: they really do. And then Capcom shared new Annie Musha
Speaker 1: details and confirms a PS two remasters coming. This is
Speaker 1: from Andy Robinson of VGC. Capcom has revealed new details
Speaker 1: on Annie Musha Way of the Sword and confirm that
Speaker 1: a remastered version of the PS two title Annie Musha
Speaker 1: two Samuraized Destiny will be released this year. Speaking during
Speaker 1: a live stream on Tuesday, Way of the Sword's producers
Speaker 1: said the twenty twenty sixth title would focus on three
Speaker 1: core concepts, compelling characters, including a new protagonist, the setting
Speaker 1: of Kyoto, and the ultimate sword fighting action. And here's
Speaker 1: the quote to add some detail to what we've shown
Speaker 1: in this video. In this game, we are taking on
Speaker 1: a Musha's signature sword fighting action in dark fantasy elements
Speaker 1: and using Capcom's latest technology to make this new game
Speaker 1: as captivating as possible. You know, I wonder if that
Speaker 1: means I was never an Animusha player. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the Samurai game from the Resident Evil people, And
Speaker 1: of course I had a deeper relationship with Capcom than that,
Speaker 1: but it's just how I thought about it at the time.
Speaker 1: With Capcom, when you think about Capcom's latest technology, their
Speaker 1: latest push has been open world versions of the Ari Engine. Uh.
Speaker 1: They have a trio of games that are doing that.
Speaker 1: First was Darker not Dark Dark Orisen. What's the actual
Speaker 1: game called Deep Dragons Dragon's Dogma. I wanted to save
Speaker 1: deep Down. It's a different DD game, so yeah, Dragon's Dogma.
Speaker 1: Then they are doing it with Monster Hunter Wild is
Speaker 1: more open world than that franchise has been before. And
Speaker 1: then apparently the Resident Evil nine will be the end
Speaker 1: of that trio and will also be more open world
Speaker 1: than Resident Evil's been before. So this is them kind
Speaker 1: of like expanding what the RI engine can do. I
Speaker 1: wonder if they're kind of talking about that for Annie
Speaker 1: Musha as well. Maybe that hasn't story be in open world. Again,
Speaker 1: I've never really played those games, so yeah, either, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's kind of clean up the rest of the news here.
Speaker 1: Kingdom Come Deliverance too off to an enormous start on Steam.
Speaker 1: This comes from Eddie mccoitt game Spot. After years of development,
Speaker 1: The RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance Too from Warhorse Studios is
Speaker 1: out now and it's putting up huge numbers on Steam.
Speaker 1: The game has exceeded one hundred and fifty thousand concurrent
Speaker 1: users on the platform just hours after launch, and it's
Speaker 1: the number one top selling game on Steam in the
Speaker 1: US right now. The game is also available on PS
Speaker 1: five and Xbox Series X and S. That's a very
Speaker 1: big number for a concurrent for a new launch game,
Speaker 1: especially for when there's a single player typically a new
Speaker 1: game from a major publisher doing very well. You know,
Speaker 1: these are just general numbers, but around eighty to nine
Speaker 1: thousand concurrent players, So this is up there with some
Speaker 1: of the biggest releases recently. Hey, people really like their
Speaker 1: open world RPGs, and if you can make one that
Speaker 1: resonates with them, they'll show up and here they are one.
Speaker 1: If there's like part of Bethest, it's like, man, why
Speaker 1: can't we just get out our elder scrolls games a
Speaker 1: little bit faster because it feels like it's slipping out
Speaker 1: from their fingers in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: We've got to see something from six this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, I think I mean yeah, but I mean,
Speaker 1: when can that game possibly really come out? It's I
Speaker 1: guess we're twenty twenty five now, Starfield was two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I think, yeah, they could remind us that
Speaker 1: they're making it.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven's kind of feels like the earliest we could
Speaker 1: actually get that game, But they could remind us about
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it would be good to It would be
Speaker 3: good to see something that's not that ten second trailer
Speaker 3: from twenty eighteen or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Yep, just a disgustingly long time ago. I have not
Speaker 1: played Kingdom Come Deliverance too. I was playing So seven
Speaker 1: instead over the weekend. I haven't installed. Now I'm going
Speaker 1: to give it a shot. I definitely you know, I
Speaker 1: don't need I was telling Mike last night one of
Speaker 1: our shows, I don't need a lot of reasons to
Speaker 1: like skip over a game these days, because there's so
Speaker 1: much to play, so much that I have my backlog. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the weird vibes around the developer I'm true
Speaker 1: or not or whatever, there's definitely some that are true.
Speaker 1: I get weird vibes from him that is true. That's
Speaker 1: been enough for me to mostly ignore this game through
Speaker 1: the preview period, but it got very good reviews and
Speaker 1: a lot of people work on this game that aren't
Speaker 1: people giving me the weird vibes. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: it a shot and we'll see. My expectation is I
Speaker 1: bet this is an overly realistic take on the genre
Speaker 1: that won't actually do a ton for me. But I'll
Speaker 1: try for myself and see any interest in this for you.
Speaker 3: So I was talking about this on FPS with Ralph
Speaker 3: and Jake and they had both been playing, and they
Speaker 3: were both into it, but they were saying I question.
Speaker 2: I said to them, do you think I would like it?
Speaker 3: And they both just went no, It's it's like it's
Speaker 3: really they said, it's like slow.
Speaker 2: Max Scoville. Oh do you he said?
Speaker 3: He was, like, it kind of had that Red Dead
Speaker 3: two like deliberateness and slowness and if you need some
Speaker 3: like I don't. I don't think it's like a complete
Speaker 3: like Apple comparison. But it's just like in terms of
Speaker 3: you know, things, the laborious things take time to do.
Speaker 2: But everyone I know who's played it has had fun
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 3: But I, you know, things that I'm on my wheelhouse
Speaker 3: about Pirate yak is a.
Speaker 2: I mean, wonder.
Speaker 3: Stop is coming hopefully I think soon. So like there
Speaker 3: there there are more Lucy games.
Speaker 2: I have it. I'm I'll download it.
Speaker 1: With wonder Is. In fact, it can't stop talking. I'm
Speaker 1: looking it up right now.
Speaker 2: Bro. It's the new game from the Stanley Parable guy
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 1: Right right, very fantasy critic and I'm like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: I should have taken that. That's going to do very well.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so I'm really stoked for that game and
Speaker 3: that's coming up, and yeah, February is a is an
Speaker 3: absolute mess.
Speaker 2: So is March.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna try coming Deliverance too.
Speaker 1: That Red Dead Redemption to comparison, well, I'm sure not perfect.
Speaker 1: I bet that's actually kind of where I end up feeling,
Speaker 1: excuse me, feeling about the game. Unless it's like got
Speaker 1: some options to like really let the player get messy
Speaker 1: and do their own thing and kind of throw a
Speaker 1: wrench in the works. That's the kind of stuff I
Speaker 1: like in an open world RPG. And we'll see if
Speaker 1: you can support that or not. And really, if it doesn't,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean I will think it's a bad game.
Speaker 1: It just means it won't be for me. Reckfest two
Speaker 1: hits Early Access this March. I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of Reckfest to fans in this community. We've played that
Speaker 1: before on the side, yep, rec rec fans. And this
Speaker 1: is from Anti Come Out or Anthony Kamal at Dual Shockers.
Speaker 1: Recfest two hits Steam Early Access in March, focusing on
Speaker 1: chaotic gameplay and prioritizing PC modding communities. Early access trailer
Speaker 1: shows new physics engine and derby mode, with plans for
Speaker 1: a career mode that adapts to players style. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds great. I want more of that. We'll we'll
Speaker 1: get we'll get in there and do some Reckfest to
Speaker 1: immediately as soon as it hits early access. That will
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. That's good, Just a fun
Speaker 1: game to do dumb stuff. Then like, hey, let's get
Speaker 1: fifty people to drive around this bowl and just see
Speaker 1: what happens. Yeah, just see what happens. And then finally,
Speaker 1: Xbox confirms it's bringing two real time strategy games to
Speaker 1: PS five this year. This is from Tom Ivan at VGC.
Speaker 1: Xbox has announced plans to release Age of Mythology Retold
Speaker 1: in Age of Empires two definitive edition for PlayStation five,
Speaker 1: the real time strategy games wi Hit Sony's console this year,
Speaker 1: alongside the launch of new expansions for both titles, which
Speaker 1: are currently available on Xbox and PC. They're just they're
Speaker 1: doing everything and this is not even like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: all these I can't believe this franchis is come into PlayStation.
Speaker 1: This is just like, oh, these games have been out
Speaker 1: for a minute, just like FORTSA and forts is coming
Speaker 1: to PlayStation. So it's like, oh, they're gonna mind the
Speaker 1: backlog here the back catalog, I should say, and bring
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff over to PlayStation and that I
Speaker 1: think that's exciting because it's just done, Like we could
Speaker 1: just accept that this is the way things are, and
Speaker 1: PlayStation fans could start getting on board with some of
Speaker 1: these franchises, and that increases the likelihood we get more
Speaker 1: of these games going forward, right.
Speaker 2: And that's always the good thing. Rising Tide, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all that stuff. Yeah, I think that they have
Speaker 1: finally accepted it, like a lot of that fan base
Speaker 1: because it's like, yeah, with sports are coming, and it's
Speaker 1: like there was not that much of a backlash compared
Speaker 1: to what it might have been a year or so ago.
Speaker 1: So yeah, do you think like a Halo A master
Speaker 1: Chief collection does launch on Switch and PS five this year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 2: I think I think it would make a lot of
Speaker 2: sense for them to do that. Yeah, I would like
Speaker 2: to do that.
Speaker 3: Happen to give Xbox its flowers right now. I never
Speaker 3: used to enjoy the Xbox interface and I went on
Speaker 3: to play something into the day and I was like,
Speaker 3: damn they actually I think they figured it out.
Speaker 2: And I mean, I will they really refined it.
Speaker 3: And I also thank the onboarding experience for setting up
Speaker 3: a new Xbox for you know, transferring data and stuff
Speaker 3: from an old Xbox. I think they don't really get
Speaker 3: enough credit for that. And yeah, I was kind of
Speaker 3: really like pleasantly surprised about that when I was I
Speaker 3: was playing through the Xbox and I mean yeah, like
Speaker 3: I said, I'm in my PC era, but I was
Speaker 3: on the Xbox the other day and I was like, damn,
Speaker 3: yeah they did they did stuff here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that the benefit there was they didn't
Speaker 1: make a ton of changes from Xbox One to Xbox
Speaker 1: Series SNX, so part of it is they were able
Speaker 1: to refine it. Part of it is people were able
Speaker 1: to like really figure out what they didn't like about
Speaker 1: it and voice that to Xbox, and Xbox was able
Speaker 1: to respond to that, where PlayStation they're like, let's just
Speaker 1: completely do let's change everything and relates a new code
Speaker 1: of paint on how the PS four stuff works. But
Speaker 1: they just moved things around, so they kind of had
Speaker 1: to start from scratch. So while it works fine, I
Speaker 1: think people were like just slightly annoyed by that because
Speaker 1: it's like it's just different to be different, and at
Speaker 1: a certain point that's not as exciting as it once was,
Speaker 1: where it's like, well, I got a new console, I
Speaker 1: wanted to feel different. These days, I just kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to work.
Speaker 2: I just want my stuff to be there.
Speaker 1: Yep. And you're right now it's much easier to navigate
Speaker 1: that on Xbox than it once was. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm also just more used to it.
Speaker 1: All right, So we got a pull question, let's get
Speaker 1: to that. So I actually, real quick before we do that,
Speaker 1: I was going to talk about the USPS thing, where like, hey,
Speaker 1: they're not going to take parcels from China and Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: They've already reversed that decision that was like announced yesterday
Speaker 1: and they.
Speaker 2: I didn't even see that within.
Speaker 1: Twelve hours they reversed that decision, and that you know,
Speaker 1: I only bring this up because this would have affected
Speaker 1: smaller distributors that sell the items from China. Now, like
Speaker 1: you're like an ambernik, you're probably shipping like big ballots
Speaker 1: to the United States. And then yeah, if you're analog,
Speaker 1: you're kind of just like having warehouses here store that
Speaker 1: and shipping it from here to get around this. Or
Speaker 1: you know a lot of them use DHL things that
Speaker 1: just don't go through the USPS at all usually, or
Speaker 1: if they do go through the USPS just kind of
Speaker 1: they brushed by it in certain areas maybe in the
Speaker 1: last mile. But this was like still going to affect
Speaker 1: like smaller Chinese handhelds, things like that retro tink probably
Speaker 1: would have been hit by this. A lot of things.
Speaker 1: All that new stuff being made by Techiudon, who's like
Speaker 1: going to make the cheaper version of the mystery or
Speaker 1: has made that and it's going to make the cheaper
Speaker 1: version of the retro tank. All that stuff would have
Speaker 1: just caused a bunch of headaches and within twelve hours
Speaker 1: they've already reversed it.
Speaker 2: So I believe you wonder why I've taken up crochet again.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's so I'm not online.
Speaker 1: Yep. It's really the only cause you can't keep up
Speaker 1: with it. And yeah, you can't like and like what like,
Speaker 1: let's go march and try to do something about the USPS.
Speaker 1: By the time you get out there, they've already changed
Speaker 1: their mind. It is overwhelming, and the uncertainty is just
Speaker 1: the only certainty is that nothing. No one's gonna know
Speaker 1: anything for sure. And that's still gonna have like, you know,
Speaker 1: just the fact that they were willing to do this
Speaker 1: and then reverse it so quickly, it's still gonna have
Speaker 1: an effect on how people decide to do business. Uh
Speaker 1: So it's not like, oh, we're in the clear or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But still it was just a baffling
Speaker 1: thing to witness, all right, that pole question. Let's see,
Speaker 1: elder Ring night Rain is a ruguelike? Does that make
Speaker 1: you more or less excited? I mean, bring that up
Speaker 1: so everyone can see it. Here. I'm gonna vote yes,
Speaker 1: more excited, and then we'll get the results by flipping
Speaker 1: over here. Eldering Night Rain let's see, forty percent say
Speaker 1: they're more excited by that, fifty nine percent say less excited.
Speaker 1: And I think that's right because just you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't have good taste, so quick, what
Speaker 1: can you do about it?
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you gonna do? I though, personally, I
Speaker 1: think that is a really good way to kind of
Speaker 1: do another elder ring so quickly. Yeah, it's just kind
Speaker 1: of take this and you know, they say that they
Speaker 1: kind of stumbled on this idea themselves and also got
Speaker 1: inspired by some other games, so it's still going to
Speaker 1: be a very from soft game. I think.
Speaker 3: I am just so excited to see what the bingo
Speaker 3: brawlers and the challenge speed runners they you do with it, yep,
Speaker 3: because that is my shit.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: Yep. I think it's going to be one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's going to have a lot of interesting meta games
Speaker 1: kind of built on top of it by the community,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to it. And you know, just
Speaker 1: like the idea, it's like it's single player, yeah, it
Speaker 1: supports that, but then you can play it in trios,
Speaker 1: but you can't play you know, co op with just
Speaker 1: two like one or two people. That's just very odd thing.
Speaker 1: I got to see what they are actually trying to
Speaker 1: do here, what they're trying to accomplish. That could just
Speaker 1: be traditional from soft weirdness, though they're also a weird company.
Speaker 1: All Right, a new pool question. We'll get to here
Speaker 1: in a second. I haven't written that down in the
Speaker 1: dock for Sean or Ja whoever puts that up. I'll
Speaker 1: get that for you guys here in a second. But
Speaker 1: in the meantime, Lucy James Games, why don't you tell
Speaker 1: people where they can find you on the internet if
Speaker 1: that's something you want or what you're going on? All
Speaker 1: that good stuff?
Speaker 3: I you find me have reare lose James Games, this
Speaker 3: James Doot Games. I so we have Jeff jeffs as
Speaker 3: our adventure coming up. I believe it's going out today
Speaker 3: and we have started Berserk.
Speaker 1: Whoa really?
Speaker 2: Oh is out now? Is that now? According to Jen?
Speaker 2: Thank you Jan? Yeah, we are making Jeff backlaw Watch Berserk.
Speaker 1: Shit. I can't. I don't know if I can live
Speaker 1: in a world where Jeff Backlar seem berserk and I haven't.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he it's nineteen ninety seven and it's a.
Speaker 3: It's a kind of an interesting one to record because previously,
Speaker 3: obviously when we're doing JoJo's both John and Tam had
Speaker 3: seen it.
Speaker 2: I had no idea, and obviously Jeff had never seen
Speaker 2: it anime.
Speaker 3: Before this time we have the on has seen all
Speaker 3: of the Berserk and read them all.
Speaker 2: Same with time. I've only ever read Berserk. I've never
Speaker 2: seen Okay anime.
Speaker 3: I've seen like bits and pieces, but I've never seen
Speaker 3: it all the way through. And Jeff has genuinely no idea.
Speaker 2: At all, and so.
Speaker 1: I also don't have any idea. But I see the
Speaker 1: look in people's eyes who have engaged with Berserk, and
Speaker 1: so I have that. I think that's a pretty good
Speaker 1: indicator of what that thing does to people.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's one of the greatest pieces of
Speaker 3: fiction I think of Britain.
Speaker 2: I have it tattooed on my leg. I would read it.
Speaker 2: I will also. I will also tell you that there
Speaker 2: is a lot of shit in that.
Speaker 1: Like let's fucking go. Yeah, I'll handle it. I do not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say like, don't have the kiddo was around.
Speaker 3: I mean like when you're watching it, Yeah, when you're
Speaker 3: watching it, it is also, you know, like they've they've
Speaker 3: toned down a bunch, but there is certainly some yeah,
Speaker 3: trigger warning. Yes, it's basically the answer, but it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's unelievable. As soon as I read it, there was
Speaker 3: one specific panel that I knew I was immediately getting
Speaker 3: get a tattooed because it was so beautiful and like,
Speaker 3: in the context of.
Speaker 2: The story, I loved it. Yeah, go go read Berserk,
Speaker 2: go watch Bersk. I'm getting a tattooed tonight. I am
Speaker 2: so stud tonight.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, do you want to share with the class
Speaker 1: or you want to make keep it a surprise or
Speaker 1: keep it a private.
Speaker 2: H it's a Peanuts one. It's it's Lucy van Pelt.
Speaker 3: So it's Lucy and she looks really despondent, and she says,
Speaker 3: I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire
Speaker 3: to destroy.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic, Okay, I like that a lot. That's very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and hopefully by the time I'm next on, I
Speaker 2: will have finished.
Speaker 1: Wallpapering, leave it like it attached.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I will say, TikTok has given me an unearned
Speaker 3: sense of confidence. And it comes to Diy projects. Yep,
Speaker 3: but like, so you know, looking and I put this up.
Speaker 3: I've hung all this, I hung this wallpaper.
Speaker 1: Me. Steph keeps asking me to do something with the
Speaker 1: wall in our bedroom and we're like talking about paux
Speaker 1: brick or wallpaper, and now we're like the phux brick
Speaker 1: will get dusty and wallpaper will be easier to clean.
Speaker 2: So feeling thick woolpaper is back in a big way.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so you've given me the confidence as well.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll mess it up. But yeah, it's annoyingly
Speaker 1: well done. Lucy as tarty mit, theer points out in shack.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, because I was texting him yesterday. Look at
Speaker 2: my walls, Look.
Speaker 1: At my walls. All right? A new poll question. Do
Speaker 1: you think Halo master Chief Collection launches on Switch and
Speaker 1: PlayStation five this year. We've given our answers everybody, well,
Speaker 1: I'm curious, still hear what you think? You can vote
Speaker 1: by going to YouTube dot YouTube dot com slash at
Speaker 1: giant Bomb. The community tab there will have the pole question.
Speaker 1: We'll read the results here on Game Mess Mornings on
Speaker 1: Giant Bomb tomorrow. Speaking of Giant Bomb later today. It
Speaker 1: is Wednesday, So Blake Club is back. We will be
Speaker 1: watching Dan likely quite possibly finish up Drake of the
Speaker 1: ninety nine Dragons, which has been That was a real
Speaker 1: delight last episode. It got like you spent an hour
Speaker 1: on one level, which is what you always want to
Speaker 1: see at a certain point, especially after you breeze through
Speaker 1: the first part of that game. There's also a new
Speaker 1: Pickle draft out if everyone wants to see that, an
Speaker 1: animated version of Blake Club. It was very good. And
Speaker 1: then and then yeah, so tomorrow Voicemail, Dumb Truck Friday, UPF.
Speaker 1: It's kind we're kind of shifting around what we might
Speaker 1: do for UPF, but I think if we can get
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter working, that's what I want to do. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, new Jeff. Jeff's on the site now on one.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, I'm on dumb talk to one. We
Speaker 3: got to because someone suggested on Blue Sky to do
Speaker 3: Polite Club where we play yes, cozy games.
Speaker 2: We should figure that out.
Speaker 1: I yes, I think we're gonna have a real opportunity
Speaker 1: to make stuff like that work much more frequently coming
Speaker 1: up pretty soon, everybody. So Polight Club, it is what
Speaker 1: it sounds like, insteadying a little bit different than Delight
Speaker 1: club where it's like, hey, here's the game I think
Speaker 1: you'll like. Play clubs. Just we'll just hang out and play
Speaker 1: cozy games, play fun stuff like nice all right. And
Speaker 1: also the Blake club boys would not be allowed on
Speaker 1: polit club is also apparently a rule. Yeah, the punishment
Speaker 1: has uh, it's permanent, all right, Lucy James, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for hanging out with me today and talking
Speaker 1: about video games. I super appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Of course I'm going to go blow my nose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. You thank you for watching, Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time,
Speaker 1: have a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.
Speaker 1: And I didn't mean Jordan Midler when I said best audience.
Speaker 2: No, no,