Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Games. For After Dark episode ninety seven,
Speaker 1: I am your host tomorro Hussein, sitting in a extremely
Speaker 1: hot love conversion. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have swamp.
Speaker 1: But joining me is Michael Hyam. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: What's your What they do?
Speaker 2: Baby?
Speaker 3: It's it's yo here in San Francisco. It's been like
Speaker 3: a consistent sixty degrees. There has been win advisories and
Speaker 3: it's been windy as ship for the past three months.
Speaker 3: And it's not great here.
Speaker 1: I come here and it gets hot while I'm over
Speaker 1: there in San Francisco it's hot. I'm like, where's the
Speaker 1: British weather? I would love some of that.
Speaker 3: Man's not hot, Man's not hot.
Speaker 1: Also, joining us is always perpetually hot.
Speaker 4: Jean looks ay, oh, yeah, I've been working out. That's
Speaker 4: not true. Yeah, you know. I it's hot, but I
Speaker 4: got a C in here, so I keep myself nice
Speaker 4: and nice and cool.
Speaker 5: You got a c I can't even hear it was
Speaker 5: I turned it off during recording because you would definitely
Speaker 5: hear it.
Speaker 4: It's literally right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And that final alluring voice was the voice of
Speaker 1: Jordan Remee, who I imagine was hot, but has now
Speaker 1: cut his very luxurious afro and it's probably less hot.
Speaker 5: How you feel, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful feeling. I
Speaker 5: can go outside and feel the breeze on my scalp again.
Speaker 5: It's so cool and wonderful.
Speaker 1: You see you look like a different person. I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: I miss it. I missed Jordan when he was ninety
Speaker 1: percent afro.
Speaker 5: It's one of those weird things that I'm like, man,
Speaker 5: for the first twenty six years of my life, this
Speaker 5: short buzz cut is what I rocked. And then for COVID,
Speaker 5: I grew my hair out over the pandemic, and I
Speaker 5: met a lot of people online during.
Speaker 2: That past year.
Speaker 5: They don't remember you, and so like a lot of
Speaker 5: people are like, oh, dude, you cut your hair.
Speaker 2: That's such a different look for you. I'm like, what
Speaker 2: do you mean? This is this is my look, this
Speaker 2: is my normal look you.
Speaker 3: They're like, who you Just tell them, tell them they're racist.
Speaker 3: That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 5: Damn damn, Yeah, that'd be that'd be a messed up
Speaker 5: thing to say to my girlfriend who met.
Speaker 2: She's like, I've never seen She's like, I've never seen
Speaker 2: the side of you. Before I'm like, no, this is
Speaker 2: what normally.
Speaker 3: Oh again spicy here in the early mornings of Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Also getting spicy is the next two weeks, because we
Speaker 1: are in E three season baby, and we are gonna
Speaker 1: have a discussion about it. I don't think. I'm not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent confident that it's gonna be a structured
Speaker 1: discussion because under the topic section there is E three
Speaker 1: followed by it looks like twenty eight exclamation marks, which
Speaker 1: is about as much thought as we've put into that
Speaker 1: part of it. But we'll figure it out. This is
Speaker 1: how we do. We keep it loose, we keep it breezy.
Speaker 1: But before we get there, we're going to do what
Speaker 1: we've been playing, and we're gonna start with Jean Luke,
Speaker 1: who has been playing a little video game called Ratchet
Speaker 1: and Dank Us.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I've been playing that Ratchet and dank It's solid.
Speaker 4: It's a solid, fun video game. I I don't it's
Speaker 4: a hard one to talk about in the sense that
Speaker 4: you play it and you're like, yep, this is exactly
Speaker 4: the Ratchet and Clank that Insomniac has been making for
Speaker 4: what like twenty years now, Like it isn't reinventing the wheel,
Speaker 4: and in some ways, I actually like that's why I
Speaker 4: love about it is that it feels like because I
Speaker 4: because I went back and I actually replayed the original
Speaker 4: original Ratching Clank on the PS three the HD edition,
Speaker 4: and obviously there's like some things that are you know,
Speaker 4: improved in better you know, aiming and camera and of
Speaker 4: course the graphics, which we'll talk about, but it's like
Speaker 4: you play it now and you're like, you know, you
Speaker 4: play Rift Apart and you're like, yeah, this is this
Speaker 4: is still like a PS two style platforming game, and
Speaker 4: I think that's awesome, Like, you know, like that they're
Speaker 4: kind of keeping that spirit alive because I don't know,
Speaker 4: like all those PS two era mascot characters are kind
Speaker 4: of gone. You know, there's no Jack and Dax Strain around.
Speaker 4: It's like Cooper's like Cooper in Around Crash was back
Speaker 4: for a hot minute and then that team got asked
Speaker 4: to make call of duty for the rest of the time,
Speaker 4: so you know, that ain't coming back. Like the Rochet's
Speaker 4: kind of the the one that's that's stuck around this
Speaker 4: whole time, and there's something comforting about it where you're like,
Speaker 4: you know, it's just like, yeah, it's you know, it's
Speaker 4: it's scratching and clank. It's not doing anything amazing.
Speaker 2: A single piece of your childhood endoors exactly.
Speaker 4: It holds up, you know, for the most part, it's
Speaker 4: like it doesn't need to necessarily reinvent itself. It can
Speaker 4: kind of just be what it is.
Speaker 1: Like to kind of real quick summarize that kind of feeling.
Speaker 1: It seems like that's a sentiment that has hit with
Speaker 1: a lot of reviews in a bunch of different ways.
Speaker 1: Like we gave it a nine out of ten that
Speaker 1: was reviewed by very on Steve Watz, who said he
Speaker 1: said Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart is flashy and technically
Speaker 1: impressive without feeling self important. It's just a silly, sweet
Speaker 1: and earnest as Ratchet and Clank series tends to be.
Speaker 1: With the new generation of hardware makes this entry look
Speaker 1: and play better than ever. Like the heroes and villains
Speaker 1: and their dimensional counterparts, this one may appear different or
Speaker 1: carry itself with a new accent, but there's an underlying
Speaker 1: truth to the person underneath. At its core, it's still
Speaker 1: your trusty old pals on another grand space adventure, and
Speaker 1: that's what's important. So it does viewers, it's a bangers
Speaker 1: this Yeah, yeah, yeah, that kind of hits on the
Speaker 1: on the on the way that Jean Luke was talking
Speaker 1: about it. And it is what it is and it
Speaker 1: does what it does and that's cool. There's kind of
Speaker 1: like another take which I really like. This was from
Speaker 1: Jean Park at The Washington Post, who basically said, in
Speaker 1: a time when sneering, ironic detachment remains in fashion in
Speaker 1: some games, has created the rare modern masterpiece with no
Speaker 1: convoluted agenda, no subtext, just so many reasons to smile
Speaker 1: and laugh, which is another way to take that same
Speaker 1: kind of it is what it is and it's ratchet
Speaker 1: as Ratchet is. Ratchet hasn't changed, but the world around
Speaker 1: it has changed in a lot of ways, Like we're
Speaker 1: all a little more cynical, we're all a little more like,
Speaker 1: you know, we're all a little more like dour about
Speaker 1: things and the stuff in games that used to uplift
Speaker 1: us in that way, the mascot games have fallen away,
Speaker 1: but then you have this. Gene. Park also says this
Speaker 1: is the best play session exclusive since Bloodborne, which wow.
Speaker 5: Relax Campbell, Jean Campbo, Gen wait, so the best one
Speaker 5: since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Then that is talk enough, and technically, Jean says here
Speaker 1: that means that Bloodborne is still the best. Yeah, exclusive
Speaker 1: big up Jean's figure. Michael and Jordan starting with you, Michael,
Speaker 1: interested in Ratchet and Clank? You want to play it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I mean I played a lot of the
Speaker 3: PS two mascot era games as well, like like Jack
Speaker 3: and Dax or Sly Cooper. Ratchet Clake was my favorite
Speaker 3: because I thought it was like the most and it
Speaker 3: was the most fascinating because it has that element of
Speaker 3: sci fi to it, and I just really like Clank
Speaker 3: is so cute. So yeah, I do want to play this.
Speaker 3: I played the twenty sixteen kind of reboot ish game
Speaker 3: that came out on PS four that was that was
Speaker 3: dope too. But I am fascinated in Rivet because everyone
Speaker 3: the whole internet is blowing up about Rivet and how
Speaker 3: she's such a wonderful charriacter.
Speaker 4: It's very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm I want to I want to get
Speaker 3: to no Rivet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Rivet's great her. She actually, I would say the
Speaker 4: game is Steve talks about a pert view. It's primarily
Speaker 4: her game. Like the game is split between so like
Speaker 4: each planet you'll kind of bounce back and forth, like, ah,
Speaker 4: this planet is going to be playing his Ratchet and
Speaker 4: this planet he plays Rivet. But if I were to
Speaker 4: add up the total like playtime, I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 4: play more as Rivet. It felt that way where it
Speaker 4: feels like it's it's focused on Rivet. It's really Rivet's
Speaker 4: game that like Ratchet and Clank are kind of here
Speaker 4: to help set up, but at some point it feels
Speaker 4: like she just sort of goes off on her own
Speaker 4: and and I think like Jennifer Hale absolutely knocks it
Speaker 4: out of the park as her like no surprise there, yeah,
Speaker 4: which is like exactly no surprise.
Speaker 1: But yeah, our lives. Our lives are just filled with
Speaker 1: Jennifer Hale right now, aren't they? Between Mat and Ratchet.
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful feeling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she does a great job too, Like I mean
Speaker 4: she's got such range, like I can go from like
Speaker 4: playing Mass Effect to playing this and like you can't
Speaker 4: immediately tell it's her because I think she just knows
Speaker 4: how to even like a like you think about it
Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, that's jend for Hale. But It's
Speaker 4: like there's something about like the subtlety in which she
Speaker 4: just like changes her tone and she feels very like
Speaker 4: warm and curious in this game in a way that
Speaker 4: you just like instantly like her and you root for
Speaker 4: her and you're like a like, I want to yeah,
Speaker 4: I want to see what's up with Rivit and like
Speaker 4: what's going on with her? In a way, we're like Ratchet,
Speaker 4: Ratchet's good to you still, but you know you've I've
Speaker 4: played I've played a lot of games with Ratchets, so
Speaker 4: uh Rid, it's definitely the standout and I would love
Speaker 4: for them to just go all out and do like
Speaker 4: a full Rivit game.
Speaker 3: What's what's her her robot counterpart?
Speaker 1: Isn't it?
Speaker 2: Doesn't we see Clank on her back?
Speaker 1: Like she find is this game?
Speaker 4: Is this game? Once?
Speaker 5: This came out the eleventh, the eleventh, Yeah, so Friday.
Speaker 4: Okay, well I'm allowed to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's in the review. It's in the review, so
Speaker 1: it's kind in the review.
Speaker 4: But they asked you to not get but she does.
Speaker 4: There is a because because in the game, everyone has
Speaker 4: like a dimensional counterpart, and there is a dimensional counterpart
Speaker 4: two Clank in the game okay, and I think they
Speaker 4: wanted us to not go to in depth on it,
Speaker 4: and so I won't. But yes, she has her own
Speaker 4: dimensional counterpart.
Speaker 5: I could totally see them doing a whole Spider Man
Speaker 5: situation where they kind of gave Miles his own, like
Speaker 5: ten hour separate game that wasn't like, oh, it's not
Speaker 5: a full blown sequel. It's like, oh, here's a eight
Speaker 5: to ten hour RIVET sequel expansion thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jordan, are you interested in this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Hell yeah. I was one of those people who, as
Speaker 5: a kid played a lot of Nintendo and then when
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, I'd like to graduate for
Speaker 5: those TEA for teen and m for mature games, I
Speaker 5: became an xbox Boy instead of a PlayStation boy. So
Speaker 5: crash Bly Cooper, Ratchet. I missed all of those games
Speaker 5: growing up, Like, I did not play any of those
Speaker 5: PS two era mascot games. So I'm like, oh, at
Speaker 5: least one of them is still around, and this one
Speaker 5: is reviewing very well. I'll play this one and I'll
Speaker 5: finally see what all the hype has been about for
Speaker 5: the past two decades.
Speaker 3: This motherfucker said, blinks.
Speaker 1: Blinks, all right, big question. Now kill marry Avoid. No,
Speaker 1: let's let's do this properly. Fuck Marry Avoid, Ratchel, Crash, Bandicoot, Spiral,
Speaker 1: Michael your first fuck marry fuck Marry kill fuck Mary
Speaker 1: kill shit shit shit shit shit.
Speaker 3: Oh killing Crash. Oh I'm killing Crash. I'm gonna smash
Speaker 3: with Spiral because that fools. I bet his fire and
Speaker 3: I'll marry Ratchet because Ratchet seems like a like a
Speaker 3: like a like a wholesome dude to probably take care
Speaker 3: of me.
Speaker 4: John Luke, I was gonna say the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, John Luke, Fuck Marry Avoid Sonic Okay, uh Sly
Speaker 1: Raccoon Okay, Blinks.
Speaker 4: Blinks kill Blinks Fox, Sonic, Mary Mary.
Speaker 2: You just the whole New Sonic fan fiction.
Speaker 3: That will probably only lasts like, uh, he's probably a
Speaker 3: one pump chump because he's gotta go. We've all been there.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna silence Fox in my head and I
Speaker 4: was like, no, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go there.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go there.
Speaker 1: In fuck Marry kill you get. I can't think of anyone.
Speaker 4: The zombie you.
Speaker 1: Got Tie, the Tasmanian Tiger stubs zombie and.
Speaker 4: Bubby, bob Z.
Speaker 2: I do not know who any of those people are, Like, you.
Speaker 1: Gotta say them, you gotta sign them later on, see
Speaker 1: how you did?
Speaker 2: So you have to kill Bubbsy? Sure?
Speaker 5: Why not kill Bubbsy? And who are the other two?
Speaker 5: I can't even remember their names that you said.
Speaker 1: Uh Tie the Tasmanian Tiger.
Speaker 4: Okay, Stubbs but you don't replace that with replace that
Speaker 4: with GAXX. Yeah, that's a better that's a better one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I guess I'll marry GaX.
Speaker 3: And he's he's gonna cheat on you.
Speaker 2: It's fine. I'll divorce him and get half of whatever
Speaker 2: he has.
Speaker 5: Do you think he's rich? He does, doesn't have any
Speaker 5: games anymore. But do you think like.
Speaker 3: This is a good discussion?
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe maybe put some of his savings in stocks
Speaker 5: and pretty well off?
Speaker 1: Jordan, why have you been playing?
Speaker 2: I've been playing.
Speaker 5: Not any cool, exciting games. I've been playing a lot
Speaker 5: of Resident Evil Village. Finally got around and finished that game,
Speaker 5: and it's been talked about a lot, so I won't
Speaker 5: add too much to the conversation. I feel like I
Speaker 5: land where a lot of people do, where I enjoy
Speaker 5: the first half of that game, a lot more than
Speaker 5: the second.
Speaker 2: Half of that game. Man.
Speaker 5: But it's it's been wonderful to play an eight to
Speaker 5: ten hour game again. I had forgotten what that was
Speaker 5: like after playing like Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Assassin's Creed,
Speaker 5: Valhalla and Hollow Night and a bunch of games that
Speaker 5: are like forty plus hours long. It's been so so
Speaker 5: wonderful to go back to a game that I can
Speaker 5: play and beat an entire weekend. I'm still I'm still
Speaker 5: gonna play near Michael, don't worry.
Speaker 3: It's just that that gamelay near the game.
Speaker 5: The game is not eight to ten hours, and so
Speaker 5: I'm playing it in slow chunks. I'm playing in slow chunks.
Speaker 5: I'll get back to it after I finished Returnal, which
Speaker 5: I'm all so.
Speaker 3: Also, yeah, there's there's a lot more coming out this
Speaker 3: week too, that I know that we're both hyped about.
Speaker 5: It's it's, man, It's one of those things where I
Speaker 5: always am so sad when pr for indie games are like, hey,
Speaker 5: do you want to check out this game? And my
Speaker 5: answer is a resounding yes. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, there are so many E three and
Speaker 5: play for all and appointments and stuff that we have
Speaker 5: that there's no conceivable way I can actually check out
Speaker 5: your game. God, I want to play Chickory so bad.
Speaker 5: I want to play Backbone so bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, those those two. Those two caught my eye
Speaker 3: because chick looks so cute.
Speaker 5: It does, and the music sounds so wonderful. Did you
Speaker 5: check out their music stream?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Shout that's yo.
Speaker 2: This is so good. I want to play this so bad.
Speaker 5: Why are you coming out right when my schedule gets
Speaker 5: so hectic that I'll probably play like fifteen to twenty
Speaker 5: minutes of this game a day for the first week,
Speaker 5: week and a half that it's out, if even that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Resident Evil Returnal. I have y'all been watching those uh
Speaker 5: poke tune animation things, because the latest one that came out,
Speaker 5: Oh my god, it's it's OK. They're they're like these
Speaker 5: episodic Pokemon adventure anime type things that are just better
Speaker 5: than the Ash catch them chronicles and every conceivable boy.
Speaker 1: Like Ash's continuing Chronicles of Failure.
Speaker 2: Is he's won a league.
Speaker 1: Now won a league.
Speaker 5: Now he's won a league, and it is a current adventure.
Speaker 5: He has like a decent team like Pikachus still there,
Speaker 5: probably like level five hundred now, but he's got like
Speaker 5: a dragon Knight and a gang guar and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: look at a ash like having a decent team for once.
Speaker 5: But yeah, Like, the latest episode of Poke Tunes came out,
Speaker 5: and it's just about this girl who wants to be
Speaker 5: a Pokemon trainer and her parents won't let her, and
Speaker 5: she wants to be a Pokemon trainer because her dad
Speaker 5: like lost in the semi finals to be a Pokemon master,
Speaker 5: and you like find out that the reason he lost
Speaker 5: and wasn't able to go against the champion is because
Speaker 5: the person he was facing was the girl that he
Speaker 5: eventually married and is the girl's mom. And it's it's
Speaker 5: this cute, adorable, wholesome thing that I love a lot,
Speaker 5: And it's just about this girl learning what it means
Speaker 5: to be a Pokemon trainer, and it's a better than
Speaker 5: anything that the regular Pokemon anime has managed to produce
Speaker 5: in like every con Why can you watch these? It's
Speaker 5: on YouTube? I would say, the original episode doesn't have
Speaker 5: English subtitles yet.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 5: On their Pokemon Japan's account, but there's been a YouTuber
Speaker 5: I want to say, is their name is Hey, Hey or.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 5: They've been doing a really good job of translating the
Speaker 5: poke tune episodes, So yeah, you can do that, or
Speaker 5: you can be like me and struggle through the original
Speaker 5: Japanese version and be like, I watch enough anime that
Speaker 5: I can understand anime Japanese enough to kind of have
Speaker 5: a loose idea of what they're saying. Is like, I
Speaker 5: can't speak and understand like real Japanese, but I watch
Speaker 5: enough anime that I can understand anime version.
Speaker 3: I recognize what that means because I've heard that many
Speaker 3: times and other media pattern recognition. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's been my week, playing old dr games
Speaker 5: and watching Japanese anime of Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Nice Michael hyam hit us.
Speaker 3: You you know what the fuck I'm doing. It's Final
Speaker 3: Fantasy fourteen. What do you want from me? What do
Speaker 3: you want from me?
Speaker 4: U yo?
Speaker 3: Okay? So Ben talked a bit a bit about it
Speaker 3: last week. I finally got around to the main story
Speaker 3: quest of Final Fantasy fourteen Patch five point five to five,
Speaker 3: and holy shit, that shit is fucking fire, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying? Because then, like all right, like each
Speaker 3: patch has been each patch but obviously builds up to
Speaker 3: the next thing, next thing, but this one was kind
Speaker 3: of it sets up the beginnings of end Walker, which
Speaker 3: end Walker is coming out in November. But I always
Speaker 3: feel like they're the team is able to do like
Speaker 3: cool shit within these patches because there's like no expectations really.
Speaker 3: But one of my favorite things that they do in
Speaker 3: Final Fantasy fourteen is do solo instances where you take
Speaker 3: control of other characters. So you play through Final Fantasy fourteen,
Speaker 3: there's like so many core main characters alongside you, and
Speaker 3: it's such a powerful thing when the like characters that
Speaker 3: you you've battled with and have been the story since
Speaker 3: like many many years, and you've watched them do dope
Speaker 3: shit and cut scenes and when they're like your companions
Speaker 3: in battle, but when you get to take control of
Speaker 3: them and you get to use their move set, you're like, yo,
Speaker 3: I am. It's it always comes as a shock to
Speaker 3: me because they do this sometimes in the in the expansions,
Speaker 3: but it always it's always this dramatic moment where like
Speaker 3: some shit is going down, you kind of don't know
Speaker 3: where it's going, and all of a sudden, like the
Speaker 3: camera does this like this panning thing and then goes
Speaker 3: into it goes into you controlling the character, and it's
Speaker 3: like boom, now you got to fight as this person,
Speaker 3: Like I just like lose my shit every time. And
Speaker 3: so the end of five point five to five has
Speaker 3: like this one last big battle uh to set up
Speaker 3: the next expansion, and you play as pretty much every
Speaker 3: character in the Signs of the Semadon, which is like
Speaker 3: the core cast, and it's it's really fucking cool man.
Speaker 3: They have like this, it's like this board with like
Speaker 3: these battle plans with like little ambo like figures of
Speaker 3: each character in the game, and then the camera's like
Speaker 3: that does like this little monologue thing like, and then
Speaker 3: the battle took place on this end of the battlefield
Speaker 3: and they struggled to do this when this primal was
Speaker 3: some in there, and it like zooms in on the
Speaker 3: like the ambo thing, and then boom, you're controlling that
Speaker 3: character in the game. And it's so fucking cool man,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yo, let's fucking go. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: A Final Fantasy fourteen is never short on these kinds
Speaker 3: of moments. Man, God damn, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: I need to I think I need to cut you
Speaker 1: off at this point because if you keep going, I
Speaker 1: know you will keep going, you won't be able to
Speaker 1: talk about Miku Expo or what is Thiscenzo Vincenzo.
Speaker 3: So definitely play Fofas fourteen. It's got a free trial
Speaker 3: up to Level sixty. Award winning expansion Heaven's Word is
Speaker 3: also included. Vicenzo is a Netflix so it's a Netflix
Speaker 3: original and it's a k drama, so it's a Korean drama.
Speaker 3: And I checked this. So my girl checked it out
Speaker 3: and she was like, yo, we got to watch this shit.
Speaker 3: She watched the first episode and was like, yo, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to keep watching this until you catch up
Speaker 3: on the first episode. So and we've been watching it
Speaker 3: and it is fucking wild. It's like one of the
Speaker 3: highest rated shows in Korea now it just came out
Speaker 3: this year, but it is it's like a I can't
Speaker 3: I couldn't really tell what it was at first because
Speaker 3: it's it starts off very serious and dark, and then
Speaker 3: it's really silly, and then as you kind of watch
Speaker 3: more and more, you understand that it's a dark comedy
Speaker 3: but also like a dark drama at the same time,
Speaker 3: and it towes this line really well almost in like
Speaker 3: a yakuza kind of sense, to where it knows when
Speaker 3: to be really silly and it knows when to be
Speaker 3: very serious. But it has an element of dark comedy
Speaker 3: to it, so you see some fucked up shit and
Speaker 3: the show will play it off, as you know, because
Speaker 3: that's what dark comedy is.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It is fascinating, and it has that element of the
Speaker 3: It reminds me a lot of Judgment too, like the
Speaker 3: like the story itself, I'm not gonna say that they
Speaker 3: drew from Judgment, but there's parallels like it reminds me
Speaker 3: of the sort of story that is told in Judgment.
Speaker 3: The Yaku's a spin off. It's it's cool and it's
Speaker 3: got like yo. I don't know if y'all watch or
Speaker 3: if y'all keep up with K pop at all, but
Speaker 3: old school k pop fans will know U Takion from
Speaker 3: two PM. That dude is so fucking fine. Oh my god, dude,
Speaker 3: he oh my god. Yeah. There's like a lot of
Speaker 3: well known Korean actors in this show too, so it's
Speaker 3: it's really fascinating. Check it out. It's on Netflix. It's
Speaker 3: twenty episodes long and each episode is a little over
Speaker 3: an hour, which is a lot. This is like the
Speaker 3: this is like the the persona length TV show, because
Speaker 3: that's like more than twenty hours to get through this.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on. We just finished episode five last night
Speaker 3: and we're like, yo, how many more directions can this
Speaker 3: show go? We're like only a quarter of the way through,
Speaker 3: and I feel like we've gone through an entire story.
Speaker 3: We're almost done with like an entire story arc. So, uh,
Speaker 3: it is wild. It's kind of an investment, but it's
Speaker 3: definitely worth a try, I think. And also the past
Speaker 3: was on Sunday. I think Miku Expo happened, a virtual
Speaker 3: Meku Expo, and it was such a lovely experience. And
Speaker 3: if you all know what Meku X Boys, there's a
Speaker 3: live band that plays the most popular Meku songs and
Speaker 3: you have like a hologram Meku singing on stage and
Speaker 3: she's animated, she has all their dance moves and so
Speaker 3: this one obviously is virtual, so they had like a
Speaker 3: so it wasn't a hologram per se, was just a
Speaker 3: basically like a like a v tuber style icon dancing
Speaker 3: on stage. Uh, and it was it was so cool.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Their dance moves are wonderful, and there's
Speaker 3: like it's it's a whole ass spectacle too, because there's
Speaker 3: lights and there's all kinds of graphics that for those
Speaker 3: watching and like this, it's like a kaleidoscope trip and
Speaker 3: in there into and you hear all the it's it's
Speaker 3: it's always. I always love hearing vocaloid music played live
Speaker 3: because the live band obviously adds such a such a
Speaker 3: a real feeling element to these songs that are like
Speaker 3: produced by artists in their homes or or whatever, and
Speaker 3: to see them recreated or replayed live by a band
Speaker 3: is it's a really cool feeling.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: I got I got fucking hyped, so micox, but you
Speaker 3: can probably peep people replay online. But the vocal like
Speaker 3: music is that sh it's real, man. So definitely check
Speaker 3: out my you of Hatsumiku Project Eva Mega Mix Off
Speaker 3: the Switch and you can get my thoughts and feelings
Speaker 3: about vocaloid as a whole in that review.
Speaker 1: Well, from one expo to another. E three Baby, it
Speaker 1: is upon us descending like the moon in Majora's mask
Speaker 1: or the blood moon hanging over Yonim in the best
Speaker 1: video game of all time, blood Borne, It approaches enough
Speaker 1: insight made a noise that went and then he shifted
Speaker 1: in his chair and then put his both his hands
Speaker 1: on his head, which are the typical reaction to E three.
Speaker 1: Approaching E three is one of those things which is
Speaker 1: we we are all undoubtedly excited about it, but we
Speaker 1: also like why why is this happening again? It's an
Speaker 1: interesting year for E three, all digital. I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, you folks, but like in my mind, I
Speaker 1: would have thought it would be easier to do an
Speaker 1: E three from home where it's all digital.
Speaker 2: You would have thought.
Speaker 1: Somehow I am not thought, But somehow I am now
Speaker 1: convinced that flying all the way to lacc, being amongst
Speaker 1: all those people and having the madness of an in
Speaker 1: person E three is actually the easier way to go.
Speaker 1: How are you not feeling about a digital E three
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, Mike Michael?
Speaker 3: Being in person helps you kind of narrow your focus. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's what I think it is, because when you go digital,
Speaker 3: there's all these moving parts that you can't really grasp,
Speaker 3: Like you can put it in a calendar, you can
Speaker 3: put it in asana motherfuck motherfuckers listening this don't know
Speaker 3: what a son is. You put it in a project
Speaker 3: management system, you can organize all you want, but it's
Speaker 3: so hectic, Like I need to pull up this stream
Speaker 3: over here, I need to keep my eyes on this stream.
Speaker 3: I have a flood of emails because when we go
Speaker 3: into E three, like there's so much pre planning that
Speaker 3: goes into E three. So like once you land most
Speaker 3: of the things that most of the logistics are figured out.
Speaker 3: So then is now now you just have a list. Ok,
Speaker 3: I need to be here this time, and you need
Speaker 3: to be at this room at this time. I have
Speaker 3: space to do this, this and that, and it's all
Speaker 3: within the confines of E three. So it just it
Speaker 3: just feels like there's more moving parts than necessary when
Speaker 3: you go all digital. I feel like, so, so here's
Speaker 3: the thing. Is like last year when we started doing
Speaker 3: digital events on the regular, it was there was like
Speaker 3: a bunch every month. So it's just like months went by,
Speaker 3: which is like nothing, but did this digital event this
Speaker 3: digital event? But I think like now that we've kind
Speaker 3: of crammed it into back into condensed it back into
Speaker 3: like an E three week or two weeks of E three.
Speaker 3: It's that same level of hecticness condensed, and I don't
Speaker 3: think it has made it any easier, but I am
Speaker 3: glad that we kind of get to get it all
Speaker 3: over with in a more condensed period of time. It's
Speaker 3: just it's just really hard to get a grasp of it.
Speaker 3: And I think that, like we're also trying to do
Speaker 3: our own thing too with Play for All in our
Speaker 3: our own efforts, which is really important as well. So
Speaker 3: I think that expectations for ourselves and trying to keep
Speaker 3: up with how the industry is moving now with this
Speaker 3: style of E three has been It's challenging, but I'm
Speaker 3: glad things are happening. Like there's there's a lot of
Speaker 3: a lot of bullshit that happens, like when you when
Speaker 3: you have to work these events and plan for them,
Speaker 3: but you know, you know, ship's popping. So I that's
Speaker 3: my That's the silver lining for me, is like you know,
Speaker 3: at least there's something happening, at least I'm needed, and
Speaker 3: there are genuinely interesting things to get involved with. So
Speaker 3: oh that's how I feel.
Speaker 1: Jordan, as as the of of one of the youths
Speaker 1: of GameSpot, you've in East London. We used to say
Speaker 1: you coming up all the time. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: like may need Jake, and I think that that influence.
Speaker 1: But as one of the youths you've probably been to
Speaker 1: the few E three is that you've got less to
Speaker 1: kind of hold on, probably cling onto what's kind of
Speaker 1: your your kind of take right now with E three
Speaker 1: because you know a little you know of the old
Speaker 1: E three, but you're not as attached to it as
Speaker 1: some of us might be. So how are you feeling
Speaker 1: about E three?
Speaker 2: I'd say it's weird.
Speaker 5: It's going into this E three feels like what it
Speaker 5: felt like?
Speaker 2: What how I covered E.
Speaker 5: Three before joining Game Spot, where it's like, oh, we're
Speaker 5: going into the week of E three and don't have
Speaker 5: like a very concrete idea of what's going on and
Speaker 5: what's going to be shown outside of like these huge
Speaker 5: conferences that everyone's hosting. So I'm going to be sitting
Speaker 5: at a computer and watching like the YouTube or Twitch
Speaker 5: live stream of the.
Speaker 2: Event and then doing coverage afterwards kind of based off
Speaker 2: of that. But it's so weird.
Speaker 5: I think for a grand majority of people like them
Speaker 5: looking at E three, they'll notice no difference, like it's
Speaker 5: only for the people who actually work E three and
Speaker 5: cover E three, which is probably an incredibly small percentage
Speaker 5: of the gaming community that they're like, oh, man, E
Speaker 5: three this year is just so incredibly different, Like for
Speaker 5: vast majority of people, they're just sitting at home watching
Speaker 5: the press conferences yeah, and then being like, oh, I
Speaker 5: wonder if there's any more information about this game. Let
Speaker 5: me go to GameSpot or Kotaku or IGN to see
Speaker 5: if they've written anything or put up a video.
Speaker 2: So it's going to be I don't.
Speaker 5: Know, it'll be interesting to see, like when E three
Speaker 5: is over, what the general consensus is like. I feel
Speaker 5: like a lot of people in our circles will be like, man,
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if I liked that. I kind of
Speaker 5: want to go back to the in person event, and
Speaker 5: whether most people are.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, I'm glad E three was back. That
Speaker 2: was really cool.
Speaker 5: We got to see some conferences again and everything, and
Speaker 5: I enjoyed that. And for them it'll be like, oh,
Speaker 5: this was an E three like any other year, and
Speaker 5: we're happy it's just back now.
Speaker 1: Jean Luke, you are someone who like at E three,
Speaker 1: you're always manning the boards, you're doing a lot of
Speaker 1: like editing and streaming and that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 1: with that in mind, like a lot of people are
Speaker 1: probably thinking, oh, John Luke's John Luke's kind of asking
Speaker 1: this doesn't seem to have changed that much. He's still
Speaker 1: be working that, but it feels like it's become way
Speaker 1: more complicated. Is that the case is it? Does it
Speaker 1: still feel like you're doing the same old things or
Speaker 1: does it feel like you're doing completely different things, or
Speaker 1: is it you're doing the same old things with more restrictions.
Speaker 1: These days, it's.
Speaker 4: Like I'm doing the same old thing with more restrictions,
Speaker 4: and then I'm being asked to do other stuff on
Speaker 4: top of that. So yeah, I mean, cause it's like
Speaker 4: we're still fundamentally kind of doing you know, the same
Speaker 4: live show. Uh, you know, we're gonna be kind of
Speaker 4: running the press conferences, got pre and post shows. We're
Speaker 4: gonna have you know, our are our big two days
Speaker 4: where we're gonna you know, be like showing off a
Speaker 4: bunch of different you know, interviews and and and have
Speaker 4: guests on. So, but it's just infinitely more complicated because
Speaker 4: it's all remote and the amount of wrangling you have
Speaker 4: to do there's a lot more pre production this year
Speaker 4: than I would say in previous years, because you know
Speaker 4: when when you when you do it at uh LA,
Speaker 4: it's like, well, everyone's here, so you could just kind
Speaker 4: of like, you know, grab these these developers and bring
Speaker 4: them onto the live show where and in this year
Speaker 4: there's a lot more uh like live to tape where
Speaker 4: we're grabbing you know, uh developers in advance and and
Speaker 4: kind of like doing these interviews beforehand so that we're
Speaker 4: like prepped and ready to share them on those days.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's like I'm with Jordan, where it's like
Speaker 4: fundamentally you're going to look at it and it's going
Speaker 4: to feel very much the same, but a lot more,
Speaker 4: a lot more just management and production on the back
Speaker 4: end this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm I'm in the same way. I
Speaker 1: think Michael really hit it on the head with how
Speaker 1: it feels right now. It's really difficult to focus on
Speaker 1: down on things because it's the it's kind of the
Speaker 1: issue of the work life balance in a work from
Speaker 1: home scenario amplified to the highest like possible degree, where
Speaker 1: you can't switch anything off, like you've got your life
Speaker 1: happening at the same time as E three, you can't
Speaker 1: focus on one task because you need to do the
Speaker 1: non E three tasks of a work day at the
Speaker 1: same time as an E three task. Whereas when E
Speaker 1: three rolls around and you're going in person, everything else
Speaker 1: falls away. Very few people are.
Speaker 2: Few people are there's going to be catering and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, handet's on deck, bro, Yeah, No one's sending you
Speaker 4: a hand duet to your house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even stuff like oh, like the reviews cycle
Speaker 1: kind of takes a back seat a bit more Like
Speaker 1: you know, we had situations where reviews were still happening
Speaker 1: during E three, but like usually it was less intensive.
Speaker 1: But right now, the expectation is, you know, reviews games
Speaker 1: are coming out, so reviews also need to happen at
Speaker 1: the same time, and you know, like gameplay is going
Speaker 1: to come through at the same time as streams are happening.
Speaker 1: So it's it's almost like and when we were at LACC,
Speaker 1: we'd hire like production companies who'd be around and extra
Speaker 1: hands would be around, whereas now it's like we're not
Speaker 1: we're not really doing as much of that. So it's tricky, Michael,
Speaker 1: You're gonna say something.
Speaker 3: There, Yeah, it's it's like when you work in this,
Speaker 3: when you work in this industry, whether media or developer
Speaker 3: or publisher, it's kind of like the week of E three,
Speaker 3: your life kind of gets to or at least a
Speaker 3: professional life gets to be put on hold in a
Speaker 3: in a weird way to where like also the stuff
Speaker 3: I can well, at least I can say, I can't
Speaker 3: speak for everyone, but like a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of elements of your everyday life are can be put
Speaker 3: on pause because I'm in La doing this thing. But
Speaker 3: when you do it digitally, when it's like this, it's
Speaker 3: like there are a lot of elements of your work
Speaker 3: life that are still business as usual. I think when
Speaker 3: when Tam mentioned that, like you know, reviews are still happening,
Speaker 3: there's still other things happening that that people not involved
Speaker 3: in E three just don't like they can't even they
Speaker 3: can't care about it. And I understand that, Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: also that expectation of I still need to do the
Speaker 3: everyday things I would have done otherwise I don't get
Speaker 3: to put those things aren't put on hold for E
Speaker 3: three because it doesn't have that that when it's all digital,
Speaker 3: it just doesn't have the same kind of impact their
Speaker 3: presence in the minds of people, I suppose. And yeah,
Speaker 3: when you're when you're at home, it's like, well, I
Speaker 3: still have to worry about my home life. I'm not
Speaker 3: like just posted up at hotel, like I can trash
Speaker 3: a hotel. I can just like throw my pants on
Speaker 3: the floor and allso this stuff I don't got word.
Speaker 3: No one's gonna judge me. And also other stuff. But
Speaker 3: it's at home, You're like, ah, man, you know, bless
Speaker 3: is gonna judge me if I like, if I'm like
Speaker 3: shirtless in the in the living room eating, eating like
Speaker 3: a rap or something like a soggy sad hamdu It
Speaker 3: style rap.
Speaker 5: I mean, take care of yourself. You got to order food,
Speaker 5: you gotta take out the trash. You have to make
Speaker 5: sure that you're not a slovn mess.
Speaker 3: Michael in La.
Speaker 1: Michael's acting like he doesn't him do a shirtless in
Speaker 1: the war room anyway, which he absolutely.
Speaker 2: In the war room.
Speaker 3: It's cold. Yeah, that's another thing too, Like yo, I'm
Speaker 3: like low key because a lot of y'all was sharing
Speaker 3: pictures from past e threes and it was kind of
Speaker 3: nostalgic seeing the war room again, Like I kind of
Speaker 3: hate that place, but you know what, I kind of
Speaker 3: miss it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like that it's like that villain that always comes
Speaker 3: back to get you. Yeah, like an anime. It's like
Speaker 3: all the stirring villain who's like it's like Team Rockets,
Speaker 3: you know, the war room is like Team Rocks.
Speaker 1: I think of the war room as tuxedo mosque, which.
Speaker 3: Is like, yeah, that's good. That's that's good too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I feel you like the weird it's
Speaker 1: it's very very strange, Like I'm the weird thing about me.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to the actual E three stuff,
Speaker 1: but we're just talking like almost behind the scene inside
Speaker 1: and stuff. But for me, the weird thing is like
Speaker 1: E three is going to be happening on West Coast
Speaker 1: hours and I'm in and in the UK like yeah,
Speaker 1: so like and like I have to explain to my
Speaker 1: family like yeah, I'm doing streams at this time. They're like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck with your work life balance? Somehow got worse?
Speaker 1: How did this happen? Like it's just you know this that,
Speaker 1: and it's it is wild, but like I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: But I think that's why I guess the having talked
Speaker 1: all of this nonsense about how we feel about it
Speaker 1: and their difficulties of it. The important thing to say
Speaker 1: is it's still exciting. What we would say the takeaway
Speaker 1: from this is when you're out there consuming E three content,
Speaker 1: show some love to the people that are making it,
Speaker 1: not us. I'm not asking specific to us. Whether it's ign,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, any other kind of funny or
Speaker 1: it's just a random YouTuber who's like, you know, doing
Speaker 1: recap videos for a couple hundred people. Just remember it's
Speaker 1: it's difficult. It's it's hard to do that stuff. So
Speaker 1: show everyone some love. Show show them that you'll tell
Speaker 1: them that you're watching this stuff and you're enjoying them.
Speaker 1: Be be cool about it, and and yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be fun. Just just remember that
Speaker 1: there are humans working incredibly hard on on creating that content,
Speaker 1: so be appreciative or support them as much as you can.
Speaker 1: Having said that, Jordan, what would it take for you
Speaker 1: to just explode with hype at E three if there
Speaker 1: was a if there was an announcement that's reasonable in
Speaker 1: chance of like happening, that would make you take your
Speaker 1: shirt off and pull out a burrito and eat it
Speaker 1: in front of your roommate with.
Speaker 2: The hell am I grabbing?
Speaker 1: What would it be? And you are banned from saying
Speaker 1: hollow night silk song.
Speaker 5: Well, I can't even say it because they said beforehand
Speaker 5: that there's gonna be no Team Cherry at E three
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 2: But that would have been the thing that.
Speaker 1: They should have said. They should have said, we know
Speaker 1: E three happening, but sadly there will not be a
Speaker 1: Cherry on top.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, wow, I'm so I'm still so miffed
Speaker 2: Team Cherry is not going to be there.
Speaker 5: But I think for me it would be for someone
Speaker 5: like Ubisoft, who has now said all the games that
Speaker 5: we make are ubi Soft originals, to show us a
Speaker 5: game or project that was a non original that like
Speaker 5: takes one of their franchises in a interesting way that
Speaker 5: maybe isn't like super big money for them anymore. Like
Speaker 5: in my head says that a UBI Soft non original
Speaker 5: is basically any indie game that you be Soft is like, oh,
Speaker 5: this game looks dope, let's attach our publishing name to it.
Speaker 5: But in my heart, my dream is Ubisoft being like, look,
Speaker 5: we're not changing scope on Assesssen's Creed. We're going more
Speaker 5: and more Witcher three RPG with every entry. You can't
Speaker 5: stop us. That said, if there's like a studio out
Speaker 5: there that wants to make like an eight to ten
Speaker 5: hour traditional Assassins Creed, we would pay for them to
Speaker 5: do that. Or if they want to do a visual
Speaker 5: novel Assassins Creed or a first person shooter Assassin's Creed
Speaker 5: or splinter Cell or Far Cry or any of their
Speaker 5: other franchise is just something buck wild in the kind
Speaker 5: of the same thing as like Cadence of High Rule,
Speaker 5: where it was like, here's Legend of Zelda in a
Speaker 5: rhythm dance dungeon crawler game that's like this really weird thing,
Speaker 5: where Nintendo is like, oh, here's our very beloved ip
Speaker 5: in a way that we're never going to make because
Speaker 5: it would not sell nearly as well as a traditional
Speaker 5: Zelda title, but you can do something creative with it.
Speaker 5: I would love to see at ubs forward for Ubisoft
Speaker 5: to be like here's splinter Cell, Here's Assassin's Creed, here's
Speaker 5: Far Cry, but in a way that either goes back
Speaker 5: to the reason why people love those games so much,
Speaker 5: or just in this really weird, bizarre way that it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is cool. Because Ubisoft is making enough money with
Speaker 5: their mainstream franchises in the direction they're going, they can
Speaker 5: now pay for other developers to take their ips to
Speaker 5: try something brand new that looks cool. That's what I want,
Speaker 5: That's what I want to see. At E three twenty
Speaker 5: twenty one.
Speaker 1: There was a short answer, and you just did not.
Speaker 1: I think you've forgotten it. So I'm gonna remember it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna remind you a boy. It has
Speaker 1: a Stall Wars license.
Speaker 4: Holy shit they do, Holy shit they do about that?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, who's making that? God?
Speaker 1: Which studio is Uisoft putting on a star Isn't it
Speaker 1: the Division Team?
Speaker 2: I think yeah it is.
Speaker 3: The Division is a massive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's man, massive massive. What are the chances that
Speaker 1: we get to see that, Jordan, And what do you
Speaker 1: want from a Star Wars game?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's You've blown my mind. You've blown
Speaker 5: my mind with the reminder.
Speaker 1: Because technically that counts as a non Ubisoft original right
Speaker 1: since it's right since title, so it could be. The
Speaker 1: other license stuff is the non original games. But oh my.
Speaker 5: God, I was like, my fear is that because the
Speaker 5: Division team, that it would be a Star Wars game
Speaker 5: in the same line as the Division. But I don't
Speaker 5: think that they're going to do that, or at least
Speaker 5: I hope that they don't do that. I think the
Speaker 5: Division like embodies what they want out of that genre,
Speaker 5: so well, it's like, please, don't try to cannibalize yourself
Speaker 5: by creating two division like games.
Speaker 3: Don't create a division.
Speaker 2: I was trying to avoid the pun.
Speaker 1: I respect it, Michael. You went for the low hanging
Speaker 1: through as a connoisseur of eating low hanging fruit. I
Speaker 1: respect this. Secondly, I think Jordan, they are absolutely just
Speaker 1: gonna make Division but in Star Wars universe, because that
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. It makes sense, it makes money. They
Speaker 1: want to make money, and Lucas Filmed Disney probably like,
Speaker 1: we want money at this. If we're giving you this,
Speaker 1: we want money at this. And so you are going
Speaker 1: to be buying blasters, you're going to be buying different helmets,
Speaker 1: you're going to be playing for character boosts. But underneath
Speaker 1: that could have a really cool like you know, Games
Speaker 1: of Service Star Wars title.
Speaker 5: I would be okay with that if the combat is
Speaker 5: not the same as the Division two where it's this
Speaker 5: straight laced third person cover based shooter, very tactical. If
Speaker 5: you can like throw in some really fancy, crazy Star
Speaker 5: Wars stuff like jet packs or something like that, maybe
Speaker 5: make it a little bit more fast paced and an era.
Speaker 2: I'm down for something.
Speaker 4: Like a Star Wars. Would you want it to take
Speaker 4: place in Era?
Speaker 5: Always might go to his Clone Wars, but I feel
Speaker 5: like that's been kind of done to death in the
Speaker 5: past few years between the Felony verse and video games.
Speaker 4: I feel like video games haven't.
Speaker 2: Fall order kind I want to touch on it.
Speaker 1: I want to see a like a rebel fighter taking
Speaker 1: cover is on half snowy hawth is a snowy one.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, there's a lot of snowy ones.
Speaker 1: Yes, is one of the snowy ast ship. He's shimming
Speaker 1: along the wall. There's a speeder there. The speeder's door
Speaker 1: is open, just closes. The door casually carries on sliding over.
Speaker 1: And there is the Snowdrop Engine remade with new door
Speaker 1: closing technology. What's the new Star Wars game, Michael, you
Speaker 1: don't remember this? The door closing from Division where the
Speaker 1: entire games industry for like a whole month was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: the way closed the door, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck's wrong with you people? Why are you so
Speaker 1: excited about this door closing animation? Do the kicks? Michael?
Speaker 1: What's the one announcement that isn't the final of fancy
Speaker 1: related that will make you pop off with your top off? Yo?
Speaker 3: If okay, so I know listen, If I know this,
Speaker 3: it won't happen because this is a largely Western conference.
Speaker 3: But if someone told me that a Persona three remake
Speaker 3: was happening, I would I would probably I don't know, destroyed.
Speaker 2: Michael.
Speaker 5: We had an E three where Xbox came on stage
Speaker 5: freaking Xbox Western, like of the Big three out of
Speaker 5: all of them, Like, hey, by the way, Fantasy Star
Speaker 5: Online two is coming to the West, Like I don't
Speaker 5: think your hope is like completely out there crazy.
Speaker 3: Like I've I think I've thought about this for too
Speaker 3: many years at this point of what a Persona three
Speaker 3: remake would look like. Obviously it would it would use
Speaker 3: like the Persona five art style, but like retell that
Speaker 3: story that so many people haven't experienced yet, especially now, Yo,
Speaker 3: this is the era of sad games like fuck that
Speaker 3: happy ship, Yo, Like ratch and clank. Oh, it's like,
Speaker 3: oh it's nice and bubbly happy. Yeah, you could have that.
Speaker 3: I want Sad Ship yo, and Persona three is real sad.
Speaker 5: Do you want a more Demon Souls remake where like
Speaker 5: everything's been like remakes, it's a brand new experience, but
Speaker 5: it's still basically the same game. Where do you want
Speaker 5: more r E two r E three where it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: there's been fundamental changes here where this is.
Speaker 4: Like they have to because that they have to charterists like,
Speaker 4: you can't, you can't do that in twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: That game is structured in a really weird way that's
Speaker 3: not too exciting to play, even if you like you
Speaker 3: revamped the combat system in the graphics and also the ship, like,
Speaker 3: there's still some fundamental changes that need to be made
Speaker 3: in order for that to fly. But holy shit, man,
Speaker 3: I I've had thought about this. I put a lot
Speaker 3: of thought into this, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So there was a show answer and you didn't get it.
Speaker 1: Let me remind you. Oh god, uh, you know, producer
Speaker 1: and director of the Persona series. Since the Persona three
Speaker 1: is working on a fantasy RPG.
Speaker 3: Project, Refantasy yesh Ship yo, show us what the is
Speaker 3: that about? They announced that ship like three years ago
Speaker 3: and said, I peace out, see y'all later. There's Catherine
Speaker 3: full Body.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, because that's that student studio is zero
Speaker 3: zero that that's like the old the old persona heads.
Speaker 5: I feel like Tam must know that he's given way
Speaker 5: too good an answers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm frankically trying to think of right now.
Speaker 3: That'd be dope to see with whatever the fuck that is.
Speaker 3: But I feel like that's more of a TGS kind
Speaker 3: of joint.
Speaker 1: So well, he said. He did say he wants to
Speaker 1: give a development update and show gameplay as soon as
Speaker 1: possible five months ago.
Speaker 3: What's another few months?
Speaker 1: Jean Luke, what would make you pop off with your
Speaker 1: top off at E three? I think we've got the
Speaker 1: title there.
Speaker 5: It's not like an article gallery on games right, where
Speaker 5: everyone like gives their one hope and dream.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk to Matt after this.
Speaker 4: I mean, for me, it would have to be uh
Speaker 4: news about the new mass Effect. It's like it's like
Speaker 4: it's not gonna happen. It's hell too early. They just
Speaker 4: put a legendary They still got Dragon age four I
Speaker 4: feel like they can't just over like jump over that
Speaker 4: and go right to mass Efect. But man, if they
Speaker 4: show the new mass Effect, like oh man, Like I
Speaker 4: was talking about with like Jake the other night, and
Speaker 4: we're like we're like trying not to get too hyped
Speaker 4: about it because we're like, you know, we've been through
Speaker 4: this before. We got hyped about and Drameda and you know,
Speaker 4: it was it turned out it was a game. It's
Speaker 4: a video game. It left me wanting and I was like,
Speaker 4: all right, I can't do that again. I can't. I
Speaker 4: can't get too excited about Mass Effect. But what if
Speaker 4: the new mass Effect's really awesome and they do all
Speaker 4: this and that, I'm like, oh shit, like cause there's oh,
Speaker 4: there's just like so much I feel like they could improve,
Speaker 4: like like replaying it, like I like and Drama I
Speaker 4: thought did a lot to the combat in terms of
Speaker 4: you know, like the mobility and and like the weapons
Speaker 4: feel good, but like the squad mates in that game
Speaker 4: were like non existent, Like I don't think you can
Speaker 4: even like directly command them in that one, like, and
Speaker 4: I'm like there's so much potential with like the squad
Speaker 4: mates that I feel like they've never fully realized in
Speaker 4: those games, like you know, they basically all played the
Speaker 4: exact same but it's like, but what if like my Krogan,
Speaker 4: what if like Rex actually like behaved like a Krogan
Speaker 4: and he would just like rush in like a tank
Speaker 4: and just like you know, body slam a dude or something,
Speaker 4: and like there, I feel like there is uh so
Speaker 4: much they could do with that series still that hasn't
Speaker 4: been tapped into, and I and my mind's just racing
Speaker 4: with the possibilities. Uh. And also I really really really
Speaker 4: want to know what the hell they're going to do
Speaker 4: with that story, because I mean, based on that trailer,
Speaker 4: if they're trying to follow up on the end of
Speaker 4: Mass Effect three, that is, ah, that is a hell
Speaker 4: of a tall order. So that is that would get
Speaker 4: me real That'd get me real real hyped.
Speaker 1: That was that Well. I was going to say dragon
Speaker 1: Age for you, but you mentioned dragon Age. I feel
Speaker 1: like we're in a position where dragon Age is more
Speaker 1: likely to show up then, so I feel like, of everyone,
Speaker 1: we are most likely to see Jean Luke pop off
Speaker 1: of the top off at E three twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and if one cannot wait for it, for me obviously
Speaker 1: Elder Ring, but if I had to stop myself from
Speaker 1: Elder and Ring, I would probably go for.
Speaker 3: God, what about that Dark or Bloodborne on PC?
Speaker 1: I would take that if it was If it was Yeah,
Speaker 1: PC Gaming Show, blob on PC, pop off of top
Speaker 1: off is happening.
Speaker 3: I think we're getting I think we're getting Persona five
Speaker 3: on PC at PC Gaming Show, are you? I think so? Well,
Speaker 3: there's a bunch of right yeah, yeah, there's like a
Speaker 3: Microsoft like it was rated for a Microsoft system in Korea.
Speaker 3: People are saying like it was rated for Xbox. I
Speaker 3: think it was just under it was Microsoft, so it
Speaker 3: could probably be PC. I don't think that they would
Speaker 3: do strip Xbox, but who knows, not.
Speaker 2: Play it for a third time?
Speaker 4: What God damn you missed a potential good answer, though,
Speaker 4: which is we still don't know what blue points next
Speaker 4: big project is.
Speaker 1: That's a good pointe Whereas Metal Gear I've already said
Speaker 1: they should do a Metal Gear Man. That would absolutely
Speaker 1: make me pop off with my top and bottom off.
Speaker 3: Whoa wait, so so what other than Elden Ring, it would.
Speaker 1: Be a Blue Point metal g remake? Yeah, John, who
Speaker 1: got me with my own stick? My own bit well played.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to listener questions. If you would like
Speaker 1: to send a question in you can send it to
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Speaker 1: will check whether you're wrong or not. If you are wrong,
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Speaker 1: But those are the ways that you can do it.
Speaker 1: First question comes from a game Spot fan and it's
Speaker 1: going to be read by Michael Hyam.
Speaker 3: All right, so Michael Mayam asked, do you like CDs
Speaker 3: or tapes?
Speaker 1: What a great name that lad has. I hope he
Speaker 1: has a long, unfruitful life.
Speaker 3: I hope you. I hope you checked if he was
Speaker 3: a wrong, and.
Speaker 1: Yep, I did not. Based on that name, I can
Speaker 1: almost certainly guarantee he is. I like I like tapes,
Speaker 1: tape these nutsty I knew it. I knew it, Michael,
Speaker 1: I want to know. I want you to know that
Speaker 1: I read that and I was like CDs or tapes.
Speaker 1: I've seen these both.
Speaker 3: Both of these. I'm gonna I learned that joke in
Speaker 3: third grade and I will never let go.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to willingly walk into this for the
Speaker 1: band well played. The next question comes from n dubs.
Speaker 1: Can we get a reading of this question please? Jordan?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Back when conventions were a thing, I went to a
Speaker 5: talk from one of the designers behind Alien Isolation. During
Speaker 5: the presentation, they talked about how they tested the aliens
Speaker 5: AI by making it narrate where it thought the player was,
Speaker 5: and given where creative Assembly we were based, it had
Speaker 5: a rural English accent.
Speaker 2: I did not know that that's cool.
Speaker 5: This made me love the game even more than I
Speaker 5: already did. Are there any behind the scenes tidbits that
Speaker 5: you've heard during your time with game developers that you
Speaker 5: think are really cool? Gosh, I'm sure the answer is yes,
Speaker 5: But I'm drawing, so that's the thing.
Speaker 4: The one that always comes to mind for me is
Speaker 4: a story from the original h oh Man Flight game.
Speaker 4: The name oh is already going.
Speaker 3: On Chrisk guys.
Speaker 4: Uh, the the one that Mark Hamill was in.
Speaker 1: In Force Squadron Stars.
Speaker 4: No Squadrons, No, no, no, no, not a Star Wars game.
Speaker 3: Uh fuck Microsoft?
Speaker 1: About the perpetually in development money pit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, made by that guy. But he made before that.
Speaker 4: Oh man, oh oh, this is gonna drive me nuts anyway,
Speaker 4: that game flight game. I'm desperately googling Flight space game.
Speaker 3: You're talking about Star Citizen.
Speaker 4: But the guy who made Star Citizen the game he
Speaker 4: made before that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't know. Uh, perpetual money, perpetual money
Speaker 3: fit that his start Citizen.
Speaker 4: Uh, Christopher, Wing Commander. There we go, Wing Commander, Jesus,
Speaker 4: I figured it out, Tam figured it out.
Speaker 1: I had to go into the depth of my mind.
Speaker 1: You've made me feel older than I already figured.
Speaker 4: I don't know why that was so hard to remember, Commander.
Speaker 4: But in the original Wing Commander, there was a bug
Speaker 4: where if you crash when you would quit out of
Speaker 4: the game, like it only happened when you quit, the
Speaker 4: game would like crash and it would pop up like
Speaker 4: a little error screen, and they they could never figure
Speaker 4: out how to make it not do that. But they're like, well,
Speaker 4: I mean this is like shippable because it only happens
Speaker 4: when you quit, so it's not a big deal. But
Speaker 4: you know, like, what are we gonna do? It pops
Speaker 4: up this error screen, So they just went into the
Speaker 4: code and they changed the error message to just say
Speaker 4: thank you for playing Wing Commander. That is amazing some ingenuity.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of one. Oh god, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: Like all the behind the scenes stuff that I know
Speaker 5: is things that I feel like it's public knowledge, like
Speaker 5: someone story. Yeah, like I either wrote about it or
Speaker 5: someone else wrote about it, and like it went around
Speaker 5: Twitter and people are like, oh, that's really cool, and
Speaker 5: so it's not like this really secret behind the scenes thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure I know some, but my memory sucks
Speaker 1: so much that I also I'm not sure which ones
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to say you're not, So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: I think for me, anytime I talk about localization with
Speaker 3: like folks at Sega or or at LIS or SCREENIX,
Speaker 3: I think it's always it's always fascinating to hear about
Speaker 3: how they how they go about it, just like how
Speaker 3: much creative freedom they have where they draw from obviously,
Speaker 3: like those are those are turned into stories and all that,
Speaker 3: But every time I hear them, I'm always I'm always
Speaker 3: fascinated about how how much of their voice is also
Speaker 3: a part of that game whenever they do localization, because
Speaker 3: it has to be. Whenever I talk to Scott Stricker
Speaker 3: about like the next yakus A game, which I've talked
Speaker 3: to him multiple times, it's always he always has something
Speaker 3: new to share, something fascinating to share. Oh, I think
Speaker 3: one thing that so Scott Stricker and John Riisebach, who's
Speaker 3: now over at eight four is I think one interesting
Speaker 3: thing was that when they did the English lyrics for
Speaker 3: the all the karaoke songs and Yakuza Like a Dragon,
Speaker 3: John Raisbach and Scott Strickert wrote those songs, wrote the
Speaker 3: English versions of those songs because yeah, Like a Dragon
Speaker 3: is the first core Yakuza game that was voiced in English,
Speaker 3: so and also has karaoke, so they had to do
Speaker 3: English versions of all those karaoke songs. But obviously you
Speaker 3: can't just like translate the lyrics because there's there's a song,
Speaker 3: there's a rhythm, there's cadence that has to follow, so
Speaker 3: they basically have to rewrite the songs but have the
Speaker 3: same spirit. So knowing that them two were the only
Speaker 3: ones who worked on rewriting those songs and had all
Speaker 3: of the voice actors performed them no matter whether or
Speaker 3: not they could or wanted to do it, I think
Speaker 3: that's that was a really fascinating thing because again, like
Speaker 3: I said, that's them using their own voice to portray
Speaker 3: such a like a big part of that game. Even
Speaker 3: though they are the localizers, they're still very much what
Speaker 3: that the ethos of what that game ends up being.
Speaker 3: So I think that's what I'll go with.
Speaker 2: Just go watch audio logs everyone.
Speaker 5: It's just filled a bunch of like behind the God
Speaker 5: of War episode is probably my favorite, but they're all
Speaker 5: really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some like audio Logs is full of behind
Speaker 1: the scenes stuff, Like there's the one for Death Stranding
Speaker 1: about the crab. They had to bring a crab in
Speaker 1: to model the crab so they could have loads of
Speaker 1: crabs on the beach, but in the process, sadly the
Speaker 1: crab perished and they held like a eulogy for the
Speaker 1: crab and buried it rest in peace. Crab from Death Stranding,
Speaker 1: which now every time I see a crab, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're all the same fucking crab. This is ridiculous, lazy game. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jean Luke, you've got a fun little game for us,
Speaker 1: prepared I do. So.
Speaker 4: This was sent in from Kevin from West Hartford, who
Speaker 4: sent in a couple of weeks ago, but I thought
Speaker 4: it would be a good time to pull this out.
Speaker 4: So it's a little game, he says, Hey, crew, I've
Speaker 4: smashed together the names and descriptions of a movie and
Speaker 4: a game. For example, a group of vampires struggle to
Speaker 4: cope with their modern job hunting giants would be what
Speaker 4: we do in the Shadow of the Colossus. Oh okay,
Speaker 4: so that's gonna be the game.
Speaker 1: This is clearly stolen from igans Focus and also which
Speaker 1: was also stolen by kind of Funny, But we're gonna
Speaker 1: claim this as our own creation. Excell done cool, our
Speaker 1: own game.
Speaker 4: Fantastic. So join us in this very original game created
Speaker 4: by the one and only Kevin from West Hartford. So
Speaker 4: let's see who can get the most right First up?
Speaker 2: Can you like go through?
Speaker 5: So it's basically a title that like combines a game,
Speaker 5: and we have to guess what the game and movie exactly.
Speaker 4: So he's going to kind of read a description and
Speaker 4: then we have to do the combination. Okay, So first
Speaker 4: one up, the school has to meet behind the new
Speaker 4: headmasters back to learn how to become a defense attorney.
Speaker 3: School.
Speaker 1: I think it's behind. So is it a movie and
Speaker 1: a game?
Speaker 4: Movie and a game Ace Attorney and a A U A.
Speaker 4: I know what the two are. I don't know how
Speaker 4: to form it into a title.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's clearly Ace Attorney. So the second one is Attorney.
Speaker 4: Uh Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, right,
Speaker 4: I think that's what it is. I think that's what.
Speaker 1: All those games called Phoenix right though I thought they're
Speaker 1: called Ace Attorney.
Speaker 4: They're called Phoenix right, Ace Attorney.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe wow.
Speaker 2: That's they were.
Speaker 1: That's not what they were from all the sides.
Speaker 4: Well that was probably Japanese. Yes, it was Harry Potter
Speaker 4: and the Order of the Phoenix, right, Ace Attorney.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's that's a mouthful.
Speaker 4: That's all right. Number two, Huge Monsters attack a new
Speaker 4: sci fi colony that already has plenty of problems on
Speaker 4: its own.
Speaker 1: Oh, movie and game Huge Monsters. So it's Kaiju related
Speaker 1: Pacific colony, sci fi colony, wilds World's out of worlds?
Speaker 3: Is it or is.
Speaker 1: It a I don't know Fallout New Vegas.
Speaker 2: Vegas is a good chat.
Speaker 4: I can't tell which parts of the movie and which
Speaker 4: parts of the game, the monsters, the sci fi.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can get this.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I can get either.
Speaker 1: Go on, what is it?
Speaker 2: What is past?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Pacific Rim, World.
Speaker 2: Technic up both of them?
Speaker 1: Why did you want doubt me Pacific Rim, Like you
Speaker 1: think of monsters and you don't think of Pacific Rim.
Speaker 1: You think of.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: No, but they're like Pacific Rim is about being in
Speaker 1: robots fighting.
Speaker 2: You have to get in the robots to fight the monsters.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm just saying. I'm just saying myself.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying Kaiju Kaiju is like the second category
Speaker 1: of description for Pacific Number one is like robots, big robots.
Speaker 3: Get the fucking robot tam all right?
Speaker 4: Next one up. A musician must infiltrate a frozen island
Speaker 4: before he loses his hearing.
Speaker 3: Ah, this is definitely is this? No, I was thinking
Speaker 3: metal Gear because of the opening of m G S one.
Speaker 1: What I was thinking too, Yeah, frozen island? So what uh?
Speaker 5: Subnotica Deep Zero that takes place on a frozen island
Speaker 5: under water.
Speaker 1: That feels like a two niche so frozen. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: like Turnrado, what's the is it? Rise?
Speaker 4: The second one?
Speaker 3: Rise? The cold the cold one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, tropical freeze? I guess.
Speaker 3: The wait can you say it again? John?
Speaker 4: A musician must infiltrate a frozen island before he loses
Speaker 4: his hearing. See infiltrate makes me think metal gear?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I think shadow Moses is the right? Is
Speaker 1: the right? Care for something? Gear solid? Uh? So musician?
Speaker 1: Though what movies involved?
Speaker 3: Maybe it has to do with.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man solid. Uh yeah, I don't get this.
Speaker 1: I'm terrible by this stuff.
Speaker 4: All right, go on. It is the sound of metal
Speaker 4: gear solid?
Speaker 2: So where does the sound like.
Speaker 1: Sound of music?
Speaker 4: The sound of music but with metal gear solid?
Speaker 1: This game sucks? Man?
Speaker 4: That was okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Uh? We got a few more. Uh. A shrewd turn
Speaker 4: of the century. Entrepreneur must find the source of a
Speaker 4: mysterious plague.
Speaker 1: Mysterious play Okay, isn't the first one.
Speaker 2: What's that Christmas movie with the I got it?
Speaker 4: TAM's got it?
Speaker 1: There will be bloodborne that's.
Speaker 4: Gotta be it. Yep, there will be bloodborn yew of course.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: In the near future, robot boxing is the norm and
Speaker 4: fought with an insanely expensive proprietary controller.
Speaker 3: Near it is part of this I bet robot boxing.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the Gerard Butler movie Citizen Game?
Speaker 3: No, it's called gamer. No, that's not that. I think
Speaker 3: it's called I think I know Citizen Game.
Speaker 2: What's that? Uh?
Speaker 3: A big fan?
Speaker 5: It's the movie where like you think of the movie
Speaker 5: box each other and that's like a huge jack someone, uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe rock them stuck and robot stuff.
Speaker 3: Let's see Hugh Jackman robot movie. Wow, there's an auto
Speaker 3: fill right there. Steal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go, so real steal. What's the other
Speaker 1: part of it?
Speaker 4: A group of iconic heroes must work as a team.
Speaker 4: Oh no, sorry, that's a different one. Apologies.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: In the near future, robot boxing is the norm and
Speaker 4: fought with an insanely expensive proprietary controller. Oh uh real
Speaker 4: Steel Battalion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wha wow, that's that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Pretty good.
Speaker 4: I like that. I like that one, all right. Next one,
Speaker 4: a group of iconic heroes must work as a team
Speaker 4: to defeat a rival group of champions. I feel like
Speaker 4: that just describes.
Speaker 5: There's games that are like a team of heroes. There's
Speaker 5: a lot of j RPGs that are a.
Speaker 1: Team of heroes, iconic heroes. The movie has iconic Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Avengers, Avengers Avengers. What's the second part the game?
Speaker 4: To defeat a rival group of champions?
Speaker 3: I was thinking of maybe Apex Legends.
Speaker 5: I'm like, is there any multiplayer game where the characters
Speaker 5: are referred to as champions?
Speaker 1: Isn't it Apex?
Speaker 2: They're called Legendions of Legends?
Speaker 1: Okay, champions, but like, if you win, you're a champion.
Speaker 4: Quake Quake is the champions one. I don't think this
Speaker 4: was a reference to Quaid Champions.
Speaker 2: What the character is called in League of Legends? Do
Speaker 2: they have uh denomination?
Speaker 4: I got to ask someone who actually plays that ship.
Speaker 4: I don't think I can get this money there?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: It is ah Justice League of Legends.
Speaker 2: So Jordan was on.
Speaker 3: That's that's not bad, That's all right. It's a little
Speaker 3: vague description.
Speaker 4: But it's a good it's a good Yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: good good play, all right. And the last one, the
Speaker 4: sole survivor of an apocalypse will save the princess using
Speaker 4: an ancient relic.
Speaker 2: Mario in there.
Speaker 3: Maybe Legend of Zelda.
Speaker 2: Makes more sense.
Speaker 4: Apocalypse makes me think of Tea.
Speaker 1: Yeah wait, that's the movie, right, I don't know, so
Speaker 1: survivor of Apocalypse.
Speaker 3: I am legend there is?
Speaker 2: That is good?
Speaker 4: Give that was.
Speaker 3: At least I got one?
Speaker 4: All right? Well, there you go. That was all of them.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Kevin. That was fun.
Speaker 3: Thank you that wasn't bad.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Kevin from Hartford?
Speaker 4: Is it West Hartford?
Speaker 1: I believe West Hartford for that great little game there.
Speaker 1: If you have your own game that you'd like us
Speaker 1: to play, send it over and we will think about it.
Speaker 1: We'll think long and hard about it, and then we
Speaker 1: might in the meantime, Where can we find you? And
Speaker 1: what are you up to? Michael I Am?
Speaker 3: Oh, you can find me and all my bullshit on
Speaker 3: Twitter dot com slash Michael P. Higham and he stands
Speaker 3: for you know. Yay, now you got it? Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: check out y'all. Okay, okay, mind, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: talk about Peno next time with this podcast. What you've
Speaker 3: been playing or doing. I'm gonna talk about y'all some
Speaker 3: fire Pino I found. But anyway, don't do that yet. Actually,
Speaker 3: head over to GameSpot dot com and check out all
Speaker 3: our efforts with play for All in our coverage of three.
Speaker 3: And if you want to see me in particular, keep
Speaker 3: up with E three's official coverage because you got to
Speaker 3: see your boy on there.
Speaker 4: Yo.
Speaker 3: So uh, E three, I think are the official ESA
Speaker 3: coverage starts on Saturday and goes on until Tuesday, and
Speaker 3: we're going to be covering each of the press conferences,
Speaker 3: doing our pre and post shows and analysis and all
Speaker 3: this other stuff. And I suspect I'm gonna be a
Speaker 3: part of most of that. So yeah, if you want
Speaker 3: to hear my dumb ass and see my, see my,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be swagged down and everything. Oh shit, yo,
Speaker 3: I got I got a I got a wardrobe budget.
Speaker 3: Now I don't, but I'm gonna look like I do.
Speaker 3: So check out the official E three coverage and peep
Speaker 3: your boy doing his thing.
Speaker 1: And Michael has been working out, he's been running, he
Speaker 1: looks he looks in shape, he looks healthy. I mean,
Speaker 1: he always looked good, but now he looks like he is.
Speaker 3: Just powerful waiting for this moment.
Speaker 1: Wait. This is why we created the segment pop Off
Speaker 1: with your Top Off because because I'm about to what
Speaker 1: if one of those during one of those ESA streams,
Speaker 1: expect Michael to just rip hish off like the whole
Speaker 1: Commania is coming to E three twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Brother, I'm going to be I'm a fucking suplex Greg
Speaker 3: Miller through the stage, watch.
Speaker 1: Damn and then just whispering to say that one was
Speaker 1: from games Book.
Speaker 3: Pull up, motherfucker. What's up?
Speaker 1: Uh? Jordan Ramey, what you up to? And where can
Speaker 1: people find you?
Speaker 5: They can find me on Twitter at j M Remy
Speaker 5: and I am on a few play for all things
Speaker 5: that we'll probably be up in the next week. I'm
Speaker 5: honestly not entirely sure about the exact schedule for each
Speaker 5: individual video, but you'll see my face eventually. Other than that,
Speaker 5: guess is going to be hardcore covering a lot of
Speaker 5: the live streams and announcements that are going to be
Speaker 5: happening over the next week. So you will just probably
Speaker 5: see my name on a lot of bylines for the
Speaker 5: next seven days.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, John Luke, what are you up to? And
Speaker 1: where can people find you? The maystro John Luke.
Speaker 4: You can find me at John Xpke on Twitter, And
Speaker 4: you're not gonna really see me on anything during E three.
Speaker 4: But if there's a video, if there's anything live, if
Speaker 4: you're watching an interview, I've had my in my hands
Speaker 4: involved in some some fashions. Yeah, I'm just trying to
Speaker 4: try and keep everything together.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I think if there's anyone out there who's proficient at
Speaker 1: creating Twitter bots, create one that is just thank you
Speaker 1: John lukebot, which will just send John looka thank you
Speaker 1: every day during three, that would be that would be
Speaker 1: pretty sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: For me, you'll find me on the internet at to
Speaker 1: more h on Twitter, and I'll be doing various things
Speaker 1: in front of and behind the camera at E three. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like I said, please keep it locked and make sure
Speaker 1: you are telling your favorite creators that you appreciate their
Speaker 1: work to give them that little boost of energy through
Speaker 1: the through the next couple of weeks, which is going
Speaker 1: to be very difficult and busy. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: specifically us. Hit up some I G and folk, hit
Speaker 1: up some I don't know, Upper cryit folk, help some
Speaker 1: uh kind of fan by.
Speaker 3: That's my game.
Speaker 1: Everyone hit them up and tell them that you appreciate
Speaker 1: their work and we will see you next week.
Speaker 3: Goodbye, Peak