WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:16.960 You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello, 2 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:19.760 and welcome to another edition of Video Games to the 3 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:22.600 Max is episode four hundred and thirty eight of the show. 4 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:25.960 And with me, I am your host, Sean Government, with 5 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.359 me as usual as mister Mark Morrison. Howdy and well, 6 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.759 we do have some things to talk about today. I 7 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.759 have beaten South at midnight, so I'll talk about that. 8 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:42.000 Mark is continuing with Assassin's Creed Shadows. We've got some 9 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:47.439 discussion on Marathon and it's presumed price and talk about 10 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:49.439 some of the stuff that they showed in the game 11 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.920 or about the game. And then also Nintendo's switch to 12 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.000 stuff continues to come out about you know, pricing with games, 13 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:02.840 what's going to be in certain games, and switch to 14 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.280 editions or the switch to editions actually on the cart 15 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.439 that kind of thing. Xbox a summer showcase state has 16 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.640 been revealed. We'll talk about maybe some games that they're 17 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.400 going to show on that thing and a few more things. 18 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:21.200 All right, so let's go ahead and get the housekeeping 19 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:25.560 out of the way here, so that move through this quickly, 20 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.760 so you can of course listen to the show as 21 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:34.000 a podcast comes out pretty quickly right after we do 22 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:37.319 the actual like live stream on YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook, 23 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:39.400 which you can go watch that live if you'd like 24 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:44.799 Mondays around the eight thirty nine o'clock ish time on 25 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.480 those aforementioned channels, you can just watch later on demand 26 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.560 on the YouTube channel as well to network there and 27 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:54.000 also described to the YouTube channel. 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But yeah, let's keep 47 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:56.039 it about video games here, and let's talk about the games. 48 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.680 Start out with I guess Mark, how goes your Assassis 49 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:01.919 Crea Shadows Journey? 50 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:04.199 I finally hit chapter chapter three? 51 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.680 Finally hit chapter three. So how many chapters are. 52 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.479 In the Probably forty eight or something? No, no, what 53 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:15.280 that's three or four? I mean probably four, cause I 54 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.360 assuming we hooked four be like, you know, the epilogue 55 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:20.280 or you know, we're just jumping back into the world. 56 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.280 I am still continuing to kill guys from there. 57 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:29.960 Fourteenth chapters Assassin Cree Really, yes, that's that's incredibly depressing 58 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.360 to me. Eighty seven main quests. 59 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:35.080 Yeah, oh my god. And we had this game for 60 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:36.199 two months. 61 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.599 Yeah no, I'm not kidding, Like I killed this guy 62 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:43.800 and it's like, okay, you killed all the the middle 63 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:47.319 ring guys. This is the end of chapter two. No cool, 64 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:49.960 And then it's like, oh god, there's twelve more. 65 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.240 So does that mean that the side quests have been 66 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.680 enticing you to keep going on that? 67 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:58.240 I mean side questions a kind of content, and it's 68 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.919 kind of repeated. You know, go clear up this camp 69 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.960 or this castle, or go find these amazine pages that 70 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.840 don't actually matter at all, or stuff like that. But 71 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.199 you know, it's really the game design. The game world 72 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:11.759 is really well designed, because ever like two to three 73 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:13.560 dard meters or something else to you to go do. 74 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.879 So you just got on like this, like kick or this, 75 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.079 you know, just keep heading northwest, I guess until these 76 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:22.720 question marks run out and I go do something else. Yeah, 77 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.000 and I'm continuing to kill guys in that game, and 78 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.240 it's like I killed this guy and it's like, oh, 79 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:31.600 here's a part of this other hidden you know, faction. 80 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:33.360 Or you know, I'm like, oh my god. 81 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.680 Like the quest system or you know, like the target 82 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.600 system is like I have like, you know, twenty three 83 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:42.879 of these circles. 84 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.639 In my on my map or you know, on my 85 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:46.040 in my menu. 86 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:49.680 I don't even know what half of these are because 87 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:51.079 it's just like, oh, you just kill this guy and 88 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:52.639 he's part of some secret organization. 89 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:54.040 They didn't even know what it is. 90 00:04:54.600 --> 00:05:01.279 I'm all right, sure, yeah, I'm actually taking the screenshots 91 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.360 because it doesn't even fill one screen, it has to 92 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.519 fill two different screens. Yeah, So yeah, I have told it. 93 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:10.639 I still got an embargered game I can't talk about 94 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.959 until next week hopefully. All right, And I got a 95 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:16.879 I thought, well I didn't. I traded it in for 96 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.879 it I got. I got a boxed Super game Boy. 97 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:21.120 Oh nice. 98 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.279 Yeah, I've already had a Super game Boy a loose one, 99 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.319 but this is like the Box ten one. So that's cool. 100 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.040 Hey, that's that's always cool to get. Any Are you 101 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.600 getting the Lunar Collection remaster? 102 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:37.800 I'm hoping to. Yeah. 103 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.639 I probably could get it quite when I when it 104 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:42.600 comes out, but I I like that game where I 105 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:44.680 close games, so I hope I hope you get it. 106 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:48.800 Yeah, I hope. I'm gonna probably since I don't have 107 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.759 to buy uh it was it clear obscure because that's 108 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:57.120 on game Pass, I probably will buy Lunar. Yeah, just 109 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:01.839 you know, support them remad during two RPG classics like 110 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.319 that kind of similar to what I did was Sweaking 111 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.279 in one and two. Even though I did have an 112 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.199 intention of playing those on my vacation, it just didn't happen. 113 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.240 But we'll see. I mean, I do have that week 114 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.879 where before Claire of Scare comes out, so I might 115 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.839 actually delve into some Lunar and talk about it next 116 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.720 week for sure, so that'll be what I'm looking forward 117 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.439 to there. But as far as this, I mean, anything 118 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:28.360 else for this. 119 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:30.399 Week, aheah, not really. 120 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.240 I played more Split Fixtion with the ends and you know, 121 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.639 still good. I think we're kind of nearing the end, 122 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:39.319 but probably got like one or two more game sessions 123 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:39.439 to go. 124 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:44.720 That's that's good at least still with that there. Yep, 125 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:50.040 all right, well I did finish out South of Midnight, 126 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:55.040 so yeah, it's uh. It has a fantastic story. It's 127 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.720 just kind of sad again that it gets bogged down 128 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:05.680 by the combat, which is extremely repetitive and one note 129 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:10.480 they fill these arenas with monsters. It can cause you 130 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:13.560 to die. It's not like it doesn't get like it's 131 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.639 not challenging, I would say, just like there's a lot 132 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:17.639 going on, so you kind of have to keep track 133 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.920 of all these pints that are in the arena that 134 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.519 you're in. And then some of these arenas are really small, 135 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.040 but they all kind of look similar until you get 136 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:32.720 to the last three chapters of the game are fantastic 137 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:37.600 because you're sent to this different world that is away 138 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:41.920 from the rest of the game, because it's like in 139 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:47.000 this stream world sort of in New York City. No No, 140 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:49.800 but it's like you're supposed to be like in The 141 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.439 Worm of the Dead or whatever, and it's like this 142 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.680 kind of like chatteristic London almost with like a lot 143 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:01.319 of like you're going in and like a clock tower 144 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:04.160 and going up the clock tower, and there's a lot 145 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:08.160 of platforming in this section, and you just have to 146 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.160 keep going up and up, and then there's sections where 147 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:12.240 like there's just nothing there and you're having a wall 148 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:16.360 run and do all this and like, man, that was 149 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:19.040 really cool and I love that part to get to there, 150 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.040 And then of course the story ramps up as well, 151 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.800 do a great job of kind of like wrapping it 152 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:26.319 up or getting you to the like where they ramp up, 153 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.399 and then unfortunately the story just abruptly ends. It's like 154 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.200 there's no true like Okay, yeah, we kind of know 155 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:39.879 they're fine, right, Like the tribulations that they went through 156 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:46.200 are over quote unquote right, but like there's no connective 157 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.600 tissue with the characters that you meet in the game, 158 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:53.879 and there's like, you know, I'm expecting, like for the 159 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:55.960 lack of a better thing that I can think of, 160 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.519 right now. Like you know, those moments in Fast and 161 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:00.200 the Furious at the end of the movie is where 162 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:01.919 like they all kind of sit down at the table 163 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:05.840 or they all have something together, you know, like you 164 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:10.879 don't get here the diesel. Yeah, that's. 165 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:16.399 A giant frog actually, so. 166 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.840 Maybe that is true then that you know, it's also 167 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.080 kind of weird that the uh, that character that they 168 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.200 showed in the initial trailer only has a really small 169 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:30.120 part in this Yeah, so that was was kind of interesting. 170 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.120 What his job is it is also interesting, but it's 171 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.799 just like, wow, they they showed him off to only 172 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.240 have him be in like five minutes of the game, Okay. 173 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:44.320 Uh as a consequence of they cut content or it 174 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:45.320 just really. 175 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.200 Feels like, I want to know, I hope that if 176 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.200 you're gonna do a thirty minute documentary on this game, 177 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.399 please tell me that you're gonna eventually do some kind 178 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.159 of thing where you explain somebody is allowed to explain 179 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.360 what happened here, because the way the game ends just 180 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:03.440 feels like so but he said, Okay, whatever y'all are doing, 181 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:05.799 y'all got to get to a stocking point. Wrap it up. 182 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.440 This game has to come out April eighth, there is 183 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:13.440 no more letting this game simmer and come out in 184 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:17.320 July or whatever it was. This game is coming out 185 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:21.039 April eighth, whatever y'all get to. That's it, you know. 186 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:24.399 And it does feel like there are things in the 187 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.320 combat that could have been more fleshed out. There are 188 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:32.279 things that the skill tree feels like you're not gonna get. 189 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:34.519 I don't think there's a way for you to, I 190 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.759 mean unless you just explore. There's maybe I know there's 191 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.960 a lot of the little readable things I didn't get. 192 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.200 There's at least fifty of those that I didn't find. 193 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.360 I don't know how many more flufs are around that 194 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.200 I didn't find, because I scored quite a bit. It 195 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.360 also makes it really easy because it has that thing 196 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:54.960 where you follow the path and if you go the 197 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:57.440 opposite way, you're most likely going to find the little 198 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:00.679 fluf to get the your currency for the skull tree. 199 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.519 I didn't match it out completely, but I got to 200 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.679 the end of it, and then basically all that was 201 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.639 left was some upgrades for the individual powers that you 202 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:12.200 know you don't really need, because again, the game is not. 203 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.279 Yeah, speaking of that, Shadows gives you so many skill 204 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.120 points that it becomes almost like a farce. 205 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.320 Oh, you definitely go through the skill tree fast. 206 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:23.720 I mean I haven't gone through at all because of it. 207 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:26.600 You know, it's like oh, individual weapons or weapon types 208 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.039 of skill tree. So it's like I don't care about 209 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.080 like the big gun that yaske can have, but like 210 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:34.720 when you when you're going through the castle, you gotta 211 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:36.519 kill you samurais. When you kill one of those, you 212 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:38.559 get a skill point, and then you get skill points 213 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:42.120 for doing some quests as well and other stuff. So 214 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:44.600 like I play as not way most of the time, 215 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.200 but when I switched to him, it's like, oh, now 216 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:51.840 I have ninety four skill points to distribute, great two 217 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:55.799 vedicantors automate this or you know what. Going back to 218 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.240 what you said, do you think that like that's kind 219 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.519 of been a problem of Microsoft games. I wouldn't say lately, 220 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:06.559 but as a general rule, like them not finishing well 221 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.519 or just kind of finishing abruptly or like seemingly like 222 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:16.120 not ending correctly, like uh, recor remember that thing. 223 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.840 Yeah, or I mean that that's a while ago. 224 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.200 But yeah, yeah, but still, I mean it's emblematic or 225 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:26.120 well then as a mounts it kind of like ended funky. 226 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:26.519 Yeah. 227 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:30.320 I mean the thing is they do I mean. 228 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:32.559 I don't think it's like a money problem, but I 229 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:34.720 think it's really it really is a good time, Like 230 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:36.879 they don't like certain studios have don'e on that man 231 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:38.480 as your time correctly or. 232 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:42.440 Like I think it's it's it feels like it's uh, 233 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:48.519 I don't know, because remember that until Redfall, they had 234 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.759 that like really hands off approach, right, So this is 235 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:55.960 they're part of that twenty eighteen class that also includes 236 00:12:55.960 --> 00:13:00.039 Obsidian and whatever, and so like this is one of 237 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.440 those games that they were just letting cook until I 238 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.080 guess now they decided that they needed to like get 239 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.120 involved more and kind of be like, okay, where you're 240 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:10.519 all at, where's this game coming out? Kind of thing? 241 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.720 We need to start like having a rollout for this year. 242 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.360 And they probably felt like, Okay, this game is is gone, 243 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:23.080 you know, going on long enough that like that that's 244 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:28.000 enough that you don't need anymore, Like it doesn't need 245 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.039 to go much further. It just sucks that. It feels like, 246 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.919 why didn't you guys let them have an ending? 247 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:37.240 Yeah you later? 248 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:42.080 Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe they they were hoping it 249 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:46.519 would do well enough on game Pass or in purchases 250 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:51.159 that they could sell you a DLC later. I don't know. 251 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.360 I don't think that that's gonna happen with this game, 252 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.879 because sadly when I beat it. Now, to be fair, 253 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.399 the game has only officially been out for less than 254 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.480 a week. I got the early access version because it 255 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:09.159 was nine bucks and I needed to also talk about 256 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:11.720 it on the the other podcast that I guessed it 257 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.840 on last week, so we'll talk about in a second. 258 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:19.559 But it just it just feels like there's part of 259 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.399 it that was just I just want to know what 260 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:25.240 the story is with what is this your intended ending, 261 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:29.080 because it feels like it's not and that kind of sucks. 262 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:32.279 And then also it's just like, was that combat always 263 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.879 supposed to be Like like the comment's fine, right, but 264 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.919 it's like, okay, it's getting compared a lot to Keena 265 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:40.039 Bridge of Spirits. 266 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:41.559 Yeah, Keener Bridge of. 267 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.159 Spirits had really good combat, and that game gets hard 268 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.879 at certain points, right, Like there's an answer to each 269 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:51.639 one of those enemies in that game. There's not any 270 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.399 of that here. You're doing the exact same thing in 271 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.440 combat every single time in this game, and it's fine. 272 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.080 You can even turn it off if you want and 273 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.039 you want to this experience the story, and maybe that's 274 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.240 what Compulsion is going for, is they were like, well, 275 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.200 if this gets annoying people, they can just turn it off. 276 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:12.720 But I don't know, that's a big piece of the 277 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.440 gameplay that you're telling people, Yeah, you can just turn 278 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:16.759 that off. 279 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.639 I mean at that point, did you just sell the 280 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.360 game or saw like a physical version with like a 281 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.480 YouTube look and so I can like you watch it, 282 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.320 you know, or you know, just sell the Blu Ray. 283 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:27.399 Yeah, it is. 284 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.200 That is the kind of like interesting that they did that. 285 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:34.000 It was just kind of like, okay, you know, weird 286 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:38.080 decision there. But I think the platforming is fine enough. 287 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:40.679 I know there's people that like apparently also hate the 288 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:44.240 platforming as well, but I think that that gets more 289 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.200 of a bad rap because it's fine for what it is. 290 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.039 It's just it's meant to be all that seems to 291 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.240 be meant to be a vehicle to get you to 292 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.159 experience the story, which is really well written and really 293 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:59.120 well done. And I got to get them credit for that, Like, 294 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.200 you know, Polson delivered on the story this time. I 295 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.279 think that they didn't deliver with contrast, or we have 296 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.120 a few I feel like and but again, it's also 297 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.960 emblematic of their other games that I talked about last 298 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.799 week of they want to tell you something about the game, 299 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.720 and then they don't. The gameplay is not fleshed out 300 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.919 that much at all. This is definitely the best game, 301 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.320 hopefully from here. Whether it's a South of Midnight too, 302 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:24.720 I don't know. I don't think it's going to be 303 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:28.919 that unless Microsoft just green lights it anyway, but this 304 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:30.720 this is definitely not gonna The only thing I could 305 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.600 see them getting a two is if this game was 306 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.840 definitely made to get awards. Very much like hel Blade two, 307 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.639 this thing is probably gonna get musical, you know, a 308 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:49.200 soundtrack nomination, our Style nomination, maybe a narrative nomination, or 309 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.320 a Games for Impact nomination. If it wins things, maybe 310 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:57.440 that pushes Microsoft. Considering we're talking about game pass here, 311 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:59.919 this is a you know, a game pass game. It's 312 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:03.519 it's very well, you know, as far as a game 313 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.599 pass get a game pass game, this is perfect for that. 314 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:10.200 I would not tell you to go buy this even 315 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:14.039 though it's forty dollars. This is perfect for get a 316 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.359 subscribe for a month on game pass. Maybe wait till 317 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.200 you know. If you're interested in Claar Obscure as well, 318 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.839 which comes out the twenty fourth, get both, you know, 319 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.640 subscribing the twenty fourth, you can play both games for 320 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:28.279 a month and you'll be good. You know, Hey, what's up? Cute? 321 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:28.839 How you doing? 322 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:29.400 So? 323 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:33.160 I was also on one I Fair podcast that I 324 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.599 listen to every week. They have been around longer than us. 325 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:38.200 They've been around to two thousand and five. One of 326 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:42.559 the og video game podcasts, video Game Outsiders. They just 327 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.880 joined the yoggs casts network the Pickaxe side of it, 328 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.359 but they've been around for a long time. John and 329 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.440 Michelle had me on. I really appreciate being on there. 330 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:59.160 They have their own style. They definitely are the folks 331 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.480 that they they like to uh, they get a little excited, 332 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:04.880 I want to say, you know, they sometimes getting yelling, 333 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.400 but it makes it fun, you know, right. And so 334 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.119 they recently had their their third co hosts that they've 335 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.559 had for a long time. He decided to step away 336 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:15.720 and his family and things like that, so they've kind 337 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:20.960 of been trying out different people and again, lucky enough 338 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:22.920 that I got to be on one of these weeks. 339 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.680 But everybody they've had on so far since the beginning 340 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.720 of the year has been they've been pretty good. So 341 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:29.759 it's gonna be interesting what they decide to end up 342 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:31.960 doing in the summer as far as if they do 343 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.119 a third host or they just kind of keep a 344 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.440 revolving door around or whatever. But yeah, go check them out. 345 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:44.160 Video Game Outside is the fantastic folks, and yeah, you 346 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.599 can go join their discord has a great community that 347 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.720 I always like talking to people in, So I'll put 348 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.960 links in there for the description for people to go 349 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.279 check those out when I get done recording here. But yeah, 350 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.680 that's it for me playing this week. Now I'm done 351 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.880 without the Midnight and I'm waiting around. Like I said, 352 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:05.200 probably play Lunar. Get back that it's unblady Chronicles talk 353 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:09.680 about that next week. So yeah, but all right, I 354 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:13.759 guess since we're talking about games, I know you didn't 355 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:16.920 really watch any of this. I don't know if you 356 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.559 did since I talked to you, since it wasn't a 357 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:21.799 you know, it's not like these videos that they had 358 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:27.119 were super long. Wo No, but Bunchie did reveal marathon 359 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:31.200 that they said they would do on Saturday. Honestly, the 360 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:32.839 way they revealed this thing, and the way they've cut 361 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:35.759 up videos for it, it's like, I don't understand why 362 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:38.319 they didn't just make this a thirty minute showcase with 363 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:42.799 somebody talking through it or something, because it's like they 364 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:47.119 did a trailer, they did an eight minute story thing 365 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:49.240 that where they try to be like really kind of 366 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:51.599 cryptic about what they're doing. They try to it does 367 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:54.279 seem really cool, like Bunchie has its way of telling 368 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:59.680 stories that make the premise seem very cool, like very interesting. 369 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:01.119 And then and the problem is that the way they 370 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:03.160 end up telling the story is not always great when 371 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:06.440 you get to the actual game. I think that that's 372 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:09.480 gonna be another thing here as well. It's like this 373 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:13.160 this city that's like magically vanished and you're supposed to 374 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:14.880 be trying to find out what's going on with them, 375 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:19.960 but the like the situation is that the government doesn't 376 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:22.079 want them to find out, so you're kind of trying 377 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.880 to find out at the same time. And then you know, 378 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.599 it's it was interesting the way they dropped it, at 379 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.599 least for that. The game is a PvP extraction shooter. 380 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.440 If you didn't know that already. Straight up, they're trying 381 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:42.200 to make this. Yeah, they're definitely trying to make this, 382 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:45.400 you know, their version of Escape from Tarkov, like try 383 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.720 to see if they can have that like kind of 384 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:51.720 futuristic looking art style, which I do think that that 385 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:54.640 also is a little bit lack gravitated me a bit 386 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:57.279 towards at least wanting to watch some of it. I 387 00:20:57.400 --> 00:20:59.920 like that the ar style that it uses. The problem 388 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:02.960 is that it's a PvP distractor shooter. It does have 389 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.640 PV in it. They have AI bots that are also 390 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:11.359 they're bothering you along with the the different like groups 391 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:14.599 of actual control players that are playing it. It's meant 392 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:18.400 to be played three v three, but you can play 393 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:21.559 by yourself, so if you want to play solo, you can. 394 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.480 There aren't any like creatible characters, so they're all like 395 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.680 sort of like character classes that you can choose. There 396 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:33.720 is some customizable elements with it. The story is going 397 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:36.519 to be kind of like Lord drops, so don't expect 398 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:40.599 outside I think of the initial whatever cut scene or 399 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:47.759 blah blah blah they have. Don't expect anything like crazy. 400 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.000 But that you don't respect anything. 401 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:55.599