Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, June ninth when you're seeing this,
but it's still June seventh for us over here, we're
still down in sunny Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Giant BombCast.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, jan Ochoa joining me co Captain of
the ship is slicing and dicing through time.
Speaker 3: Shank, Shank, Shank. I'm just over here, hanging out. I'm
glad to be alive.
Speaker 1: Speaking about being alive, he's he's listening and doing cartwheels
all over this studio.
Speaker 2: He's mopping the floors.
Speaker 1: He's gonna clean up that beautiful mug over there at
home with Crosby.
Speaker 4: It's me, I broke both my hips.
Speaker 2: Speaking about his hips. His hips don't lie.
Speaker 1: He tells nothing but truths, and he'll always smile and
look you in the eye at Backler. Yeah, this isn't
a bit you're dying.
Speaker 5: No, I just I'm okay.
Speaker 3: I'm just very never said I'm okay when he's okay.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 6: It's just it really started to hit me after the
Abby and Alex and Greg and George and Patrick segment.
Speaker 2: Those people weren't here.
Speaker 5: The first second. It was like it was like my
mind was like maybe that was.
Speaker 7: Friday, maybe last Friday.
Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on. I think it's a
combination of just like, yeah, I guess you know.
Speaker 6: I used to make fun of people who complain about
the three hour time difference.
Speaker 2: But right, it's awful.
Speaker 5: It does something.
Speaker 2: I'm fine over here and I traveled.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, we're trying to figure out why.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So and then I'm flying back tonight for a red
eye and I don't know mistakes or me.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be okay. We got Sean producing behind the
ones and twos over there.
Speaker 2: Hi Sean for the first time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1: No one will ever know Mike and Dan are out
on assignment. They're just running around la.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They're not even seeing video games. No, They're like they're like, hey.
Speaker 7: Let's go see we can get mugged. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Oh did you hear that?
Speaker 1: Chuck and I had to escort Dan to a liquor store. Sorry,
we had to escort Dan to a liquor store because
you grub.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he didn't hit you up. Yeah,
so it takes two people to replace.
Speaker 7: What it is? Cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we just walked to a liquor store
and then I asked, like, Dan, you could have just
walked here is the block away.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, you know, like what if something happens,
nothing happened, nothing happened.
Speaker 5: What if something happened, we'd move on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, La has been pleasant.
Speaker 2: I love LA. That's what they say, will hit them
with a song. I love Ah. It's beautiful. We can't
talk much about Summer Game Fest though.
Speaker 3: Mike said that Pico Park is neat Sonic Peaco Park,
thank you, yes. And then Dan's like got a list
of games he wants, the one he's really excited about,
but you like, we just can't talk about it until
like literally later this year.
Speaker 7: It's nuts.
Speaker 1: It's weird that they're doing that because, like I've heard
a lot of the embargos are like kidding around July.
Speaker 2: If not later later.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean they're just gonna take this like some
of these traveling circuses and go out and do it
in Europe or something like that.
Speaker 7: But it does take the air out of the balloon
a little bit. Here. What we're just saying is it almost.
Speaker 5: Makes it like not a pressed thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole purpose.
Speaker 5: Of this right is that? And it sort of extracts that.
I don't we talked about this. I can't remember when
we just discussed this.
Speaker 2: It might have just who could know?
Speaker 7: Who could?
Speaker 6: But everything just feels out of sync. It feels like
entity are not communicating, not in a nefarious way.
Speaker 7: And sorry Mike, and I hear the giant.
Speaker 6: Yes, Yeah, everything just seems discombobulated in a way that's
like this is inefficient.
Speaker 3: It's it's I bet it's I bet they think it's
very efficient for them. I bet they don't do it
again this way next year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 6: Because they've also never done it this way where it's
been so disjointed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel really bad for like it makes sense
for all of us to come because we're putting on
a show.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we have our own reasons for coming.
Speaker 2: We need all hands on deck.
Speaker 1: And then you know, we see kind of funny sending
Greg and then blessing Andy for a.
Speaker 7: Day or two.
Speaker 1: But if you're like a freelance journal or games media
person and you're traveling from out of state, it's really
hard to justify like making the way over here because
of how things are.
Speaker 3: Right, I guess like Xbox had like their fan fest thing,
but that is not like a press thing.
Speaker 7: You don't go to watch that thing. We can't talk
about some of the showcases we've seen.
Speaker 3: I did want to bring up one thing, and it
is going to bring the mood down for my friend
Sean over here. Have you guys seen what's happened with
Crazy Taxis since it got announced. I heard Mike and
talking about yea, so they are saying, hey, we're using
generative AI to help with this game, and so everyone's
like going from being super excited, like damn it, no,
come on, we just didn't want to.
Speaker 7: Have to think about it for this game that we
were really looking forward to.
Speaker 2: Should have put that in the trail?
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, well are they using I two beat me to?
It's using a I two.
Speaker 6: For it, like just the AI and then all of
a sudden, like the T and the X come in
and it's like Taxi that would have been.
Speaker 7: Bye.
Speaker 5: I'll be here for next year's AI text Chris Mexican.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did get I did bring like a bunch
of stuff from home that we wrapped. I don't know
when that's going to be a video or whatever, but
we'll get something with that, But I did leave one thing.
It's this question mark from I believe this is from
Lewis Garcia.
Speaker 7: Someone opened that as well.
Speaker 3: See here it's got question marks on it.
Speaker 7: In sympathy is.
Speaker 3: What the card says, see you soon from Balin. Okay, Well,
that's terrifying. I think we're gonna be bladed with ballin
Wonder Old by the fans at some point.
Speaker 7: It's a real threat.
Speaker 3: I've actually played ballin Wonder World and it's surprising it
hasn't been on Blake Club yet.
Speaker 7: But the game that came with it is Little Dragon Cafe.
What did you know what that is? No idea, I
have no idea what that is. So thank you and
fuck you Lewis.
Speaker 2: Folks are almos gonna be a little shorter pod.
Speaker 1: We're all pretty exhausted and we got a bunch of
stuff to still do.
Speaker 3: We are going to go to play days still all
us here. We're gonna we are going to go see
these games. But to talk about one.
Speaker 1: Day, you know, my highlight of play Days so far,
besides running into friends and everything and all that jazz,
they had these little snack olives. Oh yeah, a little
bag super sick.
Speaker 5: And those cucumber potato chips were not bad.
Speaker 7: I have tried those.
Speaker 4: The free stride uh kittles were. Dan came around on
them eventually, but they're weird.
Speaker 2: You a horror of Dan eating choos?
Speaker 6: Oh, we like like an actual raccoon, like when no
one's looking, how a raccoon must.
Speaker 5: Eat in a dumpster?
Speaker 7: It was like two little hands.
Speaker 6: It was just so insane, like and he ate it
in a way where like if he didn't have this medicine,
he was going to go into cardiac or like he
needed it to survive and.
Speaker 2: No one's taking them from him.
Speaker 6: No, I can't even We're not even like exaggerating.
Speaker 4: It was like an up starting to unwrap, shoving it
into the mouth as it unwrapped, but the rappers not unwrapping.
Speaker 2: Just like Sean, did you see any of this?
Speaker 1: It was kind of like he was cracking open a
pack of cars and then shoving them directly.
Speaker 7: Which is how you open Pokemon cards.
Speaker 6: Like in a way that like it was almost like uh,
someone you know, like an astronaut who needed oxygen and
found like a bag with oxygen.
Speaker 7: It was just.
Speaker 2: Like the.
Speaker 7: Head drug underwater like it was.
Speaker 5: It was horrifying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and and his and he's putting the Empire wrapper,
which god knows where it was.
Speaker 2: Always was his mouth. What does that mean?
Speaker 7: But they.
Speaker 6: Come on, it was it was crazy man, straight up
fing car but Dan.
Speaker 1: At this point, we've seen State of Play, the s
GF Showcase and now the Xbox One, the Nintendo One
might have happened, might have happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, baby Zelda Acria, time goun announced or something. Who
could say, but yeah, that that's that's the bummer of this.
We are gonna be traveling, which we could talk about
it here, but we'll have plenty of coverage. We'll have
some sort of talk over.
Speaker 7: Figured that out.
Speaker 2: Any highlights from y'all from the week.
Speaker 6: Well, the funniest thing is that of everything there at
play Days, and someone said this to me, I did
not Everyone gonna be like, Oh, it's just baggler trying
to pinball his way into a conversation. One of the
only things people can actually, like realistically talk about is
the Transformers Pinball.
Speaker 7: Super not even finished. It's like, yeah, it's a prototype, Yeah,
I mean it's there.
Speaker 6: It's a one of one, so it's like the it's
the prototype one. It is close to a production unit.
There's just the caveat of like, hey.
Speaker 5: And it's really good.
Speaker 6: It's really good that I actually was really impressed, even
more so than with the Pokemon game that I hadn't
played before. But like, it shoots really well, it's super smart,
it's got a lot of toys. The cinematics and it
did you see are cinematics or like Alex we were
there with Navarro and Minati and it just the video
that they grabbed for it looks really really good, really.
Speaker 2: Said, she was super duper into it.
Speaker 7: It's awesome.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 7: Is Vinny gonna be okay with this? Like he's gonna
like it?
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like he's gonna he's so sort
of like passionate about it.
Speaker 5: He's gonna be upset, like something's gonna upset him. I
don't know what's gonna upset.
Speaker 6: I think like the optimist Prime being looking real chunky
in that compressed, sort.
Speaker 5: Of top down vide. I think everyone's nerves are gonna do.
Speaker 7: But like the pinball won't be the problem.
Speaker 6: No, the pin balls not yet, I don't think, and
I don't think the theming like is bad, you know, for me.
It's like, I couldn't care about frenchformers, but it shoots.
Speaker 7: Really really well.
Speaker 5: It's got really cool ramps.
Speaker 7: And yeah, yeah it's dope.
Speaker 2: What's it's like gimmick? What's it's different?
Speaker 7: There's nothing.
Speaker 6: I don't think there's anything like stuper stand out. It's like, oh,
no game's ever done this before.
Speaker 5: It's just got a lot of like really.
Speaker 6: Inventive shots on uh drop targets, like blocking rounds and
stuff like that in ramps, Like it seems like a
really good shooting game.
Speaker 7: Nice.
Speaker 6: It's got a weird pop bumper location or like Godzier,
so the pop bumper is like that iconic thing where
like the balls go okay. It's got a pop umper
like on the in the bottom right of the playfield,
kind of like Godzilla game, which people are like.
Speaker 7: Oh, they're putting pop bumpers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it shoots real well. I'm into it.
Speaker 1: Will anything from any of the showcases you really stuck
out to you nothing crazy.
Speaker 4: I The only one that's fresh in my mind is
the Xbox one. So that Vivarium one that was very ghibilisque.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like that.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna try to say the name, but it's
that like my summer games, Japanese games, like going around
doing little things. And then I'm really looking forward to
Metro twenty thirty nine. Yeah, I love the Metro game.
They're just they just are really fun to play, So
those will be cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, who can carol about any of that when
you just got to wait or Call of Duty to
close out the show and just everyone.
Speaker 2: Away baff like so bad.
Speaker 3: I didn't like, I wasn't even on my radar that
they would do that again. And then as it's starting
up and realizing that's what's he's like mad Booty comes
on stage and it's like building it up as like
one last thing, and it's Call of Duty again.
Speaker 1: And Sean pointed it out like Booty had said, like
some they've been with us since the beginning, the beginning
of what right.
Speaker 7: Just not maybe.
Speaker 3: Like I'm not even joking, And I do think Copilot
wrote a lot of that, and it's like Copilot's just like,
I don't know, that's what you say in this spot
is the thing's been with this a long time.
Speaker 7: It's been with us since the beginning.
Speaker 3: They just they don't know, they don't care it's it's
weird to end with that, even though Call of Duty
is still as big as it is it is, but
it doesn't get anyone excited, especially DMZ. Even Call of
Duty fans aren't excited about even the extraction shooter part of.
Speaker 4: It, even if they had never done DMZ or any
of that before. It just wasn't It didn't look like
especially with games like Marathon now and all this, like
it just and then the weird helmet cam and I
was like, it's something broken it here.
Speaker 5: I don't they played the wrong video.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just trying not to be super negative, but I
was just like even that I couldn't help. But I'm like,
this is boring, yeah, paffling. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then like the game is taking place in Korea, right,
and like you can take advantage of so many different
like looks and everything, and they.
Speaker 7: Can, but you can't have no clowns allowed, So no fun.
Speaker 2: No k pop, no btes.
Speaker 3: You have to be they have to be so carefully
to walk such a straight line that it is returned
to a blandness that even Call of Duty hasn't had before.
It looks more like like like a crossfire or something
like completely just sauceless across the board, a different Crossfire
than the Crossfire we're seeing now exactly, although who knows,
maybe they're related. I don't yet, but the old Crossfire games, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Was there anything you did really enjoy?
Speaker 3: Greb, I mean yeah, but I mean it does feel
like this is where because we can't talk about a
lot of these games we're playing. Like the things that,
like the conversations everyone's going to keep returning to, are
the Xbox exclusive stuff called Indy McCall of duty, the
AI generated stuff for Crazy Taxi and Tupac, Like these
are gonna be the things that keeps going back to
because we stuff that's fun, like were fun games. People
are buzzing about stuff we can't talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for anyone that may have missed it, we didn't
talk over it. But like the mix of Showcase, Yeah,
I had a bunch of really cool things, indie stuff
out of the show big showcases we covered though. I
think I've like turned around on God of War.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lay Yeah, Loufi. I don't know she's called Fay,
but it's it is Loufi.
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like an Icelandic artist and she pronounced ouse.
Speaker 3: I what kept saying that it just didn't sound right,
which is.
Speaker 7: Hell, yeah, all right, great.
Speaker 2: I did say, here's someone call it broad of war.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I think deb brand Wool getting to star in a
game is cool because she's cool.
Speaker 5: Has anyone said fatos yet?
Speaker 7: Oh that's good?
Speaker 8: Oh there we go worldto Yeah, and it's supposed. It's
not supposed to compliment the story or like be a
continuation of it.
Speaker 4: It's alongside the first game.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's like while they're going up the mountain or whatever
they're doing in Gotta War twenty eighteen, she's in the
underworld doing this.
Speaker 1: Like I think I've like I watched the video that
the dev's put out and seeing jack Quaid and like
a PBC pipe climb.
Speaker 7: I like that cube.
Speaker 4: Do you think he'll transform?
Speaker 7: I hope not.
Speaker 2: I hope not.
Speaker 7: But do you think that? I don't think. I don't
think so. I think you got to commit to that
I think.
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, but I wasn't sure. It's like, oh, the
cube's got a fox form or now a human form,
or like at some point they free the jack the
jack Quaid character out of it, where he's.
Speaker 7: Cursed to be a kid or like that. That's a possibility.
I don't think so. I think the Cube is the guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That and Wolverine still yeah yeah, really really fucking meat.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, definitely. Yeah. There was a couple games in
the Xbox showcase that looked all.
Speaker 2: Right, it looks beautiful. It was really good.
Speaker 7: That Magician the Magician, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, Magician's nephew, Mortals of Avia Magicians, huh yeah, yeah,
throwing cards.
Speaker 7: There was plenty of cool stuff.
Speaker 3: But yeah, right now, I'm kind of just like hearing
good things from people playing stuff.
Speaker 7: Like you know, Orbitles looked great in its last trailer.
I'm hoping we could see more of that in the
Nintendo direct and they're just like going hard on that.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are super duper positive on Control Resident. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, gang.
We we got a head over to Playday's ourselves, and
I want to get there before the coffee shop closes
this time.
Speaker 7: Idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday we tried to get afternoon coffee. No one
was in the shop, but it was open. I was
this close to hopping behind the counter, just doing it myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's if I went over like there's union involved there.
Speaker 7: But I could have blocked him. I could have the
door and saved you, and you could have just made
us all coffee. That's what we should have done.
Speaker 1: Social video, Yeah, the machine twenty k two or we
don't need to get into it, folks at home. Hopefully
by at this point, the GB at Night segments will
have made its way to podcast feeds it well as well,
so you can enjoy those. Some of these boys are
gonna go or will have enjoyed a fun day at
the park, and some of us will be home shiteping
until then. We'll see you next week for a fuller
episode of the Giant BombCast.
Speaker 2: He's He's tough, piece, Will He's been? Shawn, Mike, Dan
and Chuck? Who knows?
Speaker 7: Are they dead? Who knows I've been? Jan?
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week. So by