Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Games Mornings with Me Jeff Greb,
your host from giant bomb dot com.
Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 1: In this episode, we're gonna be talking about a big
upcoming PlayStation showcase getting confirmed, and we keep getting rumors
about the next Xbox and PlayStation six even though no
one wants those yet. It's gonna be a good one
because we have Lexi Laddie on the show. Lexi, how
are you doing, Bob?
Speaker 3: I did not sleep at all last night because I
was writing a review, not the review that went up today,
a review that's going up tomorrow. And so I've been
pretty much been doing nothing but playing video games and
writing reviews for like the last two weeks straight. And
I'm very ready to play something that I don't have
to think about for work. So I'm thinking about finally
playing some N sixty four games and then oh no, yeah,
and then getting mad again because I instantly am like,
oh no, this is bad. Why am I doing this?
How are you buff?
Speaker 2: I'm good? Uh? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also I played some IN sixty four games over
the weekend a little bit. What I was God, I
was just kind of dicking around on the three D
the Analog three d uh. Still, I got that hooked
up to the other TV over there, and that was
a good time. I enjoyed myself. I played some Blitz
because it was the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, helped me get some d comp stuff working. So
I've been messing around with that.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's fun. That's a good way to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I have to say, I really want to check
out that Goie Moan d comp because that goiem On
N sixty four game is one of the few N
sixty four games. I look at him like, fuck yeah,
hell yeah, everything about this rules.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I uh right. I like those older going on games.
I played a little bit of the Super Nintendo or
Super Fan of Calm ones every once in a while,
like when I was messed around with emulators more back
in the day. But I did actually play quite a
bit of those N sixty four ones. So yeah, that's
I need to spend more time because with the decomp stuff.
Because that Mario sixty four, all those various mods and
various versions, they're so well done.
Speaker 2: There's so much cool stuff in there. It's a really
good time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We also I had a weird urge just to play
some racing games recently, and so I played Need for
Speed Most Wanted and I hung out with Raiser Callahan.
Let me tell you that guy is still a dick.
He's stole in my fucking car. Raser Calahan, I'm coming
for you.
Speaker 1: I do you have a favorite Need for Speed or
is just just like as you've gabbled in.
Speaker 3: I know it's pure nosalgia talking because it's the one
that I got when I was thirteen and so, but
Need for Speed Most Wanted the twenty twelve remake, I think,
and it's a Criterion one. Yeah, that one. It's At
the time I didn't even know what Burnout was, but
going back to it now, I'm like, this is just
another Burnout. This is awesome and yeah that game rules.
And the original Most Wanted is pretty good too. I've
been playing a bit of Unbound because that was on
sale super cheap on Steam. Not bad, it's it's it's solid,
it's fine.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's a good time. Like, yeah, it's sourd
it's probably the probably the way to put it.
Speaker 3: I was wondering why it felt really bad and when
I first loaded it up, and it turned out that
I had a Steam input turned on and I was
using a controller and whatever way the Steam input is
set up. With that, it basically the analog stick turned
into a digital control.
Speaker 2: Oh weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if I like tapped the analog stick at all,
it was just one yeah, and so trying to drive
it a mey fucking with any nuance was like, this
feels fucking terrible. So I don't know what's up with that.
You just have to turn off Steam input, which means
you have to use an Xbox controller is the only
supports and Xbox controller. But hey, that's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of that'll work, all right.
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Speaker 1: All Right, we have a lot to get into, so
let's start the morning mess with Yakuza Kawami three and
Dark Ties reviews. It has a seventy four on Open
Critic seven out of ten from Miguel Moran at the
at the six Axis, Yakuza Kawami three and Dark Ties
is a combo of action adventures that longtime fans of
the series will have hours of fun with the added
gameplay features and altered visuals. Unfortunately, contrasts with the story
experience in a way that doesn't feel as authentic to
the original experiences as I would have liked. PlayStation universes.
Michael Heridance gave it an eight out of ten and
says Yakuza Kawami three and Dark Ties is a top
notch package Bremming bringing some great new content with the
Dark Tied side story worth the price of entry alone.
There's some questionable changes in additions to Yakuza three that
will irk some longtime fans, but overall this is a
brilliant remake and easily the most ambitious in the series
to date. And then Robert Ramsey a Push Square, gave
it an eight out of ten and said, Yakuza Kawami
three and Dark Ties is one hell of a package.
Take it purely as an expanded remake. It's an absolute
blast for both old and fans, old and new, but
questionable changes to the story and its cast will inevitably
stain the experience for plenty of people. It's such a
shame that these unforced airs muddy the waters because we
think I mean three is probably RGG Studio's best remake
to date and one of the strongest titles in the
series with regards to gameplay. If only we had a
long time fan here to tell us about it.
Speaker 3: Oh, gub, have you have you looked at what my
review is yet?
Speaker 2: I have not?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Do you want to guess the score? It's one hundred
point scale that game of Guys use, So.
Speaker 1: All right, I believe we're gonna come in hot on
this one. I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with a sixty.
Speaker 3: Bit lower.
Speaker 2: Oh really, okay, fifty nine.
Speaker 3: I gave it a twenty. Oh boy, I I'm as
a longtime fan of this series, playing this game was
such a bomber. It was I've rarely felt so bummed
out playing a game. Some of it the biggest the
second biggest reason, because the biggest reason is that they
cast a creep and that the way that they portray
that creep is also kind of fucking upsetting, and the
fact that that creep is going to maybe be an
ongoing factor with the franchise because of the way that
Yakuza four goes down, And that's obviously the biggest problem
with the game. That is a reason a lot of
like long time Yakuza fans aren't even buying this game.
They're aren't interested in it. They feel kind of portrayed
by the series and the principles that the series have
kind of put themselves put itself forward as representing. The
stuff that I can't talk about is the narrative changes,
which mainly come later in the game. Boy oh boy,
I will Yeah. The stuff that I can talk about,
I think the combat is a really big downgrade from
the usual fair They have implemented a new system called
the R system, which is essentially a guard break. In reality,
what that means is most enemies just have like a
fifty percent damage reduction on any damage you do to them,
and you will wail on them for about three quarters
of their health until the awe break breaks and then
you can finally actually damage them normally. And it's it's
a slog. It's as someone who's played all those older games,
it's the worst feeling combat outside of Dead Souls, and
Dead Souls has its insane control scheme going on. As
someone in chat says, block whos the three lives? Block
Who's a three was an idea with Yakuza three where
enemies blocked a lot, and so the community dubbed it blockooser.
This seems to be like a really misguided attempt to
like bring that back in some way and modernly.
Speaker 1: Because because they loved it. That's why, that's why I
got the manager.
Speaker 3: I'll also say the side content in this game as
someone who loves the side content in these games, as
someone who did all of the side content in this game,
who has put over sixty hours into this game for review,
and it's some of the most repetitive that the series
has ever had. The sub stories are like uniformly pretty
mediocre in a series where substories are usually really fun
and charming, and the bigger side activities which includes like
kere You joining a biker gang and Kreu running the Orphanage.
In the case of the Orphanage, it's all reused minigames
from eachan which is fine that that was that farming
minigame and echhan was pretty fun. But in the case
of the biker gang stuff, it's really rough. It is
on the same map over and over again. You do
it like two dozen times, basically running through the same
waves of enemies over and over and over and then
dead souls or Dark Ties sorry. Dark Ties is the
standalone prequel which focuses on Mena, which you know the
movie Dracula Untold, Yeah, Yeah, And at the end of
the Yeah, at the end of that movie, it goes
from being like ooh, Dracula times whatever, castles and everything
to modern day and it turns out that Child's Dance,
who is the evil vampire in that movie, lived and
so did Dracula. He also lived, and Child's Dances watching
Dracula from Afar and he puts down his newspaper and
he goes and let the games begin because they were
trying to set up for like a big universe. Of course,
that's what Dark Ties is, and it is it falls
so in credibly flash and it's they've said that, like
this was originally going to be a short animated film
or something, you can tell. And the side content in
this is even more repetitive. It's somewhere between a dungeon
crawl minigame and an extraction thing, except there's no real
incentive to everyone's extract early unless you run up against
enemies that take so much damage that you literally can't
damage to them down until you upgrade yourself, and so
it just winds up that you were running around the
same four dungeons for i'd say about five hours in
that mainside actectivity in Dark Eyes. There's very few things
in this game that I feel good about as a
long term fan, because everything about this game feels like
it is a step in the wrong direction for the series. Graphically,
it's a big step down. There was a lot of
unfinished assets. There's voids into nothing in key scenes atop
the Millennium Tower, there's a lot of stuff where the
Dragon engine, which is now ten years old, doesn't look
any better than it did in twenty seventeen when Kwami
two came out. In fact, in places it looks much worse,
mainly in daytime, which is something that the engine has
struggled with for a long time now, and especially since
they started adding HDR to the games. It has really
struggled with HDR balancing and that doesn't look great. And yeah,
this game just doesn't seem like it was a priority ORGG.
You're also working on Stranger than Heaven and Virtual Fighter,
and you look at the credits of this game and
a lot of outsourced studios are in it. There's much
less ORGG representation there than there is, like Yukes worked
on this game, so it seems like other teams were
given tech that they probably weren't familiar with, and it
shows in a lot of places. And on top of that,
the writing choices, it feels like it has contempt for
the original, Like the things that they change feel like
someone really didn't like the original game, which is just
kind of baffling when if you're a fan of the
games and you've played it before and you think about
some of the important moments in that game, the ways
that they change, it just feel like someone came twenty
years ago, got in an argument, lost the argument, and
now they're like, I'm going to fix it. You know,
the main guy's gone. Now I'm going to fix it.
And this also happened with zero. So it's a thing
that the It's the thing that the community has been
very persistent on is that these changes feel frustrating.
Speaker 1: What was Yakuza three's sort of like how did fans
view it at the time when it came out.
Speaker 3: At the time, it was divisive because one, it was
kind of not many Western journalists played Yakuza two because
it came out in two thousand and eight in the
West on the PS two like right, no one played it,
so there was a very small fan base, which meant
that the people were viewing Yakuza three a lot of
them hadn't played Yakuza two, and that game has quite
a slow and deliberate pace. The first two chapters of
it are basically you running the orphanage. That is something
that what I played at the time, I was like,
I don't like this. Looking back on it now having
played four and five, so much of that stuff with
the orphanage is so important to where that franchise goes
and what it builds to that. It makes a lot
of sense. This game makes the bizarre choice of padding
out those two chapters, chapters two and three, with stuff
that isn't the orphanage, stuff like it will be like, hey,
go recruit ten people for your biker club. I don't
fucking I don't care about my biker club. I don't.
I really don't, And you can't progress the story until
you do that. So yeah, I think that I expected
this game to review a bit lower. I knew I
was going to be on the low side, and I
kind of expected that there would be a few more
people who would be on the low side. I've talked
to a few people who've played it and aren't reviewing
it who feel quite similar to me. Of it's a
real disappointed, like orgig have had such high standards for
so long, and I just worry about where that studio
is going.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, this is uh, you know, hopefully we
could chalk it up to it being deprioritized, which is
a shame in in and of itself, but it's like, Okay, well,
let's see what happens with these other games that they're
that they are prioritizing. Hopefully that's where the effort's going
and will just be like, Okay, hopefully they could turn
an eye back to the aquaza and fix things up
here going forward. I think it looks like the review
score is probably going to start trending downward.
Speaker 2: VGC gave it a two out of five.
Speaker 1: I guess someone and Chad just said, yeah, play Day one,
which used to be Xbox Era they rebranded. Everybody in
chat said they gave it a six point five. I
think so, yeah, it's starting to trend a little bit lower.
Speaker 3: And I'll also say I've gone a few comments already
of being like, oh, this is a troll with you.
This is for like clicks or whatever. Like a view
scale is there to be used. And this is something
that I've advocated for a long time is if you're
going to give me one hundred points on a scale,
I'm going to use one hundred points on the scale.
If there's certain scores that are off limits, what are
we doing here? And I think it makes it that's
a lot more justifiable in people's brains when they see
something like a five point scale of you know, of
course you can't have one star be off because you
know that's that's a whole fifth of the scale, and
then when you go into something like a ten point scale,
people get very antsy when they see like two out
of ten. But I think that like this review as
much as anything else is like, it is meant to
convey my feelings towards this game. That's all it's meant
to do. Yes, And when I was done playing Yakuza
Kwami three, I was left questioning why I liked this
franchise so much.
Speaker 1: And I don't think twenty out of one hundred is
too high. That's the damnage it.
Speaker 3: It was my Metroid Prime four, Yeah, okay, Like, and
you know, I think and some people will give will
say Metroid Prime four is a five out of five game,
and that's okay, that's a okay, Like no one would
say that, but like it really feels like the culmination
of a lot of bad blood between ORGG and tech
Desh and ongoing systemic issues with things that they haven't
issuated on. I think I message Sean when I was
reviewing this saying, like, I understand how Pokemon fans feel
now because there's so much of I was messaging back
and forth with Ash, who wrote the VGC review which
you should go read of being like, I can't believe
they still haven't addressed this thing. I can't believe they
still have an address this thing. I can't and it
is the Pokemon thing, like they still have an added
voice acting. And that's what this feels like. It feels
like everything catching up with them and the yearly release
cycle catching up with them, and it's it's just a bummer.
It's a real bummer.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll tell you one thing about the review score.
Speaker 1: Once these people who are complained about the troller view,
once they play the game themselves, guarantee many of them
are going to come back and be like, this game
reviewed way too high. I can't believe all these people
gave it such high scores. That's been my experience over
and over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: I can already see the reddit threads dedicated to like
the exact stuff that I can't talk about, and people
being like, I can't believe no one mentioned it in
the reviews. Oh yeah, oh oh, how I would love to.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: I mean, you said said there's much stuff later that
did bother you can't talk about, but that stuff is
you would say, whether it's good or bad, right, like
you're allowed to receive you feel bad.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, there are changes that are made to the
story that are make the franchise's timeline no longer make
sense in a very fundamental way, and also like just
kind of undercush any narrawstive teeth that the series once had.
And your cuz zero, I think I told you this
before Yakuza Zero the director's cut that they released on
Switch and added like four new cut scenes, and three
of those four new cut scenes they retcon't characters deaths, right,
Like three characters they were just like, actually they didn't die.
He survived the car explosion. And it's not dissimilar to
that where it's like, oh, any stakes that these games
have basically mean nothing now because it's becoming very clear
that none of this matters and there's no stakes to
any of it, and it's just a real bummer.
Speaker 1: Well yep, that sounds like a shame. Hopefully, hopefully things
can improve with future games. I'm still hopeful for what's
what's Project Century called.
Speaker 3: Now Stranger than Heaven, and that is a game I
really hope is good.
Speaker 2: I really hope.
Speaker 3: I am rooting for Virtue Fighter. They both look Killer,
But right now it feels like the like a Dragon
franchise is like not a pliality.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep going here. PlayStation state of Play
confirmed for February twelve. Who could have guessed from Jackson
Finelli at game Spot. After some rumors in the past
couple of weeks that it was in the works, the
first PlayStation PlayStation state of Play of twenty twenty six
has been confirmed for February twelfth, at two pm Pacific
time five pm Eastern. Let's see that is Thursday, right,
Let's see Thursday. Yeah, well, we'll talk over that, everybody.
We'll make that work. Official PlayStation social media accounts to
confirm not only the date and timing of the event,
but also that it will include sixty plus minutes of news,
gameplay updates, and announcements from game studios across the globe.
No word on what the sixty plus minutes will include,
has or has Sony confirmed any third party studios will
show up or anything like that. Yeah, okay, it's about time.
This makes sense. This fits with how they've done things before.
It does feel like we do need this state of play.
I would amage men that this one is still not
going to be like the PlayStation Showcase E three style thing,
where it's just going to be a banger after banger.
There will be a mix of you know, a lot
of partner stuff. I'm sure there will be a long
anime game block. There'll be a bunch of other stuff.
I do expect them to have at least a couple
of first party games, things that will be launching soon,
and things that they can tease for the future, because
you know, maybe I'm missing something like there's Wolverine, right,
but what else do they have to tease right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I do you think that the God of War
thing finally shows up? Is a time for that?
Speaker 2: Who could say?
Speaker 3: Who could say?
Speaker 2: Who could say?
Speaker 3: Who could say?
Speaker 2: I certainly could not. Yes, yeah, we.
Speaker 4: All have things this episode that we can't say. It's
such a fun way to go about talking about things
on a podcast. It is not being able to say things.
Is there any like Pine the.
Speaker 3: Sky stuff that from Sony that you've been waged on
that any like studio updates you want to hear, like
Wolverine might get a new bit of info or something.
Speaker 1: You just like, like you shook it loose there by
like mentioning the God of Wark thing, which is the
two point five d metro Vania style thing that I
talked about before. I have been craving the original God
of War games. I would love for them to But
you know the thing with that is, wasn't I think
last year was the anniversary.
Speaker 3: It was yeah, people were like, it's happening, it's happening,
and then it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So the fact that it didn't happen then makes me
worry that it's it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But that's what I like. Now that the TV show
is in production, I can totally you're someone at Sony
being like, hey, TV shows in production, we gotta get
these out because did you see what happened with Fallout?
Did you see the bump those games? Gosh, and so
could I could see it being more likely to happen now,
or at least another meeting being a high and people
making the point again are like, no, we should do this.
I know it's a pain to get a PS three
game running on anything, but like, we should do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder how they'll you know, it sounds like
they have a PS three emulator.
Speaker 2: Do they go that round and just collect them or
do they sort of.
Speaker 1: Remake them slightly with like, you know, just keep those
games the same, but just replace the visuals and then maybe, uh,
I don't know, the emphasize the threesomes. Where we at
with with that sort of era of sexualization in video games?
Speaker 2: Is it sort of like going back to being kind
of like, is that like dumb? Is it kind of
Dude's rock? It's not, but it's like something.
Speaker 1: I think it's something nostalgic about it where it's like, God,
we were so dumb, just leave it in there.
Speaker 3: So here, here's what I draw. There's there's an ear
Ps three games where you're like, oh, fuck, yeah, this
is dumb as shit. And then there's an ere Ps
three games where you play that Twist and Metal Lee Boosh,
And there's a Japanese roadster called the Kamakazi and it
has a rising Sun flag on it, an imperial Rising
Sun flag on it, and you're like, oh, oh, maybe
some of these games don't need remakes. And you know,
it's a very fine line that you have to walk.
It's it's it's raisor's edge kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I uh, yeah, I would like that. What move fair Games.
This fair Games show up here.
Speaker 3: It's still Jay Raymond's no longer there, it's still live
from last I heard.
Speaker 1: Maybe they maybe they wait until after Marathon happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if Marathon comes out and it goes down, well,
then suddenly they can be like fair Games, it's it's
our next one game would also be good. But if
Marathon comes out and it's bad or it doesn't hit,
then that's going to be a problem. And so yeah,
I don't know that's that's a good one. Obviously, the
studios like Blue Point, but it seems like they had
to start from scratch, not that long ago, Like a
lot of the studios just feel like they're ways out,
like in some or not in some Soccer Punch obviously
now only just reloading, and they've made very clear the
one studio game, And so yeah, I think this will
be very partner heavy, which makes sense that they're positioning
it as a state of play. So even if we
had a few interesting partners reveals, like at the last
state of play we got a Final Fantasy the Evil
East Chronicles tactics, Like even if that's not the biggest game,
that's a cool fucking game. It's a cool thing that
they got made, and it's cool that it was like
got a platform and it did pretty well. So like
stuff like that, I'd be happy to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marathon is out March fifth.
Speaker 1: Apparently people are excited about it pet now, I mean
the tenor and chat its certainly changed as we brought
that up there. People some like, oh, some time I
played that, that was good. That'd be very interesting if
that does pop off again. Yeah, Phantom Blade zero, we could.
They've shown that at State of Place before. It does
feel like that'll just show up again. Yeah, well we'll
see an hour long it will probably have quite a
bit in there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm nothing there that Jeff Bacla likes.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that'd be weird if it did. It'd be
weird if there was something there that he enjoyed.
Speaker 3: That'd be unless like American mcgeese ls or something shows
up that's like a game that he would love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just an American McGee head is what we call him.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, let's see, let's take a break, we'll
come back. We'll talk about that Pokemon Super Bowl ad
and some leaks from the Pokemon Company and a bunch
more with the rest of the headlines. If you want
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Speaker 2: Get that. In the meantime, we will be right back.
We are back.
Speaker 1: It's Game Mess Mornings, Jeff grub Lexiluti. Let's continue on here.
Pokemon super Bowl ad for thirtieth anniversary has a Lady
Gaga singing the Jigglypuff song from Jason Finelli at GameSpot.
Pokemon turns thirty this year, which is a fact that
may turn many older gamers this writer. The writer of
this article included into dust. The Pokemon company is gearing
up for a big year of celebration, which has officially
begun with a sixty second ad that aired during the
Super Bowl. The commercial features international celebrities like Trevor Noah,
Lady Gaga, Black Pink's Jiezu I'm sure I'm saying that wrong,
and Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko, all sharing their favorite
pocket monsters from across Pokemon's thirty year history. Lady Gaga
notably chooses Jigglypuff and then proceeds to sing the Jigglypuff
Lullaby right in the middle of the ad, adding Lady
Gaga sings the Jigglypuff Lullaby to the list of things
we thought we'd never see, this is the thing that
they were teasing. We talked about it on some show
last week. But hey, there's gonna be Pokemon stuff at
the super Bowl. It was just always this thing here
where celebrities are, you know, coming out there and talking
about it. But it does feel like noteworthy that they
had a Super Bowl ad.
Speaker 2: They had yeah, they had a presence.
Speaker 1: It does feel like this is signifying that they have
a lot planned and maybe even some confidence in what
they have going for them this year.
Speaker 2: Did you did you catch this ad? What'd you think
of it?
Speaker 3: I'm going to defer to the expert on this one
because he's in the call with us mainly, but I
do have to say I really appreciate just having an
ad that is like basically just the Pokemon company going
Pokemon are pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was like Pokemon like not selling anything, just
being like these pretty cool John, what did you think
of Lady Gaga?
Speaker 2: I love Lady Gaga. That's it.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you think the Jigglypuff.
Speaker 1: M I think jan will have to be rerun over
by the Pokemon company, and maybe there's a chance that
gonna happen with the new Pokemon tenth gen games that
are gonna launch this year. More than likely, and screenshots
have leaked from that game. This is from my Nintendo
news centro Leaks, who has been consistently publishing and uploading
various bits of leak data from the Pokemon breach, has
today uploaded some betas screenshots from the tenth generation Pokemon game,
which we know is likely titled Pokemon Wind and Wave.
These screenshots are clearly clearly early, and we're from a
build dating back to July twenty twenty four. Naturally, the
finished product should look remarkably better when it's revealed on
Pokemon Day. Here's what's been leaked. There's a whole bunch
of screenshots. Some of the screenshots are like unfinished buildings
with like without textures, and you know what it looks.
Speaker 2: Like, Lexi Pokemon game. It looks like the last Pokemon game.
Speaker 1: This unfinished build here looks a lot like the last one.
I don't know, people to have a better understanding of
these games than me have seemingly been looking at some
of this stuff and feeling confident, feeling more like there's
some interesting stuff. There's like an underwater area, maybe you
go underwater and capture Pokemon down there. They're also I
think they could look better. Also, this game apparently, you know,
the documentation we've seen suggest it will be switched to exclusive,
which at the very least means they'll be able to
brute force some performance into this game. You know the
recent Pokemon Legends Z.
Speaker 3: That's what you say, now, that's what you all say.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I think that it's still probably going to be like, oh,
if you compare this to anything else, it is going
to be real rough, but it'll be better than if
it ran on the switch one A little bit surprising.
They typically don't do that with the first big entry
of a new generation on a new hardware. They kind
of cross gen a little bit. They like to sell
to the most people possible, but not this time around.
Speaker 3: Huge.
Speaker 1: I think that I'm sure that yeah, legends, Yes, I
think that that would.
Speaker 3: Legends za yea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely part of it. I think the other
part of it is they knew they had to sort
of change things up because the last main the ninth
Gen game was so poorly received in terms of its
tech that they're like, we need to like improve things
here a little bit, and uh, one of the one
of the options available to them was, well, then let's
not try to make it for the Switch one. Let's
just make it for the switch to and kind of
use that as the baseline, and that'll inherently make the
game just look and run a better than it would
have won the Switch one. Either way, this does feel
like it's lining up to be uh, Nintendo's big game
for the Switch to this holiday, And it really does
feel like a statement for this for the Pokemon Company,
where it's like, hey, have you figured this out or not?
Speaker 2: It's kind of now or never.
Speaker 1: I don't expect it to have like voice acting Lexi,
but I do expect to like see a noticeably improved
game versus the ninth Gen. Is that a fair expectation
for the Pokemon Company and game.
Speaker 3: Freak Noticeable is such a strong word.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a I think there's some wiggle rooming noticeable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this game will like be less instantly
identifiable as subpar, you know, it will pass the sniff test.
But I do think that Pokemon fans will continue to
have the same problems that Pokemon fans have had with
these games for a long time. And you know, there's
just no it's not like their bad behavior has been
you know, punished, like those games keep on selling. If anything,
they're being.
Speaker 2: Rewarded for five million every time. Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's you know, it doesn't do them any harm.
So why would they why would they change, Like if
this was if they saw a decreased game over game
and they were like, oh, clearly people are getting upset
and not buying these Like no that they say though upset,
but they're still buying them. They keep buying them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you know what we always see
with that is the next game, regardless of quality, sort
of pays for it.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't maybe it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's possible to like glean that
from Legends to Za from Legends two, because it's like
that is off to the side, But it seemed like
that game to just fine. If it was, if anything
was gonna get hurt, it would definitely be this one,
because it's like, yeah, I mean, jan here's written a note.
Speaker 2: I have no faith.
Speaker 1: I think there are some people who are once Pokemon
diehards who feel that way.
Speaker 2: Will it be enough for that to be noticeable? We'll
have to wait and see. You know.
Speaker 1: I remember, like you know, Assassin's Creed Unity doing just fine,
and then it was Syndicate that was all by all accounts,
a very good game when I never played, but I
didn't play it for a reason. By all accounts, that
was a very good game. And yet that one is
the one that sold very poorly because it paid for
unity sins.
Speaker 2: We'll see. I think you might still be right there.
Speaker 3: And as British people, which you enough.
Speaker 2: We just got just get out of my games right.
Speaker 3: Finally, an ally on Giant Bomb.
Speaker 2: I'm here for you.
Speaker 1: God, I think that you're probably right that even with
all that said, we're probably viewing an audience for Pokemon
games that does not care, and maybe even many that
don't even know that these games have a bad reputation
for performance and for just their tech.
Speaker 3: And like I do, I do genuinely love the fact
that Pokemon games every single year at this point are
basically that call of duty modern warfare, boycott Steam group
and them all playing it like it's the best. It
rules so much.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's basically Pokemon over and over again. You know
that's it. They've said some they've gestured toward them improving
this game. So I'm curious to see what that ends
up looking like. I would like to get back into
a Pokemon at some point too, like.
Speaker 3: The idea of Pokemon in fury. I love orpgs. I
love like Little Freaks, I love like growing and fusing monsters.
That sounds great. It'd be nice if one of those
games felt worthwhile.
Speaker 2: I think, Zachi, Zach, you might have it in chat.
Speaker 1: It does feel like a lot of people matured up
into the Persona franchise instead, and that's where they, like
the Pokemon fans that got disillusioned went over there instead,
and now they get to wait for those games to
come out once every fifty five years or whatever.
Speaker 2: It is, all right, Moving.
Speaker 1: On, Disney's search for a new CEO disrupted gaming plans.
Apparently this comes from Eddie McCoo at game Spot and
also the screams of John Drake. The Walt Disney Company
recently named a new CEO, Josh Diyamorro. And now it's
been reported that the month's long search to find a
new top executive disruptive plans for gaming. The Wall Street
Journal reported that the plans for leadership change uh yeah.
The reported the plans for leadership change at Disney made
it difficult to make consequential decisions about Disney's future. This
apparently impacted Disney's gaming plans specifically in recent months.
Speaker 3: Coke zero in the office and Drake just couldn't work.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: First of it's diet coke. Oh my god, coke sign
on Instagram. John Drake pushed a fucking diet coke story
and I liked it be I'm like, I'll engage with
John Drake's addiction.
Speaker 2: It's funny whatever.
Speaker 1: Since then, I've gotten no less than twenty diet Coke
influencers in my algorithm. Now this guy has poisoned my
internet with his bad pass.
Speaker 2: Pertain and in recent.
Speaker 1: Months, executives have discussed potential partnerships with game companies, but
shelved the topic until a new CEO started. The Wall
Street Journal reported, citing a source with knowledge of the situation.
No further details were divul but this comes after a
report from twenty twenty three he said Disney was interested
in pursuing a purchase of electronic arts. That didn't happen,
and now EA's being bought for fifty five billion by
a group of investors including Saudi Arabi's Arabias Piff. Dmorrow
has along been a champion of gaming within Disney. He
spearheaded Disney's one point five billion investment into Epic Games
to make a quote transformational new games and entertainment universe.
Speaker 2: One of these projects.
Speaker 1: In one of these projects is the long in development
Fortnite Cross Disney project, which still remains largely mysterious. Dmorrow
has spoken very enthusiastically about growing Disney's business with gaming
and by taking risks. Dmrrow currently runs disease Vast Disney
Experience Teams, which operates with Park operates the parks and
cruise units, as well as the consumer products and video games.
He will officially become CEO in March. So it's like, okay, yeah,
there was a lot of things on hold. Maybe this
did affect our ability to like make a decision to
spend fifty five billion dollars to acquire EA.
Speaker 2: Things along those lines.
Speaker 1: It's probably just it probably like filters all the way
down because Disney's very controlling, right, let's see where it's
like they want to have a say.
Speaker 3: In how they're hands on partner.
Speaker 1: There are hands on partner, and I bet there are
times where it's like that does actually go all the
way up to the top because they're that hands on,
And I bet that's caused headaches that were probably just
normal sized headaches to turn into big headaches during the
last couple of years. But Okay, now now he's installed,
he's someone has experience with video games. Do you expect
Disney to like come back full force into this space?
I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Disney's relationship with video game is always
so weird. They seem very happy being a middleman at
the moment and not having to have as much of
the responsibility on their books, And they always seem to
have found actually publishing of video games and owning of
studios more of a headache than anything else, and like
it didn't really work with how that company wanted to operate.
And you know, I'm just really excited for when they
start like introducing park Mechanics into the video games mandatory
because he's like, I love all these park systems so much.
If you want to play the next hour's Jedi game,
you have to like wait in line and watch a
TV screen first where Jimmy Fallon explains how to play
the game, and that would be great.
Speaker 1: Jimmy is at Universal because he's at NBC. Yes, get
it right, you're right, And then there's a.
Speaker 3: Way I'm respecting your culture grub.
Speaker 2: Thank you. This is all we have. This is all
we have. LEXI. Uh yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think if you nailed it again where it's just like,
this is a company that does not want to be
in the situation that like a Warner Brothers is where they're, hey,
we got all these big studios that we own, uh
and that's kind of a pain in the ass. We
want to sell them, and no one wants to sell
them because we're not going to sell the IP and
they just don't want to take on this this huge
uh uh you know Capex thing where they're just gonna
and now that turns into a massive operating expenditure that
they have to spend every month on this payroll.
Speaker 3: So I will say, like there's quite a few Disney
video games I'm pretty interested in at the moment. Seems
like they just got the guys who made all those
British racing games to make a Star Wars racing game,
and that sounds great. That sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: I expect them to continue down that path of doing
more stuff like that. There's no I mean, Fates of
Fate or Fate of the Old Republic? Is that what
it is?
Speaker 2: Fotur.
Speaker 1: That's exciting. That's exactly what everyone's been asking for. It's
exactly what everyone wants to see, and it's it's from
so many of the people that made Nights of the
Old Republic. It's the kind of thing. Okay, Yeah, if
you can make those deals happen and sort of facilitate
it yourself and work.
Speaker 2: With these external partners, yeah, that's that's great.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit like you know, when Disney wants
to make a movie, they bring in a director. For games,
when they want to make a game, they bring in
a studio, like a game studio. I would say, okay,
I think that is a good format for them. I
don't expect, like this Fortnite thing that they'll just that'll
be their biggest sort of Boon, where like, we're gonna
spend most of our money in this space trying to
like be attached to the hip with something like Fortnite,
so that we can reach an audience that we know
is constantly in there. And there's that's a massive audience
that spends a lot of money. So I expect that
to continue to be their focus.
Speaker 3: I just hope that Disney Dreamline Valley adds even more
cheeked up characters.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm a w that's a necessity at this point.
Speaker 1: Source to say, don't expect Horizons zero Dawn three anytime soon.
Speaker 2: This is from Ethan Gotch at Kotaku.
Speaker 1: Last week, Gorilla Games reveal the multiplayer game it's been
working on. The project is called Horizon Hunter's Gathering, and
it's a tactical co op action game that looks like
someone repainted the Horizon universe with a Fortnite brush. It's
the third Horizon game that's been announced since Horizon Forbidden
West released, and fans are beginning to wonder what's going
on with the next mainline sequel in the open world
RPG series. Sources tel Kotaku it's still a ways off
and not the studio's top focus right now, what is
their top focus? It's it's this game. It's Horizon Hunter's Gathering.
This is the thing that that Gorilla has been working
on since like twenty eighteen. Okay, yeah, what do you
what do you What do you take away from that?
Speaker 3: Lexi, There's a few things in this spot. My biggest
thing is why wasn't this announced this week at the showcase?
Like they just tweeted it out. That was pretty much
the extent of the announcement was, Hey, there's a Steam
page live and we're tweeting about it, which I don't know.
I don't understand the thought process behind that.
Speaker 1: And is it to like get the initial reaction of
the look out of the way so that people are
used to it. So now when they let's say, okay,
they kind of showed off some stuff that some people
are excited about, but then they mostly people talk about like, oh,
this look is very different. I'm used to the game
looking this way. It looks like one of the most
expensive games in the world. I want more of that now.
Maybe they could surprise at this showcase at the state
of play by like focusing on the really cool stuff
and the gameplay that's in there.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm.
Speaker 3: Not feel like that is just it's worked in the
opposite if that was the thinking. It's worked in the
opposite way where you now have fucking weirdos going through
it frame by frame, finding the most unflashing screenshots of
the female characters, being like they made them even more ugly,
and it's you know, I feel like just showing a
big chunk of that game and what it is, it
probably would have so Aldish a lot better because, like
I think Nicky was posting about this on Blue Sky,
like remember how exciting the idea of the multiplayer Spider
Man game was, Like that just sounds like a good
idea ultimately, Like I don't think multiplayer Horizon is a
bad sounding idea for a game, Like the combat in
those games is pretty fun and I could see it
being fun with multiple people in a kind of monster
huntery way. But announcing it with like just a single
post and not elaborating too much on it and like
a short trailer and some screenshots really hasn't sold anyone
on what this project is and why it's so deserving
of their time and attention. And I think they have
a lot of ground to make up Honish already. And
also the shifting art style just seems like a strange
choice because those games look so good, like that was
the thing that they could kind of hang their hat
on on, no matter what else is they looked really
fucking nice and now they just kind of look like
a Fortnight season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you see why they can do that
or why they do that, right, It's like, oh, yeah,
they better make cheaper and it makes it easier to
like make new content, and it makes it easier to
have a bunch of different skin packs that sort of
can all fit this style.
Speaker 3: Do they want it to be a live service thing?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Like that was always the thing with the Last of
Us Factions was they had the come to god moment
of like we have to keep on Yeah, they kind
of realized, like we can't keep on supporting this, like
it wouldn't be realistic. So like do they does Grilla
want to become a live service studio?
Speaker 2: I mean I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I think if they this game makes that money,
they they would want it to be. I think the
problem with Last of Those Factions is it wasn't going
to change the visual style, so it's going to look
like a Last of Us game, and then they had
to like make all those skin packs attractive and make
people want to buy them while still making it fit
in the Last of Us.
Speaker 2: Like I said, that game out a story and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1: This one does feel like lessons learned from that, and
it's a game that can make.
Speaker 2: All that stuff work.
Speaker 1: And hopefully they just have a pipeline to where the
creation of those items is super efficient and they can
make a good profit margin on them, you know, that's
what they want. I think there's going to be people
who look at this game and be like, I don't
care about the other Horizon games. This does look more
appealing to me, and that'll be nice. But those Horizon
games do sell well. PlayStations made a lot of money
off of them. That is their bread and butter. So
it is curious to me that they aren't even really
It doesn't seem like like they're really even working on it.
In earnest at this point, the next mainline Horizon game,
Like you would think, okay, that when did the last
one come out?
Speaker 3: It's been many twenty dollars during the pandemic, early during the.
Speaker 1: Pandemic Forbidd and West was twenty twenty twenty twenty one.
Maybe either way, that's crazy, Okay, yeah, right then we're
talking about like this, we should be talking about the
next one, and I think they view this as the
next thing in the Horizon series. And so when does
three come out? Twenty twenty two? People are saying, okay.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty two. Sorry, those years really do blur together.
Speaker 2: Don't Oh yeah, it's all the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't help that I was in college for
those years, so like it was extra. Every day was
the exact same. Yeah. I will say quick shout out
to Giovanni col Antonio on Twitter for highlighting or on
Blue Sky for highlighting that this game is a really
promising sign of life that the Dusk Bloods is on schedule.
Speaker 2: Why is that I'm missing the jill.
Speaker 3: So it's going to release the same day.
Speaker 1: Oh that's very okay, incredible, that's very good job.
Speaker 2: Yes, I can't wait for this game to get buried
by something else.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I am probably not going to play this.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I got we'll play it for work. Maybe we'll do
it on like a UPF or something. I don't know,
and who knows, maybe I fall in love with it.
Speaker 2: It looks like a lightweight.
Speaker 3: I mean they've probably hit it at the right time,
like Monster Huno is in a low ebb, you know,
like those potential for people to want one of these.
I'm just not sure if it's gonna have that same depth.
Speaker 1: We got more PS six rumors. This is from Video
cards dot Com. A new round Yeah, hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go back to the Geocity days.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: A new round of rumors for next generation PlayStation hardware
is focusing on memory capacity. Basically, it's gonna have thirty
gigabytes of g d d R seven memory, which sounds expensive.
It sounds very expensive. That would I mean, I wonder
if that would be shared between it'd probably be like
the whole memory like.
Speaker 2: They've shared between the GPU and the CPU.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's how counts actually work, and that's
usually how consoles work. I think I'm shooting from the
hip here, everybody. Sorry, the let's see there's a whole
chart here. The PlayStation five has sixteen gigabytes of GDDR
six memory, and that's right, okay, And then so this
would have more memory, and then it would also have
faster memory because it's gdd R seven, which is significantly
faster but also significantly more expensive.
Speaker 2: Then the rumored PlayStation handheld.
Speaker 1: Still the thing that would still be coming probably around
twenty twenty seven to twenty twenty eight, probably twenty twenty
eight at this point, that will have twenty four gigabytes
of low power. I think gdd R five X, so
that's interesting. That's pretty close to GDDR six, and that
means it should be able to run a lot of
stuff that ran on PlayStation.
Speaker 2: Five either way.
Speaker 1: But really I think at this point, like see when
people hear that, the first thing they think of is
where are they going to get this from? Isn't all
that stuff sold out going to be very expensive? I
think the hope is we'll get on the other side
of this and that'll be right when these things go
into production. But that is a hope at this point,
and that is all things go right.
Speaker 3: That seems like bedding the house in a lot of
ways like that, I don't know, that's that's putting it
all on.
Speaker 2: Black, Like.
Speaker 3: I don't maybe maybe maybe things get better, maybe things
get better, but I don't see it. This thing is
going to be expensive. It's going to be pretty damn
expens Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I think that goes with that saying at
this point, right.
Speaker 3: Like any which way, this new handheld, this new box
both are going to be by far the most expensive
even adjusted for inflation, that any of these previous consoles
have been, and it won't be particularly close. And will
they be able to justify it? That's going to be
like the real question because like people will still want
to keep playing video games, the question will just become
will have become much more feasible that you buy a
low power PC and either stream to which or just
you know, have worse looking games running or your games
looking worse running on it locally, which I do think
like push come to shove. When you're talking about that
much money, people will go for like worse looking games,
or they'll just start with the hobby, which is very
real concern, you know. So yeah, I don't know that
everything's fucked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the good good thing for here, for
PlayStation is that having this handheld ready to go and
trying to seemingly make it powerful enough to like run
some PS five games, it's gonna like the good news
for them, is they've been supporting and a lot of
people have been supporting the PS four for a very
long time, and this thing will be able to run
everything on PS four without breaking a sweat. So there
will be a lot of coni for this thing, and
a lot of people's library is just going to transfer
to it automatically, and that's exciting to me. I'm I'm
ready for like gaming to shift over to be like
a handheld hobby primaryvity lash.
Speaker 2: On the go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one's ever been able to do it before.
They said it couldn't be done. All right, Xbox rumors
are happening as well. Jess Cordon as a whole boat load.
He says that that that whole thing about AMD Lisa Sue,
that's her name, talking about the twenty twenty seven supporting
of a Xbox next Gen launch, that people at Xbox
view that as the best case scenario twenty twenty seven.
What they're really focused on is getting the operating system right,
because they want it to work kind of like it
does on Steam Deck, where you go into a gaming
mode and then you can launch it the time.
Speaker 3: Like I've heard this story before.
Speaker 2: Go, yes, I exactly.
Speaker 1: But they continue to say that's the thing that's like
the very important because it's definitely going to be a
gaming PC.
Speaker 2: It's it's going.
Speaker 1: They're also going to do it kind of how they
do surface, where Microsoft's going to make their own and
then other companies can release Xbox branded PCs, I guess,
and like.
Speaker 3: Well, the good news is they they nailed it with
the log Allies interface and everyone loves that and doesn't
have any problems with it, so.
Speaker 2: Like out of the gate perfect. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, they still seem to know that's
the problem though, and it's like, Okay, at the very
least they know the problem. Do they have the ability
to fix it? Well, I bet they think they have
the ai to fix it, and that'll just make it
terrible at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at some point, it does kind of feel like
you know that sports team that loses every game and
they're like talking about like, we need to work on
the fundamentals, we need to work on the fundamentals. Yes,
it's like, yeah, dog, we all know you need to
work on the fundamentals.
Speaker 1: Fundamentals are fucked, bro, we know we've been yelling at
before the game. Actually, it will have Xbox backward compatibility though,
which obviously feels like, well, it better have that, but
it's going to be a PC and that has not
been the case so far.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to be like, Okay.
Speaker 1: Does that only work with this AMD chip set or
is that something that that Microsoft will be able to
port to Windows as a whole, because I think that
would make sense They should be able to do that.
Speaker 2: That would be my expectation. I just wouldn't expect it
right away.
Speaker 1: So yeah, twenty twenty seven at the earliest, it is
going to be all the things we've been hearing, like
Epic Games, the Epic Store will likely just be on
that thing when you launch it. So, hey, I guess
what this is really saying, Lexi is the Xbox console
is kind kind of dead. Like after this, it's it's
a whole different thing, and I think it's the thing
it probably needs to transform into.
Speaker 2: But this is it in a lot of ways, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It It almost doesn't feel like a news story, which
is the weirdest part. Yeah, like everyone's just kind of like, oh, yeah,
of course, like this we all knew this was happening.
All this is We've known this is happening for like years, now,
and it just kind of feels like, I don't know.
At some point, how many times can people get away
with being like Xbox is dead? I was like, I
don't it Maybe, I don't know. It's in a weird lik.
I think it's just in third place perpetually. That might
just be where it's at of It might just not
be the industry leader, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the hardware is just an afterthought and we we've
known that for a long time now, and this just
is like the period on that sentence. And they are
interested in just selling Call of Duty everywhere, which this
is a part of that strategy.
Speaker 2: All right. Last story here. Discord will force you to.
Speaker 1: Scan your face or ID to unlock all of its features.
This is from Zach's whisin that Kotaku big changes are
coming to Discord next month, the company behind one of
the most popular voice and chat services on the planet
announced that all new and existing Discord users will soon
have to prove their age via face scan or ID
to gain access to the entirety of the app. On
February ninth, a, Discord and Now that as part of
its long standing commitment to creating a safer experience for teams.
All Discord users will worldwide will be shifted to a
tea and appropriate experience by default. This change will happen
in early March, and once fully rolled out, it means
users who can't prove they are adults will lose access
to a number of features and parts of Discord. Nice
tri fad, but I'm still not paying my taxes.
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 3: Gonna go visit my friend Sam Porter of Bridges and
see if he can do some camera work for me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out there and just wait five
minutes for the open source alternative for Discord to pop up,
which I'm sure is already in the works as.
Speaker 2: We are speaking as this got announced. I'm long did it.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving my license to any of these companies, Like,
I'm just not doing that. And I don't really want
to scan my face either. Look, if I'm if I'm
not going to do it for pornography, I'm not going
to do it for Discord.
Speaker 2: This is a this is the bad Internet.
Speaker 1: We're in the bad Internet now, and we've known that,
but it's like, oh, this is the worst kind of
worst case scenario where the open and free Internet is
now being least like being treated as the least common denominator,
and we have to sort of play to these worst
case scenarios. And these corporations do that in a way
that is so ham fisted that it's not going to
protect anybody. It's not going to help anybody. It just
covers their ass legally speaking, and here we are and
we all have to get a worst Internet because of it.
Speaker 2: This is very frustrating.
Speaker 3: Lexi, Chuck, you're not busy? Can you build us like
a new peer to peer video service so that we
can keep doing the show, Just.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, what's your We're like, why are you? Haven't
you done that already? Just a lazy bastard.
Speaker 1: This guy just disgustingly from slothful.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this fucking sucks from every angle. This is dreadful.
It's like a massive overstep from a corporate entergy harvesting
your data. And people should be rightly pissed and they
should let them know that they are pissed about us.
And if you really truly are pissed, yeah, go find
an alternative. Tell me about it, tell everyone about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is what happens.
Speaker 1: And you know the company is going to be They're
they're doing an I p O right that hasn't happened yet,
but they're kind of gearing up for something along those lines,
and part of that will be like global compliance, and
that's their that's their primary concern at the end of
the day, with all of these things that are free,
and this is our fault, we're complicit in this. But
any product that's free like this, well, you're the product.
It's a story that's very old and we all know
this now. All the users that are on there are
the product. They are now being sold and they have
to figure out ways to do that, and that they
don't they're not really concerned with actually keeping that experience
pure or nice.
Speaker 2: Or as good as possible.
Speaker 1: It's just like all these other social media networks where
remember when it was good, what had to change because
if they made it bad, they'll make more money, and
discord will be the exact same.
Speaker 3: Well, I made a startling discovery discovery over the weekend.
I got a YouTube ad for Only Fans' premium streaming service,
which offers original content, none of which is pornographic.
Speaker 2: There's like they have like reality TV shows or something.
Speaker 3: Its reality TV shows and stand up specials, and the
ad I got was like clips back to back to
back from like five different stand up specials where the
comedian was basically making a joke being like crypto isn't
that bad when you think about it, And it was
like five different comedians doing the same bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's I don't know who that's for.
Speaker 1: I think it's just for the people that make only
fans to like feel better because they have internalized shame
or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it is literally like reading the interesting article
next to the like fold oush next to the centerfold
in Playboy. You know, it's it's incredible that these companies
keep thinking that people want things that aren't actually the
service or utility that they provide.
Speaker 2: I get frustrated by this because we know what Discord
is doing.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna protect anybody that people always find ways
around things. But it's also like, you know, there is
a way to tell if I'm an adult. It's you know,
if I have a credit card, and yet sure kids
can find ways to get that stuff, but it's like,
you know, you already have my credit card information. You've
had it for a long enough time that just by
default you know that I am over eighteen.
Speaker 2: It's just a dumb thing that they have.
Speaker 3: Every time I open Steam in my browser and I'm
logged in to my account and then i open a
like game and it's like verify your age, motherfucker, I've
had this account.
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: I think that's just a part of a compliance for
some country there where.
Speaker 2: It's like they have to do that because you have
to ask.
Speaker 1: Every time, Oh my god, make the Internet worse just
for no good reason for these the theater of security
or whatever, the theater of protecting children, where we know
that's not their real concern. All right, that does it
for the headlines. Let's get to the pole question for
the Wednesday. We don't have one from Friday because we
did the bomb twelve. As a reminder, if you go
to giant bomb dot com, you can scroll down and
see the most recent bomb twelve and there you could
also submit your entry for the bomb twelve for this Friday.
There's a link on the left hand side there. You
should go do that right now, everybody. In the meantime,
we have a new poll question, which is I didn't
write one down. You want to come me come up
with one, Lexie.
Speaker 2: What do we got here.
Speaker 1: Are Are you still excited about like the future of
rgg's games or something like that?
Speaker 2: What should we do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you still excited about.
Speaker 1: Are you still excited about like rgg's games after Kusa
Kwami three reviews or something like that. We'll put the
post that We'll get the exact wording all fixed up
and post that on the YouTube page for Giant Bomb.
Speaker 2: To go to the post there you can vote. We'll
get the.
Speaker 1: Results on Wednesday. On Wednesday we'll have more Giant Bomb
game mess mornings or then on Tuesday we're gonna have
the Giant Bomb Cast. Other things we're gonna have on
this website include some quick looks. One went up this
morning where we should have some other ones this week
for games we can't talk about yet.
Speaker 3: Likes you to be done his Black Club any any
day now, right like.
Speaker 2: Any months, an a year now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, He's just enjoying it so much. He likes to
take his time in there. He just he likes looking
very cool.
Speaker 2: Apps.
Speaker 3: I did really like when it was Mike's ten again
on us, Like, ah, it feels like not two weeks
ago that it was his last turn.
Speaker 1: It's uh, that was incredible, just the fast turnaround and
then you're going to this game at the very least.
It's been very funny. All right, Lex you where can
people find you on the internet? What do you have
going on and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me arm Blue Sky at Lexlodi
dot xyz. You can check out my review of Yakuza
Kwami three right now on gamer guides dot com. I
have another of you going live on gamer guides dot
com tomorrow for a game that I liked more I'll
say that much at least. And you can also check
out start menu dot co dot UK. We are trying
to help foster in the next generation of games media
people and people writing about video games and creating like
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sound of.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see here. We did the poll question,
we talked about what's happening. We'll talk over the state
of play later this week. Everybody. Other than that, expect
a pretty normal schedule. Dan is out on assignment, but
he will be back later this week. Yeah, all right,
I think with all of that said, I think we
could say we're gonna get out of here lex LETTI thank
you so much for hanging out with me today and
talking about video games.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Always the best way to start a week.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for watching and listening. You are the
best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one,
take care of yourself and goodbye.