WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:28.039 Hello, and welcome to Games After Dark, episode ninety five. 2 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:33.679 I am your host Tomorrow's saying, joined by Lucy James Hello, 3 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:38.520 and Michael Hyam You're and Jean Luke Psyche. 4 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:41.759 Jean Luke psych He's not here. 5 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.799 It's a three person podcast. Wow. 6 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.759 It was like is he Tylan? 7 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:54.159 I know he's helping with the sonics and me and 8 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:56.640 Hiam are like of one mind. That was like the. 9 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.520 Bee they're hit me with the open Yeah. 10 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:05.799 Yeah, so there are We are recording this at a 11 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:10.079 time where there is an absurd amount of things happening. 12 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:13.640 I saw blessing at a yo Ya Jr. The Newstance 13 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:17.840 of video Games. The class he posted and he posted 14 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:20.959 a TikTok of the you've probably seen this of the 15 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.840 person slicing the pizza and then like, oh he's sharing 16 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.920 a pizza. Yeah, I'll have a slice, and the person's 17 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.319 cut in it, and then he keeps cutting until then 18 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:32.519 and he's like, that's enough slices. That caption was the 19 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.640 video game industry today, highlighting them like that. There is 20 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.120 far too much going on. So Jean Luke is, as 21 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:42.120 we crowned him last week, the maestro of our streams. 22 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:46.439 A lot of times, So he's out doing Maestro stuff fast. Yeah, 23 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.079 and we are recording this prior to any of this 24 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:54.200 stuff happening, So sadly, you will not hear anything about Sonic, 25 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.560 You will not hear anything about Horizon, You will not 26 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:04.200 hear any thing about the other million streams that are happening. Instead, 27 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.840 what you'll hear about is disco Elysium. Lucy, what you've 28 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:08.120 been doing, what you've been playing? 29 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:13.840 Wow? What? Yeah? I mean? I replayed Discolesium over last 30 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.560 weekend a little bit before because I was on a 31 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:21.520 spoiler cast with kind of funny So I was on 32 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.360 episode of ps I Love You xoxo And if you 33 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:25.919 want to go check that out, please do. I think 34 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:29.840 it's going live on Tuesday. That was a lot of fun, 35 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.680 kind of revisiting that game in a time of malaise, 36 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:41.159 in a time of languishing. Disco Elysium, HiT's different, HiT's different. 37 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.680 Still fantastic, fantastic game. And I was playing on PlayStation 38 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.560 and I know when we first came out on PlayStation, 39 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:49.520 we talked about it and it was a bit like, uh, 40 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.639 crashing all the time and wasn't really doing so hot. 41 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.759 Played it now patched totally fine, totally great. So brief 42 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:01.479 aside there a boy Disco, but mainly this week I've 43 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:05.599 put a lot of time into Mass Effect two. What's that? 44 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:07.400 Never heard of it before? 45 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:12.039 Brand new indie start studio by Allway. 46 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:18.800 Yeah, so I finished Mastect one sort of last Friday. 47 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.840 The good thing about working weird hours is that before 48 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:24.719 I log on for the day, I've got a couple 49 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:26.800 hours of gaming that I can do. 50 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:29.560 So I'm so impressed that this. 51 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.039 Trying to rationale, rationalize to myself why it's good that 52 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.960 I'm working weird hours, because obviously timelim back in the UK. 53 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:42.400 Somehow I played two hours of mass Effect one in 54 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.039 the times that I've had it, whereas I'm just terrible 55 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:46.639 at managing my time compared to you. 56 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.840 Yeah, but you did like a week full of streams 57 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:53.960 until four am every day, so I would you know? 58 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:57.639 I just played mass Effect one and Disco and then yeah, 59 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.680 best wait too, I'm about seven hours in. I just 60 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.879 forgot how unbelievably good that game is. Like, it is 61 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.599 such a step up. I love Mass Effect one. Mass 62 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.080 Effect one has such a special place at my heart. 63 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.479 Michael has shaking his head, was nodding I've shaken it again. 64 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.920 Mass Effect one slander I will not tolerate. It is 65 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.120 the best in the series. 66 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.720 I love Mass Effect one. I think my favorite story 67 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:26.319 is the Mass Effect one story, but I think my 68 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.560 favorite character moments are in Mass Effect two, like and so, 69 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.879 but also just the jump in different animations, how much 70 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:39.800 more cinematic it feels. It's the am I gonna go 71 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.319 on record and say this, The music is better in 72 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:47.079 Mass Effect two. Jacob's theme slaps like Jacob's theme is 73 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:53.079 genuinely the best song on the entire Sounddrag Combat feels tighter, 74 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.000 way more actionally, But I do I do miss the 75 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:59.240 RPG side, don't get me wrong, But yeah, I'm just 76 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:03.120 having a lovely time. And like Jordan finalized his review 77 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.480 that's up on site in YouTube now if you want 78 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:07.519 to go read it and watch it, and you should 79 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:12.079 because he plowed through those games and delivered a great review. 80 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:14.279 And I think one of the things that he really 81 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:18.040 like nail on the head was the introduction of DLC 82 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.879 because I'm playing through two now and obviously it's like 83 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:25.279 it makes sense that Zayid and Kasumi are available from 84 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.759 the very beginning, because I mean they were Mass of 85 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.600 Fact two is supposed to ship with like all of 86 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.079 those squad made I think twelve and they ended up 87 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.120 getting cut for DLC because of time, and so introducing 88 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:39.680 them at the beginning of the game makes a lot 89 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:45.399 of sense. That's fine. Putting arrival just after you go 90 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:50.000 to Horizon is weird because arrival the DLC is like, oh, 91 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:53.079 by the way, the Reapers are coming. You have to 92 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.399 go deal with this right now. And it's like, okay, cool, 93 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.199 Well can I do the whole collector thing first? Can 94 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:00.759 I maybe just get that? But it's like the way 95 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.000 that introduces it also, some of it is just like 96 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:08.000 lacking in context a bit, like because obviously you meet 97 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.000 the AA throughout the course of Mass Effect two. Anyway, 98 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:12.319 she's on Ilium. You go talk to her, she's an 99 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.600 information broker. But then they immediately put Layer of the 100 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.600 Shadow Broker in. So I just landed on Ilium and 101 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.920 I'm going to go to get Fane and Samara, and 102 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:25.680 I'm kind of in my head like, don't accidentally activate 103 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:29.399 the Layer of the Shadow Broker stuff too. So I mean, 104 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:33.639 like on top of that, though, it's still unbelievably good game, 105 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.079 and I'm just very happy to be playing it again. 106 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:39.759 That's what's up. Yeah, and we're going to be talking 107 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.160 about Mass Effect too in great detail. 108 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:45.759 Yeah, Michael and I are going to be on Norman 109 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.120 dy FM. I'm not sure when the episode's going out, 110 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:54.480 but we're recording it this weekend, so yeah, please be 111 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:55.920 excited for that one. 112 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:03.120 Yeah, the homies Kenneth Sheppard and Eric Van Allen. Guy 113 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.040 got to get mixed up between Alex van Aiken. Uh 114 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.040 to to two great boys of the industry, but I 115 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.759 got I got to make sure I got them sorted 116 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.680 out and also at least from Fan Bye formerly of 117 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.240 Washington Post, formerly of Game Informer. It's gonna be an 118 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:21.079 all star crew. You know what I'm saying about Mass 119 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.759 Effect two? Hell yeah yeah. 120 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.040 So Lucy's been playing disco and Mass Effect to him. 121 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.720 Hit us with what you've been going I think you've 122 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.720 been going through. This is where I'm my brain is 123 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.000 just like, tell us what you've been inflicted with to 124 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:39.800 this week. 125 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:46.879 I have been inflicted with emotional trauma and childhood trauma 126 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:50.759 and daddy issue. Well, I mean that's perpetual, but as 127 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:56.720 in terms of video games or entertainment, Uh we are 128 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:57.279 you okay? 129 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.199 I was like, where is this going going down on 130 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.480 the Oh no. 131 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:03.399 We don't have to. It's it's it's a little too 132 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.000 early to talk about talk about traumas over here. It's 133 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:08.360 eight eighty four right now. 134 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.120 I was gonna say shout out to you for like 135 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.480 coming on, because obviously Tam and I like eight fifty 136 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:15.720 four was like five pm for us, But you have 137 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:17.199 come on, come on, Elie, So thank you. 138 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:21.040 Yeah. So it's great to start my morning with y'all 139 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.519 and to talk about video games. So I think last 140 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.120 time I was on this, on this very podcast, I 141 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.439 talked about Near Replicant and Final Fantasy fourteen five point five. 142 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.600 Now I'm here to talk about Near Reincarnation and Final 143 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.759 Fantasy fourteen five point five fifty five or five point 144 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.279 five five. Oh my god, I am so predictable and 145 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.039 I don't give all fuck Like Yo, I'm about my 146 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.679 bullshit and that's what you're gonna get from me. And 147 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.080 so Near Near Reincarnation is the mobile game that I 148 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.639 talked to I'll say Naki Yoshi a while. I talked 149 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.559 to Yo Kataro about it in addition to talking about 150 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:02.080 Replicant post so you can check that out on gay 151 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:05.759 swad dot com. But basically he was like, hey, Mobile 152 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.360 gotcha games, Like that's just kind of fucked up, but 153 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:10.519 you know what, I have to do what I gotta do. 154 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.080 And he was like, yeah, if if we if we 155 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:15.639 are going to do this, I want it to be 156 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.279 something that everyone could be proud of rather than simply 157 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:20.559 make money. He's like, listen, square Enix wants to make money, 158 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.240 so I got to take care of that. But if 159 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:23.919 we're going to do this, we need we need to 160 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.559 make something dope, something that is worthy of the Near name. 161 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.000 So I think it's the way he talked about it 162 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:34.600 was really really open and transparent with that, so it 163 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.879 makes me, uh, it has like I have faith in 164 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.240 the when the game fully releases, and I play Cino 165 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.799 Alice a lot, and that game is cool. I like 166 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.759 what that game goes for, so Near Reincarnation is like 167 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:48.879 I would think of it like I'm just playing the 168 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.080 closed beta right now, so it's not like a final 169 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:53.679 version of it. It's obviously it doesn't have all the 170 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:58.159 content it's going to launch with, but I it's it's cool, 171 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.759 it's it's nice, it's a collec I think of it 172 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.799 as a collection of side stories in the Near universe, 173 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.679 so you'll see things that are complimentary of what we 174 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:09.440 already know from the previous Near games, and then you 175 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.360 just get like these other side stories that have that 176 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.440 you've never heard of before. And then so if you've 177 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.679 played Near you know about weapon stories. So each weapon 178 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:24.120 in the game, in both Automata and Replicant, each weapon 179 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.679 has a backstory and about its specific name, like the 180 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.559 name of the weapon. So as you upgrade them, like 181 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:34.440 through level upgrade them to throughout the game though, you 182 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.120 unlock more about the lore of that weapon, and you 183 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:39.639 can think that's kind of this It's kind of a 184 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.000 similar thing in Reincarnation where the gotcha element is where 185 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:44.840 you get the weapons, and then like the like those 186 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.600 unlocked stories and then also other stuff. So it's taking 187 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.159 a lot of those side stories and then visualizing them 188 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.320 through gameplay. And so there's like there's like two phases 189 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.440 to it. You have like an exploration phase where he 190 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.879 plays the little girl and the little ghost that follows her. 191 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.320 Oh shit, sorry, I actually knocked my microphone. But then 192 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.360 you kind of walk through this open or not, you 193 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:09.320 walk through a bigger world, and then from there you 194 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.600 kind of collect other weapons, and then you go dive 195 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:15.240 into other stories where there's RPG gameplay and there's like 196 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.440 a bunch of narrative stuff. There's a lot of voice 197 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:19.799 acting in it. There's beautiful music. When you boot up, 198 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.559 the game says please play this with sound on because 199 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.320 there's beautiful music in it, And I'm like, say that, 200 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:29.600 say that shit, And that's facts too, because Kagiokabi also 201 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.840 scored this game too, And it's just like it just 202 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.600 has that that ethereal vibe, that light orchestration with the voice, 203 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.559 like the choral voices. It's very much in your game. 204 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.279 It's it's really cool. I'm excited to see. I've only 205 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.159 played a little bit of it, about maybe an hour 206 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.759 or so, but I want to see what the overall 207 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:54.000 monetization looks like once this game fully releases. I think 208 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.480 that's that's I think that's a big concern for everybody. 209 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.480 But content wise, I think this is pretty fucking cool. 210 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.320 So yeah, I'm ready to be sad over mobile games, 211 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:03.960 you know what I'm saying. 212 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.720 Yeah, I was gonna say, dude, do you reckon the 213 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.360 objective of not having a shite mobile game is like's 214 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.360 they're on track to hit that. 215 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:19.120 I think so because the I think like the way 216 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.080 in which this game drives you to spend money is 217 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.279 like it doesn't impact the actual Like they're going to 218 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.080 make the content that they want to make. They're going 219 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:29.759 to tell the types of stories that they want to tell. 220 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.840 So if they just do that, then the things that 221 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.080 you play through and unlock and experience in the game 222 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:39.120 are the quality of that is totally up to the 223 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.279 team working on that, so Yo Katara and all of 224 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:46.720 his other writers and storytellers and whatever. So yeah, and 225 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:48.799 I kind of feel the same with Sino Alice, but 226 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:50.919 on like a smaller scale. So this is I think 227 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:53.240 this is gonna be really cool. I think people should 228 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:58.240 pay attention to it. But yeah, Final Fantasy four team 229 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.919 related to Near in many ways. I didn't get to 230 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.039 talk about fan Fast because I wasn't on the last 231 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.679 episode and I was also out and about so if 232 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:12.600 y'all missed it, Final Fantasy fourteen fan Fest was one 233 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:17.240 of the best online experiences I've ever had. So much 234 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:17.720 I saw. 235 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.559 I just saw this outpow of emotion for like, yeah, 236 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:24.080 the whole weekend. 237 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:28.960 So there's obviously incredible. There's obviously like gameplay stuff but 238 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:32.039 I think what people are probably wanting, we're going to 239 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.080 want to know the most about is what was to 240 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.679 deal with the whole musical act band thing that was 241 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.720 going on, because I was like, I was into that 242 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.600 the most, but I imagine people won't have known what was 243 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.000 going on there, so break it down for sure. 244 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.360 Yeah, that was one of the coolest. I think it 245 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:53.360 represents why both the people who make the game developers 246 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:57.279 and why fans love Final Fantasy fourteen so much more 247 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:00.360 than it being a video game. So there was two 248 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.919 separate performances. One was a piano based one the first night, 249 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.360 and then the second one was the Primals live performance. 250 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:13.320 So the Primals are the Final Fantasy fourteen band led 251 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:17.399 by the composer Masioshi Soken, and everyone in the band 252 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:21.320 works on the game like they are developers. I think 253 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:26.279 they're on the sound team. So they performed the songs. Uh, 254 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.639 they create a lot of the songs, especially like the 255 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.679 rock rock based music in the game, and then they 256 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.159 perform it live at FanFest, and they were actually supposed 257 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.320 to do like a mini tour before a pandemic hit. 258 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.080 So yeah, it's it's really cool. The second night they 259 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.919 they ended the olive FanFest with a live performance of 260 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.159 many of the songs from Final Fantasy fourteen and then 261 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.440 so yeah, it's fucking wild. So and they embraced the memes. 262 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:58.039 So yeah, they really they really lean into that ship. 263 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.639 They had members of the the community developer or the 264 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:06.360 community developers. Uh, they were doing like, uh, the dance 265 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.120 that was made up for the twinning theme, which is 266 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.879 one of the dungeons. Uh, they had them. They had 267 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.600 them dancing on stage. And then now Kiyoshida also went 268 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.919 on stage to perform a song with them. After after 269 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.639 like two days of fucking hosting q and as hosting 270 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:24.519 live streams, doing a whole keynote speech and do this 271 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.960 all all this other stuff, he ends it by fucking 272 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:30.120 performing live with the with the band and shit, and 273 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.559 I don't know. The first night the piano performance was 274 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:36.200 like also embracing the memes. And if you play, if 275 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:38.200 you play Fan Fantasy fourteen, you know what I'm talking about. 276 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:42.679 It's the way they embrace their bullshit and the way 277 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.559 like us as players embrace their their bullshit. Well it's 278 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.240 like a two way street. We embrace their bullshit, they 279 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.960 embrace our bullshit. And it's it creates like such a 280 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.960 fun dynamic that when events like this happen, it's, uh, 281 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:59.720 it feels very I don't know, it's it's extremely unique. 282 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.799 Like I don't there are other live service games that 283 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.480 people are very very passionate about, like you see it 284 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:10.639 in Warframe when they have what ten ocon? Yeah, yeah, 285 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.759 when they do ten OCN and then obviously blizz Con, 286 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:20.240 people get very very into it. Whatever game it is, Okay, relax, 287 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:25.399 but yeah, and but Final Fantasy fourteen is it's it's 288 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.039 the Weeds Dream. So yeah, it was. It was so 289 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:32.759 cool man and I covered it. That was two weeks ago, 290 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:35.879 but I covered it with all sorts of things. And 291 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.320 it was on a Friday night going into like two 292 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.120 am or three am, and on Saturday night going into 293 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.320 three am or six A. I was up till six 294 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.799 am because yeah, I didn't give a fuck, like this 295 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.080 is this is my time, Like, yeah, we'll call the 296 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:50.000 shots now. Ain't nobody up So I'm gonna hit publish 297 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:53.960 motherfuckers or something, shouts out to Gabe Growin, who also 298 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.519 helped out with that afterwards. But yeah, and like the 299 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.000 last thing I'll say is that it was it was 300 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.559 really emotional at the at the end of the of 301 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:07.200 the of the whole fan fest, because after the Primals performed, 302 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:09.000 all the devs went on stage and like gave their 303 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:13.240 last words and then uh, yeah, if if folks followed it, 304 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:19.319 the composer Masochis Socin came out and said that he, uh, 305 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:21.240 he had been dealing with cancer at the start of 306 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:23.359 Pandemic and he didn't tell anybody because he didn't want 307 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.640 anyone to worry about him. But he told people who 308 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:29.960 need to know, like now Kyoshida because obviously he's working 309 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.359 on the he was working on music for the for 310 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.119 the game, and it was it was it was really 311 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.160 fucking wild, Like Soakin is one of those dudes who 312 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:41.799 are like, oh, no, I want to I want to work, 313 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:43.559 I want to work, like this is this is what 314 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:45.759 I do, this is what's going to keep me, keep 315 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.519 me fighting. And then like now Kyoshida was just like 316 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.920 crying his eyes out on stage and it was fucking 317 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:57.680 wild man. It's And then so one thing I'll mention 318 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:01.160 is that there's music. There's a song in Patch five 319 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.559 point three that is it's kind of like the final 320 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.119 song to cap off the whole shadow Bringer story. And 321 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:10.440 then when you when now when I listen to the song, 322 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.680 I think about it very differently because he wrote that 323 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:16.480 song while he was dealing with cancer. Uh. And the 324 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.400 song is very much about it's very reflective of Shadow 325 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:22.920 Bringers as a story, but it's very much talking about 326 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.839 like coming to terms with the end of things. I'm like, 327 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:31.640 holy shit, yeah, and I was. Now it's like, okay, 328 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:33.640 this is like the perfect song to end this this 329 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.480 like huge epic story in the game. But also I 330 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:39.920 can imagine like he puts some of that heart and 331 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:45.759 soul into writing that song. Yeah, and ah fuck Yeah 332 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:51.599 it's file fasty fourteen is great. Yeah, and the people 333 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.759 who work on that game are also great as well. 334 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.480 So yeah, I have an interview. I did an interview 335 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:02.680 while I was away with Kosha, So I'm gonna be 336 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:04.319 working on putting that up for the weekend. 337 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.039 It sounds like it sounds like you said you were 338 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:07.480 away with. 339 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:13.039 I would love to kick it with. I was like, hey, 340 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:16.319 let's just let's just go kick it. I was away 341 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:22.519 Karma and I didn't interview, So yeah, that'll be up 342 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:28.200 on site. It's on site hopefully for the for the weekend. Yeah. 343 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.039 That's that's Those are the things I've been paying attention 344 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.240 to and caring about in the world of video games. 345 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:39.680 Nice, lovely, So my main thing. I've been not playing 346 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.599 as much Matter Effect as I would like to, but 347 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.720 I have been playing a decent amount of Knockout City, 348 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:51.799 which is very, very very good. I'm surprised. I'm having 349 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.119 a lot of fun with Knockout City. So my first 350 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:58.160 instance of playing the game, it pretty much couldn't have 351 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:00.319 gone better. I played it with a bunch of p people. 352 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.200 It was under kind of funny podcast, kind of funny 353 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:08.000 stream on Friday where they were raising money for Palestinian children, 354 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.319 and it was me, it was Greg, it was Blessing 355 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:17.599 and the snowbike Mike Nick. I think that's pretty much 356 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:21.160 everyone that was there. And it was like all of 357 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:24.759 us against each other and in the perfect scenario where 358 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.200 friends are playing, you know, and learning the game together 359 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:29.640 and figuring it out, and it was so much fun. 360 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:32.799 So basic kind of premise of it is it's a 361 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.039 four versus four I think dodgeball game. 362 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.119 Oh so, I don't know why in my head I 363 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:43.240 didn't know what it was. I got it confused with 364 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:47.519 the Ubisoft one of the. 365 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.160 Rocket Arena Na. 366 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:53.039 Yeah, this is this is like way more like. The 367 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.119 thing I love about it is it's very simple, it's 368 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.559 got a decent good amount of depth, and it's just 369 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:02.839 very very elegant in its design. It reminds me of 370 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.440 it could have been if this label still existed. It 371 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:08.960 could have been an EA big game, like right next 372 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:14.920 to like SSX big. So like very simple. So that 373 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:17.440 you you run around the arenas. There's like three or 374 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:22.319 four maps I think, and you pick up standard dodgeballs 375 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.039 and you hold the trigger down and you press the trigger. 376 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:27.599 You can throw it. You hold it down and you 377 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:31.680 charge it, and you've basically the timing dictates or timing 378 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:34.039 of how long you hold it down dictates how much 379 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:37.359 power you put in, thus the distance and on the 380 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.160 other side that means the speed coming into you. And 381 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.480 you press another button, which for me was left trigger. 382 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:47.599 I was playing on Xbox controller, and you basically put 383 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:50.039 your hand out, your hands up in the air, and 384 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:54.359 if you time it properly, it kind of like you'll 385 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:55.720 catch the ball coming into you. 386 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:58.319 And then you can is it first first person? 387 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.240 No, No, it's third person. It's third person. And you don't 388 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:04.839 aim the ball at all. It auto aims to towards 389 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.480 the characters that are in front of timing. Yeah, so 390 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:10.079 it's all about timing. And then the interesting part of 391 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:12.759 it becomes when you catch the ball and throw it back, 392 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:15.519 it kind of stacks momentum, so it becomes quicker and 393 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:18.799 quicker and quicker and quicker. So it becomes these the 394 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.119 kind of like back and forth extremely fast ping pong games. 395 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:25.200 And then there's variance to it, like you can do 396 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:28.160 a pump fake where if you've got the ball, you press, 397 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:31.039 you press the you press the stick in or you 398 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:33.480 press a button and you pretend to throw the ball, 399 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:36.599 which might that's what. Yeah, it's a different kind of 400 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:40.119 pump fake, Lucy, you. 401 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:42.920