WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.920 You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello, 2 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.839 and welcome to another edition of Video Games to the Max. 3 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:22.800 I am your host Sean Garmer with me today. Randy 4 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:23.960 Isbelle once again. 5 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:26.800 You can't get rid of me. I'm here, I'm back. 6 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.239 Yes, apparently not, but we're not trying to get ready Randy. 7 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:36.759 He's awesome and always grateful he could be on the show. 8 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:42.759 Mark is apparently going through some personal issues, so glad 9 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:47.320 that Randy can be on again here. So this week 10 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.359 is basically we're doing this show like the day before 11 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.880 the games come Opening night live. So you know, there's 12 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:55.799 gonna be a lot of announcements to talk about for 13 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:59.719 next week at least. But there are some release dates 14 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:01.920 and delays and stuff that are going to be talked 15 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:05.439 about on this episode. So there's that. I've got Madden 16 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:09.159 NFL twenty five impressions, which I'm sure that made everybody 17 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.280 either grown or be like, Okay, what's do with this one? 18 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:19.159 And yeah, Raney's been playing Andrew Lilies. And we got 19 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:24.480 some other stuff including inside Basel with content creators getting 20 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:28.760 notes from certain doves about don't say this and don't 21 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:31.760 say that. We'll get into all that and more. All right, 22 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.879 So just to get this stuff out of the way 23 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.760 in case you know this is your first time listening. 24 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.040 Out of time listening, we do appreciate you. We do 25 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.599 the show usually around this time, like anywhere between like 26 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:50.120 four point thirty, between four thirty and six live on 27 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:55.079 YouTube and twitch, W two network for those, also Facebook's 28 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.760 W two network, And we can't do it on X 29 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.239 and so forth because you know, not paying Elon must 30 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:08.520 that money. 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They just 51 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.560 did a best Sega Genesis games. 52 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.360 Yeah, and I only got yelled at five times, so 53 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.280 it worked out pretty well. Actually, I think I was 54 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.120 doing most of the yelling because they kept voting out 55 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.039 all of my favorite games. 56 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.120 I saw that, so all you got mad about one 57 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.199 particular game, so, you. 58 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.960 Know, especially because then one person on the show went 59 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:37.039 and actually played it for the first time and messaged 60 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.360 me two days later, went, I see what you mean. 61 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:43.280 Huh Hey, there you go. You know, give Randy. Give 62 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.159 Randy some credit for getting people to play those games, 63 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:46.759 you know, I. 64 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:47.560 Know, my old stuff. 65 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.840 Yeah, well, we'll have a little conversation about that a 66 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.680 bit later. I don't know about Randy. Randy might not 67 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.560 break the you know, the record or anything that was 68 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:00.639 set this week, but I'm sure he has a big number. 69 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:08.479 So yeah, well, any anything else going on, not. 70 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.360 Video gamers, not very related, very very busy, very very 71 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.040 busy as a sports writer for a local newspaper here, 72 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.120 a lot, a lot going on. August is one of 73 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:22.519 the busier months for us is prepare for fall sports 74 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.560 in college and high school. And it's busy. 75 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:27.680 Yeah, I imagine so. And you know, one of the 76 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.040 big sports that I'm sure you're covering is it's about 77 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:34.000 to start. College football is about to start. But obviously 78 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.959 we got the pro games in the middle of preseason. 79 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.160 They're about to start preseason week three here, so basically 80 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.000 the last of the preseason games are about to be 81 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:48.120 happening this weekend. So you know, what a time, What 82 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.480 a time, the perfect time you would say for EA 83 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:56.879 to release Madden NFL twenty five, and well, you could 84 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.639 say it's Madden all right, that would be the easiest 85 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.160 things to say, But no, I'm gonna I'm gonna be 86 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:08.279 fair to it and you know, give it some some 87 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:11.120 plaudits and some things to talk about. I think the 88 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.079 issue now is now you have a game from your 89 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.040 own company that stands up against it that you have 90 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:22.639 to deal with every year, especially this year, where hey, 91 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.600 that game might actually be better than this game because 92 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:30.439 they had the three years to go and develop and 93 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.720 make that game. Right. Uh so, look, not a lot 94 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.000 is gonna change here. The biggest thing that they've been 95 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.240 talking about, which you do notice, is the boom tech 96 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.360 thing of how the player the physics with the game, 97 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:47.160 like how the players hit each other, the tackles, how 98 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.000 they're able to get out of tackles. It seems more, 99 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.120 it feels more realistic. So it's kind of the same 100 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.800 stuff they've been touting for a couple of years with 101 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:59.680 the EA Sports FC game as well, with that hypermotion thing. 102 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:04.160 It's kind of very similar. Just yeah, it does feel 103 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:09.600 more more realistic. It does feel more like, Okay, my 104 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.600 player got hit and you can see where he'll be 105 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.079 able to spin off and keep going, or he got 106 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.519 hit and got smacked to the ground, or you know, 107 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:22.480 the tackle comes through and you'll you'll understand more of 108 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:26.399 why he got tackled, why he didn't. It is cool 109 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.199 some of the times that you think that you should 110 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.519 get tackled and they don't. The only issue is there's 111 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.519 still sometimes where I'm just like, how the hell is 112 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.160 you go through a whole pack of people Break twenty 113 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.839 tackles and still you know, go through the whole pile 114 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:42.600 and go on to the end zone. That doesn't against 115 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.800 But you know, that's I think that's unavoidable in sports 116 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.519 video games. I mean, it doesn't matter how much closing 117 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.759 detection you put in there, that's just gonna be. That's 118 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:55.959 just gonna happen sometimes. You know, you can't really do 119 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:59.759 much about that, you know, I think for the rest 120 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.399 of it is aside from the boom tech thing, which 121 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.319 again it's noticeable, but I don't think that that's that's 122 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.319 not gonna make you want to spend seventy dollars. I 123 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.399 don't really know that there is gonna be much here 124 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:15.199 that if you had Matt twenty four is gonna really 125 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.920 ask for you to upgrade. Honestly. The other thing that 126 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:24.319 they pushed a lot was that they up the presentation. 127 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:30.480 So now there's three different commentary teams, including Kristin Scott 128 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.560 and brock Heward. That's the you know, so you have 129 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:35.040 a female voice and they are doing play by play, 130 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:38.319 and you got Mike Tarrico and Greg Olsen obviously two 131 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:42.319 awesome people at their jobs are like the lead team, 132 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.839 and then you still have Charlie, Charles Davis and Arbour 133 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:50.199 Gordon there, so you don't get to pick. It's kind 134 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.319 of like college football, where it's like, I guess there's 135 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.680 a tier of where those people will show up. Even 136 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.920 though in my regular season I had make Treka greg 137 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.120 Olsen a lot. I don't know, because that has to 138 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.319 do with maybe that game was supposed to be on 139 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.160 national TV in real life, so they had them beyond 140 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.240 that broadcast team. I don't know, but yeah, I've seen 141 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:13.040 a lot of people complain that they always get christ 142 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.480 and Scott and brock Heward and they're not getting like 143 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:17.720 they feel like there should be a way to choose 144 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.360 the team. Right, you're gonna make a big deal about 145 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.120 the commentary teams. You should let people choose the team 146 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:24.839 they want to listen to. But I don't know if 147 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.120 there's any kind of like fee or whatever with that. 148 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.720 I wo'd agree with that for exhibition or online stuff, 149 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.639 but if you're doing like a Dynasty or yeah, thing 150 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.759 where you're getting set in certain things because of your performance, 151 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:39.720 and no, you get stuck with what you get stuck with. 152 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:43.840 Yeah, I know that's kind of how it is. That's 153 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:46.279 the way called the EA college football. One is where 154 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.399 it like depends on what the grandeur of the game, 155 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.559 Like I hardly ever got Kirk hurve Street and Chris 156 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.759 Fowler was always the Reece Davis team because that's where 157 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.080 most of the level of my creative team was or whatever. 158 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.559 But the other stuff is just kind of like, oh, 159 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:06.000 they did some of the like opening parts of the 160 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.039 game is cooler. The UI is a lot smooth than 161 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.279 last year's and it is really smooth to kind of 162 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:13.840 go through. I know that's a pain for some people 163 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.639 because sometimes been really slow where it takes forever to 164 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.879 get to one thing to the other. The rest of 165 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.320 the stuff really is a lot of what you saw 166 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.440 in college football is twenty five. So the kicking meter 167 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:28.120 has been brought over from there, but they made it 168 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.480 easier because now you have that whole thing where they 169 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:32.440 have the new kicking mechanic where it has to be 170 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:35.039 in the landing zone and all that stuff. If you 171 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.679 haven't watched the new you haven't watch any of the 172 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.240 twenty twenty four preseason games where they've been doing it. 173 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:44.039 They they did talk about they released a video where 174 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:45.759 they talked about they had to put this in like 175 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.799 right when they were done with making the game, like 176 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:50.679 they were basically at the point where they're polishing the 177 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:53.639 game and stuff. The NFL was like, uh, can you 178 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:55.559 guys put this in the game, And they're like, well, 179 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.080 we want to be a representation of the NFL, so yeah. 180 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.039 And then so Madden is kind I like the first 181 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.639 they use madd and to be able to figure out 182 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:08.200 like the best way to actually use this in the 183 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:11.240 actual NFL. So it's kind of it's kind of a 184 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.519 cool thing that way that they got that they got 185 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:15.879 to use that, but they do do it in this game, 186 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.840 so you can you have to. There's not it doesn't 187 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.519 seem to be really a way to like not kick 188 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:23.399 it in the landing zone because I even got it 189 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.120 to where it goes to the max with Brandon Aubrey, 190 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:28.759 the Cowboys kicker, and it does not go over the 191 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.000 landing zone. It still goes within it. So it's like, 192 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.080 I guess the game just automatically does it that way. 193 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:38.840 The passing mechanic is kind of similar to e Colle 194 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:41.320 sbout twenty five, you know, with that revamp passing thing, 195 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.960 but you can switch it to the other one if 196 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:46.600 you don't like that. If it's too hard for you 197 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:49.960 or whatever. They have the same thing with the switch 198 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.120 stick and the defense and the different they added the 199 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:55.679 addition of like different playbooks and things like that. So 200 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.080 like a lot of that stuff, and that's a that's 201 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.200 an issue too, right, A lot of that stuff that 202 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:01.960 would be kind of new and you could put it 203 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.200 on the on the back of the box kind of thing. 204 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:08.080 With this game, it's really not new because if you 205 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.360 play with College Football twenty five, you already got the 206 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.440 experience of that, right, So a lot of the mini 207 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.759 games that got put into College for Bout twenty apparently 208 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.080 Pocket Presence hasn't been in Madden for like ten years 209 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.600 or something. And I was like, well, I just played 210 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.639 that like last month, So this is not really that 211 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:27.600 big a deal. But it's in here now, I guess. 212 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:30.679 The new stuff that's been added to like Franchise Mode 213 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:32.759 to me doesn't really to me, it's not a big deal. 214 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:37.000 Like it's like storyline, the storyline stuff is now instead 215 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:42.360 of having Dion and shout Out Cho Cinko doing voiceover stuff, 216 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.799 now it's like big bold text that comes on and 217 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.840 you're kind of like talking to a big player, like so, 218 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:55.759 and this is in Superstar Mode and the Franchise Mode. 219 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.360 The Franchise Mode is your your coach, right, that's going 220 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.080 through that, and you get ask questions a boy the media. 221 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.559 You get asked questions about the player and you have 222 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.960 to kind of like decide what you're gonna do. And 223 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.200 depending on what you do, is it you know, what 224 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.559 points you get or whatever, you still have the Skill 225 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.039 Tree thing you have to go through with the Skill 226 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:16.960 Teo thing is kind of bogus because they don't really 227 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:21.519 do anything. The Superstar Mode it kind of feels like 228 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.440 it has more weight because it determines what quests you 229 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.559 get and then what quest line you go on or whatever. 230 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.879 And then obviously it depends on like I've picked the 231 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.600 running back, so like EI, there's different things that you 232 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.639 have with the running backs that you you know you 233 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.799 can do or have so many yards, how many touchdowns? 234 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:41.840 All that stuff that you get every year. Now they 235 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.399 have like records that they put into the game, so 236 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.759 like you have the official records from the NFL, so 237 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.399 it'll actually go through and tell you, oh, you I 238 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:53.080 broke at your Peterson's record or whatever for rushing yards 239 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:54.799 in the season, and they make a big deal about it. 240 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.840 Or whatever. But you know, look, a lot of this 241 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:03.759 stuff is very u answer hilarry. Physics is physics. Graphics 242 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.799 is graphics for a brand, and it's always gonna look 243 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:08.039 nice because it's now it's on PS five and serrhysics. 244 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:12.200 But honestly, look uh. And also the draft thing that 245 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.840 they made a big deal about, Roger Goodell doesn't even 246 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:19.480 talks who cares, so, like you know, like I mean, oh, 247 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.600 you get to see him hug the guy or hug 248 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:23.879 your player. The only cool thing is that you can 249 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:26.039 actually bring in your Road to Glory player from college 250 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:28.360 football into disc game, so you can technically go through 251 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.600 the full like, oh, he started in college as a 252 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.879 freshman too. Now he's in the NFL and you can 253 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.440 kind of control him whatever if you have. If you 254 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:40.320 use an actual name that's similar to anything, they might 255 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.399 prevent you from using that name because it might run 256 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.279 into nil stuff. So just let you know if you 257 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:47.639 try to. If you try to, let's say, bring in 258 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:49.440 like arch Manning, I think it has like a thing 259 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:51.759 that it's going to block you from doing it, and 260 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.320 it's going to revert it to some kind of something 261 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.879 with your your Xbox login or your PlayStation login and 262 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:00.159 then I don't know if you can change the name 263 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.639 later or whatever, but I did see that that somebody 264 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:04.799 tried to look put arch Manning in there and it 265 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:07.679 blocks it from being loaded and changes the name. So 266 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.279 just be aware that that's that's not going to happen. 267 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.759 But yeah, you know, it's Madden. If you want to 268 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.720 play Madden again and you want to pay your seventy bucks, 269 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.919 then go ahead and do it. Honestly, I would wait 270 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:23.399 till it goes and sale because it always does. Or 271 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.279 you can just wait till the super Bowl happens and 272 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:28.440 play it on game past or yea play or whatever. 273 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:34.000 But but yeah, it's It's Madden. And then I've been 274 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.320 enjoying it. I've actually liked the Superstar mode a lot 275 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:41.759 more than the Franchise thing because I feel like the 276 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:44.919 that new whole thing with the storylines kind of matters 277 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:49.159 more there because it goes into the quest directly, whereas 278 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:50.879 like the Franchise mode, you still have a lot of 279 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.759 stuff that like, why do I need to know that 280 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.639 there's like three why do I need to know that 281 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:59.519 there's three like players that are on the trade block? 282 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:01.759 And then I I'm not even gonna trade for any 283 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.200 of those players, Like why do I need to know 284 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.039 stuff that doesn't really matter to my team? And it 285 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.159 feels like it's just giving you notifications all the time 286 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:12.080 that that aren't important. Uh so you know, it is 287 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:16.080 what it is. But yeah, I guess I'll have that 288 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:21.120 review probably sometime this week. But Randy House or I've 289 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.799 been I played more. Supermarket Simulator still a really good 290 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:27.000 way to like pass the time and you want to 291 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:28.039 watch something else. 292 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.000 Get a couple of days in and and move on. 293 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:32.600 Have you played anymore? 294 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:36.200 Like is yours a little bit? I haven't gotten to 295 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.039 it a ton, but my supermarket is getting there. It's 296 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:44.799 building up pretty good, struggling with the balance of storage 297 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:48.799 compared to what's out there on the floor and and 298 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:53.960 how quickly it can get restocked. But yeah, yeah, it's fun. 299 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:55.360 It's a fun battle. 300 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.559 Yeah. Same here. That's kind of like I'm getting to 301 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.000 the point where I think I'm gonna have to hire 302 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.200 person because I'm you know, I have so much stuff 303 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:06.360 in the store and it's like, okay, I try to 304 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:07.799 stalk it all. But then when it gets to that 305 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:09.960 second part where you got to like try to restock 306 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:11.879 before the day ends, or they're going to tell you 307 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.879 that you're you're running out of everything. I always get 308 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:19.080 stuck on that part. So yeah, but you've been playing 309 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:22.840 this end of the least quietest of the night. That was, 310 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:25.000 you know, just put on PS plus What do you think? 311 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.159 We talked about it last week and he said it 312 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:31.480 would be up my alley. I probably am three hours 313 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:35.080 into it still pretty early on in the quest. It's fine. 314 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:41.120 I have I'm having an issue with the music. Not 315 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.120 that the music's bad, but it is just so slow 316 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.399 and it's beautiful music, but you're doing all this stuff 317 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.399 and I'm like just kind of falling asleep, like at 318 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:54.600 least ramp it up a little bit when battles are 319 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:56.799 going on and stuff, like, I get it. It's this dark, 320 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:01.639 brooding kind of a atmosphere or that they have going on, 321 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:06.279 but it is just the same, this old dime, And 322 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.480 it was like, just I would like it to pick 323 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.240 up a little bit. Maybe as I get the new 324 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.960 zones it will, but for the first two or three 325 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.279 zones that I'm in, just the music always just it 326 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:21.000 seems to be pretty slow and low and just I 327 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.000 don't know, just it's tough to really get into I 328 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.519 sat there a couple different times and playing the battle. 329 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.680 The fights are fine. I've never really had too much 330 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.839 issues as far as difficulty with it, so I actually 331 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:37.359 have more problems with a horde of enemies compared to 332 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.960 the bosses so far. Maybe that'll change throughout, but I 333 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.559 love the fact that you have different skills that you 334 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:47.160 can collect throughout that kind of change the way the 335 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:50.200 gameplay works. And you have two different builds that you 336 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.880 can have, and it's just a push of the button 337 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.319 and you go from Build A to Build B. And 338 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:58.079 I just kind of use that as a second set 339 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:01.880 of skills just to kind of try different things. You 340 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.000 only have a certain amount of them that you can use, 341 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.000 and you have to collect some power ups to build 342 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.519 that back up. But yeah, I mean, so far, the 343 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:13.119 story is interesting. Again, Graphically it is very beautiful, obviously 344 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:15.880 more of a black and whitish kind of field to 345 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.519 the game. But I don't know, it hasn't really hooked 346 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.160 me just yet. I'll continue it for a little bit 347 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:24.839 because we're still about three weeks before I really get 348 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.680 hit with all the games as Fall that I really 349 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:29.839 want to play, so this has been a good distraction 350 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:35.599 before I get into the craziness of my schedules. But obviously, 351 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.079 like you said, for people that like me, that like 352 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:42.319 the metro vaneas and those style of games, it's fine. 353 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.000 I don't think it will ever make the top of 354 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.079 my list of any of these style of games, and 355 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.400 I don't think it will for a lot of others either. 356 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.240 There are games out there that do everything that Ender 357 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:55.759 Lilies does better. It's a solid it's a solid game. 358 00:18:56.039 --> 00:19:00.960 Yeah, including a game you liked a lot from this year, uh, 359 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:04.880 The Prince of Persia One Prince of The. 360 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:06.359 Speed of that game is so much better, and I 361 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:10.559 always say that is more platform based gameplay. The Ander 362 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:15.279 Lilies is not. It's very again, it's a slow, marauding 363 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:20.240 kind of a gameplay style. But yeah, it's been it's 364 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:21.920 been fun. I'll continue working on it. 365 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:26.480 Yeah, well, glad to hear that you've been enjoying it 366 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:30.119 for the most part. And that's that's good too. At 367 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:32.880 least it's not like I recommend it something that you 368 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:33.400 hated or. 369 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:37.440 Ended our friendship because you told me to play a 370 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:37.839 certain game. 371 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:46.359 But hey, for some folks, though, this Black bet Wukong 372 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:49.039 is a game that the game they've been looking forward 373 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:52.799 to this week and that comes out actually tomorrow, technically 374 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:55.680 unless you've been you know, reviewing the game, whether you're 375 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:59.759 a content creator or a game reviewer or whatever. And uh, 376 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:08.039 journalists did not receive this certain restriction or anything, but 377 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:15.640 apparently content creators did receive a restriction for what they 378 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.880 can say and not say in their reviews or when 379 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.240 they talk about the game. And of course this is 380 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:28.440 a Chinese developer, Hero Games Game Sciences the publisher, so 381 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:31.079 you know, they already kind of get a stigma because 382 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:34.599 of you know, where the game is being made, right, 383 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.559 and so it's kind of understandable they're kind of trying 384 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.799 to play defense a little bit of like, hey, let's 385 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.039 try to make what we say about the game positive. 386 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:47.160 Let's try not to like be positive and then just 387 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:50.119 shower with a bunch of negative stuff. We really can't 388 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:52.240 tell journalists to not do that, because then we're going 389 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.640 to get negative press about us telling journalists to try 390 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.240 to not talk about it. What about content creators, so 391 00:20:58.279 --> 00:20:59.759 we can kind of control them a bit more. They're 392 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:01.680 going to care more about access. You know, they're going 393 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:04.839 to care about making sure they leave things a good standing. 394 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:08.640 You can you can pay for them to talk about 395 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.799 your game, right, whereas journalists you can't do that. So 396 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.240 among things that they said you could not talk about, 397 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:19.119 which some of these makes sense, like insulting other influences 398 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:22.480 of players using offensive language or humor. But then they 399 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:27.039 put in things like using trigger words like quarantine or 400 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.480 COVID nineteen because obviously, you know, China has a history 401 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.720