Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Video Games to
Speaker 1: the Maxis is number four hundred and fifty four of
Speaker 1: the show, and you're with me as usually, mister Mark
Speaker 1: Morrison did it. I'm your host Seana Garmery, And well,
Speaker 1: there is a lot to talk about here today. You
Speaker 1: have a backpedal from Xbox on eighty dollars games? Does
Speaker 1: that mean that gamers win? We're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: seventy dollars for everything now? Sony has a mysterious job
Speaker 1: listing about multi platform strategy. What is that? They about
Speaker 1: to turn the Xbox number two? And Nintendo has amazing
Speaker 1: sales for the switch to not to mention EA finally
Speaker 1: announced bottle Field six and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1: Sony's even suing ten set in what feels like it
Speaker 1: should have happened like a year ago, and it's opening now.
Speaker 1: More down Doci hang Bonanza and that's funny. More to discuss,
Speaker 1: but let's do that right after this.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Video Games to the Max.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, how was your weekend?
Speaker 3: Good? So Fantastic four and finished The Sandmoon.
Speaker 1: Sweet I'm watching that tomorrow. Yeah, he uh, I watched
Speaker 1: Happy Gilmour two twice. Also is my girlfriend's birthday, so
Speaker 1: we went to the We both Gordon Ramsey fans, So
Speaker 1: we went to the House Kitchen that's in downtown Miami.
Speaker 1: Afty price tag for the what they serve there, but
Speaker 1: you know, it was a cool experience, at least you
Speaker 1: could say you went there and then I we went
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what the English term for this, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: so apparently it's called the Spanish line. In English we
Speaker 2: call it moan and I will see you. It's like
Speaker 2: these really small green fruits that are like hanging really
Speaker 2: high up on trees to the point where you have
Speaker 2: to have like basically a hook or something to get
Speaker 2: them off.
Speaker 1: And so we went. You know, my girlfriend has a
Speaker 1: friend that like they have like a big like a
Speaker 1: ranch and they have them there and her dad had
Speaker 1: built this like hook thing to try to get them off.
Speaker 1: It wasn't working. So I got on the ladder and
Speaker 1: the first time was able to pull a branch down
Speaker 1: and get a bunch of them off or whatever, and
Speaker 1: the second time didn't go so well for me. I
Speaker 1: fell off the ladder and had this big bruise on
Speaker 1: my on my left side and like the right side
Speaker 1: of my leg like hurts really bad. So it's been
Speaker 1: feeling better today, but it's uh yeah, I get the
Speaker 1: reminder of it feels like, you know, the the bad
Speaker 1: memory of my wrestling days of hey, I don't remember
Speaker 1: this is hurting that bad. But at least it was
Speaker 1: in the grass and not you know, but whatever it was,
Speaker 1: I guess a memory now I will have from going
Speaker 1: to uh go picks fruit so right, but hey, at
Speaker 1: least we got a bunch of them, so everybody's happy.
Speaker 1: Everybody got the eat and then that's all that matters
Speaker 1: in the end. But all right, talking about video games here,
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Speaker 1: But all right, let's get into the video games side
Speaker 1: of things, the things that were playing, any anything else
Speaker 1: you've been playing, Mark.
Speaker 3: I'm still staying away just brainion Tube.
Speaker 1: That sounds like more like work than enjoyment.
Speaker 3: There, Yeah it is, because I mean that's kind of
Speaker 3: the whole game also, But like this is so repetitive,
Speaker 3: you know, I saw something like that like eighty of
Speaker 3: players keep playing it after the credits roll and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: like the game isn't like it's not like you finish.
Speaker 3: I mean, the game is kind of goes endlessly really
Speaker 3: because it just it's just the same you know, thirty
Speaker 3: or forty repetitive tasks over and over and when I
Speaker 3: get that Vitam trophy and that takes a while. So,
Speaker 3: uh see, I got I haven't put it in yet.
Speaker 3: I got a WWE co which was switched to.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you got that or or he
Speaker 1: gave it to somebody else. Adam asked me and I
Speaker 1: was like, no, really not looking.
Speaker 3: Forward to I haven't said that to him. Well he
Speaker 3: asked me, and I was like this is this is
Speaker 3: more something that Sean did want and he's like, no,
Speaker 3: he's been to his girlfriend. I was like, yeah, that'll
Speaker 3: do it every time. Uh.
Speaker 1: I told him that I wouldn't be able to start
Speaker 1: playing until Wednesday, and he's kind of like, man, I
Speaker 1: need that thing like reviewed fast because you know I
Speaker 1: didn't ones number one game or whatever.
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess I should actually start.
Speaker 1: And well, I don't know if I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: that means they didn't get an Xbox.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, he sent me a switch code or switch
Speaker 3: to good.
Speaker 1: So well, man, like they don't have another review of
Speaker 1: the game on the site they right now? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I mean they kind of want that probably reviewed quickly.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll open up my switch to Uh.
Speaker 1: That's a good reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't gonna get Donkey Kong, but that doesn't
Speaker 3: hit Costco yet. I went to it, but kind of
Speaker 3: had a turnback, so I was okay.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then Yen's got a double dose of good games
Speaker 3: that I might check out. He got Wu Chong which
Speaker 3: I downloaded, which I'll give a shot eventually. And then
Speaker 3: he and then he bought the other his other, his
Speaker 3: game of the year, the Mind's Eye Mind.
Speaker 1: Why he likes bad stuff, Okay, I guess.
Speaker 3: I mean he loved Right to Hell Retribution, remember that
Speaker 3: piece of Ship? And you know he likes he keeps
Speaker 3: he keeps trying to guilt Slash Talking into playing Earth
Speaker 3: Defense for six And I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, yeah, it wasn't like one of his favorite
Speaker 1: franchises or whatever. That doesn't.
Speaker 3: I mean it should, I guess, but they're all bad games,
Speaker 3: so or like, you know, if bad might be pushing
Speaker 3: it a little, but they're all like extremely mediocre.
Speaker 1: But at least that one you can enjoy with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we played Iron Angel or ironn Where the fuck
Speaker 3: that one was? We hated that one. Yeah, that turned
Speaker 3: me out. I mean they're all like that. So yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I'll give Utong a shot eventually.
Speaker 1: I play that for a little bit, but I can't,
Speaker 1: like I'm literally in the beginning areas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i mean your type of game. It's also like
Speaker 3: not multiplayer, which kind of makes me less interested in it.
Speaker 3: It's funny to hear him rant about so it's like, so,
Speaker 3: I mean he's the huge talk about that stuff, but
Speaker 3: he hates the Surge and the Searge too because.
Speaker 1: Because isn't it because it has its weapon base as
Speaker 1: a shooter base and.
Speaker 3: No search shoot or both of them are like melee focused.
Speaker 3: But I mean his main criticism of like the search
Speaker 3: one was it just takes place in a bunch of
Speaker 3: like gray warehouses, and I'm like, yo, dog, most of
Speaker 3: Dark Souls takes place in you know, dark black.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a lot of Dark Souls. It's not like
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's you know, some amazing level design
Speaker 1: or anything.
Speaker 3: I mean, hey, there are like iconic or very cool
Speaker 3: looking locations in every Dark Souls game, but yeah, you're
Speaker 3: still going through a dark cave sooner or later. So
Speaker 3: and even even like the Search one, I could, I
Speaker 3: could accept that criticism of that game, but the Search
Speaker 3: Too actually did do something about it, like it actually
Speaker 3: has very different locations, right, and he still won't it.
Speaker 3: And meanwhile he loves this fuck that one. This one's
Speaker 3: stupid castle from the Vampire Souls, like I forget the
Speaker 3: name of it, god Eater or not God Eater. Oh
Speaker 3: damn it. They just announced the sequel, which baffled me.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, I think I oh, the the Capcom one.
Speaker 3: The cod Vain ye vein. Yeah, I don't think that's Capcom,
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Wow? Okay, uh but he defends that, No, that's Bandynamico.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: But he defends this one level in that game, which
Speaker 3: is like this big cathedral looking maze that is like
Speaker 3: completely untextured. It's just like white, you know, And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is real artistic, you know.
Speaker 1: Hey, but you know, he got the Anime Souls game
Speaker 1: that he wanted to.
Speaker 3: I'd rather play the I even told him I'd rather
Speaker 3: play the stupid bloody mazes from Max Paine one. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that's about it for me. How's the Banana Banana?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I did play on for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Uh beat the the tutorial boss.
Speaker 3: I can tell you right now that any type of game, but.
Speaker 1: It's game pass. So I said, why not give it
Speaker 1: a whirl? You know? Yeah? I like the like set
Speaker 1: up for it, the the whole like story and the
Speaker 1: you know, Chinese like history part of it. They do
Speaker 1: a long, like drawn out part before you get to
Speaker 1: the area where you're actually fighting enemies to kind of
Speaker 1: let you like entered, get whatever you want out of
Speaker 1: the story at your own pace kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I will say that is my as I
Speaker 3: keep playing Death Training too. My real hope for that
Speaker 3: game is when they make Death Training three. Like the
Speaker 3: whole concept of Death Raining two is like, oh, a
Speaker 3: portal opened to Australia and now you're over there. I
Speaker 3: help for Death Training three is a portal opens to
Speaker 3: like the Congo or somewhere in Africa, and Sam goes
Speaker 3: through it, and you know, a guy, an African American
Speaker 3: guy shows up and is like, hey, not white people,
Speaker 3: We're cool. In the title network go Away, it's like
Speaker 3: we've built Wakanda. We're good because like isn't like part
Speaker 3: of like Whu Chong is a story like like part
Speaker 3: of China or part of like the areas like corrupted.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, yeah exactly, that's why they had the feathers
Speaker 1: or right, yeah, and the powers are cool. So I
Speaker 1: like that part of it. Just like again, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a very was like familiar. So it took
Speaker 1: a while to beat the freaking big boss.
Speaker 3: At the beginning, I remember a view that was like
Speaker 3: maybe it kind of seemed like the combats like very repetitive,
Speaker 3: Like it's just like, oh, just keep hitting the boss
Speaker 3: and dodging. Yeah, build up, well, build up the power thing,
Speaker 3: use it, and then do it all over again. And
Speaker 3: it's like that, Okay, I mean I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's there's just dodging, right, It's you're dodging everything.
Speaker 1: And then it's like that kind of like, uh, it's
Speaker 1: not a rock dodge roll. It's like a just like
Speaker 1: a side Yeah, you're just dodging over there, dodging over here,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of it. So yeah, he is really
Speaker 1: freaky looking. I like the like art design of him,
Speaker 1: of that first boss that you meet. But yeah, pretty
Speaker 1: pretty typical, you know, soul Stuf. Apparently on PC it
Speaker 1: doesn't run very well, which is getting a lot of
Speaker 1: negative reviews on that end. And then also, you know,
Speaker 1: people have discovered that apparently you can just have her
Speaker 1: wear like bathing suits, so that's that's getting that crowd
Speaker 1: all hyped up about that.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, most of most of my times with
Speaker 1: Don Combananza again, uh right, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: where I am, and like I I would imagine I'm
Speaker 1: like halfway uh through, but I don't know, because I
Speaker 1: heard some folks said that they were they thought they
Speaker 1: were like at the end of the game, and then
Speaker 1: they still had a ton to go through. But that
Speaker 1: the ending is very rewarding, so it's well worth you know,
Speaker 1: getting through that. So I'm definitely when in make my
Speaker 1: marshal there. But it's it's just fun. I get constantly
Speaker 1: go off the beaten path to go break something or
Speaker 1: find something or find a banana or get into one
Speaker 1: of those like you know, like little levels that they
Speaker 1: have that you know you're either doing the two D
Speaker 1: platforming or you're finding something or beating up something or
Speaker 1: what you know, So it's it's constant dopamine. Which I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of people that are kind of old
Speaker 1: school gamers that that are not like they don't play
Speaker 1: a lot of the modern games apparently do not like
Speaker 1: the game because of that. Like it's like Donkey Kong
Speaker 1: doesn't have an main objective because he's you're constantly finding something, right,
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, in the two D Donkey Kong's you
Speaker 1: have the okay, I gotta get to it in the levels,
Speaker 1: but all out Kong that kind of thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: you're getting to the boss at the end and whatever,
Speaker 1: Whereas this game it's like the bosses are laughable. It
Speaker 1: really is just about kind of just exploring the world
Speaker 1: and enjoying it. And uh, you know for that really,
Speaker 1: you know, Nintendo has a magic about that recently. You know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned all the different ones that are kind of
Speaker 1: very you could tell that they took from from Kirby
Speaker 1: Zelda and and definitely obviously Mario has all kinds of
Speaker 1: Mario touches in it, and they do a great job
Speaker 1: with that. It's funny because I don't like the Zelda games,
Speaker 1: but I will play Donkey Kong and go explore places well.
Speaker 3: Like Zelda like like I would say, probably more complex systems. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean to some people's it's it's a good thing,
Speaker 3: but to some people it's bad, you know, like weapon durability,
Speaker 3: like having like I doubt there's a cooking minigame in
Speaker 3: Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1: No, there's, I mean so, and you know, like they
Speaker 1: do have the some of those little off the beaten
Speaker 1: things or kind of like the shrines, right and so
Speaker 1: so you know that kind of has that and it's fun.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll keep plugging away at it. Let's see
Speaker 1: how far I get.
Speaker 3: So let's can better respective game first, you or me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, So we'll see how far I get till
Speaker 1: next week. But we'll talk about more Nintendal stuff later.
Speaker 1: I guess we should go ahead and start with Xbox
Speaker 1: and their big change from what seemed like we were
Speaker 1: headed to the outer worlds too, coming out at eighty dollars.
Speaker 1: Just randomly, report came out from my GN that Microsoft
Speaker 1: was changing cores and they are now going back to
Speaker 1: sixty nine ninety nine seventy dollars seventy US dollars whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it. Obviously this works out for
Speaker 1: you know, the whole premise of the Outer World two
Speaker 1: whole uh you know, going against the corporation capitalism bad
Speaker 1: thing where they're like I like that they had that
Speaker 1: whole post of in character where they they're kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: we we were able to take out redacted and be
Speaker 1: able to lower the price for you or whatever.
Speaker 3: They were able to cut nine thousand jobs. The game
Speaker 3: is now cheaper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd imagine that most of this is due to
Speaker 1: low pre orders. Also, you know I.
Speaker 3: Think I mean, yeah, well yeah, no no pre orders
Speaker 3: or yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Well there was a lot of backlash about this, right,
Speaker 1: people just being upset of like, hey, you know, this
Speaker 1: is not the game you really needed to do the
Speaker 1: whole eighty.
Speaker 3: Dollars with, I mean, well a of the games on
Speaker 3: game paths, so no one's gonna bite on the Xbox
Speaker 3: and then be like I don't think it was a
Speaker 3: huge seller on the PlayStation, like The First, Final Last
Speaker 3: or you know, but.
Speaker 1: Even then, the whole point is like you're not You're
Speaker 1: gonna get even less sales if it's eighty bucks, right,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, so you know, I think that's what they
Speaker 1: they saw. I saw a lot of people that you know,
Speaker 1: as soon as it changed, they went and pre ordered
Speaker 1: it at seventy. You know, they were okay with paying seventy,
Speaker 1: but they were kind of like doing the whole you know,
Speaker 1: rebuffing let's all go to eighty thing, which I applaud,
Speaker 1: you know. And it also doesn't help that. I think
Speaker 1: that I really do think Xbox thought, or you know,
Speaker 1: Microsoft thought, Okay, Nintendo opened the door, more people are
Speaker 1: gonna go to eighty. There's probably still gonna be people
Speaker 1: that are gonna do it. There's rumors that you know,
Speaker 1: is going to try with Battlefield six. We'll see how
Speaker 1: that turns out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, met him that that population they want.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm surprised they didn't say they didn't try to
Speaker 1: keep it with Call of Duty, but I guess they're
Speaker 1: smart in that, like, let's not try to get people
Speaker 1: against the one game that we for sure need to
Speaker 1: make sure sales right, so, you know, and they said
Speaker 1: it's not just out of Worlds too, it's also you know,
Speaker 1: Ninja goutt in four and you know the rest of
Speaker 1: the holiday lineup. So that's positive to you because I Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, here's the thing Nintendo can get away with
Speaker 3: with a theoretical eighty dollars game. You can, right, most
Speaker 3: people would argue there's more value there.
Speaker 1: Well. Also, you have the option of buying the bundle
Speaker 1: and saving thirty dollars, right, So, and they knew that
Speaker 1: they were going to have enough quantity for people that
Speaker 1: wanted to buy the bundle and say the thirty dollars,
Speaker 1: you definitely could do that, right, Yeah. I did that
Speaker 1: because I already had a fifty dollars enough in points
Speaker 1: or credits or whatever on my switch one. So I said,
Speaker 1: I'm only going to pay thirty bucks, So who cares,
Speaker 1: I'll just get the switched to with without the game
Speaker 1: in it. But you know it, hey, people are being
Speaker 1: very budget conscious right now, and I think that's the
Speaker 1: thing is like you can you can raise the price
Speaker 1: of your console and nobody's buying and it doesn't really
Speaker 1: make a difference. But when you need people to buy
Speaker 1: your games, it doesn't make sense for you to do
Speaker 1: this with with the Outer Rules two and Ninja Guid
Speaker 1: and then you know the rest of the the games
Speaker 1: that you're you know, I don't know if keeper is
Speaker 1: going to be even seventy That game should be budget.
Speaker 1: Should be a budget title, I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it shouldn't be twenty bucks, but it should
Speaker 3: put I'd say, like shift.
Speaker 1: I think that they haven't even revealed though, how much
Speaker 1: this gonna cost or right, I think it's still just
Speaker 1: says okay, this is it's coming out this day on
Speaker 1: October seventeen, but it doesn't have a price. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting that they kind of self
Speaker 1: admitted that, hey, we need to kind of go backwards
Speaker 1: on this. Right, It's fun, you know, I mean, like
Speaker 1: they always do with their stuff, they can make it
Speaker 1: look like they meant to do this the whole time.
Speaker 3: But whatever, let me ask you this theoretically, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't you're gonna play. You don't even play the
Speaker 3: game on game pass, so it's kind of moved. But
Speaker 3: let's say you were going to buy the game. Would
Speaker 3: you rather have paid seventy for it and had all
Speaker 3: the people laid off or eighty for it and had
Speaker 3: them not be laid off? Well?
Speaker 1: Would? I mean, if you're telling me that's what it is,
Speaker 1: I'll pay the ten next one dollars today? Have people
Speaker 1: x keep their job. But that has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with why the civil lost their jobs. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: That has more to do with the other story that
Speaker 1: we have in conjunction with us with Sati Nadello. Basically,
Speaker 1: since he's saying that the you know, the layoffs way
Speaker 1: on him, that he feels bad, but almost aping the
Speaker 1: same stupid thing that Phil Spencer said that like, well,
Speaker 1: we've never been better. You know, we're doing great. It's
Speaker 1: like we're thriving. It's like, again, I get that you're
Speaker 1: talking to shareholders here, but good lord, that just sounds
Speaker 1: so tone deaf.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm sure it's really weigne heavily as he
Speaker 3: gets in his private jet jets out to his mansion.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He called it the enigma of success, saying that
Speaker 1: the layouts and opportunity for the company to shape lead
Speaker 1: through and have a greater impact than her before.
Speaker 3: Yeah again number their number two in the world, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know again he has a point about
Speaker 1: AI and all that stuff, and that he can't just
Speaker 1: let that, you know, pass them by. They have to
Speaker 1: make sure that they're at the forefront. They can't let
Speaker 1: let it happen again where Google is the leader in
Speaker 1: search and all that other stuff. Like I get it,
Speaker 1: but it's like, man, this continues to be shitty.
Speaker 3: You can make him make you can make a use
Speaker 3: case for search, Like people search every day. They still
Speaker 3: get to make a good use case for AI except
Speaker 3: for you know, obviously shitty like you know, fake models
Speaker 3: and photographs or you know, AI just making that total
Speaker 3: bullshit for like legal filing and craft like that.
Speaker 1: Not true. I mean I see it every day. I
Speaker 1: see my Like my dad was telling me, he uses
Speaker 1: it to be able to you know, make a list
Speaker 1: or or finds essentially like another option of searching. Just
Speaker 1: it gives you everything right there instead of you having
Speaker 1: to like kind of read through articles or whatever. It
Speaker 1: gives you the best version of each one of those,
Speaker 1: which sucks because then you're taking away reading from those
Speaker 1: articles that kind of need those hits and everything.
Speaker 3: So it kind of reminds me this happened a few
Speaker 3: days ago. But I mean, I assume you use an
Speaker 3: ad blocker with Chrome.
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I mean, but I think it's the
Speaker 1: one that Chrome already has in there, because.
Speaker 3: I don't, Okay, they got rid of the good one.
Speaker 3: It was you block because I started going to websites
Speaker 3: and like this admiral bullshit kept popping up and like
Speaker 3: what's this? And then ahead of YouTube and it started
Speaker 3: like Wave playing a lot more ads, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: what just happened?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I saw that like Google itself or Chrome turned off
Speaker 3: the U block extension like at a Core or you know,
Speaker 3: from Chrome, and I'm like, the fuck is this? Like
Speaker 3: did I tell you to do this? No? And why
Speaker 3: do you do it? You know?
Speaker 1: I mean it's the reason why YouTube is the only
Speaker 1: one that I have the non ad version where I
Speaker 1: have pretty good right, because I can't with the I
Speaker 1: go to my girlfriend's house and she has the you know,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to be putting my stuff on
Speaker 1: everybody's TV because then it misses the up the algorithm right,
Speaker 1: and uh, I can't stand it. Bro trying to watch
Speaker 1: a five minute thing and you get like twenty ads.
Speaker 1: It's so freaking annoying.
Speaker 3: I mean, there is themselves because like initially YouTube didn't
Speaker 3: have that, and then right it's the same, like and
Speaker 3: then they try to build it in, but I say, no,
Speaker 3: you've already conditioned your you know, your customer base not
Speaker 3: want or not you know, I want to deal with
Speaker 3: this bullshit. So it's the same way. I still get
Speaker 3: emails from photo Bucket, like begging me going like, oh,
Speaker 3: your CON's gonna get that led or do you know
Speaker 3: your last chance to recover your files?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, they you said that for two years. Man,
Speaker 1: you can stop telling me about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you you are the ones who ruined
Speaker 3: your business, not me, So leave me alone.
Speaker 1: But there's so many of those sites now, like you
Speaker 1: don't even need right, you know. Plus you can just
Speaker 1: use Google Drive as well. You don't even need to
Speaker 1: use a site. Yeah, but yeah, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: hard to again care about uh what Sautier all the
Speaker 1: corporates that Microsoft have to say. I mean, at least
Speaker 1: they listened about the going to seventy dollars games. It
Speaker 1: also probably doesn't help that like they probably expected like
Speaker 1: Borderlands for to be eighty dollars, and they expected, you know,
Speaker 1: at one point GTA six was going to come out,
Speaker 1: that was probably going to be eighty dollars, you know,
Speaker 1: so like even I think they might have expected EA
Speaker 1: to put the sports games at eighty dollars too. And
Speaker 1: then so like when nobody's doing it. You're the one
Speaker 1: that looks like an idiot, you know, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: might as well do like just like we did with
Speaker 1: Xbox Live and all the other times that we've like
Speaker 1: changed our minds or whatever and just go backwards. But
Speaker 1: that's good. They did it, and hey, hopefully all the
Speaker 1: people that are going to buy these games now you
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Hopefully out of World's two delivers on the
Speaker 1: promises that it seems to be wanting to deliver on
Speaker 1: of City Ands had a great track record so far.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm more excited for a nine of gutten
Speaker 1: four myself, but again glad to hear that that game
Speaker 1: is also gonna do well for not only the Xbox
Speaker 1: but Koi, Techmo and the Team Ninja and alltle seopel
Speaker 1: that probably want to see it do well.
Speaker 3: So did you like the last one? You know? The past? Two?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 1: You know it was bad, uh until they like fixed
Speaker 1: it somewhat. But yeah, one and two we're awesome. I
Speaker 1: loved one and two, so I.
Speaker 3: Liked one and that's I didn't. Yeah, I didn't even
Speaker 3: like two and then three except for that's another good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the three D the DS.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, I know it was like the Zombie one.
Speaker 1: What but wasn't wasn't that the three D S or
Speaker 1: D S? Okay?
Speaker 3: That was that was a console game? Okay? Yeah, yeah
Speaker 3: by Ninja Guid and oh.
Speaker 1: All right, but we'll see what happens with that. But
Speaker 1: I mean, interestingly for Xbox, a new job application that
Speaker 1: appeared on LinkedIn, uh for a position within Sony for
Speaker 1: PlayStation mentions Xbox, which you know, we don't really see
Speaker 1: much of other than when you know, they were talking
Speaker 1: about hell divers too and all that. But this new
Speaker 1: role apparently is a position that will help expand places
Speaker 1: to reach beyond PlayStation hardware, working to bring PlayStation games
Speaker 1: to platform such as Steam, which they already do at
Speaker 1: the Game Store, Nintendo Mobile, and yes, even Xbox. The
Speaker 1: new role is a senior director of Multiplatform and Account Management,
Speaker 1: and we'll report directly to Sony's vice president. The senior
Speaker 1: director will play a critical leadership role in shaping and
Speaker 1: executing the global commercial strategy for PlayStation studio software titles
Speaker 1: across all digital platforms beyond PlayStation hardware. The roles are
Speaker 1: kindable for optimizing toitle profitability, ensuring cross functional alignment, and
Speaker 1: leading a high performing team focused on multiplatform expansion, mid
Speaker 1: range commercial planning, a platform partner management. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of mumbo jumbo there. As far as I'm spats to
Speaker 1: live with the job. They will oversee the out year
Speaker 1: of mid range commercial strategy of platation studios, titles across
Speaker 1: non PlayStation platforms, driving long term revenue growth, in audience reach,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. You know, And they also directly mentioned
Speaker 1: multi platform strategies and sales for Xbox and PC, So
Speaker 1: they mentioned Xbox and PC more than even switched to,
Speaker 1: which is interesting. There's a broad ranging spectrum here of
Speaker 1: what this means. I always saw people, you know, going
Speaker 1: and trading in their PlayStation five and doing all the
Speaker 1: stupid BSh or saying that they're now PC Master Race
Speaker 1: or whatever that they're turning their back on PlayStation.
Speaker 3: You know, you only gonna drop two grand in a
Speaker 3: video card every two years. No, right, exactly problem there,
Speaker 3: But what.
Speaker 1: Do you think this means? Like, there's people that are
Speaker 1: obviously staunchly against this meaning anything that any of those
Speaker 1: big Sony games are going to come over that it's
Speaker 1: just the live service stuff, and this is just them
Speaker 1: kind of like preparing people for whenever it is that
Speaker 1: Fair Games and whatever other live service thing is left
Speaker 1: also comes to Xbox or do you think it is
Speaker 1: like they're going to use this sort of like PC,
Speaker 1: where maybe not one year, but maybe like two years
Speaker 1: or further down you'll start seeing some of the bigger
Speaker 1: PlayStation games come.
Speaker 3: I don't even get to be bigger, but you might
Speaker 3: see some of them. Like you mentioned that, like Xbox
Speaker 3: has said more than switch to and it's like that's
Speaker 3: not to me, that's not surprising because the Xbox, you know,
Speaker 3: at least the series exo is on par with the playotation.
Speaker 1: If right, it's easier to port to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they could. I mean it's still a lot
Speaker 3: of PS five games have PS four counterparts and that
Speaker 3: can kind of go to the switch too easily enough,
Speaker 3: but still is probably more work to be done there
Speaker 3: than an Xbox one. Uh. I don't know. I see
Speaker 3: this as like their lower tier games head Xbox, maybe
Speaker 3: like hot Shots Golf or maybe even like Fraternal But
Speaker 3: I can see Spider Man on an Xbox at least,
Speaker 3: like officially we're not going to see the last of
Speaker 3: Us on an Xbox or an astrobot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be really interesting if Last of Us where
Speaker 1: to show up like we're like, okay, I think you
Speaker 1: can definitely just throw all that at the winner.
Speaker 3: It would be funny if it was like unlock the
Speaker 3: Joel skin for Gears of War E Day.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, you know, I do think that they're
Speaker 1: there is something to be said for as a Hey Daniel,
Speaker 1: good to see you. You know, you see are one
Speaker 1: of our main co hosts here, he says, I think
Speaker 1: there will be a test for Sonya and franchises to
Speaker 1: come out on Xbox, see how large the sales are,
Speaker 1: and then Swinny will go from there. Yeah. Obviously, Hell
Speaker 1: Diverge two is that big first test, which is coming
Speaker 1: out the same day as Gears E Day is also
Speaker 1: coming out, and then essentially Gears is coming to PlayStation.
Speaker 1: This is of course leading to the which seems pretty
Speaker 1: evident that like, okay, Gears not Gears of Ams, Gears reloaded,
Speaker 1: and then is leading to people feeling like Gears E
Speaker 1: Day is also going to be coming to PlayStation, along
Speaker 1: with State of the K three, which you know, those
Speaker 1: are presumably coming in twenty twenty six. But that's just
Speaker 1: based off of that, you know, throwaway line that Phil
Speaker 1: said about the anniversary of Xbox and that you know,
Speaker 1: you're expecting the Big Four to becoming. So we'll see
Speaker 1: about that if it actually happens. Daniel Mintion is in
Speaker 1: Charged Collection. Yeah, I could definitely see some of the
Speaker 1: older stuff like right, you.
Speaker 3: Know, i'd say any ANYPS four game or you know,
Speaker 3: but like again, like not Spider Man or not Last
Speaker 3: of Us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that you'd have to sell. You'd have
Speaker 1: to you'd have to sell, like we're talking about. We
Speaker 1: basically essentially, Xbox would have to do what PlayStation is
Speaker 1: doing with us right now. In order to get you
Speaker 1: want the bigger games, you gotta do what on Xbox
Speaker 1: what PlayStation is doing with for with every single one
Speaker 1: of these games. If you want Spider Man, because they're
Speaker 1: gonna look at it and go, oh man, I don't
Speaker 1: think we can say.
Speaker 3: No to that, or what you do. If you want
Speaker 3: Uncharted on an Xbox, do what they did with like
Speaker 3: Kingdom Hearts and be like, Okay, here's every Uncharted game
Speaker 3: for seventy bucks.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, but I do. I also think that
Speaker 1: the reason why they're mentioning Xbox. One of those more
Speaker 1: than Switched is that there's part of that audience that like,
Speaker 1: there's some of those games that I think Nintendo will
Speaker 1: not be very big on bringing them up, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So like some of the more violent games, I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna be sitting there. Maybe God of
Speaker 1: War is like too big for them to say no to.
Speaker 3: Day is Gone to Switch edition and you can grab
Speaker 3: that biker and a Mario outfit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I wonder if, like, you know, with them
Speaker 1: having that deal with dust bloods like, does does Demon Souls?
Speaker 1: Does Bloodborn get put over there on Switch? Like?
Speaker 3: No, they didn't even put blood Borne on fucking you
Speaker 3: know PC.
Speaker 1: Right, But I'm just saying, like, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: know how far this extends, like if if Sony is
Speaker 1: really thinking about this, does that go to that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Like, Okay, let's say Dust Bluzz does ridiculous numbers on
Speaker 1: Switch to which, considering the numbers that we have for
Speaker 1: Night Rain and even Shadow of the Ur Tree, which
Speaker 1: you know Elder Ring is coming to Switch you know
Speaker 1: sometime this year with with Shadow of the Ur Tree,
Speaker 1: I expect that to do amazing numbers on Switch as well.
Speaker 1: So imagine if dust was which is exclusive, does crazy
Speaker 1: numbers do they bring more over there?
Speaker 3: You know, I would say no, I think Dust play
Speaker 3: will do relatively okay, but like, you know, it's still
Speaker 3: I would say the Switch too is still kind of
Speaker 3: loot as a kiddy system, and more more serious games
Speaker 3: have not done particularly well. I mean like like Bane
Speaker 3: at A three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's sold well enough, but it's it's
Speaker 1: one of.
Speaker 3: Those where it kind of no, it didn't it really
Speaker 3: actually kind of didn't do well.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't there like some kind of well. They
Speaker 1: also had the backlash on the voice actors for that
Speaker 1: game as well, that didn't you know, throw in any kindness.
Speaker 3: The game, Like the game didn't run well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the game didn't run well either.
Speaker 3: People didn't like I know, you didn't like the story much,
Speaker 3: and I think I think, like with every banet that
Speaker 3: game kind of like softening it up more and more.
Speaker 1: So, Yeah, I definitely see something like Uncharted or you know,
Speaker 1: start throwing some of the older.
Speaker 3: In there. Uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you ever see a God of War
Speaker 1: a spider Man, I think we can kind of put
Speaker 1: that stuff to rest of the you know, Console Wars
Speaker 1: are definitely dead.
Speaker 3: I mean I would say that like like Astrobot is
Speaker 3: a continuing franchise and like don't make a Spider Man
Speaker 3: three most likely, but I don't see a huge like
Speaker 3: future for like being Charted like it kind of ended it. No, definitely,
Speaker 3: I would like, I mean, people have been begging for
Speaker 3: the new Slack Cooper, but those that kind of ended
Speaker 3: with like PS.
Speaker 1: Three Sucker Punch would have to give that out to somebody, right,
Speaker 1: same thing with like Naughty Dog and Jackie Baxter.
Speaker 3: And that weird how like Territorial these some of these
Speaker 3: developers are and it's like you're not making this ship
Speaker 3: or you know, like you know, why do you? Okay,
Speaker 3: you made it initially, but you're still not making and
Speaker 3: you're not making it anymore like a crack at it.
Speaker 1: I feel like somebody has gotta be making one of
Speaker 1: those because like Sony's been having this now. I understand
Speaker 1: Astrobot is their mascot now and like Astrobod is the
Speaker 1: platform or for them or whatever, but like they have
Speaker 1: been having this push towards like let's have more family games. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So like it would behoove you to have more than
Speaker 1: just Astrobot, right, I mean, yeah, you have Ratchet and Clank,
Speaker 1: but is gonna gonna really work on that now They've
Speaker 1: they've got Wolverine and Spider Man three that they're working on,
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be way in the back burner, you know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see. Does this
Speaker 1: also mean that their PC strategy moves up?
Speaker 3: Right? Do they?
Speaker 1: Does the windows start getting shorter for PC?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: In lieu of having this where it's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: now Xbox and Switch are gonna be the ones where
Speaker 1: we really make them wait, right, because it's about the console.
Speaker 1: We want to make our console be the one that
Speaker 1: is definitely the best one. You gotta have it. You
Speaker 1: have all the games, even the Xbox games you know
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get ur You're gonna get our games eventually,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna wait till, you know, halfway through the
Speaker 1: life cycle of the next Xbox or whatever before you
Speaker 1: get any loose. And even then, I mean, like that's
Speaker 1: the thing gonna be interesting thing too, is like if
Speaker 1: that's the last Xbox, does it really you know matter
Speaker 1: at that point? If it really is a PC then
Speaker 1: maybe that's why they're okay with it, because at that point,
Speaker 1: the next Xbox is going to essentially just be a
Speaker 1: PC with an Xbox sticker on it. So is that
Speaker 1: why they don't care? Because you know, it's really just Windows.
Speaker 1: So we're already it in on PC. Why not just
Speaker 1: put it on Xbox too? What's the big deal?
Speaker 3: You know? Should just try selling the p S five
Speaker 3: system covers.
Speaker 1: It's an Xbox, right, that'd be interesting they did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I do think the people that are you know,
Speaker 1: on that uh the console we're bandwagon though, like you know,
Speaker 1: get ready. I think you are going to go through
Speaker 1: that same kind of hurt that the Xbox fans did,
Speaker 1: maybe not not to that rip the band aid. Yeah point,
Speaker 1: but I think we are going to get we are
Speaker 1: not it. There will be more than just the four
Speaker 1: you know, the the live service games. I think we
Speaker 1: are going to get some of the single player games.
Speaker 1: And that's where you're going to start seeing people get
Speaker 1: really upset.
Speaker 3: I mean, here's the thing you know that Sony is
Speaker 3: working on like the PlayStation six right somewhere.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they albody said that they are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know Sarah bond is like, oh, we're
Speaker 3: partners AMD to make the new you know Xbox. But
Speaker 3: between the two, I have more faith in the PS
Speaker 3: six coming out, you know, than that like the traditional
Speaker 3: console you know, kind of gated garden and then whatever
Speaker 3: Xbox is going to and you are going to come
Speaker 3: out with.
Speaker 1: I just think that essentially the problem is that it's
Speaker 1: not just you know, it's it's about like they can't
Speaker 1: exist anymore with the walled gardens, especially if none of
Speaker 1: these live service games hit for Sony like the ones
Speaker 1: they have left aside from Held Divers too, Like if
Speaker 1: they continue to bomb, like they got to make that
Speaker 1: money somewhere, right, and games cost too much for them
Speaker 1: to continue to just be and they don't make enough
Speaker 1: games like that. That's the point is like, Okay, look
Speaker 1: at look at their lineup this year, right, it's okay,
Speaker 1: Desk writing too is essentially second party, you know, right,
Speaker 1: Kajima made that, not them, and then you have got
Speaker 1: to Yota, right, and then that's it, and then like
Speaker 1: what's your lineup for next year?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of unknowns, right, Like we don't
Speaker 1: know how quickly they could spin up some of these
Speaker 1: I mean the studios are working on live service games
Speaker 1: that are now having to work on whatever it is
Speaker 1: they're working on.
Speaker 3: Now you're you're talking about one of the one of
Speaker 3: the one of the problems though is they put all
Speaker 3: their or all their money into one or two games,
Speaker 3: and if they don't do well, that's a problem. But
Speaker 3: likely I would say, have smaller projects, have more projects,
Speaker 3: and then if one or two of those goes bad, hey,
Speaker 3: it's a it's it's a problem where it's a you know,
Speaker 3: it's a injury. But I'm not a you know, vital one,
Speaker 3: or it's not going to like fold the company. Like
Speaker 3: look at how much I mean and how much just
Speaker 3: find it on Concord, Like they maybe not like ten
Speaker 3: single player games, but at least two or three, and
Speaker 3: I bet at least one of them might have done well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why they you know, brought Deviation kind of
Speaker 1: like back and had them do a single player.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or I think it's like multiplayer, but more of the
Speaker 1: traditional type, not you know, live service related. H I
Speaker 1: do think that somebody's probably working on a remake of Uncharted.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised somewhere because Sony has to have
Speaker 1: like any franchise that could possibly make them some kind
Speaker 1: of money. I feel like they got to have somebody's
Speaker 1: thinking about, we got to do something with that.
Speaker 3: Where the hell is jumping flash than you cow or right?
Speaker 1: But even even look at the astrobot right, like they
Speaker 1: have essentially turned that thing almost into a it just
Speaker 1: keeps they keep making levels for it, you know, instead
Speaker 1: of having like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I questioned that that mindset because it's like how many,
Speaker 3: like how many new copies of that thing, of that
Speaker 3: thing are you selling?
Speaker 1: Not that many? Right, because I think they said that
Speaker 1: like foresa Head already sold more than Astrobot.
Speaker 3: So like it's funny, Uh, did you like Burnout Paradise. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like one of the food who just did not
Speaker 3: like that game. Like it's never clicked with me. I've
Speaker 3: tried multiple times, and that was like their philosophy when
Speaker 3: that game came out, like the first year is they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have all those you know, free DLC for you,
Speaker 3: and it didn't help. And now I just have someone
Speaker 3: refer to not Paradise as a franchise killer, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: because they make a Burnot game after that.
Speaker 1: Well ea, bought the Criterion and then kind of just.
Speaker 3: About for Burnout three, like they made three, you know,
Speaker 3: came back.
Speaker 1: But we know a kind of has this like they're
Speaker 1: almost square level of didn't meat expectations, and then these
Speaker 1: games would just go away right look at me for speed.
Speaker 1: They can't seem to figure out how to make that thing.
Speaker 3: But you know that was the thing that Burnout Paradise
Speaker 3: is you know e A at the time gave them
Speaker 3: a pretty good run or like you know, uh, string
Speaker 3: of like hey, if this three A DLC does well
Speaker 3: and the sales continue to like, you know, go for it,
Speaker 3: and it never did. And it's like they should have
Speaker 3: just kind of cut early with the Paradise DLC and
Speaker 3: put that money into making you know, Paradise too or
Speaker 3: something else. Black two there you go, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's gonna be a kind of a
Speaker 1: crazy experience here. What happens in twenty twenty six for
Speaker 1: the you know, between Sony and Xbox? Does Sony ever
Speaker 1: make does Sony make that move next year of putting
Speaker 1: something on Xbox it's not that's not a live service game,
Speaker 1: and then kind of starts that steamroll. I mean, the
Speaker 1: thing is that like people can say what they want about,
Speaker 1: oh I'm gonna go PC Master Race or whatever, but
Speaker 1: it's like Sony's big enough that they have such a
Speaker 1: console share, and there's Sony people that like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: can say that, oh I can go to Nintendo or
Speaker 1: I can go to PC. But it's like, okay, Nintendo,
Speaker 1: there's only so many There's gonna be games that the
Speaker 1: switch to is not gonna be able to run at
Speaker 1: some point, So what's gonna be your option? Right, And
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, well then I have to I have
Speaker 1: to have a PlayStation. And then that's the thing. It's
Speaker 1: like the people that are making some big fuss about
Speaker 1: this is like, look, exclusives bring people to the platform,
Speaker 1: but they're not the reason why the PlayStation continues to
Speaker 1: continues to like go on. It's those third party games
Speaker 1: aside from like Spider Man and maybe Last of Us
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's it really is like the Call of Duty,
Speaker 1: the the Madden, the the ea FC all NBA two K,
Speaker 1: those games, those are what bring the people in to
Speaker 1: keep buying those games every year, and that keeps them
Speaker 1: using the console. Right. It's not you know, buying even
Speaker 1: death Stranding two for example, which did well, but it's
Speaker 1: still a very niche of a niche thing, right, and
Speaker 1: you know they're definitely not well why you know, Returnal
Speaker 1: or whatever whatever sorrows is. When that comes out, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that will do well. But yeah, I mean crazy.
Speaker 3: Numbers the people like training in their PSI for a
Speaker 3: PC or like bananas because it's like, okay, you're you know,
Speaker 3: you're one six of the way there to get in
Speaker 3: a new PC, I guess, and hey, the PC has
Speaker 3: you know, ten thousand more games on it, if not
Speaker 3: way more if you want to get into like the
Speaker 3: like shadier shit. But how many that are? How much
Speaker 3: of that are you gonna play?
Speaker 1: Right? If you're already not playing indies on your PlayStation,
Speaker 1: why you're gonna play that on your PC? No, you're
Speaker 1: not right, and you're gonna quickly get to the point
Speaker 1: where you can't play the big third party games. So
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do at that point?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know that's how That's how people keep their their
Speaker 1: laptop or their their system going. Is they end up
Speaker 1: playing a lot of the the indie stuff or whatever
Speaker 1: we once her system can't get uh yeah, unless they
Speaker 1: have to upgrade it then they can play it again.
Speaker 1: So you know that that's uh. But moving on from
Speaker 1: this this topic, Sony has more stuff that's kind of
Speaker 1: happened as we got closer to do in the episode. Today,
Speaker 1: Sony has something that we thought would happen a lot sooner.
Speaker 1: Like when they announced this game the light of Mostrium
Speaker 1: ten cent, Sonny would quickly be going out there and
Speaker 1: telling them, yo, cease and assist. This saint happening, but no,
Speaker 1: on it took him, took him a while, but they did.
Speaker 1: They have officially put it out in court. Also that
Speaker 1: those court documents have allowed us to learn that Horizon,
Speaker 1: the Horizon series as a whole has sold thirty eight
Speaker 1: million copies, which is big number. They sold thirty two
Speaker 1: just two years ago. A million more. Now you see why,
Speaker 1: you know, Herman Holst's got the whole bank, the whole
Speaker 1: farm on that MMO and the multiplayer game, because you
Speaker 1: know that's a that's some large numbers for that to sell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they're hoping that that's gonna you know, lead to
Speaker 1: those games. Seeing well, but honestly, when we saw like
Speaker 1: let me say, I could pull up the trailer like
Speaker 1: the game is a total Sony has every right to
Speaker 1: go after them, like the the game is a total
Speaker 1: ripoff of Horizon. It's absolutely deplorable that they even thought
Speaker 1: that this was cool to do. Like, I get it.
Speaker 1: That part of it is they kind of thought that, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Sony kind of told him no when they
Speaker 1: wanted to do an official like hey, can we partner
Speaker 1: on a Horizon game? And they said no, and Sony
Speaker 1: said no, right, so Tencent was like, oh you said no, huh,
Speaker 1: well then we're just going to go and make our
Speaker 1: own damn Horizon. But we're just going to copy the
Speaker 1: ship out of it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: It's it's insane, man like kind of looks like her
Speaker 1: like a.
Speaker 3: Loy a Chinese company not obeying copyright laws and patents.
Speaker 3: That's just crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're you know, Sony's suing for damages and you
Speaker 1: know they want to they want to be able to
Speaker 1: stop the game from being able to be released because
Speaker 1: it h you know, property rights. Yeah, it's it's just insane.
Speaker 1: Like when we saw this, I said, I don't know
Speaker 1: how Sony's not suing them right now, right because it's
Speaker 1: just crazy.
Speaker 3: Is just seeing if like anything actually did change and
Speaker 3: no it didn't.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and it got a lot of buzz, like
Speaker 1: people got had pre orders for it and whatnot. So
Speaker 1: I imagine this will quoll that pretty quickly. I wonder if
Speaker 1: ten Cent's gonna actually try to fight them, like you
Speaker 1: know Power is doing with Nintendo, or they're gonna kind of.
Speaker 3: I mean at least like how World has like a
Speaker 3: different spin on it. It's not just wholesale ripping off
Speaker 3: like pikachew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, okay, you can say that the the
Speaker 1: character designs are kind of similar, but the game as
Speaker 1: a concept is much different. And dude, they did it
Speaker 1: so well. They they added stuff that people wish Nintendo
Speaker 1: would have done with Pokemon.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like the same thing with like Pokemon
Speaker 3: and the old jad Cocoon game, Like right, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: they're both games about capturing monsters and battling, but like
Speaker 3: JK Coon, you know, you could breed them, which I
Speaker 3: think Tokemon eventually did but like way later, yeah they did,
Speaker 3: you know, or you could like set you could like
Speaker 3: basically like sell the monster to get money, which I
Speaker 3: doubt you can do in Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you know, at one point Tenson had approached
Speaker 1: them to collaborate I knew Horizon game last year and
Speaker 1: the offer was rejected. So then Tenson announced slide of
Speaker 1: Moultrium It anyway, Yeah, yeah, exactly, which borrows heavily from
Speaker 1: all the things in Horizon, from the story to the
Speaker 1: artistic elements to the you know, we did you you
Speaker 1: can clearly seeing the trailer that there's like you know,
Speaker 1: the robot, right, animals are in it, like I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's all all essentially.
Speaker 3: I'm sur I don't call him the same name like
Speaker 3: rip jaw, you know some of the stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, It's it's pretty bad to be honest. I
Speaker 1: don't see any way in how Sony doesn't win this
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 3: This, I mean just you know, I think some games,
Speaker 3: like game concepts shouldn't really be copyrighted per se, like
Speaker 3: copyright like a racing game or you know, yeah, but
Speaker 3: something to this like direct and this like obvious. It's
Speaker 3: like yeah, and it's.
Speaker 1: Not even being done in like a funny ha haa
Speaker 1: like satire way. This looks like legitimately just a we
Speaker 1: wanted to make our own horizons, so whatever, right, and
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's it's like done in spite of So
Speaker 1: if I were Sony, yeah, definitely freaking go after him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gonna be see how quickly this goes through the courts
Speaker 1: and all that jazz. But you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: God of War earlier. They did have they interviewed the
Speaker 1: the kind of the showruner they're credit director. He kind
Speaker 1: of give a little bit of some thoughts on like
Speaker 1: what he's doing to kind of prepare for the game
Speaker 1: or prepare for like making the show, and he did
Speaker 1: reveal that it is going to be based off of
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen show. It's not going to copy it directly,
Speaker 1: but they are going to try to keep out of
Speaker 1: the same themes and characters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Norse mythology, not the Greek one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. I'm sure they'll have some flashback to
Speaker 3: some you know, yeah Greek crap in the show at.
Speaker 1: Some point, definitely. And and also just also the Corey
Speaker 1: Barlogs involved, so you know for sure he's gonna probably
Speaker 1: put some of that right uh in there, which is cool, Like, look,
Speaker 1: it's every time we've seen these shows be done well
Speaker 1: is when the original creators are involved, like we saw
Speaker 1: with Neil Druckman and last of us so.
Speaker 3: One season two, Well, I think.
Speaker 1: That's more of like, did Druckman really have anything to
Speaker 1: do with the casting of Bella Ramsey or was that
Speaker 1: all you know?
Speaker 3: That was season one? Still? I mean, well, but.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, was that more HBO and the
Speaker 1: direct or? Was that really had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with Neil Druckman saying Okay, I need Bill Ramsey to
Speaker 1: be Ellie because that's that was the main problem I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have was and I even
Speaker 1: saw some of the biggest you know, supporters of the
Speaker 1: show was saying that like season two is where it
Speaker 1: kind of showed that she just didn't fit the part, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched it yet, so I can't really you know,
Speaker 1: make a.
Speaker 3: Case for my I mean, hey, by the time season
Speaker 3: four comes out in like six years should be old enough.
Speaker 1: So won't matter, you think, So you think there's I don't.
Speaker 1: I think they're just gonna do that second part of two.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but like I think Craig Mason was like, oh,
Speaker 3: we need season we need four seasons to tell the
Speaker 3: full tale or whatever.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, definitely not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's basically said like season three is all from
Speaker 3: uh per fact and then yeah, s'son four soused to
Speaker 3: kind of like marry the two or bring him together,
Speaker 3: but a no, you don't. You know you're good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like let's leave that part out right. We'll see
Speaker 1: if they get there. No, NHBO, they probably will just
Speaker 1: because I'm sure it will do well enough to where
Speaker 1: they'll probably keep it going.
Speaker 3: But the season one to season two drop off was
Speaker 3: like noticeable, like ratings wise, so.
Speaker 1: They did say that. You know, he did state that
Speaker 1: there's probably definitely gonna be two seasons. Yeah, with like
Speaker 1: ten episodes in season one, and that's kind of all
Speaker 1: he could say. He didn't want to like promise like
Speaker 1: kind of like fall Out where they have it mapped
Speaker 1: out for like season six or whatever. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see if if it gets that far. But hope. So,
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of shows if you can do
Speaker 1: this right, then it will do like most other TV shows,
Speaker 1: where it will last. You know, I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: worried that you have the Halo TV show guy also
Speaker 1: involved in here, but hopefully.
Speaker 3: That means Man, that was great, No, it was.
Speaker 1: Let's not the least we got to talk about that
Speaker 1: Halo TV show.
Speaker 3: They'll just started introducing random fit to the Gotta War
Speaker 3: TV said that has nothing to do with it, right.
Speaker 1: But hey. They also announced their uh well they don't
Speaker 1: ready announced this thing, the Fight Sick, but it officially
Speaker 1: has a name now. It's called the Flex Strike. And
Speaker 1: they had a whole it's gonna debut at EVO, you know,
Speaker 1: August first, the third, and they had a whole trailer
Speaker 1: that came out kind of showcasing what you.
Speaker 3: Can do with it.
Speaker 1: You can use it chorded with the USB, or you
Speaker 1: can use it wireless, which is cool. And they have
Speaker 1: it like all packed. They have a carrying case and
Speaker 1: you can also like pack the chords and stuff like
Speaker 1: inside it so that you could take that all with you. Right,
Speaker 1: it's just neat. Yeah, I don't know. You play finding
Speaker 1: games playing more than.
Speaker 3: Me, so yeah, but I don't like fight sticks. I'm
Speaker 3: used to a controller, so I'm bad if arcade sticks. Honestly.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Like one time, this was like many years ago,
Speaker 3: but I played. I was like at an arcade playing
Speaker 3: Marvel Verus Capcom two and like I was going through
Speaker 3: the story kind of okay, but like this kid and
Speaker 3: that kid. But he was like twenty or twenty one
Speaker 3: or something. He came up and like play and he
Speaker 3: dusted me because it's like, yeah, I don't use arcade sticks,
Speaker 3: so they ain't a surprising.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's cool that this exists and for.
Speaker 3: People who like him, you know, decently made. So sure, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure this will be a hit with the FGC crowd. Right,
Speaker 1: so let's see, Uh, you know, Sony can get this,
Speaker 1: have this become an accessory that really sells. I mean
Speaker 1: that's one thing that Sony does well, they sell those
Speaker 1: accessories and he will buy those dual Sense controllers and
Speaker 1: other things the covers and stuff like that. So right,
Speaker 1: but uh, Sony also did the thing that they did
Speaker 1: also with Katakawa and uh, you know, from Soft they
Speaker 1: acquired a percentage of a Japanese company, two point five
Speaker 1: percent of bend On Namco. Which they happened working with
Speaker 1: bend On Namco to get those you know, Freedom Wars
Speaker 1: Remastered and the Padopond remaster and those kind of out
Speaker 1: the door, kind of like working as a middleman so
Speaker 1: they can get those on switch to and switch and
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if they'll come to Xbox eventually.
Speaker 1: Now they seem to be kind of opening the door.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is just like another publisher that
Speaker 1: they kind of have that percentage of. They also have
Speaker 1: five percent of devolve A Digital, almost five percent of Epic,
Speaker 1: and they have that highest percentage of from software.
Speaker 3: So I think, I think it's a I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a I wouldn't say better, but it's a I would.
Speaker 3: I actually do think it's better. I guess solution that
Speaker 3: like what Microsoft is doing, it was just buying companies
Speaker 3: out right and then closing them down.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. It'd be nice if, you know,
Speaker 1: we could see Microsoft do something like that instead of
Speaker 1: just buying them and then.
Speaker 3: Like I think, like Sony's, Sony's solution is like slower,
Speaker 3: but it's you know, it's Namco. It's been Anco suddenly failed,
Speaker 3: like it's kind of like at the end of the
Speaker 3: Sony's world or anything like.
Speaker 1: But I think also it's Sony doesn't want to deal
Speaker 1: with all that stuff. Sony just kind of wants a piece.
Speaker 1: They want like to have kind of more control over
Speaker 1: certain aspects, but they don't want to deal with like,
Speaker 1: you know, imagine all the stuff that Namco has to
Speaker 1: deal with outside of just games, right, Like they want
Speaker 1: they want all the connections, they want all the help
Speaker 1: with like especially with the anime, right because this is
Speaker 1: another this is another play for the continuing domination that
Speaker 1: they have with anime. To be fair, like, this is
Speaker 1: not just about gaming. This is about not only is
Speaker 1: this the from software publisher, uh, the elder and ring publisher.
Speaker 1: This is this is so like Okay, they have all
Speaker 1: those other rights to like all these animated properties, so
Speaker 1: you know, Digimond, DBZ, my Hero, all the you know,
Speaker 1: all these big name properties. Like I don't know how
Speaker 1: this really to what extent this all helps with that,
Speaker 1: but you know they keep wanting to make in roads
Speaker 1: even further with the anime stuff.
Speaker 3: So I mean it're basically becoming like I mean kind
Speaker 3: of like ten Cent are becoming like landlords, I guess
Speaker 3: of Like I mean these companies where like, yeah, like
Speaker 3: we don't own it, but we get the money every
Speaker 3: month because of stock dividends or you know whatever.
Speaker 1: You got diversifying the portfolio, right, just making sure you
Speaker 1: get some income somewhere else. It's not just all about gaming.
Speaker 1: It so smart, right, Like they're doing the thing with
Speaker 1: the movie. You know, they have the Sonny pictures that
Speaker 1: they've had for a very long time. They have the
Speaker 1: you know, all the animal stuff. They they essentially like
Speaker 1: have a domination stranglehold on streaming.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Netflix is kind of like poking the bear with that
Speaker 1: and and kind of trying to make their own kind
Speaker 1: of inroads there also because Netflix knows that they kind
Speaker 1: of like went way too far in the other direction
Speaker 1: with the TV shows and the movies, so like anime
Speaker 1: kind of is the right the sweet spot that it
Speaker 1: like doesn't cost them a lot, but they're also like
Speaker 1: actually pushing more people to watch anime, which is you
Speaker 1: know plus for the whole industry. So there was a
Speaker 1: report not that I think that's like a week or
Speaker 1: two ago that came out and said Netflix is making
Speaker 1: a positive impact on more people are watching anime because
Speaker 1: of Netflix.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I mean people like a normal person isn't
Speaker 3: going to sign up for County.
Speaker 1: Role, right or they know that that's like yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: like I pay eight bucks a month for the one
Speaker 1: show when you can just watch it on Netflix.
Speaker 3: That for Netflix and watch more casual anime and then
Speaker 3: that might eventually spark.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, but see Netflix has been smart recently.
Speaker 1: They've been getting either they've been getting like really good
Speaker 1: series outright, or they've been getting like dual streaming where
Speaker 1: it's not just Country Role, they're doing it with like
Speaker 1: a dondadon they have Country World gets the streaming also,
Speaker 1: but they also get it so it's like you don't
Speaker 1: have to leave Netflix to watch that show. So another
Speaker 1: reason why you don't have to subscribe to Crunchy Role.
Speaker 1: And that's uh, that's positive, but it's good. Like Sony
Speaker 1: needs that competition because if Crunchyroll has owned everything, it'd
Speaker 1: be kind of just you know, just blab because High
Speaker 1: Dive is very niche and you know, credit to them
Speaker 1: for for continuing to exist and do their own thing,
Speaker 1: but you know, you need that big like Netflix.
Speaker 3: I told I told a friend she has a huge
Speaker 3: case closed fan, and I told her like, oh, Netflix,
Speaker 3: it's bringing kids closed back like they did, like they're
Speaker 3: doing like a new dub of it and everything. And
Speaker 3: she's just like why And I was like, what do
Speaker 3: you mean. She's like, why can't you just get the
Speaker 3: old you know, the old show back or you know
Speaker 3: the old dub. And I was like, first of all
Speaker 3: the probably don't have the rights to it. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: also like they want to make more or this is
Speaker 3: exactly with a new dub. They have new voice actors
Speaker 3: who are actually like working, so they had the nepacity
Speaker 3: to you know, do more episodes.
Speaker 1: Not And that was another thing too, is that Netflix
Speaker 1: will which is bad, it's not great. Netflix will hold
Speaker 1: off on shows if they don't have the dub, which
Speaker 1: makes it to where like there's one thing's coming out
Speaker 1: this season that like they're holding off the last September
Speaker 1: because they want to make sure the dub is there.
Speaker 1: But they also have the data that shows they're like
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the people that watch on Netflix to
Speaker 1: watch them dubbed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it makes I would say it makes sense actually,
Speaker 3: Like I mean, there are like the die hard fans
Speaker 3: who have watched like Dragon Ball Dima with like fans
Speaker 3: subs or whatever, but like most peoplest casual people just
Speaker 3: watch it on cunty roll with the dub and all.
Speaker 1: Right, it makes it a lot easier. I don't have
Speaker 1: to sit there and stare at every single word that's
Speaker 1: being you know, like I watch a lot of things
Speaker 1: with subtitles because of just you know, sometimes the audio
Speaker 1: quality on streaming services sucks so a lot of times,
Speaker 1: so like I don't have to do the whole putting
Speaker 1: the volume up, putting the volume down, putting the volume up,
Speaker 1: putting the volume down. I just put the subtitles on
Speaker 1: and just like, Okay, if I didn't hear that, at
Speaker 1: least I know what it they said, right, But like
Speaker 1: when it comes to like with anime, yeah, I do
Speaker 1: love watching the current seasons, and you have to watch
Speaker 1: them in Japanese and that's fine, but it's like it
Speaker 1: does get tired after a while, and I do you
Speaker 1: kind of want to be able to like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: can listen and kind of watch, and then I can
Speaker 1: work or do whatever I need to do and not
Speaker 1: have to be staring at the screen the whole time.
Speaker 1: We're moving on from that. Speaking of ben I Namco
Speaker 1: though and from soft Eldon Ring, Night Rain is getting
Speaker 1: that two player mode mark. So does that mean that
Speaker 1: y'all are going to play it now?
Speaker 3: No? I actually just at the ends, but that's when
Speaker 3: he popped up with but I want to play you know,
Speaker 3: first defense for six because he plays with another friend
Speaker 3: of his. Yeah, and my good luck with that then.
Speaker 1: It's it's coming in a couple of days. This is
Speaker 1: a mode that was not available launch, but they put
Speaker 1: it in because people requested it would have probably helped
Speaker 1: you guys maybe perhaps played at launch. And the game
Speaker 1: has done surprisingly well. It's so two billion on the
Speaker 1: first day and had sold five million, you know currently
Speaker 1: as far as the last data that we have from
Speaker 1: June and then Shadow of the Arch to the Expansion
Speaker 1: has sold ten million, and eleanor Ring itself has sold
Speaker 1: like thirty million, which is ridiculous. So definitely that's a franchise.
Speaker 1: You know, they got to be cooking ether Ring two somewhere.
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe, I mean who knows, Like.
Speaker 1: Well, the way at the rate that they're doing going
Speaker 1: with these like multiplayer things, if Dust Bloods does anything
Speaker 1: close to Night Rain, I mean, shoot, talk about like
Speaker 1: Van e Namko having their own like multiplayer gold mine
Speaker 1: here with this. So I mean, that's that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Like they probably just kind of threw it out there
Speaker 1: and they said, Okay, well let's see if this works out,
Speaker 1: and hey, it did.
Speaker 3: Right now and it's not like a whole new necessary
Speaker 3: game or you know, it's right like we're using assets
Speaker 3: per se, but well.
Speaker 1: They are kind of using assets also.
Speaker 3: Well it's not whole at least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean that's what helps them be able
Speaker 1: to make these quickly, is they're they're kind of doing
Speaker 1: the Sega Yakuza thing. Is, hey, we can reuse assets,
Speaker 1: why not, right, we don't have to take five years
Speaker 1: to make one of these whole time by then who
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna maybe don't care about evan ry, right, but
Speaker 1: you know we we which two is is doing well
Speaker 1: without dust floods for the time being, they sold one
Speaker 1: point six million just in the US alone in that
Speaker 1: you know launch month. My Kart World without the bundle
Speaker 1: and without digital sales is number three for the month.
Speaker 1: So I imagine if they counted digital sales and the bundle,
Speaker 1: it's definitely number one. H out, But elder Rick Knight
Speaker 1: Rain was the best selling game of June, it was
Speaker 1: already the best selling game of May. And then des
Speaker 1: Rainy two is right there in second. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean some interesting like stuff from this uh, from this
Speaker 1: data here with the games that are top stull Blade
Speaker 1: went from being one hundred and eighty five to number
Speaker 1: five thanks to the PC released and right, Yeah, those
Speaker 1: definitely wanted to get them some Stellar Blade and Eve
Speaker 1: there for sure, but hey, they showed up, they bought
Speaker 1: the game, so that's a matter of sports are Horising five,
Speaker 1: it's still hanging in there at number six. Grand Theft
Speaker 1: Auto five and Minecraft just keep doing their thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: just seven and eight respectively. Room Factory Guardians of a
Speaker 1: Zuma that's the launch game that launched was switched to
Speaker 1: the third party launch game. I'm sorry that like launch
Speaker 1: with it at number ten. That's pretty great considering how
Speaker 1: much of a niche game that is. Siren Fining twenty
Speaker 1: seventy seven went from four hundred and twenty seven to
Speaker 1: eighteenth because of switch to. So yeah, and WW two
Speaker 1: K twenty five, which is now micking its debut on
Speaker 1: switch to, sitting there at number twenty right of all things.
Speaker 1: And elden Ring is sitting there at number thirteen, and
Speaker 1: that game is old, so yeah, you know, yeah, Eldon
Speaker 1: Scrolls for a Blaiant Remastered did drop a bunch to
Speaker 1: like sixteen, but it's been up there for like two
Speaker 1: months already, so you know, eventually it was going to drop.
Speaker 1: It's a single player heavy game. It is still number
Speaker 1: two for the entire year, with Assassin' Screen Shadows at
Speaker 1: number three. There I will be the shows in the
Speaker 1: top five. Kingdom Come Delivery still hanging in there at
Speaker 1: number six, Night Rain is officially like number eight now
Speaker 1: after the two months has been there. Uh Fource Horizon
Speaker 1: five still in there and the you know kind of
Speaker 1: upper tens. So yeah, and Spider Man two still hanging
Speaker 1: in there at number twenty. Also, people were just buying
Speaker 1: those those old games man.
Speaker 3: That Oblivion Room Master did so well that it's had
Speaker 3: a last people.
Speaker 1: To be fair, like we thought about last week, most
Speaker 1: of the people that were laid off had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with that team, So I wonder if it did
Speaker 1: affect some of the ones for Middleburg Solid Delta because
Speaker 1: they let go of like seventy. They're in Asia, so right,
Speaker 1: But I guess we'll find out after that game releases,
Speaker 1: which is it's at leasting in a month from now.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna get that?
Speaker 3: I might, I might get it. Yeah, But I was
Speaker 3: never like a huge Medical Solid three fan. But it's
Speaker 3: acted take sad, I'm not giving a shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah why not? You? Also you also got more interesting
Speaker 1: just sales stuff from the digital side, for things for
Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five, according to New Zoo, taking eat
Speaker 1: shop data from various countries, including the US and parts
Speaker 1: of Europe, Cat is upset.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cat.
Speaker 1: Delta Room was actually the number one selling game and
Speaker 1: the entirety of the shop for June. My Kart was
Speaker 1: number two. Uh so that's interesting. Like Delta Run, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously deltsa ruined much cheaper, right by large margin,
Speaker 1: twenty four dollars instead of of like eighty, so you
Speaker 1: know that helps on that front. Also, Welcome Tour being
Speaker 1: ten bucks, I'm sure helps yea than Minecraft and No
Speaker 1: Man's Sky. So yeah, and then you got the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Life I did pretty well too, so that also kind
Speaker 1: of launched with the system. So yeah, pretty interesting stuff
Speaker 1: on that the sales front. Always cool to kind of
Speaker 1: look at that data and just see what that looks like. However,
Speaker 1: the Pokemon Presents, which happened like the day after we
Speaker 1: did the episode last week, not that great. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: was expecting more or at least more information about Pokemon
Speaker 1: ZA and we just got, oh, there's a Mega Dragon
Speaker 1: Night now and like roaming Mega Pokemon and then that's
Speaker 1: kind of it. Yeah, I thought we're gonna get more
Speaker 1: on the Pokemon Za front. We did get more on
Speaker 1: Pokemon Champions. There's gonna be It's gonna come out next year. Supposedly.
Speaker 1: They introduced like three different types of battling that that
Speaker 1: can happen, and the way you get the Pokemon to
Speaker 1: join your team how that all works. They introduced the
Speaker 1: uh animated show with Starry and Sir Feteston Peachu that's
Speaker 1: made by the Walson Gramitt Studio, which looked pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: And Pokemon Friends, which is free on mobile and ten
Speaker 1: dollars on the switch to or switch and they also
Speaker 1: have DLC which costs more than the actual game. So yep,
Speaker 1: and Nintendo U and you know, and people say that
Speaker 1: Nintendo is always friendly with with that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: they're not, folks. This is essentially brain Age with Pokemon
Speaker 1: and it works well. It's fun. You know, if you
Speaker 1: want to spend the ten bucks to play on switch,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I do. I do think it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I've liked brain Age a lot. I played that thing
Speaker 1: every day when I had it. Uh so I probably
Speaker 1: will do the same with Pokemon Friends. I like the
Speaker 1: puzzle aspect of stuff and plus you get plushes.
Speaker 3: I'll only like play that game when when a blank
Speaker 3: shows up.
Speaker 1: Sure. Also some third party switched to these Assassin's Creed
Speaker 1: Shadows has got rated for switch to, uh so pretty
Speaker 1: much that's coming probably at some point. We know Star
Speaker 1: Wars Outlaws is coming to switch to as well. But
Speaker 1: they canceled Star Wars Outlaws too pretty early in development
Speaker 1: for that. You think they should have like waited longer.
Speaker 3: That was a that was the right call, Like I didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean I played that game, and you know, by
Speaker 3: the end of it, I don't need to see more
Speaker 3: of this, like not unless say, like completely redo everything,
Speaker 3: which they probably weren't gonna do. It's why it's going
Speaker 3: to be like more adventurous with you know, the girl
Speaker 3: and the dog and Felion thing or whatever. So I'm good.
Speaker 1: Are you excited for the Assassin Screen Shadows dlc.
Speaker 3: Uh? If Shadows was working correctly on PC, I might
Speaker 3: be at the moment. Uh So, Like like any game nowadays,
Speaker 3: it has like weekly quests you can do for like
Speaker 3: you know, free currency or you know, and last we
Speaker 3: did it, it didn't actually work, and I'm like, well that's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this it's gonna to be released on
Speaker 1: September sixteenth.
Speaker 3: I think that was like, Yeah, that's like the DLC
Speaker 3: that everyone's getting for free anyway, because like s gotta
Speaker 3: have getten delayed, so we're gonna give you one for free. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The first expansion clause of a wadgly so yeah, has
Speaker 1: a new region, boss's gear, all that stuff. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be around ten hours.
Speaker 3: You know what. You know, what I would actually like
Speaker 3: is like a continuation of the present day storyline.
Speaker 1: You keep wishing that. Unfortunately, it's like.
Speaker 3: That's not if only it was, like if it wasn't
Speaker 3: the crutch of the entire Dy Damn franchise.
Speaker 1: Uh, the they are released a new game, plus it'll
Speaker 1: be like pretty much out as soon as you're watching
Speaker 1: and listening to this, So does that attempt you to
Speaker 1: go back?
Speaker 3: And I like that game was already a cake walk,
Speaker 3: Like I can't imagine going through it again with like
Speaker 3: all the skills on lock. It's like I could sink
Speaker 3: my way to that game.
Speaker 1: So enough, Yeah, and then we have to get into
Speaker 1: some not so well yeah, not so great news. So
Speaker 1: we thought last week about how Steam due to pressure
Speaker 1: from payment providers like you know, Visa that's the card
Speaker 1: all that had taken off a lot of the kind
Speaker 1: of like n SFW games, the sexually kind of charge games,
Speaker 1: and now it's dot Io has actually gone a step
Speaker 1: further and just removed them all, right that they've hidden
Speaker 1: them from being able to be purchased on the store,
Speaker 1: Like basically they just don't exist to anybody that's like
Speaker 1: surfing the store. Uh, you know this a lot of
Speaker 1: people obviously with understandably crying for censorship on this, especially
Speaker 1: because it's like the equivalent of like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: mothers against drunk driving or whatever. The ones that are
Speaker 1: kind of pushing for this kind of thing. They're pushing
Speaker 1: the pain providers to kind of like go after it
Speaker 1: and try to get this stuff taken off the stores. Also,
Speaker 1: you got like it's just the UK, right, not the
Speaker 1: EU that's doing that age verification thing for various sites
Speaker 1: that even includes gaming sites where you have to verify
Speaker 1: your age in order to even access it. So this
Speaker 1: isn't like just understandably they're trying to prevent them. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the one in the United States where
Speaker 1: they're trying to prevent you from accessing you know, porn
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But this also kind of goes
Speaker 1: into like also preventing them from access and gambling and
Speaker 1: other things. I guess they're also trying. There are people
Speaker 1: trying to fight and get the law repealed. We'll see
Speaker 1: about that. But what do you think about this? You
Speaker 1: do you think that, like, let's say, is Epic going
Speaker 1: to be next? Like what do you? Well? Does Epic
Speaker 1: even have any of that on their store?
Speaker 3: I don't think Epic does, No one cares?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, two funny things. It's like, first of all, the
Speaker 3: age thing in the UK is kind of funny because
Speaker 3: like they're lowering their voting age to sixteen, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's enough you can vote at sixteen, you can't watch
Speaker 3: porn until eighteen. It's like what well that yeah?
Speaker 1: And then I mean other countries around them, you're an
Speaker 1: adult oft like fifteen, so it's like okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: And like the itsuyo thing is kind of kind of
Speaker 3: it's almost like a photo bucket thing, like them treating
Speaker 3: themselves like way in the foot because like the people
Speaker 3: complaining about this aren't itch anyway, like they I mean
Speaker 3: practically no one is really, but.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, like it's is like very like developer focused,
Speaker 1: Like that's just like but.
Speaker 3: They're also like incredibly niche and I mean small, like
Speaker 3: they When Steam should have doing this, it should have
Speaker 3: been like should have taken the other tack and go, hey,
Speaker 3: if you want your porn games, come over here, right.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's the thing though, is like it's
Speaker 1: the same thing. That's like why it happened to Steam
Speaker 1: is if payment providers are going to make it a
Speaker 1: problem for you to buy any game on Steam or Itch,
Speaker 1: then that's going to cut their bottom line. It sucks, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I.
Speaker 3: Agree with what a dude who made me a a
Speaker 3: mana I'm not Suda trait his name. What he said,
Speaker 3: like this is like censorship, Yeah, because well I talked
Speaker 3: to you about Yo Katara. But it's yeah, like violent
Speaker 3: games are next, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like that's what that's the ploy is
Speaker 1: that where does this extend.
Speaker 3: Or all video games? You know, because there's certain people
Speaker 3: who think like all of the games like The Devil
Speaker 3: and you know shit like that.
Speaker 1: So oh no, I mean yeah, there's there's people and
Speaker 1: especially that you know, you have the data that that
Speaker 1: like people are just saying a keeper are just wasting
Speaker 1: their life away, and like, like, yo, I mean, here's
Speaker 1: the problem with that. It's just like you really can't
Speaker 1: say that anymore because now you have phones that are
Speaker 1: doing that even worse. Right, Uh, you know, TikTok is
Speaker 1: is find people, you know, kids' brains even further than
Speaker 1: video games ever did h. So you know you could
Speaker 1: say that that culture already kind of predispose you to that.
Speaker 1: But yo, man, like the dopamine hit you get from
Speaker 1: watching a video on TikTok or Instagram or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: I don't think that even that doesn't that doesn't even
Speaker 1: compare to a video game because it's like there's so
Speaker 1: many video games where like it takes a while to
Speaker 1: get to that loop that's enjoyable, right, whereas like if
Speaker 1: the videos are not hitting, you just go to the
Speaker 1: next one. So it's just it doesn't work in the
Speaker 1: same way. I do. I do think that like that
Speaker 1: they are trying to get to the point where Okay,
Speaker 1: well we got the the sex games out of here,
Speaker 1: let's get the big violent games out of here too,
Speaker 1: and then oh, but so what makes Doom different than
Speaker 1: you know, a postal at that point or whatever, and
Speaker 1: where do you draw the.
Speaker 3: Line, It'll still be funny. Imagine like Visa was like okay,
Speaker 3: you can't buy GTA six.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, oh god, the pitchforks that will be
Speaker 1: out for that would just be I think that would
Speaker 1: probably cause the government to have to step in and
Speaker 1: be like we're gonna have to get some kind of
Speaker 1: regulation here now if GTA six got blocked. So if
Speaker 1: you want to you want to see things go the
Speaker 1: other way.
Speaker 3: That's like rock Star should do is go like whoever,
Speaker 3: whatever payment like Visa or Magical Car or whatever, Like
Speaker 3: if you're blocking sex games, you can't buy our game
Speaker 3: until that is restored. Yeah, and then instantly it will
Speaker 3: get restored.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. It's like, oh wait, in a totally change
Speaker 1: of direction, they put those all back on the store again.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Speaking of things that somewhat surprise you, After all the
Speaker 1: stuff with the Subnotica two devs last week and the
Speaker 1: week before that, Crafton is here buying another studio. This
Speaker 1: time they're acquiring the last Epoch studio Eleventh Hour Games
Speaker 1: they're owning of the studio. It's kind of one of
Speaker 1: those things like like Okay, I'm happy for you to
Speaker 1: get your money. But does it mean you guys are
Speaker 1: also going to run into the same problem.
Speaker 3: That the well I think, take the money, take the
Speaker 3: money and run, you know, like yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean it does give them an ARPG which they don't have,
Speaker 1: so it's smart from that side of things. You know,
Speaker 1: last epoch was is very well liked for.
Speaker 3: The most part, so it was. But didn't it really
Speaker 3: fall off? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did, especially after last Yeah, last Sex out to
Speaker 1: Yeah came out, so yeah that that probably kind of
Speaker 1: ate its lunch there and they they card him for
Speaker 1: a cool ninety six million. Yeah, of course that's that's
Speaker 1: nothing for crafting. I'm sure, right, but uh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like I really hope we don't we don't hear
Speaker 1: bad news quickly after this, Like don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear about somebody getting laid off because you had
Speaker 1: to acquire them and then start removing some of the
Speaker 1: pieces that you don't need because now they're just gonna
Speaker 1: kind of go in support for the game and all that, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: can have gone Indie tech Land, which you know there
Speaker 1: they do the Dying Light series. They have that The Beast,
Speaker 1: which they spun off from being a DLC for Dying
Speaker 1: Light too. That's been delayed a few times. It is
Speaker 1: going to be delayed almost a month to September nineteenth.
Speaker 1: Now they want to get some extra polishing work on
Speaker 1: it and all that stuff. Totally cool with that. Just
Speaker 1: the parlm is that now you're coming into like the
Speaker 1: fall season and you have lost a chance of people
Speaker 1: playing your game.
Speaker 3: But it's also a zombie game, so I mean people
Speaker 3: like horror games, especially around like October.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully it'll pick up you know, some steam there
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 3: But hey, it ain't like that. We talked about stated
Speaker 3: K three's come out anytime.
Speaker 1: Soon, so yeah, it's not. So it turns out Mark
Speaker 1: that Fall Fantasy Tactics is actually a remake, the remaster
Speaker 1: because they had to make the whole game again because
Speaker 1: they overwrote the original source code, which that's not new
Speaker 1: for them. They did that with Fun Fantasy eight, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did the remaster for that too, so.
Speaker 3: Uh like yeah, like they didn't well I mean, how
Speaker 3: did they go out of companies out about it at
Speaker 3: the time. And it's hard drive here that has Tactics
Speaker 3: on it. But the game's out gold pressing or whatever.
Speaker 3: So let's let's format this and put in Final Fantasy
Speaker 3: nine or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I think with like the Kingdom Hearts collection,
Speaker 1: they had to do the same thing. They had to
Speaker 1: get like a retail copy of Kingdom Hearts one and
Speaker 1: like take assets out of it to be able to
Speaker 1: make that again for like the remasters.
Speaker 3: Right though, which you think that Like it's kind of
Speaker 3: a weird, weird question because like you'd think, would it
Speaker 3: be cheaper for them instead of doing this to hire
Speaker 3: some like PlayStation hackers out there or whatever, and it's
Speaker 3: a reverse engineer the game, right, Like, maybe it wouldn't be,
Speaker 3: But I mean I would think it might be cheaper though,
Speaker 3: like you know, hire modern Vintage game or whatever, or
Speaker 3: you know, a team of him and other like minded
Speaker 3: folks to this crack the game open and get it out.
Speaker 3: But I don't think it's like the assets or like
Speaker 3: you know, the actual game is in that type of
Speaker 3: state for that. But who knows, right, I mean I
Speaker 3: had never played Tactics. I know, I imagine you played it
Speaker 3: and love it, and yes it's very well regarded, but
Speaker 3: something that passed me by completely too. I played like
Speaker 3: the demo once and that's about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait for that remaster. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: gonna play the craft out of that thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my buddy mine, I ordered the special edition, you know,
Speaker 3: the two and fifty dollars thing.
Speaker 1: I wish I had that to just be able to
Speaker 1: spend on it. I definitely I would. I think about it,
Speaker 1: just because I love that game that much.
Speaker 3: But speak speaking of that, a local not local, it's
Speaker 3: been an hour away, but a used game store has
Speaker 3: a mostly complete in box copy of earth Bound. Oh nice,
Speaker 3: it's missing one of the scratch and stiff snicker stickers
Speaker 3: or not stickers, but like cards and the construction manual. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's how much five? It's good. That's a good joke.
Speaker 3: That's not funded up be getting it? Uh two grand gee? Wow?
Speaker 3: To be fair, I mean I think it is complete
Speaker 3: except for like that one card, and it is a
Speaker 3: very nice commissioned box. But yeah, yeah, that's I found it.
Speaker 3: I think the driving there tomorrow, like I let's do
Speaker 3: this right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting, like I love seeing this kind of
Speaker 1: thing of like how they do this. It'd be cool
Speaker 1: as screenings came out with like a making of uh
Speaker 1: this kind of thing that the way they did for
Speaker 1: like rebirth and uh, you know sandfal did with Claire Obscure,
Speaker 1: they came out with some cool like featurettes to be
Speaker 1: cool if they did that for Tactics here, just to
Speaker 1: see like what they had to go through to do this.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that kind of makes sense now.
Speaker 3: Why like.
Speaker 1: They didn't get to like re remake it right, like
Speaker 1: they don't want they had to spend so much time
Speaker 1: making the origin in a version of the game again.
Speaker 3: That yeah, you know, I have to keep it within
Speaker 3: like the old realm. It's not like it's not like
Speaker 3: the Final Fantasy seven to remake that people were like
Speaker 3: maybe not expecting and hoping for. It's like that's not
Speaker 3: going to happen with this at all.
Speaker 1: Like I hope that they eventually get to, you know,
Speaker 1: bring the Game Boy Advanced games.
Speaker 3: To others as one. Also, well that's just the.
Speaker 1: War of the Lions, Like, uh, it's like a remastered,
Speaker 1: better version of the original, which I add some of
Speaker 1: that stuff, right, but it's going to be added like later.
Speaker 1: I think it's not not all in.
Speaker 3: I mean, the one thing I know about Tactics is
Speaker 3: like there's a very arcane way to get like Cloud
Speaker 3: in the game yes, there is, and that's what they
Speaker 3: should do for like fifty more time, to just start
Speaker 3: selling DLC characters.
Speaker 1: I would not put it past them at all. I
Speaker 1: will not put it past them that they will somehow
Speaker 1: find a way to like start adding characters to this
Speaker 1: and like make it like another what is that game
Speaker 1: that they the fighting game or whatever?
Speaker 3: The not there.
Speaker 1: Guyskaya the City, Yeah, where they just added characters all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 3: Now, my joke was like, you're gonna like buy Laharal
Speaker 3: from this guya you know, yeah, unlike the pretty you know.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, just do all that. Uh they's speaking of,
Speaker 1: you know, doing combos that fill Fantasy crossed the Magic
Speaker 1: the Gathering set. It is the highest selling set ever
Speaker 1: or Magic even more than the Lord of the Rings
Speaker 1: one by a heck of a lot. Obviously. What sucks
Speaker 1: is that now you want to buy that second hand,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be paying a thousand dollars, you know, like
Speaker 1: card shows for that.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: What sucks for me because I thought about it, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, what what am I gonna do
Speaker 1: with this? I'm this, Yeah, you don't play magic, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't play magic. What am I going to just
Speaker 1: to have it.
Speaker 3: You know. That's the thing. All these people are fucking
Speaker 3: buying this thing, and so you don't play Magic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I mean, if if you just want to a
Speaker 3: cool collectible, buy a cool collectible, you.
Speaker 1: Know, but it is a cool collectible, you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to have. They're not gonna make infect.
Speaker 3: Buy more like bespoke collectible. Then you know, buy something
Speaker 3: more unique, like.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna not You're not gonna buy the Assassin's
Speaker 1: Screen what.
Speaker 3: They already did it. I mean, that's what I hate
Speaker 3: about Magic at this point. It's basically like the funkal
Speaker 3: pop of collectible card games have Ghostbusters and Mommy Python.
Speaker 1: And and.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're gonna do spider Man. Yeah, so it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: Magic is dead.
Speaker 1: Like m hm, well, I mean I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: like they have that digital version of it now where
Speaker 1: you can like learn how to play and then.
Speaker 3: You the problem. The problem with Magic at least, like
Speaker 3: aside from like all this don't like guest guest franchise nonsense,
Speaker 3: is like like I've looked at a lot of the
Speaker 3: fun of fantasy cards. They're all like very ah rule
Speaker 3: set dependent or like not character but like to like
Speaker 3: actually do well against the fun of fancy deck. You
Speaker 3: need a on a fancy deck because the cards are
Speaker 3: like massively overpowered. It's like, yeah, no, Like I think
Speaker 3: I looked at like the ject card from Final Fantasy
Speaker 3: ten and like it was kind of like a low power.
Speaker 3: It was like I think like a three to two creature,
Speaker 3: which is kind of weak. But I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: if you do damage against another creature, you gain control
Speaker 3: of it. Like, Okay, that's cool, I guess. You know,
Speaker 3: like imagine if you're trying to like face off against that,
Speaker 3: like it's like very hard. Yeah. So, yeah, like they're
Speaker 3: creating like their own little like pocket universes or you know,
Speaker 3: like kingdoms for these rule sets because like, yeah, you
Speaker 3: can't like if you're just like playing magic normally, you
Speaker 3: have like no way to defend against it. I'll ast
Speaker 3: you like specifically build a deck that way, which is
Speaker 3: expensive and time consuming. But yeah, like this selling to
Speaker 3: a million dollars no ship. Yeah so and it's like,
Speaker 3: I bet Square is really kicking themselves in the ass
Speaker 3: now for not making trying to make sure he'll try
Speaker 3: out a real thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they have that voice of the cards
Speaker 1: thing that they tried to make right a thing for
Speaker 1: a while, and.
Speaker 3: Then I have like a weird like this is like retro,
Speaker 3: not well not retro. I bought it like at the
Speaker 3: time it was new, but like I have a a
Speaker 3: weird find my Fantasy eight deck like themed deck of cards.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, it's like all just like shots from the game,
Speaker 3: Like some are like FMV, some are as a character
Speaker 3: like portraits and shit like that. But that's more interesting
Speaker 3: to me than like Magic the Gathering at this point too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get through his last couple of
Speaker 1: not great news stories. One of them is split Gate
Speaker 1: two is essentially the unlaunching, and ten seven Games is
Speaker 1: having to lay off people.
Speaker 3: I guess they didn't make SPS great NFL.
Speaker 1: No, it definitely did not that that stunt that he
Speaker 1: did at the what was it, Yeah, SCF wasn't. It
Speaker 1: didn't really have that much h They also like took
Speaker 1: down the first Splitgate because they had like twenty people
Speaker 1: withink playing that thing, and they were just it was
Speaker 1: just costing them money.
Speaker 3: There's other people who are taking about anthem crying about
Speaker 3: this thing now. Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: He said that they apparently they launched too early. We
Speaker 1: had ambitious goals with split Gate two. We bet on
Speaker 1: whether we could chew. We rushed certain features, made some
Speaker 1: head of mistakes, and we didn't give you the polish
Speaker 1: portal field mayhem you fell in love with. The game
Speaker 1: is going back in the bait and the team is
Speaker 1: going heads down until twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say that this is a lost
Speaker 3: cause because there are certainly games Fantasy fourteen being the obvious.
Speaker 1: Example that, right, and people like this game.
Speaker 3: You know, bad launches and they go back to the
Speaker 3: drawing board, but it's so rare that yeah, it almost
Speaker 3: never happens. Well, I wish him luck.
Speaker 1: And there's definitely people that are not going to come
Speaker 1: back right sure after that. So and then you know,
Speaker 1: at least they gave him severance and job placement support
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But it still sucks. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: see this same thing Supermassive delayed direct of eighty twenty
Speaker 1: with just kind of like narrative focused like space game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the next and the uh.
Speaker 1: What about that anthology?
Speaker 3: Yeah it's not Dark Dark Pictures, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dark Practice. Yeah, the Dark Pictures. It's now going
Speaker 1: to launch it the first half of twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: and they had to layoff around thirty six employees as well,
Speaker 1: which that sucks. Yeah, there's promising to support them, but
Speaker 1: just they they did say that there's no impact on
Speaker 1: the little Nightmares three team, which that's good, but still
Speaker 1: just that sucks right to see. Yeah, just rather ENFORCNATE.
Speaker 1: Hopefully everybody can find jobs quickly and all that jazz.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead and do the like games
Speaker 1: that are launching this week and then we can kind
Speaker 1: of get into some you know, movie talk here to
Speaker 1: end the show. So this is you know, that last
Speaker 1: month in July, and we're gonna get into August now,
Speaker 1: which is man, this year has just flown by. I
Speaker 1: feel like it just constantly. It feels like we're heading
Speaker 1: into a new month all the time. It felt like
Speaker 1: it took forever to get to the We were all
Speaker 1: waiting for that April second thing for switch to and
Speaker 1: then after that it's like just boom. The rest of
Speaker 1: the year just happened. We're almost getting into the fall
Speaker 1: season where everybody's gonna try to jam their game into
Speaker 1: releasing a two month period and everybody's gonna try to
Speaker 1: see if they can what they can play and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But there is some interesting things coming out. You Got Fumes,
Speaker 1: which is like an indie version of what Twisted Metal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: also Twisted Metal, the second season of the TV show
Speaker 1: comes out this week as well. You Got.
Speaker 3: I may watch that. We'll see too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to watch it as well. Uh Na Donna,
Speaker 1: which is this kind of like cool indie like first
Speaker 1: person like dream simulator game on the twenty eighth. Also
Speaker 1: Grounded two comes out or will be out by the
Speaker 1: time you're watching listening to this. Yeah, I wish that
Speaker 1: hope that game keeps doing well. The first one did
Speaker 1: way better than I think anyone expected over there at
Speaker 1: Citian Model Mantergatari Fia in the Wonder of Kingdom that's
Speaker 1: also on the twenty ninth. That's hat on everything that
Speaker 1: tells of the Shire, the Little the Rings like yeah,
Speaker 1: is out, also on Everything essentially Dead Take, which is
Speaker 1: like the another one of those games is kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't think of it right now. Uh that my god,
Speaker 1: the one with the Lady that they had like all
Speaker 1: those actors in it, Oh my god. Immortality like immortality.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's kind of like that, like the found
Speaker 1: footage thing that has Ben Starr in it. Other yeah,
Speaker 1: it has some of the cool actors in it as well,
Speaker 1: so definitely worth checking out for sure. Dear me, I
Speaker 1: was another one of those like visual novel games that
Speaker 1: comes out. It's gonna be on switch to. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll kind of like do decently. Yeah, and then we're
Speaker 1: kind of going into a ninja gotten rage Bound, which
Speaker 1: I'm excited about. That's only a few days away, so
Speaker 1: that's right, that's the two D one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that looks all sorts of awesome, so I'm ready to. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see how much further I can get into Donkey
Speaker 1: Kong and then we'll definitely take some time to play
Speaker 1: that for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, then we'll be in another month of gaming here,
Speaker 1: with some heavy hitters hitting this next month too. So
Speaker 1: but all right, what did you.
Speaker 3: Think?
Speaker 1: No spoilers, what do you think? You're fantastic for the
Speaker 1: first steps?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's like a simpler movie than like Superman,
Speaker 3: but that's not necessarily a bad thing, because man is
Speaker 3: a little you know, bloated, I guess, uh, it was
Speaker 3: really funny. Also, uh, all you cared about the soundtrack
Speaker 3: of course, but like he didn't like the like the
Speaker 3: concept of Galactus or like what his goal was or
Speaker 3: motivation was. I'm like, I want you to eat the planet,
Speaker 3: like what you know, like you wanted like the backstory
Speaker 3: for Galactus and I'm like what, like I literally tell
Speaker 3: you he's like from before the universe or you know,
Speaker 3: so uh but yeah, good cast uh Like the only
Speaker 3: weird thing to me kind of, I mean like they
Speaker 3: didn't show a ton of like read Richard's powers. It's
Speaker 3: like at the very end, yeah, and but everything everyone
Speaker 3: else is you know good you know, and then it's
Speaker 3: by the probably to stand out uh uh. And they
Speaker 3: it almost feels like some of the movie. I mean
Speaker 3: it did get kind of chopped up because I know,
Speaker 3: like John Mackfitch is supposed being able to cut him out.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: They introduced like like a love interest for you know
Speaker 3: the thing, only yeah, it goes nowhere. It's like really weird,
Speaker 3: Like they introduce her and then there's like a scene
Speaker 3: near the end where like he goes to see her
Speaker 3: before Galacta shows up, and that's kind of it. Like yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like where does the conclude, Like should they read
Speaker 3: more of a conclusion here. Uh yeah, you know, I look,
Speaker 3: the art style or not, like, you know, the art
Speaker 3: direction was cool. You know, the world they inhabit is
Speaker 3: you know interesting. So yeah, I know I solid overall
Speaker 3: like not the best movie ever, but you know, Marvel's
Speaker 3: done worse, especially that that two years. So it's a
Speaker 3: it's a good uh foundation kind of for what the
Speaker 3: next Marvel movie, you know, Doom's Day, what the hell
Speaker 3: it's gonna be called? And how they kind of more
Speaker 3: converge all the universes together, which is like that's I
Speaker 3: think what Kevin five Y has been saying, like, you know,
Speaker 3: that'sn't gonna merge more of this stuff together. So we'll
Speaker 3: see how that goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to see that on Tuesday. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: can talk about it more next week.
Speaker 3: Oh the one. This ain't a spoiler, but I mean
Speaker 3: it does have a few like a mid mid credit
Speaker 3: sequence and then like an after credit sequence.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The last song they played for the credit sequence, uh
Speaker 3: might legitimately be one of the worst songs I've ever
Speaker 3: heard in my life.
Speaker 1: And you got to sit there, ah yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's like so it's not like some pop song
Speaker 3: it's not like some mate, it's not like some song
Speaker 3: that has got you know, the guy who made the soundtrack,
Speaker 3: he's usually pretty good about this stuff, and Jen's loves him,
Speaker 3: and he wrote this thing, I think some woman ah
Speaker 3: and it's like this like weird sixties folk song. Yeah
Speaker 3: that sounds like you know, fake Joan Biez. And it
Speaker 3: is terrible. And I was ranking about it to YenS
Speaker 3: like the attracts of the movie, but before he did,
Speaker 3: and he was like, so is it is it in
Speaker 3: the movie? Like he was like, is there like a
Speaker 3: reason for the song existing or is it you know,
Speaker 3: is there any you know, any you know, justification for
Speaker 3: the song. No, it's just in there and it's terrible.
Speaker 3: So you've got to look forward to tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure about it as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah we all know, we all know people go see
Speaker 3: movies for the soundtrack, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I I thought Happy Gilmore Too was
Speaker 1: actually pretty decent, to be honest. Look, they they they
Speaker 1: got a lot of the same hooks as the first one. Obviously,
Speaker 1: some of this stuff is not as a punchy, but
Speaker 1: you know, they do some great callbacks and some fun stuff.
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that they play off the
Speaker 1: whole live golf and PGA tour thing as sort of
Speaker 1: like the central theme. Aside from like, I love the
Speaker 1: fact that like Adam Sandler is kind of grown up
Speaker 1: also in this, Like it's not him trying to be
Speaker 1: the same guy from the first movie, right, he's definitely
Speaker 1: like matured, and his motivations for why he is doing
Speaker 1: this is like pretty cool. And he's also casting his
Speaker 1: two daughters and it's his actual wife and the thing too,
Speaker 1: so that's pretty neat. Like yeah, uh there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of cameos obviously from you know, his posse and
Speaker 1: then some other ones as well, so uh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I liked it a lot more than I thought, Like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of these like there they they have
Speaker 1: been doing the Like I wonder if the airplane redo
Speaker 1: is gonna be anything good or not, But like this
Speaker 1: is one of those times where what is it I
Speaker 1: can't remember his name, but the guy that does shoot him,
Speaker 1: Christop McDonald Christopher McDonald's and trying for like twenty five
Speaker 1: years or something to get him to do happy to
Speaker 1: hear more too, right, And I think this is a success. Really.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're hopefully they don't try to
Speaker 1: Shoehan shoehorn a third one or whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh they will, but you know, by then Sam will
Speaker 3: be like seventy five or something.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but yeah, I thought that they did a
Speaker 1: heck of a much better job or yeah, than I
Speaker 1: ever expected for that movie to be. So I definitely
Speaker 1: give it a watch if you got Netflix.
Speaker 3: I was MJF.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's in there, and he's he's funny, he has
Speaker 1: his moments.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of the thing, but A
Speaker 1: twenty four had a movie about like literally it's something
Speaker 1: about like the death of Oh it's called the Death
Speaker 1: of a Unicorn. Oh yeah, with a Naya two movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that came out and really really bonded unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was not bad, It's all right, Yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: is crazy. It's like a horror movie with the unicorns
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, and I and I being a
Speaker 1: horror movie folks. So it's kind of like, all right,
Speaker 1: this is not what I expected, but sure, whatever you know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's all my entertainment stuff for this
Speaker 1: week that isn't like the normal kind of things. Is
Speaker 1: things that I watch. Uh yeah, that have to be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if girlfriend's gonna like that or not,
Speaker 1: but it might be something I watched, like, you know,
Speaker 1: on a break at work or something like that. Slowly
Speaker 1: but surely, but all right. Uh, we'll be back next week.
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