Speaker 1: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to side Quest. This is
your weekly video game episode. What are we on? There's
a show here we go, my gosh weekly video game podcast.
That was a rough start to the to the day.
I am not Dylan Muss, which you might be confused
why I hijacked this show, But I am the trainer Kirklembatzer,
and I have here with me today.
Speaker 2: Sins of a Taylor Field.
Speaker 1: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is a very very special
I feel like I feel like this is a first
Taylor l hijacking of a side Quest if you followed
geek first. In the past, we've definitely done two man
episodes and reviews, but not just a specific gaming topic show,
and I think this is going to be a special one.
We haven't we haven't kicked Dylan out of his show
or anything like that. He's just a little bit under
the weather right now. So we're we're sharing the load,
mister Frodo and gonna be talking about some good stuff
this week. And before you get into that, just quickly
shout out. As I already mentioned, geek Versus is our
main channel where we have plenty of plenty of reviews
going on right now, actually right now. We got Penguin
up and running, we got Rings of Power slowing down,
getting close to that finale. Why is it the finale
this week?
Speaker 2: You're right?
Speaker 1: Wow? Oh my gosh, Okay, For some reason I thought
we had two more. So, yeah, Penguin's going on. We've
got Joker fully Ada coming out this week, which is exciting.
We did a retro for that, and uh yeah, just
lots and lots of stuff news. I don't want to
I don't want to get too off the rails on
the plugs and all that. I just want to get
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But yes, go check out our Patreon for further ways.
Just honestly, it's just the single greatest way to support
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exclusive content on there. And uh, I don't know, I
think I'm ready to just jump into there. What do
you have anything else to shout out there?
Speaker 2: No, I thank you. You hit the nail on the
head perfect.
Speaker 1: I hit a couple of nails at least with at
least two or three swings. But uh yeah, we're just
gonna jump right into it. And in classic side quest fashion.
We're gonna be talking about some video games that we've
been playing and Sins of a Tailor Field you got me,
You got me intrigued by your name. It's a good
little clickbait article title you got I would be clicking
on that article. I saw that name. What do you
got for me today?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Sins of a Solar Empire. Let me tell you,
I've not been playing the second one. Actually, I went
back and I've been sinking some hours into Sins of
a Solar Empire.
Speaker 1: Rebellion nic that DLC, that's for the first one.
Speaker 2: It's it's its own game because the first one has DLC,
but Rebellion is its own game. It's like a game,
it's like an exactly yes. And so for the longest time,
I thought that this was basically just the sequel, and
I thought that this game was pretty much dead, that
we would never get anything after the DLC, the things
that they've implemented into it. But lo and behold, we're
hanging out and just casually slips like, yes, this it's
of a Solar Empire too, And I'm like, what I
had into my Steam wish list, I'm waiting for it
to go on sale. I checked the stats and I
can handle this on my desktop, which is great.
Speaker 1: Nice reviews are looking good as well, so it's excited,
really good. We're saying, it's just like if you like
the first one, this is like a perfect continuation, so exactly.
Speaker 2: They took the good things and they kind of threw
out the stuff that was kind of pointless, and I'm
just I'm super super excited to get around to that.
But I'm gonna wait for a Steam sale because I'm
not I'm not rushing to play that new one, because again,
I got I got Rebellion. I have a hard copy
of the first Ins of a Solar Empire Memember. I
bought it from Lenden Drugs a long long time ago.
But Rebelly Drugs was like a weird It's like a
weird play.
Speaker 1: I feel like I got plenty of video games in
London drugs for some reason, like like maybe comparable to
like TV games for some reason. There's just some some
good fines in the London drugs.
Speaker 2: And they're really charged, like it's so brill You go
in there today and there's still like seventy dollars like
for like sixty bucks right, it's ridiculous. But yeah, so
I've been sinking the hours into Rebellion. It feels good.
It took me a little bit of time to kind
of get back into it and figure out just the
basics of like what's going on. So I started off small.
Have you know your your allies? And I forgot that
there's so many interesting things when you're fortifying your planets
and when you're trying to fortify your fleet, and just
how you can tackle different things like trade commerce, black
market and like setting bounties on your opponents and dealing
with pirate fleets coming after you and all of that jazz.
And so I took a quick little video that I'm
going to share with you because I want to show
you just the scale of this game is.
Speaker 1: So I've seen some videos and it blows my mind.
I feel like it seems overwhelming, which is how much?
Because it is all real time? Like can you change
like the game speed at all? Like is there options
like pause and like think about what you're doing.
Speaker 2: You can pause and you can pause it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, and they're adding on to that question too,
does the speed feel like like I'm sure there's a
learning curve, but does the speed of the game like
naturally feel like this is manageable, like like it doesn't
feel too fast too slow.
Speaker 2: Or yes it does, and it doesn't feel like you
go into an area and let's say your ships and
your fleet will just get destroyed instantly. The battles are long,
and I like that because there's a situation where I
had a planet I was defending it, and my main
fleet was that it was about two systems away or sorry,
two planets away, and I was being attacked. I thought, Okay,
you know what, I don't want to pull my main
fleet back from this defensive position, but I think I
have to. I pulled my main fleet back back to
my main planet here, and it was great because it
took a while, but this battle was happening at this
planet where my small little fleet was getting reinforced from
the production lines, but it was getting destroyed. And so
finally my main fleet arrives and there's a little bit
of battle here, and like the it's just cool because
they're both fronts. The fleet in the middle is being
sandwiched and like trying just to like take them on,
but then they away. It's just it's it's a pace
that you can keep up with. You can advance your technology,
you can grow your fleet, you can you can advance
in a comfortable way. Ah. So this just gets me
super juicy. So I play as I can't remember I
should know their name, but I always play as an
alien race. There's like advanced humans, there's regular humans, and
then there's the aliens. And I play as the Aliens.
They have like, I just love them. They're great. Yeah,
you can play as like their main loyalist factions, or
you can play as the rebellion versions. Each have similar ships,
but different super units, different abilities, whatnot. So, uh this,
if it'll let me play it, there we go. This
is this is a fucking huge fleet that I built.
And so you got capital ships, you got smaller cruisers.
Speaker 1: So is there are a lot of like micro movements you
have to do in the combat, or you just kind
of get your ships in there and they do their
thing and.
Speaker 2: You get your ships there. You can designate them to
audit autotask them to respond certain ways. But I just
this is what I love is going from planet to
planet and just watching your ships doing like hyperspace jumps.
And this is like my big boy, my super unit.
This is Purple's enemy, and the Yellow is actually my
ally just fucking them up, and you can see Yellow's
got another super unit over there. And then just when
you see the fleet coming in like this, Oh that's tasty.
It's just oh, here's this game.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you know, if it's up your.
Speaker 2: Head, I'll pull it up.
Speaker 1: Like this doesn't look that bad. Like, honestly, I feel
like this I was expecting to look more dated.
Speaker 2: I came out twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's very decade ago, still like newer than I thought.
Though for some reason I thought, like specifically Rebellion was that.
I'm just thinking, like since Solar Empire, I feel like
the first time I had heard of it was a
while ago. But I mean you say, yeah, it was
already over a decade.
Speaker 2: It was over a decade.
Speaker 1: It's already a long time ago. But yeah, this just
looks crazy. And like just comparing some of the like
the footage I've seen from the new game, you know,
it just looks that much cleaner. I think, Oh yeah.
Some complaints I have heard is that the game developer
use like some AI to help like just speed up
the UI design process. Apparently the UI isn't really it's
just not that user for it, not that great, not
that good right now. But that's always something. You know,
enough people complain they can hopefully patch that at some point. Yeah,
of course this epic though. Yeah, I've always been interested
in this game. I feel like I talked to you
about this game, honestly, like Target, Like, I feel like
that's around the time when it when it got brought up.
I don't know if I found it and was talking
to me about it, or if you just told me
about it and I was mentioning just my love for
strategy games and arts games and no, but that looks amazing.
And on that topic of just RTS games, if you
or anyone else all there listened to last week's side
Quest episode, I was talking to Dylan about have you
played like Age of Empires Age Mythology those games?
Speaker 2: I'm not. I actually yes, I have played Mythology a
century ago and Age of Empire is three. I really
got into that one nice but specific specific battles. I
like Carrios.
Speaker 1: I see so for Age Mythology. You know, quickly little update. People,
if they didn't listen to last week's episode, that's like
by far my favorite arts game of all time. I
always just love like the history and like the Greek
mythology and all that stuff. Like I just loved all
of the aspects of that game, let alone the actual gameplay.
And they recently came out with Age Mythology Retold, which
is doing really good right now. A lot of people
are loving that and having a great time. I purchased
this game and for some reason, it just will not
launch for me on Steam. Man, that's a big bummer
because it was like the first time that I was like, man,
like I okay, I'm really hyped for this game. I
want to get it, download it, you know. I had,
like I think Shaye was at like a night shift
that Friday night. I'm like, I'm just gonna stay out
for like fucking seven hours and just play this from
like six in the morning, Like I'm just committing my
whole need of this, And it would just not launch.
And I've tried so many fixes. They've had a couple
patches that came out, and I'm like, hopefully, hopefully the
pat will fix it. No nothing, I've disabled, like certain
programs that people say might be like interviewing. No, just
bit the bullet. I ended up refunding it, which was
really really sad because I do still really want to
play this game. It does look really fantastic. I do
have like the old age mythology that again like if
I want to scratch that, she'll probably just go on there.
But it's just like, I'm also just bitter right now,
and I'm like, fuck that I don't eve want to
play Age now now that I can't play this one.
So yeah, that's my update from last week. I still
can't run that game, and I have since refunded it.
But the day that I refunded it, because you know,
I'm looking at this game I just bought, and I'm like, well,
I was using that money for a game, so let's
just look at these other things. And I was look
at the Sins of a Solar Empire and I came close.
It was in my card at one point. But I
was like, this is also the type of game I
feel like I want to watch like a YouTube tutorial
to like learn how to play it. That's that's what
I ended up doing, Like the first time I got
into like a total war game, which now is you know,
one of my favorite strategy games of all time to
war Warhammer, but like, I think there's something about those
strategy games that are really deep and like almost the
level that you have to like watch YouTube tutorials just
because it's like it's such a high skill ceiling and
that's what makes it fun and like you can just
sink thousands upon thousands of hours into it. So I
definitely still want to try it. Sense of Solar because
the only sci fi strategy game I think I've played
would have been, not counting on Wars, would have been
uh yeah, StarCraft StarCraft two specifically. I went really hard
on that game, not like competitively or anything, but just
playing a lot of the campaign and then with some
friends doing some land battles. But yeah, that's just because
this game is so different than like a classic art
I don't even think it is considered an arts game.
It's like a four X or something like that, whatever
the specific subgenre of a strategy is. But just just yeah,
the scale of it. When you see all of those
thousands of ships and then you like zoom out you
go like manage your other planets. It's just like, oh
my god, the Solar system, like the trade federation here
or something Yeah, if if.
Speaker 2: You're looking for something a little bit more simple, I
would recommend have you ever heard of Stronghold or Stronghold Crusader?
Speaker 1: I think still, let me look this up.
Speaker 2: It does a little video here. This this is the
first RTS game that I ever got back when I
was in elementary school.
Speaker 1: My friend, that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: The graphics are super retro but man like, the looks
like a vampires though it's like similar the castle building.
This is Crusader. Then they have a more uh rob
The other one is just regular Stronghold in the medieval setting,
but this is Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic. It is such a fantastic freaking game. I
cannot recommend it enough. They've done Stronghol Crusader too. There's
a whole bunch of sequels on Steam. There's bundles that
you can get. H They've really really done a great
job at kind of reviving and like keeping this game
alive and just really delivering out. Like the building your
castles is fantastic. You can have so many creative approaches
and dynamics getting your units in there, sitting traps and
just trying to keep your population on your village happy.
Through either religion or food or different jobs and having
your your citizens like create your weaponry, to build your
units and whatnot. There's there's so much and all it
comes down to is really like they're trying to kill
your king before you kill their king. Yeah, it's just
it's such a freaking great game of just building, uh,
dealing with things in the maps, quarry stuff. You'll only
ever hear good things from me on it. It's just
a fantastic nostalgic trip for me. I've sunk so many
hours into that game.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I know, I definitely have never heard of that,
So thanks for sharing. That's interesting. Okay, anything else on
Sins for now or what most even playing?
Speaker 2: We played some Call of Duty this weekend. The Haunting.
The yeah, Haunting is in right now, but it's a
bit of a because the Halloween Rebirth Island is only
through there's a specific purgatory Island mode, which is not
what you necessarily think, it's more objective based. And then
there is the hell Spawn, which is dealing with the zombies,
which we've played before, where you spawn in with your
team and then as some player turns to a zombie,
they kill you. You turn to a zombie, you can come
back right killing humans and you want to be the
last human alive, and it's brutal. So that being said,
it's a shame because if they had the regular resurgence
mode available, it would be beautiful because the map is
a horror like nightmare. It's so awesomely redesigned for Halloween.
I love it. So we had to do the regular
map rotations playlist because they didn't have regular rebirth available,
So we're playing on Von Dell Fortunes to Keep and
then Rebirth, which is kind of lame. We've got a
few very close second places, but we didn't get any wins.
There's still a couple of days left until the Halloween
event officially starts where you get Sam from Trick or Treat,
and that's what I'm waiting for. They have Michael Myers
in there right now, and that sued Me and Travis
have been playing as Michael Myers.
Speaker 1: So he's pretty nice.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, cool, Well thanks for sharing that, and uh,
you're just getting me excited on a strategy now. I
feel like Sinson's old Empire just got like it was
already on my list, but now it's uh, I mean
it's already been my cart, you know, let alone on my.
Speaker 2: List, just like sitting in your cart, not your wish list.
Speaker 1: It wasn't my car, like I told you. When I
was refunny, I was like, am I doing this right now?
It was like, uh no, it's like eleven thirty at night,
right now, let's go to bed. Always a wild time
to start a brand new tragic game late in the
wee hours, because I feel like the first time, the
first session is like hours long because you're just like
learning everything and just getting totally INKLF. But Okay, we're
gonna quickly take our first ad break of the day
and then uh we'll go on to what I'm playing.
So back that we're back, you'll what have I been playing?
What have I been playing? What was I talking to?
Speaker 2: Dell?
Speaker 1: Oh? I'll just quickly shout it out here. Have you
heard of Cult the Lamb at All? I've talked about
this game multiple times on Okay nice Dylan and I
did a review long time ago, and then I think
it was last week's episode I was mentioning that jumped
back into it. But now it's shame because they've included
a co op mode now, which is fantastic and quick update.
We beat the game today, which was really fun, and
I think we'll still put in like a few more
hours into the game just because there's certain things we
want to upgrade in our little cult village. And it's
a definitely like a grind game in the sense of
like you're constantly having to like manage things in your
in your little village and your little cult there. And
because we are like so late in the game, it's
very self sufficient now, which is satisfying, but it's also like, oh,
we're just getting so close to the max upgrade in
this and then max upgrade in this, so I think
we'll once we get to like that point, then we'll
probably call it on the game overall. But uh yeah, no,
just wanted to update that I've beat the game now,
as my first time beating it since since I first
bought it the first time, I think I killed like
the first three bosses and just for whatever reason just
kind of put it down from there. But playing with
another person has made it a lot more enjoyable and
just we were really enjoying the uh yeah, just kind
of like the city building aspect of the cults. It's
a lot more fun having two minds, you know, how
you're gonna you're gonna sacrifice, you know, and all the
little little aspects into managing a cult. And I just
love the characters and they're really cute. It's it's a funny,
like uh, just mixture of like cute animals and just
like really like dark satanic things that are going on.
So yeah, I really really love that game. But beyond
that's what I've been playing. Oh, I was having this,
you know, hinting up my name here the trainer. I
was having a random just itch for some Pokemon in
my life. I was like, man, I I just I
don't know, I just want to have like a little chill.
It's just hunting for some Pokemon here, and we're working
on my Poke Dex, so I have I think thanks
to Patreon Tyler, he just gave me Pokemon sword or
shield whatever one it was on the switch and I
booted that one up. I don't know. I had a
handful of badges on my character, and I just like, man,
I'm just not a fan of like the newer Pokemon
games where it's like a lot more open world and
I don't know it's I'm gonna sound like an old
guy here, but it just sounds like really like easy
as well. Like you know, in the older Pokemon games,
like your rival would choose your counter, and now like
they choose their like the counter to their own Pokemon.
So then like it's just every battle is like super easy,
and it just seems like just a lot of the
extra features they added in I'm just not a fan of.
I don't know if they've like changed that in some
of the later titles, because Shield would have been the
last one that I have played out of the Pokemon series,
Like I never played Archaeus or Sun and Moon. What's
the Let's Go? And yeah, so those ones I haven't played,
but yeah, I've bened that up. And I was a
little disappointed because I'm like, well, I want that itch
a Pokemon, but don't want to have to do this
long story short. I went on a random not a
random I've been on a targeted hunt for some good
emulators and I managed to find a fantastic game Boy
Advance emulator and a DS emulator on the iPad. So
I've been playing Pokemon Emerald on the iPad. Taylor and
I've never played Emerald before. I've only played Ruby or
Sapphire whatever, which one. I didn't realize that Emerald like
kind of combined because it's like, what is it. Ruby
you get team megm while you're fighting, and then Sapphire
you get Team Aqua and then an Emerald. They're like
they're both in the game, and you get like ray
Quasa is the the cover Pokemon. So I've never played
through like that specific one, you know, I played through
the story of Sapphire Ruby. Can't remember which one it was,
but yeah, just I really hyped on that one there.
And I also this was this was the biggest mind blow.
They actually have a Pokemon Black and White and Black
and White two, which I'm so fucking hyped on because
I never owned those games. Have you played those ones?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I beat them.
Speaker 1: Nice, Yeah, you're a Pokemon legend here. But Pokemon Black
two or White too, I'm pretty sure is the one
that I played at like a friend's house, and I
like it was such a crime that I even got
a glimpse of it, because like I just feel like
and since then, I've been like it's like just chasing
that game and like it just seems like one of
the most hard Pokemon titles to acquire, Like it seems
like nobody has this game or access to it. So
I was really hyped to see that on my emulator
list there. So yeah, I've been I've been playing some
some emeralds just kind of booted that up yesterday, and man,
it is so fucking good, especially like on the iPad.
It's great because it's like a larger screen. Yeah, no,
it's it's been. It's been just awesome. The nostalgic music,
with the characters and everything, and it's just they're just
like and again like nostalgias as a factor, but like
they're just so much better than the newer games, like
I you know, I know there's like customizing you can
do to like your character the new ones, but it's
just like something just really just I don't know, special
about the old formula of the older Pokemon games. I
was gonna start on leaf green, like the like the
older ones. And because I was like just looking at
these lists, they like made me do some research in
the Pokemon titles and I never realized like there was
Pokemon what was it, green, blue, and red? Like those
were like the originals and then they like kind of
redid them into fire red and then leaf green, and
then same thing with gold and silvers, and then it
went like shining gold or something like that, radiant silver.
I can't remember which ones they were, but yeah, I
didn't know that they had like those alternate versions. I
imagine like the original ones was the uh because fire
fire red and leaf green those ones were colored, right,
they weren't black and white. Oh, I feel like they
were colored, and then like the regular ones were black
and white.
Speaker 2: I thought yellow was the colored one.
Speaker 1: And okay, I can't quite remember, but for whatever reason, yeah,
so I feel like fire red or leaf green would
have been the one that I probably played the most,
like as a kid. So I don't know, I just
kind of wanted to start it on Emerald because I
never played that one specifically. And yeah, it's been lots
of fun, man, I'm I've just been really enjoying it
and enjoying the challenge, like it definitely feels like I
have to strate, like especially like I took Treco as
my starting Pokemon because I never did that one before.
I think I did Torchic like the first time around,
and my my rival now when they meet me and
they have like Torchick and it's like, oh my god,
I I have Treaco and then like a couple bug pokemons,
so like one ember use just fucking one shot. It's
my Pokemon here, So I kind of had to shift
my strategy a little bit. Obviously, you want to have
a nice, well rounded roster, but that's kind of where
I was at in the early stage of the game,
and uh yeah, it's just it's just so good. I'm
I'm gonna probably keep updating, you know, every every so often.
I'm on the side quest here on my Pokemon Journey
because I don't think it's gonna be one that I'm
like grinding, like you know, I'm playing like ten hours
every day until like like complete the Poke X or
something like that. But it's just like a nice little
casual background game. Like if I don't know, Shane are
also watching like Shit's Creek right now, which is just fantastic,
So like have that on in the background, playing some
Pokemon on the couch, like it's just yeah, it's fun.
I don't know, I'm not like the biggest Pokemon fan,
but it's definitely, especially the people around our age range.
You know, I feel like it's just like it's probably
rare if you play video games back then and didn't
get like exposed to at least a Pokemon game. Uh,
definitely a big part of just my growing up, even
just like the cards and everything. So yeah, and another
thing too, when I was like playing Pokemon Sword and Shield,
I'm like, I don't fucking know any of these Pokemon
man like, like like like some of these designs now
are just like so goofy in my mind, Like it's
just so like on the nose or it's like back
in the day they just have like like just some
like I don't know, nose pass. That was one that
I was fighting today out of like what a fucking
stupid Pokemon. But like I don't know, just compared to
some of the more modern ones, I definitely prefer that.
And yeah, I just just really liking it. So that's
kind of been my quick little summary of what I
have been playing. Yeah, I think that's kind of college
football here and there, you know, getting in the football vibe,
which has been fun and officially challenged Travis, we're gonna
be playing that on stream now for the charity stream,
and he did because you know, if anyone out there
is a deep follower of the old Gauntlet reigns, I've
never beaten Travis in a Madden game before, so his
little asterix was like, well, if I beat him in
college football, it's not Madden. So you know, he's already
making his excuses like prepping for the loss, which you know,
hopefully I can deliver for him. But yeah, that's kind
of been my gaming news. I mean, I was on
last week, so not so much has happened since.
Speaker 2: But I was gonna say, like, if you didn't have
the emulator for playing like Epical and Emerald, a good
one for the SWITCH would be Diamond and Pearl because
then he made those ones for Switch, so they're higher quality.
Speaker 1: Which one is that?
Speaker 2: Sorry you said, Shining Pearl, Brilliant Diamond? I think it is.
Speaker 1: What was the original version? Like what was the older game?
Speaker 2: Just Diamond and Pearl?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, it was Diamond and then they.
Speaker 2: Had Platinum, which that's the version I still have that one.
That's the one that I like. That's kind of like
the Emerald equivalent for that.
Speaker 1: Okay, like the Triple Game or the Third Game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, which I wish they did still it would
be really nice they kept at it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, hopefully I crossed it off my list
on my Pokemon Adventures. But uh yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Glad you're doing Emerald.
Speaker 1: Yeah me too, ray Quas on the on the cover,
I was just like, oh, man, what's this game? And
then yeah, I did the little google there and then
I saw that you you fight both foes there, which
is great. But all right, let's move on to our
you know, first official topic of the evening, which is
which is fun that I have you here? Uh? Actually,
I'm gonna add on to quick little games. Have been
playing Taylor Field? Have you played?
Speaker 2: You must have played.
Speaker 1: Wildlins back in the day. Hey, I say back in
the day. It's not that old of my game, but
it feels like an old game now.
Speaker 2: I played.
Speaker 1: Man, such a fucking great game. I I think I
put like I don't know, I got it on Steam
years ago, and I think I have like eighty ninety
hours on it. Like I totally got hooked. I never
finished the story, but I just loved like taking down
like you know, like the the little outposts and whatnot,
and just like the strategy element to I absolutely loved.
And yeah, I really really loved that game. I never
really had like anyone that had it like on another
system to play with, which which would have been much better.
But uh, it was still really fun. I still had
a blast with it. And then yeah, I was on
PlayStation Catalog and I saw Ghosty Gun Breakpoint, which is
like the next game in the series. That's one that
they had John burnhal In, did you ever play that one?
Speaker 2: No? I heard bad things, so I never bothered.
Speaker 1: Man, it's so funny because like I was definitely just
wanting like an itch scratch of like getting into the
I like because it is the second out of the Wildlands. Uh, saga,
don't I guess they're kind of connected. That's like some
of the characters are the same, but like the villain's not.
It's kind of weird because this game is a lot
more It's a lot more of a story, I would say,
like like like your characters are a lot more like
a personality to them, like in the in the cut
scenes and stuff, they're like talking and there's just it
just seems like there's a lot more like cut scenes
and dialogue amongst characters, Like they're trying to make it
more of a cinematic experience, and man, what a mistake
in my mind, Like like, like the gameplay of this
game is much better than Wildlands, and like that's not
even saying like Wildlands gameplay was bad. It's just like
I really like what they've added gameplay wise into this game.
Like I really do like a lot of the features
they've added in this game. And yeah, just like I
do really like what they've done with it. But man,
I just find myself cringing and like any time my
character talks, and like I I I I had to
change my character to a female character just because I
hated the male voice actor that was doing like the
main and just some of the lines that they haven't doing.
It's so cringey. It's so cringey. And something that I
absolutely love that they added into this game is you
know how in oh my gosh, what was that called?
What was the online game that they did Division? So
you know in that how it's like your weapon like
you level it up or or yeah, you just level
you get different like ge you're kind of like Diablo. Yeah,
and then when you're shooting headshots, you're just doing criticals,
but you're not like killing the guy or anything like that.
This game likes like out of the box of Vanilla.
That is the game system, like you level up your
guns and whatnot to do that. But they also have
an immersive mode which it just completely disregards all weapon
levels anything like that and makes it a more immersive experience.
So how it would be like in a classic single
player you know, like like Ghost Recon game where you
snipe someone in the head and you like actually kill them,
you know, barrin They don't have like a big helmet
on or something. But like, I love that that is
just a feature because someone like me that doesn't really
care about like grinding and like rating to get like
a purple gun or something like that, can just go
in and play it like a more like the mercive
experience you can. The accessibility options in this game are
also just really fantastic, So the actual gameplay and the
accessibility of what this game is massive fan of. But man,
I wish there's an option to just skip every single
cut scene and dialogue. I like, it is just so
cringey to me. And it's just like, man, I really
like a lot of what the gameplay loops that US
has in their games whether it's like the far Cry
games even like a sad like like just I really
like Ubisoft games for the games, but like I don't know,
just just like witnessing the story in this, it's just like, what,
like this is not even necessary too, Like it's not
like it's not like I'm playing this for the story, right,
I'm not in this to like follow John Burnhal and
find out why he like betrayed the US military and
like this big, like hoorah type story that we're trying
to have and like just having like my protagonist is
like a really unlikable character. Like I don't know, it's
just I'm really not liking that aspect to it. But
gameplay wise it's fantastic, So I'm kind of caught in
the middle. I would definitely recommend it though, you know,
if you're a fan of wild Lands, because it's pretty
much very similar gameplay, But yeah, story's really not that
good and I kind of like I had only really
heard bad things going into it as well, so I
was kind of cautious you know when I when I
downloaded it. If they had Breakpoint and Wildlands on the catalog,
I probably would have downloaded wild Lands again. Honestly just
because of what I heard. But I am glad I
jumped in there just for, like I said, like the
new gameplay features they included, and just some little quality
of life updates that they've had or sorry that they
brought into this one versus the first game. So yeah,
I've been liking it so far. I'm only like a
couple hours in, but uh yeah, it's definitely scratching that
itch of just being the grassy knoll up in the
the wilderness and sniping and taking down You can actually
like melee in this game too, which you couldn't really
in wild Lands, which is a big deal. So that's nice.
And my last game I've been playing.
Speaker 2: In Wildlife did you ever do the Predator?
Speaker 1: I did? I did, and I did it by accident.
I think I don't know what was I think I had.
Like I used to play that game with like music on,
which was weird because it's like it's also a game
you kind of want to like hear things, you know,
whether you hear like bad guys or something. But like
I would just have music on in the background. I
just remember like seeing like the little like chat like
what do they call their active camouflage, like the little
ripple thing, I'm like, that's weird. That's a weird bug.
And then like up in like the objective thing, it
says like tracking there or something along those lines, I'm like,
how the fuck did I start this Predator mission? And
like they also had a like a splinter Cell like
mission on there too, So I like I had gotten
the game like years after it had come out, So
whatever version I had acquired, it was like the Deluxe
with like everything in it, So I had all those
things already added, and uh, classy Ubisoft too, you could
like update, like you could change your clothes to have
like an Ultai year outfit or something like the sad Yeah,
so like all that's of like Ubisoft usually does. But yeah,
I know, I totally a good shout out that Predator.
That Predator mission. It's very fitting too, because it's like
you kind of feel like like Butcher's Crew, you know,
like not in the eighties, but just like that elite
force of like a military groove going in there to
like hunt something in the woods. Like it just or
the jungles rather, it just like it totally fits the
overall aesthetic and obviously the same thing with the splinters
as well. That's more realistic maybe than having a big
alien hunting you. But yeah, that was a hard mission too.
In that game, he was really tanky. I remember I
had to kind of cheese the the kill in order
to get him with my my soldiers or whatnot. But
uh yeah, Breakpoint, man, that's one that, like, you know,
if it's just like it's the same thing with Wild Lance.
If we just had like the same console when that
game came out, I could just totally see us sinking
hours into that game. I feel like we would have
a similar play style because I like, I just I
just had so much fun like dissecting like an outpost
and just like what's the best and like get your
drone in there, get like the whole aerial view and
like you kind of know everything and just like really
like strategically take it out and like, yeah, when I
play those games, I play like max difficulty and like
all like minimal hud and like everything like that. And
in Breakpoint, they they added just so much more features
for that like realism aspect to it, which is which
I just I love.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, did you do the terminator event in Breakpoint?
Because that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: They added that, No, I didn't even know that was
in the game, So that's cool. That's cool to see. Yeah,
neat neat. So yeah, that's my little DLC for my games.
Have been playing section, but no getting over to Ubisoft.
That's what drew my attention to it. Apparently we got
some upie soft stuff going on, we got some delays,
acy shadows or are you looking forward to that game?
Speaker 2: Just overall?
Speaker 1: Like like that was your hype level on it?
Speaker 2: My high level is pretty high, pretty pretty high. I've
been chatting with Ruben about it. We're looking at, you know,
possibly doing some discussions about it, maybe reviving something.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, drops, We're we're pretty stoked on it and pretty
hype for it. It's it's unfortunate because currently I think
that I am with you now and losing the video
game draft with what we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the game itself, they have so many little
quality of life additions to the mechanics of the game
that really got me excited, and I was looking forward
to seeing a little bit more gameplay reveals, but they've
canned a lot of the kind of presentations and stuff
right now in lieu of just dropping their notice for
what we're going to talk about with Assassin's Creed Shadows.
But I think a little bit of coming off of
my goodness, my gosh, why can't I remember the name
of the show Showgun.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, for Disney, Yes, Jesuise.
Speaker 2: That just put me right into that world, and thinking, oh,
my gosh, I'm so stoked to get into sasas Crete Shadow.
It's going to be frickin' awesome. But I'm not worried
about the condition of the game right now. I think
that whatever needed to happen right now, they got to
just kind of polish it off and let it take form.
Ruben was telling me that there are two kind of
communities right now. I think people that are just I'm
hopefully not saying this incorrectly, but there are some fans
that are just a little bit upset in the representation
of certain things in the game, and other people that
are just like, hey, well, it's just a game. I
just want to play it. So there's kind of like
a little bit of a divide in the community that's
just kind of being dealt with, And so I don't
think that that's necessarily a reason for why they would
delay the game. I think that there is probably something
that is more heavily involved, maybe something back end that
would cause such a thing. To me, I don't think
you'd be soft really delays their games often. I mean
I have unless you're like a Division two or something
them like that. But Avatar was that yeah, you know
what I mean my words A ten years it felt
like fuck four.
Speaker 1: Weeks, ten days helped me to refect.
Speaker 2: I would act when I said, yeah, I was delaying
all their games right now? Not good? But I mean,
I what's the last one that you played? Because Mirage
was the last one.
Speaker 1: But if I create this, yes, Odyssey would have been
the last one I played. I Assassin's Create. You know,
I have like an interesting relationship with where like the
first four games, like definitely the et CEO, like like
that era of the game. I feel like that was
just like my peak on Assassin's Creed assess Creed two
has always been my favorite of of the bunch, just
because I had so much hype for that game. It
was like my most anticipate Like I remember just watching
like the E three demo like multiple times. I was
just couldn't leave what they had added, you know, a
jump up from the first game to that one too,
I did. I got all the feathers. That was like,
that was like one of my biggest platinum achievements of
all time. That and Modern Warfare two. I remember grinding
for those those stars, those sixty nine stars and in
the Specops mode. But uh, yeah, I know back for
as Creed, Yeah, Odyssey, I think it would have been
my last one. And another thing for the PlayStation catalog
if anyone out there doesn't know, they have like a
Ubisoft collection, so I think like pretty much all the
Assassiness Cred games are on there. And uh I kept
looking at that list and just thinking of like, man,
I kind of want to jump back into that, but
like which one would I jump into. Black Flag was
always one that I I remember just really really loving,
like it was just so much fun to play because
you're just kind of a pirate, like you know, it's
it's just a really fun game to play. More so
than in my AM I invested in this like really
good assassin story kind of maybe how I felt the
the etso ones kind of were. But I also was
really interested in what's it called? What's the egypt one? Origins?
Speaker 2: Origins?
Speaker 1: Origins? I was really interested in that one too. Was
how that one too? Like not necessarily numbers wise, but
just like, what do you think of it? Was that
a good one?
Speaker 2: I could not tell you based on my memory how
well it was received. I feel like personally for me
it was great. That was the first Assassin'squed. They decided
to take a year off and kind of like Skippy
year right two years before we got that title and released,
and they did a whole new combat system. They really
changed a lot of different dynamics and the way your
character's moving around and whatnot, and it really really worked
for me. I liked it. They had it so that
in the original Assassin's Creeds there wasn't really a level.
There was basically you get different weapons and the combat
was very baseline. It felt very story driven for a game,
and you could just go in and do different cool
assassinations and whatnot. But they've changed the dynamic and the
mechanic a little bit more, where you have a level
to your character and you have different bosses you're fighting
that are higher levels that you have to engage with,
and you get better gear, but you can choose certain
weapons that do more damage, you can choose better armor,
you can upgrade your armor. Yeaha yeah, yeadha, you can
unlock abilities. So they've really really been fine tuning that.
And so that was something Origins had introduced with the
movements and everything, and that's something that they've been carrying forward.
And I feel like with every single, every single addition
to the franchise, they have been just tweaking it more
and more and more. Now Odyssey or sorry, our Origins
was nice because you could just go wherever you wanted,
Like a previous Assassin' screen you could do, but you
can go anywhere. Here. You go to a base that
you're severely outranked, out leveled, and you could still try
and fight it, but the game try to coaxes you
into doing like, hey, do this area first before going off,
and make sure you level up before you go to
like the super difficult area.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, I I definitely want to cross that
one off my list. It's just because, like I also
really like the era that it's in, like the Ancient
Egypt factor is really interesting, and but like I also
still have Odyssey that like I also love that that
era and everything, and I feel like I did quite
enjoy the story of what was going on. How there's
kind of like a fact like you you can kind
of choose like where you want to side with on it,
Like I did like all of that aspect to it.
I like it all the naval battles that was introduced
in My Goodness would that have been the third game now?
And the naval was introduced nice and I love that
game too, So it's like do I want to jump back?
And itsas the Grade three that that was one that
was just fantastic, so that there's there's some great juice
in those catalogs. But they're also like with most Ubisoft games,
they're kind of time sinky, you know, like for and
not in the sense that you're like grinding the same
dungeon or something. But there's just so much to explore
and do. And I don't my play style for those games,
like I don't like just like be lining it for
like the next story like line or something like. I
do kind of want to explore the the overall world,
and there's a lot to explore in those games. So yeah,
I don't know, it's I'm gonna be jumping back into
them at some point for me, with you know, tying
back into Saskreen Shadows here, unfortunately, I just feel like
it's a it's a matter of I already kind of
got that that it scratched with Ghost of Tsushima, like
when that came out, Like that was my big Samurai
release that I've been wanting since like I was a
little kid. It's like, when is the Sasara gonna do
the feudal Japan era? And here we are, you know,
after the release of like multiple Samurai and like Ninja
type games throughout the years. And that's not to say
that you know, there wasn't any before ghosts Shima. It's
just like for that build up, that kind of scratched
that it's there, and I really love that game. You know,
we're gonna be talking about the next game in that
series here shortly. But for Saskreen Shadows, I feel like
it's also just because I've kind of been tapped out
of the series as a whole. I don't feel like
as invested jump in there. But I don't know, like
I think of I think maybe eventually I'll jump in there,
but it's also I don't know Like, even if this
game was out right now and I had the whole
catalog of sasas Creen Assassin's Creed games to jump into,
and I had time to just jump into whichever one
I want, I probably wouldn't choose Shadows. Honestly. I would
probably choose Origins or jump into Odyssey again because I
do want to see that story completed. But yeah, no,
I think it's it's not just because I don't know.
I don't want to say it's just because of the
ghost of Shima like like scratching my age, like like
there was also other factors on why I wouldn't want
to jump into it right now.
Speaker 2: But I don't know is Shadow is going to be
played before or after Since of a Solar Empire too,
Oh well after, come on, that's okay to my car
right now.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right here on this Yeah, I'm
just like my mouth is just hovering. I'm like shaking
this whole episode. Definitely Sense of Solar Empire to the
I'm definitely going to check the performance though of hopefully
my computer can run it, because you know, my computer
is still kicking, but it's it's definitely in its later
later life cycle. It's it's gonna have to get replaced
here pretty soon. But yeah, looking for it, Sins. But
what else we got for your Assassin's Creed Shadows we have?
Oh yeah, so it's now been delayed to February fourteenth.
The original release date I imagine would have been November.
That's kind of their slott a. Yeah, and I don't know.
I don't really have much to say about the delay
because I'm not, like, you know, itching to get onto
this title. But also I would always rather a game
get delayed than release half finished and just kind of
collect people's money and call it a day and leave
it at that. I definitely would rather the product be
more finished. But in talks of like what could be
the cause, it's just I don't know. I would imagine
just performance for performance issues, and hopefully the game launches
and it's it's really it's really great. Hopefully they hit
the grand running there, Dylan. Out of this and the
little notes here, I'm gonna ask you, Taylor Field, do
you think Saskreen Shadows releasing the same year as Ghosts
of Yo Tai, which is the new Ghost of Skushima game.
I hope I'm pronouncing that right, Do you think it's
a bad idea to be releasing them in the same year.
Speaker 2: I think the same year is fine, but I think, like,
when is that Ghost game releasing? I don't actually know
when it's released.
Speaker 1: Twenty would be my guest. That's based on that note date.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll pull it up by time. I think that
releasing the same year is fine. Like I said, I
think if it's releasing the same month or within the
same like three month span between is a little risky.
Speaker 1: I says twenty twenty five for now, so I imagine
it would be summer earliest summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then I think that that's totally fine. There's enough
time in between there, and especially if this releases before Ghosts,
then there's that. Of course, people could choose to save
their dollar, but Assassin's Creed has that longstanding, it has
the position that it's been on for a long long time.
So I think people that will go with Ghosts instead
and drop their money that way are going to be
people that feel like they know what Assassin's Creed and
you be Soft is going to be delivering with this game,
and they're just going to have that expectation set. Totally fine.
I mean, you're you're gonna be winning with both of
these games. I don't see one being like the wrong choice.
I think both of them are going to be unique
in their own way, and I think if you know
which one you want to experience, you're going to go
that way. I think both will be successful, though, because
there's a lot of people that are like Assassin's Creed
still is a huge following and there's a lot of
people that are just waiting for this game. Downside being
February fourteenth is that is Valentine's Day and I am
one of those people that does celebrate it with my
significant others. So I will probably not be playing it
the day of for whatever reason you'd be soft chose
to do that day. It'll probably be played on the weekend.
Speaker 1: So yes, fantastic. Sorry, I was I was looking up
how to say the title of Ghost of Yo Yo Ta.
I think that's how you say it, Yo Die. I
imagine I'm gonna be saying it a lot tonight, so
I hope. I I was trying to trying to find
a way to say it, probably, But yeah, for sharing
the year date, I I don't really see too much
of that. I feel like, especially just you know, since
Ghosts Kushima came out, like we've had what was that?
What was that from software game that came out before
Ghosts Toshima Sakaro. You know, it's a Soul's type game,
so it's a little bit different than what Ghosts, but
it's still the same esthetic. We've now had Rise of
the Ronan come out, We've had Black Black Wu Kong
whatever that one's called. I feel like it's not really
the same, but it's also kind of in that ancient Chinese,
you know, type of vibe. But for specific like sam
Right titles, I feel like there's just been quite a
few more out now that I'm kind of used to it.
So like seeing let's say, like the release for the
new Ghosts trailer and then I see like an Assass
Cree Shadows trailer. It's not just like this is just
a rip off of those same games, Like I feel
like I'm just more accustomed to seeing more of the
a similar type of just time era and aesthetic as
some others now, so it's not as jarring maybe as
it might have been in the past. Like if if
I had the first ghost trailer like announcement and then
this it would have been like, oh my gosh, like
this is kind of funny that we're getting both these
back to back now. But yeah, I know, I don't
really think too much of that, especially that Ghosts. You know,
it doesn't have a concrete date. I can kind of change,
but wherever good, Yeah, who knows, all have the same announcement,
Well we'll be talking about this and you know, the
exact same situation. But yeah, no, I don't really think
too much of it there. And I think kind of,
as you mentioned, Assassin's Creed has like they're key following
audiences that will be getting the game no matter what
the era or anything is. As long as the Assassin game,
they're going to be there and jumping on day one,
and no matter no matter what they're they're going to
be there. So I don't really see too much of
it in that sense, Like I don't really see the
February release slot making like a big difference numbers wise
than if they would have just released it in November.
Maybe November is like a harder time to get the
games because you're heading into the holidays and most people
are raither off school or like off off of work
for like a week around that time, so they have
a lot of time to kind of grind the game.
So maybe like fans that were really itching to get
on it, like obviously that's any delay kind of sucks
in that sense, but yeah, I'm sure they you know,
I would have been happy to get a finished product
as opposed to a very buggy mess and just really
hate the game and get some some some critical errors.
So yeah, that's kind of my take on that. And uh,
the other thing that we got to talk about is
Ubisoft is coming back to Steam with Saskut Shadows after
the uh, I'll say it nicely, the lack that's not
even really that nice, lackluster performance wise of Star Wars
Outlaws and X Defiant. I'm sorry, I don't even know
what this game is. I've heard and I never apologize
everyone that's out there, all the big X Defying listeners.
Speaker 2: It's a free to play first person shoot.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I don't feel bad then for about this.
Ubisoft admits X Defiant flop adding to companies. We was like,
just like the first thing I read. Uh, so yeah,
coming off of the lackluster performance of those previous two titles,
are gonna be returning to Steam, which I believe they're
loyal to Epic Game Store before that, I should really
confirm this. I'm normally I just throw it to Dylan.
He just is such a savan with this stuff. He
just you know, he just knows all the facts top
of his head. But uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna fact check that, so I'm not just fitting stuff
out of my yin yang here. But uh, I also like,
what was was it you Play? Was that the Ubi
Soft client? What a fucking piece of ship that was?
Hey man, I hated You Play, like I feel like
every time I loaded it up. I'm talking about like,
you know, now, my computer's kind of at the end
of its life when it was brand new You Play,
I swear with like, crash my whole fucking shame. That's
why I can't run anything now because you play usage
and it's it's young lifestyle. You know. It's like saying
to a smoker, like, oh, you're gonna be feeling that
when you're when you're later on in life. That's when
my computer fields right now booting up some you Play.
It was going too hard on the you Play, But
fuck you play. I hated that thing so much. I'm
glad it's gone. But uh yeah, I I don't know.
Whenever I play these assassurin games, I'm always more of
a console guy, so this doesn't really affect me by
any means. But to me it makes sense, like unless
epic game stores paying them a buttload of money to
be exclusive, Like why wouldn't you just be on Steam?
I feel like that is the go to PC. What
would you even call that? Just platform like video game
shop interface, download or whatever the hell you'd call that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, because that opens it up for what people
can play on their Steam deck, right, So I mean
that's a that's a big factor there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no handhelds now which have you seen one of
those in the wild? They're actually pretty fucking sweet.
Speaker 2: Oh maybe I have.
Speaker 1: I have one buddy that has one, And uh, I
feel like I feel like it took me a while
to realize that, like you can just play like the
same like basically Steam games like on there. Like I
thought it was like kind of how you have like
a like a PlayStation exclusive game and then you get
like the PSP version which is like very different, or
like you know, you'd have like a like a movie
tie in game, and then you get it on like
the DS and it's like clearly extremely different than if
you would have got on like Xbox V sixty or something. Yeah,
but yeah, it says, you know, you'd be saw for
June twenty twenty four. They're gonna be on the epic
game sore. So it's I don't know how that works,
like if there was a contract, They're just like, this
isn't this isn't working. We're gonna go to Steam. I
don't know what causes those decisions to happen, but it's
interesting nonetheless that they they're making the shift, and you know,
it's just a business decision. It completely makes sense why
they would be doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to attribute it to probably exclusivity rights
just for like, hey, we'll give you I can't remember
how laws came out. We'll give you like three months
with on this platform or this yeah, this platform, and
then we'll put it out everywhere else.
Speaker 1: So yeah, hell yes, I clicked on a link and
it just froze my whole system. I apologize.
Speaker 2: You got you play?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the computers still troll oed up. You play? You know,
Oh that was the last thing I was gonna mention
was They also said that it's gonna launch on Steam
day one. There won't be like a time release like
if you you know, if they're exclusive to Epic Games,
it'll come out first on you Play and then Epic
Games Store and then and then Steam now, But I
don't know makes it makes sense to me? Like, I
guess I somewhat get it for like a Sony game
to be like time delayed on on Steam, But I
don't know. It's not like Ebisoft has their own console
that they're putting games on, like it's it's fought like
to me, you would want it to be accessible for
everyone day one to just like really pad those numbers.
But what do I know. I've never played a video game,
never played video game, never made a video game. That
makes more sense anything else on Sasscreed. No, that's all
all I got, February.
Speaker 2: All I got.
Speaker 1: That's all you got. Okay, maybe we'll throw in another
ad break here and then we'll be right back to
carry on and we're back to their field. We had
a couple game shows going on in the past couple
of weeks. Good Old Sony One, Glad I got you
here for that fellow, maybe a future Sony boy. We'll see,
we'll make a Sony man out of you yet, but yeah,
stay of play. I don't know, I didn't follow the
whole thing. I felt like the overall announcements of what
was going on was a little bit black luster. Like
I I feel like I didn't really have high expectations,
but I was still expecting for maybe I or maybe
maybe I'll admit maybe I had higher expectations that I
would like to admit, But then they came out. It
was just like, oh, okay, I know. It's it's nice
that they had the Ghosts image and the little teaser
there because that's definitely would be like the talk of
the town. And then maybe just a little bit more
astrobot stuff I think they were talking about on there,
and uh, just a lot of like you know, remasters
and talking about the new PlayStation five Pro and I
just saw a lot of memes about that and a
lot of side by side screenshots a lot of people
are sharing, which which are great. And they also showed
up some PS five chromas which I'm never gonna get
or anything like that, but fuck, they look sweet. I
like the look of them, just like the kind of
purlescent metallic look of it. It looks, it looks pretty
damn awesome. But I'm still sticking with my white PS
five that I'm still rocking here. But yeah, I don't know,
I don't really have much to talk about for like
specific games other than just ghosts. And even with that,
like I there's not that much to dissect other than
we got confirmed that we're not continuing on with Jin's story,
which I don't even I mean, there might be some
division amongst that topics, amongst the fans and whatnot, because
Gin was just such a fantastic protagonist. I really like
the voice actors that played him, whether it was the
the Japanese version or the English version. I actually me
saying that, I'm pretty sure it was the same actor
that did both, So I thought he was fantastic. I
really liked a lot of our side characters that were
in that story, and it was just a fantastic game.
And I am totally fine jumping to the next one
with a brand new character. It also just feels like
you're following his progression of like becoming the ghosts of
Shashima and then he's like the Ghosts of Shashima, and like,
what is he just gonna get like stripped of all
his weapons and going to the next game, Like he's
just like a level one character get with like like
like no weapons or anything. Like, I just find it
would be kind of it would kind of be jarring.
Seems a little too extreme a word, but it would
be somewhere along those lines of it. It just feels
like lazy of just Okay, how do we get Gin
in the next story and like make it believe that
he's gonna be at the start of his tail to
the But you know, by the time you're like ten
hours in, you're gonna feel a lot more souped up
and ready to kick ass. Just just making a new
new story, a new character. And I totally trust the
team like writing that story for just what they're able
to do with the first game going into second one.
I totally have faith in them. And I really just
loved the look of the trailer. Looks like it's Fuji
like in the background with just all the yellow and
man ghostu Shima is clearly like to me, it's one
of the most beautiful looking games I've ever seen in
my entire life. Just like the vibrant colors that they're
able to have in that game just really make them
pop out. And just this little image here of just
like the really the really like popping yellows that they
had in here. I don't know, it just it looks
so pretty to me. So yeah, I'm definitely gonna be
getting this game. I'm not going to say day one
right now, but because all it says is twenty twenty five,
we don't know what's going to be going on in
that whole year. But yeah, I'm very much looking forward
to that story. And yeah, no I'm I don't really
have too much more to add on that one.
Speaker 2: It looks beautiful. I've not played Ghosts of Kyushima, and
that being said, it's not something that I just don't
want to play. I just don't have a PlayStation now.
I can't remember if it's available on PC yet. Through
your sittym it is. Okay, then that's actually pretty entice.
Maybe I'll keep my eyes out out it to my
wish list. There's a few Sony exclusives.
Speaker 1: Before or after Sins of a Solar Empire two.
Speaker 2: Same question, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: Maybe before oh, Wow, that's surprising. I would have said sins.
Speaker 2: First, I'll seeah, I'll say I'll say sixty forty before
like that. But I think though that the game definitely
it looks gorgeous and I look forward to seeing what
they include. Because the trailer had this I don't know
if this was a feature in the first one, but
the trailer had this, like this scene set up with
the wolf of the dog, and then it looked like
the dog kind of stopped the aggressiveness and then kind
of like just ventured off him. Thinking Okay, do you
have like a pet that you can kind of use
and like combat like a companion.
Speaker 1: I could see that actually that that wasn't a game
mechanic in the first game, but you interact with a
lot of foxes in the game and they're just really
cute and the most you can do is pet them.
But I could see building off of just that idea
of like, you know, a neutral pet or animal or
something like that kind of siding with you. They had
the wind, like the wind was one of you know,
it's a fantastic game mechanic that they introduced that was
kind of your compass. You would like swipe up on
the touchpad, and then the wind would blow in the
direction of like your next objective. Just a really sweet,
minimalistic way of having like a big arrow over your head,
like pointing a wish direction. So I would imagine we're
sticking with that system, which it's very minor, but like, man,
I just feel like that little detail goes such a
long way of because you're you're able to almost have
like no hud, and because this game is so beautiful,
you don't really want a hud blocking anything. You want
to see everything, So I am happy. I kind of
took that as just like, yeah, that that same thing
as in this game, and I'm loving it. She also
had like a banjo or something on her back in
the clip, and I'm like, fuck, please let me play
some some sweet Samurai twangs, some twangs. Sorry, I can
I cut you off? Oh no, no no.
Speaker 2: I was just saying to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the wolf, and then just adding on to like
any potential new game mechanics. I'm sure there'll be a
bunch of little quality of life improvements here, but the
game is just really solid a release that it's kind
of like to me with how I felt about Spider
Man two. That I think the overall story was like
slightly better, and everything was pretty much the first game,
but just like better. It's funny we're kind of talking
about like Sins of Soilar Empire two reviews are kind
of that as well, Like if you like the first game,
it's basically that with some added features, so ten o
ten because the first one was just that great, and
I would expect the same thing going into this one,
because that's how I felt for Spider Man two. It
was just like, yeah, no, it just felt like I
was playing Spider Man one with just more stuff to do.
And that's not a negative by any means, Like you
don't want to stray too far from the formula that
obviously worked. Gushima was a fantastic game, so that one,
like I will have high expectations for. I think I'll
be tempered with my expectations story wise, just because I
really like the the twist and turns it happened with
just some of the characters that are like close to
your character in that first game. It's it's just a
really well told story, I think in the for the
first game, so I don't want to expect the same
level of it, but it's also like, wow, they hit
it once, you know, they there's no reason why they
can't get to that bar again. But I think, I
think though, something that could be improved on the first
game is just gameplay, just just for little things that
they'll add on to smooth it out and make it
that much better. And I'm excited for some more just
PvP or not PPVE content because I really like the
just the overall how that story went, like the little
online mode that they brought into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely stuff something to look forward to. And
yet the hopefully they stick to the date of twenty
twenty five and then we can see, uh see some
like gameplay, gameplay would always be be nice hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Other than that's like I said, it's just like a
couple of remastered things like Forrends zero Don remastered the
Lego one, right, yeah, Lego Horizon, that's right, Yeah, I
think it was. It was just called like, oh, Lego
Horizon Adventures. I'm sure that'll be a blast. I have
not played Forrends zero Don, so I don't really have
any attachment to like the ip of these characters. But
another thing that's on the PlayStation catalog that you know,
I finally bought a PlayStation, a second PlayStation remote. So
now that's how Shane I were playing Cult to the Lamb.
And uh, they have a bunch of the Lego games
on the PlayStation catalog, so like I never played like
the Jurassic World one or Park whatever, which one is?
I really want to play that. I never watched the Hobbit,
but I heard the Hobbit game was actually pretty fun,
so maybe boot that up. And like, just like everything
from the Lego Marvel, like there's just many titles, is
like top Yeah, okay, that's good to know. Maybe I'll
add that to the top of the list. But uh,
there's one more in there. Came Indiana Jones on that one.
I don't know if it's good or bad. I feel
like one person had a heated rant about it. Maybe
it was Dylan. I can't remember now, but yeah, someone
had a history of that.
Speaker 2: It might have been Dylan, because maybe I'm making Dylan.
But he got an Xbox and it came out of
the dual pack of like Kung Fu Panda Lego Jones
when you get like the original Xbox or six and.
Speaker 1: It might be a different Lego game, but I'm pretty
sure it was a Lego game.
Speaker 2: He'll confirm on the next time.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, no, I just I love those Lego games,
So I don't know if forget that one just because
I'm not really attached to IP, but I'm just excited
to jump into, you know, more more Lego games. Great,
just couch go Op times and yeah, anything else. It's
Hitman and VR. That's kind of it's cool, but yeah, no, overall,
I think it was kind of a lack cluster state
of play. It was just like, Okay, this is going
to be the ghost announcement. That's going to be that.
Speaker 2: So if you're a Ninja Turtles fan, that's pretty cool.
They got some Shutters Revenge DLC.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I thought those were supposed to be like,
like like our Turtles. I'm like, what the fuck was
like the art design on them, they look so weird.
But then I realized it was not. It was not
our Turtles. It was different characters, so that was it
was nice to see, but you know, shows a revenge.
I still do not play that game, but I remember
playing the one Arcade game they had it scanned ya
it was it was I'm pretty sure it was similar, Yeah,
exactly the Arcade Ninja Turtles game.
Speaker 2: But I think it's like games pass right now for
anyone that's interested. You reminded me too when I was
looking through this list Paul World. I mean, me and
Dylan did a discussion like a first impressions on Paul
World on side Quest, and that was just a review
the Pokemon one, that's the Pokemon knockoff. And I'm pretty
sure I just be I haven't clicked any rite any articles.
I've just been seeing headlines that I'm pretty sure that
they are under like ensued.
Speaker 1: But that's which is like, it's weird that it's happening now.
I feel like it would have happened like right when
that came out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that they're just kind of like trying
to build a case.
Speaker 1: I just feel like Nintendo is so aggressive with like
copyright stuff. I feel like it would have been shut
down like instantly, But I don't know, We'll see what
happens there. It's I mean, there's very stark comparisons of like, yeah,
this is very clearly Pokemon. But yeah, I'm curious, like
how I don't know. I'm not I'm not like a
big law guy, but just like what their case is
going to be of just like I'm sure it's just
a lot of gray areas on like why it's not
specifically copyright infringement. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's the time we got we got an our?
Well quickly see here, Taylor. They have a new game announcement,
new Xbox game Moon Mystery. This is uh yeah, it's
a yeah. It's funny because when I this one's listed
as Interstellar first person shooter adventure game. Moon Mystery will
launch for PC via seam so it's not an Xbox game,
so it completely ignore what I just said. When I
first read this, though, I thought it was like it
is Interstellar first person shooter game. I thought it was like, man,
they're making an Interstellar game based on the move And
I'm like, what a fucking choice that that that is
wild to me. Uh you know, just they have like
the big gargantuan black hole that they're kind of showcasing there.
But I don't know. I'm always open to a new
new Star adventure game. The last one have been star Field,
and I was very much looking forward to that until
they announced that Xbox exclusive, So I have not played
that game, and maybe one day I'll jump in there.
But uh, you know, I'm open to if this one's
releasing on PC. Maybe one day it'll allow the upgame
a PC or be able to get it on PlayStation.
But I don't know. Just some of the things that
their mission here, it kind of looked interested me. I
kind of glossed over the article of just like adventure
game but with like unique puzzles, and I'm curious just
how much they would be focusing on the actual puzzle
aspect versus just it being like a BioShock for example,
You're just kind of going through shooting things, and any
puzzle that you do have it is very minor so
and who knows, maybe maybe the gameplay will come out.
It looks like fucking garbage and I'm not really much
interested in it. There there was just a release date trailer,
so I would need like a little bit something, a
little bit juicier before I really commit to that. But
I don't know. I just want to shout those space
game because we're talking the Sins of a Solar and
this one launches October twenty eighth, so pretty damn so soon.
Speaker 2: It looks pretty fun, but I just I would not
be able to commit to something like this unless before
or after Sins, Oh my god, for sure after Ghosts
as well. Yeah, I mean it looks it reminds me
a lot of Starfield when I'm looking at different different
parts of it. But yeah, it's just something that I
gotta put on the back burner. But I would love
to do it like it looks like it's a lot
of fun, and this is definitely up my alley for
for a game, But I just seem to wait.
Speaker 1: Right And speaking of waiting, you can wait till next
week for the next week's side Quest episode, Taylor Field,
I think we're all but done for this week's discussion.
That was lots of fun, funny, a lot of Ubisoft talk,
a lot of space talk was fun. It felt it
felt like centered just for us this episode, So it
kind of, I don't know, just kind of everything fell
into place for it to just be you and me
hosting it this week. The Fates, it's the fates.
Speaker 2: We got Dylan, now we didn't get Ylan sick. We
need to talk about.
Speaker 1: These I snuck into Vancouver. I drove hours last week
to sneak in and no, I did not do that.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's on the men. He'll be back and give
you all that fresh, juicy goodness next week. Are you?
Are you with him next week? Who? Who's I have
no trass in, Travis.
Speaker 1: I take a one day at a time here on
the side of the the lake. But I'm not too sure.
I'll have to take a look. And uh, hopefully Dylan
will be there nonetheless, and if not, you know, I'm
sure some tryvis interviewing himself. He likes to talk, so yeah.
But ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining.
And that's all I have to say. So until next time,
Bye bye,