WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:12.160 It's good. Hello, Hi, are we on? Hey, everybody, welcome 2 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:13.880 to Game this morning. Some me Jeff Grub, your host 3 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.920 from Giant Bomb dot Com. I'm not feeling so hot, 4 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:19.440 but I am feeling hot enough to do this show 5 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:21.960 with you all, which is brought to you by MSI. 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:24.920 It's gonna be a good one. Thank you for tuning in. 7 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:27.519 In this episode, we're gonna be talking about Capcom remaking 8 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.800 its other survival horror series, or maybe not, in a 9 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:35.079 new showcase from one of Sega's most prolific studios. Like 10 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:36.920 I said, gonna be a good one because we have 11 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:39.679 Sean Turbo Sean McDowell on the show. Sean, how are 12 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:40.119 you doing? 13 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:42.679 Jeff? I was hearing and I go up Until just then, 14 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:44.920 I was really struggling to figure it out. But I 15 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.320 no longer feel like I'm going crazy, So hiky okay? 16 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.159 Is that that's like the worst feeling in the world 17 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:53.079 where you can't figure out what tab is doing that, 18 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.079 what program where it's coming from. 19 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.560 I was so worried that the audience is gonna hear that, 20 00:00:57.640 --> 00:00:59.920 and no one will say anything in chats. I'm like, okay, cool. 21 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:02.600 Nobody would have known if I just didn't say anything, 22 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:06.120 but I was losing my mind. So I need everybody 23 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:06.439 know that. 24 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.760 We're a piece of stuff together over here right now. 25 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.760 Jan's out. Sean offered to do this because my I 26 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.519 was gonna do it. We would have been fine, but 27 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.799 my upload was being crazy. I have no idea. I'm like, honestly, 28 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.760 that's gonna bug me. The whole show is like, why 29 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.879 is that happening? Because I did test everything this morning 30 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:22.920 and it should have been fine. 31 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:25.239 So yeah, but you know, fun one spectrum. 32 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.000 Yeah, I think I think it's probably something spectrum for sure. 33 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.200 All Right, Sean, how are you doing? 34 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.480 I'm doing pretty good, Jeff. If people have been following 35 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.640 the saga, I am now finished with Ninja Guy and 36 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.640 Rage Bound. Let me tell you it's a good video game. 37 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:42.760 Good game, yep. 38 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:48.120 I think I think still My only real gripe is 39 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.840 the boss fights go on a bit long, but I'll 40 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.239 say that, you know, I think it goes enjoyable time. 41 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:59.000 I like the uh, the challenging action platforming. That was 42 00:01:59.079 --> 00:01:59.519 very fun. 43 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:01.760 Yeah, it was. It's like gonna be a good compliment 44 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:03.799 actually to Shanoby, because I think Shnoby went a little 45 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:07.640 bit more towards combat action and Ninja Gaiden had a 46 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.879 little bit more platforming action. Yeah, people complain about the 47 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:14.039 platform in Shnoby. I don't think I'm deep enough in 48 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.360 there to know if I dislike it or not. I 49 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:19.840 kind it is definitely a little stiff in its platforming, 50 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.520 but I kind of feel like I can excuse that 51 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:24.039 and kind of in my head call it, Oh, it's 52 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.319 just deliberate. It just has a deliberate feel to it. 53 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:29.560 I don't know, we'll see. I probably will get frustrated 54 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:31.560 at some point and come back and complain about it, 55 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.639 but that is it's definitely like the other thing that 56 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:37.680 you do, apart from the amazing combat. So yeah, I 57 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.159 went from Ninja God into Shanoby and enjoying that, although 58 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.879 they have to, you know, deload Shanoby from my steam 59 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:45.719 deck to get back on Expedition thirty three. 60 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.199 Oh how's that going? I know you talked about on 61 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.439 the podcast. But still it's going. 62 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:53.240 Although, like I said, I kind of just got uploaded 63 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.680 back up and then I went to the Paintress and 64 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:58.800 then that I'm like, oh, I was not expecting it 65 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:00.400 to Okay, this is happening. 66 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:00.639 Yeah. 67 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.520 Yeah, So I and then I had other things happening, 68 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:05.680 So I'm like, okay, I should get back to that. 69 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.439 I'm very excited to see what happens there. So yeah, 70 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:12.080 just very good game that I continue to be super into. 71 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:14.719 You know what, we're starting late, So let's explain what 72 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:16.800 we do here. We're Giant Bomb. You can go to 73 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.680 giant bomb dot com slash join. Help us out, help 74 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.159 us make stuff, help us keep doing cool stuff, help 75 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.120 us get out to stuff like SGFF and Game the 76 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.639 Game Awards, do our own game awards, all that cool stuff. 77 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:29.879 If you like it, you can, you know, make sure 78 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:31.680 we can do more of it by supporting us. And 79 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.199 the best way to do that is giant bomb dot com. 80 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.240 Slash Join gets you AD free shows, gets you some 81 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.879 other extra goodies. 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You can always listen 91 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.800 to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for 92 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.800 Game Mess Mornings, or find the RSS feed on giant 93 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.680 bomb dot com. You can also catch the show later 94 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:21.439 with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. All right, 95 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:22.959 we have a lot to get into, so let's start 96 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:27.399 the Morning Mess with Capcom apparently tried to remake Dino Crisis, 97 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.879 but eventually candidate. This is from mine and Shadow News. Yeah, 98 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:34.319 let's do this thing. Capcom fans have been asking for 99 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:38.439 a new Dino Crisis game or alternatively alternatively remix for 100 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.360 years now, and according to Capcom insider Dusk Gullum, they've 101 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.160 attempted to do it, but the results led to it 102 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.720 being canned. They say, lead it to it being canned. Here, 103 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.160 that's one of my real pet peeves Sean, is people 104 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.240 mixing up lead and lead. This case has got to 105 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:55.319 be led, everybody, please, for the love of God. He 106 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:57.160 went on to say that there have been a couple 107 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:01.000 attempts in the last decade to remake Io Crisis. The 108 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:04.160 first to do this was Capcom Vancouver, and obviously that 109 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.079 ain't a thing no more before they were ultimately shut down. 110 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.040 Capcom tried again just a couple of years ago, but 111 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.560 the results weren't up to management satisfaction, so that was 112 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.240 ultimately canned. Sean, I definitely heard about a Dino crisis 113 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.240 where you make a couple of years ago and and 114 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.639 then and then what happened That exo Primal game came 115 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:23.120 out like. 116 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.959 Yeah, we all we all assume that, Yeah, the Dino 117 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.240 crisis rumblings turned into Exoprimal, but no, I guess it 118 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:31.480 was separate projects. Huh. 119 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:33.120 Yeah, it was like at the time, it was like, no, 120 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.279 there's still separate projects. Okay, weird because Exoprimos got that 121 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:39.319 the lady with the glove, she looks like she's from 122 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:40.079 Dino crisis. 123 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:42.519 That's what Regena is known for. 124 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:48.720 Yes, absolutely, what do you think happened here? Because I mean, 125 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.160 to me, it's like, I still think this feels like 126 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.720 an eventual no brainer. They're saying it wasn't up to snuff, 127 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.800 wasn't good enough. I don't know, what do you think. 128 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:00.240 They're just like, let's not disrupt the flow we have 129 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.959 going with Resident Evil. Unless Dino Crisis was going to 130 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:04.279 be perfect. What do you think happened? 131 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.879 Yeah, I think what it has to be is that 132 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.120 it was sort of a self fulfilling prophecy going on 133 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:14.240 there where they apparently weren't giving it to one of 134 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.240 their A teams necessarily because Capcom Vancouver that's who was 135 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:22.720 doing Dead Rising, though right most recently, I should say, 136 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:27.720 I can't remember what they did otherwise, but it sounds like, yeah, 137 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.560 if they're not giving it to any of the main 138 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.120 Resident Evil teams, then they were kind of hoping for 139 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.839 someone else to spin up something successful, and it just 140 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:45.279 wasn't happening. Because Dino Crisis, first of all, had a 141 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.759 bit of an identity crisis. It started out a little 142 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:53.480 more Resident Evil got a little more action, and so 143 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.160 I think it never really selled into one specific thing. 144 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.639 Resident Evil kind of had the same problem. It was 145 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:03.639 just more successful in going to action. So maybe just 146 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.920 whatever was coming out of there they just weren't happy 147 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:08.879 with and didn't think, oh, this doesn't feel right for 148 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:13.439 what we want. Even though they weren't internally the ones 149 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:16.600 or you know, Capcom Vancouver still internal, but they weren't 150 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.680 like you know, the main ARI team or anyone related 151 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.680 being the ones to do it, which is weird. 152 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.680 So to me that sounds like we get past a 153 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.240 lot of these Resident Evil remakes and then Capcom looks 154 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.319 around and tries to keep that train going, and then 155 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.360 maybe Dinasis Crisis makes more sense at that point once 156 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:36.000 it's not like, Okay, well we're not taking someone off 157 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:38.759 of Resident Resident Evil. We've already remade all those So 158 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:41.399 now the main Resident Evil remake teams can work on 159 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:43.480 Dino Crisis and we trust them to do a good 160 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.000 job with it. I mean, does that sound plausible still? 161 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:51.040 Or am is that opium copium opium and. 162 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:55.079 Or copium after and or Jeff yeah, I O donh't 163 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:59.439 know this. It's a long line of we just talked 164 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:02.600 about this well one or two weeks ago about wanting 165 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.040 them to try more things and to really put effort 166 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.279 into it on their part, and this reads to me 167 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:14.040 as them not really wanting to do that, which is 168 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.240 I just find a bit odd because you can't if 169 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.160 you're not getting your best teams to work on something, 170 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.759 at least for that initial entry to get out the door, 171 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.160 how can you expect it to live up to the 172 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:30.480 standards of any of your other big franchises, like for example, 173 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.399 if they put out another fighting game but they contracted 174 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.360 someone else to do it, well, you know, it's not 175 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.720 necessarily going to live up to the standards of Street 176 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.159 Fire six. And if that's what you're holding everything up to, 177 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.960 well you're kind of setting yourself up for failure. Again. 178 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:51.720 I know, like, apparently this was internal, but it was 179 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.679 like the secondary teams per se. 180 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.399 Yeah, very likely was. I mean, you know because a 181 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.919 lot of these other Residents Evil projects, they're spoken for, 182 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.600 and those almost certainly were not going to be put 183 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:06.720 to the side for Dinal Crisis. And I think the 184 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:10.799 troubling thing for Dinal Crisis is it's definitely a franchise 185 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:14.039 that has cachet with people. People remember it to a 186 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:15.919 certain degree. If you were around at that time, it's like, yeah, 187 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:17.960 there was Reds and Evil but also Dino Crisis, and 188 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.120 that's fun. But no one then goes and it was 189 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.559 an amazing game without any flaws. It was. It's okay, 190 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.080 and in some cases it's not great. It might be 191 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.600 like in a Resident Evil three situation where maybe it 192 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.960 needs a little bit more love and to get updated. 193 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.399 So I bet like part of that is okay, we 194 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.720 will need to rework this game in a lot of ways, 195 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.759 and we kind of only trust the top tier studio 196 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:43.240 to do that. In the top tier studio is too 197 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:47.720 busy to get around to that right now. Yeah, we'll see, 198 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.200 like a couple of years from now, I do imagine 199 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.039 they will think about circling back to this, And I 200 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.519 guess I'm glad they didn't put out some lackluster, you know, 201 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.679 a cheap version of Dino Crisis just because they felt 202 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:01.480 like they had had to. They definitely don't have to 203 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.039 in this moment. I think we did talk about in 204 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:05.440 a couple of years, they're going to have to keep 205 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:08.000 kind of divers fining here a little bit, introduce something 206 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:11.840 that could be another Pillar or a replacement for the 207 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.919 resident Evil remix. Once they run out of those, you know, 208 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.919 they probably shouldn't rush to like freak out about those 209 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.200 you know oncoming needs to and then in that case 210 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.840 put out a game that is not quality. So if 211 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:26.879 it wasn't going to be good, probably the right choice 212 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:29.320 not to follow through with it. But I don't think 213 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:31.600 this is the last we've heard of Dyno Crisis, hopefully. 214 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.039 Na. Yeah, because in the long run, they need to 215 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.159 diversify a little bit. I know they are putting out 216 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.480 you know, Pragmata, which I would always like to remind you, 217 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:43.120 Jeff suck it that game is real. But also they're 218 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.559 doing any Musha and Okami. They are bringing stuff back, 219 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:51.159 They are pulling out new ones. But Capcom has kind 220 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.000 of always done this. Even in their lower points, they 221 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.200 were still pulling out you know, like in the Residu 222 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.559 Evil six Days, they were still trying stuff with stuff 223 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:02.639 like remember me, Yeah, and so they put out games. 224 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.440 This is not new for them. It's just that it's 225 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:09.759 game development is taking a lot longer, it's a lot harder. 226 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:11.960 We're never going to get back to the nineties glory 227 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.559 days of a new Capcom game every quarter or whoever 228 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.120 a hell it was, but it would be nice to 229 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.519 at least get back to more franchises having their chance 230 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.559 to shine, especially some of the more beloved ones that 231 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.120 haven't been around for a really long time. 232 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.799 Yep, all right, let's keep moving here. We'll stick with 233 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:32.120 Capcom Resident Evil Requiem, maybe the most extreme in the series, 234 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.919 says director. This is from Blair Marnell at Game Spot. 235 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.279 Next year, Resident Evil Requiem will introduce players to Grace Ashcroft, 236 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.840 the newest protagonist in the franchise, and the trailers shared 237 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:45.879 so far, Grace has been way over her head in danger. 238 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.879 That's how she enters the story, but she won't remain 239 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.759 that way forever. According to director Koshi Naka Nishi, Grace's 240 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.559 transformation from helpless to powerful may represent the most extreme 241 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.639 gap in the franchise. We're at the testing phase now 242 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.159 and to the element as we gear up to the 243 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.480 February release, and even as we play it internally putting 244 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.240 ourselves in the mindset of the players, I really feel 245 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:10.399 that it's going to be an incredible roller coaster, Nakanishi 246 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:13.639 told Eurogamer. They're going to feel like that curve of 247 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.519 tension to release is going to be It's perhaps the 248 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.799 most extreme gap between those two, those two axes, the 249 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:22.759 points on that curve are going to be so far 250 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:25.799 apart from each other that it's going to be incredible. 251 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.960 So by extreme, what he's meaning in minionarios like we've 252 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.679 seen the setup right a bunch of times. Now of 253 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:36.039 Grace Ashcroft is helpless. It is running away from a 254 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:38.320 monster that she can do nothing about. There is no 255 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.519 way to fight back. Jan went hands on with it. 256 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.399 He confirmed that that was the case, that yeah, he's like, 257 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:45.159 you just try to survive, You just try to get away. 258 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:49.360 There's no turning around, aiming, firing anything. Now, I think 259 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.279 I thought it was safe to assume that there would 260 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.720 be an other side to that, where like, this is 261 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.600 Resident Evil today, They're not going to want to completely 262 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.240 forsake the action side of things for their next new, 263 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.840 big Resident Evil game, so they will find some way 264 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.480 to incorporate that. I was under the assumption that they 265 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:08.320 would bring back a familiar character and do it that 266 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.639 way and be like, Okay, here's an alternative path, and 267 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.600 will flash between these two characters. But maybe it does 268 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:15.799 make more sense to be like, no, Grace Ashcroft becomes 269 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.480 capable and learns how to use a gun and shoots 270 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.360 these fuckers in the face. Does that sound good to you? 271 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:25.039 Sounds good to me? I like that idea. Yeah, I 272 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:28.960 don't like my man bringing up trigonometry when explain the game. 273 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.679 Here at her arc put outside of that. Now, I 274 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:36.600 think with Resident Evil, it is so often you know 275 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:43.159 an agent cop, someone who is experienced with some kind 276 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:47.200 of crisis situation, and it is more recently that we 277 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:50.919 did see with Ethan in seven that he does start 278 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:53.799 off as more of just the normal dude. It's actually 279 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.200 his wife who's sort of involved in the typical Resident 280 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:00.200 Evil stuff, So he's sort of thrust into this situation 281 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:04.399 and he does become the Ethan Winters who, like you know, 282 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.279 ends Resident Evil eight and he is just you know, 283 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.360 using giant guns and like big old armaments and stuff 284 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.639 like that. And so I think that's probably the type 285 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.679 of story that they're gonna tell with Grace as well, 286 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:20.600 maybe because they want to invoke even more fear. She 287 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.320 does start off even more meek. We saw that from 288 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:26.759 the trailer. She has a little skittish even as an adult, 289 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.080 and she's gonna have to learn to fight in whatever 290 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:33.200 situation she's in. I think that is appealing though. I 291 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.960 think that it's a good arc for a character to have, 292 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.600 especially in the residueval world. And maybe Grace will even 293 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.600 be a different character of still not being a great fighter. 294 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:45.279 May she'll have some external help or something, you know, 295 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.639 Leon or Jill or someone will show up and help 296 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.879 her out. But I do think it's gonna make for 297 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:51.799 an interesting game. 298 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.679 Yeah, I want it to be like Alien Sigourney Weaver 299 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.039 all the way through Alien two Scorney Weaver where she's 300 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:02.000 like in a mixed suit for sure. Yeah, destroying things 301 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.559 that would be a lot of fun. Yeah. I think 302 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.200 that I trust this studio with Resident Evil these days 303 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:14.320 to really find the balance of stuff that is scary 304 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:16.279 and then still be able to bring in all that 305 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:19.360 action that the franchise is really crushed recently, well for 306 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.679 a long time now. So and you know Resident Evil 307 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.200 four being that the one that gets to get remade 308 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.480 most recently, and it's selling very well. It's the best 309 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.360 selling Resident Evil game now. I believe they recognize that, 310 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:33.279 and they're like, we want to do both, and I 311 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.120 think they can make a game that is big enough 312 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.600 and can hold itself up to being both things without 313 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:40.759 one feeling like the game pushed to the side and 314 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:41.519 forgotten about. 315 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:42.919 Yeah, definitely. 316 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.440 All right, you know what, let's take a break when 317 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:48.639 we come back. Plenty more headlines to get into we 318 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:50.519 got to hear from MSI. 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With Unreal Engine five, 367 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.039 performance issues are mainly due to devs not optimizing properly. 368 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.920 That's according to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney. I'm sure it 369 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.519 does not have any biases there. This is from Chris 370 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.920 Scullion at VGC, the CEO of Epic Games, is suggested 371 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.240 that some platforms, yeah, some platforms struggled to run Unreal 372 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.440 Engined five games because developers aren't optimizing them properly. It's 373 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.440 been suggested in recent areas that Unreal Engined fives demanding 374 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.039 technical requirements can sometimes mean that running UE five games 375 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:55.519 on less powerful hardware can result in poor performance and 376 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.440 sluggish gameplay. Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney, who 377 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:02.440 created Unreal Engine in the first place, says the reason 378 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.759 for this isn't necessarily the fault of the engine itself, 379 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:07.839 but the way developers are using it. In a media 380 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.599 roundtable interview during the latest Unreal Fest event in Soul, 381 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.680 South Korea, Sweeney was asked if Epic Games was doing 382 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.480 anything to address claims of optimization issues with Unreal Engine five. Games, 383 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.359 As reported by Korean website This is Game. Sweeney suggested 384 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:24.640 that too many developers focus on making their games for 385 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.119 the most powerful hardware, then try to optimize for less 386 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:31.039 powerful systems at the end of the development process, causing issues. 387 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:34.960 There's a quote here, excuse me. The primary reason why 388 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:37.720 Unreal Engine five based games don't run smoothly on certain 389 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:42.640 PCs or GPUs is the development process, Sweeney explained via 390 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:46.480 machine translation. Many developers develop games for high end hardware, 391 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:49.599 then perform optimization and testing on low respect devices in 392 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.920 the final stages of development. Of course, optimization is by 393 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.039 no means an easy task. It's a very challenging one. Ideally, 394 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.559 optimization should be implemented early in development, before full scale 395 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:03.799 content build begins. We are preparing two major solutions to 396 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:07.240 address this issue. One is to strengthen Unreal Engine support. 397 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.119 Optimization requires significant manual efforts, so we plan to provide 398 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.240 automated optimization features for various devices, making the process faster 399 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:18.920 and easier for developers. The others to strengthen development training. 400 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:21.880 In addition to providing education on the overall testing and 401 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:26.480