WEBVTT 1 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.719 Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Breaking News with me Jeff Grub, 2 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:35.399 your host for Giantbob dot com. 3 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:37.560 Thank you for tuning in on this episode. 4 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:39.560 We're going to be talking about a huge remake and 5 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:41.679 a new Xbox Handheld in twenty twenty five. We have 6 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:43.799 Lucy James, so it's going to be a good one. 7 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:45.880 Let's get right into it. All that was supposed to 8 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.240 happen over the music and I never told jan that, 9 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:53.039 so that's fun. Yeah, no problem, Lucy James, you're here. 10 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:53.759 How's it going. 11 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:56.479 Hi, I'm here, I'm in the office. It's going well. 12 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:01.119 Thank you. Excited to be here, Pope closing me in. 13 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:03.960 I'm in the like the voiceover kind of book section, 14 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:04.599 which is. 15 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.280 You've been locked into game Breaking News? Is what's happened? 16 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:09.079 You know? How locked in on news? I am? 17 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:10.079 How locked in? 18 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:14.120 It's literally dislocked in? Yes, cutting of so I really 19 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:15.319 there's no like, no one can hear me. 20 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.719 Screaming here that that door is now barred from the 21 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:18.480 other side. 22 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.480 Absolutely. Yeah. Hey, welcome to Game Breaking News, everybody. 23 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.599 It is the news show we're gonna be doing here 24 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.599 as part of the Power Block, which is a collaboration 25 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:28.920 between game Spot and Giant bombas we try to do 26 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.159 stuff for you each and every day, starting around new 27 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:33.319 in Eastern time, nine am Pacific. 28 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:34.680 And we'll just be going all day. 29 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.400 Usually it'll start with this show, not always, other things 30 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.439 can happen earlier. We are gonna have a good time 31 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:43.200 here though. Talking about news pretty soon. But yeah, first, Lucy, 32 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:46.120 how are you doing? It's it's Is it fun to 33 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:47.319 be doing this from the studio? 34 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:48.480 It is? 35 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.359 I kind of forgot how because obviously we've been doing 36 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:52.159 so much stuff from home. 37 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:52.920 It's wonderful. 38 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:54.840 I love doing it. I love the comfort moone home, 39 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.040 I love my cats hanging around, but there is something 40 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:01.359 more energizing about doing it from the office, and you know, 41 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:05.719 just being like johnakan Jan already in here and just yeah, 42 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:09.199 it's exciting. And also like we're a small but scrappy 43 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:11.520 team and it's exciting for us to do a bunch 44 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:15.039 of new stuff. And honestly, I just think live is fun. 45 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:19.879 Yeah, any anything can happen, right, so well, hopefully good stuff. Yeah, Well, 46 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.599 I mean listen, if thatsd stuff happens, We've yeah, we've 47 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:23.319 dealt with plenty of that. 48 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.080 We can keep rolling with that as well. 49 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:28.680 So yeah, uh, you know what, Let's get into the 50 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.000 show and explain what we do here most week Yeah, 51 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:33.199 absolutely most weekdays. I, Jeff Greb, will help piece your 52 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.000 gaming life back together. That includes breaking news and maybe 53 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:39.120 even some of our own original reporting. For all these topics, 54 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.479 I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who 55 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:42.479 will make me look smart. 56 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:44.719 If you are watching live on twitch welcome. 57 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:46.719 You can always listen to the show later on podcast 58 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.919 feeds by searching for Games Mornings, or find the RSS. 59 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.240 We got that over on giant bomb dot com for you. 60 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.120 You can also catch the show later with chapters and 61 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:55.560 timestamps on YouTube. 62 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:57.479 Hello YouTube. 63 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:59.319 All right, we have a lot to get into, so 64 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.319 let's break some gaming news, starting with the rumored Oblivion 65 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.759 remake could launch sooner than expected. This comes from Eddie 66 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.520 McCoo at game Spot. The long rumored remakeup but that's 67 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.240 this two thousand and six RPG The Elder Scrolls for 68 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.960 Oblivion could be announced soon and potentially released before June. 69 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:19.280 That's according to Nathan the Hate, who has a solid 70 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.759 track record of reporting on unannounced games and platforms, and 71 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.840 when he broke this, I also got a couple of 72 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.520 messages saying, yeah, this is happening, so I think we 73 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:29.039 can be uh. 74 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:35.759 Yeah, no, you're tapped in come onels every day. 75 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:37.439 Oh you don't want to feel that way. Let's not 76 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:41.840 get crazy here. Yeah. Hey, this is kind. 77 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.719 Of something I think has been mostly an open secret 78 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.080 for some time now, right because we had. 79 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:50.240 A year. 80 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:53.879 Yeah, but I think when we first started hearing about it, 81 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.120 and I remember VGC actually reporting on it pretty early. 82 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:57.560 Uh. 83 00:03:58.159 --> 00:03:59.120 I think the report from. 84 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:03.520 Them was would be remade visually in Unreel Engine five 85 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.960 and then underneath it would still be the Oblivion engine. 86 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.280 That was like so you would have all the interactivity 87 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:12.360 and stuff like that. Now, I think the most recent rumber. 88 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.600 Like yes, because that's the thing. I mean, UNI five 89 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.639 is amazing. But I'm at the stage now where if 90 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:20.600 I pick up a game, I can tell what it's 91 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.000 made and unreal because there's just something about the character 92 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.079 wait and feel to it. 93 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:28.680 So okay if it feels like a yeah. 94 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.040 I think though that the most recent rumors Lucy James 95 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.879 are that they're remaking the entirety of the game in 96 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:36.120 an Unreal Engine five. 97 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.959 So now you know, why would they do this? 98 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:40.600 Like why would this Why would this be a bit 99 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.800 like obviously they do this to make money from selling 100 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:44.920 an old game to us again, but why go through 101 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.199 all the effort of sort of getting getting an Elder 102 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:51.639 Scrolls game up and running in an Unreal Engine five? 103 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.399 To me, that says like they want the future of 104 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.240 their games maybe to be in an engine like Unreal five. 105 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:59.600 So do a lot of the work to figure out 106 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.800 how to get this game running in Unreal five, and 107 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:04.360 then you could take all of those efforts and pay 108 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.439 it forward to the next game and kind of build 109 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.319 on that as a new way of making these games 110 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:10.759 going forward. 111 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:12.079 So that makes a lot of sense. 112 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.839 It does, Yeah, cheap it to kind of not have 113 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.480 to maintain your own engine and just let, you know, 114 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.000 just pack a bunch of stuff on top of Unreal. 115 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.199 Yeah, I mean we get why everyone wants to do 116 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.199 that as well. It is we are maybe past the 117 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.800 point where every every well, we're definitely past the point 118 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.279 where every studio has their own engine for every game 119 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:36.519 they make. There was a time where that may be 120 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.839 made more sense before something like Unreal had standardized a 121 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:41.399 lot of that stuff, and now you're at a point 122 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:45.600 where so many people who work in this industry want 123 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.839 to build skills that are applicable to the next job. 124 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.160 You want to build a skill that it's like, Okay, 125 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.240 I worked on this game, and because I worked on 126 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:55.720 this game that was in Unreal, I can go to 127 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.040 any other studio working in Unreal and do that as well. 128 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.560 And so it's easier to hire people if you have 129 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.800 that because one people want to work there, and also 130 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.040 they have probably built up some of those features that 131 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:10.560 they will need to uh to scale into something like 132 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.720 an Unreal game anywhere else. Now, you know, is this 133 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.839 going to be the best thing for you know, the 134 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.920 these Elder Scrolls games, I don't know. I do like 135 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:26.160 the heye any everything's interactable, every or interactive. I should 136 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:28.639 say I like that everything you could pick up anything. 137 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.079 I like that aspect of those games. But maybe that 138 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.160 is something that that they're going to you know, reduce 139 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:35.120 focus on, or maybe they maybe they find a way 140 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.720 to get that working in Unreal five. 141 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:39.399 What do you think, oh, in terms of everything you 142 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:41.560 can see you can pick up, because that's the thing. 143 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.079 I think they swung too hard in that direction for Starfield. 144 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:46.839 That was one of my big criticisms where it was 145 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.000 like I looked at my inventory, which was pretty capped 146 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.199 at the beginning of the game, and it was filled 147 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:56.319 with clipboards and mugs and stuff, Whereas I like the 148 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.959 you know, the in my mind and like, this is 149 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.160 a very oversimplification, it's just how my brain works, Like 150 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:06.600 the twentousand and eight to twenty fourteen where it's like 151 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:09.639 everything was incredibly stylized. I'm thinking of like games like 152 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.279 Dishonored and even Skyrim, where I look at something and 153 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:14.360 there was a select number of items that I know 154 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.399 that I can interact with because I just understand the 155 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.560 visual language of a game. So that's the thing where 156 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.639 it's like, I like the restraint, but then at the 157 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.279 same time, you want the most massive experience, so technically, 158 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:27.279 you know that should be the starfield where everything should 159 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:27.959 be interactable. 160 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:28.319 Yeah. 161 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.079 I mean, well, why you got me saying that now? 162 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:31.720 Because I'm a bad, bad person. 163 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.279 It's a bad boy. Yeah, I'm a bad. 164 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.639 Boy, bad boy of games media. 165 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:41.040 Bad boy games media, and it's contagious. Yeah, it's yeah. 166 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.519 I think that the issue of Starfield, right is there 167 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:45.399 just was nothing on the other side of that sort 168 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.560 of thing, Like when I think you could stack that 169 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.480 stuff up from your ship a little bit, but I 170 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.959 don't know how permanent it was, because your ship what 171 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.040 didn't feel like as much of a permanent place as 172 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:55.360 say a house in Skyrim. 173 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.360 In Prey, you could pick up all that crap and 174 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.680 then you put it in the recycling machine and you. 175 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:05.040 Could get yeah, I mean fall out before you pick 176 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:06.600 up all that stuff, and then you use it to 177 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.639 build up your your your home base, and all that 178 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:11.759 stuff could be turned into other materials and things like that. 179 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:12.720 There was a crafting system. 180 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:14.800 I don't necessarily need a crafting system in their games 181 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.759 going forward, but I do think people want an end goal, 182 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:20.759 even if some people do just want to pick up 183 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:22.639 every wheel a cheese to put that in their house, 184 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:24.639 and that's their way of expressing themselves. 185 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.839 I've mentioned online. 186 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.240 I've been watching my kids play Goat Simulator three recently, 187 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.519 and they that's how they play that game. They just 188 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:32.279 pick up everything and throw it in a house that 189 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.519 they stole from some humans, and it's a it's a 190 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:40.240 fun time to watch the getting back to this remake 191 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.120 it could be out by June, is what this story 192 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:44.559 is saying. 193 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.600 So yeah, we're I mean, we're halfway through March right now. 194 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.879 I don't mean to alarm anybody, Lucy, but we're halfway 195 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:55.399 through March right now, So that means, you know, this 196 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:58.480 game gets announced to win like April and then comes 197 00:08:58.480 --> 00:08:59.120 out in June. 198 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.000 Like, is that is that what we're looking at? 199 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.600 I mean maybe, like that would be amazing, but because also, 200 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.080 like you know, first off, the show is a first off. 201 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.000 The year is pretty pretty stacked already. But yeah, I 202 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:12.960 mean April, if they have a direct or something, I 203 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.559 don't know. I'm sorry, I'm really distracted by this link 204 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.120 that Lexi dropped in the chat. Oh yeah, which is 205 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.039 the year Agamer posted disco Elysium is being reimagined for 206 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:25.759 mobile audiences to captivate the TikTok user. And my brain 207 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:27.879 is just so broken by that. And there is also 208 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:28.480 a trailer. 209 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.240 Okay, next story, disco Elysium is being reimagined for mobile 210 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.519 devices to captivate the TikTok user oblivion. 211 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:37.840 That stuff's happening, So get. 212 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.200 Excited everything, Get excited for that game. 213 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.360 This is the craziest sentence I've seen in a while. Yeah. 214 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.039 This comes from Ed Nightingale over at Eurogamer Psychological RPG 215 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.159 Disco Elysium is set to come to mobile device's courtesy 216 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.159 of original studio Zaoom. That's how I'm always going to 217 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:00.360 say it in a reimagined form. Reimagined is maybe the 218 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:02.759 craziest euphemism they could have used for what this thing 219 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.200 that they're doing is the aim of this adaptation is 220 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:07.559 to make the game accessible for mobile devices and playable 221 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:13.000 in short bursts. We intend to captivate the TikTok user 222 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:17.200 with quick hits of compelling story art in audio, ultimately 223 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.960 creating an all new, deeply engaging form of entertainment. Said 224 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.399 studio head Dennis Havel, an original member of the Disco 225 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:29.799 Elysium development team. That Okay, that's crazy because to me, 226 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.080 the way I look at TikTok that like, and I 227 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.600 think what they're saying here is that scrolling going like 228 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.919 from one piece of content that is quick hitting gives 229 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:42.559 you dopamine and then you scroll or really what it 230 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.039 does automatically goes to the next one, so you just 231 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:48.879 kind of can't get off that train. That is like 232 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.919 the capitalism, like the crack cocaine version of social media 233 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.919 that it's just boiled down to its most base components 234 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:57.360 and just latches on your brain. 235 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.240 It becomes impossible to like extract from. 236 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:02.000 Like you have to make a conscious decision to put 237 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.240 down these things once you get on the Oh, I 238 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:06.960 have started watching YouTube shorts because my YouTube app just 239 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.120 automatically went there, and I'm like, I did not come 240 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.559 to YouTube to do this, but I find myself twenty 241 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:13.919 five minutes later, I'm still here. God, dang it. I 242 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:21.399 hate this disco Elysium. It's like a game about social 243 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.519 constructs and about socialism and communism and capitalism and. 244 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:28.120 Plight of man. 245 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.320 And boy, this feels like chocolate and moon rocks. 246 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:34.320 Yeah. 247 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:39.440 I I'm still just so taken aback by that headline. 248 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:40.840 It is such a good headline. 249 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:41.919 It is. 250 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.240 It's like something from Succession. 251 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:46.799 Yeah, it really is. Yes. 252 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.519 Ah, there's also a trailer. I dropped it an hour 253 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:53.159 chat on discord here. 254 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.279 All right, I'm gonna take a look at this thing. 255 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.600 Yeah this is seeah Yeah, I mean. 256 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:06.000 It's somehow someone android only for now. 257 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:11.480 That's interesting, Okay, yeah, so yes, vot. I mean they 258 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.240 could just take all the voice lines they already did 259 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.039 for the voice acted version of that game, right, So 260 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:21.720 this is just disco Elysium like art from disco Elysium. 261 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.039 Writing from Discolysium, it looks like maybe. 262 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:29.159 Some dialogue choices from that game, but in a vertical version. 263 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:34.600 Yeah, it looks like well Kuno, yeah, yeah, Kuno punches you. Yeah, 264 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:40.240 I'm a little sack of potatoes. Yeah. This is truly unhinged. 265 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.960 I don't I mean, And we've been getting these, you know, vibes. 266 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.879 We've been getting the explicit statements from Zachlum since disco 267 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.480 Elysium's team has fallen apart and has spun off into 268 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:55.320 several other studios, all making games, specifically because they hated 269 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.519 working with people that might make decisions like this. 270 00:12:58.480 --> 00:12:59.639 Hey, I'm proud to announce it. 271 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.399 I am a project from one of the creators of 272 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.879 disco Elysium at this point, because what isn't there are 273 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.320 so many of them it's difficult to keep track who isn't. 274 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:12.360 Absolutely all right, Well, that that is a very bizarre. 275 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:14.600 I'm kind of looking forward to seeing if we get 276 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.399 any like statements from the other people that worked on 277 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.919 disco Elysium. I bet they will just be like, I 278 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.039 don't ever want to think about that thing ever again. 279 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:25.679 To the TikTok for the TikTok user for. 280 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:29.600 The TikTok user. I mean, I don't think that this 281 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.679 is how you. I mean that's just a bad strategy, right, 282 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:35.399 because the TikTok user is not like someone making conscious 283 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.480 decisions about choosing the thing they want to interact with. 284 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:40.240 You fall into the algorithm. 285 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.399 And unless your game can be inserted into the algorithm 286 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.960 to be served up to people, no one like, no 287 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.360 one who's doing that is going to be like, well, 288 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.440 I was gonna go waste time on TikTok, but instead 289 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.000 let me download this when it spoke app for this 290 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.639 one video game that I can play in weird chunks 291 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.879 it you got your right, It is a succession like 292 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:03.720 it is one percent the kind of thing where these 293 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.399 people do not get it and then applying a half 294 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:09.919 formed thought to a piece of content they already have 295 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.960 so they can cheaply reuse it is. 296 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:20.519 Yeah, so as more of a uh, as more of 297 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.679 a kind of I'm taking this as a good a 298 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:27.759 good faith interpretation of this, right, is that I'm trying. 299 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.679 I'm trying trying to be the silver lining where it's 300 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:37.080 like discolysium thought provoking. We are in a stage where 301 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:40.360 we're kind of losing the hashtag gen z gamer. They 302 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:42.840 like the younger generations are playing more games on their phone. 303 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.480 Disco Elysium such a powerful piece of work. And if 304 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.360 they are taking that and reimagining it and putting it 305 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:51.440 out in a way that they think will appeal to 306 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:57.639 that audience, I do understand that, and I understand, I 307 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:04.159 get the thing, but it just feels bills bizarre, so 308 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.600 so bizarre. I mean, hey, maybe maybe this will be 309 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:12.600 the thing that gets you know, kids thinking about being 310 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:13.679 a depressed. 311 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.159 And we need more of that for sure. Kids have 312 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:18.320 not had enough depressing things to think about. 313 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.039 Yeah, I just through any interesting times. What are they 314 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:22.000 talking about? 315 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.279 If the if the disease is you know, the people 316 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.840 can't get off of these social media apps because the 317 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.000 algorithm is that sticky, The solution is probably not let's 318 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.960 make our thing exactly like that it is. It's probably 319 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.559 not like let's form our content into the shape of 320 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:45.679 the disease. Let's it's you probably need to offer a wholesome, compelling, 321 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:50.960 nutritious alternative. And that was the video game disco Elysium. 322 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.320 And the game did very well. 323 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:55.600 It did find an audience, and and sure, yeah, you're 324 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:57.960 not going to be able to peel everyone away from TikTok, 325 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.440 but your one hope there is eventually people just get 326 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.639 so sick of feeling the way they feel after using 327 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.279 apps like that over a long period of time, that 328 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:09.039 they decide to come back to something that is wholesome, 329 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.519 and you need to be waiting there with something ready 330 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.919 for them instead of being like, let's like shed all 331 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.360 the things that make us special to be more like 332 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:21.440 YouTube shorts and Instagram and like the Facebook feed that 333 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.519 has now turned into TikTok as well. All these social 334 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:25.159 media apps are doing the same thing. You doing the 335 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.480 same thing from the creators at disco Elysium is embarrassing. 336 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:32.480 It's embarrassing from the disco Elysium. 337 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.759 I think we shaw a moratorium on the phrase from 338 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.799 the careers of disco Elysium for the next year. 339 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.440 Uh huh, yeah, you're right, you would. 340 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:44.000 Just it's like when the pandemic happened and people were saying, uh, oh, 341 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.519 you know, I was a middle manager at at Applebee's whatever, 342 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.159 and so they just put that on a resume because 343 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:50.759 no one could call apple Bee's and be like, hey 344 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:53.080 did this guy work there? No one was working it 345 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.559 that was a huge thing, all right. Xbox branded handheld 346 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.120 planned for later this year, according to a report. This 347 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.080 also comes from Eddie Coup who got some help from 348 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.879 Evan Campbell over at GameSpot. There could be an official 349 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:06.799 Xbox branded handheld out by the end of this year. 350 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.559 A new report states that Microsoft is partnering with a 351 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:13.359 PC gaming company like Asius or Lenovo, although the name, 352 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:15.920 the exact name of the company they're partnering with, seems 353 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.319 to still be a mystery. And they're partnering with this 354 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:20.640 on the device, which is targeted to launch this year 355 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:24.440 in twenty twenty five. According to Windows Central, the handheld 356 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.599 is co named Keenan and will be similar in nature 357 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.440 to the upcoming Lenovo Legion go S, which will be 358 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:32.440 the first device outside of the Steam Deck family to 359 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:36.359 run on valves Steam os. Now, are you thinking there's 360 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.119 already a bunch of these things that run Windows. 361 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:39.440 How is this any different? 362 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.079 The way that this seems to be different, Lucy James, 363 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:47.559 is that Microsoft is specifically making an Xbox sort of 364 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:50.079 environment for this handheld. 365 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:52.079 They are handling the software. 366 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.279 So that to me says that is the user experience, 367 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:58.400 that is the ovalay Y you n l booting up 368 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:00.079 into Windows eleven, which. 369 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.960 Or if it's a shelled version of Windows eleven at 370 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:03.400 the very. 371 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:05.400 Least, yeah, which honestly great. 372 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:08.160 I have a rock ally and the fact that I 373 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.079 have to go through Windows eleven is the worst bit 374 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:10.519 about it. 375 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:13.160 Yeah, I mean just managing updates right where like, Okay, 376 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.440 you're got to update Windows, then you have to update 377 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:20.880 the ASUS, like my experience thing, and then Armory create 378 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.480 a separate thing from ASUS is like, hey, we have 379 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:25.279 an ACEUS motherboard in here, so we're going to hand 380 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:27.119 all the updates through there. Yes, a separate thing for 381 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:29.920 just the gaming stuff. So there's three sort of paths 382 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.440 you need to walk down fully separate from one another 383 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:33.960 one another every time you. 384 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.359 Need to update. That's frustrating, you know. 385 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.160 And then that gets in to my issues with like 386 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.799 just trying to navigate Windows on a touch screen without 387 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.119 a keyboard, a physical keyboard and a mouse could be 388 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.039 frustrating sometimes when you're just trying to get into a 389 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.599 password field and it doesn't work. But Microsoft has known 390 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:50.319 about these issues for a long time, you know. I 391 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:52.960 remember like complaining about it, like my first week using 392 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.240 the acis Roger and like a month later, Phil Spencer 393 00:18:57.319 --> 00:18:58.839 was doing a bunch of interviews where it's like we 394 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:00.640 get it, we get it, we get it, and so 395 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.480 I think immediately they decided this is the this is 396 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:04.839 what we need to do. We need to fix this 397 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:08.480 and make a version of Windows and or Xbox that 398 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:11.319 can work on one of these handheld devices. And I 399 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.000 think a lot of us assumed and based on, you know, 400 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:18.240 the rumors that this that would turn into an entirely 401 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:24.119