Speaker 1: On this week's episode of Game Spot after Dark, we
Speaker 1: are joined by the freelancer extraordinaire Funky Joseph to talk
Speaker 1: about Mafia Definitive Edition, the Bethesda acquisition, and the state
Speaker 1: of next gen console pre orders. Hello and welcome to
Speaker 1: episode six zero of Game Spot After Dark. I'm your
Speaker 1: host Jake Decker, and joining me this week is Lucy James, Hi,
Speaker 1: Kelli Plaguey, Hello, and Funky Joseph.
Speaker 2: Howdy gamers, Thank you for joining us. Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for having me.
Speaker 3: We're so excited to have you because you've done some
Speaker 3: reviews for us, some like cool content. Now we get
Speaker 3: to talk to you face to face while like it's
Speaker 3: sort of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, zoom to zoom. When I told CALLI, I like
Speaker 1: reached out to see if you wanted to be on,
Speaker 1: she was like, I have to be on that episode, please,
Speaker 1: I need to be on that episode. No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I've been Freeline for a couple of
Speaker 2: years now, and this month, I guess marks the one
Speaker 2: year I've been like doing stuff with Game Spot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's super exciting. Thank you all for having me on.
Speaker 2: It's been a blast.
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4: Seriously, your name is always on the icy like pop
Speaker 4: up all the time.
Speaker 3: But I've never really interacted with you because you're hilarious
Speaker 3: on Twitter, so I just get retweeted into my timeline constantly.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Oh the blue site it is?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I have such a bittersweet relationship with
Speaker 2: that website. It's so much like chaos and also some
Speaker 2: sometimes funny stuff.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's the tagline of Twitter dot com.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gotta strike a balance. What that balance is, I
Speaker 1: have no clue. I don't think anyone truly knows, but
Speaker 1: right got to figure it out somehow. But anyway, we
Speaker 1: start this show off with what we've been playing. But
Speaker 1: since we've got a guest here, we're gonna start with
Speaker 1: the Chris from Dayton, Ohio segment. Not quite in sync,
Speaker 1: but it is pretty good. I think I think we
Speaker 1: can like to more here, you know, to spearhead it well.
Speaker 4: Also, if we had time here, he could provide the bass.
Speaker 4: Cally and I are.
Speaker 1: Very yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2: That's a really good theme song comes in like very
Speaker 2: smoothly at the end.
Speaker 3: It's an original composition, oh.
Speaker 1: Is it though? But anyway, this is the segment where
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to introduce yourself. You can kind
Speaker 1: of tell us whatever you'd like, whether like your favorite games,
Speaker 1: games that you always returned to, how you got into
Speaker 1: this industry, what your favorite food is. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can tell us whatever whatever you'd like.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is this is awesome.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I've been freelancing in the industry for a couple of
Speaker 2: years now. Wow. Yeah, a couple of years. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I'm still a student, but when I have free time,
Speaker 2: I love to like write and talk about games. They're
Speaker 2: very cool and silly, and I just feel like there's
Speaker 2: a lot to explore and dig into, like how they
Speaker 2: affect and reflect real life. And yeah, I just feel
Speaker 2: really lucky to be able to explore that. As like
Speaker 2: a job, I write features and stuff for places like IGN, Vice,
Speaker 2: Paced Games fan by PC gamer uh, And I do
Speaker 2: like streaming on Twitch. I do variety streams, play a
Speaker 2: lot of fun games with my friends. Yeah, okay, favorite games. Recently,
Speaker 2: I beat Control and that has been on my mind.
Speaker 2: It's like already one of my faves. I'm like, dang,
Speaker 2: this game is crazy. Yes, it is the hole aesthetic
Speaker 2: and I don't know, I just dig it. Mirror's Edge
Speaker 2: is also top notch. I love Parkour and I can't
Speaker 2: do it, so that is that is what I play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: roguelikes like narrative games, also fighting games. I'll beat anyone
Speaker 2: in Smash Bros. Big Challenge, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate is
Speaker 2: my game. I played Lucas and it's ice cold.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Lucas. You know Lucas, this guy.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves it when I play Lucas.
Speaker 2: They just love the PK Freeze.
Speaker 1: And then it's j yes it is so I was.
Speaker 2: It was Christmas and my cousin played Lucas one time
Speaker 2: and just like kept freezing me, and I was like,
Speaker 2: is this allowed? Like does Nintendo know this is in
Speaker 2: the game. So I just picked up the character too.
Speaker 2: He's a great little.
Speaker 1: Guy, I know, so good. I don't I don't get
Speaker 1: why people hate him so much. I think he's great.
Speaker 1: The whole p K Fire, PK Freeze combo is is great.
Speaker 3: No, and I'm just mad, but yeah. I I also
Speaker 3: started freelancing as a student, so that was really exciting
Speaker 3: when we picked you up as a freelancer Reviews because
Speaker 3: that's kind of how I got my start in the
Speaker 3: industry and I've really liked reading your features at other sites,
Speaker 3: so it's been awesome to work with you and also
Speaker 3: to have you on the show. I'm just very excited.
Speaker 3: I don't want to play smash with you, though, I
Speaker 3: think I would just get up, come on, we got.
Speaker 2: It is so much fun.
Speaker 3: I have no place talking about how annoying Lucas is
Speaker 3: when I played down be Kirby like I can't talk.
Speaker 3: I I it's not fair. But I still find Lucas
Speaker 3: so annoying.
Speaker 1: He is he is.
Speaker 2: No, but thank you so much. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and what is your favorite food? I think
Speaker 3: that was a question, Jake. That's a new one we're.
Speaker 1: Talking about there. We used to have that whole list
Speaker 1: of questions remember that we'd go through, but it was
Speaker 1: too much to read.
Speaker 3: It was very long.
Speaker 2: My favorite food, okay, I gotta say, like a nice
Speaker 2: Montreal bago like cheese and better that's it. Maybe a
Speaker 2: bit of salmon on that.
Speaker 5: Yes, my roommate would approve.
Speaker 4: She is from Montreal, and nothing here, no bagels here
Speaker 4: to compare.
Speaker 2: Apparently they're built different. They just fundamentally are built different
Speaker 2: in Montreal. I don't know how they're doing.
Speaker 3: It, but I didn't know Montreal was known for its bagels.
Speaker 3: But somebody told me I think it was Mike Maharty,
Speaker 3: friend of the show, that the reason New York bagels
Speaker 3: are different from San Francisco bagels has something to do
Speaker 3: with the water. And I was like, it could just
Speaker 3: be Mike bullshitting me.
Speaker 1: Sounds like Mike bullshit.
Speaker 3: It might not be, so I just was like, that's
Speaker 3: a new factor that I know, and then I didn't
Speaker 3: google it.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing about Mike bullshit is that every
Speaker 4: so often he has a little truth in there yea,
Speaker 4: and which makes you can't even you can't trust him.
Speaker 1: He texted me they saying happy birthday, and I was like, immediately,
Speaker 1: I was like, what's this about. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: I'm doing a bit from the office, and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Mike?
Speaker 3: Is it his birthday? Birthday? Oh no, I feel Mike Maharty, Wait,
Speaker 3: I bet you, I bet you.
Speaker 5: He texted me on that day, but just about something
Speaker 5: completely different.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Well, anyway, we should move on to what
Speaker 1: we've been playing. Lucy, do you want to start with this,
Speaker 1: because that's not a game that you have there.
Speaker 4: Well, it's because the prompt says what we've been playing
Speaker 4: or doing. And while I have been playing a bunch
Speaker 4: of Hades, which is fantastic, Cally, you and I've talked
Speaker 4: about it a little bit about just how attractive everyone
Speaker 4: is in that game.
Speaker 3: They're so pretty, is so hot in that game.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: It's also very very fun game.
Speaker 4: But I watched Console Wars yesterday and we won't be
Speaker 4: able to say this so much longer. A fine CBS property,
Speaker 4: But it's based on the book by Blake Harris, which
Speaker 4: I'm actually in the middle of reading, and it kind
Speaker 4: of follows the rise of Saga if you've never heard.
Speaker 5: Console follows the rise of Saga in the eighties.
Speaker 4: And early nineties, and is wild how many people they've
Speaker 4: got to appear on, like to be interviewed, like all
Speaker 4: of Nintendo's top marketing people, people from like Tom Kolinski
Speaker 4: himself from the Saga side, and like that. Watching it
Speaker 4: back now, it's like succession or something, just in terms
Speaker 4: of how they'll backstab each other. And you know, people
Speaker 4: go from Saga to Nintendo and vice versa, and the
Speaker 4: incredible moment at E three ninety five, when you know,
Speaker 4: like a guy who used to work at Sega went
Speaker 4: up and completely undercut Sega on stage because he then
Speaker 4: went to work for Sony, and like, yeah, it's oh,
Speaker 4: it's an incredible moment. So Saga announced that the Satura
Speaker 4: would be coming out now for three ninety nine, and
Speaker 4: then this guy who used to work for Sega now
Speaker 4: works for Sony went on stage to talk about the
Speaker 4: PlayStation one and he just goes two ninety nine and
Speaker 4: then left. What's the biggest mic job moment I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: It's on YouTube. I think it's called like the Price
Speaker 4: Heard around the world if you want to just watch
Speaker 4: the clip. But they have some incredible access. They have
Speaker 4: all of these, like they talked to the brand people
Speaker 4: who are behind the Sega stuff and like looking back
Speaker 4: at that.
Speaker 1: Again, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: You remind.
Speaker 4: But it's it's a really cool, really cool look at
Speaker 4: the kind of growth of you know, Sega, and then
Speaker 4: even just a little bit of look at the the
Speaker 4: hotspit on Sony even way back then.
Speaker 3: It's only nineteen minutes as well, which.
Speaker 4: I feel like it speeds through a lot, and it
Speaker 4: definitely I think assumes you have a lot of knowledge
Speaker 4: on Saga and Nintendo, like at least current Saga in Nintendo,
Speaker 4: or have some kind of background.
Speaker 2: But I think total of the doc is seventeen minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh ninety sorry, nineteen.
Speaker 4: Ninety, so it could I feel like it could have
Speaker 4: been a three part series just to give things a
Speaker 4: little bit more time to breathe.
Speaker 5: But they do. They get through so much. It's really cool, especially.
Speaker 3: For those of us who were children in the nineties
Speaker 3: who just remember being like, I want to play the
Speaker 3: Mario game.
Speaker 4: They have a lot of footage of kids opening Nintendo
Speaker 4: and Sega at Christmas, and there's one very very adorable
Speaker 4: one where it's a boy that just opens the present
Speaker 4: and he just goes it's a sorry PlayStation and then
Speaker 4: he just immediately bursts its tears and goes huggins it
Speaker 4: goes to hug his dad.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, so cute.
Speaker 3: But also it's like.
Speaker 4: One final thing on it. It's the you know how
Speaker 4: nowadays you get kind of like small digs between Sony
Speaker 4: and Microsoft. You know, Sony taking the piss with that
Speaker 4: video of how to share games, like Microsoft being cheeky
Speaker 4: with memes and stuff. Back then, the stuff that Sega
Speaker 4: would do to get one over on Nintendo was incredible.
Speaker 5: They would have these adverts just totally shitting on Nintendo.
Speaker 3: Sega does what Nintendo?
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much and like just like you know, there
Speaker 4: was one advert that I'd never even seen before. It
Speaker 4: was like other uses for a Nintendo game Boy and
Speaker 4: it was like putting it in the bin and like
Speaker 4: flattening meat with it.
Speaker 5: Incredible.
Speaker 1: Really sounds like succession.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's basically like succession.
Speaker 2: Just what made them stop like being so aggressive with
Speaker 2: the ads and like being so antagonistic.
Speaker 4: Do you think because Nintendo did it to them? Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: Nintendo totally swapped them locked around. They did to them
Speaker 4: and then Sony came around.
Speaker 5: But it's it's a really cool like and also I
Speaker 5: like just this.
Speaker 4: You know, we're at this point in time where we
Speaker 4: can have cool video game documentaries. I haven't seen the
Speaker 4: high school stuff on Netflix yet, but I did really
Speaker 4: enjoy that one for a few years ago about.
Speaker 5: The Atari landfill filled with et y goshes.
Speaker 3: That was really cool.
Speaker 1: So you have Console Wars nice Kelly, how about you?
Speaker 3: Well, we talked about it last time, so I won't
Speaker 3: talk about it in depth, but I have been playing
Speaker 3: Splunky too. I didn't play the original, and I'm really
Speaker 3: mad that I didn't because I've been enjoying it a
Speaker 3: lot and the music has been stuck in my head.
Speaker 3: So I just got this like cool, like like drum
Speaker 3: beat going in my brain at all times. So that's fun.
Speaker 3: And then I also finished my rewatch of Avatar last
Speaker 3: Airbender's very emotional.
Speaker 2: How's that?
Speaker 3: Oh my? I love it so much? Is my favorite
Speaker 3: show ever. Also, The Ember Island Players is the best
Speaker 3: recap episode of TV history. It's so good. And my
Speaker 3: mom has seen Legend of Cora. I have it, so
Speaker 3: my mom was like, we should watch Legend of Korra
Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm not emotionally there yet, Like
Speaker 3: I like, I am not ready for like half of
Speaker 3: these people to be dead. I need like a little bit.
Speaker 3: So that's where I'm at. And then you know me,
Speaker 3: I watched ninety Day Fiance.
Speaker 1: I have a good time play Animal Crossing. I do
Speaker 1: want to bring things back to Spelunky just quickly, because
Speaker 1: last week I did say that the online was in
Speaker 1: like a very bad state and it was really hard
Speaker 1: to do any online matches or any online game play
Speaker 1: at all, it seems like they fixed that now. Played
Speaker 1: some with Cali, I've played some with a few other people,
Speaker 1: and the online is much better now. So if you
Speaker 1: are interested in Spelunky too, and you listened to me
Speaker 1: last week said that the online was broken and you've
Speaker 1: been waiting, it seems like the kinks have been worked
Speaker 1: out now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot more stable. I also think like
Speaker 3: one of the cool things about it is that it's
Speaker 3: pretty balanced between like the difficulty level playing by yourself
Speaker 3: and with other people. Because if you're playing with somebody,
Speaker 3: if you die, you turn into a ghost, so you
Speaker 3: can kind of like help out. You have like a
Speaker 3: little an attack and you can aid the other player,
Speaker 3: which is handy. But when you're playing by yourself or
Speaker 3: when you're playing with somebody, like, you still have to
Speaker 3: manage like other aspects that make it tricky. So the
Speaker 3: ghost thing doesn't make it too easy. So it seems
Speaker 3: really really well balanced.
Speaker 5: It's hard.
Speaker 3: It's a hard game, Like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know how many runs I've done, but I think
Speaker 1: I've only made it to like world three four is
Speaker 1: the furthes stuff gotten. I don't even know how many
Speaker 1: worlds there are. I think five maybe, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited to keep playing it. Okay, what do
Speaker 1: you think of Control?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm I'm loving it. I don't know. I've played
Speaker 2: through it in a week after putting it off for
Speaker 2: over a year. I was like, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 2: is like game of the year. Then I was like,
Speaker 2: oh it came out last year.
Speaker 3: I forgot.
Speaker 2: I've just been so like in my like work loops
Speaker 2: and like not even notice. But yeah, there's something just
Speaker 2: about that office setting. It's like painted in this like
Speaker 2: haunting sci fi sheen. It's just like very creepy and
Speaker 2: like while you're exploring the whole building and you just
Speaker 2: like look up and then you'll see a body floating,
Speaker 2: just like suspended in mid air.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, whoa.
Speaker 2: This is like it maintains that intensity the whole time,
Speaker 2: even when you're just like walking to like some short objective.
Speaker 2: It's very very fun. And the way I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's like my favorite superhero game because the way it
Speaker 2: introduces your powers, it's just like I didn't even realize
Speaker 2: I was gonna be able to fly until give you
Speaker 2: the power, like what halfway through and I was just like, oh,
Speaker 2: like the whole level level design changes and you can
Speaker 2: just like float up high and use your telekinesis from
Speaker 2: the sky. It's just like solid game from fronts of back.
Speaker 2: It's very very cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you have those like Metroid Venous style
Speaker 3: elements of like you realize like, oh that weird thing
Speaker 3: I saw, now I can actually do something with it
Speaker 3: because I have this new ability, and so you keep
Speaker 3: learning the oldest house and I think that's one of
Speaker 3: Control's strengths. What did you think of the checkpointing? Because
Speaker 3: I know that was like a big thing for people,
Speaker 3: and it didn't bother me too much. I was able
Speaker 3: to get through it okay. But it has a change
Speaker 3: now though it has changed a little bit hot, so
Speaker 3: you're going to have probably a smoother experience than we
Speaker 3: did at launch.
Speaker 2: Was there something wrong with it? I died so many times,
Speaker 2: and just like I thought I was going to be somewhere,
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I surely must be like past
Speaker 2: this point that I killed five hundred people at right,
Speaker 2: And then it put me like all the way back
Speaker 2: to the start. That happened a couple of times, but
Speaker 2: I trudged through it. I was streaming that too, is
Speaker 2: it was so sad, like being stuck out a point
Speaker 2: like that and going so far back.
Speaker 3: You're like, all right, crew, Lisa, run it back.
Speaker 2: Sorry I was lagging everyone. Yeah, did you play the
Speaker 2: DLC at all?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But I looked at the trailer and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: it seems very spooky, So I think.
Speaker 5: It's I preferred AWE too.
Speaker 4: I liked Foundation because Foundation had a new environment, but
Speaker 4: I found a lot of the puzzles, as in, like
Speaker 4: you have to you go into this big I don't
Speaker 4: even know how to describe it. There's a couple of
Speaker 4: puzzles and like a couple of areas that you have
Speaker 4: to navigate, and I was like, I'm just going to
Speaker 4: open a walkthrough because this is a bit much.
Speaker 1: I think I liked Foundation more.
Speaker 4: Actually, oh because a W is like all you know,
Speaker 4: Alan Wake stuff and the idea of remedy just like
Speaker 4: fully embracing this connected remedy versus just way more appealing
Speaker 4: to me. But also Foundation has two bugged trophies and
Speaker 4: they're the only trophies that I need.
Speaker 5: That's why I have resentment.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid to make. I got the platinum in the
Speaker 3: base game, and I like want to continue that street
Speaker 3: because I mean I was what I was going to
Speaker 3: ask you fromk is, like what was it like to
Speaker 3: read Did you read a lot of the lore on stream?
Speaker 3: Because like I got so into that and I chased
Speaker 3: all the trophies to get the lore.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I played that game like on and off stream.
Speaker 2: I was just like it was kind of like my
Speaker 2: my game that I could play outside of work. That
Speaker 2: wasn't like I wasn't writing anything on I was just
Speaker 2: like playing it for my own time. So when I
Speaker 2: was on stream, I would notice like the files that
Speaker 2: was getting were super interesting and the stuff that they redacted.
Speaker 2: I started like reading that and talking to a couple
Speaker 2: of NPCs, but then I realized the story actually goes
Speaker 2: like pretty deep. So I was like I don't really
Speaker 2: want to do this on stream, Like I will do
Speaker 2: this like on my off time. And yeah, there's so
Speaker 2: many collectibles that you can just like pick up and
Speaker 2: be like, oh, like so that's what this room is.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 2: I think a really funny part was like kind of
Speaker 2: like a little part in the plot where the guy's
Speaker 2: like looking at the fridge forever, like hey could like
Speaker 2: can you get someone to help me. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's so weird, and that like prompted me to look
Speaker 2: up more of the collectiveles and me like what's going
Speaker 2: on here? And then figuring out more of it like
Speaker 2: the altered world objects and stuff. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is this is exactly my shit, Like this is
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: The lure here.
Speaker 3: Have you played Alana?
Speaker 2: I have I played a chunk of it. I was
Speaker 2: like recording something with my friend, but the levels were off,
Speaker 2: so I just like I got upset and I quit
Speaker 2: the game. But it was super It was super cheesy
Speaker 2: and I loved like how much he wanted to find
Speaker 2: his wife and he was just like where is she?
Speaker 1: With the light?
Speaker 2: It was it was a fun one. How do they
Speaker 2: tie it to control in the dlc uh?
Speaker 3: Howse?
Speaker 4: I mean you should have seen bits of it in
Speaker 4: the Bass game as in like bright Foles being ah
Speaker 4: an awe like an altered world event. So just like
Speaker 4: where Jesse and her brother find the the object like
Speaker 4: the ordinary I think that's the town is like the
Speaker 4: ordinary dump site?
Speaker 5: How that is somehow connected to the oldest house.
Speaker 4: It's a very similar thing with Alan Wake And then
Speaker 4: I won't.
Speaker 5: Get into deep into spoilers, but obviously like.
Speaker 4: The fact that the guy who plays Alan Wake also
Speaker 4: plays doctor Darling, Like isn't even really that.
Speaker 3: Big of a connections.
Speaker 5: It's the whole.
Speaker 3: Thing is so meta's actor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Matthew Peretta who like, ah, Casper Darling absolutely.
Speaker 3: Still in my heart. I love him.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's really cool and like it's got
Speaker 4: me really wanted to play Alan Wake again because I
Speaker 4: haven't touched that game in.
Speaker 3: Ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just gonna say I replayed it after
Speaker 1: playing Control the first time, and I think it still
Speaker 1: holds up pretty well, like kind of like what you
Speaker 1: were saying is it is cheesy, but it kind of works.
Speaker 1: And that whole thing because it's supposed to be, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like a pulp fiction writer and the
Speaker 1: story is just kind of like pulpy and a little absurd,
Speaker 1: but like it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: I remember everyone taking the purse because it was like, oh,
Speaker 4: he's an author, he must be about like Stephen King
Speaker 4: and I think Stephen King are the two first words
Speaker 4: that you hear in Control in Alan Wake.
Speaker 5: Sorry, like he's doing his voice over and he's like
Speaker 5: Stephen King once said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly how it starts. It's like a quote
Speaker 1: from Stephen King.
Speaker 2: I remember reading about that game in like an official
Speaker 2: Xbox magazine, like like here's the little demo to put
Speaker 2: in your three sixty or whatever like that. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: game looks very creepy from the hole aesthetic right from
Speaker 2: the start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely recommend finishing it or checking it out,
Speaker 1: cal especially if you know, it seems like Remedy is
Speaker 1: doing this whole connected universe thing with all their games,
Speaker 1: and it'd be interesting to see what they do next,
Speaker 1: because you know, Alan Wake two hopefully, but we'll see anyway.
Speaker 1: I've been playing Mafia Definitive Edition, which is a game
Speaker 1: that I want to love so much, but it's got
Speaker 1: a lot of.
Speaker 4: Problems because I was into that, Like I never played Mafia,
Speaker 4: but I was kind of getting hyped about.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, I think it's still pretty good, Like
Speaker 1: it's just not like the story and the characters in
Speaker 1: a lot of the writing I think is really good.
Speaker 1: The way it's structured I love. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys played Mafia three, but the way that game
Speaker 1: was structured was very different from the other Mafia games.
Speaker 1: What this one does is that it takes place in
Speaker 1: an open world, but there are different levels within that.
Speaker 1: So basically it kind of cuts out all of the
Speaker 1: driving around and going from one objective to the next,
Speaker 1: which is something that I really like and it's something
Speaker 1: that I hope games explor more, just because it really
Speaker 1: streamlines open world games and it solves that issue of
Speaker 1: like of like, Okay, I have this really pressing thing
Speaker 1: I have to do, but you know, first I'm just
Speaker 1: going to drive around and like and like I don't know,
Speaker 1: run over a couple of pigeons or shoot pigeons or
Speaker 1: whatever you do, and like GTA four, you know, well,
Speaker 1: it's a GTA four reference. You'd like your side thing
Speaker 1: would just be to shoot pigeons, which was really stupid
Speaker 1: and very Rockstar, I guess, very like two thousand and
Speaker 1: seven Rockstar whenever that came out. But it gets rid
Speaker 1: of a lot of that, which I think is great,
Speaker 1: and it really is able to put focus on the story,
Speaker 1: which is good. It is like it is like twenty
Speaker 1: short stories, like Mafia short stories that are all tied
Speaker 1: together through one I guess, one narrative thread of the
Speaker 1: main character speaking to a cop it. A lot of
Speaker 1: these little scenarios and short stories are pretty cliche, I
Speaker 1: would say, but I think the way it does it
Speaker 1: is like I don't know, you can really see like
Speaker 1: the references in the homage they pay to a lot
Speaker 1: of these great like gangster movies and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So like that aspect is really cool, and a lot
Speaker 1: of those levels I think are a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Some of them are kind of dumb, and particularly there's
Speaker 1: a race car one which was infamously broken in the
Speaker 1: original game that they have since fixed, which is nice.
Speaker 1: But like story wise, I think this game nails it.
Speaker 1: Like it sets the mood and setting too. The setting
Speaker 1: is great, Like it's like in this Chicago esque city
Speaker 1: and it like you'll be driving around, you'll drive through
Speaker 1: a tunnel and you'll be listening to the radio, but
Speaker 1: the radio cut out when you're in the tunnel. Nice,
Speaker 1: or the frequency will change like you know and with
Speaker 1: FM radios and whatnot. Yeah, exactly, it's really cool. Or
Speaker 1: you'll be driving around all of a sudden they'll be
Speaker 1: like like a speech from Herbert Hoover will come on
Speaker 1: the radio, and it just it's so good at setting
Speaker 1: that stage and that setting in place, Like all of
Speaker 1: that is great, but the combat is like it's like
Speaker 1: so simple, not even simple, like simple is not necessarily bad.
Speaker 1: It's just like so boring, and it doesn't even really
Speaker 1: fit with the story, right because the story, especially now
Speaker 1: that the game looks so much better and it's trying
Speaker 1: to tell this like serious story. But then it's like
Speaker 1: a very PS two game play moment where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you made it through there. Now you got to beat
Speaker 1: up all these guys who are who are talking to
Speaker 1: your to your future wife or whatever, and then there's
Speaker 1: like this you just fight, like you're just like getting
Speaker 1: like a brawl with sixteen guys out of nowhere, or
Speaker 1: like you'll be walking through an area and it'll be like,
Speaker 1: all right, now, all these mobsters are here with guns
Speaker 1: because we need to have a we need to have
Speaker 1: a gun fight here, and it just feels so unnecessary,
Speaker 1: Like you can tell it's really like trapped and those
Speaker 1: I don't know when that game come out two thousand
Speaker 1: and two or whatever, so like that side of it
Speaker 1: really doesn't work, but like the story is still really
Speaker 1: good and it's not that long. I think it took
Speaker 1: me around eight hours eight and a half hours to finish.
Speaker 3: It's the same with our reviewer. I think those nine hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean, like I don't know. It's also
Speaker 1: forty dollars, which is something that I know our reviews
Speaker 1: don't typically touch on. So you know, if you're kind
Speaker 1: of on the fence about this game, but that price
Speaker 1: entices you, I mean, I think it's worth it. I've
Speaker 1: been having a lot of fun with it. That said,
Speaker 1: I do find it very frustrating because it seems so
Speaker 1: close to being like a great game, but it just
Speaker 1: it misses the mark because like the gameplay is just
Speaker 1: stuck in the past.
Speaker 3: And this is very Jake's feelings are very close to
Speaker 3: our review, which you can now read on game Spot,
Speaker 3: so go check that out. There's like details and screenshots
Speaker 3: and you can see it looks really good, Like the
Speaker 3: game looks modern. I think that's like the dissonance, right,
Speaker 3: Like it looks really modern, and then there's these like
Speaker 3: very antiquated systems that get in the way because I
Speaker 3: mean you're playing it, you're like expecting it to be
Speaker 3: one way and you're like, oh, I forgot this game's old. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like is old. For a little while.
Speaker 1: The best moments in that game, for sure, are just
Speaker 1: like when you're driving around at night in the rain
Speaker 1: and like the neon is reflecting off the puddles on
Speaker 1: the ground, and especially like I was playing on PC
Speaker 1: with like a twenty eighty TI, so there's ray tracing,
Speaker 1: and it looks I think there's ray tracing. Even if
Speaker 1: it's not there, it looks really good. And like I
Speaker 1: was saying, like you'll be driving around in the rain
Speaker 1: and there'll be a radio broadcast that'll come on that'll
Speaker 1: be like you know, in like the old nineteen thirties voice,
Speaker 1: like if you're driving around right now, you gotta head home,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, exactly, like that sort of thing, and like
Speaker 1: those moments are so cool, Like it just it does
Speaker 1: such a good job of putting you in that time
Speaker 1: and place until it's like, all right, here's here's sixty
Speaker 1: Mafia dudes with submachine guns. Now you got to kill
Speaker 1: them a hole and it's like it's like all right,
Speaker 1: like right, okay, yeah, like like it makes sense for
Speaker 1: a game, but it's like it's trying to take itself seriously.
Speaker 1: Like there's a scene where you mow down all of
Speaker 1: these all of these dudes and you get to the
Speaker 1: last guy who's like the story guy, and the main
Speaker 1: character is like having regrets about it, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I I shouldn't do this, Like I feel bad about this,
Speaker 1: Like you just killed all of his friends, Like why
Speaker 1: do you care? Like we're way past that point. Dude
Speaker 1: doesn't say, here's the word. I wasn't gonna say it,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad someone is. But anyway, with that, let's
Speaker 1: move on to topics for the week, and we're back.
Speaker 1: The first big story we have here is that Xbox
Speaker 1: buys Xenomax, Bethesda Studios, all of that.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's big. We're a couple of days late.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This happened Monday, but we record Wednesday, goes up Friday,
Speaker 1: so we're probably the last people to talk about this
Speaker 1: in this industry, but what the hell, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: it anyway. Uh. The main thing I guess to take
Speaker 1: away is that it was a seven point five billion
Speaker 1: dollar deal, which is absurd. Hey, Doctor Evil billion? Uh
Speaker 1: Death Loop and Ghost where Tokyo will still come to
Speaker 1: PS five first because that was an exclusivity deal that
Speaker 1: they had struck before. But after that, Big Phil is
Speaker 1: in charge, Thank you please, correct name. I'm sure we're
Speaker 1: going to use it a lot.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 4: Did you see there was a Major Nelson Big Phil
Speaker 4: Pete Heines and Todd Howard podcast. I did, and there
Speaker 4: was a moment in it where Pete Heines says he's
Speaker 4: talking about his dogs and he says they're big Phil fans.
Speaker 4: And I know he's saying they are big fans of Phil,
Speaker 4: but in my head canon, it's he's using the name
Speaker 4: Big Phil. And I feel like that's something that Game
Speaker 4: Spot should be proud of because we've put that out
Speaker 4: into the world.
Speaker 1: That was such an interesting interview because like Phil or
Speaker 1: Todd and uh, Pete like didn't seem ready for any
Speaker 1: of the questions the I.
Speaker 4: I clipped it out and I put it I tweeted out.
Speaker 4: But the way that Major Nelson zoomed in on Todd's
Speaker 4: face and went Starfield, what's up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like he like cut to him beforehand, and
Speaker 1: it was like Starfield and Todd was like, I forget.
Speaker 1: He said something along the lines like I can't believe
Speaker 1: there's this much hype for a game that no one's
Speaker 1: seen anything about. A reply, so good God, Howard.
Speaker 4: A lot of.
Speaker 3: People on Twitter were analyzing the from that interview, analyzing
Speaker 3: everyone's bookshelves to see if there's interesting.
Speaker 5: Todd's got a lot of Indiana Jones.
Speaker 3: Todd's got a lot of stuff. And and Big Phil
Speaker 3: has I think he had a series ss.
Speaker 5: Well, that's his wife's office.
Speaker 4: That was the big revelation for me was that that's
Speaker 4: not even Phil's office.
Speaker 5: Doesn't happen, Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, like a battle toad chair.
Speaker 2: Joanna do, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't remember John a doc's name.
Speaker 2: Have you Sorry this is completely unrelated, but have you
Speaker 2: guys seen Ready Player one? Yes, there's battle Toads in that.
Speaker 2: I just watched it. They're just walking around. They're quite
Speaker 2: quite a movie on a film.
Speaker 4: I thought it was fine.
Speaker 5: I quite enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I had a nice time.
Speaker 5: They made a lot of really good changes because the
Speaker 5: book is but.
Speaker 1: I listened to the audio book when I worked at
Speaker 1: like a warehouse, and I remember thinking it was terrible.
Speaker 4: It's it's Spielberg like just fun ship.
Speaker 3: I just I want everyone to know I did this
Speaker 3: last week with the jar darp Binks lollipop. I'm going
Speaker 3: to share another horrible thing with you all. Ernest Klein,
Speaker 3: the author of Ready Player of one, wrote something it's
Speaker 3: like a poem I think called nerd porn on tour
Speaker 3: and if you want to read it, it is the
Speaker 3: worst thing I've ever read in my life. So it's
Speaker 3: a poem about how he's a sapiosexual, about how he
Speaker 3: wants a woman who likes nerd things and not big titty.
Speaker 3: So Lucy's currently reading it.
Speaker 4: Sorry before you buy Already Play one tickets, read Ernest
Speaker 4: Klein's horrifying porn poetry. Shout out to post for that.
Speaker 5: It's I can't read this.
Speaker 2: This guy get away with this, so.
Speaker 5: I can read this. This is safe.
Speaker 4: First I want to copy her track homework, and then
Speaker 4: I want to make my passionate love to her for
Speaker 4: hours out until she reluctantly asks if we can stop
Speaker 4: because she doesn't want to miss Pell's.
Speaker 2: Talk like.
Speaker 1: A real human string those words together and formed a sentence.
Speaker 3: So I'm just saying the movie Ready Player one may
Speaker 3: not be so bad, but Ernest Klein, that was a
Speaker 3: good sentence.
Speaker 2: This is I don't even know.
Speaker 3: You're welcome. And if you haven't listened to last week's episode,
Speaker 3: googled jar Jar Binks Lollipop.
Speaker 2: I listened and I googled, and that was disgusting. I
Speaker 2: don't like how it really just goes out like that.
Speaker 3: Really, it's a lot.
Speaker 4: If you're an intelligent woman who's interested in breaking into
Speaker 4: the adult film industry, and if you can tell me
Speaker 4: the name of Luke Skywalker's.
Speaker 5: Home planet, then you are hired.
Speaker 3: That's basic knowledge. That's a big bank theory. Shit. I've amazed.
Speaker 5: The last line of this is not like Bizinger.
Speaker 3: Geezus.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was a lot of stuff in this
Speaker 4: poem that I cannot read aloud. But oh, he has
Speaker 4: a collection of poetry called The Importance of Being Earnest,
Speaker 4: which is a fun play on his name.
Speaker 3: That is Yeah, that's cute.
Speaker 4: Forty seven people have paid eleven dollars sixty per cents
Speaker 4: for this on Amazon.
Speaker 3: Six nice. So that's my contribution to the podcast. Shall
Speaker 3: we get back to the news, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're going to do this a little bit differently.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week I put out on the discord I
Speaker 1: asked people to send in questions about this acquisition, about Xbox,
Speaker 1: about pre orders, about the console war, what it might be.
Speaker 1: So we're kind of going to tie these questions into
Speaker 1: the topic section. Right now, we won't be doing our
Speaker 1: normal listener question segment, but don't worry, that'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll do that again. I just really wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about the Xbox stuff because it's pretty big. But the
Speaker 1: first question here is from Robert Jay and it's Kelly,
Speaker 1: why don't you read this?
Speaker 3: But the acquisition of Bethesda. Will this mean the end
Speaker 3: of the short lived Bethesda Launcher and moving their IP
Speaker 3: over to the Microsoft Store. Do you believe they will
Speaker 3: still hold their own press conferences and events or merge
Speaker 3: with Xbox.
Speaker 1: I hope they merge with Xbox. I hope they do.
Speaker 5: I think they'll merge.
Speaker 1: The first thing I thought of when this happened, I
Speaker 1: like woke up, saw the news and I was like,
Speaker 1: it's one less press conference to cover an E three.
Speaker 5: I will still have quite con Oh yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 4: I think they still have their own song abration, but
Speaker 4: I think press conference wise makes sense to merge the Xbox.
Speaker 3: You're already thinking about next year's E three. It's hard
Speaker 3: to let me go in The Bethesda launcher is interesting.
Speaker 3: I don't play a lot of Pothesta games on PC.
Speaker 3: I guess they played Skyrim on PC, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: They gave away a free game, right, one of the
Speaker 2: Elder Scrolls on that thing, I think, so remember they.
Speaker 1: Had to promote.
Speaker 2: That's the only reason I downloaded it. I think, oh launcher, yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I don't know. I feel like, yeah, they
Speaker 2: would just move to the Microsoft Store and game pass.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Going forward, I feel like they'll probably kill it because
Speaker 1: even before this happened, they they put Fall at seventy
Speaker 1: six somewhat recently on Steam because originally it was like
Speaker 1: the Bethesda launcher only deal, but they switched that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't even think you need the Bethest launcher
Speaker 1: to play Elder Scrolls online. I think it's got its
Speaker 1: own separate launcher, which makes sense for an MMO. So
Speaker 1: I I I feel like they'll just you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like they'll just retire that thing. I think.
Speaker 4: I think as well, just like a Bethesda section of
Speaker 4: the Xbox what's it even called, like the Xbox app
Speaker 4: on PC.
Speaker 1: I think that's what game story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, so I have Xbox Console Companion h and
Speaker 4: then you just have like the Xbox App for Windows
Speaker 4: ten oh, which is replacing the console companion. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: feel like it's.
Speaker 2: Just going on app is still the game pass right,
Speaker 2: Like that's all the same.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, like I'm looking at it right now, it's
Speaker 4: there's a there's.
Speaker 3: A lot of apps, and so I'm hoping that the
Speaker 3: Bethesda one goes away so we can keep it, because
Speaker 3: like you also have like and the Origin launcher, like
Speaker 3: like if you're on the Origins going away, right, Origin,
Speaker 3: I think is going away? But yeah, they're like if
Speaker 3: you play games on PC, like a million launchers, So
Speaker 3: it'd be nice to have one least one fewer.
Speaker 1: Is Origin going away? Are they just changing the name
Speaker 1: to play?
Speaker 2: Oh? Sh yeah?
Speaker 5: But then but then e a play is a part
Speaker 5: of game pass now.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 3: That's so anyway, I guess my answer is I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I hope they get rid of the Bethesda one
Speaker 3: just so we can stay sane.
Speaker 1: Yepe Yeah, definitely. Next questions from great Fox here, Lucy,
Speaker 1: do you want to read this one eye?
Speaker 4: Much like Minecraft, Microsoft allowed Out the World Vibsidian to
Speaker 4: be released multi platform. Do you guys expect Microsoft will
Speaker 4: follow the same logic with the upcoming games from Bethesda?
Speaker 4: Would it make more sense to keep a big selling
Speaker 4: game like Elder Scroll six in the Xbox ecosystem only. Also,
Speaker 4: here's an insane thought, Starfield becomes halof I have. I
Speaker 4: I know, like we've been talking about the on Generation Next,
Speaker 4: which is up today if you want to watch it.
Speaker 4: We obviously cover the bethesa stuff in detail. But like,
Speaker 4: I feel like Microsoft would be stupid to hold everything
Speaker 4: to be exclusive, because if they're putting everything on game
Speaker 4: Pass day one, that's great. They have all the people
Speaker 4: who are subscribed to game Pass. They might have people
Speaker 4: who are buying on Xbox who don't have game Pass,
Speaker 4: but then if you have all the money from people
Speaker 4: buying on other platforms too, then that's just extra money
Speaker 4: in their pocket.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I guess it depends like what they think the
Speaker 3: best strategy is for maximizing profit, like do like because
Speaker 3: a lot of these companies sell consoles at a loss,
Speaker 3: and like like Sony will sell PlayStation consoles at a
Speaker 3: loss and then bank on the like the first party
Speaker 3: exclusives to like recoup those losses. So it I mean,
Speaker 3: it depends on like what Microsoft's angle is with that.
Speaker 3: But you also have like Microsoft being much more willing
Speaker 3: to do like PC, like it's compatible with perceiving because
Speaker 3: it's Microsoft.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think as well Phil, and Big Phil
Speaker 4: has been saying like, you shouldn't be tied to where
Speaker 4: you want to play a game, like he seems to
Speaker 4: be all up for talking about you know, they were
Speaker 4: the ones who wanted cross platform play. They it was
Speaker 4: always Sony who were the ones who didn't want that.
Speaker 4: The question I'm more interested in is like, will we
Speaker 4: ever see any Bethesda games on PlayStation Plus? Developers get
Speaker 4: a hefty chunk of change just for being on PlayStation Plus,
Speaker 4: as I assume they do for being on Game Pass,
Speaker 4: So I would be interested to see if anything like
Speaker 4: that would ever happen again. But I fully anticipate either
Speaker 4: timed console exclusives if stuff is going to be on
Speaker 4: Game Past Day one, But I don't think they would.
Speaker 4: I don't think they would pull them from Sony completely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: When Big Phil said that he wanted to have you
Speaker 2: wanted to have other games available on a case by
Speaker 2: case basis to other consoles, I thought that was like
Speaker 2: super shady to say as an exact I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, Like it just felt like Microsoft realized
Speaker 2: that they lost the exclusive war and they're just like
Speaker 2: going straight for the jugular with like going and acquiring
Speaker 2: like all these studios and like getting the upper hand,
Speaker 2: just like not not going for the exclusives, just being like,
Speaker 2: let's just see who makes the games and get them
Speaker 2: all under our control. Which is nice because that means
Speaker 2: I guess more people are gonna be able to play
Speaker 2: more games for less because it's gonna be on game
Speaker 2: Pass and easily available. But like it also makes me
Speaker 2: word because I don't want Microsoft to like have such
Speaker 2: like a monopoly in the industry, because like that can
Speaker 2: get negative very quickly. Like I was scrolling through Disney
Speaker 2: Plus the other day watching that sar Raven and I
Speaker 2: was just like scrolling, like damn, Like Disney has a
Speaker 2: lot of movies, and I just like realize they have everything,
Speaker 2: and I was just like felt so uncomfortable realizing like
Speaker 2: one company owning so many different ip and different like
Speaker 2: sub companies that are making content. Is I thought that
Speaker 2: I just don't really like and I feel like that'll
Speaker 2: stunt creativity and also just I don't know, prevent weirdness
Speaker 2: and the stuff that I don't know. Video games excel
Speaker 2: at doing and being absurd.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's such a good point. Like the consolidation of
Speaker 3: media is definitely a concern. I mean, America is basically
Speaker 3: just four large companies that own every company.
Speaker 5: That's terrifying. By the way, if you look at that
Speaker 5: flow child, it's terriorialized. It was quite so pronounced.
Speaker 3: It's it's really there's there's really just like four corporations.
Speaker 3: So I do think like the consolidation of media properties
Speaker 3: is something to be wary of, at least I think
Speaker 3: in this case, like there are positives. Like you said
Speaker 3: with game Pass, it seems like this is like a
Speaker 3: good collaborative opportunity for them. But I mean it's the
Speaker 3: Netflix model, like you stream this, you pay subscription fee
Speaker 3: rather than an individual fee for the content, and then
Speaker 3: you make up like that benefits Xbox in the long
Speaker 3: run because there are people who are going to be
Speaker 3: paying the subscription fee and then maybe not like they
Speaker 3: wouldn't be buying those games otherwise. And you know, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of benefits to it for Xbox and for Microsoft.
Speaker 3: But I agree with you that it's kind of a lot.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of like consolidation is a little a
Speaker 3: little intimidating. Well.
Speaker 1: I think something to consider too is that because of
Speaker 1: Game Passed, at least not all of these developers are
Speaker 1: necessarily barred to what like the market wants, what they
Speaker 1: think the market wants, right, Like, That's one thing with
Speaker 1: Sony Games that I feel like you can kind of
Speaker 1: criticize a little bit is that a lot of their
Speaker 1: games do follow that same formula that Last of Us
Speaker 1: kind of set back in the day, like these single
Speaker 1: player focused like Over the Shoulder games where you've got
Speaker 1: a companion and it's like heavily story focused, which are great.
Speaker 1: Those are my favorite games. But I but they do
Speaker 1: that because those sell really well, and they have to
Speaker 1: do that because they sell really well. Right While with
Speaker 1: Game Pass, they don't necessarily need to make games that
Speaker 1: sell well because Microsoft isn't trying to sell these games, right,
Speaker 1: They're not trying to like get Bethesda to make games
Speaker 1: that sell a lot. They just want Bethesta to make
Speaker 1: games to populate Game Pass and to like increase that value.
Speaker 1: So that it's something that does excite me about this.
Speaker 1: It like it gives me hope that things like like
Speaker 1: Dishonored or Pray or games that don't particularly sell that well,
Speaker 1: but I personally love that are critically like incredibly well received,
Speaker 1: but never sell that well because like immersive sims just
Speaker 1: aren't that interesting to most folks out there. But because
Speaker 1: of this, at least the hope is that Bethesda won't
Speaker 1: need to be concerned with these games selling a lot,
Speaker 1: and they can just make these games and Microsoft can
Speaker 1: be like, hey, it's there on Game Pass day one.
Speaker 1: You can play it if you're interested. If not, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of other games you can check out. But
Speaker 1: it also just like puts those games in more people's
Speaker 1: hands too, write like like, I think the ability for
Speaker 1: people to play games like Dishonored or Prey are like,
Speaker 1: for like a very small entry fee is pretty good
Speaker 1: because you know, you go to a store, right or
Speaker 1: your average gamer goes to the store and it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, I'm gonna get a Call of Duty
Speaker 1: game because I know Call of Duty is good and
Speaker 1: games are expensive and games are getting more expensive. But
Speaker 1: with this, it kind of like, I feel like more
Speaker 1: of these games that people missed will get played.
Speaker 4: Todd was saying, Yeah, that's what Todd said in the
Speaker 4: interview with Major Nelson. He was like yeah, like this
Speaker 4: is something could hopefully just increase creativity because no one's
Speaker 4: worried about like minimum amounts of units to push and
Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff and sales expectations. So one
Speaker 4: thing I will say as well is like I don't
Speaker 4: think they will. They've made a really clever play because
Speaker 4: if these games do come out on Sony platforms, all
Speaker 4: of the marketing is still going to have Xbox slapped
Speaker 4: all over it.
Speaker 1: So and they're gonna be seventy dollars too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's like everything is gonna be like it's
Speaker 4: gonna be unconscious that, like you see on every Bethsday game.
Speaker 5: You're gonna see Xbox, Xbox, Xbox.
Speaker 4: You assume that Xbox is the best place to play it,
Speaker 4: regardless if you have a PlayStation or not.
Speaker 5: Like, such a clever employ from them, totally, such a good.
Speaker 1: And like like that's like a Fogie Bear who listens
Speaker 1: to the show responded to me one of my tweets
Speaker 1: and was like saying, I think the play here is
Speaker 1: that with the price of games going up, like maybe
Speaker 1: there's a time to exclusivity, and then they release it
Speaker 1: on Sony for seventy dollars and people see that, like, man,
Speaker 1: games are seventy dollars now, or I could get an
Speaker 1: Xbox subscribe to game Pass and just play all this
Speaker 1: stuff not for free, but for considerably cheaper. So I
Speaker 1: think that like kind of markets itself a little bit, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and new factor in like the series S is
Speaker 3: such an affordable option, which is like super compatible with
Speaker 3: game Pass too, because you know, you can go totally discless.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, Like, I think there's there's criticisms and
Speaker 3: benefits to the approach for sure, And I'm excited because,
Speaker 3: like I currently don't have a game Pass subscription because
Speaker 3: my Xbox is like ancient and creaky and like not ancient.
Speaker 3: It's an Xbox one X. But like I mean no, no,
Speaker 3: not a one X, It's just a regular one. I See.
Speaker 3: The thing is I.
Speaker 1: Really strike to original Xbox one.
Speaker 3: Original Xbox One. But I am really excited about getting
Speaker 3: into game Pass and trying that out. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: really great for our jobs, rights because we have a
Speaker 3: lot of games that we want to try, and you know,
Speaker 3: people who are passionate about games, like we go into
Speaker 3: Game of the Year and you want to have tried
Speaker 3: a lot of the games that people are discussing and
Speaker 3: so that I mean for us, it's like a benefit
Speaker 3: in that way, but also it's just a benefit if
Speaker 3: you're like, you know what, this looks sort of interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm going to try it and see if I like it.
Speaker 3: I think that's like a huge draw of game Pass
Speaker 3: and a really good play on their part. So I'm
Speaker 3: hoping that the results in more creativity, Like that's the
Speaker 3: best case scenario, and I think it very well could.
Speaker 2: It's funny because recently online it feels like people are
Speaker 2: realizing that games writers have to pay for things like
Speaker 2: consoles and games like I don't know, are just these
Speaker 2: so to people be like, you guys are paying for this, Yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah we are. But yeah, the game Pass has helped
Speaker 2: me stay up to date as like a freelancer, so often,
Speaker 2: like with classics and with new titles for a fraction
Speaker 2: of what I would have had to pay before, like
Speaker 2: Crusader Kings three Tell me why, just like straight up
Speaker 2: Launch done that And those are two like big games
Speaker 2: that I probably would have skipped out on if they
Speaker 2: weren't just available to me with the pass. And also,
Speaker 2: yeah it does Jake, as you're saying earlier, like highlights
Speaker 2: some of the games that people wouldn't have seen otherwise.
Speaker 2: Like I remember playing like Scorge Bringer. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you guys have tried that one, and Blazing Chrome,
Speaker 2: like just two indies on there, like so fine. I
Speaker 2: was just surprised, Like I coicked the randomize like just
Speaker 2: like pick a random game for me option on the
Speaker 2: game Pass, and he's just like popped up and I
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, this looks cool.
Speaker 3: That's super cool.
Speaker 2: It is great, and like, I don't know, I feel
Speaker 2: like I've always wanted that feature on Steam or something
Speaker 2: like when I look at my library, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't even know what I want to play. Just tell
Speaker 2: me what to play, and I clicked the randomized button.
Speaker 1: But moving on. Next question is from Jacob McCourt. He says,
Speaker 1: following gray Fox's question, what's your dream mashup that can
Speaker 1: now happen because of bees the acquisition? I e. Fallout
Speaker 1: New Vegas Too by Obsidian, which was something that kind
Speaker 1: of went viral on Twitter. Someone tweeted at Obsidian saying like,
Speaker 1: does this mean Fallout New Vegas Too? And they responded
Speaker 1: with that like little shrug the little text dude, or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about, right slash shrug in.
Speaker 3: Backslash or forward slash shrug.
Speaker 1: Yes, sure, yeah, that one.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's like the obvious one. I'm having a
Speaker 3: hard time thinking of anything else that's like now possible, except.
Speaker 2: Like master Chief and.
Speaker 1: Send him down.
Speaker 3: The money to make Disconded three. That's all I want. Uh.
Speaker 4: Any kind of mash up between like Xbox and I
Speaker 4: mean New Vegas two is a good one.
Speaker 3: Master Chief in Elder Scrolls.
Speaker 4: I wonder if it would be any kind of fable
Speaker 4: Elder Scrolls, like there would be references.
Speaker 5: Maybe that would be quite cool.
Speaker 1: How about forts a horse drawn carriage sport. It would
Speaker 1: just be like Skyrim, Like that's my idea, and it
Speaker 1: starts out every time with the waking up in the
Speaker 1: back of the car awake.
Speaker 2: You were crossing the border, right, that could be very good.
Speaker 3: I'm into I mean that they'll put Skyrim on and
Speaker 3: in anything, so you know, it's not totally out of
Speaker 3: the question.
Speaker 5: Have they said if it's coming to series acts or not.
Speaker 2: They can't keep announcing that game like if it's on.
Speaker 5: Game Pass, and I guess it technically.
Speaker 1: Is didn't like a leak. Didn't it like an enhanced
Speaker 1: version leak or something like that. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they do something.
Speaker 2: There's already a special edition now.
Speaker 1: The Special Skyri Elder Strolls five, Skyrim the Special Enhanced.
Speaker 2: Edition even more water shaders put them off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't rule it out.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I don't know. Overall though, I think I'm
Speaker 1: kind of with Lucy. I'm more just like excited to
Speaker 1: see or hoping to see, like Dishonored three, prey to
Speaker 1: things that may have not really been a thing because
Speaker 1: they weren't huge financial successes. Get like a second chance
Speaker 1: or third chance.
Speaker 3: Dishonored.
Speaker 2: I never played those games.
Speaker 3: Up game Pass.
Speaker 4: They are fantastic, but they're on game Pass right now.
Speaker 4: I think they or at least they will be coming.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean.
Speaker 3: App my brother's been replaying. My brother like replays games
Speaker 3: a lot, and he's been doing Dishonored and I was like,
Speaker 3: that's cold. You do like a no kill run? He
Speaker 3: was like, oh I did a no kill ghost run. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like you don't. You don't kill anyone and you don't
Speaker 3: get detected at all.
Speaker 1: Just walking around.
Speaker 3: My brother is like really, really hardcore and really good
Speaker 3: at video games, and so I'm like he's I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: is that really hard? He's like cool, Okay, cool. I
Speaker 3: guess I'll play it and be Frustrated's try two is
Speaker 3: on game Pass?
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: I'm just excited for more Wolfenstein, Like that's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite Bethesda ips, and I'm like, you just try
Speaker 2: anything else, Like young Blood is very cool, So I'd
Speaker 2: like them to try like more weird spin offs with Billy.
Speaker 3: I'm really banking on this because they've confirmed that like
Speaker 3: this New Wolfenstein isn't going to be a trilogy, and
Speaker 3: so I'm like, well, the next game inevitably we're going
Speaker 3: to be killing Hitler, and I am just really excited.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yeah, let's.
Speaker 3: Go right Okay.
Speaker 1: To go hand in hand with that, the Xbox pre
Speaker 1: orders were also a big story. They were supposed to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more planned than the Sony ones
Speaker 1: or the PlayStation five ones, which I guess they were,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I found them just as confusing
Speaker 1: and frustrating. Uh what did what did you guys think?
Speaker 1: Like Lucy, I know you were trying to prove it
Speaker 1: or both correct, Like which one did you find easier?
Speaker 5: I found, so I managed to get a.
Speaker 4: Like both one of each PlayStation, and one of them
Speaker 4: I think I'm giving to well Kurt's going to buy
Speaker 4: from me because he didn't manage to get one, and
Speaker 4: I got a Series X.
Speaker 3: Series X.
Speaker 4: Was I would say, I think Series X took longer,
Speaker 4: but that was because the websites were running really really slowly,
Speaker 4: and there was one point where Amazon didn't go live.
Speaker 4: So of the three that I bought my disc PlayStation,
Speaker 4: five I got from Amazon easiest one because I had
Speaker 4: tweet notifications turned on for Warrio and as soon as
Speaker 4: he said, okay, it's live on Amazon, I just went
Speaker 4: in and bought it.
Speaker 2: Good account, amazing account.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 4: And then and Series X is probably the next easiest
Speaker 4: because I just went Microsoft Store because Amazon weren't live
Speaker 4: when they were supposed to be, so I just.
Speaker 5: Went Microsoft Store and it was fine. It just like
Speaker 5: the website ran really really really slowly.
Speaker 4: But overall it took me about twenty minutes to get one.
Speaker 4: And then the other one that I got from Walmart.
Speaker 4: The digital version was annoying because Walmart, just like the website,
Speaker 4: totally shit the bed so yeah, I I'm aware that
Speaker 4: I was very, very lucky with my pre orders. A
Speaker 4: lot of people did not have the same success. But
Speaker 4: also at the same time, looking at nvidious stuff right now,
Speaker 4: it's just been a big couple of weeks and a
Speaker 4: lot of people are being disappointed by that. We just
Speaker 4: need to figure out, like I know, unprecedented times, but
Speaker 4: there has to.
Speaker 5: Be a bit so there has to be a better way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't manage to get anything. Oh really, I
Speaker 3: couldn't get anything. I tried Target first. So for the
Speaker 3: series X, I got up at seven forty five am,
Speaker 3: which is not a time that I'm usually awake, because
Speaker 3: I fell asleep at like three or four am against
Speaker 3: my own will. And yeah, so I was like I
Speaker 3: had gotten like four hours or sleep. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: I gotta just do this. And I was like trying to,
Speaker 3: like really trying to focus. And so I'm like on
Speaker 3: Target's website. And the thing with Target was you would
Speaker 3: put it in your cart, and so I successfully got
Speaker 3: one in my cart, and then Target was like you
Speaker 3: need an account, and I was like okay, shit, So
Speaker 3: like I made account weird and then at every subsequent
Speaker 3: time it, which disappeared from my cart. Then I tried
Speaker 3: the Microsoft Store, the button wouldn't work. I tried Amazon,
Speaker 3: it wasn't live. So I kept refreshing and I was
Speaker 3: waiting for Warrio's tweet about Amazon being live. But the
Speaker 3: thing that Amazon did really poorly, which Matt Paget, our
Speaker 3: tech commerce editor, pointed on Twitter, Amazon, if you searched
Speaker 3: Xbox Series X, you were served in Xbox one X,
Speaker 3: like that was the result that came up. So it
Speaker 3: was really frustrating because I was like trying to get
Speaker 3: to the Series X landing page, which like Microsoft had
Speaker 3: their own page with all the details, and it just
Speaker 3: wouldn't It just didn't work, and Amazon just kept giving me.
Speaker 3: It gave me a one X and PS fours. So
Speaker 3: Amazon like really screwed up on getting people to go
Speaker 3: to the correct thing. And I know that there was
Speaker 3: like a story about one X sales going up during
Speaker 3: the pre order period on Amazon, and people were kind
Speaker 3: of saying like it might have been bots that weren't
Speaker 3: programmed correctly buying one x's instead of Series x's, but
Speaker 3: it also could have just been people getting served the
Speaker 3: wrong thing. So that was frustrating and so I just
Speaker 3: after an hour, I gave up and I was like, well,
Speaker 3: this is the thing I need for my job, but
Speaker 3: I'll just hope that somebody else got enough pre orders.
Speaker 3: And then it turns out that Chris Perera I got
Speaker 3: like four of every.
Speaker 4: Like we called Chris, we call him the meme collector,
Speaker 4: but I think he's just like a general collector of
Speaker 4: he just had.
Speaker 5: He's incredibly scale at getting pre orders.
Speaker 3: And apparently, yeah.
Speaker 1: I had no luck. I managed to get a PS
Speaker 1: five just because someone tweeted like, hey, they're back up
Speaker 1: on Target, and I was like okay, and then I
Speaker 1: like just clicked on the link and ordered one. No
Speaker 1: problem at all. Series X though I woke up early,
Speaker 1: had like had my had my best Buy page open,
Speaker 1: had my Target, Microsoft had everything open. Every single one
Speaker 1: failed me. I was right there too. Like with Target,
Speaker 1: I'd get it in the cart and then I'd hit
Speaker 1: check out and be like there's nothing here, and I'd
Speaker 1: be like there is something there, uh, and the Microsoft
Speaker 1: store just wouldn't load like I'd gone to like pre
Speaker 1: order and it would just give me a five h
Speaker 1: three error or whatever.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Best Buy kept saying coming soon because Microsoft didn't mention
Speaker 1: that like they're kind of staggered, so they weren't just
Speaker 1: all going to be at eight am somewhere later. So
Speaker 1: I think at nine the best Buy one went life
Speaker 1: and I saw it go from coming soon to available
Speaker 1: for pre order, clicked it, put it in my thing,
Speaker 1: went to check out, and and then I got a
Speaker 1: thing saying we've removed this item from your cart because
Speaker 1: we didn't have any And I was like, are you like?
Speaker 1: I literally watched it, like, how could anyone have been
Speaker 1: faster than me?
Speaker 2: They took it from your card?
Speaker 5: I know, Yeah, what's let me let me what's the
Speaker 5: Microsoft store? Is it just saying well sold out now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's saying all sold out. Now. I've been checking
Speaker 1: throughout the day. I should probably just get notifications for
Speaker 1: Warrior sixty four's tweets. And that goes back up ID.
Speaker 3: That the Walmart site doesn't work, considering like the richest
Speaker 3: family ever, like, couldn't for a better website. But I
Speaker 3: didn't even.
Speaker 1: Try Walmart because I'm like, fuck Walmart.
Speaker 3: Now, I was like, fuck y'all. I tried Amazon for
Speaker 3: some reason, but I like, you know, I pick and
Speaker 3: choose for some reason, but I just hate Walmart, so
Speaker 3: I don't even try.
Speaker 1: Uh, but I did manage to get a series SU
Speaker 1: once again. Khalif Adams, friend of the show, tweeted, like
Speaker 1: you can get a series S still, uh. So I
Speaker 1: was like okay on the Xbox store. So I went
Speaker 1: to the Xbox store. It took about five or six tries,
Speaker 1: and then finally it was like your orders on the way.
Speaker 1: So I have a Series S coming, but I don't
Speaker 1: think i'll keep it because I've wont an X and
Speaker 1: I have a PC, so I don't. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with it.
Speaker 3: This is very much like I mean when when the
Speaker 3: Switch launched, like a lot of people had pre orders,
Speaker 3: and then like with pre order multiple and then like
Speaker 3: at least for game Spot just be like, oh, I'll
Speaker 3: sell you the second one I pre ordered, and that's
Speaker 3: how I got my Switch. So I bought it off
Speaker 3: of somebody. And I think that's going to end up
Speaker 3: being the case for me with the Series X and
Speaker 3: the PS five is probably just getting it off the
Speaker 3: master of pre order in Chris Perreira.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Switch was scarier though, because it was scary
Speaker 1: not scary, but it was more like worrying because Nintendo
Speaker 1: doesn't like to like Nintendo kind of limits the stock
Speaker 1: just to create that demand, like that artificial demand, which.
Speaker 5: Is a great point in consolable.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch that after Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I feel like I feel like xboxes will probably
Speaker 1: be available when they could. Maybe not right when they launched,
Speaker 1: but I bet if you give it like a week
Speaker 1: or two, a couple of weeks, you'll probably be able
Speaker 1: to pick one up. At least. I think that's what
Speaker 1: happened with the Xbox one X. Maybe it didn't. Maybe maybe.
Speaker 5: Are writing history makes feel better.
Speaker 1: We do have another question here from Jacob McCourt. How
Speaker 1: would you solve the pre order problem hunger games but
Speaker 1: for pre orders. I was thinking about this even before
Speaker 1: the question was submitted, so I told it because I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, we should talk about this. Do you
Speaker 1: guys have any ideas?
Speaker 5: Hmmm.
Speaker 4: I feel like certainly they should maybe do a bit
Speaker 4: more market research and try and get a better idea
Speaker 4: about how many people want. I think, like I saw
Speaker 4: game Stop, we're doing like lines which didn't.
Speaker 3: Work for me, which works for concert tickets but apparently
Speaker 3: not xboxes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, maybe pre polling people giving out.
Speaker 4: I don't making sure that real people in the bots.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's just too many bots though, like
Speaker 2: right now, Like I don't see a way that sites
Speaker 2: could like fight against that really, Like people are so
Speaker 2: good at scamming and flipping these consoles, like from day one,
Speaker 2: I don't know, let me look at ebit.
Speaker 3: How did you manage to get or were you trying
Speaker 3: to get either?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, I was playing Super Mario Sunshine. I yeah,
Speaker 2: I have a PC right now, and for what I'm doing,
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm fine playing most of my games
Speaker 2: on PC right now.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of money to like to put on hold,
Speaker 3: like to put a thousand dollars if we're going to
Speaker 3: get both of them, just like okay, that thousand dollars
Speaker 3: is no longer available to me is a lot for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially too, like when you consider it, like the
Speaker 1: only game that you won't really be able to play
Speaker 1: is Demon Souls, like across all of because that one
Speaker 1: is a PS five exclusive like everything and and well
Speaker 1: god Falls not launched though, is it god Fall launch?
Speaker 1: I don't think it is, is it not?
Speaker 2: I think I remember seeing Miles Morales and Demon Souls.
Speaker 1: Miles Morales is for PS four two.
Speaker 2: Oh what, I'm chilling absolutely.
Speaker 1: And like obviously all the Xbox games can be played
Speaker 1: on whatever you want, so like I feel like, right now,
Speaker 1: the only real reason is if you really want to
Speaker 1: play Demon Souls, which I do, it looks too scared
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's a couple like there's the there's a pack in
Speaker 3: for PS five which is Astro's Playroom. There's like sac Boy,
Speaker 3: a big event sack Boys Adventure.
Speaker 1: Which is also for PS four two.
Speaker 4: I think pretty Godful Godfuol just says, oh no, Godful
Speaker 4: is November twelfth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh it is, okay.
Speaker 3: See, I was like really scared for a moment because I'm,
Speaker 3: you know, being the reviews editor. I'm like the person
Speaker 3: who's looking at this list trying to be like, okay,
Speaker 3: who are my who are my people who can review this?
Speaker 3: And I was like if Godfaul isn't a launch title,
Speaker 3: and I've been planning around Godfall, I'm going to die. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I you know, thinking about going back to the question,
Speaker 3: thinking about like concert tickets, for example, back when we
Speaker 3: in the days where we could go to concerts and
Speaker 3: we were in the office when the MCR tickets went
Speaker 3: up for them.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was that was stressful.
Speaker 3: There were like ten people in the game spot office,
Speaker 3: like on Ticketmaster, and we were all in our phones
Speaker 3: because Ticketmaster is blocked in the game Spot office and wow, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's pretty pretty strict stuff with that. So we were
Speaker 3: like on our phones, like I'm in the line to
Speaker 3: buy my Chemical Governmance tickets. How many should I get?
Speaker 3: Like what section am I looking at? And like you're
Speaker 3: in a queue and the thing is the sounds like
Speaker 3: game Stuff tried to do that, but then like it
Speaker 3: didn't work, and like I thought the point of pre
Speaker 3: ordering or pre ordering console was to tell the manufacturer
Speaker 3: essentially how many people wanted to buy.
Speaker 1: So it's I think initially yeah, but now because like
Speaker 1: these pre orders are opening up two months before they
Speaker 1: come out, it's like.
Speaker 5: When did I mean, like when did pace full preorders open?
Speaker 1: And Xbox One I feel like much earlier? Maybe not.
Speaker 4: But also if you really want to depress yourself, go
Speaker 4: look on eBay for Xbox Series.
Speaker 3: X did when did PS four pre order open? I
Speaker 3: don't remember because at the time I wasn't full time
Speaker 3: at a site, so I didn't. I wasn't like I
Speaker 3: need to get this day one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get it feels so weird, this uh
Speaker 2: new generation coming out. I'm like, what, my PS four
Speaker 2: is still here working like it feels so quick. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I worked at ev Games during the Switches
Speaker 2: launch and that was hell because like so many such
Speaker 2: a limited supply, so many angry people, and I felt
Speaker 2: like just in the core of a console launch. But
Speaker 2: right now I feel so removed. I guess just coronavirus
Speaker 2: and like being trapped inside and not I guess, not
Speaker 2: really having to buy it for work at least right now,
Speaker 2: it seems interesting to like, I don't know, take a
Speaker 2: step back and like just look at everything, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, scrambling for consoles seems so stressful, like like
Speaker 2: being on that site, especially when it's a part of
Speaker 2: your job, like being like please refresh.
Speaker 4: So PS four preorders in twenty thirteen went live on June.
Speaker 3: Tenth, okay.
Speaker 4: In the end of November, Xbox one preorder why thirteen was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, June tenth, okay. So we're working with a very
Speaker 3: different situation, which.
Speaker 1: Doesn't Mater Shorter timeline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I guess maybe to answer it was Jacob McCort. Yeah,
Speaker 3: wholesome Jacob's question. It seems like it's less of a
Speaker 3: solving this problem and a more of a problem was
Speaker 3: created by the situation, and maybe there wasn't a lot
Speaker 3: to work with. Because that's some book. I think.
Speaker 1: I will say, like Target, Walmart, all that you got
Speaker 1: a lot of money, fix your sites, like yeah, come on, like,
Speaker 1: just tell me I'm not gonna get it, like, oh
Speaker 1: out of stock, cool, that's fine. Don't keep putting it
Speaker 1: in my fucking cart and telling me I have it
Speaker 1: until I go check out and you're like no, not there, Like,
Speaker 1: just just make it clear, please, Like I don't, like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend an hour and a half
Speaker 1: on your website trying to get a box, Like tell
Speaker 1: me right away.
Speaker 3: Cut your own salary and put it into website development.
Speaker 2: Yes, and give everyone who Retzburg games free consoles?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 2: Got love?
Speaker 3: God? Yeah? Look, god? Do you guys remember the Wii though,
Speaker 3: when the we launched and it was like there was
Speaker 3: a run on every store. I think my dad drove
Speaker 3: like three hours to go buy it. WHOA shout out
Speaker 3: to Dad? Though shout out to my dad. My dad
Speaker 3: did work like two hours from our house, so I
Speaker 3: think it was like a round trip deal. But that
Speaker 3: was like a classic Nintendo like one per customer and
Speaker 3: there's only ten in the store.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, some shit. Well anyway, that's been episode sixty
Speaker 1: of GameSpot after Dark. Thank you so much for joining me,
Speaker 1: and thank you all for listening. If you have any questions,
Speaker 1: please email us. Email us at after Dark podcast at
Speaker 1: GameSpot dot com. Like I said, we didn't really do
Speaker 1: a listener question section this week, but that will come
Speaker 1: back next week. We just wanted to talk more about
Speaker 1: the Xbox acquisition, pre orders and whatnot. But with that said, Kelly,
Speaker 1: where can people find you on Twitter?
Speaker 3: You can find me on Twitter at inky dog go
Speaker 3: I n K y d O j I kk oh. Yes,
Speaker 3: I want to change it. No, I don't know what
Speaker 3: I would do. I you know, as usual, I'm just
Speaker 3: managing all the reviews that go up on the website,
Speaker 3: So if you want to support that, go ahead and
Speaker 3: look at those reviews. We review a lot of games here,
Speaker 3: a lot of indie games too, so really running the
Speaker 3: damnut obviously. Recent ones include Mafia, Definitive edition you'll see
Speaker 3: like Hades. If you haven't read our Hades review, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Definitely check that one out. And we have video versions
Speaker 3: of a lot of the reviews as well, coordinated by Jake.
Speaker 1: Lucy. How about you.
Speaker 4: I'm on Twitter at Lucy James Games and Generation Next.
Speaker 5: This week we're calling it the Week that Changed Xbox
Speaker 5: because it's been a pretty huge week.
Speaker 4: So doing that and then yeah, pre planning, pre planning,
Speaker 4: a lot of planning, a lot of dashboards, a little writing,
Speaker 4: but it's good.
Speaker 2: And how about you funk Yeah, you can find me
Speaker 2: on Twitter and twitch at funk A fly f U
Speaker 2: n k E f l Y. Yeah, I'm working on
Speaker 2: a couple of cool articles in videos. I'm trying out
Speaker 2: some stuff soon, so check out check out for those, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and also check out the reviews section. Callie is such
Speaker 2: a good editor, and Jake, I didn't even know that
Speaker 2: you were the one editing my video reviews of the
Speaker 2: past some of them, yeah, a couple of but that's
Speaker 2: that's very cool to Mitchell over voice and talk about games.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, of course, thank you for joining.
Speaker 1: And then for me, you can find me at Jacob
Speaker 1: Deck and then this week is the Mafia review. I
Speaker 1: cut that, so check that out. And then also cyberpunk
Speaker 1: coverage doesn't stop, never stops. Saturday we got another video
Speaker 1: about gangs, and the following week we have another video
Speaker 1: about the districts of Night City. I'm not working on
Speaker 1: either of those. It's Jean Luke on the gangs and
Speaker 1: Jess on the districts, so that's why I didn't know
Speaker 1: exactly what they were, but they are going to be
Speaker 1: very good. Just make sure to check those out. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. See see y'all next week. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Big Phil.
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