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X-Cast, your home for all things Xbox here

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at Kind of Funny. Of course, I'm

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one of your show hosts, SnowBikeMike, and today

1:05

I am joined by just one of my

1:08

gaming dads. For all of you

1:10

in the comments out there, Gary's doing great.

1:12

He's extremely busy. We're so proud of him

1:14

getting back into the Hollywood scene. He's working

1:16

on a lot of dope projects, and of

1:18

course, he is missed, but he will return

1:20

soon enough. But of course, I get more

1:23

one-on-one time with you, Paris Lilly, and that

1:25

always makes me smile. How are you, Mr.

1:27

Paris Lilly? Oh, I'm doing great.

1:30

And it's funny you bring up Gary

1:32

because I've been watching Shogun. Oh,

1:34

dude, it's so good.

1:36

I would love to hear

1:38

his opinion on Shogun right

1:40

now because it's just phenomenal.

1:42

It's just such a great

1:44

series. It's the talk of town. I highly

1:47

recommend. Yeah. Oh man,

1:49

I can't. All my friends are talking about that. Of

1:51

course, we just got done with Dune 2 as well,

1:53

seeing that in theaters, Paris. I mean, we're eating well.

1:56

We're having fun on video games and entertainment. It's been great. By

1:59

the way, and I don't mean. the side truck

2:01

at the top. I

2:03

have not been a Dune guy. Like

2:05

I remember as a kid the 84 movie

2:08

never really painted any mind. It

2:10

was never my thing. Bro, I

2:12

didn't even really know there were books in

2:15

the 60s. I didn't know. And then that

2:17

first Dune movie came out during the pandemic and

2:19

didn't really pay attention to it. And

2:22

then obviously the sequel just happened. I'm seeing

2:24

what kind of funny saying. I'm seeing everybody's

2:26

like praising it. Alright, let me go watch

2:29

the Dune movie. So I went and watched the

2:31

new one, the first one, part

2:33

one. Hey, this is

2:35

pretty freaking interesting. I love this kind of

2:37

side truck. Hey now. I

2:39

literally watched it, took an

2:41

hour break and went right to the

2:43

IMAX theater. Oh. And saw it in

2:46

70 millimeter IMAX part two blew

2:48

me away. Absolutely blew me away.

2:52

It's so good. And then now I'm

2:54

obsessed. Bro, I went back and

2:56

watched the 84 movie. I

2:59

remember as a kid why I was never

3:01

into it. It's not good. It's just simply

3:03

not good. It's kind of all over the

3:05

place. But Patrick Stewart is in it which

3:07

blew my mind. Whoa. But

3:11

now I'm just fascinated by this with the history

3:14

of it. I do

3:16

think I'm going to go read Messiah the book just

3:18

so I can get a sneak peek as to where

3:20

they're going because we're not going to get Messiah as

3:23

a movie until probably what, 2027. I know. I think

3:27

you should wait. I'm not

3:29

waiting three years. There's no way. It's like

3:31

Messiah is going to be crazy. I

3:33

know. But one little trivia

3:36

note just in my obsession

3:38

research, I guess they were,

3:40

they almost did a Dune movie in the

3:42

mid 70s like around 73, 74 and it

3:44

fell apart with

3:46

the original creator. It

3:49

fell apart and it's I guess considered

3:51

the biggest what if because obviously George

3:53

Lucas came right after that with Star

3:55

Wars. So they're saying if the Dune

3:57

movie would have come out in the early 70s. It

4:00

completely would have changed cinema and sci-fi

4:02

versus what we got with Star Wars.

4:04

So it's my new obsession. I got

4:06

to know more about it, but I

4:08

love it. I love the world of

4:10

Dune and just all the politics, just

4:12

everything, false prophets, all this stuff, man.

4:14

Crazy. Well, Parris, I'll tell you,

4:17

and I'll encourage everyone out there that's watching and

4:19

listening right now, if you haven't gone to the

4:21

theaters to go see this movie, if you're semi-interested

4:23

in it, you should take the plunge because it

4:25

is a ton of fun. And if you want

4:28

more Dune in your life, guess what, Parris, silly?

4:30

I'm going to tease you today because I've

4:32

been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator with the team

4:34

here. It's kind of funny. And we've played

4:36

the Dune activities. And I'll tell you what,

4:38

if you want more Dune, you need to

4:40

jump into Microsoft Flight Sim because they crushed

4:42

it. But I'll tell all of you about

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excited about that. I cannot wait First

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of all congratulations my friend. It is it

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is well deserved that you're gonna get this

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opportunity and I don't

6:38

say lightly You you are one of

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the best hole in this entire thing

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If not the best in

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everything that we do with all this podcast stuff definitely

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better than Greg for sure. Oh, thank you But

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no, no seriously, you're you're awesome, dude, and

6:53

you're just such a fantastic host I

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know you're gonna kill it on that panel. It's

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gonna be great man. Congratulations Thank you Paris. It

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means a lot coming from you and the special

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one is we get to celebrate right? This

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isn't gonna be anything tough for me It'll be

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a ton of fun I love packs and what

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they do but most importantly I love grounded and

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But I'll tell you all about that

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in just a little bit Paris let's

7:52

go back to dune because I want

7:54

to talk to you about what you've

7:56

been playing lately And You

7:58

know dune is hot right now. Love.

8:01

What? Microsoft Flight Sim does with

8:03

these try and they crushed it with

8:05

Top Gun. We talked about that experience

8:07

and what they did they are. They

8:09

have teamed up with the Dune teams

8:12

and you can go to a rack

8:14

yes and actually fly the or disruptor

8:16

which is so much fun that myths

8:18

of. The. And without mercy on a

8:21

cop to say it's you are now on

8:23

Ornithopter Foreigners Every time I say and I

8:25

say raga so much or a dragonfly or

8:27

other story on their brief concluded our i

8:30

will tell You pairs every time they team

8:32

up with these movies eye and they go

8:34

above and beyond and it's so cool because

8:36

now you get to go to a rack

8:39

Yes and you were on the desert planet.

8:41

You see the spice all over the place,

8:43

even see spice harvesters in the distance which

8:45

is really cool. Pairs but like. It's.

8:48

The full World and it's spends on

8:50

a man oh man. They have three

8:52

pieces of tutorial from take off to

8:54

landing and then on top of that

8:57

they have the dies mechanic with this

8:59

ornithopter and I'll tell you what it

9:01

is so freaking cool to dive bomb

9:03

this dragon. Ah had Dragonfly Missy and

9:05

it's cool can be. And then there's

9:08

also six activities you can do five

9:10

time trials that are really going to

9:12

test you said I'm impressed with a

9:14

Goes from. Flight to landing, back

9:16

to flight to landings. and that's usually

9:19

how these I'm. Time. Trials go

9:21

a really gets up and down a lot

9:23

which I'm excited about and then on top

9:25

of that there's some really cool canyon runs

9:28

you going. Take this place, take this machine

9:30

into some site areas of really have to

9:32

maneuver which I was impressed with as in

9:34

the final one. You have to save a

9:36

pilot from a giant sandstorm in the sand

9:38

were coming and it's one of the coolest

9:41

experiences around because you have to call me

9:43

that like month speed Paris you slow down,

9:45

you park the saying he runs into the

9:47

back and you gotta do this Canyon trends

9:49

run that is so. Difficult Aids Awesome

9:52

Paracel. you've gotta play at.

9:54

Know. Absolutely absolutely. But I do have

9:56

some more funny story so you remember

9:59

last year I. The I went to

10:01

Budapest of course to film the flight

10:03

sim segment for for this if you

10:05

go back in watches. I.

10:07

Don't think you hear me say Ornithopter

10:09

once and a living beings I could

10:12

not save for my effing life. I

10:14

cannot pronounce it. I kept screwing it

10:16

up to the point where I think

10:19

I think I'm York says it, You

10:21

never hear me say it. I just

10:23

kept her none of those types of

10:26

was all of and things by. Bro.

10:29

It. Is. Like looking back now.

10:31

Enmity experiencing for two inches everything. The

10:33

fact that I actually got to go

10:36

to where they filmed it was I

10:38

was there, I sat in on Er

10:40

Doctor. I did I will. I was

10:43

literally there were they kept all the

10:45

props and everything for dune in Budapest

10:47

and Guides is one of those moments

10:50

that you don't realize what I'd news

10:52

awesome by it's looking back now almost

10:54

a year later. Go on while I

10:57

was there and look this epic movie

10:59

that's paper. And and be talking about for

11:01

years. the com I can see where they did

11:03

it off. Dad was the such a cool thanks

11:05

we I'm really glad You gotta play. It inflates

11:08

him because. Again, even more

11:10

refill me mad talking to your guns

11:12

to how excited he was about the

11:14

partnership with W. Beats being able to

11:16

put that in a flight, Sims and

11:18

just the. Although.

11:21

Research in the work did they did

11:23

Autism is as a size six New

11:25

World by they. Say.

11:28

They tried to make this as authentic as

11:30

it was to the to the world view.

11:32

I just remember how how excited and proud

11:34

he was for that's all for it. The

11:36

movie to find the come out now nerve

11:38

of the bring their expansion out air by

11:40

the second out for themselves with loss of

11:42

yeah a big win and it's a free

11:44

updates and go on are you can download

11:46

It's Get Involved out of Pears. It's awesome

11:48

and you know what you're getting. That little

11:50

taste of these activities that aren't just I'm

11:52

files that make you kind of work a

11:54

little bit differently. Gets a really excited for

11:57

the next Microsoft flight. Semyon. I know it's

11:59

coming, right? The corner of and I'm

12:01

excited to see what kind of cool activities

12:03

and the things they thought of. Because you

12:05

and I talked about after the Rose Bowl,

12:08

the idea of having the perfect timing of

12:10

the big flight jets over the stadiums would

12:12

be a cool idea. What else could they

12:15

add? I can't wait to see. Nor

12:17

of soon as think you nailed it because

12:19

what the rebel to do with his dune

12:22

expansion was almost like a test run for

12:24

where people can expect. Form

12:27

which. It's and

12:29

be out the sure. I'm hoping to put an excellent

12:31

been on it when I'm sure will hear about their

12:33

presumably of the suitcase or something like that on I'm.

12:36

As premise people things to actually go do

12:38

other than just way around it inflates him

12:41

to. I'm really looking forward to that. Should

12:43

be fun. Yeah, can't wait for this one

12:45

Pairs and so I encourage that one. If

12:47

you're right in the high of doing right

12:49

now you're freaking out over the spice you

12:52

see. Go check out the Microsoft Flight Sim

12:54

odd do and activities as a ton of

12:56

fun. Another one for you Paris I know

12:58

you're my old. Had your my gaming dad

13:00

so you probably know about this game. I've

13:02

actually never played a contract in my life

13:05

and to leave me and the boys. Over

13:07

kind of funny. actually played all

13:09

of the brand new contra operation go

13:11

longer. Ah A was fun Paris

13:13

it was challenging. It was difficult at

13:16

it is cool to be able

13:18

to experience that with my friends. because

13:20

I've always been a metal slug kid

13:22

put and quarters in the machine. I've

13:25

never played conscious self to experiences for

13:27

the first ever time. It was a

13:29

good time Paris. Know

13:31

Up Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right

13:34

B A Story. That

13:36

is earned into my brain for the rest

13:38

of my life. Be goes yeah man went

13:40

over to me these in he has gone

13:42

Truth There was nothing amiss in of people

13:45

who know what I'm talking about. You would

13:47

ensure that code and there would be easily

13:49

lights are unlocked like of invincibility mode like

13:51

you to just run through the game and

13:53

on the were bugged and stuff like that

13:55

but I'm Yemen countries a classic so really

13:58

really happened. See it coming? Yeah class and

14:00

at this was a fun one. Pair cities

14:02

up to four players co op on the

14:04

couch which is really cool to grab the

14:06

gang, get on the couch and be able

14:08

to play this. of course I'm always this

14:11

point when it's not our mind co op

14:13

but the idea of getting your friends on

14:15

the couch again was really fun and special

14:17

and like a said it was brutal. It's

14:19

challenging I'd thankfully there are per packages that

14:21

you could buy after every level you kind

14:24

of accruing some credits that you can then

14:26

go to the perks store and buy different

14:28

perks are you can add ons. More health

14:30

bars if you want. You can buy extra

14:32

lives. You could buy certain types of guns.

14:35

The always start with but. Men: The

14:37

game has a really cool art styles. There's

14:39

some really cool ways that they work with

14:41

the to the kind of the side scrolling

14:43

effect that it normally is the running guns

14:45

and kind of move the screen in different

14:47

ways. Of course you're climbing up and downs.

14:49

There's some brutal boss battles with some cool

14:51

looking enemy. so I was very pleased with

14:53

my experience with Contra. Eight levels so some

14:55

the be mindful of we played through it's

14:57

he does have a cool story that they're

14:59

selling or but if you played sounds mode

15:01

with your friends you skip kind of all

15:03

the stories and just run through the gate

15:05

levels together which was. A good time which I

15:07

enjoyed. Know. Far from. Paris. Have

15:09

you been playing anything they want to share

15:12

with the game? after a bridge we're we're

15:14

joking before so store hundreds of since the

15:16

food place to suffer because I'm sort of

15:18

agreement with. Your

15:20

boys yeah I did. For you know

15:22

Rise of the Ronan and will only

15:24

that the grid and blessing and than

15:26

old and talk about that when only

15:28

morals or obese. but I'm wondering. I

15:30

have been playing on Pc arm I'd

15:32

I got beat portal revolution or like

15:34

portal to with a month for by

15:36

the way down ja ja rule ones

15:38

were as I. just want to challenge those

15:40

love having new scenarios be able to do

15:43

and portals have been checking that out hell

15:45

divers to were mostly male members to it's

15:47

best suffered in glass knives as much as

15:49

i would like to speakers of other stuff

15:51

we can talk about yet have been playing

15:53

as well but one thing they do get

15:56

the play that i know you've weight as

15:58

well you do nord stream is No

16:00

rest for the wicked. Yeah studios. I

16:02

frickin love that man I cannot wait

16:04

till early access comes in April for

16:06

that and for people that may not

16:08

know what we're talking about That's coming

16:10

from moon studios people, you know,

16:12

they may or in the blind forest, but

16:14

this is an action RPG top-down Souls

16:17

like game. Yeah, like of a better term. I

16:20

love it. I love the challenge in it I love the art

16:22

style that they have in it. I know Andy

16:25

was even talking about this on games gamecast because

16:27

he really likes it too But yeah,

16:29

this might be the sleeper hit and

16:31

for 2024 they kind of laid out the

16:34

roadmap They're gonna have the multiplayer aspects are

16:36

looking to put into it too. But yeah,

16:39

it looks fantastic and knock on

16:41

wood Hopefully we can get

16:43

somebody from moon studios. Come on X cast talk

16:45

about it even more But it looks like a

16:47

sleeper hit for them for sure I'm I'm definitely

16:49

keeping this on my radar as it goes through

16:51

early access that I think as people get access

16:53

to It they're really you know, they're gonna gravitate

16:56

to this You're gonna like it if you're into

16:58

Elden ring and all the souls like scheme you're

17:00

gonna like this Yeah, I'm right there with you

17:02

Paris this one coming from moon studios when you

17:04

think of moon you think of Ori, right? And

17:06

for me, I was like, oh man, we'll probably

17:08

get more Ori would be the dream Of course,

17:11

I love that partnership with Xbox and that

17:13

character they've created along with that world I

17:15

was really getting into the Metroidvanias, but to

17:17

see this team say oh, we're shifting and

17:19

we're gonna try something different I was like,

17:21

okay, what do you got and I was

17:23

pleasantly surprised everything you just said the art

17:25

style really comes right off the screen At

17:28

you I love this kind of curved world

17:30

that they have and you're moving with it

17:32

and you can see a little bit further

17:34

and further Into the distance I thought was

17:36

really well done in a fun kind of

17:38

different Mixup of what you

17:40

would normally see on the top-down hack and

17:42

slash it is very soulsy. It's gonna

17:44

punish you You will restart checkpoints and

17:46

fight off the same enemies or possibly

17:49

kill them and not have them come

17:51

back But man, oh man, the art

17:53

styles don't Paris it encourages you to

17:55

go out and explore and it's worth

17:57

exploring Whether you get new weapons

17:59

to try new items to add

18:01

onto your character to really buff that person

18:03

up and it is

18:05

a Souls game, Parris. When I think of this

18:07

it's like yeah there's different weapons to try new

18:09

builds, there's different pieces of armor that are gonna

18:12

slow you down, there are pieces of armor that

18:14

are light that are gonna keep you moving fast

18:16

and there are punishing enemies all around this world

18:18

that are gonna make you bang the controller on

18:20

the desk and it's punishing fun and

18:23

I am excited for this game. I think

18:25

we're right around the corner from it. I

18:27

don't think we have to wait too much

18:29

longer thankfully for us to go more hands-on

18:31

on this game. Yeah,

18:33

they said, and forget the exact date in April,

18:35

but it is April, early access will open up

18:37

and people will be able to try

18:39

it for themselves but I know what we got to

18:41

play was kinda limited to you know a few creators

18:44

got to do it live on stream, things like that.

18:46

I got to be able to play it as well

18:48

and yeah I loved it. Honestly I was sad because

18:50

I didn't realize it was gonna turn off and early

18:52

this week I was like, oh you know what I'm

18:54

gonna jump back in and play and I went on

18:56

Steam and it was getting by it and I was

18:58

like, oh they turned it off, I can't play it

19:00

no more. So yeah I'm looking forward

19:02

to next month, definitely gonna jump in early access.

19:04

Yes, as our director Kevin just showed you, they

19:06

do have a big preview event up. It was

19:09

30 minutes so if you want to hear from

19:11

the team over at Moon Studios, if you want

19:13

to really get into the world and see everything

19:15

the wicked inside that happened on March 1st, that

19:17

is the video to go watch. I'm telling you

19:19

it was great. I live reacted to it here,

19:22

kinda funny and then proceeded to play the build

19:24

that was available to a number of us out

19:26

there to show off. So yeah go check that

19:28

out. This game right around the corner in April

19:30

is gonna be a really good time right there.

19:33

Now I got a question and I've only,

19:35

just to shift gears back into the world

19:38

of Xbox directly, Towerborn.

19:41

I've seen some stuff, it looks like they're

19:43

gonna do like an insider preview

19:45

I guess, you know people can sign up for it to

19:47

be able to play it but man what

19:49

is this game coming out? That's another

19:51

one I'm really looking forward to getting my hands

19:53

on. I was hopeful that it was something that

19:55

was gonna come out the first half of the

19:57

year but now it's not looking like it will.

20:00

So I definitely hope we get

20:02

more updates on that and get to get a

20:04

release date on it Where it's maybe it might

20:06

drop this summer or something like that. Yeah, this

20:09

is a fun one that you know We've had

20:11

a lot of insider information from Jez Corden over

20:13

at Windows dental shout to Jez Who's done a

20:15

great job kind of like sharing details that he's

20:18

received about this and then we've seen the game

20:20

come to light We've seen gameplay. We've kind of

20:22

seen the reveal and I am excited to see

20:24

this I'm apprehensive of like will I vibe with

20:27

this but coming off of no rest for the

20:29

Rickett? I love this kind of medieval fantasy world

20:31

and I want more of it in my life

20:33

and Towerborn should be a

20:35

nice maybe possible sleeper hit like you said

20:37

for Xbox another win in a long category

20:40

Remember Matt booty said what 10 games this

20:42

year? So I'm looking forward to a lot

20:44

of titles and Towerborn is high on the

20:47

list of could this be a really good

20:49

time I'm hoping so Paris do

20:51

you want to try and guess the tin? You

20:53

want to try I think we know a fair amount.

20:55

I think what do we add up? I think we

20:58

had seven or eight already, right? Yeah, cuz it's what

21:00

help help late to yep We know

21:02

we're getting our history untold. Yep

21:05

We know we're getting avowed about yep, Indiana

21:08

Jones. Yes stalker

21:10

to Ready

21:13

you just I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm

21:15

gonna say replaced. Okay. Oh, okay. I

21:17

think replace is still 2024 Please

21:19

Jesus be 2024. Okay, and then With

21:23

what Towerborn? Yes at seven. Mm-hmm.

21:26

We talked about it at the top of the show. Yeah,

21:28

Microsoft light sim Yeah, yeah, right.

21:30

Yeah, so that's eight. So then

21:32

the other two is it like

21:34

an expansion? Potentially the add-on

21:36

to see a blow expansion you have

21:38

to think it's probably included in that

21:40

I think there was one other expansion Maybe

21:43

World of Warcraft has an expansion as

21:45

well might round out your ten right

21:47

there Paris Yeah, so but

21:49

yeah, they're saying we're missing it and I'm

21:51

someone's watching or listening to screaming right now

21:53

There's definitely an expansion that's supposed to come

21:55

out this year and I'm blanking on

21:57

it But I that would be the ten right there. Okay

22:00

he's talking about seems really solid to me.

22:02

I think I can't

22:04

complain about that. It's just it's

22:07

interesting that we're not going to get

22:09

the kickoff to that until May with

22:11

Hellblade 2, but then the cadence of

22:13

games is going to be pretty consistent

22:15

from that point if all that delivers

22:17

in 2024. Should be

22:19

a great back half of the year. A

22:22

slow start on the front half of the

22:24

year here for Team Xbox. Once again, when

22:26

you think about it, I can't recall any

22:28

Xbox first party titles jumping out at me

22:30

to kick this year off yet. And I

22:32

think that's one of those weird cycles we

22:34

get in. We've talked about the start of

22:36

the year. It has been very interesting for

22:38

Xbox of there's been two big positives that

22:40

we just got done with the partner preview

22:42

and the developer underscore direct. And like those

22:45

are great pillars right there, but we're

22:47

still missing games. There's nothing to play. It's

22:49

still very early on in the year, but

22:51

that cadence like we talked about right once

22:53

every quarter or if you have 10 games,

22:55

that's almost once a month, but we're not

22:57

there yet. And we have these drive bells

22:59

that kind of leave you going. What the

23:01

heck is going on here? Yeah. And hopefully

23:03

they get that resolved. By the way, I

23:06

know the one expansion people might be thinking

23:08

of is a shattered space. I believe it's

23:10

called starfield starfield. Great call out. Great call

23:12

out. I get a feeling that's not this

23:14

year though. That's just my guess. I don't

23:16

think it's going to be this year, but

23:18

that obviously, if it were to be a

23:20

surprise announcement at the showcase, when would set

23:22

the bill for that? Um, there's,

23:25

there's something that is bugging me. There's definitely

23:27

something else we're missing. That's that 10th one.

23:30

But overall, to your point, that's just the

23:32

thing. They just got to get down to

23:34

that cadence where we don't have

23:36

this gap from January to May where they

23:38

don't have anything. You know,

23:40

it had been nice if something would have dropped

23:42

in February, then you had something drop,

23:44

you know what I'm saying? Then something maybe

23:46

in March or April. And then obviously you

23:49

hit Bay and just go from there and

23:51

they're more consistent with it. Hopefully once

23:53

we get to June and then they do the showcase, they're

23:55

putting some solid dates on a lot of this stuff. And

23:57

so we go into 2025. And. and

24:00

people can have a roadmap. Be

24:03

definitive with your roadmap. If they could show

24:05

that kind of confidence in June going into

24:07

2025, I think that'd be huge for Xbox.

24:09

I'm right there with you, Parris. I know

24:11

the counterpoint to all of that is we

24:13

got so many games and we are thankful

24:15

for great third parties and second parties stepping

24:17

up and adding all these games to play.

24:19

But yeah, there is that conversation piece of

24:21

like, what is coming from your team? And

24:23

there is nothing at this time right now.

24:26

I know we're forgetting. Hit me. Call

24:28

of duty. Call

24:31

of duty. I tell you what, I can't wait for call

24:33

of duty. Yup, yup, yup. Because

24:35

you know that that's definitely going to be coming

24:37

around late October, early November. So there you go.

24:39

You're going to have to call to do the

24:41

end of the year. And on games. Now, we

24:43

haven't talked about this specifically. So I love

24:47

Phil. Phil's our way. But Phil's like

24:49

with his wording on stuff. Because if

24:51

you go back to that Steven Tatillo

24:54

interview he did, this is post-business

24:56

update. And they were talking about Game

24:58

Pass and Call of Duty. And

25:00

he was very specific to say the

25:03

intent is for Call of Duty

25:06

to be on Game Pass this

25:08

year. It's a key word

25:10

there, intent. Just a little bit of wiggle

25:12

room there if it doesn't happen.

25:14

I'm pretty sure they will. Oh. But

25:17

I always pay attention to that. OK.

25:20

OK, what do you mean by intent? And

25:23

why not just say it is coming. It's

25:25

a game back. But he did, if you

25:27

read the Steven Tatillo's article, they explained why

25:29

there's a lot of infrastructure and logistics on

25:32

the back end that need to be straightened

25:34

out with acquiring Activision. This is why you've

25:36

seen a slow rollout of Activision games coming

25:38

into Game Pass. And I think Diablo is

25:40

the first one with the end of this

25:42

month. I think, right? But

25:46

it's the fact that not only does it

25:48

need to be ready to go on console,

25:50

it needs to be ready to go on

25:52

PC, on cloud. I'm curious when I think

25:54

about Call of Duty, does

25:56

all the Activision games, but Call of Duty more

25:59

specifically? Is it going to be

26:01

on the Xbox PC store? Is

26:05

it just gonna stay on Battle.net? Like these are

26:07

probably the things that they're still trying to figure

26:09

out right now because if you're

26:11

gonna tell me that Call of Duty is day

26:13

one on Game Pass, then that means

26:15

I go to the Xbox app on PC

26:18

and it should be available to me, right? So

26:21

these are probably how they're trying to figure it

26:23

out. Not to mention, if

26:25

I don't wanna use Game Pass to get

26:27

Call of Duty and I buy

26:29

it off the Xbox store, I'm

26:31

sure it's gonna be on Steam but are

26:33

you still doing Battle.net? Like what's gonna happen

26:35

to Battle.net? Like there's a lot of Activision

26:37

things they still need to answer so people

26:39

know where to go to get

26:42

some of these titles as they come out.

26:44

Which again, going back to Diablo 1, I

26:46

guess that'll kind of answer the question because

26:48

you would assume Diablo 4 will be on

26:50

that Xbox PC app at

26:52

the end of the month. Yeah, I guess I haven't thought about that.

26:55

That's a good call out there, Parris. Diablo

26:57

will be the official first Activision

26:59

Blizzard King game to hit Game Pass. That's

27:02

March 28th. And yeah,

27:04

that's the fun one you talk about. The intent is

27:06

right, Parris. I think we've had a lot of conversations

27:08

back and forth of old contracts and

27:10

upholding those and maybe it's not 2024,

27:12

maybe it will start next year. And

27:14

I was under the understanding that Game

27:17

Pass for Call of Duty would start next year,

27:19

right? Maybe the intent of

27:21

Call of Duty games previously would be on

27:23

Game Pass this year. That would be a

27:26

big win, but I don't expect me personally

27:28

this new Call of Duty title being in

27:30

Game Pass this year. I would

27:33

say... Yeah, I will see. But

27:35

I would think if... Not

27:37

to turn this into a Call of Duty show, but I

27:39

would think if they were not

27:41

intending to have whatever this next Call of

27:44

Duty on Game Pass this year, you Say

27:46

it now. Get That out of the way.

27:49

Let People know, hey, we're working on it,

27:51

but this year's Call of Duty won't be

27:53

on Game Pass, but we're intending to have

27:55

the back catalog of Call of Duty games

27:57

on Game Pass in 2024. If

28:00

this call of duty isn't there,

28:03

That's. Gonna be a disappointment. A

28:05

lotta your your your your your

28:07

community or fan base. Whereas I

28:09

was assuming that I've subscribed the

28:12

game has add investing in this

28:14

that arguably your biggest game. Is.

28:16

Going to be there day one, but now

28:18

it by now. it's not so. That's.

28:21

One thing I think they would have

28:23

had him and specifically definitive on his

28:25

intention was not to have this year's

28:27

call of Duty in game pass. map

28:29

pair says still so much gray area

28:31

that was the first. We still haven't

28:33

had that route say we haven't had

28:35

the clear message we know the start

28:37

of it but we don't know the

28:39

snowball effect of what does this deal

28:41

finally being done truly mean We haven't

28:43

seen what it looks like from being

28:45

a consumer side yet. nothing is than

28:48

locked in place. Here's what I hope.

28:50

I. Know they do the business. Update: I think

28:52

they they obviously had the reasons to do

28:55

that because they wanted to put some minds

28:57

at ease and kind of get out in

28:59

front of all the rumors and speculation that

29:01

was going on. I. Still

29:03

hope. They. Do

29:05

something specific for Activision

29:08

for June. Yes

29:10

to your very point to kind of

29:12

sit down. Here's here's where we are

29:14

with Activism. See pictures where we intend

29:16

to be by the end of Two

29:18

Thousand Twenty Four beyond with acquiring at

29:20

divisions integrating it into it. You know

29:23

obviously you are all of X Box

29:25

game studios where you as a consumer

29:27

can expect of Activism games Things like

29:29

that I I would hope they're able

29:31

to sit down because don't take time

29:33

away from the showcased answer that stuff.

29:35

I would rather the showcased just be

29:38

about the game for people. Be excited.

29:40

about it's get the business aspect of

29:42

it out of the were headed time

29:44

so people can go into the gym

29:47

showcase with clear expectations on how activision

29:49

blizzard and team is going to factor

29:51

into all that stuff because us not

29:54

forget there's another aspect to this that

29:56

no one really talks about but this

29:58

is probably the biggest Mobile.

30:01

Yeah. Is Xbox going to attempt to

30:04

do some kind of game pass variant

30:06

for mobile? With a lot

30:08

of those mobile games. That'll be interesting play

30:10

as well. I mean we already

30:13

know Call of Duty Warzone

30:15

is coming to mobile. That is

30:17

going to be an absolute monster.

30:19

It'll be great. You know what

30:21

I mean? So I would love

30:23

to see them sit down talk

30:25

about that stuff. So we understand

30:27

it. Again, a lot of people

30:29

clearly that watch this show are

30:31

on console but there's a PC

30:33

audience that's growing. Cloud seems

30:35

to be picking up steam as well. And

30:38

mobile. Mobile's a thing. I

30:41

mean Destin LeGary talks about

30:43

this a lot and I agree with him.

30:45

We're getting to the point where these phones

30:48

are powerful enough to start playing a lot of these

30:50

games that we enjoy because I think Resident Evil 4

30:53

right now. You can play on

30:55

a 15 Pro and it's the same

30:57

damn game you would play on a

30:59

console which is crazy. So as technology

31:02

advances more and as we get into

31:04

this mobile it's going to play an

31:06

even bigger factor in just our daily

31:08

gaming. I think. Man, pass.

31:10

Yeah, that's a lot to break down there

31:12

because yeah, I would like

31:14

in June to celebrate the deal. I

31:16

would like to see back catalog games

31:18

be added in that day and be

31:20

accelerated and excited about that right on

31:22

the mobile side. I don't know. I'm

31:24

not a big mobile guy. I definitely

31:26

see the vision of what you're talking

31:28

about with the games that are now

31:30

playable on that. But I think

31:33

Candy Crush Saga and I go not for me right.

31:35

I think of Call of Duty Warzone or Call of

31:37

Duty Mobile that are most likely free to play On

31:39

my mobile phone right now. And It

31:41

just doesn't benefit me as a free

31:43

game on my mobile phone, but I

31:45

do see the future. But Yeah, I'm

31:47

looking at like, hey, where is that

31:49

back catalog from prototype to Spyro to

31:51

crash to the call of duties, right??

31:53

We're talking about Call of Duty games

31:55

right now that recently within this past

31:57

year got a nice server bump, right?

32:00

These older title games are now really Playboy

32:02

at a much stables paste than before. Where

32:04

are those? Those should be there? So spending

32:06

thirty to forty dollars on some these titles

32:08

are to get backwards compatibility on them. Why

32:10

are they not again pass? I expect in

32:13

June for us to have a moment where

32:15

we got a celebrate that I think they

32:17

did a good job with Bethesda and those

32:19

first early years of If it does as

32:21

their own thing, but we're still tied into

32:23

them. and then we kind of brought a

32:26

mall into the fold. I think you gotta

32:28

do something with Activision Blizzard King during. That

32:30

Zune showcase for sure to celebrate and

32:32

raise a lot of awareness. Well.

32:35

I think in the region on and not

32:37

to stick on this topic too long but

32:39

I think what room way I'm looking at

32:41

it is all the business stuff over. Get

32:43

them out a way ahead of time into

32:45

your point when you get to the showcase

32:47

of course Activision Blizzard going to be a

32:49

part of a showcase. What do you know

32:51

when you see these games a one on

32:53

game Pass old school me years to just

32:55

get the celebrating be excited about a vs

32:57

morning while his are going to be. Backwards

33:00

compatibility is going to be like know you

33:02

already know about better bring in the back

33:04

catalogue in the game. Pass into you know,

33:06

into the ecosystem so to speak and

33:08

you could just go forward to there.

33:10

But I do sort of bucks an

33:12

immortal thing really quick. I think what

33:14

you said is is important. We're.

33:17

The people that on the show or

33:19

now and med been watching and listening

33:21

to the So we are the people

33:23

that consume mobile games. Gap is my

33:25

brain candy crush on that plane called

33:27

Duty Mobile on there but there is

33:29

obviously a huge audience out there that

33:31

does and I think that's what fools

33:33

alluding to in the business. Update up.

33:35

We gotta try and reach more people.

33:37

A source people mobile that are trying

33:39

to reach. I can see scenario in

33:41

this will probably be in the next

33:43

generation of hardware. But

33:45

I can see a scenario genesis a

33:47

call duty as example. the cold duty

33:49

that you play on your phone is

33:52

the same color duty that you plan

33:54

on your console and. All.

33:56

the progress everything is seamless across the board so

33:58

i can be oh my god console, in

34:00

my living room playing Call of Duty with my

34:02

buddies, oh I gotta go, I can hop on

34:04

my phone, continue it. Now obviously the controls and

34:06

everything might be a little different but you

34:09

can continue that experience on your mobile device

34:11

natively. You don't have to cloud stream it

34:13

or any of that. Maybe

34:16

there might be an Xbox handheld that

34:18

comes one day, continue it obviously on

34:20

that but these games start to just

34:22

be a seamless experience across all platforms.

34:25

I think that's kind of the end

34:28

game that they're trying to get to. Obviously

34:30

cloud's going to help with that from a

34:32

streaming standpoint but the more you can have

34:34

these games native across all your screens and

34:37

it's the same game that you're playing no matter what,

34:39

the better. So I see a

34:41

future for that for sure. I mean not

34:43

short term, maybe 10 years from now but

34:45

it's going to happen. Yeah I'm excited

34:47

to talk mobile in the future with

34:49

you Paris because when I think mobile

34:52

I look at the king offering of

34:54

games. It is something that my quote

34:56

unquote mom would play, Candy Crush, you're

34:58

a farm hero saga. You look at

35:00

these games and go well the average

35:02

console gamer probably is not jumping into

35:05

this. The pie chart is

35:07

not saying 98% of Call of Duty players want

35:09

this but there is a market and it is

35:11

going to be interesting of how do they tap

35:13

into that market. How do they make those players

35:15

aware of the other benefits while also making

35:18

those but also catering us bringing us into

35:20

mobile. It's going to be a fun interesting

35:22

situation here in the future. I can't wait

35:25

to watch and talk about with you and

35:27

live here in the real world. It's going

35:29

to be a wild situation. We

35:32

got so much more show to go. We got

35:34

a lot of fun things to talk about. I

35:36

love that we're having a good conversation today. It

35:38

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35:40

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All right everybody

38:07

welcome back Paris talking about more we

38:09

got more games coming to more consoles

38:11

we talked about it already in the

38:14

past couple of weeks but here's a

38:16

cool little thing to note see if

38:18

thieves is the number one most pre-ordered

38:20

game on the PlayStation charts here in

38:23

the US and some other territories this

38:25

is coming from our friend

38:27

of the show and industry analyst Benji

38:29

Sales who shared it over on Twitter

38:32

and X saying that hey the

38:34

CFTs has hit the most pre-ordered

38:36

game on the PlayStation charts in

38:38

the US over the weekend currently

38:40

sitting at $39.99

38:44

pretty impressive stuff there Paris I wanted to give

38:46

a congratulations out to the rare team that's

38:49

awesome to see the excitement to jump in

38:51

and of course pay for that game full

38:53

price but to see others be able to

38:55

play this is gonna be cool to see

38:58

no it definitely is I wonder

39:01

because they're gonna do cross-play and

39:03

I wonder how you could differentiate

39:05

it but I wonder if you

39:07

could see PlayStation community versus Xbox

39:09

community battling it out oh right

39:12

and then you got the PC guys on the

39:14

side go we got mouse and keyboard we're destroying

39:16

all of you but uh no it's great to

39:19

see it's great to see that see

39:21

it thieves which has come a long way so I

39:23

came out in 2017 dead it's in a very mature

39:27

state right now content rich people

39:30

on PlayStation now get to experience it

39:32

and you see that there are people

39:34

on PlayStation that are excited to check

39:36

it out obviously with the pre-order so

39:38

yeah like you said congrats to rare

39:40

I mean I'll leave the arguing about multi-platform and

39:43

all that to other people at the end of the

39:45

day is supposed to be about the game so more

39:47

people getting to play the game is is great yeah

39:49

that's how I look at it yeah see if these

39:51

is in the best place that it's ever been and

39:54

it's grown to become in that spot like you said

39:56

with all the content safer shores as well for new

39:58

players to be able to jump into PvE situations

40:00

without me and my crew trolling you and

40:02

chasing you all around the map is gonna

40:05

be awesome. And yeah, it does lead to

40:07

some fun ideas like you said, Pairs, with

40:09

cross play and these different communities. Could

40:12

you do some sort of fun global

40:14

event of PlayStation versus Xbox and PC

40:16

over there and do something cool? Because

40:18

what I really love about Sea of

40:21

Thieves is the cosmetics and the tie

40:23

ins that they've done with other games,

40:25

whether it be Banjo, Halo, Gears of

40:27

War, they've done a fantastic job showing

40:30

off other games and putting it in their

40:32

world. I would love to see some tie

40:34

ins with some PlayStation stuff. I'd love to

40:36

see a PlayStation exclusive ship bundle, maybe that

40:38

vibrant blue, maybe some of the sacred symbols.

40:41

That would be really cool to see around

40:43

in the Seven Seas. You

40:46

might break the internet with that one, Mike. I don't know about

40:48

that one. You do it, Rare. Don't

40:50

be afraid. I'm all about it. We

40:52

gotta have fun, Pairs. But you know who's having fun? Is

40:55

our friends over at PSILoveyou. XOXO. Later

40:57

on in the week, are going to

40:59

celebrate and talk about some of the

41:01

Xbox games coming their way and they're

41:03

actually having a big March Madness bracket

41:05

tournament that you can go participate in

41:07

on what is the most desired Xbox

41:09

game to come to PlayStation. It doesn't

41:11

have to be those four. They're dreaming

41:13

up the biggest and the baddest. So

41:15

Pairs, I thought we'd help them and

41:17

give a couple of good suggestions on

41:19

what we'd like to see. Maybe

41:21

either win that bracket or just come over. Do you have

41:23

a couple? Because I got some fun ones, Pairs. I got

41:25

some fun ones for us. So these

41:27

are Xbox games that people would want on

41:29

PlayStation? Yeah, of course. I think it's from

41:31

the lens of a PlayStation player. What games

41:33

do you want from Xbox over on you?

41:35

And of course, we know what they're going

41:37

to go for. The halos, the gears, the

41:39

forts of. But there's some fun ones I

41:41

think we could throw out on the list.

41:44

Oh, I think there's one that's pretty

41:46

obvious. Starfield.

41:49

Oh, that's a good one, Pairs. That's a good one. Starfield.

41:52

Of course. I like that. And if

41:54

you let the internet tell it, Hellblade 2. No.

41:57

No. No. No,

42:00

I mean, I mean, yeah, obviously the ones that

42:02

you said, I mean, the Halo, the Gears of

42:04

Forces, those are easy ones. Yeah,

42:08

but I legitimately think a star field

42:10

would be interesting. I think a Nivout

42:12

would also be something that people would

42:15

want. Ori's

42:17

on PlayStation, right? It is not that I

42:19

did my little research beforehand. I did not

42:21

see it on PlayStation. So I am Ori

42:23

on my list. Yeah, Ori and the Blind

42:25

Forest. Again, that would definitely be one

42:28

I am sure people would love to be able

42:30

to play on a PlayStation.

42:34

I mean, it is a long ways

42:36

out, but Fable. Fable

42:39

is good. Okay. Oh, I

42:41

like that you are going for future titles here.

42:43

I actually have some older ones. How about Rare

42:45

Replay? 30 games in the Rare

42:47

Cam Lock. Oh, yeah. You are going to be able

42:49

to go out and celebrate Perfect Dark is in the

42:51

mix in there. You got Banjo in there. I think

42:53

you got some good titles in there that we could

42:55

celebrate. Tell me. Flight's

42:58

in. I got that on my list

43:00

too. Flight and the Come On Man would be awesome.

43:03

Another fun one for you, Sunset Overdrive. We

43:05

talk about it as being one of

43:07

the best Xbox One titles. Insomniac, they

43:09

got that. Why not? They own

43:11

it now, right? PlayStation owns it. They do. They

43:14

can put it on there at any time. Put it on there? Why not?

43:17

Let's have some fun with that. And my final one, Parris,

43:19

here is an interesting one that is surprising we have not

43:21

talked about, State of Decay. State of

43:23

Decay 2 has a lot of content. Live

43:26

service. Ask Game there. You can share it with

43:28

your friends. State of Decay 2 could be a

43:30

great title to add on there. Now

43:33

can we do a PSA? Your

43:35

Xbox community. We are not advocating

43:37

giving away all your Xbox games

43:39

for PlayStation. This is all

43:42

for fun. All for fun. All

43:44

for fun. That's all. But yeah,

43:46

there will definitely be games that I

43:48

think people on PlayStation would have a

43:50

blast with. But especially, like I

43:53

said, when you look ahead, like I think

43:55

about a blade. Come on.

43:57

Come on. Of course. Yeah.

44:00

podcast to listen to and of course to

44:02

see the community over with the kind of

44:04

funny best friends on the PlayStation side. What

44:06

are some of those titles they're really looking

44:08

forward to? What will battle through the fun

44:10

bracket challenges? Because of course March Madness right

44:12

around the corner. We'll see the 16 versus

44:14

one upset will be great. So

44:16

I have a question about that episode. Tell me. Is

44:20

Greg on it? No, Greg is not

44:22

on it. Okay, good. Yes. Then carry on.

44:24

Fine. Are you on it? No, I'm not.

44:26

I'm not. I'm not. This is gonna be

44:28

a blessing and Roger team up.

44:31

It's gonna be a lot of fun. Okay, that will

44:33

be balanced. It'll be fair. It'll be reasonable.

44:35

It'll be very enjoyable. If Greg was on

44:37

there, it'd be freaking chaos. So good that

44:39

he's not on there. Uh,

44:41

Paris, let's talk about some more fun.

44:43

Of course, we have some cool fallout

44:45

details. Of course, South by Southwest just

44:47

happened. Todd Howard and the team from

44:50

the fallout TV show were out

44:52

there celebrating talking about doing the fun press

44:54

junket as one does on a South by

44:56

Southwest. And we got some cool details about

44:58

the TV show. And of course, fallout five

45:00

or what could be fallout six. A lot

45:02

of people got hung up on it. Paris.

45:05

They were worried that the TV show was

45:07

fallout five, but it's not fallout five. So

45:09

I got the clear up for all of

45:11

you on that one. So

45:14

let me let me start this conversation

45:17

off with this. So Xbox.

45:20

Oh, that's a fee.

45:22

Yeah, directly from Xbox design lab. I did

45:24

a video on Twitter. I can't say in

45:27

design labs. I don't know why I was

45:29

saying that. But design lab. This is the

45:31

fallout controller. This one is kind of the

45:33

gray, gray gold variant of it.

45:36

But yeah, it's really dope and obviously

45:38

with the fallout TV show about to

45:40

come out, you know, they

45:42

put these out and design labs so people can go

45:44

check it out. But again, one thing, Xbox for sending

45:46

it over. Yeah. And yes, I have way too many

45:48

controls. Again, this is where I miss Gary. Gary would

45:51

lay out all his. Oh, Gary, be real on site

45:53

that you got this without him want to check in

45:55

on him, you know. But I'm

45:58

definitely anticipating this show. coming out

46:00

next month in April on Prime

46:02

Video. But

46:05

it's interesting the conversation

46:07

that Todd Howard had about it.

46:09

Like the fact that he

46:11

let them know there were certain plot points

46:13

that they could not go down because they're

46:15

going to be on Fallout 5. Great.

46:19

That made me think, Mike,

46:22

and I tweeted this out earlier. Todd,

46:26

if you're making Starfield, Janet

46:29

Space, if you're working

46:31

on Elder Scrolls 6, I

46:34

need you to put on your executive producer

46:37

hat and

46:39

give Fallout 5 to another studio. Oh,

46:41

wow. As much as

46:43

I would want to see Bethesda

46:45

themselves do it, they're clearly busy.

46:47

We're not going to get a

46:49

Fallout 5 until the 2030s, if

46:52

that's the case. That is correct. That is true.

46:55

And I understand the argument that,

46:57

well, you have Fallout

47:00

76. Even Fallout 76 has been

47:03

out for a while at this point. I forget the exact

47:05

date. Is it 2018, 2017, something like

47:08

that? I'm going to look it up. It's been

47:10

a while, right? Yeah. But it's been out for a while. And I

47:12

know they're continuing to update it and they're putting

47:14

out new content, which is great. But

47:17

I do want a self-contained single-player Fallout

47:20

experience. I want to see that. And

47:22

when I tweeted out what I saw

47:24

a lot of people were saying, well,

47:27

let Todd do Fallout 5. Just

47:30

give us like another New Vegas or something like

47:32

that in the interim. And I'd be okay with

47:34

that too. I guess what I just want to

47:36

be able to return to that world and have

47:38

a brand new story within that world that

47:41

isn't tied to any kind of multiplayer

47:43

or live service area today. It's a

47:45

single-player Fallout experience, like three, like four,

47:47

like New Vegas. I want to see

47:50

something like that come

47:52

from that because clearly there's an

47:54

audience for it. I've randomly gone back and

47:56

played three and I kind of dip my

47:58

toe in a New Vegas. Vegas a little bit

48:00

over the past few years. Absolutely still

48:02

hold up. New Vegas, in my opinion,

48:05

is one of the best video games

48:07

ever made, you know, from Obsidian. And

48:09

that was funny, just

48:11

seeing what some people were saying about who should

48:13

make it, and they were screaming, Obsidian should make

48:15

it. Obsidian's busy too. They're very

48:17

busy. Yeah, they're doing Valve, and they

48:20

got Outer Worlds 2 that

48:22

they're working on, continuing with Grounded. They

48:24

got a lot of stuff going on,

48:26

so I'm not expecting Obsidian to do

48:28

it. And Exile's working on Clockwork Revolution.

48:31

We know it is working on Something Secret. Hopefully we'll

48:33

hear about that on June. It's like people are running

48:36

out on the list of studios. So look, I don't

48:38

know who can make it. Machine

48:40

Games, obviously, is doing Indiana

48:42

Jones and Knock on Wood, Wolfenstein

48:44

3, hopefully. But I don't know

48:46

who should make it, but we

48:48

should get another Fallout game within the next

48:50

few years. I get the rumblings of potentially

48:52

a remaster of like Fallout

48:54

3 coming or something like that. That would be

48:57

cool. But again, that's a story

48:59

that we've already played. I already know that

49:01

story. I already know everything about it. I

49:04

want something brand new in the Fallout universe. So

49:08

we know you watch, because you

49:10

say it, you told us. We know that

49:12

you watch X-Catch. Come on, let's find somebody

49:14

to make Fallout 5 and enter them, or

49:16

something, a New Vegas 2, anything. Look, Fallout

49:19

San Francisco, whatever you want to call it.

49:21

I don't care. Just give me something new

49:23

in Fallout. That's all I want. Oh, you're

49:25

the best, Parrish. I think you

49:27

voiced for many of us as we

49:29

all want to see more Fallout. We

49:32

need Fallout. And waiting is just so

49:34

far away, is right. I do think

49:36

that Todd is 5. I

49:38

think you give it to another studio with a different title

49:40

is right. The main number has got to

49:42

be Todd and the team. But it is

49:44

very far away. And I am excited to

49:46

see what Todd and the team do, especially

49:49

since they're already talking about plot points and

49:51

where they want to go with the story

49:53

and what the vision is. That's exciting to

49:55

me, right? Where we've gone so far, from

49:57

DC up to Boston, we've gotten New Vegas

49:59

with obscene. And I love the locations

50:01

and I'm excited to see what's next

50:03

and I love that the team is

50:05

thinking about that I mean we talked

50:07

about adding a brand new IP in

50:09

starfield after 25 years of elder scrolls

50:12

and of course Fallout it's exciting that

50:14

you have three stellar franchises and genres

50:16

that you can go back and forth

50:18

between and Of course when

50:20

you're in the cycle and on the wheel one's

50:22

gonna be up and then the other one is

50:24

gonna be Rotating down and waiting so it's gonna

50:26

be a while I I mean, yeah, you

50:29

brought up a city and there's a number of studios

50:31

that would make a great fallout game I

50:33

look to fallout London, which is a generated

50:35

mod game that people are making out there

50:37

That looks very promising exciting if you're looking

50:40

for more fallout in your life I think

50:42

that'll be something to keep an eye on

50:44

especially I'm like a user Generated

50:46

creation side of like that's cool that people

50:48

are making stuff within Fallout 4

50:51

via those mods and creating something so vast and

50:53

giant that's gonna be awesome as can be and

50:55

I do agree I don't know if I would

50:57

want a Fallout 3 remake as much

50:59

as I would play it and probably enjoy it

51:01

I've been there done that is right Paris. I

51:03

don't want to go back to fall 3 fallout

51:05

4 I know we're waiting on that next-gen patch

51:07

still that's kind of just up in the air.

51:09

So that will be cool but man,

51:11

I Agree, maybe

51:14

fallout new Vegas 2 would be the the true

51:16

answer Paris if you get all the time and the

51:18

money in the world That would be the one I'd

51:20

want to deal with Yeah, yeah,

51:22

I hear you man, but I think again

51:24

that just attributes to how great

51:26

the fallout franchise has been Yeah over the

51:29

past decade plus that yeah people want more

51:31

of it. So hopefully we don't have to

51:33

wait too long It is iconic

51:35

I get excited You know when

51:37

we brought up this topic and we saw

51:39

Todd talk about it and the excitement from the

51:42

showrunners to be able to Play in this

51:44

universe and create their own original story, right? It

51:46

is exciting to me You think about some

51:48

of like the key pieces of fallout you think

51:50

about the Radaway you think about the medicine that's

51:52

in there You think about the cockroaches the

51:54

rad roaches and like all those iconic characters like

51:57

oh man You can really play in this

51:59

and have some fun and what they're gonna do

52:01

with it the cool moments that you'll

52:03

see that you're like oh I remember that from the game

52:05

or like kind of those cool characters that are in the

52:07

game that aren't in the game you get what I'm talking

52:09

about but I'm excited to see those kind

52:11

of tie-ins which will be awesome and yeah the

52:14

question is Paris when but

52:16

also where do we want it I know we

52:18

talked about this before but where is the next

52:20

Fallout really set where do you want it to

52:23

be it's gotta have an iconic location what is

52:25

that I think

52:29

and I know it's the mod already but like

52:31

when you said London I was like wait that

52:33

would that would be a perfect location for it

52:35

I think Chicago would be another great fallout location

52:38

like I jokingly said San Francisco yeah

52:40

why not I think the TV

52:42

show is it TV show with Los Angeles LA

52:45

yeah that is correct so Cal so that'll be

52:47

fun I yeah if for me it's very interesting

52:49

right we've had some great spots here in the

52:51

States but I have a hard time like finding

52:54

one that would make me really

52:56

pop I brought up a fun one in my mind of Fallout

52:59

yellow stone and really getting out in the

53:01

in the woods and the forest and kind

53:03

of big game hunting would be cool but

53:05

I think maybe going overseas Sydney Australia could

53:07

be cool going out to London somewhere in

53:09

Europe would be awesome as well but you

53:11

have so much to play with and what

53:13

will they do there's got to be some

53:15

cool spot because I loved Diamond City kind

53:18

of being Fenway Park and having that as

53:20

your home base and fall on for thought

53:22

was so cool as one of

53:24

the first settlements so I'm excited but

53:26

also dream plotlines it is interesting

53:28

to me Paris when we think about oh don't

53:30

do that that's we might do that for the

53:32

plot it what is the plot how

53:34

do you bring something new because it always feels like

53:37

I come out of the vault and I gotta find

53:39

somebody I gotta find my main man Harris I gotta

53:41

find dad I gotta find my son so it's like

53:43

how do you make that feel

53:45

different or fresh or will that kind of always

53:47

be the main plot

53:50

line of a fallout type situations I think

53:52

it should always be the main the opening

53:54

plot point for every Fallout game because that's

53:57

kind of the journey of

53:59

these people that have literally

54:01

spent centuries down in these vaults and not

54:04

understanding what the real world is like on

54:06

the surface and then having that point of

54:08

view as you come out. Again, one of

54:10

the most iconic shots is Fallout 3 when

54:13

you first come out of the vault. So

54:15

I think they should always have that there

54:17

but then at that point, let's branch off

54:20

into something else. Let's tell something else unique

54:22

with the story but starting off with a

54:24

vault dweller coming to the surface, I think

54:26

it's just kind of the signature

54:29

for Fallout games to do that. So

54:31

I definitely don't think they need to change it. You'll

54:33

always have the fish out of water vibe coming from

54:36

that interview they did of like, yeah, you're coming into

54:38

a new world that you don't know of. You're

54:41

always probably searching for someone. There's got to be

54:43

some sort of directive to get you there. But

54:45

I love Fallout New Vegas and what that was

54:47

where your courier and then you go down and

54:49

you get brought back up and you're like, I

54:51

got to go find my package. I like that.

54:54

So I'm excited to see what Todd and the

54:56

team do. It is very far away, Paris. And

54:58

I am on the side of I don't think we'll

55:00

ever get a Fallout side

55:02

story from someone else in between them. I think

55:04

you and I and everyone else have to probably

55:06

wait for Fallout 5 unfortunately. Yeah. Which

55:09

is too bad. Yeah, unfortunately. Paris, you know what? I

55:11

didn't tell you but you look very good today. Oh,

55:13

thank you. I want you to know that. You

55:15

look great. And I noticed for everyone watching right

55:17

now, you probably noticed Paris' camera hasn't gone out

55:19

lately. So that's a good segue into, hey Paris,

55:22

I know you got a new camera. Why don't

55:24

you tell me about what's going on over there?

55:26

Yes. Our good friends over

55:28

at Logitech, Logitech, gee, they sent over.

55:30

They was like, Paris, the camera. Dude,

55:32

it keeps going out. We got to

55:34

fix this. Come on, we're going

55:36

to help you out. But no, they just

55:39

launched a new product. They launched their Brio

55:41

line. They launched it. It's the MX Brio.

55:43

It's their new, their next gen webcam.

55:47

Does 4K 30, does 1080p 60 frames. You

55:51

can control it all through the Logitech

55:53

G app on your PC as far as

55:55

changing the focus, exposure, white

55:58

balance, all that. And. you're

56:00

obviously looking at me right now. I've been on

56:02

this camera this entire time and it's

56:05

great, works great. USB-C, plug

56:07

it right into the PC and knock on

56:09

wood, it won't go out. So

56:12

I think we might be good, but I

56:14

do appreciate Logitech sending it over to me

56:16

and allowing me to test drive

56:18

it and check it out and the best way

56:20

to review it is to let people just see

56:23

me in action on it right now. So you're

56:25

seeing the picture quality for yourself right now where

56:28

we're doing X-cast and yeah, it's been working great.

56:30

Even if you go on Twitter, the

56:33

video that I put where I

56:35

unboxed the fallout controller was

56:38

on this camera as well. So you can check out the

56:40

quality there too. Yeah, nice. There you go. You guys can

56:42

check it out. Yeah, I was gonna say you look good.

56:44

You haven't jumped in and out, which is always a positive,

56:46

which over here, but yeah, I'm

56:48

always interested. You know, I love when you get

56:50

these new, you know, pieces of equipment that you

56:52

get to review and kind of talk tech with

56:55

us and always share what are you looking at?

56:57

That's the fun part of we've talked about handhelds

56:59

with you a lot. We've talked about of course

57:01

controllers and consoles, but now we get into cameras

57:03

and it's like what are some of the key

57:05

features you're looking for from a camera and also

57:07

like what are some of the features on the

57:09

user side that you really enjoy out of this? I

57:12

mean for me, it's pretty simple being because

57:14

you know since I'm the remote user here

57:16

kind of funny I obviously

57:19

always have to make sure that my setup

57:21

is home. My setup at home is working

57:23

in an improper order. Bro,

57:26

when I talked to Brian from 343 and

57:28

it cut out like two minutes in, I was like

57:30

this is a disaster. But

57:33

having a reliable camera that you know from

57:35

a software standpoint again, like I was just

57:38

pointing out I'm able to kind of go

57:40

in change the white balance, you know soften

57:42

the colors if I need to have that

57:44

autofocus so I don't have to worry about

57:47

it, you know, tracking away like you know, like

57:49

I do this, you know it's gonna pull the

57:52

focus in so you see that right there, right?

57:54

Boom. Autofocus on it's working

57:56

great. Those are kind of just my main

57:58

things and that obviously is just gonna to be reliable

58:00

that I don't have to think about it.

58:02

It's just going to work and

58:04

this one yeah like I said it works great.

58:07

The fact that I can record in 4k if

58:09

I need to you know for content that I

58:11

would do offline or if I'm streaming I can

58:13

stream it to any P I can have it

58:15

at 60 frames if I need to whatever the case.

58:17

So yeah I mean those are the kind

58:19

of things that I look for and it's

58:21

amazing how far webcam

58:24

technology has come in the past 10 years.

58:26

If you go back and look at some

58:28

stuff I did 10 years ago like

58:31

it's just a blurry mess. So

58:33

that's just where the tech was. I mean you

58:35

would literally have to go get a BLSR

58:38

camera to be able to try and

58:40

replicate what these webcams now are able

58:42

to do and this new one from

58:45

Logitech the MX Brio is great. I

58:48

love seeing you in picture perfect quality makes me

58:50

smile. Thank you out there for setting Paris a

58:52

brand new webcam and also Paris let's end the

58:54

show with a big thank you to Team Xbox

58:57

for some more games coming to Game Pass. We

58:59

didn't talk about it at the beginning of the

59:01

month. We're almost halfway through the month already which

59:03

is wild but you do have some new games

59:06

for March and you actually have some really great

59:08

standouts that I want to make sure we put

59:10

people on already available

59:12

Warhammer 40k bolt gun is

59:14

available on cloud console and

59:17

PC. If you're looking for that

59:19

old school doom Wolfenstein look and feel

59:21

this is it right here. A lot

59:23

of high praise from bolt gun. All

59:25

my friends that have played it have

59:27

talked highly about it. You should definitely

59:30

check that one out. Coming up next

59:32

for all the families out there Gary

59:34

Whitta Paw Patrol. Patrol

59:36

were a Paw Patrol world cloud

59:38

console and PC you have SpongeBob

59:41

SquarePants battle for bikini bottom high

59:43

rehydrated and they'll bear it as

59:45

played that you have if

59:48

you're riding the high off Alan Wake control

59:50

ultimate edition cloud console and PC so that's

59:52

a great one to go back to if

59:54

you didn't play it on March 14th the

59:57

day that you're listening to this no more heroes

59:59

three is available on cloud console and

1:00:01

PC and then oh here's a

1:00:03

cool one lightyear frontier it's

1:00:06

coming to game preview cloud PC

1:00:08

and Xbox series X and S

1:00:10

on March 19th this is

1:00:12

available day one on game pass we

1:00:14

have seen this a bunch this is

1:00:16

like that farming survival sim inside of

1:00:18

the mech I've looked at this a

1:00:20

lot I'm finally excited to be able

1:00:22

to play this so that will be

1:00:24

cool and then if you missed it

1:00:26

over on PS I love you XOXO

1:00:29

I sat down with the team from

1:00:31

Sony San Diego to talk about MLB

1:00:33

the show 24 coming back to

1:00:35

game pass cloud and console on March

1:00:37

19th Paris more baseball in our lives

1:00:39

and I love that and

1:00:41

by the way you did a great job on that

1:00:43

too thank you Paris you know I

1:00:45

asked Ramon in the team from Sony San Diego

1:00:48

if they have time after this game launches to

1:00:50

come back and talk with you and I here

1:00:52

on the X cast because of course it is

1:00:55

an awesome game it is a great baseball sim

1:00:57

it is awesome that we get it on game

1:00:59

pass and we get to celebrate a Sony game

1:01:01

coming over here that we get to play via

1:01:03

a subscription service but most importantly what

1:01:05

they've done we talked about

1:01:08

storylines last year and having

1:01:10

the Negro Leagues really highlighted

1:01:12

and players being showcased and

1:01:14

immortalized in this video game

1:01:16

in that kind of edgy

1:01:18

entered edutainment they called education

1:01:20

entertainment mixing together and what they

1:01:22

did with Bob Kendrick from that

1:01:24

museum and how flashy it

1:01:26

was to watch how informative it was and

1:01:28

how much fun it was to not only

1:01:31

watch and play but the whole package was

1:01:33

great and so I got to sat down

1:01:35

with Ramon Russell and talk about it again

1:01:37

eight players now from the Negro Leagues being

1:01:39

shown Tony storm the first ever female player

1:01:41

in the major leagues to be shown as

1:01:44

well I thought that was awesome and they're

1:01:46

doing a different release now they're gonna do

1:01:48

three players at the beginning and then they're

1:01:50

gonna stagger out the rest of the players

1:01:52

which I thought was great they're adding defensive

1:01:54

moments now as well so you're not only

1:01:57

on offense you're actually going to showcase defense

1:01:59

because why pairs To add

1:02:01

on the storylines on top of that they're

1:02:03

bringing the captain Derek Jeter will be involved

1:02:05

in this and it is Very

1:02:07

cool to see what they've done

1:02:09

on the normal storylines Look to

1:02:11

now going to New York in

1:02:13

the late 90s early 2000s with

1:02:15

Derek Jeter and showcasing his story

1:02:18

You're on a subway you see the subway

1:02:20

train station route and like you're going from

1:02:23

bump to bump Jeter kind of that early

1:02:25

hip-hop vibe to it is something special Paris

1:02:27

and I cannot wait for people to play

1:02:31

I mean, here's what I'd like to say

1:02:33

to everyone to the team out there at

1:02:35

Sony San Diego and anyone watching and listening

1:02:37

This is something where when you see something

1:02:40

special you feel it and you know it

1:02:42

and that is what storylines is to me

1:02:44

And I hope the whole entire world it

1:02:46

gives me goosebumps. It brings me to tears

1:02:49

to smile and Celebrate our history and where

1:02:51

we've came from and the good in the

1:02:53

world and how important Sports in our lives

1:02:55

can be and it is awesome to see

1:02:58

this team Take that and really make sure

1:03:00

it's represented in the positive light and in the

1:03:02

right way and it is yes baseball And you

1:03:04

might not vibe with that it is Educational

1:03:07

you might not vibe with that but somehow

1:03:09

they mix it in this pot and it

1:03:11

is truly something that I think Everyone

1:03:13

on planet Earth should see it is awesome

1:03:16

that they're able to put this in front

1:03:18

of Congress and encourage People in education to

1:03:20

show this to say hey video games aren't

1:03:22

just Grand Theft Auto It's so much more

1:03:25

and the team and what they've created here

1:03:27

is a must-see the must-play and I'm passionate

1:03:29

about it And I hope that everybody gets to

1:03:31

see it. It's so cool Yeah,

1:03:33

that is awesome. Yeah again It's the

1:03:36

franchise they iterate every year and just

1:03:38

keep improving it every year with something

1:03:40

new Exciting to see check it

1:03:43

out everybody Paris that will wrap up our

1:03:45

week of another kind of funny x-cast It

1:03:47

was fun to sit down with you talk

1:03:49

about Xbox and beyond. I'm excited for the

1:03:51

weeks to come We have GDC right around

1:03:53

the corner here in sunny, San Francisco We're

1:03:55

gonna be checking out some indie titles and

1:03:57

talking with some game developers. So that will

1:04:00

be awesome. Don't forget two weeks from now

1:04:02

really next week when you're listening to this,

1:04:04

I'll be at PAX East with Obsidian if

1:04:06

you want to celebrate Grounded with me during

1:04:08

that panel or you can watch it live

1:04:10

on Saturday over on the PAX Twitch channel

1:04:12

so check that out. Paris before we go,

1:04:14

you talked about a video of the controller,

1:04:16

anything cool that you want to tell the

1:04:18

people about? I don't

1:04:22

think so. I mean I

1:04:25

don't think so. I mean you know like I

1:04:27

said obviously I showed off the controller already on

1:04:29

here. I mean I would definitely

1:04:31

say if you're interested in Fallout and you

1:04:33

like Fallout go to design labs you can

1:04:35

create your own and have it delivered to

1:04:37

you. But my main thing is

1:04:39

like we already said I don't want

1:04:42

to wait to 2035 Fallout 5. Talk

1:04:44

about that. Help us out.

1:04:46

Leave a comment down below how excited you

1:04:48

are for Fallout 5, what you

1:04:51

want out of it and if you want

1:04:53

it sooner what studio should be working on

1:04:55

it? Let's have a conversation next week all

1:04:57

about it and your comments and thoughts. Until

1:04:59

then, that's Paris. I'm Mike. We'll see you

1:05:01

back here next week. Thank you so much

1:05:03

for tuning in. Goodbye everyone.