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What's up everybody

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and welcome to

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another episode

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of the kind of

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funny X cast your home for all

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things Xbox here at kind

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of funny. Of course I'm one

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of your show hosts. I'm

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your host. Snow bike Mike and today I

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am joined

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by one of my gaming dads Mr. Paris

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Lily. And of course if you are watching

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right now over on youtube.com/kind of funny games don't

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adjust that dial don't

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adjust that screen. That's right. It's Henry

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Cavill. The Witcher is here

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in the building as our special guest

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snow myself a bicycle. My

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fine flaxen haired friend. Well met. What

0:54

a pleasure it is to see you once again. How are

0:56

you my fine fellow. I am doing so well as

0:58

a pleasure to see you again. We are happy to

1:00

have your presence here. Of course what's

1:02

the name we're going by here. Remember

1:05

do not do not confuse me with

1:07

my cousin Geralt. Yes. I'm

1:09

Geralt. Geralt Geralt and I

1:11

do not speak. We

1:13

no longer on speaking terms. Well

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let's start off with Mr. Paris Lily first we'll

1:17

get to you. Geralt is right. Paris

1:20

how are you this week. I'm

1:22

doing fantastic. I told

1:25

you right before we hit record I had

1:27

a nice little family story I wanted to

1:29

share. So you know we've been doing this

1:32

what about three years now right. And you know

1:34

I've told you over the years like as far as

1:36

Halo goes I go to you like my kids they just they aren't

1:38

interested in it. They don't play

1:40

right. And I've obviously been playing a

1:42

lot of Halo Infinite recently. So my

1:44

son was watching me like not

1:48

be playing with Khalif and Danny and all of

1:50

them and he'd watch and he'd snicker you know

1:52

laugh or from dying or losing or something and he

1:54

was like oh if I get there I can do

1:56

way better than you guys blah blah blah blah blah.

2:00

What do I hear over

2:02

the past few weeks? All this loud noise

2:04

coming out of the other room is hooting

2:06

and hollering and all that. He's

2:08

in there playing Halo Infinite. And

2:11

he's loving it. Ladies and

2:13

gentlemen, we got him. We got

2:15

him, ladies and gentlemen. We got the

2:17

youth, ladies and gentlemen. Yes. Sir

2:20

Paris of Lily, my good sir. May

2:22

I say first of all what a pleasure it is to

2:25

hear you talking about fucking Xbox games for a change. Yes.

2:29

You may not be aware, Mike. Yeah, yeah, tell

2:32

me. Paris and I were all drinking pals

2:34

from back in the day. Oh, I bet you two were.

2:37

Of course, these days I frequent the salty

2:39

load. Yes, yes, yes, the salty

2:41

load. Back in times yonder, Paris

2:43

and I copped many an ale

2:45

at his favorite drinking establishment, the

2:47

Sony Pony. The Sony Pony, of

2:49

course. Who doesn't love drinking at

2:51

the Sony Pony is, right? And we would

2:54

have many fine tales late into the evening

2:56

until finally I decided I had enough.

2:58

I mean, constant shilling and idolatry of

3:01

Sony PlayStation. Seriously, Paris, you

3:03

can have more than one hobby. Talk

3:05

about something else. I know you get

3:08

all the free shit from your secret high level contacts

3:10

at PlayStation. It's an Xbox podcast for fuck's sake. Yeah,

3:12

yeah, yeah. Try to stay on message for an hour

3:14

at least. And then you go back to posting on

3:16

Twitter about all your free shit. I

3:18

did say like Halo, didn't I? Yes, I said

3:21

it was refreshing. And you're not fucking saying it's

3:23

interesting. It's refreshing, Paris. It's nice. What's

3:26

going on with you today? Let's get to our special

3:28

guest. Paris, do you have any special questions to ask the

3:30

Witcher right now? We have a very special guest in

3:32

the studio. To be in the presence of a Witcher. What's

3:35

the name of your horse? I

3:38

didn't ride a horse. Wow. I walk. He

3:40

walks. He rides a horse in this day and age.

3:45

I mean, those yams and those calves

3:48

gotta be gigantic. Exactly right. Oh my

3:50

gosh, I love that. Well, let's get

3:52

to it. What the heck is the

3:54

Witcher doing here today? Did you do something fun on

3:57

the internet that everybody should know about? You

4:00

know... The Mycical.

4:03

My timing is fucking terrible. Hahahaha!

4:05

As you may know... Yup. I have

4:08

been locked... In Mortal Kombat...

4:10

For many years now... With

4:12

a denizen... Of the dark

4:15

netherworld. A chubby little

4:17

demon with hair plugs by the name of

4:19

Elon Musk. Aw shit! He vexes me! Yup!

4:22

Finally I decided to have enough of his shit. I've

4:25

left that cesspool... Formerly

4:27

known as Twitter. Where? Now known as X.

4:30

What the fuck is that X?! What does that even

4:32

mean?! Mycical, let me ask you a question. Do you

4:34

know what it means? When in my

4:36

profession, when I see the letter X written on

4:38

a bottle? Yeah.

4:41

Poison! It's poison!

4:43

Yup yup. And Twitter has

4:45

become poison. The cesspool of hell! Occupied

4:48

only by the worst... Worst

4:51

members of society. I want no more

4:53

of it. So I've left! But then of

4:55

course... I'll tell you something else you may not

4:57

know about my job as a witcher. It

4:59

pays shit! Toss a

5:01

coin?! What about some folding money for a

5:03

fucking chain? Give him some money! Listen, the shit I have to

5:05

put up with is a witcher. You wouldn't believe it! Banshees,

5:08

demons... WITCHES! THE

5:12

MONSTERS OF HELL! You'd think I

5:14

would be getting paid top money! Top whack! No.

5:18

Not a fucking sausage. Teachers, nurses

5:20

and witchers. They all do essential work and

5:22

get paid fuck all for it. Help them

5:24

out. So I decided to supplement my income.

5:26

By lowering myself. To a lower

5:28

level. Even than the demons I often

5:30

find myself in conflict with. Yes,

5:33

Michael. I've become a content creator. Yes,

5:36

yes, of course. A great content creator you

5:38

are. I've become a content creator. And I've

5:40

started my own web series. Tales

5:42

from the official Witcher cookbook. With

5:46

Geralt of Rivia. How

5:48

many tales do we have out right now? Well, just

5:50

the pilot episode for now, Mike. But

5:53

if it's well received over on my YouTube

5:55

channel. Perhaps there will be more adventures. But

5:57

I can't promote it on

5:59

that sexy... Sesspool. Sesspool. Sesspool. But even

6:01

if it was a sexpool I wouldn't have a problem.

6:03

Oh you'd like that. Sesspool's not for me. See

6:06

enough of that in my day job. Well I'm happy we can

6:08

promote it here. Promoting it on threads,

6:10

on Instagram, on the tickle-tockles. On the X-Ya. On

6:14

all of the social media platforms except X. And

6:16

he goes fuck that place. And so

6:18

can you tell me in this pilot episode what the fuck

6:20

is grout and why did you eat grout? Groats! Oh,

6:24

that's what it was. Groats. Tell us

6:26

all about it. The recipe I read in

6:30

the first episode from the official Witcher Cookbook. Available

6:32

now from Penguin Random House. They haven't paid

6:34

me to do this. I was just

6:36

fucking bored. Okay. Yeah I'm glad

6:39

that we got this out of your business. I

6:41

needed to make something. I needed a creative urge.

6:43

I had to make something. Yes.

6:47

White orchard in groats with

6:49

bacon. What a recipe. And

6:52

how was it? I don't

6:54

know. I've not made it. But it regales

6:56

my audience with the tale of another

6:59

traveler who once went to the white orchard in

7:01

and had grouts. Do you know what a grout is?

7:03

It's an oat that has had its

7:05

husk removed. Oh. I

7:08

don't know why they bothered doing that. Okay. That's how you

7:10

make a grout. Do

7:13

you think Paris would like it? I don't

7:15

know. Let's ask you. Paris, would you partake of white

7:17

orchard in grouts with bacon? Absolutely.

7:20

I have that cookbook too. Of

7:22

course you do. Paris will not

7:25

tolerate me being sent any free shit

7:27

that he has not yet received. Let

7:32

me tell you something. Let

7:35

me tell you something right now, my fine friend. If

7:39

Paris Lily receives that fucking Bluey Xbox

7:41

before I do, that would

7:43

be hell to pay. The

7:47

world would stop spinning

7:49

if Paris Lily got that Bluey Xbox

7:51

before you. Now I want it. Now

7:53

I didn't want it before now I do. Now I want it. Watch

7:56

out. Grouts.

8:00

Continue I have something for you that

8:02

I really want of course I'm looking to

8:04

make a bad purchase and I need to see if

8:06

you'll give me the exciting. Yes. You know boy math

8:09

Of course is the talking point from

8:11

one corner of the world to the other your

8:14

ability to waste money on ridiculous shit No,

8:16

it's no bounds. I'm gonna buy something dumb

8:18

here because over on the Bethesda gear shop

8:20

right now You can explore

8:22

a new galaxy You can go venture

8:25

into the stars with a brand new

8:27

starfield duvet cover sets available right now

8:29

in twin queen and king And I'm

8:32

thinking you bought it. This

8:34

could be it. This could be me

8:36

about it Of course, you know that

8:39

iconic blue red yellow combo

8:41

right there looks so good I need

8:44

to know my gaming dads should

8:46

snow bike might be buying something like what

8:49

sizes without my My

8:51

glasses I can't see shit what sizes available

8:53

a twin queen and king. Okay, so the

8:55

the twin I understand Perhaps even

8:57

the queen. Yeah, why would you make this in

8:59

a king? Oh, you never know maybe if you

9:01

have a king bed you're sharing it with another

9:03

and I promise you if you have Nonetheless

9:13

that is more stylish and very sued than

9:15

I expected. Yeah, I don't look like some

9:17

team man and monsters the universe bullshit I'm

9:20

gonna you a kid great job We didn't

9:22

put the giant star field logo on the

9:24

middle of the duvet So I got to

9:26

give them mad props for that right like

9:28

it looks good. It's stylish I

9:30

think you could get away with it, but Paris

9:32

do you think I could get away with this

9:34

or is it too much? gaming

9:37

there Mike when I

9:39

was 10 years old, yeah, I had return

9:41

of the Jedi and sheep Yes, and I've

9:43

not had anything like that since I was

9:45

10 years old I'm sure you

9:47

are not 10 years old. So no I'm

9:51

sorry, but then the Todd Howard I can't buy this they've

9:54

said no to me on this one guys We

9:56

got a really fun X cast. We're jumping into of course. I

9:58

want to kick it off I want to welcome

10:01

everybody back after the Thanksgiving holiday here in

10:03

the US. Of course, I hope you gave

10:05

thanks to your friends and family all around.

10:07

You played some good video games during your

10:09

break. Of course, if you are not in

10:11

the States, hey, welcome back to just another

10:13

episode. It is nearing the end of the

10:15

year. We want to give thanks to all

10:17

of you watching and listening out there. Spotify

10:19

wrapped has just come out and it is

10:21

so awesome. It's positive. It is

10:23

motivating. It is a fire being lit

10:25

whenever we get to see all of

10:27

you out there tweeted us about how

10:29

the X cast or any kind of funny

10:31

product or gamer tag radio as well is up

10:33

on some of your Spotify wrapped top podcast of

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the year. So thank you all so much. If

10:37

you tweet that out at us, make sure to

10:40

tag us and let us know because it is

10:42

really cool. It's motivating and I have

10:44

a great bill laid on me. I

10:47

saw again. Thank you to everybody that was

10:49

tweeting at us and was showing that they've

10:51

been listening to the X cast over the

10:53

years. Like one person even put that. I

10:55

think we've recorded over 1300 minutes

10:57

of content this year, which is crazy. Wow,

10:59

but I truly appreciate all of that to

11:01

everybody that has been tweeting at us today,

11:04

but I saw a common theme in

11:06

those tweets. They're PS.

11:09

I love you. XOXO was ahead of us

11:11

in some of those and why we're better show.

11:14

Wow. Do you get you get

11:16

these two gaming dads? You get me buying dumb things

11:18

on PS. I love you. No,

11:20

you don't know. You know, you can Greg blessing. Look,

11:23

Janet. Janet's cool, but blessing. We like, yeah,

11:25

yeah, yeah. Who cares? We're better

11:27

than them. You want to give

11:29

a shout out to some of our listeners? You

11:31

maybe want to thank them for listening on Spotify.

11:33

Not particularly. No. Okay, let's

11:35

jump into the show because we got a really

11:37

fun one. As I said, the year is nearing

11:40

an end. The Game Awards are right around the

11:42

corner and we have word that Xbox is going

11:44

to be at the Game Awards after being absent

11:46

just last year. So we're going to talk all

11:49

about that on this week's kind of funny

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Ray's but I'll tell you all about that

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in just a little bit. Guys let's talk

12:39

about the game awards because it's going down

12:41

next week. We talked about it on a

12:43

previous episode with Xbox snubbed at the game

12:46

awards. No star field in the game of

12:48

the year conversation. No Diablo in the best

12:50

freaking action game. Well guess what we

12:52

now know that Xbox is gonna have a

12:54

presence at the game awards and of course

12:57

we want to talk about that and I want to

12:59

know what will make the best

13:01

possible Xbox appearance at the TGA's

13:03

just next week. So of course

13:05

a number of Xbox users received

13:07

an email this week saying hey

13:10

celebrate this year's best and big winners live

13:12

at the game awards on December 7th at

13:14

4.30 p.m. PT along with

13:18

major announcements and more Xbox

13:20

news you won't want to miss.

13:23

So Paris you're all yes

13:27

got it on the second try well that

13:29

was close I was gonna call Gary it's

13:31

tough it's tough looking into your eyes right

13:33

now cuz I'm just smiling from ear to

13:35

ear. Gaze into my little bit pool my

13:37

witch's eyes. I want to know what will

13:40

make for the best possible

13:42

Xbox appearance over at the

13:44

TGA's I mean Paris I'm gonna steal the conversation

13:46

first because I do want to highlight one thing

13:49

and we want high-five rush to get

13:51

its flowers of course we've talked about

13:53

high-five rush all year long of course

13:55

some of you may have forgotten this

13:57

awesome gem coming out of Tango GameWorks

14:00

But most importantly, hey, congratulations to that team.

14:02

You absolutely crushed it, knocked it out of

14:04

the park. We want to see you receive

14:06

your flowers at the TGA, so we're hoping

14:08

you win a couple of awards there, and

14:11

of course other Xbox first party franchises as

14:13

well. But guys, Paris, I'll start with you.

14:15

Give me one ultimate Xbox

14:17

announcement that you want to see at

14:19

the TGAs that would really set them

14:21

up for success after last year being

14:24

absent. I've

14:28

been thinking about this one a lot. So one I would love

14:30

to see is everybody would

14:33

love some big major new

14:36

IP announcement. But speaking of high

14:38

five rush, I think the game

14:40

awards would be a great opportunity to have something

14:42

at that AA level. Maybe

14:45

it's not the huge big blockbuster, but

14:47

AA type game that comes from one

14:49

of Xbox's studios. Debut it there at

14:51

the game awards. Show it off there,

14:53

because I think for some of their

14:55

bigger titles, they've established now that they're going to be

14:58

doing these developer directs. I think you're going to start

15:01

utilizing that more for the huge announcements.

15:03

But maybe something along the high five

15:05

rush level. Brand new IP. I'll

15:09

just say this as well. Maybe

15:11

finish the trilogy with Hellblade

15:14

2. Oh. Oh. I

15:17

think the biggest feedback that we saw coming

15:19

out of the showcase in June was

15:23

we want to see combat. We want to see more

15:25

of Hellblade 2. This could

15:27

be their opportunity to say, you want to

15:29

combat? Here you go. And show

15:31

that as well. But short of that, yeah, I

15:33

would love to see something brand new maybe at

15:35

the AA level debut at the game awards for

15:38

Xbox. What do you think about that

15:40

AA level when you hear that? Is that something that's

15:42

going to get you out of your seat, make for

15:44

a perfect night at the TGAs? First

15:46

of all, it's a bicycle. I've

15:48

just clocked myself on the

15:50

screen here. You look great. Allow

15:53

me to address anyone who

15:55

may be tuning in late to the

15:57

videographical version of this podcast. Do

16:00

not be confused. Alana Pierce has not let

16:02

herself go and returned to the ex-casp. It

16:05

is I, Geralt of Rivia. Now

16:09

to answer your question, I'm sure you

16:11

know, judging by the mischievous

16:13

look on your face that you have touched on a very

16:15

sore point by bringing up the

16:18

TGAs. And it's preening in

16:20

Presario to Jeff Keighley. As

16:22

you know, I made my services. Paragon

16:26

isn't helping at all. As

16:29

you know, I can fuck you, I can do it. Watch

16:32

this. He's gotta do it. As you know, I

16:35

had a banger of a year

16:37

presenting awards in Las Vegas, at

16:40

DICE, and in London at

16:42

the Glamorous Golden Joysticks. And I

16:44

slayed on both occasions. And

16:47

I made my services available to Shaqeili.

16:51

Now I've

16:53

heard nothing since. Perhaps

16:56

if he ever manages to crawl out of

16:58

Hideo Kojima's asshole and respond to his

17:03

DMs, I'll have a shot. I think you do.

17:05

But I'm not holding up much hope. What was

17:07

your question? I'm too angry now. We got an

17:09

angry Jeff Keighley. You gotta call Jeff Keighley. You

17:11

gotta call. Jeff Keighley, you know you want some

17:14

of this. On stage in

17:16

Los Angeles, the city of Los Angeles.

17:18

Double A level games. Of course, we

17:21

have seen some really special ones from

17:23

Pentamint to of course Obsidian with Grounded

17:25

over the past couple of years that

17:27

have really shined for Team Xbox and

17:29

kind of blown the gaming audience away

17:31

when sure we needed triple A bangers,

17:33

but they hit us with some special, you know,

17:35

smaller love projects that we weren't really accustomed to

17:38

or we didn't know we wanted. But we did

17:40

turn out to want. Do you want to see

17:42

some double A love here? As

17:44

I've observed many times this year,

17:46

it's not been, I'd say it's been a good, not a

17:49

great year for Xbox. I don't necessarily think they

17:51

were snubbed. I think the game's got what they

17:53

deserved. I do think Hi-Fi Rush is

17:56

probably their best bet and that itself

17:58

is a sorry indictment of the that

18:00

Expos has had. Where is the triple A's? The

18:02

quadruple A's? The quadruple A's? And sadly

18:05

lacking my school. It's true. We need more.

18:07

I like

18:09

it. So I don't hold out much hope. Okay,

18:11

okay, okay. It's not bad. I mean

18:14

I agree with Paris. I would like to see

18:16

something wow me. It can be a passion project

18:18

from one of the teams, maybe a smaller group

18:20

within them. We have seen some

18:22

success, right? I have to give the flowers

18:25

and love to Pentaman. I've enjoyed Grounded. I

18:27

love the new update they added where now

18:29

I can create fun things inside of Grounded

18:31

in that world and share with my friends.

18:33

I mean the Make It or Break It

18:36

update is really really awesome. So there's some

18:38

great stuff to be said about this kind

18:40

of double A smaller passion project that maybe

18:42

can be turned out a little bit faster

18:44

than those big Gears of War mainstays or

18:46

Halo. You know what I mean Paris? You

18:50

know 100% and you know I obviously pay

18:52

attention a lot what's happening in the community,

18:54

what people are talking about. So I've seen

18:56

a lot of the discourse about what people

18:58

want to see, what rumors they think they're

19:00

seeing. Like people see people say they think

19:02

they're going to get Gears 6 at

19:04

the Game Awards. I'm like lower expectations on

19:06

that. I do not expect Xbox

19:09

to show off one of their tentpole IPs

19:11

at the Game Awards. It's

19:13

an opportunity for them to use

19:16

that platform to showcase, like

19:18

you said, a passion project from one

19:20

of their studios that normally get

19:23

the spotlight at a summer showcase, right? Or

19:25

if you put it in a developer direct,

19:27

it's not going to be the main event

19:30

that you would see. So I

19:32

think use the Game

19:34

Awards. Like I said, show off some kind

19:36

of passion project, new IP. Maybe

19:38

you know Sarah Bond tweeted

19:42

a logo of the Xbox 360 logo

19:44

she tweeted

19:46

which got people speculating, which I'm going

19:49

to speculate now and say could

19:52

this be for Salvo

19:55

into the Activision Blizzard

19:57

acquisition where maybe we

19:59

do get some legacy

20:01

Activision 360 titles coming

20:04

to Game Pass or whatever the case may be,

20:06

right? This could be an opportunity

20:08

for something like that as well. But

20:10

beyond that, am I expecting them to

20:12

show off perfect dark? Not

20:15

really. If they did, I guess I wouldn't be

20:17

too shocked, but I don't think we see anything

20:19

that they showed at the summer showcase. I don't

20:21

think we'll see here. And

20:23

I don't think this is the stage for them

20:25

to wow us with a gear six or whatever

20:28

the next thing is going to be from Halo

20:30

or something like that. I think this

20:32

is, to your point, Mike, a passion

20:35

project, a pentamet level, a high-fi rush

20:37

level, a ground level type game coming

20:39

from one of these other studios. Like,

20:41

again, another example, whatever it's working on,

20:43

no, I don't think this is the

20:45

stage to show that. They'll do that

20:47

later in the year. But

20:51

definitely don't do what you did last year, which

20:53

is not sure what you think at all. I

20:55

think that lesson got learned as well. So I do think

20:57

we'll get something. But my expectations are

21:00

in check. I'm not expecting anything super major. I

21:02

don't think AA cuts the

21:05

mustard. I don't think passion project

21:07

cuts the mustard. Given the lack of

21:09

top shelf titles from Xbox this year, I believe

21:12

it behooves them as the year

21:14

draws to a close to blow our

21:16

socks off with something major and unexpected.

21:21

I'm on board with you. Are we going to

21:23

get that? Who the fuck knows? But I think

21:25

it's what we want to see. If we are

21:27

building the perfect Xbox presence at the TGA's, I

21:30

do think that there is some in

21:32

between here. Let's say it's a three

21:34

hour show. I would love to see

21:36

one Xbox announcement each hour. And I

21:38

think it doesn't have to be major.

21:40

Right, Paris? I'm not looking for a

21:42

Gear 6 trailer per se, but I

21:44

do think that if we did show

21:46

off a Gear 6 teaser, right, at

21:49

least if it's the cog logo with

21:51

a six, maybe Kate Diaz somewhere in

21:53

there. I think we got something

21:55

going here where you win back the favor

21:57

of the Xbox audience, even if it's just

21:59

a. Small morsel of

22:02

that. I agree Microsoft to close

22:04

out the year make a fucking

22:07

statement Put their foot down

22:09

and show us what 2024 and beyond will

22:11

look like failing that Anything

22:13

with a trebuchet will satisfy me my circle

22:16

don't get enough of those trebuchets Hey,

22:19

you know, I'm gonna do I'm gonna disagree.

22:21

I'm gonna disagree because I think You

22:24

already know what's coming in 2024 and

22:26

slightly beyond because I showed you that

22:28

back in June We know we're getting

22:31

about hellblade to fable quack work revolution

22:33

south of midnight. They've shown us those

22:35

titles They're probably going to do

22:37

developer directs for some of those titles Coming

22:40

in 2024. I would imagine

22:43

as soon as late january early

22:45

february. We'll probably get something, right?

22:47

so I'd rather them

22:50

show something smaller something that we weren't

22:52

expecting here because then that

22:54

is what people will be talking about

22:56

coming out of the showcase instead of

22:59

Why am I going to undercut a vowed or

23:01

hellblade 2 or something like that by showing off

23:03

perfect dark or gear 6 as

23:05

an example Right, I would rather them show

23:07

something smaller me personally. I Showcase

23:11

the fact that you got all these damn studios

23:14

The other stuff common sense tells us that it

23:16

gears and perfect dark and all that stuff is

23:18

coming I don't need you to show it to

23:20

me right now because you still got your dream

23:22

showcase Where you can show

23:24

it to me there on your platform

23:27

your way. You're not competing against other

23:29

studios and publishers on kelly's uh stage

23:31

So that's what I would do,

23:33

but I don't work in marketing or

23:35

comm. So what the hell do I know? Oh

23:39

my god, it's so bad I

23:41

see I like that paris But remember last year we

23:43

had the discussion of the tga's are

23:46

the big moment where gamers around the

23:48

globe are tuning in right the most

23:50

eyes Possible in such a broad spectrum.

23:53

That's not just xbox centric

23:55

and I do agree with you There is

23:57

something to be said now about having all

23:59

of these under the umbrella,

24:01

plus, hey, what is the new vision

24:03

for communication, right? We have a Summer

24:05

Games Fest, Summer Showcase, right? Whatever you

24:07

want to call it. Then we go

24:09

into these Developer Directs, we have the

24:11

TGAs, we have Gamescom, we have a

24:13

lot of things sprinkled throughout the year,

24:15

so what is going to be the

24:17

flow for Xbox and this communication? And

24:19

I feel like, what if Gear 6

24:21

Teaser is the right move? So then,

24:23

on the summer, that's when you show

24:25

out the big trailers. Let me know. A

24:28

couple things on that. First and

24:30

foremost, I think, when they showed Perfect Dark

24:32

a few years ago, in hindsight, that was

24:34

a mistake. Agreed. Just

24:38

due to the fact that all the

24:40

things that have happened with the initiative, and here

24:42

we are now going into 2024, and

24:45

that game is nowhere near being ready

24:47

or in sight, unless there's some surprise

24:49

that, hey, it's coming out in June

24:51

or something, which I doubt. Second

24:54

part of that is the

24:56

brilliant Tina Amini, who

24:59

is now over there at Xbox, and she's

25:01

handling all of their productions, like

25:04

the showcases and all the premiers to Developer Directs,

25:06

all those things that we've seen over the past

25:09

year or so. And I think

25:11

she's pretty smart, and I think

25:14

they've gone a different direction with their communication

25:16

on how that stuff is being handled. So

25:18

with that said, if

25:21

we're saying that maybe they shouldn't have shown Perfect

25:23

Dark when they did, then I

25:25

would apply that same logic to a Gear

25:27

6, things like that. You have so many

25:30

titles that you can be talking about and

25:32

showcasing. If a game is still a

25:34

few years away, I don't need you

25:36

to give me a teaser now, and

25:38

then it's 2026, and I'm going, well,

25:40

where the heck is that game that you showed me at the

25:42

Game Awards in 2023? You know

25:45

what I mean? So I'll say again,

25:47

I'd rather see something smaller coming

25:50

from one of these studios that's gonna be

25:52

out a lot sooner that you show now.

25:55

Again, take it back to last year. I

25:58

get they did the surprise announcement. for Hi-Fi Rush

26:00

and we love that. They

26:03

could have debuted Hi-Fi Rush at the

26:05

Game Awards last year and then boom

26:07

it's out month after. Do

26:10

something like that. I would love to see that. And

26:13

you get ahead of Jeff Grubb and the

26:15

rest of them leaking stuff. Trust

26:17

me my friend you don't need to get up

26:19

too early in the morning to get ahead of

26:21

Jeff Grubb. I like where your head is at,

26:23

Parris. So

26:26

then if we're going to stick with hey

26:28

let's focus on the year ahead at the

26:30

TGAs. I do come back to Hellblade II

26:32

with you of yeah I agree I'd like

26:35

to see more combat. I would like to

26:37

see a bigger, badder trailer but I also

26:39

want to date Parris. I cannot come back

26:41

out of the Hellblade trailer without

26:43

a date. And I think that's the issue

26:45

I get into as an Xbox consumer is

26:47

we come back to these year in and

26:49

year out where we just keep showing the

26:52

same game over and over again. And I

26:54

think for me if I don't get a

26:56

Hellblade II date that sucks but also if

26:58

I get more Hellblade am I really that

27:00

loud right? I already know what Hellblade is.

27:02

I'm excited. I do think there needs to

27:05

be something bigger and something badder coming out

27:07

of Xbox especially after I think

27:09

we all can be honest the rough start of this

27:11

new generation. We've had some highs and a lot of

27:13

lows. I think they need to hit us here with

27:15

something special and I kind of look down the list

27:18

like you said Parris. Avowed? I

27:20

don't know. Avowed just didn't do it

27:22

for me after that last time we

27:24

showed it. I didn't get super excited.

27:26

I think about Indiana Jones and Todd

27:28

Howard. Could that be the big announcement

27:30

and excitement that gets me going? But

27:33

here's the thing about that and it's funny

27:35

because Khalifa and I were talking about this.

27:39

Whatever they show for Indiana Jones it better

27:41

be the gameplay that wows us and not

27:43

that it's Indiana Jones if you know what

27:45

I mean. I don't think

27:47

that IP is anywhere near as popular

27:50

as it probably was when they initially

27:52

announced it a few years ago because

27:54

obviously the movie didn't do that well

27:57

and there just isn't. There isn't Spider-Man

27:59

level. excitement for Indiana Jones let's

28:01

put it that way so when

28:04

machine games does show it wow

28:07

me because I'm like man I can't wait to pick

28:09

up the sticks and play that I it

28:11

better not be well I just want to be

28:13

in any Jones because I don't think that's what's

28:15

gonna pull people in at this point it's gonna

28:17

have to be whatever Indiana Jones is doing that's

28:19

gonna excite me to want to pick up the

28:21

game and play it. Could we

28:23

get away with just an Indiana Jones CGI

28:26

trailer does it have to have gameplay this

28:28

time around at the game awards with the

28:30

pomp and circumstance could they get away with

28:32

just CGI? No we've had

28:35

that already let's see some fucking gameplay and I

28:37

agree with Sir Paris I

28:39

agree with him about the

28:41

waning appeal of Indiana

28:44

Jones yeah I'm sure if Lucasfilm had access

28:46

to Archimedes dial that have used it to

28:48

go back in time to a point where

28:50

Indiana Jones was still popular instead

28:52

of where it is today. 30 years ago. Yes 30 or 40 years ago

28:56

when I was a bit of babe in arms 1981 I was

28:58

10 years old when Raiders Lost Ark

29:00

came out in my circle. I also

29:02

agree with your further statements

29:04

that the TGA's have become a place

29:07

where viewers from all over the world

29:09

come to see the most respected and revered

29:11

and relevant characters from the world of video

29:14

gaming people like Al Pacino

29:16

seriously what the fuck was that Mike? And

29:19

random head cases you'd like to run onto the stage

29:21

and grab the microphone let's have some more of that

29:23

but I'll tell you one thing we don't need any

29:25

more of. Again to your point another fucking hellblade trailer

29:27

enough already we know it's coming out just release the

29:29

game for God's sake I agree with you on that

29:31

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30:51

ones for us to talk about, depending

30:54

on the size, depending on the nature, but here's

30:56

one we can talk about. Of

30:58

course, will we see that fabled

31:01

Halo Battle Royale? What is Project Tatanka?

31:04

Is it real? Where is the juice

31:06

for Halo? Paris and I have sung

31:08

the praise of Halo in the latest

31:11

season, really bringing back the energy and

31:13

kind of winning over the awesome audience

31:15

that there is. But how do we

31:18

get it more mainstream once again? Is

31:20

it that true Battle Royale experience that

31:22

maybe other first person shooter audiences want

31:25

out of Halo to get back into

31:27

it? Will we see

31:29

anything from Halo at the TGA's Paris? I

31:32

don't think so. Again, it just

31:34

doesn't seem like the right time to do it,

31:36

especially we know that, wait,

31:41

how do I wanna phrase this? There's more

31:43

Halo content coming for Halo Infinite season

31:45

five that we know about, right? I

31:48

don't think you wanna overshadow that

31:51

by now projecting to a far

31:53

future Halo project coming.

31:55

You wanna focus on what's about to come

31:57

out for it. And honestly, I'll say.

32:00

since I've been playing a ton of Halo

32:02

Infinite recently with the season five. As

32:04

much as yeah I want to see whatever

32:06

this this project's going to be and all

32:09

of that. I think in the short term

32:11

they don't necessarily need that buzz because I

32:13

think the game currently as it is is

32:15

doing a pretty good job of kind of

32:17

redeeming Halo Infinite and getting people excited about

32:19

the project again. So plus

32:22

did Max Holbermann actually just come out? I

32:24

feel like something Max Holbermann just said. He

32:26

didn't obviously didn't confirm what he said. I

32:28

guess he said the biggest project that Certain

32:30

Infinity is working on right now they're working

32:33

on three of them and the biggest one

32:35

is with 343. I think he

32:37

did say that. Pretty sure I saw that. Maybe

32:39

I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure I saw that.

32:41

So I would imagine

32:43

going into 2024 probably by next

32:46

June whatever that is we'll know what it

32:48

is. I mean will we get it next

32:50

year? Maybe not but we'll probably at least

32:52

know what it is by next June. We

32:56

talked about Perfect Dark. Let's just park that

32:59

bus really quick on Perfect Dark. Do we

33:01

expect Perfect Dark to return at all to

33:03

this? Is this the place to show off

33:05

of Perfect Dark? If you and I are

33:07

in agreement that we got to kind of

33:09

be bigger and better and badder than everyone

33:11

else here. Is Perfect Dark the opportunity to

33:14

showcase that? I suppose

33:16

you depend on what they were to

33:18

show. Another cinematic? No. Actual evidence

33:20

of progress? Gameplay? Yes. Yeah. But

33:22

we need to see some movements

33:24

because the vibes, Mycical, are off.

33:26

So off on that one. How

33:29

about Fable? Oh yes.

33:31

A game very close to my heart. Yeah.

33:33

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I'd love to see some

33:35

Fable gameplay. Again always see cinematics. Xbox,

33:38

a video game company or a fucking movie studio.

33:40

Let's see some gameplay. Parrish

33:44

do you think that Fable is a

33:46

possibility here after what we have seen

33:48

previously now? No. I don't

33:50

think so and to the previous point with

33:52

Perfect Dark if it weren't to show because

33:55

obviously we have precedent of it being shown

33:57

before at the Game Awards. It's got to

33:59

be gameplay. It just has to

34:01

be I think you can get away the

34:03

first time with the CGI trailers But just

34:05

to the point even talking about fable the

34:07

next time we see fable. It's gotta be game

34:10

play Yeah, I agree on

34:12

that one But man would it make a big

34:14

impact right like Xbox has the cards in their

34:16

hand that could make a big impact The question

34:18

is are they ready right like is

34:21

perfect dark ready is that gear sticks ready to

34:23

show? Hell blade we know is there a vowt

34:25

is on the way right like what are some

34:27

of these big? Question marks that they can show

34:29

and get us all excited Let's

34:32

see that you know this slightly changes all

34:34

from the TGA talk But just going back

34:36

to last summer game fest and just when

34:38

Matt booty and Phil were at the giant

34:40

bomb couch Which by the way, I'll be

34:42

a giant bomb couch next week during PGA.

34:44

Yeah He

34:48

was saying even then because I remember him

34:50

talking about perfect dark and You

34:52

know you you got the initiative and all these

34:54

studios that they have now itching to want to

34:57

show off things that they have But they're getting

34:59

to the point where they got to be very

35:01

strategic on when and where they show stuff So

35:04

why am I seeing fable for a

35:06

second time in less than six months?

35:09

when you Literally have a

35:12

ton of other stuff that you

35:14

have studio heads that want to show

35:16

off these projects that want to announce

35:18

them It just makes sense to okay.

35:20

We've seen fable Maybe

35:23

I see it again a year from now. You know at

35:25

the next June showcase But in

35:27

between show us other things that that these

35:29

Xbox studios are working on you know we

35:31

again We we go by the old freeze

35:33

Xbox doesn't have games well hell They got

35:35

30 plus studios now start showing all the

35:37

games that you're working on so this is

35:39

where I see again The TGA is an

35:42

opportunity to see something we have not seen

35:44

before Not repeat something that

35:46

we've already seen in the past yes, we

35:48

cannot live in the past my circle

35:51

leave that to Sir Gregor Miller Yeah,

35:53

I had funeral garden of dead games

35:55

of the love so much seriously the

35:57

girl on his lagging PlayStation portal when

35:59

I Did I say that? When

36:01

I... Wow! Harris

36:04

Lily Badmell is a PlayStation product! He said that on

36:06

the fire! It's a new day indeed! Seriously

36:09

Sir Gregor, when I release my next video game,

36:11

please, in the name of all of this, holy

36:13

do not endorse it. It's like writing a fucking

36:15

death note. Of course

36:17

we did see new hardware a long time

36:19

ago at the game awards showing off the

36:22

Xbox Series X. Do you expect

36:24

any sort of hardware, maybe a mid-gen update?

36:26

Or is there a dream piece of hardware

36:28

you'd like to be shown at this particular...

36:31

Well you know how much I crave that

36:33

discless Series X. I know you do. The

36:35

one skewed it is missing. The

36:38

Series S had a problem, not enough storage.

36:40

They fixed it. The Series X has

36:42

a problem. Fucking disk drive,

36:44

what is this? The ages? Yep. Get

36:47

rid of the fucking drive, make the thing cheaper. Now

36:51

there is one piece of hardware that

36:53

I would like to be seen and

36:55

it is that Xbox Series or Xbox

36:57

Elite Series 3 controller. There is a

36:59

number of features that we have all

37:01

talked about that the DualSense does that

37:03

the Xbox Elite does not do or

37:05

the Xbox General controller doesn't do. I

37:07

would like to see us get to

37:09

that moment but if we were going

37:11

to show hardware, the only hardware I

37:13

want to see is them reveal an

37:15

Xbox Elite Series 3 controller. Would be

37:17

my dream situation. I am not ready

37:19

for the mid-generation update to be at the

37:21

game awards of all places. Yeah,

37:23

so I feel like I am being the

37:25

negative Nancy in this episode because I am

37:28

just like no to all this stuff. No,

37:30

I don't want any type of mid-gen refresher

37:32

Series X on digital to be shown here

37:34

because the bottom line is if you show

37:36

it off here unless it is coming out

37:39

like the same week before the holidays,

37:41

why? That doesn't make sense to me. You

37:43

would, because you would be

37:45

undercutting people and going well, hell I was going

37:47

to get my kid the Series X for Christmas.

37:49

I highly doubt that Xbox is going to release

37:52

new console hardware. early

38:00

2024 and even if they did

38:02

the PGA's probably is not

38:04

the place to announce that. But you

38:06

agree to Paris that a DISC-less digital

38:09

series X could be a fine addition to the

38:12

lineup. It has to be coming.

38:14

I'd be shocked if it wasn't and obviously you

38:16

know we've seen some of the leaked stuff so

38:19

I would imagine even if plans have changed

38:21

some form of an all-digital series X is

38:23

on the way and to Mike's point yeah

38:26

getting the Elite 3 just

38:28

almost seems mandatory at this point to just

38:30

align the Elite controllers up with your standard

38:32

controllers as far as all the features that

38:34

they have as well right so yeah I

38:37

want to see that so but I don't think the TGA's

38:39

is the place that we're gonna get it. I

38:42

would suggest that if there's to be

38:44

a mid-generation controller refresh then

38:46

that should be the standard controller that gets these

38:49

more dual sense like features. You apply it only

38:51

to the Elite 3 which is very

38:53

expensive and not likely to be

38:55

widely adopted. You are now asking developers

38:58

to put in extra controller features for

39:00

a very niche device. I like that

39:02

I agree with you on that Gary and

39:04

I think when we saw those updated mid-gen

39:06

update you know graphics and all the presentations

39:08

that were leaked I think we saw some

39:10

of that so we'll see when we get

39:12

to that moment. Let's talk about a couple

39:14

more things here at the TGA's that I

39:16

would love to pick your brains about of

39:18

course we just got done with a giant

39:20

acquisition. Will we see Activision Blizzard there in

39:22

any way shape or form of course Paris

39:24

did allude to maybe seeing some classic titles

39:26

come into your game pass subscription but what

39:29

about a warzone 3.0 or

39:31

what about a Blizzard survival game do

39:33

we think we'll see any of that

39:35

Gary winner now the Blizzard survival game

39:37

which was announced and then we've heard

39:39

diddly squat about since what

39:42

a revelation dad would be if it was shown at the Game

39:44

Award. It would be a pretty big win I

39:46

don't see it though okay okay how about

39:48

a warzone 3.0 I

39:51

mean personally I couldn't give a flying fuck about warzone

39:53

but I'm sure it'd be very popular amongst the the

39:56

rabble yes yes yes yes Paris

39:58

do you think I mean We haven't gotten to

40:00

the quote unquote round table experience yet with

40:02

Phil and the team with Activision Blizzard King.

40:04

I don't know if we'll get that or

40:07

not, but is the TGA's the

40:09

right moment to start sharing more of this

40:11

partnership, maybe something else that we can attach

40:13

to and say, Hey, that's a win for

40:15

Xbox actually, because now they're part of the

40:18

umbrella. I think if that was

40:20

the case to the latter point by like Blizzard

40:22

showing off a survival game or something like that,

40:24

I think if they were going to do that,

40:26

they didn't BlizzCon. That was just a month and

40:28

less than a month ago. So

40:31

no, I don't think you bypass the

40:33

actual event for Blizzard fans to then

40:35

announce something for Blizzard fans at another

40:37

event. They would have done it then

40:40

to the point about the war zone 3.0. Yeah,

40:43

no, TJ's just doesn't feel like the

40:45

place for that to happen. I still

40:47

lean more towards my conspiracy theory with

40:49

their bond post and about if anything

40:52

Activision Blizzard would happen to be maybe

40:54

legacy titles coming to game pass, they

40:56

could announce that like, Hey, in

40:58

January, we're going to have this ready to go. The

41:01

select backwards compatible titles come into

41:03

the 360 or the X-Nox one

41:05

error or something like that. Right.

41:08

But that's probably the only thing I could see, you know,

41:10

in the short term. You talked about Al Pacino and

41:13

we've talked about a fine. Cespian

41:15

a different entertainment medium TV. We

41:18

saw the success of the last of us. We've

41:20

talked about Halo and the TV series. We

41:22

now have the date and some first looks,

41:24

which we'll talk about in just a little

41:26

bit about the new fallout TV series. Would

41:29

we see maybe some TV at the

41:31

game awards from the Xbox side? Maybe

41:33

a trailer for the almost out fallout

41:35

coming in April or maybe

41:37

season two of Halo? I

41:41

mean, perhaps on the one

41:44

hand, I think Microsoft

41:46

is still shaking off the PTSD of

41:48

opening the Xbox one generation with TV,

41:50

TV, TV, and where were the fucking

41:52

games? That still leaves a bad taste

41:54

in many people's mouths. But they do have these interesting

41:56

projects. And of course, the TGA's is a very interesting project.

42:00

very Hollywood-like event. Jeff

42:02

Healy, I've never known a star fucker like him.

42:04

My goodness. If we're gonna see Hollywood

42:06

celebrities and movie trailers and Tinseltown

42:08

razzmatazz, TGA's are the place to

42:10

be. Paris,

42:12

does a TV show trailer get

42:15

the Xbox audience excited? You know,

42:17

my worry is we talk about

42:19

big titles, Xbox making a statement.

42:21

Does a Fallout TV series trailer

42:24

even get a win? Do you count that as an Xbox fan

42:26

as a win for yourself? What do you think on that? I

42:29

think the Fallout one because of the

42:32

unknown and we obviously got the little

42:34

sneak peek like Walt, Walt, Walt and

42:36

Goggins is in it. I think showing

42:38

off that could get some

42:40

roars from the crowd and get people excited like,

42:43

Oh man, I want to see more of this.

42:45

The Halo season two one actually, I think would

42:47

be a mistake because

42:50

it just obviously wasn't received very well for

42:52

season one. There were things about it that,

42:54

you know, some things that people like, but

42:57

there are some things that people didn't like.

43:00

I could see that one blowing up in their

43:02

face where like, man, why are you showing this?

43:04

Oh, you know, so Fallout.

43:06

Yes, but Halo. No, I think

43:09

it's all my prediction. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm

43:11

just thinking Fallout along the lines of, can

43:14

we get to the last of us? Did

43:16

the last TGA's right? That was there, right?

43:19

I feel like it was released. I know Pedro

43:21

Pascal. The actors were there at least

43:23

because I know they presented. Yeah, they presented

43:25

and then like the show, I think they

43:27

might've done it summer games fest or one

43:30

of those. I think that's what it was.

43:32

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, here's how I'd

43:34

like to end this segment. Of course, we

43:36

now know that Xbox will have some sort

43:38

of presence this year at the TGA's. Of

43:40

course, they were nominated for a number of

43:42

rewards. So we're rooting on team green to

43:44

get something out of that. But when

43:46

they say presence and announcements, I want to go

43:48

around the room right now. Let's just give our

43:50

three predictions. We're going to put up three each

43:53

just for fun. No matter what you think, what

43:55

do you think will be at the TGA's on

43:57

the Xbox side of things? So when we finish

43:59

up, At the game awards next week we

44:01

can come back and say, oh that was good or

44:03

oh, I missed that So boys take a look at

44:05

your sheets of paper Give me

44:07

three paper my goodness Shout

44:10

on my paper mic. Do you have your three ready? Do you

44:12

want to give me three? Do you got three? Yes,

44:15

I do. Um, I think unannounced

44:17

unannounced title Um to the

44:19

point not at the triple a level but

44:22

a smaller unannounced title gets revealed there Um,

44:24

I think we do see something game pass

44:27

related And then

44:29

I think we see perfect dark. Oh,

44:31

I like that. I like that I'll

44:34

go up next. Of course my announcements

44:36

would be a gear six teaser trailer

44:39

I would like to see hellblade two with

44:41

a date and also in Xbox

44:44

elite series three controller reveal would

44:46

be my big three on that

44:49

one. Gary. What do you got for me? I

44:53

think the fallout trailer i'm ready to make a prediction

44:55

the fallout trailer is a lock I like that. It

44:58

checks so many boxes. It's hollywood It's

45:01

and now microsoft owns it So

45:04

it's a big part of them putting their Solts

45:07

together. I think perhaps

45:09

it is ritual thinking but something big

45:11

like I said a marker something big from xbox

45:13

That we did not see coming but we go. Holy shit Who

45:16

saw who saw that coming nobody? That's

45:19

ritual thinking I 5050

45:22

a coin flip and the third one Is

45:26

Presenting the ward motherfucker

45:28

is everywhere. It's like he's like Hey,

45:31

it's mario. Hey, he's the voice of mario And

45:34

now fucking garfield Hey

45:37

garfield and garfield if they let chris pratt

45:39

go up before you gary witta We got

45:42

we got a crazy one to talk about

45:44

we got to get on this right away

45:46

guys Let's talk about that fallout tv series

45:48

because we have now Some first images to

45:50

take a look at and oh boy They

45:52

look good. Ladies and gentlemen, of

45:55

course the fallout television series over on amazon

45:57

prime is due to premiere on prime video

45:59

on April 12, 2024,

46:01

the official description of the

46:03

series states, takes place in

46:06

a future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles

46:08

citizens must live in underground

46:10

bunkers to protect themselves from

46:12

radiation, mutants and bandits after

46:14

nuclear annihilation. The story begins

46:17

in Vault 33, one

46:19

such bunker that is a prominent

46:22

setting in the video games. These

46:25

are some of your first looks, of course,

46:27

if you are an audio listener, you probably

46:29

have seen them already on the internet coming

46:31

out of Vanity Fair. If you have not

46:33

seen them and you're watching with us live

46:35

right now, you are seeing some stunning set

46:38

design. I have to say I was blown away

46:40

with what we are seeing coming out of this

46:42

fallout television show. And I want to kind of

46:44

talk about it because we do kind of have

46:46

an expert here who's been on some sets. You've

46:48

seen some stuff, Witcher, you kind of know the

46:51

look of it. Of course, these are some first

46:53

look images. I'm sure they pick and choose what

46:55

they really want to show like that. But does

46:57

this get you going for a fallout TV show?

46:59

If only you could see, Mycical, some

47:02

of the shit that mine eyes have seen 20

47:05

years in Hollywood. I'm bad. We turn your hair fucking

47:07

white. You ever wonder

47:09

why my hair is white? That's the fucking reason.

47:11

Hollywood bullshit. I

47:14

know it looks like they spent a pretty penny on

47:16

this show. Yeah, yeah. You

47:19

got, of course, a brotherhood of steel. You're

47:21

getting to see some power armor here. We

47:23

see Walter Goggins as

47:25

the ghoul who looks fantastic with

47:28

this makeup on. I mean, holy

47:30

cow. This dude's looking good. We've

47:32

seen some vault dwellers, which of course

47:34

have that iconic blue and

47:37

yellow vault suit on, which looks

47:39

so, so good. And we

47:41

also got to see some vertebirds as well. You

47:43

see the brotherhood of steel. They got the big

47:45

air base up there and, you know, man, this

47:47

looks good too, Paris. What were some of your

47:49

initial thoughts coming out of these images? Yeah,

47:52

I think it looks really, really good. And to

47:54

the point about Walton Goggins, you

47:56

know, seeing him, because he's such a fantastic

47:58

actor, you know, playing. playing ghouls like

48:00

sign me up and obviously the Brotherhood of

48:03

Steel just it looks like Fallout to me,

48:05

which is the best breeze That

48:08

that you can give it so it is definitely

48:10

on my radar I'm gonna be checking out day

48:12

one and circling this back to the TGA's that's

48:14

what you do if you get Walton Goggins well

48:16

that game is his name right Walt Walton Goggins

48:19

to come out and Present

48:21

a ward or something and just say hey he's

48:23

playing such-and-such in the Fallout TV series The

48:26

timing is good because the new era the

48:29

video game adaptation is remember the old days

48:31

Mycical when video game adaptations were

48:33

a shit and there was a bad stigma

48:35

attached to them Both

48:38

of the sonic movies you love them

48:40

absolute bangers you love them the last

48:42

of us TV show top drawer Yeah,

48:45

and of course the Super Mario movie Chris

48:47

Pratt notwithstanding Excellent remember

48:49

we live in a new era now where

48:52

people anxiously await After the next

48:54

video game adaptation instead of dreading it remember

48:56

when we had doom with the rock Person

49:04

section Some side

49:06

notes coming from variety and vanity fair that

49:08

I pulled that I thought were pretty cool

49:10

So set in Los Angeles and takes place

49:14

219 years after the bombs drop many were

49:16

wondering how it might incorporate New

49:19

California Republic a group heavily featured in

49:21

Fallout New Vegas The Fallout show has

49:23

room to introduce small changes to the

49:25

cannon seeing as it takes place 15

49:28

years after the events of New Vegas and

49:30

nine years after Fallout 4 So

49:33

if you're a big New Vegas fan you want

49:35

to see that new California Republic Maybe there's a

49:37

chance to see a lot of people said hey

49:39

looks like a lot of brotherhood is steel What's

49:42

going on over there on the west coast and

49:44

then another really cool one? I saw that Todd

49:46

Howard was talking about with of course the show

49:48

runners vault boy not only appears in

49:51

the show But the imagery even

49:53

gets an origin story which

49:55

we won't spoil here But the quote was from

49:57

Todd Howard that was something that they came up

49:59

with That's just really smart. I think

50:01

that's pretty cool because of course when you think Fallout

50:03

you think of the Vault Boy and I think it's

50:05

going to be cool to get kind of an origin

50:07

backstory. And of course the Pit Boy, you think we'll

50:09

see a Pit Boy. Oh man you gotta see a

50:11

Pit Boy is right here. Of

50:13

course let's go around the room Paris and Lily are

50:15

we tuning in April 12, 2024 for this

50:19

Amazon TV series. Oh yeah,

50:21

yeah day one. I'll be there. Looking forward

50:23

to it. Gary Witter? What do

50:25

you think? I'll add it to my backlog. Okay.

50:29

The salty log. The salty load.

50:31

The salty load can get it on their televisions

50:33

over there. Let's see if we can get that

50:35

bar to get up on there. Yes unfortunately all

50:37

the TV screens are always playing fucking Quidditch. Not

50:40

all of us want to watch Quidditch. Okay I like

50:42

that. Gwent I thought would be on the television. I

50:44

like that. Oh that's right. Yeah.

50:47

Pro celebrity Gwent. Gwent everybody loves. Oh

50:50

ESPN8. The Ocho. Really

50:52

quick just in this shot here I think we do see

50:54

a Pit Boy just not with like any like

50:57

after effects CGI on. Yeah. Yeah

51:00

that is a Pit Boy. Looks good

51:02

right there. So make sure to go check out

51:04

Vanity Fair right now has the big article you

51:06

can read through that. Some really

51:08

cool behind the scenes stuff with Todd Howard and the show

51:10

runners on what is going on into that and so many

51:12

more. Paris. So now

51:15

I will say because you know we

51:17

have Gary of Riviera or whatever his

51:19

name is on here I forget exactly. The

51:21

disrespect. My. That's crazy. Gerald.

51:25

I remember the name.

51:28

Well the thing that I do remember is

51:30

you have no shame when it comes to

51:32

promoting yourself and things that you want to

51:34

do. So I'm going to do the same

51:36

right now. You know I have

51:38

been on an after show for the

51:41

Halo show on the other one on

51:43

Paramount Plus. Hey

51:45

Amazon. You doing something for Fall Out? Get

51:48

at your boy. I would love to come on and talk

51:50

about the series. I think it would be great. It would

51:52

be great to have someone who has

51:54

gaming experience that comes from the gaming

51:56

genre to be able to come on

51:58

and on. Perhaps you can sprinkle some

52:00

of that pixie dust that made the

52:02

Halo show such a huge success. Dear

52:08

Amazon, please call up Paris Lillie. I would

52:10

love to see him on a post-show, maybe

52:12

hosting or guesting and talking to all things

52:15

Fallout. But of course that

52:17

is far away, but the TGA's are just

52:19

next week and we are so excited. Paris

52:21

will be down there live with blessing and

52:23

of course Greg Miller will be doing the

52:25

post-show here or the live reaction here at

52:27

Kind of Funny. And Paris will also be

52:29

on the Giant Bomb couch which

52:31

I'm very excited about. Paris pump that

52:33

up one more time before we get

52:35

out of here. Yeah, so literally when

52:37

we record this next week when we

52:39

say goodbye I'm hopping in my car

52:42

and driving up to LA and

52:44

I'm going to go up to the

52:46

Giant Bomb studio in LA and myself,

52:48

Khalif and a couple other people. We're

52:50

all going to sit down for a segment with Jeff Grubb

52:52

and the guys over there and just talk

52:54

about video games. It's going to be a lot of fun. Really,

52:56

really cool. I'm going to invite to that one my friend. Oh,

52:58

you do? You know, you can get a regular fixture on

53:00

that fucking couch. That's crazy man. These days

53:02

not a dicky bird. No, man. But

53:05

I do have one other thing to

53:07

say though about the TGA. So as

53:09

you mentioned blessing and Greg will also be

53:11

in LA for the game awards and

53:13

I was watching the Super Chat segment

53:15

that you did today talking about and

53:17

blessing was talking about his outfit. He's

53:19

always best dressed. I just want to

53:21

say I'm gunning for 54th best dressed

53:24

at the game awards because I cannot compete with blessing.

53:26

Greg, I am also going to Macy's. So maybe I'll

53:28

see you at Macy's. I don't know. And I'm going

53:30

to pick out an outfit and we'll do that. But

53:32

I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be

53:35

great to see so many people from the industry be

53:37

able to hang out and just

53:40

talk gaming and celebrate everything about this year

53:42

2023 should be a

53:44

good time. I too keenly anticipate

53:46

the blessings TGA's fit. That

53:49

man's factorial elegance is so next level I can

53:51

only assume he's been dabbling in the dark arts.

53:53

He's down playing it. But

53:56

honestly I think he's got something. I think he's got

53:58

something fun. Oh, I think we're going to. to

54:00

see something fucking Met Gala level, Jared

54:03

Leto level off the charts.

54:06

I like that. Well, of course, if you are

54:08

watching and or listening, thank you all so much

54:10

for your support. Thanks for sharing those Spotify wrapped

54:12

with us. Of course, we are happy to be

54:14

ending the year out with you talking all things

54:16

Xbox. Down in the comments

54:18

below, if you're watching over on YouTube, or

54:20

if you want to come over to the

54:23

YouTube video, youtube.com/kind of funny games, give us

54:25

your favorite predictions, the announcements that you want

54:27

to see to make the perfect Xbox appearance

54:29

at the game awards just next week. And

54:31

of course, make sure to tune in, check

54:34

out Paris with giant bomb. And of course,

54:36

go check out Gary Witter's YouTube

54:38

channel. You see the pilot, he's gonna talk

54:40

all things. That's Gary Witter for more tales

54:42

from the salty load. I love that. Remember

54:44

the next time you see a witcher, toss

54:46

them a coin. We work mostly for tips,

54:49

you cheap motherfuckers. I've been

54:51

Mike, those are my two gaming dads. And we'll see

54:53

you out here next week. Goodbye, everybody.