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Hello, welcome to the Easy Allies podcast.

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I'm Daniel Bloodworth coming to you from Los Angeles, California.

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This week I am joined by Bradley Ellis,

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Michael Huber, Super wonder!

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Okay, fresh

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cut, fresh cut, fresh cut,

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fresh Brad cut. Yeah, watch out for that VOD.

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Michael Damiani. How's it going everyone?

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And in the control room making it all happen. We've

1:02

got Ayla Hink. Hello.

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Don working away in the background over there just off

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cam. You sure

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is. And Gabby, hello, watching over

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us. Friends,

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we are here to talk about some of the biggest headlines

1:19

in video games this week. That slim

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PS5 has finally been announced

1:23

and revealed. PS5 games

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are coming to cloud streaming

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if you're a premium member and

1:31

Kamiya's driving his Lamborghini to

1:34

the unemployment office. But

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before we get started we must answer

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for the mistakes we made in last week's episode

1:42

Ayla begin corrections music please.

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In the Witcher

1:47

books Geralt does

1:49

have two swords, a silver sword

1:51

and a steel sword. The difference is

1:54

that he has both swords on

1:56

his back in the games

1:58

and in the books he keeps the Silver Sword wrapped

2:01

up in storage on Roach.

2:03

Only pulls it out when he needs it. Okay,

2:06

that's a great, great correction. Thank

2:08

you very much. Kid Icarus Uprising

2:10

did support the Circle Pad Pro, but it didn't

2:12

use it for dual analog aiming. There

2:14

we go. And that it was used to support

2:17

left-handed play. There we go. Yeah.

2:19

Yeah, that was. I knew it supported, but I didn't, like I was

2:21

like, there's still something wrong with it. I can't remember. Right,

2:24

right. Or not wrong, but not, that's. And

2:26

basically Sakurai didn't have early enough

2:28

access to the hardware to design for that.

2:30

Oh, so he didn't want a record? Okay, so it wasn't just

2:33

him being a little stubborn. Right. I

2:35

always thought it was him being a little stubborn. Well, there's a little bit,

2:37

there actually is a little bit of that stubbornness because he

2:39

said, well, even if we had gotten it, it

2:42

still wouldn't have been as precise. Well done. Because

2:45

you've seen the stylus. All right. So, they probably

2:47

wouldn't have anyway. And

2:50

F-Zero Climax, which came out in Japan

2:53

for the Game Boy Advance, also has a track editor

2:56

and the ability to share courses via

2:58

a link cable or through exchanging passwords.

3:00

Mm, nice. Show us some link cable.

3:03

Yeah. Good time. Old school. Yeah, and that

3:05

was a fun one because somebody reminded me of that in corrections

3:07

and then I looked up my old review to verify

3:09

the information. That's so funny. Old review.

3:13

Yeah. Check

3:15

my own notes. Four and zero. Yeah.

3:18

Yeah. If you

3:20

have a correction, leave it in the YouTube comments

3:22

on either the public version or the patron version of

3:24

this episode. Start with some word correction

3:27

and leave a timestamp so I know what the heck we

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were talking about. End corrections

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music.

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Boop.

3:33

All right. We got those

3:36

new PS5 models announced. We got a little

3:38

trailer. We got some screenshots here to put up

3:40

here. Yeah, this was

3:42

rumored for a long time. Yes, it sure

3:45

was. A very long time. Like a year, I

3:47

feel like. Right. Then they got leaked

3:49

a video of it. That shell. Yeah,

3:51

the shell of it. Yeah, the clearly empty shell. Yeah.

3:54

It is. You can go back and compare.

3:56

Yeah, it looks pretty similar to me. Pretty

3:59

spot on. Yeah, it's finally announced

4:02

and I thought they're gonna do it earlier But just

4:04

kind of came out randomly out of nowhere.

4:07

I guess right rockstar style. It's like rockstar

4:09

style Well, not entirely out

4:11

of our old man Oh, we're like it's out before like

4:13

the spider-man launch and all that like

4:16

they had the state of play not too

4:18

long ago You know, I thought that would have been a good avenue.

4:20

Yeah, exactly surprised, but

4:22

I'm whatever Yeah, there

4:24

it is. So yeah, we've got the shot up now So

4:27

it's a got a smaller form factor

4:29

with an attachable disk drive Yep,

4:32

they are still selling a disk version and

4:34

a digital version which we'll get to in a second If

4:38

you so yeah If you buy that digital edition

4:40

and you want to just drive later you can buy that

4:43

and slap it on the side Do you have

4:45

to have the line in the middle? Yeah,

4:47

there's now four different panels

4:49

instead of the two on the sides The

4:51

top panels are glossy like the ps4.

4:54

Remember how the original ps4 had glossy on fingerprint

4:57

nightmare. Yeah With

4:59

a diaper every week. There you go. Serious.

5:01

There you go. It's back. It's back. Oh I

5:05

think the other thing that's cool about this is that

5:09

That if your drive breaks, yeah

5:12

You could replace it rather than like

5:14

buying a whole new ps5 smart. Yeah

5:17

They say it's reduced in volume by 30% reduced

5:21

in weight by 18% in 24% respectively

5:26

IGN the pick 5 has

5:28

a Comparison that IGN put together

5:30

here so you can kind of see what they would

5:32

look like side by side It's still probably slightly

5:35

different If you

5:37

you do this in person, but it's it's pretty good Like

5:39

the disk size is the main thing

5:41

to look out for and right it's it's just about

5:43

there. I think And then

5:47

It's got a 1 terabyte hard

5:49

drive now. Remember before was like 825 gigabytes,

5:53

which is that funny little thing that they had it that way As

5:56

we mentioned the others the four separate panel covers

5:59

now the prices So the disc version, $500, the digital

6:01

version is $450 up from $400 before. The

6:10

disc drive itself costs $80. So

6:14

if you get that separately, then now

6:16

it's like you've got a $530 instead of the $500 if

6:19

you bought it outright. But

6:22

you can add it later to the digital version.

6:24

Right, but that's that $80 upgrade. Yeah,

6:26

it's crazy. So now it costs $530. Plus,

6:30

it comes with a horizontal stand, but it does

6:32

not come with a vertical stand. So the vertical stand

6:35

is now sold separately for

6:38

an extra $30. Classic.

6:40

2023 Seymour get less. Classic.

6:44

They're like Apple now. That

6:46

stand apparently works with all the versions, all

6:48

the previous versions of the PS5 as well, though. So

6:51

if you like this better than the current stand, you could

6:53

do that. I mean, it's just a flat thing

6:55

with a hole in it. Yeah. You

6:57

probably don't need the stand. I have never used

6:59

the stand on my PS5. It's been fine

7:02

without it. But basically,

7:04

if you bought everything piecemeal,

7:06

got the digital and then later disc drive and then later the

7:09

stand, it's like $560. Yeah,

7:12

it's weird blood because it's, yes, we're money,

7:14

but it is nice to have the option, I suppose. Like

7:18

when you're talking about replacing the drive

7:21

to me, that's really great. That's awesome.

7:24

I wonder if more companies will start doing this just going forward,

7:26

this kind of model. It seems like that'll

7:28

be- Oh, that might have the disc drive. We

7:30

don't want to get rid of the disc drive, but- Have

7:33

an option at least for the next

7:35

console generation. Yeah. It

7:37

is interesting. Because there are definitely people that are very

7:39

hardcore about that. Oh, yeah. All the time

7:42

on reviews and stuff. And it's like, cool,

7:44

I'll buy it when there's a physical version. Yeah. Oh,

7:46

yeah. No matter how good the game is, they will just

7:49

not buy it. Like Alan Wake 2 is one of those. Oh,

7:51

no physical version, no buy. Yeah. Absolutely.

7:54

People will still like that. Adapt

7:56

or die, I say. No version, no

7:58

buy. They

8:01

will be doing the different colored

8:04

face plates like they have with the current PS5

8:08

Which is interesting since now it's like four different parts

8:11

instead of two But

8:13

they're let's see where they starting at

8:16

the starting the same price or right do they start at $55? And

8:22

then they go up so like spider-man is $65 oh, that's

8:24

that right Starting

8:27

Adam driver yeah, but they haven't said anything

8:30

about more than just like the basic

8:32

color set right now yeah and

8:35

then Yeah,

8:39

oh and this is gonna completely replace Yeah,

8:41

oh PS5 the current model yeah old models

8:43

once they go out of stock terms. They're just gonna be yep They're

8:45

out collect those additions so yeah,

8:48

if you won't better get on it jeez Yeah,

8:51

what do you what are you sorry did they say when this models

8:53

coming out exactly not exactly

8:55

okay? It's gonna be like rolling out this

8:58

pole. Yeah, yeah, okay Friday. Maybe

9:00

yeah, I think the kickstand on is

9:02

very funny Yeah, it looks like

9:04

it's a bike kickstand. Yeah, the

9:06

horizontal standing I'm a really good job done,

9:08

but it is whether that's like on the console itself,

9:11

or if you just like clip it in there Oh, yeah, I don't really

9:13

know it looks like it's clipped in somehow um

9:16

I am someone who

9:19

Especially with PlayStation hmm almost

9:22

always

9:23

Traded in to get the new model

9:25

but

9:26

That was mainly because especially with

9:28

ps4 because my ps4

9:31

and many of yours war Was

9:34

a jet engine. Oh, it was so

9:36

loud loud. Yeah, yes, so

9:38

I traded in my ps4 to get like a newer

9:40

model With this now

9:43

my ps5 is pretty quiet still it's pretty good.

9:45

Everything's fine Yeah, so for this right now

9:47

because I already have a ps5. I don't need this

9:49

and Talking about a little bit about

9:52

a little bit about it the pro is

9:54

rumored to also be coming down the line at next year

9:57

Yeah, you think there will be a pro yeah Yeah,

10:00

at this point if you already have a ps5

10:03

this feels right necessary Yeah,

10:06

bro totally different story because it's like, you

10:08

know, yeah, exactly for us. I don't think there's

10:10

a reason I think this is cool for new people who want to

10:12

get out of it only It's just and

10:15

it's probably cheaper for Sony to make so I'm sure they're

10:17

doing it. That's why they're doing it also and Yeah,

10:20

I mean it's cool. That's smaller

10:23

I guess but it's not like exciting for us,

10:25

but it's not a bad thing necessarily Yeah,

10:28

I think for me like it's

10:30

definitely It's funny

10:33

because I never like got the ps4 Pro But

10:36

the size of the ps5 isn't like one of the things

10:38

it just like mass each me from ever taking it anywhere

10:40

Yeah, it's an asshole max. Yeah Move

10:43

around for us So I would be

10:45

curious to see is like, okay Like would

10:48

this feel more manageable in my backpack or not

10:50

because the stupid fins are still there But

10:52

dude, I was pretty big at least anyone

10:54

though I don't like it's

10:56

a trade-off kind of cuz it's like yeah, it's bigger But this

10:59

one like I got to wear gloves if I'm gonna move

11:01

this thing man I can't hand

11:03

like I love the glossy look

11:05

I love that but it gets so dirty

11:08

It gets so filthy and

11:10

my brain can't handle it, but it's white

11:12

you be so maybe it won't show as bad True

11:14

like you were probably wanting it human breeze. Yeah

11:17

Yeah, you like the black shells for sure man

11:19

now they're gonna nickel and dime you on four

11:22

different Although maybe you can

11:24

mix and match. Oh, that's true That

11:28

is cool,

11:29

yeah That's

11:33

a fair point to make Huber maybe they will have

11:36

like black like matte

11:38

top shells on some of the oh, yeah They

11:40

might murder down for that Or

11:43

third parties might yeah make them

11:46

I love Like

11:48

trading up for a new system now just getting a little

11:50

refresh like especially back then

11:53

too But there were like different like skew

11:55

numbers or whatever where it's just like hey, this is

11:57

like

11:58

five percent

11:59

quicker, you know, like a little bit. I

12:03

will say that like with the PS3

12:05

days in particular, like those

12:08

just felt like they got worse every

12:11

time. Oh yeah. Oh my God.

12:13

The one with the little slidey. Terrible.

12:18

And so I'm very curious, you know,

12:21

when people like really start doing the breakdowns

12:23

of these, it's like, is there going to be anything that looks

12:25

like an improvement? Is there anything that's going to look

12:27

like, Oh, this is actually cheating out.

12:30

Are they going to be louder? Like you're saying,

12:32

you know, the noise, the noise, the number one,

12:34

because like what, the, like the PS5 has got like

12:36

the liquid metal or whatever in there to like

12:39

transfer heat. And it's like, okay, if they want

12:41

to save money on that, maybe

12:43

they, you know, go with just like a louder

12:45

fan instead. Liquid

12:48

polymer. And

12:54

then yeah, the magic poly. Like we

12:56

said, this is kind of like the stealth price increase.

12:59

Yes. For the US for like being drinks that everywhere

13:01

else before, but they didn't want to do

13:03

it here. And now this is kind of the way to like slide it in

13:05

there. Thanks Jim.

13:07

One

13:09

assumes that this is cheaper for them to

13:11

produce too. Yes, you

13:13

would think so. Yeah. That's yeah, I'm sure

13:15

it's a hundred percent cheaper. So they're, they're, they're

13:17

having their cake and they're charging us for it

13:19

too. Oh yeah.

13:21

Yeah. I know my benefit is like, you

13:23

can add a hard drive now to the digital

13:26

only version. So like, that's very sweet.

13:28

That functionality, I think the only

13:31

thing they could probably try and argue like that justifies

13:33

some kind of cost bump. Cause it's like, we

13:35

are making it modular. So now

13:38

that design costs a little bit more, but

13:41

I wonder if they made it any simpler to change

13:43

the, or to add the SSD. Do

13:45

you know how like now? Yeah. Yeah. That thing, I don't

13:48

know. I don't know. It'd

13:50

be nice if they did. Uh, I'd like

13:53

that because it's still, it's not

13:55

the hardest thing, but it's not as simple. Yeah.

13:57

It's like, you just like, exactly. It's

14:00

kind of nice with that yeah, and yeah

14:02

my biggest concern I'm not going to treat

14:04

like get this one But yeah

14:06

if it can run cooler or as

14:09

cool because my ps5 even with all that

14:11

stuff it does get pretty hot Oh, yeah, it is

14:13

pretty warm. Yeah, I haven't noticed from mine

14:15

Definitely my room gets warmer like when

14:18

that thing is running hmm games

14:20

for a while for sure my room gets warm

14:22

all the time one

14:25

thing Turn

14:27

off like it gets a little cooler, but yeah,

14:29

yeah Yeah, I guess it's

14:32

just funny because the age it seems like of consoles

14:34

having a price droppers kind of like over I know

14:37

just everything just kind of stay in the completely

14:39

over if it's just like well We

14:42

haven't here like it's inflation right now. Yeah,

14:44

it's raised I don't know which

14:46

hasn't dropped at all has it no

14:48

entire life cycle. Yeah, I think those days are done It's

14:51

done. It feels like it right now until

14:53

a new one comes out like a new like switch

14:55

to Like yes

14:57

five it seems like limited sales like they

15:00

had right sale recently But it feels

15:02

like yeah permanent price drops for consoles is like

15:04

not happening anytime soon This

15:07

guy like Apple like yeah, I

15:09

have worked for a while before all this Like

15:12

don't like there's a previous generation not see a price

15:14

dip until the new model of

15:16

iPhones Oh, I don't know well I'd

15:18

be curious about that because that having in

15:20

a model that are exist. It's one too

15:23

like yeah game industry saw like Oh,

15:25

there is someone already doing this that you don't cut

15:27

your price Anywhere during that generation

15:30

until you announced the new successor

15:32

right and once that launches then you

15:34

reduce I don't really know if they're gonna cut the price of the current

15:37

one well I think they were doing that current

15:39

of what the current PS 5 though the current

15:41

model. Oh, no I'm

15:44

talking about like when you mentioned switch

15:46

like switch will not see a price cut probably

15:48

till switch to the date Yeah, and

15:50

they OG switches. Oh, I see.

15:52

Yeah, like when PS yeah I don't or something like

15:55

exactly like they will not reduce the

15:57

price of any of the PlayStation models until

15:59

the successor comes out and then you'll see

16:02

discounts on the thing and it's like positions

16:05

selling extremely like a better land ever

16:08

so yeah I think that's the thing yeah price drops

16:10

are driven by demand and

16:12

so that's the thing is they want to you know just like

16:14

the stock prices and all that other kind of thing is like yeah

16:16

they drop down the price

16:19

when they're like okay well you know inventory

16:21

sitting around yeah and this generation

16:24

so far like we've just been stuck in this space

16:27

where like you know the the

16:29

manufacturing hadn't been able to keep up with

16:32

the demand and so you'd have to

16:34

get to that point when like okay consoles

16:36

are sitting around too much now we need to drop the price to

16:38

like keep that momentum going

16:40

keep the sales up and like switches

16:43

just never been in that situation right like

16:45

maybe now it's like you can get a switch

16:47

without much trouble right yeah this will definitely

16:49

still been sold out all the years yeah for sure

16:52

I think I'll be curious to see when

16:55

the rumored pro comes out I make it says

16:57

they probably won't touch pricing like you'll

16:59

just be tired yeah I think he'll

17:02

be more well here yeah like

17:04

X-Box does this kind of thing whether they

17:07

go cheaper at all yeah because they have

17:09

more room we started a job

17:11

I forget no the leak where their price points

17:13

not leak or no I actually forget it I don't remember

17:16

so it'll be interesting to see what their

17:18

rumored refresh when it happens

17:20

next year is next year

17:23

if there'll be any price changes or they're gonna

17:25

do this kind of the same thing yeah I don't know they

17:27

haven't dropped prices either they said

17:30

the rumor was or sorry in the leak the s model

17:32

was getting a hard drive increase as well

17:34

so that might be a price

17:37

bump as well because hard

17:39

drive or you know it's cheaper

17:41

to make but because of the hard drive increase

17:44

they keep at the same price that too yeah

17:47

so

17:48

yeah I think when the pro comes out I'll be like 600 it's gonna

17:52

be expensive or 550

17:53

it'll be more than 500

17:56

yeah because I think they like

17:59

like the PlayStation VR are too. Yeah, like

18:01

they know that like this is only for like

18:03

especially after there's no pro they know

18:05

it's only for a certain group of people. Yes, what

18:08

if the pro is 550 but

18:11

then all the other ones go down 50.

18:14

I mean it's possible. That

18:16

might be the best case. I feel like that's like

18:18

the wish I highly doubt it right

18:20

now. Yeah, but it seems I

18:23

mean it could happen. So you're saying it'll be $3.99 US

18:26

dollars. Yeah, probably. Mm-hmm, but not

18:29

in 2006 or 5 or whatever

18:31

it was. More

18:35

PlayStation news, cloud

18:37

streaming finally being

18:40

yes for PS5 games, but it's 4k.

18:45

Yeah streaming which Microsoft

18:47

doesn't do as far as I'm aware when they're

18:49

streaming. It's like higher than theirs. Whoa

18:52

Yeah, they like beat them to the punch with that showdown.

18:54

But until now it's been ps3 games and

18:57

some other back Yeah, right. Yes. Do

18:59

they even have ps4 games on the streaming? I'm

19:02

not sure. I don't remember. I'm not quite sure. Yeah,

19:04

maybe But yeah,

19:06

so there will be a select group of games for

19:09

PlayStation Plus premium members only

19:12

This say this will include hundreds of full games

19:14

as well as some game trials. Mm-hmm

19:17

specific ones they listed were Spider-man

19:20

miles Morales horizon forbidden west go

19:23

sashima mortal combat 11 Saints

19:25

Row 4 Resident Evil 4 dead island 2 Genshin

19:28

impact fall guys in fortnight. Mm-hmm Covering

19:31

so many bases there a free trial

19:34

for a free game. That's why hmm For

19:37

now, those aren't the trials. Those are the games that you can

19:39

stream. Oh, yeah. Yeah Because

19:42

they're talking about some games obviously

19:45

are in the PlayStation Plus premium

19:47

collection But other games that you

19:49

own if you're a premium member, you can also

19:52

stream them now now The one thing that is very

19:54

different right now is at launch. You will

19:56

only be able to stream these two APS five stream

20:00

these to your PC or

20:02

your phone or the Samsung

20:05

TV just for now. For

20:07

now, yeah. I'm sure Samsung

20:09

is getting on the phone and like, hey, hey. Oh

20:11

yeah, I'm sure. Because they've got Xbox and

20:14

Atomic and all these other guys. You mentioned Genshin

20:17

Impact. Is that not a free

20:19

game on PlayStation 5? Because

20:21

I know it just... No, it is. Everything

20:23

is streaming now. The streaming costs actually. Not just downloads.

20:26

Yeah, okay. Yeah, sorry. I

20:28

actually answered Hubert, but I actually didn't know if it cost

20:31

money. No, no, Genshin... I mean, you could buy

20:33

like, max or whatever. They just wanted to be able to save

20:35

Fortnite and Genshin Impact by press release.

20:37

Straight on. Oh, you bet they did. Yeah.

20:40

As Brad mentioned, 4K 60 frames per second

20:43

is supported as well as all PS5

20:46

audio formats. So there's 10-bit

20:48

audio and stuff there. Is

20:50

it going to launch in like, waves across

20:52

different regions? So Japan's getting it first,

20:54

October 17th. Europe

20:57

is getting it October 23rd and the US is

20:59

getting it October 30th. Okay. So

21:01

pretty close to each other at least. Yeah.

21:05

And that PS Plus Premium reminder, $160 per

21:07

year. Oh

21:09

my god. So much money. So you... Yeah,

21:12

yeah. I'm not

21:14

interested in this, but I guess if you have Premium

21:16

and you're down, so cool. I guess some

21:19

more value to it. Yeah, it's just so weird because

21:21

I feel like the people that are spending

21:23

that much to have Premium have

21:25

a lot of these games. It's just so

21:27

weird. It's like this hardcore

21:30

tier for the hardcore gamer

21:32

that usually fucking has so much

21:35

of this already. It's just so weird to

21:37

me. But here, we've been talking

21:39

about this the past couple of weeks. The

21:42

hard drive space that you need

21:44

to keep going with modern warfare

21:46

and Gran Turismo and like all of these games.

21:48

That's a solid point. Taking up big chunks of hard drive.

21:52

The streaming works well enough. Maybe

21:54

there's some of those games where you're like, hey, you know what? I don't want

21:56

this on my hard drive. I'll just stream it.

21:58

Sure. It's good for new people

22:01

who are coming in to the ecosystem because

22:03

like a lot of people are fine with just streaming stuff

22:05

They don't care. Well, it's particularly with the trials,

22:08

you know Yeah You want to wait like 30 minutes

22:10

to like play a demo of something, you know, then

22:12

then decide whether or not you actually want it Yeah

22:16

so streaming 4k that

22:18

seems Hey, let's see. Yeah, that

22:20

seems intense. Yeah Like

22:24

I've already I've tried streaming Batman Arkham origin

22:26

so many times right now is like Nothing

22:29

crazy. So it'll be interesting to see

22:32

how these yeah, do you know

22:34

what stadia stream debt? I want

22:36

to say stadia did 4k. Okay. Yeah,

22:39

hopefully it'll be as good as that or something I'm not

22:41

saying a little bit. It'll be nice. You thought it was pretty

22:43

good, right? Stadium. Yeah. Yeah,

22:46

it was definitely good. But it's like It's

22:48

all depending on your internet. Yeah, exactly. No, and

22:51

so like once like like

22:54

2020 hit and Internet

22:56

became a total mess. Yeah, then

22:58

the stadia just became kind of unusable

23:00

It was like flashing up warnings the whole time and then

23:02

disconnecting or like macro blocking and all

23:05

kind. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, you know and I like

23:07

we got when I tried to test out Luna and when it was first

23:09

coming around It was like yeah, this is just not

23:11

working at all right now. Yeah, so

23:13

it's useless to me Not for us, but

23:16

if you're in the cloud streaming, maybe it'll be

23:18

cool for you Yeah, I mean again,

23:20

like I think the stuff like the

23:22

Samsung TVs Yeah is the biggest

23:24

play, you know They

23:27

get that stuff going there and then

23:29

you get you know Place all

23:31

you need to play your games is a PlayStation controller or

23:33

an Xbox controller. Mm-hmm Yeah, and you're

23:35

good to go especially yeah, it's interesting because

23:38

they're not doing like day one stuff We know that

23:40

we know of like streaming games and I wonder

23:42

when they'll get to that point But down

23:44

a honey. Do you think do you think Sony would do

23:47

anything with a Samsung TV because Sony

23:49

still makes these right? Yeah, they do

23:52

Right, so I probably

23:54

why would be I don't understand why you invest in this technology

23:57

if you didn't even think about you

23:59

know Expanding to wherever you

24:01

can with like right with it So maybe

24:04

not right away because you said they're being

24:06

a little bit in order you know, it's a little restrictive

24:08

because you need the this PlayStation hardware right

24:10

now, but I Would

24:13

see they'd probably go with the most popular brands

24:15

and go from there Yeah, I don't

24:17

yeah I don't see why they wouldn't do

24:19

it if they wanted to be successful Mm-hmm

24:22

because so we know with all these streaming things

24:24

like need more people to buy

24:26

into it Can't be very restrictive

24:28

because you know, there's not infinite growth

24:30

for these things. So right? Yeah

24:36

Yeah, it'll be interesting But that's

24:38

just a couple weeks away. So if

24:41

you happen to be PlayStation

24:43

Plus premium member and you get into that let us know

24:46

How it's working now for you. I'll check it out. Yeah,

24:49

I'm oh, yeah, cuz you're still on premium for now You know

24:51

December my thing expires nice

24:53

done Oh Hard

24:56

out. Yeah, very very very

24:58

curious Maybe test that on like

25:00

Wi-Fi versus wired. Yeah, you have that

25:02

breaks down. Mm-hmm. Yeah Next

25:06

up we got a fun one. It's like

25:09

unexpectedly fun one. So We

25:11

recently talked about Hideki Kamiya

25:15

Leaving platinum games and

25:17

he put out a video

25:19

He started a YouTube channel kind

25:21

of seems like a similar play to Sakurai,

25:24

right But this thing I started

25:27

watching this and it's just so Jolly

25:30

like the dude is actually just he

25:33

feels like yeah He just has all this

25:35

weight off his shoulders now. I can't play it right now. My

25:37

hair is stuck in my head. Oh, no Yeah,

25:40

they help Do

25:43

you want to see it? Yeah, we'll

25:45

put it up there when you're in the safe space

25:50

But this thing is great like so he

25:53

starts off this video And

25:55

I'll probably like go through it faster than video itself because

25:57

the video is like good. Yeah 20 minutes long or something

26:00

I forget how long it is, but um, but

26:02

yeah, it starts off this video Walking

26:04

out of the building holding his box of choice

26:08

And he's in like a clover t-shirt

26:10

with a hamster headband Hamsters

26:13

they do like the arcade archives and I'm partnered with

26:15

them for soul crest and stuff And

26:18

you know those box right crackers a verdict.

26:21

He's walking out with his box and then you

26:23

sit down across

26:26

the way in a park and He's

26:29

like the whole time. He's like yeah, I'm done with

26:31

PG. I'm over it. I'm so over

26:33

it And he

26:36

was vice president and chief

26:38

game designer. Yeah over there And

26:41

they had they do have subtitles too if you

26:43

want to turn those on Isla But

26:46

and then he's like I'm out of a job. Please subscribe and

26:51

He recaps his whole career he starts

26:53

to like what the Capcom stuff for the original Resident

26:56

Evil games That's right going over to clover

26:58

doing beautiful Joe and Oh commie and

27:00

then of course bayonetta the wonderful one-on-one And then he doesn't

27:02

even bother to like list everything But yeah, there's like

27:05

a whole bunch of other games, and then like they put him in the

27:07

subtitles and

27:10

He said he feels very refreshed after

27:12

leaving the company says he made this decision

27:14

about three months ago But he had to get through

27:17

all of his his paid vacation time And

27:19

so that's why this announcement is just kind of coming out right

27:21

now, and he says it just been sit around watching

27:24

TV. Yeah and

27:28

And he was talking about like how working in games

27:30

like you get into all these Unhealthy habits

27:32

with food and stuff and like ordering takeout

27:35

and so he's like yeah, I cooked back in college But

27:37

now I'm like gonna start cooking and it's like I wanted to some

27:40

homemade curry But to get homemade curry you got up to

27:42

make it yourself And so he went to the

27:44

store He's like looking at his phone for like recipes

27:47

and like buying ingredients is like hey Yeah, I don't think

27:49

this is enough potatoes and onions So I'm gonna buy more

27:51

and he like overstuffed the pot and made this huge

27:54

mess Yeah,

27:56

but he says it came out well, so that's great

28:00

but uh Yeah,

28:02

he said uh, oh Yeah,

28:04

so it's funny because like they kind of like

28:07

pitched the video is like him saying why he left

28:09

platinum games But he kind of still doesn't really

28:12

say he's just cuz this big thing is like I

28:14

wanted to follow my beliefs As a

28:16

game creator. Yeah, and

28:18

so the creator dude, but they probably just didn't

28:20

want him to do some things He wanted to do. Yeah,

28:23

you know He probably had the wild idea or

28:25

more than one wild idea for a game. He wanted to

28:27

make and they're like, no Right.

28:30

I mean, that's just the only thing I could think

28:32

of when you make a statement like that Yeah,

28:34

he's talking about he had to go to meetings and stuff. He

28:37

didn't want to yeah, he's born Yeah,

28:39

he was he was like, yeah, he didn't

28:41

want to work or he didn't want to go to meetings with

28:44

boring meetings with important people Yeah

28:49

And then yeah, he addressed a bunch of

28:52

the rumors that were out there He

28:54

like pointed to the hamster headband and joked about

28:56

hey, I look forward to working with hamster I'll do anything

28:59

even debugging Also

29:02

rumors that like he was like people

29:04

are saying that he's not really leaving kind of thing

29:08

But he did say that yeah, like

29:11

he doesn't like specifically say non-compete clause,

29:13

but he says that he can't work You

29:15

know for a year for a year for any gaming

29:17

stuff because reasons Tommy

29:21

right now get them back together.

29:23

Yeah, she says it'll take time, but

29:25

I'll make it happen and

29:28

Then yeah, as long as there's a

29:30

place that will hire me I'm gonna wait for the offer

29:35

So it's interesting no wonder how many people are

29:37

lining up and and Phil

29:39

you think folks call them Phil

29:41

could call them About

29:44

moves starting a studio in Japan. Yeah,

29:46

definitely not You know and that he

29:48

uses in doing I'm sure there's over

29:50

there. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely I

29:53

don't know if he would want to go back to

29:55

Capcom or if you would want to start his own

29:57

thing again, or what? the

30:00

funny thing with the he made fun

30:02

of just having his YouTube channel as well so he

30:05

said it's been making games for 30 years so with that in mind

30:07

I promise to give you things completely

30:10

useless to making games that's

30:12

what I want to do it will be to help

30:14

anyone wanting to be in the gaming industry

30:20

I want to make I'll post things that are completely

30:22

education free so please stay tuned

30:25

nice he

30:27

also jokes about he's been unemployed

30:30

so he'll do a bunch of paid sponsorships but

30:32

please keep in mind I'm extremely shy and not

30:34

good at making friends so I don't know if

30:37

I can do sponsored things without having to talk to anybody

30:39

else yeah it's

30:42

so funny anybody

30:46

maybe has no idea what he wants to do with the channel so

30:48

if you have ideas leave it comments

30:52

yeah he's max winging in it yeah

30:55

I respect it yeah and then the

30:57

very end of I don't know oh my god

30:59

yeah you like drives out

31:01

of a parking garage in a land where you need

31:04

and he's like yeah I'm off to a good job employment

31:08

yeah this classic

31:11

1980s Lamborghini driving around I was

31:14

a kundosh this is 1980s kundosh

31:17

is it like one of those things

31:19

like yeah every video game every poster

31:22

you know Hot Wheels like I had this

31:24

car in multiple so insane versions

31:26

growing up it's a dream car as

31:28

a kid damn he's got it got it

31:31

in a maniac yeah

31:36

but yeah I just love just how

31:38

happy yeah he looks really happy now definitely

31:41

definitely yeah he has made

31:43

my favorite game ever made resume to you know

31:46

I'm always gonna be

31:48

looking at games that he makes

31:50

forever like he has made

31:53

some of the greatest of all

31:55

time Oh commie don't only cry

31:57

bayonetta or is able to like You

32:00

have a resume like that and for

32:02

me Like

32:05

I'm gonna pay attention to whatever

32:07

you're doing wherever you go. I will follow

32:09

you Yeah,

32:12

I don't think yeah, I don't think he's gonna have trouble

32:14

getting quite by by

32:16

somebody by some Daliana Yeah, that's if

32:18

you remembered because I'm like vague But

32:20

I think this happened didn't wasn't there somebody

32:23

from from platinum leadership that went over to

32:25

Nintendo Like a while back like

32:27

yeah People making

32:29

a bigger deal out of it than it was I remember

32:31

I think it was soon as within the

32:34

last year for sure I

32:36

don't yeah, I don't remember what he died I don't know but

32:39

with this like like my I'm wondering of what

32:41

the Kamiya is Whether I mean

32:44

it seems like he's open to like entertaining anything

32:46

and he's like he's half joking

32:49

or full joking about The money,

32:51

you know, could sit like a hundred million yen at one

32:53

point. I believe in the video It's like sure.

32:55

Yeah, maybe it's a lot of money but

32:58

I Wonder if

33:00

he wants to go back to a bigger

33:03

company after you know his previous

33:05

You know ten years and would he rather

33:08

do something? It's a little bit more independent or

33:10

does he like the resources at a bigger

33:13

company? I guess we don't really have that

33:15

insight at the moment like what he's really

33:17

looking for and it's like maybe he doesn't know

33:19

the answer So yeah, it's

33:21

a question like the studio too

33:24

big or is it that he had too much responsibility Yeah,

33:27

yeah Yeah, was it like his position

33:29

within the company that they're like, you know The old

33:32

like the the most famous ones like in Star Trek Captain

33:34

Kirk Like he wanted to always be a captain anytime

33:36

they made him admiral He hated it He did stuff to

33:38

get demoted to go back and maybe they're like they've

33:41

been like the company was like you can't go back

33:43

on it You're you are have too many responsibilities.

33:46

You must work on this You can't go back to just being

33:48

a director, but he was doing I mean

33:50

he was able to direct games there I guess maybe

33:53

they made them who knows maybe they told no more

33:55

directing I don't I don't know right and

33:57

so where where would be a good fit for

33:59

him? they would allow him to do that. Obviously,

34:01

you know, there's a lot of big companies, but

34:04

if it's something else, you know, maybe it's something

34:06

like where he just wants more creative freedom. That's

34:09

something, you know, that could be

34:13

having him lean towards doing something more independent

34:15

or teaming up with somebody. Yeah. Yeah.

34:18

You know, even some, yeah, Nakamura's

34:20

good. Grasshopper, you know, they're

34:22

under NetEase now, but they're still pretty small.

34:25

Like, yeah. He could also just be like freelance for

34:27

a little while after his one year

34:29

thing expires. He could just work on a bunch of different

34:31

projects with these different teams and

34:34

maybe just kind of do that for a little while. It's

34:36

not, but I wouldn't jump to the conclusion

34:39

at like, oh, Capcom burned them. And then

34:41

he went and helped start Platinum. And like,

34:43

then they just burned him too. So it's like, he'll

34:46

never go back to a big company. I mean, I would

34:48

point to like something like, from my best understanding,

34:50

Molosoft, like they got burned by Square, Square

34:52

soft. And then they went to Bandai and

34:54

then things didn't go well then. They got, finally got

34:56

acquired by Nintendo and like things have been

34:58

going very well for the man in town. So there might, it

35:01

might just be the fit. Like you have these game ideas

35:03

you want to make and like, they're just not being fully

35:05

realized at certain companies because

35:07

maybe they don't believe in your project or not giving you the

35:09

right resources. Maybe it is just a matter of like,

35:12

which company is the right fit for him

35:14

right now? So I wouldn't like rule

35:17

out that he could go to another big company either. Maybe

35:20

staying within like another Japanese company or if

35:22

like a Western company tries to court him. So

35:25

yeah, I like honestly, like

35:27

too long to read. It's like no idea because

35:29

I think he really doesn't have the idea.

35:32

And he's loving it. He's loving that like he

35:34

can't work for the next year. So he's just going

35:36

to screw around and have fun on YouTube.

35:39

It's going to be really funny to see what his next video is.

35:41

Maybe he'll just go on road trips in his Lamborghini

35:44

and it's like film added stuff. People

35:46

like tours of stuff. Yeah.

35:49

I imagine if, yeah, if you don't have the income, you probably

35:51

just parked that thing for a while. Yeah.

35:54

I assumed he rented it for the video, but

35:57

maybe, maybe. thing.

36:00

It's for sure him. He was like so

36:02

high up. We've been told, I mean it's more recently

36:07

it's been a little bit more profound but like this the

36:09

wage gap between like what you what

36:12

average you know the average salary in Japan and in

36:14

Tokyo versus like what game developers

36:16

make you know elsewhere in the world it's really like the

36:19

US it seems like salaries are a little bit like higher here

36:21

so I mean what we think is a million yen

36:23

is $600,000 US dollars like six

36:27

hundred sixty seven thousand a million to

36:29

a hundred million is hundred thousand but

36:31

a hundred million is like seven hundred thousand dollars yeah

36:34

yeah and sixty seven thousand yeah he was

36:37

joking about that though I don't think that was right

36:39

but I mean I'm saying if he's joking about getting

36:41

paid six hundred

36:42

thousand a year he's

36:44

probably not making anywhere near that yeah

36:46

like for CEOs and stuff

36:48

that's not actually that crazy

36:51

yeah I think the

36:53

people we think are like the biggest names over

36:55

there might not get paid as well as you think

36:58

they write paid yeah yeah that's what I'm

37:00

trying to make a lot of articles about

37:02

over the past year or two is that like

37:04

a lot of companies in Japan increasing wages

37:07

to kind of try to catch up and you

37:09

know

37:10

fill that gap

37:11

yeah I

37:12

mean it also just be like yeah

37:14

they who knows maybe he's like just

37:16

like had burnout on a project and he like wants

37:19

to just it gives me the symbols like

37:21

he just needed to step away like maybe it's

37:23

it was nothing maybe was it even like the direction

37:25

of the company like again these are all like

37:27

this people coming with theories he even addressed that like people

37:29

need to stop like right coming up with like

37:31

I said I'm not retiring you all are saying I'm retiring

37:34

like it's not what I said oh yeah I'm not

37:36

really leaving this is says

37:39

right here I'm not retiring yeah so are you getting

37:41

this you can tell there's a little bit of like frustration there that

37:43

he's people like just jumped to their own

37:45

conclusions despite him trying to like

37:47

explain things so maybe that's like

37:49

something you just want some time away from that's

37:52

like I just don't want to be bombarded by all

37:54

this stuff I need you know a refresh

37:56

it'll come back and like you know be a little bit more re-energized

38:00

So yeah, well, he's definitely one of those people

38:02

that like yeah when you see what he says in text

38:04

versus what he says in person Like like

38:07

the personality comes across it. Yeah,

38:10

you know like the the famous blocking

38:12

everybody And

38:17

yeah, like you look at him here and

38:19

it's like when he's able to just like Be

38:22

chill with somebody that he knows. Yeah.

38:24

Yeah, I talked to him for a quick second. He's

38:26

really nice Yeah, so yeah, and

38:28

then he blocked you. No, he hasn't I

38:33

Hope he gets to maybe guest on some like

38:35

if he's allowed to guest on like gaming podcast

38:37

cuz We're just

38:40

talking about in a while

38:42

bring it back Harada's podcast.

38:45

I mean Sakurai does make YouTube videos Maybe

38:47

they can do a lab video where they

38:49

talk about maybe a project They both kind of were sort

38:51

of involved in hmm either together

38:53

or you know, let's get him Yeah,

38:56

yeah Yes, call

38:58

him up. Just give him. Yeah, I'm on frame chat to

39:00

just talk about anything anything.

39:03

Yeah resume before remake

39:08

But yeah,

39:10

so yeah, I think like in the end it's actually

39:13

it I don't know where Platinum's gonna go from here But

39:15

I think for at least Tim it's good. Yeah,

39:17

we didn't talk about that What if any

39:20

impact this is gonna have on like platinum

39:22

in terms like most media things like the image

39:24

and perception? yeah, one of your biggest names

39:27

leaving and What is

39:29

that? Like I don't know that like van

39:31

it is not guaranteed at this point Oh,

39:33

you know, we talked about like nine van it is or whatever

39:36

before but that would for yeah I'm talking or any

39:38

game that comes out that doesn't meet expectations

39:40

or people gonna be like immediately jump to the conclusion

39:42

Oh, come here wasn't in like did you

39:44

lose cuz he lost Camila? he didn't get

39:46

even like that that level of supervision

39:49

experience there or Even

39:51

if flat and says like no, he never had anything to do with this Well people

39:53

even believe that like I think they're gonna have to deal with

39:55

this kind of like These optics

39:57

for long forward for a while

39:59

Yeah. Cool.

40:02

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40:05

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42:09

you. Alright, I've

42:13

thrown this in here because it popped up

42:15

on my feed a couple of times this past week. And

42:18

yeah, I'm interested in this game. I'm curious if

42:20

you guys remember this at all. The

42:23

Altars, this was shown up

42:25

in like Summer Game Fest or whatever like a year

42:27

ago. And then they had some rounds

42:29

of previews, I guess. Oh right, this thing.

42:31

Gamescom, yeah. Gamescom. Yeah,

42:34

so it got a new trailer today. But

42:37

this is basically the one where this guy gets

42:39

stuck on a hostile planet. He's the only

42:41

survivor. Such a Jesse game, dude. Holy

42:43

shit. And then he

42:45

has access to this machine that allows

42:48

him to make clones of himself.

42:50

Oh. But here's the thing. There's like some lore

42:53

behind this that like is not fully connecting to

42:55

me. And it's probably some sort of mystery that it'll explain

42:57

through the story. But

42:59

they're like alternate versions. Like if you made

43:02

different choices in his life, you

43:04

have like a timeline that you can pick out different

43:06

things. So like if you need somebody

43:09

that's an engineer and can fix things, you

43:11

find the engineer path

43:14

in your life. If you need a scientist, you find the scientist

43:16

path. You need a botanist, you find the botanist path.

43:19

And so it's like you have all of these

43:21

different versions of yourself.

43:24

There it was, dude. Yeah, Lena, the

43:26

Jessica dude. Yeah, well they talk

43:28

about that. I think like the main,

43:30

like the initial Jan, his name's

43:33

Jan, J-A-N. He

43:36

like, you know, like I guess pushed

43:38

her to like not take a job and

43:41

then they got a divorce from one of

43:43

these other guys. That didn't happen. So.

43:51

So, but the thing

43:53

with this is you have this like, this huge

43:55

base, this mining base, that's

43:57

essentially like a big wheel going around.

43:59

around

44:00

and you're on this hostile planet where basically

44:03

if the Sun fully catches up with you you're

44:05

cooked. So you have to keep it moving.

44:09

The Riddick one, the planet. Oh

44:11

yeah, the planet, yeah,

44:13

the sun is keeping it going. And

44:18

so yeah, you need to

44:20

keep the thing running, keep it moving, keep getting

44:22

resources. And this

44:25

is from 11bit Studios who have put

44:28

out a lot of different things. They did This War

44:30

of Mine, Frostpunk, Children of Morta, Moonlighter,

44:33

Beacop, and they currently

44:38

have the Invincible and the Thaumaturge coming out this

44:40

fall. Thaumaturge, I don't like that thing

44:42

about it. But the Altars is next year. That's

44:44

what they got coming up next year.

44:45

That's the publisher or

44:46

the developer? A publisher. Okay,

44:49

I was like, damn, that's a lot of games. Yeah, so

44:51

it's a mix of stuff that they do internally and stuff

44:54

that they partner with like Children of Morta, I think is

44:56

one that like, they partnered with and then they brought

44:58

in like some of their own resources and

45:00

yeah, but

45:03

yeah, it's about base building and survival.

45:05

But it's it's driven

45:08

by these choices and they're talking

45:10

about so it's like, imagine if say

45:12

like something like Fallout Shelter, but

45:15

like all of these different people aren't just

45:18

like, you know, units, but

45:20

like actual people that you have to deal with

45:22

and relationships and they sort of like

45:24

I was one of the previews, there's a bunch

45:26

of previews this past week, the one I looked through

45:29

mostly was from Rock Paper Shotgun, and

45:31

they were comparing it to Life is Strange, where

45:34

like, yeah, so you're talking with people,

45:37

you're having to like read their

45:39

emotions and their mood. Yeah. And

45:42

then there's this funny thing that they're all you. Yeah,

45:44

it's cool. It's a really cool premise. It's

45:46

a really cool premise. Why are they on some

45:48

planet? What

45:51

is the goal? What are they doing? They're

45:53

doing operation, but like something happened, he was the only survivor.

45:55

Okay. And then the mining company

45:58

has this shady mood. machine

46:00

on there that allows

46:02

him to do this. So it's like, it's basically Moon.

46:05

I mean, it really is Moon. I also played

46:07

this mission in Starfield, by the way. There's

46:10

something like this in Starfield. OK. Well,

46:12

that goes back to the, there's

46:14

a vault in three or

46:17

four where it's

46:19

all the same dude.

46:21

Oh, yeah. It was like that, too. It was like

46:23

the experiment. They're all a bunch of clones of the

46:25

same guy. Gary, right?

46:27

Is that his name? Something like that. All Gary.

46:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Three. OK. Yeah.

46:31

I really like the premise. It's just

46:34

how well the relationships

46:37

are presented. I mean, that's. It

46:40

sounds like there's some pretty cool in-depth stuff.

46:42

Because they were talking about. Comparing the lines of strange.

46:45

I mean, that's. Yeah. So there's one guy

46:48

who was like, yeah, it

46:50

was a minor guy that you had brought

46:52

on.

46:53

And

46:54

again, I don't understand the lore of this. But I

46:56

guess in his life,

46:58

I don't know if you're actually

47:01

pulling these people out from another timeline. Or

47:03

if it's just like they have

47:05

memories as if these things happen and they didn't really

47:07

happen. I don't know. I bet that would be, because

47:09

that would be a dramatic reveal is that

47:12

you're actually ripping people out of their

47:14

timeline. But he was saying that they were saying

47:16

that the minor had lost

47:19

his arm in a mining accident. And

47:22

now you've got him in a new

47:24

body with a new arm. And so he's having

47:26

the inverse of a phantom pain.

47:29

Minor's not minor. This arm doesn't

47:31

feel like it's his arm. And it's screwing

47:34

with him. And so you have the option of

47:36

whether or not to give him these

47:38

painkillers. But he's has

47:41

a drug history. And

47:44

so do you give him to him or not? OK,

47:46

that's not what I thought. I thought it was going

47:48

to be like a. You're raising my hype level,

47:51

dude. I'm fucking into this. And they're saying, they didn't

47:53

say exactly what happened. They're saying that

47:55

it did not go well after. There

47:58

were consequences later on. For giving him the

48:00

people who've ever been the Charles

48:04

like pressing his powers and yeah They

48:07

also talked about like you know you build different modules

48:10

on the station and some of that can be like to

48:12

what Different people need like some people

48:14

like might want a gym to work out or you know

48:17

the guy that like is a cook It's not

48:19

like better resources to cook better meals. It's

48:21

not like a survival game is it it is like

48:23

yeah game. So is there like it? Well

48:26

you go out so you go out and get resources, but they're

48:29

saying it's not just like tap a to pick up a

48:31

thing You actually have to stand I feel

48:33

like you actually have to scan the environment I feel like that

48:35

trailer is very misleading dude You

48:37

have to scan the environment and look for veins of stuff

48:40

and like figure out like where to place markers

48:42

So they're actually saying that like it's pretty

48:44

interesting mechanics Okay in terms of how

48:47

you do that when you're out there and you

48:49

also feel like they're trying to hide Yeah, it

48:51

really it's very misleading I don't feel

48:53

like they're trying to hide something, but I do feel like

48:56

they're not showing me what I want right Yeah

49:00

going out and like farming minerals for

49:02

three hours and then going back and talking

49:05

to yourself yeah like So

49:08

I'd have to see a little more, but yeah the general

49:10

premise is Intriguing yeah

49:13

the game some demo that they played and and

49:15

saw they said was like an hour-long demo, okay,

49:17

so Yeah, they've got you

49:19

know a bit of that in there for the people that got

49:21

to play it whether anyone actually

49:24

probably I don't know if anyone actually got the record footage

49:26

or anything like that, but all I've

49:28

seen is you know text previews in

49:30

the trailer Yeah, but

49:32

yeah, I I'm curious of it. I'm not

49:35

a base building kind of guy either Those

49:38

are kind of things like made me like sort

49:40

of bounce off a no-man's guy or whatever He's like

49:43

I could get into this like I don't know that I

49:45

want to right now I just you know once

49:47

it goes past like building or designing

49:49

a house anything more than that like I'm out

49:52

mm-hmm Yeah, it

49:54

also sounded like you kind of want to keep this

49:56

like machine on the down low Like

49:58

if you like you know call calling home to the

50:00

ex-wife or whatever, because

50:03

that's the thing that they said too, that like communicating

50:05

with people back home and like trying

50:07

to hide like what you've got going on,

50:10

but at the same time, this guy who didn't break

50:12

up with his wife might know how to relate to her better than

50:14

you do. Right, that's crazy.

50:18

It's pretty sweet. Yeah.

50:20

Yeah, it's like how often are those moments

50:23

in between the like mundane

50:25

going out and

50:26

farming stuff? Yeah. How

50:29

many hours in do you start killing other versions

50:31

of yourself? Exactly. Really?

50:33

Yeah. And then what do other people have to say about

50:35

it? Right. Like, are you gonna like create like

50:38

this like split faction of people that's like, well, you know what,

50:40

that was the right thing to do. Yeah. And

50:42

other guys like this screwed up, dude. Yeah. Am

50:45

I next? Yeah. Cool, I'm watching

50:47

Multiplicity tonight. It

50:49

does not hold up. I tried,

50:51

it is, I tried a couple of years

50:53

ago, it is so long. Yeah.

50:56

It's so long. I just watched Moon

50:58

instead. Yeah. For

51:00

real. Also

51:03

this week, yeah, it's a bit

51:05

shorter on the big headlines, so we might dig into some of these a

51:07

little bit more. But EDF6

51:11

is confirmed to be coming to the west in the spring, 2024.

51:15

And yeah, EDF is just leaning into

51:17

all the silly dark ship trooper stuff.

51:19

Oh yeah, no. They had like this fun

51:22

trailer that they put out with this announcement with

51:24

like newscasters and everything and you

51:27

know, getting annoyed at the power going out.

51:29

The last one was five here?

51:30

I know they had like some spin-offs and

51:32

stuff too, so I'm not sure exactly which one the last one

51:34

was. Interesting. But yeah,

51:38

I'm not sure how much new stuff there is or whether

51:40

it's just like, let's do this again, let's blast some big

51:42

bugs. There is,

51:45

they did confirm two player split screen co-op

51:48

and four player online. Great.

51:51

So. It looks like EDF, all right.

51:53

Yeah, it does. Oh my god. Wow,

51:55

they're really leading it. Yeah. This

51:58

is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. You

52:01

know can it maintain 30 frames

52:03

per second? We'll find out This

52:10

is a crazy one that I got from a chat

52:13

message on my Xbox Xbox

52:16

is implementing a new policy this month the

52:19

game captures will now only last 90 days

52:22

So like when you hit that share button and you know

52:24

how it like automatically goes to your Xbox

52:27

cloud or whatever They're gonna start

52:29

auto deleting that stuff damn Yeah,

52:33

that will start basically like

52:35

it's going into effect October 1st,

52:37

which means they'll start deleting things January

52:40

Microsoft having storage Problems

52:42

or what are you or maybe just realize

52:44

that like so many people yeah things

52:47

and like that never go by it Yeah,

52:50

it seems actually smart. Yeah, cuz I've actually I've

52:52

accidentally hit that button a bunch of time. Oh my god Yeah,

52:55

well the PlayStation thing were like

52:57

automatically like clips every

52:59

trophy While

53:02

ago, I still haven't turned off. Whoops. Yeah,

53:05

but yeah one who makes switch recently, too That's another

53:07

one I hit the accidental button like no

53:09

to capture and I had like so many like random

53:11

clips of what what is this? I like delete delete

53:14

delete delete and that's on like your hard drive on that

53:16

one. So yeah, I'm going well The

53:18

pain you can save those the SD card on the switch.

53:20

Yeah, it was on one of the two and I was just like

53:23

get those Yeah, there are ways

53:25

to back them up with the chat message They had

53:27

like to learn more so you could like find the different

53:29

ways to Transfer those to

53:31

an external hard drive or like if you have

53:33

an external hard drive That's always picked up you

53:35

could have your captures go to that instead

53:38

of the cloud or whatever. But yeah,

53:40

can you save it to your? Console

53:42

itself like I think when

53:44

it's like to internal storage, it's still linked

53:47

to the cloud, but I don't remember exactly But

53:49

yeah, there's like a whole like tutorial

53:51

thing there Dead

53:54

Island 2 is getting new story based expansion.

53:57

Sweet. That is coming November

53:59

2nd Sick brass knuckles in that

54:01

game, so

54:27

good. So awesome. Did

54:31

you see the clip of the Michael Myers

54:34

emote? Incredible. So it's basically like playing.

54:36

Kid dude on stream though, gotta be in streamer mode, sorry chat. Oh

54:38

really? Yeah. Oh. I

54:41

think so. That thing will be licensed for sure. Probably.

54:43

Johnny Carbs wouldn't do that to us would

54:45

he? I hope. I don't know. I

54:47

don't know. I feel like that one might not

54:49

play but we'll find out soon. But yeah,

54:52

so playing the Halloween theme and like

54:54

doing it with one hand and then like with the

54:56

low, he's like stabbing it with a knife.

54:59

So good. He looks amazing. The

55:02

back bling he wears is a Jack

55:04

O'Lantern with a knife in it. Just super cool.

55:06

And I love that Alan Wake is from two

55:09

and he has the device. Oh,

55:12

he has the clicker? Yeah. Nice.

55:15

He's got the clicker. It's so sick.

55:17

And then obviously freaking Jack Sallington with his very skin

55:20

to the Santa Lord. It looks really good actually.

55:22

Yeah and Zero's his best. Yeah. Yeah.

55:26

Alright. You can use it for two holidays

55:28

dude. Yeah. Yeah.

55:30

Good call.

55:32

We mentioned Team 17

55:35

with the endless layoffs last week. If

55:39

you're not familiar, they obviously worms

55:41

is their big thing. They've also published dredge

55:43

moving out. Blast of the two. Yeah dredge and

55:45

blast of the two, two of the highest rated games

55:48

this year. Just saw dredge sold over a million

55:51

units. Yep. According to people are getting

55:53

laid off blood. Great. Zero

55:55

Gamer. So this stuff is still behind

55:57

the scenes. But

56:00

they are in the midst of this

56:02

restructuring plan that they're trying to

56:04

figure out. So, dude, I'm so tired of everyone

56:07

saying restructuring. Would

56:10

result in laying off as much as a third

56:13

of its total staff, about 90 people in

56:15

all, despite rising

56:17

sales and profits. Great, great.

56:20

Yeah. And aside from them confirming

56:23

that they are doing something, they

56:25

haven't really said a whole lot. Some of the development

56:27

partners have said that they only found out that their contacts

56:30

left because they updated their LinkedIn

56:32

profiles. Oh, no. So it's

56:34

like they're even like, concerns of like,

56:36

yeah, people that they have publishing deals with, like,

56:39

is our game gonna get put

56:41

out there? And are people that

56:43

gonna know what they're doing? Or

56:45

are those people getting laid off? Mm-hmm. A

56:48

lot of uncertainty. Jeez. It's

56:50

the shareholders' humor. It's 100% the shareholders.

56:54

Gah!

56:56

In better news, Arcan

56:59

put out a huge update for Redfall.

57:02

They added

57:03

stealth kills. Yep.

57:05

Added stealth kills. They added

57:08

a performance mode. Hey,

57:10

put them in there. They put a lot

57:12

of other UI improvements in there. They

57:15

rebalanced the enemy populations. People have been saying

57:17

this, it feels a lot better to go through the

57:19

world and there's guys out there, field

57:21

boys fighting. Hey, we last. It's named Shurf,

57:24

but you look at No Man's Sky, you look at Cyberpunk,

57:27

could

57:29

Redfall turn around? I

57:31

don't think the bones are

57:34

as strong as, and the potential

57:36

is there as much as No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk,

57:39

but I still feel like it could get

57:41

to an okay state. Yeah.

57:44

Good to win in 7. Yeah. Yeah.

57:47

I don't know about a 7, honestly. Stick with maybe. Stick

57:49

with maybe. Oh. If

57:52

they work on this for what, like another year? I

57:54

don't think they're going to work on this game. I think

57:57

they'll do it. I think they'll do like that.

58:00

DLC characters or whatever, but I cannot

58:03

see this game gets supported for years

58:05

The one thing I wasn't sure about and I didn't

58:07

see in there But wasn't it like there was some like

58:09

some dumb stuff with like how the multiplayer was structured,

58:12

too Yeah, like I wonder if like

58:14

they'll rework Yeah,

58:17

yeah, everything was boggling like why

58:19

did you do that? Yeah, speaking of which the one patch note

58:21

that I had to write down hilarious

58:23

enemies now reposition

58:26

to avoid friendly fire Enemies

58:31

no longer shoot each other in the back

58:33

of the head It's

58:36

like These patches are coming

58:38

months later like basic things that should be like

58:40

how do you not have a stealth takedown

58:43

in an arcane game? I don't understand

58:45

my Mind the thing

58:47

that really blows my mind is like looking at steam

58:50

charts I don't know how accurate it is, but like

58:52

last 30 days they had peak 56

58:53

players. Yes There's

58:56

a low of four players on one day

58:58

Yeah, seems that there's an article that somebody

59:00

put out there with the headline was like there are fewer

59:02

people Playing red falls and

59:04

it takes to

59:06

group up in red

59:09

But you

59:12

know, that's the steam version the steamer

59:15

probably have it is like the window Yeah,

59:20

but it's like if if the player numbers are that

59:23

low like

59:24

Does patching it is that worth?

59:26

Yeah, they're offered they're rep for

59:29

sure because then yeah because now

59:31

this is The narrative

59:34

now it's yeah now. It's like hey our

59:36

games better, right?

59:37

Forever

59:43

like basic game passes forever so they want

59:45

to make it better. Yeah,

59:46

that's

59:47

true too for sure This

59:51

is ridiculous Bloomberg reports

59:53

that Disney is potentially looking to acquire

59:55

EA Or a similar

59:57

size publisher as a way to get back

1:00:00

into publishing games not

1:00:02

just licensing their IP. Hmm.

1:00:06

Okay, usually doesn't go well for them. I

1:00:08

just want to know if this

1:00:11

affects

1:00:13

Jedi Survivor, what's going on

1:00:15

there, if they buy it. I

1:00:17

mean, I mean, if they buy it, affect it. Yeah. Of

1:00:19

course it will. It'll

1:00:22

be, they're franchised. Yeah, and they would just

1:00:24

own, respawn and eat and everything. Yeah,

1:00:27

okay, so just being happy. You know, yeah, I'm sure

1:00:29

Star Wars is a huge reason. Yeah, it's gotta

1:00:31

be, it's gotta be THE reason. One of

1:00:33

the reasons, yeah. And I mean, EA is just huge. But it's just

1:00:35

huge. Did EA do Epic Mickey?

1:00:38

I mean, they bought Fox partially to get

1:00:40

X-Men. Yeah, I

1:00:42

just, it's so annoying to me.

1:00:45

Disney back and forth, it's

1:00:47

too much. Like just please

1:00:50

don't do this. Do not buy anybody. Yeah, you

1:00:52

do not want to. I've seen this happen

1:00:54

so many freaking times. Don't

1:00:56

do it. And you own enough. Besides they want to

1:00:58

be in the video game space. They bought the guys

1:01:01

that did Pure and Split Second, Block Rock Studio.

1:01:03

Yeah. And they were doing

1:01:05

all this promotion, doing all this stuff, talking about how committed

1:01:08

they were to games. You know, Pure is not what I would do. That

1:01:10

guy leaves. Disney's like, yeah, we don't want to

1:01:12

be in games anymore. It sucks. Lays

1:01:14

off the entire studio. Right? You

1:01:17

know. Then they come

1:01:19

back and they're like, hey, we're gonna do Disney Infinity, da

1:01:21

da da da da. Show that to Brandon

1:01:23

Jones. Yeah, and now that's all gone. Gone. We're

1:01:26

gonna do license stuff. We're just gonna work with partners. Now

1:01:28

they're talking about coming back again. Just stop

1:01:30

it. No. Stop it. Disney,

1:01:33

no. Just let Nomura handle

1:01:35

things on his end. He's got you covered, Disney.

1:01:38

It's fine. Right. Yay,

1:01:40

also. Like, respawn. They've

1:01:42

got you covered. Let the professionals handle

1:01:44

this. Right. Yeah.

1:01:47

They have no business. And don't forget when they acquired

1:01:49

Lucas and they just like shuttered LucasArts.

1:01:52

You know? Yeah. Going

1:01:54

back, all the way back into the 80s. That's just Elvis. They are

1:01:56

like the Grim Reaper dude. They are just killing all

1:01:58

these game companies, dude.

1:01:59

Stayaway Bob Iger

1:02:02

stay away. I imagine that

1:02:04

it would be hard to

1:02:06

See that happen to EA

1:02:09

of all things they're known for doing that

1:02:11

them, but Yeah, it is a good match on Like

1:02:26

if they wouldn't just close EA they would spit them off

1:02:28

they would kill them or something Bioware

1:02:31

by would be dead they absolutely would 100% dead

1:02:33

all you people who are hoping for Bioware to come back

1:02:36

in some way No way it will

1:02:38

be cut so fast Yeah,

1:02:41

yeah, cuz it would just they'd be like your space games

1:02:43

will just be star wars. I make it Yeah, Star Wars

1:02:45

effect. Well, they won't put up with bioware is probably

1:02:47

as much EA was like trying to Have

1:02:50

bioware be something again cuz they cut bioware

1:02:53

dude people would be upset

1:02:55

It would be like yeah insanely

1:02:57

bad to her even though bioware is like

1:02:59

in the slumps right now. Yeah Wow

1:03:03

Stay away mouse the mouse. Yeah No,

1:03:05

no, no how they would have they would have to do

1:03:07

I would guess they would have to diverge

1:03:10

of the vest of a EA sports

1:03:13

Down like Disney would be allowed to acquire EA

1:03:15

sports. I don't know what's fine. Well Disney

1:03:17

owns like yes Yeah, ready are like

1:03:19

there's a kind of a hand there I mean they already have

1:03:22

all that might be with a concern is that like

1:03:25

how much of like monopoly on

1:03:27

sports games Yeah, I already have a sports

1:03:29

investment you would I yeah Imagine

1:03:31

they might not be able to bring because that's the other big thing

1:03:33

is like well now as there's you get home Like

1:03:36

Madden and stuff like I don't think that'll be

1:03:38

allowed to happen Yeah, I would I would wager

1:03:40

they'd have to spin off EA sports.

1:03:43

Mmm. Yeah, I don't know I don't

1:03:45

know on that one, but I don't know but I would guess

1:03:47

yeah But yeah, EA is

1:03:49

basically, you know Them and to

1:03:52

pay of corner to sports market and what they want

1:03:54

to do that cuz like the sports Yeah, like

1:03:56

how much that brings in like what

1:03:58

EA even be interested in? that, you know,

1:04:00

what changes would that bring? Yeah.

1:04:03

Yeah, Chad is saying this and I think they're

1:04:05

probably right that ESPN isn't video

1:04:07

gaming, so it'd probably be fine. Right.

1:04:11

Would this affect Kingdom Hearts at all?

1:04:14

Maybe.

1:04:16

I don't think so. They

1:04:18

seem to have a good relationship with Square Enix. Again,

1:04:20

they had all these publishers and stuff in

1:04:22

the past, or they were a publisher in the past,

1:04:24

so. It seems like they just kind of let Square

1:04:26

Enix do their thing usually. Good. I

1:04:29

think there was a report that Disney was looking to

1:04:31

get rid of their sports stuff actually. Oh, really?

1:04:34

That they would fan out. Yeah. Something like

1:04:36

that. They would fan to somebody else. Like Bleacher

1:04:38

reporters or had something like that I think recently that they

1:04:40

were maybe interested in ditching ESPN.

1:04:43

Runewall

1:04:44

says that they replaced

1:04:45

Sora with John Madden. That's

1:04:48

funny. Oh my God. Or you get mouthier

1:04:50

helmets. Yeah. Yeah.

1:04:54

Yeah. Yeah.

1:04:58

Walt Disney better be in like the final, final

1:05:01

Kingdom Hearts. Walt Disney. Walt Disney,

1:05:03

though. As a mech. Final

1:05:06

one. He's a metal gear. Like Sora

1:05:08

passes on to like some new dimension.

1:05:11

Walt Disney. I mean,

1:05:14

I would love that. Like if he's

1:05:16

God in that game. Yeah, dude. But

1:05:18

I do not do that. Yeah.

1:05:23

Lego revealed those Animal Crossing sets.

1:05:25

There are five individual sets,

1:05:28

each including, oh,

1:05:31

each one, each one are different. It's

1:05:33

interesting because they have like all different price points. So

1:05:36

like the simplest ones, there's like a

1:05:38

birthday party for Julian or whatever and a

1:05:40

bunny outdoor set with a tent

1:05:42

and stuff. And then like the highest one

1:05:45

is like both like Nook's Cranny

1:05:47

and Rosie's house. So they go from like $15

1:05:50

up to $75. And

1:05:52

it's sort of like you wanted to build a whole village. It should

1:05:54

be like 180 altogether. But

1:05:56

I think on like, it's nice that they have some

1:05:59

like $15, $20. Yeah, that's

1:06:01

like super cheap compared to their huge

1:06:03

yeah, yeah, like the Rivendell set

1:06:05

is like 500 or something Well that thing

1:06:08

is incredible It's incredible Yeah It's

1:06:10

so limbic Imagine

1:06:13

you're gonna buy another Lego

1:06:15

set to build like the physical island though I

1:06:18

would imagine if you want to go crazy and make

1:06:20

like the terrain like you're gonna have to like

1:06:22

It's not part of the set but some other way

1:06:24

you'll have to buy more Legos It's nice

1:06:26

because my wife Safiya and I

1:06:28

were talking about this when they just showed the

1:06:31

minifigs And we were like what do

1:06:33

we want them to do with the actual sets

1:06:35

and basically we had said like this We

1:06:37

want them to do smaller sets so you can build out

1:06:40

the whole island if you want or just

1:06:42

build your own house or whatever You're totally buying

1:06:44

these aren't I we're thrilled. Yeah, you're in here.

1:06:46

Yeah, you have a pre-order No,

1:06:49

but

1:06:50

I mean it will just buy them whatever I gotta

1:06:52

be honest though these Animal Crossing characters look weird They

1:06:55

don't I don't like they don't their legs are too

1:06:57

long. Yeah, they're Lego figures You know Animal

1:06:59

Crossing characters are like all yeah They're

1:07:01

just like have weird long legs and it

1:07:04

freaks me out It's just

1:07:06

like I'm selling like I saw them like I

1:07:08

would never get this like I can't handle that

1:07:10

like me

1:07:12

Do you know like a frog

1:07:14

I? Do

1:07:16

prefer the look of the like the mini the Lord

1:07:18

of the Rings minifigs are perfect. Yeah, they should have done

1:07:21

that gorgeous the cool Why?

1:07:26

Someone messed up someone messed up. How

1:07:28

do you do this? How do you make that and be like

1:07:31

oh that looks good? Funny

1:07:35

it did not do not register to me at all. I

1:07:37

have to look at registered blood Just

1:07:41

didn't

1:07:41

seem fine What

1:07:44

all right all right? After

1:07:48

the huge backlash unity spaced over the last

1:07:50

month John Recatello is stepping down

1:07:53

the CEO who Unity

1:07:55

states that gems and white hearse will take

1:07:57

over as interim CEO while the board seeks

1:08:00

a permanent replacement where

1:08:02

Catella became CEO at Unity in 2014

1:08:05

after previously being with EA. Get

1:08:08

the gone dude. Going back

1:08:10

to EA to get brought by Diddy. Catastrophic

1:08:13

mistakes this guy has made. Yeah,

1:08:15

Jesus. God, what an idiot. Although,

1:08:19

at the same time, I don't know

1:08:21

the validity of them but there have been some rumblings

1:08:24

around where people are saying that a

1:08:26

lot of this stuff has been not necessarily

1:08:30

his decisions but the board pushing

1:08:32

him to do this and him being called a goat.

1:08:35

Oh shit. A board. Well,

1:08:37

I don't remember who the fucking shareholders

1:08:40

do. No dude, I don't

1:08:42

remember specifics but I was reading about this

1:08:44

a while ago and the board has

1:08:47

basically three or four like psycho,

1:08:50

like tech bro fly boys that just make

1:08:52

crazy choices and don't know what they're doing

1:08:54

and

1:08:55

I think that is partially this.

1:08:57

Yeah, so they're like unconfirmed sources. Being

1:08:59

like anybody who's really reporting

1:09:01

that so I'd want to take it over to the Korean assault

1:09:04

but that could be part of what's going

1:09:06

on. He should have fought harder

1:09:08

against it. I don't know, this is

1:09:11

the dumbest idea I've ever heard. It's

1:09:13

just insane. Yeah, this is going to go down

1:09:15

as year end

1:09:18

biggest botch as well. Oh, turkeys. I

1:09:21

got a fret for turkeys. This is right

1:09:23

there. It was like Don Mattrick vibes going

1:09:25

on here with the Xbox One reveal. Same

1:09:28

thing dude. Well, that's the thing is like

1:09:30

even though like a lot of people were calling

1:09:33

for the stuff to change and calling for

1:09:36

his job or whatever like people still don't trust

1:09:38

unity. No, right. Like you're not going

1:09:40

to get that back. The damage is done dude. The damage

1:09:42

is done. It is over. Yeah.

1:09:45

And like Chad was just saying this too but

1:09:48

it's so funny because unity like

1:09:51

I feel like I always had kind of a pretty good like

1:09:54

they felt like the cool kind of alternative,

1:09:56

you know, like and now yeah,

1:09:58

it's just dead.

1:10:00

Crazy.

1:10:02

In anticipation of the

1:10:04

Microsoft acquisition potentially going through

1:10:07

tomorrow, Friday, October 13th, Activision

1:10:09

tweeted... Whoa, that's ominous. Yeah, that's

1:10:11

funny. Activision tweeted out that

1:10:14

Modern Warfare 3 and Diablo 4

1:10:16

would not go on Game Pass this year, but

1:10:19

it seems like anything else is on the table. And they're

1:10:21

going to start adding things to the service. Interesting.

1:10:25

So they're already upfront telling

1:10:27

their customers, hey, Game Pass is

1:10:29

coming, even though the deal's not old way

1:10:31

finished yet. Fred, do you think we

1:10:33

will ever get

1:10:36

a console version of Modern

1:10:38

Warfare?

1:10:39

Um, maybe. I feel like they have to... Now, yeah. I think it's

1:10:41

more likely than ever. Yeah,

1:10:44

I mean, it's more likely than ever. They'd have to rework some

1:10:46

stuff like Interface and all that stuff. Yeah, it's possible. Because

1:10:49

the Age of Empires ones, they are not on console,

1:10:51

right? Yeah, that could be the same team that could work on that kind of thing.

1:10:54

They should. They should have done it a long time ago,

1:10:56

honestly. Long time ago. Long time ago. Especially

1:10:58

now that Microsoft owns them if they have their

1:11:00

other MMO that's only on their console

1:11:02

or whatever. It's a good look for them. I feel

1:11:04

like that beat... It's funny, you know, WoW

1:11:07

is so old, but if that was announced at any 3-type

1:11:09

thing... Yeah, and frankly,

1:11:11

retail WoW needs more people kind

1:11:14

of thing. It needs a shot on the arm, for sure. Put

1:11:16

Marcus Fenix in there. Yeah, but there's a

1:11:18

good point. Gears Tactics,

1:11:21

Age of Empires, Flight Simulator... Halo Wars?

1:11:24

Yeah, like they have been

1:11:27

pretty good about bringing things

1:11:29

that feel like they could only be on PC

1:11:32

over to Xbox. Mm-hmm. Yeah,

1:11:35

and I know people have been into some of those, even though Flight

1:11:38

Sim is probably always going to be better on PC. Oh, yeah, of course. It's

1:11:41

a way to play it. Yeah, it's a way to check that game

1:11:43

out. Yeah. And

1:11:46

the best news of the week... Rich

1:11:49

Brown, former

1:11:51

voice of game trailers in GT Countdown.

1:11:54

Yeah, dude. Behind the

1:11:56

scenes, TechMaster and my constant

1:11:58

travel companion. giving me his leftover

1:12:01

steak

1:12:02

is officially in detective

1:12:05

Pikachu returns

1:12:07

Playing the role of Rhyme City inspector

1:12:09

Frank Holiday That's

1:12:12

so cool. What a name dude Frank

1:12:14

Holiday So

1:12:17

sweet Yeah,

1:12:20

he's the he's the older trench coat

1:12:22

guy. Okay, so I've seen the character. So

1:12:24

yeah, I already heard his voice It's very early

1:12:26

on in the game. So yeah, you get

1:12:29

to hear it because he talks to Tim and

1:12:33

You Tim's the main care Tim. I

1:12:35

forget like so Tim Goodman, right Tim Goodman.

1:12:38

That's not right Which

1:12:41

is funny real quick to

1:12:43

begin the game. It's not a spoiler. They literally

1:12:45

the family talk about oh Yeah,

1:12:50

it was great hearing it they

1:12:52

reference they talk about the movie They

1:12:54

acknowledge the movie go. Why wasn't the

1:12:56

mom and the sister in the movie?

1:12:58

Why weren't we casting it? They asked? This

1:13:04

kind of funny so is it Detective

1:13:06

Pikachu the game and then the movie and now this

1:13:08

one is at the timeline No, it's detective.

1:13:11

Sorry detective Pikachu the game. Yes, you're right

1:13:13

happened Then the movie in their universe

1:13:15

happened and I get they made a movie version of the event

1:13:20

Yeah Rhyme

1:13:22

City are I Yeah,

1:13:26

I appreciate that so they they like so they had

1:13:28

in their universe. Hey the movie is just

1:13:30

like their adaptation They

1:13:33

all want to go see it and stuff like that's

1:13:35

kind

1:13:36

of funny I like that moment wild

1:13:38

love it It's time for love and

1:13:40

respect Love and respect From

1:13:51

Chris, I really Hi

1:13:53

allies in this day and age. It

1:13:55

seems like indie games are all the rage

1:13:58

every month. There seems to be another big indie hit.

1:14:01

The thing is I've never been the biggest indie game fan.

1:14:03

Don't get me wrong I played a few over the years that

1:14:06

I've really enjoyed. Death's Door, Hades,

1:14:08

Shovel Knight, Dead Nation, Death's Bank, Costume

1:14:10

Quest, and several more I've enjoyed immensely.

1:14:13

But for some reason it takes a lot for an

1:14:16

indie game to really grab my attention and I'm

1:14:18

not sure why. I'm not sure

1:14:20

if it's because I'm really big into

1:14:22

AAA single-player games or

1:14:25

because indie games have such a lower budget the

1:14:27

spectacle isn't enough for me or

1:14:30

maybe it's something else. But in general indie

1:14:32

games don't grab me as much as the bigger games. So

1:14:35

my question is this, am I in the minority? Am

1:14:37

I missing something to get myself more interested in

1:14:40

the indie games or is that more common

1:14:42

than I think it is? Do you have any ideas why

1:14:44

that is and do you have any recommendations

1:14:47

for me to get into more indie games? Appreciate

1:14:49

any feedback. Hmm

1:14:53

I mean he kind of sounds like he answered a lot of his own question

1:14:55

like the spectacle and all that stuff. It seems like he likes

1:14:58

all the high budget kind of games

1:15:01

like that. I mean he listed a lot of great

1:15:03

indie games but it just seems like what he looks for

1:15:05

in games more often is like

1:15:07

that high production value. Yeah. Not

1:15:09

to say the Indians don't have high production values but you know what

1:15:11

I mean. You know you're like you're AAA Spider-Man

1:15:14

and stuff like that. Yeah and it is what

1:15:16

it is you know. It's like

1:15:20

I love JRPGs

1:15:22

but like I really only make time for like

1:15:25

one a year maybe or like at most

1:15:27

two. Mm-hmm. So I feel like that's kind

1:15:29

of similar you know. There's so many genres so many different

1:15:31

types of games it's like

1:15:33

you really only have time to focus

1:15:36

on what you really love you know. If he's playing

1:15:38

the big single-player AAA ones

1:15:41

that doesn't leave a lot of time for any ones and he gets

1:15:43

clearly you know when he when he has had the time

1:15:45

he's played really good ones. So yeah

1:15:49

I think the the the

1:15:52

labels though are kind of like slipping

1:15:54

away as well. Yeah

1:15:56

well I think one of the biggest you know you know

1:15:58

not necessarily controversies but Dave the

1:16:00

diver this year. Yeah, you know a lot of

1:16:02

people have it pegged as an indie game It's like it's not an indie game.

1:16:04

It's good. Okay from a big studio. It's

1:16:07

just pixel art. Yeah Or

1:16:09

like Ori right other people like look

1:16:11

at that and it's like you want spectacle

1:16:14

too I mean sometimes I think you look

1:16:16

like you got to look at indie games for maybe a Style

1:16:19

of game that's not like as heavily invested

1:16:21

in by like bigger Developers and

1:16:23

this is this is only scene where they're continually

1:16:25

to continuing making those types of games So

1:16:28

like a 2d platformer like

1:16:31

to it's there's like a V&D game for me,

1:16:33

right? I mean, yeah, like I mean

1:16:35

one of the last years like was I mean, there's

1:16:38

so many countless like platformers You know

1:16:40

the front range back all the way to super meat boy to like I

1:16:42

even Celeste like, you know Was like I think

1:16:44

it's the last one I've played and there's been so many but

1:16:47

they're also like not that long So, you know,

1:16:49

it's something to play in between some of these bigger

1:16:51

releases. So you're not like

1:16:53

Piling on 20 kids like one of my

1:16:55

main

1:16:56

Reasons for loving swimming in sevens

1:16:59

is like usually

1:17:00

Sevens like do something weird.

1:17:02

They like a weird mechanic like I think of murdered

1:17:05

soul suspect always bring that one up It's a good example

1:17:07

of just like these weird quirky mechanics that are

1:17:09

like, you know, they take some risks Maybe

1:17:12

it's cool, but it's like oh, it's not the best game. I

1:17:14

feel like I get that from

1:17:16

indie games, right? Oh, they all they've got like weird

1:17:19

little mechanics or they're doing just something

1:17:21

different that like or the mainstream Triple-a

1:17:24

games are not

1:17:25

or they they can be more

1:17:28

a little bit more personal I think tell

1:17:30

stories that feel like they're coming this

1:17:32

is coming from a specific person

1:17:35

or specific perspective That

1:17:37

you don't necessarily get when something's

1:17:40

gone through like 15 rounds

1:17:42

of focus testing and all of that.

1:17:44

So

1:17:45

What also the higher the budget the higher

1:17:47

the appeal has to be right? You're trying to

1:17:49

have for everybody you have to have a million

1:17:52

sales, right? Yeah, rather than you know

1:17:54

If you've got five guys making a game. It's

1:17:56

like we sell a hundred thousand. We're good. We're golden.

1:17:58

Yeah. Yeah looking at the games that you listed

1:18:01

it seems like you value immediacy like

1:18:03

these are all very like right into it kind

1:18:05

of game so I think like look

1:18:07

for stuff like that like action indie games like

1:18:09

Celeste was a good call down the honey like

1:18:12

was Hollow Knight listed

1:18:15

yeah they're the most like

1:18:18

RPG ish one I don't know what Death's

1:18:20

Bank is but

1:18:21

you know like I remember the name I don't remember this on

1:18:23

my head yeah but

1:18:26

yeah my other take on it and

1:18:28

I kind of said this for a long time now it's

1:18:30

like yeah a lot

1:18:32

of times like I just don't even like consider

1:18:35

separating out indie games really

1:18:38

from other games because

1:18:40

it's like yeah they're all just different

1:18:43

types of genres and different you know different

1:18:46

approaches and it's like yeah like you talk about you

1:18:48

know like an indie

1:18:51

jrpg you know like sea

1:18:53

of stars which is not even made in Japan

1:18:55

right yeah but like showing

1:18:58

up would like a lot of traditional

1:19:00

developers and like a lot of big companies are

1:19:02

putting out there and look

1:19:04

why qualify that as an indie game necessarily

1:19:07

because yeah that that's

1:19:09

better than like half of the like smaller

1:19:11

budget Square Enix games and

1:19:14

ban and co-games it's similar

1:19:16

to film as well where we're

1:19:17

saying indie used

1:19:20

to mean like it used to imply a

1:19:22

genre or like a quality

1:19:25

threshold maybe is not the way to say it but like

1:19:28

you know the amount of money yeah production

1:19:30

value but like as the

1:19:33

tools have gotten more accessible

1:19:35

you know that's not even true

1:19:38

anymore so it's more about just

1:19:40

kind of like a academic sort

1:19:42

of concern of like budgeting right

1:19:44

like but it's the game that comes out of it like Hades

1:19:46

feels like a triple-a game it's just yeah

1:19:49

you know yeah that's

1:19:52

a good point I didn't like that

1:19:54

convinces me more than maybe independence should

1:19:57

be thought more of less in terms of budget and more

1:19:59

about like being out there outside the traditional game

1:20:02

making process. On Orthodox games.

1:20:05

Is it feel to corporate

1:20:08

meddling type game or

1:20:10

is it something that's more of a like, clearly

1:20:13

there's a vision for this game and it's

1:20:15

being made not within

1:20:17

the existing mechanisms

1:20:19

that say you should be adding on battle

1:20:22

passes and stuff like that. Yeah. The

1:20:24

good thing is that that happens in the indie

1:20:26

places as well. I do. So I think that

1:20:29

might be a better like categorization

1:20:31

for it because it's not just

1:20:33

like the like it doesn't look low

1:20:35

budget. That's not the definer anymore. It's

1:20:37

the definition. It's was this game

1:20:39

made like in the spirit of like being trying to do

1:20:42

something different and not be within any

1:20:44

of like the kind of like more popular,

1:20:46

I hate to say norms of like

1:20:49

what we expect for like games right now. There's

1:20:51

something that's either challenging something or

1:20:53

something that's like I can never make

1:20:55

this game working at a major company

1:20:57

or even a smaller company. This is something only a small

1:21:00

team can do and we needed money. So

1:21:02

we got funded. So like cool. You

1:21:04

got funny of a big publisher. But this concept, this idea

1:21:06

is like different challenging

1:21:09

a lot of things that are already like kind of established.

1:21:12

Maybe it that's what it needs to maybe

1:21:14

evolve into or is maybe more the spirit

1:21:16

of what it's because you're talking about film like

1:21:19

I like that's kind of like what is not what

1:21:21

film was like going against like the Hollywood

1:21:23

machine to make films that like this would never

1:21:25

get a distributor. This would never get anything. So like we're

1:21:27

just making this because we want to make this type of film. It

1:21:30

depends. Like I think the

1:21:32

label that would fit more what you're

1:21:34

saying than indie would be art house. Okay.

1:21:37

But I mean now you have major studio films

1:21:40

like the creator shot on a prosumer

1:21:43

camera which is like sick and like the

1:21:45

tools if you're if you're knowledgeable

1:21:47

and know what you're doing the tools are almost

1:21:50

immaterial and in game dev it's

1:21:53

getting to that point too. You know it's just

1:21:55

time. I mean look at people in check

1:21:57

keep saying that Baldur's Gate 3 is technically

1:21:59

an independent depending game and like,

1:22:02

yeah, they have three studios in different

1:22:05

time zones in the world so they're constantly somebody

1:22:07

working on it. You know, it's like an incredible achievement

1:22:09

but they just took the time and, you know, but

1:22:11

it's technically indie. Yeah.

1:22:13

But yeah, I don't know. It's nuts. Yeah.

1:22:16

Someone who's never touched Baldur's Gate recognizes a game that probably

1:22:18

would never have gotten made if they were owned by like an

1:22:21

EA or union stuff. Oh, right. Like a game

1:22:23

would not be that game. The studio notes would

1:22:25

have, yeah. Absolutely.

1:22:27

Though indies like Bud said are not

1:22:30

free from ridiculous, awful

1:22:32

studio notes. So.

1:22:36

From Jerry Young, Hi,

1:22:38

allies. Wrapping up Act 2

1:22:40

in Baldur's Gate 3,

1:22:42

it has led to an internal

1:22:44

struggle

1:22:46

debating about reloading saves.

1:22:49

For me personally, I try to avoid reloading to

1:22:51

change outcomes of conversations. But

1:22:54

when I lock myself out of quests entirely without

1:22:56

realizing it would happen, that's why I feel

1:22:58

a little less guilty. I'm curious

1:23:00

about your thoughts on reloading save files in games

1:23:03

like Baldur's Gate where there's so much choice

1:23:05

and ripple effects on the story. Dude,

1:23:08

I love high stakes. I love meaningful

1:23:10

stakes. I let it lie every time. Let

1:23:13

it lie.

1:23:14

I think scum the shit

1:23:16

out of it.

1:23:17

Like if you, because

1:23:19

here's the thing, because with Baldur's Gate, like

1:23:21

when I beat that game it was 130 hours, right? And

1:23:25

I made some choices that were like crazy

1:23:27

choices and I made a hard save and I labeled it.

1:23:30

And I'm like, because if I regret it to the point

1:23:32

that it's distracting me from enjoying

1:23:34

my play through, you know, I'm going

1:23:37

to want to undo it. And like, yeah,

1:23:39

play how you want to play fully. But like,

1:23:42

if you're worried about romancing a character or

1:23:44

killing a character or doing a certain choice,

1:23:46

you know, and if you think it'll ruin your experience

1:23:49

rather than dumping the game, you

1:23:51

know, you can go back and

1:23:54

do the other option. There's no

1:23:56

shame in that. That's a great way to play.

1:23:58

Yeah, I personally.

1:24:00

I mean, I'm fine with you playing. I was treating

1:24:02

it like I was playing an actual D&D campaign And

1:24:05

some things you miss some things you get and

1:24:07

that's just the way it is And I think that's that's

1:24:10

one of the appealing things appealing about that game

1:24:12

to me

1:24:13

Was just like I can get this random

1:24:15

thing or just totally not get and that's cool I really like

1:24:17

that the ideas out there, but like

1:24:19

Yeah, I guess it's like something bugs

1:24:22

you and it's gonna ruin the game for you

1:24:24

Then sure go ahead and load it back up. I

1:24:26

guess but

1:24:28

yeah I try to just like when I play this game. I try to let

1:24:30

go of those feelings Being

1:24:32

like I have to see every single thing I'm like that

1:24:35

that's not how the developers would probably want me to play

1:24:37

it They'd probably just want me to go like I'm having a real D&D

1:24:39

campaign

1:24:40

That's how I that's how I did it too Like I

1:24:42

didn't go back and and redo things

1:24:44

like I made crazy choices and stuck with them But

1:24:47

like I made the safety

1:24:49

save in case it something pissed me

1:24:51

off, you know That's more

1:24:53

what I'm advocating for You know is just

1:24:55

like plan ahead if something ten

1:24:58

hours later is like ooh, I hate this,

1:25:00

you know, you can go back

1:25:01

Totally. There are players One

1:25:04

hour later two hours. Yeah,

1:25:06

yeah, I think there are some big choices in that game

1:25:09

Yeah, please.

1:25:09

I mean I was like I made similar

1:25:12

game like starfield definitely counts back because they

1:25:14

got a million saves for you So

1:25:17

in case you do regret something you can go back hours

1:25:19

and those auto saves these can remember kind

1:25:22

of time stamp wiser day Like what was this

1:25:24

about and like is reload it and like

1:25:26

oh, yeah, like let's start from you know, go back from

1:25:28

there The

1:25:31

most analogous thing for me though is a it's fire emblem,

1:25:33

but like I played for a different reason I'm

1:25:37

not there for I just want to like see

1:25:39

what happens and like like my choices like,

1:25:41

you know Like the impact of my choices. I am

1:25:44

playing for a certain Self-imposed challenge

1:25:46

which is like no one gets left behind right

1:25:49

which is two-factor if someone falls I

1:25:51

restart the entire mission and

1:25:54

if I don't recruit someone I found out there's an opportunity

1:25:56

recruit someone We're going back and restarting that mission

1:25:58

because And they got to survive

1:26:01

right because that is to me is like the

1:26:03

ultimate like it's a challenge Obviously

1:26:06

in the spirit of like decision-making like

1:26:09

a place it would be oh you did lose someone or

1:26:11

you did miss that opportunity So I

1:26:13

do see like that appeal, but

1:26:16

it's as unique to me That's all that I know

1:26:18

I played firearm that way with firearm limit I think

1:26:20

that's why I probably never finished a fire I'm going to

1:26:23

get you hung up on it It's like that was

1:26:25

half an hour and I screwed well. I am Unlike

1:26:28

Batman I have broken that one rule on the

1:26:30

older older older ones for

1:26:32

sure I've definitely let some people like the

1:26:35

old-school ones they get a little ridiculous. I'm like

1:26:37

alright one person. I'm okay I'm gonna move on I

1:26:39

spent so many times in this level. I'm just gonna go now

1:26:43

Yeah, it's okay Yeah,

1:26:46

yeah, I think in terms of the question in Boulder's

1:26:48

Gate and stuff I think for

1:26:51

me like most of the time I'm

1:26:53

gonna kind of let it lie, and I really do like The

1:26:56

unexpected consequences to pop up

1:26:58

you know or love consequences especially when they come up

1:27:00

like hours and hours later I'm like crap but

1:27:04

the thing the thing that probably will

1:27:06

get me to like reload a

1:27:08

save

1:27:09

is when

1:27:11

It's just like it's just that communication

1:27:13

gap Of like you I thought

1:27:16

I was gonna say this and then I just like

1:27:18

punch a guy in the face or something What

1:27:20

no like will you come here and but it's

1:27:22

actually like will you come here

1:27:25

and then the person hates you you're like I thought

1:27:27

it was just gonna ask nicely for them to come here right

1:27:29

right I will say that's pretty

1:27:31

rare in You

1:27:34

generally know that just of what

1:27:36

you're gonna say, but yeah fully

1:27:38

to me it's like It's

1:27:41

like you're doing a battle and someone gets like kicked

1:27:43

off a cliff or something and you're like oh shit

1:27:47

And what you didn't plan for that you know, but it's

1:27:49

like sometimes you let it lie, too.

1:27:51

I don't know the game rips

1:27:54

Let's play games

1:27:59

Carlos Hey

1:28:02

allies, I have a game submission

1:28:05

Do you feel old yet part two

1:28:08

naval gaze? You

1:28:11

have to gain you have to guess which

1:28:13

game was released in the year

1:28:16

of the event that specified So

1:28:18

this will make sense when we get into it. So

1:28:21

In the year

1:28:24

that limp biscuit took us to the Matthews

1:28:26

bridge Which

1:28:29

game was released was

1:28:31

it resident evil code Veronica

1:28:33

on Dreamcast? Grim

1:28:36

Fandango on PC or Metroid

1:28:38

Prime on Gamecube? I'm gonna say

1:28:42

Yeah Dreamcast

1:28:51

era vibe There

1:28:57

I just felt right go hand-in-hand

1:29:02

Me at the zoo

1:29:04

is the first video uploaded onto

1:29:06

YouTube That same year

1:29:09

as shadow of the Colossus Super

1:29:11

Mario galaxy or call

1:29:13

of duty modern warfare 2 I Do

1:29:23

I'm good I never even heard

1:29:25

of that. I didn't know that No idea

1:29:27

why that video on YouTube YouTube history

1:29:30

it there Yeah

1:29:35

In this year the VR headset

1:29:38

Oculus Rift dev kit one campaign

1:29:41

is launching on Kickstarter It

1:29:43

releases the next year and starts the revitalization

1:29:46

of VR. Was that the same year

1:29:49

as Dark Souls 2?

1:29:51

Journey

1:29:52

or mass effect to journey.

1:29:54

I was at game trailers when rift came

1:29:57

out So

1:29:59

it had to be asked

1:29:59

after 2011 right? Dark

1:30:03

Souls 2 was 2014 I think

1:30:07

uhhhh what were the other two options of the

1:30:09

list? Journey, Mass Effect 2

1:30:11

and Dark Souls Mass Effect 2 was like January 2010

1:30:14

right? yeah

1:30:17

I mean Dark Souls 2 feels right

1:30:19

it's Journey it's Journey, Journey

1:30:24

I thought I came out earlier for some reason

1:30:27

Shrek

1:30:28

is released in US theaters is

1:30:31

that same year as the Wind Waker? Is Shrek the number

1:30:33

one meme? Yes

1:30:35

Globally?

1:30:37

Bad or peppy? Yeah globally Is

1:30:39

it? It might be It's a real question

1:30:41

I'm not kidding So was

1:30:43

Shrek the same year as the Wind

1:30:46

Waker? Metal Gear Solid 2

1:30:48

or System Shock 2? Woah

1:30:52

So Wind Waker is 2003 here Shrek

1:30:54

I thought was 2001 or 2002 I was going to say

1:30:56

it was earlier I'm going to say Metal Gear Solid 2 Metal Gear Solid 2

1:30:58

is 2001 Ohh I'm

1:31:01

going to say Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid sounds good then

1:31:05

Metal Gear

1:31:06

Metal Gear? Nailing them

1:31:08

Does that mean we're old? Yes

1:31:10

we are Old The

1:31:13

year Daniel Bloodworth arrived at game trailers

1:31:16

Well Is that the same year? Is

1:31:19

that the same year as

1:31:21

Skyrim? Bioshock

1:31:24

or Arkham Asylum Ooh I

1:31:27

don't know what it is Bioshock Bioshock

1:31:30

Yes Bioshock It's Bioshock Yeah

1:31:33

Well here it is Nailed that game Good

1:31:36

times Yeah shout out to Arkham Asylum

1:31:39

That was too much You should have had Shout out

1:31:42

Shout out Alright it's time for bed This

1:31:45

week's bed Sonic Superstars

1:31:49

is out next Tuesday I'm going

1:31:51

to look through the official Sonic Twitter account

1:31:54

And I want to know the total run time

1:31:57

Of all the videos that they

1:31:59

post on the that account between

1:32:01

now and next Thursday. Looking

1:32:04

over the last week, I saw two videos

1:32:06

posted coming to a total of four

1:32:08

minutes and 47 seconds. Brad,

1:32:11

what's your total run time? Five minutes. Five,

1:32:13

even. Huber. Two minutes, 15

1:32:16

seconds. Ooh. Two 15. Hey,

1:32:19

gotta go fast. Gotta go fast. Gotta be on

1:32:21

the honey. Two minutes flat. Two

1:32:23

flat, Isla. Three minutes, 12

1:32:26

seconds. Three 12, dong.

1:32:27

John, what's your time? Bet.

1:32:33

Three minutes.

1:32:33

Three flat. Okay. And

1:32:36

then I got five 26. Ooh.

1:32:40

Five fucking. Yeah, we got

1:32:42

the low. We got the low. We got the low. God.

1:32:45

We got the low. We got the low. God. We

1:32:47

got E minutes. Every

1:32:50

time this guy. Last

1:32:53

week's bet. It's so annoying

1:32:55

man. Every time. God.

1:32:59

I know. I don't know how that's sneaky.

1:33:02

Okay, I put a number on it. I'm taking you to Morongo blood.

1:33:04

Let's go man. Last

1:33:06

week's bet. Honkai Star Rail came

1:33:09

out on PS5 this week. Player

1:33:11

characters in that game are known as Trailblazers.

1:33:14

Star of Estes 100 times. Is this in the Genshin

1:33:16

universe?

1:33:17

I know, it's just the same publisher. Okay. I

1:33:22

mean, I don't know for sure, but I don't think

1:33:24

it's the right- Don't write in about that. Yeah. Yeah,

1:33:27

leave it be. Leave it be. Player characters in Honkai

1:33:30

Star Rail are known as Trailblazers.

1:33:33

Last week I asked the panel to bet on

1:33:35

how many times the term Trailblazer

1:33:38

or Trailblazers, single ear or

1:33:40

plural, would appear in the press

1:33:42

release announcing the game's

1:33:44

launch. In the previous press

1:33:47

release announcing the release date, Trailblazer

1:33:49

had appeared six times. Brad

1:33:52

bet five times. Hubert

1:33:54

bet three Trailblazers. Jamiyani

1:33:57

also bet five Trailblazers. Ila

1:33:59

bet.

1:33:59

six,

1:34:01

Don bets seven, and

1:34:03

I bet nine.

1:34:05

The answer?

1:34:06

Another six trailblazers. Ayla

1:34:09

hit it. Bullseye.

1:34:12

I figured that they would reuse as

1:34:15

much of the same press release. Lazy

1:34:17

press release, dude. Copy

1:34:20

paste press release. It's hilarious

1:34:23

because I know the guy that writes the press release. Is

1:34:25

he copy paste? I don't know. I heard him

1:34:27

say it. I heard him say it too. He's

1:34:32

not vouching for you. That

1:34:35

brings our scores to

1:34:36

garrulous ducks, 28. Quack, quack, quack,

1:34:39

quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack,

1:34:41

quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.

1:34:44

Sleepy Grizzlies, 17. Yeah, put

1:34:46

us out. I'm like, I'm not a

1:34:49

sleepy grizzly. I'm awake now.

1:34:54

Hunting season dues open. Let's

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I think you

1:35:06

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shout out Isla

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hi you won that bet

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so you get to promote any easy allies video

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you'd like to promote you get the final word on anything

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You've disagreed with one to reiterate or

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I will promote the Nintendo travel

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log that we just did we

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went to Nintendo

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World Super Nintendo World I believe

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and it was a lot of fun and we put up a

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video Also, achieve yourself

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going on Also, Don

1:37:52

and I I'm just plugging a bunch because I don't

1:37:54

have any final words, but

1:37:55

Don and I Will guess

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it in a all good. No words

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video which is over on

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their YouTube channel called Please Be

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Nice To Me and we were in our what?

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All good to worry. Huh?

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No it's not fun. It's all good to worry. It's their girl

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channel. Anyway I'm

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dressed like a slutty crayon and Donna's

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dressed like the Joker. It's pretty great.

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Check it out.

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Can't play it right now. My hair is stuck

1:38:39

in my hair.