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let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Games Morning's Live
with me Jeff Grubb. Today we have news and rumors about some of the
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the games Lining some of the gamings, he said, some of the gams,
some of the some of the biggest releases in gaming. Is what I
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wrote halfway through, and then the game scent went off, So it's all
going really well over here. Tam went off, amazing. That is his
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that web site into a lab and engineered it to be so much worse than
it ever was. It is impressive. It's impressive. You know the you
know what the thing is about it, though, it is now transparently clear
when people are being shitty, yeah for the sake of shitty, because they
made money to be Yeah. It used to be like when someone was shit,
you would be like, is this person really like this? This is
awful. Now it's just like everyone is doing this, and it's just like,
come on, we know what you're doing this. It's got easier to
just be like, okay, I I don't like, I really don't even
have to engage. I just can laugh for delete block you ignore. Yes,
absolutely, but it is. I quickly closed it and they went to
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he did this thing what he experimented with the view of how he's shooting it,
and he has one of those screwdrivers that like is motorized, so the
camera spins with it and it is He was like, I'm trying this new
viewpoint. And then you open the comment and just like, never do this
again. This sucks. Man. I have an unput together like a game
Boy FPGA kit that I finally got the buttons for h and I'm gonna do
that this week, and I'm gonna sit down and put together it's a game
Boy color. Basically, it's a game Boy color in every way except for
the actual internals. But then that's just the FPGA, which is acting exactly
like a game Boy color. Uh. And I'm very excited. Although I
haven't put it together yet. And I was watching a video about someone putting
an o leed screen into this or into a game Boy Color. I'm like,
man, should I just go get an o lead screen instead, and
so I don't have to take it apart when I decided to change that later.
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these because I've got like the what's that called the meu Mini me Mini?
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got the thing that everyone wants. I forgot what it's called. Now.
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you, there's I don't know. Oh you mean the analog pocket. Analog
pocket? Oh yeah, sure, I got me an analog pocket. That
that is. That thing is for real and I should just be using that.
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Like he makes this stuff for fun and he's so so I might just
hit him up and be like, yo, can you hook me up with
one? And he'll like customize it because he knows like what I'd like,
and he like made a custom one for a bunch of our friends and he's
like, here you go go. Birthday. I although, I did you
see that retro Arch is now out on I phone and iOS devices? I
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can get that. Yeah, I've been using Delta the right like it's a
similar front end. Yeah, it is a very very good. Like I
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and it's just it's so easy. Yeah, Pokemon is an ideal game or
that scenario right there. Yeah, that looks great. I got like Pokemon
and all the Castlevania games on on the g B a GB devices, and
then Advanced Wars and the Final Fantasy. Yes okay, yes, like perfect
games, RPG games that you can play like very easily, and Crome obviously.
Yes, these are all games I own can I tell you what's happening
literally right this moment on my computer while you are talking about these things,
I just bought another one. Yeah, I am hitting literally, I'm gonna
hit pay now because someone put the link to the Amberdick game Boy Advance SP
one and there it goes. I am hitting paid. Let's see. It's
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what I've been kind of waiting for. I in my heart, like,
I know, my hands are like kind of too big at this point to
really I'm too old. It is the real thing. To really use the
SP in a way that's super comfortable. I don't care. I The SP
to me was just such peak gaming. It's everything I was hoping for when
they first announced the game Boy Advance. And I love the clamshell design.
I love just throwing it in the pocket. They and it. Apparently they
nailed it Homeboy over at retro Core. He looked at it early and he
was very satisfied with it. So I'm just bought it, especially selling fifty
dollars right, yes, exactly, I got I'm getting the silver one.
I think I ended up I ended up like paying like with shipping and taxes
and everything. I think it was like sixty five seventy ish. So so
on its way, we'll see. I can't wait to get it. It's
coming from China. It'll probably a couple weeks. What's gonna happen is I'll
forget that this moment happened, and then it'll show up and it'll be another
little treat for me from me. Yeah. All right, we should explain
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get into so let's start the morning mess with Grand Theft Auto six launches in
fall twenty twenty five. This is from z al Romano over at Gamatsu.
So you said, Sorrowman, It's from Salaman over at Gamatsu. Saramon.
If we're saying your name wrong, feel free to let me know. Uh.
Grand Theft Auto six will launch for PlayStation five at Xbox Series in fall
twenty twenty five. Rockstar games parent company Take To Interactive Software announced previously the
game had only been confirmed for a general twenty twenty five release. In the
press release announcing the company's latest financial results, Take two Interactive Chairman and CEO
of Strauss Zelmich said, as we enter fiscal twenty twenty five with positive momentum,
we expect to deliver netbookings of five point five five billion to five point
sixty five billion. That's way down from what they were initially saying because they
moved on the Grand Theft Auto out of this fiscal year. We are highly
confident that Rockstar Games will deliver an unparalleled entertainment experience, and our expectations for
the commercial impact of the title continue to increase. Looking ahead, we believe
that our company is poised to achieve new levels of success and we expect to
deliver sequential growth blah blah blah. But they expect to do that for the
next several years after that game comes out, because of course they're counting on
the new GTA Online or whatever to do very well. This is where we're
with Grand Theft Auto. Previously, previously it sounded like, oh, maybe
early next year, and then we saw and that was because Take two previously
said hey, our fiscal twenty twenty five is gonna be massive. Then they
scaled things back and everyone went okay, or everyone said that means they are
moving in out of the fiscal year, so sometime after March of twenty twenty
five, and now they're saying second half of twenty twenty five. This is
Grand Theft Auto massive game. They were always going to like delay this several
times. Yeah, yeah, I think so, I mean, like it
could. I'm not one hundred percent sure that this thing is coming out until
it's literally the day of and it's available. I agree. I wouldn't be
surprised if they they were like, oh, yeah, we're delaying it again.
We need a little bit of extra time because if anyone is able to
do that and get away with it very like they could delay the day before
and people would be like, hell, yeah, brother, take the time
you need. Don't worry about it. This thing is going to make a
trillion dollars. You just take any time you need, right, And it's
like, what are the fans of Great thefto AT are going to do?
Be like, well, now, I won't play it like no, we
all exactually all know that they're going to show up. Whenever it's available.
They will show up, so they're not there's no risk of like, well,
let's take us trying to make sure we get it right. The risk
is you know, coming out and having something fizzle and have to rebuild and
having all the costs involved with that and trying to win people's trust back.
So I think everyone involved knows, hey, if this thing hits, we
really can have massive growth and all these things that we're looking for and you
know, satisfy the fans of the series. But you know, they don't
want to miss in the first place. So that's why we keep hearing this
thing slipping in the background. You know, they've never said, they never
said officially, like early twenty twenty five, that was just like in line
with their expectations. So they haven't publicly delayed this thing, so they're not
even to that point where they've put a date on it that has slipped,
you know, externally that could still happen, though, we could get to
that point as well. Honestly, I would expect maybe one more of those.
That thing launching in early twenty twenty six is just not out of the
realm of possibility at all. No, this this is the game that a
lot of like anas are looking to, like, this is the thing that's
going to finally move this uh like console cycle forward. Uh. You know,
we had the report early earlier this week TAM that half of PlayStation's monthly
active users are still on PS four and there they are using that thing all
the time to play games. They already have Grand Theft Ato Online, Roadblocks,
Minecraft, Call of Duty, all these games that you know, Fortnite,
Grand Theft Auto six is the one that, like, when it's not
available on your PS four, a lot of those people are going to move
forward, right Yeah. Yeah, that's the I wonder if Sony is out
there trying to make bundles happen right now, or even Microsoft like I would
because that I don't think they have they ever done a grand thefto of bundle.
I can't think of a no a. I can't one anyway, I
can't remember. But like in my years of retail work as well, I
don't think they did a grand theft or like four bund or a five bundle.
But most retailers will be like, hey, we'll chuck these in together
and here you go. But I one hundred percent people will be moving on.
I am very, very keen to see what the the adoption rate looks
like post gtaich is. It's gonna be You're right, though, it's it's
gonna be wild. People are just gonna be like, Okay, I'm getting
one of these things now because this is the game I will. I will
spend like four hundred, five hundred dollars on this, but I will be
playing this game for the next seven years, so it'll be worth my while.
Do you think like this getting announced for a second half of twenty twenty
five or for Fall twenty twenty five really, do you think that has has
a further cooling effect on people's excitement for getting new consoles, for getting games
like this year because I don't. I don't feel that way. And I
think when we're like we're talking to each other on the show, and when
like I see how the audience is reacting the live chat, I get the
sense that people are like, well, yeah, I'm gonna play Grand Theft
Auto when it's here. But in the meantime, there's all these great games
to play. But did you get the sense that maybe the wider audience it's
a little bit different. Yeah. I mean, like we're talking about two
very distinct audiences. We have the people who are paying attention to games and
are actively like interested in playing new games. I think once the time conditions
in their lives meet what's necessary to buy a console immediately, that's pretty much
what they'll do. The people who will wait. Other the normies, the
general people, the people who make up the bulk of the ridiculous sales of
Grand Theft or All because you know game is by it. But that's if
every game about it, it wouldn't be enough to really hit the numbers that
we know that Grand Theft or Well hits. It's when the normies come along
and are like, this is Grand Theft a all time baby. That's when
it like truly Skyrockets. I think the Normanis are the people who are like,
oh, this is the thing that I know that I can play and
I love, and that's when they come along. But I think that for
gamers and people who are like have an interest in games or even like have
the other they have other franchises that they are into beyond Grand Theft or like
the Call of Duties or even like the Marios and stuff, they will grab
it the moment their life conditions me. Like, you know, some people
it's like, oh, I just you know, save up money. Some
people are like, oh, I'm just gonna wait for this period to get
to this year or this, you know, and then treat myself et cetera,
et cetera. And I think that's that's how it works. So all
that, like when you just said, Mario, I'm like, okay,
switch To probably will be out next year. Do you think there's any world
in which this game launch is on PlayStation five X, Fox Series X and
S and switch To No? I agree, I agree. I don't think
so, not a launch. I think this is something that could happen like
years later maybe, but not definitely not at one. I not to say
Nintendo would ever turn it down. But I think there's probably people at Nintendo
that think it's in their best interest not to have a grand Theft or game
on their console near launch, just because they need the time to establish the
the ongoing reputation that they're a very friendly to young people and casual people platform,
and I feel like people would see a Grand Theft are and be like
the fuck this is that? Yeah, I don't. I don't think this
is my own conspiracy theory. No, no, totally. I'm like I'm
trying to like there's definitely a time you never want to go to a party
and have Warrior open the door. You'll be like, what what kind of
party is this? Yeah? Like I wanted Lintendo, like even like I
think they're like at a point where like, whorse are going to go for
family gaming? Like you gonna go to Xbox middle PlayStation? Yeah, they
don't give they don't give a damn out all that time. I mean we
got Mario so whatever, despite you know the games that head phones. Yeah,
oh yeah, you're right, but like at a certain point they don't
know you've had to like really undo that. But like, hey, there's
fifty games to have the word hint tie on the shop every day, and
that has that hasn't stopped anybody. But you're right, that is different than
a Grand Theft Auto makes headlines. No one like No. Actually, the
average parent doesn't know first what hint I is and the second that that it's
there are games to have that word in the title on the shop. Those
those people have had children. They know You're right, I shouldn't they been.
They've been on the sexual Jenny that got them to child rearing if they
know. And welcome to our lesson on hint II. Everybody, Thank you
for listening. Yeah, hey, Grand Theft Auto is gonna be huge.
I think it's going to move a lot of things. I will be I
think a little frustrated because I do expect the way it's going to go is
the way that Rockstar has done it for the last several times, severalast last
several major launches. Excuse me, Grand Theft Auto five Xbox three, sixty
year later comes to Xbox one and PlayStation PlayStation four, then a year after
that came to PC, so like two years between the launch and the PC
one and Red Dead Redemption two comes to consoles a year later comes to PC.
They are almost certainly going to do that again with this, and I
kind of I want to just play it on PC to begin with. But
whatever, you know, beggar scamp. I mean, they have I think
at this point built in console transitions into the development and like release and future
plans of Grand Theft All games, because like five, being on multiple generations
has been astronomic for them in terms of sales and also like mind share and
cultural kind of awareness around it. People are still playing online as well.
I imagine that online will still have a significant part of Grand Theft All six.
It makes far too much money not to be so I We're going to
be seeing and playing Grand Theft All for the next seven to ten years.
I'm okay. I mean, I like asking this question because it it feels
like how can we even know at this point? But really, how long
do you think it is between Grand Theft Auto six and Grand Theft Auto seven,
Because my my feeling is we could easily go fifteen years, if not
twenty, like, because they will want, you know, that new version
of Grand Theft at online just run forever. Yeah, M good five come
out. I've came out eleven years ago. Yes, yeah, I think
we get at least ten years, at least ten but that's like that is
minimum, Yes, agree on that. And then after that, I think
it's all bets are off because you know, the landscape could change. They're
desired, their you know, their plan could change. Of well, no,
it's going to be the same GT Online, but here's a new mainline
entry that it now comes with the sort of reboost sales. Who knows how
they decide to do it at that point ten years. Predicting things that are
ten years out is like so impossible to do. Yeah. I also like
between now and then, that's not say there won't be any Rockstar games,
Like there's a decent chance we get another Red Dead or like that Bully game
that everyone's been dying for, maybe even in New IP. Like I know
that, you know, they they're very set in their ways and they're very
happy making these two games forever. But like I wouldn't be surprised if they
came along way, like we came up with a new idea here it is
enjoy yep. And they also have like I assume some sort of a deal
like arrangement with Remedy for Max Pain, so they'll have that part of it
kind of going as well. Yeah, yep, man, I'm like looking
at the time, like, man, we talked about that way longer than
I expected us to. Yeah. Dan records l A and which apparently turned
thirteen years old to day today. Yeah yep, So go celebrate Dan in
that game, all right. Moving on Microsoft's plan to excuse me, Microsoft
plans to put this year's Call of Duty onto Game Pass. According to some
reports, this is from Jordan Midller at VGC. Microsoft will add this year's
Call of Duty game to Game Pass at released, it is claimed. That's
according to the Wall Street Journal, who has sources with knowledge of the situation.
This is yet to officially be announced, but if this goes through,
it will be included in the subscription service. This would mark the first time
a Call of Duty game has been included in such a service. At launch,
It would need for players with access to Texbox platforms. The entry costs
for the game would be as little as eleven dollars. Microsoft's plan plans a
major shakeup of its video game sales strategy by releasing the upcoming installment of Call
of Duty to its subscription service instead of the long time lucrative approach of selling
it a la carte. According to the article, here's my position on this.
I mean, if they're really gonna they have game Pass, they've done
it this far. They've obviously hit that wall that we've talked about where they
saturated the market on Xbox of people who won it, and the growth on
PC and mobile or whatever. Streaming is just not making up that gap right
now. If you put Call of Duty into game Pass and at the same
time, this Call of Duty is the first one not to launch on Xbox
one and PS four, that is the I think the best case scenario for
convincing people to get onto Xbox and game Pass on Xbox. And if that
doesn't work, then I think they are right to be like, Okay,
we really do have to change our strategy at this point. But this is
the moment. It's like, let's let them rubber meet the road. You've
made all these purchases to support game Pass, actually see the strategy through at
least one time and look at the numbers. At that point, it feels
like this could be a changing point for a lot of things, or it
could be sort of the final exclamation point on gamers actually aren't super into this
idea in the long term, and so those who are have already bought in
and the growth just won't be there. What do you think, Yeah,
just as remind me it's coming to PS five, right, they have to
put it out there, as they said in court, like where we've still
got they have a legally obligated themselves to put it on PlayStation for at least
fifteen years if my memory served me. Okay, yep, I mean like,
yeah, this is this is one of those inflection points where well we
will see the true like the true value of game Pass and how much people
gamers for example, and even like people outside of the dedicated gamers are willing
to come to game Pass for a Call of Duty game. I think that
it's it's we're likely to get a good idea of it. I think that
also it puts a lot more pressure on ensuring that those people continue to stick
around, because there's going to be a decent chunk of people who are there
for the single player, right, Like, those people still exist, they
play the single player and then they're done. But I don't think they're as
big as the people who play multiplayer The thing is, I think the Call
of Duty audience has changed in a significant way. You had people who are
like, we play single player and that's it. People were like, I
play single player and multiplayer, and then you had people who play multiplayer in
the original Call of Duty games. Now there's a kind of group of people,
and I think it's the vast significant majority of a significant number of the
qual of the audience who are just like I only play war Zone, like
I am a experience. It's effective as before war Zone, Yeah, exactly.
So I do wonder if it's like, hey, we updated war Zone
for the new Call of Duty and that is the only thing that people come
to it for, in which case nothing is free still, right, Like
so it's it's just like maybe it won't have a kind of as major an
impact as we thought, Oh yeah, but it is going to be a
moment. It is like a rubber mesa road moment, as you said,
where it's like if anything is really going to move the needle on game Pass
and Microsoft's kind of efforts around it, and also how it's seen to the
to the wider world, is going to be this game, this Call of
Duty, And we've talked about like, Okay, yeah, forty million people
still on PS four. There's a lot of people still on Xbox One even,
and those people, a lot of them are staying on there because they're
already hapy with the games they're playing. But many of those people do play
Call of Duty and still buy it every year. The game just simply wouldn't
sell as much as it does if that wasn't the case. So if that
game is not available to them, they will have to make a choice,
and I think the choice will you know, part of the choice is do
I get it on PS five and pay seventy dollars there, or do I
go with Xbox One and pay the pay for Game Pass, Because either way
we're going to have to pay for a subscription service to play that game online,
and then I get all these other games with Xbox. The other choice
is, as you pointed out, I'll just keep playing war Zone. So
exactly, so, there is clearly not like just some like definitive one decision
these fans have to make. They have another option, and yet still this
feels like the best case scenario for Microsoft to make those moves happen. At
the same time, did you think, okay, go ahead, please them,
because I was going to choose such a little bit. This is one
of those moments also where it is absolutely critical that Microsoft puts in a lot
of effort into making sure that they are attracting those people to their platform,
because Call of Duty is one of those games where it's like, I will
go to the platform my friends are on for this game, right working for
you properly start Domino. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like I would be
trying to incentivize some sort of like bring your friends to this platform scheme because
even with cross platform multiplayer, even with discord, in people's minds, like
it's just easier if we're on the same ship because then we know what we're
going to have the same games, and that is we see this on Steam
all the time. The most powerful marketing tool is word of mouth. This
would be a word of mouth opportunity, but they have to You're right,
it's going to take a lot of effort to capture that energy. Yeah,
yeah, I wonder if they could do that. I think they could,
Yeah, I just it's hard. Like I was, I would say Microsoft
is aware of it, and I think they can do it. But the
Microsoft of the last few mon months has been very very difficult to predict,
if you know what I mean, especially after the studio closures. I really
don't know what is going through their minds or if like the left hand is
talking to the right hand right now between the thing where it's like we shut
down Tango and who just made High Fight and then we're in, you know,
out there talking about how we need games like High Fight Like that is
that is just a weird moment where I'm like, Oh, these they're just
chasing their tails right now. They might not know what's going on and they're
so like in the weeds and they can't tell what's going on around them.
So like I think I would like to think that they are with it and
have the wherewithal to take advantage of that. I am not one hundred percent
short after the last few months. Honestly, The bare bones basic thing they
could do is be like, hey, if you invite a friend to game
Pass, they get a discount on I don't know, this season pass for
Call of Duty, which is like, okay, cool, you know this
is the thing that will allow me to play and keep new content coming for
months and months and months, and I'll go here because my my friends are
here, and also I'll get a referral discount and can give that another one
of my friends. Yeah, yeah, so I was gonna like just change
it a little bit. Still talk about the subject, but like, okay,
so then game Pass, do you think that this is now also a
chance for them to I think obviously raise the price. That seems like something
that very likely could happen before Call of Dutey comes out. Do you think
there's also a chance here to sort of maybe reconfigure how game Pass is presented?
Because game Pass Ultimate is fifteen dollars a month, I think it's maybe
moved up to like seventeen dollars a month. I can't remember, but that's
the one that has like all the games, Games Day one and online multiplayer,
and then like down at eleven dollars it is no online multiplayer, but
Games Day one and all the games. Do you think they're like move things
around? So it's like, okay, actually we want people. Maybe the
easiest way to do a rice increase is to get those people who are on
the ten or eleven dollar tier to move up to the seventeen dollar tier,
and maybe we start rethinking like stuff like day one games on there and only
get that through Ultimate. Do you think that's like because you maybe get away
with that with Call of Duty, Like this is the one opportunity where they
could do something extreme. Do you think that's a possibility that. I think
they're more likely to introduce some sort of like unique Call of Duty Pass or
like Call of Dot eat version of game pass where it's like, hey,
play game pass, get this version of game pass and you get I don't
know, all the Call of Duty games or something like that. Or it's
like the first person shoot a Pass where it's like, hey, you pay
this amount of money and you get all these multiplayer first person shooters or something
like that. I don't know. If they and that, I feel like
you can adjust the price on it. You can make it a little more
expensive but also cheaper than that it might initially than the other top tier one
might look, if you know what I mean, like a middle ground pass.
How they would do that? Like, I think it would be pretty
wild if they were like, hey, pay this for a Call of Duty
pass when you only really want to play one Call of Duty game, right,
Like you want the latest one and that's it. But I don't know.
I do think there is an opportunity for them to like reshuffle it.
I don't know if making it more expensive is the right move. I feel
like people are savvy enough to like notice that now where it's like, hey,
you're just adjusting language and trying to trick me into paying more for a
thing that you know you didn't need to change. I think they are.
I think they're smart. I think would be to really look at it and
create some sort of new tier that is more enticing to people, as opposed
to trying to take the two tiers and shuffle them about so it's more expensive.
This isn't a money making moment, like do the smart thing here and
hope that that pays dividends because it brings in a lot of people. Yep,
all right, plenty more to talk about, but we're gonna do now
is We're gonna take a break. When we get back. There is a
Star Wars game, there's a rumered Valve game, lots happening in video gaming.
We'll get to all of that right after this. All right, we
are getting right back into it here on Game Mess Mornings. Let's start off
once again with creative assembly reportedly working on a Total War Star Wars game.
This comes from Kyle Knight at Dual Shockers. A total of three new Total
wargames are in development at Creative Assembly, with one of them being an officially
licensed Star Wars game. That's according to Dual Shockers. The last Total War
game to be released was last year's Total War Pharaoh, which was developed by
Creative Assembly Sofia and published by Sega for Windows. A mac Os version has
been released publisher but published by Pharaoh Interactive. They're working on Pharaoh, They're
going to do more stuff for that. There's stuff happening with Warhammer as well,
and they're going to do more of that. The rumor here is and
now they're going to go over and do something with Star Wars. I'll say
this is this is something that I've heard rumored for a long time, but
it was always like it's so early that it's so like, it's so far
off that might not be worth talking about. So it's and I know that
rumor's been out there elsewhere. I've seen people kind of mention it in a
few things here and there. I think it's a good idea it. Star
Wars has had some success in strategy games before feels like Disney and Lucas Arts
or I guess Lucasfilm. Lucas Arts Stead. Lucasfilm is at a point where
they're like, we want to try a whole bunch of different things with Star
Wars, and to me, that sounds like, okay, yeah, why
not go back to the strategy genre. And this is like one reliable studio
that can do that. And at the same time, a publisher like Sega
would be happy to work with an established property like Star Wars to grow the
total war brand. So makes a lot of sense, right, Yeah,
it makes a lot of sense, especially given what they managed to do with
Warhammer. I mean that is that seems like a brand that feels completely like
unapproachable in every single way. But they did some really cool, interesting things
with Warhammer and brought in people who weren't huge fans of Warhammer or weren't like
Warhammer nuts and were you know, RTS fans or like fans of Creative Assembly,
and the game they made was really really cool. I am interested in
seeing how they approached Star Wars. I don't think they're gonna I think they
might simplify it a bit because I think Warhammer was like they released a game
and then they released a sequel which kind of expanded on that game, and
they kept feeding into that same universe until it was one giant Warhammer experience.
That could be an interesting approach for it, but I think they probably want
something a little simpler and a lot more like traditional Total War ish a lot
of lot of opportunity there. I think that kind of appeals to the hardcore
of Warhammer, not Warhammer, the Total War fans. The conditions that you
need to meet to kind of get on board with that are numerous, I
think, and sweaty as fuck, Like you need to be into Star Wars,
you need to also be into RTS games, which PC gaming likely,
I mean, like the Total War games artists strategy games have been on console,
but you likely you're on PC. Yeah. Total War is very much
a PC kind of franchise. Yeah, and then you have to be you
know, engaging on all those levels and it feels very very niche So I
do wonder if this could be their first attempt, or not first attempt,
but another attempt at bringing a RTS game of this ilk two consoles the only
way really maximizing Star Wars is if you put it everywhere. Yeah, and
then and that means and that speaks to your point of simplifying it even more,
making sure that it's very approachable. You know what I imagine here is
when I looked at you know, Total Wars relatively, you know, pretty
old franchise. I can't remember if it's as old as like something like Attack
of the Clones, but I definitely played it, and not too long after
that when it first launched, and I always like, hey, this the
way these battles look kind of look how they shot Attack of the Clones where
it's just like these you know, droids and and clones, you know,
running at each other and it's kind of like slow pacede when they pan out,
and it's like, yeah, that's what Total War looks like. So
I think it's a good fit. But yeah, I think it'll be.
It'll take them, I think, some effort to make sure they are reaching
a wide enough audience to make this project make sense. All that aside,
Hey, if it happens, it happens, and then we get it,
and then if it doesn't do great whatever, maybe we won't get another one,
but at least we got one that is also that's also been kind of
the story of real time strategy games and Star Wars. You know, where
Empire War would come and Star Wars Rebellion, but there was another one.
These games kind of come and they that people are like, oh, these
this is a lot of fun, or I'm gonna spend a lot of time
with this, and then you kind of don't get another one necessarily, or
at least not a long series of them. So if it's a one off
thing, I'm just like glad that Disney and these vary still developers and publishers
are able to get these projects here and there. That's what I want from
Star Wars. It's what I always say. My favorite time as a Star
Wars fan in gaming was, Hey, it's like game Cube era, and
we're getting like four different Star Wars games across all these different things every couple
of months. So kind of replicating that a little bit is good news to
me. And yeah, and this happens. It's probably still a couple of
years away, but I hope they announced it soon we can kind of just
get a good look at it and get excited about it. I just had
a quick look. They've only ever released one title, Total War title on
consoles, and it's Spartan Total War, which is not even an arts It's
that like a Hack and Slash spin off. Oh really, Okay, I
can't. I can't see a single Total War game on this list. That's
still a question. I think you're there's your point still stands like, yeah,
because because cive Cive rev for example, on console, and it is
like they put six on now, yeah, they put some six on console,
So I think a they can do it. This might be the Sive
moment where they moved the console and the Star Wars Follers is the perfect thing
to make that happen, especially if they can like make the marketing look like
it's you know, just epic battles and doesn't have that sweaty niche game a
top down viewer, it's like loads of UI stuff and you're clicking around quickly.
If it's still like zoomed in and you're seeing loads of droids being like
shot and like a couple of Jedis in the middle of the you know,
atsd atat just walk around, I'm sure people would be like hell, yeah,
I'm gonna get that. Yep. Yeah, And I think if that
means the battles need to like kind of be slowed down, or there's a
button you need to hold to like, Okay, we're gonna basically pause the
real time action so I can really plan my moves. So be it.
And then at the same time, if they don't, if they aren't planning
the console version, again, that's kind of their problem. I'll be happy
to play this game on PC. And I'm just I hope it really does
come to fruition. Yeah, the rest in peace Hyenas, resting peace of
Hyenas God. That's right, man or studio. All right, now,
next story here, Valve's next game, a hero shooter called Deadlock, has
seemingly leaked. There's another one from Jordan Middler at VGC. Images showing what
is reportedly Valve's next game are circulating on social media. According to Tyler McVicker,
who has a good track record of announcement of reporting details of Valve projects
ahead of their announcement, the game is called Deadlock and hundreds of people are
currently play testing it. Images allegedly from a private play test of the game
appear to show six v six gameplay with abilities not unlike those in Overwatch or
similar competitive hero shooters. According to McVicker, the game has been in development
since twenty eighteen, features tower defensive mechanics, and has a fantasy setting mixed
with steampunk. So he wrote magicians, weird creatures, and robots, fast
travel using floating rails similar to BioShock. He added basically a fast paced,
interesting ADHD gameplay, a combination of dough to two Team Fortress two, Overwatch,
Valorant, Smite, Orcs Must Die, and more. Hero design pretty
much inspired by the Doda universe. Tam, this doesn't move me too much.
I gotta say, reading all that doesn't move too many games. It's
a mish mash, yes, but like even just okay, let's just boil
down to a six by six hero shooter with you know, special attacks that
look similar to Overwatch. Yeah, man, I played Overwatch and there's Valerie.
I mean, yeah, you never count Valve out. They always have
some sort of secret source in their games that potentially could make them absolutely pop
off. I can't think of a Valve game that they ever put out that
was like an outright abject failure in the kind of like the card game,
right, that's the oh yeah, you Remember that's how much of a failure
that was artifact other than artifact and that was recent. But they've learned lessons
since artifact, Right, that's no, no, it learns there. I
imagine they look at the fact that I'm just like, well, that was
we basically were paying attention and slipped on and on appill, this will never
happen again. What we what? What was it with the artifact of twitch
category? Were people streaming adult content on there? Is that? What that
was? I think so vague memories of that. Yeah, man, I've
completely forgot about Yeah, why wouldn't you? Yeah, mostly because whenever he
comes up, Mike tells the story of how he went to Valve to see
it before they announced it, and when he walked in the room, he
was late and Gabe Nowel was just talking everybody that got invited. He to
like interrupt Gabe Newel and he felt very awkward. I'm like, that's what
you get, that's what you get. Gave Newell runs with his knife out.
That counter strike thing is real. It's basically room to room. Yeah.
Yeah, if he's late for a meeting, you'll see the knife come
out and he'll rapidly increase and he jumps and spins in the air as well.
But yeah, I mean, like I I don't, I don't know.
It feels like I'm not moved by it. But I'm also very very
keenly aware that you Valve is very good at what it does for the most
part, in fact, notwithstanding, so I am still intrigued by it.
I feel like, right now, the hero bas shooter is just a massive
trap. Agreed. I don't know. It's gonna round sound really stupid.
I don't know why you create a hero based shooter, a new one in
this day and age, and don't call it Team Fortress three. H That
is crazy to me, Like why would you make a TF three? Like
I know it's not hero based, but like, yeah, but the class
based shooter could evolve and have Team Fortress come back. They're probably like,
oh, this is free us up to do different stuff. I'm like,
ah, yeah, calling a Team Fortress three doesn't actually hold you back.
You can kind of do whatever you want with that. Yeah. Yeah,
And like this feels like such a mishmash. I think that the stuff that
Avalve does best is when it's got a clear, unique direction to it,
and the things that I've seen or heard about it right now, it's like
steampunk fantasy and it's a hero It's like val is count Strike. It's just
like there's too much. Man, it's a bad pitch. I don't know
why. I mean, like, it's not an official pitch, so I'm
gonna work for that. But but it's still it's like there's nothing in there
that immediately makes me think, oh, this is the hook, this is
cool, and there's stuff that makes me, you know, oh I sleep,
you know, like tower defense. Come on, I don't know.
I mean I get I get that that's like such an easy like mechanic in
a game to be like, oh, this gives players something to do and
manage other than just kill people, so you don't just keep it running out
there and get shot and die because you aren't good. This gives you a
chance to get familiar with the game. Like if I'm a designer, I
get why you get the appeal of something like a tower defense thing back in
your in your competitive shooter. But just hearing that that's the core part.
I'm like, I'm not into that. Is ice Frock still at Valve.
I don't remember last I heard it was looking a do. I think we
talked about him on this show about a year ago and he was at I
thought he was at he was there, but I don't know, I have
not Yeah, maybe is ice Frog's projects that changes things a look a bit.
It's just like, Okay, ice Frog, I frug knows a thing
or two about designing satisfying games. But still, and that's why it sounds
like this sounds like a designer's game. This sounds like a designer ass designers
game right now. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah, I just need
to get to the point where I'm like, I do see it for myself
in action. I'll go look at the screenshots and all this stuff, but
I want to see how Valve presents it. So it's like, and here's
what makes it a Valve game. If they compare those two things together,
they'll probably have something. Yeah. I feel like the I mean like,
no, no normal out there is going, oh my god, ice Frog
is making this. Only the swatiest of game is like us, so are
like, oh shit, this is a nice frog joint to everyone else.
If it doesn't like have that kind of clear pitch to it and isn't great
isn't like distinct from the game that because you are trying to law people who
have who have basically committed what is effectively their life to a game like you,
you need to be able to because I believe that audience is finite,
right, Like you don't have a constantly. I mean, there's new people
coming in, but like the people who play these kind of games are like,
I'm committing to this thing and network effect, they get stuck into the
black hole. Yeahly out there. Like I was a when I was coming
up, when I was playing PC game multiplayer at my most intent, I
only played count Strike. Nothing else that, right, not even TF two,
And it's still like that where it's like I'm a qualit duty player,
I'm a count striper, I'm a valorant player, or even like it's if
it is what it sounds like and what they're presented at. It's now competing
with like mobiles as well, so it's competing with like League of Legends and
Dota and all these other games. So it needs a clearer and more refined
kind of pitch to entice those people to try it, and then it needs
to be good enough to keep people there. And then it also needs to
have that online streamer word of mouth kind of like factor to it to There's
so many things that you have to kind of get right these days to make
a game like this pop off. If anyone could do it, it's Valve.
But still this kind of leaked pitch or whatever, it is obviously not
official at the moment. I'm just like, Okay, I'm gonna wait for
them to tell me what this is because I hope that they've got something clearer
going on. Then it's every game that you played. Yep, exactly,
all right. Just announced a few minutes ago, Red Fall is actually going
to get its offline mode after all. I'm going to read this tweet from
the play red Full account on Twitter. Thank you for all your supportive messages.
We are working to release our final update. Game update for that brings
revamped neighborhood and Nest systems, single player, pausing, offline mode, and
more. We'll provide additional details soon. Thank you all. Okay, great
that this is coming out just bums me out all over again. Just that
it's like, okay, there was enough of a response that we are we're
going to put this out. So now these people have to do the death
March to get their final update out before they get laid off or maybe moved
around and have their lives changed. At the very least, it just sucks.
I hate this. I hate that those studios close down. I hate
the way it was handled. Everything about it bumps me out, including this,
even though this is, you know, objectively, a better thing I
suppose than the way things were ending before. Yeah, I mean, like,
I will never ever ever ever forgive them for doing this to Arcane.
Yeah, never ever ever. Like I've that Arcane is Arcane is a special
studio, and I know there's other you know, Arcane lyon still exists,
but like, I feel like you really screwed up when you are doing this
to any any facet of Arcane as a team that is such a talent that
you you let them figure something else out, man, because the next thing
they figure out is gonna be It's gonna be like anything, unlike anything else
anyone else is doing. And there's so much value into that. I'm glad
that the Red Full Crew is being able to, you know, put this
one thing out again. And I and you know, honestly, I am
committing to going back and checking out Red Fall again, I really want to.
I wanted that game to succeed more than anyone, like I adore Lockandle
much. Yeah, and it was it wasn't what they wanted it to be.
And also it's not what anyone wanted from them. And between the this
then being shut down, and also the news that you know that there was
that story about how they were pitching a new immersive sim and it could have
been Dishonored three, I am just like, yep. If I ever see
anyone involved in that decision, it's on site, yep, I'm gonna yep.
And for me, it's like when they when all this was announced,
it should have been at the time, been like, and of course we're
going to support the studio to get this last update out because they care about
this game, even though when no one else does. We still care.
That would have been the right way to do this. And you know,
I wanted to put out this update. I did so. I'm glad it's
happening. I just can't help but also still be very frustrated by the way
upset I am upset by I'm yeah, the whole It's been a bad year
for for Xbox. Like in so many different ways, and like it's I
hope that I mean, we're not far away from uh summer game. First,
I hope that they come in there with some humility and are ready to
explain and don't become defensive about it. Yeah, because right now, like
you are not in looking and you know in the best light, and you
have done something that like truly devastated gamers and didn't make sense to them.
That's the thing I keep coming back to more than anything. It's like we
don't know what is expected of us or expected of games from you now right
because you it doesn't make sense. The things that you say and the things
that you do are in direct conflict. We have no idea what you want.
We have no idea what is a success to you. We have no
idea what you deem as like a creative endeavor. We have no idea what
you deem as a money making effort. It's all over the place. So
I'm excited, Like I'm not saying I'm writing them off completely, and I'm
sure there is some sort of vision there. Right now, I'm very bummed
out by Xbox. And I say that as someone who owns three xboxes literally
right now my Xbox. Yeah, I have paid for multiple Xboxes. I
have purchased Xboxes for other people, so I've got like PlayStations as well.
Obviously, I'm I'm a ambidextrous platform agnostic gamer, and I want Xbox to
succeed as much as I want PC and Nintendo and places to succeed. And
I really hope they're ready to talk about what's going on and present a future
for that company that is better than the last year. And I hope that
they're ready to have some humility around these closures, especially arcane, because people
are big mad about that and rightly so. Yep, absolutely, I'm very
curious to see how that all plays out over the next three weeks gone.
We are running out of time, all right. A couple of big news
stories we had to get to before we wrap up. There's a report that
a Lego Horizon video games in the works. This is another one that like
I was hearing, but that's like just so crazy. I'm like, no
someone else could say that someone else did. This comes from Alex Hopley at
Game Reactor. Lego games are often known for giving a blocky, cute twist
on an existing ip, like Star Wars and Batman. So, according to
Insider Gamer, how about Gorilla's post apocalyptic world Horizon, and like Horizon forbidding
West? Like that Horizon? Everybody, I I the fucking man they are,
Oh okay, I just this is Horizon is just being driven into the
ground, like if Zan Gief is Paul driving. You don't want the mmo
and the TV show and another game and play another game and then this game
thetmost respect to everyone at PlayStation, everyone at the teams that work. I
would be happy if we didn't see Horizon again for ten years. Yeah,
please chill, please relax Horizon. I know a lot of people love it,
but yeah, I'm not saying it's not good. I just it's not
my thing, that's all. Yeah. I mean like I'm sure people will
love it, but like, oh my god, you but the people who
say Horizon's good, you're asking for Horizons lego game for real? Yeah do
you want Arizon? A conversation about whether Horizons is good or not anymore?
That's over there. What is this game? That's what I'm asking That is
exactly it. But like I am the best, the giving the benefit of
the doubt people, part of my brain is like how they want to appeal
to a different audience. They want to appeal to you. That's fine,
but like also it is the other cynical part of me is just screaming they
want to milk the shit out of this. And also like I am not
as confident as they seem to be in the kind of like potential that Horizon
has to become universally appealing in the way that it's going into like you know,
every single genre, Like I what is I don't wonder if this is
real. I'm just gonna be like, more power to you. I will
definitely check it out, and I will not I'm not going to write it.
I'm not gonna say I can't exist. No, no, no,
I'm just confused by this. And also I'm like, I feel like you're
driving that ip into the ground and like making it something that people stop caring
about much quicker than you think that you're doing it. Then then you think
that you you'll get out of you know, putting it everywhere and benefiting from
it. This isn't one I don't believe this is one of those ips that
is like this is always an eternal thirst for more of this. I think
this is one where it's like, oh thew Horizon's coming out every five years
or three years or whatever it may be, and it's okay, And if
this does, if this comes out, is this going to be the first
like Lego game that isn't on the switch in some way for for that audience.
So it's gonna be just on PlayStation in PC. And has that ever
happened before where one of these Lego games came out and wasn't everywhere? Because
that's a good point. Actually, so weird it will be on PC show.
I know why this is happening. They had that, They had that
Lego Tollnick, didn't they They did have that Lego tonk Yes, they did
this, this started ace ago. Oh my god, yep, I forgot
about that. They already have like the tendrils in the Lego business with that
stuff. So okay, I mean that Lego Tonic was pretty cool. But
did you call it Lego long back? You can't? Okay, all right,
Hey, what whatever, I'm not gonna again, not gonna deny anyone
their fun and Lego Taylor Swift? Is that what I said? I think?
So? Yeah, well it's it's still weird. To me confused.
I'll be very interesting to see how they present it, and I suppos part
of me is like I sometimes like those Lego games. There's no world in
which I'm like, well, let's sit down with the kids to play Lego
Horizons, and feels like opportunity costs. We're missing out on something that maybe
I would have, but I don't know. The strategy for successful Lego games
has been taking ips that have legendary levels of of like engagement and like fandom
and cultural awareness, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, DC, that
kind of stuff and making legoifying them, to presenting them as an entry point
into those franchises for younger audiences. I regret to inform PlayStation that Horizon is
nowhere on the same level as a lot of the Rings, Star Wars,
d C, even rock Band, which they had, Like I, I
feel like this is incredibly misjudge. Again, I'm not writing it off.
I would love I would love to. I hope it's good and we're going
to prove us wrong too, right, please prove it. The show comes
out and it's really good, and then that changes the calculus on everything,
and then they hit wh Iron's Hot and they prove us wrong. It could
happen. Yeah, I will, I will. I hope the TV show
or whatever and the Fortnight clone and the clothing line and the serial does great
for you, But I would. I am very happy to not hear from
Ala again for a while. You know. I reviewed that VR game and
I was like, I forgot about the VR game. Yeah, I mean
you're happy to forget it's the one game on PlayStation VR two. Yeah,
that's right. I heard it and I was like, yeah, this is
this is fun. That's the game later. It's not even weird. It's
not even like a weird choice. You know, if it was like we
made Lego Death trending, I'll be like, hell, yeah, brother,
let's do this. It's that weird in the way that weird can be interesting,
right, yeah exactly, So we had interesting. It feels cynical catch.
This feels like, oh, it's obvious how they're gonna do it,
right, I get how this works as a Lego game. Sure, yeah,
this isn't this is an attempt to push an ip into main extreme given
it the push. Yeah, they're trying to put it over, brother.
Yeah, good luck to them, good luck, right exactly, it seems
like a challenging challenge, all right. Last couple of stories here, next
iteration in one of two case biggest and most beloved franchise, if he announced
the Summer game Fest, please they should have done they should have done a
car racing game before they did this for real. There's like so many other
ones that were like, Okay, yeah, that seems like lower stakes somehow,
I don't know. I don't know. Get the motor Storm team back,
makes them make a racing game in the Horizon universe that would have been
way better than this lex. He says, what if it was developed by
team of Sobey that would be Please don't because that team needs to go make
Astro That team no SOB Yeah, leave them alone? All right? Uh?
This is from Salamano and Gamatsu, next to UK biggest beloved franchise,
getting Saramon is back. Sar Ramon is back, everybody. It will be
announced at the Summer Game Fest twenty twenty four showcase. No further information.
Could be Mafia, could be BioShock, could be SIB seven. What do
you think? What was the wording on it? Was it just new ip
or is it like no genre? One of two case, biggest and most
beloved franchise franchises and it's the next iteration. Excuse me. I think everyone
forgot that they're making a BioShock Yeah, and I did until I read it
in this story, Like, Okay, I guess it could be Shock.
I mean it could be by a shock. It could be Borderlands. Borderlands
makes a lot of sense that they have a movie coming out. Yeah,
so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Borderlands trailer where you know, Jamie
Lee Curtis is in it, Jack Black is in it, et cetera,
et cetera. We're making the Borderlands game with the cast or Borderlands, et
cetera, et cetera. I would prefer it if it was the BioShock game.
I don't know if there's any life left in Mafia. The uh,
the team that made Mafia just released a video game. Can you tell me
why it is? I did. Yes, I will give you ten dollars
if you and if you tell me what game the team is, like mobile
or something like. Nope, it is released on consoles and I believe,
oh it's I swear to looking shout if so, but in there is it?
Tennis is it the tennis game is I owe you ten dollars? Remember
t K Yeah, tennis whatever? Yeah to Oh my god, that's right.
I opened that game up and I was like, younger thirteen, that's
the Mafia people. And then I never thought about that again until this very
moment. Summer game. First, I will buy you one mill. That
sounds we're gonna get a burrito so hard I can't wait. Okay, yes,
they did just release a game. That's why I think this is SIB
seven because biggest and most beloved. I know some people I don't care about
SIV sim Is Massive has always sold a ton, always has some of the
most like concurrent players on Steam, and is beloved in a way that even
like Mafia, and at this point even BioShock is in. I guess if
it's not. If it's BioShock, so Civilization Horizon, let's go. Yeah.
At this point, who would put it past them? That makes more
sense than the lego the last couple of times here, take two CEO's claims
they didn't close Private Division Studios ROLL seven in Intercept Games. He has said
stuff like that before, and then it's so funny. It's proved to be
a liar about these sorts of things is just straight up light right, Oh,
we laid off everybody, but the studio still exist. What does that
mean? It's just like I hate to invoke this, but this is like
Trump levels of like what are you talking about? Yep, well what you're
talking about. It's real. It's wild and crazy. I always say,
like when the reports come out and then someone in the company denies it,
like, look for the space where both things are true. The space where
both things are true. Here is they laid everyone off, but they still
have a piece of paper somewhere that says this is an entity that exists or
whatever. And that's the most you can get away with. Here. There's
maybe a building that still exists that has a logo, right, yes,
yeah, the studio still for tax purposes as slacker chances correct, someone there
will be CPA filing that company's you know that subsidiaries taxes later this year.
Is it says everything about people in this position. They don't see studios as
the people. They see studios as the building. Yeah, the little factory
and on legal papers, yes, where the keeler elves make the video games
exactly, Yes, all right, that does it for the news. We
got a pull question coming up here in a second. While I'm getting that
set up, Tam, what do you got going on? Where can people
find you? You'll find me everywhere. Unfortunately, no spot on this week.
Me and Lucy were traveling, which she is traveling an ungodly yes so
much. Yeah, but she's working on something cool. I was traveling with
her for a little while as well. I didn't have to my mind's on
polls until next week now, But we didn't do it spawn because of that,
because it was just like it was too hard to cram it in and
we didn't want to half arse it. So beyond that, you can check
me out and check us out. We got you can catch on all the
previous spot ons as well. Go watch those again. Yeah, exactly exactly.
A train video. Uh. John up on Instagram Stories. He was
like, I just finished the video that I was working a really long time.
When I sat there for a four minute, I was like, I'm
gonna I'm gonna risk passing him off, and I just replied train video question
mark that was for clubs friends. Oh, that's very good. But at
this point I'm really really into the idea the train train video never is gonna
appear mean, but we never. We also never give up on it.
We still bring it up all the time. You know what's gonna happen six
months from now Lego train video. People are gonna be like, who go
train video? Here's then, like I realized over this last couple of years,
I me and Jane have very similar brains, and I know that,
like this is the guy think where it's like like a guilt thing over here.
Then every time he looks at it, it's very painful, and that
also makes it hard to go do anything with it. So yeah, yes,
that's just what it is. Go watch the w W video everybody.
It's a it rules, So I mean to be fair, the priority is
well one straight there he focused on the right video. And also John is
doing a crazy amount of stuff. Crazy we're gonna have We're gonna have upf
later where I will make Jen's life considerably harder by not using my normal set
up and using a experimental this experimental Jerry rig there to just test sorry for
it's alpha set up of course, yes yeah alpha yeah, yes, So
we'll be doing that in a bit. I haven't tried to see if shadows
Shadows legends legends works, and uh so we'll figure that out together later.
We're gonna I'm gonna try that out here in a second. See if I
can get logged in. Yeah, so that's happening. And then if you
haven't already, please and you can pick up a ticket to the live show
on the ninth at the Belle in La if you are in the area,
we'd love to see you there. If not, we'll see you online.
Yeah, that's pretty much it. That's right. Tickets are going so everyone
should get on there and pick them up right now, pick them up this
weekend, just to be safe. All right. Let's see here. Poll
question from yesterday, are you excited about Assassin's Creed Shadows Yes or no?
Forty said yes, fifty eight percent said no. For me, I feel
like an Assassin's Creed game from this audience. That's a pretty good response,
tam, I am so excited for me too. It is hitting the notes
for me. Them talking about how you can of course, you can do
the samurai action stuff, but there's a light meter. When you're now noo
noo noo now a now a, when you're now way, there's light meter.
You can take out lights and all that stuff, and it's like,
oh boy, oh boy, that sounds good. I'm so excited. So
yeah, I'm very very excited. It's got like it's hitting a stealthy stuff,
and I that's where I love. That's why I get most excited about.
Yes, that's great one. It's doing stealthy you know, you know,
because Lord knows where's as a self game, you eves, you little
make it the first one to just make it. Although although man if they
remake that game and it actually does have ray trace lighting and my voice systematic,
I will they keep doing sam fish and dirty and in an age where
Solid Snake has also been done dirty, like what's happening? Bullshit? They
just they just laid off our game people, So we probably won't get Yes,
we are. We're in a low point for I think we have to
now turn our eye to indie games for a lot of the stealth stuff going
forward. Stealth icons are being mistreated. Got immersive sim to what happened to
immersive sims has now happened to self games. Remember that bullshit when it was
like all that stuff was Habu Kojima and and then you besofted a mobile game
and had Sam Fisher show up in there, and Sam Fisher's like, there
was another guy. Oh, he's gone. Now I guess I'm the last
one show up. Ever again he was the guy who's still yeah, what
are you talking about? Out of here? With that out of here?
Uh? Well question, will you get game pass for Call of Duty?
Yes, I already have it, No, I won't get it, or
I don't care about cod Those are your options. Poll will go up on
YouTube dot com slash at giant Bomb. Click the community tab there you can
vote on the pole. We'll talk about the results on Monday here on Giant
Bomb. Speaking of the Giant Bomb. If you want to see our other
content while you're there, clicking the community tab, click the live tab.
That's where most of our stuff lives. We do most of our stuff as
live show, so you can watch everything. There. A lot of good
stuff this week. Earlier this week we did a a demo derby that was
a lot of fun. Looked at an old ultra gameplayer CD D disc.
It was some weird stuff on there. It was a good time. And
then hyah, plenty of other stuff to check out. Next week we'll get
back into the normal swing of things. And yeah, upf later today,
don't miss it. We're gonna we're gonna try to play on my multiplayer ghast
Sushima Legends. See how that goes. Tam, thank you so much for
spinning today talking with me about video games. Man, I really appreciate it.
Thank you for having me. You know, I love being here all
the time. Me too, love having you is a great time and I
hopefully we will be doing it again next week, looking forward to it.
Thank you all for listening and watching. You're the best audience of gaming.
Until next time, have a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.