Battlefield 6 Beta Passes Call of Duty Player Record on Steam

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Grubb,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for tuning in.
<v Speaker 1>In this episode, we're going to be talking about byewear
<v Speaker 1>and not getting to make a dragon Age remaster, and
<v Speaker 1>Battlefield six is doing real well. It's gonna be a
<v Speaker 1>good one because we have lex Ludi on the show. Lexi,
<v Speaker 1>how are you doing?
<v Speaker 3>It's games Calm next week?
<v Speaker 2>Fuck fuck oh no, yeah, a lot of work.
<v Speaker 1>My understanding is there's a lot of games there to
<v Speaker 1>be seen, a lot of a lot of appointments. If
<v Speaker 1>you want to have appointments, apparently there's a lot of them,
<v Speaker 1>so so many.
<v Speaker 3>I so it's been a quiet year for Alexi. Will
<v Speaker 3>say when it comes to getting commissions, that's just the
<v Speaker 3>state of freelancing. And I've managed to get a website
<v Speaker 3>in the US to be like, listen, whatever moments you
<v Speaker 3>can get, we'll take a light up of. So now
<v Speaker 3>I'm just taking any appointment I can guess. So my
<v Speaker 3>schedule is massively overbooked, and I know it is. So
<v Speaker 3>we're going to see how that goes.
<v Speaker 1>Ooh fine, Well I'm excited for you though, I'm sure
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you'll find ways to have a good time.
<v Speaker 2>We'd love to get out of games Com one day.
<v Speaker 1>We couldn't make it happen this year, but maybe maybe
<v Speaker 1>next year we'll get back out there.
<v Speaker 3>Grubby, you would love it. There's a bunch of terrible
<v Speaker 3>smelling gamers there, just like I know you, I love
<v Speaker 3>I know you love the game scent, so you'd feel
<v Speaker 3>right off.
<v Speaker 1>Geh me the gamer sent. Yeah, it's actually a slight
<v Speaker 1>difference there. Yeah, I love the gamer sent. Not less
<v Speaker 1>busy over here in terms of events, but still pretty busy.
<v Speaker 2>We've got lots of stuff happening over on a giant bomb.
<v Speaker 1>People should be checking out the beta of the website
<v Speaker 1>starting tomorrow.
<v Speaker 2>You should do that.
<v Speaker 1>If you are a premium member, you get it, You
<v Speaker 1>get into the beta. All the details are in the discord.
<v Speaker 1>If you are wondering or if you need any help,
<v Speaker 1>you know, just ping us in there.
<v Speaker 2>Pink Chuck, bothered Chuck. That's what he's there for.
<v Speaker 3>And if anything goes wrong, it's Chuck's salt.
<v Speaker 1>Oh god, yes, of course everyone should know that by now.
<v Speaker 1>But very excited about that, just really.
<v Speaker 2>Enamored with with the work he's doing over there.
<v Speaker 1>The site's looking great, so very excited to get that
<v Speaker 1>back up off the ground, you go.
<v Speaker 3>I said about one particular bug fix that got me
<v Speaker 3>very excited as someone who watches a lot of videos
<v Speaker 3>on the website. Hearing that that bug had been fixed,
<v Speaker 3>I was like, oh, Chuck, I love you.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, he's making headway. It's a it's good stuff. You've
<v Speaker 2>been you've been playing anything recently? What have you been
<v Speaker 2>kind of checking in on?
<v Speaker 3>Not too much. I've been in like a weird kind
<v Speaker 3>of downstate with game. There's just nothing much been. I
<v Speaker 3>checked out Ninja Guide and Rage Bound and I finished
<v Speaker 3>that and that's pretty good, but it's not, you know,
<v Speaker 3>like a big, long thing that you can put much
<v Speaker 3>time into. I've been bouncing around between a lot of
<v Speaker 3>things I hate. Loaded up Tears of the Kingdom on
<v Speaker 3>the Switch too, and I'm going to try to finally
<v Speaker 3>finish that before the end of the year because I
<v Speaker 3>never I never beat that game, and I kind of
<v Speaker 3>left off after finishing the four first dungeons kind of,
<v Speaker 3>so I never saw the back half of that game,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm like trying to get to that. I'm also
<v Speaker 3>like looking at stuff that's coming out and being like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>there's some stuff that I'm interested in Melga Salad and
<v Speaker 3>Shanobi Shanobi I played that demo of and I really
<v Speaker 3>dug that demo. I think I might like it more
<v Speaker 3>than Ninja Guidan, which I know isn't like a fair comparison,
<v Speaker 3>but it is what it is. And yeah, there's some
<v Speaker 3>stuff coming out in like September as well. I'm interesting.
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm a Borderlands fuco like I don't like it.
<v Speaker 3>I don't like saying it. Yeah, but like it's been
<v Speaker 3>long enough and I disliked Borderlands three enough that I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>I could do with another good Borderlands and I'll fall
<v Speaker 3>for the trick again. I'll assume this will be a
<v Speaker 3>good one.
<v Speaker 1>Why didn't you like three? Like and then to to
<v Speaker 1>still be hopeful for four?
<v Speaker 2>I guess so like.
<v Speaker 3>Three change lots systems. And on top of that, boy,
<v Speaker 3>people talk about Borderlands writing not being good. Borderlands too,
<v Speaker 3>and especially It's DLC at least had some good writing
<v Speaker 3>in it and some good character moments and stuff. Borderlands
<v Speaker 3>threes writing is dreadful. It's real bad. The villains are
<v Speaker 3>some of the worst written characters imaginable that one. Yes, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's that one. Yeah, and like even when those previous
<v Speaker 3>games at least had interesting villains, this game doesn't have that.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I was I actually kind of liked Tiny
<v Speaker 3>Teina's Wonderland, the one with that. That game is not
<v Speaker 3>that bad. It's like pretty.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yep, okay, Well.
<v Speaker 3>And then they shut down that studio, so you know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you have to watch that movie before you're allowed
<v Speaker 1>to play Borderlands for I know you've seen it.
<v Speaker 3>It's a thing. Bub Yeah, I already have, and I
<v Speaker 3>bought watching him. I bought another games journalist friend to it,
<v Speaker 3>who had never played the games before. I don't think
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna stop playing these games. I was like, yeah, good, okay,
<v Speaker 3>you said another complete Yeah, fantastic.
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<v Speaker 1>All right, we have a lot to get into, so
<v Speaker 1>let's start the morning mess with I'm sorry I was.
<v Speaker 1>If you hear me laughing there, maybe my green screens
<v Speaker 1>on and maybe yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I'm learning about like the San Francisco Zoo.
<v Speaker 1>I think, yeah, maybe my live producer is having fun
<v Speaker 1>and I'm joined it myself. Actually, So let's see what
<v Speaker 1>else happens today. Xboxes new game or new excuse me.
<v Speaker 1>Xboxes next gen console reportedly set to be a monster
<v Speaker 1>PC with changeable hardware before we get into this as
<v Speaker 1>a reminder, Xbox is under a target from the BDS
<v Speaker 1>movement as part of its responsibility and the ethnic cleansing
<v Speaker 1>of Gaza. It is helping out the state of Israel
<v Speaker 1>with Ai and Azure and can go fuck itself. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor. But we still
<v Speaker 1>seem to be years away from any sort of next
<v Speaker 1>gen hardware outside of the Nintendo switch to. Of course,
<v Speaker 1>that doesn't stop people speculating, especially when it comes to Xbox,
<v Speaker 1>as the Green team is largely given up on exclusives
<v Speaker 1>now and doesn't seem to be too interested in selling
<v Speaker 1>as many consoles as its competitors. Gamers are expecting something
<v Speaker 1>big from the next generation of Xbox hardware to boost
<v Speaker 1>interest again. A new video by Digital Founder goes over
<v Speaker 1>recent leaks of AMD's reported Magnus hardware. The text specs
<v Speaker 1>can be found in the video, but to keep it brief,
<v Speaker 1>the GPU and CPU look to be more than anything
<v Speaker 1>we've seen before in consoles including the PS five, pro
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Series X, and.
<v Speaker 2>Blah blah blah. You would hope it would be.
<v Speaker 1>Perhaps more interesting is the mention of there being separate
<v Speaker 1>die sizes for this hardware, which theoretically means you could
<v Speaker 1>have an Xbox with a larger or smaller GPU if required.
<v Speaker 1>As points further to Xbox is a next console being
<v Speaker 1>more of a superpowered and mix between a console and
<v Speaker 1>a PC. It's possible that there will be multiple tiers
<v Speaker 1>of this hardware, allowing for various budgets to still exp
<v Speaker 1>sperience next gen gaming. Of course, it's worth remembering none
<v Speaker 1>of this is confirmed yet by Xbox. You know, it's
<v Speaker 1>that story again, LEXI that, Hey, the next gen Xbox
<v Speaker 1>is going to be a PC? What form that takes,
<v Speaker 1>what structure that takes in terms of how you select
<v Speaker 1>one as a consumer? Or I guess this is beginning
<v Speaker 1>to shed a little bit of light on how that
<v Speaker 1>would work. I guess my what I really wonder is like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>if you put out like a tiered system of various
<v Speaker 1>PCs as Xboxes, how do you make those feel special?
<v Speaker 2>How do you avoid confusing people?
<v Speaker 1>How do you maintain the the benefit of console, which
<v Speaker 1>is for a lot of people, is it's just gonna work?
<v Speaker 1>Is this thing gonna be Windows? And really, have you
<v Speaker 1>made enough improvements to Windows to justify this.
<v Speaker 3>That's what I wanted, another Windows device.
<v Speaker 1>Exactly like It's it's so, I don't know, I get
<v Speaker 1>why they're doing this because, yeah, like at a certain point,
<v Speaker 1>if you are no longer in the we are making
<v Speaker 1>exclusive games for our Xbox business.
<v Speaker 2>What is the business of Xbox at all.
<v Speaker 1>In terms of hardware? So yeah, going the PC route
<v Speaker 1>makes sense from that front. How do you how do
<v Speaker 1>you like actually make an Xbox a PC?
<v Speaker 2>Though? I don't know. What do you think?
<v Speaker 3>First of all, lesson piece to the Steam Machine. You'll
<v Speaker 3>always be famous to me?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, so people that you should you're you're joking,
<v Speaker 1>but I'm right there with you.
<v Speaker 3>It's what it is. It's what they're it's what they're doing.
<v Speaker 3>They're licensing the brand out to Asis.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, so the Steam Machine was a before there was
<v Speaker 1>the Steam Deck, Mike or excuse me. Steam Valve tried
<v Speaker 1>to get into the hardware game by partnering with third
<v Speaker 1>party uh PC manufacturers, Yes, to make PCs that were
<v Speaker 1>like Steam.
<v Speaker 2>Boxes is kind of what we call them colloquially.
<v Speaker 1>And the reality is those things came out and no
<v Speaker 1>one really wanted them. They were consoles as PCs, and
<v Speaker 1>they had Steam Os on them. Now, it was a
<v Speaker 1>little bit early. Steam was a little under BIGD. Linux
<v Speaker 1>Gaming was in a weird spot, so that probably contributed
<v Speaker 1>a lot to it, but that did never spoke to
<v Speaker 1>me as like the main reason people weren't interested in them.
<v Speaker 2>It seemed like the main reason was people didn't get it.
<v Speaker 2>They just didn't get like, Okay, if I want a PC,
<v Speaker 2>I'll just get a PC.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Do you think the same thing is going to afflict
<v Speaker 2>the Xbox?
<v Speaker 3>I do think so, because the only marketing strategy that
<v Speaker 3>you can have for something like this is, hey, it's
<v Speaker 3>just like a PC. But the second you look into it,
<v Speaker 3>you're like, okay, but it can't do stuff that PCs
<v Speaker 3>can do, like can I answer my emails on it?
<v Speaker 3>Can I do? Like? Can I do that on And
<v Speaker 3>as soon as that like stelf starts to add up
<v Speaker 3>and people see that as a value detraction on it,
<v Speaker 3>they'll be like, no, why not? Why not just build
<v Speaker 3>a PC? This whole thing has been really weird. There
<v Speaker 3>has been a vibe coming out of Microsoft the last
<v Speaker 3>couple of months, I'd say, like eighteen months of like
<v Speaker 3>last day a school after you've sat all your exams,
<v Speaker 3>but you still have to come into school anyway, and like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>you're there and you just don't give a shit. Instead
<v Speaker 3>of like actually doing anything, you're sitting at the back
<v Speaker 3>of the class talking to people. You're like getting a
<v Speaker 3>bit do to make your anniversary controllers for you, You're
<v Speaker 3>getting aces to make your handheld for you. Like you
<v Speaker 3>just are totally checked out. Every vibe I get off
<v Speaker 3>of Microsoft as a corporate entity, not like the people
<v Speaker 3>below them making the games, gives the vibe of like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>we've lost the stomach for this. This thing is long
<v Speaker 3>in the tooth and we're kind of done and we're
<v Speaker 3>gonna see out your investments, but we might not keep
<v Speaker 3>going much past there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, we're gonna see see out our investments.
<v Speaker 1>We're not gonna make new investments, and that includes making
<v Speaker 1>new investments in the current current ongoing.
<v Speaker 2>Efforts of Xbox. So yeah, I think.
<v Speaker 1>Everything you described there does lead back to that sort
<v Speaker 1>of being the case where uh, yeah, we want to
<v Speaker 1>keep doing stuff that represents Xbox, but we got to
<v Speaker 1>do it on the cheap, and that means outsourcing everything
<v Speaker 1>where possible, and does it sounds like that could be
<v Speaker 1>what ends up happening with the hardware here. Now, do
<v Speaker 1>you think Microsoft's hardware division puts out an Xbox themselves
<v Speaker 1>and then also welcomes in third parties to like offer
<v Speaker 1>variations on it that are like a lot more powerful
<v Speaker 1>or maybe even a.
<v Speaker 2>More of an entry level machine or what? Or do
<v Speaker 2>they just exclusively have stuff from a SUS and Acer
<v Speaker 2>and whatever.
<v Speaker 3>You'd hope they do something themselves if they had any
<v Speaker 3>degree of interest anymore in the video game industry, But
<v Speaker 3>you just don't get that vibe. Like I've had the
<v Speaker 3>conversation with people of like if I was one of
<v Speaker 3>the studio heads at a Double Fine or an Arcade
<v Speaker 3>or wherever, I would be ringing up toys for Bob
<v Speaker 3>asking them how they bought their independence back. I would
<v Speaker 3>be like, how do we get out of this system?
<v Speaker 3>Because I don't think this is a system that cares
<v Speaker 3>long term about whether we exist or ash. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>like I just I don't. I don't. I really don't
<v Speaker 3>know how what a future could look like for Microsoft
<v Speaker 3>now when they seem so disengaged with doing anything, like
<v Speaker 3>people joked about it, but they do just seem like
<v Speaker 3>they are going to become the Calle Duty company. They're
<v Speaker 3>just like Okay, we're done now, which you know, that
<v Speaker 3>ship will suit them down to the ground. They love
<v Speaker 3>that bullshit. They love bombing people.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's their main business.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently the AMD chips are going to be pretty powerful.
<v Speaker 1>Uh this next round of consoles. AMD's kind of really
<v Speaker 1>hit their stride with with well obviously obviously with CPUs
<v Speaker 1>have been very good for them. Their GPUs seem to
<v Speaker 1>be coming together, especially now with all the software tech
<v Speaker 1>FSR is getting really good. That's their d LSS equivalent.
<v Speaker 1>So it just kind of, yeah, if you're making new
<v Speaker 1>hardware right now, it's got to be like, okay, very cool.
<v Speaker 1>We've lined things up in such a way that we
<v Speaker 1>have a vendor that can provide us with something that.
<v Speaker 2>Is going to feel like a pretty huge leap.
<v Speaker 3>Now.
<v Speaker 1>Of course, well the games will call that different, probably not,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, Like it's just kind of a shame that
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft has got this opportunity to really figure out what
<v Speaker 1>the next Xbox could be and it doesn't seem all
<v Speaker 1>that interested in doing that other than let's just make
<v Speaker 1>it a PC and partner with some others and let
<v Speaker 1>them do the hard work. All right, Let's keep going here.
<v Speaker 1>Former BioWare executive producer says EA was pitched multiple times
<v Speaker 1>to remaster the first three Dragon Age games.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Jordan Midler at VGC. BioWare made several.
<v Speaker 1>Pitches to remaster the first three Dragon Age games, according
<v Speaker 1>to a former BioWare veteran speaking on the YouTube channel
<v Speaker 1>Mister Maddy Plays Shout Out to Maddie. Mark Dara, a
<v Speaker 1>former BioWare executive producer who joined the studio in nineteen
<v Speaker 1>ninety seven and worked there for nearly twenty four years,
<v Speaker 1>said EA wasn't keen to remaster the first three games
<v Speaker 1>in the series in the same style as the Mass
<v Speaker 1>Effect of Legendary Collection.
<v Speaker 2>Darra says that there was a.
<v Speaker 1>Number excuse me, a number of reasons for this, including
<v Speaker 1>EA's apparent dislike of remaster projects. EA's historically been and
<v Speaker 1>I don't really know why, but they've even said this publicly.
<v Speaker 1>They're kind of against remasters. Dara said. It's strange for
<v Speaker 1>a publicly traded company to basically seem to be against
<v Speaker 1>free money, but they seem to be against it. But
<v Speaker 1>that's just part of it. The other problem is that
<v Speaker 1>Dragon Age is just harder than Mass Effect to do,
<v Speaker 1>and to some degree, unknowably harder, maybe only a little
<v Speaker 1>bit harder, maybe a lot harder. So I would get
<v Speaker 1>this question all the time, Lexi. After the Mass Effect
<v Speaker 1>Legendary Edition stuff happened and I was like breaking that,
<v Speaker 1>and I was talking about that the buy where people
<v Speaker 1>came to me like brub tell me about dragon Age.
<v Speaker 2>What's happening with dragon Age? Are we going to get
<v Speaker 2>the same thing for dragon Age?
<v Speaker 1>And whenever I would ask about it, I was told no,
<v Speaker 1>just no, flat out no. And then the reasons were
<v Speaker 1>basically what Dara is saying here, that it is much
<v Speaker 1>more more difficult. The big reason is that every every
<v Speaker 1>Mass Effect game used unreal engine, so the effort to
<v Speaker 1>improve one would likely spill over to helping.
<v Speaker 2>With the improvement of the next game.
<v Speaker 1>So every action had a knock on effect that would
<v Speaker 1>save money down the line for this project. That's not
<v Speaker 1>the case for dragon Age, which I think only the
<v Speaker 1>third one inquisition used.
<v Speaker 2>Well that used Frostbite, right, god.
<v Speaker 1>The second the first and second one we're on the
<v Speaker 1>older you know engine from biowear and that, so it's like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>immediately that you have a problem there. The other issue
<v Speaker 1>is that the stories are not like linear, with one
<v Speaker 1>leading into the next leading into the next. Necessarily, there
<v Speaker 1>are a lot of things that separate one story from
<v Speaker 1>the other, and so I think, EA, maybe Summitt BioWare,
<v Speaker 1>we're looking at that being like it just doesn't have
<v Speaker 1>the same impact as mass effect legendary legendary editions, So
<v Speaker 1>maybe it's not going to be worth it. I think
<v Speaker 1>those two factors were the biggest things. I'm sure there's
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of others, you know. That's what I was told.
<v Speaker 1>Do you think they ever changed their mind on this
<v Speaker 1>LEXI It feels like in the grand scale of time,
<v Speaker 1>we will eventually get something along these lines.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 3>At one point I would have said yes, But you know,
<v Speaker 3>that franchise has become such the ugly step sister of
<v Speaker 3>biowear when it comes to internally within a EA, they
<v Speaker 3>do not view the Dragon Age franchise glowingly, like even
<v Speaker 3>though the Veil Guard sold quite a large it did
<v Speaker 3>not reach expectations at all, which like those expectations also
<v Speaker 3>from what I hear, were like fucking nuts. Yes, And
<v Speaker 3>on top of that, like I just don't I don't
<v Speaker 3>know if there's a biowear around to do this in
<v Speaker 3>ten years time, like it is a skeleton crew working
<v Speaker 3>on that new mass effect from what I can tell careful.
<v Speaker 1>Last time I described EA as having a skeleton crew
<v Speaker 1>working on a game, they got real mad at me,
<v Speaker 1>even though it was true.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, sorry, sorry, it is a agile team working on
<v Speaker 3>the new mass effect. And you know, I like worry
<v Speaker 3>that even if they that game does go on and
<v Speaker 3>become successful, they don't necessarily see BioWare as the flagship
<v Speaker 3>studio that it once was. I think they now look
<v Speaker 3>at the battle the collection of studios that make up
<v Speaker 3>Battlefield Studios as their flagship studio, as the ones that
<v Speaker 3>will receive new investment to do new things, especially considering
<v Speaker 3>like Vince Sampella. The their kind of like Golden Boy
<v Speaker 3>of development design is there at the moment, and I
<v Speaker 3>don't think you're going to see like, you know, at
<v Speaker 3>one point BioWare was bringing back Casey Hudson after he left.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think BioWare is going to be bringing in
<v Speaker 3>big name talent like that.
<v Speaker 2>Again.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, that doesn't mean there's not good people gonna
<v Speaker 3>get hired at biowear. People who love those games will
<v Speaker 3>apply for jobs at biowear and they'll be really fucking
<v Speaker 3>good at what they do. But I don't think you're
<v Speaker 3>gonna see like the big name, big money bets on.
<v Speaker 3>Let's bring back a well known developer to get this
<v Speaker 3>thing off the ground and to like see these projects through.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's an accurate assessment of kind of where
<v Speaker 1>they're at with this, where they like, hey, we talked
<v Speaker 1>about losing appetites. He's definitely lost their appetite to sort
<v Speaker 1>of figure out biowear and it's a mass effect, Well,
<v Speaker 1>they'll yeah, they'll do mass effect.
<v Speaker 2>Sure.
<v Speaker 1>I do wonder what the expectations are for that. I
<v Speaker 1>wonder if they have high expectations again, or if they're
<v Speaker 1>just like, no, we're doing this sort.
<v Speaker 3>Of expectations for it because they're like also greenlighting a
<v Speaker 3>TV show around it, so they're gonna expect it to
<v Speaker 3>like be some cross media collaboration massive thing, and it's
<v Speaker 3>gonna go fucking terribly for them because they're out of
<v Speaker 3>their goddamn minds.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>It's just like every company in this space apparently, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>we'll keep moving here. Battlefield six Beta eclipses Call of
<v Speaker 1>Duty Player record on Steam. This is from Darren Bonthus
<v Speaker 1>At game spot weekends are usually the busiest busiest time
<v Speaker 1>for new game releases. In the Battlefield six open beta
<v Speaker 1>was fortunately no exception to that rule. Once the game
<v Speaker 1>switched from early access to open beta, the numbers swored
<v Speaker 1>and Battlefield Battlefield six reached an impressive five hundred and
<v Speaker 1>twenty one thousand concurrent players.
<v Speaker 2>That's via Steam database.
<v Speaker 1>Second open beta is scheduled for August fourteenth through the seventeenth,
<v Speaker 1>and if you're planning to play on PS five, there's
<v Speaker 1>an exclusive skin you can claim if you choose to
<v Speaker 1>purchase the game later this year.
<v Speaker 2>To put that into perspective, Call of Duty Headquarters.
<v Speaker 1>Which includes Call of Duty Wars and it's their launcher,
<v Speaker 1>peaked at sixty seven, five hundred and ninety five players
<v Speaker 1>on Steam during the weekend, and Battlefield six are passed
<v Speaker 1>the free to play games all time peak of four
<v Speaker 1>hundred and ninety one thousand, six hundred and seventy concurrent players.
<v Speaker 1>People can use that to launch a war Zone, which
<v Speaker 1>is the free to play version. Yeah, so that's a
<v Speaker 1>bigger number than the other I think that I am.
<v Speaker 1>I know, I'm surprised by this LEXI that this game
<v Speaker 1>is finding its footing in such a strong.
<v Speaker 2>Way out of the gate with this beta.
<v Speaker 1>I think it just shows that people want something in
<v Speaker 1>this shooter space that feels both familiar but fresh, and
<v Speaker 1>Battlefield six might be exactly that. I don't think none
<v Speaker 1>of this is a guarantee that that game is going
<v Speaker 1>to do exactly what EA needs it to do and
<v Speaker 1>be the game that they want.
<v Speaker 2>It to be.
<v Speaker 1>But it's all a really good sign that so far
<v Speaker 1>this game can capture the attention of gamers in a
<v Speaker 1>way that Battlefield feels like it hasn't been able to
<v Speaker 1>do for a very long time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. John, by the way, I just sent you a
<v Speaker 3>DM of something very important grub. This has been really
<v Speaker 3>like weird and interesting because I think people really hungry
<v Speaker 3>for a new shooter thing and it's at the perfect time,
<v Speaker 3>which is it has been the longest possible time since
<v Speaker 3>the announcement and release of a new Call of Duty,
<v Speaker 3>Like they are getting this beta in right under the
<v Speaker 3>wire of when card tends to start showing off the
<v Speaker 3>next game.
<v Speaker 2>Is it's a Black Ops sequel? Again?
<v Speaker 1>People just got Black Ops. So I think that they're
<v Speaker 1>like the fervor for what Call of Duty is even doing.
<v Speaker 1>Is like lower than most years. So I think that,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the call of Duty, people are going to
<v Speaker 1>go play Call of Duty, of course, but I think
<v Speaker 1>there's a huge casual audience that's like ready to flip
<v Speaker 1>over to something else, at least for a little while.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I'm curious to see if this game is
<v Speaker 3>sticky for people, because I definitely had the experience of
<v Speaker 3>getting in getting into a close quarters game and then
<v Speaker 3>just like getting my ship wrecked and being like, well,
<v Speaker 3>I'm just not built for the rules of operation for
<v Speaker 3>this game. And like the thing that I've always run
<v Speaker 3>into with Battlefield and it's always been like difficult, is
<v Speaker 3>it's very hard to have a singular impact as a player,
<v Speaker 3>and it's really hard for you to feel like you
<v Speaker 3>turn the tide of a match. So you're gonna have
<v Speaker 3>a lot of games where you just get your ass
<v Speaker 3>whopped and it does not matter what you do, and
<v Speaker 3>like that doesn't feel good in the long term, and
<v Speaker 3>I'm curious if that like affects this game's growth in
<v Speaker 3>the long term.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Battlefield has had its fans and it's still
<v Speaker 1>that game, and I think it's maybe with Battlefield six
<v Speaker 1>here it is maybe the better the best version it's
<v Speaker 1>been of itself in quite some time in terms of
<v Speaker 1>delivering those big epic moments where it does feel like
<v Speaker 1>you're part of a massive movement of troops and when
<v Speaker 1>you kind of all begin to work together, you that's
<v Speaker 1>when you change things on the battlefield. You're right that
<v Speaker 1>like as a lone soldier. Even the times where it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>I made a good move there, I made a good play.
<v Speaker 1>I got us in to be it's like, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if that's a really effect in anything, because I
<v Speaker 1>can see over there there's a huge battle that my
<v Speaker 1>team is losing that I'm not a part of, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, it's completely disconnected from that.
<v Speaker 2>But I don't think that really hurts the game.
<v Speaker 1>I think people want to feel like they're part of
<v Speaker 1>something big and also not feel like their mistakes are
<v Speaker 1>counting against their team in a really negative way. You
<v Speaker 1>can kind of get lost in the shuffle. So maybe
<v Speaker 1>there's a dual sided blade there.
<v Speaker 2>At the end.
<v Speaker 1>I think this game looks good enough and plays well
<v Speaker 1>enough that it is a really well positioned to take
<v Speaker 1>advantage of all this excitement. You know, I do think, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>so we got the core version of Battlefield. Here they
<v Speaker 1>are still talking about the free to play version, which
<v Speaker 1>I don't I still don't fully understand. Have you kept
<v Speaker 1>up with that? Do you know what they plan to
<v Speaker 1>be there?
<v Speaker 3>What I think is it's going to be is going
<v Speaker 3>to be like that fire break of the Firestorm, the
<v Speaker 3>their version of a Battle Loyale and that they ease
<v Speaker 3>at the end of their event. And I think that's
<v Speaker 3>going to be their free to play mode and Firestorm, yeah, Firestorm,
<v Speaker 3>So I think that will be what they do. But yeah, again,
<v Speaker 3>I still people notoriously were like, hey, we don't want
<v Speaker 3>a Battle Loyale and Battlefield when that happened, So I'm
<v Speaker 3>curious if that even takes but it will be It'll
<v Speaker 3>be interesting to see how it plays out. Like, five
<v Speaker 3>hundred thousand is a big number, especially just on Steam.
<v Speaker 3>I bet seam is probably going to be their biggest platform,
<v Speaker 3>but they still have two other platforms adding to those numbers.
<v Speaker 3>And again, beta is like zero commitment. It is an
<v Speaker 3>open beta. It is free, anyone can get in. But
<v Speaker 3>I'll be very curious to see what the word of
<v Speaker 3>mouth leads to for next weekends open beta on how
<v Speaker 3>that affects it because if it grows and if it's
<v Speaker 3>bigger next weekend, then that's like a really good sign
<v Speaker 3>for them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a very good point. I am looking forward
<v Speaker 1>to tracking along with this game. I did enjoy it, well,
<v Speaker 1>I play a ton of it. Probably not, but I'll
<v Speaker 1>play some more, honestly, honestly, maybe want to go play who's.
<v Speaker 2>Some more Star Wars Battlefront too?
<v Speaker 3>So maybe just to be fair, you do have a
<v Speaker 3>hard CALLI and Mike Manati, he'll he'll really help you out.
<v Speaker 1>That shotgun is so dangerous. Everybody stand, especially if you're
<v Speaker 1>honest team.
<v Speaker 3>Everything on the battlefield except for the humans.
<v Speaker 2>That's a really good clip. People should go check that out.
<v Speaker 2>This on his Blue Sky.
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<v Speaker 1>Mes Mornings. I'm Jeff Grubb. That's lex Lutti, Lexi. Let's
<v Speaker 1>get back into the news. With enabling secure boot for
<v Speaker 1>Battlesfield six is turning into a nightmare for some. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Chris Peira at GameSpot.
<v Speaker 2>Shout out to Chris.
<v Speaker 1>Battlefield six on PC requires secure boots, something meant to
<v Speaker 1>help ward off cheaters. For many of this has already
<v Speaker 1>enabled and thus a non issue as they attempt to
<v Speaker 1>play the beta. For others, it may mean taking a
<v Speaker 1>trip into the bios menu that they're unaccustomed to seeing,
<v Speaker 1>but ultimately something that can be resolved in a matter
<v Speaker 1>of minutes. For others, still, the process of enabling secure
<v Speaker 1>boot it's turning out to be a much bigger problem.
<v Speaker 1>Secure boot is often enabled by default on newer PCs,
<v Speaker 1>but that's not always the case. Many people may have
<v Speaker 1>never even heard of it before, but a great deal
<v Speaker 1>of interest in the newly launched Battlefield six Beta, many
<v Speaker 1>people are hearing the term for the first time and
<v Speaker 1>perhaps having to figure out what acronyms like bios and
<v Speaker 1>you fee refer to, and how to deal with the
<v Speaker 1>possibility that the drive Windows is installed on uses MBR
<v Speaker 1>instead of GPT.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I was actually dealing with that, but for a different
<v Speaker 1>reason to reinstalling Windows on my kids PC.
<v Speaker 2>It's been a hasshole. Yeah, I mean god, I also
<v Speaker 2>realized I don't think I've ever said the u FI
<v Speaker 2>or you fee out loud before.
<v Speaker 1>This is a feature that is baked into motherboards now,
<v Speaker 1>and some operating systems take advantage of it. It's like
<v Speaker 1>a very low level security tool that games like Battlefield
<v Speaker 1>six and others are going to start you scene to
<v Speaker 1>prevent cheaters in their game, and it's gonna work for
<v Speaker 1>let me check my watch five minutes, and then they'll
<v Speaker 1>figure out a way around it, and then there will
<v Speaker 1>be cheaters in there, and you will still have had
<v Speaker 1>to do all this stupid shit to get secure boot
<v Speaker 1>working on Battlefield six.
<v Speaker 2>Did you have any trouble with this? Did you play
<v Speaker 2>on PC?
<v Speaker 3>I played on console. We we gotta stop giving Greg
<v Speaker 3>Miller free AMMO.
<v Speaker 2>Like it's getting frustrated, it's getting bad.
<v Speaker 3>Like every time we try to be like no, no,
<v Speaker 3>there's something too like PC gaming and like, you know,
<v Speaker 3>you can do so much stuff with this. Stuff like
<v Speaker 3>this comes up and he can go on his big
<v Speaker 3>podcast or whatever and take off his shirt and start
<v Speaker 3>yelling about how bad PCs are. Again, I will say,
<v Speaker 3>I feel like very empathetic towards people that have had
<v Speaker 3>to brood up their bios and aren't familiar with that stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, because boy scary.
<v Speaker 3>I tried to set up a Magic PS two this
<v Speaker 3>weekend and I ran my first Bash prompt, and let
<v Speaker 3>me tell you that bash prompt failed. So I understand
<v Speaker 3>the frustration of not really knowing what's going on and
<v Speaker 3>maybe following guides and the guides not working and then going, well,
<v Speaker 3>I don't really fully understand this.
<v Speaker 2>Thing, yep.
<v Speaker 1>And it's frustrating because it's they say, hey, just go
<v Speaker 1>turn on secure boot, go in your bios and turn
<v Speaker 1>it on, and every bios is different, has it in
<v Speaker 1>a different spot, might call it something different.
<v Speaker 2>It's a hassle BIOSes.
<v Speaker 1>And when I say that, I'm also referring to Ufi's
<v Speaker 1>they are a pain in the ass that they are
<v Speaker 1>actually pretty bad. They are like developed with like the
<v Speaker 1>ideal of idea of whoever's using this is going to
<v Speaker 1>know what they're doing. And if you go in there
<v Speaker 1>and you don't know what you're doing, you're gonna be
<v Speaker 1>overwhelmed more than likely.
<v Speaker 3>Now, like you can fuck up an insult, you can
<v Speaker 3>fuck up stuff if you if you are really good
<v Speaker 3>at fucking up things, which lots of gamers are, and
<v Speaker 3>you're really hard headed, you can fuck up some shit
<v Speaker 3>by fucking them owned in your bios for too long.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, Now you can figure it out. But I guess
<v Speaker 1>this is another reason I'm so surprised by that number.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people must have figured it out because
<v Speaker 1>they're they're they're playing the game, and they seem pretty uh,
<v Speaker 1>they seem pretty interested in trying to get through this
<v Speaker 1>so they solve their problems. Or most people just haven't
<v Speaker 1>new enough PCs that they didn't have to do this.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't, Hello, kiddo, I'm in the middle of the show.
<v Speaker 2>I'll hope you guys later.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Uh so you know this is going to
<v Speaker 1>help with cheaters, right, this is going to stop cheaters
<v Speaker 1>in the game.
<v Speaker 2>Well, we'll see.
<v Speaker 1>The Battlefield six Open Beta is apparently already dealing with
<v Speaker 1>those cheaters.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Jason Finelli at game Spot.
<v Speaker 1>The Battlefield six Open six's open beta early access period
<v Speaker 1>has begun, and footage of explosions and simulated military action
<v Speaker 1>have been flooding the internet ever since. While a lot
<v Speaker 1>of players are sharing cool things they did and having
<v Speaker 1>a good time, a rising number of people are lamenting
<v Speaker 1>the fact that despite EA's best efforts, multiple cheaters have
<v Speaker 1>already surf surfaced within the open beta ten. Multiple social
<v Speaker 1>media posts have shown footage of cheaters in action, including
<v Speaker 1>one from Twitter user it's Hoppa that appears to show
<v Speaker 1>a player with the ability to view every player in
<v Speaker 1>the match, friend or foe, no matter where that player
<v Speaker 1>was on the map. Another Twitter user ten iq Gaming
<v Speaker 1>YouTube claimed that within hours a group of cheaters were
<v Speaker 1>able to play with esp aimbot and Radar. Battlefield sixth
<v Speaker 1>producer psychics they have that sixth sense, Yeah, replied to
<v Speaker 1>its Happa's post directly addressing the posted clip saying that
<v Speaker 1>the team was aware of the exploit and that she
<v Speaker 1>believed the player is already banned. No official comment has
<v Speaker 1>been left on the clip from ten iq Gaming YouTube
<v Speaker 1>as of this writing. The clips of cheaters come despite
<v Speaker 1>using secure boot technology for the PC version of the game.
<v Speaker 2>Which requires players to modify the core settings of the
<v Speaker 2>PC they'll be playing on that Jason Finelli is a
<v Speaker 2>good writer. Uh okay, yeah, so here we are.
<v Speaker 1>We just talked about having to go in your bios
<v Speaker 1>to stop the cheaters, and the cheaters are still getting
<v Speaker 1>in the game.
<v Speaker 2>It's funny.
<v Speaker 1>I saw some people like posting like some of these
<v Speaker 1>cheaters are just dumb idiots using stuff they found on
<v Speaker 1>the internet, Like they're like typing their commands into chat
<v Speaker 1>for everyone to see because they didn't know where else
<v Speaker 1>to put it. So just good stuff all around. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you kind of it's hard to stop the cheaters, and
<v Speaker 1>you kind of really the only game you can be
<v Speaker 1>playing with them is Whackable. As they pop up, you
<v Speaker 1>knock them, you ban them, and you ban their IP
<v Speaker 1>or whatever, try to fully ban their account, maybe ban
<v Speaker 1>their credit card.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, but that seems to be the real
<v Speaker 2>way to deal with this, right.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Like it's it's a never ending battle. And I
<v Speaker 3>get why companies feel like they have to be the
<v Speaker 3>ones to make a protectives like sands, to make the
<v Speaker 3>to like start with their shields up to some extent,
<v Speaker 3>but so often, like they may as well just get
<v Speaker 3>in their manually. So often it feels like you like,
<v Speaker 3>this is going to be defeated, your first like line
<v Speaker 3>of security is going to be defeated so quickly, and
<v Speaker 3>then you'll just go back to trying to manage this
<v Speaker 3>the old fashioned way with a moderation Hannah. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's it's it's frustrating that you they have to deal
<v Speaker 3>with it. But it doesn't seem like as widespread as
<v Speaker 3>some other games have at launch, which is good.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, yeah, I am.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't see any cheaters while I was playing. So
<v Speaker 1>while it like, you know, the numbers we're hearing three
<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand or whatever that they have already dealt with,
<v Speaker 1>if that, you know, that is the real number something,
<v Speaker 1>I think that that was thrown out there somewhere. It's yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 1>that's gonna happen in a big game like this. I
<v Speaker 1>think that I am likely not going to run into
<v Speaker 1>them at this point.
<v Speaker 2>But it is the kind of thing.
<v Speaker 1>Once it starts, it begins to spread if they don't
<v Speaker 1>deal with it.
<v Speaker 2>So as long as they are, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, kind of going there and and trimming things up,
<v Speaker 1>pruning things, keeping that bush from getting too out of
<v Speaker 1>control in the garden there, then it's probably going to
<v Speaker 1>be just fine when I go to play the game
<v Speaker 1>for real.
<v Speaker 2>But who knows.
<v Speaker 1>There's people who play games like this a ton and
<v Speaker 1>can spot a packer every single time, and it really
<v Speaker 1>does ruin the experience for them. Multiplayer games continue to
<v Speaker 1>be in a weird place. I don't ever get the
<v Speaker 1>cheating thing. Just cheating with random people trying to ruin
<v Speaker 1>someone else's time seems like a really stupid waste of time.
<v Speaker 1>But there are stupid people who love to waste their time,
<v Speaker 1>So what am I going to do about it?
<v Speaker 2>All right?
<v Speaker 1>AOL will end dial up service Internet in September, thirty
<v Speaker 1>four years after its debut. The AOL Shield browser and
<v Speaker 1>AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Mark Tyson at Tom's hardware dial up
<v Speaker 1>connectivity stalwart. AOL has set a date for cutting off
<v Speaker 1>the remainder of its old tech Internet holdouts. AOL now
<v Speaker 1>a Yahoo property, will end its dial up Internet service
<v Speaker 1>the public's on September thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Its dial
<v Speaker 1>up service has been publicly available for thirty four years
<v Speaker 1>and has provided many and Internet surfers first taste of
<v Speaker 1>the WWW, the world Wide Web. AOL will also end
<v Speaker 1>its AOL dialer software and all Shield browser rest in
<v Speaker 1>peace to the slow band. Hey a little bit gaming related.
<v Speaker 1>People used to play games on a dial up connectivity
<v Speaker 1>that they might have paid AOL for way back in
<v Speaker 1>the day.
<v Speaker 2>AOL was my first ISP.
<v Speaker 1>When I was a kid and my family first got
<v Speaker 1>on the Internet, it was AOL and I used the
<v Speaker 1>AOL like portal the software to like, you know, eventually
<v Speaker 1>access the browser to get to the wider Internet. But
<v Speaker 1>I was in a lot of those chat rooms and uh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, strike a match. If anyone remembers that AOL
<v Speaker 1>game or whatever, Yeah, a lot of fond memories of that.
<v Speaker 1>It is weird to see this go away, but hey,
<v Speaker 1>you know what cable internet way better.
<v Speaker 3>You know, they looked up the state of the Internet
<v Speaker 3>and they said, all job, he was done. It is.
<v Speaker 3>It is as good as it it's ever going to be.
<v Speaker 3>We did it. Mission accomplished. Everyone can go home.
<v Speaker 1>They don't want their computers to get like reinfected, like
<v Speaker 1>just on plug them, like let's just talk like this stuff.
<v Speaker 2>We don't want it to get back to us.
<v Speaker 3>Now they're going to start their own Internet. That's just
<v Speaker 3>AOL services and it's like disconnected from from everyone else,
<v Speaker 3>which you know, I would, as someone who wasn't alive
<v Speaker 3>joined that era, I would go back and use that.
<v Speaker 3>That sounds nice.
<v Speaker 2>It was. Yeah, it was a good time.
<v Speaker 1>There was like you had a real strong sense of
<v Speaker 1>camaraderie with the other people using the internet in that time.
<v Speaker 2>That went away fast.
<v Speaker 1>It was a brief glimpse of a better life, and
<v Speaker 1>then we found all the ways to make.
<v Speaker 2>It terrible and the worst. And here we are now
<v Speaker 2>on this show. Hello everybody. Yeah, I liked AOL.
<v Speaker 1>Despite it being kind of bad in a lot of ways.
<v Speaker 1>It was not the right way to experience the Internet.
<v Speaker 1>You did want the raw the raw data just stream
<v Speaker 1>to your Netscape navigator, and that was the way to
<v Speaker 1>do it.
<v Speaker 2>But still end of an era thirty four years.
<v Speaker 1>It's weird because it's like that sounds both like a
<v Speaker 1>long time and a blink of an eye at the
<v Speaker 1>same time, like thirty four years, Like if I met
<v Speaker 1>a thirty four year old and be like, you haven't
<v Speaker 1>been around all that long, and AOL's and really it's
<v Speaker 1>dial up services were irrelevant for what twenty of that,
<v Speaker 1>like at least fifteen years of that. So yeah, it's
<v Speaker 1>a shame, but also it was a long time coming.
<v Speaker 1>Diablo series head Rod Ferguson leaves Blizzard after five years.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Chris Scullion at VGC. Diablo series head
<v Speaker 1>Rod Ferguson has announced that he has left Blizzard. Ferguson,
<v Speaker 1>who was previously a program manager at Microsoft before working
<v Speaker 1>at Epic Games to lead on Gears of War, moved
<v Speaker 1>on to Irrational Games, two K and Black Tusks Studios
<v Speaker 1>before returning to Microsoft to service studio head of the
<v Speaker 1>Coalition and work on Gears again. Ferguson then left the
<v Speaker 1>Coalition after nearly five years to join Blizzard and leave
<v Speaker 1>the Diablo franchise, but fallow the sale of Activision Blizzard,
<v Speaker 1>he found himself under the Microsoft umbrella for the third time.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 1>Ferguson has taken to social media to confirm that he
<v Speaker 1>has stepped down from his role as Blizzard Senior vice
<v Speaker 1>president and Diablo General manager in search of a new challenge.
<v Speaker 1>When I joined Blizzard five years ago, I had two
<v Speaker 1>main goals besides getting my sword, which I guess is
<v Speaker 1>something you get when you work there, to revitalize one
<v Speaker 1>of my favorite franchises of all time, and to have
<v Speaker 1>a meaningful impact on the company I admired, he wrote
<v Speaker 1>on LinkedIn. And it is with great pride and gratitude
<v Speaker 1>that I can now look back on this period of
<v Speaker 1>my career and say that not only did I achieve
<v Speaker 1>those goals, but having the privilege of leading this team
<v Speaker 1>alongside some of my favorite people in the world and
<v Speaker 1>shipping amazing experience as far players helped me to grow
<v Speaker 1>as a leader and as a person. He goes on
<v Speaker 1>to say nice things about Diablo and other things.
<v Speaker 2>This is Rod Ferguson. This is what he does.
<v Speaker 1>I think he's got a reputation inside the industry of
<v Speaker 1>being somewhat of a closer. So when he's the actual Benz,
<v Speaker 1>get me the Bens, it is get me the Rod
<v Speaker 1>Uh and Rod will make sure that your game gets finished.
<v Speaker 1>You got to know it's you think Mike Manati r
<v Speaker 1>hr is going to do anything about this. You got
<v Speaker 1>to know better than that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeh, see home Free over here.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Rod will move on to something else, I'm sure
<v Speaker 1>and find a job where he will help another game
<v Speaker 1>actually ship that is his area of expertise, although you
<v Speaker 1>know he's been there for a long time, so once
<v Speaker 1>he kind of settles in also, I think he can
<v Speaker 1>do other stuff. I guess the question might be to you, Lexi,
<v Speaker 1>what do you think this means for Diablo?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Diablo is in a weird spot because you know,
<v Speaker 3>I remember hearing all the stories of like, yeah, it's
<v Speaker 3>basically like the what was the the Destiny to team
<v Speaker 3>that came in there and or the theis Visions Visions. Yes, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they came in there and they kind of took over
<v Speaker 3>a lot of development for and like they were integrated
<v Speaker 3>into Blizzard in a way that they could not be
<v Speaker 3>unintegrated into Blizzard even if you wanted. And so I
<v Speaker 3>think that, like, on one hand, I probably don't feel
<v Speaker 3>great about like that being part of his legacy of
<v Speaker 3>like taking away Vicarious Visions as a cool independent studio
<v Speaker 3>doing weird ports of games and doing all these different things.
<v Speaker 3>On the other hand, like they did fix that game
<v Speaker 3>and they got it out and like people still play
<v Speaker 3>it and it does quite well. So yeah, like I'm
<v Speaker 3>curious what the future holds for Diablo. They've only done
<v Speaker 3>like two or three big expansions, so like they still
<v Speaker 3>have a lot of like road that they can cover
<v Speaker 3>with that game. So and we'll probably see some of
<v Speaker 3>that at like games come. They love showing up there.
<v Speaker 3>They always have some sort of presence Blizzard do. So Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's it's a weird it's a weird spot.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, it's uh, you know, I I think your assessment
<v Speaker 1>of Diablo sounds right to me. It's the kind of
<v Speaker 1>thing where that is a game that a year from now,
<v Speaker 1>the sentiment around it could be one million percent different,
<v Speaker 1>it could be a complete one point eighty and uh
<v Speaker 1>that that just feels like Okay, yeah, Diablo will find
<v Speaker 1>its way. It's too important to too many people for
<v Speaker 1>them to let it languish, even if Diablo four is
<v Speaker 1>in a weird spot right now or maybe even a
<v Speaker 1>bad spot.
<v Speaker 2>So yes, they'll they'll figure it out. I don't think
<v Speaker 2>this means much.
<v Speaker 1>For the future of Diablo other than they will maintain
<v Speaker 1>the current game for quite some time, and let like try.
<v Speaker 2>To figure that out.
<v Speaker 1>And then as far as Rod Ferguson, look, there's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be a lot of studios that that need his help. Well,
<v Speaker 1>he tried to maybe me, maybe could try to start
<v Speaker 1>his own thing, although he doesn't seem interested in doing that.
<v Speaker 2>But I don't know. Maybe maybe it'll surprise us.
<v Speaker 1>Uh okay, it's going to pop, Yes, Gears Pop two,
<v Speaker 1>made exclusively by an indie studio, helmed by.
<v Speaker 2>One person, Rod Ferguson. I want to see it. Uh okay.
<v Speaker 1>Far Cry TV show featuring Always Sonny and Alien Earth
<v Speaker 1>talent reportedly in development.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Darren Bonthus at game Spot.
<v Speaker 1>It looks like Farcry will be the next high profile
<v Speaker 1>video game series getting a TV adaptation, as Ubisoft confirmed
<v Speaker 1>the news on its official site before quickly.
<v Speaker 2>Deleting the post.
<v Speaker 1>This being the intent, nothing is ever truly deleted, no
<v Speaker 1>matter how briefly it's online for in the original announcement
<v Speaker 1>has been preserved over on Reddit. Those people who did
<v Speaker 1>manage to see the original announcement say that the show
<v Speaker 1>will star Rob Mack, the Always Sonny and Philadelphia actor
<v Speaker 1>who recently changed his name from Rod Mcalinny, and he'll
<v Speaker 1>also produce the series alongside Noah Hawley, Jackie Chan, Michael
<v Speaker 1>Garcia and Nick Frinkel.
<v Speaker 2>Jackie Cohen, jack Jackie Cohen.
<v Speaker 1>Sorry, I was just watching Police Story last night, so yes,
<v Speaker 1>So it was in my head it would be better
<v Speaker 1>if it was Jackie Chan.
<v Speaker 2>Let's be real, it'd.
<v Speaker 3>Be really weird if like the eighty five year old
<v Speaker 3>Jackie chand was like, I want to make a.
<v Speaker 2>Far right, I want to make a far cry.
<v Speaker 1>I was about to say, like, we got to talk
<v Speaker 1>about this Jackie chanfella being involved in far Cry Jackie Cohen,
<v Speaker 1>there we go on the ub soft side. Gerard Gillmont,
<v Speaker 1>Margaret Boykin, and Austin Dille are also attached in various roles,
<v Speaker 1>and the series is reportedly in development at FX. Noah
<v Speaker 1>Hawley being involved is actually the thing that really.
<v Speaker 3>Shot Legion, that Legion TV show fucking rules, and I'm
<v Speaker 3>not sure if you've ever seen it, but it's great.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not. He did Fargo as well, right, that.
<v Speaker 3>Was he did a bit of Fargo as well, and
<v Speaker 3>he is doing Alien Earth, which is getting really good
<v Speaker 3>reviews at the moment, and I'm very excited for and
<v Speaker 3>I'm almost kind of like, man, Noah, don't attach yourself
<v Speaker 3>to a UBI Soft project. We know those never come out.
<v Speaker 3>We know these things get announced. I'm still waiting for
<v Speaker 3>that Jake Joleen Hall Division movie. Like, yeah, maybe in
<v Speaker 3>a world where this happens to be the one UBI
<v Speaker 3>Soft film project or TV project that gets some momentum
<v Speaker 3>and actually makes it to release. This is a cool
<v Speaker 3>creative team, and I think like rob Mac might be
<v Speaker 3>a fun character to throw into one of those worlds.
<v Speaker 3>And I think that Noah Harley, especially with some of
<v Speaker 3>the more trippy stuff that he did with Legion, is
<v Speaker 3>one of the few people able to like get away
<v Speaker 3>with that weirdness that some of the farcry games try
<v Speaker 3>for and only some of them succeed in. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>don't I don't think this happens. I really don't.
<v Speaker 1>Now, probably not, that's the safe bet for anything like this.
<v Speaker 1>It does feel like, you know, these are two people
<v Speaker 1>who do get stuff made at FXX, so if they
<v Speaker 1>really want to do it, they could. But they've also
<v Speaker 1>you know, I know for sure rob Ma's been attached
<v Speaker 1>to stuff that hasn't come through before, and it's been
<v Speaker 1>a video game. His Minecraft movie never happened. He was
<v Speaker 1>supposed to make Minecraft. It's like, okay, we have that.
<v Speaker 1>That fell through, and eventually another Minecraft movie got made.
<v Speaker 3>What about you for a new far Cry, aren't we?
<v Speaker 2>Like?
<v Speaker 3>Twenty twenty one was six? Yeah, well that's gonna that's
<v Speaker 3>going to be some press cycle when that comes around.
<v Speaker 3>I bet it's going to be real, real sensitive to
<v Speaker 3>ongoing topics and issues.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what can it? Yeah? What setting coul they even
<v Speaker 2>possibly go to? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>They ultimately where could you even set it at this
<v Speaker 3>point where it wouldn't be so unbearably distasteful that you're like,
<v Speaker 3>you shouldn't be making this?
<v Speaker 2>Yep, yep exactly.
<v Speaker 1>I think the as far as like the is the
<v Speaker 1>ground fertile enough for a decent TV show from this
<v Speaker 1>creative team? I think so, you know you, I think
<v Speaker 1>they would probably just have fun with the setting and
<v Speaker 1>the villain being kind of you know, out there that
<v Speaker 1>that would definitely be something you want to do.
<v Speaker 3>I think far Cry three, like Far Cry three would
<v Speaker 3>be the one you would do.
<v Speaker 1>I think so, And that would be like that's something
<v Speaker 1>that does feel like you adapt it correct easily that
<v Speaker 1>could be an FX show. I could really see that.
<v Speaker 1>Is it an FX show that I end up watching?
<v Speaker 1>Probably not, but I'm not watching a lot of these shows,
<v Speaker 1>so whatever I think they Yes, let me. Let's read
<v Speaker 1>some more of the details here, because there is more
<v Speaker 1>details about how the structure of the show will work.
<v Speaker 1>It's claimed that the show will be in an anthology
<v Speaker 1>drama that will set each season in a new world
<v Speaker 1>and with a different cast of actors attached, emulating the
<v Speaker 1>storytelling approach of the games. This lines up with Ubisoft's
<v Speaker 1>current plans to focus on its tent pole properties Assassin's Creed,
<v Speaker 1>Far Cry, and Rainbow Six, via a new spun off
<v Speaker 1>subsidiary of the company, funded in part by ten Cent
<v Speaker 1>and led by Ubisoft CEO Yeves Gimo's son Charlie.
<v Speaker 3>Gimmo, oh this this this got green, lad because Tencent
<v Speaker 3>threw a bunch of money out them. That's that's what happened, Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Now, yes, okay, right, and then that right in ten
<v Speaker 1>Cent loves funding film and TV projects, so yes, they
<v Speaker 1>have some money.
<v Speaker 2>They're probably.
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's like American Horse Story and other FX thing,
<v Speaker 1>an anthology series. They've had success with that I think far
<v Speaker 1>Crib being sort of the douchey Americans around the world
<v Speaker 1>get into. This is maybe not the exact right comparison,
<v Speaker 1>but like saw like situations where they are punished for
<v Speaker 1>their Americanism and for being sort of young and beautiful,
<v Speaker 1>that that is a again a ripe fertile ground for
<v Speaker 1>storytelling and or at least the kind of thing that
<v Speaker 1>would do well on television.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I have a.
<v Speaker 3>Few years back when there was a rumored that the
<v Speaker 3>next far Cry was going to be set in like
<v Speaker 3>a fake Northern Ireland with Killian Murphy.
<v Speaker 2>No, I don't remember that.
<v Speaker 3>That was day on Twitter back then that was like yeah,
<v Speaker 3>some fucking Leka was like, oh, like you know it's
<v Speaker 3>gonna be Killian Murphy and it's going to be Northern Ireland,
<v Speaker 3>which like, okay, that fucking I want to see you
<v Speaker 3>be soft. Fuck that up.
<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm too, Mike, do you remember that he's still sleeping? Sorry, okay,
<v Speaker 1>all right, okay, that does it for the headlines. Let's
<v Speaker 1>get to the poll. No wait, there was no pull question.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, we changed up health these things work.
<v Speaker 3>I do have I do have to ask because I
<v Speaker 3>said I said this to Christian the other day. Do
<v Speaker 3>you think that there's like a pretty good chance that
<v Speaker 3>Dan knows about the IOA through techn And if so,
<v Speaker 3>does he think the IOA is just a thing in tech?
<v Speaker 2>And I don't think he'll even like be able to
<v Speaker 2>recall that.
<v Speaker 3>But Okay, that's that's we are showing. That's that's a relief.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we don't want him to. Yeah, let's keep those
<v Speaker 1>things separate for.
<v Speaker 2>Now, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah, if we didn't do the poll question, have
<v Speaker 1>you ever played Daisy twenty seventy five percent yes versus no.
<v Speaker 2>I think we talked about that on Friday though, jan
<v Speaker 2>So we do have a new poll question. We'll get
<v Speaker 2>to here in a second before we do that.
<v Speaker 1>Lex Luttie, why do you tell people where they can
<v Speaker 1>find you on the internet, what you have going on
<v Speaker 1>and all of that good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'm super busy. I will be covering games come
<v Speaker 3>for Shock News over the next little while. I have
<v Speaker 3>an appointment to see three cough Cough capcom games that
<v Speaker 3>hasn't been picked up anywhere, So if anyone's looking for
<v Speaker 3>coverage of those games, let me know. I'm continuing to
<v Speaker 3>write stuff over at rewinder dot co. Dot uk. Most
<v Speaker 3>recently wrote a piece about sports, video games, maps and
<v Speaker 3>palasign that I think is really good and you should
<v Speaker 3>check out and still running stampmanu dot co dot uk,
<v Speaker 3>which is a website for people trying to break into
<v Speaker 3>games media and games journalism. So if you are interested
<v Speaker 3>in Nash, check us out on Blue Sky or on
<v Speaker 3>the website. And I'm on Blue Sky at lexlod dot xyz.
<v Speaker 1>All right, New Pole question, are you getting Battlefield six?
<v Speaker 1>Maybe you had a lot of time to spend on
<v Speaker 1>the beta, you formed an opinion, or you watched a
<v Speaker 1>bunch of people play.
<v Speaker 2>Yes or no?
<v Speaker 1>Are you getting Battlefield six? We'll get the results of
<v Speaker 1>that and talk about it on game Mes Mornings here
<v Speaker 1>on Giant Bomb on Wednesday. Speaking of Giant Bomb, Mitch's Mondays.
<v Speaker 1>We've said it a million times. I'll say it a
<v Speaker 1>million times in the future. Mitch is Monday's look out for.
<v Speaker 3>May move in with him on for Mondays.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I told him I might be busy and I
<v Speaker 1>couldn't do Riven and he kidnapped me and put him
<v Speaker 1>put me in his home as you can clearly see
<v Speaker 1>on this video. Yeah, Monday Mornings missed with Mitch. Now
<v Speaker 1>moving on to Riven. We've been playing that the last episode.
<v Speaker 1>We're going to continue that today, then later it'll be
<v Speaker 1>Mega Man Monday evening gaming at Mike's at night, That'll
<v Speaker 1>be whatever he ends up feeling like playing. That'll be
<v Speaker 1>at eight pm Eastern Time. In the meantime, though, tomorrow BombCast.
<v Speaker 1>The rest of the week, you can expect Blake Club
<v Speaker 1>with I guess Jeff Passer. I'm gonna be playing Jurassic
<v Speaker 1>Park trust Passer for the personal computer.
<v Speaker 2>Not sure what to expect from that.
<v Speaker 3>Also sounds like something I might need to call h about.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you know you got a Jeff pass here in
<v Speaker 2>your office. Yeah, you never want something like that.
<v Speaker 1>I am terrified because people just keep saying trespasser and
<v Speaker 1>then laugh and that's all they'll say to me.
<v Speaker 3>And it's I haven't made it my business not to
<v Speaker 3>look at footage of this video game before you play it.
<v Speaker 3>I've heard about this video game, but I'm like, no,
<v Speaker 3>I want to go in fresh.
<v Speaker 1>I thought it was like a CD ROM sort of
<v Speaker 1>point and click fm V game.
<v Speaker 2>I had no idea what it was.
<v Speaker 1>So when I did the work to get it up
<v Speaker 1>and running, as I was told to do with the
<v Speaker 1>help of Piston Hyundai from from dance chat in the community.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, okay, I need to see if it's gonna work.
<v Speaker 1>So I moved around the first two steps to see
<v Speaker 1>and it was like, oh, this is a first person
<v Speaker 1>shooter game. This is a completely completely different game than
<v Speaker 1>I was expecting. And now people are like, it's like
<v Speaker 1>half Life before, Half Life before, like Valve figured out
<v Speaker 1>all that stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, okay, that sounds insane.
<v Speaker 3>This is probably gonna be the second game on Black
<v Speaker 3>Club worked on by the gym's Pinch Shin company.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, Jim Henson's Creature Factory or whatever it is. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm worried.
<v Speaker 2>I'm worried about it. All right, let's see.
<v Speaker 1>We talked about what we got coming up for the
<v Speaker 1>rest of the week. It's gonna be a good week.
<v Speaker 1>Everybody tune in GiantBomb dot com. Beyond that, I think
<v Speaker 1>I got to say thank you Lexi for hanging out
<v Speaker 1>with me today and talking about video games.
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 3>Always a pleasure to be on the show.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you all for watching and listening. Excuse me, you're
<v Speaker 1>the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a
<v Speaker 1>good one, take care of yourself.
<v Speaker 2>Goodbye,