Bandai Namco Making a New Fighting Game?

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Best Warnings with me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for
<v Speaker 1>tuning in. In this episode, we're going to be talking
<v Speaker 1>about the big expectations for the Mario Galaxy movie and
<v Speaker 1>what should be the next big fighting game of franchise
<v Speaker 1>to get revived. It's gonna be a good one because
<v Speaker 1>we have Jason Finelli on this show. It's a Vanelle Funday. Jason,
<v Speaker 1>how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>Every day is a Finelle fun day in this house.
<v Speaker 2>I'm doing well, coming off an excellent weekend. I was
<v Speaker 2>in a parade on Saturday. More importantly, my daughter was
<v Speaker 2>in a parade. So my theater group, Saint Francis Players.
<v Speaker 2>This is something of March, Yeah, little roommate, Yes, yes,
<v Speaker 2>yes it was. That was Saturday, technically not not Sunday,
<v Speaker 2>but yes, so Saint Patrick's Day parade for the town
<v Speaker 2>where the Catholic school that the theater group is in.
<v Speaker 2>So they always give us a place in the parade.
<v Speaker 2>This year we're doing Little Mermaid obviously, and I have
<v Speaker 2>a flounder upstairs, so she got to get in costume
<v Speaker 2>and she got to be in the back of the
<v Speaker 2>truck and wave of people, and I sat in the
<v Speaker 2>truck with the microphone saying, come see our show, buy
<v Speaker 2>our tickets. That whole thing was a lot of fun,
<v Speaker 2>a lot of fun. They both my kids though, apparently
<v Speaker 2>had too much fun because now we're dealing with fevers.
<v Speaker 2>They're both home from school. Yeah, but sounds like there's
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of a thing going around, and if
<v Speaker 2>it's if it stays this way for them, knock on wood,
<v Speaker 2>I think will be okay. How about you, Black Hawai.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I things are going around. I was like
<v Speaker 1>dealing with it, being a little bit sick at the
<v Speaker 1>end of the week last week after GDC, and then
<v Speaker 1>over the weekend it hit me. Of course, It's like
<v Speaker 1>I waited for the weekend to really come through, just
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of a flu thing, and I'm like
<v Speaker 1>feeling much better, but wiped out. I definitely took my
<v Speaker 1>energy and and and all that. Now I'm like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm feeling good enough because I really want to
<v Speaker 1>go to Mike's house tonight and do the We're gonna
<v Speaker 1>be doing our lego party thing. Everyone should tune into
<v Speaker 1>that tonight. Mike Foss Brothers got that all set up.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna be testing out some new stuff that is
<v Speaker 1>in Lego Party, a new update everyone everyone, So just
<v Speaker 1>definitely check that out. I'm gonna try to make my
<v Speaker 1>way over there, but we'll see how I'm feeling after
<v Speaker 1>all this. But yeah, I'm doing good now. I'm like
<v Speaker 1>doing much better and kind of ready to get into
<v Speaker 1>the week and and see if we can't get things
<v Speaker 1>off to a good start. I also like did some
<v Speaker 1>painting even though I wasn't feeling good. I'm like, I've
<v Speaker 1>been putting off for so long i started to feel guilty,
<v Speaker 1>so I like primed most of the bedroom and now
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, i gotta find some time this week to
<v Speaker 1>finish actually put down the final color we're going with
<v Speaker 1>the green. We're gonna put down kind of a foresty green.
<v Speaker 2>I'm looking forward to, like, oh, foresty green, not like
<v Speaker 2>not behind you so you couldn't do like you know.
<v Speaker 1>I'll make it close enough, I'll go. I'll see what
<v Speaker 1>Kelly's doing and see if we can't get some birds
<v Speaker 1>in there. Yeah, it's gonna it's It's that took a
<v Speaker 1>lot of energy as well, and my I probably should
<v Speaker 1>not have doubled up on being sick and doing the painting.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, but gotta get it done. God do that,
<v Speaker 2>God do that housework man. It's beautyful, beauty on house exactly.
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<v Speaker 1>We have a lot to get into, so let's start
<v Speaker 1>the morning mess with Mario Galaxy movie expecting a one
<v Speaker 1>hundred and sixty million dollar opening. I believe this came
<v Speaker 1>from Deadline. The heat on tracking is better than the
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty three movie, which did a five day of
<v Speaker 1>a two hundred and four million and a three day
<v Speaker 1>of one hundred and forty six point three million in
<v Speaker 1>what was the second best domestic opening ever for a
<v Speaker 1>movie over Easter, after twenty sixteen's Batman or Superman Down
<v Speaker 1>of Justice. Among all April and US slash Canada opening,
<v Speaker 1>Super Mario Brothers was the fifth best in a month
<v Speaker 1>that will forever be dominated by twenty nineteen's Avengers Endgame.
<v Speaker 1>It won't be alarming if Super Mario Galaxy debuts to
<v Speaker 1>a more mushroom number than its first chapter, which received
<v Speaker 1>an A Cinema score. Basically, they're kind of covering like
<v Speaker 1>what happened with the last movie and then the expectation
<v Speaker 1>for the new one. They did move this movie up
<v Speaker 1>like they was gonna come out April third. Now it's
<v Speaker 1>coming out April first, so it's gonna have a five
<v Speaker 1>day weekend. It sounds like this one hundred and sixty
<v Speaker 1>million dollar opening is for the three day weekend, and
<v Speaker 1>that's where the point of comparison is. But over the
<v Speaker 1>five day week and it could end up matching that
<v Speaker 1>that two hundred and four million dollar number. That seems
<v Speaker 1>pretty likely. I won't be surprised if it comes in
<v Speaker 1>just under that. Jason like, it maybe not match the
<v Speaker 1>excitement of the first movie, because that was such a
<v Speaker 1>It did feel like a moment in time, and there
<v Speaker 1>was like hopes that it could be like really really good,
<v Speaker 1>and I think people were like, no, that was fine.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I need to rush out to
<v Speaker 1>the theater to see it. Although that'll be a small
<v Speaker 1>percentage of the audience, so I still expected to do
<v Speaker 1>very well, especially with families, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and being on the Easter weekend once again and
<v Speaker 2>having those extra days off I think will have a
<v Speaker 2>major effect on the matinees at the very least. I
<v Speaker 2>don't think that'll affect the nighttime viewings as much. But no,
<v Speaker 2>I think it might get close to that two hundred
<v Speaker 2>and four million for the five day the only outlier
<v Speaker 2>being Easter Sunday itself. Right, Like, how many people are
<v Speaker 2>going to the theater on Easter Sunday. They're having dinner
<v Speaker 2>with their families that they're celebrating East or so on
<v Speaker 2>and so forth. Granted that's not the entire population. If
<v Speaker 2>you're not a Christian religion, you're not celebrating.
<v Speaker 1>I'll see movies on like on Christmas, right, Like, So
<v Speaker 1>I would imagine that even a lot of that audience
<v Speaker 1>is still going to show up for this on that day. Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I'm with you that it might get like
<v Speaker 2>underneath it, but I think it'll still crack two hundred, right.
<v Speaker 2>I think we're talking about a difference of a couple
<v Speaker 2>of million, because it is still it's the first sequel.
<v Speaker 2>I think there's a lot of people have a major
<v Speaker 2>taste for it. They seem to be teasing a lot
<v Speaker 2>of potential surprises, which may pull some people in. Me
<v Speaker 2>might even get a couple of multiple viewings if there
<v Speaker 2>is a big shop twist at the end, people want
<v Speaker 2>to see it again. I personally haven't bought my tickets yet,
<v Speaker 2>but I was planning for that first weekend, So they'll
<v Speaker 2>get at least one hundred and sixty million and thirty
<v Speaker 2>dollars whatever that equates to for me and my daughter.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, this is exciting for them. I'm not surprised
<v Speaker 2>that it's going to have a huge first weekend. I'm
<v Speaker 2>also not surprised that it's tracking slightly better than it's
<v Speaker 2>the first movie's original. The original movies first weekend but
<v Speaker 2>whether or not it makes that two hundred and four
<v Speaker 2>remains to be seen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm planning to take the family as well. It's exciting. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm always looking for a good reason to go to
<v Speaker 1>the movies. I like going to the movies. But for
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo's point of view here, Jason, this has got to
<v Speaker 1>be like a big, big explanation for why they have
<v Speaker 1>sort of drawn out this Mario fortieth anniversary thing that
<v Speaker 1>started last year and we've gone through Mario Day now
<v Speaker 1>and we're going up to the release of this movie.
<v Speaker 1>This this is like one of their big marquee releases
<v Speaker 1>for the year. It's not a video game, but it's
<v Speaker 1>going to be a thing that makes them and their
<v Speaker 1>partners a lot of money. Do you think that there's
<v Speaker 1>any potential of them getting diluted distracted from traditional video
<v Speaker 1>games or is it all going going to be supporting
<v Speaker 1>the video game business in the end.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say not yet. I think this is the
<v Speaker 2>first movie. It's the sequel to Mario, but it's the
<v Speaker 2>first movie franchise they have. Should Zelda come out and
<v Speaker 2>be a critical and financial I expect it to be
<v Speaker 2>a financial success, but a critical success as well, and
<v Speaker 2>that franchise starts to take off, then you might start
<v Speaker 2>to see a division of attention. But I think as
<v Speaker 2>long as Miamoto is still there, still participating in any regard,
<v Speaker 2>it will always go back to the video games. That's
<v Speaker 2>where it started, that's what they stayed, that's where they
<v Speaker 2>cut their teeth, and that's where Mario became a household name.
<v Speaker 2>So there were always be a foundation there, which then
<v Speaker 2>begs the question when is the next time we're going
<v Speaker 2>to see Mario in a Mario adventure? And I would
<v Speaker 2>have liked to think that it would have been announced
<v Speaker 2>somewhere in this fortieth anniversary that's lasting more than a
<v Speaker 2>year celebration. But at this point, unless there's a direct
<v Speaker 2>coming between the launch of the film and let's say
<v Speaker 2>Summer Games Fast in June, unless there's a direct in
<v Speaker 2>there somewhere, maybe I'm being hasty.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Let me ask you. Let's let's do
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of like gaming it out here. If
<v Speaker 1>let's say you're a Nintendo and you have both the
<v Speaker 1>movie and the video game ready to go, like both
<v Speaker 1>are fully ready to go, and you get the chance
<v Speaker 1>to optimally design how you sort of launch both of
<v Speaker 1>them side by side. Do you think that they're like,
<v Speaker 1>it does make more sense to like ride this anniversary
<v Speaker 1>into the movie and then once the movies added Zeen
<v Speaker 1>it announced the game at that moment that I'm not
<v Speaker 1>saying that's what would happen, But would you do that?
<v Speaker 1>And if you had both things ready to go? Uh?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, because I think there is less less people to
<v Speaker 2>get approval from from a game standpoint. When you're talking
<v Speaker 2>about a movie, you have to get Illumination involved, and
<v Speaker 2>Illumination has their own plans and you sort of have
<v Speaker 2>to kind of compromise with the game. You have full
<v Speaker 2>control if you're a Nintendo as to when it comes out,
<v Speaker 2>when you're gonna market it, things like that. So if
<v Speaker 2>they're both ready, you see where your partner wants to
<v Speaker 2>launch and you work around that.
<v Speaker 1>So movie into game.
<v Speaker 2>To try and create, as you said, the zenith of
<v Speaker 2>the movie and then the zenith of the game. Would
<v Speaker 2>that is a logical way to do it because this
<v Speaker 2>is playing off of the past of Nintendo Mario Galaxy,
<v Speaker 2>and your next game would be the future. But I
<v Speaker 2>don't know if they have one ready because Bonanza was
<v Speaker 2>just last July. If it's the same studio that would
<v Speaker 2>in the internal studio that would make a new Mario
<v Speaker 2>game that did that. We don't know how far along
<v Speaker 2>they are. Is Bella Bell Park what they consider to
<v Speaker 2>be the game aim that they're pairing with the movie,
<v Speaker 2>even though it's just an extension of Mario. Wonder that
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo can be weird. That might be how they're thinking
<v Speaker 2>as well. Who knows, But yeah, I feel like the
<v Speaker 2>only question mark now with Mario is when is that
<v Speaker 2>new Core three D adventure coming? And I don't know
<v Speaker 2>that we're gonna get an answer anytime soon. Honestly, if
<v Speaker 2>I have to really guess, with Bonanza coming out last
<v Speaker 2>July and all this Mario stuff happening now, they may
<v Speaker 2>be trying to maybe push their focus to a Zelda,
<v Speaker 2>maybe not a brand new Zelda, but start that movie
<v Speaker 2>marketing cycle with some expansions or additions or things like that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think I tend to agree with you that
<v Speaker 1>that's like you kind of ride the movie into the game,
<v Speaker 1>and then if that's something that they could do, maybe
<v Speaker 1>they would do that. I think at the very least
<v Speaker 1>they are going to do exactly what you said and
<v Speaker 1>emphasize that they have all these other Mario games that
<v Speaker 1>people who to see the movie can buy like that
<v Speaker 1>is a big part of Nintendo's business is games that
<v Speaker 1>have been on the shelves for years and games that
<v Speaker 1>we've moved past because we're all very engaged and we're
<v Speaker 1>picking them up in day one, if not, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and if not day one, year one at the you know,
<v Speaker 1>usually at the very least, because we know those games
<v Speaker 1>aren't gonna go on sale or something like that, so
<v Speaker 1>we just pick them up when we're ready. There is
<v Speaker 1>a big audience Nintendo is trying to play to that is,
<v Speaker 1>you know, jumping on board the switch too because of Pocopia. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>And we'll then and you know, and there'll be some
<v Speaker 1>overlap there with people excited about Nintendo stuff because of
<v Speaker 1>the movie, and they will be like, Okay, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>get a switch to what do you have for me?
<v Speaker 1>And there will be quite a few of them. They'll
<v Speaker 1>be like, Okay, I did not actually play Mario Wonder
<v Speaker 1>on Switch one. Let's get that with the new content
<v Speaker 1>for Switch too, because I'm very excited and it's a
<v Speaker 1>two D Mario so it's very friendly to me. I
<v Speaker 1>don't have to like try to figure out galstick controls
<v Speaker 1>if that's something that's frightening to me. Although at this
<v Speaker 1>point most of the audience has probably played Fortnite or whatever,
<v Speaker 1>so that's less of a problem than it once was. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the movie is coming April first. Well, you know, I'll
<v Speaker 1>talk about it on this when I go to see it,
<v Speaker 1>and Seafield we'll do a little review or something. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's keep going here a little bit more Nintendo news.
<v Speaker 1>Don't forget there's two weeks left for free game chat
<v Speaker 1>as afterwards you need a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. This
<v Speaker 1>is from my Nintendo News. This is just a quick
<v Speaker 1>reminder that that game chat will soon need a Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>Switch Online subscription to work, as it was only free
<v Speaker 1>as an introductory offerer from Nintendo. Game Chat will need
<v Speaker 1>a Nintendo Switch Online subscription from April first, weird and
<v Speaker 1>won't work without one. Thankfully, a Nintendo Switch Online subscription
<v Speaker 1>is relatively cheap and deals can be found at video
<v Speaker 1>game retailers, So yeah, this is going to work with
<v Speaker 1>the what is still I think twenty dollars a year
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Switch Online sub thing that you would need to
<v Speaker 1>play Mario Kart Online or Smash Brothers Online game, the
<v Speaker 1>games that are maybe most likely, you know, Mario Kartz specifically,
<v Speaker 1>the game you're most likely to have to use game
<v Speaker 1>chat with. You're gonna need it anyhow, So this doesn't
<v Speaker 1>seem like too much of a problem. I guess I
<v Speaker 1>wanted to ask you, Jason, like, how do you feel
<v Speaker 1>about game chat as one of those Marquee launch features
<v Speaker 1>for the Switch too that they really made a big
<v Speaker 1>deal out of. They have a dedicated button for it.
<v Speaker 1>Did it live up to any of the hype or
<v Speaker 1>the promise?
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't tell you. I haven't used it yet.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've had. It's probably a pretty common answer. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I guess that's an answer within an answer. I just
<v Speaker 1>don't have.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't get a camera, right, I did not get
<v Speaker 2>a camera as one of my launch accessories, so I
<v Speaker 2>have not had the ability to check it out. It's
<v Speaker 2>probably neat, and the people who use it a lot
<v Speaker 2>probably love it. It seems like a really cool sort
<v Speaker 2>of FaceTime equivalent for the younger players, where the Switch
<v Speaker 2>is like the family console and they're connecting with cousins
<v Speaker 2>or with you know something, friends or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>But if I don't think anyone's gonna batny this is
<v Speaker 2>now bundled in with an online membership, because like you said,
<v Speaker 2>it's it's it's something you have to buy to play
<v Speaker 2>the games online anyway. It's just another layer on top
<v Speaker 2>of that. Now, if they if they went super weird
<v Speaker 2>and did like the base online tier and then online
<v Speaker 2>plus game chat tier, I think they'd be laughed out
<v Speaker 2>of the room. So it's good that they're just kind
<v Speaker 2>of including it into the membership that you already have.
<v Speaker 2>But no, I don't think this moves the needle or
<v Speaker 2>makes an impact in the least. I think the only
<v Speaker 2>thing I remember about game chat was how goofy it
<v Speaker 2>looked in those first reveal trailers. That's the lasting impact
<v Speaker 2>it's had on me.
<v Speaker 1>I really enjoy using it in the games that like
<v Speaker 1>take it one step further, so, you know, like Mario
<v Speaker 1>Kart obviously putting your face in the game, that was great.
<v Speaker 1>Being able to see your friends faces spin around when
<v Speaker 1>you hit them with the turtle shell, that's that's great.
<v Speaker 1>And then Mario Party did some fun stuff with it,
<v Speaker 1>and it was like part of that upgrade. I think,
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I think you had to pay for the
<v Speaker 1>upgrade to use that, and there was the other side
<v Speaker 1>of that paid up grade as well, but it's like
<v Speaker 1>I really enjoyed that as well, because you want to
<v Speaker 1>see your friends' faces in the game as you are, like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, stealing their coins or stealing star from them
<v Speaker 1>or whatever. It's really clever and I think that they
<v Speaker 1>kind of had something pretty cool there. Is it something
<v Speaker 1>that I've used a lot since like those first couple
<v Speaker 1>of months. Not No, not really, And usually that comes
<v Speaker 1>down to when it's a gimmick, when it's novel, you
<v Speaker 1>can kind of convince other people like let's get online
<v Speaker 1>and use game chat. Now it's like, let's just you know,
<v Speaker 1>play this game like grown adults or whatever, and we
<v Speaker 1>don't have to set up all these cameras and stuff
<v Speaker 1>like that. That's that's kind of annoying, and I like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, you say you didn't buy a camera. The
<v Speaker 1>switch to at least does work with a lot of
<v Speaker 1>different USB cameras, so that's friendly and not as lockdown
<v Speaker 1>as Nintendo often can be. But this is I throw
<v Speaker 1>this in the bucket with just about every other launch
<v Speaker 1>feature for any console ever, where it's like, is it
<v Speaker 1>a video game that makes me want to buy the system.
<v Speaker 1>If not, I'm not going to care about it in
<v Speaker 1>six months, and honestly, in many cases, I'm not going
<v Speaker 1>to care about it in six weeks. It's going to
<v Speaker 1>be something that falls away very quickly. They have to
<v Speaker 1>like sort of emphasize these things to make the new
<v Speaker 1>device that you're spending a lot of money on feel
<v Speaker 1>cool and different. But we all at this point have
<v Speaker 1>been through this so many times. We know how it goes.
<v Speaker 1>Like it's the same thing with the dual sense features.
<v Speaker 1>The dual Sense is very cool and had a couple
<v Speaker 1>of games that really took advantage of it, And every
<v Speaker 1>once in a while you'll get something to be like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>this does feel like it's worthy of all the effort
<v Speaker 1>put into this controller, but most games don't. The vast
<v Speaker 1>majority of games do not, and you kind of forget
<v Speaker 1>about it, and people still go, oh, Astrobot and one
<v Speaker 1>or two other things are really what you need to
<v Speaker 1>take advantage of that it's like, yeah, that sounds about right,
<v Speaker 1>And that was one of those hey, this is the
<v Speaker 1>reason to get a PlayStation five Like that was how
<v Speaker 1>it was a position from Sony so marketing and four
<v Speaker 1>stops a lessons of like, hey, you couldn't get this
<v Speaker 1>on the last thing, you can only get it here,
<v Speaker 1>and that's why you need to spend your money. We
<v Speaker 1>see through it at this point. So I do wonder
<v Speaker 1>like what Nintendo thinks they're necessarily going to get out
<v Speaker 1>of making this, you know, putting it behind a subscription,
<v Speaker 1>because I think they're just going to get the people
<v Speaker 1>who already have a subscription. So it's I guess maybe
<v Speaker 1>that just helps them bolster the value of that, make
<v Speaker 1>that feel better so they can raise the price. Eventually,
<v Speaker 1>we'll see what what game would you like to see
<v Speaker 1>my face in? If we were to play multiplayer games,
<v Speaker 1>so like when you hit me with something, you could
<v Speaker 1>see my face go ah and do the five the
<v Speaker 1>five star fund factor thing.
<v Speaker 2>I don't say this because I wish to incite violence
<v Speaker 2>against one Jeff brub but Smash Brothers would be very funny.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah way, But if emotion you get them like
<v Speaker 2>you get them like their stone face, you get you
<v Speaker 2>have them do like a stone face snapshot, a smiley
<v Speaker 2>face snapshot, and like an a snapshot.
<v Speaker 1>That's like whenever you hit the guy.
<v Speaker 2>Whenever you hit the guy, you see their face go
<v Speaker 2>as their fly in a way that could be fun, turn.
<v Speaker 1>Us all into p andng tubers. Yeah, just take your
<v Speaker 1>mugshot when you start up a game, and that can
<v Speaker 1>be it, just like it gets plastered as it's like
<v Speaker 1>a sticker or something. When a certain attack happens.
<v Speaker 2>At the victory screen, it could flash between like your
<v Speaker 2>stone face and your smile if you win the match,
<v Speaker 2>yes to you back and forth, or like a little
<v Speaker 2>me something dancing around with your face on it with
<v Speaker 2>a smile on. I don't know there's ways to do it,
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, sure that's fine. Other than that though, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I don't really see this catching on all that much.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's just that's the way. I mean, if there
<v Speaker 1>are people, I'm sure that we're using it, like when
<v Speaker 1>they owe. Me and my friend across the country both
<v Speaker 1>got a switch to and there was the whole idea
<v Speaker 1>of just hop into a game chat and you could
<v Speaker 1>share your gameplay and yeah, the frame rate is garbage,
<v Speaker 1>but maybe your friend's playing another game, they could kind
<v Speaker 1>of glance at what you're playing. If anyone was doing that,
<v Speaker 1>I've not heard of it. And if you were doing it,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like that would be the scenario in which
<v Speaker 1>it's like maybe you don't have Nintendo Switch online because
<v Speaker 1>you're in a single player game and you were using
<v Speaker 1>game chat to talk to a friend across the country.
<v Speaker 1>At a certain point, it's like do I do we
<v Speaker 1>pay the money or do we just get on discord?
<v Speaker 1>Do we just get on discord with each other and
<v Speaker 1>talk that way or or use whatever, like literally just
<v Speaker 1>call each other like what's the what's the difference at
<v Speaker 1>a certain point. So, yeah, I just don't think that
<v Speaker 1>that was a winning scenario that Nintendo was selling.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, now, also, real quick, great idea from twitch
<v Speaker 2>chat about that face chat or game chat for your
<v Speaker 2>face punch out. Yeah, punch punch out, Yeah, that would
<v Speaker 2>work well with that well.
<v Speaker 1>That that'd be really neat. Uh all right, let's uh,
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<v Speaker 1>It's Game Mess Mornings. That's Jason Finelli. I'm Jeff Grubb.
<v Speaker 1>Let's go to ban dy Namco reportedly developing a new
<v Speaker 1>fighting game. This is from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor.
<v Speaker 1>It appears bandy Namco is working on a new fighting game.
<v Speaker 1>This shouldn't be too surprising to fans of the publisher
<v Speaker 1>or the fighting genre. Bandy Namco has worked on multiple
<v Speaker 1>major fighting games in the past, from excuse me from
<v Speaker 1>Tech into Soul Caliber, as well as plenty of anime
<v Speaker 1>talie in fighters, covering hit shows like Dragon Balls, My Hero, Academia,
<v Speaker 1>One Piece, and more. A recent job listing caught caught
<v Speaker 1>by MP first has fighting game fans speculating wildly as
<v Speaker 1>bandy Namco is hiring a game designer specifically for a
<v Speaker 1>new fighting game. Through the translated job description and responsibilities,
<v Speaker 1>we don't get too many details, but we do see
<v Speaker 1>that it'll involve three D effects, sound effects and stages weird,
<v Speaker 1>as well as character customization, online lobbies, and some more
<v Speaker 1>expected features. Soul Caliber fans would love for this new
<v Speaker 1>game to be highly be the highly anticipated next entry
<v Speaker 1>in the series. We recently had a supposed tease last
<v Speaker 1>autumn and that turned out to be nothing. It's possible
<v Speaker 1>as well as that this game isn't a Soul Caliber release,
<v Speaker 1>but another title we're not yet aware of. MP first
<v Speaker 1>notes that Bandi did a lot of work on Super
<v Speaker 1>Smash Brothers Ultimate, so a new Nintendo Fighter could be
<v Speaker 1>on the way. Also, we could see another game, another
<v Speaker 1>anime fighter, which is Jason where I would probably place
<v Speaker 1>my bet just to be a little safe here, Like
<v Speaker 1>I I my first reaction to this story when I
<v Speaker 1>see this is new Soule Caliber, and then it's like, well, okay,
<v Speaker 1>Tecans may be still a ways away, so maybe this
<v Speaker 1>is when they start hiring for that beause they're not
<v Speaker 1>talking about announcing anything. I guess it could be work
<v Speaker 1>on a new tech in as things change over there
<v Speaker 1>for that studio. And then it's like, oh, honestly, they
<v Speaker 1>do like a couple of anime Fighters a year, or
<v Speaker 1>at least every once in a while, so they'll have
<v Speaker 1>a multiple of those. So it's just like the the
<v Speaker 1>probability here is probably that this is an anime fighter,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know, how do you feel? I would
<v Speaker 1>love it?
<v Speaker 2>To be a new Soul caliber, but anything sole caliber
<v Speaker 2>from Bandai Namco will give me hesitance because Okubo son,
<v Speaker 2>who worked on the franchise within Namco for twenty five
<v Speaker 2>years is no longer there. He does Grand Blue now,
<v Speaker 2>So that would be the first Soul caliber post a Kubo,
<v Speaker 2>and that alone would be worth headlines, but also would
<v Speaker 2>give a lot of old school fans a bit of Oh,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, let's see how they do here. So yes,
<v Speaker 2>I am, I am inclined to lean towards another anime
<v Speaker 2>fighter here now, one that's going to be an anime
<v Speaker 2>arena fighter or a two D fighter that remains to
<v Speaker 2>be seen. This say is three D effects and stages
<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that, but if you think of Fighter Z,
<v Speaker 2>Dragon Ball Fighter Z, they were technically three D models
<v Speaker 2>on a two D plane that was also our system works.
<v Speaker 2>So I don't know. I don't know if they're going
<v Speaker 2>to be involved with them again. I kind of like
<v Speaker 2>the idea that maybe this is they're finally starting to
<v Speaker 2>work on the Smash Ultimate Switch To edition, but I
<v Speaker 2>figure if that was happening, that was way way a
<v Speaker 2>way in development already. Yeah, Now, I don't know enough
<v Speaker 2>about current anime to postulate on what anime that would be.
<v Speaker 2>But I believe that this is probably going to be
<v Speaker 2>another anime fighter of some kind, perhaps maybe another Jump
<v Speaker 2>for style where it's a bunch of anime mixed into one.
<v Speaker 2>They haven't that Jump Force was what twenty while twenty
<v Speaker 2>while ago? Maybe maybe later than that. I'm seeing a
<v Speaker 2>lot of jiu jitsu kaisen in the chat JJK. That's
<v Speaker 2>a good idea, I don't Chainsaw Man also comes to mind, too,
<v Speaker 2>but I feel like that would be a little too
<v Speaker 2>mature for what for what Bandai Namco likes to do
<v Speaker 2>in their fighting games.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they think the what it was that shown in
<v Speaker 1>Jump or whatever? They do those kinds of animes right now? Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's right. That's not a chainsaw Man, right, so right right? Right?
<v Speaker 2>So this is Dragonball my hero one piece is what
<v Speaker 2>they normally do. So yeah, JJK makes sense. Maybe have
<v Speaker 2>they done a narrator game in a while, Like, I
<v Speaker 2>don't even know. An anime is not my anime is
<v Speaker 2>not my lane, so I'll make sure I stick to it,
<v Speaker 2>but stick to mine. But I do think this is
<v Speaker 2>going to be an anime fighting game. Unfortunately, as much
<v Speaker 2>as I would love it to be a return to
<v Speaker 2>Soul Caliber, maybe even a rebooted style Soul Caliber, not
<v Speaker 2>what they did with five, where they just tried to
<v Speaker 2>put new characters in the old archetypes, Like keep those characters,
<v Speaker 2>but have them doing something new, right to start the
<v Speaker 2>new era of Soul Caliber. But I think that that
<v Speaker 2>is that franchise is well and truly dormant for the
<v Speaker 2>foreseeable future. They could also throw us a curveball and
<v Speaker 2>make it an ace combat fighting game where all the
<v Speaker 2>f sixteens fight like Hornet from Fighters megamts. That would
<v Speaker 2>be fun, but now anime fighting games where I would lean.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think that's the Like I said, the safe bet,
<v Speaker 1>I'm with you on the reasoning there. But you know,
<v Speaker 1>a fighting game renaissance is among us, Like we are
<v Speaker 1>living through a time where like a lot of fighting
<v Speaker 1>games are coming back and doing very well, finding an audience.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, I wonder how Bandynamico looks at that,
<v Speaker 1>and they're like, well, you know, obviously we will keep
<v Speaker 1>making tech in We are still working on Tech and
<v Speaker 1>eight doing new stuff there, but like, do we want
<v Speaker 1>to have another one? And I do wonder, like because
<v Speaker 1>like another one would not be an anime fighter that
<v Speaker 1>is its own lane, a separate from like you know,
<v Speaker 1>you're into fighting games, you're not necessarily into anime, Like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the anime fighters are a separate lane for a separate audience.
<v Speaker 1>Do they want another one in the same lane that
<v Speaker 1>we're already in where it's like, oh, we get tech
<v Speaker 1>in from this company. Do they want to them like
<v Speaker 1>to spend the resources on a Soul Caliber. I think
<v Speaker 1>they eventually will, but it's one where it's like I
<v Speaker 1>don't think they're going to have to rush to it
<v Speaker 1>because they have a game in this space, taking advantage
<v Speaker 1>of the excitement of fighting for fighting games in this moment.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I do wonder like when does that sort
<v Speaker 1>of flip and they're like, Okay, it is time for
<v Speaker 1>Soul Caliber again. Do you have any like thoughts on
<v Speaker 1>like what it would take to get them excited to
<v Speaker 1>do that.
<v Speaker 2>I don't, especially now with Heratisan leaving two. It would
<v Speaker 2>just need new blood like street I think if Street
<v Speaker 2>Fighter five to Street Fighter six and the story of
<v Speaker 2>how the Street Fighter six original pitch was so bad
<v Speaker 2>that eventually it led to on No san Yoshin No
<v Speaker 2>leaving Capcom and then we get the current guys, and
<v Speaker 2>that was the right call, right Street Fighter six. It
<v Speaker 2>now is flourishing, especially with Alex coming this week. I
<v Speaker 2>believe maybe even today Alex, who is mo capped by
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Omega hits, so that that's doing well. Season three
<v Speaker 2>for ten and eight starts soon, or if it hasn't
<v Speaker 2>already started and we don't don't we don't know the
<v Speaker 2>guest character, so there could be another big news thing
<v Speaker 2>coming there.
<v Speaker 1>I would it would.
<v Speaker 2>It would have to be, I think, something that would
<v Speaker 2>allow soul Caliber to stand out on its own, because
<v Speaker 2>as much as I love soul Caliber, there's a very
<v Speaker 2>reductionist argument that it's Teken with weapons, and that's not no,
<v Speaker 2>it's not entirely off base. I don't necessarily agree with
<v Speaker 2>it myself, but to the layman who doesn't know fighting games,
<v Speaker 2>sees them next to each other, I can see where
<v Speaker 2>that criticism is made. So I think it would need
<v Speaker 2>to be something, whether it be an art style, whether
<v Speaker 2>it be a real real change to the weapon based combat,
<v Speaker 2>something that would have soul Caliber stick out enough that
<v Speaker 2>it could flourish as its own thing. Maybe you somehow
<v Speaker 2>like Yoshimitsu is in both. Hey, Hachi was in both
<v Speaker 2>in Soul Caliber too, And they did guest characters. Maybe
<v Speaker 2>that's it. Maybe you have like a Soul Caliber and
<v Speaker 2>then you have a bunch of guest swordsmen in there,
<v Speaker 2>like like a Samurai showdown in Vain. It's Soule caliber
<v Speaker 2>or gear, you know what I mean, Like stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>That might be a way to just have that cross
<v Speaker 2>the cross the crossover. Why couldn't I think of that?
<v Speaker 2>Goddamn wen't crossover appeal? And then those fans stick with
<v Speaker 2>Soul Caliber. They did Star Wars.
<v Speaker 1>Remember Soul Caliber four with Star Wars. How friggin weird?
<v Speaker 1>That was cool?
<v Speaker 2>Like it was fun. Uh, star Killer in that game
<v Speaker 2>was wild. Yoda was cheap as shit. I I that
<v Speaker 2>might be the way to go, just lean into the
<v Speaker 2>crossovers to get people back into it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a couple of things. Apparently the chansaw Man is
<v Speaker 1>shown in Okay, fair enough? Yeah, I learn something new
<v Speaker 1>every day here from Chad. Thank you for saving my
<v Speaker 1>life chat. I appreciate that. And then and then yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the street Fighter. You talked about street Fighter like doing
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of stuff. They also announced street Fighters six
<v Speaker 1>across Mega Man, Star Force and Battle Network. They're doing
<v Speaker 1>a collaboration there for.
<v Speaker 2>The for the avatars and world tour cool exactly.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, they're constantly like sprucing up that game, keeping
<v Speaker 1>people interested. That is happening March seventeenth, So jan if
<v Speaker 1>you want to get on Streetfighter now, get your Battle
<v Speaker 1>Network stuff going, It's going to be there for you. Congratulations.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's keep going here. As it passes six
<v Speaker 1>million sales, Capcom officially confirms the Resident Evil Requiem is
<v Speaker 1>the series's fastest selling game. This is from Chris Scullion
<v Speaker 1>at VGC. Capcom is officially confirmed that Resident Evil Requiem
<v Speaker 1>is the fastest selling game in the series his history.
<v Speaker 1>In early March, the publisher announced that the game had
<v Speaker 1>sold five million copies in less than a week, attributing
<v Speaker 1>its hugely successful launch weekend to Requiem's worldwide acclaim. It
<v Speaker 1>stopped short, however, of officially declaring that Requiem's reaching of
<v Speaker 1>the five million milestone made it Resident Evil's biggest launch.
<v Speaker 1>Now Capcom has announced that Resident Evil Requiem has passed
<v Speaker 1>six million in sales and has now officially confirmed that
<v Speaker 1>it is the fastest that a title when the series
<v Speaker 1>has reached this milestone. Noting that the thirtieth anniversary of
<v Speaker 1>Resident Evil is on my birthday, March twenty second, It
<v Speaker 1>added Capcom is readying various plans for this anniversary to
<v Speaker 1>delight series fans, such as a collaboration between Universal Studios
<v Speaker 1>Japan and Resident Evil Requiem in twenty twenty six, and
<v Speaker 1>orchestral concerts in Japan, the US and Europe. Capcom also
<v Speaker 1>reiterated plans to release more content for Requiem, stating Resident
<v Speaker 1>Evil Requiem is the latest installment in the Resident Evil series,
<v Speaker 1>which offers bla blah blah blah. Players can enjoy the
<v Speaker 1>elevated essence of the survival horror experience by the interplay
<v Speaker 1>between the intense Fhere basically, they're just explaining the game.
<v Speaker 1>There's more stuff coming, It's what they're getting at. Yeah, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we could tell this game was a pretty big hit,
<v Speaker 1>but it is the fastest selling Resident Evil game. A
<v Speaker 1>franchise that's been around a very long time, has had
<v Speaker 1>many very high highs, both in terms of critical acclaim
<v Speaker 1>and commercial success, and now it feels like that have
<v Speaker 1>hit the hail the nail on the head in both
<v Speaker 1>of those realms with this game, and they're getting very,
<v Speaker 1>very rewarded for doing so. Residentible Requiem is a massive blockbuster, right.
<v Speaker 2>Six million sold, six million people can't be wrong, As
<v Speaker 2>the old Atage goes this, and they are making They
<v Speaker 2>did announce extra story content deeper into the world of Requiem.
<v Speaker 2>Their hard and work on now takes some time. The
<v Speaker 2>story you'll see obviously was coming, came to seven, came
<v Speaker 2>for eight, Come for now. But a person I follow
<v Speaker 2>on Blue Sky the name, I don't remember who it was.
<v Speaker 2>I'll go back and find the post made a great point.
<v Speaker 2>Think about when Resident Evil six launched, right and how
<v Speaker 2>like the Low the Valley that was for people when
<v Speaker 2>it came to Resident Evil. The side games were not
<v Speaker 2>very good, the main game wasn't very good, the movies.
<v Speaker 2>I think we're starting to flounder at that point, or
<v Speaker 2>at least stay past. They're welcome. And now we have
<v Speaker 2>the highest selling game in the franchise, a game with
<v Speaker 2>near universal critical claims still at a ninety on open
<v Speaker 2>critical last I like eighty nine nineties something like that,
<v Speaker 2>and people calling it the best marriage of both sides
<v Speaker 2>of Resident Evil that there has ever been. The the
<v Speaker 2>tense skin crawling horror with the over the top action
<v Speaker 2>one liners. Capcom is just firing, man, every cylinder is firing.
<v Speaker 2>And then and then we may be talking about their
<v Speaker 2>success again a month from now when they launch a
<v Speaker 2>new IP right like, it's it's wild to me how
<v Speaker 2>far we've come from on disc DLC with Capcom. Then again,
<v Speaker 2>there was also the story that broke overnight that a
<v Speaker 2>certain country in the Middle East has bought more shares
<v Speaker 2>and is starting to get their fingers into CAPCOMs. That's
<v Speaker 2>all something we should keep a hesitant eye on.
<v Speaker 1>But right now they bought five percent of Capcom shares.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, no, the pit already had five percent. This is
<v Speaker 2>the other one. Oh also bought five per pg ec
<v Speaker 2>or whatever it is. So that yeah, yeah, great, wonderful.
<v Speaker 2>So we have to all worry about, you know, when
<v Speaker 2>Ronaldo's in Resident Evil ten. But I for now I
<v Speaker 2>am going to sit here and be glass half full
<v Speaker 2>about Capcom in their direction until I am forced to
<v Speaker 2>be otherwise.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. I uh, you know, I think the the industry
<v Speaker 1>is at its best when when we were when we're
<v Speaker 1>getting good Resident Evil games and Capcom is doing well
<v Speaker 1>and they could sort of lay down the groundwork and
<v Speaker 1>a blueprint for other publishers to follow, because it's not
<v Speaker 1>like some mystery what they're doing. They're investing in their technology,
<v Speaker 1>they're investing in their best games, and then they're being
<v Speaker 1>a little bit experimental here or there with other franchises
<v Speaker 1>in other like spin offs to give them a chance
<v Speaker 1>to start up a new thing that's just as popular
<v Speaker 1>as Resident Evil, and it's like, hey, maybe Pragmata is
<v Speaker 1>going to be that next thing, so we'll see. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>Slay the Spire too has already sold over three million copies.
<v Speaker 1>That's also doing very very well. This is from Ben
<v Speaker 1>Lyons at Game Reactor. One of the biggest success stories
<v Speaker 1>of twenty twenty six so far is, without question, Megacrits
<v Speaker 1>Slay the Spire two, as the indie squel debuted into
<v Speaker 1>early access with one hell of a bang. It rather
<v Speaker 1>quickly became one of the most popular Steam games of
<v Speaker 1>all time, notching up a concurrent player peak that was
<v Speaker 1>well over five hundred thousand individuals, and naturally, this is
<v Speaker 1>a pretty useful tell the game has been commercially successful
<v Speaker 1>already to this end. In a recent blog post, it's
<v Speaker 1>revealed that Slay the Spire two has shipped as many
<v Speaker 1>as three million units so far. Following a little bit
<v Speaker 1>of quick math based on the game selling for twenty
<v Speaker 1>pounds means that the title has raked in nearly or
<v Speaker 1>around sixty million pounds for an indie studio, and an
<v Speaker 1>insanely admirable effort considering it is only an early access
<v Speaker 1>on PC at the moment. So yeah, that's like worth
<v Speaker 1>pointing out that it's a massive, massive hit and it's
<v Speaker 1>just an early access on Steam and it has not
<v Speaker 1>had its mobile versions and its console versions and all
<v Speaker 1>that stuff happen yet. Yeah, man, this thing is it
<v Speaker 1>just took over. I love the idea of three million
<v Speaker 1>people playing an early access game, and it sounds like
<v Speaker 1>the early access here for every everyone who does get
<v Speaker 1>scared off by that, And I understand that why some
<v Speaker 1>people do. If you're like, but man, people are playing
<v Speaker 1>it now, and I don't want to be left out.
<v Speaker 1>But I also hate playing early access games because I
<v Speaker 1>want to want to want to wait for it to
<v Speaker 1>be done. This is I would just look at this
<v Speaker 1>as it's done and they're going to add more stuff later.
<v Speaker 1>That's how people are positioning this one or explaining it
<v Speaker 1>to me, it is like even different from like a
<v Speaker 1>Hades two, where it's like you would get to a
<v Speaker 1>point and be like, hey, we're going to put this
<v Speaker 1>stuff in later. It's actually missing. That's not the sense
<v Speaker 1>that people are having with this game so far. So
<v Speaker 1>and you can tell it's not scary many people off
<v Speaker 1>with five hundred thousand concurrents and three million copies sold,
<v Speaker 1>that's just astronomical stuff, right.
<v Speaker 2>You love to see it. I don't know what to
<v Speaker 2>do with myself, Grub. We're usually you know, really sad
<v Speaker 2>and talking about bad stories on this show, and that
<v Speaker 2>you're doing well here, eight million copy sellers. But there's
<v Speaker 2>something in the water, something the weather's changing. I'm not
<v Speaker 2>gonna go a for but this it's it's It is
<v Speaker 2>a beautiful thing to see a indie studio have a
<v Speaker 2>follow up as successful or getting to be as successful
<v Speaker 2>as the original one that people fell in love with
<v Speaker 2>so long ago. Three million people on early access, and
<v Speaker 2>again it is early access in quotes, which does raise
<v Speaker 2>an interesting conversation about what qualifies as early access. Are
<v Speaker 2>they just calling it that and treating it as a
<v Speaker 2>full game length beta? Like what are we just? Are
<v Speaker 2>we bug testing?
<v Speaker 1>Or are they figuring out the game isn't there. The
<v Speaker 1>way Mike was explaining it to me was that there
<v Speaker 1>are different classes or characters that you could play the
<v Speaker 1>game as, and some of those just aren't aren't there.
<v Speaker 1>But the whole idea is like you've played through the
<v Speaker 1>game multiple times through using these different ones, so you
<v Speaker 1>right now just play play with what's there, and then
<v Speaker 1>when they add the other stuff later, that gives you
<v Speaker 1>a reason to go back. So it does feel like
<v Speaker 1>an update, even though it is like this was always
<v Speaker 1>intended to eventually be in the game, and if you
<v Speaker 1>buy it now at the price it's at right now,
<v Speaker 1>you get all that stuff. One of the things that
<v Speaker 1>often happens with early access is they will raise They
<v Speaker 1>will have an early access price, and then when it
<v Speaker 1>goes to one point zero, they'll raise the price, so
<v Speaker 1>it'll go up to like from twenty pounds to thirty
<v Speaker 1>pounds or twenty dollars to forty dollars or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>And that could happen here, but you already bought the game,
<v Speaker 1>you're in, you helped fund it early, so you get
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of an advantage there. That's one of
<v Speaker 1>the things that often happens. So yeah, once the game
<v Speaker 1>gets more content, it could very easily get more expensive.
<v Speaker 1>And there's a reason people are rushing into this because
<v Speaker 1>they have a lot of faith in this studio to
<v Speaker 1>be able to deliver on this game, and it sounds
<v Speaker 1>like they already have. I've not played it myself, although
<v Speaker 1>the hype is getting to me kind I do want
<v Speaker 1>to check in on this, and it seems like it's
<v Speaker 1>something I could just throw on the Steam deck and
<v Speaker 1>play on there and really really enjoy it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Same, Sorry if I'm distracted. Apparently, I'm coming to
<v Speaker 2>you from Silent Hill. I'm not sure what the hell's
<v Speaker 2>going on. Let me see. If bad, Yeah, they cameras
<v Speaker 2>are bad, nobody should use them. I don't know what
<v Speaker 2>the hell is going on here.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so sorry about that.
<v Speaker 1>Cover it up with your hand completely, like make it like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>there you go, and then and then let go and
<v Speaker 1>see if it like locks in again. Nope, of course,
<v Speaker 1>what is happening. We could still man out, all right,
<v Speaker 1>let's let's keep going here more maybe maybe good news.
<v Speaker 1>The Simpsons writer delivers delivers hopeful message about a hit
<v Speaker 1>and run return. This is from Ben Lyons at Game Reactor.
<v Speaker 1>It was only at the end of February. February that
<v Speaker 1>Radical Entertainment returned under a rebranded likeness, sprouting hope that
<v Speaker 1>this could mean a return for one of the most
<v Speaker 1>beloved and iconic video games of all time, namely that
<v Speaker 1>of the Simpsons Hit and Run. To add further fuel
<v Speaker 1>to this hopeful fire, now, one of the key writers
<v Speaker 1>on the long running animated series has spoken out and
<v Speaker 1>claim that a return of the game could actually happen.
<v Speaker 1>In an interview with People, writer Matt Selman has been
<v Speaker 1>asked about Hit and Run and if the game could
<v Speaker 1>ever return in some form. He replied with the hopeful
<v Speaker 1>answer of never say never, before then explaining a little
<v Speaker 1>more about the game and how it came to fruition
<v Speaker 1>all those years ago. Of course it's so long ago,
<v Speaker 1>but I remember being in a meeting with whoever made
<v Speaker 1>it and Grand Theft Auto three had just come out,
<v Speaker 1>and so we were like, this has to be the
<v Speaker 1>Simpsons version of that. You have to be able to
<v Speaker 1>get in and out of cars. They so did not
<v Speaker 1>want people to get in and out of cars, so
<v Speaker 1>that was a huge battle we had to fight on
<v Speaker 1>getting in and out of cars. We luckily won that
<v Speaker 1>battle because it is fun to get in and out
<v Speaker 1>of cars. Selman also explained that nothing is set in
<v Speaker 1>stone and that we know people love it, we know
<v Speaker 1>they want it, so that's good, continuing to suggest that
<v Speaker 1>the timeless title could eventually return to entertain an entirely
<v Speaker 1>different audience to the one thrilled when it launched back
<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and three, much much closer to the
<v Speaker 1>launch of the Simpsons television show than to Now that's crazy, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>So I would guess here that the most likely situation, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>is that we get a Simpson's Hit and Run remaster.
<v Speaker 1>Like that feels like something that is in the cards.
<v Speaker 1>There's been a lot of re releases of classic games recently.
<v Speaker 1>There are a lot of studios and publishers that specialize
<v Speaker 1>in that. Radical Entertainment could handle all that themselves, or
<v Speaker 1>they could work with one of these groups and it
<v Speaker 1>could be a collection of Simpson's games, and this is
<v Speaker 1>one of them. Although I feel like this one could
<v Speaker 1>stand on its own with just a little bit of remastering,
<v Speaker 1>and they could easily sell it for forty or even
<v Speaker 1>like fifty dollars and as long as it runs well
<v Speaker 1>and has all that stuff, and it is slightly upgraded visually,
<v Speaker 1>I think people will show up for that game.
<v Speaker 2>What do you think I do too? But I think
<v Speaker 2>there's a there's a Monkey's Paul situation here. Yes, you'll
<v Speaker 2>get your Hit and Run remastered, but as the finger curls,
<v Speaker 2>it'll only be in Fortnite on the map that we built,
<v Speaker 2>you know what. I'm saying that one bother me. But
<v Speaker 2>I know people that that would have issues with that.
<v Speaker 1>I mean just because you like it would go away
<v Speaker 1>right like eventually, like if it's in No, No, they
<v Speaker 1>would keep it.
<v Speaker 2>They would keep it as a separate mode like they
<v Speaker 2>have Fall Guys, how they have Rocket League, how they
<v Speaker 2>have the Go separate games. But like I'm saying, there's
<v Speaker 2>no multiplayer aspect to it, so that don't know they
<v Speaker 2>would want to do that because all those games.
<v Speaker 1>But that kind of makes some sense just because Disney,
<v Speaker 1>which now owns The Simpsons, has a lot of a
<v Speaker 1>lot of money invested in Fortnite.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, they were teasing some sort of UEFN creative tools
<v Speaker 2>or something that's just for Star Wars like this morning,
<v Speaker 2>so they might have a lot of Disney related things
<v Speaker 2>coming down the pike. But don't don't quote me on that.
<v Speaker 2>That's probably harder to do than it sounds, because there
<v Speaker 2>are specific locations that in Hit and Run, if I recall,
<v Speaker 2>that are not in the Fortnite map, so they'd have
<v Speaker 2>to rework it. Anyway, I'm probably talking out of my ass.
<v Speaker 2>I just know how the industry works now, and I
<v Speaker 2>worry that these things might be what they decide to do.
<v Speaker 2>I think this is long, long, long overdue, and I
<v Speaker 2>think they realize it too, Like I heard it. I
<v Speaker 2>heard a story that like there was like maybe one
<v Speaker 2>or two people in the up and up somewhere in
<v Speaker 2>the hierarchy that were just like against anything Simpson's video
<v Speaker 2>game related at all, and then they have since gone away,
<v Speaker 2>so you might start seeing more the thing.
<v Speaker 1>The math has changed, right because after that Fortnite Simpsons thing,
<v Speaker 1>which was probably one of the more popular Fortnite drops
<v Speaker 1>in a while, and everyone's got to be looking at
<v Speaker 1>that being like there is we are leaving a lot
<v Speaker 1>of money on the table, and they were probably comparing
<v Speaker 1>it to the old days where it's like you know,
<v Speaker 1>Simpsons games on nees and Genesis and Super Nintendo. We
<v Speaker 1>bought those because they were Simpsons games and we didn't
<v Speaker 1>know any better, and it's like, well, you know, I
<v Speaker 1>love Simpsons, so let's get the Simpsons game. And most
<v Speaker 1>of them were garbage. And then there were I think
<v Speaker 1>there were Simpsons games on the PS one and PS
<v Speaker 1>two that I don't know anyone that ever talks about those, so,
<v Speaker 1>like I bet the numbers on those when they were like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>what can we get out of video games from like
<v Speaker 1>translating the Simpsons to that to that medium. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>not much. People don't seem to care. And it's because
<v Speaker 1>they were trash or very like low low profile games.
<v Speaker 1>It's ah, but hit and Run that's one where it
<v Speaker 1>could really really take off. Yeah, and to a lesser
<v Speaker 1>extent road rage, right and right the same time, that's right,
<v Speaker 1>that is one that people do talk about, yes.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And then the the PS one games are they
<v Speaker 2>are talked about. Unfortunately, they're just mentioned on worst of lists, right,
<v Speaker 2>Like Simpson's wrestling is famously dog shit, it's really Simpson's
<v Speaker 2>skateboarding not too far behind it, so that one might
<v Speaker 2>have a little more I think potential, right skateboardings, Tony
<v Speaker 2>Hawk's styles sort of game yeah, but yeah, we bought
<v Speaker 2>the games because it had Bart Simpson. I didn't like
<v Speaker 2>playing Bart's Nightmare. I like playing Bart in His Nightmare.
<v Speaker 2>That makes sense. That game holds a soft spot for me,
<v Speaker 2>although it is also objectively bad. It's one of the
<v Speaker 2>few games I had as Super Nintendo as a kid.
<v Speaker 2>I played the shit out of it. They had them
<v Speaker 2>use all the time, fuck in my head whenever you'd
<v Speaker 2>get the a like beat at bet app bat Wow,
<v Speaker 2>I do that all the time. It's I love I
<v Speaker 2>love that game.
<v Speaker 1>But yes, it's it's there should have been.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think there's been a core Simpsons video game
<v Speaker 2>outside of the Fortnite, but that's not a remaster since
<v Speaker 2>the Simpsons movie game or the Simpsons game.
<v Speaker 1>Am I am?
<v Speaker 2>I am I rolling on that?
<v Speaker 1>Am I forgetting something that sounds right to me as
<v Speaker 1>far as I can remember, But like, I definitely just
<v Speaker 1>remember all the Simpsons games early on Virtual bar or whatever. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Bart's Nightmare, uh, and then a couple of them on
<v Speaker 1>the PS one PS two Wrestling, Hit and Run, road Rage,
<v Speaker 1>and then yeah this, you're right, the Simpsons. It's just
<v Speaker 1>called the Simpsons right then that game, simple game.
<v Speaker 2>I think yeah, and I don't remember this since then. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I remember one thing about that game. We got an
<v Speaker 2>achievement for five points for pressing start. It was called
<v Speaker 2>worst achievement ever, fantastic, well done. But no, I see
<v Speaker 2>two things. I see a Hit and Run remaster by
<v Speaker 2>itself because they can sell it by itself. And then
<v Speaker 2>I see a classics collection in the vein of and
<v Speaker 2>I for some reason, I've been buying a lot of
<v Speaker 2>collections lately, like the Colibunga collection for Ninja Turtles, the
<v Speaker 2>Red and Stinty collection that came out, all the Mega
<v Speaker 2>Man collections where they're all all the retro games are
<v Speaker 2>in one spot. There was no reason why there isn't
<v Speaker 2>a Simpsons collection yet. I I that's just leaving money
<v Speaker 2>on the table for idiots like me who liked those
<v Speaker 2>games as a young as a young buck. And what's
<v Speaker 2>the playing again?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the Marvel Maximum collection just got announced and that
<v Speaker 1>has the X Men Arcade game in there and then
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of other console games. It's like, just do
<v Speaker 1>the exact same thing with Simpsons. In like the that
<v Speaker 1>X Men Arcade game is getting rollback net code on there.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, yeah, just had that that is a that
<v Speaker 1>is something that will kind of click people to be like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>this is a collection worthy of me purchasing it because
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to get some benefits and people will be
<v Speaker 1>able to play online with me pretty easily, as opposed
<v Speaker 1>to just emulating it or whatever, which is of course
<v Speaker 1>still available to people. As an equivalent, you could put
<v Speaker 1>the Simpsons Arcade game on there with rollback in their code,
<v Speaker 1>and that pulls people in. Yeah, this makes too much sense.
<v Speaker 1>Why aren't they doing this? Why aren't why don't we
<v Speaker 1>make it happen? All right? Star Wars Galactic Grace or
<v Speaker 1>physical addition to be distributed by play On. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Salamano at Kamatsu, just kind of a hey, that's
<v Speaker 1>good news because the game was not confirmed necessarily for
<v Speaker 1>physical before this. This is it's being made by former
<v Speaker 1>Criterion developers. It looks very much like Star Wars burnout
<v Speaker 1>and say, okay, well are people going to be able
<v Speaker 1>to get it in stores? Like who's publishing it or
<v Speaker 1>distributing it? And play on play on you know formally
<v Speaker 1>that's part of the Embracer group, right, but they this
<v Speaker 1>is like actually their main business was always taking games
<v Speaker 1>and then distributing them to retailers, mostly in Europe, so
<v Speaker 1>they know how to do this. So yeah, when this
<v Speaker 1>game launches at some point in twenty twenty six, I
<v Speaker 1>still don't think we have a month, let alone a
<v Speaker 1>specific date, but it is twenty twenty six that the
<v Speaker 1>game is supposed to come out. Yeah, you'll sup see
<v Speaker 1>it in stores, and that's I'm glad that we are
<v Speaker 1>still like prioritizing that to the point where it's like
<v Speaker 1>a big game like this wants to make this happen.
<v Speaker 1>It's not just like, well, physical is a nice to have,
<v Speaker 1>and for some cases it is a nice to have
<v Speaker 1>as opposed to just a oh, this is necessary to
<v Speaker 1>sell your video game. But for a Star Wars Galactic
<v Speaker 1>Racer with a big license like that, it's not a
<v Speaker 1>nice to have. It's kind of a requirement. So I'm
<v Speaker 1>glad they were able to figure this out.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Yeah, I imagine Disney's gonna want that on shelves,
<v Speaker 2>but'd be it great and any no, no matter how
<v Speaker 2>small the retail store is or how it's becoming, they're
<v Speaker 2>gonna want that game front and center because it is
<v Speaker 2>such a ballyhooed game since it was launched back or
<v Speaker 2>since it was announced back in December. It's interesting to
<v Speaker 2>me that publishing physical copies now is becoming a third
<v Speaker 2>party business of its own right. Limited run, secret mode
<v Speaker 2>stuff like that. They just released physical copies of games
<v Speaker 2>that have come out as digital exclusives, and they sort
<v Speaker 2>of incur the costs that the publishers don't want to
<v Speaker 2>which I don't I can't imagine the The ROI is great,
<v Speaker 2>but they seem to be sticking around. So maybe it's
<v Speaker 2>maybe the licensing fees alone or the or the fees
<v Speaker 2>to produce for the license are good enough to keep
<v Speaker 2>them afloat.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I think like we've definitely seen situations where
<v Speaker 1>there were some games released a limited in a limited
<v Speaker 1>capacity on like switch To, where the price was higher
<v Speaker 1>for the physical version than for the digital version, not
<v Speaker 1>so much higher that it was like this is a
<v Speaker 1>collector's edition. It was more like, this is a special
<v Speaker 1>physical edition that you're going to get because you're getting
<v Speaker 1>a literal limited run, and so we're going to charge
<v Speaker 1>a little bit more to justify import tariffs and whatever else.
<v Speaker 1>Like it contributes to the increased cost of releasing a
<v Speaker 1>physical game. Uh, A Pokemon Go data was used to
<v Speaker 1>train robots to deliver stuff. This is from Amy Horror
<v Speaker 1>there Oligon, Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>There it is, we found it. Here's the bad one.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, this is the stuff that's like, oh, not
<v Speaker 1>that surprising. Of course that data we knew the data
<v Speaker 1>in Pokemon Go of people walking around was being used
<v Speaker 1>by Niantic to like fill out their data pool that
<v Speaker 1>they were going to sell to third parties that they've
<v Speaker 1>started their business that way. But it's like, Okay, how
<v Speaker 1>did that ever manifest? I bet it's manifested in some
<v Speaker 1>more pernicious and scary ways than this. But yeah, this
<v Speaker 1>is like one of those ones where it's like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>all that data I create by playing a free to
<v Speaker 1>play game creates a lot of value for these companies,
<v Speaker 1>and then they get to go sell that for a
<v Speaker 1>lot of money. What are we going to do about that?
<v Speaker 1>Shouldn't we get cut into that pie a little bit?
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, apparently through cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Jersey City, Miami, Helsinki,
<v Speaker 1>there is this Coco Robotics company that is using niantics
<v Speaker 1>expertise in spatial AI and its visual positioning system to
<v Speaker 1>further improve Coco robotics titular deliver rerobot Coco. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not surprised that we got here. I'm a little
<v Speaker 1>surprised that maybe took this long to hear a story
<v Speaker 1>like this, because that they've been collecting that data for years,
<v Speaker 1>even long before Pokemon Go, and they had I'm not
<v Speaker 1>gonna be able to remember the name of the game
<v Speaker 1>they had before that, but they had another one, yes,
<v Speaker 1>thank you, yes exactly. So yeah, weird. This is of course.
<v Speaker 1>I never really think about how my data is going
<v Speaker 1>to get used until it's like too late. It's like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>of course it's being used to do something like this
<v Speaker 1>right now.
<v Speaker 2>Listen, man, if here's my thing, If they're using my data,
<v Speaker 2>this robot better recognize me when it delivers me at pizza,
<v Speaker 2>right it better be like.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, I know you.
<v Speaker 2>You spend a lot of time in this area and
<v Speaker 2>you call it the same Pokemon sixty five times because
<v Speaker 2>you're an idiot. But no, I'm not surprised by this
<v Speaker 2>at all. It's like my wife works at one of
<v Speaker 2>the credit monitoring bureaus, and she's always telling me the
<v Speaker 2>people who want your data, they have it. They talk
<v Speaker 2>about the malicious you for stuff like that. They're the
<v Speaker 2>people they're selling. They're selling your data phenominalicious uses too,
<v Speaker 2>just to have it, just to know what you're looking at,
<v Speaker 2>what they can advertise to you, where you're gonna be,
<v Speaker 2>how you're gonna get there, that sort of thing. It's
<v Speaker 2>it's it's not to say that you shouldn't protect yourself,
<v Speaker 2>but there are some things that they're just gonna sell
<v Speaker 2>right from underneath you, whether you like it or not.
<v Speaker 2>And in this case, if it's a robot, if it's
<v Speaker 2>a robot deliver in pizzas or groceries. Now look, if
<v Speaker 2>a robot is delivering groceries to an elderly person who
<v Speaker 2>can't get to the grocery store anyway, I can sign
<v Speaker 2>on to that. That's fine. If it used me walking
<v Speaker 2>around La catch your Pokemon to be able to find
<v Speaker 2>this person's house, sure, but don't fucking lie to me
<v Speaker 2>about it. Just tell me it's what you're gonna do.
<v Speaker 2>Tell me that's what you're making these robots for. Tell
<v Speaker 2>me that's what my data is going through. Don't just
<v Speaker 2>put in this field research. Tell us to take pictures
<v Speaker 2>and scan the surrounding areas just for the game.
<v Speaker 1>Come the fuck off. Yeah, well always try Tousition is
<v Speaker 1>like the most altruistic thing, and we know what's really
<v Speaker 1>happening here of course. Uh yeah, with loot boxes to
<v Speaker 1>get a minimum of sixteen age rating across Europe. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Laura Cress at BBC. Games which feature loot
<v Speaker 1>boxes will soon be given an age rating of sixteen
<v Speaker 1>across Europe, including the UK, under a host of changes
<v Speaker 1>by the European Video Game Ratings organization the Pan European
<v Speaker 1>Game Information Body, which is what PEGGY stands for. I
<v Speaker 1>just learned today. Basically they're just coming out of me like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>if you got loo boxes, you're a game for adults.
<v Speaker 1>The adults or you know, or people who are have
<v Speaker 1>matured enough to the point where they can handle that
<v Speaker 1>concept because we believe it's akin to gambling. And I
<v Speaker 1>think this is completely fine, because really the idea should
<v Speaker 1>be that you need a credit card to engage with
<v Speaker 1>these systems anyhow, right, and if you don't, you need
<v Speaker 1>the permission of someone who does. And credit cards, I
<v Speaker 1>think you have at least be sixteen. I think we'll
<v Speaker 1>maybe in many places you have to be eighteen to
<v Speaker 1>get a credit card. So yeah, what's the what's the
<v Speaker 1>difference at a certain point, And you know that's going
<v Speaker 1>to cause problems for selling these games at some retailers
<v Speaker 1>that have strict rules about like selling games to people
<v Speaker 1>who are under a certain age if it has a
<v Speaker 1>certain rating. But good, So what I think that these
<v Speaker 1>games should have to have a little bit more hurdle
<v Speaker 1>hurdles and more friction, although, of course most of these
<v Speaker 1>games are sold digitally, and again many of them are
<v Speaker 1>free that have loop boxes, so the barriers there are
<v Speaker 1>already very, very low, and retailers wouldn't even factor into that.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, what does this make you think? How do
<v Speaker 1>you feel about this?
<v Speaker 2>Anything that makes it more difficult for my children to
<v Speaker 2>spend my money without me knowing works for me. It's
<v Speaker 2>basically if that's how I think about it. They're like,
<v Speaker 2>I like how the Amazon Fire tablets. If they want
<v Speaker 2>to download games that have any in app activity at
<v Speaker 2>all that could be financial, I have to approve it
<v Speaker 2>via email first, like the email meaning and I go
<v Speaker 2>into my account stuff like that. That That makes sense
<v Speaker 2>to me that this is the kind of logical child
<v Speaker 2>protecting services not to use CPS. But you know that
<v Speaker 2>these games need those are the kind of protections that
<v Speaker 2>these kids need because they don't know what they're clicking,
<v Speaker 2>and the games are made to be that way so
<v Speaker 2>that they don't know what they're clicking and they take
<v Speaker 2>their money from you. How many stories have we heard of?
<v Speaker 2>Three hundred and fifty feet a here, two hundred dollars
<v Speaker 2>in roadblocks.
<v Speaker 1>Are patterns where it's like they clearly are designing it,
<v Speaker 1>so these accidental accidental button presses will just lead to
<v Speaker 1>money being spent. Yeah, yeah, we know what they're doing.
<v Speaker 2>And not only that, when they press the button, they
<v Speaker 2>get all the fancy animations.
<v Speaker 1>WHOA, what's coming out of the box?
<v Speaker 2>What's in the box? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know it.
<v Speaker 2>I like this and I wish more regions than just
<v Speaker 2>the EU and Peggy would adopt it.
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<v Speaker 1>from last week because we did the Bomb twelve instead.
<v Speaker 1>There is a new Bomb twelve link up on the
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<v Speaker 1>all of that going here at the end of the week.
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, we got to figure out what's going
<v Speaker 1>on on Giant Bomb. We're gonna have a meeting to
<v Speaker 1>do so. But you know, normal stuff. I think we
<v Speaker 1>should be able to do, uh, the new season of
<v Speaker 1>a Blight Club. Dan's gonna Dan's gonna be out on
<v Speaker 1>assignment soon afterward. But I think, I once say, we
<v Speaker 1>should be able to pull it off. And you're not
<v Speaker 1>gonna want to miss it, because Mike has pulled the ripcord. Everybody,
<v Speaker 1>he's done it. He's pulled the rip yeap oh, we
<v Speaker 1>sent him. We sent Dan a game and a costume,
<v Speaker 1>and then since then, Mike has pulled the ripcord. So
<v Speaker 1>I sent Dan a different game and a different costume.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, he's got he's got a lot waiting for
<v Speaker 1>him here. Pretty soon. It's gonna You're just not gonna
<v Speaker 1>want to miss it. It's gonna be pretty good. And
<v Speaker 1>then yes, we have Minati party featuring Lego tonight everybody,
<v Speaker 1>So uh, that's that's gonna be a lot. I'm really
<v Speaker 1>looking forward to it. They were like, hey, we have
<v Speaker 1>this new stuff where for you to check out, but
<v Speaker 1>it's got to be couch co op. I'm like, all right,
<v Speaker 1>I'll get over to mic so we'll make it happen.
<v Speaker 1>So it's going to be a fun week over here
<v Speaker 1>on Giant Bomb. Go to gianbomb dot com and you
<v Speaker 1>can keep up with everything that's happening over there. Jason Finelli.
<v Speaker 1>Before we really wrap things up, why don't you tell
<v Speaker 1>people where the can find you on the internet what
<v Speaker 1>you have going on and all of that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Jasonfanelli dot com on Blue Sky, Big Man Finale on
<v Speaker 2>Instagram or my main social media presences. Currently in the
<v Speaker 2>midst of reviewing MLB the show twenty six for the
<v Speaker 2>good folks at kotuk who It's baseball so far paying
<v Speaker 2>playing baseball, It's already broken the immersion of realism by
<v Speaker 2>allowing Phillies catcher JT. Realmuto to hit a walk off
<v Speaker 2>home run to win a game that's that's just not
<v Speaker 2>going to happen in real life. Sorry, everyone. Other than that,
<v Speaker 2>enjoying my time with that so far and prepping for
<v Speaker 2>four days in Boston myself. I'll be up there Thursday
<v Speaker 2>till Sunday at PACC's. Got some appointment schedule, got some
<v Speaker 2>things I want to do. If I don't talk to
<v Speaker 2>you between now and then, a good friend of mine
<v Speaker 2>named Carl Carl jerm here on twitch is a speed runner.
<v Speaker 2>He will be speed running Dark Souls on the GDQ
<v Speaker 2>stage at PAX East from two to three on Friday.
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to try my best to have my button
<v Speaker 2>a seat to watch him and support my boy. And
<v Speaker 2>if you're around and you have nothing to do in
<v Speaker 2>that time and that timeframe, you should too. He's a
<v Speaker 2>great streamer and a great friend. And yeah, so that's it.
<v Speaker 2>That's what's on the timeline for me.
<v Speaker 1>Well then we should get out of here. Jason, thank
<v Speaker 1>you so much for hanging out with me today and
<v Speaker 1>talking about video games. Man, I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Always a pleasure friend.
<v Speaker 1>Until next time, Thank you all for watching and listening.
<v Speaker 1>You are the best audience in gaming. Until next time,
<v Speaker 1>have a good one. Take care of yourself and goodbye.