Surprise Fire Emblem Game Dropped

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, Welcome to Games Morning. Is 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 gonna be talking about
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo announcing a weird new game in a beloved franchise,
<v Speaker 1>and Xbox's best series gets a new entry that finally
<v Speaker 1>gives fans what they've been begging for. Also, we'll catch
<v Speaker 1>up on that state of play. We'll get reviews for
<v Speaker 1>Ghosts of Yota. There is a million thanks to talk about.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be a good one because we have Jason
<v Speaker 1>Fanelli on the show. Jason, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>This is a pac burrito of a show today, and
<v Speaker 2>I am glad to be here. Hopefully won't spill any
<v Speaker 2>of that red sauce on our nice new coats. Anyhow,
<v Speaker 2>I am feeling pretty good. I am man. My head
<v Speaker 2>is spinning with like. So we had Xbox this morning,
<v Speaker 2>we had Sony last night. Nintendo decided to jump in.
<v Speaker 2>There's too many games to play right now, too many good,
<v Speaker 2>critically acclaimed games to keep up with at the moment.
<v Speaker 2>Watch your stream a little bit this morning of baby
<v Speaker 2>Steps and the only thing that game needs doesn't need much,
<v Speaker 2>but The only thing that game needs is a Sir
<v Speaker 2>David Attenborough.
<v Speaker 1>Sort of oh yeah, like narrator.
<v Speaker 2>In the background where he's all like he's getting ready
<v Speaker 2>to go, and he's like the nervous, the nervous ginger
<v Speaker 2>neck Beard cautiously hips his toe onto the rock. One
<v Speaker 2>false move will remove hours of progress or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>Really does feel like you're playing as an animal. So
<v Speaker 1>I want this real bad. I guess we could just
<v Speaker 1>do that. I'll just have you come on the next stream.
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing with that and you can what's going on.
<v Speaker 1>I'm practicing that game. We are racing kind of funny.
<v Speaker 1>I got the movement down. I am worried about where
<v Speaker 1>to go. I like, I lose my bearing. I'm like
<v Speaker 1>where I should be headed next. And I think you're
<v Speaker 1>gonna have to rely on the team there to help
<v Speaker 1>make some decisions and get us through that. But it's
<v Speaker 1>gonna be a good race. That's that's upf tomorrow, everybody.
<v Speaker 1>We're doing it a little bit later, I think we will.
<v Speaker 1>We are starting at like, yeah, four pm Eastern, I
<v Speaker 1>think is the time that we're planning to do that. Everyone.
<v Speaker 1>You know what, Like you said, a lot to talk
<v Speaker 1>about so we should just get started and explain ourselves
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<v Speaker 1>Hello YouTube, all right, I wasn't ready, ahdi listeners. I
<v Speaker 1>took a sip of my espresso there in between. We
<v Speaker 1>have a lot to get into. So let's start the
<v Speaker 1>morning mess with Ghost of Yote reviews. I think let's
<v Speaker 1>see if it's had like an eighty nine on Open
<v Speaker 1>Critic right now. So it's not getting me the double
<v Speaker 1>points and Fantasy Critic, but it's coming through pretty good,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'll say real quick. Some of these people,
<v Speaker 1>imron con pointed this out, some of these names on
<v Speaker 1>these bylines for some of these reviews have been on
<v Speaker 1>a lot of reviews in this last month, like Silent
<v Speaker 1>Hill and Baby Steps and a bunch of others. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>how are you people reviewing all these games? It's impressive
<v Speaker 1>workout out there. Everybody shots out to the reviewers. Really. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Every single year, this this set of months from like
<v Speaker 2>September August to like November is just chock full. And
<v Speaker 2>there are people who just go game to game to game,
<v Speaker 2>sometimes two three games at a time. Uh, and they're
<v Speaker 2>able to get their thoughts out clearly in these articles,
<v Speaker 2>and it is it is all inspiring. It is I
<v Speaker 2>am honored to be a part, to be among these people.
<v Speaker 2>They inspire me to do better work too. It's good stuff.
<v Speaker 1>It's mostly a young person's game too. I just get
<v Speaker 1>too busy in the evenings, and like uh Mike was
<v Speaker 1>talking about, I stayed up to five him, like a
<v Speaker 1>couple of nights in a row, like really polishing off
<v Speaker 1>silk song. If I did that, that'd be the time
<v Speaker 1>to start getting up to get the kids ready for school.
<v Speaker 1>I can't do that anymore.
<v Speaker 2>These people have a lot of games to play, but
<v Speaker 2>you know what, they don't have children.
<v Speaker 1>Children make something imaginic difference. Yes, all right, these reviews,
<v Speaker 1>let's start here. Eight out of ten from Mikhail higham
<v Speaker 1>Over at ign He says a predictable but well executed story.
<v Speaker 1>It takes you through Ghosts of UTA's gorgeous landscapes and
<v Speaker 1>satisfying fluid action. May not be revolutionizing open world games,
<v Speaker 1>but it's a great distillation of the Samurai fantasy. Ten
<v Speaker 1>out of ten from Dalton Cooper at game Rant. Ghost
<v Speaker 1>of Yota is a monumental world, open world graphics powerhouse,
<v Speaker 1>driven by intense combat and enthralling revenge story. In a
<v Speaker 1>nine point three from Kyle Hilliard at Game Informer, who
<v Speaker 1>says Ghost of Yota does not radically reinvent or change
<v Speaker 1>what worked in Sushima. But that's fine because frankly, Sucker
<v Speaker 1>Punch nailed the mechanics the first time. Yeah, it sounds
<v Speaker 1>like more of that game, and everyone thinks that's a
<v Speaker 1>really good thing, that it's more of that game. And
<v Speaker 1>I think the ranges here, like eight, nine, ten, that's
<v Speaker 1>where you're gonna be with a lot kind of hovering
<v Speaker 1>in that nine range. And again, the scores only tell
<v Speaker 1>so much of the story. When we do go into
<v Speaker 1>the text. What we're seeing as people being like, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>if you are looking for that novelty, if you're looking
<v Speaker 1>for that thing that's completely new, something you haven't played before,
<v Speaker 1>go play Baby Steps. We know that's not what most
<v Speaker 1>of you want. Want you want Ghost to Yota. This
<v Speaker 1>is the big budget, highly polished open world game that
<v Speaker 1>delivers on the fantasy that it's promising. That's I think
<v Speaker 1>most people spend five hundred dollars on a console to
<v Speaker 1>play a game like this, right, mm.
<v Speaker 2>Hmm, yeah, I mean this. I loved the original Ghost
<v Speaker 2>of Sushima, so hearing that it's the same gameplay the same,
<v Speaker 2>like all the stuff that worked, but with a potentially
<v Speaker 2>different story or better story even in some cases sign
<v Speaker 2>me up. I really like the idea and it's somebody.
<v Speaker 2>One of the reviews I read was exploring this about
<v Speaker 2>how the first game was all about honor and how
<v Speaker 2>that works in the in the world, back in the
<v Speaker 2>day of the world of the Samurai, and this person
<v Speaker 2>Atsu now is just a commoner, Like she's just there.
<v Speaker 2>She's not part of a of a of a regal family.
<v Speaker 2>She's just avenging her her family that was killed by
<v Speaker 2>these six, the Yota six, And that's an entirely different
<v Speaker 2>story that you can tell. I love that. I love
<v Speaker 2>that they've gotten two polar ops, not maybe a polar opposite,
<v Speaker 2>but very different feeling stories out of the same world
<v Speaker 2>that they've built with the same sort of fluid combat
<v Speaker 2>that I really really want and I am I can't wait.
<v Speaker 2>I remember distinctly in the first game going up onto
<v Speaker 2>a hill and just overlooking one of the vistas and
<v Speaker 2>taking that I don't use phono mode often, but Sushima
<v Speaker 2>I brought that thing up maybe every couple hours every
<v Speaker 2>new area I was in, I was like, Wow, this
<v Speaker 2>is enthralling. I am looking forward to that again when
<v Speaker 2>this hits. I'm not surprised by the scores. I really
<v Speaker 2>did think that Sucker Punch had a good thing going. Course,
<v Speaker 2>sounds sounds like they didn't break, they didn't fix what
<v Speaker 2>wasn't broken, which is good. Now please, thank god, come on.
<v Speaker 2>I know it's next week, but now please yep.
<v Speaker 1>I just at a certain point, it's like, we are
<v Speaker 1>going to get more entrenched in these genres and you
<v Speaker 1>don't want to break the mold. What's the point? And
<v Speaker 1>yet video games are known for that novelty we like.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I always point out one of the only
<v Speaker 1>things that's consistent in gaming is that then change every
<v Speaker 1>couple of years, and genres do grow stale. I think
<v Speaker 1>that if you have a big game like Ghost of Sushima,
<v Speaker 1>you absolutely need to do at least one sequel exactly
<v Speaker 1>in that mold. It sounds like that's what this is.
<v Speaker 1>I think Sony's well aware of this, this thing I'm
<v Speaker 1>about to go through. They did this with they're doing
<v Speaker 1>this with God of War. You have Got of War
<v Speaker 1>twenty eighteen, right, that was the first one of the
<v Speaker 1>of the rebooted series. And then you make a direct
<v Speaker 1>sequel to that, and you followed up and you stay
<v Speaker 1>in that mold and you add in a bunch of
<v Speaker 1>like you add more, you add more to it, and
<v Speaker 1>then back in the day, you would have been like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>now let's do a third one. But that's when games
<v Speaker 1>were taking two years to develop, and you could do
<v Speaker 1>three games in one generation and they would grow each time.
<v Speaker 1>We're kind of long away from that. We're at a
<v Speaker 1>point now where these games do take five years. You
<v Speaker 1>get one a generation typically, and now people are like,
<v Speaker 1>it's fifteen years later when that third one comes around,
<v Speaker 1>and if it's in the same mold at that point,
<v Speaker 1>people will be that will be diminishing returns. That will
<v Speaker 1>be people being like, I've kind of done this already.
<v Speaker 1>I'm ready to move on, and I think Sony knows that.
<v Speaker 1>So I do expect for the next one them to
<v Speaker 1>take maybe a wild swing in a different direction, But
<v Speaker 1>for this one, this is the right choice. Every time,
<v Speaker 1>do the big sequel that can build on the success
<v Speaker 1>of the first one. And that means the success in
<v Speaker 1>terms of creating and building the game, but also commercial
<v Speaker 1>success of people becoming aware of the franchise and showing
<v Speaker 1>up for the new entry in the series, which that
<v Speaker 1>first one did super well, especially in Japan but globally,
<v Speaker 1>and I expect this one to just kind of be
<v Speaker 1>a blockbuster hit for again for the marquee game for
<v Speaker 1>the big big console that everyone spent five hundred dollars
<v Speaker 1>or more on. Yeah, they're they're not going to sit
<v Speaker 1>this one out. They are going to want to get
<v Speaker 1>their money's worth, and that's part.
<v Speaker 2>Of that is playing this game, especially now when prices
<v Speaker 2>on consoles are going up. They need a super critically acclaimed,
<v Speaker 2>highly sought after game to sell more. It's going to
<v Speaker 2>be it's going to be a hard sell. It's a
<v Speaker 2>hard sell anyway with the increased prices, but now this
<v Speaker 2>people might see this remember Ghost of Sushima the first one,
<v Speaker 2>and be like, oh man, and you might get those
<v Speaker 2>Fomo people finally to take that extra plunge, uh and
<v Speaker 2>get this going to Now. They did bundle it with
<v Speaker 2>a console, I think, right, there is a there is
<v Speaker 2>a Ghost of Shoes ghost the Okay console, I think.
<v Speaker 1>I think so there's at least like the special lit hardware,
<v Speaker 1>right is it?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Yeah, so so I don't know if it's funnled
<v Speaker 2>with the game right. So, so yeah, I think if
<v Speaker 2>there are fans out there who were waiting for this game,
<v Speaker 2>mm hmm, now the time here you are, come and
<v Speaker 2>get it.
<v Speaker 1>And it's very likely in Japan too, where it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation five is selling Okay, it's not selling quite like
<v Speaker 1>the PS four did, and so it's like, yeah, you
<v Speaker 1>could probably chalk that up to people waiting for something
<v Speaker 1>like this, and again that that franchise really hit hard
<v Speaker 1>in Japan. So shouts at the Sucker Punch for delivering
<v Speaker 1>another another big hit.
<v Speaker 2>It is wild that they were able to go from
<v Speaker 2>superheroes and fantastical infamous to just because studio right grounded. Yeah, man,
<v Speaker 2>they just know what they're doing. They really do. Another blueprint,
<v Speaker 2>another blueprint for other studios to copy, if Sony would
<v Speaker 2>ever let people, you know, in on their secrets.
<v Speaker 1>Not that they should, but you know, at the very least,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, you know, gives me hope for Insomniac going.
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's it's super hard a superhero. By going
<v Speaker 1>from Spider Man to Wolverine, it's like, oh, it's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be quite a bit different. Will they be able to
<v Speaker 1>figure it out? Based on what we saw which we'll
<v Speaker 1>talk about here in a second. Get that they figured
<v Speaker 1>it some shit out uh. Forts Horizon six Races into Japan.
<v Speaker 1>An official teaser trailer coming to PS five later. This
<v Speaker 1>is Darren Bontuse at GameSpot is a reminder Microsoft is
<v Speaker 1>a target of the BDS boycott call for its involvement
<v Speaker 1>in the genocide and ethnic cleansing and Gaza. They make
<v Speaker 1>money from that. That seems like a shitty thing to do, uh,
<v Speaker 1>Darren here rights. Forts and Horizon six has been officially revealed, and,
<v Speaker 1>as rumors indicated, the next chapter in the racing series
<v Speaker 1>will see the Horizon Festival move to Japan. Officially unveiled
<v Speaker 1>in an GRAM teaser video ahead of the Xbox showcase
<v Speaker 1>at Tokyo Game Show. The game launches in twenty twenty
<v Speaker 1>six and will be available on Xbox Game Pass, and
<v Speaker 1>a statement Microsoft confirmed a PS five release to come later.
<v Speaker 1>Playground Games and Turnten Studios are working together together to
<v Speaker 1>bring Forts or Horizon six to PlayStation five post launch.
<v Speaker 1>No date there when I hear this, Jason, I think
<v Speaker 1>six months, six months, you know, maybe even less, but
<v Speaker 1>probably around six months between hitting Xbox and PC and
<v Speaker 1>then going to PlayStation five. Does that sound right? And
<v Speaker 1>then what do you think about, Hey, forts Horizon six
<v Speaker 1>in Japan.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, three to six months is what I had it
<v Speaker 2>at as well.
<v Speaker 1>Three they might be.
<v Speaker 2>Three might be only if sales are really struggling and
<v Speaker 2>they can push the port out a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>Sourer, or if like depending on like the moments of opportunity, right,
<v Speaker 1>if but three months later it's like, you know, dead
<v Speaker 1>right before a holiday or something like.
<v Speaker 2>That, may be anything that, Yeah, that's fair, like if
<v Speaker 2>it comes out in August and then three months would
<v Speaker 2>be like the beginning of December for the that makes sense.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah cool?
<v Speaker 2>Uh But yeah, japan Is has been on the top
<v Speaker 2>of the list of many fours of Horizon fans. I'm
<v Speaker 2>glad they are getting it. I could have used a
<v Speaker 2>little more in my teaser than some person tinkering around
<v Speaker 2>their garage and then looking out the window at some
<v Speaker 2>cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji. Need a little more than that, please,
<v Speaker 2>But hey, you're getting it.
<v Speaker 1>It's cool.
<v Speaker 2>It's good that it's confirmed. So sad that it was
<v Speaker 2>confirmed like two hours beforehand because the Instagram abs went
<v Speaker 2>up too early, but hey, good for them. It'll be
<v Speaker 2>very if anything like the previous Horizon games. They're going
<v Speaker 2>to treat that setting with their respect it deserves and
<v Speaker 2>make an incredible racing experience, and I look forward to
<v Speaker 2>seeing what they do. However, that it's in Japan and
<v Speaker 2>it was part of this particular presentation, and we can,
<v Speaker 2>I guess, parlay this into the next one if you
<v Speaker 2>want to. Already, it's sort of a symptom of an
<v Speaker 2>underlying issue I had with the whole affair. But we
<v Speaker 2>can get into that when we talk about the actual
<v Speaker 2>full presentation. As far as four as a six go,
<v Speaker 2>Horizon six goes awesome, let's do Japan.
<v Speaker 1>That full presentation did include some other stuff. Xbox had
<v Speaker 1>several announcements at the twenty twenty five Tokyo Game Show.
<v Speaker 1>Jake Valentine at Duel Shockers run them down for us
<v Speaker 1>age of mythology. Heavenly Spear got a fresh new look
<v Speaker 1>ahead of the expansions launch next week. Call of Duty
<v Speaker 1>Black Ops seven, which, yeah, that's a Microsoft game. I
<v Speaker 1>still sometimes forget that showcase new multiplayer maps that are
<v Speaker 1>set in Japan. That's weird. I don't know something about that.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna be shooting people in Japan this time? Are
<v Speaker 1>you excited Japan? That's like, I don't know, fall Out two,
<v Speaker 1>we'll get that part of okay fall fall Out seventy six.
<v Speaker 1>Camp Cimp revamp thanked the Japanese community in showcase some
<v Speaker 1>Japanese made camp creations. I guess that's fine. Then there
<v Speaker 1>were supports Horizons six stuff. Microsoft Flight Simulator's newest world
<v Speaker 1>update did focus on Japan. Featured twenty three new photogrammatry
<v Speaker 1>areas that cover over twenty thousand square kilometers. There's also
<v Speaker 1>the addition of a new local legend, the Nihon Aircraft
<v Speaker 1>Manufacturing Companies YS eleven. That's always cool. Ninja gaid four
<v Speaker 1>highlighted the game's difficulty design, showing us what's in store
<v Speaker 1>for us on Master Ninja mode. There was a Double
<v Speaker 1>seven first Light announcing a new addition to the cast.
<v Speaker 1>Jim O Chan is going to play Selena tan A
<v Speaker 1>Senior I six official a Nemo showed us how the
<v Speaker 1>games creatures interact with each other and their environment. Just
<v Speaker 1>you know, some games just getting like a little bit
<v Speaker 1>of a hey, this still exists. Double Dragon Revive, Dragon
<v Speaker 1>Quest one and two two d HD remake Fatal Frame
<v Speaker 1>two Crimson Butterfly remake highlighted the changes featured in the
<v Speaker 1>remake to improve over the original experience. Gungrave Gore Blood
<v Speaker 1>Heat is a full remake of twenty twenty two's Gungngrave
<v Speaker 1>Gore built in Unreal Engine five. What from three years ago?
<v Speaker 1>What are you looking talking about? Hit Man World of
<v Speaker 1>a Session Assassination revealed that martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
<v Speaker 1>We'll talk about that a little bit as well. We'll
<v Speaker 1>finish the show with that. Let's see Hotel Barcelona gets
<v Speaker 1>a multiplayer showcase trailer. There's a bunch of stuff in here.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I didn't watch this fall showcase because
<v Speaker 1>it happened mostly overnight and I was busy, and while
<v Speaker 1>I was getting ready for the show, I was playing
<v Speaker 1>Baby Steps instead. But you seem to have thoughts on it.
<v Speaker 1>What did you think of this whole showcase?
<v Speaker 2>So it happened to air at six am Eastern time
<v Speaker 2>this morning when I was home, getting home from the
<v Speaker 2>gym and getting ready for the day. So I happened
<v Speaker 2>to watch the whole thing. I was around, So I
<v Speaker 2>watched it and along with some really cool things like
<v Speaker 2>that Winter Boro that Woodland Survival game.
<v Speaker 1>It looks like Red Red Red Wall that's out November twentieth.
<v Speaker 1>I want to say it's out twelve twelve. That looks really,
<v Speaker 1>really neat. There was just this whole especially in the
<v Speaker 1>first party announcements, this whole thing from Xbox being like,
<v Speaker 1>hey Japan, Hey, hey, hey guys, look look at all
<v Speaker 1>this Japan stuff we're doing.
<v Speaker 2>There's Japan Maps and Call of Duty, and we're bringing
<v Speaker 2>Japan in Flight Simulator and Japan. Here's our Japanese fall
<v Speaker 2>Out six Camp Designers. Japan, We loved you, Japan, Please
<v Speaker 2>love us too, Please love us to Japan.
<v Speaker 1>We really need to Japan. You make it sound like
<v Speaker 1>it stinks of desperation, Jason. It felt it felt.
<v Speaker 2>Forced, just as forced as it felt to hear Phil
<v Speaker 2>Spencer and Sarah Bond speaking Japanese. It sounded like what
<v Speaker 2>the AI Translations device sounds like when it says the
<v Speaker 2>Japanese back to you. No offense to them. I just
<v Speaker 2>don't know how they were briefed on saying those things.
<v Speaker 2>It just it just had this whole like, we knows
<v Speaker 2>our it's our least successful market. We really need to
<v Speaker 2>step our game up there. Now they did that with
<v Speaker 2>Japanese developers like Hotel Barcelona is.
<v Speaker 1>Sweary sixty five partners.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and Capcom's there and Squarrey and exits there, all this,
<v Speaker 2>all the things you would expect Double Dragon too, I
<v Speaker 2>still associate with it's our system work, so I guess
<v Speaker 2>that is Japan as well. But like you could feel it.
<v Speaker 2>You could feel how desperate they were to get this
<v Speaker 2>market under you know, under some sort of control and
<v Speaker 2>not the free fall that it is. It was very
<v Speaker 2>very obvious to me based on all of the like
<v Speaker 2>and there's no greater sign. As we talked about, why
<v Speaker 2>did you need to highlight multiplayer Master Call of Duty
<v Speaker 2>because they're set in Japan, especially when you when you
<v Speaker 2>revealed them in a blog two days ago, like this
<v Speaker 2>is not new information. It was very weird. Now, granted,
<v Speaker 2>the flight sim thing, that whole.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that and that's just that team doing what they
<v Speaker 1>do and and coming through and deliver on something they
<v Speaker 1>would have done anyhow. So it just that feels authentic. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>But but but and also there's a joke for the
<v Speaker 2>RPG fans out there, Xbox did announce E eleven y
<v Speaker 2>S eleven. It's just the plane that they're adding to
<v Speaker 2>flight simulator. Sorry guys, but yeah, I mean not to
<v Speaker 2>say these things weren't cool. They were, but I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>you could just you could feel that they're like, well,
<v Speaker 2>we really need to step our game up in Japan.
<v Speaker 2>And this was this was sort of like here's Japan,
<v Speaker 2>here you go.
<v Speaker 1>I think they like think there's a new opportunity because
<v Speaker 1>they are not interested in selling Xbox consoles anymore. So
<v Speaker 1>this is them saying, hey, we're Xbox, here are our games,
<v Speaker 1>and we're gonna let you play them on PlayStation here
<v Speaker 1>in a little bit at the very least you want
<v Speaker 1>have to wait, look, wait too long? And also, do
<v Speaker 1>we think that the reason Ghost of Sushi Must succeeded
<v Speaker 1>is because that game went and said, hey, it's a
<v Speaker 1>Japan game. Don't you love that Japan? And that worked? Now?
<v Speaker 1>Did it work because they were going hajpan or because
<v Speaker 1>it was a slam and awesome game that really was
<v Speaker 1>respectful of the culture. I think that might have had
<v Speaker 1>something more to do with it than being like, there's
<v Speaker 1>a Call of Duty level fucking set in Japan.
<v Speaker 2>Now, I will say this now that I'm looking at
<v Speaker 2>this list again, all of the games that did this
<v Speaker 2>are either on PlayStation five or coming to PlayStation five.
<v Speaker 2>Flight Sim was announced yesterday, Black Op seven obviously, Fall
<v Speaker 2>seventy six is already there, and Horizon six, as we
<v Speaker 2>spoke about the top of the show. So that that
<v Speaker 2>is an interesting element. I had not considered that before.
<v Speaker 2>I was too busy watching their pan But okay, so
<v Speaker 2>if they are games that are coming to PlayStation anyway,
<v Speaker 2>I guess it makes a little more sense. But still,
<v Speaker 2>if you go back and watch it, you're gonna be like,
<v Speaker 2>oh man, they this is this is not again? Also too,
<v Speaker 2>somebody brings up in chat PC has been taking.
<v Speaker 1>Growing for a very long time. Yes, that's true. The
<v Speaker 1>point I think at the the end it feels like
<v Speaker 1>panderin and it feels inauthentic because you had a beloved
<v Speaker 1>Japanese studio in Tango Game Works that was putting out
<v Speaker 1>games that were getting better, like from Evil Within to
<v Speaker 1>Evil Within two and then what is the name of
<v Speaker 1>the rhythm game. I don't know why, it's High Fi Rush.
<v Speaker 1>High Fi Rush was a critically acclaimed game that you
<v Speaker 1>maybe didn't handle well with like putting out in a
<v Speaker 1>Shadow Drop. Maybe they didn't give it the best chance
<v Speaker 1>to succeed, or maybe it was just a bad fit
<v Speaker 1>for Xbox or whatever. Either way, though, you shed that studio,
<v Speaker 1>threw it to the wolves, and thankfully someone else picked
<v Speaker 1>it up, but that was not due to you. You
<v Speaker 1>were just going to get rid of the studio, and
<v Speaker 1>so all it just kind of feels like we don't
<v Speaker 1>believe you when you talk this way about how much
<v Speaker 1>you love Japan. It does it seems like you like
<v Speaker 1>the money you might are trying you're trying to get,
<v Speaker 1>but beyond that, all of the rest just feels deeply inauthentic. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>all right, let's let's keep trucking. Here plenty more to
<v Speaker 1>talk about PlayStation state of play, recap, major game reveals
<v Speaker 1>and updates that include Marvel's Wolverine getting a new look
<v Speaker 1>at the gameplay and that's coming fall twenty twenty six.
<v Speaker 1>And I remember it was a whole kerfuffle because to me,
<v Speaker 1>this meant a very specific thing that looked hard are
<v Speaker 1>that looked like a mature game, that looked like that
<v Speaker 1>looked like they were trying to like internally, that's how
<v Speaker 1>they were describing it. Obviously, that has takes on different connotations,
<v Speaker 1>but that what they meant by that internally was we
<v Speaker 1>are going to go for when you stab someone, a
<v Speaker 1>lot of blood pops out. It's going to be like
<v Speaker 1>that Deadpole movie. It is clearly that it is insanely that.
<v Speaker 1>I was kind of shocked how much they were going for. Hey,
<v Speaker 1>we are not holding back in terms of the violence
<v Speaker 1>as it should be.
<v Speaker 2>You really can't with Wolverine, especially if you're going for
<v Speaker 2>the dark, gritty sort of Wolverine. Yeah, you're getting called
<v Speaker 2>out as you should be.
<v Speaker 1>That is for my entire life. That meant one thing,
<v Speaker 1>and then suddenly it meant another because Jesus and Marrow
<v Speaker 1>did a podcast and changed the meeting on me.
<v Speaker 2>Uh, but yeah, they it looks it looked incredible, very
<v Speaker 2>very good. First impression, I guess second impression technically, sorry, guys, Uh,
<v Speaker 2>of what they're going for here, and that is the
<v Speaker 2>way you have to do it. We're not in the
<v Speaker 2>you know, Supernintendo any essays anymore where you're just walking
<v Speaker 2>and slashing and you can get away with not having
<v Speaker 2>the dark, gritty Wolverine. If you're going to go, you
<v Speaker 2>gotta jump all the way in. And I like where
<v Speaker 2>they're going here now. I like Leam McIntyre's logan too.
<v Speaker 2>I thought his voice in what we heard was pretty good.
<v Speaker 2>People were like, why is the AUSI and I'm like, well,
<v Speaker 2>Hugh Jackman was great.
<v Speaker 1>It's not an actual Canadian, that's all I care about.
<v Speaker 1>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>The Ausse's clearly have a lock on Wolverine. It's just
<v Speaker 2>how it is. But no, I was very impressed with that,
<v Speaker 2>and it made perfect sense as the last announcement of
<v Speaker 2>the state of play too. It is something that people
<v Speaker 2>have wanted for a very long time, finally getting a
<v Speaker 2>first look at it. Yeah, it really really was impressed
<v Speaker 2>by that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I was. When I was going back and looking
<v Speaker 1>for we're talking about them going for that mature rating.
<v Speaker 1>It was it was like I was also reminded, like,
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, at the time, it was reporting that they
<v Speaker 1>weren't really going for anything very open world. If they do,
<v Speaker 1>it's going to be slightly open sections. But this is
<v Speaker 1>not an open world game. At least it was not
<v Speaker 1>back in twenty twenty three when I was reported on that.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think anything's changed there. This is not going
<v Speaker 1>to be an open world game, so it's going to
<v Speaker 1>be kind of a character action sort of one set
<v Speaker 1>piece to another sort of thing. I do imagine you're
<v Speaker 1>going to go into a town or whatever, and Wolverine
<v Speaker 1>will activate his his his you know sense, his sense
<v Speaker 1>is to like track someone down or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>I best'll have stuff like that. It's not gonna be
<v Speaker 1>yes his yeah, his Spider said, it's weird, he's got
<v Speaker 1>that too, and and you know. But then then once
<v Speaker 1>you get to that point, I think it'll kind of
<v Speaker 1>like corral you back into here's where the action is happening.
<v Speaker 1>Just stay there, which I think is probably the right
<v Speaker 1>call for Wolverine as opposed to Spider Man, who clearly
<v Speaker 1>has all those mobility options right now.
<v Speaker 2>I wonder if I kind of get like revengeance vibes
<v Speaker 2>right where it's it's not open world, but you go from,
<v Speaker 2>as you said, set piece to set piece or level
<v Speaker 2>to level. The levels may have some some some you know,
<v Speaker 2>a lot to do within them, maybe some side battles
<v Speaker 2>or whatever, or go into a bar and listen for
<v Speaker 2>clues as to what you got to do a little
<v Speaker 2>investigative work. But I don't see this, like you said,
<v Speaker 2>I don't see this being like Spider Man at all.
<v Speaker 2>This has to be a little more, a little more
<v Speaker 2>through line, little more linear, a little I guess restrained
<v Speaker 2>in that regard, Like you don't want it to be
<v Speaker 2>open world because you don't get around us fast, so
<v Speaker 2>traveling the world could get tedious after a while. Imagine
<v Speaker 2>if you were playing Spider Man two and you had
<v Speaker 2>to walk everywhere.
<v Speaker 1>That would take forever.
<v Speaker 2>So if they're going to break it up here and
<v Speaker 2>do more of like a linear story arc sort of
<v Speaker 2>thing with some open playground areas, that's fine with me.
<v Speaker 1>It's the way it should be. It looked really good.
<v Speaker 1>But then they also showed up while they started the
<v Speaker 1>show with Saro's I'm gonna keep saying that wrong. I
<v Speaker 1>think it's Sarah's George Saras George how sparks new title,
<v Speaker 1>which is a spiritual success success or to Returnal. I
<v Speaker 1>don't think it has anything actually connecting it to Returnal
<v Speaker 1>in terms of its world and lore, but the game
<v Speaker 1>is very similar. It stars Rahu Koli, and it's out
<v Speaker 1>March twentieth, so out early next year. And it looked
<v Speaker 1>really promising. I thought it looked really good. What do
<v Speaker 1>you think sooner than I thought? Honestly, sooner.
<v Speaker 2>I really thought this would be like maybe summertime or
<v Speaker 2>late summer, early fall, but they March twentieth. That's awesome.
<v Speaker 2>And yes, if it looks like they're as we spoke
<v Speaker 2>about with Yota earlier, they're keeping what worked from Maternal
<v Speaker 2>and that's the fast paced gameplay, adding more stuff to it,
<v Speaker 2>and that stuff being extra abilities or a brand new
<v Speaker 2>world and a brand new story with brand new characters,
<v Speaker 2>and that seems to be the way to do it.
<v Speaker 2>They're even doing it with what's technically not a sequel.
<v Speaker 2>You talked about. They did it with sequels. This is
<v Speaker 2>not a sequel, and it's the same sort of formula
<v Speaker 2>they're not. They're not going too far off the beaten path.
<v Speaker 2>They know what works and they're just enhancing that, and
<v Speaker 2>that's what you need to do. I hope they can
<v Speaker 2>build on Maternal success and make this really, really cool.
<v Speaker 2>I think it looked awesome. I was very bad at Maternal.
<v Speaker 2>I just could not, for whatever reason, I could not
<v Speaker 2>get the the loop down. But I was way into
<v Speaker 2>it and it made me really sad that I couldn't
<v Speaker 2>figure it out. So I'm hoping maybe this was something
<v Speaker 2>will unlock for me. Here rahul Coley's voice maybe will
<v Speaker 2>act my brain and I'll be able to get this
<v Speaker 2>one because it looked neat.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, my Returnal, I think is a good game. I
<v Speaker 1>rated a three out of five. And my position was
<v Speaker 1>always like the runs always felt too samey, they felt routine,
<v Speaker 1>and your builds always felt very similar. And yet sometimes
<v Speaker 1>I would get a build, It's like it feels the
<v Speaker 1>same in terms of how how like I'm engaging with it,
<v Speaker 1>and yet it's also broken and I'm destroying everything. So
<v Speaker 1>when I get to the next run and the build
<v Speaker 1>is not as powerful, I'm not changing anything. I'm still
<v Speaker 1>kind of playing it in a similar way. Even though
<v Speaker 1>the guns are different, they mostly just kind of worked
<v Speaker 1>the same. The next run where I'm not as powerful,
<v Speaker 1>it feels bad because now it just feels like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not playing the game as well, and it's like, no,
<v Speaker 1>I'm playing it just the same, but the build's just
<v Speaker 1>simply not as powerful, and so this run is not
<v Speaker 1>going to go as well. And that felt rough, and
<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, it didn't help that I'm playing
<v Speaker 1>it right in conjunction, right as Hades is happening, a
<v Speaker 1>perfect roguelike that just nails that sense of run can
<v Speaker 1>be different and yeah, sure sometimes it's broken, but the
<v Speaker 1>next one maybe you're not as powerful, but it's so different.
<v Speaker 1>You're doing things in such a new and unique way
<v Speaker 1>that it still feels like you're discovering things, and then
<v Speaker 1>you go to return on it doesn't have that. I
<v Speaker 1>bet they will have learned a lot and this next
<v Speaker 1>game will address that exactly and precisely. I bet this
<v Speaker 1>is going to be a very very good game. They
<v Speaker 1>showed some the first campaign footage from Battlefield six. I
<v Speaker 1>thought that looked really promising. That game's out October tenth,
<v Speaker 1>not very long from now. Oh my god, the games
<v Speaker 1>aren't going to stop. Neo three got its official release
<v Speaker 1>date February sixth, early next year. Is starting to get
<v Speaker 1>filled up zero parades for this is the new zah
<v Speaker 1>ooom of the Discolesium Devs game that is coming out.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see twenty twenty six and looked and when you say,
<v Speaker 1>when you say Disco Lisium Devs.
<v Speaker 2>It's the actual studio studio splinters that have gone out,
<v Speaker 2>since that is the.
<v Speaker 1>Correct way to put it. Is the studio, not necessarily
<v Speaker 1>the people. But yes, I thought that looked pretty promising
<v Speaker 1>as well. Very creepy. Those gets have this little creepy
<v Speaker 1>edge to it. I like it a lot, Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>for sure, just like a off putting like yeah, you
<v Speaker 1>look at you like, oh, it just doesn't look right.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see Final Fantasy Tactics The Evils Chronicles got a
<v Speaker 1>little bit more of that game's out very soon. Five
<v Speaker 1>days Crimson Desert story trailer revealed, and that had the
<v Speaker 1>release date of March nineteenth. That got delayed. That was
<v Speaker 1>supposed to be out this year, So that date is
<v Speaker 1>kind of informative, letting people know you won't have to
<v Speaker 1>wait too long, although they didn't just delay it to
<v Speaker 1>like January either. Cronoscript The Endless End. This is a
<v Speaker 1>two D slash three D hybrid action adventure. It's a
<v Speaker 1>plucky squire like you kind of play a character running
<v Speaker 1>around inside a book. And let's see that is out
<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty six. I thought it looked really cool.
<v Speaker 1>I got the sense that there's some Metroidvania miss to it,
<v Speaker 1>so and I think that'd be a cool thing to see.
<v Speaker 2>Very striking visual style. If you haven't seen this trailer
<v Speaker 2>yet and you're watching this after we're done, check it
<v Speaker 2>out just to see you the kind of vibe they're
<v Speaker 2>going for here.
<v Speaker 1>Very cool code van to the sort of soul's orny
<v Speaker 1>anime game is launching January thirtieth. The Seven that Deadly
<v Speaker 1>Sends Origin, that anime that everyone hates is getting it's
<v Speaker 1>free to play RPG. It's launching January twentieth. Everyone hates
<v Speaker 1>this show so much and people say there's like some
<v Speaker 1>misogyny and stuff like that, but also apparently it's just
<v Speaker 1>poorly made. Someone linked me in a video that I
<v Speaker 1>planned to watch this weekend about why it's such shit
<v Speaker 1>that's always fun. Get Halloween the game from Ilphonic asymmetrical
<v Speaker 1>horror game featuring Michael Myer Myers that's out September eighth,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six. Although apparently is this the one that
<v Speaker 1>also has a single player campaign? I think that's right,
<v Speaker 1>but that's weird to me. I think so.
<v Speaker 2>I think this is the one where they were doing
<v Speaker 2>a single player too, because they realized that there are
<v Speaker 2>other games. They only have so much leg room before
<v Speaker 2>people stop playing and go to other multiplayer games. So
<v Speaker 2>I hope there's a cool little single player in this one.
<v Speaker 2>Unless they're thinking about Hell Razer Hellila only single player, right, yes, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 2>so this might this might have a campaign to it too,
<v Speaker 2>but either.
<v Speaker 1>Way, yeah, I wouldn't know what to expect from that.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I mean, look, people love these games. Everyone
<v Speaker 1>seems to play Dead Dead by Dawn, Dead by Daylight,
<v Speaker 1>thank you, and they did. These characters often just show
<v Speaker 1>up in that game. So I always wonder, like, what
<v Speaker 1>is the appetite for something like this to stand on
<v Speaker 1>its own? But who knows. Horror fans always want more,
<v Speaker 1>and this would deliver that. A surprise of the show
<v Speaker 1>Let It Die Inferno a follow up to Let It
<v Speaker 1>Die with the Uncle Death or whatever whatever his name is,
<v Speaker 1>the skeleton man with the swirly sunglasses. This is going
<v Speaker 1>to be a survival action rogue Light with PVBP mode elements.
<v Speaker 1>It's coming late twenty twenty five. Sounds like an extraction.
<v Speaker 1>Shoot holy shit these god, oh my god, it's them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah three sixteen, when Let It Die first came out,
<v Speaker 2>I just remembered I had them.
<v Speaker 1>They're just sitting over there. That game is still playable.
<v Speaker 1>Can you still play Let It Die?
<v Speaker 2>Because I wonder, I don't know, I know, death for
<v Speaker 2>just the one that followed it is dead. It lasted
<v Speaker 2>like a week if that. But I yeah, this was
<v Speaker 2>very shocking. I didn't think we'd see Let It Die
<v Speaker 2>ever again, and now here it is. Oh shit, it's
<v Speaker 2>John Dies.
<v Speaker 1>A weird franchise to come back, but I was happy
<v Speaker 1>to see it. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>The first one was interesting. Just climb her tower and
<v Speaker 2>try not to die. Let's let's see if it happens.
<v Speaker 1>Now we're going down a hole, I think, right, I
<v Speaker 1>think it's going down and there'll be other people there.
<v Speaker 1>I think there might have been in the first one too,
<v Speaker 1>but it's a bonanza, like we're just going down. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>now you got me as looks like I just punch everything.
<v Speaker 1>Dynasty Warriors three remastered shouts at the Kayla. She got
<v Speaker 1>what she was looking for. It's a remaster of the
<v Speaker 1>PS two classic. Apparently it's a fan favorite. It's out
<v Speaker 1>March nineteenth. And then the last excuse me, last Epoch
<v Speaker 1>is getting an expansion or something. Yeah. Cool, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know coming in to PS five that's over my eggs exactly.
<v Speaker 1>The whole time we're just sitting there and Mike was
<v Speaker 1>like going on fun. I'm like, oh, he seems to
<v Speaker 1>know he's talking about, and then apparently he was talking
<v Speaker 1>about a different game the whole time, and I was like, well,
<v Speaker 1>look that happens. That's gonna happen. It's a live show.
<v Speaker 1>Just sometimes we're going to get it wrong, okay. And
<v Speaker 1>then that's like for the major games. There's some other
<v Speaker 1>stuff here dual sense controller for God Wars twentieth Anniversary
<v Speaker 1>edition worth pointing out people like, hey, well what about
<v Speaker 1>that two point five D metro Vania game. I never
<v Speaker 1>knew if it was going to be here or not.
<v Speaker 1>That game was supposed to come out this year got
<v Speaker 1>delayed to next year. To me, that's a game that
<v Speaker 1>they announced two months before it comes out, so who knows,
<v Speaker 1>like what the date is for that now? Maybe it
<v Speaker 1>feels like early summer game to me at this point,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>They do a state of play normally in what February
<v Speaker 2>issue normally in February.
<v Speaker 1>That sounds right to me. Yeah, yeah, you can announce
<v Speaker 1>it there and have it out by May. Yeah, you
<v Speaker 1>could announce that the game awards and have it out
<v Speaker 1>in February. It could be any anything like that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, that is a that is a Jeff, Yeah, because
<v Speaker 2>gotta war Valall was a Jeff Keey special.
<v Speaker 1>So that's good point Metro, that game is still real
<v Speaker 1>though it'll happen. It's I think really a lot of
<v Speaker 1>times what happens here is you kind of just get
<v Speaker 1>assets ready. And I felt like this game was maybe's
<v Speaker 1>supposed to come out before this state of play. So
<v Speaker 1>maybe they were just like, let's just take the whole
<v Speaker 1>package of the marketing campaign and shift it from here
<v Speaker 1>to there. It doesn't need to be in this state
<v Speaker 1>of play. I realized it was gonna mess with Ghost
<v Speaker 1>of Yota. Maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, we exactly why even
<v Speaker 1>get in the way. Pulse elevate wireless speakers Sony branded
<v Speaker 1>speakers that look they look kind of cool. They looked
<v Speaker 1>pretty cool. You plug them in your PC, plug them
<v Speaker 1>into your TV, although I think they emphasized using them
<v Speaker 1>with the PC. Do you have speakers for your PC?
<v Speaker 2>I have two big speakers Woofers over here. I don't
<v Speaker 2>remember the brand name. They were sent to me. They
<v Speaker 2>were samples, but they get the job done. They're they're
<v Speaker 2>hardwired in. They're not wireless or anything like that, and
<v Speaker 2>I only in fact now they're plugged into my monitor
<v Speaker 2>that I use for console gaming, So the only time
<v Speaker 2>they're on is when I'm using the console, but there
<v Speaker 2>they go into the PC as well.
<v Speaker 1>I can do both. Uh, let's see here PlayStation Plus Allan,
<v Speaker 1>the Wake two, Cocoon, Goat Stimulator, the Last of Us
<v Speaker 1>Part two Remastered are all coming to PlayStation Plus's game
<v Speaker 1>catalog starting seven.
<v Speaker 2>Tech and three, PlayStation three Vision and Soul Caliber three
<v Speaker 2>PS two version.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, and that'll be in the Premium tier because
<v Speaker 1>those are classic games. And then let's see here other highlights.
<v Speaker 1>We talked about Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS five
<v Speaker 1>h grant Orismo seven Spec three update in December. It's
<v Speaker 1>gonna add F one circuits, vehicles and new features. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I guess i'd even realize it was F one stuff.
<v Speaker 1>That that's something that's probably why they even put in
<v Speaker 1>there because F one's having a moment. And then days
<v Speaker 1>X Remastered launches February fifth. We are confused about this, right, yeah, yes,
<v Speaker 1>in a good way, Like I hope, So, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I just looking at I'm like trying to tell, like
<v Speaker 1>what kind of remaster is this.
<v Speaker 2>It looks like they're just trying to stick as what
<v Speaker 2>I call the code of Paint remaster, where it's the
<v Speaker 2>original as much of the original code as possible, just
<v Speaker 2>completely upraised with the new code of Paint. I'm hoping
<v Speaker 2>that they're using these as a barometer for our people
<v Speaker 2>still interested in Dave's X, because if you are all
<v Speaker 2>I am, I want I want my Adam Jenison back.
<v Speaker 2>I was supposed to have him and they canceled it,
<v Speaker 2>so I'm gonna I'm definitely I'm all over this.
<v Speaker 1>This was cool, and then nothing else really worth mentioning.
<v Speaker 1>There was no nothing that anyone would care about.
<v Speaker 2>Nothing that's mega interesting, No God, nothing from a Man
<v Speaker 2>out there or anything like that.
<v Speaker 1>Worlds, no all right, Sonic Tracing, Cross Worlds, Mega Man
<v Speaker 1>crossover content. I got to see it, Mike, you got
<v Speaker 1>to see his whole Did it hit the spot, mikey, Oh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, we knew Mega Man was coming. Yeah, And
<v Speaker 1>so was my.
<v Speaker 3>Usual visually, whenever there's a second character, it's always like
<v Speaker 3>roll or they'll just show zero. Anyways, But I've since
<v Speaker 3>I was like three Fellas, I have loved Proto Man.
<v Speaker 1>I think that Proto Man.
<v Speaker 3>I think that's the first time I ever encountered that
<v Speaker 3>character archetype of like the mysterious guy who shows up
<v Speaker 3>sometimes sure, and I'm like, well, that's the coolest person ever.
<v Speaker 1>Give me more of him.
<v Speaker 3>So yes, getting proto bed makes me excited. I can't
<v Speaker 3>believe I have to wait this game we're plays gate today.
<v Speaker 3>I want to be proto man now.
<v Speaker 1>But that's OK. Yeah, way that is that? That's right.
<v Speaker 1>It arrives in early twenty twenty six, Mike, So well,
<v Speaker 1>well we will revisit and the second that's available, will
<v Speaker 1>play that again, just not on Mega man, I think
<v Speaker 1>email me, of course not. I don't even bring that up.
<v Speaker 1>How dare by? All right, boy, you're still plenty again too?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah? Hit that? What's that? What's that? Jason?
<v Speaker 2>It's like you're summoning ritual. You just you just kind
<v Speaker 2>of teaze him into it. You're real man, like a
<v Speaker 2>big fish.
<v Speaker 1>We didn't talk about it. I knew it would happen.
<v Speaker 1>I just knew as soon as we started talking he'd
<v Speaker 1>be here. Uh all right, we got a lot more
<v Speaker 1>to talk about, so let's hit our break real quick.
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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Grubb, Jason Fonelli. Nintendo's first new mobile game in
<v Speaker 1>years is a surprise fire Emblem spin off. Okay, sounds promising.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Andy Robinson at VGC. Nintendo has announced
<v Speaker 1>and released its first new mobile game in several years.
<v Speaker 1>I think twenty twenty one is when we got Pickman Bloom.
<v Speaker 1>That's the last time, right ye? Available on smart devices
<v Speaker 1>from today Fireman the Shadows, which I discovered. Jason got
<v Speaker 1>a notification on my phone from the Nintendo Today app
<v Speaker 1>and I opened that What is this Fireblom Shadows? What
<v Speaker 1>do I know about this? This? Get announce? What is this?
<v Speaker 1>I'm got to look closer. Mobile game? Is it a
<v Speaker 1>fall up to the Last firemm? Wait, it's social deduction?
<v Speaker 1>What are they talking about? Available on smart device is
<v Speaker 1>starting today? It's a It's a combination of role playing
<v Speaker 1>and social deduction. One of the three allies participating in
<v Speaker 1>each battle is secretly a treacherous Disciple of Shadow. Nintendo explained.
<v Speaker 1>Players choose to take on the role of either a
<v Speaker 1>disciple of Light aiming to find their way through the labyrinth,
<v Speaker 1>or a disciple of Shadow. After the initial battle, players
<v Speaker 1>vote to determine who they believe is the disciple of Shadow,
<v Speaker 1>and the outcome of the vote affects whether the next
<v Speaker 1>battle is more favorable or more challenging. People have been
<v Speaker 1>playing this because it's shadow dropped, it's available. They say,
<v Speaker 1>shit sucks. Yeah, yes, that's shadow dropped. People think it sucks.
<v Speaker 1>I've heard nothing of the bad things about it. Now,
<v Speaker 1>could that be? Do you think that's people are unhappy
<v Speaker 1>that this is the fire moom game, and so they're
<v Speaker 1>kind of there's a backlash, just primed and ready to
<v Speaker 1>go because it's not real fireingm blim. Maybe I think
<v Speaker 1>it actually just might suck. I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I think I think it just sucks. The Venerable Irish
<v Speaker 2>game journalist Giovanni col Antonio he had put two posts
<v Speaker 2>like an hour after a drop, and one of them
<v Speaker 2>was like, I am losing my mind trying to figure
<v Speaker 2>out the design plan behind this game. He said, there's
<v Speaker 2>three of you and you have to decide which one
<v Speaker 2>is the bad guy. Yeah, but if one dies and
<v Speaker 2>there's only two left and it's not you.
<v Speaker 1>You find out you figured it out. That's so well.
<v Speaker 1>The three number is really throwing me off here, it's like, yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I guess that could still work. But the
<v Speaker 1>whole idea is like work together over several rounds, and
<v Speaker 1>there's multiple of you, many more than two, trying to
<v Speaker 1>figure out the one or two disciples of Shadow. I
<v Speaker 1>guess it would be in this situation, it's I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I probably won't even try this, you know, in that sense,
<v Speaker 1>like it's easy to ignore, right, I don't. I don't
<v Speaker 1>need to like worry about I'll forget about this game
<v Speaker 1>even existing in a week from now and probably never
<v Speaker 1>think about it again. I think it's fine that they
<v Speaker 1>throw a brand onto a game like this to try
<v Speaker 1>to make it work or give it extra juice. I'm
<v Speaker 1>not mad that they associated this with Fire Emblement or anything.
<v Speaker 2>How about you. No, I'm the same way. There are
<v Speaker 2>game There are some games it comes out and you
<v Speaker 2>think it's held to a higher standard because of the
<v Speaker 2>franchise associated with it, which you could see in this case,
<v Speaker 2>particularly in Fire Emblems case, because Heroes is very successful.
<v Speaker 2>The other Fire Emblem mobile mobile game that's out, but
<v Speaker 2>it's on mobile. It Shadow dropped out of nowhere. They
<v Speaker 2>may have just been going for the meme, you know
<v Speaker 2>what I mean, like this, just drop it out. They know,
<v Speaker 2>as somebody alluded to and Chat, maybe they did it
<v Speaker 2>this way on purpose. They knew it wasn't going to
<v Speaker 2>be up to snuff, so they just kind of throw
<v Speaker 2>it out there and let public opinion take its course.
<v Speaker 2>I am going to ignore it as well. I have no,
<v Speaker 2>it's just not something that interests me. My fire emblem
<v Speaker 2>radar is solely on Fortune's we even it'll stay there
<v Speaker 2>until that game comes out. So yeah, good, good for you.
<v Speaker 2>If if ten people play it and two people get
<v Speaker 2>something out of it with the micro transaction prices I
<v Speaker 2>was seeing, I'm sure that'll be fine with them.
<v Speaker 1>But whatever, cool exactly, whatever and cool we have a
<v Speaker 1>promising fire Molon game. As you pointed out rightfully, there
<v Speaker 1>are plenty of classic ones I still have not played.
<v Speaker 1>If I'm really but heart about this one and h
<v Speaker 1>and yeah and that fire Molom Heroes game. For as
<v Speaker 1>much as it wasn't for me, it's been successful. So
<v Speaker 1>then being like taking the fire Buam name attaching it
<v Speaker 1>to this, it's probably useful someone in chat.
<v Speaker 2>There is one legitimate gripe as Scrub mcgrub in the
<v Speaker 2>twitch chat points out, we get this instead of the
<v Speaker 2>rumored genealogy of the.
<v Speaker 1>Holy War reads Yeah, man, I don't know. Might in
<v Speaker 1>someone's crawl that might sink it. What's weird? I just
<v Speaker 1>don't fully understand attend of strategy with that stuff, where
<v Speaker 1>it's like these completed things sitting on the shelf, which
<v Speaker 1>you could take my word for it. I'm not the
<v Speaker 1>only one out there reporting that. That has been widely
<v Speaker 1>reported by multiple people at this point, and and that's
<v Speaker 1>happened with multiple things now though you know how much
<v Speaker 1>they they've finished the Twilight Princess and Windwaker for Switch,
<v Speaker 1>I guess. I don't know for sure, but they definitely
<v Speaker 1>had a plan to do something with that. Metroc Prime
<v Speaker 1>two and three those were ready to go. Now, they
<v Speaker 1>weren't as ready to go as Metro Prime one, where
<v Speaker 1>it got a lot of work. But a lot of
<v Speaker 1>these projects just sitting there for a rainy day. I
<v Speaker 1>just don't at a certain point just put it out
<v Speaker 1>what is happening. Yeah, I know what you're waiting for
<v Speaker 1>money on the table that you're just leaving there.
<v Speaker 2>It's odd with genealogy, though they could put it out
<v Speaker 2>in like the February Nintendo Direct in anticipation for Fortune's Waight, right,
<v Speaker 2>I think have people excited. You could have that in
<v Speaker 2>February and then have Fortunes wake in August.
<v Speaker 1>Or said the same thing for Metroid two and three.
<v Speaker 1>For Metro they didn't do that shit, No way, fucking
<v Speaker 1>weird company. Let's stick with Nintendo though. Resident Evil Requiem
<v Speaker 1>gameplay on Switch To emerges from Tokyo Game Show. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. I'm just going
<v Speaker 1>to break down kind of the quick version here. It
<v Speaker 1>is obviously and noticeably reduced in quality, and yet everyone
<v Speaker 1>seems very happy with the results regardless. It's like there's
<v Speaker 1>a difference between getting a game to run on the
<v Speaker 1>Switch one and Switch to, and the difference is for
<v Speaker 1>Switch one you just turn down everything, Like every graphical
<v Speaker 1>setting gets turned down, every option gets reduced to basically
<v Speaker 1>its minimum. The Switch to, it seems like developers have
<v Speaker 1>the option to be a little bit more discretionary with
<v Speaker 1>what they are going to turn down, and that means
<v Speaker 1>some things are still going to look pretty eye poppingly good.
<v Speaker 1>And so I think the end result here so far,
<v Speaker 1>at least from the people who have gone hands on
<v Speaker 1>a little bit with this game in handheld mode on
<v Speaker 1>the Switch to a Tokyo Game show or wherever they're at.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's part of Tokyo Game Show. The bottom
<v Speaker 1>line is people are praising it. They seem pretty happy
<v Speaker 1>with the results so far, and that continues to be
<v Speaker 1>part of a narrative like it's possible to deliver these games,
<v Speaker 1>current gen games on the Switch to in a way
<v Speaker 1>that is at least acceptable and sometimes a little bit
<v Speaker 1>above that line. And it sounds like that's where Requiem's
<v Speaker 1>going to end up. And if it does, I imagine
<v Speaker 1>it will do very well on the Switch with that audience.
<v Speaker 2>It's an audience that has already proven that they like
<v Speaker 2>Resident Evil games, even the Switch one version. So if
<v Speaker 2>they're going to bring that plus seven and eight the
<v Speaker 2>same day, you get the whole Modern I think the
<v Speaker 2>same day, the whole Modern trilogy and one fell swoop
<v Speaker 2>on your switch to take it wherever you want. That's
<v Speaker 2>it's it's a pretty good strategy. I think that makes
<v Speaker 2>a lot of sense. And to hear that it's performing well. Again,
<v Speaker 2>we keep saying this every time we talk about Switch
<v Speaker 2>two ports, but it's just more evidence that porting to
<v Speaker 2>switch To at the current moment is a good idea
<v Speaker 2>because it seems to be able to handle it enough
<v Speaker 2>that the gameplay comes through. Maybe you turn down graphical quality,
<v Speaker 2>maybe you turn down frame rate or something like that,
<v Speaker 2>but as long as you're not messing with the core
<v Speaker 2>systems of the game, and you can just deal with
<v Speaker 2>the fringe stuff. I think, and with as popular as
<v Speaker 2>switched To has sold so far, I don't see why
<v Speaker 2>you wouldn't attempt it if you're if you're releasing a
<v Speaker 2>game in the next what twelve to eighteen months, I
<v Speaker 2>would say if switch to was not in your strategy before,
<v Speaker 2>it better be soon. Unless you're grand Theft Auto, of course,
<v Speaker 2>you don't really need a strategy than just release.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I think I think this is great news.
<v Speaker 2>I was kind of worried after that it appeared at
<v Speaker 2>the Nintendo Direct that it might be a little lesser
<v Speaker 2>to I should say, a little lower quality than people
<v Speaker 2>would be willing to overlook, right, But it sounds that
<v Speaker 2>the gameplay makes.
<v Speaker 1>Up for Yes, it sounds like if you are someone
<v Speaker 1>who loves playing your switch to, which there are a
<v Speaker 1>lot of people who's like I think we go on
<v Speaker 1>the show, we have an audience that says, oh, I
<v Speaker 1>got everything. I'm probably gonna play this game in a
<v Speaker 1>place where it just naturally is going to look better.
<v Speaker 1>And of course there are a lot of people who
<v Speaker 1>just love having games on their switch to. Now big
<v Speaker 1>part of that is they like collecting physically, and this
<v Speaker 1>will be a game key card, so maybe that won't
<v Speaker 1>factor in as much. But even beyond that, there's still
<v Speaker 1>people who like playing on their switch to, and developers
<v Speaker 1>are trying to change the narrative a little bit on
<v Speaker 1>the game key cards thing that takes us to our
<v Speaker 1>next story.
<v Speaker 2>Folk Way, Holy shit, Hey, I learned from the best
<v Speaker 2>these right up.
<v Speaker 1>But he's produced, he's on the ones. In the twos
<v Speaker 1>Automban is the seven remake Integrate director highlights the speed
<v Speaker 1>problem with switch to game cards. This is from PJ
<v Speaker 1>O'Reilly and Nintendo Life. As you're doubtless well aware, at
<v Speaker 1>this point, Final Fantasy seven remake Integrade is winging its
<v Speaker 1>way onto the switch to on the twenty second the
<v Speaker 1>twenty second twenty second January twenty twenty six, So boy
<v Speaker 1>and we are super super at a few more supers
<v Speaker 1>excited about it, especially this writer in fact, because he's
<v Speaker 1>managed to start the remakes several times on other systems,
<v Speaker 1>it's not been able to finish it. And the build
<v Speaker 1>up to the release of the switch to version of
<v Speaker 1>Square Enix's Masterpiece, it's director Aoki Hamagucci. Yeah, Haamagucci has
<v Speaker 1>been chatting to German cite JP Games. Thanks for the
<v Speaker 1>heads up automation. Automation, that's the person that they got
<v Speaker 1>it from about those dreaded game key cards, and they
<v Speaker 1>basically just said, hey, it's the speed issue. That's the
<v Speaker 1>reason we went with the game key cards on switch
<v Speaker 1>It's what we heard about from now I can't remember
<v Speaker 1>someone else said, hey, it's not as fast as installing
<v Speaker 1>it on the internal storage or even a micro SD
<v Speaker 1>express card. It's about a quarter the speed of those things,
<v Speaker 1>so we simply cannot stream the audio. I think it
<v Speaker 1>was Star Wars Outlaws. It was Star Wars Outlaws, Thank you,
<v Speaker 1>Sean star Wars because they built the audio system to
<v Speaker 1>work with fast streaming media and it just was not
<v Speaker 1>something they could adapt for the switch to version on
<v Speaker 1>a game card now here. I think it's just like
<v Speaker 1>they're going, yeah, it would be a kind of a
<v Speaker 1>headache We don't have any one necessarily like one thing
<v Speaker 1>that's really causing that problem. But I tend to believe
<v Speaker 1>this is something that some developers are taking into account.
<v Speaker 1>Although I also feel like this is another way of
<v Speaker 1>being like, look, don't get mad at us about the
<v Speaker 1>game key cards. Yes, it's gonna save us money, but
<v Speaker 1>also it would be a real headache to overcome, and
<v Speaker 1>that's not worth it. So combine that with save it
<v Speaker 1>us money, of course we're going to go this route.
<v Speaker 1>Now there is like a little bit more there. Since
<v Speaker 1>this story happened, VGC talked to Resident Evil producers about
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of times, including hey, are you having problems
<v Speaker 1>with the speed of the game key cards? Did that
<v Speaker 1>factor into the reason that Resident Evil Requiem is going
<v Speaker 1>to be on a game key card? And Koshi Nakanishi said,
<v Speaker 1>it's not a development decision for us, it's more of
<v Speaker 1>a sales strategy decision. And I was like, Hey, that's
<v Speaker 1>just honest, that's just a manic ab out there and
<v Speaker 1>just saying the truth. And I respect that. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if people are going to be happy with that,
<v Speaker 1>but but yeah, regardless, I go back to look, if
<v Speaker 1>this is the problem if the speed of the game
<v Speaker 1>key card is the issue Nintendo, the conversation should shift
<v Speaker 1>to hate Nintendo let people install their games from a
<v Speaker 1>card onto the system, so the whole game can still
<v Speaker 1>be on a card and you can install it. I
<v Speaker 1>know people will come up with all the reasons why,
<v Speaker 1>whether it's not worth the money and all that. That's fine,
<v Speaker 1>we know that, but that doesn't mean you can't ask
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo to make that change so that this can no
<v Speaker 1>longer be a talking point and you can kind of
<v Speaker 1>keep pressing these publishers to be to use gain cards
<v Speaker 1>that have the game on the card where possible, right right.
<v Speaker 2>I think that what people are most concerned about is
<v Speaker 2>that their physical purchase will go the way of a
<v Speaker 2>digital purchase and be useless after a certain time. It's
<v Speaker 2>the whole point of buying physical, so that to have
<v Speaker 2>this sort of cloud hanging over switch to cartridge or
<v Speaker 2>cards like this is definitely an intentional decision. I'm not sure,
<v Speaker 2>still not quite sure, other than just the saving money part,
<v Speaker 2>and maybe that's just it just saves them money. As
<v Speaker 2>a Nakanishi said here, I definitely agree. I personally am
<v Speaker 2>not as much of a physical collector as I used
<v Speaker 2>to be anymore. But there are people who are still
<v Speaker 2>and they swear by it. So the fact that this
<v Speaker 2>is the I get it. I get where they're coming from,
<v Speaker 2>and unfortunately, I also get that it's probably not going anywhere.
<v Speaker 2>It's just we're just in this. We're in it now,
<v Speaker 2>and we're it's it's Unfortunately, it seems to work for
<v Speaker 2>the people that it needs to work for, i e.
<v Speaker 2>The Bean Counters, So it's going to keep doing it
<v Speaker 2>until it stops working. And Nintendo is financially convinced to
<v Speaker 2>put those games on those courts, which I don't unless
<v Speaker 2>they patent to the court technology. They seem to be
<v Speaker 2>patent heavy recently. I don't think that's going to happen
<v Speaker 2>anytime soon.
<v Speaker 1>Let's set these last couple of stories and start wrapping
<v Speaker 1>the show up as we run out of time here.
<v Speaker 1>Bruce Lee appears as your partner in Hitman's latest Elusive
<v Speaker 1>Target mission available today, Chris Cully and wrapped up this
<v Speaker 1>story again. I'll just kind of do the two tld
<v Speaker 1>R version. I don't know if I love this that
<v Speaker 1>Bruce Lee showing up as your partner to help you
<v Speaker 1>track down a new elusive target as opposed to being
<v Speaker 1>the target himself. Now I get that the estate is like,
<v Speaker 1>we don't want you killing Bruce Lee. I think you
<v Speaker 1>should see it as an honor to be killed in
<v Speaker 1>hit Man and everyone else, all these other people have
<v Speaker 1>done this, all these famous people, Jean Claude, Van dam
<v Speaker 1>Mad's Mickelson. They are just like, go ahead and fucking
<v Speaker 1>murder me, kill me in this game. It's literally an honor,
<v Speaker 1>and I think the estate of Bruce Lee should see
<v Speaker 1>it the same way. Now that's me being a bit
<v Speaker 1>of a stinky. Buttole about it whatever, I'll get over it.
<v Speaker 1>But I just I don't want this to be a
<v Speaker 1>precedent of like, oh, sometimes a famous person will show
<v Speaker 1>up in this game, but you can't kill him. I
<v Speaker 1>suppose maybe you can still kill your partner in this game.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I'll try to kill Brucely and tell
<v Speaker 1>everyone how it goes. See what happens. There's a clip.
<v Speaker 2>It's a very when the when the So here's the thing, though,
<v Speaker 2>all those all those names you mentioned, they're still alive,
<v Speaker 2>and they have the ability to make the decision for
<v Speaker 2>themselves if their family doesn't want to see their loved
<v Speaker 2>one brutally murdered by a bald man. I get it,
<v Speaker 2>of course, of course, yeah, I understand it. Am I
<v Speaker 2>a little disappointed that you can't get into a karate
<v Speaker 2>fight with brustly Just give me that right. I need
<v Speaker 2>to kill him, like you talked about this martial arts tournament.
<v Speaker 2>If there's like this middle ground where he's my partner,
<v Speaker 2>but I still have to duel him in some quick
<v Speaker 2>time event karate fight, that's cool.
<v Speaker 1>That works.
<v Speaker 2>That's like a little mid middle ground compromise sort of deal.
<v Speaker 2>But it's the whole like ventriloquizing the dead argument that
<v Speaker 2>I think Fortnite was getting when they had Juice World.
<v Speaker 1>Is that what it was. It's the same.
<v Speaker 2>It's the same sort of argument about putting people in
<v Speaker 2>these games that have passed on and relying on the estate.
<v Speaker 2>The estate is going to have more requests than the
<v Speaker 2>actual person might have, and you kind of have to
<v Speaker 2>respect that. So I don't know, I like it. I
<v Speaker 2>understand where you're coming from. It would be neat, But
<v Speaker 2>at the same time, I totally I understand it.
<v Speaker 1>It was cool.
<v Speaker 2>I thought I was hallucinating when they said Bruce Lee,
<v Speaker 2>like the actual Bruce Lee but yeah, neat cool.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it feels like if the other the other solution
<v Speaker 1>here is just don't include Brucely at all, and it's like, eh, yeah, wow,
<v Speaker 1>let's just clearly this is the solution here. It's not
<v Speaker 1>that big of a deal, but it And it's not
<v Speaker 1>like that family does not have a history with guns,
<v Speaker 1>like and like you can to shoot someone. It's like
<v Speaker 1>that just doesn't feel great. Brandon Lee obviously died from
<v Speaker 1>a gun accident on set, and it's like, of course
<v Speaker 1>that that would be a bummer. All right, Metal Gear
<v Speaker 1>Salad Delta's fox Hunt mode is launching in October. I
<v Speaker 1>think it's October thirtieth, and you know that's the The
<v Speaker 1>fox Hunt mode is basically prop hunt, right, so you
<v Speaker 1>can be able to play as a little guy running
<v Speaker 1>around a little trash can and people have to find you.
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking forward to this. We'll give it a tribe
<v Speaker 1>once it's available and play it on the website. All right,
<v Speaker 1>that does it for the headlines. Let's get to the
<v Speaker 1>poll question from yesterday. I got the results right over here.
<v Speaker 1>Let me refresh make sure I have the most recent info.
<v Speaker 1>When you start on a long running series, do you
<v Speaker 1>begin with the first game or jump into the latest sequel.
<v Speaker 1>Twenty seven percent say they are they are more likely
<v Speaker 1>to start with the latest game in the series. That
<v Speaker 1>made seventy three percent say they are more likely to
<v Speaker 1>start from the beginning. And I get that sense from
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people. It's like, man, I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to play this new one until I play through the
<v Speaker 1>whole series. It's not as precious to me. It's like
<v Speaker 1>I will, I will play the latest more often than not.
<v Speaker 1>Although I get this urge. How about you, Jason Oh,
<v Speaker 1>I used.
<v Speaker 2>To be precious about it, and then I realized that
<v Speaker 2>in my waiting to play the games from the beginning,
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't playing any of the games. So I finally said,
<v Speaker 2>screw it, I'll start it with the most recent one
<v Speaker 2>and if I like it, then I'll go back. And
<v Speaker 2>I think that that has served me well because I've
<v Speaker 2>finally been introduced to like a dragon last year with
<v Speaker 2>infinite Wealth. That's probably the biggest example for me as
<v Speaker 2>to why it was good to not be precious anymore.
<v Speaker 2>But I get it. I absolutely get you want to
<v Speaker 2>get the entire breadth of the story. But there are
<v Speaker 2>enough resources around now that if you have a question
<v Speaker 2>and you don't mind spoiling yourself. You can check out
<v Speaker 2>a cut scene. It's the but you can check out
<v Speaker 2>a cutscene. You can check out a Wikipedia. You can
<v Speaker 2>get the background surface information that you need to understand
<v Speaker 2>what's going on, and then live it for yourself when
<v Speaker 2>you have the time. I don't recommend that all the time,
<v Speaker 2>but if it's something that you really want to know
<v Speaker 2>about and you game, there's nothing wrong with it. Just
<v Speaker 2>don't spoil it for anybody else's You can spoil it
<v Speaker 2>for yourself while you want, don't spoil it for anybody else.
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah, And it's just the best of both worlds.
<v Speaker 1>Right is when they the latest release is a remake
<v Speaker 1>of that first game, Right, that's the ideal, that's the
<v Speaker 1>that's the scenario where it's, okay, we really can hit
<v Speaker 1>this game here, and then once I get into it,
<v Speaker 1>then the momentum can carry me forward or whatever. Sure,
<v Speaker 1>all right, we have a new poll question. We'll get
<v Speaker 1>to you here in a second before we do that.
<v Speaker 1>Jason Finelli, why don't you tell people that they can
<v Speaker 1>find you on the internet what you have going on?
<v Speaker 1>All that good stuff?
<v Speaker 2>Jasonfinelli dot com at Blue Sky, big Man, Finelle, everywhere else.
<v Speaker 2>Most active on Instagram and Blue Sky. I'm been checking
<v Speaker 2>the weather like a hawk, but if things clear out
<v Speaker 2>and go my way, I will be in Atlanta this
<v Speaker 2>week again for Magic Con starts. Tomorrow goes the weekend
<v Speaker 2>for the news. For the Magic fans that are looking
<v Speaker 2>for the news, it'll be news heavy tomorrow. Their preview
<v Speaker 2>panel is I want to say one thirty Eastern, might
<v Speaker 2>be two thye. I can check my schedule to the
<v Speaker 2>minute if you really need me too. But that's where
<v Speaker 2>they're going to go over upcoming sets like Avatar and
<v Speaker 2>lore Win. They're going to get into some things from
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty six, which is pretty cool, and then an
<v Speaker 2>hour later is one all of their Secret Layer Limited
<v Speaker 2>Drops program. There's a panel specifically for that, like where
<v Speaker 2>the Sonic Cards happened and the SpongeBob cards happened. There
<v Speaker 2>was a random New York Comic Con panel that popped
<v Speaker 2>up that said Nickelodeon X or Cross Magic the Gathering,
<v Speaker 2>and everyone thought it was Everyone thought it was Avatar
<v Speaker 2>since they're already doing that, but apparently not so. I
<v Speaker 2>wonder if we'll get more information on that tomorrow I
<v Speaker 2>can hear jan activate chan has been activated. But yes,
<v Speaker 2>oh that would rule, Yeah, that would rule. Now, the
<v Speaker 2>heavy rumors are that they will be of the teenage
<v Speaker 2>mutant ninja variety.
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna happened yet. If they've not, it will
<v Speaker 1>definitely be the term.
<v Speaker 2>No, it has, It has not happened yet, so that's
<v Speaker 2>where I think they're gonna go. But yeah, So that's
<v Speaker 2>that's my weekend planned. And after that, I have a
<v Speaker 2>couple of reviews coming up. Nothing I can talk about
<v Speaker 2>at the moment, but I will be sharing all that
<v Speaker 2>stuff when it happens. Also still writing news over GameSpot
<v Speaker 2>wrote the gallery for the State of Play yesterday, So
<v Speaker 2>if you want a quick recap of everything we talked
<v Speaker 2>about here with articles to their breakouts or links to
<v Speaker 2>their breakouts, go check that out. And uh yeah, man,
<v Speaker 2>it's uh, it's coming.
<v Speaker 1>We're here. We're in the holiday holiday holiday rush. Baby,
<v Speaker 1>let's do it. We we wish you save travels, travels
<v Speaker 1>and and uh you know what, do us favorite get
<v Speaker 1>into some trouble in Atlanta, have a good time.
<v Speaker 2>But I will get into as much trouble as my
<v Speaker 2>wife will. Yes, of course of.
<v Speaker 1>Course that let's be clear here. All right, can you
<v Speaker 1>pull a question, how excited are you for PlayStation fives
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six, between Wolverine, Saroh's Marathon, God of Wars
<v Speaker 1>metro Vania game, and maybe fair Games. Your options are
<v Speaker 1>I'll play at least three, I'll play at least two,
<v Speaker 1>all play at least one, or I'm not interested in
<v Speaker 1>any of them. I think I think next year is
<v Speaker 1>shaping up pretty good for places, and you know, kind
<v Speaker 1>of in modern context of like where the company's at
<v Speaker 1>with how frequently they're delivering games. I think they're in
<v Speaker 1>a pretty good state right now and that next year
<v Speaker 1>is looking really promising. How about you?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I am in the at least three, I'll say Wolverine,
<v Speaker 2>I'll play, I'll try Sarros, and I will play the
<v Speaker 2>God of War Metrobania.
<v Speaker 1>So Marathon a fair game, Oh my god, Token four.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I'm not interested in Marathon. I prefer my
<v Speaker 2>art to be original, and I'm not into fair Games
<v Speaker 2>because Jade Raymond's going so so if they even come out,
<v Speaker 2>if they even exists, who knows is gonna get canceled? Yeah? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but I will say this. Anybody who answers that they're
<v Speaker 2>not interested in any of them is either trolling or
<v Speaker 2>just a fuddy duddy, because that there's some good stuff there.
<v Speaker 1>Wolverines, Sarah's, there's stuff. How could you not like any
<v Speaker 1>of that? There's variety, right, it's not just like one
<v Speaker 1>note games. It's like, Okay, you don't like big action,
<v Speaker 1>narrative driven games like Wolverine, I guess I get it.
<v Speaker 1>Like maybe maybe there's something else for you, like a Saros,
<v Speaker 1>which is such an action pack game. Like, yeah, you're right,
<v Speaker 1>it'd be weird to be not to not be at
<v Speaker 1>least hopeful for some of these games to really hit
<v Speaker 1>you hit your mark. All right, we have to talk
<v Speaker 1>about Let's see here, let's tell people what's happened on
<v Speaker 1>Giant Bomb as we get the results of this pull
<v Speaker 1>on game. This morning's tomorrow, later today, actually really soon
<v Speaker 1>after this show, we'll get set up for Sonic Crossworlds racing.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna play some of that. Let me take a
<v Speaker 1>look at the calendar here, So what else we have
<v Speaker 1>going on? Let's voicemail Dump Truck will be later and
<v Speaker 1>then tonight at five pm Eastern, Mike is gonna do
<v Speaker 1>Hades two through the night to play about fourish hours
<v Speaker 1>of that game for everybody. We did say on the
<v Speaker 1>calendar that would be tomorrow. No, it's tonight, tune in tonight.
<v Speaker 1>He wanted to play it on launch day and he
<v Speaker 1>just thought Friday was the launch day. Again, it happens tomorrow.
<v Speaker 1>We back get with game Best Mornings. We'll have that
<v Speaker 1>upf Baby Steps race with kind of funny in between.
<v Speaker 1>There might throw in some some other stuff. Maybe we'll
<v Speaker 1>practice more baby Steps so we're ready. Or Blipo. I
<v Speaker 1>still intend to play b Blippo on the site. Maybe
<v Speaker 1>get some hot people together and we'll play that. That'll
<v Speaker 1>be a good time. I don't help us all a
<v Speaker 1>lot of games, all right, Jason Finelli, thank you so
<v Speaker 1>much for hanging out with me today and talking about
<v Speaker 1>video games. Man, I really appreciate it. Always a pleasure,
<v Speaker 1>my friend anytime. Oh yeah, there's the Disco Discord Disco
<v Speaker 1>Discord Downtown Hall at four pm as well. If you're
<v Speaker 1>a premium member, be sure to go. Like, just say
<v Speaker 1>I'm interested and you'll get a notification of when we're
<v Speaker 1>going live for that, so premium members get in there.
<v Speaker 1>We'll be ready for some questions. Okay, Thank you everybody
<v Speaker 1>for watching and listening. You're the best audience in gaming.
<v Speaker 1>Until next time, have a good one, take care of
<v Speaker 1>yourself and goodbye. Sorry tigers MHM.