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<v Speaker 1>Let's do this for August fifteenth, twenty twenty four. For
<v Speaker 1>the next hour or so, let me help you sort
<v Speaker 1>through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings, Live
<v Speaker 1>with me Jeff Grubb. Today, Dragon h four gets a
<v Speaker 1>release date, so does Plucky Squire, and are more Xbox
<v Speaker 1>games headed to PS five, Kent? Almost certainly? But first
<v Speaker 1>please join me and welcome today's co host the Game
<v Speaker 1>Mess Mornings. It's Janet Choa. Everybody, Jan how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>I'm buzzing with excitement. Jeff Grubb, I have never I'm
<v Speaker 2>just happy to be here.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I'm ready to protect the hive, oh honey, and
<v Speaker 1>me too. I'm just always looking forward to just a
<v Speaker 1>flying with my homie here. And that's what we're doing today.
<v Speaker 1>Queen Queen Bee, he's up in this business. Here we are.
<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna announce this now, all right, I'm just
<v Speaker 2>gonna we actually this ideas.
<v Speaker 1>I like this.
<v Speaker 2>We haven't cleared this with anyone Else's just via Jan
<v Speaker 2>Riffing on a Thursday morning in two weeks August twenty six.
<v Speaker 1>We're putting a gat on it. Hell yeah, let's fucking go.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, yes, folks, we're gonna rip the band aid off.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be Bee Week here a Giant Bomb. That's right,
<v Speaker 2>every stream, it's gonna be b.
<v Speaker 1>Related Themed week. You're on Giant Bomb. You know, Shark week,
<v Speaker 1>it can go to screw itself. It's not actually it's
<v Speaker 1>shark weight. It's all about Bee week now here on
<v Speaker 1>Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, show me some bees and chat.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, hell yeah, okay, maybe we got to have a
<v Speaker 1>buck bumble emote right, Probably maybe not.
<v Speaker 2>We surprisingly don't, surprisingly don't yoh okay.
<v Speaker 1>We're also next week while these folks or in Germany
<v Speaker 1>will be doing a guest we're gonna be playing a
<v Speaker 1>lot of scary games and stuff. So Themed Week's coming up. Everybody.
<v Speaker 1>We just like this idea, I really do. I'm very
<v Speaker 1>excited about it. A couple things, Jim. It was brought
<v Speaker 1>to my attention by Christian from Argentina that Dan, who
<v Speaker 1>was in a hotel in Europe, is saying as Ac
<v Speaker 1>isn't working very well. Do you think it's possible that
<v Speaker 1>he doesn't know it's celsius.
<v Speaker 2>That hasn't occurred to me.
<v Speaker 1>It did not to me either, and now I'm very
<v Speaker 1>excited about the possibility.
<v Speaker 2>Huh uh. Well, I mean I would assume that I
<v Speaker 2>we've heard from us oh my god, oh right, because
<v Speaker 2>he's probably setting in like sixty and that would be
<v Speaker 2>very hot. Our peers from the you know, across the
<v Speaker 2>pond have said that there are there are hotels with
<v Speaker 2>ac they're just not built very well, I guess, but
<v Speaker 2>that is a distinct possibility.
<v Speaker 1>I god, I need to know. I need I mean,
<v Speaker 1>I need to assume he like he would see the
<v Speaker 1>sea and be like, oh, yeah, whatever, I'll just set
<v Speaker 1>it to its lowest. But there is a possibly it's like, well,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I don't know what we need to set
<v Speaker 1>air conditioning when it's set to celsius to like be cold,
<v Speaker 1>but like set it to fifteen you'd be like, well,
<v Speaker 1>that's way too cold. I don't want this to be
<v Speaker 1>an ice box. That could occur to him.
<v Speaker 2>I would assume though, that Dan would just like see
<v Speaker 2>the celsius and just like jam that as low as as.
<v Speaker 1>As possible, right, because it's a hotel. Yeah yeah right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>maybe the numbers throwing him off. But I would assume
<v Speaker 1>that that's what he did. We need to know it.
<v Speaker 1>You know, he's he's in London and that place is
<v Speaker 1>run down, right, I don't know they they they don't
<v Speaker 1>have anything there.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt.
<v Speaker 1>They don't even drink water in Europe, so I don't
<v Speaker 1>think that not working well that makes a lot.
<v Speaker 2>It's going to be great for Mike Manatti since they
<v Speaker 2>don't drink water.
<v Speaker 1>Huh. Yes, Oh he's gonna love that. The no hair
<v Speaker 1>condition will kill them, but he'll just be happy. He'll
<v Speaker 1>die happy knowing that no one's drinking water. The other
<v Speaker 1>thing I did post on Twitter that we got denied
<v Speaker 1>a review code because we missed an appointment. I'm never
<v Speaker 1>going to say the game doesn't matter, it was totally
<v Speaker 1>our fault, but I'm just like sitting there thinking, I'm like, God,
<v Speaker 1>I really do respect that. I'm like the fact that like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>can we get this code to do some work so
<v Speaker 1>we can cover your game or whatever, like this is
<v Speaker 1>the job. And they're like, you've missed an appointment so
<v Speaker 1>we couldn't get approval. I'm like, yeah, sounds right. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>it's totally a reminder of like the relationship we have
<v Speaker 1>here and that so many people have this idea in
<v Speaker 1>their head that it's, you know, you scratch my back,
<v Speaker 1>I'll scratch yours. If we get review codes, we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>get those clicks and we'll get the money. And that
<v Speaker 1>just isn't for one thing isn't real too, is not
<v Speaker 1>something that I've ever thought about. And what we actually
<v Speaker 1>think about is like, oh, I'm working at a corporation
<v Speaker 1>and I'm talking to another person who's working at a corporation,
<v Speaker 1>and all they're really asking for is for me to
<v Speaker 1>respect their time and not like waste it like we
<v Speaker 1>like I did when we missed the appointment. So I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, I just again really respect it. It was
<v Speaker 1>a power move, but one that was deserved and earned.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I respect it. I respect it as well.
<v Speaker 2>You know what, I get it, We get it exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it's going forward. I'm going to be a little
<v Speaker 1>bit more mindful. I had consequences and now I will
<v Speaker 1>improve my behavior. That sounds nice to me. We'll try
<v Speaker 1>to do it.
<v Speaker 2>Consequences for our actions grow.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know, Right's the That is one thing I
<v Speaker 1>am worried about, though, is telling people that consequences like
<v Speaker 1>is the thing to get me, is the way to
<v Speaker 1>get me to do things? And I already saw like Tinsley,
<v Speaker 1>who's another PR person in the industry, Stephanie Tinsley, was like, Oh,
<v Speaker 1>this is how it works. Huh. I'm like, oh shit,
<v Speaker 1>never mind. Please don't give me more consequences because that
<v Speaker 1>actually will get me to change my behavior and I
<v Speaker 1>don't want to do that.
<v Speaker 2>Don't tell our expenses departments that there should be consequences.
<v Speaker 1>No, let's spare them. Let's keep them out of the loop.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays, I,
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Greb, will help piece your gaming life back together.
<v Speaker 1>That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our
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<v Speaker 1>All right, we have plenty to get into. So let's
<v Speaker 1>start the morning mess with Dragon Age the Veilguard launches
<v Speaker 1>October thirty first. This is confirmed, all right, this might
<v Speaker 1>not be confirmed, but they are going to confirm it today.
<v Speaker 1>This leaked a little bit early. Salamano at Gamatsu has it.
<v Speaker 1>Dragon Age the Vailguard will launch for PlayStation five, Xbox Series,
<v Speaker 1>and PCVA Steam an Epic GameStore on October thirty first,
<v Speaker 1>according to a leaked video advertisement. This sounds about right Halloween.
<v Speaker 1>You're gonna be playing this now. It's an EA game.
<v Speaker 1>I think for all their big games, they do the
<v Speaker 1>thing where it's like, we spend one hundred dollars, you
<v Speaker 1>get it five days early, so people will be playing
<v Speaker 1>it on like the twenty sixth or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I don't know, it seems like a fair
<v Speaker 1>enough time. I you know, it's always weird, like releasing
<v Speaker 1>a game that's not a horror name on Halloween, but
<v Speaker 1>whatever like that. The next day will not be Halloween anymore,
<v Speaker 1>in the game will still be on sales, so completely fair.
<v Speaker 1>Are you excited? Are you ready for this one?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I think I was initially off put by the
<v Speaker 2>sudden name change, and it felt like a weird move
<v Speaker 2>to do, but I think we've all bounced back from
<v Speaker 2>that and have just been okay with whatever the Veilguard
<v Speaker 2>is supposed to be. Every trailer I've seen since then,
<v Speaker 2>every news update, I've been more and more interested. And
<v Speaker 2>I blame Lucy James for this because of her Dragon
<v Speaker 2>Age perversion. That's right, and I grub Do you think
<v Speaker 2>I have to dip back into the original Dragon Ages
<v Speaker 2>to appreciate this one? Or it seems like I can.
<v Speaker 2>I'm able to just dive into this like Sight Unseen
<v Speaker 2>the most part.
<v Speaker 1>The way it seems to me is that if you
<v Speaker 1>are at all familiar with Inquisition, you're probably gonna be
<v Speaker 1>good with this one. There's definitely gonna be stuff that
<v Speaker 1>like carries through all of the games, especially lorewise, But
<v Speaker 1>if you like, like brush up on what happened in Inquisition,
<v Speaker 1>you'll be fine to just hop in here, okay. And
<v Speaker 1>I think you know, Inquisition was one of those games
<v Speaker 1>that came out in that year where it was a
<v Speaker 1>little bit of a lighter year, and it kind of
<v Speaker 1>won some Game of the Year awards, and it's a
<v Speaker 1>good game, but I don't think it was anyone really
<v Speaker 1>felt like it was a great playing game. There's still
<v Speaker 1>be people who love it and love the story and
<v Speaker 1>love the characters and want to spend more time in
<v Speaker 1>that world and all that's true. But you can get
<v Speaker 1>all of that again by maybe watching a YouTube recap
<v Speaker 1>and then carrying that stuff forward into the Vailguard.
<v Speaker 2>Well, hopefully our friends at GameSpot are working on that,
<v Speaker 2>so I can just watch that exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, you can usually count on them for something like that.
<v Speaker 1>I also think that this new trailer here, which people
<v Speaker 1>who are watching the big version are seen, looks more
<v Speaker 1>in line with what I think people want from Dragon Age.
<v Speaker 1>This is not the cinematic a tone piece that they
<v Speaker 1>did the style piece. I suppose even at Summer game
<v Speaker 1>Fest where it was there was some pop song playing
<v Speaker 1>and the characters looked different than they actually look in
<v Speaker 1>model in the game. This looks like a cut scene
<v Speaker 1>from the game, and I think everything looks pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>What do you How do you feel about the presentation
<v Speaker 1>of this trailer. I think I feel fine for the
<v Speaker 1>most part.
<v Speaker 2>Grub. I will say though, that because branding is so strong,
<v Speaker 2>I am initially off put when I see the logo
<v Speaker 2>all in purple, because my mind has grown to associate
<v Speaker 2>Purple with Saints.
<v Speaker 1>Row sure and the Third Street Saints are going to
<v Speaker 1>be in this game.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the last Saints throw left such a bad taste
<v Speaker 2>in my mouth that like, I somewhat recoil when I
<v Speaker 2>see that. But it's like, oh, dragon Age, Okay, cool,
<v Speaker 2>people like dragon Age.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, Yeah, this looks promising. But October thirty first out
<v Speaker 1>for you know, the the systemic systems next to new
<v Speaker 1>gen systems. I should say I have it on my
<v Speaker 1>Fantasy Critics, so I hope it's good. I also hope
<v Speaker 1>it's good for everyone who likes Dragon Age. I will
<v Speaker 1>probably get into this one. I played some Dragon Age Inquisition.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I ever got out of the
<v Speaker 1>hinter lands. Is that what it was? I think maybe
<v Speaker 1>I got a little bit out of it, But I
<v Speaker 1>did not like complete that game in any way, shape
<v Speaker 1>or form. But I always like think Dragon Age is
<v Speaker 1>interesting even from the like the origins definitely had like
<v Speaker 1>a lot of cool intrigue in politics happening in its
<v Speaker 1>lore that I found fascinating. And then I look at
<v Speaker 1>this game, and as much as I do like turn
<v Speaker 1>based combat, the action combat in here looks pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>Someone mentioned in chat mentioned it looks a lot like
<v Speaker 1>D and D. It looks like a lot like a
<v Speaker 1>live action D and D like adaptation in some ways,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm sorry, not live action, but real time
<v Speaker 1>combat adaptation of the D and D systems, And that
<v Speaker 1>seems promising too, So I don't know, look forward to it.
<v Speaker 2>D and D is you know, in a major, major
<v Speaker 2>upswing all over again, grub ye. John Barnhals into it video.
<v Speaker 1>What's really good?
<v Speaker 2>The D and D movie is surprisingly pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>It's one of those movies that I'm like, anytime I
<v Speaker 1>get in the mood to watch it, and I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I think I'm going to watch the
<v Speaker 1>rest of that or watch it again and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, all right, let's move along here. Rumor is
<v Speaker 1>that a new Xbox game will arrive on PlayStation next week.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor. Whether you
<v Speaker 1>like the decision or not, it's pretty clear by now
<v Speaker 1>that Xbox is quite happy to let games that were
<v Speaker 1>previously only available on its console and Windows PCs to
<v Speaker 1>head to other platforms, and now a new game could
<v Speaker 1>be lined up to jump to PlayStation and a thread
<v Speaker 1>on reset Era, a user asked known insider Shanoby six
<v Speaker 1>zero two when the next round of fourty games would
<v Speaker 1>be coming, to which Shnoby responded by saying, what are
<v Speaker 1>you doing next week? A clear indication of when we
<v Speaker 1>might see more games at least announced for PS five,
<v Speaker 1>and it's worth noting that Shnoby went on to clarify
<v Speaker 1>that he doesn't know we're getting multiple ports, but there's
<v Speaker 1>at least one game in there. Speculation initially pointed to
<v Speaker 1>the game being Fortsaw Horizon five, but jez corton a
<v Speaker 1>Window Central believes that isn't the case, so it seems
<v Speaker 1>speculation remains up in the air for what the game
<v Speaker 1>could be. Yeah, more games are going to come to
<v Speaker 1>PS five. They've kind of been mostly clear about this. Obviously.
<v Speaker 1>They've had some sort of like back and forth when
<v Speaker 1>they talk publicly, but whenever we hear about the conversations
<v Speaker 1>happening internally at Xbox and Microsoft as a whole, it's hey,
<v Speaker 1>why not everything? And then there's some pushback against that.
<v Speaker 1>But there's no it doesn't seem to any indication that
<v Speaker 1>there's something where it's like, well, no, no more games
<v Speaker 1>should go to PS five. They're at least considering some
<v Speaker 1>more games coming to PS five, so not Forts the Horizon,
<v Speaker 1>at least according to jezz that. Honestly, I'm like, why
<v Speaker 1>not Forts Horison. That's a game of franchise that they
<v Speaker 1>have to take off of sale after a few years
<v Speaker 1>because of licensing cars and all that, all that stuff,
<v Speaker 1>So you're getting closer and closer to that. Why not
<v Speaker 1>sell that game right now on PlayStation could even more money.
<v Speaker 1>Let that team work on something even bigger next time.
<v Speaker 1>But I don't know, what do you think? And you
<v Speaker 1>think it could be something as big as Halo, Starfield,
<v Speaker 1>something smaller.
<v Speaker 2>Portso was honestly the first guess I had until I
<v Speaker 2>kept reading with the story, just because there are like
<v Speaker 2>the Grand Tarisma audience is like a pretty big audience
<v Speaker 2>that remains relatively quiet, and then like another car perversion
<v Speaker 2>game could could really appease that audience grub I could. Honestly,
<v Speaker 2>I'm a little surprised that Halo wasn't part of the
<v Speaker 2>first wave, but I could see Halo being part of
<v Speaker 2>that just to try and boost that that install base.
<v Speaker 2>I could Starfield, I don't know, because I feel like
<v Speaker 2>that would have they would have to do a lot
<v Speaker 2>of work to that game to get it to go
<v Speaker 2>on the PS five. My shot in the dark here
<v Speaker 2>is Microsoft Flight Simulator.
<v Speaker 1>I like that answer a lot. Flight simulator sounds like
<v Speaker 1>a real possibility, because yeah, why not? Who cares about
<v Speaker 1>that one at all? In terms of like, oh, it's
<v Speaker 1>I can play on my PS five it's a PC game,
<v Speaker 1>Let's be real.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean imagine that with PSVR two and that
<v Speaker 2>seems like a no brainer to me. I don't know
<v Speaker 2>if Microsoft is intentionally possibly doing PlayStation a solid there,
<v Speaker 2>but flight sim I think would be great. Only PS five. God,
<v Speaker 2>but what else does Microsoft have?
<v Speaker 1>Do we see? Like an old Gears collection? Yeah, the
<v Speaker 1>Gears collection has been rumored for a long time. That
<v Speaker 1>feels like, you know, they definitely have that New Gears
<v Speaker 1>coming at a certain point. One way to get people
<v Speaker 1>excited about that New Gears is a really good Gears collection,
<v Speaker 1>which I think makes sense. But I've never heard one
<v Speaker 1>way or the other about that existing for real. People
<v Speaker 1>are in chat we're mentioning a rare replay that is
<v Speaker 1>a little bit tougher because that's not even on PC, right,
<v Speaker 1>and I would love it on the switch or PS
<v Speaker 1>five whatever, but I would love it on the Switch.
<v Speaker 1>But half of those games, around half of those games,
<v Speaker 1>but the big ones, the more recent ones, all use
<v Speaker 1>the Xbox backward compatibility thing where it's like the Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you have the game here, but it's going to launch
<v Speaker 1>that game using the Xbox xboxes like backward compatibility stuff,
<v Speaker 1>and then their emulation stuff for the N sixty four games,
<v Speaker 1>and so all that stuff kind of exists separate from
<v Speaker 1>the package of the game itself. So they would have
<v Speaker 1>to do even more work to get that working. And
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they don't seem to have the
<v Speaker 1>appetite for that. Rare is busy, you know, making more
<v Speaker 1>content for CF thieves. Yeah, flight simulator seems reasonable to me.
<v Speaker 1>It could be some other smaller stuff. Exactly what that
<v Speaker 1>would be x They've already done the grounded and stuff
<v Speaker 1>like that, so I'm not sure what it would be exactly,
<v Speaker 1>but flight simulator sounds like a real possibility. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>the flight Simular twenty twenty four is coming out soon,
<v Speaker 1>has got twenty twenty four in the name, So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that putting out what the original flight simulator on PS
<v Speaker 1>five right now to kind of help boost that. That
<v Speaker 1>seems to be in line with the strategy that they're
<v Speaker 1>going for here, which is number one, make more money
<v Speaker 1>by sowing these games to an audience on PS five
<v Speaker 1>that hasn't played them before, and number two, keeping some
<v Speaker 1>of these franchise is fresh in people's minds as we
<v Speaker 1>have new content similar to what PlayStation does with their
<v Speaker 1>PC releases, as they have sequels coming out to PS five.
<v Speaker 2>Right, is State of Decay exclusive t Xbox?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I don't think State of Decay has come out
<v Speaker 1>on PlayStation yet. You know it's on PC, of course,
<v Speaker 1>but State of Decay two, Yes, State of de K
<v Speaker 1>two on PS five because State of K three also coming.
<v Speaker 1>That also makes sense.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we g We've seen that the PlayStation audience loves
<v Speaker 2>their very weird, hyper specific zombie games with that one
<v Speaker 2>motorcycle love zombie game. No, I forget about Sun's van Archy.
<v Speaker 2>The game I think is what Yes, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Real quick Tam is out there putting on a brave
<v Speaker 1>face as Jamieah points out that rumored collection of Legacy
<v Speaker 1>of Cane games. It's confirmed now. It's from Evercade and
<v Speaker 1>it's a cartridge for the Evercaid handheld, which is pretty
<v Speaker 1>a pretty neat thing, but they put it on a
<v Speaker 1>cartridge or a card whatever, and it includes blood omen
<v Speaker 1>Legacy of Kane and Legacy of Kane Soul Reaver and
<v Speaker 1>you can play those games as together. There. It doesn't
<v Speaker 1>seem to be too much of a like remaster or anything,
<v Speaker 1>but hey, there's the Legacy of Kane collection for y'all.
<v Speaker 1>And Tam says he'll take it. He says, it's not
<v Speaker 1>what I expected, but I'll take it. So the number
<v Speaker 1>one Soul Reaver fan out there has given his blessing.
<v Speaker 1>That is, they're lucky over there at Crystal Dynamics. That
<v Speaker 1>he said that, so I'd be worried if he didn't.
<v Speaker 2>Is there a possibility of seeing Sunset Overdrive that maybe?
<v Speaker 1>I think that is something that they feel, like they
<v Speaker 1>said recently like they might not do that for some reason,
<v Speaker 1>but I you know, who knows what that. I could
<v Speaker 1>be misremembering that. And also maybe that doesn't mean exactly
<v Speaker 1>what I think it means, but that that is one
<v Speaker 1>that this at this point I think PlayStation does mostly own.
<v Speaker 1>I can't keep track of it because that's insomniac, right,
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, but Xbox published it, so there might still
<v Speaker 1>be some involvement there. That was one where it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>actually getting all that stuff lined up might be difficult
<v Speaker 1>and not worth it. And you know that game never
<v Speaker 1>sold great in the first place, but it's a possibility.
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't hate it. I like that game, fine, I
<v Speaker 1>never loved it the way some people did.
<v Speaker 2>I know it's already out on the PS four But
<v Speaker 2>Psychonuts two.
<v Speaker 1>Psychonouts two, Yeah, no, Psychononts two did launch on PlayStation.
<v Speaker 1>That was one that was like, I think it was
<v Speaker 1>originally being published by someone else when Microsoft made the acquisition,
<v Speaker 1>so it came out everywhere. I think it was about
<v Speaker 1>yah yeah PS four, So maybe at PS five version.
<v Speaker 1>Is that what you're saying? Yes, yes, right, so yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I guess that could happen. Jason Fani says could be
<v Speaker 1>a help Blade two part. Honestly, why not give that
<v Speaker 1>game a little bit more love? I mean it was
<v Speaker 1>help Blade one was originally a PlayStation game, so there's
<v Speaker 1>gonna be people who are gonna want to, you know,
<v Speaker 1>finish the story. Probably Cody out there. Wait no, Hellway two.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I think that's Cody's bag. Guy's probably not his bag.
<v Speaker 1>No, all right, that'll be today's poll question everybody, So
<v Speaker 1>let me know if you have any other options you
<v Speaker 1>want us to add to the poll when we get there.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, that'll be the poll question that we'll have
<v Speaker 1>for tomorrow's show, all right. Moving on, Marvel Versus Capcom
<v Speaker 1>Fighting Collection. Potential release date briefly appears online before being deleted.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Jordan Midler at BGC. A potential release
<v Speaker 1>date for Marvel Versus Capcom Fighting Collection appeared online briefly
<v Speaker 1>before it was deleted. A release date of November twenty
<v Speaker 1>second was listed on the game's page on UK retailer
<v Speaker 1>Shop two before it was quickly remove. Before it was
<v Speaker 1>taken down, screenshots of the release date were posted on
<v Speaker 1>reset Era. VGC can confirm the legitimate legitimacy of the
<v Speaker 1>original listing. Whether the listing was changed due to inaccuracy
<v Speaker 1>or because Capcom has yet to announce a release date
<v Speaker 1>is unknown. The collection, which was announced earlier this year,
<v Speaker 1>will be released on Nintendo Switch, PS four and PC,
<v Speaker 1>but not Microsoft's consoles. Marvel Versus Capcom Fighting Collection will
<v Speaker 1>include X Men, Children of the Atom, Marvel Superheroes, X
<v Speaker 1>Men Versus Street Fighter Marvel Superheroes Versus Street Fighter, Marvel
<v Speaker 1>Versus Capcom, Clash of Superheroes, Marvel Versus Capcom two, New
<v Speaker 1>Age of Heroes, and The Punisher. Yeah, November twenty second
<v Speaker 1>sounds reasonable. We haven't heard a date for this yet,
<v Speaker 1>probably because it is coming much later in the year,
<v Speaker 1>and November twenty second, I know people know this is
<v Speaker 1>much later in the year, so that all lines up,
<v Speaker 1>I suppose, But it's just as likely that that's someone
<v Speaker 1>just throwing a date in there. That doesn't mean anything.
<v Speaker 1>But as with you know, we were saying, hey, next
<v Speaker 1>week for the Xbox game getting oounced PlayStation, there's a
<v Speaker 1>possibility that that and this maybe get announced that games
<v Speaker 1>come right.
<v Speaker 2>Mm, yeah, that's a strong possibility. Grub Gosh, I h
<v Speaker 2>I guess in my head I had only associated Marvel
<v Speaker 2>the Marvel versus Capcom games being part of this collection,
<v Speaker 2>and then a child like glee lit up inside of
<v Speaker 2>me when I saw Marvel Superheroes listed here.
<v Speaker 1>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>I think that is pro probably responsible for a lot
<v Speaker 2>of people in our demographic Grub knowing or even learning
<v Speaker 2>what the heck Shuma Gorath is.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, it's a god. Yeah, that that's a good
<v Speaker 1>thing right there. It is an exciting collection, clearly one
<v Speaker 1>of the you know, Seawn's favorite moments like popping off
<v Speaker 1>for that, and I agree, But yeah, Capcom's got something here.
<v Speaker 1>They're gonna try to get it right, make sure that
<v Speaker 1>when it does come out people that is as good
<v Speaker 1>as it can be and people get a chance to
<v Speaker 1>get their hands on it. So yeah, I think we
<v Speaker 1>get to Opening Night Live at games Colm and this
<v Speaker 1>could easily be a really state for this would be
<v Speaker 1>another thing that'd be nice to have at a show
<v Speaker 1>like that. So uh, and Capcom, as much as it
<v Speaker 1>knows that it has the Fighting Game without Fighting Game
<v Speaker 1>audience's attention with this, uh, it would be it makes
<v Speaker 1>sense to then, Okay, let's go to that broader audience
<v Speaker 1>and try to take some of that excitement and enthusiasm
<v Speaker 1>and let it infect the wider audience that was paying
<v Speaker 1>attention to Opening Night Live because of Jeff Keeley. And
<v Speaker 1>I think that, yeah, it was a good strategy, so
<v Speaker 1>we'll see.
<v Speaker 2>I also think, you know, uh, we we've talked about
<v Speaker 2>Marvel's slump as of late, but Deadpool Wolverine, what is
<v Speaker 2>that movie actually called? Uh, Deadpool and Wolverine.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I said dead versus Wolverine, which isn't true. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, that's what I assumed it was too for
<v Speaker 1>a second. It's something Yeah, just Deadpool and Wolverine.
<v Speaker 2>All right, has kind of, you know, not done a
<v Speaker 2>dramatic one eighty, but uh, let's say a one seventy
<v Speaker 2>on the public reception of Marvel and along with all
<v Speaker 2>the announcements from this past comic Con that I could
<v Speaker 2>see this being a good dip into that renewed excitement
<v Speaker 2>as well as like capitalizing off of the nostalgia for
<v Speaker 2>these games and hopefully hopefully grub just introducing these to
<v Speaker 2>a whole new generation of like the FGC. I'd be
<v Speaker 2>super duper interested to see like what these young cats
<v Speaker 2>out there would do with an easier version of this
<v Speaker 2>game to play.
<v Speaker 1>And I hope it really is laying the oh, go ahead,
<v Speaker 1>what are you gonna say? Also X Men ninety seven,
<v Speaker 1>right right, That's what I was. Yeah, I think I
<v Speaker 1>hope this is laying the foundation for making new games
<v Speaker 1>based on this stuff. That is awesome. Now, if what
<v Speaker 1>came out of this was here is an X Men
<v Speaker 1>ninety seven game that we set a certain budget for
<v Speaker 1>and we spent two years making and it's but it
<v Speaker 1>has you know, the Capcom I'm shine to it right now,
<v Speaker 1>Like we're very versed in our technology, so we know
<v Speaker 1>how to make these games and we can kind of
<v Speaker 1>make it in a way that is reasonable. But here
<v Speaker 1>is an X Men ninety seven fighting game, and then
<v Speaker 1>you know, years later, now we're building on that, then
<v Speaker 1>we're making X Men versus Street Fighter again, even and
<v Speaker 1>then I just want them to actually get back to
<v Speaker 1>the path of making a lot of these games, not
<v Speaker 1>just here's your Marvel versus Capcom again, which I want
<v Speaker 1>them to do eventually, but I kind of want them
<v Speaker 1>to build up to that again and play around some
<v Speaker 1>of these smaller spaces a little bit first. You know,
<v Speaker 1>if it does come to here's the more likely scenario
<v Speaker 1>is here's just a new Marvel versus Capcom And is
<v Speaker 1>that even likely? But it's more likely to what I'm describing,
<v Speaker 1>And I would you find if that had a ton
<v Speaker 1>of references to stuff like X Men ninety seven in it.
<v Speaker 1>But I just think Capcom is in a space the
<v Speaker 1>way they're talking about their fighting games right now, where
<v Speaker 1>they're like, we want to bring back all of our
<v Speaker 1>classic fighting games. I hope that is. Then the next
<v Speaker 1>step is okay, so we've brought all these back now
<v Speaker 1>on these off years, kind of similar to what they
<v Speaker 1>do with Resident Evil. Here's something new and that's going
<v Speaker 1>to stoke the flames of the fighting game community for
<v Speaker 1>many years to come.
<v Speaker 2>John Drake, make it happen, please, yep, forget about quackshot.
<v Speaker 2>Just make this happen. Please.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you can quick quick quack shot in Marvel versus
<v Speaker 1>Capcom eventually, grub. I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I just popped myself in my head, but if I
<v Speaker 2>hear Uri Lowenthal say Maximum Spider, I will kind of
<v Speaker 2>lose my ship.
<v Speaker 1>That would be really cool. Yep. I don't know. There's
<v Speaker 1>just so much fun stuff they could do with that
<v Speaker 1>at this point, so I hope, and it seems like
<v Speaker 1>Capcom could very easily get back to that space.
<v Speaker 2>All right, I will buy a hit Not a hit stick,
<v Speaker 2>that's Madden. That's a truck stick. The truck stick.
<v Speaker 1>You'll find thing, the flat stick. Yes, a leverless fighting stick. Controller. Yes, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 1>those things are They rule and should get one.
<v Speaker 2>Brazer holler.
<v Speaker 1>All right, we're gonna take a quick break when we
<v Speaker 1>get back plenty more headlines, including the release date for
<v Speaker 1>The Plucky Squire. Right after this all right, we are back,
<v Speaker 1>and as promised, more headlines. The Plucky Squire release date
<v Speaker 1>is set for September. This is from Nintendo Everything. The
<v Speaker 1>Plucky Squire finally has a release date. It'll come to
<v Speaker 1>Switch and other platforms on September seventeenth, twenty twenty four.
<v Speaker 1>Publisher to Volver Digital, excuse me, and developer All Possible
<v Speaker 1>Futures announced today. The Plucky Squire was first revealed just
<v Speaker 1>over two years ago. While the action adventure title was
<v Speaker 1>originally slated for twenty twenty three, that didn't end up happening.
<v Speaker 1>The game later ended up being delayed to this year,
<v Speaker 1>and now it actually is coming out. This game is
<v Speaker 1>for people that don't remember, and I'll play the revealed
<v Speaker 1>trailer here for people watching. It's about. It's kind of
<v Speaker 1>that storybook looking game where there is a character literally
<v Speaker 1>in a storybook and he kind of runs around the pages.
<v Speaker 1>You can troll them in the pages and it looks great,
<v Speaker 1>but then he can jump out of the pages and
<v Speaker 1>into the room that the book is sitting in to
<v Speaker 1>jump to other like adventures and it looks incredible, and
<v Speaker 1>I've been looking forward to this for a while and
<v Speaker 1>it's like, Okay, it's finally here. It's really going to happen.
<v Speaker 1>How are you feeling about it?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm super duper interested in this. I'm curious to
<v Speaker 2>see the different art styles that they've prepared. We've seen
<v Speaker 2>a couple of them when the plucky Squire dip out
<v Speaker 2>of the book and into the real world. Genuinely curious. Also,
<v Speaker 2>I love the style of game where it's like a
<v Speaker 2>Legend of Zelda esque God, it looks so pretty, it
<v Speaker 2>looks so cute.
<v Speaker 1>Really cute and pretty. It's you know, actually moving around
<v Speaker 1>the world. Those like a lot of games recently like
<v Speaker 1>thank goodness you're here, look like running around a oh
<v Speaker 1>this is neat. I actually I saw this, but I
<v Speaker 1>just reah with this is so good. It looks a
<v Speaker 1>lot like running on a cartoon network show. And now
<v Speaker 1>in this trailer, as he's revealing the date, he's just
<v Speaker 1>picking up items and putting the pieces together. So it's
<v Speaker 1>coming out September seventeenth, twenty twenty four. There you go, everybody. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I continue to be really into this whole idea. I'm
<v Speaker 1>glad that they are able to see it through and
<v Speaker 1>then it's not getting another delay, although I think Sean
<v Speaker 1>might have this on his Fantasy Critics, so I would
<v Speaker 1>have hated a delay. But here we are, Yeah, September seventeenth.
<v Speaker 1>I'll be looking forward to playing it then. Might have
<v Speaker 1>more to say about that game here pretty soon. Let
<v Speaker 1>y'all know, all right, Times Splitters for PS two or yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Times Splitters PS two trilogy arrives on PlayStation Plus next week.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Zack Swisen at Kotaku. The complete Time
<v Speaker 1>Splitters trilogy on PS two will soon be available to
<v Speaker 1>play on PS four and PS five later this month.
<v Speaker 1>On top of that awesome news, a solid list of
<v Speaker 1>older games like The Witcher three and Ride five will
<v Speaker 1>also be available at to PS plus Extra and Premium
<v Speaker 1>members next week. On August fourteenth, PlayStation officially announced the
<v Speaker 1>next round of PS plus Extra in premium games that
<v Speaker 1>will be added to the services game catalog. These new
<v Speaker 1>games will be available starting August twentieth. I'm really excited
<v Speaker 1>to see Times Splitters trilogy arrive on PS four and
<v Speaker 1>PSI as new PS two classics of the Times Splitters
<v Speaker 1>games are wonderfully fun sci fi shooters and and that
<v Speaker 1>feature awesome Golden I esque first person shooter combat, as
<v Speaker 1>well as some good jokes and gags. I have the
<v Speaker 1>full list of games here. We'll go over at Starting
<v Speaker 1>on August twentieth, PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium both will
<v Speaker 1>get the Witcher three, Wild Hunt Wildheart's Standard Edition. That's
<v Speaker 1>when we both enjoyed Cult of the Lamb Ride five,
<v Speaker 1>Watchdogs two, a bunch of sword Art online games. I
<v Speaker 1>guess yeah, Alasatian Lacrosse, the Courses, Last Recollection, those aren't real.
<v Speaker 1>That's those are definitely not real. Words a fatal bullet,
<v Speaker 1>hollow realization, Okay, whatever, and then Naruto Toburo Shinobi Striker.
<v Speaker 1>I just I really hate that his son's name is
<v Speaker 1>bo Rudeo.
<v Speaker 2>I hate saying it right, he hates his son too good.
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation Premium only will get VA Cation Simulator times, Twitters
<v Speaker 1>Times Twitters two times, Twitter's Future Perfect and then Art
<v Speaker 1>Sort Art Online Lost Song. So saving the best for last,
<v Speaker 1>I guess, yeah, that's great. I can't remember what PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>Network thing I have, PlayStation Plus thing I have. I
<v Speaker 1>definitely had to re up recently because we played a
<v Speaker 1>game online or I was doing something online on my
<v Speaker 1>PS five and I think I might have actually just
<v Speaker 1>gotten premium. I just bit the bullet the page that
<v Speaker 1>I'm not even got like a year of premium. So
<v Speaker 1>I have this, I should take advantage of it. I
<v Speaker 1>almost never get these games on PlayStation Premium, and I should.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, one hundred percent. As you know, every time we
<v Speaker 2>reached that point in each month where we go through
<v Speaker 2>the new titles available on PlayStation Premium and the whatever
<v Speaker 2>tiers are called, I keep being enticed of like, oh
<v Speaker 2>that's pretty good. Yeah, it's not bad. And I think
<v Speaker 2>the curation they're doing is pretty interesting as well. Like
<v Speaker 2>I've been kind of curious to dip into the Witcher.
<v Speaker 2>We were talking about Wildhearts like a couple of weeks ago.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like grub that's right. And then I had
<v Speaker 2>no idea there were this many sword art online games
<v Speaker 2>did not.
<v Speaker 1>Either, got it. I don't even know what a sword
<v Speaker 1>art online game looks like.
<v Speaker 2>And uh, I think for shoot, it's an Issa kai.
<v Speaker 1>That okay, that sounds familiar. For like the there's an anime,
<v Speaker 1>right sort and it is just called anime? Is also
<v Speaker 1>called sort art online? Is it is some one of
<v Speaker 1>your head explodes if you stop playing or something.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, no, okay, maybe it is yes, Oh gosh,
<v Speaker 2>all right, and oh do you know why? I know that?
<v Speaker 1>It's because, uh, a certain Paul ber Lucky was like,
<v Speaker 1>I want to make that real fucking weep, get a
<v Speaker 1>life loser? All right? Sorry?
<v Speaker 2>Oh lord, that fucking sucks.
<v Speaker 1>All right, I'm not gonna play any sword art online games.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry. I'm a grown man. Next up, Kingdom Come
<v Speaker 1>Deliverance To is delayed release date set for February twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. This is from Eddie mcoo and Georgian at GameSpot.
<v Speaker 1>King To Cum Deliverance two's release date may have been
<v Speaker 1>leaked by a retailer, and it looks like it's slated
<v Speaker 1>for next year rather than twenty twenty four. According to
<v Speaker 1>best Buy, Kingdom Come Deliverance Too is set to release
<v Speaker 1>on February eleventh, twenty twenty five. While best Buy has
<v Speaker 1>since amended the listing and changed it to not announced,
<v Speaker 1>Walmart still has it listed for the same date as well.
<v Speaker 1>Update Embracer and developer war Horse have confirmed that Kingcome
<v Speaker 1>Deliverance To is now set for release on February eleventh,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five. Well, fans will have to wait a
<v Speaker 1>while longer for the game. Warhorse will show off twenty
<v Speaker 1>plus minutes of footage at Gamescom next week and make
<v Speaker 1>various other announcements. Yeah, so we'll see more of this
<v Speaker 1>pretty soon. This will be another one that's going to
<v Speaker 1>be in opening that live that's been confirmed previously. Kingdom
<v Speaker 1>Com Deliverance was that sort of Skyrim inspired open world
<v Speaker 1>RPG but set in a historical setting, like an accurate
<v Speaker 1>world historical setting in medieval times. I guess I don't
<v Speaker 1>know Kingdom Come Times. I suppose it was interesting. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't really like work for me all that well, but
<v Speaker 1>that doesn't mean a sequel can't. We'll see. But yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they have a lot to prove and they have a
<v Speaker 1>chance to do it here, and delaying it a little
<v Speaker 1>bit probably makes some sense. It did seem like it
<v Speaker 1>was supposed to come out this year, I think they
<v Speaker 1>said that previously, but February. That does get it out
<v Speaker 1>of the way of a lot of games now. Although
<v Speaker 1>did you get the sense that in the next month
<v Speaker 1>or two jan the early parts of twenty twenty five
<v Speaker 1>are gonna get filled up real fast?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? One hundred percent grub, especially after Games Calm. I
<v Speaker 2>feel like we were talking on the BombCast that there's
<v Speaker 2>gonna be a Nintendo Direct coming up soon allegedly allegedly,
<v Speaker 2>folks don't Yeah, we don't know for sure, they put
<v Speaker 2>the keyboards away. But also like we have to see
<v Speaker 2>what the landscape of twenty twenty five will look like.
<v Speaker 2>People who trying to get out of the way of
<v Speaker 2>GTA six or just trying to delay games now and
<v Speaker 2>just move to that window to claim that spot before
<v Speaker 2>the calendar completely fills up. And it's already looking pretty full.
<v Speaker 1>Grub Yep, it's already looking pretty full. And uh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's how it goes though what you said there where
<v Speaker 1>It's just like we will get through these next few
<v Speaker 1>weeks like Opening Nightlife will probably be the start of it,
<v Speaker 1>where several of these games will get announced for February
<v Speaker 1>and March and April and we'll look at be like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>suddenly there are five or six games just in March
<v Speaker 1>that are gonna be taking up all our time. So hey,
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm not really complaining. I like games coming out
<v Speaker 1>year round. It seems like it totally works. But but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and then you know they're still like heavy hitters. Capcom
<v Speaker 1>usually oh oh yeah, they confirmed Monster Hunters, yeahs Run Wilds. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five. If they said a date, usually those
<v Speaker 1>dude from Capcom do come out earlier in the year.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, there's a lot of big stuff that could
<v Speaker 1>take up a lot of the oxygen.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think that. I think that's my most anticipated
<v Speaker 2>game for twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 1>Actually, yeah, I'm like so ready for this to be
<v Speaker 1>the Monster Hunter that really gets me and for us
<v Speaker 1>to play a lot of it.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, February Wait, February thirtieth.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, so there we go. Already a massive thing in February,
<v Speaker 1>So people moving their games into February are Yeah, I mean, listen,
<v Speaker 1>February March. Try to get out there before Monster Hunter Wilds.
<v Speaker 1>Oh he was kidding. Oh, February thirtieth. It's not a
<v Speaker 1>real date, is it.
<v Speaker 2>No, silly goose.
<v Speaker 1>Listen, everybody, I just read what's on the screen. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>it's there. I'm just gonna read it. Listen. D doesn't
<v Speaker 1>know about Celsius. Can we go back to that? God,
<v Speaker 1>what has Mike Manatti taught you?
<v Speaker 2>Throwing your friends and heard of the bus.
<v Speaker 1>It worked so well, all right. Amazon orders animated series
<v Speaker 1>featuring Splunky New World and PlayStation games. This is from
<v Speaker 1>zas ys In at Kotaku as well shout outs to
<v Speaker 1>Zech Amazon Prime Video has reportedly ordered a new animated
<v Speaker 1>anthology series that will feature short stories set within different
<v Speaker 1>pre existing video game worlds. The series is being created
<v Speaker 1>by Tim Miller, the same person behind Netflix's popular Love
<v Speaker 1>Death and Robots series and the first Deadpool movie. Miller's
<v Speaker 1>Love Death and Robots premiered in twenty nineteen. The series
<v Speaker 1>featured various short stories animated by different studios in different
<v Speaker 1>art styles. Episodes often revolve around a theme or topic,
<v Speaker 1>and stories can vary greatly, sometimes featuring robots, elements of horror,
<v Speaker 1>sci fi, or even comedy, and now Amazon wants to
<v Speaker 1>take the same formula but apply it to video games.
<v Speaker 1>On August fourteenth, the Deadline reported that Amazon has ordered
<v Speaker 1>a series called Secret Level from Miller and Blur Studio.
<v Speaker 2>Like Love, Death.
<v Speaker 1>And Robots, the new series will be in anthology and
<v Speaker 1>will with each episode set in a different video game
<v Speaker 1>world or franchise. Deadline reports that some possible games that
<v Speaker 1>could appear in Secret Level include beloved indie platform or Spilunky,
<v Speaker 1>Amazon's own Momo RPG, New World Oaks, and various unspecified
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation titles. Each episode of Secret Level will likely consist
<v Speaker 1>of short stories set in these different games. Jan, is
<v Speaker 1>this sound like a good idea? And what games do
<v Speaker 1>you want to see?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? One hundred percent, this seems like a good idea,
<v Speaker 2>especially there's going to be like smaller indie titles that
<v Speaker 2>may not have enough interest or excitement to start like
<v Speaker 2>a full fledged animated series, Like I understand that the
<v Speaker 2>cup Head Show is very good. Castlevania anime has always
<v Speaker 2>been very popular, especially the legal legend show Arcane on Netflix,
<v Speaker 2>but I wouldn't mind seeing some shorts.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, nothing then that prevents this from like, oh, if
<v Speaker 1>one of these does really well, they could make a
<v Speaker 1>whole show based on it or something, so it doesn't
<v Speaker 1>like preclude totally.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why. The first thing to come to
<v Speaker 2>mind was Shovel Knight, just because shovel Knights should just
<v Speaker 2>continue to be everywhere Knight.
<v Speaker 1>The weirdest thing happen with the Shovel Knight was it
<v Speaker 1>was the like Rby's Happy Meal equivalent toy uh and
<v Speaker 1>I would go to Arby's and get shovel night toys
<v Speaker 1>for my kids. It was even like they were like
<v Speaker 1>little plastic things that kind of fell apart. They were
<v Speaker 1>flimsy little things, but whatever it was, it was neat. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I the PlayStation games things. Makes me hope that it's
<v Speaker 1>one of them. As Astrobot, I think that would be
<v Speaker 1>a good thing.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah for this. We were, Yeah, we were chatting
<v Speaker 2>about that about like why hasn't Sony capitalized yet off
<v Speaker 2>of uh Astrobot's cuteness and make made some type of
<v Speaker 2>animated shorts this gosh yeah, or or grub they just
<v Speaker 2>have a bunch of little animated shorts or just uh
<v Speaker 2>live action shorts of Tom Holland continuing to reprise his
<v Speaker 2>role as Nathan Drake.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, happy fun too. I instead of making whole new movies,
<v Speaker 1>but like could just go be in this. Honestly, if
<v Speaker 1>they did it like some like Twilight Zone stuff where
<v Speaker 1>like these where Nathan Drake showed up in some of
<v Speaker 1>this other stuff, that could be fun too. I hope
<v Speaker 1>they get that wild with it because I I suppose
<v Speaker 1>like that what they're going for, because just having like
<v Speaker 1>a bottle episode based in these worlds, Like, you can
<v Speaker 1>only do so much storytelling there. You kind of have
<v Speaker 1>to have something of some other hook that keeps people
<v Speaker 1>be like, why am I interested in this next episode?
<v Speaker 1>It's not necessarily like it's going to be New worlds
<v Speaker 1>from you know, the Amazon studios. But if there's the
<v Speaker 1>promise that maybe someone from another game could be infiltrating
<v Speaker 1>that world or causing havoc, I'll keep watching because I
<v Speaker 1>want to see how that goes. Either way. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>I think this is a this is fertile ground for
<v Speaker 1>creators to mess around with. I think it's a good
<v Speaker 1>use of video game licenses where instead of trying to
<v Speaker 1>cram them into being something that they're not, or trying
<v Speaker 1>to like apply a TV show formula or a movie
<v Speaker 1>formula to every single one of these in an equivalent way,
<v Speaker 1>just kind of treat them as more malleable and work
<v Speaker 1>with what the material that you have there. I think
<v Speaker 1>that's exciting.
<v Speaker 2>Grub. This is how we get back to PlayStation All Stars.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, do you.
<v Speaker 2>Think what do we have to Yes?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, honestly, yeah. If it ends with like and everyone
<v Speaker 1>got their invite, Like every post credit scene was just
<v Speaker 1>an invite to PlayStation Battle Royale All Stars, where the
<v Speaker 1>hell it's called. I would, yeah, i'd be down.
<v Speaker 2>But I you know, I remember fondly the PS two era,
<v Speaker 2>mascot era of PlayStation where I always thought like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>Ratchet could be a good movie. They eventually turned it
<v Speaker 2>into a movie, but Jack and Daxter never got that
<v Speaker 2>love or Sly Cooper.
<v Speaker 1>Interesting. Yeah, there's a lot of those franchises that are
<v Speaker 1>somewhat dormant that would be maybe a good fit for this.
<v Speaker 1>And then but do you think they do that if
<v Speaker 1>there's no intention to make a new game in any
<v Speaker 1>of those franchises.
<v Speaker 2>I could see them just doing that, even if there
<v Speaker 2>is no intention to make a new game.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I think I think you're right, because a certain point,
<v Speaker 1>do something with that ip, you know, right, just to
<v Speaker 1>keep it somewhat at the top of people's minds. Also,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, you know, Amazon's money, so pull away for
<v Speaker 1>these things, and that stuff has value, So just take
<v Speaker 1>that money and let them play around in this world.
<v Speaker 2>Snack Dad with the most brilliant shout ape. Escape would
<v Speaker 2>be a good TV show that would rule.
<v Speaker 1>I would really I like those kids shows where it's
<v Speaker 1>like a bunch of crazy characters doing stuff. I thought
<v Speaker 1>the Rabbids show is actually pretty good on Nickelodeon. I
<v Speaker 1>think epe Escape could be way better than that.
<v Speaker 2>Even the apes from ape Escape are primed to be
<v Speaker 2>Minion and Rabbid popular already.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that would be great, all right? Next story, here
<v Speaker 1>a SEUs rog Ally to get Steam Deck OS support,
<v Speaker 1>and yes, there we go this. Sir Darren Bonteuse at
<v Speaker 1>GameSpot Valves confirmed that Steam os, it's Linux based operating
<v Speaker 1>system for the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC, will be
<v Speaker 1>coming to the Asis rog ally. The company also plans
<v Speaker 1>to roll out Steam OS to other rival Windows handhelds,
<v Speaker 1>although it has noted that third party support isn't ready
<v Speaker 1>to run out of the box yet. The confirmation comes
<v Speaker 1>after the recent release notes for a recent Steam Os
<v Speaker 1>beta update mentioned adding support for extra rog ally keys
<v Speaker 1>in the future. The note about rog ally keys is
<v Speaker 1>related to third party device support for Steam Os. Valve
<v Speaker 1>engineer Laurence Yang said to The Verge the team is
<v Speaker 1>continuing to work on adding support for additional handhelds on
<v Speaker 1>Steam Os. This was always the plan. Yeah, this was
<v Speaker 1>always what they were really going for. Steam Deck being
<v Speaker 1>a success is awesome. For them. They're happy about that,
<v Speaker 1>but the reality is they've been trying to make you know,
<v Speaker 1>Steam osh and let their Linux based you know steam
<v Speaker 1>gaming thing happened since they had Steam machines, and that
<v Speaker 1>it never really found a way to take off. Now
<v Speaker 1>it has footing and the idea that rival companies quote
<v Speaker 1>unquote what will be using steam os in any way
<v Speaker 1>going forward, even if it's like a dual boot option
<v Speaker 1>on like the rog ally it's like here's Windows or
<v Speaker 1>you can go in steam os and you know, acers
<v Speaker 1>can put their layer on top of the if they want.
<v Speaker 1>Don't fuck it up, but whatever they probably will. That
<v Speaker 1>is always what they were going for. And now they're here,
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, I'm not surprised by this at all. I
<v Speaker 1>was listening to the PC World's podcast and shout out
<v Speaker 1>to Will Smith who's on there, and those guys are grant.
<v Speaker 1>It's like the one podcast in the PC gaming space
<v Speaker 1>where it actually has adults talking about stuff. It's great
<v Speaker 1>listen to that show. Everybody well it's just like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I know somebody YouTubers, so they have to freak out
<v Speaker 1>to keep their audience entertained all the time. And then
<v Speaker 1>these people coming down like a reasonable and sober. I
<v Speaker 1>appreciate that podcast a lot. But they were talking about
<v Speaker 1>bzite I think it's bzite os, which is a thin
<v Speaker 1>parted version of Steam Os for the aces rog ally,
<v Speaker 1>and apparently that's already pretty good and gets you most
<v Speaker 1>of the way there towards making the races rog ally
<v Speaker 1>something much more akin to a consolized experience than what
<v Speaker 1>you get with the Windows system right now. So the
<v Speaker 1>fact that Valves working on their own version of that
<v Speaker 1>that may maybe irons out those last few kinks. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's that's exciting. For as much as Jane, I enjoy
<v Speaker 1>having the option to very easily get games from Epic,
<v Speaker 1>I have the Roger sitting over there constantly and I
<v Speaker 1>almost never use it because the Steam Deck oled is
<v Speaker 1>just better. It's more convenient, it works the way I
<v Speaker 1>need it to work, and it also helps that the
<v Speaker 1>battery life is way better. Like That's that's honestly, that's
<v Speaker 1>the big the biggest part. But I also just enjoy
<v Speaker 1>steam Os way more. So This is exciting to me.
<v Speaker 1>What do you think?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is Steam continuing to throw its weight around
<v Speaker 2>and its dominance around. Like the PC gaming market now,
<v Speaker 2>the mobile PC gaming market as well. This is just
<v Speaker 2>the net positive for Steam as a whole. I'm thinking,
<v Speaker 2>I was thinking, what would incentivize me to perhaps get
<v Speaker 2>an Asis Roger versus a Steam Deck at this point,
<v Speaker 2>and I don't quite see the reasoning, but there's definitely
<v Speaker 2>folks that don't want to deal with Linux. They want
<v Speaker 2>some type of Windows device, so that would entice them
<v Speaker 2>that way.
<v Speaker 1>If you are super into XBO game pass, I think
<v Speaker 1>that the ally the al i x now at this
<v Speaker 1>point that came out recently, I still want to check
<v Speaker 1>that out. That has you know, a faster RAM, better
<v Speaker 1>batter life, of more SSD storage and stuff. It fixes
<v Speaker 1>some of the issues with that thing. It's still a
<v Speaker 1>worthy device in a lot of ways, as far as
<v Speaker 1>many issues as I have with Windows. But you have to,
<v Speaker 1>I think you have to have a specific use case
<v Speaker 1>to choose that over the Steam Deck.
<v Speaker 2>Go lead. Yeah, one hundred percent. Again, if you were
<v Speaker 2>embedded into the Windows ecosystem, if you are a big
<v Speaker 2>game pass power user, god power user what they hate
<v Speaker 2>that word? Yeah, Uh, then the Asis Rogers probably up
<v Speaker 2>your alley and uh, you know, wanting to get that
<v Speaker 2>Steam Deck experience.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Shannas points out, Yeah, there's the multiplayer games with
<v Speaker 1>certain anti cheat programs they do not like Linux and
<v Speaker 1>uh and steam Os, which is you know, Destiny is
<v Speaker 1>the major one that I can think of, but there's
<v Speaker 1>definitely some others that work that way. There's even some
<v Speaker 1>of that I think supported steam Os at first and
<v Speaker 1>have stopped. So yeah, if you have specific use cases,
<v Speaker 1>definitely go for that and use Windows. But I think
<v Speaker 1>the long term outlook for this is steam Os and
<v Speaker 1>a version of Windows that is built for these systems
<v Speaker 1>that comes out in a year or so and is
<v Speaker 1>branded as Xbox, and that better be real good because
<v Speaker 1>if it's if it comes out and it's like half baked,
<v Speaker 1>people will just go. I mean, this is a real
<v Speaker 1>opportunity for Linux to grow, for steam Os to grow,
<v Speaker 1>and they seem like they're capitalizing on it. And Microsoft
<v Speaker 1>could lose some footing here if they're not careful, but
<v Speaker 1>they have so much money they'll be able to come
<v Speaker 1>back whatever.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I hate myself grub that I thought, oh,
<v Speaker 2>you know what would be great on Asis, Roger, I
<v Speaker 2>could finally play Final Fantasy fourteen in an easy way Yep,
<v Speaker 2>even though I haven't installed on my Steam deck now
<v Speaker 2>just through I just got to jump through a couple
<v Speaker 2>of loops to.
<v Speaker 1>Do it, yep. And and that all that stuff has
<v Speaker 1>gotten quite better. Clint Eastman says, like all the stories
<v Speaker 1>that aren't natively supported on Steam Os right away, like Epic, Ubisoft, EA,
<v Speaker 1>h Io those, it's gotten so easy to install those now.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I've it was the last chance or the
<v Speaker 1>last time I tried to install Epic and get some
<v Speaker 1>games on there. It all worked really well. All right,
<v Speaker 1>Done with the headlines. Got the poll question from yesterday,
<v Speaker 1>when do you think the Nintendo Switch to will release?
<v Speaker 1>I let's see here, eighteen percent think it will come
<v Speaker 1>in April, eighteen percent think it will come in May,
<v Speaker 1>then twenty percent think it'll come in summer, and forty
<v Speaker 1>four percent believe it will come in fall. So it's
<v Speaker 1>like most people think it'll be either the like the
<v Speaker 1>spring after March or fall, and then twenty percent, you know,
<v Speaker 1>one in five think may maybe in the summer. Sometimes
<v Speaker 1>they probably just don't want to wait till fall, but
<v Speaker 1>they can't admit it to themselves that they're gonna have to.
<v Speaker 1>How are you feeling about it? Jam, What do you
<v Speaker 1>think I.
<v Speaker 2>I think I want to say a date as early
<v Speaker 2>as May, but I could see the tail end of
<v Speaker 2>summer being the actual release versus Fall. I don't know
<v Speaker 2>why Fall feels too late.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's just right now, it feels so far away.
<v Speaker 1>It's a whole like that. That would mean right now
<v Speaker 1>the Nintendo switch to is not even launching within the
<v Speaker 1>next twelve months, and that is tough to accept for
<v Speaker 1>me as well. But what I was saying on the
<v Speaker 1>show yesterday is that for as much as Nintendo wants
<v Speaker 1>to get this thing out, if they get to April
<v Speaker 1>and May and they're for like, Marto's close, but it's
<v Speaker 1>not quite ready, maybe we could have it ready in
<v Speaker 1>a month and they're like, well yeah, but that then
<v Speaker 1>we're in summer, Like we're not gonna I just don't
<v Speaker 1>think they release it in summer. So if they get
<v Speaker 1>to a point where there's any question, they will just
<v Speaker 1>move it from April or May to later in the year.
<v Speaker 1>And the reason we're saying April May and not like
<v Speaker 1>before that is the reports are Nintendo's telling developers do
<v Speaker 1>not expect it before the end of this fiscal year,
<v Speaker 1>which is March thirty, first so I got a new
<v Speaker 1>pole question we'll get to in a second before we
<v Speaker 1>do that, Jan what do we have going on the website?
<v Speaker 1>Where could people find you on the internet and all
<v Speaker 1>that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Don't find me on the internet, folks, don't he come on, absolutely, don't.
<v Speaker 2>Don't look for me on Twitter or Instagram. But what
<v Speaker 2>we got popping off today, Jeff Grebb. We have Voicemail
<v Speaker 2>dump Truck going on later today tomorrow another episode of
<v Speaker 2>Game Miss Mornings, as well as Unprofessional Fortnite. Nikki, It's okay,
<v Speaker 2>go see your doctor. I'm going to get mad that
<v Speaker 2>you can't play Fortnite.
<v Speaker 1>We're not gonna just dump you in front of the
<v Speaker 1>hospital with your meningitis, like no, no.
<v Speaker 2>Do not worry. It's fine. And then next week some
<v Speaker 2>of the crew, dam Lucy, Mike Manani, Dan Reikert, Bailey Myers,
<v Speaker 2>and myself will be over at games Com. Expect some Shenanigans.
<v Speaker 2>Meetings are popping off everywhere to plan out games Calm coverage.
<v Speaker 2>Expect a bomb cast from US and a voicemail dump truck.
<v Speaker 2>I've yet to figure out how we're gonna do it.
<v Speaker 2>Voicemail dumb truck with all of us there, but we'll
<v Speaker 2>figure it out. It's fine, and a travelogue that I
<v Speaker 2>swear will come out in a timely manner.
<v Speaker 1>I'm excited, cannot wait. And as we mentioned at the
<v Speaker 1>top of the show, next week is August and then
<v Speaker 1>be week after that. Everybody, buckle up, it's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a good time. Bum buck bubble up. Let's go all right,
<v Speaker 1>new poll question I have right here? What big Xbox
<v Speaker 1>game do you think we'll go to? PS five next?
<v Speaker 1>For it's a Horizon five, Halo, Infinite Starfield, something else
<v Speaker 1>or nothing. You can if as you're putting the poll
<v Speaker 1>in jan do you usually do the poll? Or is
<v Speaker 1>Sean usually do it?
<v Speaker 2>I normally do it.
<v Speaker 1>There's any other games you want to throw in there?
<v Speaker 1>Feel free otherwise that's that's a good list. All right,
<v Speaker 1>we'll get the results of that on Games Morning's on
<v Speaker 1>Giant Bomb tomorrow of course, once again speaking a Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 1>Stick around. Plenty more for the rest of the week.
<v Speaker 1>Plenty of great stuff coming next week. You can always
<v Speaker 1>go to Giant Bomb. Always go to YouTube dot com
<v Speaker 1>slash or slash at giant Bomb. All our stuff there
<v Speaker 1>is usually on the live tab, but if you're on
<v Speaker 1>that front page. It's well organized now thanks to Sean,
<v Speaker 1>so check all that stuff out. Shouts out to Sean,
<v Speaker 1>Shouts out to Sean, Shouts out to Nikki, Shouts to
<v Speaker 1>everybody making the whole world go around over here. Shouts
<v Speaker 1>out to you, Jan, thank you.
<v Speaker 2>Shouts out to you, Jeff Gravel. Also, folks, if you
<v Speaker 2>know you tune, you only tune into a couple programs
<v Speaker 2>on giant bomb dot com. You tune in for UPF
<v Speaker 2>games mornings, I voicemail, dumb truck. Maybe you've lap been
<v Speaker 2>a lapsed listener of the Giant BombCast. I suggest to
<v Speaker 2>tune back in. It's it has been a fun show,
<v Speaker 2>and it's always a fun show, but especially it's been
<v Speaker 2>a fun show as of late.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think we're hitting a stride of sorts, feeling
<v Speaker 1>really good about it. I was gonna say the same
<v Speaker 1>exact thing, Jans. I'm glad you did. Go listen at
<v Speaker 1>Latest BombCast. Listen to the last couple of Latest bombcasts.
<v Speaker 1>They've been really fantastic. All right, to anything else, Jan,
<v Speaker 1>I love our audience, I love you all to you
<v Speaker 1>the best audience in game. I mean, Jane, thank you
<v Speaker 1>so much for speaking with me today about video games. Man,
<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>It's the only way to start a Thursday.
<v Speaker 1>Until next time, everybody, have a good one, take care
<v Speaker 1>of yourself in happy February thirtieth