Yakuza Kiwami 3 is Official

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com.
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<v Speaker 1>In this episode, we're going to be talking about all
<v Speaker 1>the news coming out of Tokyo Game Show even before
<v Speaker 1>it starts, and reviews for Final Fantasy Tactics and Baby
<v Speaker 1>Steps are in. It's gonna be a good one because
<v Speaker 1>we have Janatchoa on the show.
<v Speaker 3>Jen, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>That's right. They tried to take my power away. They
<v Speaker 2>tried to silence me. I did not get raptured, so
<v Speaker 2>I demanded I'm gonna be here on a Wednesday because
<v Speaker 2>I need to yap a bit.
<v Speaker 1>Grub, Yeah, we need to get you back on the website,
<v Speaker 1>back out there talking as soon as possible. You are
<v Speaker 1>now generating your own electricity, rubbing potatoes together.
<v Speaker 3>I think I'm not sure what you're doing over there.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah. I found a Science Fair book at one
<v Speaker 2>of those free libraries and it just said connect wires
<v Speaker 2>to potatoes. And you know what. I went to Costco
<v Speaker 2>a couple of weeks ago, got a bag of potatoes.
<v Speaker 2>I'm good to go.
<v Speaker 1>My algorithm has shifted slightly in recent weeks for who
<v Speaker 1>knows what reason to advertising me meal like survival meal kits,
<v Speaker 1>things that'll last for like, you know, fifteen years. It
<v Speaker 1>storats a shelf stable. And there's like the book. It's
<v Speaker 1>called the book. It's this collection of things you would
<v Speaker 1>need to do to restart society. I'm like, oh, no,
<v Speaker 1>they like have pegged me as a prepper. Look, they're
<v Speaker 1>not wrong, but I'm the least prepared prepper you've ever met.
<v Speaker 3>So maybe it is time I go ahead and get this.
<v Speaker 2>But you're like, you're like a jazz prepper grub.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, right, it's about the things I don't prep
<v Speaker 1>jan Absolutely. I feel like I should like complete my
<v Speaker 1>bug out bag at least to really own this. I
<v Speaker 1>have some stuff in there, but not much. Maybe put
<v Speaker 1>some water bottles in there.
<v Speaker 3>Who knows.
<v Speaker 2>Forgive my ignorance, but for a bug out bag, is
<v Speaker 2>that supposed to cover your whole household or just a person?
<v Speaker 2>It makes you cover their little buggy bags.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you could have a bag for each person, but
<v Speaker 1>I think that the idea is you want to have
<v Speaker 1>at least two days worth of food and water and
<v Speaker 1>clothes and you know a few other things for each person,
<v Speaker 1>so you know, if you have younger kids, you probably
<v Speaker 1>they probably don't have their own bags, so that probably
<v Speaker 1>would all be in there. And then at that point,
<v Speaker 1>you know, family of four, you might as well have
<v Speaker 1>it all in one or two bags. But uh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>now now you know the fun part is like, well,
<v Speaker 1>what if I get that ready and then I I
<v Speaker 1>geo locate my my second external home bag somewhere out
<v Speaker 1>and outside of my home that I can go find
<v Speaker 1>it in case I can't get into my home.
<v Speaker 3>Jan what if I did that?
<v Speaker 2>You use geo, you create your own geocash.
<v Speaker 3>My my own personal geo cash.
<v Speaker 1>I'll forget where I put it, and then I'll they'll
<v Speaker 1>write it down somewhere on my phone grub.
<v Speaker 2>They sell these like I don't know if they're necessarily
<v Speaker 2>walkie talkies or and they're not quite satellite radios, but
<v Speaker 2>backpackers use these that once they reach it like a
<v Speaker 2>specific coordinate, they will shoot off a text to a
<v Speaker 2>designated person saying like hey, I'm over here.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I was also seeing like there's a like a special
<v Speaker 1>like open source texting protocol heart piece of hardware that
<v Speaker 1>people have been building that can latch onto just about
<v Speaker 1>any network and right on top of it.
<v Speaker 3>But it's all secure and stuff like that. I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I'm looking into these things.
<v Speaker 2>Grub so I figured it out in the endgame for
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<v Speaker 2>Manatti streaming out of a theme park of course, of course,
<v Speaker 2>Jeff Backlar streaming out of a hockey rink, right, or
<v Speaker 2>refrigerator or a refrigerator. I'm not quite sure where Dan
<v Speaker 2>would be streaming. Actually, yeah, hell, hell, and then me
<v Speaker 2>streaming out of a casino of course.
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<v Speaker 1>lot to get into, so let's start the Morning Mess
<v Speaker 1>with Baby Step reviews. They started coming in yesterday Jan
<v Speaker 1>People were playing this game yesterday. I'm like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I've got that thing's already out. I guess it's out.
<v Speaker 1>It's out, people are playing it. I've played a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>want to play more. This is certainly my genre, and
<v Speaker 1>really it's like to me, it's like, this is like
<v Speaker 1>one of the things I really appreciate that only video
<v Speaker 1>games can do. Only video games can like inaccurately sample
<v Speaker 1>what it's like to walk and really play around with
<v Speaker 1>that concept. And so what if we like were like
<v Speaker 1>oversampled and try to be like, hey, let's get too
<v Speaker 1>granular with the controls of walking. What if we did that,
<v Speaker 1>It's like, oh, this is actually way worse. And then
<v Speaker 1>and then what if we build a whole experience around that?
<v Speaker 3>I love that stuff. Love Bennett Faddi yea one of
<v Speaker 3>my favorite game developers. This game. You know, I think
<v Speaker 3>I would have expected this.
<v Speaker 1>It's got a seventy four on Open Open Critic right
<v Speaker 1>now because some people just don't want this. They want
<v Speaker 1>the walking to feel good in a video game, and
<v Speaker 1>I understand. It has a seven point five out of
<v Speaker 1>ten from Jordan and Now at analog Stick Gaming, who
<v Speaker 1>says Baby Steps is a game that I got so
<v Speaker 1>much more enjoyment from than I ever expected. It will
<v Speaker 1>live long in my memory for being the funniest game
<v Speaker 1>I've ever played. Although I recognize that it won't be
<v Speaker 1>to everybody's taste, I believe it sets a new bar
<v Speaker 1>for comedy and video games, and for that reason alone
<v Speaker 1>it is.
<v Speaker 3>Worth checking out.
<v Speaker 1>And it got a nine out of ten from Travis
<v Speaker 1>Northup at IgM, who says Baby Steps is an infuriating
<v Speaker 1>ordeal of intentionally awkward physics that's brutal, unbelievably stupid, and
<v Speaker 1>downright awesome. And it got a five out of ten
<v Speaker 1>from Richard Segrave at GameSpew, who says challenge to challenging
<v Speaker 1>you to make your way up a mountain, Baby Steps
<v Speaker 1>is likely to be one of the most divisive games
<v Speaker 1>of the year. With its hands off approach, You're left
<v Speaker 1>to find your own fund as you ascend and struggle
<v Speaker 1>with the simple act of walking. Ultimately, it just feels
<v Speaker 1>a little too aimless and punishing for its own good.
<v Speaker 1>So this is why I do always appreciate reviews jam
<v Speaker 1>because I read that and I know exactly what that
<v Speaker 1>review saying, and that to me sounds so exciting because
<v Speaker 1>what we get from a lot of these kinds of
<v Speaker 1>Bennet Foddy games and Bennet Faddy's done Quop, which I
<v Speaker 1>get most people will probably know.
<v Speaker 3>Jeff Becklar didn't know Quop, but most people should know
<v Speaker 3>Quop he did. He's done a lot of stuff like
<v Speaker 3>that he did.
<v Speaker 1>Getting over it where he like really explored a lot
<v Speaker 1>of these themes of failing and falling over but these
<v Speaker 1>have all been like mostly two D games and like
<v Speaker 1>confined on this on the Z access and you can't
<v Speaker 1>you kind of can't wander. You just like there is
<v Speaker 1>a path. Can you overcome the path? Can you get
<v Speaker 1>over it?
<v Speaker 3>Here? Here?
<v Speaker 1>Like Dan was describing, he' said I'm just gonna go
<v Speaker 1>down this hill and see what's down here, And he
<v Speaker 1>kind of got to the bottom of the hill and
<v Speaker 1>now he has to climb back up and fix this
<v Speaker 1>mistake he's made. And on the way of like trying
<v Speaker 1>to find his way again, he was going all the
<v Speaker 1>way around the base of the mountain and encountering all
<v Speaker 1>kinds of stuff that the developers laid in waiting for
<v Speaker 1>the player to find. But you would never find it
<v Speaker 1>unless you did, like made a major mistake. And the
<v Speaker 1>idea of holding one of these in such a way
<v Speaker 1>that it is a little bit more open again, I
<v Speaker 1>find this to be very enticing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I one hundred percent agree grub. I think something
<v Speaker 2>that a lot of people may overlook when they see
<v Speaker 2>baby Steps is how funny the game is intentionally designed
<v Speaker 2>to be, and not just the falling over for the
<v Speaker 2>fact that you're a middle aged dude in a onesie
<v Speaker 2>awkward walking a dirty, dirty man walking up a mountain.
<v Speaker 2>But Bennett Faddy is legitimately one of the funniest developers
<v Speaker 2>out there. This may just be because I'm listening to
<v Speaker 2>a podcast series talking about the Cullen Brothers, but there
<v Speaker 2>are parts of Bennet Faddy that make me think, huh wow,
<v Speaker 2>I am so happy for you to exist, for you
<v Speaker 2>to inspire a whole different generation of developers afterwards. And
<v Speaker 2>we've already seen that with what people will unfortunately call
<v Speaker 2>streamer slop of like the climbing up games and everything
<v Speaker 2>like that. But I hope also his influence in terms
<v Speaker 2>of writing and pacing and the cadence of this of
<v Speaker 2>the humor delivered also ekes out into whatever this streamer
<v Speaker 2>slop is supposed to be. It is funny whenever I
<v Speaker 2>see a Bennett Foddy game kind of get a five
<v Speaker 2>out of ten review, and part of the complaints is
<v Speaker 2>it being awkward and clunky, when that is kind of
<v Speaker 2>on parts.
<v Speaker 1>The whole thing, and again it's the only it's a
<v Speaker 1>thing that only video games can do. You can't explore
<v Speaker 1>the physical act of moving through a planet that has
<v Speaker 1>gravity using a body that has two legs and arms
<v Speaker 1>and has to like stand up awkwardly.
<v Speaker 3>We're an awkward species jan and it's.
<v Speaker 1>Like we don't we don't think about it, like because
<v Speaker 1>we don't have to. But there's something to be said about, like, well,
<v Speaker 1>let's explore the mechanics of moving and explore the the
<v Speaker 1>dichotomy between having this weird, awkward human form versus this
<v Speaker 1>like moving across a terrain.
<v Speaker 3>And you know, I like that in a lot of
<v Speaker 3>different things.
<v Speaker 1>It's one of the reasons I like trucking games, just
<v Speaker 1>having the entire dig into the dirt. I've talked about
<v Speaker 1>that before. This is a similar thing, and it's just
<v Speaker 1>you know, it goes back to Trespasser, right. Trespasser is
<v Speaker 1>a game that I came out of Flight Club with
<v Speaker 1>a lot of appreciation for because it does show that,
<v Speaker 1>like even sampling a physical concept poorly, like you know,
<v Speaker 1>having an arm and using tools or whatever, that there's
<v Speaker 1>something to like be said about exploring that and feeling
<v Speaker 1>that and getting an idea of like like what do
<v Speaker 1>we want here? From controlling our characters and in general,
<v Speaker 1>we do want something that just works. What if we
<v Speaker 1>went the exact opposite direction to an extreme degree and
<v Speaker 1>then and there's some poets there's something poetic in the
<v Speaker 1>misery of moving these characters around.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think there. I could easily see I think
<v Speaker 2>piece being written about the beauty and the tragedy of
<v Speaker 2>Bennett Foddy games, and tragedy mostly being just like the
<v Speaker 2>poor reflection of our human experience of going up and walking.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, like you said, Greb, that is something
<v Speaker 2>that is only attainable through the medium of video games.
<v Speaker 2>So I will support anything Bennett Foddy does.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, last thing on a bit of Faddy who were
<v Speaker 1>glazing up but rightfully st rightly rightfully. So he definitely
<v Speaker 1>has created that space for all those games you were
<v Speaker 1>talking about, the streamer slop ones where he's sort of
<v Speaker 1>proven that they can be artistic and thoughtful and you know,
<v Speaker 1>you can reuse assets from a store and build a
<v Speaker 1>game that says something still that was getting over it
<v Speaker 1>for sure, and I talked to him about that. I
<v Speaker 1>remember I interviewed him when I was a game speed
<v Speaker 1>asking him like, hey, like, how do you feel about
<v Speaker 1>games that just reuse assets. And he's saying, I think
<v Speaker 1>this is something we should be protecting. We should be
<v Speaker 1>creating a literal safe space for these neophyte developers to
<v Speaker 1>come in here and and look around and be like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't really know.
<v Speaker 3>What I'm doing.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna I don't have any money to hire
<v Speaker 1>an artist, but I have an idea for a game.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna throw some some shit together and I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to steal stuff and maybe I'll have a kernel of
<v Speaker 1>a new idea. And he says, it's worth all all
<v Speaker 1>of the other you know, the problems of asset flip
<v Speaker 1>games and filling up the Steam store or filling any
<v Speaker 1>store with a bunch of junk, is worth it for
<v Speaker 1>protecting that kernel of a good idea in a random
<v Speaker 1>game from a random new developer. And I just I
<v Speaker 1>thought that was beautiful. So yeah, let's go. I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>play some baby Steps this week.
<v Speaker 2>You know, Greg, we're currently going through Nintendo really slamming
<v Speaker 2>the hammer down on any type of game that is similar,
<v Speaker 2>not just because of Power World, but you know, other
<v Speaker 2>similar Pokemon or monster summoning games, mister Coni, And yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and that's incredibly, so so small minded in the world
<v Speaker 2>of video games. But to see a small relatively small
<v Speaker 2>creator like Bennett Foddi not really harping on any of
<v Speaker 2>these other games like Only Up or the Chain Together
<v Speaker 2>game we played for a bit and really supporting that
<v Speaker 2>is amazing to see from like a developer.
<v Speaker 3>Yep agreed.
<v Speaker 1>The other reviews out today for Final Fantasy Tactics The
<v Speaker 1>Evilise Chronicles excuse me as an eighty eight on Open Critic,
<v Speaker 1>a nine out of ten from Steve Watts at Game Spot,
<v Speaker 1>who says The Evilise Chronicles provides the best way to
<v Speaker 1>play in all time classic even if it lacks some
<v Speaker 1>of the archival glow up it deserves a ten out
<v Speaker 1>of ten from CG Magazine's CHRISTE. Hogue, who says Final
<v Speaker 1>Fantasy Tactics The Evilies Chronicles is a deathly rebuilt iteration
<v Speaker 1>of a foundational title, making a title making a must
<v Speaker 1>play RPG easier than ever to enjoy, and then a
<v Speaker 1>seven point five out of ten from Nathan Hennessy at
<v Speaker 1>Well Played, who says a toughest nails tactical RPG that
<v Speaker 1>will have you emotionally invested Like few others in the genre,
<v Speaker 1>this well voiced and sharpened remaster puts Final Fantasy's grandest
<v Speaker 1>medieval political tale in its deserved spotlight. The titles, they're tiling,
<v Speaker 1>they're doing it, They're making it happen.
<v Speaker 3>Jan how you feeling.
<v Speaker 2>I've been playing this game, grub surprise, surprise to no one.
<v Speaker 2>If I reviewed games on this website, I think I
<v Speaker 2>would easily give it an or well out of our scale,
<v Speaker 2>a four or a five out of five.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 2>It it this the story, particularly with Final Fantasy Tactics
<v Speaker 2>Evilise Chronicles. It's funny that it reflects a lot of
<v Speaker 2>what we are currently going through and living through, with
<v Speaker 2>a lot of political turmoil and like an authoritarian.
<v Speaker 1>I've always heard that I've never played this one. I
<v Speaker 1>always played Advance, So yeah, I need to go play
<v Speaker 1>this one.
<v Speaker 2>So my history with the Tactics series, I started with
<v Speaker 2>Advance as well, and then I eventually circled back to
<v Speaker 2>check out War of the Lines and realized both are maybe. Hey,
<v Speaker 2>I think both Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and then this
<v Speaker 2>are maybe top five Final Fantasy games. And I'll proudly
<v Speaker 2>say that with my whole chest.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I told give some people on your team there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but gre like this. The thing that has stuck
<v Speaker 2>out to me with the Tactics game specifically is the
<v Speaker 2>story and for the pacing to kind of be tightened
<v Speaker 2>up just ever so slightly to make it more palatable,
<v Speaker 2>as well as the voice acting. I think friend of this,
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure friend of the site, Ben Star is
<v Speaker 2>in it. I'm pretty sure I've heard Ben Star in it,
<v Speaker 2>but that could just be me hearing Ben's starr in everything.
<v Speaker 3>Sure.
<v Speaker 2>On top of that, the gameplay is exactly what you
<v Speaker 2>have played in the past, but that as well has
<v Speaker 2>been tightened up. There are a couple of things I
<v Speaker 2>agree with Steve Watts here that I'm surprised there is
<v Speaker 2>not as much glow up or polish on specific things,
<v Speaker 2>and that's mostly coming for me from a where you
<v Speaker 2>see something like Octopath Traveler too just having a lot
<v Speaker 2>of amazing particle effects and everything. But at the same time,
<v Speaker 2>I kind of don't want all of that in Final
<v Speaker 2>Fantasy Tactics, and they just nail absolute everything. If you
<v Speaker 2>are a fan of the original games, or if you've
<v Speaker 2>ever been curious to check out the Tactics games, this
<v Speaker 2>is the one to check out. I've been playing it
<v Speaker 2>on the PS five and I've put an obscene amount
<v Speaker 2>of hours into it, and I think I'm probably gonna
<v Speaker 2>buy it again for the switch too fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do we do we know anyone playing it out
<v Speaker 1>switch to or did they have?
<v Speaker 3>They not sent out codes for that yet at.
<v Speaker 2>The time when we were getting code, I don't believe
<v Speaker 2>they were sending out switch to code just yet.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so we might still be.
<v Speaker 1>I bet it runs just fine on there, but you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'm always like, I want to be like double checking
<v Speaker 1>still at this point. Okay, Yeah, eighty eight on Open Critic.
<v Speaker 1>Gotta say, jam feel pretty good about that. I picked
<v Speaker 1>up this game for four Fantasy Critic and now I.
<v Speaker 3>Am projected number one for the year.
<v Speaker 1>Think that everybody, we'll see how along that last though,
<v Speaker 1>I got Ghost of Yota coming. I have like one
<v Speaker 1>other big game still, Metroy Prime four have that as well,
<v Speaker 1>So it's like those two hit I'm feeling pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>And then if if Sony today at the State of
<v Speaker 1>Play says that that God of War game is real,
<v Speaker 1>the two point five D Metri Venue one, but it's
<v Speaker 1>coming out next year. I'll be able to drop it
<v Speaker 1>and maybe the people over at at open or the
<v Speaker 1>Fantasy Critic. Well, start believing me when I say it's
<v Speaker 1>coming out next year.
<v Speaker 2>We'll see, but also grub like, please this if you
<v Speaker 2>are not necessarily into tactics games, or maybe you go
<v Speaker 2>to JRPG's specifically, specifically for the story, this is one
<v Speaker 2>of the ones to check out.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but it still has like just top tier tactics game.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, you will spend time in menus for sure,
<v Speaker 2>and for me that is incredibly entertaining and enticing. For
<v Speaker 2>other people, I understand that the tactics genre in terms
<v Speaker 2>of tiles has shifted away to something more speedy, like
<v Speaker 2>Tactical Breach, Wizards into the Breach, even Deskaya, and this
<v Speaker 2>is a little bit more of that old flavor of
<v Speaker 2>like moving dudes and choosing where they face afterwards.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, all right, I yeah, man, too many games, but
<v Speaker 1>this is when I'm gonna get on switch to and
<v Speaker 1>all always give it a shot and take it from there.
<v Speaker 3>It's out.
<v Speaker 1>That's out September thirtieth, everybody, So yeah, early reviews.
<v Speaker 3>You'll be able to get it next week.
<v Speaker 2>We'll put out a quick look guys.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, looking forward to it. Days before release.
<v Speaker 1>Borderlands four is indefinitely delayed on switch to, So some
<v Speaker 1>games getting reviews are the games getting delayed.
<v Speaker 3>This is from Andy Robinson at VGC.
<v Speaker 1>Gearbox has indefinitely delayed the release of Borderlands four on
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo switch to, just one week ahead of its planned
<v Speaker 1>October third release date. Announcing the news on social media,
<v Speaker 1>the developer said it had decided the switch to version
<v Speaker 1>needs additional development time and that it does not take
<v Speaker 1>the decision lightly. It did not provide an explanation for
<v Speaker 1>why the decision has been made so close to the
<v Speaker 1>switch to versions planned release, but it does say all
<v Speaker 1>digital pre orders will now be canceled in accordance with
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo E Shop policy. And then they basically there's a
<v Speaker 1>quote here that just says we need to delay it.
<v Speaker 1>And again they didn't say why. I bet it's the performance, Jim.
<v Speaker 1>This thing runs poorly everywhere in one way or another.
<v Speaker 1>I guess again, you know, to be fair, I haven't
<v Speaker 1>heard anything bad about the Xbox version, but who knows.
<v Speaker 1>It probably also has issues and we just haven't heard
<v Speaker 1>about it, and maybe no one's playing that version. The
<v Speaker 1>PC version is dog do dooo. The PS five version
<v Speaker 1>had a bad memory leak, and they probably need to
<v Speaker 1>focus on that PC version and get that one tightened
<v Speaker 1>up before they can put a lot of resources into
<v Speaker 1>getting the switch To one up and running in a
<v Speaker 1>decent way. Because based on previews of people who have
<v Speaker 1>tried this at like certain shows, I think maybe there
<v Speaker 1>was a packs where the people were playing it on
<v Speaker 1>switch To it was real bad. Now we've seen that,
<v Speaker 1>we've seen that not be a problem before. That happened
<v Speaker 1>with Outlaws right out Star Wars. Outlaws was running really
<v Speaker 1>bad at a show I think games Come, and then
<v Speaker 1>like a week later it was out and everyone was
<v Speaker 1>playing it and it was the best port the switch
<v Speaker 1>To has really seen of that type so far.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think Borderlands four was on that track though.
<v Speaker 2>No, I mean grub if like like you would alluded to.
<v Speaker 2>If the game is running poorly on virtually everything else,
<v Speaker 2>I can't imagine that the switch to out of all
<v Speaker 2>the ports would be smooth. Right.
<v Speaker 1>While this is a Borderlands four problem, a gearbox problem,
<v Speaker 1>the switch To being a portable handheld system is not.
<v Speaker 3>That's not going to.
<v Speaker 1>Help the situation. It's only going to make it worse.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna exacerbate it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, we saw the hit Man ports having
<v Speaker 2>a lot of trouble there, but you see something like
<v Speaker 2>Star Wars Outlaws and the Cyberpunk port and those are
<v Speaker 2>very positively received ports of those games, and those are
<v Speaker 2>big games too, Grub. It's uh, I don't know. I
<v Speaker 2>kind of want to see what Randy would say.
<v Speaker 3>He's said anything about this.
<v Speaker 1>I kind of if it had come out, I wonder
<v Speaker 1>what he would have said to people who started complaining
<v Speaker 1>about it, get a premium handheld or something, as if
<v Speaker 1>there's another option.
<v Speaker 2>For I don't know for Randy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so Borderlands for new release date for the Switch
<v Speaker 1>Too three isn't one. It's indefinitely delayed. Well, we'll see
<v Speaker 1>what happens here. You know, Mike asked me this. I
<v Speaker 1>so I'll ask you when we were when I was
<v Speaker 1>talking to him about it. Do you think this is
<v Speaker 1>a sign for like a negative or pause well negative
<v Speaker 1>for Switch to Do you think this is an indication
<v Speaker 1>of what other developers are going to encounter or do
<v Speaker 1>you think it's more of a Borderlands for I think it's.
<v Speaker 2>More of a Borderlands problem Grub And Uh, correct me
<v Speaker 2>if I'm wrong. But I believe a lot of developers
<v Speaker 2>didn't get as much time with switch to dev kits
<v Speaker 2>as they would have liked to, and the lead up
<v Speaker 2>process it's.
<v Speaker 3>A crap shoot. Like some did many did not, though.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so I can't imagine that. I don't think this
<v Speaker 2>is an indicator that the switch to is going to
<v Speaker 2>be dog doo dooo. But you see success stories like
<v Speaker 2>Star Wars Outlaws, and I think the longer that the
<v Speaker 2>switch tow is out, the better the ports will be
<v Speaker 2>in the future. Something I I'm interested in seeing how
<v Speaker 2>it performs further down the line, or the final Fantasy
<v Speaker 2>seven remakes. That second one is a big beefy game
<v Speaker 2>since it is more open world than the first one,
<v Speaker 2>so I'm very curious scrub as to what that will
<v Speaker 2>look like and perform.
<v Speaker 1>All right, well we're going to actually let's do this
<v Speaker 1>next story and then we'll take a break. Super Giant
<v Speaker 1>confirmed Switch a physical addition.
<v Speaker 3>This is kind of a quick update.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, a physical edition of eighty two is coming on
<v Speaker 1>November twentieth. This is from the Super Giant Games account
<v Speaker 1>on Twitter. It will include both the Nintendo Switch to
<v Speaker 1>and switch versions of the game on a standard game card.
<v Speaker 3>It will all be on the card.
<v Speaker 1>It also includes a full color character compendium, booklet, soundtrack,
<v Speaker 1>download code.
<v Speaker 3>And reversible cover.
<v Speaker 1>It is going to be I believe, fifty dollars, so
<v Speaker 1>it's a little bit. It is more expensive than what
<v Speaker 1>the game should be once it goes into one point zero,
<v Speaker 1>which I think is when it jumps from.
<v Speaker 3>Thirty to forty dollars.
<v Speaker 1>I want to say, but yeah, they are are promising
<v Speaker 1>quite a bit of extra stuff in here and giving
<v Speaker 1>you the whole game on the card. So the premium
<v Speaker 1>price to put to use one of those sixty four
<v Speaker 1>gigabyte cards. I do think most people who are interested
<v Speaker 1>in buying physical games on Switch, who have said negative
<v Speaker 1>things about the game key cards, have mostly accepted the
<v Speaker 1>idea of paying a little bit extra to get the
<v Speaker 1>game on the card. It stinks that that's the way
<v Speaker 1>it works, But this, I think this is people. What
<v Speaker 1>is giving people what they want, and I do think
<v Speaker 1>Hades two will be rewarded for doing so, especially on
<v Speaker 1>the Switch.
<v Speaker 2>What do you think, greb This Haites two, I feel
<v Speaker 2>like is going to be positively received across audiences, no
<v Speaker 2>matter what hurdles folks have to jump through. It's great
<v Speaker 2>to see super giant I know that Super Giant has
<v Speaker 2>been a team that has been around for quite a
<v Speaker 2>while now, which it feels weird to say, but love
<v Speaker 2>seeing support for physical releases with Haites two. That being said,
<v Speaker 2>Oh god, grab, I think the Haites two review embargo
<v Speaker 2>us dropped as well as I saw folks saying that
<v Speaker 2>it's at like ninety something on Open Critic.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, wait, wait, Haities two, the reviews are out?
<v Speaker 2>Is that what you said?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I was trying to check the price of the game.
<v Speaker 1>Double check that. Let's take a look. You know, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's been an early access on Steam where it's been
<v Speaker 1>overwhelmingly positive for a long time.
<v Speaker 2>Let's take a look here, google ninety three on Open.
<v Speaker 1>Critic, Haightes two Open Critic. All right, let's take a
<v Speaker 1>look Haities two reviews. How many have we gotten so far?
<v Speaker 2>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, the thirty five? All right, it's got a ninety two.
<v Speaker 3>Oh boy, geezy crazy? All right, So let's hit this
<v Speaker 3>real quick.
<v Speaker 1>It is ranked in the one hundred one hundred percent
<v Speaker 1>tile of games scored on Open Critic with a ninety two.
<v Speaker 1>Zick Lou at RPG Fan gave it a ninety says
<v Speaker 1>if Hades is action. Haities two is Precision Are to
<v Speaker 1>Dawn gave it a ten at game grants at. Haites
<v Speaker 1>two builds on everything that the original had and manages
<v Speaker 1>to double the content while still keeping it super giant
<v Speaker 1>or super giant games feel it has unrivaled roguelight elements
<v Speaker 1>that prioritize this players scale over randomization, and content of
<v Speaker 1>plenty that you won't be left one team for more.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, Jane, I've been playing this game.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, beat, I well, I've been been playing this case.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, you know I was. I checked my timer. I
<v Speaker 1>had about three hours in the early access version. Always
<v Speaker 1>wanted to spend more time. You did spend quite a
<v Speaker 1>bit more time. So you've been tracking this game and
<v Speaker 1>now we are playing the final build.
<v Speaker 3>How are you feeling about it?
<v Speaker 2>I think I put about sixty hours in and that
<v Speaker 2>was before like the most recent substantial update I had. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>stopped playing the game maybe around like November of last year,
<v Speaker 2>I want to say, But the changes from that point
<v Speaker 2>when I was in early access to now, wow, they
<v Speaker 2>polished that thing right up. Grub. It is definitely going
<v Speaker 2>to be an adjustment, initial adjustment for people's muscle memory
<v Speaker 2>from eighties one the two.
<v Speaker 1>Got a different it's got a different heartbeat, it's got
<v Speaker 1>a different rhythm, a different sort of beats per minute.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but the character, the relationship between characters is all
<v Speaker 2>still there. The different worlds and everything. The boons are
<v Speaker 2>are going to be different because Milinae is a completely
<v Speaker 2>different character from Zagrias. Uh. But the twists and turns
<v Speaker 2>through the story grub are so fucking baller. And I
<v Speaker 2>think I've been saying this, but for anyone that may
<v Speaker 2>have bounced off of Silk Song because of the difficulty
<v Speaker 2>and maybe that just wasn't for them, this is going
<v Speaker 2>to be for you.
<v Speaker 1>And I think, hey, what did no one in fantasy
<v Speaker 1>critics take Hades two?
<v Speaker 2>I think, no, that can't be right. Did I take it?
<v Speaker 3>I'm a search here eighties two as a score?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it wasn't eligible, the commissioners saying it was eligible.
<v Speaker 3>Oh it wasn't.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, interesting, right, because the early access reviews probably would
<v Speaker 1>have already floors got it right, right, right, right? Okay, Well,
<v Speaker 1>it's it's doing very well. It sounds like it's gonna
<v Speaker 1>do even better because the apparently GameSpot i Gan's reviews
<v Speaker 1>went from nine to tens for one point zero and
<v Speaker 1>that hasn't been updated on an open critic yet.
<v Speaker 2>So hey, for anyone asking if this game is any
<v Speaker 2>more or less hornier than the original, you can go
<v Speaker 2>into a hot tub with people in this one, so
<v Speaker 2>leave it at that.
<v Speaker 1>The hot tub in the hot tubs in indie games
<v Speaker 1>is a fun thing. The hot tub in Silk Song
<v Speaker 1>is one of the funnier moments in that game.
<v Speaker 2>That is a oh this might be okay game of
<v Speaker 2>the year category. Put it. Write it down now, folks,
<v Speaker 2>best hot tub slash hot Spring.
<v Speaker 1>There's at least three. Yeah, there's at least three. There's
<v Speaker 1>and Silksong has both. I bet Had says both. I
<v Speaker 1>think Haites says both as well. Yeah, Haites is just
<v Speaker 1>a it's something special. They I think what they did
<v Speaker 1>is they're so smart over at super Giant for the
<v Speaker 1>first game, They're like, Okay, we have rogue light elements.
<v Speaker 1>We want to make a rogue light. How do we
<v Speaker 1>encourage people who are skeptical of rogue lights to try this?
<v Speaker 1>We say, oh, there is a continuous story. It is
<v Speaker 1>a linear story. So if you get hooked by that stuff,
<v Speaker 1>maybe you'll maybe the pain that you feel when you
<v Speaker 1>play a rogue light will be lessened. This one is
<v Speaker 1>like everything we do outside of the rogue light, outside
<v Speaker 1>of the like starting a run over again, is going
<v Speaker 1>to be the friendliest, most kind, most generous not never
<v Speaker 1>waste your time mechanic you've ever seen in a video game.
<v Speaker 1>To make a point here that we look, we respect
<v Speaker 1>you as the player, Isn't it clear? So if you
<v Speaker 1>are still skeptical of the rogue light side of things,
<v Speaker 1>can't you just trust us that, look at what we
<v Speaker 1>do for you in every other aspect of this game,
<v Speaker 1>trust us that the rogue light side of it, of
<v Speaker 1>doing a run is also worth your time. We believe
<v Speaker 1>that we're the designers. We do all this other stuff
<v Speaker 1>to prove that. Trust us on this, and it's the
<v Speaker 1>one of the friendliest games I've ever played. It is
<v Speaker 1>insane how encouraging it is to like just keep you
<v Speaker 1>in the loop. I'm blown away. It's really well done.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there there is something to do in progress to
<v Speaker 2>meet to be made in virtually every single run. No
<v Speaker 2>matter how far you get grub like, you're always going
<v Speaker 2>to get a new kernel of information of story or
<v Speaker 2>of like progress leveling of something, resource gathering, growing, plants there.
<v Speaker 2>I can see some people having some initial frustration with
<v Speaker 2>the ramp up to.
<v Speaker 1>It maybe, but there's also a chance, like in the
<v Speaker 1>first five runs, you'll get an insanely strong build.
<v Speaker 3>That's what happened to Sean.
<v Speaker 1>You got the chronos like right away, which is not
<v Speaker 1>even close to being the end of the game.
<v Speaker 3>He and it is.
<v Speaker 1>And he's someone who didn't like Katie's won all that
<v Speaker 1>much and hates too. He played like you say, you
<v Speaker 1>play like eleven hours on a first day of playing it.
<v Speaker 3>He couldn't stop beautiful things. This thing's gonna pop off.
<v Speaker 2>Also also gang go up?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I it's like that is that a spoiler?
<v Speaker 1>No, they just have a door there that says go up,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, okay, hell yeah, let's go all right,
<v Speaker 1>let's take that break.
<v Speaker 3>I got this hey Dude's shirt. Jan Yeah. It's an
<v Speaker 3>old Nickelodeon show.
<v Speaker 1>And I realizing like I was a little bit more
<v Speaker 1>of a Nickelodeon kid than I was ever like a
<v Speaker 1>Disney person in my life, and I want to like
<v Speaker 1>own that.
<v Speaker 3>I want to show the kids. Are you afraid of
<v Speaker 3>the dark? Have you ever watched that? Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Oh yeah, I think I watched it at like
<v Speaker 2>five six, so like in between the gas age.
<v Speaker 1>Right, there's six and eight now steps out of town
<v Speaker 1>tonight and tomorrow. It's probably a bad idea to show
<v Speaker 1>it to him tonight, right, I might do it anyhow.
<v Speaker 2>I was gonna say, maybe both parents should be around
<v Speaker 2>the one.
<v Speaker 1>The six year old's pretty easily frightened, so maybe I'll wait.
<v Speaker 2>But that being said, I watched them by myself growing
<v Speaker 2>up because I was an old So I'm mostly fine now.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna we'll see. I'll report back everybody, all right.
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<v Speaker 2>All right, we are back.
<v Speaker 3>It's Game Best Mornings. Jeff Grubb, Jiannachoa.
<v Speaker 1>We're getting right back into the headlines here with Yakuza News.
<v Speaker 3>This is a Tokyo game show news. There is a
<v Speaker 3>bunch of.
<v Speaker 1>You know, showcases and developers, you know, hockeying their wares
<v Speaker 1>in various video formats. The team Rio Ga Gotoku had
<v Speaker 1>theirs and they had a lot to say, including Yakuza
<v Speaker 1>Kwami three, a remake of Yakuza three.
<v Speaker 3>Being officially announced.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Chris going at VGC and shouts out
<v Speaker 1>to VGC who we got a lot of our stories
<v Speaker 1>from today. They have a Patreon. Everyone should go support that.
<v Speaker 1>It is uh they and they actually start here with
<v Speaker 1>an update where they say it. It's now been confirmed
<v Speaker 1>that the game will release on February twelfth, twenty twenty
<v Speaker 1>six on PS five, Xbox Series X and S switch
<v Speaker 1>to PS four and PC.
<v Speaker 3>The esteem announced.
<v Speaker 1>During the developer's latest RGG Summit presentation. Yakuza Kawami three
<v Speaker 1>will remake the two thousand and nine action adventure game
<v Speaker 1>originally released on PlayStation three. Much like the previous remakes
<v Speaker 1>Yakuza Kawami and Kwami two, which we're released in twenty
<v Speaker 1>sixteen to twenty seventeen, respectively, Kawami three will feature greatly
<v Speaker 1>improved visuals and new gameplay features. This will include added
<v Speaker 1>story scenes, as well as a brand new spinoff adventure
<v Speaker 1>called Yakuza three Guide in Dark Ties. We'll talk about
<v Speaker 1>that more here in a second. Yes, and it's the
<v Speaker 1>here we have switch to PS four PC as well
<v Speaker 1>as the current gen consoles on February twelve. You know,
<v Speaker 1>it took him a while to get back to kawam
<v Speaker 1>after doing one and two, but I think the fans
<v Speaker 1>were always like, yeah, we get it. The first of
<v Speaker 1>all three, I think is a little bit less revered
<v Speaker 1>than the rest.
<v Speaker 3>I could be wrong on that.
<v Speaker 1>I like mix up these franchises in my head, like
<v Speaker 1>which ones people like and don't like. But also they
<v Speaker 1>were I think they were going up from in quality
<v Speaker 1>back then in terms of or like graphical fidelity. I
<v Speaker 1>think they put a little bit more work into the
<v Speaker 1>third one, and so like, yeah, focus on one and
<v Speaker 1>two and in a few years reload and come back
<v Speaker 1>with Kwami three. Maybe it took a little bit longer
<v Speaker 1>than they were expecting, almost a whole decade, But at
<v Speaker 1>this point it makes more sense than ever because Yakaza
<v Speaker 1>and Like a Dragon are after the peak of their power,
<v Speaker 1>and I think there is every reason to think anytime
<v Speaker 1>one of these comes out at this point, and with
<v Speaker 1>Yakuza zero being right there and we'll talk about there
<v Speaker 1>a little bit news with that as well, that it
<v Speaker 1>creates a new opportunity for people to say it is
<v Speaker 1>time for me to get into this franchise and it
<v Speaker 1>just keeps growing. It gets bigger every single time. It's
<v Speaker 1>not like people drop out of it. Once you become
<v Speaker 1>a like a Dragon fan, it seems like you are
<v Speaker 1>one for life.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, one hundred percent, Greb. There are so many different
<v Speaker 2>entry points that I can understand folks being intimidated to,
<v Speaker 2>and the like Dragon series were perfect entry points to
<v Speaker 2>get into the whole franchise. But the Kawami games specifically
<v Speaker 2>are great, great on ramps into it. I never played three,
<v Speaker 2>but I'm excited to check it out. Also, RGG will
<v Speaker 2>not let cure you rest. Let this man walk right
<v Speaker 2>off into the distance.
<v Speaker 1>It's you know, it's intimidating that have so many games
<v Speaker 1>in a series, especially one that I you know, I've
<v Speaker 1>played a few now, but I've not played a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the older ones, and I've tried Zero a couple
<v Speaker 1>of times. And yet despite it being intimidated because there's
<v Speaker 1>so many entries and so many newer entries and they
<v Speaker 1>keep adding spinoffs, something about the way that they curate
<v Speaker 1>and cure and care for and sort of tend to
<v Speaker 1>this franchise makes it feel more welcoming of like, if
<v Speaker 1>I get on board, I know I'm not gonna be
<v Speaker 1>wasting my time. I know Sega is going to follow
<v Speaker 1>this up and my fandom will be rewarded. And that's
<v Speaker 1>there's something to be said for them sort of figuring
<v Speaker 1>that out and unlocking it in a inefficient and affordable way.
<v Speaker 1>The franchise where they just are very smart about how
<v Speaker 1>they use the resources and reuse resources and assets, and
<v Speaker 1>I just I continue to love to see it.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's a franchise that deserves to be praised.
<v Speaker 2>GG they seem like very smart and efficient developers grub
<v Speaker 2>and exactly. It doesn't even feel like reusing assets. It's
<v Speaker 2>just like, oh, well you have this tool set, just
<v Speaker 2>tell another story in this. If anything, I'd be curious
<v Speaker 2>if they ever want to give the Kawamie treatment to
<v Speaker 2>the Judgment games, because I've always been curious about those
<v Speaker 2>games specifically.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, it's like that first Judgment is maybe
<v Speaker 1>getting a touch older now. It's not like Kwami three
<v Speaker 1>here where they people in chatter now help them clarify
<v Speaker 1>and illustrating exactly the issue.
<v Speaker 3>It just feels old is what a lot of people
<v Speaker 3>are saying.
<v Speaker 1>It's got a great setting, great characters, but it feels older.
<v Speaker 1>So it was, it's difficult to go back to Kawami
<v Speaker 1>should just directly address those issues. I bad Judgment would
<v Speaker 1>be a game that they wouldn't have to do much
<v Speaker 1>to to make it feel modern in a lot of ways.
<v Speaker 1>But you're right, like anytime that they could spruce those up,
<v Speaker 1>maybe do a Judgment double pack or something like that,
<v Speaker 1>where with some updates, I would use that as an
<v Speaker 1>excuse to reconsider playing those games, which I have never
<v Speaker 1>touched before. And I've always been curious the idea of
<v Speaker 1>being a lawyer and all that stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Our friends at hard drive dot net just or posted
<v Speaker 2>a while ago that every game needs a hangman Adam Paige,
<v Speaker 2>and hangman Adam Page is an aw wrestler, but he's
<v Speaker 2>the sad millennial cowboy we all aspire to be. I
<v Speaker 2>think Kirau is in that socialist budy. Oh fuck yah
<v Speaker 2>also a former teacher pay teacher's more. Hangman Adam Page
<v Speaker 2>and Kiriu would one hundred percent grab a drink together.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, okay, yes, and they should do that eventually
<v Speaker 1>because there's been a lot of wrestlers in those games.
<v Speaker 3>They should make that happen.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, Like we said, yeah, because three Guide It Dark
<v Speaker 1>Ties is a brand new spinoff starring antagonist of mine
<v Speaker 1>or probably mine, that will be included in Kawami three.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Chris Sculling of VGC as well. Rio
<v Speaker 1>got Gotoku Studio has confirmed a separate Yakuza three spinoff
<v Speaker 1>games starring antagonist Yoshi Taka Mayne. Yakuza three Guide In
<v Speaker 1>Dark Ties will be included with the upcoming Yakuza Kawami three,
<v Speaker 1>and players will be able to choose between both games
<v Speaker 1>upon booting the software, so you'll be able to do
<v Speaker 1>you don't have to like do anything in the game.
<v Speaker 1>It's just gonna be there. It's a whole separate game. This,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, this is an example of it. Like this
<v Speaker 1>is really wild stuff. Like they are doing a new
<v Speaker 1>spinoff like that, Like they just did one earlier this year,
<v Speaker 1>Private Yakiza in Hawaii was this year, right, and so
<v Speaker 1>they just announced the new one that's coming out early
<v Speaker 1>next year. They are hitting a game per year, cadence,
<v Speaker 1>and I you know, you could say this is a
<v Speaker 1>side game, a guide in a side story, something smaller.
<v Speaker 3>But we'll see.
<v Speaker 1>I bet it's going to be at least ten hours,
<v Speaker 1>which is you know about the length some of these games,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I find this to be incredible that
<v Speaker 1>even here where it's like they could have just done
<v Speaker 1>Kawami three on its own, they are still using that
<v Speaker 1>as a reason to do even more, to create more
<v Speaker 1>value for people who want to buy this, but also
<v Speaker 1>probably to set up some future interaction with this character
<v Speaker 1>or something else. And yeah, I think again that just
<v Speaker 1>shows how smart they.
<v Speaker 2>Are one hundred percent grub. I may not have the
<v Speaker 2>time to check out every single release that they put out,
<v Speaker 2>but if they decide to make a couple more bite
<v Speaker 2>sized adventures like Pirate Yakuza, I don't know, throw throw
<v Speaker 2>Monjum into space, let's just do that. I would play
<v Speaker 2>if they wanted to. And I guess for folks that
<v Speaker 2>haven't checked it out, Promise Mascot Agency is basically all
<v Speaker 2>of the Yakuza mini games.
<v Speaker 3>People said I have to try that. They said, I
<v Speaker 3>would really like that, and that sounds awesome.
<v Speaker 2>It is kind of that sim ish stuff that you
<v Speaker 2>jive well with Grub. But if the RGG just wanted
<v Speaker 2>to make like Yo hook me up with a multiplayer
<v Speaker 2>majong game, your boy would be their day one God that.
<v Speaker 1>Could be their their card game, the way like Witcher
<v Speaker 1>three got its card game or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Just Majong. That would be fun.
<v Speaker 2>The kids demand Majong.
<v Speaker 1>They're out there in the streets just constantly yelling about it. It's
<v Speaker 1>they go six, seven and then Majong.
<v Speaker 3>It's crazy. Yaka Is zero Director's Cut.
<v Speaker 1>Yakuza Kawami and Yakuza Kawami two are coming to PS
<v Speaker 1>five and Xbox Series X and S.
<v Speaker 3>This is when Chris calling at VGC. You know. The
<v Speaker 3>story is they're getting native versions.
<v Speaker 1>These games are already playable in these devices through backward compatibility,
<v Speaker 1>probably in a really strong state.
<v Speaker 3>But you know, a native version can't hurt.
<v Speaker 1>You'll probably get even more benefits to the visuals, an
<v Speaker 1>even higher frame rate and all that stuff. And really
<v Speaker 1>it's just about a person saying that, hey, now I
<v Speaker 1>can get all of these games on on one device.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I could get the PS five box or whatever
<v Speaker 1>for Yakuza zero and again start this franchise fresh, either
<v Speaker 1>from the beginning or with the latest release jan That
<v Speaker 1>is gonna be the poll question today.
<v Speaker 3>We'll do a little tease right now.
<v Speaker 1>I want to just ask you, now, when you look
<v Speaker 1>at a franchise that's been long running like this. Are
<v Speaker 1>you more likely to say, Okay, I'm gonna go back
<v Speaker 1>to the first one or the stated entry point like
<v Speaker 1>Yakuza zero, or are you more likely to just to
<v Speaker 1>jump on the latest sequel and then maybe go back
<v Speaker 1>if you're really one over?
<v Speaker 2>Oh well it's in. It's interesting with Yakuza because I
<v Speaker 2>feel like RGG has craftily developed a lot of different
<v Speaker 2>entry points into the franchise. But then you look at
<v Speaker 2>something like Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy, and that it
<v Speaker 2>becomes a harder ask because at some point the games
<v Speaker 2>just are completely different. Well they are all completely different
<v Speaker 2>from each other, so it's and there is no through
<v Speaker 2>line with the story from game to game for the
<v Speaker 2>most part. With if we're only looking at the Yakuza series,
<v Speaker 2>I would probably go with zero or with the completely new,
<v Speaker 2>different style of game, like like a Dragon, right.
<v Speaker 3>Right, a new obvious entry point. Good point.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Yeah, I was happy to I did play a
<v Speaker 1>lot of Yakuza seven like a Dragon, but it really
<v Speaker 1>was like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. It was really my
<v Speaker 1>first one that I super got into and finished it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and now I'm.
<v Speaker 1>Like, okay, I will at some point go play Yakaza Zero.
<v Speaker 1>Mike keeps talking about after it gets done with this
<v Speaker 1>from soft catchup and stuff like that, streaming the Yakuza
<v Speaker 1>games from the beginning, and I think that would just be.
<v Speaker 3>Such a good time, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Pregmata gets a new gameplay trailer, but still no release
<v Speaker 1>date from Chris Goaling at VGC.
<v Speaker 3>Really, as far as we're going here.
<v Speaker 1>With an audio podcast, we won't talk too much about
<v Speaker 1>the trailer, although continues to look really good, but they
<v Speaker 1>are giving the vague twenty twenty six release window, and
<v Speaker 1>that's it. Does this feel like a first half of
<v Speaker 1>next year game to you? Because it was feeling that
<v Speaker 1>way to me and now I'm not so sure.
<v Speaker 2>Ah, I don't know. Grub twenty twenty six feels so
<v Speaker 2>far away, and in terms of trying to like though
<v Speaker 2>it's not, but in terms of trying to place on
<v Speaker 2>the calendar where things are supposed to be dropping around,
<v Speaker 2>just because we have a flood of games in this
<v Speaker 2>last half of twenty twenty five, I could see them
<v Speaker 2>pushing this off and kind of like skirting away from
<v Speaker 2>early twenty twenty six. But there is that other game
<v Speaker 2>that they've been working on as well. I forget the
<v Speaker 2>name of it. It's like nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties Japan.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, Project Century, like a Heaven, like a Virgin,
<v Speaker 1>something like that.
<v Speaker 2>Touched for the very first time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, touch for the very first time. As the subtitle, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>stranger than Stranger than Heaven. We're never gonna remember that.
<v Speaker 1>I'd refuse to actually commit it to memory.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that one. That one feels like a little bit
<v Speaker 3>further off.
<v Speaker 1>GTA six, I'm sure is still giving a lot of
<v Speaker 1>these companies of penn x.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I would guess.
<v Speaker 1>That pragmat does come out in the first half of
<v Speaker 1>next year to avoid that.
<v Speaker 2>I forget. When is GTA six supposed to come.
<v Speaker 1>Out May twenty six, twenty twenty six, Will Secott, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, yeah, you got some time still, although I
<v Speaker 1>bet I get it. I think it's going to get
<v Speaker 1>delayed to fall.
<v Speaker 2>We should just get really into, really get into and
<v Speaker 2>invest so much time and money into GTA online now.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's the move. Yeah, that'll pay dividends.
<v Speaker 1>That stuff's gonna be worth a lot more here in
<v Speaker 1>a few weeks, all right. The latest Mario Kart World
<v Speaker 1>update makes tracking its open World collectibles easier. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Jordan Midler at VGC. A new update for Mario
<v Speaker 1>Kart World has been released which adds a much requested
<v Speaker 1>feature to the game's open world exploration. According to the
<v Speaker 1>version one point three points zero patch notes, Mario Kart
<v Speaker 1>World's map will now show the locations of peace switches
<v Speaker 1>and peach medallions on the endgame map, but rather than
<v Speaker 1>showing them all however, it merely shows the ones players
<v Speaker 1>have already collected, meaning they'll still have to explore to
<v Speaker 1>find new ones. Hey, you know, I guess I get that.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, you know, you want to you can like
<v Speaker 1>avoid areas if you already found one there, and you're like,
<v Speaker 1>go look for the gaps in the map. I guess,
<v Speaker 1>and I do get the sense that this open world
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo viewed it in such a different way than I
<v Speaker 1>was viewing it. I'm like, I want to spend hours
<v Speaker 1>in that open world, you know, completing quests and doing
<v Speaker 1>burnout Paradise style like racing who can see who can
<v Speaker 1>go the fastest down this one road or whatever. It
<v Speaker 1>doesn't have any of that. This is about wasting time
<v Speaker 1>between online matches. This is about Hey, you join your
<v Speaker 1>friends and they just started a long race, and you
<v Speaker 1>have ten to fifteen minutes to burn, and we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>give you an open world where you can go do
<v Speaker 1>some fun stuff here or there a little bit. And
<v Speaker 1>I think they still want you to kind of treat
<v Speaker 1>it that way. I think they are wrong. I think
<v Speaker 1>that's one of the problems with the game is that
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo had a different idea of what most people wanted
<v Speaker 1>from this, and they have done it difficult, or they
<v Speaker 1>done a poor job of a kind of explaining their
<v Speaker 1>vision or making their vision more enticing than what people
<v Speaker 1>actually wanted. But this will help a little bit, although
<v Speaker 1>I don't think I have any urge to go and
<v Speaker 1>find the remaining peach medallions.
<v Speaker 3>Jan, how about you?
<v Speaker 2>No. When Dan and I went out to Nintendo to
<v Speaker 2>check out the switch To and Mario Kart World Tour,
<v Speaker 2>we were both initially very jazz and excited about the
<v Speaker 2>open world aspect of this game. Yeah, of course, and
<v Speaker 2>then the game came out and then we kind of
<v Speaker 2>all saw how barren it was. And I think this
<v Speaker 2>does speak to the dissonance that Nintendo has with what
<v Speaker 2>its audience wants. Sometimes maybe not even its audience, but
<v Speaker 2>the general gaming audience may want and we talked about
<v Speaker 2>it a lot yesterday on the BombCast, but Skate four
<v Speaker 2>or lower skate part of the appeal is just the
<v Speaker 2>goofy stuff that you can wind up getting into in
<v Speaker 2>the open world, and that has also become like a
<v Speaker 2>social hub for people as well. Of like you see
<v Speaker 2>a lot of players concentrated in an area, so you
<v Speaker 2>want to go check out what they're doing, and then
<v Speaker 2>you wind up spending a good like hour two hours
<v Speaker 2>trying to nail a trick or get into other shenanigans
<v Speaker 2>around there. And that's when Mario Kart World is missing,
<v Speaker 2>and I can't necessarily bring myself to go collect peach
<v Speaker 2>medallions or fine piece which is grub.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, I will do it in between matches
<v Speaker 1>if we were to play online for ten minutes, maybe,
<v Speaker 1>but it will not be. This is not gonna get
<v Speaker 1>me back in there to check it out. But still,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I do feel like they are slowly sort
<v Speaker 1>of responding to the criticisms, and I bet in a
<v Speaker 1>year or two, this thing's gonna get some sort of
<v Speaker 1>big dealc or update that has just grand pri mode
<v Speaker 1>as part of that and it'll feel like a very
<v Speaker 1>different game, and then eight years from now we'll probably
<v Speaker 1>still be playing it.
<v Speaker 3>Like, remember the way this game launched, Remember how different
<v Speaker 3>I was. I bet that is the arc that we're
<v Speaker 3>on here for this game.
<v Speaker 1>All right, last headline here, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Remember
<v Speaker 1>that game it's getting It's from the Ashes expansion coming
<v Speaker 1>on December nineteenth. Now that is a fortuitous date, Jan
<v Speaker 1>you know what happens on that day.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why. I was going to say world
<v Speaker 2>War two.
<v Speaker 3>World World War two HD. It's back and in four
<v Speaker 3>K this time.
<v Speaker 1>No, that's the day that Avatar the yeah, the Fire
<v Speaker 1>and Ashes. What's the new movie whatever? The third Avatar
<v Speaker 1>movie is coming out that day. So this is them
<v Speaker 1>being like, hey, let's put out new content. Tie it
<v Speaker 1>into that movie, you know, make sure that this is
<v Speaker 1>in a really good state and see if we can
<v Speaker 1>if we can't capitalize on the excitement for that movie.
<v Speaker 1>This was a fine game. It was I enjoyed what
<v Speaker 1>I played of it. It's it's an open world Avatar game.
<v Speaker 1>It's not perfect, but it's I don't know, I thought
<v Speaker 1>it was okay, and I'd be willing to see some
<v Speaker 1>new content, or to see the upt least the updated
<v Speaker 1>version and maybe actually go back and finish that campaign.
<v Speaker 1>They are adding new stuff as well. Third person mode,
<v Speaker 1>which is something a lot of people are asking for now.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's for Cowards its first person game play.
<v Speaker 1>Play a first person game in first person, but a
<v Speaker 1>lot of people just don't like that.
<v Speaker 3>I get it.
<v Speaker 1>This will help with that and people will feel more
<v Speaker 1>immersed because that's what they want from a video game,
<v Speaker 1>and you'd be soft just responding to that. I think
<v Speaker 1>that's this is probably the trend that we will see
<v Speaker 1>a lot more of Jane of games that are made
<v Speaker 1>to be first person or third person, just giving you
<v Speaker 1>the option to do the other one, because at the
<v Speaker 1>end of the day, why not.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I mean we're seeing that with Resident Evil Requiem,
<v Speaker 2>and I enjoy the ability to switch between first or
<v Speaker 2>third person. Either way, I'm still scared poopless, so that's
<v Speaker 2>not helping me at all. But I guess I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I guess people want to see the navrub, They want
<v Speaker 2>to see those they want to see that, they want
<v Speaker 2>to see those fiberglass bones in action.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I want to see them fire fiberglass bones,
<v Speaker 1>naturally occurring carbon fiber action, not fiberglass fiberglass work that
<v Speaker 1>would shatter, and then all the fiberglass would get in
<v Speaker 1>your eyes.
<v Speaker 3>And make Dan go blind. Didn't that happen to him?
<v Speaker 1>Once the Expansions, players play as the NAVI Warrior Solec
<v Speaker 1>and experience a new story of vengeance and survival set
<v Speaker 1>in a section of the Western Frontier that encompasses a
<v Speaker 1>ravaged Kinglore Forest and a brand new area and From
<v Speaker 1>the Ashes is coming to Xbox Series X and S,
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation five, Amazon Luna, and PC via Ubisoft Connected, Steam,
<v Speaker 1>and Epic Game Store. The expansion will also be included
<v Speaker 1>in a Ubisoft Plus Premium subscription. Yeah, this is a
<v Speaker 1>massive entertainment game, just like Star Wars Outlaws. I wonder
<v Speaker 1>if they will try to put this out on switch too.
<v Speaker 1>They are not saying that at this moment, but maybe
<v Speaker 1>this is something. Maybe that's something after they get this
<v Speaker 1>version out everywhere, maybe a year later, it does actually
<v Speaker 1>show up on switch to if there's enough support for
<v Speaker 1>the game and they can sort of justify it from
<v Speaker 1>a business perspective. But yeah, I had some like high
<v Speaker 1>hopes for the recent slate of movie license games. We've
<v Speaker 1>come a long way from the crap that we would
<v Speaker 1>get on the nes and the Super Nintendo and the
<v Speaker 1>Genesis and really every console sense then where there's just
<v Speaker 1>a ton of bad movie license games, and I thought
<v Speaker 1>you'd be so often Massive in particular, it was doing
<v Speaker 1>some good stuff with this game and the Star Wars
<v Speaker 1>Outlaws games.
<v Speaker 3>It just it doesn't feel like.
<v Speaker 1>A viable model really because these games were they selected
<v Speaker 1>these ips with the idea like and they will just
<v Speaker 1>have a built in audience. It will sell to that audience,
<v Speaker 1>and we're going to reach a certain number no matter what.
<v Speaker 1>And that doesn't seem to be true, right right.
<v Speaker 2>I I feel like the previous generation of games GREB
<v Speaker 2>has kind of soured everyone's taste in expecting a licensed
<v Speaker 2>game to be good. And that's unfortunate because you would
<v Speaker 2>assume that Star Wars would have a built in audience,
<v Speaker 2>or that Avatar would. I think that licensed games stuff
<v Speaker 2>has shifted from its own solo individual game to a
<v Speaker 2>Fortnite skin.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, Fortnite skins and mobile games. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And that being said, if you were to tell me
<v Speaker 2>tomorrow that Jake Suley is now suddenly in Fortnite I
<v Speaker 2>would eat that shit up. If you told me I
<v Speaker 2>could ride a tool Kun in the ocean of Fortnite,
<v Speaker 2>I would be there day zero.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Do you think the Indiana Jones skin in Fortnite made
<v Speaker 1>more money than the Indiana Jones video game?
<v Speaker 3>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to think about that, Rob, because that's.
<v Speaker 3>A good game.
<v Speaker 1>There's a chance, I know, I know there's a chance
<v Speaker 1>though that it definitely did. Boy, that's rough because I
<v Speaker 1>just want more video games like that. But how can
<v Speaker 1>you justify that when you could just make more money
<v Speaker 1>putting out of goddamn skin? All Right, that dusted for
<v Speaker 1>the headlines. We have a poll question that we need
<v Speaker 1>to catch up on from earlier this week, and of
<v Speaker 1>course I have gone away from there, so let me
<v Speaker 1>go and type this in here to old the gamer browser.
<v Speaker 1>All right, this is from Monday. Which Metal Gear game
<v Speaker 1>do you want Konami to remake next? This is our
<v Speaker 1>own version of the poll they were running your options
<v Speaker 1>or the MSX medal Gear metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear
<v Speaker 1>Solid four or Metal Gear Solid Piece Walker. Eleven percent
<v Speaker 1>want to see peace Walker. I think we'll probably get
<v Speaker 1>that in volume two, not as a remake, but just
<v Speaker 1>as a remaster. Then twenty six percent said the MSX
<v Speaker 1>metal Gear so one in four people are like, well, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>let's go back to that nineteen eighty seven original. Then
<v Speaker 1>twenty seven percent said they want to see metal.
<v Speaker 3>Gear Solid four. Of course, that would rescue.
<v Speaker 1>The game from the PS three where it's exclusive too
<v Speaker 1>to this day. And then thirty six percent of people
<v Speaker 1>said metal Gear Solid one, which probably is the one
<v Speaker 1>they're going to remake next.
<v Speaker 2>See you think grub Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think so.
<v Speaker 1>I think they do one and then two, and then
<v Speaker 1>that's the safest, most like biggest bang for their buck move.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm a bit surprised. I know that this this
<v Speaker 2>poll is skewed towards our audience. I would have assumed
<v Speaker 2>that metal Gear Solid four would have handily won this
<v Speaker 2>pole because out of all of these games we've listed,
<v Speaker 2>I think MGS four is the one that I'd be
<v Speaker 2>more interested in checking out.
<v Speaker 1>Again, Yeah, you know, our audience is an important caveat there,
<v Speaker 1>but even still, you know, gaming's grown a lot since
<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety eight, right, and there's a lot more people
<v Speaker 1>playing games now than there ever were. And now, of
<v Speaker 1>course you could have played this in volume one, but
<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of people are just like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>maybe I'll get around to that. I think there's too
<v Speaker 1>many people who have not actually played these games, and
<v Speaker 1>that's going to be the thing that people say, give
<v Speaker 1>me middle Gear Solid one so I can jump on board.
<v Speaker 1>And then there's probably gonna be a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>who just want to see another new remake of that.
<v Speaker 1>Or I think it's the best idea, which.
<v Speaker 3>Is you know, thirty six percent of respondence here. That
<v Speaker 3>sounds right to me.
<v Speaker 2>Britain knocked it out of the park on Monday when
<v Speaker 2>y'all put this poll together. We need aciduld.
<v Speaker 3>I would just like to see an Acid three.
<v Speaker 1>They've did Acid one and two right, just to make
<v Speaker 1>a whole new one.
<v Speaker 2>Also, there is a old iPod Touch I guess iPod
<v Speaker 2>or Apple the mobile game that was set in the
<v Speaker 2>world of MGS four that is also pretty freaking sick.
<v Speaker 2>I forget what it was called though.
<v Speaker 3>Was it a scroll wheel game?
<v Speaker 2>He was like that it was like a Sniper Elite basically. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>it was like a shooting gallery type of game with
<v Speaker 2>solid snake.
<v Speaker 3>Hell yeah, all right, new Pole. Question.
<v Speaker 1>When you start a long, long running series, do you
<v Speaker 1>begin with the first game or jump into the latest sequel.
<v Speaker 3>Your options are more likely to.
<v Speaker 1>Start from the beginning or more likely to start at
<v Speaker 1>the latest. We'll get the results of that. Talk about
<v Speaker 1>it on Game mess Mornings. Here on Giant Bomb tomorrow
<v Speaker 1>speaking a Giant Bomb jan what do we have in
<v Speaker 1>store for the folks?
<v Speaker 2>Oh, boy, grub, we got gay. Oh this is Games Mornings.
<v Speaker 2>I went into the bomb cast outro there. Later today,
<v Speaker 2>Mike Minatti continues his journey through virtual Hideline. Maybe he'll
<v Speaker 2>finish it today. So but also we're gonna be talking
<v Speaker 2>over the state of play popping off later today voicemail
<v Speaker 2>dumb Truck and then unprofessional Fridays where we will be
<v Speaker 2>doing a relay race against our friends are kind of funny.
<v Speaker 3>I'm uh, I'm looking forward to it.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna say people should bet, but but but yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we we tested it's a relay race.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna be handing off controllers. Uh, and I tested
<v Speaker 1>it out. We got the tech working. It's really handy.
<v Speaker 1>It just seems like they might even have thought about
<v Speaker 1>this as a possibility.
<v Speaker 2>Also, on top of that, Greb, we're yes my power
<v Speaker 2>going out yesterday kind of put some production stuff behind
<v Speaker 2>BombCast is now up on YouTube, folks. Everyone shouts out
<v Speaker 2>to Sean for U worked on Sanday and getting that
<v Speaker 2>up there. Thank you, thanks to the Big Doug. And
<v Speaker 2>also we're going to still try and record a couple
<v Speaker 2>of quick looks this Friday after everything is all said
<v Speaker 2>and done. After upf Mike Manati is going to Hades
<v Speaker 2>two through the night. The Boy Games Media is going
<v Speaker 2>to do a good old marathon stream of Heighties two
<v Speaker 2>later this week.
<v Speaker 3>I'm looking forward to it, all right, it's only Wednesday.
<v Speaker 3>It feels like at Thursday's.
<v Speaker 1>I got Jan here, so we got plenty of week
<v Speaker 1>left here everybody, We'll be hanging out with you, so
<v Speaker 1>be sure to stick around with us in the meantime. Jan,
<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for hanging out with me today
<v Speaker 1>and talking about video games.
<v Speaker 3>Man. I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>It's the perfect way to start the day.
<v Speaker 1>Grub and thank you all for watching and listening. You
<v Speaker 1>are the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have
<v Speaker 1>a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks Sean, congrats Chuck