NES World Championship Review Roundup

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Hello YouTube. All right, we have a lot to get into,
so let's start the Morning Mess with Anes World Championship Review roundup. Last I
looked a head something around like a seventy six seventy seven on Open Critic.
Let's start here with Giovanni Colntonio at Digital Trends, who gave it a three
out of five and said, well, I'm surely well, I'll surely continue
to chip away at my best times. Nintendo World Championships any s edition feels
more like practice than the big game itself. It's a great way to learn
the basics of speed running, but the outlet for those acquired skills is in
another castle. Maybe it's all building towards the return of the real Nintendo World
Championships. If that's the case. QE. Eighties training montage music, I'm
going big time. I'll I'll jump ahead of this Andy Robinson onease he does
explain the main problem that I'm gonna have with this. He gave it a
three out of five. He says for retro enthusiasts with access to like minded
friends and family, this Switch Challenge collection is a genuine local multiplayer hit for
solo players and those looking to compete with others online. However, it's a
far less impressive package this then, this is from earlier in the room that
was like his round up there, but this criticism applies to the entire Nintendo
World Championships Any s Edition package. Bafflingly, none of the individual speed run
challenges in the game display any kind of high score or leaderboard from online players.
Not even the players are on your friends list are listed, which feels
like a huge omission for this kind of game. What the hell? This
never even occurred to me that this would not be a part of the game.
What is wrong with Nintendo? See? Please? Why are they like
this? You know? I wish I had an answer for you. I
really do. I really want. I want this to be good for you
and Dan, but I needed it. This is looking forward to so much,
and it's like this. It picks the wind out of the sails.
It feels like, oh, like you raised my hopes and dashed the most
expertly. So like it. Basically, Oh yeah, here's Dan in the
chat. It's got shit. Yeah, sorry, guys, I don't know.
How are you so? How are you guys going to share your scores?
Then? If you can't, are you just going to text each other?
That's not fun. No, it's that's not fun. But I think,
she says, as someone who literally put in the group chat last night
at eleven thirty PM My New York Times, MIDDI school would you have last
night? For? Was that? What today's? Yeah? What'd you get?
Twenty seconds? Jesus? I was like doing this one of my I'm
bet Lucy's finding this one to be real easy. I'm like, what the
what the fuck is this? And I think I had like fifty five seconds
or something like that. I'm an old man what I did. But the
thing is I got a thrill from that, but I got more of a
thrill from seeing your reaction. So maybe I don't know you guys FaceTime.
Yeah maybe, But it's like this got started because there was a leaderboard where
we could start comparing times, and that got people excited and got more people
playing. It's you know, a fucking newspaper has leaderboards. Nintendo, what
are you doing? Like? This is crazy? Like I can't believe that
this is actually not in there. I'm like, I'm like so down bad
on this that I am. Part of me is in denial and I'm like,
oh this, they'll put that in an update. They're gonna be They're
gonna treat this like one of the recent Mario Sports games, where here is
the content at start, and it really is practice, and then a few
weeks later they'll be like, and here's an update something they already had finished.
That is that has like leaderboards and all this other stuff and probably other
games in there. I'm assuming that's happening, and I bet I'm gonna be
disappointed by that too. This is just this is real rough. So I
think the plan will be, you know, we'll still play it. We'll
stream it on Friday. We'll probably set some times. Maybe we'll focus on
a couple levels where we really can just like share our times instead of like,
oh, going through the whole game, where it's like, okay,
there's that's too many times to keep track of. Can you do the thing
on the stream at least where you've got like both like your screen and his
screen up. We'll do something. We'll figure something like that out, and
then you know, down the line, there's gonna be chances to do stuff
in person. And this you know, I know Andy had a really good
time playing it when he was doing the preview, and I was reading that,
and that's why I was excited about it in the first place. And
I think that that is the scenario in which the game was probably going to
be best to serve our needs, which is a shame because you know when
it comes like there's older games right that like have only local multiplayer party stuff,
there's like ways to do that online. Now Switch, it's like,
well, there's no like remote play together, and you know there's ways to
do that on the other systems. PlayStation has that, Steam has remote play
together. If this system had something like at where we could mimic being in
person for this, that would be fantastic. But yeah, either way,
this game should have leader parts. It doesn't make It doesn't make any sense
that it doesn't. So very very frustrating to the point where it's like,
I am my sort of feelings about this game of momentmost on a one to
eighty, and I feel very frustrated by it. But whatever, we'll play
it tonight. We'll see what it's like, uh, and see if we
can get some speed running stuff going. Uh. Next story, Emeo the
Smiling Man Famicom Detective Club has been announced for Switch. This is from Nintendo
Everything. Nintendo just announced Emeo the Smiling Man famicm Detective Club, which is
coming to Switch. The game launches on August twenty ninth to twenty twenty four.
Last week, the company put out a brief video of something called EMEO.
Since then, there's been plenty of speculation as to what Nintendo it was
teasing, and now it's confirmed that it is this Famicom Detective Club follow up,
and this is the first new fam Common Detective Club story in thirty five
years. You know, they did those remakes for The Switch last year or
the year before. That's something like that. There's some details like the reason
it's rated M is it's a serial killer like detective story, so there's gonna
be like some gory themes and things like that. Yoshio Sakamoto of Metroid Fame,
the producer of the Famicom Detective series, recently talked about the project in
a video which you can catch on Nintendo's YouTube channel. This is well.
One thing, Jason Fanelli called this on Games Mornings. So that was pretty
cool. Now we were talking about it when the teaser first happened. He
was like, man, you know, maybe it's the new Famicom Detective Club
and yep, he was one percent, right, Yeah, So that's pretty
cool. The other thing is like, I am not necessarily like super excited
about this, but I guess it's cool that they're sticking with the Famicom Detective
Detective Club series. It feels very different for Nintendo. Do you have any
interest in anything like this? May I have no idea what this is.
I don't. I don't, but I don't know. I have ever heard
of a con detective class. Yeah, so it's like they're like visual novel
detective Uh, you know mystery series that a Famicom Detective Club was, you
know, on the nes the Famicom really because they never came out in North
America, you know, thirty five years ago, and then recently they did
the remakes of those two games and put them together in one package. I
saw the remakes in a uh would you call it in a direct ones but
like yes, yeah, so yeah, they're right like point and click Mystery
Adventures basically is what they actually that sounds happy in too, right, and
it's I'm like, I like detective games, so I'm like, hmm,
maybe maybe there's something. I am still a little bit curious about this,
Like I was like Emo when it was like being teased and it's this new
M rated game from Nintendo, and it could be anything. Obviously the imagination
starts going. But you know, and now that we know what it is,
it's okay, all right, So it's none of those other things that
could have been, you know, oh so amazing. But again I'm like,
oh it was still maybe could be up my alley. I think I
need to take a closer look at the Famicom Detective Club games in the first
place, though, So I know people who did try those games mostly enjoyed
them, so I don't know, I might check that out. Also,
if it's EMEO, that sounds like it Tommy tall Rico handheld gaming console,
Yeah, get THEO. Uh, there's there's no DLCs. Uh, we
don't. We don't do that here. We're too cool for that. We
just love the game or so much. It's not a who it's a yes,
Yes, it's right. It's called the oof sound and it's like I
just win leaving your body. Uh, Tommy Tellerco didn't do that ship.
Yeah, hey, Nintendo making an M rated game. Also, like they
have only published seven M rated games ever, I just like learned last night
they didn't even publish like Perfect Dark or Conquers Bad fer Day, which we're
on n sixty four and we're rated games. It turns out that those were
both published by Rare Rare publish them themselves. It's very strange. And then
I guess like a THHQ published Conquers Bad Friday in Europe. So Nintendo say,
hey, you know we kind of you know, we have a huge
stake in you, basically own you, and you're making this game for our
system, and you're making this game for us. Uh butsmiched, yeah,
get someone else to publish it. It was very strange. Yeah, so
yeah, I don't know. I don't think this sort of like opens the
floodgates again or something like that. But I'm glad that if they are going
to do one of these detective games, they are willing to sort of tackle
a mature theme. And serial killers are kind of a fun subject. Have
you seen Long Legs? I have not seen Long Legs? Is that?
Is that what it's about? I'm that Oh you can't say what, okay,
but like, if you're talking about serial killers, it's about a serial
killer. Okay, very good. I liked it a lot. I need
everyone seems to really like it. Is it like, is it like a
scary movie? Or is it creepy and it's it's more like dread. Okay,
all right, I can is it like lingering dread? Art not?
Isn the Alex Garland dread? Sure, Colb Well, well it's no,
it's great. It's like it's like lingering dread. I think if you enjoyed
seven, Yeah, seven, that's what I was trying to think of,
Like, uh, that's David Fincher. I'm like, yeah, is it
David Fincher sort of dread? Yeah, And that's exactly it's it's Fincher.
But with and I say this a litle the love in the world, I
think the dialogue is a lot of times very like closed off and emotionless.
Sure, whereas there's a lot more. There's some really good starter and performances.
Guys getting a complete universal refresh in one of its biggest updates ever.
This from Ethan Gotcha at Kotaku. As No Man's Sky nears its eighth anniversary,
it's clear the open world survival crafting sim isn't slowing down. A cavalcade
of free updates continues to transform the game from what it once was at launch,
and the latest of those is no different Today, Hello Games revealed World's
Part one, a complete overhaul of planetary weather that's dropping alongside a major balancing
patch and a new expedition that will see the community collectively fight against the threat
of alien bugs. Is anyone else ready for No Man's Hell? Divers?
When we started No Man's Sky, we wanted people to feel like they had
stepped into a science fiction book. Cover director Sean Burray wrote in an email
announcing World's Part one. To bring us closer to that, we've had to
create a lot of new technology. He said that the technology will now make
those things possible in the game, and that the community has almost given up
hope on or that the community had previously given up hope on ever happening of
a universal reset as some it predicted. Hello Games is calling this a universal
refresh. Here's a summary of some of the changes of how Nomad Sky will
generate planets and what players can experience on them. For example, new water
tech for waves and reflections. Waves are dynamic and will react to wind.
That's wild ships can land on water. New cloud tech for detailed skies with
changing weather conditions, Volume metrics and atmospherics on planet services for rolling fog,
rain, blizzards, lava, sparks, and other phenomenon weather systems that interact
and develop in real time as players explore new biomes and more creatures to discover
with more variety, all of which can become pets and mounts. Yeah,
oh my god, is right. This is I mean eight years and just
consistent, massive updates throughout all that time, and now they're adding like just
fundamental changes to the way the underlying technology works. A lot of this probably
was infused from the work they've been doing on that new game that they got
coming out, which is like the you know, One Big Planet that's a
fantasy game or whatever, and they probably have been doing a lot of stuff
for that. I can't remember, but I was just I was just thinking.
Dan saw it and he went to go see Hello Games when we were
at Summer Games Fest, or maybe it was the Game of the War the
Game of the Game Awards last year, and yeah, he just kept talking
it up. And I've been thinking about it the last couple of Yeah,
light no fire, that light no fire. Yes, So I bet a
lot of that informs what we're seeing here. But still it's like, Okay,
at a certain point, are you ever going to charge for one of
these. I'm starting to feel bad, Like, we get it. The
launch didn't go the way you wanted it to and a lot of people bought
the game at the moment, and you felt some sort of guilt and you're
like, we got to make this game what everyone wanted it to be.
You've done that, all right, you can I don't know. I want
to give you money. Let me give you money. What are you doing
here? Eight years, eight up eight massive updates more than that? Actually,
how are you feeling about No Man Sky? You know, I was
there when it came out, didn't really dig it, and like, I
think at this point it's a great redemption story in terms of you know,
developers who really get the also not the luxury, but like the opportunity to
work on that game and fix it because a lot of people, like a
lot of games come out don't do very well and then like all the criticisms
that people have about it can't be changed or can't be tweaked, and so
it's I think it's really great that like No Month Sky had the chance to
do that, and Hello games, how the chance to do that? We
got ten plus million copies is that right? That sounds right? Yeah,
I mean it did amazing, like, it sold really well, and you
know, every time they do one of these updates, it gets a huge
bump in sales. So it's it's impressive, but there's just not a lot
of games doing what this game is doing in terms of we have a base
game that you can buy and then we're going to continue to support it.
But there's no like monetization, and there's there's no way to pay for these
DLC updates. That's just all free and if you want to buy the game,
if you want to come in now and tell a friend about it so
they can buy it, and that's the only way they're really making money.
Everything else sort of has I don't know, there's just nothing else like that.
So this continues to be impressive, continues to be very cool. And
I am someone who's when I whenever I think about Lightno Fire, I I
get very very excited because it's like, man, I that technology sort of
refined after you know, almost a decade and used on one planet that you
can explore and that has pockets of cool stuff all around, and it's a
fantasy setting. Boy, that sounds very promising and now and now they've been
thinking about that for the last you know, half a year. Get hearing
this update, and uh, it's the kind of thing where like, yeah,
I want I want the moment, the moment stuff in No Man's Sky
to be better than when it was when I first played it. Clearly they've
gotten to a point where it's likely there I've I've checked in a couple of
times. I haven't seen the last couple updates. But then pair that with
like interesting new technical advancements where it's like the waves are affected by the wind.
I just kind of want to see that. What does that look like?
Yeah, so that like really does the thing where it's like, okay,
now I do think I want to go in there check out this tech,
and then that might lead me into seeing all the new content that they've
added and how everything changes. And I even know you could get mounts.
So maybe I'll turn an alien into my new horse, alien horse. Yes,
but look a few more details here. Alongside this Overhaull Nomad Sky will
be launching a new expedition that revolves around fighting alien bugs. Murray describes it
as Starship Troopers inspired and says players fight against these bugs across new planets they
explore, and that that will be community driven and come with a heavy armor
mech that has a flamethrower for an arm. It really does sound a lot
like Hell Divers. So I was gonna say this is the year of Starship
Troopers with absolutely finally getting its appreciation that it deserves. And and yes,
it feels like this game is doing that as well. I mean clearly he
says it explicitly. It's Starship Troopers inspired. It sounds like the unofficial Helldivers
to crossover no one expected and also a great idea for a new mech Stratagem
and Arrowheads hit shooter. Yes, yeah, I'm very, very curious about
this. I'll probably be checking back in on No Man's Sky when this goes
live. All right, what we'll do now is we'll take a quick break.
When we get back, we'll talk about how developers over at Saber and
Focus are feeling kind of sad after a leaked game and a lot more.
All right, back into it. Saber and Focus saddened by leak of old
Space Marine two build. This is from Tom Ivan at VGC Saber Interactive and
Focus Entertainment have released a statement addressing the leak of a developer build of Warhammer
forty thousand Space Marine two. Videos of the unfinished build, which is said
to be playable from start to finish, started sculating on social media this week
after it was recently uploaded to a Torrent site, and a statement released on
Tuesday, developer Saber and publisher Focus thanked fans for their support and urge players
to avoid the league to build ahead of the game's unofficial or official release.
They said the build would be nearly a year old by the time the game
is released for PS five, Xbox Series X and s MPC on September ninth,
twenty twenty four. They also said we are deeply touched by the overwhelming
support we've received from our community following the leak of an old build of our
upcoming game, a Warhammer forty k Space Marine two. They said, our
teams have poured years of hard work, passion, and dedication into creating a
game worthy of your hopes and expectations, and it's disheartening that many of the
surprises we work to keep secret were spoiled. We're set into this build,
which will be almost a year old by the time we launch is how some
of our most eager fans will first experience Space Greene two. You know,
this reminds me of It reminds me of X Men Origins Wolverine leaking right where
it's like the Unfinished CGI, and that's how I watched that movie, was
a bad version of that. And I don't think I've ever actually seen shoot
Xman Origins Wolverine with Finnish CGI, So in my head, it's always just
like weird green screen stuff in the background and a couple of scenes. And
yet I didn't even know that happened to that movie, that happened to that.
Yes, yeah, totally. It was like a big thing. Yeah,
oh my god, Yeah, this this does stink that. It's the
kind of thing where, of course I'm always curious about what does a game
look like before it comes out? What did it look like a year ago
that cost them? Like this game was supposed to come out in twenty twenty
three, they delayed it and it's gonna come out later this year. Now,
it's like, what did it look like to cause them to delay it?
Of course I'm always curious about that. I'm not curious to the point
where it's like and I hope it leaks so I get to go on a
torrent site and find it against their wishes. That sucks on their part.
I feel real bad for them for this stuff, especially, I hope it
doesn't hurt sales. Like Warhammer is the kind of thing where it is it
has a smaller audience, that is, they rededicated, very engaged, very
engaged, and might show up for some might might be like, well,
hell, I'll just go play this. It's there. I've been waiting for
it forever. I don't know, what do you think? Do you think
this is going to hurt the game in the long run or you think you'd
be able to like survive this. No, I think it'll survive it because
I think really, if you are the engaged community member who has been waiting
for this game, I think you are still going to buy it regardless.
And also it's like, I don't know, I think they did a really
good job of the team did at like replying to the league because like,
stuff like this sucks. But also if you are dumb enough to leak a
full developer build like that will have the build number, the ID stuff on
there, like they're probably going to be coming for you, Bud. But
it sucks. I mean like remember you know, invoking the Last of Us
Part two here, but remember how devastating that league was and how devastating the
Insomniac League was, and those are very different because you know, the Last
of Us was well I guess no, it's not really very different because in
here, like the whole game has been spoiled, so it's out there.
But this happens so frequently, Like wasn't it something like Red Dead twos ending
was online? Yeah, definitely like this, there's always kind of there's always
leaks. I think one of this you heal of like when you when you
kind of go into the leaky subredits or always just like oh I heard this
this and this blah blah blah, and it's like no, it just it
just sucks. It's it's unfortunate. Right, they're probably going to be a
little bit I have a little bit of a grace area where there's probably no
easy one sitting spoiler, like you're not gonna be able to go oh the
space Raine got gets killed by a golf club a half an hour into the
game, right, So yeah, it's it's probably gonna be a little bit
more complicated than that. And even so, I think fans will be like,
listen, yeah, this is out there, how do I get this?
How do I go to a torrent site? I think the good news
for them is that a lot of kids these days don't have never used torrents
in their lives. They like they they it's it is that I haven't either.
Yeah. Uh, I'm curious. Do kids get like anime through torrents
or is it like that's like mega folders and Google drive folders like I know,
like these days, like a lot of the anime does come pretty quickly,
but there was a time there when it didn't, and it seemed like
that drove a lot of the uh piracy there. Yeah, oh is there
a poll about this? I would like to know this too. Yes?
Are you? Are you a kid? And do you know what a torrent
is? Not know what a torent is? Have you used a torrent?
They can know what a torrent is? Unofficial streaming sites? Yeah, right,
do they know? I don't know. Like I remember for a while
people doing that thing where you could go on Google Drive or like you could
google like x men origins Google Drive and someone would have uploaded it and put
it. I'm gonna hear x X Men Origins, Wolverine, Google Drive.
Yeah, people would just have les. Yeah there it is incredible. Okay,
yeah right, it was always like it was torrent because then I could
you know, build up my pluck serverround stuff like that. So yeah,
I either way, point is I think this is going to be and people
read that be like, ah, that sounds like a headache. I don't
know how to do that. And you know it would be the PC version
anyhow, the games come into consoles, so there's going to be a plenty
of people who will be there day one who are going to be ready to
buy the game and then the story, even if the story does get a
little spoiled, these are people who want to experience that world. They want
to be in that world. That's what they like, the little bit of
role playing they can do. So I think the good news is this game
seems pretty approved against this certain of the situation, and I hope that it's
going to be just fine. I also hope the game is good because I
know a lot of people really like Space Marine Way oh me too. All
right, are you a kid and have you torrented parentheses not the horse.
Uh all right, well look at the kid the kids, the kids,
Yeah, they seem to be well, I'm gonna vote no because I'm not
a kid. All right, let's see here. Oh yeah, it's okay,
well wow, okay, it just jumped to seventeen seven seventeen, so
fifty percent and that was like the last second there. The thing is is
that when we were younger, you didn't really have like I remember when Netflix
the app started, like yep, yeah, well we didn't have you crunchy
Rolls and your Hulus, right. But even like when it's like something isn't
on those services, these days, I feel like kids just go to Mega
and they go to Google Drive and yeah, so it's it's just it's just
different. Go to I go to Amazon and I buy it of course,
right, yes, but they're like, you know, listen, you're the
first edition of the Criterion of the Grand Illusion, disc one of the Criterion
collection. You can't get that anymore on Amazon, not for cheap anyhow.
Alright, Yes, let's see here. Apex Legends piles up ten thousand negative
Steam reviews as players fight price hikes. This is from wayses Ta veris at
Kotaku. Apex Legends has over the years been a bit of a hotbed for
EA's pensiont for greed. In the past, Apex Legends has faced controversy over
numerous collections and cosmetics hidden behind notably expensive micro transactions. Now EA's reworking of
the battle pass has landed the game in unusually hot waters. It was recently
announced that Apex Legends would be adjusting the delivery of its battle pass effectively,
beginning with the upcoming twenty second season Jesus. Battle passes will be split into
halves, and players have to pay the price of a regular season for half
of one. Now, so I guess they're effectively doubling the price. The
justification from EA and Respawn was that players would receive more content by paying for
each of the splits, but it seems that the publisher, which is repeatedly
ranked at the top of the world's worst companies, is just trying to squeeze
its community for more money. The community notes on Twitter, a post announced
that the change angrily insists that the angrily insists that this move is only profitable
for EA shareholders. To me, Lucy, this couldn't be a more illustrative
example of a game that is at the not necessarily the end of its life,
but it's definitely past the point where it's in user gathering. It's the
past the user gathering phase. It's not all about like, let's get new
players in. It is now about we have players that are sticking around,
can we get more money from them? And this is something we've seeing across
the board. We have this conversation about the Xbox Game Pass price increases,
PlayStation Plus price increases with this is the exact same thing where it's like,
we're not necessarily getting a ton of new people coming in, so what are
we gonna do? How do we make more money? We raise the prices,
And that's clearly what's happening here. I've definitely heard before that Apex legends
EA feels that they are kind of over the hump of growth for that game
and now they are sort of eyeing the end of life, you know,
many years down the road, but that's what they're kind of going towards that
instead of going towards some new peak. And this feels like, okay,
in the meantime, how much money can we make from this game that has
been very lucrative and has sort of been the backbone for EA games as opposed
to EA Sports. How do you read this situation? Yeah, No,
I think you're right. It's just because what twenty second seasons were up two
for APEX. Yeah, fundamentally, you know, like it's not going to
be that yearly released like card, like constantly bringing in new people, like
getting them to buy a full price game again, like no, it's free
to play, but you got to I don't know, just foot in the
door. Hope people that really enjoy your gameplay enough to shell out. And
I think, yeah, this is button. I'm very sorry, keep going,
Lucy, Oh what happened? Actually I hit the button that plays the
music because I am a big dumb in. You're doing like the the eight
the oscars, like getting me off the stage. No, So I think
I think your assessment is come. It's totally right. Where it's like it's
it's the end and they're just trying to or at least like not at the
end. But it's like, yeah, it's they're not bringing in new people
and so but they're like, hey, these other people have paid before and
they will pay again, and I it's just really unfortunate that, And I
could see the future here a little bit. I can like I could hear
the phone call I'm having with like, say someone at EA being like,
well, don't say the game is at the end. It's not what we're
saying, not like, oh, it's going to be canceled any second now
in terms of being the hot new thing that it was in twenty nineteen when
it first right, and like, how do you start to like strategize the
price scene for these things, and how do you invest in the game.
We know now that they cancel like a plan to put titan Fall gameplay into
the game. They're gonna have a basically a whole new titan Fall game in
there, and they canceled that because they're like, the money it would cost
to produce that would not make sense with the amount of money we're expecting to
make from Apex Legends going forward, because we think the growth is done,
and all of their choices since then have reflected that sort of thinking. So
this is just us diagnosing what we see from what their game is. Where
the game is now and it will be around. There's going to be many
more seasons after the twenty second season. But I was going to say,
yeah, their play is right now is one hundred and seventy four thousand,
like quarter of a million peak in the last twenty four hours, Like the
game is still huge. But they are you know, they are thinking they
already have the foot in the door with the people who have paid before and
I could play for a very long time, and they think they can get
away with it, and so this review bombing is I don't know, it's
showing them that, like people aren't happy about it, but I do have
actually paid. Yeah, but they know they're going to lose players for this,
and that that's part of the factor that in. It's like, we
know some of these players are going to be very upset by this, but
we think that making a price increase now. And of course part of that
is it does feel like inflation's finally starting to calm down, and we like,
in a like six months from now, we could be in a point
where it's like, oh, they're actually lowering interest rates again, because inflations
are so calmed down to the point where if you are the one company trying
to raise prices to that point, you're going to look way out of touch.
This is like maybe one of the last moments that you can get away
with the price increase on your services and your products. I think that's what
kind of forced Xbox into the situation where like, we gotta do this now
before call duty is out, before we can't raise prices after inflation calms down.
This is the same thing happening here. So they're like, listen,
we know we're gonna upset some of these fans, but we want to get
that price increase now so it can be built in, and we think that
we'll be able to keep enough that it will make us more money in the
long run. It's very cynical, but that's what's happening here. I guess
real quick, before we move on, ten thousand negative reviews is enough that
maybe do you think that like shakes them like a little bit, because it's
like, you know, they knew they were gonna they were gonna upset fans,
but this is such a backlash. I don't know. It feels like
at a certain point, EA's got like that callous skin where they've been there
this so many times they should just be able to like barrel through it.
But I don't know, do you think this affects them. No, I'm
kind of with you. I don't. I'm kind of like, I just
I kind of don't see them reversing course on this. Yep, I think
so. I think you're right, at least for this season. I don't
know. Yeah, I don't think it's going to be I mean, right,
they could always do a make good right that is like, oh,
here's some extra stuff, and that could have been part of the plan all
along, Like yeah, yeah, I just don't We'll see, uh,
I mean I get I guess the only time like they properly did that on
micro transactions would have been the Battlefront two stuff, right, Like they reversed
course on that pretty quickly, right, But that was like who called it?
Like it was like some of them, like very high up somewhere called
oh it was that's right. The not the president of Disney at the time,
but like one of the major executives called up e A and was like,
yeah, I was fucking us. Like you say, it's very different
when you're fucking with someone else's ipucking with your own. It's like right,
exactly right. Then. That's why in recent times EA has been like we
are going to focus more on our own ip, which is has been kind
of weird because they go back and forth on that. Just a couple of
years ago, it was that's why we're investing in Marvel ip Strange company.
All right, this is wild one cho Aniki collection announced for Switch. This
is from sal Ramano Akamatsu. Lucy, do you know what cho aniki is?
It's no idea. All right, I'm gonna put a video up here
for everybody to see in a second. This is a series of shooters from
like, I think the eighties and nineties. It's a bunch of mostly nude
musclemen flying through space and shooting each other. Theyeah, they're shooting each other.
It's here. Let me, let me just bring it up here.
We'll see if I can show it to everybody. Here we go. Here's
one of the bosses, for example, and he's got like a metal contraption
around his pelvic region, and then several nude men are spinning and firing burst
of energy at him. Wait, where's this video where? I'm sorry,
I'm streaming it on jovon dot com slash chap, but I could share it
with you if you want it. Oh no, I'm my Interne's behind haha,
waiting for these nude men. Yes, no problem. Oh yeah,
I didn't watch this whole video, but there's a part where, uh,
the part of the contraption from under his crotch, another nude man shoots out
of that. It's sort of elongates. Uh oh yeah, there it is.
Anyway, cho Aniki was always like a fun reference in video game magazines
when I was growing up, Like it would get brought up quite frequently when
people wanted to make like a kind of cheap joke. Uh, And I
was always like, this is crazy. I didn't know they made games like
this. And it turns out there they make a lot of games like this,
enough for a collection that will be coming to Switch. Following a teaser
last week, Ada has officially announced chow a Niki collection for Switch. A
crowd fundy campaign is playing planned via Makuake Makaaki. Cho Aniki. Collection will
include ports of the PC engine versions of the shoot them up games cho Aniki
and I A yeah you see it. Yeah, incredible, Wow, this
is a this is a wild one. It is interesting that the Switch is
at this point where uh, not only is will Nintendo allow a game like
this on their service of course they will. They have hint Ti golf and
a million other things on there now. But that was that's very strange.
But it's like so popular. It's like I don't know, I guess those
old show games. Maybe that will be worth God damn it. This is
just an insane thing to look at. You saw the message here? Oh
my god, yep, dudes rock the game. That's right, that's what
we got going on here. No juz from Slim mcgolsom, No get a
series where Jan and Nikki play. This is called Oh yes, absolutely so
good that Choe aniki Jesus. Okay, Yeah, that's it. We got
it. Now we have to those are the rules? Uh, okay,
Choe Aniki. I don't know if it's a crowdfunding campaign, so it's probably
not gonna be coming any time like very soon, but maybe sometime. What
are they up to in terms of like that crowdfunding mean? Yeah? Yeah,
this it's from a service called makua aki m a k u a k
e u, so it must be a Japanese crowdfunding service. Yeah, I'll
get this. I'll play these games. I don't care. It's it's time.
It's time I finally played them for a real uh. Microsoft releases new
Xbox three sixty blades Dynamic background for serious X and S. This is from
Tom Ivan and VGC. Microsoft has released a new Xbox three sixty blades dynamic
background for its Xbox series X and S consoles. The iconic Xbox three sixty
dashboard featured a tabbed interface that enabled users to navigate the console by sweet switching
between different blades. It launched in November two thousand and five and would go
on to be replaced by the New Xbox Experience or NXC, three years later.
Man, we only had blades for three years. That's wild. Wow.
Players can follow these steps to get the Xbox three sixty blades background.
Basically, you just got to go to like your system settings. There's a
personalization option in there somewhere, go to my background and then select dynamic backgrounds.
I believe it's just right in there. I don't think you could go
to the store or anything. IK of a video of this one too.
Let's see here so people can get a look at it. But I don't
know. It's not as exciting as you may hope for. Like, it
doesn't make the interface suddenly feel like blades. There's essentially just a picture of
blades in the background, and it does like animate because it's dynamic, so
it feels a little bit more alive. But yeah, I'm not someone who's
like, oh, the the Xbox interface is unusable or something like that.
I think they got it to a good place. Yeah, And yet,
of course, like everyone else, I do, I do miss blades.
Did you ever were you like using Xbox three sixty at the time of blades?
Was that like a main white playing games for you? Well, no,
I didn't. I didn't own one of the time of blades, but
I did my friends have them, of course, And so my my nostalgia
is for the like the the nicer looking blades. I guess, oh the
hanger am I thinking of the right ones Xbox three sixty because mine mine did
have blades like you would tab across and stuff. But I didn't have the
original dashboard, right, there was original dashboard, and then blades happened later,
and then after that it was the NXY, the New Xbox Experience.
And uh, and I apologize of course to the viewers because I do not
have this time have femboys in my trending bar over here, so sorry about
that. So if you look at this thing from the I had, if
you scroll down to the four pictures, Okay, I had the top right,
top right, that's the one that I had. Okay, Yeah,
that's the new Xbox experience. That's what that is. Yes, yes,
I had, Okay, yep. Yeah. I think a big part of
the affinity for blades is nostalgia. I don't think it was necessarily that much
easier, but it was. It definitely was simple and you could understand it
after a couple of moments. And I think the big thing is it put
your games up front and easy to find. Obviously, there's a lot more
options now between game Pass and games you own and games you have a disc
in the system and all your digital games sout m P three's on my Xbox
and listen to my own music. When I was playing games, right,
a lot of games had that option where you could just replace the music or
that every game. Is that like a system level feature? It was system
Yeah, that's right. You could like put in a USB stick with your
MP three. Yes, Yeah, that was cool. Did that a couple
of times? Yep, absolutely, All right, let's keep moving here.
The next rio Gaka Tooku game will be revealed at TGS twenty twenty four.
This is from Jordan Miller of VGC. The next game from Like a Dragon
Studio RGG will be revealed at the Tokyo Game Show. According to a recent
live stream from the studio, its next title will be revealed in September.
No further information is known about the game or which franchise the game will be
from. Earlier this month, though, during the Essence of Fandom event at
Anime Expo, rggt's the next title, saying that fans would be surprised,
and I believe that it's like the people wouldn't be expecting what the next game
is going to be about. Fans and attendance later clarified that RGIG may have
been referencing Like a Dragon. However, it's also possible that the Judgment series
will receive a new entry. This team is so prolific. They're able to
get a games out at such a fast pace, and big part of that
is is they are very smart about re using assets and using the same like
spaces over and over and zero complaints about that. That's a really good idea,
especially at this point in time. In making games. I'm excited about
this as someone who've really gotten too like a Dragon with infinite wealth. Do
you it's not going to be like like a Dragon nine, Like that's it's
way too soon for that, right, it was way too soon for that,
and you want to spinoffs, right, so it could be anything.
Yeah, I was gonna say because they did have like a Dragon Issuan.
When was that a year ago? That was like the early part of last
year, right, yeah? Okay, god yeah last year there was like
what two spinoffs and then the main early this year, early this year we
got like a Dragon infinite wealth exactly. Yeah, and so I don't know,
like, oh yeah, Anthreman chat on Twitch says judgment game but in
Hawaii to reuse that saying I hate which would be terrible, hate it.
I think a Judgment like game set in that setting, I think I'd be
even more excited for just because that's it. You know, if they make
a judgment and it's like listen, yeah, of course there's two previous games.
This is a clean start and you could just jump in here. I'll
be fine as well, because I've been played the previous Judgment games and I
want to do that, but who has the time? Jesus, who has
the time? Lexe's a great idea where it's like, you know, like
they are in the middle of remaking kind of all them. So it could
be Kawami three. Kawami three, remember that. I think that's very expected.
So maybe maybe we're reading too much in like to them saying at one
thing, the next thing is going to be unexpected, and then in another
breath at a different place saying that there's gonna be a game at Tokyo Game
Show. Maybe this is just Kawami three. But when it comes to the
unexpected game, I don't know. I'm not sure exactly how to how to
read that, but uh, yeah, I guess if people, Yeah,
if people would be surprised to then I don't know. I would love a
spinoff about a different character. Yeah, I feel I feel like a new
spinoff feels like what the series is really primed for. I haven't like looked
at the timeline of the game releases to be like, oh do they did?
They have the capacity to be working on all of that while putting out
these these spinoff remix and remasters and then also having like a dragon infinite wealth
and having, you know, the Judgment games a few years ago. Maybe
I don't know, but you know, who knows. Maybe the spinoff is
a smaller scale game too, That could be possible. Some of these spinoffs
have been like, oh, these are the eight nine hour games, as
opposed to like A Dragon Infinite Wealth, which took me dozens of hours.
Ye. Either way, we'll find out find out about it. Tokyo Game
Show. Tokyo Game Show kind of shaping up to be pretty interesting. Looks
like some of these showcases. Between that and games come a little bit later
this year should have plenty of news for us. So news has slowed down
a lot this summer. It really has. Coming out of Summer Game Fest.
It's like feels like every week since then it has just been not a
lot to talk about. I think that's going to change here in the next
couple of weeks. EA College Football twenty five just launched, and it's already
one of twenty twenty four's biggest games from zax Wisen at Kotaku. EA College
Football twenty five launches today for those who pre ordered the Deluxe edition of the
game and got early access. Although the highly anticipated sports game hasn't even been
out for more than twenty four hours, yet it's already one of the year's
biggest games. In case you didn't realize, the last major college football game
developed by EA, n C DOUBLEA Football four Team, was released in twenty
thirteen, more than a decade ago. In that time, players have used
mods and hacks to try and keep that aging Xbox three sixty slash PS three
era football sim up to date with the real world. But now, after
serving this community for ten plus years, NC Doublea fourteen can rest as EA
College Football twenty five is out and already extremely popular. Technically, EA College
Football twenty five doesn't launch until July nineteenth, but like so many publishers,
EA is holding the game's hostage unless you pay a ransom to play three days
early. It's a scummy move, but it hasn't stopped the new sports title
from exploding online. According to various posts on Twitter, College Football twenty five
at one point had oz for six hundred and sixty thousand players online at one
time. Later in the night, it looks like the new game hit seven
hundred and thirteen thousand, nine hundred and seventy four online players. That's just
people who have bought the game early, Lucy, so the one hundred dollars
version of it or whatever. Yes, it is just on you know,
the two console platforms, and it's just the people who are online at that
moment, so not the people who bought it and are like at work or
or like haven't opened it up yet or haven't played it yet. So that
is massive. That like really shows that this game is going to rush to
like ten million copies sold in like no time at all. It's pretty bad.
Do you do you have any anyone in your life it's playing this because
I like, I know, like not many other people at the cider playing.
I know I'm like the one playing it. But you got anyone who's
like, oh my god, I've been waiting for EA sports college football.
I believe Greg Miller's Greg Miller is very much into it. Yeah, for
some reason, it doesn't make any sense because he's like a Missouri fan.
They don't they suck at football? Missoo Missouri. Yeah, I was gonna
say, I don't know, see if we messaged about it, I think
the last thing we messages, because no we didn't. You can message him,
said Jeff Grebbs says missoo sucks. Okay. Jeff Grubb says, how
do you spell maszoo? M I z o U maybe two z'ss. But
I don't know. I don't care. No one does, okay. Jeff
Grab says maszoo with one sat. His spelling sucks perfect, nailed it.
Yeah, no, I don't know. I am not a sportly woman.
I used to play tennis. I didn't even watch Wimbledon this year. I
didn't even know it was on. What is tailgating? Oh, tailgating?
We should listen. You should just be shown what tailgating is. Tailgaming is.
Do you know what a tailgate is? Like a tailgate, like the
a tailgate noun? Do you know what that is? No? Okay,
I don't drive either. So the back of like a pickup truck is a
gate to the bed of the truck. And it's also you know, the
tail of the end of the truck. You drop that down and then it
kind of becomes a table where you can put food stuffs, or you can
you pull the grill out and you grill meats and all kinds of food,
and then you have a bunch of stuff in the truck. Bad ice and
drinks and the toppings and you make make yourself a sandwich, and you eat
all day, You drink all day, and then you go watch the sporting
event that you're at because you're parked right outside of the sporting event in the
parking lot and now you can just walk right in after you're having a party
day. That sounds awesome. It is a good time, But don't give
a shit about the sports. Sure, yeah, but you do it for
wrestling too. So there never seen wrestling, but I would do it.
I would. I don't know how drunk I am. I'm trying to think
of a good event for jan to take you to the tailgate. I went
to a I went to a baseball game a few times, and like you
got, you got to some bis to get through those. I'm not no
offense in America, but no America fully understands it's definitely a drinking sport.
That's half the reason we like it. Yeah, basically to do friends because
you can actually talk during it. Ice hockey. It's a good time at
ice hockey watching watching dudes punch the shit out of each other. Yeah,
they can get pretty physical for sure, absolutely, yesical fistical, Yes,
they'll get fistical physical. Uh yeah, Hey, Sharks seem like they're gonna
better this year' squad grass good luck to you all right. Yeah, I
have been playing college football twenty five. I do think that game is very
solid. The foundation is very strong. There's a reason that it's you know
out you haven't heard a bunch of like backlash against it. It's because they
got the football right. There is a few annoyances. I just cannot get
the run pass option to work everybody because it was yeah, different to Latin
Okay, the college no good good question. In the past, when they
would do in football each year, what would happen was they would make the
Madden Game, and then they would take that Madden Game and they would start
reskinning it and retooling it to be next year's in C double A game.
So and that's how it would work in the past. This time around,
my understanding, when I talked to sources that were telling me about this game,
what they said is for this one, at the very least, they
wanted to like like make it on its own, even though it's being made
by Tiberan, the team that makes Madden, and even though Tiberan has been
very busy because they've also been making the golf game, and I think they
have something else, so I can't remember off the top of my head.
They're very busy. They have a lot of stuff going on. But for
some reason this time, they're like, they just wanted to build this on
its own, make it its own pillar. I bet that won't last very
long about they start taking stuff from Madden just putting it in here going forward.
But I think for the reintroduction, I think they wanted to have a
good like, oh, this feels like its own thing, and it does.
I think they mostly mostly accomplished that. A lot of it's very similar
to Madden. There's definitely buttons that are like, oh, I would expect
this to do this in this game because it's how it works, and Madden
it doesn't work that way here. But yeah, and that is where a
little bit of the problem has come in. With like that run pass option.
I try to basically, when you like the ball, you could choose
to either keep it as the quarterback or hand it off. And this is
like a very popular in college football. It is very difficult for me to
get that to work, and I've seen a lot of other people complaining about
it online, mostly because the button just doesn't feel like it should be in
the right place. Yes, and Kip Kippington, I am also but hurt
that it's not on PC. But that's EA. They just put Madden and
FIFA on PC and that's it. I think. I guess that's most of
the sports games up until this point. Okay, that does it for the
News. I have the poll question coming up here right now from earlier this
week. If you played the Concord beta, how would you rate your time
with it? Let's start here. We'll go from the bottom and work our
way up. Thirty eight percent gave it one star, fifteen percent gave it
two stars, twenty eight percent gave it three stars, twelve percent gave it
four stars, and seven percent gave it five stars. Now for that thirty
eight percent giving it one star, I'm gonna guess a significant portion of that
could be like people who didn't actually play the game, or people who are
you know, maybe maybe some fanboys out there who knows. I don't,
but you know, that's not just coding the entire ye of that thirty eight
percent. I bet a lot of people do not like this game. That
said I gave it three stars. Twenty eight percent is the second highest star.
That's where I'm at. Did you play Concord I did? Greg replied,
Oh shit, and Jeff Grub's kids probably aren't his. All right,
Well I'm out of here then I can leave. Then that's that's good news
for me. I'm out at ease everybody fucking good. Oh no, I
know I knew what I was doing. I knew I knew what I was
hitting. You poked a bet with Missoo. He's uh, oh my god.
Yeah he's done some of those on me before, where I'm just like,
fuck, yeah, I got I got nothing right. Yeah, it's
like a good respond but I know where that goes. I know where that
is. You don't want you don't want a feud. I don't. I
don't want my game and dads to feud. No, I don't want it
either. I don't want it either. I'm just glad out from Missouri.
All right, let's see Concorde three out of five for me to I coming
as an Overwatch right, Yeah, A good point. I was. I
don't and I talked about this on FPS this week where I was like,
I really don't think this was a good onboarding experience, especially because this is
your beta that you want people to get in and like figure out how the
game works, and you know, get that. I've been saying foot in
the door so much recently because of like game pass and price hikes, and
but also for this right that you want people to get in, have the
best possible experiens, and then eventually buy the forty dollar game when it comes
out. No. Tutorialization was not great. I really did. I feel
a little lost a lot of times when I was, especially choosing a new
character, being like Jesus Chris, how what the hell did any of them
do? And you can hold the button pick them so quick? Yes,
exactly, you can hold the button to see what they do. And I
had a play session where I would like, Okay, I'm picking a character.
I think I have plenty of time to see this. Especially in between
deaths is when this was happening, and I would get it and I would
read the first sentence of one of the abilities and the thing would disappear and
like, all right, now we're loading you into the level. I'm like,
well, I'm still at it says three seconds left. Let me read
like two more sentences. What the fuck? It's crazy. It was very
frustrating, but that is like early day problems that you know. Getting past
that, It's like I don't necessarily think like, oh, once I do
fully get all these characters, the game is going to just show itself to
me and completely like click with me on It clicked a little bit more with
me once I started getting good with some of the characters, but not to
the point where I like, this game feels fantastic that it doesn't feel as
good as Overwatch. I don't think. Yeah, I think in terms of
balance, I was like there was a lot of stuff that was just weird,
Like some of the movement was really really slow. I also felt like
time to kill would be a little too long in some cases. I don't
know, uh, but not long enough when it was me, am I
right, But yeah, I don't. I don't know. The thing is
is that I really got I really liked that opening cutscene. I know you
can't judge a whole game based off one cutscene, but I really liked the
setup for it. Yes, it's very got into the galaxy, but I
thought they did a really great job with that, and then it just got
it just dumped me into a thing, and I was just like, Oh,
I don't know, But then I was, you know, I was.
It was I I have a consistent feeling about Overwatch, right, and
I loved it from the very beginning, even though I wasn't good at it,
Whereas with this one, my opinion on it would change so much per
round and basically and I was just like, oh, that's not a consistent
feeling. I don't know. I don't know. After tuning, because there
is going to be the open beat this weekend, I didn't delete it.
I am going to give it another go to see if any of the balance
changes kind of make you feel a bit better. But also, yeah,
I don't know. It is definitely you're right. When I was playing the
game, it's like, oh, this is in a winner and I like
one of the characters or one of the levels or something like that, And
I never felt that way with the early days of Overwatch. It's like,
oh, no, every single one of these heroes feels viable and interesting,
and I know there's gonna be people who are into playing this character, and
I think there's gonna be a lot of characters that don't get a lot of
love in I want to say Guardians of the Galaxy there for a second.
Okay, we gotta let's get wrapped up here. What else we gotta do?
Okay, newpool question. I'll get to that in a second. But
first, Lucy, when you tell people whe they can find you on the
internet, what you have going on? All that good stuff, I'm everywhere
at Lucy James games stuff. I've got going on a new episode of Stop
Players this week is Steve O from Jackass. I got to play the PS
two Jackass game with Steve O. It was a really fun shoot because also,
like the whole point of the show is talking to people about gaming,
and everyone else loves games, but Steve O's gone on record saying that he
hates gaming, so we kind of he came to apologize to the gamers and
then I played the games game that it was. It was very fun.
He was lovely. So that's up on the games fort YouTube channel right now.
Thank you to folks in the chat who said they watched it and said
it was good. Thank you. I appreciate it. And yeah, next
week I'm going to Comic Con. I am hosting the dragon Age panel.
If you are there, please come by. We've also got the fandom panel
on the Thursday. I believe it's like five Tuesday, five, five to
six. I will tweet it out. If Sofia there, we'd love to
see you. Me, Tam, Emma, Jan, Chris Hanah All going
to be on a panel on the Thursday as well. Please be excited for
comic Con. Excellent. Yeah, if you're If you're at Comic Con,
definitely go check the folks out. Everybody. It's you know, it's mostly
out of our element, so it's always nice when people are there and they
still show up. So definitely give our friends some love. Everybody. All
right, new poll question I have right here. Are you still interested in
EMEO the Smiling Man famic Con Detective Club? Yes? No, And I
still don't know what that is. We asked about EMEO when it was a
teaser. Now we know what it is. Let's see how things change.
I guess they're thinking about it a little bit more throughout this episode. I'm
interested. I'm gonna I'm gonna play it. I'm more interested. Yeah,
I'm gonna check it out. I would have I would have completely ignored it
if you hadn't said it was spooky serial killers off and I'm coming off that
long legs. Yep, Listen, You're right, I you love serial killers.
That's just how it goes. That's that's that's how across the board,
that's how it goes, like being genuinely, I wanted to become a criminologist
when I was a kid. I wanted to be Yeah, I wanted to
be a profilo or criminologist. And my mum was a criminal. She was
a lawyer and she still lives. I don't know why I say it like
that, but she's she's retired. She lived, and she used to have
to go into prisons a lot, and because like she'd be an on care
lawyer for criminals, and she was like, yeah, no, you would
not survive like you could. You could not do it, honestly. Yeah,
that's my sliding Jewels moment. Probably fair enough. And now here we
are, so it all worked out fantastic, all right, I think let's
see here we'll discuss the results of the pull on game this morning's on Giant
Bomb tomorrow morning. Speaking of Giant Bomb, later today, d I could
grub a grub. Katana returns. Blight Club is finally back we're gonna get
back into things. I'll play more Dake Katana boy. I hope there's not
much left, but I got a bad feeling that there is. We will
also have a voicemail exuse me, a voicemail down truck tomorrow. On Friday,
we will have UPF where we still will play Nintendo World Championship, and
then we'll do a BCR well to BCR after that as well. So looking
forward to all of that, and then next week. I don't know Comic
Con. Is is it during the weekend or is it during the next week
Now I leave on I live on Wednesday. I think tim and do too.
Okay, so oh yeah, what's the what's this about? Squidward?
Not Jesus? When I was doing a show the other day, Addie came
in and yelled at me, get me Squidward about ten times. She can't
come and yell and tell me what to do and then I do it or
else she'll keep doing that. So and also she's gotten a lot recently and
we're going to Disney, so yeah, I'll get her squid Word. Everybody,
chill out. It's not a Disney character, so you're gonna have to
take it to universal too, so there you go. Uh Lucy James Games,
thank you so much for spinning today talk with me about video games.
I really appreciate it. Thank you all for listening, Thank you all for
watching. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a
good one, take care of yourself and oh choa Nikki