Konami Saying to "Stay Tuned" for Metal Gear Solid 4 Remaster

<v Speaker 1>You'll be like a gouty bit. It's the Internet.
<v Speaker 2>You're busy. Let's do this for August twenty ninth, twenty
<v Speaker 2>twenty four. For the next hour or so, let me
<v Speaker 2>help you sort through the world of gaming on Game
<v Speaker 2>mes Mornings Live with me jeff Grub. Today, PS five
<v Speaker 2>pro plans begin to leak. Konami heavily suggests middle Gear
<v Speaker 2>Solid four will be playable on something other than a
<v Speaker 2>PS three, and Sonic Team puts out a declarative statement
<v Speaker 2>that Shadow is not vegeta. But first, please join me
<v Speaker 2>and welcoming today's co host of Game Mess Mornings. It's
<v Speaker 2>Janet Joa. Everybody, jan How are you doing?
<v Speaker 3>I'm doing fantastic, Jeffrey Grub, it is a morning. It
<v Speaker 3>is Thursday. Here we are also where we pulled the
<v Speaker 3>groundhog out of the hole. It's still summer, it's still shadow.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, I don't know how it's supposed to war.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, all that sounds accurate to me. I believe that
<v Speaker 2>is how it's supposed to work.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I was looking at the weather report for Seattle. It's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna get up till eighty but then down to
<v Speaker 2>sixty at night. I'm like, Okay, I'm probably still just
<v Speaker 2>be wearing shorts mostly trying to dress for summer. I'm
<v Speaker 2>ready for fall, Jan, I'm super ready. At the same time,
<v Speaker 2>I'm like excited about going to packs. I might be
<v Speaker 2>in a bad mood for this because there are so
<v Speaker 2>many games coming out that.
<v Speaker 1>I want to play, and I'm like, I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to talk to it to people. I want to go
<v Speaker 1>and play games. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I saw a specific email hit the end boxes, and
<v Speaker 3>then I giggled to myself that you did.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but you all did, huh, yes, but yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I'm still looking forward to It's gonna be
<v Speaker 2>a good time. By this time tomorrow, I will be
<v Speaker 2>just about landing in Seattle, so looking forward to seeing
<v Speaker 2>everyone there. That does mean no game that morning is
<v Speaker 2>on Friday, everybody, so just tuned into Giant Bomb. Jan
<v Speaker 2>and the crew have other stuff going on the site right.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, we will be doing UBF.
<v Speaker 3>I thought about asking Sean would be an easier ask,
<v Speaker 3>but then I realized if I asked Nicky and Bailey
<v Speaker 3>to go get buzzballs and then do a live film
<v Speaker 3>in forties at nine o'clock in the morning, that might
<v Speaker 3>be bad. Yeah, but it might be good. Nick is
<v Speaker 3>chiming in that, Yeah, I can do that. No, that
<v Speaker 3>sounds great.
<v Speaker 2>Hell yeah, all right, Well I look forward to some mornings, baby,
<v Speaker 2>most some mornings here on Giant Bob.
<v Speaker 1>I can't wait.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but I mean there's there's a lot of other stuff,
<v Speaker 2>Like it feels like every indie publisher is also putting
<v Speaker 2>out their.
<v Speaker 1>Game right now.
<v Speaker 2>I was playing a Monster Truck game and there's a
<v Speaker 2>scorel with a gun that you're allowed to talk about
<v Speaker 2>that now, my god, Yes, yes that is out. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's like I could just be playing that now, but
<v Speaker 2>it's Yeah, there's a million of these things.
<v Speaker 3>Also, I circled back and gave Tactical Breech Wizards more
<v Speaker 3>of a more time and whole he smokes, grub Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>up my out. I think it might be a very
<v Speaker 3>good game. Yeah, yeah, I definitely. When we're back and
<v Speaker 3>it isn't be week and we stopped buzzing from B week,
<v Speaker 3>we'll we'll definitely we should do a catch up stream
<v Speaker 3>with that.
<v Speaker 1>Such an idea, because there's.
<v Speaker 2>Quite a few that I'm like, I would like to
<v Speaker 2>love to spend a little bit of time with. We
<v Speaker 2>can maybe do an extra long catch up stream and
<v Speaker 2>just have everybody bring a game or two and do that.
<v Speaker 2>That would be excellent. Tactico Breach Wizards that always like
<v Speaker 2>that might be the one I should be playing on
<v Speaker 2>the plane because I'm enjoying it so much, very end
<v Speaker 2>of the Breach, and then the writing's actually pretty funny
<v Speaker 2>if some people are super into it. I'm like, I
<v Speaker 2>am enjoying it. I'm like enjoying the tactics so much.
<v Speaker 2>Get me back into the action.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, yes, good stuff, Jeff Grub.
<v Speaker 3>I'd like to take this opportunity to mention something I
<v Speaker 3>totally spaced out on during games Com. I had forgot
<v Speaker 3>how global of an event games Com is. One of
<v Speaker 3>the buildings, there are a bunch of different booths from
<v Speaker 3>different countries representing game Devil coming out of there, stuff
<v Speaker 3>from Istanbul, Korea, really cool stuff, seeing how global game
<v Speaker 3>development is. And then I got me thinking, wait a minute,
<v Speaker 3>are my people here? So I had dragged our dear
<v Speaker 3>friend Bailey Myers with me and made a couple laps
<v Speaker 3>around the hall where all of the different countries were
<v Speaker 3>representing themselves, and then I thought, ah, nuts, I don't
<v Speaker 3>see us anywhere.
<v Speaker 1>And then as I'm about to go down.
<v Speaker 3>The stairs, a little twinkle catches my eye and I
<v Speaker 3>see this a little sign of that says Philippines, And.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh wow, hey, all right.
<v Speaker 3>People, And it was really cool to see game development
<v Speaker 3>popping out of the Philippines. Generally, the Philippines is like
<v Speaker 3>a big on support studios, whether that's like QA shot
<v Speaker 3>shit or art stuff or I mean generally call centers
<v Speaker 3>are also big in the Philippines. But it's really really
<v Speaker 3>freaking neat to see game development and original IP popping
<v Speaker 3>out of the Philippines. Surprisingly surprising to me at least.
<v Speaker 3>There's a lot of fighting games coming out of the
<v Speaker 3>Philippines right now. Okay, yeah, it's really big on the
<v Speaker 3>mobile market, so on Google Play and on iOS. CNAG
<v Speaker 3>s I Nag is a game that's popping off right now.
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, it was really cool to talk to you know,
<v Speaker 3>my my Kapa Bion out there and just see what
<v Speaker 3>the temp is like and just seeing the similar struggles
<v Speaker 3>on the game development and game pr side of the
<v Speaker 3>fence as to like the games media side of like
<v Speaker 3>oh wow, yes, it's hard for y'all to get your
<v Speaker 3>name out there likewise, Dog.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, it's especially with like you know, over the last
<v Speaker 2>year or two, as as the industry has been pulling
<v Speaker 2>back on an investment. The unheard story there is always
<v Speaker 2>support studios get hit first. So and that's like you know,
<v Speaker 2>eventually game development, original game development, as you're describing growth
<v Speaker 2>out of that, out of that element. That's what happened
<v Speaker 2>in Australia in the mid two thousands, like in that decade,
<v Speaker 2>and then the worldwide financial collapse happened and every support
<v Speaker 2>studio in Australia got battered down to the ground. And
<v Speaker 2>then since then they've been able to build up and
<v Speaker 2>have their a vibrant community. It's a good signed to
<v Speaker 2>me that Philippines had representation at games Com and was like, hey, no,
<v Speaker 2>we're out there still trying to put our name out there.
<v Speaker 1>That's great. Yeah, shouts out.
<v Speaker 3>To games Com for I think they gave like the
<v Speaker 3>Philippines team or like the Philippine devs like part of
<v Speaker 3>a grant to help pay for their way to the
<v Speaker 3>games come and show stuff off just so they can
<v Speaker 3>get a name out there. Also, you know Philippin's government.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not going to get into it. It can get
<v Speaker 3>a little dicey, But it seems now that just like
<v Speaker 3>in other Southeast Asian countries like Singapore, the government is
<v Speaker 3>starting to invest in game development because they see the
<v Speaker 3>positives of it and how it can be financially successful
<v Speaker 3>and stimulate the economy in a good way.
<v Speaker 1>I mean stimiling the economy. What the fuck am I saying?
<v Speaker 3>But anyway, it was really cool cool to talk to
<v Speaker 3>them and they were like, Yo, if y'all ever want
<v Speaker 3>to come out to the Philippines and give it talk
<v Speaker 3>holler at us. I'm like, is it cool if I
<v Speaker 3>bring my whole crew? And they were like, all right,
<v Speaker 3>let's pick it happen.
<v Speaker 1>That would be fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>There are a lot of times interesting gaming related conferences,
<v Speaker 2>often maybe more business side focus, but gaming conferences that
<v Speaker 2>do happen in that part of the world.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I would love that. That'd be very cool.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's.
<v Speaker 2>Explain what we do here most weekdays. I Jeff Grub
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<v Speaker 2>we have a lot to get into, so let's start
<v Speaker 2>the Morning Mess with PS five Pro. Announcement plans and
<v Speaker 2>console design have been leaked. This is from Chris Scullion
<v Speaker 2>at VGC. The mid gen PlayStation five upgrade will be
<v Speaker 2>announced in the coming weeks.
<v Speaker 1>It is claimed.
<v Speaker 2>Deal Labs user build Bill Kuhn, who has a lengthy
<v Speaker 2>track record for leaking upcoming games in hardware, says the
<v Speaker 2>new console will indeed be called PS five Pro. They
<v Speaker 2>say it will be announced very soon, with the official
<v Speaker 2>announcement set to be made during the first half of September.
<v Speaker 2>They also claim to have access to the packaging design
<v Speaker 2>for the PS five Pro, but because they can't share
<v Speaker 2>copyrighted images, they have instead drawn a sketch of the design.
<v Speaker 2>I'll find that image and put up here in a
<v Speaker 2>second during this conversation, everybody, but it looks like a
<v Speaker 2>PlayStation slim. PlayStation five Slim but you know, bigger probably again.
<v Speaker 2>According to the illustration, the console design will look similar
<v Speaker 2>to the PS five Slim and will still be colored white.
<v Speaker 2>The main difference is the addition of three black stripes
<v Speaker 2>across the middle of the console, differentiating it from the
<v Speaker 2>other PS five models. The report also suggests that the
<v Speaker 2>PS five Pro appears to be slightly thicker than the
<v Speaker 2>PS five Slim, but suggests that the design of the
<v Speaker 2>face plates means it may still be compatible with existing
<v Speaker 2>PS five Slim of face plates. One thing Bill bil
<v Speaker 2>Kuhn cannot yet confirm is whether the PS five Pro
<v Speaker 2>will have a disk drive, because the images they have
<v Speaker 2>received shows a PS five Pro without one. It's not
<v Speaker 2>clear therefore, whether there will be two models of the
<v Speaker 2>PS five Pro, one with a disc and one without,
<v Speaker 2>or whether it will be a single digital only addition
<v Speaker 2>with the option for players to buy a disc drive separately,
<v Speaker 2>as is the case for the PS five or for
<v Speaker 2>the digital only a PS five Slim. One theory offered
<v Speaker 2>by Bill bil Koon is that the console may ship
<v Speaker 2>without a disk drive in order to keep costs lower,
<v Speaker 2>and of course then you could buy one separately. The
<v Speaker 2>report also says that PS five Pro will come with
<v Speaker 2>the same standard white dual sense controller that already comes
<v Speaker 2>with the original and slim PS five models. Speculation is
<v Speaker 2>mounted for some time about the internal specifications of the
<v Speaker 2>PS five Pro, something Bill bil Kuhn's report sheds no
<v Speaker 2>new light on, although we have a pretty decent idea
<v Speaker 2>what the thing's going to be a little bit more powerful,
<v Speaker 2>rate tracing, much better of the upscaling tech PSSR. I
<v Speaker 2>think it was what they're calling it, super sampling is
<v Speaker 2>going to be much better as well, so they'll be
<v Speaker 2>able to do four K sixty maybe a little bit
<v Speaker 2>more frequently.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this thing we've got.
<v Speaker 2>I think we were getting the sense of this this
<v Speaker 2>was gonna be happening soon, just because we keep hearing
<v Speaker 2>this thing is supposed to launch this year jan So
<v Speaker 2>when are you gonna do it? Probably before Tokyo Game Show.
<v Speaker 2>Then I separately heard that there's a PlayStation a state
<v Speaker 2>of play happening later in September, And the reality is like,
<v Speaker 2>I like, hey, they could announce this thing beforehand and
<v Speaker 2>then have some more news about it.
<v Speaker 1>In that state of play. Sounds like that is.
<v Speaker 2>The play that they're going to run here, What do
<v Speaker 2>you think.
<v Speaker 3>It. PlayStation's moves across the board have been nothing but
<v Speaker 3>confusing to me, And I completely understand that I am
<v Speaker 3>not a business analyst by any stretch of the imagination,
<v Speaker 3>but I understand that they raise the prices in Japan
<v Speaker 3>to because they know the people that want it are
<v Speaker 3>going to pay top dollar for it. But also for
<v Speaker 3>this to be looming in the background, it just feels
<v Speaker 3>especially odd because I don't know, are they trying to
<v Speaker 3>increase the install base. Are they just trying to make
<v Speaker 3>as much much money as they can before and squeeze
<v Speaker 3>squeeze it out before the PS five pro drops. And
<v Speaker 3>also I don't know, I've always looked forward to like
<v Speaker 3>the second or third iteration of a PlayStation console because
<v Speaker 3>the design not radically changes, but it switches up decently
<v Speaker 3>enough it does. Maybe in my head, I'm just thinking
<v Speaker 3>of like, how cool I thought the PS two Slim
<v Speaker 3>was fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>I like the PS one, Yeah, yeah, I love those.
<v Speaker 3>And then seeing the leaked sketches or the leaked designs,
<v Speaker 3>it's kind of disappointing in how samy it looks. I
<v Speaker 3>don't have the biggest problem with how the PS five looks,
<v Speaker 3>other than it just looking like a design nightmare and
<v Speaker 3>looking like Seto Kaiba from Yu Gi. Oh. But I
<v Speaker 3>would have hoped for like a different enough design for
<v Speaker 3>me to justify buying it of like, oh, hey, this
<v Speaker 3>is a different box that I'm never going to see,
<v Speaker 3>but it's cooler looking. Yeah, this just looks just as
<v Speaker 3>cumbersome and as weird to try and fit into an
<v Speaker 3>entertainment center or behind a monitor.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean it's it's still it is still that giant,
<v Speaker 2>like blooming monoligy type of deals on right, like just
<v Speaker 2>a tuning fork with a computer inside of it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean I think it like from this.
<v Speaker 2>Drawing again, this is bilbil Kuhn doing a sketch of
<v Speaker 2>the PS five pro image that they saw on the
<v Speaker 2>box itself.
<v Speaker 1>And uh and so you know, artists rendition here a
<v Speaker 1>little bit.
<v Speaker 2>But I think this is probably gonna be pretty accurate. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I guess you're right. I think I was also maybe
<v Speaker 2>hoping for more of a departure because the PS five,
<v Speaker 2>you know, slim, the original PS five, those things probably
<v Speaker 2>aren't gonna go anywhere. I do have five Digital right there.
<v Speaker 2>I previously owned the original PS five before that. I
<v Speaker 2>think I like it when they take even more risks
<v Speaker 2>and try something completely different and have a new design
<v Speaker 2>language a little bit, or or stick with the same
<v Speaker 2>design language but try something that still looks different even
<v Speaker 2>if it's part of the same family. So yeah, a
<v Speaker 2>little disappointing there. Yeah, what are you gonna say.
<v Speaker 3>Like different color scheme even or like, I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>giving it some type of personality just because like the
<v Speaker 3>white kind of just feels too sterile, or for me personally,
<v Speaker 3>it feels too sterile, especially if they're pairing it with
<v Speaker 3>like the same white dual sense that the original PS
<v Speaker 3>five came with.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, now this drawing here clearly does not have a
<v Speaker 2>disk drive, I think the way it works on the
<v Speaker 2>PS five slim. Again, I don't have one and haven't
<v Speaker 2>really interacted with one, So I'm like going off the
<v Speaker 2>memory of us covering the story when it was launching
<v Speaker 2>jan But my memory is, you take off one of
<v Speaker 2>these panels you could stick on a drive, right, and
<v Speaker 2>then to put the panel back on top of that.
<v Speaker 2>There's no reason to think that that's not exactly what
<v Speaker 2>they're doing here. It seems like this thing is probably
<v Speaker 2>gonna launch without a disk drive. Maybe there's a bundle
<v Speaker 2>that comes with one. But I think they're doing exactly
<v Speaker 2>what they did with the slim model.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I saw sketches of the PS not sketches pictures of
<v Speaker 3>the PS five Slim, and that does appear to be
<v Speaker 3>the case of a detachable disk drive. Yeah, this is
<v Speaker 3>how they squeeze out folks to get to that seven
<v Speaker 3>hundred mark grub. I think Emma is more and more
<v Speaker 3>right as the days go by.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, so the price is the other thing
<v Speaker 2>here that we have been talking about a lot, and
<v Speaker 2>clearly you mentioned it. The price increase in Japan to
<v Speaker 2>five hundred for the digital version in like basically five
<v Speaker 2>fifty ish for the the one that has to disk drive.
<v Speaker 2>That means this thing is at least six hundred dollars.
<v Speaker 2>But it's man, they just increased the price on that.
<v Speaker 2>Why wouldn't I mean to me, it's like, actually, it's
<v Speaker 2>probably at least six fifty in Japan in places like that.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, here's what I think happens is we
<v Speaker 2>talk about it every time. The people who are most
<v Speaker 2>likely to get this, or people who already have a
<v Speaker 2>PS five and got one as soon as they could,
<v Speaker 2>and people that were following Morio sixty four and trying
<v Speaker 2>to captures as quickly as possible. Some people that are
<v Speaker 2>the most into this thing, and so those people, I
<v Speaker 2>think do try to say, hey, okay, i'll take my
<v Speaker 2>PS five now I'll sell that. I'll have the money
<v Speaker 2>and I'll use that money to help fund this. So
<v Speaker 2>this thing's only going to be and if they're thinking
<v Speaker 2>it's going to be six hundred dollars, well, it's like
<v Speaker 2>I'll be able to get it for one hundred and
<v Speaker 2>fifty two hundred dollars or something like that. I think,
<v Speaker 2>you know, when you start doing that, boy, Math, I
<v Speaker 2>think that Sony's like, well, actually, okay, if you're going
<v Speaker 2>to think about it that way, what if it's actually just,
<v Speaker 2>you know, three hundred dollars and we actually charged seven
<v Speaker 2>hundred dollars for the sticker price. I think that Sony
<v Speaker 2>knows that's who they're dealing with, and would not. I
<v Speaker 2>think they are less afraid than they've ever been to
<v Speaker 2>go higher for the price than what we're expecting. Sure,
<v Speaker 2>and they've done that, and they have done that in
<v Speaker 2>the past a lot of times. I think I think
<v Speaker 2>Microsoft is even more frequently going to like way above
<v Speaker 2>and pricing their stuff than what I was always expecting
<v Speaker 2>them to do. But Sony does that as well, and
<v Speaker 2>now it's like the way the market is and the
<v Speaker 2>way the economy is. Yeah, I'm just not going to
<v Speaker 2>be shocked when this thing is seven hundred dollars.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I think the surprising thing is Sony in PlayStation kind
<v Speaker 3>of not leaning into the hype must buy factor that
<v Speaker 3>kind of captivated audiences with a PS five because I
<v Speaker 3>feel like everyone of their mama's was after a PS
<v Speaker 3>five during the pandemic just because of the scarcity of it,
<v Speaker 3>And I feel like they're kind of not leaning into
<v Speaker 3>that hype factor because grub in all of the sneaker
<v Speaker 3>reselling websites, you start seeing PS fives marked way way up,
<v Speaker 3>and it kind of feels like there's no hype or
<v Speaker 3>buzz going on with a PS five progest yet. And
<v Speaker 3>I know that they haven't officially announced it yet, but
<v Speaker 3>if you're trying to get that basic audience, I don't
<v Speaker 3>know if they're going to be hooked with something that
<v Speaker 3>looks fairly the same and with features that they may
<v Speaker 3>not know that they need one. Like me myself, I
<v Speaker 3>don't think I necessarily need a PS five Pro right now?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I mean it's like tiers, right, Like we talk about
<v Speaker 2>the people that buy this thing no matter what. They're
<v Speaker 2>in that top tier, but there's like several tiers below
<v Speaker 2>that before you get to that casual audience. And I
<v Speaker 2>think a lot of those middle tiers of people like,
<v Speaker 2>of course I want a new PS five Pro. I
<v Speaker 2>love games looking as good as possible, But I did
<v Speaker 2>buy a PS five And do I feel like I
<v Speaker 2>got like the use out of it that I wanted to,
<v Speaker 2>or did I feel like that was a real next
<v Speaker 2>Gin upgrade? Because a lot of the games I ended
<v Speaker 2>up playing on there were games that also came out
<v Speaker 2>on PS four, and well, I think there are people
<v Speaker 2>who who are not sensitive to that at all because
<v Speaker 2>they just want the newest thing no matter what. There
<v Speaker 2>are a lot of people who are just behind that
<v Speaker 2>audience saying I got to justify this to myself a
<v Speaker 2>little bit. And I think that that argument is going
<v Speaker 2>to be pretty tough to win for Sony because a
<v Speaker 2>lot of people are looking at this generation as it
<v Speaker 2>still feels in a lot of ways like it hasn't
<v Speaker 2>fully gotten off the ground. Clearly, we've had some PS
<v Speaker 2>five exclusive games we have, there's been a handful of them,
<v Speaker 2>more than a handful. But I think in a lot
<v Speaker 2>of people's sort of perspective on it, like when they're
<v Speaker 2>going from their own perception, they're like, I could think
<v Speaker 2>of two or three, and then like, I have a
<v Speaker 2>a list a million miles long of games that I
<v Speaker 2>either have kept playing from the PS four or have
<v Speaker 2>launched since the launch of the PS five, and we're
<v Speaker 2>on both consoles. So in a lot of ways, it's like, Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's still part of that cross generation thing that's happening.
<v Speaker 2>When are we going to get the games that take
<v Speaker 2>advantage of this thing? And there haven't been enough of those,
<v Speaker 2>I think to make it so obvious that you need
<v Speaker 2>a PS five Pro. So yeah, I think this thing
<v Speaker 2>might kind of it's not got a fizzle, but I
<v Speaker 2>think there will be questions around it that weren't even around,
<v Speaker 2>like the PS four Pro, which never sold as well
<v Speaker 2>as the original PS four, because people are like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>clearly I did, but I just bought a four K TV.
<v Speaker 2>You're right, I should get as system that takes advantage
<v Speaker 2>of this four KTV. Now everyone bought an HDMI two
<v Speaker 2>point one television at the launch of the PS five
<v Speaker 2>and then they got a PS five goal along with it,
<v Speaker 2>and that both those things take full advantage of one another.
<v Speaker 2>The PS five Pro is not going to have any
<v Speaker 2>new one feature that like really makes that You're all
<v Speaker 2>those purchases make sense. It's just going to run ray
<v Speaker 2>tracing a little better. And that's what ten games that
<v Speaker 2>have ray tracing that matter. Maybe I feel like that's
<v Speaker 2>even a stretch.
<v Speaker 1>Jan I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I And again that that I don't want to
<v Speaker 3>say regular, but that uh, normal consumer is will they
<v Speaker 3>even notice that while they're continuing to play the same
<v Speaker 3>games that they were already playing on a PS four
<v Speaker 3>or are they going to notice it? Will it be
<v Speaker 3>implemented in something like Fortnite or the next Call of Duty,
<v Speaker 3>the annual Madden releases, Like does that matter to that player?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>I think probably not for the most part. And uh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>obviously there's going to be exceptions to that, people that like, no,
<v Speaker 2>I just always get the new thing, But yeah, we'll see. Hey,
<v Speaker 2>it's it's on Sony to create a compelling argument for
<v Speaker 2>this thing, and we I haven't. They have not had
<v Speaker 2>a chance to do that because they had not really
<v Speaker 2>announced this thing yet, So in.
<v Speaker 1>A couple of weeks they're going to do that, and
<v Speaker 1>let's see.
<v Speaker 2>I think if they if they they focus on stuff
<v Speaker 2>like eight K, that is a lost cause right there.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like they like that is them admitting that
<v Speaker 2>they don't have the right buzzword this time. If they
<v Speaker 2>come in and they try to like maybe finagle people
<v Speaker 2>into caring about ray tracing, again, that also feels like
<v Speaker 2>a stretch. But I think if they can go, hey, okay,
<v Speaker 2>you did buy that four K TV and the pisser
<v Speaker 2>Tech PSSR does enable you to get four K sixty
<v Speaker 2>more frequently than you were getting it. And again that's
<v Speaker 2>still a question as well. Like I say that now
<v Speaker 2>people are gonna be like that mean GTA six is
<v Speaker 2>going to run at four K sixty. Absolutely not with
<v Speaker 2>your PS five pro and absolutely not. But maybe a
<v Speaker 2>handful more of those games will do that.
<v Speaker 1>That could convince some people.
<v Speaker 2>It just is not as much as the original PS
<v Speaker 2>four pro argument of four K you can actually do
<v Speaker 2>it now.
<v Speaker 1>That was so definite.
<v Speaker 3>It's so interesting because they feel like a lot of
<v Speaker 3>people that want up picking up a was it a
<v Speaker 3>PS three.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>PS three wound up using it all as well as
<v Speaker 3>a Blu ray player, and I feel like we.
<v Speaker 1>Haven't had that additional entertainment.
<v Speaker 3>Side tech upgrade to justified getting another box just because
<v Speaker 3>every TV streams now ye Sony PlayStation here here, put
<v Speaker 3>on it, put put your peepers on. Get ready to
<v Speaker 3>cut the check here you can make it out to
<v Speaker 3>Jan Ochoa and Jeff Grub.
<v Speaker 2>Don't worry, Grub, thanks got my back.
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate it. Three dtvs, Let's do it again. I'm ready.
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready again.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, run it back, baby, let's go.
<v Speaker 2>We I know we messed up last time. Baby, We're
<v Speaker 2>going to do so right this time. Don't worry. Three
<v Speaker 2>dtv's are going to handle it for you. It's all
<v Speaker 2>going to be good.
<v Speaker 3>The idea Grub that two people can be playing split
<v Speaker 3>screen co op, yeah, I love that, glasses and staring
<v Speaker 3>at the same TV full screen.
<v Speaker 2>How amazing is that? The lenticular thing? I always wondered
<v Speaker 2>because that's the way the three DS works. I did
<v Speaker 2>a video about this a long time ago on a
<v Speaker 2>YouTube channel. If you want to see me nicking a
<v Speaker 2>goofball myself. But the lenticular thing was like, there's events
<v Speaker 2>on the screen that shoot the things a different eye,
<v Speaker 2>so it only works for one person. But the cool
<v Speaker 2>thing they did is like in some cars maybe and
<v Speaker 2>maybe it's never actually shipped in at any real car,
<v Speaker 2>they would instead of like shooting the vents at one person,
<v Speaker 2>they would shoot the vents in two different directions, so
<v Speaker 2>the driver could see the map and the person the
<v Speaker 2>passenger seat could watch cheers or whatever. And I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>I love that idea. I wish every time I'm in
<v Speaker 2>my van and I were like on a road trip,
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I wish we had this so I could
<v Speaker 2>see the map and Steph could like watch the movie
<v Speaker 2>that the kids are watching.
<v Speaker 1>But it's like, no, if she wants to do that,
<v Speaker 1>she has to sit in the back, Like no way.
<v Speaker 3>My favorite term that I've heard in the last two
<v Speaker 3>three years is parallel play grub. Yeah, imagine body doubling. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>body doubling. I'm sitting next to the significant other and
<v Speaker 3>you know, we're we're I'm playing the Newest Horizon because
<v Speaker 3>I've gotten super into Horizon and she is watching the
<v Speaker 3>New Horizon TV show.
<v Speaker 1>That's synergy right there.
<v Speaker 2>Man, That's honestly that's just is the commercial right there
<v Speaker 2>for Sony.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the marketing's done.
<v Speaker 3>Cut the check, cut the checks like three d um yeah.
<v Speaker 1>The other Oh shoot, I lost the dumb idea. It's fine.
<v Speaker 2>Oh if you think of it, always come back. Yeah, absolutely,
<v Speaker 2>all interrupt that. I appreciate it, all right, So let's
<v Speaker 2>keep moving here. Konami says stay tuned when asked about
<v Speaker 2>metal Gear Solid for remaster.
<v Speaker 1>This is from my Nintendo news.
<v Speaker 2>IGN recently had the chance to chat with Konami producer
<v Speaker 2>Noriaki Akimura about all things metal Gear Solid. The interviewer
<v Speaker 2>asked the question on everyone's lips, will they be bringing
<v Speaker 2>the acclaimed metal Gear Solid four to modern consoles. Mister
<v Speaker 2>Akamura replied by saying that they are aware of the
<v Speaker 2>situation with metal Gear Solid for not being playable on
<v Speaker 2>current video game platforms, but he hinted at the game's
<v Speaker 2>inclusion and yet to be announced middle Gear Solid Master
<v Speaker 2>Collection Volume two. Asked directly about bringing Meddle Gear salid
<v Speaker 2>for to modern consoles, Akimura replied, we definitely aren't aware
<v Speaker 2>of this situation. Unfortunately, we can't really say too much
<v Speaker 2>at the moment. With Volume one containing middle Gear Solid
<v Speaker 2>one through three. You can probably connect the dots though
<v Speaker 2>he's like dot dot dot. He like literally said dot
<v Speaker 2>dot dot. Right now, we still are internally concerned about
<v Speaker 2>what we what we should be doing for the future
<v Speaker 2>of the series. So sorry, we can't really reveal anything
<v Speaker 2>at the moment, but stay tuned. I think jan from
<v Speaker 2>the beginning when they said the first one was called
<v Speaker 2>middle Gear Solid Master Collection Volume one and it had
<v Speaker 2>one through three in it. At that point, you couldn't
<v Speaker 2>do a volume two and not include metal Gear Solid
<v Speaker 2>four and know we say that you can't. They could
<v Speaker 2>do whatever they want. It would have been a crazy
<v Speaker 2>thing to do. So I think the assumption for a
<v Speaker 2>very long time now has been this is gonna happen,
<v Speaker 2>and this is them all but confirming it.
<v Speaker 1>Right, it has to.
<v Speaker 3>Be, I don't I feel like bu handling up peace
<v Speaker 3>Walker and like metal Gear Acid and Acid two, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>would not be enough to warrant a volume two collection.
<v Speaker 3>You have to stick in metal Gear Solid four. Sure,
<v Speaker 3>throw those PSP games, maybe throwing even the the iPhone
<v Speaker 3>Metal Gear game.
<v Speaker 1>Which was actually pretty good, y'all.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then that is a volume two yep, I
<v Speaker 2>think so. Yeah, the Ghost babble. I would love to
<v Speaker 2>see the game Boy Color game and there as well.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, yeah, yeah, that'd be great, but you
<v Speaker 2>can't do it with that four. And and you know,
<v Speaker 2>obviously the problem has always been four is actually only
<v Speaker 2>available on PS three. Whenever it was available somewhere else,
<v Speaker 2>it was because they were streaming it from a PS
<v Speaker 2>three somewhere on your PS four. So they were gonna
<v Speaker 2>have to do the work to get this game up
<v Speaker 2>and running on other platforms. But it feels like now's
<v Speaker 2>the time to do that if you are making all
<v Speaker 2>this effort and you did see a big reward from
<v Speaker 2>doing You reaped a lot of huge reward from doing
<v Speaker 2>that with Volume one. Volume one did a very well
<v Speaker 2>for Konami. Clearly it's worth the investment. You get this
<v Speaker 2>done now, and then you could sell Metal Gear Solid
<v Speaker 2>four on platforms forever into the future. And then then
<v Speaker 2>once it's on PC, it's just there and people can
<v Speaker 2>just play it whenever. So yeah, this is uh, I
<v Speaker 2>think this is ideal.
<v Speaker 1>This is exciting.
<v Speaker 2>Now I'm like, oh yeah, now I feel like pretty
<v Speaker 2>happy about the idea of like, oh I'm gonna I
<v Speaker 2>am going to start up Metal Gear Solid and play through.
<v Speaker 2>I played through one and I played five. I haven't
<v Speaker 2>played two, three or four or a lot of the
<v Speaker 2>other stuff, so I'm like, well, part of that was
<v Speaker 2>always Yeah, I mean, once I get the four, am
<v Speaker 2>I gonna want to emulate it?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I probably will just do that.
<v Speaker 2>I guess I can go get a PlayStation three out
<v Speaker 2>and get that running.
<v Speaker 1>But that's just once.
<v Speaker 2>So as soon as that hurdle gets placed in front
<v Speaker 2>of me, it's an excuse to not do it. And
<v Speaker 2>now I'm like, I should just do this and play
<v Speaker 2>this game and stream it, and I would enjoy that.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, were you ever a metal Gear Solid four?
<v Speaker 2>Guy?
<v Speaker 3>I feel like I missed that because I didn't have
<v Speaker 3>a PS three at the time. I wound up getting
<v Speaker 3>a PS three way way after the console had already
<v Speaker 3>been sent out to pasture. So I would definitely be
<v Speaker 3>interested in fully checking out for myself. Mail Gear Solid four.
<v Speaker 3>Definitely played it at a friend's house here and there,
<v Speaker 3>but never dove in for the full thing. Watch male
<v Speaker 3>Gear Scanlon's run of mail Gear Solid four. But I
<v Speaker 3>kind of want to experience the microwaves for myself.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, of course.
<v Speaker 3>Also, God, I think Medle Gear Solid five might be
<v Speaker 3>in my top ten games.
<v Speaker 1>It's so good.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like that when as I am playing Star Wars
<v Speaker 2>Outlaws and it's like it's a stealth game. It's like
<v Speaker 2>I get, like, you can't. Not every game's gonna be
<v Speaker 2>Medle Gear Slid five, no games, Ben middle Gear Solid
<v Speaker 2>five basically since five. But boy, I wish they would
<v Speaker 2>just copy what this game is doing or try to
<v Speaker 2>like play around in this playground space a little bit more.
<v Speaker 1>That would rule.
<v Speaker 3>I'm curious to see what you would think of mail
<v Speaker 3>Gear Solid three, knowing our similar tastes and distaste for
<v Speaker 3>a game like Red Dead Redemption two.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'll give it a shot. I think. I hope
<v Speaker 1>I like it.
<v Speaker 2>I just I meddle Gear said one was like such
<v Speaker 2>a good balance of being cinematic but still being a
<v Speaker 2>video game ass video game, and I I just love
<v Speaker 2>everything about it and I've tried too in the past.
<v Speaker 2>I've like really given it a real shot.
<v Speaker 1>So that's why I don't qualify as really playing it.
<v Speaker 2>But it's everything I know about three and three. I've
<v Speaker 2>actually tried a little bit two on three DS. I
<v Speaker 2>tried that version recently. I was just like kind of
<v Speaker 2>playing around for a little bit seeing what that was like,
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, Okay, I'm not over the hump
<v Speaker 2>of like what where does the good loop here? What
<v Speaker 2>is fun about this? So I'm still cautious about that one,
<v Speaker 2>but we'll see. I know people love that game, so
<v Speaker 2>I'm willing to willing to jump in there and give
<v Speaker 2>it a real.
<v Speaker 1>Shot, all right.
<v Speaker 2>Square Enix will bring more games to Xbox after Final
<v Speaker 2>Fantasy fourteen success. This is from Evan Campbell at GameSpot.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks to a really strong response on Xbox for Final
<v Speaker 2>Fantasy fourteen, Square Enix seems committed to launching more of
<v Speaker 2>its games on the console, though Naoki Yoshida, yoshidactor and
<v Speaker 2>producer of the MMO, didn't offer any specific examples of
<v Speaker 2>what could arrive next on Final Fantasy or on Xbox
<v Speaker 2>Series X and S. Eurogamer caught up with Yoshulda at
<v Speaker 2>games Com earlier this month and chatted about how Final
<v Speaker 2>Fantasy fourteen has performed on Xbox since the full game
<v Speaker 2>released in March. I'm happy to say that we've seen
<v Speaker 2>a really strong response to on Xbox.
<v Speaker 1>We've seen communities.
<v Speaker 2>Starting to establish and now they're growing. YO should have
<v Speaker 2>said on top of Final Fantasy fourteen success on Xbox,
<v Speaker 2>Yo should have pointed out that Squaring X revealed a
<v Speaker 2>new aggressive multi platform plan going forward in May. So
<v Speaker 2>now we are moving towards the policy of releasing our
<v Speaker 2>games on a multi platform basis, and we really want
<v Speaker 2>as many players as possible to play our titles. So
<v Speaker 2>with Final Fantasy fourteen as the starting point, we do
<v Speaker 2>want to release more Square Inex games on Xbox, and
<v Speaker 2>there will be more of our titles released on Xbox. Hey,
<v Speaker 2>this is a little bit different than that. I think
<v Speaker 2>the early days of Final Fantasy fourteen on Xbox, what
<v Speaker 2>we were hearing was maybe it's Garland going slowly, but
<v Speaker 2>it's like sounds like it has picked up pace, which
<v Speaker 2>as an MMO it was always capable of doing. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we know. Big part of this is what
<v Speaker 2>he said there. Square next is like, hey, we are
<v Speaker 2>maybe done with the exclusive partnerships. As much as it's
<v Speaker 2>nice to have a big check from PlayStation up front,
<v Speaker 2>maybe we'll just take the co marketing deal for a
<v Speaker 2>lot less money and we'll just sell it everywhere because
<v Speaker 2>we think that's better for the health of these games
<v Speaker 2>long term.
<v Speaker 3>Right, Yeah, I think long looking at it long term,
<v Speaker 3>I think people already have that expectation or that odd
<v Speaker 3>association that modern Final Fantasy games are associated with the PlayStation,
<v Speaker 3>but knowing as if you were a console owner and
<v Speaker 3>only at an Xbox, Like, yeah, sure the PS five
<v Speaker 3>branding is big on those commercials, but I can still
<v Speaker 3>get those games.
<v Speaker 1>Then that's a win win for Square yep.
<v Speaker 2>And I mean this change is happening in the middle
<v Speaker 2>of the Final Fantasy seven remake trilogy being released, do
<v Speaker 2>you think?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I think the deal for Final Fantasy seven Part three
<v Speaker 2>and have they not stand for that yet?
<v Speaker 1>Maybe they haven't.
<v Speaker 2>That one I think could launch an Xbox at the
<v Speaker 2>very least, though, someone and Chat points out that should
<v Speaker 2>just launch on PC day and day right.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, one hundred percent.
<v Speaker 3>God, I would have preferred that, just so I can
<v Speaker 3>play it on my Steam deck. Everything it seemed feels
<v Speaker 3>like a no brainer. With Final Fantasies sixteen headed to
<v Speaker 3>PC later this year, I have to assume that it's
<v Speaker 3>headed to the Xbox as well.
<v Speaker 2>Game specifically, Yes, again, the Final Fantasy seven stuff's a
<v Speaker 2>little bit weirder, but I don't I don't think that
<v Speaker 2>that deals in in perpetuity. So maybe one day Final
<v Speaker 2>Fantasy seven remit could still end up on Xbox. But
<v Speaker 2>as far as sixteen is concerned, yeah, that that'll head
<v Speaker 2>to Xbox at some point.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I'm ready for sixteen to get another wave of people
<v Speaker 3>checking it out, because I feel like a lot of
<v Speaker 3>people are poop pooing on it when it came out
<v Speaker 3>just because of how much it varied from the core series.
<v Speaker 3>But I still enjoyed it. I still think it's one
<v Speaker 3>of the better Kingdom Hearts games I think.
<v Speaker 2>And I think there's by putting in an audiences that
<v Speaker 2>don't normally see these games necessarily like Xbox, I think, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>they can come in with different expectations and maybe the
<v Speaker 2>game will hit harder with that audience than it did
<v Speaker 2>the traditional Final Fantasy audience.
<v Speaker 3>I have to assume that Microsoft is taking the tempt
<v Speaker 3>and seeing the success of Final Fantasy fourteen on Xbox
<v Speaker 3>and is Wow on Xbox yet?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 2>And I mean I know that, you know, Mike's a
<v Speaker 2>big wild guy. He whenever I bring this up, he's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's kind of a crazy idea, just that it seems like,
<v Speaker 2>you know, you know, Final Fantasy fourteen at a certain
<v Speaker 2>point built for controller and Warcraft would have to be
<v Speaker 2>completely reworked. But it's like I know, in the last year,
<v Speaker 2>we did a story about the person in charge of
<v Speaker 2>who I was saying, Yeah, it's something that we talk
<v Speaker 2>about all the time, and of course we talk about it,
<v Speaker 2>and maybe we talk about it even more these days.
<v Speaker 2>So now just that still doesn't sound like and it's
<v Speaker 2>something we're actively working on. But the conversation does have happen.
<v Speaker 2>And I don't think it's impossible to rework that game
<v Speaker 2>to be on console. It would just be cumbersome. It'd
<v Speaker 2>be a lot of radio menus every time, like all
<v Speaker 2>these shoulder buttons would just bring up different radio menus
<v Speaker 2>probably and you'd have to like get pretty good at
<v Speaker 2>navigating that. But hey whatever, and you could plug a
<v Speaker 2>keyboard and mouse into your Xbox these days in any
<v Speaker 2>game and it just works, so you know, as long
<v Speaker 2>as the game recognized as the keyboard and mouse. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I don't think this is something that is off the
<v Speaker 2>table long term. I think they wow's not going anywhere.
<v Speaker 2>It still makes a ton of money, and I think
<v Speaker 2>that they probably will consider this more in the future.
<v Speaker 3>It surprisingly had a pretty big presence at Games Calm
<v Speaker 3>as well, Like a decent chunk of the Xbox booth
<v Speaker 3>was dedicated to a World of Warcraft. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>if we mentioned it this past BombCast, but they had
<v Speaker 3>a VR World of Warcraft roller coaster type of deal,
<v Speaker 3>like you'd see in a mall or something. Sure, and
<v Speaker 3>it was actually really well done.
<v Speaker 1>Is that the thing that Mikey was on it was
<v Speaker 1>a writing was scream I like that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was pretty fun. They synced up the fans
<v Speaker 3>and everything. It was really cool. And then they took
<v Speaker 3>videos of everyone and it is the most unflattering thing
<v Speaker 3>video of everyone I've ever seen.
<v Speaker 2>So except Mike Manatty. He looked like just joyous. He's
<v Speaker 2>having so much fun.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. Absolutely, all right, let's take a quick break.
<v Speaker 2>When we'd come back a lot more news, including maybe
<v Speaker 2>a new astrobat game.
<v Speaker 1>No, not Astrobot one.
<v Speaker 2>After that, right after this, all right, we are back
<v Speaker 2>and let's get into it. Astrobot two hinted at and
<v Speaker 2>PlayStation five platinum trophy description. This is from Liam Croft
<v Speaker 2>at Push Square ahead of its PS five release next week.
<v Speaker 2>The trophy list for Astrobot has been posted to XO
<v Speaker 2>phase and what is noteworthy is the platinum trophy description
<v Speaker 2>earned all trophies, well done and see you in Astro's
<v Speaker 2>next Sure, so will Astrobot to be out before the
<v Speaker 2>end of the PS five generation. That's a question to ponder. Now, Look,
<v Speaker 2>I think this is really meaning that it's just like
<v Speaker 2>no astro Well, like, we made this game and see
<v Speaker 2>you next time.
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever said have you in your life?
<v Speaker 2>Have you ever said see you next time to somebody
<v Speaker 2>and you never saw them again? That happens too, right,
<v Speaker 2>So I hope yeah, And I think I'll say this
<v Speaker 2>at least jan that I think Astrobot has that chance
<v Speaker 2>to break out that I've been mentioning, and I think
<v Speaker 2>we will get a lot more astro before Sony gets
<v Speaker 2>bored of it and let's it drop off or something
<v Speaker 2>like that, like this is the start of an astro
<v Speaker 2>renaissance and astroisance.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, one hundred percent.
<v Speaker 3>This is where Sony your PlayStation comes back and is like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>we need a fucking.
<v Speaker 1>Mascot to leave.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is a great one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Like, hey, your PS five is just full of
<v Speaker 3>these little dudes.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I I one hundred percent think they should lean
<v Speaker 3>into it the language of like we'll show you're good.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think that immediately means we're gonna get an
<v Speaker 3>astrobot too, but that astrobot will play a bigger.
<v Speaker 1>Role across the PlayStation. Yeah. I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe they changed like the beginning splash screens when PlayStation
<v Speaker 3>is there, and they just kind of like Pixar or
<v Speaker 3>FYAT where like the Astrobots like peek out of the
<v Speaker 3>PS five logo or whatever, that'd be cool.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean it's and it's just you know, see
<v Speaker 1>you in Astro's Next Adventure. It is sort.
<v Speaker 2>Of it is like a promise a little bit. I
<v Speaker 2>get that they're what they're like how people read this,
<v Speaker 2>and I think that they that is probably how they
<v Speaker 2>intend it. But I don't think that means there's anything
<v Speaker 2>concrete right now. If this studio is going to make
<v Speaker 2>another game right now, though, I do think it'll probably
<v Speaker 2>be still be an Astro game. Yeah, at a certain point,
<v Speaker 2>why not. They seem to like making them. I think
<v Speaker 2>they offer a strong canvas for creativity. So and every time,
<v Speaker 2>you know, when we talked to was it Nico Dusse,
<v Speaker 2>It is this the name of the guy. We've talked
<v Speaker 2>to him a little bit at Summer Game Fest. Ben
<v Speaker 2>just did a really good rapid interview with them on
<v Speaker 2>on over there on min Max. People should go watch that.
<v Speaker 2>He seems to be kind of like super into the
<v Speaker 2>stuff that they're working on. And I hope that that
<v Speaker 2>is indicative of how the whole team feels and that
<v Speaker 2>they really are saying see you in Astra's next adventure.
<v Speaker 2>Because they were like, we want to do more of these.
<v Speaker 2>That's how I'm reading this, and I think that is
<v Speaker 2>a reasonable expectation that they want to do more.
<v Speaker 3>Here's a Sony PlayStation. Keep the check book out still
<v Speaker 3>address it to jan and Ahoah and.
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Greb take the tech from Ratchet and Clank. God,
<v Speaker 1>what was the last one that came out? Rift Apart?
<v Speaker 3>Rift Apart where you are going through the rifts, but
<v Speaker 3>is just different PlayStation games and you're just astro yep.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's a very good idea, because the idea
<v Speaker 2>of like right now, right now, what they're doing is, oh,
<v Speaker 2>there's a lot of little astrobot guys that look like
<v Speaker 2>characters from other games, and you rescue him.
<v Speaker 1>That's what this game.
<v Speaker 2>The plot of the game is having anything where you
<v Speaker 2>actually go into some of those games.
<v Speaker 1>I think that could be fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>As well, as long as they all sto just played
<v Speaker 2>like Astro.
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to.
<v Speaker 3>Turn into from me Astro dipping into the world of
<v Speaker 3>Jack two.
<v Speaker 1>So now Astro has a gun.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and then Astro is in a stealth level, so
<v Speaker 3>it's like Cooper in a level.
<v Speaker 1>And then like, oh, whoa, what's this. There's two Astros.
<v Speaker 1>Now it's cookies and cream.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that you mentioned Ratchet Kimbot is that other one
<v Speaker 2>of the other games I was talking about that just
<v Speaker 2>came out. That's from the Pumpkin Jack guy, the guy
<v Speaker 2>that made the Pumpkin Jack, which is like mid medieval.
<v Speaker 2>And then this one is like Ratchet and it looks great.
<v Speaker 2>I haven't played it yet, but it looks very good. Also,
<v Speaker 2>who was in Chads Cyrus Ravens said Astro too will
<v Speaker 2>be an extraction shooter and that made me laugh.
<v Speaker 1>So very good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>But also we I feel like this is kind of
<v Speaker 3>capitalizing off of like the language we've seen in Marvel
<v Speaker 3>movies of like Manill exactly, Yes, and it's.
<v Speaker 2>There's been examples of that where it's like you know,
<v Speaker 2>that doesn't always pan out right with the promises they
<v Speaker 2>make there most of the time it does. I get
<v Speaker 2>the implication of what they're going for here, and I agree,
<v Speaker 2>and I think the reality comes down to if this
<v Speaker 2>game performs, we will get more. Absolutely and I ever,
<v Speaker 2>it feels like this thing has a tailwind that is
<v Speaker 2>pushing it forward. The people are in the mood for
<v Speaker 2>this game. It looks super high quality. It's unlike a
<v Speaker 2>lot of other stuff you can get on the PS five.
<v Speaker 2>I just everything is going its way. So with all
<v Speaker 2>of those factors being true, if I kind of feels
<v Speaker 2>like game, better perform, it better do well.
<v Speaker 1>Now what does that mean?
<v Speaker 2>I to me, it means anything north of five million
<v Speaker 2>copies and we're doing pretty good. My dream scenario is
<v Speaker 2>ten million copies. That's like that is earth shattering for that.
<v Speaker 2>But I don't think that's I don't think that's reasonable,
<v Speaker 2>a reasonable expectation, and I hope that was never an
<v Speaker 2>expectation at Sony. I don't think it was, but who
<v Speaker 2>knows how these companies think. At the very least, I
<v Speaker 2>think this game will come out and establish itself very firmly.
<v Speaker 2>As now, this is Sony's new mascot, and I think
<v Speaker 2>that'll be great. Yeah, all right, let's see here, keep
<v Speaker 2>moving on along here. Marathon's director has been fired after
<v Speaker 2>inappropriate behavior, and that's been alleged against them. I'm going
<v Speaker 2>to say that to cover our own asses. Just over
<v Speaker 2>two years ago, Sony bought the former Microsoft's owned developer, Bungie,
<v Speaker 2>which has given a lot of autonomy, which was given
<v Speaker 2>a lot of autonomy within the company shortly after a
<v Speaker 2>new Marathon was announced, and Bungie seemed to be a
<v Speaker 2>huge addition for Sony. Then Destiny's problems began to mount,
<v Speaker 2>with leaders defecting in droves and, according to consistent, consistent reports,
<v Speaker 2>a very bad atmosphere while financial estimates were falling. The
<v Speaker 2>last year has seen mostly negative reports about Bungie, so
<v Speaker 2>it's perhaps not surprising that is now time for not one,
<v Speaker 2>but two strikes. Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreyer reports that at
<v Speaker 2>least eight female and Bungee employees have reported Marathon director
<v Speaker 2>Chris Barrett for inappropriate behavior, including calling lower level female
<v Speaker 2>employees attractive, asking them to play truth or dare, and
<v Speaker 2>made references to his wealth and power within the studio.
<v Speaker 2>Which suggested to those female employees that he could help
<v Speaker 2>advance their careers. This has now led to Barrett being fired.
<v Speaker 2>As if it wasn't bad enough that Marathon has lost
<v Speaker 2>its director, The admittedly reliable journalist Tom Henderson writes on
<v Speaker 2>social media that Marathon is so cooked and says he's
<v Speaker 2>heard more. Yeah, I mean right, just don't we know this,
<v Speaker 2>don't do this. I'm constantly baffled how we get in
<v Speaker 2>situations where people get a little bit of power and think,
<v Speaker 2>all right, now it's time to use this to my
<v Speaker 2>own personal advantage in a very peculiar and intimate way.
<v Speaker 2>And it's always wrong. It's so obviously always wrong.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 2>I know people don't necessarily always see their own power dynamics,
<v Speaker 2>but I know for a fact, because I work at
<v Speaker 2>a corporation, that you're trained to see those power dynamics
<v Speaker 2>and recognize them, and the fact that you still try
<v Speaker 2>to take advantage of them is just it's always a
<v Speaker 2>bad look. And yeah, fire the guy, get rid of them.
<v Speaker 1>We don't need them.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, there's nothing else to be said about that.
<v Speaker 1>Dude's a piece of shit. Dude, this comebag.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, if you are in any type of power where
<v Speaker 3>you act as a manager or you oversee a team
<v Speaker 3>of people or even just one person.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, don't be a piece of shit. Yep.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And it's like yeah, but clearly as people playing
<v Speaker 2>out a chat piece of shit beforehand.
<v Speaker 1>But it's like once you.
<v Speaker 2>Have the power to like there's a situation where like
<v Speaker 2>employees dating each other is like, well we.
<v Speaker 1>Can like okay, that's that seems fine.
<v Speaker 2>But as soon as you become a manager, like there
<v Speaker 2>is it comes the power damics come into play, and
<v Speaker 2>that makes it a problem for everybody. And it's just
<v Speaker 2>like I don't know if there's any good way to
<v Speaker 2>navigate that, Like I'm going to give space for human
<v Speaker 2>beings being human beings at a company. But once you
<v Speaker 2>are like, hey, I have power, and now I'm going
<v Speaker 2>to try to say if I'm going to say you
<v Speaker 2>look pretty to someone who works for me, No way,
<v Speaker 2>there's no world in which like that we can make
<v Speaker 2>that makes sense because it's just going to lead to
<v Speaker 2>situations where people feel uncomfortable all the time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, No matter like how much you try and flatten
<v Speaker 3>a workplace environment, there is still some type of hierarchy
<v Speaker 3>in the back end. No matter what type of environment
<v Speaker 3>you've cultivated, so you just can't do that.
<v Speaker 1>Ye if it's.
<v Speaker 3>Employee to employee, sure do y'all's thing. But if it's
<v Speaker 3>like someone in a managerial position or other higher position
<v Speaker 3>making comments or making advances to someone lower than no
<v Speaker 3>bueno dog.
<v Speaker 4>This specifically gets covered in HR training like this exact example,
<v Speaker 4>like all the things he was doing here get covered
<v Speaker 4>like they just have reenactors acting it out and it's like,
<v Speaker 4>what should you do here?
<v Speaker 2>It's like, well, not that and everything. It's like, I'm
<v Speaker 2>just clicking the button I know not to do that.
<v Speaker 2>Chris Barret could use a little bit more of that, apparently,
<v Speaker 2>And honestly, no, he could just use getting fuck out
<v Speaker 2>of here, Just get out.
<v Speaker 1>We don't need to put up with this. Yeah, we don't.
<v Speaker 1>Just get the hell out.
<v Speaker 3>Go go somewhere else and stay there, and then I
<v Speaker 3>hope you get kicked out of there as well. I
<v Speaker 3>also feel terrible for the folks involved with marathon, just
<v Speaker 3>because it is already an uphill battle and having people
<v Speaker 3>like this at the top does not make anything easier.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, you know, it depletes morale and people will
<v Speaker 2>you need a certain amount of energy to come into
<v Speaker 2>work and give their best on any of these things.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm I would not be expecting anyone to do
<v Speaker 2>that if they're if they're like looking around and seeing
<v Speaker 2>a boss treating people this way. Let alone the fact
<v Speaker 2>that Marathon Extraction Shooter is going to face all kinds
<v Speaker 2>of complications just because it's really hard to make one
<v Speaker 2>of those games. So yeah, yeah, hey whatever, I've honestly
<v Speaker 2>never really cared about Marathon all that much. I don't
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna care about it in this situation when
<v Speaker 2>there's real people dealing with real assholes at the workplace.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, they're gonna have to figure that out, and
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people's livelihoods will depend on that, because,
<v Speaker 2>as we talked about with a bunch of stuff, the
<v Speaker 2>future Bungie and its ability to continue to make games
<v Speaker 2>that people want them to make greatly depends on one
<v Speaker 2>the destiny too, stuff that is going to be reduced
<v Speaker 2>but continuing to perform, and Marathon has to hit. And
<v Speaker 2>that game was supposed to come out this year, I
<v Speaker 2>guess originally. Now it's scheduled for twenty twenty five, and
<v Speaker 2>we'll see if that comes through.
<v Speaker 3>Even if it even if it does hit grub. I
<v Speaker 3>just don't know how long the hit will be able
<v Speaker 3>to last and sustain it?
<v Speaker 2>Right, yeah, I mean is again to be a different
<v Speaker 2>audience and what's playing Destiny? Is that what you're going for?
<v Speaker 2>Or do you have to extract some of the Destiny
<v Speaker 2>audience over here extract for Marathon to keep that game?
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>It's funny night, completely different game, but like the finals,
<v Speaker 3>like blew up last year and really dominated a lot
<v Speaker 3>of my time playing games on the PC. But after
<v Speaker 3>that in a wave, I have not checked it out.
<v Speaker 3>I've not thought to redownload it or whatever. If anything,
<v Speaker 3>I've thought about downloading Titan Fall two again.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I have that constantly installed now, all right.
<v Speaker 2>Riyogu Katoku Studio is hosting a presentation next month. Riyoga
<v Speaker 2>Kotoku Studio is set to hold an online presentation at
<v Speaker 2>September the RGG Summit twenty twenty four stream, which it's
<v Speaker 2>expected will include news about Ryogo Kutoku's upcoming titles, and
<v Speaker 2>it will be broadcast on September twentieth at three am
<v Speaker 2>Pacific time, six am Eastern eleven am BST.
<v Speaker 1>Jan Let's get up, Let's cover it, let's go, let's
<v Speaker 1>do it three. Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 2>The like of Dragon Studios yet to announce what will
<v Speaker 2>appear at the show. The studio recently claimed that its
<v Speaker 2>next title will be revealed at the Tokyo Game Show
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty four. This would put that like about a
<v Speaker 2>week up before TGS, so maybe a teaser there, or
<v Speaker 2>maybe they announce it here and show it off at
<v Speaker 2>a Tokyo Game Show, and that's what they always meant.
<v Speaker 2>According to a recent live stream from the studio, its
<v Speaker 2>next title will be revealed yeah at TGS. No further
<v Speaker 2>information is known about that game or which franchise the
<v Speaker 2>game will be from Tokyo. Tokyo Game Show twenty twenty
<v Speaker 2>four will take place in blah blah blah. Yeah we
<v Speaker 2>saw that, not leaked, but like the filing legal filing
<v Speaker 2>for what was it, Yakuza Tactics Yakazu here the Wars
<v Speaker 2>Yakuza Wars thank you, and yeah, yeah, that seems like
<v Speaker 2>that could pop up here. Who knows, could be something
<v Speaker 2>else as well, but the very least, I'm at a
<v Speaker 2>point with RGG where I know we're in between the
<v Speaker 2>big main entries on this, and yet I'm still very
<v Speaker 2>curious about what they're what they're doing because the spinoffs,
<v Speaker 2>some of the spinoffs I've dabbled with a little bit.
<v Speaker 2>I played one of the Eastan games a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, I just I just lost access to my Plucky.
<v Speaker 2>Squire preview build.
<v Speaker 1>Let's enjoy that.
<v Speaker 2>Let's let's team pop up just happened in front of me. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>it's been removed from your account.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, I guess I'll just wait for it
<v Speaker 1>to come out now.
<v Speaker 2>That was fun, though, I'm gonna play with RGG where
<v Speaker 2>I am curious about everything they're.
<v Speaker 1>Doing, so I will be tuning into this, how about you?
<v Speaker 1>One percent?
<v Speaker 3>I feel like they've been really on a They've been
<v Speaker 3>on such a good run with all their releases lately
<v Speaker 3>that I'm super curious to see what is coming next
<v Speaker 3>from the studio, especially with how they may try and
<v Speaker 3>reimagine a genre that they're diving into. I feel like
<v Speaker 3>they've really done a lot of good work with like
<v Speaker 3>turn based combat, so I'm curious to see how they'll
<v Speaker 3>adapt it. My heart wants tactics, but if they want
<v Speaker 3>to give me a freaking RTS, I trust them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, I think when we talked about it
<v Speaker 2>last time, the one I settled my heart on is
<v Speaker 2>all of the what's their pokemon thing called all the
<v Speaker 2>Freaks to Jamon Yeah, stujimon, Yeah, having Stuji mind having
<v Speaker 2>all the freaks battle one another on a playfield and
<v Speaker 2>having positioning matter.
<v Speaker 1>I would love that. That would be great. So kind
<v Speaker 1>of hope maybe that's what it is.
<v Speaker 3>Also, yeah, you know what, I'll wake up at three
<v Speaker 3>am to do this. Let's do it, okay, hell yeah, party, I'll.
<v Speaker 1>Send us to TGS. Someone bring us to TGS. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I mean to be clear, the reason that the crew
<v Speaker 2>was able to go to games Com is games Come
<v Speaker 2>invited us and help pay for it.
<v Speaker 1>And it's like that's the.
<v Speaker 2>Kind of thing where it's like very easy to say
<v Speaker 2>yes too, because it's not like our coverages of games Com.
<v Speaker 2>We cover the things that are at games Com, so
<v Speaker 2>there's never any conflict there. If Tokyo Game Show wants
<v Speaker 2>to do the same thing, hell yeah, absolutely, yeah, make
<v Speaker 2>it makes sense for us. I need more jeans, I
<v Speaker 2>need I need a lot of things from Japan, is
<v Speaker 2>what I'm realizing that they just they when they have things,
<v Speaker 2>they just don't stop doing them until they perfect it,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, okay, I need some more of that
<v Speaker 2>in my life. I also really want to go to
<v Speaker 2>a Japanese convenience store as a someone who really appreciates
<v Speaker 2>convenience stores. I really that's like my thing I need.
<v Speaker 2>I know that I've never actually experienced the Pinnacle, so
<v Speaker 2>I need to do that.
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Grubb, I I want to be there for that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>hell yeah, I want you there.
<v Speaker 2>I know you'll see it in my eyes and how
<v Speaker 2>it would be like when we went to Disney and
<v Speaker 2>I was on the Rise of the Resistance ride or
<v Speaker 2>whatever it was.
<v Speaker 1>Or yeah, yeah, that'd be very good.
<v Speaker 2>All right, A handful more stories here. The Legend of
<v Speaker 2>Zelda animated series is re releasing on DVD. This is
<v Speaker 2>from Darren Bontus at GameSpot. The Legend of Zelda's a
<v Speaker 2>live action movie adaptation isn't releasing anytime soon. I forgot
<v Speaker 2>that that was happening for a second. But at least
<v Speaker 2>the cartoon series is being reprinted on DVD. Yes, we
<v Speaker 2>were surprised to stumble upon this too, but the complete
<v Speaker 2>thirteen episode run will be available on a shiny, unscratched
<v Speaker 2>disc on October twenty second, you can get the complete
<v Speaker 2>series for about fourteen dollars thirteen dollars.
<v Speaker 1>And fifty nine cents. Never a great show. I liked
<v Speaker 1>it as a kid. It is.
<v Speaker 2>It is a fun thing though, because I got a
<v Speaker 2>lot of the Mario ones that they've done on DVD
<v Speaker 2>because I have the DVD player in the van, and
<v Speaker 2>the kids will sometimes watch those and sometimes get very
<v Speaker 2>into it, and I'm like, I'm always like, there's a
<v Speaker 2>Zelda one of these as well, and they've won watch
<v Speaker 2>me plays Elda. They don't really play Zeld themselves, so
<v Speaker 2>they've been curious about that. So I'll get this for
<v Speaker 2>the van, like thirteen bucks, no problem. But and if
<v Speaker 2>people were wondering, yeah, you've seen this on DVD before.
<v Speaker 2>It's been out of print for a while, so this
<v Speaker 2>is mostly just a new printing of the Legend of
<v Speaker 2>Zelda cartoon series.
<v Speaker 1>So hey, yeah, I'll show up for that. Sounds good.
<v Speaker 2>Next story. Concerned Ape gives update on stardew Valley one
<v Speaker 2>point six port on consoles and mobile This is from
<v Speaker 2>Adida Chugue ad Dual Shockers. Stardu Valley players who play
<v Speaker 2>on consoles and mobile devices have been missing out on
<v Speaker 2>the game's latest one point six update experience for months.
<v Speaker 2>Addressing the same concerned ape, the game's creator has revealed
<v Speaker 2>how far along the process supporting the update to these
<v Speaker 2>devices has come, sharing it on their official Twitter handle,
<v Speaker 2>The American game developer Developer revealed how porting the STARDUW
<v Speaker 2>Value one point six update to other platforms apart from
<v Speaker 2>PC has been their main concern for a while now
<v Speaker 2>and will be rolled out as soon as possible. Additionally,
<v Speaker 2>the developer revisited how they have put aside the Haunted
<v Speaker 2>Chocolate Tear project to fully dedicate themselves to porting Stardoo
<v Speaker 2>Valley's latest version. So if you remember that before vaguely,
<v Speaker 2>well that's still been the case for months now. They
<v Speaker 2>are fully working on the STARDUW Valley update. The one
<v Speaker 2>point six update, which came out for PC and March,
<v Speaker 2>brings the game a lot of free content and significant
<v Speaker 2>improvements that have been due out for some while. The
<v Speaker 2>update also brings extended multiplayer support, allowing up to eight
<v Speaker 2>players in a single session. And every time we think
<v Speaker 2>about this, we've got to just play this game multiplayer sometimes.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Basically, what's happening here is he's just saying it's still happening,
<v Speaker 2>it's still coming. It will probably be pretty soon. But
<v Speaker 2>the reason it does there's a little bit of a
<v Speaker 2>gap here is he explained that they tested on PC.
<v Speaker 2>The PC version is like they know that audience is
<v Speaker 2>a little bit more tolerant for things not being fully
<v Speaker 2>done mostly done but not fully done, and that stuff
<v Speaker 2>is now being like completely ironed out, and that makes
<v Speaker 2>this thing more ready for consoles, and they're in the
<v Speaker 2>process of like figuring that final part out. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>I think at certain day mostly still just this one guy,
<v Speaker 2>so that these things are just going to take time.
<v Speaker 3>Right yeah, I, Hey, buddy, take all the time in
<v Speaker 3>the world you need, because I'm just suddenly finding out
<v Speaker 3>this game many years too late, and I'm enjoying all
<v Speaker 3>of it so far.
<v Speaker 2>You were like a debating go and Fields a Mystery
<v Speaker 2>and you decided to do this instead, Right Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed like a couple hours of Field of Mystery
<v Speaker 1>that I played.
<v Speaker 3>But then I thought, well, you know, let's go back
<v Speaker 3>to what inspired this, So I went all the way
<v Speaker 3>back to Harvest Moon. No, I didn't actually do that,
<v Speaker 3>but with all the Quality of Life updates, that Stardu has,
<v Speaker 3>and then all of the resources available for Stardo right now,
<v Speaker 3>and if I need people the backseat game and help
<v Speaker 3>me with my farm, it seems like there are more
<v Speaker 3>resources available there. Also, the multiplayer thing that we eventually
<v Speaker 3>should check out.
<v Speaker 2>Is very entire in Barry enticing, it seems sounds like
<v Speaker 2>a very good time all right, last story here, Sonic
<v Speaker 2>Team Boss says Shadow is quote not Vegeta in any
<v Speaker 2>way and is quote not friends with Sonic. This is
<v Speaker 2>from my Nintendo News Sonic Team Boss at Shadow the
<v Speaker 2>Hedgehog's creator, Takashi Izka has revealed in an interview that
<v Speaker 2>he's fed up with people comparing Shadow to Dragon Ball's
<v Speaker 2>dark hero Vegeta. Speaking to the site, Isako informed them
<v Speaker 2>that Shadow the Hedgehog is his favorite Sonic character due
<v Speaker 2>to the tragic backstory behind him, which trying not to
<v Speaker 2>laugh relate to, which takes the confers of character both
<v Speaker 2>interesting and compelling, also a quote. The interview then asked
<v Speaker 2>Isica if Sonic fans have interpreted Shadow in a different
<v Speaker 2>way over the years than how he originally expected or intended.
<v Speaker 2>Here's what he had to say, so, yes, there are
<v Speaker 2>some ways that people interpret Shadow that are not how
<v Speaker 2>I how the team is intending. I think the biggest
<v Speaker 2>one is if you look online, everyone's like, oh, this
<v Speaker 2>is Dragonball vegeta. Vegeta really starts out as an enemy
<v Speaker 2>and then later becomes a friend and an ally and
<v Speaker 2>kind of like fights for justice and trying to save
<v Speaker 2>the world and whatnot. Shadow is not like that. I
<v Speaker 2>never want him to be like that. Shadow is doing
<v Speaker 2>his own thing. He's not friends with Sonic and he's
<v Speaker 2>going gonna go off and you know, do whatever he
<v Speaker 2>feels is correct or right or what he needs to do.
<v Speaker 2>And it's not like, well, okay, we used to be enemies,
<v Speaker 2>but we're friends now, let's save the world. He's not
<v Speaker 2>that kind of character, and I don't want him to
<v Speaker 2>be that kind of character. So people are always online saying, oh,
<v Speaker 2>it's vegeta, it's vegeta. It's like, it's like, it's not vegeta,
<v Speaker 2>and then he laughs, so.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, it's okay, buddy, It's being a real vegeta though,
<v Speaker 3>am I right?
<v Speaker 2>Come on, come on.
<v Speaker 1>Being a real vegeta right now.
<v Speaker 3>Just let people ship how they want to ship and
<v Speaker 3>cast how they want to cast.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And there there's character archetypes and story tropes.
<v Speaker 1>Let him just do it.
<v Speaker 3>I was Numbals has become Piccolos has always been krilling exactly.
<v Speaker 2>I remember like reading old Star Wars Extended Universe novels,
<v Speaker 2>and that was like reading these at the same time
<v Speaker 2>as watching Dragon ball Z. And I remember like reading
<v Speaker 2>a character arc of like Boba Fett having like, Oh,
<v Speaker 2>here's my code that I always stick to, and sometimes
<v Speaker 2>I will do the right thing, and I'll surprise you
<v Speaker 2>by doing the right thing. That's I'm like, this bitch
<v Speaker 2>is so vegeta right now, Like I'm sticking it like
<v Speaker 2>back then. So that's It's just what people say when
<v Speaker 2>when a character who's typically viewed as like originally as hey,
<v Speaker 2>that's the big bad, and now he's shifted enough that
<v Speaker 2>he had sometimes aligned with the good guys. That's what
<v Speaker 2>a vegeta is. What's the uh the vampire on Buffy,
<v Speaker 2>the Vampire Slayer that did that?
<v Speaker 1>Eventually?
<v Speaker 4>Which one right, the blond one? The Spike, Yes, Spike,
<v Speaker 4>fuck Spike, it's all about Angel.
<v Speaker 1>Excuse me?
<v Speaker 2>We can we can just start calling these spikes instead
<v Speaker 2>of vegetas. Would that be better?
<v Speaker 1>I think we could do that that's probably better.
<v Speaker 3>Probably better because Angel is a superior love interest for Buddy.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>Well, yeah, Angel's more complicated, right, He's got more going on.
<v Speaker 3>There than exactly Angelous. Come on, y'all, he was the
<v Speaker 3>first vampire with a soul. David brianne Is could have
<v Speaker 3>been Batman. What a world we could have lived in.
<v Speaker 3>I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've never really watched Angel, yo.
<v Speaker 3>Let me tell you. Part of the reason why I
<v Speaker 3>love Angel is because I had recorded two episodes of
<v Speaker 3>it on VHS and then our cable went out for
<v Speaker 3>like a month. Oh just watch those and over.
<v Speaker 1>Yes. I did.
<v Speaker 3>Charisma Carpenter fantastic in the really terrible How Cordy Got Dealt.
<v Speaker 3>I think Wesley is a terrible character. They should wait,
<v Speaker 3>I'm getting the characters confused now. I'm just so worked
<v Speaker 3>up about Angel. I'm shoot hot right now about Angel.
<v Speaker 3>Part of the reason I also really like David Brianna's
<v Speaker 3>is because he represents the Big Forehead Crew like myself
<v Speaker 3>and re.
<v Speaker 1>Shout outs to y'all.
<v Speaker 2>I know I shouldn't speak on as as the president
<v Speaker 2>of the Little Forehead Crew, but shout outs to y'all. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I also watched I saw the TV Glow, which is
<v Speaker 2>very inspired by Buffy. But I also so I was
<v Speaker 2>watching him like, is that fucking it's a spoiler.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna say it.
<v Speaker 2>We'll just go watch the go watch the movie everybody.
<v Speaker 2>So it was a cool moment, so I won't spoil it.
<v Speaker 2>All right, let's see here poll question. Let me get
<v Speaker 2>that up for everybody that's right over here.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>While I'm doing that, Jan, do we have anything happening
<v Speaker 1>on the website today that people should know about? Yes,
<v Speaker 1>yes we do.
<v Speaker 3>Later today we will have the voicemail dump truck featuring
<v Speaker 3>the og driver himself. Ben Packers is also jumping on
<v Speaker 3>the dump truck as well. Uh, just so our boys
<v Speaker 3>can get ready for packs. Also packs. This weekend, Jeff Grubb,
<v Speaker 3>we have two panels. We have a Blake Club panel
<v Speaker 3>happening on Sunday as well as a BombCast for re
<v Speaker 3>Vengeance popping off on Saturday. We want, I want to
<v Speaker 3>say both will now be streamed. That's the last we've
<v Speaker 3>heard is that they're both streaming, but we will we
<v Speaker 3>will update y'all. Check out the Blake Club new season
<v Speaker 3>of Blake Club that happened started yesterday alone in the
<v Speaker 3>Mitch Best Name ever.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, very good.
<v Speaker 3>That was a lot of fun. That was a good episode,
<v Speaker 3>good time. I'm glad to have a blink button. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and not in the no, not not in the blink way. No,
<v Speaker 3>that's not G blink.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yes, o G blink. Michael look good in that
<v Speaker 1>jacket though. Yeah, absolutely he was wearing it. That yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that Jack was not wearing him.
<v Speaker 3>But later today before the dump truck, Jeff Grub, we
<v Speaker 3>will have the first annual Giant Bomb Spelling Bee.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we will. Huh.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna help you SHOUTcast this thing. I'm gonna SHOUTcast
<v Speaker 2>the spelling be I've always wanted to.
<v Speaker 3>We've already had one dropout, Jeff Grubb. Really yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 3>I'm not gonna say that. Emma five decided to drop
<v Speaker 3>out because she's scared of Bailey Myers and Dan reichert war.
<v Speaker 3>But you know, here, here's where we are.
<v Speaker 1>Real shame, real sham.
<v Speaker 2>I promise I'll be really respectful of her fear when
<v Speaker 2>when I'm shoutcasting.
<v Speaker 1>Don't worry.
<v Speaker 3>I mean that being said, I am already scared of
<v Speaker 3>m five constantly I'm scared.
<v Speaker 2>Of everyone that is a part of the spelling bead
<v Speaker 2>that like is because they're all taking it very seriously.
<v Speaker 2>I'm getting shoot, like frightened of all of them and
<v Speaker 2>their energy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm nicky.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if Nikki is saying they're not taking
<v Speaker 3>it seriously or they are taking it seriously.
<v Speaker 2>I think we'll find out once we're going live everybody,
<v Speaker 2>but you won't won't want to miss that.
<v Speaker 1>What time is that at again?
<v Speaker 3>That should be popping off around eleven thirty Pacific today?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, it's about two thirty Eastern time everybody,
<v Speaker 2>so yeah, tune in for that then. Yeah, voicemail dump
<v Speaker 2>truck been pack well, a lot of fun stuff for
<v Speaker 2>the rest of the week. All of them are going
<v Speaker 2>to be doing UBF and all that tomorrow and again
<v Speaker 2>no game mess mornings tomorrow I will be I will
<v Speaker 2>literally be on a plane the time I should have
<v Speaker 2>been doing this. So that's just how it goes sometimes,
<v Speaker 2>all right, Pole question, I have the one from yesterday
<v Speaker 2>right here. Do you wish that astrobot had a VR mode?
<v Speaker 2>As we've heard those new stories like they won't, but
<v Speaker 2>eighty percent are like our fine with that, they're like, no,
<v Speaker 2>I wish it didn't have a VR mode, twenty percent
<v Speaker 2>wish it did. So still you know one in five saying, hey,
<v Speaker 2>that would be cool, and that's twenty percent. It's like
<v Speaker 2>if all of them bought a VR Astrobot game might
<v Speaker 2>make it make sense. But PSVR two is just not
<v Speaker 2>doing well enough for them to do that. And as
<v Speaker 2>you know Dus said when he was talking about it,
<v Speaker 2>they did not make this game for VR in any way.
<v Speaker 2>And if you played Rescue Mission, you know that they
<v Speaker 2>can build games for VR and really take advantage of that.
<v Speaker 2>All right, new pole question, do you think Konami will
<v Speaker 2>really port Metal Gear solid for it to modern devices?
<v Speaker 2>Yes or no? Now's the time to like just let
<v Speaker 2>your heart fly, like let's believe, let's believe that this
<v Speaker 2>is going to happen. Then they're not just teasing us.
<v Speaker 2>And hopefull I mean, as well as everything they did
<v Speaker 2>with the Volume one.
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully it'll be pretty decent.
<v Speaker 2>All Right, we'll get the results of that pull on
<v Speaker 2>Game mess Mornings on Wednesday, because Monday is Labor Day,
<v Speaker 2>so we're gonna have put kind of a gap here everybody.
<v Speaker 2>Next time I talk to you all if I don't
<v Speaker 2>see you at packs, if you're not tuning in for
<v Speaker 2>that stuff, I'll see on the BombCast on Tuesday. But
<v Speaker 2>then we'll have a new game mess Mornings on Wednesday.
<v Speaker 1>We'll get the results of that. Anything else jan that
<v Speaker 1>we should mention. I think we're all good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, if you see us said, if you see the
<v Speaker 3>crew at packs once again. The crew that will be
<v Speaker 3>out there is Jeff, Mike Manatti, Dan Rekert, two more
<v Speaker 3>who's saying and Lucy James.
<v Speaker 1>If you see say hi, don't be shy, and we
<v Speaker 1>be shy.
<v Speaker 2>The Blake Club panel. You know I'm playing. We're playing
<v Speaker 2>a four player game. There's only three of us on
<v Speaker 2>Blake Club. Maybe we can maybe we can, like after.
<v Speaker 1>One of them, Lucy or Tam of course, then they'll
<v Speaker 1>be on there.
<v Speaker 3>Who seems the most like susceptible to fall into a trap?
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna say Lucy because she might get sleepy.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, well the look out for that, everybody.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be a really good time. We are officially
<v Speaker 2>playing the worst game at Packs, so you're not gonna
<v Speaker 2>want to miss it.
<v Speaker 3>No one at pas West look at Lucy James as
<v Speaker 3>she comes down the stairs to join us for breakfast
<v Speaker 3>and just say biscuit bitch.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, no one do it.
<v Speaker 3>I'm still living with the repercussions of my crimes.
<v Speaker 2>I'll just uh, I'll take that quote of you saying
<v Speaker 2>that right there. I will have that as a sound
<v Speaker 2>on my phone and I'll just play that and I'll
<v Speaker 2>still be you saying it, so it'll be good, all right,
<v Speaker 2>Janet Show, thank you so much for spinning today with
<v Speaker 2>me talking about video games.
<v Speaker 1>Man, you know I appreciate it. That's the best way
<v Speaker 1>to start a Thursday.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you all for watching, Thank you all for listening.
<v Speaker 2>You are the best audience in gaming. Until next time,
<v Speaker 2>have a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.
<v Speaker 1>It's good, bitch,