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Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today me as Zaki said it would break elden
Ring if they made it easier. So today they announced that they're breaking elden
Ring. But first please join me and welcoming today's co host, the Game
Mess Mornings. It's Lucy James. Everybody Lucy has a going asn't everyone just
considered getting Good. I mean, come, I got plenty of get good
left over here, so I'm I'm settled. You know. Actually I haven't
even tried using that stuff when I'm playing elden Ring, so it's like,
yeah, this is a bit and then I didn't do it. You could
always try it. I mean, if you get it's probably you know game
sent is going to get you sick. Then I don't have good feelings over
get good or this is the antidote to game sen. I believe this is
what's gonna heal all that ails me killing everything in your nose, so nothing
can no particles can never be absorbed ever again, well proof plan absolutely.
I I really what it is is, I've been good enough so far except
for now I am a I did a bunch of other bosses. I did
some main bosses, and then I wrapped back around and finally did the one
probably should have done a long time ago, which was Messmer's a Messmer of
the Impaler, and I'm stuck on him now. So oh yeah, I
got stuck on him. And then I went back and I haven't beaten him
yet, but I went and I started doing someone's what is it like?
Quest? So I can get an NPC someone for it, So I will.
We'll see. Hope, did I kill that guy? Chat? Is
that who I killed? Did he kill him? I? Hope? I
think I thought. I thought he helps with a different thing. Maybe I
haven't killed that MPC yet. Yeah, did you care I killed Egon?
Gone? No? Okay, okay, yeah, I thought yes he I
think he helps with the bail, so all right? Cool? Is he?
Is he the guy who you find lying on the ground, He's like,
yeah, having a real moment, I thought I was doing the guy
a favor because he thought he was dead. He shouldn't die content, I
think mostly, but then you know it always backfires because then I kill him
and then everyone in check gets mad at me, and I'm like, listen,
to be fair, I didn't know there's just a guy whining. I've
killed so many of these dudes buckled over in misery in this game. What's
another one? Ud? A good time? He's bao anymore and fucking worm
food? Now, how are you doing otherwise? So you see, James,
you are you still sick of with Elder Rings that we're playing mostly right
now? Oh, I'm playing so so many games. Yeah, I ever
going to friends for a second lessoner as well. And Ralph was like,
literally the only game I've played his elder Ring. I was like, don't
worry, the gamer is here. I've been playing a lot, so no,
I'm now gonna be doing elden Ring and still wakes the deep. I
want to finish this week, but I've got a guest arriving tonight for the
next few days, so who knows. Yeah, do you always feel like
your house is ready for a guest or do you have to do a lot
to get ready? I never I'm like, oh my god, I have
to do so much because I've been traveling so much. I did a deep
clean at the weekend. I made a spreadsheet about all the things, all
the chores that I have to do. So today's today's chores, the final
ones. I have to change the sheets, I have to change the cat
litter, take out the bins, one final whizz around with the vacuum,
and most importantly, get some wine. You know what, can I just
have that spreadsheet? That sounds very useful. Yeah, it's different with you
was based on days. Yeah, okay, that's what I need. Yeah,
I'm very excited about it. But no, and so Ben and I
have had a we had like the most British argument ever the other day,
like on the phone where he was like, well, I'll sleep on the
couch and I was like, no, you will not. You will have
my bedroom. He's like no, no, no. I was like,
I've got a blow up bed. It's fine. He's like, well,
I'll sleep on the blower bed and I was like, no, you will
not. And then he went but I insist, And I was like,
I insist. That's how you know. I assumed that it didn't even get
that heated. It was very much like that Eddie Izzard the British Actors scene
where it's like, oh yeah, should I No, no, maybe I
should go Yeah, yes that's right. I hit him with an I insist
with a firm tone. But he's bringing me. He's bringing me chocolate and
marmite, so he's he's good. Well what is the problem he got?
He got Hershey bars here, what do you need that for? You know
they taste like vomit. Yeah, that's that's the buttric asset. Apparently it
makes it taste so sweeter. But it's the same stock that is it's literally
it's close. It's buttrick with the b but it does sound that way.
But literally this basically the same chemical that is in vomit. So great.
Yeah, that really turned me off with chocolate when I when I started putting
that together, uh, when I was born into it. It was I
didn't notice and then started talking to you freaks, and you're all like,
this tastes like that. No, what are you talking about? You shouldn't
have looked into it. All right, Uh, let's explain what we do
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All right, we have a lot to get into and I should put up
the headlines. There we go. Well, yeah, so let's start the
morning mess with from Software just made the Elder Ring DLC a little bit easier.
This is from Olie Welsh at Polygon. From Software has released a surprise
mini patch or a calibration update as it's calling it, for Elder Ring that
should ease the steep difficulty challenge posed by its new expansion Shadow Theer Tree.
The patch adjusts the way shadow the way Shadow Realm Blessings, a crucial character
advancement system in the DLC, will scale. These are the Skimmitty Tree fragments.
The blessings increase the attack and defensive players characters and their spirit summons through
the collection of skoo tree fragments and revered Spirit ashes from Software. Yeah,
go ahead. They're aparently pronounced shadow shadow yeah, because it's like right,
because it's a shadow tree. Yes, but I see it. I'm like
yeah. Uh. From Software says it has increased the value of the blessings
for the first half of players progress and then made progression for the second half
more gradual. The final level of enhancement has also been upped slightly. Basically,
they're just kind of moving around the curve to to give more more players
more progression early on so they could feel like they are seeing a bigger improvement.
Uh yeah, this makes some sense to me. That sounds about right.
I think people are like, just go get those blessings, those of
those fragments, and that'll make the game easier. Uh. But it's like,
actually, it's it's you're still going to probably struggle with a lot of
things even if you get a lot of those blessings. Uh So moving up
some of that stuff a little bit earlier and into it makes a lot of
sense to me. And this is the kind of thing that they have done
in the past. I think Radon in the Bass elden Ring, right,
he was very very difficult, and they nerved him. Eventually, they dial
these things into where they actually want them to be for most players, and
it's got to be a challenge to do that before they launched the game,
right, I don't know. I don't know that, like, but then
again, my build was weird, Like I didn't have issues with the with
this, like I didn't have issues with were Don or the fire Giant,
which a lot of people did have shoes. I'm trying to find VG twenty
four sevens oh. VG twenty seven did a great tweet which was elder Ring
balance update makes the first half of the DLC easier, so you don't have
to be as good as games Jim there it is. Yeah, that's there's
a mod that's going around that has a games Journalist mode and that makes everything
fifty percent less damage or something like that. And it's like, yeah,
what what do you talk about. They're the ones that beat the game before
it was at before without any guides whatever. I get the joke, but
at a certain point, like, I don't think you get to make the
joke with this one. This is the one you actually don't get to do
that with. Hey Shadow, Dear Trigue you're right, I'm mostly finding it
to be just fine. I haven't installed this patch yet while I am stuck
on Mesmer. I will see how I feel about that if I have another
if you haven't killed that guy, yes, let's see if Yeah, if
I go through another you know, thirty forty tries and I don't feel like
I'm not making any progress, we'll see. I am at like level ten.
I think on my shadowed tree blessings scuodoo trees, it's scubity toilet cubity
toilet trees. How many total are there? Like? How many total levels
is that? I know there's fifty fragments. I don't know, because doesn't
it some of it. It's like it's twenty. It's twenty. No,
no, no, sorry, it is in it. It's two fragments for
a bit, and then does it get to three. It gets a three
and it stays at three apparently, So I don't know. Oh, people
are saying twenty. So when I said twenty accidentally, then I was right,
that sounds right, Okay, So then I am like halfway there then,
so I wonder it probably wouldn't make a big difference if I did do
the update I don't know. I want to think I'll just be as mes
maress I had him. Of course, you know, he was right there
almost dead several times now and I was in the Bozo choke zone and I
just messed up, and yeah, so I don't know. I kind of
want to stick with it and beat that one raw dog. Overall though the
games, this is the conversation feels like, we'll get past this patch.
People will be like, Okay, is it easier or whatever. We'll get
past this, and now this conversation is going to be a lot like pretty
much behind us, right like it always is with these games, where the
difficulty conversations all people can talk about in the first couple of days, and
now we're going to get a little bit past that at this point, right,
we'll review is a tit when it comes to the game of the year,
Yes exactly. Yeah, like something else will like people will think about
something else for a little bit and then yeah, game of the year.
It'll come back around somehow. The discourse has returned always does. Let's see
if there's any other like the further balanced changes and bug fixes will be coming
in a future patch from software set. So this is really just all about
the difficulty. People you know, also are complaining about some performance issues,
although I continue to mostly not experience that. But on Steam day I also
have not experienced it. I'm playing on my NZXTPCAH forty ninety will help with
that, all right, So let's move ahead here to Hey, you heard
about this doctor disrespect. He's out there doing his thing. Unfortunately, I
don't think he's an actual doctor. I think that there might be some invalidity
to that claim that he is a doctor. He admits to inappropriate messaging with
a minor. This is from Ethan Gotch at Kotaku. Guy doctor disrespected being
who has broken his silence on allegations that he was banned from Twitch in twenty
twenty four allegedly sexting a minor. The famous streamer admitted to the incident,
but said there was no real intentions behind these messages, and he claimed nothing
illegal happened, no pictures were shared, no crimes were committed. I never
even met the individual, he said, he did not share that, you
know. Allegedly, according to Twitch employees, he was in conversation to say,
hey, what are you doing at TwitchCon? So they stepped in before
that happened, so of course he didn't because people stopped him from meeting her.
Beam shared his version of the events on Twitter on Tuesday, saying that
while he has been legally bound from discussing the matter former Twitch employees, sharing
the incident on social media and discussing it with reporters has enabled him to now
share his side of the story. The man behind the doctor disrespect persona with
millions of followers, said he was banned from Twitch in twenty twenty over twenty
seventeen exchange with an individual that sometimes quote leaned too much in the direction of
being inappropriate, but nothing more. He edited the word minor out of the
initial version of the statement before adding it back in later after people noticed.
According to Beam, no criminal charges were ever filed. He's got a big,
long statement. The statement reads very much like one of the most entitled
things I've ever read, Lucy, where he just like, yeah, I
did this thing that is most people consider to be horrendous and bad, but
I'm not going anywhere and you should get over it, and like that's just
the whole statement. Basically kind of wild that he's out there just yelling about
this on Twitter. What do you think. I cannot believe. And this
was happening when we were recording the BombCast yesterday, and I would keep seeing
it and I was like, oh my god, he's tweeting through it.
Oh my god, he's tweeting through it. Like it's the fact that it
opens with, let's cut the fucking bullshit. As you know, there's no
filter with me an objectively hilarious way to kick this off. Uh huh filter
talking to minors? Actually, please, I really think you should. I
yeah, dude, I just do what I think my I mean, Like,
first of all, as we saw we talked about yesterday in the mombcast,
the way that he finds out he's been fired from twelve am with the
fucking Elden ring of music over the top, you know, like you couldn't
write that. Nope, Like you couldn't write that. It's the timing on
it. It's the slow motion just like breathe out, and then it's the
quick wrap up of probably the last stream of his life. It's the way
that everything and everyone is distancing themselves from him, Like Turtle Beach went that,
the Tan frances Go forty nine ers went out this morning, like cut
Ties completely, and so yeah, I know he's got a lot of people
who don't like him already, like didn't enjoy his shtick. Like he almost
he almost gate crashed a stage that I was hosting in like twenty nineteen,
just before he went and filmed in the bathroom. I actually think it was
the bathroom that was right next to our stage. I'd have to go back
and see if it, double check if it was that one in his blog.
But yeah, I was talking to Rod Ferguson and he like came up
through the middle of the crowd and just started walking and just like came and
stood right in front of me on the stage and just like sort of stared
at us. And so anyway, cool guy. That was my instruction with
him. But right, let's be real here at the end of the day,
this is a minor and I hope that person is doing okay, because
surely the way that this has been handled previously, where it's like NDAs,
no one knows what's going on. I assume the miner doesn't. Absolutely,
Like I really hope people don't go fucking digging and try and get their name
and do all that kind of horrible shit you stuff. Yeah, think the
presumption or maybe people know I haven't seen it set explicitly anywhere that the reason
we haven't heard about a lot of this is because it's at the wishes of
the minor. Yeah, and I hope people keep really ease, yeah,
keep it that way, and I hope they're doing okay, because like at
the time, people were trying to figure out that this was what twenty seventeen,
he was thirty five, this person seventeen roughly. Yeah, dude,
that's like not even just messed up in terms of ages, but in terms
of power dynamics. I imagine if that's oh hey, my favorite streamer is
oh god, and he's married. I don't know if he had the kid
back then, but like you got a kid now, Oh god, awful?
Oh yep, the kind of thing where I think he's just like,
you know, it was a mistake, It's okay in these stuff, Like
I've grown a lot since then. I kind of don't want to hear any
of that. I just want to hear like what I did was wrong and
I'm gonna like go away now. That's kind of what I need from this.
And the fact that he is follows up all of that with Uh,
there's no fucking way I'm going away deal with you. You're gonna have to
continue to deal with me. That is it is frustrating, and it's like,
well, it really doesn't feel like you've grown, doesn't feel like you've
learned anything. I guess what you're saying is you wouldn't DM a minor.
I mean, man at thirty five that should have a lesson long learned.
How are you not just uncomfortable by like having like messages from from kids when
like I'll have like kids reach on the discord just like like be like,
hey, what's going Like, Hey, you're welcome the discord. There you
are. But you've got to be in the public. You can't just DM
me like do you have to be has to be all out here for everyone
to see, please, and that that's the way to handle it. I
think it's like and that goes for kind of anybody really that you might have
a power dynamic with you have small little conversations here or there where they're asking
you questions about your job and you could talk about it in a professional manner,
and I think anytime it crosses over to anything personal, you got to
have to have a firm line of that's not what's happening here. And so
the idea that he was like, well, you know, we're just having
a little little conversation, it got a little inappropriate. That doesn't just happen.
You are the adult in the situation. You guided it there, and
you have to pay the price on this, and it just feels like he's
not really In fact, he got paid so which, as he continued,
you get paid out of the twitch thing, I wonder. I mean,
Robert Bowling's statement was yikes, like as in I've never seen someone in that
kind of position of power just outright say I haven't put this through legal,
haven't put this hr just basically like if you text the minut like you're out,
which is like a good on him for doing it, good on the
company for Alstingham, Right, and uh, I would bet that he has
seen everything so like and so he would wouldn't know better than most exactly what
it looks like. Yeah, and Robert Bowling, he was the other person
that started Midnight Society with doctor disrespect before they cut ties with him. Yeah,
he's going to take an extended vacation, he says, and then come
back and continue to stream. Uh, that's going to be annoying when he
comes back, because I'm sure I'll make a big deal out of it.
Uh it so he can go to kick? Yeah, where is he?
Is he streaming on YouTube? Now? Yeah? I mean but for how
long? Right? Probably on kick going forward? All right, let's see
here, Uh, breaking news, let's see here. So much to put
this in the thing? Dead Rising Remastered is happening. You put this in
here, Thank you so much. Let me take a look. All right,
let's see what they say here. In a tweet from the Dead Rising
Twitter account, Hello is this thing on? This is Frank Frank West.
Is anyone out there? Grab your camera and prepare for the big scoop on
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster? Stay tuned for more info soon. Does this video
have any more information? I haven't seen it, but I believe it is
just the remaster. It's a little bit of little Clips HD. It's good
man, Yeah, right, and there was people. Remember there was an
HD remaster release a twenty sixteen. This is the deluxe version of that.
Yes, so very cool. Dead Rising feels like one of those capcom franchises
that could come back in a real way at any time. Because they're in
such a strong position with all their other games, they're probably looking for other
stuff that can join the parade of Monster Hunter and Resident Evil and now Dead
what is it or Dragon's Dogma. Excuse me, yeah, Dragons Dogma.
It's like we had Dead Rising could come out that could easily be another one
of these major franchises that could get five million copies sold. So this might
be a precursor to that. What do you think? Do you think that's
something they might ended up doing. I think so. I mean god Capcom
is on such a role with new releases but also looking at its back catalog
and re releasing stuff, so I've been interested to see what they did do
with Dead Rising, because I mean Dead Rising four was what twenty thirteen,
twenty fourteen, like Launch style, it was early in the Xbox One.
Yes, yeah, because I remember going to all the previews stuff for the
new Xbox and playing like Rise, Son of Rome and Dead Rising, So
I think it would be I just think it's neat. I think the world's
ready. I think so too, And I think that it's the kind of
thing where Dead Rising Remaster is actually the one I most want to go back
to anyhow, because I like the time mechanic of that first game the most,
And yeah, I want to go back and play around with this,
and then I hope we come out of it in a few months later,
maybe a year or two later, and Dead Rising is back. Here's a
real new one. So that would be very cool. Capcom. They're just
firing on all cylinders. I would love to see what they would do with
the new entry in this series. I think they would really be able to
pull that off, all right. Speaking of Capcom, though their game,
one of their games on iOS is not doing very well. In fact,
no game is doing very well on iOS if it cost around fifty dollars.
This is from Chris going at VGC. iOS ports of Resident Evil four,
Assassin's Creed Mirage, and Death Stranding sold poorly. Estimates suggest Apple's attempt to
bring TRIPLEA console games to its iPhone and iPad devices appear to be off to
a very slow start. According to analysis by analysis by Mobile gamer dop biz
based on estimates from app figures, the iOS ports of Resident Evil for Resident
Evil Village, Death Stranding, and Assassin's Creed Mirage have failed to sell well
despite Apple featuring them during their keynote presentations in the past year. The games
are only playable on high end iPhone and iPad devices, meaning the potential audience
size is smaller than the overall iPhone user base in the first instance. However,
even with this in mind, app figures estimates suggest that that while Assassage
Creed Mirage has been downloaded around one hundred and twenty three thousand times, it
only made around one hundred and thirty eight thousand gross revenue. Given that the
game is free to download, with players able to access a small part of
the game before paying the fifty dollars to unlock the fifty dollars feet to unlock
the rest of the game, this is just that fewer than three thousand people
went on to buy the full game. Similar calculations based on app Figures estimates
suggest that around seven thousand iOS users have paid for Resident Evil, four seven
hundred and fifty have paid for Village, and around ten thousand, six hundred
have paid for Death Stranding. Those aren't very good numbers, Lucy, I
guess I'm not too surprised. I've really had no way of gauging what to
expect from these games. Going to mobile. I didn't think a lot of
people would buy them, but I guess I didn't know if the number would
be this small. This is like such a tiny number that it's not worth
the time and effort that these companies probably put into it, right, Yeah,
I got It reminds me of do you remember when they released BioShock Yeah
you see me? Yeah, yeah, BioShock on iowas and then they quickly
like took it back. I think that price point is not like so if
you if you're a mobile phone user. I mean, in the world of
twenty twenty four, most people are mobile phone user. Were conditioned there for
apps to be ninety nine cents, Like maybe if you're paying for a yearly
subscription for something like Last Past, then it's like I'll pay a thirty dollar
like subscription, or I'll pay something like you don't you don't look at one
off apps and think, oh, I'm going to be paying fifty bucks Like
that's it's just not how we've been conditioned to think or like use that device.
Also, it's kind of like the Nintendo Switch problem when it comes to
third party where it's like I don't want to play the worst version of this
game, but pay the same amount of price. Yeah, they pay the
same amount like Nintendo Switch third party stuff like I'm paying Apex Legends or Overwatch
or more Combat on Switch, right, because that's going to be a bad
time, a bad experience. It's not going to look as nice as it
can with iOS. It's like, well, that's my small screen. Yeah,
that's my screen that I check when there's a loading screen on my big
screen, or that's the screen, like you know, I don't want to
be playing Resident Evil for and be like, oh shit, someone sent me
a meme. I should double check that exactly. And also, my battery's
not gonna last that long. So I just don't understand. I mean I
can. I can understand the fact that Apple definitely wants to get into the
console, gets into the gaming triple A space, but yeah, and this
is using the same processor basically that's going to be in their their computers.
So when if these games get ported to Mac, they can just basically work
on the phone with not a lot of extra effort. So I think this
is a byproduct of that. As the story mentioned, we mentioned this,
Sean points out of chat, this is Justify or iPhone fifteen pro, which
would really, yeah, it would be you know, a smaller percentage of
the audience. It would also be like the most affluent, I would I
would guess, so the people most likely to pay a big fee for a
game. But I honestly, it feels like none of that really matters.
What's happening here is you know, I think on grub Snacks early on,
I did an episode kind of like there was a lot of talk about the
cloud one week, and the issue with the cloud is like the last mile
problem. And you know, the last mile problem in shipping is it's really
cheap to ship stuff to like a city, getting it to the person's door
is actually by far the most expensive and the biggest hurdle to overcome. And
I think a similar thing happens with cloud gaming, where this getting into people's
houses is pretty cheap these days and an effective and it works getting someone to
then be like and I'm going to connect a controller to my TV and decide
to play a game on there and then pay whatever price I have to pay
to access that stuff. That is still a massive hurdle that these companies haven't
figured out. And I think a lot of that is still going to happen
with these games on mobile, even if they're running natively where it's there and
it's available. But considering getting the person to get over that last mile of
paying a big fee to pay a game probably just isn't going to be something
that they're going to be able to figure out really easily, and probably not
at all. The people on phone are happy playing free to play games and
that's what they're used to, so I don't see that this changing this.
And really this is kind of bad news for the gaming industry because the whole
idea here was making these games. We want to keep making games this way.
We want to keep selling you big video games that you always claim to
really like. But console sales aren't growing and it's like we have the same
audience there, so we need this start looking elsewhere for people who are willing
to pay this price, and they might not exist. The people that are
willing to pay thirty to fifty dollars for a resident Evil game, we might
have found all of them already, and so the growth potential might not be
there, and in this moment that's got to be a little bit scary to
these companies. So this feels like a failed experiment. I don't know,
what do you think? Yeah, it's interesting. I like, I know
I'm in a privileged position where I have everything. I just I just again,
I just would not play a game like that on my phone, Like
if I wanted to, if I wanted to play something three D on my
phone, I would be like, oh, man, I would love to
play like the original Resident Evil games like something. Actually, the only game
that I want to play on my phone is Pegl original Pegl. Put that
on my phone And New York Times Crossroad Games. Yeah, oh big time.
If I'm not ruining the day of at least three people are kind of
funny with my Mini Go, then it's not even worth it. Man.
I was like, I should get it on that, But I don't need
you destroying me every day. I don't need that in my life. She's
very she's very good at everybody. I'm very good at it. Yeah.
I think that this probably is the kind of thing where they're like, Okay,
we tried to do what people claim that they want, Like they want
these games that are, you know, big blockbusters and have an upfront cost,
and this is like this feels like the final gasp of can we make
that work on another device that looks like a phone. And maybe maybe I
don't know, maybe things change and as more of these games, as these
games are available on more iOS devices, this stuff, so oh well,
now that the bigger audience is there they are buying these games, maybe that
does change. But I feel like what really is going to happen here is
these gouta be like you know what we tried. If we're gonna be on
mobile, we're gonna have to adapt it for mobile, and that means free
to play with micro transactions, and the games are not going to feel like
they did traditionally and they're gonna have to be very different. So yeah,
I think that's kind of all she wrote for this sort of kind of this
kind of gaming on mobile devices. All right, let's take a quick break.
When we get back, we have a lot more headlines to get into,
including maybe a new way to play those original Residuval games. All right,
we are back, and let's get back into it with the original Resident
Evil comes to PC in all of its unremastered glory. This is from Michael
mcwater at Polygon. The original Windows PC version of Capcom's Resident Evil is now
available through digital storefront gog, letting PC players experience the ground breaking Survival Horror
Classic as it was back in nineteen ninety six. PC versions of Resident Evil
two and Resident Evil three Nemesis are also getting a re release through God,
the company announced Wednesday. This is pretty neat. You know, I have
a million ways to play these games, and yet this is still like peaud
my interest. I'm like, oh, that's that's nice. Maybe I will
play those. I don't remember how these games ran on PC. I don't
know if there's issues with them. I mean, GAG always does to work
to make sure they're the best version possible usually, but I wonder if it's
like, actually, you should probably just play an emulated version of the PlayStation
game instead. But either way, this is neat. I know. I
think there's some exclusive stuff in the PC version of Receival one, maybe costumes.
I could be making that up, but I thought I remembered that.
What do you think about this, Lucius? Is something where you're like,
oh, maybe I'll play those games now, as you're you know, missus
PC gamer, missus PC gamer. I know, I you know what,
I will not play them because I think i'm at the point now where I'm
kind of looking forward a little bit, a little bit too much. There
were so many games I was we were recording FPS and Ralph was like,
oh my god, there's nothing coming out for the next two months until like
Outlaws and frost Punk two, And I was like, bitch, have you
seen my wish list? Like all the Lucy games are coming out, like
Tales of It, Feel the Mysterior, Thank goodness you're here, Like all
these games are coming out over the next couple of months. So I'm just
like, I'm looking ahead. Also, just because I'm not playing them doesn't
mean that I don't think this is fantastic. And I think places like gog
are really put in the work to make sure that all of these old games
are not only able to be like preserved, but like purchased. And I'm
sure they're doing the work to make it like playable and run the best that
they can. So good job Gog, good, good job at Capcom.
Yeah. And also like I'm excited for folks like you know, like Sphea
Hunter, Yeah, because she loves Resident Evil stuff so much like I would
be excited to watch Susie play right rather than play it myself, and it's
kind of thing where it's like, and because this is happening, maybe maybe
there'll be more interest there, and so Sue say the benefit from that as
well. Yeah, that's that's exactly what I get at a lot of these
announcements, where it's just nice to know people will be paying attention to these
games a little bit more than they were. I. Yeah, of course
I was playing these games on whatever device I have laying around me. It's
not usually about that. It's just about sort of the zeitgeist around them getting
a slight boost. And I appreciate that Fortnite Reload is an apology to sweaty
streamers, and it's amazing, says from Phil Owen at GameSpot. Fortnite Reload,
a new version of Battle Royale in the vein of Call of Duty Warzones
Resurgence Mode, came out of nowhere this past weekend, a surprising shot in
the arm to a game that's needed one badly after the launch of the vehicle
oriented summer season fell flat for a lot of players, in particular with folks
Superfer build mode that included many prominent streamers who struggled to adapt to the all
new changes in chapter five Season three that were at odds with the normal build
mode play styles. Reload feels like Epics constructed as quickly as possible response to
the poor season launch. And while I'd love to be annoyed that it seemingly
hacked something together so quickly to a peace streamers, Fortnite Reload is so much
fun and such a dramatic change of pace from Fortnite norms that I'm pretty sure
I'm in love. Epic got this one right. The reason why Fortnite Reload
works because this idea is a good one that Epic has probably been pondering for
a while. Call of Duty Warzones recent Surgeons was created as a sort of
bridge between standard Call of Duty deathmatch and the Battle and the Battle Royale of
war Zone, allowing players to automatically respawn after they die so long as they
have living teammates. It was a great hybrid between the most call of Duty
the best of both worlds. Fortnite's version of this is fairly simple. Its
squads only with a maximum of forty players, has lootpool of weapons and items
from chapter one through four. It takes place on a compressed version of the
Fortnite og map from last November, populated with familiar spots like tilted towers and
without much weird h wider wilderness, yeah, wilderness, and between the towns
with a smaller map. The fighting tends to be hot from the second you
hit the ground, but the stakes of these fights are lower as long as
your teammates survive for thirty seconds after you die. That sounds cool. I
know a lot of people do like that war Zone equivalent mode, so yes,
this is something I might want to check out. Yeah, what do
you think? Yeah, I think it sounds really fun. I only really
played Fortnight with you guys. And also I'm not really I haven't played war
Zone so much since I played a lot in twenty twenty. But I'm yeah,
this sounds pretty fun. I'm and am I going to get into fun?
No? No, I'm not, okay, And I thought about it.
I'm not my journey with you. Yeah, no, but I would.
I would play it for like you know, Nicky and Shawanna going nuts
in the chat and like really enjoying it. I don't even play with you
all. I I just don't have it in me to devote time to an
continuous game, right, now maybe that'll change. Yeah, I think this
sounds really fun. I like a professional Fortnite return, says jan I.
Yeah, I I don't know. I was going to say something embargoed that
I can't say, but I shave yourself. I saved myself. No,
it's fun. I'm happy for the for the Fortnite player. Yeah, me
too, And I honestly part of like reading this and Mike, should I
also go check out more Call of Duty War Zone Resurgence. Maybe that'd be
fun too, But yeah, we'll get I got my Nicki Minaj skin in
there, and I've got plenty of skins and gonna say, like, who
I mean they've got Alan Wake is in there? Would plays Alan Wake?
Just because I think that's funny. Well, yeah, that's hit hit the
gritty. Yeah, yeah, that's that's honestly what Fortnite's the last for me
and just having characters that look familiar do dumb stuff. I always appreciate that.
Indiana, we've got to get Dip back. We will do the fun
bring your dib to workday. We'll do another one of those. Of course.
That was really good. Yeah, absolutely, all right, let's move
along here forts the Horizon for to be delisted by the end of the year.
This is from Marcus Person at Game Reactor. The now five year old
Forts a Horizon four has reached the end of the road and will disappear from
all digital platforms at the end of the year. This is announced by Microsoft
and Playground Games, who do to license rights cannot or will not continue to
keep the title alive. Already today a bridge one. I think this is
England. Yeah, right right, yeah, wow. I remember just going
through rocky fences, just driving through all like these rock these pebblestone fences and
just make heaving them explode in front of me. I really like that.
Yeah, this happens with all the Forts of games. It seems to be
a car licensing issue. They license real world automobiles, and they can only
do that for so long before these companies ask for the same amount of money,
I suppose, which makes it prohibitively expensive. I also want to soundtrack
too. Soundtrack for sure, yes, but there's a lot of games with
soundtracks. It's like, it feels like this always happened, excuse me,
always happens to the Forts and other car games, and it must just be
the way that this works. With with automobile licensing. So yeah, it
stinks. I wish it didn't work this way. I wish there was some
work around, some standard that they could adopt to be like, yeah,
listen, let people keep buying it. Is it really hurting your cars or
anything like that. I guess they just want to get paid. Though,
you just want to get paid. I think I just I don't know.
Part of me is like get paid by selling fucking cars. Like who cares
about the way it looks in a video game? Whatever? I mean.
I guess if I made it, I would want to get paid. Toll
isn't I was gonna say, isn't the car selling business industry not doing so
hot a year and a half ago. No, it's very not. Yes,
i'd write, buy a dealership often, and it is. It is
jam packed with unsold cars. And I live right next to a Ford dealership
and there they they actually, when things were hot, they had a massive
amount of inventory sitting around and now they don't. And I'm like, okay,
so are they selling all those It's like no, I think they're just
making fewer vehicles, so they're just like holding back, so trying to stimulate
demand it's weird out there. I wish I kind of wish I needed to
buy a car right now. I don't, so I'm not going to,
but it's like now would be the time to do it, all right,
Sorry PlayStation players. Insomniac just shot down a request for a port of Sunset
Overdrive. This is from Alex Hopley, a game reactor. It's no secret
that Insomniac Games likes to keep itself busy. Since the launch of Marvel's Spider
Man, the studio has also released the standalone Spider Man Miles Morales, Ratchet
and Clank, Grift Apart, and Marvel's Spider Man two. Prior to the
hit of Spider Man, and Somniac has made a made a fun action game
known as Sunset Overdrive. At the moment, you could only play Sunset Overdrive
on Xbox and PC, but a recent postman Insomniac showed off the game once
more. This led to one fan asking if we could see the game remastered
for PS four slash PS five, which Insomniac responded that they're busy working on
Marvel's Wolverine. Considering Marvel's Wolverine is going to give us another superhero game based
on one of our favorite comic comic book characters. We can't really complained,
but maybe one day we could see a return to Sunset Overdrive. Yeah,
at a certain point, like Insomniac can't do everything right. One of the
most prolific studios of the last several years. They have a way to keep
games coming out, but that probably part of that is not getting distracted by
other side projects that maybe wouldn't have as big of a return. I liked
Sunset over Drive, Lucy, I didn't love it. How do you feel
about it? That was the same. I didn't leave that much of a
mark on me. But maybe I didn't give it a fair shake back in
the day. But that was eleven years ago. Yeah, I'm reviewing it,
and I remember being, yeah, this is good. I just didn't
all know by the way some people did. Yeah, I yeah. But
also, I mean, who owns the rights to it? Is it Xbox?
It seems like it is with Insomniac. It seems like Insomniac does have
it, and they could put it on PlayStation if they wanted to. Is
the way I last understood it. I mean, look, I think at
this point PlayStation are just going to go for the hits. My fringe is
having an app new Nightma, No, it's great, thanks, I slept
on it funny. But yeah, they're gonna be going for the hits at
this point, and those hits are going to be Marble. So yeah,
how much drives sell? Not not a ton? Yeah, Like just like
all those like Xbox exclusives that came out in that generation, they didn't do
great the two mil Yeah, okay, uh, well listen, you know
Spider Man does like thirty millions, So that's the difference. And we do
we know Insomnia very busy. You said, uh, we're working at Marvel,
They're working on Wolverine, and then we saw in the week they're making
a Venom spent like spin off, a standalone game of Venom, and then
they're gonna be making the X Men games. So, uh, they have
a lot on their plate for the next ten years. I think the way
that you can keep up with that is, again, don't get distracted by
something like Sunset Overdrive. You know that's said. Maybe they could always work
with an external team to work that to ps. That could still happen.
Who knows, We'll see UFC star Connor McGregor says he's in a new video
game with an announcement coming this week. According to McGregor, who doesn't always
seem to know what's going on, this is Kyle Knight at Dual Shockers.
In a now deleted tweet, UFC superstar Connor McGregor announced that he would be
starring in a video game, with an announcement for the mystery title coming quote
this week. Yesterday evening, and in classic McGregor fashion, the mixed martial
artist went on a tweeting tangent. McGregor took aim at his previous opponent,
Dustin Poirier in a series of malicious tweets, while also slipping in that he'd
been starring in a yet to be announced video game. The star has since
deleted the tweet. McGregor has appeared in multiple exports UFC games. He shocked
fans around the world back at twenty sixteen when he appeared in Call of Duty
Infinite Warfare as Captain Bradley Fillion. The action packed first versus shooter didn't just
bad Connor McGregor, though, as the title also featured various Hollywood stars such
as Kit Harrington, David Hasselhoff, and Seth Green. What the really fucking
what David hass Off, I don't I don't remember any of it. Doesn't
Connor suck? He sucks, Yes, that's what he was gonna He sucks,
he's he thinks. But I do wonder if this is just the UFC
game or is he in another thing? Is he gonna be an Are they
making a video game based on a roadhouse? He was in that movie?
He was good in that movie because his character was supposed to suck. So
whenever he showed up on screen and I'm like, this dude sucked, he
exuded so much of that energy that it worked for the character. Energy.
Yes, just massive suck energy. It kind of ruled. Yeah. But
yeah, Hey, he is someone out there who just does a lot of
talking. Seems like he might, like I said, not always know what's
going on. So he might not even be referring to something that is real
or ever gonna have become a real project. Maybe it's a conversation that his
agent had and it didn't actually pan out this. I would take this with
a grain of salt, but uh, I don't know. We'll see.
Maybe he's gonna be back in Call of Duty. Yep uh, all right,
last story here. Atari fifty getting thirty nine new free games as part
of the expanded edition. This is from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor. Atari
fifty the anniversary collection originally launched in twenty twenty two, giving players access to
one hundred and three games from the classic Atari machines, including the Atari twenty
six hundred, fifty, two hundred, seventy eight hundred and more. A
free update in twenty twenty three added twelve more games. Now in twenty twenty
four, the expanded Edition brings a whopping thirty nine new titles to the collection,
and it adds two new timelines, the First Console War and the Wider
World of Atari. For any interested video game history in this feature, this
will feature old adverts, interviews, and artifacts. This is really cool.
I'm very excited about this. This is like a neat way to keep up
with this thing. Is this something that you've checked out before? No,
Atari was kind of a little bit before my time. Did not already have
much experience with it as a kid, so I know, but I'm very
again like the cap comes up, very happy for folks who do get to
play and experience it. Yeah, I am a I wish I was keeping
up with all these that were coming out because they've done this, They've done
the making of Karatka and then they did the Jordan, the lamasft one,
jeff Mentor one, and that one I haven't even touched and I didn't finish.
I didn't finish the Karatka one either. So it's like, I love
these ideas. I hope that they're able to keep doing them, and I
hope that they're like, by going back to Atari fifty, they're going to
give us another boost and they're able to carry this stuff forward. I do
worry that it's like it maybe if they keep doing worse than the previous one,
that they're like, Okay, well, you know Atari fifty was cool,
but maybe this is an idea that won't last. I'm afraid of that
because I think this is such a good idea that I hope they're able to
do it with the bigger games and stuff that people really care about these days,
so that they can have a really breakout hit of like this is a
cool historical document that really dives into stuff that I really care about. They're
not going to get Nintendo, right, but I think there's a world in
which they could get Sega or something like that. That would be very cool.
I think so. And yeah, I mean we've had Xbox come out
and say that preservation is more important and like having people be able to play
these little games, and I really hope that that is an ethos that is
being adopted industrywide. And you know, if the stuff like the Atari fifty
can be a success, then I'll have a lot of the other companies see
it and realize, hey, we can we can do something cool here.
They're releasing the Expanded Edition, as I think, a new physical game,
and it's coming out in the twenty fifth of October for everything. It'll come
out for everything, and as chappoint points out, they own in television now,
so that will probably be a part of that. The first console war
timeline that they're putting into the game. So very cool. All right,
that does it for the news. I have a poll question here that we'll
get to in a second. But while I'm getting that set up, Lucy
James, why do you tell people what you have going on where they can
find you and all that good stuff? This week, Stop Players is out
with Money Exchange. Please go watch it. It's very fun. That is
every Monday on Game Spot. So we've got Dominic Monahan next week and I
think Steven week after. And then we recorded Jeff Jeffs Adventure yesterday that she'd
be going up to day or tomorrow. A very fun couple of episodes.
I think the series is finally as in JoJo's Not Not Jeff Jeff Jeffs has
been firing on all cylinders the whole time at the beginning, but JoJo's bizarre
Advice is definitely like hitting its groove and we are really really digging it.
And then the rest of the week, I am figuring out some stuff like
to make as things are a little bit quiet. Yeah, it feels like
you kind of got on the other side of Star Players here a little bit.
You've recorded everything for that, right, like like one more to go,
one more to go, Okay, one more to go, but mostly
behind you and now. And also like the industry overall slowing down after we
get past summer game first, and it feels like, you know the way
the news is going the last couple of days, so the gabru Win's on
vacation, not getting a lot of press releases. Quiet, it's the right
way of putting it. I'm gonna take advantage of that because I am I
am mostly is it next week? Yeah, next week, I'm off right.
Next week I am taking the Ford. If I'm taking the forty weekend
on July fourth, I've got Ben's staying for the next few days. I
need to make a sign to pick him up from the airport. Yeah,
that's fun. Close to the gate. Can you get these days? I
guess you have to like beet that little area at SFO or whatever. Yeah,
I'm not sure. I need to find out actually what time this flight
is in doing that, we're hanging out, and then I've got Comic Con
coming up and games Com as well, Like, yeah, I've got Games
Club, so we've got big stuff coming up. But yeah, I'm just
I'm honestly super stoked that. It's a bit me too. It's uh.
I was like, oh, this would be a perfect time to catch up
on stuff. And then of course all I'm doing is playing elden Ring.
That's fine, That's totally acceptable. I'm okay with that. All Right,
I got the bull question, let's do it. How are you finding the
difficulty of Shadow of the urd Tree. You know, let's refresh this one
more time. We do have a double response there, but that's fine,
We'll just put them all together. Let's see here. Two percent say they
find it easier than base elden Ring, eighteen percent say they it's about the
same as base elden Ring. That's where I'm at. Twenty six percent say
it's more difficult than the base elden Ring, and then fifty four percent are
not playing Shadow of the Tree. Yeah, that sounds about right based on
the response, is that like, yeah, there's a lot of people out
there there like, yes, this is more difficult, but then that's just
like half and the other halves like this is the same or easier. Okay,
only two percent or sands easier. Those probably trolls. Yeah. For
me, I'm I'm total I was totally fine with the difficult. It's challenging.
I honestly, I was breezing through some of these bosses, and of
course I'm using mimicked t here. I am taking advantage of the tools it
gives me, which, of course, but now I'm at mesmer and I'm
struggling, and I'm like, yeah, this is it. I'm glad that
I finally got to Boston. It's going to be something I really will have
to download and learn before I can overcome it. So that's been kind of
a relief almost. But we'll see. I'm gonna try to avoid updating and
making it too easy. All right, new poll question we have right here.
Have you beaten Shadow of the Er Tree yet? I'm curious to see
how people are breezing through this thing or not? Yes, no, or
I haven't started playing it. We will get the results of that for Game
Mes Mornings on the show tomorrow. In the meantime, though, Lucy James,
thank you so much for hanging out with me today and talking about video
games. I really appreciate it. Future if you're watching live on Giant Bomb,
we will have some stuff on the site today. No Blight Club.
Blight Club is on hold while Dan recovers. He really is trying to put
off having to get back to his games, even though he's far away.
You know him, He's just cowardly and he's afraid of Draking the ninety nine
Nights. I think that's what that game is called. He's got some real
stinkers coming his way. In the meantime though, we'll probably we'll fly.
It might not be a delay up. I'm sure we're probably calling it something
else. We're gonna do that chain together game. We're gonna play that today
on the site. Yes, so I'm gonna get wrapped up with I think
it's myself, Jan Nikki and Turbo Sean and we're gonna play that game.
It's gonna be a good time. And then Jeff Jeff's is coming tomorrow.
We'll have voicemail, dump Truck Friday, will have Unprofessional Fridays and a BCR
power BombCast. Will figure it out in the meantime, though, thank you
everybody for listening, Thank you for watching. You're the best audience in gaming.
Until then, have a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.
Yeah, we can play Fortnite for UPF That sounds fun.