GrubbSnax 035: Fall Out New Vegas 2, Sony Spartacus, and more!

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and all that stuff. We're gonna talk about some news. I got some
cool stuff to talk about today. I think, Yeah, one thing that
I'm like hesitant, but I kind of can't help myself. So we'll get
into all that very soon. If you want, you should. Oh,
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I'm looking at the wrong one. Okay, Obs is being a nightmare for
me today. You know what, Let's just keep going. This is the
best show I've ever done. Okay, whatever, you know what, I'm
gonna make up for it right now. Let's just instead of doing the TZ
thing and then waiting, I'll just get into it. Let's just talk about
it. If you want to send a question here to ask you a question
button there at the top. We we all have things that we want to
see get made again or sequels. Right, this is one that I've been
asked about a bunch And when Microsoft purchased Bethesda, this is one of a
lot of people thought, hey, maybe you could happen because they have that
team, and they have that developer maybe, or and they have that IP,
maybe they could happen. Okay, so very early, this is very
early, but people have begun to have talks and say these words and sentences
and those words are Obsidian and New Vegas two. Very early. This is
like, listen, we're talking years and years away. But I will say
that there's at least an interest and conversations being had about making something like that
actually a reality. Obsidian is a team that Microsoft bought before they ever bought
Bethesda. Then they bought Bethesda, they got the fallout IP, and a
lot of people say, hey, why wouldn't upset Obsidian just do that.
Well, Obsidian's very busy. Obsidian's got a lot of games in the works.
You know, They've They've got Grounded, They're doing a Vowed, right,
Okay, I can't keep all the teams straight at Microsoft anymore. I
think they're the ones doing a Vowed. They have some other stuff I think
in the works. But if you think about it, it makes sense,
right because we've talked about on this show about how far away, how far
away a new Fallout game could be if we are just sticking with Bethesda Game
Studios proper, right, So if you're sticking with Bethesta Game Studios, we
gotta get Starfield out and our Field's not going to just come out and that
be that They're going to do a lot of updates for It's going to keep
them busy. There will be a team that moves on very quickly to the
Elder Scroll six. But how fast are we really expecting to see Elder Scroll
six. We're talking years and years after Starfield comes out, and the Starfield
is coming this year, so you know the timeframe there, Maybe it's like,
okay, maybe it does happen a little bit quicker. But but that's
the game. Studios is going to take their time, but they're not going
to get to fall Out until after the Elder Scroll six more than likely,
and then they're gonna look around and be like, Okay, now that's been
fifteen years it's released a Fallout game or something, when we actually get another
one released. I think this makes a lot of sense. I think a
lot of people at Microsoft think that think that this could work, and I
think that there's interest to make it happen. The sentences have been said that
contained those keywords, so it's not like people are just throwing out the notion
immediately. It looks like they are trying to move in that direction very early,
very early. But I know people love this stuff, and you know,
like whenever we try to talk about these sort of things, we are
trying to like explain the thought process here. And I think if you consider
like where they're at with these ips and with their studios, it doesn't begin
to like fit with the model. And and also the idea is they want
to have these ips active and ongoing, So it makes a lot of sense.
Okay, there you go. For my flub, I've made it up
to you. The next thing is this one's it's a small thing. It
might be a joke, and previously it was a joke that they've sort of
played up a little bit. But there was a trademark filed for a game
called Hooked on You. This is a dating sim based in the Dead by
Daylight universe, which is an online multiplayer sort of horror game where you play
as a I think I've not played it, but my understanding is it's one
of those asymmetrical sort of someone's the monster, someone's like a famous movie villain,
like horror monster, like Freddy Krueger or something, and then all the
kids are trying to escape it. You you've played it, my guest here
is that you would be dating the monsters, and that's that's how it would
work. Like that's what this is. They've there was I think there was
a meme in the community about this concept, and I think my guest here
is they're probably just playing it up. This isn't gonna be some major seventy
dollars release, but I think it's a very cool idea. That's a very
smart thing. Let's see and then uh, yeah, you know that by
Daylight community is so huge and active, and they eat up everything, all
the content they can get, so it makes sense to sort of try to
stay on top of that all. Right, before we get into Spartacus,
let's talk about Dragon Age four real quick again. We mentioned last week,
Oh, it's doing great, and then another executive producer left this week,
right, so it's like, oh, okay, well it's obviously not great
anymore. No, I've checked in again. It's fine. Dragon Age four
is doing just fine. It's meeting it's milestones. Is kind of the key
phrase I keep hearing is it is exactly where everyone wants it to be.
This is not like Battlefields, I think publicly. I remember when in the
lead of the Battlefield publicly, Andrew Wilson and I think probably a conference call
with investors, was saying something like the game is ahead of schedule. Well
that wasn't that was never true. The game got delayed internally because it needed
more time, so it was never really on schedule for that. Maybe for
that delay, with that delay in mind, maybe they were on schedule for
oh, it'll come out, but not for where the game needed to be,
and everyone inside knew that. Everyone at EA knew. Excuse me,
I've got a little bit of a fuzz. Everyone at EA knew that,
everyone at Dice knew that, and they were just speaking publicly saying the game
is going to come out in time for this quarter, at the end of
this quarter, so that we can get this money in the holiday and stuff
like that. That's what they meant. This is not the same thing with
dragon Age. Dragon Age is, first of all, still at least eighteen
months out, so there's a lot of time. But for where it should
be at this point in the process, it's coming along very nicely. I
think a lot of that has to be chalked up to working with unreal engine
instead of working with Frostbite. The challenges with with BioWare recently have They're not
all Frostbite, of course, but Frostbite is a very challenging engine to work
with, especially if you're like doing animations. I mean, we saw that
like all the joke the memes about Mass Effect Andromeda and stuff like that,
but even Anthem. Anthem was like this stiff world where like the MPCs never
moved like you remember, like I remember going back to Mass EFFCT Legendary Edition
and going back to Mass Effect one, going in a bar and seeing like,
oh, all the NPCs are dancing and flailing around and doing all kinds
of crazy movements and you never saw anything like that in any of the Frostbite
games from BioWare. Well, they're working on an unreal engine, a very
robust tool set, well documented tool set. It seems like if you have
the creative side figured out, the tech side's going to sort of take care
of itself. Now I say that, and I bet there's developers like nothing
takes care of itself, and that's true, and that's true with Dragon Age
four. They are obviously having all the kinds of headaches you have when you
have to make a big game. That's definitely still happening, but it's nothing
that they're not prepared to take on and nothing that they weren't expecting. The
game is in really solid shape still, like there's just no reason to panic.
Uh sorry, I just saw my message from janc and I look and
sound great and I feel very good about myself. Thank you. Jan.
Okay, let's talk about Spartacus. So Spartacus we know about because of Jasa
Tryer and Bloomberg. He did a report basically saying that it's going to be
coming soon. It's it's a new subscription service meant to go head to head
with Xbox Game Pass, and it's gonna maybe have classic games and stuff like
that. Well, I got a little bit more information, miss some of
the details. Now some of these things. I'll preface it by saying some
of these things could change. We are probably probably getting pretty close to this
actually launching. I my understanding is something's probably gonna happen by the end of
this month, and I don't think that necessarily means publicly. I think in
terms of like their internal like milestones of where the service needs to be so
they can launch it soon. I think they're trying to figure that out by
the end of this month early next month. But still the information I have
could be outdated. It could be it could be placeholder, but I think
in general this is a good explanation of what to expect from this service.
So there will be three tiers right now, they are called Essential, Extra,
and Premium. The pricing again could be placeholder, but the pricing is
ten dollars a month for Essential, thirteen dollars a month for Extra, and
sixteen dollars a month for Premium. What do you get in each one.
Well, the overall structure seems very similar to something like EA Play. If
you've ever subscribed, like EA Play on Xbox or PlayStation or PC or or
it should play whatever they call it now, the subscription service basically where I
mean, let's start from the top and work down. So for premium sixteen
dollars per month, that's a lot. That's more than Game Pass Game Pass
Ultimate right now, So what do you get? Do you get full games?
Yeah, kinda little bit, not really kind of It's like EA Play
you get game trials. You're gonna get full game trials. I don't know
if that means for every single game that comes out. It seems to be
implying that though, And like, what is the time going to be on
that. It's probably gonna very from game to game, But on EA Play
it's ten hours per game. You go in there, you try it,
and if you want to buy it, you could buy it. Usually you
get a discount. I don't know about the discounts. I don't know about
the time limit. But game trials for big new games is kind of what's
going to be in there. That's not the only thing. You also get
classic games and streaming, So none of the other tiers will have a cloud
streaming. You only get the cloud streaming through the Premium tier, but you
also get classic games. What does classic games mean? I'm sorry, I
wish I knew. I wish I could tell you. I don't know,
at least nothing that I could feel good about sharing because I feel like some
of its speculations of its again, there's there's noise in the signal. Basically,
I don't know what classic gaming means means, but I do know that
it is a major part of this premium tier. So you have game trials,
classic games and streaming on this premium tier. Now I'm gonna move down
to tier and obviously all this stuff will be included above. So the Extra
tier you get downloadable game catalog. So not if this seems like anything in
PS now that was downloadable seems like it'll work in here. And this is
I think the number was something like over two hundred fifty over three hundred games
or something like that. You don't get cloud streaming, but you do get
over three hundred games you can download, and they'll I think if you subscribe
to the Extra tier, you will at the very least get these games just
popping and appearing in your library. You'll just see them there and you'll be
able to just download it. Oh, you know, because it's in this
game catalog. I'll be able to download it. And then you get Essential,
which is PS plus with the monthly games, just like you know it
today. Now, are there annual membership numbers for like how much these things
cost? I don't know. I haven't heard anything like that, And to
me, that sounds like one of the reasons why they've been getting rid of
subscription cards, why they've been like moving away from anything at retail while they've
sort of pulled back. I don't know if there's gonna be an annual option,
sort of like Xbox Game Pass doesn't have an annual option, right.
You don't save money by getting an annual option with Xbox Game Pass anymore.
It's one of the reasons they can sort of afford to do it. It's
because you're gonna be paying monthly and you're gonna be paying more over the year,
but it's a smaller fee per month or something like that. I don't
know. That's speculation on my part, but that's the hunch I get so
all again, all the services. So if you get the premium, you
get monthly games, you get the three hundred plus game game catalog, you
get classic games, game trials, and cloud streaming. That is their offer
to you for sixteen dollars per month. I think that this is probably gonna
be pretty successful. I think the game trials thing is actually a pretty big
answer to to to what game Pass does. Because one of the things people
say about game Pass it's like, it's great, I pay so much per
month and at least get to try the games and know if I like them.
And if I like them, yeah, sure they might leave the service
one day, but I could always just go in. Uh, I could
always just go and buy it or something like that. I am looking at
the wrong camera. God, damn it, thank you who you know what?
I'm talking to the interview host over here. This is just gonna be
a mess today, everybody, I think, and I think this isn't gonna
probably be pretty successful because they have I think the pricing is really compelling.
Where Okay, you already have uh you know, you probably already have PS
plus for ten dollars per month or whatever per year. Now we're all breaking
we're now we're bringing in what we're previously a lot of these ps now features,
we're breaking those down and we're giving those to you for cheaper and and
sure, if you just want to download them, there's paid three dollars more.
But if you just paid three dollars more than that, you get all
this stuff and classic games. It's it's the medium popcorn thing that we've talked
about a lot, where you you see the medium popcorn and then you see
a large popcorn, you say large popcorns, only you know, twenty five
cents more. Why wouldn't I do that? And then you don't think about
the fact that you're spending fourteen dollars and a bucket of popcorn. You will
only think about the fact that you're spending a quarter or more than a medium.
It's a mental trick. Everyone doesn't And I think that I think that
you're going to see a little bit of that psychology used here because at a
certain point, you know, what's three dollars more per month is what a
lot of people are gonna end up saying, yeah, that's that seems to
be Spartacus, that seems to be yes, this is a game mess exactly.
Uh that Spartacus, that is I think this is kind of what you
can expect. I think we would hear about it pretty soon. Things could
change, these prices, the pricing could change, uh, the you know,
the the structure of what is in what tier could change. I'll say
that this is what they've been considering recently. This is what I've heard.
So yeah, that's that's gonna do it for me. Up front, we
should probably get to the questions. All right, So I'm gonna hit the
button to do that. Let's go to chant view. I'm gonna scroll on
down. Okay, there we go from feature creep asking the important question should
street Fighter six be renamed street Fighter Thicks because they're thick, because they're very
wide? Right, Yes, I you know what, I'm picking up what
you're putting down. I'll be honest, I'm I'm getting it from Slane mcawsome.
What amazing ten out of ten video game is going to get released four
years in four years time, one week after Horizon three gets released? Right,
Yeah, that's it is pretty bizarre that that keeps happening in that game.
It's not like it hurts Horizon. Horizon eventually did sell twenty million copies,
and this one's probably gonna do that even faster than the first one.
But but yeah, it is kind of a pattern now, so I'm gonna
I'm gonna guess it's gonna be No Runner two. Snow Runner two is gonna
come out a week after Horizon, and it's gonna be the first one hundred
and one out of one hundred game. It's just Kevin V. Where's Marvel?
But seriously, how did you feel about that Street Fighter reveal? I
It's kind of what I was expecting. They weren't going to do too much
more than what they showed. It was just a teaser. They're gonna find
a place to put it this summer. I think the biggest thing is PlayStation's
name was nowhere, Sony's name wasn't anywhere. And I feel like if Sony
had the deal it had last time, where it helped pay for development and
it was like very much involved in getting this game created, we would have
saw the PlayStation Sony logo somewhere like they don't spend their money without getting their
money's worth. I mean, right, doesn't that make sense? Maybe I'm
wrong. It will totally accept if I am This is me just working backwards
from what we saw, but that's kind of my big takeaway is this seems
like it's probably gonna be multi platform, which makes for a ongoing live service
fighting game in twenty twenty two from feature Creep. What impact will a no
Call of Duty have on the industry? If any, I mean it's gonna
it's gonna have a pretty significant Fewer people will go into game stop. And
I know that doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is. Fewer
people will go into game stop a game stop this November to pick up their
Call of Duty, and occasionally when they did that, they many of them,
a certain percentage would pick up another game. They would many of them
would would buy new hardware because their old hardware either was last gin or that
there was something shiny and new that they could play it on some when they're
a bigger hard drive or something like that. Many of them would pick up
controllers and headsets. There's going to be a knock on effect through the entire
Like when we get the MPD report, it is software, hardware, and
accessories, and you're gonna see no like year over year, it's going to
be a pretty significant drop I would imagine, especially in something like accessories,
where other games don't really push people to like pick up a lot of controllers
and a lot of headsets usually, and you know, through the pandemic that
changed, like Fortnite and Apex Legends, we're tyfinitely encouraging people to pick up
that sort of thing. But I think every November you could sort of count
on people getting Call of Duty and then oh, my old controller is kind
of busted, kind of covered in cheeto dust, I'm gonna go buy a
new one. But I also think it means we could get an opportunity for
a lot of interesting games to launch in November. You know, maybe this
doesn't scare off Nintendo and we actually get Zelda this year. I'm joking,
Nintendo's not scared of anything from buff Pups. Do you have any insight into
what Street Fighter six might end up being, as in, is it more
of the same with a new mechanic or two, or are they trying to
really shake up the series what the series has been to this point. I
don't know. I don't know. It's hard to like get a sense of
where they're gonna go. I think that Street Fighter has a lot of baggage
coming along with it, and you know, I mean, Jeff Jeff g
did a good job of talking through it on the BombCast this week where he
was like, you know, after street Fighter two, street Fighter three was
alienating to sort of the wider audience, even though it became this really fantastic
game by the end with Third Strike, and then street Fighter four was back
to the basics, and then street Fighter five was sort of more of that,
maybe with less of a visual identity, maybe less of an overall identity,
and now with six, you're faced with, Okay, we had we
We've seen all these ways we could do this before. Do we just keep
going down this same path that has sort of been like, do we new
Super Mario Brothers this series with street Fighter six and just sort of make four
again but slightly modernized, or do we really go for it? I would
assume that they probably think they should really go for it. They have a
new, like new leadership overseeing the series now from the start at least I
think that my guest here, and this is just a guess, is they
will take a chance with this with this game from Slay mcawesome. What other
video game franchise should get the street Fighter six thick aesthetic. Yeah, Luigi's
mansion. I just want to see wide ghosts. I want to see Luigi
with a dump trunk behind with the donk, and I just went like,
he turns around and knocks the camera over like that deck. So Luigi's matching
the easy answer for me from Doug Foot, who I think is named after
a Colorado Avalanche hockey player. I'm pretty sure that was whatever. Which potential
best game of all time will come out next week after Horizon three? Yeah?
So or come out a week after Horizon right? Right? We we
just did this one. But yes, absolutely it's gonna be snow Runner to
get in your trucks, drive through the mud, and everyone's gonna the game's
not gonna be much better than snow Runner one, but the world will have
changed to embrace it in the way that I have. That's that's gonna be
the big change. From Slay mcaustin, what's the deal with all these video
games getting released around the same time? Why are they so good yet so
long? Yeah? This is This is a hell of a month for games
and it is and I mean that in like it's look even if you don't
love them all. Even if you pick like one or two, you're gonna
end up with a couple of games that could easily be hundreds of hours.
Elden Ring is very long, very big, and you know, I got
that sense pretty early on. But then it's bigger than you even it's like
really hard, Like I'm okay, I open this one part of the map,
this is pretty big, and then there's this whole part of the map,
but that looks like it's the ocean. Maybe there's nothing. It's like
it's bigger than you even like could comprehend. And then of course it's also
very good. So yeah, I know, it's just one of those months.
I think the reason they all kind of come out at the same time
is a lot of it does have to do with the fist end of the
fiscal year, like we should never discount that. That's a big motivating fact.
After a lot of it is this is a good time to release games
because it's cold in your major territories. It's cold in Japan, it's cold
in Europe, it's cold in North America. People are inside playing a lot
of games. They also have these new systems that they just got for the
holidays and they are looking to spend money, and these are many of these
games are not I mean, maybe Horizons not gonna fit this description, but
many of these games are not Birthday gift or arms are Christmas gift sort of
games, right. They are not Call of Duty. They are not Assassin's
Creed, the games where you know you know not that gift buying actually drives
so much of the industry. Most people buy their own games. But in
February, that's sort of the mindset of the people releasing the games is we're
gonna people got these systems for the holidays. Now they're sitting around with them,
and they're sort of feeling anxious about I spent a lot of money or
someone's spend a lot of money. You get this for me, and I
want to get my money's worth. What's out there and now here is Oh,
here's the new best new game of all time. Go play that,
and everyone's gonna move on it. This game's elder Ring Horizon. These games
are gonna sell a ton from Patope, Hey, Jeff any word on Persona
for Golden being ported to Switch. I'd imagine with the Shimagami Tense success,
they'd at least be considering it. They don't consider anything. They're just consideration
is not in their purview of how they operate. They do, so they
put out games without consideration. They just throw them wherever. Persona for Golden
would make a lot of sense on the Switch. It's made a lot of
sense on the Switch from day one. Still not here. Persona going to
other platforms is just this bizarre thing where no one knows why, other than
maybe Atlas is sort of strange about like they're the one company still operating in
that GameCube Xbox mindset of you know, oh, we're LucasArts, and Xbox
is gonna get these Star Wars games. GameCube is gonna get these Star Wars
games. The PlayStation two's gonna get these Star Wars games. And that's how
Atlas still operates today, even everyone's moved on so far from that. It
just doesn't make any sense anymore. I don't know. From casual dear Senior
snacks. I find myself drawn to Capcom's pixel style of the nineties and get
excited when I see a new fighting game compilation. Then I remember I burn
out on fighting games. Mondo fast am I alone in this no, you're
I mean, it's definitely like they're exciting. They look great. Those nineties
capcom fighting games are maybe some of the best aesthetic style ever in the history
of the world. It's very attractive. I mean they're literally they were games
to attract you to come put money into them at the arcade, so they
had to have this sort of raw appeal and they still have that to this
day. And I agree with you, it's like, very attractive. I
want to go play them myselves and myself and then it's I don't have a
crew that's gonna come over and play with me. And even though in the
crew that does play fighting games doesn't really love playing them online. So I'm
the same where it's just I'm probably gonna burn out on these games. I
still gonna pick up that collection though. All right, here's Doug Foot,
let me have it. Did you enjoy Colorado beating Detroit last night? Not
really, No, it was a you know, the Detroit played better than
they did the first time. Detroit is still very young. They are not
as good as Colorado. Colorado is probably the best team this year, them
or Florida. A couple other teams. Tampa Bay is still pretty good.
Who else? I don't I don't need to go through the whole league,
but it's it was a tough game. I kind of knew Colorado was gonna
come in and win. Colorado bent and didn't break. And then even when
they did band they came right back and scored a couple of goals. So
their team that's just gonna be that should dominate in the playoffs. Honestly,
if Colorado doesn't get to the finals, it's a disappointing year for them based
on what this season has been. So better not choking the playoffs. Good
luck with that from Slay mccawesome, looking good, Jeff, did you get
a new webcam? This is a new new one. I actually I prefer
the Chio pros look, but this one's good too. This is the Gotto
face camp. It's very good. It's all got to right that that's O
Gotto's logo. Yes, all right, let's keep going from Chris Flavian,
Hi, Jeff, what's going on with Star Fox? There were rumors a
couple of years back about that Namco Star Fox racing game, but nothing since
I was never involved with like those rumors. That was kind of like before
I was in this sort of quarterman game. Since then, this one's come
up a bunch and the people who were involved with it, no one wants
to talk about it. Everyone's like, yeah, that was weird. And
some people claim it was a hoax buy Nintendo to snuff out leakers and find
out who was leaking, and other people claim it's a real game. Some
people claim it's both, and I don't know anything about it. I will
say that overall, for star Fox, it'll come back eventually. It always
does. You know, there's a lot of ip sort of power of Star
Fox where it's one of those games that people always talk about and to know,
seems to bring back their games to people sometimes even stop talking about,
like Advance Wars. So you'll probably get another Star Fox. It's I think
it's not even quite in the realm of like F zero, where maybe we
won't get another F zero, but I think we will get another F zero
eventually. Funk A Doodle asks how do you deal with games? Fomo?
I feel like there's so many games, and I just feel bad about missing
out on so many experiences other people have. Yeah, Fomo is a it's
a it's a real piece of shit, you know, the meditate, it's
probably the right answer. Fomo is driven from fear of of like not possessing
these experiences and stuff like that, and you sort of have to be a
little bit Buddhist about it and just say rid yourself of desire a little bit.
Now. I think desire is great. That's how I live my life.
I desire all kinds of things. So who amight have talked? But
a fomo really bothers. You try to actually meditate and let go of things.
And as you as these fears of missing out come in to you let
them go and that'll help. It puts things into perspective. If you want
to shortcut, there's like there's psychochemical ways of dealing with these things, but
I would not suggest those. I'll say probably more more than likely, just
shut off Twitter, try to get in a conversation, like build a discord
around people who are sort of in your in your same situation, who maybe
like the same game you're playing right now. Instead of going on Twitter and
having the conversation with everyone, go in your friend group, go on discord,
create a channel just for the game you're playing, and have everyone hang
out in there and talk about those games. Uh, and and try not
to remember that this why the world is out there teasing you. Enjoy what
you have in front of you. Let's see from last length a what's going
to be the focus of the next State of Play announced to March. I
think Spartacus is going to be a big part of it. I think they
could announce it in a blog post or a YouTube video of course. And
one thing I didn't mention with the with the Spartacus stuff is they're going to
completely rework the store as well. I think at least that's one of the
things they're considering. So it's gonna be a major overhaul, the kind of
thing I think they might want to talk about in a State of Play a
little bit. But the State of Play will probably also be them beginning to
fill out the rest of their release schedule. And you know, that doesn't
mean we're gonna get every big game, but we should get it. I
think they're probably gonna have a couple of big games ready to announce, and
then when we get around that that you know, that post E three PlayStation
showcase timeframe late summer early fall around then then they'll give us the real runway
of here's everything coming out in twenty twenty three that you should be excited about
and maybe beyond all right. From Watchman Forget elder Ring, what did you
think of Tape the tape? Yeah, Tape of Tape looks really cool.
It's a it's a Rogue light hockey game. I need to know what it
plays like, because I'm like, what does that even mean? I'm like
imagining I can't remember the character's name from from Hades now, but imagining like
Hades with a hockey stick like that would be very cool. It's not what
it looked like, but that's what I'm imagining. I don't know. I'm
excited it's coming out later this year. I'm excited to play it. From
Zekretz, would you rather completely shave off the hair, the hair off the
top of your head or your beard. It's gonna be counterintuitive because my hair
is luscious and it grows in nice and full and it's it's it's nice,
and then my beard struggles to be a beard. But I would rather cut.
I'd rather shave my hair because first of all, I haven't done an
That's what I used to do. I would buzz and then I'd grow it
out buzz and then grow it out every couple of years or something like that
or a year, and I like it. It's like cool to have that
like weight lifted off your head for a little bit. And I just think,
you know, as struggle beard as it is, it still looks better
than my actual face. So uh yeah, I'd rather I'd rather cut off
my hair. You know, the hair will grow back just fine. Uh
from Shadow? That's like famous last words, isn't it? From Shadow?
Viper double? Uh? Where to go? Hi? Jeff Well? Dragon
Ball Fighters Z even get role that neck code? Or is a potential sequel
the only chance for it to happen? Well, we'll ever get it.
I don't know. I don't know the answer to this question. I my
gut tells me it's probably gonna be in a sequel if at all from Adam
through Maybe if like Street Fighters six comes out and has it and it is
like makes it so obvious that every fighting game absolutely has to have this in
a post pandemic world, then maybe, But I don't know. From Adam
three times, do you think there's a chance Namca will ever make another Splatter
House? I think so that what was the what was the last one,
the kind of like the more modern one was that on like Dreamcast? More
modern was that Dreamcast or I don't know, but I feel like that was
like it's like a cult classic now and well received, like you know,
like the original. So I don't know, I think they could do another
one, like remembering e GM magazine covers with splatter House on it from lud
Jennings, New Vegas two sounds like a great idea, any idea if they're
going to remaster Fallout three and New Vegas in the meantime, I think there's
plans to sort of get around to remastering all of the big franchises that are
now under Microsoft, So I think Gears will probably happen. I think Fallout
will probably get a sort of legendary edition eventually, So yeah, I think
that'll probably happen. I don't know if it's gonna happen anytime soon, but
it's on the plate, okay. From vitre ly vetterally Dear Grubsy. Who
on Earth is DJ two Entertainment. They do deals with studios and contact every
studio I know about bringing their games to the big screen, promising the world,
promising them the world. Also turns out they work with Serge Titolf of
Big Reg's fame on his latest Nightmare. Okay, so they worked on his
latest namemare. I don't know. I'm like unfamiliar with DJ two entertainment for
the most part. But I'll ask around. I got some people who like
crossing both of those worlds, like of movie studios and video games, and
I'll ask around. We'll see what they say. That's like an interesting story
right there. I'll check it out from Dixie Dan eighty two. How happy
are the staff at Traarch that they have another year to work on the next
Black Ops? Very happy, very happy this is I mean, this is
not the first Call of Duty game that needed an extra year, it's the
first one that's gonna get one. Though, this was always really what everything
was about. Yeah, I mean, listen, the toxic work environment at
Activision and Blizzard drove down the price absolutely. That made it possible for the
acquisition to actually happen. But if it was just that, if everyone said
it's gonna be about the money, it's gonna be if investors aren't happy,
well why do you sell when the private when the stock is down and only
get like ninety five dollars to share or whatever it was. If if,
if you're gonna have that next quarter, it's gonna be a big banger.
Well they're not gonna have the next quarter. It's gonna be a big banger.
Vanguard was going to be a disappointment. This next call of to he's
probably gonna be okay. But then after that, you're gonna have to delay
the next one after like they're struggling to get talent. We talked about all
this, We laid out exactly what was going to happen. It's very not
surprising that this is what happened, that they needed to delay a call of
duty and they were going to have a holiday without those big numbers rolling in
and having to figure out other ways of navigating and bringing in revenue. They
knew that their future, that their outlook for the next couple of years was
going to be shaky at best, and so when they had an opportunity and
they're like, listen, we could just pull the golden parachute and get out
here, they did. From Uh from Snake, everyone praises Birth of the
Wild and Elder Ring for not having a map filled with icons. What if
I like a map, what if I like to have icons? Sorry about
my name, Yes, it's S five N A K E. I uh
listen. If you like the map, you like the map. Elder Ring
does have a map, it just doesn't have like icons that you fill it
out, but you can put your own icons. Like Breath of the Wild,
I liked it because it keeps you in the world and it forced it
obviously forced the developers to make a world that is compelling to look at and
when you look around just flung my thing off. Okay, when you just
when you look at the map, something interesting has to be in the environment
to draw your eye to say, okay, keep moving forward. Because if
it's not there and there's nothing on the map, let's say go forward.
Well, it's just a it's a bad game, a boring game. Breath
of the Wild and Elder Rain both have this thing where you know, if
you're standing in a spot anywhere in the world and you look around, you're
gonna find something You're gonna want to go look at what is that? And
I like that because it keeps you in the world. It keeps you,
it keeps you engaged with the actual geometry that the all these developers spend all
this time building and not just like a little you know, you're not just
a little icon on a GPS going to the next icon, which is how
a lot of map games can feel. Now, is there anything inherently wrong
with being a little icon on a GPS going to the next icon? Not
really. No. If you enjoy that, go go play your Assassin's Creed.
Yes there, Yes, Voiburger says, there are loads of games out
there for people like that. Map games is probably one of the most popular
genres. Right right now, you are at no I mean Horizon for in
West, right there, homie, go get it. Go get it from
costable costabile. Do game companies care about big release dates being too close to
each other? For example, Eldering possibly dominated the discourse when Horizon was still
on people's minds. If so, why wouldn't they have planned Horizon's release date
accordingly? Well, I mean, these things are messier than that, and
there's a lot of these things are big moving trains. They're big moving freight
trains with a ton of momentum. I will say, for the most part,
companies do care about release dates of other things, absolutely, but it's
not as big of a deal as we make it to be a lot of
times. Certainly, some games can cancel each other out. I do think
titan Fall two was wedged between Call of Duty and Battlefield, and that hurt
it. That was EA's own doing by putting Battlefield between or in front of
it and stuff like that. But for the most part, the people showing
up for elden Ring and the people showing up for Horizon actually are pretty different.
And if you are someone who is very into game, getting excited about
buying games is sort of a win for everyone because you know, you get
excited, you played a very good game, you want to play the next
one. You go, oh, what was the last game that came out
that was very good? Everyone was talking about, Oh, they were talking
about Horizon. Maybe I'll go pick that up. It's not ideal, but
there are all these considerations of the big moving freight train. You know,
they decide these dates pretty far out. We've known about Horizons date for a
few months, quite a few months, I think by the time we got
Horizons State, I believe Eldering was still supposed to come out in January and
it got delayed into February. And then if you are you're Sony and you're
looking around like, Okay, should we move Horizon, Well, probably not.
It's probably gonna sell just fine. The first one was right when Breath
of the Wild came out, and the first one went on to sell twenty
million copies. Also, we have all these promotions, we have all these
ad buys on television that we are in the middle of negotiating, and we've
spent spend that money, and we have a whole bunch of other money that
we want to go out and spend. We don't want to waste time going
back and read to go shating these deals, finding other time slots and you
know, you know whatever marketing deal we have with merchandising, Oh can you
hold on to that for a few extra weeks. Oh you have to put
it into a warehouse. Oh that's super expensive. Well that sucks. We
don't want to do that. There's just when when a game is as big
as Horizon, it is very difficult to sort of just change the date on
a whim. It's it's you know, it doesn't mean it doesn't happen,
obviously it does. Sometimes. Obviously games get delayed by a month. Here
and there. At the end of the day, the most important thing is
getting out a good game. If it needs another month, they'll take another
month. That rarely makes a difference, as we saw a Battlefield, but
for the most part, just having another game coming out not usually, even
if it's as big as elden Ring, not gonna be enough to make a
big publisher want to change their release date. Let's see from sad Rave,
which is the only kind of ray of that I enjoy. Have you heard
anything outside of leagues about Armored Cores or anything else post elden Ring. I
haven't. Uh you know, there's there's a lot of fake rumors that have
been going around in the last couple of weeks about what from is doing next,
mostly trying to keep like squelch those and make sure those don't like go
out when they come to me. But beyond that, it's like, yeah,
there's talk of Armored Core. People are talking about it, but uh,
you know, it's just it's the common rumblings. We'll see. I
do think the next game is probably either going to be an Armored Cores or
like an Armored Souls sort of a spiritual successor. I'm imagining a mech just
covered in tentacles and and seventy arms human arms from Corey Kyman Corey Carmen.
I saw the mccor that MCC is listed as unsupported on Steam Deck. Does
this mean we can't play it at all? From what I've read, it
is an issue with anti cheat. But all I want is to play the
campaigns, so I could talk more about these specifics tomorrow when I get done
with this show. I'm going into my little work cave and I'm not coming
out probably tomorrow morning when the embargo is up for the Steam Deck, because
I got a lot of a lot of thoughts I want to get all put
together in a bunch of different formats. I will say though, that for
most games when you try to boot them up and if they have anti cheat,
for example, if you if you have something that would block anti cheat,
like easy Easy anti cheat for Elden Ring on your PC, and I'll
just say from experience I've done this, it says, oh there's there's a
misbehavior going on with the software, We're going to boot you into offline mode.
That is almost certainly what would happen with master Chief Collection, so you'd
be able to play the game in offline mode with the campaigns, I believe
I could double check. I'll try to find out. I'll see if I
have time downloading games and testing them. Especially when you've limited space on the
thing and you're trying to get all kinds of other captures stuff happening. It's
difficult, but I'll see what I can find out. My guest here is
you're gonna be fine. From Zekretz, who should direct a new Star Wars
movie doesn't have to be a numbered movie, so could focus on anything.
I don't know. Probably Christopher mcquory. Uh, there's that his name,
the guy that's been working with Tom Cruise on all his movies recently. I
think I love the Ryan Johnson last Jedi. I thought that was going in
the right direction. Obviously, we have decided as a society, as a
fandom, and as lucasfilm that we are not going to go down the interesting
route. So at least I'm hopeful that they can go down the entertaining route.
And I will say that is how I define most recent Tom Cruise movies
not interesting, but very entertaining. And Christo mcgory like speaks to that.
He's like, uh and He talked about this with like The Last Jedi.
He was talking about The Last Jedi, where it's like, listen, you
gotta understand you have still surprise fans while giving them exactly what they expect,
and his movies do that very well. The Mission Impossible movies are exactly what
I expect and always surprised me somehow. And I think if if you know
Star Wars is sort of gonna just slowly die this way, you know,
slowly die in terms of being a valuable product of culture, you know,
at least it could be entertaining. I think Christoph McCory is the right man
for the job. Probably won't do it. He seems pretty happy just making
Tom Cruise movies, and those movies are very good. I like him a
lot. So yeah, whatever from Evil Bender, Any chance of another BattleTech
game from Hairbrain Schemes, I think so. I don't know for sure.
I bet that that one did pretty well and they would probably want to go
have another go From Permanent Side, is Shadow Warrior three launching on PS now
a hint of what is to come for the service? Ignore if you already
talked about this when you got to your Spartacus segment. I think that it
is. I don't know that one seems like it might be a a vestige,
a leftover of what like maybe a play path they are gonna take.
I think, you know, we were always going to get like they always
have done, Okay, new game releases on PS plus. Having this on
PS now it is a bit interesting. It doesn't fit into any of those
key feature categories we talked about, you know, game, your game catalog,
game trials, classic games, monthly games. I guess maybe it fits
in the monthly games. I don't know, but then everything gets a monthly
game on PS plus. This is different because it's PS now. From what
I've heard, it doesn't necessarily fit with what happens with Spartacus, but that
doesn't mean they won't do more of it, and this isn't Maybe this is
another separate pillar that they're working on. From Wawa Monday. Should I wait
for the switch release or Twilight Princess or buy Twilight Princess for WEU before the
e shop closes. I mean it's probably more. It's probably more, and
I don't know. They probably didn't drop the price in the WU. Now
that I'm about to say that I'm gonna wait. I have not bought Toilet
Princess. I have Windwakeer HD on the WU. I did not buy Toilet
Princess HD. I'm going to wait and get it on the switch. That's
my choice. If you are someone who regularly finds your way it finds a
way to have Wi you game pad in your hands, which I occasionally do
once plugged in right over there for the kids and everything. But I don't
have a lot of time to just go sit over there and play games.
That's I do have time to like take the switch with me around the house
and that sort of thing. So yeah, I don't know, that's my
choice. I'm gonna get it on the switch from Ojeebus. The announcement of
the Capcom Fighting Collection made me wonder if we will ever see Super Street Fighter
two TURBOHD remix on modern consoles. Uh, you know, it's probably got
the full back of pad on Xbox, right, They probably just need to
release it on PlayStation. I don't know. I wonder with like the back
of pad if I would do that, because I'm sure it just works on
when it came out on on Xbox three sixty, didn't it And then Pops
three. Did it come out? PS three? I remember playing on Xbox
three sixty. I don't know. My answer to this is probably not,
but you know, we'll see, all right, checking the time got plenty.
I know there's a I think there's coming. I think they're doing Arcade
Pit today, right? Or is that yesterday? I think I got something
coming out. Oh it's Voice Bail Dumb Trunk today. Right. So I'm
trying to keep on time and make sure I'm not going too long. But
it's only been forty seven minutes. We're doing fine, all right? From
Madjevnakov Majennakov. Yeah, there we go to Paraface Tookoda's question from Twitter,
just how much more is Kirby in the Forgotten Land going to be critically lauded
than elden Ring. Yeah, I mean there's there's untold amounts of praise just
waiting to happen for Kirby the Elder Ring could only dream of getting. The
Kurby game looks very fun. I hope it's good. I hope it's good.
Mike Tokoto is getting his hopes up very high. He's one of those
guys that, like usually he plays these games, and occasionally they disappoint him
because they're a bit too slow, paces they're too much for kids. They
don't challenge kids in any way. It's just sort of like this nice stroll
and that could be kind of boring. And I hope, I really hope
that that is now a Kurbys. I hope Kirby is just like, yeah,
we basically gave Kirby's first real three D platformer. This is like if
we were doing another Mario or whatever. It is just as challenging as one
of those, just as interesting as one of those. I'm hopeful. From
disposable user, I just wanted to say that I recently bought Honey Pop when
it was on sale due to you and games Beat talking about it. So
thanks for that doing the Yeah, I'm doing the choking on the hot sauce.
Listen, I barely talked about it. You gotta tell you gotta blame
Rachel, you gotta blame Mike kra That that was. I hardly had anything
to do it, although I have tested it on steam Deck, so just
to we're clear, I've tested a lot of Purve games on Steam Deck.
Of I mean like it's like they're like oh, steam verified, and it's
like you open it up, You open the game, like, what is
this game? This is Steam verified? Someone at Valve tested this game.
It looks kind of perving. You open up, and then like the first
thing you see is just a honking giant penis, Like, oh, okay,
it's a Purve game. Cool, all right, let's test it out.
Let's get in there, let's find out what's going on with this video
game. And it's more. It's more penises and genitalia, just all the
way down from sad Rave. Any chance Activision games start hitting game pass before
the acquisition closes, that's a tough one. That did happen with Bethesda,
right, But I would imagine that a lot of those conversations were happening beforehand.
And I don't know. I don't know if like, Okay, those
conversations weren't happening beforehand here, so now we're gonna have them because we know
where we're headed. I don't know if they'd be able to do that.
I'm not familiar enough with like the legal navigation that we are required to pull
that off. But maybe from eat the hype, will the Spartacus rolled out
be supported day and date on PC as well. So that's a good question
because PlayStation now does work on PC. What does this mean for PlayStation now,
that's a good question. I don't know. And what does it mean,
like would you be able to get Spartacus on PC? Probably not right.
I didn't even think about it. I'll look into it. I'll see
what I can find from misery. No question today, I just wanted to
say thank you for doing this. Got home from work and catching up on
news and it needed something to take my mind off of everything. Thanks.
Yeah, I mean I was like, one, or should we do a
show today? How should we address it? And really the my decision making
came down to, I am I couldn't. I honestly, embarrassingly couldn't point
Ukraine on a map. I can't play up Nebraska on a map as an
American. So that's not like, oh, like, oh, I'm just
completely blind to that part of the world. I'm just blind in general.
And but I'm like, if I am this stupid on the subject, and
my opinion is I hope people don't die, and I don't. I think
worth's pretty bad, and this is like, I think this is devastating news
and this is. It just seems, from the outside looking in, incredibly
stupid and incredibly wasteful and incredibly pointless, and just another example of this generation
that has ruled everything for fifty years just continuing to make things worse for everyone
else because they are on their way out and they want to make their indelible
mark by killing more people. Sorry I'm doing it anyhow, But yeah,
I figured we could probably just come in here talk about games. The world's
gonna be there when we get done. When we get done here, it'll
all still be there. So let's talk about games for now and then we'll
go back to it when we're done here. From impose a lot, do
you think Sony has an incentive to port their PSVR titles to Steam? Yeah,
eventually, I think, But I mean they've done a like I would
love to see astro Bot. Which one is that called Astrobot on a VR?
I think it's the Astrobot A Rescue Mission. Yeah, I would love
to see that on Steam. That'd be very cool. I think there's less
of an incentive because it's not like there is a much bigger audience on PC
for VR than there owns on place other than there's on PlayStation, so it's
not like, okay, like Horizon goes to PC and it sells an extra
million copies. No VR game's gonna sell an extra million copies by going to
Steam. But you know, maybe the math still works out. From feature
Creep who said Ben Driver no inside jokes from other podcasts, and also I'm
embarrassed, so I don't want to talk about it. From Beef More More,
Beef More Tron, Beef Beef Motron, I got it. I got
it. Why does Square Nicks shame their poor selling games while other publishers pretend
they never existed? I mean, I totally think. I think this is
a thing about Square Knicks loves their real children and their step children from the
West. They like to just treat as whipping boys. It's like very much
that energy, very much. They have a huge step dad energy over at
Square Knicks and I it's it happens every time that listen on this show.
In December, we we said that The Guardians of the Galaxy was a disappointment.
It was selling somewhere between one and one point five million copies at that
time, way below what they were expecting, way below what they needed,
and really a disappointment, I think kind of all around. I think we
even most of us agreed that that seems like a little bit low for what
that game should have done. But still at the same time, I think
one to one point five million by December probably should have been in their projections
as like a possible outcome, Like it should have been on the low end
obviously, but it's like, yeah, it's a disappointment, but it's not
so far out of their projections. Square Knicks just always expects the world and
then they don't, I don't know, and it seems like they don't really
have the support to back it up and try to make that actually happen.
From Dominito, in the ten years of Infinite, will three four three ever
drop support for Xbox One or will we see Infinite two down the road?
My hunch here is that Infinite two is going to be part of that ten
years of Infinite, and that the Infinite two will be like the campaign getting
a big expansion, and then I think the online multiplayer, however, will
continue to be supported on Xbox One for a long time, maybe not ten
years, but for quite some time, like longer than anyone else would expect
because really, they're gonna want that game to run on low end PCs for
forever, and the Xbox One while gonna be among the lowest of like the
spec spectrum of low end PCs in a couple of years, still they're gonna
be like, Okay, if it runs on Xbox One, it'll run on
almost any PC anyone's using right now, so they'll probably keep it going.
Speaking of Hockey, how tipsy is the doctor? Let's take a look.
Oh, still filing very tipsy, Doctor Hockey just gonna he's gonna get me
here to talk to you about the new Jersey Devils. All right, I'm
glad we were able to do that. Check from Vagrant game or hey Jeff,
what does Jeff Gersman smell like? I imagine energy drinks and the ink
that new game manuals are printed with. I remember I ran into h An
E three and I was showing him my speaker hat, which was very exciting
to me, and we talked about sinking up a bunch of speaker hats and
terrorizing E three with music coming from all sides while these hooligans wearing Atari speaker
hats were coming for you. But it was at E three in a crowded
room I think at the the Xbox Show, like the show Hall or whatever
they had for Xbox at Microsoft Theater, and so all I could was a
thousand humans and some video game kiosks and Phil Spencer, who of course very
pungent. So I couldn't I couldn't get a good whiff from Derfeet Derfief.
Microsoft had a bunch of great months with great releases, but now they have
lost some momentum with not much in arms reach. How can they possibly fix
this in the long run, I mean the long run, These months are
gonna go by and they're gonna we're gonna forget about him. We talked about
this in December as well, where hey, they're having a good months right
now. There's gonna be a gap. There's gonna be a drought in the
early part of twenty twenty two, and then maybe Redfall comes out and breaks
that. You know, maybe, or maybe Stalk or two is a big
deal. Stalk or two got delayed, so you know, that's that's where
we're at with that right now. One of the ways that they are fighting
this is with announcements, with jazz hands. They come at you with jazz
hands, like, listen, we don't have a video game right now,
but we just spent sixty nine billion dollars on AT Division. Isn't that exciting?
A lot of people is like, this is exciting. I don't need
video games. I got I've got video game news. And you know,
Microsoft loves making announcements for that reason, this is going to be less and
less, less and less of a problem. Specifically because they just spent sixty
nine billion dollars on ACT Division. They have so many studios, they have
so many games, all scheduled for twenty twenty three. Yeah, a twenty
twenty two is gonna be still pretty slow. Yes, it's the ongoing thing
where when people say, hey, where are the games for Xbox, Well,
yeah, we got a couple. Now it's time to wait again.
And I just waited, We waited forever just to get Halo and Fortza.
Well, no, you gotta wait again. But the waiting, the waiting
periods will get shorter, like now you're waiting from You're waiting from Halo to
Red Fall in the summer if it gets delayed to the fall, but then
the very longest there will be Starfield in November that's a big game. It'll
be a big deal. And really what you're waiting until and waiting for is
E three when they could start talking about all these games coming out for next
year. We've gone through this time, this timeline a million times now,
where yeah, Halo, there's gonna be a gap after Halo. But if
they could just get to E three, they could start telling you when Perfect
Dark's coming, when a Vowd's coming, They'll really show you everything about Starfield,
and then they could start those promotions and then you'll sort of forget,
like, Okay, there's not nothing here. I'm waiting for Starfield. That's
the most exciting thing. I can imagine. That's sort of the plan.
In twenty twenty three, they will be able to probably get to a big
game per quarter, if not a big game every two months. I imagine
many of the big games schedule for twenty twenty three will slip into twenty twenty
four. But then that just helps to alleviate the problem even more as we
get further down the line, where if games were twenty twenty three, it's
been twenty twenty four, and now they have thirty five hundred studios or whatever
it is they'll be able to fill in those gaps and easily have a game
every two months by twenty twenty four. I think so this is a problem
that has already been solved. We are just in the waiting process where it's
like now it's just a matter of physics or a matter of contractual obligations,
where yeah, if they didn't have contractual obligations, they would have had Death
Loop last year as well, and they'd have Ghost Wire Tokyo as well right
now. So they're putting out a lot of games, some of them are
just exclusive to PlayStation because that's how that's how the Embrakes go done. Breaking
which is the famous idiom that everyone always says from casual, could you do
your cold cassidy again, Gokay City. I think that's what I did.
I don't remember at all what I said. I think I'm good old cold
Okay City. The voice is not strong today, so I'm doing my best.
From Dio game, A weird rumor went around that resume A four was
money added by Xbox BS, right, I think so, I think so.
I think so. I think that Microsoft has a lot of money they
want to spend by the end of June, especially when it comes to Game
Pass. If Microsoft money added resuable four, it'll be for Game Past Day
one Resida before remake. But I don't know if they would be like spending
that money. I don't know. I think it's probably bus Uh. Nintendo
acquires SRD Group Nintendo QUID Group development studio it was worked with for decades.
This is from Wesley LeBlanc over a Game Informer. So if you see a
little bit of text on screen, that's what I'm reading right now. You
go check that out yourselves. Uh, long time PRESOM partner that has worked
on titles within Francis is like the legend is old in Super Mario. Okay,
this is exactly what what we said would happen, right. Nintendo works
with these companies. They know these These are companies that they know, that
knows it could trust and wants to keep working with. And these studios at
the same time know that they are worth more now than they've ever been worth
and probably ever will be worth again. The demand for content, the demand
for students, the demand for talent inflation, all these things are working together
where hey, we're worth a lot because of the demands out there, because
of the market pressures and the lack of supply in terms of being but just
go out and start a new studio with new talent. Everyone is looking for
talent, and then Nintendo has a lot of money, and that one's gonna
be worth less next year than it is this year, so you might as
well spend it because of inflation. So it's exactly what happened with Next Level,
right, the team that's doing Mario Strikers. It's probably gonna happen with
Mercury Steam maybe if they want to acquire Mercury's team after like the works of
the reports of toxic corp environments, this is not too surprising. SRD did
a lot of their mobile games too, says Marino. Thanks Marino, Okay,
yeah, just makes a lot of sense. Okay, we are going
to wrap up here pretty soon. If you have any more questions you want
to get in, feel free to do so. I'm gonna read these last
few from Vagrant game. Are currently addicted to a stupid anime clicker that I've
put way too much time into. What was the less game that made you
say this is stupid? Why am I still doing this yet still continue to
play? That's most things in my life. It's most video games at this
point, you know, a certain point, like you get closer to death
than to birth, and you're like, huh, how am I choosing to
spend my time? I still do it, and I still really enjoy it.
I try not to feel too bad about it. But I know what
you mean about the clicker games. I had my time with with Cookie Clicker
and all those, and deffinitently came out of those with a messive amount of
shame and guilt about the way I was spending my time. I get that
way with a lot of big, polished games these days, big sort of
I mean, as good as I think Horizon is from a distance. When
I go to play it, I feel like I'm sort of just going through
the motions that someone built for me. Even you know, even in an
open world, it's still like, you know, this game's very much just
trying to guide me along, and not in a way that like with Death
Loop. I like Death Loop because it was very much guiding me along until
it wasn't. Once you got to a certain point in the loops, It's
like, I it showed me, it like was taking me down these paths
and I was noticing all these things, and now I start to have a
little bit of freedom to go mess around with those things. Then I noticed
and I sort of built this mental map in my head and I could execute
on those ideas. I like that, But but a lot of bike big
games that are just like, hey, you know, go from this point
in the next map games and uh and gout of war and stuff. I
just find those ones I like. I don't know if I'm necessarily having.
I want to be part of the creative creativity that happens in the game.
In a game, or at the very least, I want to be in
a sandbox where anything could happen and I can come out and tell an emergent
story. That's why I like snow Runners so much. Most people aren't gonna
want to hear the story about my truck getting stuck in the mud and how
I had to bring another truck around and that truck flipped over, and yet
I found a way to bring in a third truck and I jack that truck
up, and now I had three trucks, and I had to figure out
how like to go from one to the next. The next turn on the
engine in the back truck, get in the front truck and sort of dragon
like, I am having a great time telling this story. And it's actually
that matters more to me than whether or not you're enjoying the story. But
still that's what I get out of a lot of games. So if I
don't get a chance to tell an emergent story and be part of like the
creativity, a lot of times I do end up feeling like I'm wasting my
time in a game. If it's just here is a story we wrote for
you. If I wanted that, I'll you These days, I say to
myself, I'm going to read a book. I'm gonna try to read a
book instead from slammick awesome. How's the shrimp situation currently at home? So
you should see her pile of meeps and lobsters that she has in her bed.
It is getting bigger all the time. All the time. You know,
we find we find toys would get him for, but then they'll be
like bags of like little plastic animals that my family will send to the kids
or something like that. I'm looking at throw on camera again and uh,
and she'll always just fine, Oh there's a lobster here, and she just
adds it to her collection. She said the words red lobster last night,
and me and my wife are both like man when she learns to read and
see and we drive past the red lobster and she goes, it's a meep?
Can we go in my Oh honey, Oh no, no, you
you don't. You don't want to see what they do to the lobsters in
there. I feel like I'm gonna have to have the conversation with her before
that happens and explain, yes, people eat seafood and they eat some of
these meeps, and then she's gonna be like, have you ever eaten one
of these meets? And then that's that's gonna be the end of me.
That's gonna be That's gonna be it for me. So that's the current situation.
That's what I'm dealing with. Uh. We are taking her to h
the aquarium here in Denver here pretty soon, and I'm looking forward to that.
Uh. Last time we went to that, my my older daughter who
was probably around three at that time, she just she pet this thing right,
And of course she was the one kid in the high place that got
stung by the stingray, not like real bad. But like, just like
the whatever it is, the little bit of a shock or whatever, I
need to go wash it off, she cried. She like screamed as loud
as she could snake bringing up an inside joke from another podcast, again against
the rules. Even it doesn't matter that it's embarrassing to me. That's not
what this is about. That's not what this is about. From zecrets,
tell us more about the speaker hat. Let me see if it's around here
somewhere. It usually is, but I don't know where. Okay, sometimes
my kids get it, sometimes I wear it. I love the speaker hat.
The Atari speaker hat is fantastic because I do have kids, and I
like to listen to podcast because it helps me get stuff done and around the
house. I need a dopamine go into my brain to make me be able
to do simple tasks because like the dishes that or something like that. So
I listened to podcasts all the time. But having something in your ears or
over your ears, when people are trying to talk to you almost constantly,
almost every second of the day, someone's trying to ask me something, it's
very frustrating to keep taking things off. For taking things out and you know,
with the in ear like wireless earbuds, you can't even hear anything.
It sucks. So the speaker hat just puts the speakers right here on the
brim and shoots the sound down in your eyeballs, which is where people don't
tell you, that's where most of the sounds should go, right in your
eyeballs. And it sounds fine enough, and I could hear, I could
hear Jeff g and Jeff b argue about hockey or whatever. It just fine.
And and then I could also hear when my kids are shouting and need
help. So I love the speaker rights. It is the next gen of
dad hats, all right. From from Borie Square filed trademarks for guess how
luckily could we get a new guests and how badly do we need a new
guess? My ongoing theory here for all of these sort of use these older
characters getting to re trademarket stuff is Fortnite is going to do a classic game
season where they just released a whole bunch of content for classic games, characters
from from older games from eight bit and sixteen bit and thirty two bit and
all this stuff, and all these companies are just trying to get their ducks
in a row so they can cash in on that Fortnite Metaverse money. And
it's gonna be It's gonna be real depressing to get killed by a guess that's
how it was. How I feel about it, Tokoto Protict Kirby at the
Forgotten Lands Metacritic score one hundred and one. It's gonna be the first one
h Do you want me to do this for real? Mic? Because it's
gonna be like eighty probably eighty one. I hope it's great. If it's
great, it'll be eighty five. But it's gonna be in that range.
I hope it's great. From Octo, Hey, no question, Just thanks
love the grub Cinemac Universe. Thanks Ado. It was in the discord mister
mcraig dink a few weeks ago, you jokingly said the new Call Duty would
not release this year. How does this field once again feel to once again
will the news into existence? I jokingly might have said it like about this
year, but I seriously said it about in the next couple of years.
They're almost certainly going to miss one of these. I'm like, I think
it was on the bomb cast. Actually, I'm like, they are going
to miss a call duty eventually, and then what, Well, they already
got the answer. They've already sold the Microsoft, so it doesn't sort of
matter now that they've they're missing a call of duty. But this was inevitable
with the way they were going, with the game's getting bigger, trying to
maintain this this cadence, and then struggling to find talent because no one wants
to come work for Bobby Cottick. It was inevitable that this would happen.
So here we are from pro Skater Tony. When will we start? I
wonder if that's the real pro skater Tony. When will we start to see
the actual post acquisition acquisition games from all the studios Microsoft is bought. Has
there been a change how these devs make games? Any cross dev collaboration?
You know about the biggest changes for most of these studios is Microsoft is willing
to give them extra time and money. We've already seen this repeatedly with Ghost
Wire, Tokyo, with Death Loop, with Psychonauts two, with Halo.
You know, it's an older studio, but all these new studios getting extra
time and extra money and a lot of guidance as well to make their games
as good as possible. And those games come out and have been doing pretty
well in terms of the reviews and the reception. Obviously there's like varying opinions
on all of them, but at the very least like people consider many of
them to be Game of the Year candidates. That seems to be the biggest
difference. When will we start seeing more of these post acquisition games coming out?
I mean, we're gonna see Redfall this year, We're gonna see Starfield
this year. That's Bethesda. I think next year we've getting to see more
of those Bethesta games. A lot of the games that were a lot of
the companies that were required in twenty eighteen, we'll start seeing those in twenty
twenty three, and then by twenty twenty four. This should just be game,
game, game, game game. It should just be kind of NonStop.
From Mighty macheleven, My sister in law is getting married in northern rural
New Jersey next month. Northern rural New Jersey next month. One of the
dinner options is lobster tail. Do I trust lobster that has cooked in New
Jersey? Find out where the chef is from. If they're from like New
England, you're fined. You're fine. They they'll, they'll, they'll take
care of you. I mean, it's gonna be a little bit toxic.
It's gonna be a little bit like nuclear but that's just gonna make it the
taste pop out a little bit more. All right, here we go,
Ericle, I'm behind on the videos of anyone else else asked, please,
did you see the Keex trademark was was new renewed in Europe and Japan?
Un ironically interested in a new gex. I'm like, I'm pretty serious that
people probably shouldn't get their hopes up to I for new games in a franchise
like this. Uh, I do see there. It seems like there's a
lot of possibilities to sell gus skins in other video games. Uh. That's
probably a lot cheaper, a lot more cost effective than making a new Guess
that said, maybe maybe we get a new one. Uh probably probably not,
though probably probably not everybody. Uh and then it's just Kevin V says,
yes, the lobster in Jersey is good. All right, Well,
there you go. My kid's gonna come kill you. But okay, Uh,
let's wrap it up. Thank you everybody. I really appreciate it.
This is a great time, a great show. I was a mess,
but you all were great. I'm gonna try to get this camera fixed.
It was it was working. Oh, I probably have to reset OBS and
has already started streaming. So I told Jann I was ready to go,
and I lied. I wasn't ready. I thought I could get ready once
I was live. So it's a lesson learned for the old game mess.
Thank you everybody for tuning in. I really appreciate it. I hope that
you know the cool news I was able to break this exciting. I hope
I was able to answer some of your questions. We will do this again
next week. I can't wait. I'm looking forward to it. Until then,
however, take care of yourself. Have a good one, and I
mean take care of yourself. Take care, take care of yourself this weekend.
Do something nice for yourself. If you are in an affected area and
Ukraine, please be safe. Do what you can. I'm worried about you.
Even though I feel completely helpless, I'm worried about you. I don't
know what else I could say. Take care of yourself, have a good
one, I'll see you next time. Goodbye,