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Introduction and PowerWorld's Influence
00:00:14
Speaker
What's up everybody welcome to the log on games podcast for Friday January the 26th
00:00:21
Speaker
It's not working. Yeah, he's trying real hard. It's that face. It's like, no, we don't detect you. We don't know who you are. Go to YouTube and watch it. You won't know. On this episode today, we're going to be talking a lot about PowerWorld. Maybe some other things will come up here and there. But the bulk of what we're going to discuss is PowerWorld.
00:00:45
Speaker
And so if anything crazy happened that I don't know about, I apologize, but it seems like just the video game world has done nothing but power it up this last week. So with me today, you can find him right over there on the top left of my screen at Brown Berserker. We have Andrew. Oh, shoot. Yeah. Ow. Broden to the desk. What's going on?
00:01:13
Speaker
Not much man, just taking in the pal world news, seeing a bunch of depressed people trying to get sleep token tickets, you know, it's just... And there's also, Depresso is in pal world. He's a pal. Oh, okay. He's depressed a lot. He looks depressed, then when he works for you, he's depressed. So I've heard the weakest part of the game is the pals. What's your opinion on that? We will get into that. On the bottom of my screen,
00:01:52
Speaker
Favorite restaurant. We haven't done food in a while. So favorite restaurant. And here
Atlanta's Culinary Scene and Nostalgic Food
00:01:58
Speaker
we go. In or around the Atlanta area, Carlos. Okay. You can't just say favorite restaurant. It doesn't work like that. You have to, it's got to be categorized. There's not one single place I crave more than anything else. Hey, the cafe you took me to is good, man. It's a Friday at like six 30. Oh yeah. Cause that star. Someone's like, Hey, it's good. Don't. Hey.
00:02:02
Speaker
You can find him at ruffle on my waffles. We have Carlos with us.
00:02:21
Speaker
Someone's like, hey, I will pay for you. You can go eat wherever you want to tonight. Where are you going? Varsity. Stop. Don't say that. No, no. For anyone who's visiting the Atlanta area. Look, I get the varsity is a touristy place to visit, but in hindsight, it's I've never been. I'd like to go. It's fine.
00:02:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's very... It exists. Yeah, it exists. I like the whole thing that they do have going on, like the charm of it. That's good. No, but definitely not the varsity. I don't know, man. There's just too many places. My mouth is watering just thinking about this eating around Atlanta. I'm hungry. Can I ask the G-ville SC boys up here, the bros, how does it compare to the beacon?
00:03:15
Speaker
The vegan is way better, dude. Are you kidding me? The vegan is the vegan is levels beyond what the varsity. Whoa. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. The vegan is. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. Oh God. Not what the vegan dude.
00:03:33
Speaker
I didn't mean to alienate you. I just know, I know the boys have, uh, from Austin either. And it changed my life, man. You can't eat there. A lot of you will die, but yes. Holy crap. I've never finished a full meal there. I've never, um, you haven't had the right attitude then.
00:03:51
Speaker
Okay. What I am excited about is the fact that Whataburgers are starting to pop up all over the Atlanta area. Yes. Yes. You just have to get around waiting for the traffic and the height because you'll be sitting in there for an hour in line to get Whataburger.
00:04:06
Speaker
But afterwards, like once the hype dies down, I'm excited. It's good stuff. And if you never even if you don't like water burger stuff, which I know there's some cowards out there that feel that way. I hate it. It's OK. Just go for breakfast and get a honey butter chicken biscuit with extra honey butter sauce. Make sure you get extra.
00:04:26
Speaker
Because you're gonna need it, trust me. And tell me it's not the best breakfast sandwich. Listen, I like Whataburger better than In-N-Out. I've been to both. Oh, that's me too. It's not even close. I think they're close. They're about the same. I still haven't tried In-N-Out. Hopefully they'll start popping. They might start popping up on the East Coast actually because they are putting a headquarters in Tennessee.
00:04:51
Speaker
I mean, they like money. The specialty about In-N-Out is that it's like, it's cheap. Yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to. Yeah, that's why Cookout gets me, because for me, me too. The value.
00:05:08
Speaker
That's the thing. Like if you ask me what is the number one thing I'm looking for in a place to eat, it is food for money. Like that's just it for me. Like the taste of the food is important, but if this burger tastes a little bit better than this other burger, but it's 20 bucks instead of 10, I'm going to go to the $10. My taste buds have low standards. See dude, for me, my taste buds.
00:05:31
Speaker
10, 15 years ago, that was Taco Bell for me. But now, dude, you can't get half the stuff you used to get for a reasonable price. Everything, I'm paying almost $20 for what I used to get. I can get three items for seven bucks, Don. Come on now. Bro, you can get three items for $3 back in the day. Are you kidding me? I know.
00:05:51
Speaker
It comes full circle because for whatever reason Taco Bell is just video game food. It just is. I love it too. I will never get tired of it. But the unfortunate thing where I live too is the service, one of them kind of burned down, which thankfully because the service was already really bad, but the other one was even worse.
00:06:14
Speaker
And now, yeah, like nowadays, when you go to my Taco Bell, they're just pretty much like, what do you want? And like, they're just, they're mean, dude. It's almost like they're angry you're there. I'm like, sorry. I just wanted to talk. I'm sorry, food. On the top right of my screen, you can find them at xujadex. We had Matthew with us on the podcast.
00:06:36
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Okay. I love how, okay. Okay. That's the breakdown right there. Well, I mean, this is the last, uh, this is the last podcast I'm doing in this house. So in case this gets lost in the move, I had to really make sure that's what I was saying. You had like nothing on your walls, nothing in that room, but you made sure not to pack the gong yet.
00:06:59
Speaker
Nothing on my desk area technically is packed, but all the everything else is. But Matthew, what's going on? What's the best food you've had since you've lived in Boston?
00:07:12
Speaker
My favorite place to eat here is a place called sweet rice. It's a Thai place and it's pretty sure it's just a here thing, but maybe not. I don't know, but what's your, what's your, what's your, oh, no.
00:07:32
Speaker
I get, I get the American ease stuff. My order every time is they just have a crispy chicken fried rice and the chicken is phenomenal. And it's also, it's also one of those places where it's like, it's going to cost you probably like 16 or 18 bucks. But also every, if you finish your meal, you're going to feel like you ate way too much food. Yeah. It's two meals. It's two meals. No, it's not. I can't, there are no meals that are two meals. I won't, I won't allow it.
00:07:58
Speaker
I'll sit there for an extra hour. He gets it. I try to provide for future Andrew, so I'll force myself sometimes. I provide for future Carlos by just buying more food. I provide for future Matt by just being a camel. I'll eat too much, but that's cool. I'll skip the next meal. We're good.
00:08:20
Speaker
The Chinese place that we go to here, we went last night and we get sesame chicken because Emily is very white when it comes to Asian food. Like she just wants to get the widest thing. She's like, I know what I like. I'm not going to, I'm not going to be adventurous at any front. So we get sesame chicken with white rice because I'm a white rice boy. And she doesn't really care whether it's white rice or fried rice. And then two egg rolls. But the combo also comes with like a soup. And so she gets whatever soup she gets.
00:08:50
Speaker
but we eat that as a meal together. And then there's always enough for like another meal. And I usually eat that the next day. Like it's a lot of food. There's a lot of food. You all got some small stomachs bro. That's providing for future Andrew. Don't be like that.
00:09:06
Speaker
I have seen videos, though, of some of those places, like especially mall Chinese, man, where like they can't even close the box because it's just now the place, my favorite place that I used to get delivered would do that with their sweet and sour chicken where like the container didn't close. It was just popped open and was overflowing with chicken. They got rubber bands holding it close.
00:09:30
Speaker
We ordered for them one time, I think for three, maybe four of us, we did an order. They delivered it in a box. It was so much food. Like a cardboard box. Last night we ordered and Emily called to order. And I kid you not, this is exactly what happened. She orders the food and then they're like, okay. And then there's like silence for about
00:09:54
Speaker
five seconds. And he goes, this is Emily, right? And she's like, yeah. He's like, OK, see you soon. And we just looked at each other. We're like, they know you. And now you're moving.
00:10:05
Speaker
Well, we are we are moving, but we're pretty much the exact same distance away from everything. OK, you're good. You're good. We're the same distance away from that Chinese restaurant that we are in there. Nice. How big of a factor was that in the location you choose to move to? Pretty big, pretty big factor. Smart, smart man. We're like five to 10 minutes further from the middle of Atlanta, like the city. But we're closer to everything else. So. OK. Or the same minutes of food. I like it.
Rumors and Speculations in Gaming
00:10:36
Speaker
This is the log on games podcast. I don't have my thing pulled up. It's all good. Think about video games and stuff. We're talking about games and then sometimes there's like, uh, like news games and like game awards. Sometimes we get derailed with food. Yeah. We got to do like just a food episode. Somehow we'll tie it into monster hunter or something and we'll make it work. Games that have good looking food. Oh dude.
00:11:10
Speaker
There's a rumored that there's going to be a PlayStation Direct in February. There's like a lot of leaks coming out with Until Dawn being remade and also being made into a movie or a TV show or something.
00:11:28
Speaker
a Stellar Blade release date. There was a couple of those that I don't remember. But either way, if that happens, we usually do reactions to all that kind of stuff as well. You can find it over on our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash at log on games. Go over there and subscribe to us. We have all of our past stuff. We've watched game awards and all the summer game stuff that happened last year. And we also do this podcast over on our YouTube channel. So go over there and you can also find us at log on games everywhere else.
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00:12:51
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All right, boys, there's the game that came out. We've talked about it like the last two podcasts kind of here and they're like, Hey,
PowerWorld's Mechanics and Success
00:12:58
Speaker
power, what's coming out? We're excited. Hopefully it doesn't suck. Um, well, it came out and let me tell you, let's see if there's an update on exactly how many it's sold so far. I know in the first three days, I know in the first three days they sold, it was either 84 or 86,000 copies per hour on average.
00:13:23
Speaker
Is it like 30 bucks or something? Yeah, how much is Steam? It's 30. It's also on Game Pass. So I got a last update was yesterday and they had sold seven million copies in five days. See, I think there's another. I thought they hit.
00:13:42
Speaker
I remember seeing five million seven million makes sense. I was on the wrong Twitter. I think I was on the wrong Twitter thing Yeah, here we go This was 20 hours ago. So basically a day ago from the time we're recording this 8 million in less than six days is what they've sold They are number two all time for concurrent concurrent players on Steam I don't know what there are that what they are at this very moment in time, but I know
00:14:13
Speaker
They were just climbing. They were beating everybody and then they kept beating people and then they kept beating people. And now all that, the only people that are ahead of them are, uh, was pub G at like a three point something million concurrent, but they know they hit over 2 million. That's wild. And it was wild. It was like 1.2 or something last I saw, which was second place. Yeah. More than 2 million concurrent players. Second game in steam history. It's incredible, man.
00:14:42
Speaker
I'm looking at this TV. I love that though. See, I love when games just come out of left field. I know it's been like anticipated cause I've heard of it, but like to see a game explode like that, that beats whatever triple A thing is happening. It's very refreshing.
00:14:58
Speaker
I think the only thing I can really think of that's similar to this, I was going to say Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing is a pretty established franchise before. I think Apex just dropping out of nowhere and then kind of taking over for a while. Even though people knew this game was coming and no one knew Apex was coming, it kind of has a bit of a similar
00:15:18
Speaker
I'll talk to somebody one day and say, Hey, have you played power world? What's power world? And then three days later, dude, I'm playing power world so much. It's like, that's just kind of how it goes with everybody. So that's how it was with us. I put on our group chat or whatever, uh, like, Hey, there's this game that comes out called power world. It's supposed to be like Pokemon with guns and survival stuff, whatever. It's on game pass. Like.
00:15:43
Speaker
Let's try it out. And so we had friends hop in and try it out and we're like, uh, we had one friend play it one day and he was like, I'm leaving for a week long cruise. He's like, y'all are going to be so far ahead of me when I come back. He's like, well, this is super fun. But we've been playing since what, uh, by the time you're listening to this, it's been out for a week. Came out last Friday and on early access and, uh,
00:16:07
Speaker
had some issues, date one for sure. But even still, and I think I said this that Friday and Saturday or whatever, it's like, this isn't early access. It's from a really small team. And yeah, it has issues, but like it's early access. So it's supposed to have bugs and issues and stuff. That's kind of the point. It still runs better than like, like when overwatch came out, like
00:16:27
Speaker
which is freaking blizzard era when you couldn't play for 72 hours because it was just like it still runs better than the last pokemon game right and it definitely does so it's like so many games yeah like the same version runs really really well the xbox does too and pc pc pc xbox versions are like
00:16:52
Speaker
I think this is because you're on PC, so it's a little bit better. On Xbox, which is what I'm playing on the Series X, it's a struggle fest, but it still works. I think it's trying to hit 60 frames, but it's bouncing between 30 and 60 probably all the time, and sometimes it goes really bad. Yeah, that can be weird.
00:17:12
Speaker
It's not like we need new consoles. Yeah, I'm playing the Game Pass PC. Well, it's not super optimized yet. I'm playing the Game Pass PC version and I bumped it from Ultra down to High to make it run 60, but it runs 60 basically all the time now. And that's the only difference in Ultra and High.
00:17:33
Speaker
on the game is just, uh, the texture quality gets bumped down from ultra die. So like everything else stays up. So it's just, it's not super optimized. I should be able on my computer for sure to run ultra. Like most of the new games that come out, I'm good right now. Um, but nice. Yeah, it's not optimized quite yet. It will be, it is on surface level. It is a very Nintendo game where it's just like,
00:17:59
Speaker
The game is fun to play and that is the game. It's the whole game. Nothing about the game. They don't try it. Like I'm not a person that really loves survival type games really at all. Or even like build crafting type games or stuff like that. Big Pokemon fan obviously. But this game I don't think overstays for people that don't like certain genres. Like if you don't like the Pokemon monster catching stuff like there's still a lot to do. If you don't like the survival stuff it doesn't
00:18:28
Speaker
You have to basically feed yourself, but there's so much food available. It doesn't really matter. So it's like.
00:18:35
Speaker
So it's stuff like that. That's like annoying to me in survival games That's just like all I gotta keep open my water and my yeah Make sure I'm not hot and make sure I'm pooping and we're gonna build a port of pot ain't all this bull crap now You don't do that. Just so what? So it's not super like Immersive where you have to do all that type of stuff in power world or
00:19:00
Speaker
So you have to do some survival things, but it's not like just about every issue you have, part of leveling up and getting farther along in the like technology tree and stuff is unlocking things that mitigate a lot of those things. For example, you have to feed yourself. You get far enough into the game, you do enough stuff, you can unlock food pouches, which is just basically a slot in your inventory that you can keep food in, which your guy will just automatically eat out of when he gets hungry.
00:19:30
Speaker
And you don't have to like keep doing that. You just got to make sure there's food in that thing. Okay. Um, and so it's like a lot of that kind of stuff that, um, kind of mitigates itself a little bit. And then, you know, part of the main part of the game is taking pals that you've captured and putting them to work in your base. And the farther you get the more of the stuff that's can, that can be like tedious to do that. They're just doing for you instead. So.
00:19:54
Speaker
Yeah, I heard there was slavery in the game. Nice. But it's animal slavery, so it's fine. It's really funny. And I tweeted this out because I got on a little bit of a soapbox, boys, let me tell you, because there is a lot of controversies and put that in quotes because they're not real around the game. We're like, oh, they used AI because the director, they used AI in their last game. And so they used AI in this game. So we shouldn't buy it because they used AI stuff.
00:20:23
Speaker
Or they used Pokemon stuff. Or it's animal cruelty and all this kind of stuff. Well, they sold eight million copies in six days. So the controversies are not real. The Twitter world is not a real place. It doesn't exist in reality. And I put out a tweet that was like,
00:20:44
Speaker
Hogwarts, you know, we were supposed to all hate Hogwarts because of the controversies, but it was the highest selling game of 2023. Yeah. And then the last of those part two got review bomb because everybody hated the story, but it was the most awarded game of that year, only to be done by Elden Ring the next year.
00:21:02
Speaker
And so it's just like, yeah, I mean, look how many people play in this game. It's like, yeah, it is like kind of like Breath of the Wild Pokemon arc survival, like all in one, like it doesn't necessarily do Breath of the Wild or Pokemon or arc as good as those games do it, but it's, they put the good parts of those things and just kind of like combined into one. Yeah. My, my explanation of the game is it's a third Pokemon. It's a third Minecraft.
00:21:30
Speaker
And it's a third Fortnite. That's kind of how I feel about it. Not necessarily Fortnite Battle Royale, Fortnite, Fortnite save the world mode. Save the world! Are there shinies? Yep. There are shinies. And shinies are not only shiny, but like three times as big as the regular ones. They're big boy shinies. So when you see a giant of something, you're like, okay, there's that. I've only ever seen one.
00:21:56
Speaker
I have. I saw one like the first 30 minutes I played. And then I haven't seen one since. It's the PAL version of Ponyta is what I have. I don't remember it saying this.
00:22:09
Speaker
Um, I got it on my single player. Cause when it came out, I just kind of did my single player world, but then we made a world that's like kind of like multiplayer for the four of us that like play. And so I try and keep that one open. And most of the time that's what we play on. So I haven't really touched my single world player. Did I call it? I called my single world world Kanto. Um, sure.
00:22:35
Speaker
Power is now power. And then the multiplayer one was Johto and I haven't gone back to my first one just because we've been doing stuff.
00:22:45
Speaker
I should post the video on our Instagram and TikTok that happened a couple nights ago. Our whole base burned into the ground. So is there any thematic reason for why there's guns in the game or it's just a creative choice to just put guns in the game? I had read something somewhere about that too and I totally forgot what the reasoning was. It was something like not serious though. I don't think...
00:23:14
Speaker
Now I got to find there's no blood, right? No, I don't think so. Oh, no, it's very clear when it comes to that kind of stuff. You can get a cleaver and basically murder your pals if you want to just do that. But it like it's it picks it up, like it's a late and blurs it out like the murder happening. Oh, wow. I'm sorry. Don't like saying it's funny. It's pretty funny. Yeah. And also, I think it's a bit of a
00:23:43
Speaker
Like an undersell of the game to just be like, it's Pokemon with guns. Cause I'm level 20. You're, I think you're 22. Are you not Andrew or 21? Maybe 19 or something. We don't have guns yet. Oh, okay. So like we, I think we both have the pal. So each pal has like a special ability you would say. So like similar to Pokemon, they have three moves that they learn basically as they level up.
00:24:13
Speaker
Normally when you catch one, I think it has like two and then when it hits like level 20 or something, it gets his third. I don't know. Maybe it's different for each pal. Maybe. Um, and then each pal has like a special ability type thing. So like, if you are, if you catch like a flying bird like thing, it's normally it's specials. Like you can put a saddle on it and like fly it. Or if it's like, if it's like something that you can ride that it's special ability is usually by, uh, you can ride it, do a saddle and saddle on it. And yeah.
00:24:42
Speaker
And ride it around. When you're flying or riding them, you obviously go much faster and can travel in different ways, but also you can still, you can, you control all three of their abilities. You can use them yourself, which is pretty cool.
00:24:53
Speaker
So I found the quote about the reasoning with the guns, and the creator said, I don't have a creative vision, I just want to make a game people like, he said. Furthermore, when asked why the game features guns alongside cutesy aesthetic, his answer was pragmatic. Americans like to shoot things, he said. And the American market was very important.
00:25:20
Speaker
Team based out of Florida That makes sense we do have crossbows we just don't have guns yet
00:25:28
Speaker
Yeah, but we do. There is like pals that their special ability is like for fighting and stuff like that. So I have a pal that will sit on your shoulder. And when you when you shoot like I shoot something, my crossbow or bow and arrow, it has like a submachine gun that it'll shoot out. Oh, my God. It's for like fighting it. It's for like five seconds or something like that. My main like fighting person, though, is kind of like a flare on little dude. It's like a Firefox thing.
00:25:54
Speaker
And he has the abilities. I just pick him up and like aim him like a gun, but he just shoots out flames. It's like a flame thrower kind of thing. It's a fun time. Yeah, it's pretty cool because you basically always have one pal that's out like if you want to, you can throw them out and they'll just like follow you around.
Future of PowerWorld and Pokemon Comparisons
00:26:10
Speaker
And then if you attack something or if something attacks you, you can shoot whatever it is that attacked you, but it's going to start attacking it too. And apparently there's 137 in the game.
00:26:21
Speaker
that's a pretty good number.
00:26:41
Speaker
is at the start, you know, kind of like build your base, get, learn the game, punch rocks, punch trees. Yeah. As you get into the meat of the game, there's a lot, there's a lot of exploration. This kind of reminds me of Breath of the Wild exploration was just like,
00:26:58
Speaker
I'm just going to like walk around and like, if I see a dungeon, I'll do that. If I see a chest, I'll go over and do that. If there's like, there's like the world bosses kind of like in Diablo, but they're like, they're just spread out the map. It has like their icon in the section that they live at. And you can go there and kill them or try and catch them or whatever. Yeah. And then they have the towers, which are essentially like the gym battles, but it's really just one big boss battle. And it has like a trainer associated like a trainer with
00:27:27
Speaker
They're big, giant pal boss person. And you just kind of go in there and you just kind of lay into them. And I think you can catch them. You know, say something where you can't. Well, at least the first one that you fight. I know you can't because I tried and got it like the pal sphere, which is a pokeball bounced off of him and said, like, these don't work on him, basically. OK, does the sphere look like a pokeball?
00:27:54
Speaker
No, I mean, it's round. Yeah, it's like a ball. It's like a ball. Two colors. No. It kind of looks like it would be in Callus's world on Destiny, if that makes sense. It's got really like gold ornate stuff all over it. And then it's like different colors.
00:28:14
Speaker
I don't know. Maybe if you, maybe you, Oh, well, kind of. Yeah. I mean, technically, I guess. Yeah. Cause when you, well, when you kill them, they do drop certain ones to drop meat that you can. Yeah. They'll drop their like items. So like if you, if you kill or catch, when you catch them, you get some items too. Like the lamb or like the sheep looking guy, they'll drop a wool and usually some form of meat or something. Okay. People drop leather. Kill income.
00:28:38
Speaker
Yeah, so the efficient way to play is to capture them, put them into slavery and then eat them. So in that order, can you make recipes? Are there recipes for? Yeah. Yeah. And it looked really good in the pictures. I need to I need to look at some of these like Final Fantasy 15 goods. Let me see. OK, so but.
00:29:03
Speaker
So you have kind of like the world bosses, you can have like the dungeons, you have the towers where you kind of do your big baddy things. They also came out with a roadmap yesterday, maybe? This is the early access roadmap.
00:29:18
Speaker
uh, addressing critical issues. Currently numerous bugs have been identified and there are a lot of bugs. We've played many a times where we throw out our pals to fight somebody and they just don't fight. We're going to sit here and just watch you die. So sorry. And then you die. Um, loading screen stuff, uh, improvements to implement ASAP. They say key configuration improvements, improvements to base pal AI and pathing, which is also.
00:29:43
Speaker
I think that needs to happen. And in plain future updates, we got PVP, raid bosses, and then in parentheses, endgame content. PAL Arena, which is PVP for PALs, Steam Xbox Crossplay, various Xbox feature improvements, server transfers and migrations, improvements to the building systems, new islands, PALs, bosses, and technologies.
00:30:05
Speaker
Nice. So the reason I say this is because Andrew has to play it now because I said the word raid bosses. Yes, yes, yes. Is there in-game purchases?
00:30:15
Speaker
And are they bad? There's no microtransactions at all. Okay. There you go. The Destiny Killer. I hope it stays that way. Now, I mean, in the future, like when the game actually comes out, do they turn this into more of like a games of service? Like we do a battle pass and stuff. Maybe. I mean, it's not on this roadmap right now.
00:30:36
Speaker
have online hub world areas where people can gather or do world bosses with other players besides your friends. Get a little bit of a multiplayer MMO-ish kind of going in there. Would we see them switch to free to play at any point? Probably. I hope not. I hope it stays paid. That's fine. Microtransactions. That's what I would prefer.
00:31:02
Speaker
I mean, am I and a lot of times when a game comes out, it is free, but then it's paid for in early access, you know, where it's like this is going to be 30 dollars because it is early access. Yeah. But when it comes out, it's going to be free or whatever. So I don't know if that's the case with this game or not. At this point, I don't think maybe even if the plans were for it to be free, they've sold a bajillion copies. So there's really no reason to go free now. Yeah, in my opinion. As a matter of fact, you can probably when the game comes out, you could probably make it a 70 dollar game.
00:31:33
Speaker
at this point, they could, if they wanted to, I wouldn't enjoy that, but they could totally do it. Well, I mean, if you already bought the early access, yeah, we already have it, but like, if you're a new player and it's going to come out on PlayStation and all that kind of stuff. Um, yeah, I did see that, uh, in some thread.
00:31:54
Speaker
Uh, I think I believe it was on Twitter or X, uh, somebody tagged first PlayStation president. I don't know where they tend to press the guy that's over the indie indie game. Uh, gosh, you tagged him and basically said.
00:32:11
Speaker
You think maybe this can come to PlayStation one day or whatever. And his response was one word. Yes. And then he tagged like the Sony, whatever team that be the team that would be in charge of like contacting them. And like, yeah, I mean, if they like money. Exactly. You know, I think the biggest, honestly, it's a little bit of a change of gears, but I think the biggest.
00:32:32
Speaker
Like Andrew tweeted the other day about this game and I was talking to Ivy about it yesterday. I really do agree with him. It's like, I think it's way more, I think your tweet said something to the effect of it's way more likely that in three years we look back on this as the beginning of the power world MMO rather than the thing that made Pokemon do at MMO. Yeah. Right. And I think you're probably right about that.
00:32:56
Speaker
There's a lot of people, me included here and there, but there's a lot of people that are like, I hope this is like a wake up call for Nintendo and Pokemon to be like, look at how much this is selling and like what, this is like what we want out of a Pokemon game or whatever. We want guns. And it's like, listen, even if this was like, even if this was, ends up being number one on Steam all the time or whatever,
00:33:22
Speaker
Nintendo's just a company that's just not gonna care. I'm like, okay, we're still did like, whatever. We're gonna do whatever we want. I mean, we know that y'all want a Pokemon MMO. We've known that for 20 years. And have we done one? We know y'all want live action Pokemon stuff. Have we done one? We did one. And it made money and I will never do it again. It was okay.
00:33:48
Speaker
And so it's like, all right. Well, yeah, I would kind of prefer them. We've talked about a little bit before, but I would honestly prefer them Pokemon wise to come out with some sort of game that feels like this kind of their like breath of the wild moment, if you would, from what Zelda kind of was.
00:34:07
Speaker
And then like, let that be a thing for a while and go with it and then go back to making your like top down, almost 2d looking like those games still sell and they don't, when they're done well, like you can innovate within that without having to, I thought, um, was it RCS, Arceus? I thought that was supposed to be the, uh, breath of the wild Pokemon. It kind of, it kind of was. It was really fun. I don't know.
00:34:32
Speaker
I don't know many people that actually played that game that are just like, this is stupid. They may not have liked it for whatever reason. That was probably my favorite Pokemon game since probably the Let's Go games, which kind of introduced a lot of the new mechanics that they used for their newer games today.
00:34:53
Speaker
But yeah, I love, I love the RCS stuff. It was super fun. I thought RCS was all right. I mean, I didn't, it didn't, I played a little bit. I bought it, but I didn't, it didn't really grab me, but I didn't, I did not like the let's go games. Um, but I just feel like there's some, I just feel like,
00:35:15
Speaker
They keep trying to make a game that's somewhere in between that like can still bring the old people, old people, but the old fans, but not what your old people at this point, myself included. And, uh, but still like kind of do something like this, right? Something like what power is doing. And I think they need to stop it. Just like the in between is not what people want. Like.
00:35:37
Speaker
make both of those things. You can alternate between them every couple of years or whatever you want to do, and they're both going to sell like crazy. And I don't know, I think you go all out with something that's different like this, and then still go back and make some of the quote unquote two days. I talked again to Ivy about it yesterday, like liquid what Mario has done.
00:35:57
Speaker
Like, where there are 3D games and there are 2D games. They're not leaving the 2D behind saying that's, you know, we can't do that anymore. But they are innovating within that. And it's done really well. Like, he just beat Wonder two days ago. He's like, it's a really good game. It's awesome. Love it. Yeah. 2D platformers are still like, there's still something about them that like, yeah, you can't get rid of it. It is its own feel type of game.
00:36:20
Speaker
Yeah, myself a lady at our church and our pastors kids all within the last couple months have beat Pokemon red or blue, right? It's like we're still going to go back and play those like that kind of game still works.
00:36:34
Speaker
Yes, I agree with Matthew. I think they should do like they alternate the years like he's saying like they do old school style release 3D old school style and like they're both going to sell. Yeah, like he was saying for a lot of the older fans will probably dip back in just to play that old school style, but a new, you know, new new Pokemon and they might. I mean, they typically it's been every two years there's a new gen and then two years it's a remake and sometimes sometimes it's every like
00:37:04
Speaker
Sometimes it's like back to back years, whatever. But with its last one, it was of the remake that Game Freak didn't do of Diamond and Pearl. Yeah. And then it was the new generation. And this year would be because we didn't get a Pokemon game last year. We got the DLCs for Scarlet and Violet, which they did with the games before that. But so this year would be.
00:37:28
Speaker
some some something pokemon is going to come out at the end of the year for sure whether it's whether it's a remake 3d game or remake top down game or both who knows but something pokemon i'd kind of tend to lean on it's probably going to be a remake 3d game simply because the new switch will likely come out this year and so it'll come out a month after the new switch does i assume but i do agree with like
00:37:58
Speaker
Arceus combined with like collecting like getting badges and fighting the Elite Four and all that kind of stuff is kind of like
00:38:07
Speaker
at the minimum, what Pokemon people want, where it's like the power world is multiplayer. So like, and that's also what Pokemon fans want. Like, yeah. Yeah. So that's exactly it. That's exactly it. Yeah. I listened to a kind of funny podcast the other day. Greg was saying like, just the fact that you can hop on and play with your friends, like Pokemon people would eat that up, even if the game was just fine.
00:38:32
Speaker
Like just to be able to jump in and play with one another. And the other thing, like you just talked about their roadmap and I'm not personally interested in PVP, but then you also said the other, whatever the arena or whatever, which is pal PVP. Okay. So there's the Coliseum game that everyone's wanting. There you go. Yeah.
00:38:48
Speaker
Right. You know what I'm saying? Like they're throwing it all in the same thing. And there's zero reason why Nintendo can't do this even. Well, it's really, I think probably more game freak than Nintendo, but, um, there's no real reason why they can't do that. And, and even I mentioned alternating and, and, you know, y'all like that idea, but you don't even really have to do that. Like if you came out with a game like this, it could be a live service game where you just keep doing, like, just keep adding to it and keep it going for a while. You don't have to come out with one every two or three years, right? It could stay alive for a console life.
00:39:18
Speaker
Could you imagine if they came out with a Pokemon MMORPG style type game that had the classic Pokemon feel in 3D and it took off very well with a great story.
00:39:34
Speaker
uh, expansion and everything. I can see that being the next big, like wow movement where like, Oh yeah, it's, it explodes it. And it's, it has this giant player growth. It has the strength that while does like, cause we were talking about still to this day, like that game is going strong and that could be the start of that for Pokemon. So the reason this is not going to happen is because Nintendo is a business and a company.
00:40:03
Speaker
We know why it won't happen. We're just saying that would be a big deal. Well, I think that's a dumb thought by them because it would make all, however much money they wanted to make. So like I'm looking at sales right now, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have sold, I don't know, unit sales. They've sold 23.2 million units of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.
00:40:34
Speaker
They sold the sun and moon was I guess the generation before that and it sold twenty five point five. I'm trying to see if the I don't know if the that means that we make was going to be on here because they didn't. It's not a game free game. And that's also an option of just like if give some let somebody else do the top down remakes. Yeah, absolutely. So you can focus on.
00:41:01
Speaker
Or have Nintendo say, hey, game freak, you just make those, you're good at those. We could fix somebody else's in the other room. Brilliant diamond and shining pearl. They still sold 15 million units.
00:41:14
Speaker
So it's like, yeah, I would love for them to come out with a live service Pokemon game where you just kind of update it and it makes like Pokemon is made for a game like power. Like you take the survival aspects out of it. It's like every two years we have a big expansion. That's a, that's a new region because there's like freaking 15 regions in Pokemon. So why wouldn't you be doing this?
00:41:35
Speaker
Yeah, not only that, but just imagine like this is how they release their new Pokemon. And, you know, they had they come in through the MMO and they want to have like their console releases for your classic Pokemon style. They're featured in there, you know, like in that that helps build the DLC that helps build the expansion for that game to continue doing what it's doing. Yeah.
00:41:56
Speaker
I mean, it would fix a lot of stuff too. Cause it's like every new console generation, they have to come out with a new like cloud thing to keep your Pokemon on. You know what I mean? It's like, remember the DS came out and they're like, all right, when the switch came out and they're like, right, in order to get your Pokemon on the switch, you need to have this game and you need to upload it to the cloud here, put it in Pokemon, go didn't put it into the switch. And you're like, what? Why? Why? Just make one game forever. Stop.
00:42:24
Speaker
Do it like Destiny. Pokemon Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow have sold 74.2 million units so far. Jeez. For the recent games, that's a lot of units sold. Now they wouldn't have that many active players obviously for like an MMO, but they were still even just taking
00:42:45
Speaker
a little chunk of that, like a million players playing in MMO, they'll probably have a good strong two or three million at launch. I mean, maybe more, that's a big deal. Oh, absolutely. And it's such a shame too. Yeah, if it was made well. Absolutely. That's a sad thing too, because we know, and it's like, you can just use your imagination and imagine how good that's gonna be, but know that that's never gonna happen.
00:43:15
Speaker
Well, the other thing too is I don't mostly what they announced console wise, but I think the bit like in order for them to do that and capitalize on it.
00:43:23
Speaker
it kind of has to release, I think it has to release across all platforms and, or at least a bunch of them. Yeah. And cause they're, well, basically cause their online system sucks. It's non-existent. It's terrible. Maybe you can party up with your friends through the app though. But like, I don't, I don't know. Like that, I would say that is,
00:43:49
Speaker
Even if the game came out and was really fun to play, I feel like you're going to have a lot of difficulties if they don't figure out some online stuff or put it on other platforms.
Epic Games and PowerWorld's Development
00:43:58
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, not only that, but it's just like it seems like for especially a multiplayer game to survive, you got to release across the platforms like it's everyone nowadays. Yeah, it's really hard to have a console exclusive like multiplayer game.
00:44:18
Speaker
Yeah, honestly this as we're recording this someone The guy our friend that's on the cruise just texted me. We playing that pal game tomorrow night again question mark He paid for internet to play All the crews playing that power game Yeah, so I have a couple questions though one
00:44:44
Speaker
Just within power world. Do you think that at some point in the future they have cards slash a trading card slash a battling game even within the power world game? That would be amazing. I'm curious if they go that like if it obviously if they continue to rise in. Yeah, it would have to hit another level of like it would. Yeah. Like who is going to be like their mascot? You know what I mean? Like their version of Pikachu. So it would have to be like
00:45:14
Speaker
In order for merch to get involved, I feel like, yeah, it needs to be like, come out, come out across all platforms. I'm really excited about it. I thought you were talking about putting that like in the game, like having a hard game. Like when? Yeah, that would be sick.
00:45:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's not on the road. So that's interesting. No, that's one question. And the other question is that I actually think is possible, right? One of the reasons that power world is actually blown up the way that it has is because a lot of these games come out and get.
00:45:45
Speaker
too many users on their servers. And then it's just literally, well, we couldn't play yesterday. Oh, we can't play today either. Well, maybe when it works in three days. And one of the reasons it works is because they're using Epic servers. And even though there was some struggles and they had emergency meetings with Epic, like, dude, we got so many players.
00:46:02
Speaker
Epic is one of the few companies that have what it takes to make a game like this, continue to run. And it also does have a little Fortnite look to it as well. Do you think there's a possibility of Epic? Like, Oh, you were going to get a Fortnite or do like a cross. I'm not talking about collaboration. I'm talking about buying, buying. Yeah. Yeah. I hope not because then I was going to put it in Fortnite.
00:46:30
Speaker
Like, like they had with the rocket racing and whatever. The game already exists on its own, though, right? They don't. So like sticking in for it anyway. Well, I'm sure that there would definitely they would definitely be some of it stuff in Fortnite. But I'm just I kind of am curious about that, if that's going to happen, if they just like buy the company or I don't know. I mean, it's possible, but I think it's it's not an. Is it not an Unreal Engine five? I know what they're using.
00:46:59
Speaker
It's an unreal. I don't know if it's five or not, but it's an unreal. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I don't know if there's like, if you put, if you make your game in unreal engine five, do you use the Epic game? It is five. It is five.
00:47:15
Speaker
You know, these people right now, this company is like they're losing their mind right now on how much revenue is flying, just funneling into them right now. They're they probably weren't expecting the success they got. And they're just like, look, look at this money rolling. Wow. So you can't done so well, man. Yeah, you can buy the game on Xbox or PC Game Pass and you still buy the game if you want to. But. Mm hmm.
00:47:42
Speaker
This the sales or whatever that are what did we say? They're at 8 million and yes And then it's on sale right now for like 30% off. So it's already at those 20% Or yeah, it's like $26 or something like that. Okay, it's 30 swing on my way, baby So, I mean they've made just an ungodly amount of money yeah, you can do the math on that and
00:48:07
Speaker
Um, yeah, in the game, I think the budget so far, I think they said was only like seven million or something like that. She is by far and away surpass that. So I'm really game. Yeah. God. So apparently pal deck is at the name of the company. I think they've only made like it's a picks. Oh boy, it's not. They've only they've only made like mobile games, I think.
00:48:35
Speaker
like cash grabby kind of microtransaction mobile type stuff. So this is like their first like pocket pair newer pocket pair.
00:48:47
Speaker
And it's only a team of like 30 people or something. It's going to go up. It's going to go up. I can totally, like I said, I could see Epic buying them and just like, Hey, keep making your game. We'll help you make it. Do your thing. It's just like they're already using unreal five. And I will say that unreal five, like if you watched a lot of their different ways, they've shown off five and the things that can do on large scales.
00:49:13
Speaker
Like there's, I don't, there's no way this game could be made by a company of that size without an engine, like Unreal five. It's so funny watching like high quality
Exploration and Strategy in PowerWorld
00:49:22
Speaker
steam. I'm on their website and they have like high quality steam, people playing it and like to seeing how smooth it's running. And now everything works because obviously they want to show up in the game. So at some point when the game actually does like function and work like this for me, it's going to be so much fun. Not that it's not fun now. It's obviously fun now, but it's like,
00:49:42
Speaker
It being an early access when there's things that bug out or we have to restart the server or it's obvious that the game's just not going to work tonight or whatever. It's like, all right, I understand because it's an early access. And so it's fine. It's not like all these other like freaking giant AAA games to come out and don't work for two days, even though the game is like a $250 million budget. And you're like, you had why?
00:50:05
Speaker
So spend some of your servers. I'm excited to play it. It's really fun because it's kind of breath of wildy in the sense of you just kind of get on and do whatever you want to do. Like, obviously our place burnt down because we got raided and, um, I guess one of our guys did a fire move and it ended up just burning our whole house. The ground was made of wood. I have, I have a clip I can send you as it was happening.
00:50:35
Speaker
Because there's still so many questions because the game's like new. I was like, what? Like as everything was happening, my questions were being answered in real time as I watched our place burned in the ground. So I was like, I was like, oh, like, because like when they raid, they just kind of come right in. And sometimes like pals will raid. Sometimes it's the human factions that are across the world. They'll raid.
00:50:57
Speaker
And in this case, it was the human faction people. And so some of them just like run right past me and I had like my people out and I'm fighting and I killed like seven of them that were in front of me, but some of them that you like don't care. They just run past you to your base to try and break stuff. And so I killed the people and then I just turned around and I see her whole place on fire. And I was just like, Oh, I wonder how long like I have to put this out because we have water people that are over there like spraying.
00:51:19
Speaker
the fire or whatever. And then I just see it explode in like, and I'm like, Oh no. And then like the other walls start exploding. I was like, well,
00:51:29
Speaker
Is everything gonna catch on fire and explode? Like the metal chest that has all my stuff in it, is it gonna, then it would explode. And then like, we have like an egg incubator thing and I was like, it's been on fire for a long time, it hasn't exploded. So maybe some stuff stays. And then like, as I'm thinking about it, it just fell out. Yeah, and then 30 seconds later, just all of our items are just spread and across this whole place. And I'm just like, oh my God. Keeping in mind. That sounds amazing. Keeping in mind. I don't know what to do here.
00:51:57
Speaker
As you, every time you level up, you get a stat point to put on your guy. One of those stat points is in weight, which is not how much you weigh, but how much you can carry. And I never feel like it's enough. And so in order for all of your items to be on the ground and get back in chest, you can only pick up a little bit at a time. And I would imagine that was not fun. So here at two 16 AM.
00:52:22
Speaker
Andrew, we got raided, send help dot, dot, dot. And then he posts that video of our place burned to pieces. And then, uh, three minutes later, rated twice in a minute. Help in all caps. Like 30 seconds after the one rate. Oh my God. And then a picture of, from Fresh Prince of Will Smith standing in the burnt down kitchen.
00:52:46
Speaker
That was all at 2.15 in the morning the other night. Yeah, I know everybody just leaves a leg there, just gonna wake up to me being like, our whole base that we've been building since the game started is gone. I'm sorry. Which we rebuilt in stone. We built it in stone, baby. No more wood base.
00:53:05
Speaker
stone baby no it's just a super fun game it's just the way it really is i've just been so impressed with how balanced those different parts of the game are to where you don't feel like stuck in any of the parts yeah right i have to grind this for a while before i can do whatever no it's just generally like oh we need more ore okay i'll go get some and then five minutes later you get some more it's like it's not terrible
00:53:28
Speaker
And there's like just so many things we keep discovering as like, when your base gets built and like you start to feel a little comfortable, like everybody's fed. And you're like, all right, I want to level up. I'm going to go out and catch some new pals or whatever. I've only still done the one tower. Like you see them all over the place, but I've only done the one. And so you just kind of go out and try and like kind of uncover the map, get all the fast travel points kind of thing. The map is huge.
00:53:50
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, that's something I didn't even think about. Yeah. What is it? Yeah. Like what is the map like? It's huge. I don't even know how big it is yet. Yeah. So I fly around on a bird guy so that I can travel far and see things from high angles and go get whatever. And I.
00:54:11
Speaker
I'm kind of like, I enjoy doing that part of the game on Minecraft. We, we like go exploring the world and get like a five by five section map that's on our wall and our underground house. Like I enjoy doing that. I discovered like 30% of the map maybe cheese. It's a big place. And it's cool because it's not a different regions necessarily. I would call them more like biomes.
00:54:33
Speaker
in Minecraft. And obviously, you know, there's biomes that you're going to find certain pals in there, Pokemon, whatever, pals in that area. So there's, I don't know, over half of the pals that we haven't even seen yet.
00:54:47
Speaker
No, and we have we've unlocked things to craft that I know that we'll need in the future like different clothing That's like this clothing will keep you cool in hot areas and I've like kind of the volcano II area But I've never like set foot there and then the same ops like this will keep you Cool or keep you warm and really really cold icy areas. Whatever is like I haven't I've been there
00:55:08
Speaker
I've been there in the volcano area. Everything is way too high of a level for us to touch at this point in time. So once the fundamentals are taught, you're just doing whatever you want. Like you'd play a Minecraft or like I've never played Valheim, but like the only game I've played that's even close to this was Ark and I guess. Yep.
00:55:30
Speaker
I guess in arc, it was just trying to like like you said, build a better base, gather more rare materials to create more rare armor, weapons, et cetera, et cetera. So that's all it is. I mean, there is that. And then like like if you are just a hardcore Pokemon fan and you want to go fight all the towers and you want to catch all the pals, like you can do that, too. I want to catch all the pals. And there's so many as far as the pals go, there's like
00:55:56
Speaker
so many different ways to upgrade your pals. Like we have this big thing that's like, I think it doubles. I think the first time like you pick your base pal and then you have six of the exact same pal and it combines them. And then that pal is now one out of four stars rarity, I guess, or just like power or something like that. And then the next time you have to have like,
00:56:17
Speaker
12 and then you have like 16 and 32 and 60. Yeah. So like if you want to like get your, if you have like a really powerful power that you want to get, and then there's also a thing called a statue of power, which you collect pal souls. That's just like throughout the world. You'll just find, you'll find it actually. Yeah. Silicon chest, or they're just like laying around the ground and stuff like that. I don't think you get them when you kill it. I don't think you do. I'm about to go on a massacre for souls.
00:56:44
Speaker
There's different rarities to the souls too. So you can go to the Statue of Power and that's how you can like upgrade their HP and attack and defense and stuff like that you like offer souls to the thing and Is everything explained enough to the point where you're not like googling or looking at your explanation? I've never googled anything to this. Okay, I mean either Are there Like legendary pals, I don't like
00:57:13
Speaker
probably something I don't believe so but there are like dead game really rare ones right so it's like the equivalent of a legendary in terms of rarity but I don't think they're as far as like going into a dungeon and that you don't see and at the end there's like freaking you tune like what is this I don't think that's gonna happen
00:57:34
Speaker
Hmm, but like especially like I like Matthew said we use you'll set foot. It's like an open world giant games You'll set foot in places where you're like, okay. Well, I'm level 19 and this guy's level 42 There's no reason I should be here. Yeah, which I like in a game. It doesn't skill with you You just know like I shouldn't be here like yeah Hey, if you like a challenge like I'm gonna try to just power what I've done. Yeah, I
00:57:57
Speaker
Yeah, it's pretty interesting too. Cause there's this giant like wooly mammoth, like green wooly mammoth looking thing. That's near our base that our base is in a really like at the very beginning of the game in a very low level region. But there's this giant level 38 dude walking around and I watched, um, I watched a YouTube video where some people, like four people try to take him down and kind of done like half health. But it honestly, one of them goes, this has a little like monster hunter to it. When you do it, play it that way. And it definitely does.
00:58:27
Speaker
When you play it that way, if you want to like, hey, if we all get on here, we make and try to take this. We may have seen the same video where they were trying to kill it. They're all like level seven or something like that. And so they were just like building campfires like all around, like surrounding it with campfires and making it to where like if it ran towards them, it would have to run through the fire. So like I was like doing stuff like that to try and kill it. But yeah, it's still just like it just murdered them.
00:58:49
Speaker
There you go. I was watching. If any of you know what August SOG is, it's like the old Smosh games, people like Joe and laser. It was them. I was watching them do it and they were like, it's kind of like Monster Hunter a little bit. So.
00:59:05
Speaker
There's a lot, there's a lot to explore. There's probably a lot. I mean, I've seen people that have obviously done nothing but play this game for a week and their bases are just like absolutely insanity. We're just trying to survive out here right now. It's all working. Survive and explore. I'm excited to get to the point where I can just like, cause the early access like reviews that came out like IGN and people were doing, they're like, yeah, we play 30, 40 hours and it's really good. And I was just like, ah, the game's longer than like 30, 40 hours.
00:59:34
Speaker
We've played 30, 40 hours and we've done, like I said, we've done one tower. And I don't know how many there are, but you see them all over the place. So there's a means to beat it. Yeah, I mean, I want to definitely like, my, my personal main objective is to do all the towers for sure. Sure. I'm just like nowhere near beating all the gyms. Yeah. Okay. And you'll see like,