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S3 Ep226: Gaming in September 2022
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Join Dave and Jake as they talk about the struggle of being popular, video game personalities supporting the community, upcoming games, Overwatch's future, and even more in this week's episode! Jake's audio will be fixed in the next one!
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Podcasting with Humor and Self-Deprecation
00:00:45
Speaker
How's it going, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Soapstone. My name is Jake, and I'm joined by my co-host, as always, Dave. How's it going tonight, Dave? Hey, how's it going, you wacky kiddo? Yeah. Is this a new persona that we're introducing? I couldn't even, like, respond to it, like, go with it. He was like, uh, yeah, is that what you're doing? Is that what you're doing? Oh, man. I'm gonna, I'm gonna do this because, um, we don't really have any, uh,
00:01:13
Speaker
We don't have any advertisers or people that expect a certain amount of quality from us, but I actually am just going to turn down my gains slightly. So I apologize. I just got a little bit quieter, but I'm not going to redo the intro. That was really good. Turn your volume up just a little bit. I can turn it up. Everyone's going to turn their volume up so they can hear you better.
00:01:34
Speaker
I guess I am relying on this bar, but it looked like it was clipping. And when it's clipping, when I'm talking into the mic, that's the sound or that's the sign it's bad. And instead of me turning myself down, I'm just going to talk a lot quieter. If we cross over into ASMR, like half of our listenership is just gone. Just like that. Now we do get like 85% more weirdos added in, but.
00:02:00
Speaker
I feel like weirdos would be more devoted. Oh, I feel like God bless everyone. I know God specifically Buddha, you get the fuck out of here, right? Um, in this Christian household. Like I think everybody supports what we do, but I don't, I don't think too many people are like.
00:02:18
Speaker
Oh, I got to catch up on this week's episode. I think some people like will occasionally check in, like, yeah. Oh, it's a podcast. Oh, listen, this one. But I don't think we have any like diehard people who are like, I've listened to every episode. Right. They're going to find us on the street and we'll immediately mace them because, you know, how else are we going to react to someone coming up to us on the street? But listen, you knew I was going to Renfaire. You got to be prepared for that. Uh huh.
00:02:44
Speaker
I think that's, that's probably the next tier of comedy for where we like take the podcast is we just go to an event with other friends, but under the banner of we're going to be representing the podcast or like have a signing or something like that, a meet and greet. And then you just like.
00:03:06
Speaker
No one listens to this. But it's hilarious because it's legitimately like signed up, presenting like mag fish, like some convention. I don't know what the minimum requirement is, but like sometimes they are just trying to like fill panels for stuff like usually late night stuff. They'll have some very off off brand or lesser known things. So I'm sure we could like find a slot and then have like a Q&A thing or like just set up a booth somewhere with half our business cards. And it would ninety nine percent be people saying.
00:03:35
Speaker
So what do you guys do? I think it's I actually kind of now this sounds like a lot of effort, which is an immediate red flag to me, but it is also just like such a great idea, because if you if you go there with authority and you just bring like a couple shirts for merch, it's just like display, but you never actually hand them out until like the very end or something.
00:03:58
Speaker
You can more or less convince people that you are more popular than you are if you portray yourself as such. And I think it would be just so fun to pretend to be hot stuff as a podcast. I like the level of confidence to even pretend that I'm confident. You're just like, there's Joe Rogan.
00:04:25
Speaker
There's New York Times Daily, and then there's Soapstone, and that's the top three on Spotify. Don't fact check us. We don't use those.
00:04:41
Speaker
I didn't like the celebrity at all. I wouldn't mind somebody coming up and saying like, Hey, are you so and so? I want to use my name, by the way. All right. Are you somebody? Are you anyone? You're like, no. Aren't you one of the editors on? Yeah, I am. Thanks. Thanks for noticing. They don't even see you as the as the co-host. No, they're just like, yeah, yeah. No, you've edited that that podcast, right? That would be hilarious.
00:05:12
Speaker
But yeah, that would, that would be a cool moment where I was like, Oh, I've, I've influenced somebody in a positive way. Uh-huh. Yeah. We'll just hold onto that for now. This like hypothetical, we're just dreaming about it. That's nice. They're saying Magnus is coming up. It's true. And, um,
00:05:34
Speaker
Uh, the wifi at some point are going to get that, like, uh, that new fancy booster. That's just like, they just hit you both arms at the same time. Like the chair vibrates. You're just like, ah, I think. Uh, and then you're just immune to all disease. Do you really want to be immune to all disease? That seems, I don't know. I feel like life is a good boring at a point. Kind of one, like a little bit of a cold or a flu to mix things up, you know, it's like.
00:06:02
Speaker
No, no, I'm good with no disease. Someone's jumping into septic tanks, hoping to feel anything again. Yeah. Oh, no, that's not a great picture. What's funny is you become immune to all disease and you're like, why do I just feel better in general? You already had all these other diseases. You're just not aware at the time.
00:06:25
Speaker
Someone sees you say like, Hey, God bless you. And you just smile and wave at them and even maybe offer them a handkerchief. You have a supply of handkerchiefs you bring with you at all times. Uh-huh. You don't run away from them. Dejected thinking you're going to get some disease. Yeah. No, I think it'd be good. So anyways, look for us at your next upcoming convention. Maybe you'll find us.
00:06:52
Speaker
If you do, I'd be very impressed. I would be incredibly impressed. There's almost zero chance I'm going to anything, but you know, who knows? Weird things have happened in life. Speaking of weird things. So this episode format is one where we do talk about video games. There's not that many of them left, but this is one of them.
00:07:19
Speaker
Uh, but it's not like our video games necessarily. It could be, could be things, you know, that happened in our games, but more often it's, uh, it's general topics, things like that that happened throughout the month.
Dunkey's New Venture and Industry Impact
00:07:31
Speaker
General topic. There was the salute. Um, I've got a couple. Do you have any Dave? Should we resort to mine first resort to yours first? How deep is the well?
00:07:41
Speaker
I put my list in Discord so you can use this reference if you so wanted. You don't have to share yours, by the way. It's fine. You can have like a secret. Your own Jake. No, it's as cool. I'm definitely going to do that, because if I were to copy paste them in, they're like in todoist right now and the formatting will just like blow up our conversation. If I paste it there, it's going to be all spaces.
00:08:06
Speaker
I think it's funny that you post them in discord. We both go do not disturb like reliably when we start recording. There's no way I would have seen it. Sorry, I'll hold up my notepad so you can read from it next time. Line.
00:08:21
Speaker
Holds in front of webcam waits for adjustment. Uh-huh but the first thing I had on my list is Dunkey posted a video recently. I'm like, oh is this gonna be a game? There's a topic and he's like, hey We're starting our own publishing company. We're like, oh, okay. Right? Yeah, so
00:08:44
Speaker
Actually pretty stoked about that because I love Dunkey and his content and I feel like he has a good beat on the pulse of games in the video game industry and I like a lot of his takes and where he's going with it. So it's cool to see him getting literally financially invested in wanting to support indie developers. Yeah. For more good games.
00:09:10
Speaker
because he will call out of a game as shit or something's really good as he pointed out in his video. So I'm curious to see where this goes. It is called the big mode publishing. Yeah. That was on my list too. And I want to talk about it for a hot minute because like
00:09:30
Speaker
in some weird twist of, I don't know. I'm going to, I'm going to start this with a little bit of preamble. Like people have been trying to capture the market of not necessarily just kids, but like teenagers or young adults, whatever for forever. Doesn't matter what the Democrat, like it doesn't matter what the product is. It's like, how do we sell this to kids? It's like toys. All right. That one's kind of easy.
00:09:57
Speaker
drugs, we kind of figured it out with like the e-cigs. Like retirement plans haven't broken through yet. Um, but like Dunkey comes into this conversation with a tremendous amount of clout, right? Like if you were to just snapshot him and then like time travel back to his early league of legends videos, you'd be like,
00:10:20
Speaker
No, we cannot work with this person. This person is too toxic. They have definitely said a bunch of things that are going to come back to bite us. Literally impossible. But he's grown so far, like so much since then. And like I think when he broke out and just stopped doing League videos and started doing much more like editorial review basically of games, it really like showed
00:10:48
Speaker
Like I don't agree with him on everything. Sometimes he is like, I don't really like this game, but he almost always identifies the good and bad things about a game. And good and bad is not like a strong enough word for that. Like the core of what is underlying
00:11:04
Speaker
like tearing this game down versus like the soul of the game for an indie game that is worth checking out. Right. And that sounds like high praise, but it is. Right. It's like it's kind of like exaggeration. He does that a little bit in his video, too. But he also showed by doing that, he's like.
00:11:25
Speaker
He, it's not just self deprecating humor. He can literally just stand on this and be like, by the way, you've trusted me for all these other games. Uh, would you trust me if I publish, like if I curate and publish an indie game that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day and the comments were all like, yup.
00:11:46
Speaker
Yeah, I would hope his fan base is, you know, supporting that. Also, I feel like he's good at identifying his biases. Like, to be fair, a lot of the JRPG videos that come out are usually more dunking, pun intended, on JRPGs for the game itself, because some of them are hokey as shit.
00:12:09
Speaker
Um, and I also have a JRPG bias where it's hard for me to get invested in a lot of them because it just goes to like tropes or grinding or things that I don't find myself drawn to. Um, but he's identified that he's never said like, Oh, I like this. Then he just takes cheap shots at something. I guess he means annoying and repetitive and he feels that way.
00:12:31
Speaker
And he will exemplify it. Most recently, I think he did a review on Xenoblade Chronicles 3. And I had to link it to our friends, Justin and Rachel. I was like, take it for what you will, because it is a little more scathing. And I think Rachel is a big fan of it. But she's also a JRPG person. So I'm sure she can take some of those punches with a grain of salt for somebody who's an outsider to the space. Yeah.
00:13:00
Speaker
And he has like two bats. He hits people with like the funny bat and he hits people with the actual criticism bat.
00:13:08
Speaker
And usually if he's dealing with a game in a genre that he's not like a big fan of, he'll hit people with a funny bat more, right? Like I recall in that video, he was criticizing more of the dialogue than anything else, right? He's not even talking about like the length of the game or like how long or like how the story plays out or whatever. It's just like the ridiculous way that these characters speak and that they're portrayed, which you have to be like just the most diehard fan to
00:13:35
Speaker
misinterpret that, I think, as like legitimate criticism of the mechanics of the game, as opposed to, I can make fun of this. So I will write like, like there's, there's a big difference there. Yeah. It's never scathing to the point of like, I want all people who play this game to feel bad that they played this game. I've never felt that. Cause we've had other like funny good news on stuff that I do enjoy playing and I'm like, haha. No, I get that one.
00:14:05
Speaker
Yeah. Cause it's usually something that's more obvious and you're like, Oh, I've had that exact same experience versus trying to take away somebody's fun. There's like in video reviews, and this goes all the way back to like early years, like game trailers, which is a website that doesn't exist anymore.
00:14:24
Speaker
There is a formula for how you would portray a game. You're like, talk about the graphics, talk about the gameplay. We even did it sometimes, you know, when we're talking about games, we're like, start with the publisher or talk about the music, talk about this stuff. I think that's fine. And that's a perfectly good review. He doesn't tend to focus on that in these much shorter form reviews. He just goes to the core of, is this a good game or not?
00:14:47
Speaker
And if it's a game that he can't enjoy because of the genre or something, he's like, oh, we'll just make it full of jokes and it'll still be entertaining. Um, but because he's always entertaining to watch or listen to, I guess most of the time, um, it's just, uh, I dunno, I think, I think he's going to do really well and it's going to take like a major controversy to, to really pull him down here. Now his first game is going to see a lot of, a lot of, um, what would the word be criticism? No. Um,
00:15:17
Speaker
A lot of, a lot of eyes. Yeah. Um, this is going to bother me. Uh, there's a word for it. If like people are really focusing on something, um, scrutiny, it will be in the zip. Yep. I'll just say the name is like guys, but scrutiny is more accurate. Uh-huh. It will be, it'll be heavily scrutinized, but, um,
00:15:38
Speaker
I don't know, I kind of, I kind of trust that whatever he recommends is going to be pretty good. Like this, we're in the era of these YouTube channels really recommending games. Um, and people finding things that they wouldn't otherwise play because of that.
00:15:56
Speaker
like mario right classic classic donkey video game i mean like to be fair i've never been a huge mario person like i played it when it was the only game that existed oh yeah for my age group at that time and then like never really entertained anything since that and then at some point
00:16:16
Speaker
Mario Odyssey came out and I just saw lots of good things. But still, you really need the recommendation from somebody you trust. This is how sales works in general. You'll see a whole bunch of advertisements and to be fair, if it's a food thing, you're like, I do like the way they slowly unfolded that chocolate chip cookie that's warm and fresh. You can see the ooey goo chocolate, right? It really comes down to word of mouth.
00:16:41
Speaker
Like if I hear something from a company, I'm like, yeah, you've spent thousands of dollars on that ad campaign. Cool. Obviously you want to sell it, but what about for me? So if I'm talking with people and they talk about a game they like, I'm like, okay, I usually start to form my own opinions. But if somebody comes to me to say, Hey, Dave, I think you would like this because it becomes
00:17:00
Speaker
Hey, I know what you like. I've known you for a while. This is something that you would probably enjoy. You should check it out. I take that with so much more weight and I'm more likely to do it. Like I was never really going to entertain neon white.
00:17:16
Speaker
And I still haven't picked it up yet. And I will never, but a bunch of people on discord have mentioned it was good. And then Ian's like, Oh, I think you would actually really enjoy playing it. And I was like, okay. So it's on my loose list. Now things to try. Yeah. There's a difference between someone selling you something and a recommendation. And I think that like AAA reviews have, you know, they're, they're,
00:17:46
Speaker
A lot of them are still good from a review standpoint, but it's not always super easy to tell the difference between someone selling you something and a recommendation, and someone can't recommend something to you if they don't really know you. So that's why a generalized review. This is a freaking awesome game. I don't care. It's not a genre I play. Right? Like. I don't play awesome games. I play Dota 2. There you go.
00:18:10
Speaker
But yeah, I, I, I really like this. Um, I like how he, he basically showed that he was capable of also going kind of like straight edge with the, uh, marketing for this with a video that came out. Um, and it was just like, Hey, if you are in the business, I can be, uh, him and Leah can be, uh, Leah, not Leah. I can be business people about it. Um, and, uh, yeah, no, I'm excited. We'll see where it goes. Yeah. It's.
00:18:40
Speaker
It's promising because I don't know, usually like things like Devolver Digital like came out of thin air. I don't really have the early buy-in on something like that. Yeah. But I watched Dunkey and his shitty League of Legends videos, which are really entertaining at the time back in like early college. And that was an eternity ago.
00:19:02
Speaker
So it's been really cool to see his channel grow and how he changes his video reviews or just content in general. Solid stuff, expect to see good things and good recommendations coming out. I hope more people follow suit with some of this. While we were talking about this, I thought of a related topic.
00:19:23
Speaker
which is going to be a lot shorter, but it was a it was a hot mention in recent. Moist critical video, because he was talking about how he's publishing or he's moist gaming, right? He's sponsoring all of these different sports athletes. Yes. And he's he just like let slip, not like necessarily accidentally, but he's like,
00:19:48
Speaker
Yeah, I lose six figures every month working on this stuff. And this was all for a video where he was trying to get people on his team so they can win this thing and some game. I was like, the game doesn't look that good. But it looks like tabletop hockey or something like that. But I really like that background knowledge. There's something about people who came up in the modern gaming sphere
00:20:17
Speaker
kind of taking the reins to enrich is the wrong word, but like cultivate the community that is just like its choice. It feels good.
00:20:29
Speaker
And a very nerdy. This is there. It's not just hard game or words, right? There is some goodness here. Now, it's nice to see something grow, especially when somebody's invested in it and grew up with it. Weirdly, we were just talking about before we started recording about like, oh, college and like investing back in the college. But technically it's for the college and not the people who would be going there. Right. Yes. Getting back in the same way.
00:20:57
Speaker
Whereas people who grew up in the Smash community, maybe they have their own tournament. Maybe they sponsor people, something like that. And at least it gives me nice, warm fuzzies. Yeah. Because I got some clothes out of the dryer. Put them on. I mean, clothes straight out of the dryer are freaking amazing. That's one of the wonders of the world. Again, don't look it up. We don't use fax here.
00:21:27
Speaker
back in my apartment in Allentown. Don't worry, there's tons of Allentowns. Well, I mean, that's probably indistinct. I will now search for your first name in Allentown and see what I get.
00:21:43
Speaker
Local crimes committed 17 years ago But the unit had the washer and dryer in the bathroom So I would get into the shower and girl is doing the time Gave me the tip off. You can like put stuff in the dryer while you're showing say dating
00:21:59
Speaker
Yes, somebody was doing it at the time because it came through kind of quiet. It sounded like you said doing. I mean, it happened. We were dating the adults. But like, I would put a towel in there. It's like a nice hot, dry towel. But I also put my underwear in there because once everything's dry, you're just like, yeah, it was it was nice, especially in the colder months.
00:22:24
Speaker
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Less fun in the summer, but I stuck with it, I'll tell you. Right to put on those hot clothes. Way on the asphalt, you know, it's just it's just what we do. Do my balls have asthma because they can't breathe. Yeah, no, it's good to find it's good to find things like that.
00:22:45
Speaker
Um, let's see. I've got some items here to talk about as well. That's a segue. Uh, so we shouldn't talk about the anime edge runners. Okay. Save that for a separate episode, but, um, a lot of people.
00:23:04
Speaker
playing the video game, not edge runners. Cyberpunk, I actually haven't used that word yet. Cyberpunk 2077. Not too long ago, they actually passed the one million concurrent players per day mark, not concurrent, sorry, one million players per day.
Cyberpunk 2077's Resurgence and Gaming Advice
00:23:19
Speaker
So it was in the tens of thousands at a given time, I think like 80,000 or something. But over the course of the day, a million people were playing each day, which is crazy because those are kind of like MMO numbers.
00:23:33
Speaker
Um, and talking about feel good things, I'm kind of glad that they're slowly reeling in some of like the travesty and travesty and controversy and problems that were 2077 to launch.
00:23:50
Speaker
This has been Jake's the past couple of years because No Man's Sky finally didn't become shit over the course of like four years. There's a whole initial thing with the interview with Sean Murray and I don't blame Sean Murray specifically. But like what it was at launch is definitely not what it is today. Yes. Yeah. And then Cyberpunk in the same way had a lot of a lot of stuff going on to release.
00:24:16
Speaker
Um, but I think with what they've been doing in patching and stuff, um, DLC will be coming out at some point. Yep. Phantom Liberty. The anime as well is really helping promote like, Hey, this is a cool universe. Cool thing. Yeah. So I think a lot of people are going back. It's kind of getting a resurgence. Yeah. I, uh, so I stock the creator of cyberpunk Mike spot, Mike Pondsmith on Reddit sometimes.
00:24:45
Speaker
because he's just pretty accurate, or not accurate, he's pretty active. He's pretty accurate about his game. Yeah, right. He can just say stuff and it just becomes true, it's weird. But he's been working a lot with CDPR, and he's very active in the low sodium cyberpunk subreddit, which was created because of how much of an S show the launch of cyberpunk was. They needed a subreddit that was specifically
00:25:14
Speaker
Don't vent in here. Use the other one, which is always a great sign. But the thing that I just kind of loved is it's clear that he's a big anime fan. When the people were talking about Edgerunners and it came out, he's like, I almost had to just start breathing into a paper bag. He's like, trigger? You serious? You got trigger? And it's just like, it's just so, again, kind of heartwarming.
00:25:42
Speaker
to see people who are, uh, you know, big fans of this. So, um, especially like we live in the age of people losing creative, uh, not even just control, but input. And a lot of their ideas, IPs get bought by big companies, all of that. And.
00:25:59
Speaker
the fact that a lot of this still has some input from this small little company, or Talsorian is the company, that is literally his family, basically, plus some hires. It's just so nice, I don't know, I like it. Yeah, I'm glad it's keeping its
00:26:17
Speaker
I don't want to say artistic integrity, but it's I will say I have checked out rings of power a little bit. And I think it's a fine enough entertaining fantasy show, but like.
00:26:31
Speaker
Eh, not for me, really. I don't know if I keep watching it. It definitely is not going to have the same type of oomph as when you first watched like the trilogy as a young person. Oh my gosh. Yeah. The community's like the Lord of the Rings meme subreddit and everything like that are like, they had not stopped in all of the intervening time since that trilogy came out. And it's been a long time since the Peter Jackson films.
00:26:59
Speaker
But like when those films came out, I would say that was my main introduction into like a high, not crazy high fantasy, but like a high fantasy world. Right. It brought something like that to life for me. And I think then when I went to go play like Witcher, I'm like, oh, this is the template for roughly what I'm expecting, you know.
00:27:21
Speaker
So I think Cyberpunk 2077 is like, hey, here's the future. I'm like, OK, everything I now encounter will be based off of this. This is my one template. Yeah, it's I'm coming dangerously close to talking about the show, so I won't.
00:27:37
Speaker
Really, but I will say like the setting is. It's such a big part about it, like like the the ears and I feel of mouth of mouth sitting. Well, that's a different city. Night City is I don't I don't want to visit mouth. Hopefully not. It's it's really on full display. And I think that that's great.
00:28:04
Speaker
Like that's the reason, you know, so many people are picking up the game. Plenty of time has passed. I think it was 50% off on a lot of platforms, but like, um, yeah, it's, it's from a business perspective, put on business hat for a second. I guess it's like a top hat. Uh, that's the way to do it. Be confident in the game that as it exists and then you advertise for it. And they spent so much money in advertising. You remember like the billboards and all that crap they had for 2077.
00:28:35
Speaker
Like, and this show, which admittedly probably cost as much or more money than everything in the advertising budget. Um, they literally bought it. Yeah. Yeah. He, he still licensed on her CD project. Yeah. They keep him in a box at the company. He's just a little glass display Doritos just fall from like a chamber in the ceiling periodically. That's.
00:29:00
Speaker
He waves to people as they come to the office. He's just like, uh, what was the, what was the phrase? Uh, no, your, uh, it wasn't beautiful. It wasn't beautiful. Was it beautiful? Awesome. Beautiful. Wow. What was amazing. It was, it was one of the longer ones. Um, fantabulous. That's probably it. Yeah. Breathtaking. Had to look it up. We don't use facts here. Breathtaking.
00:29:29
Speaker
and Lord of the Rings has been out 20 years since the original trilogy. I was looking that one up too while we're not doing facts here. But yeah, good forum. It's basically a second launch for the game. And I mean, I put 100 hours into it in the first pass. So.
00:29:45
Speaker
You're welcome, people. I'm the reason the game's still around, obviously. If it wasn't for me playing the game and watching Trigger Animes, this is never what I happened. Uh-huh. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I hope they continue to do better, and people should be cautious of games when they initially come out. Don't believe the hype. Always. Always. Listen to people you trust. Yeah. And if you can avoid it, don't pre-order.
00:30:14
Speaker
unless you really, really have to. And I feel like some of us, you know, we have games where it's like, I really, really feel like I have to. You pretty much never have to. It's a digital distribution market. But you know what I'm talking about. Eldering DLC. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much.
00:30:32
Speaker
I will say that there is something that came out, uh, two days ago or yesterday that I was kind of curious about. I wanted to like, give it a quick spin. Gundam evolution. Sorry, say the topic again. Gundam evolution. Okay. That's fair. Have you seen anything about this? I have seen a discord post from a beloved member of the community.
00:30:55
Speaker
Oh, thank you. And then you followed up with it at some point. I don't know. It was. Oh, damn. But basically, it seems to be like a role based shooter, kind of similar to Overwatch, but Gundam. It looked cool. I grew up watching Gundam, playing some Gundam games on PlayStation here and there. It's just it's a cool space thing.
00:31:25
Speaker
Gameplay is not amazing by any means. It definitely feels weird. I'm hoping they do more with it and maybe iterate on it. Because right now it is free to play. So I'm not sure if they're like, oh, we're done. This is the model. Right. There's no microtransactions or anything. They're just like, we feel bad once it's done. You can have this. We didn't even want to keep finishing it and make people pay for it. Here you go.
00:31:54
Speaker
But it is some of the mech diversity is kind of interesting. You can see kind of the influence from some other games and then some other ones feel very similar to each other. Is it more like armored core or is it more like it's a class based shooter and you just happen. Oh, this is the this is the Omega mech and Omega mech always has the same loadout and is the same pilot and stuff.
00:32:19
Speaker
yeah okay so based on your mech it's your abilities so you'll have whatever default weapon uh typically laser rifle some have a bazooka some have more like a machine gun there's a melee class or two um and then like a projectile some are more supporty
00:32:38
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The whole thing just feels weird to me at this point, but I will say as a grain of salt, I spent less than a full hour on it. I went through the tutorial. I went through some trainings, switching around some different mechs, and I did one one pubs game where we got destroyed. Yeah.
00:32:56
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Yeah, I know a lot of people express some interest there in the chat. I think this is a good game's drought. It's a good opportunity to pull some people in to play something. So yeah, I mean, I give it a shot.
00:33:10
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Some games are meant to be like, hey, do you want to try this over the weekend? Yeah, sure. And you just check it out. And you're like, yeah, that was a fun memory. And then you never touch it again. I definitely have a lot of those games. Sometimes you sometimes you find the next game people are going to keep playing for a long time. You know, who knows? Maybe this will replace Overwatch and TF2 at LAN parties.
00:33:33
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I mean, I would replace TF2 with anything at this point, so I'll take it. Truth. Yeah. But yeah, no, I like that idea. I think it's always...
00:33:47
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It's kind of risky sometimes to jump into a genre that's really well developed or populated. I don't mean this as a full point of discussion, but Spellbreak had a death of the game YouTube episode apparently pretty recently.
00:34:04
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It was a relatively novel spell casting battle royale game. And you're like, OK, well, you had me and then you lost me because there are so many battle royale games, right? Like your piece of the pie, unless that piece of the pie is somehow taken from Fortnite, is like not going to be very big. And so. I guess there's not really that many class based shooters out there.
00:34:33
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Now that I'm thinking about it, um, not too many, but especially hero shooters like overwatch, like, yeah.
00:34:45
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So hopefully they find a niche. I agree. I want to see things like that. I played guns the duel back in the day. You know, I'm ready for the Korean jumping over things, powersliding, katanas and guns, which is, I assume, what this game is. We'll just go from there, fear it is leaving.
00:35:07
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Um, yeah, i'm not gonna Put any more comments at this point because it's gonna be more Don't count the game at this point. That's fair for you to play. So yeah, give a shot. It sounds like it's gonna be interesting to you Give it a look see Sounds good Next topic Oh, this one's mine this one's mine you're talking about overwatch
00:35:31
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some things have happened as far as announcements on the Overwatch side which are probably matured a little bit over the course of this month so people who are super interested in Overwatch might already know these things but
Game Release Strategies and Industry Criticism
00:35:43
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There was the next hero who was announced, and I can't remember her name. It has a K in it. It's like Kasumi. What was it? Is it Kiori? That sounds right. Let's go with that. Kiori. And there's like a new support, which, you know, obviously Kiori really likes.
00:36:02
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Um, and she was kind of teased cause we saw like the Fox, um, in one of the trailers for like overwatch two and people were like, that's a new thing. Fox here, all this stuff, right? All the speculation that happens. Um, that's all great to counterbalance that. Like we know we've known overwatch two is going to have a battle pass, right? Because everything has a battle pass now.
00:36:24
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Um, like my ability to use the restroom in my own home is governed by what level I have on the battle pass. I'm currently up to two visits per day. Um, cause I'm on the free track, but, uh, overwatch has this and the hero is going to be locked on it. Unless you paid for the battle pass, pay for the battle pass, you get the hero, like immediately, as soon as she drops, otherwise it's on level.
00:36:51
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What level do you guess? I'll say the maximum level is 80. Where do you think they put the hero? I would hope like 10. Do you think that would be a reasonable number?
00:37:05
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I think something fairly early would be better. But because it's blizzard, it's higher than 10. Yes, it is 55 out of 80. And that means now I know that people don't always clear battle passes at the same time. A lot of people rush at the end or they play more at the beginning. But if this is meant to be played over like a season, which I think is going to be three to four months, something like that.
00:37:32
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Like you're potentially saying this hero drops and months will pass before free players with a standard amount of play time would unlock her.
00:37:43
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Okay. No good. Tangent. Uh, rant. This is why I hate this model. Because you're like, oh, I'd have to wait this long doing the free track. Wouldn't it just be easier if I just paid for the battle pass? And that specific thing is like you're trying to extort people's money.
00:38:03
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Hey, we're not forcing you to there is a free option It's kind of the similar thing with like rebates and coupons like oh you can just mail that shit in and you're giving somebody like the extra Hey, it'd be a pain in the ass if you had to do this, but hey, you know, you're saving money Right and then lots of people will choose convenience Because we play this game. We enjoy this game. We want to play the new hero with our friends who probably picked it up at least some of them so
00:38:30
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There's like swatting away the barriers, like, let me have the fun. And then it just takes from their pocket. Yeah. They had an explicit article, like they had an interview about this, like they were talking about it. And they explicitly said, like, we know that heroes are the most engaging content. So why wouldn't we put it on the Battle Pass? And I'm kind of in a similar boat to you. It needs to be very, very close to the beginning because otherwise,
00:38:59
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I mean, there's a bunch of arguments you can make even within the Overwatch meta about how dangerous it can be to not have a hero even selectable in like the counter pick game. Right. They literally they were also like, hey, people don't really switch heroes that much. It's like they'll pick Reaper and they kind of stay on Reaper unless they're getting destroyed, then they'll swap or they'll like pick Moira and then never change or like whatever. Like.
00:39:23
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and then later we're talking about Overwatch 2 and they're like we really do want it to be this sort of like pick and counter pick meta you know around all of this and we're like you can't have it both ways no like if she's overtuned at launch and
00:39:38
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I think heroes should be all new characters will be because otherwise you make, Oh, this character is underdeveloped compared to all the other characters. I'm not going to give them a shot. And now they've lost their little, little bit of sunlight and then people forget about them. And so they don't get played.
00:39:56
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happened with Ana explicitly right like she was released into the game and people were like ah she seems okay I mean sleep is okay but like she's not as good as Zenyatta and she's not as good as Mercy so like why are we gonna and like her pick rate was abysmal they literally had to buffer like four consecutive patches until she was literally broken and then like one person realized it they're like ah crap I ran into Ana and then they killed everyone in the
00:40:20
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Server and every other server wait like oh, they can't heal hold on Just throw one's in the oddest phase fuck you Yeah, it's a But yeah, I mean it's it's gonna be a real real pain It's gonna feel bad to play a game as if we player and not have this character unlocked so I Don't like that. I think that's pretty bad. I'm sure it'll make them money, but I mean at what cost
00:40:50
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You know, I mean the the consumers cost Mm-hmm Yeah, I know people who like Blizzard usually just suck Blizzard's dick blindly anyway, like there is that die-hard fan base who just like Maybe they're not like the biggest fan of blood like that. I will always play Blizzard games, right? Right like they'll buy into it. They might Begrudge a little bit. They might complain a little bit of their breath but the end of the day They're still gonna drink the Kool-Aid
00:41:20
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And so I think they're almost always relying on that fan base as a core for, they might not be the best decisions for the company or the consumer as a whole, but financially they're good for us and it will play out. Right. It's a safe move on their part.
00:41:40
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Yeah, I guess we'll see what they do with it Um, my hope is that they go a little bit more sane and they they they pull it back Because honestly just dropping it like to rank 30 or something will by comparison seem like generosity At this point or it wouldn't if they were maybe that's what they do maybe maybe they set it up early so that when they
00:42:00
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drop it down earlier, like, Oh my God, blizzard. So they made that change for us, the community. It's literally the mercy, like descending to like the child under the rubble. I mean, honestly, it is a, it is a strategy, right?
00:42:19
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Yeah. It's, it's a foot in the door type thing where you start like way too high and you're like, I'm not paying a hundred grand. It's like, all right, not my bad 20 grand. Right. You're like, well, it's actually, Oh, that's percentage wise. That's saving a lot of money. Right. It's the same thing as when you bump up the base price of an item before holiday sales, right? Yeah. 50% off. Oh my gosh. This was a hundred dollars yesterday. Now it's only a hundred dollars.
00:42:44
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which is why I always go the day before Christmas, check out all the prices, write it down on our list. There you go. Yeah. That's our Christmas advice episode. You got to save some of it for that or our shopping episode. We talked about cute. This is actual financial advice. Yes. Don't listen to lawyers. This is financial. No, don't sue us. Overwatch 2 also launches the week after this episode comes out. And at that point, Overwatch 1 doesn't exist. You say it's October 4th? I thought it was second.
00:43:14
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Okay. A week and two days after this episode comes up. Um, and yeah, overwatch one ceases to exist. Your loot boxes would have been opened already. I know mine were, uh, and we can all judge the game in real time. If we play it, who knows who knows. That's my topic though. Do you have any others? How do you feel about grounded, getting a full release towards the end of the month?
Nostalgia in Gaming: Remakes, Remasters, and Long Developments
00:43:45
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I probably should have known it was towards the end of the month, but I didn't, I actually remember the announcement that it was going to get the full release too. Then I forgot about it. So I think we played, uh, on like a free weekend, uh, many, many moons ago with some of us, um, namely you and I, and then Jenny and Ian, and we had like a little squad going.
00:44:07
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It was fun. I would definitely go back and check it out. They've added a lot of content since then, from what I heard. And I like a nice team survival crafty thing. I know I always go to the same talking point, but I like the little role microcosm that develops where someone's like, I'm staying at the base and just crafting shit. Bring me these supplies. I need these to upgrade our,
00:44:36
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are grass to level two. The crafters and the gatherers. Yes. And then the hunters. Come back, we need you to protect the base. I've all been collecting grass. You show up with a minigun and you're like, this is a game with children. It's not a kid's game. That's the difference, I guess, right? Grounded is too scary for kids to play, I would argue. Yes.
00:45:03
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Um, I'm actually not looking forward to playing with giant spiders again. Yeah. No, they're nightmare farther. 100%. Amnesia. Nothing. Nothing by comparison. Yeah. I am curious to maybe do that again with some people. Yeah. Cool. I know some people bought it on the first pass. I didn't, so I would need to pick it up at retail, but I'm sure it's really good. And props on obsidian for going from RPGs to this. I don't know.
00:45:34
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I mean, if it's good, they can make whatever the fuck they want. Yeah. Also, Steel Rising came out like a week or so ago. Did you see anything about that? I've heard of it. I think it's the replacement for Twin Towers. Just build them up, Steel Rising. There you go.
00:45:56
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For anybody who's not aware or possibly Jake, I can't tell from his expression. The French automaton, Dark Souls like game. Yeah.
00:46:07
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It looks very pretty from what I've seen of gameplay. I've not checked it out yet myself. I might wait for it to be a little bit cheaper, but it also feels kind of linear, which I'm not sure I feel about. Similarly, I've watched some trailers for Lies of P, which is the Pinocchio Souls like. Okay. That's a fun thing to say.
00:46:32
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I'm interested to see where the genre goes and what creative choices people make with it. I don't want to just count all of them because it's not the exact thing I know. I'm sorry, I have more reviews.
00:46:48
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Are you going for like the one-handed Dex nose or like the really big nose that's two-handed great sword? Dude, two-handed nose would have been fucking awesome. He lifts off the ground. It's just like monster hunter style, the weight of the Buster sword is pulling in him. Or maybe it's like a Wukong staff. He sends it into the ground to push himself up and then he comes out like an aerial strike. This is a better game than whatever you were describing.
00:47:17
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Yes. A hundred percent. Yeah. I'm so curious to see about them, but definitely not paying full retail for something like that. Yeah. There's so many single player games out there, unless it's like a hundred percent, just an IPI I'm already bought into it's, it feels weird to play, to pay full price now. It's like, um.
00:47:40
Speaker
Just like why I literally have unplayed games that I need to play at some point. Do you mean like tunic or Yakuza like a dragon? Speaking of Yakuza like a dragon, that is probably, probably the one.
00:47:56
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But, um, I read recently, they're actually going to change the series title going forward to just like a dragon. It's not going to be prefixed Yakuza anymore. And apparently that's the way it already was in Japan. So it's the like a dragon series, which is harder to say than Yakuza. And it makes me feel like I have less weeb rep because those are all very Englishy sounding words. I mean, like a dragon does sound very.
00:48:24
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I'm getting into anime. Have you seen like a dragon? Oh, yes. That's PBS Kids show. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I'll have to play that at some point. Are you going to play that before or after Paper Mario? At this point, probably after Paper Mario, because a Paper Mario is
00:48:51
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I mean, it's another RPG, but it's going to be like 25 percent of the duration. If I do side content and like a dragon, this is true. Kids have to be able to beat the game. So the reason. So basically, here's the thing. Kids could beat Paper Mario. It's a Mario based game. They scale the difficulty, whatever. Kids can't beat like a dragon because they won't be kids by the time they beat the game. Like they will have aged up at that point.
00:49:23
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Anyways, I have games to throw you under the bus for. I only have to be honest. I know I have a bunch of games I've purchased that I still need to play. I also want to put more time into war him. Oh, that's a good segue. I also want to put more time into Warhammer three total war. Speaking of Warhammer three total war, the latest magic on set. Is is Warhammer, really?
00:49:50
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Yeah. Magic the Gathering universes universes beyond, I think is the full thing. And so universes begins with on. There you go. Spoiler. Yeah. So it's Warhammer 40K, actually. Not even the fantasy one. It's the actual 40K. Could you link that?
00:50:07
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Sure, I'm gonna copy it from my notes and Google it. For anybody who's not too familiar with magic, they'll occasionally do unsets, which is basically they're all joke cards. A lot of them are like making fun of something in the magic universe or like this rule is it doesn't make sense for magic.
00:50:27
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It's always just crazy wackadoodle shit. But like the art's really cool. Some of the lands, land art they do is really cool. Yeah, it's a silly fun thing. And I don't even buy paper magic at all anymore. But it is fun to look at what they've done and see what they come up with. It's always entertaining.
00:50:51
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Yeah, so I'm looking at the thing that I linked to you and they have a commander decks for Tyranid Swarm, forces of the Imperium, Necron Dynasties, and the Ruinous Powers, which is all pretty cool.
00:51:08
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And there's videos and stuff and a bunch of card previews and yeah. Um, as it turns out, this is a hot take, but like both wizards owned by Hasbro and, uh, games workshop owners of Warhammer. Uh, they both like making money as it turns out. And so they decided to do that. They're like, Hey, if we do this, then that's what will happen. And, uh, there you go. Didn't even have to make a battle pass for it. Just charge people tons of money.
00:51:36
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I'm looking at some of like the rules text here. It seems less on. Yeah. That was also kind of like legitimate, like rules and ability. Do you think that this actually isn't an onset and I just like miss the beat? Possibly.
00:51:55
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Like because it does seem kind of like insane because it costs 11 and it's doing a lot of stuff. But like the other card, like it seems legitimate. You know what? I bet it is. I bet it's I bet it's part of an unset just because they don't want to merge it with the canon lore of magic. I bet that's it. OK. But yeah, like everything.
00:52:21
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I wasn't really looking at the text of some of these cards and they don't seem like, hey, flip a coin and if this lands heads down, like flush your deck down the toilet or something like that, which is kind of what I expect. They look like they're kind of just meant to be played, you know, commander versus commander.
00:52:42
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Okay. So yeah, this, this is a legitimate set as far as play is concerned. Like you could put it in with like standard or other stuff. I'm not sure how standard works specifically, but cause separately they have an affinity and that is definitely a joke set. Oh yeah. Yeah, no, it, uh, it's pretty cool. Um, and I'm all for it, you know?
00:53:10
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I'm obviously not a huge Magic player in that my professional career was brief. But I do like War Hammer. And you know, maybe, I don't know, I still have like 300 card backs, not card backs, sleeves for some reason.
00:53:30
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You know, who knows who's who's to say maybe everybody could could play a commander game I'll just grab some other people who don't know how to play the game and figure it out much like Pokemon back in the day Back where everybody cheated because nobody knew the rules. Mm-hmm, but that's pretty much like monopoly as well Yeah, you can make the rules however you want as long as you're enjoying it with friends Yeah
00:53:54
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Um, but yeah, I thought that was cool. Thank you for the segue me. Um, any other news on your end? If not, I've got like a couple more that I actually care about, and then I'm just going to not cover the rest.
00:54:08
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Uh, one thing as like a brief aside mention, but not counting actual thing. Uh, apparently there is going to be at some point a bloodborne PC port. What? But from soft is obviously currently busy with Elden ring related things. Probably namely going to be the DLC at some point. Um, but I would like to play bloodborne again. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Frame rate imaginable. Uh, cause it is, it is rough to go back.
00:54:39
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But I did enjoy the game. I would like to re experience it a little more. Yeah, I would love to play Bloodborne on PC. If this is a safe place for admissions, I don't keep PSN like running for PlayStation because I don't like play multiplayer. My most played game on PlayStation is Netflix. So I think it doesn't really make a lot of sense for me.
00:55:06
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But man, on PC, there's so much content I didn't experience in Bloodborne. Yeah, I did a playthrough. I'm sure I missed a good portion of stuff because the graphics were so fucking blurry. But now that I have an actual setup, I can play the game for realsies. And again, the frame rate issue was horrendous.
00:55:32
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Yeah, hopefully they get the same people that did the um, the ps5 like remake of demon souls I think it's like blue point or blue ball or something like that. Yeah I would love if they also did a fucking pc release of demon souls because PS5 is impossible to get for a long time They might be available now, but like I only want to play demon souls on it now I want to spend the money for a whole console for one game. Yeah
00:55:57
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Spider-Man actually was out long enough. I don't think it's the same version That came out because there's like a ps5 spider-man but like the ps4 spider-man also came out on PC with all of these improvements and things like that and it's like You got to release more games that I care about on this console if there's any help with me buying I'm it's gonna be the same thing as ps4 I'm gonna buy it like 10 years After it comes out and like two months before the next one's announced. Yeah, I
00:56:25
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Well, I'm glad they're still doing a lot of split releases for some PS five. Also PS four. Yeah. I'll take it to a lower graphical fidelity so I can actually play it and not chill out the money. But that was all supposed to be an aside. We got deep in the weeds. Yeah. Apparently what came out ironically on PS five, uh, for again, graphical reasons, they did last of us part one again. Interesting.
00:56:55
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This is basically Skyrim at this point. Like they've remade this game. Not, not quite, but definitely starting to get there. Uh-huh. I mean, it's fine, I guess. I mean, it's a really good game. If you've never played it, then obviously it's a recommended. Oh, it's insanely good game. Yeah. Um, but I mean, it still holds up on PS3. Yeah. But also, you know, was really sure PS4.
00:57:20
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Yeah, that's the one I played, right? Like how many generations have to pass, I guess. But I think they redid everything from the ground up for this one in PS5. At least that's how they advertised it in some interviews. So I'm sure graphically it's very pretty. So if you want to, if you have a PS5 already and you want to experience this game that you somehow missed for the past 20 years, you can check it out there.
00:57:48
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Question for you. Yeah. Do you care about remakes when, cause there's, there's a remake, we've talked a little bit about remakes and like remasters and things like that, but like there's a remake where you change the content of it, right? Like you update the mechanics and you do things like that. And I think most people agree that's a valid use of time. Right. But like, do you care about what's pretty much a graphical remaster with the same gameplay for a game that you already own and play?
00:58:17
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No, 100% no. The only ones that I have cared about have been Demon's Souls, because again, that was like an old PS3 thing. Yeah. I never played it. And I was curious to experience it. Still haven't yet, obviously. And then Near Replicant, also a PS3 game. It was never going to go get a console for one game. Same conversation we're having. But then they're like, hey, PS4? I'm like, I'm listening.
00:58:41
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So I actually got to go back and experience that without having to get archaic hardware. So I like it from that standpoint because it's now making it accessible to me in the current generation of an older game. But if they said like, hey, we're making Bioshock prettier, I don't give a fuck. I've played it already. I might play it again, but it doesn't need to be prettier. If you give that to me for free as a bonus, awesome. But I don't think I'd go out of my way.
00:59:11
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What about you? No, I'm, I'm a hundred percent in agreement. I think like PC basically drives this home more than any other console. Like for PS five, it's like, Oh, these games just aren't available. If like, it's not compatible with this version of the system. So people who came in.
00:59:27
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Theoretically people are reaching the age when they can get video game consoles every day. Um, and if PS five is your first video game console, then, you know, last of us, part one, why are your parents letting you play this? Uh, but it could be, you know, your first introduction to the series. Um, but like contrast that to how I view PC stuff. And it's like, I had Bioshock now, admittedly they gave Bioshock remaster for free if you already had it, but like,
00:59:58
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There's much less incentive to continually remake these games. I say this despite the fact, you know, Skyrim has been released one time for every bit of the operating system. It was like 32 and then 64 eventually, but that's the joke.
01:00:14
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But yeah, I absolutely don't care, right? And particularly for a game I've already played, right? Like I don't replay games that often unless it's like some sort of open, do something different this time. True. So like making everything real pretty doesn't really sway me. Like I thought Bioshock was freaking amazing the first time I played it. And my sensibilities have changed since then, but it looks the same in my mind.
01:00:40
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I will say, granted, this was like a huge change. When they were initially talking about the Final Fantasy 7 remake, they changed a lot, like as far as graphics and gameplay. It's a different game. And that's initially, yeah, true. So Fall is a lot like the same stuff. That initially drew me to the PlayStation 4 in the first place.
01:01:03
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This is a big part of my childhood. I would love to experience this. And then ironically, because of how much they change and stuff, I never picked up the game. Yeah. Which is also fair. Yeah. It is what it is. It really is.
01:01:24
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All right. So my topics that I said I cared about, I'm going to be more brief on here, but never pass up a chance to dig at star citizen. Um, apparently it has passed half a billion dollars in funding, which isn't too bad for a game where the Kickstarter launched in 2012. So.
01:01:51
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Yeah. Stop throwing money at this game. It's not real. Invest in crypto. It's slightly more realistic.
01:02:02
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Don't actually do that either. And again, not financial advice. These are two bad ideas, but they're both like, I'm looking forward to getting my Star Citizen NFT at some point. Oh my gosh. That's the universe just implodes if this happens. Mandler released a video on Star Citizen at one point, and it's like years old now where he's just like, it's been so long and nothing's come out. And periodically, I still kind of like go back to it.
01:02:25
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And I like view the comments that are just like, Oh man, you're right. It's been like 10 years in the comments, like three years old. Yeah. Right. Right. Like, uh, it's ridiculous. Um, but I just wanted to make fun of it. I don't think that's really much of a news topic. Um, emotes are 40 years old now, but I mean, that's not strictly gaming, which is kind of funny. You know, um,
01:02:52
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And then the bigger one was we did have a lot of leaks this past, dating the episode immediately, I think week GTA six. That's very, yeah, that was the big one. The other was Diablo four, like 40 minutes of gameplay got leaked. And it was really funny. First off, what's your impression? How do you feel about leaks?
01:03:22
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Like what is, what is the morality? People go instantly to hell or prison. Are they saints? Does no one care?
01:03:32
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Particularly need them like if it's something I am interested in following up on like yeah, I'll check it out Should they be leaking stuff that I don't want to share? No, but at the same time unless it's Like I think in GTA 6 this case. It's like very early stuff Yeah, so they got a lot a lot of negative Lashback so much so that other publishers were like hey
01:03:58
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We're releasing some leaks of like our early stuff to show you like, hey, it's not the final game. Don't I love this. I do like the solidarity of that. It's really cool. I'll let you talk more in a sec. But yeah, I don't need it. Like somebody said, like, hey, there's an elder ring DLC leak. Like, oh, what is it?
01:04:18
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I'm like, okay, that's cool. I may be theory craft for like two minutes and I forget about it. I don't need, I need something tangible. Give me the actual thing when it's done. Exactly. Like a baked good. As opposed to just like dough. Yes. Stop giving me dough.
01:04:41
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Yeah, I was actually I had a sub note here. Some of the other devs that chimed in and we're like, Hey, these are some examples of our work that was pre released and it was control. Horizon Zero Dawn, Cult of the Lamb, the one that one of the ones that really stood out for me is like control looked like it was just like,
01:05:00
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all of the terrain was gray and you're just kind of running around. Horizon Zero Dawn showed one of the big T-Rex looking creatures, one of the late game ones. And it looked like it was made out of Lego, like not even Lego, mega blocks, probably. And it was freaking great. I loved it.
01:05:19
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But this is another one of those good feel things. Like everybody's just like, don't worry about it. We're not going to judge your product based off this. Someone had the stupidest hot take. It was like the graphics are finished first. That's just going down. That's like meme tier wrong.
01:05:35
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What? But people were saying that about the gameplay. It's like, oh, GTA 6 must be terrible because the graphics are finished first. And look how bad this is. Stupid. That's literally not how anything has ever worked. No. It's always like the last thing. Yeah. You fucking monkey. Yeah. The other thing I just append to this is apparently Uber also got hacked.
01:05:57
Speaker
And the same hacker claimed credit for both of these things. And they are under FBI investigation now. So good on you. You got that wanted level up. We'll see if he can survive till the heat dies down. Grand theft auto joke. I figured that's what that was. I haven't played in so long. Yeah.
01:06:23
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And, uh, people don't really care about the Diablo four leak. It's a lot of gameplay. It apparently looked good. Um, I haven't seen some gameplay footage yet. The last trailer E3 event. Yeah. The game's really far along. Um, this was like a closed beta.
01:06:39
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It was like a friends and family event. The one thing I thought was actually kind of funny is the footage that went up. They put their voices through like a voice synthesizer or something to like hide their identities. But apparently they didn't edit the video at all. And it like has the watermarks like this account is this one. And it was a friends and family event. So it was probably a friend of somebody who worked at Blizzard. And that really don't be that friend. Right. But yeah.
01:07:11
Speaker
There's enough information out there about Diablo. I don't feel like we need to talk about it. We can talk about it when it comes out. And we didn't learn that much anyways.
01:07:19
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Yeah, I'll talk about Diablo wave when it comes out. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Diablo IV. Just pump that Diablo straight into somebody's veins. Um, that's funny. I'm going to, but I'm just pretend I didn't make that joke. I'm going to use that one later. Okay. Um, any passing words of wisdom thought thoughts, advice for our listeners on this, our outro.
01:07:48
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Uh, it is never too late to improve and change. You might think of some impediment and you're like, Oh, I'm too old for this. I'm too set in my ways. Or it's always been this way. Fuck you. No, it's not. It's just, it's very hard to overcome that initial hump of thinking you're stuck in the exact situation.
01:08:14
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It's not easy to get out of it. It's not easy to make those changes, but it is possible. And that's what I want you to keep in mind. That's really motivational. I agree with that entirely. If I could just restate that for our listeners, Blizzard changed the Battle Pass for Overwatch 2.
01:08:32
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