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This week we discuss the news from D23, Ubisoft Forward, Nintendo Direct, & Sony state of play, as well discussing news about changes at 343 industries and Japan loves Splatoon
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Excitement for D23 and Gaming Announcements
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Welcome to Add to Party, a friendship simulator masquerading as a new show. I'm your host, James Hartwell, and I'm joined by Charles Yemott, and I'm joined by Andy K.
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shut up no time for banner we have too much to talk about so let's start with d3 oh my god and say fuck the gaming part of d3 just go ahead straight to the movies nah we're gonna do the gaming part for a little bit what games could even be worth it
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So, hey, hey, there was a monkey island talk. Oh, hold on. We'll get there. Mm hmm. There's there's actually three things that are probably very interesting from the D23 showcase, the game showcase hosted by one blessing at a junior. One is Mike, Mike Biffle's next game, Tron Identity, a visual novel adventure set in the Tron universe. Why do I know that name, Biffle?
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He made some other I think of Bissell, which is, but guess what? We can't name it. Not even off the top of our heads of our very good and knowledgeable hosts. So let's keep going.
Retro Revival: Gargoyles and Marvel's Midnight Suns
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All right. Next gargoyles remastered a 90s platformer is getting is getting released much in vain of like some of the turtles games and things like that. Baby gargoyles are back in a big way. So.
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Is gargoyles actually good or is it just a 90s kids remember thing? Hmm. There's a little bit of that, but it is actually really good. Yeah. Oh, it's really good. Like.
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You know, I would say it has very good lore and storylines that expand that span, you know, arcs and seasons. Actually, when you get into like the all the face stuff, the face stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Mike Bethel, by the way, did Thomas was alone. Oh, I like that one. Yeah.
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OK, OK. I support it. Oh, and Tron. Yeah, he's doing a visual novel Tron game. And this was alone made me feel and it was just shapes.
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Marvel's been nice. I'm going to do the really interesting one last. So stay with me. What is it? And we'll get there. Marvel's Midnight Sun got a release date for December 2nd this year.
New Marvel Games: From Snap to WWII Adventures
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Marvel's Snap. Marvel Midnight. It's the XCOM card based one. Oh, OK. Yep. Marvel Snap, the game made by Ben Brode's new studio. It will be coming. Huh?
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Ben Brode's new studio is called Second Dinner. Second Dinner. Oh yeah, it says right there. For the uninformed and me, who is Ben Brode? He made Heartstone. Yeah, is the... Heartstone. Was the lead person for Heartstone. Why did he leave? Where's that? What's that? Activision was terrible. Yeah. And to be fair, he did leave.
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I'd say close to a year before anything general happened. But you saw it was down the wall. Yeah, it was definitely a mark of like things are going to change and then things change. Hearthstone also demonstrate. Hearthstone also demonstratively got worse when he left, but Marvel Snap is a card game.
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It's very difficult to describe, but it's kind of you have to take control of zones based on the total value of the cards. I've been playing it because I downloaded a bootleg APK and Google. It's super fun. Comes out on October 18th. Cool. Yeah. Return to Monkey Island coming out September 19th, which I think we already knew.
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I didn't know LucasArts games is still a thing. Or is it? Yeah, they remade it. They remade. OK. And then the super interesting thing. Yes. Oh, and also there's going to be a Marvel Niantic game. That's not the interesting one, but just that there'll be a Marvel Niantic game. So am I going to run into them on my walks? Yeah, people
Amy Henning's Project Challenges
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people pretending to be Marvel superheroes defending defending Milwaukee.
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Wait, is this going to be are we all going to go to the parks now and reunite like Pokemon go? But with our people still do that now, people still they don't. That's a lot. They do. The world's different. And then we got the announcement of what Skydance Media's new game is headed by Amy Henning of uncharted fame. I think.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Which is a Captain America Black Panther narrative story game set during World War Two, where you play as Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, a Zuri T'Challa's T'Challa's grandfather, T'Challa being the Black Panther from the current Marvel universe, who was played by Chad Boseman, R.I.P.
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Um, and he was the world war two era black panther and Gabriel. And then also Gabriel Jones, a member of the US army and a member of the Halloween commandos, which is captain America's squad and Nana Nanaali, one of the, uh, a member of the Wakandan spy network. So that will probably be very cool. It doesn't have a name. What kind of game is it? It would be think of like an uncharted Andy.
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Oh, OK. Yeah. How do you are you guys excited for that? No. Really? You know, Amy Henning. So my thing with Amy Henning is this secret worry. Mm hmm. Because Amy Henning has actually been doing a lot of different projects in the gaming space that mostly get canceled.
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Yeah, she was
Skepticism on Avatar Franchise Investments
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working out. Was it Star Wars three hours? Yeah. Yeah. Star Wars like ragtag or something like that. And it got canceled. But I don't know. I don't necessarily put that on Amy's head. Well, and again, that's what I'm saying, though. Right. Like, I don't know for sure anything. I don't know why this could keep happening to her. I would like to just reserve judgment. So I'm not excited because
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I'm not seeing anything. There's nothing there, nothing tangible for me to react on. So I'm just going to say, okay. It was barely a CG trailer. Yeah. Oh, and this is Disney proper. Correct. So are we going to get the likenesses of these characters? Are we not going to get off the shelf?
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Oh, you're not going to get Chris Evans likeness because the likeness rates in Hollywood are super weird. Yeah, this would also be the first game made by Skydance new media as well. I don't know. It's like, oh, go ahead. Sorry. I was going to say, I don't know, Charles. I would assume it's because Amy Henning got all these games canceled because she refuses to monetize her games.
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Like she seems like one of those people who's very much like I make a story game and it costs 60 slash 70 dollars and that's it when you know, she was working with EA before and I don't think Amy Hennig was ever in EA was this she could fully argue that could she yeah, she was directors. Yeah, she was director for the Star Wars game. Pretty sure she was. They got canceled. Let's see.
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Maybe I feel bad for her. I hope this one works out. This is her Wikipedia doesn't list the game she worked out that didn't get released. Yeah, I know. So that's not useful. I mean, I'm looking at this article. Oh, also, this happened in April, too. But it's going to it's media said that they're working with Lucas films games to produce a narrative driven action venture game.
Marvel Film Announcements and Casting Rumors
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Um, helmed by Amy Henning. So they're probably going to pull the rag tech stuff from that. But originally it was for EA. So yeah, Amy had, I mean, it seems like Skydance is her studio to be like, I'm just going to make the games I want instead of having to fucking deal with someone else. But we'll see. Um, like captain America. Yes, I do. Um, I haven't read enough captain. You haven't read enough captain America comics. Yeah.
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Oh, also, they showed an avatar more P.T. shooter. Oh, yeah. Terrible. I was like, why? They were like, why do you have to do it? It was awful. No, no one likes Avatar, right? Like we liked it because it was 3D glasses. I wouldn't say no one. China loves Avatar. Oh, do they? But why build a Disney theme park?
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in America, Japan loves Splatoon. Well, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. I just I really feel like Disney. It's like the ultimate sunk cost fallacy is that they just keep throwing money at it, hoping that we like it. But no one cares. It was a product of its time. It was interesting. It was new. Well, but it wasn't noteworthy. Well, hold on. Andy, do you have anything else to say about the games portion of this? No.
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OK, Charles, that the Avatar one was embarrassed. I forgot what we were talking about. All right. I would say just in an overall, I think it was a quick 20, 30 minute show. It was fine. They didn't say overstay their welcome. It was, you know, for what it was, it was good. And then we have all the news from the film stuff that happened the following day, including
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many exclusive clips that we were not privy to because it was only for people there. One of which, while we're on the side of Avatar, I believe they announced that Avatar 4 has begun filming.
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And yeah, you heard me right, four. Is three done? That was everyone's question. It's like, you film three? Stop it. Just let it go.
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But anyway, so let's run down what they talked about for the film side of it.
Disney's Star Wars and Marvel Series Updates
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On the Marvel side, they showed some footage of the next Ant-Man and Wasp quantum mania coming out February 17th.
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Um, they showed more, more footage of Wakanda forever. That seemed to have positive again. That's coming out November 11th. Um, they announced that the, uh, villain for captain America, new world order.
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which will be the first Captain America movie with Anthony Mackey as Captain America, will have Tim Blake Nelson reprising his role as the leader from the Edward Norton Incredible Hulk movie.
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Okay. Let me, let me, let me really just lay this out for you, Andy. You know how the whole gets big and strong from gamma radiation? Sure. The leader gets the, yes. And the leader gets a big head and really smart from gamma radiation, but no muscles. So it's the brain versus just gets bigger. Yeah. It's head. And specifically his forehead too.
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Oh, no. So he looks like cortex. Kind of. Yeah, actually. Absolutely. Just imagine. No. Yeah. Yeah. So it's the brain versus brawn. I hilarious reach. Sure. They didn't announce who is going to be the cast of Fantastic Four, which was very shocking. They did confirm that Matt Shachman will be directing at Matt Shachman did.
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What movie? What was he doing? He did WandaVision. He did WandaVision. So this is the first Disney Fantastic Four, right? Correct. Correct. OK. Who owned it before? Was it Sony? Fox. Fox. That's right.
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And we got the cast of the Thunderbolts movie, which is the kind of it's like the Suicide Squad, more or less for Marvel and that would be an R rated. I don't know. Probably not.
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But you will have Wyatt Russell playing U.S. agent, the fake Captain America from Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Florence Pugh, back as Yelena, Black Widow's sister, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, and Hannah John Kamen, who I believe was Taskmaster from the Black Widow movie, and Olga Kirilenko, who was Ghost from A Man and the Wasp.
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So that is the so you have U.S. agent, Black Widow sister, the Winter Soldier, Taskmaster and what's her face? Ghost. Is James Gunn going to direct it? No, no.
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They didn't announce Jake. Oh, oh, excuse me. And David Harbor, who was was I can't remember what his name is like the superhero name, but he's basically Russian Captain America. Yeah. Political Jake Schreier is direct. And then Jake Schreier is directing it who I looking at his IMDB. He has not done much. Oh, Jason Schreier. Red Guardian.
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for David Harbor.
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Oh, the Red Guardian. Thank you, Charles. So it was, I mean, nothing like shocking or new. I mean, the leader being the villain for Captain America was. It's kind of a shock phase was saying they were going to talk about Eternals during D23, and they did not. So that was interesting. And yeah, there's a lot of rumors that Henry Cavill was going to come out and get cast as something.
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Henry Cavill. Henry Cavill is the Witcher slash Superman, Andy. Oh, he plays. Wow. He does. He plays 40K, Andy. Let's be. Oh, that's right. Because I remember he was talking about painting miniatures. Yeah, he got his games workshop first. Andy, he's he's you, but the most handsome man alive.
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It's just it's just such a order of magnitude of failure that it's just soul crushing to think about. Do you remember that scene in Infinity War when the Guardians saved Thor? And while he's unconscious, they just keep talking about how handsome Chris Hemsworth is. It's like an angel.
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And Chris Pratt's like right there like, guys, I'm pretty good. They're like, no, no, no, no. You are a dude. This is a man. Henry Cavill. Well, now I have something to strive to be. Oh, no, he has a mustache in this picture. I don't want to have a mustache.
00:15:47
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I was just about to say they forgot all the television stuff, but it's in a separate section. They also talked about Ironheart, which we talked about before. Never mind. Yes, he is. I'm not working out.
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They talked on the television front for Marvel. They talked about Ironheart, which we've talked about before. Riri Williams, which is kind of smart, young, black Tony Stark and a woman. I hate to reduce it to that, but just we have so much to talk about today.
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They debuted the trailer for Secret Invasion, which will be a Disney Plus series starring Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, having to deal with the scrolls from Captain Marvel. Basically, in the comics, scrolls are changelings, Andy, so they can take the form of anybody they choose. Oh, not a tattered parchment? No.
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So they so it's S.K.R.U.L.L.S. And basically it's going to be like a spy thriller where you can't know who anyone is and can't trust those are fun. Yeah, it should be fun. And I like isn't he like a million years old? Yeah, there's getting up there. There's a sense that this might be his last role.
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Oh, you think so? Okay. Yeah. Especially based on how the trailer was. They also confirmed that the Don Cheadle Armor Wars show is still coming out and will be filming next year and will take place right after Secret Invasion.
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Armor Wars.
Disney's Marvel Success Story
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Armor Wars is like this thing where Tony Stark's technology gets out to like a lot of different companies and Tony goes rogue to basically like destroy all the technology that's in his the wrong hands. I imagine this will probably have something to do with Don Cheadle slash James
Gaming Showcases: Assassin's Creed to Fire Emblem
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Rhodes war machine, like trying to make sure that Tony's legacy isn't marred by violence and stuff like that. But we'll see.
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Is it for every Donnie Jr. out of Marvel? He is. He is, yeah. That's why he's Don Cheadle. That's right. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
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Charles, say his name because I can't for Loki. Kwe Kwe Hoon Kwon. Is that it? Let's say it's actually Kihui Kwon. Damn it. So close. Kihui Kwon will be James. I know. We'll be joining the cast for Loki for season two. If you don't know who that is, that was the husband from everywhere, everything all at once. And also was short round in Indiana. Yeah. Yeah.
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And he didn't act between then. Like he went off and did his own thing. Yeah, he did. And came back and did a great job. I love it. Everything, everywhere, all at once. They talked about Echo, which is the TV show based on the character from Hawkeye, who was
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Native American and Deaf. Deaf, yeah. And it said it'll be investigating her tribal background a lot too. And we'll be starring Vincent D'Onofrio sporting an eye patch as Kingpin. Should be cool. And then also they talked more about Daredevil born again too. That the production will start for that next year.
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And that you should consider it a season four, but a season one, which is yeah, which it is. I am going back through Daredevil Netflix right now. It's a good time. It's a real good time. You know, such a good, relaxing voice when he is a good lawyer lawyer. You're like, man, that's I would trust him. Yeah. And like, that's also hilarious when Rosario Dawson just pops up in like episode two. Oh, yeah, I forgot she was here.
00:19:45
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Um, yeah. Do you guys ever do... Oh, sorry. Yeah. No, no, go ahead. I was just gonna say, do you guys ever do that thing where when you buy something, you divide the cost by the number of times you use it to see if it looks like a car? Next thing I swear we'll find out.
00:20:03
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I just want to say the number of times that Disney has used the Marvel license, like the value that they are just stripping out of this thing is insane. I didn't imagine that was ever a doubt. Yeah. Yeah. Remember, they bought it for very cheap and relatively and it's now a what, billion multi-billion dollar franchise? What is this?
00:20:29
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If, if, if their tentpole movies don't make a billion dollars, they're considered like, Oh, is Marvel failing?
00:20:38
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So what was the scale of that return? That's just what was making me think. Very high. And then finally, on the television side, Werewolf by Night, which we talked about vaguely last week, which would yeah, which is it's going to be a super campy kind of like retro like horror movie man things going to be in it. I don't have enough time to explain who man thing is, but he's essentially Swamp Thing for the Marvel universe.
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And it's it's it's gonna it's no, it's just it. Well, I don't know how long it's going to be It's a TV special comes out on October 7th And it looks like it might tie into Loki because it really looked like there were guys from the TVA in it So it makes it extra interesting. Yeah, so we'll have to see All in all it was good. I mean, you know, I kind of hoped for more out of it, but James
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I wanted to know the Fantastic Forecast. I wanted Shang-Chi 2. I wanted Shang-Chi 2 to be announced, you know? These are... I want to know what the fuck's going on with Eternals and Blade. By the way, Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion. Last year, Marvel is now worth $53 billion. There you go. You know what?
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They got a lot of use out of it. They did. Next on the Lucasfilm side, a trailer trailer for Indiana Jones five was shipped to the crowd. Oh, yep. And basically, apparently people said it was well received in the room, but also you have to remember who they're showing it to. These are all the super fans. But losing them to who were they giving them alcohol? Oh, I don't think so. No.
00:22:31
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Um, yeah, people seem to have good reception for it. We'll see. I have, I'm just hoping the booth comes back. Who's that?
00:22:39
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Shia. Oh, the booth. Oh, because wasn't he his son? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. But he's a he's a goof. He's any I don't have the time to fucking discuss all the drama that's going on with this. What is it? It's something by Darling or something like that.
00:23:03
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Yeah, Chris Pine got spit on by Harry Styles. It's a whole it's a whole thing. God, I can't I can't hit not interested on my tick tock enough. I'm.
00:23:16
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Next. Hey, maybe everything everywhere, a guy will be in the new Indiana Jones. They were both there, by the way. Oh, really? Yeah. So it was like her chair. Yeah. Him and Harrison Ford meeting for like the first time in, you know, 20, 30 years. Oh, yeah. Let's do it. They also saw the trailer for Willow. If you don't remember what Willow is. Yeah.
00:23:44
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I here's the thing. I did remember Willow and do have good memories on it because I think it was on the Sci-Fi channel a lot. Oh, OK. But it was kind of this. It came out in 1988. It was this weird fantasy movie starring a little I think little person's the PC term.
00:24:01
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Yeah, little person and it's very magic. It's about a princess. It's all it's all very good. It's I would put it as like this bride is kind of campy. This is like one step above Princess Bride before getting to like Lord of the Rings.
00:24:18
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And they're going to be redoing that for a movie that's coming out. And it looked actually super good. Like, don't watch the trailer
Breath of the Wild 2: Tears of the Kingdom Reveal
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if you have it. It looks really good. But also, I like. Yeah, I only learned about Willow itself like a year or two ago. It just came out of the blue. It looked like an 80s reaction to Princess Bride. Kind of a little bit, but it also came on the 80s.
00:24:47
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Yes, yes. So I didn't know if it was someone else's attempt, but good. Also, I think it was a Jim Henson joint, too. I can't remember. Will. Oh, it might have been. I can't remember. Maybe that kind of makes sense. It does. It sounds familiar.
00:25:04
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Uh, and then on the Star Wars side, they had the final trailer for the Andor show, which is the male lead from rogue one. And it tells the story of how he became a spy for the rebellion. That's good. Jesus.
00:25:20
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Come on guys. It sure looked good. I don't know. We'll see it comes out on September 21st They showed a trailer for season 3 of the Mandalorian also looked good seeing like you're gonna be really addressing kind of like Mandalore's history and how that's how that what's going on with that in the post Return of the Jedi world was baby in it. Oh, hell yeah, he was I
00:25:47
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They they said they'll be coming back with another season of the Bad Batch. What's that? That's the animated series about kind of like it's a bunch of clone troopers that were like. Wrong, but OK, Bad Batch.
00:26:06
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Yeah, but they but they use them as kind of like this. Like, you know, we give them the jobs that are too hard and stuff like that and things like that. Stormtroopers are humans, though. This isn't like a defect on the production line. No, these are clone troopers, Andy.
00:26:22
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Oh, because they're clones, they're bad clones. Yeah. And also Tales of the Jedi, a short form animated anthology, which will be focusing primarily on Ahsoka's story post Star Wars Rebels, which was another animated series and the story of Count Dooku and how he turned to the dark side, which is something they've never really explored.
00:26:48
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Count Dooku was the villain from two and three, episodes two and three. Oh, I thought he'd look more fun than that. It's just an old white guy.
00:26:57
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Hey, hey, hey, hey, that's shit. I forgot his name. He's the guy who plays Saruman. Saruman. Is that a Lord of the Rings thing? Yes, he is. Oh, God damn it. Anyways, I thought a duke who would be like more like Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee, friend of Tolkien. Tolkien wanted him to play Gandalf, but he was too old. He hunted Nazis during World War II and was in a metal band. Really?
00:27:27
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Yeah, not a metal band like when he was young when he was like in his 70s. Yeah. Okay. Christopher Lee is an awesome guy. Let's go.
00:27:42
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And then they showed Avatar shit. I don't care. No one likes Avatar. We got to hurry to stuff. We've got actual good news. Yeah, I know. I got to listen. Don't worry. We're going to spend like five minutes on Ubisoft and then move on. Don't worry. You know, Disney really got their value.
00:28:04
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Yep. Yeah. So that's kind of it for D 23.
Assassin's Creed Expansions and Updates
00:28:07
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Um, was there any like original IPs among that? Or is it just marveling? Technically, technically Willow. I guess. Yeah. No, you're right. You're right.
00:28:20
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Uh, at the same time this was happening, Ubisoft decided to have a forward and let me tell you, it was not worth watching. Um, well, wasn't there something? No, it wasn't. No, come on. Come on. So they showed off more gameplay from Skull and Bones. It looks boring. I don't know. They showed a lot more gameplay for Mario and Rabbids 2 Spark of Hope. We like that. It was good, but they spent a lot of time on it. They got nothing.
00:28:49
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Yeah, and also that will be coming as a DLC character as well. That's cool. Your your your favorite person is in a game, right? Sam, Sam, Sam Fisher, Sam Fisher, isn't he?
00:29:06
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Oh, no, I'm thinking of that article from two years ago. Never mind. Oh, that was accidentally. I accidentally leaked Ubisoft forward from 2020 because that's how much I cared about this forward. I read it there. Never mind. Sam Fisher is not in this.
00:29:26
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So talked about that. They said that Division two is still rolling, baby. We got more coming up. We're committed to it. Also, that Division Heartland will be coming out soon. And that Rainbow Six Mobile will be getting a closed beta soon. Oh, interesting. I have no idea how you play Siege on a mobile environment. People play PUBG and Fortnite on mobile environments, so I can't blame them.
00:29:51
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You know what, actually, I'm going to be very quick about this. I saw when I was getting a haircut, there was a guy in the barbershop playing war zone on an iPad, and I was just fascinated. Really? I didn't know that's on an iPad. Yeah, maybe. Let's see. They talked about Valley and Hearts. They showed the next season of Mythic Quest.
00:30:15
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Trackmania, Just Dance 2023. I will say what's interesting about Just Dance 2023. This is the first version of Just Dance that will no longer be going to old consoles. That's right. Wasn't that like the last game on Wii or something? Yes, so 2022 did come out on Wii. 2023 is only coming out on the Series X and S Xboxes PlayStation. Oh no, Grandma.
00:30:36
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And that's it. And then we get into the Assassin's Creed stuff, which is the actual only interesting part of the forward. The next Assassin's Creed is going to be based around Bossum, who is a major character in the latest installment, Valhalla. And it'll be a prequel that will be kind of more going back to the roots of the original Assassin's Creed one. So not as RPG, more like one hit kills and stuff like that, focusing on parkour. And it'll be taking place in Baghdad.
00:31:06
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I'm kind of I'm interested in. Yeah. I see. Also, they also announced that they have a Assassin's Creed game coming to mobile set in China called Codename Jade. OK. And they're they've finally given in and making Assassin's Creed in Japan as the next tentpole game that comes after Mirage called Codename Red.
00:31:35
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The game director stumbled and broke the glass in case of failing franchise. Yeah, that's it. That's a very good call out. Like it's one of those why haven't they done it yet? Good. Yeah. And that's not all. They also announced they also announced that there will be a witch hunter like game in the screen universe called Codename Hexa.
00:32:00
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What does that mean, which country? I think it's like an Eastern European language that means which.
00:32:12
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And it did the trailer scene. It was a very short trailer, but it did seem very Eastern European. I heard some people speculate there was like a witch trials in there, something like that, that it might be set during interesting and.
00:32:31
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Both of these code name, red and code name hexay will be under the Assassin's Creed infinity banner, which is talking about where Assassin's Creed might stop being like big releases. And they're just going to release like smaller experience games in this hub, which may be infinity. I don't know. Oh, they also announced they're making a live action game of fucking Netflix game series with Netflix.
00:33:00
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I'm sure. We'll see. Get that. It's a movie. You know. Oh, God, that movie was so awful. There was a movie. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. And Michael, Michael. Yeah. Yeah. We all the meme
Sony's State of Play Highlights
00:33:17
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of the old that meme where it goes, I want I need the true blah, blah, blah. No, I mean that. No. That was that was from X-Men. Days of future past, I think.
00:33:30
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You know what? You're right. I keep mixing them up. I was like, you know what? At least it brought me this meme, but I think I've been wrong.
00:33:38
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Well, I guess it got it gave us nothing. Never mind, guys. To let it go. So last week, last week when we had everybody, I was like, all right, we're going to have these two things to talk about. I'm sure there'll be some little news here and there. And then Monday, yesterday, Nintendo and Sony both came out and went, hey, we got a direct coming.
00:34:01
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Yeah. Same day. Yeah. So there was a Nintendo Direct this morning, 10 a.m. Eastern time and a state of play, which just wrapped a couple hours ago at 6 p.m. Eastern time for Sony. So, yeah, let's go on to that and start with Nintendo.
00:34:17
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Hey, do you like Japanese farming games? Because Nintendo's got them all, baby. Yeah, I'm kind of into it. There were I think someone counted and said they were there were seven Japanese farm simulator games in this. Oh, wow.
00:34:35
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And I do want to I want to give them a little bit of slack. It's for TGS. Not everything is necessarily not every game that had farming in it necessarily said that was the main focus of the game. There were games like Harvestella where it's like you can farm. Also, there's a giant RPG behind it. And you're like, OK, play Harvestella.
00:35:00
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But yeah, so there's a couple of things. Farming the new survival mechanic. Maybe. Or what was it? Remember when every game did? Yeah. What was it? Survival. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say hunger meter. Hunger. Yeah. That's yeah. Thank you. That's what I'm going to get. I like the farming. It slows it down. It lets us just enjoy the game and each other.
00:35:24
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Well, I am not going to run through all of the various farming similar games. I'm just going to hit on the hits. Harvest still looks cool. I think that was from Square. Yeah. If you had to pick out of the seven, by the way, Square fucking carries Nintendo's. God damn. It's a tie. You have a lot. Yeah. Yeah, they.
00:35:43
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square with like nintendo knock on that fucking door is like i will take anything i swear to god we'll pay you double just let us just add some content to this fucking direct and they're like all right here's some stuff here i guess we weren't we didn't have a marketing budget for it but
00:35:58
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Yeah, you could have these and maybe it'll run on Switch. Well, maybe it won't. But we'll talk about that more with some other games. So first they came out announcing announcing that Fire Emblem Engage will be the next mainline entry in the Fire Emblem franchise and will be coming out in January. Does this look like it because Fire Emblem is all about the dating now, isn't it? No, I didn't see any dating in it.
00:36:28
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Well, so this fire emblem is going to be a little bit weird. So one, the main protagonist for this one got leaked a few months ago and everyone went, boy, I hope that this one isn't real because these people joke and call them like Crest or Colgate Chan because of their hair.
00:36:51
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And I think I think somebody called it like someone wants all this like Pepsi Von Colgate is here. But so one that's bad. But like this is also a weird Fire Emblem like game. Like I think people said this is like an anniversary style game.
00:37:09
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because this is a callback across all the other games. Like I got I got big Fire Emblem Heroes vibe like the mobile like if they spend it on the mobile game. Well, yeah, that's exactly what people were also leaning on, which was like.
00:37:25
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They were like, you know what? Let's cash in on all the popularity of Fire Emblem Heroes and just make it into a console game. Yeah, I was like, I mean, OK, I get like this looks like it has like all these mechanics of a mainline Fire Emblem, but like it's not telling us like anything yet where we go. OK, it looks like he puts on a ring and then summons all the previous protagonists of other Fire Emblem games. So you'll say, OK, they say there's the beginning. Yeah.
00:37:55
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They say it at the beginning where it's like in the opening narrations, like a thousand years ago, we summoned heroes from from different worlds to stop the evil dragon. So it's it's it's treating itself like it's a sequel, which is weird.
00:38:10
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Yeah. And yeah, so it's going to be really interesting to be like, OK, is this going to be like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 where there's a gacha system? No, it's like that. Yeah. And that's kind of like one of the worries, like as long. And they're not all waifus.
00:38:28
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I know. And it's so far. I mean, husband does. What's wrong with that, too? Yeah. People love Sagurd. You didn't see you. He was shown there briefly a little bit, but people like Sagurd and Roy. By the way, I have a PhD in Fire Emblem now after playing Fire Emblem Heroes for six years. Yeah. I have not played any of these games. I know exactly what's happened to all these games.
00:38:51
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Well, you know, it's so tragic with Sigurd, you know, you know, he was burned alive by Arvis. Oh, it's that he was the gen one person and then gen two, his son, Salif, takes up, takes things up and finishes the game. Oh, yeah. That's why you disappeared for a few years, just immersed in your studies, a fire emblem. You played two games, you played Heroes and Three Houses.
00:39:19
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Yeah, exactly. No, that's not true. Actually, I started with. Yeah, I started with awakening and then I played. Oh, OK. That's a face and birthright show. All right. So that they also announced that they'll be remaking Fatal Frame Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, a fatal frame game from 2008 for the Wii for the switch. Sure. And.
00:39:46
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Well, maybe they'll make it better. Maybe I don't remember why it was. I love Fatal Frame.
00:39:53
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Award for award for the weirdest announcement of the of all the shows. Go on. Fitness boxing fist of the North Star edition. Wait, I missed that. I'm going to. Oh, I'll fucking buy it. You know, I'll I swear to God, we're bringing that to Hawaii. It doesn't come out to March, unfortunately. Oh, Andy, you know how there's like Ring Faint Adventure?
00:40:19
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Yeah. Now, imagine if instead of it just being, you know, their little trainer, it's fucking Antaro from Fist of the North Star. That's incredible. Who did this?
00:40:38
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I can't tell you what this game looks like because it defies explanation beyond what I've already said. You have to go see
Record-Breaking Splatoon 3 Sales
00:40:49
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this, but it is a exercise game where you punch using your Joy-Cons and it is entirely based on Fist of the North Star.
00:41:00
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This is like, this is a good thing. The world is a better place when people do this. Yeah, I don't disagree. I am so happy. How fucking high were they? I mean, there are there are switch games for like like martial arts fitness type stuff already that had like martial like MMA people in it. I definitely think they were just like, you know what?
00:41:28
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Let's just put Fist of the North Star. Why would they go for a show that hasn't been relevant in 30 years? To your dirty Westerners. Hey, I watched all the fucking reanimations. But that's what I'm saying, though. Listen, it's big enough to warrant it for these Japanese audiences. We got a game not too long ago, like a MOSU, didn't we?
00:41:57
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I was right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. There's also a fist of the North Star. Yakuza game that I would hope they remake someday. And maybe they will based on the news that we'll talk about in a minute. Oh, that's right. So that's crazy. Tunic is coming to switch, which if you haven't played Tunic and you're waiting for it to come to switch to play it, play it. It's September 27th. Front mission one and two rebanks are coming next year.
00:42:28
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Our front mission one will be coming in November. Two is coming in 2023. And the third one they announced now. Oh, did they? I didn't hear them.
00:42:37
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Yeah, or at least when I was watching it, it was just like and the third one's coming. Yeah, goof. They announced that I have traveler to is coming is real and coming out on February 24th, which I did not believe that in coming. Hopefully the narratives all merged together because that's why the first one sucked. They announced that Final Fantasy Theater Rhythm final bar line will be coming in February. You guys know about the series? Yeah, I like it. Is it like a thing?
00:43:06
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Yeah. OK, it's like it's like they brought the elite beat agents. I forgot the original game. I think it's. Yeah, yeah, I know. There's a game. There's a game before it like osu! or something. But anyways, where you trace from the guitar man guy, by the way. Anyways, really fun rhythm game. And I love rhythm games, so I'm excited to see it. The thing is that the it's fun to trace on a screen. So I'm curious how it's going to work on this.
00:43:36
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Uh, for bat for virtual consoles slash, uh, Nintendo online, Mario party one, two and three, uh, Pokemon stadium one and two and golden. I will be coming to be coming to Nintendo online to play. And with the expansion pass for Nintendo 64 games. Um, also, hmm. I just got excited thinking about that.
00:44:00
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Like I knew this information, but just now I got excited. Also, award for weirdest weirdest port, Factorio will be coming to over 28. Yeah, that is not a game I would expect to play on my switch, but sure. I don't know how they're going to make it work with the controls, but perfect game for the switch. I love it.
00:44:25
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I intend Nintendo Switch Sports will be getting golf, but it's delayed till this holiday slash early twenty twenty three. Miyamoto came out and was like, hey, by the way, we're making Pikmin for the next year. And they reminded us about the Pikmin mobile game mobile game. Yep. Where I guess you like grow flowers or something.
Bonnie Ross Departs 343 Industries
00:44:52
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I don't know.
00:44:54
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Um, they also showed off some being edit free footage. Then it will be coming out on October 8th. Love it. Did the frame rate suck in a lot of those videos? It's probably going to be pretty, but they introduce new characters. So I'm into it.
00:45:11
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I'm buying it. A new detective game set in the. Ropa universe of mass. Is it the same universe? I thought it was set in the world of murder. It's set in the world of murder, mystery, franchise, dang and Ropa. Cool. It'll be called rain code and will be coming out next year. Cool. It looked like if donger and hope I had a budget. Like which I'm I'm I'm I'm celebrating and I love it.
00:45:40
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Resident Evil village will be coming to switch as a cloud version as well as RE7, RE2 and RE3 remakes coming as cloud versions as well. Zefu will be coming out and switching November 8th. Holy shit, did it not look good on the switch. Oh boy. It felt like you came to class naked for your exam.
00:46:08
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As soon as you've laid your eyes out, you knew something was wrong. You're like, oh. And then it started moving. You're like, oh. Oh, no. The switch is old, you guys.
00:46:21
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You guys, do you think they'll announce a pro? I'm like, no, they're not fucking announcing a pro today. They need it. Listen, I said a new console entirely. They need because, like I said before, you're not going to announce a pro because it's so old, you might as well just announce your new generation. I mean, it's also their best selling console all the time.
00:46:44
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Agreed. It's excellent. And all your games that you showed today had started the fuck out of everything, so... Yeah. Crisis Core, Final Fantasy 7, Reunion will be coming to Switch on December 13th, which basically means it'll be coming to all consoles on December 13th. Yeah. That'll probably lead to that, too. Yeah, but you're gonna play on your PlayStation, so that's fine. I am, yeah.
00:47:07
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Um, or on your steam deck? No. Well, Charles. Nah. So listen, it was made for mobile, but I'm going back to the TV. I didn't get a 4K TV for some fucking half ass. Tales of Symphonia is getting a remaster will be coming early 2023. Yeah.
00:47:33
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Could Curby's return to Dreamland Deluxe will be coming, which is a 2011 Kirby 2D sideside score game will be coming out in 2020. All right. Actually, I don't think they gave a date for that one. I don't know. I think it'll be 2023. And I feel like I have to buy it now as Kirby's biggest fan. I don't even know if I want it, but I don't feel like I have a choice. Yeah. February 24th, 2023.
00:47:59
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I think it has a focus on multiplayer, though. And then ignoring the fact that they could just release Twilight Princess and Wind Waker for the fucking switch at any point and make so much goddamn money, just slipped right over that and told us what the title for Breath of the Wild 2 will be. Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom.
00:48:24
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So that's what we officially have. The sequel to Breath of the Wild is now titled and it will be coming out May 12, 2023. It's happening. And you also have to think that's why they were very concerned about releasing a game called Tears of the Kingdom, a scant seven days after the death of the Queen of Inklets. Oh, I didn't make that connection. Oh, yeah. No one's crying.
00:48:56
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I'm not getting into the discourse of what people don't think about the monarchy of England because much like the darling thing with fucking hairstyles and all that shit. Oh, yeah. This is there's like two Twitter wars going on right now. There's people obsessing at this fucking Olivia Wilde movie and there's people being like, respect the queen and also like, fuck the monarchy.
00:49:19
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Yeah, I've been learning a lot, you guys. Yeah, it's not good, but that was the Nintendo Direct and pretty, pretty meaty. I would say direct. I couldn't help us all afterwards. And I was making dinner. I.
00:49:41
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I could have used a little less farming games. I don't know. I like genuinely got excited. Like for those, they're remaking the Harvest Moon from GameCube, A Wonderful Life. There's also a four player multiplayer farming one coming out. There's Harvest Stella.
00:50:00
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There's like another one that just looks the same as the other because OK, I'm here for it. Let's go. I think it's also important to mention that Tokyo Game Show is after it. Oh, is it really Tokyo Game Show? Mm hmm. So that's why these directs are coming out because they're trying to get stuff going. That's a good point. Thank you for the context. I wasn't understanding.
00:50:24
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I am 100% sure they would have delayed the announcement of Tears of the Kingdom if TGS wasn't this weekend. We're getting more 16 news at TGS. We'll see. Charles, what did you think about the direct?
00:50:40
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It wasn't that great. And here's my thing. I don't mind the farming games. I don't know. I don't think it's a good idea to run in seven farming games in a direct.
00:50:56
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Yeah, because they start blending in together. Like, like the ones that like the ones that stood out to me was harvest Ella because I was like, OK, yeah, I saw this earlier before. And then there was one for like faith far. I don't know. The four player one. Maybe I just like that's the thing, right? We I don't know. Like, I don't know. I don't know the names of them. Yeah. Yeah. It blend. It just blended in too much where I was like,
00:51:24
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Like I was I liked them. I thought they were fine. I would be willing to try one or two of them. But that's the thing. And then, you know, they had breath of the wild to announce a release date, which is what I thought they would probably do. And I was like, OK, so it's fine. I overall, I was just like, whatever. It's cool. Yeah.
00:51:45
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I mean, it's again, I I just want them to fucking give me Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. It's not that hard. Just fucking do it. And also the Metroid Prime trilogy. Like, yeah, I don't want I don't even want new games. I just want you to give me some old ones. And it's like they can't even give me that. And they make money. The switch can run those games. Yes, exactly. You guys. But yeah, so.
00:52:15
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I don't know. I was OK with it. I mean, it's cool to have the date and the name for Tears of the Kingdom. There's also if you watch the trailer, there's a lot of weird, interesting clues in there that frankly might be relating to Twilight Princess and also a lot of like the lore of Zelda. So it's it's made me from a lore perspective very interested in this game. But graphically, it looks identical to Breath of the Lord. I mean, obviously. Yeah.
00:52:43
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But I mean, I don't know. It didn't get me excited for it, but... Oh, really? I don't know. You didn't like it, though. You didn't like Breath of the Wild, though. It wasn't that I didn't like it, I guess. I just... It just wasn't for me, and that's fine.
00:52:57
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All right. Well, and then we had a stony state of play, which was pretty good. Honestly, all things considered. Um, it started out with a CGI, not CGI. It was an engine. Yeah. No, no, no, but it was an engine. Yes, but it was like a cinematic trailer. Yeah.
00:53:15
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Yeah, like you can see that they mirror some of the gameplay in the trailer, but yeah, it wasn't necessarily gameplay. It looked like it was the same people fighting. Were they the same? It was like an eight.
00:53:31
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It was a good call, James. Sorry. Tekken eight. It had it had people fighting. It had gin and Kazuya fighting. And I was like, yup. Perfect. Are they like brothers? The father and son. OK, so they did look alike. Yeah. So who's who's Iachi's son? Kazuya. Oh, OK. All right.
00:53:56
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Yeah. So here's, and let me, let me just draw up all those logos. EHD and Tekken lore. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Listen, Yoshimitsu mains, as always, just keep this all going. Yeah. It's the guy with the sword. Okay. So there's this, yeah, there's this thing where, um,
00:54:16
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You know, Heihachi was, you know, from a rich family, did that cool thing from the first games where, you know, he throws his son down the side of a mountain in order to make him stronger. Yeah. Well, that's it. Then his son came out and then beat the shit out of him and then threw him down the side of the mountain. And he became the let's say the head of the company that was like super rich and whatever.
00:54:42
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Then Kazuya at some point fell in love with another lady and then they had a son named Jin. Jin also grew up, looks like his dad. Kazuya later revealing that he has a devil inside of him. So he can transform into a devil, but it looks like he's got that kind of under wraps nowadays or under control.
00:55:06
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And then in taken three you also still show that Jin also inherited the devil thing on him So he gets his way but his mom I forget her name because it's I think it's Jun Yeah, Jun Kazuma Which is why is Jin Kazuma instead, which is? His mom is like an angel. So it's like he has both parts of it and then and then five other games happened after that and
00:55:32
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Yeah. They also, uh, they also displayed the logo treatment, which is super fucking cool. Cause it's like a chain, like a chain breaking even. So it was pretty cool. Yeah. It was super cool.
00:55:48
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If there's devils and angels in this universe, does that? There's also an aspect gods. Yeah. Oh, does that mean the man with the tiger head has an actual tiger head? Nope. He's a wrestler. He's a wrestler. Oh, I thought it was a tiger. He's a lutra libre, Andy.
00:56:05
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Mm hmm. That's not as fun. He's also androids that might have souls. Yeah, I guess I can't tell you on that. Oh, don't. I'm sorry. I don't want to trigger you. Sorry. I apologize for 57 minutes. Shut up. You should ignore D23. There are things to talk about there.
00:56:34
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on the screen. Maybe enjoy games from D23. They went through two PS VR two games, which is a Star Wars Galaxy's Edge game and Demio, which is a card battling strategy, which I think we saw at another presentation about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that was the game you talked about. It's there. Exactly. I was watching it. I'm like, why is this? I want to play that. Yeah, it looks good. Yeah. Next. No release date for PS. Most.
00:57:04
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Uh, the second most interesting announcement of the week was that. Excuse me. The Yakuza. Yeah. Can game. Yeah.
00:57:19
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is coming to America remade in the co-op actually remain Unreal Engine 5 not even in the Dragon Engine and will be it's coming outside of Japan for the first time has been localized which means it should have full English voice track and
00:57:39
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Incredible. I didn't think you can actually make. Yeah, it's a way of all granted. I think every samurai game is like way of the samurai. But it got me excited. And then it said like a dragon. And now I am an undying fan. This is also it's not going to be turn based, Andy. It's going to be beat up like the. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:00
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But it still looked like a lot of fun. Yeah, you want to say farming simulators were a theme. Sony's was samurai games. Yeah, we'll get to that. There was another Hogwarts Legacy trailer game. Someone from kind of funny pointed this out. Every time I see a trailer for this game, it looks like a completely different game.
00:58:19
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I don't I don't understand the common thread of this game. It'll be very interesting when it comes out. PlayStation will be getting exclusive quest for it. Good to see those things never die. Yeah, good on you, Sony. They announced a specific drive, which is some kind of weird horror sci-fi game where you drive around in a panel car. I was about it. I was like, I want that. It seems cool as a Ghostbusters game. No, because of the wagon, right? Yeah, the wagon.
00:58:48
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But it wasn't. I'm not talking about the stupid PlayStation stars loyalty program. We'll get up if you want to learn about it. They announced a combat game sin duality coming out in 2023. Good name. It was interesting. It looks like we're running out of names.
00:59:08
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Then we had two new PlayStation console exclusives. If you remember from E3, there was the game we all thought was a Parasite Eve remake. That now has a real name and it's called Stellar Blade. It will be coming in 2023 exclusively to PlayStation 5.
00:59:27
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And also remember how Team Ninja is making 3-0, but it's actually a Chinese game instead, Wulong. They're also making a Japanese game called Rise of the Ronin, which is it was actually very Assassin's Creed like and will be coming an open world action game coming to the PlayStation 5 exclusively in 2024.
00:59:50
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It looked super cool. Lots of super cool assassination, kill animations, which, again, is making me think it's much like an Assassin's Creed game. It gave me what was the 10 shoe game? And she had Sekiro. Yeah. Listen, we're not getting another 10 shoe, but we got Sekiro, which was just 10 sure.
01:00:11
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Uh, and then they closed it with a new cinematic trailer for God of War Ragnarok, which despite all my shitting on it is is going to come out in November. You're shitting up. You are saying there's no way this game's fucking coming out in November. Oh, it got me a bit hyped for it. I mean, yeah, it's a game I will play, but not something that like I was like, you know, just sonic for tears, Andy.
01:00:39
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What's that? Oh, that's right. I'm saving myself for Sonic Frontiers. I made the right decision, everyone. Imagine the playground arguments, right? Between the kids that got Frontier and the kids that got Reg. Yeah, we know which parents actually knew what the kids loved. But.
01:00:59
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You know, I had to say this trailer, I got two unique reactions from me. Oh, I was just like, you know what? That doesn't happen often. I think we're on something. I mean, there is a scene that revealed some returning enemies that my I went, oh, that's pretty cool. And I was like, that's good.
01:01:19
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And then, uh, there is a, Andy, you saw the trailer? I did. Okay. Uh, the scene where, uh, the ax collides with another weapon. I literally felt like I was back in high school where I just went, Oh, if I was allowed to, I would have got up and walked around for a bit, just going, Oh,
01:01:43
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I was I was all about it. I was like, yeah, we're back. I'm in it. Yeah, I might came when he called the ex back and they went for the second hit. I was like, oh, yeah, it was like, yeah, I was pretty good. I was really like, oh, man, I haven't had that feeling in a while. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, they know what they're doing. They do. And I'm.
01:02:12
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I think out of all the presentations we saw, this one was probably the best, even though it had the least game. This was absolutely the best one. It's not even close. I was going to say, I thought Nintendo's was better. But honestly, as we've been talking through it, I think Sony's might have been. I will just say that like when I sat down for the Sony one, it was only like 20 minutes and it was like I wanted more.
01:02:40
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Because like a 20 feels like an email, but like a 40, 45 one feels like an event. Well, yeah, you got 45 minutes of Square Enix direct. So I didn't mind that. But I think I'm seeing what you're saying now. Sony really came. It's like, hey, we have these 10 cool things. We're going to show them and then we're out of here. I mean, the only slow part of the trailer is when they talked about the PlayStation star shit. And that was I completely ignored that part. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:09
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Um, but yeah, I thought it was really good. I'm pumped for Ragnarok. Oh boy. But that's not it. And we still have three quick stories that I want to go through.
01:03:19
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Go on. And just on this, I'm going to kind of rearrange these a little bit just in the kind of. Hmm. Yeah. Direct slash showcase thing. Yeah. Ryuga got got gotoku, I think, is which is the Yakuza studio will be having a summit, which is a showcase tomorrow at six a.m. Eastern time.
01:03:45
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So it'll be and we will more than likely see Yakuza 8 there. If I had to guess maybe some more information on like a Dragon Ishin. Yes. Yes. And more. It sounds like that lost judgment and lost judgment have been rated by the ESRB for PC, which is something we never thought would happen.
01:04:07
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Really? Cites me to the core of my being, because that means I play those games on my steam deck when I'm flying. If they come out before we go to Hawaii, that is 12 hours of flight that I can dedicate to judgment. I want to play judgment. It's super good, Andy. Yeah.
01:04:28
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But yeah, so we'll see what comes out of that tomorrow. I'm looking forward to that. I love this studio. As an old man, I might be waking up at 6 a.m. to pee and I might just stay up and watch that. Oh, I've been doing that, too. We're old, Andy. Oh, you're complaining about your back also, like, oh, this is what we do. We writhe in pain and pee during the night. I didn't pee myself, though.
01:04:57
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But I'm sure that's next. Charles insisted that I find this up when we talked earlier this week. Oh, yeah. All the shitting I did on Splatoon three. Splatoon domestically, as in Japan, has sold three point three point four or five million copies in its first three days. The highest domestic sales level for any Nintendo Switch software within the first three days. That's insane. That is crazy.
01:05:26
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I did not see him. Who loves you? Yeah. Yeah. It beats out every other one. I was like, that's fucking crazy. Pokemon Mario Monster Hunter. I saw a thing for a journalist who's in Tokyo for two. Yes. And he went to the Nintendo store in Tokyo and they were apologizing to people as they walked in because they were out of Splatoon merchandise. Oh.
01:05:56
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Like, we all, yeah, we goofed on Nintendo for making Splatoon 3 the game no one wanted. What a resounding clap act, right? Just... This is the Japan loves tingle thing, you know? Yeah, we never got that tingle game.
01:06:15
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Well, it's just in general. I don't know. Also, I love I love how this is titled to whom it may concern the Nintendo press lease as if to say, fuck you, everyone. Nintendo knows what they're doing. God bless them. I'll actually probably pick it up now. I was told that the multiplayer is easier now.
01:06:37
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I was maybe want to buy it. If you guys want to play it, I'll play it with you. Yeah, like the thing is suicide. I'm not good by old coworkers from a different company. We used to actually have switch lunches and we would play a lot. We do, too. Yeah, I remember that. And I could do all suicide packed with you guys. If you buy it, I'll buy it. But I'm not buying it. I think I might also. Yeah, if we all go in.
01:07:07
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Yeah, we'll do it. Let's do it. Let's squat up. All right. It's four player multiplayer. Yeah. Let's say that one other person and then finally the last piece of dues, which we will be respectful about.
01:07:23
Speaker
Oh, what is it? Queen died. No, but also Bonnie Ross stepping down as head of 343 Studios, which is the Halo studio. If you're unaware, she posted a she posted a message to Twitter yesterday today. Yesterday saying, quote, while I had hoped to stay with Halo until we released the winter update, I am letting you know that I will be leaving 343 and attending to a family medical issue.
01:07:53
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quote unquote. We trust what she says. Yes. The timing is super interesting. And I think it I I don't think she's lying. Let's put it that way. But I I'm not sure that's the only reason she's leaving.
01:08:15
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So it could just be a, you know, like, you know, I put all my time, I sacrifice so much of my time for this type of return. I'm just going to focus on what's important to me. Yeah, exactly. Which is this medical thing. So it very well could be just screw you guys. We can't do anything.
01:08:35
Speaker
So I don't know. It's interesting. I know we've been talking about shaking up the executive management of 343 for past months at this point. So well, it'll be they haven't announced who's taking over in her absence. I don't know if they're treating this as a temporary leave.
01:08:55
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versus a permanently, the way she phrases it, it certainly sounds like it's a permanent versus a temporary. So we'll have to see what happens with the leadership of the Halo franchise. Oh 343. Work on something else. What would you give to 343? What else could they work on?
01:09:14
Speaker
Perfect dark. Give him perfect dark. No one wants. I mean, if history serves, maybe they could work on their own open world game and create a new franchise that would be loved. And everyone forgets that you made first person games. Gorilla, is this a reflection of Gorilla? What was the game? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
01:09:37
Speaker
What is the game that had a dog dog tank with treads? It was a rare game. Is it jet Gemini? Oh, you're talking about jet force Gemini? Yeah. Jet force Gemini. Yeah. Why don't they make a new jet force Gemini? 343. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. Take any make a new conquerors bad for a day. I'm into it. I want them to swear and drink.
01:10:01
Speaker
Guys, that was released on the N64. That's wild. I want to tell you, I've put no less than 200 hours into that game. Into what? Jet Force Gemini. How? Because I didn't have a lot of games. I had that one. That's reasonable. That's reasonable.
01:10:22
Speaker
I don't remember anything about it. I played Ocarina of Time and Jet Force Gemini. That was it. That's great. That's great. And you couldn't even remember the name. Fake fan. Fake fan, James. Well, you know, the the the brand hasn't hasn't endured as much as I would. It really hasn't. Oh, well. Well, Bonnie, I wish you the best 343. I don't know.
01:10:48
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Charles, any one of these other dying franchises, any parting thoughts on Bonnie Ross's Exodus? Convenient. Yeah, I don't disagree. My thing with it is I and I'm not saying that this is not true, that she's going away to take care of family.
01:11:09
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I definitely am. I would definitely think that it was going like, okay, I had to balance doing this and taking care of family. And then she went, I don't want to deal with this work shit anymore. I'm just going to go deal with this family situation instead to focus on it. And I think I was like, yeah.
01:11:27
Speaker
I would, yeah, might as well. I'm not going to deal with the fucking burning ship of, of like Halo Infinite right now. I've got to deal with this other thing. That's more important. So makes sense to me. Quiet quitting. Well, she actually quit. That was a loud, that was a loud quitting. That was a lot of quitting. But hey, guys, remember that we have lives and those can be important to your companies.
01:11:56
Speaker
But I swear to God, if Nintendo doesn't release Wind Waker and Twilight Princess at a time that makes me happy, then everyone in Nintendo should die. Your feelings are valid, James. You need a re-release. Sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm. Yeah, sarcasm. It's a joke. It's a joke. It's not real. Yeah. Peace and love, peace and love. Yeah. But we'll talk about my pending arrest for death threats on another episode of Acute Party.
01:12:23
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a friendship simulator masquerading as a D-show. I've been your host, James, number one Zelda fan, Hartwell, and I've been joined by Charles Fire Emblem and Tekken PhD holder, Yamat. And I've been joined by Andy remembers the name of Jet Force Gemini. OK, I'm the real fan, James, and I only read the reviews.
01:12:50
Speaker
That's weird. You should play it. It's a good game. Have a good night, everyone. Good night. Good night.