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The Prodigal Son Returns With Bloody Hands. E3 is dead! Again! Tears of the Kingdom Gameplay, and ASUS attempts a Handheld!
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E3 is dead again! Tears of the Kingdom gameplay previews, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, Konami opens a new game studio, the last of us PC Port suffers from performance problems, and ASUS is trying to make a handheld!
All this and more on this week's episode of Add to Party!
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Transcript
Introduction and Prodigal Son Talk
00:00:14
Speaker
Welcome to another episode of Add to the Party, Friendship Simulator masquerading as a new show. I am your burdened overlord, Charles Jamot, and I've been joined by
00:00:29
Speaker
Still getting it wrong. Uh, you're joined. You're joined by James returned from exile Hartwell. Yeah. And I'm joined by Andy. Hmm. I'm back returned the prodigal son. That's right. We can't keep me down. Sorry, Charles. I think that's the story of the prodigal son, right? Just hates his other kids.
Welcoming Back Estranged Children
00:01:00
Speaker
Sort of. Well, it's one son's a fuck up and the father keeps walking him back and the dutiful son's like, what the fuck? Yeah. And what's that about? It's because he's the prodigal son. You always welcome back the fuck up. You know, when I was in, when I was younger and part of a bigger church, they had a whole group, a support group of parents with prodigal kids.
00:01:32
Speaker
I mean, I imagine parents, parents should benefit from such a group, right? Like, yeah. What, that their kids decided to go no contact with them? I mean, if you're, that's what you're implying is the prodigal. Yeah, prodigal, and then they left. Well, yeah. Right. But like, like we just established, right? Like a prodigal son is the continuous fuck up one.
00:01:59
Speaker
So at least in that church, I'll say the contact is that they had left. They were not there. And you were waiting for them to return, which basically meant like, oh, my kid's going to love God again. Maybe I should. Andy, is this on your mind because we are approaching the high holy days?
High Holy Days and Easter
00:02:18
Speaker
It's the high holy day. That's right. When Jesus is risen. Well, first he has to die on the cross, Sandy. Is he going to die this Friday?
00:02:29
Speaker
Yep. Actually, yeah, it is this Friday. It is this Friday. Happy Easter.
Japanese Travel Tales
00:02:34
Speaker
Son of God. Like the lamb to the Holocaust. What? Welcome back. How was Japan? Japan? Oh, I mean, you know what? It's a great little country. It's an island nation of waifs.
00:02:54
Speaker
Mm. Wait, wait. Yeah, that's it. How how many shirts did you have to really rethink about whether or not you wanted to find it? Because either they weren't the sizes weren't readily available for you. You know, I will say at the monkey at the Snow Monkey Park, they did have to excels, which I'm like, look at them supporting fat Americans. Well, is it to excel American? Well, you never know. Well, I know.
00:03:20
Speaker
I ended up getting my partner a large and it fit her pretty well. So I think they were American sizes. Okay. Um, but no, I mean, it was great. I had a great time. Um, uh, I, I've told you guys this, but on the podcast, which is, uh, I wanted a salad so goddamn bad and couldn't find it anywhere. A salad craving healthy greens.
00:03:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's a part of a balanced diet. Listen, you know, you know, when you go to like a sushi restaurant and they give you that little piss ant salad with like a little ginger sauce on there, a little ginger sauce and iceberg lettuce, maybe a tomato. That's, that's basically what you get. Maybe you get some like diced cabbage too, but if you want like a salad, basically it doesn't exist. I found one place that had it. Let me tell you, that was the best salad I had in my life. I was like, Oh God, vegetables.
00:04:14
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Congratulations on your healthy
Fast Food Adventures in Japan
00:04:18
Speaker
cravings, by the way. I want to get them. You are goals for me right now.
00:04:23
Speaker
Uh, well, I mean, look, you know, when you eat nothing but like, uh, charcoal grilled chicken and, and, uh, raw fish, occasionally you want to mix it up. I guess you need that roughage. Yeah. My mix up, uh, my urge back then was, uh, to get American food. So that's when I got KFC.
00:04:47
Speaker
I mean, I got well, that was the other thing. So, you know, I had McDonald's. I had KFC. I had Carl's Jr. while I was there. Oh, and I had Shake Shack and on Katakana. That's right.
00:05:01
Speaker
Um, and, and I have to say, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Which is like, Oh God, you gotta have fast food in Japan. So much better. So much better. So much better. I had it. It's not that much. It's better. It is. It is a degree of quality better. I can agree 100%. It's not life affirming. It's so much. Uh, let me ask you James, who are you asking? Not you just in general.
00:05:33
Speaker
I do. You know, but you've you've heard that from people, right, Andy? That from people. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there's like a YouTube video about it where they like order Japanese food or order fast food from like Japan and America, and then they like stack it on a table and then they eat it. And then they're like, oh, it's so much better in Japan. I'm like, well, they must be right.
Taco Discoveries Back Home
00:06:00
Speaker
It's you. Let me.
00:06:01
Speaker
Let me tell you something here, though. Here's I'll tell you one place where the good old U.S. of A wins. All right. Ready for this? Ready for this? So I got the chicken McNuggets. All right. And you know what? They're made real chicken. They're great. I had them. But you know what? They don't come in the shapes. There's no boot. That's right. They're just they're just normal kind of like nugget shapes because they're real meat. And I'm like, what's even the fucking point? I don't have the boot.
00:06:31
Speaker
They know sweet and sour sauce either which you know what I thought a little racist Wait, it's real chicken in America. It's chicken paste But you don't get the shapes and let me tell you if I'm supporting you there James, I'm yeah I
00:06:55
Speaker
I looked at it and I was disgusted. I'm trying to think back on my experience because I also I also ordered the chicken nuggets when I went there. Maybe they weren't in the right shapes. No, they were just kind of like they're all puck shaped, really. They're like little discs. Yeah. Oh, like hash browns as discs. That's not right. I know. Yeah. Oh, hash brown discs are pretty good. You know, they're. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are.
00:07:23
Speaker
No, you either have the oval or just some George Webb nonsense. And then and then also I expressed this to you guys when I came back, but I landed in America, you know, in in Boston, the home of Dunkin Donuts. And of course, there is a Dunkin Donuts in Logan, the airport. And what did I see? Dunkin Donuts has breakfast tacos now. I leave the country for three weeks and this is what happens.
00:07:54
Speaker
Again, cuisine took a nosedive. But here, OK, let me challenge this, though, James. Yeah. Breakfast burritos are great. I listen. Nobody's saying they're not. I'm saying this is not where I want Dunkin Donuts.
00:08:12
Speaker
I mean, fair. Now you said breakfast tacos. So are they like giving you like mini tacos of like eggs and sausage and stuff? Oh, thank you. March 22nd. Yeah. They did it while I was, I was away. The listeners at home. They're never going to look that good. They're never going to look that good. No, no. Oh,
00:08:36
Speaker
Listeners at home, the choice of photography, the staged item, it is colorful, evenly mixed, fresh looking. And it is soft shell, by the way, not hard shell. I can only imagine it looks like a disaster when it's put on there. But again, it all goes to the same place.
00:08:58
Speaker
You know, I'm glad I looked this up because I was I when people say tacos, I always innately picture hard shell. Same, same. Yeah, that's that's so interesting. I've never seen like Taco Bell is the only place I see that serves hard shell tacos. You know, like everywhere else, it's always soft. So that's soft. Yeah. And that's the thing I do wonder. Like we have Jack in the box like in
00:09:23
Speaker
In the Midwest, there's definitely options where they say, do you want hard shell or soft shell tacos for things? So it's not that I haven't seen it outside of Taco Bell. But yeah, I think a lot of default Mexican places are more soft shell when they do tacos. Oh.
00:09:47
Speaker
Sorry, I was just saying, one last thing. I also broke down and did have Mexican while I was in Tokyo. And it was like a local place, too. Around his local chain, or at the very least, I didn't look too much into it, but it was a local place. And pretty good. It was really good.
E3's Transformation and Impact
00:10:07
Speaker
However, I ordered a chimichanga, and it was not fried. It was just warmed. And I was like, I don't think you understand what a chimichanga is, Japan.
00:10:16
Speaker
Listen, all right. Or maybe they, I don't know. It's their own spin. Okay. Try the things, James. I suppose, but I'll wait all the like ingredients and everything real good. No, no, no, no weird seaweed or fish in it or anything. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing is a good old chicken burrito. Well, that's nice. Well, you had a lot of different food then. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
00:10:45
Speaker
I think the only thing I didn't have was like a good... I didn't have like Unagi-don, because I just ran out of time. Eel. Eel bowl, essentially. I mean, I had eel. I had eel sushi, but I didn't have like Unagi-don. Oh, it's gone like those. This is like in Food Wars. Yes, yes. It's like my Japanese animators. It's like my Japanese animators.
00:11:11
Speaker
Can you say that a little bit more nasally, Andy? Shut up, shut up. But yeah, there was that one. Anyways, anyways, listeners at home, it's like food wars. OK, when the meat girl when she touches. Yeah, I will say top three meals I had was a takkatsu don place I went to. That was really fucking good. That's fried pork cutlet, Andy. Oh, thank you. Yes. Yeah, I am.
00:11:43
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, I think I reached a point when, um, fried, I tend to have a, I tend to pull away from eating too much overtly fried things. Not like saying I hate French fries or anything like that. No, that's crazy. I mean, like, uh,
00:12:07
Speaker
Uh, very fried shells on. Yes. Oh, which it costs you down and stuff like that. It does have a fried layer. Okay. I think the layer is just enough fried that I, um, don't enjoy it. Oh, really? Yeah. I know. Maybe I go to the place I went to. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. It has to go to the layer down. Um, but you know, we'll see. Um, but you know what?
00:12:35
Speaker
Enough about James's, uh, wonderful and, uh, we lost the Birmingham. Uh, it's a Jap Jap Jap trip. Four years in the making that trip may 2019. Oh, that's right. And then we all know what happened. Yeah. It sounds like it was a really nice special. Dunkin Donuts took this time to add breakfast tacos, but in that time as well, E3 decided to die. Yeah.
00:13:05
Speaker
You were the one together, James. I say the cowards did it while I was out of the country. Yeah, never mind that Andy has been the stronger, just the strongest proponent. Yeah, exactly. I like he had dunk on us while he's out of the country. Quick, announce it now. Let's talk about this. E3 is or was the
00:13:34
Speaker
postmark or famous gaming gathering that was in yearly installments ever since we've been children, so 20 plus, 30 plus years.
00:13:54
Speaker
Recently, in recent years, you know, due to COVID and everything else, it's been having troubles getting the event kicked off. You know, in-person events, having all the game publishers show up to showcase their games and do everything. This was the event that allowed everyone to just set a week and go, give me all the gaming news that's relevant from every single party. Yeah.
00:14:20
Speaker
And it was like a holiday. It was so special. Yep. I don't get drunk.
E3's Decline and Competition
00:14:25
Speaker
Yeah. Those are drinking games during the different conferences. Sony would rent out movie theaters. You could go to movie theaters across the country to watch their press conference. Did you ever do that? No, I wanted to. But it was it was like an hour or something. It was a weeknight. It was tough. OK. Yeah. But I admired him for it.
00:14:50
Speaker
And then, you know, during this whole, you know, 2019 pandemic times, a young upstart named Jeff Keeley came into play and he was saying, I'm going to have my own event. I'm going to call it Summer Games Fest. And little by little, year by year, he started taking more share of that
00:15:18
Speaker
early spring time slot. Spring to summer time slot. And to be fair to E3, well, I guess not to be fair. E3 is a little antiquated on how they handled the events. They used to charge the publishers and all these other gaming companies to be at the event.
00:15:43
Speaker
There were times when the E3 wasn't always available to the public. There were times when only press and media were allowed to be in. So they've gone through some times where it was a bit confusing. They were losing their touch on what it meant to be E3 and all this is going on.
00:16:02
Speaker
And then companies, the big companies, mainly Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, all realized, listen, why do we have to go to E3 to do anything? Why don't we just host our own event online? Yeah. And that was the start of E3's downfall. Because not only were those the major presentations for, uh, for the week long
00:16:33
Speaker
Showcase, it also started putting ideas and publishers heads, the game developers to say, you know what? We don't have to be here either. Yeah. So with the news last week where Ubisoft, one of the bigger gamer publishers said, hey, you know what? We're going to pull out.
00:16:57
Speaker
Um, a few hours to days later, Sega decided to pull out from E3, 2023,
Future of Gaming Events
00:17:05
Speaker
and then Tencent, the Chinese company that happens to have money and a lot of other gaming publishers, uh, decided to also pull out of E3. This put E3 in a real bad spot because if all the major gaming
00:17:21
Speaker
console makers are not there, and then these other big publishers are not there, then what's going to be at E3? Now, Charles, remember, there was one real bro who stuck it out. Yeah, who was it? Oh, yes, yes. Konami stuck around, but I guess that just goes to show what a shadow they are of themselves. We have the latest pinball machines right here.
00:17:51
Speaker
Uh, so yes. And, um, so this whole thing has been a avalanche of bad news to the entertainment software association, the, the group that owns E3 and org and well, they don't organize it anymore. Um, they, they let another third party group called Reed pop who organizes a lot of other major.
00:18:18
Speaker
Conventions such as Comic-Con packs and everything else run the show and even Reed Pop could not save this event. So with that E3 was formally announced to be canceled and no other speculation on when or if it will show up next year or any year after that.
00:18:45
Speaker
Andy, or Jay? We'll have Andy be last. James, tell me your feelings. Hold it. No, I mean, I guess the... He has to say, show the Jeff Keighley thing. Oh, not that one. Well, this is a nice one. Okay. Jeff Keighley, like we established earlier, organizer of Summer Game Fest. You served for the throne.
00:19:14
Speaker
posted his well-meaning thought of, oh, I remember when I was just 15 years old and I met a Jeff, a Duke Nukem and, uh,
00:19:25
Speaker
And then also literal like hours after E3 announces canceled, Jeff Keeley tweets the whole summer games fest just being like, by the way, don't forget to join together to celebrate what's next in video games with summer games fest. I'll just say the one, I'll just say the one with the standing over the grave. Oh yeah. Is that from the flash? It might be, but God damn it. It's so, it's funny every year. Yeah.
00:19:56
Speaker
So I think that's the actor from the flash I can't remember the CW show but either anyway either or III yeah III Covid killed it and it was never coming back because here's the thing Conventions are expensive and it only makes sense when they're Consumer conventions because can you know fans will come in and they'll spend a lot of money media outlets
00:20:23
Speaker
our businesses and want to spend as little money as possible. So you're trapped in this kind of weird situation where it's like, well, the company's advertising don't want to spend a lot of money. And the companies that you want to advertise to don't want to spend a lot of money. So it just makes this weird little thing of like, well, then what's the fucking point?
00:20:47
Speaker
It's just, it's not going to happen. It's when E3 could have continued forever if COVID didn't happen because there would have been an inertia to it. It might have like stepped down a little bit, but I think
00:21:03
Speaker
It's just one of those things of like, we've always done it and we'll always do it. But then when people stopped doing it, it's like, well, then we already didn't do it once. Then why do we have to, you know, there's no, no excuse. So, yeah, I mean, I'm sad. I miss. But it was already kind of breaking up even before COVID. Right.
Gaming Media and Influencers
00:21:23
Speaker
Because it used to be in Charles, you think talked about this where it'd be like fucking there'd be like one day where it's like.
00:21:32
Speaker
10 a.m. Microsoft conference, you know, 2 p.m. Nintendo conference, 7 p.m. Sony conference, where you're just watching every piece of thing over and over and over, just the whole day, just blitzing you. But then slowly the companies realized like, hey, what if we spread it out and then we each get a media cycle to ourselves? And they all went, yeah, that's actually a lot better.
00:21:55
Speaker
So then they started bringing up the, where the big conferences were on separate days and then basically what is that? Yeah, it's a regular show. That's right. No, I know. I know. I know. Charles is making a meme from regular show with all the graves, even though we're not streaming on Twitch right now.
00:22:25
Speaker
It's for our enjoyment, Andy. It goes to the Twitter. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. So once they started doing that thing of like, what if we have our own media cycle and we do separate days? That's great. What if we just do it completely irrespective of E3 at all, and then we can have our completely own media cycle for like a week?
00:22:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's even better. And that was kind of the end of E3. Right. And so, I mean, there's always going to be a place to invite media outlets to come and play your games and things like that in person. But I don't know. I think.
00:23:00
Speaker
the marketing game for gaming in general has kind of changed in how they approach things and especially like focus on Twitch and influencers now right we're like media outlets like say your IGN's and your Kotaku's and Polygon's right they have their place
00:23:19
Speaker
But they're not the end all be all anymore. So it's much better doing targeted marketing with influencers nowadays. So it's sad. But I think it's kind of what it is. Yeah. I guess I'll give my quick little blip and then we'll go to Andy. But for me, yeah, I agree. It's a sad thing.
00:23:45
Speaker
I was just, the reason why I'm making the meme itself even is just that, you know, I was thinking to myself, like the, you know, those endless summer vibes when it feels like, um, you get all this news going and it's like, you know, it's just, it's this reliable thing that happens that, you know, when you're a kid and you just get to hear all this cool stuff and you get to look forward to it and there's all this fun energy and you'll think it'll never end.
00:24:13
Speaker
It fucking ends. And you just notice that the things you thought were always going to be there aren't going to be there all the time. And it's just another thing from my childhood that doesn't get to continue on. But do
Finding New Excitement in Gaming
00:24:30
Speaker
I recognize that it's a bit antiquated and they needed to have a foresight to change and evolve in order to keep going?
00:24:43
Speaker
Uh, yes. And there is something else there that it's not like there's no hole being filled here. Uh, thanks to Summer Gaines Fest, uh, as a heavily advertised by Jeff Keeley and him dancing on the grave of E3. Um, but, um, yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a pain in my heart, but not one I can't keep moving forward from. So it's just how I accept it.
00:25:13
Speaker
Andy. Well, it sounds like you guys are reflecting, you know, the similar sentiment to my own that there's there's a sadness that comes with it. I was always the defender of it. James, as you would trash it and say it was dead.
00:25:36
Speaker
I hope for it because I think there's it was it was a tradition, right? It was something that and what was really cool is that was supported by all the publishers. Everybody was there. And I think there's something sad to see it dying because everyone walked away. Right. It was like you to so many people or maybe in this idea or so many publishers, it was it wasn't important. Everybody gave up on it. And I was like, but I like it.
00:26:04
Speaker
Why isn't anybody doing it for me? But it's not about me. And I guess it's not about, you know, what it meant or how it was special. It's about, you know, conventions are expensive and we
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Preview
00:26:18
Speaker
want to spend the least amount of money and reach the most amount of people. And I get it. That's what it is. That's how things grow. There is something on actually that has stuck with me a lot.
00:26:29
Speaker
on Detroit in the comments. I actually screenshotted it because I've been thinking about it. The comments were back and forth, right? Like, brah, E3 needed to die, blah, blah, blah, it sucks.
00:26:42
Speaker
Um, and, but one guy posted, he just said, E3 is dead and all we have is the game awards. Video games is just seeming less exciting every day. And I was like, oh, like that kind of, oh, Charles, do you have, oh wait, no, that's not it yet. Um, and like, I kind of felt that, right? Like, and I think I've expressed on this podcast too, just like games, they just aren't as exciting to me anymore. I'm not feeling it.
00:27:11
Speaker
like I'm trying to get re-engaged, and then the legend, the King of Detoid, Akums, he replied to this person, and he said, Oh, man, I'm sorry, that's your headspace. I hope you can find something gaming wise to excite you really soon. And I have been thinking about that so much about
00:27:35
Speaker
Games? What am I trying to think or say? Like, trying to find something gaming-wise that excites me. Like, gaming isn't dead. Gaming is still there. Gaming is so much. It's so much more than this event.
00:27:51
Speaker
Yes, it was a tradition. Yes, it felt like a holiday. Yes, I had it. We all had it when we were young. But it's the games are still there and I can still find something great in other areas. And so I've just been thinking about that a lot is just looking for something gaming wise to excite me.
00:28:08
Speaker
And I actually went to a convention this weekend, a gaming convention, and just local to me. And they like sold games there and they had like, you know, I don't know, a couple indie devs and other stuff. And being in that environment with a bunch of other people who love games, that helped me get excited about games. That got me thinking about it. And
00:28:35
Speaker
I don't know quite the conclusion, except that there's a sorrow that comes with E3, but it doesn't take away
00:28:43
Speaker
What made everything special? And even if I'm not finding the latest releases exciting, there's still something gaming-wise I can find that excites me. So I've been thinking about that. And right now, it's been a Lundra. I've been playing a lot of a Lundra. But thank you, Occams, for that supportive message. And the Occams message, his reply to it had more upvotes than the guy's original post.
00:29:11
Speaker
So even the community surrounded that idea. Let's find something gaming-wise to excite us, you guys.
00:29:18
Speaker
Now, Charles brought up the Bioshock Infinite soundtrack. I don't know. Oh, wait, is this where Troy Baker and What's Her Face sing together? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Courtney Drake. Aw, I can't hear it. No, no, you shouldn't hear it. I was hoping you wouldn't, because I didn't know if this would work. But you know what? It does work for me. Oh, can you put it in the edit? Honestly, I might. It actually sounds great.
00:29:46
Speaker
Uh, so for listeners that actually, you know what, you're going to hear this. It's fine. No, there's no, actually, you know what? There's no good way to cut it later. Um, no, I, uh, I was playing the, uh, the old, is it, is it a hymnal? What was it? The song called will the circle be unbroken? Uh, is it a, was it a song that existed previous? Yeah. Yeah. Um, it's like an old church song.
00:30:16
Speaker
Um, but, you know, during Andy's passion play for, um, to find something to love in gaming, I thought it'd be good to add. I'm just looking for what I love in games guys. And, um, if anybody's going to tell me it's Troy Baker, but I don't think we like Troy Baker much anymore. Troy Baker as a person, it's kind of a dick. Oh, is he? I hadn't heard about that. Oh, really? Have you? I think one of the easy things to do is.
00:30:46
Speaker
watch him when he does his playthroughs with the other one the other very famous voice actor Nolan North Nolan North yeah that's it he he gets really uh
00:31:01
Speaker
He gets really defensive sometimes. Oh, I mean, he always seemed like he was up his ass, but I didn't. Oh, yeah, he is. But then he's also but he also doesn't like being called on it. So. Oh, really? I don't remember it. I'm just a sheep. And let's not forget his his great tweet about critics, which, to be fair, there are some bad critics about Last of Us Part Two.
00:31:23
Speaker
But his his tweet about critics just in general, just being of what's it of the old quote from what I think it might be Roosevelt. I'm just like, well, your work is not for the critics or whichever the long one of either case. He's useless. He's a talented man that as long as I just hear his work and not really care about his personal things. Yeah, I was a bummer.
00:31:53
Speaker
Well, you know what, Andy, maybe this will excite you. Oh, please. I need something because the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom got a gameplay demonstration. And, you know, for me, who's not even fully excited for Tears of the Kingdom.
00:32:11
Speaker
I will admit that from this demo, I think this reassures people who love Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, that this will be great for them. Charles, what a way to frame it. Look, I'm being honest about myself. That's true, and I'm thankful for that.
00:32:33
Speaker
Um, there's some voice analog, but basically they're kind of showcasing like, Hey, you know, lots of the world definitely still looks like breath of the wild. However, look up there. There's sky islands.
00:32:46
Speaker
Uh, how do you get to those sky islands? He says, spoiler alert. And, um, he points out that there are some rocks falling from the sky and landing on the ground. And then he showcases new abilities that you can do. One that he's going to show off in a little bit on this video is the ability to rewind. Um, I'm not sure if they actually say it's because of rewinding time or just rewinding momentum.
00:33:15
Speaker
but he stands on the rock and the rock fell from the sky and then he presses, he does the rewind ability. And so the rock reverses instead of being on the ground, he goes back to the sky where it started. He said time. Okay. So he reverses time and rewinds the rock from falling and goes all the way back up to the sky. And then you see him, yeah, glide onto a sky island to explore. And no loading screens.
00:33:43
Speaker
Mm hmm. Was there loading screens? No, no. I mean, into the shrines, but oh, oh, fair. Yeah, well, the open world. Yeah. And that, yeah. Yeah, we'll fast forward. If we would do this slow, it's going to take forever. James, you're the Zelda stan on the show. Yeah. What is your hot take on it?
00:34:11
Speaker
Oh, let me, let me do some quick thoughts, but Charles can finish. Yeah. So, um, some other things he showcases while on the Island is, um, one weapon durability is back. That is a bad thing. Unfortunately, however, I showcase, however, they showcase a new, um, ability, um, that might actually resolve it very easily for us in that you can fuse objects.
00:34:39
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Um, together, um, in the example in the video, he takes a tree branch and then fuses a boulder to it. And now he has a club and he could use that as a weapon and deal damage, which is very cool. Uh, fights enemies and do stuff, which is great. Um, there, the explanation from previous trailers, they showcased, uh, Zelda running with a car. I'll I'll jump back to this one real quick. I guess I got it out of order. Um,
00:35:06
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you are able to use the fuse or attach ability to fuse objects together. In this instance, he's using, Link is grabbing some logs that have been cut on the ground, attaching them together to make a raft, and then getting some fans on
Sonic's April Fool's and Cultural Impact
00:35:23
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the ground to make basically a hoverboat. Speedboat. I forget the naming on there.
00:35:32
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And listeners at home, he's just picking up these objects and attaching them. He's not going into another interface and building with items in your inventory. You're just doing this all in real time in the open world. And now he has a boat. Wow. Yeah, which is pretty neat. I think this will definitely fuel people's imaginations for all the games to run through and just explore and just build their own stuff, which should be fun.
00:36:02
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what they did with the physics engine to fly across the map with like the tools they had already. Like we've seen how the people can just like get on like start on the starting island, get a tree and just kind of like
00:36:19
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get across the entire map with one movement. One thing, going back real quick, just on the video I didn't mention, the fusing, from mentioned earlier, when we talked about building a raft, that was called attaching. So it's basically the same thing, but they call different things here.
00:36:39
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fusing from earlier where you take a branch and put it with a rock and made a club, you could also do that with items in your inventory. So in this instance, Link takes a normal arrow he has and fuses it with a monster drop, which is, in this instance, a eyeball.
00:36:57
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And when he fires the arrow attached to the eyeball, the eyeball, the arrow is now magically a tracking arrow. So it like, you don't have to aim directly at the enemy to hit it. It will just hit the next flying, the next object. Cool. That's so cool. And, you know,
00:37:15
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I did note that it doesn't necessarily tell you that's a possible function, but I think that's still part of the fun where people will experiment and see what items do, and then they'll come up with it and have fun. And to be honest with you, it's fairly intuitive, like an eye sees, you kind of get it. But we'll see what other combinations there are.
00:37:42
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Um, and then flying through the size that, Oh yeah. The other thing, which I think will help explorers come through is they have a new ability called ascend. And basically what it does is that for any area that has a roof, you can use the ascendability and magically swim up through the, um, through the object and get to the roof of that object.
00:38:09
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So you don't have to use stamina to climb up a mountain anymore. You have to hope that there is a roof or a cave that you could get into and then just ascend straight up from there. Wow. Yeah, no more climbing in the rain, you guys. So these are a lot of good, like quality of life improvements. I think there's a lot here that can really get people's creativity going and have fun.
00:38:35
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That's super impressive, like the crafting system they put in there. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah. I let Andy guide last impressions last time, but Andy, how about you? What's your feelings? Well, number one, Lance Hader is super long in this one, but he doesn't have a beard. Like, if you're going to go caveman,
00:39:04
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They've showcased bearded a bearded link before. Is there a bearded link? Very, very. That's like one thing. It's not it's not like a it's not a forbidden thing, though. All right. So we don't have a beard. No, and not like he can't. No, he has like a little. This is too much like in cannon. There's one link that has a beard, but it's like a little scruffy goatee kind of thing.
00:39:30
Speaker
Well, I don't know. If you're doing man in the wilderness, you need a beard, especially with that long of hair. What? He decided not to take care of his hair, but he's shaving his face. Both of them are hazards.
Konami's Gaming Reputation
00:39:45
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Well, Andy, you know, some people can't grow beards. Yeah, you can. Well, also, Link is a fairy boy. Oh, do fairies not grow beards? Generally speaking, no.
00:39:58
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Oh, okay. I guess then that explains it. You take that up with Tolkien.
00:40:06
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Legolas didn't have, he's the only elf, whatever. Anyways, that was my one impression. The other is... Andy, Andy, hold on one second. That just reminded me of something great. On TikTok, they had a supercut of Lord of the Rings, but it's only every scene which Legolas talks to Frodo, and it's just Lord of the Rings opening. And you have my bow credits.
00:40:34
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Really? Yeah, just that they don't Yeah, they don't talk much because they get separated fairly early. Oh, and then like, they don't reunite until the very end. Anyway, I learned something.
00:40:53
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But Andy, go back. I don't know. The only thing I have to say is that my relationship with Breath of the Wild is complicated, okay? When it first came out, I loved it for its sense of exploration in community that inspired with the other people playing it. Sounds like Elden Ring to me.
00:41:19
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I was having so much fun. And then because I thought I was an elite gamer, I played it on, I restarted on master mode or whatever. And it was total trash and made me hate Breath of the Wild.
00:41:38
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because weapon durability and master mode is just, it's just broken. It's just, it's dumb. And it genuinely made me hate the game. And so watching this trailer, number one, it literally looks like Breath of the Wild, and that's not an exaggeration. The UI looks identical, the graphics are identical, everything's identical. But,
00:42:01
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Seeing these new type of things, it's making me wonder if I'll revisit it and just play Tears of the Kingdom. I might just abandon Breath of the Wild. Just screw it. Mastermind sucked. Anyways, yeah. Andy, if you want to finish Breath of the Wild, all you have to do is march to the center of the map and accidentally fall into the fucking center. Oh, I didn't know you could glitch into it.
00:42:25
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No, no, no. I mean, like I think the big joke for Breath of the Wild is a lot of people accidentally fight Ganon when they try to get the shield. Oh, I guess I'm doing this now. I was too scared to go into the castle. I'm bummed. It was just always that thing of like, it's like I didn't want this to end. So I was just like, and did you play it on Master Mode, James? I beat Master Mode. Yeah.
00:42:52
Speaker
Okay, well then you and I will probably talk about later because Master Mode is trash. It's hard. Oh, no, it's not hard. It was broken. Oh, it is. It is. But we can move on. You have to master the abilities of the game. Okay, shut up. No, it's all about cheesing and knocking people into the water. That is the only way to kill enemies. Anyway. Well, go ahead, James.
00:43:19
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Yeah, this is neat. I still don't know what this
New Gaming Devices and Hypotheticals
00:43:24
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fucking game is going to be. Oh, it's cool. They showed off the new abilities and that's fun, like. Like they came out and say, hey, here's all the new additions, like, you know, like Charles just listed off, like these are the new things you can do in the game and manipulate the world. They still haven't said what you're doing. You need to know.
00:43:49
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Yes, I want to know because the problems I had with Breath of the Wild were poor dungeons. True. Which again, they had the short, they had the shrines, which were excellent.
00:44:03
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but they didn't make up for the long form dungeons that Zelda is known for. And they still haven't really said that they're fixing that or it's going to be any different. So it's very much kind of weird where it's like,
00:44:22
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Hey, it's Brett. So we may see the breath of wild hair. He is new features. It's like, all right. And what am I doing with these new features? Just play it like, yeah, but what am I doing with them? Don't worry about it. And I mean, for me, yes, I'm like, that sounds great. But I still think it's weird. It's weird to be month and a half away from the game's release and not really know. Like.
00:44:51
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what the driving gameplay loop of this game is going to be. Is it going to be the exact same breath of the wild? I mean, that's a safe choice, but that's not what Nintendo generally does. They usually try to innovate. So I'm kind of in this weird position where I'm like, did they innovate? How much did they innovate? Well, they had six years to do it. They did.
00:45:18
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So six years of dungeons. I I'm still looking forward to this game. I'm so excited about this game, but they're they're really hiding something about this game. And it makes me very curious. Are they hiding it because they think it's special or are they hiding it because they just don't want people to be like, oh, so you didn't change it? Oh, you know, I think. I think.
00:45:43
Speaker
The only valid excuse they would have for hiding the detail of that, James, I feel like they would do something drastic. If they're going to be innovative, I think you pull a Metal Gear Solid 2 situation. You play as Link for 10 minutes and then you just play as Sheik, AKA Zelda herself. Will the tanker be the best part of the game, Charles? It might.
00:46:12
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Oh, no. So only the first 10 minutes are good. We'll see. Anyway, that would be sweet to play a chic. Holy crap. And I'll be honest, I don't know if that's like chic was an invention from my understanding as a necessity for Zelda when she was trying to be incognito. I don't think she needs to be incognito for this. Maybe she just could just be outright Zelda with chic's abilities, which are pretty cool.
00:46:40
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I mean, the way the trailers have kind of played out, it kind of sounds like Zelda is either going to be trapped or die in probably the the what's the Twilight Realm?
00:46:53
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Well, yeah, didn't you say there was like hints of Twilight Princess and there was a lot of hints of Twilight, especially now that we've got a very more clear view of. So a lot of those new abilities Charles mentioned are done through. Link has a weird shit on his arm that looks, again, very much like Twilight Rome show. And it's called the ultra hand. You're right. Yeah. Yeah, there's ultra hand. Yeah. So it's not a. I don't know.
00:47:24
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Again, this is like this game is playing to everything that I love, which is why I'm going to play it no matter what. I just like, no, no, we're hiding something. And I mean, here's the thing. We knew everything about Breath of the Wild, everything about Breath of the Wild. But that's because.
00:47:42
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Um, they were trying to recoup the terrible Wii U. They're like, all right, we're launching the switch. This is the fucking pack in title that's going to sell the switch. Everyone has to know everything about this game to be bought in. Now it's like everyone's bought in. We're going to play stuff closer to the chest.
00:48:03
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And I'm kind of like, I would like to know a couple more things, Nintendo. They haven't showed us a single puzzle, have they? No, they have not. They've only shown you mechanics in the world. I just had never thought about that until you brought it up. Oh. Oh, geez. Yeah, it's weird, right? Yeah, I hope they bring back big dungeons. I really want them to.
00:48:33
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big big I mean big dungeons are the whole like
00:48:39
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That's synonymous with Zelda, right? So and I think we all kind of like led. I mean, again, that's the big criticism, Breath of the Wild, that the divine beast dungeons were OK, but they weren't Zelda dungeons. Right. But the shrines were so much fun that we were like, OK, this is fine. You know, you know, that's a good that you distinct that because I my impression is that as Breath of the Wild was my first Zelda that I like actually went through and finished.
00:49:10
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that I was just like. People like these dungeons. You do or don't? That I was I was wondering, I was like, do people like these? Oh, no, they don't. Because I was like, yeah, I flew through it. I was like, this wasn't that great. Yeah. I mean, like if you want to play the best dungeons that Zelda's ever made, Twilight Princess has the best dungeon design of any Zelda game. Yeah.
00:49:39
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closely followed by. It's tough. It's there's a mix between Majora and Ocarina of Time. Majora has the best one, but Ocarina of Time has more. So it's kind of tough. It's kind of weird. It's also weird. I don't know. But anyway, yeah, I. I wonder why are.
00:50:02
Speaker
Hmm. Now there's a conspiracy afloat and you got me thinking about it. Well, yeah, I know. I mean, we're getting close. I mean, previews. Well, I don't know. Nintendo's going to Nintendo, but previews will be coming. I don't know. End of this month, probably so. Yeah.
00:50:19
Speaker
And I wouldn't be surprised if reviewers start getting their review codes in like two weeks. Sure. So we'll see. But Andy, let me tell you something. I want to conspiracies, mysteries. Well, maybe over the weekend, you could help solve this great Sega April Fool's joke of who killed Sonic the head show. That's right.
00:50:49
Speaker
Someone killed him. Yes. Yeah, over the weekend during April Fools, SEGA threw out a very unexpected thing, which is they made basically a light novel murder mystery where Sonic the Hedgehog is dead. And it's up to all of Sonic's other friends to help solve the mystery.
00:51:11
Speaker
It's free on Steam out now. I did not play it because to be honest, I think this is like a fun group game. Oh, sure, yeah. But it's seemingly rated well. I think people had fun with it. The design seems to be good.
00:51:32
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Yeah, it looks well made or at least that they put, you know, a little bit of money into it. And it's not canon, by the way. Sega said it's not canon. Yeah. But I think Sonic's really dead in it. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was a nice little thing. I think a lot of it generated quite a bit of buzz.
00:51:57
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when it came out this weekend. People just seem to have a lot of fun with it. Ooh, overwhelmingly positive 10,000 reviews on Steam. Yeah. Also Steam Deck compatible. Yeah, but you can't trust those Sonic freaks. I mean, they are loyal. Here, click on Sonic Frontiers. Charles, let's see what Steam thinks or they think on Sonic Frontiers. I still kind of want to play it. Very positive. OK.
00:52:25
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Very positive. I heard a lot of people say that Sonic Frontiers was like the best bad game they've ever played. No, that's deadly premonition. Oh, you know what? That could be true. If the Zoomers even know. Oh.
00:52:42
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Um, yeah, I I've been curious and frontier. I don't know. I don't know if I'm a sonic apologist necessarily, but I loved those movies. I was actually talking with someone today that his kids are like five and three and one's a little bit younger. And he was like, my kids love video games. And I was like, awesome. What do they love? He's like, your favorite is Sonic.
00:53:08
Speaker
Nice. And I was like, how did they fall in love with Sonic? And I go, I hate to tell you, but your kids are furry, sir. Oh, soon, soon. I mean, plant the seed young. I could see how they could be fans, though. There's a there's the cartoon still play. Well, I like the new ones, too. He said, yeah, it was the movies that convinced them. And it made me realize, you know, whatever that thing I have, Sonder or whatever, but
00:53:37
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Yeah. Other people have lives. Other people have lives in that children watch movies. And not only that, but movies are basically can be marketing, just like it was for us when we were young. So those Sonic movies are doing their job. Yeah. Which I think is wonderful, because I loved the new Sonic movies, absolutely loved them. Yeah. And
00:54:04
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One of the things I was alluding to earlier was there is Sonic Prime on Netflix that came out last year. Surprisingly good. People say that there's actually some good stuff in there to be written. Kids show, but definitely recommend to watch on Netflix. Yeah, I think they only saw the movies. And then I asked him, did you have them play Sonic? And he's like, they try. They don't understand. But he said their favorite game to play
00:54:32
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is Breath of the Wild, because they can just run around and jump off things and laugh. He like sits with them and make sure they don't go near enemies and they just jump around on the map. I was like, Oh, to be so innocent. And to just jump and think that's fun. I mean, that sounds like Sonic from Tears is up their alley then. Yeah, then Sonic. Yeah, he was thinking of picking it up for them.
00:54:57
Speaker
But anyways, thought I'd bring that up, that children still like Sonic. It's not that Sega is making it for 90s kids remember. There's new generations being brought into these franchises. The movies work, you guys. That Mario movie releasing is gonna work.
00:55:17
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It's going to expose children to the world. Is it tomorrow? Yep. Yeah. I thought it was next week. Well, there you go. Listen, I was buying tickets for John Wick and I had to, I wanted to see if it was in the ultra screens or whatever, but nope, Mario is on all the ultra screens.
00:55:34
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Yeah. Um, yeah. So honestly, that's why I, I, I did want to bring this up too. I thought the whole murder of Sonic the Hedgehog thing, it was a fun way to get general gamer perception into a positive review of Sonic. Cause I, cause I definitely think there are the diehard Sonic fans going around, but I definitely think there is a general
00:56:00
Speaker
If you're a gamer, you might think that go, oh, Sonic is dead or dying already. Like very passe. But I think you only need a couple things for people to change their opinion and like start generating momentum. Like I don't think frontiers cause a, you know, a negative.
00:56:25
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Uh, uh, Headspace in the general public. I think this murder mystery game is a fun little thing to get gamers to kind of like it and dear themselves a little bit more. I think that they have, they have a good setup to make something else that could be received much better. Oh yeah. Um,
00:56:46
Speaker
Cause I know like even with the, I know before the release, there was a concern about the Sonic game and the negative press from there, but the game turned out seemingly from its reviews or reasonably well received. Um, and if they can keep this momentum, they are likely to be able to make something else that is less, um, that has less public animosity towards it. And they could put something else out that would be very good overall.
00:57:16
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I love it. I'm excited for it. And I'll probably try. Wait, was that? Yeah. And so that's one company doing seemingly a good job in turning their perceptions, you know, around. Here's another company that's, I think trying, but it's not, it has not won. I don't think it's convinced anybody.
00:57:43
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Konami has announced that they're moving their development, their game development studio into a new Osaka studio. So they're going to relocate their existing studio and move it over there, which seems nice. Seems like a good thing to do. Maybe reinforces the thought that Konami makes games and not just particular machines, right?
00:58:14
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But for me personally, I feel like Konami had done the gaming community as a whole pretty dirty with a lot of things. Um, they have announced doing a remake for sign Hill. They did say and keep the start saying that they're going to be making games still. We're not going to just make pachinko machines. Um,
00:58:42
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But I'm still holding on to this negative blood. And it might just be me, because I hold on to negative things, and you'll never be free of it. No, it's a skill. But I'm wondering if they could come up with a way for me to be won over again, that I think Konami's good.
00:59:10
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Andy, how about you or James? Well, I was about to speak for you. Sorry, but I was gonna say there's nothing they could do. Wait, are we? Sorry, work that in me. Blue lock music. I was gonna say I think Konami, I don't know if it could ever get back ever, ever, ever.
00:59:34
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There was the whole fuck Konami campaign. Everybody hated it. You did our boy Kojima bad. Yeah. And honestly, that's another one, right? Yeah. Like they don't have how many rockstar game developers do they have?
00:59:50
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That could help win over. I don't think there's anybody else. They exploited all their IPs to make, you know, pachinko machines. They basically became a meme. And then Konami ditched Silent Hills. Are you kidding me? And then they pulled the demo off of the PlayStation store because they're just evil.
01:00:12
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Like, why did you take that away? Why did you take that away? They're just they're petty and gross. And that reminds me, Andy, remember when Kojima couldn't accept the award for Metal Gear Solid 5? Konami told them he couldn't go to the original. Oh, he was directed that he couldn't. I believe so. You know, although allegedly, let me let me let me let me cover my bases. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe I allegedly covers everything.
01:00:41
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Konami's petty and they're annoying and I hate them and I don't know if they can do anything good I think the only thing they can do is hand their IP to other studios to do stuff and We have an article up right now listeners at home fact-checking Konami's pettiness. Oh, yeah Yeah, this was the one cuz yeah cuz Keely said it publicly during the Game Awards and
01:01:07
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that Hideo Kojima couldn't come to the Game Awards during 2015 because Konami prevented him from attending. Wow. Right after Kojima suddenly accepted the award for on Kojima. Wow. So Konami stopped him. Jesus. You know what, though? Maybe
01:01:28
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Keely is in Kojima's best friend, but Keely definitely is a real one, as the youth would say, for calling out an entire company just being one blast. Yeah. Well, I think it's easy just to dunk. Well, I mean, that was closer, though, to when people were turning on Konami. So, yeah, he was at the forefront. I hate brave enough to speak out as a public figure in the game industry. But no, they're a joke. I hate them. I don't know if they can come back.
01:01:58
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James, let's have your joyful optimism and input. I mean, hey, what they're talking about.
01:02:10
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doing more with their licenses. They did that whole Castlevania series on Netflix. They did recently the return to Castlevania on Dead Cells. Konami's doing things. I don't know if like they're- How many people do things? And I think that's- Well, you know what, Andy? That's all I ask. Okay. Fair. And I think that's great, because Konami holds the keys to so many great things, but
01:02:35
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I guess, yeah. I mean, what was it? The big rumor I've been hearing lately is at the Summer Game Fest E3, rest in peace, Sony PlayStation Showcase, the Metal Gear Solid 3 remaster will be announced. What? They're going to do a remaster? Yep. Wait, what does that mean?
01:03:00
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a remaster of three. Well, remaster versus remake, right? I don't think it's going to be a remake. I think it's going to be a remaster. Yeah. Meaning nothing changes. It's just being updated for modern content. I was going to say, we already have an HD collection.
01:03:17
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Well, I think they'll probably redo all the assets. Oh, OK. All right. But but they're not going to change the core gameplay. I don't know. Will no one, no one bring four to the masses? No, I'm still praying for it. We'll get there. Yeah. God, he does deserve to be playable on modern consoles. Yeah. Oh, he's still the best one in my opinion.
01:03:45
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It's pretty good. That's a lot. I'll be honest. It's not really necessarily a brave take, but I agree. I'll stand here. I'll take a stand here, guys, OK? Listen, slavery is bad. I don't care who comes up here. I'll say it every day. I'll say it every day.
01:04:13
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Um, you know, uh, there's no good way to transition over here, but, uh, unfortunately not everything's good news. Konami is saying they're going to support and create making games. Great. Bad news. Uh, the recent last of us PC port that got released, uh, apparently having a lot of problems, um, which is a shame because.
01:04:38
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Last of Us TV series is really hot. It ended very well. I think generally well received enough to get two seasons signed for it for them, which definitely won't be able to cover the second game. And, you know, Naughty Dog and them should be capitalizing on this and getting people to buy the game. This PC port should help with that. And unfortunately, people are finding bugs on it.
01:05:06
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Have you guys heard of any of this? Yeah, it's real bad. It's basically just completely under optimized for PC reflections. Yeah. Well, I mean, we're like graphic settings aside, it's just they're not.
01:05:30
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They basically just took the fucking code base that they had for the PlayStation 5 and more or less just threw it on the fucking PC without doing too much changes. And hey, guess what? The architecture of a PS5 and a PC are very different, despite the fact there are still a PC at heart.
01:05:51
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There's, I mean, if you watch the digital foundry stuff, it gets into like how it just doesn't handle multi-threading on multiple cores very well. How it doesn't use it's doesn't use the graphical Ram very well. It's just, it's rendering things incredibly stupidly.
01:06:12
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Just to, it's like, oh, I'm in a warehouse with three pick up, uh, three, um, three bottles I can pick up and my CPU is at 99% utilization. Um, yeah.
01:06:28
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Uh, it's sad because you know what they, Sony's been doing a pretty good job. PC ports between God or horizon. Returnal, I think also did a very good PC port too. Yeah. So this is the first one that really kind of fell on its face. I wonder if this is more a naughty dog thing than anything. Cause it's this like.
01:06:49
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I think it was a third party that did the poor. Yeah, but like, is this the first naughty dog game that's really coming to PC? I think I'm charted. It's been on PC. I think I heard people say that the Uncharted games didn't do well when they came to PC either. I wonder if this has something to do with how Naughty Dog codes their games. Hmm. Yeah. Or at least very least the engine Naughty Dog uses. Yeah. And like listeners, if you're if you don't know
01:07:17
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if you want some examples of potential issues. Common problems could be the game crashes or you'll notice slowdown or assets of the game, so signs or barrels or anything. If you look at things a little bit too closely, you'll notice things are very blurry on objects, which is a sign of really bad.
01:07:46
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optimization and performance. It gets really disappointing. Just overall, like a once legible sign you could read on a wall is basically ineligible when you play it on the PC port. So, you know, it can be enough to really take people's out of the environment, take them out of the game and kind of just
01:08:14
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is a discipline. It's very disappointing. Yeah. Especially if you expected from PlayStation and Naughty Dog and all that. Yeah. Andy, what about you? Oh, no, just it's surprising. Like you have this hit show. It's so well received. Everybody's thinking about playing the game and then you rush this. Like it's so stupid. It's so stupid. Yeah. What did they think would happen? Yeah.
01:08:41
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All right. And then we'll just go, uh, real quick through this last one, which is a contender has risen to battle the steam deck in that, uh, uh, PC. Well, how best do you, uh, categorize aces? It's just a PC part supplier maker. It's a, it's a PC component manufacturer. Yeah. There you go. Um, is, uh,
01:09:11
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unveiling what they call the ROG Ally, ROG standing for Republic of Gaming, and making a handheld gaming PC, basically like a Steam Deck, but on Windows. And in theory, it plays anything a Windows PC can play.
01:09:34
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You know, this was revealed funnily enough on April 1st, a lot of people thought it was an April Fool's joke and then later, uh, a Republican gaming slash Asus, uh, who said, no, no, it's not a joke. We're actually making this. Um, and there was a video reviewing some of the hardware, uh, disclaimer potentially, um, paid off, uh, by, but I mean,
01:10:03
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Sure. Seems fine. Republican gaming's are pretty cringy name. It is. That's that's their. It's their prestige brand, aces for like, you know, like this is our high quality gaming stuff. Oh, so that's something that existed before this item. Yeah. Yeah. Republic of gaming is like, you know, is probably game motherboards, video cards, et cetera, et cetera. Still. Yeah.
01:10:32
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Yeah. All right. Well, God bless them. Look at competition. All right. How will valve respond? Yeah. Listen, that guy forgetting that he has this giant.
01:10:43
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Handheld in his jacket pocket and just being happy you could still that makes it such like that's makes it such an April Fool's joke Just that one Yeah, yeah Don't reveal something First I mean and again, I think we've discussed this the secret sauce of the steam deck is not The fact that it's a handheld PC. It's steam OS
01:11:06
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Sure. Now, Valve has said in the past, we'll put SteamOS on whatever, but we'll see if that if they can get SteamOS on this, then hey, you know what? Maybe there's something to be there, but who knows? Oh, good point. Like, what is its digital?
01:11:22
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What's its digital store? Well, I think there is windows. It's using windows. I mean, they could put steam on it and just play it from it, which is now just steam OS. But if you want to run like the Linux based steam OS, sure. That's that's really what makes team decorate. Yeah. All right, gentlemen. Now to our final roundtable question, because
01:11:51
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I promise you, I will never host the show again. That's it. The tiredness. Oh, that's it. I am bored with all this power. I want to feel the climb once again. And so I will go away until I could feel something in my heart, something to make me love gaming.
01:12:17
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So here's my question for you find something that excites you, Charles. Well, then answer me this. If you can pick a game franchise, how let's say, who would you make? Who would you choose to help make that the next game in that franchise? You know, some thoughts would be like, oh, I want to make I want to ask Naughty Dog to make the next Silent Hill game.
01:12:47
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You know, that's an example. I'll be honest in my head. I thought I had something loaded up. I don't. Uh, so does anybody have something immediately come to mind? It software make the next Bioshock. It to make the next Bioshock. That's actually really interesting. It, uh, was the creators of doom or creators of doom. Not once. Um,
01:13:14
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That would be interesting. And Doom has had a definite shift from just a horror first person shooter type game into more of like a still horror first person shooter, but also like focus more into arenas. Yeah. And they've gotten good at telling a story to like Doom Eternal in 2016 have a pretty deep story to them that they tell in the game. Did you not play them?
01:13:44
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I could not play through them. I would get motion sick. Oh, that's right. They fix that a little bit if you try again now. Like they put some anti motion sickness stuff in there for you. Hmm. But OK. Yeah, I think like Bioshock is is a first person shooter at heart. I it's it's always kind of slow. It'd be interesting to see like it kind of take that weird, you know, like, oh, you have all these abilities and
01:14:15
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kind of just make a faster Bioshock. That'd be fun. Yeah. No, no, I honestly, I think you could do it. I like that. Interesting. Andy in 2016. I loved it so much. Andy, do you have something?
01:14:33
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I'm like looking at my games right now trying to figure out like Because it's like well, who would you want to handle something? Well Kojima I always want like I want Kojima to do something. But what do I want him to do? Well in the works. Yeah, let me let me buy you some time Andy and this will also simplify things a little bit for you. Thank you
01:14:54
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I would like the next Brave Fencer Musashi to be made by Platinum Games. I'm mad at you. Can I just talk about Brave Fencer Musashi all the time? I have no idea what this game is. Was it a PS2 game? PlayStation. It was on PS2 also. There was a sequel on PS2 that is nothing like the first.
01:15:21
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Oh, it's this game. OK, I know. All right. Yeah, I love this game. Listeners at home, it was just like a cute action RPG on the PS1 with the gimmick being you could like stick your sword in an enemy and absorb its powers and then use its powers. It was like Kirby adjacent, but with extra RPG layers and it was delightful.
01:15:46
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colorful and fun and creative. And he cared about time too, where you're just like, okay, you have to come here at night to be able to do this thing. Yeah, you better go to the bar at night so you can go into the dungeon underneath. This would be like my obsession with the mystical adventures of Goemon.
01:16:10
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Oh, did you play that? Wait, was that SNES or N64? I mean, I played both. The N64 one's the great. This is the great one. I have never played the N64 one. I've always wanted to. Andy, the N64 one's so good. I want to be very clear with you. I thought about buying the cartridge several times in Japan. Oh, sure. Yeah.
01:16:28
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It was cheaper to buy there too. It is. I mean, yes, but it was also not cheap to buy in Japan. I was looking at, I'm like, this is not, I love that game. Not enough to make it a display piece. I can't even imagine how much it goes for in the States. The English copy. Yeah.
01:16:47
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But yeah, Charles, I'm not even kidding you. I was literally thinking platinum and boyfriends from Musashi. Oh, really? And I thought my nine is like, well, I can't have platinum do something. Well, you know, Andy, so what's your answer now that you have this one? Well, that you. Here, I'll double. I'll double it. Charles Sucker Punch does this clip. I mean,
01:17:21
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I want another Max Payne. Oh, there you go. Who makes it? Uh, someone's making a new Max Payne game. Wait, what?
01:17:33
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No, no, not like Max Payne, Max Payne. Oh, it's there's an indie game coming out. It's something like. Yeah, yeah. You're talking about the one that was showcased, right? Yeah. And the showcase. Yeah. It's all like slow motion. It has so much slow motion gun shooting. Yeah. There's a spiritual successor. I just want a fat drugged out dude as the main character. Well, that's three. And that's why I love three.
01:18:02
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Oh, no, no, no, no. There is also elsewhere. So we got another Max Payne. Is he at least an adult? Yes, exactly. Like Max Payne. I mean, literally, when you watch the interviews with them, they talk about it's so hard to make a game play like how you remember how Max played.
01:18:30
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Like if you go back and play Max Payne, it plays a little janky now. Oh, we're trying to play. Well, yeah. No, I mean, literally they said that, too. But sure. Like we wanted this to play like how you remember it played. Oh, wow.
01:18:45
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Yeah, listeners at home, if you remember Max Payne being, I think they invented the bullet time mechanic. They were the first ones to do it well. Yeah. Basically, you play the entire game by diving in any direction to slow down time and shoot at enemies. And then you'd stand up and dive again and stand up and dive again. Because I don't think the bullet time was on a cool down. I think it worked. It did. No, there was. You had to take pills. Yep.
01:19:15
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You had a gauge that you had to fill up by taking painkillers. Oh, I remember the painkillers, yeah. Oh god, I can just hear that sound effect in my head. Anyways, I want a game that can be subverted into something interesting by Kojima. Hear how Annie, Suda51, makes max pain.
01:19:39
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Oh, can I take James's suggestions? I think that's awesome. That's what I want. Oh, that's what I want. OK, yep. That's why I want. But requirement. It needs he needs to be old and fat and have a lot of problems. And one of these days, you and I should play co-op Max Payne three together. That was a fun game. That was a co-op game. Yeah, you play co-op.
01:20:08
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Who would be the other person? His partner who was there in every mission. Oh, I don't know. Was it? I think I was just thinking of it as my own story. Wandering through Mexican villages just as partner who is there in every mission. I don't remember a partner at all. Yeah, since he was Hispanic, I know it's OK. Don't. Oh, yeah, that is a blind spot for Andy Brown.
01:20:39
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But you know what, everybody, let's learn more about Annie's questionable racism in the next episode. No, no, I'm the good guy. Of Add to Party. He talked about it. A friendship simulator masquerading as a new show. I have been your hardworking and now tired overlord Charles Romant. And I've been joined by. James, fighting for my life against jet lag right now, Hartwell, and I've been joined by.
01:21:12
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Andy, um, um, looking for gaming excite. I don't know. Game, whatever Occam said, I want to be Occam's. Okay. All right, everybody. Good night. Good night. Go to bed. Good night.