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Summer Games Fest 2026
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Devon & Steve go over Xbox, Playstation, and Other Game Announcements!
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Introduction and Half Birthdays Discussion
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JohhnyCAGE
Hello, you are listening to the all new anti-famboy podcast for the week of June 8th, 2026. It's not really that impressive a date. Couldn't really think of anything fun or cute to say, except that I just, I just watched a lot of commercials this week. You sat there, just click, click, click.
00:00:19
JohhnyCAGE
I said, hey, hon, I can't do things. I got to go watch these trailers. oh Oh, you had a hard day at work. That's cool. Can you shut the fuck up real quick so I can watch state of play? Click. My name's Devin Kopech.
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JohhnyCAGE
With me is Steve O'Tieri.
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Steve-O
It's my half birthday today. So there's something for you.
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JohhnyCAGE
I believe the Europeans call it the name day.
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Steve-O
Oh.
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JohhnyCAGE
you say your name day. ah
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Steve-O
It's my name day. It's a Steve.
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JohhnyCAGE
I was. Yeah, I was ah maybe Eastern Europeans. My arm Jenny's sister in law is a Hungarian.
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Steve-O
Okay. Okay.
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JohhnyCAGE
And we were talking about it was her brother's birthday over the weekend and they were like, oh, but but we you know, we we're hanging out and we we're talking about whose birthday was next. And I was like, oh, you know, it's me.
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Steve-O
o
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JohhnyCAGE
And she's like, no. I'm July first I was like, oh, that's your birthday. She's like, it's my name day. And then didn't give any additional information. And I just said, hey, maybe that's just what they call their birthday.
00:01:27
JohhnyCAGE
I'm not going to call her out on it. And then I found out later that no, it's just the halfway point because her birthday is like the same week as Jenny's birthday is sometime February.
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Steve-O
Right.
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JohhnyCAGE
So i was like, oh, what the what the hell?
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Steve-O
You can't do that. You can't do that.
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JohhnyCAGE
Can't do that, dude.
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Steve-O
That's like something a child, I will give that to a 10 year old maybe, but not a full grown adult.
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JohhnyCAGE
I was like,
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JohhnyCAGE
But I was like, you can't like act like that's it.
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Steve-O
No.
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JohhnyCAGE
like Listen, you can have an AIM day. By all means, have an AIM day. don't you know Don't act like it supersedes my actual birthday.
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Steve-O
Right. And the thing is people have to remind me it's my half birthday. Like my mom reminded me today and I went, Oh, right. Okay. Okay.
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JohhnyCAGE
We're like, what?
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Steve-O
That doesn't mean anything really, but i mean, who can honestly though, who cares?
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JohhnyCAGE
Who cares? like Not who cares, but like who can yeah gives a hoot?
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Steve-O
Who cares?
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JohhnyCAGE
I don't.
Humor in Consumerism and Gaming Life
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Steve-O
Like we don't celebrate like the halfway point to Christmas.
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JohhnyCAGE
We do not.
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Steve-O
I mean, some, i there's there's people who do like the Joel Christmas in July sales, but also no thanks.
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JohhnyCAGE
The only day I celebrate Prime Day.
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Steve-O
Wow.
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JohhnyCAGE
give me that Give me that Prime money.
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Steve-O
I feel like prime day is like every month now
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JohhnyCAGE
Maybe. I don't know. It's kind of weird.
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Steve-O
Give me that money.
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JohhnyCAGE
I like logged into my Prime like Amazon for the first time in a minute. it's it's like it's just very obvious when I'm doing well and when I'm not doing well, I'm like, Oh, I haven't ah bought anything in forever, like which makes sense, obviously.
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JohhnyCAGE
But, uh, you know, but, uh, listen with us, not with us, notably, uh, John Suarez still on baby duty. Chris Galanti still on baby duty.
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Steve-O
Baby dude.
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JohhnyCAGE
Um,
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Steve-O
Yes, they have they are doing a two men and a baby situation.
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, Sam's like, I need a week off. She needs some me time. And John's like, how am I going to take care this baby? And then Chris said, I'll help.
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JohhnyCAGE
So they're they're figuring out how to how to put a diaper on a baby, even though john this is John's second child.
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Steve-O
Don't worry. I'm here for you.
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Steve-O
Yeah, but he never learned because he was playing Destiny.
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JohhnyCAGE
You got it. You got it, right? You got it, right, babe?
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Steve-O
Sorry, babe, I can't. I'm in the middle of a raid.
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JohhnyCAGE
I got the rate. I'm in the middle of this rate.
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Steve-O
Oh, I got the raid.
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JohhnyCAGE
I can't fucking pause it. What do you mean?
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Steve-O
And now that Destiny is over, Destiny is done. He's got no excuses.
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JohhnyCAGE
He did say he was going to go on for one last ride.
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Steve-O
One last hurrah.
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JohhnyCAGE
And I was like, don't do it. You'll get stuck in. you know That's like saying like, ah can I got to go to jail for all this heroin I did. Let me do one more batch of heroin.
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Steve-O
Just one last hurrah.
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JohhnyCAGE
You know, that's actually... You know, I've mentioned this before, but there's a very, very funny video of it was an episode of hoarders.
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JohhnyCAGE
And this woman,
Anecdotes on Hoarders and Gaming Environments
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JohhnyCAGE
it's like the worst. It's the worst episode, right? Because this woman has been living in like her own filth. Like they're like, there's feet we've tested. it There's feces everywhere.
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JohhnyCAGE
And yeah, yeah. And she's like, oh, yeah, I just throw the the things out and just like, it's a rough one, right? And you look at her and you're like, this woman has, they're like, there's feces on the food, right? And she's like, so you've been trying to tell me I've been eating poop this whole time? yeah They're like, yes.
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JohhnyCAGE
And then she's like, well, I want to go because the whole thing of hoarders is they're like, will you let us clean your house for you? And she was like, well, you know what?
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JohhnyCAGE
if you are If you're going to do this, I'm going to hang out here one last night. She's like, the party's over. And the guy's like, no, the guy's like, what about this as a party?
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Steve-O
Yeah, you can you what you're not done eating poop food.
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JohhnyCAGE
And like, it's like, the defeat on this man's face is so apparent. And it's like, she's like, yeah, I'm just going to go. one last One last, throw one last razor in the poop house. And it's, uh,
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JohhnyCAGE
it's
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Steve-O
The Poop Palace.
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JohhnyCAGE
It's truly awful. yeah So that's how I view it.
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Steve-O
It's, you know, that's pretty accurate, I would say. That sounds like it. Playing Destiny in 2026 in a poop house.
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JohhnyCAGE
It's like living and eating food where there's feces everywhere.
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Steve-O
Everywhere.
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JohhnyCAGE
It was like the plumbing didn't work or something like it had just had long stopped and being useful.
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Steve-O
and don't like that.
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JohhnyCAGE
But yeah, no, Chris is ah he said, I got tummy ache. I can't do it.
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Steve-O
he's He's not feeling well. I feel like there's been a bug going around.
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JohhnyCAGE
No, you know, what I think, you know, I think, I think he was just like, I didn't watch any video game trailers.
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Steve-O
i just recovered. oh you think he got a tummy ache?
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JohhnyCAGE
I better say I got tummy ache.
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Steve-O
Chris doesn't care about video games, and that's fair.
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JohhnyCAGE
don't believe
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Steve-O
That's fair.
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JohhnyCAGE
it. It's not fair to me, Steve.
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Steve-O
He likes video games. I just don't think he is as hype to follow video game news.
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JohhnyCAGE
that's a that's a bad person right there you know i try to think about comparables and i guess it's like music but and i don't know anyone no one in like the core group is like that into music no one's like oh dude i'm gonna watch the the week-long announcement of albums you know where i can be like yeah like i can't that's what i mean i'm like yeah i just don't give a like
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Steve-O
That's not a thing, though. They don't do that.
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Steve-O
How they do music...
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JohhnyCAGE
Every once in a while when hobbies are discussed, I'm like, yeah, but my hobbies are like interesting.
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Steve-O
I like my hobbies.
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JohhnyCAGE
Like my hobbies are fun.
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Steve-O
I don't like your hobbies. So no, no, I'm, I'm talking, I'm saying from your perspective,
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JohhnyCAGE
You don't like video games or movies. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm like, yo, your hobbies of. of
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Steve-O
we've been doing a podcast for almost 20 years now because we have similar hobbies.
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah. But I'm like, yeah, I don't like maybe it's like car shows. I'm like, yeah. Anytime Jenny starts getting deep, deep into cars, I'm like, uh-huh.
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, it's so cool.
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Steve-O
I try to, but I just can't. There's that part of me that wants to be when I.
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JohhnyCAGE
Is there a hobby that a loved one is into that you just can't, you've struggled to get on board with?
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Steve-O
There is a few. There's a few. i think I'm very good at supporting and, you know, being there. But also I don't talk during those. Like, I just kind of.
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Steve-O
I just kind of listen.
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JohhnyCAGE
<unk> get Are you at liberty to give one example?
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Steve-O
no
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JohhnyCAGE
i Nope, I am not going to do that.
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Steve-O
No, no, no, no. no No, I'm going to please fight.
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JohhnyCAGE
All right, I'm just going to make some some wild assumptions.
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JohhnyCAGE
Is it like gay pride and stuff? You're just like, I don't care.
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Steve-O
No, no, no. I support that. What? Wait, hold on.
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JohhnyCAGE
I just can't get on board. Hey, like I said, I'm just gonna make some wild shots now. Because...
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Steve-O
No. i
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JohhnyCAGE
I just...
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Steve-O
Is it like ah people's...
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JohhnyCAGE
Listen.
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Steve-O
ah
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JohhnyCAGE
I'm glad you like it.
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Steve-O
You know what? Good for you.
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JohhnyCAGE
um' I'm just going to... I'll wave a flag. I'll sit down. I'll just, you know... but Please don't let... the very surface level, please.
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Steve-O
like yeah Believe me, it's a lot of walking around in the streets on a hot day. Come on.
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JohhnyCAGE
Come on, man.
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Steve-O
If we did this in the fall, it'd be way nicer.
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Well, okay. chris Chris is a...
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Steve-O
what ah What about you?
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JohhnyCAGE
Well, cars, like jenny Jenny's super into cars, and I'm like, oh, cool.
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Steve-O
Cars? Yeah. I remember going to a boat show with my dad.
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, that's a rough... it' see that's Yeah, that's one where you're like...
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Steve-O
that's but That's worse than cars.
Gaming Competitions and Personal Interests
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, you can't... Because, like, you'll have a car, right? As somebody who doesn't, like, live in the city, like, there's a good chance you'll have a car at that point in your life.
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Steve-O
Right. I'm familiar.
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JohhnyCAGE
Boats are whole other...
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Steve-O
Pedal.
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Steve-O
Boat, you see, dude, you see one boat. And that's the thing, too. The boat shows, they're in... They're in a convention center. They're not like on the water.
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Steve-O
They do them at the same place they do the car show. That's stupid.
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JohhnyCAGE
you Yeah. Oh, that is that. Well, I mean, listen, you got to see what the undercarriage looks like.
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Steve-O
That's stupid.
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JohhnyCAGE
You can't just look at a boat.
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Steve-O
Do you need to see what the undercarry? That's the stuff that's going be covered in barnacles.
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JohhnyCAGE
I think it I think it's important. I think it might be important. Who knows?
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Steve-O
Oh, man. That'd be like if I had to crawl under every car at a car show.
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JohhnyCAGE
Maybe trying to think of like, like within the hobbies I already enjoy. Like if there was like a whole week dedicated to like,
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JohhnyCAGE
souls likes. I could be like, yeah, I'm a think over or dude.
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Steve-O
Oh, that'd be, yeah, it would be one I would skip.
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JohhnyCAGE
I just love being overburdened with gear and then walking really slow.
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Steve-O
The thing is we know people who would lose their mind over that.
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JohhnyCAGE
It's like that's what I'm saying.
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Steve-O
i would say in more modern times, I think fighting games, like I don't really have when people, when the Evo new game drops start coming out, I don't have as much of an interest, but I'm like, that's cool.
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:11:00
JohhnyCAGE
Hmm.
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JohhnyCAGE
So that that's the thing, like the surface level, I can be like, like, like, ah you know, Tifa got announced for a Street Fighter game. So I was like, oh, that's sick. Am I going to buy it?
00:11:16
JohhnyCAGE
No, I'm not going to buy that fight back.
00:11:16
Steve-O
I'm definitely not going to buy the DLC. I'm not going read.
00:11:20
JohhnyCAGE
Maybe I will.
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Steve-O
I haven't played Street Fighter 6 since 2023 when it came out.
00:11:25
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. John, John famously kicked me off the game.
00:11:27
Steve-O
It's a great game, but he did.
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JohhnyCAGE
I literally haven't touched it since.
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Steve-O
He did.
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JohhnyCAGE
But that's what happened.
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Steve-O
It's over.
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JohhnyCAGE
When you make a bet, I'll honor the bet.
00:11:41
JohhnyCAGE
You know, he he beat me and said that you can never play Zangief. And I was like, but he's.
00:11:41
Steve-O
He beat you, and now you can no longer play.
00:11:45
Steve-O
That was mask v mask.
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and that's what really upset me is because like, I know I fell in my bones. Well, John was the better street fighter. i had him be in zangief right i was like i'm a better geef player but then he we had a best of six and he he beat me and the bet he's like you'll never be allowed to play zangief ever again street fighter six and um no and i was defeated and it hurt it hurt me yeah i
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Steve-O
You, you definitely do. Right.
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Steve-O
It was the OG Gief versus new Gief.
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Steve-O
You had to take off your mask in front of your family, announce your entire name, where you live, your age.
00:12:22
JohhnyCAGE
ah yeah
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JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, it was.
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Steve-O
And then they made you walk off. They made you walk. He made you walk off from Street Fighter.
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JohhnyCAGE
I was doxed.
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Steve-O
He doxxed you.
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JohhnyCAGE
They doxed me. And now I'm a big, now I'm a face.
00:12:39
Steve-O
ah Yeah, now you're now you're on the main shows again.
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JohhnyCAGE
In America, I'm a face.
00:12:42
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:12:42
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, everybody loves me now. I think that's right. i've only watched clips.
00:12:47
Steve-O
That is right. Yeah, you're right.
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JohhnyCAGE
I've watched clips.
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Steve-O
He made an appearance on SmackDown and people lost their damn mind.
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JohhnyCAGE
Good. forget good for it Good for shorty G.
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Steve-O
That's the thing, though, right? That's kind of the same thing that happened to Bret Hart and Stone Cold at WrestleMania 13.
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JohhnyCAGE
Well, sort of, but.
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Steve-O
They put on the best match of the night. People loved it. Everybody said, wow, these two are going somewhere.
00:13:08
JohhnyCAGE
Well, that was the double turn. Was there a double turn?
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Steve-O
That was the double turn. ah
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JohhnyCAGE
Is is is new.
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Steve-O
I would say the turn is the OG turned into loving Mexico.
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JohhnyCAGE
OK.
00:13:22
JohhnyCAGE
Well, yeah, I mean.
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Steve-O
You went from hating to loving and they turned from hating to loving as well.
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JohhnyCAGE
I kind of wished America was more like, you know what irks me about America? yeah know what irks me about America?
00:13:37
Steve-O
Hmm.
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JohhnyCAGE
Let me tell you. We're too big to turn fully heal or fully face. And I think I'm kind of ready to just do a full blown heel turn.
00:13:49
Steve-O
I'm with you.
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JohhnyCAGE
Like part of me just wants to be a bad boy, you know, just like, yeah, like. wait
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Steve-O
I think, you know.
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JohhnyCAGE
Like, if imagine like imagines that scenario, right? Like, he comes out to to save whoever who got their mask ripped off. And we're like, rip them all off! Like, just because we're in America.
00:14:09
Steve-O
them all. We're
00:14:10
JohhnyCAGE
We're like, fucking you suck! USA!
00:14:13
Steve-O
like,
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JohhnyCAGE
But hey, you know, we're too but we're too big to just uniformly be into or not into ah perspective.
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Steve-O
we're like
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JohhnyCAGE
So...
00:14:24
Steve-O
I mean, we're we're getting there. We're getting there into being like the full full-blown heel nation.
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JohhnyCAGE
I just, yeah...
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JohhnyCAGE
But like, yeah, like, I mean, yes, but I'm not there.
00:14:36
Steve-O
you Oh, you want to be a you want to be a part of that.
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JohhnyCAGE
You know, like, I want to be, I want it to be something, thats that's what I mean.
00:14:39
Steve-O
You're going to be in this table?
00:14:42
JohhnyCAGE
That's what I mean.
00:14:42
Steve-O
Okay.
00:14:42
JohhnyCAGE
Like, I want to be like, yeah, I want to be the guy that's like, oh, those NWO guys suck, but like, they're kind of awesome. And then six months from now, I'm wearing an NWO4 life shirt.
00:14:54
JohhnyCAGE
You know what I mean?
00:14:54
Steve-O
Right. um You know what? That's the thing, though, because whenever people do turn heel in real life, it's always like shitty.
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JohhnyCAGE
Because, it's like,
00:15:05
Steve-O
It's never cool.
00:15:06
JohhnyCAGE
that that's what i mean like we we need uh we need like a tweener he'll heal you know we need a we need a he's a heel but he's cool and we're just like
00:15:11
Steve-O
Oh, yeah, we need somebody spray. OK, Shawn Michaels for president.
00:15:21
JohhnyCAGE
uh i don't know about all right you know who's a good example i'll give you a good modern example mjf mjf is this
00:15:22
Steve-O
yeah I mean, like, let's say, let's say he goes. Yeah. What's up. Okay. Modern. Oh, MJF is very good.
00:15:31
JohhnyCAGE
he's ah He's a wonderful tweener where he's a a bad boy, definitively a bad boy, but he's fun to watch.
00:15:38
Steve-O
He's enjoyable.
00:15:39
JohhnyCAGE
You know?
00:15:40
Steve-O
He's very enjoyable. He's a, gru he's a grumpy guy and he's got that wonderful scarf.
00:15:41
JohhnyCAGE
But...
00:15:45
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, you know, that Burberry scarf, that's his whole thing. And I just think... we were all a little bit more like it. I could be like, yeah, you know, sure.
00:15:57
JohhnyCAGE
We bomb this people, but man, that was a sick one liner.
00:16:00
Steve-O
a
00:16:00
JohhnyCAGE
We dropped.
00:16:01
Steve-O
well that's the thing i don't even think we need to do that i don't think you need to go to war like that's the stuff that's like you're like well now you've gone too far but like can you imagine like somebody going like to like across the country sweet chin musicking like one of like the prime ministers and then spray painting nwo on their back
00:16:07
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe not. Yeah. If we just talk shit instead of going to war. Yeah.
00:16:19
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Yeah,
Xbox Game Showcase and Exclusivity Debate
00:16:22
JohhnyCAGE
okay. Yeah, we just, we do it, but it's a 15-minute flag spray. so we're like, probably all the all the stars.
00:16:23
Steve-O
dude
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Steve-O
but
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Steve-O
Oh, I got 50 of these.
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JohhnyCAGE
my heart of character i tried Ah, shit.
00:16:36
Steve-O
okay He's doing all 50.
00:16:38
JohhnyCAGE
I didn't even do it. Yeah, and he's like, why do you have 10 cans of it? There's a of colors, man. You don't understand.
00:16:47
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah. Like, that's what I want. But instead we got, you know, we got like what Vince McMahon thinks that he was
00:16:57
Steve-O
Just like a guy who's not completely fit.
00:17:03
JohhnyCAGE
it' like, ah just the psychopath that just where the motivation change weekly.
00:17:05
Steve-O
just
00:17:08
JohhnyCAGE
And you're like, I can't follow this storyline.
00:17:08
Steve-O
Just so...
00:17:10
JohhnyCAGE
I was telling Jenny. um I think I said this before too.
00:17:15
Steve-O
Mm.
00:17:15
JohhnyCAGE
I definitely said this, but like, I'm like, you know People get so mad at wrestling, and it can be it can be one of the most frustrating things ever, but like if you just just throw your hands up and just check in once once in a while, whenever you want, the big ones, just check in every once while.
00:17:24
Steve-O
Mm.
00:17:33
JohhnyCAGE
was like, it's awesome. Because you don't get hung up on like, oh, they're out pushing this because you don't know who the guys are.
00:17:34
Steve-O
yeah
00:17:41
Steve-O
Right.
00:17:41
JohhnyCAGE
You don't know you know, you're not worn out because they've run in the same angle for seven weeks in a row. He's just like, whatever. Just check in Oh, this is pretty sick.
00:17:54
JohhnyCAGE
me Let me hang out here for a month or two.
00:17:57
JohhnyCAGE
And then, yeah, you'll hear about it. And then you're like, never mind. I'm in.
00:17:57
Steve-O
And the thing is, if something's good, you'll hear about it.
00:18:03
Steve-O
I'll check this out. I'll check out this thing on YouTube. If somebody's saying it's good, maybe I'll watch it.
00:18:10
JohhnyCAGE
Or maybe I fucking won't.
00:18:11
Steve-O
I didn't watch clash at Italy. i sure as hell watched, uh, the triple show. So
00:18:19
JohhnyCAGE
i guess Well, is the AAA, how do you want, how do was that, oh, that was free?
00:18:23
Steve-O
that's free. That's free on YouTube. Yeah. The w WWE YouTube actually will, will stream those live.
00:18:26
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
00:18:31
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, that's, I'd say that's smart. Yeah, that's Not for old USA Steve.
00:18:31
Steve-O
So,
00:18:34
Steve-O
And it's only an hour long. That one was two hours because it was like a pay-per-view, but...
00:18:43
Steve-O
USA Steve. Hey, no ads, do
00:18:45
JohhnyCAGE
You know what? Use a VPN. That's heal. That's a tweener.
00:18:49
Steve-O
too.
00:18:49
JohhnyCAGE
That's tweener.
00:18:49
Steve-O
VPNs are for Heels.
00:18:50
JohhnyCAGE
You're like, oh, ain't paying for it, but I'm cool about it.
00:18:50
Steve-O
Villain private network. Actually, a VPN would be a sick... Like, that's a stable for Heels.
00:18:58
JohhnyCAGE
Or like, that's my finisher, the VPN.
00:19:00
Steve-O
Oh, the VPN, dude. Oh, my goodness.
00:19:02
JohhnyCAGE
Where you can't find me because you don't know where I am.
00:19:05
Steve-O
Vipin.
00:19:05
JohhnyCAGE
I just throw your shirt over you and just hockey punch you. Call it the VPN. You don't know where I'm coming from.
00:19:10
Steve-O
That's what, honestly, you don't know where.
00:19:12
JohhnyCAGE
Maybe I'm from Italy. Maybe I'm from... god Uganda who could say
00:19:19
Steve-O
now jokes the joke's on you. It was from New Jersey.
00:19:22
JohhnyCAGE
Is room to do Jersey.
00:19:22
Steve-O
It was there is New Jersey. New Jersey.
00:19:25
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, sorry. Are you Are you guys you got VPN by Cam in New Jersey?
00:19:26
Steve-O
Sorry, that's where I got you from.
00:19:31
JohhnyCAGE
Boom boom DDT Was
00:19:34
Steve-O
Devin, today was, or this week was a big week for gamers.
00:19:38
JohhnyCAGE
was
00:19:40
Steve-O
This was a real one. This is the one we wait for all year.
00:19:42
JohhnyCAGE
this is the one This is the one where I was like, guys, I'm so excited. What are your opinions? And you and Chris just made fun of me for like two hours.
00:19:49
Steve-O
We said video games are a rich man's hobby. Get into something more for the common man, like mud.
00:19:59
JohhnyCAGE
Like mud?
00:20:01
Steve-O
Like just cultivating mud.
00:20:01
JohhnyCAGE
You know what? That's what... Yeah, that's what you people are. You're mud people.
00:20:07
Steve-O
Wow, you people, you are really trying to be a heel.
00:20:09
JohhnyCAGE
yeah Yeah, well, I say you, P-Buzz, and people who don't have PS5 Pros.
00:20:15
Steve-O
Oh, okay.
00:20:16
JohhnyCAGE
go you're a mud You're a mud man.
00:20:16
Steve-O
That makes sense. You know, did you watch the latest um Kyle Bossman video?
00:20:25
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did.
00:20:27
Steve-O
he in the topic of things, I think that this overall between the PlayStation state of play, the summer games and Xbox game showcase, I think this was the year exclusives were back on the market where we are.
00:20:36
JohhnyCAGE
Mm-hmm.
00:20:47
Steve-O
We are playing the exclusive game again.
00:20:50
JohhnyCAGE
Is it fair or unfair of me to be salty about it?
00:20:56
Steve-O
Um,
00:20:57
JohhnyCAGE
One way salty.
00:20:59
Steve-O
Did your microphone just change, Devin?
00:21:00
JohhnyCAGE
i I was pouring a glass of water, so I muted my microphone so you didn't hear me pouring water into a cup.
00:21:08
Steve-O
Okay, because I can hear a fan in the background now. m
00:21:12
JohhnyCAGE
I told you. I told you that fan was going to come in. Hold on.
00:21:14
Steve-O
I don't hear it anymore.
00:21:15
JohhnyCAGE
let me
00:21:15
Steve-O
I don't hear it anymore.
00:21:16
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
00:21:17
Steve-O
Okay.
00:21:17
JohhnyCAGE
But the absence of the fan made you go, oh, yeah, it's
00:21:20
Steve-O
ah yeah Yeah, it was very prominent in that instance.
00:21:22
JohhnyCAGE
loud as shit.
00:21:23
Steve-O
um And that one's, you know what, that one's for the fans.
00:21:26
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
00:21:27
Steve-O
um
00:21:27
JohhnyCAGE
Okay. Um, um, um, though we we oh, yeah. So I was, uh, I was excited for some games and then, ah I found out they weren't coming and I'm like, man, that bums me out.
00:21:31
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:21:45
Steve-O
Right.
00:21:45
JohhnyCAGE
Then I'm like, how fair is that? Like, how, how fair is it? You know? And then, uh, I'm trying to figure out a way, ah scenario where I'm like, I can be rightfully irritated, but also not feel like a hypocrite.
00:22:02
JohhnyCAGE
and And what I'm talking about is the the xbox Xbox had ah announced that two games I was interested in, Gears
00:22:13
Steve-O
E-Day
00:22:13
JohhnyCAGE
EA and Clockwork Expand. What was it called?
00:22:17
Steve-O
Quacklework Revolution
00:22:18
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, thank you. um Were... I don't want to say officially announced. See, that's the other one. That's the other kind of tricky bit. It's like what they weren't like officially announced and then ripped away, but it was just like, well, with how everything's going, these would come out on PS five and then they snatched it away.
00:22:38
Steve-O
Right.
00:22:42
JohhnyCAGE
Seemingly kind of feel like from gears, it kind of feels like last as as late as they possibly could have because
00:22:48
Steve-O
right
00:22:51
JohhnyCAGE
you know, once you get a release date, then you get preset then you get pre-orders, then you get people purchasing it, and then, you know, which which is why I'm pretty sure, like, Fable and Halo are are not...
00:23:07
JohhnyCAGE
They're still going to be available on PS5, because, like, pre-orders and things like that had been, like...
00:23:11
Steve-O
Okay.
00:23:15
JohhnyCAGE
Contracts had been signed, you know?
00:23:16
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:23:16
JohhnyCAGE
From from my understanding. And... Obviously, that hadn't really happened yet with Gears. Clearly, it didn't happen yet with Gears.
00:23:25
JohhnyCAGE
And Clockwork Revolution, which is coming out in 2027. So, i don't know, man. I was like, ah come on, man. But at the same time, you know, it's not like like Wolverine's coming out on Xbox.
00:23:25
Steve-O
Mm.
00:23:40
JohhnyCAGE
It's not like, you know, or even PC at this point, right?
00:23:41
Steve-O
Right.
00:23:45
JohhnyCAGE
Which is...
00:23:46
Steve-O
they Yeah, they are strictly PlayStation is strictly on PlayStation consoles.
00:23:49
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah. So it's like, well, PlayStation decided, hey, this isn't really working out for us. We're just going to focus on us. So for Xbox to say the same thing, essentially, right, is I know it's not exactly the same, but maybe maybe that's it. Maybe it's in the details is where I'm like, that's bullshit.
00:24:09
JohhnyCAGE
But I don't know. Maybe I'm just being a salty baby, but.
00:24:15
JohhnyCAGE
Man, i don't know. Did you... and ah You know, i don't know if you want to go in order or not, but did you see any of that stuff for the Xbox?
00:24:24
Steve-O
um I watched a few of them.
00:24:26
JohhnyCAGE
Okay, watch some of the highlights, some of the good ones.
00:24:26
Steve-O
um Some of the highlights. Yeah. um You know, I saw the E-Day stuff.
00:24:32
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:24:32
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:24:32
Steve-O
ah
00:24:33
Steve-O
You know, that looks cool. I don't know if it's I might be somebody who just doesn't care that much about the Gears of War franchise.
00:24:44
JohhnyCAGE
i'll tell I'll tell you why. I'll tell you the exact problem.
00:24:47
Steve-O
Okay.
00:24:47
JohhnyCAGE
Because if you had played Gears in 2006, and let's say you played Gears 2 in like 2008 or whatever it was, and then I shot you in the chest, and then you were in a coma, and you wake up in 2026, you're like, oh my God.
00:24:56
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:25:02
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:25:06
JohhnyCAGE
And and let's say you had six months to play new games. You're like, oh my God, this, that, the other thing. And then I'm like, here's Gears of War E-Day. I think you'd be like, this looks, and not looks, but like this feels, and essentially looks, obviously the graphics are better, but like there's nothing universally different about the gameplay like at all. They said they they redid all of the animations from the ground up, which i I'm not going to say I don't believe, but it's like, they're still doing the roadie run, they're still smashing in the cover, they're still popping...
00:25:44
JohhnyCAGE
and shooting and it's like it's just it's nothing's different dude like nothing is the the recipe is still the same and it's like yes can they jump from higher can they mantle over higher things like yeah sure but like dude we're still on the same fucking planet i mean like be you know
00:25:50
Steve-O
Right.
00:26:11
Steve-O
I mean, it's a prequel.
00:26:13
JohhnyCAGE
yeah it's a prequel we're still on the same planet we're still using the lancers and i'm not saying you have to have your you can't have these things but it's like it just be like imagine if we're like oh bro you see the new god war but it takes place it's still in greece he still has the blades and he's still a big angry guy and it's like
00:26:37
Steve-O
Yeah, that that would be like
00:26:39
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, that's cool. I just feel like we've been doing this for a little but a little while.
00:26:40
Steve-O
Jurassic.
00:26:43
JohhnyCAGE
And it's like...
00:26:44
Steve-O
of That's a such an epic comparison too, because God of war one came out the year before. I think the first gears of war is 2005.
00:26:54
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I mean... Hold on.
00:26:56
Steve-O
And then i think for gears.
00:27:01
JohhnyCAGE
Man, I got it. Was it really?
00:27:04
Steve-O
yeah
00:27:04
JohhnyCAGE
got more one Wednesday, let's see.
00:27:08
Steve-O
And then 2018 was when they changed the God of War formula.
00:27:10
JohhnyCAGE
Jeez. Oh my God. Yeah. So like, yeah. And like, listen, you got God of War 2, which was like sick. And listen, I get it. God of War.
00:27:22
JohhnyCAGE
Great game. Gears of War was 2006, you said.
00:27:27
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:27:27
JohhnyCAGE
So it's like, yeah.
00:27:29
Steve-O
Six or seven.
00:27:30
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. But it's like, okay, compar comparatively, like that's crazy. That's a crazy leap. And it looks like that. And it's just never looked any different.
00:27:37
Steve-O
The same idea would be if you played Super Mario Brothers and then 20 years later. Super Mario got Galaxy was just an 8-bit Mario game for the Nintendo.
00:27:53
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Or like maybe it's 16 bit, you know, and you're like okay.
00:27:53
Steve-O
ah Yeah, maybe that's like when they finally get a 60-bit.
00:27:58
JohhnyCAGE
It's like, I don't know. It's,
00:28:01
Steve-O
The formula hasn't been like rejuvenized like.
00:28:03
JohhnyCAGE
it's good. Like, it's like look a gears game and I played four and I played five. I played all right. um And like five was,
00:28:15
JohhnyCAGE
you know five I liked 5 more than 4 solely because there was open world stuff, which apparently is not a popular opinion.
00:28:23
JohhnyCAGE
But I'm like, at least it's different. like It's something different. And you know the characters sucked and the enemies are awful.
00:28:23
Steve-O
Okay.
00:28:27
Steve-O
Right.
00:28:32
JohhnyCAGE
and Because cause like the problem with 4 and 5 are just like, they're like, hey, we finally defeated the Locust or whatever they were called. There's a new enemy and it's the exact same thing, but they're red.
00:28:44
Steve-O
Mm
00:28:47
JohhnyCAGE
Like literally.
00:28:48
Steve-O
That's the same plot as Halo.
00:28:51
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, it's and it only. yeah but like, i don't know.
00:28:54
Steve-O
Xbox, do a new story.
00:28:57
JohhnyCAGE
I just think about years ago, there was a I was thinking about this. I was listening to a giant bomb podcast, like giant bomb East or something. It was ah the vi Vinny guy, right?
00:29:07
Steve-O
hmm.
00:29:09
JohhnyCAGE
Vinny.
00:29:09
Steve-O
Oh, good old Vinny.
00:29:10
JohhnyCAGE
And he was talking about how he was like watching an interview for like Gears 4. Like, what are going to do? It's a new studio. It's Gears of War. And the story's over, you know, quote unquote, it's over. And they were like, yeah, we were thinking about like maybe putting it on a different planet or like putting it like having totally different enemies or like just completely new cast, like not related at all to the other ones.
00:29:35
JohhnyCAGE
And I just remember, and this was like after 4 had come out or something. and that So it was kind of like a, like a retrospective a little bit. And I just remember Vinny was like, yeah, yeah, no, all of those ideas were better. Like you should have did literally any of those ideas. And it's geez, right? Like,
00:29:51
JohhnyCAGE
if you're just going to pop up, pop, you know, hit a corner, pop up, shoot, like it's not bad, but it's just tired. And it's, yes, it's pretty, but it's like, you're not treading really new ground.
00:30:00
Steve-O
Right.
00:30:05
JohhnyCAGE
You're it's a nostalgia play. It's a $200 million dollars nostalgia play. Essentially, you know, I don't know what the budgets are, but it looks expensive.
00:30:12
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:30:16
JohhnyCAGE
And, um, And i'll just I'll just get into it, but like they're and they're putting this game out to die.
Game Remakes: Nostalgia vs Innovation
00:30:25
JohhnyCAGE
Like, to prove a point? I don't know what the point is. And like, yes, I understand this is making me sound salty, but it's like, this game is not going to sell well.
00:30:35
JohhnyCAGE
They're, like, based off of the fact that there's not that many Xboxes out there. And plus, it's going be on Game Pass, and it's
00:30:44
Steve-O
Is it going to be on Steam? Because I know it's console exclusive, but...
00:30:48
JohhnyCAGE
yeah ah Yeah, I think the PC, I think it's going to on PC.
00:30:52
Steve-O
Okay, I see, yeah, E-Day here on Steam right now.
00:30:54
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah. So like, but like, it's just not going to, it's not going to sell and they're going to lose money. And to to say, oh, look, this is for the fans. We're exclusive now.
00:31:09
JohhnyCAGE
And it's like, cool.
00:31:09
Steve-O
Right.
00:31:11
JohhnyCAGE
And then when the same thing happens with Clockwork, uh, Maybe it won't even by then, right? Because like there's a tinfoil hat.
00:31:19
Steve-O
Right. Mm
00:31:21
JohhnyCAGE
There's the theory that they're they're trying to look good both ways. So they're going to say, listen, we heard you. We heard the fans and we're going back to exclusives, baby. So everybody, you know, high fives. They're all excited.
00:31:36
JohhnyCAGE
And then it bombs, right? Because there's approximately 7500 Xboxes out there at this point. ah And then they're go like, listen, like fiduciary duty, we have to, you know, we heard you, let's put it out for, for you know, PS5 and all that.
00:31:54
Steve-O
Right.
00:31:55
JohhnyCAGE
And then, so they're going to be able to walk it back because they they were pretty, at least I'll say this, they were upfront about saying, we're trying this out, we'll see. um But I don't know, it's just like,
00:32:09
JohhnyCAGE
they're really throwing this out, you know, without a lifeboat. And it's like kind of wild. Now, granted gear, the gears one remake didn't make any money from my, like I say, it didn't make it, but like it didn't really blow up the charts on PS five when it was released.
00:32:27
JohhnyCAGE
But you know, there's a billion reasons why that didn't work because it's like the fourth remake of a game from 2006 that we've all played, you know, a
00:32:37
Steve-O
it's It's really hard to sell somebody on like a game like that being remade.
00:32:43
JohhnyCAGE
ah A game that's been remade, remastered like three or four times. Yeah.
00:32:48
Steve-O
Can I do can I do kind of a spinoff in this section for a moment?
00:32:48
JohhnyCAGE
it's
00:32:51
JohhnyCAGE
Sure.
00:32:52
Steve-O
um I think that's a little bit similar to the announced during the state of play. Rayman's legends retold.
00:32:59
JohhnyCAGE
How dare you?
00:33:01
Steve-O
yeah
00:33:01
JohhnyCAGE
They've never done a bad thing in their life.
00:33:04
Steve-O
It's it's weird because it's, you know, I feel like it's.
00:33:09
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I was excited, and then I heard it's just like ah a graphical update, but it's like 3D, right?
00:33:17
Steve-O
It's 3D and I don't even know if it's an update. Like I don't even know if you can call it an update. It's just like a change of graphics. And when the graphics were like so vibrant and like they were like visually beautiful for what they were.
00:33:29
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I was like... They had, like, the evergreen art styles, like, hand-drawn almost.
00:33:35
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:33:35
JohhnyCAGE
like It looked really good. And it's, like... And that's one of those art styles that, like, will look good 20 years from now because it's, like... It just looked really good. And then they're, like, yeah, we we threw this on there.
00:33:44
Steve-O
Right.
00:33:47
JohhnyCAGE
and you're, like, oh, okay. And it's, like, I'm looking at the footage now, and it doesn't look bad, but it's, like...
00:33:55
Steve-O
Also, i think this is a game you can still just play. Like, I i don't i don't understand this, like, rush to...
00:34:01
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:34:06
Steve-O
Yeah, yeah, here, on so on Steam, Rayman Legends, it's $29.99. Came out twenty thirteen Um, like I can still play this game. This is a game that like Ubi, I feel like Ubisoft is like they're circling the drain and they're just looking to like put out anything at this point to try and like get prominence.
00:34:23
JohhnyCAGE
It's true. Yeah.
00:34:25
Steve-O
But like, we don't need these games to be remade. We don't need uh, Gears of War remake because you know, all the other games feel exactly like the first Gears of War.
00:34:38
Steve-O
so yeah, yeah.
00:34:38
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, like like generally, right? Like, yes, obviously it's a little tighter here, a little tighter there. It's it's undergone like, you know, small updates.
00:34:48
JohhnyCAGE
And that speaks to the quality of Gears 1, to be honest.
00:34:51
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:34:52
JohhnyCAGE
But it's like... yeah, man, ah because like Horde Mode was innovative and awesome and like that's what made that great. And like there was a story and one of my, I say it all the time, but one of my favorite things is like even if the story is like bad or kind of like hokey, is there really giving it ah an earnest swing?
00:35:08
Steve-O
yeah
00:35:11
JohhnyCAGE
Like I respect it and I'll just like, I'll just be more invested. And like a great example of that is Chronicles of Riddick and a really great video game example of that is Gears of War 1, 2, and 3.
00:35:24
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, it's it's just hulking guys that grunt and yell. But, like, they're they really going for something, right, in terms of a plot and a storyline. So, yeah, like, I'm invested. And then I try to get invested in the multiplayer, and then it just turns into rolling shotguns.
00:35:43
JohhnyCAGE
And honestly, like, that was, i remember trying, like, five.
00:35:44
Steve-O
yeah
00:35:48
JohhnyCAGE
like five multiplayer. And I'm like, we're still doing rolling shotguns. i was like, I'm out. Like, I'm out. I cannot do this anymore.
00:35:55
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:35:57
JohhnyCAGE
It's just like. Yeah.
00:35:58
Steve-O
I remember when that became the meta in playing Gears one and just being like ah that, that kind of pushed me away from the series.
00:36:00
JohhnyCAGE
okay
00:36:07
JohhnyCAGE
And they try to fix it. And then they go from. Yes, we fixed it, but now no one's happy because that's the meta and that's what the hardcores do.
00:36:17
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:36:19
JohhnyCAGE
I worked with a guy whose brother was a um like a professional Gears multiplayer guy. like Top 100 or something.
00:36:29
JohhnyCAGE
right he was like He was in it.
00:36:30
Steve-O
Coldrick's iPhone 2.0.
00:36:31
JohhnyCAGE
and i was like but i He had told me this and Gears 4 maybe was out or maybe it wasn't out at that point, but I was just like what a Because, like, on one hand, that's impressive.
00:36:44
JohhnyCAGE
But on the other, I'm like, what a really unnecessary game to be really good at at this time. Like, it's great that he's into it. But, like, because he was like, oh, yeah, he thinks he's going to make money off of being a fucking like a top 100 Gears of War player.
00:37:00
Steve-O
That's ah like a weird monkey's paw situation where it's like you're you're like, want to be one of the best in the world at playing a game.
00:37:03
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:37:08
JohhnyCAGE
like I'm the best and you're like what game you're like Bioshock 2 I'm the best top three Bioshock 2 multiplayer oh that's yes I respect it but also wow okay cool good for you
00:37:08
Steve-O
And then you get gears. but You're the best in Bioshock 2 multiplayer.
00:37:18
Steve-O
Oh,
00:37:25
Steve-O
oh my God.
00:37:26
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, that's that's a lot. Anyway, I know we kind of went off an order or anything like that, but guess.
00:37:33
Steve-O
Well, you know, we can freestyle. You know, we're talking Xbox.
00:37:35
JohhnyCAGE
All right. All right. um
00:37:36
Steve-O
That's fun.
00:37:37
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, yeah. I mean, Xbox Clockwork Revolution. maybe Again, maybe this is the salt. Maybe.
00:37:43
Steve-O
ah This sounds like what the salt is.
00:37:45
JohhnyCAGE
I loved it. I love that first trailer. And this one, i was like.
00:37:47
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:37:50
JohhnyCAGE
You just feel thinking. I don't know.
00:37:52
Steve-O
refuse
00:37:53
JohhnyCAGE
i don't know why. I just I'm just being a bitch. But I think maybe, and this isn't fair, but I'm looking at this and I was like, every game, i was like, because there's something else here to Magician's The Devil's Deal, or The Devil Deal, which I don't know if you saw the trailer for, but it's like, it's cool.
00:38:17
JohhnyCAGE
But I'm like, this looks like Bioshock. Clockwork Revolution looks like Bioshock.
00:38:21
Steve-O
It looks like Bioshock.
00:38:21
JohhnyCAGE
First Person, you know steampunk quirky type of deal. Like, I'm just like, yeah, just, I don't know. I don't know. Just like if, if I'm not getting it, then I think it looks like shit.
00:38:35
JohhnyCAGE
This is essentially a how it sounds, but like, yeah.
00:38:37
Steve-O
It's the race to be the new Bioshock, it seems. And nobody's able to hit it because in modern gaming right now, like the thing about Bioshock is those were games that were dominated by their atmosphere.
00:38:41
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:38:52
Steve-O
They were awesome, like settings. But in modern gaming, you can't just be an awesome setting. You need to have an awesome setting that has an awesome story. You would need to do a Bioshock that is on the same story level as like a disco Elysium at this point, which is like it's daunting.
00:39:09
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:39:12
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. And it's like, i mean, I mean, ah to to be fair to myself, Clockwork Revolution, they're like, it's time travel. And I'm like, okay. So it just felt like Bioshock Infinite.
00:39:26
Steve-O
on
00:39:26
JohhnyCAGE
like And i I do not like Bioshock Infinite. And so I'm like, but yeah, I mean, it's,
00:39:30
Steve-O
Right.
00:39:34
JohhnyCAGE
It doesn't look bad. They don't look bad. They just don't look terribly impressive, unfortunately for me.
00:39:40
Steve-O
Right.
00:39:41
JohhnyCAGE
So.
AI in Gaming and Ethics
00:39:42
Steve-O
It gives me feelings of, what was that, the Outer Wilds or the Outer Worlds or?
00:39:43
JohhnyCAGE
And.
00:39:48
JohhnyCAGE
Outer Worlds is the RPG. Outer Wilds is the one that's like you're in like a Groundhog's Day situation.
00:39:56
Steve-O
Outer Worlds, then. This reminds me of just, like, Outer Worlds.
00:39:56
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:00
Steve-O
Because it's like, you know, they're trying to do the thing that is, like, you know, they're whatever their bread and butter was. And it just it just doesn't feel 100% authentic.
00:40:13
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I mean, and shit, maybe I'll be and I hope it's good because it looks cool. And maybe at some point I'll be able to play it, but not likely, according to some people.
00:40:26
Steve-O
According to Xbox.
00:40:27
JohhnyCAGE
We're an Xbox, not allowed. Persona 6 with your least favorite thing ever, which is just a logo reveal.
00:40:36
Steve-O
Oh, everybody. look Come on. P6, man.
00:40:38
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, when was the last successful logo reveal? Metroid?
00:40:43
Steve-O
I don't know if you can call that successful.
00:40:43
JohhnyCAGE
I wouldn't call that a success. Yeah, yeah.
00:40:45
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:40:45
JohhnyCAGE
It's just like... ah Cool, I guess. Let's see. There was that other trailer. we don't have to go through every single one of these, but yeah.
00:40:54
Steve-O
Nah, but the bangers. There's these's some bangers.
00:40:57
JohhnyCAGE
Vavarian kind of looks cool. It looks cool.
00:40:59
Steve-O
It looks cool. That's the Ghostrunners team, I think.
00:41:02
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, is it? Okay.
00:41:03
Steve-O
It's a Souls-like, though, so...
00:41:05
JohhnyCAGE
No, no. Vavarian's like a... It's like a Ghibli-looking game.
00:41:09
Steve-O
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm looking at Valor Mortis. Yeah, Vivarium.
00:41:13
JohhnyCAGE
yeah okay um valor more ah that's the yeah it's like the first person souls you're like a of revolutionary soldier or something i mean all right cool uh i don't know if i'm gonna play this but what you think of the the belmont the castlevania game
00:41:22
Steve-O
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:33
Steve-O
ah You know, I'm excited to check it out just because I was a very big fan of Dead Cells.
00:41:41
JohhnyCAGE
Dead Cells?
00:41:42
Steve-O
Thank you. And so, you know, New Castlevania game, it's probably going to be a budget title too, I imagine. So not even a budget title, but
00:41:50
JohhnyCAGE
Free on Game Pass. Free Game Pass, probably.
00:41:53
Steve-O
ah does it say that? And that way mean it's going to be a PS5 too, so maybe not.
00:41:58
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, i mean if you have it if you have Game Pass, might be free on Game Pass, but ah anyway, yeah.
00:41:59
Steve-O
Maybe they're being real strict about it.
00:42:06
Steve-O
I'm down to check it out.
00:42:09
JohhnyCAGE
right. Yeah, it looks neat.
00:42:10
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:42:11
JohhnyCAGE
Magician's Double Deal, we talked about a little bit already.
00:42:14
Steve-O
Mm.
00:42:15
JohhnyCAGE
ah to Okay.
00:42:20
JohhnyCAGE
I'm trying to find a reason. It's tough because I understand that there's outrage
00:42:27
Steve-O
Mm.
00:42:32
JohhnyCAGE
But it's like without being able to point to a very particular thing, I'm kind of like, I kind of throw my hands up and it's the crazy taxi AI thing. Yeah.
00:42:41
Steve-O
Yeah, I was. So I watched ah Jeff Gertzman checking out the footage today of the crazy taxi stuff.
00:42:44
JohhnyCAGE
because yeah
00:42:52
Steve-O
And, you know, it looks like crazy taxi. um But the problem is like, yeah, like some the second somebody is like, yeah, they're they're using AI on this. There is that like kind of like stink on it a little bit.
00:43:06
JohhnyCAGE
yeah
00:43:07
Steve-O
And it's hard to kind of just like pin it down where it's like, I think it's just at this point where it feels like. You're almost getting like. Cheated a little bit of a of a game where it's like the game is still there.
00:43:21
JohhnyCAGE
yeah
00:43:22
Steve-O
I'm sure it's going to be super fun. It looks like Crazy Taxi. It's just the idea where it's like, eh. Like you brought the original guy in It's like to quote what Jeff Gertzman says is it's like, it's a total vibes project. If you like crazy taxi, this is crazy taxi.
00:43:38
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:43:38
Steve-O
And it like, it should have been like, just like all in all, just like a big success.
00:43:38
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:43:41
Steve-O
But then like, you know, the prime thing that people are going to be talking about is the fact that it, you know, it was made using AI and you know all this stuff. So it's just like, at this point, I think in time, it's almost like,
00:43:56
Steve-O
It's almost a marketing like stink bomb for your game. If you like come out and like put that stuff out first, like immediate.
00:44:05
JohhnyCAGE
yeah Because it's like, what are they saying? Like, oh, someone's just placeholder and we're just using AI for that. Like, ah it's so vague and I'm not surprised that they they they are being vague about it.
00:44:19
JohhnyCAGE
But it's like, don't know, they just don't want to point to it. I get that. But I'm like, if it's, man, just give me the game.
00:44:23
Steve-O
Right.
00:44:26
JohhnyCAGE
And like, if it's placeholder and everything at the end of the day is going to be used by real humans or made by real humans, I'm like... Okay, but I also, I appreciate that it is slippery and, and you know, it's not in their best interest at all to be upfront about it, but...
00:44:46
Steve-O
Right.
00:44:48
JohhnyCAGE
I'll say this, man, the gameplay looked fun.
00:44:50
Steve-O
yeah It looked like crazy taxi.
00:44:51
JohhnyCAGE
I was like...
00:44:52
Steve-O
It, you know, I love crazy taxi. So this is something that I would like to be really excited about. um we'll see. We'll see. You know, again, I don't know how early this is.
00:45:03
Steve-O
So it's supposed to be out in 2027. It says, yeah, plenty of time.
00:45:06
JohhnyCAGE
Okay, so we got we got time. um Man. this is This is one I'm going to hold for. i played Doom the Dark Ages.
00:45:14
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:45:16
JohhnyCAGE
I like Doom the Dark Ages. The Revelations trailer kind of gave me like, okay. like I really liked Doom Eternal, like the old gods or or whatever it was, like that DLC.
00:45:31
JohhnyCAGE
That was quite good. um But... and This Doom, I think, of all the other Dooms, was like it felt like the most forgettable.
00:45:42
Steve-O
Okay.
00:45:42
JohhnyCAGE
yeah I'm like, I played it. It was good. It was good. But like it never really impressed me, i would say.
00:45:47
Steve-O
Right.
00:45:51
Steve-O
m
00:45:51
JohhnyCAGE
It's just like, yeah, I played Doom for like 12 hours, and I liked it, but I didn't love it.
00:45:57
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:45:58
JohhnyCAGE
And I didn't hate it, but it was just didn't really... I don't think i like I said anything other than like, yeah, I played it and it's ah it's pretty good. you know and And that's pretty much it.
00:46:11
JohhnyCAGE
So, rely I don't know. I guess i'll I'm the wait and see type for this DLC. If it's like really good, I'll ah look into it. But otherwise, if's neat it's that it's it's getting a some DLC.
00:46:19
Steve-O
Yeah, you know, see what people say when it comes out.
00:46:24
Steve-O
Next month, or right?
00:46:26
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, soon. Which is cool. like yeah The schedule is is very full at this point.
00:46:33
Steve-O
People don't want to release around Grand Theft Auto 6. Yeah.
00:46:35
JohhnyCAGE
I know somebody needs like some, but I will talk about it. But I think something's going to budge because like there's like five games, five major games are coming out within the span of like five days of each other.
00:46:49
JohhnyCAGE
It's something crazy like that.
00:46:49
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:46:51
JohhnyCAGE
um Let's see. There's a new Senua game, which kind of feels this one feels weird because it's like. Did you play any of the Hellblade games, Steve?
00:47:05
Steve-O
I remember you talking about the first Hellblade game.
00:47:08
JohhnyCAGE
Hellblade 1 is sick, but it's like, obviously, it's like, yeah, you know, it's like, it looks really good, and it was it's a budget title, but it looks great, but like the combat was a little funky, and then the second one they, I mean, Xbox, Microsoft, they perched it as if it was going to be like,
00:47:10
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:47:17
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:47:27
JohhnyCAGE
the God of War Ragnarok to to the first one or, you know, something like it was going to be a bigger, more explicit.
00:47:33
Steve-O
Right.
00:47:35
JohhnyCAGE
And they were like, no, it's like even i think they were like, it's borderline more artistic and weird than the first one, which by all means, that's cool. Like, i I'm glad they got to make that game.
00:47:48
JohhnyCAGE
But everybody's like, this wasn't really what we were expecting, considering it was like the tentpole game, and it kind of turned out to be less than impressive.
00:48:01
JohhnyCAGE
And then there's this one, which kind of feels like they were like, listen, you have, we paid you.
00:48:01
Steve-O
right.
00:48:08
JohhnyCAGE
You have the engine. You have a combat. Make a combat-heavy game. I don't care about your messages. I don't care about...
00:48:17
Steve-O
Take that artistic stuff and just throw it out.
00:48:17
JohhnyCAGE
you know, your interest, yeah, get make a reason for her to go to point a and point B and kill 3,000 things. ah That's kind of how this felt because it's like the trailer is, I mean, I guess in Senua fashion, it's like, don't know what's happening. don't know what the hell's going on, but like this doesn't feel like they were like, oh, yes, we want to say something.
00:48:41
JohhnyCAGE
there I think they were just like, fucking make her cut shit up with her sword because it looks great.
00:48:46
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:48:46
JohhnyCAGE
All right, cool. Um, let's see. State of Decay 3. Cool. i don't i'll know, man.
00:48:57
Steve-O
There's three of those now.
00:48:57
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, there's three of them. um Halo, Campaign Evolved. So this is something that I am interested in because we were talking about how, like, Gears, you remake Gears, like...
00:49:09
JohhnyCAGE
two, three, four times, whatever. And it's just like kind of the same. I will say i appreciate that they're like, we are giving you new content. And it's like three missions that are original, and brand new, basically before the game even starts.
00:49:27
JohhnyCAGE
um And I like that. I don't know if it's enough for me to buy it. Even though it comes on PS5. And I think, hold on.
00:49:40
JohhnyCAGE
I think I saw a thing that said like there was a trailer going out there and it might have been. i don't think it's this one, but it says p s five pro footage. And I was like, oh, that's got to sting.
00:49:50
Steve-O
Oh, a little bit, yeah.
00:49:51
JohhnyCAGE
I don't care. don't care what you're doing. That's got to sting a little bit, man. um But like, hey, yeah, at least they're doing something else. And it's shiny it's new.
00:50:03
JohhnyCAGE
And it's, you know, it's Halo. Good for them.
00:50:06
Steve-O
People love Halo.
00:50:06
JohhnyCAGE
I guess.
00:50:08
Steve-O
I think. I don't know if modern audiences.
Console Wars: Pricing and Strategies
00:50:13
JohhnyCAGE
they do I think.
00:50:16
Steve-O
I think the Halo audiences are like all like dads now.
00:50:19
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:50:20
Steve-O
it's It's like John and Tom.
00:50:20
JohhnyCAGE
um
00:50:21
Steve-O
is
00:50:22
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. And then there's Fable, which is kind of one of those things where it was rumored that this is going to get delayed because they're like, we need to have Halo. We need to have Gears. We need to have, think there's something else.
00:50:41
Steve-O
Forza.
00:50:42
JohhnyCAGE
Forza had to come out and they're like, Something's got to go. Something's got to give because Halo Fable won't be ready until probably later in the year.
00:50:48
Steve-O
Right.
00:50:51
JohhnyCAGE
And it's going to be jammed up for other reasons. And GTA. And if there's one that they felt like they could comfortably push, it was Fable.
00:50:56
Steve-O
Right.
00:50:59
JohhnyCAGE
And they did. And it's, you know, it's a cool trailer. um I still just want to see like a normal trailer.
00:51:08
Steve-O
Yeah, I just want to see... they I know they can't do it.
00:51:12
JohhnyCAGE
Like, is it the office? What is, like, what are, what is the vibe? And then, i'll
00:51:16
Steve-O
Right.
00:51:20
JohhnyCAGE
yeah, I don't know. I don't know, man.
00:51:21
Steve-O
I want Peter Mjolnir exploring the world and being like, see this tree?
00:51:22
JohhnyCAGE
I
00:51:26
Steve-O
You can plant this tree and see it grow.
00:51:30
JohhnyCAGE
see it grow after you've been slain by your son.
00:51:34
Steve-O
but When you play the game, it doesn't it's not in there.
00:51:34
JohhnyCAGE
that
00:51:36
Steve-O
you're like what are you talking about, man?
00:51:38
JohhnyCAGE
Catch you again, bitches.
00:51:40
Steve-O
Sorry, I've got your money.
00:51:42
JohhnyCAGE
It's all raw. It's all raw. Get your money.
00:51:43
Steve-O
So ra I got your money.
00:51:45
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, no. So it was like, it was cool to see Fable again, but it's just, it was this very obvious that they were like, oh yeah, we're going to delay it.
00:51:53
Steve-O
Right.
00:51:53
JohhnyCAGE
Like, oh, cool. So that's, that's neat. um Yeah. I mean, that was Xbox. I know we didn't touch on everything, but I feel like that's all the major things.
00:52:02
Steve-O
Want to grade Devin, I want to grade.
00:52:05
JohhnyCAGE
Man, the salt wants to give it like a D. But like, Gears, Fable, Halo. Like, it kind of gave you everything.
00:52:17
JohhnyCAGE
ah It's kind like a C. I think a solid c
00:52:21
Steve-O
um' I'm with you on a C. I think, you know, it's exciting to see where Xbox is going at this point with new leadership and them being like, you know what, we're here to kind of like beat the drum of the Xbox brand and we're not playing ball with anybody else anymore.
00:52:39
JohhnyCAGE
I feel, dude, I cannot. It's, it just seems like a honeypot situation, man. It's like, i don't believe a thing. i don't believe a single thing that comes out of like leadership's mouth at this point.
00:52:56
Steve-O
No.
00:52:56
JohhnyCAGE
Like, it feels so performative, and it feels like they are playing the game industry. Like, report it feels like they're playing them like a drum, dude.
00:53:08
JohhnyCAGE
Like, oh, look at these leaked memos that came out.
00:53:08
Steve-O
m
00:53:12
JohhnyCAGE
They have nothing but positive, really good things to say. That's so crazy. And I'm not saying, like, we're in on it, but it's like, that it feels like whether this is, you know, ah is it Arsha or Asha Sharma?
00:53:15
Steve-O
Right.
00:53:24
JohhnyCAGE
I think Arsha Sharma.
00:53:25
Steve-O
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:53:26
JohhnyCAGE
It feels like she has a very good idea of like how they're going to react. Asha Sharma, sorry. It feels like she's like...
00:53:40
JohhnyCAGE
this is how they're going to act. And like, and they are just taking the bait on literally everything. Cause it's like, they changed the logo. We have a new war cry.
00:53:50
JohhnyCAGE
We're going back to the old logo. We dropped the price. And it's like, I'm not saying any of these things are bad, but it's just, I don't know, man. It just feels like she's like, I'm just going to say what we need to say until we can kind of get it out. Because like at this stage,
00:54:08
JohhnyCAGE
we're still too early in for any of her decisions to like act, actually like make an impact.
00:54:12
Steve-O
Right.
00:54:14
JohhnyCAGE
You know, it's like all of these games were greenlit by Phil Spencer. Right. But ah ahead of time, like years and years ahead of time. So I don't know. It's just,
00:54:28
JohhnyCAGE
I look at the the YouTube thumbnails and it's like just the same looking guy saying the same exact thing. And it's just like, and I get It's kind of like a hive mind thing, but it just feels like she's aware of that. i'm saying she, let's just say leadership. Xbox leadership is aware of that. And they are just like, yep, let's just use the playbook.
00:54:50
JohhnyCAGE
And none of it feels authentic. At this point. And maybe things will change. But like it's just. i don't know man. Like everything is just.
00:55:03
JohhnyCAGE
It's autopilot. And yes the vibes. i would i I don't think you could argue. That the vibes are better. Like they are.
00:55:14
JohhnyCAGE
Just like. This feels like not a monkey's paw, but it's just like there's something nasty coming. And I don't know what it is, but I feel like it exists.
00:55:28
Steve-O
Yeah, I mean, something's up. You know, theres this is a big shift right now, just in like just in gaming as a whole. Like, you know, this is the first time console prices have had to go up mid generation.
00:55:41
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
00:55:41
Steve-O
um
00:55:41
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like, I think I retweeted something.
00:55:43
Steve-O
yeah
00:55:45
JohhnyCAGE
It was like, oh, yeah. I bet all those guys are like, oh, new gears, Xbox only. I mean, how much could an Xbox cost at this point? Right. It's been out.
00:55:53
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:55:54
JohhnyCAGE
It's got to be cheap. Right. Was it 250? Matt?
00:55:56
Steve-O
Oh.
00:55:59
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, my.
00:55:59
Steve-O
No.
00:55:59
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. there's that That's what you're making exclusive. Right. Oh, dude, I got to get it. I got get an Xbox again. How much are they? I'm sorry. Fucking what, bro?
00:56:11
JohhnyCAGE
Like, no anyway, sorry. Yeah, it's just...
00:56:17
JohhnyCAGE
Just gonna let me play Gears. That's fine.
00:56:19
Steve-O
You're right, though. You're right. Like, you know.
00:56:21
JohhnyCAGE
Like, yeah, come on, man. um
00:56:23
Steve-O
We have made gaming harder to get to play again.
00:56:26
JohhnyCAGE
Dude, it feels a scam, dude. Like, ah
00:56:31
JohhnyCAGE
I think I threaten to say this every generation, but I'm like, dude, this might be the last one, man. It's just like, at least the last one where I'm like, this invested.
00:56:41
Steve-O
Right.
00:56:41
JohhnyCAGE
I'm like a day one guy because it's just like this cannot it cannot literally cannot stand to be this like like this for any longer.
00:56:51
Steve-O
m
00:56:52
JohhnyCAGE
Like the bubble is going to burst so badly.
00:56:55
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:56:56
JohhnyCAGE
And like, you know, people have been getting laid off or fired for three years now, like straight. And it's like it finally has slowed down.
00:57:03
Steve-O
Mm.
00:57:06
JohhnyCAGE
But.
00:57:09
JohhnyCAGE
It's just like, but like as a result, they're like, okay, no one's getting, no one else is getting like fired on like such a devastating clip. But also your Xbox Series X costs $850.
00:57:23
JohhnyCAGE
Like wait, what dude?
00:57:23
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:57:26
JohhnyCAGE
oh your PS5 pro is $900. Oh, the, was it the, uh, the fucking, the steam deck?
00:57:35
Steve-O
Oh, yeah, the Steam Box.
00:57:37
JohhnyCAGE
Well, there's a Steam bought box, like the Steam deck upped it like $300 increase.
00:57:38
Steve-O
The deck, yeah, the deck, yeah.
00:57:43
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:57:43
JohhnyCAGE
three hundred three
00:57:43
Steve-O
I remember when I bought mine, I was like, dude, this is like $700.
00:57:49
Steve-O
And now it's like $1,000, like minimum.
00:57:51
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. let's in that's in
00:57:53
Steve-O
I'm like, this is.
00:57:54
JohhnyCAGE
That's like embarrassing. You know, like I don't i don't know what to, it's like,
00:57:55
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:58:00
JohhnyCAGE
as strong as a PS4 pro it's not, I get it.
00:58:03
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:58:04
JohhnyCAGE
It's handheld. It's like, are you what? Like, no, bro. Like, sorry, but no. Um, anyway, let's talk about some more games that I'm, that I legitimately am very interested, but, um, I don't know, man.
00:58:15
Steve-O
Mm
00:58:21
JohhnyCAGE
I just, I, I have concerns.
00:58:24
JohhnyCAGE
I can't, I can't act like I don't.
00:58:24
Steve-O
hmm.
00:58:28
JohhnyCAGE
Um, um,
00:58:29
Steve-O
Well, let's ah let's go to the other guy.
00:58:31
JohhnyCAGE
Alright, did you want to go to state of play?
00:58:35
Steve-O
i would say, let's you know, we went over to the to the green side of game and let's go over to the blue skies.
00:58:40
JohhnyCAGE
Team blue? Team blue? Alright. Do you want to go back to front? Front to back?
00:58:48
Steve-O
Let's go front to back.
00:58:49
JohhnyCAGE
Alright.
Anticipation for Wolverine and Spider-Man Games
00:58:53
JohhnyCAGE
Wolverine?
00:58:54
Steve-O
Wolverine.
00:58:55
JohhnyCAGE
I made i mean I cleared my schedule for a while for this one.
00:59:01
Steve-O
Okay.
00:59:01
JohhnyCAGE
I was like, I'm, I, we can't get groceries that day.
00:59:06
Steve-O
listen
00:59:06
JohhnyCAGE
like Literally what has it? We can't not that day.
00:59:08
Steve-O
I need this. This is the one that I need.
00:59:09
JohhnyCAGE
What do you mean? Oh, well at five, at five o'clock is going to happen.
00:59:12
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:59:13
JohhnyCAGE
It's going to be like an hour and a half. And to be fair,
00:59:16
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:59:18
JohhnyCAGE
Jenny was like, I hear you. Calm down. I hear you. ah You know, yeah, sure. Sure. And then I was like, oh, look, it's Wolverine. Now, unfortunately, i don't know.
00:59:28
JohhnyCAGE
Did you watch this live, Steve? Or was this like clips?
00:59:30
Steve-O
No, I just watched the trailer later.
00:59:31
JohhnyCAGE
effort okay Yeah. ah Live, it was like the stream was buckling. So you had two ways to watch on YouTube where the the stream kept juddering and then everything was out of sync.
00:59:37
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:59:45
JohhnyCAGE
Or you could switch it over the Twitch where the frame rate was nothing. It was like two, two frames per second because of one popularity, which is nice.
00:59:56
JohhnyCAGE
But two, I popped the chat open and it's just assholes spamming.
00:59:57
Steve-O
Mm.
01:00:02
JohhnyCAGE
We want Destiny three or like the D3 logo.
01:00:05
Steve-O
Jesus.
01:00:06
JohhnyCAGE
And I was just like, this is embarrassing. But anyway, so it was a little tough to watch. live And then, but Jenny came home. was like, Jenny, look at Wolverine. And she's like, that's very nice. And I was like, isn't it cool? um But that being said, it was Wolverine trailers. was It was exactly what I wanted.
01:00:26
Steve-O
Okay.
01:00:27
JohhnyCAGE
I don't know. it was is about seven minutes, seven and a half minutes of just like gameplay, which is what I thought, which is kind of what I thought. is I bet you they're going start with like a a good gameplay chunk.
01:00:40
JohhnyCAGE
Wolverine and it's going to be sick. Like it's going to be exactly kind of like it's going to show him doing dope shit. It's exactly that.
01:00:50
JohhnyCAGE
Like, dude, he his murders, man, like all of the murder he's doing in this.
01:00:58
Steve-O
Is Wolverine being Wolverine that like you you've always imagined Wolverine doing and being at your fingertips.
01:01:05
JohhnyCAGE
dude in one of in like one of the fights he kicks a guy into a forklift like spear like i don't know man I'm just like this is everything I wanted for him to look like dude what
01:01:18
Steve-O
You know what it kind of scratches the itch of too? It scratches that Punisher for the PlayStation 2 with the the violence and the gore.
01:01:24
JohhnyCAGE
yeah yeah and like
01:01:27
Steve-O
It's really kind of got that going with it too, which I love.
01:01:32
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Like ah I was surprised by like the Jean gray, like kind of co-op moves. I was like, Oh man, that's sick.
01:01:38
Steve-O
It's Jean Grey vicious.
01:01:40
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Jean. I don't, I'm thinking he was trying to do a bit there, but I was like, I don't, I'm not here for this man.
01:01:46
Steve-O
I thought he was.
01:01:48
JohhnyCAGE
I don't know what you're trying to say. Um, and I can't be more fiction about like when people are just fiction about like how the blood falls off him too quickly. I'm like, okay, okay, sure. Like, yeah, what a problem.
01:02:01
Steve-O
right This is the Spider-Man puddle thing all over again.
01:02:01
JohhnyCAGE
Uh, Yeah, like, it feels like that.
01:02:03
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:02:04
JohhnyCAGE
It's like, okay, like, if this is really what, and that is game discourse on Twitter, which is its own thing. I understand that, but yeah, man, I don't know what your thoughts on this were, but I was like, like, are you, are is this something where you're like, I'm considering blowing off the four inches of dust off my PS5, and okay.
01:02:19
Steve-O
I mean,
01:02:29
Steve-O
well, yeah, yeah, definitely. Like this is definitely one of the, I, I look at the,
01:02:35
JohhnyCAGE
Because to be fair, to be fair, this is a a gear situation, right? Like you can't, you have to play it on this.
01:02:40
Steve-O
You have to play it on the PlayStation five.
01:02:42
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:02:44
Steve-O
it is not.
01:02:44
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:02:45
Steve-O
And you know, they made that mandate where they said our single player games, our single player games are only playable on our PlayStation five and PlayStation five pro console.
01:02:56
Steve-O
And, And that's smart. That is, that is a company who is, they know what they have.
01:02:58
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:03:03
Steve-O
Sony has been doing the third person single player saga stories perfectly for almost eight years now, starting with God of war.
01:03:15
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:03:16
Steve-O
I would even, mean there might be even like before that too, that I can't think of, but you know,
01:03:21
JohhnyCAGE
I mean, Uncharted, Lasso, God of War, like...
01:03:23
Steve-O
Yeah, like Last of Us, you're right.
01:03:23
JohhnyCAGE
like
01:03:25
Steve-O
So, like, 2013. So, for, like, two console generations, like, they've dominated that for, like, their identity. And it's something that Xbox wants so bad. Like, as we were talking with Senua, like, they they want that so bad they just can't do it.
01:03:39
Steve-O
And all of their other games end up being these very same feely first-person shooter style games.
01:03:46
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:03:46
Steve-O
So... It's just something where it's like, dude, it's Wolverine this time. It's not Spider-Man. It's Wolverine. And that's sick.
01:03:53
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Yeah. That's sick. Spider-Man was sick and now it's Wolverine's turn to be sick. and
01:03:58
Steve-O
Who do they do next? Do they do they do Iron Man? Captain America? Like. They can do them all, right?
01:04:08
JohhnyCAGE
I mean, think possibly, right? It's like... who It's just like it needs to be popular enough that... You know what? I i hate to say it.
01:04:19
JohhnyCAGE
And it's basic. I'd love an iron an Insomniac Iron Man game. Because you take...
01:04:24
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:04:27
JohhnyCAGE
You take the gunplay from like a Raction to Clank. I'm not saying like silly, but like you take the imagination of a Raction Clank like Arsenal and then you just add like, well, yes, he's not webbing around, but he's flying around. Like, I feel like you could really do you could really do something with that.
01:04:48
Steve-O
but Yeah, you could make that magical.
01:04:50
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, man. But, like, I mean, how can you not want them to team up in next one, you know?
01:04:57
Steve-O
Yeah, yeah, it's...
01:04:59
JohhnyCAGE
he's going to kick him with four. Oh, it's going to be so sick. Oh, no. He's going to do it.
01:05:02
Steve-O
It's a perfect formula. like they insomniac Insomniac did, um like you said, Ratchet and Clank. What else have they done?
01:05:11
JohhnyCAGE
ah
01:05:13
Steve-O
They did the, um though what's it called, games? The ah infamous games, right?
01:05:17
JohhnyCAGE
ah No.
01:05:17
Steve-O
Or am I wrong?
01:05:18
JohhnyCAGE
that was Sucker Punch.
01:05:18
Steve-O
No. Soccer Punch. What are they doing?
01:05:20
JohhnyCAGE
That the ghost. They did Ghost of Yotei, Ghost of Tsushima.
01:05:23
Steve-O
you know okay I feel like that's a downgrade.
01:05:24
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:05:27
JohhnyCAGE
um Ghost of... I'd say no, but Ghost of Yotei is kind of like, okay. Because Ghost of Tsushima, I loved.
01:05:38
JohhnyCAGE
i was like, yeah, man, this this rules. I loved it. What a surprise, you know, fresh new universe. Like, it's not infamous, but like, you know, it's it's great.
01:05:50
JohhnyCAGE
It's great on its own. Like, truly love Ghost Tsushima.
01:05:52
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:05:53
JohhnyCAGE
Ghost of Yotei felt it's like an evolution of Tsushima, but it kind of like wasn't enough.
01:06:01
Steve-O
Mm.
01:06:06
Steve-O
Mm. Mm.
01:06:06
JohhnyCAGE
And like, I just didn't like the story nearly as much. And I was like, okay, okay.
01:06:09
Steve-O
That's fair.
01:06:10
JohhnyCAGE
And now I'm at a point where like I still think it's a really good game above average for sure. But like, yeah, like a little disappointing just because like it's like the gameplay.
01:06:26
JohhnyCAGE
evolution didn't match with this plot evolution neat like the story it just played like very the story is very kind of generically revenge filled which is okay but like there's really not that much else going on in there uh i'm ashamed the gameplay is better like objectively but it's tough um
01:06:35
Steve-O
Okay.
01:06:41
Steve-O
Mm
01:06:47
JohhnyCAGE
So they're at a point where like if they announce like a third Ghosts game, I would be like, I'd really rather you guys have done like a different thing or go back to Infamous, right?
01:06:51
Steve-O
hmm.
01:06:57
Steve-O
Right. It kind of like devalues like the previous games in the ghost series.
01:07:04
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, like I'd love to go back at some point.
01:07:05
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
01:07:08
JohhnyCAGE
It's just for a third go ahead, like I don't know, maybe do something else.
01:07:12
Steve-O
Right.
01:07:12
JohhnyCAGE
Insomniac though, they, Spyro,
01:07:15
Steve-O
Oh, yeah, yeah. Wait, hold on. Wasn't there a new Spyro announcement for Xbox?
01:07:19
JohhnyCAGE
Yes, but that's me yeah but that's ah made by Toys Bob.
01:07:21
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:07:25
JohhnyCAGE
think the the what that the the toyster games like
01:07:28
Steve-O
Toys for Bobs.
01:07:29
JohhnyCAGE
toys for bob
01:07:29
Steve-O
Toys for Bob. Yeah.
01:07:30
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah. so and it like I don't mean to be that guy, but it looked like a fancy mobile game.
01:07:37
JohhnyCAGE
It didn't look super impressive, but they did Spyro, then Rackshit, and then Rackshit for like another 17 games.
01:07:38
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:07:49
JohhnyCAGE
Sunset Overdrive.
01:07:50
Steve-O
Oh, okay. You know what?
01:07:51
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:07:52
Steve-O
Dude, they can make any game they want now. They officially...
01:07:53
JohhnyCAGE
More Rackshit.
01:07:55
Steve-O
More Ratchet.
01:07:55
JohhnyCAGE
and And then it went to Spider-Man.
01:07:58
Steve-O
spiderman Spider-Man just gave them the unlimited money cheat code.
01:07:58
JohhnyCAGE
Spider-Man 2.
01:08:03
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, which apparently they spent all of it on Spider-Man 2.
01:08:04
Steve-O
And... On Wolverine. Oh, on Spider-Man 2. Okay.
01:08:09
JohhnyCAGE
And now somehow lost money on that.
01:08:09
Steve-O
That makes sense.
01:08:12
JohhnyCAGE
or Yeah, however they they want that to sound. Yeah, yeah. So after Wolverine and Somniac Man, I really kind of want them to...
01:08:25
JohhnyCAGE
They probably... maybe Give me that Venom game, bro. I wanted that. I was really excited.
01:08:28
Steve-O
That would be cool. That would be very cool.
01:08:30
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. And Spider-Man 2. Like, Spider-Man 2 is a lesser, is a less egregious version of Ghost of Yote. Like, Spider-Man 2 is so good, but it's like we expected it to be really good, and it was really good, but it didn't blow your mind good, like how the first Spider-Man was, because of the X-Factors.
01:08:45
Steve-O
Right.
01:08:52
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, it's the first time I'm playing Spider-Man in, you know, a decade, and it feels great.
01:08:57
Steve-O
Also, they had like the Miles Morales.5 that like released.
01:09:01
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and that was great. That is great, you know?
01:09:04
Steve-O
That is, yeah.
01:09:05
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. um yeah
01:09:06
Steve-O
ah Christmas game, too, which is weird.
01:09:08
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, but Wolverine Man, I have like literally September 15th.
01:09:11
Steve-O
Dude, when's it come out again?
01:09:17
Steve-O
that's one of the That's one of the before GTA Yeah.
01:09:22
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah, that's that's like, yeah that's one of the, like, you want to stay away from Wolverine?
01:09:22
Steve-O
like releases right
01:09:29
JohhnyCAGE
So all like the end of September, so loaded with ah with stuff. um And to me, this is a this is a PTO game.
01:09:40
JohhnyCAGE
This is like, I'm calling out.
01:09:44
Steve-O
Right.
01:09:44
JohhnyCAGE
I'm just going to play Wolverine all day. Do not bother me.
01:09:48
Steve-O
That's honestly, I think that would be a fun thing if we sort of add that into our reviews where it's like this is a PTO movie or game or show or something.
01:09:55
JohhnyCAGE
game. I mean, yeah, I mean, I've I've definitely i've had a few, i think. don't know. Did I have one? i think I had one earlier this year. Why am I blanking on it?
01:10:10
Steve-O
Oh, what was it? I do remember you talking about that.
01:10:13
JohhnyCAGE
It was it was loaded up, loaded up, please.
01:10:17
Steve-O
Must not have been good. Must not have been.
01:10:19
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, the resume. Requiem.
01:10:21
Steve-O
Oh, Requiem. Yes. Yes.
01:10:22
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Which, yeah. You know, I was like, okay, i don't bother me. I'm doing all this.
Capcom's Success and Mega Man Concerns
01:10:29
JohhnyCAGE
But, ah yeah.
01:10:29
Steve-O
I know I'm jumping a little bit here, but speaking about Requiem, Resident Evil, we're back already.
01:10:37
JohhnyCAGE
Dude. Dude.
01:10:39
Steve-O
Dude. Yeah.
01:10:41
JohhnyCAGE
There's not, there's not a there hasn't been a better developer.
01:10:41
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:10:50
JohhnyCAGE
in the last two generations. I really don't think anyone's been able to top Capcom. They announced games. They don't get delayed.
01:10:59
Steve-O
yeah
01:10:59
JohhnyCAGE
They're an 80 or above easy on Metacritic. One game notwithstanding, and also you're just being a baby about it if you're talking about Resident Evil 3 Remake.
01:11:09
JohhnyCAGE
Like, you're just being a baby. Like, it's still really high quality.
01:11:10
Steve-O
Right.
01:11:12
JohhnyCAGE
But, like, 80 or above, the the workflow...
01:11:12
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:11:18
JohhnyCAGE
of whatever they have there, I'm not going to act like they're not crunching and pretend like they're not, but like whatever they're doing there, like they should literally give seminar, like there was like game developer conferences, like the real ones, like GDC and shit, like they should be like, this is our workflow because whatever they got going on there is crazy.
01:11:31
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:11:40
Steve-O
They need to explain their workflow, there're the amount of teams they have.
01:11:43
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. How, how are you doing this? What are your milestones look like? Yeah.
01:11:47
Steve-O
and I think most importantly, I think they're marketing. i think they need to they explain to some of these big time game developers. Don't put people in these like year long like waits for a game.
01:12:02
Steve-O
Just be like, hey, this one's coming out in six months. Here's the date. Here's when it is.
01:12:07
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. and like and And it's like, on top of your workflow, announce it, and it's like, it's coming out. Yeah. Because, like, Capcom's been on such a crazy run.
01:12:17
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:12:17
JohhnyCAGE
Requiem, Pragmata, Capcom, or Capcom, Onimusha confirmed this year. you Haters. Haters didn't believe me. um But it's like, yeah, and they announced a new Code Veronica.
01:12:34
JohhnyCAGE
And it looks sick. And it's like,
01:12:39
JohhnyCAGE
It's just like, you know, it's not infinite money. They just have such a crazy pipeline and they're like, and like, we're not even counting Street Fighter and stuff like that, which again.
01:12:43
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:12:52
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah,
01:12:52
Steve-O
No, street fighter DLC monster hunter stories, I think released this year too. Right.
01:12:57
JohhnyCAGE
yeah yeah. Monster Hunter DLC was announced. Street Fighter DLC was announced and it's like you're doing all these things and not just one type of game, Pragmata. Onimusha Resident Evil like similar but different you know it's like it's not just the Resident Evil show I mean yes could Devil May Cry get more love of course but like it's DMC5 isn't super old and it was it was very good um and you know I'm over here going where's
01:13:15
Steve-O
right
01:13:34
JohhnyCAGE
Mega Man Leggins wears Dino Crisis.
01:13:36
Steve-O
Yeah, no, same, honestly.
01:13:38
JohhnyCAGE
And again, that just speaks to their their IP, frankly, like to be that guy. But it just...
01:13:43
Steve-O
I think that might be their the one series that Capcom kind of has faltered on was Mega Man. When they did that Mega Man announcement ah in the Games Award, like 2025, it should have been Mega Man Legends 3.
01:13:52
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:13:56
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. like I'm happy to see it, but yeah. i'm like Or just a different type of thing. I don't know. like They're
01:14:03
Steve-O
Resident Evil engine, RE engine.
01:14:06
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, like, hey, I get it. Maybe you could be like oh, they use it for everything, but it's a sick engine, dude.
01:14:12
Steve-O
It works. It works.
01:14:13
JohhnyCAGE
And it works.
01:14:13
Steve-O
It makes good games.
01:14:14
JohhnyCAGE
And it clearly, you're able to work with it very easily because because it's like your crazy pipeline.
01:14:17
Steve-O
yeah
01:14:20
JohhnyCAGE
I just, I don't know. I think we should be willing to explore a third-person Mega Man game again.
01:14:28
Steve-O
That would be an open world.
01:14:29
JohhnyCAGE
then just call it Legends 3. And then
01:14:32
Steve-O
Yeah. Or even like maybe like a Metroidvania Mega Man.
01:14:33
JohhnyCAGE
a then
01:14:36
JohhnyCAGE
Or hey, hey, yeah, yeah, or that or like if we're acting crazy, and we're doing all these remakes. What have we remade Mega Man Legends one and two?
01:14:43
Steve-O
that would add that That's something I've been waiting for for so long.
01:14:45
JohhnyCAGE
Remaster it with two analog sticks. So it's it's a slightly modern game.
01:14:47
Steve-O
i don't need I don't need another Gears of War remake. I don't need these games that have come out within the past five years getting remakes.
01:14:58
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:14:59
Steve-O
Mega Man Legends 1 and 2. Devin, you are so right about that.
01:15:01
JohhnyCAGE
Just, yeah, just let me walk around, use the third, use the other analog stick to move the camera because that wasn't a thing then.
01:15:02
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:15:10
Steve-O
it No, and the funny thing is, I feel like the Mega Man Legends art style has become its own like art movement.
01:15:20
JohhnyCAGE
yeah, and it, yeah, it aches really well, and yeah.
01:15:22
Steve-O
Yeah, it's beautiful.
01:15:25
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I know.
01:15:26
Steve-O
We're just sitting here getting mad about Mega Man Legends getting abused.
01:15:27
JohhnyCAGE
It's bad, really bad. Um... Real quick, slightly back on track. um Do you did you play you play the diver, right? was that Galani?
01:15:37
Steve-O
I have David the Diver. I've never I've never played it.
01:15:40
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, that was Galani that he was.
01:15:42
Steve-O
Yeah, I think John played it too.
01:15:43
JohhnyCAGE
OK, okay yeah. Bang Joe, the chef. Cool, I guess I bounced off it, dude. I really did. I wanted to like it, but I was just in a weird funk and just like nothing was hitting.
Gaming Preferences and Upcoming Remakes
01:15:56
Steve-O
That's fair. I mean, like, I think there's this reality we need to face sometimes where like some games, most games you're not going to beat.
01:16:04
JohhnyCAGE
Dude, I mean, yes, I'm slowly, I'm just now getting comfortable with like not forcing myself through games. I'm not feeling like i i said I said the other week, like I wasn't really feeling Nina or Mina.
01:16:19
JohhnyCAGE
I haven't touched it I used to be playing Star Rebel Outlaws, which I know is not a as good of a game, but like I'm enjoying playing it way more. And I'm like, sorry, dude.
01:16:30
Steve-O
yeah
01:16:31
JohhnyCAGE
like Sorry. But, yeah, I don't...
01:16:34
Steve-O
I think, you know, that's the thing where it's like play, play what's fun to you in that moment.
01:16:34
JohhnyCAGE
mean
01:16:39
Steve-O
There's going to be games that people will swear up and down is the best, most fun experience. And it's just not going to be your jam. Like, you know, if you don't like souls games, don't force yourself to play souls games. Like, you know, play what you like.
01:16:54
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis remake a Tomb Raider one, which is a game.
01:17:03
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:17:05
JohhnyCAGE
I have like a weird fascination with that game because i had we had Tomb Raider. We played the shit out of it. But like, obviously I was garbage at it because I was like eight and that game is weird.
01:17:16
Steve-O
Same. Yeah.
01:17:19
JohhnyCAGE
And at some point, like you're not fighting like the devil, but like you're fighting a demon. You start with fighting a T-Rex. Sick.
01:17:27
Steve-O
Mm.
01:17:28
JohhnyCAGE
And then at the end, you're fighting like a demon, which is cool. But like everything in between, i just have zero memory of.
01:17:36
Steve-O
Mm.
01:17:37
JohhnyCAGE
And I thought it was weird even then that she was like, I care for sports. And I'm like, that seems fucked up. That's for your villain. That's a villain thing.
01:17:48
JohhnyCAGE
But hey, she had two guns and she had triangle titties. So I was slightly invested.
01:17:55
Steve-O
Right.
01:17:56
JohhnyCAGE
Can't act like i wasn't, but... and I'm open to it. I'm open to it. And that a Tomb Raider is February 2020. Oh, that got delayed, I think.
01:18:07
Steve-O
Oh, OK.
01:18:08
JohhnyCAGE
Because Tomb Raider, they were doing a thing where they were doing the remake of the first one and a new one.
01:18:09
Steve-O
Dang.
01:18:14
JohhnyCAGE
And they were going to come out like within like six months of each other.
01:18:15
Steve-O
Right.
01:18:18
JohhnyCAGE
Now, I'm not quite sure because I don't know how much that sense that makes if.
01:18:18
Steve-O
Mm.
01:18:22
Steve-O
They are not Capcom.
01:18:24
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. And like. Yeah, even Capcom's not releasing two Resident Evil games in the same year. You know what I'm saying?
01:18:31
JohhnyCAGE
Like, that new one might get pushed back.
01:18:31
Steve-O
Right.
01:18:32
Steve-O
They know they know how to get their money.
01:18:34
JohhnyCAGE
ah Yeah, I just want to make quick comment about Phantom Blade Zero. This game went from being so cool looking, like where i was like, dude, Phantom Blade Zero so cool looking.
01:18:45
JohhnyCAGE
I'm so interested.
01:18:46
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:18:47
JohhnyCAGE
To them showing like a three-minute trailer in every possible show. And it's still not coming out until like Q4. And I'm kind of sick of it. And I'm like, I would be like, oh, this looks super sick to them. Just they're showing way too much of it.
01:19:05
JohhnyCAGE
And I'm just like, I just die.
01:19:05
Steve-O
Yeah. Yeah.
01:19:06
JohhnyCAGE
Now you're just another. Now you're just irritating. I'm irritated. I saw you because that means you're not something that I really didn't want to see. You know, I'm like, you could have been Heretic Prophet, but you're not.
01:19:20
JohhnyCAGE
You're fan of Blade Zero. So how now mad.
01:19:21
Steve-O
yeah
01:19:23
JohhnyCAGE
ah Let's see. Anything else outside of, I think, the big one? There was Onimusha we talked about. I played that demo.
01:19:36
Steve-O
Oh, how was it?
01:19:37
JohhnyCAGE
Very good. um I do have a similar complaint i think everybody has, though. Is um the... difficulty is this extremely swingy like the mobs are dumb easy they're like dummy easy and also they're not nearly aggressive enough because a lot of the what can make the combat really pop off is the parry system and like the animation like the animations are great when he does like cool parries and things like that and the isin system which is like
01:19:54
Steve-O
Okay.
01:20:10
JohhnyCAGE
Right before they hit you, you kind of like do a quick dodge and cut them in half really the quick. But like the enemies will just like. Feels like 20 seconds will go by before somebody swings at you and then you're like come on. And then I got to the boss at the end of the demo and he killed me like 20 times in a row. And I was like, I hate this. Like, what the hell's happening?
01:20:30
JohhnyCAGE
So ah demos, I think, everywhere. um I do recommend checking it out.
01:20:36
Steve-O
Okay.
01:20:37
JohhnyCAGE
It's pretty pretty sick. We've got Silent Hill Townfall, which think i asked you, and I think you big-timed me, aka didn't respond.
01:20:47
Steve-O
You asked me if I finished F and I never did.
01:20:48
JohhnyCAGE
Did you ever finish f This sounds like you're you were making excuses for it. You were like, maybe it's not. Maybe it's cool to not beat games.
01:20:59
Steve-O
No, I just, yeah, I guess you're right. But like the thing is, it's like, I think my interest in F kind of just like petered out really quick.
01:21:01
JohhnyCAGE
Maybe. Yeah.
01:21:06
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. I will say i was, i was feeling F F kind of came out a, in a bad time for me.
01:21:13
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:21:14
JohhnyCAGE
Um, and then I heard like, you kind of have to beat F like four times in a row, like get the real ending or whatever.
01:21:21
Steve-O
I hate games that do that, ma'am.
01:21:23
JohhnyCAGE
And I'm like, and I, I, And I don't know if it's different endings or the real ending. You know, I didn't do enough research, but I will say like, yes, when I beat Silent Hill 2 remake, which again is very good and worth your time.
01:21:30
Steve-O
hmm.
01:21:41
JohhnyCAGE
And i know that there are different endings, but like i' they're not so different that I'm like, oh, I got to beat all four to get to the real one.
01:21:47
Steve-O
Right.
01:21:48
JohhnyCAGE
But I just like the thought of fucking beating. I will do again. i was like, dude, not on your life. Like, this was a heavy game, man. Like, look.
01:21:58
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:21:59
JohhnyCAGE
yes Yes, I get a chainsaw.
01:22:00
Steve-O
Like that's a big ask.
01:22:01
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, like, and then it's not very obvious, like, what you need to do to get the different endings, and it's, I don't know.
01:22:09
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:22:10
JohhnyCAGE
I just wasn't super into it, but Townfall looks good.
01:22:16
Steve-O
Townfall looks good. i you know, I don't think it's on like the same level as silent Hill two, but you know, it could be cool.
01:22:21
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I mean, are you, like, all right, so, like, Two came out. F came out.
01:22:26
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:22:28
JohhnyCAGE
Are you kind of like you're good on the town fall? Or do you think Fair.
01:22:31
Steve-O
um I might have a little like Silent Hill fatigue almost.
01:22:39
Steve-O
Like, you know, yeah I get i get it The town is scary.
01:22:39
JohhnyCAGE
Fair enough.
01:22:43
JohhnyCAGE
It's a spooky town.
01:22:44
Steve-O
this is boy down
01:22:45
JohhnyCAGE
That's like a spooky fish town. Who knows?
01:22:47
Steve-O
The town's fallen. Yeah,
01:22:48
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. All right. Fair enough. ah Let's see.
01:22:53
Steve-O
yeah it looked cool, though, so.
01:22:55
JohhnyCAGE
This might still be. i struggled to find a
01:23:01
JohhnyCAGE
a better. What's the word I'm looking for? Like ah a better kind of like dark horse fun surprise announcement than stuntman Hollywood.
01:23:12
Steve-O
Oh my god, Devin. i You know I love Stuntman.
01:23:14
JohhnyCAGE
I was tickled pink, dude.
01:23:16
Steve-O
I am so happy.
01:23:16
JohhnyCAGE
I was like. I was like what is that? And then and then when I like rewatched it, because I was like, oh, that's the car from Fast and the Furious. That's the car from ah ah not Mad Max. What the hell's the other one? ah Death Race.
01:23:33
Steve-O
m
01:23:33
JohhnyCAGE
That's the car from Miami vice. That's kit from night. Right. You know, like was like, what is going on here?
01:23:37
Steve-O
yeah
01:23:39
JohhnyCAGE
And then once they announced stunt man, I was like, Oh, that's so cool. Because one, ah feel like you can. Yeah. Like you played stunt man. I played stunt man.
01:23:49
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:23:49
Steve-O
We tried to play stuntman at your house, but then some scary guy came over with pizza and demanded we play Gauntlet Legends.
01:23:57
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and ah hate to say it, but I'm like, all I can think about is, like, the DLC, dude. I'm like, oh, my God.
01:24:04
Steve-O
Oh, the DLC is going to be sick.
01:24:04
JohhnyCAGE
This game pops off. Like, oh, the options that you could have, man.
01:24:07
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
01:24:10
JohhnyCAGE
Like, you could have Mad Max. You could have, ah you know, throw Batmobile in there.
01:24:12
Steve-O
Yes.
01:24:17
JohhnyCAGE
Like, are you kidding me? Like, this is going to be so sick. Like, and I played... um I can't think of the name of the game because it was like it was a racing game where you like it was kind of like a movie set but it was like you could change the environment right and it's like yeah
01:24:36
Steve-O
Oh, I remember that game where you could hit buttons and there was like smoke towers that would like blow up and fall down into the track.
01:24:44
JohhnyCAGE
yeah and then like the next lap is like the Statue of Liberty has exploded and now you're driving through the remnants of it because you got enough points or whatever to set it off and Like, yeah, I don't know.
01:24:55
Steve-O
Mm.
01:24:57
JohhnyCAGE
Like, I just, I, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:24:58
Steve-O
Split second.
01:25:00
JohhnyCAGE
Split second. So, like, if it's remotely like that, but instead, you know, like, hit this jump. And I think some of the fun of Stuntman is, like, nailing the exact trick, but also kind of, like, adding your own little flavor with, like, your little mess ups and things like that.
01:25:18
JohhnyCAGE
But, I mean, the problem with Stuntman was just, it was punishing.
01:25:18
Steve-O
yeah
01:25:22
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:25:22
Steve-O
It was very much like you have to do this.
01:25:23
JohhnyCAGE
Like, Driver 1, it was so hard to do.
01:25:26
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:25:26
Steve-O
exactly Yeah.
01:25:27
Steve-O
But this is this is so cool because like you're saying, they have the things from the movies like, you know, they they have the Back to the Future car. They have Kit from Knight Rider.
01:25:38
Steve-O
They they're they're actively like they're not making up their own things. It's not like here's our ode to the James Bond movie. It's like we can actually get that license.
01:25:45
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah, James Bond. You can throw that fucking Aston Martin in there, dude. Like, I'm very excited.
01:25:49
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
01:25:52
JohhnyCAGE
And it was just like, never in a million years would have thought of stuntman oh yeah you know we stick stuntman uh i mean we're on a pretty good run of like shit i was really into ill i am wildly invested in i just think it's the coolest looking game like i don't know whatever graphics engine they're using is really doing it for me because like everything's super gross looking
01:25:57
Steve-O
Yeah, in 2026. Stuntman. that man
01:26:20
JohhnyCAGE
And are like, oh, the voice acting is bad. I'm like, I don't care, dude. Like, that guy's head. I cut off that dude's head and then a spider legs came out of it. It's like a thing game, you know?
01:26:30
Steve-O
Right.
01:26:31
JohhnyCAGE
And the combat. and it just as The monsters are grody and gross. And everything looks... ah just You punch a dead zombie baby? Like, whatever the hell is going on in it? Like, everything about this was sick.
01:26:45
JohhnyCAGE
So I was like, yes, yes, please.
Excitement for New Game Announcements
01:26:49
JohhnyCAGE
Control resonance. um that's a late September game um yeah it's like uh I I replayed Alan Wake 2 this year and I'm just like I'm in in the mood and I really liked Control i didn't love the plot I was a little irritated with the plot of Control because like
01:26:51
Steve-O
That's going to be so exciting. That's a part of the, yeah, the September killer list.
01:27:14
Steve-O
Okay.
01:27:19
JohhnyCAGE
I hate redactions and the game has so many redacted folders, like, you know, documentation.
01:27:24
Steve-O
Yeah, that game's all about the redactions when you're reading the lore and stuff.
01:27:25
JohhnyCAGE
It's just like, because every time I read a ah document, I'm just like, it's redacted. So then I spend like 10 seconds trying to figure out what it actually says. Despite knowing it's like, it's just move on. Who cares?
01:27:36
JohhnyCAGE
But um I can't, I'm like stuck on this. um
01:27:39
Steve-O
but What would this say?
01:27:40
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, but like the comment and the whole vibe of Control was really cool. So to see Control Resonant,
01:27:44
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:27:47
JohhnyCAGE
And we've talked about it a bunch already, but like the combat system, the third per person combat, I'm like, okay, I'm, I don't know because, you know, it's remedy hasn't really, they're not really known for that, but it looks cool.
01:28:02
JohhnyCAGE
And I'm just down for an expansion of the control universe that just expands into everything, right? Like,
01:28:10
Steve-O
Right.
01:28:11
JohhnyCAGE
That expands into Alan Wake, and then Alan Wake expands into Control, and then that's going to expand into whatever else they're working on, and I'm just... It's like, I just want all of their games to succeed so they can just keep being weird and making more weird games.
01:28:24
Steve-O
Right.
01:28:26
JohhnyCAGE
um Psy-Half's pretty cool. Onomushi Dawn Dreams. Neat. It just isn't Onomushi 3.
01:28:38
JohhnyCAGE
Until Dawn 2 was a fun little surprise.
01:28:42
Steve-O
I didn't expect that.
01:28:43
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and I like that. I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but it's like, I dig that it's not the original developer. I say I dig it, right?
01:28:53
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:28:54
JohhnyCAGE
a lot of times that's a concern, but it's like, if they're too busy or they don't want to work on it because like technically Sony owns until dawn, I think, like they own the IP, but if the original developer is like, we can't, we're too busy or like we're not willing or whatever the reason is, they're like, fine, we'll just hire a new company, Fire Sprite.
01:29:12
JohhnyCAGE
I don't know what they've done before. And obviously, who knows? But it's like, don't know, looked cool. It looked good.
01:29:20
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:29:21
JohhnyCAGE
And I was into it. And I was like, oh, what a fun little surprise. um And then we ended on the new God of War, Laofei.
01:29:29
Steve-O
Ooh. Hell yes.
01:29:32
JohhnyCAGE
You hated it because she's a lady, right?
01:29:34
Steve-O
no. no
01:29:35
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, no, bro. What?
01:29:36
Steve-O
I hated it because it's going to be just on PlayStation 5. So another reason for me to have to dust off my PlayStation.
01:29:46
JohhnyCAGE
Scrape scrap the mud off your PS5.
01:29:50
Steve-O
dude, I watched.
01:29:50
JohhnyCAGE
lift Lift the table that you're using to hold up your be like a keep your table for wobbling.
01:29:53
Steve-O
Yeah, I'm like, now I need to find something to hold the table up. Damn it. um
01:29:59
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah.
01:29:59
Steve-O
I watched a video that someone edited together of in ah God of War Ragnarok, the fight against Thor.
01:30:08
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
01:30:11
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:30:12
Steve-O
And like he blinks out and then he blinks into the Lafay trailer.
01:30:12
JohhnyCAGE
It's...
01:30:16
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, which I mean, the timeline doesn't quite add up because she's like been dead for about 40 for five minutes.
01:30:17
Steve-O
Lafay. Yeah.
01:30:24
JohhnyCAGE
And that's a Ragnarok.
01:30:25
Steve-O
Well, that's the thing. When you're dead, there's no time. There's no time.
01:30:27
JohhnyCAGE
That's hey, I get it. I get it. um You know what? Some weird takes on this. I have my own weird take, but outside the obvious, right?
01:30:38
JohhnyCAGE
Like she's a lady and I hate that. It's like, okay.
01:30:40
Steve-O
I am playing. a I'm a video game player. I can't see women.
01:30:44
JohhnyCAGE
I didn't, I was reading takes of that. People are like, I think it was a mistake to make this like a 20 minute, you know, blob of gameplay. I'm like, what?
01:30:54
JohhnyCAGE
Like, why? Like, I don't know.
01:30:57
Steve-O
I have never heard that.
01:30:57
JohhnyCAGE
i just, I thought everything looked great. I, it's rumored, but I think something Schreier said something along the lines of like, this might be sooner than you think.
01:31:09
JohhnyCAGE
Like, I don't know. That can mean anything, right? That's just setting yourself up for disappointment.
01:31:14
Steve-O
Mm.
01:31:16
JohhnyCAGE
I don't think this means like it's like a 2027 game, but if this could potentially come out next year, i think that's pretty great.
01:31:29
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:31:29
JohhnyCAGE
But my take is I don't like the... I don't love the cube.
01:31:36
Steve-O
Oh, the slime cube, the voice by Jack Quaid, I believe.
01:31:37
JohhnyCAGE
Frank, the cube. Um... I like Jack Quaid.
01:31:42
Steve-O
like Jack Quaid too.
01:31:44
JohhnyCAGE
I'm excited to fall in love with the cube. But right now...
01:31:47
Steve-O
I'm going to hit you with with the same thing, Devin.
01:31:50
JohhnyCAGE
Really?
01:31:50
Steve-O
i'm a little I'm a little concerned.
01:31:54
JohhnyCAGE
Okay, what's your concern?
01:31:56
Steve-O
Yeah. That I because it's that's a D&D thing.
01:31:58
JohhnyCAGE
Is it stupid? it just a stupid cube?
01:32:04
Steve-O
That's not like a Greek or ah um what's the Odin and Thor one?
01:32:05
JohhnyCAGE
Okay, okay, yeah.
01:32:10
JohhnyCAGE
Worst.
01:32:11
Steve-O
Norse like mythology.
01:32:13
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and listen, yeah, the everyone, it's like the, it's where the gods die, where they go when the gods die. So it's it could be anything. I just, I just, um my thing is like, I just don't, I think it's like boring design.
01:32:31
JohhnyCAGE
It's just the cube, like that's the joke.
01:32:32
Steve-O
Right.
01:32:33
JohhnyCAGE
The joke for 30 hours is going to be like, he's of cube.
01:32:37
Steve-O
right
01:32:38
JohhnyCAGE
He's a gelatinous of cosmic cube, which is like, I don't know. i just, it felt like, I said this somewhere, but like, it feels like they had a placeholder for whatever this character was going to be.
01:32:53
JohhnyCAGE
And then somebody's like, wouldn't it be funny if you just stayed at a queue? And some guy was like, say that again. it was like, no, dude, like, I don't know.
01:33:03
JohhnyCAGE
The character design of it just being a cube and that being, i don't say the joke, like they're allowed to be jokey. And I don't even know if like, it's going be, not saying it's going to be like MCU style, but it's just like the whole, if this thing's going to be with me for 30 hours and it's just a fucking cube, like maybe I'm just not being fun, but it's just something irritates me about it.
01:33:10
Steve-O
Right.
01:33:28
Steve-O
It's hard to top my mirror.
01:33:31
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and he was ahead, and that's unique-ish, you know?
01:33:34
Steve-O
Now, what if at some point they find Mimir's body and the head just uses Mimir's body as ah as a thing?
01:33:36
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
01:33:41
JohhnyCAGE
I mean, i like, dude, the concept is so cool because it's like you open up so many doors because, like you said, time could be moving differently.
01:33:52
JohhnyCAGE
um she could run into her dad, a.k.a. Zeus. She could run into all the gods that Kratos has murdered ah throughout his time.
01:33:57
Steve-O
Mm.
01:34:03
JohhnyCAGE
And that could be really interesting. And that also kind of makes sense if they're doing the remakes, you know, because then you could have a little bit of a cohesion there for whatever reason.
01:34:09
Steve-O
Yes. Mm-hmm.
01:34:14
JohhnyCAGE
Like, that's all neat. And plus, whatever's going on, because like what I love specifically about this trailer is like, There's like three underlying plot lines happening all at once.
01:34:27
JohhnyCAGE
And you're like, I can't figure out I don't know what's going on, but I'm interested in everything. Like she gets captured. That's interesting. Where is she? Okay. Oh, she gets captured by these other, you know, this mix, this like Tibetan God of War and this Egyptian God of War.
01:34:42
JohhnyCAGE
And then like some light gets shown off in the distance and they're like, we got to deal with this.
01:34:43
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:34:46
JohhnyCAGE
And you're like, well, what's that about? And then there's this sword in a cube and that is important, you know, for whatever reason. And like, they're like, you don't know what that sword is. And I'm like, what was, what about the sword? And i just love all these little, like, they're just teasing me with all these threads. And I'm just like, oh, I'm invested every single one of these. Plus the sword is so cool because it's got the little ribbon attack things. And it's just the design I think is is awesome.
01:35:15
JohhnyCAGE
um And I think the game's going to be great. Yeah. I just also my my theory and I will stand on this if I'm right. I will gloat.
01:35:27
JohhnyCAGE
I have a feeling that the cube might turn into a guilty spark situation where it's like a well mannered
01:35:32
Steve-O
Oh.
01:35:35
JohhnyCAGE
right in its own head type of thing, but you eventually have to kill it because it's like, no, I, I have to protect everyone. Cause he's like, i he has his the cubes.
01:35:46
JohhnyCAGE
Like i want to protect all life or whatever it's for whatever reason. Right. But it's like, I feel like your agendas are going to come to a head and you're gonna have to fucking murder this cube.
01:35:57
Steve-O
I think you might be right.
01:35:58
JohhnyCAGE
And you're not going to want to.
01:35:58
Steve-O
and
01:35:59
JohhnyCAGE
Right.
01:35:59
Steve-O
That would be really interesting.
01:35:59
JohhnyCAGE
But yeah. Yeah.
01:36:03
Steve-O
Okay. ah You know what, Devin?
State of Play Event Highlights
01:36:05
Steve-O
You've got that. Pencil that in.
01:36:07
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:36:08
Steve-O
If that happens, you're allowed to do a whole gloat dance.
01:36:09
JohhnyCAGE
hencefor at end Yeah, I'm going to gloat, dude. But... I mean, listen. State of play. Starting with Wolverine. Ending with God of War. Yeah, there's some there's some stuff in the middle. It's like, okay, scoop, scoop, scoop. But like... to me, man, this is as ah as close to ah an A as I can... Maybe maybe like a B+. plus
01:36:36
Steve-O
I'm, you know, I'm with you on that. I was thinking, i was thinking a myself, so.
01:36:42
JohhnyCAGE
Okay. All right. C and And then we'll ah just jump right into the the titular tiular week, Summer Game Fest.
01:36:46
Steve-O
Yeah, like.
01:36:54
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
01:36:56
JohhnyCAGE
And you talked about it.
01:36:57
Steve-O
Summer game festival, baby.
01:37:00
JohhnyCAGE
You talked about it already, but Resident Evil Veronica, which was kind of more of a a Capcom bloat fest, really.
01:37:03
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:37:06
JohhnyCAGE
But
01:37:09
JohhnyCAGE
So I love the tease of like, there was a, I don't know how much, like how many, I've rewatched it like four times, but like, you know, it's first person, they're in Paris. So I'm like, what, I really, yeah i thought it was a Kogema game.
01:37:25
JohhnyCAGE
And then when she, the older woman takes you, she's like, yeah, your brother's really weird. And then the how the room is all dirty. and She's like, oh, it's like a boulder ran through here.
01:37:35
JohhnyCAGE
I was like, wait a second.
01:37:35
Steve-O
Mm-hmm. Hold on.
01:37:38
JohhnyCAGE
Hold on. And it looks like she was captured by Hunk.
01:37:43
Steve-O
that's That's kind of what it it seems like.
01:37:43
JohhnyCAGE
Dude, Hunk was fucking with Leon's future wife, dude.
01:37:47
Steve-O
All right, Chris Redfield Jr., come on.
01:37:48
JohhnyCAGE
You kidding me You kidding me?
01:37:52
Steve-O
I've been hearing people say, like, do you think the old woman worked for Umbrella? And I'm like...
01:37:57
JohhnyCAGE
it's too much.
01:37:59
Steve-O
You think that's too, because there's a part where they go into the building and they're like, oh, you think your brother wanted us to have these like chocolates?
01:37:59
JohhnyCAGE
She's a nice old lady.
01:38:06
Steve-O
And I was like, do you think that's like the old lady was trying to get Claire to have one of the chocolate?
01:38:09
JohhnyCAGE
the chocolates were like another nod to something I wasn't but like, maybe like an RE eight or something.
01:38:15
Steve-O
I think they were like laced with something. And then Claire, Claire, the dumbest person in the world, looks through a peephole, sees nothing, opens the door.
01:38:18
JohhnyCAGE
Maybe.
01:38:21
JohhnyCAGE
Oh man, dude.
01:38:23
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:38:24
JohhnyCAGE
So, so I, I famously never played Veronica. I remember I played a little bit of it, but it's like, it's really hard.
01:38:34
Steve-O
Oh.
01:38:36
JohhnyCAGE
And I was like, I don't know.
01:38:38
Steve-O
It is very hard.
01:38:38
JohhnyCAGE
I just,
01:38:39
Steve-O
There is a point in the original game where if you don't do something in the right order, there is literally a hard lock spot where you cannot progress.
01:38:48
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. I just remember like I had. So the thing that always irked me about Code Veronica is it gave me dual wielding guns, but it had like the normal amount of Resident Evil bullets, especially in the beginning.
01:39:01
Steve-O
hmm.
01:39:01
JohhnyCAGE
and I was like, how are you allowed to give me two guns, but about eight bullets between the two? this is bullshit.
01:39:09
Steve-O
That was like the sell point for that game too. It was like the pictures of like the dual pistols and the dual Uzis.
01:39:11
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. And. I don't know if you're, yeah you know, I don't know if you're like me, but I was, I was looking up some of that character design. was, you know, but she's got the two holsters and I was like, sick.
01:39:25
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:39:26
JohhnyCAGE
Um, yeah. And I'm just, I'm very excited to play the one that kind of I don't want to say got away, but it's like, this is the big blind spot.
01:39:39
JohhnyCAGE
I know what happens, right?
01:39:41
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:39:42
JohhnyCAGE
Um, But like Veronica was always the one that like made me mad that I didn't get into it because I was like, there's so much cool shit that so much cool stuff and important stuff that happens in the lore.
01:39:53
JohhnyCAGE
You know, you're like, yeah, like I didn't realize you played as Chris until years later.
01:39:53
Steve-O
It's very important.
01:40:00
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:40:00
JohhnyCAGE
um You know, Steve Birdseid sucked, but like, I don't know. I didn't realize like Steve Burnside turns into a fucking monster and you have to murder him later.
01:40:11
JohhnyCAGE
ah
01:40:11
Steve-O
Mm-hmm. You have the...
01:40:12
JohhnyCAGE
Wesker fighting and and like a boss fighting another boss,
Resident Evil Series Deep Dive
01:40:17
Steve-O
Yeah. And and like this is this is the one where you find out Wesker was still alive and had powers.
01:40:17
JohhnyCAGE
you know, and like.
01:40:22
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, so live and i in the Matrix. Yeah, he was the Matrix, dude.
01:40:25
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:40:27
JohhnyCAGE
And I was like, this is so godam And then, you know, four comes out and you do you do nothing.
01:40:31
Steve-O
It's damn cool.
01:40:33
JohhnyCAGE
You get nothing from it.
01:40:35
Steve-O
Nothing.
01:40:36
JohhnyCAGE
Nothing. And then five. And then finally. But, like, dude, when did Code Veronica come out? Let's see.
01:40:43
Steve-O
Code Veronica came out 1999 2000, want to say because it came out on the I would
01:40:43
JohhnyCAGE
Code Veronica.
01:40:51
JohhnyCAGE
Okay. So, I'm not reading. Oh, my God. My fingers.
01:40:57
JohhnyCAGE
Code Veronica.
01:41:00
Steve-O
february third two thousand
01:41:02
JohhnyCAGE
And then RE5 was... remember these days. was 2009.
01:41:13
JohhnyCAGE
So you had to go... dude you had to go from 2000 and be like, yo, Whiskers, we're doing Matrix flips and doing dope shit. You had to wait nine fucking years to see him again in any like major fashion, right?
01:41:28
JohhnyCAGE
Because I don't think he popped up
01:41:29
Steve-O
Mm-hmm. now you Not in four.
01:41:32
JohhnyCAGE
Dude, that's a minute. That is a long, even for like, Resident Evil.
01:41:37
Steve-O
about what He does pop up in four.
01:41:40
JohhnyCAGE
Does he? For a remake, he does.
01:41:42
Steve-O
does't Remake. Dude, that's the thing, dude.
01:41:43
JohhnyCAGE
ah he's like He's like the voice on the other line in the original, but he doesn't do anything, right? He's not like notable. So, yeah, man, that's a minute and a half.
01:41:51
Steve-O
Right. Right.
01:41:56
JohhnyCAGE
And don't know. I'm just excited, which means five 100% coming. we We kind of knew, but it was like, all right five's coming. Five's going sick.
01:42:07
Steve-O
We're going to get like ah a definitely massaged five.
01:42:11
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and then I'm accepting of them ignoring, like them just saying the timeline has now been altered and six doesn't exist.
01:42:12
Steve-O
And here's the thing that I'm. Yeah.
01:42:19
Steve-O
Six never happened. Yeah. Six never happened. Sorry guys.
01:42:21
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:42:22
Steve-O
um I'm interested because in the beginning of code Veronica, the beginning of code Veronica starts with Claire, like running down umbrellas, European facility.
01:42:23
JohhnyCAGE
can go back to zero. Mm-hmm.
01:42:37
Steve-O
She is running down like a glass corridor with her guns and there's the helicopter.
01:42:40
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, yeah, dude, that intro video is sick.
01:42:43
Steve-O
And like, I'm curious because like it starts off in Europe in this. And I know Hunk takes her. ah There's a part of me that's worried that they're not going to have that anymore.
01:42:53
JohhnyCAGE
Maybe I'll just move it somewhere. Because that's just the intro, right? That's like... It's
01:42:57
Steve-O
That's just the intro, but it's like, the problem is it's like, okay, Claire gets captured and, you know, Claire gets captured in this awesome, sick, like helicopter minigun sequence or or, Claire opens a door and gets hung.
01:43:00
JohhnyCAGE
weird because she was like killing real people. Yeah.
01:43:08
JohhnyCAGE
And... and and i I ate some candy and opened the door too quickly.
01:43:14
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:43:15
JohhnyCAGE
What happened?
01:43:15
Steve-O
It's like, Oh no, I ended up on the prison Island.
01:43:19
JohhnyCAGE
ah All right. i You know what? I'm going to harsh your vibes a little bit.
01:43:24
Steve-O
Harsh my vibe.
01:43:25
JohhnyCAGE
What if what if that what if your fear is just a telltale sign of this being the RE3 remake team? Not learning their lesson.
01:43:34
Steve-O
I wouldn't be surprised.
01:43:35
JohhnyCAGE
Not learning their lesson.
01:43:37
Steve-O
I would not be surprised considering that Requiem just came out this year.
01:43:41
JohhnyCAGE
I mean, listen, you could you could say maybe it's that team, but I still have to assume that they have learned their lesson.
01:43:47
Steve-O
It's still going to be fun, though.
01:43:49
JohhnyCAGE
And yeah three was really fun. But like, you know, they're like, OK, we're known as the guys who heard took the only L, even though it's still not it's not an L. Right.
01:43:59
JohhnyCAGE
But like.
01:44:00
Steve-O
Right.
01:44:01
JohhnyCAGE
You know, they got something prove if it's that team.
01:44:03
Steve-O
You guys have to prove you got to prove yourself, dude. Because like, that's the thing. Imagine making that a playable sequence in the beginning. That would be wild.
01:44:10
JohhnyCAGE
that's See, that's what I'm thinking. like That should be what happened. It's kind a bummer that it wasn't, but i kind of it makes sense ah back in the day.
01:44:18
Steve-O
Maybe. Hold on. Maybe that's what that is. Maybe hunk takes her. She wakes up in umbrella Europe HQ and then that's her ah escape sequence.
01:44:28
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, because Hunk's working for Wesker instead.
01:44:31
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:44:31
JohhnyCAGE
So he's like, all right.
01:44:34
Steve-O
We're staying positive. Let's stay positive about it just because Capcom doesn't miss.
01:44:40
JohhnyCAGE
Yes. No, I mean, they they really, they really haven't. I mean, the only, the only thing that I would say is like an objective miss was that weird dinosaur game that they came out with that everybody was like, this is a Dino crisis.
01:44:50
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:44:54
JohhnyCAGE
So we're bad. And then it turns out it wasn't, it was like kind of a live service seat type game anyway. So it's like easy miss.
01:45:00
Steve-O
yeah
01:45:01
JohhnyCAGE
Right. But.
01:45:02
Steve-O
no
01:45:03
JohhnyCAGE
ah untitled cuphead sequel and kind of combined it with a ah ah look like a eight 16-bit cuphead adventure game which is i mean cuphead was very easily not my jam i was like this is gorgeous i'm never gonna play this like too too hard too angry um
01:45:15
Steve-O
That's cool.
01:45:23
Steve-O
Right.
01:45:30
Steve-O
If they released a Cuphead game that wasn't a make-you-mad game and just made a Cuphead in the style of like a 16-bit platformer that was fun for the people who didn't want to like bang their head against their desk.
01:45:42
JohhnyCAGE
Here's the problem, though. I think that 816-bit or whatever adventure game, I think that's still going hard as shit.
01:45:50
Steve-O
Oh, man. Okay, they're right.
01:45:51
JohhnyCAGE
I don't think it's going to be fun. i Let me say...
01:45:54
Steve-O
The platforming segments were a hard in Cuphead, too.
01:45:56
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Well... It's neat. It's cool. We've got Alien Isolation 2, which is...
01:46:03
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:46:04
JohhnyCAGE
Alright.
01:46:05
Steve-O
That's a big deal.
01:46:05
JohhnyCAGE
um i was I was pretty worked up on this Gen Atlus game.
01:46:06
Steve-O
That's awesome.
01:46:09
JohhnyCAGE
This is the... Last Guardian. This is the eco. This is the um the that that really good one that I can't think of in the middle.
01:46:15
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:46:19
Steve-O
Yeah, the one that everybody loves.
01:46:20
JohhnyCAGE
But shout out the classes. Yeah.
01:46:22
JohhnyCAGE
Shout out the classes. But dude it's like weird mech shit. flying Flying around the head. Punching other mechs, shooting stuff with a gun, which is cool. Like i dig that there's a little bit more of a combat element in this.
01:46:22
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:46:39
JohhnyCAGE
i was I was vibing with this one. Pretty good.
01:46:43
Steve-O
This one feels like it should have belonged in the PlayStation one. Like, I just.
01:46:48
JohhnyCAGE
It did, honestly. But...
01:46:49
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:46:51
JohhnyCAGE
I mean, yeah, so did another game in here that we'll talk about. But um let's see.
01:46:55
Steve-O
hmm.
01:46:57
JohhnyCAGE
Blood Message. We saw before. And I still think it's kind of neat. I don't even know like how to describe it. Because it looks... It looks like it could be a third person like game.
01:47:12
JohhnyCAGE
um But it also looks like too cinematic to like be that, you know like everything's a cut scene.
01:47:19
Steve-O
Right.
01:47:20
JohhnyCAGE
And I'm like, I don't know if I've seen a single second of gameplay unless the gameplay is like a like a like an until dawn type deal. Right. Where like everything's kind of like QTEs.
01:47:31
Steve-O
Right.
01:47:31
JohhnyCAGE
um I'm probably wrong. like I'm sure that this is kind of like a traditional you know, third person sword fight game, but um it it looks good.
01:47:40
Steve-O
Mm.
01:47:44
JohhnyCAGE
I'm into it. ah Do you have an opinion on Tupac being in Stranger Than Heaven?
01:47:50
Steve-O
um He's back, and that's the game with the big boy. Fuck.
01:47:55
JohhnyCAGE
No, it's not the game with the big boy. That game's in trouble because they ran out of funding.
01:48:01
Steve-O
They ran out of funding, but Tupac is alive, and maybe Tupac could fund?
01:48:05
JohhnyCAGE
And Snoop Dogg. No, because that's a different game. This is by the Yakuza guys.
01:48:14
JohhnyCAGE
And the other one with the big boy was from a former Yakuza guy.
01:48:15
Steve-O
i love
01:48:18
Steve-O
Oh my God. Then the Yakuza took out that game.
01:48:23
JohhnyCAGE
okay
01:48:24
Steve-O
so okay. so So, stranger than heaven, it's the new Yakuza developer game, basically.
01:48:35
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, Stranger Than Heaven is like, hey, we've made Yakuza 1 through 10 or whatever, right?
01:48:40
Steve-O
But it's got Tupac and Snoop in it.
01:48:42
JohhnyCAGE
and but And this is like a weird kind of flashback. Not flashback, but it's like, hey, this is like back in the day.
01:48:48
Steve-O
Is this, are they playing themselves in it?
01:48:49
JohhnyCAGE
But Tupac and Snoop Dogg's in those. No, no, no, they're characters. Because like Snoop Dogg's in it and hes he's got like a gray beard. You know, he's got like a gray dreaded beard and stuff like that.
01:49:04
Steve-O
Okay.
01:49:05
JohhnyCAGE
So there's there's definitely they're definitely different for sure.
01:49:06
Steve-O
Interesting. That's cool.
01:49:09
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:49:10
Steve-O
That's cool. Uh, you know,
01:49:11
JohhnyCAGE
I just I just remember seeing Tupac and I was like, is this like an American thing? Like, we're not cool with this. You know what I mean?
01:49:19
Steve-O
I don't know. This is strange, but are you stranger than heaven.
01:49:24
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:49:24
Steve-O
maybe it Maybe it is in heaven. Maybe Tupac is dead.
01:49:30
JohhnyCAGE
oh He is dead, Steve.
01:49:35
Steve-O
he's Why is he making video games in 2026?
01:49:36
JohhnyCAGE
Wait, what?
01:49:37
Steve-O
Come on, man. Come on.
01:49:39
JohhnyCAGE
You got me there, Steve.
01:49:42
Steve-O
This did not feel like a PlayStation game, did it? Is this the one you were talking about? This isn't.
01:49:47
JohhnyCAGE
Wait, let me see. Did you post it somewhere? Let me look.
01:49:50
Steve-O
No, no, because we were talking about ah the other game feeling like it belonged in the PlayStation state of play.
01:49:55
JohhnyCAGE
No, no, this this very much felt like a Summer Game Fest game.
01:49:58
Steve-O
Okay, I'm waiting for the one.
01:49:58
JohhnyCAGE
like Okay, yeah, this belongs here. Oh, oh i so okay i got I got you.
01:50:02
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:50:02
JohhnyCAGE
I got you. got you. Sorry. I'm just like really quickly trying to find what that what the what the big boy game was. Because there was a few.
01:50:13
Steve-O
I just, you can't Google big boy game.
01:50:14
JohhnyCAGE
i' know.
01:50:17
Steve-O
It just doesn't.
01:50:17
JohhnyCAGE
But I'm pretty sure it was announced at the Game Awards.
01:50:22
Steve-O
Yes, maybe if I type in big boy in the in the games.
01:50:27
JohhnyCAGE
Soulframe, Solasta, Order the Sinkstar, Neo 3. It has like a very, like once I see it, I'll be like, oh, that's it for sure.
01:50:36
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:50:36
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, I'm
01:50:43
JohhnyCAGE
ah i'm getting salty now, man. I can't find it. Anyway, um I'll find it. I'll find the big boy game. Because No Law is another big boy game, but that's not it.
01:50:55
JohhnyCAGE
Oh my God, this is going to drive me nuts.
01:50:56
Steve-O
It's going to drive you wild. um They, yeah, so um they're celebrating their 10th anniversary.
01:50:58
JohhnyCAGE
This going to fucking live in my in my brain. Anyway, um let's just power through. Move on so I don't die. Hakes, which looked neat.
01:51:09
JohhnyCAGE
um Is Dead by Daylight? Was essentially a trailer for a future trailer.
01:51:16
JohhnyCAGE
But I like the trailer. i i
01:51:18
Steve-O
yes
01:51:18
JohhnyCAGE
the The vibes were creepy. Uniquely creepy.
01:51:21
Steve-O
There's um there's a a rumor still going around that even though they announced Jason for being the new killer coming up, there's still rumor that they have announcements.
01:51:22
JohhnyCAGE
614.
01:51:24
JohhnyCAGE
six fourteen
01:51:33
Steve-O
They have stuff in the pipeline for the 10th anniversary.
01:51:37
JohhnyCAGE
Do you think...
01:51:38
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:51:39
JohhnyCAGE
Is there a universe where they just say, we're making two? We're making Dead by Daylight 2.
01:51:43
Steve-O
I don't think so because I think they would lose a ton of the licenses they already have.
01:51:48
JohhnyCAGE
They... Man, they would, yeah.
01:51:51
Steve-O
Like you'd lose Freddie, you'd lose Myers. um
01:51:53
JohhnyCAGE
What if you... What if they're like, we're doing...
01:51:55
Steve-O
I think.
01:51:56
JohhnyCAGE
okay yeah, what do you think?
01:51:58
JohhnyCAGE
Because I'm just guessing.
01:51:58
Steve-O
I think with all the balloon imagery, I think they're hinting at possibly maybe down the line getting Stephen King's it.
01:52:08
Steve-O
I think Pennywise might be a future killer.
01:52:08
JohhnyCAGE
Okay, like Pennywise.
01:52:12
JohhnyCAGE
Fair. Fair enough.
01:52:14
Steve-O
And that's one of like their dream chapters that they've talked about in like years past. And they've always said Stephen King's always like said no to them.
01:52:19
JohhnyCAGE
Oh.
01:52:22
Steve-O
But I think with ah HBO Max.
01:52:23
JohhnyCAGE
Damn, really? Okay, I could see that because like if... Because it's not all clown imagery or like balloons, but like I bet you if you like looked at it, like every image, you could probably maybe find something where it's like...
01:52:33
Steve-O
Right.
01:52:36
JohhnyCAGE
Now this is all tied. This is all tied to Stephen King, you know, story.
01:52:38
Steve-O
Right.
01:52:42
Steve-O
They've been trying to like find little hints and other stuff where like someone was like, look, there's like there's like ah a graffiti in the background of this like frame where it it's it's like so it says Steve and there's a crown under it.
01:52:58
Steve-O
And then like I looked at it and I'm like that blatantly says STD that like y'all are trying to reach for straws.
01:53:02
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. I mean, and and like and again, like, it's just, it's cool anyway, right? It's just a really neat...
01:53:09
Steve-O
It's cool. it It feels it doesn't feel like something that like belongs in like a summer games or E3, but it is visually like is visually disturbing as fun.
01:53:22
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:53:25
JohhnyCAGE
I was vibing. I was vibing for sure.
01:53:26
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
01:53:28
JohhnyCAGE
Uh, let's see what else we got. We got, Warner Shell 2. Cool. Sand. Cool. Assassin's Creed. Black Flag. Resynced. I'm rooting for that one.
01:53:40
Steve-O
Yeah, it sounds like they're doing a lot of work.
01:53:40
JohhnyCAGE
There's some weird, there's some parts where i'm like, God, it looks so much better. And then there's other parts and decisions that they made that I'm like, why?
01:53:44
Steve-O
Mm
01:53:47
JohhnyCAGE
This, this seems stupid.
01:53:49
JohhnyCAGE
Um, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Last Ronin, which is, a re-reminder that they're making a game? <unk> just like...
01:53:49
Steve-O
hmm.
01:53:59
Steve-O
Was that the triple A game that they said they were going to make?
01:54:02
JohhnyCAGE
who Who's they? um
01:54:04
Steve-O
The turtles like I remember like a few years back there, like we're making a super game.
01:54:07
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. like I thought there was like a teaser, like like a single image teaser where they're like, we're in development, and you're like, oh, sick.
01:54:16
Steve-O
Okay.
01:54:17
JohhnyCAGE
And I think this was kind of it. Yeah.
01:54:20
Steve-O
That's awesome.
01:54:21
JohhnyCAGE
Platinum Games is is working on it as well as what can we call Black Forest Games, which is okay. But it's little frustrating because it's it's basically a logo.
01:54:34
Steve-O
oh
01:54:34
JohhnyCAGE
you know Oh, we didn't we didn't talk about it, but Persona 6 had the same thing. um
01:54:40
Steve-O
Love you.
01:54:40
JohhnyCAGE
I'm not a big Persona guy, but is yeah.
01:54:42
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:54:44
JohhnyCAGE
Or maybe we did talk about Who knows? But a Crossfire...
01:54:49
Steve-O
You'll get caught up in the crossfire.
01:54:52
JohhnyCAGE
I don't know if you watch this. The coolest thing about it, frankly, is just like, so it's from a a guy that worked at Naughty Dog and another guy that worked on, what was it, Cod or cot or something, right?
01:55:07
JohhnyCAGE
But they're they kind of vo like they kind of throw it out there as they're like, yeah, this is like technical expertise working with like originality or something like that, right?
01:55:07
Steve-O
I think it is Kadiya.
01:55:17
JohhnyCAGE
Where they're like,
01:55:18
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:55:19
JohhnyCAGE
We like, it looks gorgeous the way they move because their big hook is like, oh, like they're not just like crouch walking. They're like, they're, they're bodies not, not deforming, but they're, it's reacting appropriately to the deformed terrain, meaning like, oh, the ground isn't just the ground.
01:55:38
JohhnyCAGE
It's, it's rocking. It's wonky. And it's, you know, it's not all just completely even. So like the way they walk and move is very unique.
01:55:44
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:55:46
JohhnyCAGE
And I'm like, all right, cool. Like I'm down. I'm down with that. Um, so I, I think a best case scenario for me with this would be like a new spec ops, the line type game.
01:56:00
JohhnyCAGE
We're like, yeah, it's a military shooter with like a weird gimmick, but it's actually like really sick. Um, other than that, i don't know. I'm just like, yeah, it's pretty, uh, and it's third person and I'm always,
01:56:10
Steve-O
They're trying to make crossfire work in the West. The the few times in the past they tried, i don't think it worked, but I think single player story that might get a hook on someone.
01:56:13
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
01:56:21
Steve-O
So, yeah.
01:56:21
JohhnyCAGE
Like me, yeah. um Star Wars Galactic Racer, which I'm kind of rooting for this one. I'm not a big racing game guy, but this one might get me because it's it's burnout, but with pod racing.
01:56:33
Steve-O
I love those pod races.
01:56:37
JohhnyCAGE
And it's really difficult for me to not be interested in that.
01:56:37
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
01:56:41
JohhnyCAGE
I'm like, oh, that's kind of sick. um Let me see. Is there anything?
01:56:46
Steve-O
How did you feel about the, what was that? Star Wars Zero something?
01:56:50
JohhnyCAGE
Zero Company?
01:56:51
Steve-O
zero Company and at the end they revealed Anakin.
01:56:55
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I don't don know. um its
01:56:56
Steve-O
It looks like it was XCOM.
01:56:58
JohhnyCAGE
It's like an XCOM type game, which I'm not against.
01:56:58
Steve-O
That's about it. Yeah.
01:57:02
JohhnyCAGE
like I dig that, and like And it's funny because I've been playing Outlaw, Star Wars Outlaw, and Jenny saw this Galactic Racer trailer. Then she saw another trailer for that. She's like, how many different games are there? And I'm like, dude, it's like VIP. It's like VIP to make things out of.
01:57:20
JohhnyCAGE
And I was like, it's cool because you can kind of do whatever you want, but it also kind of makes everything feel a little bit less special.
01:57:20
Steve-O
Right.
01:57:26
JohhnyCAGE
And like Zero Company is like... It's one of those where it's like in a genre of games that I'm like... passively interested in i'm like yeah i liked xcom but like xcom was really stressful so by the time i got around to xcom 2 i was like i'm out i'm just like i'm out and then you know i i've played other games in that genre but like i will say much like like how hades is kind of like the best example of a genre
01:57:37
Steve-O
Right.
01:57:45
Steve-O
right
01:58:01
JohhnyCAGE
um I feel like XCOM is a really great example of that genre. So when I tried to play other lesser games in as yeah in similar genres, I'm like, no, I'm out. I'm kind of out.
01:58:10
Steve-O
Did you did you play the Marvel one the midnight?
01:58:12
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I did.
01:58:12
Steve-O
a Yeah.
01:58:13
JohhnyCAGE
And that's a little it's a little weird because that's a card based type of XCOM type game.
01:58:18
Steve-O
That's weird. Yeah. Yeah.
01:58:19
JohhnyCAGE
And it works. It does work. And it can be very fun. But it takes, like my rant from last week, it like, you gotta like look past it and sit with it a little bit.
01:58:33
JohhnyCAGE
But it's like such a, i I'm telling you right now, the fact that they added cards to that cost them like at least a million sales.
01:58:44
JohhnyCAGE
I'm not even joking. Like, if it was just like XCOM, oh, go here, do this, throw the shit, like hit hit that ability, find a different way to make those mechanics work.
01:58:45
Steve-O
No, I think you're right.
01:58:55
JohhnyCAGE
I think, as but the cards just turned everybody. It turned me off. I got it for, i got it on sale when it was like 20 bucks, you know?
01:58:59
Steve-O
went, make it a deck builder. Mm-hmm.
01:59:04
JohhnyCAGE
And i was like, all right, sick. And I grew to very much enjoy it, but it still had, yeah, all the stupid hangups um that i that i that I had with it. So, yeah, pretty cool.
01:59:18
JohhnyCAGE
um Blood the Dawn Walker. This is another game where I was like, oh, this is so cool. And then I've seen it so many times that I'm like,
01:59:25
Steve-O
yeah that's uh that's one of john's early picks in the fantasy draft i believe that was his number two oh okay
01:59:29
JohhnyCAGE
yeah. And this is, I think this is another September game. i gotta I'll look up like the master list, but I think this is another like late September game.
01:59:41
JohhnyCAGE
The weird thing about this that I didn't love is if you watch any of the story trailers, it's like you're in fucking 1700.
01:59:42
Steve-O
hmm
01:59:54
JohhnyCAGE
Sword and shield type stuff, right?
01:59:56
Steve-O
Right.
01:59:57
JohhnyCAGE
ah Like where the the smallpox is is killing everyone. You're that arrow. And then the trailer starts in modern day with him like ubery Uber eating like a fucking packet of blood.
02:00:10
Steve-O
Right.
02:00:11
JohhnyCAGE
And I'm like, well, like there's been no no hint that we're like
02:00:11
Steve-O
Right. The delivery guy comes in. Yeah.
02:00:18
JohhnyCAGE
Like, it's not so because he's a vampire. I get it. But it's like, there's been no hint that there's a framing story that's like this or that he was ever going to survive into the modern day.
02:00:28
JohhnyCAGE
And I'm like, are you just spoiling, like, the sequel bait?
02:00:31
Steve-O
they Yeah, they did the Castlevania Lords of Shadow slash Interview with the Vampire ending.
02:00:34
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:00:39
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, I'm like, and then they don't, then then the normal, you know, traditional game trailer hits. And I'm like, Are we going to get back to what you just showed?
02:00:49
JohhnyCAGE
Like, what are we, what are we doing guys?
02:00:52
Steve-O
It'd be cool if you played that game in reverse, like if it started modern day and it just kept going back to see why these things were happening.
02:01:01
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, maybe, but like, it's just weird because like none of that was ever even breathed on, you know, they didn't mention a single thing of that.
02:01:08
Steve-O
Right. yeah
02:01:10
JohhnyCAGE
So I was like, Oh, okay.
02:01:12
Steve-O
Yeah, it's it's confusing.
02:01:12
JohhnyCAGE
Cool.
02:01:13
Steve-O
It's strange. It feels like ah not what we were shown.
02:01:16
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Um, Let's skip a some of these things.
02:01:21
Steve-O
are you skipping the marga story, Devin? Story mode?
02:01:25
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, skipping that. ah You can talk about it. Do you have a take?
02:01:30
Steve-O
that i Everybody's doing a story mode, and also they have a TV show that I really tuned out during.
02:01:37
JohhnyCAGE
Okay, one, that's a trend I enjoy, actually. I'm enjoying a story mode trend.
02:01:42
Steve-O
I love me a story mode.
02:01:43
JohhnyCAGE
I love me a story mode. i like I'm not going to pretend i wasn't completely uninterested in it. I saw the trailer for the show that I was like, is this out? like How long has this been a thing?
02:01:55
JohhnyCAGE
And I didn't. The trailer seemed neat, but I was like, i don't know. But it sounds like.
02:02:00
Steve-O
I'm like that show would have hit in 2020.
02:02:03
JohhnyCAGE
i Shows are hard to make, man. So you watched and you're like, yeah.
02:02:08
Steve-O
ah You know, um I was just like, I just don't really have any Among Us interest. so
02:02:14
JohhnyCAGE
I get it. I get it. um Well, you know what I was interested in?
02:02:18
Steve-O
Hot Wheels.
02:02:19
JohhnyCAGE
no Sonic.
02:02:23
Steve-O
Hedgehog?
02:02:25
JohhnyCAGE
Crossroads.
02:02:26
JohhnyCAGE
Crossroads. I'm sorry.
02:02:26
Steve-O
Oh, yeah.
02:02:27
Steve-O
Oh, yes. Oh, this is a this is a a game that I was a big fan of at the end of last year.
02:02:34
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, so...
02:02:34
Steve-O
And I did not expect them to announce a season two.
02:02:39
JohhnyCAGE
So, so this is the thing, right? Is I saw they were like season one, Minecraft's Mega Man, which is sick.
02:02:45
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:02:45
JohhnyCAGE
SpongeBob, Turtles, Pac-Man, Avatar.
02:02:48
Steve-O
Avatar.
02:02:49
JohhnyCAGE
ah You don't have to go deep into it, but like, how did you feel? Like, did you feel like those were like cool, like cool tracks, cool cars? Like, did you feel like if they really added something to it?
02:03:00
Steve-O
Um, so I haven't played since SpongeBob got released.
02:03:04
JohhnyCAGE
Okay. Okay.
02:03:05
Steve-O
Uh, but I do remember playing the Minecraft track and being like genuinely blown away by it. Like the way that like the, the course like evolves and changes.
02:03:12
JohhnyCAGE
Oh,
02:03:16
Steve-O
Um, and it was cool. Like, you know, the cars are fun. Um, I, I really want to play the Mega Man stuff. I think the Mega Man level got delayed. Um, but it is coming.
02:03:27
JohhnyCAGE
really?
02:03:28
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:03:28
JohhnyCAGE
Still? Like, still.
02:03:30
Steve-O
it's Dude, that's like a sick lineup where it's like the Turtles, Mega Man.
02:03:34
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:03:35
Steve-O
It's like, and how do you how do you do more than that? And wow.
02:03:37
JohhnyCAGE
Well. you
02:03:39
Steve-O
Wow, did they mouth open.
02:03:40
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, season two, they they were like,
02:03:42
Steve-O
I did not expect to see the big man hanging out in Tokyo.
02:03:46
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, Godzilla and Evangelion, which is... um That's a crazy one, dude.
02:03:50
Steve-O
that's a fun That's a fun little thing. Mm-hmm.
02:03:53
JohhnyCAGE
And, like, you know... i just... I will say I've always... And, and like, with Mario Kart World arguably dropping the ball and Sonic Racing Cross World at least saying, we at least have this.
02:04:06
Steve-O
Yes.
02:04:11
JohhnyCAGE
Like, something that's gonna... You know, like... I'm just saying...
02:04:17
JohhnyCAGE
there's a Warhammer Warhammer I'm it's not it's not gonna happen but like the door is open that the door will never be open for in Mario Kart you know what I mean like
02:04:23
Steve-O
if they If they do, though, you have to buy it
02:04:30
Steve-O
Mm-hmm. What, um, okay. I want three licenses where if they get it, you'll buy it.
02:04:37
JohhnyCAGE
man okay Warhammer's won Warhammer's won that's um buys buys tough but like
02:04:38
Steve-O
Warhammer one.
02:04:45
Steve-O
bo Buy is tough, but like the things that where you're like, God damn it, I have to play that now.
02:04:50
JohhnyCAGE
I think if there's a a Final Fantasy VII, specifically VII.
02:04:55
Steve-O
Seven. okay
02:04:57
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, man. I want to just be boring and just go with Kingdom Hearts.
02:04:59
Steve-O
You got one more.
02:05:02
JohhnyCAGE
But that's like, it's kind of the same thing. So I'm not going to say that. um
02:05:07
Steve-O
That's just what Smash Bros did.
02:05:09
JohhnyCAGE
yeah And like Kingdom Hearts' his whole thing is like, oh, we're crossing over things. So it's like, what are we doing?
02:05:13
Steve-O
m
02:05:14
JohhnyCAGE
um You know what, though?
02:05:19
Steve-O
What about Resident Evil?
02:05:20
JohhnyCAGE
You know, Marvel.
02:05:21
Steve-O
mar Honestly, that's not a bad poll.
02:05:24
JohhnyCAGE
Marvel? Resident Evil would be sick, too. all right. Let's take out Final Fantasy.
02:05:31
Steve-O
Okay.
02:05:31
JohhnyCAGE
but Let's take out Warhammer. Because that one, I just do not think.
02:05:33
Steve-O
Warhammer is a given.
02:05:34
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. And also, just like the least realistic of of the things. Resident Evil? and or um Marvel, I think.
02:05:46
Steve-O
If
02:05:47
JohhnyCAGE
Are you Star Wars? Like, again, we're getting a little goofy, but like, I think Resident Evil, Marvel.
02:05:55
Steve-O
we're talking about Disney properties, we better get goofy.
02:05:57
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Resident Evil, Marvel, and God, what was the other one that mentioned that wasn't Warhammer?
02:06:07
Steve-O
Final Fantasy.
02:06:07
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, Fun Fantasy. Yeah, Fun Fantasy.
02:06:10
Steve-O
So I could see you doing like. um
02:06:12
JohhnyCAGE
Marvel's style.
02:06:13
Steve-O
ah You know a Sephiroth and a cloud. And you know they have Chocobos.
02:06:19
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Yeah.
02:06:21
Steve-O
Maybe not Sephiroth.
02:06:22
JohhnyCAGE
Chocombo cart.
02:06:23
Steve-O
Sephiroth wouldn't have a Chocobo.
02:06:24
JohhnyCAGE
Well, I mean, like, it's a fucking cart racer. no one
02:06:27
Steve-O
He'd have a big meteor. Yeah.
02:06:30
JohhnyCAGE
Well, that's the level, right? The meteor is coming, right?
02:06:33
Steve-O
Oh, actually, that would be kind of sick if at the end the meteor hits, but like you have to drive your cars into it to break it.
02:06:33
JohhnyCAGE
That's the track. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
02:06:40
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah. Like,
02:06:42
Steve-O
You know, Warhammer, that would have been that would be super sick. Like, that's the thing, though, because like with the one where it's like Godzilla and Evangelion, like, where are we going with this?
02:06:53
JohhnyCAGE
Very Japanese. Like, very...
02:06:54
Steve-O
That's very.
02:06:55
JohhnyCAGE
seriously See, that's why I think you got, like, Final Fantasy, maybe, because it's like...
02:06:57
Steve-O
There you got Miku.
02:07:00
JohhnyCAGE
They got...
02:07:02
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:07:02
JohhnyCAGE
Well, SpongeBob... You know what? maybe Was Year One Western? No, because Mega Man...
02:07:07
Steve-O
Yeah, the Mega Man, Miku.
02:07:07
JohhnyCAGE
Never mind. Yeah, but those three, i'm I'm like, how much? is it on sale? Like, I'm looking for a sale, for sure.
02:07:17
Steve-O
You know what? I'm sure it'll be on sale shortly. But yeah, that was a game that like genuinely like it it tickled.
02:07:22
JohhnyCAGE
Like, I'll pay full price for season one and two. You know what I mean? Like, oh, yeah, yeah, fuck it, fuck yeah.
02:07:26
Steve-O
Yeah, you get the full your full game with all the DLC.
02:07:30
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:07:31
Steve-O
Yeah, that'd be sick.
02:07:32
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. So it's just fun, right? Just really nothing but fun about any of that.
02:07:36
Steve-O
Mm
02:07:40
JohhnyCAGE
And then let's go to another big one with a twofer. And this is why I would like to see this. Now, again, a little frustrating because it's like this is more like a reminder.
02:07:49
Steve-O
but Yeah.
02:07:52
JohhnyCAGE
Hey, we're still a thing. Wolf Among Us, too.
02:07:54
Steve-O
I know, but ah i still kind of geeked out, though, when I saw it, man.
02:07:57
JohhnyCAGE
So cool. Yeah, no.
02:07:58
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:07:58
JohhnyCAGE
it's cool And this, like, I'm not saying it's gameplay, but it's like, it's more than we've ever gotten before. And I'm like, cool. Yes, sure. And it's And they doubled it up with a remaster. Like, hey, to keep you warm, because we we know to keep you warm. ah here's Here's the remastered.
02:08:21
JohhnyCAGE
And I've played Wolf Among Us probably two or three times through this point.
02:08:25
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:08:26
JohhnyCAGE
But I'm always... Hell yeah. Like, just, yeah. If if a long-awaited sequel is coming out, remaster the first game.
02:08:35
Steve-O
Yes.
02:08:35
JohhnyCAGE
And then drop it. Like, make it available.
02:08:36
Steve-O
Mm
02:08:38
JohhnyCAGE
Let's refresh. Get new fans. Do whatever. And that is... not I don't think there's a date for that, but they said it's this year.
02:08:48
JohhnyCAGE
Alright.
02:08:48
Steve-O
hmm. Yeah, I think the remaster is at the end of the year holiday 2026.
02:08:52
JohhnyCAGE
Like, yeah. Hell yeah. Then we got a Stellar Blade Blood Rain. Stellar Blade is a game I've been shamed into not playing. and Like, it's it's a bad look, man.
02:09:05
Steve-O
Mm, it's a bad look.
02:09:05
JohhnyCAGE
It's just a bad look.
02:09:06
Steve-O
It is You're right.
02:09:07
JohhnyCAGE
But listen, I played the demo, and I was like, this is good. This is a good demo. And then everybody's like, the game's really good. And then this game comes out, and I don't know if this is a full-blown sequel or like a kind of side story.
02:09:23
JohhnyCAGE
I will say, they're really, they're pushing it, dude. They're pushing it.
02:09:29
Steve-O
Mm. Everybody thought, I think, that this was cyberpunk at first.
02:09:33
JohhnyCAGE
Well, I'm just saying with the design.
02:09:33
Steve-O
we
02:09:35
JohhnyCAGE
Because
02:09:35
Steve-O
Oh, no, I'm i'm with you.
02:09:38
JohhnyCAGE
I'm like, yeah, cool. Design, generally, of these games, really good looking. I get it. i am I'm not what you would call a prude.
02:09:49
JohhnyCAGE
But bro. This chick looks like she's 12. And that is uncomfortable for me.
02:09:57
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:09:57
JohhnyCAGE
to do like And I get it. People are like, oh my god, dude, she just looks like a fucking Japanese idol who's like 20. And I'm like, okay.
02:10:07
JohhnyCAGE
But like, I don't i don't know, man. She just his looks really young. Like, she doesn't pass the eye test. You know what I mean?
02:10:16
Steve-O
Right.
02:10:16
JohhnyCAGE
Like, and
02:10:19
Steve-O
For for what the game is, and I know what people did with the previous one, I'm not comfortable.
02:10:21
JohhnyCAGE
For what the game is...
02:10:26
JohhnyCAGE
yeah it makes... and it's like... Dude, yeah, come on. Like... talk It's almost like ah unforced error, dude. It's like everybody was surprise hit.
02:10:35
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:10:37
JohhnyCAGE
Everybody likes it like gameplay. Great. You got one for the people who just like good games. You got people for who are just going to goon.
02:10:45
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:10:45
JohhnyCAGE
little bit, a a little bit of B. So you're just you're kind of playing with house money. And then they're like, here's this.
02:10:50
Steve-O
Right.
02:10:51
JohhnyCAGE
And you're like, oh, sequel. And she like punches shit like it's it looks like less sword, more like the fist cuffs, which is awesome.
02:10:58
Steve-O
More hit, yeah.
02:11:00
JohhnyCAGE
And they're like, yeah, skin tight, everything you want. But also she looks like she's 14. fourteen And I'm like, oh, oh, okay.
02:11:06
Steve-O
and Like, come Guys, come on, guys.
02:11:09
JohhnyCAGE
And I get it. Different cultures. But like, come on, man. Like, Stellar Blade was like tough. That was a tough one. i I feel like I could make an argument. I don't know if I can make the argument for Blood.
02:11:22
Steve-O
I don't think you can bring this one into your house, man.
02:11:22
JohhnyCAGE
I'm like, yo, you got give me a face mod. Give me a head swap. Like,
02:11:26
Steve-O
ah
02:11:27
JohhnyCAGE
I'm not cool with this. I'll feel good about it. ah Okay. Now we're getting...
02:11:36
Steve-O
Give you um a mod for that so you can.
02:11:38
JohhnyCAGE
I need just... Can we just add six years to the age, please?
02:11:43
JohhnyCAGE
I don't know. like They don't...
02:11:43
Steve-O
Yeah, we'll make it start the murder.
02:11:46
Steve-O
She wrote lady.
02:11:47
JohhnyCAGE
Like, dude. We'll just talk about right now. like Tifa is like 20, right? Tifa from Final Fantasy. There's a difference. And I'm ah is like, obviously gorgeous, obviously, you know, fan service ish.
02:12:07
JohhnyCAGE
He ah doesn't look like she's 12.
02:12:13
Steve-O
right
02:12:14
JohhnyCAGE
There's a difference. And why ah do we feel like, why is there a need to skirt the line? There's, we don't need to, we can, We could be comfortably somewhere else.
02:12:27
JohhnyCAGE
And, like, come on, guys.
02:12:27
Steve-O
Right.
02:12:30
JohhnyCAGE
Anyway, Tifa's in Street Fighter VI. There's a whole fighter pack. um
02:12:34
Steve-O
I have to say, ah you know, I saw this. I was like, that's cool. And then when I watched what was his name? Maximilian dude's reaction.
02:12:42
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:12:43
Steve-O
I was like, oh yeah, I was so happy to see him lose his mind over it.
02:12:47
JohhnyCAGE
I mean, because there was a rumor. there was a It was like one that was like, there's no fucking way.
02:12:52
Steve-O
Right.
02:12:52
JohhnyCAGE
No way. That's ridiculous. Because, like, everyone's like, she why isn't she in Tekken? Put her in Tekken. And then they, because they're like, fall follow fires maybe that's why that guy quit.
02:13:01
Steve-O
Mm
02:13:04
JohhnyCAGE
Like, Higuchi or whatever.
02:13:05
Steve-O
hmm. Dude, actually, they shamed him They shamed him.
02:13:05
JohhnyCAGE
Like, he retired. And because he's like, I can't. I can't. You're going to tell me you fucking took the bait. You took the Clive.
Final Fantasy Discussions and Speculations
02:13:15
JohhnyCAGE
You took Clive from Final Fantasy XVI.
02:13:19
JohhnyCAGE
Knowing that Tifa was on the table at some point and you just bit too easy, too hard. And then, yo, and I'm just saying i'm talking about, talking about a little bit Colin B. Talking about that guy.
02:13:33
JohhnyCAGE
Tifa in the Street Fighter engine.
02:13:35
Steve-O
Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right.
02:13:38
JohhnyCAGE
Well, yeah, yeah.
02:13:38
Steve-O
They know what they're doing. They know how to make money.
02:13:39
JohhnyCAGE
oh yet yeah
02:13:40
Steve-O
You're
02:13:41
JohhnyCAGE
Like, this is this is might get me to... I know I'm on record as saying I wasn't going to do this, but now that we now that we're just, like, feeling good about it, you know, we're comfortable, got a few liquids in me...
02:13:46
Steve-O
going to break. You're going to break. Come on. The mask be mask, man. We talked about it.
02:13:57
Steve-O
You know, John's going to scream at you until you die.
02:14:00
JohhnyCAGE
I just want John to main Diva. But he won't, out of spite.
02:14:04
Steve-O
He won't. He won't.
02:14:04
JohhnyCAGE
He won't, because there's a new...
02:14:05
Steve-O
He won't. Dude, I don't even know if he knows these characters. He's only played one Final Fantasy game. It was Final Fantasy 13. The
02:14:12
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah he always says the best one, 13. He
02:14:16
Steve-O
the best one.
02:14:17
JohhnyCAGE
okay
02:14:18
Steve-O
He didn't even need to finish it. He said it was the best one. and He stopped playing it when the the whole game opened up.
02:14:21
JohhnyCAGE
he said, no need, no need. i
02:14:24
Steve-O
No need.
02:14:24
JohhnyCAGE
This is the best one.
02:14:25
Steve-O
I got what I wanted from it. I'm happy.
02:14:28
JohhnyCAGE
Steve, you asked me which one felt like, yeah, but you asked me which one felt like it should have been on the the Sony one.
02:14:29
Steve-O
I think, speaking of Final Fantasy...
02:14:35
JohhnyCAGE
I was fully expecting this to be in the state of play. um But Final Fantasy 7, Part 3,
02:14:38
Steve-O
Yeah, this felt like state of play.
02:14:42
JohhnyCAGE
part three
02:14:42
Steve-O
But here's here's your question, though.
02:14:43
JohhnyCAGE
revelation but yeah
02:14:45
Steve-O
If this was in the state of play, it probably wouldn't have received and end of show, like the that the grand reveal.
02:14:57
JohhnyCAGE
yeah you're right and and yeah there is it's ah okay I am used to Nintendo Directs now I'm used to State of Plays for some reason, I just thought SGF was just going be, wasn't going to be a live show.
02:15:16
Steve-O
yeah.
02:15:16
JohhnyCAGE
just thought it was going to be him going like, Oh, you know, do an intro outro somewhere in the middle. I, I forgot it was like a live show.
02:15:25
JohhnyCAGE
And then to see that, that is kind of what you do. You're like, yeah, this is to get the moment. Like the freak out with final fantasies, seven revelation gets dropped.
02:15:25
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:15:37
JohhnyCAGE
And right.
02:15:37
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
02:15:37
JohhnyCAGE
exact Same code, Veronica code, Veronica, response was crazy.
02:15:42
Steve-O
getting the pop.
02:15:43
JohhnyCAGE
Get that pop, dude. And I will say, what a nice bounce back from High Guard terms of a final reveal.
02:15:50
Steve-O
Yes.
02:15:51
JohhnyCAGE
ah
02:15:52
Steve-O
Oh, yeah.
02:15:52
JohhnyCAGE
You know, he's got to keep that energy for s she yeah or for the Game Awards because that's technically that's technically the redemption, right?
02:15:53
Steve-O
Keely knew he learned. Yeah. Mm
02:16:00
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:16:03
JohhnyCAGE
But um man, this was... Everything I wanted. um I will say the only thing that confounds me is um ah Square Enix doesn't know how to make trailers.
02:16:11
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:16:23
JohhnyCAGE
therere Not that they're bad, but they're just like shielded, right? They're just like everything is like it's the end awkwardly.
02:16:35
JohhnyCAGE
They begin kind of awkwardly. They pause it.
02:16:37
Steve-O
Yes.
02:16:38
JohhnyCAGE
And then they're like, let's like, there were like four trailers, right? Let let me
02:16:42
Steve-O
They did multiple trailer that well they did the the official like reveal.
02:16:45
JohhnyCAGE
There's the big, yeah the official and then gameplay.
02:16:48
Steve-O
They brought Matt Mercer out to basically be like, hey everybody I'm charming and also I'm playing Vincent Valentine and also here's gameplay and.
02:16:56
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Which is awesome. Yeah, here' here's kind of like a deep dive, right?
02:17:00
Steve-O
if
02:17:01
JohhnyCAGE
So you're like, okay, that's a... And hey, so happy to see it. Love to see it.
02:17:05
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:17:06
JohhnyCAGE
That's more information. And then they're like, hey, here's a cool cut scene. Another like another trail mini trailer that ends.
02:17:11
Steve-O
Mm.
02:17:14
Steve-O
Mm.
02:17:15
JohhnyCAGE
And then they're like, I hate to leave work unfinished. So let's finish the the trailer. And it's like, what? but what And it's like...
02:17:23
Steve-O
Yes.
02:17:24
JohhnyCAGE
This takes me back to like, dude, when Kingdom Hearts 3 trailers were getting dropped, they were so weird.
02:17:29
Steve-O
Mm.
02:17:32
JohhnyCAGE
They were so awkward.
02:17:34
Steve-O
Mm.
02:17:34
JohhnyCAGE
And I was like, what is... how how are you guys bungling this? Like, you can make this so fucking hype, so exciting, and it's just like, nah, what if we just like...
02:17:46
JohhnyCAGE
had the, had scenes, but like no audio and then just music, just music playing over every, like it was just so, I could post them. Like they're, we, you watch you're like what decisions are being made? And to find out that essentially there's still somebody making those types of decisions with these trailers is fucking crazy to me.
02:18:08
JohhnyCAGE
But,
02:18:08
Steve-O
Yes, yeah.
02:18:09
JohhnyCAGE
taking that all out i mean this was the number one shit like i was like wolverine's definitely gonna come out and i mean it's gonna be sick uh and i was like i really want to see final fantasy 7 and i when state of uh state of uh play ended i was like oh no like people were kind of like oh you know his you really thought we were gonna get like a final fantasy like part three like This quickly after the second one, like, come on, guys, like, that doesn't make any sense. And i was like, oh, my God, i think they're right. Like, shit, like, I'm going to spend a whole year waiting for this to come out. And now, like, it it came out for this.
02:18:50
JohhnyCAGE
It was great. We see the weapons. We see the high wind. Now, If I had to be realistic about it, if I had to just be like, okay, like the, there's a part every RPG. This is the awkwardness of of this being three parts. Right.
02:19:07
JohhnyCAGE
But there's always like a part in a traditional like RPG, JRPG really, where it's like, okay, you got like two dungeons left in the game, but now you have the airship.
02:19:19
JohhnyCAGE
So now you can do all these other side missions. Like, do all the side quests, do the things, and now and then you could go, you know, get the get the best sword for this guy, get the best armor for that character. Like, that's such a kind of, want say trope, but it's like something that's very common in every, like, Japanese RPG, right?
02:19:41
JohhnyCAGE
um And Final Fantasy VII is no different. There becomes a point where in Final Fantasy 7 where it's like, okay, like, you could go to the Northern Crater and, like, beat the game, but, like, hey, don't you want to find out what happens here and here and here?
02:19:59
JohhnyCAGE
Don't you want to get the golden, you know, don't you want to get Knights of the Round? Don't you want to get the golden Chocobo?
02:20:04
Steve-O
Don't you want to get Yuffie?
02:20:04
JohhnyCAGE
Like, don't you want to get Yuffie? Don't you want to do Yuffie's, like, final quest? Like, there's all these things.
02:20:10
Steve-O
You got to get Vincent Valentine, too.
02:20:11
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, you you don't need to get them, but you can. Like, don't you want to get Vince? Vince and Valentine? So, like, there were always these moments in these games and and in a lot of games like this, where it's like the games opened up, you can kind of to finish off the the side quest, get the secret weapons, do this, do that. And then go in and, you know, typically you did all that. And then you go into the final boss and you just wipe the floor with them because you did all the side stuff.
02:20:40
Steve-O
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
02:20:41
JohhnyCAGE
um This is like almost where three part three is starting. It's like, they say they're like, you're getting, you know, you're basically starting with like all the towns unlocked.
02:20:52
JohhnyCAGE
ah You'll have the high wind very shortly. It seems like, you know, you'll get it pretty quickly. And then you can just go anywhere. And I'm like, if that's like the whole of the game, it's like, that's the, that's the, all the side quest stuff. And I'm like, how much like core plot plot is left. And there's not a lot like,
02:21:14
JohhnyCAGE
There's like three things to my memory, right? There's like the Yuffie stuff. Like if you have Yuffie, there's Cloud Goes.
02:21:30
JohhnyCAGE
Spoilers for 1997. Like Cloud Goes Crazy. Like Cloud's not part of your team. And then, like, you get cloud back, and then you can go to the northern crater. And, you know, somewhere in between that is um the the the Arctic town where you can snowboard and shit, right?
02:21:48
JohhnyCAGE
and So there's, like, three or four moments, and then then it's, like, you could do it, you know, go fucking get chocobos, do whatever. um So it's, like, I'm a little, like...
02:21:59
JohhnyCAGE
all right, like what, how much extra stuff is it how How are they going to pace it out? Which is, um you know, you, you fell off of rebirth for the exact same reason as, as a lot of people did.
02:22:11
JohhnyCAGE
Like the pacing is out of control, bad, you know, like,
02:22:16
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
02:22:18
JohhnyCAGE
okay, like, I guess we'll just keep doing this and that. And like, and that was, there was still a big motivator to like get through the story. And a lot of people fell off like you and Chris. And in this one, it's like, how much motive, like, where's the motivator that isn't just going to be like, I don't know, man, I just did a bunch of shit and like, I can't be bothered to finish it.
02:22:41
JohhnyCAGE
um And the only other thing I think is weird is like, they're adding like a class system, like an alternate system.
02:22:47
Steve-O
Yeah, I saw that.
02:22:49
JohhnyCAGE
Which is cool because like, oh there's new costumes, which is like sexual. They were being very um strict with the outfits that you could wear.
02:23:01
JohhnyCAGE
Like, because, you know, at that point, there have been so many variations of the outfits. And it was like, oh, that'd be so cool if you could just buy a costume pack or or unlock costume packs. And essentially, you can do that in Rebirth after the fact, you know, like I think like in a New Game Plus.
02:23:20
JohhnyCAGE
because they're like, yeah, we don't want you to be in like a goofy fucking bikini when Aerith dies. right like
02:23:25
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:23:26
JohhnyCAGE
And I get that. But for this one, it seems like they're like, well, now that we're past that, let's open it up. Let's free it up. Let's get weird a little bit. and But now I'm like, well, don't want to get weird with it. like I don't know. like I felt like you you took it you you held off for so long and now you're like, oh, let's just add Black Mage class. And I'm like like, a job system. And I don't know.
02:23:51
JohhnyCAGE
i don't want to say it was turned off by it. Like, i don't think really.
02:23:53
Steve-O
You know what that'd be perfect for? A remaster.
02:23:55
JohhnyCAGE
What?
02:23:58
JohhnyCAGE
You might. My crackhead fantasy is like, OK, this is what they're going to do. Any like by 2030. Right. Probably even sooner. But I'm like a year or two after Revelations is out and done and dusted. They're like, OK, we are re-releasing.
02:24:16
JohhnyCAGE
One, two and three as one title where they.
02:24:19
Steve-O
Final Fantasy 7 complete.
02:24:20
JohhnyCAGE
Final Fantasy VII, yeah. ah Revolver or whatever, you know. Final Fantasy VII Revolver and we have updated the combat system to be universal across the entire games.
02:24:27
Steve-O
Yeah, you have to make it. it you have to have that RE in it.
02:24:38
Steve-O
That'd be cool. Actually, that would be excellent.
02:24:38
JohhnyCAGE
and And like you could, if you wanted to, you could get the level 99 Midgar if you were that psycho, right? It's like nothing's crazy changed, but they're like, the combat is now universal.
02:24:50
JohhnyCAGE
So you don't like have these big kind of mechanical changes throughout.
02:24:54
Steve-O
Right.
02:24:54
JohhnyCAGE
And I was like, dude, I would rebuy it, you know, and it's on an unreal six or what? you know Because i think they're still going to be on unreal four, which is whatever. Right. But yeah, updated graphics, this, that, the other thing fucking.
02:25:10
Steve-O
I to ask you a question.
02:25:11
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
02:25:12
Steve-O
Do you think that they wanted to call it Final Fantasy 7 Requiem? And then Resident Evil Requiem came out they were like, you bastards.
02:25:17
JohhnyCAGE
ah and um Man, I'm going to say no, because I don't think Requiem really fits. it does. but i don't I'm going to say no.
02:25:29
JohhnyCAGE
I thought it just going to return.
02:25:32
Steve-O
Okay.
02:25:32
JohhnyCAGE
I thought I was going to be basic and say, this return. But.
02:25:38
Steve-O
It's dude. This was a big one. i want your ranking for it.
02:25:40
JohhnyCAGE
This is huge.
02:25:41
Steve-O
I want your ranking for the summer games showcase.
02:25:42
JohhnyCAGE
I know. I'm torn. All right.
02:25:46
JohhnyCAGE
right. Let me.
02:25:46
Steve-O
Cause Devin, I'm going to say something.
02:25:49
Steve-O
i I purposely gave PlayStation and a, because I'm going to give this one an and
02:25:51
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
02:25:53
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
02:25:57
JohhnyCAGE
Ooh. All right.
02:25:59
Steve-O
Just opening up with Resident Evil and ending with ah Final Fantasy.
02:26:02
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:26:06
JohhnyCAGE
Like, it's on par.
02:26:06
Steve-O
And there was a whole skew. Dude.
02:26:10
JohhnyCAGE
If, if this is, if like, that was an A or an A minus, like this is an A.
02:26:14
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:26:17
JohhnyCAGE
Maybe this is an A. Maybe this is an A plus to, to the A.
02:26:21
Steve-O
I have to go higher. Just what by one. Yeah. Yeah.
02:26:23
JohhnyCAGE
Okay. Okay. Yeah.
02:26:24
Steve-O
yeah
02:26:24
JohhnyCAGE
So youre you think it's like head and shoulders above. Like it's notably better.
02:26:30
Steve-O
I think this one was just, you know.
02:26:35
JohhnyCAGE
I do think this is the best summer game fest that he's had.
02:26:37
Steve-O
Yeah, it made me go like this is reminiscent of what E3 used to be.
02:26:38
JohhnyCAGE
because
02:26:43
JohhnyCAGE
You know, it's funny. um I did one of my kind of like rants to myself and I should have recorded it.
02:26:49
Steve-O
hmm.
02:26:50
JohhnyCAGE
I'm kind of annoyed I didn't. But like I was talking about how Summer Game Fest was always like tough because like the Game Awards, it just seemed like there was more incentive to give Jeff more kind of exclusive or or like sneak peeks at things because there wasn't a lot of noise. There wasn't competing noise. Where in SGF, yeah, it's kind of like the week of is still the kind of the de facto like, yes, let's just kind of drop off all the news. But like Sony has its own show. Xbox has its own show. Nintendo has their own show.
02:27:31
JohhnyCAGE
um You know, There's all these excuses and reasons to not give Jeff the really good announcements, right? Because
Gaming Industry Announcements vs Film Industry
02:27:40
JohhnyCAGE
it's competing, essentially. And i'm like, yeah, it's like Summer Game Fest is never going to match E3 because there was never a show called e three right? But it was still under this E3 umbrella.
02:27:56
Steve-O
Right.
02:27:56
JohhnyCAGE
And like the Sony show was still at E3. where like the state of play, I think we could say, yes, technically Summer Game Fest, but it like it's really not.
02:28:08
JohhnyCAGE
Like it's not like in the building because Summer Game Fest is a physical place.
02:28:10
Steve-O
Right.
02:28:12
JohhnyCAGE
You can go there and play games and, you know, demos and do all that stuff. And it's just like, Yeah, it's just really tough for Summer Game Fest to me to like stand on par or even exceed some of the other shows just because like he's essentially getting the scraps.
02:28:32
JohhnyCAGE
And I really felt like that had been that way the last like kind of since he started. Right. Because it's a newish thing.
02:28:38
Steve-O
yeah
02:28:40
JohhnyCAGE
and And the Game of Wars was just a lot easier because, again, there wasn't competing noise. There wasn't like, yeah, okay, yeah we'll give you we'll give you Final Fantasy. or like, we'll give you a God of War. Because like, fuck it, why not?
02:28:53
JohhnyCAGE
Like, let's throw up some noise. He's going to, however the money goes, right? um But this one, I don't know. This one really felt like, yeah, like,
02:29:08
JohhnyCAGE
if he could just somehow convince Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo have some sort of live stage again, he's like, this really could just kind of be like peaky three again.
02:29:22
JohhnyCAGE
Cause this felt like, this felt like a a very good show.
02:29:23
Steve-O
100%. Yeah.
02:29:27
Steve-O
yeah
02:29:27
JohhnyCAGE
This was a very good show, but, oh man, I don't know. So to avoid answering your question a little bit longer, um
02:29:38
JohhnyCAGE
So it's basically it's Code Veronica and Final Fantasy 7 versus ah God of War and Wolverine.
02:29:48
JohhnyCAGE
And those are some bangers versus bang, banger V bangers, dude.
02:29:51
Steve-O
Those are bangers. hmm. Mm
02:29:55
JohhnyCAGE
Oh, You know, I guess I'll give it to, I'll give it a stadium or a summer game fest. It had, it had final fantasy seven and I was legitimately surprised by code Veronica.
02:30:09
JohhnyCAGE
I really was like, there's no way like they're too busy.
02:30:11
Steve-O
hmm.
02:30:12
JohhnyCAGE
No one would have gave them shit. No one would have said Capcom didn't do enough in 2026. Yeah.
02:30:19
Steve-O
You could take the year off for 2027.
02:30:22
JohhnyCAGE
Or like, like you could wait till the game awards. Yeah. like no one i think people were like, we don't need... not I would love Resident Evil every year.
02:30:33
JohhnyCAGE
But like i think they could have gotten... Listen, they kind of like unloaded the clip, emptied the clip in 2026.
02:30:41
JohhnyCAGE
yeah like let let them cook dude they they gave us a great year the best year that any developers ever given like frankly honestly um and yeah like let them cook on our code Veronica Resil zero like ari like whatever it was gonna be it's fine go with God and then they were like no dude we're not done we're not done here's code Veronica and it looks sick and it's
02:31:01
Steve-O
Go with God.
02:31:04
Steve-O
yeah
02:31:07
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:31:09
JohhnyCAGE
And it's it's especially exciting for me because it's the one I've like zero and Code Veronica are the two that I never really gave the time of day. And and zero is just like, I'm like, I get it.
02:31:21
JohhnyCAGE
Same same mansion. It's a train. There's a leech man.
02:31:25
Steve-O
If they remake zero, they might as well just remake one at that point.
02:31:27
JohhnyCAGE
Like, yeah, like Zero remake and Code Veronica remake, like Code Veronica was always the one where I was like, and there was kind of that weird doubt, like, are they going to do Code Veronica?
02:31:39
JohhnyCAGE
Are they just going to go straight to five?
02:31:40
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:31:42
JohhnyCAGE
And it was just so cool to see them, like, confirm it. And I'm like, yeah.
02:31:46
Steve-O
Yes.
02:31:46
JohhnyCAGE
And then I got RE7 Revelation. And it wasn't just, ah I would happy with the trailer, but it was like everything plus, ah you know, a little awkward and tilted, but at the end of the day, it's still, like, way more than I was expecting. And, you know, the but also, you know, there's, like, a 15-year-old girl in a skin suit in stellar.
02:32:13
JohhnyCAGE
So, yeah, that's that's what you give an S rank, huh, Steve?
02:32:14
Steve-O
You know what? I didn't. Yeah. o
02:32:19
Steve-O
You know what?
02:32:19
JohhnyCAGE
All right.
02:32:20
Steve-O
Never mind. be B.
02:32:20
JohhnyCAGE
yeah
02:32:22
JohhnyCAGE
No, Steve.
02:32:22
Steve-O
B.
02:32:24
Steve-O
It's no high guard.
02:32:26
JohhnyCAGE
It's no... It's no I-Guard. I-Guard. Ladies and gentlemen, I-Guard.
02:32:32
Steve-O
yeah This is the one.
02:32:33
JohhnyCAGE
Okay. Thanks, dude. Fucking weirdo. ah god Yeah, but... No, i'll get I'll give the slight edge.
02:32:44
JohhnyCAGE
The slight edge.
02:32:44
Steve-O
All right.
02:32:45
JohhnyCAGE
Nothing
02:32:46
Steve-O
I, you know, just to say, hey, game announcements, game trailers cooking, cooking really good this year.
02:32:50
JohhnyCAGE
wrong.
02:32:54
Steve-O
So.
02:32:54
JohhnyCAGE
it's It's one of my favorite times of the year. I say that kind of without shame. like I'm like, no, i like look forward to this chunk.
02:33:03
Steve-O
We ah we don't.
02:33:04
JohhnyCAGE
Because it's a week where I can just... Yes, give me more.
02:33:08
Steve-O
yeah Give me more. We lost the Comic-Con trailer thing. I mean, it's still there. It's just not as magical as it used to be.
02:33:15
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, and they're kind of...
02:33:16
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:33:19
JohhnyCAGE
don't know. They... It's so frustrating that that for whatever reason, it's kind of given that that Hollywood doesn't follow this this trend.
02:33:33
JohhnyCAGE
Like, give us this.
02:33:33
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:33:35
JohhnyCAGE
If we're not doing this, then have a fucking Disney block. Have like have a Sony block. Give me a Disney state of a a play.
02:33:42
Steve-O
they They do the... What's that? d twenty three Kind of?
02:33:45
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, that's the in person, and you have to go to it, and they don't release those trailers. Like, And I get it. That's kind of the reason why you sell the tickets. But it's like, dude, E3 survived?
02:33:57
JohhnyCAGE
Actually, not a really bad example.
02:33:57
Steve-O
Right.
02:34:00
JohhnyCAGE
It's a terrible example.
02:34:00
Steve-O
Yeah. Oh, and it didn't survive. You're right.
02:34:02
JohhnyCAGE
But like, MJF seems to be doing very well.
02:34:02
Steve-O
Oh, God.
02:34:04
JohhnyCAGE
um And MJF's doing great.
02:34:05
Steve-O
Yeah, MJF's doing fantastic. He's got those Burberry scarves.
02:34:09
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, it was expensive. But... No, like there's a successful, I mean, like esque state of play, I think was the most popular state of play ever.
02:34:20
Steve-O
Yes.
02:34:21
JohhnyCAGE
SGF, I think broke former SGF records. The game awards constantly on an uptick of viewers, which means, you know, commercials and all that. And it's like, I just cannot...
02:34:33
JohhnyCAGE
I mean, listen, I would love it if there was like an E3 for movies, which used to be Comic-Con, but like make it viewable to other, you know, to people that don't have to be there.
02:34:44
JohhnyCAGE
But if you're not going to do that, split it. Give me something, dude.
02:34:47
Steve-O
It's very funny because for so long games were trying to become like movies. You know, they wanted to have their own awards and and stuff like that.
02:34:55
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:34:57
Steve-O
Now it seems like it's kind of on the opposite end where movies should be emulating what games are doing. Put trailers like world premiere trailers in the Oscars.
02:35:03
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. Like,
02:35:07
Steve-O
Stuff like this is cool.
02:35:08
JohhnyCAGE
yeah, yeah, yeah. Crazy to me that they don't do that.
02:35:12
Steve-O
hmm.
02:35:13
JohhnyCAGE
Absolutely crazy that they don't release those things. Like, no, oh, I'm sorry. Like, yeah. but you got self like traditional commercials, dude. It's such a dated concept and i just I've never understood it. And it's just like year over year they get fucking chewed up if you make the comparison.
02:35:34
JohhnyCAGE
And I don't know, maybe maybe that's Keeley's ultimate FU for not giving his dad the credit he deserved.
02:35:42
Steve-O
He's going to kill movies. He's going to kill movies with video games.
02:35:43
JohhnyCAGE
who's gonna Movies are next, dude. You're killing him, dude. But ah That being said, we have technically we have one more show.
02:35:55
Steve-O
One more show. Can we speed run this? Because we're getting it's getting pretty late.
02:35:57
JohhnyCAGE
ah We'll speak now, honestly, because I'm always really out of the loop with the Nintendo Directs. So what?
02:36:03
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:36:06
JohhnyCAGE
Give me a hopes and dreams, Nintendo Direct. What do you think is going to be there?
02:36:09
Steve-O
All right.
02:36:10
JohhnyCAGE
What are you like? Oh, my God. You pop off.
02:36:14
Steve-O
This is what I'm expecting from it and hope or hoping from it.
02:36:14
JohhnyCAGE
if you see Yeah.
02:36:18
Steve-O
I'm imagining. what I'm imagining we're gonna see more Star Fox.
02:36:23
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:36:23
Steve-O
I think that's going to probably start stuff off.
02:36:23
JohhnyCAGE
yeah
02:36:26
Steve-O
I've been seeing people who have got to play Star Fox and they are glazing it.
02:36:32
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
02:36:32
Steve-O
And it's only a $50 game. So like that's kind of crazy.
02:36:37
JohhnyCAGE
Dude, what ah what a wild... like All that only screams that they know they fucked up with that $80 Mario Kart game.
02:36:45
Steve-O
i I think so. I think they were like, with us having to, with us having to raise the price of the console, we might need, yeah, that's, they've they're getting more expensive.
02:36:46
JohhnyCAGE
What a mis... Yeah, what a misplay, dude. Yeah.
02:36:55
JohhnyCAGE
and they got more. Oh, that's right.
02:37:00
Steve-O
in order to like kind of make this a little bit of a, a cheaper pill to swallow a cheaper pill, whatever.
02:37:06
JohhnyCAGE
Easier pill.
02:37:07
Steve-O
Yeah. Easier pill to swallow, uh, lower the price of the game at least.
02:37:12
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:37:12
Steve-O
But you know, that's the thing. It looks cool. It's visually like cinematic. You know, it's it's neat.
02:37:18
JohhnyCAGE
Eventually it has a look.
02:37:20
Steve-O
And I think that's what they're going to open with.
02:37:22
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:37:22
Steve-O
I think we are also going to get some updates on stuff that they're going to add to Tomodachi life because that unexpectedly became like one of the biggest Nintendo releases.
02:37:33
JohhnyCAGE
It's
02:37:34
Steve-O
um I also expect there to be, i think they're going to end with Ocarina of Time remake. That's one that has been rumored for so long.
02:37:46
JohhnyCAGE
it's just a shame that that is that is all but confirmed. um
02:37:50
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:37:51
JohhnyCAGE
It's like tough because you're like, oh, that's so sick. But also like, yeah, and like, I mean, I'll be honest.
02:37:53
Steve-O
You want to lose your mind over it with like a reveal, but everybody's like, yeah, we all know.
02:37:58
JohhnyCAGE
If I didn't read that or hear about that or whatever, like, Dude, that would have been crazy.
02:38:06
Steve-O
Yeah. Oh my God. Yes.
02:38:07
JohhnyCAGE
But, alright, so yeah, Zelda, yeah, obviously you'll believe it when you see it.
02:38:08
Steve-O
I like, I don't even believe it still, but like, you know, it makes sense. It's the 40th anniversary.
02:38:14
JohhnyCAGE
Alright, do you think the art style, let's go with this, is the art style going to be realistic or stylized?
02:38:14
Steve-O
They've got a movie coming out. Like, come on. It's confirmed basically.
02:38:22
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:38:25
Steve-O
I think it's going be stylized, but not in like a Wind Waker sense. like I think it's going to be Breath of the Wild stylized.
02:38:33
JohhnyCAGE
Okay. So like a little bit of cell shading.
02:38:35
Steve-O
But I think it's going to look better than Tears of the Kingdom because it's going to be a Switch 2 exclusive.
02:38:36
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:38:41
JohhnyCAGE
Okay.
02:38:42
Steve-O
So ah it may it may have like a Ghibli feel even.
02:38:44
JohhnyCAGE
All right.
02:38:48
JohhnyCAGE
Dude, that would be crazy. I don't, I don't, you know what?
02:38:51
Steve-O
That would be crazy.
02:38:56
JohhnyCAGE
It's all possible until you see it. So let's go let's go with that.
02:38:57
Steve-O
Yeah, tomorrow we'll find out and we'll lose our mind. And I i have been hearing people talk about a news 3D Super Mario platformer and they were calling it ah Mario Titan, Super Mario Titan.
02:39:01
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:39:06
JohhnyCAGE
See, that that's... That's dirty.
02:39:13
JohhnyCAGE
What the fuck? What
02:39:14
Steve-O
I don't know what that means. Is it Titanfall? But with Mario?
02:39:16
JohhnyCAGE
and does that even mean? What could that mean?
02:39:18
Steve-O
but
02:39:21
JohhnyCAGE
um
02:39:21
Steve-O
What about you, Devon? Do you have any ah any thoughts?
02:39:23
JohhnyCAGE
I'm going to say...
02:39:27
JohhnyCAGE
you know what? I'm going to say that we are going to get... A very interesting Mario Kart World DLC.
02:39:38
Steve-O
It's been so long.
02:39:38
JohhnyCAGE
i think it's I think it's going to like impress people. like I don't think it's going to be like cross... like I think the DLC will put it into where it should have been, which is in the Smash Bros.
02:39:53
JohhnyCAGE
Closer to Smash Bros. like
02:39:54
Steve-O
Okay.
02:39:54
JohhnyCAGE
Mix your Nintendo IP up. You did it before...
02:39:57
Steve-O
You think you're going to get Lincoln it.
02:40:00
JohhnyCAGE
They see. I think you're not only going to get Link. I think you are because like I think everything's going to Link coded because like you said the anniversary. But I think you're going to get like Kirby too.
02:40:13
JohhnyCAGE
I think at least two Link and Kirby. Zelda, you know, like Zelda IP and Kirby IP. I think Kirby's little tough because they have that other game.
02:40:22
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:40:25
JohhnyCAGE
um but
02:40:28
Steve-O
That would be cool if they like did it by game to where it's like, you know, because Super Mario World.
02:40:32
JohhnyCAGE
Well, you got mean, you have Link, you gotta have Ganon, you gotta have Zelda, like, you gotta Sheik.
02:40:35
Steve-O
You're right. But like Super Mario World, like the big deal about that is it's like the entire map is like the Mario like planet kind of.
02:40:46
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:40:47
Steve-O
what if they did each of the DLCs as like, oh, boom, we're adding Hyrule. So it's like a series of like racetracks, but it is like kind of like a contained open world of Hyrule.
02:40:55
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah. so just try Yeah. Yeah, because you're driving around that area. Um,
02:41:00
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:41:03
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, dude. Like, why? why not? Like, it's... I never quite understood the hesitant the hesitance to do that when Smash Brothers has only been um crazy success.
02:41:18
JohhnyCAGE
And like not for nothing, but I think they got to see the success that Crossroads has had.
02:41:18
Steve-O
Right.
02:41:18
Steve-O
Mm
02:41:25
JohhnyCAGE
I know Nintendo's famously just doing Nintendo things, but somebody's got to look over and be like, what ah who could we be doing?
02:41:28
Steve-O
hmm.
02:41:32
JohhnyCAGE
So so do you think that the Maru thing...
02:41:32
Steve-O
Like we own these things. Why not?
02:41:38
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, yeah. I'll say that. Hang my hat on that. Because that that does very well for my fantasy critic.
02:41:42
Steve-O
All right.
02:41:46
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
02:41:48
JohhnyCAGE
Intensely well, yeah. So, yeah. We'll say that. We'll say that.
02:41:52
Steve-O
All right. Well, ah I'm imagining we will be back next week with hopefully Chris. John might still be doing baby stuff.
02:42:00
JohhnyCAGE
You know ah umm I'm telling you. i'm ah I'm a month old on this baby thing.
02:42:05
Steve-O
I think that baby's a month old.
02:42:05
JohhnyCAGE
I don't know how to approach this with him.
02:42:07
Steve-O
More though.
02:42:08
JohhnyCAGE
John, I'm done with this baby. I need you back. i need I need the Street Fighter take.
02:42:12
Steve-O
John, where are you? Taking care of a baby. I'm also working at the airport.
02:42:22
JohhnyCAGE
He's he's building the airport, I hear.
02:42:24
Steve-O
He's he's building the ah the one airport that we all have to go to now.
02:42:30
JohhnyCAGE
one Chicago. Chicago.
02:42:32
Steve-O
Yeah, that's it. We're all going to O'Hare. Mm hmm.
02:42:34
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, that's the word. Oh, oh hey
02:42:37
Steve-O
I'm scared that how quickly I could pick that out of my head. I don't know why.
02:42:40
JohhnyCAGE
hey. You know, I'll tell you.
02:42:41
Steve-O
I've never been.
02:42:42
JohhnyCAGE
I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. ah Home Alone.
02:42:47
Steve-O
Home Alone. You're right.
02:42:47
JohhnyCAGE
Aren't they anything you know here for?
02:42:49
Steve-O
That is that is O'Hare.
02:42:51
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah.
02:42:51
Steve-O
Yeah. And Home Alone 2. Wow.
02:42:55
JohhnyCAGE
Boom.
02:42:56
Steve-O
Yeah, that was a good call. All right, Devin. We will be back next week. We're going be doing our Home Alone retrospective. um
02:43:05
JohhnyCAGE
however I wasn't going to eat that macaroni and cheese.
02:43:09
Steve-O
ah i watched a tiktto a little quick aside I watched a TikTok video of of a girl who buys all of the groceries that Kevin McAllister bought.
02:43:20
JohhnyCAGE
Oh,
02:43:20
Steve-O
And like every year sees how much they have gone up in price.
02:43:26
JohhnyCAGE
my God. I bet it's.
02:43:28
Steve-O
2026, $10 more.
02:43:30
JohhnyCAGE
Then 2025.
02:43:32
Steve-O
Then 2025. Yeah.
02:43:36
JohhnyCAGE
Yeah, like, what what are we doing, guys?
02:43:36
Steve-O
Things are expensive. Kevin McAllister wouldn't be able to buy those things no more.
02:43:41
JohhnyCAGE
I don't like this. i don't like this timeline. We can't blame everything on data centers. Like, why are bananas more expensive, dude? Come on.
02:43:51
Steve-O
Come on.
02:43:52
JohhnyCAGE
Come on.
02:43:53
Steve-O
Come on. right. Be back next week, Devon.
02:43:56
JohhnyCAGE
Yes, I will for sure be available. Wait. Yes, I will be actually.
02:44:02
Steve-O
All right.
02:44:03
JohhnyCAGE
god We do these on Mondays now. Yeah.
02:44:04
Steve-O
We will see you then. Have a good week. Bye, everybody.
02:44:09
JohhnyCAGE
Later.