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Episode 246: The Sony State of Play 2026! · WASD and Beyond

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You ready just to fucking run right through this, right into
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it like a brick wall? Yes, yes, I think we should.
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We should absolutely do that. Awesome, welcome back to the
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What else? What else?
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What else do I have to say? I don't know.
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But also if you don't agree with them then like you're a bad guy.
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No, I'm kidding. I stand by Sony using baby
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foreskin for controllers to it's five years and.
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I'm not, I'm not letting go. I I really thought about leaving
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that as dead air. I probably should have.
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I don't even know what to really follow up.
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Like none of that is true. I I don't even know.
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I that doesn't make any sense to me responding to that because
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I'm giving you like a platform to respond, but like.
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I'm here. You're you're insane.
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I'm crazy back anyways. So the Sony of state play that.
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Yes, Sony State of Play. Yes, Yeah.
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There we go. Thank you.
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Yeah, I want to see if you corrected me.
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I did. I will and I and I will always.
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Very good. Where do you want to jump in on
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this? Do I don't think we need to go
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necessarily in order. We're not talking about every.
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Game, OH. That's that's perfectly fine.
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I I'm perfectly OK with. We can talk about just we'll
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mention the games that were showed, I think, but we don't
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have to discuss. Them let's start out like this.
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This was their best state of play yet this yes right off the
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bat, this was an A+ state of play.
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This was perfect. There was games I didn't give a
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fuck about, but that doesn't matter because what this state
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of play offered to everybody was a game that everybody can look
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at and go, boom, that's me. Yeah, that was.
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Perfect. And it was game, game, game,
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game, game, game, game devbreak, game, game, game, game, game
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devbreak. It was perfect.
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Taking a little bit of, you know, Xbox's like style as well
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with that, right? Like a, you know, a lot of
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people want to just see the trailers and move on.
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They don't really want to spend too much time on each game.
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But then there are the big games where, yeah, that we do want to
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see a bit more information, things like that.
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We saw a lot more gameplay than we're all used to nowadays.
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I yeah, I would agree. I respect that.
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I love that it's it's about time more of that dude, more of what
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Xbox and Sony are doing here. Even Nintendo.
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I'm not a Nintendo guy, but you can't not say they're, I mean,
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their last day to play I heard was just like cool, but like
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it's all right. They're doing it really quick.
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I the other day got really fucked up after work and I'm
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going to call myself out. I bought the marathon
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collections edition I guess when I was drunk so.
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I guess when I was drunk, yeah. Well, and that's a good segue in
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because one of the game showed off showing off was Marathon.
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And what a trailer announcement of Yes, the trailer was great.
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We got the announcement that the Server Slam will take place on
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February 26th and will run until March 2nd and then the game
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launches on March 5th. Leaving them no time to fix any
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problems. That we.
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Yeah, Like I, I was really hoping for either, like this
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weekend, which I thought would have been hilarious because it's
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Valentine's Day weekend, or Kerry.
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Would have been so mad. Next.
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Yeah, exactly. Well, next weekend would have
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probably been. Well, fuck her anyway.
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Scored a Phantom of the Opera on Valentine's Day.
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He. Just remembered that.
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Anyways, so I love the trailer. I thought it was really good.
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It was really dark and eerie and fucked up and I liked that.
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I liked that it has, it seems to have a lot of lore and like
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story going on in terms of when you're walking around checking
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things out and like learning things about what you're dealing
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with in the world. And it looks like a lot of it
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has to do with you fighting the AI more than fighting other
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players, which is really cool to me.
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I like that it that's sort of a backdrop and you're more so
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other players trying to survive almost in a, I'm not comparing
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it to arc Raiders, but that's kind of the same vibe I think,
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where it's like the AI is going to be a lot more dangerous and
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there's going to be a lot more of them than there are even of
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players. And I loved the gameplay when we
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played it in the second play test.
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I really liked it. However the only issue I had was
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I got a real weird Destiny or like Halo vibe a little because
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when you started sprinting you could not turn at all.
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It was like if you looked in a certain direction you had to
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Sprint that way. You couldn't really adjust,
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which might be the style. But at the end of the day, it
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doesn't reflect really the I'm playing what's a runner right,
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is what you said yesterday. Yeah, that's your shells.
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Yeah, yeah, I think I should be able to move in a couple of
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different directions if I'm sprinting.
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I'm here from the latest. I don't want to Sprint
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backwards, but you know. I'm seeing and hearing from the
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latest play test. The people are praising its
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snappiness now. OK.
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So they're like it's snappy, it's in, it's very what's the
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word responsive? So I don't really care for the
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Burt Peanut, but I'll I just think he's annoying as fuck.
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He's just a character. It's just, it's just an annoying
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character. And if he hears this ever call
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me out, make this podcast famous or whatever you do to all other
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concert creators, suck my Dick. You can't, you can't see it, but
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my, because my camera's all messed up due to where I'm
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sitting right now. But I just, I'm going to do the,
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you know, the thing where he just looks at the camera and
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opens his mouth and like, that's apparently like so funny.
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No beef with the guy, just fuck you though anyways.
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Marathon. Yeah, dude, I was.
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So we played. We played both betas that came
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through. The first one was vastly
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different from the second. What are you?
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What? Should I not cause problems with
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bigger creators? No, I just yeah, I think you're
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just causing creator drama, you stupid bitch.
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But like, let's just. Fuck a mirror too.
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That's OK. Come on.
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Move. Move it on, all right?
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We're supposed to be talking about fucking video games.
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From the first two betas we played, I will say from the
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first to the second, it was vastly different.
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The sky box was different, the environment was different, the
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mood and atmosphere and lighting was different.
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It still has that cool art style that they're doing, which I'm
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seeing as a major complaint. And it's like, I don't want to
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play a game that looks like Tarkov or Halo all the time or
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Call of Duty or Doom even. Like I want to play something
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new and this looks new. I'm cool with everything being
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like this. My frustration at, and it's
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still a bit of a sticking point for me, is the extraction
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shooter aspect of Marathon. I want to be able to experience
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this world and learn about what really happened and what's going
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on with Durandal or Durandal and all the rampant AI because they
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all go through rampant seeds, just exactly what Cortana has.
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So I want to learn about this. I want to learn about what
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happened on the Marathon and then what's happening on Tauseti
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without worrying about a guy like Evan who's going to
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outclass and outplay me behind me, stabbing me in the back or
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blowing my head off. Right.
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Yeah, I'm excited to play like this, but I wish there was an
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option here to say, hey, go experience the world by yourself
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or your friends, and you can go experience this world by
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yourselves. That is my sticking point.
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So I'm excited. And when I was wasted I bought
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the collector edition so. Very good.
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We're here now, yeah. Where do you want?
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What do you want to pop into? So the next thing that I want to
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talk about was an exciting one for me.
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I'm trying to find it here as I scroll through because I think I
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played this a little bit more than you when it came out last
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year. The Ghost of Yotai Legends
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update. Yes, March 10th looks, yes,
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March 10th looks very exciting. Really bummed out that we did
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not get some sort of announcement about APC release
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because at this point with one of the other announcements that
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we'll talk. About today.
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I just kind of hope to see that on PC soon because our good our
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good friend and member of it came from screen box member
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Noah. He and I played the legends mode
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on ghosts of sushi mode when it came to PC and we fell in love
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with it because we we were so surprised that a game that at
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that point was is in now is is pretty old.
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And yet the combat together felt so much better than any other
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game that it's tried to do that like I could with like the back
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of my Cortana or with my Cortana, I could hit some guy in
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the back and push him towards Noah and Noah would seamlessly
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be able to cut the dudes like which is so cool as you and it
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but it but it looks so good, like it just flowed together so
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extremely well. So I'm hoping to see that sort
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of retain and be better in this. I love that they are leaning
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more into the supernatural aspect of it and that you're
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basically going to be with your friends hunting down
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supernatural demonic versions of the Yota 6.
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So that'll be really interesting.
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I'm curious if it's going to be, I think it'll probably be just
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mission based like the first one was because there's classes and
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things like that. But at the same time, would be
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kind of cool to also explore the map as friends and, and it's
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just a really supernatural looking one.
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And maybe we'll get something like that.
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But that was really exciting for me.
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I, I, I'm very excited to give that a go and play it again.
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Gosiote was a great game. I fell off because it's just
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more of the same of Sushima and I was just, I just got rather
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bored of it. But I like the game for what it
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is and this is great for all Yote fans and just Ghost fans in
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general. It's going to be great for you
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guys. So that's March 10th.
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It's. Probably one of those games I'm
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going to play it more. I'm going to finish it on PC
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when I'm when I have it there, right?
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It's one of those games. I think for me I just didn't
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want to play it on the PC or PS-5 anymore.
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Yeah, really. No, I get that.
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And we'll and that ties in with this Death Stranding 2 PC March
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19th. That was fast Kojima.
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And I know this man smells his own farts, I get it.
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But that's that's a turn around. It's not that's quick.
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That's awesome. That's insanely fast.
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Like what? It only came out in June of last
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year, So yeah, nine months. I mean.
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It's pretty, pretty great. Can you imagine how that game is
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going to look on a like actual PC?
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Oh yeah, no, I'm probably going to get it and play through it
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and finish it now. I wish I wouldn't have played it
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on my PlayStation 5. The only reason I'm stoked I did
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was because how big my TV is. Yeah.
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So I just would sit there and be like, shit, This meant it's
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awesome. It's fucking awesome.
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So cool. What next, bub?
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The next pick for me, if I have to.
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If you're gonna make me pick one of them, I would probably say,
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you know what? I'll I'll do something a little
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different. I really liked the control
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resonant trailer. I loved you were actually on the
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phone with me when I was watching it and I and I
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immediately said I was like, I'm going to freak out if he does
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what I think he's about to do. And he just ran towards a wall
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and the gravity like the perspective shifted and his like
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the gravity moved to where that was now his floor and.
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It was seamless. And it was seamless and I was
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like, oh dude, that's awesome. Like that was like, I was like,
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that is going to be so cool, especially if you're moving
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really fast in combat and you can do that.
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And it's not like that's going to be so much fun.
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I also just liked the like the combat aspect.
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It seemed to have like the hammer and you had some other
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like range weapons too. So I'm curious to see where they
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go with it. I did not finish the first
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control game. You got them.
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I want to, I just am kind of bummed out because I actually
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loaded it up not too long ago and it's still even at the
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highest settings with the most recent like DLSS stuff and a
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better a couple of better parts I still get only like 40 FPS so
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it's like I want to play it and really enjoy the beauty.
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You play way more demanding games than Control.
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Yeah, apparently not. I I think it's.
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I'd have to look at the settings again.
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I probably. Alan Wake.
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You know what though? But that's the thing, Alan Wake
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ran better and Alan Wake's a newer game.
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Yeah, it ran better and that's a newer game.
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And that could just be better optimization.
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Yeah, I don't know. I, I had AI had a really good
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time with that. I loaded that up not too long
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ago too. But I, I at this point, I think
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I'm I'm far enough in to where I don't remember how to play the
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game. So I'm going to have to restart
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and I don't really want to do that.
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So I'm just going to bide my time.
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But I would like to play through that game because I like the
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first one as a kid. Yeah.
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But yeah, Control Resonant look great.
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I am excited to give that a go whenever it is.
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I think we actually did we get a release date for it or did we
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just got? Gameplay, I think it's just
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release. They were like hey it's going to
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be out when it's out. Yeah and if and if it didn't I
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deleted my note for it so that sucks.
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I'll blow through 2 for loop looks uninspired and boring as
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fuck for a Bad Robot production. It's very upset.
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It's boring, it looks boring. I don't, I'm not going to play
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this. It doesn't look inspired at all.
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It's some it looks like it was too much.
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It looks like an amalgamation of what the fuck and I'm not here
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for it. Legacy of Kane Defiance
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remastered dude, March 3rd. This is a game that is very
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special to me. I love Legacy of Kane series, I
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love Rasael, I love Kane, I love Nasgoth, I love all of that.
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And this is coming out March 3rd.
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I'm going to play the everliving fuck out of this.
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Nice. So much out of this.
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So. Oh yeah.
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Also dead are alive 6 big boobas.
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That's all I wrote. There was also we got another
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little bit of showing of a game that we talked about during the
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Xbox showcase with the Beasts of Reincarnation.
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They just showed more of that. And are you?
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Excited for that? No, I'm just talking about it.
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They just said it was set to launch on August 4th.
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I'm not really about it, but you know, it looks interesting for
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people who enjoy that sort of stuff.
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I like the wolf but like not really my my jam.
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Got some more double O 7 first light story.
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That was pretty what? What's your position on that?
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So my position on it is that because it's an IO interactive
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game, it's probably going to play or feel somewhat similar to
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a Hitman game and it's going to feel some sort of like Hitman
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games have always felt sort of stiff to me because Hitman
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himself is a very stiff individual and a very like
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you're. Those games still really rely on
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the the disguises and like coming up with goofy ways to
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almost like comical ways to kill people rather than something
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where you would kind of want like a James Bond to be where
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he's it depends on the type of thing you're going for.
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But like, you want it to be fast and punchy and and have a bit
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more adrenaline to it. You know, you want like him to
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be flawed in a lot of ways to like what I liked about the most
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recent Bond films with Daniel Craig was that he was a flawed
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individual. I know he's younger in this
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story and it's sort of like an origin, like their own take on
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it. So we'll see how that goes.
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So he's not that jaded yet, but I'm curious what that translates
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to. Does he come off as some?
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Is he going to be likable? Is he going to be just kind of
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like flat, you know, and I, I because. 47 is very That's all
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you get. Yeah, and and like this looks
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like it'll be kind of interesting because you're going
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to see how he gets the scar on his face.
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He looks younger, so you're going to see that.
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So, you know, I hope that that's just serves it well.
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And I also hope the performance is good because the last time we
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saw them do gameplay, it was not very smooth.
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So it was cool to see it. I'm excited to see it.
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It looks like. Oh, they didn't give a release
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date still. Nope.
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But it looks like, yeah, he this trailer was about how he, you
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know, draws the attention of MI 6 and he will have to take on
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Double O 9. So that'll be kind of an
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interesting thing to see. But yeah, I mean, I'm excited
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for it because I like James Bond.
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But we'll see. Yeah, no, I mean, my thing is
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it's it's cool. I'm excited for like anything in
17:16
the James Bond IP to have its own like area, right.
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Like we haven't really had a good one since, in my opinion,
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Goldeneye. But yeah, it's it's cool, man.
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It just, it looks stiff. It yeah, it looks pretty, but
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it's also I I don't know. We will see, yes, when it
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finally drops. I got a couple here that I'll
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just kind of go through. Crimson Moon.
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That looks pretty sweet. Yeah, that looks cool.
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Rayman is now 30. So happy birthday, Raymond.
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The big walk was shown. I'm super pumped on that.
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That game is gonna be a blast to play with everybody in the
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server. Goofy looking characters, big
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wide open maps, cool looking puzzles and like building and
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really trying to get through the world with your friends.
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I'm stoked on that. We saw a little bit of
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Castlevania Belmont's curse, so if you're a Castlevania fan,
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you're eating very, very good. And then I'll leave it off here.
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Metal Gear Solid Master Volume 2 or the why do they have the name
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like this The fucking master collection volume to August 27th
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yes. So we are getting God damn Metal
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Gear Solid 4, Guns of the Patriot, Peace Walker, and Ghost
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Babble. These are all games that are
18:41
locked to their specific consoles and now everyone's
18:44
going to be able to play them. So I think it's awesome that
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everyone's going to play his games.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 was really one of my favorite Metal Gear
18:52
games. I loved it.
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So for everyone to be able to who hasn't been able to play
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those games to now be able to play them, it's fantastic and
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like an HD upscaling of it. So great stuff, good stuff.
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Everyone is to play that so good there that again, that's August
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27th, yes. I'll run through a couple here
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real quick. This was kind of cool, I might
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give it a shot. Star Wars Galactic Racer.
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Yeah, final boss was pumped on that.
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That looks kind of cool. I mean I'll give it a shot and
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see how that is. It looks really pretty.
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Soros got some more gameplay shown off, which again I didn't
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really want to watch too much of.
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I want to go into that pretty blind, but cool to see that is
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still is coming out relatively soon.
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April 30th RE-9 drops On February 27th we got another
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trailer. This one shows that Leon is
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apparently infected with some sort of virus.
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It's one of those things where I almost think they're being
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purposefully, I mean, obviously they're being purposefully
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vague, but like it even the way his infection looks, it's like,
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is that the the. Black mold from 7:00 and 8:00?
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Or is that something new? Is that something old?
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I think it's a previous virus or something but like seeing the
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gas station. Yeah, and the and the.
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Fucking police station. The police station, the lobby,
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Yeah, dude, Ethan actually had a Ethan had a had an interesting
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idea of what if it's the Plagus parasite that he got.
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That's what I was trying to see. Oh, that's what?
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Oh, that's what you thought without spoiling?
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Well, whatever. I mean people, whatever,
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whatever. Also, I was wondering if there
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is maybe a shot of the president's daughter in there
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from when he saved her. It looked like that but.
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Yeah. I, I couldn't tell for sure I
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and I, I wasn't sure if it was Grace, the new protagonist that
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we're going to be playing or if it was her.
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So I just thought about that and I was like, cuz who?
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I mean this is kind of what they do now is like and like it's a
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great thing is like you these people from the past show up and
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thing to do. We don't even know who this new
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enemy Victor is. This new villain.
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Looks terrifying. Nobody's ever seen him and he
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looks terrifying. See, that looks great.
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I'm very excited for that. Comes out in two weeks from now.
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Exactly. And then I want to bring up one
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more that I have never played these games, but I'm very
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excited for this one and I will probably pick it up.
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Silent Hill Townfall. Let's talk about it.
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That looked wild. I loved the first person
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perspective. I.
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Immediately saw that and I was like, yes dude, like that It
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like I don't even like scary games, but when when games that
21:39
are traditionally third person like Resident Evil was go into a
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first person perspective and shift into a different sort of
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horror, it makes it so much better.
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And what I'm really excited about is that it didn't look
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like, like the Silent Hill looks like it's keeping all of the
21:55
tropes and things that they love to have in their games and just
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putting you through the eyes of the player or the the person
22:01
you're playing rather than the camera behind.
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And that was really exciting because I loved how they did
22:05
that for seven, but then it became really actiony and eight
22:09
and I didn't really vibe with it as much.
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So I'm I'm excited to see how this plays with that.
22:15
But it looks, it looks so exciting.
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I'm just, I, I love games like that.
22:22
At this point, I'm definitely going to be picking that.
22:24
Up Silent Hill looks awesome. That looks creepy as fuck.
22:27
Perry and I watched this together up on the couch and she
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was like, and I was like, oh man, like we're she's more of a
22:34
Silent Hill. I'm a Resident Evil guy.
22:36
She's Silent Hill. Like that's just that's just
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where we are, right? But like this, I'm going to be
22:40
picking this up. It looks creepy.
22:42
It looks like it's going to be scarier in first person in my
22:45
opinion. So super pumped project windlist
22:51
based on the bird that drinks tears.
22:54
All I could say here in my notes was oh PETA, because this bird
22:59
is literally the bird from you pointed out.
23:00
You're like this is just a bird from Family Guy.
23:02
This thing is sweet. Dude.
23:04
This like Landon was watching us with us.
23:07
It looked awesome. Here's a big ass chicken beating
23:10
the fuck out of everything around you dude.
23:11
Chopping people in half and. Well, there was so many things
23:14
on screen too, right? There's a lot of enemies.
23:17
I liked that. That looked really good.
23:20
It gave me there was a game that I used to play.
23:22
It was terrible because I only played the no, but it was a it
23:27
was a Oh my God, I wish I could remember it.
23:29
It had terrible lip syncing and terrible voice acting.
23:34
It was, but it was it was. I played it as a kid, but the
23:37
the thing I liked about it was it had a lot of people on screen
23:42
at once. So you have a lot of AI fighting
23:44
each other and it was sort of like this weird fantastical
23:48
historical like history. So it was like it was actually
23:52
like I like it was like the 100 years war.
23:55
It was like like the French and the English.
23:57
I think it was some, I can't remember the name of it.
23:59
I'll have to look it up. But like for for me when I was a
24:02
kid was that you would have those really big battles.
24:05
You would see like what looked like hundreds of of people
24:08
attacking each other at once on horseback, hand to hand combat.
24:12
And like that's what this game looked like.
24:13
And you're just this giant chicken in the middle of it just
24:16
sick beaten ass. And I was like, that's that's
24:19
cool. Like.
24:20
I'll be, I'll be playing that. I am going to be playing that.
24:23
And then I really quick because there's we only really have
24:26
three more big hitters. Darwin's Paradox.
24:32
The other kind of interesting? I want to play it.
24:34
I want to play. It looks cute, it looks fun.
24:37
It looks like a game I'd have fun with.
24:38
Landon, Yes. Like you would have a blast.
24:42
Like this game? So that's why I agree.
24:44
I had to shout that game out. All right, I know you're going
24:47
to want this one. That's why I didn't say it.
24:49
Which one? Which one could you possibly be?
24:52
Just just do it doc. John Wick.
24:56
Woo people already pissed about it.
24:59
Oh, let them be bad. I don't even they.
25:00
Said look at the QTE fest and I went, you don't know that we're
25:03
not playing it, no. It's not going to be.
25:05
It could be kill. Animations.
25:06
Yeah, it's probably just kill animations.
25:08
I mean, this is Saber Interactive, which they have a
25:11
lot on their plate. They're making a lot of games.
25:13
Race Marine 3 John Wick. And multiple others too, like a
25:18
lot of other games that they're making.
25:22
I don't think it's going to be a QTE fest.
25:24
I think it's going to be something like what you said,
25:27
where it's going to be more of kill animations.
25:29
And I think this is one of those things where you have people
25:34
that are working around it who have worked with the movies,
25:37
like Chad Stahelski, who has directed them.
25:39
And it's like he's clearly going to go like, well, this is, you
25:43
know. And I think they're also like, I
25:45
think he himself likes to play video games.
25:47
So he's going to have that perspective as a gamer to go,
25:50
well, this is going to probably be pretty annoying if you're
25:53
just hitting Xyb and A at the right times.
25:57
Most of it like through all of it, right.
26:00
So I'm I'm curious how it's going to play.
26:03
What they showed looked good both in cinematic and in game.
26:07
It looked really good. And I'm sure it'll look even
26:09
better by the time we get it. There'll be a lot more Polish,
26:13
but I I think it's going to be something that might surprise
26:17
us. I think it might be a bit of a
26:18
surprising thing where it's a video game.
26:20
It's a movie that has been turned into a video game, you
26:23
know, and it is actually quite decent.
26:27
So we'll see. I'm hyped for it.
26:28
I love that it is a prequel. It is young John Wick or you
26:34
know, young ish John Wick prior to him leaving the the life for
26:39
the business, whatever they whatever they would call it.
26:43
So I'm excited to see sort of like not an like a sort of
26:47
pseudo origin story. Like we get to see him before he
26:51
meets Helen, before he gets the dog, before he gets the car,
26:55
like and that might be sort of revealing, right.
26:59
He's brutal in the Movies Now. You know, how was he when he had
27:03
really nothing? You know, he was really.
27:05
Just this. This machine.
27:07
He's got called the Baba Yaga for a reason.
27:10
Right, exactly. And this is and that's actually
27:12
part of that's what the John Wick Twitter account said.
27:14
This is before he was the Baba Yaga.
27:16
And so we're going to see hopefully the things.
27:19
Why did you? Become that like that's going to
27:23
be crazy. I love that they also showed in
27:25
the trailer. Maybe they they shouldn't have
27:27
and left that to for us to see later.
27:29
But I thought it was funny that one of the takedowns was using a
27:31
pencil. A pencil.
27:33
Awesome. I'm excited for this.
27:35
I'm excited. I think it looks awesome having
27:37
Keanu Reeves reprise his role in a video game like this.
27:40
Phenomenal. Good stuff.
27:43
I'm excited for fucking John Wick, dude, This is going to be
27:45
sweet. It's going to be a fun fucking
27:47
year. Couple years here.
27:49
Hopefully. Hopefully.
27:50
So, yeah. John Wick, do you want me to do
27:54
the do the next two? Do the next two.
27:56
OK. You can do them both.
27:58
I'm a big fan of the series. One of these things I'm more
28:02
excited about than the other. So God of War trilogy remake,
28:08
we're going back to the first three games.
28:10
It's not just like a slap of new paint.
28:13
It sounds like it's going to be ambitious.
28:15
They brought back. They brought back old cradles.
28:19
Brought back TCTC Carson. Oh my God, TC is bad, baby.
28:25
It's awesome. This.
28:25
That's fucking sweet. That's fucking awesome.
28:29
I'm so excited. I'm excited.
28:30
That shot just like a We threw some pain at it.
28:33
There you go. Just do 4K textures and call it
28:35
a day. Yeah, it's hey, we have ideas
28:38
and it's like, OK, cool, let's do that.
28:40
I'm very excited for that. That's going to be fucking
28:42
awesome. I think everybody who's anybody
28:45
has been wanting this for quite a while and we're going to get
28:48
it. It's not ready yet.
28:49
They did say like, hey, next time you hear from us, we will
28:52
have a lot more to say. That's important.
28:54
So super pumped for that. And then we also have God of War
28:58
Sons of Sparta, which is out now on PS-5.
29:01
I think it's come to PC immediately because I think
29:03
it'll get more traction on PC personally.
29:07
And that's cool little side scroller.
29:09
Kratos, before he was actually Kratos.
29:11
You're good. So if you're into that, you got
29:14
some God of War shit for you. I'm pumped on this.
29:17
I'm excited for that trilogy. Oh dude.
29:20
I, I, yeah, as someone who did not play them when I was growing
29:23
up, this is going to be able to, it's going to be like the
29:25
Resident Evil 2 and three and four remakes where I get to go
29:27
back and play them in a new light and get a better, like,
29:32
not better, but like get a, get a new understanding, a new
29:35
perspective on them. And I'm very excited to see
29:38
that. I'm excited to see how I'm sure
29:40
it's going to look great because it's Sony Santa Monica just
29:42
doing it. And I'm sure it's going to look
29:45
incredible like, and I think there's a lot of money.
29:49
And if you got to go to the business side of things, like I
29:51
think there's a lot of money in actually properly remaking these
29:54
games. I, I don't think Capcom would
29:56
have, would have done 3:00 and 4:00 and from seemingly rumors,
30:00
another A5 remake. I don't think they would do that
30:03
if it didn't make them money. So it's exciting to see.
30:08
I'm going to dig, I'm going to be a little mean here.
30:10
It's exciting to see a PlayStation first party studio
30:13
decide to completely remake a game instead of just slapping
30:17
remastered on it and doing that three times in the first year it
30:21
comes out. Naughty Dog, Naughty Dog, you
30:25
suck now. They don't suck they but I did
30:29
not like the Last of Us 2. The Last of Us 2 remastered was
30:33
pretty dumb in my opinion. And then like Last of Us one
30:37
remake or Part 1 technically as it is called now is good.
30:42
I think that's pretty good because that's rebuilt in the
30:44
new engine and all that stuff is done.
30:47
So that looks really good. But I also kind of just in like,
30:53
why are you spell you're making people spend money on like the
30:56
chronological edition, which is like that's just stupid.
31:00
That's just dumb. But no, I'm excited to see Sony
31:03
Santa Monica actually go through and completely remake these
31:06
titles and give fans what they've been asking for for
31:11
quite some time, as well as, you know, the actors.
31:15
It sounds like, especially maybe the show.
31:17
Kratos sailing off from Greece and going at the end they're
31:23
adding, they said they're, they have ideas and they're adding
31:25
shit. So maybe we'll see how Kratos
31:27
actually got into the Norse pantheon.
31:32
That'll be cool. That would be sick.
31:34
That would be very, very cool. I would actually.
31:36
Love that Sony Santa Monica. I think you do that at the end,
31:40
you know what I'm saying? Yeah, absolutely.
31:43
There you go man. Again, this was an A + a plus in
31:47
my opinion. State of Play I I don't know how
31:50
you top that. It was great.
31:52
It has, again, it has something for everybody.
31:54
It was fun. The games were great.
31:57
We had more gameplay than usual, which is needed.
31:59
Like I said, and I I had a great time.
32:01
There's so much to talk about here and I cannot wait to see
32:04
these hopefully see these games come to fruition.
32:07
A plus. So what what's your stance?
32:09
We will cap it off. I, I love this state of play.
32:12
I thought it was great. I thought they, for an hour,
32:14
they moved really quickly through a lot of these games and
32:16
they spent time on the games they wanted to spend time on and
32:19
there was a lot there for everybody to see and to like.
32:22
I kind of wanted some Wolverine stuff.
32:24
But I get it. We're probably going to get
32:25
something later on this year on its own or with a bigger state
32:28
of play during the summer maybe. So I am excited for the future
32:33
ahead for PlayStation and what they bring.
32:35
I'm excited for a lot of these games and I am curious to see
32:40
what comes next with them. But no, I'd give it like a like
32:42
an 8 1/2 probably like just because it didn't have some of
32:46
the things I maybe wanted to see.
32:47
But like, that's just a personal.
32:49
Oh, I'll give it a number then. A10 give you get a 10.
32:51
Oh, you're going to give it a 10?
32:53
I gave it a day and plus, yeah. OK, well, yeah, I'll give.
32:56
I'll give it a day and a half, bring it down to 9.
32:58
Sorry, I didn't mean to yawn again.
33:00
Perfect. It's you know what?
33:02
It's time for lunch. It is time for lunch.
33:04
Let's go eat. Let's go eat.
33:06
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