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215: Summer Game Fest 2025 · WASD and Beyond

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None. The.
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Man, oh man, oh man. You ready?
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You ready to do a man? Look at them pearly whites.
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I got, I got, I got little corns.
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You act like it's the first time you've ever seen me.
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It's been a long time. It's been a week.
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It has been a while. Look, look at, look at how
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fucking white my beard's getting, dude.
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Look at this shit. It came in over here just like a
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few hairs and then it spread and now it's spreading to the other
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side. Shit man, I'm going to be salt
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and pepper in like 2 years. The fountain of youth is if you
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look at me, it's starting to starting to favor me since I got
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out of working manual labor well.
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I'm back in it so that explains a lot I guess.
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You work a tough job, but cheers to you buddy, Cheers to us.
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Let's hit it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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For the audio listeners, that's not pleasant.
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But for the Youtubers, you're going to call us fat and
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probably the slur anyways. What's going on, everybody?
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They are. They might.
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They might, they will. They will.
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I've been called, I've been called a fat hard F word before
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on YouTube. That's kind of wild.
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You know, it was Twitch, It was Twitch.
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I was streaming on Twitch. Some guy went look at this guy
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and I went midstream. I went thanks man.
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Sure man thanks dude. Anyways, going on, we are your
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Yeah, you would. So all this time we could have
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had more friends. Uh huh.
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And they're like, fuck these guys.
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Nobody reached out though, so. Yeah, fuck you guys.
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sixth year of WASD and beyond. Damn, it's been a while.
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Fifth, probably the 5th or 6th year.
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Brody, I would ask you what you've been playing.
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I can technically answer it, it's not going to take very long
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though. Do you want?
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OK, yeah, 'cause I mine might be a bit longer.
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So I downloaded Doom. That's something.
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OK. I have yet to start it up.
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Yeah, I, I downloaded Night Rain, which came out a little
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over three hours ago, almost four hours ago now.
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I haven't played it. I have played maybe 3 hours of
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Expedition 33 maybe and that is pretty much all I have played.
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It's I've been working a little bit of extra so I have not
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really been at my computer or we've had things going on.
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I just really have not been able to play much.
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That being said, as far as mobile stuff, I've played some
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Bilatro. OK, that's good.
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That's a game. Bilatro sweet and sticking to
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that same like card flavored type of games.
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I've been playing a shit load of Marvel snaps though.
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That's like one of my go to. I play it every day.
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It's I see you log into it. You see it?
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Wait, wait, did you play or were you playing Rivals earlier?
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Oh, I loaded up rivals to see if I've missed anything at all.
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Yeah, I blew. I blew your.
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While I was down, while I was downloading Night Rain, I loaded
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it up. I never played anything.
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So everybody can calm the fuck. Down.
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Yeah, Amber. Yeah, be nice to Brody.
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Yeah, be nice to. Yeah, she's always nice to you.
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Yeah, she is. Can we talk about something real
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quick? Yeah.
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You guys went to a sorry to interrupt.
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You guys went to a murder mystery type fucking party and
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you went in ADCFC kit. I'm she said that I went.
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She said me that I went. Fucking love this man.
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I was AI was an Italian soccer player who was supposed to take
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over his dad's restaurant. And so, so I was just a wee
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little lad. Yeah, it was fun.
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All I cared about was football. Did you use any of my Romanian
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accent? No, I I went full like over the
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top, like almost Luigi. Yeah, like Luigi Mario level of
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Italian accent. It was fun.
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Me and Amber were the only ones that used accents most of the
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night. It was great.
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Oh what the fuck boring everyone else.
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I know, I know it's bullshit, but yeah, I was.
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I was just a football player. It's good that I hate that.
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I hate that so much. Go on.
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No, that's it. Was Amber a gypsy?
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Is that what she was? Yeah.
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OK. I I looked and went.
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She's a fucking gypsy. And I was like I should go.
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Figure she was was it the the nose ring that like came all.
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Over. It was the, it was the head
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garb, it was the nose ring. It was.
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I was like, yeah, Amber's a fucking gypsy, yeah.
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She did good. She did good.
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Tell her not to get used to it. You know she don't.
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She don't want to live that life.
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Yeah, no. Dirty, dirty life.
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Anyways, it's not nice to talk about the gypsies that way.
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But it is true. Any who, what have you been
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playing? Yes so obviously I beat the dog
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shit out of doom Dark ages 100% at each level.
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The only thing I need to do now is finish my masteries of the
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weapons and that's every achievement at that point for
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me. And then I wait for the two DLCS
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to drop. What a game.
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What a game. I know I reviewed it last week
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with Evan but God what a game. Incredible, incredible return to
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form for Doom. Not really return to form I
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suppose, but like this was this was a much needed entry in the
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series. The shield is amazing, the
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traversal in the the, the game is amazing, the maps are just so
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awesome. The skybox is awe inspiring.
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It's like the first time I've looked at a Doom game and I
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went, wow, like, look at all that.
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How did you feel about like the Dragon and the mech sections?
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They're very simplistic. Anybody can play those.
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Anybody can pick this game up and play.
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That's the best part about this game is like even I've heard a
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lot of people that I know and doom fans like, well, it's not
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fair that that it's easy. No, it's not.
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It's not easy if you don't make it easy, right, like it's not
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easy. It's a hard game.
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It's not doom eternal fast, but the game is still fast.
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But the dragon and the mech quests, they're fun.
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It's it's turn your brain off, fly around in the you know, in
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Serret or however you pronounce the dragon thing.
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I forget that. It's just fun.
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You just fly around a fucking map for the first time in Doom,
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you're in a in a vehicle. Right.
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I've, I've heard that it's actually works exceptionally
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well because it kind of breaks it up a little bit and gives you
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just like a touch of a, a break. But yeah, I have heard it is
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fairly simplistic. I've I've kind of heard both
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sides, right? Like some people hate it, some
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people like it. Just kind of I was curious what
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your take was. Yeah, it's a nice break in
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gameplay because it's 3 sections I believe, and it's spaced out
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very well. It doesn't over, it doesn't
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overstay its welcome, and then it doesn't like hit you in the
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face. Yeah, with like showing up.
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The next section was like 2 sections again, very fun.
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Two or three maybe very fun sections, very easy, just
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slugfest with some gunplay in it.
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But again, it adds that power fantasy that I think Doom does
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best. No one out power fantasies Doom
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unless you're like a space marine, right?
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Like even then it's like same shit, different pot.
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It's it. Yeah, they were great levels
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that they're easy, they're fun. But like their levels, like if
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Landon wanted to play, I'd be like I'd give him the controller
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during those if I wanted to, I'd be like, here, do this and let
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him fly around with the Doomslayer's dragon or let him
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just walk around the mech and just hit shit.
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It's it's fun. It's I I sit it on the show.
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It gave me the whole game, gave me like Saturday morning cartoon
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vibes in in like a mature good way.
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Yeah. Where the I felt like I was on
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an, an an adventure. I, I didn't feel like I was just
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there to kill shit, which I was there just to kill shit.
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But there was an adventure here. There was a there was a very
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fleshed out story that I enjoyed that I know a lot of people did
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not enjoy, but it it, it was still Doom.
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It felt like I was playing Doom One, Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean at at the end of the day, like, yeah, if you want
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to get into it, there is a story there for Doom.
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But if you just want to RIP and tear, you can get in there and
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RIP and tear. And it sounds like this is some
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of the best ripping and tearing we've had in a while.
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And not it is to say that Eternal or or Doom 2016 was not
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good version of that, but. It is some of the best ripping
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and tearing. I will say it's not as violent
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as you think. Really.
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It's it's violent. The whole game is violent.
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Well, yeah. It's it's, it's ultraviolent,
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but the gore in this felt turned down compared to 2016 and
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eternal. I, I would imagine they're
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trying to reach a bit more wide of an audience.
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And I, I kind of heard that also in the difficulty of it like
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'cause people were complaining it's not as hard as, as it has
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been. So yeah, I, I imagine that, you
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know, that what once was the, I can't remember their scale for
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everything, but the essentially their medium difficulty is now
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other people that aren't even necessarily.
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Yeah, people that aren't even necessarily big into these kinds
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of games or even really big FPS guys were like, it's pretty easy
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and they said they actually had to bump it up one right.
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So I, I, I imagine they're just trying to reach more people,
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which is good for all the people gatekeeping.
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That's good. That means I think.
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A gore toggle. I think a gore toggle would
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have. Been.
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Good. Like a lot, like a level it is a
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lot because that's a different process we get because this did
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so well, we're getting more Doom.
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We're never not going to have Doom.
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Doom's a stable in the industry. But because of this also, they
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are discussing further plans on the movie.
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They're discussing further plans on the possible TV show
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starring. Doom again, of course, right?
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If Karl Irving comes back, I'll be stoked.
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Yeah, that'd be fucking sweet. He was a good Doom guy.
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Anyways, so I played the shit out of Doom. 20/20/16 Doom Doom
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The Dark Ages. There we go, we got it played,
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no? Those games too though.
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I am really excited to try it. I and I, I've wanted to, but my
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my big thing right now is night rain being a separate deal
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because that's a multiplayer thing.
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That's not a like get everybody involved type of thing.
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But I'm, I'm trying to finish Expedition 33 before I go in on
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another single player experience.
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So I and I'm right at the end, I could technically go and finish
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it whenever I want. I'm just doing side rush yeah.
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So one way or another, I will finally be able to talk about
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Doom when nobody wants to hear me talk about Doom.
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So. I think the beauty behind Doom
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is it's timeless. Yeah, you can just do it.
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You could do it whenever, but it that's my thoughts.
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I love the game is it's a masterpiece to me and more Doom.
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Please, more I I'm the only if I had to rate it down, it's
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because I don't have more of it right now before the episode.
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This is my last game I've been playing.
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I played night rain. Hell yeah, lots get used to.
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Oh yeah. Everything's fast, everything
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parkour, it doesn't operate the way a lot of people maybe
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thought it did, 'cause everyone's like, oh, just Elden
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Ring with your friends, you're gonna be easy.
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It is not, no, this game, I, we, we got past the 1st circle and
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that like the, the coolest thing was I play with Evan and Morgan
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and I know Ethan was playing, Matt was playing, Steve was
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playing Mario bought it at it's, it's, it's, it's Elden Ring.
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It's it's, it's, it's a thing. Everyone's going to get the
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accomplishment. I felt getting past that first
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circle, I was like, Oh my God, Evan, like Morgan, we did it.
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Everyone was like, Oh my God, we fucking did it.
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It's learning all of the mechanics going on in the game
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because there's constant things ticking behind the scenes.
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There's constant things that you're doing.
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It's not like a regular game that you can in the world go up
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to a glowing tree, hit X without, if you don't read it,
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you you hop on a bird and it flies you across the map.
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And I and I did that during our game and I went, guys, they're
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like, why are you on a bird? And I'm like, I hit a button.
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I talked to a tree and I was just gone.
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And then I lost and I died. But like there's like health
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pickups and there's like clear your ailments and all that shit.
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It's very interesting how they're doing this and it
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doesn't feel like just they went, yeah, let's just do like
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Fortnite X Elden Ring. Yeah, I so I played a touch of
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this during one of the beta periods or like a close to alpha
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or whatever it was. And I played it on PlayStation
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and it was cool. I only had a short period of
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time. I think I only had like an hour
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before we were taking off to go to a baseball game or whatever
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the fuck it is. I'm sure it was a baseball game
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because that's just. The nature.
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Yeah, but from what I played, it took all three of those games to
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even figure out what the hell I was doing.
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And even then, I'm playing with random.
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So there was no communication. There was no like, hey, we
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should try to stay together or we should stay close at least,
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or something. So you'd have one guy take off
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across the map and another guy go the other direction and
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you're like, OK, cool, I'll go take out these low level things,
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try to get a couple levels so I can go fight something slightly
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bigger. Oh shit.
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Next thing I'm in the circle and, or outside of the circle
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getting killed by this thing and there's a mountain in front of
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me and I have no way to get past it.
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So it it, it is, it's a very unique game.
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It it takes the combat of the Elden Ring mixes in a class
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system that is different from Eldon Ring and then throws in
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like almost a like a touch of like X yeah, roguelike plus also
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like some extraction shooter elements and also your your
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battle Royale type in a, in a way like the shrinking circle
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type of thing. It's very, very interesting and
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I am excited to play it not not only like the full release, but
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play it with friends that I can communicate with and talk to and
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and experience some of the other classes and things going on.
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I am very excited to play this though and I figured it would be
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a great pick up especially for 40 bucks.
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But I was complaining that my biggest complaint about it is
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all of the people in the industry that wanted something
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very different from this game and then fucking.
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They didn't review bomb it, but they a lot of people were giving
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it much lower scores than what I expected.
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It's a $40 game that was not made by their A-Team.
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It was literally made by people that they wanted to develop and
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get them to come up into like beautiful.
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It's it's so crazy how all of the reviews were like, yeah,
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it's just not Elden Ring. It's like, yeah, no, it was
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never marketed that way. Oh, it's too hard single player.
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That's because it literally they had an interview where they talk
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about it and they're like, it's for three people.
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If you want an ultra challenge, go in solo.
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But it's not really balanced around that intentionally.
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And they want it to be a social experience, right?
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Like so I I was pretty pissed one because I took it as one of
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my games in fantasy critic and it didn't get me nearly the
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points I was hoping for. But also like I just it, it
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always amazes me when a game comes out and people bitch about
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it and you're like, did you actually pay any attention or
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did you just see Eldon Ring? And they're like, yeah, more
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Eldon Ring. It's like, no, no, no, no read
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reading. It's a really cool thing.
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They we teach all of our children to do it, or we should
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be at least. Maybe 2 * 5 are trying.
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Yeah, yeah. They get their own.
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It makes me so mad when these people have a job in the
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industry and we're like on the outskirts.
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Yeah. It's like, do the basic shit
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that Brody and I do prior to our show.
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We know the shit inside and out before the show, yeah.
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Like the amount of times I've listened to a gaming podcast and
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I correct them to myself in the car, you know?
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So like, no. That's not right.
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That's not true. That's not true.
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We aren't going to get everything right.
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Like there was one time, I think it was something about Skyward
20:13
Sword, what year it came out without looking it up, just
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going off the top of my head and somebody in the comments was
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like actually shut the fuck. Come on, actually, I'm gonna
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knock your teeth out. Yeah.
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How'd that sound? How about that?
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How about that? But I am very excited to get
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into this because we will be playing it.
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We will be able to talk about it, I assume next week, yeah,
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and we should be able to talk about it quite a bit.
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Oh yeah, Oh yeah, buddy boy. So it's great.
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Pick this game up, play with your friends.
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The only thing I think it's missing is a VoIP.
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I know we're in Discord doing it.
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Yeah. So VoIP and then I think it
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would be neat if there was a Challengers mode where you
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dropped on the map and you could do PVPPVE.
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That would be cool have like even if it was just, I don't
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know, 10 other parties on the map, but maybe not even that
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much, maybe 5 right. So it is rare you run into
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someone else but like. When you do, it's insane.
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Yeah, that'd be. Like, it'd be neat.
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I think that'd be great. So yeah, pick a night rain up.
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If you are into Eldon Ring or if you're just into trying new
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things, I would try this. This might be the Eldon Ring for
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you. You do not know.
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Yeah. So those are the games I've been
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playing and Braves been playing. Man, oh man.
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A lot of shit coming up in the the next week or so.
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So Summer Games Fest is the main topic of this week's episode.
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Yeah. Next week is going to be a week
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that we will be planning to stream as we normally do.
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Whether it starts on time, don't know.
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Whether I'm here right at 5 when it starts and Brody's just with
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somebody, I don't know. We're going to figure all this
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out throughout the week. It might be messy, but bear with
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us, please. We, we will have it.
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There will be content. Somebody will be doing
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something. We just don't choose.
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I didn't choose to start. Started off at 5:00 PM on a
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Friday while everyone's getting out of work.
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Yeah. Jeff Keeley, dude, like come on,
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like. I yeah, I, I think we've talked
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or we were talking about that before the show.
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Like I'm pretty sure it has always either been on a weekend
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or late enough at night that it's like, yeah, you could at
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least come home and eat and then start.
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Or is it? It's very weird choice for the
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timing. This year at 5:00 is the worst
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time. Granted it is Easter but it that
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makes it what 2O2 PM over on the on the 2?
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O'clock over there. Yeah.
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OK, OK. Yeah, it's literally like an OK
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thing. Unless this is your actual job,
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you know, and you're getting paid to do this.
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Like, yeah, you could maybe wash watch it.
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But yeah, for for anybody who has to hold a job and try to
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stream this stuff, like, yeah, you kind of Dick Booth, Jeff,
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come on. It's stupid.
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So. So again, Summer Games Fest is
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this Friday, 5:00 PM. It's at it's hosted at the
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YouTube Theatre, I believe in Los Angeles.
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It's it'll it'll be live on YouTube, Twitch, everywhere.
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So the first round of partners has been released and I want to
23:22
read these off. I'm going to have to do a lot of
23:25
them. Yeah.
23:27
So we got 1047 games, take 2K games, five O 5 games, amazing C
23:32
Sun Games, Amazon Games and a Pern.
23:34
As soon as everyone saw that, everyone in our Discord, like
23:37
screenshot of it. I think it was like Noah and a
23:38
couple of people. Oh yeah, and we're like Atari,
23:42
Bandai Namco, Bell Ring games, Blum House games, which I'm
23:46
excited to see what Blum House has to offer this year.
23:48
Capcom We're we're, we're going to see Resident Evil 9 this
23:51
year. CDPR is interesting to me, so I
23:58
guess we'd get more Witcher. Yeah, I don't know.
24:03
Yeah, I mean, Witcher is really the only thing that would be
24:06
upcoming even remotely soon, and even that's still a while.
24:11
Pre development right now, they said.
24:14
I I kind of wonder if we aren't going to see like a smaller
24:17
project from them. Maybe not something hyper
24:20
realistic or not realistic, but you know what I mean.
24:23
Like that, like your cyberpunk, your witchers.
24:25
I wonder if we're going to get like a small spin off from one
24:29
of these like Witcher things that's something entirely
24:31
different or 'cause they announced they announced what, 4
24:35
different Witcher projects +2 Cyberpunk projects a while back
24:39
I think. 3 Witchers, 4 Cyberpunk, 2 Cyberpunk games, 3
24:44
Witchers and then like a game that no one knows about.
24:49
So it's interesting to see. CDPRCDPR here.
24:53
We got coffee Stain Studios day of the devs.
24:57
Devolver. Always excited to see Devolver.
24:59
If Devolver's on the fucking poster it's going to be some
25:03
cool shit. Digital Extremes dot emu So we
25:10
got Dream Haven, Embark, Enhance, Epic games, Focus
25:14
entertainment. So maybe it's more Warhammer
25:16
stuff from them, possibly Frontier, Funcom.
25:19
We'll see more Dune. I am 8 bit IOI Kakko games,
25:24
kinetic games, KIRO games, level infinite magic the gathering.
25:28
I'm very happy to see what that is because of what if we get a
25:31
little bit of the Netflix show megabit metaquest Mund fish.
25:36
So atomic that's atomic heart. So that game sucked.
25:41
NC neki, Neowiz, Nexon, Niantic switch to Yeah stoked for that.
25:50
I'm so curious what's going on with the Niantic one only only
25:55
because they sold all their shit to a third party maybe.
26:04
Maybe they kept Pokémon Go but I know the Monster Hunter one they
26:07
sold and I thought they sold Pokémon Go too but maybe not.
26:12
I have no fucking idea. And it's going to be something
26:14
dumb. It's going to be the exact same
26:16
game with a different code on it, I'm sure.
26:19
I guarantee we have new verse, Pearl abyss play, side play,
26:26
stack play. Are these all things for
26:27
PlayStation? I don't have the foggiest
26:31
fucking idea. I don't know what play side and
26:34
play stack are. PlayStation PM Studios, Rare
26:38
Ware, I see or Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's rare Ware.
26:42
Oh, Play side's an Australia. It's Australia's largest video
26:47
game developer. Oh my an idiot.
26:49
How do we? How do I not know this?
26:52
I don't know. This is our show.
26:54
Yeah. Did we fuck?
26:57
Up I I'm looking at their projects right now.
27:01
Anything that we would have played.
27:03
No, it looks like they may have published Kill Night, and I
27:08
think they're publishing that mouse Pi for hire.
27:14
Oh my fucking God, yeah. Play sides my shit then.
27:17
I love the I love you guys. Yeah, they've done it.
27:20
Looks like Age of Darkness, Kill Night, Thrive, World Boss and
27:26
then they yeah, they have a publishing partnership for that
27:29
mouse Pi for hire. Mouse Pi looks awesome.
27:33
As well as Dynasty of the Sands and Thrive.
27:38
Thrive is actually a publishing partnership.
27:41
Guarantee we're going to see Mouse Pi then yeah, what we got
27:46
Razor, we have Sega Soft rain, Square Enix, Steam, so of Giant
27:52
sale, Supermassive games, Tech land, Xbox, Zola and Yacht Club
27:59
games. So this is the round one poster.
28:02
So I mean, I don't know. Play stack.
28:08
For the record here, they've done unbeatable.
28:15
Hang on, that's a terrible website.
28:17
There you go. Great.
28:20
Yeah, the rise, oh, they did rise of the golden idol.
28:26
They're the golden idol. People.
28:27
Oh fucking a OK, so. I I Apparently bilatro might
28:32
have been published by them as well.
28:34
Mortal Shell. Oh.
28:36
Fuck, that's a lot. Yeah, they've done a lot of good
28:38
shit. Fuck.
28:40
So I mean, we got a lot of cool, we got a lot of cool people
28:43
here. There's a lot of cool stuff to
28:45
keep an eye on. And we don't even know if that's
28:47
everybody. Like we have no clue if that's
28:50
everybody. There could be some cool
28:51
surprises this year. I'm not going to say Half Life.
28:54
So let's just keep it rolling. So some dates to note before we
28:58
get into our actual conversation.
29:00
So again, this Friday, June 6th at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, 2:00 PM
29:03
Pacific. Yes, Pacific.
29:06
Pacific not specific is the start of Summer Game fest.
29:10
It's a kick off. We have day days Day of the devs
29:15
on June 6th at 4:00 PM Why? Jeff Keeley why?
29:21
Why? Oh that's at 7:00 PM E Eastern
29:24
Time. Why would you put Day of the
29:26
Devs on right at We have the Wholesome Direct Saturday, June
29:31
7th at 12:00 PM, Future Game show Saturday, June 7th, 4:00 PM
29:37
Xbox Game Showcase slash The Outer Worlds 2 Direct.
29:42
That's at 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on June 8th, so
29:48
that's interesting. Also on June 8th we have the PC
29:51
Gaming show that's 3:00 PM and then PlayStation and Nintendo,
29:57
we're just nowhere to be found. Playstation's there, but don't
30:02
really know what they're doing. Nintendo's there too, don't
30:05
really know what they're doing. I mean, fuck, the Switch
30:09
releases right before this. The Switch 2 releases right
30:11
before this, doesn't it? Yeah, I think it comes out the
30:15
6th. 5th, the fifth. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:21
Well shit, there's a lot going on that weekend game.
30:24
Yeah, there's a lot. Yeah, I'm feeling old.
30:33
We have our switch to coming in, hopefully.
30:36
Well, I shouldn't say we, it's my wife's.
30:39
I bought it for her for Mother's Day.
30:41
Not very good. Well, you know, she keeps
30:43
getting promotions at work. She's like doing a bunch of
30:45
shit. And I was, and it was Mother's
30:47
Day and I was like switch to. So yeah, there's a lot of good
30:51
stuff going on. And I think I like the way
30:54
summer, summer game Games fest usually is.
30:57
I think it's a lot of cool stuff.
30:59
It's a lot of good showcase on a lot of things that didn't get
31:01
seen at the Game Awards or maybe we're overshadowed at the Game
31:06
Awards is really getting some flowers here along with some
31:08
good indie stuff that I that I think deserves to be seen.
31:13
The only thing that's going to fuck us up for me is we get all
31:15
the weeb shit all over again. Because when it's like 20
31:19
minutes, just weeb shit, I'm sitting there going, I
31:22
understand, but they're why are we still here?
31:28
I, I I can handle some of it depending on like what it is and
31:32
how over the top it is. Like some of those games look
31:35
cool as shit right? But a lot of them I also never
31:39
end up playing so. No, what the fuck am I going to
31:43
do, play in those games? I don't.
31:44
They're just not my games. They're not for me.
31:46
They were never made for me. Hey, every announcement this
31:49
year is going to be tailor made for you, Nick.
31:53
It'd just be half life. Yeah, except that's actually not
31:57
going to happen. So end of the year.
32:03
Uh huh. I'm telling you.
32:09
Announcement or release? Announcement.
32:12
OK. Announcement end of the year
32:15
with but like that's a whole different episode.
32:19
God. GTA getting delayed Half Life 3,
32:22
we all know it. Bungie also steals again, so
32:27
that's the other thing. Anyways, thanks for not choosing
32:29
us to play Marathon Dicks. Anyways, you chose Brody.
32:33
You didn't choose me. I was going to say I did get
32:34
chosen. I didn't get.
32:36
I was not impressed. Bungo, it was boring.
32:40
So what are you looking forward to with this game, this game
32:42
fest? You know, I never know how to
32:48
approach these things because specifically Summer Games Fest,
32:53
people go in with expectations, all of this hype, all of this
32:56
crazy shit, and then they get let down because it doesn't
33:00
reach the expectations that they put out there that Keely never
33:04
even promoted, right? So I think it's hard to say how
33:12
I really would kind of put my not not necessarily
33:18
expectations, but what I think I'm going to see here.
33:20
I mean, some of them looking over this list, right, You look
33:23
at Epic games, it's probably going to be some sort of
33:26
Fortnite update or something that they're adding a Fortnite,
33:29
right? Like that's their fucking bread
33:31
and butter. They're still making a shit load
33:32
of money off that game. They don't need to make another
33:35
game. They don't need to do anything
33:37
else. They're making money from an
33:38
engine and and Fortnite like. That's the.
33:42
Dream the dream right there. You look at Amazon Games, I
33:49
imagine it's just going to be some sort of new world like
33:53
expansion for. What people put on that still?
33:57
That, well, one of the episodes of that, that fucking show was a
34:01
new World of secret. Love the Concord.
34:04
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got a good point.
34:09
As far as CD Project Red, you know, I, I imagine that's going
34:12
to be more of the same. I think it's going to be like
34:15
maybe another trailer for The Witcher 4.
34:18
I'd, I'd, I'm not sure. I I I do like there's I don't
34:22
know, I think it only from what I was reading, it only began
34:26
active development like 2024. So which I mean, granted, that's
34:33
actual like programming and designing of the game itself.
34:37
They already have the story and that that takes a bunch of time
34:39
in in, in and of itself. So Capcom, I think you're going
34:43
to see some Monster Hunter, maybe something for Street
34:46
Fighter. I, I so rumor right now is that
34:53
they're potentially could be a Persona 4 remaster of some sort
35:01
at this. I would much rather prefer to
35:05
see like a what's Persona 6 gonna look like or get a teaser
35:09
for it or something there. I I like those games a lot, but
35:12
we also are coming right off the heels of metaphor reef Antasia
35:15
last year. So I think it's going to be a
35:18
bit before we see that mainline game.
35:19
So something like a Persona 4 remaster makes more sense.
35:26
And one of the voice actors, Yuri, Yuri Lowenthal, just yeah,
35:33
yeah, yeah. He just had his, he tweeted
35:36
something about essentially begging them to let him come
35:39
back and voice use gay. And they were like, yeah, no.
35:43
So he pretty much left the cat out of the bag that that is
35:46
supposedly in the works. What that looks like, how that
35:50
all goes, I don't know, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:52
The voice actors keep. They keep blowing up their
35:55
spots. Well, that one, like I said, for
35:57
Half Life, whatever that is, she really fucked.
36:01
She's off the Internet now. Valve went nuke it.
36:05
Yeah, yeah, they're not. They they won't be able to do
36:08
that to Yuri, I don't think. Yeah, I, I don't know, man.
36:13
I it, it's hard to say what we're going to see here.
36:16
I think Playstation's involvement is going to be like
36:18
a ghost of yo Thai trailer, which I fucking dope.
36:23
Awesome. Excited for that, Square Enix.
36:26
I don't know, right. I like it.
36:29
It seems like we're in a low where we're not going to have
36:31
much Final Fantasy news that there's rumors of a Final
36:34
Fantasy 9 remake going to be at this potentially or just in
36:39
general it. It's always weird to see Xbox at
36:43
this too considering they have their own event two days later
36:46
so I can't imagine. They treat this like E3 still.
36:49
Yeah, they I wouldn't be surprised to see a big
36:52
announcement from Xbox at this show.
36:55
I was going to touch on that after we got done with the first
36:57
night because the other nights I don't those are you're going to
37:00
get content for those after they've released their the other
37:03
nights and the other shows minus Summer Game Fest and Xbox are
37:07
these these two are easy to pinpoint things.
37:09
The other ones are mixed bags. We do not know normally and
37:13
we're going to watch them and then talk about them just for
37:15
everyone's aware that is what we're doing.
37:17
I really hope Yacht Club Games has a, what is it, Mina the
37:21
Hollower? I hope that's there because that
37:25
team is fucking incredible. And I really hope that they can
37:28
keep that magic going with another game, even though Shovel
37:31
Knight has been massive for them.
37:34
Yeah, it it it's really like even looking through this.
37:37
I mean, granted, this is almost like a hey, everyone's here kind
37:41
of thing, Like everyone pretty much is here in some capacity.
37:46
The Nintendo Switch to like it's the day after the fucking thing
37:50
comes out. I can't.
37:51
Imagine you're. Going to yeah, they're not going
37:55
to do anything crazy here. It's probably just going to be a
37:58
trailer for the Nintendo switch. Like I don't think it's going to
38:02
be anything crazy. Fucking let's see I I just keep
38:07
running through this list. Perl abyss.
38:08
They're supposed to have Crimson Sans, I think is the.
38:12
Thing. Because they they had their
38:15
what? Black Desert?
38:16
And that was their big fucking online MMO fucking crazy money
38:22
grab that looks super, super pretty.
38:25
Don't get me wrong, but we. Have not a lot of fun with it.
38:28
Yeah, I I played a little bit of it.
38:30
The character creation in the combat was actually pretty cool,
38:33
but you can only make it not very far before you hit some
38:37
sort of a pay wall or a huge grind wall in that game.
38:42
And that's for a paid game, mind you, as well.
38:46
God, yeah. It's hard to really say, right?
38:49
Like my my biggest wish, my biggest thing that looking at
38:53
the show, I want to see Persona in some capacity.
38:57
I understand it's still probably a couple years out or whatever,
39:00
but I want to see a Persona 6. I want to see what they're
39:04
cooking there. And I I really think that's my
39:09
biggest ask right now. I do I we're we're doing pretty
39:13
good. We've we've got, you know, GTA
39:16
coming next year. We've got a bunch of there's
39:19
some games lined up for the rest of the year.
39:20
Granted, we are starting to get to the point we don't have as
39:23
much for the second-half of the year that has been announced so
39:26
far. And I think night rain was
39:29
probably one of the bigger games I still had on my list of
39:33
things. I was excited.
39:34
I know Tony Hawk is coming out in July, like super excited for
39:37
that. Oh, I wonder, Gears, we got to
39:45
see gears at some. Point SO.
39:48
Sorry I I went on this ramble as I like scrolled through
39:51
everything here but. So for the actual night one I'm
39:56
I'm really hoping to see Resident Evil 9.
40:00
Yeah, good call. I'm not a big Resident Evil guy,
40:02
so. I love the new, I love the new
40:04
series. I love it from Bandai Namco.
40:07
It'd be cool to see a new Gundam game.
40:09
It really would. I think Armored Core did really
40:11
well, and I think if they were to do something cool there with
40:14
Gundam, I really do think a lot of people would like it.
40:17
So I really think that'd be sweet.
40:19
Devolver I want to see more Enter the Gungeon 2.
40:24
Magic at the Gathering. I would either like to see some
40:27
sort of new game for online because Magic at the Gathering
40:30
online is cool, but it's really not everything I wanted it to
40:34
be. But I would like to see maybe a
40:36
little bit of the Netflix show. Yeah.
40:40
PlayStation, I'd like to see more Astrobot.
40:43
I'd like for them to show off some more Astrobot.
40:46
Blumhouse. Stoked for anything they do.
40:49
What up? What up?
40:49
I was just going to say that amazing C Sun games, that's the
40:52
company making meca break. We still don't have a release
40:57
date for that. I would not be surprised if they
41:00
shadow drop it or give a very very near release date for that
41:05
at at the show. Just throwing that out there,
41:07
sorry. No, that'd be cool.
41:10
Yeah. I mean, there's a lot here.
41:12
Switch to it'd be cool if we saw some more games, but I think
41:15
it's going to be a trailer for a Switch to.
41:17
I think we're it's going to be hey, go out, buy this now if you
41:20
can find it anywhere. Sega, I have no idea.
41:25
Sonic. I mean, what else do you, what
41:31
else does Sega make these days really like?
41:34
They're getting back in the game market, so who knows, Mundfish.
41:38
I think we're going to see more Atomic Heart.
41:40
Probably some juice or something, yeah.
41:42
Whatever. Didn't they just have a DLC for
41:44
Atomic Heart? Yeah, they did.
41:47
It's just, it's just Bioshock, but not good.
41:50
Yeah, very buggy. So, so the the day that I'm
41:55
really excited to stream watch with our audience and with
41:58
whoever's going to be on that night or that morning with me is
42:01
Xbox not a big Outer Worlds fan. My wife is.
42:06
So she's going to be watching it upstairs while during the outer
42:09
worlds direct portion. But for Xbox, there's a lot
42:12
here. There's a lot they could dig for
42:14
here because they do treat this as an E3.
42:16
So we'll probably see some more Gears of War E day.
42:19
Hopefully we'll see some fable. Hopefully we'll see some more
42:22
stuff from Xbox, right? Like I would love to see them
42:27
just talk about what they're working on right now and what's
42:29
going to actually release. You know, I've seen how many
42:32
times have we seen Fable now 3. Yeah.
42:35
And it's like, dude, just give us the game.
42:39
Yeah, well, yeah, on top of that, yeah, Fable's a whole
42:45
fucking I I was so hopeful for this game and I'm so very
42:49
worried about it now. Yeah, but we don't really have a
42:55
big slate of games coming to Game Pass this for the
42:59
second-half of this year or even next year, which it.
43:01
Could be a huge game pass thing. I and I bet it will be right.
43:04
That's their big marketing push right now.
43:07
Everything's an Xbox and and you know, so I, I imagine this is
43:11
going to be very game pass heavy, which fair enough.
43:16
But you know, last year was when we saw expedition 33 S of
43:20
midnight and I think expedition 33 was originally supposed to
43:24
come out that fall or holiday season and then ended up getting
43:28
pushed back if I remember correctly.
43:31
I think so. Which, fine, that's fine.
43:35
With how this game came out, you can't.
43:36
Complain they sold? What was that 3.3 million copies
43:41
in three weeks? It's getting a movie.
43:44
Yeah, as it should. The even if you don't like that
43:48
style of game, the story is fucking awesome.
43:51
So I and it makes it lends itself quite well to a movie as
43:56
well. Ring got a movie too, by the
43:58
way. Yeah, I heard about that A. 24.
44:01
A 24? That's going to be weird man.
44:03
I don't know how you pull off Eldon.
44:05
They're doing Death Stranding as well.
44:08
God that's crazy. Death Stranding is going to be
44:12
easier than Elden Ring. I don't care what they do as
44:16
long as I do it like the Green Knight.
44:19
And that's what I've heard. Yeah.
44:20
The Green Knight's the the big one.
44:22
Like, that's it right there. They're right there.
44:25
Now you. Just they're literally.
44:26
Crazy absolute fucking wild monsters if.
44:29
You, if you guys have not subvert, if you have not seen
44:33
The Green Knight, watch that film.
44:35
And that's what you should expect from Elden Ring, yeah.
44:38
So, but yeah, I, I, I think we're going to see some, some
44:43
decent Game Pass announcements because that's, that's kind of
44:46
what we need. We're also due for another
44:49
Forza. We are.
44:52
It's been a while. It'd be cool if they shadow drop
44:55
some cool old game. Like I know that like for the
44:58
past couple a little while here, P3 has had a heretic and or
45:04
hexen box on his desk. Fucking Oh my God, Hugo from ID
45:15
had a had a heretic and hexen box on his desk the last time he
45:19
was live. And everyone's like, OK, it's
45:23
like, what are you guys doing here?
45:25
They like to be cheeky with that shit too.
45:27
And usually when they're being cheeky like that, when Phil
45:30
hides shit in his room, something's on the horizon.
45:34
It's same with Machine Games writing Quake 6 on the
45:38
whiteboard and then taking the camera and panning it as fast as
45:41
they could, knowing people just slow that bitch down as soon as
45:44
it's all the fucking queue. They were like time out.
45:47
Reverse that so we know what Machine Games is working on,
45:51
even though I think they should be working on Wolfenstein.
45:54
Yeah I I agree. I think Wolfenstein is a easier
45:58
sell than Quake this day and age, but.
46:00
I think they should do Quake. I think they should do Quake,
46:03
especially after Indiana Jones did so well.
46:05
That'd be a cool DLC to see something from the Indiana Jones
46:08
games. I mean, that'd be great.
46:11
I mean, it's Xbox Game Studio, right?
46:13
So, like, it's their thing. So that's Bethesda, that's
46:16
machine games, that's AID, that's everybody else involved
46:19
with Xbox, right? So anything's possible.
46:22
Anything is possible there. Yeah, I know.
46:24
I'm excited for this Summer Games Fest.
46:29
I just, I, I love this time of the year.
46:33
I, I do, you know, I to, to really put the bow on this
46:37
episode. I do miss E3 though, to a, to a
46:42
degree. I miss like when E3 was popping
46:45
around, we knew it was going to be bigger, bigger things.
46:50
And now it's Summer Games fest. It's like some years it's like
46:53
what that got announced now what?
46:56
Or it's like, Oh, this was a whole nothing.
46:58
I, I, I don't know if that is entirely just because it's
47:02
Summer Games fest versus E3, though.
47:04
I think there's some of that where E 3 was a big deal because
47:10
we didn't have the Internet in the same capacity that we do now
47:14
where we stream it to twitch and, and everything else, right?
47:16
There's a million different ways to consume this content and they
47:20
can do their own showcases and still have almost as many views
47:25
and. If not more.
47:26
Yeah, if not more. Or they can just put out
47:28
announcements in it reaches Reddit, it reaches Instagram, it
47:31
reaches all of these different places and they don't really
47:34
have to do it. And it's a very expensive
47:36
ordeal. So unless they have some huge
47:39
announcement or whatever it may be, like this is kind of the
47:43
best version of it. They don't have to go and set up
47:46
a booth or anything like that. It's it's like, hey, here's our
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trailer here's fitted into your show.
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And I think it's an easier, cheaper form of marketing for
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them. Not that half of these companies
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need it, but some of them do, right.
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Your smaller companies are able to be here, which I think is
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cool where it is like, you know, E 3 was so first party dominated
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where it was PlayStation and Xbox and and this is what it
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was. And then it's like some of the,
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the, the smaller companies could be at E3, but maybe not have a
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presentation or whatever it may be.
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So I, yeah, I get it. But also I don't think, and, and
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they've kind of proven it right. I don't think E3 can exist in
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the same capacity that it, it was that nostalgia that we have
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for E3. But I'd love to be proven wrong
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because I also enjoyed E3 where it was a gauntlet of like, you
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finish one show, you don't even really cut filming and go
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straight into the next one and then like. 10:30 in the morning
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we're like. Yeah.
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That one show I had coffee and Hennessy and everyone went 9:00
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I went. I know.
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It's going to be a long day. It's going to be a long.
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Day we got those no, I I am excited for Summer Games fest I
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I like seeing the Internet at like excited we got you shitters
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on there we're all like fuck you this is a good time yeah just
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have fun game on get ready for next week we're ready for next
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week We have a lot to plan we have a lot to make.
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I think with that being said, Brody, boom, we're going to put
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a bow on this. How's that sound?
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That sounds good. Do you want to play Night Rain?
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Yes, I do, very much. Awesome.
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