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#211 "Huge Announcement's at the Game Awards 2025, Halo MCC is back, and Halo Infinite turns 4!" · It Just Works!

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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Spartan 117.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: With an incoming message for Ryan Green and all, listen to the podcast, it just works.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's finish the fight.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Listen up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Chief, out.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: hello everyone and welcome to the address where he's podcast i'm your host Ryan and we are back again uh... a couple weeks behind i think here's something like that uh... the pokemon episode just came out recently with brion where we discuss legends zay i just want to clarify i was kind of listening to it and i think i said legends arciest almost the entire time instead of zay when i'm referring to the game so
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I apologize, I don't know what happened there.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of the joy of just, you know, hitting the record button and just seeing what happens.
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: But today I wanted to talk about, first of all, the Game Awards 2025, which literally just ended about 30 minutes ago or whatever.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I am recording this December 11th the day of the awards and I just want to talk about some of the announcements that are actually really exciting and something I'm looking forward to and then some of the winners.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: But basically probably just game of the year from being honest because you can just look up the winners.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I will put a link to the list if you really want.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, that's the best I can do because I'm not really here to talk about the winners.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: What I watch it for is some of the performances, maybe again, some of the winners, but definitely the announcements.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we had Total War Warhammer 40K announced, created by Creative Assembly, being developed by Creative Assembly, who has done all the Total War games for the last 20 plus years.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then they also dip their hands into the RTS genre in terms of the regular RTS
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: RTS, I don't know how you want to call it, but with Halo Wars 2, which I love dearly, but also as a new Warhammer fan, very new to the franchise, playing Space Marine 2, which is probably my personal game of the year, but didn't come out this year.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm just like really excited to see this game.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: You got Don of War.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's called for for like Warhammer.
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to keep track.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyways, that came out.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: They released the trailer for, well, also announcement for Star Wars, Fate of the Old of the Republic.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: The old Republic, excuse me, with Casey Hudson doing being the creative director who worked on the Mass Effect series and the original Star Wars the Old Republic games.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's a pretty massive announcement.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bamboozled with the trailer because I thought it was the force and least like a remake like a reimagining of the franchise At first until I saw the female figure which completely sideswiped me, but regardless the game looks great They also announced a Star Wars racing game
• 3:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: that looks really badass and I can't wait to play that so we got two Star Wars games that actually look very promising.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also Tomb Raider is coming back in 2027 with Crystal Dynamics partnering up with Amazon game studios and
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: and I got to tell you that the trailer looked absolutely amazing and I think a lot of people are going to like it honestly.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to see what comes of it.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: We also had a trailer for Resident Evil Requiem which confirmed that Leon Kennedy is a playable character and they showed some a glimpse of gameplay.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that game looks really good and it looks like when you play as I think it's a grace That could be wrong.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not I'm not good at Remembering Resident Evil stuff because I don't play them a lot, but this one looks good and I'm just curious We also have a divinity game Being worked on by Larian Studios which are known for their divinity games that also balder's gate three as a recent
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm pretty excited to see what happens there was a very disturbing trailer so I'm like really really excited to see what comes of that.
• 4:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: We also have a game from the makers of Titanfall and Apex Legends called
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: high guard, which is like a fantasy, shooter, FPS, like hero powers.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, it looks kind of crazy, but it actually comes out January 26, and it's free to play.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I am personally excited to kind of check it out, and then we had also control a resident, which I didn't get to see, and gang of dragon, because I was busy doing something else.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, so we have
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so they have a reimagining of the first Tomb Raider game in 2026 named Legacy of Atlantis.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: The game will take players back to the franchise roots, allowing long-running fans to re-experience the game that began at all.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is really sick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the trailer, I saw.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even see the catalyst trailer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Regardless, Tomb Raider looks like it's back and back in the best way possible, and I'm really excited for that.
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I had to watch the catalyst.
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't see that.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: No law looks really interesting.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about total war.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so it's called Star Wars Galactic Racer.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Looks like it should be coming out hopefully next year, but you can use speeder bikes and land speeders, and it looks like it's customizable.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mega Man dual override the first Mega Man game in quite a while it looks really good Looks like it's bringing the franchise back to its roots of being a platformer like two 2.5D The graphics look really good, so I'm kind of curious to see where that comes again Just a long running franchise and I might pick it up just to support the game itself I did that with a Hollow Knight silksong
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: yeah so those are basically the announcements I always like to either do a stream or just kind of mention the game awards in some fashion I will do like my games of the year kind of episode giving out my game of the year I think I already know what it is actually at the finish it just gonna be fully transparent when that comes out it's just based off like my experience with games I unfortunately don't play games as much as I used to I don't even finish a lot of
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: but i think there's a lot of games that came out this year that i've put some time in to really just give them their own kind of spotlight for the handful of you that listen so maybe if one of you out there hasn't tried them hopefully what i have to say or maybe my opinion on it will help you justify whether or not the game suits you uh but there's some really good games that came out this year and fortunately a ton that i didn't play and like i said there's some that i just didn't finish
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm planning on recording that episode probably like the last week of the the year to be honest.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be able to kind of spend the rest of this time that I have any free time that's by myself.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe trying to finish some of the games because besides my current world and technically monster hunter wilds.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what other games I technically finished like their base game, you know, like going off of what the game came out with.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of have to look back at that.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: but yeah so just kind of wanted to touch on that and then the other big thing of this episode was kind of reflecting on Halo the resurgence of fans and then also Halo.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So what I mean by the resurgence of fans will start there is just the Master Chief Collection has received a good amount of players recently in the last two months.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's seeing about 7 to 12,000 people online in a
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: and for a game it's been out that long and we're talking about so not only is the release older now but the games themselves are decades old um you know Halo 1 and 2 um so to see the resurgence of fans on steam alone and then knowing on Xbox there's been some fans coming back up it's just a really big deal and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that the mods
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: for the Steam fans like myself, you know, I can play it on Steam as well.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: As my Xbox, there's so many good mods out there where people are making some cut content with a dig site team who's brought back like the Halo 2 e3 demo, the Halo 1 Mac world demo, and just just to name a couple.
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: We also have the Star Wars Battlefront, Halo, crossover mod, cut campaign content that have been brought back, things that
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  [SPEAKER_00]: group of guys.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's the one I always see post about it, so he technically gets a credit, but there's so so many, like just there could be an episode alone just damning all the hard working fans, making their own modded content, and I wish I knew all the names and I apologize.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: But there's like a Halo 2 on cut which adds Halo 2 cut campaign content cut campaign weapons That is one of my favorite mods.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a Halo 4 mod that adds a that creates the vision of like what if Bungie was to make this Halo 4 So like Master Chiefs armor is more like Halo 3 the battle rifle and all the the art style and certain weapons and armors go back to like Halo 3 and the game
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: benefits from this so much like Halo 4 is not a bad game with this you know when you when you talk about the campaign which just celebrated its like 13 year anniversary um that game with one of those mods is remarkable like I cannot recommend it enough there's obviously a ton of great Halo reach mods
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: ODS, team mods, Halo, 3 mods, galore.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you have an opportunity to play Halo MCC, which is always on sale on Steam, you can download it and then click on community and go to workshop, and you can download any of these mods, and it just installs it for you, and then you would click anti-cheat disabled, which means that you can only play on mods and localize content or local-based servers.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: and and some of these mods are just like just truly fun and you can see the love and passion put behind them from ex developers hardcore fans, new fans that wanted to get into modding.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just truly a wonderful community in place base and I couldn't be happier about the success of the modding community and I can't wait to see what comes next and speak in what's coming next.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can actually watch a halo mod showcase which I will put
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's like an hour and a half long showcase of what's coming.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't even finished it.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I started it today, and I think I'm like I think I got like 20 minutes left It's like an E3 style showcase of just all these mods some goofy some actually Really sick and one of them that really stood out to me was a halo flood horror game
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a lot of really cool content in the works, you know, custom arbiter campaign missions after Halo 3 ends and then just there's just a lot guys.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: So please consider checking that out if you haven't yet.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot recommend it enough.
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a ton of fun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them are co-op, too, and you can play with friends.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can host your own lobbies and just play and you can look up the Halo mods discord and join those communities and probably join their private matches where they test out some of the multiplayer mods because there's no shortage of multiplayer mods as well.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: between firefight, forage, and then obviously custom games.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to love here, so just really wanted to shout that out.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, even if it's one person that checks it out from this podcast, I've done my job and I am that one person.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: The other big thing I wanted to talk about
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: was Halo Infinite.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Halo Infinite is celebrating its fourth year as of this week, the Halo Infinite campaign turned four years old on the 8th.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I just kind of wanted to touch on it a little bit, you know, I think for some people in the Halo community, it's a tough thing to kind of go over and kind of look back at or you know, some people just disregard it.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's unfortunate.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would check to my original file before I recorded this, and I'm at 41 hours of playtime between my original play through switching the game to LASO, hunting all the skulls, doing all the side quests, saving all the Marines, getting all the data pads and four runner scans, I think those pads.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's just, I think it's like Spartan tags as well, just unlocking all the vehicles and weapons and
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, being such a huge fan of Halo 3 ODST and it's a slight open-world hub with like new Mombasa at night when you're searching for the next clue to do the next campaign mission.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a lot to be loved with the Halo Infinite's campaign, the cutscenes are great.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this story is actually pretty good too.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just the shame that so much of it is cut into books, side stories, cannon fodder, weekly cannon fodders for the, you know, Halo Way point.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you find out what happens to the Spartans that you come across and earn their armor upgrades, you do find Spartan Griffin, but the I think the missed opportunity here was they really want they they focus so much on like reimagining Halo one into Halo infinite as in like the campaign itself and how it looks and how it plays.
• 13:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think they nailed it.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: The problem is they focused so much on the one mission they and they say that in their V-ducks before the game comes out They say yeah, you know the second mission of Halo called Halo You know, we wanted to make a campaign based on that mission and like don't get me wrong.
• 13:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: They did it
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: and they succeeded, but my issue with that is, like, Halo combat of all this campaign wasn't just good for that one mission, which don't get me wrong.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the mission that also sold me as a kid who was eight years old.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I drove that word hog through the, you know, the canyon, and I come out on the other side of an epic music's playing, and then you look at this whole other world you can explore on the other side of this tunnel, and it's like, what the hell am I doing?
• 14:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, this is like Star Wars, you know, it was so epic, and I get why it's important for the developers when they did it.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, when I think of like silent cartographers all on the control room three for three guilty spark like these other biomes and environments You know, and again the four runner structures have never looked better until infinite, you know, the woodland areas also looked perfect But like there's no snow area.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no sand area, and it's just like
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it doesn't have to have that, but it should when you're saying like, oh, we took inspiration from Halo 1 and it's like, all right, well, Halo 1 did a couple other things, right?
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: They recreated Normandy with silent cartographer, they recreated like a half type feel with like salt on the control room, just like the snow and, you know, the snow particles are coming down on you when you first walk out there when you're done with the bridge part.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you got a ray 30 shooting mortars at you, you see the Marines getting attacked by a ghost and some shade turrets, one from right in front of you and the other from the side of the canyon.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then you get in the wordhog and you drive through that canyon to find a scorpion with Sergeant Johnson and like regrouping and like fighting back.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like there's just so many massive moments that they could have recaptured in their own special way utilizing the environment and the storytelling within the environment.
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they do a good job of that.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: within this like woodland area, but it's like Halo's known for having those other biomes and the other unfortunate thing is that Halo Infinite has some of the craziest cut content missed opportunities with development, a messed up development, tough, you know, terrible leadership, no sense of direction, not enough time in the oven, like there was planned
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: the amount of planned content this game had was just stupid and it's just a massive like shot in the heart for so many of us campaign fans, which is most of the Halo fanbase because multiplayer is always important, but so is the campaign.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's why I wanted to talk about it today.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just kind of looking back at a campaign and some of the memorable moments Some of the good and some of the bad and I basically just went over the bad in my opinion I think you know what three for three has done now Halo Studios by Personifying Chief because bungee's vision was like you are the chief.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why he's a silent
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Soldier the silent type because they wanted you to feel like you the person holding the controller is cheap and and I I actually appreciate that a lot especially with the way the game is played out in those games like a little one through three But I love the change in direction because chief was by himself with a before he was just him and Quartana And they go through that whole thing.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: They do meet up with Lasky and the infinite.
• 16:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't give you wrong.
• 16:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was great too
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Halo 5 is a colossal failure campaign wise multiplayer was obviously great and then Halo infinite kind of brought it back and I think that's the problem with like me as a Halo fan is like you know I think if someone listening to this would probably say it I don't personally think it's a problem but you know Halo 5 is so bad that like Shadda's a reach the book and you know reading that up to the launch of Halo Infinite's campaign
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: and like the way it played out kind of like retconning Cortana kind of moving beyond that and fighting the banished which also picked up from Halo Wars 2.
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just thought it was like really really good.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still think the campaign is like 8 out of 10 like there's definitely an issue there because they promised splits green and it never happened even after the fact.
• 17:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I was annoying even though I was never going to do it but it the option would have been nice.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think like, you know, retconning Cortana and like the route they went with the story I thought was really good.
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the emotional moments with the pilot and chief, you know, towards like the latter half of the game.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like a cutscene that's posted everywhere on social media routinely through the Halo community.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: where chief talks about how he failed like it's not just the pilot who's a failure like chief failed the weapons failed cortana failed and i think it was great because it shows a lot of humility it shows that humanity that's still within chief you know i think at this point in his history and like all the wars that he's been in you know because they were they were meant to not be emotional and they were meant to not be so personable but i think given everything that chief's gone through i think it's totally fine in this point in the story that he is
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: showing that side, and I think it's making him better for it as a character.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I also just love hearing Steve Downs talk, so I think it's like a win-win no matter what.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know a lot of people disagree with that, but yeah, I absolutely love his campaign.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you haven't played yet, I can't recommend it enough.
• 18:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you would get a lot from it.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's got a lot of great content, you know, there's definitely some misses when you think of like the boss fights and stuff.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're there nothing crazy.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not really anything at all.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they could have been a little bit better designed and they really cool characters too that kind of went to ways like.
• 19:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's like this elite that has I'm forgetting his name right now.
• 19:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like chock.
• 19:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not chocolate I'm forgetting the name, but he's like this elite assassin.
• 19:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a robotic arm because his hand was cut off So he's got like an energy blade battle axe with his energy sources.
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're all blood red and
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like he's basically following you throughout the game, which is what you find out at the end.
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I don't know, it just feels like a waste.
• 19:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't meet up with Blue Team.
• 19:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no red team coming in the help chief save of the day, which would have been the perfect backup since the infinity got taken out.
• 19:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't find out what happened to Alaska.
• 19:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't find out what happened to Cyrus team.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he already said it, but Blue team.
• 19:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe buck and alpha nine like I think that's the my personal missed opportunity is like you have a lot of really good characters You know, I don't think chief has to do everything like that it would almost make more sense for these characters to come help chief because they become their own unstoppable force and you know You know Jerome one of my favorite characters buck.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, obviously with Nathan Phillian
• 20:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 20:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it would have been cool for them to do a little bit more.
• 20:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like they got to scared and played it safe and I think them playing it safe reduce their creativity and I wish that they weren't pushed to release this game because I think cable infinite being fully realized.
• 20:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: would be the game to save Halo, because I think the gameplay, the equipment mechanics especially from multiplayer, was really good, but with no assassinations, no elites being playable, all that campaign stuff, I just brought up and tying all the stories together.
• 20:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think it was like just a massive missed opportunity, and I think it's really unfortunate, but I don't think it
• 20:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: probably have a really good time so yeah I kind of just wanted to talk about Halo and just kind of get it off my mind and say how I feel I still need some of the achievements to get a complete 100% of the game because they added some achievements with the campaign content like co-op content
• 21:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I need to do that because I had it 100% before that.
• 21:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then I'll be done with the game because I have hero.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I reached onix and swing snipers arena and slayer.
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I've completed that game.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's a great game.
• 21:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the post launch content finally found a good rhythm.
• 21:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just a little too little, too late, which is so unfortunate.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Halo Infinite's just going to be a game we look back at and it's going to be studied.
• 21:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think, you know, the game's industry is such a business more than it is hard, but even though heart one with like Clare Obscure, Expedition 33 winning game of the year, and so many great independent titles out there, I do think the business side of the industry is really damaging it, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I do see it, I see the light at the end of the tunnel and I hope that the campaign evolved that we're getting next year for the 25th anniversary is successful and I hope it's good, you know, again we get to play with PlayStation people, people have a lot of issues with it and some of that I think is just bullshit.
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think some people need to shut the hell up because they're just they're just never going to be happy and
• 22:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know what like I think there's some great logical critiques out there that hopefully the developers can learn from But I just think there's some people out there.
• 22:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like You know your voice doesn't matter like you're you're just you're never gonna be happy It's okay that the franchise you loved is just Unfortunately gone downhill like we can't control that because the stupid corporate overlords ruined it
• 22:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but I would say for those people to move on, like you're not getting halo though you want it.
• 22:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you do, then I'm I'm happier for you.
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, because I feel bad for those people.
• 23:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I choose to remain cautiously optimistic as someone say and, um, you know, when you look at games like Pokemon, you know, ugh.
• 23:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Gotta play that expansion, I guess.
• 23:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know.
• 23:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think some of the discourse out there ball is the shit out of me.
• 23:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I talked about that in the book one episode.
• 23:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you've listened to that one before this one, you definitely know what I'm talking about.
• 23:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I hope all of you out there are doing well.
• 23:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
• 23:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Merry Christmas to all of you.
• 23:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And obviously, I'll do a Christmas episode.
• 23:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I typically like to push one out no matter what.
• 23:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 23:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's all I got.
• 23:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Be sure to follow my TikTok.
• 23:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: It just works podcast or it just works TZG hub.
• 23:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I need to go buy some packs for that page and don't be a scalper.
• 23:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's all I got.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful day or night and I'll see you on the next episode.
• 23:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Peace!