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Multiple Nerdgasm at E3 2017 · Multiple Nerdgasm

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  welcome to the multiple nerdgasm E3 wrap-up episode I'm your host Jenna and
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  I'm joined by Matt we did it I know we did it we went to E3 we did I had a good
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  time so did I I know a lot of people didn't we'll talk about that later but I
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  definitely did it was our first year there and it's something that I have
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  always wanted to do mhm yep did it live up to your high expectations in some
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  ways it did in some ways it didn't yeah actually I suppose that
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  Echoes my feelings so but I did have a really great time and I feel like every
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  other convention will now pale in comparison yeah yeah just just for sheer
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  volume of stuff I think the others have a lot to to keep up with mhm well since
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  this is our first time at E3 maybe we should do a little history of e3 and uh
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  what is E3 very very well because I think a lot of people don't really get
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  it I've noticed that yeah E3 is not a typical convention or um like a Gaming
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  Expo like everybody thinks it is it's more of a trade show it's a business
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  show yeah so yes there are definitely flashy booths and they spend millions
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  and millions of dollars um all the AAA companies yeah uh to display here but
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  that is really for the media to Hype it
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  up yeah and to sell the games to other businesses so I guess in the past it
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  wouldn't be uncommon to see people there in business suits right whereas this
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  year it was kind of a mix of that um because they sold tickets to the public
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  for the first time it was a mix of people in business suits and people in
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  video game shirts and cosplay in some cases and cosplay yeah yeah I mean I got
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  nothing against cosplay it was just a weird venue for it this is like going to
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  a home show yeah right in Cosplay
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  dressing as a builder yeah yeah no I uh like I said we haven't been before uh
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  however I've followed E3 since I was like 15 years old the very first one
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  happened when I was 15 so I was very familiar with what it is and so I was a
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  little I was surprised to see that that there this year because I knew that you
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  know it's a it's a professional exhibition for professionals to do
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  professional things right which I was actually looking forward to because we
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  have plenty of conventions absolutely yeah Pax is like off the hook as far as
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  all that other stuff is concerned MH I just said off the hook yeah do you want
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  to you want to do it again no that can stay in it's fine off off the chain of
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  the chain well I'm off the reservation let's go on go on go on hit me with some
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  hit me with some knowledge about the history of e3 E3 stands for the
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  Electronic Entertainment Expo um it's presented by the esa the entertainment
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  software Association previously games were shown at the CES the Consumer
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  Electronics Show but with the growth of the video game industry in the '90s E3
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  was created mhm the CES was a show that encompassed all consumer electronics mhm
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  so video games was a very small part of that and a lot of companies complained
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  that they were shoved in the back room one year Sega was displaying the Genesis
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  system and they complained that they were put in a tent where it was pouring
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  rain and leaking on top of the Genesis so uh the companies kind of got upset
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  about that decided they wanted to Branch off and start their own show which took
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  off yeah people didn't think video games were going to be a big deal I guess back
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  back a little while ago when they were wrong yeah definitely it's a huge industry now
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  it's actually I think last year it made over $30 billion the industry itself
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  yeah wow the first event was held in um May of 1995 at the Los Angeles
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  Convention Center where this one this year was held mhm uh with 40,000
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  attendees Sega displayed the Saturn Sony displayed the PlayStation wow um and
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  Atari displayed the Jaguar VR huh which I find interesting because VR is still a
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  thing today that people are trying to get consumers to pick up on yeah like
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  it's only kind of just coming in to mainstream Atari was always like a
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  little bit ahead of the game I like I think like the lynx was the most
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  powerful handheld at the time and then they had the Jag jagar which is the
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  first 64-bit console I think and uh yeah but then they just couldn't follow
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  through on it and they were too expensive so anyway I digress they were
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  always a little bit ahead well well we just received news today that Atari is
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  making a new console so hopefully they'll they'll come in and surpass
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  everyone yeah cuz I was thinking oh it'll be like some retro thing nope it's
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  to compete with Microsoft and Sony so all right cool look forward to that next
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  E3 yeah hopefully other companies at the 95 E3 was were Atari Nintendo and a
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  claim M among others oh wow I remember claim wow um 2005 was the first year that it
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  was aired on television on G4 if you remember that I was a big fan of that
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  and kind of miss that it's on it's not around anymore it wasn't it was not easy
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  to watch in Australia uh I can tell you that but I knew of its existence because
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  everyone else was talking about it and I couldn't have it so um a lot of current
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  day hosts in the video game industry started there right in 2007 and 2018 the
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  exhibitors felt like the public attendees uh not really public but with
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  all the bloggers and that kind of media that was coming in it felt like it
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  diluted their ability to reach their target audience which is retailers and
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  journalists yeah and a lot of exhibitors were prepared to pull out a e3 did you
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  say this was in the past or that was this year not going on this was 10 years ago
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  so um in 2007 they renamed it they rebranded to the E3 media and business
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  Summit and they capped attendance at 10,000 it was moved to a different venue
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  a smaller venue and it was very very exclusive in the business and
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  journalists right that were invited it was invite only um the next year only
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  5,000 people attended which I can imagine when you're spending millions of
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  dollars on your big flashy
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  advertisements yeah uh yeah it's not really doing it no you want you want
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  more eyeballs on them than that because the esa couldn't win uh the exhibitors
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  now complained that they weren't reaching any audience
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  that there was not enough media coverage so the show was rebranded again back to
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  E3 which is what it is now yep and it was moved permanently to the LA
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  Convention Center with a cap of 45,000 close to the public right usually
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  attendance now is about 40 to 50,000 this year was
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  68,000 wow because for the first year ever E3 was open to the public they sold
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  15,000 tickets um the first 1,000 were sold at $150 and the rest were sold at$
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  250 mhm um which a lot of the public
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  complained about the high prices but ah it's a tough one really yeah well
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  because you yeah because it is an industry event and it's not really meant
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  for the public which I'm not saying the public shouldn't be there I'm just
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  saying I think they were expecting a bit more than what was there right they
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  previously haven't had vendors where this year there were uh at least four or
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  five because they're not selling to Media professionals or industry
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  professionals they also didn't really have events or things to do besides
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  showcasing the games and I think the public that put so much money into these
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  tickets were kind of expecting that yeah because of PS I guess and these other I
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  guess more fan-based conventions you know like at PS when you're in line you
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  have line entertainment people like if there's enforcers there that Entertain
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  You And there's right things going on in giveaways and and you know the cookie
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  Brigade and all that stuff whereas E3 was about serious business like and I
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  don't mean that to sound patronizing I just mean like it literally was was a a
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  business meeting like it wasn't right it wasn't about having fun right it's for
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  networking mhm yeah and I don't think E3 was really prepared for the caliber of
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  of people like the the line control wasn't really there
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  um there were people pushing in line yeah and again we're not saying that the
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  general public shouldn't be allowed in because you know this is the kind of I
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  you know I always wanted to go to it I understand why people want to go to it
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  but I think they need to rethink how they structure it and organize it if
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  they are going to do that because that's right two different things right and the
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  public that bought tickets were expecting it to be like a big convention
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  right and the people who have gone to E3 in the past the industry professionals
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  were expecting it to be a a trade show yeah um which is what it's always been
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  but it really it didn't do well being a mix of those two things this year
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  because the industry professionals weren't able to do their jobs right um
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  because the lines for games were so long we even had trouble the first day like
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  they had to open the doors 15 minutes early because it was a fire with the
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  amount of people standing in the entryway mhm and if you got into the
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  Hall about 10 minutes after it was supposed to open the lines were already
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  two or three hours long yeah and people missed appointments that's right yeah
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  it's uh it's tough yeah a lot of sites
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  uh are now saying in future it's going to be easier for them to just do all
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  this stuff from home or from the office or wherever because you they stream all
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  of the presentations should say the press conferences aren't even part of e3
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  anymore they're like separate events that's right that the uh that the the
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  company has to invite you to like Microsoft or Bethesda or Ubisoft Sony
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  they're all completely separate things you have to be invited to them and so
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  it's easier to if you're going to be the first you know you want to post all this
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  stuff you want to post uh feedback uh you want to be the first to to talk
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  about this stuff on the internet it's it's harder to do it if you're there
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  it's easier it's easier to sit at home in your Wi-Fi and exactly and then and
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  you can edit together a video in like you know the next 10 minutes or whatever
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  instead of having to to you know run back to the hotel or or a meeting room
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  or what however the hell you're going to manage that from from the convention and
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  not only that it's better for the companies like say Microsoft Microsoft
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  announced a bunch of new this this E3 it's better for them if the audience
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  at that press conference is a bunch of screaming fans because it looks better
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  than a bunch of very serious you know like media people making notes and
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  nodding and oh yes very interesting like they want people who are excited the
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  fans right so right and I did read some articles that there were some
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  journalists that said they would show up to one of the um I think the Microsoft
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  one in particular uh all of the media were way way back like in the nose Leed
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  section because right up front were the people had who had won tickets or been
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  giving tickets and makes sense like going crazy you want them on camera
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  looking excited right right yeah yeah so I can see why they because really the
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  whole thing it has always been about marketing it's just now the the way
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  marketing works is very different so I I I can see why the fans are confused
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  because they don't know like CU E3 is figuring out what it wants to do and
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  they they're not used to it the media is confused yeah the media is confused
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  because they're used to the way it used to be and so everybody's just kind of a
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  bit Topsy Turvy so there's been a lot of negative feedback yeah um EA has
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  actually pulled out of of e3 MH um last year and have decided to do their own EA
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  play uh a more fan-based um Expo y yeah
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  well again like that's that that works better for him these days I
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  think yeah yeah clearly I mean EA knows
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  knows the business of video games that's one thing they definitely know but
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  overall uh we had a lot of fun and absolutely yeah and so while we can
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  understand certain groups of people were a bit disappointed we would we were not
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  because I guess we we we were new and we we knew that this was all going on and I
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  guess we you know content to just experience it as it is well I think that
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  we should get into what everybody really wants to hear yep fair fair enough our
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  time at Disney no I'm joking um the games yes and the
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  hardware yes yeah there were a few few announcements this year it wasn't a huge
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  year it feels like it was it does I mean there definitely were a lot of
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  announcements a lot of them were sequels that's true actually yeah or just the
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  same game again right well we'll start with EA um as we said they have pulled
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  out of e3 they hold their own convention um a public event which is still in Los
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  Angeles um the weekend before mhm so their press conference I believe was on
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  Saturday the day day before Microsoft and Bethesda started up with E3 right
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  their big Spotlight was on Star Wars Battlefront 2
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  yes they've been very uh Playstation Centric on that uh for some reason but
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  it's not an exclusive or anything like that so it's coming out on all platforms
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  mhm it is a sequel to Star Wars Battlefront which was very popular for a
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  little while and then unfortunately only a little while because it was quite fun
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  but then it just kind of died down and it was exclusively multiplayer so there
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  wasn't really anything you could do right if no one else was playing yeah
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  there was a one point where I tried to play it I mean and this was a few months
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  after uh and I just it took forever to find a game uh and I mean certain game
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  modes continued for longer but but there was others that were just they just died
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  like almost instantly people just lost interest so what everybody really wanted
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  out of Battlefront 2 was a single player campaign MH and you got it so that's
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  going to be awesome hopefully I mean they didn't show any of it so they I
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  mean they showed like a little video that had short snippet of it but uh it's
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  probably not going to be mindblowing as far as gameplay goes but um but it is
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  Star Wars and it is Battlefront so yep you get to play as
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  the heroes right that is fun what I find interesting about Battlefront 2 um is
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  that it includes the prequels yes it does so I I wasn't sure because for a
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  long time it seemed like Disney was kind of trying to avoid that being Canon yeah
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  they're being selective with it I think for sure um and I mean there are people
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  who like it and actually while we were watching the uh the trailer they show
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  some of the the you know the clone troopers versus the battle droids on
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  nabo and I was like you know what this is actually pretty cool like it's all
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  it's all creative and it's interesting it's just that the film didn't have a
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  very good plot so so I think maybe it can still be good including prequel
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  stuff as long as we just try and forget the films right it does mean that there are
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  new people to play as uh you can play as Darth Maul which is kind of cool yep and
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  new ships to fly yes the uh the Droid ships and the uh what are the little the
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  little Naboo Fighters i f what they the little yellow ones yeah they're pretty
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  cool those things I always thought they were cool yeah and uh also Ray is
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  playable uh Han is playable again and there's one other that escapes me Boba
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  Fett yeah so they're the four initial ones uh and then there'll be more later
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  apparently oh and all the DLC is going to be free this time which is a nice touch
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  released ofc but had to it a l of people bought
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  it not only did you have to pay for it it was kind of when it was dying down
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  right so I didn't want to put money into something that I might not even get to
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  play exactly the Rogue one DLC looked interesting but why would you buy it if
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  no one's playing the game like it's a risk that hopefully they can avoid this
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  time yep so that game comes out on November 17th this year mhm uh most
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  games actually October and November are going to be a
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  busy time in the video game industry um another game that they showed they
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  didn't actually show any of the gameplay for this they just showed the trailer
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  for Anthem yes um which is bioware's new game and it will come out in Fall of
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  2018 Microsoft actually went into this further in their press conference um but
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  it did debut at EA yeah so they demoed a bit more at Microsoft and I guess so we
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  can just discuss that when we talk about the Microsoft
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  conference speaking of the Microsoft press conference something big was
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  announced this year project Scorpio was unveiled yes the uh the official title
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  of project Scorpio the xbonex X bonx
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  Xbox x Xbox and x
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  xoan x yes the Xbox One
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  X it's clunky man that's real clunky what are they doing
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  it is because they also they also have the Xbox One S yeah which sounds very
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  similar to Xbox One X I just I don't know what why can't they just name
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  things like in a in a intuitive manner like I don't know I don't know why they
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  going to do this well even the Xbox One is a weird name because where do you go
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  from there the Xbox 2 yeah well the Xbox 360 was a weird name the only one that
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  made any sense was the Xbox and I mean even that didn't make that much sense
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  and unless you know that it was like the direct Xbox right exactly when you know
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  that you go oh but why right well they dropped the direct and just Nam at the
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  Xbox which is fine like it's a good name
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  yes um and it's a good logo yes but yeah
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  the Xbox 360 I guess because I it did a
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  little 360 from the yeah fine with the Xbox one yeah well that just confused
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  everybody cuz I got an Xbox which one is it Xbox One the first Xbox no no the the
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  Third Xbox the Xbox One well I it's kind of similar to what I feel like apple did
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  with the iPads yeah I I think that's stupid as well so except now they just
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  call them iPad and it's like fine yeah but how do you tell the difference
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  between them oh they have a year model it's stupid yeah right well the Xbox One
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  X was announced the price in the specs actually are what what were um showcased
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  at this PR confidence it will be released November 7th of this
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  year just in time to play all of the new games that are coming out yep it's backwards
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  compatible um as far as Xbox yeah like all the way back original
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  Xbox so that's cool yeah it is cool but
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  then at the same time uh even when they announced that the Xbox one was
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  backwards compatible I feel like I can't play the three 6 games anymore yeah some of them
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  hold up some of them do not yeah there are games um original Xbox games that I
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  have on my iPad now like nice to the Old Republic so yeah they don't hold up that
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  well no and I think a lot of the better
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  ones they have uh re republished yeah remastered yeah
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  so but hey that's cool people wanted it people are very happy about it it's a
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  it's a different type of upgrade this time as well it's not it's not a whole
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  new console you don't have to buy whole new games it's kind of like a PC upgrade
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  almost it just does better it's the same thing you used to it's just better now
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  so this was to compete with the PlayStation 4
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  Pro um both are 4K compatible mhm which
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  is great if you've got a 4K TV yes or VR they can both do VR although they didn't
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  mention VR at the Xbox One at all they didn't mention it which is weird but
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  yeah unless you well I think it'll still have some benefit to a normal HD set in
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  that you'll get probably better frame rates and you'll get they can probably
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  put higher rise Textures in but I think to get the most out of it you're going
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  to need a fancy big 4K TV and it looks real good yeah it does um it's got a
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  better processor mhm uh better memory yeah faster hard drive even it's just
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  yeah everything's everything's better um the price though is a little
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  bit steep well see it is and then it
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  isn't so it's going for $4.99 mhm mhm
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  which is I if you were to upgrade a PC that would be about the price so I guess
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  in that sense if you because my frame of reference obviously is Australia and
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  it's going for I believe 6.49 in Australia that's huge well actually
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  compared to the Xbox 360 it's not when the Xbox 360 came out it was
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  $850 are you serious yeah cuz I went and bought one and so then when they
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  announce so now whenever they announce the price of a new console and it's not
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  $850 I'm like woohoo and now I get because I'm here in America it's only
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  500 so I I mean I thought the price was good until everyone started saying Rich
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  deep and I was like oh is it I didn't realize I think it is quite high it's
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  especially for um just being an upgrade of of a console and not like a new generation of
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  console well it kind of is a new generation I guess it just depends on if
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  this is how it's going to be from now on
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  like like maybe we maybe we're done with Generations kind of it's it's going to
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  be more flowy than that now I would think I mean because it should have been
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  cuz that's how PCS work do you think we'll ever get to a point where we can upgrade
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  our own systems a console mhm well see CU then it would just be a PC so that's
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  right a PC box PC box well like the steam boxes in that I guess yeah are the
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  equivalent so yeah but then you fragment your your user base I don't think they
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  would want to do that with a console because you got a game coming out and
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  it's like well which one of the three Xboxes that we just released do you have
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  like which processor have you got which one you know y you end up splintering it
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  all paying the ass well with the price uh Phil Spencer Head of Xbox I read an
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  article where he said there is actually no profit um with the system all of
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  their profit is from the games I think it's been like that with
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  most of them at first yeah because of the amount of time and Hardware that's
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  going into it they don't actually make anything off of it I think the exception
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  to that rule is Nintendo because they put inside a box and sell it to
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  people for $300 yeah well that's people may be laughing but I'm I'm I'm serious
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  like they're the only ones making any money off the consoles that's just cuz
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  they're overpriced for what they are I love Nintendo but yeah I don't think
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  that they are doing so well on the console war no I
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  agree not only did Microsoft announce a new system they announced new avatars for
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  that system yeah so there's like an overhaul to the yeah it's coming in Fall
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  2017 um the avatars actually look really awesome yeah look cool and are more
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  inclusive um there are now uh people in wheelchairs amputees different colors um
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  of skin of hair uh different clothing gender neutral clothing um there's a lot
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  to it and they look pretty cool hopefully I can get a realistic beard
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  cuz the the Beards looked awful before I know that's hopefully I can get my
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  two-toned hair yeah I know which our minority groups are just not
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  represented bright red hair please yeah my very specific shaped
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  beard but no it actually um I joke but it actually does look like you can make
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  it quite custom which could be a pain in the butt or it could be awesome so they
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  didn't actually show much about how it works they just kind of showed the end
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  product so it'll be interesting to see how that how it all works and if you're
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  going to have to pay for all the clothes and stuff remember they you used to have to buy
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  yeah yeah so I don't know we'll see I also wonder who is going to see these
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  avatars because you don't anymore with
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  the new UI yeah it's a good point so but I liked it I liked the old one where you
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  could see you and your friends playing together yeah yeah hopefully they can
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  find a way to to tie because on the one hand I'm playing video games I don't
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  need to see them but then on the other hand if they look cool then it's nice to
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  appreciate them so yeah and if you put into it yeah yeah I think right now the
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  only way you can see them is to go into their profile yeah yeah that's right
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  like to view their achievements which I don't often do no
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  because I see Luke's and I just I'm like why do I bother mhm they've also
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  announced uh more customization in the Design Lab M yeah like metallic paint
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  and and other cool things yeah rubberized grips and more colors yeah
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  cool uh it's also now available in more European countries which it wasn't
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  before oh nice yeah we got a couple of custom controllers and they're nice they
• 26:36
  they look really good so maybe I have to play with the new lab and see if we can
• 26:40
  get some more ah you can make some really ugly things in it and it's great
• 26:46
  yeah nice what I would like to see though and I'm surprised that this isn't
• 26:52
  happening is the elite controllers in the Design Lab yeah that's interesting
• 26:59
  and also um somebody asked Major Nelson about why doesn't the Xbox One X come
• 27:04
  with an elite controller because apparently some people were expecting
• 27:07
  that there wasn't they just didn't show many anything to do with them like
• 27:12
  they're kind of just staying as they are I guess no and that is that is a first
• 27:17
  party controller isn't it the elite yeah yeah they're like it's an actual
• 27:21
  Microsoft product yeah right like I've I've never oh I mean I've used one like
• 27:27
  at a convention I've never I've I don't own one like I don't I don't yeah I'm
• 27:32
  not fussed about it to be honest but people tell me it's
• 27:36
  good you know I'm just surprised that it's not as it's not part of the Design
• 27:40
  Lab because there definitely are um alternate colors that you can get it in
• 27:43
  it's not just black right yeah well I guess the cost maybe is prohibitive yeah
• 27:49
  because well they're expensive anyway yeah the well the elites are they're
• 27:53
  like what 200 bucks and the The Design Lab controllers I think are around 100
• 27:57
  they're about 80 yeah so uh yeah it would probably be maybe they like people
• 28:03
  would be angry about the price if they did right well let's talk about the
• 28:08
  games cool we had mentioned Anthem before do you want to tell us a little
• 28:12
  bit about that game yeah they they used the anthem to kind of demo the uh the
• 28:19
  group the capabilities of the uh Xbox One X and Anthem yeah it's the new game
• 28:24
  by BioWare like the core BioWare team um the the ones that made the original Mass
• 28:29
  Effect games um it's a new thing it you're kind of uh
• 28:35
  sci-fi seems like explorers or it seems
• 28:40
  like Destiny uh mixed with the division basically a lot of people are making
• 28:45
  that comparison and that really is a pretty good way to describe it like you
• 28:49
  you put on a suit of armor that's kind of like an Iron
• 28:53
  Man thing where you can fly around and seemingly like destiny you fly out of
• 28:59
  the city and Into the Wilderness and uh I mean the plot wasn't
• 29:03
  really revealed but you you shoot enemies and it seems like it's a
• 29:08
  persistent world where there's you know your friends can join you it I didn't
• 29:12
  really it wasn't clear whether it's instanced or whether everybody's just
• 29:16
  you know in a shared World um it there seemed to be some kind of loot system
• 29:22
  like they kill a bunch of bad guys and then she picks up a you know an named
• 29:28
  rifle that she gets excited about it looks beautiful like graphically it
• 29:34
  looks beautiful I can see why they chose it to to show
• 29:37
  off um and it looks interesting I think it's something that I'm going to want to
• 29:42
  play yeah but uh well it looks like what
• 29:46
  they wanted Mass Effect 3 to be yeah yeah well and and like I said no story
• 29:53
  details were revealed really I we saw that there was there's like very
• 29:57
  impressive stor STM effects there's some kind of storm that
• 30:01
  comes uh while they're out adventuring and they have to tr kind of get out of
• 30:04
  the storm and that looks that really impressive uh oh you can go under water
• 30:08
  you can like you fly and then just splash into water and explore down there
• 30:12
  it's it's impressive definitely impressive so it just remains to be seen
• 30:19
  what the game is so to speak right well there were a lot like that that we we
• 30:25
  just saw a trailer but not the actual gamep playay right
• 30:28
  yeah um another one of those was life is
• 30:32
  strange yes uh before the storm mhm we didn't actually see any of the game play
• 30:38
  during the Microsoft press conference but we did make an appointment with
• 30:43
  Square Enix to see some um in their own little presentation yeah they kept it
• 30:50
  behind the scenes for some reason maybe they weren't ready to show the public I
• 30:54
  don't know yeah I think it's not it's not playable yet it's not finished
• 30:59
  they're still polishing it up I don't think they were ready to show the public
• 31:02
  yet so it was media only um we did get to play well as a
• 31:08
  group we got to play a little section of it um and then they showed us a few
• 31:13
  other um clips from later in the game where you see how your choices influence
• 31:18
  the story yeah um if you've played life is strange it is very similar to that y
• 31:24
  um if you haven't uh you follow in the
• 31:28
  original game you follow Max um who is a high school student and a photographer
• 31:34
  who finds that she has the ability to rewind time the game displays all of the
• 31:39
  ways in which your choices affect your future um how you speak to people if you
• 31:45
  help them out uh things like that just the way that you treat people and how
• 31:50
  that influences them in the future
• 31:54
  mhm the new game follows Chloe price one of the characters from um the original
• 32:00
  life of strange mhm and takes place three years before the events of the
• 32:05
  original now when I saw the trailer for this I questioned it because Chloe was
• 32:11
  in the original game how does she suddenly have a power that she just
• 32:14
  never mentioned to Max mhm well she
• 32:20
  doesn't yeah so I guess that people were speculating that she doesn't and she
• 32:26
  doesn't right the game was presented by the creative director who told us that
• 32:32
  based on feedback um he removed the powers and
• 32:37
  made it a more choice-based system yeah he said that people connected with the
• 32:44
  the uh the story and the characters yeah the kind of relatable real world story
• 32:49
  and and and reactions and things and so it it's just more about that than uh
• 32:55
  than Powers right I don't know how this will affect the
• 33:01
  game well clearly it'll be different because I I didn't play it I saw you
• 33:06
  playing a bit and you know you can you can rewind time and stuff and in this
• 33:10
  you can't so it's obviously going to change it quite a lot because I saw you
• 33:14
  selecting dialogue options and then rewinding to choose other dialogue
• 33:18
  options right and unlocking things because you learned something from a
• 33:21
  person and then you can go back in time that's right so you could you could talk
• 33:25
  to somebody you could get in a fight you could yell at them and then find out
• 33:27
  secrets and then rewind and then rewind and say oh hey I'm sorry about your mom
• 33:32
  and they're like oh I didn't even know you knew about her yeah well that's all
• 33:38
  not going to be in this I guess right right so I guess your choices have more
• 33:42
  impact in this game right because they're locked MH yeah yeah I mean the
• 33:48
  the presentation we saw reminded me a lot of The Telltale Games it did yeah um
• 33:52
  yeah like more straightforward than I than I have been led to believe that the
• 33:57
  original life of Stranges yeah I'm not sure I'm not sure how I like that but I
• 34:03
  mean I will definitely play it uh because I really liked the original yeah
• 34:09
  um it comes out August 31st of this year so very soon
• 34:14
  yeah but yeah I I still question that oh we'll see that was um that game
• 34:21
  is actually made by the company don't nod mhm um we saw another game by them
• 34:27
  this wasn't part of the Microsoft press conference but I do feel like it's worth
• 34:30
  mentioning yes yes very much so so we saw another
• 34:36
  presentation uh on the game
• 34:39
  vampire yes vampire is a sort of uh
• 34:44
  roleplaying uh action game where you play a vampire obviously someone who is
• 34:51
  just been transformed into a vampire and I it looks really really cool I'm like
• 34:58
  super impressed with so it's a similar game where your choices influence the
• 35:04
  world around you and there multiple possible endings but you it's like a
• 35:09
  role playing game but normally in a role playing game you gain experience by
• 35:13
  killing things uh and that is sort of similar in this except because you're a
• 35:18
  vampire you have to kill people and the world is populated by specific people
• 35:25
  there aren't just kind of random no-name enemy like people for you to kill
• 35:29
  everybody in the world has a purpose and
• 35:32
  a story and a family and a role and they
• 35:36
  all have different level different XP levels that you can get from them and
• 35:41
  you have to decide who you're going to kill because once you once you kill
• 35:47
  someone they are gone from the game and it will affect the world like it will
• 35:51
  change it will affect other people in the world it will affect areas it will
• 35:55
  affect any number of things and so you have to be very very careful about your
• 36:00
  decisions if you're going to if you're going to try and level up because you do
• 36:04
  need to level up to progress in the game and so the example they showed is you
• 36:08
  can uh follow uh a guy around you discover that maybe he's he's killed
• 36:13
  some people uh but you don't want to be rash because you want to know find out
• 36:18
  what's going on so you you speak to him you investigate further you you find out
• 36:23
  he's you know he's got some stuff going on with his mother and all that kind of
• 36:26
  stuff and then you find out all these clues about these various people and at
• 36:30
  the end of it you're left with kind of this family tree of people with varying
• 36:35
  levels of experience that you'll get from them like you can see like oh if
• 36:40
  one if one of them is very healthy you'll get more XP from them but they
• 36:43
  might also be very influential and killing them will could cause problems
• 36:49
  so uh it's it's fantastic like it seems
• 36:54
  really really cool and it's possible he said to create a situation where you
• 36:59
  ruin basically ruin everything like you screw up the whole you screw up
• 37:03
  everything for everybody and you can still win but you'll just get a really
• 37:08
  shitty ending yeah I'm really excited
• 37:10
  about it yep yeah me too is uh like I
• 37:15
  said don't nod made a great game with life is
• 37:18
  strange so I'm excited to play this one yeah and so as you kill people you drink
• 37:25
  their blood and then you can rest and use the XP that you gain from them to
• 37:28
  level up and purchase new abilities and that stuff's more straightforward like
• 37:32
  you you gain your abilities and that enables you to fight more powerful
• 37:35
  enemies and progress further in the game um but yeah just the whole aspect of of
• 37:40
  having to coexist with with these people and uh make judgments on them is yeah
• 37:47
  it's it's very cool I I I when he when he explained it I was like I can't
• 37:51
  believe no one's done this before it's so cool and what we saw was very early
• 37:55
  so none of the menu screens really finished yet right it was placeholder text and stuff
• 38:01
  but but I mean it was visually very good and uh it's very compelling but look out
• 38:08
  for that game yeah it's G to be good I'm sure of it yes uh one of the biggest
• 38:14
  games that Microsoft announced this year Microsoft and
• 38:19
  Ubisoft uh but this was at the Microsoft press conference was the new Assassin's
• 38:23
  Creed Origins yes so Ubisoft took a year off um I like how last year they actually
• 38:29
  had to announce that they weren't making any Assassin's Creed games and that was
• 38:33
  a big announcement in itself it's got they did make two peripherals but not a
• 38:38
  major game right mobile games and stuff yeah yeah the new one takes place in
• 38:45
  Egypt uh you play as Bak who is protecting Egypt from threats um it's a
• 38:52
  more open world game than the previous ones it uh has more RPG elements
• 38:58
  leveling and crafting yeah like loot like uh special like it seemed like he
• 39:04
  was picking up new weapons and stuff that's interesting yeah yep there is a
• 39:08
  bigger open world map and there are new things in this like underwater
• 39:13
  exploration uh in previous ones you could swim but this one actually has
• 39:16
  stuff like underw that you can explore
• 39:21
  and uh have fights and you have an eagle in this game uh called senu
• 39:27
  who is a scout uh it's kind of like the mechanic from Tom Clancy wildlands yeah
• 39:33
  it reminded me that of that a lot yeah with the Drone in a good way in a good
• 39:38
  oh yeah totally so I think there are less things to climb but you can send up
• 39:43
  your scout Eagle yeah to to pick up enemies and to plan your attacks so this
• 39:49
  could be kind of cool because I was kind of disenfranchised with Assassin's Creed
• 39:54
  yeah we've done the parkour stuff we've seen all that so to do something
• 39:57
  different I think is is smart it's yeah it looks cool I I'm I'm cautiously
• 40:03
  optimistic about it yeah and they did take a year off to do this yeah so
• 40:07
  hopefully they've put a lot of work into it hopefully people's faces won't
• 40:12
  disappear oh that in in all of the previews they are very well rendered
• 40:18
  yeah yeah it looks it I mean on the the
• 40:22
  the Xbox One X it looks beautiful so mhm um there are a couple more that I
• 40:28
  can kind of blow through a little bit yeah yeah they announced a lot like 40
• 40:31
  something games at Microsoft like and and I mean some some of them I'm sure
• 40:36
  will reveal themselves to be more interesting but a lot of them were just
• 40:40
  kind of quick trailers so uh we've got SE of Thieves by Rare which is an open
• 40:46
  world MMO with pirates I need to apologize to them because I think I said
• 40:51
  on one of the Recaps during the week that it didn't really test the power of
• 40:55
  the Xbox One X I was mistaken when I actually saw up close the game the water
• 41:02
  in Sea of Thieves looks amazing mhm so while it's
• 41:08
  cartoony uh and I guess I didn't appreciate the details uh when you when
• 41:13
  you see it up close it actually visually is is quite impressive it was also cool
• 41:18
  it was also cool to see a team of four Co-op this game um oh man it looks like
• 41:23
  so much fun this is your captain speaking uh can everybody get starboard
• 41:27
  for the yeah great it looks it looks like it's going to be fun yeah the only
• 41:32
  Pro only concern I have about it is uh I don't know how much game there is right
• 41:38
  that's my only concern because we've I we saw them yep you sail then you get to
• 41:42
  an island then you go down into a cave Sol a puzzle get the treasure come back
• 41:46
  up there's some skeletons that aren't very hard to kill and then you get back
• 41:48
  on the boat like all right what else happens we've got Middle Earth shadow of
• 41:54
  war that comes out October 10th 2017 um
• 41:58
  we've got State of Decay 2 coming out in
• 42:01
  2018 yeah we've got the last night um by
• 42:07
  the company odd Tales which looks like a really awesome Blade runner-esque game
• 42:13
  yeah we didn't really see much gameplay but it looks amazing like visually
• 42:17
  amazing and we've got the game that Microsoft announced that I personally am
• 42:21
  most excited for um ory and the will of the Wisps yeah which is a followup to or
• 42:26
  and the Forest which is a metroidvania Style game um where you play as a little
• 42:32
  light being um this looks it's such an emotional game the first one and already
• 42:39
  from the trailer this one follows suit so very excited about that cool it's a
• 42:45
  great game but it is incredibly frustrating at times that's I mean that kind of wraps
• 42:50
  up Microsoft's press conference m in a way like I said they announced about 40
• 42:55
  games we can't go through them here but you can find lists of them online yep if
• 43:00
  we skipped something uh comment or messages podcast multiple.com let us
• 43:06
  know and we'll try and discuss it you know in in the near future just let us
• 43:10
  know yep or you can find all of these press conferences online actually um
• 43:15
  they're all about an hourish in length you know we we kind of just highlighted
• 43:21
  the ones that we think people would be excited to play and that we're excited
• 43:24
  to play the Bethesda conference followed the Microsoft conference on Sunday I
• 43:30
  really liked their introduction it was very cute the it's like very family
• 43:35
  Centric with all of the um the children of the developers and the writers
• 43:40
  talking about what their parents do yeah it was cute
• 43:44
  incorrectly was very cute yeah um and I think actually Bethesda killed it at
• 43:49
  this press conference um they created Bethesda land which was a um an
• 43:56
  amusement art with little sections from all their games um so there was a doom area which
• 44:03
  gave out cocktails in a little skull head glass um they had fall
• 44:08
  Outland which um had a big ferris
• 44:11
  wheel uh they had I think they had um
• 44:15
  another of the diner from Wolfenstein yeah yeah um yeah it looked very cool
• 44:22
  and their t-shirts were awesome and I want one Bethesda land ones yeah yeah they've
• 44:28
  CED a bit of criticism though for for their announcements well to be fair they
• 44:35
  didn't really announce much they did but it's all it's either sequels or it's the
• 44:41
  same game that they've announced several times in the past few years like how
• 44:45
  many times can they announce Skyrim oh we'll
• 44:50
  see we'll see every year untility like the game that just keeps getting
• 44:54
  announced yeah yeah now on Nintendo switch they did reann their games on VR
• 45:01
  yes and this caught my attention immediately because I knew that they
• 45:05
  were doing Fallout VR they the first thing that they announced was the Doom
• 45:09
  it's called Doom VFR mhm and uh as you
• 45:13
  listeners will probably know I loved the new Doom like so much it was my favorite
• 45:18
  game last year and so when I saw this I was like oh my God it's going to be so
• 45:22
  cool but then the video made me go wait a minute
• 45:27
  and I was a bit skeptical because it looked like in order to move you have to
• 45:33
  kind of point to a spot and then you teleport to it and you you do do that
• 45:39
  but apparently you can also move normally and Dash from side to side
• 45:44
  quickly and stuff so I don't know I'm still I'm cautiously optimistic about it
• 45:49
  but I'm that makes it sound like a like a VR point and click exactly so I'm
• 45:55
  still not sure about it how everyone's saying it it is the best of the Bethesda VR
• 46:01
  games so un fortunately we didn't get to play any um man the the lines were
• 46:06
  enormous was crazy yeah we get to watch some oh yeah yeah they were all in just
• 46:12
  glass booths so you could watch people making a fool of themselves yeah it's my
• 46:16
  favorite thing about conventions these days I don't really like playing VR at
• 46:21
  conventions because it totally like hear anyone around you you can't see anyone
• 46:26
  you kind of forget that you're in the middle of a convention
• 46:30
  hall yeah and I can't imagine like playing
• 46:34
  Doom that's a scary game well that's that's why I'm I'm wondering because the
• 46:39
  the whole point of Doom is that you're running around
• 46:43
  really fast and you have to keep moving and it's like it's very fast-paced and
• 46:46
  intense and then just I don't know looking at the way it
• 46:49
  was being controlled I I'm skeptical about it I'm I'm like I said people
• 46:55
  saying it's good and it's the better of them so I'm optimistic but I don't know
• 46:59
  it looks clunky to me I'm worried that it's not going to have the
• 47:03
  same I'm not going to like it as much as I did the original uh and then they they
• 47:08
  also showed a clip of Fallout in VR during the presentation and it it
• 47:13
  functions how you would expect you can look down at your pit boy and you can
• 47:18
  shoot stuff and then apparently you can walk by pushing forward and looking in
• 47:22
  the direction you want to go um and apparently it's fine except the controls
• 47:27
  are really really clunky and it comes out very soon so right so they're going
• 47:32
  to continue to be clunky that's the concern yeah okay apparently in
• 47:37
  particular when you try and use the pit boy or the menus because you know the
• 47:41
  pit boy you know you're not familiar before you don't like them you've played
• 47:44
  it before though right mhm you know the pit boy is like your inventory and your
• 47:48
  health and your map and all of that apparently that's all very very clunky it comes out in
• 47:54
  October uh and and doom VFR comes out this year but there's not a firm date
• 47:59
  set so we get them both this year then two they showed there was there was
• 48:04
  another one but that was shown during the Sony presentation so we'll wait for that I
• 48:10
  guess um they've also announced the creation Club we've had mods forever um
• 48:16
  in the world of Skyrim um only recently have they moved
• 48:21
  to consoles yes and now Bethesda has
• 48:24
  announced the creation Club m mhm yes
• 48:28
  the creation Club is apparently uh kind
• 48:32
  of curated collections of mods uh that you can purchase I believe you have to
• 48:38
  purchase them that will add content to the game and I guess the idea is that
• 48:42
  they will still be compatible with your save games like they'll guarantee that
• 48:48
  because sometimes when you still a mod it just everything up and and and
• 48:52
  it breaks the game they're going to guarantee that these won't uh and you'll
• 48:56
  save games will still work and you can still get achievements with these ones
• 48:59
  installed because on a console if you install a mod achievements are disabled
• 49:05
  right uh for that save game yeah but they didn't announce what they are they
• 49:09
  just said that that's that they're going to be curated collections
• 49:15
  MH um they also showcased morrowwind um The Elder Scrolls Online y that looks
• 49:21
  cool um that's kind of the reason I bought the Elder Scrolls online cuz I
• 49:25
  knew this was coming out so so I guess I got to buy
• 49:29
  it um and they had the evil within two
• 49:33
  yes this game is produced by Shinji Mami
• 49:39
  of Resident Evil Fame yes um he wrote the original Evil Within but I think he
• 49:46
  is uh not not as prominent on this one
• 49:50
  okay which I mean could be a good thing because The Evil Within was not a great
• 49:55
  game yes but the evil within two follows the
• 50:00
  story of Sebastian Castellanos from the first game mhm um he is searching for
• 50:06
  the daughter who he presumed dead at the end of The Evil Within right he once
• 50:12
  again has to re-enter stem to find her
• 50:16
  right stem is the collective mind thing
• 50:20
  from the first game uh which influences everyone's Minds right
• 50:27
  they had a an exhibit on an
• 50:32
  experience no gamep playay unfortunately actually not much to it other than just
• 50:36
  the trailer yeah this game comes out Friday the 13th of October this year so
• 50:41
  it's not that far in the future mhm um
• 50:45
  but yeah there it was one of those um like a horror maze but
• 50:51
  without much of it it had screens that had the game on them but I didn't
• 50:57
  realize that that was all it was and so I didn't really stop to look at them and
• 51:02
  then by the time we got to the end and I realized oh this is it I'd already
• 51:07
  passed them and then it was too late when you say by the time it sounds like
• 51:11
  like a considerable amount of time had passed it was just a couple of hallways
• 51:15
  yeah you can actually see we did do a full walk through um you can see it on
• 51:20
  our Instagram uh multiple orgasm but yeah you can see the whole
• 51:25
  thing yeah I was expecting a little bit more to that fortunately it was not a
• 51:29
  very long line that's true well comparatively it was still about half an
• 51:33
  hour yeah yeah um I think the longest line we did wait in though was for
• 51:39
  bethesda's biggest announcement was Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus yes uh
• 51:45
  this game comes out October 27th this year M and it follows the story of BJ
• 51:50
  Blitz blaskowitz blaskowitz yeah Blas BJ
• 51:54
  blaskowitz just call BJ yeah after World War II when the Nazis
• 52:01
  won yep and they took over America yeah this game's pretty fun we
• 52:07
  got to play about 20 minutes of it um I
• 52:12
  found I their choice of uh of demo
• 52:17
  curious so did I I don't know why they chose to let us play a section where the
• 52:22
  main character is in a wheelchair and fairly difficult to to maneuver mhm like
• 52:28
  and that that was the that was the extent of the game play like we didn't
• 52:31
  get to unless that's the whole game like yeah I don't know it was
• 52:37
  weird and it was also very difficult yeah they said that they're going to
• 52:42
  address that uh and that that's that was a complaint at the expo at because I I
• 52:47
  didn't play on like I think I played on not not normal but maybe one above it
• 52:54
  yeah I just went for the whatever the default is hurt me plenty it is yeah
• 52:57
  yeah there like five levels of difficulty so whatever like the center
• 53:01
  one was mhm is what I played on and it was tough yeah well he's just he's in a
• 53:05
  wheelchair it's hard to maneuver right like and and because when he's shooting
• 53:09
  he's only using one hand on the Wheel to to move so he's slowed down and I mean
• 53:14
  it all makes sense it's just very I don't know it's just tricky and a bit
• 53:17
  clunky and I don't know like I get it it's it's realistic but is it fun
• 53:24
  question mark that cuz when you look at the trailer for the game the game looks
• 53:29
  more like it plays like Doom he's running around he's shooting the not
• 53:33
  zombies Nazis and they're you know he very fast-paced and he's doing the glory
• 53:37
  kills on them and and it it looks more like doom and then when we played it
• 53:41
  it's very different that that particular level was very different Wolfenstein is
• 53:45
  actually a prequel to Doom yeah it's the same family it's a descendant of BJ that
• 53:50
  you play as in Doom yeah some of the demons are the same right it's fun fact
• 53:54
  for you yeah it sounds like I'm I'm ragging on it but I'm not I actually
• 53:58
  really enjoyed it I just thought it was a really curious section to show but
• 54:03
  then maybe that was the point right is that it was fairly unique in in sequence
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  cuz you go end up on a conveyor belt and then there's section where you fall out
• 54:10
  of the wheelchair and so you can't to drag yourself back over to it yeah and
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  so I don't know it was neat it was just like I said it just wasn't what I was
• 54:18
  expecting from the trailer that they had on the screens I was expecting to me
• 54:22
  running around shooting Nazis and I was instead I was careful rolling around
• 54:27
  shooting Nazis but Bethesda set up a really awesome booth for that yeah it
• 54:31
  was sick which looks like Papa Joe's Diner yeah and you got a milkshake it
• 54:34
  was really awesome they were handing out strawberry milkshakes it was good it was
• 54:38
  fun I I had a good time definitely it was worth waiting in line for I think
• 54:42
  yeah yeah one of the few that was I think MH no offense to the other vendors
• 54:46
  it's just that was a very long wait so you had to do something special to make
• 54:49
  it worthwhile that's right if it was just to play a game that is coming out
• 54:52
  in four months yeah I I don't know I can just stand behind people and watch them
• 54:57
  play it Y and then move on to the next one but this this was more of an
• 55:01
  experience and that was cool yeah well we can move on to Ubisoft they've got
• 55:06
  the crew to they've got that's a game
• 55:09
  the highly anticipated Just Dance 2018 we've got another pirate game Skull
• 55:16
  and Bones yeah that looks really pretty but then I like when it first came on I
• 55:21
  was like oh wow that looks cool and then I don't know as they explained it I was
• 55:24
  like oh okay it's not for me I'm not saying it's not going to be a
• 55:27
  good game it's just not for me it's a multiplayer uh kind of Co-op thing
• 55:34
  similar to um
• 55:38
  to similar to Sea of Thieves except more serious it's not it's not
• 55:45
  cartoony and it it seems like more
• 55:49
  strategy and battle Centric than individual goofy fun Centric I'm sure
• 55:55
  I'm sure it'll be good just not for me right we've also got starlink battle for
• 55:59
  Atlas which is a figurine collectible cashing in on the Amigo Amigo what Amigo
• 56:06
  hey amigo cashing in on amiibos uh I don't
• 56:12
  see that this is going to take off it's weird right like such a weird thing to
• 56:17
  announce after Disney just closed down their whole Studio CU Infinity
• 56:21
  failed right it's another like figurine collectible you build ships and then can
• 56:27
  play them in the game yeah you like Bolt the weapons onto the ship like you've
• 56:31
  got a physical toy of a ship and you can change the weapons on it and then it
• 56:34
  changes in the game to match I mean that's cool but it's not that cool they
• 56:39
  didn't really convince me that it was anything no I don't think they tried too
• 56:42
  hard either no I was like oh here's a thing I was like ah cool here's a new
• 56:46
  figurine thing sorry sorry if like somebody was really proud of that sorry
• 56:51
  to your parents wallets crushing their dreams make someone else that be soft
• 56:55
  cry speaking of crushing someone's dreams my favorite moment of E3 this
• 57:01
  year he was happy he wasn't crushed adorable he was overwhelmed with joy
• 57:06
  Mario and Rabbids Kingdom battle was announced at the Ubisoft press
• 57:10
  conference and it's something that people tore into the Rabbids are like
• 57:16
  the minions yeah um from Rayman yeah who
• 57:21
  got popular have their own franchise from Rayman or from um I thought you me
• 57:25
  the minions from what's that Despicable Me yeah yeah I mean Rabbids are from
• 57:30
  Rayman oh but they they are the equivalent of the minions from dis wi
• 57:35
  yeah these irritating Little Creatures you can't speak and communicate and
• 57:40
  screams yep and have now infiltrated
• 57:43
  Mario I was like what the hell is this and why does it exist and then when they
• 57:49
  showed the gameplay I was like oh it's like XCOM oh it looks really fun but
• 57:55
  then still why does this exist right like why isn't it just a Mario game well
• 58:00
  a lot of people took issue with this so weird and then um I think it it was
• 58:06
  somebody on Twitter who said before you all tear into this game have a look at
• 58:12
  the developer who was crying during the press conference because he's so proud
• 58:17
  of what he's created he's so adorable he's adorable his name is deid soani
• 58:22
  from Ubisoft Milan he was a fanboy
• 58:26
  of mamoto a that's why of course way way
• 58:31
  back he had waited outside his hotel or something like that to meet him and
• 58:36
  wanted to ask for his autograph and now he was got a chance to present his game
• 58:41
  idea to him we got name dropped as well by m Mur mention exactly and it's just
• 58:47
  it's the cutest moment just please like
• 58:50
  just find this video he's adorable adorable and look I think this game
• 58:57
  looks pretty fun I it's I don't know why it exists it's weird I think maybe it's
• 59:01
  just that Nintendo wouldn't really make a game like this and so like it took
• 59:06
  Ubisoft to to make it happen it's weird whatever it looks cool right I don't
• 59:12
  have a switch I'm probably not going to get one so we retweeted a tweet from him
• 59:18
  where he he got back home to Italy and the Ubisoft team gave him a shirt with a
• 59:23
  picture of him crying on it and the hasht don't cry Ubisoft man yeah so cute
• 59:29
  so good I love this guy I want to play this game just for this guy because it's
• 59:34
  so adorable you have to buy a switch then so leani buy me a
• 59:39
  switch say nice things about your game if you well actually no let's not set a
• 59:43
  precedent for that yep when our opinions are not for sale we've also got Far Cry
• 59:48
  5 yeah which comes out February 27th 2018 yeah this looks cool I got kind of
• 59:53
  bored with Far Cry but this uh this one looks interesting and for the same
• 59:58
  reasons that some people don't like it I like it it's it's set in a fictional
• 1:00:02
  Montana town where a radical preacher named Joseph seed has formed doomsday
• 1:00:08
  cult and you play as the main protagonist with some guns for hire y um
• 1:00:14
  that try to take him down I'm a bit confused as to why you're trapped in a
• 1:00:20
  town in Montana like it it's I mean they say that you can't leave at least they
• 1:00:24
  said in the presentation I don't know what the PL is I don't know how they
• 1:00:26
  handle that in the plot but you mean you got a guy with a plane helping you right
• 1:00:32
  maybe it's because of the cult yeah I I mean maybe it's just because you can't
• 1:00:35
  leave because you've got to complete the mission which is fine it just I'm I was
• 1:00:39
  just confused about why can't he physically leave I don't know but it
• 1:00:42
  does look pretty cool um good yeah it's
• 1:00:46
  a pretty good concept I think which a lot of people don't think because it's
• 1:00:52
  caught a lot of FL for Americans being the terrorists yeah people are upset
• 1:00:56
  because they're like well our own people wouldn't do that well they do do that
• 1:01:00
  and they have done that yeah that's why they made a game about it yep it's it's
• 1:01:04
  based on the real world events that happen sometimes yeah and the developers
• 1:01:10
  of this game actually researched quite heavily and met with cult experts um
• 1:01:16
  cult cult Sports uh to make sure that they got everything right that there
• 1:01:21
  would be like the main guy who's very relatable very very personable but also
• 1:01:27
  kind of psychotic charismatic psych yeah and then like H the other people that
• 1:01:32
  work for him so they tried to make sure that they got all of that correct I hope
• 1:01:37
  he's like a Charlie Manson type that would be
• 1:01:42
  entertaining um I've actually I've read some articles about
• 1:01:47
  the Jonestown Jonestown jonesb which one Jonestown the Kool-Aid yeah was that
• 1:01:54
  Jonestown yeah yeah about the Jonestown cult and it sounds very similar to that
• 1:02:00
  um Jim Jones it seems like Joseph seed
• 1:02:04
  is is a a Jim Jones character where he is like a great guy and really nice and
• 1:02:10
  very welcoming but kind of crazy crazy
• 1:02:16
  yeah Jonestown if you don't know like Matt said drink the Kool-Aid like he
• 1:02:20
  would call over the loudspeaker like they're coming to attack us everybody
• 1:02:23
  quickly we have to all like kill our elv before they get us cuz they will torture
• 1:02:28
  us and they'll do all his horrible things and would do fake outs like he
• 1:02:32
  would give them all cyi laced Kool-Aid which they would be surprised they
• 1:02:37
  didn't die and then he'd say no I got you but now I know that you're on my
• 1:02:40
  side so we're all good until one day he actually did that and
• 1:02:44
  killed like almost a thousand people kids included crazy mother yeah yeah it
• 1:02:51
  happens unfortunately it does so I guess I don't really see why people are upset
• 1:02:58
  about this game uh I do and I don't I guess they just don't want to think
• 1:03:01
  about it they would you know you play video games to escape into a you know
• 1:03:05
  and the other thing too the other complaint I've heard is you know Far Cry
• 1:03:09
  has been set in the jungle traditionally but I don't know I'm I'm less concerned
• 1:03:14
  about that I think the concept is still sound it's like an open world where you
• 1:03:19
  go around and you've got you know kind of these bad guys to tackle it's I I
• 1:03:24
  don't see that it has to be in a jungle specifically right I think it looks good
• 1:03:28
  and uh yeah I'm I'm Keen to play it oh we've also got Beyond Good and Evil 2
• 1:03:32
  which is a prequel to The 2003 game the graphics on this look amazing well see
• 1:03:38
  it was a kind of pre-rendered thing which is disappointing because it means
• 1:03:42
  is that what the game's going to look like right right or because you know
• 1:03:46
  they do this to us these game developers they do this they make a movie and then
• 1:03:51
  you don't actually get to play the movie exactly I haven't played the first one I
• 1:03:56
  have to admit neither have I it's a game that everybody keeps talking about how
• 1:04:01
  it's one of their favorite games and when I say I haven't played it they're
• 1:04:04
  like and then I'm I'm ashamed but I still haven't still haven't gotten
• 1:04:08
  around to it so I might have to do that because we have the uh remastered
• 1:04:12
  version I think on the Xbox so I'll have to do that and then we have my most
• 1:04:18
  anticipated Game of the Year y uh this game was actually delayed it should have
• 1:04:23
  been out already but is now coming out in October South Park the fractured but
• 1:04:29
  ho so good it looks The Stick of Truth Good
• 1:04:34
  was such a great game and this game is going to be great I don't even like the
• 1:04:39
  Final Fantasy style games and I liked stick of truth because it was just funny
• 1:04:43
  enough and and this is even this is different it's like the combat's
• 1:04:46
  different like it's a god it just looks
• 1:04:50
  so funny and I just can't wait to play I I didn't even care if the game play
• 1:04:56
  sucks like it's going to be good anyway it's an interactive episode of South
• 1:05:00
  Park yeah it's going to be good but hopefully the gameplay will be good
• 1:05:03
  they've also announced phone Destroyer which is coming out uh sometime in 2017
• 1:05:08
  but they haven't announced when it looks like a competitor to Hearthstone and uh
• 1:05:14
  Elder Scrolls Legends actually they demoed Elder Scrolls Legend at Bethesda
• 1:05:19
  did I don't know why it's already out but uh it looks like a competitor to
• 1:05:22
  those yeah it's a card collection game PVP except it's probably a million times
• 1:05:28
  funnier than the others oh yes almost certainly that was a that was a good
• 1:05:33
  surprise because I've been excited about the fractured butth hole for a while and
• 1:05:38
  now we get two yeah in one year excellent so that kind of wraps it up
• 1:05:43
  for the Ubisoft panel we've got Sony now which I have to say I don't really know
• 1:05:50
  much about I've never been I've never been uh on the PlayStation side of the
• 1:05:54
  console war no I've been Microsoft I've had I had an original PlayStation I had
• 1:06:00
  PlayStation 2 I bought a PlayStation 3 fairly late on to play some of the
• 1:06:05
  exclusives um but I've yeah no my primary console for a long time has been
• 1:06:10
  an Xbox so uh I I don't know that I some
• 1:06:17
  of these games look good but none of them look good enough for me to buy
• 1:06:21
  another console right uh except for one uh and so maybe we just move through
• 1:06:25
  them and I mean people probably probably know what I'm going to say if they
• 1:06:29
  listen to our show but but um uh what don't we work our way through
• 1:06:34
  them and then I'll out we've got Call of Duty World War II which I think is kind
• 1:06:39
  of cool um because I liked the original Call of Duty 1 and two which were set
• 1:06:44
  during World War II yeah and then when it became these fictional Wars I just
• 1:06:48
  wasn't quite as into that but I do get it we do have plenty of real life war
• 1:06:55
  games yeah probably a solid shooter I just I don't really care about it that much
• 1:07:00
  we've also got God of War which takes katos into Norse mythology rather than
• 1:07:04
  the Greek that it was previously in he killed all those Gods like a soft reboot
• 1:07:09
  for the the franchise yeah uh I mean it looks beautiful I played one and I
• 1:07:14
  played a bit of two and I liked them but I didn't finish them so I don't know
• 1:07:19
  this looks good I don't know that I would you know drop the money on a new
• 1:07:22
  console for it something that I thought was cool is that is composed by bear
• 1:07:26
  mccre oh yeah who did the music for Battle Star Galactica which I did not
• 1:07:30
  like but I do like his music yeah he's a quality composer he's real good he does
• 1:07:35
  uh Agents of Shield and he does uh The Walking Dead and a bunch of other stuff
• 1:07:40
  he's very good we've got Final Fantasy storm blood yes they actually had a
• 1:07:44
  blood donation van there so that was neat yeah it was cool um Final Fantasy
• 1:07:50
  15 Monsters of the deep yeah they did a whole segment on VR stuff this is one of
• 1:07:55
  the VR games this looks weird as hell yeah totally I don't I don't understand
• 1:08:00
  I could just go fishing I don't need to go VR fishing in case in case you
• 1:08:05
  haven't seen this it's like it's the whatever the Final Fantasy game was it
• 1:08:09
  15 right with the it's got you know those guys the gothy looking dudes and
• 1:08:13
  then you go fishing with them and it's a fishing game and someone told me it's
• 1:08:18
  fun like to my face someone said no no no I know it looks stupid but it's
• 1:08:21
  actually fun so I mean all right I'm not going to call him a liar
• 1:08:26
  so apparently it's fun I just I looked I
• 1:08:30
  was like what the hell is that like all right cool it's a fishing
• 1:08:37
  game um and then we've got Detroit become human which is David Cage's new
• 1:08:41
  game from Quantic dream it is inspired by uh The Singularity is near by Ray
• 1:08:48
  cwell where the machines take like
• 1:08:51
  become human right um and set in Detroit which was chosen because of the economic
• 1:08:58
  decline that the area faced so there are some places that are really nice and
• 1:09:01
  then some that are just abandon which we saw when we visited Detroit last year
• 1:09:06
  yeah it's amazing it's like bizar the the transitions between the two areas so
• 1:09:12
  sudden this game went from like holy this looks great to I don't know if
• 1:09:18
  I like the gameplay to oh it's a David cage game yeah it was like a roller
• 1:09:22
  coaster I was like ooh ooh ooh ooh uh uh when I saw like how that section of the
• 1:09:28
  game was played I was like oh no he's just like it's just like Choose Your Own
• 1:09:33
  Adventure right and then as and then it was like oh Quantic dream oh okay so
• 1:09:38
  there probably is more to it hopefully just yeah
• 1:09:42
  so uh yeah I don't know it'll because it's Quantic dream it's probably going
• 1:09:46
  to be a PlayStation exclusive that one might have to be a skip unless I buy
• 1:09:50
  another PS4 at some point Quantic dream if you don't know is the uh company that
• 1:09:54
  made heavy rain and Beyond Two Souls yes and and uh fahrenheit as well which is a
• 1:10:00
  classic weird game they do they're cool games very story-driven games with odd
• 1:10:05
  interesting stories yeah and then I don't I don't know if this was actually
• 1:10:09
  showcased at the Sony press conference
• 1:10:13
  but it is a Sony and PC exclusive um it
• 1:10:17
  is Cliff linsky's new game boss key Studios law Breakers which we actually
• 1:10:23
  got to play it's out August 8th it's kind of like I think it I mean it's very very
• 1:10:29
  similar to Unreal Tournament yeah people comparing it to OverWatch I've only
• 1:10:34
  played a little bit of OverWatch uh I don't think it is to be honest I don't
• 1:10:37
  think it's that similar to OverWatch no and he actually said OverWatch this is
• 1:10:42
  way better I don't yeah I don't think so at all it's I don't know it's super
• 1:10:46
  fastpaced it's kind of like uh the what we played was the uh was capture the
• 1:10:51
  ball or something capture the flag with the ball yeah yeah any I mean it was fun
• 1:10:55
  I had a lot of fun with it yeah I'm terrible at it and I have no idea how to
• 1:10:59
  use a PlayStation controller and it actually took me about 3 minutes just to
• 1:11:03
  figure out how to put the thing in invert but once I did and get the got
• 1:11:07
  the hang of it it was better yeah it was a fun game I um if it was on Xbox I'd
• 1:11:13
  probably I'd probably play it so plus I love Cliffy B yeah Cliffy B is cool he's
• 1:11:19
  cool dude he makes cool games mhm so he made the Gears of War Games yep Jazz
• 1:11:24
  Jack rabbit unreal the original unreal yep yeah which is why I think this is so
• 1:11:29
  much like it he used to wear really cool shiny suits sorry Cliffy if you're listening
• 1:11:34
  to this we love you I remember you from something awful smarty Man game
• 1:11:40
  developer Survivor Island that's an obscure reference if any of our
• 1:11:43
  listeners know what that is um they showed some other cool stuff uh in VR uh
• 1:11:50
  like Skyrim they showed in VR but apparently it's not very good that the
• 1:11:55
  other the Bethesda one that that got announced and it made me go ooh ooh ooh
• 1:11:58
  but apparently it's yeah it's nowhere near complete it's clunky it doesn't
• 1:12:02
  look very good on the VR headset like it does doesn't hold up um and it was
• 1:12:08
  really disappointing for those who got to play it so that's a shame did they
• 1:12:12
  announce that during Sony uh yeah they showed it as part of
• 1:12:15
  the VR set of the Sony presentation uh there was one VR thing
• 1:12:22
  that Sony announced that looked cool it was called the impatient uh it's where
• 1:12:25
  you're you're a me mental Asylum patient who's with amnesia and you get checked
• 1:12:31
  in and you have to figure out what's going on and why you're there uh and
• 1:12:34
  apparently it is a prequel to the game until dawn that everyone freaking loved
• 1:12:38
  that also I didn't get to play because it was PS exclusive um so I'm sure that's exciting
• 1:12:44
  for people who who played until dawn uh then asked the new
• 1:12:49
  Uncharted that uh that's not a Nathan Drake game it's a it's a it's a new one
• 1:12:55
  with a lady protagonist uh it looked cool L like Uncharted fair enough it's kind of like
• 1:13:00
  Tomb Raider yeah more like Tomb Raider than Uncharted did before and I mean
• 1:13:06
  that's what they're basically the same game Uncharted with a lady is Tomb
• 1:13:09
  Raider so yeah yep fair enough uh the remas of Shadow of the Colossus um and
• 1:13:15
  the oh Destiny 2 which will excite uh Dary listen to Dary he's going to be
• 1:13:21
  super into Destiny 2 I like Destiny it's fun so um
• 1:13:25
  just need to look interesting I guess more the same but the game that I'm
• 1:13:31
  actually interested in on PS4 Spiderman when they showed that I was
• 1:13:36
  like a I'm GNA have to buy one because it looks like
• 1:13:41
  Arkham Knight with Spider-Man basically
• 1:13:45
  to me it looks really good so um yeah
• 1:13:51
  hopefully hopefully I'll get released on the platforms probably not though cuz it
• 1:13:55
  will be a good seller I think for the PlayStation yeah but yeah it looks the controls look
• 1:14:02
  really cool and uh the you know the his
• 1:14:06
  Spider-Man uh related activities seemed really authentic and captured the
• 1:14:11
  essence of the character really well from from the demo they showed got me
• 1:14:14
  really excited because the Spider-Man games traditionally have been a bit
• 1:14:19
  so this one looks like a really good one I I played the old ones any anyway
• 1:14:26
  they were just not very good I led them Nintendo had the last press
• 1:14:32
  conference of the event I think their biggest announcement they showed
• 1:14:38
  absolutely nothing for and that was Metroid 4 yeah they just made everybody
• 1:14:44
  freak out and then just showed us a picture of the logo yep that would make
• 1:14:47
  me want to buy a switch Metroid for I have to see the game cuz you never know
• 1:14:52
  the Metroid for the um 3DS was not great oh was it the 3DS or the DS actually I
• 1:14:58
  think of the DS maybe but uh yeah so I don't know wait and see well we know
• 1:15:03
  literally nothing about it exactly other than the name and that it's coming mhm
• 1:15:09
  we know that there is a new Pokemon tournament Deluxe game coming out uh
• 1:15:15
  which will be followed by another Pokemon core RPG yeah for the switch
• 1:15:20
  that seemed like inevitable well people thought they were going to announce that
• 1:15:24
  the other week as part of the Nintendo director sorry not the Pokémon company I
• 1:15:28
  think does their own announcements and people thought they were going to
• 1:15:32
  announce switch game freak right they thought they were going to announce one
• 1:15:36
  for switch but they didn't they announced uh stuff about a new 3DS game
• 1:15:42
  only and so everyone's kind of like freaking out like what are they doing
• 1:15:46
  why isn't there a switch game and so I this kind of felt like throwing the fans
• 1:15:49
  a bone and saying yeah we're making one it's just we have literally nothing to show you
• 1:15:55
  um an interesting point uh Nintendo doesn't actually do a press conference
• 1:15:59
  anymore right um I think last year uh and from then on they've decided that
• 1:16:05
  it's they'd prefer to do a pre-recorded one yeah Nintendo Direct guess it saves
• 1:16:11
  a huge amount of money y I'm sure it does yeah just and they actually did
• 1:16:17
  this uh the Nintendo press conference was the first day of e3 so it was only
• 1:16:21
  like an hour or two before it that we were all watching this only like half an
• 1:16:26
  hour long
• 1:16:28
  conference um they showed Splatoon 2 yes
• 1:16:34
  people love that game yeah the the paintball shooter it looks cool I have
• 1:16:38
  to check it out it's coming out in July July 21st of this year uh two games for
• 1:16:45
  2018 Kirby and Yoshi I like how they don't have a full
• 1:16:50
  name it's just Kirby it's it's kind of like we promise when making games for
• 1:16:55
  the switch we promise that's right yeah don't give up on it we we promise
• 1:16:59
  there's games coming uh we've got Fire Emblem Warriors mhm yeah fire emblem's
• 1:17:05
  fun it's like a turn-based combat game like kind of like a simpler version of
• 1:17:11
  the kind of XCOM thing we were talking about Fire Emblem games are good and
• 1:17:14
  they're very popular there's a mobile one actually on on iPhone I think at the
• 1:17:18
  moment that's really popular mhm uh we've got some DLC for breath of the
• 1:17:22
  wild the Zelda game um have they ever had DLC for a Zelda game before no yeah
• 1:17:28
  I didn't think so so should be interesting to see how they handle it no
• 1:17:33
  I mean we've had Zelda DLC for other games right like uh Mario Kart um right
• 1:17:40
  right no I don't think that there has ever been DLC for a Zelda game yeah they
• 1:17:45
  haven't done well Nintendo hasn't done a huge amount of DLC before so right as far as I'm
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  aware podcast multi nasm.com telling you I'm wrong they also o announced that
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  there will be if you um if you scan your amiibos into your switch while playing
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  Skyrim you get some Legends of Zelda stuff I was really excited about Skyrim
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  on the switch but then when we were watching the presentation and I saw the
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  you know the the stuff with the Zelda add-on you know the Master Sword and the
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  shield and and all that all that the tunic yeah and I was paying attention to
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  the game I don't know whether it was just the stream was poor quality or what
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  but it it occurred to me that the switch is
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  about as far as I'm aware about the the
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  power of an Xbox 360 and Skyrim on the
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  Xbox 360 looks terrible it didn't look terrible it wasn't it's certainly not
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  the you know the the what do they call it the the special edition that we get
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  on the Xbox one it's not going to have the mods and all that stuff I would
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  think on on the switch so I kind of had this reality check that they probably
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  didn't intend like it had the reverse effect instead
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  of making me excited it actually made me go wait a minute this is probably a
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  shitty version of a game I already have that maybe I don't want anymore yeah so
• 1:19:07
  remains to be seen I think maybe I just maybe I just want to play Skyrim on my Xbox or my
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  PC um well Nintendo's biggest announcement is Super Mario Odyssey mhm
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  that comes out October 27th 2017 where you play is Mario it's
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  another game with exploration based levels like Mario 64 was which is
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  awesome yeah where you try to rescue Peach from Bowser who is intending to
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  marry her people are going to be complaining about the plot I'm sure well people are
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  always complaining there is a new feature um two new features actually one
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  is local two player that's cool yep really cool I wish that Mario 64 had
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  that and the other new feature is Cappy yeah uh Mario's hat who can be the soul
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  stealing hat yes a soul stealing hat which can be thrown onto people or
• 1:20:05
  objects to possess them for a short time mhm a lot of the levels were based on
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  real world places like uh New York City for instance in the game is new donk
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  city which Nintendo built not the best name I know but
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  Nintendo built new do city um at E3 and there was a huge display really really
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  cool have some pictures up so you can check it out on our Instagram at
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  multiple nerdgasm um it was very cool yeah it was it was a fun setup it's very
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  strange to watch this game where the little cartoon Mario is running around
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  in what is essentially real life New York City with people in business suits
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  yeah it's s really jarring not jarring it's just it looks weird like to have
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  the I mean cuz cuz they're not even super realistic looking people but
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  they're like normalized and they've got suits and you know 50 style suits and
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  and fedors and stuff on it looks
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  weird but uh but I mean the game looks fun so it does looks very cool and they
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  have announced some new amiibos to accompany that game and some others um
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  there is another there's a new um
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  Wedding Peach Mario and Bowser uh they've also announced some breath of
• 1:21:28
  the wild amiibos of course and some
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  Metroid ones oh God the Metroid the met
• 1:21:35
  the actual Metroid one is so cool I will post a picture of it it looks really
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  really awesome that's so cool I'm G to have to buy it um I don't know the
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  release date of those but I believe it's this year later this
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  year delicious that kind of does it for the press conferences some companies
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  didn't have a press conference the size of the others a you know a lot of stuff
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  got announced kind of behind the scenes and just online during E3 so and some
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  were there but didn't have press conferences they just showed their games
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  at some of the other pressers like say Activision showed uh Call of Duty and
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  Destiny at the Sony one mhm yeah Capcom was there yep there was a the new Call
• 1:22:19
  Of cthulu game um which was Focus had uh I think they had some press stuff there
• 1:22:24
  for it um but it wasn't on display but they released a trailer during E3 which
• 1:22:28
  you should definitely check out it's the new Cola cthulu game looks awesome uh
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  and there's probably a ton of stuff that we missed because like we said it's
• 1:22:35
  actually pretty tough keeping on top of it all while you're there compared to to
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  and even at home I'm sure it's tough but the you know phone reception is not
• 1:22:45
  great in the convention hall so if something gets announced like we didn't
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  know about it until later that's right you kind of need somebody there and
• 1:22:53
  somebody who was at home following along with it exactly but uh it wasn't just
• 1:22:58
  games and consoles there were there were some vendors and other things there too
• 1:23:03
  there were like we said this is the first year that they had vendors um so
• 1:23:08
  there were some that were just selling video game stuff like t-shirts and
• 1:23:13
  whatever but then there were also some which they have had in previous years
• 1:23:17
  because there weren't vendors as such they were more trying to Market their
• 1:23:21
  brand um to Distributors yeah people trying to sell stuff to stores to sell
• 1:23:28
  kind of thing like like for Game Spot to stock and that kind of thing GameStop to
• 1:23:34
  to stock not Gamespot but uh one thing that we saw uh that actually really
• 1:23:39
  appealed to us was these wall mounts from
• 1:23:44
  hideit company's called hideit mounts and uh and these things are really cool
• 1:23:49
  well if you have a TV mounted High very very often I've seen the the cables
• 1:23:54
  hanging and there's nowhere to put your consoles if you're a gamer you just have
• 1:23:59
  a bunch of C like HDMI cables and power cables running down the wall right looks
• 1:24:03
  awful so they make these uh wall brackets that you can screw up just
• 1:24:10
  behind the TV which will slide your console into it um and then you can hide
• 1:24:15
  all the cables it's really beautiful yeah and they were very nice and they
• 1:24:18
  gave us a couple of brackets for our controllers yeah I mean check them out
• 1:24:24
  go to hide at mounts.com uh you can you can like you can mount them behind the
• 1:24:28
  TV you can mount them to the side uh and they make them individually for each
• 1:24:32
  console so you get like a switch specific one or a Xbox specific One MH
• 1:24:37
  um I actually had trouble at like from a distance figuring out where how they
• 1:24:42
  were held up because they're they fit so nicely to the to the base of the console
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  but like if you don't screw the console to the wall as such you screw the mount
• 1:24:52
  to the wall and the console sits on it you can still take it out and switch
• 1:24:56
  cables and do all that stuff with it um the console itself isn't stuck um but
• 1:25:01
  they are very uh well-designed and kind of invisible so yeah that's hide at
• 1:25:06
  mounts.com check them out really cool uh another game company that we spent some
• 1:25:12
  time with uh who didn't have they didn't do a press conference or anything like
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  that and they actually weren't even showing any games um they they had meet
• 1:25:21
  and greet kind of things and and presentations where you could go and
• 1:25:24
  kind of learn more about the company and that was Telltale mhm who who obviously
• 1:25:29
  made The Walking Dead games uh you know the Fable Wolf Among Us the new
• 1:25:35
  Guardians of the Galaxy game uh a lot of those you know story based games and we
• 1:25:41
  found them they were in off the the main Concourse in a in a smaller area um but
• 1:25:47
  they had throughout the day you could go and meet the various teams who work
• 1:25:51
  there they had like you know the engineers who do the the game
• 1:25:55
  mechanics itself they had the writers and the creative teams and they had like
• 1:26:00
  General meet and greets where you could meet the people and then they also had
• 1:26:04
  uh like Recruiters in that there because they're looking for new people um so
• 1:26:08
  that was really cool and interesting and they're really lovely lovely people yeah
• 1:26:14
  and we saw really good talk about storytelling and how how they make their
• 1:26:20
  games like they don't want to give you a clear option and then some that you know
• 1:26:25
  are really bad are like very good for your character they want to give you
• 1:26:29
  some morally ambiguous things so you really have to make a decision and it's
• 1:26:32
  not a decision between like you know a a good and a bad thing like in Mass Effect
• 1:26:39
  it's weight is very gray it's it's yeah it's all a very gray area that you're
• 1:26:44
  like well neither of them are good things I just yeah and we played
• 1:26:47
  Dungeons and Dragons in IDM uh for for a number of games and I found it really
• 1:26:52
  interesting um the way there were talking about how if you ideally when
• 1:26:57
  the player is playing they're making choices and if it's if it's realistic
• 1:27:03
  really like in real life you make choices and it's not super obvious that
• 1:27:07
  you know the choice is going to be a big drastic one but but in the game when the
• 1:27:12
  people play the games they kind of complain oh it didn't feel like my
• 1:27:16
  choices mattered if it's too transparent but which was I don't know it seemed
• 1:27:20
  weird to me because if you're doing it well the player shouldn't notice they
• 1:27:26
  just will get a different they'll just get the ending that's
• 1:27:28
  appropriate but they kind of have to do this Balancing Act where on the one hand
• 1:27:34
  the player needs to be making the choices and you want it to feel natural
• 1:27:37
  but on the other hand they want the player wants feedback so that they're
• 1:27:41
  aware that they could have done something different you know what I mean
• 1:27:44
  yeah yeah it was it was interesting to hear how they how they handle that stuff
• 1:27:48
  and and make sure the player gets feedback to so that they know that
• 1:27:52
  they're making decisions and that they are effective the world was really cool
• 1:27:56
  yeah and they're lovely people um they were very generous with their time it
• 1:28:00
  was stupid stupid questions about all that stuff and uh yeah I know we went
• 1:28:06
  back a few times made some friends yeah it was a cool Booth was a little booth
• 1:28:11
  like partitioned off from everything else with a little door so it almost
• 1:28:14
  looked like you weren't meant to be in there yeah had a very uh behind the
• 1:28:18
  scenes kind of vibe was cool so that's all I guess that's all the specifics
• 1:28:23
  that we wanted to mention uh overall I got to say that the show
• 1:28:27
  floor was pretty impressive certain areas were were very impressive there
• 1:28:31
  were a lot of displays that must have cost a lot of money um yeah I tried to
• 1:28:36
  find actually how much it costs um a company to display
• 1:28:41
  there not only that but just to build all the stuff like yeah exactly so like
• 1:28:46
  how much E3 costs a company right right got it's it's difficult to find
• 1:28:50
  obviously because they're all different sized like the Microsoft Booth was huge
• 1:28:55
  and then like the Capcom Booth was not quite as big but it does cost them
• 1:29:00
  something like $1,000 a day just for Internet um like it costs them buy the
• 1:29:06
  space uh per day it cost them to rent all the forklifts and the like the
• 1:29:13
  people to move it all in it costs hundreds of thousands to build the
• 1:29:17
  elaborate designs like some of these were like massive dragons and things
• 1:29:22
  like so the stands where they have like the consoles right these are like
• 1:29:28
  constructed things that look like you would build them into a into a a house
• 1:29:33
  or a store like they would look like permanent fixtures they're just there
• 1:29:37
  for three days the Bethesda Booth the um Cafe the diner I mean right like like
• 1:29:42
  it's a diner real Diner yeah yeah overall um there's not a clear number
• 1:29:48
  but I think it's in the millions fire out it wouldn't that doesn't surprise me
• 1:29:53
  MH CU like some of them you know some of them it was like a you know like a stand
• 1:29:57
  with a console on it it was quite simple but others it was like way out of control
• 1:30:02
  MH like Nintendo I can't imagine how much that would have cost because they
• 1:30:06
  took up half of the show floor yeah it was huge huge and very elaborate yeah so
• 1:30:12
  that aspect of it was really cool it actually reminded me of um when I first
• 1:30:15
  went to P Prime I mentioned this I think at the start of this that Prime I guess
• 1:30:20
  because of when it is in the year has a lot more games coming out and so the
• 1:30:25
  first one that I went to had a lot more elaborate displays than uh the other
• 1:30:29
  packes like packs East particularly this year was very packed with people and the
• 1:30:34
  displays weren't as elaborate and I wonder if it's just it is because of the
• 1:30:37
  time of year or if it's because they've found that they don't need to spend that
• 1:30:42
  much money on an elaborate display because the fans don't really give a
• 1:30:45
  they want the game anyway right that makes me wonder if E3 will be as
• 1:30:50
  elaborate next year if that's the case cuz they don't need to impress the the
• 1:30:54
  fans are there and they they're not fuss you know MH and and actually a lot of
• 1:30:58
  them said that they're like they don't need all of that fancy stuff they just
• 1:31:02
  want to play the games so right but but I'll be a sad because it makes it
• 1:31:08
  special that's not really what they there for to begin with these big stands
• 1:31:15
  like that um they were so the media could come in and take pictures and
• 1:31:19
  really hype it up and the public like it would get displayed to the public via
• 1:31:24
  the media as this big elaborate thing that people just wanted to buy but I
• 1:31:31
  guess the media's changing I know Unfortunately they let like us
• 1:31:35
  in now yeah maybe fortunately then I really enjoyed E3 I would do it again I
• 1:31:41
  will do it again we met some cool people there too we talked to Jeff Canada yeah
• 1:31:45
  who we have met in the past before at PX Australia um I talked to him about his
• 1:31:50
  old show totally rad show and found out that they were doing a reunion that day
• 1:31:56
  unfortunately it was a live stream that I cannot find any way to watch so if you
• 1:32:01
  guys can find me TRS from
• 1:32:06
  E3 I be very very happy they streamed it on caffeine we know that but uh because
• 1:32:12
  of because we're at E3 we weren't able to watch it so we also caught a little
• 1:32:17
  bit of kind of funny yeah uh which is Greg Miller's new show on um Gamespot
• 1:32:22
  and we saw them record IGN live on the last day of e3 which was awesome
• 1:32:28
  because I'm a big fan of Damon Hatfield yep yep no that was cool that was fun
• 1:32:35
  they're nice guys actually like all of them all really cool yeah and we also
• 1:32:39
  got to see them shoot uh the Xbox daily yeah with Major Nelson that was that was
• 1:32:44
  cool as well you might be able to see us uh because we were at the front I didn't
• 1:32:48
  think of that until now yeah have a look for us just behind the stage yeah we
• 1:32:52
  should have a look see if wece over there um another add-on they had at E3
• 1:32:57
  this is a this is a new thing that they did this year they haven't done before
• 1:33:00
  E3 was the Coliseum which was actually not at the convention center it was at
• 1:33:04
  the the novo which is a Microsoft
• 1:33:07
  theater um just nearby in Downtown LA
• 1:33:12
  and the panels all sounded really amazing and I was very keen to to go
• 1:33:18
  until I saw how they were handled
• 1:33:24
  the line and letting people in mhm it's and not a huge theater it's SE what they
• 1:33:31
  say like 1600 people I think uh I think he said it seats about
• 1:33:36
  2500 but or it the capacity is
• 1:33:41
  2500 but if they are seated if they're chairs it drops it down to about 1,600
• 1:33:48
  right and so they said they're going to start the line at what like 6:00 a.m. 7:
• 1:33:54
  a.m. or something like that and then the first panel was at 11:30 and I was like
• 1:33:57
  oh my god um so I I was like well I'm probably going to skip that because I
• 1:34:02
  don't like I want I got stuff to do I don't want to wait in line for five
• 1:34:07
  hours and that is something that we can stream online so yes yeah all those
• 1:34:12
  talks are available we've yet to catch up on them all because we've been so
• 1:34:15
  busy but I mean they had one with Neil degrass Tyson uh James gun Randy
• 1:34:19
  Pitchford Randy Pitchford and and Kiki wolf kill from um 343 Studios so that
• 1:34:24
  panel uh it was called World Builders it sounds really interesting cuz they're
• 1:34:28
  all masters of The Craft so I'd be very interested to check that out any panel
• 1:34:33
  that Randy Pitchford is in just amazing yeah he's he's he's the man uh there's
• 1:34:38
  one Jack Black talking to um Tim Schaefer from uh from double fine uh
• 1:34:45
  they had a ton of good panels oh Dan tractenberg was there for one of the
• 1:34:48
  panels he's also in from TRS uh to the rad show uh and he
• 1:34:53
  directed 10 Cloverfield Lane he was there for a panel as well so they they
• 1:34:57
  had a ton of great things it was just uh I knew that the lines were going to be
• 1:35:00
  bad and it was confirmed later on online when people were complaining that it's a
• 1:35:06
  shame but like they weren't you weren't allowed to take a camera or recording
• 1:35:09
  devices in and they were turning away people with like iPads and and I think
• 1:35:13
  the security just weren't well informed as to what constitutes you know a
• 1:35:18
  recording device that would telling people to go away for silly things like
• 1:35:22
  I said like tablet and things and then you had to go to the back of the line
• 1:35:26
  which right and not only that when the the theat set say around 1600 people and
• 1:35:32
  it was if you stayed in there you stay in there and and so unless someone
• 1:35:36
  leaves no one else can go in and right it's just I hopefully that's something
• 1:35:42
  they can work on for next time because that just seems
• 1:35:47
  ludicrous not the rapper the the bad organization right we actually
• 1:35:52
  determined that we would get more out of that panel if we just waited and watched
• 1:35:57
  it online yeah absolutely because otherwise we would have spent our entire first day at D3
• 1:36:03
  waiting in line for a panel yeah it's silly and then even then if we hadn't
• 1:36:07
  gotten there at 6: a.m. we still might not have gotten in would have been right
• 1:36:11
  would have been worth but you know would have been literally a waste of six hours
• 1:36:14
  so not worth it well that is our wrap-up of e3
• 1:36:20
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• 1:36:25
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• 1:36:29
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