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Episode 221: Remasters, Remakes, Reimagining, oh my! · WASD and Beyond

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It's very cool. We like conglomerations.
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We like conglomerations a lot on the show.
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Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, boot lickers, if you
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will. Who's a boob licker?
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I said boot I mean. What am I?
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What am I thinking about? You know what I'm thinking about
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starting the show. All that too, but I'm thinking
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about starting the show. Welcome back to WASD and beyond,
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everybody. We are your hosts and we are
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triumphantly back. I am Nick and this is Brody.
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We are back to form video games. A lot of our video game audience
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probably like there's a lot of horror movies going on right
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now. I know we've had a lot of
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listen. It gets clicks.
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We didn't. It does.
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We did, but we didn't know that carving this little, it came
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from screen box show with Noah and Alex was going to send my
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ass to California with Noah. It's crazy video games have
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still yet to send me fuck off. We, we do have the option to go
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to PAX every year. Our schedule has not PAX East,
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our schedule is not aligned with that.
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So hopefully soon we can go to taxis because then I could be
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like, hey, it's also for work for me.
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There you go. Yeah, it would be technically,
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I'm just, they would be like, yeah, go, I guess.
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Say you're working. I'd be like, OK, cool.
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I'm thinking they're going to be final Boss is going to be in the
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States in September. I thought I saw you post
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something about that. Texas and Kansas.
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Why? I think the boss, their partner
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has family in Kansas, in Texas, one of the two.
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So that's where they go. But you know, I know the first
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time when they were here, he was like, hey, like, so you know,
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you're in Michigan and I'm in Texas.
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Like, let's meet up. And I'm like, I was like.
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By the time I hit Texas, I would be almost halfway.
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Well, see, The thing is like I remember being going to
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Texarkana with Claw. My dad just straight up just
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call him Claude. You know, man, that's, that's a
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sore spot for me. But we we got there in a day,
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like all the way to Texarkana because he didn't stop.
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He was. Going to say you have to drive a
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day. Yeah, so we got to like
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Texarkana, but like, man, that sucked.
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So like when I was talking to Eric, I was like, yeah, it's
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states are he finally was like, your country's huge.
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Yeah. He's like, this is huge, like
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insane. So yeah, I mean, like if you are
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in the Kansas and Texas area, go say hi to the boss, Hit, hit,
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hit him up, see, see what? Hang out, take him to some
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shops, go shopping, get some video games.
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I am going to try to meet him up in Kansas, I think.
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Oh, nice. Oh yeah.
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Why not you know we're going to we're Nixon is traveling arc in
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his 30s now. So let's let's I hear I did that
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when I was what, in my 20s? Now I'm doing it again, but
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that's fine. So yeah, we final boss Doc Longy
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Check that out. Rule for deception.
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Brody, why don't you go ahead and take that one?
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Yeah, it's a D&D podcast. We just, it's a handful of
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people from the Discord and and Nick even, and we just played
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D&D. I've got two parties running
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right now in the same world. It does have its own feed, so
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you will not find it in WASD and beyond feed you will actually
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have to search for a role for deception.
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But yeah, we, we, they used to be a little bit longer.
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We're kind of, we're tightening things up so, but not a ton of
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editing. It is an actual play show.
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So yeah, it's fun and very sporadic on the schedule, so.
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Well your work schedule doesn't help for anything for your
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personal life or anything else. So wish we had time to stream
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the the the play throughs. Yeah, I mean.
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Good we could we? We might look into it.
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Who's the poor fuck we could saddle with that?
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Unfortunately, it's going to be me because I'm the only one
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that's there on both sides. Nice.
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Nice. Nice.
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Yeah, we'll look into it. Yeah, well, we've got to figure
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out a way to make it look pretty and all that shit, so.
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It gives Brody more work all the time.
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Yeah, it's fine. And stress.
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So, Brody. Yes.
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Battlefield 6 betas out, bub. I know after we're done
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recording tonight, I am going directly to that so.
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We are going to get right into this episode.
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Hurry the fuck I'm just kidding. From what I'm hearing is
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everything seems to be good. Granted there was a lot of good
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conversation when 2042 had its beta and everybody was pretty
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stoked on that, and then they found out all of the cool parts
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were in that beta. But I know Evan played a game
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this morning and I'm sure he's played more since then, but.
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He seems. He seems pretty stoked on it.
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I'm really, really excited. I I want what a good
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Battlefield. So fucking bad.
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Out of out of all of the multiplayer shooters, I don't
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give a fuck about COD. I typically play that just
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'cause I have some buddies that play it and so it's just
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something to play with them, right?
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Yeah. I mean, I, I play a lot of
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Marvel Rivals right now, but if Battlefield is good, that'll
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fucking go out the window. Let's be really honest.
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I can tell you right now from my two matches played, it's a blast
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so. We back to the.
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Pardon me, I got an ear thing going on and it's leaking into
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the back of my throat and it's getting caught in my.
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It's fucking so cool. So if I've been coughing the
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past four episodes, it's been awesome.
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Elliot, myself, Dennis, John, Evan, Julian, Morgan, Noah.
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Oh man. We were all in the same server
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and Elliott was rolling down the street in a tank and he shoots
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this other tank. The people bail, Elliott kills
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him. Julian runs up behind it,
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repairs it goes Nick and in the tank just go.
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So I steal their tank. So Elliott's right here for the
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audio listeners. I'm like showing how close we
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were. Elliott's in front, I'm in the
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back and I'm just pushed up against him.
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His barrel is straight, mine's to the left or right and we're
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just going. Boom boom boom.
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Like we are just like Serpentine, dude.
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It is. So like we just kept lapping the
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area and we were just screaming. Another lap, another lap, we
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were just knocking motherfuckers out, dude.
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And then Evan, so there's a tank chasing us, Evan like Tom Cruise
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Mission Impossible this where he like turned around, jumped out
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of the tank, went boom, blew this bitch up, ran up and just
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got back in. We just another lap.
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No, it is a return to form. From what I'm playing right now,
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this is like it feels like four and three all over again.
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Yes, which is all I really want truly like 4 was cool.
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Honestly, I have more of a soft spot for three than I do 4.
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But also 3 is quite old at this point.
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But I mean, we we've played a little bit of Battlefield 4 just
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kind of getting back into that, that mode of what Battlefield
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is, right. And I know a lot of people make
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jokes or it's it's like half series, half joking of like only
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in Battlefield, you know, like, but at the same time it's.
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Very. True, there's very other very
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few other games that really like make you feel that way where you
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can have that Tom Cruise moment of jumping out of the tank,
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blowing up another tank and then jumping back in the tank.
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Or I mean, you've seen all the videos of people like jumping
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out of a plane, shooting another plane with an RPG and then
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landing back in their plane like that.
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That kind of shit's something I will never do, let's be
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perfectly honest. But it is really cool.
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Like, it's just such a neat sandbox.
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And when it works, it works so exceptionally well.
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It does seem like from what I've been seeing, people are almost
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complaining that the destruction is just a touch too much.
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Like somebody was shooting like a, they shot like a noob tube
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into a building and the whole building fell.
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And they're like, I mean, but at the same time, at the same time,
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like, yeah, it, it may be a touch much, but they can always
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tone that down a little bit or whatever it may be.
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But it God, I'm just just. Wait, bud, it is.
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It is. Like I said, it's a true return
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to form and it's beta, so, you know, subject to change.
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Yeah, but. Not much.
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I mean, fuck. October's October.
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Right around the corner at this point, so.
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Every I can tell you right now everyone discord is screaming
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just release it right now that's how good it feels like and it
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feels. How do I say this?
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It feels. Sexual.
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It's sexual, but it also feels unfriendly for streamers.
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I'm OK with that I. And what I and what I mean by
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that, this is going to be great. What I mean by that is it's not
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the Call of Duty drops. And they already know how to
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dolphin dive, Crouch jump, dolphin dive, twitch, twitch,
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twitch, twitch, and you're dead. This is very much grounded.
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It is, it's fast, it's Arcady, but it's Battlefield.
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Yeah. So those who can't hang will
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leave. Just, you know, they're going to
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go back to playing, which is fine, you know, not it's not
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everyone's cup of tea. But man, I've been needing this.
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I like, like I've been needing this dude.
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And it's like, fucking finally we got Battlefield back.
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And if that's the case, that's a good sign for the industry for
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games to keep releasing like this.
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Hopefully we don't know how it's actually going to release.
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This is a huge stress test. That's what people aren't
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understanding. They're like, oh, I saw many
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people. I'm like because you got to kill
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the server. Oh yeah, and, and honestly, I'd
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rather have that because Battlefield has a history of
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launching and having a lot of problems right out the get go.
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So get some of the server test. I mean I've seen I've seen
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screenshots of steam DB showing like 330,000 players.
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Right now it's like 250, yeah. And I have seen.
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It's just steam. I was going to say, and I've
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seen no complaints. It sounds like everything like
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as far as servers and everything seems to be running like a
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fucking top. I've I've had some DC issues,
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but like really quick when I first loaded the game, it said I
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was it's pretty funny 4000 420th in line.
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No one believes me that that's what it said.
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It did say that I cracked up so hard, but then immediately it
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dropped to like 1800 and I went OK and then it just no 14,420 in
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line and then it dropped to like 18,000 and then it just booted
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me into the game and I went OK, that's insane fine, I'll play.
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And then I just hopped in. I just so like I I clicked on
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Evan and Julian or one of the two, I just hit join squad or
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join team in in dude. It was just like boom, you're
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in. And I was like, oh, wow, this is
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fucking wild. It you know, the UI is simple.
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There's some bugginess there, like when you die and you go to
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the map and then you go to the classes.
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It's a bit buggy in the sense of it'll kind of have that stutter
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while like it's a bit of a it's a bit of a it's a hitch.
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I'm getting some hitching. Yeah, but like only there.
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I'm not getting it in the actual game because I was like, oh,
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maybe is my computer getting hot or I just need to like look at
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some settings. No, in the game I'm like, I
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looked at my computer on my motherboard and or my AIO and
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it's like you're at 50° and I went, I'm fine.
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I'm not that hot right now. So great.
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No battlefield fucking dope. I'm curious to see, I mean my P
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CS capable right? But I also don't play a ton of
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games that really push it too incredibly much.
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So it'll be interesting to see how everything runs on my PC.
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Especially because I I don't run an AIO on my CPU, mine's just
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air cooled. Seems to do fine enough so far,
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but this is going to be more CPU heavy because of everything
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going on whereas most of the games are that I play.
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Graphic at times more. Graphic intense, so I don't play
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like a ton of SIM games or anything like that where it's
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going to be really utilizing a ton of it.
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So this will be a good test. We will see how it goes.
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Yes, yes we fucking will. Well, with that being said, the
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only game I've been playing on Battlefield tonight is Death
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Stranding too. No, very good.
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No gush. I can't gush about it if if you
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let me do that, that's the episode.
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So I'm not going to what I will say.
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I have cried 4 times. Damn.
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On my couch in the darkest of dark rooms at 2:00 in the
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morning, just going, how could you, Kochima?
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Why would you like do tears? Like I was like, Oh my fucking
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God. I was like, what the fuck?
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And it's just like if you're a dad, what I will say is this for
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death training 2, If you didn't like the first one, forget about
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it. Get the second one.
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Give this a shot. It is so fun.
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There is so much good combat. It is fluid.
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There's a lot to do in this game.
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Yes, it's package delivery. I'm not going to say it's not
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it's package delivering, but like it's that is the crux of
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it. All right, with everything in
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between like that, that's like that.
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It's the shell that is the facade of the game is that
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you're only a package deliverer. The rest is OK.
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So start to point A to point B and then it's the journey.
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But like it's incredible it and it's photo realistic.
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I don't give a fuck what people say it's.
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Crazy. It's crazy.
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On my TV, because I have, I have a Samsung, it's 120 Hertz.
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So I'm sitting there going whoa. I'm like, oh, shit, like how did
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he do this? I How did they like whoa.
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How how is the on boarding process if you didn't play one?
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Does it give you like a recap to some extent?
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I thought it did, but. There's a whole recap.
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There's a thing called the corpus as well.
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OK. So the recap, you can, you can,
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you can go to it any moment. So if you're confused, you can
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just go right to the main menu, go to recap.
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Oh. I know what you're what what's
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it's a fucking flies. I hate them trying to be crazy.
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I don't know where it came from. Is mad at your house Fucking fly
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king anyways. The Fly Wizard.
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The Fly Wizard. So there is like a recap right
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from the get go. You can access it whenever and
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then in the game there's this thing called the Corpus.
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Yeah, I I did hear about this. Yeah.
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And it is. It is bigger than the fucking
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Bible. Yeah.
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It's huge. So yeah, death rating too man.
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It is. And if you really need to dig
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deeper before you play 2, if you didn't play one, just go to
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YouTube type in events of death stranding one or the story of
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death stranding one it it'll you.
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Can always find somebody that's done a good run through of
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what's what's happening there so.
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I There's a lot, yeah. I I give you a lot of shit and I
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give Kojima a lot of shit. I can't.
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And not in a, not necessarily in like a malicious way, right?
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Like it's just not my style Typically, No, no, yeah.
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So yeah, I, I, I do blow some shit that way.
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That being said, I have heard nothing but good shit about
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death straining 2. I have heard that it solved a
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lot of the problems that. So I never actually got into
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death straining one because I knew I would not like it, but it
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sounds like there's a lot more action in this one.
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You can actually go in and in like basically have a full on
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action game out of this if you would like to or you want to
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choose not to. So the the second one sounds way
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more interesting to me. That being said, I do have the
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first one because I think it was one of the free Epic games at
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some point. Still have never even downloaded
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it or touched it or anything right?
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But I I do want to give it a go at some point.
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But I also can't seem to find a time in the year where there is
18:07
not something major coming out that is eating all of my time
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so. Here's the thing about a Kojima
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game. If you are going to play it,
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it's a dedicated couple hours. You don't get to like when I
18:22
load up Death Stranding if unless I'm like, OK, I'll just
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go like fix some roads or I'll build a rail because now I've
18:29
had the almost the entire monorail system.
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It's wild what you can do this game.
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It's fucking crazy. But like unless I'm doing small
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things, it is OK. So we're going to do this, this
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and this and on our way to do this, this and that.
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We are going to do that, this and that.
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And I'm like, holy fuck, blink and it's 2:00 in the morning.
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I'm going, I started at 9:00, but like, you know, and the
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cutscenes are very, very long. They're sometimes 1/2 hour.
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But those cutscenes are important.
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Like if they were just, if it was Kojima, go and look what I
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can do. I'd call this game out.
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I'd say this is just him fluffing, but it's not, it's a
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lot of this is important. So yeah, no, it's, it's it's
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great. It's it's it's wild that this is
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made. I kind of agree with him during
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his interview, which is going to lead us into this topic right
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now about the current remake, remaster, reimagining of, of
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Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid Delta, Snake
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Eater, where he said it's just, it seems like there's no,
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basically to sum it up, no imagination.
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Everything's boring in the AAA sphere of things.
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That's why we are getting all these remakes, remasters,
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reimaginings. Kojima straight up will not play
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the the new medal, which I don't blame him.
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It's Konami. So there's a lot of bad blood
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there too. They fucked him.
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Oh absolutely. They are very bad for that so.
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And they owe him so fucking much considering like, I mean that
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not even just monetarily, right? Like he, he single handedly kept
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that company afloat with his games.
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Like, let's be really honest. Could you imagine what Konami,
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how they'd be doing if they had Death Stranding?
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Oh yeah. First off, they would never
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green light it. They would never green light
20:28
that. They they gave him a pretty long
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leash with. Yeah, but look at, but look what
20:34
happened during five. They really that's enough.
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You're out. Yeah.
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That's true. And then 5, like you could see
20:39
where it stops during Don't Get Me Started.
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It's bad, But no. So like I wanted to talk about
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that though. I really wanted to explore that.
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Kojima talking about that struck a nerve with me.
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I think where we are getting a lot of remasters, we're getting
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a lot of remakes, we're getting a lot of reimaginations or
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reimaginings of games. And I think there are companies
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that have been doing it well. Capcom, for instance, with
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Resident Evil, all of the reimagine, because I wouldn't
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even call them remakes. Evan was talking about that
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earlier and he's like, I wouldn't call them remakes.
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It it depends. Like they are like 4 is like a
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remake because it's still 4 like when you play it.
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I, I, I think there's, I think that's where you fall into the
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whole remake or remaster, right? Like right Remaster to me is
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lesser than a remake. A remake is where they go in and
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actually like change some shit or drastically increase the
21:45
quality of of what is happening there.
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Whereas a remaster is much more of a hey we put some HD textures
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and fix some. Shit.
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And here you go, like, yeah, right.
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So I'm not, I don't necessarily have too much of a problem with
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the word remake, but the reimagining, like I feel like
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that has to change pretty drastically to to reach what I
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think of when I think of reimagining, right?
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Yeah, I mean, dude, like, there's just a lot of verbiage
22:19
being thrown around in the industry and it gives a lot of
22:23
cur blanche and a lot of avenues for people like Neil Druckman,
22:28
who I think smells his own farts so fucking hard and I think the
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last of a season's dry shit. I think it freeze dries them and
22:39
then like crushes him up into a fucking line and snorts his own
22:42
farts. Dude, I wouldn't fucking doubt
22:45
it. And he uses used foreskins to
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snort the line. OK yeah of course he's that much
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of a Dick. So like bro.
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Even even Evan will admit that Neil Druckman is insufferable
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and Evan is the biggest The Last of Us fan I have ever met my
23:04
entire life. Neil Druckman, The type of
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motherfucker to have it. Fucking coke straw made out of
23:09
elephant Tusk. You know what I'm saying?
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Like this dude's a Dick. He he definitely has a bust of
23:16
himself right when you walk into his fucking house.
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And he nuts on it. Oh, for sure.
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What are we? Doing We are going to the old
23:24
days of Boston. I and we're never getting
23:27
invited to a Naughty Dog event, that's for sure.
23:30
Fucking Neil Drugwood, give him Jack and Daxter back, dude.
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I don't fucking give a fuck. No, but like the problem is it
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gives people like him and Todd Howard and fucking I guarantee
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pitch for it. Eventually he's going to be
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like, well, check out all of this.
23:46
They did, I thought, with Borderlands.
23:49
What did did what? Then they do fucking HD fucking
23:53
whatevers. I think they may have done
23:58
something for Borderlands 1. OK fine, but what I'm saying is
24:03
a lot of current day games I think do not need to be
24:06
remastered, retouched, re, whatever.
24:10
You know, like Last of Us fucking how many times have we
24:13
gotten that game that three and two already?
24:15
3/3 times for The Last of Us. OK.
24:19
And then? Twice or sorry?
24:21
Once for sorry. I guess it's been the original
24:25
release and then it came out at the tail end of the PlayStation
24:29
3. Then they did a remastered
24:30
edition for the PlayStation 4, and then they did the the full
24:37
fucking remaster that they did not too terribly long ago for
24:43
The Last of Us and now The Last of Us 2, which came out not too
24:47
terribly long ago either. And if that got remastered
24:51
already, it's fucking insane. So did the God of War 2016.
24:56
It's like we don't need these games.
24:59
Look, 2018 did it get? Remastered.
25:02
I thought it got like a little bit of a fucking spruce up for
25:04
the PS-5. But it wasn't like a paid thing,
25:07
was it? I mean, or like a maybe not.
25:11
I, I was going to say I don't, I don't necessarily hate a little
25:14
spruce up, especially if it's like something like, oh, you're
25:16
already on the game and it's free, or if it's like minuscule,
25:21
but it adds content and it's like 10 bucks or something.
25:23
Like that's not the worst thing. Like Ghost of Sushima did that
25:27
right where they did the director's cut and then it had
25:30
the DLC in it. But they also didn't have a
25:32
great path to actually get the DLC without buying the IT was it
25:37
was kind of a fucking mess. But yeah, I, I don't, I don't
25:41
hate something like that where it's a a very small cost, but
25:44
also you get something else out of it.
25:46
But fuck, when you're asking full price for a remaster of a
25:51
game that came out within the last fucking eight years at this
25:55
point, right? Like fuck off.
25:59
Dude fuck off. I like what they used to do, and
26:03
it's because I'm fucking old and I get it.
26:05
But like, I remember the first time I saw like Fallout Name of
26:08
the Year edition, Fall three, it was like, OK, cool.
26:12
So we've updated it a bit. But also look at the list of DLC
26:16
you get. Yeah.
26:17
So yes, you're going to spend $50.00, but you get all of the
26:22
DLC. $50.00 worth of DLC. Exactly right.
26:26
But now it's like we'll spend 50 bucks and like look, it's like
26:29
4K almost. OK, but nobody wants to game in
26:33
4K necessarily because it doesn't work.
26:35
It doesn't run exceptionally well, no.
26:38
So like, what are you trying to sell me?
26:39
And that's my thing. Like I just want new ideas.
26:44
And I really think the industry is being bogged out like, OK, so
26:47
so at fucking Quakecon today we got Heretic and Hexen.
26:51
That is different. That is Night Dive Studios.
26:53
Yeah, where they are, they do a great job.
26:56
The Keck engine is is great. Like what they're doing.
26:59
Fuck, you call me is stop it, stop it.
27:04
You call that a penis? So what they're doing though,
27:08
is, yeah, I almost got you with a spit tank.
27:13
Nightdive does something special where they will take games like
27:17
System Shock, System Shock 2 with System Shock.
27:22
We'll go to that in a minute. But System Shock and the
27:24
remaster and System Shock 2 remaster, they will spruce these
27:29
games up, make them playable for the younger audiences and people
27:33
who've never touched them to be able to play on their computers.
27:36
Because a lot of those games, you can't play them on your like
27:39
you'd think like, oh, I have a 2003 thousand dollar computer, I
27:42
can play that game. You can't.
27:44
No, unless you're you're doing some back alley way to do it.
27:49
I'm sure I could find it, but also, yeah, not not the ITO,
27:54
yeah. Give me a launcher, let me do
27:56
it. No.
27:56
We don't. We don't want more launchers.
27:58
We don't need no. Steam.
27:59
Steam. OK.
28:01
I want this to. Be the throw it in Steam.
28:02
Yeah, yeah, but like he's going to say get the fuck out of here
28:05
with that shit. Oh, dude, every other launcher
28:08
could die in a hole. Yeah, just straight up in a hole
28:12
alive. Just bury it and let it die.
28:14
But like, I'd like what night Night Dive does.
28:17
I think what they do as a team is very important.
28:20
It helps with preservation. A lot of the newer audiences can
28:23
play the games that they they've heard their peers talk about.
28:27
Like, did you never play System Shock?
28:29
You got to go play it. It's why, you know, like, This
28:33
is why this and like, like Doom and Quake and like they're
28:37
bringing all these things to like the younger audience and
28:40
that's phenomenal. And then they do something like
28:44
System Shock, the remake, and that is even better than the
28:50
remasters of it, because it's a full-fledged fucking thing.
28:54
Right. Like that is important I think,
28:58
but when you have AAA studios, because by no means it's night
29:01
dives AAA, no. No, no, no, I've been saying AA
29:06
right, like they they fall in that, that space in between, I
29:10
think, but. Yeah, like.
29:14
Go ahead. No, finish your thought there.
29:16
They are important for that reason, but they also want to
29:20
make their own shit. But you know, like again, System
29:24
of Shock, Turok, Quake, they brought they're bringing all of
29:27
this back for people to play right.
29:29
But then you got Ubisoft and EA and Gearbox and all these
29:35
shitheads who just think dollar signs, which again, you're a
29:39
company. I understand you got to make
29:40
money to keep the ship afloat. You have it though.
29:45
Right. And you guys are in the pockets
29:47
of Microsoft and Sony and you got the money and but you're
29:52
canceling good games. Wow, Perfect Dark is not
29:58
happening now. Yeah.
30:01
But we'll get a fucking remake for Assassin's Creed Alice.
30:06
The next Alice in Wonderland game from American McGee is not
30:10
going to happen, right? That's a beloved series.
30:13
It might be niche, but people love that series.
30:17
Not going to happen. So OK, So what about games like
30:20
Psychonauts? Are we ever going to see
30:22
Psychonauts again? Are we just going to get
30:24
fucking? I know Psychonauts.
30:26
I God the first one was so good though.
30:30
Honestly, the second one, it didn't sound like it was met
30:33
poorly, right? Like it, it seemed like it was
30:36
fine. I I was saying more of a as it's
30:39
probably not going to happen. But like, these are the things
30:45
I'm saying, like spider. Anyways, I got it.
30:50
That was gross. I'm oogie boogie man.
30:54
But like, that's what I'm saying.
30:56
Like, so we're going to sacrifice creativity, good new
31:00
games for what? Another fucking Assassin's Creed
31:04
fucking remake, remaster, whatever you want to fucking
31:08
label it. Yeah, and.
31:10
Now you have the floor. So I feel like the video game
31:14
industry is in a very similar spot as the movie industry right
31:17
now. Everything is getting
31:20
remastered. One, I think it's a play at
31:23
nostalgia. Yeah.
31:25
I think it is it, it, it is almost a surefire way for them
31:32
to make a lot of money. So I think that is why, and I
31:37
don't know if I've talked about it on here much at all, but
31:41
we've seen a lot of, I, I think I did bring it up one time, but
31:45
we've seen a lot of developers come out and do interviews and
31:48
stuff. And they were, they were talking
31:50
about how I think specifically the one I'm thinking of is Elder
31:54
Ring or Elden Ring Night Ring. They did an interview and he was
32:00
like, hey, like in this day and age, you cannot afford to spend
32:07
a ton of money on a game that does not hit.
32:10
That was from his B team, right? Yes.
32:13
That was like their C team. Right.
32:15
So yeah, basically what how how they typically operate.
32:20
They would let their up and coming developers work on a
32:24
game, release it, and if it didn't do exceptionally well,
32:27
like whatever, right? Well, now in this day and age,
32:31
games cost so much to make and everything like that, that it it
32:36
it's very hard for them to be able to allow a smaller team or
32:40
younger developers work on a game and release it without
32:45
taking a giant hit. Or if it's a big enough hit and
32:50
they were already on that cusp anyway, they get shut the fuck
32:53
down, right? Like we've seen it with
32:54
Microsoft, we've seen it with a bunch of these other companies
32:58
where they just get shut the fuck down.
33:00
So Elden Ring Night Rain was an example of a way to reuse assets
33:05
that were already existing, put them into a new style game and
33:10
release it, giving their B not even B team, right?
33:14
Like they're just they're younger developers that are they
33:17
want to train to take over eventually and give them an
33:21
opportunity to step in and actually do something like that.
33:25
And that's unfortunately the where we're at, right?
33:28
Like everybody's complaining about games costing more but
33:32
also they're complaining about studios getting shut down
33:35
because their game didn't perform as well as they needed
33:37
to. So it it it's a double edged
33:39
sword. Like I understand I also don't
33:41
like to pay more for my games but games cost so much the the
33:46
development time. Instead of being like the NES
33:49
and SNES days where it was like a year maybe 2 years you just
33:53
spit those things out and that's not the case anymore.
33:56
Now some of these games have been in development for 8
33:59
fucking years 8. Let's talk about fucking.
34:04
Let's talk about the next Elder Scrolls.
34:06
Let's talk about the next Fallout Half Life.
34:08
Let's talk about fucking anything.
34:12
I had to throw it. In there, but you know, yeah,
34:14
yeah, yeah but I, I mean specifically one I'm thinking of
34:17
right now is Bioshock 4, right. So Bioshock 4 can yeah, yeah, I,
34:24
I, I've heard a little bit about that.
34:26
It sounds like it's getting redone.
34:28
It, it's, it's yeah, yeah. Because the story apparently was
34:31
shit. Which is crazy because I don't
34:33
know how you make a story bad enough that an executive made
34:36
the call to be like, yeah, just redo it.
34:38
Is it the original team? No, no, no.
34:42
So that is why? Because they don't.
34:45
Judas has also been in development for a fucking decade
34:48
though. That's the original.
34:50
Bioshock That's yeah. So it's one of those things that
34:54
companies are too scared to make out-of-the-box ideas, and that's
35:00
why we get them from indie games, right?
35:01
That's why we get all these cool indie games.
35:04
And yeah, it's pixel art or whatever it may be, but that's
35:08
where we get all the new fresh ideas, whereas these bigger
35:10
companies are doing the same fucking thing that has been
35:13
making them money for decades now.
35:15
You've got something like you brought up Ubisoft, right?
35:18
Ubisoft is a company that makes Assassin's Creed at this point,
35:22
for the most part. Like that is what they fucking
35:24
do. With a sprinkle of Prince of
35:25
Persia. And, and, and yeah, and they'll
35:27
they'll, you know, venture into Avatar and be like, yeah, no,
35:31
this is Avatar. And it's like, no, it's
35:33
Assassin's Creed with a different part of paint.
35:35
Yeah, right, right. And, and so that's, that's
35:40
unfortunately the reality that we're in because games are so
35:43
expensive, they take so long to make that companies are scared
35:47
to make a move and do something unique because they're going to
35:50
lose a shit load of money and risk going under or getting shut
35:54
the fuck down or becoming a support studio for something
35:58
like fucking Call of Duty, right?
36:00
And I, I don't like it any more than the next person, but that's
36:04
a lot of why we're seeing this. That's why fucking EA puts out a
36:09
Madden every year. They put out at the same fucking
36:12
game with a slightly different coat of paint and go, here you
36:17
go. They can't, they can't afford to
36:20
take the risk when you have $200 million wrapped up into
36:24
development of a fucking game and six years of development
36:28
time, like you going to shit can that you going to eat a quarter,
36:33
almost a quarter million in cost and just be like, yeah, it's
36:38
fine like that. That's not the way this works
36:40
anymore. And the, you know, a lot of it
36:43
goes into the graphic fidelity of everything and, and making
36:47
sure all, every single little fucking thing has to be perfect
36:50
under a microscope or it's going to get scathing reviews when it
36:53
comes out. And.
36:54
We live fucking critics. Well, and we live in a day and
36:57
age where most people don't even pay attention to IGN, right?
37:01
Or or another critic. What they're looking at is their
37:04
favorite streamer playing a game and he's like, oh man, this one
37:08
little thing sticks out to me and I just really, it really
37:11
bugs me and they're all. No chamber.
37:12
At that, I'm never playing it again.
37:14
And it's like, I understand and I often, I know I tend to look
37:22
at the business side of things way more than a lot of people in
37:26
this industry. And, and, and it, it almost
37:30
comes off as bootlicking, but it's, I promise I'm not, I, I
37:33
don't like it any more than the rest of you, but I understand
37:37
where they're coming from because they can't afford to
37:39
take those risks anymore. They're they're making huge
37:42
games. That being said, the movie
37:46
industry is doing the same fucking shit, right?
37:48
Like we we got some of them are really good, right?
37:52
Like a toxic. Avenger Baby.
37:54
Yeah, like Toxic Avengers getting redone essentially,
37:57
right? Or like Nosferatu was a really,
38:02
really good reimagining of what that original story was.
38:05
Did you? Ever watch it?
38:06
We have not yet but I've heard must watch it.
38:11
I, I, I probably will have to watch that one by myself.
38:14
I don't think Amber is interested but.
38:16
Oh, my God, Amber, I know you listen to the show when he's on.
38:20
Yeah, when your husband's on, you listen.
38:23
But I the movie industry is doing a lot of the same shit,
38:27
right? Like sparking up old IP to bring
38:30
something back and it's uninspired.
38:32
You look at Star Wars, right? Star Wars is in the worst place
38:36
it has been in a long time because those new movies that
38:39
came out fucking sucked. Except for Rogue One.
38:42
I think Rogue One was pretty good.
38:44
Right, but. Yeah, that was dope.
38:46
Like skeleton. Skeleton crew was cool.
38:48
Skeleton, but yeah, some of the shows have done well yeah right
38:53
so it it it sucks to see right like I've been much to Evans
39:00
disapprovement. I, I have been saying like the
39:04
movie industry is fucking dying. Like to, to an extent,
39:07
everything's going to a streaming service.
39:10
Everybody just waits to go to a it'll be on a streaming service
39:13
in no time. Like I'll watch it there.
39:15
Nobody's paying these exorbitant prices to go watch a movie in a
39:19
movie theater anymore. Like even even myself, I'm like
39:23
Fantastic Four's out, Superman's out and I'm like, I haven't seen
39:26
either of. Them I haven't seen either, and
39:27
we're comic fans. Yeah, I was like, I'm, I'm a
39:30
fucking huge comic fan. I have a full Marvel sleeve.
39:33
Like I, I just. Comics on my leg.
39:36
I, I just, I, I don't have any desire to go pay fucking
39:41
$5060.00 for me and my family to go watch a movie anymore and
39:45
it's like it'll be on the streaming service in two months.
39:47
Fuck it. And that's unfortunately where
39:51
we're at. But also movies cost millions of
39:54
dollars to make as well. So it's like that's a big part
39:58
of it. That's why we're getting an
39:59
influx of of these, you know, superhero movies because
40:03
historically they make a bunch of money.
40:05
But Thunderbolts came out, was fucking incredible mind you, and
40:10
it it's considered a flop because it didn't make enough
40:13
money. And it's like, fuck, like that's
40:16
the best Marvel movie we've had in a long time.
40:19
Other Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was pretty good, right?
40:22
But outside of that, like Thunderbolts was fantastic and
40:28
it's considered a flop. And now Marvel's going to look
40:30
at that and be like, well, we can't do that anymore.
40:32
Bring in the big names again, like, and that's when we get
40:35
this that you get Iron Man, you get Hulk, you get Cap, like you
40:40
get those, those staples that everybody fucking knows.
40:44
But it's that's, that's where again, I kind of branched off
40:49
from from the the the video game thing, but they're very similar
40:54
spaces right now. Like sorry, media is just it's
41:01
consumed by streamers and and people consume all of their
41:04
media through streamers and they listen to a certain streamer
41:07
that they trust. And that's the fucking gospel
41:09
now. And it's like something like
41:12
even for me personally, right, Like Oblivion remaster or remake
41:17
came out or I guess it was remastered, but it was more of a
41:20
remake. To me, dude, it was yeah.
41:22
It was so cool and I played it for an evening.
41:25
I played it for an evening, dipped into the nostalgia and I
41:28
go, yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I also.
41:31
Had what they needed. Yeah, I had no skin in the game,
41:34
right? Like I already paid for Game
41:35
Pass anyway, so it was there and I could play.
41:37
That's. All but that's the needed was
41:39
for everybody to at least download and play, yeah.
41:42
Or here in what, a month? Or less than a month?
41:48
The Gears of War One remake is coming out.
41:50
Yeah, which I'll be. That has also been remastered
41:54
once and it's like, Yep, yeah, I'll probably play through the
41:57
campaign, but I'm not gonna play the multiplayer like.
42:00
The special thing on that, though, is that the PlayStation
42:02
people can now hop in. Yeah, and and so that adds a
42:07
another layer to it as Xbox is spanning into the PlayStation
42:12
ecosystem now. Like, yeah, it makes sense.
42:14
And and so it is really cool for them to get the best version of
42:18
that game. But for for me and you who
42:21
played that game when it fucking came out however long ago, Like,
42:26
yeah, I, I, I, I don't necessarily have to experience
42:30
this again. Like the nostalgia is going to
42:31
get me and it's already on Game Pass, so why the fuck wouldn't I
42:35
play it? But if it was coming out, I
42:36
probably wouldn't buy it, just being entirely honest.
42:40
Like so yeah, I I feel like I've gone in a weird windy, not even.
42:46
Served at this point for this conversation.
42:48
Though it, it sucks, right? Like I want to see fresh ideas,
42:52
I want to see cool new games coming out, but the only place
42:56
you get that is indie studios at this point.
42:59
And I, I, I would be remiss to leave out Final Fantasy 7
43:06
remakes. And I know that that is not
43:08
everybody's cup of tea, but I do think as far as a remake
43:12
remaster type of thing goes, like those are really, really
43:15
good and they do a lot of cool stuff and and change up the
43:20
story just ever so slightly. Well, it's ground up.
43:24
Right, And that is such a beloved game and a game that for
43:29
me personally is very hard to go back to and actually play
43:32
through because Jesus fucking Christ, that game looks rough
43:35
right there. Original.
43:36
Big game too. And so this is, I think that is
43:40
a very cool remaster and a very cool remake to introduce a bunch
43:44
of people that maybe you were never going to go back to the
43:47
original into a game that is legendary in the space, right.
43:52
I'd I'd love to see an Ocarina of Time remake or a Majora's
43:55
Mask remake like. Oh man.
43:57
But Ocarina of Time with modern day graphics would be fucking
44:01
incredible. But on the same token, you look
44:04
at what Nintendo does over and over and over again.
44:08
They take a game that came out on the last console, give it a
44:11
slight coat of paint and release it for full price and people
44:16
fucking buy that shit. Like all of the half of the the
44:21
Switch library is Wii U games that nobody bought because that
44:26
console sold like shit like it. Was a cool console.
44:30
It is a cool console, like it is what it is, right?
44:33
But most of so much of that library is made-up of games that
44:38
came from a console that failed for all intents and purposes.
44:42
Like it's just, it, it, it's a, it's a weird double edged sword,
44:47
right? Like I would have never played
44:48
those games because I didn't have a Wii UI that was in my era
44:52
of being like Nintendos for, for kids and for babies.
44:58
And then I'm like, I, I dig Nintendo shit, right?
45:01
And, and so I, I did get to play some of those games.
45:04
So it's like I am glad that they ported them to the switch, but
45:07
also like I could have used a new Mario, especially a Mario
45:12
Kart. Like fuck, we went a whole
45:15
generation without a new Mario Kart and that was still one of
45:17
the best selling games on that fucking console.
45:20
Oh fuck, we how long we go without an actual good Donkey
45:23
Kong. Oh, until we got Donkey Kong
45:25
Bonanza. Now we got Bonanza.
45:28
Are you insane? That game is.
45:30
Love that game. I need to play it and we have
45:33
our you guys switch to yet? No, not yet.
45:36
I'm waiting. Not much.
45:38
I'm waiting until they get some more games personally, like I I
45:42
will buy one eventually. Like I'm.
45:44
I'm not lying to myself about that, but there's just not
45:47
enough for me to justify a $500 console at this.
45:50
Point by the time, holy fuck by the time you want to get a
45:55
switch to Steam Deck, 2 will be out and that'll be a very bad
45:57
day for you. Yeah.
46:00
Oh dude, that that thing on the plane?
46:02
Just fucking I didn't. Didn't play much of it.
46:05
I played a little bit and then I got my fucking ears were
46:08
exploding anyways. Half, half the time I sit in my
46:11
bed, like if I'm not gonna come down and play on my PC and I'm
46:14
like, oh, I'll just play something for a little bit.
46:16
I sit in my bed, Amber will have the TV on and I just sit there
46:19
and like drool at the TV instead of actually playing my Steam
46:22
Deck. I fucking hate it.
46:24
I hate myself, but guess what? I know I'm going to buy this.
46:28
I'm. I'm going to buy V2 when it
46:29
comes out. Yeah.
46:30
Yeah. No, dude, like everything you
46:32
said makes sense. And it's hard to make to take
46:35
those risks, you know, especially for smaller studios
46:39
who are assimilated into the AAA.
46:42
Yeah, but we need those risks right now.
46:44
Like, look at risk of rain too. Look at look at look at Hobu.
46:48
Yeah. They did so well with risk rain.
46:51
Risk rain too. And risk rain too.
46:54
Sorry, they are now bought up by Gearbox and Hobu.
47:00
Is that technically Hobu? John, whatever is that Steam or
47:05
Valve they're working on? They're working on Valve games
47:09
now. Which is awesome.
47:10
Fuck. Yeah, but Valve is not saying
47:13
we're just taking your shit. They're OK, you're talented, go
47:17
work on this. They're working on Deadlock, but
47:22
there are other developers from everywhere else working on
47:26
whatever. I'm not going to say it so
47:28
whatever, but it's studios like Valve and Rockstar, and Rockstar
47:34
has its problems, Valve has its problems, but at least those
47:40
studios allow for risk. Rockstar.
47:42
Maybe not so much anymore. Yeah, and Rockstar is one of
47:46
those weird cases that it's almost too big to fail, like in
47:51
in a way, right? Like even if that game comes out
47:53
and it sucks and people are going to buy the absolute shit
47:56
out of GTA6. Dude give me a new manhunt and a
48:00
bully. They they won't.
48:02
It's the they can't. Like I said, it prints fucking
48:05
money. What do you do?
48:08
Well, what do you next year, I'm telling you.
48:11
All right? You ready for this?
48:15
Yeah. GTA 6 and Half Life 3 next year.
48:20
I, I listen, listen for you. I would love to see Half Life 3
48:25
come out. I just I, I the way I look at
48:29
it, and I've said it a million times.
48:31
It's a Unicorn, bro Gabe. Newell is too fucking smart to
48:35
release a game that is Half Life 3 and it risk it not being good
48:42
enough to live up to expectation.
48:45
He's too smart. Whatever.
48:46
He's too fucking. Whatever they did, they released
48:48
Alex. Exactly.
48:50
And it wasn't Half Life 3. They I, I, I don't think at this
48:54
point they can release a Half Life 3 and I think they will do
48:59
things in the half Life universe, but I do not think
49:02
they ever release a half Life 3 because I think, I think the.
49:05
Background. Yeah, a bunch of code names and
49:09
this and that, Yeah. No, they're calling it.
49:11
So the biggest leak now from the counter strike thing was they
49:16
are in green text calling it HLX.
49:19
So the devs are leaving HLX, deformation of this, deformation
49:23
of that heat properties, blah blah.
49:27
End of, end of it's end of the fucking development is where
49:31
they're at with this, this game, I don't think.
49:33
It's Half Life 3 though I don't think it's.
49:35
It's going to be called half. Life something.
49:38
It's I guaranteed stop. We need more developers to do
49:43
more amazing things. There's a lot of devs out there
49:46
doing awesome things. I and they're just, I just feel
49:50
like the industry wants to pigeon holed people though.
49:53
I I think a lot of the AAA space is so focused on games of
49:57
service right now too, right? Like we saw it with PlayStation
50:00
pushing Concord and then it fucking flopped on its face.
50:02
So I think some of the what? Yeah, Bunches.
50:06
Marathon, dude. That is they're they're still
50:10
saying next year November. There's yeah, they're no,
50:13
they're saying end of 2025 fiscal year so.
50:17
No, no way. No, absolutely not.
50:23
Not if they want it to be successful.
50:25
It does not come out by March. Absolutely.
50:28
It doesn't come out until the end of 2026.
50:30
Yeah. No way Marathon can come out
50:33
like that. But even marathon in and of
50:36
itself like is not revolutionary.
50:39
It is a extraction shooter. And they could have done some
50:42
Rev stop. It would have served so much
50:46
better as a single player game or or something more akin to
50:50
Destiny. Like I know a lot of people are
50:52
not big on Destiny. I'm not either in this day and
50:54
age, but something like a Destiny where it is these
51:00
predominantly single player, but you have like strikes and you
51:02
have raids and shit like that. Like that would do so well for
51:07
it. That would do so well for
51:09
Marathon. But that's not what I.
51:10
Think but it's still It would still be marathon though.
51:13
Yes. I but.
51:15
Everybody is chasing money, but again, like I said earlier, the
51:19
development time for a game is five to six years, so by the
51:22
time their game is done, they are chasing a trend that is
51:26
slowly starting to die. Battle Royale, dude.
51:29
I don't know how the fuck we're still doing this, guys.
51:32
I even Battlefield's putting a fucking battle Royale in there,
51:34
which honestly, I don't care. I won't interact with it.
51:38
That's fine. Put it and it's.
51:39
Free it's, but the cool thing with that is they're going hey.
51:43
They're going the. Free thing?
51:45
Here you go. Have that.
51:46
But also, here's the real game. Yeah, they're they're going the
51:50
war zone model with that which I think is smart, right Like that.
51:52
That is one thing that it's not going to miss necessarily at
51:58
that point. I mean, you're going to have
51:59
like development costs and shit. But at the same time, I think
52:02
they should be able to recoup that.
52:04
So I don't think it's going to be a major deal.
52:06
But yeah like we saw how many battle royales came come out and
52:11
fucking flop on their face because how the fuck are you
52:15
supposed to compete with something like Fortnite or even
52:17
war zone like Call of Duty guy in there?
52:20
Pub G. Yeah, like Pub G back in the
52:22
day, which is still fucking massive, just.
52:25
In China. In China and India, for the most
52:28
part, but but it's. A big player base though.
52:31
Oh, it's a massive fucking player base.
52:33
Huge and that's all they need. They don't.
52:36
Fucking who gives a shit about? Yeah who gives a shit about it
52:39
and the rest of the world. That is 2 of the largest player
52:42
bases in the entire fucking world.
52:44
What? Go for it. 1.
52:47
They split it off in their own studios.
52:49
Yeah. And they have promised some cool
52:53
stuff that hasn't released. So anyways.
52:55
But you know, a Call of Duty got in just just barely in the nick
52:59
of the nick of time to actually capture that that landscape of
53:03
like the not even SIM shooter at this point, right?
53:06
Like Call of Duty is whatever the fuck it is but you.
53:09
Better be careful calling it that.
53:10
Man Those those milsim people will come.
53:12
No it's not milsim but more slightly more grounded than
53:17
Fortnite and not by much. Right, Like Fortnite gets viewed
53:21
as that. That's kind of the vein I was
53:23
going in. Right?
53:23
Like there is still military undertones.
53:26
There Beavis and Butt Head, yeah.
53:28
Call of Duty and like I said, it's it's gotten out of hand
53:31
now, but Fortnite, Fortnite had where all the characters and
53:36
captured the predominantly younger audience, right, Whereas
53:41
Call of Duty was able to sweep in and capture a little bit
53:44
older audience and have, you know, realistic guns to some
53:48
extent. And and and if you wanted it mil
53:51
mil spec like fucking gear and shit, right.
53:54
So they snuck in there just in the nick of time to capture that
53:58
battle Royale. But it's like those are the two
54:02
big ones now, like for the most part outside of India and China,
54:06
like we talked about her already, but it's just they're
54:10
chasing trends that are dying before the game can even
54:14
release. And we're seeing it.
54:15
Concorde was that and it's just it, it sucks, right?
54:20
Like, or they're trying to capture the nostalgia like we
54:23
talked about earlier with like all these remakes and remasters
54:26
and it's, it works momentarily and makes them some quick, quick
54:31
money or not quick money, right, but quicker money than a full
54:35
development cycle and helps them fund whatever is coming next.
54:40
So on that token, like it's not the worst thing in the world if
54:44
it helps them make something cool in the future.
54:46
But most of them are not doing that and they're just taking
54:48
their earnings and making another fucking Assassin's Creed
54:53
or whatever. Maybe so, I don't fucking know
54:55
anymore. I just want something cool
54:58
that's not necessarily from an indie studio with a very limited
55:02
budget like I. In a world of Assassin's Creed 9
55:08
eventually, and Call of Duty 12 and fucking what have you at
55:15
this point, we need things like a Duke Nukem, a fucking, a new
55:22
Animal Crossing, another little big planet, fucking Jack and
55:28
Daxter. We need fun things.
55:31
And we also need new ideas, new IPS we.
55:34
And what really fucking irked me was watching an industry Titan
55:40
like John Romero and his studio go down.
55:43
Yeah. How the fuck are you in this
55:47
industry? Are you going to let that
55:48
happen? Where John Romero and his studio
55:52
creating new games like Sigil, we get fucking wiped out.
55:58
Yeah, yeah, it sucks to see, right, But.
56:02
But but then we get the slop, we get the Madden, we get the all
56:07
of that. And it's like, and the remakes
56:10
and the rematches and the fucking this is and the that's
56:13
and the IT sucks and this is a bunch of old men yelling at
56:16
clouds. The amount of money that Madden
56:20
and FIFA bring in every year, despite being practically the
56:24
same game, is staggering. Staggering.
56:29
It's fucked. Honestly, like I have more
56:32
respect for something like a Fortnite where they at least
56:35
change up the map and do something a new season right And
56:38
and at least I can't. Navigate the UI.
56:41
Yeah, I don't know what to do right, but at at least it is
56:44
slightly more inspired than something like a Madden or a
56:48
FIFA or whatever it may be, where it's the same fucking game
56:52
every year to the point where if you go into camera mode, half
56:55
the time they don't even change the fucking banners up there.
56:57
And it has the last or the previous Madden, those fucking
57:01
banners like. Well, back in the day, Call of
57:03
Duty was recycling maps. Oh, absolutely.
57:06
They still are. They still absolutely.
57:08
Are there you go. There you go.
57:09
So nothing's changed. I mean, Battlefield's probably
57:12
going to have a couple old maps in there too, but it's also been
57:15
a long. Time the old maps.
57:17
Yes and it again hit that nostalgia and get people in, but
57:22
also as long as it is a return to form in something like that
57:25
where it is a modern multiplayer game looking back at maps that
57:30
came out over a decade ago, I'm OK with that.
57:34
But Call of Duty puts fucking shipment in every goddamn game
57:39
anymore, because why not? Won't whatever won't play it
57:43
Brody. Yes, we this episode went
57:47
everywhere today. Sorry, I'm so fucking happy.
57:52
It's it's such a, it's such a interesting topic, right?
57:56
Like I think. It it is it it?
57:57
Covers a lot of things and there's a there's good and bad
58:01
to both sides of it and it's it's hard to really encapsulate
58:05
and each individual case is its own unique situation that
58:10
sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.
58:12
I don't know if it's less than a decade old.
58:15
Stop remastering fucking games, I don't care.
58:18
Dude, in a world of The Last of Us Remastered and whatever else,
58:24
I'll still go back and play my odd Worlds.
58:27
I'll still play Jack and Daxter. I'll still play Half Life 2 as
58:31
was released because those games are fucking fun.
58:35
They feel like video games. It doesn't feel like I mentally,
58:39
I know it's a product, but when I play it, I don't even consider
58:44
it because I know it was made for me and that is important.
58:50
And I cannot wait to see the shape of the industry change
58:54
because it can't be like this forever, because then we will
58:56
eventually get to the same place we were when ET almost killed
58:59
the industry. Yeah, unfortunately.
59:02
Right there. Yeah, we're like you said, we
59:05
are right fucking there. And it's because the companies
59:09
making games, especially in the AAA landscape, have become
59:13
soulless. They are, they are first and
59:15
foremost businesses and they're and the job and sole purpose of
59:21
a business is to turn a profit and that is unfortunately the
59:24
landscape we are in. Just like your favorite
59:27
streamers. So fuck your favorite streamers.
59:30
Fuck us. But we're not getting a dime off
59:32
you because we're broke and we're making our own money doing
59:34
our own jobs while doing this. So.
59:36
Fuck your favorite streamers, fuck Tim the Tat man.
59:38
I'll fight you any day dude. Oh damn.
59:41
Your tattoos, they're not even cool.
59:43
Yeah, you're right. What's up bro?
59:45
See all these basement tattoos, bitch?
59:48
What up with it? I don't have those.
59:51
The one I had got covered, but I got I got cooler tattoos.
59:54
I got fucking Iron Man dog. Hey.
59:57
For for a fucking basement tattoo the sleeves pretty cool.
1:00:01
It's colorful. So anyways, your streamers are
1:00:04
lying to you. Oh my God, it's a spider.
1:00:08
Oh yeah, streamers are lying constantly Sorry they they
1:00:11
fucking they, they get paid for what they say half the time.
1:00:14
Let's. We're just going to brush over
1:00:15
the fact that I grabbed my mouse, my fucking shoulder, my
1:00:19
wrist rest and slap. Yeah, I was just going to let it
1:00:23
go. I'm waiting for you to do that.
1:00:25
Fucking spider dog. Do it.
1:00:28
Don't why you guys say that? No, do it.
1:00:30
Show up, Palpatine. Oh yeah, your, your streamers
1:00:33
are fucking lying. They don't like any of the games
1:00:36
they're actually playing. If they say they like it, they
1:00:38
don't. They say they don't like it.
1:00:39
They do. I guarantee they do.
1:00:41
No one is that enthusiastic all of the time.
1:00:44
Let's be perfectly honest, it's a fucking facade.
1:00:47
I'm going to put makeup on like professional makeup.
1:00:50
Not like I'm not going drag. I'll go drag.
1:00:52
I don't give a fuck. That'd be, but I'm going to put
1:00:54
professional makeup on like, you know, like the, you know, where
1:00:57
the light hits and I glow and I'm going to just be like, well,
1:01:01
this is crazy. Chat will chat, will chat.
1:01:05
I'm just going to be excused. I'm going to talk like a fucking
1:01:07
asshole. Oh, I hate them all excused.
1:01:11
You can get chance too. I show up, give me a.
1:01:14
Million, check this out. Crow's feet in the corners.
1:01:19
See this fine. You see this?
1:01:22
I got vampire eyes Look in my fucking eyes right now.
1:01:24
Yeah, vampire eyes. It's a fucking raining coming
1:01:28
out. You ready to wrap this bitch up
1:01:31
dude? Yeah, let's do it.
1:01:33
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1:01:36
don't need all this extra bullshit.
1:01:39
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1:01:42
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