Xbox Showcase 2024 - Is this Xbox's Year?

This week we have a guest on to discuss all of the game showcases over the last week. But mainly the XBOX Showcase 2024. Is this Xbox's year?? We will discuss what stood out to us and why.

Intro - 0:00
Guest Introduction - 01:03
Nate went to mexico - 01:39
Nate has an announcment - 04:20
Questions for our Guest - 06:25
Game Time - 20:04
Hellblade 2 Senua's Saga - 21:46
Xdefiant - 30:50
Elden Ring - 35:01
Today's Topic - 41:09
Summer Gamesfest - 41:49
Ubisoft Forward - 47:15
Assassin's Creed Shadows - 47:38
Star Wars Outlaws - 53:45
Xbox Showcase 2024 - 58:38
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 - 59:08
Doom The Dark Ages - 1:08:45
Dragon Age The Veilguard - 1:09:56
Starfield Shattered Space - 1:12:13
Fallout 76 - 1:15:45
Expedition 33 - 1:16:14
South of Midnight 1:17:42
World of Warcraft The War Within - 1:22:15
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater - 1:23:51
Perfect Dark - 1:29:06
Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred - 1:30:50
Fable - 1:34:13
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle - 1:36:31
Avowed - 1:41:26
Stalker 2 - 1:43:52
New Xbox Hardware - 1:45:50
Gears of War E-Day - 1:47:07
Closing Thought - 1:50:29

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Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Elder Trolls Gaming podcast.

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If you are new in joining us, we are three brothers who get together

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and talk about gaming. We may also talk tech, TV, movies,

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and other nerdy geeky stuff too. Today we will be talking about the Xbox

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Showcase, and if anybody else has anything they want to say about the other

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showcases or shows last week, then we'll dabble. Okay, there was a

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lot of them, Yeah, there was a lot before we get into that.

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I'm nasty night and I am take it easy John, and I'm dand

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off the whys. And today we have a guest with us, my old

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work buddy, an Xbox fanboy and Call of Duty aficionado, Steve. I

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was going, Steve, I'm good, I'm good. How are you guys?

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Pretty good? Pretty good? Pretty good? Steve. You know how

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we do things here. I asked you a couple of questions in a bit,

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and you answer these questions as truthfully as possible. Okay, okay,

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cool, this is a trial. He's on trial. Uh yeah, I

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kill my wife. I don't care. I am back from Mexico. I

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got back freaking two weeks ago. That last episode was pretty funny. I

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was I was longing on the plane. Was that on the plane? No,

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I wasn't on the plane yet. No, but it was funny for

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you. It's funny. It was exactly what I would say in all of

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those cases. Well, I took the your your texts and I just put

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them into the It was exactly except for some things that some embellishment on how

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much you love Overwatch, I think, yeah, I wasn't wrong there.

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But boys, Mexico was ridiculously hot. It was uncomfortably hot. Yeah,

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really hot in Mexico. And it was so hot in Mexico. You don't

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say, yeah, yeah, it was so hot in Mexico, Mexico City.

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Like there was like this heat dome around Mexico City getting like fifty some

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degrees heat. Yeah, and like people were like dying. That sounds like

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an evil, like an invention from a like a super team that was like

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Austin Powers, bro, my heat dome will trap the whole city, mister

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burns. Yeah, iturts, oh man, it was. It was insane,

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but it was a good time. A good time for Gillis's bachelor and

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bachelorette getaway, Jillious well, you know, Huck had a great time with

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us and me and me and Meghan and Mom took care of him. You

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know, he's uh, he's got a he had a good life. He

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had He did not miss Finn, although, no he didn't. Yeah,

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I didn't even know you were gone. When we did bring him back to

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the house, though, he was like very excited to hear Finn on the

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other side of the door. But I don't know if that's just because it

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was like another dog or if it was because it was Finn. It's hard

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to say, but he was. What I think happened is he thought that

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we were on the other side with ahh yeah. Probably yeah, Okay,

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that makes sense because when you opened that door and he saw Finn, he

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wanted to probably kill himself. Yeah, goes, check this out. Can

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you see this? You got you got a black eye, black cheek,

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hit in the face with a don't you wear a helmet? Yeah, yep,

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but it went from the ice and upwards in his cheek. That happened

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to me. I was up on the boards one time and the puck was

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up my stick and hit me in the chin and I had to go get

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stitches. Oh yeah, this is like just the flat as you grow a

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beard to hide the stitches. No, I grow a beard to hide my

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fat neck. I do that as well. So yeah, oh my god.

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All right, well, do you want to get into these questions we

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have for a young Stephen? Yes, young Stephen. Oh, actually having

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an announcement everybody? Oh? Yes, is this a housekeeping thing, a

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personal housekeeping thing? Right, nobody cares? Me and my wife are now

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pregnant with the baby. Yes, grad you're pregnant too. I'm pregnant too.

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Yeah, we're gonna do uh, We're gonna do one of those dual

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pregnant photos where I'm just gonna stuff my gut with food. You're like standing

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to Vito and Arnold. Oh yes, but yeah, big news, exciting.

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Fifteen weeks fifteen weeks pregnant. We're due in December, beginning of December,

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so hopefully before the winter or the snow falls. I'm hoping so I

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don't have to drive to the hospital in snow and ice. Yes, that

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would say right. Speaking of babies, Steve is a new father as well.

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Yes, Steve, Yes, yes, we have we have a little

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baby girl. Her name's Athena. Oh cool. She is nineteen months old,

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and she honestly, it's it's been fantastic really yeah, yeah, I

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absolutely love it. Nice. Congratulations Steve. That's exciting. Yes. And

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Father's Day coming up for Steve. Yes, oh yeah, first first Father's

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Day, that's right. Yeah. And the wife decided that a camping trip

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would be the best for my hotel Father's Day. So, yes, getting

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away, so that it's gonna be good. Cool, cool, you'll bring

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your Xbox with you his handheld? Y. They didn't they didn't announce an

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Xbox handheld like everyone thought they were going to eh an Xbox handheld. I

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was like, what's the point. You've got the Legion, go, just

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go get the Legion. Go. You know what I'm saying. You know

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what I'm saying. It was just a big cloud gaming machine, another cloud

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one. Yeah, literally play Xbox on any handheld with like a SIM card

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in it. You know, get a SIM card in that Xbox handheld maybe

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maybe maybe? Fuck? Yeah? All right? Steve, Uh, do

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you have a top give us your top three favorite games or top five if

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you can't really place them in any order, you know, do you have

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that? Yeah? I was actually thinking about that before jumping in here,

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and I feel like I determine my favorite games by how often I replay them.

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Okay, And I was going through my head and the last like ten

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years, five ten years, there have been a few games where I just

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play once a year because I just didn't love it. And uh, let

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me guess Years of War. No, not even close. No, no,

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no, no, that was the right answer, Steve. Yeah,

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I mean, there's there's nothing wrong with Gears of War. It's just it's

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not my cup of tea. I'll play the campaign, but the multiplayer is

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just something else entirely I can never understand. But the first one would be

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and uh pretty recent too, but at least what three four years ago?

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But Cyberpunk I absolutely love. Okay, I play that every year. I

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actually just started my fourth run today. So it's it's one of those that

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game encompasses everything. I love, every theme, just everything about it is

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just it's fantastic. It's just the building, architecture, the guns, the

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the people and all the cyber netics and everything. It's just it's such a

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fantastic meme. Did you watch the Cyberpunk anime? Yes? I did.

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Oh yeah, I'm I'm starting. That was that was the third right answer

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in a row. My second one, which I again I go back to

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every year, is the original BioShock I. The story in that game,

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it just at the time, it was such a big like change, like

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no one's ever seen that type of thing, this massive city under the water.

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As soon as the first time I played it, I fell in love

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with it, and ever since playing it every year. It's just the story.

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I absolutely love it. It's just that's the story driven first person shooters

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are my jam cool and it's just that's top of my list. I never

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got I've never played me either, No way my friends played it. I

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don't think I have either. Maybe crazy that's you got, like it's a

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piece of history, like that's that's that's how good it is, that's how

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important it is. Like that you play that on like a three sixty backwards.

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They remastered it for the Xbox. Okay, cool, So I have

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that and this last one, well it's it's it's a trilogy. Really,

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this goes back to the nineties and growing up as a kid, I played

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these games. But and there's actually they're actually sitting behind me. But the

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tar Rock Trilogy on Antendo sixty four cool, bluely incredible. They also released

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remasters on the Xbox recently for all three and those every year. How are

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those compared to the originals. Well, it's definitely updated controller schemes, that's

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for sure. So that's that's one big part of it. But I haven't

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intended sixty four. I still go back and play it on Yeah, that's

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part of my collection. There's also more down here in this thing. There's

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about one hundred and sixty games I'm collecting. Yeah, sixty four car Wow,

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that's how many sixty four cartridges you have? Yeah, around one hundred

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and sixty. Holy ship, sweet. You got Diddy Kong Racing there.

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That's what I do not have. Oh yeah, it's on the list.

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There's there's two hundred ninety two games. I'm collecting them all. Oh wow,

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got like your Poka deck, Steve. We're like, we're like an

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Excel spreadsheet. Yeah, yeah, yeah cool. We played sixty four at

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Matt's house and it was unplayable. The controls sucked, the controllers were horrible.

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We tried to play Golden Eye last year on the Switch with the like

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original sixty four controllers because they didn't update them. Something like that remember that

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it was so bad it was funny. Yeah, it was on that box

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and with the updated yes, yeah, yeah, oh yeah. They kind

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of did like a thing where it's like switches online multi was it switches online

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multiplayer but has the old shitty controls, and then xboxes is the mastered version

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with the new controls, but you can't play it online. That's right.

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Yeah, yeah, they did a little swap, little swappy swap. Dan.

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I think we didn't have a good experience because half of the controllers were

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broken. Nah, Like one of the joysticks was like hanging off. Was

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this yeah it was. It was like a probably an old deteriorating rubber band

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inside of it. Yeah, there's rubber bands inside those four controllers, just

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like, yeah, how did I expect that to last? Like a year?

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Yeah? That was ridiculous elastic bands. Yeah, they think what dud.

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Wow. Anyway, I got some more questions here, Steve. Do

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you have like an earliest childhood memory of you gaming? You? Actually,

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this must have been well, i'll tell you what this was. When Gold

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and I first released on the N sixty four, my father he was he

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was into it, so I was, and he was beating these he was

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beating the levels on like double O Agent mode, and he couldn't get past

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that snow level. I can't remember what it's called, but it has a

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big satellite in it. And yeah, so he couldn't get past that one.

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And one day I just went downstairs when he wasn't home, and I

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beat the level on Double O Agent and he comes back, he comes back

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from work. No you didn't, but yeah I did. You didn't believe

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me for a second. He thought he had a friend that stayed over a

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lot at the time, and he thought it was him who beat it.

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But well I was a little bit. But uh hey, I know,

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I know what you know, you know, you know what's real. The

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next question is what are you gaming on today? Did you ever get yourself

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like a nice gaming piece of you? You still on that Xbox here?

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Oh so, yes I do. There's a story to this. But I

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do have a machine. It's a machine built out of hand me down parts

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from clients at work. Right Oh yeah, so I have a whole bunch

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of pieces in there that's you know, just random pieces from the office.

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But I had to buy GPU. So right now I have a like a

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ten to fifty TI but it's not too crazy. But lately I've been on

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the Escape from Tarkov train. Oh yeah, so I've been playing that.

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They recently released PvE and that has taken over my life. That's the only

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game I played on PC. So really, so it wasn't wasn't there some

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big controversy with that was happening with Escape from Tarkov. So yeah, So

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essentially what was happening was originally they had this like one hundred and fifty dollars

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version where you get all the DLC and everything comes with it, even after

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release, and then one day they shut everything down. The game went down

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for like eight hours and it comes back up. They updated their website,

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they updated the launcher, they updated everything, and that version was gone and

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replaced with a two hundred and fifty dollars version that included everything, but that

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original version did not anymore. So it's kind of like you're buying all that

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DLC is second time. So that's what happened. That's so whoever bought that

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one hundred and fifty edition got completely screwed. Yeah, wow, greasy,

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And you want to support these people, well, listen, the product,

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the product they have is so good, but the people managing it are so

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bad that so are you? Are you part of the regional one hundred and

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fifty dollars purchasers? Yes, so you had to buy it again? Yes?

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Yeah, thats for a lot of games though. Yeah, a lot

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of games are doing that, like taking down and redoing it. I remember

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and just remember New World, the MMO that I that I bought, that

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the player count tanked so much that they're gonna completely take the game down,

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redo it into an ARPG style MMO, and re put it back up on

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Steam completely new game. Now. I don't know if they're going to make

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the original people buy it again. I think they are, so they're doing

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a Tarkov move on that game. They've also done it. There's a couple

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of other games that are doing it recently, a couple of free to play

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games that no one plays anymore. They're tearing down, remaking, putting it

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back up. But that seems to be the thing I played that the Tarkov

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competitor there, Gray Zone. Yeah, I I won't play it until they

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fix like bullet registration because I shoot people in the head and it doesn't fucking

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do anything, doesn't do it. I have a short of me sniping some

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guy in the head and it just he just he's oh, he's like oh,

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he like runs around looking for him. I'm like, I shot you

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in the and then he just like the computer it calls a bunch of people.

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Yeah, And then I get I get really far. I played for

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like three hours and I take down like a handful of guys or whatever.

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And then I get to this really sweet place, like the military base with

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all this stuff, and I'm like, oh yeah, and I see this

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guy and I take my time, I hold my breath, I put him

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in my scope and I shoot him in the head and it he just doesn't

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He gets hit, turns around and one shots me like blazer beam to my

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face. I'm like, what the fuck? Man? I was like,

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until they fix this ship, like, I'm not playing this guy? Oh,

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I mean what that can also be be? I don't know if I'd

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never played gray Zone, I've only had the experience with Tarkov. But in

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Tarkov, what what matters is the bullets you're shooting and the helmet they're wearing.

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So if you're shooting a bullet that only pierces say level one two armor

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and that helmet is a level three or he probably won't die because the bullet

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isn't going through the helmet. I'm pretty sure he wasn't wearing any helmet.

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It was like it was like a rag on it. Didn't you see like

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the Mist the Red Mists? Yeah? I saw the Red miss too.

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Okay, you see the Red Mist? Then he doesn't die? What's going

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on in this game? Like I got a refund on that game. I

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had to refund it. Yeah, I was just like, this game is

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absolutely not ready to even be in early access yet? Why? Like how

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I'm not paying for this? But yeah, I won't be playing that until

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they fix that shit. I'm gonna wait like patches and patches. I'm reading

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each patch note to see if they say anything about like bullet registration. But

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I haven't seen it yet. It's been like there's been like two or three

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patches. Fourth and last question, this is just a sideball at you,

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a curveball that I didn't prepare you for. But when you had the baby

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girl, did she completely destroy your game time? I'm asking for a friend,

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so so the answer to that question is yes, I need to schedule

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game time right now. So uh, definitely. I can't just hey,

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you know what, I'm done work, I'm gonna play some games. I

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gotta go upstairs help the wife with the baby. And then really the only

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game time I get is when the baby's down for the night and I've spent

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you know, forty five minutes to an hour with the wife, and then

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there you go. Yeah, family time first. See, yeah, I

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kind of already do that. It's in the channel. It's sleep you'll have

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to sacrifice, not all that. That's easy. I get five hours of

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sleep at night. Anyway, Oh my god, you'll get less. We'll

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get less. So was your baby sleeping through the night pretty good from the

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starter? So I've been told that we got pretty lucky with her. So

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I think around the sixth month mark she was sleeping through the night, and

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she didn't well, she came out ten pounds, like over ten pounds,

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so she was able more. She was able to keep that food in her

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for longer than other babies who are like five six pounds. Right. So

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yeah, so by six months she was asleep. But again, not all

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babies are going to be like that. Well, you're open, she's anything

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like her old man, she's gonna fucking sleep through tortatoes, hurricanes. Mom

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did say I was the best baby. Yeah that's true, so hopefully ugliest

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baby. I just picked out, you know, on mom's teet and then

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just went to bed. That's all I was about. All right, can

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here, let's get into game time. All right, we're back baby,

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So guys ver cool there, cool? We should have got a SoundBite.

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Sound bite that help your thing back up. I'll put it in. So

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we're just gonna go and tell what we've been playing, like the main one

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mentioned the others, but talk about the one. Okay, who wants to

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go first? Dan? What are you playing? Uh? Well, I

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am in the I started the process of moving, so I've actually packed a

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lot of shit up, and I don't have physical copies available in my fucking

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digital games. I don't feel like playing bullshit. I don't have game pass

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because I'm not paying money for that right now. I got a lot of

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expenses, so I actually have not been playing anything. I have not been

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playing anything other than like Switch, you know, but that's my switch,

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Like that's not really anything. Yeah, it's not really video games. Switch,

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right, Okay, And we don't need to hear about animal Crossing,

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Yeah, fifth time. Okay, you don't have game passes the best value

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in gaming? Like, No, no, I don't because they're not going

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to drop what is it? Ninety bucks for how long? How much is

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it for the year? I can get you three years a game pass for

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like one hundred bucks. Okay, I know the I know the back connections.

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Spencer fill the mouth, sp connections. I don't believe you, Daniel.

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You could also just buy like one month if you wanted to play something.

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Yeah, I suppose, but I wasn't gonna do that. Uh you

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know anyway, just a month, Jonathan, what do you play? Let

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me guess Harstone battlegrounds in Apex Legends. Yeah, don't tell us about those

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for the thirty fifth time, mister Crossing. Play a game. I played

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a game, and I beat a game. I beat it today. Let's

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you want to know what it was? You want to know what it is?

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Can you guess? There? You'll not guess? I don't think.

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Is it off my PlayStation library? No, okay, I don't know.

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I played hell Blade to send you a saga. Oh, because you beat

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the you did the first one already. Yeah, I didn't beat it.

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But wait the second one's out? When did the second one come out?

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Where have you been? Man? Under? Last month? Though I played

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the first one, I didn't finish it. I got like four or five

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hours in. I was pretty far in. But I just watched a recap

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on on the YouTube and I was like, okay, okay, I remember

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now I remember, And because this one's got the sound that you wanted to

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hear. Any you wanted to hear the sound, tell us about it,

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let's hear it. It does have sound. This is a vide game.

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This game is a feast for your senses. It's a feast. Okay.

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It was remind anyway as soon as I launched the game, and like even

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in the menu and the intro there's a little like recap video. The sound

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is so crisp. I could tell, like right away, the attention that

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went into the sound and through my Fio k Levin desktop DACK and headphone amplifier

00:23:30
and my Keiwi ears I e MS, the sound was very clear and high

00:23:37
quality. And the voices, especially like the voices that she hears. The

00:23:42
quality was one part of it, but with the voices you're you're hearing,

00:23:48
the directionality is really fucking cool, really neat When I when it first started,

00:23:53
like when you first start hearing the voices, I was like, whoa

00:23:57
really, like someone was there behind you? Yeah, it felt like there

00:24:00
was someone walking behind me back and forth, like close to me, like

00:24:07
a little bit below, like on my back, like standing very close really

00:24:11
and like walking back and forth. Like at the beginning, it was wild.

00:24:18
I find maybe the effect wore off a little bit after a while,

00:24:21
maybe because I got used to it or something like that. Or I don't

00:24:23
know if they if it was more apparent, like if they did it more

00:24:26
at the beginning, I'm not sure which. But it still sounded good the

00:24:32
whole way. But if you play the game, use headphones, use the

00:24:36
highest quality headphones you can find, I would say it is really really good.

00:24:41
So the visuals yeah, what are those turned beach? No, the

00:24:52
visuals are oh pretty much as good as the fucking sound is. Like,

00:24:56
this game is unbelieva. It's it's it looks better than Alan Alan Wake two.

00:25:03
Definitely better than Alan Wake two. I think nice. I think it's

00:25:07
looking game so far in twenty twenty four. It's the best looking game ever

00:25:11
ever. I think, like, is it Unreal Engine five. Yeah,

00:25:15
we know, yeah, I think so. Yeah. And it runs pretty

00:25:17
smoothly too. Somehow. I'm I think I'm only getting like thirty fps,

00:25:22
but like it's pretty smooth. It feels completely fine. I'm on DLSS quality

00:25:27
mode and I kept the camera sensitivity at like the default because I think any

00:25:32
faster I think you would get those weird DLS DLSS artifacts and stuff like that.

00:25:37
I was gonna ask yet, but it was okay. There's a sweet

00:25:40
there's a photo mode that literally you can you can hit at any time,

00:25:44
anytime at all, even in the middle of like a cutscene or anything.

00:25:48
You hit the photo mode and boom and it's fucking there and it's just as

00:25:52
just it's intrigued. I'm intrigued. It's fucking sweet. And the environments are

00:25:57
very impressive as well. I thought it was an excellent experience overall, and

00:26:03
I think it's something that people should check out, because I really don't think

00:26:07
I've had an experience like that actually, like a like a full a gaming

00:26:14
experience event. But but it might be because I'm experiencing it at like the

00:26:18
peak level, I think, right, because bug and the old d you

00:26:25
know what, I mean, get the old ed, get the fucking dak

00:26:27
amp, got the HDR works on this game. Oh yeah, yeah,

00:26:30
yeah, it's really nice. Yeah, it was fucking sweet. I played

00:26:36
the first one and I just wasn't a fan of how fucking slow it was.

00:26:40
It's better than the first one. It's more. I think it's well

00:26:44
from what I remember, is more engaging, Like it's more oh yeah,

00:26:48
like there's a lot of walking, but yeah, it's part of the like

00:26:52
it looks so good that you don't mind like walking around because you're just like

00:26:59
like looking at everything and there's voices at the same time, you know,

00:27:03
so like whenever you're walking, it's always like you're always listening to what they're

00:27:07
saying. And it's just it's more, it's really it's good. I thought

00:27:11
it was really good. And it's at least fucking six and a half hours

00:27:14
or something like, okay, like a weekend game. I could do that.

00:27:17
And dude, I started playing it yesterday and I beat it today.

00:27:21
Nice, Okay, cool. I was like, I'm gonna play a game

00:27:22
for the pod yep boom. I'll have to try hard on that one just

00:27:26
to get through the walking. But I think with the photo mode. I

00:27:30
think what the photo mode could push me through. The puzzles are super easy

00:27:33
to Like, should I listen on my monitor speakers? Yeah, you know

00:27:38
what, why don't you set up a little mono Bluetooth speaker. Actually my

00:27:45
twenty dollars earbuds. Then I got it. Then it's coming from right in

00:27:48
front of me. I can hear everything right in front of me. Yeah,

00:27:56
man, but yeah, it was good. I recommend checking it out.

00:28:00
And it's on game Pass. It's literally yeah, like we'll cost you

00:28:04
whatever you're paying for game Pass already. And those listen and those people are

00:28:08
like, I paid ninety dollars for a six hour game? Is that how

00:28:12
much it is? Well, if you get it on Steam and shit,

00:28:15
I'm assuming or something like, I didn't really that much a full price,

00:28:19
I'm pretty sure, but listen, but just put into it, though,

00:28:25
Just pay the twenty dollars and go rent it. Yeah, but like what

00:28:27
went into the game, Like you can tell they put a lot of You

00:28:30
can rent it by just paying a month subscription of game Pass, or if

00:28:34
you don't have to buy the game, or if you have never subed on

00:28:38
game Pass, get the what is it now? A two dollars trial for

00:28:42
a week or whatever it is. Yeah, if you're never if you're never

00:28:45
subbed, you can get a deal. Yeah, like, there's no there's

00:28:48
no reason not to have game pass, Daniel. You know. Yeah,

00:28:52
but I asked you guys question. You didn't answer my question. How much

00:28:53
is it for a year? Yeah, what'd you say? I'm the game

00:29:00
pass is for a year eighty nine, same as a full price game.

00:29:04
I think seventy nine I think or something. Now it's like one hundred and

00:29:07
thirty dollars for the Ultimate with both Oh yeah, I have Ultimate. Sorry,

00:29:11
just a game pass for consoles probably fourteen bucks a month, twelve bucks

00:29:17
a month if you by the year. Interesting, tell maybe one hundred bucks.

00:29:22
Well, I mean more games, but the more sweet games. What

00:29:25
you do on it? Like this is what you do? You go to

00:29:26
game Go, buy three years of game Pass core the base level. Oh

00:29:32
yes, okay, then you upgrade and then you upgrade to Ultimate for like

00:29:38
peanuts and then you save all this money. Yeah, what is it?

00:29:44
I don't know if they've changed it or anything, but I think it was

00:29:45
just like you just upgrade to it and it and it shortens the time.

00:29:51
But you get game Pass Ultimate or a game Pass mid Tier, but it

00:29:55
shortens the time, but it still saves you like eight bucks a month in

00:29:59
total. Like that's what I did. I did. I bought a year

00:30:02
of game Pass Core and I upgraded it. No, I bought two years

00:30:07
of game Pass cord upgraded to Ultimate, and I had like a year and

00:30:10
a half of Ultimate, and I saved like almost ten bucks a month or

00:30:14
something stupid interesting. I think I did the same thing. Yeah. Yeah,

00:30:18
anyway, good good game, very very well done, very well done.

00:30:22
I also bought ghost Runner on Steam. Yeah, that kind of cyberpunk

00:30:29
looking one. Yeah, it's like a level eraser who just runs level cool.

00:30:34
Yeah, I haven't rumber To number two looked sick. There's second ones

00:30:38
out ghost Running. I just like the way I like like wall running and

00:30:41
wall jumping and Cha Steve. Oh yeah right now I'm skip like jumping through

00:30:52
multiple games wondering a cyberpunk Tarkov and I'm trying out Next Defiant. So uh,

00:31:03
it's I mean for a brand new arena shooter US never done. I

00:31:07
mean it's it's all right. I mean there are still some you know,

00:31:14
crazy overpowered like abilities, especially those like inceniary rounds and all my the bomb

00:31:23
drop the drop bomb, but guy just runs by drops. They just has

00:31:27
fire is fireball Yeah, so like in that those those fire bullet's, like

00:31:33
the cool down seems so quick or well, I don't I don't know what

00:31:37
it is. But you can get hit in the chest with a with a

00:31:40
sniper and survive and then kill him, but because of that bird effect,

00:31:44
you die. Like it's just I find it so crazy and like the good

00:31:56
don't take that one away. It's the one I use I used to.

00:32:00
Yeah, they nerved what did they nerve? They nerved they said they jumping.

00:32:04
Yeah, they get like penalties if you abuse bunny hopping. Yeah.

00:32:09
I don't know if that if it actually did anything though, because I saw

00:32:13
a video that some guy was testing and he's like, this feels exactly the

00:32:15
same as before. It's very fast that game. But they nerved snipers.

00:32:21
They made them have more flinch, more sniper flinch, which is good,

00:32:24
I fucking because PC lobbies are just like all snipers. It's also ann slower

00:32:31
yeah, slower movement speed. Yeah. The net code kind of sucks in

00:32:36
the game though, Like it's just like the hit registration is horrible. I

00:32:38
get shot through fucking walls and like concrete. It's really bad, but so

00:32:45
I put it away for a while. I would go back once they fix

00:32:49
it and figured out. But it's pretty fun. It's fun game. Like

00:32:52
I've I've noticed that, like run behind them all like oh yeah, I

00:32:53
like I'm behind a wall. I've been a concrete statue and there's I literally

00:33:01
see the bullets coming through it and hitting me and I die like like what

00:33:07
the fuck? Man? Oh man, any el Steve. Oh. Game

00:33:13
wise, I don't think so just those three. I was trying Steel Rising

00:33:19
the other day. That's like Souls, like, you know, you're like

00:33:23
this mechanical AI thing, yeah, AI robot type thing, and it's pretty

00:33:30
good. I mean it's a little bit easier than Dark Souls, but it's

00:33:32
it's keeping me entertained. Are you a Dark Souls fan? Are you an

00:33:37
elden Ring fan? I so I never played any Dark Souls and then even

00:33:42
Souls, none of that, and then when elden Ring came out, I

00:33:44
tried it and I play. Yeah, I couldn't put it down. Yeah,

00:33:51
uh that leads me into what I'm playing guys. Oh yeah, I'm

00:33:54
just gonna mention what I'm playing. I'll give you a list and then i'll

00:33:57
go into what I'm like focusing on. Okay, so Kingdom Come Deliverance.

00:34:01
Oh, get back into that. I've been playing it all My Legion Go

00:34:06
actually fucking fantastic, so good on my Legion Go. It runs sixty fps

00:34:10
on there like medium graphics. Oh it's crazy. Yeah, playing that,

00:34:15
I got back into the Lords of the Fallen, the recent kind of souls

00:34:22
like game where you're hopping between the world's there, the living world, the

00:34:25
dead world. I'm yeah, it's on game Pass. Because it's on game

00:34:30
Pass. Our buddies over at Gaming Together podcast, Phil and Nave are doing

00:34:35
an episode on it. Since I've already played through it, I'm co oping

00:34:38
with them and I'm helping them through the levels and stuff like that. It's

00:34:43
it's a good time. It's definitely a good time. So look out for

00:34:45
that episode on their pod. Should be coming up the next couple of weeks.

00:34:51
But what I've been really focusing on is elden Ring because of the new

00:34:54
DLC that's coming. Wait, you recorded an episode with them about it.

00:35:00
We're recording on Monday. Oh, okay, but elden Ring. So I

00:35:05
first played it on PS five. I bought it on PS five. I

00:35:08
put like ninety hours into it. Maybe it's something that and I beat it,

00:35:13
punished myself, beat it, got through it, right, and I

00:35:16
was like, oh, I sell this thing. I'll never play it again.

00:35:19
Okay, So then all this urd Tree shit starts happening, right,

00:35:23
I was like, okay, well, I thought i'd I thought i'd buy

00:35:25
it on PC if it ever went on sale. But I could never find

00:35:29
a sale for elden Ring right, Like, it never went on sale.

00:35:32
It was always eighty bucks Canadian, always more like nerd Tree. Then I

00:35:45
was like, you know what, fucking I'll get the combo. I'll get

00:35:47
the urd Tree elden Ring combo on Steam. Found it on fanatical dot com

00:35:52
for ninety three dollars Canadian. Hey, no free ads here, we'll bleep

00:35:57
that out. So I've been playing with that now. Playing it on PC

00:36:02
is about one thousand times better than on console. Okay, And I'll tell

00:36:08
you why. I didn't want to spend another eighty hours get my ass kicked,

00:36:14
just to get to the part where I can go into the DLC world,

00:36:16
Right, so I loaded up with a bunch of mods moded Elden Ring.

00:36:22
You cheated, yeah, yes, But the mods, the kind of

00:36:31
mods I put on, there was ultra wide support. He's just got like

00:36:37
nude mods. There is nude mods. I want to do eighty hours of

00:36:43
grinding. I put at my own dick. So I put nude, big

00:36:46
titty mods, the monties on the big monsters that I'm finding. So all

00:37:00
that's wide support. Because I didn't have it for some stupid reason. What

00:37:04
fps unlock because it's locked at sixty fps even on PC. You can't even

00:37:10
put it up in their settings in the game. Some four Tech from four

00:37:15
K textra packs graphic upgrades, and I did some reshade. If you guys

00:37:22
don't know what reshade is, it's like a color grading and effects adder adds

00:37:27
that kind of shit. And I added easy mode, so easy mode,

00:37:35
let me tell you about this, because I didn't want to spend it because

00:37:37
I got a week to beat everything until the DLC, so I want to

00:37:40
get everything done. So it gives me twenty five extra twenty five percent extra

00:37:45
damage on any bad guy, and it takes their damage down by twenty five

00:37:52
percent, So it's probably actually just like a normal it's like a norm RPG

00:38:00
right now, and it's fucking amazing. Okay, it's amazing. Still there's

00:38:05
fights that like are hard because you still have to learn the mechanics, right,

00:38:09
like sometimes you can you'll die a handful of times on certain bosses because

00:38:14
they're just that hard, right, But like it's actually like doable. I'm

00:38:19
playing through it. I'm gonna get to the part where the DLC starts,

00:38:22
and then I'm gonna turn everything off except for Ultra Wide Support because I have

00:38:25
to have that, and then I'm gonna jump into the DLC with my character.

00:38:31
At I think they recommended like one hundred level, like one hundred and

00:38:36
fifty for the DLC or something like that. Yeah, they say the DLC

00:38:38
is gonna whoop your ass geez. So I'll get to that point. But

00:38:45
really really cool, and it looks amazing with all like the four K mod

00:38:51
and the reshade. It looks unbelievable. It looks so good. And then

00:38:55
I noticed that there was this over sharp and filter on the game, and

00:39:01
I was like, why is this so sharp? It's ugly, it's disgusting,

00:39:06
Like why do they do this? Right, it's because it's a console

00:39:08
port, right, So on the consoles they upscale everything, and without scaling,

00:39:14
they had to add a sharpening filter to it, right, just to

00:39:17
sharpen it more. I hate that. So when they put it on a

00:39:21
PC. Yeah, so when they put it on PC, they didn't take

00:39:23
the sharpening filter away, so people are running it on max graphics and the

00:39:27
sharpening filter's still there, so it's making everything look disgusting. So you actually

00:39:31
have to get a mod to take the sharpening filter off, which I did,

00:39:36
and it looks unbelievable, looks so fucking good. So that's what I'm

00:39:42
doing. Hopefully I don't get banned when I go into the DLC, because

00:39:45
apparently you can get banned with like any kind of mod, even the wide

00:39:50
screen mod. I'm gonna try it. If I got banned, I get

00:39:52
thrown into a server with a bunch of cheaters, but I can still play

00:39:57
the game. Imagine it's like Grand Theft Auto online. But yeah, that's

00:40:04
that's what I've been playing. I'm like twenty hours in. I'm just just

00:40:08
I just like seeing the world, running around the world and not having to

00:40:14
like get my palms all sweaty and you know, just get ready to get

00:40:17
ready for every single fight, even like a zombie that's walking down the street.

00:40:22
You know, like every single fight. I just go in there and

00:40:25
take care of business, taking care of business. But that's it. That's

00:40:31
all. Wow, that's impressive, very nice. Why don't we get into

00:40:38
the met topic. Yeah, so let's head it to it. We're gonna

00:40:43
be talking about Xbox Showcase, the Xbox Hype, and what other other showcases

00:40:49
there were. Let's do it is this Xbox Year find out? Yeah,

00:40:54
next time on Dragonball Z. Well, guys, last week's been pretty big.

00:41:12
We got the Summer what's called Summer game Fest. Yeah, twenty twenty

00:41:15
four. We had the Xbox Showcase, we had the PC Gaming Show,

00:41:19
we had the Ubisoft Forward, we had the PlayStation Stay of Play a week

00:41:23
before that. Right, lots of gaming shit happening, lots to look forward

00:41:28
to. Yeh, there's lots to watch. Did you did you? Okay?

00:41:32
Did you watch everything? I think I did? I skimmed through everything.

00:41:37
Yep. I've got a pretty good idea, mostly about the Xbox Showcase.

00:41:40
But then I watched this the gamer Fest, let's call the Summer Game

00:41:44
Fest. I don't know that I watched that. I don't know that I

00:41:45
watched that. God, can we just talk about for the Xbox Show.

00:41:50
That was awful stink first Summer stink Fest, am I right? Okay?

00:41:54
But the PC Gaming Show was worse. Oh yeah, it was way worse

00:42:00
than the Summer Games Fest. Isn't it part of the Summer Game Fest?

00:42:04
I don't think so. It was a summerate thing. There was not one

00:42:07
game that I even care to mention, and it was three fucking hours long.

00:42:12
Wow. Really like it was way worse than the Summer Game Fest.

00:42:15
At least Summer game Fest had Kingdom Come Too and Alan Wake two. Oh

00:42:19
yeah, that's two games that I would play. Zero games. I did

00:42:23
watch the Kingdom Come to feature or a nice chunk of it from Summer Games

00:42:28
Fest. Actually, but that's all. Yeah, looks so good. It

00:42:31
looks I can't wait, I can't wait. I think that was my highlight

00:42:35
of the Summer Game Fest that one. There. Yeah, seeing Henry come

00:42:37
back, ready to go, Henry scallots Jesus Christ, Henry. There's a

00:42:43
log you can get that instead of people saying Jesus Christ, it's Henry.

00:42:45
So like Henry be praised. Oh, Henry, Henry, be praised.

00:42:51
Henry, grant me strength. It looks like it could be just as good.

00:42:58
I'll play it, playing through the first one right now. You guys

00:43:00
gotta give it uneasy or something you just put on easy. Just blast,

00:43:05
it's easy. I don't think there's easy, is there? No, there's

00:43:07
no easy. There's the mechanics. You have to learn how to you have

00:43:12
to learn how to swing that stupid fucking sword, yes, and block.

00:43:15
So right now I'm stuck with I've got like this little thing of health trying

00:43:20
to get this boss. Because the save is right before I start the fight

00:43:22
with the boss, so I can't do anything. I can't even drink a

00:43:24
potion because it's like you're in battle, Like it's so stupid. You can't

00:43:29
load to a previous saved. Yeah, so I had to go. I

00:43:31
had to go back before the make sure you've seen Evasion of the Camp.

00:43:37
So I was like, ah, so like two hours before that. So

00:43:38
now I'm just gonna grind. I'm just gonna grind hack some bandits, you

00:43:43
know, with my human sword. I'm trying to uh if that, I

00:43:47
guess for those who haven't played, you know, spoilers. There is a

00:43:51
particular enemy that you have to fight, and I'm trying to remember if he

00:43:54
was if he gave me any grief, I just don't remember. I could

00:43:59
have strung, but no. I ran the line that everyone thought he was

00:44:02
super easy. They just one shot him when they go in there. I

00:44:05
was like what. I was like, how are you one shotting this guy?

00:44:07
They're like, oh, I was so overly leveled for him and just

00:44:10
one shot him in the head. I was like, well, I can't

00:44:14
one shot him. So all right, Steve, what did you think about

00:44:19
the Summer Game Fest? You're telling me it was a big stinker? It

00:44:22
was. It was a very big stinker. I mean, I understand what

00:44:25
Jeff is going for. He's going for all these indie titles that he wants

00:44:30
to like show to the world, but unfortunately most of the world doesn't care

00:44:36
about them. And this guy. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's a tough

00:44:39
thing to hear, but like, if you're going to put on this massive

00:44:43
show and only show like these indie games that like, well barely sell,

00:44:51
then I don't know, it's just it'll sell. I'm not saying I won't

00:44:55
sell. There are people who will play indie games, but a big market

00:45:00
video games. It's all Triple A and everything, And there was very little

00:45:04
trip A there. And they even ended with this like PS five exclusive that

00:45:08
wasn't even new, it was just and if we've already seen gameplay on it,

00:45:13
they just showed a little bit more. So this big final event was

00:45:16
a game we've already seen and which one was just it was Phantom zero I

00:45:21
think it was. Yes, yes, it's PS five Souls like, I

00:45:24
think I'll probably never play it. Unfortunately, because I'm not a PlayStation gamer,

00:45:29
I thought the focus was on smaller titles and it's unfortunate. The same

00:45:34
thing for the PC game game thing. Yeah, it was just like little

00:45:37
two D little dicky looking things. I'm like, fast forward, fast forward.

00:45:40
Also, PC Gamer didn't even have freaking time stamps on the in the

00:45:46
in the video like learn how to use YouTube. Every other game show had

00:45:52
them, so I could skip. What do you do? Should shouldn't they

00:45:53
have like an indie game fest within the summer game fest weekend? Just have

00:45:59
like a in the showcase? Yeah I agree with that. Yeah, so

00:46:02
that when you sit down, you know that's what you're about to watch.

00:46:05
Fucking trailers for instead of being like, Okay, I'm gonna sit here for

00:46:07
three hours and then and then you're just like, oh, another indie game.

00:46:10
Maybe there's something else that's coming up next that's not something so small.

00:46:14
Maybe it's something like a big deal. No, and you're like, yeah,

00:46:17
we're gonna make a little couple of people out happy. We'll talk about

00:46:21
here. But you know what, I don't care. It's our show,

00:46:23
so you'll hear you to my house. But like, nothing really big stuck

00:46:31
out to me Summer Game Fest, like the PlayStation game at the end,

00:46:35
super Ground zero, Like look good, I'm gonna I'm gonna play it.

00:46:38
Is that what it's called Fantom zero or Phantom Zero's Phantom something? Yeah,

00:46:45
Phantom Blade zero Blade zero. There we go. Yeah. That and Kingdom

00:46:50
Come To That was the only thing that really stuck it that I can even

00:46:52
remember from the shop Kingdom Come To Definitely. I probably won't even I don't

00:46:58
know if I'll play the Alan Wake DLC. I don't know. Man,

00:47:01
you guys should, although you guys should play on I'm very curious. Yeah,

00:47:07
Okay, it's good, it's good, it's good. Anything else in

00:47:10
the Summer Game Fest. Did you guys no, okay, no speaking a

00:47:15
forward? You be soft forward? Did you skip through that any bits?

00:47:20
No? I I skipped through it and watched the main parts, the main

00:47:23
parts being Star Wars. Yeah, Star Wars and ass Creed. Mm hmm

00:47:30
sad, yeah, yes, ask Creed shad you want to talk about that

00:47:37
shadows? Well, yeah, I'd like to talk about shadows, Steve.

00:47:40
Were you a big Assassin's Creed guy? Here's the thing with Assassin's Creed.

00:47:45
I I played. I think it was the second Assassin's Creed. I played

00:47:50
through it all. I love Assassin's Creed too. I played through it all,

00:47:52
and then I sort of skipped the next few until that one where it

00:47:58
was in England I think it was. I played for all that. That

00:48:04
was fantastic. Yeah yah yeah yeah yeah yeah. So and then I sort

00:48:10
of skipped a few again, and then I played the Spartan one. Yeah

00:48:16
yeah, so I didn't finish unfortunately, so I don't. And then I

00:48:22
went to the Viking one I played. I played a lot of that.

00:48:28
I think the screens games though, it's just they're so they've become so long

00:48:32
and so massive, like my attention span can't stay there for like one hundred

00:48:37
and fifty hours, and I just I ended up stop. I stopped playing,

00:48:40
so I skipped Mirage. I'm a big samurai theme fan, so I'm

00:48:46
going to give this one a sean Yeah. Nice, same. Yeah.

00:48:49
Mirage was supposed to be short. I played thirty three minutes of it speaking.

00:48:59
But yeah, this one' supposed to be like the map size isn't all

00:49:01
of Japan like you would think you'd be soft would do right, it's like

00:49:05
the whole world. It's the whole world's ship, but they say it's a

00:49:10
smaller scope and you're they're focusing on like more of like you know that story

00:49:15
driven. You got two characters, right, you got the female ninja the

00:49:21
is that what they call? And then you got Yaske, the black samurai

00:49:28
man. That's right. And I gotta tell you I'm not a very big

00:49:31
sneaky guy, Okay, so I'm probably gonna take Yaske and just bulldoze through

00:49:37
every fucking house that I could through. Let me think. You know,

00:49:39
you don't think you played both? You can't. I think they said you

00:49:43
can, and you can play through most of the game with just one if

00:49:45
you want. Okay, there might be a few, like key quests that

00:49:51
you jump on the other one for you know, and vice versa, but

00:49:53
they said most of the game can be played on one character if you really

00:49:55
want choice. I like choice. You give me choice, Okay, give

00:50:00
me choices. But play looked pretty sweet, like her jumping around and climbing

00:50:07
the walls with the ninjas and all that. Yeah, pretty sick too,

00:50:09
Yeah, it looks I mean, I don't I don't suppose I'll get into

00:50:14
this Assassin's screed game all of a sudden after not yeah, playing other ones,

00:50:17
but fans of that Japanese era and all that style will likely want to

00:50:22
check it out from the look at it. But you know again that like

00:50:27
we said that you'disoft Giant World one hundred hours game, it's not really calling

00:50:31
to me. Okay, it's not calling to me, Okay. After trying

00:50:36
to play Valhalla, Yeah, I tried to play it four times. I

00:50:39
tried to play that game for I kept picking it up, put it played

00:50:43
fifteen hours, to put it down, pick it up, playing on fifteen

00:50:45
hours, put it down? Like where the end is this game? Dude?

00:50:49
I played like twenty hours. I just made it to fucking England,

00:50:52
and I was like, there's more after Vikingland? What oh yeah, oh

00:50:57
you didn't get the main game. I know, it's literally the whole game

00:51:00
is after that part the hell. But what I like about what I saw

00:51:07
from the gameplay from the inn ub Soft forward is that like, it's not

00:51:12
because remember how I was talking about it just better not be the same fucking

00:51:15
shit in terms of the mechanics, in terms of the way it looks like

00:51:17
combah blah blah blah the movement. It doesn't look like it's leaning into the

00:51:22
boring, old same shit I've been afraid of. It looks like they've overhauled

00:51:25
the movement because you've got these unique characters that have their different styles and so

00:51:30
they're kind of obviously the gameplay has to change. It can't just be like

00:51:34
et CEO from Number two There, Steve. It can't be like it can't

00:51:38
be like Edward Kenway from Black Flag, even though that's my favorite Assassin's Creed.

00:51:47
But yeah, so I think that it actually started. It started.

00:51:50
I'm starting to seeing something that I'm very interested and wanted to see from the

00:51:54
beginning with this game in particular. Now I'm gonna wait for the reviews and

00:52:00
read the reviews because you be soft. Because there's such a scum bag company,

00:52:07
the slime balls of the earth of the gaming world, They're gonna have

00:52:13
to work pretty hard to get my money. I hate their pricing models,

00:52:16
I hate their micro transactions, I hate their stupid currencies. I hate their

00:52:21
in game even on constantly. They now have the Ubi Soft Connect that you

00:52:24
could go into and purchase shit. They're like, man, it's crazy.

00:52:30
Also, they take ownership of the game. You don't even own any Ubi

00:52:34
Soft games even when you pay hundred dollars for them. They'll just take them

00:52:37
down in ten years, so you can't play them anymore. Like what happened

00:52:39
to Uh fucking what is it? Motorfest? What the hell is called Crew?

00:52:44
The Crew? The Crew update for the Crew? No, the old

00:52:47
ones? They just took them down. You bought them? Yeah, too

00:52:51
bad. Sorry, you can't play your fucking game anymore. This is what

00:52:54
is wrong with Ubi Soft. Okay, this is what I don't like about

00:53:00
them. Their scum. If anybody from Ubi softs work is listing to this,

00:53:05
I hope you change your ways. You're Canadian, you know, Canadian

00:53:08
started company I'm pretty sure it's not Canadian values. Guys. You should you

00:53:15
should get over yourself. No, I think they started in here, yeah,

00:53:19
Montreal. I think the starter is a there is one. Oh,

00:53:22
they're all over but I think the ones developing shadows are as Montreal. Yeah,

00:53:25
but I think the main headquarters is in Montreal. Yeah yeah, I

00:53:29
think so. Yeah. So you're saying that I need to have an online

00:53:31
internet connection and connect to their servers just to fucking play a single player game,

00:53:36
is what you're telling me. Yeah, and then they'll be able to

00:53:37
take it down later and say fuck you. Yeah, that's dumb me.

00:53:42
Noiky Anyway, Well, I would rather play Star Wars Outlaws. Oh really,

00:53:50
yes, I think it would much. I would much rather play Star

00:53:53
Wars game, have it in a long time. I like the idea.

00:53:57
Yeah, me to Wars game too. I like the idea of Star Wars

00:54:01
games. I just don't play them. I don't know why exactly, because

00:54:06
they're not what you want. Yeah, and you go to play them and

00:54:08
it's not what you like. I think you know why. It comes back

00:54:10
it stems from those N sixty four Star Wars games. Oh yeah, I

00:54:15
think that's what it's got that one back there, Steve, I do I

00:54:19
do the Empire Rogue Squadron. Yeah, there's one more bat Yeah, yes

00:54:29
there was a new one. Yeah. I like the Empire one Empire strikes

00:54:32
Back or Shadowed the Empire Shadow you play render dash Rendar. He was another

00:54:43
bounty hunter. Yeah. Books, it's it actually takes place between Empire strikes

00:54:49
Back and Jedi. That's cool, and it's a sweet story. Like I

00:54:52
read the book. It was cool. But yeah, it was an excellent

00:54:55
game and I loved that game. And I think, just like every since

00:55:00
then, we played Star Wars the MMO there the Old Republic, what is

00:55:07
that was sweet? I mean I like the I like looking at Star Wars

00:55:12
games like I. I tried playing or Fallen Order, the first one,

00:55:20
the first one fall in Order. I did too. It was it was

00:55:23
too much of like a soul's like though for me it was too hard.

00:55:28
I didn't like it. It's like I don't want to do that. I

00:55:30
don't want a Star Wars game. That is that. I liked the combat

00:55:35
and I liked the lightsaber like all that. I likes the combat. I

00:55:37
couldn't dodge anything. Everything I dodged you would still hit me. It was

00:55:39
so stupid. So this one doesn't look that hard though. It looks like

00:55:45
more simple, more like I can sneak around and be a thief. Yeah,

00:55:49
I would like to be a sneaky thief and a star. She's a

00:55:52
nobody, right, she's just she's a faceless she's a face, she's a

00:55:58
what do they call her? What's she has? A a scoundrel? Scoundrel?

00:56:04
Scoundrel? Yeah, solo first smoke. You know the first open world

00:56:09
Star Wars game? Is that what they said? That's what they said.

00:56:12
But it's open world. There's more than one world, so what does that

00:56:15
mean? Oh did you watch World? When did you watch when they flew

00:56:19
into the planet it was seamless? Yeah? Did you see that? And

00:56:22
then clouds? I was gonna say, like, okay, some clouds as

00:56:29
a loading screen, I think, yes, exactly creative with the loading screen.

00:56:32
Don't give me a loading screen. But it was freaking most Eyesley tad

00:56:37
Wine like, yeah, you're gonna be able to go to that's cool.

00:56:43
Not a lot of people are pumped about this though, Really, I don't

00:56:45
know why they say. It looks kind of boring, looks kind of boring.

00:56:50
Maybe it's just one of those games you can just get lost and you

00:56:52
know. Maybe what they showed though, I understand why people are saying it

00:56:57
looks boring, because you know, there was like five minutes of walking and

00:57:00
then the person shot like two three people, and then more walking and then

00:57:05
a drive sequence, and that was pretty much more showing the environment and showing

00:57:09
off the the you know. Streaming at my TV, I was like,

00:57:13
can you show me the running animation? Run? Say with Assassin screed.

00:57:21
That was when they were showing the Samurai and he'd look at stuff and he'd

00:57:23
comment on it, and we'd be like, am I gonna be listening to

00:57:25
these comments the entire game? This guy is just looking at stuff and talking

00:57:30
about it. But yeah, I see like what they showed for Star Wars

00:57:34
was very frame rate down. Man, they keep the frame too bad.

00:57:38
They just want to just walk in the demo, don't. Yeah that's actually

00:57:43
probably true, probably true, But yeah I want I want to play it.

00:57:47
I think me too, Yeah so do I. I'm not going to

00:57:51
pay their two hundred dollars. You'd be soft price though, so you know

00:57:54
what you could probably do? Huh? Like I was listening to the Friday

00:57:59
Night the Friday Night Game Cast boys, and they're like, oh, just

00:58:02
wait six months, it's gonna be twenty dollars, you know, like every

00:58:07
other Ubisoft game, Like they'll hit you with a two hundred price tag up

00:58:09
front, and then in six months it's fifty. It's like thirty bucks.

00:58:13
Yeah, that's what I do with Assassin's Creed. I buy them like a

00:58:15
year later when all their DLC is in package and boom, because is going

00:58:20
to try to just take you for all your worth up front, and then

00:58:23
they'll just give it to you later on in game pass like a year later,

00:58:25
you know what I mean. Like Sculling Bones, it's already thirty dollars.

00:58:31
That just came out so hard. Oh yeah, there's a reason it's

00:58:36
thirty dollars. Oh my god. All right, shall we get into the

00:58:38
meet here the Xbox Showcase, shall we? Yes, sir. So what

00:58:44
we're gonna do is we're gonna go through the game list. I took out

00:58:49
really crappy games that no one will probably have on their list. Yeah,

00:58:52
but I'll just touch on every game because there's a fucking lot that are probably

00:58:58
yeah not well, I'll say I'll say the name of the game, and

00:59:00
if someone has something to say, you say, you're blurb. That's all

00:59:02
it is, okay, uh ow uh. So I'm just gonna start off

00:59:07
with the first game. We're gonna talk about the Call of Duty Black Ops

00:59:10
six. Okay, Steve, this is for you. Well, you're gonna

00:59:15
be surprised about my opinion on that. Oh really, Oh yeah, after

00:59:20
watching the direct, this actually looks like something that I would definitely play.

00:59:25
Like, I'm not a huge cod fan, Like I do enjoy the campaigns.

00:59:29
I enjoy the multiplayer until I absolutely get spanked by a bunch of cheaters,

00:59:34
right, but like I can always rely on a call a Call of

00:59:36
Duty game campaign to keep me interested and shoot and blow stuff up. It's

00:59:40
like Michael Bay movies for me exactly, you know, and I'm and I'm

00:59:45
all, I'm all for that. It's a cinematic experience. Yeah. Yeah,

00:59:49
but you're not gonna buy the game, no fuck no? Why yeah,

00:59:53
never buy it. That's see what we're gonna say before because games we're

00:59:58
on game pass here. Yeah yeah, this is the reason. Yeah,

01:00:01
So with with this new Call Duty, I completely agree with the campaign aspect.

01:00:07
I love callaudy campaigns. They're just mindless explosions and yeah, it's just

01:00:10
it's awesome. But I feel like since twenty nineteen, the last game called

01:00:15
it the game Want to Wearfair, the remake in twenty nineteen, that is

01:00:19
the last one I have sunk time into. Really yeah, so like multiplayer

01:00:23
wise, since then, war Zone has become a gong show, Like I

01:00:30
could talk about that for three hours of how garbage it is. But the

01:00:36
only thing that they've got going right now for me anyways is Trey Ark,

01:00:38
who is the next one in Zombies. I absolutely love Zombies. I can

01:00:44
play Bummies for hours and hours and hours, and it's unfortunate that's that's the

01:00:47
only thing they've got going now. Well it unfortunately Call Duty is too big

01:00:53
to fail, so they could pump out anything, rehash anything, and players

01:01:00
will just yeah, oh yeah, sink their teeth into it and buy everything.

01:01:02
And this is why Microsoft bought them. But yes, and I honestly,

01:01:07
I don't think we're gonna notice any sort of change with Call of Duty

01:01:10
and how they look at the game, because right now they're looking at the

01:01:15
game as a revenue stream. They're not looking at it the game as a

01:01:20
game. They're not listening to players. They're like, hey, here's this

01:01:23
forty dollars cosmetic pack, buy it, Like that's what they're holding it,

01:01:30
and uh, I mean and it was I love so at the end of

01:01:32
their twenty five minute little spiel on the showcase, they're like, hey,

01:01:37
don't forget to buy the battle Pass. Don't forget to buy cod Yeah,

01:01:40
it's just like, oh my god. And now because it's on game Pass,

01:01:45
they're gonna they're gonna ring shove that down. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

01:01:50
Because so Microsoft bought them what last year and it just went through this

01:01:52
year or something like that. So I don't think we're gonna see a change

01:01:55
in that in that sort of view of call of duty. I say at

01:02:01
least two or three more call duties because Activision already has plans before Microsoft both

01:02:07
them, they're already developing these call duty games that come out. So I

01:02:13
say, you know, two three years down the road, that's when things

01:02:15
are going to start changing, Like you mean, like instead of a call

01:02:17
of duty every year or every six months, whatever whatever it is, now,

01:02:22
I find every every every day, every day, there's a new call

01:02:25
of duty. But well, you know what they'll have to start doing is

01:02:30
selling hard drives with the games. Yes, tell me how big this one's

01:02:34
going to be, Jonathan, Why don't you tell me how big this one's

01:02:36
going to be. Well, I've had a report here that the Xbox website

01:02:39
says Call of Duty Black Ops six ways in had an eye watering a three

01:02:45
hundred and nine point eighty five gigabytes. Yeah, and it's because you you

01:02:50
have to install their like launch your application first and then you play Black Ops,

01:02:55
which is another install, and it's just this whole Ah, it's just

01:03:00
that's the size of the Series S hard drive. Yeah, yeah, no,

01:03:05
wonder they're coming out with a new Series S. It's because they need

01:03:07
to fit Call of Duty on there, like holy fuck man, it's yeah,

01:03:13
it's ugly. It's ugly. And on PC it's ugly too, because

01:03:15
yeah, there's like this weird launcher where you can go into like war Zone,

01:03:20
you go into you can go into Modern War for two, modernmar for

01:03:22
three, all the different games you launch from the same kind of thing and

01:03:25
then it launches something else. Right now, what they're doing is if you

01:03:30
want to play Diablow on PC through game Pass, it just installs the Blizzard

01:03:35
launcher anyway, and then just launches it from the Blizzard launcher, Like it's

01:03:38
so stupid. I hate having all these launchers. Yeah, but I think

01:03:44
that I think that'll probably go away the Actually maybe not the launcher because it's

01:03:50
so but you know what it is. Do you think it's because there's all

01:03:52
these different modes and everything. You can uncheck them and install just the campaign

01:03:57
if you want, probably, and and so it might be smaller than three

01:04:02
hundred and ten gigs, I would hope by fuck. Yeah, I'm only

01:04:05
putting the campaign on. Yeah, I'll play a campaign on game Pass for

01:04:10
sure. There. That'd be awesome. If there are parts like modular,

01:04:14
like install modular installs would be awesome, Like if I just if you just

01:04:16
want to play the fucking campaign, you just install that kind of thing.

01:04:19
I think that's the way it is. I believe that's the way it is.

01:04:21
Yeah. I think now I think they should sell each sell it,

01:04:27
yeah, exactly, like campaign multiplayer. Yeah, just sell that. That's

01:04:32
that's the one that's been thinking for the past few ones that have come out

01:04:36
because of the space issue, but also the fact that I don't give a

01:04:40
flying fuck about the multiplayer. I will never play Call of Duty multiplayer ever

01:04:43
again. I stopped with Modern Warfare. I think the team that is true

01:04:46
of most people would yes, well, like if they start, if they

01:04:50
made the multiplayer free to play, no one would buy. You would buy

01:04:55
the game. Maybe no, you wouldn't even buy the game, like,

01:04:57
no one would buy the game if they may multiplayer. I wouldn't buy the

01:05:00
game if it was, of course, but this one looks like something I

01:05:05
very much want to play. The campaign paid I played world I played a

01:05:10
World War two story was awesome. I really enjoyed that. That was like

01:05:13
the last Call of Duty one I played, but it was it was giving

01:05:15
me some like Phantom liberty vibes kind of songs, cyberpunk because it was very

01:05:20
espionage and spy, kind of thrilling looking because you're you're like rogue agents,

01:05:26
right, I hear. It's a lot of Call of Dude players favorites.

01:05:30
What is the the World War two campaign? No, No, I'm talking

01:05:33
about the well the new one. Yeah, the new one, yeah,

01:05:39
I said. The last one I played was World War Two, But this

01:05:41
one will be something I want to play because it looks like Phantom liberty kind

01:05:45
of thing, like your rogue agents sort of thing. Yeah. I played

01:05:48
Modern War for twenty nineteen campaign, and then I played the Black Ops Cold

01:05:54
World campaign, which was really cool. That was I think the first game

01:05:58
that I played with Rachel Racing yes day. It was like November twenty twenty.

01:06:03
Yeah, that was really fucking cool. I can't think there's six Black

01:06:08
Ops, Like, do need guy the other ones to know what the fuck

01:06:11
who these characters are? Like? It sounds like, yeah, I think

01:06:15
it's it is. I think it's the characters that are returning. This one

01:06:17
is a direct sequel with the Black Ops too. U Okay, well I

01:06:21
guess all YouTube Yeah yeah Black Ops too. So yeah, a few new

01:06:29
features guys. Is the omni movement. Oh yeah about for the campaign and

01:06:34
the multiplayer is just gonna just be people bouncing off walls and fucking but there's

01:06:40
wall running and jumping slipping around. No, no, it's just your character

01:06:44
moves like the hip the hip joints are different, like you can like turn

01:06:47
and the way you strafe is all different, and and you can now when

01:06:50
you're prone instead of having to just turn around like lying on the ground,

01:06:55
your your body turns over. Yeah. So it's just it's a lot more

01:07:00
seamless yeah game movement, right, yeah, okay, right, well it's

01:07:05
more like a rotation. Yes. Interesting. Interesting. The other thing I

01:07:12
thought was really cool was the custom hud yea movement pieces. You can move

01:07:16
the hut around like like a mod like World War War War, World Warcraft,

01:07:21
you know, you could. You can put the map down here,

01:07:26
you can put your AMMO in health and like the center of the screen like

01:07:28
that kind of ship you can move around. That is cool. I like

01:07:31
that. I like that a lot. Uh. And they said they're focusing

01:07:35
on smaller maps or something like that, three lane maps. They're going,

01:07:39
yeah, they're going back to maps three yeah yeah, yeah yeah, And

01:07:43
that I think is pretty cool. Like you're going to get into the fire

01:07:45
fighting even faster than usual. I think that's pretty cool. Well, that's

01:07:49
a problem I have with X Defiant too. The maps are just like there's

01:07:53
too many angles, there's too much there's too many places to get chopped from.

01:07:58
Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, like you have to crawl through a

01:08:00
map or get sniped by someone on the who knows where, you don't even

01:08:03
know. It's so annoying. But yeah, I'm down for the campaign on

01:08:09
this one. That you can always rely on Call of Duty games to really

01:08:13
bring that you know, graphic heavy experience. You know, I think it's

01:08:16
gonna look fucking sick. Yeah. The the firearms, the shooting, yeah,

01:08:23
looked really cool, like down the ads and through the scopes, and

01:08:28
then the way that I don't know bullets are connecting with the enemy is like

01:08:31
very cool looking animations. There release tail Fall, I think, yes,

01:08:40
November, November, November, I guess that's when they all come out.

01:08:43
November, ye tell Yeah. Next game is Doom the Dark Ages. Anybody

01:08:49
liking this one? No interesting? I mean I played the last two.

01:08:54
I love the I love the gore, I love the fast pacedness of it,

01:08:57
so I'll be playing it. I absolutely loved them so nice. Yeah,

01:09:00
Doom is always a good time. And now it's in the Dark Ages

01:09:03
like ridiculous. I love it. I love it. Just slaying demon scum

01:09:09
to some sick metal tunes. You know. The shield looked sweet with the

01:09:13
crushing of the or the and then the skull crushing, bone spitting gun,

01:09:17
mowing ship down and hell sing whatever the fun it was metal health singer,

01:09:24
did you remember remember pain Killer Did you see that? Did you see the

01:09:30
pain Killer gun? The steak guns? Seeing those the WALLK gun, I'm

01:09:35
there there. Oh man, it was so good. Okay, cool,

01:09:41
cool, cool. Next we got State of de K three. It looked

01:09:46
exactly the same as zombie game. Yeah that's what I have here? Yeah?

01:09:54
Thanks, all right, all right, all right right, uh,

01:09:57
Dragon Age the veil Guard. I don't know, people, people aren't liking

01:10:02
what they saw here. Yeahdgan, did you see how many doubt like dislikes

01:10:08
the trailer had. It was like thirty thousand likes and one hundred and forty

01:10:12
four thousand dislikes on them. Why would they go for Yeah, it looks

01:10:16
kind of weird. It's weird choice. My wife is a big dragon Age.

01:10:20
Yeah, she's just like, she was like, what the hell is

01:10:24
this? This doesn't look like dragons Age at all. Like everyone's saying,

01:10:28
the vibe was just off, and they hope the game isn't like that vibe,

01:10:34
because it could just be the person who made the trailer, you know,

01:10:39
the trailer just fucked it up and made it weird and kind of like

01:10:42
a super. It was like a super Dungeons and Dragons Yeah, it's like

01:10:45
a kind of like Guardians of the Galaxy Fantasy thing. That's kind of a

01:10:56
vibe I got. But that's so weird coming from BioWare, because like,

01:11:00
yeah, because they they make good fucking games. So I don't know,

01:11:03
weird choice, weird choice. I think, I think the gameplay, because

01:11:09
if it's the same kind of weird tone, then yeah, weird Steve,

01:11:14
anything about that one? Dragon Age? I mean, I'm not too set

01:11:17
on Dragon Age only because by Aware's last two games were not that great.

01:11:23
What was an Anthem and on Drameda Mass Effect on Drama, which I didn't

01:11:27
play. Yeah, so I'm not too hopeful for it, but I'd have

01:11:32
to see the reviews before I even think. I downloaded for free on It's

01:11:40
no, No, it's EA, right, that's right. Yeah, I'll

01:11:44
wait. Maybe I'll wait till it comes on the EA app, Like yeah,

01:11:46
EA access thing. Yeah, there is a ten hour there's probably gonna

01:11:49
be a ten hour play demo thingy because you have game Pass, don't you

01:11:54
get some of that stuff with you get ten hour demos of whatever game is

01:11:59
on with with Ultimate you just get access to EA play yeah, and then

01:12:03
anything any free demos they bring out. That's that's where I'll play it.

01:12:09
Where I'll play it next up Starfield Shattered Space. Here we go, Starfield

01:12:17
player, Steve, did you get Oh yeah, I played through the whole

01:12:19
thing. I started a second run and then I kind of stopped in the

01:12:24
middle. But this DLC is a good opportunity to get back into it.

01:12:29
It looked COOLi the story, and yeah, it looks like a horror look.

01:12:34
Hey, like a like a creepy horror look and field space horror with

01:12:39
some aliens space horse finally, you know what. Yeah, Like seriously,

01:12:53
I think what they could they could lean into like this whole space whrror thing

01:12:56
a lot, Like maybe certain areas in the map are infested with like aliens

01:13:00
that can like jump on your ship, get into your ship somehow, you

01:13:03
know, and and fuck you up. That would be freaking sweet, because

01:13:06
like the original, I didn't see much like you know, scary aliens,

01:13:12
and I went through this entire like universe or galaxy, and I didn't see

01:13:16
many aliens that really entire, but yes they might. It looked it looked

01:13:26
kind of cool because they were I think it's they're exploring the house varun or

01:13:30
whatever, right, the snake God or whatever. That's what it seems like

01:13:34
developing. So that's kind of cool. And I have been itching to kind

01:13:39
of play this game again, but I jumped in a bit again. I

01:13:43
don't know how soon I'll come I'll dive into that, but it could be

01:13:45
cool for I jump in once in a while. I do like a handful

01:13:48
of side quests and like ah, then I jump out. I guess it's

01:13:53
so good. I just love it. But you know what, Also they

01:13:57
also released with this is the Creation Kit, so a lot of mods coming

01:14:01
out. That's then there. Yeah, no, and then they're fucking people

01:14:06
with just paid mods. You know, that's the big thing happening right now.

01:14:12
So you go check out the mod less you're like, oh, this

01:14:14
looks cool. Ten bucks please, eighteen bucks please? Man, what do

01:14:17
you think they fucking work hard on those mods? Probably maybe, I don't

01:14:21
know. I don't make the mods crazy, but you know what, you

01:14:24
can make a mod for Starfield, and you know what you can do.

01:14:27
You can put it up for free if you want, and then if it's

01:14:30
like really good and it passes all bethes these tests, I think they put

01:14:33
it up for sale, like if it's popular, you know, and if

01:14:36
it like passes all their buggy tests, be as I don't know how,

01:14:41
like a couple of bucks. Maybe there's no there's no bug tests. But

01:14:45
then they'll put it out. It's just like a monkey on a typewriter.

01:14:53
But then they'll sell immediately. Looks up the mod immediately. But then they'll

01:14:59
sell it and maybe give you a little kickback on your mud. So they

01:15:02
released the reficult date. What was the new update? Was it just the

01:15:05
moss? Is this okay? Because it said free update coming now? This

01:15:10
kit is gonna give martyrs the ability to make anything they want now, So

01:15:15
new World's Quest Lines, planets, fucking anything, a new one that came

01:15:21
out. You can play as Boba Fet and the Boba Fett ship and go

01:15:25
around the galaxy as as that is sweet. It could be like a Star

01:15:30
Wars game without like lightsabers, maybe like on the other side with their art

01:15:33
any jedis, you know, but like stuff like that, Like there's gonna

01:15:36
be a lot of stuff coming that is what's really cool? Right, cool?

01:15:43
Anything else on that one? Al right? Moving on followed seventy six

01:15:48
Yeah, yeah, Skyline Valley, I think, uh you know, I

01:15:53
did write I did write a note that it just said, I can't wait

01:15:55
for the day a new gen follow comes out, though, and I can

01:15:57
look forward to playing one finally, like being on the train because like they're

01:16:00
just gonna milk seventy six for another ten. No, I know, but

01:16:03
I just can't wait. It would be so cool to see like a new

01:16:08
followup game. They're working on Elder Screws, but they're working on yeah,

01:16:12
so anyway, Yeah, the guy's looking forward to it. But uh,

01:16:16
this one was surprising. I got Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three. Yeah,

01:16:26
Expedition thirty three looks pretty cool. Actually, this was this was probably the

01:16:30
biggest surprise of the showcase that I wasn't expecting and like was pretty cool.

01:16:34
It looked remember I thought it looked cool. Yeah, it looked Yeah.

01:16:39
The story was the story seemed cool different. The graphics look beautiful. The

01:16:45
battle system turn based, yeah of it. And it looked time time based,

01:16:48
legend dragoon legendon style. That's what I was thinking. Oh, yeah,

01:16:55
this couldn't be cool cool. It looked really really good at the animations

01:16:59
and it's like, oh and you saw the like the square come in.

01:17:01
You have to hit X or B or Y. Yeah, there's some kind

01:17:04
of timing thing in the battle system that looks pretty cool. I am.

01:17:09
I'm I'm looking forward to this one. I am going to download it at

01:17:13
day one. Okay. I don't know what the release date was it.

01:17:17
I think it's twenty for twenty five. I think it's next year. Actually,

01:17:19
oh gosh, so you know whatever. But yeah, that's what I'm

01:17:25
looking forward. I look forward to my turn based combat and heavy story.

01:17:29
Okay, no more of this Final Fantasy action RPG. Shit, all right,

01:17:34
cool? Anybody else on that one? Nah? No? Meh okay,

01:17:40
fine, I got South of Midnight next. Yeah, let me tell

01:17:45
you. It's something about this game. Okay, when I was watching that

01:17:48
that's not necessarily specific to this game. But when I was watching this trailer,

01:17:51
I had kind of a revelation and I was like, I think,

01:17:55
I think I know where you're going with this. I think, no,

01:17:58
I don't know. I feel like I might be the only one. But

01:18:00
anyway, and it sucks because it's like it's weird reality. But I love

01:18:03
the art style, I love the art direction, I love all that a

01:18:05
whole idea. But I was watching it, I was like, I don't

01:18:09
know, man, I'm just not interested in these even these cool unique games

01:18:13
that are coming out because I just have no interest in the world. You

01:18:18
know, there's like I don't know who this character is. I don't know

01:18:21
what this world is. It's like, it's just this could be as good

01:18:24
as any other fantasy like cool looking action RPG game or whatever it is,

01:18:30
linear based whatever coming out that like, I don't know. It just didn't

01:18:32
look at like anything that was like, oh fuck, this looks really sweet.

01:18:36
It just looked like another game where you just fight creatures and like,

01:18:40
I don't know, like what why? So it sucks because again, these

01:18:44
people work hard and they it's a cool like visual style, but I just

01:18:48
don't have any interest. Nothing sold me. It's just because they they now

01:18:54
with these all these showcases and they they're they're showing off like the combat and

01:19:00
like the stuff in the game, the main mechanics they're not. That's not

01:19:04
what's drawing me to play a single player game. I want to see what

01:19:10
the story is, show me that something intriguing about the story about the character,

01:19:16
something cool, something that will hook me. I mean, I just

01:19:20
assume that they're all going to kind of play the same, like there's been

01:19:24
a million games already. Yeah, they're all gonna, you know, basically

01:19:28
be similar. Okay in the way that they kind of you attack bad guys.

01:19:31
Okay, you press a button and you do a fucking attack. Okay,

01:19:34
we don't need to see that really, like show a couple of it

01:19:38
maybe, But in the trailer there should be like a hook, like a

01:19:41
yeah, what hooks me exactly? What's what? Why should I play this

01:19:45
journey? Why should I take over everything else or anything else? And I

01:19:49
was like, now, now you're not paying with money because it's game pass,

01:19:54
right, so now you're paying with your time. Yeah, and time

01:19:58
is extremely valuable, extremely vastly. Yeah. When do I have forty hours

01:20:03
to play? I don't even have forty hours play game. Now I can

01:20:05
play forty hour game. Yeah, okay, like this, if this game

01:20:10
is gonna take me thirty hours, it better be good for my time money.

01:20:14
That's why I think the Expedition thirty three looked cool because it was like

01:20:16
it showed a bit of that. It's like, oh, this is where

01:20:18
the story down and she kills everyone who is that age, and like it's

01:20:25
like a countdown and they have a year to try to go Like, oh

01:20:29
yeah, very cool, very cool. I have the same with this as

01:20:33
Daniel was, like the art style looks cool. I like that style.

01:20:35
The characters were kind of cool. I like that like banter between them.

01:20:40
But then it hit the gameplay and I wasn't sold. It was just like

01:20:43
everything else that I've seen, you know, and I labeled this a game

01:20:46
like the game pass gameplay. It's like a lot of game Pass games I

01:20:50
find have like this kind of just like I don't know. It's like I

01:20:55
have to be able to this is my final thought that we can move on.

01:20:58
But it's like I have to be able to narrow my interests down when

01:21:00
I see these things, Like yeah, like the reason I wanted to play

01:21:04
Kingdom Come was because I'm interested in the Middle Ages. The reason I want

01:21:08
to play another game is because I'm interested in that setting or that time period

01:21:12
or whatever. But like when it comes to fantasy, it's hard because it's

01:21:15
like this this whole new invention, and I'm like, why would I What

01:21:18
am I invested in that? Like what's drawing me into that? So yeah,

01:21:23
anyway, that's just a that's what I thought when I saw the trailer.

01:21:28
Yeah, Steve anything on this one. So the art style, I

01:21:31
agree, it's nice, but it's just the whole gameplay aspect, I do

01:21:38
agree, wasn't intriguing. And that other thirty three game you were, uh

01:21:42
yeah you were talking about. I love that aspect of you know, she

01:21:45
kills people at that Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And I was like,

01:21:48
oh man, this is gonna be so good. And you guys probably

01:21:50
get hate what I say next, but I hate turn based games. I

01:21:55
was. I was so for it. I was so not for it.

01:21:59
Like the opposite. I'm so tired. I'm tired of like the devil they

01:22:04
cry. Yeah, it looks like it because you could see them, yeah,

01:22:09
in their in their order and then you saw like their life gauges and

01:22:13
stuff like that. I'll see I'll say next, World of Warcraft, the

01:22:16
War Within Wow expansion. God, I told, I told everybody. I've

01:22:23
said it before, I'll say it again. I don't want to play this

01:22:25
until they give me World of Warcraft two and on a bigger, better engine,

01:22:30
like I'm done. Yeah yeah, I was thinking. And they've got

01:22:32
they've got three more expansions lined up. World of warcrafts like, this is

01:22:38
a twenty year old game. Yeah they redid it. Uh, when the

01:22:41
hell did they redo it? Like ten years ago? Still yeah, like

01:22:44
they like put some polish on it, but it's still the same fucking engine.

01:22:47
Yeah, World War Warcraft three engine. You know what. I thought

01:22:51
that this is like gonna be like Wow on on Xbox. Yeah, that

01:22:57
would have been cool. I was like, wait what, and then I

01:22:59
remember, No, they just bought Activision, dumb ass, so obviously they're

01:23:02
going to show that this this Xbox showcase. Oh okay. Then even I

01:23:06
was misled. Then I was like, oh, I guess it's on Xbox

01:23:10
now. But it's uh, it's always exciting when a new Wow expansion comes

01:23:15
out. No, there's always a buzz. People go back to it.

01:23:16
People go back and play the greatest games ever made. People just go back

01:23:24
to it. I will not. I haven't played in fucking years. But

01:23:28
when did I last played two expansions ago? And I was like, okay,

01:23:31
I played Legion. This is a Legion. When was When was Legion?

01:23:35
That was the last one. That's a long time ago. Hey,

01:23:40
anybody else on the world of Warcraft now? No? Okay, Metal Gear

01:23:45
Solid Snake Eater. This was a weird one. I don't I thought this

01:23:49
was kind of random and obscure, but I fucked. But when that trailer

01:23:54
came up and I heard I heard David Hayter's voice a snake, I was

01:23:57
like, God damn. The nostalgia kicked in. I was like, I've

01:24:00
never played Snake Eater, so this might be the time to jump on and

01:24:04
do it. And Kreiderman's like all of It's like, dude, you got

01:24:08
it. It's like my favorite Metal prequel too. It's the first one,

01:24:11
isn't it. Yeah? I think so. I think it's like when Big

01:24:13
Boss was like young. Yeah. So apparently it's some of the coolest Metal

01:24:20
Gear gameplay because of the environment, like the stealth, the hiding and the

01:24:25
way that you have to take out your enemies, but also the quirks of

01:24:30
the of the land and shit like you can instead of boxes, you get

01:24:33
like alligator masks that you have to like hide in the water with and ship

01:24:39
like It's like it's kind of cool, even more quirky than the other ones

01:24:43
because of that environment. So it could be really cool. New graphics,

01:24:46
new gameplay, but original voice acting. They're keeping the og voice acting from

01:24:53
the first version of it. So it's not a news I don't know if

01:24:58
it's a new script or new or same same audio or whatever. But it's

01:25:01
David Hayter, the OG Snake voice actor doing Snake. He sounded weird to

01:25:05
me though, so maybe it's new takes. So I don't know. I

01:25:08
think it's new takes because he kind of sounds like he'd been out of it

01:25:11
for a while. Maybe, you know, it sounds like an old man.

01:25:15
Yeah. On my take on, this seems like a cash grab game.

01:25:21
Bring to me. Yeah, it's like what. I didn't play it.

01:25:25
I didn't play the one for GameCube. I probably won't play this one

01:25:28
either. That was fucking great. Nothing looked like super cool. I gotta

01:25:30
play it, you know, it's just it's metal gear. I played one

01:25:33
and two and that was enough for me. Yeah, yeah, you know,

01:25:36
I'm sorry. I have a night maybe when it goes on sale maybe,

01:25:43
but I played yeah, the first one. I think I didn't play

01:25:45
two. I Love to To was fucking awesome. I tried to go back

01:25:48
to two and the camera was so bad, the controls were so fucking bad.

01:25:53
I was like, I can't I can't do oh man, sounds Liberty

01:25:56
was fucking good too, sounds literally one. Maybe I played that one because

01:26:01
I expecting not playing a snake. You play as you play as Raiden and

01:26:06
Rady, you get to know who that is and his relationship with Rose and

01:26:11
how that he they're all fucked up, and then yeah, you got Snake

01:26:13
in there. But then like Raiden comes back and like metal Gear four guns

01:26:17
to the Patriots and he's like a cyborg because like he was like fucking crushed.

01:26:23
I don't remember what happens in the stories, but like, man,

01:26:27
he has a really cool story and that I know. But at first we

01:26:30
were like, who's this raiding guy? Like I fuck him? I want

01:26:32
to play Snake, But like it totally turned around on me and I was

01:26:35
like, Raidon's a fucking badass man. Anyway, Anyway, I may be

01:26:42
interested if I'm looking for a classic kind of nostalgia feeding game to play,

01:26:45
that's a new experience. Meddle gear. The only one I played is five,

01:26:49
only because Keiper Sutherland was the voice actor. Yeah, so if they

01:26:56
throw keeper Sutherland and this one, I'll play it, bigod Canadian boy.

01:27:02
Yeah all right. Next we got Sea of Thieves. I can't wait here,

01:27:14
you know why, because it's coming in like July. There's a new

01:27:16
season, and I can't wait to just jump back in the summer because summer

01:27:19
is a thieves time. Anyway, next if Thieves Summer, we got flint

01:27:28
Lock The Siege of Dawn. Yeah it looked okay, it looked okay.

01:27:32
Probably something i'd even play for free on game Pass. Yeah, I think

01:27:38
it looks like another one of those game Pass games. Like I was saying

01:27:40
before, it's like it looks that I'm a dozen. Yeah, I don't

01:27:45
know. It didn't tickle me, didn't tickle my fancy. Yeah that about

01:27:49
says it. Anybody else on that one? Yeah, all right, here

01:27:55
we go. This is the big one. Ages Mythology retold. I can't

01:28:03
wait for this. You guys serious, I'm fucking I loved the original one.

01:28:13
I can't stand it. I can't stand it strategy games like okay,

01:28:18
man, the stories were so good and you're just clicking around and like,

01:28:25
I loved the game growing up. I tried to play the remaster, but

01:28:28
there was like this bug on one of the missions, you can't I couldn't

01:28:30
get of course, so I have to stop playing, but they can't wait

01:28:35
for this one. I'd love to play this one online, get on the

01:28:39
ladder, you know, get my ass whooped, play it online. But

01:28:42
what I'm hoping is they don't change it too much. I just kind of

01:28:45
want a graphical enhancement, fix all the bugs, graphical enhancement, add a

01:28:49
few new races, some gods, you know like that, but keep the

01:28:53
fucking game how it was, please. But yeah, I'm psyched for this

01:28:58
one. I love it. Anybody else in this one, Nope? Never

01:29:02
one? All right, Perfect Dark, Steve, what about this one?

01:29:06
Oh man, it's it's unfortunate that they don't have a release date. That's

01:29:11
that's yeah about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they showed I

01:29:14
mean, and again it was a CG trailer, so it's just mainly there

01:29:17
for hype, but no release date at the end of the trailer. So

01:29:23
I'm excited for it. I'm a huge Perfect Dark fan. I think I

01:29:26
have Perfect Dark right here right there. Cool uh and uh yeah, so

01:29:31
I can't wait for it now. I didn't think it was all CG.

01:29:35
I thought there was a little bit of a game play run because I saw

01:29:40
I saw like some parkour kind of thing was like, oh, you're right,

01:29:45
yeah, and looked like there was some wall bouncing there, some movement.

01:29:50
When I first saw that, I thought it was that like Parkour game

01:29:55
e A makes Beer's Edge, Like, is this another mirrors Edge? Actly?

01:30:00
I thought the same thing. Yeah, I think it could be cool.

01:30:02
If there's like sweet movement like that, that would be sick. Yeah,

01:30:04
definitely a shooter I never played. I never played the sixty four,

01:30:09
the N sixty four Perfect Dark. I played a little bit of it that

01:30:13
Matt's place. I met Luke's they have in the N sixty four. They

01:30:17
have the map facility in Perfect Dark, and it's just it's just it's up

01:30:23
more and more updated map of it, and uh, it's it's really fun.

01:30:27
I mean, do you like Golden eight, you like Perfect Dark?

01:30:30
Right? Yeah? Okay, yeah, I ain't going back to play that

01:30:32
ship. I don't know the game, but yeah, I'm looking forward to

01:30:38
this one. This looks pretty sick and I will most likely play it in

01:30:42
two thousand and what is it twenty six or whatever that's coming out there was.

01:30:48
Next up is Diablo for a Vessel of Hate Tree, another cinematic trailer,

01:30:56
but it was a freaking crazy trailer though that was crazy with de third

01:31:00
fashion, this thing was top notch. You can't see better than this.

01:31:03
Boys, this looked fucking incredible. Yeah, this would've been waiting for.

01:31:08
This is the only thing I've been waiting for. Give me a show.

01:31:10
I don't want the fucking seasons and all that shit, just I know.

01:31:14
I want to know what happened to the damn story, right, That's what

01:31:16
I've been waiting for since I played it the first damn time. I don't

01:31:19
want seasons and keep playing the same thing over and over again. I want

01:31:21
the story that trailer gave me fucking goosebumps. Yeah, wow, this is

01:31:27
gonna be like a full release. You have to buy it like fifty sixty

01:31:30
bucks again or what? Jeeze man? Yeah, yeah, it better be

01:31:33
fucking good. Yeah, it better be long. There better be a lot

01:31:36
of shit in it for like, it's gonna be maybe twenty bucks. It's

01:31:41
probably gonna be twenty bucks less than like a full so yeah maybe like fifty

01:31:44
bucks sixty. It's not gonna be ninety like Diablow was right? What?

01:31:48
Also, what I want to know is it gonna go to game Pass?

01:31:50
Did it say that I don't remember. I don't know, probably not right,

01:31:55
it's gonna it's gonna probably release, and then a year later I get

01:31:59
at it the game past. But man, that that cinema trailer was amazing,

01:32:06
just the whole aesthetic, the writing, Like she's not a great voice

01:32:12
actor, the character there, but like Manna what's her name name? Nyrel?

01:32:19
Her mother sold her soul. You know she's dead, but now she's

01:32:24
haunting her man man sick story, Oh yeah, is fucking sick. Yeah.

01:32:30
And then whenever they whipped her arms apart in like, oh, I

01:32:35
was like, and then we see the big han show behind her, right,

01:32:42
I believe it'sto Yeah, I don't know anything about this, but that

01:32:48
was the cool who was in the gym, right, Mephisto. Mephisto was

01:32:54
the wolf that was helping you, right, So he's like really weak,

01:32:58
Yeah, so what what's her face? Was doing? His daughter what's her

01:33:03
name? The main bad guy of the fucking Diablo stick Lilith. So what

01:33:10
she was doing I think was like kind of keeping him there while she was

01:33:13
trying to fix things and bring everyone back to you know, that kind of

01:33:17
stuff. But he's getting stronger because we helped him out to kill Lilith.

01:33:23
To take out Lilith, we helped him out a bit, and now because

01:33:26
we helped him out of it, he's gonna get a little bit stronger.

01:33:29
Now. There was some lore quick lored that the Order goes Mephisto and then

01:33:35
it goes destruction. So it's Hatred destruction and then Diablo is. I forget

01:33:43
what Diabolo is, but people are saying that it's gonna go Mephisto again.

01:33:46
Then we're gonna get his other brother, and then we're gonna get Diabolo again.

01:33:50
It's gonna keep cycling because they never die, right, they just get

01:33:53
sealed in the stones. The stone's corrupt sanctuary. Someone releases them. It's

01:33:58
like an endless kind of loop. Right. So man, I'm so into

01:34:02
this. I can't wait. I cannot wait. Yeah, I'm gonna play

01:34:06
it. I'm gonna buy it. I guess. Yeah. Next, we

01:34:12
got Fable, Fable, we got some gameplay. Yeah, I'm not expecting

01:34:16
this. I hoping we saw some Fable game. I inter say, it

01:34:21
looks very stunning. I gotta tell you, I like the idea that you

01:34:29
know you've got a character who speaks. Now and you're not some fucking dumb

01:34:33
mute character who doesn't say it? Did she? I didn't hear her speak

01:34:36
at all. Oh yeah, the whole trailer she's talking. Your character.

01:34:41
I don't know about in gameplay, but there are cut scenes where she's speaking,

01:34:45
which is which I think is I thought it was just a buddy in

01:34:46
the chair speaking the whole truth. Yeah, I thought that was No,

01:34:51
he was speaking. He was speaking, But your character is the female character,

01:34:55
and she's just talking the whole trailer in cut scenes with him and ship

01:34:58
like that, which is new. Tuoned her out because I think in I

01:35:01
think in Fable three, maybe your character talked. I don't remember, but

01:35:08
anyway, I'm very interested. I love the way the camera looked over her

01:35:11
shoulder as she was running. The world looked beautiful. Yes, yes,

01:35:15
And I'm very interested because I'm wondering, you know, is it an Albion

01:35:17
still? Is this a whole new world? Is this like? Aw?

01:35:23
They mentioned Albion? Did they mentioned that? I love Fable games. But

01:35:28
but anyway, this it's funny because as these games keep coming up, though,

01:35:31
I have a note here that I want to talk to you guys.

01:35:34
I just wonder if you guys feel the same way. But I'm going to

01:35:39
save it until we kind of wrap up. But yes, very interested in

01:35:42
Fable. Will definitely be playing Nice Steve a big Fable guy. I think

01:35:46
I tried Fable three and never really got into it able to start with Steve.

01:35:55
So that's probably why my experience was just not the greatest with it.

01:35:59
So I wasn't too hyped out about it hyped about it. Yeah, but

01:36:01
I'll give it a shot. Nice. I played a Hable one Hable Fable

01:36:05
one quite a bit. Never beat it, I don't think, but I

01:36:09
played a lot of it, and then I played it. Was it wasn't

01:36:12
that long. I'm sure you beat Fable one, did I? Maybe it

01:36:15
wasn't long at all. It was like ten hours. But man, it

01:36:17
was funny and it was I just loved the whole the whole thing about it.

01:36:21
It was so funny. One and two great one and two two was

01:36:25
an amazing, very very cool all right, any else for this one?

01:36:30
Next? We got this is I think this is the big This is another

01:36:32
big one. We got Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. I don't think

01:36:38
I can get enough of watching these bit the bits of this game, you

01:36:41
know what I mean, Like I think, I think all the whole game

01:36:44
is going to be like, yeah, that's what the is. The German

01:36:47
guy, the German guy, Germany lost. It was just like watching one

01:36:54
of the movies I Am Americans, like dancing and all this ship it's got

01:37:00
that also that like classic treasure hunter feeling, like Uncharted style, which I'm

01:37:06
sure got everything from Indiana Jones, like like an Uncharted and like National Treasure

01:37:13
even like you're talking about Tom Raider. This is Indiana Jones. Man,

01:37:16
It's Indiana Jones. That's what it is. So this is the og treasure

01:37:21
Hunter. And like, so I hope it's good, but it looks really

01:37:28
good. And I actually recently watched The Dial of Destiny and I liked it

01:37:32
just because it's like it gave me that feeling. It was corny. It's

01:37:38
corny, but it's it was good. I liked it because it gave me

01:37:42
that classic Indie feeling, like the fucking one with the Aliens or what the

01:37:45
skull? Oh man, So I'm gonna drop a bomb on you guys.

01:37:48
The only Indiana film I've ever watched is the one with the Aliens. I

01:37:54
have never watched anything else that's start with Steve ever watched it because of it?

01:38:01
I don't want to watch the other ones. No, no, no,

01:38:03
no, no no no. If you can get four K the borl

01:38:09
the four K remasters of the first three, Oh my god, Last Crusade

01:38:14
is the best. Yeah. Last Crusade is a fucking phenomenal if you're looking

01:38:19
for that classic. Was it eighties, late eighties, early nowties? What

01:38:24
was Last Crceade? Yeah, Steven Spielber adventure, action adventure. It's like

01:38:29
the Pinnacle, you know. Are you a fan of National Treasure? Yeah?

01:38:33
Yeah, yeah, I'll watch a good nick Age movie anytime. Treasure

01:38:38
it's like it's just like it's just that's all based on fucking Indiana Jones.

01:38:43
You know. Yeah, it's just a different take. Basically. It was

01:38:47
so cool the Treasure, Like Sean Connery, the cast is amazing. Sean

01:38:53
Connery is in Indiana, yes, yeah, last Places. He plays his

01:38:58
father in the Last crud Yeah, Last Crusade. That's the third one.

01:39:00
So Last Crusade is by they go through Rome. They don't have to.

01:39:04
You don't have to watch the other ones either, I don't think yeah,

01:39:06
correct, yeah, correct, Okay, like, it's so fucking good.

01:39:10
Yeah, go watch it right now. I wanted to watch it again recently.

01:39:15
I need to get the four K one. I've got the four K

01:39:17
ones, but I want to watch them because they have them. I have

01:39:20
them. Oh yeah, not the discs, but I have them. I

01:39:26
have them available on certain protocols that one can use. Okay, okay,

01:39:36
anything anybody else on the Indiana Jones No, but very very interested. I

01:39:41
stopped watching, actually yeah because I was like, I don't want to see

01:39:45
all this. I don't want to know what happens. Man. So but

01:39:47
I saw some of it and I was like, oh yeah, oh yeah,

01:39:50
yeah, yeah, I can't wait. I can't wait wait. And

01:39:54
that October September. I don't think there was was. I don't think there

01:39:59
was no just I had twenty twenty four right yeah, yeah, yeah,

01:40:01
yeah, okay right soon soon next up we got Wu Chang Fallen Feathers.

01:40:08
That's actually interesting for me. It looked interesting. Wasn't that looked like the

01:40:12
Monkey King? No? No, no, that's Wu Long Woolong. Are

01:40:15
you sure the Monkey King? Yeah? I was shown fall in. Wu

01:40:20
Chang Fallen Feathers was the female protagonist with the red Eyes. She's a monster,

01:40:26
but she's fighting monsters. I don't think I was interested. Woo Chang

01:40:30
do spell this Woo Long Dynasty or whatever is the souls like Monkey King Chinese

01:40:38
story? Oh you're right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm looking at

01:40:42
that right now. Yeah. The art okay, this one, yeah,

01:40:45
this one. The art looked cool, the style looked cool. But if

01:40:47
it's like a soul's like, I'm not playing it. So there seemed to

01:40:51
be a lot of souls like game shown Like look in this one particular,

01:40:58
I don't think she dodged a single at in the whole trailer, So I'm

01:41:00
like, it looks like it's hard to dodge, which is not something I

01:41:05
would want to play at all because that makes me furious. Yeah, when

01:41:13
you can't dodge when you're supposed to be able to dodge, Like, no,

01:41:16
thank you? Not interested? If that's what it's gonna be, like

01:41:18
nope, yeah uh like that, I probably won't play it. No,

01:41:24
uh, next, a vowed We got a vowed. Next. I want

01:41:30
to be excited for this, but there's just something still bothering me about this

01:41:33
game. It feels lifeless, I say, the lifeless Elder scrolls. You

01:41:38
know, it felt weird. There's something that bothers me and I don't know

01:41:42
what it is, and I'll find it out when I play it and then

01:41:44
i'll know, But like, there's just something about it. It's not tickling

01:41:46
me. Right. I backed this game same when it's with its last trailer

01:41:51
that we watched that we saw at the last whatever the fuck it was.

01:41:55
You mean financially no, Yeah, like a Kickstarter Okay, nope, that

01:42:00
and star CITs No. But the last trailer we saw of this game,

01:42:06
I was like, I am actually very interesting because I looked at the environment.

01:42:10
I was like, the graphics look nice in the game play school.

01:42:13
This trailer didn't quite seem to do the same thing that that one did.

01:42:16
So I don't know what's going on here, but yeah, we're going to

01:42:19
see. We're going to see. It just seems like a lot of flash,

01:42:24
a lot of pizzazz, a lot of flash Elders, and but like

01:42:29
it feels really I'm not really getting much from it. You know, I'm

01:42:32
not getting that original trailer that they gave us. Yeah. Yeah, it's

01:42:35
like, look, okay, magic, what am I looking at? Yeah,

01:42:42
they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Yeah, they're trying

01:42:45
to bamboozle us, but they're not going to see, and we shall see.

01:42:48
I'm still like, but we shall see, but we shall see.

01:42:51
Next is Adam fall followut rip off. Yeah. That. As soon as

01:43:00
he said that, I clicked, I was like, what is he talking

01:43:02
about? Oh yeah, right there you go. Yeah, I have notes

01:43:06
on any other game I got. It's all look special. It didn't look

01:43:10
too special. I was like, Okay, that guy looks like the fucking

01:43:13
ghoul. He looks like a ghoul. Like they haven't fallout. There was

01:43:15
a guy wearing a hazmat suit. Everything is like, uh, there's no

01:43:20
granted, there's no quirky like nineteen fifties thing going on, but still there's

01:43:25
you know, the whole nuclear fallout thing. It's eh, it just seems

01:43:30
like it's already been done. But better guys, it's hard. It's hard.

01:43:33
I'm you know, probably harder just to come up with an idea.

01:43:36
I can imagine. That's why they always saying ship like that, like saying,

01:43:41
you know, I'm not into boring, Like I feel horrible saying that

01:43:45
because I know. But still, Next was Assassin's Creed which we've already talked

01:43:50
about. Yeah, uh Stalker two Heart of Yes, cool game in it.

01:43:58
I'm so for it. I played the originals on PC and absolutely loved

01:44:04
it. I can't wait for this. The visuals look so good. Yeah

01:44:09
they didn't like this doesn't looked pretty interesting? Actually yeah yeah this was This

01:44:12
was supposed to be out like last year or something. Yeah, but like

01:44:15
a war happened. Yeah, war happened. Yeah exactly. So Uh they've

01:44:18
had I guess they've had more time to polish and make it look good.

01:44:20
So I have a good feeling about this game. I think it's going to

01:44:23
be massive cool. It looked stunning. It looked stunning. I wouldn't doubt

01:44:29
that they're actually gonna put f SR three on this bad Boy for consoles.

01:44:32
F SR three is starting to get rolled out on consoles. Expect it for

01:44:36
Chernobyl too, so you can get that look and that frame rate. But

01:44:42
yeah, you know it. Do we know if this is dubbed or are

01:44:45
we going to be playing it in with Russian? Uh, it's Ukrainian Russian,

01:44:51
probably Ukrainian. I'm going to assume. I really like I really hope

01:44:55
it's not English. Dubbed I'm not a fan of You want to read this

01:44:59
sometime exactly? Yeah, I want to exactly. So when I play games

01:45:03
that are you know, Japan based or like, you know, there's a

01:45:08
game of PS five. It's the Samurai game that I've wanted to play for

01:45:11
a long time. Ghost Ghost Ghost, That's what it is, Ghosts.

01:45:16
I played it for a bit and I was playing it in English, and

01:45:19
I'm just like, this is this is I don't want to play this,

01:45:24
you know, so you gotta you got to play it in the original language.

01:45:27
So I really hope that they keep it in the regal original language.

01:45:30
Yeah, I would be fine with that. I don't give a ship about

01:45:31
reading subtitles, so but yeah, I am. I really liked the look

01:45:38
of this one. Very cool. I'm hoping they can hoping you can really

01:45:40
slow down on the subtitles. Yeah, so I can read it before the

01:45:45
game comes out. Next was the new Xbox Series X and S console money

01:45:53
grab bullshit that we'll skip now hold on? Uh oh what now? Hold

01:45:58
on? There's gonna be a digital all digital series X. Yes, yeah,

01:46:05
why do you like that? They're just taking your It's gonna be taking

01:46:10
your ownership away. It's gonna be cheaper. It's a game pass box,

01:46:14
and I'm not gonna buy physical Xbox games. Why the hell would I do

01:46:17
that? That's true. Yeah, this is a game pass box. You

01:46:20
can you get the Galaxy one with the sparkles on it, no, or

01:46:24
the white one. Well, whatever the digital one is. I would be

01:46:29
interesting the digital how much it is? They got a nice Galaxy Sparkly one

01:46:32
and they got a white one. Is the two terabyte Series X All Digital?

01:46:36
I thought drive? Oh, I thought it. There's there's an All

01:46:44
Digital Series X and a two terabyte X two Terrieries X Special Edition in Galaxy

01:46:48
Block. Shouldn't they all be two terabytes? Since fucking Call of Duty is

01:46:51
going to be five hundred gigs, Duty should just come on a cartridge now

01:46:57
with its own fucking storage. A whole herd were just blogging about USB.

01:47:00
Yeah, it's my Call of Duty game. And then they ended with Gears

01:47:06
of War E Day. I never played any Gears of War e g I,

01:47:11
but I'm excited. Yeah. Okay, see I never played it.

01:47:15
I was too late. I never had Xbox. Yeah. By the time

01:47:18
we got Xbox this, Gears five was out and I was like, I

01:47:20
ain't playing that. The Gears campaign for me is like a call duty campaign.

01:47:27
I'll play the heck out of the Gears of War campaign. But again,

01:47:30
the multiplayer not so much. Maybe Hord mode hoard mode is fun,

01:47:34
but the the actual PvP multiplayer isn't. I mean, it's you have to

01:47:41
the learning curve is pretty high, and yeah, I have the patience to

01:47:44
learn. Yeah. I heard it was a pretty reload thing, like that

01:47:47
reload timing thing where you have to like time your reload to get or something

01:47:53
and it goes faster and it charges it up something. Yeah. Yeah,

01:47:57
And I think with the shotgun, if you get it right on, it's

01:47:59
a damage and yeah, no, it just Yeah. My friends were huge

01:48:03
Gears of War fans, so I think that they're looking forward to this.

01:48:06
I definitely also missed it because back when they were humongous, like on three

01:48:11
sixty, I was playing PlayStation. I didn't have a three sixty, so

01:48:14
same thing. I totally missed it. And and I don't think I'll be

01:48:16
jumping back in because like there's enough fucking shit to play now, and it's

01:48:20
like I'm not gonna you know, so I'm happy that the Gears fans got

01:48:27
what they wanted. Yeah, it's been a while, right, it's been

01:48:30
like six years or something years not a single Like that's crazy, isn't that

01:48:34
craziness? Like? No, not a current gen Gears has been released yet?

01:48:39
Right? Last? Right? Yeah? Okay, cool? And this

01:48:42
is gonna be unreal. Engine five gonna look good. It's gonna look real

01:48:45
good, but I probably won't play it all right, that's it is that

01:48:53
it? Now? Do we? Whenever Sarah Bond was talking, did she

01:48:58
kind of look range to you? Was she ai? Yeah? It looked

01:49:02
like she was robotic AI. Who the is that? Xbox Girl? Xbox

01:49:09
New Xbox Girl? Now I just think that they're all horrible at reading telepromos.

01:49:13
Oh yeah, and she was like moving all weird. Now I don't,

01:49:15
I don't. I don't want to. You think if they replaced her

01:49:18
with a robot, that's what I say? Yes, that is correct.

01:49:24
Now. I tried to look. I was like, I don't want to.

01:49:27
I don't want to make fun of someone who has like Parkinson's disease or

01:49:30
so I tried. I tried to google it to see if she had any

01:49:32
kind of like ams ailments, but I couldn't find it. Before I said

01:49:39
anything, she looked like a robot AI. She like the way she was

01:49:42
moving. I was like, this is fucking weird. I don't know if

01:49:45
a trailers so well. I watched it and she was very weird. Watch

01:49:51
it live? Is weird? Is fill the mouth? Spencer? Come on,

01:49:57
man, fix that mouse. I he's trying to fix his mouth.

01:50:00
He's got braces now he doesn't, does he? I swear I saw yet

01:50:05
bro yes bottom, he's just got it like he's like and he's very spitty

01:50:13
when he talks. Yeah, it's very spitty, very spitty. Fucking chexted

01:50:16
you guys. I was like, Phil Spencer have braces. He needs those

01:50:19
dentist hose in his mouth all he's got those visil lines in I'm pretty sure.

01:50:25
Oh yeah he could. I'm pretty sure anyway, Okay, I wanted

01:50:30
to hit you guys at the thought here closing. This is the closing thought

01:50:32
for me because we were talking about you know, Xbox hype blah blah blah

01:50:36
and the power that it has. Don't steal my hype with all the rise

01:50:41
of Xbox, right, So I wrote this question, is Xbox becoming with

01:50:46
all these games that were coming out, all these things, all these games

01:50:49
that were coming out that I wrote down. I had this thought, is

01:50:53
Xbox becoming like the Hollywood of video game studios. It's almost like a Hollywood

01:51:00
studio. So check this out. I wrote, It's a weird time to

01:51:03
be a gamer in an age where beloved franchises are coming back now like Fable,

01:51:10
Perfect, Dark, you got Snake Eater with metal gear because they realized

01:51:14
the potential the games could have in a new generation of you know, hardware

01:51:18
of gaming, and then the new installments of all the same shit like you

01:51:23
know, yeah, Call of Duty. How long can they keep it up?

01:51:27
It reminds me of the whole Hollywood plague of like remakes, sequels,

01:51:30
prequels. I would be maybe more concerned if I didn't see any original ideas

01:51:36
coming, but there are some. There are. I was going to say

01:51:41
it, but there's a lot of fan service happening in what they're putting out,

01:51:45
like like Fable fucking Perfect are all those ones we talked about where it's

01:51:50
like the only reason we're interested is because we played them. It's a nostalgia

01:51:55
factor, so it's like eat leaning into that and we're like, Oh,

01:51:58
that's why I want to play it. You know. It's like it's hard

01:52:00
to be gripped by the original shit like South of Midnight because I don't know

01:52:04
anything about it. I don't know, So why am I more drawn to

01:52:09
these other games that I already fucking know? Because I already know them.

01:52:14
So anyway, I just had that thought, and I was like, it

01:52:15
just reminds me of the thing that Hollywood's doing. It's like, Oh,

01:52:17
let's make money from this fucking story that we already play out. Yeah,

01:52:20
I'd be more concerned if it was all remakes and all sequels like Hollywood is

01:52:25
doing. I thought the showcase was really good. Pretty much every game looked

01:52:29
good great. There were a few that weren't. But whatever, Now I'm

01:52:32
gonna hit you with my my thing whatever. Phil Spencer was going on about

01:52:36
Nintendo. Okay, everyone has a switch, right, Everyone has a Nintendo

01:52:41
switch, no matter what console you have. Microsoft wants a Nintendo product,

01:52:45
right, they want something that everyone's gonna have. And then elsewhere too.

01:52:49
You're gonna have a PlayStation, you're also gonna have game Pass. Right,

01:52:55
So like game Pass is Microsoft's new Nintendo product. Everyone is gonna have game

01:53:00
because the value is so good. You're always going to have a game Pass

01:53:03
and then have a PlayStation, and you're gonna have a device that plays game

01:53:06
Pass products as well as a PlayStation as well as a Nintendo I think that's

01:53:12
what they're going for here, as long as they don't put it on other

01:53:15
consoles. No, but like other devices, Like everything's gonna have game Pass

01:53:18
soon, oh everyone, everything, and everyone is gonna have game Pass access

01:53:23
to game Pass, and you're gonna have a Microsoft game Pass subscription well the

01:53:27
cloud gaming and whatever. Yeah, like game passes on every Samsung TV,

01:53:32
like yeah, exactly, yeah, and that is like they're a Nintendo product.

01:53:38
Everyone's got Nintendo to play Zelda, Pokemon, Mario. Everyone's gonna have

01:53:41
Microsoft game Pass, you name it. Now. I'll think otherwise whenever they

01:53:45
raise game Pass to forty bucks a month, because it's probably coming soon,

01:53:48
yeah they're gonna oh yeah yeah, but yeah, that's my ending statement.

01:53:55
Great showcase. Loved it. That's it was like B plus A for me.

01:54:00
Mm hmmm. That was good. I'd agree, all right, I

01:54:01
can get it. I think that was the only real like almost E three

01:54:06
like presentation. There was this weekend. Yeah, yeah, lots to look

01:54:10
forward to a lot of cool stuff coming, Yeah for sure. All right,

01:54:14
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01:54:54
Thanks for having me. It was awesome.