February 9, 2024 • 17 mins
Unraveling Gaming Updates: Death Stranding, Xbox Controversy and Upcoming Guests
Just Blane & Ryan McBain discuss their experiences playing Death Stranding, including their thoughts on gameplay, intriguing storylines, and the upcoming Death Stranding movie. They discuss the game's recent availability on new platforms. The conversation then shifts to the current controversy among Xbox players, triggered by the platform's decision to also making their games available on other consoles. The hosts question the validity of the upset, as they see no major consequence for the existing Xbox players. They also tease an upcoming interview with author Steven Klopfenstein who writes in the Lit RPG genre.
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JUST BLANE (00:01):
The following presentation is a production of Ride The Wave Media.
This is Game Related with Just Blaine.
Oh yes, here we go, GameRelated, we're back.
It's Just Blaine, it's Ron McBain.
McBain, they didn't cancel us.
(00:23):
There you
RYAN MCBAIN (00:24):
go.
Eventually.
Eventually.
Yeah, eventually they'regoing to cancel us.
JUST BLANE (00:27):
But they didn't in the first week.
They didn't in the first week though,
RYAN MCBAIN (00:29):
man.
They might cancel us after
JUST BLANE (00:31):
this episode.
This could be the one.
Is that, that's how weshould tease it everyone.
This could be the one guys.
Right off the jump.
Remember when we used to stream and everystream always started with an apology
for the last stream of how we acted.
That's what we're going to get to man.
Yes.
Hey, today's show is going to be fun.
We're going to talk more aboutDeath Stranding because you're
about a week into that game now.
So we're going to break that down.
(00:52):
Yes, we're going to talk about amovie, Death Stranding, and it's
also available on other platforms.
Now we'll get into that.
RYAN MCBAIN (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaking of other platforms, apparentlyXbox is about to put all their shit on
other platforms and people are mad crying.
JUST BLANE (01:10):
Literally, literally mad crying and throwing fits.
I can't wait.
We got to get in there.
That's probably thebiggest news of the week.
Wouldn't you say
RYAN MCBAIN (01:16):
easily, man?
I never thought I would say tomyself, wow, Halo might be on PS5.
JUST BLANE (01:23):
Alright, save that.
We'll get to that.
But first up, man, we got totalk about something else.
After this episode one came out, peoplewere talking about our artwork, man.
They were giving me some trouble.
But I gotta say, I justpulled it up for us.
I don't need it, man.
That's as accurate arepresentation as we can have.
You know what?
Maybe the tattoos is what it is.
(01:44):
The tattoos.
Okay, we don't have that many tattoos.
You don't have any and I definitelydon't have a sleeve like that.
RYAN MCBAIN (01:50):
Yeah, but like the muscle mass is pretty on point It
JUST BLANE (01:53):
is I think the muscle mass might be a little under under shown
on the artwork Yeah, I think yeah, yougot a little more chisel than that.
Yeah a little more chisel in it Whenit when it's the action figure on a
desk when that thing going on salecuz that's that's badass right there
RYAN MCBAIN (02:10):
Audition right there
JUST BLANE (02:12):
the collector's edition McBain with kung fu grip that's the one
I want I want the one with Kung Fu Grip.
RYAN MCBAIN (02:20):
I heard that.
I heard that.
JUST BLANE (02:22):
Yeah, okay.
Man, let's get into Death Strandingand what you thought about it.
You put about a week's worthof work into that thing.
It feels like work at first.
But then you just get into it, right?
Yeah,
RYAN MCBAIN (02:34):
so I bought it first when it first came out on PS4.
And I don't know what happened.
I got distracted.
Other games were coming out,so I just stopped playing it.
After I saw the trailer forPart 2, I'm like, oh man.
That trailer looks fucking lit.
I need to go back and finish part one.
So I started all over again.
I got the director's cut, put downthe 10 bucks for the PS5 upgrade.
(02:57):
I've been playing it andmaking mistakes here and there.
And apparently like people likewatching people play that game.
Cause I had random people comingin and trying to help me out.
It is a hard game whenyou first start out.
I'm just finally slowlyfiguring things out.
It is complex.
I was playing for a long ass time.
I was like, dude, I'mprobably like halfway through.
(03:18):
Somebody came in like, nah,brother, you about 20 percent done.
JUST BLANE (03:21):
I don't know if you just started episode four, I think, didn't you?
I don't even think that's bad.
That might be about, yeah,that's probably 30 percent done.
Uh, but the episodes are,they're different links.
So it's hard to judge that.
What do you think about the first,let's start with the prologue.
That's where you meet Sam, Sam Porter.
He's the courier.
(03:42):
You find out he can come back from death.
He's a what repatriate.
They call it.
You meet fragile who I love it.
I love that character and she's a No,no, no Okay, okay Yeah, okay, and then
she's a dooms dooms sufferer if you knowthe game, you know what that is But she
can travel between the beaches basically.
(04:03):
Yeah, well he Sam delivers somecargo cremates his mother Meets
Amelie who is an extinction entity.
So that's all in just the prologue Thatwas before you even really start the game.
Yeah, my
RYAN MCBAIN (04:16):
only problem is like when I'm streaming it, by the way, you
can see me on Ryan McBain on Twitch.
When I'm streaming it, I'm worriedlike if I'm gonna get like DMCA
because all this music is popping.
There's some good ass musicplaying during that game.
JUST BLANE (04:31):
There is some amazing music in that game.
Does it not tie it together?
It's, it always kicks in when you'relike coming over a mountain, a ridge,
and it feels even more immersive.
And you're like, Oh man.
Okay.
Okay.
But yeah, that, that would bea concern if you're streaming,
because you can't stream music.
So how do you get around that?
(04:51):
Like, I don't know.
RYAN MCBAIN (04:52):
I just like a couple of times that they've, uh, on Twitch,
they've muted my vibe, which is fine.
I don't care as long as I don't geta DMCA, but yeah, I play the game.
The more I learn the more like just whatI think I've seen all the weird shit.
It just gets weirder Oh,
JUST BLANE (05:08):
no, man.
I was watching just I was watchingyour stream just the other night.
And yeah, I think you did get to episode4 And I, and I even said, I was like,
Oh, now shit's about to really get weird.
And you're like, what?
Like it hasn't already been,you went through episode one
and that's when you met Bridget.
So Sam agrees to join bridges,help Amelie reconnect America
through the chiral network.
(05:30):
He encounters, Oh, he encountershis BTS for the first time.
Ooh.
What'd you think about that?
Not fun.
RYAN MCBAIN (05:37):
I don't like them.
Like at first I really hated like,like the dudes are trying to jack you.
I forget their names.
The mules, the mules, mules.
Yeah.
I hated them.
But then like, I hate it when like,you're just, you're, you need to get
somewhere and then it starts raining andthen you know that the BTs are about to
show up like shit, I'm low on everything.
(05:59):
I need to get to the spot.
So I gotta be very, very fuckingquiet, but dude, it's, it's tense, man.
It's tense.
It's a great, it's a great game.
And more I play it and more,I asked myself, why did I stop
playing this in the first place?
JUST BLANE (06:12):
But you know what, I did the same thing on that too.
I, we, we all picked it up.
There's a bunch of us that were playingsomething at the same time it came out and
we started playing it and it was too slow.
I think.
I think it was destiny.
I think it was too slow for us at the timeand we all jumped back to destiny because
I didn't play it till a year later.
So I didn't play this all at once.
I played it a year later.
I think I got to rank 265.
(06:33):
Played it again when the, what do youcall it, the director's cut dropped.
I played it again then.
Still love the game, but it didtake a little bit to get hooked.
So you did.
Episode one and episode two, or,or actually prologue episode one.
And then you went to episodetwo back with Amelie.
Oh, we also met Higgs in episode one.
Higgs is the, the man I
RYAN MCBAIN (06:54):
put in a lot of hours so far, and I still think I just
barely scratched the surface.
You have talked to you,I talked to other people.
I talked to somebody in my, uh,on my Twitch channel that told me
that told me that, that they putin like 200 hours in the game.
I'm like, Oh, I definitely did.
I don't got 200 hours.
I don't got 200 hours.
I do not.
JUST BLANE (07:13):
I definitely did, but I'm going to, I don't
want to give you too much.
I don't want to give you any spoilers,but you're going to get in there and
there's going to be some forms of fasttravel that you're going to appreciate.
And it's really zip lines and stuff.
It's zip lines.
You can set up roads.
You can start building, youstart doing all that and you'll
be cruising through there.
Episode two.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Yeah,
RYAN MCBAIN (07:31):
yeah, when I first started playing, I had countless
people coming and going, Oh, you'replaying this walking simulator.
Cause you do a lot of,you do a lot of walking.
But once you get past all that,Like, I think I'm slowly getting
the hang of the game, Of the game.
I think, I think thegame's slowly picking up.
And I, honestly, I'mreally having a good time.
JUST BLANE (07:51):
Man, you get hooked on it, man.
Like that's the thing too.
A lot of people out there, theywant, they need that call of duty.
They need that 15 minute action pack.
I can turn it on, turn it off and be done.
You can't do that with this game.
You got to really sink sometime into it to get immersed.
RYAN MCBAIN (08:06):
When you hit wine, let it breathe,
JUST BLANE (08:09):
man.
You gotta let it breathe.
That's right, man.
That's right.
That's right.
Episode two, you met Amelie again.
You traveled to Lake Knotcity and you meet dead man.
You meet mama and you meet Hartman.
I love Hartman.
He's one of my favoritecharacters in all the video games.
No spoilers for you there, butyou got a long way to go with
these, the, all these characters.
They have all got their own stories.
(08:29):
So wild.
I don't know how Kojima likemeshes all this stuff together.
It's weird.
It's wild.
RYAN MCBAIN (08:36):
Let's talk about this though.
I want to know how he comesup with these stories.
Does he smoke a blunt?
Do mushrooms?
Cause this shit is justreally, really weird.
It's
JUST BLANE (08:47):
it's so weird and it's hard to find.
Like where he would have gotten hisinspiration from because a lot of
his stuff is not like anything else.
So it's like Where did that come
RYAN MCBAIN (08:56):
from?
It's great.
It's a great story.
It's just like really weird I'm like, Ialways like when I see some weird shit.
I always ask myself.
How did they come up with this?
Oh, yeah, man.
He's killing him if you think
JUST BLANE (09:09):
Go ahead.
Yeah
RYAN MCBAIN (09:11):
He's killing it I'm looking forward to part two, but
I need to finish this first beforepart two comes out Oh, you will,
JUST BLANE (09:18):
you'll definitely finish it.
But can you believe that there's aDeath Stranding movie coming out?
Can you picture whatthat's going to be like?
I'm guessing it's going to be a
RYAN MCBAIN (09:26):
horror movie.
It's gotta be.
JUST BLANE (09:29):
It will be weirder because it's not only Kojima,
but he's pairing up with a 24.
Now, if you know anythingabout that company, that's
some weird movies right there.
That's hereditary.
That's all.
That's some real scary movies out there.
The witch.
There's a lot of stuffthey've got out there.
That I can see this being, this,this is gonna be a good movie,
(09:52):
this is gonna be a good movie, I
RYAN MCBAIN (09:53):
guarantee it.
They're not gonna, yeah, they'renot gonna pull any punches.
It's definitely gonna be better than D.
R.
JUST BLANE (09:57):
Oh, it's got it.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Now, this is something I didn'tknow this week, but you can
actually get Death Stranding.
It just came out on Mac.
If you've got an M1 chip in yourMacBook, you can get Death Stranding.
I was like, okay, alright,let me check it out.
So I'll start, I'll pick that up and I'llstart playing it for us and I'll give us
(10:18):
a breakdown on the Mac version and seehow it holds up because I really don't see
how you can play it off of a phone or alaptop because that's a lot going on, man.
But that brings us to the big news go here
RYAN MCBAIN (10:33):
First of all, first of all, I don't see how people can
play that game without a controller.
But yeah, the big news is Xbox is pissingoff a lot of people and I'm laughing
at it because I don't get the uproar Idon't understand why people are so mad.
Yes Xbox It looks like they're gonna startputting their games on other platforms.
They're not gonna have any more exclusivesanymore If anything, they're just gonna
(10:55):
be time exclusives and people are upsetand I don't understand why they're so mad
JUST BLANE (11:01):
Let's I don't either but let's play devil's advocate in
and and try to pinpoint what's goingon Why would you be mad about it?
Like what what's the negative?
Reactions that it's justbecause they're Xbox fans
RYAN MCBAIN (11:14):
It's the silly console wars that they want
their console to be the best.
It'd be one thing if Theycouldn't play the game they
wanted to play on their console.
But you can still play thegame you want to play on Xbox.
You're not losing anything.
But you're upset because more peoplecan play the same game you can play.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
(11:35):
Why do you care?
It doesn't hurt you at all.
It's like so stupid.
JUST BLANE (11:41):
That's like a Gamer elitism is what that sounds like to me.
That's a real thing out there.
That sounds like people being elitist.
Gatekeeping.
RYAN MCBAIN (11:50):
The funny thing is Xbox has never had exclusives because the game
would always come out on PC as well.
And I'm watching these peopleliterally Little, literally grown man
crying about this, mad about this.
I saw someone say like, Oh, Icouldn't sleep last night over this.
(12:10):
Like why?
You're not, you're literallynot losing anything.
It makes no sense.
I wish
JUST BLANE (12:15):
I was that person that all I had to worry about
was the Xbox not being exclusive.
That's what I lost sleep over.
Like if that's, if that'swhat we're doing, awesome.
I'm living a great life.
But that's crazy to me.
So what's the ones thatare actually confirmed?
Starfield's going.
Starfield,
RYAN MCBAIN (12:31):
which I don't care because I already bought it on PC.
You should buy it on PC because Starfieldon, on Xbox is only 30 frames per second.
Yep, yep.
They're saying that
JUST BLANE (12:41):
Oh, won't that be some shit if, won't that be some shit if
it's 60 frames a second on Playstation?
RYAN MCBAIN (12:47):
Okay, here's the thing.
If it, if Starfield goes to PS5Which is, that's what the rumor is.
And it's 60 frames per second?
Okay, I understand.
Then, you have a right to be upset.
Because I get that, I get that.
But if it's not, youshouldn't be mad at all.
If they're putting the betterversion of the game on PS5,
(13:10):
then yeah, I understand that.
But if they're putting the sameversion out, why would you care?
Yeah, exactly.
You're not losing anything.
You're just like It's like someone'ssaying that like I'm upset that
someone's getting something even thoughyou're getting the exact same thing
JUST BLANE (13:28):
I've already got it.
Even though I've already got it
RYAN MCBAIN (13:29):
You're getting it first anyway, you're getting a time
exclusive Okay, so I just peopleyou people need to grow the fuck up.
It's not that big of a deal
JUST BLANE (13:45):
That's it man.
You know what it is to me.
It's like Maybe it is the endof the console wars, but why did
we have the console wars anyway?
Yeah, it is.
It is.
It is the end of the yeah, but Ialways found it a problem that A 200,
300, 400, 500 box is what kept mefrom playing with my other friends.
It was which, it's which box you picked.
(14:07):
That's not fair.
That's not fair to me.
I think it makes it more accessiblefor everybody to be able to be a
gamer with whoever they want topick the console of your choice.
Now the console has just got to putdifferent skins or different versions
out and get people to buy them.
Collector's edition Xbox.
You'll still get people to buythem, but I don't think, I think
console wars are dead, man.
I think it's going to
RYAN MCBAIN (14:25):
be it.
Xbox has been hurting for a longtime and they spent a lot of
money on buying these studios andthey need to make money off it.
They spent billions of dollarson buying studios and they
still aren't gaining any ground.
So they're just like, screw it.
We're just going to make it, we'rejust going to put our games on other
platforms so we can make up that cost.
(14:46):
And it's really crazy to think aboutthis at a time when everyone and
their mom in America had an Xbox 360.
It was on and everyone had one in America.
And then Xbox was in first place,and then PS4 and Xbox One came
out, and Xbox One got arrogant, gotcocky, and they dropped the ball.
(15:06):
How did it happen?
You remember this?
You remember this?
They said, hey, you can't play usedgames, and you always have to be online.
And people were pissed, andpeople were mad about that.
Somebody at Xbox, I can't remembertheir name, but they said, well,
you can just buy an Xbox 360.
If you can't Oh yeah, I remember that one.
(15:27):
And people got pissed off.
And what did PS four do?
They saw it, they get and they went, Hey,well you can play used games and you don't
JUST BLANE (15:35):
backwards, have to backwards compatible and all that stuff.
Yeah.
RYAN MCBAIN (15:39):
And they took the ball, ran with it, and they've been in the
first place and they never lookedback and Xbox never caught up.
JUST BLANE (15:46):
What also they did when, when they went to 360 to the one.
They changed the user interface thatthing was it worked what worked on 360
Why wouldn't you have kept that theychanged it up and it was so hard to get
around on I remember that That kept mefrom wanting to play it me and you owned
a 360 just for Gears of War remember that
RYAN MCBAIN (16:07):
Hey, we'll be playing it on PlayStation soon.
Man, I'll
JUST BLANE (16:12):
pick it up, man.
I'll pick it up.
I will pick it up, man.
I love that game, man.
Alright, that's it for this week,unless you got something else for us.
You got anything else before we gettoo fired up on the Xbox kerfuffle?
RYAN MCBAIN (16:24):
I'll just rest in power, Carl Weathers.
And check me out on Twitch, Ryan McBain.
That's
JUST BLANE (16:30):
right.
Twitch, Ryan McBain.
Hey, next week, McBain,I got something for us.
I got a guest for us.
We're not ready to get to our celebrityguests yet, but I got an author coming on.
Steven Kloffenstein is hisname and he lives right here
in the neighborhood with me.
Now, this guy writes these books in agenre that's up and coming called lit RPG.
(16:52):
They're literary role play games.
It's wild, dude.
It's even got like all the statsfor characters built into the game.
This guy's brain power is more than meand you combined I can tell you that.
That don't take much though, so thatdidn't take much, but that is true
I'm gonna get him on here next weekand talk about this book a little
bit more and that'll be a lot of funbecause These books I'm telling you.
(17:13):
The Shadow Watch, I believeis what the name of it is.
I got one around here somewhere.
But yeah, we're gonna get into that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Steven Klofenstein, Shadow Watch.
And he's got other series too.
But yeah, good stuff there.
We're gonna also keep breaking downour playthrough of Death Stranding.
Might as well.
You're gonna keep going.
We gotta talk about the rest of that.
Yeah, man.
(17:33):
We'll talk about all the other, allthe other news in gaming out there.
So we'll see you guys next week.
Ron McBain on Twitch.
Go check him out in JustBlaine.
com, no i in Blaine, or at JustBlaineTV.
See you guys.
The following presentation is a production of Ride The Wave Media.
This is Game Related with Just Blaine.
Oh yes, here we go, GameRelated, we're back.
It's Just Blaine, it's Ron McBain.
McBain, they didn't cancel us.
(00:23):
There you
RYAN MCBAIN (00:24):
go.
Eventually.
Eventually.
Yeah, eventually they'regoing to cancel us.
JUST BLANE (00:27):
But they didn't in the first week.
They didn't in the first week though,
RYAN MCBAIN (00:29):
man.
They might cancel us after
JUST BLANE (00:31):
this episode.
This could be the one.
Is that, that's how weshould tease it everyone.
This could be the one guys.
Right off the jump.
Remember when we used to stream and everystream always started with an apology
for the last stream of how we acted.
That's what we're going to get to man.
Yes.
Hey, today's show is going to be fun.
We're going to talk more aboutDeath Stranding because you're
about a week into that game now.
So we're going to break that down.
(00:52):
Yes, we're going to talk about amovie, Death Stranding, and it's
also available on other platforms.
Now we'll get into that.
RYAN MCBAIN (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaking of other platforms, apparentlyXbox is about to put all their shit on
other platforms and people are mad crying.
JUST BLANE (01:10):
Literally, literally mad crying and throwing fits.
I can't wait.
We got to get in there.
That's probably thebiggest news of the week.
Wouldn't you say
RYAN MCBAIN (01:16):
easily, man?
I never thought I would say tomyself, wow, Halo might be on PS5.
JUST BLANE (01:23):
Alright, save that.
We'll get to that.
But first up, man, we got totalk about something else.
After this episode one came out, peoplewere talking about our artwork, man.
They were giving me some trouble.
But I gotta say, I justpulled it up for us.
I don't need it, man.
That's as accurate arepresentation as we can have.
You know what?
Maybe the tattoos is what it is.
(01:44):
The tattoos.
Okay, we don't have that many tattoos.
You don't have any and I definitelydon't have a sleeve like that.
RYAN MCBAIN (01:50):
Yeah, but like the muscle mass is pretty on point It
JUST BLANE (01:53):
is I think the muscle mass might be a little under under shown
on the artwork Yeah, I think yeah, yougot a little more chisel than that.
Yeah a little more chisel in it Whenit when it's the action figure on a
desk when that thing going on salecuz that's that's badass right there
RYAN MCBAIN (02:10):
Audition right there
JUST BLANE (02:12):
the collector's edition McBain with kung fu grip that's the one
I want I want the one with Kung Fu Grip.
RYAN MCBAIN (02:20):
I heard that.
I heard that.
JUST BLANE (02:22):
Yeah, okay.
Man, let's get into Death Strandingand what you thought about it.
You put about a week's worthof work into that thing.
It feels like work at first.
But then you just get into it, right?
Yeah,
RYAN MCBAIN (02:34):
so I bought it first when it first came out on PS4.
And I don't know what happened.
I got distracted.
Other games were coming out,so I just stopped playing it.
After I saw the trailer forPart 2, I'm like, oh man.
That trailer looks fucking lit.
I need to go back and finish part one.
So I started all over again.
I got the director's cut, put downthe 10 bucks for the PS5 upgrade.
(02:57):
I've been playing it andmaking mistakes here and there.
And apparently like people likewatching people play that game.
Cause I had random people comingin and trying to help me out.
It is a hard game whenyou first start out.
I'm just finally slowlyfiguring things out.
It is complex.
I was playing for a long ass time.
I was like, dude, I'mprobably like halfway through.
(03:18):
Somebody came in like, nah,brother, you about 20 percent done.
JUST BLANE (03:21):
I don't know if you just started episode four, I think, didn't you?
I don't even think that's bad.
That might be about, yeah,that's probably 30 percent done.
Uh, but the episodes are,they're different links.
So it's hard to judge that.
What do you think about the first,let's start with the prologue.
That's where you meet Sam, Sam Porter.
He's the courier.
(03:42):
You find out he can come back from death.
He's a what repatriate.
They call it.
You meet fragile who I love it.
I love that character and she's a No,no, no Okay, okay Yeah, okay, and then
she's a dooms dooms sufferer if you knowthe game, you know what that is But she
can travel between the beaches basically.
(04:03):
Yeah, well he Sam delivers somecargo cremates his mother Meets
Amelie who is an extinction entity.
So that's all in just the prologue Thatwas before you even really start the game.
Yeah, my
RYAN MCBAIN (04:16):
only problem is like when I'm streaming it, by the way, you
can see me on Ryan McBain on Twitch.
When I'm streaming it, I'm worriedlike if I'm gonna get like DMCA
because all this music is popping.
There's some good ass musicplaying during that game.
JUST BLANE (04:31):
There is some amazing music in that game.
Does it not tie it together?
It's, it always kicks in when you'relike coming over a mountain, a ridge,
and it feels even more immersive.
And you're like, Oh man.
Okay.
Okay.
But yeah, that, that would bea concern if you're streaming,
because you can't stream music.
So how do you get around that?
(04:51):
Like, I don't know.
RYAN MCBAIN (04:52):
I just like a couple of times that they've, uh, on Twitch,
they've muted my vibe, which is fine.
I don't care as long as I don't geta DMCA, but yeah, I play the game.
The more I learn the more like just whatI think I've seen all the weird shit.
It just gets weirder Oh,
JUST BLANE (05:08):
no, man.
I was watching just I was watchingyour stream just the other night.
And yeah, I think you did get to episode4 And I, and I even said, I was like,
Oh, now shit's about to really get weird.
And you're like, what?
Like it hasn't already been,you went through episode one
and that's when you met Bridget.
So Sam agrees to join bridges,help Amelie reconnect America
through the chiral network.
(05:30):
He encounters, Oh, he encountershis BTS for the first time.
Ooh.
What'd you think about that?
Not fun.
RYAN MCBAIN (05:37):
I don't like them.
Like at first I really hated like,like the dudes are trying to jack you.
I forget their names.
The mules, the mules, mules.
Yeah.
I hated them.
But then like, I hate it when like,you're just, you're, you need to get
somewhere and then it starts raining andthen you know that the BTs are about to
show up like shit, I'm low on everything.
(05:59):
I need to get to the spot.
So I gotta be very, very fuckingquiet, but dude, it's, it's tense, man.
It's tense.
It's a great, it's a great game.
And more I play it and more,I asked myself, why did I stop
playing this in the first place?
JUST BLANE (06:12):
But you know what, I did the same thing on that too.
I, we, we all picked it up.
There's a bunch of us that were playingsomething at the same time it came out and
we started playing it and it was too slow.
I think.
I think it was destiny.
I think it was too slow for us at the timeand we all jumped back to destiny because
I didn't play it till a year later.
So I didn't play this all at once.
I played it a year later.
I think I got to rank 265.
(06:33):
Played it again when the, what do youcall it, the director's cut dropped.
I played it again then.
Still love the game, but it didtake a little bit to get hooked.
So you did.
Episode one and episode two, or,or actually prologue episode one.
And then you went to episodetwo back with Amelie.
Oh, we also met Higgs in episode one.
Higgs is the, the man I
RYAN MCBAIN (06:54):
put in a lot of hours so far, and I still think I just
barely scratched the surface.
You have talked to you,I talked to other people.
I talked to somebody in my, uh,on my Twitch channel that told me
that told me that, that they putin like 200 hours in the game.
I'm like, Oh, I definitely did.
I don't got 200 hours.
I don't got 200 hours.
I do not.
JUST BLANE (07:13):
I definitely did, but I'm going to, I don't
want to give you too much.
I don't want to give you any spoilers,but you're going to get in there and
there's going to be some forms of fasttravel that you're going to appreciate.
And it's really zip lines and stuff.
It's zip lines.
You can set up roads.
You can start building, youstart doing all that and you'll
be cruising through there.
Episode two.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Yeah,
RYAN MCBAIN (07:31):
yeah, when I first started playing, I had countless
people coming and going, Oh, you'replaying this walking simulator.
Cause you do a lot of,you do a lot of walking.
But once you get past all that,Like, I think I'm slowly getting
the hang of the game, Of the game.
I think, I think thegame's slowly picking up.
And I, honestly, I'mreally having a good time.
JUST BLANE (07:51):
Man, you get hooked on it, man.
Like that's the thing too.
A lot of people out there, theywant, they need that call of duty.
They need that 15 minute action pack.
I can turn it on, turn it off and be done.
You can't do that with this game.
You got to really sink sometime into it to get immersed.
RYAN MCBAIN (08:06):
When you hit wine, let it breathe,
JUST BLANE (08:09):
man.
You gotta let it breathe.
That's right, man.
That's right.
That's right.
Episode two, you met Amelie again.
You traveled to Lake Knotcity and you meet dead man.
You meet mama and you meet Hartman.
I love Hartman.
He's one of my favoritecharacters in all the video games.
No spoilers for you there, butyou got a long way to go with
these, the, all these characters.
They have all got their own stories.
(08:29):
So wild.
I don't know how Kojima likemeshes all this stuff together.
It's weird.
It's wild.
RYAN MCBAIN (08:36):
Let's talk about this though.
I want to know how he comesup with these stories.
Does he smoke a blunt?
Do mushrooms?
Cause this shit is justreally, really weird.
It's
JUST BLANE (08:47):
it's so weird and it's hard to find.
Like where he would have gotten hisinspiration from because a lot of
his stuff is not like anything else.
So it's like Where did that come
RYAN MCBAIN (08:56):
from?
It's great.
It's a great story.
It's just like really weird I'm like, Ialways like when I see some weird shit.
I always ask myself.
How did they come up with this?
Oh, yeah, man.
He's killing him if you think
JUST BLANE (09:09):
Go ahead.
Yeah
RYAN MCBAIN (09:11):
He's killing it I'm looking forward to part two, but
I need to finish this first beforepart two comes out Oh, you will,
JUST BLANE (09:18):
you'll definitely finish it.
But can you believe that there's aDeath Stranding movie coming out?
Can you picture whatthat's going to be like?
I'm guessing it's going to be a
RYAN MCBAIN (09:26):
horror movie.
It's gotta be.
JUST BLANE (09:29):
It will be weirder because it's not only Kojima,
but he's pairing up with a 24.
Now, if you know anythingabout that company, that's
some weird movies right there.
That's hereditary.
That's all.
That's some real scary movies out there.
The witch.
There's a lot of stuffthey've got out there.
That I can see this being, this,this is gonna be a good movie,
(09:52):
this is gonna be a good movie, I
RYAN MCBAIN (09:53):
guarantee it.
They're not gonna, yeah, they'renot gonna pull any punches.
It's definitely gonna be better than D.
R.
JUST BLANE (09:57):
Oh, it's got it.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Now, this is something I didn'tknow this week, but you can
actually get Death Stranding.
It just came out on Mac.
If you've got an M1 chip in yourMacBook, you can get Death Stranding.
I was like, okay, alright,let me check it out.
So I'll start, I'll pick that up and I'llstart playing it for us and I'll give us
(10:18):
a breakdown on the Mac version and seehow it holds up because I really don't see
how you can play it off of a phone or alaptop because that's a lot going on, man.
But that brings us to the big news go here
RYAN MCBAIN (10:33):
First of all, first of all, I don't see how people can
play that game without a controller.
But yeah, the big news is Xbox is pissingoff a lot of people and I'm laughing
at it because I don't get the uproar Idon't understand why people are so mad.
Yes Xbox It looks like they're gonna startputting their games on other platforms.
They're not gonna have any more exclusivesanymore If anything, they're just gonna
(10:55):
be time exclusives and people are upsetand I don't understand why they're so mad
JUST BLANE (11:01):
Let's I don't either but let's play devil's advocate in
and and try to pinpoint what's goingon Why would you be mad about it?
Like what what's the negative?
Reactions that it's justbecause they're Xbox fans
RYAN MCBAIN (11:14):
It's the silly console wars that they want
their console to be the best.
It'd be one thing if Theycouldn't play the game they
wanted to play on their console.
But you can still play thegame you want to play on Xbox.
You're not losing anything.
But you're upset because more peoplecan play the same game you can play.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
(11:35):
Why do you care?
It doesn't hurt you at all.
It's like so stupid.
JUST BLANE (11:41):
That's like a Gamer elitism is what that sounds like to me.
That's a real thing out there.
That sounds like people being elitist.
Gatekeeping.
RYAN MCBAIN (11:50):
The funny thing is Xbox has never had exclusives because the game
would always come out on PC as well.
And I'm watching these peopleliterally Little, literally grown man
crying about this, mad about this.
I saw someone say like, Oh, Icouldn't sleep last night over this.
(12:10):
Like why?
You're not, you're literallynot losing anything.
It makes no sense.
I wish
JUST BLANE (12:15):
I was that person that all I had to worry about
was the Xbox not being exclusive.
That's what I lost sleep over.
Like if that's, if that'swhat we're doing, awesome.
I'm living a great life.
But that's crazy to me.
So what's the ones thatare actually confirmed?
Starfield's going.
Starfield,
RYAN MCBAIN (12:31):
which I don't care because I already bought it on PC.
You should buy it on PC because Starfieldon, on Xbox is only 30 frames per second.
Yep, yep.
They're saying that
JUST BLANE (12:41):
Oh, won't that be some shit if, won't that be some shit if
it's 60 frames a second on Playstation?
RYAN MCBAIN (12:47):
Okay, here's the thing.
If it, if Starfield goes to PS5Which is, that's what the rumor is.
And it's 60 frames per second?
Okay, I understand.
Then, you have a right to be upset.
Because I get that, I get that.
But if it's not, youshouldn't be mad at all.
If they're putting the betterversion of the game on PS5,
(13:10):
then yeah, I understand that.
But if they're putting the sameversion out, why would you care?
Yeah, exactly.
You're not losing anything.
You're just like It's like someone'ssaying that like I'm upset that
someone's getting something even thoughyou're getting the exact same thing
JUST BLANE (13:28):
I've already got it.
Even though I've already got it
RYAN MCBAIN (13:29):
You're getting it first anyway, you're getting a time
exclusive Okay, so I just peopleyou people need to grow the fuck up.
It's not that big of a deal
JUST BLANE (13:45):
That's it man.
You know what it is to me.
It's like Maybe it is the endof the console wars, but why did
we have the console wars anyway?
Yeah, it is.
It is.
It is the end of the yeah, but Ialways found it a problem that A 200,
300, 400, 500 box is what kept mefrom playing with my other friends.
It was which, it's which box you picked.
(14:07):
That's not fair.
That's not fair to me.
I think it makes it more accessiblefor everybody to be able to be a
gamer with whoever they want topick the console of your choice.
Now the console has just got to putdifferent skins or different versions
out and get people to buy them.
Collector's edition Xbox.
You'll still get people to buythem, but I don't think, I think
console wars are dead, man.
I think it's going to
RYAN MCBAIN (14:25):
be it.
Xbox has been hurting for a longtime and they spent a lot of
money on buying these studios andthey need to make money off it.
They spent billions of dollarson buying studios and they
still aren't gaining any ground.
So they're just like, screw it.
We're just going to make it, we'rejust going to put our games on other
platforms so we can make up that cost.
(14:46):
And it's really crazy to think aboutthis at a time when everyone and
their mom in America had an Xbox 360.
It was on and everyone had one in America.
And then Xbox was in first place,and then PS4 and Xbox One came
out, and Xbox One got arrogant, gotcocky, and they dropped the ball.
(15:06):
How did it happen?
You remember this?
You remember this?
They said, hey, you can't play usedgames, and you always have to be online.
And people were pissed, andpeople were mad about that.
Somebody at Xbox, I can't remembertheir name, but they said, well,
you can just buy an Xbox 360.
If you can't Oh yeah, I remember that one.
(15:27):
And people got pissed off.
And what did PS four do?
They saw it, they get and they went, Hey,well you can play used games and you don't
JUST BLANE (15:35):
backwards, have to backwards compatible and all that stuff.
Yeah.
RYAN MCBAIN (15:39):
And they took the ball, ran with it, and they've been in the
first place and they never lookedback and Xbox never caught up.
JUST BLANE (15:46):
What also they did when, when they went to 360 to the one.
They changed the user interface thatthing was it worked what worked on 360
Why wouldn't you have kept that theychanged it up and it was so hard to get
around on I remember that That kept mefrom wanting to play it me and you owned
a 360 just for Gears of War remember that
RYAN MCBAIN (16:07):
Hey, we'll be playing it on PlayStation soon.
Man, I'll
JUST BLANE (16:12):
pick it up, man.
I'll pick it up.
I will pick it up, man.
I love that game, man.
Alright, that's it for this week,unless you got something else for us.
You got anything else before we gettoo fired up on the Xbox kerfuffle?
RYAN MCBAIN (16:24):
I'll just rest in power, Carl Weathers.
And check me out on Twitch, Ryan McBain.
That's
JUST BLANE (16:30):
right.
Twitch, Ryan McBain.
Hey, next week, McBain,I got something for us.
I got a guest for us.
We're not ready to get to our celebrityguests yet, but I got an author coming on.
Steven Kloffenstein is hisname and he lives right here
in the neighborhood with me.
Now, this guy writes these books in agenre that's up and coming called lit RPG.
(16:52):
They're literary role play games.
It's wild, dude.
It's even got like all the statsfor characters built into the game.
This guy's brain power is more than meand you combined I can tell you that.
That don't take much though, so thatdidn't take much, but that is true
I'm gonna get him on here next weekand talk about this book a little
bit more and that'll be a lot of funbecause These books I'm telling you.
(17:13):
The Shadow Watch, I believeis what the name of it is.
I got one around here somewhere.
But yeah, we're gonna get into that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Steven Klofenstein, Shadow Watch.
And he's got other series too.
But yeah, good stuff there.
We're gonna also keep breaking downour playthrough of Death Stranding.
Might as well.
You're gonna keep going.
We gotta talk about the rest of that.
Yeah, man.
(17:33):
We'll talk about all the other, allthe other news in gaming out there.
So we'll see you guys next week.
Ron McBain on Twitch.
Go check him out in JustBlaine.
com, no i in Blaine, or at JustBlaineTV.
See you guys.
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