We Was Too Broke For Pokémon Battles | House Of Wolves Podcast

Episode 159. In this episode we discuss RDNA 4 reveal and the good and bad of AMD FSR4, we discuss Split Fiction reviews, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 reveal, 5070 graphic cards underwhelming performance and much more!

Intro: 00:00

RDNA 4: 19:05

5070 VS 4090: 31:55

Monster Hunter Wilds Sales Are Crazy: 32:55

Split Fiction Review Are In: 41:42

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 Reveal: 47:06

Assassin Creed Shadows Is Looking Alot Of Better: 55:00

All The Games I Want To Play: 01:08:46

Pokémon Event Recap: 01:11:30

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Let them come. This is their fate.

(00:07):
Get my burning hands in there.
All right. All right.
Welcome back to the House of Wolves podcast.
I'm your host, Deontay.
Here are my near and dear friends, Jalen and Josh.
Today, we got quite a bit to talk about per usual with the RDNA
for Keno or me or whatever they whatever you want to call that event.

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But they unleashed the 90 70 and 90 70 XT on the video.
And I got some thoughts.
Split fiction reviews are coming in.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater three and four childhood
50 70 has underwhelming results as all expected.
Monster Hunter doing crazy numbers and then Assassin's Creed

(00:55):
still coming around to being looking pretty decent.
Well, we got more and more talk about you and beyond that.
So before we get started per usual, Jalen, Josh,
tell the people how you been, what you've been up to, how's life going,
what you've been playing, how's the family and the plans coming up?

(01:17):
Talk to the people.
Yeah, I guess I'll take it.
So far this week has been pretty chill.
Just getting caught up on mostly family stuff
because my wife was out of town for a few days.

(01:38):
So I was taking care of the baby by myself with grandma's help, of course.
But we did a, you know, decent job.
But mom is back.
So we're giving her acclimated back to family life and also this time zone.
Her trip was good.
Went out to Dubai, got to see the desert, got to see different culture.

(02:03):
Yeah. And try different food.
Had a enjoyable experience, but she's happy to be home back,
you know, to see us, but also be what she where she's familiar.
Yeah. Yeah.
So we picked her up on Saturday from the airport.

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And it was really late at night because, I don't know,
they've like just got in late, but it was safe.
You know, with all these flights, you know, issues going on, you know,
a lot of thoughts going through everybody's head.
Yeah. But yeah, mom got home safe.
We spent the weekend just chilling and then went back to work this week.

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As far as our future plans, we're hoping to,
I guess, do some family related, like just chill event,
because there's a lot of like, you know, like performances for kids.
Like they have like a favorite show and then they have a live performance.
There is one for Anpanman, which is like a kid's anime.

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It's very popular about like food related characters.
We were thinking about trying to go out
to the Anpanman Museum, which is out in Kobe,
which is, I guess, like an hour from where we live.
And then just hang out in the city because Kobe is a very nice

(03:31):
port town and they're famous for their beef.
You might hear or see on the Japanese menu Kobe beef or like
it is just they're really famous for their their style of beef.
But yeah, we're hoping to do that sometime in March.
And it's also going to be.

(03:52):
Sakura season or here we call it Hanami.
So the cherry blossoms going to be blooming soon.
It's just the timing is it's like it usually lines up on
like one week to catch it before they're all like start to fall.
This right last week was super cold and windy.

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And we were actually getting a little bit of snow sometimes.
And then this week it's it's warmer, you know, around 50 degrees,
but it's raining a lot.
Hopefully that means the flowers and stuff will be blooming
within another week or so.
Hopefully the weather is is OK so you can go out and have picnics
and stuff like that.
But yeah, so far doing plannings with the family for spring.

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As far as video games and media, I haven't played a whole lot.
Still working my way through Knights of the Old Republic 1.
I'm going to finish that hopefully soon.
I was thinking of jumping right into the second game, but I might take a detour
to play Jade Empire, which is another Bioware game.

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But it's a it's like a Chinese like kung fu
mythology and inspired game.
Bioware, which I never played, but we'll see.
But anyways, I'm enjoying Kotor.
I like the side characters or like the party members,
because I think that's what Bioware does best

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in most of their games.
And yeah, I have not bought Monster Hunter Wilds,
but we'll talk about that later. OK.
Well, cool, cool, cool.
What about you, Jalen?
What you've been up to, what you've been doing?
So for me, same old, same old

(05:42):
working out still on my 183 day challenge.
What day you are working towards that?
But I think yesterday was day 33.
Oh, OK.
Yesterday was day 33.
Yeah, so I'm trading along.
Yeah, yesterday, day 33.
So I'm trading along with that.

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Starting to run the weather is breaking a little bit.
So I did run outside for a little bit.
I was going to try to run today, but it's raining and stuff.
So I was kind of over the cook.
But just trying to make sure I'm ready for the share mark show.
But I was coming up on March 23rd, excited about that.
But that's really about it as far as like

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events and things like that.
You still ain't.
No, you're not.
You still ain't find no game.
I really I'm not going to lie to you.
I bought with the company yesterday.
Now, it's like
lethal company. How is that?
Yeah.
I you serious?
It is. I was one of the company yesterday for like

(06:47):
I was playing with Richard Corey and Devon for like.
Man, we just probably plan on for at least like three hours.
I'm like, man, this game is crazy.
Right.
Is that the one where you kind of walk around and like two people become
like the enemy, the killers and then I got like bombs and stuff like that.
I think that's the game.
Nice. I guess.

(07:08):
It's a survival game where you like.
Oh, yeah.
So the game never mind.
Hired. Yeah.
I think I was thinking of some product.
I was thinking of something else.
Sorry. Sorry. Stop stepping on you. Go ahead.
OK. But no, it's just a game where you just
basically go out in the place of one of the PC games where you help was
pretty much for the most part.

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And you just go in the places
like dungeons, like randomly generated dungeons on different planets
and pick up trash and got to beat the quota to make a certain diagram
of by the certain day.
Otherwise, they just kick you off the ship and you just die in space.
So, I mean, pretty stupid premise.
So I mean, like monsters or aliens.
And it's just the game just is just funny.

(07:52):
Really?
I mean, it's cool for it was only paid like $10 for so.
But they're trying to tell me to get it because I was trying to play remnant.
And that game was kind of making me a little sleepy.
It's funny because it was like my enemy.
I'm like, I'm having visions of Destiny Strike, bro.
Maybe shoot people in running out of ammo.

(08:13):
He bought it. What you doing, bro?
I ain't doing nothing.
Just shooting up the enemy because he got a health bars like,
you know, you buy you still shooting them.
Yeah, you know, much of it, you know, just dodging is a taxing.
Keep shooting them, you know.
So it is a lot of that is going on.
I mean, I don't think it that bad.
I mean, I could potentially play a political company.

(08:34):
It's it's fun for what it is.
I mean, I want to say like recommend this game.
Ten out of ten is just when you got the right people and just stuff happening.
Like I'm over here.
Control on a computer or something like that, the terminal.
And then I guess it's a monster on there that he can't
he can't see you, but he can hear you.
So if I'm talking and I'm playing on my Steam Deck, if I'm talking,

(08:55):
the mic picking up that I'm talking to, he'll just go get me. But
like Richard is like, hey, be quiet.
But you know, he had yelled that because we are on this court
because he heard from away and it got proximity voice chat to he heard it.
He like I was like, oh, shoot, let me just stop talking.
Because I heard the footsteps like the stumping.
And I'm thinking he by Richard, man, I turned around.

(09:16):
He walking on a ship like, bro, did he hit a U-turn when I stopped talking?
I'm just like.
And I can't talk to them no more because I got no way to silence my Steam Deck
to not pick up the audio, but I'm still on this court
what I'm trying to communicate, but I'm like, I can't talk right now, bro.
Like otherwise, you won't come back on the mug and come get me.
Yeah, I just got to figure it out.
But I want to tell him to not come on the ship because he right there.

(09:38):
Like so is this, you know, just is just a more funny game
of play and stuff like that.
So one is a cool little $10.
So I have that one.
So that and then, like I said before, I was playing remnant.
So that's pretty much it on the game tip.
And then I'm supposed to go to Japan sometime, so.
I like the second week of April.

(09:59):
Yeah, I just waiting for Josh. It takes me back. So.
Oh, my God.
I'll be bringing a personal problem to the pot.
I mean, I never text somebody.
It's all.
Yeah.
All right. I don't want to take a man like a couple of days.

(10:21):
You know what I'm doing?
Hey, that's not so.
That's not so me cooking on it.
I get it. I ain't sure.
It ain't that it's not that person.
So yeah.
Well, I thought it looks like, yeah, I don't have this game.

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Or maybe it was something else.
I think it was like lockdown protocol.
I think that was the one that was given everybody away for free or something like that.
I don't remember, but it's it's kind of similar to it.
But the gameplay is definitely more so.
I don't know.
Just look, it's different, I guess, kind of like got the same type of

(11:05):
you're on a spaceship, you're trying to take two jobs, but people are trying to hurt you.
Yours is a little bit different of a concept, so.
But yeah, a little stupid game, a little indie game.
You know, yeah, both of them ten dollars.
Uh, but OK.
Well, for me, I've been working on

(11:29):
creating like some form of like one
one button press, getting to like going from PC
gaming to couch mode.
That's what I'm trying to do.
So I'm setting up some
HDMI switches script and some stuff to try to get it to the point where
I hit one button and now I have like a console like experience on my

(11:53):
PC. So that's what I've been trying to do over the last like a day.
Not that long. But the rest of my time was
spent on a variety of games.
I bought games again.
That I had before.
I went back to Returnal
to try to see if there was like a different lens of

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I don't like this game for me to expect it to be something different
or if it's just a bad game.
I don't think it's a bad game.
So I have been playing a few of the biomes and trying to just complete that game.
I left it like halfway through.
So I am I went back to Returnal.
And then I had got some pretty good deals on some physical games

(12:39):
for the PS5.
So, yeah, I mean, that's pretty much what I've been doing.
I haven't had anything else that I've been like excited to play yet.
Like I kind of fell off a little bit of a vowed,
even though I didn't give it enough enough time.
I kind of got fell off a kingdom come and maybe it's not falling off.
It's just I had time yet to go back and play that type of game.

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So because I like both of them is just that it's like
I don't really have the time to sit down and like just play it.
So it is becoming a little bit more of a.
Basically, it's just it's just something that I need to kind of
actually focus in on to finish up some of these some of these games.

(13:24):
But I've just been messing around with other stuff and doing other things
that I really had the time to sit down and focus on it.
I did get to the part where
where am I in metaphor where we found out about the
I don't know the queen in on it yet, but we just rescued the mouse.
I don't even know what his name is.

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And we didn't rise.
Heisman. Yes, that's his name.
We didn't rescue him, but we basically were looking for him.
And now we're at a point now where we're still discovering some other stuff.
So that's where I'm adding metaphor.
But not to give too much away, because I don't think Josh played it yet.
But yeah, then just been playing a bunch of different games,

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to be honest, over the last week.
But that's pretty much it.
Family still good job, still good.
You know, everything else is good. Good.
I've been working out. I told you all this.
But I don't know if I told you the pie, but I have been working on.
Maybe I just told Jalen.
I have been working out as well, trying to like literally

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I only get five hours of sleep a day now.
It's kind of crazy.
I wake up every morning around six thirty.
I work out and then I go to work and I don't go to sleep till like one a.m.
It's kind of crazy.
And then I still get up and do it because I'm having so much energy
from working out in the morning that like honestly, I don't fall asleep during the day.
And I have been fine with five hours of sleep.

(14:51):
So I have been able to get more done, but I have been getting less sleep.
Like I literally go to sleep at one a.m. Wake back up at six thirty.
So it's kind of crazy.
But I've been doing it. I don't think that's healthy.
But I don't know why.
I just feel way more energized after I work out.
And I think a lot of people do.
But once you get that energy, it's like I can't go back to sleep until

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like I finish up the rest of my stuff.
And then by the time I actually looking at it, I'm not tired yet.
And then I just stick up, stay up to like one. So
not sure if it's a great benefit of working out.
But it is something that has changed in my daily routine.
That's been happening for the last two weeks.
So what work out you'd be doing?

(15:33):
Not just like.
Don't disrespect me, don't disrespect me.
I want to know, you know, why it's got to rain on somebody for what
you need to be working out for, you know, you know, like
and they they're going to say so we're going to say so for you doing the right thing.
Right, right. Well, really beyond time.

(15:56):
If I swear, if I wasn't working out at least to a to a certain extent,
it would probably
it would probably be like, I guess.
I wouldn't I never felt like this type of energy,
but it's not that I'm saying that this is a a growing or like a

(16:18):
I don't know, this is a sign off or a
a now I can't remember the freaking word.
I'm not saying that this is actually going to benefit everyone
or is helpful for everyone or useful for everyone.
Maybe people think it's a gimmick, but I literally just been boxing
the entire time using this that that app on Horizon.
I mean, on the meta quest and it's called Supernatural.

(16:40):
And literally, I just box for a very long time
and they have like different combinations and things that you have to do.
They have a coach that's telling you what to do and to pushing you.
But literally, I've just been doing that.
And it's like variations between different modes and different things you can do.
But it is intense.
And I like it that way because it just, I guess, keeps pushing me to kind of go

(17:03):
faster and it actually gives me some motivation to actually do something.
But literally, I'm just boxing shadow boxing, nothing
in the middle of my basement.
And that's it. That's literally what I've been doing.
And then I like mixing in, I do some.
I bought this thing that allows me to kind of do like stair master steps,

(17:25):
like in a in a in a in a stationary position so I can do that while I'm at work.
And then I do like crunches and things like that for more so at building.
But that's it. I ain't doing much else.
I'm like, that's pretty much the workout.
But it takes around like 30 to 40 minutes a day
of my time to kind of do it.

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And I only been eating at like a certain period of time.
So between those two combinations, I lost like six pounds.
But that's like water weight.
I'm trying to actually maintain a solid, you know, approach to my.
I guess training or whatever you want to call it,

(18:09):
because it does feel like I'm literally just dieting correctly
or doing something different there, and it kind of loses
that certain amount of pounds that always fluctuate in between,
but it's not really gaining anything.
So I'm trying to figure out a way to continue that
and actually do something beneficial.
But it ain't like super, super crazy.

(18:30):
I like I don't have to use certain.
I don't have to go to a gym because there are certain things that this program
is allowing me to get that I didn't used to have before anyway,
which is somebody that's kind of like telling you to kind of keep going
and motivating you instead of me just sitting there like I wouldn't say alone.
But it's kind of like I am still alone.
But it's kind of like something that keeps you motivated.

(18:52):
So I'm like, I'm going to get off that tangent.
But basically it is helping in that way.
I don't know how helpful it would be for everybody else, but it's helpful for me.
Oh, but let's move on to our first topic.
I want to talk about our DNA for

(19:14):
and a lot of the stuff that came out with this
or at least the information that came out, I thought was pretty beneficial.
I thought it was pretty cool to see.
But I guess the key parts, I'm a start first
before I go into my little tangent per usual.

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Did anybody else see any RDNA for stuff?
Anybody else see the new cards, graphics cards, anybody in the market for a graphics card?
Probably Jalen, but
I'll say something else.
He got one that he ain't using, so probably not.

(19:56):
Man, the the the way the approach to gaming is going,
it feels like everybody should own a PC in some way, shape or form anyway.
But but this 9070 and 97 XT,
I guess the most beneficial thing about this is that they are very competitive
on pricing and the video is not really doing so well with them,

(20:19):
with the public perception and actually having cards available.
So those two things are coming into the benefit of AMD.
There's a lot more to criticize on AMD side as well.
But let's not focus on that.
Let's focus on the good things that I saw to come out of there.
And the good things that I saw one, the 9070 is $540

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and then the 9070 XT is $600.
Respectfully, the $50 difference does not equate to a good approach
to wanting that 9070 card to be desirable because it is a little significantly
like under it's not underperforming, but it's not as performative
as this $50 difference would get you.

(21:03):
So it really doesn't make sense for them to be so close in pricing.
But at least the 9070 XT is a really great value.
Both of them are.
Oh, can you hear me?
Yeah.
OK. Yeah, the 9070 XT and the 9070

(21:25):
are both like very close in pricing,
but I think that the 9070 XT is still providing a better overall package.
Now, the difference between the two isn't like
it's not as if that $50 is making up the difference.
People are going to lean more towards the 9070 XT.

(21:46):
That's the problem that I see happening here is that the 9070
might be overshadowed simply due to the fact that they're so close in pricing.
And I don't know if that was on purpose or maybe they just adjusted it
because maybe it should have been 500 and that would have made more sense.
But again, back to the positive, the actual FSR for

(22:11):
they were showing FSR for working
within games being compared to NATO 4K resolution.
And I honestly never thought I'd see the day where, you know,
FSR for was showcasing in a way that make it look as performative
and as good as DLSS or even native implementation.

(22:35):
I didn't think that they ever would be able to improve upon the image enough
to actually showcase the benefits of why DLSS or why FSR is beneficial.
But they did do that.
And I think that's obviously all to the AI and what they're using
in order to get those results.

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They also produced a path tracing video, which is the toy shop.
It did not. It did not perform so well.
And honestly, it did make me feel like they still have a very much so long way to go.
But it does tell me at least that they're putting the focus
back on the things that people are, you know, knocking them for.

(23:19):
That's what I like. I like the fact that they weren't like scared to showcase that.
Hey, we might be behind, but we're still trying to be competitive, one on price,
and we're trying to give you the bang for the buck in regards to, you know,
what those feature sets people are asking for nowadays.
So I like their messaging. It was very clear and concise.

(23:39):
It wasn't really all over the place.
It was honestly, we're going to stick to these types of cards.
We want to stick to this price point, and we're going to try to give
the best performance you can at this price.
And I thought that was cool.
As someone that owns a 7900 XTX, I do not feel like this is something
that I would want to jump into yet.

(24:01):
I feel like the next generation of cards is be where I would want to begin
to really take advantage of the benefits of the FSR for and more and more
performative cards, because I am looking for more of a 4K 120 experience,
maybe overall 4K 60 with ray tracing.

(24:24):
I don't believe this.
These cards are going to be able to do what I'm looking for at this point in time.
So it really wouldn't be it'll be a half step for me to kind of upgrade to these
to put FSR for experience when my RAS performance today is pretty decent
enough to kind of run games at a decent rate with 4K 60 ray tracing, not 4K 120.

(24:48):
So my expectation is that these cards are going to be very performative
and pretty decent with and with with the performance mode of FSR for,
but they're not going to be like as great with like full ultra at the
4K to get past those numbers that I'm expecting.

(25:08):
We'll see though, like it can be just as good and with with games being
relatively easy on the path with what they have with the API for FSR.
I'm hoping that the path to upgrading games from FSR 3.1 or 3.2,
maybe 3.1 to FSR 4 is easier and less restricting and get more games

(25:35):
in under the ecosystem that can can use and take advantage of these new feature sets.
Yeah, to me, it was a good showing to me.
It helped bring competition back to the market and hopefully these individuals

(25:56):
or AMD is not lying when they say they have actual cards available.
I really hope that is not just a paper launch and that we're actually
not getting anything useful.
I'm really hoping that they actually deliver on both fronts where the price
is correct because they don't they're not making a reference card.

(26:18):
So you can have some fluctuation there with these aftermarket cards.
That's not actually coming from AMD.
They can mark it up all they want.
Is it going to really be the MSRP or not?
And then availability.
So that's yet to be seen.
But from now where I'm sitting, I am pretty proud of like the performance

(26:39):
that they show and I'm pretty proud of them the price point that they they
they fell to I think that those are both good things and it shows that
there is some competition out here and there is some hope for the consumer.
But what were your thoughts or both either you or Jalen thoughts on the

(27:01):
keynote or whether if you haven't seen it any thoughts around the FSR
performance or things like that the price point?
Yeah, I think that I'm honestly surprised that the FSR performance has

(27:21):
been improving so quickly because originally when I use like FSR 2, I
just hated every aspect of it like yeah, it improved your frame rate,
but you sacrifice so much but it's cool to see that they are actually
making good strides because if they're able to keep doing this or you

(27:42):
know, maybe these cards are actually very good then the competition
necessary to put pressure on NVIDIA will be good for me.
I do like ray tracing and I do like the you know, just NVIDIA's upscaling

(28:02):
implementation a little bit more but if AMD is still able to offer a
competitive price point while having most of the features it'll be good
worth it but I think the ray tracing is still the biggest weakness it
like they I know that NVIDIA I guess you would say cheats in order to

(28:24):
get the great performance that they have.
It's just that you know, when you compare apples to apples at least
or maybe apples to oranges in this case NVIDIA is offering ray tracing
at a much higher level than you can get on AMD card.

(28:48):
It's for a lot of people that will be a big difference that justifies
paying more money for NVIDIA card, but I just want to see more stuff
like this from the RDNA 4 showcase and plus I think that the Steam
deck has shown me that in other spaces the AMD I think is doing a

(29:11):
lot more for the industry hardware wise that will see benefits in
other spaces for consoles for handhelds for laptops and I don't
think that NVIDIA is having the same sort of impact.
No, they basically never do well in power consumption to perform

(29:32):
performance. It always seems as if they're overclocking or something
of that nature and I have noticed that trend of it's just getting
worse or temperatures wise power consumption wise.
It is these like these blackwell cards are just running very
powerful AI and I think that just takes more power and juice.

(29:55):
So definitely performance to power like AMD has always crushed it
and I think they're going to continue to do that as we kind of
see what it takes to kind of scale down chips and things like that
to kind of get to these greater APUs and things like that to be
able to run these games on smaller and less power hungry hardware.

(30:19):
So I'm looking forward to it.
I think AMD is on the right track.
But you know only time will tell what these companies like again
NVIDIA can come out next year swinging and kind of bring both
a new evolution to multi-frame gen or even some new evolution

(30:42):
to latency of these cards to the point where four times multi-frame
generation is actually feasible and it works well.
So you never know.
It's just kind of like where you want to kind of put your we
want to put your eggs because one basket they both working on

(31:04):
the same basket.
They were both working in that same basket and they in the same
boat.
AI AI AI it just one others approach to AI is a little bit
more aggressive and more.
So this is the this is the the approach we want to take to future
gaming and in the others is kind of like a dibble and dabble in

(31:24):
both sides and I still want good performance without the significant
tick up in power consumption or something like that.
I want optimization.
So I don't know which one's better right now to be honest.
I think that each approach will get us to a better space in the
in the PC gaming market regardless.

(31:47):
So looking forward to it.
Definitely a real quick.
I could just add this in here because it's kind of right in line.
The 5070 is not doing so hot.
It's not the revolutionary car where it had matched the performance
on a 4090.
It is used cases where you can have performative performance where

(32:10):
you see that I was watching digital foundries video and they
were talking about how you should definitely check it out.
It's a pretty good review but the 5070 in some games can have that
pretty decent latency and match the 4090 performance but most of
the time it is not as performative as a 4090 and again, this is

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talking about multi-frame four times multi-frame generation compared
to maybe frame gen just one frame gen on the 4090.
So very different use cases and scenarios but to mop next point,
I don't know if people care because let's talk about Monster

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Hunter and how 1.4 million concurrent players was on Steam and
this game has so 8 million copies of this game and this game is
like runs terrible on these PCs.
Like it's not a joke.

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People are literally optimizing their game for them.
There's mods coming out to help with this.
People were talking about some weird config file where you might
have a typo that can give you performance but other people are
saying that's all that's just a lie.
You can't do that.
It's not that that's how it works.
So it's just a bunch of stuff going on around this Monster
Hunter Wilds, but the biggest thing that popped out to me is

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that ain't slow none of you folks down everybody complaining
online everybody talking about how poor optimization poor it
is poor that they saw 8 million in three days.
That is a lot of copies to be selling on a game that everybody
is complaining about performance on that gives me more grace

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for that 5070.
Maybe I actually don't care about latency.
May I don't care about multi-frame.
I may just care about actually being able to play the game because
it seems like whatever whatever they put out y'all ate it up
and without any recourse and I I'm glad to report that Josh
did not buy yet, but I don't know if he's holding out for

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what right now, but let's talk about it.
Monster Hunter Wilds you seen in the reception you see the game
Did it change your perspective on buying it today?
Did you want to buy it?
Did it did it sway you in any way when you saw those numbers
the amount of people playing it maybe some of the optimization

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you saw did you want to go to extra mile to play it and put
in an extra work to get it to run?
Well, what are your thoughts about this Josh?
So yeah, 8 million is great.
I think they also announces their fastest selling game ever
in Capcom history.

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Yeah, and so yeah, it's great for Monster Hunter series because
you know, it used to be a time it was stuck on the 3DS and
didn't nobody want to buy it.
Well, I mean people bought it but they were unhappy because
it was stuck on the 3DS and so yes, this world moving it to
consoles moving it to PC has just shown way more success for
them. And yeah, the game looks good.

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I've been seeing a lot of people talking about it and I was
you know, on the fence.
I was thinking about pulling the trigger the other day, but
I won I decided to because it's it is a time-consuming game
and I don't have that much time right now, but also all of
the issues that I've seen that has been the biggest deterrent

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for me.
It's like I played Dragon's Augment at launch and I know
what type of issues that they have that being a single player
game.
I was able to stomach a little bit more.
Hey, I'll you know, I'm willing to tweak the graphics every
night and then or maybe download a lot or two to fix it.
Monster Hunter like being a multiplayer game like I really

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just want the experience to be good and consistent across
the board.
But like all the glitches going on the performance issues
have the changes that they made to like the matchmaking and
stuff like that.
Everything is giving me the vibe that this is a buy later

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game because it's not giving what I want for a let me do
the pricing for y'all.
So this game does not have regional pricing regional
pricing on PC.
If y'all don't know is if the game is $60 in whatever region

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say, let's say the US yeah, when you go somewhere else to
like Europe or Chile or something like that.
It will it will be your equivalent of what it is.
So it won't be necessarily $60, but let's say it's 60%
of $100, right?
It will be your currency is equivalent.

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So it will scale based on your currency or what some companies
can do is like no our game is $60 and whatever your currency
conversion rate is it will be 60 $60 equivalent.
But usually what that means is people are paying more depending
on where they live because their currency is worth less than

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the US problem about.
So anyways, this is a Ichiman which is a 10,000 yen or aka
a hundred dollar game.
Oh, wow.
$100 for a game that has graphical glitches where the textures
disappear or the monsters don't have textures or I'll walk

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into a new environment and I lose 70 frames.
So that is a big motivator for me to wait because I don't
want the experience of the game to be sour by the performance.
I think a lot of PC players especially will are willing to
take the risk especially with like the refund policy for steam.

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They're willing to, you know, jump in or hour to play with
the friends see what the game is like and then jump back out
if it's not worth it and just yet just in general PC players
they playing a lot, but they're also the people who will tweak
the game like I want to play the game going to give it a
bad review, but I'm still going to play it.

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I'm still going to mod it so that I get the experience.
I think there's just a cultural behavior of like players, but
yeah, for me, I'm not paying that much for this game to run
Genki and plus when I seen just like the main story progression
main story is not that long, but it has a lot of issues and

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maybe they could like tweak or patch or just improve.
So I think in six months the experience will be a lot better
because they they end up they did fix dragons on to for the
most part and yeah, it took about six months for them to
smooth out all the like performance issues that I was having.

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So I'm hoping that they do the same thing for this and I'll
hop in then and plus I don't have any friends who are in
about the game right now.
So I think it's be a single-player experience.
What about you Jaylen?
I know you got some friends that want to play you copping on
that PS 5 on yours or that is bossy.
We have bossy with it.

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You mean a crash box series?
Whichever one man.
I don't care which way turn off on me.
I'm like, okay.
But now I don't know.
I don't know if I'm gonna get that game man.
I still is the pressure on or is it ain't nobody asking you

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about it.
I don't know pressure.
I'm good.
Nobody asked about it.
Just you know, I consider what I am going to go off my way
to go get it.
Yeah, I thought he fought it.
I'm and I'm I'm doing pretty well pretty well.
They don't need our dollars.
They definitely don't need our dollars.
That is a hundred percent for show.

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They are here moving and shaking shaking and moving and like
I say, it definitely tells me a different story to the money
complaints.
I see online about PC optimization that tells me plenty.
If I'm looking at a game that runs bad and it's still topping

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the charts on Steam tells me everything I need to know because
definitely is about 80 80% of those folks don't have a higher
it's like certain it's like mid-range GPU mid-range PC builds
and it's like there's not that many people that actually can
run that game pretty well right now out there.

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So seeing is pretty interesting that it's doing so well tells
me a different story about how people actually treat optimization.
Maybe I'm just crazy, but I know what Josh said.
Josh said it's just a nature, but I don't know man.
They look weird to me.
That's a little weird to me.
But okay, let's move on.

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Let's move on.
Let's move on.
Split fiction anybody had their eyes on this.
I have my eyes on it.
I was the only time I was on reason is because I really me
and my wife really like playing it takes to she was bad at it.
But it was it was it was like one of those kovat.
Yeah, we was playing during kovat.

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So I remember it like I remember it pretty clearly.
We was stuck in the house anyway couldn't go nowhere.
So that was game that we was playing.
I know split fiction is one of those games again that kind
of builds off of all that stuff and adds a new story.
But basically the gameplay is what was the pretty much the

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the moneymaker because I know that game pretty pretty well
and actually one game of the year, I believe that year too.
So pretty insane for an indie game, but they come in my
man's is coming back out the f-bombs himself.
I don't remember his name Joseph something but he's back
with another game and it's coming out pretty soon here.

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Is anybody else interested in their games?
Did anybody play it takes to outside of my Joseph Ferris,
that's his name.
I played some of it with my nephew, but that's about it.
Okay, now I didn't play it takes to I did play way out a way

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out and I think overall this game is a pretty good like
there are not a lot of like co-op like story based games
or like games built from the ground up to be played co-op
anymore, you know, like was that all series?
Xbox 360 had a bunch of them.

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But yeah, it was just a bunch of games during that time that
were made to be played co-op.
And so it's nice to have that because there's always a partner
who you can play with a significant other sibling or you
know, just a friend and have a unique experience.
So that aspect is attractive and plus they're very consumer

(43:51):
friendly with giving out the like second player code.
So you don't have to buy two copies of the game.
Yep, that's a very big draw for me.
So like hey, if I want to buy they want or even if I pick
it up at some point later on the sale, I don't have to worry
about like buying two copies for somebody like this, you know,

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I can't expect every game to do that.
But also I want every game to do that.
So nice kind of crazy.
Yeah, because they even did it now with cross play.
So you don't even have to be on the same system.
That's insane.
So overall, the new game split fiction looks good.

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Like I like her say I like the aesthetics.
I know it's going to be a lot of different environments, but
I like the style that it has sci-fi and it has fantasy.
So I'm looking forward to it.
I don't know if I'll play it right now.
I know it is a cheaper game.
So it just means I'm going to have to see what my wife's

(44:56):
schedules looking like, but maybe we'll play it together.
Yeah, I already told my wife to I said ready up get your
sticks get the sticks.
She was like, please don't make me do this again.
I said we do it.
I said it's time maybe I remember our live stream and
one of my nieces was watching it and she was like who was

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that other person playing?
I was like my wife.
Oh my God.
She was dying laughing.
I'm like listen, I can't control how she play all the
sticks man.
She got to learn somehow.
Every time I ask her to play a game with me now, she always
bringing that up.
I was like listen, you're going to have critics out there

(45:46):
man.
It's kind of keep going with that.
Yeah, it's definitely going to be one of those games where
I'm like who is the easier person to play with it because
I'm going to give you that person.
I don't think it's going to be an easier one.
I think the puzzles and everything got a little bit
more elaborate.
So it might be just a fun time to watch her play that game

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anyway.
So we'll see.
I think it's like 12 to 13 hours or something like that.
It's not a long game, but I think it's cool that we're
going to that there is some dedicated games out there for
this co-op action.
So looking forward to it comes out pretty soon March 6.
So the day after this y'all see this it's going to be up

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and ready to play.
So get you get ready.
It's going to be fun.
Is it what 11 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time on the 6th?
Yeah, yeah, so pretty cool.
Pretty cool for sure.
And again, it is reviewing well.
So people are enjoying it a lot.
It's not one of those games where we're just trying to

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we're just happy because they're hitting a certain genre.
They're actually making great games with it too.
So check it out if you haven't already.
But let's move on to our next topic.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4.
Did anybody play the Tony Hawk series and please say y'all

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at least try it.
Please y'all get on my nerves with this.
Y'all was too busy with that Kingdom Hearts.
Did y'all play or try Tony Hawk's at all?
Either one.
I played a little bit on the let me make sure I got the right

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one.
Hold up.
I think I played the bad version.
Yeah, Tony Hawk Pro Skater on the Dreamcast and Pro Skater 2.
But I know the PlayStation versions were better, but yeah,
I played them.
They were fun.
I just never was into skating, but the games were fun enough

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at least that I was enjoying like playing.
Yeah, I remember the yellow cartridge Nintendo 64 version
that was Pro Skater 2.
That was one of my favorite games.
It's just one of those things where it's always been good

(48:30):
to kind of go back home.
I'm waiting for them to redo the Underground series, which
I think that's going to be really fun.
But I don't know if they can even get all the stuff they
did, but they brought back a lot of the music and all that
stuff too for three and four.
So it really was go check it out.
They just dropped it today and it's officially been revealed

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and it is coming to game pass day one.
So you will be able to play it through your game pass subscription
if you have that which tells me basically that anything
Activision makes is probably going to be thrown in that game.
They are really taking a big gamble here.
I really don't want people to lose jobs, but I understand

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they got plenty of money.
So I'm tripping, but it does feel like we're not going to
start recouping, but maybe game pass.
Maybe the plan is that because the Xbox market is shrinking
so much and it's stuck to game pass, game pass is stuck
to like the PC and you know Xbox where people on PC don't

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really want to buy games and then people on Xbox the install
base is low.
Maybe they don't care.
Maybe that's the reason, you know, but it's just yeah, like
game pass getting everything.
It's cool makes it feel like it's a great buy.
But at the same time you like dang are y'all going to hopefully

(49:53):
recruit what you pay for to make this game and I'm assuming
it's not that much because it's a remaster but it just does
get concerning when you're putting everything in it and
there's no like mixture here, but I don't get paid to think
about that.
I just get paid to not do this, but this is interesting to

(50:16):
me is interesting to me for sure.
But game pass will anybody try this outside of I?
I guess I think games are fun, but I actually I did more

(50:43):
skateboarding in Sonic games.
I did in 20.
It's enjoyable, but I like I don't I don't know what the
progression is like.
Like I just went in the arena and I did tricks so I don't

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know what the game is.
What's the goal?
What I'm going to do is you just you just do a you do a
bunch of different stuff.
But yeah, I get you.
I get you.
It ain't for everybody and that's the best of beauty of
games, you know, everybody got their own thing, but Tony
Hawks Pro Skater 3 and 4 coming out July 11th.
I'm looking forward to it.

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I'm already on one and two on three consoles.
I don't know why I do I own a Steam I own it on my
PlayStation.
I think oh no PlayStation gave away for free.
I think Xbox just put it in game pass for free and I bought
it solely not by twice.
I had to I don't know where else I bought it by by twice

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and I liked it.
Like I said is only reason I bought it twice is because I
wanted to play it on my Steam Deck and it worked really
well and it's still a great time.
I've expecting this one to be just as performative because
this is another switch game as well.
So it's not as if they're targeting new specs or anything.
It's just bringing in Tony Hawks 3 and 4 into the limelight

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again.
So I'm expecting this to run as well just as good as the
one and two on this Steam Deck.
So looking forward to playing at handheld.
I think these games are great.
I think they really are fun in a blast and can't wait to
play it.
So yes, that's all I got.
That's all I get.
Oh, that's why I bought it.

(52:28):
I bought it on Steam because I couldn't use the game pass
version on Steam and then I got it for I got it from my
PlayStation as well.
So they didn't they gave it away for free later, but I
bought it on PlayStation originally.
That's how I know I bought twice.
I bought it twice.
Okay, but yeah, anyways.

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State 3 and 4 coming out soon.
I think that it's going to be pretty awesome.
Anything to add to that before we move on since you saw some
Tony Hawks haters, I guess.
I don't know.
I mean, it's kind of crazy.
I was just going to think about what other Activision series
could they like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot they can do like

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Crash is back already and then they do a Spyro.
They did do remakes for Spyro.
They can if they want to do Skylanders, they can do that.
They want to do they want to do, you know, Guitar Hero.
They can do that, but that's like licensing stuff.
I'm pretty sure they like now we cool.

(53:37):
Hang on.
Now we cool.
We don't want to we don't want to go down that rabbit hole
again messing with those music execs.
But yeah, really they have like, I don't know.
They have like other stuff, but they can they can put out
but it was Skylanders.

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They can do that if they want to.
I forget the other ones, but they got plenty of games.
I'm just forgetting them.
100%.
Yeah, no, I'm looking they had a lot of like collaboration

(54:17):
games like Spider-Man and stuff like that.
But you know, the industry has changed a lot so that they
don't got those anymore.
But I mean, Activision has a lot of games that I used to play.
So I would I would want to see them make a return and yeah,
put it through game class on this game pass on a smaller
budget would be good for a lot of series like, you know,

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not everything needs $500 million.
Yeah, for sure.
No, for sure.
But yeah, I'm looking forward to playing this and I think
today.
Going to be exciting.
Let's move on though.
Let's move on moving on moving on Assassin's Creed shadows.

(55:09):
Am I the only one excited about this game?
Have you have has any of the new gameplay or information
sway jaws opinion on the shadows or Assassin's Creed's
at a hole?
Man, I'm still stuck on Unity bro.
And as you have me Jesus Christ, you get that hate about

(55:31):
your heart.
It's been too long.
Get that hate up.
All right, you got to get you got to let it go.
You got to let it go.
Play the Smash is one to play and I play you need and I
was just like nah, bro.
It ain't it.
That ain't it.
You got to let that hate go bad.
Even talking about Unity.

(55:52):
Since I met you, I think that's what you bought it.
Hey,
Hey,
but yeah, I haven't been looking at a lot of the preview
media just because like it I feel like I rather see the
game like hands-on to get a full of it.

(56:16):
But from what I've seen it, it actually looks very good
and I was interested in it and I'm excited for it.
But I would say my hesitations are just dealing with Ubisoft
one like like how did they mess it up?
Yeah, what type of micro transaction BS is going to pop

(56:38):
up in the game once you actually buy it or you know,
maybe they didn't do all that because I mean, I think Star
Wars Outlaws was okay, but you know, they might push it
super hard on this game.
And then it's an Assassin's Creed game and I'm worried
about the Assassin's Creed aspect of the story.

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But as far as like the characters in the gameplay and
their personal stories that actually looks good.
It's just all the animus stuff that I don't care about
anymore.
So that's actually why I would hesitate on it not because
the game looks bad is just because the overall story but
yeah, it looks good.
I like the environments and exploration and they all have

(57:24):
been seen clips of the girl I forgot her name but like her
stealth and parkour skills look very interesting because
she has like the rope they can use to climb up stuff.
You can swing just the animations on the parkour like
the jumping and rolling and dodging that she does looks
very good.
I haven't watched too much of the combat because that doesn't

(57:47):
matter as much to me like as long as it's serviceable.
I will do the combat but I might focus more on the sneaking
because now they've added more systems to make the sneaking
better.
The Assassin's Creed like you would I guess climb up buildings
high behind high in like barrels or stuff like that, but

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they didn't have like a lot of stealth elements other than
high in bushes but like now you can go prone and like push
up against walls.
So it's it feels a little bit more like Metal Gear or like
Splinter Cell-ish we can't.
So if those are good and it feels satisfying to sneak through
these environments, I'll just play mostly stealth.

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Obviously you got to fight some bosses.
So I'll do that but that's just what's been interesting to
me. What about you, Nia?
They got your monies.
They gonna get it.
Yeah, they gonna get it.
And I would wait but honestly I want to play it because you
know, I know these games this game will be like 30 bucks

(58:52):
and like by the end of the middle of the summer.
It'll probably be cheap, but I am going to go ahead and buy
it day one and try it out.
And if I mean obviously with performance is good because I
am going to buy it on my PC.
So my expectations is for it to be a solid experience.

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Honestly, the combat is what sold me.
I was looking at it and I thought this looks a lot more
fluid and a lot more universe you like it's like more rounded
and like the style of the game of the fights and more like
one-on-one combat versus kind of having like these constant
barrage of enemies coming at you.

(59:42):
I like Yosuke and Noe's I think her name is Noe, something
and I like both of their combat styles.
I like her whip or her chain like sickle something like
that.
It looks like a small sickle with a chain on it.

(01:00:03):
Anyway, she looked really cool to play with.
I like the fact that I don't have to I can go into the
options and choose not that deal with their I don't know
if I would want to call it simplistic but there are PG
elements of where you got dialogue and you get to pick
an option.
I don't care to do that at all in games most of the time.
It's like I'm just interested in telling the story that you
want to tell me so I like the fact that they I could turn

(01:00:25):
it off.
I don't have to like actually engage with the story and
like make decisions because I just don't feel like they're
very much they're very beneficial.
Maybe that's a difference in this game.
But for most games that I've played with those types of
mechanics from Ubisoft, they don't mean anything.
So just tell me the canon story that you want to tell me.

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So I love the fact that they giving people options.
I like the fact that they tried to revamp the engine.
I think the anvil engine has been pretty stale for a very
long time.
I do like the dynamic weather of it.
Facts.
I do like the style of the game and how it looks how it looks
more dense than it normally does like I don't like the

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pre-generated look of the Assassin's Creed games.
This did not feel pre-generated if that makes sense like
somebody went in there with their hands and actually did
something now.
I'm not saying that it's going to look throughout the entire
game, but at least the step is that they have shown it doesn't
look like as if it's just a pre-generated world because
every time I went into a different area a different place.

(01:01:32):
I just kept feeling like I've seen that asset before I seen
that clog before I seen that thing before I didn't feel
like that when I was watching the gameplay and that's just
probably you do unique setting.
But those are the things that are really making me want to
say.
Yeah, I give you my money Ubisoft.
I feel like I actually did a lot of things that will make me

(01:01:54):
happy.
And plus I literally been deliberately not trying to play
Ghost of Tsushima again and other games that like some
rap based because I want this to be the game that I play and
put my like effort into and then I go back to those games
and kind of compare because I literally if I'm getting
fatigued on those games, I want to play a game like that and

(01:02:16):
this is the game I'm dedicating my time to I rather not play
those games pretty closely.
So I haven't went back and touch Joseph Shishima again.
I didn't want to buy rise of Ronan.
I didn't want to buy.
I definitely wanted to play this before I play your tie.
So there's one of those those types of things that I'm just
kind of like I want to give it the space to breathe because

(01:02:39):
I'm not gonna lie.
I liked Star Wars Outlaw.
It was but I didn't play it the way they wanted me to play.
I did not spend too much time in that game, but I enjoyed
it for what it was and yeah, they had a few.
They didn't I don't remember they didn't have any like

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character choices, but they had like things that you do to
determine who if you want to be nice to someone or be bad
to someone and reputation wise is a little bit different.
No in Outlaw like they didn't have dialogue sections that
would change necessarily the story being told but like who's

(01:03:20):
going to help you in certain situations things like that.
So I found their canon their canon story to be good and I
would I would think the same with Assassin's Creed Shadow.
So I'm looking forward to that.
I'm looking forward to the combat and I'm looking forward
to seeing how revamped the world looks and I really hope
that they do succeed in that because I do like a optimized

(01:03:45):
engine.
I do think that their engine is pretty decent.
I don't think that is the worst thing.
I don't think it's the best thing, but at least it works
well.
And when I'm when I'm playing an Assassin's Creed game, I
don't feel like I'm having performative issues anywhere.
I haven't had issues on the consoles.
I don't think I had issues on this.
There is some glitches.

(01:04:06):
Remember those flying boats and Valhalla.
But my expectation is for this to be a little bit more
well-wounded because they took the extra time to kind of,
you know, they had to because they didn't want to mess it
up.
So I'm hoping that the extra time in the polish that it
shows me really resonates with everyone else to kind of

(01:04:31):
give it the benefit of the doubt because it is a tough
time for Ubisoft.
I'm not saying that they are they don't deserve it.
I'm just saying that, you know, sometimes you you you you
get to a space where you kind of a little too big for
your own British and you kind of have to reinvest into
your technology and reinvest into the things that really

(01:04:53):
want that the players want to see and I think that they
did that a lot with this one.
So hopefully it pays off because if it doesn't it's
going to be real bad for Ubisoft real bad.
So that's why I'm going to go ahead and do my little
hundred points get my 20% off on a Ubisoft store.

(01:05:18):
So I don't want to buy it on Ubisoft store.
I think it's on Steam too.
I'm not sure but I get 20% off on Ubisoft store.
So I'm probably gonna buy it there.
I'm not the biggest launcher hater because I use Play
Night and I normally use Steam anyway to kind of use

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full screen because I just think it's a better approach
to bring in all the games together.
So I'm not really too fresh to have it in Steam, but I
know others will be like you crazy.
I would never touch that.
You know, I get it.
I get it.
I get it.
I guess.

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But me, I don't care.
So I'm new to the PC market guys.
But yeah, that's where I'm at with it.
Hopefully, you know, it does well.
I'm hoping that it does because I know that they
can't they kind of need it for sure.

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Don't it's not saying not to be hard on them because
if the game sucked the game suck but to give it a
shot, I think that's more important than anything.
I don't think we should just rag on a game because
it says Assassin's Creed.
Jalen.
I was literally going to say boy.
Yeah, man, you right, but you make good points, bro.

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I forgot about Unity, man, but you know, I feel like
they they've been trying I think.
No, they haven't not with now about holla.
They've been trying with this one.
I feel like this is the one that I I can't see them
trying to make they can't really trick us.
Now.
Everybody is pretty upset like Valhalla had that approach

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of we going back to our roots.
We're going to be at a high going to be able to do
these things.
You're going to be able to be sneaky and none of it
worked because most of the time you would just get
caught or they wanted you to fight because you were
freaking Viking.
So I don't know why I lied to people to be honest,
but this one if it's you know, you got two different
types of approaches.

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I got the people that want to be bombastic and guns
blazing like me like Ghost of Tsushima.
I was like, I'm a samurai.
I know ghost.
I'm a samurai.
I go here heads first every time I'm not sneaking
nothing.
I told you I did that the whole time, but you got
to get a player to choice and I think that's what
they doing here.
They're trying to get a player the choice now about

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holla.
They fumbled that so I feel like yeah, I would I've
been seeing has been good.
And I'm hoping that they deliver but you are a
hundred percent, you know, you're fine and thinking
that now do I think if unity to origins was a good
step in the right direction?
Yes, but I don't think you tried origin.
So now seeing I know Josh like the Odyssey.

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So yeah, if but that was like what 2017 18.
Yeah, and nobody played Mirage.
So that was just the classic stealth.
Yeah, so I'm hoping that best of both worlds gets
it done.
Hopefully, but we'll see but I am going to pick it

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up because that's the one that's the game.
I'm holding out on actually by versus because I
was is that first Berserker is so many games man.
Like I made a list because I knew I'm not going to
be able to get them all and it sucks.
But there's there's a lot of games that I want to

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play and they're coming out soon.
I'm talking well, we started off with February 4th
with Kingdom Come Deliverance.
I didn't want to play but I bought it about and I
like it about came out February 18th like a Dragon
Pirate.
Yeah, cuz I want to play the pirate one February 20th
because that one doesn't have the RPG elements that

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I don't care about Monster Hunter Wilds.
I didn't want to I don't want to buy it and I still
probably don't want to buy it.
But I feel like that's a game that if anything, it
would probably be y'all convinced me to get but
nobody bought it yet.
So I'm in the clear on that one Split Fiction.
Definitely buying obscure that comes on Game Pass,
but it's still a purchase because technically I

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bought Game Pass.
So Expedition 33.
I want to play that I want to play Assassin's Creed
Shadow that come out 20 of so between 18th and in
the 20th.
There's two games that are going to be pretty big on
my list to finish first Berserker March 27th.
Adam fall March 27th.
I think Adam fall comes in Game Pass.
I'm not a hundred percent on that one, but maybe

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I'm skip that one because I might be one of those
games like I don't know.
I like the atomic heart a little bit, but it wasn't
like the greatest but I'm still want to put Adam
fall on the list but first Berserker for sure was
something I wanted to buy.
Graph of Auto 6, Doom Dark Ages not buying it, but
I bought Game Pass.
So technically I did snake either.

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I definitely want to play it again.
I don't know if I want to play it day one.
I got to rep my Borderlands for that September 23rd
Death Stranding 2 might be just crazy, but I want
to see that crazy on the big screen Death Stranding
2, Dying Light the Beast.
I know like a Dying Light.

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I want to try Jump Ship.
I don't know if that's a price thing, but I will
only play that with y'all.
So if y'all don't buy it, I'm not buying it.
Mafia the Old Country that one's like tough.
I don't even know if it's coming out this year.
Then we go into Ninja Gaiden 4, which is technically
Game Pass again, but I bought Game Pass Phantom

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Blade Zero, which is going to be on the PS5 and
then I want to play Wu Chang Fallen Feathers.
And there's plenty of games that haven't been announced
yet, but those are the ones that I was like, I'm
going to keep my eye on.
I want to actually purchase or find some way to play.

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It's a lot.
It's a lot of games, man.
A lot of games coming out and a lot of big games in
there like big long games.
I ain't hear no Pokemon on that list.
You won't hear any Pokemon.
I didn't even add it to our topic, but we can definitely
talk about it.

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Y'all like the free battle mode they got on there, man.
The one thing that I liked about it was that it was a
game at the end.
What was it?
It was like battles where you basically just battle
people.
That was pretty decent.
It was on your phone and you can play it across a bunch
of stuff.
I thought it was pretty cool or decent.

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I thought that was like, yeah, I love Pokemon Stadium
and stuff like that and battling my brothers, but that
was the only game I ever played that was like that.
All the rest of them like actually buying a cord to
plug up and fight each other.
We never had to.
We never had to Nintendo Gameboys or something.

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I like this.
This is not marketed for the broke folks because I know
for sure everybody didn't have their own Gameboy.
Not in my household.
They were like that, but in your own copy too because
you couldn't play unless you had your own copy.
I'm like who had this?
Because when they were showing like the little commercials,
I'm exposed to my brokenness, but we was in poverty.

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I'm like, bro, I did not have two copies of Pokemon
Yellow or something to go and play with somebody else.
Now, maybe a friend, but at the same time, the things
are so expensive.
My mom wouldn't even let me take out the house.
So it was like, no, I did not have that experience
playing with other people until like the internet came

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around.
And about the internet, I wasn't playing Pokemon, bro.
So I don't know if y'all had different experiences
because y'all was probably more into it and y'all
wasn't playing Tony Hawk.
I had to be playing something.
Was y'all going to the school with y'all systems?
It wasn't the field.
I mean, no, honestly, I didn't have a lot of people
that had like the link cable and trading and stuff

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like that, but I knew a lot of people that played Pokemon
in it if we could at some point get together and like
found somebody who had a cable will borrow theirs.
But yeah, it was a lot of people around playing Pokemon.
But yeah, finally a streamlined like Pokemon battle game
because they released them before like on GameCube

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and for the Wii where it's literally just battle.
So you could just play with other people.
You don't got to do the RPG elements.
And those were fun.
Those were fun to finally see the Pokemon in like 3D
for the first time.
But right now, like we were already past that
and I think they're going to have a whole lot of hoops
to jump through to make sure it works well because

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like they're they're over a thousand Pokemon and the
game is supposed to be free to play.
I think so.
How are they going to make money?
Like are they going to sell rental tickets or you going
to buy the Pokemon?
But then it also mentioned that it's going to connect
to Pokemon home, which is the Pokemon service that you
can like move your Pokemon from one game to another.

(01:14:33):
Yeah, but like how is that going to work?
Like do I need to buy a Pokemon game to get the Pokemon
to transform into this game?
And I think they're going to mess that up because this
is Pokemon company, not even Nintendo and Pokemon company
is even worse than Nintendo at like network and online

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account stuff.
So so whatever you think scenario is you got to double
it for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, you don't have to pay to transfer your Pokemon
and then it's going to fail and it's going to delete
your Pokemon.
This has to work.
Are they going to blacklist you because you're trying
to put a hack Pokemon and Pokemon home or something like that?

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Yeah, you just can't use it.
Serial band.
Serial band is crazy.
Yeah, that's going to be ban your phone.
Gee, but yeah, that's it.
You got to go to the service and car and see if they can
review your inquiry and seven to ten business days get back
to you and then provide proof that you ain't you know,
I'm saying just something great.

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What I will say is the concept of being able to battle
across different platforms and just jump in and play is
a good idea.
Execution is where we're going to fall apart and I thought
that that was the most interesting thing.
But seeing the PS 2 version of Pokemon in 3D did not

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impress me.
None of their packages or trade cards and like got growing
me and going crazy for him.
I just don't I don't entertain me either.
So really I didn't have much to say on it nice and I didn't
want to talk badly on Pokemon because a lot of people love
Pokemon.
So if y'all did watch it and y'all did enjoy something talk

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to me about it.
I didn't watch anything and then just tagging on execution
thing.
I just want to say like a quick snippet.
I mean also play Pokemon.
I've been playing Pokemon since like the OG games that I
just like so like they have like poor execution and unrealistic

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goals when it come to playing Pokemon.
So I think that's going to be transferable and it's still
going to be unrealistic because even now just a whole separated
between a versions and mystery gift Pokemon certain events
and things like that.
They always made it basically impossible to get all the Pokemon
without spending excessive amount of money and Dan going through
hopes and stuff in order to do this.

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So I just say I just say all that to piggyback off what you
said and the end was saying that I ain't got high hopes.
So yeah.
Yeah, so yeah, I do a quick summary Pokemon champions.
That was the battle game we talked about.
I'm interested in it if they can execute it.
Well, I'll play it if it's trash.

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Then I'm just ignore it like 90% of their other releases.
The Pokemon Legends game they announced ZA.
I thought it was a yeah, I thought it was a remake of what
was that?
Gen 5 or 4.
I think it's supposed to be Gen 6 because I think you go back

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to Kalos, right?
Yeah, Illumina City.
The 3d.
Yeah, I thought it was a remake but it's actually a Pokemon Legends
game like the Pokemon Arceus.
We run around and you throw the ball at Pokemon and catch them
and that part disappointed me because I liked Arceus because
it was in a like open world like wild experience even though

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they could have did the open world better.
It was it felt like you can go on an adventure and like do it.
But this one takes place in the actual city of Illumina City.
One.
I didn't even like the city that much in during his generation
and two is like, why would I want to run around empty streets
and catch Pokemon and like the buildings are all empty and

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stuff like that.
So it feels like to me like they wanted to continue the Legends
idea, but they had no real good idea to do it.
So they just picked a random generation and put it in the middle
of the city.
But don't get me wrong.
It's a big city and it could be fun, but I feel like running
around fake Paris is going to get more boring or more repetitive

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more quickly than like an open world like Pokemon game.
So it feels like a step back just the setting wise.
The last thing.
Oh, yeah, go ahead.
It's all in one city.
As far as what they show it's in the city and you can go up
on the top of the buildings, but it doesn't it doesn't like
you leave the city at all.

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But it's only been one trailer.
I don't know.
They could have more details, but it looks like it takes place
in Lumina City.
It's weird because like you run around the city and then you
want to go to the top of the building.
You don't you don't even climb it and everything like that.
It has like a jump pad and then like teleports you to the top

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of the building.
Interesting.
Yeah, I didn't watch it.
Change the battle system to right.
I think they they might have improved it or make some changes.
I don't know the whole details for the battle system.
But yeah, it's the same battle system as Arceus.
They made it sound like you don't got no it ain't time based

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no more just like free ish.
Yeah, looking at this environment was just disappointing.
That's all and last thing that they had a Pokemon cartoon.
It's like a Pokemon Hotel.
My daughter's been watching it and she loves it because it's

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stop-motion and there's a season two.
So I will actually probably watch that but that's all.
Yeah, the idea I did see that and I thought it was pretty
cool.
I was like that's surprising that they seem like a lot of
effort.
But they always been super creative over there in regards

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to like kind of the I don't know when they kind of put stuff
together even though I can rag on a trading card game.
It was a reason why I got so big got so popular.
They kind of put all the little extra details in that stuff
to make it unique.
But I thought that I did think the stop-motion stuff looked
cool.
At least when I saw it and I think they actually put the

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season one on their YouTube for free or something like that
or maybe a couple episodes or something like that.
I think I saw.
Okay.
But yeah, okay.
Anything else because I didn't have anything else on the
docket.
Anything I missed that y'all wanted to talk about?

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No, I feel like we hit everything.
We don't buy a Monster Hunter until they fix it.
I guess.
That's unfortunate.
Yeah, they there Capcom is doing really well, you know, they
actually are doing a pretty outstanding job when it comes
to money.

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I guess I feel like they also are doing really good with
it comes to perception of the company.
But yeah, you don't want to have too many of these misses
in a row.
I understand wilds going to push through it because it's
just like a strong IP everywhere.
It's not just the US so they're going to push through but
you don't want that to continue to be like the sentiment

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that your games don't operate.
Well, especially when the RE engine is really good for
like Resident Evil games like I understand those are slow
paced single-player, you know, confined spaces, but it just
feels like they need to put a little bit more time in it.
It just struggles with these open world games that they're
really pushing unfortunately, but it's a good it's a nice

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looking engine.
I can't wait to see what the next Resident Evil game looks
like.
Yeah, I believe that for sure.
They got a top of Alan Wake.
But yeah, but okay, that's pretty much it.
That's all I got.
I want to thank you guys for listening as always got to
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But as always we'll talk to you in the next one.
Peace.