Is Clair Obscur Expedition 33 the Frontrunner for Game of the Year? # 440

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello,
and welcome to another edition of Video Games to the Max.
I'm your host Sean Garmery. Here with me as usual
mister Mark Morrison, and well we have a show here
for you today talking about the I Guess Not So
Big Game Claire Obscure Exhibition thirty three and could it

(00:37):
actually be game of the Year. It's got all the
makings of it and a lots to talk about it
so far. We'll see if it holds up, but it
looks like, at least in my experience, it looks like
that's it might be in the front running for sure.
Mark has more thoughts on go ahead.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm gonna say a shock a JRG.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, this is not a Go Go JRPG, so technically
it's not also not a JRPG, it's not made by
a Japanese studio, so Marks, I'm playing more Indiana does
in the Great Circle we have the finally, the Elder
Scrolls Oblivion for Remastered has dropped. We don't really have
thoughts on that, but we have thoughts on what's happened

(01:21):
since it actually dropped. More Xbox stuff, more talk about
whether Game Pass is bad for games, Nintendo switched to
one animalst thinks that's going to be the best launch
of a video game console ever. Is that actually what's
gonna happen? And Gosa Yota now has an official release date,

(01:43):
so does FBC Firebreak and a few other things to
get into. We'll talk about all those things. Oh right,
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May nineteenth when we talk about Doom the Dark Ages,

(03:08):
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Obscure there a little bit less hours having played it
than what I'm going to be able to give here,
but probably similar thoughts. And also they give their thoughts

(03:29):
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(04:33):
That helps out. So with all that said, let's go
ahead and get into the games. Mark, you have some
interesting games to talk about, but you've also been playing
more Indiana Jones. Yep, how much further did you get there?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Idea, I'm in the last big area. I think, uh yeah,
it kind of globe cross here and there. But now
I'm in like bootleg Vietnam or Siam. I guess, uh so, yeah,
I'm pretty near. I'm not totally near the end, but
I'm in like the end game of it. And that
area really sucks because you have to like it's all
it's all been to like streams and you have to

(05:12):
use a slow ass boat to get around, and has
a bunch of like unfamiliar names or you know, like
you know, familiar ply for Siam, but it's like a
bunch of like nonsense to me pretty much. But yeah,
still doing the same thing, if you know, killing fascists
and hunting down treasure and still a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, that's what I's gonna ask if you're still enjoying
it there, And yeah, I guess that's we're already talking
about it. Not really a surprise really because that's kind
of the typical thing. But it is interesting just because
you know, it's been almost six months since Indiana Jones,
or at least five months five or six months sin

(05:53):
seeing Jones. The Great Circle came out on Xbox, YEP
and PC obviously, and apparently in just what two weeks
it is fastest selling actually on PlayStation five.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
You know, it's estimated that they may have sold around
three hundred and ten thousand copies on Steam today, but
apparently it's already sold one hundred and seventeen point two
thousand copies on p seven this first six days according
to Alena, which I'm not sure where they're getting the
data from. And then also I think that's a ninety

(06:34):
one point two k on Steam as of that December date,
so it's an increase of twenty eight percent. It is
pretty quick for it to be less than a week
and they already sold that much. Hey, I guess it
proves that, you know, still you make a great game,
even if you got to wait for it, people will
buy it. Like any thoughts on on.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
That, Yeah, I imagine for the Motorsport or a Horizon,
I will be well, because there's not anything else on
the you know, the PS five that is like it.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, nothing else like it on the PS five, And
it's not like the PS It's not like Sony's just
releasing you know, big first party games right now.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
So orb when a Grand Turisma, you know, it's not like.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, Grandiso has been out for a while, so anybody
that's played that probably has already wanted to play it.
And Horizon's also a little bit of a different game,
more arcadie people have been waiting for that kind of
experience on Place in five.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
So yeah, so yeah, you know, I guess it's good
for everyone involved, except for the you know, hardcore console
fan boys out there, but that don't matter.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I feel like at this point they've kind of given
up on that. Like that, you're just kind of like
having to deal with this is what it is, and
you either accept it or you keep living in denial
and just act like the console war still exists in
the same way that you've always experienced it. And yeah,
it's it's not like that anymore. You're gonna have to
just deal, right, So you're also been you watched, you had,

(08:05):
you know, or you know, your best friend yends a
good friend of the show and everything. He was over
there visiting you where you live.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yep, you know, I took a plane ride and took
two hours and came up here.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Hey, that's always good. So glad you got to have fun.
You said you watched him play some older games.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, he tried out cou On, which is I think
like the number one or two rare scheme on PS
two that I got, or you know, in general, because
it's like I think, at least maybe not exactly, but
it's near a thousand dollars of this or yeah, price
Chardon has it as one thousand and seventy seven.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Okay, so for people like me and others who have
no idea what.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Coon is is a from software game, That's why he
cares about it. It's not. I mean, it's pretty highly
regarded in like you know, the software nuts, but like
it got like average reviews when it came out, and
it's just extremely obscure and you know, hard to find.
But it is a survival horror game.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh that's pretty awesome. Okay, So it's not like the
Soul's games.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's no, like it is like you know, it is
like Resident Evil style camera angles, you know, fixed cameras.
I guess the controls are actually better than they're not
like can't controls like the olders and games like they're
they're better than that at least. But yep, uh so, yeah,
I watched Complain like two hours of it. You couldn't
you can't see more than like fifteen feet in front

(09:34):
of you, and like, oh wow, it's like hysterical, you know,
and even we turned the brightness on like settings all
the way up, like it's like it helped by like
ten percent or you know, like some absurdly low number.
Like it's like it's didn't like really fix the problem here,
but yeah, I really liked it. He got hung up

(09:55):
on a puzzle. There's like an early puzzle we had
had this like three discs. It's like rotate around is
full of Japanese characters, and it's like we figured like, oh,
we'll get some password or some way to like figure
this out, but no, you just like the way you
figure that puzzle out. You just randomly enter a combination

(10:16):
and listen for a click, and if it's like the
deeper click, it's correct. And if it's the light you know,
the lighter sounding click, it's not. And it's if this
game doesn't tell you anything about you know, it's if
you don't look at a guy on this or if
it wasn't doing that, like you'd be screwed, you know. Yeah,
so typical from software nonsense.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Definitely, Yeah, you could tell it. It's a game.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, yeah, not exactly the most pretty game. I mean,
it's kind of nice, I guess, but like again, you
can only see like two feet in front of you.
Is that so right? You know, it's not exactly like
something like the greatest game ever or anything.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, and it is different than like you say, like
other survival horror games that from.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah you have like, uh, you can't run that far
or your character seemed pretty frail. Ah, so yeah, he
played for like two hours, and you know it's like,
why don't have a copy of this? And I'm not
going to take the save home? So why father kept
going on? Right? But it's also a bunch of like
it's not like you remember that overson m old too.

(11:22):
It's like, oh, you need the Spade key or you
need the heart key or you know, stuff like that.
But this was like you need the Mercury seal or
you need the Saturn seal. And I was like, is
this like a Sailor Moon game? Like am I going
to face Sailor Venus at some point? Or what's you know?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah in the game also from software game right.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah that see that was our first game ever. We
tried that and I didn't like it. Uh it looks
I mean it's from I think it came out from
like nineteen ninety four or that's it when they started
making it, And I think I only came out like
nineteen ninety maybe, And you can tell it used to
be it was gonna be an old PC game that

(12:01):
just ported it over to the PS four or just
to the PS one rather. Yeah, came out in Japan
nineteen ninety four, so probably ninety five for you know,
for American audiences. Uh, it's a first person dungeon crawler
with bad combat. He was he was bitching and complaining.

(12:22):
He's like, oh, you can't use the analog sticks or
it doesn't have analog control. I'm like, dude, nineteen ninety five,
like that controller wasn't even invented yet.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Like, yeah, yeah, this was before the analog because I mean,
this is not like a remaster, it's a It is
the game the way it was, so I mean.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, so it was like L one and R one
you used to stray around, and L two and R
two you used to like look up and down right,
And I'm like, yeah, that's that's armored cores. Also, you know,
that was on the cusp of the analog controller, but
they still didn't do it, so who cares. Uh. He
also keeps like running up right up to the enemy
like trying to attack them like face on. Yeah, and

(13:02):
it's like, no, the way to do this is and
I looked at the manual. I don't have the manual
for it, but it's like, no, run behind them and
then attack them. And then you like, the manual literally
says attack them to the death and death is all
capital letters, which is hilarious. Okay, you know he didn't
like it. He kept dying, but again, what do you expect? Also,

(13:27):
but you know, for its time, that looked kind of interesting.
But I'm sure it played like garbage. But that goes
hand in hand with territory.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
So yeah, that's that's pretty I mean that that's kind
of a lot of that would be anybody's take, right
if I'm that's kind of was my thought of Demon
Souls when I played it on EDDY three two thousand
and nine. I kept dying, right Obviously this is before
we knew Demon Souls was supposed to be a game
kind of like that, right, But I didn't like it

(13:59):
because I kept dying and it was a very frustrating experience.
So yeah, if that's happening to you, yeah, exactly, I'm
going to probably give that experience when I'm talking about
clear obscure thirty experience at thirty three for some people
that if that's happening to you, yeah, you're probably not
going to joy the game as much as if getting
everything so.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Uh we Also, uh, I haven't played it yet. I've
played it before. That's why I picked it up. I
picked a copy of a game called The Adventure of
the Kid Cleaps. Okay, do you know what that is?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Uh, I want to say it was. I played it
originally in the three d oh ball thame. But it's
a game called Soccer Kid and he played. It's like
a platform where you're a kid and you kick her
on a soccer ball and attack enemies with it. So
right if your alley too.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yes, that's different.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, but yeah, that was about it. And I means
drove around and a bunch of meals and a bunch
of fun stuff.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Hey, that's good.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
I find the controller I may buy soon.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Which one is that.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's called the Soul controller for the p S two.
It's the Katana.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh wow, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Remember like, uh, there was a Resident Evil for Chainsaw. Yeah,
it's basically like the same thing, except the Katana.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Okay, okay, that's that's awesome. I mean in plus, you
know you have the the Amsha to remaster coming out right,
so with a mode so difficult that even the devs
can't beat it.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
For someone, some some crazy person will do it within
like two hours or something.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Somebody will beat it with a rock band gets a
lovely thing, right, all right?

Speaker 2 (15:50):
How you liking the expedition? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Man, so clear obscure Expedition thirty three comes from Sam
Foll Interactive French Studio, a thirty person front studio. By
the way, so this is an indie game, although you
wouldn't know it by how the game's presentation looks. And
the all star cast including Charlie Cox, Andy Serkis, Jennifer English,

(16:15):
Ben Star, and a few others.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, that's what convinced to buy it. Has had Jennifer
English in apparently.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Hey, that's fair enough. So he bought it, but he's
he's not going to play until he gets home.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
I'm missing he got home like last night, but yeah
today and yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
All right, fair enough. They will get him on to
give his thoughts or something. Always it's gonna happen mind here,
or you're gonna play it? Right, Yeah, you can play
it now that he he bought it. So awesome, Uh,
glad both we can always enjoy him when we both
can talk about a game instead of just it's me
or you talking about something, right, So you know, this

(16:57):
is one of those games that I've gotting a lot
of hype, right, it's the indie darling of who knows,
maybe the entire year. It is the best reviewed game
of twenty twenty five usurping Blueprints, which you know, not
that long ago Blueprints was the number one, but it's
got a ninety two a Metacritic, ninety one on Open critic.

(17:19):
It is essentially a JERRPG in all but name. You know,
if you want to give a Moniker of now, it's
a French RPG because it is extremely French. If you
are like going into this game, which you know, honestly,
the more blind you can go into this game really

(17:40):
the better for you. Because the story just I mean,
as as as usual for most you know, JERRPG styling games,
they hit you like a truck right at the beginning,
and then the thing is they don't just hit you
like a truck, and then cool stuff happens, and that's it.

(18:02):
Like the hitting you like a truck thing keeps happening.
This is very much a somber story, I guess in
the vein of the comp that's being given to this
game more than any other game is Lost Odyssey because
of them both having the melancholy nature and the kind
of like really hitting you in your fields kind of story.

(18:22):
Has some gameplay lim instead of the same similar right,
the way that they do abilities is very kind of
similar as well. But the game is absolutely you would
not think it's in any game. It's a beautiful game,
Like just you turn it on. It is so stylist,
very much. You know, they definitely took big things from
you know, Persona, Fantasy, Dark Souls, Eldon Ring, you know

(18:47):
mentioned Loss Odyssey, even rhythm games. Like they took talk
about best of the bunch from so many different games
genres and then melded into this game. And it's it's
absolutely you know, a lot of times we'll talk about like, oh,
this game has a lot of hype, you know whatever,

(19:08):
Oh and then it winds up not living up to
that high. This game lives up to that hype, delivers
on the hype, and then continues to give that as
you go on throughout the game. I'm it's all and
to be fair, it's only a thirty hour game if
you don't do a lot of the side stuff or

(19:28):
don't explore, even though really when you see that world map,
it's going to be very hard for you, not the
one that U It's honestly, it's just awesome seeing a
world map in an RPG. Again, you don't see that
very often in today's games.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
You talk about sixteen that.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Had a world map that was just go on the
thing and it go. You know, you know, just when
I say that, you explore the world mapp. So you know,
the biggest thing to really talk about here outside of
you know how awesome it looks. And I don't want
give story spoilers. I think anybody that's seen a trailer
kind of knows the setup. You are a team of

(20:06):
people that every every year there's a paintress that is
like far away from you on the continent. You will
find out why they are separated throughout the story, and
every year she paints a different number. So this year
in the game, why it's called Exhibition thirty three is
that anybody that is thirty three. And they don't explicitly

(20:30):
say this, but it's pretty evident that if you turn
thirty three at all in the year, you disappear. And
so they always take the people that are going to
be the year. You know, basically anybody that's thirty two
right now and would be turning thirty three the next year.
You go on an expedition to try to take out

(20:51):
the Paintress so nobody else has to die, and that's
the setup. So then you you know you are you
are these characters and you get to witness their journey.
Has some fil Fantasy ten vibes in there too, with
the way that's it's kind of a somber story too,

(21:12):
But obviously the big deal is the combat in this
game that makes it different than other turn based RPGs
of its realm, and that this thing takes basically Elden
Ring Dark Souls combat and sticks it into a RPG,
you know, all intensive purposes. This is a j RPG

(21:35):
without the anime stuff, so you could consider it a
more mature j RPG whatever you want to, you know,
name you want to give it. But the combat is
what really sticks on this and obviously we can talk
about the discord with with that's happened after this game now.
Yeahs as it goes to other Japanese are other RPGs

(22:00):
that bear the Japanese RPG roam of it is you
have to dodge in perry while you're doing the turn
based thing, so you're choosing your attacks like you would
in any other turn based game, but you also have
to just be reactive the entire time, so while you're attacking,
you have to make sure that you're watching and paying

(22:22):
attention because you can basically essentially put like potent modifiers
on your attacks if you press a in the timeframe
that it gives you before it goes off, and if
you miss, you hit for like half damage, so you
don't want to miss. And then on the defensive end,

(22:43):
you have to decide when an attack comes if you
want to dodge or parry, and you can dodge and
not take damage, but when you parry you actually get
to if you paary enough, you can counter the enemy
do massive damage, so it's like in your best interest

(23:03):
to parry. But the pairing window is super small and
each enemy has their own pairing window, which makes it,
you know, that much harder. And obviously that's not even
including the bosses and the optional boss to which are crazy,
and they even have even more optional bosses. They give
you like outfits and things like that in this game,
so there's a lot to do if you want to

(23:26):
accomplish it. But just going through the main story of
it and the main beats of the gameplay is going
to be enough. And everybody is ranting and raving about
this gameplay, I'm enjoying. Look, I don't play Dark Souls
games or all those games at all. I've mentioned that
plenty of times, but this works because it's making me

(23:49):
have to pay attention. Coming from Lunar Remaster, which is
the j RPG. Of a j RPG, you're just doing
all the traditional stuff that you would normally do, right,
You're literally hitting X, picking your attack, watching the thing happen,
waiting for it to be your turn again, and whatever.
This has the strategic parts of that RPG, where you

(24:11):
choose how you want to build your character out, what
stats you want to have on your character, what you're
going to build out, what weapons and other things you're
going to have on the character. And then if you're
good at the dodging and parrying, it's like an extra
thing you have where, oh, if you didn't build out
your character the best way to compete with this boss,

(24:34):
you could still kick their ass if you know how
to parry and dodge really well. And this also makes
it to where you don't necessarily have to be so
concerned with like grinding and leveling up, because if you
know how to dodge your prairiery, well, you can beat
enemies that you really shouldn't be able to beat at
your level, but you can do it right. So it
gives you that freedom of being able to play the

(24:55):
game the way you want. You can grind if you want,
because they have saved flags literally throughout the levels that
you go into or the world you go into, and
you can literally just rest and responds the enemies, and
you can keep going after the same three or four
enemies every time, and it actually helps you because you
learn the tack pattern, so you learn the dodge and

(25:18):
the perry with those enemies, so when you face them
later on, you kind of know how to get it down.
But even then they're still good at getting you to
miss sometimes. So it's a cool, like mechanic. It's a
fun mechanic to keep you like guessing and on your
toes and being like, oh man, okay, I think I
got this, then bam he hit me anyway, you know,

(25:38):
and then sometimes it's like, ah, they don't hit you
for anything, and then sometimes you know they're gonna hit
you for a lot, so you kind of got to
be ready for that. But it's so fun because there's
times where you get a whole team attack counter if
you counter enough, or you just get the one counter,
but he does like ten thousand damage in one move
and you're like, holy crap, but it took out half

(26:00):
his lifebar, you know, and that's it's just it's super
fun like that, Like you can be in a danger
situation where you're gonna die because you can't buy items
in this game, so you can't buy like get ninety
nine potions and just potion yourself out of it. You've
got to know how to play this game because you
only get like there's ways to expand on it where

(26:20):
you get more and obviously there's a mage character that
you can you can get a heel, you know, and
all that. And each character plays differently too, so how
you build out those characters is different. Like they just
nailed every part of a game that you want someone
to nail when it comes to the RPG aspect, then
you add on the story to it. And I'll give

(26:43):
the perspective of Crafty. When I was on the show,
and he said it again like just talking about it
in his discord with his community of just man, I
can't get this Dodge and Perry down. You know, it's
frustrating me. It's making me I really want enjoy the story.
So I'm putting it on easy mode, which does not
negate the dodge in Perry. It just makes it to

(27:05):
where you don't have to do your side of the
offensive stuff. And the dodge in Perry isn't as chaotic
and demanding as it is when you play on regular
on normal, and that's not even talking about expert right.
So he's frustrated. Like you said with Jens, where he's
dying a lot, he's not grasping the Perry and dodge,

(27:28):
so it's frustrating him. He doesn't want to go to easy,
but he's having to because it's not you know, he's
not grasping it. But the cool thing for me that
I've learned is that if you don't get the perry,
you can actually learn when to perry if you do
the dodge right, because it has a various different ways
to tell you where. If it just does dodge, okay,

(27:51):
you dodged, But if you have a perfect dodge. That
means that if you would have hit Perry, which is
a different button, you would have parried instead. Yeah, in
that moment. So it's like it has a great way
of kind of teaching you how to get better at
it if you want to, right, And it's not like
a Dark Souls game where yeah, you can learn how

(28:12):
to do that from losing over and over, which you
can do in this game too, but a lot of times, okay,
you can look up how to beat this character and
the best way to do it or whatever. Right, this
is not an action game, so it's still reliant on
you and your reflexes and all that stuff. You can
kind of have the best setup of what you should do,
but if you don't dodge and Perry, you're gonna lose,

(28:34):
right Yeah. So like, yeah, it's just it's flooring with
how much I've really loved it. I sat there, I
had a whole day where I couldn't play it, and
I was sitting there thinking about it the whole time,
of how I want to get back to the game,
get back to that world, enjoy the different characters. I
haven't even gotten all of the party members. I've only
gotten the first three. There's like three more that you

(28:57):
get later. But I have experienced various parts of the world.
I've already ran into some optional bosses that I couldn't
beat that they just whooped my ass. I was like, okay, well,
I'll come back later, you know, just exploring and doing things.
There's a lot of items and things for you to find.
There's a pictose, a luminous system, and you find a

(29:17):
lot of the pictos which are like your abilities, like
extra abilities that you can gain. And then it has
a cool dynamic where if one character it's like the
Fall Fantasy nine thing, except for you don't have to
have all of them learn it. One person has it
and you get through four battles with it, and then

(29:37):
anybody can then equip that ability too. There's obviously points
that you have to gain, but you gain that easily,
and there's also a little thing that you collect that
will get you more points. There's a skill tree for
each one of the characters that you can go through
and try to find the best skills you want to have.
You can only put six at a time, so that's

(29:58):
another thing you have to kind of juggle figure out
with skills work best for which boss you're about to
encoulendar or whatever. So there's a lot of strategy in
the game. Even if you say, okay, well I can
kind of get out of it by dodging and pairing
all the time. Well, if you don't have the other
strategic elements down, dodging and pairing can sometimes not be enough.

(30:19):
So yeah, it's just it's a lot. And it's only
a thirty hour game that you can or thirty a
forty hour game. It's not this huge epic hundred hour thing.
It is available on game Pass, so you don't have
to go buy it, but it's fifty bucks. And they
have sold one hundred or say, sold a million copies

(30:39):
already and they're not even through the week. They just
finished the weekend, right, So that's pretty amazing for an
any game to already have a million copies sold. Who
knows how many they're going to end up having about
I want to get to that of it. But to
have that even though you have game pass, that's how
standing as well, shows how much you know they've gotten

(31:01):
the Steam and PS five users to want to buy it,
so and then who knows if they can eventually poort
it to switch to as well if it sells like
hotcakes over there. So yeah, I'm excited to get your
thoughts when when you get to start playing it, and
you know, hopefully we're going to talk about that next week.

(31:22):
But man, right now, for me, this game of the
year right now, it's gonna take a lot for this
game to get beaten out.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Obviously there hasn't what just wait until Madden comes up.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, definitely that's gonna be the one for sure. Now
college football, college football, that's gonna be. That's gonna be
the one. You know, twenty five was olveray amazing. Wait
till twenty six comes and ticks out all the things
we didn't like or or we did like. You know,
they have a bad habit of doing that too. So yeah,
that's my thoughts on Clara scar Expression thirty three. I
definitely will have more on that right now. But for me,

(31:58):
it definitely deserves the praise that's gotten. Everybody loving it.
All the people that I've seen that they don't like
turna based RPGs, but they're playing it because they're loving it,
you know right now, So it's turned them into a term.
This might actually benefit people that don't like turn based

(32:22):
ARPGs and then all of a sudden come out of
this and they're looking for other term based ARPGs to play, right,
so this might turn into making people into turn based
fans that aren't. So hopefully that it does. You know,
there's a there's a list we could give you if
you if you want so, but for sure, hopefully everybody

(32:45):
else gets to try it out. Go go give it
a world on game pass. Man, you are not gonna
be disappointed at all. But all right, let's get into
the news here. Some of it is Xbox related. We
did finally get that Elder Scrolls four Oblivion remastered, even
though there's a lot been done to it that makes

(33:05):
it more like a remake. So interesting that they chose
the word remastered, I guess because they didn't really remake
a lot of things, like they did tweak some of
the game playlists, but they said that they left a
lot of it alone, even the dialogue and some of
the funnier things, like they didn't take what makes Oblivion
oblivion out of it. I guess right. They've already passed

(33:28):
over four million players. That's as of like you know,
a few days ago. I don't know if it's more
or less right now, seems like it's been doing well
sales wise, both on Steve and PS five, and you know,
even I think some folks on Xbox have been buying
it as well. Probably has got a lot of people
that are subbing to Game Pass for this, I'd imagine,

(33:51):
which may or may not end up hurting Clare Obscure
and not sure if people are going to see Clari
obscurre on there and play it or like, what is
your thought on that too, because I saw a discourse
about this. Uh, Microsoft is actually hurting Claire Obscure by
dropping Oblivion two days before this game comes out, and
there's gonna be a lot of people that have the

(34:12):
nostalgia for Oblivion that are going to play that game
and then not go back to Claire Obscure because then
here comes Doom the Dark Ages in a couple of weeks.
You think it hurts it or you think it.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Makes First of all, I don't think like Claire, you know, Oblivion,
the Vendia Graham of Oblivion players and Doom Medieval players
are like one to one. And also just because like
these games can at the same time, doesn't mean it's
like it's not an either or proposition and if you okay.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
But for a time it is right, like Oblivion is
a much longer RPG.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, but more boring. You know, you want to stop
and pick something up to take you like moves as fun.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Okay, but they did add the sprint so you know
you don't have to walk, you can you can run around.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
But no, I think I just find a believing boring.
You know, it's just go up the hill, see the
Oblivion gate, go into it, turn it off, you know,
go at five hundred more feet, see another Oblivion gate,
turn it off for into and repeat.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Fair enough. I saw a lot of people that like
they just wanted to kind of experience the opening again
and then they're like, oh, okay, I'm gonna go play.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
And I'll come back to once you got out of
the prison. When Patrick Steorg stops talking to you, it's
all right, Well this game's over.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
But yeah, I mean, look, it's a gotten a lot
of positive reception. People are enjoying going back to Oblivion.
What it's almost a twenty year old game at this point.
That's cool that but as they did this that, well,
you know, Virtual's help.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Obviously selling the horse armor for twenty bucks extra not
so cool. Yeah, it is nice that some of.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Them it does include the DLC, though I'm.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Believing barely barely. I deal, I'll see you had like
one expansion maybe I think had to I remember. Yeah,
but you know, the problem is most of the you know,
Marlin had good deal, so you but Oblivion didn't, and
skyri him certainly.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
So yeah, I've heard it.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Was like you can pay five bucks and get a house.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Cool. All right, Yeah, I'm sure it will. It will
have probably quickly eclipsed about and all that being in
the same kind of genre or whatever. But look, this
is good. It's great that it's out there people could
play it. And then of course it's led to a
lot of talk for what's next, the next remaster that

(36:41):
we know exists, but we haven't seen anything about it
other than you know, Todd Howard is kind of coy
about no, we're not working on anything Fallout. But then
there's the court documents that also had this Oblivion remaster
in it also have a Fallout three remath right in,

(37:02):
which makes sense because hey, you got to capitalize on
that Fallout TV show somehow, not to be sure, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I imagine. I don't think a Fallout threemath is like done.
I imagine they're working on it, and it'll be it's
not completed, it's not already completed, very close to being
complete by the time Fallow season two hits and go
to just drop it like the same day, here you go,
here's like here's like a Lucy skin or you know,
here we added to Google and as like you know,

(37:31):
unlockable campaigners.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah, and then I mean the thing is too is
just there's a lot of bell talk about what needs
to be updated for that.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Game, and I mean, yeah, graphics for sure, people always
complain about that. I think the biggest problem with Fallout
three actually is like the navigation system, because especially once
you hit like Washington, DC, like it's a bunch of
subway tunnels that are like bombed out, and it's like, oh,
I have to get to this one place. I have
no idea to do it because like the GPS or

(38:03):
that you know, the pit boys telling me to you know,
go through forty tunnels and nuts. So I think the
biggest actual problem with Fallout three is just some of
that nonsense.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
But the gun play also needs to be improved that.
Although it's not a running gun shooter, it's still kind
of behind what modern shooters.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I feel like, you know what, I still liked it.
You know, if you can't. It's not call duty. It's
not a one to one shooter.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
So people would you say they improved it in Fallout four.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I mean it's slightly better, I guess, but I don't
think it was still I got used to more than
Fallout three, So I mean, yeah, the fight. Just make
it into like you can either play it like classic
mode or it will be a Fallout three or you
know what it is, or like Action mode where literally
it's just you know, one to one shooter.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, fair enough. I mean I like to see it
be out. And you know, I the Fallout fans that
have been waiting for a remaster of a game themselves,
I mean you got to even longer. Wait, I mean
we know other Scrolls. Six is the next thing on
the docket for Todd's team, right, Fallout five is supposed

(39:16):
to be way after that. So if supposedly projections are
maybe twenty twenty seven for Older School six, Fallout five
ain't coming TOI like twenty thirty, right, So at the earliest.
So I mean think about that. Who knows if we're
going to have five more years of the Fallout TV show,
you better capitalize on something from that. Now. I don't

(39:38):
know if it'll be tied to when that the new
season comes out, but you think it'll be out before
the end of the year. No, you think they'll wait?

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah, every TV every TV show is now on a
two year schedule.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
So no, no, I'm talking about Fallout, the Fallout three master.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
You think it's oh no, it'll still wait like that.
It'll come out like dain date of the TV show,
do you think? So? Okay, Yeah, because that'll be when
Fallout is most hyped or you know, when it's just
as highest.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah, I mean, hopefully they can capitalize on that. Right.
That was the thing that was a huge miss. It
felt like last for season one, even though it did
help the Old Games gain traction, and marksof smartly had
the Yeah, they have a seventy six events I think,
and they had like some ship for a fall at Shelter. Yeah,

(40:28):
and they and they Fallout three New Vegas and four
were all on sale together for like the equivalent of
ten bucks without the DNC. I even picked them up
just so own them, even though you can get them
on games. But it's just like you can't really pass
that up, really, you know. So I think if they
can be smart again with US and release it at

(40:50):
the same time, they got a big chance for it
to be a hit.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
For sure, it wasn't quite exact, but they they did
that Last of Us three Math Part two on PC,
like right around when the season two Last of Us well.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
And then that Last of Us Complete well that came out,
so like you can experience it all in one package
instead of having the two games. Yeah, which I guess
is now the definitive way to play that I haven't watched.
I don't know if I'm just gonna wait till the
whole thing's out or I'll just wait till there's more
episodes in just Binge.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Right, I'm high leaning towards that personally.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
But yeah, but one thing before we get too far
away from the clear obscurit talk just because I forgot
to mention this, so we're talking about it, but lots
of discourse. Now that this game has been out, people
are experiencing the gameplay. One of the comps obviously the biggest,

(41:50):
maybe not in terms of popularity and notoriety and sales.
The biggest therapy G franchise is without a doubt, Fantasy.
Lots of talk now again about how how can you
tell us that we can't have turn based Final Fantasy
when this exists showing.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
You how you can easy. They don't. They don't want to,
Like Okay, Final Fantasy isn't owned by the fans. It's
owned by Square and you know who has whoever's running it, right,
If they don't want to do it, they don't have to.
And there's plenty of other you know, franchises or games
to pick up the slack, like you know, Expedition thirty
three or you know, Lost Odyssey when that was out,

(42:33):
or you know whatever else. So I would like it,
but hey, it's not up to us.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Yeah, I mean, we don't know how deep in development
they are on is seventeen at this point. Could they
even make any changes to the gameplay depending on how
far they are in does it make sense for you know,
what they have going story wise? Narrative was all that?
Would I like to see Final Fantasy do it, even

(43:03):
if it's a spinoff or something, just to see if
people go for it. And then maybe they go with
Final Fantasy eighteen. We're gonna we're gonna finally give it
its run. Yeah, I mean, look, they did it with
Changes of Paradise and people really love that game. Uh
you know, they did kind of a dark Souls ish
combat with that. If let's say you take the turn

(43:27):
base and do what we're doing in Claar Obscurity, and look,
believe me, there's gonna be copycats. I'll tell you that
right now. There will be copycat games of the gameplay
in this game, people trying to capitalize on. Oh my god,
we gotta have turn basis active now.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
But that's it's not like they didn't like they're not
like inventing the wheel here, like you know, it's a
you know, variation of stuff from you know, a Vagrant
story or Parasitity earlier or that.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
So yeah, but it's it's it's the newest thing, right,
and to do it all together this way, it's not
just the fact that they have this combat, it's all
of the accouterments around it, right, It's this complete package
of a game that you can have the turn based
game with this combat and that'll be fun and all.

(44:18):
But if the story sucks and I stuck at the combat.
I'm not playing this game very long, but because the
story is awesome, I want to keep going, even if
it means turning it on easy and just doing.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
The rest of it no figure.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, I mean sixteen is that combat was just too easy.
I wish actually you could play it on pomp Fancy Mode.
I've said that a bunch of times. They should have
made pop Fancy Mode available from the beginning, and I
think the bad talk around that game would be less
because at least there'd be more of a challenge, which
was the problem. It's like, the story's cool, the character

(44:59):
Clive is is great as a human being, the music's great,
the combat's way too easy, and then the rest of
the stuff around the story, of the side quests and
all that other craft was terrible. So it's like, yeah,
I have a bad taste in my mouth from this game,
whereas Clear Obscurity doesn't give you that because they deliver

(45:21):
on all fronts. And that's the thing that people are
going to miss out on. To me. When you say, oh,
File Fantasy should adopt this. Insert your favorite JRPG team
here or persona should be adopting this in their next game,
you know, Person of six needs to have this combat
or whatever. It's like, Yeah, does that fit with the

(45:44):
vision that the developers have and will they be able
to make such a complete game around it, because it's
the other systems built on top of it that make
it work. It's not just the fact that, oh now
I have dodging and pairing in my turn based chair
in my Urn based RPGs. So you know, I think, really,
would it be cool to see it? Just like you said, Sure,

(46:05):
are they gonna do it? Probably not. Uh, it's gonna
probably continue to be a version of action. Hopefully it's
not the same as sixteen. Hopefully it's different. Could they
surprise us?

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Sure it's just gonna be all Icon battlest but sixty
hours of that crap? Please?

Speaker 1 (46:24):
I loved it, But yeah, if I got to do
with sixty hours of that, I don't know. I would
love Also, I love to see another game outside of
the remake series use the remake combat not don't know
if they'll do it with seventeen, but it'd be cool
to see another File Fantasy game use it, and how
they would adapt that to other characters.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
You know, how you're going to introduce the gun arm.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Yeah, well I don't know about the gun arm, but
this clairef scire also has like the gun aiming from
Persona as well. I got to mention it. Yeah, another
cool thing that it takes from, you know, other inspirations.
But still I kind of get what everybody's saying. You
want the high fidelity ful fantasy game with this combat

(47:11):
and see how it goes. I want the high fidelity
turn based game. Okay, I'd love to see them do it,
but I just don't have faith that they're going to.
And it doesn't make the Fall Fantasy series worse because
it doesn't have it, or because it doesn't have turn
based They're just like you said at the beginning, they're
doing their own thing, and you can either choose to

(47:32):
go along with that, or there's other RPG franchises you
can invest your money into, like Persona metaphor Dragon Quest,
even like a Dragon now, you know, even Claire's Obscure
Expedition thirty three, if that's going to continue to be
a franchise. We know they're doing a live action movie

(47:53):
because the story Kitchen folks are already adapting it, so
that's no the story could Folks were usually pretty good
about adapting things, and especially because the this getting that
hat that it's getting is probably helping it. If the game,
you know, came out and was a dud, maybe not right,
but this is good.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Wasn't that It takes two movie? Great? Wasn't Until Dawn? Great?

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Oh? On, until Donald's here? I mean it's the first
like total miss from Sony, right, but I didn't even
know that that movie came out.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
The first movie the first total miss was watching Clank.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Yeah, true, but that was before like they started this
whole big push it to movies like Charter was fine, right,
So you know, we'll see when we get to the
other ones that they're doing. But definitely Until Don's just
a total whimper. And it seems like you're gonna get
the Until Dawn remaster on PS plus Essential in May

(48:53):
pretty soon from what we're hearing, So I guess you
can play that and not Watson.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yeah, But moving on from from that, just because we're
already talking about movies, Slip Fiction is also going to
get a movie adaptation, and we talked about Sidney Sweeney
being involved from like a producer standpoint with Michael Bay
on the Outrun movie last week. Sidney Sweeney might actually
star in the Split fiction.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Uh split movie. She's too old, Like I'd say, she's
a little too old for it.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
It doesn't matter. You tell somebody Sidney Sweeney has that
group of people that you tell them Sidney Sweeney is
in a movie.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
They're going, now, look look at the box office returns
to Madam Webb.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Yeah, I mean not Madam Webb, but that the movie
still has to be good. It's the sweet Frank. It
has to be passable. It has to be okay, you know,
but that she she draws attention, right, especially being a
video game adaptation, it's going to get people's attention.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
If Joseph Fair is involved in it, I'm good with that.
Let's see how it goes. And also, who's gonna be
cast opposite of her as the you know, the other
character that you play as in the game. That that's
gonna matter as well. It has to be somebody of equal, Like,
it can't just be a nobody in Sidney Sweeney. It
has to be somebody of you know what, Sandia has

(50:25):
that same thing, Like, dude, more people saw Challengers than
I think a lot of people thought they were going
to Obviously it hit like Rental pretty fast because it
didn't do that great in the movies. But she does
have cash a similar to Sidney. I wouldn't be surprised,
you know what, wouldn't be surprised honestly.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
I mean, I'm just taking a joke since they're both
in both in that that show euphoria.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Euphoria. Yeah no, but I mean, honestly, you bringing that up,
they may not be wrong. Sandia could be the other character.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Or be like Jenna Ortega.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Yeah, it could be as well, right, because the.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Character in the game is kind of I don't really
explicitly say it, but she I think she is like
Spanish for Mexican.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Yeah, she does have a white a look too, like
she's Latin or Yeah, you know, it seems like anyway,
that's what they're trying to get. But also, before we
get too far away from Xbox here, maybe perhaps the
biggest kind of an ount, and it was talked about
today is Blizzard has apparently been bidding with various devs

(51:33):
about getting rights to Overwatch Mobile and also including in
it StarCraft, making a new StarCraft game, which now next
on apparently is going to be the team working on it.
Uh So, Overwatch Mobile is apparently being talked about as

(51:53):
a potential Overwatch three and not just Overwatch Mobile, not
you know, not like the way they did Diablo where
it was Diablo Immortal and then I'll hear you have
the console version with Diablo four. This is you know,
I guess gonna essentially overtake over Watch two at some
point or they they want it to be just as big,

(52:15):
if not more so. And then, you know, we haven't
had a new StarCraft game in a long time. Of course,
there was that, yeah, decade, And of course there is
that in the Jason Shire book, the one he did
about Blizzard earlier this year, the playing ice that I
have on my shelf over there, he did talk about that.

(52:36):
There's apparently another StarCraft shooter in development after the first
two have failed, Ghost and the other one that didn't
even get a name. So we'll see if that's involved
in any way as well. But hopefully this is a
new actual like StarCraft traditional you know type game, just

(52:57):
because we haven't had that a long time, and I'm
sure there will be.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
That's my fear is it's just going to be some
free to play garbage on phones. Hope not. I really
don't think micro Blizzard cares about like the RTS space.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, I mean Phil is on the record saying he does.
But if somebody tells them, look, they're they're obviously trying
to make a push for mobile. They haven't made that
mobile store yet, but the more they can get going
with mobile, that is just what Activision already has in
their pocket, and what Blizzard has in their pocket already
with even though Heartstone is diminishing and I don't even

(53:31):
know how Dielbow Mortal is doing nowadays and that kind
of thing. If they can get another one of their
franchises out there on mobile before they even hit on
the store, I mean, that's that's a positive for them.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Yeah. So it's just not a positive for fans.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Definitely not, because there's the chance that it's going to be,
like you said, monetization, free to play garbage.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Look how well plants for zombies it for EA when phones?

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Yeah, well, I mean also tried to monetize the crap
out of that thing. It just didn't go over well.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Also they also made a shooter out of it, and again, yeah,
success story after success.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Story essentially, yes, but all right, let's go.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
I would actually love it if Blizzard is said, screw
it writing a new Warcraft game.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Hey, there's been talk about that after Warcraft three Remastered sucked,
like they just wanted to like go back to the
drawing board with it. But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
That's the thing is, it's been over a decade since
I'm in an RTS and StarCraft two took too long.
I mean, they made the three games, but they didn't
necessarily need to, you know. Ah, And I if they
just said, like we're making StarCraft three or Warcraft for
it would be like a lot of like prove it
or be you know, and it also be like when

(54:51):
is this can of come out? Is it going to
be like tomorrow or is it going to be nine
years from now? You know?

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Yeah, that's the thing too, right, It matters if you're
gonna take forever to have that game come out, like,
is it gonna matter? I mean that's why you would
have it come out on phones, because you could. You
would imagine they'd make it a lot faster because there's
a lot of you don't have to account.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
For, yeah, crappier, you know, a lot more spied.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Yeah, but I mean they could they could still make
it be good. It's just like you said, it's you know,
especially you're putting in Korea in here, which still has
a big fan base for StarCraft, even though obviously one
of the biggest when it was, you know, originally out there. Yeah,
they're gonna want to turn it into like how can

(55:41):
we do this for esports? How can we do this
for something that does make money get them all playing,
you know, in China and Japan in Korea, Like, how
can we make this? Uh, that kind of thing. And
it is unfortunate that if that happens at the expense
of getting a full flood game that I think a

(56:01):
lot more people would want. That kind of sucks on
that end, you know, hopefully not. I don't want to
see that happen. It's not going to really help game
Pass either, if that's what you're trying to you know,
I wonder how that, Like I want to see how
that's gonna work with with that, Like, are you it's

(56:21):
mobile is getting the mobile store? Is everything going to
become free to play? Is that going to have its
own tier on game Pass?

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Like?

Speaker 1 (56:31):
How is that is that going to even be involved
in game Pass at all, like, right, yeah, I want
to see how that's gonna work as far as that goes.
And just before we finally get off this, speaking of
game Pass, the power world does it's mainly the pr
guy that that talks on social media. He is known

(56:55):
for kind of speaking his mind on things. Right. He
he had a few things to say about because there's
a lot of discourse about again as what sims teams
to happen every time there's a major release on game
Pass that does well is, Oh, you're hurting the des

(57:16):
by playing on game Pass. You shouldn't play on game Pass,
you know, blah blah blah. You should go buy the game.
It's only fifty dollars and you know, to be fair,
if you had the money, go buy the game. You
know whatever. But you know, as I've always said, it
does help you so you can buy other games and

(57:36):
you know, or wait till this is a third party game.
So at some point it's probably going to leave game Pass,
even though I'm sure it's one of those things that's
at least got a year if not more, deal with them.
You know, Powerell is still there on game Pass, right,
now obviously it behooves them because it's not a live
service game, but it needs that constant player count for

(57:57):
it to be worth something. You know, thinking about talking
about that for a second, like you know, the whole
concept of oh, game pass, it hurts game sales. Well,
Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three has sold a million already
even with game pass. Where do you has any of

(58:19):
this changed for you now that they've like it kind
of seems like they've settled on what is going to
be on game pass now going forward, Like we're not
really seeing the big third party game anymore. It really
is just kind of them going after like big indies
and stuff like that, besides third game.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
I mean, it makes sense because you know what big
third party games you know, going to be on it
if it plays into their bottom line and once it
passes the threshold of us you know, Microsoft pain as
it is less and we would make than to selling
the game and go, you know, screw this then.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Yeah, I mean ea, already it seems like they keep
making it longer and longer. The weight that you have before,
like Dragon Age, the Vailguard is not even on there.
You know, even though I probably had something to do
with that deal that they have with PS plus for
this month or whatever. I don't know if they mean
it's gonna show up next month on there. But you know,

(59:16):
the sports games, they only come out like once the
season's over, so you really don't get the hype of
playing it while the season is going on on game pass.
You're playing it in the off season, and it's already
technically old because by then you're looking forward to the
next year and playing with the new players and the draft,
the you know, the only thing that has that good

(59:38):
connection now is college football and Madden, which I'm sure
they will keep deepening the connection where okay, those college
players that now have their names and rights and stuff. Well,
and then eventually they probably make it like it used
to be where you could just send the draft class
on the Madden you can play it into you know,
that year of Madden. So at least they have that connection.

(01:00:01):
But like the hockey game or you know whatever other
EA thing, you kind of lose the hype of that
when you don't get to play it during that same season.
So you know, and then like you said, what third,
you know, Capcom might throw them a bone with Monster
Hunter because it has that multiplayer component, and it seems

(01:00:22):
like the only people that do give them bones are
people that have multiplayer components outside of ubisaw because ubis
is desperate for uh at that point, you know, they
they continually drop games in the PS plus and Xbox
Game Pass. It seems like right, and then you Besouth
also has their own service, So at that points the
matter subscribe somewhere play our game. Who cares? But like

(01:00:45):
Capcom's not putting Street Fight or six on there or
any of the resumes they did at one point when
Microsoft is doing their big let's get third parties in here.
But now if they bought out the vision Blizzard, they
kind of seemed settled on Okay, we bought with us,
we bought off there's a Blizzard. This is really about
lining everything up, getting the day one games out there.
Let's go after the big indies. Let's go after any

(01:01:08):
indie that kind of has a notoriety that isn't already
in our id at Xbox thing and put them out there.
Like we've seen a Blueprints, you know, with Expedition thirty
three already this year of they nailed on two of them.
Now blue Prints is also on PS Plus, but still
FBC Firebreak which got release date June seventeenth. That's also

(01:01:32):
going to be on Game Pass and PS Plus on
day one, So that's your kind of I guess, big
third party thing, even though they're technically I guess they're
self published or whatever indie also, but they're gonna that's
June seventeenth. That's going to be their Junie release thing.
Aside from I guess, something that gets shadow dropped at

(01:01:54):
that showcase, you know, May is Doom the Dark Ages,
So they need to be lining things up, whether it's
you know, some of the things that they've shown at
that that last Indies showcase thing that they did, like
the Altars and some other things that kind of has
some hype behind them too. For the indies. It definitely
does grow the audience. It definitely does get it attention.

(01:02:18):
People are playing the game that would never play that
game that even at clear obscure at how awesome it is.
If I'm not into RPGs and I see the fifty
dollars price tag, even though it's fifty dollars or not seventy,
I may not go after it, but I hear the
hype and I get an opportunity to play it on
game Pass, and then I go, oh, man, I want

(01:02:39):
to play this on my PS five. I'm going to
go buy it over there, you know, or I'm I'd
rather have it on PC. I'm going to buy it
over there, and I don't want to use Xbox's app
or whatever. No, you know, you technically could and still
only pay the twenty bucks or whatever. Still, I think
for indies, this is exactly what you're wanting. You're getting.
The notoriety does not It doesn't help every single indie

(01:03:02):
if you're really really small and your game is not
that great. Unfortunately, it's not going to do what you
wanted to do. It's it's not going to do that much, right,
But it does get people in the door to try
your game they wouldn't anyway, And I think that's the
whole point of it, and they're consistent with it. PS
plus does do their like one indy every couple of

(01:03:23):
months or whatever that they hype and put on their Yeah,
Blue Princi was the most recent one. You know, they
had Pucking Squire last year as well, you know, so, yeah,
but I think for sure that's kind of the route
that they figured out that works, but it just doesn't

(01:03:43):
work for third parties, like you said, because it doesn't
matter how much money Xbox gives. Xbox really just wasting money.
People are playing it and the other the third party
is not getting, like you said, what they could get
for the game if they did sold it out, right,
So right, Yeah, I think the system is what it is.

(01:04:04):
I think the people that are complaining about how the
devs are not getting helped or whatever, it's like, Yo,
don't get mad at Xbox players because they're using the
service that Microsoft is giving them. Either go buy it
on the system you want, or understand that. This is
why Microsoft went third party because every PC player and
every PS five player that buys these games, you're funding

(01:04:25):
game Pass for them. Yeah, so you're keeping game Pass
alive the more that you buy these games on other platforms,
which is what Microsoft wants you to do. Game Pass
is the exclusive. If you own an Xbox an Advice
that can do game Pass, that is the exclusive, right,

(01:04:45):
it's not the one game or whatever. I don't know.
South of Midnight will come to PS five. I vow
probably will. I'm pretty sure with all the leaks that
have been happening. Starfield is going to come, whether it
does bonkers numbers or not, it's coming. So you're gonna
get most of the things over the PS five eventually,
and they're gonna keep closing the gap. Right, We're probably

(01:05:09):
gonna see hardly any ever again where you get the oh,
this is only out on Xbox stuff. I wouldn't be
surprised if, well, Fable's not right, Fable has not benefited yet. No,
I wouldn't be surprised. I mean yeah, but I wouldn't

(01:05:30):
be surprised if maybe Gears E Day, if it doesn't
come out this year, maybe they have a PS five
version in the works already, because there is rumors of
that Gears of War collection remaster collection, and that's for
sure going to come on to PS five. So yeah, man,
like the fludgates are going to open eventually. We're not

(01:05:52):
going to have these like what we have this year
was Soath of Midnight and avowed that are like they're
only on game pass over here on the Xbox PC
side and PlayStation doesn't have them. You're gonna get more
of like what's happening to Doom where it is going
to be you know, day and date or whatever. So
that's that's how you can keep the service going. And

(01:06:14):
I think for the most part it's a win. Does
it show? Does it? Do we really have data that
shays Xbox players don't buy games, Yeah, they don't buy
the games that or on the other side, maybe because
they own a PS five and they'd rather buy it
over there, or they just don't buy the game or whatever.
But you got to know it's not coming on game Pass.

(01:06:35):
They might just be waiting for a sale. They might
be they just don't want to buy it because they
have a lot of other games to play or whatnot.
So it's not like Xbox hasn't been delivering games this year.
But one game we know is not gonna be on
Xbox for sure is a Ghost of Yote, which got
a release date finally of October second, twenty twenty five.

(01:06:56):
I wonder how much PlayStation knows where Grand Theft are
know six is going to come out, because, like you know,
rock Star, it's got to be talking them, like do
they have an inkling that it's gonna either come out
way after this or in the middle of September? Like
they what was it a Grand Thought of five release?

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
And like right, so I mean the first time, well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
The first time. It doesn't matter what what other versions
came out, because it's still like the number eleven game
for last month is just absolutely ridiculous, but you know,
it is what it is. So they did all aside
from the release date, they did also release some information
about the game. They did a new story, They did

(01:07:42):
a story trailer as well. The story is going to
be nonlinear this time, so you can there's a six
what do they call it, Yota six that you have
to hunt down, and you can hunt them down in
any order that you want. According to the PlayStation blog, Uh,

(01:08:05):
where's your like, I guess hype level for Ghost of Yota.
Did you see the trailer?

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
I didn't see it, you know, I don't know. I
kind of got a good good dash of that on
my system with shadows. You know, maybe when Yo t
comes out, I'll give it a shot. But I actually
think the first the first fun Tashima went for like
way too long or there's a lot of patting in
that game and a lot of you know, the usual

(01:08:34):
stupid shit you do in open world games and hunting,
like chasing after foxes or the poetry, crap. I could
do without some of this. Yeah, this is.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
Supposed to be the largest open world the Soccer Bunch
has ever done. It's supposed to be the most open
where you can do whatever you want. Does that give
you any Uh? Does that make you worry that there's
it's gonna go even longer than or is it just
they make it more optional or what do you what

(01:09:03):
do you see?

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Maybe NSA is optional, but I mean it'll be optional,
but I'll still be like map bar for you know,
just you know, icon nonsense. Yeah, so we'll see. You know,
it has good combat, sure, but you know I can
do it like one or two big big open world
games out a year. That's about it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Yeah, I mean, it's good to hear that they did
a lot of research in Hokkaido and made sure that
it was accurate to the time and the culture, the
new culture that's there. I'm glad to hear the sucker Punch,
like really want the extra mile for all that, especially

(01:09:44):
after the BS that you know was going on with
the Sassa's screen shadows. Also, so there's also a collector's edition,
which they confirmed this is going to be seventy dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
No surprise, isn't it like not have the game or.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
You mean it's like a digital.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
I don't know, it might have been something else, but
I saw like some tune its Collector's edition, then had
the damn game. I hate that. I hate those types
of collector's editions.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
I wouldn't be surprised. So there's a digital Deluxe edition.
You get a digital copy of the game with a
replica display edition of Atsu's Ghost mask at Who's Massive
built a scale with Gin's masks and ghost and Sushimo's
Collector's edition, So there's that, I guess. Also the replica
of a stash with the names of all six members

(01:10:36):
of the Ota six and the sash is seventy one
inches long, so six feet. And then you get a
replica of Suba from Asus Katana. And then also the
physical Collectors edition also includes like a patch of coins,
instructions and other stuff. So yeah, a lot there, I guess,

(01:10:58):
art cards, which I don't know why people get so
crazy about that, but yeah, look, I'm still kind of
working my way slowly through Sushima. I like that game.
I'm enjoying that game. A lot of what I keep
seeing in Yota doesn't scream, oh wow, this seems miles

(01:11:20):
better or different. But again, like it's a series, right,
so you want, uh, more ghosts of Yota or more
you know, the ghosts of Sushimo whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
In that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
You know, you don't want it to be I don't
know that people would if you make it radically different.
Can you still call a ghost of whatever? You know?
So that's kind of the thing with franchises is you're
gonna complain that it's not really doing anything new. But
then it's like, well, if you make it too new,
people complain that this is not what I wanted, right right, So,

(01:11:55):
but hey, this is Sony's big game, h first party anyway,
you know, you know, Granded Fattal six is gonna wipe
the floor with whatever comes out this year. But this
is Sony's big game for this year, and it will
be the shows doing great numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
It. They're not gonna be Days Gone Mastered, No.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Definitely not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
I mean I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Day's Gone remaster came out a couple of days ago.
Obviously it got you know, between the Oblivion remaster and
Claire obscurit like nobody's talking about that thing. Also, I
don't know who the heck's playing it, but that game
came out a long time ago. It wasn't like the
most a loved game when it came out. Yep, if

(01:12:35):
you don't have the ten dollars version, I really don't
know who's going out there and buying this Day one
at the price HiT's launching at. So yeah, man, right,
I don't think that that's gonna be We'll see if
it even makes a dip in the April.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
I mean, hopefully up all the people who won't like, oh,
we need Days Gone two to come out. Yeah right, Yeah,
the remasters sold twelve copies. Good luck with the uh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
But since we're there, speaking of the game beskeut selling
games of the month of March, Assassin's Creed Shadows. It's
the best selling game of the month of March. Marty,
you're gonna do a golf clap for you stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
If you build it, they will event they will come.
If you eventually build it, they will come.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
You know, it's Assassin's Creed. There really wasn't anything outside
of MLB the show that came out in March. Let's
be frank. Yeah. Also, yeah, Randy definitely got the show.
I'm sure he's playing it. It's actually uh the show

(01:13:43):
beat out Assassage Creede shattlews on PlayStation. Assassage Cree Shadows
is number one because it's also out on other things,
and I'm sure it will probably be out on switch
To as well. I wouldn't be surprised there. But looking
at the rest of the stuff, it is good to see,
like at a new games in here, which speaks to
my A lot of stuff came out in March and

(01:14:04):
then to good to see them on here. Right, you
got Sassacree Shadows is number one and will be the
show twenty five months one hundred. While still there at
number three you got WW two K twenty five and
then Splip Fiction right there a number five, which is good.
Hit a lot of sales milestones in that first month,
so that's good to see. Bleach Rebirth of Souls is

(01:14:26):
in here, Bleach a you know, obviously big anime property,
and you know I heard the game's actually good, so
that's a positive. WA Chronicles X Defensive edition there at seventeen,
so that's cool. And yeah, then the typical stuff, right
and KINGDM con Deliverance is there as well, which that's good.

(01:14:47):
They're still in the top ten. You still got Minecraft,
Grand Theft at all that other stuff that you'd expect.
And cool to see squeaking in one and two remaster there,
yeah at eighteen, so good to see all those games.
Are they thriving, doing decently or doing well or whatever
you want to call it. They're doing great, So happy

(01:15:08):
to happy to see that for sure. Also speaking of
sales milestones really quick. Residue Be four remake is now
sold over fifteen million units. Residonable seven, Vile Hazard and
Residable To remake have also sold more than fifteen million units.
Residuable Village has sold eleven million, and Residuable three remake

(01:15:29):
has also past ten million. So those residuable remakes, man,
havecom is making bank.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Right with those and if it's a good quality and
why not you know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
Yeah, even three, which what is the most maligned of
the remakes or.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
I mean, like fine, but you know it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
People don't like the fact that they took out stuff
right and and made it the kind of game was.
But compared to two where they just lovingly be created
that they and they lovingly recreated four as well, it's
all over the place right now with the remake talk.
There's talk of remaking zero, there's talk of remaking one again.

(01:16:12):
There's they have the ratings for five and six that
were put out recently, having people think that five is
going to be the next one. There's talk of the
one you want everybody to you want them to remake
is Code Veronica and talk about that as well, so
all over the place as to which one is going

(01:16:32):
to come out first. Obviously, also revenuebal nine has not
even been announced, but that's been talked about about Capcom
going open world with this thing. So as far as
one of the residuevil goes, that is, all those sales
numbers just keeps providing Capcom with more AMMO to just
keep doing these remakes until nobody buys. So if that's

(01:16:54):
on your nerves, you know, you're probably part of the
problem because you're probably buying them. So I'm buying them
and not really playing them, but whatever, because I buy
them and then I go, Okay, I'm gonna play it,
and then something else comes out and I don't play it,
and then the year end, the year goes by and
it's like, well, now I got to play the new thing.
But yeah, the last thing to talk about here, just

(01:17:16):
because you know, switch to Oh man, I meant to
talk about this at the beginning, and I guess it
makes sense we're gonna talk about it now. So you've
you finally just did not order. You did not pre order?
Switch to right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
I couldn't kept bombing out on me, like and they
got into Walmart. I tried, and like by the time
I got in, it was already sold out or kept fluctuating.
That's why system sucked. Like I was in line and
kicked me out.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
That's why I was about twenty minutes late.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
I mean they were, and then why I was like twelve,
like twelve thirty and if they said.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Yeah, there's just to be out of midnight, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Again, I got in the line twice and both times
booted me back to like the you know, the product bait,
Like what fuck you?

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
Then I didn't try targeting my up, but that was
apparently the worst one. It kept knocking people out. People
try to do it on the apps, some of their
some people's got.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
C I have a friend who went did like all
apps and he's got like four pre orders.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Yeah, some people.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
I'll probably buy one from him. I mean he's not
he's not like thankfully, he's not like a scumbag reseller,
like he's kind of just doing it at costs basically.
But uh, I'll probably buy one from him, like like
five thirty. I joked with him. I was like, I'll
give you five twenty for it, and he was like,
but the price is five twenty eight and I was like, yeah,

(01:18:35):
that's that's the joke.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
Like mine was four eighty with tex I only got
the system.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
I didn't know, Okay, yeah, I'm not going to get
to stupid marik Kart one. Yeah. And then yeah, like
I didn't even try Friday because you know, yeah, just
here and to fuck around it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Apparently a lot of people, like anybody that went to
game stop at a decent hour, if you wanted one,
you could get one. Yeah, or for the most part,
even the ones that had like long lines, they had
one hundred and something switches or so. Nintendo was was
not kidding around that they had a lot of stock. Yeah,
kudos to them for you know, having this ready. Obviously

(01:19:13):
the delay helped a lot. You know, the idea was
supposed it was going to come out last year, and
then they delayed, and this allwed them to have a
lot more stock. It seems like anybody that really wanted
one could get one if you try to modicum apart enough. Obviously,
like you said, you really could have tried it on Friday,
you tried to get you could have gone. You probably
would have gone on Friday. I bet if Jens wasn't Yeah, yeah,

(01:19:37):
And I'm sure there will be other restocks like it
happened with the PS five, It happened with Xbox like
before it even launched, they had restocks at certain sellers.
New Egg and Sam's are also supposed to be and
Costco were also supposed to have UH pre orders at
some point, but they have not released the pre orders.
So there's other chances that if you if you really

(01:19:59):
want on it. Yeah, I got mine at Walmart.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
They put me in a line that I felt like,
oh my god. I was still working at the time,
so I'm like trying to wrap up work and then
all of a sudden, I keep looking back. I'm still
on the line. I'm refreshing, I'm doing stuff. I'm like, okay, best,
why is not up?

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
So for Walmart, I got I got to the cart.
It was like, okay, it's added. So I started, you know,
going through the you know, did you pay for it
completely or do you go to look at firm?

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
No, no, I did the I used a credit card
and the pre order.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
I was scared to do a firm because I was like,
oh god, if it if it bounces me out because
I took too long.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
I mean it did that. I mean I was quick also,
but it did that like truth times. And then I
just tried to pay for it directly and that still
bounced like it was started out of your cart, and
I'm like I was still within this ten minute time frame,
you fuckers, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Oh so you got it like I did, where it
gave you the ten minute countdown and it still kicked you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
Out yep, or like we're at to stop. And then
right right at that point, it's like, oh, now the
link is up for everyone. You can just add it
to your account, added to your car. Oh that sucks, man,
Well thanks, you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Know that's it got I got sucking the line for
a long time, and then I kept going back and
forth refreshing doing this. I had a second screen on
Walmart because I was worried that like, oh, what if
I get out of that screen where it tells me, oh,
I can go back to shopping, and then I know,
tells you you're still in the line and whatever, and
then I have to look back and then it goes
you have eight minutes, and I'm like, oh, crap, damn it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
I mean, yeah, I was in that I got I
got to the deadline and yeah, and then it booted
me or then I was like, we're at a stop
and I'm like, you know, yeah, because.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
I had I did the whole thing where I had
everything ready, well I had to do with prus like
a couple of buttons.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Yeah, I was signed in and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Yeah, but Target was apparently so bad it kept knocking
people out, kept telling them you have the wrong address
and all this other stuff and whatever. So but hopefully
though three stocks so you can get one. Uh for sure.
I just chose to get the regular version because I
was like, I think, I bet the bundle is going
to be like the one everybody's gonna go after to
save that thirty bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
Yeah, so but all right, Uh that was our switch
to pre order conundrum there. But due to this uh
going crazy about switch to pre orders, you know, Japan
had an overabundance on the Nintendo on the shop where
you know, Nintendo said there's no way they're going to
be able to give the two point two million people

(01:22:29):
that you know said they're interested pre orders. They also
came on and said that now your pre order may
not happen at all during the pre launch of the Switch.
You may get your email invite after the game, after
the system launches. Even so, and this is for the
US as well, So if you're reading waiting for that Nintendo.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
One doing and I was like, good luck, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Yeah, good luck. They also said that you're probably not
going to get it the day of. They said, they right,
you're getting it from Nintendo. You're probably gonna get it
like a week later, which I mean doesn't really matter,
they don't have some big game coming out a week later,
but it's like still, you're you know, the fomo is
gonna kick in. You're gonna wish you had it same
time as everybody else, and then you got to sit
there and wait. Yeah, Walmar so far tells me I'm

(01:23:18):
getting it by the fifth We'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
I like I wouldn't eat like the day of, you know, like.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Yeah, I wouldn't either. I'd want to have it like
by that weekend, I'm probably gonna do an unboxing and
put it on the channel and stuff like that. But
and then you know, we'll talk about Mario Kart World,
and if I had decide to get something else with it,
that's But even though I don't think there's anything else
that's like crazy switch to exclusive, everything else is like
it's Donkey Kong and and I'm not sold on Dark Kung.

(01:23:47):
I think I'm gonna wait to see reviews because I'm
worried that like that's gonna get old, the whole breaking
stuff constant, right, that It's gonna be fun for like
the first couple of hours, and then I'm gonna get
tired of it and be like, damn, this was seventy
you know. And the thing is with Ninzendo games, like
I've said a bunch of times, it doesn't really matter
because it'll be seventy dollars five months from now, so

(01:24:09):
you know, there's not really a rush to go by
it other than oh man, I don't get to be
part of the conversation. So there's an analyst that says
this is going to be the biggest console launch ever,
beating out the PS four and PS five. Obviously PS
five would probably have that beat by a butt load
because they had the problem with the consoles. Yeah, the

(01:24:32):
stock shortage. Right, do you think this has the chance then?
With the fact that, like it feels like, aside from
you and a few others that I've seen, you know,
I've seen some game journals that said they couldn't get
it or whatever, it almost feels like anybody that really
wanted one got one. Do you think this could be
the biggest console launch? Like I said, it would have

(01:24:54):
to sell four point five million units, wasn't it within
the first month or so of PS five record?

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
Now I could I think the biggest launch is told
what PS two?

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
Well, they said the fastest launch not like, you know,
the fastest launch apparently is PS four and PS five
or tied of you know, fastest selling systems ever. Right,
what like do you think that the switch to has
the chance.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
To probably not especially you know, I mean they already
have some stock issues or you know, it's not like
everyone didn't get at pre order. Who knows what's gonna
happen with this care iff nonsense. I mean, currently it's okay,
but depends on how how are you judge like launch
as well as it like first day or first week
or first month.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
So it's you have to break four point five million
units in the first two months. That's how much switched
to you would have to sell. Beat the PlayStation five
and PlayStation four. Could it do that?

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Yeah, I anything could happen, but I don't think it will.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
You know, I think with Mario Kart World launching and
we know how much Mario Kart eight Deluxe sold on
the switch, definitely. I think it depends on how many
people you can get to buy a second switch.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
That's yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
Gonna be the kicker, right, It's not everybody getting the
switch to a launch, which could Like I said, there's
seems like it's not going to be the stockstort situation
of the PS five. It's gonna be most of the
people that really want one are going to have one.
You also buy Mario Kart World. Do you have the
people that get a Mario Kart World within the next

(01:26:40):
the Mario or the bundle or whatever. Because there's also
rumors that apparently Nintendo is going to do away with
that Mario Kart World bundle by the time we get
to the holidays, that that's it. It's not they're gonna
take it away out of that or they're they're gonna
up the price of the bundle. It's not going to

(01:27:00):
be you're saving thirty dollars. It might be you're gonna
pray full price, right, So will that make people run
and try to get it or whatever to try to
save the money, especially if the idea that after the
launch assortment the switch to might go up if these
tariffs go back into play. But you know, obviously we
don't know what the President's going to decide to do.

(01:27:23):
You know, he lives off of whims constantly, So whatever,
I'm gonna say that because of what's launching with it
and the fact that it feels like there are just
a lot of them out there, it will break the record.
Obviously depends on how much how quickly they can do

(01:27:46):
a restock after the initial whatever. But you know, obviously
I don't know how much. Say, and then you got
those resellers that are going to sell the people and ALSSA.
But yeah, so we'll see what happens. I'm sure that
that will be a big news story if they actually
do break it. But yeah, but all right, anything else

(01:28:08):
you wanted to here?

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
I think your watching Doctor Who.

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
Oh man, I got wrapped up in Claire Obscurity and
I forgot.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
They finally had the first good episode of the season.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
So that's what what episode is that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
On third one?

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
Okay? Now, about how many episodes are in the season? Eight?

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
Eight?

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Okay, almost halfway through when you got to the first
really good one. So there's that. Ye, Well, all right,
I guess we will end the show the way we
usually always do with what's coming out this week, which
we're already going to be into, may believe it or

(01:28:52):
not already when we get to the next week's episode.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
So yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
Uh, yeah, that's great. Frog Punk the console version released
is out now, So if you were one of those
waiting for it to come out and you didn't get
to you know, you were one of those who were
disappointed by getting pushedback, it is going to be out
there for you now. Moto GP twenty five also comes

(01:29:21):
out on the thirtieth, so you've been waiting for that
Moto G good old Moto GP to come out. You
can definitely enjoy that those people have there's some folks
that really are down with those games. I'm surprised every
time I keep seeing it's like that in Farming Simulator,

(01:29:41):
where I'm just like, this keeps existing, huh. Just it's
like and they keep And then the other thing too,
is like I guess it does well enough for like
Sony where they keep making it a PS plus essential
game every year, and it's like, Okay, I guess this
thing does way better than any of us. Ever, I
think it does.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Yeah. Aside from that, the soccer game that I'm pretty
sure I'm pogative reviewing Dispilote, which is based off of
like Ecuador when they're about to go to the World
Cup the first time, and the experience of the city
and it's kind of has like a really cool like
art style to it. The house was a demo on
Steam and people are interested, and yeah, usually the first

(01:30:27):
part of the month is not like grabbing, but there's
there's some cool stuff coming out in May as well
as we get later into the into the season into
that month. So but all right, some things look forward to.
Hopefully all of y'all are gonna go try out Claire
Obscure or you know you've got that Oblivion remaster, or

(01:30:49):
so going along on blue prints, or you're playing a
sass S Free Shadows or whatever. I appreciate everybody that
wats listen, We'll see you next time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
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