Borderlands 4 is Having a Rough Launch - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.12.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily – September 12, 2025

Episode Title: Borderlands 4 is Having a Rough Launch

Hosts: Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Andy Cortez
Air Date: September 12, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the turbulent launch of Borderlands 4, focusing on its troubled PC debut. Greg, Andy, and Barrett discuss the game’s technical issues, community backlash, and broader questions about PC optimization, anti-piracy measures, and accessibility. The show also covers the reveal of Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode, Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic, AI voice acting controversy in Tomb Raider, Pokemon Home limitations, and a packed WeNews segment. The conversation is lively, humorous, and opinionated, as always.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Borderlands 4’s Rough PC Launch

[08:46–18:02]

- Steam Reviews & Performance Woes

• Despite a record growth on Steam (over 207,000 concurrent players), Borderlands 4 is “getting clobbered on Steam with negative reviews” due to poor PC performance.
• Frequent complaints: crashes, severe stuttering, frame drops, and optimization issues—even on high-end hardware.
• Example reviews:
  • “Not worth buying in its current state unless you have a NASA PC.” – Rage (09:52)
  • “None of that matters when you can’t play for more than 10 minutes without a hitch, a crash, or your frames falling off a cliff. It’s like locking a gourmet meal behind a glass case and handing us a plastic fork.” – Steam user Satan Claus (09:54)
  • Even a reviewer with a 4070 Ti struggles for stable framerates.
• Greg recounts his experience running the game on a “Razer Blade 16 with a beefy 5090 GPU," but even then, “that computer was constantly…It sounds like it’s about to take the fuck off.” (12:15)

- Underlying Technical Concerns

• Andy: Issues persist “no matter what settings you’re doing,” with results ranging from 48–59 fps even on premium setups. Reliance on Nvidia’s DLSS “frame generation” is seen as an inadequate fix for deep-rooted problems.
  • “I do worry that devs are maybe rushing games out and then going, 'all right, the band aid will maybe cure it for now’...but this just seems like another drop in the bucket of another bad Unreal Engine 5 launch game.” (14:54)
• The game's heavy CPU usage is a major culprit, spiking usage to 100% and causing big stutters.
• This complicates both play and streaming (OBS streaming also requires substantial CPU).

- Console Performance & Accessibility

• Review codes for consoles (PlayStation, Xbox) only arrived at the last minute, so the team can’t yet compare PC issues to those platforms.
• Accessibility options in Borderlands 4 are called “laughable” for 2025, with only basic color changes rather than deeper features.
  • “For 2025 to have a section called Accessibility and go in there and for it to be as bare bones as it was… it was like, you know, just change the colors of things on maps… that’s not really what we’re talking about here.” – Greg (17:10)

- Community Input

• Listeners report motion sickness due to lack of an FOV slider, causing some fans to refund the game despite being long-time series loyalists. (16:51)

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2. Borderlands 4 Spyware Controversy & Gearbox’s Response

[17:46–22:36]

• Gearbox issues a statement denying claims that Borderlands 4 uses spyware, referencing Take Two’s terms of service and explaining what user data is collected (mainly for compatibility and anti-cheat/piracy).
• Community concerns center on “Denuvo” anti-piracy/anti-cheat software potentially impacting performance.
  • Andy: “I hadn’t even considered... that this Denuvo anti-piracy software could possibly be ruining some people’s performance and adding extra hitches where there shouldn’t be.” (20:34)
• Mods are permitted in single player but not if they negatively affect multiplayer integrity.

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3. Pokemon Home & Gen 10 Compatibility

[22:36–26:58]

• Breaking news: Pokémon transferred to future Legend Za titles cannot be moved back to earlier games, ending years of cross-generational compatibility.
• Greg is puzzled about the appeal of transferring Pokémon across games rather than “starting from the bottom” each time.
• Andy notes the main draw is competitive players and those deeply invested in min-maxing stats or building a living Pokédex.
• Community reaction frames it as losing access to cherished “pets” collected for decades.
• Corrections clarify: Pokémon from Za can enter Pokémon Home, but not go back to older titles (58:20).

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4. Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: Gameplay & Casting

[30:50–38:15]

• Neil Druckmann shares new details on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophecy in an interview with Variety.
• Promises “the deepest gameplay in Naughty Dog history,” building on Uncharted and The Last of Us, adding more RPG elements and wider, “sci-fi” scope.
• “Add sci-fi and you start to get a sense of what we’re doing. And then we’ve gotten even more ambitious than that.” – Neil Druckmann (31:23)
• Lead character “Jordan” will be played by Tati Gabrielle, who was also cast for The Last of Us Season 2.
• Troy Baker (Joel) and Tony Dalton (Lalo Salamanca from Better Call Saul, also in Hawkeye) are confirmed for roles.
• The team speculates guest stars from the HBO series may also appear.
• Andy is especially excited at the prospect of deep RPG systems and environmental storytelling potentially inspired by FromSoftware games.
  • “To see what a gameplay style like that, with the budget and time of Naughty Dog, what that can equate to, could be really exciting.” (37:49)

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5. Battlefield 6’s Battle Royale Mode Announced

[43:31–49:36]

• EA reveals Battlefield 6’s new battle royale mode, coming to Battlefield Labs.
• Features: 100-player matches, 25 squads of four, destructible environments, vehicles, and a “shrinking ring” that instantly kills any player caught in it—no healing, no re-entry.
  • Andy: “This is where you really get me. I love the rush and excitement of a battle royale mode… this is a neat way to distinguish yourself.” (47:19)
• Class-based squads are locked in for each match. Guns, gadgets, RPGs, airstrikes, and custom loadouts span five rarity tiers.
• Hosts are excited to see how destruction and squad dynamics change typical BR gameplay.

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6. AI Voice Acting Controversy in Tomb Raider

[49:44–52:04]

• French Lara Croft voice actor Francois Cadol sues Aspyr for allegedly using AI to clone her voice in remastered Tomb Raider games, without consent or proper notification.
  • “Go get them. Fuck those people. Fuck that. That sucks. Doing that… what a punch in the gut.” – Greg (51:21–51:32)
• Fans noticed and compared the “uncanny but worse” AI dubs, alerting Cadol. She expresses gratitude to the community for noticing and defending her work.
  • “Good job, fans. Yeah, good job, her. And knock it off as fucking bullshit AI garbage. Pay people to do their goddamn jobs.” – Greg (52:04)

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Rapid-Fire News: “We News” Segment

[52:10–54:11]

• Slay the Spire 2 delayed to March 2026.
• Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trilogy coming to Switch 2, Xbox Series, PC, PlayStation 5 in January 2026.
• PlayStation Plus titles announced: WWE 2K25, Persona 5 Tactica, Green Hell, The Invincible, and more for September.
• Breaking news: potential Fantasy League cheating scandal involving Roger and Mike.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Borderlands 4’s PC Issues:

  • “The most common refrain in the office was, Greg, that sounds like it’s about to take the fuck off.” – Greg (12:15)
  • “It doesn’t really seem like whatever machine you have is going to help out the situation a whole lot… That’s kind of the range we’re seeing.” – Andy (13:01)
  • “We had a not-great stream yesterday that was immediately cut off after we realized what was happening on the PC.” – Andy (12:38)
  • “You could drop shit to low or to high and you’re going to get maybe from 48 frames to 59.” – Andy (13:01)
  • “I assumed you have [the action figures] on the stand. You don’t have the boxes anymore. You’re wrapping them in tissue.” – Greg (04:59)

• On Accessibility in Borderlands 4:

  • “I thought the accessibility settings in Borderlands were laughable… for it to be as bare bones as it was.” – Greg (17:10)

• On PC Optimization Trends:

  • “I do worry that devs nowadays are maybe rushing games out and then going, 'alright, the band aid will cure it for now’…” – Andy (14:54)
  • “This seems to be just another drop in the bucket of here’s another one, another bad Unreal Engine 5 launch game.” – Andy (15:07)

• On AI Voice Cloning:

  • “Go get them. Fuck those people. Fuck that. That sucks.” – Greg (51:21)
  • “Good job, fans. Yeah, good job, her. And knock it off as fucking bullshit AI garbage.” – Greg (52:04)

• On Naughty Dog’s Ambitions:

  • “You can look at our previous titles and see the evolution… add sci-fi and you start to get a sense of what we’re doing.” – Neil Druckmann via Variety (31:23)

• On Battlefield 6’s BR:

  • “This is where you really get me… This is a neat way to distinguish yourself a bit more from other battle royales.” – Andy (47:19)
  • “The wall will insta kill you. I like that.” – Andy (47:40)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Borderlands 4 Steam/PC Issues: 08:46–18:02
• Gearbox responds to spyware claims: 17:46–22:36
• Pokemon Home cross-gen limits: 22:36–26:58
• Naughty Dog Intergalactic details: 30:50–38:15
• Casting speculation for Intergalactic: 38:15–43:31
• Battlefield 6 Battle Royale reveal: 43:31–49:36
• AI voice controversy in Tomb Raider: 49:44–52:04
• We News segment (quickfire updates): 52:10–54:11

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Tone & Style

The hosts maintain their signature banter, sarcasm, and openness. They blend critical gaming analysis with community engagement and in-jokes about coworkers and games media. The tone is lively, occasionally irreverent, and welcoming to newcomer and veteran gamers alike.

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Summary for New Listeners

If you missed the live show, this episode tackles the highly anticipated but technically troubled release of Borderlands 4 on PC, discusses the industry's wider struggles with Unreal Engine 5 optimizations and anti-piracy software, and raises questions about accessibility standards in modern games. It also explores the broader trend of AI voice replacement, major shifts in Pokémon transfer policies, and the biggest gaming news of the day—including in-depth anticipation for Naughty Dog’s next big creative leap. Battle royale fans get a detailed look at how Battlefield 6 is shaking up the genre, and listeners are treated to the usual dose of Kinda Funny camaraderie and unfiltered opinion.

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Transcript

[A]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about. PC gamers are not happy with Borderlands 4. And if you ask me, probably Soap. PC gamers, am I right? Neil Druckmann gives an update on intergalactic. And Battlefield 6's battle royale is finally revealed. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Greg, where do you.

[B]

Where are you playing most of your games on like I mean like, I mean, where did you play Borderlands?

[A]

I played it on a Razer Blade 16.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

That's a.

[B]

That's a personal computer.

[A]

Well, yeah, it's a gaming laptop and I've been using, you know, to your. What you're driving at is. Yes, I play a lot of things on my Rog ally X because I love that. But what I. It's very simple. If it's portable, it's a Vita 2.

[C]

Andy, I'm gonna need you to sniff this man, see if he's been or soap lately.

[A]

I will let you know. I almost walked out of the house not brushing my teeth today. Now granted was at 4:45 in the fucking morning.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But I ran back and brushed my teeth. What's up everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Friday, September 12th. And Steam is very cool. I say this all the time. Xbox game.

[B]

Yeah, I'm gonna need you to sniff this man.

[A]

I'm just saying there's good deals out there too. I was playing a point and click adventure last night.

[B]

Oh wow.

[A]

Games Daily. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside the Hispanic heartthrob Texas Treat. Latino heat. Clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. Globetrotting headshot and three point shooting. Root and tootin Nitro rifle from Twitch tv. Andy Cortez.

[B]

I'm telling you what right now, if I stepped on a basketball court three point contest against Roger, I would give him, I would spot him 80 of the hundred three pointers and I would still beat him.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Crazy.

[A]

Yeah, but I mean Roger rhythm, you know what I mean?

[B]

He's going to be better than me by August of next year. That's his promise.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

He's like in a year I'm going to challenge.

[A]

Has he seen you? Because you're really good at shooting three.

[B]

Pointers but I don't know if he's actually seen himself either.

[A]

Oh, that's the hard part. Yeah, I mean he saw himself try to skip that one.

[B]

Lack of motor skills. Yeah, you know, it's really shocking.

[A]

Andy, how are you feeling? It's 8:48am as we record this. That is roughly an hour before we usually go live. We of course have already reacted to the 6am Nintendo Direct. We've already done a post show review. Gamescast. Are you tired yet?

[B]

No, I feel good, man. I mean a lot of it comes down to going to bed early, you know?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What time I went to bed? Like around 9:50.

[A]

Holy. Yeah, okay. That's early.

[B]

I was really, really kind of early in there. So. Yeah, I woke up feeling good. It was. It was one of those things though where I. I underestimated how long the trip to work actually is because I was like, I should be fine. There's no traffic.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But it really felt like the Nintendo Gods are like every red light you get. Every red light.

[A]

Yeah. You made it though.

[B]

Feel great though. Yeah, I'm feeling awesome.

[A]

Yeah. When I got up I felt it for the artist. There it is.

[B]

But you have a kid.

[A]

Yeah, well, no, that. I mean I think that makes me impervious to think. I think it was just the game SAS post show. I usually get to be like you. I'm a bump on a log. What do you want to know, Tim? I can throw some shit, right? But this one, I was driving it, keeping going and I was still doing my other job where I read the little press release blurbs I get. You know what I mean?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

God forbid Tim get up for this.

[B]

God forbid. Where is he?

[A]

He's a monster. I don't.

[B]

Terrified.

[A]

Of course, if you want our full reaction, you can get it on your games cast feed, whether that be YouTube.com kind of funny games under the Live tab. Some people get very confused under the Live tab or over on your Spotify, Apple or other podcast feeds. You can get it there. Remember of course that this is Kinda Funny Games. Daily, each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about. Live on Twitch TV, kinda funnygames, YouTube.com kinda funnygames and podcast services around the the globe. If you love what we do, pick up a kinda funny membership. Patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple or Spotify. You give us $10 and we give you 80 episodes of ad free content a month. And of course your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Way, which is usually 15 to 20 minutes of me yakking at you about, hey, what's going on? Here's what's happening, blah, blah, blah. Did I do it today? No. Do we have a special guest? Yes. You'll hear about it in a second. Of course, if you're watching live, you have a special job. Keep us honest by going to Condofunny.com you're wrong. Tell us what we screw up as we scre. And of course YouTube super chat to be part of the show. Just like Neon did. There's more there, but it's cut off and sometimes it flips out when I try to expand it. Nope. Neon Mariah. Good day from Sydney, Australia. Lads, I'm moving this weekend and I have so many action figures in Lego. Need all the positive vibes. Love you all.

[B]

Oh gosh, Andy, are they in danger of like breaking and falling?

[A]

We're sending our vibes. We're sending positive vibes.

[B]

Audio listeners. We're holding our hands up.

[A]

I don't think it's so much in terms of. I mean Legos, I guess can. Whatever. It's more like this is a lot of shit to move. Gotta be careful with it.

[B]

Yeah, but moving an action figure that won't break apart into a million pieces, A lot less.

[A]

But it's more like you have them on the stand. You don't have the boxes anymore. You're wrapping them in tissue, putting them in there, I assume.

[B]

It just seems like a nightmare.

[A]

Yeah, no, it's Lego stuff.

[B]

Yeah, I'm sorry.

[A]

Well, Lego just break it up.

[B]

Throwing the books, I mean, but.

[A]

I know, I know. Yeah, of course. Remember, we are an 11 person small business all about live talk shows. You already got our Nintendo direction reaction to review. What?

[B]

Shaggy Sasquatches? Is Tim in Mexico? Is that why we're not talking about it? What happened?

[A]

We don't know where he is. He's on assignment. Timmy's on assignment. You'll hear about it soon enough. We already got the Gamescast. Go watch that. Go listen to it. Get the things there, then the stream after. This is going to be the one, the only blessing. Adio Ye Jr jumping into that new Donkey Kong DLC. That shadow dropped today during the direct. So get out there if you're a kind of funny member. Today's Greg Way is yet another two in one week. It is another cool Greg video game review.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

Cool. Greg is reviewing Gloomy Eyes with Roger today and I'm very excited to hear about that. Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by Shady Rays and Factor.

[B]

Oh, hold on. What's after bless playing Donkey Kong?

[A]

This is the problem with letting Roger build the show. He just ignores the housekeeping channel. You Know, after Donkey Kong DLC stream, you can come to YouTube.com kindafunnygames for the YouTube premiere of the entire Hollow Knight Silksong marathon. Hey, Barry, click the edit video and uppercase that E. That's gonna drive me crazy. And entire.

[B]

People love that. No, people love that.

[C]

I'm also gonna update the game to Silksong and not the original Hollow Knight.

[B]

It's. The game's called Hollow Knight Silksong.

[A]

Yeah, but he's talking with the browse game.

[C]

But the browse game, it says.

[A]

But that's just. That's an auto pull. That's an auto pull. Yeah. Don't get mad at him by.

[B]

Don't get mad at this kid. No, people love lowercase entitles. Look, look, if we want to be big and popular and famous like Alana Pierce, who. She claims I'm her rival. Who. Alana Pierce says that I'm her rival, which is like a great honor for me. But like, that's like saying the 90s cowboys and the Bills are rivals because the Bills lost three times. You know what I mean? Like it. There's no rivalry there. When we look at. Yeah. Alana Pierce has 300,000 views on every video, never a capital letter to be seen. I challenge you to go look for one.

[C]

But, like, if she's doing all lowercase, that's fine. You uppercase everything except entire, because one.

[B]

Or the other noun. I fixed it.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

I. Also, nobody's gonna watch.

[A]

I mean, if you want to.

[B]

I'm.

[A]

I. Here's what I'm saying. If we want to do the Alana method, go in there, lowercase everything. I'm fine.

[B]

People see that and go, wow, this company must be very relaxed.

[A]

They're like, wow, they're in such a hurry to get this. This is like breaking news content. That's how they got it.

[B]

But by the way, it's a six hour marathon video from the last two days of me streaming. It's both days combined into one. So sit, you know, sit back and relax over the weekend after Blessing plays Donkey Kong.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Driving for a long marathon stream again. The cool thing about these YouTube premieres is you can rewind and go back to whatever moments you want to watch, and you can go see all the. The stunning stuff that happens, including.

[A]

Nailed it.

[B]

You know, Mike and Roger maybe going to a food truck and maybe asking the dude there to flip food into their mouths.

[A]

They do it.

[C]

I hate it all.

[A]

You crush it. That's great. That. That's. I bet it's going to do better because of that. Thank you, Alana.

[B]

Looks good.

[A]

Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by Shady Raisin Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Time for some new five items on the Roper Report.

[C]

Baker's Dozen.

[A]

Number 1A Roger has done a 1A and at least a 1B. Borderlands 4 is getting clobbered on Steam with negative reviews this is Blair Barn Martin Blair Marnell at Gamespot I've been up for a long time. I'm sorry everybody. I've been talking even longer. Borderlands 4 has been one of the most anticipated games of the year. It launched on Steam earlier this week with over 175,000 concurrent players. Note from Roger the all time steam peak is now 207,479 as of 12 hours ago, the highest all time peak for any Borderlands game. Back to Blair. However, the game's negative reviews on Steam are also piling up and the most common complaints come down to Borderlands 4's poor performance on PC. Steam user Satan Clause We've been up too long to be listening to Satan Claus calls Borderlands 4 quote the unholy trio of pricing Unreal Engine 5 and Den Uvo. What is that?

[B]

Denuvo? I have no idea what that is.

[A]

Although Satan Claus calls the title quote the best borderlands since 2 Anti cheat piracy software with praise for the writing, gunplay and world. He added that none of that quote none of that matters when you can't play for more than 10 minutes without a hitch, a crash, or your frames falling off a cliff. It's like locking a gourmet meal behind a glass case and handing us a plastic fork. End quote Rage cited Borderlands force terrible optimization and noted that it's quote not worth buying in its current state unless you have a NASA PC. End quote Nate left a positive review.

[B]

I misread this and I thought the next sentence was NASA left a positive review.

[A]

Nate left a positive review but still feels he needs to mention that quote it is. It really is frustrating even even me with a 4070 Ti super can barely get 60 frames with upscaling. This is a cartoon game fix optimization with a few updates and I think it could be really good. But wow, this may be some of the worst optimization ever. End quote Time period notes that quote the PC version is nearly unplayable with an 7900 xtx and an Ryzen 7 9800x3D8 core CPU at lowest settings on 1080p. I am getting stutters and screen tears constantly due to not buy until these issues are fixed. Gearbox has responded to a handful of negative reviews with links for optimizing Nvidia card graphics settings and a PC troubleshooting guide. It's also worth noting that there are a lot of positive Reviews for Borderlands 4 on Steam as well, and the game currently has a mixed review rating. The PC specs for Borderlands 4 were reshared earlier this week with recommendation settings and minimum requirements. GameSpot's Borderlands 4 review scored the game at 7 out of 10 on PC and described it as the most mechanically sound Borderlands game to date. End quote. The game is out now for Xbox, PlayStation and PC, but Switch 2 owners will have to wait until October 3rd to get their hands on it. Andy hey Greg. Of course PC codes were the only ones provided for us. Snow Mike Mike talked a little bit about this in the review. We didn't beat it over the dead Horse because of the amount of updates and patches this game got during reviews, but it was at one time running horribly for all of us. Patches did get it up to running fine. However, this and this is funny if you watch the thing and I was like it's not an ad. I was using the Razer Blade 16 with a 5090 in it. A beefy gaming laptop.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And the most common refrain in the office was, Greg, that that sounds like it's about to take the fuck off. Because that computer was constantly and it's like I don't know shit about gaming PCs, so please step in. If I'm wrong, I don't blame the PC because other things I've played on it don't sound like that. In our quiet borderlands4, you had to sit down and tweak stuff and work on it and all this different stuff.

[B]

And Mike was and it was still barely okay. Yeah, you know, that's kind of one of the main problems we've seen where we had a not great stream yesterday that was immediately kind of cut off after we realized what was happening on the PC.

[A]

I was going to say run me through that because we've tried the I've seen Kevin and Barrett feel it like slam their head against the wall for weeks now trying to get Borderlands to run in the lab.

[B]

Yeah, it's the type of game I can tell already that is. It doesn't really seem like whatever machine you have is going to help out the situation a whole lot. It even seems like the type of game where it doesn't really matter a whole lot of what settings you're doing. You could drop shit to low or to high and you're going to get maybe from 48 frames to 59. Sort of like that's kind of the range we're seeing. The nice thing about tech like Nvidia and stuff that AMD does with, you know, their up sampling and things like that, you have frame generation on DLSS4 which adds frames, which is nice. Those aren't real frames, but it does make the gameplay smoother. However, you never want that to be a band Aid solution. And I do worry that devs nowadays are maybe rushing games out and then going, all right, the band aid will maybe cure for now and then we'll try to update the game, you know, as best as possible until then. But yeah, it does seem like it's just really, really bad optimization in moments where I'm, I have a 4090 GPU with a, a Core i9 very, very good CPU and it is still not doing great performance wise. You know, I can't really go much higher than 70 frames per second in certain spots unless I am doing all the, the Nvidia sort of bells and whistles. And I, I think a lot of it just comes down to I, you know, it reminds me of when I played Returnal with blessing on PC for the first time. Okay, when it came to PC and when he joined my party, suddenly it was like, oh, now the game's not running great. And I wonder if the, the online nature of it is maybe messing with it. But a lot of it definitely has to do, in my opinion, with just optimization and how many games we've seen struggle with Unreal Engine 5. And then you have people at Epic and people working on Unreal going, it just requires more optimization and you just kind of got to give it more love, which is not great because games cost a lot of money and take a lot of time to get made. And we'll eventually get to a spot where maybe these Unreal Engine games, Unreal Engine 5 games are shipping and launching a bit more smoothly. But this seems to be just another drop in the bucket of here's another one, another bad Unreal Engine 5 launch game.

[A]

Yeah, well, that sucks. Yeah, again, like, you know, you know, we reviewed it here, obviously. Check out that gamescast from yesterday. You know, Mike's having fun with it. I. But not a lot of it's up and down. But I know Metacritic and so many other reviews out there are really, really enjoying it. So the fact that it's just getting hammered. My question as someone who obviously PC games more than ever, but is a console guy at heart, like I really wonder what the performance is on Xbox is on PlayStation. Like we were not provided those for review until last night. We got codes after the fact, but I've been onto something else. I can't. And then the Switch version, if that's going to even be fucking worried or if it's just a PC problem with so many configurations.

[B]

It does seem like there seems to be a lot of. It seems like a very CPU heavy game as well.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Which is always worrisome because you know that no matter how powerful my GPU is, that I spent so many, so much money on it can't out horsepower, the sort of core of the problem here. And there are plenty of times as we were kind of testing out streams yesterday, running into new zones and you would see the CPU spike to 100% usage and there would be gigantic stutters.

[C]

And that's why we're having our streaming problems yesterday. Because you know, OBS is also trying to use the CPU and all this stuff. So it's like, like really hard to.

[B]

Get that all working. Yeah, fast traveling. You know, I asked Mike, Mike, how do I fast travel and get out of this area that I'm in right now? And he showed me how to fast travel back to the main hub and then had to recompile shaders and it's like, whoa, this just doesn't seem as prepared as I thought it should be for a launch.

[A]

Speaking of Resolute super chats and says, I am struggling to play Borderlands 4 due to motion sickness from no FOV slider. Friend friend I wanted to play with had a refund due to performance. I have a plat in every Borderlands game and this is really disappointing.

[B]

No console FOV slider that, that does stink. Hopefully that's something you could see get added later.

[A]

Something I meant to bring up but you know, we got all over the place yesterday and I of course am not an accessibility expert, but I thought the accessibility settings in Borderlands were laughable. Like for 2025 to have a section called Accessibility and go in there and for it to be as bare bones as it was because I was having trouble of like some of the stuff with enemies, I was like, God, I could really go for a border around the enemy. So I could see where they and like that's not even remotely there. It was like, you know, do colors for what? They just change the colors of things on maps and whatever. Like that's not really what we're talking about here.

[B]

Yeah, the cel shaded nature doesn't lend itself great to visibility. Things do get kind of noisy in some spots.

[A]

Let's stick with this borderland stuff. First, story number 1B Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox insists it game its games do not use spyware amid concerns about take two terms of service this is Vicki [e-mail] Gearbox has issued a statement in response to claims Borderland for Borderlands 4 uses spyware amid renewed concern over Parrot Co. Take Two's terms of service after a similar Whoa, look at this.

[B]

Look at this noun.

[A]

Furor.

[B]

Furor.

[A]

Oh, fervor. No, that's not. Give me. Huh?

[B]

Furor is a British spelling of furor. It means a public uproar, commotion or intense bubble up.

[A]

In June, the company reiterated that while it understands there has been some concern about Take Two's terms of service, it stressed that, quote, maintaining transparency and confidence with the community here is always our goal and we wanted to address some of these concerns. Take Two does not use spyware in its games, the statement began. Take Two's privacy and policy applies to all labels, studios, games and services across all media and platform types, such as console, PC, mobile, app and website. The privacy policy identifies the data activities that may be collected, but this does not mean that every example is collected in each game or service. Take Two provides this information to ensure transparency with players as well as to comply with legal obligations. Gearbox insisted. For example, player and device identifiers are collected in part to ensure the game is compatible with each player's media, platform or website browser type, it continued. It allows us to better understand how players play games and to personalize the user experience. Parentheses like having username show up. Account credentials are collected from users who choose to create accounts with Take two and its labels, end quote. The statement also touched upon abusive mods, which seems to be a catch all term for hacks, cheats or exploits. Consequently, Take Two's terms of service prohibit mods that allow users to gain an unfair advantage, negatively impact the ability of others to enjoy games as they intend, or allow users to gain access to content that the user is not entitled to. We do this to protect the integrity of the game experience for all users. Take 2 generally does not seek to take action against mods that are single player only, non commercial, and respect the intellectual property rights of its labels. And third Parties. End quote.

[B]

You're not gonna see any Beavis and Butthead running around this world.

[A]

Oh no, that's what I wanted. Andy, were you concerned about your privacy?

[B]

No, not at all. I never am, Greg, but there generally have been problems with a lot of anti cheat softwares messing with how the games can run.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And yeah, I hadn't even considered something like an anti piracy. I said anti cheer. I mean anti piracy. That this denuvo anti piracy software could possibly be ruining some people's, you know, performance and adding extra hitches where there shouldn't be. Yeah, yeah. I mean a lot of this stuff is kind of. It just seems like it's to be expected nowadays and it's more of a surprise whenever. Whenever things come out and are performing better. Very, very odd.

[A]

Resolute says this was in the super chat. This was added all old games and has been criticized for months. And to my knowledge this is the first time 2k/gearbox is spoken about.

[B]

Now, do they mean all old Borderlands games?

[A]

I think, I think they. Well, Resolute, you could be clear. You could clarify if you want. I assume you meant all old 2k games since this is a 2k policy, but.

[B]

Right. I would also love to see.

[C]

I'm trying to find the actual article because I want to see what in the privacy policy, like what in the verbiage is making people think this as well.

[B]

Resolute does say yes, Borderlands. What I would love to see is some modders give you similar to what we did with Elden Ring.

[A]

The.

[B]

When we played Elden Ring Seamless or whatever.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

Where you. You aren't using their servers because playing online with like mods and hacks, you know, Elden Ring doesn't like that. Similar to what 2K is doing here with Borderlands. We're saying, well, we don't want to make the experience worse for other people online so you kind of join your own little lobbies. I would love to see if maybe anything like that helps the experience for people. I think back to when Dragon's Dogma 2 came out and how not great that ran on PC. And then mods would help the experience and you know, allow the game to kind of circumvent certain, you know, walls that are put up to perform certain tasks but also add to bad performance. I wonder if anything like that can happen in the future.

[A]

We will have to wait and see alongside these patches to see how they do to make everything run. But while we wait for that, the one, the only kebabs breaks in with breaking news sends us to Blue sky where and I've seen this. This is the Pokemon site. What is Serebi? Is that how you say it's the.

[B]

Japanese pronunciation for Celebi. The Pokemon named Celebi.

[A]

Thank you, Serebi. Blue Skies. That's BS Tim. An update that says Serebi update. Pokemon sent to Pokemon Legend Za will no longer be able to be used in prior Pokemon games. Pokemon from Legend Za will also not be able to be deposited in other Pokemon games. This is the end of the line for your Pokemon if you throw them in here.

[C]

Rest in peace, Pokemon Home.

[B]

I feel like I've been waiting for this day for a while. Like this always felt like an inevitability.

[A]

You're cheating by bringing in Pokemon.

[B]

Well, no, I just always felt like you can't keep this up. You can't possibly, as a company, keep up all of this. Or maybe they can. And maybe this is just a way bear to start home too. Or I don't know what the hell, but it just always felt like you're doing a lot here to try to make all of these games cross compatible with the Pokemon going to. And this just felt like, when will it end? You know?

[A]

So as you know, I'm the new generation of Pokemon fans, okay? I'm the new generation of Pokemon reviewers. So I understand all of this to a level. But what I'm gonna say what I know, you tell me where I'm right, where I'm wrong. All right? The idea here is right now, I got this Altaria, right? Level 100 Savior of Pokemon Violet for me.

[B]

Oh, really? Congratulations.

[A]

Oh, I thought you were on this gamescast with me. I'm sorry. No, I do. So now I. Maybe I send her to home and I can bring her into. Let's just remove this breaking news right now. I can bring her into the next Pokemon game and she'll be a level 100. Or she just. I just have.

[C]

I forget how that works.

[B]

I've never tried it. I just know that they're transferring.

[A]

So the idea is then I'm doing this so that in the next game I can pick up my Pokedex and continue to fill in what I. I haven't caught.

[B]

Pokemon Home is a cloud based service designed as a place where all your Pokemon gather, manage your Pokemon. You can bring Pokemon that have appeared in a Pokemon core game series to Pokemon Home.

[A]

So this is again the new generation. We're not like you old Pokeheads, all right? We're new Pokeheads.

[B]

You know, in this New generation, we can't afford homes anymore.

[A]

The Pokemon lease, I just, I don't. This is gonna sound goofy. I guess I don't get the draw of that. When I start a new Pokemon game, I want to get my starter and start from the start from the bottom. Now we're here, right. I want to build a team and have a new thing and yada, yada, yada.

[B]

Like, I think a lot of it comes down to maybe people doing competitive type stuff.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I did see a comment of the Switch chat that may have been enlightening in a way that I would love some more. Deep dive into where they said Pokemon Champions is ruining everything. And Pokemon Champions is that just kind of stadium looking versus game. And yeah, I've. Again, this is. It's never drawn me because I'm the type of person where every new game is a new adventure.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But I'm not the type of person who has poured hours and hours and hours into the. The IVs and making sure that, you know, it's. Its nature is bold. And I'm trying to make it stronger and faster or whatever. I've never been that type of gamer. You and I, very similar to where we played as an rpg.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Competitively going from game to game.

[A]

Melkan va vaath says, Greg, it's like a pet you've had for 20 years. Now they're telling you it's dead.

[C]

Well, no, you can bring it to Za, but if you bring it to.

[A]

Za and the line. Yeah, yeah, maybe you just come to za. You be an adult like me. In the new generation Pokemon fans, we start, we battle in the streets with who we find.

[C]

Corey Cutney says, oh, didn't they get rid of EV slash IVs in this one? Maybe that's why.

[A]

Maybe.

[B]

Oh, I'd like to think that you bring it into Pokemon Z to A and then that Pokemon's like, all right, when do I go home? Oh, man, I got bad news to tell you.

[A]

Maybe what's really happened.

[B]

Families over there.

[A]

Well, I guess that wouldn't happen with the transfers back and forth. I was gonna say, maybe what's really happening is Gen 10 is gonna be so crazy that this is it starting fresh.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Gen or Gen 10 has everything, so you don't need a transfer.

[A]

Everything is here.

[B]

The first Pokemon game built from the ground up with the Switch 2 in mind. Think about it.

[A]

I think about it. I get pretty excited about it. I'd love to see it.

[B]

Those textures will be less tiled and repeated. Don't get your hopes up too much.

[A]

I have my hopes up and my excitement up for a little game called Intergalactic the Heretic Prophecy. But I want to talk about that after I remind you about Kind of funny membership options. Patreon.com kind of funny YouTube.com/kind of funny games. Apple and Spotify. You can be a kind of funny member. You can get all of our shows ad free. You can support an 11 person small business. You can get your daily dose of me in a series we call Greg Way. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors.

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[B]

Greg a great super chat.

[A]

He's still blackout and he starts talking like I gotta reset.

[B]

Great super chat here from Mr. Ox.

[A]

Mr. Ox 76, super fan.

[B]

What if this is just a thing for a Z to A in order to keep a closed world and to tell very specific story? I think that's a good point. Yeah, I. I would hope. That's why I hope that this isn't a signal for the future of home.

[A]

I hope they get out in front of it like they are.

[C]

I think if that were the case, I feel like you would just make Z to A not home compatible at all, you know.

[B]

Very possible.

[A]

Remember no. 2? Apparently according to Midler.

[B]

No. 2.

[A]

No dash z dash A Z A Jordan Midler. You missed this too.

[B]

Yeah, I thought. I thought Tim, like confirmed it.

[A]

I thought so too, but then no. Jordan Midler sent a very angry WhatsApp message to me. Oh yeah, Fucking galaxy.

[C]

Maybe it's region based.

[A]

It may be. It might be. It might. Z a number two on the Roper Report. Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann discusses intergalactic gameplay and casting in a new interview. This is Wesley LeBlanc over at game Informer. In a new interview with Variety, Druckmann discussed a number of things about intergalactic, including casting. Ooh. Tati Gabrielle nailed it as the game's lead. Jordan A. Munn working with Joel. Actor Troy Baker again casting the Last Of Us, Season 2 actor Tony Dalton, who played Joel's dad and more.

[B]

Tony Dalton. God, I love him.

[A]

Perhaps the most revealing statement from Druckmann came when Variety asked him about his description of intergalactic as having, quote, the deepest gameplay end quote in Naughty Dog history. Quote. You can look at our previous titles and see the evolution going from Uncharted, where we're really cutting our teeth on a realistic character action game, the third person shooter combined with emotional storytelling. Druckmann said. With the Last of Us, we added some RPG elements. We started playing with wide linear layouts, continue that trajectory forward, add sci fi and you start to get a sense of what we're doing. And then we've gotten even more ambitious than that. When asked about Gabrielle's casting, Druckmann explains Naughty Dog had an idea of who protagonist Jordan is as a character, but via documents and backstories, scripts and Gameplay come much later as the team wants the space to run experiments and prototypes and then see what works and what doesn't and so on. We were kind of at that stage when we started talking to Gabrielle. Truckman told Variety. That came about because we had cast her in season two of the Last of Us and just got the idea that she might be perfect for this role. Then she showed up. She came by Naughty Dog. I pitched her the story as it was at the time and kind of walked through it beginning, middle, end, and explained what her role would be. I asked her if she'd be willing to audition and she was. We had her on stage and I asked Troy to come in and read with her. So she read against Troy Baker. We were just very confident that that is our Jordan A. Munn. End quote. Druckmann says since then he's been writing with Gabriella. Okay, I'm not fucking crazy.

[B]

What?

[A]

It keeps going back and forth. Introduce Tati. Gabrielle nailed it. And then it was like Gabrielle and now it's Gabriella. So I'm just getting. That's why I'm like second guessing a name I wasn't confident in and why I keep fucking switching Gabriel. Something he did with Ellie. Actor Ashley Johnson in Baker when making the Last of Us. Quote, Gabrielle's been just as influential in the writing and the thinking of this character, her arc, and I believe she's going to be very iconic and complex and interesting in the Naughty Dog tradition. Speaking of Baker, Druckman says, quote, Troy is in the game and it's been five years since I've worked with Troy and I've got to do it again. And I've got to do it again. And it was a lot of fun to be on the stage with him again. The final piece of casting information from this interview is about Dalton. Druckmann says after working with him on episode 206, you know, 206, probably Last of Us, where he played Joel's dad, he DMed him on Instagram to ask if he'd jump into a zoom call to check out Intergalactic. Quote quote we jumped on a zoom call and I showed him parts of the game and I talked to him about it. Druckmann says, quote he's like, yeah, I'm in. I'd love to do that. So Tony Dalton is there and maybe a few more of the actors from season one or season two of the Last of Us. Intergalactic the Heretic Prophet is due out on PlayStation 5, though there's no word on when to expect the game the.

[B]

Goat, Lalo Salamanca Barrett. Oh, my God. Tony Dalton's just one of my favorites.

[A]

He was in Hawkeye.

[B]

Oh, he was. Yeah.

[C]

That's very fun in that show.

[A]

That's my touchstone for this man. So who.

[B]

What's the character in. In Better Call Saul. Better Call Saul.

[A]

One of the greatest shows of all time.

[C]

Yeah. When he gets introduced, he's kind of like. I would equate, like that show's version of Gus Fring, where he comes in as this like, villain for like the second half of the show.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And he is just. He is so fucking good.

[B]

His performance is amazing. This all sounds super exciting though, Greg, to talk about the amount of budget and time that goes into these games and how massive they are gameplay wise. And we've seen and been impressed by so much of the stuff that Last of Us two did, gameplay wise. To think that they want to go even further with that in ways that, I don't know, are maybe more interactive or. I'm excited to see what they can do mechanically with this because it seems like, holy shit, they are going all out with whatever this project is they're working on.

[A]

Of course, yeah. Last of Us to what? A stealth game. I'd love to see that gameplay expanded beyond, you know, the linear environments of what we are doing and see what they do that I like. My ears perk up when he talks about. With the Last of Us, we added some RPG elements. Right. And then gone continue that trajectory forward. I'm like, huh, I wonder what we're gonna get there in terms of what RPG mechanics will be inside Intergalactic, which I would see more of, which us, with us being this character in a spaceship going off and doing all this different stuff.

[B]

When. When we had interviews of him, like in the past couple of years, talking about the storytelling of FromSoftware games and how Bloodborne is like really special to him in Elden Ring and stuff like that. And how they have experienced, I think, masterful ways to tell stories without just being front facing. Here's a cutscene and everything that from software does with environmental storytelling. While I was streaming a game the other day, someone made the best call. I was playing Hellosaurus and someone said, I bet you Intergalactic will kind of have a lot of elements. Not like they're being influenced, but this is what I would expect for an intergalactic type game where it is sort of action with this hacking and slashing and things like that. But okay, in terms of what they were talking about with environmental storytelling, and how. Okay, I think Hell is Us is much less handholdy and much less direct. Right. You know, you're not getting cutscenes all the damn time. I expect that in intergalactic heretic prophecy. But I do expect a lot of more kind of obtuse puzzle and storytelling stuff that aren't just kind of. All right, this is part of the main story.

[A]

I was gonna say you'd have the golden path, but there'll be the weird to get off on side missions and stuff like that. I like that.

[B]

That sounds so.

[A]

Damn, that sounds awesome. Yeah. And that's the thing about a studio as talented as Naughty Dog having so much history and so much experience. To see them do a new IP where it really does. You're no longer beholden to what people think an Uncharted game should be. What people think a Last of Us game can. Should be. You can make a new thing, you can come out and you can tell this space story you want to go do. I like that a lot.

[B]

I mean, just in that one glimpse, my initial thought was, oh, they're gonna make like a character sword action game. You know, hacking and slashing.

[A]

And slashing.

[B]

Loving that sort of punishing gameplay where if. If you try this super heavy charged attack, you're stuck in that animation and you better hope that the enemy doesn't attack you while you're doing it. Yeah, but like to mix that in, if she's got a laser gun too, I just like. Oh my. So pumped up for what they can do. And to see what a gameplay style like that, with the budget and time of Naughty Dog, what that can equate to, could be really exciting.

[A]

So moving from gameplay, the final statement here. So Tony Dalton is in there, and maybe there's a few more. And this is in brackets of actors from season one or season two of the Last of Us, Andy Cortez, who from seasons one and two, from the Last of Us are you predicting are in this game?

[B]

I gotta assume it's like Abby's crew. Some of Abby's crew.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. So you're. So you're not gonna say.

[B]

I'm saying no Pedro, no Bella.

[A]

I will. I will throw out there. Remember in the ship we have a little image of Kumail. So. And I'm not saying. I'm just saying, like, I think, no, I don't want Camille plays games, I guess. But I remember this photo of Neil and Pedro getting food. Now, granted, I mean, whatever they're talking about last, it was probably at the time The TV show. But they're close. They're homies. They're getting lunches in la.

[B]

I did see that one quote of Pedro looking at you and being like, do you not like art? So I don't know if they're cool. I don't know if they are cool. All right, hear me out.

[C]

This is gonna be the same as my 007 actor prediction.

[B]

I was wrong for that.

[C]

But hear me out. Josh Peck.

[A]

I dislike you.

[B]

He's in the TV show.

[A]

No.

[B]

Is he not?

[C]

He was in season two.

[A]

He was. Yeah, you're right.

[B]

Oh, wait, really? I never finished season two.

[A]

Remember? He was in the. He was in the. The. The APC or whatever with Isaac.

[B]

APC is getting a lot of love this year. Hell is us.

[A]

Damn. Sorry, Bear. That was just such a clever callback to an old joke that I just. You're right. I got so. I saw. I love you. Josh Beck's in it, guaranteed. Take it to the bank. Gabriel Luna. Is he going to be in it? I'm gonna. I'll just go down the list. So you're saying no Bell and no Pedro.

[B]

Gabriel Luna.

[A]

That's a good call, right?

[B]

Holy shit. That would be awesome.

[A]

Next one for you. So are you saying yes or no? This is just. I want to.

[B]

Gabriel Luna. Yes.

[A]

Okay. Barrett, you wanna play the game, too?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Chat. Write this down, because I'm not gonna remember Gabriel Luna.

[C]

I'm gonna guess no.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Jeffrey Wright.

[A]

Oh, no. I'm going on. We're doing a game here.

[B]

Sorry, Sorry.

[A]

So I guess we should all play. So. So you said no to Bella.

[B]

There's only two controllers. Sorry.

[A]

Okay, final quiz. Barrett, is Bella in?

[C]

Bella Ramsey. Ramsey.

[B]

No.

[A]

I'm going to say yes to Bella. I'm going to say no to Pedro. Do you say yes or no to Pedro, Barrett?

[B]

No.

[A]

I'm going to say yes to Gabriel Luna. We should have probably limited our amounts of yeses, but I don't know. I'm saying yes to Gabriel.

[B]

I'm saying yes to Gabriel.

[A]

And you said yes to Gabriel. Barrett.

[C]

I said no.

[A]

Okay? You said no.

[B]

No to Nick Offerman.

[A]

I'm going down the fucking list.

[B]

There's two controllers.

[A]

Isabella Merced. Hawk girl herself.

[B]

No.

[C]

I'm gonna say yes.

[A]

See, I'm inclined to say yes because he put up an Instagram not long ago of giving her a tour of the studio. Now, again, just fan of. I mean, if I was in la, if I. If I was working on the show, and Neil's my director. He's like, I also fucking make amazing video games. I'd come see it. Yeah, I'll say yes.

[B]

And that's an easy.

[C]

Like get scanned in. You're a, you know, background npc, fun little Easter egg.

[A]

That'd be amazing. It's just one throwaway line in the back. Like, oh, man, that's a cool spaceship.

[B]

That's what they used.

[A]

They paid her rate for that. Now, here we go, young man. This is Jesse, who everybody loves in this show. I could definitely see Jesse having a real good park.

[B]

Give me a yes there. Yeah, mark me down for a big old yes.

[C]

Oh, yeah, Jesse.

[A]

Rutina Wesley. Maria, Tommy's wife in this one. She runs the town, remember? I'm going to say no. I love Tara from True Blood, but I just don't vibe with that one.

[C]

I don't see it.

[B]

I'm gonna say no as of now, but maybe the caster later. This feels like one of those we'll hear. Be hearing castings about for the next three or four years.

[A]

I can speed it up. Like, Robert John Burke pops up. Who's Seth, who I think sees the. He was the homophobe, right?

[B]

Oh, right.

[A]

I. I say, yeah, I say he's in there. He's gonna get. He'll be a bartender in space and give you some kind of mission or whatever. Caitlyn Dever?

[B]

No. Yes.

[A]

Yes. I think so, too.

[C]

She was an Uncharted 4.

[A]

Exactly. She's already worked it. She's already done the goddamn thing.

[B]

She was an Uncharted 4.

[C]

Yeah, she was the spoilers. She's Nathan Drake's.

[B]

Oh, shit.

[A]

The final one. I'll toss out why you wanted Nick Offerman.

[B]

Yeah, I would say no to Nick.

[A]

See, I say no to Nick Offerman, but the guy who was his lover, who's. I don't know. I'm not seeing it pulled up right.

[C]

Away, but again, Jeffrey Wright. I'm gonna say yes.

[A]

Yeah, Jeffrey. Well, I'm gonna say no to Jeffrey Wright just because they just used him in Last of Us.

[B]

I think Jeffrey Wright was like. I experienced a lot of racism with the Batman and I know how the gaming community can be. I'm good.

[A]

I don't need to be bigger. Final one I' out there, Neil. I know you listen to the show. I know you can make things happen. Get Catherine o' Hara in this. She fucking is my favorite part of season two. Get her in this goddamn game. The therapist, if you are unfamiliar person listening or watching.

[C]

I'm just saying. Jeffrey Wright is also in Dispatch, that superhero video game that got announced last year. I think he's just getting more into video games so I could see him.

[A]

Doing get him on the show. Bear.

[B]

All right, so like is the Switch 2 worth it? Like.

[A]

I can't do a good Jeffrey Wright impression, but he's got a really good voice, so imagine him being like, but they come out with this Kirby air ride, you know what I mean? Some shit like that. Number three on the Roper Report EA finally unveils Battlefield 6's battle royale mode Testing begins this week. The shrinking ring insta kills you and destruction will be everywhere. This is Jordan gerblick over at GamesRadar Plus, EA has officially announced Battlefield 6's long rumored battle Royale mode and it's coming to Battlefield Labs this week. Battle Royale the Battlefield way, as EA bills it, was revealed in a News post on EA's official website with an in depth breakdown of its features. We see a great opportunity to infuse the core Battlefield pillars of class based squad play, tactical destruction and vehicle combat into the Battle Royale genre to create a high stakes and adrenaline pumping gameplay experience, says ea. This is Battlefield's twist on the classic formula, so you can expect to find all the core principles of Battlefield taking place within the mode. Gadgets, explosives, destructible environments and vehicles can all be used to secure the win. The battle royale's map has been tailor made for 100 player rounds split into 25 four player squads and features a diverse array of tactical points of interest, each with distinct layouts and themes that offer unique gameplay opportunities. There will be common transport vehicles scattered around the map in order to help players explore the map more efficiently in the early stages of the game when the ring around it is at its biggest, as well as creating interesting combined arms actions in the process. EA says destruction will be everywhere in this mode in that players will be able to create pathways through walls and even topple buildings using various gadgets and explosives in destructible environments. We look forward to seeing players ingenuity with destruction and how they use it to defeat their opponents. The highlight and most unique feature of this Battle Royale is the shrinking ring itself, which EA says is the most dangerous ring in gaming to Battle Royale that instantly kills players upon contact. You'll know when the ring is approaching thanks to an on screen warning, but if you don't heed that warning, you end up caught in its grip. You are done. There's no jumping in and out of it, no using it for cover, no walking through it. EA says the actual meat of the gameplay sounds like Pretty standard battle royale fair where players drop down, explore the map, complete missions, and fight for loot as the circle around the map pushes everyone into closer and closer quarters. This one has five tiers of weapons as well as attachments, explosives, gadgets like RPGs, airstrikes, armor, and custom drops of favorited weapons. Battlefield 6 will let four player squads decide whether they want a balanced team of four different classes or a focused one where everyone's the same class. That said, once you've chosen your classes, they're locked in for the duration of the match. As you work your way around the map, defeat enemies and complete mission objectives, you'll level up through your class's unique training and earn new traits that enhance the class. One example would be the assault class being faster in equipping an armor plate, which makes them harder to defeat in the next or current fight, EA says. The publisher also says it'll be keeping an eye on how squads choose to navigate classes and build for balance, there's too many games. Greg, does this one sound awesome though? Andy, you are a big battle rail.

[B]

I'm. I'm so excited for this one. I don't really vibe with Battlefield as a whole gameplay wise and I, I do want to really try to get good at being a medic in just the normal mode because I saw some medic gameplay. I was like, that seems like a really cool challenge. You're just constantly just trying to survive and you see seven people down, you.

[A]

Just go, I'm doing the best I can.

[B]

It seems like a really kind of fun way to play the game. But this is where you really get me. This is where I. I love the rush and excitement of a battle royale mode. I love the way the guns feel and look in battle. Battlefield 6. This. This. They're saying everything right so far. That's awesome. I like that. The wall will insta kill you. I like that.

[A]

Yeah, that's a cool. That's. I like that. That's.

[B]

I know that some people will be against that initially and I'm sure all you could just play this, you know, video back whenever. I do inevitably complain and go, let me walk through it. Come on. Like.

[C]

But it.

[B]

I think that is a. A neat way to distinguish yourself a bit more from other battle royales. And it's been a while since we've just had a battle. That guy went on like a really racist tyrant one time. Yeah. In the rgv. He was playing show in the RGV and it wasn't great.

[A]

What did he say? Well, I guess you can't say, but it was he against. I think it was, like, Mexicans.

[B]

I think it was anti man Mexican. Yeah. This is totally. Maybe I'm just making up. I don't know if I'm making up.

[A]

What's up, rgv?

[B]

What's going on here? I have been wanting a mode like this for a while from. And especially at this budget. I loved playing the short time that we got to play the finals and seeing that sort of race against the clock gameplay with all of that destruction, all of these elements being put together is a really cool sort of like, recipe.

[A]

Yeah. The punching through walls and knocking down buildings. I'll be really interested to see how that plays. What that looks like. Is that contained. You know what I mean? Like, there's a specific thing you can use on specific buildings that do it rather than just everything. But there's a lot they're saying in there. That sounds interesting. That sounds like it could be really cool.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, singer responded to somebody. I'm sorry. I don't know how to speak Spanish. I'm American.

[A]

Oof. Do we have a. What is Battlefield's release date?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

Battlefield 6. Do we have that? Because October 10th. God damn, that's right.

[B]

I also just wasn't expecting. I guess it is so close and the year is going by so insanely quick that I was expecting to wait a bit longer for this, but the last test we had of this was several weeks ago, even though to me it feels like it was five days ago.

[A]

We will wait and see. I'm sure y' all will be streaming it at some point in there and doing your dang thing. Number four.

[B]

You want me to read this? You got this?

[A]

No, I got it. Why?

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Because I had a little coffee. No, I'm okay. Number four on the rope report, a French Lara Croft actor is taking action against Asper over AI Spire. Thank you so much, AI Voice Generation. This is Rihanna Brevin over at the gamer. Tomb Raider 4/4 to 6 Remastered has been the source of controversy since its launch, as fans suspected that some of the dubbed voiceovers in the game were generated with AI. Worse yet, it was suspected that the AI was made to imitate the actors who voiced Lara Croft in the original releases of these games rather than bring them back to record new lines. Now one of these actors is taking action, as reported by Le Parisian actor Francois Cadol, who has dubbed for Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, and others. Sandy Bullock has issued a cease and desist against ASPIRE Aspire. Why'd I say Aspire? Aspire. God, it's been a long day of talking. Cadal accuses Aspire of using AI to copy her voice without notifying her or even warning fans that the game contained AI voice acting. Therefore, her lawsuit alleges that Aspire is misleading. Consumers who were angry discover that her voice may have been cloned. French fans spotted this last month and notified Cadal that her voice may have been AI generated in the remasters. True enough. The before and after comparisons put together by fans are damning as the voice sounds so much like her, but noticeably worse quality, both in terms of the acting and the actual audio quality. Oh, there's no. Roger said we could edit it down. God damn. Go get them. Fuck those people. Fuck that. That sucks.

[B]

Doing that without, like. I mean, just doing it a period, but hoping to get by. Like, I can't imagine her, like, hearing this news that totally, like, what a punch in the gut.

[A]

That's got to be that, man.

[B]

Yeah, go get your money.

[A]

I appreciate this. Kadal expresses her gratitudes to the. Her gratitude to the fans who have been pushing back against this quote. I call them the guardians of the voices. She says, very quickly, these buyers of the compo, these buyers of the com compilation realized that the voice of Lara Croft, who gives gameplay instructions, was not mine. It caused a real uproar among the community. Good job, fans. Yeah, good job, her. And knock it off as fucking bullshit AI garbage. Pay people to do their goddamn jobs. Got him. But me being mad is big news.

[B]

You're big mad.

[A]

If I wanted smaller news, say what small news was in the mom and grop new shops, where would it go?

[B]

You'd go to our last story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

[A]

Last story we news Slay the Spire 2 has been delayed till March 2026. Roger now has an opening in Fantasy Critic. What will Mike and him draft be? Afraid, Barrett?

[B]

I'll be so afraid. The stuff that I've been learning in the last 72 hours. Yeah, what?

[A]

What?

[C]

Remaster that they're trying to sell as a remake.

[B]

Is it exciting stuff?

[A]

Can anyone stop Paris? I can't see the question.

[B]

Baird, you should be here. We're cheating.

[A]

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Integrated, arrives on Nintendo Switch to Xbox Series X and s and Xbox PC and PC on January 22, 2026. That's not all. The remake trilogy will also be making its way to Switch 2, the Xbox series, PC as well as PlayStation 5, Steam and Epic games Store. We have a breaking news here. Blessing on bs. That's Blue Sky Tim. If Roger and Mike get banned from the 2026 fantasy league, I need you all to understand it was Roger and Mike's fault.

[B]

Lol.

[A]

I love a good cheating scandal. Go get him guys too. I'm not gonna win. So whatever PlayStation plus games have been announced. PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium will get WWE 2K25 on PS5 and PS4 Persona 5 Tactica on PS5, PS4 Green Hell on PS5, PS4 Fate slash Samurai Remnant, PS5, PS4 Crow Count country on PS5, PS4 the Invincible on PS5, Conscript on PS5, and then plus Premium gets Legacy of Kane Defiance. And that's it for We Knew. And that's it for your week of We News. We Wade back into super chats to see what's up. Ash X Super Chats and says, Last night I saw Greg's review of Borderlands 4 dubbed by Meta AI into Spanish with Greg's voice in lip sync and it was hilarious joke and AI hate aside, I'm from Argentina and that's a great way to grow your audience. Keep up the amazing job. The amazing job. Love you all.

[B]

Yeah, we should pay Kevin a chancellor.

[C]

Yeah, like did we do that or was that just something I did?

[A]

I opted in. I wanted to see what it would look like. Cuz I when I went to do it, it's like, hey, we can translate for you AI. And again, feel free to tell me all the ways it's hor. I don't. I don't just blanketly hate AI. I think there's a lot of uses AI could be cool for. I don't know if this is them doing whatever, but I wanted to see what it looked like and I wanted to try it. I don't think I stole anybody's job doing this.

[B]

Kevin could have hired Kevin could have hired Kevin.

[A]

I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Like I don't know how the. What is this through Instagram? Yeah. I don't know like what the environment side of it does with like the Instagram AI.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Other things to think about.

[A]

For the record, when they said they were gonna dub it, I thought it would just be Spanish would play over. I didn't realize they were making me look like I was saying it in Spanish.

[B]

Did they? They did lip sync as well.

[A]

I according to Ashax, which now I now I would really like to go find that version of the video. Ash go screen capture that for me and send it to me somewhere Maybe send me on a BS or Blue Sky. That's what that is.

[B]

Him.

[A]

But I. I wanted to look into what it was actually going to go. We'll see. So we'll see. What's up. OMGLX says a lot of AI should be considered machine learning, but is being marketed as AI. Generative AI Straight up. Sucks, though.

[B]

I have been seeing just a turn though from recent. Like I have. I have seen recent critics go, I feel like we're turning back to machine learning because of how just toxic the word AI has become.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because there are a lot of things that are just machine learning. And so is there things that are.

[A]

Generative AI is what I did. I didn't do generative AI. Is that generative AI.

[B]

No.

[A]

Yeah. Okay, great. Okay. I thought. I thought so. But again, I'm learning. We're all learning. Gregario Miller and maybe those.

[B]

But to Barrett's point, you know.

[A]

Yeah. What is meta? Kill the lake somewhere to do that? I don't know. Yeah. Mao.

[B]

Mao.

[A]

The peasants. Super Chat says I've been at home sick with COVID this week and want to say thank you, KF Crew, for keeping me informed and entertained all week. We're happy to be here for you. I hope you're feeling better.

[B]

Hope you feel better. Mama.

[A]

JB says Hades 2 and Silk Song in the same month and then does the exploding head emoji.

[B]

Yeah. That's fucked up.

[A]

That's crazy.

[C]

I thought about baby steps and how baby steps delayed themselves and ran and then is now coming out, I think two days before Hades.

[A]

Okay. Okay. Justin Walsh. Super Chat says birthday tax for my brother Brandon. Happy birthday, brandon. Long time. Kfbf turning 30. Also, he knows more about Crash Bash than Tim.

[B]

Who doesn't?

[A]

I mean, Tim's an idiot.

[B]

You're the number one Crash fan here.

[A]

There you go. We gave it to you. Back to this whole Pokemon home thing and not being able to transfer stuff. Red BFR Soul says this happened. This happened before. From going from GBA to DS DS to 3DS and 3DS to switch Pokemon. So this is starting the switch to switch to change.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Again, I'm new generation Pokemon fan. I don't know that I'm not worried about that. I want my new Pokemon. Yang Fam says hi. Kind of funny. Fam. I will be proposing to my girlfriend tomorrow. Much love. And we'll update post proposal. Happy Friday. Kind of funny rocks.

[B]

Congratulations. Invite Barrett to the wedding?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Why?

[A]

Why not? He loves weddings. Send us photos. Bsm. That's Blue Sky. Tim. I Would like to see him. I'd like to see what's going on over there. Yankee. And then Nathan Haynes gets the final super chat of today and says this is for Greg to get a nice coffee and finish waking up. Have a great weekend, guys. It's been a great week of content.

[B]

Thank you, Nathan.

[A]

Thank you very much.

[B]

Giving a darn.

[A]

The problem is I'm probably too caffeinated at this point, right? You know, I mean, but I'm not gonna stop because I need to play video games out there all day long. Now we go to kind of funny.com you're wrong where you can write in to tell us what we screw up as we screw it up. Brian writes in. And just to clarify, the Pokemon company released a statement that said Pokemon from Za will be able to be transferred to Pokemon Home in 2026. But. But Pokemon from ZA will not be able to go to older Pokemon games. So yeah, this is the, this is the switch to voice of my generation.

[B]

It's stuck there forever.

[A]

Yeah, we need to do this now.

[C]

Well, it could go on to future games, but we don't know that yet. We'll have to wait until Gen 10.

[B]

But it's never going back to the past. Yeah, I still have this Aaron Lewis racist rgv Google search up.

[A]

And that's it for this episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily. Everybody remember each and every weekday, Kinda Funny Games Daily is here to run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about. Live on Twitch TV. Kindafunnygames, YouTube.com kindafunnygames and podcast services around the globe. However, we are a small business all about live talk shows. Which means our programming day is far from done here. Even though it's ridiculous, ridiculously early for us right now. Blessing is going to pick up that Donkey Kong Bonanza DLC and play it for your amusement. And whenever he putters out on that, we're going to do it the YouTube premiere on YouTube.com kind of funny games of Andy's 26 hour long video of the Hollow Knight marathon.

[B]

Oh yeah, 26 hours of fun, of rage, of cool discoveries and of at one point just a lot of arguments about what's being ordered. Food wise, between me, Roger and Mike.

[A]

Did you keep in the drug conversation?

[B]

The drug conversation?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

What about what drugs?

[B]

What do you mean?

[A]

When I descend everybody. The dare pledge.

[B]

No. Yes.

[A]

Okay, it is there. Everybody remember you took a dare pledge, all right? McGruff the crime dog is looking out on for all of us. All right?

[C]

I feel like I was coerced into a dare Airplane.

[A]

Doesn't matter. You signed it. That's legally binding.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Everybody, have a great weekend. Play a lot of games, watch all the streams we still have coming today. And until next time, no, it's been our pleasure to serve you.