Crimson Desert Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.13.25

Summary

Podcast Summary: Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast Episode: Crimson Desert Has Been Delayed to 2026 Release Date: August 13, 2025

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Overview

In this episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily, hosts Tim Geddes, Roger Pokorny, and Mike Minatti delve into the latest happenings in the gaming industry. The primary focus centers around the unexpected delay of the highly anticipated game Crimson Desert. Additionally, the hosts explore game reviews, industry controversies, upcoming releases, and engage in their ongoing friendly competition, "Fantasy Critic."

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1. Crimson Desert Delay

Timestamp: [08:44] – [10:56]

Discussion Highlights:

• Announcement of Delay: Crimson Desert, an open-world action fantasy game developed by Pearl Abyss, has been postponed from its original Q4 2025 release to Q1 2026.
• Reasons for Delay: The delay is attributed to "longer than expected timelines arising from scheduled coordination and collaborations with multiple partners for offline distribution, voiceovers, console certification, and other launch preparations" ([08:44]).
• Host Reactions:
  • Roger Pokorny: Amused by the company's emphasis on business considerations, stating, "they want to be making abundantly clear this is a real game that is almost done and they don't want to make it seem like, hey, this is vaporware" ([10:10]).
  • Tim Geddes: Appreciates the transparency, commenting, "It's a strategic decision aimed at ensuring success on a meaningful scale. Real talk. Good" ([10:28]).

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Geddes: "Players can still expect to see Crimson Desert at Gamescom and Pax West, however, as well as Tokyo Game Show." ([08:44])
• Roger Pokorny: "This is a real video game that's coming out. It has nothing to do with the quality of the game." ([10:10])

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2. Dragon Drive Review Roundup

Timestamp: [12:21] – [21:28]

Discussion Highlights:

• Game Overview: Dragon Drive, a multiplayer-focused sports game from Nintendo, received mixed reviews.
• Critical Reception:
  • IGN's Logan Planet: Rated it 6/10, praising its unique control mechanics but criticizing the high barrier to entry and lack of content ([16:04]).
  • Nintendo Life's OJ O'Reilly: Gave it 7/10, acknowledging its potential for dedicated fans despite control complexities ([16:04]).
  • GameSpot's Steve Watts: Scored it 5/10, citing imprecise controls and fatigue-inducing gameplay ([16:04]).
• Host Gameplay Experience:
  • Roger Pokorny: Found the game physically tiring and lacking in flow, stating, "I never had that moment where I'm like, oh man, I know exactly what to do" ([18:11]).
  • Tim Geddes: Agrees on the control challenges but notes some enjoyable elements like satisfying dunks ([20:46]).

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Geddes: "It feels like good production design, costume design, committing to it, looking correct for the era." ([02:58])
• Roger Pokorny: "The sensitivity is very low on it. I expected this to kind of be like you move your hands a little bit and you're rolling. It's like, no, you really gotta be fucking." ([20:00])

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3. Fantasy Critic Competition

Timestamp: [11:39] – [15:26]

Discussion Highlights:

• Purpose: A friendly competition between Roger and Mike to pick the best games each year.
• Impact of Delay: The delay of Crimson Desert unexpectedly benefits them, granting Mike two additional picks.
• Host Banter:
  • Roger Pokorny: Playfully mocks the competition's significance beyond game preferences ([12:21]).
  • Mike Minatti: Expresses excitement over the potential advantages, "I got two drops now" ([13:06]).

Notable Quotes:

• Roger Pokorny: "This just played right into our hands. Right. We've really been thinking about this and this is exactly what we expect." ([12:21])
• Mike Minatti: "What are some games out there?" ([15:19])

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4. Unionization at Arkane Studios

Timestamp: [23:16] – [28:19]

Discussion Highlights:

• Issue: Workers at Microsoft-owned Arkane Studios have unionized under the French union STJV to demand Microsoft's divestment from projects supporting Israeli military operations in Gaza.
• Reasoning: The workers argue that Microsoft's Azure cloud services have been used to facilitate deadly airstrikes and military operations.
• Demands:
  • Immediate Ceasefire: Call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
  • Termination of Contracts: Demand Microsoft terminate all contracts with Israeli forces.
  • Transparency: Seek disclosure of all ties to the Israeli military.
  • Protection of Speech: Advocate for pro-Palestinian speech within the company.
  • Independent Audit: Request an audit to ensure Microsoft technologies aren't used to violate human rights.

Host Reactions:

• Tim Geddes: Commends the bravery, stating, "A lot of bravery" ([26:51]).
• Roger Pokorny: Emphasizes the power of unionization, "That's the beauty of a union, right?" ([27:36]).

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Geddes: "You're risking a lot at this point. But there's certain things where it's like, hey, man, it's very important to stand on this, say the facts..." ([27:12])
• Roger Pokorny: "Takes a lot of bravery to do that. A lot of bravery." ([27:36])

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5. Other News and Announcements

Timestamp: [32:24] – [60:37]

Highlights:

• Fast and Furious Arcade Edition: Announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch, with a release date of October 24th. Features arcade-style racing with multiplayer split-screen action.

• Lego Voyagers: Launching September 15th on Xbox, PS4/5, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

• Namco's Aqua Jet: A 1996 arcade racer making its first home release on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series as part of the Arcade Archives series.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG): Ending support for Xbox One and PS4, transitioning to native Xbox Series and PS5 versions.

• Chibi Robo on Nintendo Switch Online (NSO): The GameCube title Chibi Robo is being added to NSO's library, making a rare and expensive game more accessible to fans.

• PS2 vs. GameCube Exclusives: Hosts debate the quality and quantity of GameCube titles compared to the more extensive PS2 library, discussing iconic games like Smash Bros Melee, Mario Sunshine, and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Geddes: "I am so blissfully unaware of the details of a lot of this..." ([58:35])
• Roger Pokorny: "I like that. They make their own logos." ([54:14])

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6. Audience Interaction and Final Thoughts

Timestamp: [60:37] – [61:55]

Highlights:

• Audience Questions:

  • Concerns about crossplay in MGS Delta's online multiplayer.
  • Praise for Chibi Robo and debates on PS2 vs. GameCube platformers.

• Host Commentary:

  • Tim Geddes: Expresses frustration over PlayStation’s stance on crossplay, likening it to previous issues with Fortnite ([58:21]).
  • Roger Pokorny: Shares nostalgic memories of older consoles and games.

• Closing Remarks: Hosts tease upcoming segments, including "War of the Worlds: Ice Cube's" watch-along event, and entertain plans for future collaborations and streams.

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Geddes: "I can't believe why it's a Sony thing to do. That's very fucking stupid." ([58:23])
• Roger Pokorny: "I was like, I don't know..." ([55:11])
• Mike Minatti: "None of them are Wave Race, though." ([44:23])

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Conclusion

This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily offers a comprehensive look into the gaming industry's current landscape, from significant delays affecting major titles like Crimson Desert to grassroots movements within game studios advocating for ethical practices. The hosts engage in spirited discussions, blending industry news with personal insights and humor, making it an informative and entertaining listen for gaming enthusiasts.

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Notable Timestamped Quotes:

• Roger Pokorny: "This is a real video game that's coming out. It has nothing to do with the quality of the game." ([10:10])
• Tim Geddes: "It's a strategic decision aimed at ensuring success on a meaningful scale. Real talk. Good." ([10:28])
• Tim Geddes: "It feels like good production design, costume design, committing to it, looking correct for the era." ([02:58])
• Roger Pokorny: "The sensitivity is very low on it." ([20:00])
• Tim Geddes: "Players can still expect to see Crimson Desert at Gamescom and Pax West." ([08:44])
• Tim Geddes: "You're risking a lot at this point. But there's certain things where it's like, hey, man, it's very important to stand on this, say the facts..." ([27:12])

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Transcript

[Roger Pokorny]

Foreign.

[Tim Geddes]

What's up? And welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Wednesday, August 13, 2025. I'm your host, Tim Geddes, joined by the tastemaker Roger Pokorny. How you doing?

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm doing great, Tim. I watched something last night.

[Tim Geddes]

What'd you watch?

[Roger Pokorny]

I didn't even know it was out until I saw. I saw an advertisement. Alien Earth. Oh.

[Tim Geddes]

It was really bad. That was really. Let's do it again. Let's do it again.

[Roger Pokorny]

There we go. Because y' all didn't see the first.

[Tim Geddes]

One, we're gonna edit that in post.

[Roger Pokorny]

Because you really looked so deep into my eyes. You didn't. You didn't. That was real bad. Alien Earth. Yeah, I watched two episodes.

[Tim Geddes]

Came in.

[Roger Pokorny]

I only watched the first episode.

[Tim Geddes]

I only watched the first.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, what a good first.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, my God, y'.

[Roger Pokorny]

All. Holy shit, dude.

[Tim Geddes]

Alien and Predator. Alien versus Predator. In review.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, my God. Roller coaster of an in review experience. Alien Earth. If it keeps up this quality.

[Roger Pokorny]

I think I was really hesitant in the first, like 20 minutes because it is like a lot of well worn territory, right? Where it's like, you know, the people are on the ship, they all look like. It's like, we know where this is going. And then they start doing some wild shit where it's like, oh, I've never seen Alien ever do anything like this.

[Tim Geddes]

The opening titles of like, kind of just setting the stage of what they're dealing with.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, we are cooking here. What I love about it is, you know, some of the movies. What I appreciate about the episode one of Alien Earth is it takes the elements I love most about the good Alien and Predator, or I guess just Alien. Alien movies and wraps it in a show which allows it to breathe a lot more and actually have a plot. So it's like sci fi and character and worlds wrapped around a plot that I'm actually interested in, which I feel like plot's not never the highlight of the Alien movies. You know what I mean?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, no, for sure.

[Tim Geddes]

It feels like the highlight here.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

Also has those other things.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes, it does. And they. I was very shocked how fast we got into seeing an alien. And like, they actually start showing the glimpses. Like they know what you're here for. Because, like, when you see the Alien Earth is a TV show on fx, like, all right, we're gonna see this Alien for two seconds. And of course you do see it for two seconds in this episode, but it feels like it's way more because of the stuff that they're building around it. So it's interesting.

[Tim Geddes]

It's staying it forever.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Fx. Don't miss. Shout out to fx continuing, man.

[Roger Pokorny]

And it's Noah Holly who. I'm a big fan of Fargo. He's the Fargo guy. He's the Legion guy. He's one of the. Go watch Legion. No, but I watched. But I watched.

[Tim Geddes]

I heard everyone.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm a big. I was a big Fargo guy.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay. Loves Fargo.

[Mike Minatti]

I. With Legion. Legion was.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, yeah, Legion was good.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

I watch it on YouTube shorts. I love watching stuff on YouTube shorts. I love watching.

[Tim Geddes]

Y' all need to watch Alien Earth, though. Yeah, it's very, very, very good and interesting. And I'm like, I can't wait to see where it goes next.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But. Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, we have another episode.

[Tim Geddes]

Something I love about. I know. Which I'm so. And then one every week for the next five weeks.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, it's like seven episodes.

[Tim Geddes]

Eight total.

[Roger Pokorny]

Eight totals. Okay, that's not bad.

[Tim Geddes]

One thing that I really appreciate about it is so far, tone and style, not andor, but production design, costume design. Committing to it, looking correct for the era.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

Andor as fuck. Oh, and that's the highest compliment.

[Roger Pokorny]

I gotta watch andor. I gotta watch andor. Oh, yeah, I gotta watch andor.

[Tim Geddes]

You need to watch andor.

[Roger Pokorny]

I just been stuck in watching a bunch of YouTube shorts of breaking Bad. I just. I'm back. You know what I mean? Like, I think I'm like, never been more back. I'm just so back.

[Tim Geddes]

God. Well, this is kind of funny. Games Daily, we have a bunch of news stories for you today, including Crimson Desert being delayed to 2026. Where's Crimson Dawn? We're still waiting.

[Roger Pokorny]

What happened to that game Dragon Drive?

[Tim Geddes]

Reviews are in. Are they good? Are they bad? We're going to talk about that later. Arkane Studios calls out Microsoft. Wonder what they have to say. Well, this is Games Daily, everybody. Each and every weekday we run you through all the video game news that you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the kinda funny membership on YouTube, Patreon, Spotify or Apple Podcast to get all of our shows ad free. And a daily exclusive show, we have a special one for you today. For a chance to be part of the show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Little housekeeping for you. We got some good stuff. Okay, everybody. Yeah, we do on Monday, the upcoming Monday Kind of funny. He's going head to head with Giant Bomb in a sponsored pizza bandit. Let's play but with a twist. We had a real life chef in the office helping us make pizzas as we played the game. It's absolute chaos and you need to tune in just to see Tim and Dan Reichert attempt to make pizzas for the very first time. Spoilers. It's embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as the high five, but very, very close. For anyone wondering why I was running and hurt my heel, you'll see it in this video. Making pizzas. That'll be it before games daily on Monday. And just to get you all in the mood, get a little excited for it, unfortunately, we aren't going to be able to hear this. You can just play this without audio, even for them, just so we can explain it and push people to go check this video out on Giant Bomb's YouTube. The day that the Giant Bomb boys were here to help us shoot the pizza Bandit thing. I don't know if this is before or after they left us. Based on what they're wearing. I think this was like right after they left us. They did this vlog of them just going around San Francisco and they kept getting in the waymos the robot cars. And I swear to God, throughout this video, they get into seven Waymo cars. Like, it's just the most what do you guys do? Thing ever.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, shit.

[Tim Geddes]

I watched this entire video last night and there was parts I was just dying laughing out loud. So this is their third Waymo they're getting into right here.

[Roger Pokorny]

Sure.

[Tim Geddes]

And they get into.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, no.

[Tim Geddes]

A horrible situation where there's a fire truck blocking their lane and they have no control over this car. They're like, what's this fucking robot gonna do? The car eventually just pulls into the other lane with oncoming traffic and then just stops. And they're just sitting in it. And you have to hear Mike Minatti and Dan Riker just have to deal with it. And they're so stupid. Oh.

[Roger Pokorny]

Cause it blocks the entire.

[Tim Geddes]

The entire.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, no. Oh, it just stops and it just stops.

[Tim Geddes]

It doesn't know what to do. They're there for like two minutes. Skip forward just a bit. Cars green. When the light turns green. No, the cars are all going by, honking at him.

[Roger Pokorny]

Honking at the Waymo. Like that does anything. Yeah, we're sorry.

[Tim Geddes]

We're sorry. It's the wrong one.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

It's just. It is. I feel for them. This would be so awkward. But it's so. They're like the car can't fit there. Anyways, go check out the video on Giant Bomb's YouTube. That's so funny. And then on Monday, watch the rest of the story. Our perspective.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, our perspective. Yeah, it's a really good one. I've been editing it and it was. That was a wild shoot. And a lot of good pizzas and a lot of bad pizzas. Let's be honest.

[Tim Geddes]

A lot of bad pizzas.

[Roger Pokorny]

A lot of bad pizzas, but a lot of good.

[Tim Geddes]

I ate my own pizza today. After games Daily, you'll get Gamescast, which is gonna be the Mafia Old Country Review. Really excited to hear what the boys have to say about that. And then after Gamescast, oh, my God. It's gonna be a special day, everybody. Me and Nick and maybe a couple other people if we can get them involved. We're doing a movie. Watch along Ice Cubes. War of the Worlds has come out.

[Roger Pokorny]

It's an official title. Ice Cube's War of the Worlds.

[Mike Minatti]

That's what I tit did on YouTube because, like, I don't know what I mean.

[Tim Geddes]

That's perfect. Yes, it is out in the world and apparently it is the room levels of. Of comically bad. And I've seen very few actual elements of this movie. I think the most I've seen is like some GIFs on Twitter and I'm like, Nick, me and you, we're sitting on this couch and we're watching this movie. I'm excited for y'. All. So yeah, this will be a watch along on YouTube and Twitch and if you can't watch live, we'll have the timer so you'll be able to sync it up and watch at your leisure.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Whenever you want to do that to yourselves. I hope it's horrible.

[Roger Pokorny]

I really do. I hope it's funny, though. I hope it's funny.

[Tim Geddes]

Thank you to our. Oh, if you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is coming at you from Roger. What's it about?

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't know.

[Tim Geddes]

It'll be fun.

[Roger Pokorny]

We'll figure it out. I'm sure Mike's around, so we'll probably go outside and start talking.

[Tim Geddes]

I like that.

[Roger Pokorny]

I like roping them into stuff.

[Tim Geddes]

And today's another one of those two for one days. Because I was supposed to do yesterday. I didn't do yesterday. So on the drive in and me and Cool Greg did a little mini podcast.

[Roger Pokorny]

Nice.

[Tim Geddes]

And a little something different.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

And I'm excited for y'. All.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm excited.

[Tim Geddes]

You know, it's just it's a little. A little different. Okay, thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Shady Rays and rframes, but we'll tell you all about that later. For now, speaking of what is and forever will be the Rope Report.

[Roger Pokorny]

We.

[Tim Geddes]

Only have five stories, no, a baker's dozen. Crimson dawn has been delayed to 2026 is why you're on this episode with me. This comes from Vicky Blake at ign. The developer of upcoming open world action fantasy game Crimson Desert has revealed its single player open world adventure game has unavoidably slipped from a Q4 2025 release to Q1 2026. In its latest call with investors, Pearl Abyss said this was due to longer than expected timelines arising from scheduled coordination and collaborations with multiple partners for offline distribution, voiceovers, console certification and other launch preparations. The company said a firm release date will be announced at a more appropriate time based on business considerations, but did not specify what those business considerations would be. Players can still expect to see Crimson Desert at Gamescom and Pax west, however, as well as Tokyo Game Show. The launch of Crimson Desert, our first large scale AAA console game, has been unavoidably delayed by 1/4 order from the previously announced schedule. This is due to longer than expected timelines rising from schedule coordination to collaborations with multiple partners for offline distribution, voiceover, console certification and other launch preparations. We sincerely apologize for not being able to meet the originally promised fourth quarter launch schedule. Please kindly understand this is a strategic decision aimed at ensuring success on a meaningful scale. Why'd you laugh?

[Roger Pokorny]

I was just laughing at just them just being so focused on business considerations and like they want to be. They want to be making abundantly clear this is a real game that is almost done and they don't want to make it seem like, hey, this is vaporware. No, this is a real video game that's coming out. It has nothing to do with the quality of the game. This. We just have to get it certified and we have to talk to some people.

[Tim Geddes]

I do love the It's a strategic decision aimed at ensuring success on a meaningful scale. Real talk. Good.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I feel like, especially for something as ambitious and potentially big as this.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

You got to get it right. You can't have this come out and have it just be like, oh, we all knew this wasn't going to be able to hit. You need to do the Expedition 33 thing and I need. Obviously we're talking dream goal scenario Here. But I do appreciate them understanding and being willing to say this because this is the truth of it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, they need to specifically with a game that is this big, that has the ability to capture a huge amount of people, you need to also have that marketing, those marketing beats to make sure that people know that this game is coming out and exists. And like, I feel like the hardest of hardcore know about this game, but like a lot of my friends do not know about this game. And you want them all to know this speaks to so many people because it is a rarity. I mean, it looks like a one of one video game. So you want everyone to know about it. Yeah, I'm happy that they're giving more time and hopefully this leads to them getting some type of maybe console marketing strategy connection. Maybe Xbox and them link up. Maybe them and PlayStation link up to kind of get this in front of the most eyes. Because I want this to be successful and I want it to be good.

[Tim Geddes]

That's the thing is I think that the what all this game really needs to be a big hit is be good. Because I do think it's a word of mouth type game. Sure. I think, you know, it being a new ip, but also from the world of something that is beloved and is played by millions and millions of people. So it does. It's not like it's coming out of nowhere. I do think that it is an example though of it. This is its chance to make a splash on the console side of things. Which is a separate conversation than the PC, separate audience. Exactly. So yeah, it being delayed now, Raj, I never fully understood what the point of you and Mike's whole thing was. I don't think there really was one, but I don't think. What does this delay mean for you.

[Roger Pokorny]

At this point, Tim? It just played right into our hands. Right. We've really been thinking about this and this is exactly. We expect this a little bit earlier. I think that's why we started to make this trade happen a few weeks ago. But they delayed their delay at least. We don't have any insider information, but we just kind of felt the vibes. So this is great that Crimson dawn is getting delayed. Not of course, we want the game and the gamers to play the game, but for us, we're playing the Game of Fantasy Critic. Right? That's all that matters to us. We don't care about any of the games in our list. We don't care about Ghost of Yote. We don't care about Metroid Prime. 4. He doesn't care about, I don't know, Dragon Drive. I don't know what games he has. But we just really care about winning. Fantasy Critic. This is going to. That means that Mike has two drops now.

[Mike Minatti]

What does. What did Mike give you?

[Roger Pokorny]

His friendship. Isn't that all that matters?

[Mike Minatti]

Because, you know, Roger's been the spokesman for this and he's been the big distraction because we were all thinking of, like, how does this benefit Roger? But we're at the point of the year, like, Roger counterpicked Expedition 33. There's no way he's winning. So I do feel like this was.

[Roger Pokorny]

I hear there's more Reviews of Exhibition 33. It takes a long time. You got to play 33 times for.

[Mike Minatti]

Mike to have more opportunities. So I'm wondering what you got out, because the whole set was Mike helping you. But I do think it's secretly you're helping Mike. So what do you get if Mike wins Fantasy Critic this year?

[Roger Pokorny]

I just get a. I get to help my friend. Because last night, him and I were talking. Him and I were talking last night, actually, and we're talking about. We're talking about on the phone what we're going to do for his victory. Because we're already there. Right? Like, that's a kind of already where we're at.

[Tim Geddes]

Again, I am so blissfully unaware of the details of a lot of this, but. But I do know that in the last 12 hours since I saw this news, Mike has multiple times saying very loudly and proudly, I got two drops.

[Roger Pokorny]

He'S got two drops. I got two drops, he's got two drops.

[Tim Geddes]

And it's just like, okay, that might be factual. Yes, but to what ends?

[Roger Pokorny]

What do you mean?

[Tim Geddes]

What is that going to do for him?

[Mike Minatti]

So now he gets to free up a spot.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, great. What's he going to get? He's played brilliantly so far.

[Mike Minatti]

I mean, he did pick up. What's it. The game that Roger stupidly dropped.

[Tim Geddes]

Ninja Gaiden, Ninja garden.

[Roger Pokorny]

Ninja Gaiden 4.

[Mike Minatti]

He has Ninja Gaiden 4. He's doing really well so far in the year, even despite the fact that he drafted GTA 6. I do really want someone out there. I can't do it because I don't have any more drops. But someone out there maybe like an Andy, maybe drop a game and like, bid everything you can on Battlefield six.

[Tim Geddes]

Go for it.

[Roger Pokorny]

He would never do that. Andy do that. He doesn't even know the password to the fans. He doesn't even know how to do It. This is just huge news for us. I don't want to, you know. Why is it us? It's just for. Because we're working. Because we're. Because we're friends. We're working together. We work together at this company. We're not working together in a colluding way. We're working together in like a friendship way, a love way. And it's just a really good experience. And I'm happy that he has two drops because, you know, he's already been asking me questions. What are some games out there?

[Tim Geddes]

What are some games out there? Excellent question.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, there's Pac Man, Repack two.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Okay.

[Roger Pokorny]

It's a lot of games out there. A lot of games out there.

[Tim Geddes]

Lot of Game Masters on the mind.

[Roger Pokorny]

Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection. Oh, yeah. Is that a partial remake? We might have to have a discussion.

[Tim Geddes]

We might have to have a discussion.

[Roger Pokorny]

There's some new content in there.

[Tim Geddes]

I have a question for you, Robbie.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, hi.

[Tim Geddes]

Who has Dragon Drive?

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't think anybody has Dragon Drive.

[Tim Geddes]

I think it's pretty smart. We're about to find out story number two, because here is our Dragon Drive review roundup. I also keep saying Dragon Drive. I think we all do.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm going to say drag and drop.

[Tim Geddes]

But it's literally Drag X Drive.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's I. Yeah, it's like fast.

[Tim Geddes]

62 on Metacritic, 62 on OpenCritic. So there we go, a little equal sizing there. Logan Planet IGN gives it a 6 out of 10. Drag and Drive controls like nothing else I've ever played. And it asks you a lot, asks a lot of you in order to get used to its complicated mouse and motion mechanics. Obviously, if you don't like or literally can't use force motion controls like this, then you should steer clear. But once I put in the time to get good, I really enjoyed the surprisingly deep fundamentals of Nintendo's unique take on wheelchair basketball. Its online three on three matches are a lot of fun and it has some good ideas for provoking friendly competition between rounds that I wish were fleshed out a little more. That lack of substance is the most disappointing part about Dragon Drive. With little in the way of unlockables, customization, personality and variety, I imagine a hardcore group of fans could rally around it because its movement is very cool and there's a ton of potential to discover in its exciting trick system. But with a high initial barrier to entry and not enough reasons to stick around for a long haul once you've cleared it, it's hard to See Dragon Drive establishing itself among an already crowded field of online multiplayer options. And then OJ O'Reilly from Nintendo Life gives it a 7 out of 10 saying Dragon Drive may lack options with regards to online modes and controls take a bit of getting used to. However, if you can give up some time to engaging with this one, you can get past the barriers in terms of controls and the early frustrations as you your rhythm. You will be rewarded with a unique and very well made sports game that deserves to find an audience of dedicated fans and in some pals. Add in some pals and you've got a solid bit of fun for the price. And then Steve Watts at GameSpot gave it a 5 out of 10 saying the multiplayer focused sports game from Nintendo has a novel control scheme, but it's tiring and feels imprecise. Snowbike, Mike has been playing this a little bit.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes, he has.

[Tim Geddes]

With us. We're doing it.

[Roger Pokorny]

We can hear it from the office. Every single time he plays it. You just hear on the table, so funny, so loud.

[Tim Geddes]

We are doing a what you've been playing episode of gamescast tomorrow and Mike will be giving his thoughts on that because he's here right now. What do you think, Rog? You played this with me?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, we did. We did play it. I think I was way more negative on it after we played it. You guys were like, oh, I could see some promise there. And I was so tired after playing that for like 15. No, not like three minutes. Three, four minutes. I forgot how long that was. It was very short, but it felt like 15 minutes because I was like, my arms are hurting. I'm like, I'm never doing that again. Like there wasn't. Like there was. I never found that flow. I never had that moment where I'm like, oh man, I know exactly what to do. It feels good. Maybe if I sat down to do an actual review, maybe Mike has found that rhythm and he's actually able to look at us and say, hey, if you really put in the time and effort, you can find, you can find the fun in the game. But from the small amount of time that I played it, I didn't have a good time. So, I mean, this doesn't surprise me at all. I didn't. This never felt like it was even gonna be like. I think people compared this a little bit to arms of like, oh, this is like the, the wacky thing that Nintendo is trying to do.

[Mike Minatti]

Don't you dare.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, it's true.

[Roger Pokorny]

People were trying to compare. People were trying to compare. It's like the thing.

[Tim Geddes]

There was a lot of comparison.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Nintendo had a fucking personnel. Oh, I'm with you. I'm an ARMS defender and I'm an ARMS defender in the way that like, I don't love the game. I don't think it's the best game ever. But like people act like it's this abomination and it's simply not ARMS has. Has to Barrett's point. So much character that this just simply lacks. And I do think that that is a problem for a game like this for a new Nintendo ip, for them trying to show off a gimmick of their new system. Bless and I were slightly higher than you when we played it where we did find the fun, when we did get a dunk, it was satisfying. And when you got the moves going, it. Not even just getting it going, it responds very well. Like it does work the way that it should. Just the way that it works isn't necessarily the most intuitive thing. And I am with you that I got so tired. Like moving your arms, it's just not fun to engage with playing.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, the sensitivity is very low on it. I expected this to kind of be like you move your hands a little bit and you're rolling. It's like, no, you really gotta be fucking.

[Tim Geddes]

You gotta know.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, maybe there's some settings in there. But also knowing Nintendo, I wouldn't be surprised if there's zero settings to get in there and change the sensitivity at all. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

And you know, I was reading a couple of the reviews from some Nintendo content creators and it just seems like this game is very content light as well. So this really. I don't know, man. This reminds me of some of my least favorite eras of Nintendo, honestly. And I. And that bums me out this early in the Switch 2 life cycle. And I feel like I keep finding myself saying that now. Still having a great time with the system. Like I have had monthly Nintendo games that I'm really enjoying. We have Kirby on the way. I'm excited to get into Star.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm gonna play it for the first time.

[Tim Geddes]

Very excited for you. But yeah, like seeing things like this, it kind of reminds me of like my least favorite era of 3DS games where we were getting like Metroid Federation Force and Zelda Triforce Heroes and things like that where not bad games, just not anything truly Nintendo special, you know. And again, especially with a new ip, I feel like I just wish that there was a bit more commitment to the bit like they seem like they committed to the gimmick. But committing to it being a Nintendo franchise, it almost seems like I look at this and I'm like, we all knew what this is gonna be.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

If it looked more magical, I think it'd be like, oh, Nintendo cares more.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But you look at this, you're like, oh, they care this much.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

You know, and also it not being a launch game too is a bizarre choice because I feel like even it being a launch game would have given it like a novelty of like add something else to do.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. Like even like, what was it? Welcome Tour or whatever. Like had. It wasn't. That was not a. But it had the launch thing. So everyone's like, okay, let me try it out. And then people like, no, no, no, there's some good here. And it's like, no, you're just saying that because it's a launch game. It's not really like that. So yeah, it's interesting. I want to point out really quick, just a little shout out here. Logan Plant like that guy a lot. I was watching his. His review of Mario Party Jamboree tv. I was like, wow, what a great review. What an incredible review.

[Tim Geddes]

Is one of my favorites current gen content creators in the gaming space, period. He is so thoughtful, so knowledgeable, so good at playing games and explaining like what's good and bad about them. I think he's very fair and honest when it comes to. And consistent when it comes to his reviews on games and his love for Donkey Kong Bonanza. I appreciate very much. I love how he's trying to break the hell out of that game. I don't know if you saw him, but he managed to beat the game without getting a golden banandium.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, wow.

[Tim Geddes]

Just crushing it. He texted me yesterday a video he's currently working on trying to do a run beating the entire game without using any of the forms. And like, he had a breakthrough yesterday of like, here's how you do it. Figured out a. There was a big chasm that he couldn't get across.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

It's very, very.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's wild stuff.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. So shout out to Logan, everybody. Follow him everywhere. And check out Nintendo voice chats on ign. We got some super chats here. David Flores said Legion's great. I don't know why the MCU doesn't use FX like DC uses hbo. That's a great call, man. They really should, really should.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. I mean, we're doing it now with Aliens, so maybe this is the beginning. Maybe we'll start to do that.

[Tim Geddes]

40 viz says birthday tax. You guys rock. Happy birthday. And Colin Berry says, how does GTA 6 factor into the Crimson Desert's release? Well, they're saying early 2026. Right. So they were saying Q1. Yeah, right there. Yeah. So you know GTA 6, there's no world in which GTA 6 gets moved up. So no earliest for getting that game is May 26th.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. I don't think. I don't think it really factors in. In that much. Yeah, I was just thinking about the fantasy rig. I'm sorry, I was thinking about like, Maybe what if GTA 6 gets moved up up and then Mike super wins, you know what I mean? Like, is there any world in that?

[Tim Geddes]

Shadow Drop.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, Shadow Drop. And gta, what if that.

[Tim Geddes]

What? What if they announced it at Gamescom?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, exactly.

[Tim Geddes]

Shadow Drop.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike Minatti]

I would immediately apologize to all of the Gamescom apologists out there.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh yeah, you apologize to the apologists.

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah. And I. And I would say, you know what, maybe this is a good show. Yep, maybe it is.

[Roger Pokorny]

Maybe Shout the Watchmen. The show.

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah, it's a good show.

[Roger Pokorny]

A good show.

[Tim Geddes]

Story number three. Unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's sinister project for Gaza. This comes from Nathan Grayson at Aftermath. Earlier this year, the Palestinian led boycott, divestment and sanctions BDS movement added Microsoft to its list of priority targets due to the company's entanglement with the Israeli military via Azure cloud and AI services. A recent Guardian report revealed the grisly details of said arrangement, claiming that Microsoft's cloud based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank. Now game developers at Microsoft owned studio Arcane, creator of Dishonored and Deathloop, have lent their voices to the chorus, demanding that the company stop powering Israel's assault. As part of an open letter to leadership at Arcane ZeniMax. Sorry, leadership at Arcane ZeniMax, Microsoft Gaming and Microsoft more broadly, workers unionized under French union STJV did not mince words about Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians lending their support to BDS and the Microsoft worker led no Azure for Apartheid campaign. Arkane Studios STJV section joins BDS and the no Azure for Apartheid in their demand for Microsoft to stop supporting the Israeli regime. Arcane workers wrote. We think that Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide. And as Microsoft employees, we don't want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza. Moreover, we think it's our responsibility as tech workers to raise the alarm and to ensure that our technologies are used to make the voices of the oppressed heard and not facilitate their demise. Finally, in a more direct manner, we think this could very well affect our life directly by reducing the audience for our games, thus directly compromising the viability of Xbox games and in the long run, our very own jobs. That seems like a weird thing to say. I don't know that I would have said that. The letter includes a list of specific demands which echo those of no Azure for apartheid. An immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Termination of all ongoing or future contracts with Israeli occupation forces. Disclosure of all ties to the Israeli military. Protection of pro Palestinian speech within the company, and a transparent, independent and public audit of Microsoft technologies, contract services and investments to make sure they're not used to violate the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions and their additional Protocols, and Microsoft's own human rights statement in Palestine or anywhere else. See, I love that part. That's what we need to stick to.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, man. Good on you. Arkane, step up. Say the truth.

[Roger Pokorny]

Takes a lot of bravery to do that. A lot of bravery.

[Tim Geddes]

You're risking a lot at this point. Right. And you always are. But there's certain things where it's like, hey, man, it's very important to stand on this, say the facts, don't get distracted by other things and them talking about sounding the alarm. It's like, that is where we're at right now. This stuff's happening and. And until people get called out enough, it's not going to change.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. And this is the beauty of a union, right? They can all come together and they can say this, and of course, they have the power in numbers and they can come together and they can say something that means so much. And that is true, that is honest and it takes a lot of bravery. So good on them. And I think that that line and that sentence that you were referring to was them trying to essentially plead to the business side, which is like, not the best way to do that.

[Tim Geddes]

But.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, whatever.

[Tim Geddes]

We're nitpicking something here. But I mean, that to me just. Just reads the wrong way of.

[Roger Pokorny]

Just like you're focused on the jobs instead. Is that what you're saying?

[Tim Geddes]

It just. It almost just seems like. Like you're not actually going to win them over by saying that.

[Roger Pokorny]

Like, it's like, don't even put that in. Yeah, yeah, I get that. I understand.

[Tim Geddes]

But again, I don't even want to focus on that too much. But it's more just reading through all of this stuff. Like, I really think the end part here is the most important part, like, calling it out just like, yo, we got to make sure that you're not violating these things. And we want to make sure. Because you're violating these things.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

And like, that's the biggest part is like. Like, you know, we are working somewhere that is using technology, creating technology that is doing these horrible things. And we are. We know it, we're aware of it. And you're almost not even hiding it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, no, not even hiding it.

[Tim Geddes]

So it's like, all right, cool. Like, that's. That's the conversation.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes.

[Mike Minatti]

And then when they do speak out about it, they're like, oh, no, it didn't actually help. But then all of these reports are like, no, it actually did directly tie to where Israel is striking citizens.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Mike Minatti]

And so, yeah. Shout out to Arcane. I hope other studios kind of go along with this, because the BDS movement, because I know whenever we talk about this, people are like, oh, we need to do. We need to stop using Windows and all this stuff. Like, the BDS movement is specifically calling for Xbox and Game Pass because they understand that that is a revenue stream that people can realistically cut themselves off from in their daily lives. And so I hope that with more and more pressure coming from the audience, I hope more studios kind of ask their superior, like, ask their higher ups of like, hey, like, we need to do something about this because it's. It's really fucked up what Microsoft's doing.

[Roger Pokorny]

Absolutely.

[Tim Geddes]

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[Roger Pokorny]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

2. Love the cruisins.

[Roger Pokorny]

I was gonna say cruising.

[Tim Geddes]

Come on baby. Cruisin blast a couple years ago.

[Roger Pokorny]

Cruisin, bro.

[Tim Geddes]

Such a blast everybody. And here we are getting another game. These games have been in arcades forever.

[Roger Pokorny]

This is not made by the same people though, right? You're saying the vibes?

[Tim Geddes]

No, I think it is right?

[Roger Pokorny]

Really?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They made the cruisins I'm pretty sure because, well, here's what I do know. Back in the day, the cruisin people made Cruisin' usa, Cruis' n World, Cruis' n Exotica. Then they did Fast and Furious, Tokyo Drift.

[Roger Pokorny]

No.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, yeah. So that arcade Fast and Furious game you always see that doesn't look like this. Yeah, yeah, but I mean this looks exactly like Blast. So.

[Roger Pokorny]

But this is an arcade game.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, I imagine it is.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. I've seen this one.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, okay.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm pretty sure I've seen this one.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, it makes sense. Cause that what they're saying it is.

[Roger Pokorny]

I thought you would be up on it. I was gonna ask about the history of this.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I mean, hold on, let's get into this here because I just. I very much assumed this is the cruisin blast.

[Roger Pokorny]

And I'm trying to associate anything, I guess I see, like it says Havana. It doesn't look like the, like. You know what I mean? Like there's like. I don't see many things that are connecting this to Fast and Furious.

[Tim Geddes]

It's very light stuff. Some parts of the trailer.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

We could do a frame by frame. You see like those big missiles being killed. Okay, where's that missile from? Well, that was the sub from the missile that the rock threw in Fast eight. And then later there's a plane going that's holding a safe. A locked safe.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, but wasn't that he dragging that.

[Tim Geddes]

On the ground, but now he's dragging in the air.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Geddes]

We're going.

[Roger Pokorny]

This is like an alternate universe type. Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

I like that we have the rights.

[Roger Pokorny]

I fuck with that.

[Mike Minatti]

It does not seem to be the same develop.

[Tim Geddes]

So yeah. Raw Thrills are the people that made Cruising the Cruising games. Yes.

[Roger Pokorny]

What are they up to? We need to give them like $500 million to make the best game ever. That's what we need to be doing.

[Tim Geddes]

They made a Top Gun Maverick arcade game.

[Roger Pokorny]

Hell yeah. They got a Wizard of Oz spin and collect. I've seen that. I've seen that one for sure.

[Tim Geddes]

And they did Halo actually. Hold on.

[Roger Pokorny]

They did Halo? You can't just say they did Halo.

[Tim Geddes]

They did the Halo arcade game.

[Roger Pokorny]

Raven, we gotta go to the arcade. The one that's David Buster.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, round one.

[Roger Pokorny]

Round one.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, it's a little sad. It's a little sad.

[Roger Pokorny]

It's a little sad, but I like it.

[Tim Geddes]

Can you bring up rawthrils.com?

[Roger Pokorny]

The different website?

[Mike Minatti]

I feel like you're trying to.

[Tim Geddes]

Assure you it's okay. But I appreciate this site very much because they just have a carousel of all their. What they've worked on. And, like, man, it is a journey. So here we have Top Gun Maverick, the arcade game, which I would like to try. We have this wizard of Oz. Spin and Collect. Great. If you're into gambling here. The multiplayer Halo Fireteam, Raven. Concepts of Champions. The Marvel Mobile game.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Minecraft Dungeons.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, that's the stuff that has, like, where they give you the card. That stuff is kind of cool, but it also sucks.

[Tim Geddes]

Angry Birds. Boom.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, and then they have Fast and Furious, I think.

[Tim Geddes]

Fast and Furious. Okay. So it is raw thrills.

[Roger Pokorny]

So, like, are these just publishers? Like, this is where we get into, like, the weirdness of this.

[Tim Geddes]

So, yeah, this gets very, very interesting. We have to dive deeper.

[Roger Pokorny]

We have to dive deeper, man.

[Tim Geddes]

They have access to a lot of ideas.

[Roger Pokorny]

King Kong, Nerf.

[Tim Geddes]

Skung island, too. Skung.

[Roger Pokorny]

Skung Island.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, Big Buck Hunter. Reloaded.

[Roger Pokorny]

Reloaded.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Can I draft that? What if I start drafting arcade games?

[Tim Geddes]

God, man, that'd be awesome.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay. Yeah. I mean, again, this is gonna be a fun hour.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

You know, maybe a fun stream. Maybe fun part of it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, yeah. This could be a funk with Cruisin' Blessed. Yeah. But, yeah, I do. I just play it alone in the darkness of my house and I smile. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know if anyone else wants to see it. I don't know.

[Mike Minatti]

I mean, I don't think that's how you should stream any video game.

[Roger Pokorny]

I think everybody, I think, you know. Yeah. We should be streaming alone in our houses, smiling at 1am so you see that? Yeah, that's the safe.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Okay, to your point, Like, I am a fast and furious aficionado.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I haven't recognized a single car from the movies.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, that's what. That's my issue here. Well, I kind of see, like, the 4x4. I don't know, car. The Jeep, 1 4, by far. Burger.

[Tim Geddes]

That's a burger. More like like Hot Wheels cars, you know? Like. Yeah, I don't know.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, I don't know. We should. You know what you should do? You and I should go to round one, get lunch there. It looks bad, but it's cheap, so I want to try it out. Oh, it's not. It's not a good situation. Lanza got pizza there and it took like 20 minutes. And there was one person, and I saw them making it. It was disgusting. But they also have ramen, so we should try that. Get There. And they have. So they have, like, Japanese food there as well as, like, pizza. They have. They have $1 ice cream cones, though. That's pretty solid. Okay, so ice cream ramen, you and. Yeah, and then we play this. And then we play.

[Tim Geddes]

Have arcade games like this.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, they got whole arcade games. They got the Fire Team 1. They got the Halo 1.

[Tim Geddes]

I walked through.

[Roger Pokorny]

They got the Godzilla VR1.

[Tim Geddes]

All right, all right. I just saw that there was, like, one little corner of actual arcade games. And the majority seemed to be, like, all those claw games and, like, the gotcha things.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, yeah. No, they have everything. And they have pool, they have billiards, they have air hockey.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Roger Pokorny]

They got.

[Tim Geddes]

I was not impressed by that.

[Roger Pokorny]

Did you go through the entire thing?

[Tim Geddes]

I did.

[Roger Pokorny]

I got to show you the right places.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'm more than willing to go again.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Mike Minatti]

Tiny arcade in the movie theater that's near us. Is that where you're thinking of?

[Tim Geddes]

No. Shout out to that. That's O.G. that shit's O.G. no, no, no. I'm talking. I'm talking about round one.

[Roger Pokorny]

Shout out to Gary Whitby.

[Mike Minatti]

Real games. Damn it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Roger G. Witt is in the chat.

[Tim Geddes]

Gary Whit is in the chat.

[Roger Pokorny]

Your burger is actually pretty good, Roger. I didn't say. I was just asking you to suggest. Oh, okay. Oh, their burgers. Sorry, sorry. My bad. Okay. He's saying their burgers at round one are really good. Gotcha.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay. I'll try it out. Shout out to Gary Widow.

[Tim Geddes]

You're not going to try it out?

[Roger Pokorny]

Huh?

[Tim Geddes]

You're not going to.

[Roger Pokorny]

We're going to do it together. I'm going to do that. And then me and Blessing, we've already figured this out. We're going to go to the Asian buffet for lunch maybe, like, next week. And we're also going to the strip club to get wings. Okay, so we're gonna do that. We're gonna do that, like.

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah, one day on the casino.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, that's. I said this is the trifecta. I'll eventually go to the casino, but that seems sadder than the strip club. I don't want to go to the casino.

[Mike Minatti]

Foods. Really good, though.

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't want to go to a casino in the middle of the day. I'd rather want to go to a.

[Mike Minatti]

Strip club in the middle of the day.

[Roger Pokorny]

I would rather go to a strip club in the middle of the day to get food.

[Tim Geddes]

Have you been to a strip club?

[Roger Pokorny]

No.

[Mike Minatti]

This started making a lot of sense.

[Tim Geddes]

Flying Penguin says you all should do A day where you pretend to be one of the other kind of funny people would love to see Roger come in coked up and dressed like Mike.

[Roger Pokorny]

Much love me and bless. Already had an idea of having Greg dress up as you for a special event. We won't spoil it now.

[Tim Geddes]

Great.

[Roger Pokorny]

But whoever knows. They know. They know. They already know. A special event.

[Tim Geddes]

God, I hate Greg.

[Roger Pokorny]

It wasn't even his idea. It was me. A blessing. I know. Can I guess?

[Mike Minatti]

I'm gonna guess it's for the Pokemon review.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, it was way wor. It was way worse.

[Tim Geddes]

What a life that I live.

[Roger Pokorny]

It was such a good idea.

[Tim Geddes]

God damn it, dude. Horrible. Absolutely horrible. I mean, that's pretty much all the news. You know what I mean? This is just a weird one. We're in the lab. We're at the couch.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. We were on the first news story that we went through it in 10 minutes. I was like, oh, wow, you're really confident in all the rest. I know.

[Tim Geddes]

We're getting to War of the Worlds. Everybody hold on. It's gonna be a big deal. Deal eventually. When we go to round one, when we play, we go to a strip.

[Roger Pokorny]

Club and get some wings.

[Tim Geddes]

Gonna do it all. I've actually never, never myself been to a strip club. I've been to strip clubs. I haven't. I haven't gotten the wings.

[Roger Pokorny]

How many times you been to strip club?

[Tim Geddes]

Four. Okay, four times.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's a respectful amount.

[Tim Geddes]

Four times. Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay. That's pretty solid. Yeah. Do you transition?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I don't even know.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, but going to strip clubs were big at the time. You know what I mean?

[Tim Geddes]

They were so big. But I'm tired of all that big news. If I. If I wanted to know something smaller, say the tiniest little news I could ever possibly know about, where would I go?

[Roger Pokorny]

You'd go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where we cover all the smaller news items you need to know about. We can really stay here for a while. Cause we got some ones to talk about here. We do.

[Tim Geddes]

We got some ones to talk about.

[Roger Pokorny]

We got some ones to talk about here.

[Tim Geddes]

PS Plus Extra and premium games for August have been announced on Extra. You get Mortal Kombat 1. Oh, super cool. Play through that. Just for the campaign at the very least.

[Roger Pokorny]

I need to play.

[Tim Geddes]

It's that the latest one? Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay, cool.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, Yeah. A little Blockbuster.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Marvel Spider Man. Hey, if you somehow haven't played that yet.

[Roger Pokorny]

Not remastered, just the first one. Just the regular one. That's interesting.

[Tim Geddes]

That is interesting. Sword of the sea. New game.

[Roger Pokorny]

New game.

[Tim Geddes]

Looks cool.

[Roger Pokorny]

New game.

[Tim Geddes]

Earth Defense Force Six.

[Roger Pokorny]

Good for you knowing that one. He just says edf and you just knew.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm a big acronym guy.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I love looking at acronyms and contextually trying to figure out what they mean.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

What's your favorite acronym? Imho. You seem like an imho.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, well, I. No, no.

[Roger Pokorny]

Imho.

[Tim Geddes]

That's so offensive. So I saw this recently. IY S GTC I, Y S G, T, C. It was in a rap. It was the name of a rap song.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, I don't know that one.

[Tim Geddes]

And I figured it out.

[Roger Pokorny]

What is it?

[Tim Geddes]

Can you say if you're scared, go to church?

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, that's fire.

[Tim Geddes]

I was very proud of myself.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's really good.

[Tim Geddes]

I was like, wow, how'd I get there?

[Roger Pokorny]

That's awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

Ye. Unicorn Overlord. I never can say that.

[Roger Pokorny]

Game Unicorn Overlord.

[Tim Geddes]

Unicorn over corn Overlord. Back to back. It just gets me, dude. Too many Atelier. Rise of 3.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, you killed that one, though. What do you want me to do?

[Tim Geddes]

Bless would add some shit to it.

[Roger Pokorny]

You nailed that one.

[Tim Geddes]

God. Where is Bless him?

[Roger Pokorny]

Indicator.

[Tim Geddes]

Indica.

[Roger Pokorny]

I played Indica. I liked Indica a lot. Yeah, yeah, we talked about it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Indica.

[Tim Geddes]

Should people play it?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, they should.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay. What is it?

[Roger Pokorny]

It's a. No, it's like an A20. The best way to describe it is like. It's like if a 24 made a video game you play as a nun and it gets all freaky and weird and I'll just leave it at that. It's like a three, four hour experience. You just totally played it. It's fucking weird and cool and I still think about it a lot. It's. It's really incredible.

[Tim Geddes]

Then another one you played Harold Halibut.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, I did not like this game at all.

[Tim Geddes]

It looks very cool, though.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, it's. It's not very good.

[Tim Geddes]

But it looks cool.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, it looks cool. And then you play and you're like, this is weird. This is creepy. None of the people, nobody blinks. All the eyes don't move. What's happening here then?

[Tim Geddes]

Coral Island.

[Roger Pokorny]

I've never.

[Tim Geddes]

Walking Dead Spin off.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, is it really?

[Tim Geddes]

No. You get Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. Nemesis. That naming convention makes me think these are the original games.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh. Which is kind of cool. I never played three.

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah, usually just a cut in here. Premium games are usually like classics. PS1, PS2 classics.

[Tim Geddes]

Sick. Developers in Blizzard Story and Franchise Development SDF have voted to unionize. There we Go.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Lego Voyagers launches September 15th on Xbox, PS4 and 5, Nintendo Switches and PC. And then from VGC, Namco's 1996 arcade racer, Aqua Jet. Oh. Gets its first ever home release this week. Aqua Jet will be released on Thursday and will be coming to Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox series as an arcade archives. Two game and a Switch and PS4 as an arcade archives.

[Roger Pokorny]

A lot of questions there. But, I mean, specifically, what is Aqua Jet? Do you know Aqua Jet?

[Tim Geddes]

I do not. I'm unfamiliar with.

[Roger Pokorny]

Is it like A cruisin clone?

[Tim Geddes]

A 96 arcade racer? 96 was, I want to say, the year that Cruisin came out.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay. Oh, I know this game. I know this game.

[Mike Minatti]

It's. It's a bad version, or.

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't.

[Mike Minatti]

I don't want to say bad.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, it's a Hydro Thunder.

[Mike Minatti]

No Wave Race.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, I know this game. I used to play this game. I like this game.

[Tim Geddes]

I never played this game.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm never playing it, but I like it.

[Tim Geddes]

But, dude, you ever play Hydro Thunder, we actually have to sit on the Jet Ski.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, maybe that's what I'm thinking. This is. Or maybe this is like a ripoff of that. I don't know. Know. Because it says it's an arcade game.

[Tim Geddes]

Hydro Thunder was also an arcade game.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. We never know which one's first. This is cool.

[Mike Minatti]

None of them are Wave Race, though.

[Tim Geddes]

Wave Race. Not an arcade game. Ironically.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, ironically, but it's better.

[Tim Geddes]

Enzo coming to PS5 in early 2020.

[Roger Pokorny]

And they're considering Xbox, I believe. I think that was the. That was the thing. They're considering Xbox. Shout out. Enzo. Lianza played it for a good week, and then I was like, is it as good as the Sims? And she says, no, but at least it. You know, it's some. It's a competitor out there, so. That's interesting.

[Tim Geddes]

That is interesting.

[Roger Pokorny]

It's interesting. It's a competitor. Hi, Mike. Fucking Mike. But, yeah, I don't know. I want this game. It doesn't. It has issues with running on PC, so I want a stable version of it. I want to try it out. It looks cool. It looks like the everything game. It looks, you know, like we're doing Sims, but it looks realistic. And also it has all these insane features. So I want to try it out. I want a stable version of it, so. Hell, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, this is interesting. It looks better than I expected.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

By a long shot.

[Roger Pokorny]

But then you see that. Yeah. Yeah, but it is. It's. It's. It's the Sims, but it's made by the people that did or published by the people that did. PlayerUnknowns Battleground.

[Tim Geddes]

I feel like I know that girl in real life. Yep. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is ending Xbox One and PS4 support on November 13th and moves over to a native Xbox Series and PS5 version.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's interesting. I always. I always love those videos where people go back to, like, dead versions of online games and see. And see, like, where they're at, like, TF2 infamously never got an update. So it was just on 360. It just is the 1.0 version of it. And, like, the game completely changes after that. So. So people go back and, like, look at. People still play this.

[Tim Geddes]

I love looking at, like, the Internet Archive.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Just finding old websites. Wow.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. This is existed.

[Tim Geddes]

This is what it looks like.

[Roger Pokorny]

This existed. Yeah. I remember buying Counter Strike CS Go the day it came out on Xbox and it just never got an update after that. Like, just never had an update.

[Tim Geddes]

I remember when Counter Strike came out on the original Xbox. The first.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Early days. This must have been like, 2002, I want to say. And it was the first game to come to. First shooting game to come to consoles that didn't have split screen. I've never been more morbidly offended by.

[Roger Pokorny]

Anything in my life. You just bought it and you didn't.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, I didn't buy it, Alfredo. I refused to buy it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I was excited for Counter Strike because everyone was talking about Counter Strike on PC. I'm like, it's coming to console. That's where I'm gonna play this thing. And then I heard, like, the review from EGM or whatever. I was like, yeah, no, split screen. I was like, excuse me.

[Roger Pokorny]

How dare you?

[Tim Geddes]

Split screen, no bots.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

What are we fucking talking about here?

[Roger Pokorny]

What are we doing?

[Tim Geddes]

I'm not playing against these tryhards. No, dude.

[Roger Pokorny]

Never learned the lesson. God, I'm excited you would tell me about this one, though.

[Tim Geddes]

Chibi Robot.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm excited to learn about this one.

[Tim Geddes]

Chibi Robo coming to Nintendo Switch Online expansion pass on August 21st. This is a GameCube game.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

We seem to be on a cadence of about one GameCube game a month from NSO. We started with the three to launch, and then here we have this. I'm interested. They went with this this early. This feels kind of like a later edition, but what's cool about this? I've never played Chibi Robo, but I mean, the reason is incredibly rare.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh.

[Tim Geddes]

Like this is a. I mean allegedly there's ways that I did play it for a little bit, but I never fully played this thing. But this is a game that to this day gets like $200 if you're trying to buy it. So it's going to be really interesting. There's a handful of GameCube games. Let me give you a little history list here, Roger.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, GameCube, okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Didn't sell that many units. You know, we always talk about the Wii U. It was like, oh, 13 million, 13 million, whatever. GameCube compared to PlayStation 2 and Xbox, way, way, way smaller. Still competitive in the scene, but like definitely clearly third place because of that. That means the amount of GameCube games made is dramatically less than PS2 specifically. Right. So when you start getting to these kind of like more niche games that already they knew weren't going to sell Mario Smash Brothers levels of games, they didn't even make that many to begin with. So now that we're in this like, you know, many years later retro era of GameCube, finding those games is hard and expensive. Now that we're in the post pandemic era of retro collecting, if you look at a chart, this thing spiked like this used to be expensive and being like $90.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

And now it's 200 something dollars. And there's a handful of GameCube games, specifically Chibi Robot, Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance, and just a couple other ones that are just like very, very, very expensive. And what's cool, I think Pokemon xd, Gale of Darkness is on that list as well. They are some of the games that Nintendo showed as the like tease of like gamecube games to come to nso. So I kind of like that because it's them kind of like being like, hey, these really difficult games to get, here they are to make accessible.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's really cool.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'm stoked on that. So them leading with this a bit of a surprise to me, but I like what it says.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, I'm excited to play this because at first when I saw like the announcement of like, oh, this is what's coming to nsi, I was like a little disappointed because you know, you want the tentpole. Like the most popular GameCube. There's like four. I mean, are there more? I don't know. I never want to get GameCube.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, I mean there was like, I forget. Could you bring up the Nintendo list?

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, no, I mean like out now on the N.S.O.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, gotcha.

[Roger Pokorny]

Gotcha.

[Tim Geddes]

I thought you were talking about, like, during the direct when they show.

[Roger Pokorny]

I mean, like, I wanted. I wanted, like, the. Like, here are like, the bangers they gave the bangers.

[Tim Geddes]

We got F0GX, we got Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's it. That's all.

[Tim Geddes]

And Soul calibur 2.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's all y' all got.

[Tim Geddes]

That's three of the ten biggest bangers on the game.

[Mike Minatti]

Saying y', all, like, I made the.

[Roger Pokorny]

Game, you know, I mean, like, that's all you got. Nintendo got. That's the bangers you got.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, to answer your question, yes.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, damn. I didn't real. Okay, we're. I didn't realize. I thought you guys got, like, better games. Like when I had the PS2, everyone's like, you gotta get the GameCube. And I'm like, oh, shit.

[Tim Geddes]

Did you play?

[Roger Pokorny]

No, I didn't. I don't. I never played the gamecube. I'm looking.

[Tim Geddes]

Why did you play them now?

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm trying to play them now. That's what I'm trying to do there. We're talking about three games. You have three games.

[Tim Geddes]

Did you play any of them?

[Roger Pokorny]

To be fair?

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah, you're not touching any of them. You're just complaining about how few there are right now.

[Roger Pokorny]

I just.

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah, they drip feed this all the time, Roger.

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, yeah, okay, let me get to my point. My point was, I saw this. I was like, I don't know. This fucking game. I wanted, you know, Animal Crossing. I wanted, you know, Beautiful Joe. I want those big ones.

[Tim Geddes]

Right, Beautiful Joe.

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't know.

[Tim Geddes]

That's your example.

[Roger Pokorny]

Absolutely. I fucking love you, but like, Batman Vengeance. You know what I mean? Pikmin. Come on. Like, start putting these games on there, right? And then I see this one and I look at the ends and I'm like, man, like, I don't know. This game looks like I want. I want the bangers. And she was like, roger, like, this looks like a you game. I'm like, why is it a me game? She's like, it looks dumb as fuck. And I'm like, yeah, you're right, actually. And then, like. And I start thinking about it the more I look at this game, like, yeah, this is totally my game. So what I was trying to say was like, this. This is a good thing. So you guys didn't let me finish my fucking sentences.

[Mike Minatti]

Well, you stopped yourself because then you started talking shit about the gamecube.

[Roger Pokorny]

I didn't realize you guys were defending the fact that you had three games.

[Mike Minatti]

You gotta stop hanging out with me.

[Tim Geddes]

But the three is some of the best games ever made.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, you're acting like, oh, that's all we got.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, no, it's like if you're talking about the games the best.

[Roger Pokorny]

Tell me the top 10. Tell me the top 10 GameCube games of all time right now.

[Tim Geddes]

Here's what I'm saying. Like the games that you would expect. Expect or desire for Nintendo to put on its GameCube service from the GameCube. So what does this mean? Yeah, don't expect games with licensed soundtracks, you know, don't expect anything where it's like, oh, there's some fuckery going on. So what are the big ones? Smash Brothers Melee, Mario Sunshine, Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess as well. Soul calibur 2.

[Roger Pokorny]

Where's Mario Sunshine?

[Tim Geddes]

I said that.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, is it in?

[Tim Geddes]

It was on the image of the. But it's coming.

[Roger Pokorny]

But they put the Robo GB first.

[Tim Geddes]

This was one of the. This was next to Mario Sunshine.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm saying this. Sunshine should have been first.

[Mike Minatti]

No, it shouldn't have.

[Tim Geddes]

But Sunshine's also metroid. Metroid prime. 1, 2, 3. But again, we're also talking about games that. I'm saying, what games can we expect to be here? Don't expect Mars Sunshine super soon because it's already on 3D All Stars. Don't expect it in Metroid prime because you could buy it on the switch to remaster.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

So they're doing a good job right now. Smash Brothers Bailey is the one big one that has not yet been shown. And Twilight isn't necessarily going to happen. Twilight Princess is. They'll never do it as a GameCube game. If we ever see it, that'll be the version.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh.

[Tim Geddes]

Take it to the bank.

[Mike Minatti]

So at that point, it doesn't even. You're saying they do like a skyward sword quote unquote remake of Twilight Princess is what you're saying?

[Tim Geddes]

Yes.

[Mike Minatti]

I think that's insane.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I don't think that we see on the GameCube NSO. Twilight Princess. Princess. Yeah, I really don't think we see it. I just don't plays better.

[Roger Pokorny]

This is one of the goats. This is one of the goats.

[Tim Geddes]

This is one of the cult classics.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay, I'll take that. I'll take that. I'll take that. So what's next? What do you want the next one to be?

[Tim Geddes]

Well, we already. That's the thing is I need to see what this list of Games is because I don't remember. But I'm waiting for. We saw on that list Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance and Pokemon Coliseum.

[Roger Pokorny]

What would you choose?

[Tim Geddes]

I want Fire Emblem, Path of Radio. You think that's first the fact. I mean I don't know. Probably. Actually no. Mario Sunshine.

[Roger Pokorny]

You think they do that next?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, because here's why.

[Roger Pokorny]

Summer already ended.

[Tim Geddes]

We need to do a gamescast at some point. Talking about all of this.

[Roger Pokorny]

Put it on the list.

[Tim Geddes]

Put it on the list.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But Mario's 40th anniversary is around the corner.

[Mike Minatti]

And they're going to do absolute fuck off for it.

[Tim Geddes]

But for Mario's 35th anniversary they did a of lot lot. And there was a logo made. There's a logo made now that's making its. Its ways around the Internet. For the 40th anniversary we're getting something that something could be probably. Is Mario Sunshine coming to nso?

[Mike Minatti]

I'm still salty about the. The recent Zelda anniversary to having absolutely fuck all.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah but Zelda anniversaries are different Beast compared to how Mario handles his shit.

[Roger Pokorny]

Big deal.

[Tim Geddes]

It's fucked up the big Mario. Every the five and ten years they be going all out. They make their own logos. They do their own projects. They do. They do it. They do it. Ross.

[Roger Pokorny]

I like that. They make their own logos.

[Tim Geddes]

They do.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm gonna play this game is what I'm trying to get at.

[Tim Geddes]

That's what you're trying to get at.

[Roger Pokorny]

We got a little lost in the sauce here. A lot of people accusing things of other things.

[Tim Geddes]

Accusing things of other things.

[Roger Pokorny]

All I'm saying is that PlayStation 2 superior and I'm gonna play this.

[Mike Minatti]

I don't know if anybody would fight you on that.

[Roger Pokorny]

Usually people are trying to fight me on it.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't know. I mean. Well, what I would fight is the PS2 games that would be on a. On PlayStation's version of this service. I think that it's not a dominant win because PS2's library dominated by third parties. Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. That's. I mean that's a different Nintendo.

[Mike Minatti]

That's a different conversation.

[Tim Geddes]

Sounds like the conversation we're having. No comparing their.

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't even know what conversation I'm having anymore. I'm gonna be honest. I've lost the plot. The biggest, last.

[Tim Geddes]

What conversation do you want to have, Barrett?

[Mike Minatti]

Which is. Which was the better console for the time and have a better time. Better games.

[Tim Geddes]

PlayStation 2.

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah, exactly. That's the conversation I feel like Roger was trying to have.

[Tim Geddes]

Rogers.

[Roger Pokorny]

I Don't even know what. I get it.

[Mike Minatti]

He was like three.

[Roger Pokorny]

I was like three years old. I was playing Batman Vengeance and fucking. Because I had the moment where I was looking through the top hundred games of all time. Like, what am I gonna be my goats, right? And I'm looking through the Metacritic of PS2 and it's like the. Like from highest to lowest. Right? Right. I'm on the first like 5 to 10 pages of Metacritic and I'm like, I don't recognize any of these fucking games. And I reverse order and I go from worst games to best games. And I've noticed all those games. I know the king. Those were the goats. Those were the things I was playing because they were in the $5 bid. That's what I was playing. Ah.

[Mike Minatti]

That's why our top 100 is fucked up.

[Tim Geddes]

It would be interesting to look at PS2 versus Xbox versus Gamecube. Exclusively only. And exclusives would have to count of, like, later. Resident Evil 4 is an exclusive on GameCube, even though it later came out on PS2.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But like, it was for a very long time exclusive.

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, Xbox had Splinter Cell.

[Tim Geddes]

Xbox had Splinter Cell for a little bit and Kotor.

[Roger Pokorny]

Boom.

[Tim Geddes]

And Halo. And that's it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Last one, last we news right there. Clover Pit launches September 3rd on PC. That is the game developed by the team that did Yellow Taxi goes for Room, their new game. It's a smaller project. The basic. Basically the way I would describe it is they are trying to do what Balatro did for cards, but for gambling and like slot machines, it's a little bit less, I would say, interesting, in my opinion, than Balatro because Baltra takes the idea of poker and kind of like turns on its head and makes it collecting a card game, collect, collectathon kind of deal. This is just more of like you are gambling and then you have upgrades to make your gambling easier year. It's like doing insanely well on their Steam Wishlist. I think it's like one of the top 50 games wishlisted on Steam right now. It's like going something insane. Numbers fact chat me on that. But this game is going to do really well and people have been playing the fuck out of that demo. So shout out to that team and it just shows. I think there's a little bit of a trend going on now of indie developers or just developers in general that make a game that is their passion project. It doesn't really hit to the levels that they necessarily need it to be. They make a smaller game fast. As fuck. And it hits. We have this with Peak. We have this now with Clover Pit. It's really cool to see developers kind of have that mobility. And I think that's something interesting about the indie development scene right now, is that you can make a game that hits with a smaller audience and then be like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna make something really fast and see what happens. So shout out to them, super cool, man.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, go support that for sure. And that's it for Wii News. For the vocal silence of Barrett Cordney in the background.

[Mike Minatti]

I took a break for a bit.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But it's nice. I like it. You remind people some super chat. Chat. Aaron Lime says MGS Delta's online multiplayer won't have crossplay. Do you think this is a Sony thing? Night Ran and Rematch had the same issue. What's going on? I don't know, but I think it's. I think it's unacceptable for multiplayer games to not have crossplay at this point.

[Mike Minatti]

There are games on PlayStation that do have crossplay, though. But I do wonder if there's like a service fee or some that they require that other companies just don't want to fuck with. Whereas, like, games like Fortnite, they're like, like, we make so much money.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Mike Minatti]

We don't give a shit.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. But even that was a big issue.

[Mike Minatti]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Right. Right back in the day. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it's Sony. I hope that it's not, like. Because that is very fucking stupid, but it sounds like a Sony thing to do. Garrett Redden says Chibi Robo is a banger. It's very underrated. Adored this game and I replay it yearly now. I have a better way to do so I'm excited to play.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm excited to play it too.

[Tim Geddes]

Hopefully more.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm excited to play it out. I'm playing.

[Tim Geddes]

Kebab says, in my opinion, PS2 has better platformers than GameCube. I think at the end of the day, the biggest victory that PlayStation 2 has is sheer quantity. Like, there were so many PS2 games and we had so many, like, trilogies of games on that one console. Like, we were eating, man, it was very, very. It had so much support from third parties and first parties. Even though first parties kind of meant a different thing for PlayStation back then. But, yeah, I mean, I feel like that's probably a fair statement. Kebabs.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Flying Penguin says, why does Roger add an A to the end of his words? We've talked about this.

[Roger Pokorny]

It's fine. I'm Trinidadian. I have a little bit. I'm turning that in. And also New Yorker. Ish.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't know. It just, like, that's how I speak.

[Tim Geddes]

People have ways of talking. Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

I appreciate you, though.

[Tim Geddes]

You're wrong. Let's see if it's working.

[Roger Pokorny]

Click on it.

[Tim Geddes]

It's clicking. On is working. We have one. So that means we only got one thing wrong. The Portland Kevin says Hydro Thunder was a stylish speedboat racing game made by Midway for arcades, the Dreamcast, N64, and PS1 in the late 90s. The arcade game that Tim was likely thinking of, where you ride a WaveRunner, is the game WaveRunner made by Sega. No, I was thinking of Hydro Thunder. I definitely was thinking of Hydro Thunder. And, like, a lot of times they would repurpose arcade cabinets for different games. So I think that. Yeah, one man's boat's another man's jet ski, you know.

[Mike Minatti]

Are you so bad at.

[Tim Geddes]

I was on purpose.

[Roger Pokorny]

Baron. That was a bit.

[Tim Geddes]

That was a bit. That's it. That's Games Daily. I thought. I thought we weren't gonna have enough.

[Roger Pokorny]

Absolutely.

[Tim Geddes]

We had so much.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. Because then. Yeah. Yeah. I looked at you and I said, you're gonna carry this for Fast and Furious. Tell me about Fast and Furious lore.

[Tim Geddes]

And then we got everything wrong. But then we ended up being right. Yeah, I do love that. I was like, oh, yeah, it's the cruise and blast people. And it was like, no, it's not. It's like, yes, it is.

[Roger Pokorny]

It is. Technically, it is.

[Mike Minatti]

Raw Thrill just weren't listed on that trailer. But I wonder if it's just that other studio doing the port for it.

[Tim Geddes]

That's the thing is, I imagine, like, yeah, like, the console version of the game might have nothing to do with Raw Thrills, but it's like, all right.

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, the Cruisin team is doing it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, good stuff.

[Roger Pokorny]

Shout out to them. Making so many different types of games. I wanted to go inside a studio like that that's making so many different types of games. It's interesting. I mean, they're over here making the Cruis and Blast games, and they're also making a Wizard of Oz collectathon card game. How does that work?

[Tim Geddes]

How does that work?

[Roger Pokorny]

Is that just like 10 different teams that work, one different team? What does that look like?

[Tim Geddes]

Raw Thrills. Let me know.

[Roger Pokorny]

Let us know. We'll do a game scout interview.

[Tim Geddes]

That's dot com, everybody Dot com. Looking at the chat.

[Roger Pokorny]

You just think it. If there's anything else.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, no.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. All the people I want to talk about already left, so it's already gone.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, anyways, this has been fun.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Roger and I, Barrett hanging out, Appearances by night. Nick, Appearances by Mike, kind of. He walked through the room?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. He didn't say anything to me.

[Tim Geddes]

No. What's his deal?

[Roger Pokorny]

He's up tight. I told him you worked today. I texted him.

[Tim Geddes]

I was like, you work today. Yeah, well, we're all gonna work today. You're about to get a Mafia. The old country review. And then after that, strap in. It is our ice cubes. War of the Worlds. Watch along. It's gonna be a blast. I can't freaking wait till next time. It's been our pleasure to serve you.

[Mike Minatti]

Jesus.