Game Awards Announcements Already Leaking?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.01.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Game Awards Announcements Already Leaking?!

Episode Date: December 1, 2025 | Hosts: Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr.

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily sees hosts Greg Miller and Blessing Adeoye Jr. (with some cameos from Andy) diving into a range of big gaming news stories, heavy speculation around leaks and announcements for The Game Awards, retro hardware nostalgia, personal gaming updates, and community chat. The episode kicks off with light banter about food and leftovers and escalates into deep-dive discussions about new Control and Dead Rising projects, the latest in Fortnite's pop culture crossovers, and the state of AA vs AAA games, all with their usual humor and personal insights.

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Notable Topics & Discussions

1. Personal Updates & Thanksgiving Recap

• (03:14–10:15)
  • Blessing shares his Thanksgiving experience eating Ghanaian jollof rice, sparking friendly cross-cultural food debate and stories about leftovers.
  • They reminisce about their love for the N64—Blessing describes unearthing his collection and enjoying the new Analog 3D hardware.
  • [[Quote]] "Let me tell you, Ghanaian jollof rice... that shit hits as leftovers, though!" —Blessing (03:52)
  • Blessing discusses replaying DK64 and relives nostalgia discovering his childhood save file: "I saw my save—91 hours playing DK64... all the emotions flooded." (06:54)
  • Chat about collecting old N64 cartridges, the challenge of high prices, and using EverDrive/flash carts for retro play.

2. Retro Hardware & Analog 3D

• (06:01–10:49)
  • Blessing details his experience with the Analog 3D, an N64 hardware clone that outputs to 4K and supports original N64 cartridges and controllers—great for multiplayer and revisiting childhood faves.
  • Discussion about whether collecting retro consoles/games is nostalgic fun or a deep hobby.
  • Greg: “Even if I had access to them... Pop it in, play for a little bit and then bounce.”
  • Bless references collecting mostly for nostalgia: “I'm such a N64 fan... I have like such intense nostalgia for that console." (07:28)
  • Commentary on the cost and convenience of retro gaming versus digital collections.

3. Main News: The Rope Report

A. Control ‘Resonant’ Trademark Leak & Game Awards Speculation

• (14:41–24:23)
  • New European trademark for “Control Resonant” inspires speculation: Is it a new game, expansion, TV adaptation, anime, mobile, or something else?
  • Hosts doubt it’s the title of a Control 2; theorize on possible TV, anime, bundle, VR, or even audio drama projects.
  • Blessing: “Control Resonant for some reason gives me anime series or like animated series vibes.” (17:49)
  • Greg: “I feel like Remedy keeps making interesting choices... Are they making the right choices though?" (18:54)
  • Chat throws out ideas—possibly a VR spin-off, an indie collaboration, radio drama, or tabletop game.
  • Conclusion: Likely not Control 2, perhaps an experimental or multimedia project, with an outside chance of being a new game teaser.
  • [[Memorable moment]] The playful debate over resonance/resonant/resident and how Remedy might approach weird naming conventions.

B. New Dead Rising Reported, Starring Frank West

• (24:23–36:36)
  • Capcom reportedly developing a new mainline Dead Rising, not a remake, set in Hollywood with Frank West.
  • Greg gives a passionate history of his love for Dead Rising and critiques the series’ convoluted evolution: “Dead Rising is such a core video game memory for me... Dead Rising as a brand is such a fumble.” (25:53)
  • Debate: Should Capcom reboot Dead Rising to recapture its original magic? What are its core pillars (B-movie camp, timing mechanics with consequences, unique weapons)?
  • Blessing suggests: “I want a Dead Rising game where your choices matter—side quests expiring changes the world, survivors become bosses if you fail, genuinely reactive.”
  • Reflection on the importance of scope, depth, and consequences in reviving dormant game franchises.
  • [[Quote]] “If you were in the boardroom... three things Dead Rising needs: B-movie horror, [creative] weapons, and... choices that make the space feel like it matters.” —Greg (31:10)

C. Fortnite’s Wild Crossovers & Yuki’s Revenge Event

• (46:00–54:05)
  • Recap of Fortnite’s sprawling pop culture cameos—Marty McFly, Bride from Kill Bill, Cody Rhodes, Iron Man, and more.
  • Epic’s debut of Tarantino’s “Yuki’s Revenge,” a long-lost Kill Bill chapter, inside Fortnite: reactions are mixed-to-negative in the fanbase.
  • Greg on the crossover weirdness: “It was such a cool idea... and then the Fortnite characters start appearing—can you imagine being a Quentin Tarantino die-hard? There’s a banana with a shotgun." (49:01)
  • Blessing analogizes: If the fabled Dr. Dre album ‘Detox’ released only as a Fortnite event, “I would be so angry.”
  • Hosts muse on the surreal future of IP mashups and parental reactions to mature content in youth-oriented games.

D. Paradox Takes Blame for Vampire: Bloodlines 2’s Sales Flop

• (54:05–65:07)
  • Paradox admits the underwhelming performance of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is on them; $37 million write-down.
  • Greg’s hands-on: “It feels like a PS3 RPG... rough edges, but so much to like... luring people down alleyways, gliding around Seattle... I am compelled to go back.”
  • Discussion on the “double-A” RPG space being squeezed out by AAA expectations—Blessing: “If you want to be a successful action-adventure RPG now, you’ve got to be God of War.”
  • Examining how mid-budget games with unique visions struggle when pitted against genre blockbusters.

E. Industry News Quickfire (Wii News Channel)

• (65:33–70:42)
  • Let It Die Inferno, the new PS5 roguelike, used heavy AI-generated content—raising skepticism: “Valve now requires developers to disclose AI use… it may be more useful to describe what WASN’T made by a machine.” —Greg (67:10)
  • Nintendo to acquire Bandai Namco’s Singapore studio—will focus on in-game art assets.
  • Embracer continues divestment spree; more redundancies and sell-offs.
  • Updates on new Nintendo Online games, sales milestones (Cyberpunk 2077 at 35M copies), and minor release/delay news.

4. Community Super Chats/Listener Mail

• (70:46–78:13)
  • Chat about defining “AAA” versus “AA” in today’s inflated budget environment.
  • Double A games may be rebounding or re-emerging with distinctive risks and ideas, versus franchised, polished AAA.
  • Multiple birthday shoutouts and heartwarming community stories (including a new dad watching with his daughter).
  • Tips for meeting Jack Quaid, advice on retro hardware, Magic the Gathering collecting, and more.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Blessing (on nostalgia): “I’m such a N64 fan because that was my first console… I have such intense nostalgia for it.” (07:28)
• Greg (on Control rumors): “Remedy keeps making interesting choices. Are they making the right choices? Who knows!” (18:54)
• Blessing (on Control Resonant): “That sounds like an anime series or maybe an animated spinoff… if it’s a game, just call it Control 2!” (17:49)
• Greg (about Dead Rising’s identity): “Dead Rising—what is it? Zombies, B-movie horror… but you need to have those cool choices and crazy weapons, otherwise, it’s just a copy.” (31:10)
• Blessing (on Fortnite): “If you showed myself some of this shit ten years ago… it’d blow my mind! Cody Rhodes, Iron Man, bananas, Eminem, Bart Simpson—all together!” (48:27)
• Greg (Tarantino in Fortnite): “There’s a banana with a shotgun that Uma Thurman tells to go back in the house.” (49:01)
• Greg (on Vampire: Bloodlines 2): “It’s very double-edged… not a 10/10, but there’s so much to like. Luring people down alleys, gliding around Seattle… I’m compelled to keep playing.” (56:13)
• Blessing (on double-A games): “Everything for mid-budget action games is fighting each other—if you want to be that, you’ve got to be God of War. Everything else gets lost.” (58:43)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Personal/Thanksgiving Recap, Analog 3D/Retro: 03:14–10:49
• Control Resonant/Remedy Speculation: 14:41–24:23
• Dead Rising Rumors/Franchise Analysis: 24:23–36:36
• Fortnite Chapter 7 & Kill Bill Fortnite Event: 46:00–54:05
• Vampire: Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop & RPG Market Talk: 54:05–65:07
• Industry News Quickfire: 65:33–70:42
• Community Super Chats & Wrap-up: 70:46–78:13

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Summary & Takeaways

• The biggest thread through the episode is anticipation and skepticism about potential Game Awards announcements, especially Control and Dead Rising, and what trends or mistakes publishers might repeat.
• The hosts use personal stories and retro gaming news as a jumping-off point for exploring the emotional side of gaming, the appeal of nostalgia, and hardware collecting vs. playing.
• A recurring theme is how AA games and unique mid-tier experiences struggle (or occasionally thrive) in a sea of high-budget competitors, with lots of love given to games that “go left” instead of following the pack.
• Fortnite continues to be the pop culture blender, with hosts both marveling at and lightly mocking its endless string of crossovers and IP events.
• Listener interaction is as rowdy as ever, with the community pitching theories, sharing life events, and ribbing the hosts.

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Final Thoughts

This episode perfectly encapsulates Kinda Funny’s blend of sharp, honest industry analysis, irreverent humor, and personal gaming stories. Whether you care about leaks, retro nostalgia, or pop culture crossovers, you’ll find a fun, insightful discussion. Plenty of memorable moments come from the hosts riffing on industry absurdities while staying grounded in what makes news exciting (or exasperating) to real players everywhere.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing]

What are you eating?

[Greg Miller]

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[Andy]

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[Blessing]

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[Blessing]

We have a plan.

[Greg Miller]

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Get ready for one last adventure.

[Blessing]

We stay true to ourselves. Stay true to our friends.

[Greg Miller]

No matter the cost.

[Blessing]

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[Greg Miller]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about. A new trademark for control has been found. Capcom is reportedly making a new Dead Rising, a game we know that's making an appearance at the game Awards. And shout out to kinda funny best friend I.C. wiener who two months ago told us he had avocado siiz brain tumor that requires surgery and had a 40% chance of paralyzing him on his left side. I'm happy to report everyone that Thursday surgery was Friday. He is alive and he's not paralyzed. Yeah, we'll evolve this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Monday, December 1, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30, aka New York Game Awards. Nominated, aka leftovers. Poppy Blessing. Eddie. Oh, ye Jr.

[Blessing]

I've been big leftover Poppy.

[Greg Miller]

I figured you had, man. I figured you had.

[Blessing]

Oh, man.

[Greg Miller]

I saw you starting this, though, on your. The rice. We're like, I'm gonna see how Ghanaian jollof rice. Yeah. Compares to Nigerian.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Because there's a whole. It's a whole debate. The Ghanaians are out here. We all know if I can tell, because my. So my sister.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

A Nigerian woman is married to a Ghanaian man.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And so this year, she did all the cooking for Thanksgiving because she hosted it in her place at Seattle.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And she cooked Ghanaian jollof rice. My first time having Ghanaian jollof rice. And I posted on Instagram stories. I'm like, all right, I'm going to try this rice. And I post another story saying Nigerian jollof is better.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

Let me tell you, Ghanaian jollof rice. That shit hits his leftovers, though. Oh, yeah. I was there for the full day after because I was. We were there for Thursday, Thanksgiving, and then Friday. I didn't leave until the very end of the day.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And like, when I tell you I had that same meal three days in a row on Friday, it's macaroni and cheese and ganacha rice. And it was really good. I'm never going to say it's as good as Nigerian jollof rice.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

But that's more so pride. If anything.

[Greg Miller]

I'm being real.

[Blessing]

It was really good. So shout out.

[Greg Miller]

That was okay. Good. I'm glad that worked out for you. Did you have a nice break?

[Blessing]

I did have a nice break. I feel like I did so much.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I went to Seattle, hung out with the family. I did a friendsgiving as well, which is really fun to do. On Saturday, I beat Kirby Air Riders, which isn't like a big feat. It's a short. If you're doing the city tour. Not city tour, the road tour.

[Greg Miller]

Road trip.

[Blessing]

Road trip. If you're in the road trip mode.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

It's like a few hours, but it was nice to play that. That was my travel game. And then last night, I. I started up two different games. Oh, I made a list. Oh, I made a list of my road to the game of the year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

My December 2025 back the required homework here.

[Greg Miller]

What do we got to knock off? What do we got to get done?

[Blessing]

So the two things that I started last night were Citizen Sleeper 2.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Because at the Friends giving, Barrett came to me and he was like, yo, you got to play Citizen Sleeper.

[Andy]

Because I promised Andy I would play it in December, but then I didn't have a lot going on Thanksgiving break, so.

[Greg Miller]

Citizen Sleeper 2, great game.

[Andy]

Yeah. And played through it in two days. Fell in love with it. Had a tell blessing, man.

[Greg Miller]

How long did it take you?

[Andy]

It was like maybe 12 hours, if that. Like, way shorter than I was expecting.

[Greg Miller]

Interesting. Yeah. I remember back at launch when Andy was reviewing it, I did like, what, five hours, four hours, something like that. I like that.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Go back to it, the way it ends. I was like, God damn, this might be one of my favorite written games this year.

[Blessing]

And I started up Silent Hill F last night.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Blessing]

And after I saw all the game nominations, I was like, okay, this seems like one that I should check out. I also, over the weekend, got to play around with my analog 3D that.

[Greg Miller]

I saw that. I saw that. Very cool.

[Blessing]

If you followed along. Tim's had his, like, analog pocket for years, which has been his, like, Game Boy machine that he got from Analog, the company that makes all these cool retro hardwares. They just put out analog 3D, which is their N64 that you can play on 4K TVs.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And it was really cool getting it and being like, all right. I prepared for this because this shit got delayed hella times this year. And so earlier in the year, I stopped by Pink Gorilla, one of the few times I was in Seattle. And, um, I bought a couple of cartridges for N64 games that I owned as a kid. Wade Gretzky's 3D hockey and 007. The world is not enough. Not GoldenEye.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Yeah.

[Blessing]

And set it up over the weekend. Started messing around with those. And then I went and dug into, like, a tub that have my closet of, like, just a bunch of old shit. And I found my original DK64 cartridge from when I was a kid.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And I tried using that here and there throughout time. And, like, it just stopped working. And so I just assumed that it was broken. But I just kept the cartridge just because.

[Greg Miller]

Of course. Yeah. And.

[Blessing]

And yesterday I was like, you know what? Let me try. I got a cartridge cleaner that came with the device. So let me clean out this thing. Let me do it. Put it in. And it worked.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And, like, I saw my save 91 hours playing DK64.

[Greg Miller]

So you put this up on Instagram?

[Blessing]

Yeah. And legitimately, like a lot. Just all the emotions flooded and of like, man, that's crazy. I was playing this when I was 7, 8 years old, hooked on this thing and now like it's back running. So mess around with the save a little bit. Played Jetpack, which was the thing that kept me from actually beating the game as a kid. It was a really fun time.

[Greg Miller]

So talk to me about this. You bought this analog now for NC NXT 4 and YADA how what's your. When you. When you say I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna spend the money on it. What's your use case is this. You just wanted to be able to tinker with this stuff for a night and it's cool to have or do you expect like I am gonna go back and play X, Y and Z?

[Blessing]

It's definitely I'm gonna tinker for a night and then it's cool to have. But I'm also, I'm such a N64 fan because that was my first console. I grew up with it and so I have like such intense nostalgia for that console that even on my Switch Online or allegedly on the Steam deck, I'm just randomly booting up N64 games all the time. And like there's plenty of stuff there that's great for just multiplayer. The analog 3D comes with the ports and so if I have actual N4 controllers, I can just plug those in. And so if people are over, it's like, okay, we can play Smash, we can play original Mario Party stuff like that. But then also there's plenty of Wave Race. Wave Race. There's plenty of original or there's plenty of NC4 games that have just like fun arcade type stuff where I can hop in. Like I can play Mario tennis for like 30 minutes and have fun. Or I can play and see four games are also very short. So I can like beat Diddy Kong Racing in an afternoon if I wanted to. And so it's definitely that I want to start collecting and I use collecting like loosely.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Entity for cartridges that I. Mainly the ones that I had as a kid to kind of rebuild that collection. And so yeah, I'm excited to use it, but it's definitely not. I'm going to spend all my time playing the animal.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure. Yeah. I was just wondering what it meant for you. Yeah, yeah. It's interesting.

[Blessing]

And so it's definitely like already I'm like, this is worth the purchase just for.

[Greg Miller]

How much was it?

[Blessing]

64.

[Greg Miller]

I don't remember how much.

[Blessing]

I want to say like $300. Somewhere around that row. Correct me if I'm wrong. Chat.

[Greg Miller]

They will. Don't worry. They love doing that.

[Blessing]

Are you like a retro console person? Would this ever speak to you?

[Greg Miller]

No. I mean, I am in the way of. I have the similar thing of like, you know, I needed to move stuff around in the basement yesterday and I opened up the couch storage and I was moving things around. I was like, oh, man. You know, I was excited. I forgot that I had X Men origins, Wolverine on PS3. I was like, oh, shit, fuck, I gotta play it. But then, you know, I have my sealed no Mercy in there and my Superman 64 cartridge. Like, I have the games that mean a lot to me in there, but it's like, even if I had access to them, I think it would be, oh, this is so cool. Pop it in, play for a little bit and then bounce. You know? You know what I mean? Like, if I really was, you know, how I'm not in. How the job is, but if I'm not to go back and play old stuff, if I was to be like, I need to play Majora's mask, I would assume Majora's mask is on switch online, isn't it? Like, probably, yeah, I would go play it. But like, that's how disconnected I am, where it's like, I don't even. I'd be stoked for. Stoked for the Ocarina remake rather than go back and replay it. Yeah, but I'm with you. Of like, if I was to buy it, it would be this cool thing to do. Sit, look at. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Fuck around when you have people over, it's like, oh, we can fuck around this with this for 30 minutes. Yeah, I was playing him. It was so nice. Also this nice thing of being able to play this game, play these games as an adult. Where DK 64. I've. Me and Barrett did the whole Donktober thing where he finally beat it. It's. I'm like, do I go back and just finally beat this game? On the same.

[Greg Miller]

When you were the kid, the thing.

[Blessing]

I couldn't do as a. As a. As a kid. I finished the story and you were.

[Andy]

At like 71% or something when you showed your progress on the.

[Greg Miller]

Which is so ridiculous. For 91 hours.

[Blessing]

Yeah. DK 64 as a child looks.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not judging. It's just funny to see those numbers.

[Blessing]

Oh ye. And I'm bear. I even went as far as like do I 100% this game? I'm already this far.

[Andy]

Do I do the 101% where you find the.

[Blessing]

The.

[Andy]

The crazy hidden rainbow coin and shit like that?

[Blessing]

Yeah. So maybe there's that. I didn't have a. I think it was called a controller pack. It was the thing that you.

[Greg Miller]

Rumble pack.

[Blessing]

No, not the rumble pack. It was the thing that you saved your game. Not the exchange impact.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I think it was the cart. The save cartridge. You put the base of the 64.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I think it's just called a controller pack. Okay. But you would save certain games required that to keep saves like the world is not enough.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And so I never that game because I just never saved my game and I was always stuck on a certain level. So now I'm like do I go back and do that? I've been playing it a little bit at a time. It's nice. I love this thing for now. Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I'm glad. I'm glad. That's great for you. What's great for us is video game news and that's what we're going to cover because this is kind of Funny Games daily, each and every weekday on a variety of platforms, we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live on YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Twitch TV, kindafunnygames and podcast services around the globe. If you like that, we'd like you to pick up a kinda funny membership. $10 on patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kindofunnygames apple or Spotify gets you all of our shows. That's more than 80amonth A.D. free. And of course it gets you your daily dose of me, Greg Miller and a series we call Greg Way. And of course it gets you good karma for supporting an 11 person small business. All about live talk shows. No bucks. Toss away. No big deal. Like subscribe, share, watch us for free while we're live or later. And of course if you're watching right now and want to toss just some bucks, go over to the one. The only YouTube.com kind of funny games and super chat to be part of the show with your questions, your comments, your concerns. As we roll on. Kebabs writes in and says also moment of silence for Kebabs. Kebabs has been diagnosed celiac. No more glue.

[Blessing]

A heartbreaker.

[Sponsor Voice]

A heartbreaker.

[Greg Miller]

I saw that in the chat when we were.

[Blessing]

I'm Sorry, kebabs.

[Greg Miller]

I recommend Blessing by an EverDrive 64 for the analog 3D. It lets you play N64 games digitally, which helps get around the high price of real cartridges.

[Blessing]

I looking into some of those, like, I think they call them flash carts, where it's like kebab's been here for.

[Greg Miller]

Three years but was just for some reason bitching about it today. Well, you kebabs, I tried to be nice for a change. Now you get the whip. No more carrots, no more bread.

[Blessing]

But yeah, like, see, that's what she has. I know, but yeah, no, I. I was looking into like the 100 games and 1 carts and like that. I didn't even know if they had made those for N64. But yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to save that money, Cuz Turns out N64 cartridges is still expensive.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

Costs a lot of money.

[Greg Miller]

Of course. Housekeeping. Like I said, we're all about live talk shows after this. You're getting our review on Gamescast of Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Very excited to sit down with Tim and Andy and talk about that one. After the games cast is an episode of the Kind of Funny podcast. And then the stream is going to be us all in the studio here playing Cosmic Invasion together for a little launch party we're throwing just to have fun and hang out. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is 15 minutes behind the scenes of Greg's Marvel Cosmic Invasion review. Thank you. You know what? Real quick too. Where's my Gmail? Gmail up here. The. The stream we're doing. It's gonna be a lot of fun and I do believe I got codes to give away. But it came. It was one of those where like we were having the conversation back and forth, back and forth before we got, you know what I mean, like for break or whatever, let's say Friday stream. Yeah, it looks okay. I have 10 codes to give away. Yes, I might have a fight stick. I don't know if that's true or not. I will see if that shows up in time.

[Blessing]

You were playing Marvel Cosmic Invasion with a fight stick?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Oh, that's cool.

[Greg Miller]

Because it's like, you know, like an arcade.

[Blessing]

Oh, you know, I guess that makes sense.

[Greg Miller]

I'll keep you posted on that. But we'll have codes for sure to give away. This is just for fun. We're just hanging out. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the somme twining for now. Let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the rope report. Time for some new Seven items on the rope for report.

[Blessing]

The Baker's Dozen.

[Greg Miller]

Number one. A report says new trademark for Control resident unearthed ahead of the TGAs. This is Ephraim over at MP first, with the announcement of the Game Awards nominees, it's safe to say we have officially arrived at the season of news and rumors surrounding the event. And I'll stop you right there. It's always news and rumors time. We. We're talking about things that didn't show up at the State of Play in June. We're like, well, then, was it going to be way more? That's how you make content. All right. We are already seeing the effects behind the scenes, from the recent rating of a PC port of death, Trinity 2 on the beach to Hasbro confirming that Exodus will be part of the Game Awards lineup. But this appears to be just the very tip of the iceberg, as yet another recent move suggests an announcement related to the Control franchise could be imminent. This speculation of ours is tied to a recent trademark discovery as a product titled Control Resonant has recently been registered in Europe. The product in question is classified under several tags, including video game services, miscellaneous products, and the production of entertainment in the form of TV series and cine. Cinematographic. Cinematic.

[Blessing]

Cinema. Cinematographic. Cinematographic, y'. All.

[Greg Miller]

In Europe, you crazy. Cinematographic. Sorry.

[Blessing]

I got it. It's cinematographic cinematography.

[Greg Miller]

No word. That ain't no fucking word. Get out of here. Lucy James. You might wonder whether this trademark is related to the Game franchise, since the owner's information is hidden. But we can quickly dispel those doubts. If you look at the trademark representative listed in the description, you will see it's Nordia attorneys at law, the same representative used by Remedy Entertainment for all of their trademarks. A sequel to Remedy's critically acclaimed game Control was announced back in 2022 and entered full production in February of this year. Another major project revealed in 2022 was Remedy's collaboration with Annapurna Interactive, the creation of film and TV series adaptations for both Control and the Alan Wake franchise. Blessing Greg, will we see Control Resonant at the Game Awards? Ooh.

[Blessing]

I mean, on the timing of this, I wouldn't be surprised. It's always tough to read the. Not even the validity, I guess. The direction of trademarks. Right? Because this exists.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Blessing]

Will this actually result in anything? That's always the question with trademarks online. My question I'll throw back to you before we can get to the game game awards aspect of it is Control Resident. What does Control resonance sound like to you? Does that sound like a new game?

[Greg Miller]

No, it doesn't.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

Alan Wake 2 did really well. So you got to think that you. We're going to call it Control 2. Yeah, we're going to. We understand. We have the Remedy verse. It's building in people loving it and caring about it. It's like, why would you get in the way of that? And it's the same thing of, like, they bring up the Annapurna stuff. And of course, this is classified under video game services, miscellaneous products in the production of entertainment in the form of TV series and cinematographic films. Like, I. I don't. I don't foresee this being the Annapurna thing either.

[Blessing]

Control resonant for some reason gives me anime series or like animated series.

[Greg Miller]

Yes. Yeah, No, I don't think that. I don't think that's wrong. I don't think that. And I think that would my.

[Blessing]

Somebody says mobile game, which also, fuck me. Like. Yeah, I feel like a Control sequel. You just go Control two, Right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Or like, I feel like, listen, nothing against the word resonant. I feel like resonant isn't cool enough of a subtitle for a full sequel.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I love, you know, always fun to say stuff here. Like, in the beginning, I talked about Icy Wiener and the two. The thing. Right?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And so many people hear Icy like it's cold when, like, it actually is. Capital I, capital C. I see.

[Blessing]

I see.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And it's the same thing here where we said resonant. And I granted, I know I. I pronounce everything like a Chicago guy. So I up roof all the time. Right. But in the chat, people like Resident, like Resident Evil, like, no reset res.

[Blessing]

You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Like, I don't think it. Yay. I don't think you call it that. I don't know. But. But I also, then I honestly, I feel like Remedy keeps making interesting choices.

[Blessing]

That's awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Are they making the right choices all the time? What are they doing? Like, I could easily see this being some kind of, like, collection where it's a re. Re release of fucking Control with some other thing added. The da. And I don't like that. I don't like that. I know they've already done the PS5 version of control.

[Blessing]

Bundle in. There's only one Control game. I know they've already remastered it.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, maybe you're bringing it, like, it feels.

[Andy]

What if it Comes with cool collectibles. Like, say, for instance, like, what if it comes with like a little statue of ati?

[Blessing]

I mean, that'd be cool. I don't think you release a whole new edition into a trademark for oddsi.

[Greg Miller]

Would.

[Blessing]

I would. Okay. Resident. Resident. When you think of resonant.

[Greg Miller]

Well, right now in the chat, Doug goes, why is Greg adding a D? To resonate. And we're not saying resonate. We're saying resonant.

[Blessing]

Resonant. I'm just trying to. I'm just trying to pick up what they're resident down. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Resonant. Yeah, that.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Here's the thing. I think whatever it is, I could see it showing up in Game Awards and I could see it being underwhelming because I think it's a. I think it's a TV thing. If it's a mobile thing. I don't even think it shows up at Game Awards unless it's like a.

[Greg Miller]

My thing about it being a TV thing is this is just such a. I. This is how you and me would announce a TV thing, whereas that. They never announced TV things the way gamers would do it. I would come. I'd be like, game Awards, the thing you love. Here's the thing with Annapurna, and it's a teaser. It's a what? This would be a fucking Variety article.

[Blessing]

You're right. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Where they're like. It's produced by whoever who does the showrunner on X, Y and Z. And this.

[Blessing]

We would have known about this for the last year.

[Greg Miller]

It's been promoted. Yeah. So I just. That's why I don't think it's an actual traditional entertainment property in terms of like something that. Because Variety Deadline. Like Annapurna would go there and put it in there. And that's where they would start with this conversation. So then you're back to what would we get at Game Awards? Where. I. I don't think it's. I would call it Control to. I guess it could easily be that this is the first teaser trailer and we do get this at the end of it. The title. Yeah, I guess that's what it's got to be.

[Blessing]

I almost. I don't know why I want.

[Greg Miller]

If they go with Control Restaurant.

[Blessing]

If they go with like a. A colon subtitle type dog.

[Greg Miller]

Nick 96 points out that a resonant adjective continuing to sound echoing and see.

[Blessing]

It feels called Control Echo. I could all. I could almost see that. Like, I feel like whatever thing comes after Control should be Like a short pointed word.

[Greg Miller]

Upgrade. Yeah. Upgraded or upgraded. I see. 88 says radio drama resident, all audio.

[Blessing]

See, that's what I was trying.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, that. That actually is so far. Ding, ding, ding. I think that's the best bet so far.

[Blessing]

We get like a clip of Auti listening to it in his ear.

[Greg Miller]

But Sam Lake comes out to give an award and also talks about this.

[Blessing]

And Yeah, I could see that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I'd also play a control tabletop game.

[Greg Miller]

That is another thing where I could definitely see it being some kind of.

[Blessing]

Tabletop RPG that fits in miscellaneous products.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Again. And that even, you know, start spread spinning out.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

You said mobile game. But what if we were just going indie game? Right. It was a smaller control.

[Blessing]

Okay. Kind of like though did like the cadence of Hyrule.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What if we were part. It is remedy partnering up with someone to make a smaller control experience where whatever you're doing is whatever you're doing.

[Blessing]

But yeah, when I think of resonant, I. I think of like we talked about, you know, like kind of like the sound frequency like, you know, resonating or whatever. I. I guess when I think of control, I also kind of think of when you're using your powers. He like grabs a thing and it's kind of like doing like.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

I feel like there's something there. But I feel again, this feels like I'm just grasping at straws.

[Greg Miller]

I'm just. Well, I mean, we're talking about what it reasonably could be because I don't think this is going to be the full blown one battle. Frankie28 says it's a VR thing. Yeah, could see that too.

[Blessing]

Actually, you know what? That'd be fucking sick. A control, VR game. I mean any VR game is not exciting, but a control.

[Greg Miller]

But for it, it's a sick announcement. Who are you going to strap the headset on and go play it?

[Blessing]

I think they can make it.

[Greg Miller]

They gotta come back from Firebreak. All right. They need successes. They don't need cool things. Better.

[Blessing]

What's a better proposition than a VR title? Fucking make it exclusive to Meta. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Well, first off, there you go. No, I don't. No, Shade, if you actually are in bed with Meta and they're fucking financing the game and they're allowing this to go. Go make your thing. Make sure you're making a game that makes money. Unlike FBC Firebreak, where.

[Blessing]

When do we see the next control? The next full control game control 2. Where are they at? Because I know they always full production in February.

[Greg Miller]

It just started this year. Full production.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

So maybe two years.

[Blessing]

But like they gotta start marketing it before that. I guess they don't have to. But based on video he market out. Expect them to start.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I mean it technically already has.

[Blessing]

Just from.

[Greg Miller]

Did we ever leave the Control to hype cycle. Wasn't Alan Wake too life cycling. It's all part of the remedy verse. Yeah.

[Blessing]

I could see. I could see it being another year before we get a Control two trailer.

[Greg Miller]

I'm going to say two years.

[Blessing]

Years. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Not that I think they're off track. I think they're gonna want to be bigger and better. I'll be interested. Yeah. How long it takes to get there and do that? I'll say two years.

[Blessing]

Fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Thank you very much. Would you like to move on to another sequel? Please. Number two on the Roper Report. Capcom is reportedly working on a new Dead Rising sequel starring Frank West. This is Andy Robinson of vgc. Capcom is working on a new Dead Rising game. That's according to a new report from MP First Again, which VGC can partially corroborate with our own source sources which claims that an in development zombie action sequel will also see the return of original protagonist Frank West. The project in question won't be a remaster or remake, but a new main entry in the series, the publication claims. It's said the new Dead Rising will see west head to Hollywood, with action primarily taking place within a massive enclosed movie studio lot where the game's main villain forces Frank and other survivors into various trials, all in the pursuit of filming his perfect movie. End quote. Capcom has said it's working on quote, reactivating dormant ips, end quote. Following the announcements of Onimusha and Okami sequels last year. Oh, where do we begin? I feel like, what is you? What. What is your. Dead Rising?

[Blessing]

I'm not really a Dead Rising person. I tried on Dead Rising too when that came out back in the day. And yeah, it didn't stick with me.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing]

And I feel like maybe it's because I followed the rules too much. I feel like that's one where you ignore the timer they put on you and just fuck around. But I didn't do that. I got too much anxiety and so I was like, you know what? I got to do everything before the time runs out. And then early on I was like, fuck this shit.

[Greg Miller]

I'm out. Sure, sure, sure. I adore Dead Rising.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Dead Rising is such a core video game memory for me. And I would say it Might even be alongside the psp. And I bought that right after college. Right. Dead Rising would be in that camp of this is the definitive my first adult video game memories where I had Dead Rising.

[Blessing]

Dead Rising. Right, okay.

[Greg Miller]

Because, you know, I love zombie movies. Zombie movies are my favorite horror genre. And I love horror and yada yada, yada. So when Dead Rising came out And I didn't. I 2024. Right. So I. That's the Deluxe Remaster 2006. There it is. Thank you very much. I Right around that time is when I convinced the newspaper I was working at to give me the video game column and blog. That's also then right around the time that I forced the newspaper to buy me a 360 by doing shady things. And so then I had the 360 and I started getting. I started writing to video game PR to get games. And so I got Dead Rising from Capcom. And I remember this was. The achievements were part of it. This is like, you know, the seeds of trophies, I assume. But like, I remember playing through it and beating it. And then I would do the thing where I would come home from work, I would make dinner for my girlfriend, and then I would sit there and I would do the zombie genocide trophy or whatever it was where you had to kill however many hundred thousands of zombies. And I would just drive the same circuit in the basement with the car. And then you get out and you go up here and the car would respond and you get the car and you drive. You know what I mean? Like. Like I loved Dead Rising so much and then went from there to ign where I started reviewing them and I forget which ones and how many. But it's like for me, Dead Rising as a brand is such a fumble. Where Dead Rising one captured that, hey, we want to be in a Romero movie. You're in the mall, we're making a Dawn of the Dead game, even though it's not hahaha. And then Capcom just wanted to keep going and get weird with it. And I think it's an interesting thing comparing it to what Capcom does in Resident Evil. And I think it's an interesting thing in comparing it to how Japanese video games and narratives tend to go versus a Western one, where I think so many Western audiences just wanted the experience of I'm in a mall and I want to survive these zombies. And I was with you of like playing that game. The timer drove me fucking crazy. I was like, I don't want this. I just want to be able to tackle the quests at any Point in time and blah, blah, blah. I got over and played through it, yada, yada, yada. But then as we went on and it was dead rising 2 was the motorcycle jacket, where it was like a game show I was on. And it was like, what the fuck is this? And then they kept delaying, giving you Frank West. And by the time we came back to Frank west, we had already had so many misses where it was like, does anyone care about this? And then off the record, this was the question I.

[Andy]

There are other protagonists that weren't Frank West. That's the man in my head for every single one of these games.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's because, again, I feel like they fumbled the bag where people wanted that so badly. And they were like, no, we're gonna get interesting and weird with it. And then by the time they came back, they had eroded the goodwill and whatever the name Dead Rising was to. Now that I read this and I go, fuck, man, just reboot it. Just. Just be done with it. This sounds like a cool concept. Hey, we're gonna be here and there's a guy torturing you in the thing. Okay. I like, whatever. Like, okay. But I would be way more stoked if they were like, listen, we're throwing it all away. We're restarting it. It's gonna be not a remake, but a reboot. It's Frank west in a mall. Here's what's going on. But I know we've remastered it a few times.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Roger and Mike did their whole stream about it right when they did the remaster and drop on it. So it's like, it. It gets me excited. But I've been burned so many times. I've been hurt so many times by getting the Dead Rising game I didn't want.

[Blessing]

It's also been a longer time since the last Dead Rising game. Right. Like, I feel like these were coming out of a pretty quick clip because they had Dead Rising three, I imagine, towards the beginning of the Xbox One era.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Was it the Christmas Santa themed one or whatever. I remember playing that.

[Blessing]

It was an Xbox exclusive. And I feel like Dead Rising Ford wasn't too long after that.

[Greg Miller]

Dead Rising 4, 2016, that was like.

[Andy]

One of the first games I remember, like, being assigned for ign.

[Blessing]

So it being nine years later, plus them having just released a remaster slash remake of the original. Do you feel like they. They have the message? Do you feel like this break might give them the right. I guess give them the ability to get their. Their wheels back on track for what Dead Rising needs? To be.

[Greg Miller]

There's so much baggage, you know what I mean? And again, I'm looking through it like, I cannot. I again reviewed many of these. I remember this dead rising 4 for sure. Or 3. I remember 4 as well. But, like, there was one of them that didn't even have, like, the psychopaths. Like, that was such a big part of the original Dead Rising. Finding these crazy, like, big bosses to go fight that didn't have. It's like. Like, I don't know. There's so much baggage connected to this. And as you continue to go. Right, because, like, what the original one had Inafune, like, was one of the designers, right? So, like, it's always going to be people trying to, I think, copy what somebody else did and try to figure out, well, like, you can see it. You walk into the room. There's the whiteboard in the conference room. All right, what is Dead Rising? Zombies, of course. Okay. Contain timed missions. This, that, the other.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

It's like at some point, like, we're just carbon copying the same thing that I would rather see somebody blow it up and go, if.

[Blessing]

What are the. If you were in the. In the boardroom, you had the whiteboard and you can write down three things that Dead Rising needs to be. What are the three things you're writing down?

[Greg Miller]

Do I need to say zombies? Or were you fine with that? Where you can.

[Blessing]

You don't have to say zombies. We get that.

[Greg Miller]

I would write B movie horror.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

I would start there, where I think, like, Dead Rising, original OG again, hit so much because it was. You were living dawn of the Dead, which is serious in many regards, but then it also isn't serious in so many. Right. So it's like when Frank's running on top of zombies and da, da, da, da. Like, that all worked. And eventually, you know, getting there on unlocking and getting like, the actual Mega man blaster and helmet and running around shooting things like that, that was so cool and so much fun. But it was. Then there was the seriousness of it. But, like, you need that B horror schlock. You know what I mean? Like, these characters are just eating the scenery and they don't need it. But you can't go so far beyond over the top. Like, it needs to be what I think a good B movie horror is, where it's like, there's. It's grounded in reality to a degree. Like, the idea that Frank was a photojournalist and was there to get the big scoop. Like, that was cool. And that was a great Way to go to jump ahead to. I'm fucking. What was his name? Chuck somebody earlier. I'm in the Motorcycle Man Chuck. And they have my daughter. And I like, what the fuck is going. You know what I mean? So B Horror movie, I would put at the top of it, right? You need the. What's the right. I'm trying to think of the right adjective because I want to say crazy weapons, but that's not right because that goes. The people go the wrong way with.

[Blessing]

That because that's what.

[Greg Miller]

Over the top weapons.

[Blessing]

Because, like, I want. I. When. If you ask me the three things I associate with Dead Rising, I'll think, like, antics, I guess, which might be the wrong thing. Right. And then, yeah, I think of the weapons of combining different shit to create crazy, unconventional weapons. Yeah, that's like one of the mean things I think about. I don't know if that's accurate to what you actually want.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, no, I think so. But I love having electrified stuff and I know that, like, again, Dead island and so many other games have gone on and taken that further. Like, now I have this. I have a ax that also grinds and does. Yeah, he's like, I don't know if we need to go that far. It was cute and fun to see Frank combine in the mall and go for it. And then up here, it's already gone, but. So Greg's gonna say all these paragraphs just to say, take away the timer. No, I think lean into the timer, but make it part of the gaming experience where I don't feel like I'm missing something. I feel like I'm making choices. I would. I would point you to Hell Is Us this year, where when I doubled back to go do quests and it was like, oh, there was a timer on these I didn't even know. So now this woman is here mourning the child that died because I didn't bring milk. That's fucking cool, right? Like, let's have a bunch of cool side quests that are like, oh, this could expire if you don't do it, or whatever. But, like, make me have to make choices and have really fun, cool outcomes rather than, oh, you failed. Like, well, okay, this is. I just failed. This isn't exciting. This didn't push the B horror movie somewhere else with it. Right? Like, I would have it be that, like, if for every mission you can fail, when you come back, there should be either environmental storytelling or a cutscene horror movie of, oh, shit happened. Here it is. The person I was trying to say Ripped in half, torn apart. They're here to fight me. They've now become a boss. You know, I mean, like, it's. If I'm not getting to them, this is what's happening, and it's actually influencing what it is. And so I can go and I can save Cindy and bring her here. And now she can generate medicine or make my weapons stronger. But if I didn't save Cindy and I get there, she's now turned into a grotesque zombie. That then is harder for me to fight. And yada. And I don't have those buffs back home.

[Blessing]

Okay, I want to play that game.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Blessing]

That game you just. You just pitched. I want to play that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I think. I think, you know, I think a lot of. We talk about video games all the time, and we talk about, you know, scope creep and them getting too big. I think people need. Especially where we're at right now, need to get real with bringing games into tighter experiences and having them have more of those kind of switches.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Because I think that would be. That would encourage me to go. Part of the problem with Dead Rising one and, like, I'm gonna go get the zombie genocide trophy was that it almost felt like open world because it was a big mall full of different things to go do. But if you were making a more. Hey, this is a tight experience with different choices to go through that could be really fun to go see what I'll do.

[Blessing]

Yeah, there's a. Ooh, upgrade.

[Greg Miller]

Says some sort of nemesis system.

[Blessing]

Oh, that. I mean, you put that in any game. There's a. I believe it was Warren Spector who talked about the idea of, like, the one city block RPG where it's. Instead of just. Instead of going for that scope of open world. If you can make an RPG that takes place on one city block, how much depth, how much richness can you fill in there to really make the experience? And so my favorite games are that.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing]

Disco Elysium kind of has that. It's like, that's a few city blocks, but. But, you know, that forgotten city is another one as well. Like, you can make a small space feel gigantic with how much richness you put into it.

[Greg Miller]

And I think, you know, we look at some great games. There's a lot of embargoes floating around. Like, you go back to the same places over many hours. Right. I always talk about. In high school, when I wrote that if fucking I had read none of the books I needed to for this essay we needed to write. So I did majority. I'M sorry I did Ocarina of Time. You know outside the temple of time right in original timeline versus the future timeline and how compare contrast what that was like like making me feel like I know a city or an area and then shifting it is always powerful.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Hopefully.

[Greg Miller]

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[Greg Miller]

I was uploading things to my aura frame because I saw the ad. Blessings doing Wordle. How's it going?

[Blessing]

I just did it. God, it took me five guesses though.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you know, you never like to see that. You never like to hear. Yeah, I'm so glad you did it though.

[Blessing]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Let's move on to some super chats we got in here. Before we get too far away from the Dead Rising news. Claw Master said, I would argue Capcom is now a lot better about making games than Capcom. When Dead Rising came out, I. I would agree. I think Capcom's on a great trend right now and they have revitalized IPs that were dormant and I think that maybe had had a few jump the shark moments. So. Yeah, no, that's a good point. And I would be excited.

[Blessing]

Yeah. When was the last time Capcom truly missed? I mean, we could say exo primal.

[Greg Miller]

But yeah, that's honestly what came up to my mind.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but even that game was like not bad.

[Greg Miller]

Science Dog official says, does the world even want another zombie game? Yes, we can. I. Is our zombies as big as they ever were? No, but I mean there's part of pop culture now. I don't know if you're gonna get whatever but like, like zombies. So fuck, if the game is great, it doesn't matter that it's zombies. It's more when, like if Somebody's gonna come out and be like, this game is great because of zombies. Then you're fucked. Then you're never gonna have anything. Snake Eater says, I like Greg's idea, but I think that's what I want from State of Decay 3. Not dead rising. I hear you.

[Blessing]

Oh, I forgot that game was happening.

[Greg Miller]

Fucking can't wait to see what State of Decay 3 is. Because I love State of Decay 1 so much. But, like, I don't expect that from State of Decay even. It's such a resources and people thing. But I hear what you're saying, and that's good. So moving on to story number three. Exodus is getting a new trailer at the Game Awards. We have a B.S. that's a blue sky, Tim. And the previous trailer, Exodus, bs. That's blue skying, Tim. This is your call to rise. A new Exodus trailer premieres at the Game Awards December 11th. Don't miss it. Synchronize your timepiece@game awards.com.

[Blessing]

In case you forgot about Exodus.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Because I have no idea what this.

[Blessing]

I added it here below, but the screenshot, I think, pushes it all the way down so you don't see it.

[Greg Miller]

Exodus.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Blessing]

The Steam description, Exodus is a sci fi action adventure RPG where you become the traveler, leading humanity's fight for survival against the Celestials, face our evolution 40,000 years in the future, explore extra extraordinary worlds, and confront time itself to shape the fate of generations. It's developed by Archetype Entertainment, a studio founded by former Bioware developers James Olen, Chad Robertson and Drew Carson, and is published by Wizards of the Coast. So a Mass Effect.

[Greg Miller]

That sounds fucking awesome. I do remember it now that we're. This. The trailer still looks, I'm gonna say it, generic, what I'm seeing, but I love everything you're saying, so I don't. Maybe when I get on sticks or see more from it, I'd be like, what's his name?

[Blessing]

All right, all right. That guy.

[Greg Miller]

Matthew McConaughey.

[Blessing]

Yeah, he's reintroduced it, right? Oh, this was the game he introduced. Was the chat. Was this the game he introduced?

[Greg Miller]

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

[Blessing]

I'm pretty sure this was the one. And also, I'm pretty sure this also got a secret level Episode. And so.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

This game has been.

[Greg Miller]

Secret level, dude.

[Blessing]

This game has been heavily marketed. Okay, so now. Which has me. I don't know how I feel about it yet. Like, I mean, obviously, it's like, we. I want to see previews for it.

[Andy]

But what was that PlayStation game that got like canceled essentially after a month?

[Blessing]

Concord?

[Andy]

Didn't Concord also get a secret level?

[Greg Miller]

They bit big on that one.

[Blessing]

But like also the world was wrong about Concord. That game was at least. I mean again, was at least a 6.5.

[Greg Miller]

Think about looking at this with the description awesome, the pedigree awesome, the combat and like the stealth thing and whatever. Like looks awesome. It's just then you look at Emma's this looks. I don't see a lot of personality from what I'm seeing, but I don't if the game plays right.

[Blessing]

I think it's the exact same thing you mentioned with zombies, where your game can't be great because of zombies. I don't your game can't be great because it looks like Mass Effect.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing]

What is the thing that is ascending you to greatness? Is it Matthew McConaughey?

[Greg Miller]

We'll find out. Game over. All right. All right. Hey Jeff, I brought you this. Murph Number 4 Epic Details Fortnite Chapter 7 gameplay changes including simple build and self revive this is Chris sculling in at VGC. Fortnite Chapter 7 is now launched, and with it brings a number of new gameplay changes. Epic Games has listed the new additions to the game, as well as the final confirmation that the Battle pass for this first season includes the Bride from Kill Bill and Marty McFly for Back to the Future. Because of the opening trailer for Chapter seven showed the battle bus being destroyed, Players not to surf to the Battle Royale Royale island in other modes such as Reload, Blitz Royale, Fortnite OG and Dulu will arrive later in December once the Battle bus is back in commission. Other new features include more expressive hit markers. Weapons in inventory now clearly display when they're out of ammo, aiming down the sights while jumping. Characters won't turn hostile so quickly when shot. Improve spectator mode when you're eliminated, you'll not be able to spectate your nearest teammate. A Moat Wheel overhaul with eight slots, Improved sorting and filtering. A new collections view. In more Fortnite news, Yuki's Revenge premieres in Fortnite on November 30th at 2pm Wait, that already happened?

[Blessing]

Oh, November 30th did already happen. Holy shit.

[Greg Miller]

Punk flies if you missed it. Visionary director Quentin Tarantino had a dream of a Kill Bill chapter that never made it to the silver screen. A chapter known as Yuki's revenge. Over 20 years later, Tarantino and Epic have come together to bring the story to life in Fortnite. Built with unreal Engine and character models from Fortnite. Tarantino's the Lost Chapter. Yuki's Revenge stars Uma Thurman. Yuki's Revenge premieres in Fortnite on November 30, so you can go watch it now. You'll be able to find it in the top row of Discover Doors for the viewing experience. Open 30 minutes before the show starts.

[Blessing]

Of course. Want you to talk about this because he went to LA for an event related to this.

[Greg Miller]

That's correct.

[Blessing]

I just want to shout out that. That the other day during the weekend, I watched Sancho west play through the big Fortnite event, and it was him and Nikkei, 30. And when I tell you that this shit seemed like the hypest shit I've ever seen in my life, but also, I think my brain, and I'll even say our collective brains have been so rotted because, like, if I'd shown myself some of the shit that was going down in this Fortnite thing to myself, like, 10 years ago. Yeah. I would have been like, yo, this is crazy. He's playing as Cody Rhodes and Iron man shows up and a banana man comes through.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Saves the day. And then, like, Eminem shows up and then all, like, just every pop culture thing, like, Superman is hanging out with Iron man in this thing. Yeah. It's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

100.

[Blessing]

Bart Simpson comes through.

[Greg Miller]

Fortnite's outrageous. Fortnite has been insane for a long time.

[Blessing]

And then they made a 6, 7 joke.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Then you want to.

[Greg Miller]

I saw. I saw the clips. Okay, whatever. And I. Obviously, I've seen Yuki's Revenge. When I went down to LA, saw it, I was sat behind Joel McHale. No big deal. Don't worry about that.

[Blessing]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Sat next to Sancho West. Saw Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino with my own eyes. They were there. You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Yeah. That's cool.

[Greg Miller]

And then watch this in the theater. Yeah. Chat. What do we think of Yuki's Revenge? Give me a one if you liked it, a two if you didn't like it. I was interested to see what the reaction would be to it. I told you about.

[Blessing]

I've seen the tweets about it. No, no, the tweets I've seen. People aren't happy.

[Greg Miller]

They are not happy.

[Blessing]

They are not happy.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Shocker. Right? When I came back and told you about it, I was like, I don't know how this will hit because it's, like, such a cool idea, obviously, of like, oh, there's a thing that Never happened. And so now they're doing it. All right. And then when they started it and the Fortnite character started appearing in it, I was like, oh, this is. Like, this isn't just a film they're watching in Fortnite. This is happening in the Fortnite universe. And it was like. Like, can you imagine being a Quentin Tarantino Die Hard fan? I think he's. He is.

[Blessing]

You love Killing Cile.

[Greg Miller]

And they're. They're giving us more. And you go to this thing called Fortnite, and you turn it on, and there's a banana with a shotgun that Uma Thurman tells to go back in the house. And then she gets shot. And she. You shot me in the breast. You. And like, okay. And there's a. In there, but then they're bleeding blue. Then when she dies, she gets ressed out, like in Fortnite. And I was like. Like, there's a lot of cool stuff, but there's this mashup again of pop culture, of what, you know is Kill Bill and Quentin Tarantino slamming into. Here we are with Fortnite. I was like, huh?

[Blessing]

Like, you were, as you were describing it to me the other day after you came back from the event. I think I even said this sounds terrible. And, like, in the way. The. In the way of, like, as a video game fan, it seems cool because. Oh, damn. All right. You're merging these worlds.

[Greg Miller]

Worlds.

[Blessing]

We're getting this long lost Tarantino thing. Yeah, like, that. That sounds cool, but the context of it. Of it being again. Yeah, like a. If you're a film bro, that loves Kill Bill and you've heard about the legend, like, I imagine it, of if I finally got Detox, but it came out in Fortnite. You know what I mean? Do you know detox, like, the Dr. Dre album that never came out?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know, it's, like, kind of legendary now. If I got the.

[Greg Miller]

Got.

[Blessing]

Thank you. If I got that. But it was like a Fortnite thing, I would be like, what the are we. I would be so angry. And I imagine that's just the same.

[Greg Miller]

Thing, but with these home bros. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

But also, like, I. I'm not a level of neatness, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Like, I. I liked Kill Bill. I like. I. I love Quentin Tarantino movies for the most part. You know what I mean? I'm not. I'm not, though. I'm gonna watch it over and over and over and over again. But, like, as. At a way too young age, I had Pulp Fiction's screenplay, like, as a book that I would read over and over again because I like that movie so much. Should not have been. That was, like, junior high or whatever. I should. So there's, like, no. There's no idol here or golden cow for me to be upset that they're slaughtering. But it was just, like, an interesting. Oh, okay. Like, it's the. The coolness of, like, Uma Thurman got to go back and be the bride again. Like, she's. Obviously, you couldn't go film that unless you're making a new movie. You couldn't go film that, like, scene and put it in. Right. So, yeah, it's nice that this exists that way, because.

[Blessing]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

But it is, like, just like, huh. Okay. For the random people they're trying to get in who are Kill Bill fans. I can't imagine this going well.

[Blessing]

Victor, in chat, made a really good point earlier where they said, you got new Dr. Dre songs in GTA and that.

[Greg Miller]

We did.

[Blessing]

And I fucking loved it.

[Greg Miller]

I love it.

[Blessing]

There was, like, a song in there featuring Eminem, too. It's like, oh, man. But you know what? Maybe I'm just judging because it's Fortnite. Maybe that's what it is.

[Greg Miller]

Fortnite's. I mean, a powerhouse. Incredible. You know what I mean? Again. Yeah. When I was sitting there playing, I played this stuff. Obviously, you could play it now, but I played it at the event there. And when I was. You know that. I'm a huge Back to the Future fan. So when I was Marty McFly surfing to the island, shooting all these guys, like, this is weird, but cool. But it's Fortnite at this point. Yeah. Where? To your point? Like, I turn it on, and I've got Ghostbusters next to Superman next. It's just the toy box of your youth digitized with.

[Blessing]

They got to put that on the.

[Greg Miller]

Back of the box.

[Blessing]

The toy box of your youth digitized.

[Greg Miller]

I was more interested of what the Fortnite parents would think about Kill Bill being in the game. And they're. They're cussing and doing all the stuff.

[Blessing]

They brand it under. Like, because I saw something about Fortnite After Dark or After Hours or something.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Is it a separate.

[Greg Miller]

It's on. It was on the launcher. They said. Right for you to go watch it. So I don't. They can brand it whatever they want, but I don't. Was there gatekeeping at the thing?

[Andy]

I mean, you have to show Fortnite your ID now.

[Blessing]

They're also tweeting about sex toys. So, you know, I hear.

[Greg Miller]

I hear you. I know it's the same thing of, like, you know, I worry more about the guns than I do the sex stuff. But I know we're back and forth on that in terms of world. But, like, that was my thing when, like, they dropped hunt tricks in there and they had the Demon Slayers. Yeah. Demon Hunters in there. Thank you. Jesus Christ. Gonna sound older on that one, but Ben and I love that film. So when he saw it on the PlayStation Crossbar, I launched it and I went. And I was like, oh, 30 bucks. We can't buy the skins, Ben. But we'll. And we jumped into the game and I was like, oh, like real quick. That mode that, you know, survive the demons. I thought they were gonna give us like the K pop melee weapons, which they do, but you're very much encouraged to pick up the weapons. And so that was when I was like, oh, you know, we. We did one round and Ben's like, can we play again? I didn't let him pick anything up. I'm like, nobody, this isn't it. And he had like a whole thing. I'm like, ben, this is an adult game. Like, I don't. And my thing is, I don't want him picking up an M4 and mowing people down. Right. Yeah. You know, he doesn't.

[Blessing]

He.

[Greg Miller]

He thinks Spider Man's the most powerful guy in the world because it's whipping. Like, he doesn't need to be doing this. I digress. Number five on the Roper Report. Paradox takes the blame for vampire the Masquerade. Bloodlines 2 sales flop announces a 37 million doll. This is the one, the only WIP at IGN. That's Wesley Yin pool at the Imagine Games Network publisher Paradox Interactive has today taken the blame for the poor sales of vampire the masquerade. Bloodlines 2, the long in development sequel launched in October and was met with a mixed Steam user review response, with fans saying it failed to meet expectations they had to. The sequel to Trochias Troca Troika Troika's 2004 cult classic Vampire the Masquerade. Bloodline. Now after 30 days on sale, Paradox has issued a fine a note to financial markets signaling a write down valued at approximately $37 million of capitalized development costs for Bloodlines 2. This write down, Paradox said was based on an updated sales forecast. Now it has had a. Now it has had a month to look at Bloodline's commercial performance. I think we're missing out of that. But it doesn't matter, the CEO of Paradox Interactive said Said the blame for vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2 failure lay at the publisher's door and not that of the Chinese Room which had been draf gifted to save the project after years of development hell. Quote Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is a strong vampire fantasy and we are pleased with the developers work on the game, the CEO said. We've had high expectations for a long time since we saw that it was a good game with a strong IP in a genre with a broad appeal. A month after release we can sadly see that sales did not match our production predictions projections, which necessitates the write down. The responsibility lies fully with us as the publisher. The game is outside of our core areas. In hindsight it is clear that this has made it difficult for us to gauge sales. Going forward, we will focus our capital on our core segments and at the same time we'll evaluate how to best develop World of Darkness's strong brand catalog in the future. End quote.

[Blessing]

Greg, you played some of that Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines.

[Greg Miller]

This is Bloodlines is for us kind of funny for Greg Miller and for you, the viewer of Listening to me talk about games you'll never play is a casualty of the bloodbath math of how the review codes and reviews this year have been where it dropped and I don't even remember anymore it dropped. I think I had the code and I had it for like two days and then it was Pokemon and then it was whatever I reviewed after Pokemon. Like it was like to the point that like I'm I have not gotten back from that initial four or five hours I put into it or whatever and as I told you playing it, I kept popping my earphones off and bugging you because I like to bug you once in a while with a thought and I'm like, like listen, this is like a, a PS3 RPG, but it's got something. And like even to this day, like I am like eventually there will be a gap probably in 2026 where I won't be inundated with reviews as we end this. And then of course Game of the Year coverage, like I gotta get back to X, Y and Z and try X, Y and Z. When that happens, I'm going back to Bloodlines and starting a new thing because it is very, it is very double edged. It is very this is not a 10 out of 10. I think IGN gave it a 7 and I'm like from the 5 hours I played of it, I'M like, I'm feeling that where it's like, there are so many rough edges, but then there is so much to, like, love about it of, like, luring people down alleyways and then sucking their blood to get the thing that you need to level yourself up. This whole thing of, like, at least my character that I built, I was building into, of, like, gliding and flying around the city. And it's like, not a big open world, Seattle, but there is this open thing, but then you got a voice in your head, and, like, it's like, there's a bunch of, like, weird. They went into that boardroom and put these ideas on the wall. And I don't think from what I played, I wouldn't say nine out of ten of them are fleshed out, but, like, they're all interesting enough that I. I am compelled to go back and play this.

[Blessing]

It's. It's such a fascinating thing because obviously we are, as people who play video games, as people who really love playing video games and love good video games. What I feel like I oftentimes desire are games that are willing to come out and try something different or weird or be fresh or do whatever.

[Greg Miller]

We have a vision.

[Blessing]

Yeah, like, we have a vision, and, like, we. A lot of people are going, right. We're going. Left with it. And like, this year has been the year of the games going left with it. Right? Like, it's been a year of weird games, and I love this year for that. But what stands out is. Is the part in this quote from the public from the CEO who says it was a good game with a strong IP in a genre with a broad appeal.

[Greg Miller]

And people love vampires.

[Blessing]

People love vampires. But I guess I read genre with a broad appeal is like action game, action, action, rpg. Okay. Style thing. Right. And to that, I'd say that's not the direction to go then, like, if you're. If you're trying to be successful, if you're trying to sell a bunch of units. Units. Right now, I. I like. If you want to be a action adventure RPG game, you got to be God of War. You know what I mean? Like, you have to. I feel like there is a. There is a top tier of that genre of game, and then all. Everything under is fighting each other. And, like, it's really tough to ascend because everything is just. Everything in that genre specifically, I think, is risen. Like, money has been thrown into that in a way where I think the double A gets really lost, and I want to see that get figured out. I'm really fascinated with. Don't knock because don't nod. Keep making these like double A action RPG style things and like their next one is like a space action adventure thing that looks really cool kind of NASA style to it. Or the European one. Yes.

[Greg Miller]

European Space Station.

[Blessing]

European State. Yes. European Space Agency. That to me is like really interesting and really fascinating. And they're going left and I love that. But also I get scared because I'm like, is there success to be found here on a broad scale?

[Greg Miller]

I think it goes back to what we were talking about throughout this episode of our Zombies played out is this is just like you got. You can't just look like something or be like something. Right? I think even with bloodlines here, like one of the things that is compelling to me but clearly not to everybody. And granted we are awash right now in 9 out of 10 games that are like this could be game of the year if you wanted. Like, everyone is so busy. Do you have time for a 7 out of 10 RPG? You know what I mean? Like, I think I will eventually and one of the reasons I'm going to go to it is like, like cool. I don't need another space rpg. I don't need another fantasy, you know, high fantasy rpg, a vampire rpg. And like where you wake up, you're this vampire who wakes up after sleeping 100 years and like you have this legend to you and like this voice in your head and you're in modern day Seattle. Like there's enough interesting new stuff happening there where I'm like, I do want to play that, I do want to go see what's up. And like they were really great maybe. And again, I think it's one of the things they didn't flesh out well. But like, like, you know, Game Informer of course is back. Congratulations Game Informer. We love having you. And over the summer one of the COVID stories was this game and reading it and reading all the breakdowns of all. And this is definitely why it feels like a game out of time, an older game reading all these like detailed breakdowns of the factions and what they all are and then playing the game like, oh, like you don't need that much information about like I really did go into like reading like as most, you know, preview coverage can be the marketing materials for this game. But it gave me a sense of what you're trying to do here in the world and like you interact then with these factions in the game and they all have their own vibe and their own style and like the way they talk and what they do and I don't think that's going to be fleshed out and very meaningful later on. But like for the guy who like I would go play Starfield right now. I, I some oh man. On the Starfield subreddit. The no sodium Starfield subreddit.

[Blessing]

Yeah. The happy people.

[Greg Miller]

They. They had these. One group of creators was advertising on Friday their creation drops and it's like a new main quest, three new side things, a new companion with like 400 lines of dialogue. Like I'm like damn, that sounds cool. Like it's just more Starfield and But I would also love to go play this and just a new RPG as a vampire.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Which I totally with. And I, I think there are definitely going to be the Greg Millers of the world. I see a Vampire the Masquerade 2 and Blood or Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines 2 because obviously there's that built in audience in the first one. And then people like you that are like oh this seems really cool. I think my thing when we're talking about about games that have a vision games that this had a whiteboard. This had a pitch here, right. I think this year I look at the blueprints and I look at even Citizen Sleeper that I started last night in the first hour I'm already like oh damn, I'm liking this. And I think a big part of that and what I think a vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2 has less going for it is that they cut out the fat of like the things that you're then now competing with a when you're talking about action and adventure. Okay, well where the Empire the Masquerade bloodlines too is in competition with all these other things, right. It's like okay, this and Ghost of Yote and you know all these other like dying like the Beast and all these other things. Right. I think there's something to be said about genres where it is I Citizen Sleeper 2 right now is hidden for me because it's not feeling like these other things, right. Blueprint for me because Death Straining 2, even though that's not a AAA action adventure game, it's still so weird of a thing thing that I'm not. And maybe this is me speaking as somebody who reviews video games all the time. And so I'm just fatigued a lot by that Feels like it's doing the same thing all the time. Yeah. Because like I look at Ghostly Yote as the example as well where Ghostiote is a great video game, right. I'll even go as far as, say, maybe even a fantastic video game. But my experience with it felt very much, very much fine. Because I've played this game over and over and over and over again. And so, like, if I'm feeling that way about Ghost of Yote, how am I gonna feel playing vampire the blood 100?

[Greg Miller]

Exactly, exactly, exactly. Because I think, I think you bump into so many walls in Vampire where you're like, okay, this is an open zone rpg. It's mimicking a Bethesda game. It's mimicking better games. Balder. But it's like you run into the seams and the walls of that so quickly. We're like, oh, you guys aren't those guys. Yeah, you don't have the sauce like that. There's a very specific thing where I needed to interrogate a woman who, you know, was in the back who had been convinced she was a vampire. Again, really fun writing in here, right? She fully believed, though, she was a vampire, even though she was very much human. And so I'm using the vampire powers to make her see what a person that she would then talk to. And I was like, okay, cool. And I go in there and it was like, then you're. I. I'm convinced her I'm somebody else. Four dialogue choices pop up. Only one of them is the right one to. I hit the one it was wrong. I get kicked out. I'm like, okay, repossessor, go in there, hit the other one. That was wrong. And like, I. It was like, man, it'd be way cooler if I did this and couldn't use this power again. Or. And maybe this is like a tutorial, so maybe, maybe that would happen later on. And I don't know. But it was like, this is reminding me. You only got the stuff of, like, this should be branching me off and me. And I should fail this quest or something should happen or somebody else has to come in to tell me rather than me sit here and go, wrong, wrong, wrong, right. And then there was another branch and it was wrong, wrong, right, fine, you know, but every time I have to go back in and do all the steps again to get back.

[Andy]

If you want a good vampire role playing game that feels like it has consequences, that feels also kind of what we were talking about earlier of like a kind of small community type of.

[Blessing]

Of vibe.

[Andy]

Vampir. It's vampire.

[Greg Miller]

But yeah, I remember that one. Who was that too? Is that. Don't know. Yeah, it was. Don't know.

[Blessing]

They're on it.

[Greg Miller]

I like I played Vampir for a few hours and I same way I did here. And I like this one more in terms of what the setting is and where we're going. But yeah, no, this wasn't my jam. Whatever. Anyways, though I digress. When we get a vampire Open World RPG that's just fucking awesome. That's gonna be huge news. But if I wanted something small, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I I go?

[Blessing]

You go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where you cover all the small news items he needs to know about. Have you heard of Bishers Ghosts of New? No, not that one.

[Greg Miller]

The one I reviewed with you on the couch where I told you about it.

[Blessing]

Yeah, there's a Bai Namco upcoming vampire Open World RPG that's coming from, I believe, people that worked on the Witcher 3.

[Greg Miller]

No, really?

[Blessing]

Yeah, and they did like a 20 minute breakdown of it quite a few months ago, but that might be up your alley. Sure, somebody Blood of the Dawn Walker.

[Greg Miller]

Can you give me a Blood of the Dawn Walker trailer? We news number PS5 roguelike let it Die Inferno used a crapload of generative AI. We're read a little bit from Sammy Barker over at Push Square. We're not sure there was an enormous amount of interest in upcoming roguelike Let It Die Inferno anyway, but publisher Gung Ho Interactive may have torpedoed interest in the game with his latest Steam page update. Valve now requires developers to disclose whether the game uses generative AI. In the case of the aforementioned, it may be more useful to describe what parts were actually made by a human. Quote AI generated content has been used and then edited by our team for certain parts of the in game voices, music and graphics, the disclaimer reads. Among the assets created by AI are background signboard, textures, record illustrations, info, cast videos and voices, and music. The game was developed by Super Trick, a company based in Japan, which also worked on the original Let It Die game. We throw up a BS from Jacob Geller. I still listen to tracks from Let It Die. Literally the only memorable thing about the game. If you're so intent on skipping anything interesting about development, why not just skip three months after release and delist your game now?

[Blessing]

I don't want to hear Let It Die slander, at least for the original one.

[Greg Miller]

For the original one, you and Shuhei.

[Blessing]

You and Shuhei love me and Shuhei.

[Greg Miller]

Love Let It Die from vgc. Nintendo has announced plans to acquire Bandai Namco's Singapore studio and rename it Nintendo Studios Singapore, according to Nintendo the studio has, quote strong expertise in creating in game art assets with which implies it will mainly continue to be support studio once Nintendo acquires it from gamesindustry Biz Splash Damage has announced a consultation process affecting all staff at the Bromley based studio which will conclude with significant redundancies. Quote this is an unfortunate but necessary step for the studio to stay nimble in a challenging and evolving market. I love just the same fucking soundbite all the time staying nimble, the company said in a statement provided the Games Industry from Wario 64 Embracer Group Divests ARC Games and Cryptic Studios Embracer Group retains publishing rights to the Remnant franchise rights for Fellowship retained under Coffee Stain. See you later. Embracer just divest everything get out of it. New games are coming. Nintendo Online NES is Getting Ninja Gaiden 2, the Dark, Sword of Chaos and Battletoads. Game Boy is getting Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters in Bionic Commando. World of Warcraft Midnight launches March 26, 2026 Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 35 million copies. Where Wins Meets surpassed 9 million players in two weeks. Kronos the New dawn has sold 500,000 copies. A demo for There Are no Ghosts at the grand is now live on Steam and Styx. Blades of Greed has been delayed to February 19, 2026. This is the Dawn Walker. Oh, I remember this. This. Yeah, yeah. We never released it on this though, do we?

[Blessing]

I don't believe we do. We might have a year though, because I remember they, they showed a lot. Yeah, I remember I watched like a full 20 minute gameplay walkthrough of this game and honestly, it doesn't look like my GM per se, but like if you're somebody who's in the market for some vampire rpg, then it's one to keep on the radar.

[Greg Miller]

The Blood of the Dawn Walker is an open world dark fantasy or action RPG set in 14th century Europe. You play as Cohen, human by day, vampire by night, fighting to save your family in a story shaped by your actions and secrets you uncover. Yes, please. Added to wish list.

[Blessing]

It gives me like, it gives me a little bit of that double A energy. Oh yeah, like double A and a half maybe.

[Greg Miller]

But that's where the interesting shit's gonna happen.

[Blessing]

That is true. You're right.

[Greg Miller]

These triple A RPGs and I'm talking about Bethesda and I'm talking are the ones that are just like I like them. And I enjoy the outer worlds too even.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Where it's like I like this and I loved, I love this Game I. But like I'm not like, wow, you really shook up the genre.

[Blessing]

And who's making. Is there any AAA vampire RPG right now?

[Greg Miller]

Somebody screaming somewhere. But I don't think I know.

[Blessing]

I mean I guess bloodlines 2. Is that triple A?

[Greg Miller]

No, that wasn't triple.

[Blessing]

I don't. Can I be honest? I don't know the line anymore between triple or between like Double A and aaa.

[Greg Miller]

I think comes down to your budget and team size.

[Blessing]

And I feel like the ceiling for AAA has like risen so substantially that there's a new Triple A now.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, interesting.

[Blessing]

Okay. I think God, like I keep saying God of war this.

[Greg Miller]

This episode.

[Blessing]

But like a God of War or a Last of us or like a Doom the Dark Ages. Like there's like so much production behind.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

I feel like that's aaa.

[Greg Miller]

Interesting. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

But like a lot of the games that we call.

[Greg Miller]

The problem is for so long remember that Double A fell away and so it was indie or aaa.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And now I agree that AAA is expanding out so much.

[Blessing]

It's gotten so expensive. But I think Double A might need. Might be rising as well too. But I also don't know if it matters.

[Greg Miller]

It doesn't really. But we talk about games every year, so why not? And that's the end of Wii News.

[Blessing]

Like do we call not to extend this episode too long. Do we call Pokemon Legends Zeta a Triple A or Double A?

[Andy]

That is a Triple A.

[Blessing]

It's Triple A by like brand or.

[Greg Miller]

Whatever marketing budget, market. Probably budget for the game as well.

[Andy]

Yeah, budget for the game. Just because it looks like.

[Blessing]

I don't know if the budget for the game is comparable to like what we're talking about with these huge games for Pokemon Z Day.

[Greg Miller]

I think it is.

[Blessing]

I think the budget came out for that game and it was way lower than like a lot of these other games. But I might be wrong. I guess it probably isn't as low as a banishers. Ghost of New Eden.

[Greg Miller]

Let's do some super chats. Joey Radstone says Happy Monday. Kind of funny new dad tax. My baby daughter was born on Thanksgiving and we're watching our first kind of funny stream together. Hello baby Radstone. Congratulations and welcome to the world. Ty says day one of my 21 day vacation. Can't complain. It's interesting.

[Blessing]

Fuck yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But you're working on Christmas then. Interesting. Mediocre gamer says paying my birthday tax. Turning 41 today. Happy birthday. Birthday Dane Star Danester says bless I got into buying and playing magic. The Gathering this weekend. Loving it a lot. Is your collection mostly for play or do you have any valuable collection booster pulls that you check? Perish.

[Blessing]

It's mostly for play. I do have some collector stuff, but that's not what I'm in the game for. I'm in the game for the game. I do have like a small binder that I keep the coolest of my cards and I have some of the secret layer PlayStation cards that came in. So I have like a cool like Ellie and Abby and I got Kratos, but I put Kratos in my. In my commander because he's powerful.

[Greg Miller]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Jack Rabba says Birthday tax. Happy birthday.

[Blessing]

Happy birthday.

[Greg Miller]

Going to a meet and greet with Jack Quaid. I'm pretty nervous. How should I break the ice with with him? Any photo pose ideas? Well, tell him you're a kind of funny best friend and you love when he calls into the shows or we harass him. And then I would say even like talk to him about his video game photography.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Because everybody's gonna want to talk about the boys or scream or something. You come in there, you're like, hey, I saw you kind of funny. I like what you're doing.

[Blessing]

So you're taking pictures in ghostly ot.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And any pose ideas? Choose your favorite Jack Quaid photo mode photo he's done. And then do the pose that they did in that war. Table Entertainment Gaming has a long title that keeps going to 9928. Paying my birthday tax. Turning 31. Happy birthday.

[Blessing]

A lot of birthdays today.

[Greg Miller]

Yep. Thanks so much for being an inspiration for being. For being there through the hard times. We're happy to be there for you. Sean Callahan, Birthday tax turned over 40 this weekend. Happy birthday. You guys got me through the pandemic and I owe you big time as a girl. Dad. Send my support to Tim as a doctor. Send my condolences to Snowpack Mike. We thank you. We appreciate you. Roscoe. February says I turned 35 on Thanksgiving Day. So belated birthday tax. Happy birthday. Sending y' all holiday cheer from Cape Town, South Africa. Africa. Missed the content. Hope you had a good break. We did. I hope you had a lovely time in Cape Town, South Africa for your birthday hater. John says y' all thinking about a games cast for older games you played in 2025. I know Mike really enjoyed Final Fantasy 10 this year. It'd be cool to hear from others. No science.

[Blessing]

We usually do them well in real time. Right. Because Mike did The Final Fantasy 10 review. Mike just did his Kingdom Deliverance 2 review. I reviewed Outer Wilds when that came out or when I played that in like February.

[Greg Miller]

So Science Dog official super chat says Messing mashup idea. Metal Gear Dead Rising Revenge.

[Blessing]

Well, now I can't use it.

[Greg Miller]

It's also. I don't. I don't like it when you put the one game in the middle of another game. You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Oh yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Dead Rising I think would work. But then to bring back that and.

[Blessing]

I guess, no, that doesn't work. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Christmas. Oh, sorry. Dexter says Christmas gift ideas bless Watch Lord of the Rings theatrical versions with Andy. Greg, give Tim back his stars that you stole from him. I didn't steal anything.

[Blessing]

It was a fair trade.

[Greg Miller]

Fair trade, yeah.

[Blessing]

As our community knew what he was signing up for.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Blessing]

I better not see any of my co workers during Christmas break. Except for Greg on Christmas Eve.

[Greg Miller]

Come on. French dips. Mr. Hawk says, filling out applications and gearing up for burning springs. There's never been a better time to jump into Fallout 76. Remember, Mr. Hawks is joining us tomorrow to stream Fallout 76 with us where Walton Goggins will give us our bounties.

[Blessing]

Nice.

[Greg Miller]

Marsh hero says got my aura frame. Using code kind of funny. Let's fucking go. I love my aura frame.

[Blessing]

God damn, I love mine too. Yeah, yeah, I got one in my room.

[Greg Miller]

And then final one is Mr. Nice Guy Rye. Greg, I am absolutely loving Luminescent Rise, but holy cow, those expert challenges are stopping me from scoring the platinum. Also, ball pit is addicting. Two great games in a year full of great games. Everybody should be playing Luminous. And don't be like Filthy Imran Khan saying, you know, Tetris is still.

[Andy]

Nah, go back to Tetris effect.

[Greg Miller]

Shut up.

[Blessing]

You can play both guys.

[Greg Miller]

Push the button or honestly, like before.

[Andy]

You even get to the luminescent rise, just play Toyo Poyo. Poyo Tetris.

[Greg Miller]

No poo. Get out of.

[Blessing]

Yeah, just do that. Is that good? Fine. Solid fine?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I mean luminous is great though.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Shut up, Erica. VC says the analog 3D is $270. Currently the EverDrive 64 cartridge does not work with the analog 3D. At least not out of the box. There's some other about it, you know, there's you can make it work, but there's work. Kebabs comes in and says to be. I had one of my worst celiac incidents this weekend that had me writhing and unable to eat or drink anything for three days. But okay. Fuck me, Greg, for bellyaching about my Belly aching. I'm just saying you're not giving enough information. You got to say all that in the thing. And did you ever think maybe that happened to you, Kebabs, because you're so mean to me? Did you ever think God and or Satan was punishing you for not being on my side in the arguments here on the show? Every day you come in here, you start shit with me, then you go to tell me, you know what I mean? That's God or Satan saying, be nice to Greg. I'm just calling on it.

[Blessing]

Put down the bread.

[Greg Miller]

Put down. Oh my God. Big bad Beluga says resonance. Resonance is the remedy verse.

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[Greg Miller]

In the remedy verse is the core energy that comes from all the objects of power. Like an extra dimensional sound people hear but aren't aware of. It's what turns people into the hiss and blah blah, blah, you know.

[Blessing]

Over the course of the show, Control Resonance has grown on me as a title for the the sequel.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not gonna bother getting into that. Yeah, okay. Poco Pokemoney says, sorry, nobody is wrong, but Bless is right about Za's budget. It was $13 million, which is basically nothing compared to AAA games. Yeah. Oh, and then Kebabs comes back in. Apparently belly feels fine enough to keep yelling. The EverDrive 64 was patched to work with the analog, so apparently then you it does. Okay, but again, what are we talking about anymore? You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

What are we talking? 6, 7, 6, 7. I can also just play. I was thinking about this as I was playing my fucking analog 3D. I was like, man, it'd be great to play Pokemon Stadium right now. I'm like, I have a switch online. I can just play with that.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody, that's another episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily in the books. Remember we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about each and every weekday on YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Twitch TV, Kinda FunnyGames, Apple and Spotify. We kick off a live programming daily day that never ends. Except for when it ends in the afternoon. Today, of course, you're leading from this right into our review of Marvel Cosmic Invasion on the kind of funny games cast. Then it's the Kinda Funny podcast. Then it's us streaming Cosmic Invasion, giving away game codes, maybe a controller, a fight stick. I need to see if it came or if it's in my thing or what's going on. We'll find out about it, but we couldn't do without you. Pick up a Kinda funny membership. Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, or Apple to keep the lights and mics on. For now, it's time for your gamescast. But until next time time it's been our pleasure to serve you.

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