Metroid Prime 4 Final Trailer Live Reaction, Hype-Check - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.04.25

Summary

Podcast Summary – Kinda Funny Games Daily (Nov 4, 2025)

Episode: Metroid Prime 4 Final Trailer Live Reaction, Hype-Check
Hosts: Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller & Blessing Adeoye Jr
Special Contributors: Tim Gettys, Barrett, Tim (briefly)
Theme: Reactions and discussion on the new Metroid Prime 4 trailer, Switch 2’s record-setting sales, major Nintendo news, dispatch's surprise success, and a lively debate about generational excitement in gaming.

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Overview

In this episode, Greg and Blessing offer their unfiltered reactions to the final Metroid Prime 4 trailer, check their own hype levels, and break down what the new footage means for the legendary franchise. The show further dives into huge Nintendo news—most notably Switch 2’s historic launch numbers, Mario Kart’s continued dominance, and a Metroid-focused fan debate. There’s also sharp commentary on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment reviews, the Palworld patent controversy, dispatch crossing 1M sales, and spirited banter about what makes a console launch “magical.”

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Metroid Prime 4 Trailer – Live Reaction & Hype Level

• Live Viewing: Both hosts watch and comment in real time. Initial take: trailer is cinematic, with more gameplay featured compared to previous ones.
  • Notable Quote (08:57, Blessing): “So far I like how this game looks compared to previous trailers...that looks great.”
  • Praise for “Samus's flip” (a fan-joked highlight).
• Visuals & Tone: Blessing brings up the franchise’s feel for immersion and exploration; Greg calls the environments “barren” by AAA standards, but Blessing argues that is “by Metroid Prime standards.”
  • Notable Conversation (11:59, Blessing): “I don’t want a Metroid Prime filled to the brim with things and distractions...I think stylistically I like how this looks.”
• Hype Check: Greg remains a hesitant observer (“Not non-existent. Not anti–Metroid Prime 4, but... never been a Metroid Prime guy”), while Blessing is genuinely excited, especially after loving the Remaster.
• Trailer’s Impact: Both agree that the new trailer does more to sell the game—showing immersive, first-person exploration (“My favorite part is when she walks out into the jungle and the camera swings around.” – Greg, 15:33).
  • Concerns remain: Will it reach the “definitive Metroid” status fans desire?
  • Release Date: December 4th—helpfully, not a crowded month.

2. Nintendo News Round-Up

A) Switch 2 Sets Sales Records

• Sales Stats: 10.36 million Switch 2s sold in 6 months—double Switch 1’s debut, outpacing PS5’s launch. Mario Kart World hits a 9.57M attachment rate.
  • Greg (19:17): "That’s damn near 100% attachment rate."
• Mario Kart World Discussion: Despite immense sales, neither host feels it has “buzz” among core players. A testament to Mario Kart’s long-standing power as a mainstream, evergreen title.
• Console Generational Debate: Greg feels Switch 2 has finally “feels like a real console.” Blessing argues his PS5 excitement was higher due to dramatic UI and hardware differences.
  • Spirited debate over which recent generation leap actually “felt” bigger.
  • Quote (26:19, Blessing): “You enter the world as a toddler...Nintendo’s already got you.”

B) Nintendo IP & Nostalgia

• “Nintendo’s unique ability to make new fans” is dissected, from Animal Crossing’s pandemic-era appeal to their multi-generational IP management.
• Greg (27:12): “Nintendo has always been so good at having their core IPs and letting people experiment with them…”

C) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment Reviews

• Review Scores: 78 Metacritic, 80 OpenCritic.
• Reception: “High point for the spinoff series,” but not for everyone—Greg and Blessing admit Musou games aren’t their style, but recognize strong niche appeal.
  • Blessing (35:14): “Game doesn’t have to work for me...the fanbase is going to adore this.”

3. News Flash – Palworld Patent Dispute

• Summary: Nintendo’s monster-battling patent for Pokémon-style gameplay is being reconsidered in the US, likely to be struck down after prior art surfaced.
• Hosts unanimously agree: “This patent was an overreach by Nintendo.” (44:03)
  • Notable for ongoing industry impact.

4. dispatch Crosses 1 Million Sales—The Rise of Episodic Games

• Milestone: 1 million in 10 days; hosts celebrate the witty announcement and surprising reach.
  • Blessing is still “at a 9 out of 10” after four episodes; hosts compare it to a good TV season.
  • Guests (Tim, Barrett): Add that initial skepticism about the episodic format was misplaced; the format and cliffhangers are working.
  • Major point: The game is permeating beyond core gaming circles (Greg shares a story of meeting a casual gamer enthused about the game at a Halloween party).
• Marketing Success: The ad hoc YouTube cast interview hosted by Greg has over 350,000 views, a testament to the power of Critical Role fans and effective influencer casting.
  • Blessing (55:54): “This game, I think, needs to be studied for the marketing...that’s crazy, would never have expected that.”
• Notable Quote (51:38, Blessing): “Can you make the cliffhangers matter?...I think they got there.”
• Community Excitement: Listeners compare its weekly anticipation to TV phenomena like Severance.

5. Quick Hits: Other Major Stories

• Warhammer: Vampire Survivors-like Announced (57:44):
  New pixel-roguelite, cross-universe, coming 2026. Hosts mildly amused, not directly excited.
• Nintendo Patent Loss (44:01)
• EA Assures Creative Control if Acquired (59:05)
• Upcoming Game Pass Releases & Delays

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Greg on Metroid Prime 4 Visuals:
  "Even pause here. Like, this doesn’t look like a 2025 AAA first-person shooter." (11:31)
• Blessing on Metroid’s Appeal:
  “Metroid Prime is one of those games for me where...there was a certain point I hit where I’m like, oh, I see the Matrix.” (10:40)
• On Mario Kart World’s Success:
  “Is it weird to anybody else that this game has sold this many copies and you don’t fucking hear anyone talk about it?” – Greg (19:36)
• On Dispatch’s TV-Show Format:
  “I keep wanting to call it a show... like, I want to watch something, I’ll put on this” – Blessing (47:59)
• On Console Generational Leaps:
  “When you’re talking about games, what felt like a jump?...NES to SNES was a jump. SNES to N64 was a jump.” – Greg (40:39)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------|-----------------------| | Metroid Prime 4 Trailer – Live Reaction | 07:45 – 13:36 | | Metroid franchise/hype discussion | 13:36 – 16:12 | | Switch 2 sales discussion | 16:44 – 26:26 | | Mario Kart World’s dominance | 19:17 – 21:25 | | Nintendo’s “magic” & generational hype | 26:26 – 41:57 | | Hyrule Warriors Review Roundup | 33:55 – 35:50 | | Palworld Patent News | 44:01 – 45:19 | | Dispatch hits 1 million sales | 47:04 – 54:42 | | Console generational leap debate | 36:58 – 41:59; 39:23 – 41:59 | | Warhammer: Vampire Survivors-like reveal | 57:44 – 58:53 | | “Wee News” Roundup | 59:00 – end |

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Tone and Flow

The episode is classic Kinda Funny—witty, irreverent, and filled with candid, personal takes. The hosts riff on each other's gaming backgrounds, joke about “boomer shooters,” and routinely break the fourth wall to address chat superchats and correct their own rambling segues. The energy remains high, with Blessing’s effusive hype balanced by Greg’s ever-skeptical, everyman voice.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

• You’ll get: Lively first reactions to Metroid Prime 4’s trailer, honest hype checks, concrete Switch 2 (and Mario Kart) sales context, and debates over what really makes a console generation feel new.
• You’ll also hear: Musings on Nintendo’s staying power and marketing genius, the success of dispatch’s episodic format, a breakdown of a controversial Nintendo patent, and shoutouts to various new releases and upcoming games.

If you wanted to know how the core gaming community is feeling about Nintendo in late 2025, this episode is a must-listen snapshot—funny, opinionated, and packed with both industry insight and fandom.

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Memorable Sendoff:
“It’s been our pleasure to serve you.” – Greg Miller (65:59)

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Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Greg Miller]

Today. In the nerdy news you need to know about. A new Metroid Prime 4 trailer has dropped. Switch 2 continues to be the biggest console launch ever in Hyrule Warriors. Reviews are in. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind Of Funny. Games Daily what's up everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Tuesday, November 4, 2025 vote. If you're here in the United States, I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka leftover poppy blessing Annie Oye Jr Good day Greg. How are you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm doing good. I got four things for you.

[Greg Miller]

Oh shit. Fuck. Okay, there we go already.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

As we were going live, I saw this game pop up called Hyper Demon PvP. Wario64 tweeted about it. It's out on steam for free I think. As of today, I believe it's just a PvP mode for a game Hyperdemon that I assume it's been out for a while but I saw this and I'm like this looks fucking sick. Hyperdemon PvP is a free online 1v1 FPS master simple but deep mechanics and defeat opponents in intense duels to climb the global leaderboards. Looks like just a fast paced first person shooter situation like a Doom. But it's PvP.

[Greg Miller]

Interesting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm all about it. Okay, I just want to shout that out.

[Greg Miller]

Send the. What's it called? Hyperdemon whatnot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Hyperdemon PvP, I wonder is one of those ones I Want to learn more about it? I'll send it to. To Assets, the Steam page if we want to learn about it together. That's one of the things. Things.

[Greg Miller]

That's one of the things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Thing number two.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We won our second volleyball game of the season last.

[Greg Miller]

Come on, everybody. Get it together. Get those hands together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We're two zero right now.

[Greg Miller]

Put them in the chat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm feeling pretty confident about this season. I think we're going to go all the way. I think we're going to go to the playoffs.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, damn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, P.E. this hybrid demon game looks insane if you're a first person shooter. Fam. If you're. They call them boomer shooters. You hear that term boomer shooters? No, I think it's like the Doom or like the kind of old school style like PV arcade or arena style. First person shooters. Looks fun. Looks cool. That was the second thing.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Third thing. Last night I also beat Hades 2.

[Greg Miller]

Again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Finally rolled credits on Hades 2. It feels really good. It's one of those ones where it.

[Greg Miller]

Worked because it was a one shot in real life. This one's over here, just set. Sad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's one of those things where I enjoyed a game so much that rolling credits has left me with an empty feeling of, man, I just had the time of my life and it's over now. Yeah, I can go back and play more. He's too, obviously. But it's like I hit the finish line, you know, and so like now I'm like, wow, what am I going to do now? What am I going to do with my life?

[Greg Miller]

What are you going to do? I mean, if only there wasn't 3,000 more games coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, but none of them are Hades two.

[Greg Miller]

That's true. None of them are. One of them will be Moonlighter too soon though. How about that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

When does that come out?

[Greg Miller]

November Teens is double digits. There's a one in front of the number. So it's. It's somewhere. It's close. It's soon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

I mean it's November already.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I forgot the fourth thing. I thought I'd remember it.

[Greg Miller]

Dude. Welcome to Greg way fourth thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Do you think. Do you ever sit down and think that Andy Cortez is holding back his best work for his own merch? I do cuz like I do Fucking awesome.

[Greg Miller]

This shirt is awesome. I'm wearing one. If you're an audio listener. I'm wearing Andy's new crew neck sweater, the nitro rifle. And he's got the nitro rifle NR there. And then the spurs colors.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Looks real good.

[Greg Miller]

Dust or something on me it looks real good. Yeah, I like it. Okay, good enough. We got a new shirt. Kind of funny.com store it's the Pokeball but it's the kind of funny logo. Smiley. But don't sue us. That Pokemon don't sue us. I'm good. Lots going on this morning. Embargoed. Embargoed. You know, I try to run around, do these million things, get it all set up. But I'm happy to be here with you to talk about some video games. Yeah, let's talk about because this is kind of Funny Games. Daily, each and every weekday on a variety of platforms, we run you through the nerdy video games news you need to know About Live on YouTube.com kindafunnygames Twitch TV kindafunnygames and podcast services around the globe. If you like that, pick up a kinda funny membership patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple Spotify, you give us $10. We give you 80 episodes a month of ad free content and of course, your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Way where I give you 15 to 20 minutes of exclusive podcasting in my car. Of course, you'd also get good karma for support starting a small business that's independent. But if you got no bucks, toss away. No big deal. Like subscribe, share, ring the bell, leave a notification, do the thing, say the stuff you got Amazon prime, you got Twitch prime, give it to us. They don't remind you, they don't want to do it. But more importantly for this show, super chat over on YouTube.com kindafunnygames to be part of the show housekeeping for you. Of course, today we are still always about live talk shows. You're gonna get the games cast right after this. And it's my 10 games to know Greg Miller, which I'm excited to dive into and excited to see if the chat can just guess them all right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Off the bat, I might do an exercise where I try to write down all the games.

[Greg Miller]

I'll cover my face and you go right now, right now, give me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm a walker. God of war. I'll say Ragnarok. See, I was gonna say Freedom wars, but I don't think Freedom wars is that high. You'd probably put a monster on her. Monster hunter. One of those monster hunters.

[Greg Miller]

That's good enough. That's good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

One of those Ghostbusters game. See, now you're ruining your whole list.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not going to say if you're right or wrong. You have to tune to the gamescast to find out. You have to tune in the gamescast after. The gamescast is an Nvidia sponsored arc Raiders stream. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg way is 20 minutes about the best podcast beyond moments and if indie games are screwed. Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobsen, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Seven items on the Roper Report.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, baker's dozen.

[Greg Miller]

Come on, little guy. I see you. I see you steaming over there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

He has a sick day.

[Greg Miller]

No, it's. It happened in Greg way too where I feel like I'm putting words out of order, but I don't think I am. And so then I kind of got in my own head and then we.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Did shift like a slight thing that has messed me up like for the. For the last week.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Where now we do the pre roll ad and so we don't have to say like the sponsor. Yeah, the sponsor.

[Greg Miller]

It's usually. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. I think that's might have been what it is. I did the Delaney, the song twining and then did the. You had to actually read the line for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the robot. Yeah, it's the little things here. When you've been doing the show this long. Number one on the Roper Report. A new Metroid Prime 4 trailer dropped. I haven't watched it. Have you watched it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I've not watched it.

[Greg Miller]

We're gonna live react to it right now. All I know is that I saw on B.S. that's a blue sky, Tim. That Jeffrey Grubb said Samus's flip turns him on. That man has children and he's just saying that on Maine. But okay, whatever. What is your hype for Metroid Prime?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm hoping that this trailer brings this is the one. I'm hoping that this is the one. I of course played Metroid Prime Remastered and that was my first full Metroid prime experience and I fucking loved it. It went on my list of like, oh, this is one of the best games I've ever played type of thing. But yeah, I never got around to playing Metroid Primes 2 and 3. And from what I hear from people that those games don't really reach the heights of one. And so it's weird to then come back around now to where the Fourth one is coming out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I'm like, all right, is this going to be a Metroid Prime 2 or 3 situation also? Is that just a good thing anyway? Because I don't hear that those games are bad. Right. Like, it's just that Metroid Prime 1 is where it's at for sure. Or is this going to be the full return?

[Greg Miller]

You know, let's find out together, everybody. Here it is, the new Metroid prime for beyond trailer called survive a minute 12. We got the ship shooting stuff. Samus Flip. That's the one Jeffrey. Jeff Grubb loves, I assume. Oh, she's on Pandora.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, so far I like how this game looks compared in this trailer compared to previous trailers. I know this is all cinematic, but that looks great.

[Greg Miller]

This. This right here looks great. First person hand over in front of your face.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I like this trailer. I. I like how much of it is just gameplay.

[Greg Miller]

I like this trailer. Here she is on the bike. This is something we saw another what a direct. And we're like, this doesn't look good. Yeah, they kept it way shorter here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Okay. I think that's one of the better trailers for this game. What is your hype level leading into Metroid Prime 4?

[Greg Miller]

Not non existent. And again, not that I'm anti Metroid Prime 4, but I've never been a Metroid prime guy. I watched Kyle Hayes play it on GameCube back in the day in college. I watched him playing. I was like, okay, cool. I. This is. I. I see it. This is whatever. And I never came back. Even remastered. I think I tried to kick the tires on a plane and maybe fell asleep. Not because the game just planes put me to sleep. And so as a switch to fan, I'm excited for more switch 2. I'm hoping I jump in and I go, all right, yeah, this is it. But I look at this and it doesn't look to me like something I'm like, I got to play this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I will say, because you talk about you're watching your homie play this back in the day, right. Or played Metroid Prime. I don't think Metroid prime is a game that you can watch somebody play and get what's great about it. I think it's a game that you have to experience. I think it's a game that you have to kind of like be in the. The way I described it when I was playing it was, you know how there's the thing, the Tetris effect, Right?

[Greg Miller]

Of course.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You play so much Tetris that you Go to sleep. And you see the blocks in your right, like there you. You start to see the matrix of the thing. Metroid prime is one of those games for me where playing through that game, there was a certain point I hit where I'm like, oh, I see the Matrix like I am just the map is no longer an environment anymore. I am now seeing like all the different paths. I'm seeing like the things that I missed before. I'm see where I need to go next and how do I get to this next thing. And I think for me, that's what this trailer nails. Is that in previous trailers? Maybe I'm speaking out of turn because it's been a while since I've seen the previous trailers, but you're right that the last trailer was like a lot of the motorcycle shit that we were like, oh, this doesn't look as great. And I think it's been a lot of like, cinematic stuff as well. Seeing so much of the trailer be you in first person, scanning things like exploring, seeing the different environments and all of it looking really good by Metroid prime standards. That, for me is what's bringing me in now.

[Greg Miller]

You bring in by Metroid prime standards, yeah. That's another thing I look at and I'm not, you know, throwing shade. I hope everybody enjoys the game. I hope I play it and I love it. It looks barren. Like, I mean, like, it doesn't. I mean, this I don't do. We look at this and say this game looks good. This like, go back to that shot. Kevin, if you don't mind, like, even pause here. Like, this doesn't look like a 20, 25 triple A first person shooter. And I know that this is the Metroid Man. I know it's switch to and I know all the stuff. And I'm also not the visuals guy, don't get me wrong. But, but I'm looking at this going like, see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But that's why that, that, that is why I say by Metroid prime standards, because I think you're right as far as maybe the bareness of it. But I don't want a Metroid prime that's like filled to the brim with like, things and distractions and all that stuff. I think stylistically I like how this looks. I like kind of like how they've set this set dress the environment here. I also like that it is kind of limited as far as what the enemies are, right?

[Greg Miller]

You're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You're going to repeatedly be coming, be coming back to these same spaces. And I think There is something that's nice about coming back and being like, all right, I know there's a guy to the. There's gonna be two guys to the right, one guy to the left, but boom, boom, boom. Take them out. Keep going. Like, there's sort of a memorization that happens when you're going through these paths over and over again. And so for me, it brings me back to Metroid Prime 1, which, to your point, like, that's a GameCube game. So am I judged this by the standard standards of a game that came out 20 years ago? Yeah, a little bit. But I do think that for what.

[Greg Miller]

Worked in this desert section, I mean, and again, I'm not that guy. If the game slaps, the game slaps. I don't care. I will enjoy it. Especially if it is about being in it. You know, when you're watching a game, you always catch things you're not catching when you play it because you're caught on where your reticle is and what you're trying to do or whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, like, yeah, if this brings me back to a game that everybody adored from the GameCube era, which again, many people played recently, and for me, having played it recently, I'm like, yo, this game for me still fucking holds up. Is still incredible. If you're telling me that Metro Prime 4 can live up to that, then let's freaking go. That is a tall task. I don't know if it's going to be able to do that, but seeing the first person gameplay segments of this gives me a little bit more hope. I think it gives me a little bit more hype than the previous trailers. The motorcycle stuff, we'll see. I hope that's just like fast travel. All right, you're in, you're out. Now get back into the. The core game.

[Greg Miller]

The cinematic. They're opening, like, seems like it's setting up a cool thing. The environments, like, have a definitely cool vibe to them. A definitely cool atmosphere, like you're talking about. Yeah. And I don't. But, yeah, I don't. I know nothing of the story, which is where I'd want to be. I'd rather. I hope I drop in and it immediately grips me and I'm ready to go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I've always wanted, like, a Metroid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Metroid hasn't worked for me until recently. Like, it was Metroid prime remastered, and then before that, Metroid dread worked for me, but it wasn't me and Andy, you know, we call that game Great. It's a great game. You know, Tim gets mad because we say it's great and we don't say it's amazing. But like that's kind of. I love the boss fights in Metroid Dread. But for some reason, like I remember trying out similar to you, right, Trying out Super Metroid back in the day. I had even tried out versions of Metroid prime on the Wii and it just never stuck. I think esthetically and like, I think just everything around Metroid never felt like, oh, this is peak blessing shit until recently. Oh no. The gameplay is. Even though I'm like, I'm looking at planets, I'm looking at all these things, all of it seems cool. It's the gameplay that has really pulled me in in Metroid prime specifically. And so I'm looking forward to this. I'm hoping that it's fantastic.

[Greg Miller]

Me too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm not worried. But I could see it being, ah, this is great. But it wasn't, you know, the definitive Metroid prime is back, baby. I could see it being that.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, we don't think it's just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

A tough thing to get back to.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I think when Nintendo looks to and what the audience looks to, they don't want Metroid prime to be back. They want this to be the definitive Metroid. Right. They want this. I think so many people are looking to this to be to what puts Metroid and Samus on the level of so many other games. And I don't know if we'll get that. Yeah, super chats are coming in about this. Zeke Speak says I want Lonely and Strange, but it's all a balance. Of course. Up here we have Alex J. Sandoval Metroid prime trailers are hard because trailers tend to be Metroid Prime. Trailers are hard because trailers tend to accentuate action. But Metroid games, especially prime, are about immersion, loneliness and exploration.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I agree.

[Greg Miller]

And that last part is what excites me to play it. Yeah. Like obviously I'm not an FPS guy. I don't want to just play Doom. I don't want. Those aren't games I'm drawn to. So I'd much rather it be like, yeah, like it looks. Oh, what I like. My favorite part of that trailer is when it looks like she walks out into like the jungle and the camera swings around and like you see like this stuff and like I like the idea of like you are on this alien planet now. All you have is your blaster or whatever. How are you going to get back to whatever you need to do to the MacGuffin to keep on going. Yaddy. I don't agree. Okay. I'm excited about it, I guess, to a degree. December 4th. Is that what it is? Yeah, yeah. It's coming up soon. Yeah. Real quick, real quick, real quick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I do like that is December because December is not filled with games.

[Greg Miller]

No, not at all. It's the usual where there. I mean, this is the biggest game of December. Oh, and then octopath.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Octopath.

[Greg Miller]

Zero.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. I mean, Marvel Cosmic Invasion comes out December 1st. You know, don't forget Nicktoons the Dice of Destiny for Switch to Skate Story.

[Greg Miller]

Shouts out Shadow Trickster.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Let it die. Inferno. Yeah, okay. Oh, there's that game routine that we've talked about recently that comes out the Same day on December 4th as well. Wait, all these things about December 4th? Metroid Prime 4 and Octopat Traveler are both December 4th.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, big day. It is a big day. But if I want to know, we're not there yet. Let's move on to story number two and keep it in Nintendo land. Switch 2 sales hit 10.36 million continuing streak is the biggest console launch of all time this is Tom [e-mail] Nintendo Switch 2 has sold an astonishing 10.36 million units in six months, a record breaking amount that sees the platform continue its run as the biggest console launch ever. In its latest financial results published this morning, Nintendo raised its hardware forecast for the year. In response to the Nintendo Switch 2's spectacular performance, it now expects to shift 19 million units of its new console before the end of March 2026. To put switch to success in perspective, Nintendo has doubled the launch sales of the Switch 1, which sold 4.6. I'm sorry, 4.7 million units in its first six months back in 2017. And it is also well ahead of the PlayStation 5's own impressive arrival, which SOL 7.8 million units back in November 2020, though was limited by stock availability. Mario Kart World, the Switch 2's flagship launch game, has now sold 9.57 million copies, with 8.1 million units of that total from the console bundle parentheses. So yes, more than a million people paid 80 bucks to buy the game. Separately, Nintendo's second biggest Switch title, Donkey Kong Bonanza, has notched up 3.49 million sales since its July debut, Super Mario Party Jamboree. The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, meanwhile, has sold 1.16 million copies. Interestingly, sales of the Switch 1 game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, continue to remain strong, with another 1.37 million units sold over the last six months. The original Nintendo Switch now stands at 154 million units. Meanwhile, meaning it's just 10,000 sales away from overtaking Nintendo's current best selling device, the Nintendo ds. But can aging console shift. But can the aging console shift another 6 million units to finally dethrone the best selling console ever, PlayStation 2? Nintendo says it expects Switch 1 to reach a lifetime total of 156 million by the end of March 2026. So it will come close.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You said aging console and I heard Asian console and I was like, that's a weird way to describe the Nintendo Switch. It's a worldwide console. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, I don't know where to start with this one. I. The, I think the most. Not surprising, but like the biggest number that jumps out to me is the Mario Kart World.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's where I, I was thinking about jumping too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, like, that's an insane, like, what was it here? Mario Kart world, the Switch 2 flagship has sold 9.57 million copies. And for context, right, like the Switch to itself has sold 10.36. That's damn near 100% attachment rate.

[Greg Miller]

Is it weird to anybody else that. And maybe I'm just not running in the right circles, but we do talk about video games each and every day here. Is it weird to anybody else that this game has sold this many copies and you don't fucking hear anyone talk about it? And I don't mean you don't hear people talk about it, that it's their favorite game of all time? And you don't hear people say, I fucking don't like this game. It's just a game that exists. We all played for maybe a few nights, maybe a few weeks, and then we're just like, cool, thanks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Meanwhile, you know, Sonic Racing, crossworlds, That's the one, man.

[Greg Miller]

They got Steve.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Now we're all the sales for that, you know. Yeah, yeah. It's such a. I mean, it's more. It's the power of Mario Kart, specifically. Right. And it's one that I would. I'm sure there's video essays and like probably write ups that people have done as far as the power of Mario Kart and why it does so well. Yeah, but I would love to really know. Like, you know, I look at all the other. I look at Donkey Kong Bonanza, a game that people are saying game of the year. It's a game that starts, that stars Donkey Kong, the original Nintendo, like breakout, the guy, the Guy, It's a game that's massive. It's a game that has so much going for it. And here we're talking about, well, like, half of that three. It was like, what, 3.49 million sales. Which is not. Which is fantastic, for the record. But when you compare that to Mario Kart, I, like, I, I get it, but I also don't get it at the same time.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's just the power of whatever what Mario Kart has, I guess.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And a pack in and being the day one thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And then.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. How much people love Mario period. Around how many feelings people have about Mario Kart, I think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But even like, if. If you replace Hong Kong Bonanza with Mario Odyssey 2, I think the numbers, I mean, I'm sure it sell a little bit more, but it still wouldn't hit what Mario Kart World is doing here.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. But again, I think that's day one. Like, if you're buying that console. Yeah, you're. Why not get the pack in? Yeah, get the pack in. I just don't think it's necessary. I don't think it's apples to apples.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That's fair.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But good for them. Like, again, like, I love my Switch to, like, I think. Not that I didn't love my Switch 1, especially at launch. I think, you know, there was a honeymoon period with, of course, Breath of the Wild and then of course Mario Odyssey and stuff like that. But all that said, it still never felt like even back then, I feel like the Switch one didn't feel like it was a real console to some degree, if that makes sense. It's kind of insulting, but you know what I mean in terms of like, running in HD and looking great and feeling like, oh, this is a current gen piece of hardware. Like my Switch 2, you know, feels that way. And I think the amount I use it in the way I use it and like, to be able to go from, okay, I'm playing World, but I'm also, you know, I carried over my Pokemon save to then. Okay, now I'm doing Bonanza. Okay, now I'm doing Pokemon's all, like, I have something on at all times that, you know, we talk about exclusives and, you know, Xbox and Sarah Bond saying they don't matter anymore. And then going back and us having our games cast a few weeks ago about what. What is the vibe on PlayStation right now? Like Nintendo, I look at that Switch, I'm like, man, you're killing it on hardware and you're still killing it on games. Like I know that there's so many experiences I can only get on this. And I'm still, as I work through reviews right now and then play stuff like Arc Raiders for fun. I still look at the Switch. I'm like, I gotta get back to Pokemon. I gotta get back. I gotta finish Bonanza. I still haven't finished Bonanza. Like, there's so much to go back and still do that I'm excited about. I have so much joy in that device.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You get surprised that it's selling like, this much faster than the Switch one did?

[Greg Miller]

No, I really don't. I think it's always complicated and convoluted. But you figure Switch one launched and it was a. What the fuck is this thing? What are you talking about? I think even for gamers, there was the hangover of the Wii U. There was, did we really believe in this? And the snapping and the clicking and like, is it really gonna work? I think there was things you needed to see, right? I always go back to even another Nintendo console called the Wii, where I was all about the Wii. From what I had read in egm, bought it. And I remember that Thanksgiving where my mom came over and she was playing it. She's like, oh, my God, like, I want one of these for Christmas. And that one was like, what? Like, you had to experience to know it. Since I still think with Switch one, you had to experience and see the pickup and the click and like, the kickstand out and play. Like, now that everybody gets what the Switch is, hey, now there's a Switch 2. And it's more powerful and it's got better games and. Or, you know, it's got more impressive games or whatever you want to say. I think there's a. Oh, my family had so much fun with the Switch one. We'll buy this. Oh, I know how much my kids loved it. I'll get it for their birthday. I'll get it for Christmas. I think it makes sense to dive in and people understand what the device is immediately.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. I think there's also the ability that Nintendo has to create new Nintendo fans during a generation. I know it sounds almost ridiculous to say, but you think about Animal Crossing, New Horizons, and how much of a moment that was like for the world and how many people who probably bought a Switch for Animal Crossing who, like, wouldn't have bought a Nintendo console otherwise. Right. And that gets them into the ecosystem. And when you're talking about where they're at, like you mentioned going into the Switch one, where you're coming off of the Wii U like a big. A big old failure there. And you are big old failure. And you're coming in at some with something that is trying to right the ship and people buy it. People like, you know, see the potential in it. People are there for Zelda like Switch 1 launch year. You're talking about like some of the best games ever made coming out for that console between Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Zelda, Breath of the Wild and Mar Odyssey. Right. And like this year for Switch 2 isn't that. But like you have all of that Switch 1 goodwill plus audience that's like, you know, now die Hard. More die hard than they were even before. Because you're still Nintendo back then. But there's something different now with Switch one. I like, I think Nintendo has that. I don't want to say unique ability, but they definitely like an ability, that ability that is on a bigger scale. When you want to talk about like when a Nintendo game hits, it hits.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah. And I think you then have that built in nostalgia for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Like there's such an audience love for it. Like you're saying they always make new fans. Yeah. The fact that Mario as an ip. Right. Is even more popular now to my son than he was to my kids or my peers when I was my son's age. You know what I mean? Of like that's crazy because I obviously Mario and the cartoon and all the stuff that we were having then, I know gaming's bigger than ever, but still, like he's maintained that level of leadership and IP and been able to grow that way to where Nintendo and the stores and everything else.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

The fact that he loves. He likes Pokemon. Right. Because he took him to Pokemon.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. Ben loves. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Like the fact that you're able to still do that.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I look at other. I mean even the other console makers between PlayStation and Xbox kind of still like, is there any of those IP that Ben is into? Like he's been into, I guess Astrobot or Ratchet.

[Greg Miller]

He likes Astrobot. Yeah. But I mean, this is the Stockholm syndrome. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, he likes. I mean, like, you know, his dad made sure he looked at Astrobot and played Astrobot. Like he loves Astrobot. Yeah. And he had, you know, I think Golf are bought him an Astrobot stuffy, you know, before anything, you know, like it's that thing where I think there's so much outside influence to make Astrobot more of a thing to him. But it's like, yeah, Ratchet, he has no idea who that is. Yeah, like, he's not looking at. There's no PlayStation cartoon show that's going.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Like you're watching as you enter the world as a toddler, you look around and Nintendo's already got you. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like the. The. Not a joke. But like, I remember back, back in. When I was in high school or whatever, they were talking about how cigarette advertisements were getting, like, litigated because you would walk into a gas station and they would have the cigarette ad at like the height of a child. And like, that's them trying to get you at a young age.

[Greg Miller]

Joe Campbell.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, exactly. Nintendo has that, but, like, in a way, thank God it's not cigarettes, right? Like, thank God Mario wasn't selling cigarettes. But you enter the world and it is Pokemon and Mario, Pikmin, Animal Crossing. And then even as you jump to different demographics, Animal Crossing has a chokehold on so many people that God of War obviously doesn't. Yeah, yeah, because that speaks to people. Like, Nintendo has this variety. You talk about Pikmin and all these other things that it just continue to generate and invent new fans, which is, I think that speaks to the importance of, I guess, vibrancy and variety in your library.

[Greg Miller]

100%. Yeah. And I think Nintendo does that so well, you know, and I think, you know, you talk about a different kind of library, a diversified library. I think Nintendo has always been so good at having their core IPs and letting people experiment with them and take them in different directions. Right. And now it's so easy to look at Breath of Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and forget that. That was a big swing and that was a big change from what we knew for Zelda. Right. Let alone Mario. I mean, Tim's always has a really great breakdown of it of, like, but there's still the 2D Mario, but then there's also this 3D Mario you can play with. And what do you want to do? Let alone the movies or an RPG or this, that and the other, and even Animal Crossing, right. Of like the way that has evolved over the years to what it is and where I hope it'll go from here. Like, that's how they keep you around. And like, yeah, when I walked into the Nintendo Store this weekend with Ben and Jen, right. I popped and immediately went to the Animal Crossing. They knew stuff. Got a new coffee thermos. I was like, oh, hell yeah. You know what I mean? I'm all about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Big Nintendo spin offs.

[Greg Miller]

Speaking of Nintendo spin offs, Greg Way Number three on the ROPA report is your Hyrule warriors age of imprisonment review roundup over on Metacrit. It has. You know what, we'll tell you about it in one second. Remember, of course, this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy video game news need to know about Live. And if you like that, you should pick up a Kinda Funny membership to keep the lights and mics on. Of course you can pick it up on patreon.com kinda funny, YouTube.com kinda funny games, Apple and Spotify to get all of our shows ad free. Get your daily podcast from me, Greg Miller, and of course get good karma for supporting an 11 person small business all about live talk shows. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsor.

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[Greg Miller]

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[Mariana Van Zeller]

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[Greg Miller]

That's the wallet. You never leave home alone.

[Mariana Van Zeller]

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[Greg Miller]

Yeah, or else you'll be bleeding out your coolo.

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[Greg Miller]

Raziel, I'd like to defend myself over and of course, the YouTube comments. Raziel says again, Greg, not using the Nintendo cup. First off, show some fucking respect. It's my Animal Crossing diner mug, all right? From Brewsters. Get it right or get out of the goddamn chat. Secondly, I. When I make the, the. When I make the coffee here, over there, that's. Or even when I bring in my little thermos of coffee, that's when I'm using the cup. When I have to stop and buy iced coffee because I'm out of iced coffee at home. And here I'm not gonna go, I'm not gonna wait. I already, I already killed a fucking penguin to make this cup, all right? And I'll be God damn. If I'm gonna compost it, I'll compost it. But I'm not gonna just dump it into the cup to then have then. Cause then it's like the cup is so small, the diner cup, then I'd have this on top of that. If it's a cup coming from the outside, like Today's and yesterday's McDonald's, it's gonna stay in the cup from the outside. But if I'm making a coffee here, that's when I'll use this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I like that.

[Greg Miller]

Ah, coffee number three on the rope Report in your Nintendo Rock Block. Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment review roundup. The Metacritic is at a 78. The Open Critic is at an 80. Richard Wakeling at GameSpot gave it a 7 out of 10. A few issues hold it back, but Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment marks a high point for the spin off series iterating on its riotous hack and slash combat with depth and variety. Jade King at the gamer gave it four out of five stars or just a four out of five and said, but this is still a Musou title and it can only achieve so much within that framework without awkwardly bursting at the seams with those restrictions in consideration. However, Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment is a triumphant prequel that Zelda fans are going to adore. And then PJ O'Reilly over at Nintendo Life gave it a 9 out of 10 and said Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment is a stunning slice of action and my favorite Musou game. So far, lessons have been learned from both Hyrule warriors, the age and age of both from Hyrule warriors and Age of Calamity, resulting in a game that balances big time story with top notch combat that's got proper depth to it. With Zonai devices to play with, a cracking roster, tons of sexy sync strikes to pull off, and a ludicrously slick recreation of early Hyrule to set about kicking ass in, this is dream time for hack and slash fans and Zelda enthusiasts alike. Yes, map layouts are still a bit bland and co op mode is 30 frames per second, but everything else here combines to make for the best entry in the spinoff series to date. Of course you see these reviews popping all over the place and you're enjoying yourself and you say I love it. I want to see more about it. Kind of funny is playing it. We will be reviewing it. IGN put up a thing today saying hey, we're not reviewing it just yet because Nintendo's embargo says we can't talk about certain things and we don't think that's right. So we're going to hold it till launch day. We are going to review it on launch day as well. Not for the exact same restrictions, but because of course we are trying to get Logan Plant to come over here and review it with us. So I do believe Thursday you are getting Tim Barrett and hopefully Logan out for this here game that you can hang out and talk about what they've done. I don't think it's a full blown review on our side. I think they're just tinkering with it. But I'm not 100% up to date on it. But you'll get kind of funny talking about it on Thursday, I do believe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Does this do anything for you?

[Greg Miller]

Absolutely not. Yeah, you, you, you, you. You really like Zelda and tears the kingdom and all that. Like I still have yet to roll credits in tears. I need to restart my switch to save.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I'm just not a Musso person.

[Greg Miller]

That's my thing where it's like it's on top of this being a game where it's like, oh, man, these aren't my Zeldas. I'm the Ocarina majora guy. Like, that's what I love, and I need to get reinvested into this. Like, it's also just the fact that this isn't my series. This isn't how I play. This isn't what I want to do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's funny because I do. When I. On paper, I think the muso stuff should speak to me. I like hack and slash games. I love action. I love when a bunch of things are happening on screen. We just reviewed Ninja Gaiden 4 a couple weeks ago, and, like, I talked about how much I really enjoyed that game, especially the combat. I fucking adored the combat in that game when I played Ninja Gaiden 4.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Like, that's the game where I am hacking and slashing and taking out waves of enemies and doing all this flipping around. Like, that's my type of. So when you put that in Zelda, it should work. But for whatever reason, it's not just the Zelda thing, Right? Like, I've tried Persona Strikers, which is another one that, like, I love Persona. Right. I've tried. I even tried Dynasty warriors when that came out back in January. And yeah, for whatever reason, it doesn't work for me. But also, like, it's the two universal truths of one. The game doesn't have to work for me. Like, you know, like, the fact that I know there are people out there that are jazzed about this. Oh, yeah. And also, like, a game doesn't have to be like, you know, nines and tens or whatever, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

This coming in at around an 80 on Open Critic, a 78 on Metacritic. Sounds about right. And I'm sure, like, the fan base that. That is into this type of. I'm sure they're like, oh, hell yeah, let's go. Like, this is gonna be another one of those. And I watched Barrett play, like, a little bit of it, and it looks like visually look great. And so that's all I'm going to say because I don't know what I can't say.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, sure. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely. I'm glad it's there for the folks who want that experience and everything else. But, yeah, I. I don't think there's a way they could sell me on this. It's just not. I don't want to play a Musso. I'm not interested in what's going on in Hyrule at this time, period.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean? Like, it's just not. It's not what I'm looking for out of it. But a good on you. I'm glad it's there for the audience is there for. Congratulations to everybody. Ian Johnson became a member and super chatted with that and said Nintendo is still the only console that evoked a sense of pure excitement. Launch brings me back every time to that kid who opened up their SNES for the first time. Nice. There's something to be said for that. I think you know, Switch two, again, not the most impressive launch lineup by any stretch of the imagination, but just being the new hardware and how do these feel and the magnetic snaps. You know what I mean? This. How are you going to run it? It's doing this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I might push back a little bit though. I think I. I had more excitement for a PS5 Xbox Series launch.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Than for a Switch to launch. Granted that was five years ago. But I for me Switch one to Switch two felt like such a iteration. I think pre launch felt kind of exciting. But like when we got to launch day and I'm holding and I'm playing, I'm like okay, yeah it's just more, more Switch which is great but like PS5 where I'm playing Astrobot and Pathless and Miles and Sackboy, Big Adventure and like doing all these things and like the UI is different and like the shape of the PS5 is different and like I think there's enough newness there that that made me feel more excited for it.

[Greg Miller]

See, I think it's an interesting one to argue and there's so much outside influence on it. But I would, I would go with Ian and say that I think Switch 2 did evoke this pure excitement. But again am I cheating? Because it is the idea that I was excited about new layout on PlayStation, excited for a new form factor, of course, new controller, all that's really, really cool. But it was for me like okay, cool. It's a souped up PlayStation 4 Pro. Like it. We're moving that which is great and what I want out of these and the games look better and yada yada. That's great. It also launched during COVID right. This one with the Switch, right. Us going to the launch event at the Nintendo Store and like the excitement that was there live as that happened. You know the. As much as it sucks the. Do we get it on target? Did you get it over here? Do we have a. Did they cancel the thing? Okay, okay, blah blah. And then coming back here for the launch party and setting it up and Immediately having a four player game of Mario Kart to go into and just fucking wreak Havana and Fran not to know who's what he was looking at and drive into the wall. And like, like there was a vibe and excitement to that that reminded me so much of the midnight launches I used to miss and the N64 wrestling parties me and my friends would throw in high school, you know what I mean? Whereas like, yes, PS5 launched during COVID So of course it was a very isolating experience. But even the, like the launch lineup of the PS5. Right. I think we would have done a stream if it wasn't Covid of all of us playing it and it would have been all right, Greg's playing miles for an hour and then you're going to come in and play Sackboy's big adventure with I guess one other person for what it's like, I don't know. There was some, There was something really special about this one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I feel that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But again, maybe I'm cheating because it is. We could actually do something special.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I think it's different rubrics of like how they'd both.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think the next Xbox launch will be special.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Cool. It's a PC. That's rad. I'm excited. It'll run my game better. And even PlayStation 5, I go, I don't know, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

For me it was like the dualsense edge.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Like such a dynamic different thing. Right. And like hindsight, you know, now that we're this far into it, I think.

[Greg Miller]

Now you're edge didn't launch with it though, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, sorry. Not the edge. Just the dual sense. Okay, okay, not the Edge. But like now I look back and I'm like, okay, yeah, this is just the, I don't want to say PS4 part 2, but like it is kind of that iterative, iterative thing that we talk about. But I feel like the Switch is going to feel the same way when we look back when we're like, yeah, I, I feel like Switch one and Switch two is going to feel more like one big generation. As opposed to PS4 to PS5, even Xbox One to Xbox Series X when we talk about quick resume and all that. Right. Like, like that felt like such a revolution to me. And like again, now really, I, I.

[Greg Miller]

Mean that's a really interesting argument because again, I would come down that I think this, I think the switch one to switch two generations will feel more different than PS4 to PS5, Xbox to Xbox Series.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Really?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, because for sure, I feel like PS4, I think PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Xbox Series X. No, they had something in the middle there, didn't they?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, 1x, 1x.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, whatever. They did. But you know, I mean, they're mid. Once we started doing the mid generation consoles, that's where I felt like we were just waiting. You know, you went from the cold water to the warm water to the hot water, like we were wading into it where it didn't, it didn't feel like this. Ah, crazy. This is insane. We're doing something different here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I also didn't have a PS4 Pro, so maybe that's coloring my vision for me. Like playing Pathless. After playing on a base PS4 for seven years, playing the Pathless in 6 60fps and seeing how smooth that game was, sure that that's probably one of the reasons it was my. One of my favorite games that year is I was like, man, this runs smooth and I'm like running through these fields and it's all colorful and Herbie.

[Greg Miller]

Arrow says SSD themes and the look of the PS5 to PS4 are like night and day. Yes, you're not wrong. But again, like ssd. The ssd. Sure. You're talking about load times. Like I just. When I. And somebody let me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I don't.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe I didn't lose it over here. Maybe I didn't lose it over here. Oh no, it's gone. Somebody was over here saying like, oh man. Oh, PS3 to P. There it is. Fro licious. PS3 to PS4 was the biggest jump. Like, remember, I'm old. So like NES to SNES was a jump. SNES to N64 was a jump.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

PS1 and PS2, like every time I PlayStation. Yeah. Is the biggest jump.

[Greg Miller]

And so that's the thing where I feel like the. As we start to erode what you can do with these things. Like, no, I don't think when, when you like, it felt like a jump is what we were saying. Right? When you, when somebody asks you in 30 years, did the PlayStation 4 to PS5 feel like a jump? And you're gonna go, yeah, it looked different. The console had a different footprint. You know what I mean? And it had themes like what? Fuck no. No, you're not gonna say that. You're gonna talk about games. You be like, yeah, like, yes, Miles Morales on PS5 loaded way quicker than Miles Morales on PS4. But okay, you know what I mean? And granted, I mean like right now with Switch, what Am I. What am I saying is different? Like, I don't. There's. I get.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

My thing is, I feel the same way about Switch.

[Greg Miller]

One has gone from like, it's kind of HD to 4K. Hey, this still has the graphical jump that I can look at a game and see it. Let's see how fast. Fucking animal crossing Switch. Two additional loads. That's what I'm talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

Get me into this goddamn hotel making rooms soon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Like a couple months.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. November 15th, which is soon, but January. Or January 5th. January 15th, which is soon but still far, you know. Yeah, but there's still so many games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Sooner than you probably thought, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yes. I thought they'd time it out with their like a new sixth anniversary, but yeah, they didn't do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Sixth anniversary of the new.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, March. March would be the sixth anniversary of New Horizons.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, I see.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Let's stay in the Nintendo Rock block again. Number four. Nintendo's Messy Power World fight takes an unexpected turn. I'm excited. Claire Jackson at Kotaku Rights those familiar with Nintendo are likely aware of the company's litigious proclivities in scoring a patent for summoning monsters and having them fight on your behalf. Known as the 397 Patent. Or maybe it's the 397 Patent was an essential victory in Nintendo's battle against Pokemon with guns, survival game palworld. Patenting a game mechanic is nothing new, but this particular patent has been regarded by many as, well, absurd. And acquiring it hasn't exactly been the victory the Pokemon company seems to have been hoping for in its quest to deal Pow World an irreversible loss. Joining the chorus of folks saying quote, unquote, this is silly is Trump nominee John A. Squires, director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Squires has highlighted two older patent applications from Konami and Nintendo as prior art that might invalidate Nintendo's claim to owning the concept this particular patent focuses on. As a result, Squires has ordered the merits of the controversial 397 patent to be reconsidered. It doesn't look good for Nintendo's aggressive efforts. Some, such as game phrase Florian Mueller, are describing this move by Squires as a major loss for the company. As Mueller notes, Squires has not ordered the patent to be yanked. Re examination orders, according to Mueller, can result in the patent being upheld. But this specific Pokemon case seems unlikely to be one of those situations. Nintendo has two months to respond to the re examination, and in that time, other companies are free to challenge the merits of the path patent.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It all good down? Yeah, good.

[Greg Miller]

Like we, we all agree this patent was in an overreach by Nintendo. So yes, it needs to be stopped and nipped in the bud so that it is just. Yeah, you captured a monster. That's us. Sorry, give us our cut. Don't do it, whatever. Which again probably isn't what they would use it for, but is what it could easily be used for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I saw like it was a, it was a funny meme the other day of it was Pocket Pair and Nintendo and like, like it was like almost like the big parent coming over Pocket Pair shoulder of other companies that also have these exact same mechanics of like Capcom.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I think from soft might have been in there of like summoning creatures to fight on your behalf and they were like reaching on Nintendo's shoulder like, yo, calm the down. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, so I'm fascinated to see where this goes. This is going to be one of those, I think ongoing conversation ones that we had that ends up being a new story on this show for the next of course, however long because this patent battle for seems like it's heating up. We were just talking about this on the Japan side as there are Japanese patents that got rejected from Nintendo. So now that this is being re examined, it seems like, you know, company or governments are taking notice that hey, wait, wait a second. This doesn't seem right. This doesn't seem. And like as I assume that's just a lot of companies challenging it. And so you got what, two months they said for people to, to get.

[Greg Miller]

In there and they will. Oh, they will.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I hope they do. Like, they better be paying attention because. Yeah, this is not good over here.

[Greg Miller]

Corey Cudney says, wait, why is this happening us? Aren't they a Japanese company, as we just called out? Yes, there's Japanese patents as well that have been rejected. That, you know, us initially was like, yeah, go for it. Japan was like, no. And then that happened. And then over here, Errol M. Is like, it was more specific than a patent than that. I'm aware. It was more specific than you caught a monster. We're in trouble. I'm not gonna bring out the goddamn words.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Let me read two pages of how they describe. Describe this.

[Greg Miller]

God damn it. You know what I mean, Chad? Be great if it wasn't for Errol in the chat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm saying and read it.

[Greg Miller]

Hi, Errol. He says, hi, what's up?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Reddit.

[Greg Miller]

You slid the Reddit. You slid the Reddit jab into.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I Didn't catch it with are the Spotify comments.

[Greg Miller]

That's where you. That's where you're sticking. You're sticking the flag. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, dude, I. They're like, the only comment section I truly read, which don't ruin it, now that I've said that. But, yeah, I do go in, cuz like, it's such a specific. Like, it's really cool to see communities form in very specific places.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

So they're going to the Spotify comments and, like, for the guy to be like, this is where the Roper Report starts. And everybody's like, oh, welcome back, dude. You know, just listen to the whole show. And they go back and forth of like, well, I just hear. I'm just here for the news. And, like, there's Every. Every day there's an argument about people being like, I just want the rope report, and I just want the whole thing. Right? And I'm like, listen, I'm. I'm here for both of y'.

[Greg Miller]

All. You know, we're making the content.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We're making the content for all of you guys.

[Greg Miller]

We'll start inserting our. You want to sit in the middle.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Of the Rope report, skip to the.

[Greg Miller]

Roper Report, skip to WE News. Isn't that what you really want to know? Number five on the Roper Report, dispatch sells 1 million copies. This is Ad Hoc over on Twitter. Two days, 80 million copies sold. Two days, 80 million copies Sold would have been nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Fucking got your ass.

[Greg Miller]

Two days, 80 million copies sold would have been nice. We sold 1 million in 10 days, though. Still pretty good. That's a fucking great. That's a good tweet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That's a really.

[Greg Miller]

That's a good tweet. They put up a funny little thing there, too, of the character from the game spitting out his coffee, looking at the screen while he gets told, that's fucking funny. Good job on you. Congratulations, Ad Hoc. Of course, we are Dispatch fans over here. You have now played episodes three and four.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yes, yes, I played episodes three and four.

[Greg Miller]

Episode four.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, man.

[Greg Miller]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, that's that good stuff. It's funny because I. I was telling Beard this that after episode two, we did our reviews of episodes one and two, and I gave it a nine out of 10. And I gave it that nine out of 10 with sort of the expectation that, like, there's no way it's gonna continue to be like. I'm sure once I finish it, once I keep going, it's probably gonna drop down to an eight or something after episodes three and four. I'm still at that. Nine out of ten. Yo, this I keep. Want to call it a show.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I know you said that. I caught. I think I caught the tail end of this, where you said, you want. You made dinner and you're like, I want to watch something. Yeah, I'll put on this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Let me put on Dispatch real quick.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Did you put it in cinematic mode or did you still do, like. Like the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I didn't put it in cinematic mode, but I don't think the episode had any, like, got it. Quick Time was episode four. So. Yeah, no, the show continues to deliver, right? The game continues to. To deliver. I might take back some of the, I guess, criticism I had about episodic. Oh, episodic might be working for me with this here.

[Greg Miller]

We did. I mean, first off, you know, this is our conversation in the review, you know, episodes one and two, what we were allowed to review at the time, I'd already played three and four. Now you've played three and four. Tomorrow five and six come out. And it was this conversation of, is episodic going to work? Can it maintain a conversation? Will people care about it? A million copies sold. Pretty fucking great for this. I mean, technically, the first game out of ad hoc studios, even though they're comprised of old telltale folks. You know what I mean? And a new ip. And yes, critical roles behind it. But, like, hey, that's juice. That's good. And, yeah, it seems like everybody. I. Super chats. Let me know your review of Dispatch so far, no spoilers through episode four. It seems like there's still a lot of juice behind it. I don't know if I told you this. I was at a holiday. Holiday Halloween party before we went trick or treating with the neighbors, right? And again, SF Bay Area, everybody's a fucking venture capitalist. Everybody's, you know, a doctor. Some. I'm just the weirdo guy that nobody cares about. And so I'm talking and I got introduced to the host's sister, and then this was her boyfriend. She. They're adults. And the guy's like, oh, yeah. And he's like, so you. You live next door? I'm like, yeah. He's like, I heard about you. You're the video game guy. And I'm like, yeah. He's like, I play games. Like, what do you play? And he. He led with dispatch. I'm like, you're playing dis. Like, I love critical role. Like, oh, my God, this is, like, awesome. Like, you're in it then if you're that deep into it, you know what I mean? And the fact that it's permeating that way where it is like, granted, he sounds like a real gamer. Like one of us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I've. I've landed on dispatch Tick tock. Like the other day, it was right after I finished episode four. Funny enough, so they're all listening to us, but who cares? I go, I. I go on tick tock and it's just like, like video after video after video of people like being like, yo, like who you going with? Or like, you know, like kind of replaying scenes, replaying the good scenes from episode four. And yeah, like, I'm as far as that side of it. I'm like, I'm seeing a lot of enthusiasm. It seems like the episodic is working for that, for that side of it. And then, yeah, when you want to talk about a million copies sold.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I think it's a perfect storm of the critical role aspect of it. I think just having a great cast. I think the art style gets people in. I think the story is really fun. People love superhero type, right? Like, yeah, it's doing the, I mean, the telltale, quote unquote, telltale aspect of the decisions mattering for at the very least expressing what character do you like or, you know, what kind of decision are you make or who did you hire here? Like, when I came back yesterday from the weekend, Barrett comes to me and is like, oh, so like, you know, who'd you pick to do this thing and who'd you do to do this thing? And it's like, like that's what makes this good. Yeah, like those water cooler post episode conversations. What's up, Barrett?

[Greg Miller]

He's here. He's here. Oh, he already turned off the microphone mic three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel, thinking back at our episodes one and two review, like we were pontificating of like, sure, was this the right move? Especially with a review axis. At the time, I'd only played the first two episodes, but we had only access to the, like, the first half. And it's like, is that a good marketing beat? And it seems like none of that mattered. Like, this game is catching on fire in a way that like, I did not foresee. And I feel silly for, for doubting them and the kind of the vision they saw for like, where this game could go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I mean, one of the conversations that we had was like, can you make the cliffhangers matter? Like, can you make, can you finish episodes in a way where it's like, damn. All right. Like, I gotta stay tuned for the next episode. And I think they got there.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And that was. That was one for me where, you know, we had access to the first four, but we could only at the time talk about the first two episodes. So I'd only played the first two.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I felt like that first week didn't hit as hard as it should have in terms of, like, getting people.

[Greg Miller]

Like, you come back.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. But that second week, like, I only posted about it. I haven't talked about about it on content. Like episodes three and four, like, I greatly love. And like, they've already kind of like, not like a dress, but, like, you know, like the problems I had with the first week, I think are already being solved or whatever in the. The second week of the episodes. And like, I am. I've been waiting with bated breath for tomorrow for episodes five and six.

[Greg Miller]

Tomorrow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. Yeah, he just said that.

[Tim Gettys]

Also, I do think it's smart that they. They do have like, a bunch of, like, Internet streamer people as, like, the cast. Right.

[Greg Miller]

Like, you have get those audiences. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You got. You got moist critical as sonar. Yeah. Alana is the. The demon lady.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What's her name? Malevolent.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And then a couple others that I'm. I'm blanking on, but I know, like, I recognize at least Laura Bailey as.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Invisible, which he's legitimately, like, you know, voice actress or actress.

[Greg Miller]

She's an influencer.

[Tim Gettys]

Jack Septic die as well. Who's the punch up? Greatest punch up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to do like, a conversation or something.

[Greg Miller]

I think, I think. I think we're. I mean, the fact that we're here and we only have half the season to go, I think we can easily get a spoiler cast.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, yeah. When the whole thing is done.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I need a note decision.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

There's also, like, I think a conversation I want to have as far as, like, is this gonna be a seasonal thing? Because this feels like a TV show in the way where I don't feel like we're barreling towards.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think a resolution's happening. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It doesn't feel like we're barely.

[Greg Miller]

We're just hanging out in their lives. We're just hanging out in their lives.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. This feels so episodic in a way that I think that's why I really like it is it just feels like a season of tv. But, like, I. I can tune in for an episode, bounce out and not have to like. Yeah. Think about the big villains gonna Die at the end. Like, how are they gonna get there? Yeah, get there in season four. I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Also shout out to.

[Greg Miller]

But it'll take so long.

[Tim Gettys]

Who's the guy who voices the. Your old friend.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, Jeffrey Wright.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Killing it. And, like, such a different role for him. And it's so fun, and it's very weird to hear him say some of the things he says in that show, in that game.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you, Barrett, for your dropping. I like that quite a bit. I asked for super chats about it. Garrett wrote in and said it's a nine out of 10 after four episodes. I not only want these next four episodes, I want a season two. And, yeah, it'll be interesting. I mean, hopefully, you know, a million sales are seeing the success when this is done. I've seen so many people say, I'm waiting till it's done. I'm waiting. So I'm hoping when it's done and if it maintains, then so many people jump in, buy it, do it, go for it. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

So I like how short the episodes are. I think eight. We'll have a conversation about it. But eight episodes I was worried about because I'm like, oh, that seems like a lot for.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, they keep so fast.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

They move so fast. They keep them really short. And so it really is like I'm sitting down to watch an episode of tv.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I can. I can, you know, drop in, knock it out, and be like, all right, cool. Tomorrow I'll do another one. Oh, you're in the video.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I was gonna call this out. Yang fam. Super chat. I said I enjoyed your interview with the Ad Hoc folks and voice actors. Greg, if you haven't seen this, of course, I did host a conversation with the. The cast over there, including Alana Aaron, Laura Bailey, a whole bunch of them. Thought. Thought Squad. You can get that over on the ad hoc YouTube channel for ad Hoc Studio. I'll be honest with you. They approached me and they say, greg, you did so much great work with Telltale back in the day. We know you're, like, synonymous with these kind of games. You want to host this conversation with the cast? And I said, sure. And I said, where is this gonna post? And they said, I want to put it up on our YouTube channel. And I was like, you are in my head. You're sending this to die. No one's gonna go see this. This Video Blessing has 357, 000 views.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

On the Ad Hoc.

[Greg Miller]

300. They have 50. They have 51, 000 subscribers on the Ad Hoc YouTube channel. It has 357, 000 reviews. It was like, it was, it was like 200, whatever after the first week. And I popped in to look at it and I was, I was expecting to see like, oh, it's got 20,000 views. And I saw that number like, oh, this game's gonna be fine. This game is gonna be fine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

This is gonna be a.

[Greg Miller]

The critical role fan base will carry this game. It's fine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, probably a lot of it's probably critical role but I. This game, I think it needs to be studied for the marketing, like how they've been able to get this in front of people because that's actually, that's crazy. I would never have expected that.

[Greg Miller]

Never. Yeah. And it's no insult to anybody. It's just so hard to get people to click on anything.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Let alone. Yeah. This is a 36 minute interview and it's a great interview. I mean, come on, it's me crushing it out there, hanging out with Laura. No big deal. Zeke Speak says, who's the hottest NPC in the game and why? Is it Waterboy?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's. Oh yeah. Shout out water boy. It's my guy. Shout out invisible.

[Greg Miller]

Invisible. And then Oak toasted Super chats and says, dispatch is awesome. Filling the void while the Wolf Among Us too is stuck in limbo. Yep. I forgot about. Would not hold your breath for the Wolf.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Remember Tales from the Borderlands?

[Greg Miller]

I do remember that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Hilariously, like, this guy was so into these kind of games that he was like, he's like, yeah, I love. I'm like, did you like Telltale Games? Like, I loved all the Telltale games. So I didn't play Wolf Among Us too. I heard it was. I didn't play Fucking Tales from the Borderlands 2. I didn't hear good reviews. Like, you know what? I am a reviewer and I didn't play it. So. Yeah, you're fine. I'm missing that one. I think you did just fine with it. So. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited that people are excited. These are the kind of games I love so much. And so like, I'm stoked to jump in tomorrow and do the next two. Now that I'm caught up in one day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Video game releases are going to slow down and no new game is going to come out for a year and I'd want to do Telltale in review. We go back and we just.

[Greg Miller]

Oh wow. I do like that actually.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That'd be sick.

[Greg Miller]

Do you understand? But are we starting from the Walking Dead or are we going all the way back? Oh, no, you're doing strong bad. We're doing Jurassic Park.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We're not doing strong bad. Back to the future where they were.

[Greg Miller]

So like it is canon. And then the season ends with them breaking time. It was like, what? Number six on the Roper Report. The Warhammer version of Vampire Survivors is coming. This is Chris Hayner at Polygon and we have a trailer, a trailer for the brand new Warhammer Roguelite around the Orok Digital. Is that how you say that you think?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, or that sounds about right.

[Greg Miller]

Digital. The Warhammer 40,000 bolt gun in partnership Ponkle Vampire Survivors is here and well, it's a lot like Vampire Survivors. In fact, they even share half a title Warhammer Survivors this coming next year. And based on the trailer, it's going to include a lot of bullet hell goodness. But this time couched in Universes of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigma Sigmar. Per a press release about the game, Warhammer Survivors is going to take, quote, the relentless and charming pixel vomit gameplay fans of Vampire Survivors love and mix it with the globally renowned Grid Grim dark of the Warhammer universes. While Warhammer Survivors won't be available until 2026, the game is available on Steam right now for wish listing purposes. I won't lie to you. This will be the first Warhammer game I ever truly play. Really? I love. I love Vampire Survivors. I've played it on just about every platform. I look at this and I'm like, yeah, cool. I don't know anything about this universe or any of these universes, but this gameplay is what would bring me in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Nice.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's cool. You care at all?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, damn. Did you not like Vampire Survivors?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It just wasn't my jam.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough. Blessing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Finding out what your jam is, is a big deal.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Is a big deal.

[Greg Miller]

But I don't have time for a big deal like that. Instead, I want a small deal. Say the tiniest news I need to know about. Where should I go?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

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

[Greg Miller]

Ladies, gentlemen and enbies. It's number seven. The Wii news from Game five. EA told its staff today that they will maintain creative control if the acquisition goes through. Quote, EA will maintain creative control and our track record of creative freedom and player first values will remain intact. End quote. Sure, sure it will.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Jared Kushner, the Saudis, they're all gonna roll in and be like, do whatever you want. Just keep doing whatever you're doing. EA from Gematsu publisher Konami and developer Z Z Drive Time Z Drive Tim have delayed action adventure platformer Darwin's Paradox from its previously planned 2025 release window to 2026. It will be available on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2 and PC via Steam. The Switch 2 version is newly announced and the previously announced Switch version is no longer playing. RIP from VGC, another NetEase game studio set to close as the fallout of the Chinese publisher's alleged withdrawal withdrawal from its international operations continues. Former Warcraft and League of Legends designer Greg street announced on Monday that his studio, Fantastic Pixel Castle, will close this month, barring a last minute rescue for many potential investors. That's sad. Coming to Game Pass in November Wave one On the fifth you get Sniper Elite Resistance and Dead Static drive. On the 6th you get egging on and whiskerwood. 7th you get void train 11th you get great Gods God Grove, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Pigeon simulator. On the 12th you get relic Hunter legend Winter Burrow, which I'm excited about because everybody says it's a great game and I'm not 1000% sure it's the one where you're the mouse.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Winter Burrow?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, okay, the mouse where you're running around making your burrow and making your home. But it's also survival and that's not the 14th is Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Pillars of Eternity turn based beta launches number 5th on Xbox PC and Steam. Animal Crossing New Leaf OST is available on Nintendo Music and I will be listening to it. Leaf Blower Co launches November 17th on Steam and that is the end of We News. We turn our eyes to the one, the only the super chats that didn't get read because they weren't part of the show yet. Lucid Dream says Hades 2 Epilogue Blessing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Fear runs 100% definitely not 100%. I'll get to the epilogue at some point. Fear Runs probably. Maybe we'll see.

[Greg Miller]

Krabby Pat oh Krabby Patty is guessing my list. My guess for Greg's list Metal Gear Solid one Peace Walker Luminous Gone Home Telltale the Walking Dead Monster Hunter 2? Uncharted 3 the Last of Us Freedom Wars Some Ghostbusters garbage We'll you on the last one Krabby Patty and you will see on the Gamescast next you Ball Tofu says birthday tax Happy birthday 37 today Shout out to the Vegan Straight Edge and of course Kind of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Funny vegan straight edge.

[Greg Miller]

I imagine that's a YouTuber similar to us. It must be a person maybe in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

The vegan straight edge.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You don't think he's like. Actually, never mind. I was gonna go A deep dark, deep dark path.

[Greg Miller]

Krabby Patty follows up again to say scrap. Ghostbusters infamous 1/2 is my last guess. You'll find out soon enough. Goldfish boy says going I was going to ask for a beyond reaction. Oh, Metroid Beyond. Which we did, right? Yeah. Okay. But instead, can I just get a pre PC era Greg joke making fun of us PC gamers instead of dead?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, it's just a combination of the vegan community and the straight Just doesn't work.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, so it's not a person, it's just a thing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, it's like a.

[Greg Miller]

Like just calling out the movement.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, okay, never mind. You know what? That was actually close to what I was going to say, but I guess more so like with more of the focus on the veganism than the straight edge part. But no, it's just a combination of the two. Good for you keeping healthy.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we don't have to be like br about it. You know what I mean? This whole thing with vegans and straight edge people. CM Punk, remember, I'm straight edge and that means I'm better than you. That's how you all feel about it. All right. I had a double bourbon at the movies last night and I felt great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Sounds like projecting.

[Greg Miller]

It does feel like projecting. Bander SN Super Chats says fun fact. Prime 4 will be out closer to Switch 2's release than Odyssey was to switch one by a whole month. Switch to launch window is crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That is crazy.

[Greg Miller]

I've had a hell of a year so far.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You just reminded me that deltarune came out. I've been mean to play that for six months.

[Greg Miller]

God damn. Yeah, you have been trying to Omega. Buster says for Greg Console, the PC gamer, the biggest jump. Welcome to your PC home. Greg. Don't get ahead of yourself, all right? I'm just having fun over here playing my games. Zeke speaks as partner and I look forward to the weekly drop of dispatch with the same fervor we had for severance. I was already looking forward to dispatch, but God damn it's fire. We are enjoying it as well. That's it. We got all super chats done. Done. I'll open up kindafunny.com. you're wrong where you tell us what we screwed up as we screwed up snug says missed. We We News 202026 Balatro Kaladron is featuring our boy Ben Starr.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You know I saw Ben Star.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, it's a calendar. They tried to write calendar. Oh, there you go. There you go. There's a Balatro calendar that has been starring it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That makes sense. I saw Ben Star posting these images on Instagram and I didn't know what was going on on but this now makes sense.

[Greg Miller]

Mega Mike corrects you and says Andy calls Metroid Dread Good, not great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I think. I think he says great.

[Greg Miller]

That's not according to Mega Mike. I trust Mega Mike.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'd say great. Even if Andy says good, I'll say great.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. And that's it. Ladies gentlemen and bees, it's time to go do the games casting and find out what 10 games make me. Or whatever the it's called 10 games that define me. I don't know what they call it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

To know you.

[Greg Miller]

10 games to know me. That's what they call this thing. I haven't seen this trend until we did this trend and then it took over the Reddit and all that stuff. So I don't know everybody. This has been another episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily. Remember, each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about. Live on Twitch TV, kindafunnygames, YouTube.com kinda funnygames and podcast services around the globe. If you love that, pick up a kinda funny membership, patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kinda funnygames, Apple and Spotify so that you can get us ad free. Keep the lights and the mics on. And of course get your daily dose of me while you get good karma for supporting an 11 person small business in an ever changing media landscape. Remember, of course, we are far from done here. You're about to get the one, the only kind of funny gamescast as I talked about. Then of course it's just the gameplay stream. Yeah, okay, Kind of Funny podcast is tomorrow. I knew there was a podcast out of place today. Then you get the gameplay stream of the Nvidia Arc Raiders sponsored thing. Or the Nvidia sponsored Arc Raider stream. For now though, we will bid you ado as we get ready to talk about 10 games that define me. What?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, nothing.

[Greg Miller]

I was looking at you. It looked like you got breaking news and then I thought you inhaled like you were out to tell me the breaking news.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, no, no, I was getting ready for the handshake.

[Greg Miller]

Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you. Gotta lock on you know, when I was there, you had to have a knife. One of you's gotta take turns carrying it up your rectum.

[Mariana Van Zeller]

Wait, it's up your butt.

[Greg Miller]

That's the prison wallet. You'll never leave home alone.

[Mariana Van Zeller]

You have something protected around it. I'm assum.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, or else you'll be bleeding out your coolo.

[Mariana Van Zeller]

I'm Mariana Van Zeller, and after reporting on black markets for my Emmy winning National Geographic show, Trafficked, I'm launching a podcast. You're getting emotional on me. Intimate conversations with those operating in the shadows. The Hidden Third is out now with new episodes every Wednesday. [e-mail] marianavanzeller Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.