PlayStation Announces Game From Left 4 Dead Creator - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.04.25

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Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.04.25

Main Theme:
PlayStation partners with Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth and Bad Robot Games (J.J. Abrams’ studio) on a new four-player co-op shooter, plus hands-on with Replaced, an “Avatar: The Last Airbender”-esque indie RPG, and more.

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Hosts

• Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller
• Blessing Adeoye Jr.
• Andy Cortez (segment guest)

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1. Main Story: PlayStation x Bad Robot Games – A New Left 4 Dead Successor?

[09:32–28:43]

The News

• Sony Interactive Entertainment announces a partnership with Bad Robot Games (founded by J.J. Abrams) to produce and publish the studio's first internally-developed game: An unannounced four-player co-op shooter directed by Mike Booth (creator of Left 4 Dead), for PS5 & PC.

Key Points & Discussion

• Greg’s Speculation: Expects a reveal at The Game Awards:
  “I think this is Game Awards.… I think you prime the pump here.” [11:04]
• Blessing’s Skepticism:
  “I am very underwhelmed… What are the top 5 Left 4 Dead style games that aren't Left 4 Dead?... None of them have ever gotten back to Left 4 Dead. That is the issue here.” [13:15–15:54]
• The ‘Left 4 Dead-Like’ Dilemma – Hosts discuss the struggle for any game to truly recapture Left 4 Dead’s magic. Examples like Back 4 Blood, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, World War Z, and Vermintide are cited as good but lacking the original’s spark.
• What makes L4D special?
  “L4D was so special because it was—‘Yo, drop in, play as these characters, use whatever weapons, blast zombies, and have fun.’ Not every game needs to be a deep RPG.” (Greg) [15:54]
• Genre Fatigue? Zombies or Not?
  “Do people still care about zombies? I do, but I think zombies are played out now… Now you get ‘infected’… but they’re still zombies.” (Greg) [18:10]
• Dream for Story Integration via Bad Robot’s Strengths
  “You’re buying into a season of television, of game… launches with three two-hour long campaigns, then adds more over time—make it a cinematic, episodic thing.” (Greg) [20:41]
• Hopes for Franchise Potential
  “They say Bring our new IP to life with an expansive vision for this new universe. That for me says…franchise. Maybe Bad Robot’s movie side can make a movie out of this thing.” (Blessing) [24:13]
• Wishful Crossover: Cloverfield Universe?
  “Could it be set in the Cloverfield universe?” (John Box, Superchat)
  “That’d be a smart way to do a Cloverfield game...” (Blessing) [24:41] Ultimately, the consensus: they expect a brand new IP, not a licensed one.

Notable Quotes

• “My biggest fear though is that I feel like we haven’t seen [innovation in Left 4 Dead-likes] since Left 4 Dead… I’ve been here, I’ve done that. So you’ll have to show me.” – Blessing [22:59]
• “I think [Left 4 Dead-likes] are the new battle royale—there’s a lot; I don’t think any have truly broken out.” – Sully Bear 100 (from Ireland), via Superchat [27:18]
• “If it’s more a Helldivers thing, that’s more exciting. If [they] combine that with Left 4 Dead ideas, I’m more faithful.” – Blessing [28:14]

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2. Preview Hands-on: Replaced Gets a Release Date

[28:43–35:20]

The News

• Replaced, the retro pixel sci-fi action platformer, launches March 12, 2026 (Xbox Series, PC, Game Pass).

Key Points & Reactions

• Replaced’s style is widely praised—“looks so gorgeous,” (Blessing) [29:56]; but anticipation is mixed with caution about living up to the long hype cycle.
• Andy’s Preview Recap (in-person at Summer Game Fest):
  • Game is “super stylish, awesome ambiance, retro future vibes.”
  • Demo covered combat (“simple, but good feeling parrying/dodge”), investigating (solving mysteries, learning world-building), and more.
  • “The investigative sections, the UI—they’re super cool…like a playable Blade Runner.”
  • Concern: combat was “a bit basic” at demo time compared to games like Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, but high hopes for release.

Notable Quotes

• “If it just comes down to being a playable movie, fine. You know what I mean?” – Greg [34:28]
• “The more I look at this, the more I’m like—I want to play this bad!” – Blessing [35:14]

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3. “Avatar: The Last Airbender Game We’ve Always Wanted?” – The God Slayer

[40:17–45:31]

• “This Steampunk RPG looks like the Avatar game we’ve spent years begging for,” reports Polygon.
• The God Slayer is not officially Avatar, but gameplay shows fire/earth/wind/water combat, martial-arts-inspired moves, and steampunk setting akin to Korra.
• Developed by Pathea Games (My Time at Portia) as part of PlayStation’s China Hero Project.
• “Bring back double-A games…this looks huge, not quite AAA, not indie—somewhere in the middle.” – Greg [43:55]
• No release date yet, but planned for PlayStation 5/PC (unclear on Xbox).

Viewer Take

• “Infamous Creed the Last Airbender—you sold me on the first two!” (Patricia Hernandez, via Polygon quoting a fan comment) [45:09]

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4. Studio News: Three Fields Lays Off Entire Team

[45:31–50:43]

The News

• Three Fields Entertainment (ex-Burnout devs, makers of Dangerous Driving and Recreation) puts its entire staff at risk of redundancy after Recreation underperforms, with “no revenue from game sales for the foreseeable future.”
• “You can’t be mid anymore,” (Blessing) – in modern industry, polish and budget expectations are too high for modest double-A racing efforts to survive. [48:45]
• Greg reflects on industry shift: “Back in ‘07 you could have a run of games, iterate; now, one failed game, and it’s over.” [48:56]

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5. Wii News (Quick-Hit Headlines)

[50:59–58:43]

• Dreams Banjo-Kazooie Game: Fan made, surprisingly authentic, built in Dreams.
• Netflix sells Spry Fox game studio back to its founders.
• Sega to “carefully” integrate AI in game dev, mainly for efficiency, not creativity.
• Micron exits consumer RAM, focusing on AI/data center chips (RAM prices are up for all).
• Microsoft to expand Xbox production by 4.8 million/year ahead of GTA6.
• SpongeBob Patty Pursuit 2 launches on Apple Arcade.
• Several indie release date updates [see detailed news].
• RIP to viral pet Tortellini the goldfish, who “beat” Elden Ring’s hardest boss.

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Notable Moments & Quotes

Host Banter:

• On haircuts and self-confidence:
  “It’s a reminder that I look good regardless.” – Blessing [04:27]
• Greg hamming it up about being replaced for an interview with Kojima:
  “You have a job because of me! … Roger only met Kojima because I set it up.” [13:24]
• “If you ever need a confidence boost, go look at that you as Cloud Strife photo.” – Greg (to Blessing) [04:33]
• Blessing’s joke struggle:
  “That’s 4.7 million more consoles than they need—got their asses!” [62:39]

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Community Q&A & Superchats [58:51–61:17]

• Highlights:
  • Magic: The Gathering’s Avatar set (“I really like [the cards]…more than the Spider-Man set.” – Blessing [59:26])
  • Cloverfield as a possible game universe; debunked.
  • D&D campaign questions—Bless reprises his actual play aspirations.

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Important Timestamps

• [09:32] – Bad Robot/PlayStation partnership discussion
• [28:43] – Replaced hands-on & analysis
• [40:17] – The God Slayer (the “real” Avatar game) revealed
• [45:31] – Three Fields Entertainment layoffs & the harshness of modern game industry
• [50:59] – Wii News (Rapid-fire headlines)
• [58:51] – Viewer Q&A / witty joke payoff

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Summary Takeaways

• PlayStation’s new coop shooter with the Left 4 Dead creator & J.J. Abrams studio is targeted to revive L4D magic—but hosts are skeptical about innovation in the genre.
• Replaced wows with style, but must deliver on gameplay depth to match expectations.
• The God Slayer impresses as an “Avatar” successor; fans of elemental martial arts action should watch for it.
• Industry headlines include more sad studio closures, RAM prices rising, and new releases, all with the hosts’ trademark wit and banter.

The Kinda Funny crew’s mix of sharp insight, skepticism, and fandom is on full display—making this a must-listen for anyone following the gaming news cycle.

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Transcript

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[Greg Miller]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about. PlayStation is getting its own Left 4 Dead replaced, finally has a release date and Avatar, the last Airbender game we've all wanted, is here. Sort of. We'll evolve this in more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Foreign.

[Greg Miller]

What's up everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Thursday, December 4, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka leftover poppy blessing Eddie Oye Jr. Good day, Greg. Good day. How are you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm doing good. I like your hair.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Oh, you know why? You know why you like it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why is that?

[Greg Miller]

Kevin? Give me the one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Give him the one.

[Greg Miller]

I'm using Barbara Dunkelman's hair product.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, right.

[Greg Miller]

Round of applause for me for supporting friends. I don't remember what the name of it is. Do you remember what the name of it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I don't know what the name of it was.

[Greg Miller]

I was going to ask Instagram.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barbara Dunkelman has a new. Like, she.

[Greg Miller]

She launched a hair care product.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, congratulations.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I did not like. I. I've been. I talked about this a little bit in Greg way a couple days ago. I'd been an space Old Spice pomade guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And then all of a sudden, I went to Walgreens. Like, we don't sell anymore. And then nobody sells it anymore. So then I bought some other stuff that looks like knockoff ax stuff. And I hated it. Hate, hate, hate it. And so, yeah, here it is called All Good. No worries. Go to Barb's. Dunkleman's Instagram. That's where I found. Already Google, I guess. All good. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's got its own Instagram. All Good. No, all good, period. No worries on Instagram. I'm gonna follow back name.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that.

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna follow back right there. I give them permission to clip this out. Not the part where I can remember the name as an ad. There you go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There you go.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you for complimenting my hair. Your hair, of course, Looks great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Still getting used to the haircut. It's such a throwback to Young Bless when he first started here. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I mean, who knows? I might grow it back out immediately. Like, I still. I'm still. I'm still feeling it out myself.

[Greg Miller]

And so, yeah, you were. I know. You were forced into this situation. You didn't want this haircut.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, it's not even that I didn't want it. I knew that I wanted it lower. It's just, you know, I. I didn't make the decision until the very last moment. Just cut it all off. Just go for it. And it was like a few days of me being like, ah, man, I should have done that. But then, like, I. I really like coming back to this length because it's a reminder that, like, I look good regardless.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean? You ain't lying. I look good regardless. You ain't lying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A few days ago, I looked in the mirror. I was like, oh, I didn't even fucking need that hair.

[Greg Miller]

If you ever need a confidence boost, go look at that. The you as cloud strife. That photo from Halloween. You know what I mean? You look great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate it out there, Bliss. You do it every day out here. I'm proud of you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thanks.

[Greg Miller]

Of course, I look worse and worse, but no big deal if you didn't know. We're gonna run you through the nerdy news you need to know about because this is Kinda 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 DV, kinda funnygames, of course, podcast services around the globe. If you love that, we'd love you to pick up a kinda funny membership. Patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple or Spotify $10 gets you all of our shows ad free. Free. That's more than 80amonth. It gets you your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Way. And of course it gets you good karma for supporting an 11 person small business making their way through an incredibly difficult media landscape. No bucks tossed away, no big deal. Like subscribe Share. If you have Amazon prime, you have Twitch Prime. We'd love you to use the 30 day subscription they give to your favorite Twitch channel. They don't remind you about it. It doesn't auto renew. So come give it to Kinda Funny Games. Maybe you're driving right now in the old UPS truck. Thank you for your service in this time of packages.

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really? What are they saying?

[Greg Miller]

Inner Jetstream says. Just wanted to thank the entire Kind of Funny team for being a highlight of my workday every day. The 13 hour days are rough this time of year at good old ups, but the content makes it that much nicer. Y' all are the best. We're happy to be there for you. Inner Jet Stream then Mike like Music said, why does Greg's MacBook like look like it got burned? We've talked about this before. The kind of funny desk. Very reflective. So it bounces back like when you're over by any. Yeah, see when you're over by any little silvered guys, it bounces back and people always think it's dented or something.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I think it's less that. I think it just looks darker. I think it's just a darker tone.

[Greg Miller]

But look, I mean like laptop. Yeah, well, yeah, it's like space gray, but it is. I think it's just catching so many reflections that it looks like, like that's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I guess there. It looks real light but like I'm looking at it in real life.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it looks dark.

[Greg Miller]

What would you look at and say it's hard?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, compared to a regular Mac laptop.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Okay. Well, that's just a different color, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's what they're saying.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no, no. I don't like that. Fair enough. That's not what Mike, like, music is saying. All right. He's trying to start stuff and then, yo, call me. Rob says, Blessing 2026, start growing dreadlocks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's going to take a while.

[Greg Miller]

Have you ever done dreads?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. I like, that's what I thought I was going to do. And then at the last moment I was like, I actually know I don't want to do it.

[Greg Miller]

Shave them off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'll take it all off.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we'll see. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. I like experimenting. I like figuring it out. I like going with the flow of what I feel like in the moment.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe one day we'll do locks.

[Greg Miller]

Of course. Housekeeping for you. We are an 11 person small business. All about live talk shows today after kind of funny games Daily. You're getting the games cast, where we're going through every game. Coming out in December after the games cast, it's Greg Miller's first hour playing Metroid Prime 4 Beyond Beyond. And if that wasn't enough after that, Hunter Pence, former MLB star, now commentator Hunter Pence is coming in to teach the boys how to play darker or dark and darker. Exciting on stream. I'm very excited to see how that goes. I haven't hung out. It's not. We haven't had Hunter on enough Content, I feel. No, he was part of the launch, obviously. A decade ago. Sure. Decade plus. And then he's been through for a little thing here and there. But I can't remember last thing he came on that was content. Content.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I really want to play magic with him because I know he's into magic.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I talked to him one time at a movie about Rotato. That was a game that he was really into.

[Greg Miller]

He's always into weird games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love him. Every single time I've talked to him, it's like there's a new game where I'm like, I've not even heard of that. Yeah. So then I saw in particular, I like that and I tried it. It was. It was all right.

[Greg Miller]

Of course, if you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is Greg having a panic attack live. I recorded that in the car yesterday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like you plan to have the panic attack.

[Greg Miller]

Totally had a different I. It is in terms of the timeline of events. Right. It was on the way to work where I expected to do the Greg way about what it's like to be able to talk about a game you've been waiting that you've been embargoed on. But I needed to get this out first. And so I go places in this one before I get to work to do my job or whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you okay?

[Greg Miller]

I'm okay. Yeah. I just had a. You listen to the show, you'll see all about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Make me pay to pay to hear your inner talk.

[Greg Miller]

I'm okay. Don't worry, everybody. I am okay. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Karl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining.

It'S still.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's still weird. Just gotta hop into.

[Greg Miller]

I know I got warm. I just gotta stop thinking. Yeah, I gotta go. Delaney the song Twining for now, let's begin with what isn't forever Will be the rope report.

Time for some news. We got five items on the rope report. Baker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do I like that the sound was Kevin, like grabbing the microphone to do the thing, but it sounded like a drum roll. Intro.

[Greg Miller]

Number one. Sony Interactive Entertainment partners with Bad Robot Games to produce and publish the studio's first internally developed game. This is from a press release. Before we start super chat, are you excited for this game from PlayStation? Why or why not? Let's get into the nitty gritty. Sony Interactive Entertainment today announced a partnership with video game studio Bad Robot Games, a division of Bad Robot, the film, television and theater production company founded by J.J. abrams, for Sie to produce and publish the studio's upcoming project, an unannounced four player cooperative shooter directed by Mike Booth. Left 4 Dead. The game is currently in development for PlayStation 5 and PC. More details on the game will be shared at a later date. Partnering with Sony Interactive Entertainment allows us to bring our new IP to life with an expansive vision for this new universe, said Anna Sweet, CEO of Bad Robot Games. Bad Robot Games is a division of Bad Robot, Parentheses, Lost, Cloverfield, Mission Impossible, Star Wars, Star Trek. Formed with a singular mission to continually reinvent how stories are played. Formed by J.J. abrams and a team passionate about innovation in gaming, Bad Robot Games is a dedicated game studio working on new and existing Trans Media franchises.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's your take on this, Greg?

[Greg Miller]

I can't wait for Game Awards.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you think that's where we're gonna get.

[Greg Miller]

I think this is Game Awards. Yeah, I think this is Game Awards. I think you primed the pump here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really?

[Greg Miller]

Because it's such a weird. It's such.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't want to come out. You have. I don't even know who's that PlayStation anymore. You have Sean Benson. I don't know you.

[Greg Miller]

Sha Benson. Shawn and Sid come out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna say like you have a PlayStation representative and you have J.J. abrams. Even though this might. He might be.

[Greg Miller]

I don't even go that far. So I could obviously I could totally be wrong. This could be a million miles from now. We're never going to hear about this, you know, ever. Period. I just feel like it's an interesting timing to come out and say we're partnering with this because why is this. It's not. Or either of these companies financial earnings reports. It's this thing. I. I think you do it now so that when Jeff goes in now everybody something you're really going to like or whatever and it clicks over and it's Sony Interactive Entertainment, right? Or PlayStation Stud, whatever they do. And then it's Bad Robot Games. There isn't immediately. Did Sony buy. Did PlayStation buy bad robot. What are the business dealings? What are we actually getting? And also I think you get away then of showing a cinematic trailer of four people fighting whatever these monsters, zombies, ghosts are, whatever you're doing. And then we already have. The groundwork is laid so that when we're live reacting we can say, oh, remember this is that okay. I think it gives you more chance to show a cinematic trailer, have the background on it and be able to go, okay, cool. I. I know more about this than nothing. Otherwise it's just a weird. See, hey everybody, here's a paragraph. We're working with these guys. See you later.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Isn't that How. Isn't that Hollywood?

[Greg Miller]

Is that is Hollywood. This is video games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But this is Bad Robot, which is J.J. abrams in Hollywood.

[Greg Miller]

I hear you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And like I. That's the way I read it. But I do like the way that you're talking about it because I do think that's more exciting for the video game side of it. But yeah, my read on it was like, okay, cool, you're working on a thing. We'll see you years from now. Like, I wonder how fresh the ink is on the page as far as when you guys decided that this is going to be a thing. That's how I read it.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, that's. And don't get me wrong, I'm definitely just wildly speculating. I could easily see that being the case. But I'd rather make the bold claim that I think it's leading up to something game awards.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now, to answer the super Chat question that we put out there, right. Are you excited for this game from PlayStation? Why or why not? I am very overwhelmed.

[Greg Miller]

Underwhelmed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, what are the. Greg, you know way better than I do, probably. Can you list the top 5 left 4 dead style games that aren't left for dead?

[Greg Miller]

Here's something I'd like to do. Just completely stop this conversation cold. That's a great question. I appreciate you said, Greg, you probably know better than I do. It's nice when you show me the respect I deserve. Yeah. Let me tell you how hard I was gripping the fucking steering wheel yesterday, listening to kind of funny games daily. When you. When we were like, oh, Kojima's coming through for gdc. And Tim's like, don't worry, Greg's probably already hit him up. You're like, we got to get somebody better than Greg. What the fuck do you want from me? Bless you have a job because of me. This entire business exists because of me. You threw out Roger. Roger. Roger only met Kojima because I fucking set it up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because you've been here.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You've already gone.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's fine. You're allowed to say, well, Greg. Greg doesn't. Greg doesn't need to go talk. But like, you didn't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You didn't. You didn't specifically.

[Greg Miller]

You were like, greg shits his pants. That was the. You were like, greg shit his pants. You just talked like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I imagine when Greg DM somebody, it's all caps. Like, you know, it's very kicked down the door, all chaotic. I think we need somebody.

[Greg Miller]

And it's worked. He opened Hideo Kojima opened the studio. You're like, oh. You're like. You're like, the ch. The team wins the championship. And you're like, all right, cool. Break it all apart. Let's see if we can do it next year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you in those DMS yet?

[Sponsor Announcer]

I.

[Greg Miller]

You know what? I have better connections than DMs, and I'm using those instead. So don't worry about what I'm doing over here. Fair enough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I better see you on that GDC stage. See that?

[Greg Miller]

I want him to the studio. I want him to come out and see the place. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, that'd be really cool.

[Greg Miller]

Anyways, back to your question. So you said, what are the five left for dead clones or.5.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, five left four dead style games that aren't left for dead top five.

[Greg Miller]

So I can start listing games and I. And I will for you. But my problem is. And chat. Please keep me honest on this. None of them have ever gotten back to Left four Dead. That is the issue here is that Left four Dead. Left four Dead one did something so incredibly special, so different at the time. And like again, online play console online play. This connectivity. Like it was a different time, but it was able to come out and be this moment of holy shit, look at this. And everything since then has chased that high. And I see good shout outs. I don't want to knock Vermintide two people are doing dark tie. But I'm talking about what has come out and made that. That wave, that movement. Right. What was the aliens one that we like that we played that should have on paper. If you're talking about we're making another Left four Dead, but this time it's aliens in the movie, in the universe. Aliens. Colonial Marines. Right? It would be like. Yeah, yeah. There's no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, no, that was the bad. That was a really bad.

[Greg Miller]

Which. Which Fireteam. Alien fire. Aliens fire.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you very much. That's awesome. And yes, that one. That was a great. But it's the same thing. And then people of course are bringing up back 4 blood as well because that was the people who did left 4 dead. The problem there is that they got way too much in their head, I think and missed the point of why Left 4 Dead works, which is, hey, yo, drop in and be these characters and you're fighting zombies and it's. You don't need a strategy other than you like machine guns and you like shotguns and let's share our health packs. People are calling out World War Z, which we've done a few streams of. I'm not familiar enough to know that. I guess. Let me dial.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know why I ask is because I. I want to know is there something post Left four Dead that gave us that similar thing that was able to reach the heights of that? Or are we. Are we just past Left for Dead?

[Greg Miller]

This is my thing, right? Of like I. I think Left for Dead has such mind share for what it did that then we get out here, we're like, oh, World War Z. And I'm like, well, I remember World War Z disappointing at launch, but then I know they added a bunch of stuff. And so like we're to that point where all of these games with the exception of Back four Blood have communities. People keep saying Helldivers. Do we really count hell? I don't count Helldivers as Left four Dead.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, because. No, then we're just talking about horde.

[Greg Miller]

Shooters because like years of war and maybe I'm just, maybe I'm thinking too, maybe I'm putting it too much in a box. But for me, like left 4 dead again was jump in, procure whatever weapons you want on site, blast the hell out of things and have fun as you play through a movie with your friends where helldivers, even though it is drop in, it is, I'm running this thing, you're running that thing. What, what strategy are you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Different enough.

[Greg Miller]

But maybe again, maybe this next left 4 dead thing will be like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But that's the thing. All they said is it's an unannounced. I mean they say unannounced four player cooperative shooter directed by Mike Booth of Left 4 Dead, which technically, yeah, that could be a hell divers. That could be something else that's not left or dead. But I think when you put those words together, what you're saying is left or dead. Especially when you say four player cooperative shooter. That for me is y' all telling me that this is left for dead. Now the thing that I do like that they don't say and maybe they just didn't want to add too much flavor to it because they wanted to keep it. Like, yeah, they don't say zombies.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I doubted zombies.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You doubted zombies?

[Greg Miller]

I doubted zombies.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I think the same conversation we've had here on this kind of funny this week, right? Where it's like, do people still care about zombies? I do. I do think zombies to a degree are played out now, sadly, people hear that on the dev side and they go, they are. So we have infected. We have this. We have Rainbow six quarantine where they're not zombies. What they are zombies and aliens.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And what would excite you if like, do you want dinosaurs? What do you want aliens?

[Greg Miller]

Here's what I want. I want a good game, okay. Period. Like, I like a four player cooperative shooter. Awesome that those work and work well. I don't want it to get it. I. Now granted, I know I caught yesterday after we did the octopath review and it was finished, the YouTube chat was still up and somebody had a comment in there that I don't think they were in the live chat. So those are usually good folks, you know what I mean? I don't think it was meant to be mean, but like commenting on how I. They said, you know, Greg just wants. I think Greg just wants the most frictionless video game experiences possible, which isn't necessarily wrong. We can do a whole show about that. But thinking of this kind of game, that's what I would want. Like I would want, hey, we're jumping in. It's. You jump in and you go. Left 4 dead was so special because it really was. I don't really care who I am. I'll pick up Uzi when I get out there. I'll do this thing, blah blah. It's like now it's the flip of like you play, you know, we all go in there to play and I know this isn't apples to apples exactly, but we go play arc raiders and it is like, all right. Well, Mike's so far advanced that like he's slumming it to help us do anything. And I feel like I'm holding him back. The classic push and pull of a multiplayer thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Where left 4 dead being these little movies worked really well. I would hope for something like that here. Especially as we continue to talk about the attention economy, player retention. What can you do here? I think PlayStation is well aware of that. After Concord and their live service, push and etc. And et cetera, et cetera, my hope would be we are Bad Robot. You know, what do they put here, right? Blah blah blah. Singular mission to continually reinvent how stories are played. I think that's incredibly important, right? That's their mission statement, how stories are played. So if you're bringing in one of the people who's behind Left 4 Dead, your PlayStation, your bad robot. Yes. Hey everybody. We are launching this game and it is going to launch with three two hour long campaigns. They're movies. Whatever it is, we will add more over time. There'll be free updates, there'll be microtransactions you can buy for it, cosmetics, blah blah blah blah. But you're buying into a season of television, of game. You're. And it is the idea that you're going to get drops as you go. So you and your friends can go and play these at launch and then you can put it down. They can keep rolling it with their friends. There's branching things here and there in the narrative. So you could see one side of the city that they don't get to see. Like there. I think there's something there and I think you really do. I really do read into what Bad Robot as a company could bring to this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean that, that, that'd be exciting, right? I think that's one of the things that I read as far as who Bad Robot is versus what this game is where they're talking about JJ Abrams, they're talking about movies like Lost, Cloverfield, Mission Impossible, Star Wars, Star Trek. Right. Obviously you have the. The grandness of J.J. abrams mixed with, you know, something again, like Cloverfield, where I'm like, damn, all right. That catalog is very inspired as far as what they creatively bring to the industry. I want that same energy for the video game side of things. I get nervous when it is, oh, we're just doing Left 4 Dead again. But also, like, I don't want to act like it's impossible to do Left for dead in 2025, because, I don't know, like, I'd be excited to see them refresh it, innovate on it, make it something, of course, is worthwhile in 2025. My biggest fear, though, is that I feel like we haven't seen that since Left four Dead. We've seen copies, we've seen games, we've seen World War Z's, we've seen Back for Bloods. Back for the Blood came and went. World War Z is kind of, I think, just does what World War Z does.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Make it exciting. Because you play that game and it's fucking zombies trampling over each other to get to you type shit. And that is really cool. But I don't know, I feel like the Left 4 Dead style game is such a 2010, 2009 style of thing that I'm fascinated to see what you can do in 2025 to make it feel brand new and exciting.

[Greg Miller]

I completely forgot what Back4Blood was. When I was talking about Back4Blood, I was thinking of Evolve.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Miller]

I forgot that somebody was like, hey, we went. Because that's what they did. Left for Dead team is that, you know, that went over to Turtle Rock. They went, oh, yeah, they made. Or the Turtle Rock made Evolve.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So, yeah, I forgot that we had Back four Blood. Holy. Back for Blood.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Blood was the most direct Left for Dead.

[Greg Miller]

It was Sloan, and I was so excited for it, remember? And the whole problem was it came out during paternity leave. And when I came back, I was like, mike, can we play Back for Blood? He's like, absolutely not. Like, nobody cares that game's done. Like, oh, damn. I wanted to play that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think Back for the Blood might be really infecting. Pun intended. How I feel about this?

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because that was the most direct attempt at bringing back. As I read this press release, this seems like a very direct attempt at bringing back a Left 4 Dead style game. And I Think I'm just like, I've been here, I've done that, you know, so you'll have to show me. I'll have to see, hopefully a Game Awards, a trailer that makes me go, oh, damn, this looks kind of cool actually. We're not fighting zombies, we're fighting robot aliens in space.

[Greg Miller]

So then let's talk about this. Let's say it isn't announced the Game Awards. It is very far out, right. I then turn to you and you know, we read through this, right? Produce and publish upcoming project Unanswer. I forget what, how do they describe the IP? Okay. Bring our new IP to life. Our new IP to life?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. So it shared PlayStation and rad robots.

[Greg Miller]

Then I start coming around and I go, it's according to the CEO of Bad Robots, our new IP to life. Do you think it's a completely original IP or do you think they are pulling from something PlayStation related?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I think it's completely new.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean they say here our new Bring our new IP to life with an expansive vision for this new universe. I think this is brand new. Yeah. And honestly, new universe is interesting. You don't, you don't read into that.

[Greg Miller]

I don't read into it in terms of like we're in the new Milky Way or something. You know what I mean? Like, I think you call anything a new universe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, yeah, I'm not saying space, but I'm saying like what are the. Are there plans beyond this just being like, like let's not even say zombies. Let's say just a horde shooter. It could be anything. Dinosaurs, whatever the fuck.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You saying new ip, new universe. That for me says series. That for me says franchise. That for me says maybe bad robots movie side can make a movie out of this thing. I think more expansive than just we're making like a small horde shooter kind of thing or even like a medium sized horde shooter.

[Greg Miller]

Do you. So I think again, stick with me, it's John Box Super Chats. It says, could it be set in the Cloverfield universe? And then Rob Lee says Cloverfield monster left for dead game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, that'd be sick. That'd be a cool way. If they're pulling the rug from underneath us. That'd be a really smart way to do a Cloverfield game, actually.

[Greg Miller]

Well, again, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not up on all my lore, but Cloverfield currently works as an anthology series. Right where there was Cloverfield and the big monster like Godzilla, which was awesome. Later, 10 Cloverfield Lane which was not set in that universe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, well, it is said in that universe.

[Greg Miller]

Is it? Okay, but you are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's essentially in a bunker. Because, like a lady wakes up.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, no, no, I saw the movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But it was the fact that when. When she surfaces from the bunker. I didn't know if that was still tied to everything that happened. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because then I. That actually, I don't want to spoil the end of the movie. Yeah, but they kind of show that, like. Yeah, no things are happening. Okay. And then there was the other Cloverfield thing that was a Netflix release that took place in Space Chat. What's the name of that movie? Paradox. Thank you. It was just called Cloverfield Paradox. Kev.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, the Cloverfield Paradox. A 2018 film.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because, like, I guess they all have Cloverfield in the title. Because they'd be really cool to play.

[Greg Miller]

That would be in. What is Cloverfield Paradox in the same universe too?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would have to be. Yeah, I would assume so. It would be really cool to play a game that's in Cloverfield, but you don't realize it until like halfway through. Or like maybe you unlock. Maybe it's like a PT style thing where you get to the very end, there's a cutscene, and then all of a sudden the fucking title of the game goes upside down, and all of a sudden it says Cloverfield.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, okay. I'm looking at something off of a Reddit here of The Cloverfield universe. 1944, Overlord. What the fuck? That is 2009, Clover Field 2016, 10, Cloverfield laid 2030. The Cloverfield paradox, huh?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, here's the. I would like a Cloverfield thing because I do like Cloverfield.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think it is just because I. They're going out of their way to say new IP and new universe.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it's not like this is a. This is a press release. It's not like this is a show. If this was in a showcase or if this was a, like a fun blog post sort of thing, then I would overread into it and be like, oh, you're saying new a lot. New universe. But it's not this being a formal press release. That was on business wire dot com.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I got. I don't think the Sony email.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I don't think they're getting cute in there.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, fair enough. One final thing on. No, there's two actually. Maybe more actually. Let me scroll back.

Sully Bear 100 says, hey, from Ireland. Great to catch you guys live. Really don't see this Left 4 Dead game, getting an audience. Co op shooters are the new battle royale. There are a lot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, I think I'm aligned with that.

[Greg Miller]

It'd be hard to get you excited to go play it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. I don't want to say it's not impossible. I don't want to count out it. Count it out just because of its genre. Because any game of any genre I think has potential to break out and be success and do all that stuff. I just think it's a tough one to really break out and even as a PlayStation published thing.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. And then mellow fellow with the final comment here says the longevity of Left4Dead was in the Versus mode, which I of course never touched. But I'm glad people found love in that. For me it was definitely dropping into those campaigns and having a great time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The one more thing I'll add to.

[Greg Miller]

This, one more thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If this is leaning more towards like. If it is. Actually no, we're not doing this straight up Left four Dead. We're doing more of a Helldivers thing. I do think that would be more exciting. I do think that with more bells.

[Greg Miller]

And whistles and like progression and all that jazz. Yeah, I think you're guaranteed to have that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think it's going to be a friend slop as Kai guy's talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh sure. Yeah. I just see it being a thing of PlayStation, seeing the Helldiver success, wanting the live service and all that stuff. We should make more of these. That's actually a really smart idea. So if they're. If PlayStation and Bad Robot are in conversation being like, yo, how do we lean into what Hell Divers brought? Can we bring this? Can we combine that with ideas from Left 4 Dead?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Then I'm more faithful in it. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

We will wait and see when we will hear about it. Remember, the game awards are one week from today. I'm the only person saying it'll be a game awards, but maybe I look good when it happens. Nobody ever laughed me out of the room when I said Jordan Peele. Put it in your predictions Number I will. Number 2 replaced launches March 12, 2016 this is Sal Romano at Kamatsu and we have a trailer. Science fiction retro futuristic action platformer replaced. Will launch on Xbox series and PC via Steam Epic Games store GOG and the Microsoft Store. On March 12, 2026, publisher Thunderful Games and developer Sad Cat Studios announced it will be available via game pass quote. It feels, feels great. Jesus Christ. It feels great to finally have a release date for replace, said the game director in a press release quote. It's no secret that it's taken longer for us to get here than we initially thought, and we want to thank everyone for your continued patience and support. We're looking forward to making it worth your while. On March 12, 2026. Paris Lily must be celebrating somewhere.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He can finally put it on his fantasy critic and get points for it.

[Greg Miller]

Years after years, after years of trying, he can finally, finally put this game out there. Are you stoked? Blessing at AOA Jr.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I'm excited for those who are looking forward to this game. It looks gorgeous. The pixel art looks fantastic.

[Greg Miller]

If you're not watching the trailer alongside of us, maybe you're listening in your car or listening later. Of course. Yes. Replace has an amazing pixel art style and the Steam description goes exp expose the sinister secrets of the Phoenix Corporation as reach an AI trapped in a human body. Set in an alternate 1980s America scarred by nuclear catastrophe. Navigate a dark cyberpunk thriller in this narrative driven 2.5D platformer blending cinematic exploration with fluid free flow action.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What does it do for you?

[Greg Miller]

I can't wait. This is. I've been on my radar for quite some time. Stoked to see it. My problem with it is just that I think you look at this. I read that description. All of this sounds so awesome. It's one of those. Can it live up to that? That's exactly right. This has been gestating as you said. And we joked Paris puts it on his, you know, fantasy critic every year. Like this has been coming for so long that you just look and you go, God, I hope they nail it because this. It looks like it could be an all timer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Do we have.

Hands on previews for this game? I have. Anybody played this game? Has Paris, Lily, Paris, have you played this?

[Greg Miller]

Paris, are you in the chat?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Paris, can you tell us? Paris played this game?

[Greg Miller]

Paris, are you in the room with us?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, guys, this be Paris.

[Greg Miller]

I played the game Point Blake. Always on point blank.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's gonna be gay with you.

[Greg Miller]

Let's just call it calm. I'm just gonna call him. He's not in the chat. You know, he likes to usually be in the chat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

People in chat are saying Andy played it now. Did Andy like it?

[Greg Miller]

Andy.

Here he comes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Andy, look at this athlete. Come on.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't get the E out of his name and he ran on in here. You played replace. Tell me all about it.

[Andy]

Replaced when we did the demo at summer game Fest. Not this Was it? Man, I. I don't know about time anymore. I'm not sure if it was last year or this past summer game fest, but it was a three part demo and it was like, all right, this demo we're going to show off kind of how the combat is. This demo we're going to put you in a section where you do investigative stuff, talk to NPCs, solve mysteries, you know, kind of get a. It's a very like tonal type of demo where they're just kind of giving you how the world feels. And the third one, I kind of forget what it was. I actually don't know if I had time to do it or not. But I was sitting down next to Paris Lily as he was also doing his demo.

[Greg Miller]

Can you give me a little bit of Paris vocals?

[Andy]

Point blank period. And the, the. I didn't love the combat, but this was on the heels of me just kind of playing Prince of Persia, Lost Crown and obviously that's a very high standard to hold combat too. But it was very basic. It had a good feeling parry and like the dodge or whatever. But I, you know, there it was very basic of like attack or heavy and shoot. And I guess I kind of like wanted a bit more with how awesome the visuals look. But the I think like ambiance and everything kind of how the whole game was presenting itself was just so stellar the way that the game, whenever you go into your menus, it like cuts to. I think he has like a old kind of retro future phone or maybe it's like a wrist piece or something like a pip Boy. I forget exactly what it is. But that's where the UI is kind of on and that's where the investigations you'll be sort of studying are at. And it's just a really cool visual I think the game is gonna present really, really well. I hope it evolved enough to kind of like satisfy those needs of like. All right, we've seen what other 2D side scrolling combat games can do. Hopefully they can sort of live up to those standards.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good to know.

[Greg Miller]

I tossed. Yeah. IGN's 13 minute gameplay overview in here to Kevin. He's throwing that up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love looking at this game a lot.

[Greg Miller]

This game looks awesome. Yeah, that's my I. But yeah, I don't mind basic combat. You know, I'm not the Perry combat.

[Andy]

Poppy.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's a year ago.

[Andy]

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So this is from a year ago. Yeah, this is definitely the section that we played. Definitely felt like it's not in the game. It's just. Let's show you how this sort of feels. It was kind of like a endless enemy room that just enemies kept on kind of popping in. But it was, it was definitely like, it was good enough. It wasn't like bad by any means, but I was also trying to like directionally I wanted to like hit a dude. Not necessarily like to juggle him, but like I wanted to have like directional inputs of like down, hit and whatever.

[Greg Miller]

You watch this and it's like, it's like got so much style. Crazy. If it, if for me personally, if it just comes down to being a playable movie, fine. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, same.

[Andy]

Yeah. And then yeah, the, all the investigative stuff and the way that they are building their world was so damn cool. And it's kind of like that playable Blade Runner you've always wanted to play but just never could because nobody had really done one, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Thank you, Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you, Andy.

[Greg Miller]

Good job running here so fast.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. If the combat hard way once ends up being more improved and like fun and all that stuff and I'd be down to play this game for like 10, 15 hours.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. If it's a really cool story about being trapped in this AI, if it's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Way more narrative and like the combat isn't fleshed out, then give me this for like four hours because I want to play this game. The more I look at this, the.

[Greg Miller]

More I'm like I want to play this bad. Yeah. I hate it when Paris is right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know. Right? Point blank.

[Greg Miller]

We will wait with bated breath for 3-12-2026. Just like you're gonna have to wait if you don't have your Kinda Funny membership. Remember you can pick up a kinda funny membership. Patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kinda funny games Apple Spotify get all of our shows ad free. Get your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Way. And get good karma for supporting an 11 person small business. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsor.

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1-800-Contacts and we're back. Throw them up for the Dudley Boys. Number three on the Roper Report. This Steampunk RPG looks like the Avatar game we've spent years begging for. We go to Patricia Hernandez at Polygon. Avatar the Last Airbender, the influential Nickelodeon animated fantasy, came out over 20 years ago. The premise of the show, which highlights a lore dense world where people can wield elemental powers, seems practically destined for a good video game adaptation. Somehow, despite no shortage of attempts, video games have never managed to pull it off. Perhaps the God Slayer is here to finally satisfy that need. To be clear, this is not an official Avatar game. The God Slayer is billed as an original open world steampunk RPG that takes place in an Eastern European metropolis. But if you watch the gameplay for a few seconds, it's hard not to draw an Avatar comparison, the Elemancer protagonist wields fire, earth, wind and water, much in the way you'd expect Aang to do. The protagonist seemingly bends the surrounding environment to fuel his attacks, like when he pulls water from a nearby tower to flood his enemies. In the gameplay trailer, the flow of combat also seems to be based on many of the same martial arts, like tai chi and kung fu. The God Slayer's industrial fantasy setting shares some similarities to Korra's steampunk world. There's more to read, but I want to see what's going on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Kevin, can you turn up the sound so we can. We don't have to start over, but like from starting.

[Greg Miller]

Is this doing it for you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yes.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. You're an Avatar guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love Avatar the Last Airbender, which funny enough, as I started this trailer, because this is a seven minute long trailer, as I started watching it, I didn't get the Avatar vibes.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Until you get into the action. But even regardless, before you even get into the action, I'm already kind of you to say this game looks really good.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

If you're watching, he's up on the rooftops kind of Assassin's Creed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also, you never guess what. Developer tells me not to do anything rash.

[Greg Miller]

Do I know them?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, you maybe know a game that they've made.

My time at Porsche, you remember that game?

[Greg Miller]

What.

What'S the studio's name?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't remember. Pathia Games.

[Greg Miller]

Pathia. What? There you go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So here they're getting into combat.

[Greg Miller]

You see, it's awesome. Yeah, he pulled the steam out of that and threw it at the guy's face. Where did he go? It's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You feel like a lot of environmental stuff going on here. And then when they attack, this is where it's Avatar.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cuz the fire benders, when they fight, you can see fire.

[Greg Miller]

Look at them flying all around doing this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, this is all Firebender.

[Greg Miller]

Too many.

There he is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, very third person action adventure style game for audio listeners.

That's dope. Yeah, you have like combat finishers, kind of like a spider man or something like that. But yeah, all the action from this character is very fire Bendery.

[Greg Miller]

Huh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But then it looks like, yeah, this environmental stuff that you can do, like you know, lift bricks or pull steam from. From things in order to progress or solve obstacles.

[Greg Miller]

That's cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You just pulled a big sledgehammer.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, he got this guy's giant hammer and used it. Now he's got water.

Yeah, he's gonna pull on the water like Patricia was writing about.

I'm talking, this is what I'm talking about. I know we have this conversation but like bring back these Double A game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well and that's where I want this.

[Greg Miller]

Don't look this, you know, this ain't aaa, this ain't indie. This is something right in that middle.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Section that looks huge and like to we could probably turn this down now but I want get to keep playing playing the video. Like to revisit the conversation we had a few days ago cuz I think I I was talking about this with Vampire the Masquerade bloodlines too about the double A action adventure games and how it feels like they can kind of get lost in the shuffle when you have these big games that are dominating the genre and it's like why would I play this when I can play this? This proves me wrong to myself cuz I look this, look at this. I'm like I don't give a if it's not the highest and I Hope.

[Greg Miller]

This is 8 hours, 10 hours, 12 hours right there. Put me in that section.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to play this game. I want to. I hope this is like 7.5. Like this is the kind of thing where I'm like we don't see games like this this often.

[Greg Miller]

Something cool to pull from the super chat here and then give you a little bit more information. Street Shadow points out that this is a Sony China Hero project. By the way, if you're unfamiliar, the China Hero Project to PlayStation reads the China Hero Project is a PlayStation mentoring and support initiative for China based developers helping them create incredible games that reach a global audience. It includes game development, support, publishing support and marketing and promotion. And this looks fucking cool. Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The God Slayer again is the name of this game if you're interested. A lot of cool looking games getting announced.

[Greg Miller]

Patricia drops oh, hold on a second then. Hold on a second, hold on a second. Okay. Patricia pulls out a YouTube viewer who put in the comments infamous Creed the Last Airbender which you sold me on the first two. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Patricia's article also says there's no release date for the God Slayer which is intended for PlayStation 5 and PC platforms so. Fuck yeah, I'm gonna keep my eye on that one for sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, cool character designs too. Good looking game.

[Greg Miller]

Very good. Number four on the Roper Report. Less good recreation maker 3 Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on a redundancy notice. This is Alex Forbes. Calvin from.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I didn't put the thing industry.

[Greg Miller]

I submitted this one, I forget where I think it was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Games Industry Biz I'll double check.

[Greg Miller]

Three Fields Entertainment, which is games industry Biz, which was founded by the makers of Burnout and which recently launched the open world driving game Recreation, has notified its entire staff that they are at risk of redundancy. CEO Fiona Sperry broke the news on a post in LinkedIn. The studio released Recreation in October, but Sperry said that Three Fields, quote, will not see revenue from game sales for the foreseeable future, end quote. The Steam player account for recreation peaked at 199 in October, according to SteamDB. Although the game was published by THQ Nordic. Sperry said that Three Fields has resorted to self funding for quote unquote most of this year, including putting up money to support post launch content. Without the enthusiasm or financial support from our publisher to continue development, we simply cannot sustain the studio in its current form. Making this decision has not, I'm sorry, has been unbelievably painful. This is a heartbreaking moment for all of us. What makes it even harder is that we have so many things in the pipeline, multiple features, updates and creative ideas that we were excited to bring to the game, many of which are showcased in the video we're sharing today. These are things we genuinely believed would have continued to strengthen Recreation and grow this community, end quote.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This one sucks. And like it's interesting. I saw Three Fields Entertainment. I follow their games. I've played some of Recreation. I played Dangerous Driving when that came out in like 2019, 2020. And the reason why I follow their games is because there are a bunch of former Criterion devs who worked on previous Burnout games and I'm a a big Burnout fan. I love Burnout 3 takedown especially and Dangerous Driving, the one that came out around 2019, 2020. That game was essentially a clone of Burnout 3. The thing that's tough about it, and this is like a tough love sort of thing, that game didn't hit like that game was not it. It felt empty, it felt sterile. It didn't have the same energy as what you'd want out of a Burnout racing game. And even playing Recreation, I would say some of the similar things like Recreation was definitely a an evolved version of what that is. If Dangerous Driving was trying to be Burnout 3 Recreation was trying to be Burnout paradise, it was open, they had like a lot of cool track customization stuff that they had going on, a lot of cool like destruction stuff as well. But playing that game is very much like man, this feels like it's missing a lot as far as polish. As far I remember even my first hour of playing that game felt glitchy. Like didn't have all the things I was looking for out of it. And I think this speaks to mainly the difficulty of game development and how hard it is to create something when like there's a certain expectation for what a game can bring technically, what a game can bring polish wise and how things have just ratcheted up as far as if you're making this kind of game, you got to bring this stuff can't be mid.

[Greg Miller]

You can't be mid anymore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. And like I've playing their games, I love this developer. I love what they're. I love the concepts, I love the visions. But yeah, no, they were rough. Like the games weren't coming together the way that I would have wanted them to.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And I think, you know, this always harkens back to what we talk about of what game development is in 2025 versus what it was when I started the industry in 20 2007. Right. Where it was like you could be a developer and you could have games that come out and don't kill and don't crush, but you could then make the sequel and you can make the third game and like you could keep iterating on the idea to refine what you needed to really get to places where. Okay, now we've had chances to do this, you know what I mean? Rather than. Well we had this one game that these people Dangerous Driving that someone published. But now we're making a game with thq so we can't do they other people own that. So now we're making this thing recreation. So it's like you got to throw out to some degree what you did there, start fresh, bring in the ideas and the spiritual success of it. But you can't make literally Dangerous Driving two Dangerous Driving three D, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Keep out that Way and THQ Nordic and Three Fields Entertainment. They're not ea. You know what I mean? Like you play Burnout paradise and you can see the money, you can see where the budget goes.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You listen to the soundtrack where they have Guns N Roses, Guns and Roses.

[Greg Miller]

Paradise City never forget. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where you have Barack Obama ads.

AAA ass video game game burnout 3 takedown to this day on PlayStation 2 is a wonderful looking video game. That game graphically looks insane on the PlayStation 2 because that's the money that Criterion and EA and also just the space that they were in in 2004 or five whenever.

[Greg Miller]

That game. Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a different story when you're making this game on an indie to double a budget and you're not able to reach those same things. Yeah. It's tough to make a. What is trying to be a very high destruction, high quote unquote fidelity racing game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so difficult task. And in my opinion they weren't really able to live up to the heights of that.

[Greg Miller]

You hate to see it. We will keep our eye on what is going on at Three Fields Entertainment. But blessing someone being able to iterate on their ideas and make a third game. That's amazing. It would. That'd be big news.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That would be huge.

[Greg Miller]

I wanted something smaller. Say the tiniest news I needed to know about. Where should I go?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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

[Greg Miller]

Number five Wii News, which I have been warned by Blessing is actually jam packed full of shit today. So that's great. First bullet point. Somebody made a new Banjo Kazooie game in dreams. Let's watch the trailer. Can we see the trailer with. Can we get sound for it too?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I would love sound for this. Have you seen this yet?

[Greg Miller]

I saw the headlines that someone has made a surprisingly good Banjo Kazooie.

There he is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love that dreams are still kicking.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At some point. I don't know if this is a stream or something. Maybe it is a stream. Maybe I just do this at home. But like I would settle our.

[Greg Miller]

So I own the content now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's true. We should go back to dreams just to see what's.

[Greg Miller]

What's happening, what's popping off of them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's been a couple of years.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it really has.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And even a couple years ago, like in being in dreams, hanging out, doing the judging for the awards that they would do every.

There was always cool happening.

[Greg Miller]

This is insanely Banjo Kazooie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You like this kind of stuff. What's it doing for you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean it's doing a lot for me. Like obviously it's like it looks like if. Almost like if you remade Banjo kazooie from the N64.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which is even better than I think the idea of trying to make something that feels very 2025 or whatever. Like they went back and they did the thing and they have like new. New mechanics, new transformations here that. That look cool.

[Greg Miller]

That's. This is awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I still wonder about companies not like going after games that are using their IP and music and all that stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but I mean, right? It's free, so it's fair. Use what's right on the game, like Banjo. Because you're paying for Dreams. Sure. But it's like, you can't prove that they're paying for Dreams to come play Banjo Kazooie, which I doubt people are really gonna do, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, with a trailer like this.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, it's definitely right there. Mumbo Mum. Mum.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mumbo Mania.

[Greg Miller]

Mumbo Mania.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's cool. I love this. I'll check this out.

[Greg Miller]

I'm on in Dreams Me. Which of course, is where you can log in and save Dreams. You want to go play and everything else. They used to say how many players are online? They don't anymore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn.

[Greg Miller]

But shit. Still here. Recommended for you I found some weird tapes in the attic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the name of a game.

[Greg Miller]

Just moved into a new house. Looks like someone left a bunch of tapes in the attic. And then it goes. This is a collection of weird, creepy, surreal scenes I've created. There's no story or goal. Although something. Something will happen when every tape is washed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Actually, kind of like that.

[Greg Miller]

First published 2019. Last modified 2024.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is what I'll say. Actually, no, that's a bad take. What I was gonna say is that if you go into Dreams, perusing the Dreams like page, like the new and recommended or whatever, I think you're more likely to find a hidden gem than like, the. And maybe I'll. Actually, maybe I'll stick by this. I think you're more likely to find a hidden gem there than a hidden gem if you just hit new games on Steam.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I know I would. Dreams does a good job of curating, like, here, like, even right now. What's trending? Like, you throw this up and, like, number two is Banjo Kazooie. Mumblemania right now. 43 players are playing it right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, really?

[Greg Miller]

Cool. Yeah.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Obviously you're not gonna find the number.

[Greg Miller]

Three is Batmobile 1989.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I want to play that.

[Greg Miller]

Thanks to Project. Thanks to Project RA for the music. The Batmobile took me hundreds of hours and over two years. I almost gave up several times, but here it is. So it's not just. It's not a game. It's just the thing there. Batmobile.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's cool. To refine my take because that was very much a hot take. I think I am. I get more excited perusing the dream pages, and I think that's mainly because everything is free. So it's low risk. I can just.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, of course, of course.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Whenever I'm just perusing. It's funny looking at my hours and dreams and I've played way more dreams than I thought I would have because every day is just a new experience. I'm just on there finding new shit and like all of it sounds cool. You have a thing that's called Batmobile 1943. And I'm like, what's that? And I play it. Or you have a thing that's just like a fucking random ass spongebob game that somebody made. And it's most of the time for me fun to go into and check out.

[Greg Miller]

And so one of the ones that's trending here is Chase God, not temporary things. Look, it's the. It's the cross with the crown of thorns on it and the light coming down on it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's fun. God, such a miss that dreams never came to PC.

[Greg Miller]

Yes. Crazy, humongous miss on that. And like, you know, we don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why you wouldn't have done that. Because like right now you're looking at this and I'm in the trending now thing. Right in the first courage. The Cowardly Dog House of Revenge has 42 players. Banjo has 43 players. And then everything else that's on this either has no players or one player.

Little Big Planet Carding redrunked.

One night with Markiplier.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh God.

[Greg Miller]

Markiplier sent you to his dungeon because you are a horrible. You are horrible at five nights at Freddy's. Can you survive one night with Markiplier?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We gotta play some dreams. Mike put it on the thing.

[Greg Miller]

I like how you say like Mike's watching.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike put it on. He's definitely watching. Chat earlier.

[Greg Miller]

Mike, if you're watching, come in here and high kick on camera from game File. Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its founders.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nice.

[Greg Miller]

Very cool. Yeah, Spry Fox, I've known for so long they were original. Original. Like it ever came back up at new ever stopped. I guess up at noon guests like early, early up at noon guest. And so to see them continue on and go and change in the company, I'm so stoked they got it back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's great.

[Greg Miller]

Especially because Netflix clearly doesn't know what the fuck they're doing. Let these developers go. Let them go make games from vgc. Sega has said it will start incorporating AI into game development, but only in certain ways. Quote, Rather than fully following the trend towards the large scale development, we will also pursue efficiency improvements such as leveraging AI. The company's official answer reads, however, as AI adoption can face strong resistance in creative areas such as character creation, we will proceed by carefully. By carefully assessing appropriate use cases, such as streamlining development processes, end quote. So that's that. That's that meme of, like. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not going to yell, but.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, I got no opinion.

[Sponsor Announcer]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. At this point, the world is AI.

[Greg Miller]

The world is AI. The world is AI. From Shinobi. But via Reuters, Micron, a major manufacturer of RAM chips, says it is exiting the consumer memory business and focusing its chips on data centers. Parentheses AI. This comes amid a global memory supply shortage that has seen RAM prices quadruple in price. That sounds great for us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Does it?

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Sponsor Announcer]

Oh, okay.

[Greg Miller]

Real bad for gamers. That sounds like really, really bad things for gamers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

From Windows Central, Microsoft is reportedly partnering with Foxconn to expand xbox manufacturing by 4.8 million devices per year as Grand Theft Auto 6 looms. I thought Microsoft's done making hardware that's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's like, fuck. I was gonna make a good joke.

[Sponsor Announcer]

And I lost it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna say there's like, 3 million more consoles than they are, but that doesn't map out. I'll figure it out by the end of the show.

[Greg Miller]

We'll get there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, I'm gonna give you a.

[Greg Miller]

Banger joke by the end of the. Thank you. I appreciate that. SpongeBob Patty Pursuit 2 launches today exclusively on Apple Arcade. Little gator game in in the Dark DLC launches February 12th. Total War Medieval 3 is now in early development. Total War Warhammer 3 DLC Lords of the End Time launches Summer 2026 on PC. Anton Blast, the End Update launches December 18th. I remember Anton Blast. Yeah, people here were into that. Didn't they know the dev was not the thing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, he came through during gdc and we played it.

[Andy]

We really liked it.

[Greg Miller]

And then, sad news. Tortellini, the goldfish who defeated Elden Ring's most difficult boss, is like, malenia has died.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Rest in peace.

[Greg Miller]

I don't remember. I didn't. What? How did. How did Tortellini do it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I didn't know about tortellini, man.

[Greg Miller]

Claude and Tortellini in one week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Crazy week.

[Greg Miller]

You hate to see it. You hate to see it. And that's it for we news. We now turn our lonely eyes to the super chats and remember to be part of the show with your comments, questions, and everything else you can super chat. YouTube.com kind of funny games. Just like Matt. Oh. Matthew Miller 7336 did and says, bless. Where are you at with the Avatar Magic the Gathering set?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I played a lot of it a few weeks ago. I don't know if I'm gonna, like, go to more drafts or whatever. Usually I'll come in at, like, the beginning of a new set and just be happy with the cards that I have.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then, you know, just play on Magic arena or whatever. But I really like them. I. I think they're really cool. I like the mechanics. I like even more than the Spider man set and so very much enjoying it.

[Greg Miller]

Joshi says the game from Bad Robot Games has to be lost via Domus 2. Remember? You remember Lost via Domus? No, it was when I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When Lost was the lost video game.

[Greg Miller]

Get to the Banyan Troops. You got to get to the Banyan. It was terrible. It was so bad. But we all played at IGN because we love.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was that a left or dead? Like.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no, no. It was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, because Loss was made by Bad Robot. Yeah, gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

Age of Orton 37 says, how can I send blessed DND stuff my company makes? Ooh, just email me. Yeah, we want to do D and D here. And so if you send me an email from an actual company, not just. Not just your fucking Gmail, we're gonna go send this stuff. Then a sock full of quarters shows up. No, thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think they're saying me because I'm. I'm doing a DND campaign right now, Friends.

[Greg Miller]

No, no. You got shot in the shoulder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you also want to make D and D content happen here, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like I was just thinking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, that's a good point.

[Greg Miller]

I don't care if you want to email Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Email Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Email bless. I'm not gonna, like, I'm not gonna hoard it and I'll let you take it to your thing or whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, no. But you just pass it on to me.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, we'll figure out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Ryan Povala Higgins says too long and didn't read Greg. And today. Greg Miller today. Well, he's just making a joke about when I was mad about everything else, so it doesn't matter.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hold on. Microsoft is reportedly partnering with Foxconn to expand xbox manufacturing by 4.8 million devices per year. That sounds like 3. Fuck. I almost had it before the end of the show before. I got you before the end of the show. Keep going.

[Greg Miller]

What? You know. You know where you went wrong is that you. You said it. So here I'm. I'm highlighting it. And then when you say Greg, I'm ready. I'll read this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Okay, great. Like that. It's Topher's predicting that Kojima rolls up to the studio with Caroline Polachek Bet. I doubt it, but we'll see. Fig Log Super Chat says Birthday Tax. Thank you for being my main source of gaming news and for always making my day better. Seeing small businesses like funny gives me hope for my career and design. Much love Heart Heart Heart Heart Heart Heart. Fig Log and Happy birthday. Another birthday tax comes from Zed makes vids birthday tax 26 today. Watch since ign days. Been awesome to see you all grow into your own. Don't get to watch live, but been loving listening to the shit list while I'm working. Keep up the great stuff. We will, Zed. And Happy birthday. And then our final one comes from Napoleon Blown Apart 89, which is still a amazing username. The Go made me think of the Uncharted 2E3 demo just in terms of vibes. Looks really fun. It does look really fun. It does look really fun. And then a final, final, final one comes from Kebabs. Has Greg seen the Game Informer doc from Game Sack? Kebabs, I do think I need to. You're wrong. You. I think you mean have I seen the Electronic Gaming Monthly documentary from Game Sack? No. It premiered last night at 5pm I think it was. Or 6pm it's been added to my. And I think I left a comment of like give it to me now. I'm excited to watch that when I have time. But it is on my YouTube list and I thank you Kebabs for calling it out. Greg, hit me from Windows Central. Microsoft is reportedly partnering with Foxconn to expand xbox manufacturing by 4.8 million devices per year as Grand Theft Auto 6 looms.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's 4.7 million per year more than they need. Come on. Got their asses.

[Greg Miller]

We got them. How did it take you that long? How did it take me that long? I couldn't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I knew what I wanted to say. I just couldn't find the words for it.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God. Jesus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Write it down in a document I had to write.

[Greg Miller]

I opened up a new Google Doc.

Oh my God. I appreciate the commitment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Got him.

[Greg Miller]

Jesus.

Then super kindafunny.com. you're wrong. You can tell us what we screw up as we screw it up.

Tundra boy says blessed called Lost a movie. It's a TV show that's Just a slip of the tongue, but I appreciate it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my bad.

[Greg Miller]

Grezik says the God Slayer is also coming to Xbox and then has a article linking to a Windows Central thing. I remember that. But it does look like a more recent reporting has removed Xbox listings. So maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But currently they are not talking about Xbox. Would make think maybe it's not, but who knows. And then V says greg, you didn't talk about the music in Octopath zero review, which is wrong. How was it it? I won't lie to you V last night drifting off to sleep, reflecting on how proud of the review I was. I did come up of like I never talked about how great the music is. The music is great. I think they dropped the ball in a couple of boss fights. Most of them they knock it out of the fucking park. It swells. It's this like the main finale of that second movie. If you watch the review, you know what I'm talking about. Like they bring in this like singer. I'm like this is fucking awesome. But there was one in particular where I was like I'm really looking forward to this boss fight. And I was like, oh, this is the track for it. This sucks. I don't like this. But overall very very good. Octopath Traveler 0 available now. Pick it up. And that is another episode of Kinda Phony games daily in the bank if you didn't know. Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about. Live on YouTube.com kinda funnygames, Twitch TV, kindafunnygames, podcast services around the globe. Of course, if you wanna go the extra mile, pick up a Kinda funny membership. Patreon, YouTube, Apple Spotify. It gets you all the shows ad free. It gets you a daily dose of me in 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. And that's right, even if you are on YouTube and this video ends, there's another video and another video and another video. Because from here we go to the Gamescast where we're talking about all the games coming out in December. Then we go play my first hour of Metroid Prime 4 Beyond. And then Hunter Pence comes by to teach the boys dark and darker. So if you're on Twitch, don't go anywhere. If you're on YouTube, click on the new links. And until next time, no, it's been our pleasure to serve you.