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Report: God Of War Side-Story Releasing This Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.24.25
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
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Tim Gettys
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Bless. It is so good to see you alive. You're okay, Barrett. You've made it. We all did it. Roger's out there. No one else is here. So I don't know if anyone else made it but last week was so much and it was awesome. A perfect example of like refilling my cup with like, oh, this is why I love what I do. This is why I love video games. This is why I love all the people in this industry and then taking that cup and throw it into a fucking gutter as a bum Pisses on it because we're out in the streets of San Francisco party.
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Tim Gettys
And you know what I mean? I know exactly what price I mean. Listen, were on the streets. We were on the streets.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I'm pretty sure it was Roger pissing.
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Tim Gettys
But yeah, but, yeah, dude, it was such a fun week. But also, yeah, such an exhausting week where I remember on last Sunday, it was a. We're at the mix, and there were people that are like, oh, yeah, okay, we got to do this on this day. And then what are you doing on Friday? We'll hang out on Friday. That was on Sunday. So I was like, oh, yeah, let's go. By the time Thursday came around, I was looking at my friends, I was like, guys, you guys. You guys got to go home. All right? Fly to where you're from.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, go home.
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Tim Gettys
Go home.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Go home. Get out la.
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Tim Gettys
Go back to Chicago. Go back to New York. Like, get out of here. I gotta rest.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I couldn't even make it to Friday. Y'all were going out. And I was like, I'm a rally. I'm gonna do it. And I looked.
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Tim Gettys
It looked at me. You're like.
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Barrett Courtney
Like, I think I'm gonna come out. I was surprised. I didn't see.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I think because there was a couple of people. I hadn't seen Janet. I hadn't seen a couple of people. I was like, okay, I should. I should do this one final frontier. And then I was like, or. Or I had to go home to feed the dogs. So that was like the. The thing where I'm like, all right, step one against me, she coming out, right? But I get home, and I had that moment of like, if I take.
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Tim Gettys
My pants off, oh, it's over. If you get horizontal, it's done, you know?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And then I just had a thought. I was like, you know what? I could play Onimusha. So I got my switch, hung out on my bed with my dogs, and I beat that shit.
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Barrett Courtney
You and I were two sides of the same coin, Tim. Because I had to go home to go walk the dog and then feed the dog, and then I could go out. And there was a moment where I looked at Lulu, and I was like, what if I stayed home? But I went out, got to see Janet, got to meet Nikki Grayson from Giant Bomb for the first time. Oh, my God. Wonderful person, pure. Had a hell of a time.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah. Adorable dog as well.
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Tim Gettys
Oh, yes.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You know, good human being all around.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. I was surprised by the people who came out on Friday night, because I thought Friday night I was Scared because I was the one who was tasked with figuring out where we were gonna go.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
And it's always the thing of like, all right, who's coming? What's gonna be in like the right area for people. What bar is gonna seat people, but also what bar is not gonna have too loud of music so we can actually hear each other while we talk. And like, different people are recommending different things. And like, Carl's coming through. And like, Carl, like, you know, Carl's guys is like, yo, we got a hotel bar. And I'm like, okay, well, you know, I want something that's accessible. And then like, after I made the plans, I was like, oh, maybe Carl is want to come out to somewhere too public because he's like, very recognizable. I'm like having all these fears. I get there. It's a great time.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
It's a great.
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Tim Gettys
It's a great.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Don't worry.
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Tim Gettys
Listen, all right, just hang out with friends, guys. That's my advice to you on this Monday morning.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Hang out with friends.
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Tim Gettys
March 24. Hit up your friends right now. Hit up a friend that you haven't talked to in a while.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
And be like, yo, let's hang out. Let me tell you, it's worth it.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You know what's crazy? Last week I was being G were driving somewhere, like to a lunch or something, and we're like just talking, telling stories about random. And she brought up a story about like one of her middle school friends who I've known for a long ass time now, and she hasn't seen her in a while because she moved up to like Sacramento, which isn't that far, but like, it's far enough that like, we're not seeing them unless there's a plan, right? Like maybe like three hour drive, maybe two and a half or whatever. Anyways, she was just like, like, oh, man, like I'm gonna hit her up till I'm thinking about her and just right then text her. And I was like, that is insane behavior. Like, I feel like I in a million times have had that same conversation and then thought about it. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna hit them up. And then later I get home and I think about it and then I hit. You know what I mean? It's like, yes. Why am I overthinking it? G did it, right?
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Tim Gettys
I mean, that's how you do it in the moment. Everybody hit friends up.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Hit friends up.
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Tim Gettys
It's always a joy. You know what else is a joy? Video game news, cuz remember this is Kind of Funny Games Daily each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube and now Spotify and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Some of your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. So today after KFC you're going to get gamescast which is the first Berserker Kazan review so far. Let me tell you, I thought it was just me that was struggling with this game. I looked online, I saw the IGN reviewing progress and I was like good, good.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
It's not true. I'm not alone.
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Tim Gettys
I'm not alone in not having finished this game yet because the boss fights, the boss fights are hard. But we're going to talk about that during gamescast and then after that is the stream. It is an Nvidia sponsored half life 2 RTX stream. If you're a Kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is going to be with Nick and Roger. Thank you to our Patreon producers Delaney Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we're brought to you by Stash, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
We have six stories today, a baker's dozen. Real quick. I messed up. I forgot to put this in the housekeeping. I have more to say about the Nvidia thing because it's. This is like a pretty sick ass thing that we're doing here. So for the stream it's going to be Nick and Andy jumping into play. What we all agree could be the game of the year contender for 2004. It's Half Life 2. All right. It's actually Half Life 2 RTX, a new community mod that uses the power of Nvidia GPUs to show off how good Valve's classic continues to be over two decade later with the most advanced graphics you can find on any video game anywhere. This is a just released demo of the still unpublished full game, but we'll be showing off every ray traced headcrab we can find. Come join us. I'm telling you, this thing is one of the most gorgeous. It was one of the most gorgeous video Games in 2004 with the Modern tech. Y'all need to see this stream. This is about to be mind blowing. And also, Nick loves Half Life, so there's gonna be a fun one where Nick's gonna be playing and Andy's gonna be like talking through all these stuff.
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Barrett Courtney
I never knew that about Nick.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Tim Gettys
That's a Nick game right there. When I think of the games that Nick likes, I just don't think of.
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Barrett Courtney
Video games when I think of Nick.
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Tim Gettys
No, that's fair.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But yeah, this is, this is one. I'm telling y'all. Get ready. Strap in. Sorry. I love that Story Number one Story.
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Tim Gettys
Number one A new God of War side story project set in Greece is coming this year, it is claimed. I'm pulling from Jordan Midler at Video Games Chronicle. A new God of War project set in Greece is coming this year, it's claimed. Rumors have circulated for some time about a remastered collection of God of War titles set for this year, timed for the franchise's 20th anniversary. Now Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb has claimed that a new God of War side story project set in Greece is coming this year. The first several entries in the series were set in Greece and focused on Greek mythology before moving to norse mythology with 2018's God of War reboot. While God of War director Cory Barlog has previously said that he never planned for a second God of War trilogy Based on the 2018 game, the conclusion to God of War, Ragnarok left the story open for more titles. Quote Everyone keeps asking about this, so I've tried to find out more. Grub wrote on Blue Sky Quote there's still a Greek God of War thing coming out this year, but it's not a remastered collection. It's a new side story project. Grub then added Quote I was never told about a remastered collection, but I asked a source about the rumors that I saw were focused on a collection and they told me that that nothing God of War would happen at the state of play, but something could show up at the anniversary.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
End quote There's a lot here. First off, I want to say I hope this is true. I want some more God of War, especially if it is going to be more of like a small side story. I love what we got with Valhalla that was, oh my God, awesome. And granted that being a different mode in the game, but the story elements we got in that and the way they presented it all like that type of experience, I I Want so much more of in. In that level of video game. We're talking about, like, the big PlayStation first parties. There's been a lot of rumors about the remaster of the original God of Wars, it being the anniversary of them. But then also, I just think that makes sense at this point. Like, it's been long enough. We see PlayStation going back and remaking and remastering a lot of older games. And God of War is such a big cash cow. And simultaneously, like, I struggle to think we're close to a new big God of War title. So something like that, I think kind of like it would be a nice little filler's not the right word, but like, entry in PlayStation's library. Like, I'd be looking forward to that and I think millions and millions of others would as well.
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Tim Gettys
What form would you be looking forward to it in? Because I think the choice of words here is very interesting. Nowhere in this article do they mention game. They only refer to it as a new side story project, comic book.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Oh, that. That is interesting. Yeah, yeah.
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Tim Gettys
Now. And like, here's the thing, Jeff Grubb making a deal about it makes me think that maybe it's more than a comic book, but also, like, nothing here implies video game, which makes you. Makes me think deeper about it.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
No, you're right. You're bringing up good points there. So what's also interesting here is there was the state of play that happened earlier this year that nothing happened. God of War. And then there was the anniversary a couple weeks ago that. That was. There was conversation. I remember all of the remaster conversations started around there. And it was like, all right, cool. If they're going to do it, that's the best place too. And they went out of their way to say, at this anniversary, we're not announcing new projects. It's just going to be merch and stuff and celebration. But, like, we're not announcing new things. So it is a bit weird. If it is March and we are getting a video game later this year, why not announce it at that event in the same breath, if it's not a video game, if it is just a comic book. For reals. For reals. Why not just announce it at that anniversary event? Which to me makes me think it's a video game?
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Tim Gettys
I mean, I would be. I would love. If it's a video game. If we're talking about this being a video game, I think then it gets really fascinating of what does Kratos or I guess the God of War world going back to Greek mythology look like. Are we talking about another. A new third person action game? Are we talking about maybe a 2D action game? Something that is more of like a scaled back isn't the right term because. Not that 2D is any less than 3D. Right. But I guess something that feels a bit more. Oh, this is a sidestep. This is not what, you know the God of war franchise as. Right. This is something that truly is a side thing.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Like a prince of Persia lost crown.
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Tim Gettys
Yes.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Type thing. I mean, that.
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Tim Gettys
I mean, listen, come on.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I mean, real talk like that type of thing for a God of war in Greece. That's. That's actually very compelling. Yeah. I don't see that happening. I. I do think again, going back to what I was saying about Valhalla, I feel like that proved that they can use the engine and design philosophies of. Of God of War and Ragnarok and apply that like just with some new assets and some new things, but like make it a. A new game, you know, and that was free. That was a much smaller thing, but I feel like, flesh that out a little bit more. Maybe even not quite a Miles Morales level of game, like somewhere in between a Valhalla and Miles Morales, but set it in Greece. I feel like it wouldn't be a chronologically new story. I feel like this would be very much a back in the past at a certain point, fleshing out some.
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Tim Gettys
Some gap in the history or some side story that people might be interested in.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah. Maybe even connect more of the Greece lineage to like what we got a lot of with the. I forget the name of it, but the big ass. The world. World tree. Is that what it was? Where there's like, you see all the different realms and like as like we start learning about that. When you're going through that hallway, they're talking about the history and it's like there's the Egypt stuff and all of that. Like, maybe make it connect a bit more. Barrett, I see you popping in and out a lot. What do you have to say?
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Barrett Courtney
Yeah, my camera broke.
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Tim Gettys
Let's see.
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Barrett Courtney
I would. I would find it interesting if it was Kratos centered going back to Greece, especially because Valhalla felt like such an unpacking emotionally already of that part of him. So I feel like this would probably be Loki based, maybe Loki.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Like. Yeah.
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Barrett Courtney
Going through the journey of going from one mythology to another, seeing what that process is actually like. Because we never got to see that with Kratos. Right.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And maybe see that'd be Sick. Yeah.
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Barrett Courtney
And then seeing for himself like the fallout of what happened in Greece and then reflecting back on his actions in Ragnarok or something like that.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's. I mean that's awesome.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah. And JG in the chat says Grub says it's a game.
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Tim Gettys
Oh, does Grub say. Say it's a game?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Jay, can you let us know where you see that?
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, let me. I want the link because if that's the case then that.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
That becomes a much more interesting conversation because like as of now I'm not convinced it's a game. Just because they never say game here. And like it's tough to put. I know obviously all the time these studios are working about project. Working on projects that we don't know are happening. And like if you. Valhalla.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Right.
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Tim Gettys
And every year it almost feels like oh like we had. We get an announcement at Summer Game Fest for later in the fall. This thing's coming out. Look at last year how we got Astrobot, how we got the Horizon Lego game. Right. I wouldn't be surprised if in fact I would say it's for sure that we're going to get something or some things like that from PlayStation at somewhere in the E3 area this year. That's not E3. Right. There's going to be more games come from PlayStation this year that we're not aware of.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
I just wonder the scope and the. Who is working on it and the how of like you know, I. It's hard for me to imagine that it is like another like third person action thing.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But why.
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Tim Gettys
I guess I can. I guess if we're looking at it as a new thing and not a dlc I guess I don't have really good reason for why. You know I think more it. More so is a. I would. I would expect more of a ramp up for a God of War thing.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But you know, the more I'm like we're talking about this. I. And. And if. If Grub is saying it's a game, I'm kind of leaning towards a Miles Morales size project. Why not? Right. Like. Like that's it's still going to be very similar game by Sony Santa Monica. Maybe, maybe not.
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Tim Gettys
Okay.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But maybe Right. Like again Valhalla very different type project. But I do think that when we're talking about like the announcement to release date of Miles even it being a launch game very. A different set of circumstances there. But you know, thinking about an insomniac are maniacs. Yes. In terms of release. But when you Think about even just Spider Man 1 to Miles and Spider Man 2, like the release dates of those and you look at the God of War games, including Valhalla. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that we are prepped for a announcement and imminent release type situation. Imminent meaning within three months of a game of that size.
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Tim Gettys
I guess that's why I'm a bit more apprehensive about it is the. I think when I look at Sony Santa Monica as a studio versus an insomniac or a team of Sobey as far as how they work and what those games are, we know Sony Santa Monica is working on a new ip. There's Cory Barlog's game that like, you know, they're working heavily on. That's not to say that there of course is more teams, there's other people that can do other things. But even with that, I look at God of War as such an undertaking of this is going to take time, this is going to take effort. This is going to like these worlds and these characters need to be the most detailed and all these things not say that Spider man isn't that stuff. But I do think there is like somewhat of a gap between Spider man and God of War as far as like the manpower in the time taken to like make a brand new one of those.
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Barrett Courtney
I get what you're saying. I do wonder amidst the conversations from the insomniac leaks and budgets and all that stuff in terms of big PlayStation releases, I do wonder if there's something valuable to do a smaller game to show that, hey, we can do these smaller projects and then they can be sustainable and not look at infinite type of growth like things that I think games like Miles Morales and Uncharted, Lost Legacy kind of prove right that we can do these smaller, focused titles and it doesn't need to blow everything out of the water and it can just be like a good solid thing and maybe them doing this to maybe remind, you know, the people upstairs like, hey, we can do this and it'll be good.
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Tim Gettys
And I think that'd be dope. I would love for a God, like I would love for more God of War games to happen. I think with that idea of, yeah, what if we put out better scope things? What if we were able to work quicker? I think that is reserved for every other studio that's not Sony Santa Monica and Naughty Dog.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
So I, I totally get. I feel like we're, we're onto something here with this conversation. I also think that like with what Barrett's saying, like, we've talked about this for years now. Like, that is the dream. That is what we like. Like, why are they doing all these live service games? Just do smaller projects, blah, blah, blah. But we also see that the smaller projects do not perform on the same level as the bigger ones because they're presented as smaller. The audience thinks that they're smaller, they're talked about as smaller. And it's, I think, impossible to get away from that. I do think that there has to be like a redefinition of it all. And I think that now potentially internally there could be that rubber banding effect of, you know, with all of the fallout of how bad things like Concord were and et cetera, et cetera, factions getting canceled and all of that, there might be a higher level of willingness to listen to the teams of like, just let us do this and let's see if it works. Because we think it's going to work. And I hope it works. I don't necessarily. It would need to be supported the right way and all of that. And I think that Miles Morales came out at a very different time than now and Lost Legacy came out at a very different time than now. But to your point about like, Santa Monica is on a different level with storytelling and all that stuff. I think that they have that stuff so down and the world of God of War so down that if it was like Barrett saying, like, you're playing as Loki, a different character with a different moveset, I think is enough to make that different and, and to make that like standalone and be able to be. It's still have God of War and still feel like it's a, a real project without it being Kratos.
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Tim Gettys
But could you make that in two years?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I think so.
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Tim Gettys
Or however Ragnarok come out, that is it 2023, 2022. Okay. So maybe we're getting there.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah. And I think, I think you can with. With again going back to Valhalla as an example. It's definitely hopeful. But I do think that there has to be some. When you, you look at Insomniac and they did it. So it's like. And I know everyone's different. You can't apply them one to one to one. But I do think that there is less a difference between Insomniac, Sony, Monica, Santa Monica and Naughty Dog than you're saying that there is. But I also get where you're coming from.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But I also think that the Spider man lore is like as important as The God of War lore in a different way because Spider man means so much to even more people than God of War does.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, I see what you're saying there. I just think a. In terms of Turnkey, I think Insomniac is a bit more refined as a studio as far as being in that turnkey place. Whereas Sony. And that's not to take away from the quality of the products because when we're talking about all these studios. Right. Like I'm infamous for saying I think Naughty Dog and Sony Santa Monica are S tier and Insomniac is a tier. But if I'm talking about like value to Sony, they're. They're S tier. Right. Like Sony or Insomniac has been holding this generation on their shoulders as far as game releases that come out that are critical successes and that sell really well. And I do think that Sony probably wants, it's a tough thing of Sony wants more Insomniacs. But I'm also sure that Sony also wants more Sony Santa Monica's. So how do you balance the two? Do you just have your cake and eat it too? By being like, hey Sony Santa Monica, keep doing what you're doing. Keep putting out games every five years but make them like mid-90s on metacritics and make them these critical darlings that are going to sell like crazy and going to do we have Insomniac to make the sellers. We have Team Asobi to maybe put out games on more frequent basis. You and Naughty Dog like you are, you're the ones that grant us prestige.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yes. I do think though that everyone's going to have their own opinion.
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Tim Gettys
Sure.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
About, about like what is the right move and all that stuff. I personally looking at all of this, playing the games, knowing the games, seeing how well they sell, seeing the conversations years after they happen. I think a shift has to happen that these games get smaller and should be more Last of Us one size than Last of Us two sized. God of War. I think you can apply it to like pretty much all of the games.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And there's going to be that initial revolt from the community because they're like, there's expectations and if they're going to get these giant 90 plus Metacritic prestige single player video games, Sony, we've seen the numbers. They have to figure it out that they can get them out more than once every seven plus years. Right. So I think that maybe there is internal reframing of like we got to figure this all out. And it's. I don't know how that happens. And I think it's going to be kind of messy, but I think it's all right. We're there. We're in the messy part. We got a super chat though.
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Tim Gettys
Bring it in. I do have a confirmation. Jeff Grubb does say it's a video game.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I love that.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, bro. Was that super chat?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Lucien Oriole writes in and says the way that Eric Williams talked about Symphony in the Night with such love makes me want a smaller 2D symphony and night style God of war game.
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Tim Gettys
Oh, see, that'd be sick.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Can you imagine? I mean, because remember he was on our spoiler cast and he was talking up wanting to make a castle game.
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Tim Gettys
Shit.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
What if they actually did that shit?
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Barrett Courtney
Like, here's the thing, it's like, okay, you gave us Ragnarok, now do whatever the fuck you want to do, you know, because, like, obviously we're making Corey's next game. Corey's making his next game. We assume it's going to be a new ip. All of this stuff, work on whatever you want to work on. And then if it is that smaller type of 2D fucking thing, then it's a bit more realistic and like three years.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, absolutely. And also, I, Barrett, like your idea of Loki jumping between the realms. Yeah, that fits itself to a. Eric Williams directed Metroidvania, I think, very well.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. Now, I mean, we're. We're in dream territory. But also, I like the dream. We've leaned really hard into dream territory, but I with it, like, it's not out of. You're not pulling this out of your ass. Like, yes, that'd be sick. And if you're not doing that, I need you guys to pilot the ship into that direction. We're working right now.
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Barrett Courtney
It would hit the speculation station, but yeah, straight up.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
No. I love it though. And Jesus Rivera says, what if it's a Prince of Persia style game about a character in Egypt who ends up asking Kratos and Atreus for help leading into the next big title? That's the other thing too. It could be a side thing that like, sets up the next big thing. So make it core, make it important, but also not make it like it's not the Kratos Triple A experience that you might expect.
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Tim Gettys
I hope it's something. I hope it's something worthwhile.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Right.
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Tim Gettys
Again, to remind people, this is a quote from Jeff Grubb. Right. It's a Greek God of war thing that's coming out later this year. It's not the remaster collection. It's a side story project, I think that can come in all shapes and sizes from a Facebook browser game to a prince approach of the Lost Crown style thing.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I just don't think like. And anything can fucking happen. I think we're not in the time and place of the Facebook browser games and mobile games and all that. If they're talking about a God of War Greece video game, it is going to be a PlayStation 5 game. What that is.
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Tim Gettys
You don't think so? Because like the PlayStation they hired or they. History is foggy on this one. But they started up a mobile division that I don't think we've seen anything from.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, I just. Even then, though, I feel like that's the type of stuff. Like, I don't think that that would get talked about by Jeff Grubb this way. I think. I think that if. I think he would know that information already.
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Tim Gettys
Sure.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
If that was the case and I think that he would make that clear here. But I mean there's a lot of things there and a lot of like, who knows who he's getting this info from and what they're willing to say and all that stuff. But that's the type of thing to me of like it's a mobile game, you know. Yeah, you lead with that even almost before the God of War part.
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Barrett Courtney
But a mobile game or is it bullshit?
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Tim Gettys
You know, who knows? People in chat. Somebody said Neon Koi is dead. Somebody said they shut down one of those mobile studios and somebody. Somebody else said they got closed down. I'm talking about the division. I don't. Did the division get closed down? Chat. I need somebody look that up or I'll look it up during the ad break. But it is more than a studio. I'm talking about like an entire division that they like hired people to head up and do all that stuff. But I digress. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing whatever this is. You know, like, I forget. Did you say it's not going to be. He said it's not going to be at the state of play. Right. That we're going to see it at an anniversary thing.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Well, it wasn't at the state of play. Right. Oh, the one that already happened. Because there was rumors going into that that we're going to see the Gotcha Greek trilogy, remake, remaster, whatever.
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Barrett Courtney
So we're more rumors, like on the God of War anniversary that we were going to get some announcements which also.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Didn'T happen, but they also, like a week before, like there will be no announcements.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Barrett Courtney
Well, they did announce skins for Ragnarok. That looked pretty cool.
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Tim Gettys
A few more super chats for you. Kebabs writes in and says, think it bridges the gap between 3 and 2018. I think anything's on the table. And then Cody Boone writes in and says, tim, have you been seeing Mike's Final Fantasy 10 journey?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
It warms my heart so much because like, 10 is mine. 10's the one that means so much to me. And I love seeing it mean so much to Mike. Like, I'm watching him play through this game and these moments are hitting him in ways that I just Mike is an enigma, man. Like what? I would have never expected it, but like how seriously he takes Blitzball is the funniest thing, but the most obvious thing. But I see him falling in love with these characters. It's. It's so cool that a game from 2001 can be this resonant in 2025. It's. I don't know man. Like we've advanced so much, but there's, there's something about characters and storytelling that can be timeless, even if some of the things surrounding it aren't.
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Tim Gettys
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I'm excited about this because I saw Barrett posted in Slacker. You posted Slack, and you two were talking about it, and Barrett's like, this is kind of fun. We should react to it. And you already saw it. I haven't seen it, so I'm excited. It sounds like like it being fun. I'm interested in what this could even be.
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Tim Gettys
Oh, Bear, bring it up.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Nolan, buddy, I got your super urgent text.
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Tim Gettys
Troy, please, come on.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Have a seat. New room? Yes. I broke in about an hour ago. We don't have much time.
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Tim Gettys
Since taking on the role of Indiana Jones, you're now on the cusp of being brought into a very exclusive club. Questions? Of course.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Sure. What makes you need to tell adventure audio listeners? You know, you'd be surprised at how often a whip comes in handy. I doubt that.
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Tim Gettys
How are you going to deal with.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Private military forces with just a whip?
- [31:31]
Tim Gettys
You know, use the old headbutt.
- [31:33]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I like it. Aggressive.
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Tim Gettys
See, I'm more of a sidearms kind of guy.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You would be.
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Tim Gettys
Jeans Henley.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Somehow. Always half tucked.
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Tim Gettys
Of course.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Of course. What about finding ancient artifacts? Yes. Sold to the highest bidder. Donated to museums. Sold to that museum. Going somewhere unexpected?
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Tim Gettys
What is an adventure without going somewhere new? Trey.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Troy. Troy.
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Tim Gettys
Welcome to the club.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Legit, dude.
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Tim Gettys
Legit.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's awesome, though.
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Tim Gettys
There you go. And it's coming to PlayStation April 17, 2025. Done this before? Yeah.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
How many fingers did you have before?
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Tim Gettys
There you have it.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Love Troy. Love, Nolan. Love that commercial. That was. That was awesome.
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Tim Gettys
That's great.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That was good. Good marketing, y'all. You did it. You spoke to an audience in a very clear way.
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Tim Gettys
Very clear and very. Like, I. It's so good that I wouldn't have thought to. I wouldn't have thought that they would do this.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Exactly, exactly.
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Tim Gettys
Uncharted in New era. I hope so, because I love it too, man. That's fucking awesome.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That was. That was cool, man. I liked that a lot. All right, now, moving on from the commercial, the release date, April 17th.
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Tim Gettys
Yes.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Are you at all surprised by this date?
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Tim Gettys
No, not really.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I am, for one reason. Forza Horizon 5.
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Tim Gettys
When is that coming out?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I'm pretty sure it's like April 29th on PlayStation. Am I wrong about that?
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Tim Gettys
Did we ever get a release?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Did I make that up?
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Tim Gettys
If we got the Forza Horizon release date.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And it's just. There's a conversation there because Black Demon saying yes.
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Tim Gettys
Okay. People are saying yes.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Okay, cool. So just starting this here. I don't think that's a bad thing at all. Totally different types of games doesn't matter at all. Right. I don't think anybody's going to lump Forza and Indiana Jones as a PlayStation gamer as Xbox games.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I'm saying as a category that gets in the way of them purchasing one or the other. Right, Cool. But from Xbox point of view, it's interesting that they're willing to just put them out so close to each other. Right. Like, and they have a library of games that I imagine going to make the jump over to PS5. Like, this is. It's interesting because it reminds me a lot of the Wii U to Switch. Right. Where it's like we have this catalog of games that over the course of three years or so, we were just kind of like checking off the list and being like, all right, cool. We have 10 remaining, 9 remaining, 8 remaining, and here we are. Right. I feel like with Xbox, there's a similar thing happening where there's a couple handfuls of games that I assume are going to make the jump to PlayStation 5 proper from the Xbox ecosystem. But I also don't think there's that many of them, Right. That are. That are imminent. I feel like some of them, the more recently released things like an Indiana Jones or Forza. Well, even Forza. Yeah. It'll count for. It's a. This makes a little bit of sense going back. If we're gonna get the Gears trilogy, you're gonna get like the Halo stuff like that I think is a bit more going back and like, they'll have to like, maybe add some new or like clean it up a bit or something. Like, I don't think the master chief collection is just gonna be like, how.
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Tim Gettys
Worthwhile, like how far back can you go to where it's still worthwhile to just straight up port things.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
As opposed to being like, okay, well now we have to remaster this.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Exactly something. Yeah, it's. It's interesting, Right.
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Tim Gettys
I wonder, because the timing of the PlayStation 5 ports last year, I feel like was also around this time. Wasn't it like, wasn't it like hi Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves and like I forget if Grounded is on PlayStation or not, but I've lost track of them. But like, I feel like it was all.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, it was. Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. Wasn't it all like around spring?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
And kind of back to back. So I wonder if this is a thing where it is a springtime thing of. Hey, fall is for Xbox. Once we get into spring, that's where we're making the PlayStation Plus. Well, hi fi Rush was released in March.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
In March, yeah. So that, that, that makes that. Roger now.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, hi, Roger here now. Whoa. Don't worry about it. Oh, pentiment.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, yeah. So what's interesting there too is looking at Xbox's actual, like new release lineup. If you're talking about like falls for Xbox, all those games are coming to PlayStation as well. Like every single one except for Salvador Midnight.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That is coming out in a couple of weeks. Oh my God. It's coming out in a couple of weeks.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. Literally any day now. We can get that review code any day.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's very exciting. That's very exciting. But yeah, it's like, it kind of feels like going forward, every game is going to be on PlayStation as well. So. Yeah, I just. I'm interested. We should do a gamescast episode with Mike breaking down, like looking at the Xbox One and series libraries and I mean, maybe even 360 and see like what games are going to get PlayStation releases.
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Tim Gettys
I mean, if we're going. I mean, Hellblade. What do you think?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yes. 100% yes.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. What about Redfall?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
No.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, yeah.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Probably not. Starfield. Yes.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, Starfield. Probably at some point.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, yeah. Let's say this for a games cast.
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Tim Gettys
Okay.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Because I think, I think there's the obvious easy ones. But then I do think you get to a point of like, all right, cool, but what would it look like if the older ones were put over.
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Tim Gettys
Store number three Bam Margera will be in Tony Hawk three plus four after after all, after Hawk intervened, it's claimed. This is Jordan Midler at Video Games Chronicle. Despite suggestions otherwise, it appears that Bam Margera will indeed be included in the upcoming Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 4, according to a new claim earlier this year, when Activision first announced the remake collection, it also announced a list of skaters planned to be featured in the game. This list included every classic skater originally featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4, except 1. Bam Margera, known for his roles in Jackass, Viva La Bam and the Tony Hawk series, was seemingly missing. Now, during a live stream on the Live Club Skating podcast, it's been claimed that Bam was added to the game at the last minute after Hawk demanded he be included. Quote well, here's what happened, explained co host Roger Bagley. Quote the game was already done. Tony. Tony called up Activision and was like, hey, we're putting Bam in the thing. And they were like hey, we can't. He goes, no, you're going to do it. And basically made them fly Bam back out there to get body scanned and everything else and get him back in the game. Quote End quote so Quote so this might be news that's not out there yet, though. Co host Chris Roberts then asked. Bagley replied, probably. Margera has faced a string of health and legal issues in recent years. Due to issues related to substance abuse, he was he was fired from Jackass forever, after which he was issued with a restraining order from Jackass director Jeff Tremaine. Tremaine had previously fought for years to include Margera in the reunion film. It was believed that this was the likely reason Margera was seemingly missing from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Plus 4 Remake announcement. But shortly after the game's announcement, an image was then posted online showing Bam Margera reuniting with Hawk at a skate park, giving fans a slight hope that he may be in there after all.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Man, I can't believe the Tony hawks Pro Skater 3 and 4 is real.
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Tim Gettys
It's real.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And also that we just keep getting information in the most bizarre left field ways. And like in addition to just the way that Activision markets their games, like Activision markets their non Call of Duty or Overwatch games in such or Blizzard games in such a unique way. Like there is a vibe to Activision trailers that no other company has. Like they have somebody going in There playing with the camera and like just going nuts and adding sound effects and like the Crash game, Spyro games, Tony Hawk games, they all have this vibe to them and then they'll just like make announcements and rollout plans that are like very much speaking to the fans. Like they, they've been putting out the, the waves of soundtrack where it's like they didn't just put out the entire soundtrack in one thing. And here's the news story, it's like they're putting out drops of like here's some of the songs, here's some of the songs. And I'm like, I'm here for this, man.
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Tim Gettys
It's because. It's because like you know, Activision is Call of Duty and then like a few other just random ass things. And you can't apply the Call of Duty marketing machine to those other games whatsoever. So they have to like have those teams be like, hey, you know the game. Figure out something. Figure out a unique marketing rollout for this thing.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And if you don't understand what I'm saying about how unique Activision trailers are, watch the Crash team crash team racing nitro fueled announcement trailer. The vibe of that trailer is just like, oh, it's so unique. And like I bet I could watch an Activision announced trailer without knowing it's Activision be like it's Activision. Even if, even if like the, whoever, the guy that edited, the person that edited that video, those videos, if they were to make a commercial for a different video game, I would know, you know. But anyways, this news is very funny that it's coming out this way. It's also one that I'm gonna chalk up. And I've been saying this time and time and time and time again and so far now I'd be an idiot to by what I'm about to say. But I'm say it anyways. I don't believe this until I see it. And I believe Bam's in the game.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, okay.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Like I think he will be at this point. Like I think that clearly these people are in the know enough and I don't think they'd be saying this stuff unless it was accurate. Having said that, this does seem a little more hostile than I would expect a situation to go. And we'll see. And like also I. Bam's integration in the Tony Hawk games only got more and more progressively important, right? Thug. He was integral thug too. He was like cover star, cover athlete. And in Tony Hawk's four though, he was still there and like he had like all the pros had their own missions, but Bam did have unique gameplay elements. Like there's like the shopping cart going down Alcatraz and stuff. I don't think we're gonna get that stuff in this game. So I think this might just be obams in the game. But I wonder how far they're gonna take it. If he even is, Is he gonna have voice lines? Is it, is it just gonna be kind of like a half baked character compared to the rest of them? If this is so last minute, I also don't know game design of like how or game development. Like how hard is it to, to get a new character voiced and scanned and all that stuff in a game. When the game is releasing, I imagine the game's going gold in what, like two weeks probably, you know, but anyways, I, I think he's gonna be in it, but I do think that this isn't necessarily confirmation, the conversation of like, should he, should he not? I, I feel like there's no right answer to it, man. Like he's done really bad things. He's had a, a very troubled life in recent years and he's caused a lot of strain on relationships and the lives of people around him. And I am very familiar with that type of tumultuous lifestyle of friends and family and stuff. And there's no right answer. You just got to kind of lean into the people that care and trust, that they care and hope for the best. And that's not always going to work out. So I'm going to take this from the perspective, being a huge fan obviously of Tony Hawk and Tony Hawk's pro skater and Jackass and Bam Margera and all of those things. And over the years the levels have waned or went up and down or whatever. I'm going to look at this as hopefully this is another step towards Bam realizing he has people out there for him and that he does need to make changes. And he's been making changes. Not fully. There's still been bad things. But I'm hopeful that if this is true and he's in this game, it's going to be a positive thing for his life. It could very easily be negative, but I'm going to lean positive on this one.
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Tim Gettys
Do I got to give up my dream of Thug plus one? Thug one plus two?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yes. Yeah, I mean, I think that that would never happen. That's too big. But Thug one I think is very likely.
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Tim Gettys
What? Thug too?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I don't think we'll get there, man. And nor should We. I don't think.
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Tim Gettys
How fucking dare you? I mean, how fucking dare.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I mean, if anything, like, I think Thug too, if we did end up getting it, I think just a simple, like, remaster, re release would make the most sense. The problem with Thug too. Sorry, guys.
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Tim Gettys
Just so you know, Thug is my favorite Tony Hawk game.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, but. And I understand the time. And also, like, I'm not. I love Thug too. Love Thug too. But the problem with it is, like, when you think about modernizing these old games, like the old Tony Hawk games and even Thug, it's like, okay, we've got to make these changes and whatever Thug Too, you would need to fundamentally change for it to work. And I don't think you should do that. Like, I think the best. The only way you can remake Thug too is just to have it be Thug to Don't touch it. Make it pretty.
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Tim Gettys
I'm okay with.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's what I'm saying.
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Tim Gettys
That's what I'd want.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I don't think that that's in the pipeline. But, like, if they were to remake Thug too, in the style of. That they've been remaking these games. It's not going to be Thug Too, man.
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Tim Gettys
I'll just go play Bug two, the.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Old one on the computer. Dude. Like, people have already remastered it.
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Tim Gettys
It's a good point.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And you just want. And it's amazing.
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Tim Gettys
But I like that game. I also love Tony hawks Pro Skater 3. I cannot wait for that to come out. I never actually played four. Three was the one that was like my childhood. And then eventually I got two and I was like, oh, I can run around. I can, like, hop off my board. This is cool. I can spin around on a fire hydrant.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
I can attach to a car. It'll drive around real fast.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Kitchen, baby. That's four.
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Tim Gettys
That was four.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That was four.
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Tim Gettys
It's funny playing because, like, I played. I remember playing Thug 1 for the first time at a church as a kid, which is a really experience for all of us. It was. And then recently, a few years ago, you know, played it on the deck. And it is always fun to realize what mechanics came in where because, yeah, I was skitching. I was like, oh, shit. All right.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
This has been here.
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Tim Gettys
Oh, shit.
- [45:01]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Okay, cool.
- [45:02]
Tim Gettys
This is fucking cool. Shout out to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. I can't wait.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Last thing I'll say about Tony Hawk, Thug 2, like, to me will always be the one that didn't add any useful gameplay mechanics. That was when they ran out of ideas and ran out of like actual. They added a bunch of. But like spinning on the freaking fire hydrants and that stuff. It was, it was not good. So.
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Barrett Courtney
And then we got to American Wasteland, which added, you know, like, no loading winky face.
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Tim Gettys
I saw, I. I was on Tick Tock the other day and I saw people playing America American Wasteland in like the live feed. And I was like, should I finally play American Wasteland? Oh, is it time to pick Tony Hawk back up?
- [45:37]
Barrett Courtney
That's fun.
- [45:38]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Here's the thing.
- [45:39]
Barrett Courtney
I like American ways.
- [45:40]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I mean, I like it too, but it's. I love that y'all gave me the space to talk this much about Tony.
- [45:45]
Tim Gettys
Oh yeah.
- [45:45]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But American Wasteland, great game, like obviously great game, has many flaws. Its biggest flaw is its career mode. The entire thing is just a tutorial of how to play Tony Hawk.
- [45:55]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [45:56]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
So if you know how to play Tony Hawk, it's. And it'll.
- [45:58]
Barrett Courtney
It'll lock like moves until you like learn them in the story, which is like, yes.
- [46:04]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Like it's ah. Like literally you're getting towards the end of the game and they're teaching you like flatland tricks and it's like, what are we talking about? So. But anyway, if you haven't played Tony Hawk in a long time, right now might be the best time to play American Wasteland right before 3 and 4. So when you're playing 3 and 4, you're gonna be with the best of it warmed up. Yep.
- [46:22]
Tim Gettys
Story number four. Nintendo files patent for a graphical presentation similar to HD 2D. This is from Go Nintendo.
- [46:30]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Please be real.
- [46:32]
Tim Gettys
Score. Enix struck gold during the Switch era with a visual style that has really resonated with players the world over. The company came up with HD 2D visuals, which takes retro pixelated characters and drops them into detailed 3D environments. The company has employed this graphical approach in multiple titles on Switch, most recently seen with Dragon Quest 3 HD 2D remake. Now it seems Nintendo is keen on putting their own twist on Square Enix's style. Nintendo has filled a new patent titled now stick with me here. Quote, non transitory computer readable storage medium having game programs stored therein, game system, game processing method and game apparatus. That's the end of the title pronounced.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Exactly like it's spelled, which is incredibly.
- [47:14]
Tim Gettys
Boring and confusing at the same time. Broken down into language that makes sense. This patent is for 3D games that use 2D inspired elements in the visuals. Again, it plays out pretty much like what you'd see in the HD 2D genre. This patent seems to go a bit further with the visual style though, as it mentions areas of the game that would be. That would still be in 3D, that would still be in 3D in creation, but would appear very similar to old school 2D games. In other words, it would be a flattened perspective that might appear like a traditional side scroller to the average player, but those who look closer would see that the characters and environments were actually 3D creations. Much of the patent details how this visual style would make use of enhanced lighting and shadows to give impressions of depth and positioning for characters and backgrounds, which would be something far beyond what was possible in old school 2D games. It sounds like it would be a pretty striking presentation, but unfortunately the patent only uses rudimentary drawings to describe the setup. As with all Nintendo patents, you never know if this is one that will be used in games or not. I love the. The.
- [48:15]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Sure.
- [48:16]
Tim Gettys
Why not that Bear it out of here.
- [48:17]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Wait, why? What. What's this? What's the motivation behind this?
- [48:21]
Barrett Courtney
Barrett, just like it sure. Fuck it. Let Nintendo patent literally anything.
- [48:27]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
It.
- [48:27]
Barrett Courtney
Sure.
- [48:28]
Tim Gettys
My question here is like, I, as I was. As I was reading the article, I was doing more research of like, all right, who else has written on this? Nobody else has picked. Picked this up. So I do wonder how much the article itself is extrapolating. Yeah, I'm not good at analyzing.
- [48:43]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
- [48:44]
Tim Gettys
But I wonder if it's more of like, like, oh, this is more Paper Mario's art style.
- [48:48]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, well, either way, I, I think that this is a good thing because obviously the HD2D stuff that we've seen so far is phenomenal, but I think that it is limited. I mean, because Square is the one that uses it and they only have so much bandwidth to put out games. So while we're all clamoring for remakes of every single old school Square game possible, you know, that's going to take many years for them to. To get. I think we'll get there eventually. And new games as well. With Octopath Traveler being where the system debuted. Right. The idea of Nintendo having a similar look to be able to apply to 2D games and remake them is a dream come true for me. Because obviously think about Pokemon. A Pokemon remake in HD 2D is like, holy crap. Like a lot of fans are trying to make versions of it.
- [49:38]
Tim Gettys
Want me to play Pokemon Blue for.
- [49:39]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
An 80th time and will you? You know?
- [49:41]
Tim Gettys
Yes, yes, absolutely.
- [49:42]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yes. But even then, like other ones, like black and white. If people want a real black and White remake. Don't do the bullshit you did for Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl. Do it in this style. That will do justice to the art style of the the DS Pokemon games. But I want to take it even a step further. Mario World, you know, interesting. Taking old school 2D platformers, super Metroid.
- [50:07]
Tim Gettys
But here's the. Do you want that for Mario World?
- [50:09]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yes.
- [50:10]
Tim Gettys
Mario World's art style is already perfect.
- [50:11]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Great. We have it. We've never got the game in widescreen. Why? You know, there's so many old games. Nintendo does such a bad job of modernizing old games, even if they're not going to change the art style. It's like you look at Sega and the way that they treat the Sonic games. It's like we have all the old Sonic games with widescreen support, with all these like, modern niceties. And how do we not have that for old Nintendo games? It's because Nintendo's going to Nintendo. You know what I mean? But like, I think that this hopefully is a step towards them taking old games more seriously, of being able to put them out again with a new fresh coat of paint that actually matters and hopefully is enhancing old art styles as opposed to just completely changing them and like ruining the vibes.
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Barrett Courtney
Yeah, I just, I just personally hope. And this is just coming off of the shit. What's the Pokemon game with the guns, Power World and stuff like that? The pretty dude in Twitch Chat brings up a good point. They don't need to patent it to achieve what you're talking about, Tim. And I just hope they don't use this as like a way to take down other smaller projects that want to do similar shit.
- [51:18]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, that's all true too.
- [51:20]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, that I agree with. And that for sure, I think is something to be aware of with this. I wonder. Yeah. If this goes anywhere. I feel like half the patents we talk about, like, don't end up showing up. Where is my little buddy that plays PlayStation with me?
- [51:31]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Remember that? Where's he at?
- [51:32]
Tim Gettys
Remember my little robot guy? My little Astrobot, I assume robot guy that'll sit next to me, give me video game tips, be like, yo, play better. I'm like, what are you, Kevin? Like, what? Where's that guy?
- [51:44]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
My little Kevin bot. Guys, that's so my little Kevin bot.
- [51:49]
Tim Gettys
Hit the button more. I'm like, I am. I am. I throw him out my window. What was it talking about? Oh, I hope they do something with this, though. Yeah, me too.
- [51:58]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I really. This is a dream for me because.
- [52:00]
Tim Gettys
I in my thing with even like the Mario World example, right. Of like. I. I think it's a range of how. How deeply you can implement it. Where I think if you could use it to complement the style of Super Mario World. Like, I. I don't think I would want a go all the way HD2D with Super Mario World. But if it's like a, you know, add a little like, I don't know, some like 3D, like add a little shadow to the characters or some like. I think there are ways you can use it. A little depth of field. Just a little depth of field. That's a better way to put it. Right. Just a little splash. A little splash of HD 2D Mario World. I think I. You know what?
- [52:32]
Barrett Courtney
You can do that without patenting it.
- [52:34]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [52:35]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And using that island.
- [52:36]
Tim Gettys
Oh, yeah.
- [52:38]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Oh my God.
- [52:39]
Tim Gettys
Oh. And I mean, it's funny because the first thing that came to mind for me was Earthbound, obviously. Like the thing that Nintendo's thinking about all the time.
- [52:46]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
100%, dude. Like limitless potential.
- [52:50]
Tim Gettys
Tim, if we get an earthbound in HD2D, that'd be big. That'd be huge. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where did I go?
- [52:59]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You go to our last story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items that you need to know about.
- [53:05]
Tim Gettys
Story number five slash six is WE News story number five. I am demoting into a Wii news story. But it is a fun shout out because there is a new indie game that makes you hide from monsters in real life. It's called Eyes Never Awake. I do have a trailer for it. Better if you want to pull it up as I talk about it. It's an indie horror game where you evade monsters, but you have to play with your webcam on. On. It reminds me a little bit of before your eyes with like the webcam mechanic. Right. But instead of being cozy and beautiful, it's more so terrifying. But I saw this and I was like, oh, this is a game that looks really cool. Let's give it a shout out. There's also things you need to do with your webcam. Like, you know, you can count. You can like unlock doors and shit. Like it has to scan your face in certain points so you can't just turn off your webcam and also that'll defeat the purpose of the game. But really cool things that people are doing with video games out here.
- [53:53]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
- [53:54]
Tim Gettys
More for Wii news. Bloodborne launched 10 years ago today on PS4. Happy 10th anniversary.
- [54:00]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
10Th anniversary, man.
- [54:01]
Tim Gettys
For Bloodborne. Absolutely what do you think PlayStation is going to do for it?
- [54:05]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Did they tweet?
- [54:07]
Tim Gettys
I don't think they did, no. No. I saw this because of Shinobi. It wasn't PlayStation that told me about this.
- [54:12]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's what they did.
- [54:13]
Tim Gettys
Assassin's Creed Shadows has surpassed 2 million players. That's one of them.
- [54:19]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That is one of them, yeah.
- [54:21]
Tim Gettys
Austin Abrams is in talks to star in the new Resident Evil movie.
- [54:25]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I'm interested in this movie. I'm always interested. And then they're never good, but I'm interested.
- [54:29]
Tim Gettys
Director of Barbarian is working on it.
- [54:30]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
- [54:31]
Tim Gettys
2026.
- [54:31]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
It could be cool.
- [54:32]
Tim Gettys
What is Austin Abrams in? Did I recognize him?
- [54:35]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I. I am unfamiliar with his name.
- [54:36]
Tim Gettys
Somebody look up Austin Abrams. I want to know.
- [54:38]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
JJ's son. He keeps popping out with these kids. JJ, that's not true. He just has the one. Do you know that what's your name? Is. Is. Is the singer Gracie Abrams? That's his daughter.
- [54:48]
Tim Gettys
I don't think I even know much about Gracie.
- [54:49]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Gracie Abrams. She's. She's one of those pop girlies.
- [54:52]
Tim Gettys
What's her. What's her hit?
- [54:53]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's so true. Yeah.
- [54:55]
Tim Gettys
I don't know.
- [54:55]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Took my T shirt off maybe twice.
- [54:58]
Tim Gettys
I. I'm looking at a picture of Gracie Abrams. I don't. I don't recognize her. I'm sorry. Never seen her before in my life. Hope she's doing well.
- [55:05]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I do not know this Austin Abrams either, but he looks real serious. He looks like.
- [55:09]
Barrett Courtney
This is the only thing.
- [55:10]
Tim Gettys
Are you gonna. Are you gonna say Timothy?
- [55:13]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That wasn't gonna be nice.
- [55:14]
Tim Gettys
He looks like Timothy. He's like, never mind.
- [55:16]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
We don't need it. You're right, you're right, you're right.
- [55:20]
Tim Gettys
Shout out, my guy.
- [55:21]
Barrett Courtney
He was also in Euphoria for the first season. What was it for the first two seasons?
- [55:25]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [55:25]
Barrett Courtney
He played Ethan Bailey.
- [55:28]
Tim Gettys
Hey, look at me.
- [55:29]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Ethan. What?
- [55:30]
Tim Gettys
Tim, look that up. And then last one, Guilty.
- [55:34]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Oh, wait.
- [55:35]
Tim Gettys
What.
- [55:38]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Kid in the play?
- [55:39]
Tim Gettys
Wait, why don't I recall his character?
- [55:42]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
No, you definitely will top up this offline.
- [55:44]
Tim Gettys
Guilty Gear Strive character Venom launches on March 24. It's not the Venom.
- [55:48]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You know this guy?
- [55:49]
Tim Gettys
No way. Really? That's him? Interesting. What the.
- [55:54]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
- [55:54]
Tim Gettys
Huh.
- [55:55]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Huh.
- [55:55]
Tim Gettys
All right, well, welcome to Resident Evil.
- [55:58]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Welcome to Raccoon City.
- [56:00]
Tim Gettys
You think he's playing Leon? All right, we'll see. And that is it for we news. Before we get out of here, let's take a look into super chats. Mr. Hawks writes in and says, tim, bless y'all. Play Blitzball.
- [56:13]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Hell, yeah, dude. You kidding me? 100 of that. You had to. To get Titus's legendary weapon, I'm pretty sure. But. Oh, man. I grind Hidden Blitzball, man.
- [56:22]
Tim Gettys
Y'all some nerds. You ever think about that? Y'all some nerds. Out of here.
- [56:25]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
- [56:25]
Tim Gettys
I'm gonna go home and play some magic together. Do you know what's up? What's funny is that I. On. My whole life, I've been a nerd, right? My whole life, I've been doing nerd shit like, it's never stopped. I know Barrett's surprised. I have never gotten people calling me out as a nerd more than when I've started playing Magic the Gathering.
- [56:45]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I mean, it is like, there's no going back.
- [56:48]
Tim Gettys
It's like. It's almost like I've stepped into, like, a new level.
- [56:51]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You have.
- [56:52]
Tim Gettys
Where the nerds are calling me. Like, every single person that's called me a nerd, replying to my Instagram stories. I'm like, you.
- [56:57]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You are also your avatar.
- [56:59]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. I'm like, you're an anime fan. What are you. Why are you calling me a nerd? Yeah. You play Monster Hunter and Imagine the Gathering is a new. It's a new level for people.
- [57:09]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
- [57:10]
Tim Gettys
Guess what? I'm not going back.
- [57:12]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Ain't going back.
- [57:13]
Tim Gettys
I'm in this.
- [57:13]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You can't.
- [57:14]
Tim Gettys
I can't stick. Stick steak sticks. Animation writes in and says, tim, never stop talking about Tony Hawk's pro skater.
- [57:20]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I won't.
- [57:22]
Tim Gettys
Let's see here. Ooh. Adam Brungart writes in and says, I don't know how the greater fan base feels, but I personally do not want to play as anyone otherwise than Kratos in a God of War game.
- [57:33]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I feel that sentiment, like, specifically with Kratos in God of War, because of the character he was in the originals and then is in the new ones. Like, there's something about Kratos that feels right. Is right. He is the God of war, all of that. I'm also open for something new because we've had so much, and I do think there's such a great cast of characters that I'd be excited to play as, But I do think that if you have a different character as the lead, it's gonna feel less important, and I think there's no getting around that.
- [57:59]
Tim Gettys
I would have felt more that way if we were talking about post God of War ascension. But being after God of War, Ragnarok, where you say, there's, like, so many good characters that are in that game that I'm surprised we didn't ever get a. Oh, what's her name? Is it Thrude?
- [58:14]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Thrude.
- [58:15]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. I'm surprised we never got a through spin off game. I'm surprised. I mean I think we will get a Loki game and I think honestly if they position it right, I think a low key God of war game could feel just as exciting as like a Kratos God of war game because they've done the work over the last games.
- [58:31]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You're bringing up the Loki like the Loki as a brand name I think goes a long way too. But I also think that there people don't love Atreus like necessarily.
- [58:40]
Tim Gettys
Sure.
- [58:41]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Not everybody does. That's. That's what I'm saying. It's like there is division there so they would have to make him fucking cool.
- [58:46]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, that's a good point. I wonder, could you. I was going to say what if you don't even call it a God of war? What if you just call it Loki?
- [58:53]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But I guess like you got to have Loki is.
- [58:55]
Tim Gettys
Loki is such a strong name.
- [58:57]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
- [58:57]
Tim Gettys
But of mischief I think the God of war universe is also like there's something.
- [59:01]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
God of War is one of the most important titles in video games period.
- [59:06]
Tim Gettys
I think you. I think if you keep God of like just make it like make. Make sure people understand that this is part of the same franchise. And if you do the bare thing of God of Mischief colon Loki. God of War just sounds cooler though. God of War is just.
- [59:20]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I don't think we get away from God of War.
- [59:22]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, you're right. Let's see here. Zombies Keegan writes in and says think we'll. Think we'll get.
- [59:31]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
What if they just do what Gears awarded. Let's call it God.
- [59:35]
Tim Gettys
God 5 God 6 zombies Keegan writes in says think we'll get th. PPP ccs. I think this is a bit pro. I'm pretty sure this is a bit that keeps recurring because I think they did the same thing. I think they like making people say pee Pee. Pee Pee Poo. Poo.
- [59:52]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's their thing.
- [59:53]
Tim Gettys
That's their thing. I think they like. I think the P stand for Pee Pe poop. Thank you so much for that Zombies. Keegan. Greg Bot writes in and says when is AVP in review? I'm trying to watch two movie. I'm trying to trying to watch movie Night before Thursday. Do you see this guy? No Spell check y'all. Wait, no, because I'm gonna read this verbatim again. When is AVP in review? Question mark. Trying to Watch movie night before.
- [60:22]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You get what he's saying?
- [60:24]
Tim Gettys
Just a little. Just a little read before you send it in. Because I gotta read it out loud.
- [60:27]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Here's the thing. It's not even that bad. Bless is just confused because he did substitute a couple letters with numbers.
- [60:33]
Tim Gettys
No, but even if you read that verbatim. Trying to watch movie night before?
- [60:37]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah, yeah.
- [60:38]
Barrett Courtney
Trying to watch movie night before.
- [60:40]
Tim Gettys
Oh, trying to watch the movie.
- [60:42]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You thought he was trying to. He was trying to watch the movie night.
- [60:46]
Tim Gettys
No, I thought he was having a movie night. No, I thought he was having a movie night.
- [60:52]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I just tried to watch a movie night before.
- [60:54]
Tim Gettys
I thought he was having a movie night the night before.
- [60:56]
Barrett Courtney
No, he's trying to watch movie night before.
- [60:59]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Holy crap. That is amazing.
- [61:01]
Tim Gettys
Then you're right. The numbers did fuck me up.
- [61:03]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah. Yeah. Thursday is going to be AVP2. And also if y'all haven't watched last week's in review, Alien vs. Predator 1. It is. It's one of those Altimer in review episodes. All of us were. It was. We recorded it on Friday after like three shows that we already did Friday, GDC week. We were vibing in a way. Like Greg Miller did the Greg Miller thing. It's worth watching.
- [61:31]
Tim Gettys
There you go. Napoleon Blown Apart writes in and says, Neil Druckmann and Ted Price both recently said their studios have undergone a refocus and restructure to better their production pipelines. Maybe this means balancing smaller and larger projects.
- [61:42]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Beyond amazing.
- [61:43]
Tim Gettys
I love that.
- [61:44]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I'm very, very hopeful. I want to believe I might be way too leaning positive on a lot of this stuff, but clearly PlayStation knows there's a problem and has answers. They don't know if those answers are going to work.
- [61:56]
Tim Gettys
But.
- [61:56]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
But we hear this so many times that like every time we. We talk to a dev or hear from a dev, on or off, like the record, whatever, all of them seem like they're like, oh man, we have to do this. But we could be doing this.
- [62:09]
Tim Gettys
Yes.
- [62:10]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
So I'm with Barrett. Want to believe.
- [62:14]
Tim Gettys
Mr. Straight Fire says I second. Tim. There needs to be a shift to smaller games. Pizzcatella said 40% of the time spent is on top 10 live service games. Smaller triple A games is key to fight for gamers playtime. I think we all agree with that.
- [62:27]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
We all agree. It's just like, I think the thing that we need to bring up is it's not going to just work. There has to be a strategy in place and a refocus and it can't just Be. Oh, Sony puts out a smaller God of war title. It has to be everyone kind of is like aligned of like. Like south of Midnight's about to come out in a couple weeks. We need to treat. If it's good, I hope it's good. I pray it's fucking good. We need to treat that game like it matters, not like it's lesser than. Because it's 12 hours.
- [62:54]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [62:55]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
You know, if it's good.
- [62:57]
Tim Gettys
And then we got one more from nightlife that writes in and says Xbox wants to clump. Then they can advertise, quote, don't want to pay for both games, full price come to game pass. They will repeat this. What was the shoe. What was the shoe thing you did just then?
- [63:11]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Matthew Lewis says, I wonder what Tim's number one shoe colorway is. Military force. These, the ones I'm wearing right now, happen to be my favorite shoes of all time. And yeah, obviously this colorway the most Tim shit ever.
- [63:21]
Tim Gettys
Hell yeah. Sure. I can see. I mean, Xbox wants to clump. They can advertise. Don't want to pay for both games. Full price come to.
- [63:30]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
That's the thing is I, I don't see Xbox and we'll see if I'm wrong about this. I don't see them marketing Game pass anti PS5. You get.
- [63:42]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [63:42]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
And the fact that this commercial exists is like they're leaning in to selling $70 games on PlayStation.
- [63:48]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. I don't think you. You put your games on playst. Tell those people, hey, now buy like get these games on game pass. Don't buy this game here. No, you're. You're putting on PlayStation so you can get people to pay full price for it and like get that money in. Yeah, again, it's a hack. I know. I use the phrase have your cake. You need it too. I need to find another phrase that means the exact same thing, but it is a have you needed to situation. Hey, we have game pass for all those core Xbox users. And now let's make some money off this shit by putting this on PlayStation. Guess what? You're paying $70 for Forza Horizon 5. Have fun. And guess what? You should because it's a really fucking good game.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
And that is it for super chats. Now it's time for kindafunny.com you're wrong where you write in. Let us know what we got wrong as you got it wrong so we can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe, Lucid Dream writes in with Additional context and says Guilty Gear Strive also added a roadmap with ranked matchmaking. Getting rid of the awful lobby system. Huge news. That is huge news. Because I did not like the lobby system in Guilty Gear Strive. And so I hope, hope. I hope it's really good. I hope it's a really good change. Maybe I'll go back. I'll definitely go back at some point. I love that game. You should play Guilty Gear.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I love Guilty Gear. I haven't played Stripe, but Guilty Gear. Forget what the one on the Wii was. But oh, I was. I was obsessed with that dude.
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Tim Gettys
Strive is like a bad guy.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Come on.
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Tim Gettys
Strive to this day is one of the best looking games that I've seen. It's gorgeous. And like once you. I gotta like at some point bring you by my desk just to play one match.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
Because once you get like the full audio visual experience of the. The art style, the music.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
The music sound design, what's the like the Ready fight. Heaven or hell. Come on. Come on. Guilty.
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Tim Gettys
Your Strive is sick, dude. You know what else is sick?
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Us.
- [65:26]
Tim Gettys
Me and you.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
We're so sick.
- [65:28]
Tim Gettys
We're so sick. Because we just finished another episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily. Killed it. No mistakes. Nobody misunderstood a super chat. Had to reread it five times to understand what it was saying. That one person, he's just trying to.
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Barrett Courtney
Watch movie night before.
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Tim Gettys
Watch movie night before.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Trying to watch movie night before.
- [65:43]
Tim Gettys
Oh, where are you having a movie night? Why can't you spell it out? Use letters.
- [65:49]
Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Just take the L. Blast letters.
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Tim Gettys
Listen, you know, Come on, come on.
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Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Heaven or hell. Let's rock.
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Tim Gettys
Let's rock. Let's rock. Of course, this has been Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and all podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games cast next and the stream after. But until next time, Game Daily.