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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
What'S up? And welcome back to A kind of funny Gamescast breakdown of the Xbox Game Showcase for 2025. Of course, I'm your host Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Blessing Adio Ye Jr. Good day Tim, the master of Hype Snow Bike Mike.
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Snow Bike Mike
Great to see you Tim.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And the Nitro rifle Andy Cortez. No bloodborne, no bloodborne, no bloodborne. But a surprising amount of Hollow Knight.
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Andy Cortez
So, so much.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
We're going to talk about all of that because of course this is the Kind of Funny Games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the latest in video games and we do it live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free and you get a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be part of this show though YouTube super chat in. Let us know what you would grade this Xbox Showcase and also what games are you most excited for. Get all those super Chats in and we'll talk about them throughout this episode of the show. A little housekeeping for you if you can't make it to Greg Miller's game showdown championship parade on June 28th in San Francisco. Don't worry, you can celebrate at home with our new Limited time Merch. Drop by Campfire Design. Celebrate like a champion kindafunny.com/shop kind of funny.shop to grab yours. I think both will work, but go there and buy the shirts if you need to. I don't really recommend it, but you can if you want to.
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Andy Cortez
They're such good shirts though.
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Tim Gettys
I've always wanted Game Showdown merch so I'm happy that Greg decided to take over the first three shirts that we dropped.
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Snow Bike Mike
Yeah, the show.
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Tim Gettys
The show that I, you know, put in Blood, Sweat and tears. Oh man, they're all just Greg Miller shirts.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Thank you to our Patreon producers, Karl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by xreal and Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. Let's get into it with the topic of the show. Xbox Game Showcase 2025. No longer are we in a world where Activision shows up at a couple different places, Bethesda gets its own showcase and Xbox does its thing. Now it's all part of one giant experience featuring a direct after. This is our third year. We've now seen this. This time featuring on Obsidian Games is Outer Worlds 2 and the surprise of Grounded 2. Overall Xbox game Showcase. What are level thoughts? Snowbike Mike Oh, Tim, coming to me first of course.
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Snow Bike Mike
Top level thoughts, Tim. You know what, it was a really nice afternoon being spent with all of you. So always remember that. I really love seeing games and hanging out with you. But for me on the Xbox Game Summer Showcase, I was going to say this. Tim, you know what, the opening was really weak and I think the first party promotion was also on the weaker side. I think first party was lacking this year. When we come to promotions, trailers get hype moments and so I just didn't feel like the oh snap. Xbox has got the games. We know they have the games. But this Summer showcase didn't show. We got games right. And so I'm a little lacking on that one. Also a lot of the games that were shown aren't my style. I actually come out of this enjoying Jeff Keighley Summer Game Fest that had more games that spoke to me than this one. Unfortunately. I thought the third party support was pretty strong with Persona and Final Fantasy. There was a day back in the day with XCAST and that Barrett never thought Persona would be on an Xbox. Now we get Persona 4 which is great to see him happy about that. And Xbox fans can be very excited about Final Fantasy coming to their consoles with 16 today. And then of course this fall we will get Final Fantasy 7 which is like hey, finally, that's a big help. And we knew Phil was bringing that team over to help us out and get over there. Man oh man, Tim, I thought we would see more EA or Ubisoft here. We did not see those two big parties present on this. So I thought the overall third party support was kind of mid this year. Wasn't blowing me away on this one. I also thought that we had a very weak Call of Duty reveal. That was a crazy way to end this showcase of like hey 25 years of Xbox. We got Fable, we got Gears of War and we got one more that's been with us, Ride or Die. And you're like, okay, Phil, what are we talking about? And then we just got a Call of Duty reveal.
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Tim Gettys
The.
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Snow Bike Mike
That was not exciting, right? When I think Call of Duty, I want guns, I want action, I want cod. And that was not it. I do want to give major shout outs to, of course Obsidian, who is putting out three games this year that should be applauded. And also Clockwork Revolution from In Exile. That absolutely showed up with a mega kind of breakdown show up that I thought for sure we'd be showcasing this game for this year with the release date kind of tough that it's like, hey, we'll be there when we'll be there. And so this year for me is falling in the mediocre to okay range of 5 to 6 area for putting it on the kind of funny scale. Like I said, first party. I think Xbox has got ahead of it, saying, hey, we want you to love us again. We got the games and for the past two years we've seen those games, but they're not ready yet or we know they're coming. And so we kind of got to this moment of like, man, how much can we show? We're not there yet. And so we can show only so much that. And so you got DLCs that will hold you over. When I look over, I. I don't want to talk too long, but you look at the end of 2025, I don't think this will go down as like a strong end. It will be a good end because when you really look at it, we have a whole lot of games to play. You're backed up. But I don't. I think it's missing one piece to be like, that was a really good another year to end this off. But we have so much games, we know there's more games coming. So for me, right down the middle, mediocre to okay, wasn't blowing away. I think next year will be better let down on it.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Before we get to everyone else's thoughts, I do want to say that the homies over at Activision have sent us a ton of codes for the Tony hawk Pro Skater 3 and 4 foundry demo that's now available on PlayStation, Xbox and PC for people that pre order the game as well as select Game Pass subscribers. But if you just want it for free, if you're not one of those people, Roger is going to be dropping the codes in the chat throughout this episode of Gamescast. You need to go to Tony Hawk the game.com pre order to redeem the access code. So you get to choose what system you want the demo on. So these codes that need to be used. Tony hawk.com Tony hawkthegame.com pre order go there, look at them in the chat. Bless him. Where are you at with this one?
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Tim Gettys
I will say that I was surprised and delighted during a lot of this showcase. I would personally give it an 8 out of 10. I thought it was a solid great. I go through announcements that were here games like Super Meat Boy 3D was a surprise that delighted me. Right. You get to Clockwork. Clockwork Revolution. I'm with Mike as far as. Oh I thought you would have ended this trailer with a date because this is a long ass trailer where you're showing us a lot of the inner workings of the gameplay. And I think my main critique with this trailer is that it was a load blown way too early. Like if this was the trailer you wanted to show, you should have waited until last last moment.
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Snow Bike Mike
We gotta follow up next year with this. Yeah, it's like you already showed way too.
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Tim Gettys
Like this is the trailer you show when the game is out this fall. Like this is the trailer you show but right before the game is out. And so I think we might have seen too much of it. But I'm not gonna complain too much because every moment of this game that we saw was pretty fantastic. Ophelian from Don't Nod was a surprise. Right. Like I know there are plenty of people that love don't know that are don't not fans. But don't not now means more things to more people as far as you know their history with games like life is strange but then like now recently doing things like bishers and then also Jeant, I'm somebody who's always, you know, on the lookout for what this studio is doing next and this game looks really different and really cool and I like the direction of it. Mudang two Hearts is another one that looks really cool, right. Giving us kind of that like third person action shooter, slash undead slash stealth sci fi thing. Like it looks like it's taking a lot of inspiration from a lot of different places. But even as we were watching it, one of the things I mentioned is like it felt like it feels like we're not getting a lot of games that look like this anymore as far as far as like the third person campaign like action shooter game. Right. Like if you're not Capcom, like you know, I feel like we're not getting as many of these. And so this looks cool. It has some Splinter Cell kind of energy to it. But then, yeah, a lot of weird supernatural stuff going on and this looked really cool. And then you get games like at Fate's end and Persona 4 revival and Invincible versus and Keeper. Like this showcase had a lot of announcements that really spoke to me. Right. For. I think for a lot of this is going to be determined down to what is your taste in video games, what are the kind of games that you're looking forward to. And a lot of the games that showed up here are games that I look forward to. I think at the same time for me though, I have questions of where was Fable? Where was Perfect Dark? Where was Eday? Where, you know, what's going on with Forza? Are we going to see a new Forza Horizon type thing? Right. What's going on with anything Halo? You know, I, I think if I'm coming into this with the mentality of somebody who is a first party Xbox fan, then I totally understand the disappointment as far as what are the big dogs doing. But I think overall though, I had a good time and I think the only times where I felt any sort of bored was when they were doing what feels at this point like housekeeping. I think we have to have a discussion around the fallout 76s and the elder. Elder Scrolls Online and those, those, the Sea of Thieves, the games that you know are mainstays because they're at every single Xbox showcase. And I understand that, but those are the parts where now I'm like, every time I'm like, all right, cool. Like, see if Steve is back. You know, we're going to get an update. Like, I understand why you talk about it, but I get bored, like, bring.
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Snow Bike Mike
It up because I think they've finally found a better rhythm for them. They're shorter, they're in, they're out. I think back in the day we used to clump them all together and we would really sit there blessed. So I think, you know, their mainstays, they're going to be there. And if you're a fan of that, you're excited, right? Because these games are getting content, they're staying in the mix. And I think they've done a better job of like, let's space them out, let's get in, let's get out. Sure. Fishing stayed its.
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Andy Cortez
Well, the fishing did not get any.
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Snow Bike Mike
Like Sea of Thieves that came in, it showed you smugglers got you out and made a way out of its way. Eso. You probably don't even remember what ESO showed you because that's how fast it was, right? And So I think they've at least done better at how they show. That is right.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. And also that there's a, there's a argument back and forth of which had the worst ending between this and SGF in my opinion. Right. SGF. At least we got Resident Evil 9, which is exciting. But the, the build up to that was terrible this year.
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Greg Miller
The.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah to Mike's point of oh, we got something, you know, that's been with us since the, for the history of Xbox and you have a really, really cool cinematic opening and it ends up being a Call of Duty. I understand. Call of Duty, biggest game of the year every year. The. It is a fantastic cinematic, but it is a big letdown. When I am looking at this trailer, I'm like, oh, what is it? Is it a new prey? Is it perfect dark? Is it a weird fable like what the fuck is this? And it turns out to be a Call of Duty Black Ops thing. I love Call of Duty Black Ops, but I don't think this is the way to show this.
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Andy Cortez
I think this was them showing you hey, you should be interested in the, in our campaign. Like I think this was their attempt at saying, hey, that thing you've been drinking, by the way, sugar free, calorie free. Would you believe that? And you go oh shit. I didn't know. It's so delicious. I think the trailer looked awesome. It, it looks great. And if it's anything like Black Ops 6 and how amazing that campaign was and that's such a, such an underrated campaign, I think that's something that people should definitely play. And this looks like, hey, you know, it's not just bro army shooter. Look how weird this can get and how kind of supernatural and very remedy like that this can get. I thought that looked pretty great. I'm, I'm with bless. I'd give it, I'd go 8, maybe 8.5. I'm, you know, it's up there. I really think that this game, this showcase had a lot of awesome surprises and I, and some things that we did know still looked amazing. Clockwork Evolution looked fantastic. Like you had mentioned at Fate's end. Was it? Yes. And the that the Mudang game of course looked really, really fantastic. But there was also just a lot of, you know, planet of Lana 2 is such an awesome little announcement to happen. There's a lot of unknowns showing up here that really looked great and I think they knocked out of the park. I, I, I do. You know, I won't disagree that when you say the developer that's been with us from the beginning. Like, oh, Halo. Like, oh my God, that's all this can be. But you know, it, it. It's Call of Duty and not everybody's going to love that.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
But just real quick, like one thing that I think is important to note and I think it's just weird because they had the. In person or so not in person, the on. On site, on camera bits with the, the, you know, with, with Sarah and Matt and Phil, all of those. I feel like they didn't really do a great job of making it clear of what exactly they were talking about. It kind of just feels like buzzwords. Buzzwords. But the quote here that Phil said was, In 2026, Xbox will have a new fable, the next Forza, Gears of War, E Day, and the return of a classic. That's been with us from the beginning. So that's not what.
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Andy Cortez
That's not what Call of Duty.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, but that was.
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Greg Miller
Yeah, like have that be the setup into the next thing.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
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Andy Cortez
Sarah Bond talking about Silksong a whole bunch and then us being like, wait, did you know. Does she mean later this year that the game is also coming that year? I think the, the Rog Ally Series X or whatever they're calling it got me really pumped up.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Andy Cortez
As somebody who is, you know, three plus years into owning a Steam deck and I still love the damn thing, but I would love more power at this point. And when early on when we're hearing about this Xbox handheld, I go, no. That sounds like an absolute no for me because I don't want to just use the Xbox launcher. The fact that this is going to be this Windows Mobile thing, including every launcher that you could want and it doesn't just look like a Windows desktop, you know.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Epic, huh? Did they name Epic?
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Andy Cortez
I don't know.
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Snow Bike Mike
I didn't. I didn't.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I don't think they did.
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Andy Cortez
They said, I mean like the fact that they said Ubisoft, Steam and everything, okay, Epic is missing. I mean, I don't.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Epic is missing.
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Andy Cortez
I feel like that is something that could easily be done with this sort of launch. I. Either way, I'm like, oh, this really, really turned around my hype levels for what this handheld is because I'm always caught in between that weird area of like my Steam deck has all of my. My Steam games. And yes, I can easily put Ubisoft loader like I tried doing with Prince of Persia, Lost Crown before they eventually went to Steam. Or I could get the Epic store on there. Going through the desktop mode or whatever. It's annoying to do that shit. Like, I like, I love tinkering with shit. I don't love doing that level of tinkering when it's like, I have to plug this into the HDMI to like type on the screen.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's just.
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Andy Cortez
It's annoying. Right. This seems like this could be the solution. And immediately turned around how hyped I was. And I think it looks awesome. And the UI looks really.
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Tim Gettys
I imagine the other launchers are going to work just through Windows. Right. So, like, epic should work.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah. And that's kind of what I'm assuming is like, I'm sure there'll be a solution there. Maybe it's just Epic didn't agree to the marketing or the mentioning or whatever. You know, I also.
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Tim Gettys
I also want to go back to the Call of Duty thing because I totally agree with you as far as getting people in and being like, oh, this looks cool. Oh, this is called duty. I think my main critique now I think about it, is the fact that I closed the show. I would have had this be, I guess, how you open the show or open that. This would have been a sick show opener. I think it being the show closer kind of sets expectations.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
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Snow Bike Mike
Well said.
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Andy Cortez
Double finds. Game looked awesome.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
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Andy Cortez
Tim, what'd you think?
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, this one, I. I feel like caveating this with last year. I'm pretty sure I gave the Xbox Showcase A10 because I think that that was a masterpiece of a showcase. And I feel like with that context, I put a 7.5 on this. I think it's between good and great. I can see an argument for saying it's great, but personally, like, I'm not that interested in most of these games, so I'm. I'm sticking with my 7.5 there.
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Andy Cortez
Game freaks came, baby.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Absolutely wild, right? Yeah. Looking through here, a lot of really quality stuff. I think overall that was a great presentation. It was well paced. Like, we moved pretty quickly through things and there was a lot of like, oh, oh. Moments through that, which was cool. I do think that some of the on camera stuff, actually probably all of it was not right. Like, they. It was a little bit like, what are you telling me right now? Like, what are you, Matt Booty or whoever it was. I think. I think it was Matt in the center of it, talking about game pass and stuff. It's like, what? Like, we know. And I get that you're gonna remind people things, but I feel like we're still a little bit. There's just Too many brands. There's too many things to keep track of when it comes to the. This is an Xbox and Xbox Game Pass and the Cloud and all that stuff and it makes sense and it works. But I feel like we're still not quite there of. I understand what that means. You know, not just me, but I feel like normal people watching the stuff that if they're going to talk that way, it's for them. But a lot of pretty big surprises. Did not expect to see Final Fantasy. I really thought that if we ever did, it would be a Game Pass deal. And it's not these. It's not Game Pass. It is coming to Xbox. You have to buy it. And Xbox 16 or sorry, Final Fantasy 16 complete edition coming out today. That's awesome. I want to see that game find as much success as it possibly can. The Tony Hawk stuff, obviously I'm going to pop off for secret characters and the three new levels look awesome. Ninja Guy and getting a date. It looks great. Like there is a lot of stuff here that is cool. But to me, Super Meat Boy 3D, that's the one that I'm like the big surprise and delight of. Like oh yeah. Never would have saw that coming. And I'm stoked for it. And I am very excited that they did talk a little bit about the Xbox OS and that they're taking that stuff seriously because I think that that is very, very important for the strategy of Xbox to be successful. And I think that it's proving to be successful. This was a very, very, very good show. Just showing that they have a ton of games, a ton of great partners. When it comes to Persona and Final Fantasy ending on Black Ops again, I think it's the placement more than anything that's the problem there that is interesting. I do think it's cool that the big budget AAA shooting games are still having campaigns because that wasn't always the thing and the campaign last year was awesome. So if they can focus more on that stuff and actually like tell people, hey, we we're taking this stuff seriously and so should you. I think that's cool. But not as a show closer for an Xbox showcase when you have so many cool games to talk about. I do think they're definitely teeing up for an amazing 2026 after an amazing 2025. I'm not taking away from where they're at here, but yeah, them hyping everything up for next year. I think it's going to be a banger showcase next year.
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Snow Bike Mike
It's really interesting to Me, I know we're all giving our quick thoughts and we're trying to keep it short, but you guys not really mentioning many first party titles, right? Bless Highlighted Clockwork. I know Andy likes that we're keeping it short, but like all of you are highlighting third party games here and it's like that's where I'm coming from. Like, feels like we missed on that front for an Xbox showcase.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah, well, it depends on them not, you know, if the games aren't ready. I think E Day, I'm more and more thinking that E Day will be a game that they showed off that initial teaser and we won't see that for a couple years. Like, I'm getting. I'm closer and closer to that sort of line of thinking in a similar vein to where you get a little tease of Wolverine and Wolverine's been gone for a long time. And I'm also kind of used to this sort of showcase it for the last couple years of the first parties just aren't, you know, they're cooking elsewhere and we'll let them cook for a while. But you know, I'm not basing this on where are the Xbox first party games. I'm still just basing this on are they showing cool shit or not?
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Tim Gettys
I think my thing is I came into this not really having the big expectation for. All right, what are the surprises that we don't know about? I feel like there's a good majority of Xbox studios that are working on games that we already know what they are. And then the ones that we don't know of, they just released games. I don't know what could have been here aside from an Ever Wilder if Rare decided to scrap Ever Wild and they were doing something new that could have shown up as an Xbox first party thing that I would have wanted to know about. And then as far as the things that we do know, I am like, where are those things at the same time? Going back to the predictions that we did last week for Xbox, my big, the theme of my predictions was that Xbox was going to have a banger 2026. I'm coming out of this showcase being like, yeah, Xbox is going to have a banger 2026. Right? Like, when I'm thinking about 2025 for Xbox, I'm like, man, this, this is Obsidian. Like, this is Obsidian's year. Like, this is an Xbox, this is Obsidian. And then also of course, Doom and Southern Midnight stuff we've gotten. Right. But like, you know, I feel like we are. I feel like right Now Xbox is loading up. I don't want it to compare to the dominoes because I'm tired of the dominoes.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I mean, they're fucking going like. Yeah, like it's been done at this point. Like now it's just like the next wave of banger games.
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Tim Gettys
But yeah, 2026 feels like, I guess, a landmark for where we're at with the dominoes falling.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. I mean, I got to bring up one thing that I don't think we've said so far on this show. No State of Decay.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah, that was surprising.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That's.
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Tim Gettys
That's a really good point.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Crazy.
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Snow Bike Mike
It was odd that it was shown last year after what we knew about the studio and what was going on inside of the wall. So it was like, okay, that's interesting. I mean, you could go down the list. Tim, where's Contraband? We talked about that partnership with Avalanche. State of Decay is one of those. Of course, you look at. I mean, perfect dark. Why do we keep showing perfect dark? Why did we show gameplay last year if we're not going to be getting into it? And it feels like. Like blessing saying, we've shown you these. We're loading them up for a big 2026, 2027. Are we holding things back for a Gamescom or a Game Awards? And then of course, we know they kick off the year with ID @ Xbox, the. Whatever the developer Underscore Direct. There's like, they already have a lot of announcement moments here and it feels like now we're kind of spreading them out and maybe that's where we see some more. I think we'll see Fable at the Game Awards. I think we'll see something big for Fable at the Game Awards.
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Tim Gettys
Mean Crow in chat says, where is od? That's another one.
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Snow Bike Mike
It's interesting that he doesn't bring that up at all. He has been on stage, he has talked now, and it's like, oh, we're talking about this. We're talking about the next cool Metal Gear S game. But where's. We're not speaking about od. It's an odd one.
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Tim Gettys
I do.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's not time, man. I'm telling you. It's Death Shining 2 marketing and. And the Fizz announcement, that's a separate thing. That's announcing a many years down the line, ending a state of play. Like, we'll get odd.
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Andy Cortez
That's the small.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think O is going to be a very small project that there's just going to drop. I imagine that maybe I'm wrong about this. But I see that as like a 10 hour thing at Max.
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Tim Gettys
Wow.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
But.
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Tim Gettys
But yeah, I agree with post death training too. I think that's when you start to actually talk about it more.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
A couple super chats that I wanted to get to here. The House has spoken says could have been a 9 out of 10 show but ending with Call of Duty is total whiff for me. 8 out of 10. Bobby Jo says where's Fable? I feel like we didn't expect Fable to be here. The vibe of this office at least. Like I think that it not being here. Not a surprise to me because I. I do feel like that's a later down the line thing. Matt Sanders says. I'm so sad we didn't get to see Silk Song. I just want the constant demand to end. Yeah, it's.
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Tim Gettys
We saw that. We saw.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, we did.
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Tim Gettys
It's just like.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's that weird.
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Tim Gettys
It's coming up the same day as the Xbox. Ally X. Right. Well, okay. What was that phrasing?
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Snow Bike Mike
Yeah. Let's talk about playable day one when the Xbox. When it releases on the Xbox Rock out is how I took them later.
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Andy Cortez
This year because I took it.
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Tim Gettys
I took it as it was gonna be a lot.
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Snow Bike Mike
I know it was a very weird that another one of those. Like Tim says, like you're not making this very clear. We gotta rewrite this and figure this out. Because. Yeah. You walk away going, okay, well she said day one. She meant day one when the game releases. It will be on that.
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Tim Gettys
We gotta get the people who are on like the writing team for the like outer. Outer worlds. Outer World Showcase.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Out of words.
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Tim Gettys
Out of words. We gotta get the people who write that to like write the base Xbox.
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Greg Miller
Should we go back and listen to her wording?
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes, please.
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Greg Miller
Okay.
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Tim Gettys
I'll find it'll be the writing for the Outer World Showcase. So phenomenal.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's phenomenal.
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Tim Gettys
So phenomenal.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That was a note that I. I wrote down. Is that whoever the team is on these like the post Xbox directs.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
They're three for three of each one's been a banger showing us the team, getting to know their personality. All of them had a different style, but all three have done something that I'm so incredibly impressed by which is getting these devs to look like professional actors speaking because they are so good about talking about the games and the way it's shot and like every take and read that they have is like perfect. We do teleprompter stuff all the time. We don't sound that good. I don't know how they get this from people.
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Snow Bike Mike
It's awesome.
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Tim Gettys
First lineup of games from the biggest franchises to critically acclaimed indie hits. This is the freedom we believe players should have. Any game, anywhere. And we are giving it our all every day to make this vision real. But it all comes back to the the games from Dead to rights on the original Xbox to Armor Core six.
- [25:02]
Greg Miller
I might have gone too far. Hold on.
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Andy Cortez
Look how big Silksong is on the left. How big horn it is, man.
- [25:07]
Tim Gettys
From Xbox and Battle Net to Steam, gog and Ubisoft Connect. And the highly anticipated Hollow Knight Silksong will be available at launch and in game pass when the Ally releases later this year.
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Snow Bike Mike
Wait, that's a crazy statement.
- [25:21]
Tim Gettys
At launch of the hardware or at launch of the game? It'll be available.
- [25:25]
Andy Cortez
It'll be at launch when the hardware releases this year. Year.
- [25:28]
Tim Gettys
See, that's what I. That's what I took it as.
- [25:30]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. I mean that it. There's no way you can misinterpret that. Like that is saying that this year you can play Hollow Knight on this thing when it launches. Yeah.
- [25:40]
Tim Gettys
Yes.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Okay, I'm listening to it one more time. Do one more.
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Tim Gettys
And the highly anticipated Hollow Knight Silk song will be available at launch and in Game pass when the Ally releases later this year.
- [25:52]
Greg Miller
When the ally.
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Snow Bike Mike
I mean she. It should be when the game releases. It will be on all that. But I mean, yeah. Now we're expecting 2025 this holiday.
- [26:02]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That's it.
- [26:02]
Andy Cortez
In the next 12 months.
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Tim Gettys
Defined this year.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Jplace casual says was a good showcase. Not great ending with Black Ops 7 was kind of meh. Would have been nice to see a gameplay reveal of Elder Scrolls 6 instead. Yeah.
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Greg Miller
Also Greg gave his score in the chat an 8.5. He said it was great. A lot of stuff he really fucked with in this show.
- [26:23]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Hell yeah, dude.
- [26:23]
Andy Cortez
At fate's end is the one that I'm.
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Tim Gettys
Oh my gosh.
- [26:26]
Andy Cortez
Goodness.
- [26:26]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
We're gonna break down every single thing that we saw in the showcase right after a quick word from our sponsors.
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Andy Cortez
My foot's asleep.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
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Tim Gettys
I mean, we're including the direct show. Yeah, I mean it did a lot for me, but it did a lot for me in the way that already I was sold on this game. Even during the direct, I was like, I mean I don't even want to watch this because I just want to go into the game having all this stuff fresh. But I think the thing that stuck out to me was how much they talked about the flaws system where the more you do something, the game will give you a choice if. As to. If you want this as a, like a flaw or not. I forget one of. One of the examples they gave Bad knees was the one that was hilarious.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Staring in the sun.
- [30:09]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. So like, if you say yes to having bad knees, you can crouch and move faster, but then when you uncrouch, you make like a cracking noise in your knees that will alert enemies. And then. Yeah, staring at a sun is another one that like kind of messes with the vision of how everything looks. I love that shit. I think that shit's awesome. And during the showcase, I looked at Andy, I was like this, like, these sound like Roguelite upgrades in the ways that they're like quirky and weird and fun, but within a big action rpg, which is super cool. Right. Game looks fantastic. I love how much they talk about like factions and what they're doing with the world to kind of move it forward and stuff. For me, this, this is kind of, I think what I want want out of a post Starfield Bethesda, you know, like, I think one of my things when I look back at Starfield and what I would have wanted more out of that game was like less scope, more focus in on story and moment to moment gameplay and all this stuff. And I'm looking at outer worlds too. And I'm like, this feels so like full and rich of just fun and like fun energy and good humor and writing and yeah, like I'm. I'm so stoked on this game, Mike.
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Snow Bike Mike
Tim. I'm still on the fence on this game. I know that out of Worlds too, I got a good feeling that it's gonna be good. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm just in my world of a lot of video games, it's not high on the priorities list. I fell off Outer Worlds one out of Worlds two. I haven't been super excited about hearing Andy and Greg and Stella on the RE review. It's like, okay, yeah, this is gonna be a good time. But still right now, this is not on my Gotta play for the year.
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Andy Cortez
Andy, super pumped, man. I mean, just like blessing I was. I've already been sold on it. Knowing after replaying Outer Worlds 1 and realizing, you know, how. How much I enjoy the writing style and how much I enjoy the characters and interactions, and then coupling that with the awesome combat and traversal from avow, I. I just, you know, this is super high on the anticipation list. Yeah, I'm really pumped about it. Looks great.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
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Andy Cortez
And it looks way again. I know 2019 was a long time ago, and that's when Outer Worlds 1 came out. But it was like, it was always kind of an unattractive game.
- [32:24]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [32:24]
Andy Cortez
Even the. When I was enjoying it back then, it just was never really pretty in a lot of moments. And newer engine, newer tech, finally, the. The game looks awesome. And I'm. Yeah, I'm just kind of excited to see what sort of weird decisions can be made because Outer Worlds one really surprised me with a lot of character decision moments that were like, oh, that's this is possible. I really like that. And I was always bummed out by the character, the people I couldn't shoot and kill. Similar to in Baldur's Gate 3 where you're like, oh, you could just kill that dude. That's awesome. Really, really bummed out. In Starfield, when I was, you know, the. The controls were pulled away from me at any moment where it's like shooting this bad guy's head and the bullets are going through his head and he's just sitting there because he's got to be alive for the end of it. I totally understand why, but I. I love the player freedom in Outer Worlds.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. The gun that shrinks people is so cool. And then, yeah, them adding those little tweaks and upgrades as far as, like, being able to mantle and did they say slide? You can, like, jump as well. A double jump. Right.
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Andy Cortez
Third person. Really neat.
- [33:26]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah.
- [33:26]
Tim Gettys
Adding third person, like, these are all the things that I think the fans of Outer Worlds one would have wanted out of an upgrade for this game. And so, yeah, I'm. I'm so excited for it. I think the one thing I'm still. I. It's been a minute since I played Outer Worlds 1, and I remember there being, like, characters that I attached myself to like, they had the dude that was kind of like Rick from Rick and Morty. That was like one of the main.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah, he's the main dude.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, one of the main dudes. Right.
- [33:47]
Andy Cortez
Not a companion, but he's like the. Yeah, yeah.
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Tim Gettys
And like, I feel like I'm. I'm not seeing that yet out of this. So, like, I'm excited to see. Are there outside of the companions that they showed off, right. Like, is there going to be a central cast or like a central character? I should say that's like, oh, this is the guy. Like this is either the antagonist or this is like the, you know, one of the main people that are going to stick with you or are they lying, relying on the companions to do that for you once you get further into the game. I'm excited to see.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then we had High on Life two coming winter. Kind of a major surprise.
- [34:19]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. Did not expect to see another High on Life game, especially coming off of what went down with Justin Roiland, like a month after the last one came out, if you remember. Justin Roiland, I believe. And you can double check me on this. Left the studio when all that stuff came out. Right. And like, I would have thought that you do whatever your follow up project is. It's something to separate from that since Justin voiced was. Did he voice the gun?
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Andy Cortez
He made like the. Yeah, the main little gun.
- [34:45]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, the main little gun.
- [34:47]
Andy Cortez
Because there's three of them and one of them was JB Smooth.
- [34:49]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. Which I think JB Smooth. We saw him in this trailer. But yeah, to return to this world, like, I'm somebody who. I liked High on Life, like it's not. Wasn't like the best first person shooter, but it was a fun time. Right. I like this humor. I like this world. I like something goofy. I like the improv style comedy that they got going on where you can tell that they're just in the booth. Booth riffing off of whatever. Right. And so I'm down for it, but it is a weird one. I would not have expected this game.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. My biggest takeaway from this is it's a surprise. The game's getting a sequel. But at the same time thinking it through, it's like, well, this was like a big game, pass push game. And I feel like maybe that kind of like gave them the numbers that they're like, yo, it's worth doing something here. But this type of trailer just kind of rubs me the wrong way where it's like a CG trailer that's made to look like the Gameplay like, I don't know, it reminds me a lot of like 2006 Sony where it's like Kill Zone stuff where I'm like, what are we doing? Like we, we should have moved past that at a certain point.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah. And especially because High on Life was like it's. It's a good enough looking game.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
- [35:49]
Andy Cortez
I. I just wonder maybe there wasn't a whole lot to show. I don't know. It's very, very bizarre.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then we had Resonance a Plague Tale legacy coming everywhere. 2026.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah. Kind of weird. Wasn't expecting that. And it didn't look like really anything out of a Plague Tale. I. I didn't get to part two, but I be part one and seeing this large ass mythological, kind of weird creature at the end was kind of surprising. But I mean really cool for the studio. I'm already blanking on the name. Is it no.
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Snow Bike Mike
Sobey. Sobo.
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Andy Cortez
A Sobo. Yeah. Because I was thinking like Team Asobi but different. Yeah. Really shocking them going for this sort of more third person action focused video game. Very. Had a lot of Tomb Raider vibes as well. Mike.
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Snow Bike Mike
Tomb Raider Rome.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah. Rise. Son of Rome.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah. I.
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Snow Bike Mike
This one was all over the place. This trailer. Now this is where I come in of like the beginning didn't hit for me here on this showcase of like Outer Worlds 2. I know we're excited for it. I did think they do a good job on the deep dive, but it just didn't hit with maybe the music, the sound, whatever they showed. And then in the high on life resonance of Plague Tale, like the first three were not solid. Let's get excited. Let's get up for a nice afternoon. And then we went into the handheld and more. But like yeah, this one didn't speak to me at all. It didn't have the Plague's Tale vibe like the last one did. I think when you saw the sequel you knew what you were getting into. The beauty that we saw in it. It was like now this one just didn't happen.
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Andy Cortez
Where are the rats? Yeah, where are the rats? It kind of reminds me of seeing the. The game from yesterday or two days ago. Blessing where we were like, oh, they made a part two and then they made a shared world shooter. MMORPG shooter.
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Tim Gettys
Atomic Heart.
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Andy Cortez
Atomic Heart.
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Tim Gettys
Atomic Universe.
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Andy Cortez
In the Atomic universe. Yeah. The Plague Tale universe.
- [37:40]
Tim Gettys
It's like I like not everything needs a universe.
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Snow Bike Mike
I don't know what was the other game that got like books and comic and TV shows?
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Andy Cortez
Unknown 9 or unknown. Really? Oh yeah.
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Tim Gettys
Oh, I didn't know that.
- [37:54]
Snow Bike Mike
They make a whole universe.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I thought you're talking about.
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Snow Bike Mike
Yeah, yeah.
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Greg Miller
I still think it's funny that this game either leaked or was teased on threads and nobody noticed for like two or three days.
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Tim Gettys
Going to be a game of the year contender by the way. This is going to be one that shows up at the game awards and we're like, oh really?
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Andy Cortez
On thread. None of us will silk song release date.
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Snow Bike Mike
Then.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. Speaking of Silksong, the Xbox Ally Ally Ally.
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Tim Gettys
Outer words.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You know what guys, it's a Sunday. We're having a good time here. The Xbox Ally officially actually revealed it has two SKUs and hollow Knight was being shown on it and like we talked about it seems like it's going to be playable whenever this thing launches or whenever it launches. Somewhere in between there. Cool stuff. Talking about the. The os. I'm excited to go home and watch deeper dives on this from people that got their hands on it already. Very, very excited for this one. I know when it first started leaking everyone was talking about the handles. I love this. This is what I want one of these things to be. But I want more info. No date, no price, no any of that stuff. Maybe that'll come be coming soon. But overall, very excited for this.
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Andy Cortez
I do. I love me some Asus. I've been buying Asus since I worked at Best Buy. Like back when they were like on the come up I was like, you all need to know about asus. I love their. I wish it wasn't so Asus branded. I wish it was more of the Xbox fonts with the Xbox buttons in the same way that the PlayStation portal looks like a Sony device. I've. I don't love like the shapes of the buttons or the, the, you know this, the super Sci Fi looking font on the. On the back paddle or on the. The bumpers and the triggers and even the front faces. I wish it was. I get it. Asus. You're like you're putting your name out there. It's. It's our device still. But I, I don't know if I need like the Rog in the front with the. With it looking so much like an Asus device. I wish it was a bit more Xbox code.
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Tim Gettys
I wonder if that's like more on the Xbox strategy of how they're doing this because like, correct me if I'm wrong, they're gonna. We're gonna see more of these from other hardware manufacturers or other handheld manufacturers. Wasn't there like one other one that we thought was going to happen later this year.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Well, I mean not later this year, but they. There was the rumor they were working on the Xbox thing, but it sounds like they're backing off of that. And now the way they're talking about this, it sounds like this is their like official partnership. But yeah, also with the Xbox os, I do think that that will end up on.
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Tim Gettys
And that's what I thought. I thought like in the rumors and I probably got this wrong. Right. I thought there was like one other hardware company that was working on their own thing. Right. But yeah, like I would have to Andy's point, I would have loved if this is the one like go all in on. On. On Asus being the. All right. This is the official Xbox Handheld. As opposed to trying to like have your cake and eat it too.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I mean I think they are. I just also think that there's going to be. This is the Xbox Ally. The leaks of this also had the Just Raj ally too. So I think that they're just. They look identical. Yeah. But yeah, just the Ally branding. Then we had the blood of Dawn Walker 2026 everywhere.
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Andy Cortez
It looks great. This is the Witcher devs or former CD Projekt Red devs. And it's a. It's a really fascinating game in that it's going to take place over a 30 day span. So there will be missions and things to do that are time sensitive and it really seems like they're doing like a Majora's Mask type deal. Like I think you will be able to manipulate time in some ways, but it seems fascinating. The first trailer was a lot cooler than this though. I'll say the. The first reveal trailer was a bit more stunning, but it is kind of cool to see some enemy variety and exactly what you'll be taking on. But if y' all haven't seen the first debut trailer, go check that out on YouTube. It was really, really awesome.
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Snow Bike Mike
Yeah, this one was kind of hard to watch coming off of a week of a lot of Witcher stuff. Right. And so just didn't hit the way I wanted it to. And it make. It makes it sound cool. But didn't see much of that coming out of this one. And this one for me, still on the slow opening it just kind of heard of like man, we're still here and I'm looking for something to wow me right now.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Well then I was wowed with Super Meat Boy 3D. 2026 come in everywhere. Looks awesome. Looks like a. It's Super Meat Boy, but the Mario 3D world kind of gameplay. I love the homage to the beginning of Mario 64 here.
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Andy Cortez
And it's not team meat.
- [42:20]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I didn't notice that.
- [42:21]
Andy Cortez
Yeah, they. During the description of it, we all kind of had a wait, who's working on this? And I don't remember who it was.
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Tim Gettys
It was like.
- [42:29]
Snow Bike Mike
Plus spoke about it.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah.
- [42:30]
Snow Bike Mike
Something different. Yeah, it looks really fun.
- [42:35]
Andy Cortez
Yeah. This is something we've been overdue for a long time. Like I love this style of video game and I think especially in this dimension, it just, it looks like a really fun, kind of even Astrobot esque type of video game. Seeing the levels of platform you're going to be getting into, I do love.
- [42:52]
Tim Gettys
How much the gameplay looks authentically Super Meat Boy. Right. Like when we say when we compare it to Mario 3D World. Right. Like it's not like, well, what was the Little Big planet, Sackboy's big adventure where it's straight up a 3D world. This looks inspired by 3D world. But when I look at the gameplay I'm like, this looks tough. This looks fast paced. This looks insane. This is Super Meat Boy.
- [43:11]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah.
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Greg Miller
And like especially like keeping like, I assume this is you looking at all of your runs again and stuff like that. Like all of those little things, it's just like, yeah, they got it.
- [43:20]
Andy Cortez
Yeah. That's why I thought it was multiplayer at first. Cuz I only somehow saw three or four of those little guys and then I saw eight now and I'm like, oh, never mind. Multiplayer rad stuff.
- [43:30]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then Ninja Gaiden 4, October 21st. October's busy. Gonna be a busy month.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah man, it'll be an awesome game.
- [43:36]
Andy Cortez
But I, I enjoyed this less than me too.
- [43:39]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Sorry.
- [43:39]
Tim Gettys
Really quick.
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Greg Miller
Just, we don't get too far away from Super Meat Boy in the far or bottom right, we have Blugger Slugger Fly. Head up. Team Meat is on there. So I assume they're, they're helping out with this in some way, shape or form.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah, it was the Slugger Fly. That's the one where we're like, whoa, yeah. Oh damn. I thought it would only just be a team meet sort of project.
- [44:03]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm right there with you though, Andy. Like this looks awesome in Sanji Gaiden 4. But like something about this trailer didn't have the same oomph that the, the first one did. And it's not just the surprise of the announcement. Like it's all right, like cool. But also I'm super happy with it. Like this looks exactly Like, I want a Ninja Gaiden 4 to look like. I said this while we were reacting, but like, I just love video game ass. Video games. And this, this looks like that.
- [44:26]
Andy Cortez
So unapologetic like that too.
- [44:27]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. Then we had Indy, the Order of the Giants coming September 24th or September 4th. Sorry. You ended up getting into Indy, right?
- [44:40]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, I liked Indy. Never beat Indy Bear.
- [44:43]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Did you beat.
- [44:44]
Greg Miller
Yeah, it was on my top 10 last year. Indy is great. I think once you give into more of what that game is and not the expectation of it being a.
- [44:54]
Tim Gettys
Like a machine games.
- [44:55]
Greg Miller
Yeah, like a machine or something inspired by like Uncharted. Yeah, like once you get into the nooks and crannies there, I think indie is fantastic. And that last like hour or two, like really reminded me of like, oh, it. Like, I do really love these movies and how they play with a lot of like history and you know, like religious, like mythology and all this stuff. It's really good. So. And I'm really into those systems, like Blessing and I really do like the kind of immersive sim. Immersive sim type of stuff. So I'm. I'm down to get back into that. And like Andy said, it's. It's insane of like how much Troy Baker sounds like him. It's like I forgot how good he is in that role until we heard him in the trailer. But yeah, I'm really looking forward to that. I'm. It's a bit farther away than I expected. I feel like September is like a little like, I. I would have kind of expected this kind of summer, especially with it just coming out to PS5 and stuff. But I'm just a little worried for that just in terms of time. Like Mike has been saying just like there's a lot of gaming right now. So.
- [45:58]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, we had Beast Reincarnation. This has come from Game Freak. What?
- [46:05]
Tim Gettys
That's fucking awesome.
- [46:06]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
What the actual fuck? Like, it's in collaboration with some other teams I saw there. But like, this looks really, really cool and kind of unbelievable.
- [46:14]
Tim Gettys
I just don't understand Game Freak as a studio. And like, what they're like, what's their deal?
- [46:19]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
What is their deal?
- [46:20]
Tim Gettys
What is your deal? Is this like your vacation from Pokemon?
- [46:22]
Snow Bike Mike
What are we doing?
- [46:23]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, because once. Yeah, it happens once every few years. It feels like once every four years we get like a Game Freak game that's not a Pokemon thing. And it's like, oh, all right, here's Little Town Hero that's now just called Town. All right, here's Beast of Reincarnation and it looks aaa. And because it's on Xbox, it actually looks great. Like it has fidelity to it.
- [46:43]
Andy Cortez
This is them just proving the haters wrong.
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Tim Gettys
Like, they saw the reviews of Scarlet.
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Andy Cortez
Quit coming at us. Dude, we don't have. We have 12 month. We have like eight months to make a Pokemon game.
- [46:51]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, this is. Yeah, this is them saying, y' all, like, this is what we can do.
- [46:55]
Andy Cortez
Looks fantastic, man. Something about the. The visual style looks even, you know, I know when Blackm Wukong was coming out and how visually stunning that game looked. This game is like, at that level, I would say it's where it's one of the better looking one of these, you know, in terms of one of these being like an action souls, like whatever you want to call it.
- [47:14]
Tim Gettys
You see those, Those. Those parries?
- [47:16]
Andy Cortez
Yeah, the. The combat looks fantastic. And I love sort of this weird implementation of sort of sci fi elements with this weird mech dude. But yeah, I think the game looks really damn good.
- [47:26]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
A lot of striking visuals in this that look very interesting of like, oh, this is a game that I want to play. So, yeah, good for them. I'm stoked on this one.
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Snow Bike Mike
If it wasn't for the game freak, this would fall into the category of another Soulsborne Samurai. We got to get a super cut of this week of all of these games. There's got to be like eight to nine of these. Like, you could put all these together in a blender. It's like, yeah, that's the same. But the positive is it's like they might not be for you or you're interested. The good ones shine, right? There's a good one. It shines. But when you watch those, you're like, I've already seen 10 of these this week. You don't stand out besides the name game.
- [48:01]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So you take game freak out of it. Game freak, definitely for me is the thing that's like, what I'm more interested. But this, I put more on the devil may cry side of things, which speaks to me a lot louder. And also I'm getting a lot of Cana vibes. I'm getting a lot of that. Like, more. There's some artsy, like, we're trying to say something here type stuff.
- [48:16]
Andy Cortez
There's also just a way you present a trailer. And I think this is the best way that or this is the best version of one of these I've seen in a while. Like, a lot of these games, a lot of these smaller studios that are making these, you know, they're going after the, the FromSoftware sort of golden goose. And when we saw, you know, a game that's very similar. Like that is a game that has a demo out right now, which is Morbid Metal, the one that Ubisoft is publishing. And that game looks amazing. But because it's just. I. I don't know if there's like a certain science to it. There's no real way that I can give you the explanation. But there are some souls likes that should be really awesome and I should be super pumped up about. But the way they're being shown off, not necessarily this one for whatever reason, like, and it's not even the game for. It's not like I'm expecting, oh, Game Freak. They're known for games like these. No, it's not that. This isn't. Oh, if you took the Mario name off of it, you wouldn't give a. About Mario. Like I don't give a that Game Freak is making a game like this. I give a that the game looks awesome and I think visually it stands out way more than the other ones.
- [49:20]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Having said that, I will be utterly shocked if this game is better than a six out of ten. Really?
- [49:25]
Tim Gettys
Really?
- [49:26]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. I don't think that they have the stuff. We'll see. It looks great. It looks great. We'll see.
- [49:32]
Andy Cortez
Cuz I can tell in a lot of games like this where it's like, oh, it's a person standing there. The art direction looks fantastic. This looks great. And then you see it in action, you go, ah, the animations aren't quite there. This doesn't like. I think this looks insane.
- [49:46]
Greg Miller
I, I think it'll be better than what we expect it to be, but I think it won't run great.
- [49:54]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
We'll see.
- [49:54]
Tim Gettys
I don't know, man. I totally understand as far as like, I think what I'm seeing in the trailer, I don't know if I don't think I'm gonna get. I guess I look at the trailer and I'm blown away. I'm like, man, this looks like a fantastic game. But I don't think I'm gonna. This game's gonna come out and it's gonna be a 10 out of 10 or a 9 out of 10. But I do expect an 8 out of 10. You know, I expect like a good. I look at that and I'm like, there's an art direction here that's good. There's like the gameplay being presented looks fun. Like it looks like they're doing something here. That feels fresh and fun. I'm about it.
- [50:23]
Andy Cortez
Me too.
- [50:24]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Hopeful. Then we got in Exiles, Clockwork Revolution Media ass trailer coming in due time. So much good stuff here.
- [50:35]
Andy Cortez
This is one that went on so long that I ended up loving it again. Around the middle, I'm like, all right, we've been here for quite some time. And then they start introducing. And the time element.
- [50:47]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [50:48]
Andy Cortez
And the way that. That little, you know, eye of Agamotto time stone works. How cool that you. How cool that looks and how creative you can be with it. Super awesome.
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Snow Bike Mike
Yeah. By the midway point, they had shown so much that you're like, all right, well then show me how the game works. Like, show. Show the game in motion. Let's get this going. And they were like, oh, well, we got that. And there was just so much good here. It's exciting to see an exile and what they're going to be build with this world. I can't wait. You brought up BioShock Andy.
- [51:16]
Tim Gettys
Right.
- [51:17]
Snow Bike Mike
Like, I just replayed Bioshock Remastered and it's like, I want more of that. I can't wait to see that. So this looks right up that alley. And what a killer. This was probably the trailer of their show. This really showcased.
- [51:28]
Tim Gettys
I agree with that. Right. This. This to me feels like a mixture of multiple games that I love. Right. Whether you want to say Bioshock Infinite or Dishonored or Outer Worlds. Right. Like, it feels like a melding of all those things with still some originality left to shove in there as far as what. What they're doing with time and stuff. And for me, like, when we get got to that part of the trailer, I was super in. But I think the thing that got me in even earlier than that was seeing the dialogue. Dialogue stuff. And, you know, the. The. The ways that the characters having the back and forth, the choice of the NPC character being like, yo, don't talk to him, talk to me. And then the dialogue options come up and you can still talk to the dude that's behind him and that resulting in the dude in front killing the dude in back and, like, leaving some of his brains on the fucking thing and being like, oh, brains. That's surprising. But what the. Like, that is. That's a cool scene. Yeah, that's fun. Like, I love that kind of. This game is doing a lot more than I expected it to be doing. When we saw it last year. When we saw it last year. When we saw it last year. Like, the trailer is dope, but a lot of that was stylistic and getting, getting to like, you know, see what this world looked like jumping into this trailer and seeing. Yeah. All the upgrade shit that we're doing, the gun customization, the time stuff, this scene that I just talked about. I cannot wait for this. This seems insane.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. Only downside, I think we have to address it is that not having a date with a trailer that meaty.
- [52:43]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah.
- [52:43]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Deflating.
- [52:44]
Snow Bike Mike
How do you come. I mean, thankfully we'll forget about it in six to seven months and it'll come back next summer. We'll go, oh my God, it's back. And this is awesome.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah.
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Tim Gettys
What is the next trailer that we see for this? Like next summer? Like what's left to show off the dates.
- [52:56]
Snow Bike Mike
That's all. It will just be the dates and we'll be ready.
- [52:58]
Andy Cortez
Yeah, I think it's. I think it's probably something like that.
- [53:00]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think their next spring direct.
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Andy Cortez
Oh yeah.
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Snow Bike Mike
I mean the only thing next is like, yeah, yeah, you make it a direct. Right. It's the post direct. But we kind of know next year probably not getting developer direct, but like, yeah, that's the only way you can come back from this.
- [53:15]
Andy Cortez
Or game the show.
- [53:16]
Snow Bike Mike
Just give us a game. Let's go.
- [53:17]
Tim Gettys
Game awards. Yeah. The January direct. And you say this game is out in February or something.
- [53:20]
Andy Cortez
I think the reason why I'm so pumped up about this game is the same reason why I'm excited for 007 first light where it's like I haven't had an Uncharted experience in a while. I haven't had a Bioshock sort of first person shooter like that in a while. And this is doing a lot more than that. Right. With all of these different townspeople and choices being made. And the, the weapon customization looks really awesome. I'm excited to see how deep that mechanic goes where you're finding these different parts and kind of fitting out the weapon how you want it to be. But I love the creativity with the time manipulation. I think it looks really great.
- [53:56]
Tim Gettys
Zig and Chat says February versus re 9. But there's going to be a big problem when we get to putting release dates onto things because I prefer vs re 9 then vs GTA 6. Like those are the choices that these companies are going to have to start making as far as when these games are coming out and you're going to end up in a situation next year where every single month there's going to be a fucking banger ass video game.
- [54:15]
Andy Cortez
I also, I mean I also for someone like me who isn't I know, I'm in the minority where I'm like, I'm not a, A Resident Evil fan. I don't know if I think those are different.
- [54:27]
Tim Gettys
Different audiences.
- [54:27]
Andy Cortez
Yeah. I don't know if, if I wouldn't put that on the level as like, oh, you're putting that out, then that's kind of a crazy move it. I don't think they really worry about that. You know, our audience is going to be playing Resident Evil 9. A different audience, different experience, I would say.
- [54:43]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And then we got grounded two. Coming July 29th game preview. There's buggies as the mountains. What a great name.
- [54:51]
Snow Bike Mike
This is my Obsidian game right here. I know we had a vowel earlier in the year. We have outer worlds too, that people are excited about, but this is my Obsidian game, right? That sandbox, fun survival crafting game. They've done a great job pushing the narrative and really moving you throughout the backyard. And the idea of, wow, Grounded is coming back. A team of like 13 people made this. We sung, we, you know, we cheered them on of like, wow. They made pentiment.
- [55:15]
Tim Gettys
They.
- [55:15]
Snow Bike Mike
They made Grounded. They're pushing these smaller love story games that like, they're like, oh, this shouldn't be a thing, but they're making it. The idea that they're making a Grounded two is special and awesome. There's a big audience for this. The idea of going out to the park now and really expanding upon that and hearing the team taking in all the feedback from Grounded1 and what they're going to do with Game preview again, of course it's going to grow with you. It will evolve, but the idea of kind of front loading more of the narrative at the beginning is big because they know we dive right into that. We want more. The moment we finish, people will either fall off or they'll be Die Hards and they'll stay in it. So having more of the narrative at the beginning I think is a big win. The idea of being able to ride certain, you know, pests out in the park is going to be a big deal. Having kind of class specific builds is very cool. Instead of just the generic, you'll be able to put points on, build out your cool assassin or your sorcerer. I think that's an awesome idea. And so, yeah, Grounded two, congratulations, Obsidian. This is crazy. And the grounded team, this is so fun.
- [56:15]
Andy Cortez
It makes a lot of sense too, right? It's a game that had a lot of success and you have a lot of assets to still play with. You have a lot of bug assets and, and grass and you have all the things that kind of make another game like this with. You know, of course you're going to make your own bespoke assets and things like that, but you have stuff to make a sequel with and it already had success. So, yeah, keep on doing it.
- [56:40]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So we're 11 games into this and this is the first one that is not coming to PlayStation 5. And I think that has to do with the game preview.
- [56:48]
Tim Gettys
Right.
- [56:48]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So you got to imagine when this does hit 1.0, then it will go more, more multiplatform. But I also want to point out no Switch logo so far. And even throughout the entirety of this whole showcase, There was a Switch 1 logo for Planet of Lana 2, and then Tony Hawk had the Switch 1 and 2 logos, but otherwise no Switch at all. Which goes back to me being a little sad about the state of where the depth kit seemed to have went out. Then we had Blueber teams. Kronos the New Dawn Fall 2025.
- [57:19]
Snow Bike Mike
Hell yeah, it looks cool.
- [57:21]
Andy Cortez
Yeah, yeah.
- [57:21]
Snow Bike Mike
Bloober team. You know, we followed this team from the medium and onward, right. It's like they built up some momentum that I'm on their side. I'm excited. I love a Dead Space type vibe. And yeah, this has got some really scary, looking good tone to it that I can't wait to try this.
- [57:37]
Andy Cortez
It's like the third time we've seen this and I, I really hope that this could be another big sort of surprise from Blueberry. I know the medium kind of bums a lot of people out with how, you know, just the game itself, except for Greg Miller, of course. And then people having their doubts at Silent Hill 2 and that game coming out and really kind of shocking everybody and going, oh shit, they actually, they nailed it. Exactly what they're going for. I love a team expanding upon what they are known for and kind of man, we've always wanted to make this style of game. What if we can do it? You know, this is, it's, it's got to be super exciting for the team to be working on something that's still very scary because that's usually where they lean towards. But now doing this third person, you know, survival horror shooter looks really damn cool.
- [58:26]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, this one looks very cool. Then we had elder Scrolls Online, June 18 for whatever it was.
- [58:32]
Snow Bike Mike
So the update for you, of course, Little Cat Cult of the Worm is coming out. So you'll have that the beginning of June. I kind of have your end of Xbox 2025. We'll wrap up with and Then we'll talk about when we get past all this. But that's June 2nd and June 18th on console. If you're an ESO fan, you'll be excited if you want to jump in eso. This will be one of the larger milestones of things going on. It's very cool new area with a giant wall dividing the area up into two sections. So you'll be on one section. Then eventually you'll get past the wall. We'll learn more. But me and Greg had a really great deep dive with them on a gamescast where we went through Elder Scrolls from the beginning to now, and I highly recommend you all to check that out. But if you're an ESO player, you'll be excited. If you like MMOs. ESO is probably one of the most welcoming MMOs you could ever jump into, so nothing but cool things to look forward to and say about that one.
- [59:24]
Andy Cortez
It kind of reminds me of the how WELCOMING like the Fallout 76 fan base is when. When newcomers want to join the game and there's so many people out there willing to help and Sherpa you through experiences.
- [59:36]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Next, we had Don't Nods affiliate in collab with the European Space Agency. This one looks kind of neat.
- [59:44]
Tim Gettys
I fuck with it.
- [59:45]
Snow Bike Mike
Plus they got a really good call out of a Just a. You saw a lot of that kind of like climbing aspects into this one. It's kind of interesting.
- [59:51]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. But then somebody in chat mentioned that this is made by the Banishers team. And I don't know if that was like a confirmed thing or if that's just them guessing as well. But I like the direction that Don't Nod's taking as far as trying to figure out how to diversify their portfolio. A while ago they put out a. It was either a press release or something like an update. Maybe it was like a financial call talking about their three pillars and I can't remember exactly what those pillars were. I think it was like RPG narrative and then I think like a third weird pillar.
- [60:19]
Andy Cortez
Climb Mountain.
- [60:21]
Snow Bike Mike
Climb mountain.
- [60:23]
Tim Gettys
But like I like that they're trying to figure out like these different kinds of games to make and Banishers came out. And I don't know many people that fuck with Banishers, but I know a lot of people that fucked with just Aunt.
- [60:33]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So Zach Johnson, who's the one that said that it was Banishers, says it was a guest, to be honest.
- [60:37]
Tim Gettys
Oh, okay.
- [60:38]
Andy Cortez
Dude, Banishers, like could be one of my favorite games if it's. It was the game that was the behind the third per behind the back third person sort of looking God of war game with a lot of pairing and souls like stuff mixed with some of the best writing and acting you'll experience in a video game. And and I just didn't love the combat enough. Like the combat was like not good enough and frustrating enough to where I dropped it. Easy just to get to story stuff. And then some people in chat were being, were telling me like oh yeah, like I, I just finished the game 62 hours in. I'm like dude, this does not need to be that long of a game. And I, that's if you go the extra mile and try to do everything else but like legitimately, if you have the means to and try out Banishers. It's some fantastic writing and amazing decision making and I, I, I just love the bones of it. But it's just like the combat was like ah, this could be a 15 hour experience and would have blown me away.
- [61:37]
Tim Gettys
My, and I'll say my beef with Bishers and this isn't real beef but like my be they broke into my house, stole my, my beef with it is that I think the trailers just didn't do a good job of making that game stand out. Right. Like we're talking about, we're talking this year about all the souls likes, right. And like I feel like there's always the trends that come in and make the games that we see in trailers kind of, you know, mold together. And Banishers was for me where I saw it and I'm like cool. This game looks exactly like so many other games that I've seen. That's why I really like this game for Aelan where or this trailer for Aelan where we look at this and this looks fresh, this looks different, this looks interesting. And so I think I would say this if this is the Bishers team or if this is a collab between the Banishers team and just in the J team because honestly like it looks like it has stuff from both those. I'm all about it. I think this is a great direction for what Dona should be doing.
- [62:24]
Andy Cortez
Damn. Shout out to Paul Jeremiah, first time subscriber using Prime. Thank you. Paul Jeremiah, first timer.
- [62:30]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You can be cool like Paul. Next up, we got There Are no Ghosts at the Grant. Interesting. This was a unique trailer, I'll say that. You know what I mean? It had us captivated the entire time. There Are no Ghosts of the grand is a unique narrative driven musical adventure set against a spooky British seaside Town that's bursting with supernatural secrets. It's day one on Xbox Game Pass ultimate and PC. This is another one that not coming to PS5.
- [62:59]
Andy Cortez
This was a ride.
- [63:01]
Tim Gettys
I still don't know what genre this is.
- [63:03]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah, first we thought it was Hotel Renovator and then it built off of that of now you're going to renovate the whole city. Of course you're going to have some fun mystery to it of your father or grandfather used to be the guy and he was helping everybody out and then all of a sudden you kind of see there's some clues. You open up a scary door passage and there was a scary like ant monster spider looking thing. So yeah, we'll see. I it gave me a we happy few kind of look from yeah. And I was like okay. And I like hotel renovating. I like these sim games. But the musical game that Tim just read, I was like, okay, well maybe that's not my game. I don't know.
- [63:40]
Andy Cortez
Yeah, I really thought it was going to be. Hey, every day we open up Steam and there's a new Renovator slash, you know, store simulator slash what? Pawn shop simulator game that's always in the top of the scene charts. What if we did one of those with narrative kind of being first and then it just turned into a bunch of other stuff and I'm just still kind of fascinated by the blending of genres.
- [64:06]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. Then Age of Mythology reload coming fall 2025 Mike.
- [64:12]
Snow Bike Mike
Hey, if you like RTS games, age of Mythology is back with a whole lot more. I try to read up the small Xbox wire but it seems like there's a lot coming to that one. Chris Tanker tried to get me into Age of Mythology. I'm more of an Age of Empires guy. But it's always cool to see more updates from this.
- [64:28]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then we had mudang two hearts. This is a Korean game. 2026 coming everywhere looks this one very special.
- [64:37]
Andy Cortez
I I what I really need is a press release for this game.
- [64:40]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [64:41]
Andy Cortez
I need the description for exactly what it is they're going for and what they're trying to do because we see.
- [64:46]
Snow Bike Mike
A lot of vibes.
- [64:47]
Andy Cortez
Random gal doing like sneaking stuff kind.
- [64:50]
Snow Bike Mike
Of like the Mary Jane missions inside in Spider Man I gave me I was like, ooh. People didn't like that.
- [64:55]
Andy Cortez
And then we see crazy supernatural third person shooting with just weird freaky remedy like vibes. And I it looks awesome. It looks stunning.
- [65:06]
Tim Gettys
So Aaron Gartz at Gamespot writes about it and says ever studio refers to Mudang2Hearts as an immersive blend of tactical stealth, visceral combat and cinematic storytelling set on a politically volatile Korean peninsula.
- [65:19]
Andy Cortez
Get your politics out of my games.
- [65:20]
Tim Gettys
The narrative follows the unification of north and South Korea, as a treaty promises to end decades of division. Things aren't as they seem, though. A terrorist organization attacks the South Korean national assembly on the day the bill was meant to pass, setting off a series of chaotic events across the peninsula. The plot follows the main characters of Xi Zhangtae, a North Korean soldier who comes to South Korea as part of a military exchange program. Gavi, a member of a K pop group named Ordo, and a terrorist who is known as ID Ghost, that is ID Colon Ghost Sick. Players will switch between. Players switch between the perspectives of Xijong, T and Gavi throughout the narrative. That's pretty much it. Then they go into the the studio itself.
- [66:03]
Andy Cortez
I'm gonna take a guess. All three of those characters will meet.
- [66:08]
Snow Bike Mike
Oh, crazy.
- [66:09]
Tim Gettys
Whoa. Crazy nuts.
- [66:11]
Andy Cortez
What a. What a wild call by me.
- [66:13]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
2026 is what they're saying here. Looks cool.
- [66:16]
Andy Cortez
Looks awesome.
- [66:17]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Keep your eyes on this one. Next we had Thunderf's Planet of Lana. Two Children of the Leaf. Cool man. Shout out to Thunderfall. Continuing to do really, really cool special stuff in the indie scene and getting sequels. Not always guaranteed. So that's. That's a cool thing to see this.
- [66:34]
Andy Cortez
What's the time to beat on plan? A lot of one.
- [66:37]
Snow Bike Mike
One to two nights maximum.
- [66:38]
Andy Cortez
Oh, I think you say hours.
- [66:41]
Snow Bike Mike
It's not that long. Oh, you'll get through it. Yeah. Yeah. If you sit down one night, you'll probably whoop. But if not, I think I beat it in two. Bear. When you and I, when you were pushing this on me, I got it.
- [66:51]
Andy Cortez
Yeah, I'm still playing like Vagrant Story.
- [66:54]
Greg Miller
I've been like two or three sittings, I think, taking a small chunk at a time. Time. There are some puzzle things, Andy, but they're like very, very light kind of thing.
- [67:03]
Andy Cortez
Good for stupid people like me. Yeah, I still gotta play that Despilote.
- [67:07]
Tim Gettys
Dude. I'm so.
- [67:08]
Andy Cortez
It's only a two hour halfway through.
- [67:09]
Tim Gettys
Despote, which means I have like 30 minutes left to play. I refuse to beat it anyways.
- [67:15]
Greg Miller
This is awesome. I love that they're continuing the story with the characters that we knew from the first game and not just doing like here's a story from somewhere else in the world or something like that. This is really cool. I'm excited to see them built off build off these characters and the lore that gets revealed slowly throughout the first game, Barry.
- [67:30]
Tim Gettys
I just added Planet of Lana to my backlog. Good.
- [67:33]
Snow Bike Mike
Add it on there. That's a good game. Play it.
- [67:35]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Play it. Then we had Fallout 76. Gone fishing.
- [67:39]
Snow Bike Mike
Fun. I mean, another. It's interesting when we talk about Microsoft Xbox and the Umbrella, how they have found these live service games and somehow got them into the fold, and they have just survived and thrived. And I think that's a big deal with Game Pass. A lot of Tide IP that people know and love and want to get involved in, and they just continue to have updates. Like I said, I think they personally did a better job at pacing these all out away from each other, giving them their little quick moment and getting out. Fishing stayed too long. But also at the same time, they were showing hey settlements. You can build more stuff in your settlement with the fishing village. I think if you like this, you'll enjoy it for sure.
- [68:18]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And then solo level. Solo leveling arise. Overdrive coming to in 2026. This is another one. That is no PS5. We need it. You know what I mean? Soul leveling. Popular anime. It needs a game.
- [68:33]
Greg Miller
Huge.
- [68:33]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So this is it.
- [68:35]
Tim Gettys
Who's making this? Do we know? Vered. We can maybe. Yeah. Pull up the.
- [68:39]
Andy Cortez
Oh, damn. I meant to.
- [68:41]
Greg Miller
This isn't even the first solo leveling game in the last, like, six months. I feel like it's been talked about at the bottom there. Hold on. Full screen marble.
- [68:50]
Tim Gettys
Is that what it is?
- [68:51]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Sounds right.
- [68:51]
Tim Gettys
Dobo.
- [68:53]
Andy Cortez
Yeah. If you put a net in front of it.
- [68:54]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [68:58]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then we had Animo. Another one without a PS5. This is that weird semi Pokemon. Like. Like, what is this? Is this AI? Is it not? Who knows?
- [69:09]
Snow Bike Mike
Kind of Pal World vibes as well. Yeah. Just make Viva Pinata. Somebody call them up. Give Viva Pinata out there.
- [69:15]
Tim Gettys
This is nothing, like, crazy. There's nothing to do.
- [69:20]
Snow Bike Mike
Come to Xbox for a showcase. They think cute animals. They think, bring us Viva Pinata.
- [69:25]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Phil.
- [69:28]
Tim Gettys
That's like me being. When they're showing the 007 game, being like, yo, where's Beijing?
- [69:32]
Snow Bike Mike
No, no, no, no.
- [69:35]
Tim Gettys
It's a colorful game.
- [69:37]
Andy Cortez
Yeah. So much of this just like it. So many of the visuals look too good to be real.
- [69:42]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's that doke V feel.
- [69:44]
Tim Gettys
Right.
- [69:44]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Just like.
- [69:45]
Greg Miller
And infinity Nikki.
- [69:46]
Andy Cortez
A little bit.
- [69:47]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. All right.
- [69:49]
Greg Miller
I with it.
- [69:50]
Snow Bike Mike
This will be like Pal World where it comes out and they're like 25 million people played it at launch. It's crazy right now. And we're all gonna be like, oh, that's nuts.
- [69:58]
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
- [69:58]
Tim Gettys
I don't Know if it gives me.
- [69:59]
Snow Bike Mike
That and then they'll be sued by somebody six months later.
- [70:01]
Tim Gettys
This is gonna be a bold prediction. I think this comes and goes. I don't think we're gonna.
- [70:05]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You think it comes.
- [70:07]
Tim Gettys
For like a day? For a day. That's a dangerous question to ask him.
- [70:13]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Next up we got a little Tony Hawk. The man himself was there.
- [70:17]
Andy Cortez
Little Tony Hawk. So small.
- [70:20]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
We got big Tony Hawk at the end.
- [70:21]
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
- [70:22]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
With the pinball level. But yeah, this is the launch trailer. Kind of giving us all the little things that people like me have been waiting for. We knew there was going to be three new levels. Now we know what they are. Water park, pinball and Hollywood studio. Hollywood movie studio which looks pretty freaking cool. This was the first time we saw a couple of the levels like London Zoo and Shipyard from four. So obviously I'm very excited about that. But the big thing is Michelangelo from the Ninja Turtles which makes me think we might get the other Turtles as well. I love that he has his mutant mayhem art style.
- [70:55]
Snow Bike Mike
Hell yeah.
- [70:56]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Could not be more hyped for this.
- [70:57]
Andy Cortez
Little drawn on sort of. Yeah, it looks great.
- [71:04]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
- [71:04]
Snow Bike Mike
I'm excited for the demo today.
- [71:05]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Demo today? We knew demo was coming but didn't know the date. Makes sense for it to be today.
- [71:09]
Andy Cortez
What you got?
- [71:10]
Greg Miller
Do we think spongebob is another secret character Just because they're teasing? Like the other trailer showed that like weird little area because like we're doing more Nickelodeon collabs with tmnt. Right.
- [71:20]
Andy Cortez
Yeah. I don't think you do a spongebob level or without having the sponge himself.
- [71:26]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, you would Patrick. You really would hope, dude.
- [71:28]
Tim Gettys
I would love Patrick.
- [71:29]
Snow Bike Mike
He shreds.
- [71:30]
Andy Cortez
Damn.
- [71:32]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then we had at fates end.
- [71:35]
Tim Gettys
Dude. Oh man.
- [71:36]
Andy Cortez
Legitimately this might be my game of the show. Like amongst a lot of amazing looking games, you know, to see. I'm so happy that the Spirit Fair team isn't work. Isn't only working on 33 immortals. Just because I am worried about that game and. And its viability. But to see a sort of side scrolling looking game with this level and quality of animation. It looks so sick. Man. This looks great.
- [72:07]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. And mechanically like can we scroll forward? I want to see what's going on in the combat. Because there was like a weird card thing going on. It looked like there I just.
- [72:17]
Andy Cortez
The movement looks fantastic. But I. I think more importantly a lot of the sort of. Yeah, look at that.
- [72:23]
Tim Gettys
What is that? Is that just you choosing abilities.
- [72:26]
Andy Cortez
Looks great when they zoom in on these sort of not quite quick time events. But just, you know when you mash up with somebody and they just like show that close animation like this. This looks so great. Choosing dialogue right there in that moment. Awesome.
- [72:44]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah.
- [72:45]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That's the coolest part for me. Then we had Gears of war reloaded coming August 26th. My friend Cytherea's birthday.
- [72:54]
Andy Cortez
Nice Birthday.
- [72:55]
Tim Gettys
Birthday.
- [72:56]
Andy Cortez
It's huge.
- [72:56]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah. I didn't think we'd see this. I thought we'd get E Day. I think this is kind of known. It's interesting on a Xbox showcase we're showing. Hey, this is coming to other consoles. It's already been here. But I think it is the excitement of. Hey, if you've never played Gears of War, if you want to get into Gears of War, now is the perfect time to. Because we're going to put this out everywhere on PlayStation and beyond and it's going to have a major fan base. People are going to be playing this. You need to get involved with Gears if you haven't already.
- [73:23]
Andy Cortez
There has never been a better time.
- [73:25]
Snow Bike Mike
And honestly, Gears of War is one of the best. Man. Multiplayer in this was groundbreaking. It was so much fun. It changed the game. I can't wait to see a big player base on this one. All playing these old school maps and going back. It was the best.
- [73:40]
Tim Gettys
How many players can play the co op campaign?
- [73:43]
Snow Bike Mike
Two on this one.
- [73:43]
Tim Gettys
Only two? Okay.
- [73:44]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah.
- [73:44]
Andy Cortez
I'm so pumped to see what accessibility settings there are here. Because I mentioned in the last time we talked about this, the roadie run. Not like I'm sure at the time while you're watching it's like having a ton of motion blur. The roadie run. Really hard to. To look at while you're doing your run and the camera's shaking like crazy. It seems it really. It hurts to watch.
- [74:09]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then we had Persona 4 revival. No date on this one. Very little actual info shown. Barrett, what. What's this do for you?
- [74:19]
Greg Miller
Obvious we expected this from the whole voice actor debacle in the last week that people were theorizing might be like a marketing beat for this game. But now that we've gotten this reveal, it doesn't feel like that seeing is this Inaba blessing. Yeah like seeing that like fully realized in the more like. Like Persona 3 Reloaded. Like using I think Unreal Engine like art style and all that stuff. It's like holy. This is really cool. This looks really pretty. The fact this is.
- [74:49]
Tim Gettys
We've.
- [74:50]
Greg Miller
We see so little in this trailer makes me feel like this is. This is maybe late next year at the earliest. Because last year when we got Persona 3 or 2 years ago, when we got Persona 3 reload announced, I think they said like early 2020 or early next year. Right. The fact that we saw so little of this and we kind of no window here tells me this is a little bit farther out and tells me that Persona 6 is even farther than that, which is. I don't know. I have a mixed bag of feelings here.
- [75:24]
Tim Gettys
Yeah, there's a. Yeah, I'm with Barrett. As far as the mixed bag of feelings, I'm regardless excited for this because Persona 4 Golden, I. I would have said, if you asked me a year ago, I would have said was my favorite Persona. But Persona 5 is kind of creeped up. Like as I've listened to the soundtrack more and more, just thought about that game. But Persona 4 Golden is a specialized video game. But yeah, with how little we're seeing, it feels further out. And then also there was a. A post they made on. I believe this is from their website where they say, hello, this is Wada from the P Studio. We are very pleased to announce the Release of Persona 4 revival. We look forward to sharing even more information in due time. Persona 4 has spawned numerous spinoff works including TV anime, Persona 4 Arena, Persona 4 Arena, Ultimax, and Persona 4 Dancing All Night, and is a special title that has been a part of Atlas for many years and holds a personal place in my heart. We're currently working on this project with all our passion and love. We are confident that this will be a fresh and surprising product for both newcomers and longtime fans, and we look forward to sharing it with you all. Additionally, we are actively preparing for the future development of the Persona series. As a studio, we're working hard to meet the expectations of fans around the world, and our work is progressing well. Please stay tuned for more updates. We look forward to your continued support of the Persona series. So they're still giving hope for, hey, there's going to be a future of Persona. But yeah, to Barrett's point, this makes it feel like it's pushed even further out, which on one hand saddens me a little bit. But on the other hand, like, I'm down to play Persona 4 revival in the meantime. I think my one other thing with this too is, well, two other things. One, the voice acted Buckle. Now actually feeling like a debacle is weird with how that all happened. But then also this being called Revival, I don't know how I feel about that title. Like, I don't know how that relates.
- [77:07]
Greg Miller
Rewind and Rerun would have been much better.
- [77:10]
Tim Gettys
Revival feels thematically that doesn't feel appropriate unless they are doing the conspiracy theory thing that we. That I think I talked about last week with the prediction of, oh, you're doing more to this game. Like, you're doing more than just porting the original story. Maybe you're going in and adding changes because you. Some changes.
- [77:28]
Greg Miller
Yeah, the story could use some. Some major changes. You know, there's also been the. The theory from Andrew Goldfarb for years that I love that maybe Persona 6 is gonna start including a lot of elements, story elements from Persona 3, 4 and 5. And maybe they add in stuff here to build up to that. That's a big hope though, and we'll. We'll see if that actually happens. But yeah, Revival. Don't love the. Don't love the title there.
- [77:55]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [77:57]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Then we had Sea of Thieves, smugglers tide. Season 17. We've got a big pop out, everybody.
- [78:03]
Snow Bike Mike
Season 17, keeping up with it. Another one. A live service game that is thriving. It is a lot of fun. Sea of Thieves is a really good time with your friends if you ever want to jump in. I am more of a Sea of Thieves when they have the big Pirate Life update where they had it with Disney and Pirates of the Caribbean, Monkey island, like, that's when it pulls me back in. But you always have a really good game here just sitting there ready for you to play. And now it's out on more consoles. More, More times to play.
- [78:32]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And then invincible versus come in. 2026. A tag team fighting game that looks awesome and sounds great. Like, I'm very happy that Invincible is popular enough that it could be pulling off projects like this. I am a little concerned about it being a tag fighting game when we just had a brand new Marvel 1 from Arc System Works being announced. And also, just out of all the things I. I love Invincible, love the show, love the comic. I don't know that this is like something that makes sense to me with the IP based on the characters. There are a ton of characters and in the world, but I don't know.
- [79:08]
Tim Gettys
A lot of them are Vites. You know, a lot of them kind of have that same. All right, you got Superman powers.
- [79:12]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. And even. But even on the superhero side, there are like, there's like analogs to all of the superheroes we know across Marvel and dc. But like, I don't know.
- [79:20]
Andy Cortez
Where's the. Where the Beast. What's his name?
- [79:23]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Battle Beast.
- [79:23]
Andy Cortez
Battle Beast. Where's Battle Beast? Why wasn't he in Here he'll.
- [79:26]
Snow Bike Mike
He'll be there.
- [79:27]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [79:27]
Andy Cortez
This seems like someone you got to show up. Like you got to have some more. I would say like diversity in the trailer because it's like three vites against rexplosion, Atom, Eve and. And Invincible. I just, I thought we'd see a lot more, you know, clips and footage of other heroes, but just seemed like oh wow. It looks cool though.
- [79:50]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It looks great. Yeah.
- [79:52]
Tim Gettys
Yeah. I mentioned this during the live reaction, but I got to go down and play this game. I can't talk anything about it, but maybe later you might hear me say something. Maybe later. Maybe later.
- [80:02]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Maybe later.
- [80:02]
Tim Gettys
Maybe later.
- [80:03]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
- [80:04]
Andy Cortez
Damn. You're embargoing us. That's crazy.
- [80:05]
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
- [80:06]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
The next up, it's finally happening. Final Fantasy VII intergrade remake intergrade coming this winter and Final Fantasy 16 complete edition drops today on Xbox. Hell yeah. I think that this is a sign that rebirth will also come and probably part three at launch hopefully. But depending on PlayStation's exclusive deals, who knows how that'll go. But I think this is an incredible sign. 16 coming is an incredible sign. Square said that they are going multi platform and that that's going to be the strategy going forward. I love to see that actually happening. I think it's going to be very key to their franchises being able to find the support that they need to continue to be made on the insane budget level that they have been.
- [80:44]
Andy Cortez
So I urge anybody who's in a character action games to play Final Fantasy 16. I know Final Fantasy 16 gets a lot of hate for what it is and it not being the classic sort of combat. I get that. I. I enjoy Final Fantasy VII rebirth and remakes combat more. However, if you're the type of person that watches footage of Final Fantasy and maybe goes like I don't want to do these like little like silly activities and writing a little segue. Like if you're not into that type of stuff or if you're not into how goofy anime can get, tone wise, 16 is the one for you. You don't got to know shit about anything. Just play 16. It. I love the story so much. Like the characters are so great. Ben Starr is so fucking awesome. And this game has some amazing relationship moments and some awesome characters and hype moments with crazy amounts of budget put into some of these boss fights, cast of villains. Yes.
- [81:45]
Tim Gettys
And like good beef between characters.
- [81:47]
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
- [81:47]
Tim Gettys
You don't talk about like how important. Yeah. Like when two characters just fucking hate each other. Shout out to 16.
- [81:53]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Shout out dude. And then we got double Finds next game keeper coming October 17th. This is another one without PlayStation 5 on it. My prediction was wrong. It's not a licensed game, but it looks cool. You are a lighthouse. It looks very double fine.
- [82:09]
Snow Bike Mike
Very double.
- [82:10]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
A lot of colors, lot of great visuals. Got my eye out for this one.
- [82:15]
Andy Cortez
Great visuals, man. Like I think my, you know, I don't think Psychonauts 2 was ever the best looking game, but it's an awesome video game in its totality. This game looks really visually stunning in some of these moments where it's the lighthouse crawling through like a little tunnel and the water looks great. Every this looks rad.
- [82:36]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Barrett.
- [82:37]
Greg Miller
Yeah, I'm super stoked for this. Again, like that. I appreciated that that prediction, Tim, but like Double Fine just doesn't seem like the studio to want to work with like other ip like let them. Let them get weird with their. Their own imagination and creations. And this being something that like feels like a total like in between of like kind of what people expect from them from Psychonauts in terms of just being like kind of a 3D action or not even action, but 3D adventure game, but just being something super weird. I love that. Like, I think this whale might be pulling from the one of the game jam things from that we saw in Psych Odyssey. So I wonder if this game is pulling a lot of ideas from that original concept, which I'm really excited about. Yeah, I highly recommend I forget to what Fortnite documentary it is, but I think we see a little bit of that in there if anybody is interested. And then I also just wanted to see. This is also just as far as we see Xbox series X and S, which I do wonder is why of like the visuals of this looking much better. Right. Because Psychonauts 2 I think was last gen as well. So them kind of focusing just on kind of current gen hardware I think is giving them the kind of fidelity push that we want from them.
- [83:57]
Andy Cortez
You say Fortnite?
- [83:59]
Greg Miller
Yeah, their game jam stuff is called Fortnite. Not Fortnite in the video game, but Fortnite as in the actual word Fortnite. They get two weeks to develop little game projects.
- [84:11]
Snow Bike Mike
Double Fine being Double Fine. Love that. Yeah, don't change.
- [84:14]
Tim Gettys
I love Elbow in chat says I'm not playing as a lighthouse.
- [84:17]
Greg Miller
Sorry, I can't wait, brother.
- [84:19]
Tim Gettys
Have some whimsy.
- [84:22]
Greg Miller
Get out of your comfort zone, man.
- [84:24]
Tim Gettys
You know, I know you don't like lighthouses, but like give it a chance.
- [84:27]
Andy Cortez
I need a screenshot of just blessing where he is right now with like you know the meme format where it's just a quote and say brother, have some whimsy because I agree, I agree. I totally agree.
- [84:40]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And then we got Call of duty Black Ops 7 to close the show out here.
- [84:45]
Snow Bike Mike
I got a little rundown from the blog. I'll give you the full updates on that because we do have the blog post over on Call of Duty's blog. This is Call of Duty Black Ops 7 from Treyarch and Raven Software. This is a full package again. For the first time in franchise history they're going back to black back to back with Black Ops games set 40 years after Black Ops 6. So welcome to 2035. Max Cox, general Manager Talk to the team and the blog a little bit more about the how they're planning the Black Ops 7 full package so you can it says prepare to squad up with friends or play solo in a thrilling and innovative co op campaign. Harness near future weaponry in a signature multiplayer experience packed with brand new maps and descend into the next twisted chapter of round based zombies in the heart of the dark ether.
- [85:37]
Andy Cortez
I mean, I wish they have all the time that they needed to work on this Mike because by the end of this, by the end of Black Ops 6 and playing that story, like everybody in the chat who had never experienced that campaign, including me, who was experiencing it with them was like, holy shit, let Raven make a campaign game. Let them just like really, really work hard on doing an awesome single player experience. And like again, everything they showed so far until we had the Call of Duty thing, we're like multiplayer, whatever, whatever. This looks like, it's going to be awesome as hell. I want to see them continue to get super creative with their campaigns.
- [86:16]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah, Treyarch has been cooking. We love the Black Ops universe. This is kind of one of those of everybody's been screaming when do we get off the hamster wheel and give the teams a little more time and let them build stuff out. But of course we know the annualized franchise of Call of Duty is a juggernaut. We're never leaving that. So it's wild to see this team have back to back at bats. Hopefully the next team is getting more time and hopefully this has got a lot of time because Andy, you're so right. The campaign of Black Ops 6 was awesome. You got to play that. The issue that I read here is, you know me, I love playing with friends. I like the idea of a co op campaign. My worry though is we saw them try to get innovative or innovate and they tried to Do a co op campaign in Modern Warfare 3. And everybody said, ooh, that was a miss. Right? That was the shorter one that had the open world missions. And we said, oh, you can beat that in one sitting. That wasn't it.
- [87:09]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Right.
- [87:09]
Snow Bike Mike
Like, coming off of Black Ops 6, I. I want this campaign to be awesome and great. The idea that it could be co op, hey, that's even better for me. I love that experience. I really hope that it gets the time and I hope that it's awesome. The idea of building off of multiplayer, sure, we're going to add in futuristic guns. Who knows if we'll have wall running and crazy stuff like that. You would assume we'll get to the future stuff, but the idea of let's. Let's just build off of Call of Duty, give you some, like, dlc. It's going to be a new name and a new buy, but like, we're just building off of Black Ops 6, that's great. You know, it'll be interesting to see.
- [87:44]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
The chat just went by, so I don't have the name on it, but apparently a Hollywood reporter just announced that Michael Rooker, Milo and Kieran Shipka are going to be in Black Ops 7. That's pretty cool.
- [87:55]
Snow Bike Mike
I mean, there's a couple things.
- [87:58]
Andy Cortez
Shout out to Ja for that.
- [87:59]
Snow Bike Mike
Black Ops is exciting, but that Phil message is where we got to hang that film message that got us confused with Black Ops, but saying, hey, we're celebrating 25 years and there's a team here. He brought up Gears and Fable. There's one more and you're like, oh, shit, Phil. What is that, Philip?
- [88:17]
Tim Gettys
I mean, it is.
- [88:19]
Snow Bike Mike
Yeah. But he said Halo 1.
- [88:20]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes.
- [88:21]
Snow Bike Mike
Are we rebooting?
- [88:22]
Andy Cortez
Yes.
- [88:22]
Snow Bike Mike
Is it Halo something else? It's exciting.
- [88:24]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's Halo 1 remake. 25 years of Halo 1. It's gonna be Halo in Unreal Engine 5. It just makes too much sense. Like, they put out that Unreal Engine 5 image of Chief or was even a sh. Short video or something. Right. Like a clip of him doing that.
- [88:39]
Andy Cortez
I think it was just the image, but. But it was, it was the OG armor.
- [88:43]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, exactly. Like, I feel like that's gonna. They're gonna put that out and then eventually the Halo next or whatever is. Is later. So, yeah, I'm stoked for that. And yeah, I love it. Fable, Forza, Gears and Halo all in one year. Celebrating the 25th year of Xbox. That feels right.
- [89:01]
Snow Bike Mike
That's exciting stuff. That's wild. And it's gonna be awesome because that's definitely going to be multi plat, which means it's going to have an insane install base. Everyone's going to be jazzed up on it. You're giving Gears of War and Halo a really great chance to kind of reemerge, get a new player base and really come back and be great. It's going to be awesome to see those two games thrive.
- [89:22]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
We got a bunch of super chats I want to get through to close out the show today. Braden Mark says, I thought Call of Duty was going to stop being annual.
- [89:30]
Snow Bike Mike
Never.
- [89:32]
Tim Gettys
When do they say that?
- [89:33]
Snow Bike Mike
That will never happen.
- [89:34]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Small Hands TV says Leth from Team Cherry confirmed Silk songs coming out before the holiday. So getting a lot of confirmations here from people.
- [89:42]
Andy Cortez
Yeah, I can't imagine Matthew Griffin who was the. The lead PR of that as well as lead PR of the other very Hollow Knight looking game with the crow mask. Crow sworn. I got to imagine the DMS are blowing the fuck up right now. We'll see.
- [90:04]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
RDJ says no Starfield DLC or PS5 launch date. That is pretty surprising.
- [90:11]
Andy Cortez
But I like, it's weird because I think I was bringing up that, you know, are we going to get PlayStation being named here? Like, you know, or are we just going to see logos? And that was one of the discussions and we did get Gears of War Remastered saying like it's gonna be playable everywhere to everybody on whatever, you know. And if PlayStation is really the only place that Starfield is not at, I wouldn't. I'm not surprised that you aren't on an Xbox showcase saying, hey, remember that one game that you bought your Xbox for? It's also gonna be on PlayStation. I'm not super shocked by that. I am surprised by a DLC sort of announcement and I think that we'll get whatever Starfield DLC or Starfield on PlayStation News in a press release or in a tweet or in a whatever.
- [91:05]
Snow Bike Mike
Some sort of announcement maybe Gamescom, the DLC.
- [91:11]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And then we got Cody Brandon saying no Starfield DLC and Elder Scrolls 6. I mean the show is crazy. Also Obsidian going hard to clean the slate almost guarantees they're making Fallout. Right. I feel like Fallout's common, but yeah, Elder Scrolls 6, like no one should have expected to see that here. Yeah, no Starfield. Yes. I. I'm surprised it wasn't here.
- [91:32]
Andy Cortez
No replaced. That's a great call out, Rabbit.
- [91:34]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, crack.
- [91:35]
Tim Gettys
Last time we saw replaced because I, I feel like I gave up hope a while.
- [91:38]
Snow Bike Mike
It was that summer game fest playable. Last year I played this.
- [91:41]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I played it Last year they were playing it.
- [91:43]
Tim Gettys
Oh well, I'm bad. My bad for giving up hope. I'm bad. Replace team.
- [91:47]
Andy Cortez
I mean, well, I have.
- [91:48]
Tim Gettys
You know what I'm thinking of the other game. What was the game that was announced in like 2020 the last night? That's what I'm thinking of.
- [91:55]
Andy Cortez
No, replace is the one that looked like the last night. I was like, oh cool, we're getting a different dev working on the. On us a game of that style. And then I played it and I was like, ah, combat's kind of whatever. And I, I hope that, you know, things are. Are in the oven right now cooking.
- [92:12]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And then Elite tub says, will we ever see Crash Team racing too? Am I holding false hope? We got Crash Nitro kart on the PlayStation 2. I think that was the closest we'll ever get. I don't think we're seeing a Crash Team racing sequel at any point.
- [92:25]
Greg Miller
So lucky if we ever get another just Crash Bandicoot game that isn't. What was it?
- [92:29]
Tim Gettys
A.
- [92:30]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's about time.
- [92:31]
Greg Miller
Moba.
- [92:32]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh, Crash.
- [92:34]
Andy Cortez
Crash Rumble.
- [92:36]
Snow Bike Mike
Good time. We were number one.
- [92:38]
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
- [92:39]
Snow Bike Mike
Top team Na.
- [92:40]
Andy Cortez
And then we played a team that knew what they were doing. Turn it off, started the next game.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Alec Taylor says. So is this Xbox play anywhere just cloud gaming or do you natively play Xbox games on it? And this is what I was talking about of how confusing all this branding is. So Xbox play anywhere just means that you could buy the Xbox game via Xbox and you could play it on your PC or your Xbox or they.
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Tim Gettys
Got rid of that device. You got to get rid of that.
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Snow Bike Mike
It should just be your Xbox.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You can't play it on PlayStation. Like that's PlayStation does not. Is not part of Xbox play anywhere because that's not how that works.
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Tim Gettys
Is Nintendo part of Xbox until they.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Put their games okay. Until they have that. I feel like the play Steam.
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Greg Miller
When did play anywhere start? I feel like.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Was that like one Xbox.
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Tim Gettys
I thought that was a cloud thing.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It. No, no.
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Tim Gettys
You're at his PC. My bad.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Exactly. Clouds a separate thing. And then the Raj. The Xbox Rog. The Xbox ally can natively play Xbox games. It can also remote play via the cloud.
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Andy Cortez
Yes.
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Tim Gettys
They got to get rid of it because of course, like, because this is the reason why you're able to play Xbox stuff on this one is because Xbox partner. But also it's just a PC thing.
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Snow Bike Mike
To download the games. Yeah, yeah.
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Tim Gettys
Because it's a PC.
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Andy Cortez
Yeah, yeah.
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Tim Gettys
It was more expected.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, I know. But that's things the Xbox play anywhere just means when you buy the one code.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You have it on console and the PC anywhere that has a different sku.
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Tim Gettys
But that's been true for all Xbox games. Right.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Since they've introduced Play Anywhere, which is why they keep pushing that.
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Greg Miller
Yeah, I think it was a marketing push that made sense when it was new back in 2013. I don't think we need to keep pushing it now.
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Tim Gettys
I agree. That's.
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Snow Bike Mike
I like it. No, no, I think, yeah. This going to push this forever. They're welcoming you to the ecosystem and when we bring up. Bring that up, it's like you buy this once on an Xbox branded storefront, it's going to be on those anyway.
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Tim Gettys
I think it makes sense. Except they're also pushing a bunch of other things at the same time. Like that's where I 100% agree with Tim, where you have Xbox play anywhere, like in between all these trailers. And I'm like, I know. Like I already know that I can play this stuff anywhere. I feel like you just have to. I think I feel like people at this point understand that when you buy something on Xbox, that means you're buying it on PC as well.
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Snow Bike Mike
I don't know. I think they're going to be. I think they're going to say this for the next five plus years. They'll probably say this forever. Blast of like they're getting a new fan base. They're trying to garner a new fan base to come in to a losing platform that was Xbox proper with the consoles and say, hey, we're here. We want to encourage you that if you spend your money, it's going to be everywhere. And they have to. They're going to do that forever, bro. They'll do that forever.
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Tim Gettys
Yeah, yeah.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
They're never dropping it. And well, people will always be confused. Like Alec Taylor, right?
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Tim Gettys
This is an Xbox is a better branding slogan.
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Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And then we have the final one of the day, Mr. Nice Guy Rice. And you guys crushed it all week. Welcome back, Mikey. Thank you so much. Thank you everybody for hanging out with us this week and for continuing to hang out with us each and every weekday. We're all about live talk shows. We do games daily, breaking down the biggest video game news every morning, every week. Games cast, talking all about video game reviews, previews, predictions, big topics in gaming. We do a whole bunch of game streaming as well as in review where we review rank and recap different movie franchises. We're kicking off with Superman in review this week. And a little tease this week. We're also getting our Mario Kart World review and our Nintendo Switch 2 review so far, in addition to a whole bunch of other great content. Thanks for hanging out with us. Have a fantastic day. Goodbye.
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Andy Cortez
All right, buddy.