The CFG Game Cast

[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to the CFG Gamecast episode number 285, a weekly podcast career by gamers or streamers who like to discuss the latest gaming topics for the previous week, we stream a new episode every week and release on all podcast services so do us a favor and show us some love by liking, following, commenting, or subscribing to our Twitch page CFG Games on Twitch or on our YouTube at the CFG or

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[SPEAKER_04]: I am Mr. CFG Games himself, David Screener with me today.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got my two awesome co-hosts.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got pop in the second seat.

[SPEAKER_04]: What's going on, pop?

[SPEAKER_04]: How are you doing?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing fantastic approaching the three final class meetings of the semester this past week if you follow me on Instagram or on Twitter, you may have seen me talk about my capture card came in a remediate granted my request and I received not only just any internal capture card, but

[SPEAKER_00]: You want the 575?

[SPEAKER_00]: You have something that can run HDMI 2.1.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, yes, my monitor, my PC can do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I ended up on Monster Hunter Wild's first first stream, and as I said, off.

[SPEAKER_00]: offline, we were chatting all set and up pal, streaming monster hunter wilds, and I'm moving my mouse over to like thinking I have to click back into the game, but I don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: It looks really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: The game's so really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really, really excited about speed running the act as a game.

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, it's not going to make my runs any faster, but not feeling any input delays, and just me pressing a button, and it happens as it is, as if I'm playing on PC.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a beautiful thing, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was just to have.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have the Yoccuses on your PC or do you have the console?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm on both.

[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't finished on console because I like to do new game plus runs.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm doing like a charity event, like I have a charity event, would say they're coming up this week.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd PC I'm careful with the order games because they're known for some of them are known for crashing and I just rather not deal with that it's not as common on console the newer ones are are fine on PC is just I don't know I am just stubborn and wanted to be a console runner but with PC runs I've been working on warriors of this I almost have traversal level six done as many I thought about trying like you know what I'm going to wait.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I went, I breathe to like the first five, no problem with Rachel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just read you the review for Trevor's level six, because he's already OP for no reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you ever want to do the other Trevor's levels, I recommend you.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's easy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just unlocked them here the other day.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, I haven't gotten around in with them yet though.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we use OP as both as the support.

[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing is with the support we need.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think for speed, you need at least like 12 emblems, but even before that he's broken, as he should, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's just really broken, yeah, as he should.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, that's going to be cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: Can't wait to take a look at that, take a wait.

[SPEAKER_04]: Ah, can't wait to take a look until you hit that speedrun.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's going to be very interesting.

[SPEAKER_04]: I saw you practicing a little bit of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, wow, this is a lot.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is just a lot in just the net game alone in the...

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's so new for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a roglake and a hack and slash, but there's so much information that I'm not that I'm not used to taking in that much information.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do I beat them up in RPGs?

[SPEAKER_00]: is a new way of taking in information and there's so many different things to try and I'm kind of scared that there's something scarier than an RM, the RNG based RPG for speedrun than an RNG based

[SPEAKER_04]: No, that's cool, but that's awesome, at least I'm glad you got your card.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know you've been talking about one and get this card forever.

[SPEAKER_04]: Glad it's finally happened.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's not holding you back anymore, but you know what, pop?

[SPEAKER_04]: What?

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, if I ever wanted to talk to a person, I know that's going to be playing the list called a duty game in regardless of any time or any age, you know who I would talk who I would turn to.

[SPEAKER_04]: like to know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's the five-star general of the idiot.

[SPEAKER_04]: Biddy Smithy can be the I got spending the third seat.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's going on my dude?

[SPEAKER_01]: You said it, uh, blob seven came out.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about it here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want, I'm not going to give any way, uh, any of my thoughts, but, excuse me,

[SPEAKER_01]: Multi players about what I expected it to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: I get to play some of that beta as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, they, they always have a focus on that played some of the campaign.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have not jumped into zombies yet, but yeah, we'll talk about that.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot that came out escape from Tarkov one point.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that released yesterday.

[SPEAKER_01]: So huge congratulations to I think it's game state.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in that team, it's been 10 years in early access, so to see that come out, you know, finishing up their campaign.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously a focus and a lot of changes to their, you know, the, the game that really kind of started and defined the extraction shooter genre.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a huge huge dump for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to try that out as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're kind of nothing sent me over a key.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be pain.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just going to be all pain.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm nervous.

[SPEAKER_01]: You deserve this.

[SPEAKER_01]: You deserve this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm dying.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm feeling that pags west news all pain.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've literally, you know, I was the first person in this group of

[SPEAKER_01]: Journalists and other people there, it was close off and like they grouped us up in the groups of three literally adversity that I went on thinking I knew what I was doing.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was knitting it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I did not go well for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was alone.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, you know, I'm going to just stay alone because I'm only going to drag you guys now.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just going to be a floor tank for you all if I was.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to get it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, it's just like, trust me, I'm going to, this is better for everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, that's pain, but a lot of cool stuff that was, it was the busy week at work and all that.

[SPEAKER_01]: But overall, pretty, pretty solid.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got some more squadron.

[SPEAKER_01]: That season is got a couple days left.

[SPEAKER_01]: Bro, I'm excited to see what they've got.

[SPEAKER_01]: Huh, did you see the preview for second season?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I didn't I didn't even see the preview.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so so the next week.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be Vegeta GT it's going to be GT Vegeta.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it's going to be super Saiyan Ford Vegeta.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's going to be a nice

[SPEAKER_04]: then after that it's going to be a adult gohan or maybe yeah adult gohan when during the buisaga so he's going to be in his goku uniform in that one and then they had they they mysteriously announced Broly the movie broly yeah broly yeah yeah broly it's all broly it's all broly it's all broly yeah

[SPEAKER_01]: Really, you're like, really?

[SPEAKER_01]: Super Broly is lame compared to OG Broly.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is true.

[SPEAKER_01]: OG Broly, that whole story, everything is way better.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I mean, we're all right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Congratulations.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am appreciation for Super Broly, but the OG movie Broly, come on, dude.

[SPEAKER_04]: OG movie Broly, he was so bad because because Goku was crying, dude.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's all he did.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is true.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know I just like it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like all right, so I'll give you that

[SPEAKER_01]: There's definitely way more developed.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like this one, bitches crying.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm out of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm raging.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm over it.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're in raging.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not the fact that he got stabbed in the heart, by Vegeta's dad.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not the fact that he was just thrown into scardy and all this other stuff and had a life of hard dogs.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was the fact that Goku was crying so loud and so much that he just couldn't sleep.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: Murderous rampage.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_04]: Murderous rampage.

[SPEAKER_04]: So much, he's like, you can't see his name out before he freaks the fuck out.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's fair.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's fair.

[SPEAKER_01]: I still like OG Broly better, though.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, his design is better.

[SPEAKER_04]: I will say.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's not good.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's that's exciting.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because that game is still a ton of fun for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I play it, you know what I mean on the side.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm having an issue connecting my account.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I haven't played on PC.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really?

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember what my band I got, I don't remember.

[SPEAKER_04]: Can't you just remember?

[SPEAKER_04]: Probably.

[SPEAKER_04]: It just reset the password.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's not working.

[SPEAKER_04]: Isn't that work?

[SPEAKER_04]: Isn't that not work?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, there must have been some point that I just gave up.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't gotten back to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's been busy, though.

[SPEAKER_01]: It has been busy.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's fair.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's fair.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's fair.

[SPEAKER_01]: What about you, man?

[SPEAKER_01]: How was your week?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, sorry.

[SPEAKER_01]: Go for it.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, go for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I was just saying I did, so like last week, I had a, I just flare up as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it takes a bit to recover and whatnot.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm feeling a thousand times better than I did last week.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that, you know, I happened some time, from time to time, got to drink, got to drink your water.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was really, that you've done enough water?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think that usually, like,

[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of makes it to like things just don't go the way that they should and then it starts becoming an issue.

[SPEAKER_01]: As long as I stay well hydrated things you know are pretty good.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, that's awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, we'll go.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad you're definitely back to your normal.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so that's sure.

[SPEAKER_04]: I had the little like I don't compare compared to your level of diverticulitis like I can't even compare, but I know I've had it once maybe twice, but it's like.

[SPEAKER_04]: That, that just knocks you out there, but you just can't.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, your body just wrecked you.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're like, it's just constant stomach pain.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, and you can't do anything about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have to put yourself on a liquid diet, like, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a little days terrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now I'm glad you're, I'm glad you're passed on.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're on the good side on that.

[SPEAKER_04]: The upside on it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: As for me though, I'll get this all.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just hit S rank as the average in squadra.

[SPEAKER_04]: So now I have S rank as rank 2.

[SPEAKER_04]: Huh?

[SPEAKER_01]: You want me to pull you down?

[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't say no.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know what you said.

[SPEAKER_04]: What did you say?

[SPEAKER_04]: I said, well, don't you play with me, you asshole?

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know when you play.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do, I'm like on the point, I'm on all the time.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm literally like, I've been playing with this, so I've met this guy inside what's, well, it's what's it called, Intrad the Discord.

[SPEAKER_04]: And this dude plays it around nine o'clock by time.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, okay, if you don't take the place, I would have to talk about my time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he's like, he plays, and he's like, his ranks are pretty, well, they're now better, but they were like, he was a C and a B and stuff like that,

[SPEAKER_04]: Coming in like going together and stuff and then like we were just getting like starting to like meld a lot easier So when he was coming in that's like I don't what he was going to do and I'm like okay, let's go Let's go do this pass.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do this healer than stuff like that So it was just it was crazy It was nice when you know the people that you're playing with and you know that they're not gonna just sit there and throw and be an ass Oh my god It is so frustrating.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is so frustrating.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is so frustrating.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just like

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But then also sometimes I'm that guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like with that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they're probably frustrated off just like, I know I'm sucking right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: With that being said, it's me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just mad at myself.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, but it's like that I also tried was playing Marvel rivals again.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got into I was trying to get to yeah, I've tried to get to master before the end of the season, but I was able to reach it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but Gambit's just too hot right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I haven't even touched Gambit, but I've been playing with my tank.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I've been playing with good old fashioned big old green with Hulk and just been crushing

[SPEAKER_04]: But Gambit looks like a rich is looks really good for a and he's a healer.

[SPEAKER_04]: So Yeah, he's a healer.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have not looked at any gameplay of middle.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I just fall off so hard on that game like I was so excited and then like

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, like, be everybody got good.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, just, and then I think it was that one time, I was like, that dude was yelling at me.

[SPEAKER_04]: What, wait, what, what dude was yelling at you?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what he was like.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was so pissed at me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was doing terribly, it was all on stream.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was playing with my friend.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was a barricade.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, uh, like, was it for me with a verbally yelling at you or was it like, uh, no, I, no, I think it goes in chat.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was a chat, but they're like, and they were

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, though.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's not good.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's not good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I apologize to her.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was a go.

[SPEAKER_04]: Man, dude.

[SPEAKER_04]: You just No, I apologize to my friend.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh I told the person I was like, how the clearly I'm fucking sucking ass.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know this

[SPEAKER_04]: You're not helping this situation.

[SPEAKER_04]: The way I look at it is that in quick play, it's a, it's a mixed pot of whatever.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you all don't want you to take any of it seriously.

[SPEAKER_04]: People are learning new characters.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, it wasn't competitive.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I have no excuse for you.

[SPEAKER_04]: You deserve every bit of that hatred that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, that's hilarious.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was so bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was so bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're done.

[SPEAKER_01]: I retired myself.

[SPEAKER_01]: I exiled myself.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Really, I'm not built for this game.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not mine.

[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't mean to have fun here.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let me stick to snap and Overwatch too.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what, and I'm playing that.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the same result.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the same thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: The same reason I got burned out on that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I thought you got to get a two sweaty man like I don't like that kind of like the same reason I don't like playing better royals or like have to need duels or whatever is like because I don't want to be the guy that's not making a right move and some random assholes yelling at me and I'm like, fuck you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need to take this.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like two swathes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like games.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's two swathes so they don't you don't get exposed.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's essentially what you're saying.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, essentially, yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't have the time to get that that good.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just gonna see myself out.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's fair

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's, you know, because like again, it's that dilemma where like you have a competitive mode, I can't, it's hard for me to just do quickly.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to dip in the competitive and I'm not up to snuff the and I'm golf.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you need to go the quick.

[SPEAKER_04]: You need to walk before you run.

[SPEAKER_01]: I need to build myself back up and like get those reps and I'm not allowing myself to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's the problem.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so you're kind of doing this to yourself at this point.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am not, this is actually self-inflicted.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, it's self-inflicted.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like self, I self-exiled myself.

[SPEAKER_04]: yourself exiled yourself.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is a wild, wild state movement.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not in our critic, but it is, it is, but it is, I guess, but I know I know y'all don't want to listen to some of these traumatizing gaming stories when trying to play Koop.

[SPEAKER_04]: So let's go to the normal rig a bro that we like to do each and every week.

[SPEAKER_04]: So each of us chooses a topic of discussion in the world of video games, the topic would or could be a game itself or something that happened in the gaming industry and we do not want to talk about it amongst ourselves.

[SPEAKER_04]: We want you the listeners and viewers on Twitch and on YouTube to be a part of the conversation.

[SPEAKER_04]: So if there's something you're wanting to chime in by all means type it inside the chat and we will love to go with you and go through it and go from there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like dispute what we were going to be talking about this one was a big one because this came literally out of nowhere So on Thursday was a Thursday once a year Thursday of last week There was there was rumblings of steam announcing some new new things and and steam did not disappoint the in they announced a not just one not to but three different pieces of hardware

[SPEAKER_04]: All at the same time in one like six minute video of it and it didn't make it any really big like spectacle of it They just made it like something so they would be able to they were just showing it off.

[SPEAKER_04]: They put a video on YouTube They shared it on the social media and that was it

[SPEAKER_04]: But down there was a private session for like bigger big creators and stuff to get to take like, you know, hands on approaches for some of these games and some of these pieces of equipment and we've seen all of it, we see no, I've seen a lot of different kind of content from it, but it's just making me hype.

[SPEAKER_04]: So as you know, steam deck, I don't have a steam deck yet because my problem is I don't play a lot of handheld.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not a good at handheld playing the game handheldly.

[SPEAKER_04]: and help me if that's okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's probably more on.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be the whole off.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: But this stuff, the stuff that's coming out is really, really cold.

[SPEAKER_04]: The first one, the announced was a new steam controller.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, this is the second version of the original steam controller.

[SPEAKER_04]: they're doing a lot of different things that are adding to this one like the track pads are kind of from what they had on the original steam deck.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's being moved into a controller that's on the base that's on the base of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's still a symmetric form with the analogs right above the set controller as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're also using some new G-axis technology like it's you'll

[SPEAKER_04]: like it's it's it's supposed to be comparable to haptic feedback In stuff, but this looks like I mean the controller looks interesting I I'm not quite sold on the controller because how it looks it looks kind of bulky for my taste and then the perfect at the pads on the there's there's grip buttons and they also have programmable buttons on the base of it too But what was cool is that there's this thing called a puck that comes with it For it to charge so you don't plug the controller in there's a little clamp thing on the back of it

[SPEAKER_04]: That you clip on the back and then you could just hold then then that's how it gets its charge and then if you get it at a full charge for a full charge session is 35 hours of Gameplay for for a full charge of this controller.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's crazy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's something that I'm definitely interested in wanting to check out myself because I'm just like, whoa, this is crazy Crazy technology the original controller now if you look at the old school when the old school one looked kind of like a mess, but it was actually it looked like

[SPEAKER_04]: It shouldn't work, but it did, but this one seems more entuned of like how people are familiar with it, because this controller is essentially what the Steam deck is.

[SPEAKER_04]: So people should be able to get a good one to one of this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, the second thing, as you can see in the video, they announced a new Steam box.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's called the Steam Machine.

[SPEAKER_04]: that looks like it's now all that it's been come through a lot of different kinds of nicknames already so even out yet it's called the it's called the steam machine aka the Gabe Gabe cube or the steam steam cube and stuff like that the game looks like it looks like a classic Nintendo game cube but it looks very low profile it's six by it's a six inch by six inch screen

[SPEAKER_04]: Um, but it has custom like a custom board the the board is custom made that's that they made themselves as well as you could do with increase of different kinds of things like M dot 2 increase increase the M dot 2 heart hard drive inside of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: You could also increase the amount of RAM inside of this thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it comes in base that I want to say eight.

[SPEAKER_04]: No comes in at 16 gigs of RAM.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, and it's not going to be on the 30 June.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what the max is.

[SPEAKER_04]: I hope it goes up to 64 to be honest with you.

[SPEAKER_01]: But like, did you say how many slots are in there?

[SPEAKER_04]: There is, but I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't have it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't have that information on me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm assuming if it's going to be the size I'm assuming is going to be two slots.

[SPEAKER_04]: but don't don't don't don't quote me on that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not really familiar.

[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, so I mean, but this game, this box is 100% optimized to play your Steam library that you could play directly into this easily accessible to just plug it into your television screen.

[SPEAKER_04]: It claims it could

[SPEAKER_04]: and it says and they's uh with with uh I'm assuming with the the assessment uh uh the assist of AI technology towards it as well so uh I don't know to that I think what they extended it that would be but like this thing's well I saw this and I saw this and now it's I was like sold this is perfect for my living room like I don't even know like

[SPEAKER_04]: There's no way that I could say like like because I love playing my like playing the PC But I would love to play the PC certain games like for instance I've never played cyberpunk 277 and I want to play it and I think yeah, yeah, that's great about that Yes, I remember

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so like, but I want to play it on my on my living room to tell of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's like, it would be great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I think this would be a perfect game system for my system for me to just chill.

[SPEAKER_04]: Put it on my in my thing and then just have that, you know.

[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, that's, so that I am like the second this things out for reservations.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm picking this bad boy up.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is good.

[SPEAKER_04]: But then the last thing is that they announced what's called the steam frame.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now the steam frame is the VR version of steam.

[SPEAKER_04]: It will have the steam library already accessible, like readily accessible.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's actually to cool about this one, there's two ways of playing with this one.

[SPEAKER_04]: First, it has a built-in computer on the front of the goggles.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, you could actually load and install games and stuff, directly on the goggles itself.

[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't rely on the equipment.

[SPEAKER_04]: Kind of like the, what was the,

[SPEAKER_04]: What's the name meta's meta's glasses class?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the question.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the question.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the question kind of like a standalone system.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's still it can do that, but then what's also comes was also cool though though to it comes with a dongle that has like direct direct data that you can actually connect your the goggles to any laptop PC and stuff use that that that said laptop or PC as the main of the main unit and pull that information.

[SPEAKER_04]: with fast speed data transfer to it completely wireless.

[SPEAKER_04]: And this is not my kind of cup of tea.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't usually like playing with games in front of the glasses, but this thing looks incredibly powerful.

[SPEAKER_04]: And compared to all three of these versions, these pieces of hardware with something that they made 10 or 12 years ago.

[SPEAKER_04]: And this is a night and day difference to what they're showing now.

[SPEAKER_04]: If it's exactly what I think some of this stuff is going to be, I think this is going to be a definite game changer for console gamers.

[SPEAKER_04]: There are some people that are wanting to get a PC that's for gaming, but easily accessible easily to just say, let's press the button on, don't do any kind of crazy custom changes inside the settings.

[SPEAKER_04]: It just play play on your home, your home living room television and stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I won't get you all's opinion.

[SPEAKER_04]: So like does this catch your interest

[SPEAKER_01]: Shut up and take my money valve because I want it all.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been saying this is the only reason I had any kind of interest in the Steam deck is because I would like to be able to play my biggest game of library or my biggest library of games.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said that backwards.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: My biggest library is, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: anywhere, you know, I would like to not have to be able to sit at my computer to play it and that box I don't even know how much it's going to be that's the other thing we haven't seen pricing on any of this stuff yet so it's excited to get excited now, but

[SPEAKER_01]: you know, that that that price hit might do something.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see where they price it at though.

[SPEAKER_01]: Or if there's any kind of effects or anything like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, but I'm with you on that box.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, that's perfect for the living room.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could access all my stuff on steam right there, almost like an

[SPEAKER_01]: You guys came to meet there.

[SPEAKER_01]: You guys came to meet there.

[SPEAKER_04]: You didn't get a controller to, or again, the controller, or do you have anything about the brain, and so forth?

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you, so is the option not to get a controller?

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to get a controller to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can control, click, click, click, click, click.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the controls that you have right now will work on it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like, uh, that's a good question.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a kind of writer, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that if I feel like if you're telling me other things can connect you with.

[SPEAKER_04]: other things it's a PC I mean it's right it's it's not it's not a picky like yeah I don't feel the need for the controller you don't have to get the head yeah yeah no no I would not then we we literally have two controllers are like $200 ready we have the level we have the they can't and we have the victories and it's like those yeah it's a lot could be like other than if it's yeah no I don't I don't need that one bit you're right yeah so I think it would be pretty cool what about you pop with does this have

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's funny that the announcement for this was so huge, my mom asked about it because she was like, I want to gaming that top to play my Sims on so I don't have to sit in one place to, you know, play the Sims.

[SPEAKER_00]: But she was like, what do you think about this?

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, well, if you play with Mods, you can do it on the TV and I don't know, monitor.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was the first thing I thought of like, you can play with Mods on a TV.

[SPEAKER_00]: Which is kind of unheard of like, you think of like PC gaming and mods, you think, you know, desk computer.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this is, I'm not trying to be, you know, sound like an attendo hater.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this is the innovation we were looking for this year when it came to console gaming.

[SPEAKER_00]: being able to play a lot of people in, you know, I'm in the same boat as Smitty, like console.

[SPEAKER_00]: My largest library is on my playstation with switch falling behind.

[SPEAKER_00]: And outside of that, my PC, I had the most games on my PC.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I,

[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny that Smitty mentioned, you know, not one that says does the play games is like yesterday I've, what was I playing?

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was like on like PSO, so I'm like, man I really like to like being the living room on the couch With the recline or to just relax and you and game for once, but yeah, I definitely agree Now we'll do art night and not even in the living room like I have a big enough TV on my room here to game like dang Who'd be really nice just sit on my bed and and

[SPEAKER_00]: gamer, they're just not be in this ergonomic position all the time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like it's literally a godsend to be like, just think about that's about you know what that's probably the reason why I like playing RPGs on my consoles is because I don't like playing it on my on my computer because it's just like I'd rather just be able to sit down and chill and just be like, okay, here we go.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let me just sit down on the couch just

[SPEAKER_04]: Expedition 33 is a game that I would never want to play on my PC because it's something that I would want to be on my couch just chilling out for throughout that whole time.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think this would be a great opportunity.

[SPEAKER_04]: If it works the way it's say I'm thinking it's going to work.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is, let's see.

[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, that you not because I played infinite wealth on PC and everybody knows that it's like an

[SPEAKER_04]: The old God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Definitely.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't feel like a job and stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Zap.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, Twitch says.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, do you want to go?

[SPEAKER_04]: You can say it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't said yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, Zap says, you know, people will have the steam machine tag day one.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that'll be cool to watch.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, modded.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and here's the thing like they

[SPEAKER_01]: probably are all like kind of expected to and I think that's what's a really appealing to this is that they're not trying to do any kind of like gatekeeping or anything they're like here's a box here's the thing you can customize it you can customize outside you won't customize inside you can customize inside you can do what you can do on a PC but you can look at directly up to your

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like say less like it is literally what I've been wanting and in it connects directly to my steam account That is a loop.

[SPEAKER_04]: Here's the thing that I love about steam first off.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's why Gabe Gabe Newell is the real one for one He's always been this way though, too.

[SPEAKER_04]: So but but if you go on steam's website and you go to steam machine There's a spot there on this pet on the ad under steam machine and it will say like and it's a PC

[SPEAKER_04]: It literally tells you who are we to tell you how you want to play your PC do whatever the only one to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not us, you know, so like it literally says in the statement, yes, steam machine that's an optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC install your own apps or even other operating systems who are we to tell you how to use your computer.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that's all you need to say at this point.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, they are not in charge of showing how you're supposed to play this game.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you put the money in and if they're doing the mods and stuff, freaking awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's all of this.

[SPEAKER_04]: All that matters is make sure that you get your support and developers by what you're doing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that's why I love the fact that they're so laks about about models.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's just dry.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, there's different retreaters.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's a special place in hell for those people.

[SPEAKER_04]: But the models, it's like, there you go.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, this is a great opportunity for them to come in just the way things have been going and this and that I think this is a huge opportunity especially pricing lies if they can make this affordable enough for your common people they're going to definitely steal some of this market share I think this was this is a huge move and valve can really do something here yeah I think I think

[SPEAKER_04]: in the real list real is the right now because I think the the reason why they didn't want to do is because right now like parts are in our inflection quite substantially right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think the biggest is ram because like ram pieces of ram is cheap right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right, but I was going to say that like if I look at the realists realism of this because right now they said there's going to be two different skews is going to be one for a five 12 and then one for two two terabyte.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so right now I'm saying when the if it's the 512s could be a little bit cheaper I'm just the way I'm looking at it is like what since it's black Friday What if you just buy a two-tera by anticipating that the thing comes in because you know two-tera It's gonna be on sale for black Friday Yeah, and just wait it just get the low the low-end the kind of save you some money But like why would you get the high-end when you could change it out yourself?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm assuming this game the system's gonna be a G

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they're treating it like a PC.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't see a PC being under $1,000.

[SPEAKER_04]: The way that's just my own, my own thoughts of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And to be real, but I think Jesus, just the idea of just adding a capture card on the back of it, just plug it into something, to capture people recording.

[SPEAKER_04]: So much easier than just bringing, because I have a boat, and I don't want to bring that in the living room when I do this kind of stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I mean a boat for a PC.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to like lug it into a living room like, you know, oh, yeah, no, I don't know everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: So so that like a literal, but no, I was like, we're just funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: You do it like, hey, you kind of want to get involved.

[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, so this is, no, they said, they're saying the right things.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that this is definitely something that everyone got there.

[SPEAKER_04]: It just, this is something that just, that you're definitely going to have to reserve because I don't see how this game is, how this is going to stay in stock.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is like, and then plus the, the back plates and all this other crazy and this is going to, that you can add to it to, I want, like, I, I'm, you really love that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm really going to, I really like that, too.

[SPEAKER_04]: So,

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I have to get one.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to figure out a way to get one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because it's that's everything I've wanted.

[SPEAKER_01]: Literally, that's the only reason I even considered a steam deck.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I got a backbone.

[SPEAKER_01]: I literally have a backbone next that can connect into my steam.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just have a hard time gaming on a phone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean like but I like I love my portal.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love the switch to But something about on a phone it just does not hit the way that I need a game to hit

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I totally agree I'm looking for that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I totally agree to like I'm looking forward to like I was thinking about getting a steam deck because I saw steam decks were on sale for a bit And but then I realized you know like I said I just don't want to do what I had for the steep the switch to because I have a switch to but I only have one game and I'm trying I am waiting for Metroid Prime 4 and I am waiting for Sonic in January, but it's going to like

[SPEAKER_04]: I just need something some more diversity because I guess that's two racing games.

[SPEAKER_04]: The Kirby Air Ride is also been on the fence.

[SPEAKER_04]: What's all they have for me?

[SPEAKER_04]: He's like, I got one game, I got one game.

[SPEAKER_04]: What do you have on your switch, too?

[SPEAKER_04]: How many kids do you have?

[SPEAKER_01]: What about your old switch games, are they?

[SPEAKER_04]: I still have the, I mean, specifically, of course I have by switch, my switch one games, but like, I want switch two games of the, you didn't get Donkey Kong?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I think a Donkey Kong.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not yet.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was the only one.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have one more than I do.

[SPEAKER_03]: I bet this is not a lot out of you look at you're doing the you throw the rock at the glass ceiling at me.

[SPEAKER_03]: You have to

[SPEAKER_01]: What the hell is that?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so I don't feel as bad.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, I got that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, you got to.

[SPEAKER_01]: That might be a dude.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's really, I hear it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, like, to get really close.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's, yeah, there's no need to get.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the crazy thing too is that they're still moving them.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're moving units.

[SPEAKER_01]: People are buying in and upgrading from the switch ecosystem to the, to the switch too.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: But that's like two different that's two racing games in from the same from the same character in this during the same year and then then you got Metroid Prime 4 that's coming at the end of the year I believe in December so I'm just still on the fence of a far morning to get that day one and not but I mean I might as well because it's a drought I

[SPEAKER_04]: the the game key cards is the thing I really is really making it tough for me that that's was driving me make me not wanted to get games on the system which is really sad but anyways that's a whole thing in itself so but anyways yeah so steam steam machine they said estimate of time is coming in the first quarter of twenty twenty six so definitely stay tuned if it's available for for pre-order this is one I will just rarely say you should pre-order it because it's not gonna this is a game system I don't think it's going to be there easily except

[SPEAKER_04]: easily.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, can you have this?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, can I have it?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be back order.

[SPEAKER_04]: Definitely.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I don't feel like, I mean, here's the other thing too.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel like I have the rush to get it either.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like my library is not going anywhere.

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, and like, I can be the one for view it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, well, I mean, yeah, I get that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I totally get that, but

[SPEAKER_01]: just for like, yeah, I don't feel that like, oh, I have to have this day one personally, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

[SPEAKER_04]: how long did it take for them to just be able to regularly get a steam deck.

[SPEAKER_04]: It took them it was a while.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it was a good while for it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Even though, which is funny, steam deck wasn't like it was a massive successful hit.

[SPEAKER_04]: They only sold like two million compared to them.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, but it's just like very interesting on how it gets to the points, you know.

[SPEAKER_04]: when uh uh because we don't know how the how the hardware is going to uh uh uh go over uh you know like uh or be soldiers or not soldiers uh we'll see.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because I mean really it's just uh it's really a redundancy is what it is and just being able to

[SPEAKER_01]: play it somewhere else.

[SPEAKER_01]: Off of off of your PC.

[SPEAKER_01]: Outside of that, I don't know what I would use the PC bits for.

[SPEAKER_01]: But that's a big, that's a big change though.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because like, I mean, yeah, it's huge and don't get me wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's enough for me to get it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I will get it at some point in time.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I absolutely want it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's the only, like I said, don't want to read and I was looking at a steam deck because I want to be able to play

[SPEAKER_01]: way, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: The backbone doesn't get me there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I tried it though.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, yeah, I'll get it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't also feel like I have to drop premium price just to have it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I can wait.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just good knowing that it's coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: But again, if the price

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's pretty close to an affordable range.

[SPEAKER_01]: What have they said?

[SPEAKER_01]: We're maybe.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that tone, what have they said?

[SPEAKER_04]: Steam Machine comes with a free copy of Black Ops 7.

[SPEAKER_04]: Would that give it to you?

[SPEAKER_01]: You need to be free right now because of this but you get a free copy of it The still going to be a copy does not move the needle for me Yeah, maybe for some people not me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay

[SPEAKER_00]: I also wonder how easy it'll be to travel with because be traveling and going to different conventions.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're just being able to hook it up at the hotel or something and play a couple of games.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know it's funny problem.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was actually thinking about this about that.

[SPEAKER_04]: What if this game system runs better for attorney level play like Street for Street Fighter?

[SPEAKER_04]: tech in and stuff and stuff you want to be interesting.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's have going on a PlayStation the ones that we know because you remember what no you weren't there but like they had cards a PlayStation five before when they overheated they had to switch to different systems.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen I've seen videos where like they just caught on fire.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so I just say like what if that is the what if that box would it can be an alternative to the V8 that is there's

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if that's something that's only we want to do anyways if they did sit there on the euro still but still it's like uh but yeah they did they did they did until they totally still do because the company that they sold it to is still that which is funny to me but they still have themselves well they sold it to a different some city area to themselves because that's some city area

[SPEAKER_04]: does that kind of stuff like because originally the name uh when it when Sony owned it they was going under their Sony brand that was essentially their the brand of Sony but they don't know e-sports compared.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that was always their plan was to have a handoff, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, what's the handoff?

[SPEAKER_04]: But it's still technically themselves though, which is funny to me into that you're just treating it like a complete differently.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was a digress.

[SPEAKER_04]: Anyways, yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Steve, Steve, Steve doing a good job on promoting this.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can't wait to get it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm definitely going to reserve one.

[SPEAKER_04]: It didn't go from there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Pop.

[SPEAKER_04]: What do you bring into the table?

[SPEAKER_00]: So this week, SEGA announced that it will be raising the salaries for the employees again the last time they had a pay raise it was three years ago and a press release not only are full-time employees going to be getting a raise, but

[SPEAKER_00]: new employees are going to get and it's seen increase in their starting salary as the entered company.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they listed a couple of reasons for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: One creating an environment in which employees can work with peace of mind amid recent social changes such as rising prices and it also wants to recruit developing attractive human resources to strengthen their global competitiveness.

[SPEAKER_00]: I believe this pay raise will kick off in quarter, the second quarter of 26, so we're looking about April next year where they'll start to see this pay raise.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I recall the numbers correctly, the pay increase, at least the starting employees are going to see a 10% increase, which is pretty, pretty good, not going to lie.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't recall what the,

[SPEAKER_00]: previous difference was the last time they did a pay increase.

[SPEAKER_00]: 10% and so I wish I got 10% at my own job.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm safe.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a gift.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is easy between two and five percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Five percent on a very high side.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: In a statement they said we believe that human resources are essential to achieving our mission and creating a providing new value and we are working to reform our personnel system in various ways to ensure that employees can maximize their potential in a comfortable working environment.

[SPEAKER_00]: So amidst all the things that I haven't, I think this is interesting that this press release came out a week after, you know, square enix that all those layoffs with their western divisions and I wanted to know you guys thought on, you know, instead of cutting jobs, because I don't know how.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know CFG is going to be talked about this a bit, but Japan and their decreasing value of the yen.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is very interesting to do considering that the value of the yen is dropping.

[SPEAKER_00]: And instead of doing cuts, they're just like we're going to pay you more.

[SPEAKER_01]: You guys think this, I mean, this sounds like theater almost, you know what I mean, like number one, think about it, what other job talks about giving people like pay raises and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't think of another industry and like I feel like, and it's not just them, I feel like.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've heard it before where people talk about giving like payrages and stuff like that and it's like, that's not like typical of, you know, like job talking about, you know what I mean, like it's all kind of come off as like kind of weird to me and like kind of like marketing employee to me, I think it's great for the workers obviously the fact that they're getting these payrages, but I mean even saying that like, well,

[SPEAKER_01]: Shouldn't they be getting yearly pay raises, like the last pay raise was three years ago, like, what's up with that?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how that works exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yearly pay raise.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is specifically a pay increase.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the base.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is, like, essentially, so how would that work exactly for, like, employees that have been working there?

[SPEAKER_01]: Does that like,

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're going to look on top of what they are already making.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or it's an increase in their base salary.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they've already gotten a raise.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be the raise plus whatever the new base salary is.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so like let's say theoretically a person's still like they're working there.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're getting they came in at $50,000, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Then they're saying across the board, say give themselves as a company saying across the board that everyone is going to be getting at least a 10% increase rate.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that person they got $50,000 going to get about it's going to be what's 60, about $60,000.

[SPEAKER_04]: So regardless of whatever they do, they're getting that increase.

[SPEAKER_04]: But they're doing it all across the board, which is makes it even

[SPEAKER_04]: I say it's a little sketchy because I kind of agree with it with it to you because I like when you see everything else around it, I mean, if this is real and if this is what what's say it's going to do, that's awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm kind of it's really crazy to think that say it's the one that's going to be that that's spearheading it because like,

[SPEAKER_04]: Like you've heard nothing but bad news for the past three, three years of people like losing their jobs and stuff like that and their sales and stuff and then all of a sudden you're saying you're telling me you have one company out there that's saying instead of cutting people.

[SPEAKER_04]: Cutting people were actually going to still keep the people there, but we're also going to bump them up on there on their pay for this stuff is is amazing to me that if it's real

[SPEAKER_04]: do more power to you do like it's like I was like I don't even know how how how anyone would be thinking okay we're just going to give them a raise that all of this you know it's so it's so interesting that that that that that's where we're at right now especially uh but to be fair I don't think Sega puts a lot of their money in a lot like you know in when it comes to uh a like I mean

[SPEAKER_04]: They don't inflate their budget on their projects.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like all those games that they're releasing are very relatively small.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like I guess the most of the money that they're putting in would probably be their flagships, like Sonic and stuff in fantasy star because it's an MMO.

[SPEAKER_04]: But like I think that they can get away with it because they might be relatively lower than when a normal, which you would see as a normal AAA studio.

[SPEAKER_04]: like you know the people from like a yoga like from from from from from yakuza the people create yakuza is definitely getting paid because I mean that's there that's the number one studio I mean if answer butts but like I mean the creators of Versafighter and all that's crazyness is gonna happen but

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, I mean, this is great news for if you're a Sega employee.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I bet you some folks are definitely, definitely have psyched about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Especially, I guess if they're, they're till the beginning of 2026, April 2026, it'll be like, oh, hey, sweet.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, the least 10% less of things afterward.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it would be awful and gosh into this happens if, you know, this happens and like the plan kind of backfires Oh, yeah, yeah, I feel like they've been on an upward trajectory though just wait Yeah, it really is and like moves that they've made and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like they've kind of been like the subtle like steady climber that have been like, you know

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yeah, we've got our stuff together.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've got a clear plan that we're implementing and whatnot, we're focused in.

[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe this isn't indicator of like, hey, things are going to court in the plan.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we're taking this extra and going ahead and, you know, bumping things up and doing a little more because it could also be an entice to other studios or something like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, hey, maybe they're looking

[SPEAKER_01]: pick up some some people or something who knows.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it'll definitely be interesting to see how they shake and move on the latter half of 2025 and, you know, what, what kind of mood they've got stored for 2026 here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's just interesting that this is announced because for the past.

[SPEAKER_00]: uh, since the last raise, uh, they salary raise that they did, they haven't bought any more studios since like, so between that three-year gap, they, you know, they bought Robio, they got, um,

[SPEAKER_00]: Those two other students, they acquired so many different studios and I'm wondering if now this is like, okay, we've done, we're done with like a quiet.

[SPEAKER_00]: It seems like they have a very solid plan, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like this.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's so down at the right time or the other side, this little down at the right time, they didn't overinflate themselves or put more money into when they should have, which shows a good level of leadership in that sense, but, uh, exactly.

[SPEAKER_04]: I guess it's just like it's like I said, like it,

[SPEAKER_04]: like I guess the fear would be what if it doesn't uh uh in their in the near future it's something does it does it falls through a little bit and you're like oh wow we'll just increase the pay rate rates so we're going to have to we're going to have to let people go or some some sort of crazy nonsense knock-on would hopefully that doesn't happen but but yeah no it's great it's great to hear uh it's just I guess we're just I guess we're just been we've been seeing

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, yeah, I always have to look at that side like what's your cat?

[SPEAKER_01]: What's the cat's body?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there's a huge catch though only because Sonic team After front tears their budget got increased.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's it's I haven't seen anything outside of what happened in the US But that wasn't necessarily on Sega Japan that was more as a Sega America But that's a different topic right different day

[SPEAKER_00]: I can tell that from the news that I've been seeing, there is so much of a plan and they're sticking to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I really hope that nothing changes in the higher ups because I would really, really hate for them to lose this momentum.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, no, well, hopefully we'll see.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully we just hope to see that a Sega is going to keep on going up.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, like I said, like a dazz of late.

[SPEAKER_04]: They've been making some good bangers as of late.

[SPEAKER_04]: So like you can the the re-released games.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're planned originally.

[SPEAKER_04]: You remember that thing day announced their plan at the beginning of the game awards of 2024 about them re-releasing some older games.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then

[SPEAKER_04]: The pushing with it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's it's been working.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I mean, should nobody was a wasn't excellent game Then like then you also have normal You have normal the sonic racers is definitely I think is the looks like a better racer than the Mario Kart world I can't wait to actually start playing with the all in January and Yeah, and I mean, I'm just say that you're right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, so many.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just calling out.

[SPEAKER_04]: I see you right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Mark our world was boring

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not saying I'm not saying it was a bad game, it was a good game.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I get a switch to all, I'll be sure to get Mario Kart world so I can be like, yeah, you know, Davis is right.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, they're good in their own little way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Although, you know, like me, I'm probably going to just be like, Sonic.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've always hated how Mario Kart felt.

[SPEAKER_00]: It just feels really slow to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I still need to give Sonic Racer a try.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's some of the older ones on my game or on not game pass, but PlayStation Plus.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've thought about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't done it yet.

[SPEAKER_04]: The Sonic racing games.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't one.

[SPEAKER_04]: I want to say

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm told that Sonic Racing hasn't always been as good as what this one is, so are you serious?

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I didn't mean something crazy.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't that great.

[SPEAKER_00]: If all stars is one of those games, that one was a really good one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, it's like a hidden myth.

[SPEAKER_04]: Wait, do you have the the highest level for a PlayStation plus as well?

[SPEAKER_04]: Me?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do.

[SPEAKER_04]: You do?

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you probably should take advantage of that because I mean, that's the only one that does claim services.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I do.

[SPEAKER_04]: What the hell you think I'm doing with my portal?

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just want the dude.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you know what's they've done with the portal like the portal itself is cute?

[SPEAKER_04]: Why some stance?

[SPEAKER_04]: I know that's why.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I've been enjoying every bit of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I didn't know I didn't know that I like I'm like, how did I game without my portal before?

[SPEAKER_01]: Great fantastic.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm playing calls football and bed the other day.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you're a nice.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, fantastic

[SPEAKER_04]: All right, but now, but we'll see.

[SPEAKER_04]: We'll see what it is with Sega though.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that's that's awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: Good news for once in the gaming gaming spectrum.

[SPEAKER_04]: So there we go.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Smitty.

[SPEAKER_04]: What are you closing on the topic with today?

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, wait, Poppy says every time everyone laughed at the polo, but look at them now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Dude, it took him five years.

[SPEAKER_04]: I laughed at them.

[SPEAKER_04]: Dude, I laughed right in their face.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, what is this?

[SPEAKER_04]: They messed up the first off.

[SPEAKER_04]: The way they released that, the portal was terrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, it cannot deny it.

[SPEAKER_04]: They was terrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: There was no reason to get it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then then the small updates and stuff, they're slowly adding up to it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, it's worth it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now it's very worth it in my opinion.

[SPEAKER_04]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, so everyone was right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, even if you don't have a PlayStation, now it's worth a PlayStation.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you have a PlayStation in order to have a portal essentially that is the cheaper version for a PS5 is the portal and you can do and you can base I mean you probably won't be as powerful, but it's still

[SPEAKER_04]: a good enough system for you to play the put the current game so no they did a really good job on converting it I will definitely agree but if you ask if you ask me to five years ago hey you're gonna get a place in the portal absolutely not there was no last in their face it's been right laughed and walked away probably still some money on to

[SPEAKER_04]: You know I didn't throw my money and now the problem.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said I throw money at them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, money.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, no.

[SPEAKER_04]: Pick pocket out.

[SPEAKER_04]: Swipe to that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Just walk the way.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, blah, blah, blah.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Tony, what do you break up with the table, but right, speaking of things that aren't going so hot, black ops 7 blocks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Blobs 7 just came out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Was it Friday?

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say yes, wouldn't un-eventful watch.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel on the vessel.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, to be honest, you'd I didn't even look at the game till I didn't even play the game till Saturday.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: Was it Saturday?

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember, but I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just was not, I have not, here's my thing about this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Number one, I said this is a problem a while ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: They remember, they said that they're going to break away from the cadence of releasing a Call of Duty every year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, smart.

[SPEAKER_01]: They need to get away from it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, since some Microsoft, you know, and all that they went back on that, they literally released one that same year that they said that they weren't going to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they scrapped that and that's unfortunate.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not only that, but they've had uh, there's been a cadence for Call of Duty.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's been three, I think three or four studios have basically done it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Tray art, Ravensoth, Sledgehammer, and Activision.

[SPEAKER_01]: Or uh, infinity war.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not Activision.

[SPEAKER_01]: Infinity war.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've gotten away from that.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are literally that we went from black ops six to black ops seven, no time for them to cook, no time for them to, whatever.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just scratching the surface of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I went in,

[SPEAKER_01]: The multiplayer plays like the multiplayer is levels that we are used to.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's some cool things.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun multiplayer.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to hate on the multiplayer and a lot of people are enjoying it.

[SPEAKER_01]: My issue gets into the campaign.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've played a little bit of the campaign.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't believe him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Project came into stream the other night.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, it plays like Destiny 2.

[SPEAKER_01]: let me talk about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: What is that crazy?

[SPEAKER_01]: What does that mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: That's exactly.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, whoa, well, I don't know if I should feel insulted.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, like, what are you saying to me?

[SPEAKER_01]: And he wouldn't even saying it like, like, really like an insult, but kind of like an insult.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh, and he wasn't wrong because it does play like a destiny too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but it doesn't feel like a Call of Duty campaign.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, show me some context when you mean by that, because like I like I said, I don't really play, I don't play Call of Duty.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so if you look at and I know a lot of people have probably seen the video circulating and whatnot, where there's the the end fight, the end boss fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's there's

[SPEAKER_01]: The zombies, the stories zombies, zombies in this and like things were running at you like stuff salt trippy and whatnot, but like

[SPEAKER_01]: When you're playing, I'm running and sliding, like I'm playing destiny.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm shooting things up.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've got health bar above their name.

[SPEAKER_01]: And like it feels like I'm literally in a, in a freaking story campaign of destiny.

[SPEAKER_01]: It does not feel like Hall of Duty at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's the end boss fight where you're jumping over this thing and it

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why they even.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a weird call in my opinion.

[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, no, if you watch any kind of gameplay of the campaign, you're going to be like, what the hell am I looking at?

[SPEAKER_01]: This is kind of crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it is a co-op campaign as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: So people, you know, I did not do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been doing it solo, but it's got the always online.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's no, you can actually, it's yeah, it's so dope.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it's always, wait, the story is always online.

[SPEAKER_01]: So the story is always online.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, God and as a call, duty.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you already know by by a ton of space.

[SPEAKER_01]: I took off as much bloat that I could.

[SPEAKER_01]: It still came up to like 150 some gigs at first.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, I don't need the co-op, but I want the campaign, but I had to download the co-op campaign in order to access the campaign.

[SPEAKER_01]: Else, it was very dumb.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, what comes out?

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm like, I'm looking at the, well, this is, well, I'm playing, I'm watching the multiplayer mode.

[SPEAKER_04]: I, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I know from what I've seen looks like the story, I have no, like, okay, let me, let me me backtrack a little bit.

[SPEAKER_04]: I played the old school Call of Duty 2.

[SPEAKER_04]: I played Call of Duty, Monteneworth Fair 1 and 2.

[SPEAKER_04]: The original Call of Duty Monteneworth Fair 1 and 2 and I played Black Ops 1, I believe.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I guess it was the best is it okay, I never played it so I don't know, but yeah, but I will say that it's like the feel of the game felt more like military base Like and I already knew that this game veered off a long time ago from that kind of style of like you know telling stories of warfare and stuff But this game when I saw the story mode and I saw the video of like what you're fighting and then I saw like I think it was Michael Rooker is one of the characters

[SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, what is happening?

[SPEAKER_04]: I had no idea what was happening here.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I was just like, I was like, this doesn't even feel like, there was a state about zombies like running, like your zombies were on your side and you were trying to use them as like, you know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, as, uh, as cover while you were trying to get to a destination, I was like, what is like, this isn't, this would disappoint me for a person in the story driven this would that would disappoint me.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I think the thing that really got to me was, if I could, you cannot pause in story mode, you have to play the game.

[SPEAKER_04]: The game is all, it's, it's 100% like live.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to play it throughout, throughout the whole, throughout the whole session, which is like,

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, why, this is, these decisions don't make any sense, you know?

[SPEAKER_01]: So anyways, but I'm sorry, literally just, no, you're fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: Literally, it just feels slapped together.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what you get when, and again, I kind of feel bad for the devs, because

[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me, they're being asked to do this and like this isn't that that's never been a formula of Call of Duty.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: You had these very different studios.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you got a very different feeling Call of Duty even though they were going year to year, it was by different studios.

[SPEAKER_01]: This back to back as in these like they just came out with it like again this is just an extension of the last call the last black ops that's all it is and who know like the zombies isn't like the story went off the rails.

[SPEAKER_01]: a long time ago with zombies for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just really, I'm having a really hard time.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love that story.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you like how's the story out?

[SPEAKER_01]: They should make this into some form of movie.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is that good.

[SPEAKER_01]: What was this?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have no idea what the hell's going on with it, huh?

[SPEAKER_04]: Wasn't that like a side story with the zombies?

[SPEAKER_04]: like the right story.

[SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like it was an extra story.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like when the when they introduced called duties on the zombies mode, that was a zombie mode that had a story in itself, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Or was it?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was been like a side.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I think it was first in world of war.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and like that stuff got kind of crazy too, but like somehow that like, well, I don't know why that worked.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, it had to be honest, but it did, it did work and I loved it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it just, it just does not, it does not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not,

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a Call of Duty and I'm not excited one more to the other.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, I'll play it a couple times and probably never pick it up again.

[SPEAKER_04]: If I compare your energy to how you were about Call of Duty six just a year ago, this is like this is a lot more somber than what you normally were or I will say.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just can't get excited about Call of Duty anymore, really.

[SPEAKER_01]: And again, Battlefield coming out with a bangers, as well as it's like, look at our creators and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm over the same dribble over and over again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, if you're not willing to, you know, and like, these people eat it up.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of people that eat it up.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're gonna sell their millions and everyone's gonna call it a success, but...

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'll edge you do it when you, when you want to, uh, the steam reviews, they don't lie.

[SPEAKER_01]: They paint a very clear picture of how people feel about this game.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Pop, do you have anything to say?

[SPEAKER_04]: What do you think?

[SPEAKER_00]: not surprised that a Smithy seemed uninduced by the story because all the complaints that I've seen about Dark Up 7 has been about the story.

[SPEAKER_00]: I saw one person on Twitter was just like, yeah, I refunded my game because I opened the game, played the story, everything was,

[SPEAKER_00]: Also the game nothing but AI and they said they called I guess they had a hard copy because they like we funded it to like game stop or something like that and there is like yep.

[SPEAKER_00]: Money not well spent, but I'm glad I got it back.

[SPEAKER_04]: that is crazy.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're not even talking about the AI issues that were on this game.

[SPEAKER_04]: And let alone the lack of information of them telling you that there's AI in the game.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that's a lot of people were refunding their games back because of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I will say that.

[SPEAKER_04]: But you know what, but you're right.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I think we definitely need to see get some

[SPEAKER_04]: We have to go to the number one source of the best reviews out there from the people, which is the steam review section of the game.

[SPEAKER_04]: So right now, already have it pulled up and we currently have it will not be surprised.

[SPEAKER_00]: Someone's just like, three bad multiplayer good.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, this is one of the two because this is one of the things about it like I'm looking at it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking at positives.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking at negatives.

[SPEAKER_04]: I see a lot of negatives and you know, no.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So normally when it when the game when people don't like a negative a game or if it's bad, they're they're going to write the paragraphs is just tough to find the ones that have a good positive, you know,

[SPEAKER_04]: that will give the time to tell what makes it good or not.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it's going to be a little bit of time to go and try to figure it out.

[SPEAKER_04]: But so far, this is the first weekend, it's mixed, but I really feel that this is going to go negative in the in the longer run.

[SPEAKER_04]: But we'll see.

[SPEAKER_04]: So there's this one.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, the one I kind of got my eye on is uh uh that there's a guy named uh via mortal mind.

[SPEAKER_04]: This guy got the game for free.

[SPEAKER_04]: Someone bought it for him and uh and he says this.

[SPEAKER_04]: I despise the fact someone else paid 79, 99 euros to gift me this game.

[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't deserve, it doesn't deserve to be a high price.

[SPEAKER_04]: The campaign is weak, can't pause, forced to be online, no difficulty settings.

[SPEAKER_04]: Really?

[SPEAKER_04]: There's no difficulty settings?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's interesting.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, get your, yeah, get your crap together.

[SPEAKER_04]: Activision.

[SPEAKER_04]: So is it just one base setting and that's story mode?

[SPEAKER_01]: Just, yeah, you just, you just hop in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I would hate that.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's terrible again.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's terrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: uh... okay here's another one uh... guy named september he says a i generated slopp another underbaked title delivered on false promises and but and uh... blatant lies the absolute worst campaign of call duty history made within the war zone shell

[SPEAKER_04]: the uh... they beat zombies back into the grave and the multiplayer is clunky the calling cards are a i generated the vault edition blueprints look horrible and the maps feel awful to play buying this game was quite literally the worst use of money i ever have used in my twenty two years of being alive jesus they can't let you get at them

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to do game.

[SPEAKER_03]: You must have a great game.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, just tell me too.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're still just a baby, man.

[SPEAKER_03]: So to ever come on, grow up at this point.

[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_04]: But the day night or the same thing that the day night was saying, this is not the same.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're just going through the regular chat here.

[SPEAKER_04]: He says that the campaign hasn't been good for a long time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now though, let's be completely honest here.

[SPEAKER_04]: His game doesn't need to be that big.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_04]: Other games are like that or smaller.

[SPEAKER_04]: What's the size of this game?

[SPEAKER_04]: what the size of the game itself like how big what's it to install in your system.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, like 150 something gigs.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a big game.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because they like try to package in like the old college duties and war zone.

[SPEAKER_01]: So like you have to go through and and click what you want.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I think it was like 150 something when it just with the black ops seven stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they piece part of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, is there a BR mode too?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, there is.

[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the same one that war zone, the war zone.

[SPEAKER_04]: Also war zone still because it hasn't been there.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's treated like it's own separate entity almost, but they like package everything together.

[SPEAKER_04]: Gotcha.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Poppy Hendrix has has given us some facts here, saying that the zombie story was an extension of the Call of Duty story based off of World War II, though, but it connects with every Call of Duty story.

[SPEAKER_04]: Be a one and two was the best days of zombies.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so you're saying agree.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so the first two versions of black ops and world at war were the best parts of what zombies was, but now it's just a pilot dribble.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're weird for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: We would black ops three, was that the one where they had the wall running.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's where they were things got with it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That one or maybe it was the one that like he was like in a gladiator arena.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, what the hell is this?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was like what is what is going on here and I just got to stop.

[SPEAKER_04]: Advanced Warfare.

[SPEAKER_01]: Bus, Advanced Warfare.

[SPEAKER_01]: Terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: That game was terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: I hated that game.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did.

[SPEAKER_01]: I did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is that the second rendition of Advanced Warfare or the first of the original because I thought there are two different, because it's not.

[SPEAKER_01]: There was only one advanced Warfare, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I made a second one.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm thinking modern warfare.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry, you're right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I'm out of more for years.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, call running was BS.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's not not COD.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so I found the positive one this guy's his name is ultra Lord and he says this was the most hilarious campaign I have ever played I pissed myself laughing all the time I recommend it simply because you have to see for yourself just of how stupid this is

[SPEAKER_04]: if you get it shared it shared or have game past that is don't pay the full price for this obviously for this obviously how the fuck did they even come up with that I am in tears that's a positive review

[SPEAKER_04]: That is insanely funny to me that that's the positive.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I got to find some other ones because the other ones, like I said, you're looking at concurrent viewers, our creators has more concurrent viewers than black ops seven.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, that's not true.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if they're wrong dude.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's not really trolly.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like he's saying that it's good It's it's good enough that it's so funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's good.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's good enough that it's so funny that it's bad But he enjoyed it because it was because it was taking itself seriously, but it was still not a game to buy which is freaking

[SPEAKER_04]: all over the place but like all the call of duty influencers I don't really see them saying much anything doctor disrespect got still get is a major influencer for call of duty and then he even said that he's done after playing the first the first on playing it and I was done yeah but yes true I

[SPEAKER_04]: but uh uh then you got the not a positive review which is uh this is when he says Battlefield 6 waiting room that's that's it was thumbs up.

[SPEAKER_04]: Battlefield 6 waiting room.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a troll.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see if there's anything else.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm still looking it up.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is

[SPEAKER_01]: compared to what I mean literally it is like the last Call of Duty.

[SPEAKER_01]: It literally is just an extension of a black ob six.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel bad that that Tray Ark and Raven have been Ravensoth have been reduced to this because it's it's pathetic.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even know what to even think about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel bad for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: And us.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel bad that we are getting this Slop.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it's terrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think the fact that they need to be like the fact that they are, that they openly said $80.

[SPEAKER_04]: This game is $80, it was $80, it was a $70 bucks.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know even.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is it $80?

[SPEAKER_04]: I have no idea.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's not being sane.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't pay.

[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be crazy.

[SPEAKER_04]: The fact that they openly charge whatever they charge and they said it was because like Well, I think I'm thinking 80 because I said 80 euros.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me see how much was ever you should generate a var what You can buy these skins or what Black ops 7 literally what is started to 70 80 bucks guys damn well crazy

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it was annoying.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, what was annoying is also the fact that what's it called gave a there was a there was a place that gave Arcraders a bad review score because they said they use the AI and the use the eye for the the voice acting or like when some of the voice acting This is too.

[SPEAKER_01]: How to know what that contract look like

[SPEAKER_01]: with the same.

[SPEAKER_01]: The actors would have been built into their contract.

[SPEAKER_01]: They should have believed.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: But what sucks though, what doesn't make any sense to me though is that this game has more AI in it and it's more blatant and more like, and they didn't even tell the people that there was AI in this, the way that this was in it and they got a better score because of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I was just like, this is ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So the game costs $70.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's a, I guess, and then you pay, they, you pay a lot for everything else.

[SPEAKER_01]: The skins and the moals of me as that, and are you trying to tell me that the, like, so there's a main woman, are you trying to tell me that her voice is not AI?

[SPEAKER_01]: Because when I heard her voice, I instantly thought AI because you know where with AI when it's bad AI, they try to cover it up with some sort of effect to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is what they've done to this lady's voice, and I was like, tell me this you need an AI.

[SPEAKER_01]: This sounds so way I and maybe I'm wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't looked it up yet, but I wouldn't be surprised because they're talking about art and stuff like that, which which it's crazy that you're getting like number one, they're selling some of this stuff aren't they in fact and things like that or is it things that you just earn from in game jabbies I have no idea a good question.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they're selling that's pretty messed up.

[SPEAKER_04]: I found another reviewer here, MoroScore, I don't know how to say his name, MoroScore, I've seen a lot of negative reviews about Black Ops7, but honestly, I don't share most of those opinions.

[SPEAKER_04]: I bought the game for myself and my friend, and we're both really enjoying it.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have played zombies in multiplayer in beta.

[SPEAKER_04]: And today we tried ashes of the damned ashes of the damn too, which it was amazing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, the $80 price tag is definitely high that that part is hard to ignore.

[SPEAKER_04]: But the side from that price, the campaign is engaging.

[SPEAKER_04]: The gun sounds are great.

[SPEAKER_04]: The characters are well done and the story kept me hooked.

[SPEAKER_04]: It may not reach the level of the older titles like BO3 and BO4, but it's nowhere near as bad as what people making is making it out to be.

[SPEAKER_04]: if you're on the fence because of the negativity i'd say give it a chance it's uh it's much better than it's current reputation suggest okay well that is that is an opinion person is a bootlicker

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I could say about that.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's the guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I will just just shit out of them, Dean.

[SPEAKER_01]: There is no way in hell that was not a doctor to ask response to you.

[SPEAKER_01]: That shit is pathetic.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is, that is, you are lying to yourself if you truly believe that and you drop the $160 for you and your friend to play this game.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're a fucking liar.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, hey, you know it's all I got to say exactly pop people that is a pain that is a pain that You know I'll say I'll say this.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's an opinion.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's an opinion

[SPEAKER_04]: Wow, wow, okay, how about this one?

[SPEAKER_04]: Hit the other positive review.

[SPEAKER_04]: See, it's so easy to find the trolls, but this guy sounded genuine enough that he enjoyed it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the only reason why he enjoyed it seemed like he was playing, you played it with a friend.

[SPEAKER_04]: I bet you could have been a different tone if you would play it with someone else.

[SPEAKER_01]: That would definitely up the experience level, but if you've played any of the other black ops,

[SPEAKER_04]: Come on dude, he had an knowledge that he said he said it wasn't as good as 3 and 4.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what 3 and 4 was or 5

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, he just said three times.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not talking about just a story.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's talking about also the the play of the game.

[SPEAKER_01]: Again, it hasn't it hasn't very much at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's how I know they're lying.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's funny to be able to say that you are only lying to yourself in that regard.

[SPEAKER_01]: That basically is like all the black ops right there that you listed.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's all right that the multiplayer feels good and I'm and I'm having a decent time, but I still it still is a recycling joke from the black ops six they shouldn't be able to make a black ops and release another one directly after that

[SPEAKER_04]: back in the day they never used to be they used to do that the devs are getting lazy and money hungry and it in its complete BS but at the end of the day I'm still I still have fun with it right now just disappointed in a call duty do better for the long time for long time fans.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a positive review and I mean that it's very fair.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean even when I look on the outside of this game It just not look like some of you did put the they they went full on a full on out and like how they used to be back in the day and it looks like they lost their way personally because

[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing I don't like about that, though, is that they're blaming the devs in this, and I do not believe that this is a devs choice.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do not think that they would go back to back like they had to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: They had no time to let something cook them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because like basic, you're trying to tell me if they develop black ops six, sustain black ops six, while developing black ops seven, and now here's black ops seven.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's not how that works.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was in a year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Get out of here.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's tough back there.

[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't possible.

[SPEAKER_04]: To be honest with you, it's tough with me with the thing about what the Activision can and can't do.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like we all know the the the the the the the the murky lines between what the developer and the the and then the murky line of the publisher is doing on why and it's like and the fact that they decided to do like the fact that they decided to do it in this cycle was a town and like when they announced

[SPEAKER_04]: Black Ops 7 like a I believe it was at the Game Awards.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was like white they're doing a 7 in the middle after 6.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're just like we were like wondering we're like that because The video didn't even look like it was going to be a Black Ops 7.

[SPEAKER_04]: We didn't know what the fuck that was because that video was just weird Like remember it was it looked like they were in the upside down world from stranger things and stuff at one point in time and we're like Then you saw black Ops 7 and you're like what what the hell is this?

[SPEAKER_04]: You know you should have known right there.

[SPEAKER_01]: What the one thing

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think a lot of people did tracks now now and now it tracks a lot of the people did They're like I don't know what to think about this and now we're getting we're getting Yeah, I'm ruining that evil all of the Peter perchulley to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's always going to be difficult

[SPEAKER_04]: You always be here for Charlie.

[SPEAKER_04]: You see he's landlocked in that at this point in time.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know people that love Todd so much that they'll buy it every time.

[SPEAKER_04]: That you know what I think day night and I really sort of think this is what it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that they thought that that because you remember a year ago, I think there was an article where they just said that Call of Duty is so big and it's so big that at this point that they won't fail.

[SPEAKER_04]: That I think the hubris on that that they thought that they think that the people that were big Call of Duty fans were going to stick through it regardless kind of like Madden fans We're going to just play by one every year because it's Madden and there's no other choices You're going to play you're going to buy it.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're going to get it when we're the other

[SPEAKER_04]: They I think that's exactly what this was and I think and then and now they've now when you see all these other choices Especially how Battlefield 6 is now back to it's back to its form Arc Rators is a it's a back to its form.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now only that but Arc Rators is also $30 cheaper to do to have a fun time

[SPEAKER_04]: making at $30 price tag on an extraction shooter look real juicy yeah exactly and then your your other option is that if you don't have game pass then you're going to have to bet you're going to have to bank on the idea or the chance for them to decide to say hey yes i want to spend seventy dollars for this game and then

[SPEAKER_04]: And then push the amount of money because I can only imagine the amount of microtransactions that freaking ball that called do you six had in just a year mind you and you're just going to just throw all that away for seven.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like it's just it's a mess dude.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's no there's no there's no way.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, there's no way that I can see how this is going to be how they're going to look at this as successful.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I and and whatever the numbers are it cannot compare to what they normally have had in the past like in the past years of its success.

[SPEAKER_04]: This, I don't see it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be monitoring for sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's even more intriguing to me is, what's the move next year then?

[SPEAKER_01]: What's their move next year?

[SPEAKER_01]: Black op tape?

[SPEAKER_01]: What is it?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna melt in some big stride?

[SPEAKER_01]: What?

[SPEAKER_01]: What's the plan?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like you said?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, like.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do science work called On Call Duty.

[UNKNOWN]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I got suit or somehow they're gonna turn into an MMO RPG.

[SPEAKER_04]: They'll be like, hey, you know what, if Horizon Zero Dawn could do one, we can do one too.

[SPEAKER_01]: She is.

[SPEAKER_01]: If they don't, man, it should be modern warfare.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what should have been this year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Modern warfare, yeah, that would be a very interesting one if they did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is it okay?

[SPEAKER_04]: Does Infinity War still exist?

[SPEAKER_04]: Good question.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Essentially, they do, but basically, they made everyone work on the same.

[SPEAKER_01]: Project or whatever like I don't know it's weird what they've done over there Dude and like with the studios and like all that stuff you like I don't it's like it's gotten very muddled To me and this is the end result a rehash of what you just got last year But now you could pay more money Congratulations succeeded

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