CFG Game Cast: Is Ubisoft Crashing Out?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I am Mr. CFG Games or self-taie of a screen of what's with me today.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got my two awesome co-hosts.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got pop in the second seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's going on, pop?
[SPEAKER_03]: How are you doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: I am doing good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been practicing for my back to Blackburn, which is now scheduled for Saturday.
[SPEAKER_00]: February 7th at 5.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll actually be doing this in the studio for GDQ since I'm the incoming co-lead for black and a flash, one of the GDQ teams for black speedrunners, well it's the only GDQ team for black speedrunners, but it's one of the many teams that they have that are the different people groups.
[SPEAKER_00]: My bid war incentive got accepted so you can throw money for the charity to have you play as either Rachel, Lubu, Guangyu, or Yumiya from the Attelier series.
[SPEAKER_00]: Outside of that, I mean, I don't want to, I've been playing down I see warriors, origins, but you'll find out what's like it's in my topic, but it's a pretty cool game.
[SPEAKER_03]: How much money would we have to donate for you to choose the worst character inside
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that the thing is, I don't know who the worst character is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's because.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you look like you do.
[SPEAKER_00]: You look like you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_05]: I still haven't even gone through all the characters.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's how many characters are.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, there are lots.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I haven't tried the new ones to have like a proper tier list.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've got to ask you, though, pop.
[SPEAKER_05]: Have you, and you have you gone through with everybody?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the most, like so there were some DLC characters that came out in December.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't played as them yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've only used them as summons, but I'll find it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've played as everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's your, can I ask what your fastest run through is?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when I submitted the run, uh, it was at 18 minutes, but that was only because I forgot about the quick summons, uh, and in my current practice sessions, IPB, my original PB was like 15 minutes, and now I'm like at 12, somewhere between 11 to 12 minutes and game time is around, you know, nine to 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, my fastest time is 45 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that in the first traversal?
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause in, okay, so in traversal, five only takes me like 20 to 30 minutes max.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not, you're not that bad off those aren't you fair.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, here's the thing, that's why it's taking me so long because my average time is probably like an hour, a character.
[SPEAKER_05]: So like, it's taking me an hour, which you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, that's a lot of time just to get through the game once.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, but we did look at it when you look at that pop like she's looking at the most optimized so it's just probably using specific play people and then to you're also looking at like, you know, like, like you're skipping a lot I'm assuming you're skipping certain things like leveling up with you love what you're doing specific people is it's you just have to recognize what emblems your character have so like Rachel her emblems are
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, file war independent, uh, my, and brave general and rule of thumb is if your character has brave general, you're going to want other characters with the brave general emblem because for some reason, there's just something native in the game where all the brave generals as they like.
[SPEAKER_00]: form of formation together, just dog walks every single boss.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Rachel has a special part where for every might emblem she has, she gets a 10% damage increase.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if I have like 10 might characters, or 10 might emblems in my room.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm shredding, I'm shredding due things in the higher traversals.
[SPEAKER_00]: For traversal one, I typically, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: I use quick summons to get through everything and then peach trees and then the, well, I like to call it a pot of read is not really a pot of read, but you know, but sometimes the treasures can can help, but sometimes they just like I have one, like my best run, I had the treasure with the Avask is where everything in the shop is cheaper and every time you enter a room you go a thousand blood of tears and then I had the one with all the formations along and then I had another one where
[SPEAKER_00]: my charge attack for each room that I enter, I get 10% more damage on my charge attacks.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that run cleared, but I don't get that all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I have to prepare for any and every single situation and in most cases, like my terrible runs are only like 15, 16 minutes max.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, you've definitely gave me something to aspire to because I didn't even know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I actually have a goal dot sheet that has like all the character, I mean, going to have my own speedrun notes, but I used a goal dot sheet to kind of get a better understanding of like who had what because.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't give me wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the character tree and how you pick the different characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when I'm looking to get specific information, I'm like, this is overwhelming.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Google Doc really helped me out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, even putting into perspective that, you know, the emblems have such a big effect on people.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's something that I can look to start incorporating and seeing what those effects.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, because this fund being able to figure out the different synergies and and this net like I feel like that part of the fun of it as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's like the Attelier characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to keep out about where there's this but the Attelier characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of them together, they have like a with a ratio I could also do a flower or a wardrobe where one character summons other characters that have the flower or a warm woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't even matter where they are in your formation.
[SPEAKER_00]: She just summons them all together but they don't get a cool down only her so you can summon them
[SPEAKER_03]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have no idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, it's not meaning out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, but hey, but pop, you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the person that is actually trying to aspire to become the number one split gate arena player in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you watch Washington?
[SPEAKER_03]: It was close close enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the five star Jaguar of the Bitty.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really give me the accounts for the end of the third scene.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's going on by dude you know what it is like kind of like we just talked about I've been here over the last few weeks been casting some Call of Duty with a legacy showdown league L SL That's been a ton of fun Getting to meet a lot of great people getting to kind of work my
[SPEAKER_05]: casting chops and learn and growing one out so that's been awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: Game wise I haven't really been doing a lot.
[SPEAKER_05]: I started that new who's I was a call again.
[SPEAKER_05]: The one where you're checking people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, the quarantine or quarantine or whatever.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I started started playing that a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's been fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a community game night last night with Las Vegas and Ferno and GGL.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that was a ton of fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: We gave away $500 last night as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, it was awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: So huge, huge thanks to all those that came and played and enjoyed that stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll be doing more of those here like on a bi-weekly basis.
[SPEAKER_05]: Overall, I've been kind of focusing on that you can't really tell because I'm on green screen, but I actually moved my stream room from upstairs to downstairs.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, Lizard else says she has the big girl room now.
[SPEAKER_05]: She finally got her own room.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was well overdue for her.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we moved all the big stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was able to get everything set back up and yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now it's really now the real plan where all the small stuff that I got out has to get organized or dumped or whatever I'm going to do so there's still a lot of work ahead, but like at least the big pieces have been moved and we've taken a step forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, at least you got the biggest piece, the biggest piece is the fact that you could start streaming again, you know, you have a stream set up.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's that's good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, well, you had like two computer setups in the original spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you have the both of them up and running down?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I mean, I still have could my other one was basically my laptop.
[SPEAKER_05]: I had like a laptop set up said I wasn't having to do all my work from where I also play games.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I, you know, I used my life, it doesn't really matter.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: I left that.
[SPEAKER_05]: She asked if she could have to keep that desk up there.
[SPEAKER_05]: So she will have a desk to be able to work at, do her crafts and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, we left that up there.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you know, it's funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, that's I'm going to be doing that here soon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, so I'll just not looking forward to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, but I'm looking forward to getting my office back again.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that is going to be nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: It feels good.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, dude.
[SPEAKER_05]: It feels great being in this new space.
[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, I mean, like, it's opened up.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't feel disconnected from the family because I'm down stairs, where I buy to live in room and stuff like that to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: So there's still some things I'm going to need to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: curtain or something, so I'm not bothering the whole house and, you know, we'll get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, eventually.
[SPEAKER_03]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but what about you, Mike?
[SPEAKER_03]: How was the week, brother?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all like right now, I'm snowed in.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, it is 15 degrees in Texas, which is crazy to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: And right now, I've just been focusing on, you know, moving
[SPEAKER_03]: Making the set for the announcement that I want to make I'll make you know what I'm gonna make the announcement next week So once it's a done, I should be I should be good ready to get it done so but yeah, so Been building on that and also building on moving it moving around a lot of different kinds of stuff and For them what did I play this week?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I haven't played a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been playing get a, oh, Gekish and Squadra some more, because I'm trying to touch it dude.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard to know.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just, I know man, I just, and I want to do, but you're right, dude, like having to play with Rando's pisses me off.
[SPEAKER_03]: and it really does like like I refuse to stream that game because I would but you will literally see yeah you will see the bad side of me so badly because I will be like I'll be so angry most of the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: It sucks because it's like
[SPEAKER_03]: You want to play it because you're wanting to support it, but the same time It's like you just want to ring your neck like ring some of these people's neck So we're because it's just like why are you doing this?
[SPEAKER_03]: This doesn't make any rhyme or sense of reason.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just like that's how it is But then I also decided I'm going to go back on a
[SPEAKER_03]: on the expedition 33, I want to 100% that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to I'm going to I'm on the process of going starting my 100% play through of that game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Get platinum trophy on that sucker.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm running through it as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: What chapter you want?
[SPEAKER_05]: I am on chapter four.
[SPEAKER_05]: I want to say.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're being some pretty good progress.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I haven't played it here in about a week, but um, I'll let's move it along it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm enjoying it as a grown up to grown to you because I've ever had the beginning you weren't you weren't feeling it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, again, I'm still kind of, I don't, and there's been such a long, and it hasn't been that long, it's been like a week, but like it feels like it's been a while since I've been in that world, so it's hard for me to say, if my opinion, if my opinion hasn't really changed, because I haven't really done a lot from the last time we talked about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, so without just get away to kind of see where you're overall when you're done with it because the do the game is the game is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I also need to get back to metaphor because I still haven't beaten metaphor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and that yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not meant to for re-fantage you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it was, uh, kind of, what was it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, persona.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what was persona three.
[SPEAKER_00]: But to think that definitely remember us talking about the ending of metaphor.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, did I just do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was being gas-lit.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was just flying to you this whole time, yeah, so that's what it was.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd be the, I'd
[SPEAKER_03]: It is what it is, I guess, you know, they can all be winners, I suppose, and I also need to finish up a Metroid Prime 4 because like, that's another one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, they're sure, that's totally forgot that they came out.
[SPEAKER_03]: First of all, I will say this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am very disappointed in that game.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was like, I-
[SPEAKER_03]: Especially the weight that you because I remember a long time ago I was still hyped I remember when it first announced what's five or six years ago I was still hyped for it and then now it's out and then I've tried and it doesn't even feel like Betroy it's very very linear.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not even exploratory.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like the just long lines of hallways that that that guide you
[SPEAKER_03]: it's kind of like on a rail which makes it kind of an insider.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, so I would have just like, because I mean, I would, like how Metroid Dread was, which was an amazing game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I would have thought that they would have the same kind of ingenuity, uh, and then what they did and also like, you know, the motivation they had for the original prime series, but this one is just this is literally the worst one.
[SPEAKER_03]: So terrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's sad.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is terrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
[SPEAKER_05]: If we were super hyped on it, not only that, you've just had this feels like school and bones to you or how you sounded about school and bones, I feel like.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Skull and Bones was worse because Skull and Bones was, it is not what it once was.
[SPEAKER_03]: What they told you, what it was going to be and it's nowhere near what it came out to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: At that point, I lost my interest a long time after like eight years in its development.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, okay, I'm done.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not doing this anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, and yeah, but this one really hurts more because like I thought that they had something when they were bringing back They were going to take care of the IP.
[SPEAKER_03]: They did they did not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Metroid isn't really like a pillar, but it's it is very famous because yeah, but it's iconic in America.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not an iconic in Japan.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was really popular in America more than it was in Japan.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like it was
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's like to say that when they were at what this one was just they really dropped the ball on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sad to say so there you go There's my review of Metro Prime for there you go But anyways I know y'all that want to talk about my real feelings about that about Metro Prime 4 because we could take all day for that one So let's go through the normal rig and roll that we like to do each and every week So each of us chooses a topic or discussion in the world of video games the topic would or could
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we do not want to talk about the months ourselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: We want you with the listeners and viewers on Twitch and on YouTube to be a part of the conversation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We want to talk with you about it and go from there.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, Smitty, would you bring me to the table, my friend?
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, you knew we had to talk about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ubisoft just just completely crashing out here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like this is kind of inevitable.
[SPEAKER_05]: They just announced here this past week.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're stocks plunged by 39%.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, and within that they announced that they were canceling, I think they were talking about like six or seven games, they shut down two studios, and essentially laid out, this is what they're calling again, a restructure.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they essentially are saying that they are basically gonna
[SPEAKER_05]: build like a five house team that's going to manage their, uh,
[SPEAKER_05]: you know, they're different like basically they're going to focus on their bigger IPs and stuff like that getting away from some of the smaller stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: But they're going to break into five creative houses for Assassin's Creed Far Cry and Rainbow Six will be one the division,
[SPEAKER_05]: This one's kind of weird.
[SPEAKER_05]: A live service one that's going to service like the crew, writers, republic, and skill in bones.
[SPEAKER_05]: But unfortunately, we know for sure that we're going to lose that prince of Persia time I believe was it the times of sands or I might be wrong on that name Sands of time that's it is That yeah remake is one of the games that I got shut down.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I don't know like this feels like
[SPEAKER_05]: This, it was only a matter of time before they did this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do feel that it's kind of weird to that like, they kind of want to lean even heavier into the live service games.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like part of their issue has been the fact that they've tried to lean into the live service and they have,
[SPEAKER_05]: executed.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not going to say, I mean, there's been something to have been able to work in successful light division, but like there's also they've just had a lot of issues.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I wanted to see if this is something that, you know, is a surprise to you guys, again, eaves and what they've or what they've
[SPEAKER_05]: disappointing to see this is again and I feel like part of that issue is when we went into the pandemic uh you know we saw it from a lot of companies they overblooded themselves but I also feel like uh Ubisoft has been on a weird up and down for years and just to see this seem it just feels like a complete like crash out of the company
[SPEAKER_05]: Do we see them on the market at some point in time?
[SPEAKER_05]: Do they look to the Piff?
[SPEAKER_05]: Say, help us, Piff, help us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, you know, it's kind of weird to me every time I think of a Ubisoft news, especially when it comes to their back end business lines and stuff, I've always come to it's like, I feel I don't know why, but I feel so close to like WWE in a way with Vincent Graham.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, because like when Vince McMahon was wanting to sell the company like do you remember the whoops and her holes that he did just to get just to sell it to UFC like it was kicked he was kicked off his board because of because of the allegations because of the the sexual allegations and he have with the former employee.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then you somehow found the power to come back on the board, get on the board to sell it to UFC and then what's called now, and then a secondary suit comes out of nowhere and then he leaves.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, to leave again.
[SPEAKER_03]: For some reason, I feel that like the toxic pit of the poison pill is from what's his name?
[SPEAKER_03]: The founders of Ubisoft is where they're at with this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Gilmo, whatever, like that dude is un...
[SPEAKER_03]: sell the freaking company or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, what does he want?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I know it clearly shows the way that how Ubisoft has gone to this state or where they're at right now is he wants to stay in power.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what this sound.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if you weren't, if you didn't really, if you really wanted the money, or if you wanted to bounce out of the industry, you could have.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you could.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because
[SPEAKER_03]: Be it as it may Ubisoft has a ton of IPs big IPs that created on their own and I don't understand how they have such a hard time I mean like a hard time to to capitalize on all this it's like because it's just mismanagement
[SPEAKER_03]: with with this nonsense and then now the reason and then the only reason why I could see why they're doing this this structure this five pillar or whatever it is these five different group structure Created group structure is because they're getting outside help with the with the deal that they did with what's it called With the Tencent
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, you remember like a year ago, a year or two years ago or something when they when they were trying to sell their, uh, when Tencent said that they were interested in some of their IPs and then they wanted to do a partnership.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, a partnership.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's the only reason why I can see why he would want to do it this way, because he still has a job.
[SPEAKER_03]: He still has his full on power.
[SPEAKER_03]: His son is taking care of something that
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even know what a way you know and stuff and because like dude like this is an extreme of what just to keep up with everything like
[SPEAKER_03]: You get where the Prince of Persia stands at town.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's one of the highest selling Prince of Persia games that you knew that was gonna be like, people were gonna pay back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even the one that came out what a year or two ago, the one that really was good, but it was like, oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that one, they couldn't consider that to be a success, even though they sold so many of them because of how much money, like it doesn't make any sense to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: When you look around on the outside, it just like,
[SPEAKER_03]: This just sounds like Ubisoft is just floundering.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it just makes it even worse than now that you're saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: The reason why you would do the reason why you would move to what they are willing to move to is because you're focusing on the five points of where you're getting your money and all your creativity, all your other outside sources and all your other things are now going to be in the back burner.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not even going to be like, you know,
[SPEAKER_03]: Talked about because of this so obviously you're sassin creeds and stuff, and then Like I'm sorry, well my last point on that all of this is like they they struck gold with what the a game as a service with rainbow six each and then and then and they still it's still generating a lot of money for them give it that but like
[SPEAKER_03]: from how other companies that are trying to push this train on saying the way to go is we need to make a game as a service so we can just get money at a consistent level is mind boggling to me while you would put more money in on this when you when you see the grave yard of other games that you've tried so many of these games that you've tried in the past and yet you still think that that one game all you need the all you need to do is strike gold for that one game
[SPEAKER_03]: Clearly Ubisoft cannot, so I, man, I don't know dude, like, like, uh, I mean, Ubisoft has long gone for me, has been long gone for me for a long time.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, uh, the last true game that I loved from Ubisoft.
[SPEAKER_03]: I haven't played the Prince of Persia game, uh, but so if I did, I know I would probably like it, but the one so far was the, was the division, too, and, uh, and like, but then, but it just seemed like they're just burning, they're just burning, uh,
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I forgot able the billion and losses they reported that seven games delayed including the black flag remake to twenty twenty seven.
[SPEAKER_05]: What six games canceled.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, studios.
[SPEAKER_05]: The videos was Ubisoft Halifax, which is Canadian and Ubisoft Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, I tried to tap into my sweeties and I was like, wait a second, I don't even know what sweeties have.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're alive.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're alive, but the dead drumming itself, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back in Genesis.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, what do you think about this pop?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, it's weird because Ubisoft is one of those companies that I just, I don't play any of the games.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like outside of, you know, when they did raven legends, I haven't touched anything by them since then.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I, it's weird because they're one of those studios where they have IPs that they can work on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And instead of tapping into those IPs, they're like hard focusing something that's not working.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what it is?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I hate to use this analogy, but you know, it's that time of year, you know, back to work, whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: a teacher gives out an assignment, student does the assignment, they do it wrong, it's not completely terrible, you know, they're obviously still making sales on some easy games.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not completely terrible, but the teacher's just like, now I'll try again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And instead of making changes to, you know, get the better grade, they change your thing here or there, but they're essentially turning in the same thing over and over and over again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually Ubisoft is going to hit the end of the semester and you want to email the teacher, why do I have an F?
[SPEAKER_00]: They're at this point now, it's just like, why do we have an F?
[SPEAKER_00]: They've had to close down all these things, shut down games, like they're at the why do we have, why are we failing?
[SPEAKER_00]: And it has not smacked them over the head yet, that she's got to tap into something else.
[SPEAKER_03]: What you're trying to do is isn't working?
[SPEAKER_03]: They have, you don't like, you don't want to take a miracle.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it is literally a miracle.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like WP games.
[SPEAKER_03]: WP games is on a landmine, like a goal game of IPs.
[SPEAKER_03]: And but for some reason, they just can't figure it out, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I mean, it's like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Ubisoft has the same level of IPs and they can do uncaring itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do they do?
[SPEAKER_03]: You see, what do they release?
[SPEAKER_03]: So that Star Wars game just came out last year, which was, uh, how lost.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it was terrible.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I do all-hall on.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think maybe when you release, people had issues with it.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I think they've made like good changes to it.
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't hear old harsh.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say that if it changes, it's changing for the better, but remember the whole goes back to the fact that when you come with something, it's your first impression.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it takes time, it's not good, because your best amount of money you're going to get is at the very beginning of all of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because it's going to be hard to convince anyone to come back to a game that's now with almost nine months old and then say, hey, we fix the issues that we that should really have been there in the first place come try it out now and see what you think.
[SPEAKER_03]: but like you see like the prince of Persia's the Rayman series the freaking uh uh they well the the far cry like they already said like uh and stuff they could easily get those ones uh almost as easily because it clearly isn't for them but they could they could focus and train their their team uh
[SPEAKER_03]: of their focuses on those pillars while at the same time bringing out like these other things, but their focus is all over the place.
[SPEAKER_03]: The biggest focus is the next what's it called?
[SPEAKER_03]: What was the name of that one Tom Clancy game that I canceled or that it was supposed to be a
[SPEAKER_03]: a paid, paid, paid, paid service.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not paid service.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, God, what was it called?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's one of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's you were playing, but it was an alpha forever.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then they, uh, I was, I, I got to look it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, someone else say something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, a lot of times in those situations, I just feel like this is something that is a disconnect from the top down.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't feel like the people that are actually working on the games have, I don't know how much say they have into this stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it feels like somebody's decisions are coming from a disconnect of people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Could you write, how do you have so many fire IPs
[SPEAKER_05]: or their, their hit or miss.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can't get consistency.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then on the other side of this, so, too, again, this is where the spotlight gets brighter and brighter for the independent space, for the double A in single A studios as well, because these people that are losing their jobs, these studios are closing.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're, they're looking for work.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're going to be getting
[SPEAKER_05]: So from a negative, I still think a positive can come from it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just a shame that these companies that what we know, especially as I would just say for my speaking for myself, older gamer, we have that growing up, that we have that nostalgic feeling of what the companies were and those companies are not that anymore.
[SPEAKER_05]: that's just what it is.
[SPEAKER_05]: Or a lot of I shouldn't say any of them, a lot of them aren't.
[SPEAKER_05]: They a lot of them have, again, they they they turned into corpos and it became less about the game and the gamers and more about the profits and the boards.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I'm totally totally, yeah, it's basically, that's good way to say it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The game was ex-to-fiant.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the game I was thinking of.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, ex-to-fiant.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That game was so like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, so booty cheeks, it was not even fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was, I don't think I actually didn't think he was that bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I played it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, it was like, I had a good time playing it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Or even like rainbow extraction.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was good.
[SPEAKER_05]: It just didn't, uh, people just didn't, uh, it just didn't catch on.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they just, like, they're, I feel like they're quick to just abandon things.
[SPEAKER_05]: If they don't get the stuff out the gate.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, well, I mean, but not the crew is the crew's still happening.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a little familiar.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm a little familiar.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like, it's, yeah, I don't know, man, like, I don't know what can be done at this point with Ubisoft, I think Ubisoft itself is not their name is now poisoned, like the name itself is not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's not taken seriously anymore to the level because you know what sucks what what the think of makes it really saddening was do you remember when the switch first came out?
[SPEAKER_03]: And Ubisoft was going they were going to they were in the middle of a hostile take over by a want to see it was Vendee I can't remember but like it was a studio that that that was trying that that was trying to get more shares in on their stocks and stuff and then Ubisoft that at the time the the Guillermo whatever's him is your mom or whatever of the guy's name they're never never remember
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you, uh, your mom, uh, like, did an all hands like saying, hey, try to save.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't want to sell.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't want to give it to these people.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll do this.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, and then, and then they, they brought, they came up.
[SPEAKER_03]: They came front because that was a time when what's a called the Super Mario RPG that came out the tactics game.
[SPEAKER_03]: They came out from that creator did it the new the new the new was has since pretty that came out was really it was really money the Bremen legends when that came out was freaking amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just like they were just getting bangers of bangers and stuff of this But then I think what really killed them was this paid service thing that this free to play FPS these are these These games that they tried to go because like I'm looking at the graveyard that they made and I'm just like
[SPEAKER_03]: What happened?
[SPEAKER_03]: Why did y'all change to this y'all like your y'all's formula y'all didn't need to do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what that is that is abandoning your identity.
[SPEAKER_05]: They abandon their identity to try to chase that money and it did not pay off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's it's terrible then like I'm just like this is just this is a trot just so what they were dealing with it I do not like it horrible thing that they that they went through on this, but Well, I mean you know at this point I would say that we would We just need to wait and see the time when we just see a major shift change is gonna happen with the Ubisoft because I don't think there's any any any saving or where they're where they're going to now this block thing I have no idea this
[SPEAKER_05]: How that's going to work, but like so what is it going to, are they going to treat each block like it's own develop like a developer, but they're essentially essentially they're just breaking it apart in a five divisions basically at each one will focus will have a focus on a set of their of their games, you know, and and that's.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't even know what they do that you know it reminds me of what's the one
[SPEAKER_05]: Who's that one at broke up?
[SPEAKER_05]: They acquired all kinds of IPs.
[SPEAKER_05]: And all of a sudden, like, they had to sell things off because the pit fell through or they're deal with the Saudis fell through.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I'm talking about?
[SPEAKER_05]: I can't deny the name.
[SPEAKER_05]: They completely crumbled, though.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there's still a thing, but like, they had to sell all the ones in the videos.
[SPEAKER_05]: They had our cane, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think, and like, THQ and like,
[SPEAKER_05]: Gosh, I can't think of what they were having for a minute, though.
[SPEAKER_05]: They were having for a minute.
[SPEAKER_05]: What I'm trying to, yeah, this is what it reminds me of, though, like embracing a similar, embrace or group.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: That would have not been a destroyed me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the embrace or group.
[SPEAKER_05]: It reminds me of a similar situation where they just completely let it get out of control and now they're in ultra damage control.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I would not be surprised if they get sold by the end of the year.
[SPEAKER_03]: If they do, I mean, I think, I think that, like I said, the thing that's saving there's saving great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't even know because this guy, like Germo doesn't seem like he wants to or Germa on or whatever, doesn't want to relieve, like he wants power.
[SPEAKER_03]: He still wants the power to choose and decision making and stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's what's really killing it is all killing cable cord though, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but he's the head of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wonder if that works.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think there's already been talks so too, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: In terms of uh
[SPEAKER_05]: like them trying to like same things and like them like they have outwardly said they they want them off the board or the want them out or something like that there's a whole situation behind that as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's going to be a tough fight and I think it's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be yeah we're we're not even seeing all of it and I just feel like it's just going to get worse like what just later later on the how this is going to go especially.
[SPEAKER_03]: If the next project of games are coming out now since it's hasn't increased shadows is out then the next Assassin's Creed, whatever that's going to be, or if they were already working on it because keep in mind though, too, the people that were making those, those banger Assassin's Creed are not there anymore either.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we don't know what's going to happen with the next one.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're how the next one's going to be and then like what their plans were, you know, when they were going to make the Assassin's Creed hub or whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's no, I don't know what is going to happen and it's just so it's it's unforeseen territory and where we're at right now with this company.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is going to be very odd on how all this is going to go into place, you know, so yeah, all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we're going to see and see how that's going to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, but anyways, but pop.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you bring in the table.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this week, I had the pleasure of playing the Donna Sea Warriors Origins DLC vision of four heroes courtesy of Cody techno.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, and I know it seems you and I talk about this all the time how DLCs are and like, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: don't really like them and they got to add something and I personally do not mind that this DLC came out when it did considering how beefy the name story is.
[SPEAKER_00]: So with this DLC in particular you get new weapons for story chapters without spoiling anything the new story chapters basically give you a what if scenario of the shoulda cut a what have been.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are so what what would have happened if you had taken Jang Jiao side or dongs roll or you want to travel or even blue blue like what happens is the
[SPEAKER_00]: protagonist ended up, you know, doing the historical.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really nice alternative perspective, but also, yeah, it's a really nice what if, but it also gives you like more closure than an endgame, because originally endgame, once you get to the end of origins, you're kind of just, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's because, you know, you do win on a higher difficulty because the strongest weapons are locked behind that difficulty.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, you can't form a specific weapon type.
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[SPEAKER_00]: watching how they react is pretty funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: The painting ground is also really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the training ground should have been in a base game, but I can understand why I got, you know, added in as the missing piece is really good for testing out those stronger weapons that you get.
[SPEAKER_00]: We get new companions to play as they didn't really get as much spotlight
[SPEAKER_00]: but nonetheless they were still fun to use and then the best thing was one new battle art for each weapon.
[SPEAKER_00]: But overall it was fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: The narrative was very, very well executed and it felt the what if situations felt natural.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they weren't trying too hard with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: that forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's like the DLC's like 35.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was like 26 if you bought it early on PlayStation, but it's it was 35.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think for the price for the price point, you're pretty much playing through the game again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a different iteration like because the DLC isn't short, super short, if I need to buy any meat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's a packet back up though.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like so did you have you beaten that yet?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I got to get through Google stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: How far, how far in, like, well, so how far, how long have you played?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you, you know that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I've been in a couple of hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know the, I think the,
[SPEAKER_00]: DLC probably takes about 10 hours, if you're only focusing the story, but I've been doing all the other stuff, which will probably take you about 25 to 30 hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: But with the DLC, the time I've spent so far, I wanna say I'm probably like, I think I'm at like the 12 hour mark.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been trying to balance.
[SPEAKER_00]: practicing for a back to black and then like my treat is like I get the play through the DLC now going to take a break from speedrun practice so Tuesday once I go back to speedrun practice and I'll take a break next weekend and I can play through whatever is left at a DLC if I don't finish it this weekend.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it like I said, well first off, I mean, I have no no skin in the game on this one because, yes, you know, I am not a fan of dicey one here, but still,
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is very tough for me to say to come back to a game, let alone a game.
[SPEAKER_03]: What did this come out last year?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the beginning of the January or 20th.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a year old.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a year old.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like it is very tough to kind of come back and let alone justify.
[SPEAKER_03]: just if I 35 that'd be a 35 is kind of steep in my opinion like a for a DLC I don't know until I know how long DLC is going to be added if it's like 20 30 hour if it's like a 20 hour DLC for 35 I would go with it, but if it's less than 10 that'd be crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's totally 20 hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if you're just doing the main story, only the easiest difficulty it'll probably take you 10 hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you want to really dive into everything, like all the quests and relationships, we must have, that's going to take you some time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like, it takes time, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can see why it's like, yeah, it's not.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a lot, that's a lot of extra content that's going to be there, even though you're running through the things, but it's a whole different perspective.
[SPEAKER_05]: I will absolutely be buying this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't even realize that it came out.
[SPEAKER_05]: I knew it was coming out soon.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't realize it was available.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because it's when missing missing gaps like I will say like origins is a very nice solve reboot of the series Like if anyone's not a fan, I feel like they would really enjoy it just from playing this even without the deals But the deal seed and I will worry in this video.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's for extra perspectives So for our poor alternatives
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say that the DLC's selling point is definitely the narrative.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, gameplay was already there because, you know, right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, it's probably my favorite gameplay out of all the dinosaur warriors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, this is so clean.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
[SPEAKER_05]: I people don't realize I said else.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do this is the dynasty warriors if you've never played a dynasty warriors Even if you have played a dynasty warriors This is the one to play because they do such a nice job of just kind of rebooting it and giving me a full and again The narrative in it is just wow So to be able to jump back into that and and you know knowing that there's Four whole different perspectives that we get to get through
[SPEAKER_00]: The game already made like Shang Xiaol they like gave him some depth and this reboot because you know originally like always I don't like this dude is crazy To be like put six feet under immediately before everybody dies, but and origins like before you can get to like the extra like the alternative perspective I'm like man they
[SPEAKER_00]: really gets you to empathize with his perspective and what he was wanting to do instead of putting him for it as like this maniac who has just lost complete control and maybe power 100 and I guess Cody type of took a step at I was like no maybe he was thinking about things this way and it's like that with all the the other characters you come across in this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah well i will give it that i will give it the fact that this is like because i wasn't the original was the origins you you weren't playing any of the historical characters you were you played the character yourself like the uh like was it a creative character or is it character that you make yourself or is it a just a uh
[SPEAKER_05]: new protagonists that they decided to add into it that you're you're helping the historical characters to say is that a new protagonist where you're helping yeah okay I love and they into yes they did such a great job of like mixing that character into this story that was like oh you know it's like and and and and that character has their own thing and you know within it all
[SPEAKER_05]: to if they did like seriously they did such an amazing job of origins.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like that's the one I recommend would be origins like if you you know this is the one it's say it so well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow so it sounds like a third date.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well that was one of your game in the earpicks if I remember correctly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah that's one of my game ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: The earpicks last year.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so that's good.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's definitely good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, it wasn't that upsetting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So they picked up going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I saw more than cast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am this worth the cast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've looked it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, but overall though, I just think that yeah, I mean, it's I mean, if you think like if the thing the seems like the biggest thing the strength of this is that is the point of view, it's like though the changing of how they're looking into these people's back stories is what makes it is what's making it like, you know, very interesting, especially since you I mean, how long has
[SPEAKER_03]: Dinosaur has been around like over 20 years to actually probably like 30 years.
[SPEAKER_05]: 25, I think, really, they just, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so like you, and you've been playing the same kind of story and then seeing this is a good revamp of the, of the, of the video, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm really like about this is you get to play with each faction that's something that you don't really get to do in the previous ones and not only that This one with the DLC allows you to play on the other side of the other faction that you're always fighting against Yeah, you get you get to fight one you and every like you you're on the other side So now you're the enemy
[SPEAKER_03]: That is awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can't wait to hear the story behind it.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's going to be the, because everybody in the hero in their own mind.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, you know what their perspective was?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good point.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's very good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's exactly what it gives you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I'm to say.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I still hate, I still don't like dongs well, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that is why you can give somewhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is hilarious.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't give him a chance, at least give him something.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't wait to see it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is going to be dope.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is going to be dope.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was so glad this was out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't realize it came out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then like, yeah, they're right, and Kiwi Tech was busy every it's like January they're busy year because like down next down the next game at the coming up is Neo three right like that's the next demo is coming out this week and you're safe data will transfer over to the official release the following because it comes out on February 6.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would like to play that I really want to, yeah, it's no it's way way you said your save data will be available to following week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because it comes out February 6th.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, the demo is out now.
[SPEAKER_00]: The demos out this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: When it comes out next week, it'll be available when it comes out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably playing the demo on both my PlayStation 5 and my PC.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm on the fence.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am on the fence of just wanting to go on the PC, but I just like I'm just playing on the PC because the PC like the graphic card I have on this is just I just want to utilize it So badly, but yeah, but then Neo3 is definitely going to be one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm picking up so we'll see but it was at that press.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay
[SPEAKER_03]: So our final topic is going to be my topic, which is one of the games I have been actually anticipating on because I want to give this studio a good old college try because I have for we've seen their
[SPEAKER_03]: their their games that they've been releasing for decades, which was Pokemon, which is game-free.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the their upcoming game, beast of reincarnation, is a game that I'd like I've been looking into for a while and they showed it, they showcased it on the Xbox Showcase, a partner showcase this earlier this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: And from how this looks,
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it doesn't look like amazingly like oh my god, this is like drop dead drop dead gorgeous, but the but the premise of it is what is was captivating me on wanting to try to check it out because first off game free they've been making Pokemon forever they like from the very beginning of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have made other smaller games like some games on Steam and stuff, but this is probably I would say their biggest game, like a biggest level of close to a triple A game that I've seen them make in a long time besides Pokemon.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the problem with Pokemon,
[SPEAKER_03]: is that is just a pile of garbage when it comes to the developer, frame drops, glitches, and stuff like that nowadays.
[SPEAKER_03]: For the ever since they went 3D, it's just been a mess.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a mess after a mess after a mess.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I have not been wanting to, I have really wanted to see what this company can truly do when it's not tied to the Nintendo brand of Pokemon.
[SPEAKER_03]: But basically this game takes place in the year I believe it was the year it's post dystopian.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is like a distant future Japan Tokyo Japan.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he for six something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like four years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like four years like 40 to 40 is like 4306 something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So something for 4026.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like you're and then you're and then it, but they describe the game as a one person one dog action role playing RPG.
[SPEAKER_03]: And your character, you play Emma, the sealer, is a woman that can, that can seal blight powers that's happening like so everything lies, that's, that's like overgrown, like plant-wise, it's mostly like plant creatures and things like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can, uh, can, uh, it has, has gone over the world, but you yourself can manipulate the plants and you can traverse and fight the enemies that are there and then you're, then, then, then, then, then, her companion, which is a dog, uh, I, I forgot, I've got the dog
[SPEAKER_03]: They go, they, so you're basically working together in, like, in an open world like area just trying to take care of the corrupt creatures and stuff, but the art style very nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Love the, how the look of the, the, the game looks, the, and, uh,
[SPEAKER_03]: So far, I really don't really, they really show a lot of gameplay itself, but the style does remind remind me of kind of ghibli-like like when it comes like to the locations and things like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And even the monsters though, too, like how fantasy driven it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have been, this has been on my radar, is it highly anticipated not highly anticipated ones for me, but I would say that this is something I am definitely, I am definitely wanting to check out and try it for myself, so, but then one of the biggest things was like, I think that this game should show
[SPEAKER_03]: How good that this how game freak really is when you give them a legitimate budget instead of half-assing it as a way When it comes to Pokemon Pokemon stuff, so I kind of want to get you all the opinion like if this is something that you all would want to check try out Like check out and see if it's something that you would want to give them a chant give it give it a chance to see to see if they're not a one-trick pony or anything like that
[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely want to get it only because it's in line with all the other games that I'm in, like, that's
[SPEAKER_00]: 100% Umarator this year, like Neo 3 and Phantom Blade.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I need a third to fill that in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really curious about the release date and not only to mention, I just might be the game that I used to have my Xbox be turned on because it's You want the Xbox, like it's like a bit of the PC
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, I thought about PC, I don't know, depends.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, like, I mean, like, I would like to do, I would like to do console or for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, come to think of it though, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: This might be the time after the steam machine comes out, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it might.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's well, you know, so yeah, but yeah, the game looks, the game looks nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will, I'm literally looking forward to checking and trying in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: What about you?
[SPEAKER_03]: What about you?
[SPEAKER_03]: What about you, Smitty?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is up your alley.
[SPEAKER_05]: It looks good.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've got questions.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is this the soul's like, or is this more in line with, like, uh, you said something to get on VG?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, character action RPG.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like, it is not okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, because if that was a case, you kind of lost me, but, but
[SPEAKER_05]: I think I would try it regardless because you're right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I want to see what game freak can do.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like they've been held back, like you said, and kind of, you know, pigeonhole, and just the Pokemon stuff is like, you know, let them breathe a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let them, you know, kind of flex their creativity and let's see what they got.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I definitely want to check it out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Again, if this is on Xbox, there's a good chance it's going to be on Game Pass.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm guessing, okay, but I'll definitely check it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I mean, they might.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember if I got announced as a day one thing, because they kind of like three trailers that you during the game awards when it got announced.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was still stuck on the fact that game freak showed up.
[SPEAKER_00]: after like the first two scenes in the cut scene.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm curious.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, yeah, I'm I'm I'm curious to see, you know, I guess more about the story, the story seems intriguing.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I think, you know, if you if you got saw a gameplay, but more importantly, if the narrative is on point,
[SPEAKER_05]: Yo, could this be a game of the year, contender?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Amy, it's very possible.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of big, I mean, there's a lot of big names that's coming out this year.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like when it comes to it, I think I think it's going to swallow everything as GTA 6.
[SPEAKER_03]: If it comes out this year, but like, but still like, fan to blight yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: like fantasy played and all that other stuff like it is going to be like it's going to be stacked.
[SPEAKER_03]: If fan to play this as good as it's as it looks is a real big question you know but like some of the surprises like like this like like this like I can easily see surprises like this that may that may spur up out of here here in the end of end of year talks so I mean the only thing I
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how the gameplay is going to be like.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I have an idea of what it's going to be like.
[SPEAKER_03]: They did show a little bit of it on the showcase, especially how you can incorporate your dog companion to fight with you, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: So it looks really cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so it's a dog level up.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need to know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, because the question actually I don't know that that would be very interesting if it I mean wouldn't be me and that dog has all of a sudden has like, oh, so have they always had the ability to have vines coming out of them and stuff?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just noticing that what you mean not really like yeah, I did I I realized that dog has like like a like vines on the back of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so I don't know I like I said I have the idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's something with the narrative.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it might be something with the narrative itself, but yeah, it's, uh, uh, I don't know, it looks like I'd be, but it, it has definitely like, it is definitely cut catching the interest, it's interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly what I say, I was just saying, this gives me a persistent bond of no cave fields, and that's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I say, give me, give me like, and I think that that's exactly what they were going for.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, uh, so hopefully this, this game is not going to be disappointing.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, but no, I'm kind of glad that I'm not the odd man now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't really sure which I'll work where you're hang with and I wasn't sure what you used me because I know like it's like with Action or souls well, not souls like but just oh, I just said ps5 It didn't even say anything about But it has a big confirmed for PC and Xbox.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because it was on the Xbox showcase The video is from PlayStation now, so that's probably okay
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not paying for ultimate the game pass that are you are you just doing the or the PC Okay, just be so Okay, that's fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: So no, it's gonna be a fun game.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't wait and the 2020 six I know it's gonna be a ton of game is coming out next month's gonna be super jam packed
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's what I still need to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need to go through and see what I am excited or anticipating this year.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's been so much that like I haven't gone through and like, oh, yeah, totally forgot about this game or so, you know, this is definitely on that list.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, big time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: No doubt.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So folks.
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