CFG Game Cast: Thoughts on Highguard
Download MP3[SPEAKER_00]: Another episode of the CFD Game Pass, a weekly podcast care by games, just streams of like this, guestly is gaming top for the previous week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am Mr. CFG Games himself, Davis Green, and with me today, I got my two awesome co-hosts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got pop in the second seat.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on, pop how you doing?
[SPEAKER_03]: doing good has been very busy with backs of black around the corner on top of all the snow that's been coming down.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm currently snowed in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if the university is going to be open on Tuesday because this is still that bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Has it been snowing since this whole time for the past week?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, it's snowed again.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Friday night.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you sure?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was overnight.
[SPEAKER_03]: right in and it's not all day on an office today and now we're just we're just here with snow that has not melted in the sun's been out all day like some of it's melted like you know off the roof the roofs of homes and I think a couple of people shoveled out there did you have ways but I'm not going out there yeah the thing though because like uh is it still snowing
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's stopped.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, yeah, it's up because these people are still shoveling like shoveling snow and it's still snowing at the feet of the purpose of sifting Calling for another one three makes later this week, but I'm kind of hoping that that's just like a false flag because I have to fly to Virginia on Thursday and that would not be good Oh, yeah, that would be terrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've got that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, when you leave in Thursday
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and you're there for you there for the whole weekend, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll be there the whole weekend and I come back on Monday.
[SPEAKER_00]: What game again, are you playing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was it just, uh, what's it called?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's just going to be warriors of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am not bringing my PS5.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have to
[SPEAKER_03]: the weed and then or my boss and I would send my boss.
[SPEAKER_03]: My lead and I were talking about my backup run, which is Pyat Yakuza, and that is definitely going to be cooked, because I'm not that fine with my PS5, are you nuts?
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'll only be doing wheres of this, it'll be Saturday at 545.
[SPEAKER_03]: My incentive has changed because of a hiccup with how the scheduling was and they put me down for 30 minutes and the estimate that I submitted for was 20 minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So my incentive is now a bit more to pick the character that I will be doing a second run of the game with.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the first one will be Rachel.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh who I originally submitted before and the bit where we'll be between one you knew, knew, knew, and knew Mia from the Atelier series.
[SPEAKER_03]: So
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you mean, I thought that it, I did tell you eight series.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's like super broken in this cave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, yes, so can't choose that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, you're going to be too easy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's why it's, it's a speed where it's supposed to be too I'm getting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it would be weird not to if you're going to be talking all this high by kind of once I want to see it and you're you're you're Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I would also post something too when you're when you're doing it because I could that'd be pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'll be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't wait to check it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see.
[SPEAKER_00]: See how this is going to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, but you know what pot?
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know who's the number one right player in the new split gate arena?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it Ninja?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think I'm out of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, technically, he is the, he is the Digo of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of,
[SPEAKER_01]: Till I'm brother you're right, the nastiest flicker kit player in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just playing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm dangly not getting it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just got done with right.
[SPEAKER_03]: sounds so defeated.
[SPEAKER_01]: You felt yeah no I thought I I thought I was going to do all right and it's still in the in front still ended up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you know my my dreams and aspiration for split gate ended before they started but that's okay uh nothing new.
[SPEAKER_01]: No it's been it's been a solid week again.
[SPEAKER_01]: High Guard came out played a little bit of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: as well trying out some other games I haven't really been jumping into any of my like story games I've just kind of haven't had time to really do those.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another big thing today as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: New episode of pixelated harmony just dropped today.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had Megan McDuffy on so make
[SPEAKER_01]: Harmony on YouTube as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's live.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dash Harmony, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pixelated Dash Harmony on YouTube.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's been good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now the great conversation with Megan.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's badass.
[SPEAKER_01]: You probably have to think.
[SPEAKER_01]: who is she yeah like what is like what is she yeah yeah to be the best so like she's done like she did the music for like River City girls River City girls to streets of rogue a bunch of the Atari classics like remastered
[SPEAKER_01]: ton of like film and TV like trailers and and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: She also sings as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we talk about him and she's going on tour.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's opening up for one of her favorite bands this spring.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was a great conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, do you say the springs or the offspring this spring Oh spring she's going on tour.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't I can't remember the bands name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, man, if the offspring is still touring, that's happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, why would check out because crazy taxi's supposed to come to come out this year that would be amazing You know what yeah, yeah, you did the Halloween and ass versus evil dead and stuff like that a lot of dark kind of like electronic You know guitars.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's got a really great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love her sound.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of fun The way you made it sound like I thought she said ass and the evil dead.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what is this like what kind of movie is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: This guy
[SPEAKER_00]: something on TV probably.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's on TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was sponsored by Pluto.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that was a bit fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it was solid.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was solid week.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: We still need to play some hell divers too with his a.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's one definitely need.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get now.
[SPEAKER_01]: today or what come on me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, I can.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got like I said, I got too much stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a clean.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's exhausted.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I am probably going to pass out after this.
[SPEAKER_03]: But what's the next?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm in the minute, the minute see if she's done, he's just going to pass out in the couch.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then wake up and like, how did I get here?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know right I would probably like first have to you know you have you were like fell asleep or you're so tired that you don't even remember like when you like when you wake up you're kind of confused on what you're at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's that's where I'm at right now already and I'm just like man the second I lay down lay my head is not aware I'm going to probably lose work forget where I'm at.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be waking up like 10 o'clock.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, anyways.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, so yeah, that's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as for me, man, I've been, you know, it's funny, I've been actually labbing on Street Fighter 6.
[SPEAKER_00]: haven't done that in a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've just been messing around with the the fight stick and stuff and I was just like you know what I haven't really played this ever like truly set down and mess with it and I want to actually I want I was actually going to start kind of going into makes a lot of different kinds of fighting games again because I'm actually kind of have this
[SPEAKER_00]: This thing like I like I want to get back into Grand Blue, which I feel like Grand Blue is about to there there have to be announcing a new one soon because I mean Grand Blue has just been great.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a deal.
[SPEAKER_03]: See character coming out soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all that DLC.
[SPEAKER_01]: What about what about my hero all justice?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not I'm not touching that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: They got a maybe roster like 60 plus characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, are we talking about the first or second one?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's two.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, there's a new one that's coming out on this Friday, actually.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a new one that comes out on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's the same, they always do the same stuff, dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's always the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, ever since Naruto did it back in, like, you know, the before, like, uh, yeah, when Naruto did on the GameCube,
[SPEAKER_00]: they've basically been doing that same kind of style for all the anime video games.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's an anime fighting games, most of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some exceptions like Dragon Ball Fighters and actually I really think if Fighters is really the only exception, all the other ones are virtually the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, you know, so, but it's all the same to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying I hate it, it's just this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, it's to the same level of Dynasty Warriors for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I played that one 20 years ago, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to throw it in a little bit, so yeah, but they're there with yeah, there's also I just also want to make the announcement that the thing I've been working on was that there's going to be a new podcast is going to be an anime podcast that's called
[SPEAKER_00]: a book club kind of one so it's going to be talking about this specific game or a specific series that we're just going to have a good dive in on whatever it is and then at the same time it's going to be passed in present series so series like from the like even from what when I was going up to certain series today good mix of everything so so looking forward to that we don't know when we're going to be recording the first episode of it but it is going to be sometime in February our first episode is going to be officially out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, looking with like I've been we've been really hyped on this and this will be the first one that I ever do that it's going to be a live recording of it that live recording a recording of it where physically and at the same location that's that's where it's going to be so that's.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what's gonna be a little bit of fun about fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've already made we were making the set to like 11 last night That was like day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay It was like we just take a break.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll do this next week So we'll see look forward to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna be a fun one our first episode I know we're gonna be talking about Gachi Akata and and then and then the one after that I belive it's full metal panic So we'll see where that's gonna be how it's gonna go but uh, it's gonna be fun
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's what's going to be cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what my co-host her name is Tiffany and some of it the one that she hasn't seen is she's never seen full metal panics.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be a lot of series that I will introduce her to that the like growing up and and I think it's I'm going to love her take on it in 2026 because I'm I'm watching full metal panic again and I'm like oh my god this person's a predator
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's funny when you look back and you go back to what you're watching with your child till what you're watching now, like this person is needs to be on the list.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it is going to be, yeah, it is very scary already on the list or there are already on the list.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is very odd.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, wow, okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: But look before they would, definitely stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get some more information once we get once we get closer to that date by now, but yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, I know you all don't want us to be gooning over the interesting animated and stuff that we could possibly talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go through the Noble Rigible that we like to do each and every week.
[SPEAKER_00]: So each of us chooses a topic or discussion in the world of video games, the topic would, or could be a game itself for something that happened in the gaming industry.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we do not want to talk about amongst ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: We want you, the listeners and viewers on Twitch on Twitch at TV, so I see if she games and on YouTube at the CFG to be a part of the conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if there's something to one that's chime in about, gives you your two cents in on whatever we talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: By all means, type it inside the chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will love to talk it with you and go from there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Smitty, what are you bringing to the table?
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to talk about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: High guard released last week.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a 3v3, 3d, MOBA S cap winner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of, kind of.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you're talking about, it is a, it is a, it is a hodgepodge of genres, mashing iters and FPS as well as got elements of search and destroy, it's got mobile elements with defending bases and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: The thing about this is that this game number one I feel like was getting mad hate before it even came out and you may be wondering, what else it getting hate before it came out?
[SPEAKER_01]: is placement in the game awards.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it was the last game to show and Jeff Keely was hyping it up and whatnot and there's more to that story.
[SPEAKER_01]: It turns out they were going to shadow drop and Keely like offer them a spot which if you don't know spots at the game awards is expensive not cheap.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they got a free spot as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: They showed it off it's the last game.
[SPEAKER_01]: People were pissed off, like, what is this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you didn't hear anything from them until about a couple weeks ago, maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I'm not even like, I can't like, what are they supposed to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: We can play them out, people, you know, marketing and doing things too early, or they put the stuff out and people rip it to shreds and then it's dead on arrival.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I kind of understand the
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're going to focus on making a game and when I again, these are the people that did like they were like X respawn devs and stuff like that so it came out to overwhelmingly negative reviews again, I mean there's all kinds of chatter online, did I had to do that work.
[SPEAKER_01]: talking to me about it, like, oh, the game's trash.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, did you play it?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're like, well, no, but there we are.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, stop, stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've already invalidated yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: You were literally going off an opinion.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you do that, stop, get a grip.
[SPEAKER_01]: Try the game as free to play.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then make it, you know, then you can rip it to shreds if you want to.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I, because only I could just hate that one.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: is like come on and you know so here's my thoughts you can see gameplay there I did play play it for like three and a half hours it's not really I mean the game has some fun elements to it
[SPEAKER_01]: My issue number one the map was pretty big for it being the 3v3.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really thought this is going to be a 6v6.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like the fact that 3v3 the devs already went in and right now they brought in a 5v5 mode.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I have been played it with the 5B5 added in, but I love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're listening, they're reacting.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other thing, they've already laid out a tentative 2026 roadmap.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is super important, especially for a live service game.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's one of the big things that kill live service games is not enough content.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the fact that they had to forethought to already lay out what their 2026 is going
[SPEAKER_01]: look like whether they stick to that timeline, that's yet to be seen, but at least they've got a plan.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, again, I think it's a unique game.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is kind of a hot podge of different
[SPEAKER_01]: Like John runs mixed together, but I don't know that it's necessarily a bad thing it's definitely a unique game and I'm all about trying out at least giving a unique game a shot I just feel like.
[SPEAKER_01]: The game is getting, and again, you could feel like it is a piece of trash, you're entitled to that opinion, especially if you played it or whatever, but I think the base for a very unique game is there, and I think if they give it the loving care that they're showing right now and that continues, I think there's the chance for this to be successful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the internet hate will die down, people will start to see, they'll make it better.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're listening, they're actively making changes to the game, listening to the community.
[SPEAKER_01]: What more can you want?
[SPEAKER_01]: These are the type of companies or studios that we should be, you know, lifting up and I feel like praising like, this is what we want from a studio, please.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stop just bitching the bitch.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just give it a shot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let it, let it do, let it cook a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: And especially if they're actively taking your feedback, try to look at it from a more constructive spot than just going in to rip something down.
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, it's a free to play game.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to play.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have the entry,
[SPEAKER_01]: The cost of entry is so low anyone can pick it up and play and I think it's fun enough and there's all kinds of different you got to do a little mining to get money to buy things there's so many different things in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy enough to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did because I was actually wondering about it and I'm not a player, I don't usually play this game, so I'm not even going to pretend that I'm an expert on this, but I will say this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I of course check the number one place to check the best reviews out there for the public and that is the Steam review page.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the time there was I think 17,000 people that reviewed and they would say it was set to mostly negative in a good note right now it's on mixed so it adds on up so it's at 25,666
[SPEAKER_00]: And then but when I so when I was looking well I wanted to I wanted to I wanted to play it so I could actually talk about it because I had a feeling either you words me or smithy was going to talk about it and then I so I played it I only played about an hour about it and that's pretty good good enough for me to get a good just
[SPEAKER_00]: And but I was trying to also look I was looking at the review what people were saying on the thing and just to what some of these point was when you just when his friends was saying oh, I'm not going to play it or it's it's an ask game it's like, oh, did you play it?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, the reviews were almost getting to that level too because there was some people that were mad about like
[SPEAKER_00]: The one-of-person's review of it was that they were mad because they weren't getting 240 FPS.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was thinking of myself, why do you need 240 FPS?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, at least at highest, you need 120.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, after 120, it's irrelevant, and I was so surprised that this person was counting in against it, but then other people were like saying, oh my, the, like I have a, yeah, he said that the guy had a 50, a 50, 90, and it said that he was struggling at 240.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, whoa, dude, what the heck is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was some of the ones, but now I want to see, I'll take a look and see what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: But before I go into that, I'll also get with pop things about it before I go into the review chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I will say this, the game is a game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not bad and it's not good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's mad, it's all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's perfectly fine for now.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing I have against it is like some of the certain things that really kind of threw me off because there there are a lot of different aspects for this game itself because I only played when it was 3v3 I didn't know there was a 5v5 mode, but
[SPEAKER_00]: Like if they wanted to have three people, then they have multiple teams to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not just, oh, you just need that one point.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have like two or three other teams are there maybe make it like four teams of three and then make a 12, 12 or so it'll be total 12 people and then just have them and it's like a defend it's a defending base.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was like there in this there is a building phase where you can defend when where you can harden your defense of your base itself a relevant it's not really like I don't see the point of you heart like kids I know you can I know you can advance your your your wall to a more enhanced wall so instead of taking one shot it will take two shots to get in but like I didn't see the point of that because most of the time maybe because it was just day one but like I didn't see a reason to do it that well
[SPEAKER_01]: four to five around your generator.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, oh, is that it's at the meta now they have to so they have to use some sort of bus or breaker to open it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just makes it a little harder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so just to be a target, okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, like I said, so I was doing it wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so, okay, I'll fair it for enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, but the thing I really kind of got to me was the mining.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the way the way the mining was was killing me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, do pop.
[SPEAKER_00]: You, well, first of all, pop, have you played it.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I haven't seen people quit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so here's the thing about Mike.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, okay, so you're playing a shooting game, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: A game where you're worried that someone's going to come behind you or like, what run around and shoot you and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have a mining mechanic that is so slow or you have to press it at the right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to focus on the right time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can hit it so you can get a perfect hit.
[SPEAKER_00]: or and then reply back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just the reaction of it is the slowest I have ever seen mining done in these kind of fast-paced games.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you have to get, like that's your only way of currency or when you kill people, do you get money too?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you do, I know that I don't know if you do, if you kill people, that's the way I'll get money with my mining.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know about it, majority of the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because like, one more time, it's the beginning, yeah, it's the beginning of the game, where you actually have time to...
[SPEAKER_00]: to to be able to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then once you get to that point of like the adrenaline of, oh, this guy is coming at us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to go and that we have to defend or we have to fight it and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You forget about mining.
[SPEAKER_00]: Immediately forget about mining.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you're like, oh, you forget about mining.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're forgetting about the NPC that sells you stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're just wanting to go in the thick of things and just wanting to go and crush and drop these heads pretty much.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know?
[SPEAKER_00]: So like that so I think the money is irrelevant.
[SPEAKER_00]: They should change the system of getting currency to probably buy kill or something maybe make things cheaper because some of the things like like like some of the big pieces that you're wanting like bigger weapons or better weapons I think it's a little bit more expensive than it is but then again like I said I am not I am a new but then comes to these games so maybe it's just me just they you know get good aspect of it but still
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, but like there's a lot of good things that this game does have like I'd love the fact that they have mounts and then the mounting and it allows you to speed up and things like in like that, the uh, uh, I haven't for the, I haven't defended successfully ever in this game, but like the best.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because either either I'm like I'm I'm due to water in this game too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you said you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's been a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: The shooting is not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think needs to feel more satisfying.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel the shot good is so God damn powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do remember that because I was like, wow, this guy got me a one shot and he was in mid range and I was like, dang, okay, so that's why he started using the shot and then in close range battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, it's, it's, but like overall there's nothing to, nothing to brag about, but at the same time, it's nowhere near as bad as you thought, like, like, you would swear that this game was like had was was like a buggy mess or something or, or like, you know, it's a, it's crazy from the review, like for what people are saying about it, because don't get me wrong, it's to therefore, I think it's also the developers fault of like kind of going completely cold silent,
[SPEAKER_00]: for like the only thing that we got in this game was the Game Awards.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the Game Awards reviews was basically like it was bad because they're like, what is this game?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who asked for this game and stuff like that?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then then even when you go on their website, there was nothing on their website.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't show anything until like what she said to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was like two weeks ago, they finally said something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so like, and I didn't even know they had a creator program for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's so random.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so they didn't do a good job communicating anything out there probably because they were terrified of what's how this game is going to be and then and yeah and that's and that's also a fair assessment I mean people are harsh and how this is and how people were already talking about this game.
[SPEAKER_00]: people are thinking of this game is going to be the away.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a lot of good for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope it doesn't shut down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're if and then if the devs are listening to what people are saying, that's even better.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's really even better, especially like more, so the game can can evolve to something even better.
[SPEAKER_00]: So just so sit tight.
[SPEAKER_03]: So before I go into the reviews, what would
[SPEAKER_03]: I know some people will say, oh, you know, there's always been people that, you know, will say something.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just more prevalent now because it's on social media.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nowadays, people feel like they have to say something on everything and it's because social media exists that they feel like they need to have a say on anything because it's not just on social media now they're doing it in person like everybody like smithy just talked about it's it's go worker like it's everywhere
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to say anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your voice is not needed.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't want to move on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so crazy because like, well, like, I think you were with me when we were seeing the room.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I think it was C1 that was taught up as with.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we were looking at the reviews.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're like, this is dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like,
[SPEAKER_00]: these people are like crucifying this thing before this game is either out or they gave it five minutes of the one the game the game's been out for maybe maybe five hours and then people are just bitching about it but yeah so like so the and what's what's funny to me is that people
[SPEAKER_00]: The biggest thing I have about what it comes to reviewing or public review is that people are always begging that they're wanting to see something different.
[SPEAKER_00]: They want something different than what they're normally playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They get something different and then they're complaining that the game is in like this other game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like what are you talking about it's like they decided to go outside of the box and try to find something different and then they do and you don't like it because it's not like the game it's your complain that they that it was that that's already existed it's like why is it like the finals it's like broke on dude like what do you want it's like do you love like the finals you guys were to complain about it
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's very fun to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very interesting to me when the it's very fascinating how this one is now Can't so here's some of the reviews.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go good this time because it's actually some pretty good good ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll do two good ones So it seems like the consensus is that what made this better was a they increased it to 5v5 I will say that Yeah, so when they didn't was it when it wasn't 5v5 a lot people were just upset because it's the map
[SPEAKER_00]: So this one guy, let's say, this guy to Nudo says, I don't often write steam reviews, but the amount of blind hate this game gets for existing is astonishingly.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't like competitive team shooters, then this game still isn't for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, if you're like me, enjoy competitive team shooters and they are tired of every game copying each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: and never trying to improve the formula or try new things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you should try at least give this game a- well sorry he didn't say right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You should at least give this game a try.
[SPEAKER_00]: Personally I love the 10s 3v3 apex like teamfights that happen every every couple minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of Battle Royale where if I die I have to recue up.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the first week, we have seen this dev team not only fix the server issues, something many new game devs don't do, but drastically fix performance issues and add a new 5v5 mode after player feedback.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very few teams ever listened to players as much as this team has in the first week, and I'm excited to see where this game is going to go in the future.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it has some rough edges, but it's free to play in its first week of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I recommend you to at least give it a try for yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is basically, basically, perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so like, yeah, I definitely understand that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I make sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so that guy named Yagi says that this is one of the biggest hate-hive minds I've ever seen recently.
[SPEAKER_00]: I honestly think people are just now looking for the smallest issues to justify an initial wave of hate that this already is unnecessary.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's pure mom mentality at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: The game doesn't deserve this level of negativity.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has issues for sure, but they've seen many game launches in worse states without this kind of backlash.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back to the phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: The day before clearly was the day before was the scam.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a scam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the game has a real potential.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's wait and see how it evolves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so let's go to the negative.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let me see if I can find a good negative.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one of the more okay, so this guy says we would like to share some new feedback to help improve the game experience Please improve rendering optimization.
[SPEAKER_00]: The game should only hopefully re-render every time players enter the game as much as as much as as as it impacts performance and loading stability Adding FSR for support in our DNA 3 or our DNA 4, which is basically the stuff for for radion radion Okay, it's cards
[SPEAKER_00]: would greatly help performance instability for many players.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are serious lag and connection issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: In some cases, this game fails to start pop properly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And unexpectedly, it incorrectly marks players as AFK, even though they are activism.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is legitimate.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's legitimate hate.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will give it to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's legitimate criticism.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's one of here's one right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The guy named Mr.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bubbles, who has each reviews.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good to catch up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says one out of one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the most boring games I have played sufferers from a lack of identity and generic unremarkable characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Play the singular game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Play the singular game that took apparently 30 minutes, 30 something minutes, but felt like an hour and a half.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is he playing the same game?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not that dude from Temecula in Concord.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we go with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I get something.
[SPEAKER_00]: One answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me read that back again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Play the singular game that took apparently 30 something minutes, but felt like an hour and a half.
[SPEAKER_00]: were still less than mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: The map was giant and empty and lacked so much terrain to recover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet that wouldn't matter because you can spam mounts and just charge the enemy down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Writing this review was more enjoyable than playing high-guard.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it could have potential if it did 95% of the game over.
[SPEAKER_00]: What the hell is this guy talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's all over the place.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't even make any sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, if you hate it, I got on the set and you're hating it, but your reasonings don't make any sense to me, I guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, did you say that these matches can get, can get pretty sweaty if you're...
[SPEAKER_00]: They can.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they can.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're going back and forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: with the shield breaker trying to get the deal back and forth with the shield breaker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's not one and done if you if they get in, you can defend it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so if you defend that successful, you can only plant one bomb at a time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So once a bomb is planted, you know exactly where to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you defend it, then there's getting a frags and then defusing the bomb.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: That makes sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's 555.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say it's a lot better than on the down votes and what I saw at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm day one, what does this guy post this hours on record.
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, then show when it was recorded.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's only played.
[SPEAKER_00]: He only played.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's only played for an hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what would it be now?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, maybe to see this is the thing that I know is because some people like I don't need to play a game for five hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just figure out if I like it or not.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you need to play a game for at least five to seven hours to figure out what is going on so you can make a decent criticism of the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, that's what game reviewers do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I just don't even understand like like I said like I would do a review if I if I had time to even mess with it seriously I when I played the what I played I did enjoy but I didn't like blown away I mean maybe I could treat my mind later on, but I do think that this game does have potential definitely has potential.
[SPEAKER_00]: of for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, but I do I just in more pissed on the fact that this like this game was not was was already on a like on a deal way prior to where the game came out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: For no reason.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just makes no sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like these, like yeah, that's that's like public opinion got so harsh to this game regardless of the with the with the two minute trailer that they showed and that was it it's like wow like the fact that it's still around is like the fact that it's going to be there longer than concord just as a lot in itself in my opinion, but still it's like.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this game has something like the the mechanics are very interesting enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can easily see some of you should definitely play some more of this because I am going to play more of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Especially with the 5v5.
[SPEAKER_01]: Could that was one of my things is like, you get stuck with a couple random or even one got one person not.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, playing the game, how it should be played, completely ruined the experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: So having more people should be helpful, more people to get got by and also get, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's great changes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So high guard, I, I, I, I'm, say, definitely try it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say, don't, don't listen to the hate and try it out for yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, that's what I would say.
[SPEAKER_00]: because like I think that give it a generic reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason why I hate Zelda, I played every Zelda, I didn't like them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't hate to hate, you got to, you had got to have a reason to be like, okay, this is not good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't listen to what other people think and just try it yourself and see what you think.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have, and please have a good reason for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it has a good value reason for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't just say, oh, I don't like it because of what other people are saying, just be better, just do better.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two better.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm trying to say is two better.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pop.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you bring into the table?
[SPEAKER_03]: The Neo 3 demo is out once again.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you play it before February 15th, you get a very special prize.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it Neo3, the game?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, that's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's some kind of like cosmetic thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't pay attention to what it was.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just got the demo of the way because you're safe transfers over.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got it down on PlayStation.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be doing it on PC sometime this week before I had off to Virginia.
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably the Wednesday before I go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Does it come off?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it comes on on Friday.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will not be here when the game launches.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will not be able to play when it launches.
[SPEAKER_03]: because I want you to be home to play it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Makes me wonder, like, oh, I should have got a steam deck when I had the chance.
[SPEAKER_03]: Should have got a steam deck.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Should have got a steam deck when I had the chance.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really debating on that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I want to get a PC.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it cross play at least?
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I will be getting it on PC and PlayStation because I have friends that are playing on both.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, it depends.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're co-opping, it depends on who you plan on co-opping with.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to have it on both.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I would say with how good your PC is, I say go for PC.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, when you're like a walking God and Neo, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you're playing in the air, when you
[SPEAKER_00]: character is just like it's all I think was missing was just orbs and you float it could be there when you're walking out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was screaming.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did go kind of hard and NEO2.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like who is that?
[SPEAKER_03]: those days are going to be coming back though.
[SPEAKER_03]: A couple of things that I like they changed a lot from the all the other things feel like cleaner.
[SPEAKER_03]: The biggest thing that I noticed was this game feels like it's it's Neo through and through, but the combat feels so much like Ninja Gaiden that I
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure how I feel about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I mean, it felt great, but I'm just like, is this the innovation that we want in a soul-like game?
[SPEAKER_03]: With this, because I do, especially if I'm playing as a ninja, I can get my duties out quicker, which I did like, and the combos that I was able to do were very nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, I can see why they don't allow you to keep all as a ninja where they make it a little bit more punishing, because as many, you're not a key usually.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I'm still not going to be playing as a samurai as much.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I refuse, like, I, when I, like, so to, I only played as either a mage or an enduro.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, my first safe out was a mage, which that safe all blew up when my, power went out and my, my place is going on and the safe all that corrupted.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not that the samurai is bad in this, it's just I have my preferences.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how the made stuff is going to work because they still have that as a stat when you're leveling up your character.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, another thing that I like.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, and I know, see if you even know you have it finished new to you, at least I don't think you have.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um,
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a huge difference in the feel for the game where in this one, there are other fights that gives it more of a, it feels like I'm in the middle of a war and not just fighting demons all the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was playing caught with the two of my mods and
[SPEAKER_03]: We saw a gold chest line map.
[SPEAKER_03]: We went over there and we had to fight this very bulky samurai dude and you know one of them those I don't know how I feel about this being a thing I'm like you know I know I like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you don't have to fight a yo-kai all the time like they're not the reason for this war It's someone controlling them and if we got to fight other people that are in charge and completely fine with that
[SPEAKER_03]: I do like the open world exploration, like the map aspect of it, I think it's interesting, it's I
[SPEAKER_03]: Even though I would still consider this a soul's like because of some of his aspects, I am leaning more towards a character action game for this only because of how fast and smooth the combat.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's still Neo in some aspects like when you grapple by an enemy or the pairing and stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: But when I'm playing as a ninja, I'm like, dang, I feel like I really feel like I'm playing ninja guy right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's see.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I like the fact that it's going to be like if wait wait wait like the most recent in your garden or we talking about just in general like the feel of the in your garden period.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say the most not necessarily not not the most recent not like that kind of actually where you know, they can't do anything back to you I would say more so like the older ones, but a lot smoother.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see I don't know if you if you got a chance to play and enjoy it into black, but it has that sort of has that sort of feel to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I don't know because then you got to I mean, I'm not saying ninja guy and it's a bad is a bad game, but it's like ninja guy and it's ninja guy and and he owes me a look at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I don't know if I like the mix of How the game like if it's going to play like like in more ninja guy and I think when you say ninja guy and I'm thinking are Katie that's what I'm thinking.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, so it's it's when I say it feels like magic I'm like the fluidity of being a ninja feels like ninja guiding not the gameplay itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, sorry should clear up on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, the fluidity like the fact that I'm able to toss out my due to and I don't have to wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: And or there's like some kind of stutter when I get hit it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I hated that Neo 2 or I'm just like, I wish I could just like pop these off super quick.
[SPEAKER_03]: But in this, like I can do a couple of hits, throw a bomb in the middle of it and go back to hitting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I wasn't tossing out a bomb at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will see that it does seem like a lot faster pace than the other like you know to your your dude's a lot slower this being in ninja it seems like a lot faster to mess around with it so so yeah this is good yeah that's what I am looking forward to this uh somebody what do you think looks dope I'll never play it's a whole lot of play
[SPEAKER_03]: You play the three of us should play it together.
[SPEAKER_03]: That should be like a game's cast series for you to For you to go up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, is it like so is it like It's a soul's like Yeah, is it like Sekarou?
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't play that Long is that the one you're talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: I did play well on
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like roll-on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, not in terms of like gameplay, but the mechanics are the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like if you die, you kind of lose everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Leo, Leo is the samurai warriors.
[SPEAKER_03]: Souls like, while role-long is the Dynasty warrior, Souls like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a big commitment for a game that I'll probably never finish.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even if we just gifted you like, yeah, I call it like a co-op series, but like, Smitty blues, semi-aware souls later.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like most of that time is just to have tried to figure out how the controls work and then it's going to be floor tanking.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all saying who wants to get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for your been until.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I didn't, I got up to speed with well long pretty quickly.
[SPEAKER_00]: You did.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was able to advance in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did die a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to Lubu.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: You did die a lot though.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can get the right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did die a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did you not finish well long?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I might be able, if it's still on Game Pass, I can like hop on and get to that point.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that the one to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, another doubt.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know that either.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: See?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they make all these games co-op.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what makes them fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Neo through will probably be the first Neo that I'll play where I don't beat it so low first.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just going straight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go back.
[SPEAKER_00]: What about code vain too?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think code vain has co-op.
[SPEAKER_00]: At least that's what I heard.
[SPEAKER_00]: CodeVane has always been, that's what makes it fun about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's co-op.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the first, it was the first one that was co-op.
[SPEAKER_03]: CodeVane are co-vane too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Both of them, they both co-op.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what that is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it says codeVane too has no online co-op.
[SPEAKER_03]: Multiplay features are local multiplayer options.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, so I guess it's the first one then.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the first one, the first one does.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you had to beat the entire so the way you know the first one worked out was really ignorant if you wanted to co-op with somebody they had to beat the entire game first and then they could co-op with you
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh wow, so you have to earn it, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you want your friends okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you mean, you're like, you're just being in my circle of friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you beat the game yet?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you beat the game yet?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you beat the game yet?
[SPEAKER_00]: You want the second player?
[SPEAKER_00]: Proof it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what they did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: oh my god it's so crazy yeah so like it's uh it's uh yeah no i'm definitely going to pick this this sticker up i want to play it co-op though i mean i think i will be fun and actually would probably be there before you become jesus the second could be coming jesus
[SPEAKER_03]: I admit, I had a NO2 problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to say what my hour is in that game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you were like level like 800 or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was something crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I was definitely over 400 though.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because I have over 5,000 hours in the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that was within the game coming out up until like 2024.
[SPEAKER_03]: So.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just look at one of these demons.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just blow up.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what I was doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, yeah, I can help you play this game.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like, dude, I don't want your guide, you're the god character, the cover over.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here mortals.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a mortals.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's stealing the, and it's like, oh, you passed the stage.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, whenever I stream Neo3, my episode titles will just be fear me in all case.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was essentially scary.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh my god, dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was crazy, but yeah, no, but the O2 comes out this Friday.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am definitely hyped for checking it out if you weren't in if you were in town We should we should definitely go up on that or unless you have your squad and then it'll be a different story, but but still Well, I mean we increase we have a spot open, so Oh, that's right crispy places.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's why I'm getting on PC.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, okay, but if that's the reason I'm getting it on PC then too because I was like, okay, there has to be a reason for me to get it on PC because like I don't like getting the same the same game twice, especially like, you know, it's especially like monster hunter and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, oh, there's no, it's like, nope, I got I did the story on the other PlayStation and stay on the PlayStation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not going to happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: The only reason I would get a game like this, though, I can't wait to see what the mods are like.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's, that is true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, that's also a good point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that would be fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that was, yeah, so can't wait for some Neo shenanigans.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to put a death counter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need to make the death counter again for the Neo.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it for.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, okay, by final topic is if you have not played this game, you are missing out a lot to dispatch.
[SPEAKER_00]: came out back in November of 25, a very fun story-driven game, but then they announced, they announced that this, well, this week, ad hoc studios have ordered the game over to the Nintendo Switch in the Nintendo Switch 2.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people were hyped that this game is going to be there, you know, a nice handheld way of doing it, but then they quickly found out that the game
[SPEAKER_00]: There are some nudity, some nudity scenes, and it's not like completely nudity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, there is.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a completely nudity in it, scenes in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And but by default, Nintendo sensors it and a lot of people are upset about the sensor about the censorship because the PlayStation 5 and the steam version does not censor it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people are in an uproar about it as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Nintendo actually has come back to say that Nintendo made an official statement about the same that Nintendo requires all games on its platforms to receive ratings from independent organizations and to meet our established content in platform guidelines.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I just lost the page.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, let's see, then, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So according to Nintendo, well, all games on Nintendo platforms need to meet their certain guidelines.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't dictate to the developers how to change his need to be made.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they essentially are saying that they are not the ones that made the decision of censoring it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're saying that ad hoc studios was the one that made the decision to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're passing the blame.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I should believe that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's
[SPEAKER_01]: That to for them to just randomly do something like that, you know, yeah, not only that, but come on in to know that doesn't even make sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like it doesn't make sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because like how can.
[SPEAKER_00]: because if that was the case that because like the dream for them to be put on all platforms is always going to be there, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't understand why they would just say they're saying, oh, so you're so ad hoc studios decided to say one day, okay, we're going to censor the game that we wanted to say we wanted to play out.
[SPEAKER_00]: on your specific platform.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, they may have said, they may have not had said, you need to censor this without telling them that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They must have said it in some sort of way where they're like, okay, it's going to be this or this is what's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or that kind of thing, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: So like, it's so, it's so off to me because I think we were talking about this off of the stream earlier about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was saying like,
[SPEAKER_00]: it's people are justified of being upset because I would have been upset if I find out this game was censored but then the other systems were the PS5 and the same version wasn't because the game already has their MSRB rating which is basically for I think it's an M or yeah it's an M rating right so theoretically that should be enough to be like to tell anyone that they know that there's a lot
[SPEAKER_00]: be for for children.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not up to and it's not up to the developer.
[SPEAKER_00]: The developers already done their their their diligent saying like you shouldn't children should not be playing this and and you're just but you're still penalizing people to pick this up by censoring it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was a little bit messed up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was kind of want to get you all to take about what you thought about it and see what what what was up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't make sense to me, like again, like you're saying, that is the point of the rating system.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's rated mature.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why would you need to then go back and censor those scenes?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's something we'd not only that, but then Nintendo that I went and ad hoc straight under the bus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we didn't do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Madhawk did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like what is that about?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's so weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not buying that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't make any sense for them to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, and then as ad hoc, I won't see if I don't say anything about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I haven't heard anything from ad hoc, or if they put out any kind of statement, I did see that it was going to be with the censorship and whatnot.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, that's kind of weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of weird, you know, because they have other games to, I mean, again, I understand, but again, it's got that's what the rating system is for, if you know, and they have that stuff, oh, okay, so ad hoc has replied back to just breaking news, yes, they were back yesterday, it's actually, I don't know if I should read all of it because they seem pissed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, give us that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, or they said that we've been quiet for the last few days not because we don't want to address the stuff, but because we've been trying to make sure we're good partners with Nintendo, they've made their own statement regarding this issue and which is their stable was Nintendo requires all games and platforms to receive ratings from independent organizations and meet our established content and platform guidelines.
[SPEAKER_00]: While we inform partners when their titles don't meet our guidelines, Nintendo does not make changes to partner current content.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also do not discuss any content or the criteria used to make determinations.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Nintendo said.
[SPEAKER_00]: As Nintendo states, any game that's going to be on the Nintendo platform needs to be Nintendo's established content and platform skylines.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the key point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nintendo has content guidelines.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our game didn't meet those guidelines, so we made changes that would allow us to release their platform.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what happened here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, we thought this would be obvious, it's where the where the devs that release the fully and censored game on the platforms.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that exactly what I said?
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, we'd said it, so they're saying we initially assumed like some of you that because of the games like Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk are on the platforms with similar types of unsensored mature content, this batch would be allowed to do the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: During the reporting process it became clear that it was not the case.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we asked that we include a disclaimer on the store page to inform customers that the content would be different than on other platforms.
[SPEAKER_00]: We worked with Nintendo to get the storefront language approved.
[SPEAKER_00]: where we absolutely need to take full ownership is the placement of that disclaimer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, it was our intent to go out of our way to tell people looking to buy the game that the content was censored.
[SPEAKER_00]: While we didn't have complete control of the language, we did have control of the placement.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wires got crossed and we put the disclaimer on the infield literally titled disclaimer instead of the about the game section.
[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't catch that until after the launch when we saw people saying that we should have called out the changes on the store page and we went to make sure it was there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It technically has been there the entire time, just in the absolute worst spot that makes it look like we're trying to hide it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is 100% armistake and with this fix to the American store page a few hours after its launch to give more invisibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've also added a disclaimer before purchase as the writing of the, as of the writing of this, the other regions have, have either published a change or in the process of review.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what now, we're working with Nintendo for a path forward, while we can't make any specific promises yet, where confident we'll be able to push an update to address at least some of the sensor content.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll get ahead of it now by saying that between the dev time and the console submission process, we're talking weeks, not days.
[SPEAKER_00]: to our fans who are looking forward to playing the uncensored version of the switch.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are truly sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: People who have the right to be pissed.
[SPEAKER_00]: People have the right to be pissed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lots of lessons learned here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for sticking with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: More soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: So basically, it's like, okay, like it's exactly what I thought it was going to be it's like Nintendo is like basically kind of going in between the word saying Oh, no, we didn't tell them to change it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because there's something that's y'all are doing that's forcing them to do that
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, but anyway, it's crazy that that that's the way that they were going to be bringing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, well, technically, they're, they're going to go in by plausible deniability.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the way they're going by it with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, so yeah, I mean, until until this is changed, I'm probably won't get this batch, because I'm about to head to Japan in March, and I was thinking about doing another run in dispatch on my switch, too, but I must, I must say change it because.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if there's a kid right next to me that sees some titties upside.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it's going to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right next to the, on the air, on the airplane, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what it is, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted this, I wanted the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the fully unsetter version.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said no nips, no dates.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will make a shirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will make a t-shirt, but it's, yeah, it's unfortunate, but I mean, I'm not surprised with this in the way of Nintendo or a big publisher, because you remember when PlayStation was trying to do the same thing on the PS4 for Unset, they were censoring a lot of their stuff, but then on the, but for some other reason the switch was like, okay, just do what you're wanting to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now it's kind of like now it's catching up to Nintendo with this kind of situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, yeah, a little, yeah, a little disappointing, but it's not like it's like we need to write it on the streets, not yet, not yet, not yet, we'll write on the streets until you give us a freaking release date for that Sonic card, the go-carding game, because that's the one I want, like that's all I've been waiting on, was that Sonic racing physical, physical
[SPEAKER_03]: They gave a release date for the second one and I'll see you in the anniversary.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't pay attention to the date because you're happy game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're humble brag with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you've played for months.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
[SPEAKER_03]: March 26, 2026 for the food so cool, this shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it, so it's the, okay, so you'll probably be in Japan.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'll be back by that time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be back, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be back by that time, but I need to find a good game I should play on the, on the, on the, um, with the switch too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll figure it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give me some options.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone in the comments below.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but I don't, I don't, no, I don't want to pay that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't pay for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you came for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I mean, I just don't want to buy it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, uh, I was so, so disappointed with betroid.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just like, I don't want,
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, but then.
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