Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - THE NOTORIOUS MASS EFFECT EPISODE 134 // "MOST POPULAR GAME OF ALL TIME!?"

Episode Date: February 1, 2024

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What's going on our internet, analytic here, aka Dreams, and I'd like to welcome you to mine, which are called the notorious mass effect podcast. Now, of course, before we get into the episode title and the number, which is 134, but have to start with the update. As right now, currently, I am using my new setup. So, of course, with it being a new setup, as always, let me know, click my link to you in my bio, Let me know one of my social media is if the audio is off. If certain things are not sounding like it usually is because it's a new setup.

So I'm open to any type of feedback when it comes to me using this setup. Because at the end of day, hey, when you make a new PC setup, when you make new equipment, well, build new equipment for a recording something is bound to not work correctly so if it's not definitely click my link stream my bio and let me know on one of my social medias what you think I should change and what is not working or sounding like it used to so with that being said of course this is episode 134 we're going to be getting into a lot of video game and hip-hop topics in general but more specifically the title is the title most popular

game of all time. So you already know we're going to be diving deep into the one and only paled world. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, I never thought we would be talking about a game that's actively trying to bring slavery back. But hey, here we are. And before I get further into those thoughts in that particular statement, I want to talk about how the podcast in general,

has been performing well of course you know 80,000 weekly downloads i feel like y'all really enjoy me covering not only gaming but of course hip-hop topics and at the end of day i always like to give y'all a i don't even know if synopsis is the right word but basically an overview of how the podcast is performing in general how i kind of want to attack it this year so i'm going to be focusing more on just what works for the podcast but also as far as strong streaming, which I'm streaming right now over at Wisdom, I think that's going to be an interesting tool that I'm going to be continuing to use going forward as, you know, they're really nice over at Wisdom.

They help me a lot when it comes to certain things as far as being verified and things of that nature. You know, not every social media platform makes you verify. So the ones that do, you try to appreciate them by putting, you know, content on their platform. So I am going to be going live on Wisdom. But the thing with wisdom is you won't hear any of the actual audio elements when it comes from the system, whether it's beat playing in the background as you can hear right now. And you won't be able to hear some of the, yeah, basically all the audio elements from my system.

So wisdom is probably the best for tuning in live if you want to potentially be a part of whatever discussion or whatever topic. currently covering. So that's the only reason I bring that up as obviously podcast numbers by far on the way is the best performing. YouTube. YouTube is getting up there. TikTok and Twitter, well, X, I guess. They are respectable numbers, but you know, compared to my podcast is just not even close. So at some point, I'm at to find somebody who's better at social media than me, which you know is probably 90% of the population because for some reason podcast numbers go uh or podcast numbers are on an upward trajectory but as far as social media i would say what we're at a even number consistently which is not bad you know i think we do around a thousand to three

thousand per video but you know for the future i would like to grow those numbers and see some type of growth and those numbers so it's just me being transparent just trying to come to you with a little bit of an update on the analytical side because you know i do call myself analytic dreams and one of the things about being analytic dreams is i'm trying to figure out the rest of my setup so i'm like 70 to 80 percent finished with my entire setup so that's why i say if anything's off just no i'm still working on it but as far as right now i listen to it back as far as you know um test testing the mic and everything and it seems to be going well.

So with that being said, before we get into episode 130, make sure to click my link in my bio to access my social medias and to keep all my latest activities. If you want to support the show financially, click my cash-ab link located towards the top, towards the bottom of my link tree

as that helps the show overall. Make sure to show this podcast, rating this show five stars as this helps the show reach more people so we can grow together and affect the masses. Now, with that being said, let's get into the first topic of episode 134. What a pleasure to be here at this motherfucking club. You are kicking this shit out of the club on the other side of town. Club bullshit.

You know, I think I'm just going to start every segment for this episode with a Cat William skit from GTA4. Now, I don't know how in the world I found this, but somehow this crossed my timeline because, of course, we're getting into SoundCloud. People who came for SoundCloud are probably wondering, what in the world does this have to do with how SoundCloud is preparing to sell their company? Well, ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with that, but everything to do with your personal enjoyment. So let me just play for you a little clip from Kat Williams on GTA4. It's like living in a studio apartment again. You ever been in a studio apartment?

It's ridiculous. Because it's got everything but nothing. Like you see the living room. It's right there. There's the kitchen corner right there. Set up. It's just so small. You can do everything from the center.

I mean, this is legendary. I didn't even know Kat Williams was on GTA 4. You learn something every day. All right, then let me open up the refrigerator. Who? Who? Who? Who left my shower curtain open like that? That is ridiculous.

Somebody's at the door. Hello? Hey, come on in and sit on the couch. Well, it's a love seat. But you can sit. That's how that other club was, just that small. So anyways, with that being out the way, because of course I'm going to keep bringing those little comedic bits throughout the entire episode. But more importantly, we have to get into why in the world do we care about SoundCloud preparing to sell the company?

Now, the reason why this is a big deal is because C-O-O and CFO Drew Wilson is set to leave the company after almost three years in the row. Right, three whole years. I mean, not even a presidential term. But that's besides the point, right? The biggest goal for SoundCloud is to reach a valuation of $2.5 billion with the B. But the more commonly cited goal was around $1 billion. So with that being said, of course, there's a little discreferency in the actual numbers. But the biggest thing is SoundCloud trying to reach profitability by December.

So with that being said, the country. company ultimately is trying to sell for $1 billion and the rain group and T-Mask holdings reportedly exploring investment banks. And with SoundCloud being founded in 2007, definitely playing a significant role for creatives in general and hip-hop. I mean, there was literally a whole wave of just SoundCloud rappers where we're still just recovering from that wave to this day. I mean, if Little Yaddy wasn't so pivotal in the careers of different movements in hip-hop, I would say the whole SoundCloud rapper's movement was atrocious. But at this point in time, it's hard to say that because we still have the likes of Little Yaddy and Uzi and a lot of other artists still impacting the charts to this day.

why I'm even bringing that up. It's because covering SoundCloud, you have to understand the importance it had on hip hop. And to this point, I feel like TikTok is becoming the new SoundCloud to where it's going to be a wave of TikTok rappers. Just like there were SoundCloud rappers, they're going to become a wave of TikTok rappers to the point where now artists that used to pioneer the wave for the upcoming new. Musicians is no longer, well, they no longer have their stronghold on the influential part of making a musician. So where does that leave them? Obviously, that's a more elementary take on why I believe they're probably actively preparing to sell the company. But when you look at TikTok, when you look at what SoundCloud was really known for, it was discovering and blowing up musicians.

at this point it kind of seems like tic-tok has definitely overtook over uh overtook is that's right anyways overridden the influential part and they've claimed it for themselves so the biggest thing that you need to know coming away from this is that soundcloud is still one of the more user-friendly platforms for creators i would still say that but as far as a profitability standpoint and as far as looking to reach their goals and just have certain valuations of 2.5 billion and not meeting them I think that's the reason we're seeing this today and for them being so influential I mean to the point where SoundCloud like contributes to more than 26 million as far as just services like as

As far as creator tools and services, they have to front a lot of money. So that means they have to bring in a lot of money. And at this point, I don't know if they're at the same level as they used to be financially and influential wise. Because, of course, we have TikTok. So at the end of the day, I think TikTok's the reason why SoundCloud is not going, they're not going under, but they're going to sell to somebody else. And somebody else will have to realize how to make a profitable company, and SoundCloud as with it being founded in 2007.

Obviously something was working because we're in 2024 and it's still going strong. So at the end of day, I could only attribute their willingness to sell to TikTok because I'm not going to keep, you know, reiterating my statements. But basically, that's just how I feel when it comes to why I feel like they're trying to sell. And for creatives, I think, that SoundCloud is not going to be one of those platforms who push the needle going forward. I think it's going to be TikTok. It's probably going to be Twitter and then Instagram and then that's it.

Like SoundCloud, what was it, Dizer? There's other ones. SpinRilla. All of those platforms are becoming the new blockbuster. Like they're still around, but as far as the influential impact that they once had in the culture, I just think is no longer there. So with that being said, a little quick business update for y'all as far as one of the more prominent platforms in hip hop and just music creation in general. So click my link tree in my bio and let me know one of my social media is.

What do y'all think about SoundCloud? I'm actively preparing to sell the company. And also, what do you think is the most influential platform for upcoming musicians? via ben abraham joseph has earned a number one album on the billboard 200 now the biggest thing with that is and by the way abraham aka is 21 savage so american dream by 21 savage is interesting to the fact that it sold 133,000 first week sales marking his highest first week sales as a solo artist. But when you think about that, you try to bring in other albums

because you need to see progression for first week sales, even though some people say you don't. But first week sales is an indication on the amount of anticipation and support that you can get in a short amount of time from releasing an album. And it's really a good litmus scale when it comes to your peers. That's besides a point.

So I Am, I Was, which was the last album from 21 Savage. I forget how much it sold first week. But I do know that her loss with Drake was his most successful first week sales project, which she was a co-artist with. I think that did around like $300,000 first week. Basically, I Am I Was was was a first week. first time that 21 Savage really put together like a great body of work. And now with this album, American Dream, I would say personally that he's made a similar and quality album as his 15 tracks,

not too long, not too short, has a lot of prominent features like Doge Cat, Travis Scott, and uses certain features in ways to where when he's making a, experimental quote unquote music where he's like getting into his R&B bag he has actual artists to help him out in that element whether it's a summer walker brent fias maria the scientist so you kind of get where i'm going with 21 savage usually my critique for him is that he sounds the same on every single song and every single beat but when you start to incorporate other musicians who have drastically different sonics than you and then you combine never and with the fact that this whole rollout was using photos of each artist like baby pictures of

each artist to promote them on the upcoming album and then you combine that with the fact that there's a film produced by donald glover starring other actors like kaleb mcgloffin i don't know i say that drusky uh drusky and how it's basically chronicling is that word chronically anyways it's the chronicles of 21 Savage's journey from London to US, you realize that it's not only the fact that he sounds the same by each and every beat, but is what he's saying and it's how he's packaging it to make you give him a little bit more leeway than you rather would another artist because you see he's putting forth the effort. Some musicians that sound the same on every single track day and day out, they don't put forth the effort when it comes to promoting, when it comes to getting certain marketing budgets not even marketing budget when it comes to putting forth money towards marketing budgets because getting a TV show made about yourself isn't normal

getting all of these different musicians on your album that's not cheap you know i mean if 21 savages is not paying for it himself somebody on his label is because if you didn't know this was pretty uh interesting. Let me see. If you didn't know, 21 Savage is actually under, um, exclusive license to epic records, meaning that he is sort of not independent, but he basically owns majority of his royalties and masters, if not all of them, because it's a, uh, exclusive license, a division of Sony music. And obviously to go into the details, I'll have to see the contract, and that's never going to happen. But if you look at Slavis, gang LLC under exclusive license to epic records that's way different from mostly a majority of

artists let's just go to a prominent artist like let's say gunna right gunna there's a reason why he's under exclusive license to young stoner life records slash 300 entertainment because who's that that young thug right they're not going to let him go because they still need to make money off him because you know I mean technically he snitched again to the free world so why not make some money off of him you know even though as a law-abiding citizen I would just say he just told the truth you know it's nothing wrong with telling the truth sometimes you know and you know I never advocate for black man to get locked up only criminals you know I believe every criminal should go to jail but anyways that's what I's the point so Abraham Joseph put out this project um

put out this project American dream that sold what it did which was a 133,000 basically getting him another number one album to the point where I had to figure out um where is this at okay so yeah let me figure out how much he sold with i am i was because i think that would be a pretty good litmus test because they said it barely outsold it i'm trying to see how close was it i am let's just put first week who uses a great a symbol in the album title whatever um okay i am i was sold thousand first week and then oh okay so this is interesting so i put in perspective all the time how streams doesn't equal or isn't the same as an album purchase right 21 savage streamed 188 million with his i am i was album but it only came into 131 000 album sales so put that in perspective

of 188 times somebody click play on your product and 131 sale 131,000 album units are moved because of that 188 million to 131,000 that is the discrepancy when it comes to streaming and how it equals to album purchases so I'll let y'all do the math on that but so he barely outsold i am i was but still in fact he did outsell it which means he technically did his job as far as an artist putting out a body of work and improving on what he did beforehand statistically maybe not I can't even say quality wise because if you look at the top 10 right I think he has two tracks currently in the top 10 because 21 Savage is that type of artist where he just sales like his fan base is going to support him in a way that

most his majority of his peers don't really support them like that i'm trying to find the charts why i didn't have the chart so low anyways um red rum is number three on the top five of the billboard charts and then you have nina which is number five and the cross-references because i'll so technically i was looking at the billboards chart but i got to look at the um you can find it i got to look at the overall charts and the reason why i'm looking at the numbers is because, you know, I call myself analytic dreams. So, you know, we got to analyze these numbers, you know what I'm saying? And, yeah, so three with Red Rum on the overall streaming charts.

And then he has Nina with Travis Scott at number five. So then he has all of me at number seven. Another track in number eight. I think that's the one with Doe. your cat and another track in number 16 what do we at four i can't count a two four we're at five and we have another track sneaky at number 20 a six seven 21 dangerous so he has an actual track charting at 21 which is just so ironic and then basically you give it i'm saying like the album is successful standpoint and also quality-wise it seems like people really enjoy the album

and that's basically what I wanted to touch on because it's not going to be no drawn-out review of 21 because obviously I'm not the biggest 21 Savage fan like I always think that 21 Savage is very formulaic in the way he puts out his music but as far as we're not even put out the music the way he sounds sonically is very formulaic but his lyrics his packaging of his rollout and the whether it's a movie or TV show with the Donald Glover thing American Dream.

I think that's what made me realize that this is a quality project because not a lot of musicians are going to put this much not a lot of musicians are going to put forth this much effort when it comes to getting people to recognize their their music

because most artists would try to go the whole mysterious route not compete in any stretch of the imagination on DSPs and then act like there's still the biggest thing smoking or the biggest discovery since the light spread and I'm talking directly to play Bray Cardi

and his fans out there I mean that man to this day still ain't put a track on DSPs to compete with the big dogs in the music industry so with 21 Savage he put out music on DSPs, not YouTube, Dizer, um, basically he didn't put out music on non-D-SPs, right? And basically the things that I want to talk about is why that is.

And I think it's simply because 21 Savage is more influential in the hip-hop space than people give him credit for it. When it comes to the Uzi's, the Cardys, the Cardys, the Destroy Lonely or Kent Carson's, the Yeats, I think 21 Savage is up there as far not even up there he surpassed him and it's really only comparable to I would say maybe a Uzi and a Kodak even though Kodak sometimes doesn't sell like he should but that's what's the point so anyways 21 Savage definitely put out a high quality body of work and I just think the biggest thing with him and the way that he sells is just the authenticity in the way he actually packages his music.

Because, I mean, the album before that, with I Am, I Was, I think he had Morgan Freeman. Correct me if I'm wrong. But I think he literally had Morgan Freeman narrating, like, throughout the entire album. And if that's not packaging, I don't know what it is. So to counteract the monotone, the formulaic sonics that he's always given us,

whether the bars are good or not, I think the packaging is by far in the way. the best thing about 21 Savage's music. I mean, I think I saw his music in a Mortar Combat video one time. I think it was Mortar Combat X or some type of launch trailer. And I don't know if it was a launch trailer. It was like a reveal trailer. And they had 21 Savage music playing in the background.

I was like, how did this happen? So anyways, I always like to see the packaging with business minds like a 21 Savage. And I think he did the same thing with this one. Like he really, as far as the quality of, of, marketing promotion, it was really high with American Dream. So anyways, let's get into the actual album and review. It's not going to be too long. Basically, I'm not going to go track from track because, you know, if you're not Drake,

Nikki, Travis, like, you know, you really ain't going to get that type of review from me. And I do think that 21 Savage is, his album currently is in my top five of the year. But, I mean, if you look at when this came out, it's not their hard. you know what I'm saying so anyways um American dream just giving an overview of it because I'm not going track for track I probably give my least favorites and my favorites right as a body of work it's pretty um solid I would say it's solid especially for a person like 21 who has a certain tone to where he doesn't really it's not able he's not able to switch it up I don't think like at all so even when he gets into his singing bag like the one with Brent Fias I would say it was the only

track what was that out there's the track with Brent fires um someone Walker did he not list Brent fires as a credit or can I not read I probably can't read that's probably what it is oh here this should have wore a bonnet so that track is um and first I thought the track was pretty trash because the whole run it from it and then how he was repeating it I was like that's just that's just trash but after listening to it I was like it's serviceable like it went from trash to something to serviceable for me and that was the only that was one of two tracks I skipped on this album to let you know how much I enjoyed it right so the track with a young thug that should have just not been on an album

the only reason and that that's the one with the poop bar I didn't even realize that when it first came out like everybody on the internet they was like hey that man said uh some some some like a poop I was like um I ain't I must have missed that one because I just wasn't I don't really focus on 21 for the bars but we're going to get to some in a second about him in his bars but basically the poop bar I did not notice it at all when I listened to it because I heard it I was like

this seems very low effort from 21 Savage and Young Thug and so I skipped it so that's probably by far in the way my least favorite track off of this album and I don't know if he just put this on here to like support Young Thug because 21 Savage comes across obviously we don't know him personally

but from a public from a bird's eye view he comes across is a guy who will literally put young thug in his album to make all the proceeds from this particular track go to whatever um um what's the what's the whatever whatever the fees are for his uh lawsuit if that makes sense i don't know why i'm probably reaching but i just feel like he's that type of guy to put a young thug feature on his album solely to give him all the proceeds from that track to feed um whatever lawsuit he's going to or uh through or with his uh family so that's the only reason i think that that track is on this but honestly i think it's i think it's

trash so uh with that being said my favorite tracks is by far and away dark days i like when artists get into the uh introspective bag and you're gonna if you're a follower of the podcast you already know i love artists that give their life experiences through the music and give real dense messages with just information and dense i say that because i I mean, obviously, a track can't be no longer than three to four minutes, or they're going to say you're overdoing it. So it has to be dense with information, but not in a way that it just sounds preaching.

And for Dark Days, I think 21 Savage nailed the balance of giving a certain message, but then also letting people know that it's still a replayable track. Like sometimes you give a pre-chey type message, and now it's just lost all replayability because you can't really bump that in a whip when you're trying to turn up, you know what I mean? So Dark Days was pretty fire. have a nice beat to go with it i like how he used maria the scientist in the j z type of way like he was just giving the bars and then for the chorus he let maria take care of that which made it an

even more phenomenal track so that was the standout for me that was my favorite track off of the album number two i'll probably say the the track with doja cat simply for doja i know i'm kind of cheating with that one but hey doja cat went crazy it's the reason why i had her on my top five rappers of twenty twenty three list and she was top three because uh she's just one of the more talented rappers i've heard in the past probably two to three years and i would say her vocal inflection is why because it's almost little wayne kendrick-esque i say nicky too they're probably the best at at changing your vocal inflection in a way that's just um leaps and bounds above everybody else because you know your voice is what you're born with but um as far as

vocal inflection in the way they change it. I think obviously you can work on it, but you know, what your voice is in the way you're born with it. Only certain people can have that type of instrument just come naturally from them. I think Doja Cat is one of those where she's rapping in one tone, rapping in another, and then obviously drastically changing her vocal inflection to either emphasize a point or just whisper some. Like she had a whole like running adlib throughout her verse basically saying ad lib and that type of stuff is like i'm not going to say it's mind blowing but that type of stuff to pull that off i think it is a tributes towards the vocal inflection because even if you say something whack is the way you say it that makes people

resonate with it if that makes sense especially in hip-hop because it's so subjective that you just have to make people believe that what you say in this fire and for doja cat she does a great job at rapping and giving double triple entendres and making it sound in a way that's just a lyrical masterclass to where when she gets on this track and starts to literally do ad libs by saying ad libs we let it fly because we know what she's capable of as this same year she put out i think it was jesus a jesus i don't know it was a track with codec black off of um i don't forgot the movie already the book of clarence that movie basically she had a track with codec black and that to the honestly that's probably my favorite track of this year that i've heard um she went

crazy on it kodak went crazy but it's just another prime example of two artists who are lyrically gifted just given their um the all in the track and i think that was another great showing by doja cats so i had to um highlight that on this album as well and as far as my third favorite track of this album i mean i'll have to go a red rum i mean red rum um it's just straightfire I mean honestly I felt kind of slow I ain't on let's just I ain't gonna lie y'all let me tell you something when people was like when people were saying the fun fact on Twitter how red rum spelled backwards was was murder and everybody was in the comment section like man oh we're next you're gonna tell me the sky is blue or the grass is green

and you know that was just so obvious right you know everybody was just in the comment section talking about oh wow thank you for pointing at all I would have never figured it out and here I am down looking at my phone and I was flabbergasted I was like wow that's that's what it oh that's huh that's crazy you know the whole time I'm thinking like red rum some type of special drink where he's from you know a whole time I'm not putting in my mind that that it spells murder backwards right it's just it's uh as a as a law-abiding citizen I just don't think of things how to creatively rap about murder like that so when I heard it I was like dang red run must be the fire drinking town that's crazy he's really tapped in all time i was just out of the loop

and it was one of my uh i would say not so special but if you really think about it technically it was special because the way that i was uh just unaware of how it was murder spelled backwards so yeah do with that what you will but anyways it's not going to be a deep dive into 21 savages album because as the end of the day there's really nothing to deep dive into I mean, if you heard it once, you've probably heard all the, all the bars. Like, not to disrespect, 21 Savage, but, you know, he's not really an interest, like, introspective rapper in that sense. I mean, that's why Dark Days is my favorite, because I think that's where he got the

closest to actually giving us, like, a lyrical performance. What else? Yeah, that's probably it. There was something else I wanted to touch on. I'm trying to find it. Oh, the film. Okay, so the film is coming out sometime this year, I think. I don't know when it's actually coming out.

I do know he's going on tour. Let me see if there's anything else. He's going on tour and currently he has two tracks in the top 10 on Billboard. And, yeah, man, that's basically it. I guess I guess 20th Savage lives to see another day when it comes to not putting out mediocrity. So, unfortunately, because I was really ready to, you know, talk about how Drake's the only reason but you know I can't really do that right now so got to be fair when it calls for it I guess even though hip hop is subjective so I could have still you know what I mean

but I didn't do it so anyways that's really all I have for the for the American dream album not really too much of an in-depth review just an overall coverage of sales and then my personal um insight into the album and I'm an insight just my personal uh review of the album so with that being click my link to you my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about 21 savages album american dream and what was your favorite track off of that album you're gone gone just moving so fucking fast it's ridiculous so i decided i was going to get a car but you got to be careful got to be careful because shopping for a car is dangerous i just got to let you all know that we're going to keep with the theme of playing cat william comedy bits

throughout this whole entire episode because let me tell you something. Why nobody tell me that Kat Williams was on GTA 4? I had to find that out randomly on my timeline, but hey, here we are. So now that I found this gym, here is another

comedy bit from the one and only, Kat Williams. If you got a raggedy car, you go to the lot. These motherfuckers keep trying to trick you. Don't take the test drive. That's all I'm going to say. Don't take the fucking test drive. Test drive is the trick. It's to show you how much better this shit is than your shit so you can't even go back to your car again

Here I've been sitting on vinyl with creases on in my back and become accustomed to the raggedness of the seat At the back I didn't even want to drive the car I wanted to watch television I was just laying there comfortable Test driving test driving don't do it don't do it Especially if you ain't got good credit because they become two different salesperson Right when you first walk in they're friendliest motherfuckers in the world make you feel good about yourself How are you, sir?

Might I offer you some popcorn, some, some, some, uh, cheese bits and some coffee? Well, that's an odd combination, but I haven't had popcorn in a while. Don't mind if I do. Thank you. Coffee, yes. Yes, I'll have. And you said cheese bits? Can y'all believe that this whole comedy sketch was in the midst of GTA4?

Make you feel good about it. And then they go in the back room and check your fucking credit and come out like you're an alien from another land. Just, sir. I just ran your credit score You think this is a motherfucking game? Alright, we're gonna stop it right there So anyways The whole reason for the segment

Is to talk about Snoop Dog Which I don't know what it is About Snoop Dog But he makes news In the most unorthodox ways Possible Like whether he's commentating a boxing match Whether he's trying to sell

a smokeless stove or whether he's turning down $100 million from OnlyFans and just gave us that information like it was normal. So, yes, ladies and gentlemen, that last little tidbit was what we're going to cover for this segment as Snoop Dogg apparently unprovoked just came out and told us that he turned down $100 million deal from Onlyfans. and basically

he said this during an interview on Instagram Live series Wake and Bake with Double S Express How do I know this? Hey, just know with my job somehow, some way this is the type of information that people are entertained by. So Snoop Dog

declined, right? Right? But why did he decline? Well, if you look at the analytic dreams video version of this podcast, which on Spotify exclusively, the video version along with the audio you will see that this is the reason why he declined to deal yes no it's not because of his standards it's not because of his religious beliefs it's not even because he didn't want to do it he said it's only because his wife right

it's only because of his wife that he turned this down stating quote and this is a quote from snoop dog himself ain't no way in the world she gonna allow me to go on there and pull that thing out for no amount of money now i don't know what he was referring to when he said that thing but i mean teach his own right this man didn't say no he didn't say he didn't want to do it he just said his wife wasn't going for that and basically they have been together since their teenage years now i i'm I know good and dang well that they ain't been together since their teenage years. So once I've seen that, I was like, hold up now. I almost pulled a Kobe Bryant, but I ain't going to do it.

You know what Kobe did to Shaq? I ain't going to do it. You know what I'm saying? Or I think Shaq, no, Kobe definitely anyways. So we're going to let that slide, right? So they've been married, happy relationship, faithful relationship. Anyways, so Snoop Dogg explained that true love and mutual sacrifice has been the foundation. of his endearing marriage with Shanti Brodus.

Hopefully I'm saying that right. I don't even know. Despite potential financial gain, Snoop Dog stood tall and prioritized his wife's feelings over joining Only fans. Y'all snap it up from Mr. Snoop Dogg himself. You know what I mean?

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you think was the real reason he turned that down you know one of the biggest things about the gaming industry is never knowing what is exactly the most anticipated so whenever you're making a list of the most anticipated games of 2024 i had to look at a plethora of different sites because of course I'm only one man even though I did play 14 games last year you know I do consider myself a gamer even though it comes with the sweaty tag and the tag of not taking care of hygiene but but that being you know put to the side I would say and I do say for my fellow critiquers out there about gamers that we do shower sometimes so anyways most anticipated games of 2024 we got to get into it and this is probably the best

list I've seen as they captivated a lot of the video games that I've seen throughout the end of 2023 being anticipated. So first off, obviously we have to start with Power World. Now, I know it may be cheating to start with a game that's already been impactful in 2024. And literally this whole episode is covering, well, the main topic for this episode is this particular game. But with that being said, that means I couldn't leave it off this list. So the most anticipated game for 2024 would have to be Power World because even though, you know, I think it's very interesting in how you can capture a human and then go somewhere else. And if you need a task done, you can bring that human out.

And then when you're done with it, you can put it back into his little ball, Pokemon style. Right. Now, I call that something else as a black man in America. But, you know, teach his own, right? Maybe it's not that serious. Maybe, you know, capturing a human, using him to do your deeds and then putting them back and capture. Maybe that's something else. You know, maybe I'm just ignorant, honestly.

So besides that fact, there's a lot of survival crafting elements in that video game. And there are 100 plus, I don't know what they call them, but, oh, pals, that's what they're called. There are 100 pals, which, you know, is basically Pokemon, but it's, it's his own game because the mechanics are different enough to where it's more of a survival type game. I would say it's Minecraft meets Pokemon. But I don't know. Somebody else may be like, no, it's definitely this mixed with that. And I'm be like, hey, I ain't looked that deep into it. All I've seen is, you know, I've seen certain things about the game.

I watched the game for like three, four hours, watch somebody play it. Because, of course, I was a little hesitant on playing the game myself. And then I seen the rise in success. And of course, like any fair or weather fan, I was like, oh, I probably got to cover this. So when I was getting into it, it definitely seems. like it's going to find itself into a lot of controversy, but since this is not specifically talking about the game, I'm just going to leave those facts there as that is probably why it ended up on my most anticipated games for 2024. Now, what else is on my list? I have avowed.

Now, if you don't know what it is, Avowed is more of a Skyroom experience and this is a fantasy action adventure game and basically set in the world of Um, it's E-O-R-A because if I mispronounce it, I know you're going to kill me. But it's Oura? Hold on. I'm about to play this. Give me a second. I think I could play this straight from the.

E-O-R-E-O-R-E. Okay. Anyways, I try my best. Don't laugh at me. I try, you know what I mean? Hey, I'll put it out there for y'all to hear it. So, um, it's set in the world of E-O-R and basically this came from the Pillars of Eternity franchise and Obsidian is has, well, not is, it has a very spotless track

record of making excellent games. So that is why A Vowd is on my list as Obsidian with their excellence as far as they're just discography of games they've made. I think this is just going to just going to be another achievement and another um badge of honor as far as how the maybe the best gaming franchise right now i mean if you talk about no duds i mean we kind of have to point out a cd project red or rock star but as far as just like branching out and doing a variety of different things under the same umbrella as far as gaming developer i would say obsidian um has a very very high of just quality driven games. So with this, in Advowed,

obviously we don't have no release date as of yet, but I would say it's going to be fire, and especially when it comes out, a lot of people are just going to really want to enjoy this fantasy action adventure game, and it's just going to be one of those type of games where it's going to make a lot of noise in the gaming community.

I mean, any type of obsidian-made game is going to make a lot of noise. So that's why I ended up on this list. Now next for my fighting game fans out there And for my avid listeners of the podcast You definitely know that I got into the competitive side of gaming Whenever I figured out that I was really good at fighting games I don't know what it is I think is basically I'm not gonna say it's exactly like chess

But just being placed on a board And you versus that other person and basically there's no type of RNG There's no luck that happens in the match is just you use your tools at your advantage he uses his tools and y'all try to counter each other literally and for me that factor into fighting games is what i've always enjoyed as far as playing them so that is why i would say that that's my favorite track uh track i'm talking like i'm talking about music that is uh why that is my favorite game so um i would say that that's probably why tech and eight is on my list so as far as

Tekken 8 and I forgot to bring the game titles up while I was talking about it anyways. As far as Tekken 8, I would say that this is very anticipated for the simple fact that obviously it's been almost a decade since Tekken 7 has

came out and with Tekken 8 coming on the heels of Mortar Combat just completely butchering its release date of such an incredible gaming gameplay loop mechanic i would say and the way i say butchering that's because you know it's everything

about packaging it's a story uh which i think was solid all the way into the end which it was like atrocious such a bad ending to where like the whole story i wouldn't want to play again because it just totally derailed at the end almost seemed like you know the stockholders or whatever told them like hey if you don't put this game out by this time then we're cutting funding or whatever and so but they just forced the product out. So anyways, even though the gameplay loop was fun, they didn't have basic modes in the game and just quality of life improvements into the game.

More specifically, probably to practice, not having the ability to list out buttons on the screen while you're trying to practice, like, just stuff like that, whereas Street Fighter had all of that. Like Street Fighter had everything, and more when it comes to servicing your audience. So now with Tech and 8, because as far as Street Fighter came out, then when the combat came out and basically butchered his whole release,

and then you get into Tech and 8, whereas it's shaping up to have more of an old-school environment as far as just like online modes and feature tournaments, basically, you know, giving the players what they need to get, giving the players what they need to have a longevity type game because obviously you see what motor combat you put out a game with I think is one of the more fun gameplay loops in a while from them but if you don't surround it with quality content

then it's just going to die by the wayside and I think that's what happened to motor combat which is why Tekken now is next up as far as the biggest fighting game and that's why it's made my list for the most anticipated for 2024 So number seven This is going to be Well, it's not number seven for me

But anyways, as far as this article One of the things I wanted to touch on Was this game that's already came out And it's called the Princess Persia Now, the reason I want to touch you on this game Is because not only is it One of the most anticipated for 2024 But it's also doing pretty well

As far as the masses Because I do think that when it comes to making a Prince of Persia game from the previous Prince of Persia already had this this type of uh it was interesting to where people already had this type of perception where the game wouldn't be as good because I don't know the previous game wasn't good like it had a stench of not expecting much because the previous game wasn't you know blow your mind type quality so with this Prince of Persia game to already be out to get the reviews that has gotten and deservedly so as a lot of people are saying that it's one of the best prince of persia games

maybe ever so that's why i had to uh hop on my list because i think when it comes to putting games out and especially in today's age it's super hard to develop a game and i don't think a lot of people keep that in mind when they're talking about certain games that's actually functional that's actually having certain combat mechanics that's smooth and in story elements that plays along with the combat it's just a lot of things that goes into developing the game and that's just more at the surface level i'm talking about like that that's very surface level so for prince of persia to come out like it did and to get these rave reviews i think it's uh definitely one of the more uh surprising releases that that uh garners so much praise it reminds me of how far rush the amount of

that Princess Persia has received. So anyways, going into the next game, we have Star Wars. Now, y'all knew that this is going to be on my list, because let me tell you something. If y'all don't think Ubisoft is going to take this time to just put everything around the map, then y'all are mistaken. They're going to try to make this game in a way that you have to play at least, you have to play at least 100 hours just to get to act to. Like, they're going to be like, we have the rights to make a Star Wars game and with Ubisoft.

Man, that is a crazy dangerous combination. I mean, the amount of stuff that's about to be on the map is going to be flabbergasting. Like, it's just going to be so many little protected outposts, oh, can you help me with this task-type missions that you're not going to know. You're going to lose count. You're going to lose count. So for Star Wars outlaws, all jokes aside, I think it's going to be pretty solid. It's very interesting how this is coming out when Star Wars is going through their tumultuous time. I mean, rather than, you know, Jedi Survivor, which, you know, that game to this day.

Like, if they made a movie about Calcestis, all I got to say is that that is going to print money in itself because it's not one character out there in Star Wars history that I want to see more to Calcestics. And it reminds me of when I used to watch, Anacanian. Skywalker in the Clone Wars show back on I think it was Nickelode, Cartoon Network. It was one of them. I think it was Cartoon Network. But anyways, yeah, I don't think

I've really enjoyed a character's arc like Calcestis since Anakin and Clone Wars. And if you never play the game, you got to play it to understand. Because Calcestis is really shaping up to be one of the best Star Wars characters of all time. I know that's a high prey

But, you know, as a start, I would say I'm a Star Wars fan. I know a lot of different characters. And I'm especially playing the Lego games. You definitely get to know the characters. Well, I was like a little kid playing the characters. And you get to know that it's like all the type of people with Jedi, like with lightsabers. I thought that was like a sacred thing. When you come to realize everybody got a lightsaber, like he got a lifesaver, she got a

lifesaver. Like, so for me, I'll probably say that's as high praise as far as a CalCestis being like one of the best. better characters in Star Wars history. So anyways, getting into the last and final game for my most anticipated for 2024, I have to put my man cloud because I'm not going to lie to you. Final Fantasy remake had no business going that hard. Like the way they remade the game, I know I was making a big deal out of,

uh, make sure I didn't put that too big. And I was making a big deal out of Resident Evil, I think it was 7, 5, I don't care. But whatever remake Resident Evil did and how it had nominations for the Game Awards last year, I feel the exact opposite for Final Fantasy 7. Because I think the remake was so, from a foundational standpoint, I think it was so changing to the mechanics in the gameplay. loop that it deserves nominations and not and let alone deserving it should actually win some of the awards in a game award show because i just think they upgraded everything like it's not

even from a graphic standpoint usually that's what remakes are for to upgrade the graphics you know basically make you feel like it looked as it did when you was a kid you know it's basically what remakes are to make it look like oh this is a to date like you used to look at it when you was a kid but now it's kind of like when you revamped the whole gameplay mechanics because i think it used to be a term base to the point where now i mean obviously you have certain term based elements but it's really more of an action RPG more than anything uh turn base related so and its open world experience and its graphics are on point to where it's like a completely new game it seems like it's a completely new game so for that alone

I would say that this is probably the top most anticipated game for me and from what I've seen a lot of other people out in the game and space. So I would just caution everybody because obviously it says February 29th, when this game comes out, prepare to be flooded with Final Fantasy 7 content because it's just one of those games where, I mean, we already know what's going to happen because the story's been done like 20 million times. I mean, it's almost like if they made a remake anime show of like Naruto or something. Like, we know how the story plays out, but it's the fact that they took the time to show us they actually cared about revamping and upgrading everything in the game. I mean, I think they even changed the story to a point. Like, I think they changed certain plot points that's going to be different going forward. I have to go back and check. I'm pretty sure they changed something pivotal about the plot.

So that's going to be a little different. Like, they're not just following the beat for B or else, you know, the Dile hard. Final Fantasy fans already know it's going to happen. So I think it's basically it. So yeah, Final Fantasy is a good game to leave it off on. So for my top most anticipated games of 2024, obviously those are my list. I guess I could go back through it just in case you forgot it. Let me see.

Where is it? Here we go. So yeah, the most anticipated games I have for 2024. Of course, I start off with Power World. and I'm not going to go like I mean power world we have this whole episode is based on that game being the main topic so I'm gonna get to that in the second then we had a vowed basically because obsidian's track record it's just I mean it's just literally one of the best track records ever in gaming development history so avowed uh taken eight simply because I'm a

fighting game head well I'm a fighting gamer like at my core of what else prince of persia is more of a dark horse in the 2024 run because I don't think really people gave it the respect it deserved before it came out because we didn't think

it would be this well made and so it's definitely the dark horse of the game industry currently and then we had Star Wars outlaws which I mean that should speak for itself

I mean it's Star Wars it's literally a video game set in the Star Wars universe that should you know that should cover everything and then we had Final Fantasy 7 rebirth. So of course, the thing that set that up was the previous game, Final Fantasy

7 remake. And for this to be the sequel to that, we're going to expect not only quality content, but also to be an extension of what they already accomplished before it. So that's why it's so anticipated, because we've already seen that they've went in, changed everything to the point where even the main story is a little different. So people can't wait for the sequel to it. So with that being said, click my link to share in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias.

What is your most anticipated game of 2024? And also, I'm going to, I'm going to wait for that question. But yeah, what is your most anticipated game personally for 2024? You know, one of the biggest things about CES is that. that gaming and technology really goes hand in hand. And that is why I kind of wanted to give just an overview of this showcase. Because if you don't know, several, I mean several gaming related products was announced at this showcase. And one of the biggest things, while I fight with my mic.

Okay. Yeah, I think that's good. All right. One of the biggest things that I've seen is that there's this thing called, and we just didn't get right into it. It's the MSI claw, right? There's this thing called an MSI claw. And the reason why this is a big deal is because, let you see if I can let you out see what this looks like.

If you want to see it, if you want to see the video, along with my audio, go to Analytic Dreams video on Spotify. And you should be able to see it right now. So it looks like this. And apparently this is supposed to be like the competitor to switch. It's more of like a AMD, handheld gaming device if that makes sense no no it's Intel hardware as opposed the AMD and basically as a competitor in a handheld space because of his

superior power capabilities and his what's the right word basically it's parts is more powerful than the competition I mean obviously if you look at the switch compared to this the switch is like basically a legacy console at this point like I don't even understand what Nintendo is doing as they has such a great idea with the switch but their hesitancy to upgrade the switch in a way that's substantial led to this so now that we have the claw is definitely a way more enhanced and more powerful version than the switch and it's just certain improvements that makes it to where switch is going to have to expedite the process of putting out the switch to. And from what I've heard, what I've researched, it's basically subtle improvements of the switch.

And the switch two to be a subtle improvement of the switch is after all these years, because the gap between the switch and the switch two should make it to where the switch two is a night and day improvement. But for specs that have already went out to developers, you know, because if you don't know, gaming developers get test builds of these new consoles coming out simply so they can make their games compatible with it for when it comes out. Because if you make a console and nobody wants to put their games out on your console, well, then you end up like all of the other failing consoles in the past decade. But the biggest thing I see when it comes to the claw is just,

is that it has certain improvements and it's a Windows handheld and basically it's like a polished steam deck if you don't know what Steam deck is you're basically looking at it it's something that you can play outside of your console but not like on a TV or monitor if that makes sense like it's a handheld device to where you can bring to your bedroom if you want to play a game or if you want to play the game while somebody else is watching TV or on your monitor. So that's really the biggest appeal I've seen for these handheld devices. And I think that's the reason why they are starting to put more competitive handheld devices out there because obviously the switch is not getting it done.

So some of the other things when it comes to just gaming related products announced at CES, which if you don't know, CES, Uh, let's see, hold on a second. So it's the consumer electronic show. Let me see if I can find this right. Yeah, consumer electronic show. That's what it is. And it showcases new products and technology.

And it basically gives you kind of a synopsis of all the new and improved technology that's coming to consumers in the near future. So that's the biggest thing you, you. basically need to know about CES and that is why I'm covering it because as a gaming cover or reviewer it's very important that you keep up with the latest technology advancements so you know what's coming down the pipeline so one of the other things that was announced at CES was the ACE ASAS Rogg I don't even know I'm saying it right basically it's a monitor right and this monitor is more of a

to the alien wear type products and gaming monitors out there so for those who care about 4k and i've just figured out that like a native 4k and then some other 4ks are not the same 4k which in my opinion i'm like why even put 4k and then people be like well it's a branding type thing and then my question is how is that like who certifies what's 4k and what's not and if you can put 4k on something but it's not actually 4k like they'd be like natively if it's not native 4k then it's not i don't know it's it's super confusing i already didn't know is that at this juncture they basically promoted there's 32 inch display saying that's going to be one of the more competitive gaming monitors out there on uh the market which is i'm just going to spell it out because i'm probably

butchering it but the ais which is as u s u s r o g so the ace is rog swift oled it's super super uh like what is a p u s u G32 UCDP. Like, what is that? That's nerd. Hey, that's nerd talk. If you know that by heart, you're a nerd. And it's okay with being a nerd.

It's just, I got to let you know what you are. You know what I'm saying? So anyways, other things was announced like the AISS, a Zen book. Aces really came out from what it seems like and really showcased a lot of products, which was getting the eyes and attention from a lot of games and just technologically advanced consumers in general.

So a lot of people really don't care for the CES announcements and things of that nature. But I think it's very interesting in the fact that it kind of gives you just more knowledge in the marketplace and just showcasing things that's going to be the competitors and maybe the flagship type or the pioneers when it comes to certain advancements. in their certain field because obviously they start off as concept they start off as concepts and even then they could be shown off as just test only models but then it comes to the actual forefront and then you realize that one of the more pioneer uh technologically advancements in the industry was shown off like two years ago at cES so then it starts to make you pay attention more to the show in general because you realize that these are really important showcases to show what people are working on and so there's a lot of things you can see like if

you're a gamer all you need no way is that you'll probably see some of the best monitors I mean I think I saw a monitor in the middle of a wheel I could look like a hamster wheel but it was like human sized and it was like a monitor in the middle of it and apparently it was like a driving type simulator so you could like drive and it was I don't know if it was PlayStation was one of them. But basically, you can hop into the wheel and they could simulate you driving. No, you would be playing a driving game, but it would have you in a setting to where it felt like you was actually in a car. Hopefully that makes sense.

Anyways, let me see. There was something else that wanted to get into. It wasn't too much I wanted to talk about with the show because at the end of the day, it's CES. So these are a lot of the things that have shown off as it's like not out yet, but it's just showing you what's to come so it's not really too much you get into but the biggest thing i wanted to touch on was definitely the claw which which is a handheld pc gaming device and basically it's going to compete with the likes of a switch because even though it can't get nintendo like games on its platform obviously there's ways to get around that i'm not going to tell you how to because that's

illegal but it's still a competitor in the field of handheld devices and switch obviously I think right now is dominating that field so um you can see what else that's basically it obviously there's some VR stuff shown but I still think we have ways to go before we get an actual VR or AR device that's actually usable in in society without being trash so with that being said like I said not too much again too just wanted to touch on that little bit just to let I know that the gaming showcase did happen. And it was pretty good. It showed a lot of different things for people who are into that type of stuff.

So I wanted to cover that for y'all. So anyways, click my link to show in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about the CES 2024 showcase? And out of all the gaming related products, which one piqued your interest the most? Why somebody say, Pokemon needs to have Pikachu picking up a stick now? I don't think y'all understand.

I've seen so much news about Power World and to the point where this whole episode is based off of that specific video game that not only has taken the world by storm from an objective standpoint, no, from a subjective standpoint. But from a objective standpoint, we're getting into Power World becoming one of the only six. becoming the only the sixth game in the entire history of steam platform like entire like of all time to have one plus million concurrent players in game at the same time now of course if you want the video along with the audio version to see me go further into that point I've been analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio but that being said look at this right here okay so basically power world had a peak of 1.5 million players I mean obviously if you

look at this right here that's ridiculous because the last 30 days as you can see it just was released on steam I think January 19th and it's already broken these type of numbers where you have counter strike to 1.2 million concurrent player I don't know 1.2 peak players and as far as the all-time top records as you can see right here you have pub g with uh 3.2 that pub g was a time pub g was really uh it just showcases how big pub g was before fortnight uh took over but that's what i was point so 3.2 peak players was the all-time record back in january 2018 from pbg battlegrounds then you have 1.8 million peak players from counterstrike 2 And then what do you have at number three?

Power World with 1.5 peak players in January 2024. So not only is broken like a decade long drought of just putting up top tier numbers. Or not a decade long drought. More of like, what was the last game, most recent game to do that? Most recent game was Baldersgate 3 with 875,000 peak players in a lot. August of 2023 and that was the last time yeah that was the latest uh a game broke those type of records but now we have power world and obviously is in the league of his own as is in the top three now why am i saying that because i just want you all to know that one of the things about power world

being described as Pokemon with guns which is just hilarious because if you've seen the game there's other things you can capture and i don't want to be that guy right but you know as a black man society somebody has to say it and it might as well be me you know what I'm saying so during the game I was watching it you know just having a joyful time watching my favorite content creator play power world right and I'm over here doing my homework because you know I like to listen to the streams while I'm playing while I'm doing homework things of that nature and all of a sudden you know he comes up to an emcee NPCs you know I play open world games all the time so I'm like hey that's pretty cool you know I got NPCs in the game as well to make you feel like there's other humans um living

you know makes the world just seem more um live alive alive and immersive you know i mean because there's other people adding to the same environment that you're in right so then some random thing happens i don't know i guess he was talking or whatever and they went bad on him like he just started fighting them and then towards the end of the fight you know i guess he was winning the fight and don't you know this man threw out a Pokemon ball well i call that a pokey ball maybe a pal ball, I don't know what you call. What do they call the capture balls? I don't know, whatever. And captured a whole human. And not only that, captured a human and then actively throughout the rest of his play through had that human come out when he wanted him to come out by throwing a ball.

And then the human came out, did whatever task he needed him to do, and then put him right back into the ball and went about his day. Now I don't know what y'all want to call that. But as a black man in America. That's, you know, that one was, hey, brought back some, some, some ancestry.com type vibes. Let me just say that. Right. I mean, I was like, I ain't no way. I just seen what I just saw in this video game and nobody's pointing out. Like, people talking about them copying Pokemon. I'm trying to figure out when in the world did we go back to to those days. Like, we went back to Red Dead Red Dead Redemption type days with, what these type of mechanics implemented. Like, it's just really kind of off-putting how that mechanic is in the game and don't nobody care it's like it's

it's weird it's just weird i'm just i'm sorry i can never play a game like that so anyways that's my personal critiques on it anyways let's get into some of the more objective stats of the game right they call it pokemama gun uh guns obviously as you know i just showed you one of the top uh three ever And, well, top three ever peak players in 1.5. You know, 1.5, 1.8, and 3.2 is the top three records. Power World has the third one at 1.5. So with them having record-breaking numbers just coming out January 19, which is why you see right here when it says the last 30 days is really, you know, what? One, two, three, four.

I don't know. It's one of them. So it's not really too long. It doesn't have too much of a runway as far as long. on the Steam platform. But the way it came out the gate has everybody's eyes on it to the point where now, you know, with fame and success,

one of the things you would probably hear from anybody who's successful comes a lot of scrutiny. So people are coming out to developers, which if you don't know, the developers of this game is a Japanese company pocket pair. And basically, a lot of people be coming after this game

accusing it of being a Pokemon rip-off due to similarities and creature designs. Now, I don't really think that's too fair, simply for the fact that a lot of their designs are significantly different to the point where it's like, you don't notice a, how many Pokemon's do I actually know? Off-brand Pikachu or off-brand like Mutu or off-brand. That's all I know. That's it. I swear, that's all I know.

it's been so long since I play Pokemon but that in itself is why Power World is going off because it just re re uh renovated basically the model of capturing something usually it used to only be Pokemon I guess we're doing humans too now anyways capturing something and releasing it to help fight with you it is more of a different model

that Power World has implemented it's more of a Minecraft meets Pokemon in comparison to just a straight Pokemon rip-off. Hopefully that makes sense. So despite the character criticisms, I did pull up some receipts that some people have problems with. So if you want to see them, just go to Annalic Dreams video on Spotify

to see the video along with the audio version. But basically, this one user right here on X, aka Twitter, says that this specific case turned out that the Power World had theirs in a promo video two years prior to when Pipe's created his independently

Pape stated states this later in that tweet thread. However, they did still piree. I'm just going to butcher these names. Ethereal Hayes mega de Fox

fan design from a whole decade ago. So they're talking about fan designs getting stolen, which I just think is hey, Bay, I had to bring these receipts up to let y'all know and see what they're actually talking about. And then we have another person coming out the woodwork saying that anubis and power world looks like a lucario yes who both look a lot like a newbiz from smt i don't know what that means who all look alike who all look a lot like a newbis different takes on the same concept looks some of us similar

these are not an issue for me personally i don't think they should be considered as one at all so they're talking about lucario as you see right here from pokemon and then you see the one that they have in Power, which, I mean, technically you could try to say it's a ripoff, but when you do realize that these type of designs have been around for the beginning, not beginning of time, let me not go that far, but, you know, it's been around a long time, especially this design right here.

So if you're going to say they ripped off Pokemon, then what was Pokemon ripping off of? Because obviously, this looks a lot like this. I don't know. So anyways, the third and final receipt I have for y'all today is somebody saying, basically giving props to Power World, basically saying that if only Pokemon Legends Arceus looked like this, on top of what it already has, that game would have peaked, would have been peaker than peak.

Hmm, that's interesting phrase. I wish Game Freak cooked and added seasoning. That's a unique, creative critique right there. Like, he wished they added seasoning. basically calling y'all bland i mean you know somebody had to say it so the biggest thing with power world and the p o'clock world is that peterlin is that petero'rown is not power world in a sense of game play mechanics like the foundation of power world is more of uh is exploring a large map which obviously is pukyman battling human foes which i guess you could say it's kind of like

Pokemon if you're like battling the trainer. I don't know. And then capturing creatives known as PALS, which definitely sounds like Pokemon. But then I think the thing that sets it apart from Pokemon is that it's an open world survival game. And in Pokemon, I don't think you ever had to have survival mechanics implemented into the game like eating, drinking, things of that nature. So with Power World, overall, I would say that, it's very successful because like i'm gonna keep saying i think it mixes minecraft and polkine and merges it into what we have now which is power world so i can see this game having a lifespan of um basically i don't see the game dropping off anytime soon like

i see it having a decade plus run but i also thought the same with timtum if if uh my o g notorious massific followers y'all definitely that was before notorious mass effect that was just when analytic which is the name I was going with. So even, I think it was back in 2020, 2020, 2021. Yeah, Tim Tim had a game and it had obviously not similar success because you see they set records with, well, Power World set records with their launch.

But Tim Tim Tim had a similar model to them being compared to being a Pokemon ripoff, but they was also successful. But technically, nobody's really playing Tim Tim right now. Like obviously somebody out there who's playing Tim Tim, the one out of 50 people, they're going to be like, hey, I'm playing that game. How dare you? But for the rest of the world,

they're not playing Tim Tim. So for a Power World to have this unexpected success to have surpassed so many expectations and more importantly, this is the most important fact, becoming one of the biggest gaming success stories ever.

Like, ever. Like one of the biggest gaming success stories ever in the history of gaming. I think that there's similarities to the way that Tim Tim Rose of Fame being called a Pokemon ripoff, but Power World since technically way more features and foundational gameplay mechanics that were set it apart from the likes of a Tim Tim and a Pokemon, I think that this rapid rise to success with 5 million copies sold. and 1.5 million concurrent players peaking on Steam being one of the six games in history to achieve this.

I think this is only the start. And this is going to be one of the biggest games in the next five to ten years. Because I just don't see how Powerworld's gameplay mechanics and gameplay loop, which is almost the same thing. And the cohesive multi-player elements is going to be implemented. the widespread appeal because of the online interest. It's just so many ways to attribute to Power World success that I don't think that the Pokemon ripoff is going to stick. I think it's going to fall by the wayside

as people realize that this game has a lot that it offers that's unique to itself. I mean, I think at one point not comparing Power World to Fortnite, even though I technically should. I mean, I'm looking at it. I don't see Fortnite anywhere on these top records. for peak players and fortnight was a game that changed the gaming landscape as far as the uh getting the general fan that the the casual gamer uh more into gaming if that makes sense

so i would see this game actively becoming what we used to know pokemon as i know that's a huge claim and people may get you know nintendo fans out there may be upset by that statement but i do see see how the changing of the guards could be apparent with this recent success by Power World. Because I don't know about y'all, but you know, if you don't advance with the times, you're usually going to get left behind. So Power World obviously saw that people was getting tired of the old two-color Pokemon format being the same game with like minor changes format. They got tired of that, um, what they recognized people

began tired of that format to the point where they went in revolutionized the whole survival elements along with Pokemon type elements into it and now we have our own game that's seemingly going to be around for at least five to 10 years in my personal opinion I did not see it getting this big I remember watching one of my favorite content creators playing the game and then realizing that it just looked like a game that he was just playing for fun pretty cool game and i didn't think anything of it days past and then i realized so i was like as far as seeing it i've seen it early but as far as it's rise the fame i did not think it would get to this point so that's why i decided to speak on it because i've seen the progression

and now i just want to give my sentiments on where it's going to go in the future and where it's at now because a lot of people will get distracted and misled by certain narrative out there but I just want to give you the facts as far as statistically as you can see right here the top games currently and then let you see some of the other things where like the way it debuted it which is what shows right here and I just think that these two oh also on Steam I don't even know if I brought this up top sellers is still number one ahead of a Steam deck which is that crazy this is a steam deck like some that's anyways um

Yeah, so Power World is just one of those games where I can see this being a new Pokemon. And I said that about Tim Tim and I was wrong. So I'm hoping to be it wrong again. But at the end of day, only time would tell as Power World and Tim Tim, from a foundational standpoint, is very different mechanically. To the point where you can put a lot more hours into Power World and find new things to do, compared to a Tim Tim where the game play loop is kind of already set out for you, if that makes sense. So anyways, I think it was basically it. I think I got into everything I wanted to get into.

They said a mod is expected to transfer. Oh, okay. So basically, there's a Pokemon mod out there. I think that's what I had up. I think I took that down. Hold up. That was the one I was talking about. I think I took it down.

Anubis. Was this it? That wasn't it. Nah, I definitely took it away. Goodness. If only Pokemon, let's see. Is this it? Now, there was a whole, like, Pokemon mod for Tim Tim.

But honestly, I think I lost it. So I was wanting to show you all that because I think that's very interesting. But honestly, I don't even know if I want to show that because, hey, Nintendo don't be playing. Nintendo will pull something down in a heartbeat. That's why I'm so surprised at this even, that this game even saw the light day. So I'm not even going to play with Nintendo like that because you think there's a reason why all these Nintendo IPs are only on their console. They don't like to share nothing. Like they're going to be like, oh, you're using our content?

You got to come down. Now I mean, so that's why you usually don't see too many creators getting like early copies of Nintendo properties because they don't really mess with us like that. I ain't going to lie to you. So anyways, that's basically all I have to say. So there is going to be a Pokemon type mod for Power World, but not. Not only do I think I don't need it. Not only do I think they don't need it, but I think it's just going to be very successful

with the model that they've already implemented. And despite the controversy, oh, and also there's controversy about AI use in the game as far as generative AI tools in the game and creating the game's creatures. But, hey, until they're able to prove it, they're just going to be talking, what they say,

talking into a cloud and to the space like nobody's going to listen because if nintendo had a case to sue power world they would have been did it so anyways yeah i think that's basically i'm trying oh okay uh one last thing so power world this is going to sound like i'm a PR person i swear i'm not power world is is uh currently available on pc Xbox one Xbox series x and Xbox series s in early access form dang it's not on PlayStation dang PlayStation ain't got no games see i used to say Xbox ain't have no games and now full circle moment PlayStation don't even have one of the biggest games of the year anyways power world is priced at 26 dollars on steam discounted for early access

increasing to 29 man a whole a whole whopping 29 dollars man that's it's breaking the bank ain't it let me chill let me chill before they put it back up to 70 um on january 25th so that's for uh steam players that you can buy it now for 26 dollars discounted for early access or you could buy it for $29 when on January 25th. Xbox players can purchase it for $29. What's up with that? Why is it only like half the price of a regular game? I mean, obviously it's early access, but I mean, I don't stop other games from taking money in early access. I mean, I felt like that was the usual, like early access and then take your money and then act like you're

going to put the game out later and and then surprise it'll be like hey surprise this is the final version you know i mean i don't know we'll see what they do but anyways xbox players can purchase it for 29 dollars in xbox store for or with a 60 minute trial option and then the game is also available on xbox game pass for console and windows pc so yeah for my playstation players out there, hey, I guess you just got to watch one of the more popular games in recent history on somebody else's play through. Or just get a PC or Xbox. I mean, technically, I got, you know, not the flex, but I got a little PC myself. So I may have to boot it up. No, I'm just playing. I I ain't got no interest in PC games right now. So anyways, that's basically it. I think that's all

I wanted to. I want to make sure I cover everything because Power World is pretty significant and it's pretty humongous and also there's a hundred over there's over 130 pals which is you know the little Pokemon type name they have for that game and um just so you don't think it's like oh it's early access so they must not have a lot like they have a lot to to work with and um it's also about battling crafting and building a base uh so there's a lot of oh yeah that's basically it. All right. So anyways, the biggest thing you need to take away from this is that Power World

is not going anywhere anytime soon and that Pokemon fans out there may just have to get used to the new normal because it seems like Power World is taken over and I don't know if they're going to release the grip on this type of gameplay loop

anytime soon. So with that being said, Pikachu may need to pick up a stick. But anyways, click my link to you in my bio let me know one of my social media is what do you think about power world taking over the landscape as far as being the new normal as uh a Pokemon fanatic goes and also more importantly what do y'all actually think about Power World do you think you copied Pokemon ladies and gentlemen we finally have action now this all started simply for the fact that

power world was successful in a way that brought a lot of attention to it being a Pokemon ripoff so much attention that not even Tim Tim was able to accumulate because if you don't know like you can see right here shameless plug to analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio Powell World has sold over 8 million copies in less than six days yes ladies ladies and gentlemen Powell World has sold over 8 million

copies in less than six days to put this in perspective I brought up the charts from Steam right the peak the all-time peak record of players on Steam

see make sure y'all can see this right quick 3.2 million by PubG Battlegrounds back in January 2018. So to put in perspective how big Power World is currently as far as astronomical historic numbers, Power World has set the record for the second most concurrent peak players on Steam. So peak players is basically the highest amount of players currently playing that game.

And Power World set the second highest record with 2 million. So it also shows you how big PubG was when it originally came out. But you know, all the credit went to Fortnite because technically it did steal its thunder. But talking about trying to steal someone's thunder, Nintendo had enough. They saw all of these people coming out making articles talking about how Power World is just completely ripping off Pokemon and just being very ignorant in the sense, well, I'm talking about the people who made the articles, being very ignorant in the sense that if Nintendo had a lawsuit with some credibility, they would have been trying to take Power World down. Do you know how much money Power World has made in the past six days? If they could send a cease and desist and could find any type of credibility, I promise you they would have already. as Power World

has basically I'm trying to find an actual source with the amount of money that they've made because this is ridiculous somebody says Phil Spencer is already

trying to acquire the developers of Power so they said Power World costs one and this is by insider gaming right Powell World cost one billion

yen to make and the CEO didn't want to budget money. So basically, after all that, okay, here we go. Power World came out and said that they've sold over $5 million and three days. I was back in January 22nd. So you can kind of see the concurrent player just rising again and again to the point where now they're the second most all time. I don't think I'd be able to find the money, how much money they've made in the past.

Oh, I found it from Jeff Keely himself, just in a nick of time. wasn't it um okay so basically power world let me bring this over so i can see it has sold over seven million copies and five days on steam alone and then this is jeff keely at all people like the head owner of the game awards like the biggest award show for gaming right he came out said quote power world has sold seven million copies and five days on steam alone remember this is back in January 24th so the numbers are a little off and then he confirmed with pocket pair that this is only on steam so well PlayStation doesn't even they don't even have the game i don't believe yeah they don't even have the game Xbox and PC players are the only ones to have this game currently

so anyways pocket pair said that these are the these are only steam numbers not including Xbox sales a game pass so solely even though it's on PC and Xbox because you know they cut a deal to have it on a game pass. These numbers are specifically for PC. The amount of players and how it translated to

dollars is approximately $189 million that Power World has made in the past five days. So you can see why I'm saying if Nintendo had any type of foundation to stand on

as far as suing Power World they would have done it already because that is just insanely it's just egregious amount of money that Power World is making right now like astronomical numbers Power World is putting up right now never seen before numbers

I mean other than 2018 with PubG numbers on Steam right now is very much a moment in time for gaming and I try not to be dramatic but objectively is literally something we've never seen before only once back in 2018. So just trying to put that in perspective for y'all. Also, Power World is currently launching a sale on Steam. Now I sound like the PR person, but what I'm about to get into,

I don't want anybody who plays Power World to think I'm hating on the game because I'm about to bring up some points. But I want to be fair. So they are currently launching a sale on Steam. And obviously they put their most play game in the world, you know, things of that nature. Available on Steam, 10% off for people who want to buy it on Steam. So let me see. It launches until January 25th, 10, I think PM, PST.

It doesn't say 10 AM or PM. So I don't know if it's AM or PM. But PST should probably tell you AM or PM. And I'm probably just ignorant. So anyway, with that being said, let's keep going. And further my point as to why I think Nintendo would have been sued them if they had the ledge to stand. If they was able to be on that ledge to actually have some credibility. Because they came out with a statement out of the blue.

Basically, seeing all the random people make articles saying that Power World is just a Pokemon ripoff and if you don't think that Nintendo I mean literally Nintendo is not to be played with I think I forgot to say that Nintendo is not to be played with I mean literally they are the creators of Mario Zelda Pokemon they have generated billions of dollars they have been around for decades long history of just innovating in the gaming industry forget just the the regular video games just the gaming industry as a whole Nintendo has consistently put out things that's changed the culture drastically. Like Game Boy, Nintendo Switch.

Like, I don't have to talk about how big Nintendo is, right? So, anyways, getting back into them, their status in this industry should let you know that them not being able to find any way to actually sue Power World. She'll tell you something about how little validity a lawsuit would have. because there's really no solid foundation for them to stand on i mean there's no there's been no proof so why do i say that is because nintendo put out a statement and of course it was in it was either chinese or japanese i forget because i just found out that those two are different languages like apparently they use the same character symbols but it's tonality that makes them different i had no idea call me ignorant hey i get you learn something new every day so you're

Anyways, Chinese, technically, I'm going to call it for this. And then getting it to English translation, Nintendo came out and said inquiries regarding other companies games. Okay, now you've seen the original. I'm just going to go to the English only version. All right. So make sure I can read that. Okay. We have received many inquiries regarding another company.

you know, I'm going to be so immature throughout this whole reading because this just screams. We can't get them on anything, but we see y'all trying to help us out yet. Like, y'all keep trying to help us out because we're trying to build this. It's like they're trying to build a RICO for Power World. For all my hip-hop fans, y'all know, yes, unfortunately, y'all know what that means. Nintendo is trying to go crazy with the RICO on Power World. Like, they're trying to build their case to the point where it's just, it's, is, it's, is, concrete evidence that they've built

at the end of the day that's what they're trying to build they're trying to build up evidence to the point where it's concrete to get them taken away locked up, I don't know, something. They're trying to find anything. So basically they came out and said,

quote, we have received many inquiries regarding another company's game released in January 2024. They're not even saying the name. Are they saying the name? Anyways, we got to finish this.

We have not granted any permission for the use of Pokemon intellectual property or assets in that game. We intend to investigate and take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to the Pokemon. we will continue to cherish and nurture each and every Pokemon in its world and work to bring the world together through Pokemon in the future. End quote. Now, ladies and gentlemen, how in the world do they manage to throw shade without even naming the developers or the actual game that's currently outperforming them on every litmus scale in 24. I have no idea. Like to put out a statement from the Pokemon company and not even dress the name

once is insane to me. Like y'all know who we're talking about, but we ain't going to name them, call them out by name because that's giving them even more publicity, even though they didn't broke records for the most popular game ever as far as peak players so with that being said obviously you know power world is a new game being compared to Pokemon basically people are called on a Pokemon with guns so for the Pokemon company to come out and talk about this and not even name it like you know good and dang well who they talking about who they referring to but it's just the the comedic element of not even saying their name it's just too much for me I just I just lost it I was like bro, ain't no way.

You're actually acting like y'all can't say their name. It's like, uh, what, uh, what's his name, Voldemore? Vodomor? I'm not a Harry Potter fan, so y'all probably gonna kill me for that. But anyways, uh, Power World and Pokemon, of course, had different, uh, game play styles as far as the foundational aspect, because simply, objective take is power world is open world. It's, his main mechanic and, and intrigue is.

is open world but Pokemon main intrigue is term-based strategy if you want to argue with that then you just not being factual so anyways the comparisons arise with a Pokemon and power world simply due to the creature designs i mean i literally had you know i did my due diligence because i do take this job seriously you know what i'm saying um Pokemon and pals have been compared a plethora of them, which if you look at it, I mean, y'all had to tell me which I rank this as far as similarity from a 1 to 10. And once again, analytic dreams video on Spotify to get the video along with the audio. But anyways, let's look at this right here.

So this is our first comparison. Who is that? Our favorite? Well, one of my favorite Pokemon anyways. And Lucario. And apparently the one to the right is Anubis. And now, obviously you could say, well, that's not a similar at all. But some people would say that's completely ripping off Pokemon.

All right, let's go into another one. So these two Pokemon, obviously, well, not two Pokemon. I've already said it. The one on the right is a Pokemon. The one on the left is a Powell, of course. And I don't know these names. So, of course, I don't know all the names for Pokemon or Palis. But all I know is that this is an actual comparison that's been floating around the way.

Now, another one is this one right here. Now, I believe that this one is called Gardivore. I think that's what she's, I think is she. I don't know Pokemon. I don't know the genders. I ain't trying to cancel. I just don't know. So anyways, this is another comparison that people are bringing up as far as ripping off Pokemon.

And, yeah. So the other creature comparison is the one right here. As you can see, the one on the left is for. on power world the one of the right is from Pokemon then we have another comparison like these comparisons goes for that days and actually this is the one i had a problem with i was like nah if they have any type of case is this one right here like if there's any way for them to get power world is through this character right here because you can't tell me this ain't a straight rip off from i think it's called boat main i think it's boat boat main from power world but of course the

the Pokemon is called Luxray I believe it's just one of the more notable Pokemon in the game but as you can see this is a blatant rip-off to me this was the most egregious I've seen but then that doesn't it doesn't stop there right this is the one okay so this is like it's this is luxury and like the Pokemon show and then this is boat main in um the power world universe Basically, I looked up more stuff for that because that was the most egregious to me. All the other ones was like, ah, similar, but I don't know. This one is like, come on now.

Like, come on now. Let's be serious. Let's be serious. So anyways, that's why this came about anyways, because Pokemon's like, hey, don't believe we ain't trying to get these dudes. Like, they might as well say they're the ops and we're trying to get them. That's basically what this whole statement from the Pokemon company is telling me because they saw this.

And it was like, nah, bro, you got to come off of that bread. Like, there's no way you're going to renovate using designs from our game, allegedly, and make this amount of money from it. Like I said with the Jeff Keely tweet, like they made over almost $200 million in five days. Somebody is coming for that money. And somebody is going to try to find some type of law to get that money back as far as a cease and desist. And who is that going to come from? I would say it's going to come from Nintendo.

Now I'm not saying Power World is copying Pokemon at all. I'm just bringing up points to be devil's advocate, of course. So that's basically it. Some of the other things is that, you know, of course, Pokemon, the only reason I'm covering this is because the Pokemon company, which is, well, not Nintendo, but, you know, subsidiary of Nintendo came out and actually put out a statement, like an official statement from the Pokemon company.

That's the only reason I'm covering this, because at first it was just hearsay, he said it, she said people making up fake designs and stuff and trying to get power world in trouble or only to find out it was fake in the first place like the only reason i'm covering this is because it's from the official Pokemon company and they and they stated this basically confirming that they are literally investigating into potential copyright infringement on power world but the way they worded it is they didn't name power but you know exactly who they're talking about and i love this because it just brings me back to my hip-hop roots because this is the premise of hip-hop

to come back in strategic ways that even though you're dissing somebody you don't you just don't um blatantly say their name like drake does it all the time to j z j z does all the time to everybody um i would say kendrick does it but he doesn't he just blatantly says their name um it's it so many times where disses and hip hop, oh, Nikki just did it to Megan the Stallion. I'm probably losing my gaming audience at this point. Let's just say hip hop artists do it so much that when I

see it in the gaming space, I'm like finally, somebody is out here throwing subliminal disses the correct way. Because the incorrect way is to say Power World is definitely still in and we're going to find it. Well, now Power World can sue you because if you ain't found none, then why

you defame in us? You know, which technically some people, in the community who's modding for a Pokemon into Power World you're probably going to get a lot of lawsuits coming your way because Nintendo does not play let me tell you one more time Nintendo like I think one of the biggest things you should probably notice is the amount of early access keys that get sent out to certain content creators simply for the fact that Nintendo runs a tight ship and other companies are more inclined to bring you in behind the scenes to let you see how it's ran but uh Nintendo

does not do that at all. So for something like this to come out, which I'm not going to say insinuates that there was a behind-the-scenes work before this game came about. But Netflix, I didn't say Netflix. Nintendo is going to use everything in its disposal and best believe it's a lot.

Like as far as weaponry and its arsenal, I think Nintendo is like John Wick compared to a lot of these other companies. So they're going to come with the utmost preparation against Power World. And so in conclusion, I mean, Power World success, obviously, is just immense astronomical out of this world, not really be compared to anybody except for the 2018 PubG run when it hit like 3.2 million. I think I still have the stats up here. Yeah.

Yeah, you can see right here. That's not the all time, but obviously Power World is number one right now. But all the time you can see right here. January 2018 was the last time we've seen something like this as far as 3.2 million. I mean, obviously, Countenstrike 2 back in 2023, lost arc back in 2022, but 2.1 million, I mean, speaks for itself that it's generational type numbers that's being put up these past two to three years, which would lead you to believe that we're in a golden age of gaming because a lot of these records being set has happened in the past three years, but never like this.

into the 2 million mark. That hasn't happened. Even, I mean, obviously it was 3 million, but even the 2 million mark hasn't happened since all the way back in 2018 with PubG and 3.2 million peak players. So obviously, I'm going to go back up to the top games right here.

So anyways, yeah, man, good luck to Pokemon. Why not even good luck? I don't care if y'all find them infringing or, like, I honestly don't care because y'all are supremely powerful and should have been made

a game like this as far as using your IP. And the fact that you stay stagnant, putting out two shades of colors and thinking people are going to be satisfied with it, at least the games like Power World just continuing to thrive in popularity, uh, popularity, because it set a certain spin on your creation. And now the world is blowing it up to the high heavens. So, you know, setting records and sales and player engagement is, is, I think, directly correlated to the innovative take on building your own world with a Pokemon.

Well, technically, PALS. So anyways, click my link to share in my bio and let me know one of my social media is, what do you think about Power World versus Pokemon? And do you think that at the end of the day, Pokemon will be able to have a lawsuit put against Power World and do you think they could come out victorious in their lawsuit? It's a pleasure. Pleasure to be here in Liberty City. Sticking with the trend of playing Cat Williams comedy bits during the unexpected

appearance in GTA 4 for episode 134. We have to get into just the brilliance of Cat Williams throughout this entire episode. So throughout random segments throughout the, this episode, I'm going to be having just different comedy bits from the one and only, Cat Williams. I'm crazy Liberty City. Anything goes. Everything's crazy. Wheat is illegal. Ain't that a motherfucker? They should have put that in the motherfucking brochure. Feel free to come to Liberty City, but weed is illegal. Kind of cockamammy shit is this.

Weed is illegal. How the fuck can you make a plant illegal? Weed is just a plant. It's just a plant. It just grows like that. And if you should happen to set it on, fire there are some effects that's not the same as drugs drugs you got to do shit to it chemically you got to add bacon soda water stir it up I don't know the recipe I'm just saying it's some shit you got to do to it it's ridiculous

we ain't never heard nobody aspirin it's perfectly illegal but if you take 13 to them motherfuckers it'll be your last headache all right there so anyways I think that Kat Williams being in GTA for is the most random fun fact that I've learned in the past seven days so with that being said

Of course, let's get into the topic at hand, which is a lot of business talk when it comes to just the gaming space in general. But more specifically, PlayStation executive Sean Layden believes that the trend of big open world games is leading to unsustainable budgets in the gaming industry. Now, before I go any further in the details, because he said a lot. but I would like to let y'all know that technically if the gaming studios unlike the movie studios I would argue and debate that gamers have more backlog than any form of entertainment in the history of mankind maybe you can make an argument for music but as far as video games and the amount of hours you can spend on a video game I think that if gaming companies try to make certain games more expensive just because of the length and runtime, well, same thing. We could easily boycott and just play the games in our backlog.

Like, I would be more than happy to go back to a remaster version of Super Mario 64, right? So with that being said, obviously, Layden has suggested that industry needs to, reevaluate game development, which honestly, I think that's been a reoccurring theme throughout the past two to three years. I don't know if it's the pandemic that brought it up more, but now people are just starting to try to put a label on these long video games and call them live services to the point where even if you charge $70 in the base game, they still try to hit you with a roadmap to make you pay extra for content that should have already been in a game. So with the advances in technology, things are getting more expensive to make video games.

I mean, whether you have a coder, whether you have game testers, the developers, of course, what else? The actors, the voice actors, the anime, it's just so much stuff that goes into building, a sustainable budget for a video game. So that is why I think it's interesting that one of the biggest at doing it is coming out and saying that basically the reevaluation needs to happen. And because of the increase in game developing and marketing budgets, they need to be matched with an accurate price or a fair price.

or a fair price. The thing I say to that is, on one hand, the consumer-friendly me wants to be like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like, obviously, you know, games could be expensive or whatnot, but don't raise the price or we can easily boycott. Then on the other hand, devil advocate, I completely understand what this man is coming from.

Because if you look at the gaming space from the beginning, beginning of time to now and then you look at the price from the beginning of time to now one could argue that game devs and companies have had the most backwards and barbaric approach to pricing their product and who is to blame for that I mean they say the development costs for AAA games range from 80 million to 150 million dollars and basically this is historic is not even close to what they used to be in the past. Basically, this is at a point where they're reaching new heights when it comes to AAA game

development. So since development cost is what it is, I think they need to try to make it back some type of way, right? So the devil advocate take would be that obviously it makes sense to increase the price. because the product is obviously increasing. Gaming industry is the only space where you can increase the product and then the price stays the same for, what, over half a decade to a decade now. And I mean, they literally just raised the original game price from $60 to $70.

And I think back in the day when game exchange, I think that was the right, I think that's the right story, game exchange, game stop, things of that nature. I think even Blockbuster, well, that's when you rent at games. So, yeah, like game exchange, game stop. Those are the only places to where the price and games fluctuated based on the popularity. I don't know when it started, but I was just listening to somebody cover the industry for a while. He was going over this point.

So it's not my own, but this is how he framed it. He basically said it was a certain game that happened to where all games started to be priced at $60. But it didn't used to be that way. It used to be whatever the developers thought was a fair price for the product they was putting out. So I blame the gaming industry. I blame the game devs. And I attribute to the W to gamers. I mean, it's okay to just say that, hey, maybe the consumer won and we just need to reevaluate,

which is basically what Sean Layden is saying. He's saying that these development costs for games are getting, exponentially larger and we got to see some type of return on our investment and basically also which is very interesting being as a PlayStation executive suggested that

game developers focus on shorter games with tighter, more compelling content to control cost and maintain retail prices. What does that scream to me? They're trying to cut back on the content. I mean if Spider-Man 2 wasn't a inclination

a perfect a picture perfect layout of what PlayStation is trying to do then I don't know what it is they literally in you know I have no way to scientifically prove this you know I don't know this for as a fact

but I believe that Insomniac was told by the higher ups that whatever the runtime is and the full game price has to be um has to correlate

right we can't have 50 hours of playtime with a $70 price tag. Basically, we got to cap it at some point, which is why I think Spider-Man 2 ended up being literally around the same runtime as Spider-Man PS4.

So I don't think it's a coincidence that the executive of PlayStation literally came out to say that other developers should focus on shorter games with more compelling content. to control cost and maintain retail prices. And this reminds me of when rock stars, I don't know if it was CEO, it was somebody during the earnings call,

said that he would suggest certain, he didn't suggest a pay per hour, but basically he looked at other industries because if you look at it from an entertainment standpoint, streaming services are a subscription base, and you get a lot of content from that, ESPN, well, any type of sports platform is subscription-based, things of that nature.

That's basically what he was coming from. I don't know where to pay per hour came from. But basically he was talking about a subscription model, and you know who's implementing a model that I think is going to be here for the long run, Xbox with the game pass, which is a subscription model. So I think when you get into how the future of gaming is going to look, I don't even see us having an actual console in the next five to 10 years. I think it's going to be a cloud service where we download games, similar to Steam.

You download games, you download it, you download it, you play it, and then it just, you know, it just stays in your backlog. But as far as physical consoles, I think there's going to be a thing of the past, simply for the fact that I think the subscription model is the way to go for gaming. I mean, if they are going to keep complaining about. budgets being way more than a return on investment, then they're going to try to find some way to counteract that, which is a subscription model, I think. So Xbox is obviously ahead of the game with that.

So it's super ironic and I think causing the fact that the former PlayStation executive is coming out to say this. Usually if it was just some random gaming inside, I wouldn't cover it. But him being the former executive of PlayStation. probably means that he knows a little probably means that he knows a little bit that the average consumer or even the average developer does not know.

So for him to come out and say that we need to stop giving consumers all this content and cut back, which is basically what he means by saying that the trend of open world games is leading to unsustainable budgets. That's like in turn saying like cut back on the content because we're giving them way too much

for the, a baseline price point. So at the end of day, I think that this is going to be a reoccurring theme of game devs and especially executives coming out and trying to, I don't even think game devs because then I'll put a bad light if the product is bad,

like video game. But as far as like console executive, well company executives, like a PlayStation or Xbox, a Nintendo. I think we're going to see more executives speak up. And then I think we're going to obviously, we're going to see some obvious rip-offs of the game paths. I mean, PlayStation's already trying to do it. But for some reason, it's not as popular.

But, hey, I don't know why. But for some reason, it's not as popular. So in the long run, in short, in my solution to what Sean Layden is saying, I just think if he's so focused on runtime, compared to price point, they should just do a subscription model. And that's probably the most like anti-consumer take I'm going to give because if you're not playing games, let's say one month, but then you're playing, you're paying the subscription, then that means you're basically paying for nothing.

But if you play a game, technically it's a $70 price point. So obviously it should correlate or be equivalent to. like seven months of price point if that makes sense so yeah that's all i have so the biggest thing you need to know is that playstation is serious about cutting back on the content and not really trying to give you more than what you're actually quote-unquote paying for so anyways click my link to my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about PlayStation executive sean laden coming out saying that these open world games need to end because they're leading to unsustainable budgets in the gaming industry and what do you think is the ultimate solution to

development costs for triple a games uh historic rise in uh yeah that's basically it what do you think about the development cost for triple a games historic rise and breaking all type of records for development budgets one of the biggest things about covering the video game industry is just watching them discover and not even discover but just recognize a game that was once not really anticipated become anticipated simply based off the quality and that's basically what happened with prince of persia to lost crown which is just getting just a lot of praise right now critically acclaimed and so much praise when it comes to quality wise but you know statistically It's very troubling, well, not even troubling.

It's very hurtful and dismissive because of the success of Power World. Now, is that Power World's fault? Of course not. But, of course, when you make a great product, you would like it to have its deserve and earned flowers. And for the developers of this game, Ubisoft Montpelier, I think I'm saying it right, known for the Rayman series and other titles like Beyond Good and Evil, in Zombie You, I believe that

since they made a phenomenal game in Prince of Persia, they would like to have their flowers. But of course, with Power World, basically being the most is literally the most popular game of all time if we're talking about a short span because it broke the peak record

for the amount of players playing with 1.8. I know previously when I covered it in this episode, which may break the illusion, but sometimes episodes take me days to record so anyways so with the update in the day which means it's the next day anyways y'all get what i'm saying 1.8 is now the the record for the most amount of peak players for a video game and who achieved that power world and who falls to the wayside because of it prince of persia but fear not as i am here to give you the utmost details about this game

and by utmost i mean we're going to cover the surface because i ain't played this game at all but i've watched it and i think in general when you get into this game as you can see right here analytic dreams video on spotify for the video along with the audio version is a interesting game in the sense that it's a 2d platform uh platformer with a focus on melee combat and why's it interesting because obviously you see right here some of the throwbacks of prince of persia uh with the sands of time if you don't know also developed by ubysoft but with this upgrade and i'm not going to say remaster because i think that would be disrespectful this game really just from a foundational standpoint improves on a lot right it was released january 18th 2024 with early access available on certain platforms

uh january 15 and it's available on pc playstation 4 or 5 xxxxx1 series x and s and Amazon Luna. When do they start getting games? What like what is that? I ain't gonna lie I cover games. I ain't like I haven't heard Amazon Luna in a while like what is that? Anyways, Nintendo Switch solo play early access on PC and Xbox and It's lower requirements for PC players simply for the fact that it's a 2D game. I mean so that should go without saying But anyways, some of the biggest things about this game and that's a making people gravitate towards it if they're not one of the 8.1.8 million people playing power world is the time powers which basically is after is that a spoiler i don't know if that's a spoiler anyways we're going to go past that because i don't know if it's a spoiler or not um early access outfits are available through the deluxe edition of ubsom plus offering a unique outfit called the immortal along with prosperity bird emulet and then the premise because y'all probably wondering what is this game about i don't even think i've got into the main story of this game so basically prince of persia is set around sargon which is the protagonist aim to save the abducted prince and restore peace in the land of

submerg i don't even know i say that in the mount of quaff bro i swear that's cool Po, Q-A-F, what is that? That has to be, like, the most ignorant take on a word I've ever seen, because I don't know it, like, excuse my ignorance, but that just seems like, like, anyways, that don't make sense. Anyways, whatever that region is, right? So that's the main thing. You're going to save a prince is why it's called, you know, Prince of Persia.

So it's like some Mario type beat other than, you know, instead of a, I think the prince is always a male. so yeah instead of a woman it's a male you know i mean but um what else what i get into so yeah that was basically it uh ubsop monte play montepeller is working on beyond good and evil too and yeah that is it for the future projects and the reason i don't have too much to say about prince of persia it's literally because i just wanted to cover the game i didn't have too much to say about it myself but i did see that power world basically you know i'm not going to say and it's not definitely not intentionally, but because it's literally the most successful game on Steam in a short

span of time, like out of all the games ever released in history, Power World is the biggest by far with 1.8 peak concurrent players on Steam. So that inevitably is going to step on Prince of Persia's success. So that's why I wanted to shine the light not only on the game by showing some gameplay but also just giving you some tidbits of what the story is going to entail uh who developed it and other tidbits like the whole available outfit through the deluxe edition so you know do of that what you will but you know for me at the end of day i'm still playing cyberpunk so i'm going to get into this game anytime soon and i looked at my i guess that would be nice to get into like um what i'm looking forward to as far as gaming i i'm thinking about

playing the suicide squad game which i think that's the next topic but anyways um but after that i don't know i mean i would like to play wolverine but with that whole thing going on it and son yet there's no telling when that game going to come out so at the end of the day uh prince of persia is there if you would like to play it and for me i just think it's another tell-tale sign that if you make quality uh people will come well that's not the right saying if you build it people will come and with Prince of Persia, Ubisoft Montpellier, Montepleur, I don't know I say it, um, definitely created a nice quality game in Prince of Persia. So with that being said, click my link to you in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about

Prince of Persia? Switching gears and getting into a MOBA, which is smite and not only smite, but the sequel into the decade old smite, which is a colorful third person 5E5 mobile featuring over a hundred mythological gods. Now, of course, when people hear a sequel for such an iconic legacy game like this, people are hesitant and taken aback because not going to lie, Overwatch 2 really did a number on sequels for such iconic titles. Now, one can argue that smite is by far and away more iconic than overwatch and you would be correct but stay uh sticking with that same premise this is not going to be a sequel is more i mean obviously it's smite too but in the sense

of a sequel it's not really that it's going to be more of a remake and a strictly better version of smite so i swear i'm not their PR team this is basically what i've read what i've heard what i've seen the overall goal is to make it more of like a i'm gonna call it a remaster you they don't want to say remake or whatever but they're not going to call it the sequel because it seems like to keep it more of the foundational gameplay mechanics and gameplay loop but with this game being developed by titan force games and them making smite too i think we can obviously surmise or summarize that this is going to be a lot of overall improvements whether it's graphics whether there's uh character models animations things of that nature which is what they also promise so one of the new mechanics of course with it be a smite

two is the auto build feature and basically the way that it simplifies item purchase and upgrades there's new mechanics including the auto build feature simplifying item purchase and upgrades and the learning curve being easier for new players now what does that mean because I've never played smite

so when I look at a MOBA I think of it more as a very very sweaty game as far as getting into competitive nature if that makes sense there's just certain terms

used in Moba that obviously you've heard in other games like in fighting games you've heard somebody be like oh he's about to alt me he has his alt you know stuff like that but in MoBas like the whole I think there's like a middle

left and right lane I know all moba's not the same but from what I've seen I forget there was this one mobile I used to watch I'm completely blanking on the name right now. But it was basically a lot of just coordinating with a group to the point where it's like, this is not for me. I'm more of a solo player.

That's why I like open world RPGs. But as far as MoBas, that's a complete opposite of that because I believe it's like multiplayer online battle arena. I think that's what it is. I don't know. Anyways. So with that being said, The transition from smite to smite is basically to improve everything about the game.

So it's not to make just an intense sudden shift for players who've been used to smite's gameplay loop. Smite 2 is just simply subgrade on everything made in smite, which you can obviously call a sequel. But the words that they use is basically it's not a sequel. It's more of a improvement of everything. I know. Hey, do what you want because after Overwatch 2, do we really believe these game developers when they say they're about to improve

on something that's literally iconic? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. But also, speaking on visuals, the Unreal Engine 5 is bringing visual upgrades in development efficiency to SMite 2 and enabling faster prototyping and more control for designers.

And also with the monetization involving compensation, for Smite 1 players with legacy gems and free skins in Smite 2, acknowledging, of course, all the time that they put into the game and obviously the community. So Smite 2 also plans to keep all of the 129 guys from Smite 1, and there's five new ones with adjustments to individual guys' abilities based on player feedback.

So in general, they've changed so much that they just decided. side of slap a two on it and not call it a sequel make that make sense but that's the world we live in so for smite two being scheduled for spring 2024 i think we could obviously um anticipate it coming out very soon and with the trying to trying to find their name again and with titan forge obviously they are basically trying to stay true to the smite moba and just solidify the whole gameplay loop that they basically made with the original game and they do not want to make any drastic changes

that will make original smite players unhappy so they go off a lot of feedback basically uh kind of I just told you in the segment some of the things that are going to implement and upgrade. And with them staying just faithful to the core of the smite experience, I think that it's more of a quality of life improvement. So I don't know what I was slap a two on it and act like it's a new game. Hey, here we are. So I don't know if they charge because I've never played smite.

So I don't know if they charge. I don't know what the price point is. But basically the overall goal of smite two. is to emphasize the importance of preserving what makes smite great such as enjoyable content team fighting moments and depth of a moba so at the end of the day you know obviously you could tell i'm not the biggest moba player in the world but i would definitely not be uh doing my job if it wasn't to cover one of the biggest mobas to ever be created in this gaming industry so with that being said click my link to my bio let me know in one of my social medias what do you think about smite

two coming out spring this spring in 2024 of course and also do you think that smite does uh was ready for a sequel or did you want to just keep having them improve the original base game you know it's a privilege to have a job and at a particular juncture you're going to find yourself having to either switch jobs or unfortunately you may find yourself being laid off and that's exactly what a lot of workers at twitch is currently undergoing as there's been a significant workforce reduction i'm talking about 35% of its employees approximately 500 workers is now laid off so why is this happening? Well, financial losses and basically the top executives citing a lot of reasons,

such as Twitch's CEO, Dan Clancy, basically commenting out mentioning the closure of the Korean office in February due to prohibitively expensive operations. Interesting choice of words, but hey, that's the reason that he gave. So that's the reason that we're going to stick with. Because if you don't know, Twitch reportedly does not make any money. I know it's hard to look at somebody like Kai or Aden who basically found that their career off of Twitch and then made millions of dollars, right? And then the main platform itself isn't making money. It's kind of hard to make that make sense because usually the way that I've been told is that if company A pays you a certain amount, then they'll probably get three to four times that.

themselves at least so for Twitch I think it's different because if you think it about well if you think about Twitch is huge I mean obviously and I think the reason for this is because of network fees and just how expensive it is to run a live stream channel or just servers so I would say that the high operation of supporting live stream content on a global scale and it reportedly costing them a thousand per month in expenses with each high volume streamer so not a thousand a month just in total with each high volume streamer it cost them about a thousand per month in expenses so in turn that is when twitch realizes that if they're not making money well they got to start doing something because it's only going to be so long that the owner which is

amazon is going to keep funding them just to break even at some point they would like twitch to actually have some type of um increase in return on investment if that makes sense so with twitch paying over a billion with a bee to streamers in the the last year the layoffs are probably confusing to some because they probably think that twitch is just rolling around and cash simply because they're giving out these millions to creators i mean that's the whole reason i brought up kai and aiden but when the owner of twitch amazon is also laying off employees uh back in november of 2023 from well yeah they're also laying off employees then you come to realize that every company is finding themselves,

I'm not going to say at a loss as far as revenue, but I would say that companies are realizing that they don't need as big of a workforce to achieve certain results. Because why in the world would you think cutting down the workforce would increase revenue? well I think the most expensive thing for a boss is the workers as far as like the overhead because you have to pay people to work and that's probably the biggest fee and then next to that I think it's like operational costs I could be wrong but hey that's you know that's just my

guesstimation or my guess so for a network for Twitch to basically talk about all these network problems and how I wants to prioritize revenue or add revenue and how the part of trying to say this, by them prioritizing ad revenue not being successful as far as the tactics that they went about increasing ad revenue, it leads to them trying to make it up in some other way. Like if they're going to keep remaining unprofitable for Amazon, nearly a decade after the acquisition,

then they probably need to drag it up. change some things to try to bring in more income so what does all these words mean basically for you probably nothing but if you work for Twitch if you're looking to work for Twitch or just any company in general you probably realize that a lot of companies are laying off people and specifically for Twitch I just wanted to lay out some of the reasons because obviously Twitch has a huge implication on the gaming direction I mean one of the biggest moments in gaming history like history like of all time happened on twitch when ninja was streaming with drake and

Travis scott which ultimately brought gaming to another stratosphere as far as the average person wanting to game so twitch has been instrumental and so many movements when it comes to bringing gamers and just the gaming just entertainment space in in front of the average consumer to the point where it's it's it's sad to see them go through this but at the same time obviously they would have to figure out something to increase ad revenue because it's not like the losing viewership i mean i think i saw somewhere their their popularity and usership is still increasing they are just struggling to turn a profit which i know sounds crazy to the average person but i'm telling i'm telling you that network fees comes with that added usership like like i said earlier for every high volume user i'm trying to find that stat again for every high volume user they basically pay about a thousand per month in expenses so with the huge cost of live stream content especially on a global scale

like Twitch. I just think that this layoff is basically to try to I mean forget Twitch. The layoffs in general in the video game industry, because it's been a lot of, if you've been paying attention to every company, they've been laying off people, it's bigger than Twitch and more of a particular statement on the video game industry as a whole, as also Unity software i mean they announced that uh 25 percent staff reduction is in um is in play so i'm not going to blame the pandemic but it's interesting how after 2020 a lot of these companies start to reevaluate the marketing well not marketing uh strategies but basically there are funds and how they allocate them to the point where they realize that the workforce needs to be cut a significant amount so at that

point I mean what can you say because I always believe in going where you want it so if one company doesn't want if one company doesn't want you then you know hopefully I mean hey you know hopefully somebody else would you know somebody will gladly take you off whatever company lays you off you know what I'm saying so for Twitch though you know It's sad for all those people who got laid off. And basically, I think including 2023, it's been about a thousand job layoffs for Twitch, if I'm not mistaken. This move, yeah, because the previous two rounds of layoffs of 2023,

totaling around 400 positions. So now it's close to a thousand in job losses in less than a year. Like I said, the Twitch CEO's main reason for it was due to prohibitively expensive operations. So with that being said, click my link to my bio, let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Twitch laying basically a thousand people off? It is finally here.

Now, when I tell you all that Rocksteady has had a fantastic track record, I mean a one of one. If you think about all the games that they've developed, published by Warner Bros. Games, when you talk about the Arkham universe, I mean, it's just a work. It's just a masterclass at its finest on how to create such a great trilogy for such an iconic character. Now, with that being said, this game looks like trash. Now, somebody has to say it because it's not only does it look like trash. it obviously looks fun from a transversial and from a shooting standpoint but story wise and enemy type wise it looks very bland to the point where I don't even know if I want to play the game at first I was thinking about playing the game and giving it a chance because you know I have a confession to make to y'all right now

I enjoyed Gotham nights now before you click off, because I know you're probably saying that's blasphemous, you probably threw your phone across the room, which, you know, you probably shouldn't do that because, you know, it may break. But anyways, I played it with my cousin. So technically, my enjoyment of the game was probably higher than anybody who played it solo because I had somebody else with me throughout the entire campaign. So obviously with Suicide Squad,

is another game that's multi-player and basically you could play the entire game with another player. And with this announcement, well, not announcement, but with that, you should probably be asking yourself, well, how come you want to give Suicide Squad the same chance that you would Gotham Knights? technically I've always been a huge nightwing fan because of my just affinity for teen Titans there's nobody on the suicide squad that I care for like in general the name is terrible like in 2024 going on like 10 years down the line I think we're going to look back on a game titled suicide squad and wonder how in the world was this marketed how in the world was this an actual promotional title for a video game i mean just talk about the more

flagrant takes on insensitive titles ever created i think suicide squad is up there i mean at that point we might as well just go back way in and uh it really wasn't that long ago and just you know title one of the games like slavery squad you know what i'm saying like harriet tubman type b you know what mean like at this point then sensitivity is through the roof with the suicide squad title i don't know why i just realize that because when looking at it and when typing it in you realize you would get flag because suicide is a trigger warning because it's very sensitive and i know a lot of people don't like to focus on it and this is a game you know not really about that but technically the title alone is too much like if you're going to have a title

that insensitive, then I'm going to put it, point it out. So it's just like when I pointed out in Power Worlds, how you can capture humans and use them to do whatever. And it's basically slavery. But, you know, hey, people still play in Power. So anyways, obviously with Suicide Squad is one of those things where they had to come with a compelling story because obviously is developed by Rock Steady.

I think that would be the saving grace is the story. Because with the Suicide Squad, no, with the, Justice League being in the game, that means that we have something to look forward to when it comes to Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern. Wonder Woman, I believe. Is Wonder Woman in this game? I think so. I forgot. But also, Joker. So Joker was just recently announced to be in this game, and not only in this game, but he is a playable character. Now, before y'all say anything, no, it is not the Joker from Rock Steady. Well, I don't think it is because I've seen the actual character model and gameplay and i was like there's no way that they're going to tell me this

is the same joker that was given batman the beats in his own video game right so i don't know where they got this joker from it literally just looks like an off-brand version of joker but the only thing about it is it's actually in the dc universe so i don't know what they're doing with that i don't know if it's the else world joker i don't know what they're doing so anyways um that's the first playable character as far as DOC and they said that season one for a suicide squad

includes a lot of different let me see yeah it includes new boss fights enemy variance playable environment based on Joker and two new episodes with activities missions and strongholds

so before the game even launches they already talking about post launch post launch content which technically it's not a bad thing because if the game comes with a lot of content at the beginning i can see them getting by with this roadmap that they've already shown us before the game even touched down right but my thinking is this live service is trying to beg for your attention by letting you know that they put so much effort into scamming you So as far as getting the standard edition, $70, the deluxe edition is 100, you know, normal stuff, right?

Scamming you into thinking you're going to be paying for a whole game when they already showed you that they're trying to get your money with the roadmap. Like, they're trying to do the live service route with the suicide squad and it's just screaming, I don't know if it's Square Enix. I forget who made the game. But it's just screaming Avengers all over again. I think this game is going to be the modern day Avengers, maybe a slight improvement. But that is why I don't take this game over Gotham Knights. Because I don't think Gotham Knights was ever approached that from a live service standpoint. Like I got to the point where they realized that they just needed to make a good game

because it wasn't nobody believing in their live service. But the Suicide Squad, they still believe that people want to play this game for years to come. and that roadmap that they shown before the game actually launched is going to matter, right? But I'm just telling you all, it's just a scam. Like, it's a looter shooter in a superhero game. I don't think, like it could work, but in this setting, I don't think it will ever work. I think the best way to make a looter shooter work is if they ever remastered DC Universe. If they ever remastered DC Universe, I mean, not even.

They don't even have to do anything. Take DC Universe, make it. because I think it was I think you can still play that game on consoles to this day but anyways take that game remaster it like BioWere remastered Mass Effect and just put it out and make that the live service

and start to update that game with modern day graphics. I think that's what they need to go at as far as the live service and give that to Rocksteady but giving Suicide Squad to Rocksteady and telling them to make a live service game out of it I mean if you can't make a live service game out of it I mean, if you can't make a live service game out of the Avengers, you're not going to be able to make a live service game at a suicide squad.

Like, it's just not going to work. I just don't, like, who told them that they was able to make a live service out of this? It's just not going to work. So anyways, um, basically the missions that you'll be playing, if you have, if you do end up picking up this game, the missions are going to be incursion based, killing time missions. and there's going to be leaderboards for solo and team play. So not only, this game does not look good.

But anyways, not only is it, it's just, it's just, the leaderboards for solo and team play just threw me off because, what is this is a sports game? Like, imagine going through the story. And then the leaderboards pop up and you'd be like, hey, I got more kills than you. Like, do people really care about that in superhero games? Maybe I'm tripping. So anyways, um,

That's basically it. And then this game is set to come out January 30th. With the success of Power World, I wouldn't be surprised if they delay it. But since they've delayed this game so many times, I just think at this point, they try. Like, hopefully y'all remember and don't ever forget that the reason they push this back is because it was so bad. Like, the reason they push this game back is because something leaked. I think all the loot or whatever, or it'd be in the looted shooter because they never said that. I don't think they said that.

as far as uh the extent of the looters shooter like they just said oh um it's action you know RPG game but they was never like explicitly oh it's a bullet spongy you have to upgrade your weapons like they didn't say none of that we just thought it was like a story based game come to find out it's a bullet spongy game filled with bland AI enemy types and that was leaked to the point where they had to push the whole game back because it was getting so much negative press so now for them to come back and show their heads again acting like they changed the new leaf when they're still a looter shooter they're still showing you a roadmap trying to take your money after the base game well after you pay for the base game and three it's just not a compelling story like

suicide squad versus the justice league it's like Batman v Superman all over again like you know that one should not beat the other but we're just going to entertain it for story element like I don't know. So anyways, at the end of day, Suicide Squad, it's probably going to be a flop, especially in the midst of Power World, like the biggest launch ever in gaming history and this game comes out like four days after. Hey, good luck. But honestly, I don't want to see Rocksteady fail because, you know, they made the Arkham games. So I just want to see them fail with this game. It's just Because I go back to making story games not based on greed and taking people's money. So anyways, click my link to your bio.

Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about suicide squad, kill the Justice League? And also, are you going to play the game when it comes out or no? The game that everybody has been asking for. I mean, ever since 2013, when the last race, addition of the college football game came out, people was clamoring for another college football video game. So it's been over a decade. And now, ladies and gentlemen, EA Sports College Football is set to make a comeback. Simply due to the legal battle between paying the players

being finally settled with the incorporation of name, image, and likeness, NIL to be, you know, to abbreviate and stuff for that. But anyways, this game is expected to release July 12, 2024. But EA Sports came out and said that it has not solidified a specific date and stated that the game is coming out. in the summer. Ain't a lot. That's the worst way to dispel the rumor. Say, oh, yeah, it's not coming out that day, but it's coming out around that day.

Like, okay, like, all right, we believe you wink, wink. Like, that's just, that's funny. But anyways, so of course, the game is so big as far as a fan base due to the popularity of college football. I mean, if y'all knew the amount of, revenue a university made from just football, I think those players will boycott. I kid you not.

Like, if you was the actual star player of a football team, if you knew how much a university made off of a college football season, I think they would boycott. I mean, it's just, there's no other sport that comes close. Like, maybe if you win the championship every year in basketball or tennis or, It's not. It's really no. Tennis, I don't even know why I brought that up. Maybe basketball. That's the only sport I could see that maybe could come close to what football brings in.

But college football is really nothing like it. And honestly, if you really want to get into it, it's really nothing like it, even when you compare it to NFL. Like college football still is just the passion is way more apparent in college football than it is in the NFL. So when my sports take to the side, because, you know, it's not the Stephen A. Smith route, I want to get into the game.

And basically, the lawsuit that EA had to deal with. Because if you don't know, a lot of players was mad, irate, upset that the game was making a lot of money off of their likeness, right? so es ea sports had to settle for 40 million dollars and that is why they didn't resume the game due to the NCAA restrictions on player compensation so that's why the game stopped in 2013 for y'all who don't know so since it's been gone since um 2013 the previous versions like the 2014 game is sold at higher prices it's still sold at a premium price and you could charge people for a premium price because guess what who going who going uh turn down because if you don't know in video game industry um preservation is a hard thing to come by especially when a lot of these retro consoles are getting just demolished and just don't work so

when you find the actual retro console that does work then you have to pay premium price for it so to correlate that with this, if you find a NCAA 2014, yeah, 2014 game that does work, then you will pay premium price to have it just to say you have it because not a lot of people

probably still have that version of the game, which is why it's sold at a high price. So, with that being set to the side, let's get into the current status, right? So July is the rumored release date for this game, but EA has said,

wink-wing that is not going to come out that specific date but acknowledged a summer launch now why in the summer i think it's also kind of weird hey it's the way they do things so i do expect for such an immersive experience that college football by far and away should be the new madden like when we talk about football game no longer should madden be the upsetting mediocre child that exists in the gaming industry. We should now have the new standard of football games with NCAA 14. Football, of course. So I would project that this game would probably be one of the more successful video games

of all time. When NCAA 23 or 20, it'll be 24, right? Yeah, when NCAA 24 comes out, will be 24 or 25? Now I can't count. I think it'll be 25 because technically 2024 is already done

as far as the championship and the championship date wouldn't be till next year. So yeah, so NCAA 2025. Yeah, I get what I'm saying. The game, right? Will be the most

successful game, one of the most successful games of all time, putting it up there with the likes of a Fortnite with likes of Call of Duty. I think it has a chance to just and captivate

the gaming space simply due to the fact that that multiplayer won that's going to be insane like the playing against people online but also just in general sports games tend to sell well because

of its gameplay loop if that makes sense so with that being said obviously I may expect for game modes like Road to Glory other highly anticipated game modes to come back, just being revamped, quality-wise, being upgraded, improved,

and just expect anticipation to be through the roof, because this type of game is, and will always be coveted by his fan base, and deservedly so, because it is one of the better games that's defined my childhood, I would say. So anyways, with that being said, I want to say, was there anything else I wanted to get into? Now, that was basically, it's pretty straightforward.

I mean, if you don't know that it was basically discontinued because of the lawsuit to EA. And because of that, you know, they had a stop in 2013. But now they are back rumored date to be July 12th, 2024. So with that being said, click my link to tree in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about NCAA-25 coming back? And also, as far as the game modes, what are you looking forward to playing the most?

I ain't going to lie to y'all. They got me feeling like I'm mad committed because why in the world do I know the academics in Young Miami are trading all caps towards one another? Like, you would have thought the caps lock was not even a thing when it came to them exchanging words with one another. You thought that was just regular typing,

because the way that you use caps is to emphasize the point, right? But to go back and forth and use everything in all caps, like you're shouting and emphasizing every single word that you're saying towards this man or woman. So anyways, what am I talking about? Well, of course, gossip. At the end of the day, all going few between y'all. Miami and DJ academics. It's been long-standing beef simply for the fact that academics

basically tells it like it is young Miami kind of retorts what he says with straight insults. That's basically it. So of course if you don't know, academics been on P. Diddy pause for his sexual assault allegations and basically because of that and And also other things, Young Miami is more inclined to reply to academics because guess you can't reply to academics no more. P. Diddy can't reply to academics because I think if Diddy ever try to contact academics, it would be on front page news. Like as far as academics always saying that he's a law-abiding citizen, if P. Diddy was to contact that man, I think he may be in. died it on a RICO for no reason. So with that being said,

academics obviously said a lot of things towards Young Miami and Diddy as far as their involvement. And so Young Miami had enough and basically accused academics of a lot of things, most of them untrue. And academics accused Young Miami of some things, which technically, if we're talking about what happened in the P. Diddy is so allegation. you could summarize or basically come to the conclusion that some of the things that academics would say is on point because the lack of addressing the points that he was making leads you to

believe that what he's saying is true like if you're in the argument with somebody and somebody says something and you completely disregard what he said to bring up some irrelevant point basically throwing insults at whoever or at the person you're uh combating with verbally, then I'ma be led to believe that you don't want to address those comments because they might be true. Because if they weren't true, guess what? You can say they're not true or you can sue them because if somebody's saying something flagrantly false on a platform like academics, you can easily sue them.

So, I mean, just look at Tasha K. So with that being said, obviously this whole feud between academics and Young Miami goes way back from, I think it was a diss in a nightclub. where Young Miami was playing a snippet criticizing academics for speaking about women. And usually academics is the type to respond, never like instant. Like he doesn't start it. He usually responds in other, not all cases. Obviously, there's some cases where he starts it.

But specifically for Young Miami, because, you know, no disrespect to her. But City Girl sold like, I think 6,000 copies first week, something like that, like 6,000, 13,000. It wasn't nothing big, right? It was pretty bad to be on a major. label that city girls on so and i like the city girls so i didn't want to see them flop they just flop you know it's like the numbers say they flop so anyways um with that being said young miami obviously put a nightclub snippet out criticizing academics for speaking about women and even though academics speaks about everybody i think that him talking about young miami especially at a time

when it was flopping tremendously. Like, as far as putting on a masterclass on how to flop, I think the city girls really achieved that. But that's besides the point, because I do like JT when she wraps. But Young Miami academics responded to the nightclub snippet, basically bringing up the allegations against Diddy and suggesting that Young Miami benefited financially from Diddy

and other things, you know. And so Young Miami, of course, clapped back and accused academics of certain things about obsessing over her and challenging his credibility. And then Young Miami also accused academics of a lot of things that technically, I'm not going to say because the way she did it was she quote tweeted somebody else so she can easily say that she didn't say that. So to get out of it, like if you tried to sue somebody,

because you really can't just go around, especially on a big platform or any platform, I think. You can't just go around like just disseminating information that's false. you can't just be out here be like oh he got he got uh STD you know what I mean just be saying that just oh she got STD you know what I mean you can't just be saying that over and over and over or you end up like Tasha K anyways I don't know why I keep bringing it up she's just like the most popular uh figure for just blatantly lying so anyway anyways um diddy obviously is not going to respond academics so with young Miami saying what she said uh I do have a clip up of academics responded to her and basically reading off one of the tweets uh

targeted towards him. And if you want to see that along with the audio, make sure to type in and just follow Analytic Dreams video on Spotify for the video along with the audio. So with that being said, let's get into this hilarious back and forth between academics and Young Miami because let me tell you something, if this is not ignorance at its finest, I mean, you would have thought we was watching a boondocks episode in real time. And without further ado, let's get into the masterclass of academics, just straight. going in on a on yet another musician

she said fat funky dirty ass bitch you a loser we streaming kai old wash bitch you know the funny part about this these bids actually think i'm in all right first thought first hold on hold what's up with all the adjectives like goodness like fat funky and dirty that's like a three piece in a biscuit ain't it anyways my fault i just had to point that out because that was a lot of adjectives and and girls know how to do it don't they like they just they just put them adjectives together like it was nothing like Like she just really went at as jugular. But anyways, all right, let's see what academics had to say about that clap back in retort.

Shorty, you could even make it on Kai's stream because he's not going to be streaming with a loser like you. You feel me? At the end of the day, what Kai do is an amazing stream. Kai's the best streamer. But I'm not in competition with him because what I do is definitely different. He's the best of what he does. and I damn show the best of what I do too. Okay?

That man, talk on that talk. Put it like this, young Miami. The reason why, and I'm going to tell you what's going to happen, nigga. Let me give you three options that's going to happen. This is wild. Everybody can write this now. Y'all either fin or get dropped. Hey, hold up.

He said write it down, make sure you get pen, pencil, paper, you know, things of that nature, to retain what he's saying right now. But anyways, let's keep going. It's going to happen. Mark my words. Everybody can write this now. Yeah, either fin or get dropped. Because you suck.

You've been losing fucking money for everybody. Why are you saying like that? Okay? So you either get dropped or you're not going to separate. I'm giving out 12 months. Factuals. Mark it down. rewrite it.

I'm telling what's going to happen. J.T. going to do her thing and you're going to keep suck his stuff on because that's your only fucking talent. That little piece of shit reality. A pocket. Hey, first off, you know, I don't condone speaking towards people in that manner.

let's just say this is a PG podcast right and that last statement he just said was wild that's it's top you know it's why he's academics and and obviously it's only so many statements that you can make about this man before you just get to the point where you just say that that man just don't care he just don't care about how you react to anything he says his tone none of that like tonality is a real thing and I think when you don't really see too many of these people you talk about in person, they start to bring up that tonality as an issue, which is why they say he is acting gangster. And it's simply for rants like this.

That shit ain't coming back. Because you're too fucking lazy to do it on your own. You could keep your shit going on because for whatever reason you did have a buzz doing that, but you're too fucking lazy. Just like you were too fucking lazy to help your fucking teammate out to make some fucking bars. You didn't write shit. You didn't do it. Once again, PG Podcast is academics.

a very art rated streamer but hey just it's not me cussin it's him all right just you know let's keep going shit you're just a fucking waste of skin yeah yeah i got to see his eyes when he say it's like he he got to be off something like it's like off the henny or something why he why he staring at the camera like that like he he he he need help i ain't a lie that's like these type of rant he go on it's just like he got to get some some off his chest. And I don't know why it takes women to do it. But, like, maybe it was growing up.

He didn't get certain women. I don't know what it was, but it's just he has a certain victory on. And it's so funny. But at the same time, it's so sad. But anyways, it's so entertaining. Let's keep going. That's a fact. I'm telling you this because I'm not making up shit.

I'm telling you this because I've heard everything behind the scenes. Okay, that's the other thing. So reason why academics is the goat, because he actually does hear things behind the scenes and more, you know, before people discredit it, a specific example I could give is when he literally had the verse, Nikki's verse, original verse, off of Motorsport, which he was dissingarty. And literally came out, said he had it saying that, you know, Nikki was disin carty. I think Nikki came out something like that, say, oh, you won't, you don't have the verse to me, disin carty. guess what he did he went on stream and literally played the verse so it's things like that he's done that time and time again to make you realize he's not just lying like he actually has his like he is like in the behind the scenes and talking to certain people who have certain real

credible information which is why he when he talks people listen because we've come to realize that he's not lying at anything he's saying so he goes on to talk about young miami and how they talk about her not being able to read not writing her own raps but we already knew that i mean we knew that yaddy wrote act up so and i think we learned that from act too anyways that's what i'm saying like academics is the goat but you know when he goes in these type of rants it's uh it's just entertaining for me but some people they just they they they'd be taking it personal but uh yeah i could understand why they would take a personal because i mean the peeing on bar that was that was a lot like the only talent getting pied on is just like that's that's not even fighting words that's that's

way past that so anyways um let's see let's um yeah let's wrap it up with that so anyways uh click my link to my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about that hilarious back and forth between academics and young miami and also uh what do you think is the main reason people have a problem with academics Now, can we all just get along? I mean, it hurts my heart to cover this in the way I'm going to have to cover it. But for some reason, ice spice and lotto are beefing. Now, if you don't know, Lotto just recently hopped on a new track.

And by new, I mean, it was a track that I think I added to my playlist. It was pretty solid. It wasn't too much. I thought it was going to be better. But it wasn't bad. So back outside with Anisia. Ancia, Anisia. I think it's Anisia.

Anyways, I'll probably mispronounce that. That track. Oh, the promotion. Yeah. So the promotion for it, basically in the background, she had Ice Spice playing, uh, video playing,

why she said, I just want a one-on-one. I don't know why she's so nervous. So for the promotion of somebody else's track that you're a feature on, you have a snippet saying, I just want to one. 101, I don't know why she's so nervous. Coincidentally, as you play an Ice Spice video in the background,

and that was the only time the Ice Spice video was there throughout the entire music video. So now, come to find out, you know, after a lot more research, Ice Spice and Lotto have been rumored to have some beef for quite some time. Obviously, there's no, like, actual concrete evidence, But if you think about it, there was no concrete evidence of Nikki and Cardi beefing before it actually came about. So, where Ice Spice and Nicky, well, no, well, I spice and Lotto, I'm not going to say that's a rollout, but it literally makes no sense that these two would be beefing other than publicity. So as far as trading subliminal jabs, this is going to be a wild comparison.

But it reminds me of what Drake and Jay-Z used to do, where they would trade jabs at one another. but it was never like real beef. So whenever you would talk about J.D. and Drake's beef, it was never like, oh, when they see each other is going to be a problem. It's just more of like subtle jabs trying to figure out who's better than who. I think the fan base did that as far as pitting the two against each other. But then also, not only that, both of these artists are immensely successful on the charts. I mean, Lotto with Junk Cook still to this day. has a top five single on Billboard Global and then Ice Spice is the only female rapper with the most number one hits in US Spotify chart back in the year of 2023.

So when you look at the success of Ice Spice or if you look at a success of a lotto, you have to really start comparing it because from a standpoint of just strictly plays and downloads, those on the biggest DSP in the world, which is Spotify. I mean, Lotto has 26.5 monthly listeners, while Ice Spice has 24.3

monthly listeners. So I think it's to the point where these two are really competing for that top new girl in the hip-hop space, because for some reason, sexy red, glowrilla, I think who else, be a

there's a lot of women rappers in the game but as far as at the top i think we only really look at certain artists whether it's a as far as like newcomers we only look at a ice spice and a lotto obviously lotto's more of uh i'm not going to say a veteran but has more experience in the game let's just say that as it's just been a lot of times with lotto would just come on the track and completely showcase her lyricism to where Ice Spice, I think, is below average when it comes to rapping. But I don't think that's definitely a slight. But it wasn't supposed to be as aggressive.

So basically, I just don't think Ice Spice is a type of rapper to showcase lyricism. I think it's more of a visual element that comes with Ice Spice that enhance. is her career, whereas Lotto, I think visual and actual lyricism is at play. So yeah, with that being said, it's really none too crazy as far as, like, getting into both of these artists, because at the end of the day, Ice Spice is breaking records, Lottos breaking records. I mean, can't we all just get along? Like, this is insane.

Like, how did this beef come out of nowhere? And then ultimately, my last take on Ice Spice versus Lotto is. it's a fake beef. Like it's all for publicity. Maybe they hit each other behind the scenes. It was like, hey, probably drum up some more buzz if we hate each other. Let's just do that, throw subliminal jazz, but never really go too far. And then they was like, hey, bet.

And then maybe that's what they're doing. I can see that happening as publicity stunts happen all the time. And I don't even notice. So, yeah, that's my last takeaway from Ice Spice versus Lotto. So anyways, click my link to share in my bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about Ice Spice versus Lotto? And also, who do you think is the better overall musician?

I know. Because we're here for truth. We're here for truth. Drake is pop to me. Right. That's fair. In the sense that it's charting like pop music, popular music. In the sense, like, if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song, so it feels like a lot of his music is compatible with,

with shopping. Commercial music. Or it's, you know, shopping with an edge in certain instances. Or. Fair. I like Drake's music, but I understand exactly what you're saying. Of course. I mean, I get it. It's commercial, entertaining, fun, good formulaic music.

That is, likeable. Likeable music, yeah. It's likable music. You know, Cat Williams got everybody in their bag when it comes to hating. So I'm not even mad at most deaf. He looked at Drake. He looked at Cat Williams. And he was like, you know what?

It's my turn now. And I understand. I mean, when Drake is competing with the likes of Taylor Swift, you know, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wallin, none of them are in a hip-hop space. So, you know, just breaking speed records on rows that these OGs pay. and obviously they don't like it you know what I'm saying so whenever you start hating on somebody

because their music is likable you're basically saying that at the end of day this man is such the goat at the craft that we can't even compare him in the same realm of hip hop because he's competing

with other musicians that he shouldn't even be competing with because if you don't know I mean hip hop's been the number one genre for the past what I would say decade plus. So, or since the 90s,

so even more than a decade. So when it comes to Drake building all this hype and anticipation as far as time and time again, somebody else in the hip-hop space could have did the same thing because the genre has been number one since the 90s. But did they?

Of course not. Because Drake's the goat. So when most definitely, is hating and which is you know he's most definitely hating you know that's probably what it stands for um at the end of day you just look at the stats and you just compare and a wise man once said comparison is the thief of joy so if your joy is just being stolen by this light-skinned person from the grassy i would would hate to you know what i'm saying how in the world does somebody named jimmy in a wheelchair

get up and start running the hip-hop game y'all let me know because with most deaf he's a phenomenal rapper but then guess who else is a phenomenal rapper and guess who else makes hits on top of hits top of hits. So when it comes to somebody just spreading blatantly false information saying that Drake isn't hip hop, the best thing he could come out and say

is I was wrong I was hating like most of the old heads are doing towards Drake right now which is why I had a whole episode yeah shameless plug I had a whole episode basically talking about

Drake versus hip hop media if you search notorious mass effect drake versus hip hop media it should definitely pop up and more specifically not even hip hop media versus old head hip hop media because they just do not understand what it takes to get to drake's position so guess what if you don't understand what somebody or someone did to get to a position that you want to be at but you fail to do so you start to make excuses for why he's at that position. So now it falls in the category of hating. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we'd have made a full circle moment as haters are always going to hate because they couldn't do what whoever did at the level that they tried to do but failed at. So if I see somebody and he did

something I wanted to do, but I tried and I failed, I'm going to say, oh, he only got that because he sold the soul. Oh, he only got that because he's been mentored by this person. Oh, he only got that because I'm hating like I wish somebody would come out say that I wish somebody would just be like hey I'm just hating like I'm just putting a bullet on this hate and sending it toward somebody away right because letting somebody know your true intentions is way more honorable than you hiding behind the veil of oh this is constructive criticism like no my brother you are most definitely hating.

So with that being said, click my link to you in my bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about this old head hating? Well, another old head, yet another old head hating on Drake. And also, at the end of day, I mean, would Drake being the goat? How many more old heads do you think going to come out to hate on them? So that's about it for episode 134. Let me tell you all something.

This was definitely a longer episode than I plan for. But at the end of the day, I will get these topics done. and delivered to y'all because y'all been supporting tremendously i mean we're around 70 to 80 000 weekly downloads and that type of support is immense and definitely deserves my undivided attention when it comes to producing content that y'all enjoy time and time again so hopefully you enjoy this topic this this jam-pack episode filled with gaming and hip-hop topics ranging from industry to specific people. And at the end of day, I mean, as always,

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