Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - E3 2019: What Is Kinda Funny's Game of the Show? - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 14, 2019

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Starting point is 00:00:04 What's up guys? Welcome to the first ever E3 2019 Game of the show. Recap. I'm Tim Gettys, joined by one of the coolest dudes in video games, Greg Miller. What's up Los Angeles! And for the first time ever on the Kind of Funny Games cast, the Master of Hypes Apprentice himself, Snow Bike Mike. Tim, Greg, thanks for having me on you. No, I've been bringing the hype all. E3 long having a total fun in the sun here in L.A. It's been a good time. We've seen many, many games. Greg and I have been a bunch of behind closed doors, demos. We're doing all that stuff. We're the fancy people with the monocles and stuff.
Starting point is 00:00:49 Snowmike Mike, the man of the people, he's out there waiting in lines. He got the experience on the inside of E3. So this is a good thing here. I'm the man in the streets. I'm in the lines with the people out there hearing what's hype in the world. I'm having so much fun. What was your E3 like? Oh, it was a blast, Tim. An experience of a lifetime, some would say.
Starting point is 00:01:11 We went from the Microsoft Theater down to E3 proper between both halls. It was a blast. I loved every moment of it. What E3 is this for you? This is E3 number one. Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, his first E3, will you be back? I will be back every single year from this point forward.
Starting point is 00:01:29 I love it. I don't ever want to do anything but it. What was you? your game of the show. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't kick it to him. We already know where we're at, ladies and gentlemen. For the first time ever, for Kind of Funnies, game of the show for an E3, we're split. Split.
Starting point is 00:01:50 Tim and I are arguing different sides of the coin here. Usually, we have a full team down here. We have at least Andy. We had Colin back in the day. We have something. There's three votes. A full team. I mean, like Nick Scarpino is actually.
Starting point is 00:02:03 subtracting from the team. All right. Kevin plays one switch game, says that's the best thing he's ever touched. No, no, no, no. We had enough people to split a vote. Sure. This is the first time that not only do we not have someone to split the vote, we also have just me and you here.
Starting point is 00:02:19 Right. Different kind of E3, smaller E3. About what the game of the show is. Right. So Tim Geddes. What's your game of the show? Let me tell you, I just got out of the Cyberpunk, 277 demo. Look at the jacket. If you're an audio listener, he has a very nice cyberpunk jacket he's wearing.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Is it reversible? Hey, you, ask me, is it reversible? It is reversible. It is. I'm not going to show you now, but I might show you later. They literally bribed me with a bomber jacket. The yellow side of the bomber jacket is the bomb side of the jacket. Oh, it's so hot. It's great.
Starting point is 00:02:56 I love it. So you're saying, Cyberpunk is your game in the show? I say Cyberpunk's my game. and the show. We don't need Jenny's more snow bike. Mike. It's done. We're done. Cyberpunk was one of the most impressive video games I have ever seen for the second year in a row. We gave
Starting point is 00:03:12 Cyre Punk, 27. Our game of the show last year. Yeah. But this year's gameplay as amazing as it looked. And would I still say it was a 10 out of 10? I probably would. Yeah, you're not crazy. But I think last year's was better.
Starting point is 00:03:28 And for that reason, Final Fantasy 7 remake, baby. Can I get an amen? He's got the crap out here, Greg. You got to swing him. Dude, don't listen to O'Snow like Mike. Look at your heart. Here's the argument for it.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Everyone that I've talked to that has played that game has walked away being like, wow, this is something special. The Final Fantasy hardcore, the people that love these games, they are like, wow, this is good. The people that don't care about Final Fantasy are like, wow, this is good.
Starting point is 00:03:58 The people that love Final Fantasy seven, specifically are like, wow, this is good. And I'm going to be honest with you. All three of those demographics should not have liked this game by default. All three of those demographics should have been mad for some reason or another. This game accomplished the unimaginable, and they did things right. This is the game that when I talk about Kingdom Arch 3, and I'm not trying to be mean, but a lot of it felt like a game from another time. Story-wise and character-wise, There was a lot of moments that were so... What about the trailers, though, without sound effects and stuff?
Starting point is 00:04:34 That's not a modern. That's a whole other thing. But what I'm talking about is the fact that that game felt like a PS2 game that looked like a PS4 game. This game feels like a late PS4 game, maybe a PS5 game. That's exciting to me. Playing through this, seeing the ways that the music interacts with the characters and the dialogue and the gameplay,
Starting point is 00:04:55 and it all feels like it means something. And these are characters that I've grown up loving, and they're doing them justice, that's impressive to me as a Final Fantasy 7 fan. It's impressive to me as a Final Fantasy fan where 13 had its issues, but its battle system was awesome, the staggered system, all of that was so great. Someone cares. There we go. The other guy in the kind of funny pride shirt.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Final Fantasy 15, like elements of the way that the characters talked together, the bromance between them was awesome. But all of it didn't come together, right? I feel like Final Fantasy 7 is the answer to that. They're taking what we loved about the original game, but applying the best parts of the last generation of Final Fantasy games, last decade, and making it into, honestly, what I think is the best Final Fantasy game that I've seen since 10.
Starting point is 00:05:48 Wow. And this man hosted Final Fantasy 15 Uncovered. He did. I remember that. Got delayed. Here's what I'll say is, of course, I did not yet to get into Final Fantasy 7. Tim Geddes could not pull any strings. Some say he has no power, Snowbike Mike.
Starting point is 00:06:05 You know what I mean? In that yellow bomber jacket? I know. He's got power looks. No power where it counts. No power points. Don't show the power looks. Turn off the power looks.
Starting point is 00:06:16 What Final Fantasy 7 did this E3 is incredible. It looked amazing. The trailer was amazing. You came out of it watching that Pizza Hut demo, and you said, Greg, I think this is a game you would like. And that has me. excited. You have me hyped for Final Fantasy 7. In a way, I've never been hyped for a Final Fantasy before. And I was the other guy who hosted Final Fantasy 15. You were. They brought me in,
Starting point is 00:06:39 if you remember, because Tim was the fan they wanted. And then they wanted somebody who wasn't a fan, Mike. And so they brought me in and showed me. And I was like, oh, yeah, maybe this would work. But jumping into the story, I was like, why are they wearing leather in the desert? This doesn't, it was a weird mashup of things that are going on. Dude, fashion over function. Why am I wearing a bomber jacket in Los Angeles? Because you look great. You look great. It's hype, it is hype. The trailer, what you talked about, obviously the reputation of Final Fantasy 7 has me excited. But here's the interesting point, young Tim Getty's.
Starting point is 00:07:10 You keep saying that Final Fantasy 7 remake, right, is bringing it and making it a modern game, right? Something that feels here. Snow White, Mike. Cyberpunk 2077 feels like it's from the future. Tell me about it, Greg. Like from 2017? I want to go that far. I think it'll be different by that.
Starting point is 00:07:29 More like maybe 20 to 23. But the thing about this game is that it's doing so much right in such a way we wouldn't expect. I won't belabor the point. I ranted and raved last night on the gamescast that's now available on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games and Podcast Services around the globe. But the short version is that I'm seeing the character models right for the jacked-out musly dudes, right? And I'm like, oh, it's like Rocksteady's versions. And then, you know, you get into fights with them and they drop.
Starting point is 00:07:58 and it's like, oh, it's like Fallout. But then all of a sudden, you know, you take out your wire, you're lopping off limbs, you're lopping off heads, and it's like, oh my gosh, like they're actually destructible. You're in this RPG, and we're so used to. It's a great fallout game, which we know means it's going to be buggy, which we know means it's going to be stiff. You start applying that to this game, and this game doesn't do that.
Starting point is 00:08:18 This game is frenetic movement like dying light, you know, running, sliding. It's using cool weapons and cutting things in half in a way you've never seen a fallout. It is destructible environments, right? When you're in that shootout, in that space now that you've seen it, and they take down a tree by happenstance. It is an RPG in a way of how do you want to build out your character? Do you want to invest all your points into them being cool? Literally being cool is one of the options.
Starting point is 00:08:44 It's like, oh, speed and stealth and cool. Strength, yeah, body, yeah, exactly. Like, it is such a amazing game because of everything it's bringing together. all these different touchstones from different games we know, genres we know, in putting them into this one game that I think, if it delivers on the fact that last year's demo is great, this year's demo is great, Keanu Reeves is in this game. If it can deliver on this,
Starting point is 00:09:10 it is going to be a video game unlike anything we've ever seen before. And you're absolutely right, and that's what tears me apart here in deciding where does this go? Because, honestly, what's going to end up being the better game? I would argue, cyberpunk. Yeah. I really would. What I saw from this demo,
Starting point is 00:09:28 what I saw from the demo last year, everything I've seen about this game is it looks like Cyberpunk 2020. It looks like a game from the future right now. Right. It looks very impressive. But I think that the game of this show is Final Fantasy 7
Starting point is 00:09:40 because it, last year, the talk of the town was Cyberpunk. If you didn't see that demo, you weren't at E3. You missed out, you know? This year, I think if you didn't play Fallen Fantasy 7 remake,
Starting point is 00:09:53 you missed out on what this E3 was all about. Oh, Greg. I got the weaves on my side, dude. You got nothing. I have the truth. This man said Cyberbunk will be a better game than Final Fantasy 7. Look within you, ladies and gentlemen.
Starting point is 00:10:11 Look past the stupid hand, saying remake. And look to the future. Look to Keanu Reeves. Will Keanu Reeves save us? You know he will. Johnny Silverhand is his name. He haunts you in the game. game snow bike mike you played fall fantasy seven remake i played it tim you watched
Starting point is 00:10:31 uh cyberpunk 2077 i watched it tim give me your thoughts on both are you guys ready i want i don't give me a straight answer i want to hear you set them both up okay let's set them both up i'm a man of the people tim i was out there with a gamer pass we were scripin we were fighting we were eating out of gutters we were out there just to get a chance to stand in another line to go check out Final Fantasy 7 and Greg wow it's beautiful it's fun the combat continues to evolve and it gets people like me on the outside saying oh wow I liked that that was fun this is beautiful and I can get into it and then I say to myself man did I wait in line for three hours to see a 30 minute demo of cyberpunk 2077 to get hype yes I did fans out there and it felt great guys okay
Starting point is 00:11:21 Did I get a swanky bomber jacket like Tim? No, I got a visor. Okay, it looks like I'm in the 70s casino. Oh, you're dealing blackjack. Let me show you something. You're not supposed to tell him yet. They literally gave him a one shot for him to reverse it and then he walked out of it. it's walking back into it. This kid's crazy.
Starting point is 00:11:56 2077, take me to Knight City. Keanu, take me away and steal my dreams. So I got to say, guys, you both brought up great points. And I'll let you get in one last saying before I go and give you the hype report. I give you the final judgment. Go ahead, Tim. You start. Final Fantasy 7 is one of the greatest games of all time.
Starting point is 00:12:22 We know this. If you look at any top list that any credible games website, IGN, game spots, are kind of funny, game ranks, slash films, I just, I just, I literally,
Starting point is 00:12:37 I was like, yeah, yeah, it's going to be there, right? I think that this remake is going to be better than the classic. And again,
Starting point is 00:12:47 I go back to this. This comes from people that think it's one of the greatest games of all time, from the people that have never played Final Fantasy 7, and from people that aren't even Final Fantasy fans.
Starting point is 00:12:58 I think there's something very special about this. The production value is through the roof, and they showed it off, and it was playable. This game, sure. Did we have to wait? What was it? Three decades? Too many, too many.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Since we last saw it at E3. Will you have to wait? Three more decades for episode two. Will this game, will episode one stand alone and be amazing? the answer to a lot of these questions are yes and no wow way to commit but that's the thing is like it's hard for this because
Starting point is 00:13:37 cyberpunk is so close to me I want to give it this we have two of these and I want to give it to both of them can't do it we refuse we don't do that we don't do that here I just really believe that Final Fantasy 7 remake proved something that we all thought was impossible Square Annex I'm not going to lie is seen as a joke in a lot of ways. They name their games very silly, right?
Starting point is 00:14:00 The last couple of releases, questionable. There's people that love them more than anything, and there's people that scoff at them more than anything. Found Vense 7 Remake is going to be one of those games, and they proved that at this E3, that people, whether you're a fan or not, this is a good game. This is a good story.
Starting point is 00:14:20 These are good characters. This is good voice acting. This is good writing. This is good gameplay. They got that going for it. Greg, I mean, look into those baby blues. He reversed a jacket. He's talking right to my heart.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Sure. I need you. Sure. I need you right now. The people need you. Ladies and gentlemen, go to the mirror. Wash your face and look at yourself. Cyberpunk 2077 single-handedly saved E3-2019.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Look back on it You've washed your face now in that mirror Ask yourself how are these Press conferences? How many Megatons were there? How many Oh shit moments were there? How many things were there to get fucking lost in? The answer is one And there are Keanu Reeves' dreamy eyes
Starting point is 00:15:20 Now that of course is me just telling you About the reveal of the trailer at the Xbox conference Excuse me, I did not interrupt you I did not interrupt you The answer would have been seeing a release date for Final Fantasy 7 because nobody would believe that that game's ever actually coming up. But here it was playable with the release date, but they decided, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:15:42 We're going to show that release date at a concert that only a couple hundred people are at, and there's an orchestra, and they're not even going to play all the songs. There's going to be mini compositions just playing in the background. We're going to do that instead deflating the hype. They messed up their own game. They're proving me wrong. I'm trying to give this to you, Square.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Counterpoint. If you believe that Final Fantasy release date, you are an idiot in a bomber jacket that's reversible. And if you believe the release date for Cyberpunk 2077, you're probably right because I think they wanted to do 2019 and they made a very wise decision of choosing the date that he did. I also think Cyberpunk will be delayed. That's not understanding my point.
Starting point is 00:16:29 I'm not even just talking about the hype levels that were the trailer. The fact that's the only thing that made any of the conference is worthwhile. I'm a snowmike mic. I'm talking about getting in there and watching a game. Did you see Nintendo? I did watch Nintendo. I did see Banjo Kazui. Hey, that thing we've always wanted that we thought was going to happen finally happen.
Starting point is 00:16:47 And what I will do is once again, what I said on the GameSpot stage inside, right? I, for one, am glad Reggie's gone. For his entire career! His entire career! Reggie couldn't get Banjo Kazooi in there. Doug Bowser doesn't even have a parking spot yet. And he's like, you know what? Make it happen.
Starting point is 00:17:08 I respect that. He's also like, wait, we're not making a Breath of the Wild sequel? Make it. I'm Doug goddamn Bowser. And they're like, oh, shit, Miyamoto's like, oh, I got to do something. Put down the joint, you know what I mean? I've heard it both ways. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Cyberpunk Save D3. It was a great trailer. It was an amazing demo. The gameplay was better. The gameplay was better. Then the amazing trailer we saw. The hype continues the roll. It's a proven property.
Starting point is 00:17:38 It's a private. No, last E3 was great for a million reasons. No, it wasn't. What? Name one. Name one. I'm three years in. I don't know. What happened?
Starting point is 00:17:48 Did they announce the Vita? You two are going back and forth, and I'm loving it, right? The baby blues. I'm feeling a connection. Greg, appealing to me in Knight City. I'm loving that. Appealing to the people out here, having some fun winding down Ether.
Starting point is 00:18:03 with us, but I think it's time, guys. Are you ready? Sure. Are you guys ready, Los Angeles? I'm not ready. He's not ready, y'all. I want to talk about all the other games we play. Oh, you! Oh, wow. You'll save this for the end, baby.
Starting point is 00:18:24 What is worth pointing, what is, of course, worth pointing out of? We talked about in the games cast the last time around, which is last night for us, whatever, for you guys. We said we had three awards to give out personally. Yes. We actually had four, it turned out, because Matt Scarpino printed too many. So we do need to recap what awards we've given out personally.
Starting point is 00:18:42 And that's why I want to say this for the end. Let's say it. Let's talk about it. Also, yeah, we have 30 more minutes to podcast. Oh, that's great. I didn't know how long is the way. Oh, that's what I'm saying. Oh, no, it's not you.
Starting point is 00:18:51 It's not you. You got to let just him do it. He doesn't understand what he's doing. You know what I mean? It doesn't understand what game is game of the show, but nobody do. This morning, I got to play Star Wars. Gen. Oh.
Starting point is 00:19:02 Fall in order. and it got one of my awards. Wow. And I did not expect that. For the record, this is the guy who watched the EA play demo that I had, right? Spoiler alert, I had it early and I got to show him the demo. It literally is like, this doesn't look good. And walked away.
Starting point is 00:19:22 Walked away. I thought we'd lost them. To the dark side Snowback Mike. Hey. No, something about it, and I talked about this on both the games cast that we did in all of the E3 coverage, it looked loose. It looked like the story seems very interesting. The graphics seem great until you see the character models,
Starting point is 00:19:43 especially like the Chewbacca. Yeah, the Wookie's not too well there. But everything else, I was like, something about this doesn't look right for the type of game it's trying to be. God of War happened, and we all need to deal with that. It is a masterpiece. So when I'm seeing a camera behind a character,
Starting point is 00:20:02 They're pretty damn close, and it's an action game focused on combat. I expect it to feel perfect because we know that it can. Yeah. And looking at the gameplay of Jedi Fallen Order, I didn't believe in it. Playing the game, I believe in it entirely. That's awesome. It is so fun to play. You feel like you're in control of the character,
Starting point is 00:20:22 and every single thing you're doing is intentional. The demo, when we watched it, it seemed like the AI was kind of dumb. A lot of people said that, Stormtrooper just standing around. You're just walking through, slicing through them and, like, going through. They knew what they were doing. It reminded me a lot of God of War where it's not the hardest game in the world, but it's a challenge. Every enemy counts. And the force pull and push mechanics, pull is on L2, push is on R2.
Starting point is 00:20:50 And, like, bringing one guy in, looking at another, locking on, throwing the first guy at him to knock them out, it's satisfying in the way that throwing the axe in God of War is. Yeah, that's what I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. But that's not the core gameplay. The core gameplay is the force moves. And that's when I was like, oh my God, I'm loving this so much. The story stuff seems great. The droid, classic.
Starting point is 00:21:16 We already knew that from watching it, but playing it, the things that he does, he never gets in the way. It reminds me a lot, again, of God of War. Atreus, yeah. Never gets in the way. One sec. Out here, GameSpot, you guys are bringing the hype right now. I need to force, push all of you, just to come.
Starting point is 00:21:31 couple steps back. We're going to bring in an emergency vehicle because Tim, he got my heart stuttering over Final Fantasy 7. But I got to step back really quick for me. They informed me. I got to be the bear of bad news. If you're listening on the podcast, then the sirens are on our end. I saw them starting to push the fans around and I was like, wow, I thought it was a big deal that they let us close the show where they're like moving the equipment out. No, they need an emergency vehicle. Look at it come. They're the hype ambulance is here. Wow. But no, so Star Wars. It's something special. Kind of funny, emergency vehicle coming through. That's the lower third if you're an audio listener.
Starting point is 00:22:08 Oh, man, there's just too much hype here, baby. I did not expect to be giving one of my awards to Star Wars. Yeah, I was incredibly surprised when you sent that. When you sent that through to me that that's where one of your final awards was going. That's unheard of in so many ways. Yeah, no, it's legitimately good. Can't wait for November, man. It seems like a very special game.
Starting point is 00:22:27 And it's honestly best case scenario because I knew the story was going to be. be good and the production value was great minus the the wookies but real talk, music there's nothing like Star Wars music. Sure. It gets you in the mood, it creates an environment all that stuff was set in stone. The gameplay, how it feels,
Starting point is 00:22:45 I worried about that looking at it and I was totally wrong and I need to admit that. Wow. If he was Snow Mike, if he was wrong about that, could he be wrong? About something coming up? Kind of funny's game of the show. But I played Final Fasty 7. I didn't play a cyber But before we move on, let me tell you guys that this episode is brought to you by 23 and me.
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Starting point is 00:25:39 maybe you're in the audience while they're holding on that shot for a long time for you. So you've given your, so you're four Tim faces. For four Tim approved go, Final Fantasy, Links Awakening, Star Wars. What's your final one? Cyberpunk.
Starting point is 00:25:55 Exactly. Okay, because again, he understands. quality when he sees it. Got him. Dude, Cyberpunk, again, it's so close. But for this year's E-3? Yeah. I gotta go Final Fantasy. Cyberpunk was last year's. Getting him in the show.
Starting point is 00:26:08 It can be twice. I remember at IGN. The Witcher won two twice in a row. And that game turned out pretty well. Who's a developer on The Witcher again, by the way? CD Project Red. Oh, man, that's weird. Who's making Cyberpunk? CD Project Red. Oh, my God. Who's making Final Fantasy 7 remake?
Starting point is 00:26:25 Square? And bucking the trend. They're making. a great game. That's why they deserve this. They did the impossible. I don't want any penny points. Respect, respects, respect. Right, Snowmike, Mike? Exactly, exactly. He's, he's doing a lot of subliminal messages out to the crowd, getting them riled up. I think you need to bring it back right now. Sorry, let's talk about my awards then. Yeah. Last night, I only gave one to Cyberpunk, was pretty much as far as I had gone with the personal Greg Miller Awards. Today, I had to fill
Starting point is 00:26:52 the rest of the three slots. First thing I did when I woke up, started running through the games in my had Snowmike Mike. I've seen great things at Judges Week. I've seen great things at the press conferences. I've seen great things along the way. But what is the standout story so far? And of course, as I'm washing my hair thinking about it, it's Google Stadium. And I started thinking, my awards aren't, the Face Awards aren't one of Greg's game of the show, whatever. It's kind of funny approved, right? It's something here that is incredible. And for me, that was Stadia. Again, last night on the Games cast, I ranted and raved about it. And again, I understand I was under the best.
Starting point is 00:27:26 circumstances possible, right? I have an Ethernet line going into a PC. I'm playing it with the thing there. Of course, Doom's going to be running great. But Doom was running great. Doom Eternal was running fantastic last night. It's such a great game, right? Yeah, of course. I had to today hit up them and be like, hey, I want to give you one of the kind of funny approved ones. Go that way. Have them have it and, you know, enjoy it. I think that for me personally, the streaming race that we're in right now is a big part of what made E3 2019 excitement. And I think, as I said last night, playing both XCloud and Stadia, I think Stadia had the better presentation and better demo. Again, you can listen to yesterday's games cast for more on that.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Today, though, I went and played a game called Watchdog's Legion. Went behind closed doors, and they handed me a controller, and I literally was like, oh, do I get to play? And they were like, yeah, of course you do. Why? And I'm like, oh, you haven't been to the rest of E3. You don't know what Mike's struggle is. You don't know right out there. Just watching it. Jump cut to you and you're like trying to play an asteroid's a cabinet. People are like, get out of here. Get out of here. You're that's not what he thinks about.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Got to run around and play. And literally it gets, it got my obviously kind of funny approved thing, which I think after even seeing it at Ubisoft during the press conference, we knew, damn, this looks really special. It looks really cool. And for me, already being a watchdog's two fan jumping into that, having that ability and seeing what it was. The controller literally was like, all right, cool.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Yeah, we're starting you here. And we're going to talk to you while you do it, but you can go do whatever you want. You can take over whatever people, or try to recruit whatever people you want. Like, this isn't a can demo where we're telling you specifically what to do. So what I started doing, of course, is like when you're out in the world, walking around, they start me in a bar. It was, all right, cool. Like, you can look at anybody you want. You walk in the street.
Starting point is 00:29:13 You hold one of the R1s over, or L1s. You scan the person. I think it's R1. Scan the person. And then what slowly builds up. You get the basic information. It slowly builds up, and then it builds like a profile on that person. And so then if you want to really get into trying to recruit them to the team,
Starting point is 00:29:30 because it's not like, oh, I choose you and you take them over. You have to get them out of something. You have them on dead sex side. So I started doing this, and I was like scanning different people. He's like, all right, you're getting close. I'm like, all right, cool. I put the control down. I'm like, what is happening?
Starting point is 00:29:45 Because how is it doing this? How are you making a game like this where I can scan anybody? Even bad guys you're fighting and try to figure this out. And he's like, do you really want to know? And I'm like, yeah. And so we started going through magic. No, no, the subsystems and sub-levels and the way they group people up in terms of like, oh, this person's like this.
Starting point is 00:30:03 And then it's like, okay, well, this person lives in this part of London. So they'd probably be like this. It's not the business part. They'd be more like a dock worker, yada, yeah. And like the way they've done this that they can sit there and generate the stuff. So as you're scanning the person, it's building a deep profile for them. So that when you click into it, it is cool. This person's this old.
Starting point is 00:30:21 They have this as a special. house, they have this friend, they do this, they enjoy this, they don't enjoy that, they have a criminal record, they have this over there, there's a lone shark that needs them. And so I just started walking on the street and eventually found one of my favorite forms of entertainment, Snowbike Mike, a street performer. You know the type, spray paint themselves gold, stand like a statue, you know what I mean? Art, art, as they say. When you go to the theater, that's what you're seeing. I scan this guy and I'm like, clearly I want the street performer moron in my group, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:30:52 Just a whole crew of moron street performers out there. Exactly. And so it was that, all right, cool, here are the three options, right? I saw that he had a girlfriend, I saw that he had this, he had a loan out or something like that, and they're like, you can try to take it from
Starting point is 00:31:08 whatever avenue you want to get him on your team. And I was like, I'm going to do the girlfriend option. And he's like, cool, that's the most random, who knows what's going to happen, but do it. Like, I'm down, and I'm like, all right, cool. Chose it. And it was, okay, He's going to, I scanned, you can see their schedules, right? When you look at the map, I can see he was going to have a dinner with his girlfriend at 7 o'clock or whatever.
Starting point is 00:31:27 It's like, all right, cool. Fast travel through the tube there. Got to where it was. And it's like, all right, hold down your button to speed up time. Spet at time. Threesome. Him and his girlfriend there. It gets better.
Starting point is 00:31:37 He's still painted, correct? It gets better. Now, it's not a threesome. Instead, what it was is that. A foursome? His girlfriend is 64, and he's 19. Beautiful. That's love.
Starting point is 00:31:49 Exactly. Oh, love is love. I'm not trying to take away from it. And they, like, I'm getting the demo from a developer. He's busting up. He's like, we have this thing in here where there are sugar mama and sugar daddy relationships. And we looked at it and it was like, it defined her as girlfriend, not sugar mom. And he's like, so this is a real thing. They're in love and this is how it is. And so I was like, all right, cool.
Starting point is 00:32:09 And it turned out that she had information that people were hanging over her head, right? So now to get on the good graces of the street performer, I am instead of it directly helping. him, I'm going to go help his girlfriend. So then it was that I found her in the street. I need to stop you right now, Greg. Yeah. You're giving Game of the Show to Cybert Punk 277. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:29 A game that allows you to attribute cool points over Watchdogs, Legion. A game that allows you to be a Sugar Mama. Yeah. You're a monster. I have a monster, I know. Always right. I went and talked to her. The thing about her was like they have the meter of what they think of dead sec,
Starting point is 00:32:48 which is the hacker group obviously from why. She had a very bad opinion. And so I approached her and she's like, I hate that second. I'm like, well, what about, like, if we could help you the thing. She's like, if you could help that, that would change my mind. And they were very clear that, like, this is in the E3, we're boosting this. It would take more than one job if you could do it, though. So it's like, cool.
Starting point is 00:33:07 There's incriminating evidence from on her in Scotland Yard. So I went over to Scotland Yard. I'm playing as a hacker. I got a little robot spider I'm tossing out. He's doing stuff. I'm in there. I hacked the thing they showed the Amazon delivery drone. I'm riding that thing around just for hell of it.
Starting point is 00:33:23 You know what I mean? But eventually I get in there. I delete the thing. I come back. She's like, cool. I'm in. She's on the team. You can recruit 20 different people to your team.
Starting point is 00:33:30 That's your squad, right? What's interesting about it is everybody breaks down into three classes, right? Enforcer, which is like, you know, shooting and fighting and all that stuff. Hacker, which is more like Marcus and watchdogs, too. And then infiltration, which is a stealth class melee. So every breaks down the class. And then as you get them and start using them, you level them up and that unlocks three perks. But I should say it unlocks three perks slots.
Starting point is 00:33:54 There are way more than three perks. So the idea here, as you know, I want to only recruit in my real game, elderly women. And I want to call it the Estelle. Three performers. Maybe on second play through. Maybe just moms. But for the old women, I'm going to get right. I want them to be the Estelle Getty gang.
Starting point is 00:34:10 And then it's this idea that I can do that. And even if they were all enforcers, even if they were all hackers, going in and assigning their perks, would give them different abilities and make them actually mean more to me in terms of, oh, is this kind of job? I want this to sell Gettys. And then it's the, you know, that's why Permodeath matters now because I have in a relationship with this, blah, blah, blah, you're going through. The world is beautiful.
Starting point is 00:34:32 The cars are, you know, futuristic and awesome. It's, you know, we were in London for RTX London last year. And just even then, he was like, where have you been in London? I was like, oh, borough market. He's like, oh, okay, took me over there and he's like, this is it, right? And I'm like, this looks really good. And it's the same way Watch Dogs 2 was San Francisco. Sure, the Richmond didn't exist anymore,
Starting point is 00:34:52 but it felt like San Francisco and it looked like San Francisco and he was doing all the same things. The one downside I think that it has is the fact that similar in the Incredibles, right, if everyone's an NPC, right, until they aren't, there's only so much you can do with like facial animations. So like when I was recruiting random-ass person and I've seen them put into the cutscene, there's five different main storylines in the main game. like seeing them put in and having the conversation
Starting point is 00:35:18 you're like oh yeah you don't look great like you look fine it's not taking away from it and I get why because literally anyone in the entire game can be that person what's that to do with the Incredibles oh when when everybody's special nobody's special oh yeah sorry I thought you were a Disney fan
Starting point is 00:35:34 I guess I was wrong about that I wonder if he's wrong about Final Fantasy 7 they looped him back in there again that's like Incredibles was good though right and in two it was good too I didn't see two but I don't know what he's talking about animations are great Characters are great.
Starting point is 00:35:47 Anyways, it was awesome. It was great. I think the one thing is the facial animation, and I don't think at all. It's one of those games that when I was playing it, it was like, wow, this literally is that sandbox, toy box game. How do you want to do this? What do you want to do?
Starting point is 00:36:00 Oh, I didn't, then one of the storyline made missions I did, right, was one of the hackers got contacted through this, like, you know, dead drop. Come here, you go there, it's a trap. They blow it up, you know, oh, my God, they blow up the Canadian embassy in London to make it look like. It was Deadsect that did it. All these dudes come out.
Starting point is 00:36:19 It does not have, for the record, does not have the same controls as the division. So I immediately am trying to crouch and I'm standing up and I'm trying to take cover. I'm getting shot to death. I get killed, right? They then kick me back to one of my other members and start me there. And even though the guy I was playing with his dead, then my person just had to leave the mission area. They didn't know who she was.
Starting point is 00:36:43 So the person who just put the hit out on my character, they think, oh, it's over. I killed the dead sec person. It's over. Not an understanding more like an army, right? No one was looking for my character, and that's the way the game will continue to go as you can kill different people. Your people can get killed, and that makes the story change and evolve and go. It was awesome. It was really, really cool.
Starting point is 00:37:02 I was a long wind, I apologize. That you did really well there. I enjoyed that from the street side perspective as well. Thank you. We enjoyed that. What did you get to see of Washington? You're pressed up against the glass. Please, sir.
Starting point is 00:37:12 Get out of here! You've got to give some love to watchdogs, right? Ubisoft really took care of us. We got into the line. And then at the end, what did I get? A sweet Halloween pig mask. Then now I have to fly back to Lake Tahoe with. People are going to be asking questions. But you know what? That's how you win the people over. You give us merch, right? We want the merch. Yes. Give us that swag. Give me that swag. Give me your jacket, Tim. So that was, that was, yeah, what is that my final? No, I didn't even say my final award. Right. Sorry, I have my things pulled up. So then, Tim, I wouldn't play the bunch of other stuff. I'm sure we'll cover in future games.
Starting point is 00:37:49 or whatnot. What I did is I went to Devolver. There a lot over here, right? And I, you know, who doesn't love Devolver? A bunch of crazy things and blood usually and gray, whatever. There was a game there called Fall Guys. And that trailer looked awesome. If you haven't seen the Fall Guys
Starting point is 00:38:05 trailer, you need to go watch the Fall Guys trailer so you get the hang of it. So what I saw from the trailer watching, it's a Battle Royale gang beasts. Right? Fair. Yeah. And it's, there's, is it a hundred or What's the number?
Starting point is 00:38:20 They are shooting for 100 right now. Right now what we were playing was there was four of us playing together and then 60 bots. Because you put bots into it. So if you played human fall flat, I actually think that's a bit more apt to what it is. But gang beast I think is a bit more universal for people understanding what I mean here. Physics based, just like goofy-looking characters, goofy music, goofy look. But you're going and the human fall flat aspect comes in, it's obstacle-based. You're running through, doing a bunch of stuff.
Starting point is 00:38:47 You have to work together for something. others you're working against each other. Add in a layer here. What they were telling me about when you start playing, it's very evidence. All these video game comparisons are good for looks. It is based on the idea of all the crazy Japanese game shows you see, where the things
Starting point is 00:39:03 are swinging around, hitting you the legs, knocking you down. Like, I know we had like in America we had like the hole. Wipe out. Yeah, wipe out the hole. We love wipeout, yeah. Exactly. Most extreme elimination challenge. It is those things. It is those kind of things where yeah there's hopefully 100 of you at launch right now, 64 of us.
Starting point is 00:39:19 going and it was the idea of cool five more it was I know it was multiple rounds right we did three they want they want a game I think what I wrote it down they want a game to be something like five or six rounds be about 15 to 20 minutes and what it is is that as you go similar to what you're talking about with a battle royale the numbers start dropping so for me in round one what it was with everybody we all start in a line and start running and as you're running there are all there's a A solid wall and then like doorways that are blocked with like cardboard bricks. And so you have to jump through them or run through them. The idea being though, some of the bricks are real.
Starting point is 00:39:57 So you run up and hit him and then they go and they hit red. And then you have to run around and go the next one. So now suddenly there's a logic of, well, maybe I don't want to be the first person to hit a new wall. Maybe I want to be the person in the back. If you hit enough of, if you hit, I think it was four times. If you hit a solid wall, maybe five, you're eliminated. You're done. And then the people who get to the end then move on to the next round, right?
Starting point is 00:40:15 And the next round was this tail game where only, there's only so many, like, raccoon tails in the game that the character can wear. And so everybody's, if you're running around with a raccoon tail, while the others run around diving, you're trying to grab it off you. And again, the gang beast comparison, the human fall flat. One of the reasons this game works so well, I think, and why it's, I think, a great pick because it's just different and cool. It's so simple. It's jump, it's dive, it's grab. And then when you grab, you can mantle. And it's not like gang beast, where it's always that thing of like,
Starting point is 00:40:46 you're hanging on the wall after having not played for a month. Like, how do I pull myself up? What do I do? This is meant to be a party game, meant to be something you can jump in and go. After the tail one, it was the big one that it was like the run to the crown, right? Where there's at the Fall Mountain. You're running down this, running up and down this mountain side. And the way distance is this golden crown.
Starting point is 00:41:06 The first person you can get to it and grab it wins. But as you're running, there's all these different like, you know, triangles in there that are being used to deflect. these giant boulders that are falling at you. And this all looks like Nerf stuff that's hitting you. None of it's like, you know, scary. It's all meant to be very kidlike. And that's why I was interesting.
Starting point is 00:41:22 The Devolver thing, crazy enough, right? You go over there on the media side. You go to these like Winnebagoes to play games in them. This one I walked up to and like, all right, cool, take off your shoes. I was like, all right, and took off my shoes and opened the thing. And it's made up to be like a preschool room where all they have all those multicolored like swatches of like little rubber stuff. And like, we sat there and played this goofy game.
Starting point is 00:41:42 And it went way too quick. It was the game I would have played way more of, but they just had those three things to go run and do. PlayStation 4, it's PC, early 2020. Again, they're targeting 100 players that launched the Battle Royale thing. The idea they were talking about in there is they want to add rounds every month.
Starting point is 00:41:59 They want to do like, they already are testing Tugel War stuff. They're already doing things like, you're tied together with other people. It's the idea that they want to give you a reason to keep coming back to this goofy, crazy, fun, easy to pick up, put-down game. I thought it was awesome.
Starting point is 00:42:10 I can't wait to play, man. Yeah, that sounds like a blast. That's awesome. I got to see another game that surprised me. So Star Wars was one of them that, like, looking at it, I'm like, oh, I have issues. I don't think it's going to be great. Playing it, I was like, oh, this is pretty good. Contra.
Starting point is 00:42:26 What? The game we all universally mocked? The game that literally in the Nintendo Direct, I was just like, oh, my God, this looks like trash. I played it, and I'm like, this still looks like trash. But it's kind of fun. Wow. It's a weird twist on the schmup twin stick shooter. Because it adds a role-playing element where as you're going through, you're advancing
Starting point is 00:42:52 your weapons, you're changing characters, you're advancing augments to yourself. They're going all in on the crazy aesthetic of like, yeah, you're a woman who is like crang from Ninja Turtles with like a brain in her stomach because the aliens invaded and they won. And like it's just, it's nuts, comedy, like apocalyptic stuff. But gameplay-wise, it felt kind of frustrating to play, but that felt the entire time because I didn't have the right things I needed. So constantly, as I'm shooting enemies, I'm like, oh, man, my overcharge to do my next shot is taking too long. If only I had it a little faster, then I'll be able to take this guy down much easier and it's not going to be a hassle.
Starting point is 00:43:34 And immediately I was realizing as I'm playing it, like, they got me in the loop. like I'm hooked in this way where I would like to keep playing this to get better, to get stronger weapons to get all the different enhancements to be able to play through it. It's such an airplane game. Yeah. And the moment that lost me, though, was the price point.
Starting point is 00:43:54 If this was a $20 game, I would have been like, hey, it looks like shit, but it's a lot of fun. It's $40. And I was like, at least it's not 60, but I'm like, oh, that deflated my hype a bit from playing it. because it looked so bad that I was so surprised by it.
Starting point is 00:44:12 And then afterwards, I was like, whoa, okay. Talking to the dev, like, it's pretty good. What's the price point? He's like 40. And I couldn't even hide my shock. You're like, oh, motherfucker. Oh, man. I was like, it would have been good at 20, man.
Starting point is 00:44:26 It would have been real good at 20. But yeah, but I was surprised that it wasn't as bad as it looks. But still, it's not getting one of these. I can tell you that. Don't deflate the hype. You know what I mean? You have the wrong price point. That's what happens.
Starting point is 00:44:38 Tim walks away. Tim's a man of the people, too. You know what I mean? Sure, he's wearing his free bomber jacket. Sure. Not only is he campaigning against the game for the jacket he's wearing because he has no ethics and no moral compass. No, he knows how it is. He's just how it is. No, he's reversing it again. Even though if he came back in a Final Fantasy 7 bomber jacket, I'd be like, all right, good burn. Got me. Got me in the end. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:44:58 Yeah. I played Monster Hunter. Iceborn. What did you think? It's great. You know, my big thing with Monster Hunter has been, you know, me, the wife, Jean-Vie of St. I love my life. And then Kevin Coella, we put, well, I put like 130 hours in. And they both were over 100 too. And since then, there's always been that thing of, oh, we should play again, Kevin and Jen. It's always that like, uh, jumping back in, how do we play? Where worry, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:45:26 Jumping into Iceborne, it was immediately like, oh, muscle memory. I'm like, oh, I remember what I'm doing. And I'm sure in terms of where I left off on whatever crazy armor I was trying to get to be a different story. But the gameplay itself here, the world is still beautiful. the new monster seems cool. They've added, what, the fire clutch claw, which basically helps you close the gap on them now, where you can target, shoot, like basically the grappling hook,
Starting point is 00:45:48 and then pull yourself up there. So if it's like, I'm targeting a horn or I'm targeting a tail, there's a way to get up there and actually attach your stuff to the monster hack at it. Very helpful. Another thing that added, right, was they call it tail ride. It's an infinite ability you can have now that basically you're like, cool, deploy tail ride, and depending on where you are, a different creature will come.
Starting point is 00:46:08 up that you can ride. And when I say ride, basically, you get on the back of, and then it's like, it'll automatically sniff for the monster and it'll take you to the monster. Rather than you have to go out there, use the scout flies, you know, investigate yourself. I think when you're grinding, when you're just trying to get something out of a monster now, it's a way easier thing of hop on. You can still, you can drink your hot drink. You can go through your equipment. You can, you know, sharpen your swords. You can also check Twitter. Like, it's a good way of like, cool. We understand. We've, Monster in a world was such a success because it took out so much of the BS of what Monster Hunter was before. I think on top of that, adding this in to like less than,
Starting point is 00:46:42 oh, you're playing 500 hours in this game, you don't need to constantly try to figure out how to do this. That was a great move. While you were playing that, I got to play Killer Queen Black. Oh, we! Oh my God. I mean, I've already loved this game for years now. I talked about it on Gamescast. Literally, it feels like four years ago. Arcade only game back then. Now, coming to consoles and PC, not the PS4, yet. They're thinking about working on it. They're not working on it. They're not working It's a game pass Xbox game, right? Yeah, day and date. And let me tell you, I got to play it today for about 20 minutes.
Starting point is 00:47:14 That was about two, three rounds. It is such a good game. It is going to be a multiplayer classic for years to come. Nice. It already hit in arcades. And once people get their hands on it, it's going to be something really special. It's a 4V4 game where there's two teams, blue and gold. And there's three different ways to win.
Starting point is 00:47:36 It's a 2D platform. but there is a lot of strategy involved where it all of a sudden becomes a tactical thing of the three ways to win. One of them are being the queen and killing everyone else. So if you destroy, if the queen dies three times, you're done. There's a snail at the bottom of the level that you can ride. It's very slow. If you get on that snail and get to the goalpost, you win. There's a bunch of berries on the level.
Starting point is 00:48:06 If you take the berry and get it back to your home base, you win. So that's capture the flag. Give me those black berries. Give them berries. Any three of those ways wins. And at any moment, both those teams are trying all three things at once. And you start focusing on what you're doing and what the opponent's doing, but you're not realizing that they're also doing the other things.
Starting point is 00:48:27 And it gets so chaotic where it's like every moment is, get the snail. Oh, get the berries. Get the queen. And it's so back and forth. And you can imagine the strategy that amazing teams are going to have. And talking to the developers of the console versions, they told me something really cool. The introduction of the black team is where the killer queen black comes into play. Where every day there's going to be one team playing online that gets the black outfit that's neon, looks super dope,
Starting point is 00:48:57 probably a cool bomber jacket. And what they get to do is anytime they win, they get to keep wearing those outfits. If someone beats them, they get it. Whoever wins is on Killer Queen Black's main Twitch channel. Oh. For the whole day, Winter stays on, just like the arcade. But bring it into modern times of Twitch and livestreaming and all that. That's a really cool idea.
Starting point is 00:49:19 And it is the old thing of putting the quarter on the machine, waiting for your time, and winter gets to stay on, the next person pays. It's that idea. But you get to wear the outfits and everyone knows, like, oh, this team is dominant. Who's going to take them down? And that's very exciting. It's a really cool way to take the arcade multiplayer experience to consoles. And I gave it one of my awards last year, and it would have got one this year,
Starting point is 00:49:41 but it's so soon coming out that I'm like, I'm just going to enjoy it. No date yet. They said the next couple months, so definitely looking forward to it. It's coming to everything except PS4. Cowards. Whomp, womp, womp, that's too bad. We got some hot controller skins coming with that collector's edition as well. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:00 Something to keep out. Very bright, very vibrant. loving it. Then what else did you see after Monster Hunter? The other thing I saw today, I saw a vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2. I had heard nothing. What was that? It's good. I was going to get to that. I mean, I was going to get to that part of it. No, it's a game I had heard nothing but good things about from Kind of Funny Games Daily, you know, Amanda. When Amanda came in and hosted with us, she came in after the day after the event and was like, this game is something special. It's a crazy RPG where you're a vampire. And I was like, okay. So when it came through of like, do you want to come see it at E3?
Starting point is 00:50:36 I was like, yeah. And I went in sight unseen. I did not know what I was getting into. And it is a first person vampire RPG where you, there's been, what do they call it? The Mass Embraces happened, which is a no-no in vampire culture, apparently, where basically they made a whole bunch of baby vampires. And then nobody was around to take care of them. I was getting they fuck on. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:50:56 Well, no, there's a lot of that going on in this game for sure. That is a lot of this. It's set in Seattle. Seattle is not only beautiful in the game. it is very, very, very well realized where like literally they kept coming back to this. It said in Seattle? Yeah. With vampires?
Starting point is 00:51:10 Yeah. This reminds me of something. They're in downtown though. It's cool. Oh, they're not glowing? It's different. No, no, no, no. I'm going. But like literally they came back to, they got a mission quest from this woman, went off, came back, and I stopped him.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Like, what do you want to do? Because they were asking me what choices to make? And I was like, I want to do this, but don't do it yet. Is this the Hard Rock Cafe rooftop? Because my wife has thrown parties there. And I was like, this is the hard. They're like, yeah, our artists took a lot of reference shots from around. I'm like, cool, because this is the exact layout of that place.
Starting point is 00:51:37 That's how, like, real they're being to Seattle, right? But it was another one of those. I mean, this is, like, I think, a great E3 for really cool RPGs to see, whether it be something like Borderlands, whether it be something like Cyrenfunker, whether it be Bloodlines, too. Where it is, you're watching this thing and playing this game, and it's the choices you're making and how it's going on, and what faction do you want to side with?
Starting point is 00:51:58 And if somebody, you know, with limited amount of game time, I like a game that I know I'm going to see through, something the Witcher didn't do for me, or it was just too much, right? There was too much to do. I knew I couldn't finish it. A play-through here, they're aiming for it to be like 25 to 30 hours. And, like, there are so many different factions.
Starting point is 00:52:15 There are different archetypes you want to be, which would give you different abilities, right? Because, oh, it was, I wrote it down. When you choose which kind of vampire you want to be at the front, it gives you special abilities, whether it be turning into bats, which you can use in combat, and you can use for traversal,
Starting point is 00:52:28 having telekinesis, being able to move things along that, way or have this weird mist to travel as right that's like we have to make that choice the beginning and then you go on that way and that affects the powers you have and the things you act and blah blah that was all cool I think combat is maybe not the it's not the weakest but like using the special abilities like I chose to be a bat of course and so what I'm using the bat swirl and it was attacking people it was like cool this doesn't look great but it's also doesn't look terrible it was more the abilities it was more of the choices you were making the relationship
Starting point is 00:53:01 relationships, right? This one woman that we were using, who apparently she was the one hanging out at the Hard Rock Cafe, she was like, hey, go chase down, go find this guy slug. He's from this different faction of vampires, the Nosferathus. And because they're of that clan, their vampires make them disfigured, so they live in the underground and all the similar stuff. Talk to one of them. He tried to get me to sell out the woman. I didn't do it. He's like, good call. Great. Ran after slug, ran into slug. Turns out this slug guy, Mike, clearly a misunderstood dude. Just misunderstood? Seems like a nice guy. Looks like Killer Croc from the Oscar winning movie Suicide Squad. And he's there and he's saying the right things. He's being a nice guy. He's talking about the bad rap he gets.
Starting point is 00:53:44 I'm like, I get it. Here's what I want to do. I'm with you. And they were like, what do you want to say? I'm like, I'm with him. Say the top line. And literally I'm like, slug. I hear you, man.
Starting point is 00:53:54 People are troubled. And he goes, I never told you my name. And I was like, And he's like, rats, come get your cheese and all these guys. Look how we're fighting all these dudes or whatever. That's first rats? No, they were just people. I think he was calling the humans.
Starting point is 00:54:10 He employed rats. Beat all them, and then Slug again came out. And he's just like, yo, man, you know, don't kill me. I didn't mean. And I'm like, ah, dude, it's cool. It's cool, I'll help you if I ever can. And he ran away. And they were like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:54:25 Slug might come back to help you one day. I was like, this is my kind of RPG. Friendship. Exactly. Got my voice still like out there? So there are more gamescast coming up. On Monday, YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. You'll be able to see many more E3 impressions of things. Real quick, we are very limited on time here because we're doing the live show.
Starting point is 00:54:43 I want to say a couple things. One, I realize why I love this jacket so much. I look like Luke at the medal ceremony of A New Hope. And I got to see Lego Star Wars. I was super impressed. It doesn't look like just a Lego game. It looks like a modern Lego game. wait for more later what else did you see really quick that's the big stuff so my mike real quick
Starting point is 00:55:04 what did you see give you a like twitter version responses and then give us our game of the year between final fantasy and cyberpunk let's jump in from your east e3 correspondent what was hot in the streets gears war five escape mode so much fun couch co-op we were screaming out there fighting off the locust horde then i found out my breakpoint y'all me and johnny bernthaw we became best friends someone called fermes but we're going to have some fun in a rowa coming up with that game and then of course I want to touch on Wolfenstein the young oh oh wow is that a blast it's more Wolfenstein fun but with a co-op twist and that was a great time the only thing I got to end with
Starting point is 00:55:44 you guys know I got a soft spot for basketball me and the Hispanic hardthrob we got hoop dreams there's one game out there that a project team was part of the kind of funny game showcase for E3 and so Giant is out there making project It's three on three street basketball, but with a twist. It's called battle basketball. This sounds like NBA Street Volume 4, baby, let's go. You can drain threes and slamma-jamma. It was a whole lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:56:12 I beat up on one of my buddies out there because you know I'm number one on the basketball court for a free exclusive E3 t-shirt. Give me the merch! But that's your hype report from the streets, y'all. I think it's time right now, everybody. Let's pick the kind of funny game of show for each. E3 2019. Will it be
Starting point is 00:56:33 Cyberpunk 2077? The game that saved E3. Or will it be a remake of another game? Final Fantasy 7 remake, baby. Mike, the nation turns this lonely eyes to you. Everybody looks at the man in the streets. Now, I've been out and about the show floor. I've been hearing the hype.
Starting point is 00:57:02 Is it Watch Dogs Legion? Is it Borderlands 3? Is it Final Fantasy 7 remake? Or is it? Cyberpunk 2077? You two have made your choice, and I am here for the deciding factor right now. Cyberpunk, they give you a sweet casino hat. You get 20 minutes in the fan shaded area.
Starting point is 00:57:20 You loved it, right? On the opposite side, Final Fantasy, booth activation. There's smoke machines. There's a giant geyser out in the background. And guess what? Twice every evening they give away free t-shirts. for a select lucky group. Who was in that final group?
Starting point is 00:57:37 I was. Did I get a free t-shirt? Yeah, I did. Merch for Final Fantasy 7. But that's not what we're talking about. We're not talking about merch here. We're talking about game of the show for E3, 2019. I'm here to split the vote.
Starting point is 00:57:52 Kind of funny best friends. Game spot. Everybody here at E3, 2019. You're kind of funny game of show. We're taking it to Night shitty. Firepon. Well deserved. I'll say. I'll say. It was close in my heart.
Starting point is 00:58:14 I would not have been upset at Final Fantasy 1. But there you go. Mike read the right choice. Mike, I love you so much. Who loves Snowbike Mike? Who loves Snowbike Mike? Let me hear you. Get loud right now. Where can you find him, Tim? You can find him at Twitter.com slash Snowbike Mike. Twitch.tv.com slash Snowbike Mike. many things.com slash snow bike mike you can find us on kindof funny dot com thank you all so much
Starting point is 00:58:43 I hope you all had an amazing e3 did you we'll see you next year thank you game spot for always being so amazing to us believing in us allowing us to have amazing guests on the show until next year video games are cool man

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