Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - ONE MONTH UNTIL SGF 2025 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily or Games Cast. For us Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. I'm one of your show host, Snowbike, Mike. Join alongside the GTA boys. Blessing out of E.A. Jr. and Roger Pekorni. Bless, how you feeling today? I'm feeling good. What are your thoughts on Tyler Perry? You know what? I like him.

Let's don't focus on me. No, pickle, pickle. What's your beef with Tyler Perry? No, not doing this. Roger, what's your piece with Tyler Perry? I just said the hairline was hairline and that's it. You didn't like Medea? You didn't like any of movies?

I never watched a Medea. Never watched Medea. We can do a Medea Marathon, you and me. Dude, if we do Medea in review, that would be my time to sign. That's how you know we might need to kill the show. Roger, my other GTA boy, how are you? Part of the GTA 3. We've established this.

GTA 3. GTA 3 plus Andy. Of course, Andy Cortez, welcome in. We just had a great games daily talking about all things. Grand Theft Auto 6, the new trailer drop. Did you watch it? What did you think? No, but I just looked at a lot of the screenshots.

Okay. I was just maximizing a bunch of these screenshots. Yeah. It's, I can't imagine how it's going to look in, like, it doesn't feel real. Yeah. The screenshots look way too good. Apparently on a PS5, too. At least it.

Nuss. I don't believe that. Think about that. Think about that. I don't believe. Of course, this is today's games cast. We have a whole lot of fun coming your way. This is the kind of funny games cast each and every weekday.

We get together to talk about the biggest review. previews, previews, and topics in the video game world live on YouTube, Twitch, and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership available on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad-free. Watch us record them live and get your daily exclusive show, Gregway, which today will be hosted by one Roger Pekorni. We'll figure out what we're talking about. Maybe it's Medea. Maybe you can't be attacking people's hairlines. That's not nice.

Yeah. You know what? People don't like that. I'm not saying... You know what? I'm glad you said it, Mike. Because, yeah, I did notice that. And I think that is insensitive.

You can't recall that. I was not saying this hairline was bad. I'm saying it's way too good. You know what I mean? It's the Turkish airline. You know what I mean? It's the... Like you wouldn't have it done.

Oh, yeah. I'm just saying at that point to shave it all off. You know what I mean? Just you got to embrace it. Wait until I... You don't have. Exactly.

Wait until I introduce you to Tyler Perry's boo to a Medea Halloween. How do you feel out when John Sina does fixes his hair. Because it seems like he's been doing it. Oh, he admitted to it. He said he did it. He said he got bullied from the audience. And you know what I said to that? Good for you. You know, what makes you confident. Good for you. Good for you. He said he was bullied. He said he didn't want to do it. Work on yourself. Oh, that they made

him do it? Yeah. Who's there? The audience. James Gunn. For a chance to be part of the show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube, super chats as we go. Because today we are talking about summer game

fest. We are one month away from the big summer kickoff. celebration and just like we did yesterday on the games cast where we're talking about the nintendo switch two being one month away today we'll talk about summer game fest all the big announcements reveals trailers and games coming your way so please share your youtube thoughts over with youtube super chats as we go some housekeeping for you remember gregg is a rocking packs east thursday and you need to be a part of it at 11 a m eastern 8 a m pacific gregg's the keynote speaker kicking off Pax East, and we'll be doing a fireside chat with Final Fantasy and Expedition 33's Ben Star.

Woo! A little woo from Roger right there. Why is it only me? You know what I mean? Like, we need to get up. We need to support. We need to support. We congratulate Ben Star enough.

Yeah. At 2 p.m. Eastern and 11 AM PT, Greg's hosting the Mafia, the old country panel with the devs. Woo! There you go. I knew you'd get a woo right there. I'm really excited about that one. We're going to talk about that in the summer game fest being one month out. Where's the hype for mafia?

I'm going to talk about it here on this podcast as well today. Because I'm excited for it. Of course, if you're in Boston, you need to be there. But if you're not, don't worry, both will be streamed to our Twitch channel. So very exciting stuff. You can catch that live streamed on Thursday. Anslo says in chat, Roger claps in the theater. That is my half-white side show.

And you know what I mean? Like every time a movie is, I want to clap. You know what? The flight lands, I want to clap. Hey, you know what? At the plane lands, you can clap. No, you can't. Come on.

And someone who has their PPL, it's a lot going on. What is your PPL? Your PPL? Oh, your PPL. Oh, okay. I heard you. I thought you. Private pilot license.

Private pilot's license. Yeah, yeah. You have your PPL? No, he doesn't. Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't. He just lies. I heard.

What are you? We didn't believe it. She saw his YouTube thing. It's like, I got my PPL and she was like, oh, yeah, Mike can fly, right? I'm like, no. Don't believe anything. Yes, I said. I love that game so much.

So go tune in and have some fun. It's going to be a great time. And then the biggest news of the week. Two big streaming updates for all of you. Number one, Snowmike Mike has tried his best to get Nick Scarpino back on the Pokemon. And today I'm happy to report. We've done just that. we will finally return to Pokemon.

The whole crew will be here Tuesday and Wednesday on the hunt for Lugia, trying to get Nick towards the finale of this game. And we'll go from there. And then on Friday, the biggest news you need to know about, come join Roger and Mike this Friday as they attempt to do a full play-through of Death Stranding 1 through the weekend. But can they do it with your support? Because guess what? It's a literal marathon on the treadmill.

Mike will go step for step. with Sam Porter Bridges. He steps, I step. We walk for greatness. His heart and your heart. Yes, exactly. My heart explodes. Sam's heart will explode.

We will show the BPM of your heart as the stream will go. We have a, what do you call it? Heart monitor. We have a heart monitor that will be linked up to the live stream so you can watch this. I have done zero training, but in my mind, Andy, I've done all the training. If you visualize yourself doing marathons and running, you can do it. You can do it. That's what happened when he almost died running four miles.

It was seven. It was not. It was a half of a half. I think it was a half of a half of a half. We don't know the numbers. Kevin fucked up, okay? Well, what we do know is for the next three weeks, he was walking as if he had just had his legs rebuilt by some sort of future tech. For the next three weeks, just like, I have it on video and I wish I had it longer because he was walking like Robocop.

And as he was walking, I was doing the sign of fix. Because every step was just so methodical. So this Friday, come witness history as Snowbike Mike, the most athletic man west of the Mississippi, is embarking on the most daring quest yet going step for step with San Porter Bridges in a literal marathon stream on the treadmill. Of course, you can help support us by keeping the lights and mics on this Friday exclusively on Twitch with your Twitch subs.

We will go for as long as you support it. I will stay on that treadmill. And I want to underscore this. It's not like as long as we want, like, for like the end of the day or until Saturday nights. I'm talking until Sunday to Monday, potentially, right? Like, we're trying to go and trying to finish its entire game. Very achievable goal bless.

Like this is something. You're such a fucking piece of shit. Very achievable. He looked at me. He was like, originally I was like, oh, we'll still like a 12 hour marathon stream or whatever. He's like, we can finish this game. And I was like, no, we can't.

And I looked at the thing that's like, what is it was like 40 hours or something like that? Like 31, 31 hours. I'm like, there's no way we're finishing it in 30 hours. But he's like, no, we can do it. I told Roger, I said, let's set the Twitch sub goal, achievable goal, where we could possibly go till Sunday. Yeah. That's what I'm getting at.

Achievable goal beating the game. We'll see. You know, Roger. You're fucking backfellow. Fuck you. He's a slow gamer. We'll see. I'm a dialogue.

I've seen the way these streams go. I've been a part of a lot of these streams. And 12 hours of what could be gameplay is really about seven hours of game play. Especially when Mike is walking and crawling right next to you. Happy breathing. Can't hear the dialogue. I'm happy that we have Andy and. Barrett here because of course we started an office pool

during kind of funny games daily. We have started the official Snowbike Mike office pool. How long will he actually walk until I fully throw in the towel saying no more? I'm not walking anymore. So from the start at noon, how many hours, minutes, seconds will I go until I say, Roger, I just can't do it. And so for you and Barrett, think of a time, hours and minutes, I'll tell you. Blessing wrote seven hours. Mike, of course, believes in himself for it the whole fucking time. Yeah.

Kevin wrote 10 or 22. He didn't really know where he wanted to be. And then, of course, the one the only big Roger wrote 13 hours, 22 minutes, and 28 seconds. Winner of the pool will be taken out to lunch by me and Roger. Of course. Can I reject the... You want to switch your... No, you're going to lunch on a dog.

I didn't want to go to lunch. Go get you a Costco hot dog. It's a great time. If I know, Mike, there's nobody that does things out of spite. more. And if anybody were to, like, if you were to say, Mike, there's no fucking way that you could go swim to the bottom of the ocean. He would be dead because he would try to figure out how to do it. You know, like, he will do stuff that he isn't enjoying to prove you wrong. I love that. More than anybody that I know in life. And so I'm going to just put a number, I want to say 12 hours. 12 hours. Because I know that you will push past that because I'm doubting you and saying, you can only do 12 hours.

Also, the hours include, like, the, cut scenes where he's not walking. Like this is just like from the start of the stream till when he gives up, right? So Andy's got a good one of like, that's a good one. It's a lot of cut scenes. At 2 p.m. That's 2 a. So that's a long time to be walking, eventually give up.

Barrett, you've seen me move. You've also heard me breathe very heavily. Into the microphone. So what do you think, Barrett? Roger, what did you say? I said 13 hours, 28 minutes or something like that. Yeah, 22 minutes and 28 seconds. Because yeah, I didn't consider the cut scenes.

And yeah, for, yeah, those are good breaks. Considering just like just length and not distance. Yeah, he's gonna be taking breaks like You know Whenever he steps, I step and he'd be stepping a lot But not that much sometimes

Like stepping in cutscenes as well That's a good call If he steps in a cutscene, I'll step No, you won't, no you won't No, I'll match on the cutscene No Because then I'm changing my answer Okay

He'd be stepping a lot in the cutscenes I thought it was a lot of just He's usually talking to his mom and shit right? Yeah, and of course the man with the scary mask You think he's just standing? What do you think he's doing? You think he's sitting down? You think every couple of

Tutsin he's like, all right, let me say, let me, let me go. Chris Crossed Applesauce. I didn't mean to blow this wide thing open. I'm going to say, I'm going to say 12 hours. I think he goes 12 hours. Because my, because Andy has a great point of him being spiteful. And so my instinct was like nine hours. And I think he'll push a couple hours past that out of spite. So you have 12 hours as well? Yeah. One of you, guys has to go up or lower. I'll go 14. Wow.

Oh, okay. You run above me. Yeah, because you have 13, right? Yeah, I'll go 14. I like that. Okay, okay. Well, you could get a lucky lunch with me and Roger. We'll see what happens.

I like you included me. You said first you said the company will buy the lunch and now you're not even able get in me that I have to buy half a lunch. Of course, don't forget, we are a small 11 person business all about live talk shows and we would love your support. Don't forget after today's games cast, you'll get a kind of funny podcast with the next gen crew, plus Nick. I feel kind of bodied out of that.

It was supposed to be me and Nick really. You replace me. Nick was very excited to be a part of me. Yeah, yeah. I can step off. No, no, I think. No, I would like you. I would like you too.

I'm going to record a great way. We'll talk about it. Me and Mike will fight over this. Me too. I've been asking for a one-on-one with Nick for a while. They've not been letting me get it. Ooh, that can be fun. A one-on-one with you two.

Okay, well, we'll talk about that. She's going to grill his ass. So what do you do here? What's your job title? Then to close out today. your afternoon stream will be Nick's return to Pokemon. The hunt for Lugia begins. Of course, you will also get a Gregway with Roger Pekorny later today.

Don't forget, we were brought to you by Imperial ORAFraFraim's and better help, but I'll tell you all about that later. Let's kick off the show with what is topic of the show. Tadha. Kind of funny best friends and audience around the globe, we are one month away until summer game fest. June 6th, 2025, I think 30 days. 30 days exactly. Is this a 30 or 31 day month?

If you do the knuckle method, it's 30 days. January, February, March, April, May. Until 31. When there's a knuckle. Where there's a knuckle. There's a 31. Yeah. How about this one?

How many months have 28 days? One. Well, like, three quarters. Got your ass. All of them. Got your ass. He actually got my ass. He actually got my ass.

It's 31 days. Let's talk. about Summer Game Fest. Of course, the excitement. I nailed it with the knuckles. He nailed it. Yeah, but I just want to call it out. Yeah.

Summer Game Fest, 31 days away. The excitement is coming. Another fun time with Jeff Keely and the crew. Games, announcements, trailers, reveals dates for the second half of the year. We're going to be talking about that. So guys, let's jump into it. Where do you want to start? Do you want to talk about games we're still waiting on?

There's some games that are on your mind. We'll start off with Andy Cortez, because I know these two boys have been talking a bunch. Andy's Summer Game Fest I say it to you What are you excited for? I mean, it's too obvious to be like Silk Song freaking

Not a day-to-date thing I don't think anything like that would happen I think we will see Silk Song in some capacity I have a good feeling about it At Jeff's thing At Jeff's thing Okay Maybe Xbox's thing

Xbox had a lot of thing Just during the week I think it will be seen in some capacity I think either on CCTV, like they will, there will be, like, you know, the suspect is in the whole way. The suspect is in downtown. It will be, we'll get a glimpse of it somewhere, somehow. And that's really all the confidence that I have in it.

Now, this is going to be shown down in Australia at a museum, correct? Right? That was the latest news? It's going to be play. It's playable there. Playable as well. So does that give you some good feelings of this? could be this year, Andy, or does this still feel like 20, 26 and beyond?

I feel in my heart of hearts it will be this year. Okay. And I've, you know, for the last two years have been doing the clown meme, you know, like, of course it'll be out this year. And yes. But I just feel like was it already a year ago by now that we got some Xbox listing in Korea or something for it? And then there are just always these little things that go, oh, shit.

It could be any day now. And then, you know, half a year goes by and, you know, it's crickets. But being shown in that Nintendo little super cut for the Switch 2, very, you know, good. Remember when Xbox was like, all these games will be on the next year? Yeah, that was a crazy announcement. It was like, 12 months coming to game pass. And then they just had holiday soap song. It was like, all right, that's crazy.

It must have been an accident, right? Well, maybe they just didn't know the future. It doesn't matter. you're a lot of just say shit, you know? Like, I don't know if they even talk to Team Cherry about that. You just pull that off YouTube? Who knows, man?

Who fucking knows, dude? Okay. If it was a gun to my head situation, yeah. I would probably die, but I would still say I think this year is the year. This year. I think it's this year.

Playable in Australia, a listing about six months ago. I'm I'm it's co I'm drinking the cofian What is it playable in Australia? September September yeah I love a hot ice old song fans man It's the best y'all are hilarious I love that we've been doing this for years now

It's crazy that we come like this summer Games Fest predictions and Xbox and we Every year I fucking laugh so hard at blessing Greg being like Man Any company would kill for this amount of PR Oh yeah It's insane

game, like, big triple A half my three, I feel like hasn't had. Doesn't have it. It doesn't have anymore. Compared to Hollow Night Silk Song. It's the best. It's the best. Like, how many people? It's Silk Song and Bloodborn type shit, you know? The sickos. Well, we just constantly talk about it. How much did Hollow Night even sell? Because I want to know, is it like a loud group of

three million people? You know what I mean? That are super. Wow. Wow. Three million. This is over three million. As of December 2020. So like, that's probably a lot more about. Probably five million. on for a holiday in total?

Yeah. It's a good game. That's good. So let's talk about it really quick, Andy. Roger became a believer recently. I was going to say for people who haven't played the first one and we look to this next one being announced and possibly dropping, right? Should people jump on the train and play the first one?

Should you, could we just wait for the sequel and only play that? Would you guys fall on that? It's, it's kind of a tough one because I know Tim who loves Metroid-Vanias. Yeah. is always like, I know that that's, that's the one I need to hop into. I love Metroidvania.

How have I not really played this game yet? And I don't, for somebody like Tim, I don't think it's as easily digestible. I think it is a bit more obtuse, a bit more, you know, a bit more heady. You're having to listen to a lot of, or read a lot of MPC prompts about where to go next and, like, infer a lot of clues. This game isn't going to hold your hand and give you an accessibility. menu until you, oh, maybe I want like a radar to go exactly where I want to go.

But I just I think it's something that everybody should at least try because I think the writing is super adorable and charming, but the combat is fantastic. The movement, the, like, it

lives up to the hype. For a game that I was several years late to and it's so fucking funny because it reminds me of like how I waited until season five to watch Breaking Bad where I was like

I've waited for four years I'm gonna play Hollow Night and I played hollow night and I played hollow and I was like nice dude I don't get to wait that long for the next one and it's been like three years since then I'm in the perfect situation right now

because it can come any day it was it was like severance waiting after that season finale yeah I think that this game is probably one of those that whenever there's a steam sale this sucker's probably like 10 bucks 15 bucks right now

it's like three bucks a month yeah it goes crazy Everybody's got to play the shit, especially with how popular handhelds have been. I wish I had played this kind of in the Steam Deck age, where, like, I think I play this maybe right before the Steam Deck came out. It would have been the perfect video game for that. I think that you owe it to yourself to experience one of the bests. Okay.

Yeah. Coming down the line, Roger, I talk about Summer Game Fest with you, Jeff Keely hitting the stage, putting on the big presentation. What are you excited for? What do you want? I mean, let's just go down the line. I've been hyped about one thing, and I've been hyped about one thing, and I saw a report the other day.

And I'm thinking it. And I'm feeling it. And I think it might actually happen. What are your three is up in the air? Half-life three, everybody. Half-life three. Stop it, Roger. Okay.

I predicted in the beginning of this year of like the month-to-month breakdown of like my crazy predictions for the year. Got none of them right, by the way. But like sort of right. You know what I mean? Some of them, GTA, July. Phil Spencer could still retire. Yeah, exactly.

We can have some crazy shit going on. We can have Ubisoft could be technically sold in a few months, even though it kind of were, but whatever. The last one that I had was summer, was at the TGA. the Game Awards that Half-Life 3 is announced because I feel like Jeff really wants that hype from last year and to continue it, right? He wants to show that the game awards

can be a place where anything can happen, everything can happen. Well, he showed that last year. The more that I think, the more that I think about it, he needs that moment for Summer Game Fest. He needs Summer Game Fest to feel on the same caliber as the game awards. He needs it to feel like, no, this isn't just a halfway stop.

We're going to see a bunch of games that we care about, but like also we're going to forget literally everything that got announced last year. We're going to have to go back. Oh, you don't remember Killer Bean? Yeah, I'm sorry. I forgot about that. That could have been this year. That could have been three years ago. I don't know. He needs this year, in my opinion, to be the standout year or a standout year to be on that pedestal. So Half-Life 3 would be the insane choice. Will it actually happen? Probably not. But I do like the thinking and the speculating of Half-Life X is in the code of

Deadlock, right? People are playing this game. It exists apparently. And it's being worked on. And it might be finished. So maybe this could be the year. Shut your mouth. But how funny would it be, how funny it would be just for the memes just for online if Half-Lift 3 came out before GT6. Come on, dude. That's insane. I don't know. That would be a fun one.

If it were to be anywhere, it would be Jeff. Chucks us out how specifically connected he is to Valve, but how connected he is to the history of Half-Life. He was there in the beginning of Half-Life. He was there recording the creation of it. So it would be a nice, hey, here you go, Jeff. Here's half-like-three. Yeah.

Okay. I don't know. I don't think it's going to happen, but that would be the crazy one. I like that. Andy, really quick, just circle back to you because you and I really loved Deadlock. Do we get some sort of public, hey, this is Deadlock? Come play. We're finally announcing this game formally.

Is that crazy? Me and Andy, this is my game last year. I love it. I love this game. Do we finally get the big like, hey, this is Deadlock world out there. Come play this. I don't know if it was average John in the Twitch chat who was telling us about kind of their rollout as somebody who isn't in their discords or isn't in these like sort of fan forums of regarding deadlock. I think that this year could be a, hey, we're going to acknowledge it.

We're going to acknowledge this thing and possibly have some sort of more public thing. Hey, hop in. This is. There's never been a better time to hop into Deadlock. This is your time. I think that we could get some sort of public thing from Valve or maybe even somebody like Gabe Newell mentions the video game Deadlock. Like we could have a large moment with it this year.

And man, can you imagine coupling that with like a Half-Life 3? Valve makes so much money. Like it's insane how much money that they make. And to just be able to have these weird kind of pet projects and this multiplayer game Deadlock that, has been making no money. Like there's no, there was no, it's a free thing that you just kind of hop into, right? Deadlock.

Yeah, it's so bizarre that, but also really awesome that they are at liberty because of their funds, just kind of do whatever the hell they want and experiment with this multiplayer game. I don't think it would be too far off to say, I don't know if it's a summer game festing, but I feel like maybe between now and the end of the year, we would get a, all right, the thing is in beta now or alpha. actual thing that we are acknowledging as opposed to just... You can click on it and install it and finally play it, like, without any questions. Yeah, there will be a, there will be like a little cinematic for it to introduce it or something

like that. I just wonder if that's a summer game fest thing, right? I mean, like, Valve, as after I just literally said that half-liction is, but like Valve is really weird with their game announcements, right? I mean, Counter Strike 2 was just announced on a random day, right? Like, all this stuff is just kind of happens. They're kind of like a rock star. They don't need...

Yeah, they like using Jeff Seval. to help promote certain things like the Steam Decker, but they don't actually give announcements to him necessarily. So, I mean, that would be cool of like, hey, here's the moment where Deadlock and Half Life Three are here to kind of couple it together with Jeff. Blessing, these two are taking me to the moon. I need you to bring me back down. Can you give me back to reality or what could happen here?

I will with four words. Dying Light the Beast. No, die and light the beast is good. That's exactly where we need to be at. Where is Dyein' Set your predictions and realities, right? Yeah, where is Dying Light the Beast?

Of course, this was announced at the the opening night live from last year. I think we've gotten a trailer and a half. If you don't remember, right, reading from the steam description, dying like the beast is a thrilling standalone zombie adventure set in a tightly crafted rural region, play as Kyle Crane, a legendary

hero who breaks free after years of brutal experiments. Kyle Crane. You don't know about Kyle Crane? You're a hero, man. Dying Light the Beast. Yeah, it's cool. It looks good.

Well, I just want to know where this game's at. Because here's the thing, I remember watching the trailer and being like, oh, shit, more dying light. And then erased it from my brain until like 10 minutes ago. I was like, oh, what, what's possible? That's a good pull. This is a great pull. I was like, what have we seen recently? Like, what have we seen the last few? I don't remember anything about this.

And I don't remember anything about it. Right? Like, this is one of those ones where we speculated for a week. We got the trailer and then immediately just forgot about it. Is there gameplay of this game? beat me. No one can tell. Oh yeah, this is what they showed.

They showed the ending. Yeah, they show game play about it. So yeah, I would like an update to this game. Are you a dying light guy? I love dying light too. Oh shit, I didn't know. Dying like two specifically, I fucked with heavy. It was like the one where me, Greg, and Janet played it because we got the review code

in like a span of January where there was not much else to play. And we all played it and we're like, damn, that game is pretty great except for the ending. The ending fucking sucks. But like, Dying Light as a video game mechanically, is so fucking fun, right? Like, the parkour actually is like an integral part of what makes it fun to play. What makes it fun for the controller to be in your hand and like,

you know, solving, um, like the puzzles of like, okay, I want to get there. I'm going to climb this thing, hop on this thing and like, you know, run on top of zombies and shit. Like, I would actually be excited to like get some kind of information as far as a release date, as far as release timing as far as like, you know, what new features you're adding to this thing. That feels like a good fall game. Yeah. That feels like a good

fall. If you even find a niche of fall or even, I don't even go as far as to say, like, Like, if you could, like, maybe place this. Spring. Like, very early next year. Like, put it in February or something. I think that could be a spot for it. Another one keeping us down to Earth.

Oh, where is Dispatch? Remember dispatch? Dispatch had the very cool trailer. It looked very awesome. Yeah, yeah. That's like the superhero workplace thing that comes from a former telltale devs, but it looks like it's a tail-tale game with a really cool art style. It gives kind of invincible vibes as far as what you're looking at.

With an insane cast, too, right? It was Aaron Paul. Yeah. Paul. Moise credible. A lot of peers. Who's the other person on stage? Uh, fucking... Oh.

Breaking God. What's his name? No. Eric, that's Eric, that's Eric Paul. I'm talking about the other girl on stage. Actually, Johnson? No. It wasn't Bercht. It was actually Johnson. There we go, yeah.

No. Laura Bailey. Lord Bailey. Jesus Christ. The other woman, yeah. Jesus. That other girl out there. Um, God damn.

That's what you said. That's what you said. What the girl was out. He was out. freaking out. Calm down, guys. But yeah, this game was one that said 2025, like we're almost halfway through the year. Of course, it could get delayed.

But I, my vibe from that first showing was like, oh, man, you guys have something here. Like, this seems like something concrete that people are excited about. So I'd love to get more informed. This screams Jeff Keely's show, right? Like, this is a very cool game. It's a little different. I like that. I think this is a perfect one for Summer Game Fest right there.

Of course, get a date. Yeah, I think for sure get a date. This is one of those of like, let's get a date. slot this in. They could honestly say anywhere from July to next July and I'd nod my head and be like yeah, that makes sense. Okay. I like that. Do you think, just because

former tell tell all this stuff, episodic question mark? No. Please, God, no. We got to kill it. You saw what happened to Lost Records, Bloom and Rage, a game that came out, the first thing, we're like, I guess it's fine, I think it's pretty good. And then we just literally never talked about the second one, because it came out a month or two later. I still don't know if it's

out. It's out. It became a lost record. Like, The game is lost to the ether. It's insane. It's insane. Are we moving away from those episodic games like that? We should. Are we moving away from those?

Yes. I'm so interested to see this and then also Wolf Among Us too. That's in the ether. That's also a Jeff Keeley joined because he, I think that was announced at game awards a few years ago. Well, let's pause right on that one because that's a good cliffhanger because people want to know about that game, Roger. Let's take a word from our sponsors and maybe we'll return with that.

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Look up the Ubisoft showcased last year. Let's just see how it looked in the room. Yeah, let's just look. Was that last year? Yeah, that was last year they were at the fucking. Looking to the N-1. The Likita ballroom, bro. Crazy, man.

Yeah, we were just talking about Ubisoft and is Ubisoft going to do something where they at? And then we all started giggling because, I said they went from having Jason DeRulo on stage dancing with the panda in a giant beautiful concert orchestra hall to then, hey, we're at the Lakeita ballroom over here. So this was 2023. Oh, it wasn't last year? Yeah, it wasn't last year. What would they do last year?

We're in our, we're in a Marriott. Bring your logic tech webcam. Oh, my God. Like, yes, this is how I want to see the B-roll and footage gameplay. I like the hashtag Prince of Persia on the gameplay all the thing. And then also on the screen. This is so great. We produce this.

I just want to talk. Oh, man. Oh, my love. This looks like the I hotel I worked at for like a summer. Are we just talking about Ubisoft? Should we just talk about Ubisoft? Oh, my God. Do you have a Ubisoft game you want to talk about?

I mean, I want to talk about Splinter Cell. Shit, Rod. We have Splinter Cell and we have. Beyond Good and Evil? No, fuck that. That's not happening. I mean, he's a game. I know what's happening.

We can say anything right now. Yeah. Yeah. We can say whatever. I mean, we have Prince of Persia, Sans of Time remake that apparently is come out next year. Right? Like we have like,

like those are the two big games that I need to see. I need to see Splinter Cell. Spooner Sle's remake has been in development for years now. Skull and Bowles on screen. Skull and Bowles is back

they're saying it's back. You're gonna be walking on foot now. What? Oh yeah. You're out on foot. They're saying it's back. Big update. Because there's the dream

of what Rogers talk about and then there's the reality of what we're seeing on screen. Yeah, I know. We're just like you're saying you're saying you want Splinter Cell and Prince of Prussia. New Rainbow Six update.

Well, yeah. We're going to have Rainbow Six update for sure. I do want to see C C Jax. Don't talk you about C Jax. I'll fight you. But we're going to get, what's the marble game that they had? Not Marvel,

Marble, Marble. Oh, shit, do you remember that? The ball? The ball? Yeah. The ball and where they were banging

into each other. That's what we're going to get. Was that a battle rail? No, I think it was a 3V3 arena. Oh, they are working on that like apex competitor.

Yeah, that might be the marble thing again. Man, do we ever miss his roller champions? What a, what a peaceful time we had with that. I miss the dodgeball game. Knockout City.

Knockout City. Knockout City was an E.A. original. I know. I'm just talking in general. Now we're just talking. We're in a weird. Marble blast Ultrasol is called, by the way. What's calm? Like the,

Rajwanting Splinter Cell. Like, these titles just remind me so much of the often rumored recently just fully like confirmed canceled apex. Or, uh, Titan fall type camp.

Like, we hear, we've been hearing so much. You're the blood-born guy. We've been here. You've got to be on my side, my dude. What are we talking about? I'm just saying like, is it actually happening or not? You know, like... And we've seen concert art.

They did a roundtable a few years ago. Where's beyond good and evil, too? That's not happening. That's not happening. That might not be happening. We're never seeing that. Also, Chad lied to me. It wasn't Marble Blast Ultra.

Yeah, that's definitely that. It was like orbies or something. I forget it was. You were in orb. Orby's, you don't want to eat so many of those, dude. I mean, they're focusing on Assassin's Creed. Do we get DLC for that? Shadows just came out. Do we get a DLC?

I mean, do we get a teaser for the next one? We just got a year road roadmap for shadows. Also, there's anything close. Black Flag remake, that's always been in the ether. That would be crazy. That's probably, I could see that showing up there. That's actually a really good one. When did we get the next far cry?

Is that next year or is that this year? When was Far Cry 5? When did we get the next Far Cry 5? Far Cry 5 was like, we were working in all. You're thinking six. Oh, is that's, oh. Far Cry 6, I like. I like,

Far Cry 6 to me was a nice return to what I want Far Cry to be. I think a lot of people complained it was a little bit too big, which I understand a lot of these Ubisoft games became way too big, but it felt good. So Far Cry 7 is probably on there. Okay. I think Blackfly remake is kind of a slam dunk. Okay.

That's been in the ether right there for a minute. And then probably some Switch 2 versions of all those games. We didn't see Assassin's Creed, right, on Switch 2? The only thing we saw from Ubisoft on Switch 2, was Star Wars Outlaws. Yeah. So I can see that showing up there. Like, hey, all the games are coming to Switch to. Yeah.

I really do think you have to, you have to show Prince of Persia, because that game is dated for 2026. You have to at least say that game exists or doesn't exist. You have to show it or say 2027 or just say something about it. Splinter Cell, man. It's tough. It's tough because literally years. It has been in development.

They did a round table discussion, I think last year maybe or two years ago, where they're like, hey, it's the anniversary of Splinter Cell. Here's some concept art we're working on it. man, we really love the lighting system, and they just bounced. You want people to talk positively about your company? Maybe we talk about Splinter Cell. You got to do Splinter Cell, man. Okay, what about Andy, for you, the division?

Will we ever see it return to its glory of what it was? Right? Like, we get a new division. We make strides that way. Or do you think we'll never return to what that really was with that game? I don't know if we'll ever get another proper, like, story looter shooter game. You know what I mean? I think a lot of these,

I think a lot of companies right now have been chasing the extraction golden goose. Okay. Because, and this sounds like super, this sounds like I'm kind of talking a little bit of shit about developers and just game development in general. But I think it's, I think it's,

the extraction shooter is a game that doesn't require you to make a whole lot of cutscenes. and story beats and a lot of stuff that requires a shit ton of budget because you're kind of relying on the players to make a lot of the content for you. Yeah. Because you are begging into each other in a multiplayer game. You are kind of, the players are the content in addition to the NPCs and things like that. But I think once you go, this extraction shooter should be a looter shooter or whatever.

We've got to make the next division. then that requires what I'm just like throwing out a stupid estimate of like four times as much as what the budget would have been because now you're suddenly getting levels and now you're getting boss fights and, you know, a massive voice cast with a lot of lines and cutscenes and all that stuff just kind of keeps on ramping up and adding up and adding up. And I think that there's so many big ass developers that just want to be efficient and like, let's not work on something that large right now. And I think, I don't think, I don't think Ubisoft is really in a spot right now to where they can really just kind of go all out with whatever genre that they want to. Like, it really feels like we will start to see a lot more remakes and stuff to hopefully kind of just like bolster up that portfolio and get some more funds in because it just feels like they're in a weird spot to let's make the Division 3 and that's going to be a massive budget game. That's going to be so huge.

and with Star Wars Outlaws kind of not hitting the way it did, I think that really makes the fucking company be like, shit, what do we do next? Man, someone in the chat wrote division in Vegas, and it's like when I think of the tail end of destiny and companies still wanting to get our time right on these big games and we just time sync it, it's like, you give me a new division and in Vegas would be crazy.

Like, I would give you my time for that. I miss the days of the division. I wonder if we'll ever get like a ghost recon ever again, Where does that, you know, franchise fall in this? That could easily be an extraction shooter for, you know, Ubisoft at any moment. They could be like, oh, we just said Ghost Recond. Now it's an extraction shot. That's Ghost Reconna, I think, broke the camel's back, right?

Like, wasn't that the one where... That was Breakpoint? That was like John Berndtall. Yeah, with John Berndtall and the dog. But, like, I remember right after that, it was... I mean, there was a dog. But there was, like, the reports of them being like, oh, shit, we got to... Ubisoft's delaying everything now.

Like, less Tom Clancy stuff. Yeah, like, they delayed gods and monsters and all their games. is to be like, hey, we're figuring our stuff out now, right? And I think between that, between all of the ups and downs, mostly downs that we've seen in the last years of Ubisoft, between like even, you know, you talk about division, Division Heartland was supposed to come out, right? And that got canceled.

I wonder where that puts the next division as far as, like, when are we even going to see that? If we're going to see that. Like, I think right now it is that Ubisoft is in that tightening up stage of, all right, it is Assassin's Creed. I already forget, like, the details of the new story we had about them, like, dividing a division into, like, all right, this is Assassin's Creed division and it's going to be partly owned by Embracer or whatever it was.

But like, yeah, I think I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get a Ubisoft forward thing this summer because they're just figuring that shit out. Let me go to my man, Mr. Barrett Courtney. He knows he's played a lot of these games. Barrett, I know you popped on the screen. I want to make sure you get in on whatever you wanted to say. My prediction for Ubisoft is that they don't have a thing and they only show one thing at Keyleys thing. And it is the second story drop for Assassin's Creed Shadows. And that is all we get.

That is safe. that's easy, Baird, I agree with you, of like, you're in, we continue to promote shadows. We hope that continues to do well. That's, you know, that's the big game right now. Let's get that. And then they kind of just go back into the shadows until it's time for a Tom Clancy's ghost or, I just don't think they're in a spot where they can like over promise right now, especially when they're in the middle of like re figuring out what the fuck their business is.

But I mean, that hasn't stopped them before. You know what I mean? Like, like, they've had it hasn't been this dire before, though. I mean, they were in the middle of like a hostile takeover, right? Like they love getting out there and trying to, Eve's loves going out there with the entire crew and being like, look at us, where Ubisoft, we're doing the damn thing. We announced one game and we also delayed a million games and nothing matters, right?

But here we are, we're here where Ubisoft, look at us. Like they love doing that. I know specific, I think they're totally going to do a UBesoft for it. It just a matters of like, it doesn't stop them ever if they don't have anything to show. They'll still do it. They don't care. Yeah, they made up an entire game last time called Beyond. getting evil too.

Yeah, exactly. But I think that's what, doing that back then, I think, is partially what led them to where they're at now. And I just, I don't know if you can repeat that again, especially because again, like, man, yeah. Yes, it was a hostile takeover last time. It's a different situation this time. Remember Joseph Gordon Lev?

It was really involved. Yeah, he was telling us about Space Monkey and wanted us to give us graffiti and art. Yeah, he was like, let me take your art. I'll take credit for it. And I'll give you a high five. have the motorsport game. What's their driving game that we always talk about? The crew. The crew. Tries. Whatever happened to

Just Dance. I mean, Just Dance is about a franchise that was always there, but like they put that to the side. It's still there. It's right. But like, is it growing? It's not. Yeah. Right? Like, I think when you were talking about the laurels that Ewee soft has been able to rest on year over year over year, I don't think any of those laurels are working anymore. Like, how long do we have Just Dance for, right? Like, how long do we have the crew games for? How long do we have

rocksmith for? Like, the Ubisoft that we talked about in 2014, they're still trying to make those IPs work, and I don't think they're working anymore. That's why I think we're going to see the next three years of Ubisoft going back to the well, going back to the Claxus, going back to the Black Flagg's,

going back to the Splinter Cells, maybe going back to Far Crys, right? Far Cry's three remake, right? You know what I mean? Like, how long does that last? Because you're talking about going back to the well? I mean, that is a Splinter Cell going to sell? Like, is a, I think in the Sizes Creek Black Flag remake will do well,

but how many black, Black Flag Remix can you make? One. You know what I mean? You can go, you can sort of go back to the well for a lot of these games and start to rebuild them. But I don't know. I will continue to say, Far Cry Team, give me the Jurassic Park game, Andy. That's all I want. I want Far Cry Jurassic Park. The Dinwidson escape the cage.

I'm just a lonely security guard or I'm the guy working the concession stand and I'm out of here running from my life with the Dinos. That's all I want from a Far Cry game. I mean, is that going to do even as good as like Avatar? I remember they did Avatar. No, none of it will do good. Yeah. They're in between the rock and a hard plane.

They're not doing well. MC in the chat says, Splinter Cell will sell better than what they've put out recently. That is not true. I love Splinter Cell more than anything. It has been longer than GTA 5 since the last Splinter Cell game. It's not going to sell as well.

It's going to sell pretty okay. But it's not going to hit the numbers. Let's hold the Ubisoft talk for the podcast that will one day come because this is very good. I just want to say it's wild to look at this battle for Brooklyn D.L. for the Division 2. Yeah. That's coming out on May 27th. And to read that,

it also marks the launch of year seven season one. I didn't know they were still working on the division like that. I've been kind of surprised. I never would have guessed. I wouldn't even think it was still running, to be honest with it. And if you walked up to me before this podcast and said, Mike,

can we even still play the division? I'd say, no, that's offline. I bought it for 10 bucks on Steam like two weeks ago. Okay, well, you can still get your division fix. Okay. Blessing anything before we walk away from Ubisoft for a little bit.

I mean, just to get us back on a, moving forward. The one more thing I'll say on Ubisoft is like, you know, I'm on GameRant.com right now on a list that is the bestselling Ubisoft games of all time. And it is very enlightening as far as, you know, it is at number one, Far Cry 5, at number two, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, number three, Assassin's Creed 4. Number four, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, number five, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seat. And it reads like this as it go on, right? Number six, Assassin's Creed three, Assassin's Creed two, Far Cry three. Finally, you get the division at number nine, right?

then you get Just Dance, too. And that's why they said, we have to go back to what is our pillars here. And you have to focus on that. And those pillars are Assassin's Creed and Far Cry and a Tom Clancy thing, like Rainbow Six, Sea Jax, I guess. Rainbow Six, Siege has been the one to take over. Yeah, or Siege X, that's a great call. Yeah. When do we get that sort of full reveal?

Maybe, maybe this summer. Maybe that is the summer. Another fun one for you. That the chat brought up, what about that Jurassic Park Survival game? We saw the showcase for that one. Maybe it's time to put a date on that or see more gameplay of it. I would love to see that Jurassic Park game would be great. Wow.

Like, you are playing a character who was also locked during the first Jurassic Park movie. You got stuck behind, too. It's going to be so, you know what it's going to be? Like for people who are just, you know, hold Jurassic Park one near and dear to their hearts, it's going to be similar to when we sat next to Nick, Mike, when he was playing the Robocop game, and he was calling out every reference. He was like, oh, my God, dude. He was like, oh, my God, the gate makes that exact same sound.

the movie. Oh, my God, the car bumps here this specific place. It was incredible. It was awesome. Faking this. Do we know? Someone looked at it up, but for this, right, we're coming hot off of a new Jurassic Park movie this summer. It would be fantastic for this

to be shown a Jeff Keeley's thing. Maybe have a fall date from the end spring, but like, this would ride the high off of the movie dropping this summer. That's a great call. You would be flying if you could do that right here. And if you could hit the sort of viral Twitch market that loves horror games that, you know, every once in a while,

a random game will just kind of pop off on Twitch and that gets the word buzz in and people start freaking out about, you know, I think it could be one of those horror games that really pops off because it has the IP and if it's really awesome and we know Sabre puts out the non-derogatory like best double A games ever. Like I'm really, I'm really excited to see what this game could be. Yeah, this is going to be a good one. We brought up the Wolf Among Us, too. Which we were not talking about. Which is crazy, because I looked that up.

That trailer came out in like 2002 or 2020. Yeah, no, it's been a long time. As soon as you said it, I was immediately like, did that not come out years ago? But then I remembered, I realized I was thinking of Tales and the Border Wains to. Yeah, which actually did come out and no one played. And I don't, yeah, I don't know a single soul. I played for the first half an hour, maybe two out. It's fine.

It was whatever. It's just like, it's too little too late, right? So, yeah, just excite you. No, I love. Are those good? I loved Wolf Amongus One. But I also played it when I was like a teenager. And I remember nothing about it, right?

Like, I remember like two scenes in my head and then that's about it. This is like way too little, way too late. And even if this game is great, it has a two right next to it. No one's going to play this fucking game. Like it's not going to hit the way that it needs to and it sucks because it's nice that telltale or at least some of telltale is back. Right. I know that a lot of people got laid off and then now they're kind of like rebuilding the team.

And a lot of people making mixtape. A mixtape? No, dispatch. So I'm happy that this exists, but I just wish that they just didn't do this. They did something original. They did something like dispatch to kind of build up their name and then eventually maybe remake Wolf Among Us and then make a sequel. But this is just like, it feels like we're putting our hat onto something that is just going to collapse the entire thing.

They also did the expanse, right? The expanse. Yeah. Was that good? I liked the expanse, but I have been turned off by the epixotic nature. I can't be. It's tough to draw me back in. After you give me one where it's like it ends and you're like,

okay, we'd play more of that. And it's like, well, we're not coming out for a month, three months, and it's just too long to wait. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it strikes me. It looks good, though. It strikes me something that's going to end up being episodic, right?

They did that for his fans. Yeah. Let me put you on to one that I'm looking forward to. Of course, this was revealed and shown last year at Jeff Keely, Keely's event, cuff bust. Cuff bust. Cuff bust is that super, hyper cute, um, in your face, gummy bears escaping prison.

That's right. Twelve friends screaming, running a month. One person? Real host style. We have not seen this game. This game is not released. This game doesn't have a date yet. This game is going to be huge. This game has the makings of your next viral video game right here.

And I cannot wait for this, especially riding the high of this year of Repo, Schedule 1, right? Coming off of Content Morning. You saw this trailer last year and you're like, me and my friends are going to be laughing all night long playing this game. This game is going to be huge. I cannot wait for this. Still waiting on a release date

for this. And of course, Laugh how loud, killer beans, right? Killer Bean still doesn't have a release date, which is crazy. The GTA Killer Bean video game. And so, yeah, those are two I wanted to put on your map. But most importantly, CuffBus, because that will be the game when that drops. It will be the talk of the town for a week to a month of how much fun that's going to be. That would be the end of the year, right?

Yeah. Yeah, we didn't get like that. I mean, it's going to probably be, you would think Xbox. Yeah. We've not gotten a release date, right? We got that initial trailer that gave us a lot of gameplay. So talking about release dates really quick, not to But like, we're going to get a lot of

release dates. Oh, yeah. During this because we have GTA. GTA 6's been removed from the equation. Do you think that as soon as that release date came out, that Jeff just got a ton of emails being like, I want to update my trailer. I want to update my trailer. I want to update my trailer. I need to update my trailer right now. Yeah, let me send you

a V2. Jeff, we got a new one. We got a new one for you. A couple seconds long. Another great one that was just thrown out in the chat. Of course, we'll be talking about all things Xbox later on. But you do have a big Xbox showcase coming up as well. And one that I'm waiting for. Contraband. What's up with Avalanche and Xbox in this contraband game? You can't show me that so far away and then just leave me hanging. I'm excited for this. I like this team up. I love what Avalanche has done in the past. I like

the idea of this co-op heist video game. I am in for this. And yeah, I am in for this is another one we wait for. We had a super chatter right in as well about Jeff has so Tundra Boy writes in and says Jeff has Tomb Raider and Playded's next game. I think a perfect dark of course this summer getting a little bit more. I don't think it's this year but that's one of those where I think a Tomb Raider

I think a perfect dark as well. Played Ed. Is that my guys? Oh yeah, inside and Limbo played Ed. Are they still around? From what I gather Because I've seen like five different games from the people that made Limbo. How are you still company when a million people who started a bunch of studios?

Like, yeah, how big was the studio to begin with? but yeah, because I played fucking, what was the one that I never remember. Byronic Bay and then you have No, Bayonic Bay and it's a different. No. Are you thinking about the alien invasion of one? Summerville.

Summerville. And then there was the bug one top-down, cocoon. Coon. And I think those one more was- The director, okay, so somewhat Thunderboy said the producer made Somerville, the lead designer made cocoon, and the director's still at Play-Dead. Gotcha.

That's wild. But Plano, Plano is not related? No. Plano? No. Okay. They went off to do their own little side projects. and they're like, we're going to get back together.

That was a good game. We do know that S game is going to reveal a freaking release date for Phantom Blade Zero sometime this year. Well, what they've said is we will, this year we will release a release date year. That's how they worded it. Now, to me, that's either Achilles thing because we saw Phantom Blade Zero at Summer GameFest last year. it's either a Keeley thing or a game well it still would be a Keeley thing if it's at the end of the year for game awards

I think that's a good layup for Achilles showcase how about the Blumhouse remember they started making a horror game another one of those We have five minutes of Freddy's two the movie as well Yeah who's gonna be the big spot

Because Five Nights Friendly the movie That could easily be shown there Yeah here's a little trailer Maybe an ad Yeah So like who's the big ad Who's gonna be the fun ad that we all gingling Oh, interesting.

Dick or shick, whatever is. The Hydro Man. If he needs me to wear the suit, I'll do it for you. He'll do it, yeah. I will wear that suit all presentation. Tides out. He'll do anything for his best friend. Talking about PlayStation and all that jazz,

and we've got to talk about PlayStation. I think Until Dawn, a remake, a sequel, or no, a sequel. Like, Until Dawn 2 will be there. It just lines up. It just lines up. I think there's a lot. That PlayStation hasn't said yet. as far as like the rest of the this year.

Because of course, Death Stranding 2 is coming out in June. That's a summer game. You have Marathon coming out in September. And you got Ghost of Yote coming out October. Correct me if I'm wrong about any of that. I think that still leaves a lot of room. Remember, last year we got multiple surprises. Astrobat was a summer showcase announcement, right?

Horizon, the Lego game was a summer showcase announcement. I think PlayStation has a couple more of those to show. So yeah, I think until Dawn. God of War II. Yeah, I was going to bring that up to. Yeah. Until Dawn, too, and the God of War Greek game. whatever that is.

I still don't have belief that that's going to be like a gigantic thing but like I think those two projects I'm convinced that's a comic book. Really quick, I'm going to remind the audience right now as we start to ramp down the episode. Now is a great opportunity to get your super chats and we're going to have a super chat section at the end

but we are nearing the end of today's episode so if you want to get your thoughts in the games that you want to see at Summer Game Fest now is the time. But boys, I'm going to go right down the table. I want to hear maybe one more, a couple more, but like just know that we're going to slowly end this right now, but, bless, what do you want to see?

Any other things we haven't talked about yet? I mean, this isn't a thing that we know we're going to see, but Outer Worlds 2, I'm very hype for that game. I like that. See that out of the Xbox showcase, right? Like, I like that they're doing the... I read this episode as SGF just the week. I didn't know if this is going to be... Because we don't have an Xbox episode, right? That's fine?

I think we do the following week, but don't worry about it. Do we have an Xbox episode next week? Oh, you know? No, I'm thinking about June already. I'm thinking about before, the week before. Gotcha. You're good. Is that locked into the calendar? He sees it all. I'm so deep of this calendar. I was like, I can hold this for next week. But that's one that, like, I didn't believe was coming this year until they really said,

hey, we're doing the, you know, developer underscore direct plus, you know, Outer Worlds, too, was going to get the big breakdown. Like, I think this has potential to be, I don't have like the whole Xbox calendar all the top of my head, but like, I would say the possible biggest release for Xbox this year, if I'm forgetting anything. This will be the big holiday release, I believe. This will be the big one. Have you seen what they're doing with their dynamic, like, they're,

doing this weird shit with it the game kind of understanding your player manners have you seen oh no they've they teased off a couple of different mechanics in the game where if you are constantly skipping your dialogue a thing will pop up and go hey what will this is just me kind of like you know kind of making up a mechanic at this point but it would be like we'll skip the dialogue from here on out and you'll get a little perk here but you'll lose whatever health or what, like, do you want to do this? Because we notice you keep on skipping dialogue. Or they'll be like, hey, we notice that you keep on breaking down these sort of things.

And it'll kind of like pop up. I don't know how many of these things they are going to implement, but I saw at least two glimpses of here are these mechanics that we, the game, are understanding player patterns and seeing that you, the player, keep on doing these certain things. We'll give you this little perk that will help you out here. But then you'll, you know, have a little drawback, you know, we'll penalize you on this other ability. It's really weird and kind of neat and a neat way to kind of, let's innovate this game that, you know, came out several years ago that I can't wait to get back to. I know we're going to do a re-review for it really soon.

I believe we're going to do a re-review. Yeah. And that's one that I booted up before a vowed just to be like, you know, you know, let's see how this game was, a game that I kind of gave up on. And Roger is saying that this game rocks and hopping back in and be like, man, out of roads this fuck. I dig this more than a vowed. And that's my thing is I thought I was going to get a bit more into a vowed. I ended up just not getting as into it as I wanted to. But it became a more exciting thing for me because I know that I like Outer Worlds,

you know, like having played that game and loving that setting and loving, yeah, the tone of the riding and all that stuff. So to have Outer Roads to actually be around the corner is fucking awesome. And I can't wait to see what they break down for it. Sticking with the Xbox stuff. That Gears of War announcement, Roger? Come on, man. Really? Really?

You're not vibing with that. I mean, it's just the ultimate edition, but better. I guess. The multiplayer is one of the best online shooter multiplayer every ever. It includes multiplayer? Yeah, that's what it has. Yeah, yeah. So like, just the first game though. The idea of people jumping back into that and being able to share that with Bless and the PlayStation community,

that's a big deal to me who loves Gears of War of like, I love that game and I will play hours of multiplayer. I definitely will. I mean, I got to play with a PS5. I think that'll be just fun and weird. But talking about gears, Ede, right? It's definitely not coming out this year. I have it drafted. I just did that for fun. But like, what if, you know what if it goes out? To get people excited and then

E-Day next year. Like, how cool is this to build it up? Like, to just start building that ramp up of excitement that Gears of War is back. We're going to E-Day, which is before the emergence day. And now, hey, guess what, PlayStation fans, you get to play Gears of War as well for the first

ever time, maybe. You can jump in. I mean, this multiplayer back in the day stole the gas from Halo. Like, Halo was awesome, and I love Halo to death. But man, when this came on, And you were Lancer and chainsaw on people, and you were Nash's shotgun and people bouncing off the walls. That looked so different from Halo back in the day that I still remember to this day the first time seeing it going, what the hell is this? And when I want to play this right now.

Chainsaw and somebody for the first time when like curb stopping them out. Holy shit. I appreciate unique technique in chat that says bless has an Xbox. Mike, you could have been played with me. You've been playing? I'll be bouncing? I mean, I'll play now. Just hit me up.

Say the word. Here's a board for this. We're going to wait for this now. because it's going to be sweet. Andy replayed it recently, which has been great, so I know Andy enjoys it. He's been having fun. Yeah, I mean, the timing just kind of stinks. I would have loved to experience it with the brand new coat of paint and to have it operating as quickly as efficiently as it would on PC with a more modern release because I played it on Xbox one backwards compatibility with, you know, you got that hardware sort of, we'll make it run faster and it doesn't, it'll try to, it'll hit 60 now and then and it's doing its best, but it would drop a lot

of frames and we would have to restart the game. It was not the best way to experience it, but it still looked really impressive for an older title. When you get that headshot with that sniper rifle. Nasty. Nasty. Watch out. Torquo and people. Yeah.

I'm excited for E-Day and I want an extended gameplay demo. That's what I need. I need the extended gameplay demo. It will be next year's summer the second, the follow-up. It will be the, there will be the second big showcase. They'll deal the whole deep time. So you don't think we're going to get a deep dive this year? Of Ede?

Of Ede? No, absolutely not. I think Google. For a game that's coming on next year. I don't think that game... It will be shown at the Xbox underscore direct next year in the spring. It will be the summer plus one, like obsidian's outer worlds two is, the tie-on, the big deep dive, and it will come out in the fall. See, that's how this is going to go.

I think this game comes out earlier than that. I think it comes out. I think gears where E-Day gets the doom dark-age slot. Or I guess you get Fable next summer would be the plus one. And then Fable is... the fall. Yeah, I guess... I'm thinking of a January developer direct that is

Doom, not Doom, Gears War E-Day focused. That's a great call. And then in, let's say May, you get Gears-A-Wor. I think we see some games, though. I guess maybe not May because of the GTA6, but you know what I mean. The Domino's... The Domino's... The next Forza is around the corner. Oh, shit. Is that actually

happening this year? No, no. You're talking about Motor Story or you're talking about the Good Horizon? The good one. I mean, are we showing it? Are we showing it this year? Yeah. No, absolutely. Is all of Playground? Why not? On Fable? No, they have multiple teams they've said. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, why not, though? Why wouldn't it be shown this year? It's freshly on PlayStation 5. Well, perfect. You celebrate it right now. I mean, they're going to be like, hey, guys, everybody go buy it on PlayStation 5. No, they'd be like, hey, you can buy it anywhere now. Here it is. Roger, what do you want to see?

I own her active. James Bond. They showed it at the Switch, too. That was such a loud-hauff. That was so mad. That's why I fucking pull it. That was like 65%. That was 65%.

But like, Switch 2, Roger. They had the little teaser. We've seen it before. But like, is it time for Iowa Interactive to give us James Bond? And we say that every single. Yeah, every single time. It's the same trailer. They showed us the same exact trailer a month ago that they showed us a year,

like two years ago. They're not seeing that shit today. This is going to be so lit. Yeah. The music's going to hit. I'm excited. What's James Bond going to look like? Who is it?

Is it going to be the voice of, is it going to look like the voice actor? He's going to look like Rahul Coley. I was thinking about it. Troy Baker's going to voice James Bond and Betty. Oh, fuck. Ben Starman. Oh, my gosh. Ben Star,

James Vaughn would be actually pretty fun. God, that'd be perfect. Yeah. Do we think it's very similar to Hitman having these larger open environments and kind of waiting through the people and getting through that? I think it'll be, I think it'll be sandboxy like Hitman. But I don't think it'll be like ass. The gadgets will be cool.

I think it's be way more gadget focused, right? but like I think it has to be a different game. You're getting cut scenes, you're getting like full narrative type shit. Do you think it would be third person or first person? Third person? Third person. You want to see James at all times. Yeah, I want to see Jimmy.

I think it's going to be a hybrid. I think it's going to be first person with third person elements. Indiana Jones sale. Yeah. I was going to say, if you're making a first person, James Bond, I feel like you give it to somebody else. I feel like you give it to machine games. I mean, we said that with Indiana.

Oh, yeah, that's true. Andy, give us another one. Um, oh gosh. You bottled up earlier. Yeah. During the outbreak, I'm surprised you're not talking about it. Well, because like, that'd be more like a PlayStation showcase, right? Wouldn't it not be?

Are they even having a showcase? I assume we're bundling it all together. They would. They'll have a showcase like a month after or a couple weeks after. We're 30 days away from the summer fun. You could talk about any games you're excited. I mean, Raho Koli and Saros. Like, holy shit.

I think this will be the gameplay reveal after getting the kind of cinematic reveal of the game period over at game awards. Yeah, I think we will get gameplay glimpse with different looks at how the action looks over the third or over the shoulder third person you know, bullet hell type shit

that we love Housemark for. I'm so unbelievably pumped for this game. It's just like a first, I was worried when they said we are not making a sequel to Returnal. I was really bummed out by that because I think Returnal is like

as perfect of a game as you can make. And I just wanted more of that, of that experience. And I'm just super pumped that they are not necessarily iterating, but we're going to see the next evolution of what a how smart game can look like. And goddamn, it's been really cool seeing a lot of people being like, man, I never played Returnal back in the day, but they just came out with this PS5 Pro update. And holy shit, what a video game.

Like, we had Returnals up there with Cifu and other games. I just like, I would put those. on, you know, favorites of all time type shit. What an experience. Barrett, to you, anything you want to bring up before we slowly get out,

I'm going to bring up the audience for mine. I'm drawing a blank. Judas. Yes. Where's Judas at? Where is that? Like, they did that, um,

they did that Friends Per Second. Yeah. They like, they did the, the director or whatever did the Friends Per Second podcast and all this stuff. It's still, I forget,

was that a, year ago? How long ago is? Okay. We also, Ken Levine mentioned recently Barrett, when all the EA layouts

happened, Ken Levine said, we are actively hiring here at Ghost Story Games. I'm like, damn, they're like, they're still hiring,

you know, which doesn't mean a whole lot, but wow, a game that I thought was a lot closer to maybe being in the final runways, maybe still a while away. In a similar vein,

I just, I think about you, but then I also want to shout out Clockwork Revolution, which is another kind of Bioshock vibe. Exile games. Yeah. I want to see what that's all about. That's a good one

right there, Baird. I like that. I'm going to have mine as the Super Chat. So we're going to end out the episode with the audience out here. And I'm actually going to pull from Twitch really quick because they have a couple good ones. Oh, tell me Andy. I have one more. Okay. I think we'll get, and it's available now, LizaP.

DLC. Wow. The DLC has always been slated for summer 2025. There's never been a definitive date. I think we will get out now. That'd be sweet. That'd be sick. From Soft. You've seen anything? Are we seeing... We have night rain

right before, right? So we'd kind of be riding that high. Could do like a night rain roadmap. Yeah. New character. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, maybe character teases and maybe... Nothing better than having From Software on the on the presentation.

He loves it. They reveal another game. Oh my God. Xbox exclusive is all. There's no way we see that Nintendo game though, right? That's a, what's it called? Bloodborn 2.5? Yeah, Bloodbored 2 and a half.

Dustblood. Dustblood. The squeakool. This squeakle. That's going to be lit. There's no way we see that, though. Also, Andy, I need you to coin a term for the seafood Sekiros Saros game, type of game.

What? You know, the fast. Okay. Andy knows what I'm talking about. The triple S. Let's jump into the audience. See what the live chat is saying right now. We have a witcher for.

Question mark? Sponsored by backbone. We're not fun for a second on that one. Slammy. It's just too funny. I brought this. I brought the backbone pros here because we got them sent and we're going to have them in Wii news, but it was a busy wee news.

It was a busy morning. So we did even bring them out. And then I was like, okay, I'll bring them up in the intro that we totally forgot about it. So the background pros, uh, the pro was announced. It is a more premium version of the backbone. It even has a little, uh, buttons on the back right there.

And then it also connects to any device wirelessly, so you don't just have to plug it into your phone. So feel it, let me know what you think. It's not an ad at all. I like it, better? Yeah, it's better. I mean, it's bigger. Like, the buttons feel bigger, the analog sticks. It has that soft satin feel. Yeah, has that soft satin feel.

And like, I do like the back buttons. This is something I would actually use. I was making fun of it earlier because, like, Roger mentioned, oh, yeah, you can use, you can boot with your Steam deck and play Steam. And I'm like... You're like, poo-poo in my idea, and I'm like, listen, you got to see the I'm still gonna poop with your idea because the steam deck has buttons. But, uh...

Okay, but I'm connected to my TV. You don't have a fucking... You don't have the great setup like I do. You know what I mean? I have a cool... But then I picked up a, like, a previous backbone. I'm like, I'm not using this to just like Bluetooth to something else when I have an Xbox controller. This actually feels nice enough to where I could see myself using that.

Yeah, it is $170. Very expensive. That's crazy. It's insanely expensive. Tariffs. Uh, yeah, tariffs. But it's not to be $500. Tariffs.

You don't need to play games wherever you want. Yeah. This does feel good now. All right. Let's end this episode with some YouTube super chats. Of course, thank you for supporting us here at Kind of Funny. We are an 11-person small business, all about live talk shows. And we love getting to talk games with all of you, playing games as well in our afternoon streams as we return with Pokemon.

And this Friday, a big marathon stream to help, of course, keep the lights and mics on. Me and Roger playing deaf stranding together and I will walk step for step. But let's get some super chats. Roger, you said, holy shit, do you want to say it before I get lost in here? Highland Hill F. Holy fuck. That's that's coming out. That's coming out. Yeah. You think I'm the same day and day? Dude, we're in. Do you feel like it's out now?

No, no, no, no. But that game is like already like, uh, Steam Deck approved or whatever, verified. Like, that game's coming out. I'll do you one further. At the state of play, they're like it's out now. No, I think it's a Jeff thing. I think it's a Jeff thing and I think it's out within like two months. This game's going to speak to me. These themes?

What do we got to break out? What kind of themes? These themes are going to be really thinking to be on the games. Mike really has a lot of themes that he's broken down that the chat has told him about that he didn't really understand. Hey, Roger, we got to do a spoiler cast. Like, you don't know what you're talking about. I don't know either. Roger, it's a whole thing, Roger.

We didn't get to talk about themes of dead wife. I think the quote was, yeah, the themes man, like this woman died. It's so tough because I wanted to go into it. But then we're just going to go full spoilers. I had to stop in the middle of it. Can we address this? People in chat keeps saying, bless, say Lucia again. Like I keep mispronouncing Lucia.

He said it right. I kept saying Lucia. Yeah. He said it right. People keep thinking I'm saying Lugia. Lucy. I think he said Lugia for the hunt for Lugia, the Pokemon we were going to play. Oh, me.

That's what it was. I think that's what happens. Yeah. All right, let's jump into these super champions. You were saying that's wrong. Lou? Lou. C.

C. Lusia. I don't know what I'm saying. Lucya. Lucia. Lucia. Lucia. Yeah, it's a C.

You got to put the big C on it. Lucia. Lucia. Lucia. You're saying, I hate you all. God piss me off right now. The support character in Overwatch,

Lucio. Lucio. She is Lucia. Lucia. Let's get the whiteboard out. We got the whiteboard. Let's get the whiteboard out. Also, it doesn't help that everyone's doing the pronunciation thing differently.

It does not help. There's no universal way to do this, everybody. Owapo writes in with the $5 super chat, thank you for your support. It says pizza betting that Arc Raiders shows up with a, and it's available now. trailer. Damn. So we just had the playtest. We're in an extraction shooter beta playtest period for the past two weeks. It's changed my life here. I mean, we have exorborne earlier the year. We had exo born. That's still question mark, right? I don't think that game is actually out yet. So you have exo born. You have a arc raiders. We know Marathon has a date here. Do we think arc raters gets a date? I'll look at Andy because I know he is the guy he played the most with me. I don't think you two played it. I don't think you two played it. I. I, Our craters felt the most

We could be closest to ship right now Like our graders felt the most developed If I was to put even crazy prediction I think Marathon says we need more time We're holding. Yeah I think Marathon might decide to You know put out a little You'll see a little statement and say

Hey whatever date that's not going to happen We need more time to kind of cook or whatever I think arc raters might be the closest to come out Is Art graders an early access? A premium title early access of like, hey, it's 20 to 40 bucks, but like, we're here, but it's early access? No, I think it comes out fully. Yeah. We just called that.

Okay. I don't think they call it early access. I think that also maybe, I think people are just kind of bumped out and scared by that, you know? Okay. What's Roger laughing about over there? I just messaged Nick and I just said, hearing rumors that today is pizza day. That's good. Let's get Nick to buy pizza.

Can I be real? I'm angry right now, man. Okay. I'm so fucking hungry. I need that pizza. Vishal writes in and says, kind of funny is my favorite sitcom. Where's my fantasy critic episode?

Deadbeats? I love you guys. We'll get that soon. Yeah, I got pushed. We'll get that soon. All the computers died. Oh, yeah. That's what happened. Anthony writes in and says,

if Half Life 3 gets announced, I would literally cry. For fans, this is our Finish the Story storyline. If you haven't played two, just go do it. year needs to draft that game for fun. Just do it. Just do it. I got two spots open.

I'm not going to win. I'll do it. I might drop gears to war you day and do it. We might have a little bidding war here. I'll be honest. I'm so up right now. I might fucking do it. Chocolate Fox writes in and says, just finished Expedition 33. What a powerful ending. We will have an official spoiler cast here from the team.

I believe coming up maybe next week. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. With myself, Andy Cortez, and industry legend, industry icon, Kat Bailey. So you're prepared. You're primed. Unfortunately, Tim can't be here because he beat it recently. Did he? Yeah.

Yeah. DeJosey writes in and says, Like to see more Exodus and where's toxic commando? Exodus is... What is Exodus? Not Metro Exodus? No, Exodus is a third person sci-fi game that is trying to be another mass effect. Oh, is that with Matthew McConaughey?

Yes. Yes. It's an awesome developer. Oh, you watch the show. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. The secret level had an episode for X-Exifference. I remember that. Yep. Okay. Yeah, now it's all coming to me. Okay.

Yeah, there's an Austin-based developer, a lot of former buyerware people that want to just kind of make their own version. And like, hey, this is our kind of version of Mass Effector. This is our third person, sci-fi action role-playing game that has a shit ton of decision-making and everything you would kind of want out of this game. It sounds like the dream game. It sounds like a game that is insanely ambitious. I hope that they could achieve like 70% of what they want to do because it seems like, they are really shooting for the stars and I hope that they can kind of nail it because it seems awesome otherwise. It seems super up my alley. Is that confirmed for next year?

I don't know if there's a date actually. I've been looking at the website and kind of, I get updated a lot from Shinobi on Twitter or homie Shinobi. Who's super stoked about this one. This game's little school man. 2026. This could be another expedition type deal.

That's cool. CJ splits on writes in and says Wolverine. Hey, Bub. No shot. No. They have a pretty good roadmap for the end of the year, right? Like, you kind of, you know the big title at least, right? I don't think you're putting Wolverine in front of ghosts.

No. So, like, you're waiting until next year. Yeah, I mean, that's next year. Yeah. Yeah. Crabby Patty says, show me the Max Payne remake, Roger, teaser and trailer. Yeah, I thought about that. I just, it's a Rockstar published game, right?

So it all goes through Rockstar. We also have Firebreak coming out soon, right? Like, I just, I don't know if Rockstar even wants to think about Max Payne or even talk about it until after GTA. and everything. So I could see that being next year. Macon Awesome writes and says I'm off work for a month to recover from surgery. Just want to say thanks for keeping me sane and entertained

and informed. Love you guys. Feel better. Gold Spider writes in and says 100% seeing Bond soon. You wouldn't tease it at the Switch 2 if it wasn't coming soon. Just like how you wouldn't show Silk Song at the Xbox event

a couple years ago. You can just do anything. I'm riding the Bond type. I do think that we will see Iowa interactive with maybe more of just a teaser trailer, but I do think we see Bond this summer for sure. I hope so. Peaceful Warhead writes in and says, the last one, says, excited for the death stranding stream. Will Mike keep walking even though vehicles can be used in the game, or is it strictly

walking play-through? I will walk while he's in vehicles. We will use vehicles to have some fun, but I will- start running at that point? Roger will tell you we have a weird. You're powering the car. We're going to spin a wheel. We have some fun stuff.

Oh, we have a big wheel. We might be rolling up to Andy's house. If I break this treadmill, we're rolling to Andy's. He's got a little bit up. I did take a photo of a treadmill I saw in the middle of the street. You never responded. When I was on my walk and I was like, hey, there's a free treadmill right here. I was going to write Roger pick it up in your Yaris.

I'll sound you to pick it up and put it on Nick's desk. Get him up tight. He gets so mad. Chat, kind of funny best friends all around the globe. Thank you so much for watching and tuning in to another episode of the kind of funny games cast. Today's topic, 31 days until summer game fest, all of your biggest trailers, reveals, hopefully dates and your favorite video games with Jeff Keely and the crew coming very, very soon. Thank you so much for watching.

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