Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - PlayStation State of Play 2023 LIVE REACTIONS & Breakdown - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: February 23, 2023

Tim, Blessing, and Andy breakdown the latest PS State of Play featuring Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League! Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:26 - Housekeeping 00:02:55 - Grading the State of Play 00:13:25 - Ads 00:14:28 - Suicide Squad 00:30:03 - Capcom Section 00:37:54 - PSVR2 00:39:43 - Destiny 2: Lightfall 00:48:03 - What does the PlayStation Showcase look like? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome back to another kind of funny games cast. Of course, I'm Tim Gettys and I'm joined by the new face of video games. Blessing Adioia, Jr. What's up, Tim? How's it going? It's going so well. Joining us as well is Andy Cortez, but he had to go peepee. So he's going to be right back.

We just watched the PlayStation State of play, the first one of 2023, focusing on third party games and specifically Suicide Squad, kill the Justice League, getting a 15-minute breakdown of that entire thing, some PSVR focus, a couple other updates on some Capcom titles. So we're going to break all that stuff down like we always do here on Kind of Funny Games, give our reviews of the thing overall, give our like, you know, what we liked, what we didn't, all of that stuff, maybe even talk about some games we've been playing, because that's what we do on this show.

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Thank you so very, very much. Today we're brought to you by Hello Fresh, but I'll tell you about that later. A little housekeeping for you, just a little bit. Next Monday, we got something really, really exciting happening right after Kind of Funny Games Daily at 11 a.m. Pacific on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. What's happening, Bless?

A new episode of The Blessing show is coming out. It's a very exciting one. It's going to be one of the longer episodes. Think like the Rogue Light episode that we put out a couple years ago. And it's the episode that me and Roger, I think, we're both the most proud of. I don't want to tease too much about what it's about. You know, I want people to come through and be surprised and be excited when they get there. But it is a must watch piece of kind of funny content, is what I'll say.

It was good. I saw it. And it was amazing. Yes. So you guys are, you're not, you're ready. So get ready. 11 a.m. Andy Cortez, how you feeling?

You're feeling refreshed. I'm feeling great. Yeah. Of course, the worst timing ever. Of course. Walk over the do-to-to. Yeah, what's up? Okay, let me lock in the other.

Doot-Doo. Yeah, like, oh, come on. Two bathrooms. Not enough. Not enough. Andy, I just did the whole rigmarole. Okay. We were talking about the show we're on.

It's the games cast. It's the whole thing. You already know all about that. I've heard of it. I've watched it before. I want to start by going around the table on what we would give this on the kind of funny scale of one to five as a showcase, as we always review these showcases. I'm going to start with you.

What did you think of this state of play? I came in with expectations damn near the core of the earth like as far south as you could go far deep and I'd still give it like a two out of five yeah it's a pretty bad presentation I don't think it's worthy of this big of a stage

I don't think like a state of play always kind of has some weight to it like there's going to be some kind of big information I think the cool stuff we saw are the Nones the Resident Evil 4 looks amazing still of course. Lightfall looks great. What little we saw of it? I had fun watching Kill the Justice League. I'm going to have fun with that, even though it looks like it's not going to be the best game ever. I don't think it's having a battle pass is necessary at all. I think there's like a lot of red flags

with what the game is trying to be, but I'm still going to play and have fun with it. And I think like the fact that of the stuff that we know of still didn't even look like insanely great. I think that's like the worst part of it. A smaller titles that got announced. I just wasn't really excited by much that was shown today. Bless, what about you? Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I would also give it a two out of five.

For me, this direct, or this state of play had three things to do, right? It had to sell me on five VR games. It had to sell me on Suicide Squad, and it had to sell me on the other third-party games that are coming to PlayStation. And I feel like it didn't do a great job of any of those. When it comes to the VR games, right? we're talking about before your eyes, which we already knew was coming to PlayStation VR. We got a trailer for that.

I think the trailer for that was good, right? But then I go to the fog lands, synapse, journey to the foundation. And all those games looked all right, right? Like none of them really stuck out to me as, oh shit, all right, this is getting me hype for the platform, right? It would have been cool to get one or two of those that were, hey, this is a reason why you should buy VR. Like, this is a reason why you should show up and continue to be excited for this thing.

But none of the games they had in the VR section really spoke to me in that way. When we're talking about Suicide Squad, Kill the Justice League, I think this way, I like the breakdown for the fact that I think this is the clearest look that we've gotten at Suicide Squad, and that's what I've been asking for. I think that's what we've needed. But it's also the reality check of, hey, this is what Suicide Squad is. And I think a lot of people aren't going to be into what Suicide Squad is, and that's kind of the bummer of the whole thing. I'm with Andy that this game doesn't strike me as a game that I want a battle pass for. It doesn't strike me as a game that needs to be a live service game. And also, when I look at the gameplay, even though I think the gameplay looks fun, it looks like a game that. I want to play with Andy and with the streaming crew in a game that I might want to

grind in the same way that I'll grind in and Outwriters or grind it up borderlands. It also just distract me as a game that is, this is the big new game from the developers of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City and Arkham Knight that they've been working on for seven years. Like, no, it just, it looks like a game. It looks like a fine game. You know, I don't think it looks bad from the trailer at all. I also don't think it looks amazing. I think it is a very, like, all right, this just looks like a fine video game, a fine

suicide squad game. You could remove the IP from it and I'd still be excited for it But that's really That's kind of where I have my biggest problem And that's what sucks I think for the DC fans Who like Barrett who Have been waiting for whatever this new offering

Has to see into this universe And it really does feel like If Nintendo came out and said Hey by the way the next Zelda we're working on Is a match three game or something like that And you'd be like oh this isn't what I want from this IP right now You know Yeah

Yeah But yeah, like I wanted more from that Suicide Squad trailer. And yeah, they didn't really sell me more in that game. If anything, they kind of confirmed the things I was already, I was already scared about in terms of the Battle Pass stuff. But then talking about the non-VIR games, non-suicide squad stuff, I thought that showing is fine as well. Goodbye Volcano High.

I've been waiting on forever. The new trailer, again, didn't really excite me about Goodbye Volcano High. I do like that we got a release date. And so it's nice to get some definitive information about that. Humanity, I think, looks interesting. I like getting more information about that because that's been, it's been a while since we got in that. What was the information we got?

That's coming out in May 2023 and that the has like VR stuff. But yeah, the trailer as a whole felt very abstract, which is enhanced. And so I'm down for that. This is one of those ones where I'm going to trust until I try it. And then hopefully it blows me away because like from doing Res Infinite and doing Tetris effect, I got trust in enhanced and hopefully this feels like a follow up to those. But yeah, like Chia getting a release date and also being on PS Plus extra, dope as hell. Yeah.

And yeah, like Naruto, Boruto. didn't do much for me. Baldesgate looks cool for Baldr's Gate fans. Overall, I feel like the state of play didn't bring the stuff. And that's where I remain with it. Yeah, I think on the review scale, like, just objectively of like what they said they were going to bring and how they presented it, I'd probably give it a three. But like how I feel about it, like at the end of the day, I'm giving it a two. A two out of five. I think this is bad because although they said exactly what they were going to give, I still feel like in terms of presentation, If you're going to have us watch this for 45 minutes,

give us a little something. I do think Chia getting this PlayStation Plus day one coming out is great. Like that is the type of stuff that I like to see here. But I would have just wanted one announcement. There would have been like, you know what? Cool, that's a three then. That is, you earned that. Because I want to expect a little bit more from these state of plays.

I do think them focusing on VR, it's hard to do that. And like we've talked about this a bunch. Like, it's surprising that they didn't straight up have a PSVR 2, state of play that was like really like, yo, here's the reason why you guys are going to want this and here's why you should. But then putting it in just a more like broad mainstream one, I understand that from a marketing perspective of them being like, all right, they're here for Justice Lee or for Suicide Squad. Let's show them all the VR stuff. Maybe we can sell them there. And it just kind of feels like I'm not really in the market on PSVR. I'm not really into the suicide squad. So like for me, this really didn't do much. But prettyer looking shooting galleries.

Exactly. And that's what they are. Foglands, I thought it looked cool, but like things just looking cool aren't enough of a motivation for me to want to invest that much money into the system. And I'm sure I'm not alone there, you know, but the thing is, maybe it is speaking to somebody. But I would think with them talking about PSVR, we would have seen something that would have made us go, oh, they got this or like, they are going to do this thing or whatever it is and didn't get that vibe. Going through some of the other stuff, like there's exciting games there. Destiny 2 looks great. obviously Resident Evil 4

I can't freaking wait that looked absolutely phenomenal demo coming soon that's exciting and Street Fighter 6 continues to just kill like all the different stages they showed there I'm like this looks freaking rad so games I want to play we knew about

them the updates we got I'm happy with it but overall I think this was a this is a it's a state of play and I just really wish that's not how we felt about these things because they could I think pretty easily like make them something a lot more special I do you think it's a bummer that the, I think the best stuff we saw was stuff that we've already seen and know we're going to be good.

You know, like Street Fighter 6, we've already seen. We're already excited for. We're already sold on. Resonial 4, we've already seen, right? We've already been sold on, right? And you said one more other thing, I think, that we'd already seen. Destiny 2 Lightfall. Yeah, we've already seen.

That comes out next week, right? We're already excited for. This speaks to me so much as we have third party obligations for marketing that we need to fulfill, right? Like, we've told people down the line of, hey, hey, we told you we'll be in a, you'll, we'll showcase your game for you and this feels like hey okay this is the showcase to throw everything in there because we promised that we would market these games it doesn't feel like a state of play that needs to exist funny enough like a couple days ago it might have been yesterday on KFG somebody in chat was like my prediction is

that at the end of the state of play blessing would say that this could have been a blockpost and guess what you're fucking right yeah yeah yeah block post see I have a devil's advocate to that just in the sense that I do think that a state of play can't exist in this form where the point of this state of play was us finally knowing what of Suicide Squad is. That's a question we've been asking, and I think that they answered it. Is it the answers we all wanted?

I don't know. That's up to each person to decide. But I do think that this not being an email, this is the right way to present, hey, we got a bunch of third-party games. Let's put them together and, like, let's market this to people with the tent pole of 15 minutes of suicide squad. We're going to explain what that game is.

And so, like, I'm not mad about the presentation of this. And I think that it should, this is a great way going forward to do things. But I still just think you need, like, something that's a little more. exciting or enticing to add to it if you're expecting people to sit here for 45 minutes. And not every presentation can be the Shadow Drop Show. Like, we understand it.

Like, I don't want people to think that, you know, maybe we're a bit tougher on this because we got the Metroid Prime remaster or ShadowJop and the Nintendo Direct. Like, I don't necessarily expect, hey, by the way, gigantic brand new IP or IP that's been remastered or remade and it's available today. not expecting any of that. I just, of the unknowns that I always look forward to where it's just like, oh shit, I didn't even know this is a game.

And now it's here, and this is something new to look forward to this year, I just didn't see anything like that today. Everything looked fairly, like, kind of generic video game stuff today. And I would just, I just wanted something that was something that we could look forward to and mark on our calendar for 2023 and be like, holy shit. Oh, by the way, damn, in September, oh, my God.

I didn't, you know, I wasn't expecting that or whatever. already this year. You want like a new surprise, right? Something that you already didn't know about. I think that's the thing, that's the place where a state of play feels special some of the time is I always go back to the one that we got last May where they showed off Roller Drome and I'm like, oh shit, what is this? And we're like, oh shit, there's state of place before where they showed off a game like Seafood and it's like,

whoa, what is this? And it's different shows for different folks, right? For sure. Humanity, I'm sure, is that for sure. A hundred percent. There's people watch today that we're very excited about Baudersgate 3 or for Tia, which I could have sworn came out all already. Like that's, that this is kind of, I think,

the thing is we, those games are already all announced. Yeah. And like, that's my thing is, I think a new game, and it doesn't even have to be a game coming out this year, right?

Like a new game that is, hey, this is a game from one of our partners or a game that's from an indie studio that looks rad that is coming out someday that makes us go, oh shit, this looks cool.

Like, I think at least one or a couple of those would have been, something to look forward to. I think that would have done a lot for us. But there wasn't, I don't think there was any of that for us when I look, when I look through the thing, right?

Wayfinder, I'm sure Wayfinder might have been announced already, but even that, like, I don't think any of us knew about Wayfinder, and that didn't do anything for us. I had seen the logo treatment on the internet, and I was like, that looks pretty, and that's all I kind of remember about it. And now it's an MMO, which is getting a beta for PS5, exclusive to PS5. I'm sure that excites some people out there who are looking for a new MMO experience, who are maybe tired of Final Fantasy 14 or whatever. but I just, it just looked like, you know, stylized video game MMO template, you know what I mean? Yeah. Shout out to Hello Fresh for sponsoring this episode. Remember those New Year's goals you promised yourself that you'd stick to?

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That's hellofresh.com slash kind of funny 65 and use code kind of funny 65 for 65% off plus free shipping. HelloFresh, America's number one meal kit. Let's start with the big thing and kind of work our way around. So suicide squad, kill the justice league. Andy, you seemed like most interested in it out of any of us. You want to start this one off? I mean, just as somebody who likes third person and first person shooters playing those games on keyboard mouse, I just, I enjoy that action of it.

And I think all the airborne sort of action that we saw, whether it's double jumping or grapple hooks or jet packs, all that sort of shit just, it looks satisfying to do. It looks neat to, sort of the same stuff that I liked about Anthem, which was a huge disappointment. But the biggest takeaways from that were, man, I loved throwing a gigantic grenade scene, it explode, weaken those people and then shoot them down and kind of that instant satisfaction of whatever a third-person shooter does for you. and that's kind of what I was always expecting from Suicide Squad. When we heard that it was going to be a third-person shooter, that's like a good connection point for me because I don't necessarily think that multiplayer beat-em-up brawlers work a whole lot, which is why I was in on the Avengers single-player story

and just kind of dropped off immediately. When we saw Gotham Nights come out, I was like, this doesn't look exactly like what it needs to be. Again, remove the IP from this, take away all the DC shit from this. This looks like a fun, action-packed third-person shooter that has a lot of like momentum in action and it just looks fun as hell plus what did you think yeah i don't disagree too much i i do think that suicide squad looks like a fun game it's different from what i would have wished for it's not what anybody wants i'll say that

i know that it's not really what i want out of a suicide squad game but i i think i'm still gonna play it and i'm probably going to play it with y'all and i think yeah to your point i think the airborne stuff getting head shots off, the sniper stuff, like having the different classes of weapons that they're showing off, and also having the different weapons developed by different organizations within the world.

A little bit more depth I wasn't expecting. Yeah, that's very borderlands. And looking at the gameplay combined with the idea of that being a borderland style game, does really appeal to me. I think that is a really fun idea. Suicide Squad, of course,

is going to bring humor and fun into it. And that's one of the little worries I have is like, I hope the writing is quality overall. because so far for me the trailers have been hit or miss with the tone and the humor like this one honestly a lot of the jokes didn't hit for me in this latest trailer but there have been trailers before i'm like oh that's a fun idea like oh that's really interesting oh man i've been playing atomic art like my like you're at the floor right now yeah where writing's at but yeah if they're able to bring in like the character dialogue in game that is bringing in the goofiness and bringing

in the entertaining vibes like a borderlands even though i know born lands is hit or miss for people in terms of writing i think i think that could be something that's fun, right? And, you know, they showed off some of the gear stuff. They showed off some the weapon stuff. I've just accepted that it is what it is. Right. Cool. Either I go with it and go, all right, let's see what this geared suicide squad game is like, or I just piece out and go, all right, this isn't for me. And yeah, so far, I want to see more. Like, I kind of want to experience it. I think the gameplay actually does look pretty fun. But it looks fun for the idea of, oh yeah, yeah, me and me, Indie Mike, whoever are going to waste time with it. It doesn't look fun in terms of

top 10 game of the year contender and not everything not everything needs to be yeah I think all the midair the midair abilities and how the developers can get creative with how your

suicide squad member is kind of maneuvering around the world like there's a clear emphasis on verticality and movement and that is so key for me when it comes to a third or first person shooter

this just looks like a lot of fun I just think it is kind of a bummer that we think about like WB Montreal and Rock Setti and you know when before all both of these games were announced and coming out there's you kind of have the rumor mill like all right well if one of them is working on a games of service the other studio has got to be working on the next big gotham entry or vice versa you know what I mean and the fact that you know Batman fans have had a rough go of it these past couple years you know I feel like that is kind of a bummer for the Barrett's out there who were like, I just want the next big Batman title.

Just give me the big, meaty single player game without all the bullshit looting and getting new legendary gauntlets and add plus five, whatever. Like, that shit is not what these fans want, but this looks like something that I want. And I didn't really know I wanted, and I will be playing this. Yeah, it looks fun. The positives I have are like the gameplay does look fun. It looks like it can be pick up and play and have a good time, even if you're not doing that great, whatever.

And Bless was saying this in our live reaction, but the, it looks like there's some satisfying UI elements and like the, it looks like it feels good to shoot and like the sounds. Yeah. Like that stuff's cool. I think that otherwise, though, like there's not a chance I'm playing this. Like this just nothing adds up to me where the Outwriters stuff, I had a blast with Outwriters. That was so much fun. And I remember playing and being like, man, I feel like this could have been so much cooler

if there was an IP I actually cared about attached to the story and like whatever. So it's not just. Avatar generic. Remember that 4-V-4 Avatar game we saw? It's like red one? Wait, was that the one at the presentation I hosted? Yeah. How did you?

Oh, we made fun of that. I roasted the fuck out of that. It's like, Valorant fucking. That's going to be game at the year. There's a lot about this game that I feel like it's working against itself for the things I'd be looking for, where you've said some of this already, Andy, but like, this isn't what we're looking for from Rocksteady. This isn't what we're looking for a DC game.

This is the suicide squad And then it's also this third person thing But they all seem like Like they explained it later That like oh this is how they're all different Like Harley's more acrobatic And I'm like you're telling me that But you're showing me that they're all

Yeah that's what's his name? I was gonna call him Sharktail And I was like that's not his name That's the little bit shark tail Come Ron punches Yeah Like I when we're seeing his game play I'm like he seems like

Samoa Joe in this one Oh yeah That's right That is right He seemed like a character that should be Heavy It should be in like a tankie And they mentioned that, oh, yeah, he's the tank.

I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, I do need you to show that a bit more because he is zooming all over the place in this game. Yeah, and it just seems like there's a lot more, like, verticality and like they're flying through the air and, like, spinning, they're all flying. And I'm like, why is the suicide squad flying? And that is something I just can't separate in my head.

I'm just like, I have the expectations of what the DC world is and these characters. And this kind of just seems like, yeah, fuck, it's a video game, though. How to make the video game fun. And honestly, that's great. The game looks fun. but then to surround it with rock steady making a DC game and this is the vibe. The other thing is the dialogue, I am like,

I hate it. Like none of this is hitting. And so far every trailer I've seen for this, all the jokes I've been like, I don't like this. I don't like the, here's the good guys, they're evil and they're making jokes.

I know there's a trend of everybody talking shit about MCU humor and then there's all the TikToks of the people, oh, they're right behind me, huh? Like at this point, those jokes are so tried and true where it's like, I'm over it, guys. I get it. I get it.

This seems like, It almost seems like a terror. At some point, Superman, like, Captain Boomerang is going to be talking, and then you're going to see Superman descend behind him, and Captain Boomerang is going to be like, oh, he's right behind me, isn't he? I mean, even in what we saw here. You know, do the Australian accent. All I made.

Captain Boomerang legitimately said that's going to leave a mark. Yeah. Oh, man. Like, that's just like, yo, this ain't it. This ain't it. It's fully incumbent. That quote right there, I think it's fully encompassing of what this game feels like, which is just generic, which, like,

Yeah, I don't know what it is about the Suicide Squad IP where people just can't quite reach what they want to with this one. My whole disappointment with this is like it doesn't, I don't know who this is for, kind of like what you guys have been talking about. Like I am the, like, I would say biggest Arkham fan, specifically the game series at the studio. And this doesn't look for me. And then it's like, all right, Andy, you seem like semi excited about that. are like is were you the audience that they were trying to reach i don't feel like they're trying to reach their past audience with their past games and that's just like that's what leaves me with the question of like what what was the mindset behind this for the last eight years you know so

dude it's just what what this could have been is like a from software making a tension shoe game and then going you know what that doesn't really fit this ip let's just make a brand new ip called secito like yeah rock said he could have been making this as a suicide squad game and be like you know what? Fuck all the superhero stuff. Fuck, like, let's just do, this could just be its own brand new thing.

I would rather than have done that, you know, because then if it wasn't the DC comic tie-in, right, there would have been a different expectation set after all these years. If you showed me the same game, but it had more of a cartoony art style with like not these characters. Yeah, if you had a high-fi-rush art style. Sunset Overdrive. Sunset Overdrive.

I feel like that's an entirely different vibe that would work for what we're seeing in a lot of gameplay. Of course, it's still more to talk about there in terms of the content. But, yeah. It looked like Hi-Fi Rush. It was a single-player game. It had rhythm elements to it. It had dope music. Miyazaki developed it if it was set in a...

And then if they shadowed... It's a scary world. I saw a second ago, quack attack in the chat was like, like, if you don't like it, just don't play the game. And like that, that's it. But it's not the case. Like, yes, if you like it, play it. If you don't, don't, that's fine.

But this is rock steady that we're talking about. Like, this is a team that so many people have been so excited of what they're doing next for a decade at this point of looking forward to it. And to see this, I do think that it's a bummer that even if you are excited for this, even if you're in the chat right now, you're like, I think you guys are wrong. This is exactly what I'm looking for. I feel bad because you're not going to get what you want because this game is not going to be supported as long as they're saying it is.

And as they do that, there's not going to be enough people playing because they're being too ambitious with the battle past stuff. Like, am I wrong about that? Like, we've seen, how many games have been canceled in the last year or shut down or whatever? cancel is not the right word, but like, shut down. Shut down. It's like, this is the story of these games, and this is coming, it doesn't look like it's solving

those issues at all. And the content doesn't get pushed out as far enough as they initially promised because they noticed that the player base isn't there and why waste resources to do that. I think this could have been a massive, massive win. If we saw all these leaks leading up to this and we saw the leaked images of the battle pass up

there and all this stuff, if they came out today and said, there's no battle pass stuff, this is not, we're not going to do this as a game's a server, this is a single, I think there would have been a huge massive PR win for them and a lot of, even without that stuff, just looking at the gameplay and everything else, I just, I'd, yeah, that would have been, I think a minor win in the grand scheme of what this gameplay looks like, what the writing looks like, uh, et cetera.

Looks like we're offline. Uh, yeah, I am disconnected from everything. That's cool. Disconnected. But we're still recording. We're still recording everybody. That's not good at all for this episode in for, for sure. particular.

Yeah. Why? Yeah. Okay. The gas is live and it's going to be there. I think we have two YouTube videos or something like that. Oh, this is good. We're going to have to re-up.

Oh, this isn't good. Oh, this is good. That's all right. You know what? Yeah, we have funnier. Kind of funny, y'all. Ten shot got him. Any other thoughts on suicide squad?

I hope that like, you know, obviously I hope every game comes out. It is excellent. It is a 10-10 game, right? And I hope we're proven wrong. I hope we get the game and we're like, oh shit, never mind. Like this shit has some steam to it.

Like, oh man, what they did with Flash, damn, he was beheading people. It was really good. I hope he gets to that place. But, you know, I'm holding out hope, is my thing.

I do, yeah, I think the pie in the sky, hope for this is that the main campaign is engaging enough. In the way that I thought when Avengers came out, I'm sure I knew I was going to give up very, very quick

on the multiplayer aspects. it, but I had fun exploring the world with, you know, Kamala and kind of of seeing this brand new campaign that I had never seen before, and I had never seen this in a video game and kind of gained little hints of all

these Avengers characters interacting with each other was cool and neat, and I wasn't expecting a story that I would give like a near the end, it got kind of messy right, but like overall, the Avengers campaign, pretty decent, not too bad. That's a fair review. No, you're right.

Give me a face. Yeah, pretty decent. I'm with you. The highs of the Avengers campaign are so high. And like, but to me, it was always a constant reminder of like, I wish this was the game. This is what could have been. Because it's not the game. There's so much other stuff around it.

And I think that's my pie in the sky. I hope is that this game still at least delivers some sort of campaign that is worthwhile. And I'm not just speeding through dialogue or speeding through cutscenes. Like, I want to care a little bit about the campaign. You know, this is a weird thing to say. But people out there that watch comic book stuff, their cartoons specifically, well,

we'll get what I'm saying. DC on the animated side has crushed it for decades. They put out so many, like, things that are like canon in the DC animated universe. And are widely loved. Wildly loved. Yeah.

They do a whole bunch of like elseworld stories that are like, hey, here's a standalone movie, whatever. They're not all wildly loved. There's also the ones you're walking to Blockbuster and you see a bunch of shit and you're like,

oh, I guess there's that. This, to me, everything about it reads that way where I'm like, I just don't have faith that the story's going to be interesting. I think this is going to be interesting. I think this is going to be, oh, Suicide Squad kills the Justice League.

That's going to be one of those movies that people are, oh, yeah, watch this and this, but don't watch that one, you know? And I think that that is a bad starting place that I don't think that I'm alone in thinking this, where it's like there's a ton of these, especially the Harley Quinn series. Like, we are so familiar with Harley Quinn. With Tara Strong's Harley Quinn, right? Seeing it in this, it's like, oh, is that Harley? Or is Spider-Man? I don't know. It reminds me of, you know, getting a 5V-5 overwatch.

style Gundam game. You know, like I know a lot of the hardcore fans of that IP would prefer to have something a little bit meatier instead of a just a multiplayer, objective-based first-person shooter or third-person shooter, which is kind of a odd choice. I feel like that's it here.

I think it's just an IP in the wrong genre. But so looks fun in me. I'm playing. $70. I'm playing with you. Right? No way. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Godlin Knights was 70, bro. Yeah. What are we doing? What are we doing?

I guess. All right. Yeah. So there you go. I'll swipe the card for everybody. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'll buy it for you,

Barrett, all right? Let's move on to... Barrett, you can be boomerang. Boomerang, Barrett, and I'm going to call you. Oh. Let's move on to the Capcom bit. We got a little Street Fighter 6,

Resident Evil 4. Andy, I want to know your thoughts on RE4. I mean, RE4 just looks like that stunning visual title. Like, you've got to play it at max settings. it looks like a lot of fun.

And plus the, it looks like it's still retaining that camp because RE4 is like one of the few games that I actually did play back in the day because it was a tiny bit less scary, even though the chainsaw guy scared the shit out of me in the village. But the idea of it still being like this fast action thing and Leon suddenly, you know,

you talk about Leon from part two coming to here and he's like shit talking the villagers, talking shit to him or whatever. It just seems like they kept, the same sort of genre in mind. They knew that RE4 has a tone and we cannot get too far away from it but it's going to have all the

lighting and visual stuff that's going to keep the game super scary. If not make it scarier. This looks like this is going to be a lot scarier than RE4 just based on what they can do tech-wise to the environment. Bless. Yeah, it looks fantastic. It's funny because as we were watching the trailer, I was trying to like,

I'll try to watch it while also not pay too much attention because again, I want to keep this shit fresh. Yeah. You're covering like the screen. Yeah, I don't want to see too much, but I mean, it looks really good. It looks fantastic. And yeah, the more I see it, the more I'm like, yeah, this looks like it's going to be a fantastic game.

This looks like a, this looks like they're doing the damn thing. And you talk about, like, it being scary and having the horror elements. It reminds me a little bit of Resilual Village in terms of setting and all and all stuff. Obviously, that's because Reserville Village should place in a village, which is inspired by horror. But, yeah, like, I found, I've got a back and forth about Resilueville Village being scary or not.

And I found Village very scary, and that might have been for a particular section that, I think most people would find scary in that game. But overall, like, the werewolves and shit in that game, I was like, oh, this is, it's getting me. Like, there's something about this kind of setting in horror that does work pretty well for me. And, yeah, seeing in this trailer, I'm like, yeah, this looks like it's going to work as well for me, so.

That shot, that sort of quick time moment that happened about 10, 15 seconds ago, where the dude jumps on Leon and the light is coming from, from underneath, like, it's giving me, I'm getting the same sort of Spider-Man PS4 debut vibes. You're like, there's no way there's a video game. Yeah. And, dude, you know, it's really. funny because like I remember playing

RE2 and even R3 but like the remakes and having that feeling playing Like there's no shot this is real As I'm playing I'm like wow this How the fuck did we get here with video games man? The RE engine is just stunning and now Being on the PS5 it's even more Impressive right and taking one of the

Greatest games of all time and giving it that treatment I We're in for something so special like I can't wait I haven't replayed RE4 Since the Wii version came out And like that so that's a long ass time ago and I had a blast with it. So I'm very excited for this. You playing in performance? You playing

in Fidelity? For this game? I don't know. We'll see. On the week. I like to I always... I bounce back and forth. These days I have been going performance because I feel like it just looks so damn good anyways for most games. But with Ari, I don't know that you necessarily You need performance for the

faster reaction time because of the Perry Tim. Okay. Okay, gotcha. Perry Master. Good call. I mean, QuickTime events, like RE4 was one of the first games to really kind of make that like a cool thing. Like that I remember being like it happened with like God of War and stuff as well.

But like RE4 I think that was the first time I remember where QuickTime events felt like a cinematic fun like oh shit like this is engaging and now we're not looking at it like this fucking waste of time. This isn't just a cut scene. Exactly yeah with like the boulders falling and stuff. But I thought it it looks great and we're so

so close to it and a demo coming out that's exciting as well. Speaking of that I saw somebody in chat. I mean I might actually checked this to make sure right but i saw somebody chat say that the humanity demo is up which might count for your out today pretty cool that's interesting let me double check and get back to you you got a little shadow drop yeah that's cool shadow drop shadow drop baby um street fighter six you know not too much new information we got i guess some character confirmations um officially apparently

they've leaked before but but zangeef in the game i know who the fuck would have thought but yeah to return we got zangeefe and cammy both look great um and then we got um A new character named Lily, who I think looks really, really interesting. Like, I want to give her a shot. Are those high, like, what are these weapons? Are they, like, the high-alai scoops? You ever seen people play High-Lie? Yeah.

What are those in her hands? Like a weird? Oh, that's like a baton, actually, never mind. Also, chat, is she related to T-Hawk? Is there any, like, anything online about her being related to T-Ox? I saw some people in chat saying that, but I don't think that's a, I don't know if that's the thing. Because they have, like, similar vibes and it's higher. Camie looks dope as she.

shit. Cammy looks incredible. Like it's actually pretty like she just looks fantastic. Also what's his name? Sanghii, I think looks great too. I like what they're doing in terms of like giving him more of a lusador vibe. Yeah, everything every single time we see this game I'm like this just looks fantastic. Yeah, I'm mixed on the art style and I seem to be definitely the minority on that where people are losing their shit about it.

I don't think you are in the minority. I do see a lot of conjecture when it comes to like, man, this game looks like a last-gen sort of title. And I think that could just have been some levels that we've seen in the past, whether it's the lighting, hitting in certain different ways. Today, I think it's looked really, really down.

And that's my thing is, like, so far with the levels, I've been kind of like, oh, it's cool. Seeing like Zangip's wrestling ring and the London streets there, I'm like, oh, cool. I like the variation we're getting. And that's something I've always loved about Street Fighter is the World Warrior elements of it and, like, going everywhere and seeing how everything looks.

and sounds and sounds is the other thing. Not a fan of new themes, but hey, I get it. Someone might be, but. Yeah, all of the themes so far have seemed kind of like, like all the instruments being used are the same. Yeah. Which is kind of a bummer. There's a vibe to this overall that kind of just feels like,

this is the hip-hop one. And I'm like, I don't know, man. Like the look of it and all, it's like, it just kind of seems generic to me as opposed to like Street Fighter 3 was hip-hop. That was awesome. That was inspired. That felt great.

This kind of just feels like, I don't know, but the game looks incredible. Can't wait it. We played it. It's fucking awesome. It's fucking dope. The humanity demo is available right now in the USPS score and on Steam and it's available up until March 6th.

And so if you want to check out humanity and really figure out what the fuck that game is, now is the time to do so. Sounds cool that you all played. I wish I could have played with you all there. I mean, there's been, why aren't you in the beta? There's multiple closed betas. I don't know.

How much you talk to your people, blessing? Talk to your fucking people, blessing. They're busy. They're busy. But yeah, I agree with it in terms of, soundtrack and like art style I think it looks good but also it is

derivative or I guess maybe iterative of yeah Street Fighter 4 and Street Fighter 5 I think it would be cool to see them bring even more I think they're really trying with the graffiti stuff and trying to make a lot of the character actions more flashy by having some of the moves be like have like the graffiti animation and all that stuff appear on screen

spray paint kind of color splashes the color splash stuff yeah I would like them to go harder But I think right now For what we've seen I think that I mean that is pretty much what we got right Like I don't know if they're gonna add much more More to it but yeah like I can kind of see

Where you're coming from there especially coming off of something like Street Friday or Third Strike which I think sets a fucking bar It's a league of it is what it's a league of its own That's a bygone era We're not the best art style of all Of all media of all time yeah That game just looks incredible and it's so smooth And to your point about the soundtrack being

Hip Hop and really representing that Yeah like I'm I'm surprised at least so far in in the beta, who knows about the final game, that, like, there's not rap music over the character select. You know, I think that kind of cohesion and that kind of, let's commit to a style really goes a long way in terms of really making your game stand out and feel stylish.

And, yeah, I can see why you don't want more from that. I love the Street Fighter 4 style was just like, all right, we're going to go for the music, super epic orchestral. It's all the hits you know. It's super hype and super epic. But then the theme song was a fucking boy band. Remember that shit. I didn't remember it.

Indestructible. Oh, yeah. I don't remember that. She's fucking hype, bro. I think, like, my last touchdown two street, the last time I was really into Street Fighter and, like, the FGC was Street Fighter 4. So that's why all of the spray painting color, color splash stuff has been, I'm with you blessing, where it kind of feels like they just kind of expanded upon it. Yeah. But again, game looks great.

Can't wait, can't wait. Talk to your people, bless them. Get me in there. I'll figure it out. So, bless, I want to talk to you about PSVR. You reviewed it for us. You've been playing a whole bunch of it. We saw a montage in the beginning,

the Foglands, Journey to Foundation, before your eyes, VR. Does any of that do anything for you? I mean, I thought Foglands look cool. It's one that I want to try out. Before your eyes, I definitely want to try out. That's one that I've heard Janet talk a lot about. That's the game where you control it by blinking,

and blinking is a core mechanic in the game. And Janet was talking about it as being this moving experience. And it seems like one where VR might be the definitive way to play the game. The art style looks really cool. the trailer starts off with you talking to this wolfman, and I did not know that that was a thing in this game, so I wanted to know what the fuck that's about. But yeah, it seems like a cool,

a cool different kind of game with a mechanic that actually fits and works for what VR is. I think that's the thing that I very much desire out of my VR experiences, an experience that is either enhanced or feels like it is meant for this, right? VR really enhances and brings something new to this kind of experience. Before your eyes, seems like that. The Foglands, you know, seemed fun. It seemed interesting.

It goes back to what we're talking about, during the live reactions where a lot of the VR stuff feels kind of like arcade experiences or shooting galleries and there's been a lot of that. So it's hard for me to get excited about another one of those unless there's something extra that is bringing. And Foglands, I mean, I don't know what the extra is from Foglands, but looking at it, I'm like, it looks good, right? And it was Synops.

I think Synaps was the one by the fracked people. That's like the fast-paced shooter. That one looked fun as well, right? It looked like it might be a little bit sick. but it's one that I want to try out just to see. But as a whole, the VR portion of the showcase didn't really, it didn't move me, but I think the games look fine. I think the game looks cool, especially before your eyes.

Besides the VR stuff, Destiny 2, just kind of a launch trailer. It's coming next week. But what was you guys hype levels for that? I'm very excited. I am very, very excited. As somebody who finally hopped back into Destiny last season, who kind of caught up on a lot of older content with Witch Queen and even the one before that that I

name is, I'm drawing a blank right now in the forsaken, um, for that. The witch queen. The witch queen, I just said that. It just said that. The moon is moving. The moon is out of orbit. Beyond light.

Beyond light. Thank you, Nitro 39. Us Nighter has got to stick together. The Taking King. I'm very, very excited for whatever the hell is happening here. I want to check out our friend Alex fan. or Alex O'Neill's lore video. He made kind of a lore catch-up video.

Because whenever I'm watching these things, I'm very much like Joey Noel, where I'm just skipping pass on my own. I don't care. Let me get shooty, shooty, headshot crits. And I want to actually find out what the hell is happening here. Because Callis is back.

Shout out my homie, Callis. Yeah. I miss out of gold everywhere. All gold everywhere. Well, I mean, we thought we did, but somehow he's back. But here's the thing. Somehow Darth Citties is back.

What's up? We learned that he was like a robot or whatever that we killed him? He was. Yeah. At the end of it, he's like a, right. Yeah. It's like, well, big twist for a six-year-old fucking...

I mean, you can't even... You literally can't play that rate anymore. Big twist, big twist. Yeah, I'm just super stoked, man. I ended up watching that 15-minute-long bungee. I always call him vidox, but apparently they're vidocs. Motherfuck. I say vidoc.

I'm going to call it a vidoc. V-I-D-O-C. It's like a V-D-O-C. Video documentary. Yeah. Like what... They did a video. for Psychonauts?

Isn't I just called a documentary? No, but like it's like a special sort of category, you know what I mean? A 15 minute. That's Psychonauts documentary. It's pretty dope. Real gamers, no. Real gamers know. Anyway, all the movement stuff

looks insanely cool with whatever this strand is. They're calling it the strand, the green sort of thing that's helping you grapple. But there's also... There's also all these cool abilities that kind of go along with it. All of the different classes have their own sort of strand talent trees and everything.

It just looks like a... ton of fun and I'm super stoked to get back into it. I like our style. Little PS Plus update here. We got, I mean, Chia, March 21st, coming to premium and extra on PS Plus. We also saw Legacy of Thieves from

Uncharted. The collections come in. Rainbow 6 extraction. Bless, you're way more in tune with the PS Plus side of things. What do you think of that showing? Is this cool? I mean, it's fine. I think Chia is actually the one that I'm excited for PS Plus because I've been asking this more.

I want more day-and-date, cool indie titles coming to the PlayStation Plus extra. We got that with Stray in July, and I don't think they've done nearly enough with that style of release. So Chia being another one, I think, is a very good call. And I want them to do this more. That actually got me very excited. In terms of the stuff they announced coming at PS Plus, like Bramble 6 and all this stuff. Cool. Andy?

What's up, bro? You're a fucking maniac for what you just did. Wait, what are you doing? Oh, blessing. I am so, so sorry for what is about the Hellstorm that is about. about to bring down upon you on Twitter. I don't know what you're talking about it. Did you say something about JVR?

I don't know what you're talking about it. They're not happy with me. They're not happy with me on the internet right now. Oh, no. I don't know. Oh, no. I don't know what sort of accusation is. I don't think you understand the abuse that I've had to ignore in my DMs.

I don't know what sort of accusation. Andy Gretz tweets, Hey, I kind of funny Vids audience. Last time I chatted with Applesi Jr. about PSVR. He typed it as PSZZZZR because it was boring, apparently. What? Who typed that? The chaos is out there, everybody.

I don't know if you've seen my video. I should show you. I should like, literally like I'm, who typed that, oh, man. Thank you. Oh, man. God, we need to make shirts to say

Wii U is life, or Wii U means life. U means life. Oh, Lord. There's an energy here in the water. Everybody. Oh, wow. What the fuck were you talking about?

I forgot. That's what we were talking about. I didn't think you would see that yet. Thank you. I was looking at Twitter because I saw some people in the chat, potentially bringing up some breaking news, but I can't confirm it. So I'm not even going to bring it up because I don't believe you all motherfuckers.

Was it so many lying about Half Live Alex? No. I look that up. I can't just say things are real when they're not. I want to talk about goodbye volcano high from co-op coming out June 15th, which I think that is the new info there. Oh, this is it. Mortal Kombat 12 confirmed for this year in a Warner Brothers discovery earnings call.

Why? You can't just do that there, bro. Why wouldn't they just put it in the thing? Okay, guys, it could have been an email. It could have been to this. We can't have it every fucking way, all right? It could have been in a Warner Bros. Discovery or did it call. This should not have been an email.

Y'all, this could have been a logo on a fucking stream that would have taken this from a two to a three. All it needed to be was a logo and it would have been so high. I fucking love it. I love it so much. I'm so mad. The fucking disasters are world. is. The stuff we want to presentations is an impression.

Do we get Tekken 8 this year, Bless? I don't think so. Do we get Mortal Kombat 12 this year? I don't think so. No. I think Street Fighter 6 is the one for this year. Yeah. I don't think it's impossible to get Tekken 8.

If TechN 8 comes, I think it'll be deep into the fall. Because they've already started to roll out. We got a new trailer for, was it Kazi? chat, a new gameplay trailer for Kasia at the correct me if I'm wrong about this. I think we got that earlier this week. Yeah, we did.

We saw the V-O person, right? That the video you just sent me to? Yeah. People were saying yes. All right. So yeah, they're drip feeding this in a way where that is fairly consistent, right? Like, it feels like every month or so

there's some new tech and thing, which gives me hope that like, oh, maybe it could be ready sooner than later, but I feel like by now you would at least say a window, right? Like, you would at least be like, oh, and it's coming out this fall, or maybe it's coming out in 2023. That couldn't be an E3 thing, but...

Totally. I mean, I feel like that's the thing is I don't, I don't think that they would have by now necessarily. It's still so early in the year and, like, we have a lot of showcases to go, right, in the coming months. So, especially with E3 happening maybe, probably 100%, but... Yeah. Ubisoft's not sure. So we'll see. Yeah, it's interesting now, like, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Discussing film says Mortal Kombat 12 was releasing this year. That's no way.

That's what we just said, Bless. Oh, I literally just pulled that up. We were talking about the last five minutes. I missed the this year part. I didn't see the this year part. I missed the this year part. I thought it was just, hey, it's an earnings call. Yes, this thing is coming.

Yeah, yeah. It said this year, which I think I still don't necessarily believe, but I don't know why I think that, though. I think street fighter, tech, and animal combat could all come out this year, and that'd be wild, and then they're going to fight to the death. Wow. Who do you think represents from each one? About three?

What about, no, from, like, which fighter would you pull from each one? of them to fight against each other in a 1 v1 v1 battle royale i mean i feel like you just got to go with like the title i'd bring in rain for mortal combat cool cool cool i'd bring a fucking rainer sector man those guys are cool i never heard i had never heard the word sector before i was like that's a cool that is a cool ass word and this dude is a red robot you know how dope is yoshi mitsu he's like you know what motherfuckers i'm in tech and soul californ god god he's got range and if he just press buttons he'll hurt himself i'm getting a phone call is it Greg Miller?

Hello, Greg Miller. You were live on... Yeah. Hello, Tim. How are you? Good. How are you? Good.

I come with breaking news for blessing. Mortal Kombat 12 is confirmed for this year. God damn it. God damn it. Did you hear what he said about PSBR 2? I hate you all. Z. Oh, my God.

I was a kid. I got a death wish. How you doing, Greg? Did PSZ snored. What's happening tonight? Dice Awards. Me and Stella hostin was going to be great. Wow, you guys should all watch that.

Have fun, good luck. Shout me out. Tap your knee, Greg. Tap your knee for Andy. Shout out bonermonger.com. Please. On stage. Oh, my freaking God.

What else we got? There was a Naruto, Borudo, Ultimate Ninja Storm Connection. Look great. Yeah, game of the show. Game of the show. That's cool. I know people like those games.

Yeah. Put them all together. In a room, they could fit in there. Yeah. in a small bedroom That's so funny What else we got? Anything you guys want to say?

It was pretty much everything covered there So we got PlayStation Showcase Apparently coming Before E3 time According to Jeff Grub God I imagine That's gonna be a banger and a half

Spina Man 2 Probably other new announcements Wolverine Maybe Melrose solid 3 remake Probably That's where it's gonna be Right

I mean I would imagine That that happens In May right like that was where we got the last data play around that time and I think that rolls in right into E3 timing which you know the thing we talked about this morning on KFTE was the fact

that Konami seems like they're and this is according to VGC they're they seem like they're going to bring back MGS3 as a remake and then also announced in New Casabania and that they're prepping to hopefully bring back a lot of these IP in bigger ways but that they're also going to have an E3 presence I think if that's the case

then yeah like if a PlayStation showcase time for late May would perfectly line up for all of those big third party partners who might want to then show something off at an E3. I hope that happens, right? I hope you get a million solid three and a Sparamine two and trailers in the same showcase

along with like whatever is next for Bloodborn remake. Bloodborn, I was going to say like sucker punch. What's you doing, Blue Point? I mean, I was seeing that it's bloodborns, like, some anniversary's coming up at some point. That's how yours work. The eight year anniversary? Everybody loves the eight year anniversary.

There's a blood porn. imagine you just sort of like it's a calm sort of sound right just imagine a calm sound whatever that could be win wrestling yeah and then you hear thank you thank you bear and then you hear a little little bit answer hey part three's coming out we remade part three man I can't fuck away you kind of get into Michael Douglas a little bit there hey Scott you had to control the aunt Scott Oh, man. Well, I think that this has been a fun day.

Video games, man. Video games. They're happening. They're happening all around us. Let us know in the comments below what you would give this on a scale of one to five. How excited you are for the PlayStation Showcase that is going to happen at some point. We all believe it in our souls. And until next time, I love you all.

Goodbye. Goodbye, Scott.