Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Elden Ring Recap - Kinda Funny Gamescast Summer Game Fest

Episode Date: June 10, 2021

Greg, Bless, Andy, and Mike breakdown every announcement from Summer Game Fest Kickoff! Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - ELDEN RING 00:13:00 - What did we think of the show overall? 00:30:04 - Ads 00:33:48 - What score would we give it? 00:41:30 - Wonderlands 00:44:00 - Mike’s Favorite Games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up everybody? Welcome to a very special kind of funny games cast. This is our post show for the Summer Game Fest 2021 kickoff dream. I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside the future class of video games. Blessing at E.O.E.A. Jr. Alden Ring, baby. The most hype man in all the video games, Snow Bike, Mike. Yo, that was an awesome conference. And the Hispanic heartthrob Texas treat Latino.

He'd clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. the globe trotten, head shotten, nitro rifle from Twitch.tv, Andy Cortez. Eldon Ring! Andy, we will start with you. We have finished this, what was it, an hour and a half, two hour long, two hour and 45 minutes, whatever it was. It's a blur now. Time is a flat circle. You end on Eldon Ring.

You end with the release date of January 21st, 2021. How are you feeling, Mr. Cortez, number one soul's fan in the entire world? Fuck you, Tam. I am exhilarated. Yeah, as everybody knows, I put from software on the map, a small studio that I decided to give a shot and really kind of put them out there in the world. I am, I'm exhilarated.

I'm excited. I'm sorry, it's all happening very fast. Obviously, we're not coming back in time, everybody. Sorry, chat, eat me alive. Just eat me alive. Go for it. We're going to say before you see me alive. There's a lot of things.

He's going to think he'd be my ass. He was. I was like, I'm going to hold on. I am wrong. I did screw this up. I don't tell you. So first off, I don't know what that tweet that Jeff Keely posted afterwards is all about. Jeff Keely tweeted, Elder Ring is real.

I regret to inform you, we showed you the wrong trailer. We're actually confirming that Nintendo Switch is coming out August 20th, 2021. I don't know what that tweet is about. It's a very weird tweet. I know we're getting off the subject here, but were they even supposed to show this here? Maybe this was supposed to be for Bandai Namco. I don't know. They were definitely supposed to show it.

It was a weird tweet. Anyway, how do I feel about Elden Ring? It looks amazing. It's what we have wanted. We've wanted to see what from software can do with this open world setting. And we know that Hidataka Miyazaki is very influenced by a lot of Zelda games. And I think this is going to be the closest to a sort of Zelda game that you will get, where you will have this big, giant open world that you can travel across.

and each dungeon will kind of give you what you're used to whenever you are maybe heading towards a boss fight. There will be dungeons across the world and bosses that you fight. I'm assuming a ton of optional bosses, probably a lot that are also going to be required to beat the story. It looks gorgeous. I'm like shaking right now. The combat looks fantastic as usual.

It's what you expect. And honestly, it looks nicer than what I was expecting. I was worried coming off of Demon Souls. and seeing what Blue Point did with that and how visually stunning that is. Yeah. And worried about, you know, here's the thing about Souls games. They're always, you know, amazing when it comes to their art style, but visual fidelity, not always the thing that they are, like, known to be 10 out of 10s on. So this looks fantastic so far. And it is cross-gen. We did see that as well. So you got to assume the next-gen version

will obviously look probably like what we're seeing right now, PC as well. I'm beside myself. I can't believe that Keeley actually was able to get it and get it announced. Two things here. Number one is that you are being trolled. That is a parody Twitter account. That's not real. Oh, really?

Okay. And chat saying that's the thing. So don't worry about it. I got tagged. I was in the restroom panicking. If you don't shut up Andy, all right? I have more Eldon Ring questions for you, all right? Number two, someone in the chat said, where are we getting the open world thing from?

Is somebody who hasn't paid attention to Eldon Ring? Is that already confirmed? Where are you pulling that from? Yeah. Miyazaki's mentioned this before, that it is going to be a much larger scale game, the biggest one that they've ever made. Plus, I think the showing off that you can ride a horse is showing you, this is our take on traversal around a giant open field and open world. That's been confirmed. That is confirmed, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, Andy, blessing, where are you at with it? With Alderink specifically? Yep. Oh, my God. The trailer was so good. Yeah, I mean, Andy, it bounced off one of your points, right, about graphics. Like, I'm totally with you in terms of coming off of Demon Souls being made by BluPoint and how beautiful that game looks and it being graphically insane.

Watching this trailer, I would, like, graphics wasn't the thing that I took away from this trailer. You know, there was one, there was somebody in chat that was like, you know, when I, when they showed off the PS4, PS5, Xbox series, Xbox one logos, there's somebody in chat that mentioned, like, bless, this doesn't look like it's, like, it's like graphically insane, right? like it doesn't look like it's going to be like a next-gen pushing title i don't need a soul's game to look like that i don't need a souls game to be the most beautiful thing on the console as long as it pushes the art and as long as it gets that the the vibe the world the tone across i've that that's for me what i look forward to bloodborne has one of the best art styles that i think is in the game i love how bloodborn looks and it's not the most detail it's not as detailed like graphically detailed to something like BluPoint.

But artistically, I think it pushes things. And so I'm totally fine with that. I think some of what they showed off in terms of how the world looks and the things that you can do in the world, that stuff has me hyped, that stuff has me excited. The bosses they showed,

have me hyped, have me excited. Those are that one boss that reminded me a little bit of Ludwig from the Bloodborne DLC. That got me hype. Jumping at you, thrusting, like swinging. Yeah, like doing the big creature

doing big motions, you know, like stuff, stuff that looked almost like it was projectile-ish. That has me super excited because you can tell where they're taking influence from in terms of their past games and bringing it into the new games and taking the stuff that people love the most. There's an idea that Emron Khan, the homie, has ran by me while I was streaming Bloodbourne back in December. And he was talking about how the previous Souls games always feel like they are setting or teasing something that's going to be present in the new Souls games. And so for Bloodbourne, Lady Maria felt like it was teeing up what you're going to get a lot out of. of Sekaro in terms of like the quick one-on-one like counterbased gameplay, right?

Like Lady Maria felt like it was kind of teeing that stuff up a little bit. And, you know, Imran was kind of poisoning the idea to me that like, hey, I don't know what it could be from Sekiro that translates into what Eldon Ring is. But there is a boss fight toward the end of Sekaro, if you remember, that does take use of a bigger field with a bigger monster that you're fighting that is kind of kind of out of, kind of left field for Sekiro, but makes sense as a tease for what Eldon Ring is. is and for what we see, I feel like, yeah, that feels like that's where that's pointing to. And so, yeah, I'm very excited about Alderman Ring.

I'm very excited that they have the January release date, uh, hype that they confirmed that and they feel confident in that. And yeah, that was a great way to end the show. One of my predictions wrong already. I think I predicted what did I say August. I forgot what I said, October. It doesn't matter. The month started with an awe.

Just live it. Just live your life right now. I mean, my prediction was that we would just get next year, 2022. And so I think I'm a little bit wrong there, too. I'm surprised like we said it live. they didn't hold it for Bandai Namco's actual conference or presentation or wherever they have. I wonder what they're going to do, if anything, now for it. Are they showing the same trailer?

Are they doing a longer talk, a longer, you know, a deep dive on it? Like, you figure they have to do something there. This is their big game, right? Yeah, it's possible that they maybe get, like, maybe Miyazaki's actually in a video, like much like he did when he came out to show Bloodborn off. And he is saying, hey, here's what to expect, right? This is, like, the biggest open world. I think he's also mentioned in interviews that this is the most influenced by Dark Souls.

Like, if he were to compare Eldon Ring to any of his past games, it would be the Dark Souls franchise as opposed to Sekiro or Bloodborn. Yeah, I got to assume that maybe we get either him or just other devs from some software talking about it at the Bandai Namco presentation. Yeah, I think that's definitely what we're going to get, because I think it's time to, if it's coming out in January, this is the one E3 they're going to have to really deep dive on the game. But is it really coming out in January?

Yes. I mean, that's the question, right? Yes. I believe they have. I believe they have all hope in the world of making that date. I don't think they hit it. I think that game slips. That's my pizza bet.

Pizza bet right now. Chat, all 4,000 of you on June 10th at 108 p.m. Pacific time, Andy has bet Greg to a pizza bet. And it will come out on January 20th. What was it, 22nd? My first. 21st. 21st, 21st, 2021. Michael, Snowbike, mystical Michael.

You, of course, are a soul's fan as well. What did this one do for you? I'm so excited, Greg. I think these two have really run the gambit on breaking down what this is and how excited we all are. But I'm pumped up. I love going back into the Souls games. I love testing getting better, right? You get punished all the time.

Then you get better. You overcome that obstacle and you go forward. And I love that kind of gameplay. I love that competitive nature that this kind of game brings out of me. And I can't wait to see what they're going to bring here. I'm so excited for the gameplay, right? I'm not here for the looks and the graphics. I'm here for the gameplay.

And I'm here for the cool setting that they're going to create with these wild, crazy monsters that I'm just going to absolutely slay and dominate. So, yeah, I can't wait. I'm so pumped up. As you guys know, like, you know, I've never been a huge soulsperson, but we went through Bloodbore on PSI Love You this year or whatever. And I obviously enjoy the combat and understand what it's all about. I thought that trailer looked great. Like, that's a game I want to play. Like, I want to try.

Especially if you're talking about this open world thing and be able to explore it a bit more like that, that gets me excited to see what they have up their sleeve, let alone what they've taken from the learnings of, you know, putting so many of these games out now. doing all these ones. So I'm stoked to see what that's actually going to be about. One thing I had a question for you guys, again, is people who have been watching this a bit more closely. What did you take away from what looked to be multiplayer? Have they already talked about multiplayer?

Did that look to be more like just what I've done in Bloodborn with like Tam or whatever? Because it looked at one point, right? There was like a shadow version of one of the characters, but then another character on top of that. It's possible summons or invasions. I can't imagine them not having that in these games. It's just such a core soul's mechanics. I got to imagine they would bring that back as well.

God damn. I'm just so excited for this fantasy sort of world. I love, as much as I loved the Blood-Born sort of Gothic aesthetic and thought that Dark Souls, it's going to be so ugly. Why am I going to go back to play Dark Souls remastered after playing Demon Souls? And then that game immediately became one of my favorites of all time. I can't wait to see a 2020, 2020, 2021 version. of what From Software's dark fantasy world could look like.

Oh, God. Conceptually, they are just, they're the best, I think. They are, they're artists and their in-house people working on what these things should look like. They're next to that. Yeah, like, look at what we're looking at right now. You know, when we go back to talking about how games look, you know, for me, the thing, the thing that strikes me with From Software games is, like, how many things you see hanging off of MPCs? Like, the amount of moving parts you see in a character.

when we're fighting, Andy, what was the boss fight? One of the beasts in Bloodbourne, one of the earlier on ones where you are going to the air. Yes, the Bloods carved beast. Wow, that was a really good, really good guess. The backstory. When you're fighting the, when you're fighting the BSB, the way that, that enemy moves and the way that that thing flows and it's in its attack animations, like, that's the shit that I feel like is going to push like, okay, no, this is what this can do, right? Like, this and, you know, like, of course it's going to be cross-gen. not going to get anything that in this new game that probably can't work or anything on PS5

and Xbox Series X that probably can't work on previous gens. But what you're going to get out of next gen is going to be things like performance mode and 60 FPS and things like that, which are going to make this game shine even more. Playing Sekiro on my PS5, for example, is what's such a fantastic experience for how well that game runs. And you had to go back to the summons thing, right? Like that was, Greg, that was the same thing that I kind of took away from it was the fact that you're, it's either going to be summons or it's going to be co-op. you know and that's those are things that they've done before in some of their previous titles it being open world i think adds another layer to it of okay i'm not going to be able to explore

friends like is that going to be a hundred percent right you you are called a tarnished in this game blessed they just tarnish but out the tweet that says rise tarnished oh my god i'm so excited i'm like crying dude this is so good so snow bike mike let's take a step back from elven ring can go super wide. You know, nearly two hours. No, no, ain't saying, you know. Nearly two hours of Summer Game Fest. What did you think of this kickoff event, Mike?

Greg, I'm actually coming out of this so pleased and impressed with what Jeff Keely has done with Summer Games kickoff. This is huge. This was a good, maybe, I'm going to say this was a great event. I think that was a solid 90 plus minute event. You know, Blessing touched on it when we left the post show of like it kind of plateaued in the middle. But I think all of the games throughout this, we had a good hype up, we had a good steady middle, and we ended with a big bang that you can see Blessing and Andy and all of us

are still reeling from. And I think all in all, that was a great performance right there. That was a solid kickoff to what summer games, AKAE3, whatever you want to call it. This is a great weekend, and that's a great kickoff. Blessing, you concur with you nodding. Yeah, I think Mike kind of nailed it there in terms of it being a great kickoff. You know, when Jeff Keely announced this event and we started talking about it on games daily, the thing that's, that's been crossing my mind is the fact that, okay, what is this going to look like compared to something like opening night live and something like the game awards?

Obviously, this is going to be scaled back because he's not putting the same level of promo and excitement, but he is still putting some level of excitement. Like, he still is owning this. And this is still part of that ongoing thread that is opening night live, game awards, and now summer games that kickoff. And so for me, the thing that this event needed to accomplish was it living up, you know, not necessarily having to be opening a, open to Night Live or summer game awards, but it being something, it being something that is, that feels like it fits that same narrative. If feeling that something, it feels like something that does have announcements

that feel like they're worthy of being a part of that. And I think, you know, it's standing alone as a presentation. I got a lot of critiques for. You know, I think, again, I think it did plateau in the middle a lot. It started off with some of its best announcements, and it ended with its best announcement. But in the middle,

I don't think there was anything to really make us pop. Aside from cool, aside from cool things here and there, those that one indie game that looked really cool art style. But again, there was no pop. It's just, you know, it's... There was no pop.

It was like, oh, this looks really cool. I want to try this. And there was a lot of those, right? There was a lot of, okay, here's another MMO that's going to speak to a certain audience. Here's 2. Point Hospital, which is going to speak to a certain audience. Here's this, here's that.

And that stuff is cool. That stuff is awesome. Seeing a Paladin's Genlock crossover, you know, is one of those things where it's like, all right, you know, it is what it is. But I think he hit in the places that where he needed it hit in terms of the Elder Ring, Winterlands, getting hit to Okina, all that stuff. And so I think overall it was a very solid conference. It's what we talk about every time we do one of these post-game analysis, right, where you build out these shows, you have so many announcements. and you know that not every announcement can click for every person. So you need to come loaded.

And for me, that's where we start from. I think it started so strong, right? We're talking about it was, it starts with the reveal of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, right? That Borderland spin-off we've been talking. Ashley Zerad explained it's coming in early 2020. High fantasy take on the looters shooter. It's inspired by the assault on Dragons Keep.

Borderlands 2 DLC people loved. They followed that up with Metal Slug tactics, a game that caught us all off guard. And I think we all were like, holy shit, that looks great. and I'm over here screaming about advanced wars, right? Like, that looked awesome. Then, number three, Kajima.

Kajima comes out and says he's okay. And then he's like, all right, cool. You're also getting a death stranding director's cut, right? What do you got, Andy? I was just like, Kujima. Just, I'm okay, guys. Don't worry about me. I hope I don't predict the next awful thing

for the next video game. I know, right? Then it is Japanese breakfast doing their song from Sable. And then I feel like that's where we start to dip a bit, where it's like you start with this high. And obviously you can't constantly go high. You have to come down. I think Sable looks beautiful,

awesome looking game. Song is really beautiful. But then it's into Lost Ark. Then it's into talking about Battlefield 4's Amazon promo. Then it's Call of Duty War Zone, which again doesn't hit for everybody. But Mike, it hit for you, right? You like seeing season four stuff.

That's a big deal, right? You get to see season four. They announced their partnership with Twitch Rivals for the big, Call of Duty, Warzone tournament, and that's a big announcement. I know a lot of us here, especially the kind of funny audience, you might not be into that, but like, that is going to be a big

pop, and that's going to send a lot of eyes into this kind of summer Games Fest look at. So that's big. That's big. Yeah. And then it's Ryan Reynolds with free guy. Okay, cool. I'm glad your movie's just coming out. Sure, yeah. Yeah, I'm glad that all the people that worked hard on that

can finally see their product out in the wild. Yeah, finally release. I did VFX on this fucking four. years ago. I've had seven jobs since then. Then it was among us, right, talking about hide and seek a new mode. The Jeff Mask is back. Then Shueyoshita. We're talking about Chickorya, which is out today, of course, but then the reveal of Salt and Sacrifice, which I thought, again, looked awesome. It's a game that Salt and St. Choiri, I played for a while, but didn't get super into it, like a lot of you. Like, apparently, PlayStation Vita number one fan, Snowbike Mike over here. You

wouldn't stop talking about the Vita. But that game looked great, right? It's co-op coming in 22. All right. And that, mind you, if you're just joining us in the recap here on the gamescast, maybe, you haven't watched over on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games are live reactions, which are up for you. I'm solar ash is then shown, right? I have that as number 10. There were more than 40 things in this conference. This was massive. Yeah. Even right there, we want to talk about there there being a plateau or a dip. Sure. But like, everything, the majority of things I just said in the first 10, I'm like, yeah, that was awesome. So can I get mad when it's an Amazon, I'm mad later on. Can I hear where we're into this Netflix strangers thing versus

smite thing? Yeah. Yeah. As you recap too, like you're saying things that I even forgot showed up. Like the Amongus update, I think it's huge. I think that's, I think that's awesome news. And part of that is because I love Amongus so much, but then talking about new roles, them teasing a new map and all this stuff, like that's big along with things like Solar Ash. And like, you know, we've not even mentioned yet, like the PlayStation partnership with deviation. That's a big thing as well. Because it's so much deeper in the show. Again, I'm still, top of games cast, of course, if you didn't know, kind of

We're like 20 minutes in. Each and every week, the nerdy video games we love and things we want to talk about. And on top of that, of course, during E3 for the shows that really needed a post-show analysis of everything we're going through. Of course, Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny Games to get an ad-free. Of course, you can submit your questions over there. Of course, you can be part of the show. But still running through it's number 10, it's Solar Ash. Number 11, they showed the Shivalry 2 stuff.

Of course, a game out, but I think a game that flew under the radar, right? I've seen Dan Riker playing and talking about it. Mike, you've played it, but then, you know, blessing, that was your first real. Oh my God, this game looks great to which point you really wanted to jump in and go. Yeah, that's what I've heard. I've heard quite a bit about recently. I've had friends be like, yeah, let's play this. And so now that I know that the next game's coming out, I'm for sure hopping in as soon as possible to play through this one or play through the first one.

Number 12 was the Valorant T's, which was just two seconds of what looks to be a new character, right? Number 13 was a deeper look at the streets of Tarkin. And again, these are my numbering. This isn't anything official. as we already talked about Two Point Campus was on there Then it was Netflix where they're talking about

Everything is happening A geeked week But then the Stranger Things Smite announcement Then they revealed a label For Prime Matter That has a whole bunch of games Including Sable

Or a Baleigh Bay Day 3 Then the Anachorus The Anna Cruis Yeah yeah A Gameplay I still stand by I do not think That's the left for dead game right

Yeah That's the left for dead game That looks like It's missing a lot of animations It looks like it's missing a lot of fucking animations. I don't know if the game looks like it's going to be a good game, but I just like the style of it being like a retro-featuristic thing.

Like they're onto something. They just need to execute. They just need to polish it a little bit more. And maybe you can get to where it needs to get to. Then it was New World. Then it was Rocket League crossed Fast and Furious new cars coming on June 17th. I'm not to screw that up. June 17th.

Then they showed Blood Hunt, the new one from the vampire masquerade universe, right? number 21 was House of Ashes A look at the Dark Pictures and Anthology House of Ashes coming out October 22nd. Then it was a Tales of a Rise reveal coming out September 10th, 2021. Then it was Sky officially coming to Switch on June 29th

and also the talk of the Lippetee print stuff that Barrett was very excited about. Lopati Bronx. Leopo de Bronze. Number 24 by Greg's count was Planet of Lana, but it's not Lana. Lina, what were they saying? Planet of Lana.

Manna Land from Smallville? Like, come on. Call it Lana. Oh, I'm trying to be created with the name. Yeah, me too. By the way, Greg, when you talked about that publisher that announced themselves, Prime something, I forget what they're called.

Yeah. Prime Matter. Prime Matter. The folks were bringing back payout. You forgot to mention that they're also making a new installment in the exciting painting.

The story franchise. It was their one more thing. They brought on Sabre to announce that we are in fact working on a new entry in the paid killer series. More power to you, I'm glad that popped for somebody. Again, this is what we're talking about.

Not every announcement's for every person. Yeah, again, I do want to make mention that, you know, some people might think that certain announcements aren't great, but some people really give a shit about other things. Mike and I care about war zone people in chat. We're popping off for Evil Dead later on in the show. To us, that doesn't mean a whole lot,

but certainly there are segments of audiences that are absolutely stoked to see that gameplay. I do think there is an art, though, in how you present certain things. Like, I think Payne Killer probably should have just been part of the montage. I feel like Katie-2 might have been even a bigger pop if you, like, ended with that because I think that's... Maybe I'm more...

This is one of those things that I think... And I don't know what the deals were, right? I have no idea how Jeff builds Summer Game Fest from a business perspective. But I would imagine if you're like, hey, we want to do this whole thing to announce our label. At some point, have to have it be like we're making a big deal about something so we want to do something special for it and i'm not sure if it was advertising buys or whatever how it is but if they were like that's

what we want to drive home at the end i'm sure jeff's like all right like i you know i can't i don't know i can't i don't know if i'm going to micromanage your thing right like like the same thing of like the way the teaser was cut to end with payday which is their biggest game obviously i'm sure that's on some some way in their hands of how they want to use their time to get into it uh number 25 i have overwatch two they came out and showed some overwatch two so stuff, Andy was excited. Yeah, too new characters, just skins. It's nothing crazy. I was hoping they were going to talk more about maybe extra features, but it was just, here's Sambra, here's Baptiste, or as Mike calls him, Bastille, because Mike just doesn't remember names.

It's true. Hey, I feel for Mike. All right, I feel that. Blessing, talk about your favorite t-shirt while Wait, what he's He's resetting He reset But he didn't finish the sentence He didn't talk about your favorite t-shirt While I reshit No, well, I think I'm wearing it

It's done, it's too done Oh, oh well I'm wearing my Demon Soul shirt That I just got I'm wearing my demon shirt Yeah, oh yeah That was number three That was number three when I talked about that

Well we got a shout out death stranding 26 right now The director's cut He had the fragile box That he stepped into Make a belial reference I just, yeah, and the game looked like it might have, like a VR missions thing, even though it being called Directors Cut kind of maybe cut those hopes, but

Mario, you know what, cut out the Princess Beach line. How about that for the director's cut? Cut out that Princess Beach line. Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. Dude, you will have zero context that what the fuck I'm even. Then it was, I didn't even explain it right now. Tensions and Dragons, Dark Alliance. This is when Portillo walked in the room and I had to walk them.

Some other stuff happened when I was watching it, but it was Monster Hunter Stories 2. I think they showed some stuff out there. Yes. Number 27 on my count. Number 28 was wave break there with the Weezer song. It's, of course, Switch. Good song.

Hold really quick. You missed Paladins and Genlock crossover. It was right after that Dungeons and Dragons, just so you have it. Okay, great. Then, yeah, wave break with the Weasor song, coming to switch a PC tomorrow. Mike, you were all about this game, right? I am so into this game, and I think everybody should give it a try. It's so much fun.

It's a blast. Then it was Endless Dungeon. Then it was Far Cry 6. Giancarlo out there talking about how much he likes it. He's not a villain. Good interview. He actually gave answers, which I appreciate. He scared me a little bit.

When he was like, actually, I'm not the villain. When he started going off and I was like, where's the spot to go? Is he about to like be pro, like, dictatorship or something? He was in character. He was playing in it. He was very much in it. He's very much in it. I was going to say, up on gomatsu.com, they have not only the Eldonring fact sheet,

but a lot of really good screenshots that were not in the trailer. I'm just so excited. I'm sorry, Greg. Also, it seems that Jeff Grub is tweeting out and confirming that Bandai Namco did not want to specifically show Edelden Ring at Xbox's conference as well

since Eldon Ring was originally shown at an Xbox conference, right? Wow. Yeah, that was a report, I think, earlier in the week where Windows was rumored that Eldon Ring would show up at Jeff Kulay's thing. So interesting, but I think maybe makes sense if they want it to be more of a cross-platform thing,

maybe they don't, maybe they don't want to associate it with one platform. Who knows? Understandable, yeah, and PlayStation sure, shit ain't doing anything this week. Yeah. Then it was fall guys talking about the NIR costume coming out June 18th. Andy, you like that? Oh, yeah, great. It's fantastic.

I mean, well, NIR is great. I love NIR. 32 on my list is Genshin Impact popping up. This is them talking about Scarlet coming to it. Number 33 was the announcement of deviation games, a new studio from some of the people who have brought you Call of Duty. And the big news was that it's actually partnering with PlayStation on its first IP coming out the gate. We assume it's a shooter, right, boys?

Yeah. We're going to jump to that. Yeah. That's got to be. It's probably not going to. You'd think so. I know in our Slack there was something thrown out. I haven't had a chance.

I'm down to the one screen. Real-time strategy. That they had to put out a statement already about it. We talk a lot about how PlayStation Studios could use more versatility in the kind of the games they put out because, you know, the big games we talk about are usually like The Last of Us is or the Ghost of Shimas or the Horizon Zero Dons or the ratcheting clanks. And it's usually always the third person action games. And between Firewalk Studios, which has been announced to be working on, I believe, a first person shooter multiplayer game.

I think that was the thing. Yeah, it's a shooter for sure. I forget if they said first person. Yeah. But between that and then also this studio, I think that presents for PlayStation probably a really good opportunity to diversify that portfolio and, you know, use these partners. as the way to add more versatility to the games that they're putting out under that brand. And so good on them.

Yeah. At 34 on my list, which is not an accurate count because of the stuff I missed while I walked porty. They had the Sonic Unleashed concert. Then it was 35. Some back for blood just to tease there. Number 36, tunic coming out a game we all can't wait for. 37 trials of Midgar, 38, Evil Dead, the game from Sabre coming in 2021. A run through of that asymmetrical multiplayer that Snowmike Mike can't wait to get into.

No, I'm in. Nothing of Ash. It knows nothing about Ash. Who the heck is that guy? Who the hell is that? Then, of course, as we've already discussed, we end with Eldon Ring coming out January 21st, 22nd. January 21st, 2022, next genn and current gen.

And then, of course, Jeff signing off saying he'll see us again in August for opening night live, but maybe more important game awards back in person at the Microsoft Theater at the end of the year. I cannot wait for that. Another quick tidbit about Eldon Ring from Mario 64. Eldon Ring, PS4, Xbox 1 versions, have a free upgrade to PS5 Xbox series versions. Just another little to do. Okay.

Very cool. And there's a lot of information is still coming in. We have a lot of different emails going right now or I do with press releases for what's happening with all these different games. Something for us to look through and do. But now that we've run through the entire encapsulation, I want us to stop and think of, was this a good show? Was it not a good show?

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I put it to the chat, of course, if you didn't know during E3. All of our reaction streams are on Twitch.tv.tv slash Kind of Funny Games, and our post shows are recorded there live as well. Right now, it seems that in first place, it is a B rating for this, right behind it is C, and then A bringing up the rear. I will start with you, blessing at Eioje Jr. What is your letter grade for summer game fest kickoff? Yeah, I'm going to give it a strong B minus.

You know, I think it did all the things that I needed to do to be a good presentation. You know, it had the pops, it had the surprises. And us going through the list really did bring it back of, oh, no, they did have a lot of things I did care about. Like, they did have a lot of things. I think, you know, there are pacing things that could have been done better. There were a lot of things there that felt like they were either, you know, filler or spoke to very niche audiences that maybe could have been shown in a different or better way. But overall, like, you know, it was, it was fun to watch. And there's a lot to chew on in terms of like, okay, cool, we got Elring. We got Dvation Studios. We got Wonderland, Tiny Teens Wonderlands. We got Hideo Kojima showing up and getting the death straining thing. Like, there are a lot of good stuff here. And so, yeah, B minus is where I'm going to sit up. Andy Cortez, the nitro rifle.

What's your letter, green? Dude, the exact same for me. Honestly, B minus. I think it would have probably been lower, if not for Lden Ring at the end. I thought it was very solid all the way through. Started off very strong. Once again, we've talked to death about it at this point,

but, you know, kind of took a dip in the middle, which is fine. You know, not everything's going to be fired. This thing is lasting for several days, so you can't, you know, throw everything out at the beginning. But I think just a great kickoff for E3 and to get us in the mood and be excited for new video games. And then, yeah, like I just mentioned,

having Elden Ring at the very, very end is just such a massive get for Keeley. And it's just awesome. So stoked about it. No, bicycle, Michael. Your letter grade. I am higher than these guys. I'm going to give this a B-plus. I thought this was a good to great show.

I was really impressed with what Jeff and the team were able to pull together and the games they were able to get. and the fun that we had, right? This was 90 plus minutes, and it was jam-packed with games that I identified with and really liked, games that didn't identify with me, but I'm sure had a good pull

with a lot of other people. And then games right in the middle that I wanted to learn about. I wanted to get to know, and now I'm interested or not interested. And so, in all honesty, that was a great 90 minutes by Jeff and the team. It's not super hype, right?

That's why I'm not giving it the A, but like a B plus to A-minus. That's where I'm ranging right now, because this is good, right? job, Jeff. And you know, I also want to point out that this was one of the more recent ones that they're getting better and better as they go, right? They're starting to learn. And we're not getting these long, drawn out talks with developers about a game that maybe isn't, you know, too overhyped. And it's just kind of some random indie dev talking for seven minutes straight about why their game is

special. I think there's a time and place for that. And this is not it. And I'm glad we didn't get that here. anytime they talked to a dev it was short and concise and it's what it needed to be. And Jeff Keeley, I think, has done a great job of doing a stage show that works for what the world is. You know, this isn't the first

time where he's done a show on stage. Opening Night Live was also done through a stage and I think Amor's might have been as well. But, you know, he continues to iterate on that and make that work. And it's like, at times I forgot that we were in the middle of a pandemic based on the presentation we were getting.

right like he still was able to have people on stage talk to them uh you know make it feel like this thing that we're all experiencing together even though obviously if you know the world was in a more normal state i'm sure that show would have been a show with an e3 audience in front of it or some sort of audience in front of it um and so yeah i want to give kudos for that too uh for me personally yeah i think i'm b minus c plus but i feel like c plus is too harsh i think b minus and it's just the i think we start so high and then the way we came down and the way we stayed there for so long before we got to more of the games that have mass mainstream appeal. So I really think it's just a seeding issue.

But again, maybe if you don't hit it as hard at the gate, it feels the stuff that is exciting and are these peaks get lost in there. I think overall, again, going through this, again, more than 40 announcements, more than 40 segments in it. Like, it's great. Like there's so much good stuff in here. There's so many games to walk away be excited about. so many different announcements that were huge. I think, you know, to start with Wonderlands and end with Eldon Ring, like, come on. That's a great show right there.

And it's really about how you put everything in the middle around it. And so, yeah, some of the games weren't as hype as, you know, they could have been, but they still had me. They still had my attention. But I do think that, you know, the moment I go to Walk Porty is that moment where my, you know, attention was wavering a bit. And I did feel like, all right, well, we're into this segment right here that it really isn't games that are speaking to me.

And there's been a few seconds before that they're in the same way. It's a hard balance to strike. so I never hold it against anybody, but I had a great time with this one for sure. Well, we'll see how you fucking do then. Jesus, this guy. Yeah, Greg. Hey, man.

Trust me. Trust me. I will. I will, everybody. I'll be throwing a four-day one starting on Saturday. Don't worry. Tell you that's where you're going to be bringing it. I wonder if we'd,

would we feel differently if maybe the Kojima thing was more toward the middle instead of it being front-loaded? Because we did get off-the-bat, Wonderlands and Metal Slug tactics, which looked awesome, right? And then the Kojima thing, It felt like a lot of the front loading was the exciting stuff. And then in the middle, there wasn't anything that had as big of a pop as anything in the beginning. If they took the Kujima thing put it in the middle, would you guys feel any differently about the pacing?

Well, then I think you'd be in a different spot where I think they, the Kijima thing, because the Kijima thing was. We also don't know what it was. It was just bullshitting around. Are you okay? How's COVID? I'm good. Blah, blah. Don't worry.

9-11, 9-11. And then, hey, guess what? Death Stranding director's cut. I feel like in the middle there might have been more. I don't know, hope for that. If that was your big peak, would that have lived up to the hype of seeing Kajima and then just being Death Stranding director's cut?

This one, you're coming off of Wonderlands, right? We are coming off of Metal Slug tactics. These were, like, two things that were unexpected to a degree that were, you know, Wonderlanders being a big deal, metal slug just looking great. And then, Kajima being there, I feel like the fact that he didn't have something huge to talk about kind of works where he is in the front there.

I was also just a bit more down on the Kajima thing because I... I didn't think we were going to get like a goof and a director's cut announcement. I thought it was going to be not more along the lines of a VR missions like we were mentioning during the presentation. And it's possible that it is that. But I wanted something more definitive as to like, what is it that we're watching? Yes, this is like cute and funny and all these metal gear solid nods. But like what's it going to be?

I need a little bit more here. Give me some more context, Big Dog. all right and by the way it was great seeing you the other day kojibin i hung out greak i don't know if you knew that oh shit oh i didn't know that yeah did you what did you guys do you play among us what did you in l a yeah he he'd draw by my apartment my hotel here oh wow i mean he's in japan though oh well outside of elven ring what is like the big announcement for you what is the thing you're walking away thinking uh i mean honestly probably wonderlands you know wonderlands

I think was such a strong start. You know, usually there would be the, like, my go-to would be some more of the indie surprises, but, you know, Metal Slug Tactics Looks Cool. The Lena game looks really cool. But they, even though they look really cool, they weren't necessarily 12 minutes for me or season. You know, I feel like there are, the way in which you, like, present a lot of those smaller titles can be, like, I feel like they're the ones where we see and we're like, oh, this looks like it's going to be next level. And I didn't necessarily get that from those to you, even. though they looked really awesome and I'm probably going to play both of them. But with what Wonderlands

is, I think this is a good cinematic trailer and it sets up the premise really well, especially when you get into it talking about, oh, by the way, starring all the names that you're seeing here on video, Wanda Sykes, Indie Sandberg, you're going to see Tiny Tina. It is going to be character customization. You know, all the promises there in terms of what the game is going to be. Will Arnette, yeah. The promises in terms of what the game is going to be has me really excited to play the game and try it out and hope and hope for it to be something that sticks with me in the way that a traditional Borderlands does. And that's the thing for me personally where, you know, obviously being a big Borderlands fan, that's the one that's stuck out for me. And I thought was such a strong way

to start it with, right? But yeah, Andy Samberg, Will Arnette, Wanda Sykes, Ashley, of course, early 2022. But then, yeah, the thing I keep talking about after, you know, playing all the Borderlands 3 DLC, right, or at least trying it. And the idea that Borderlands 3's DLC was this idea of, hey, we made the base game so now we can make something kooky and crazy. And that's why we were doing a heist mission on Handsome Jack's Casino, you know, floating yacht in space. That's why you were going into the mind of a psycho. And so for the pitch here to be, you know, a high fantasy take on looters shooter,

inspired by the assault on dragons keep. And it literally be that Tiny Tina is the bunker master, right? She is the dungeon master. So what we had been hypothesizing leading up to this game seems to be correct, right? It's going to be her sitting you guys down, probably in the Borderlands universe, and then having you go into this world where you are playing D&D with her and what that looks like and how, you know, one of the things they showed in there was basically somebody crafting a gun. Like, I wonder how that plays out and what the classes are.

And, you know, top customization, like, that totally speaks to me and gets me excited for that to see the stuff I already like about Borderlands, but with a different skin and a different lens. Yeah, for me, that's the one that stood out the most. Mike, what about you? What do you walk away from here other than Eldon Ring going like, oh, my gosh, I can't wait. Yeah, Eldon Ring was, of course, the star of the show, which was really hype. but I'll still come back to Metal Slug Tactics. I think that was out of left field for me.

I think of Metal Slug and I think of my childhood at the arcade shoving quarters into the machine, right? And then getting it on the Xbox Live Arcade and playing certain titles. But never in my mind would I think, oh, we're going to get a tactics game in this universe. And so to see that art style like Andy brought up of how beautiful and how different and how special that is, I think that was really cool.

Jurassic World Evolution 2. Did you really think they were going to do another one? I didn't. and now we get a second one. And I think that one's really, really cool of like, I've been into the park builders with my friends. We've been playing the Sims. And that's what I like is because I love Jurassic Park.

And I'm into that. There was a whole lot of fun. I'm honestly going to be honest with you. I enjoyed Ryan Reynolds bringing out free guy. I know it's been a long time, but I'm always in the mood for a dumb, fun popcorn movie. And I liked that they brought the trailer.

And they always blend, right? Entertainment and games were all one big shared universe. And it's cool that Jeff Keely has these friends in the industry, he has this pull that can bring in things that you wouldn't think about, right? And so I really like seeing the movie side of everything coming together. Another one that I looked at was, of course, that blood hunt. That's going to be in the world of vampire masquerade. And I said to myself, okay, here's a cool looking game with vampires, a multiplayer game. I'm always in the mood for. So I do look to look at that one and see if I can play that with me

and my friends. D&D Dark Alliance is on Game Pass day and date. I'll definitely be playing that. Weezer showing off Wave Break. That's something near and dear to my heart. I know, Greg, you love Weezer. I don't know who the heck Weezer is, but I'll tell you what.

I know what the heck Wave Break is, and I freaking love Wave Break, and I love seeing it come off of Google Stadium that it was on, and now me being able to play it on the Nintendo Switch is a big deal to me, so I'm so excited for that. And I guess to end it out, I thought another cool one was, him to bring out that deviation game studio and show a new development team.

And then on the flip side, so a brand new publishing branch, right? Like how many times do we get to see that in a setting like this that isn't a Microsoft Sony-Nintendo branded type situation here? That's pretty cool to see Jeff and what he can do. So I got to say, I really enjoyed it. I had a great time. And those were a lot of the games that I enjoyed.

There's, I'm, you know, I said B minus C plus. It's a B minus for me. Come on. I can't be. We can't be. This is, this is show. There's so much good stuff. Maybe even a B.

I don't know. I'm not. Yeah. Planet of Atlanta stood out for me. I really enjoyed the art style of that. I had a really good vibe to it. Endless Dungeon was one that I wasn't expecting. I know that's the game that we talked about last year that has made by Amplitude Studios.

And we all thought it was going to be a rhythm game. We were insanely confused last year. We're insanely confused every year. I thought it looked great. I thought it looked really cool. That's the sort of a neat multiplayer game that I could see myself getting into. I love the sort of style that top-down kind of I don't know

Gun I'm mixing words right now I'm like mixing all these games I'm so like excited I'm so excited straight so I think you you're allowed to don't worry yeah Chat'll know it's like that gun fucking gun

Enter the Gungeon is what I'm talking about like a 3D version of that I think seems really neat The Yeah but aside from that obviously Eldon Ring is the one I'm most excited about I was just kind of scrolling through and trying to see what are the things that I was that got me excited besides Elven Ring. Of course, Wonderland looks fantastic. And I can't wait to play spite or smite.

Spite. Spite. Which other one comes. Just kidding. I don't care. I don't care about that. Who is being rung up from like early 2000s telephone? Oh, that's a hotel.

That's a hotel telephone, right? that's just how it goes does it have the spin dial on that because that's what it sounded like no no it's just one of those cheap ass you know they buy in bulk hotel phones like are you at the continental from john wick right now all right you know what i'm done we're done ladies and gentlemen what did you think of the kickoff to summer game fest let us know in the comments below remember that this is far from the end of e3 if you didn't know twitch dot tv slash kind of funny games we are reacting to each and every one of the conferences most of the time. We're not done yet, right?

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