Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Ubisoft E3 2019 Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 10, 2019

All the biggest Ubisoft news of E3 2019! Watch Dogs Legion, Gods and Monsters, Rainbow 6, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up guys? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Gamescast special, but we are going to break down and analyze our thoughts, review, if you will, the Ubisoft E3 2019 press conference. I am Tim Getty's. This is Andy Cortez. That over there is Greg Miller. How are you guys doing? Hot. Doing pretty well, though. Aside from the weather in San Francisco. Way too hot in San Francisco. I'm melting. I feel like I was a little bit underwhelmed by that. Sure. Yeah, yeah. But there was some cool stuff shown. Pretty excited. Yeah. The real quick, quick thing, Greg. Yeah, I thought they started it really strong.

I thought Walksog's Legion looked great. We all were into it. And then I don't, I think they stumbled from there on out and never got the momentum back up again. Yeah. I thought it was a classic UB press conference. It's consistent. We know what we're going to get. We got all those things.

A couple new game announced. I was still surprised that Assassin's Creed Odyssey had arguably one of their biggest games, right, in terms of what's going on in an ongoing thing and no assassins this year. They announce and drop this create your own quest thing for story. It's free. It's out right now. apparently, but they put it in the pre-show. Yeah.

I would have totally given that stage time over some of the stuff we saw out there. Yeah, I don't know. But this is the Kind of Funny Games cast. You can get the show each and every week on YouTube.com slash Kind of Putting Games. But daily, we have a show called Kind of Funny Games Daily that goes over the biggest video game news of the day.

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on the Ubisoft 2019 press cards. I'm depressingly underwhelmed. Depressingly underwhelmed. We were getting ready to go in here. I laid out stuff that I thought would happen that I thought would be enough to make it a really solid show. And some of that happens.

Some of it didn't happen well enough Panosh. Some of it just wasn't exciting announcements based on that or it wasn't there at all. I think putting Assassin's Creed in the pre-show was a silly move. I think Watchdog's Lesions was an awesome way to start. From there on out, I just thought we were on a rocky thing, right? Where it was the tease of the TV show. I understand your Ubisoft, you have a lot of cool things going on. You want to showcase stuff.

Give us more games before you get to that. That was such a hard stop, weird thing. I didn't think the trailer personally looked that great. And I like always sunny. It did not make me at all go, man, I got to look into getting Apple TV Plus. No, I'm fine. I won't be a part of that. It was we talked about like Brawl Hall and this adventure time stuff The Ghost Recon breakpoint Isn't my kind of game

I thought that presentation was pretty good It was a stirring speech from John Bernthal Then it was weird to have John Bernthal come out and kind of give The speech again but as John Bernthal Not as his character with his dog Bam Bam But it was cute to have a dog out there Sure why not The Elite Squad

That came thing there's your There it is guys there's Splinter Cell You know Sam Fisher not dead Ubisoft acknowledging he exists in their mobile game Smash Brothers whatever they want to call How many other franchises do they put Sam Fisher in before a new Splenital. I don't know. And that's why how many are left? I mean, to jump

to the fact, again, like, I'm a division fanboy, right? I love the division. I, I, they came out, they talked about the division. I was like, yes, awesome. More division stuff. Here we go. You know, episode one for July, great. New main missions, brand new game experiences. We're going to the zoo. I like all that. We're going to college. Great. Episode two is coming to fall. Pentagon. A second

rate. Awesome information. Episode three, we're going back to New York. It's summer. Great. But they were setting it up. Like, we're going to have a cyberpunk Keanu review or a John Bernthal reveal, right? of like, we have to go and we're going to take on it. You got there and it's just like, oh, we're just going. There's a special operative.

We kept on, like, making the point that the person we're hunting down is a name. It almost reminded me. It almost reminded me of yesterday during Bethesda when fall at 76 came out and they showed the NPC start talking and I got up and started clapping. You guys had no idea why that was a big deal. I think the buildup in the reveal there was, hey, we're going back to New York in the summer. Tim, do you understand that that's a big deal because Division I was set in the snow in New York.

Yeah, I do. But it's just like, I feel like that. exciting to you. That's why it was like, because I made a reference that it's like that's kind of like in Pokemon when at the end of the second game, you face yourself from the first game. Sure. That's cool. But in division, that seems like that's not exciting to you at all. I mean, I don't, I just, the way they didn't frame it correctly, right? They seemed like they were building up to and we're going to go after this person, this celebrity, this star, this whatever. But I mean, isn't that, isn't the answer that? You're going after yourself? No, you're not going

after yourself. I mean, it won't be your character. I mean, they're not going to dial into my, how would that work in terms of if you went out of my... Indplication, not like the actual character, but just like the idea is like, it is your agent or whatever. Yeah, but if it's not my agent, why would I care? You know what I mean? If I get that, it's not my Taylor Swift from the first game. This is why I disagree with you about the Assassin's Creed thing because it's like, I feel like this conference was just a bunch of like, hey, here's updates to all the

project working on it. That's what gets hard about these E3. But you're the student of hype. There's a way to hype that stuff, right? And that was the thing even for the division. I just don't feel it had the hype to it. I don't even think it, I don't even had like, I don't think any of the stuff they did punched.

See, I think that this conference did a very good job of pacing of getting and getting out. I don't think that the celebrities were... I felt like that was a long hour in 15. I mean, I didn't really love many of the announcements, but I feel like they didn't spend too long on anything. I remember a couple years ago for Ubisoft, even just comparing it to themselves in the past couple of years,

watchdogs 2 compared to Watchdogs Legion. Watch Dogs 2, they did the briefing, then a long demo that was way too long, and then a trailer, and then they had someone else talk again, and then when they did the celebrity stuff, it would be like, there was always like one segment too much. I feel like this, they didn't do that. At least everything had a pace to it where it was kind of someone could come out to announce it.

They show something. Someone talks about it. And then just rinse and repeat. I wish we would have started off with Just Dance. I know that maybe they wanted to break the mold and do something different. 10 years, man. Let's celebrate it. But I would have gotten that out of the way and then Bam immediately into Watch Dogs Legion. I thought that would have been a cool one-two punch. Sure. Mostly because, you know, a lot of us don't care about Just Dance and kind of putting that in the middle. It was a little bit weird kind of threw off the – you went to the restroom.

Like that's – sure. That's sort of the typical Just Dance thing. It's like our break time. I understand what's happening. Again, I understand what they have to do. You're Ubisoft. You are... You make a lot of money on this game.

Right? This is something they were talking to me when we were doing rehearsals. The tech guys who were running stuff for EA, right, of like how this is a broadcast, right? Like, we're going broad. Like, you need to cover all your bases. We understand that. We talked about this with. But that is the last night and their mobile properties and all the things are talking about.

We will go step by step by now. I want to keep it kind of broad. I want to start with just the things that I did like. Sure. I liked the new game that this showed, gods and monsters. I'm interested. I think that the February 25th, 2020 release date. is a lot sooner than I expected the way they were talking about it.

I thought it was like, there's this project we're working on. I thought it was going to be more of a Beyond Good and Evil 2 situation where it's like, here's an idea trailer. We'll see when we ever actually get to play it, but February is not that far away, right? Working backwards from that, I thought, Roller Champions. Watch Dogs Legion looks cool.

Yeah. And that's the thing is like this was kind of a, it reminds me a lot of the Bethesda Conference where it's like, here's updates. There's a lot of updates on games that you're already playing. And that's kind of Yubi's mantra the last couple years where they've been building for this, right? We got Rainbow 6. Quarantine.

That was the next one I was going to pop to. That was cool. Three player co-op going into what looks like a zombie or monster kind of thing. Sure. I think it's a new game. Yeah. It seems like a lot less throwaway than the past. I forgot what the name of the expansion was.

But you were fighting much of red monsters. Remember we did that. Let's play. In siege. I forgot exactly what the name of it was. But yeah, them coming out to make a red monster. But yeah, them coming out to make a red monster. point in saying that, hey, this thing is

its own standalone thing kind of thought from the ground up. We're sort of rethinking the way we approach three player co-op. Pretty neat. Yeah, Top Boog in the chat says, I thought it was zombie two for a second. So did I. That's what I thought it was going to be too. Because I was trying to run through what zombie franchises do they have. Like, what were they

actually going to? Again, quarantine seems cool. I'd be about it. I'd be done to play that. Yeah, like the idea of that too, especially with Rainbow Six kind of siege over the last couple of years really finding its footing in the same way that for honor. did in the same way that Division I did. Yubi kind of has been fostering these projects and growing them.

And with Rainbow Six Seed, I think they did a really good job with PVP, but also PVE. And it sounds like with this, with quarantine, it's like they're kind of focusing more on the PVE thing. So I wonder if they're going to try to keep the siege fan base growing and then have this game come out as well. And once more PVP. I definitely think that's the case. You saw there was a new story recently about how they were saying they want Siege to go into

the next gen, like they plan to continue it on that way. And they also, when they were to, talking about Ghost Recon Breakpoint, they came out and said, like, we're going to, this game's going to be going for years. Yeah. And it's just like, that is very good for the communities, the people that are investing in these games. But I do feel like it's going to lead to these E3 press conferences being less and less

exciting you after year. Because at the end of the day, old game is old. So when you are having Assassin's Creed Odyssey being talked about or Division 2, which is even three months old, it just doesn't feel as exciting as if it's a new thing. Like I hear you and I again for a broad term, sure, but I feel like there's a way to deliver that information to those fans that gets them hype. I think there's a way to hype that stuff up and have a cool cut trailers and have better descriptions than if this wasn't it.

I don't know that it is like like do you have any solutions? I think I think the content dropped for I mean the for Division 2 in particular, right? The stuff they talked about after the game launched then they came out and did like the whole all right agents here's what's next yada yada almost like stay to play for PlayStation cuts of like what's going on. And that was better show don't tell. But I feel like that's for people that are fans of division, right? Sure.

This is for the general audience. I mean, I disagree. I mean, like that presentation was not for the general audience. That was patch notes, right? We're going to the zoo. Do you give a shit? Like, do you understand? Like when they showed the slow montage of, or not even slow,

but the quick montage of new places, that doesn't ring to you that that's new, that that's different, that that's exciting. I mean, I just don't know how they could have shown that otherwise unless it was just a CG trailer because like that, like, there's a balance between dumbing something down so much so that. Everybody understands it and having it be exciting to people that are already invested. But I just feel like we're just going to hit a point that year after year, Ubisoft's conferences are going to get less and less focused on new experiences.

And more just like, well, here's some incremental updates to things. We're continuing the service. And that's E3 in general, right? We've talked about. But I mean, I think it's UB's E3 in particular, right? UB and Bethesda, I guess, are the two. But no, EA, dude. Like, I mean, what?

The Battlefield 5, Battlefront 2. That is literally them bringing out these devs. Apex legend. Yeah, yeah. EA didn't have a conference. EA was like, we're just updating these, we're giving you updates on these games

and we're going to do that in a much more deep dive developer way. Sure. Whereas this was, hey, we're going to make announcements. We're like, this is,

you'll be, I think out of all of them was straight up like, this is a traditionally three press conference. And I don't think that works anymore. Yeah. If you're going to have it like this, right?

Like, this is the thing. And granted, if you're new or just want to spell out because we are so, try to be so clear with ethics. Obviously, I hosted EA play. I got paid for that.

So if you don't want to take my opinion about it, I understand 100%. However, if you're comparing you being EA that way, I prefer EA. I would have preferred division to come out and be like, cool. We have three minutes of whatever, five things we're going to show you for a 15-minute demonstration of running through and explain, not even explaining maybe, showing us. I'd like to see what it looks like to fight in the zoo. I'd like it. I think it sets expectations differently where we see this giant stage. We're expecting these kind of giant reveals.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I just don't think it worked out for Ubisoft this year, unfortunately. Yeah, I mean, I can't think of a year. It worked out better, though, like, in the last couple years. I feel like it's always just been the same thing. All the high moments, like, oh, Beyond Good and Evil, too. Great, we see this thing that isn't even here. And that was two years ago that they, that we were all surprised to see it. Yeah. You know, people started giving that fucking game of the show, so you don't do that. The game's not coming out forever. Yeah, it's just like a 20-21. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Especially with how they were talking about it. Adventure Time in Brawlah is this a weird call. Again, I made a joke that the show has kind of been over for five years. And Chad was like, no, the show ended last year. Yeah, but like at its highest kind of popularity, it was like 2013, 2014. So I just don't really see the relevancy in introducing characters like that. I guess it's cool for people who care about Adventure Time and the fact that it's a free-to-play game you can play as your favorite characters or whatever. But I just think it's a weird call.

I guess we're judging all this kind of based on the fact that cyberpunk introducing Keanu Reeves like the hottest thing on the market right now is Keanu Reeves and like I guess comparing that to like Adventure Time like what I guess what could have been the hotter commodity? I do talk about it like in the stream when we were reacting to it YouTube.com so that's kind of funny games. The John Bernthal stuff right like Wildlands didn't click for me I want to know more about this.

If it is a narrative driven thing and he's actually in there and they're telling us more of a story about it, I'm interested enough to give this ghost recon a shot. Breakpoint, right? I think that the Watchdog's presentation was the best presentation of a game we've seen so far at E3. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

that was fantastic. That game looks incredible. And again, just the ambition of this game where if you were to have heard this game as a concept, you would have said there's no way that's possible. Like the budget on this has got to be insane. How are they going to fund this?

Where are the sort of limitations that we're not seeing from the surface? surface level like it's because they've got to be cutting back else, you know, somewhere else on the project. It looks fucking awesome though. I think that game looks really cool. And I think there's a reason it's one of the best presentations we've seen, right? Because there was so much gameplay in it. Yeah. Actually let us see the games. And I understand we've talked about this, uh, each one of these reviews for game casts that were in a weird part of the, the life cycle of these consoles right now in games in general, where it is ongoing games is service. And then it's a bunch of stuff we're ramping up for for 2020 as we get closer to that console lifecycle switchover. And so to see a game come out

and be like, here's all this gameplay of it. That goes a long way. And that's what I want to see out of these things. Yeah. See, I think that like not all games can be treated exactly the same because especially where all the developers are at, all the console manufacturers are at. And I've seen a lot of people criticize us in our, like, in our feedback yesterday to the different conferences on like, oh, like, if it doesn't have gameplay, they don't like it.

And it's like, oh, they're hypocrites. If they like this CG trailer, but not that. It's like for game announcements, like things like Deathloop, it's like we can just see a CG trailer and understand like. This is a brand new IP and it's like. It's exciting. There's a new IP. And we're excited about that.

We're not excited saying it's going to be the best game ever. But then for games that are closer in release, like Gears 5, it's like, I'm disappointed we didn't see gameplay because we should have seen

what we just did for Watchdogs for Gears. And we saw Awesome Creed though. And we did see Awesome. Underneath. Beautiful. But I feel like with all the games is different. I think that Watchdogs really nailed it

where they had a trailer that looked cool. They showed gameplay that backed it up in a moment-to-moment way that you're like, I believe this. This is how the game works. Yeah, and so I think that that was really cool. But yeah, it's just weird because so many of these announcements,

it just kind of feels like, oh, okay, we're just doing it. It's copy and paste as usual. And I feel like this is the first E3 in a while where conference after conference is just like, the question isn't, oh, man, who won? It's like, did anyone win? I don't know. Sony. It's just like.

The only way to win is by not playing. Yeah. Everybody kept posting the meme of like, you can't disappoint if you don't have a conference. Yeah, it's, I don't know I don't like that mentality either though Because it's like These people are showing up And like there is cool stuff

Yeah So it's like just because there's a lot of Stuff around it I don't mean you're two at our own home We're two hours away from the kind of funny game showcase It's kind of funny about to have the best press conference We'll see We'll see we'll see

I invite you all to live stream it And then I do a post show where you just tear it apart Like we do every one of these things I don't like that game No, no game play Too much gameplay Yeah I don't know So, so far, just ranking the conferences to you guys.

Like, what do you think? I think Bethesda is far and away the winner. Hmm. I think it was the one that had interesting reveals, went through everything quickest at the best pace. Also, doom stuff. Wonder book moment in the center, right? As I'm, you know, the iOS stuff they did last night.

I think that's the only thing where I was like, you're like, okay. Are you counting EA player? Is that the time of conference conference? Cool. So then I think it's Bethesda. then I think it's Microsoft, then I think it's Ubi.

Yeah, I'd agree with that, yeah. I think the fact that we got really awesome stuff that we know, that we knew about already, right? We got cool, doomed-looking stuff. We got Wolfensign, Youngblood? New Blood, Young Blood? Young-blood. But then the fact that they introduce these brand-new IPs

that look incredible. I think that, you know, sets them apart from the other conferences where a lot of the stuff, a lot of the unknowns that we got weren't that cool. They weren't as cool as what we got from Ghostwire, Tokyo or from Death Loop. Man, I'm never going to remember that name.

I agree too. That it goes Bethesda, Microsoft, and Yubi, but I don't think it's far in a way that Betheson's number one. I think it's like a lot closer than that where Xbox has some cool moments, but they just, none of them were like, I mean, they had the best moment, the Keanu moment. With Keanu, but it's like, but even that, like, that's just such a, it's a weird thing

that we're just excited than actors in a game, Because, like, how often is that turned out well? I feel like this is the example that it will. Yeah, but this... Like, I believe in CD Project Red, and I believe in Keanu and them working together. Like, there's... Seeing him come out on stage and the energy and, like, that was the direction they let him go. I'm like, all right, I buy this.

It's just... It's the fact that it is the most anticipated game probably of the whole conference. Probably for all of E3, right? This is the game that people are looking forward to the most. I'd say, like, this is the one of the most hype around it, and the fact that they got, you know, the hottest commodity on the market right now in Keanu I think it's it's what we want on a V3 right it is a crazy left field surprise and I feel like we used to get more of those and it's

varies year to year but I mean the further back you go you know what I mean the fewer leaks there were and it was a bigger deal that this shit was happening yeah and here we are and it's like okay cool like this is an E3 that feels predictable which is never fun like it's cool to see the games you love updated right but it is the things that you don't see coming that you're the most excited. It's always the same way of like, as a kid, you want to, you know, peek in your parents' closet and find out what your Christmas presents are, but then that ruins Christmas morning. And so when we are here and it is what you think and it's a little bit different, and it's like, okay, like, you could on a pay, if you were to take out the, you know, the Gatorade, get hype

moments we like to insert and dream about, right? I think we could plan most of these things. Pretty much beat for beat, right? And understand where we're going to net out on it. Because you just dial it back. Yeah, I'd tell you Kiano was like the biggest surprise. Second biggest surprise, the fact that flight simulator was on stage. How is this game? I mean, it looks great. But it's just weird that it's on stage. The chat's very divided about ranking the three that we're talking about.

Sure. It seems fairly evenly split on Microsoft. On what order they go on. Oh, really? Yeah, there's people that are insane in Ubi. So yeah, I mean, that's interesting. I wonder, so we have two more. We got Square and we got Nintendo.

Yeah. Square's going to be interesting. I'm very interested in the format of it. So it's called Square Nix Live. So I wonder if they're going to have an on-stage. press conference. And if so, is it going to have this kind of flash and, uh, grandeur that we, we've seen from Microsoft and Bethesda and Yubi? Because as far as I know, Squares never done that. You know, they've always used the other guys like the PlayStation or Xbox stages to, to have those

big moments. They've done live stage shows, but it's kind of just looks like they rented out a hotel and stood on stage and awkwardly presented things. I mean, you raised a great point. I, I didn't even think about it. Has any, I don't, I don't think I ever got an invite for a square like thing to go to. Yeah, I don't know. Is it just going to be a direct? Last year it was a direct. Last year it was straight up a, I assumed it was no one was on like no one was even on

camera. It was just kind of like trailers and stuff, right? And it was horrible last year. But this year we know we got Avengers. We know we got Final Fantasy seven remake baby. Let's go. Yeah. Wow.

That's interesting. I hadn't thought of that through. I just, we've been getting so much our of course kind of funny correspondent snow Mike also on Twitch. He's out there for us. Beating the pavement and going to these things for us. I didn't even think about that. Is there one?

for Square. Very interesting. Revan says, what a Chris Evans shows up? Like, that would have been a cool moment of like if an actor of that sort of caliber. It goes like pitch black and he's here,

Avengers! And he comes out as well, assemble. Hey, everybody, I'm Chris Evans here to talk to you about this game that is not tied into the MCU at all. This is very confusing.

I'd cry, dude. I would cry. That'd be awesome. Yeah. Not gonna happen. No. Be awesome. Not a chance.

Not a snowball's chance. What if Stan Lee comes out, faked his own death, getting ready for this. Whoa. You know what I mean? But hey man, anything can happen, any three. Wow.

So now let's just go step by step here. Can we do the beat by beat here for a little bit? Yeah. Okay. Number one, we start off with the Assassin's Creed Symphony. You know, at this point, kind of, we've seen symphonies before. Zelda did it back in 2014, I want to say, for Zelda's 25th anniversary. That was hype.

I was there in the audience. PlayStation did it for, that one in the, 2016 with God of War. And throughout the entire show. That press conference was pitch perfect. I don't think we'll ever get that magic again. I agree. Where the entire thing was hyped. There was big surprises.

Crash Bandicoot was there. And they had the orchestra playing all the music. And every single major game had a big set piece on stage that was like a production. That was really cool. I mean, I hate to say it about Ubisoft Symphony. But I mean, it was bittersweet. There you go. But that's life.

Symphony. I thought that it was very poorly miced. And it just kind of felt flat. Yeah, the beginning I thought something was wrong. Yeah. It just didn't sound great And I only get sold it as well The video guy didn't start the video on time

Yeah The compoosos was kind of waiting around for a bit Waiting for his cue Not my favorite thing And I like those You love symphonies Yeah musical interludes and stuff But I do appreciate UB's kind of

Love for not just the games of video games But like the culture of video games They always do these type of things That celebrate music in different ways Or like their communities or their developers And all that so that stuff's cool Come on when they got to the Etcio theme though That was high

But that's like again It's like the Master Chief. In Halo 5, it's like hearing Halo music. Like, this is cool. Hearing that song, it's like, this is cool. But let's move on. Unlikely, I forgot the name. Unlikely something on Twitch chat says,

Kind of Funny Showcase, save my E3 with a Splinter Cell reveal. No, we're not doing that, no. I was going to kind of like hint as if they might be. I don't want any, I want no expectations. It's 430. That's less than two hours from now. YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games is the Kind of Funny Games. It is the Kind of Funny Games.

It's the Kind of Funny Games. Confirmed. No Splinter Cell. No splinter cell? No death stranding. So then watchdogs. March 6th also coming to stadium. Most games shown today also coming to stadium.

Later than I thought it would be. I thought that was going to be a fall game this year. Watchdogs. Because there's no assassins. No assassins. I thought they were just going to do a big thing. Doesn't matter, obviously. There was a trial article that came out beforehand that said, like,

this game is taking a lot longer because of the complexities. Sure. Hey, and I mean, like, again, the studio wasn't expecting it. Or, you know, they kind of ran into a lot of roadblocks. Again, I like what I saw. When on paper, when Jason, reported on at Kataku and we read about it. It was like, so there's no main character.

You're controlling NPCs. Like, I don't get what's happening. But like Bagley talking to them, kind of like Charlie and they're all your angels. Like, okay, so Bagley's the main character. And like, okay, I get what we're doing. I get the direction. Interesting way to go with it. Because like, I was when all the leaks were happening in the scuttle, but about what this

game is. I was like, how is this going to work storywise? And having that kind of voice be the driving force could be very interesting. I like the varied characters that they showed there. the amount of NBC's that you can make PCs is cool but yeah it's the London aesthetic never my favorite thing oh really I thought it looked awesome

you're a racist I mean whatever I'll take it The race of Europeans What a direction that I didn't didn't expect because I I think I might be wrong about this but in our predictions I think I predicted that it was going to not be as technically advanced

looking as watchdogs 2 was and I was totally off. It went way further into that stuff. Which is great. Which I think it's cool. Yeah. Because it does at least give it a unique look for the world that they're showing off there. Yeah, it was like going from advanced warf

or modern warfare to advanced warfare. Like suddenly the technology is just so like at least 50 years in the future it looked like. So looking at that from what we saw of Watchdogs Legion, do you think that it can be the watchdogs that breaks out? Great question, Tim.

Um, I don't know. The problem with not having a anchored main character is that then you just lose already a narrative thread to it. So it's going to be interesting to see how they go through it. When I'm watching that, it's giving me vibes of Peace Walker or Metal Gear 5, right? Of recruiting people and bringing them back to my base and finding different people with it. If that experience is fun, if they are varied enough, if it is just something that you're having whack. I mean, like, because I was joking around about it, but for real, I'm going to try to build a team that's just old women. just find me a bunch of old women

and what can we do and play a very specific way if I'm already thinking that all the many many people who are way smarter than me on Twitch are also thinking about of like what is Doc disrespects crew going to look like like right what is he going to try to run through and have there's going to be people who Not mobile gamers for sure

he's there's definitely going to be teams that are you know they just want those MI6 operatives that they just want you know people who can be crazy acrobatics that they just want hackers I think it's a really interesting way of you know putting it up against like what you want and what kind of team you want to be Yeah, so ladies and gentlemen that are watching in the Twitch chat, thank you very much for following along with us.

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I think it's hard to say. I don't think it will. And I think that just, I don't know if the sort of casual gamer who's playing Call of Duty all the time sees a game like this and buys in. I don't think it's a breakout hit. I do think it's weird that

not having a main protagonist that I feel like that takes away. It just becomes hard to sell, right? And look at the opposite way. We're like now, and granted, not the exact same. But we're looking at a breakpoint, right? And I'm like, I know I didn't like wildlands enough to play through wildlands.

really deep. But okay, John Bernthal. He's cool. I like him. What does it like to chase these guys that are like, you know, renegade soldiers? Like, you've given me a narrative that's interesting there. Random computer voice bagley, like giving us orders. I'm in for it because I love watchdogs. I loved watchdogs too. I want to see what

this evolution is. I'm excited to run around and do all the stuff, but it's going to how hard is that going to wrap your head around and get people going? Yeah. That's interesting. Then always sunny in Philadelphia. We had, what's his name come out? Rob McEloney. There we go.

Mickelani. And he talked about Mythic Quest, the Apple TV show. Show the trailer of it. It's video game Silicon Valley. But it doesn't seem like it has the production quality of Silicon Valley. Definitely or not. No, no. And so that's what I'm watching.

I'm like, ooh. That first shot of him walking out like into the wherever he was. It's like, wow, this looks like a cell phone or something. Yeah, right. They didn't look very good. Yeah, we were talking first impressions off it. I thought the logo didn't look that great. And these are little gripes.

I don't know. If it's funny, it's funny, it'll be great. Yeah. It's also buried on a subscription service. I don't know anything about personally and I don't have any intense intent to get. Yeah. Yeah. Then we got Rainbow Six Siege.

We got a new operative. Operation Phantom site starting tomorrow as well. But yeah, the Secret Service guy looked like, right? Looks interesting. Yeah, you were saying he's more, he's different than what you usually see.

I feel like everybody in this game, you know, has helmets like this sledge guy does on screen. You know, like all these characters, you know, have a certain aesthetic and this guy totally doesn't fit that. And I think that's really neat.

I think it's a smart move for them. kind of branch out. And I think that's a problem with me because as a, as a big fan of Overwatch, I play Overwatch all the time. You have these very different distinct looking characters. When I watch our friend Alfredo play Rainbow Six Sege, they obviously know all these characters because of how much they play, but to me they don't really stand out from one another. And so I think this guy with a mustache and looking like James Bond, there was a very James Bond vibe there. I think it's a smart move for them. I hope we see a little bit more diversions. and how the characters look.

Like, just wearing weird shit, you know? Sure, totally. I understand. And then Adventure Time in Brawlho. We talked about this a bit. Didn't do much for me. No. Didn't know that game was free to play. Well, Brawlhoff, you remember, it was just, it's been a weird journey of that thing. Was it at Pax for years and years and an

open beta for years? And then Ubisoft bought it. And then, yeah, then it came out and it just didn't seem to set the world on fire. Because it was, back in the day, it seemed like they had the tiger by the tail because it was, hey, everybody, it's a multi-platform, smash brothers. Every's like, oh, this is awesome. And they played at events.

Like, wow, this is cool. And then it never came. So it's weird, though. It's like the numbers they showed were ridiculously impressive. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, shit. So I guess people are playing it. I mean, it's like every game, right?

I mean, people are playing it. It's always that thing when you're like, you don't think it's the thing, but it is a thing. But like, those numbers were like a lot of people are playing. It was like 60 million or something like that. Like, that's insane. Yeah. The quiet side of video games. You know what I mean?

We just don't know about. We talk about all these NPD numbers. So it's like we kind of have our finger on the pulse of that, but it's like we just Communities, yeah, of course. You can't be tied into it like that. Ghost Riecon breakpoint. John Bernthal, John Bernthal, John Bernthal, Bam Bam, bam.

Bam. Sam, bam. September 5th and beta. Freaked out, jumped off the stage, bit Eve's Gilmall in the face. You know what I mean? Rifles out of knife. Yeah, beta on September 5th. Yep.

October 4th release date. They announced this, uh, Ghost Recon, Delta Company. Delta Company. Some community program. I put some community bullshit. There's five different detachments. Go look at it. You know what I mean?

They're getting a post-launch update that will bring back AI teammates for solo players. I didn't realize that wasn't in this one. And then Ghost Reacon Terminator on Terminator. All right. A lot of money being thrown around for... Terminator everywhere, man. He's everywhere. Yeah.

When does Dark Fate come out? No, I don't know. Nobody's promoting that in anything. Then Tom Clancy's elite squad mobile game. It looks like a strategy RPG. It looks like a... Like a ghost series. It looks like a...

The visually does look like the ghost series, but it looks like the gameplay is similar to the Rabbits game. No Nintendo collaboration. Yeah. Bummer. Then, yeah, there you go. I feel like we had two good last year with Star Fox. Yeah, with Mario. Yeah, with Mario, Starfx is last year.

Mario Rabbit was two years ago, right? Got it, got it. Starfx was great because it was so unexpected. Right. Then, yeah, Just Dance 2020. I thought that was a fun little commercial for it. I thought that was like the best way they could have possibly shown just dance to people. And what did you learn about me?

You love the High High Hope song. And what happens when you die, I need to make a montage set to that. Just making sure we're all set. Got it. Little let down the old town road was played. Hey, we see out of their conferences. Just an update. Team Yacht and Team Pay and Tite.

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Oh, yeah. That's gonna be awesome, dude. I can't wait to play that damn game. You know what else? What? Not as exciting, but it's exciting to me. Today, that Ghostblusher pack dropped in Rocket League.

I'm pretty sucked about that. I'm pretty sucked about that. I'm going to try to platinum Rocket League because people always say it's an attainable platinum. And now Ghostbusters car there. I'm like, I'm actually going to try. It's fate. Kisman.

For Honor. Limited time game event. Shadows of the Hoto Kiri until June 27th. Cool. Go get them for honor. Yeah. Rainbow 6 quarantine. Three player tactical co-op PVEE.

Spring 2020. Cool teaser trailer. Yep. The woman from U.B. Montreal seems like she got a good head on her shoulders. Yeah. Cool hair. Indeed. I like the idea of what she said.

like Rainbow Six Siege did, what Siege did for PVP, we're gonna do for PVE. And I'm like, as a person who... That's awesome. Really only wants to play PVE? 100% in. Yeah, that'd be awesome to sit there and actually get into with Andy over here.

Or should I say, Nitro Rifle? Somebody steal that man's glasses. He still doesn't answer me on Twitter where you got them. Where is he? He wasn't even on camera anymore. Well, he was when he sent it. Oh, got it. Then we got... He looks so hot. Division 2. June 13th through 16th.

It's free. And then I just wrote expansions. Yeah, hold on. Let me get my dog in my lap and then I'll give you the whole run down here on what you need to know. Okay. New meat emissions. Brand new game experiences. Oh, what a hot. Oh, yeah. So you play for free June 13th through the 16th. That'll be interesting to see how many more people get in there, how many new people in there. Of course, there's a kind of funny clan. If you're going to be committed all the way to the end, let us know.

We need to boot some people I think who have bounced out. You better not boo me. I know I'm not playing. Are you ever going to come back? Look, I didn't boot you or Jen from the Destiny clan. Oh, shoot. You better not boot me. Because I'm coming back to Destiny. Whoa. You heard about this. Are you coming back to you? I might do.

Come on. Episode one coming in July. It's got a new main mission, brand new game experiences. It says, of course, this is DC Outskirts Expeditions. It's taking us outside of the city. We had known that was happening, that we know that was episode one. We didn't know where we're going. Now we know National Zoo, Kenley College.

National Zoo seems like it's more of the same stuff. Kenley College seems like it's exploration, a combat, a mix of more things. Hopefully more like the quarantine zones that are currently in the game, which are more like little narrative puzzles than are, you know, actually getting into the shit of it and stuff like that. Do you want to fill up a water for him? Sure. He's got a bowl. You know how he is. He never drinks.

Barry, you want to fill a water for the dung? You know what I mean? Thanks, Big Bear. We love you. Episode two is coming this fall. We're going to the Pentagon. Also known, but we did not know that this is when the second raid will drop as well. I want it clear if you didn't watch us doing the watch along. You can go to YouTube.com slash kind of funny games to watch that. When they showed the Pentagon, Greg clapped and then said it looks like an anus.

What is he? Pull up a picture of the But also he got in my face. He got the right in my ear. Here's what I want you to do, Kevin. Pull up an overhead image of the Pentagon and tell me that doesn't look like an anus. And if you say, I don't know,

afterwards I will show you my anus. And you will tell me if that looks like the Pentagon. I'm glad we're not on Twitch.tv slash Twitch. You know what? Maybe that would have gotten us some steps. You never know? I very much doubt. And then episode three is Manhunt.

It's is a manhunt. It's happening in New York. It's in the same. summer. I thought it was an awkward build-up to that trailer. Just because the way they made it sound, and we all talked about it. It made it seem like it was going to be a reveal of a real person, an actor, like, you know what I mean? Well, that is an anus. You're right.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. That's an anus man. What is the name is? Have I ever seen? Thank you very much. Tim. Thanks, bud. It's anus. You guys are all fucked. And so then, uh, it wasn't, it was the reveal that it's in New York. Of course not.

It's in New York. He's Portello. He'll, he knows how he is. New York in the summer. So we're going back to New York for the first time in Division 2 timeline. It won't be in the winner anymore. And when we were like, oh man, we're, you know, it sucks and they're not building up to a real person. Everyone in the chat is shouting out that it's Aaron Keener, who's a person in the division that is like in the lore of the division of Division 1 on how this all happened. Yes, guys, we get that. I understand. That isn't even more obscure reference. That isn't getting people excited. The way they built up to that, we were talking about was going to be another person like a John Bernthall thing, which clearly in the year of John Burnfall and fucking Keanu Reeves isn't unheard of that that, that,

what we were talking about or what it seemed to be. All of this news is good and interesting, and I'm in for it. I just feel like it should have been a teaser trailer. Then this guy coming out, talking about it and us going back and forth. It should have been the Polish usual division. Like, what's a, hey, agents, here's what's happening. Have Isaac fucking say it. I'm in for all of it, though.

Super excited. They also said that the movie is still going on. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain, and it's coming to Netflix. Yeah. Great. Then you play Plus on PC, $14.99 a month. Free in September. sign up now. It's coming next year

for Stadia. So another subscription service that's like you know, we always talk about cutting the cord, right? Yeah, and that's becoming less and less of a thing. Yeah, you keep subscribing all these different services. You're going to have 14 services and you're going to be paying

140 bucks a month anyway. Yeah. But that's, you know, still not buying multiple $60 games. Yeah. Sure. I do like, of course, it's early access to the games. It's the premium edition of the games. It'll launch with more than 100 games. 1499 a month.

You can sign up right now for free access in September at launch if you go to YouPlay.com in 2020 it will come to Stadia. I wonder how long, or I should say how long, I wonder when it'll actually come to Xbox PlayStation.

Because you know that like EA, obviously, that is the idea that that's already come over there or is coming over there. It'll be interesting to see when if it's successful enough to go that way as well. Wow, Team T-Pain won.

Team Yadi is giving $10,000 to girls who code. So I guess second place gives a certain amount. And the first place is a bigger amount. Girls who code. Very cool. Yeah.

10K. Look at Yadi with Atlanta Braves hat. Then we got Roller Champions, PVP, team sports out today. Cool. Sounds exactly like cool. The alpha demo is out today. You go to the forums and talk about it

if you go to Roller Champions.com. Okay. Cool. It definitely looks like it's trying to do a Rocket League kind of thing. Which is fine. Great. That's Ubisoft.

When you look at them now, they kind of just want to have every vertical that video games have to offer that are ongoing platforms. And there's like, we have this, we have this, we have this, fine. We have rollerball, we have a really fantasy, cool looking game, and then we have a bunch of dudes and guns.

And so then, yeah, Yves Gamow comes out. New project. Gods and Monsters, February 25th, 2020. It's Breath of Wild, but it's not. We'll see. It's gods and monsters. I'm intrigued, but... That's from the Quebec City team, is who are the people who gave you, Cassassins Creed Odyssey, which is exciting

for me. February 25th, okay. But yeah, looking at it, it was just a, you know, CG trailer. Looks cute. The woman, it looks like a cheapy version of Cassandra. All right, cool. That slow zoom up just looked like the intro to breath of the wild. It was kind of astounding. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The word eventually looks over the whole world and you get the title. Yeah, it looked a little too much like it, but I still think it's gorgeous. I love that art style. I'm in for a different experience from UB that isn't. Again, this is the team that did, which Assassin's Creed? Odyssey. Odyssey. So, yeah, I'm excited for them to, and I'm excited that these,

developers are like, hey, we get to try something else that's different. That isn't just kind of what we've been doing for the last decade or whatever. IGN is a preview of gods and monsters. Oh, cool. It's like a very short, like, hey, they got to see a little bit of it. But check it out if you want to see some words. Gameplay? I think so. I think I saw a little bit of gameplay. Well, there you go. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been our kind of funny games cast post-show analysis of Ubisoft's press conference. But our day is far from over. over. Later, we will be back live on Twitch, uh, doing the Square Enix press conference pre-show,

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It does keep the lights on, everybody. But now let's turn the lights off because it's really hot. God, let's get the hell out of this oven. I'll see you later.