The Weekly Planet - The Weekly Planet Presents - Hey Fam E3 2019

Episode Date: June 14, 2019

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Visit heartandstroke.ca. Hello, everybody. It is Friday in most parts of the world. This is not a Weekly Planet episode or a Caravan of Garbage episode. What it is, if you are familiar with Andrew Levins from the HeyFam podcast and various other podcasts, including this podcast that he has also been on. Him and Angus recorded, as they do every year, a very special E3 mega-sized, giant, enormous episode covering all the major events.

Everything to the Avengers game to probably a Zelda game, I'd imagine. Yeah, this is kind of an area that Mason and I obviously lack any knowledge in. We thought, hey, so why not release the episode here? An episode of the podcast Hey Fam, which has been described as the weekly planet, but fucked. Anyway, here it is. Enjoy. Hey fam, welcome to Hey Fam. My name is Levins and with me as always is my co-host, If y'all met her, I don't trust you, I'm gonna shoot you matter of this episode and how much it it excites us it is christmas for neckbeards it is um that's good i don't think you're gonna do better than christmas for neckbeards no you're right i was trying to think of i was trying to think of i was gonna say um no this one's going on the planet broadcast feed so i'll whisper that one on your ear later cool it's over for pay fam but let's Let's just say it rhymed with Schoenbein. Schoenbein shooters.

So it's E3 a week. We've had all the conferences have happened in the last couple of days. E number three, Epcot, Electronic, Estonia. Every year they go back to Estonia. The conference, everyone travels. It's like the Olympics. They recreate the Epcot centre they rebuild the Epcot

they take ecstasy in Estonia they get on ecstasy then they knock it down because they're on ecstasy and then they rebuild it every year again it's a beautiful tradition

and it's one I love and I tell you what it better not end so we've got one year we'll get sent there for some reason yeah

like to the actual E3 conference or to this thing we just made up consider this a warning E3 we're gonna get there we're gonna get there yeah Yeah, like to the actual E3 conference or to this thing we just made up? Consider this a warning, E3. We're going to get there. We're going to get there. Yeah?

Yeah, surely we can get accreditation. Let's do a Kickstarter. Let's. And just not actually get invited to the conference, just sit at the front of it and be like, we made it. Let's go dance single style, GoFundMe, and then claim you forgot about doing it. That's a very, very niche joke. So we've had it's on my mind yeah i know so is there is a last resort it's a classic sydney moment um so we

had a global moment we had a bunch of uh video game press conferences hell yeah and uh the true loser of e3 this year was anyone who actually watched all of them. So you're pretty much a bit of a loser, aren't you? I'm pretty much a bit of a loser. Yeah. My neck beard has since receded because I didn't watch that many of them. We had a pretty good time zone this year, I've got to say, for the most part. Yeah. Last week I said I wasn't going to watch the Nintendo one.

Oh, and I knew hell you were lying. Yeah. Then last night before I went to bed, I was like, fuck it. After you kissed your kids and said, daddy's a liar good night yeah i set an alarm for 2 a.m did you watch it in bed next to your wife yeah yeah and she woke up to my alarm too and was like was like you know you can use your watch as a silent alarm that taps you i do that all the time i got to do like when will i charge my watch though you get two days out of these no not if you exercise I'm kicking

several goals a day I'm getting I use mine to listen to music and exercise and do ecstasy and do ecstasy I'm getting 10k a day

at EFCO Estonia yeah yeah I'm not allowed to listen to music at work it's banned I don't use it for that I like my phone on me

at all times yeah I've got a new phone she woke up to me waking myself up for the Nintendo Direct it's fucked It's banned I don't use it for that I like my phone on me At all times Yeah I've got a new phone She woke up to me Waking myself up For the Nintendo Direct It's fucked But the thing is

If you knew you were Going to wake up Then you should have Done anyway And put on charge When you really I know Look look

I realise Now I know what to do Next year I wish I was there I wish you were there In between me and my wife Yelling at you Going you should have

Charged you Yeah you shouldn't have Done that I do that a lot Even when I have like It's called to consider it alarm and i think you should can start considering others i will i definitely should because you're lying to your kids and like assaulting your wife she was like what the fuck levens must have like accidentally set the wrong alarm nope he's just a way and then in the morning woke up and she saw that i tweeted

um considering waking my entire family up and telling them that i love nintendo look man she was like god damn it was some nintendo i get it i do it why did i marry this motherfucker okay i do it for star wars trailers and i used to do it for nintendo but um like a battered spouse i'm not saying male or female because i'll let the listener decide but it rhymes with b-mail yeah rhymes with schmollenbein schmiemail um sch Rhymes with Schmollenbein, Schmiemail. Schmolling for Schmollenbein. I've been disappointed too many times. What, you stay up for that?

Just the Wii U one still gets me because it was such a good announce and then they didn't deliver at all. Yeah. I still think about that old man video chatting that like teen, remember? Oh, like the show off that you could do video chat on the wii u yeah and the action figures responding to like their action remember that yeah yeah it was a

work of art i want to find out the production team who did it so when we um die and they make the hey fam film i want the wii u um direct um directors that'd be great you know how it's just like people do shit without saying who did it. Yeah, true. So, yeah, full disclaimer, we are big Nintendo fanboys. If you didn't know that about us. A couple of big N's you could say here. You and I got big N's on our foreheads, Neo Cortex style. Who's now on a Nintendo system. That's true.

In two games, CTR and CT, Crash Trilogy. Remaster, so it's two CTRs. So that's the bad guy in Crash Bandicoot? Yeah, Dr. Neocortex. And he's just got a huge N on his forehead. What does the N stand for? Neocortex? It rhymes with shmeemail.

So let's go to the... We're going to skim through the other conferences. There were some pretty cool announcements scattered throughout them. Huge announcement before A3. Xbox C cologne which i think was the oh of course yeah if you want to smell like an xbox now you can i mean there's no way that's ever gonna be there's no way that's looking good you know what i mean like there's no way that's gonna be well received i just don't know why like the one console which is so aligned with like monster energy basement you know what i mean like the one that like yeah like when you people that say n

word on games or the f word like on xbox you know what i mean neocortex and shmima when gaming uh the people that know yeah it's it's so synonymous with that that just to lean into the fact you could tell it started off as a joke maybe but just that yeah that seeing that xbox logo this sounds so bad i'm sorry if you have an xbox but to me it's like you're seeing like a monster energy drink you know what i mean that logo yeah the font and everything is so aggressive the 360 generation they were like they won that generation and i did that by aligning themselves with the ps3 yeah with like doritos and Mountain Dew. Yeah.

They just leaned into like the worst shit and now they're all got anime avatars on Twitter. And they were the ones leading the charge with in terms of like doing the voice, you know, voice chat. And now they all have anime avatars and are telling like AOC to kill herself. Yeah. I guess in winning the kind of race to be the always online console, they aligned themselves with the worst people who are always online. Yeah, it's so true.

Salute to True Kings. But now, like, apparently they want you to wash yourself, which I don't know. Is that a dig? They don't want you to wash yourself. Just want you to spray the Xbox. Shower spray. Oh, wow. Cool.

Body gel. Really head to toe in that Xbox. What do you think it smells like? I know this is so in that xbox what do you think it smells like i know this is so hacky but what do you think it smells like um like i reckon it's like 15 year old boy or something right right well how would you know what that smells like well i was one okay right what did you smell like when you were 15 um like that different it went out i smell like a gamecube yeah so, I smell like it. I did, actually. I had a GameCube, black one. I wanted purple, but they didn't make them by the time I got them.

Do you reckon it's that real pungent, like, Lynx Africa smell? I reckon it's purposefully pungent, so you can smell them coming a mile away. Make a decision if you want to linger or get out of the way. In six months from now, will they release an Xbox... Rape Whistle? Pro? Yeah, sure.

I was going to do a really bad pro joke, but Rape Whistle is way better. Or worse, depending on your point of view. I hear that's in the pipeline from those geniuses at Xbox. All right, we got some conferences to get through. EA had it. There was Stadia before E3. So it didn't do anything, did it? It didn't set the world on fire. EA had it. There was Stadia before E3.

So it didn't do anything, did it? It didn't set the world on fire. It was weird. They announced some, like, okay-sounding games that are coming. Exclusives? Yeah, like, oh, I don't know. They're going to be on it.

Yeah. One thing I read, which is kind of strange, is they've, like, said, and maybe it's a good thing they've said, developers can name their own, like, subscription prices. Yeah. It's not locked in, but then it's, like, that can also developers can name their own like subscription prices yeah it's not locked in but then it's like that can also be very bad well some developers are

like i don't know what we're gonna what how we'll get paid from making our games available on stadia and because the thing with apple which people either love or hate is that they take a chunk but then they've also got such strong regulations around their like subscriptions and you know one of the largest market shit you know it's like they're purposefully doing the opposite where it's like there is no regulation it's very google but yeah they've like changed the font to um you know how their phones like you have like uh papyrus is your system font oh yeah they're very much like no you can decide what to do and it's just it's it's maybe not always good it's maybe good to yeah i know definitely like yeah android android users exclusively have the worst fonts oh not No, you can decide what to do. And it's just, it's maybe not always good. It's maybe good to trust.

Yeah, I know. Definitely. Like, yeah, Android users exclusively have the worst fonts. Oh, not only worst fonts, the worst fucking photos on, whenever you're looking at Instagram stories, the ones that look like they're from a Game Boy camera. You can bet your ass it's Android. Don't most Samsung's and shit have better cameras than iPhone?

Yeah, but not everyone who has an Android has a Samsung. Oh, okay. Right, yeah has a samsung so omnipresent on so many right yeah sure whatever's um yeah i mean it's it's almost redundant being australians talking about google stadia because it sounds like we're never gonna get it we won't ever even if we do get it we won't be able to use it because our internet sucks so much yeah 100 that uh we just won't be able to stream any of these games. I don't know. It's weird also that Google seem to be kind of targeting an audience who don't have a console but also are willing to pay $60 for a game to stream on Google.

It's $60 and what a month. Well, you still have to buy the games. Like there is a subscription service that you can get to play some games. But if you want to buy a specific game, you have to pay full price. And then it's like, well, someone's paying a full price game. They're either going to have like a home build PC or they're going to have like a PS4 Pro or an Xbox One. You know what I mean? Yeah.

And then it's like, why would you play a game through a Chromecast then? Which doesn't have like the... Well, I think the appeal is you could be playing it through... You could be playing it on your TV through your Chromecast or whatever. And it's using a service. And then you can keep playing it on your phone using the... Like using it as a screen with your game controller. Because it doesn't matter about the processing and your Chromecast or whatever. And it's using a server. And then you can keep playing it on your phone using it as a screen with your game controller. Because it doesn't matter about the processing and the Chromecast,

it's like the server nearby that's running the game. And then the controller itself connects to the internet. So you have way less lag in terms of that. I don't know. It sounds like not for me at all. No, I mean, yeah, it's... And speaking of not for me at all no I mean yeah it's and speaking of not for me at all EA had their conference first the first one of the first EA sports but they

opened with something that does it's in your ass respawn are making the new Star Wars game we've been awaiting this one for a long time was do we only see this trailer day three oh yeah we know we saw a web one a while ago a teaser but we saw gameplay that's right yeah it was like a 13 minute long gameplay yeah trailer fallen order yeah i'm into it was single player game i'm into it man yeah totally looked like uncharted meets like apparently i was reading a well not apparently i can confirm i was reading a rumors of my uh literacy have been exaggerated um i read an interview of a developer who said it's um taken some and you're probably gonna get an erection

at this next word yeah meocortex some meocortex um some vibes so there's a lot of like upgrading going back getting stuff yeah so they went was interesting what we saw was very like uncharted uncharted like you know set extremely uncharted and i loved the set piece nature because star wars is you know it's basically a series of set pieces the films like i love seeing the monster fight i was like thank god we're seeing that because you know every star wars movie there's a fight with like a monster who tries to eat a ship or yeah and all these games we've always it's you versus stormtroopers or you versus jedi you know what i mean character is pretty boring but he has a cute droid so who cares oh fuck the person the droid's amazing yeah yeah yeah fuck

fuck the person um but yeah like i'm even though we saw like a very very like kind of like focused like slice of the game on rails kind of vibe chic the. Wookiee Sheik, the You're Freeing Wookiees, which I'm, you know what, we're good guys. We're into, we're not. Was the guy, the guy that you meet,

like one of the first characters you meet? Saw Gerrera. It was Saw Gerrera. Yeah. Yeah, right. It's Saw Gerrera. He's like a huge.

When is it set? It is, so judging, I don't know, I've been doing some deep dives. Yeah. It is not before, it's not during Rogue One

because he's bald Saw Gerrera. Right. So it's him when Jin was like a young girl. Is he going to make you fuck a mind slug? A bald gullet. Yeah. Yeah. You, yeah. I hope bald gu carrera right so it's him when jinn was like a young girl he's gonna make you fuck a mind slug a ball gullet yeah yeah you yeah i hope ball gullet is in it that was i always like i defend rogue one and then people remind me about that scene i'm like oh yeah no that is like one of the weirdest scenes in any star wars film hands down and for that reason i kind of like it it's so it's like almost david lynch it's like weird and sexy yep if the idea of sexy

is like wet tentacles touching your face which i mean i watch a lot of anime that's all i'm saying i mean you know i've nothing no anime i've watched so far as a tentacles in it yet i'll send you the thanks bro i appreciate it yeah this ain't on anime lab uh but yeah the um so like after this So yeah, it's just before the start of Rogue One Right, yep So the Empire's like in full swing Darth Vader's kind of been Darth Vader for 10 years Order 66 happened a while ago Because he was a Padawan during Order 66 who escaped the lead

And he seems to be a young man here So you could say he's anywhere between like 18 to 22 or something Yeah, so it's like 20 years before So I think he's been living like 18 to 22 or something. Yeah. So it's like 20 years before. I think he's been living like 10 years as like in hiding. Yeah. Which was kind of fun that last trailer where he's like in bars and cafes and like looking over his shoulder with when Imperial officers come by. So yeah, what we saw was, yeah, a very like, you know, Uncharted-esque single player, like,

you know, set piece. Yeah. But yeah, like devs, the guys working on it, the Respawn guys who did Titanfall 2. Yep. And Apex Legends. That's right. They, Apex Legends or the other one? Maybe the other one.

No, Apex Legends, the good one. No, they did Apex Legends. Anthem is one that people don't like. But yeah, they've gone on to say that it's actually like, it's a much more of an open world game than what we saw kind of suggested it was and yeah there are elements of metroid and uh even zelda um and dark souls in terms of combat yeah i loved the combat like you know that you had to really be you had to now it's my turn we're just hitting my collectible shelf here angus has a big uh

a glass cabinet full of um sh figure art star Wars. And I sat down earlier and the ripples. It was in the wrong spot. The ripples that my butt let into the floorboards. Yeah, it was wild. Knocked over a Praetorian Guard. Praetorian Guard, Phasma, First Order Stormtrooper, Episode 1, Obi-Wan, Episode 3, Anakin. 3PO. 3PO.

Basically, yeah, it was a good mix. Once I sat down, I did the same thing as you and everyone fell down except for Kylo Darth Vader and Darth Maul and I was like

damn that's some dark side shit in here I was loving it but yeah I loved the combat that we saw yeah it was sick man how good was that moment

when the stormtrooper shot and you froze the laser much like Kylo at the start of force awakens and then like force pulled him towards you and like threw him through it yeah so i was just like because i mean like remember star wars uh was it 30 remember the one they're making the underground one like the one where you're like a bounty hunter yeah that looked. That looked amazing. But come on, man.

When you play a Star Wars game, you want to be like a fucking Jedi. And you want to be an overpowered Jedi, which doesn't make sense in the context of- And that's why I'm so glad it's a Titanfall 2, guys. I've only played like an hour of that single player campaign. I should go back and finish it. But like, there was so many- Peaceful, yeah.

Yeah, right. There was so many- It was like an Xbox exclusive for some reason. I think the first Titanfall was at first. I can't remember. I'm talking through my butt. I don't know. But yeah, there was lots of crazy ideas in that game.

Do you want water or tea? I would love some iced tea, please. Do you want some iced tea? Yeah, cool. Was it barley tea? Is that what you call it? Yeah. But yeah, the rest of the EA conference,

after a great show, it's just the usual shit. It's a lot of updates. You've got FIFA. You had The Sims 4. there was some apex legend stuff battlefield 5 just updates to a lot of games that we already know already exist good for them yeah good for them good on you ea but um yeah i mean i think a good showing for fallen order um yeah i'm psyched for that game it comes out the week after death stranding it could be nice

to like well i don't know it looked like a fun arcadey slash them up and then after hearing stuff about it i'm like fuck i really might have to like sink more time into that than i anticipated man a mix of open world with like uncharted style set pieces like that sounds so fun yeah i think it looks great i honestly do i i i think i love that setting i love how unexplored that era is umically. And I think especially when you compare it to the other big Disney-owned franchise that also debuted its big game later in another show, I think this is definitely the better of the two of those games. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Forrest Whitaker's there with his daggy-ass eye. I'm there. But yeah, by looking at that, that's like the Saw Gerrera who we didn't see in Rogue One. He was kind of crazy by the end of Rogue One. Yep. But in the Clone Wars, he's kind of like a young dude being like, hey, let's take on the Rebellion. He's kind of heroic and kind of looks like that Saw Gerrera.

Right. So, next up, we have a two-hour long Microsoft Xbox conference. Yeah. So, the key to enjoying E3 the most i think is not watching the smelling good and also smelling good obviously waking up first thing you do bathe in the xbox lotion yeah uh spray on that spray yeah um and then the nearest woman but i thought to be a wife or sister or mother with xbox xbox for her yeah yeah uh x i was gonna make it it is use your imagination xbox xbox great i don't know just come on the other xbox yeah um but uh i follow wario 64 yeah yeah um he's a really

great twitter account he does lots of gaming announcements and uh and sales and stuff like that yeah he was doing like really great recaps of all of the conferences. Watching it so you don't have to watch it. FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret. The other, a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.

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who will you rise for? Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca Yeah. When is it? 2077? One of them. Keanu Reeves came out. Yeah, 2077 sounds right. Keanu Reeves came out. The man of the year. I mean, very, very well chosen on their behalf. So it's like hit the nail on the head. Read those trend charts extremely well. Yeah. Obviously, he's very much in the ether right now.

His presence on stage was amazing. Yeah, fully. He just went went cyberpunk he just kept repeating things he was great and when that person um yelled out you're beautiful yep and he's like you're beautiful too um do you know what his character's name is um no um so his name john it's something really fucking funny but i can't find where it's written johnny silverhand that rules well he has got a metal arm. It's kind of like Johnny Mnemonic.

Didn't Johnny Mnemonic have a metal arm? He was Johnny Mnemonic. I can't remember. I mean, this dude's so cyberpunk. What do you think of that game as someone who has watched a lot of cyberpunk over the years? It's kind of a game. I wish it wasn't called cyberpunk still. It's the worst title.

It is, I guess, the closest thing I'll get to playing the Blade Runner game on PC, which you can no longer get. And the company that made it and its parent company no longer exists. I think Virgin published it. I don't know. There's two degrees of publishers that don't exist anymore. So that game is sitting somewhere, nowhere. But for better or for worse it's

it looks like the cyberpunk we've come to it looks actually more like akira than blade runner i think yep um which i watched this week i watched that on uh the queen's birthday i celebrated by watching the uh otomo classic akira as you should but uh that is on Anime Lab now it is on Anime Lab I watched it no tentacles there yeah no well you can find them yeah uh look I mean

I'm curious it looks fun yeah good developer they're friends with Kojima that's definitely the biggest highlight

on in Microsoft's conference but then it's on every console yeah but you know whatever they got the glory moment for it so good on

them I still don't really get that I guess that publisher isn't too small to warrant a big conference. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, totally. The third parties have got to go somewhere. And I was expecting way more of them to show up at Microsoft.

I thought Capcom would be it. You thought Miyamoto was going to walk out. Yeah. But they put up their schedule, therosoft schedule um uh for e3 and they they included the nintendo director in it that is weird and we obviously will find out why but uh yeah i thought i thought that suggested what much more of a partnership whatever they announced um the project scarlet and whatever it's just another xbox that's the new that's this what's this gen now eighth gen i can't remember it's remember. It's the true next gen.

It's not an Xbox One S. It's going to beat PS5 to the punch. Yeah. Because the losing team always goes first. Yeah. I honestly don't know when they'll announce any PS5 stuff. I don't see it coming out till Christmas next year. And even then at that...

Well, that's exactly when the the next xbox is coming out i reckon even later then um and uh we got yeah i mean they obviously there's going to be a halo game for it before that we're going to get a gears gears game i saw that halo trailer man i've never played it wasn't even a trailer there was no gameplay so yeah it looked it looked it did it did nothing for me that's the thing like they i know nintendo has been guilty of this in the past of just like just kind of saying the right thing for the fans that are already there and doing nothing to win new ones over.

But that's how I felt watching this sort of stuff. So who makes it now? It's not Bungie or anyone, is it? Like the original makers? I'm not sure. I'll get it wrong. But I don't know. A few cool things.

I'll give you some cool positives from the conference. There's a new Tales game, the JRPG series. It's just rare to see a JRPG. Tales of Vesperia. Oh, yeah. This new one is called Tales of Arise. Thinking about Miles, inverted commas, Tales.

Oh, right, yeah. Tales from Sonic. I was like, sorry, why didn't I hear about this? Because I've still got to do my deep dive on all the Sonic characters. Remember, I've been doing an explanation. Yeah, coming soon.

You're really going deep. It's going to be a good six months long. It's going to be a spin-off series. It's my serial. It's my S-Town if this is serial. From Software announced their new collaboration with George R.R. Mountain. How's that, motherfucker? Like, the show's finished.

They're supposedly based off his books. Just not writing books and making games with Japanese companies is so great. Just like, I'm never writing these books. Sorry, guys. I'm a gamer now. So good. books just not writing books and making games with japanese companies is so great just like i'm never writing these books sorry guys i'm a gamer now so good i rose up and yeah uh reading reading's lame i love i love if like in his final book like denier he saw yeah yeah deniro deniro it's like meet the parents all right yeah deniro the famous game of thrones character is a game is a gamer now yeah yeah, that'd be great. They're actually just LARPers.

You're talking to me. They game. I game. Yeah, that looks interesting. But it didn't say whether it's a Souls game or not. It's not. I don't know. It could be linked to the universe somewhere.

But I mean, I wonder if it's the same play style or not. Yeah, true. From my read, it looked more like RPG-ish. They all have RPG elements, but yeah, mostly it's just that brutal kind of combat. Yeah. Shout out to having your own genre. Yeah, totally.

Just named after the first game. Yeah. Who do you think you are? Metroid? I mean, that didn't happen until a few years ago, did it? Metroidvania started getting released. Yeah, I guess not. Yeah. The big announcement for a new company That they've acquired

I wanted to call something Else than Metroidvania Like Big Samus style Or something like that Yeah Then you neglect Poor old Castlevania

Oh yeah What was that dumb Back to front kid called? Crisscross? No, Iraculate Or whatever it was called Oh Alucard

Alucard, yeah From Castlevania Dumb backwards kid yeah he's the fucking greatest you'd love him he's a sexy vampire it's just sexy half vampire he sounds like some bitch from

twilight he invented bitches from twilight yeah um microsoft announced that they um acquired double fine oh yeah um so psychonauts two is the next game that all say psychonauts

two character design is some of the ugliest shit i've ever seen i mean i played the first psychonauts game Is the next game That they'll find out Psychonauts 2 character design Is some of the ugliest shit I've ever seen I mean I played the first Psychonauts game on PS2 It looks ugly as hell It works That art style is so bad

It worked on PS2 I don't know how It's going to work I'm going to describe it For blind listeners Okay great It looks like Classical Super

Kind of characters Like a rug rat Or a wild thornberry Yeah but not with that Charming like Mark Mothersborough You know what I with that charming like Mark Mothersbrook you know what I mean the music of Mark Mothersbrook

calms you down where is it yeah it's pretty hideous shit you're right it's disgusting it's a good one it looks like some fucked look at that shit

yeah look at this it just looks like some shit like it works when you're playing a PS2 game. Yeah. I don't know how it's going to look in HD. That looks like the thing that nightmares are made of.

Look at that. Just revolting. It does look like very early DreamWorks animated. Yeah. I was trying to think. It looks like a straight. It looks like. You know what it looks like?

It looks. The movie Ants. Yeah. It looks like a Netflix TV series based off a DreamWorks film. I love it. So they've palmed it off to like some fucked up animation studio that they've outsourced in like a third world country. Yeah.

It's disgusting. I hate it. Okay. Well, then we've got Bethesda next. I'm never playing it. Bethesda is a game publisher that I know you dislike passionately. They've just sold me broken things in the past and yeah i don't like they just yeah they i don't like when you buy one of bethesda's i mean

especially their main two flagship games a fallout or a um elder scrolls you're buying an unfinished game yeah i just think that's rude and i hate the like like they're also not geniuses so i don't get the like special treatment where someone's like oh it's what they always do it's like yeah you know what every other publisher tends to not to like they they finish their games or they man up like nintendo and go oh it's coming out next year now you know what i mean like yeah sure they're not releasing it because it's not finished um so on that note the one of the first thing that they did was apologize for fallout 76 today well like not they weren't like we're sorry for everything they were like you know we know we made some mistakes and we're gonna do our best to you know make it good but like imagine hanging around still like as if you wouldn't have moved

on you know what i mean yeah that's why they spent so much money on it no but it just meant like imagine being a gamer and going like yeah i'll go back imagine being a gamer yeah i never know how that feels uh then now it's a bunch of new modes for that and we got a a big great look at doom eternal did you watch the trailer for that man uh yeah it did nothing for me really it's just like i'm again i won't play it this looks like super fun gore i actually i saw it on my last doom game and i didn't play that i gotta get him i was like oh that one looks fun but then i'm like yeah i'll get it one time like it's not at the top of my list it does look fun as hell but i also like it's just doom like it time. Like, it's not at the top of my list. It does look fun as hell.

But I also like, it's just Doom. Like, it's like, to me, it's like Mortal Kombat. Like, they're games that, to me, meant heaps big in the 90s because they were, like, pushing boundaries. They were super different. And now, like, the person who created them or the company has nothing to do with it anymore. And these, like, titles have wound up elsewhere.

Have you looked into the story of the latest Mortal Kombat game? Oh, it's fucking bonkers. It's so up your alley i reckon yeah and all the and it's like boone tobias boone and everyone's still making it yeah yeah stuff yeah yeah there's just like okay mortal kombat aside it's just like something that i'm like this doesn't need to exist now like this is truly for nostalgia purposes which no doom i don't think so like i think so i think it's a it's a it's a it's a genre of game unto itself. You reckon? Like, it is a very fast-paced, like, brutal shooter.

I guess it's, like, a good... I don't like first-person shooters, but that appeals to me. And there's a lot of, like, platforming in it. I guess it's good to, like... It's a good counter to, like, all the, like, World War II shit that's out. Yeah, I'd much rather play a Doom game. Even, like, Wolfenstein, which I appreciate as well. I would be more into the new... See, I'm more into that new wolfenstein because it's doing my like

one of my favorite ass things ever is alternate timeline and i'm like the 70s or 60s nazi shit like that to me is so exciting yep no you know what doom did look cool but i think it's just it's bethesda i mean the other doom games that they've made recently are pretty well received yeah i want to play one of them. One day I will. I played on PS4. I think it's a lot cheaper than Switch. Of course, I'm definitely not getting the Switch version.

It'll be... There are certain games, and one of them we're going to be talking about later. Imagine how unplayable that will be. The Witcher? Yeah. I'm still kind of keen. I'm so curious to see how and why. I kind of feel like if...

Obviously, we'll talk about it more later, but like, yeah, I mean, Project Red, who again, they're the guys that are making cyberpunk 2077 like yeah they announced the switch port of the witcher 3 yeah which is like a lot of people's favorite game of this generation yeah uh i don't know i kind of like maybe it does maybe it works it just doesn't look as good or something yeah it's the idea of playing an enormous third person action rpg like a la breath of the wild except even bigger in handheld mode is actually super appealing we're not bigger like physically bigger bigger in scope i think breath of the wild no no it's like it's a much longer game there's way

yeah um but uh i think the highlight for me for the Bethesda conference was the new game directed by Akumi Nakamura. Oh, yeah. That looks sick. She has worked on all kinds of great shit in the past. Yeah. What are some of that great shit? What do you think? Evil Within.

Yeah. But then that's... That's big on GameCube, yeah? PlayStation? Yeah. And then the Evil Within director is like... He's the original resident evil director yeah um and uh a lot of other games in between then and now but she came out and

introduced a new game called something ghostwire tokyo yeah it looks sick looks like fucking crazy weird kind of looks like the leftovers at one bit when like yeah even end game yeah yeah that game looks like the leftovers yeah when like everyone disappeared and shit but like like yeah it just it looked like an unsettling horror game which you know normally like a horror game is like jump scares extremely photorealistic tokyo as well yeah yeah that looks really really cool yeah another game called death looped looked pretty fun by the arcane and uh there's a i got my hopes up for one moment because i saw people uh sharing screenshots of commander keen oh my, this is great. They're doing a free-to-play mobile game of Commander Keen.

The art style makes Psychonauts look like Breath of the Wild, look like Death Stranding. Oh, it's disgusting. On that note, I forgot to mention the Battletoads reveal in Microsoft Conference. Did you see that? Yeah. It looks awful.

Yeah, it looks like a Flash game. I just like, I don't know, I remember like Battletoads is like a mix of like beat-em-up with platforming. Yeah, and one of the hardest games ever made. Yeah, but this one looks, I don't know. Is it a remake? No, it's a new game. But it just looks so busy, but also like really nothing going on in the background. I hate that art style.

Yeah, me too. It just looks like Flash. So yeah, it's like it just looks like flash um so yeah it's bethesda yeah then uh we had um the devolver digital oh yeah i watched that one um little quick 20 minute e3 unconference little um little too epic bacon for me yeah definitely it is very like i was like oh who who he wrote the rick and Morty spec script that got knocked back and turned into this? It is fun watching that, though, after a bunch of very dry... When I see a CEO with a mohawk, I'm just like, okay, I know who's getting the Xbox cologne in this building when it comes.

Didn't he get his throat ripped out or something in the video? I don't know. I think everyone got killed and everyone came... It was very Rick and Morty where like timelines and robots and funny work, like awesome sauce. It was, I was like, it was,

I liked the games, but it was very cringe. I was watching on a train and I was like, so glad I had headphones. It was very epic bacon. They had some amazing announcements in that. Yeah. Devolver conference.

The biggest, the coolest thing is like one of their biggest games, enter the gungeon is getting a proper arcade cabinet release um i wrote to the devolver rep in australia asking if they were going to bring one here and he said sadly no there'll be like one in austin it's like yeah it's like five thousand dollars us to get one of his concerts yeah they'll have one of the austin dive bar it's not really a dive bar that's owned by like a conglomerate and they'll have one at new york yeah it's a it's it's a light gun arcade game too like like house of the dead and it's even called house of the gun dead that's right um and you just shoot big bullets who also shoot yeah to

you i mean that's kind of fun super fun yeah we'll never play it um there's some a lot of going devolver probably my favorite indie publisher this year um and i'm looking forward to all the games that they announced in that little. That bootleg thing was funny. Is that real? Yeah, it's real. I bought it. So they made fake games.

They made Devolver bootleg, which is eight bootleg knockoff versions of their most popular games. So like you've got Gato Roboto, which is their recent cat Metroid game. But they made a cat Castlevania game as the bootleg version and it's just like this really shitty flash castle and they're short games or something yeah i i bought it and then realized that it only works on pc so i fucked up i gave it i gave it to john so john and i are going to play some on all the small games ridiculous um my indie game podcast

if you want to check that out too Ubisoft conference was yesterday morning only really two games in this that kind of monsoir soft I thought the Watch Dogs 3

looks kind of fucking awesome oh where you like take over people Mario Odyssey yeah it's like every character every person

in this game can be a character that you play how does that happen you message them or something you just yeah you recruit them and they're like there's kind of like a character is almost like charlie's angels style like you know okay my angels now this is what this is the mission that we're going to do and so you kind of yeah you can recruit anyone that you see in the world yeah it's very wild. Yeah, it's a cool, fun mechanic that we haven't really seen in a game before. It's almost like a really, really big take on like Pikmin or something.

Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't see the gameplay or anything. It's set in England. So trigger warning for you. There's going to be a lot of beans in this game. You can recruit beans. We've got to hack lines. So they start putting...

All right, I'm hungry. Someone recruit some beans. I'm going to recruitits some beans i'm gonna recruit some bacon we're gonna put some banksies in the beans and recruit recruit a baked tomato we'll put the beans under buckingham palace so they had a great start to their conference and lots of french accents uh yeah a lot of them and then like nothing really appealed to me or you until the end when they announced a uh breath of the wild uh style like oh yeah chibi kind of gods and monsters yeah gods and monsters it sounds like it was a hobby

almost from the um assassin's creed odyssey people because they were like obsessed with greek mythology and they're just like let's make a cool ass game with the gods and monsters in it yeah it's like a zelda style based in Greek mythology. Sounds good to me. It looks really, really great. Yeah, sounds great. If you're coming to Switch, sign me up for these. That looks really cool.

Yeah, that sounds great. Bummed that there wasn't any more, like, you know, we've got, obviously, the Mario Rabbids game in the past. We've got the Star Fox stuff last year in the Ubisoft conference. I thought for sure

we would get something else. I thought maybe we'd get a new Rayman. You did. You thought Miyamoto was coming out again. Yeah. You were like every, every concert. I was one of Miyamoto in every single conference this year.

Instead, he didn't show up in any. You're a human chief. Yeah. He didn't go, did he? He's old as fuck. He's just spending time in his garden thinking of new,

new weird games. He's down at the local pool looking for game ideas, but then getting kicked out because people don't recognize who he is. So the kind of funny showcase was 60 new indie game announcements and we'll be going through that on all the small games this week

as well kind of funny showcase it was like just just an indie indie games one so they make games do they no that they're like a podcast thing so they

they put it on a conference to kind of bring light to indie it's kind of cool idea if you thought the devolver front conference was cringy. Epic Bacon was this, you saw you on the internet. Yeah, absolutely.

You saw you on the internet today. Now a conference that I know you watched from start to finish with me. All 90 minutes of it. This motherfucking thing was long. Square Enix. It's why I stayed packed for work another two hours. Square Enix. Their big conference was bookended by uh the final fantasy 7 remake and the uh crystal dynamics avengers game i still can't believe

hello i'm back again there's so much more podcast but if you want to hear that which i'm sure you do you can actually jump over to the hey fam feed i've linked it in the bottom if you got about 37 minutes you're bloody right as rain you can just just continue on. But yeah, like I said, HeyFam's a great podcast. They also do movies and comics and TV shows and things like that, but with a stronger emphasis on video games than what we do. So yeah, give them a bloody subscribe or a thumbs up or whatever you're supposed to do on podcast. You know what you're doing, presumably. All right, thank you. We'll see you on Monday for the next Weekly Planet. What are we doing? Men in Black? Yeah, Men in Black and Black Mirror, I think. There you go. Okay, bye. Oh,

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