Video Gamers Podcast - Battlefield 6 First Thoughts, Titan Quest 2 release, No swim Mafia (TWIG) – Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan and Ace are back with hot takes on three of the biggest gaming stories this week! First up, we dive into our first impressions of the Battlefield 6 beta test—does it bring the chaos and innovation fans have been waiting for, or is it just another pretty shooter? Then it’s on to the surprise release of Titan Quest 2 and whether this long-awaited sequel lives up to its mythological roots. Finally, we’re scratching our heads over the weirdest news yet: you can’t swim in the new Mafia game… In 2025?! If you love video games and want real, unfiltered reactions to gaming’s latest headlines, this is the episode for you. From shock pads to RPGs the Video Gamers Podcast covers it all—gaming never sleeps!   Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf and Phelps   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, Patrick, NorwegianGreaser and PeopleWonder   Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.com/invite/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1    Visit us on the web:https://videogamerspod.com/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast. Is Battlefield back? We played it all weekend, and we've got our initial impressions for you. There's a new contender in the action RPG genre. Well, it's actually a sequel, but it is gaming. a ton of hype and once again gamers show how we can be really dumb with the things that we complain about plus a lot more in this week in gaming but first some introductions are in order i am your host josh and joining me we convince him that taking point for our squad is an honor

but it's really just so we don't die first it's ryan you got it guys i'll go I'll go ahead. Right, right. You take point, man. You get this one. You start the camping. Oh, no, I'm dead again. Oh, no, right.

It's down. Run, everybody. Run. That's how we lived our battlefield life. Oh, man. This is why gaming with your buddies is the best, because it's like, you go start the point, man. And then everybody's sitting back going, like, what a sucker.

Oh, man. And joining us in only. a few short hours of Battlefield 6, he was able to double his kill count and I'm not joking because it went from one

to two. Hey, I'm not here to save lives, boys. I'm here to save lives not end them. All right. I don't know why they bother giving me a gun. homie took his Hacksaw Ridge cosplay like serious dude he's like

do not hand me a gun get it away I wish I was making this up I do too I wish you were making it up too but I am not joking when I say that after a couple hours of playing Ace was like guys I think I'm starting to get it

and we looked and he had two kills instead of just the one I had like 22 ress though the ace like it started to click now you did you did play a great medic uh but yes you definitely were hacksaw ridge where you're like i'm against violence oh i don't touch a gun on oh my goodness man welcome in everybody we have a great episode for you obviously battlefield six we're going to get into our thoughts on that one uh we've got

titan quest two that released and we have yet another i'm starting to enjoy these just Because look, man, if we're all gamers, if we can't make fun of some of the dumb things that we do, like, what's the point? I don't want to be part of this we, by the way. And we're too bad. You're part of the collective. I don't want to be part of the we. This is fair. Like, this is stuff the gamers shouldn't do.

So we are not like condoning this behavior by any means. But my goodness, guys, sometimes people complain about the dumbest things in the world. And so we have to point it out because it's like, don't, don't be that dumb. So, but before we get rolling. And we have a review, Ace. You want to be a review, buddy? I do. I got a review right here for us.

It is a five-star review from Garnished One. And it says, perfect. I've been listening since the Eldon Ring episode, and it's been amazing since. Keep going. And you guys are great. Thank you so very much. I totally was involved in that episode. That's why it was great, obviously.

Hello. Oh, man. All right, guys. We're just going to jump right in, man, because I have a feeling we've got some talking to do. We're going to vibe a little bit on some battlefield. Battlefield 6. It comes out, listen, everybody knows.

You know, the real where I was talking about Battlefield 2042 and, you know, hey, being kind of excited about Battlefield 6, like the internet does, that real blew up. Oh, my gosh. People started saying, ah, you guys are dumb. You don't know what you're talking about. internet does but we finally got to play it hype level was through the roof i i i mean i know ryan and i i think ace i think our hype rubbed off on you as somebody that's never played a battlefield uh the hype from not only the reels taking off but editing those reels together i was like

okay this game looks really good okay now people are really liking the content and then we hopped in i was like oh okay the hype's real yeah so i you know let's just start there ace because you know, this is your first battlefield. It is. You have played some call of duties. You are a big fan of, like, hero shooters or at least rivals. So it's not like, you know, first person shooters aren't familiar to you in this case. But Battlefield, brand new experience.

And I think Ryan and I tried to prepare you for the chaos of it. I just want, like, what is your opinion? Is somebody brand new to this? Like, what did you think? I thought this was far more chaotic than you prepared me for. I'll say that. like I was expecting chaos. I was not expecting the war-torn chaos I got

where I piqued my head above cover for a single second and down I went. What's that shiny white light over there? Oh, what's a sniper scope? Is that the paparazzi in the mountains? What is going on? It also doesn't help that I may or may not have intentionally multiple times

shot grenades and rocket launchers and everything else I could at Ace. he just goes, what was that? And he just starts spinning around as the building's falling down around. You crushed me with a building at least twice. I did. Absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely. And then Josh drove the car right in front of a tank. That, okay. Twice. That happened multiple times, but that was not on purpose. That was rounding a corner and then there just happened to be the enemy tank right there that was like, well, hello there. We're going to flake them, boys.

We're going to flake them. Oh, that's a tank. Crunch Crunch So I mean I love what you said Because it's like we tell people The chaos of battlefield

Is unlike anything else But you kind of have to experience it To kind of understand like The buildings are crumbling Explosions are going off People around you are dying You're just shooting it to like smoke Because like you know there's bad guys on the other side

Was it overload? Was it fun? Like what was it for you A's? It wasn't quite overload so much as just getting adjusted to it, but also in the chaos, there is also strategy. Like, you cannot run around willy-nilly in this game. No. Or you will get destroyed. And as, uh, you're, the cool thing about this game is the roles. The roles really make this game stand out.

And I only played the medic. So I knew what my role was. It's like, okay, get the people who can actually hit their targets back up. Yeah. I mean, I think you're, they do give you a gun. I think you're supposed to shoot people, Ace. I shot at people. I laid down cover fire, all right?

I shot at them. As he's running around with this. I just didn't hit anyone. Was it fun? It was really fun. I wish I'd gotten time to play more, honestly. It was so fun. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a somewhat busy weekend for the three of us. I think I probably got the most play time out of the three of us. But, I mean, we played for, what, six hours on Thursday? Yeah, we streamed a whole lot. Alone, alone, we. streamed for four that one session and then we played before and after i think so like it was uh it was a lot we got a lot in like this just is this is one of those games man where where uh you know you can tell already like we have every every match ends in a bunch of stories and ends in a bunch of like

fun jokes and uh post amble like and where we talk about what happened and different things like and that's just every time you play that's what you get like it felt just like just like the old days of playing battlefield to me like from what I experienced playing battlefield from the original like birth of the series that's what this felt like to me

all right I I have to say dude it is battlefield's back dude like legitimately I like look I have been so critical of the Battlefield series ever since battle rightfully so like honestly

right and I know that there's a lot it's funny because I was to another group of friends and they were saying, dude, they really liked Battlefield 1 because it was like the World War I. They liked the nostalgia. They liked the weapons and all that stuff. And they were like, dude, I love Battlefield 1. And I'm like, that's awesome. I didn't care for it that much. Battlefield 5, I thought, was not good at all. Battlefield 2042 was a disaster. Battlefield 4 to me was the last battlefield that I actually enjoyed playing, like to where I was like, I'm diving in, I'm playing this game. I played a lot of it. Guys, Battlefield 6 to me feels like Battlefield 4 did.

So if you liked Battlefield 4, I think you are absolutely going to love Battlefield 6. And as much as it sounds cliche, Battlefield's back, baby. They figured it out, man. I don't know how it took this long. I got it, Vince Zampanella, credit to you, buddy. Because I feel like you were the driving force behind this. But dude, let me tell you, the guns feel incredible. incredible the hit registration the sound of the guns the way that the guns feel different they control different i like part of the fun for me was just unlocking all the attachments for the guns that's such like a call of duty battlefield thing and normally i don't get into it but i was like now i want to see if i'm good with this gun man um the the class kits i think were were much more of like i felt like i was playing my actual class role the the vehicles felt good the maps felt good you know

Is it perfect? No. Like, I don't want to be the guy that's being like, this is the best battlefield that we've ever had. It's not. That was Battlefield 2, if you ask me. But this battlefield seems to have recaptured what people play Battlefield for. You know, and that is that chaos, like Ace, like you got a glimpse of. Oh, yeah.

Working with your squad to where it's so much more fun if you're actually working together and roaming around together versus just all splitting off in different directions and never trying to actually work together. Ryan, you said it. Those moments, like, the reason I love Battlefield so much is it's like you get a story from every match that you play, dude. Like, whether it's Josh drove a car full of us into straight into the face of a tank and got us obliterated to we're all dead in a tiny little hallway, an ace comes out of nowhere

and just res is all four of us and that we wind up taking out the enemy squad and cap in the point, you know? to shooting down a helicopter. Ryan, you did that. You hit it with a tank, I think, right? You were like, boy, I just hit that guy. It was RPG across the map. Yeah, you time it out.

There's just, there's so many things that like make up a match in a scenario. But as opposed to Call of Duty or these other games, like it's, it's so cinematic and it's so different in, in this world. Like, this is not, this is not Call of Duty. And it shouldn't be. it's battlefield baby like this is a different game and that's okay it doesn't have to be this quick twitch slide around crazy movement all these things that that you know um the cody players love and and they use like this is this is war this is not hell let loose it's not a a super specific war simulator

but this is also like you know buildings are going to explode things are going to happen like it's war like and that's what I love it is it is the fun part of it all you know that you can experience and you can experience with your friends so it's dude it was so much fun tactics matter more battlefield yes oh yeah absolutely a squad behaving the right way like hiding sometimes hiding and letting like if you if there's eight guys that come flooding onto a point dude just hide let them take the point let them run off and then you just back cap right away and you're but that's like effective you know what i mean like a medic you shouldn't be frontlining as a medic like you're going to die like let the let the other people frontline and then you just shock paddle them

and res them back up you know like there's so many things that come into play with battlefield that sets it apart and i am so happy guys i can tell you right now i will 100% be buying battlefield when it releases in october this beta just proved to me that this is what i've been wanting what I've been hoping for. Look, number one, optimization, game ran excellent. Ace, I mean, you probably have the least powerful computer out of me and Ryan, and did you have any performance issues at all? Not a one.

And I was concerned about it based off what I was seeing online where people were saying, you know, they were worried they're going to have trouble running it. And then, you know, going through the bios to set everything up and everything like that. And I was like, yeah, I know, the bios. But no, it ran like a dream for me. Like, it was perfect. I'd had no issues, no crashes, no glitches. Yeah.

So performance-wise, I felt like the game was very optimized. That is something that we did not have with 2042. I knew right away playing 2042. I was like, bro, this game is buggy. It doesn't seem optimized. The hit registration was off. The weapons didn't really feel that good. The maps felt barren.

I mean, you can tell right away. Like, it is night and day difference between the 2042 beta and the Battlefield 6 beta. I know there's going to be people out there like, oh, you guys are getting paid by E. to say all this and stuff. And it's like, dude, we're just fans of the series

that have been disappointed fans for a long time. This is like, you know, like, if you're excited, man, I'm a football team

and your team sucks, right? It's kind of like, oh, we suck, you know. But when you get a glimpse of it being good again,

you get really excited and that's the excitement that I have for Battlefield 6 right now, man. Yeah. No, that's what we're not, we are,

we've been accused of this a lot online with our recent reels and stuff. But like, we, battle the last battlefield was really really bad and we're willing to say it and then like other ones like you know you know different they just haven't done a good job in a long time and like josh said battlefield four probably the last one they did very well like i have very very fond memories of playing that game waking up at six in the morning to go to work and the game's still on because i fell asleep because i played it till 2 30 like that's that's the old battlefield and And that's what I felt like playing with you guys when we played. Like, that's what it made me, all I wanted to do was play more. And that's what a game should make you feel like.

I know, I want to play more, too. The beta's over. And I literally made the joke. Like, what am I supposed to play now? Oh, no. Oh, man. So I am very excited for this. Ryan, are you buying Battlefield 6 based off of the beta?

I may or may not have already preordered this love letter. You're going to catch some pre-order hate. Ace, as somebody brand new to this, you know, you played about six hours with us. Was this enough to sell you on buying Battlefield? This is absolutely a game that I'll buy cosmetics for, right? Yes. Oh, that's the highest praise Ace can give. Hold on.

We know Ace buys cosmetics for games he doesn't play. And I'll play the game. Okay, he'll play the game too. Okay, we're good. We're good. We're good. Okay, good catch on that one, Ryan. He was trying to be all trickstery there.

Yeah, he's like, oh, yeah, cosmetics. I will say, if you're playing the medic, play your dang role in res people. Oh, dude. I can't tell you. Oh, my gosh. I'm going to chalk this up to there's been a, there's probably a lot of new people.

There's a lot of new people. Every class can res people. The medics just do it faster and they get the shock battles. It's just that instantly. Yeah. I cannot tell you how many times not in combat. I get if you don't, you shouldn't res because you're getting shot at. Yes.

But like, how many people were just standing on my body looking down at me? And I'm like, me, and they're just looking at me and they're like, I'm not a medic. And they just run off and I'm like, what do you do it, man? Come on. Suck to suck, loser. Oh, man. And everyone just gives up when they fall, too. I was like, you couldn't res people.

A lot of them. I think it was a lot of new players. I think this exposed a lot of with the hype too. I mean, we saw how many people. four or 500,000 were online like that was their peak like yeah set a record so with all the streamers

giving out codes and stuff we saw a lot of new people that have never been exposed to battlefield so you got to chalk it up to that for the most part but man like this is this is so much more of a team game where you have to utilize coordination

and work together as opposed to like call the duty where it's just like run a gun you're your own man like one man army like this is this is a different game and people are going to learn that yeah yeah and the pacing like honestly i had to relearn it like one of the biggest problems i had was just trucking it through the map and then i round a corner and guess what i get shotgun blast to the face and it's like you start to learn like hey there's a good sight line here like hunker down before you just go plowing through a map like hey check that corner maybe look to the side you know before

you run and so i think there's definitely a learning curve there for people i love that tactics in a little bit more strategy. And this is not a SIM tactics type game. I mean, don't get me wrong. This is chaotic. This is fast paced. But a little bit of tactics go a long way for somebody that's playing. So I cannot wait.

I was super impressed with this guys. It really, really was what I was hoping for. And I cannot wait to play some more. So this weekend, there is another open beta this weekend. If you just give it a shot, jump in, see what you think. are a lot of people in our community were jumping in and trying it. The response that we saw was almost overwhelmingly favorable towards this. Like even if it's not necessarily your type of game,

I think a lot of people are like, yo, this is pretty impressive. I can see why people are really enjoying this. So, all right, we got to take a quick break, and then we're going to come back and talk about a few of these other news stories. We'll be right back. All right, we're back with the second part of our Battlefield 6th. episode we're going to break no i'm just kidding i'm just kidding oh we we do have some other news stories uh that we should talk about guys i look and we have been gamers our entire lives

we are guilty of gaming faux pauses and cliches and things like that right like we've rage quit games we you know all all these things but there is this trend that is happening where gamers want to complain about the dumbest things ever in a video game and then the internet grabs onto that for some reason and then it becomes this like wave of stupidity that is like that takes over the world and then it's like why guys why is this a thing i i mean a couple that come to mind the one of them starfield look look i'm not the biggest fan of starfield okay i thought i was a very mediocre game. It was disappointing to me as a whole. Like, is it a decent

video game? Sure. Ryan knows. But when Starfield came out, somebody ran for 10 minutes in a straight line on a planet and eventually I can't go any further. What is going on, guys? I can't go any further. As a reminder,

we have video guys. If you're not watching the podcast, you are missing out. But man, sometimes you've got to watch Ryan just running. Oh, my goodness. Okay, but yes. So as Ryan is so aptly demonstrating, after 10 minutes of running in a straight line, you would hit an invisible wall on a planet. And this broke the internet because everybody said, ah, these aren't huge planets. There's a wall. This isn't an open game. This is so stupid. We're recently in Avaled, people were comparing Aval to, I don't know, Skyrim or

Oblivion or something where it was like, you could go into a vendor shop in Oblivion and you could kick a chicken and you could steal their inventory. And look at this game of VALD. that came out five years later and you can't kick this chicken that's in this shop and so people trash that and it's like guys like really this is what we want developers to spend their time on so it just this stuff baffles me there's been a dozen of these over the the last few years but but my goodness guys this latest one is just gamers are at it again mm-hmm mafia the old country released. I've seen very good things. I've seen a couple

people say, eh, it's kind of mid, but like, overall it seems to be a positive game. Except. I heard Michael Phelps doesn't like it. Michael Phel. Why why don't you just explain why Michael Phelps will never play mafia? That was on the spot, but I'll explain to you.

In this linear game that is not an open world that you are exploring and, you know, checking out what's going on, you cannot swim can you believe it the horror

swim the tragedy is there water in the game Ryan well there's there's water but you know what it's a linear experience you know why can't I swim no no you need to stay on the path dude don't you can't you can't swim is that what you're trying to say let me ask you guys a game or question too much pasta it's a

it's a gabagoole you know what I'm Oh my goodness, man. Okay, let's ask a gamer question. You're playing a game. There's some water. Resident Evil, for instance, right? I'm riding around in a boat. If I jump off the boat into the water, what happens?

Probably a big fish eats you. Yeah, you die. How many video games do you die if you fall in the water? This is a common thing. gamers know this. So why is it all of a sudden that in a game where if you jump into the water, you die, that people are losing their minds over this. A linear game, too, not an open world.

16 year olds grew up with video games and they just think they know everything in the world and they just want to whine and complain and yell at everybody. Guys, listen, we got to be better than this as gamers, man. We're better than this. We are better than this, but we are trying to do our duty to the gaming industry and saying, stop it. As a collective, we are better than this. We know, we should know that developers have learned.

limited time, and they can't focus on stupid stuff. They need to make a game that is good that you want to play. Hey, guys, we have no interaction in water. We want to put it into our game, but should we code a month's worth of programming to, you know, make sure that if a character decides to jump in the water, they can swim? Well, no, that doesn't make sense. You know, like, that's what it is. Like, come on, dude. There's no objectives in the water.

We're just going to make it so you can swim. do or how about like every other video game where if you jump into the water you sink and you drown and you die and it goes hey that's out of bounds people no it's unrealistic what gamers are conditioned for like the fact that this is drama that we are talking about makes my brain hurt man dude how like how many times have you gone where you're not supposed to go in a game and you just go oh guess it can't go there and then that's it like that's it you're done now you know oh I can't just jump in the water you know what the boundaries are yeah you know you know where you can go what you can do that's not enough you guys I need to go to the internet and I need to express my displeasure I need to round up as many people as possible that will also express their displeasure so that we can make this a thing you know this is this is against people that can swim that's what this is really about man is we all had to learn how to swim his kids and gosh darn it if I don't want to be able to use those skills in a video game.

You know, I never, I never was super excited to be the age that I am, but when I see things like this and I'm like, you dang little kid, you young whippersnappers, like, come on, get it together. Come on. This is, this is ridiculous. If you are of that age, if you are of that group that is complaining about something like this, man, get it together. Dude, these are, these are meant for fun.

this is video games this is what we do uh to have like enjoy our passion of just like getting into another world yeah it's fun for the developers man like yeah how do you think they feel seeing the internet being mad because they didn't program swimming into their game like bro this is pac man what do you mean yeah like come on like like dude it's just it's it's it's ridiculous you guys it's there the problem is is there's way too many uh outlets for for people with opinions to voice them. Yeah. And their opinions are just like dog crap.

Like they're horrible. Like so like most people, they'd be yelling it on the corner and nobody would care. But here they can like project it to the world. And it picks up volume and then like, you know, hot journalist media stuff like that wants to, you know,

ramp it up because it makes clicks. It makes money, you know, and stuff like that. But man, this is just, this is such a stupid, a stupid thing.

for people to be upset about like oh listen so much so we're going to move on here but so much so that the one of the balder's gate three developers responded to this and tried to like just give perspective and say guys more mechanics in a game does not make a game better and these these things that you you guys are all clamoring for a swimming animation that takes time in development for what like stop it stop asking for these things that don't make sense kicking a chip in a vound does not make avowed a better game you know like an invisible wall after 10 minutes of running and starfield does not make starfield a better game or a worse game like these are dumb things that we got to stop pointing out to developers and stuff man because it's just gonna it's just number

one it drives me crazy as a as a lifelong gamer and i got to imagine it makes it unfun to make video games when this is the crap that people start to point out and it's not to say that like unique things in games aren't appreciated. Like, we love when we see, like, man, they took the time to put in the effort for that thing or that, uh, this thing, you know. So we appreciate it, but

overall, and the whole general sense of a video game creating a video game, when it's a linear game that doesn't involve water, like you don't need to swim in the water. And like, that's the, that's just the nuts and bolts of it. Like, that's all there is to it. So whatever. Y'all are lame. I'm calling you out right now.

You're lame. Stop it. All right, guys. I don't, listen, I don't know what to make of this one. We're running out of time here. So I'll just, I'm going to, I'll tell you what, because I want to talk about this story just a little bit. But Titan Quest 2, Titan Quest was one of my favorite Diablo-like games that I played way back in the day.

It is very much just a non-story-driven, have a ton of fun with your abilities, an action-oriented, you know, action-rpg, Diablo-Liablo, like games i loved it part two after what feels like 20 years is finally out in early access it has sold over 300 000 copies so far and it is getting praised like crazy so if you're a fan of the diablo light games path of exile diablo uh titan quest titan quest two is out in early access and apparently people are really loving it so i actually probably plan on picking this game up so much so that i'm not going to play the early access because this is one of those ones where I actually want to wait for the full release, but it has my attention

big time. I'm not usually into these kind of games, but the setting for this one actually caught my attention. Oh, it's Greek mythology. Yeah, Greek mythology. Like that's pretty dang cool. Sold. Sold. People. Crados over here is like, I'm in. Oh, I love mythology, dude. I love it. Okay. I don't know what to make of this story, guys. This one is baffling to me. Like, what the heck. So the developers BioWare, okay, BioWare went to EA and said, hey guys, you know, we remastered the Mass Effect series, which is like the legendary

edition and I'm sure they made a bunch of money because people snatch up these remasters even though they played the original game and, you know, it went over, okay, I guess, you know. I don't remember hearing a bunch of flack about it, but so, you know, it made them, I'm sure, millions and millions of dollars. So BioWare goes to EA and they go, Hey, EA, what you think about if we remaster the, uh, the Dragon Age series, man? That was another beloved one.

You know, how about that money? You like money, don't you, EA? Hey, guys, what did EA say? We hate money. No, no, no. What? No, no, no, no. They said no.

To a remaster? What is happening? What is going on? Maybe they got some artist in there now, man. and people actually care about what they put out to their public. Guys, okay, we have EA that made a good battlefield game finally. And we have EA that is saying, no, we're not going to remaster this beloved series and just try to make a bunch of money off of people.

So much so that BioWare got mad at EA and said, you realize you're throwing away millions of dollars, right? And EA said, yeah, that's fine. We don't want to remake that series. Yeah, one sec, guys I gotta go check and see if hell froze over. Like, is this, what is happening? Like, what is this world that we're living in

where EA is like siding with gamers all of a sudden? EA's the good guy. What? Okay. What's next? Ubisoft. Beloved developers, right? Hold on, hold on, hold on.

You know, like, Larry and Studio. We love Larry. They're the ones that came out and said, stop being stupid about this mafia thing, right? Like, we've got CD Project Red, like, okay, they made a big mistake, but they've made up for it. You know, you have these studios that, like, just are, they're dialed in with gamers, man.

Like, you know, like, these guys are gamers. They know what we love. Like, this is Sandfall Games with Expedition 33. Like, just dialed in, man. Like, is there a world where, like, EA or Ubisoft or blizzard goes we may have lost our way guys you know what we're going back to be in gamers favorites like it's not impossible you got to stop what you're doing but like could that happen i think it could man i mean each of them has a peak franchise that people fell in love with

to begin with and kind of got them their start and maybe they just lost their way and all this greed and money and they're going to find their ways back to what the players actually want to get from them. Like, do you realize how ecstatic I would be to get an Assassin's Creed that wasn't full of micro transactions? It was a complete game on release that I could actually herald as a great game instead of just buying the collector's edition

anyway because I'm a sheep. Well, that's what I was, dude, I forget what I watched the other day, but I was watching something that's where like, we pay for this, this product. Like, these video games are a product. This is, this is something we are purchasing

from an entity. They are giving us, that and we are giving them you know the money it's not done it's not complete there's always day one patches there's always week one patches there's always week two patches and it keeps going on so so how can we buy this thing that is it is not ever done and you know just keep paying this money all the time like it's crazy how much us as gamers are expected to just go with the flow on all these things and i was thinking about this like what um you know what if the age gap like this timeline has finally got to the point where some of the people that are in the higher up executives the higher up levels in these companies are actually gamers not money people not not

not people who just uh just you know punch in the numbers like they have uh some empathy for what we have to go through as, as gamers. So maybe they're making choices based on that. That's a good hypothesis. Like, shot, like, who knows? But, like, maybe, maybe we're starting to get gamers in the corporate world that, that actually care and are part of that and still care about video games and care about video gamers to where they are, they are putting in the effort to make things right and make things have, like, longevity, you know, so I don't know. Who knows? Listen, here's something I don't understand.

right is like you know every one of these giant publishers have their PR people and we've always said we hate the PR speak right like yeah oh of course anytime something fails or as bad you get this whole like oh well we realize that we let you down and blah blah blah and we and we hate it right we're like bro just be honest with us right why is there not you know you have your CEOs and your your CFOs and all this stuff and your PR people why is there not a like a head gaming officer where it is that dude's job is just to look at it and go, is this fun? Will this resonate with gamers? Check the pulse, man.

You know, yeah, right. Like, let's just see. I'm a lifelong gamer. If it passes the gamer vibe, we're good to go. Like Battlefield 6. Like, I'm going to mention it again because guess what? Gamers are enjoying the heck out of Battlefield 6. And you go, cool, we're on to something here, guys.

We're giving gamers what they want, right? The head gaming officer was the dude that went, guys, this is very easy. Look, I know we tried this with 2042, but listen, all they want is they want class. They want good gunplay. They want to be able to work as a squad. They don't want Santa Claus running around in their game. And they don't want it to be buggy. Like, this isn't very hard.

And then the suits go, all right, guys, head gaming officer said this is what we need to do. You know, like, how is this not a thing that you have at your billion dollar companies? Well, head gaming officer, how do we monetize that to the most optimum level? Can you tell me that, sir? How can we sell this over a three-year DLC expansion? That's why. But we see this all the time with this disconnect. guys. I mean, we're talking about Dragon Age

and it's like Dragon Age Vailgaard. Right? Look, I know there's a few people out there that really enjoyed Vailgard. Good. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. But if you asked the majority of people, if you would put this in front of any kind of gamers, they would have gone like, guys, I'm not sure we're on the right track here.

Head Gaming Officer, what do we need on this? Start over. Start over. Like, honestly, right? Like, hey, man. Or you could have consulted me from the beginning and I would have told do what made Dragon Age awesome. Yeah. I don't understand how this isn't a thing, man, and it should be a thing.

I volunteer as tribute to be head gaming officer EA. You can reach out to me, all right? Like, I will, I'm doing this for gamers. I'm not doing this selfishly for the stock options in the Lamborghini. Okay? I'm doing this for the gamers up. Josh will sell out so quick, dude. Are you kidding me?

Sell out so fast. What are you talking about, man? I just care about everybody else. Like sub-nerds, and then he just takes off. See it was a DLC in Battlefield 6. Listen, EA, you got a long way to go before you really gain the trust of gamers. But I'll tell you what, between the Battlefield 6 being good and you guys refusing to release yet another remaster, even if the developer wants you to do it, the bioware is saying we want this. And then EA is going, nah, like maybe this is the glimmer of hope that we need.

it's all we can do it's a step i doubt it to be honest let's be honest yeah maybe hey a little bit goes a long way so all right that's gonna do it for this episode everybody thank you for joining us we hope to see you in this weekend's battlefield six beta remember it's going from the 14th through the 17th so if you didn't get a chance jump in and play with us um you know or or just hey be excited if you can't play because battlefield's back baby so uh remember to follow the show rate us five stars write us a review. We're going to get back to reading these reviews here and getting caught up on that. Also, one last thing. We streamed our battlefield play-through for about four hours. We had an amazing time. Thank you to everybody. But hey, a very special shout out to Norwegian greaser.

Yeah! Gifted 20 subs to the community. So thank you, Norwegian greaser for the kindness. Norwegian greaser also a legendary supporter of the show. We love you, buddy. Thank you. so much but that was an awesome thing to see during the stream as well so and you know what if you want to come hang out and just have fun with gamers that are having a good time come join our streams in our discord server we have an announcement uh that says hey we're going live on twitch you can come hang out with us we're active in the chat it's such a good time you can watch ace flounder around and try to get his second kill of the night yeah yeah or or me yelling at

Ryan saying Ryan, Ryan, res me. Res me. Wait for me. He didn't let me in the car. There's not a game that Josh doesn't say that, by the way. Even if I can't res him, he's like, res me, Ryan, Ryan, res me. Where's the head? He's the medic. Oh, he's dead again. What do you want me to do? And I'm like, res me get out of the tank and resby. All right, everybody. We'll see you later. And until next time, happy gaming. See you. Peace out.

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