Gary Whitta
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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Nintendo drive me crazy all the time with some of the decisions they make. Yeah, it's across the board, whether it be the games, whether it be the base system, pro controller, everything's got that bit more expensive. And, you know, there's only a certain amount of that. Maybe you can offset to 80 bucks right now for a pro controller. Oh yeah. See, it's got the white accents on it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So it went up by $10. Okay. Looks nice.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Well, I mean, it sounds like there's a bit more tech in the Joy-Cons now, right? With the mouse control and stuff like that. Um, but still, yeah, everything, everything's gotten more expensive and, you know, maybe some of this you can, uh, put on, on, on tariffs and inflation and everything's, you know, fucking eggs are too expensive. Everything's fucking too expensive.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Um, but, uh, yeah, like I said, at the end of the day, does it feel good that this, that the stuff costs as much as it does now? Like we, it would have been nice to see everything like, you know, maintain a little bit, but it's just, that's just not the fucking way of the world.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's not too bad. I wonder if you can use your own. They said because they said didn't they just plug in a USB camera? So presumably you have a webcam around with you can just use that. Right? They're offering their own version, but it's not necessarily this is the only one you can use, I think.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, you've got to pass the language, right? I think they said plug in a USB camera, or the USB camera, or whatever. I suspect you may... Let's hope so. Hey, Paris. Hey, Gary. It's Greg.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Good. I wonder how good the camera... I imagine the camera that they're giving you... For 50 bucks, it can't be that great, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They didn't say anything about the video quality, did they? Like if it's 1080p or...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's a big one for me. Because I hate the Joy-Cons. The way that the Joy-Cons connect on those rails in the current Switch is a nightmare. It's fiddly. You feel like you've got to break them sometimes. You can put them on backwards and get them stuck. There have been a couple of times I've got stuck. The Joy-Con just kind of got stuck on the rail, just got jammed and wouldn't come off.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So being able to snap them on and off magnetically, that's going to be a huge quality of life improvement.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I wonder if that, I didn't see it say Bluetooth on the audio output. I didn't see it. I did not see a Bluetooth.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, they've got to have it. It's a basic thing, right? But all I'm saying is when I looked at the audio specs, I did not see Bluetooth listed.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Going back to the battery life thing, one of the things we were talking to Kat about was like, she was saying that when she's playing, even on handheld, it's always plugged in, so you don't have to worry about battery. Yeah. Um, and oftentimes when you travel, right, you might bring a battery pack with you, like a, you know, a booster pack to plug it in. Cause those work too.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And then give you a lot of extra life. Um, so the fact that you can now charge from the top or the bottom is just a nice little thing, right? You know, and sometimes it's not, sometimes you don't want the cable sticking out the bottom or the top, depending on how you're oriented, but you can now, you know, do, do it any way you want.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, obviously, it's a big upgrade. You know, from like 32 gigs, obviously, was kind of a joke then. It's certainly a joke now. 256 is definitely an improvement. You're still going to run out of space on that really fast. The nice thing about it is this is an area where prices are very cheap, right? You can get a one terabyte micro SD card for 50 bucks.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay. Yeah. Micro SD Express. So, I mean, I don't know. Like, could you go on... What does a MicroSD Express card cost right now? We can price it right now, can't we? We know what those cost.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
There you go. That's just regular MicroSD. Not sure how much I trust Gigastone as a brand.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, so you're probably... Okay, there's a 200 bucks for the one terabyte. So now at that point, you're in like Microsoft, you know, memory card. Territory, right? This will obviously come down. The fact that they are giving you the 256 off the bat means you're going to hit that wall less early. There was a while on my Switch before I needed to put a card into it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Again, though, the games, high definition, high resolution, these games are inevitably also going to take up more space. Sooner or later, you're going to need to put a card in that thing. Hopefully, by the time that you... need to do that, the prices will have come down a little bit.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Cause that, that, that, that is, that's like, that's like at least, I think you can get a really good, like high speed, regular micro SD card, like a, like a quality Samsung one or a SanDisk or whatever, a terabyte for like a hundred bucks. If the micro SD express that we saw there is 200 right now, that's, you know, you'll pay a double. Um, so yeah, it would be nice to see those cards come down.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, obviously tariffs are affecting everything, right? And it's obviously, don't get me started. I'm not going to get into the politics of it. You know where I stand on this. But yeah, I think it's got to be, I think it plays some part and not necessarily all. I think this is, the price that they felt that they could hit. And like I said, it's disappointing that it is as much as it is.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Again, for me, it's 50 bucks over my over-under. Other than that, look, shit just gets more expensive. Everything is fucking getting more expensive just through inflation and tariffs and just shit just gets more expensive. Again, I remember when games were a lot cheaper.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
One thing I wanted to go back to, because I missed it the first time around, on the dock, I think the potentially most interesting thing about that is the dock has its own fan, which is really interesting in terms of the difference between the performance you're going to get out of the system when it's handheld and the difference when it's docked.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Right now, there is a little bit of a difference already on the Switch, right? If you dock a Switch, you're going to get higher frame rates and things like that because the dock is doing some... There's some upscaling that's going on or whatever, right? With a dedicated fan in the dock, I think you're going to potentially see a bigger performance upgrade from handheld to docked performance.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Because, you know, there's a lot of performance in... portable systems and laptops and things like that is temperature capped, right? This is why you can't get... You're never going to get really, really good frame rates or high performance of, say, like, a laptop that is only passively cooled.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And if it doesn't have its own fans spinning in there to, like, you know, cool shit down when it starts running hot, the performance is always going to be capped to that level. Once you add a fan, right, and all high-end systems have fans, you can start pushing the hardware a lot... a lot harder because the fan's going to deal with it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So I think potentially the additional fan in the dock could lead to a big, I think you might see like really noticeable performance upgrades when you dock it compared to when you're playing handheld.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I hate to do this, but I was reading the chat and I didn't hear a word that you said.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The super chat was saying, I was, I was, I was miles away.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm not trying to pay attention to your readers, your users.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay, so that is one aspect. So I know that they have these virtual game cards, right? And there's a new way to share in games. This is something that I was not able to get caught up on before I came in this morning. So explain to me how this is. Because game sharing in our house, it's a big deal, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
If we get a game on Nintendo Switch, you kind of have to figure out who's going to play it most. Right. Like, for example, we got like Hello Kitty Island Adventure and we bought it on Leah's profile because she's the one that's going to play that the most. And if she's the assigned user, the assigned owner, she can play, you know, without restrictions.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But if she wants to play a game that I bought on my account. Right. Then there are more limitations. And it's just really annoying how that we see this on Xbox. You've seen it before. Oh, I can't play on the secondary machine because it says I'm not logged into the right account and all this bullshit. Are they is this going to fix that? Like, what's what's their solution?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Were you asking about something else, though? Yeah, there's two different things happening. Okay, so when you say game-sharing, I immediately go to that game call thing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
How can you possibly get confused between game share and game sharing, right? I mean, that's fucking clear as day.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And did you say it only works locally, or does it work over online?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay. I mean, that's good. I like that. So you can have your friends over to play Mario Kart, but you are the only one that needs to own the game, right? Correct. Okay, I like that. Is there a limit? I mean, did they say how many players you can have in Mario Kart? Is it 8 or 16, or what is it now? How many races can you have?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I don't know how many people can play. How many people can play off of my card? Can all 23 do that? Or is it capped to four per... I don't know. Every time you go up another four players, someone's got to have a card or something. I don't know. I don't know.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
People are saying four devices total.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I wonder if we had six friends who all had their own copy of Mario Kart, if they could all bring over four friends each, you have a 24-player LAN party in your living room, right? Yeah. But you're all on the same race course? Absolutely not. That would make too much sense, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So you can have six different four-player races going on, but you couldn't Voltron them all together into one 24-player race.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay, but to be fair, Paris, they never drop the prices on those games.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You know me, I'm as fucking woke libtard as they come. But like... And I don't like it either. But I'm not... It's not like, oh, we must give Nintendo all our money. We must worship at the altar of Nintendo and just do whatever they say and charge whatever they want. But it's like, you know, you... You might as well complain about the direction of the fucking sunrises in the morning.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
This shit is going to happen. There's nothing we can do about it. Yeah, we can complain. It ain't going to make any fucking difference. Shit's going to get more expensive.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
There's an additional...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
um detail to that i believe and again i'm just coming in hot having like watched all this cornflakes in this morning like watching it on the ipad in the kitchen like trying to take it all in i think if you i think if you have the online nintendo switch online expansion pass which gives you all the all the different benefits um one of those benefits is you don't pay for the uh for the upgrade you're all if you've got like mario like you've got zelda and they upgrade it to the to the new version you're going to get that
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
for free.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So that's going to be an additional bonus. Yeah, keep us honest on that. But this is something where there isn't necessarily, I don't think, a... Yeah, that's only for Zelda.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I don't think there is necessarily an established practice on this, right? Some companies charge you... You see everything, right? To be clear, I was correct.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay, all right. So... There's no established practice on this yet, right? But we see it all the time, right? Because games are getting remastered all the fucking time. Sometimes there's just no options. It doesn't matter if you've got the old one. You've got to buy the new one all over again. Fuck you. Or it's like pay an extra $10 or whatever it is to upgrade your existing version.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Or we'll just upgrade you for free. They're experimenting with all these different price points.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
and options and Nintendo I think is like kind of trying to find something kind of sort of in the middle where it's a $10 upgrade which I think is not unreasonable and with some exceptions for certain games if you've got the online pass so I think it's okay this is not I'm not going to throw a hissy fit over this one
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I blocked out the whole day and I cancelled shit for this. And nobody fucking told me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Is this a list of games that are going to get the upgrade? Is that what we're doing?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Understood.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, the Zelda upgrades look good. That is a game that obviously is absolutely at the pinnacle of Switch gaming, but it is also a game that chugs at times, right? Because it's a miracle. I remember reading a thing when Zelda Breath of the Wild first came out and they had a bunch of developers from different companies looking at it going, I don't even know how they fucking did this.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's a miracle this thing's running at all. let alone the performance that it has. But again, it's not perfect, right? And we've been seeing the Switch hit the ceiling of what it's capable of for a while now with some of these ports of Mortal Kombat and things that are just like, why did they even bother?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The fact that some of the better and best games on the Switch are going to get that new lease on life just through the performance upgrade, I think is very cool. I think there's a lot of people that will probably go back and replay those games once they've been enhanced.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, there's one, because we were saying during the break, like, you know, let's, have we talked about everything we're disappointed by, right? Like the price being the biggest one. The biggest thing that I was hoping for, and which I was like, I literally kind of like went, oh, when I saw it on the screen, was that it's not an OLED screen, right? And...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We all know once you go OLED, you never go back, right? You just can't. And we actually had this experience recently because my wife Leah is playing a lot of her Switch lately, and her OLED one died. I don't know why. It came back to life like two weeks later, but it just wouldn't work for a bit. And so she went to her older Switch, which has the LCD screen, and she was like, oh, my God.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
How do we ever live this way? Downgrading back from an OLED to an LCD is huge. The brightness and the color saturation and the richness of the blacks. There's just no comparison. And so my concern is that even though this is a bigger screen, and I'm sure it's a better LCD screen than the old one. Maybe the HDR is also a big deal. You're going to get brighter colors.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's entirely possible that this is going to deliver something closer to OLED-like performance.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
and i think you will see an oled bump down the road just like they did this first switch one but honestly that was the biggest disappointment for me like for me the thing i most i most want to see now and you can only show this to me like when i actually have the switch in my hand is how good is that screen compared to the oled screen on the on the oled switch because if it's not as good that's going to be the one area where you're actually seeing a downgrade which is something you never want to talk about when you're going from one generation to the next right
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It'd be $500 at least. OLED's expensive, I get it. But I'm just saying, considering that they introduced OLED as an option for the Switch, the new one, which you expect the next version of the hardware to be better in every way than what came before.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
my my switch to to her and then i'm gonna go buy the oled they they know how this works yeah of course of course the number and the number of the number of people that are gonna that will look at this and go well i'm not gonna buy a launch i'll wait for the oled bump like two years from now is statistically economically insignificant right it's not gonna right it's not gonna they're not two years from now switch and it's not going to be looking at the switch to sales and going are we fucked up we should have put oled in the first one right no
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm just saying, personally, it's disappointing because, again, I had the regular OLED and then the regular Steam Deck and then the OLED Steam Deck. I had the regular OLED, the regular Switch and then the OLED Switch. I used to have a regular PC gaming monitor and then I got an OLED one. There's no going back.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Once you've seen that, once your eyes have been opened to fucking OLED, you're not going back. I really, really hope that it is. Again, to me, it doesn't matter that much because I'm not a handheld gamer. All of my Switch 2 games, I'm going to play docked. Leah plays a lot. We're totally different. We're the perfect kind of Switch family. I'm docked. She's undocked. She likes handheld.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I like to sit on the couch with a controller. So she'll notice the difference more than me. But I don't know. That's going to be the biggest thing is the comparison of a Switch 1 OLED in one hand and a Switch 2 LCD in the other? Like what actually has the better screen?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Switch 2 is going to have a slightly bigger screen, high resolution screen, but is it going to, again, in terms of the brightness and the vividness of the colors, I don't know if there's anything out there that can come close to what OLEDs are currently doing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm already kind of telling myself the answer is probably no, like my gut instinct is no, but do you think there would have been any wisdom at all to launching two SKUs, OLED and non-OLED, like OLED for the power users that want to spend the 50 or 100 bucks more?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, I think you just confuse people. And again, they'll save it for their bump down the road, just like they did with the first Switch.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Why has no company figured out a simple, straightforward solution to this? Paris, I listened to every word you just said. I have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Do you understand a word that you just fucking said? Because it didn't make no sense to me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I didn't watch the entire hour-long live direct because obviously it was very early this morning and then I had to rush in and get here for an early start. Uh, but I did like literally in the shower, I like was watching some of it. I was like, watch bits and pieces where I could, I watched like the five minute summary of the system, you know, that kind of laid out the broad strokes.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
This one goes in the Nintendo gonna Nintendo column. Nintendo's supposed to be the one company that simplifies this. Do you remember all the fucking... when they first announced the Xbox One and how the game sharing there would work. It's like, you can have the physical disc, but you still don't... You can't, like, just give it to your friend. You can't resell your games.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And people, like, shit the bed, rightfully so, and they had to walk it all back. Like... Why are we back here again to like something that sounds like even more confusing and stupid?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
this one annoys me in a different way but this is almost as dumb as now when you buy like the big mega special edition of a game and it comes with the fucking you know four foot maquette and a fucking chainsaw and an art book and everything else and then you open up the box and there's no fucking disc there's a code everything except the fucking game like what the fuck
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
and I haven't fully explored it, maybe they already have it, but I doubt it because, again, it would make too much sense, is some kind of family plan where if I buy a game, no matter what profile I buy on, everyone in my family group is licensed to access it. That's how it should be. Yeah, that's how it should be. We've been talking about the game. Game Pass needing a family plan, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They've been trialing. Yeah, it drives me crazy with my I paid whatever is 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 dollars for a fucking game. And my my wife wants to go into another room and play on her Xbox because, you know, my kids playing Switch in the living room and she can't do it because I bought the game. My wife. They say, fuck you to my wife. Like, oh, you married this fucking schmuck?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I watched the Mario cart world, uh, reveal and some of the details there. And I watched the, uh, voice chat, uh, camera stuff. So I've, I've, I've got like, I'm sure there are other specific games and things that I missed, but I got, I think like the, the, the basics, um,
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The least we can do is give you his fucking video games to play, right? But no, it's stupid. Fucking fix it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
With Switch OLED is $175. Your Switch version 1 or version 2 is $125.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
that's not bad there i mean there are going to be some people that obviously are looking to trade in there are more likely with us the way it works with iphones and things in our house is they get they get passed on right like my my oled switch will probably get passed down to my my kid has like a regular as a switch light right now um she will probably get my oled switch when we upgrade to the switch too or you know maybe i will trade it and i don't know yet we'll see
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
175 for the OLED is actually pretty decent, I think.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
What do they then flip it for? They buy it off you for 175. What do they then go and resell it for?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, a couple of things. I think it remains to be seen, but I think the mouse Joy-Cons do have a lot of potential. right for, you know, they, they showed some use cases for it with the basketball game and so forth.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Um, it's going to be a little bit tricky because any, anyone who's ever tried to do like PC gaming in the living room, living room will tell you, unless you're sitting at a desk, you know, playing a PC game in a traditional way, it's hard to sometimes take like to sit comfortably in a way where you can do mouse controls.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'll get the coffee table or I have a little lap desk thing that I use, but like, it's never as good. Um, Maybe with these mice, it'll be a little bit easier. If you're sitting around a table or whatever, if you're sitting at the kitchen table with your Switch, the little Switch unit there, I think it'll be relatively easy.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But living room gaming with a mouse has never been... I just think it's potentially... It does open up a lot of possibilities for control because obviously they're combining the mouse surface, the traditional mouse features with... You can then lift it up and do other things. So I think there's a lot of... motion control and mouse type control possibilities with this.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I think, you know, as the games come out, there's a thing that's shipping. I don't know if it's shipping with the Switch or it's available same day that's like their Astro's Playroom thing. It's like their Nintendo Switch 2 Tour or whatever that's going to show off all the things it can do with like specific games.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And they're charging you.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
$450, right? That's what they're doing?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I doubt this is going to be like one, two, switch all over again. They should just give it. That's fucked up. Just give that to people. Like Astro's Playroom. Showcase what the hardware can do. You should have something. I'll go further and say, for 4.49, they should have just fucking bundled Mario Kart World in with every system for free.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Back to the days of like, hey, remember when you get a pack-in game? Just give us the game for free. Nintendo can afford it. They'll still do it for a limited time at launch, then take it away. People can still buy the game separately. But throw fucking Mario Kart World in for us.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
costs nothing for them to add it on. They're going to make billions of dollars anyway. But that showcase game, 100% Astro's Playroom. They should have chucked it in there.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I suppose.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's higher than my over-under was $399. If I was a betting, well, I am a betting man, but if I had placed a bet on this, I would have put it at $399. That kind of felt like... the sweet spot for me and knowing what we know about, you know, what other consoles, what other hardware, you know, generally tends to cost.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Just to move along quickly, I think the mouse controls, I think you're going to see a lot of... Nintendo's great at this, right? They're going to find ways to utilize that. Oh my God, how clever. They're going to do some cool stuff with it, I think. And then voice chat is a big step up. I did want to address this real quickly. It's so nice to see Nintendo...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
finally fucking joining the present day in terms of online features uh nintendo's obviously always been very weird about online um you know they were late to embrace it just entirely and then obviously they made it very very restricted and i understand why right there's a lot of fucking pervs out there and nintendo doesn't want any of that noise they don't want like you know
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
people fucking grooming your kids over Mario cart. Like that's, they've got to protect kids from that. And the, and the way that they have traditionally, um, approach that is just completely fucking locked down. Like you may not talk to anyone. Um, and then they added the chat app, but like, you know, it still wasn't integrated now that it's fully integrated with the, with the screen sharing, um,
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
With the camera, and the camera is doing some clever things, right? Things you'd expect a webcam to do, but it's going to be the processor that's doing all this, right? The virtual background replacement and zooming in on your face and stuff like that. It's going to do those things for you. Putting the face in the little speech bubbles, just things that I think are clever.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And then obviously the next part of that, which is necessary for Nintendo, is making sure that it is... family safe. And I think being able to set the chat restrictions via the app, like my kid may just not use these or particularly, I like the idea that you may, um, uh, uh, you can only talk to people that I've approved, like an approved contact list of your friends, uh, Right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So the parents know who they're talking to. And then the chat history thing is really good as well. I thought, I can answer some of what they didn't do, but I actually thought you'd be able to click on that and see a video replay of their chats. But what it's actually giving you is a call log. Like, you know, Jenny played with Johnny for like five hours or whatever in this game in voice chat.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So you can see who they've been talking to. But yeah, if they're going to introduce like fully, fully... fully featured chat apps and chat functionality, voice chat, video chat, screen sharing. There has to be that really robust parental guidance, supervision, control stuff. Is it just me, or does what's at the bottom of that screen look exactly like Discord? Are they using Discord?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's a good question.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Obviously with Nintendo, you never quite know, but we've got a rough idea of like what, what feels right. Right. What seems right for this, this kind of system. And I was, I was at three nine nine. So for it to come in at four, four nine is like a little bit on the little bit on the higher side. I kind of feel like they probably, I'm sure they would have preferred to bring it in at three nine nine.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
If you can, I bet you they'll sell little clip-on cameras that will plug right into the USB thing on the top.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But I don't know. Because again, all of that stuff is processing on the Switch 2 side. And if it's not docked, then that's substantial. Background removal and stuff like that is substantial enough that you could see game performance.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And again, I'm saying that's all being done by the hardware and the software on the Switch. None of that's going to be in the camera.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
for 50 bucks so I'm saying there is a bit of a I did appreciate that when they showed the screen sharing they didn't try to bullshit it like they made it they showed it for what it is almost certainly going to be which is a bit stuttery did you notice that like it wasn't completely fluid when they're sharing someone else's screen oh yeah it's really stuttery you're right which also looks like discord when you send it at a lower bitrate
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
In summary, biggest disappointments, price, screen, things I'm most potentially excited about. The biggest things I was happiest to see, the mouse joy cons and the magnetic joy cons. By the way, I still don't understand how the clip works. If it's magnetic, how is a clip releasing it?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
it doesn't demagnetize it it's a really strong magnet if you've ever dealt with a really strong magnet yeah like you can make them really fucking strong so they're not going to snap off even with like really robust you know because you're doing this you know sometimes when you play you don't want them snapping off but the magnets are going to be strong to hold them on so I don't understand what the clip part of it is is there still a physical clip I don't know or maybe I don't know
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Oh, the magnet is activated by an electrical... Okay, so it's an electromagnet, which is cool. So when you press that button, it's just going to demagnetize it. I like that. I like that. Yeah, fucking magnets. How do they work? I don't want to talk to no scientist. It's magic.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And the voice chat. Those are the two things. The online features, I think. Those are the biggest improvements. Other than just performance upgrades and everything else.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You know, anytime that, that top digit ticks up, right? Whether it's 449 or 499, that front digit is still a 4, right? And that's, you know, that's full-on console. I mean, it is a full-on console, so fair enough. Maybe because you also think of it as a handheld, there's a little bit of price discrimination there. Look, it's a handheld, but it's not just a handheld.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Have they ever done a Donkey Kong game in this full-on Super Mario Odyssey style before?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I know very little about Donkey Kong because those games have just never interested me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I won't play this. I don't care. Let me ask you this, Paris.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Do you think there's any chance that Nintendo still has something in its back pocket between now and launch? Like, there's another... We know they're in a Mario Kart Direct. Is there anything else that they could still drop on us? Or do you think we've now seen everything that is substantial for launch?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But we are... You're right. We're at the very thin end of the wedge for what is going to come. I do think you're going to see the Microsoft... I think you're going to see Forza and even Halo, right? You're going to see the Master Chief Collection on Switch, too. I think you are going to see that. And you're going to see a lot of cool stuff.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And this kind of leads me to the last thing that we actually didn't really discuss, maybe because we don't have enough information, but, like, do we... Do we have a sense yet? They said 4K. They said 120. They just say custom NVIDIA chip. I don't think they did a bunch of fucking teraflop information or whatever.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Do we have any kind of sense yet in terms of how much of a performance upgrade this is? Is this thing going to be in Xbox Series X?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
ps5 territory even like is this gonna is this gonna be an issue like i guess the the practical version of this question is will we finally be getting past a point where like the the switch port of a game a multi-platform game is by far the worst one and people are like why do you even bother like model combat on the model combat one on the switch is a joke right and a lot of the ports on switch are a joke will this fix that do you think will this narrow the performance gap
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
in a significant way.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's what I'm asking right now. That gap is massive. We know it's going to close the gap somewhat, but like, and it might, it probably won't be until like we see a full teardown or digital foundry, get their hands on one or whatever. But I would like to see just how big... Two things. How much of an upgrade over the Switch is it?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So in one direction and in the other direction, how much did it close the gap between the other current generation consoles? Because I don't think we're expecting parity with Series X or PlayStation 5. That would be mental. But is it going to be meaningfully closer? I hope so. I think that's what we need.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The whole point is it is a full-on console. And hopefully, you know, we'll get into the specs later, and once we actually get our hands on one, we'll really know. But hopefully, you know, it's going to close that gap between the hardware performance of the higher end systems and this one.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I would just say, I want to come back to what I said earlier. Do not sleep on that fan in the dark. Cooling is such a big factor in performance. I think that when it's docked, at least, and that extra fan is able to cool, you're going to get so much more performance out of it. I think those are going to be some of the most interesting numbers.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Performance when in handheld mode and performance when docked with the fan doing its thing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Can I say just one other thing? I've got to bring this up on the show. When they showed the video for Nintendo Voice Chat, the opening 20 seconds of it were hilarious to me. Because she's sitting there on the couch, she's like, alone. But then other voices come in, she's like, but together? And it's like the people at Nintendo literally just fucking discovered online gaming.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's like, wait, hold on. So she's on her own. But there are other people with her, but not in the same room. You just blew my motherfucking mind. And this obviously is shit that we've been taking for granted for decades. But they're introducing it like they just figured this out. And it's like a fucking mind-blowing concept. Alone? But together? How can you be both?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And so my guess is to get it where they wanted to get it with the 4K and 120 frames and everything else that it's doing, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say this is the cheapest they possibly could bring it in at the specs that they wanted. But it's still... I would like to have seen it 3.9. I mean, it's going to sell...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, because the microphone and the speaker is all in the thing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The speaker on the Switch might be putting out the voice audio.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's going to be the same shit, the same NVIDIA shit that is doing the background removal and face identification on the camera.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's going to have some version of NVIDIA Broadcast doing all of that shit.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Kevin, put the link in the chat.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The OPSEC t-shirt.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We're having very reasonably priced, 20 bucks. I'm having garywitter.com and the price is migrating. So when you type that in, it'll take you to the store. But right now you've got to go to like, yeah, gary-witter-shop.forthwall.com. Anytime I have like a stupid idea for a t-shirt or whatever, I chuck it on there. And this one's actually been a good seller. Because it's patriotic.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I gotta be honest, this is a little bit weird. I'm in the studio, you can't see what I can see, but there's no one else literally in this massive room with me. There's no one here. I'm physically the only person in the entire studio. You're obviously here virtually, and I can technically see you on the screen in front of me, but I don't know. I feel a little bit isolated. It's strange.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You still get Three Witcher Moon? Still available? Gary, Paris is talking to you. Gary don't care. Gary's like, buy my shirt. Yeah, well, I'm in selling mode now.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We want to hear the music at least.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So there's no we news.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, I mean, how is there room for any other news on Switch 2 Day?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You're not going to be able to get one on day one, no matter what, even if it was 499, you still, it would still sell out. But like, what's the price I would have liked to have seen and kind of in my own, like, what do I know about what hardware really costs brain 399 kind of felt like the over under. So they've gone a little bit over. I don't know. What do you think?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
There are some Switch games that don't have digital physical versions because they won't fit on the card.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I think the point still stands, though, that this is confusing as fuck.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They're not going to do that. The grandma in Walmart or whatever looking to buy something for little Johnny is not going to fucking know what all this is.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
See, you should work for Nintendo because you just explained it to me better than they did.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Or some people don't have fast internet. A lot of people still have data caps. They're not going to want to buy a physical game and then download a 50 gig fucking file.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, and that's just for the update.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's getting silly. So if the update's that bad, how bad is the full fucking game going to be? Right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Well, they're not so small that they can fit on a fucking game card, are they?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And aren't these new Nintendo Switch 2 game cards presumably going to have greater capacity? I don't know. There's still a lot of shit we don't know.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, it's coming soon.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
One significant step closer to the Switch 2. I'm telling you, June's going to roll around. July is it? No. When is it? June? June 9th?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
June 5th. That's going to be here before you know it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's only two months away, Paris. It's coming. What do you think it's going to be like on day one? The pre-orders on day one, is it going to be a shit show like it always is?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, I think so too. Of course it is.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm going to do the thing where I pre-order at like three different places and then probably end up with like three different systems. And then I'll sell on the, either return them or sell those on to people that, you know, someone else that wanted one but couldn't get one or whatever. Yeah.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And they're assuming, I mean, you know, we're coming in hot here. We just saw it. You know, there's a lot of things that weren't, you know, there's still a lot of things we don't know. Right.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm coming in on Monday. Well, unless Greg changes his fucking mind again and doesn't tell me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Show up and you guys will fucking move to another office or something.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, it was in the spec sheet, and it was interesting. I just wanted to cat about this outside. The number they gave is kind of silly. The battery range they gave on the spec sheet is two to six and a half hours. And then it has a disclaimer at the end that says, obviously, battery life depends on conditions and what game you're playing and so on and so forth. But that's a massive range, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Two hours to six and a half hours? And then the bottom end of that, that's very... I mean, this is an issue that handhelds, Steam Deck, Every system has this right, and a battery life is still the big bottleneck. That's not brilliant, though.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Oh, so if you buy the bundle, you're actually getting it on the cheap. You're getting it for $50.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm sure it'll go away. It's just a first for me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That is expensive. I think generally across the board, you are going to see, especially as we go into the, you know, because Nintendo is kind of like weirdly like halfway through the other generations, you know, they're on their own schedule. But like, as we get into the, you know, next Xbox and PS6, I think you're going to see, that $80 price point.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Traditionally, I mean, I remember when games went from $40 to $50, right? I mean, they went from $50 to $60 with the, was it the 360 generation that bumped them up? I can't remember. But people were going, oh my God, here we go. Yeah, look, games are getting more expensive to make, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We see all the time about massive teams and billion dollar budgets and everything you expect from AAA, what that costs. Yeah, the prices are going to go up. So I think $80 is a lot. I'd be interested to see if the physical and digital prices are the same. They're not.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, that's a real bit of sticker shock, right? Imagine going to Target or wherever you go to buy a GameStop, wherever you go to buy your video games, and you walk out, you see, oh, Mario Kart World, and there's the game. I want the physical copy. And you go, and then it says $89.99. Like, that's going to take a moment to, like, reacclimatize to this new world, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, not really. Okay. I'm good. I'll get over it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Hopefully, because I remember when, like, they did... Alamo. Remember Alamo? The alarm clock? If you were a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber, which we are, we have the family plan for everyone to have all the Nintendo Switch Online features, you got preferential VIP treatment to order it before anyone else could. I don't know if that's going to be the case with this.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
If people have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, we'll get...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
front of the line or whatever but it sounded like they were kind of hinting at that that you you we had an opportunity to register early and we'll see how that actually plays it's going to be a shit show on pre-order day and launch day no matter what but you know hopefully that might help a little with scalpers does it turn on no of course it fucking doesn't
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
like the hardcore titles like the next Mario Odyssey or whatever it is those are going to charge you a premium I will say and I'm going to sound like a Nintendo apologist here and I often am because I love Nintendo there are definitely things about the Switch 2 that I'm disappointed by and we'll get into that as well I wanted you know you want everything right you're never going to get everything but the things we didn't get I was like oh man that was something I actually really wanted um
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
$80 for Mario Kart sounds like a lot of money, right? $80 for a video game. With Mario Kart, though, come on, let's be honest. That is a game you are going to play for fucking years and for thousands and thousands of hours, right? We still play Mario Kart 8. Right? That's a fucking Wii U title. Right? And we still play it. Because that's the most recent version of Mario Kart.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, likewise. I had no idea that we would be doing this today, but it's always a pleasant surprise to be hosting with you, and we've obviously got a lot of cool stuff to talk about.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And, like, we bust it out all the time. So I think if you're talking about, like, how much it costs versus, like, well, value for money, like, how many hours of entertainment is this game going to give you? Mario Kart, you could be $100, and you would still come out on top. You know what I mean?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Not every game's like that, but Mario Kart is one of those games that just, you know, it has potentially infinite, you know, value for money.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They know people are going to pay it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
What is a pro controller now?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So it feels like they've bumped up the Pro Controller a little bit. I don't know if they showed it, but in the Mario Kart video, one of the guys was using a Pro Controller that looked like maybe it was the new Pro Controller, because it was black with white accents. Did you see that?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I don't know if they showed the Pro Controller in any depth, but it looked like there is a new model of the Pro Controller. And I'm guessing it doesn't do a whole lot more other than maybe like they've added the chat button and you know, you know, if you're, if you're using it, it's probably going to have its own, it'll have its own microphone in it for, for voice chat. Right.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Cause you'll be closer to the, to the microphone than the system. So where the PlayStation dual sets works, uh, So I don't know. Yeah, I mean, look, it's got more expensive. I'm not going to sit here and go, that's fine, that's great, you should give your money to our base god, Nintendo, because they can do no wrong. They do shit wrong all the time.
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Last of Us Season 2 Finale Viewership Disappoints - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.27.25
Some heavy steps. So this is like crossover content. All right, everybody. Because on the Greg way of Superman fever, I'm talking about my Superman fever. Of course, you're about a month and two weeks away from Superman. Don't forget to buy your tickets soon. And while I was recording it.
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Last of Us Season 2 Finale Viewership Disappoints - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.27.25
Gary Whitta interrupted Greg Way to send me this photo of the new Keebler limited edition fudge strips that have Superman on them. And they got the Keebler elf ripping open his shirt there to show the Superman. So I thought we'd rip them and taste them here.
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Last of Us Season 2 Finale Viewership Disappoints - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.27.25
So I've never had one like this.
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Last of Us Season 2 Finale Viewership Disappoints - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.27.25
That's what I'm going for. Yeah. Yeah.
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Last of Us Season 2 Finale Viewership Disappoints - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.27.25
You want to leave mine here? No. Okay, bye, guys. Take that away from me. Shout out right there. Take that away from me. Thank you.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But like, which were the 2D ones. Yeah, those are different. But then when Fallout 3 came along, which is actually when it took off for a lot of people. Yeah. I don't know. I kind of checked out. I just never got into those games. I've never played Fallout 3. I've never played New Vegas. I've never played Fallout 4. Oh, wow, Gary. And I haven't watched any of the TV show. So it's like,
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
The closest I've come is the Fallout 4 VR, which I thought, oh, that could be interesting. And I might still give that a try. I think that... If they were to do like a Fallout 3 or a New Vegas remaster, which I don't think they've done yet, right?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But in this age of remastering being very popular, those feel like prime candidates, right? They're old enough, right? Yes, of course. They think they kind of justify it?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I spent a little bit too much on a 4K projector. Sick. Top of the range.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Yeah, I'd be very surprised if there aren't at least conversations or someone inside Bethesda is working on these things. Of course. Or sometimes they farm it out. But I've got to believe that someone's working on Fallout 3 and or... How cool would it be if they did Fallout 3 and New Vegas as a bundle and they remastered them both as one product?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Let me tell you something. Playing Helldivers, playing anything, really, on a 120-inch screen in 4K is sick. You're speaking my language. There's no going back. You can't go back to a regular TV once you've turned an entire wall. Into your video game. Oh, my God. It's sick, dude.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I don't think we're there. Maybe some of it's a time with season three of the TV show. And then probably like, because it's a ways off, right? But Fallout 5, whatever that is, that's probably a next-gen title at this point. PlayStation 6, whatever. But again, I don't want to go off on another thing, but you know how I felt about Starfield. It's that...
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
whole presentation, that style, that Bethesda style, is starting to look really, really dated. I think it hurt Starfield, and I think the next big thing that they do, which presumably is now Elder Scrolls VII, right, and then Fallout, no, sorry, Elder Scrolls VI, and then Fallout V, I really want them to get away from that hello, I'm a character who's talking to you and staring at the camera.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Like, I can't do it anymore.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Let me ask you this. Why was New Vegas in particular so well-liked?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It's almost like New Vegas actually is more well-liked than Fallout 3. Yeah. Right? So I feel like one of the rare examples of kind of a third-party... what do you call it, expansion? Was Fallout New Vegas something you could, was it an add-on or was it a standalone? No, it was its own big thing. But it still, it wasn't like a full-on, it wasn't Fallout 4. It wasn't Fallout 4 New Vegas, right?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
So it was like Miles Morales or one of those halfway kind of things. But again, as somebody who doesn't play the game, I still know, I still watch the community. I see what the vibes are out there. And one of the things I do know about Fallout is that New Vegas is something that is just particularly well-liked by Fallout fans.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Yes.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And we've just been kind of, Lear and I have been a little bit of a nesting. Oh, before I forget, I mustn't forget. My three-year-old is watching. She was at home. She was really sad. She didn't want me to leave the house this morning. She was like clinging on to me, going, Daddy, I don't want you to go. I said, I'll say hello to you on the show. So, hello. Be good. Be nice to your mother.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I wish I could have been here for the week when trailer two dropped.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Right.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It'll be exciting. I suspect they'll move on.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
He's in Paris.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
People in the chat are saying that it takes past chronologically after the, the, the games after fallout four.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It's kind of interesting that they went into the timeline at the leading edge of it rather than starting at the beginning, which is typically what you do, right?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I love you lots. You're the best. You little monkey.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It really depends on the adaptation. With something like The Last of Us, I've said this a couple of times, The Last of Us is a brilliant adaptation, but they had their story. And obviously they have made changes, in some cases significant changes. But it's... pretty much following the story of the games. In some cases, shot for shot, right? And that's a completely valid way to do it.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
That fucking story is so good, particularly in part two. You don't want to mess with it too much. And so the somewhat literal path that they're taking makes a lot of sense. I think in Fallout, which is more kind of
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
a bit more open world, a bit more open-ended, and he isn't necessarily as linearly story-focused as something like Last of Us, you have a bit more latitude to say, well, this is the world, this is the sandbox. What stories do we want to tell? What threads from the games do we want to pull on? But we're not necessarily... obliged to tell one particular story.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I told him he would love Schedule 1.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
At this point in time, we're almost halfway through the year. What are the Game of the Year contenders? Expedition 33. Schedule 1.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Okay.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Well, so GTA 6 is out of the picture.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
You know what I'm really excited about? I think you may have played it, but I did not play the beta because I'm just waiting for the final game. Rematch.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
FIFU. I love that people are calling it FIFU.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Is it good?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Because I love football. I'm a football fan. I love football games. And FIFA is what it is, right? If you want super realistic, but like...
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
So you were actually like on a treadmill or something?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
i was playing around with i literally this morning i was setting i was resetting up my um emulator because i one of the things i did is i got i put a little living room pc in the living room so i could play pc games up there um and it has all my emulator stuff on it and i went through and i've been playing like all the old arcade uh like konami nice uh like they're always called they're all they're always called things like screaming thunder soccer and stuff like they're
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And they're all, like, over the top, like, more arcade-y style football games. Oh, I loved Sega Soccer Slam back in the day. That was my favorite game. I even like Super Mario Strikers. Like, I get that FIFA is, like, the super arcade-y, super sim, you know, it looks super realistic, you know, obviously, like, top of the air, EA25, whatever they call it, FC25.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But, like, I just want to, like, kick a ball, like, through the back of the net so the net fucking explodes and shit like that.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Bring back EA Big. There should be a FIFA Street.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I actually, guess what? I played a little bit of NBA Volume Street 2 this morning.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I know you do. They reminisce. They reminisce. Gary. Oh, my God. What a fucking game.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
You know that. Give me a new NBA. Just give me an NBA Street Volume 2 remaster. I don't even want a newer game. I just want that remastered. So give me that. That would be crazy. I know everyone says tricky, but fuck that. Give me SSX 3. Yes. That's the one that I like.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Right? They already did. When you play SSX 3 now on back compatible, they up-res'd it to 4K, and it actually looks really good. Death Jam. Yeah, bring back EA Big. And Def Jam, of course. Bring it back. Def Jam Vendetta. Oh, shit. Come on. But I fucking loved Sifu, right? Sifu is a fucking baller game. Literally, they said, oh, the guys from Sifu are basically doing that, but now it's football.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I was like, you plucked that game out of my brain. Crazy. I'm so excited about Rematch.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
We were eating a lot. The real question is, how does it end up with you and Barrett, the two, drawing the short straw this morning? Because it's a ghost town. There's no one in today. The only two that didn't get to go to the big Nintendo store launch in San Francisco. Was it straws, or is this basically them telling you you are the two least important people, or what?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Sorry, NHL hits. That was midway. Oh. That was midway. MLB slugfest. But every fucking hit was like, and it was only like three on three hockey, right? Every hit was like, bam, through the glass. NFL blitz, Gary. I'm not an American football guy, so that didn't work for me, but NHL hits, I played the shit out of that.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I don't care about the delay. GTA 6 just got delayed. Games get delayed all the time. It's kind of par for the course now. To me, it's not controversial. Take the time you need to get it right. Get it right. I'd rather it ship next year in great shape than ship to hit some arbitrary deadline for the holiday season or whatever, but now it's janky or whatever. Yeah.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Something like this is too big a deal to worry about how quickly they need to ship it. And it ends up creating more problems than it's worth when it comes out and it's got issues, right? And we've seen this with the Avengers game. We've seen this with Suicide Squad, right? Those big IPs don't help you if the game is not fully baked, right? So... And Skydance has infinite money cheat, right?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
They have the infinite money cheat code. So they can just say, yeah, take as long as you need. So I think that's all good. In terms of the game itself, cinematics look absolutely incredible. The 1943 setting is very cool. I'm sure there'll be some elements of today's gaming community that won't be happy about fighting the Nazis because they think the Nazis are fucking great.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
We're the most important in the office. I'm sure that's how they sold it to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But for the most part, I think it all looks good. The thing that's most telling, of course, is we haven't seen any gameplay. These cinematics are amazing. But we might as well be looking at a movie trailer.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
right now because until we know i'm guessing it's going to be third person uncharted style last of us style moving around doing shit indiana whatever you know whatever it's going to be one of those things but we just don't know amy obviously is terrific one of the most talented writers in that to me is the number one reason to be excited about this because amy is just brilliant um and i think she's going to crush this uh but we just you know
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Again, when they show nothing but cinematics, how much can you really take from it?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
That's definitely how I feel, Gary. This is because we like you the most.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Well, you say that, but it does feel that we're a little bit... Oh, that high is like kind of peak... I think we peaked a while ago, right? Like, the peak was Endgame, right? And since then, I feel like we've been coming off... Not just movies, but everywhere. I mean, look, Suicide Squad was no good, right? The Avengers game. But Spider-Man hits and you go crazy for a superhero game.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I mean, I'm just saying there's like... Post-Endgame, whether it be movies or... Up until Endgame, you just knew that pretty much every movie was going to be a banger, right? And now it's like, eh, who knows? One's good, one's bad. And with the games now, it's like, okay, great, you've got Captain America in it, but that's no guarantee it's going to be any good.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
The guarantee is, well, who's making it, right? If it's Insomniac, you're going to go, oh, yeah, no doubt, right? Of course. This team, we don't know too much. Other than Amy, we don't know too much about who's making this game.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Marvel Rivals is a great example. And that was a tough... Again, look at Concord, right? Look at some of these other... And Overwatch even has fallen off badly. That's a tough... Marathon... the vibes are very mixed right now. That's a tough genre to go into. And again, I just feel like there is genuinely a little bit of superhero fatigue. They've acknowledged that.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Maybe we should make a little bit less of this stuff instead of constantly asking ourselves how much money can we make. And I'm glad they've started to ease off a little bit and focus on quality rather than quantity. But in terms of this specific game, again, cinematics, obviously world-class. These are as good as any cinematics I've seen. Look at that. Look at the facial stuff. It's incredible.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I mean, if it's not until next year, I don't think they necessarily, you know, need to feel rushed in terms of showing gameplay. It might be at some point later this year. It might be a game awards thing as opposed to the end of the year. Who knows? Again, we'll see it when we see it. Again, I don't. understand the mentality, oh, we've got to wait longer for this game.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It's not like waiting for a bus. You know, you can go live your life. There's other games you can play. There's other things you can do. The game will come out when it comes out, but it's not like, oh, what am I going to play until Marvel Rivals comes out? Sorry, what am I going to play until 9043 comes out? I know every other fucking game that's coming out.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Well, she got badly screwed over on Star Wars. Let me just say, I know Amy very well. She's exceptionally talented. None of that shit is her fault.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'm all for it. What announcement would you rather hear? We're pushing it back six months to get it right, or... It's going to be a struggle. It might not have everything ready, but it's going to be out this Christmas no matter what. Don't worry about it.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Very excited to get into that. Have you jumped in at all? Have you been ripping and tearing? Well, I have the... I got the... I did the early access... Super Duper Edition thing on Steam. Okay. Which means, I think that unlocks a little bit early, but I don't know, is it today?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I saw this this morning. I woke up. I fired up Steam, and I saw that Helldivers was downloading a six gigabyte patch. And I'm like, what is this?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I had to come straight to kind of funny. I didn't get to look at any of this.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
So you knew this was coming because I am your resident Helldivers correspondent, your war correspondent, and the Illuminate have been off the map for a while. Yes. And the messaging from Super Earth has been, well, that about wraps up for the Illuminate. Don't have to worry about them anymore.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
So, of course, you're going, oh, man, every time they say that, you know they're just coming back ten times fucking worse.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Is there going to be sound on this?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'm just letting you know, Gary, it's time for you. It's going to be sick. I'm excited about it. I like that they, I mean, I haven't, this is one of those games that I've deliberately, like, not tried to see too much of. Okay. Uh, I watched the original trailer, but it was like a big digital foundry. Cause I love digital. One of my favorite channels to watch.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Not my precious Super Earth. What have they done? You motherfuckers.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day. I'm firing that puppy up. So, a couple of things. Let's talk about it, Gary. This is, I mean, we'll wait and see how they've implemented it, but on its face, this is what the game has needed for a while. It needed a big shot in the arm. Because the game's great. I still play it every single fucking day. I have more than 2,000 hours in that game.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But the Illuminate, even though when they brought them in with Omens of Tyranny, it was very nice to have a third faction. Generally, when I play, unless there's a major order that you have to deal with them, I don't bother with the Illuminate. Because to me, they're the least fun faction to play. Because there's less variety in the enemies than with the others. With like...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I've never counted it, but if you're fighting the automatons, they've got so many different types of enemies. Very cool. The Illumina have got five different things. You've got the Overseers, they've got the Voatless, they've got the big tripods, and one or two other little things. But there isn't as much variety in the enemy types as with the other two.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It kind of felt like they soft-launched the Illumina. This feels like the hard launch. This is it. So a couple of things that people have been wanting for a while is, like, pump up, make the Illuminate more interesting to fight. I mean, don't get me wrong. I mean, those tripods are fucking brutal. And those overseers are the worst.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And the other thing is, like, the thing we've been waiting for the longest time is, like, we want to fight on Super Earth. We want to defend Super Earth.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Right?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
They're on Super Earth. We're getting it. Yeah. I'm excited. And there's a new Warbond coming as well. Yes. Which now is far less interesting because this is the actual... This is what we want. This is why I love Helldivers. Just when the game starts to feel like a little bit... Again, I still play every day, but I've hit the level cap for a while.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
There's nothing left for me to do other than just play because I enjoy playing. Of course. Right? And they haven't introduced... Omens of Tyranny was the last time they introduced major new elements. They brought in the Illumina and they brought in vehicles and all kinds of other cool stuff. And that's been a little while off.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
People in the chat are saying weapon customization, which is something else that we've wanted for a while. They do a great job with the war bonds of introducing new weapons. And there's a tremendous arsenal of weapons. I change up my weapons in Helldive just because it's fun. Oh, this gun's really fun. And like, oh, I want to use this one for a while. This is really fun as well.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
They did a big comparison of all the different versions, but I didn't want to see too much of the game. So I've been holding off and not watching, uh, some of that stuff. Um, But no, it's probably my most anticipated game in the short term. I like that. Coming out in the next few weeks, months. I like that they changed it up. It's more focused on melee. When I first saw it, I was like, really?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But yeah, I was like, let me modify them. Well, let me tell you really quick, Gary. Yeah, let's hear about it.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Oh, I'm back. I'm so glad I just turned in that script because I've actually got like a little bit of free time now. Oh, there you go.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I already know I'm going full-on capacity. He's already in, Chad. I'm 100% in. I think, honestly, it has won awards for exactly this. I think this is the current You always wish they could be doing more, but again, this is a small team. All these updates are free. The original game was only $40 to begin with. The game fucking slaps.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
The moment-to-moment gameplay in this game, even just as recent, I've been playing this for 2,000 hours, and every time I play, there's something you go, oh, no! That was fucking awesome. The game delivers those moments like nothing else. And I think, and I'm sure people in the chat will say I'm wrong, but I personally think that this is the current gold standard in how you do a live service game.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Yeah, and And you'll see it all. Crazy to be wearing a Spurs shirt out in public, Gary. You mean Europa finalists? Tell them, Gary. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club? Excuse me, what? Is that the Spurs you're referring to? Excuse me, what? Is your club in the Europa League final? I think not. I think not.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
You see every time they do a big drop like this, you see a lot of people going, oh, I haven't played for a while, but I'm going to get back in for this. You see that with every expansion. There's a surge. People come back to check out whatever the new shit is.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But this is exactly... I was talking to my brother-in-law who plays a lot, and he was saying, I'm hearing rumors that there's something big coming. And we were both saying, the game needs that right now. The game is... Again, I never feel that the game is standing or stale because the core gameplay will always sustain it. It's just so much fun. But you're always grateful for something new.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And Illuminate is the area that, again, the three factions, they were the weakest in terms of enemy variety and just general. But if you go watch, if you jump onto the galactic map at any time and see who's playing where, Illuminate usually has the least helldivers engaged with it because they're not as interesting as the other two. And this is the way to do it. Super Earth, yes.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Is this the way we want to go? But I don't know. I feel like they pulled it off. I think once you start playing it.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
These are things that we felt like they've been building up to because they introduced the closer to Super Earth colony worlds, like the more built up planets that have the urban environments. The urban environments are super fun. And you just get a sense of like, Super Earth's going to be really heavily built up, right? Because it's the capital planet.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
So the idea that they... You can get a sense of, like, this is where they're moving towards. And we've been wanting to fight on Super Earth for a while. We want an Illuminate build-up. I personally, I'd love to be able to customize my weapons and do tachies and stuff like that. Even... I'm not a skins guy, but, like, sure, why not? But, like, my big thing is always, like, I want...
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Like, give me ammo capacity and give me reload speed. So, like, the idea that you'll be able to put points or however their system is into the things that you care about, that's perfect for me. I love that kind of customization. The only other thing that I wish they would do... is, and maybe they're doing it, I don't know, because this is a minor feature, is like, let me save my loadouts.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Because when I, depending on where I'm fighting or who I'm fighting, I've got to go into my loadouts and like, oh, I've got to change my armor. I've got to rebuild everything. This is the incendiary brigade, so I've got to get my flameproof armor and like, it takes a minute to like, reset everything. But like, let me just save a loadout as, this is what I use when I fight incendiary brigade.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And just let me click those preset loadouts. Call of Duty does that, right? The games do that, right? So just let me do that so I can just switch armor sets and weapon sets quickly.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'm not off book on this one yet. You'd go to our last story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items. No one heard that, Gary.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Oh, I like it. They basically just completely copied the MacBook.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Gary, it's pretty cool.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Turn it around again. Oh, shit. What have you done? I don't know. Turn it all off. Ah, so you're not so good now, is it? It's fucking with you. I completely wiped my PC, my gaming PC, to set it up fresh. Setting up a new PC for the first time, when you set up a Mac for the first time, it just turns on. You go to the screen, literally nothing. You're there and you're ready to work immediately.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Microsoft is like, hey, you want to try Office 365? Hey, you want to try Copilot? Hey, you want to try OneDrive? Hey, do you want to set up your Android phone? Just let me use the fucking computer. 20 minutes of, hey, you want to try this? You want to try this? You want to try this? It's like trying to walk down the Las Vegas Strip and they're handing you like, hey, girls, girls, girls.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And it's one of those games where if you have a leading-edge console or if you have a high-end PC, you know that Doom is one of those games that's always going to show you the best of what your system can do. I like that. It tech, man.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It's like, just let me fucking use the computer. Get out of my fucking face. No, I don't want to use OneDrive. No, Copilot is shit. I don't want to use any of your bullshit. Just let me use the fucking computer. Remind me later.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
What am I supposed to do?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Ooh, I installed that this morning. That looks interesting. Can you tell me about it? I don't know what this is. It looks like a kind of third-person, isometric, 1980s cop thriller. Like your partner's been killed, and you're on the hunt for the killer, but it's like you're a cop in this crime-ridden city. Okay. I don't know. It looks kind of interesting from what I saw.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I just watched like a 30-second trailer.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Tottenham Hotspur, the team I've supported since I was eight years old. historically don't win very much. We haven't won anything since 2008. We got to the Champions League final a few years ago and narrowly lost to Liverpool. That was a bummer. And we are shit at the moment. We're going to finish in the season probably one spot above the relegation places.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
The bottom three teams get dropped down into the lower league. By a significant margin. But nonetheless, we are shit at the moment. I still believe in Ange. Ange Postagoglu, our manager, I still believe in him. I think we should keep him and give him another window. A lot of people want him out, but I remain an Ange fan. But we've been shit in the league. We've been absolutely terrible.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And yet at the same time, so the two teams that have been most shit that didn't get relegated this year, Tottenham Hotspur and another club you may have heard of, Manchester United. Of course. Both absolutely. absolutely historically shit at the moment. We finished in the two spaces above relegation, which is the worst... I think that might be the worst ever for Manchester United.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
The worst Manchester United team ever. That's crazy.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
As bad as Spurs are, I'm just so fucking glad I'm not a Manchester United fan. Those poor bastards. Um... So terrible in the league, and yet the Europa League, which is the tournament that exists immediately below the Champions League, but for the teams that weren't quite as good. But by winning it, you get into the Champions League next year. Who are the two teams that are in the final?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Like I said, I've been really busy. We've been nesting a little bit. I redid my office quite a bit, trying to make it more of a cozy little space for me to be. I put a pull-down projector screen in my office, too, so I can move this projector around. It's only, like, yay big. Sit it down here. Okay. you know, kick back on the couch, play some video games.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Spurs and Manchester United. So shit in the league, and yet did really well in Europe, but also at the same time, both still shit, are now in the final, could go either way, going to be very, very exciting.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'm hoping for a Spurs win because we need a trophy, man. Sam Donovan wrote it. You ever heard the joke? No, tell me. You ever heard the joke that thieves broke into the Spurs trophy room and stole the entire contents? Police are looking for a man with a blue carpet.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
People want to know your thoughts. What a trailer. Hit me with it. Look, it's been my... No holds barred, most anticipated game for a long time, as it has been, of course, for everybody. It's going to be the biggest game of all time by every metric. And it's just looking. So this I did watch the Digital Foundry breakdown of.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
And even those guys who count pixels for a living and are very hard to repress, some of the stuff that we're seeing here is astonishing. The fucking bubbles in the beer bottles and like everything else, the sweat off this guy. I also like that it's really annoying. Again, the incels and the maggots go, why is this guy ripped? Is this gay? Is this game gay?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
No, you're gay because you think everything's gay. You just haven't admitted to yourself yet. Come on.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
it looks phenomenal it's gta it's gonna be i'm no doubt that this is gonna be worth the wait i cannot fucking wait this is gonna be the biggest game of of all time um and like i mean ah just give it to me and again even when they announced it was it was getting delayed i was like fine take your time this is not a game that we want to be delivered yeah
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
They want to deliver this in absolute fucking tip-top shape, right? This is not a game where they can say, oh, there's going to be a day zero. I mean, there probably still will be, but like, oh, yeah, there's some features coming later. There's a whole online component, right, which is a whole other thing. But, man, dude, you know we're going to be rolling in GTA 6 online.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I was going to ask you, are you back, Gary? We're going to be the princes of Vice City.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Not the no pixel stuff. I mean, it's going to be forever until that's online because that's based on the PC version. PC version is going to be a ways off behind this. But no, half the reason why I got a PlayStation 5 Pro is I knew that I wanted to play this in the best way possible. And that's going to be the way to play this. And this isn't even off of a pro.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I couldn't get into that game. Really, Gary? It just felt like a $150 million version of Co-op. I'm just like, falling over again. I couldn't get into it. That sounds great, though.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
But the thing about, I'm going to become a bore, like a home theater nerd, but the thing about a projector screen rather than it, there's a different, It's hard to put your finger on, but it just feels more like watching a movie, like in a movie theater. There's something about a projected image that just feels more cinematic than an image on it, even on a really good 4K TV. Of course.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'm glad I delivered those post-apocalyptic goods. Time for a refreshing drink. Get my monster on there. Get the logo. Jesus Christ.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I've not paid much attention because I didn't care for the first one.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Quality of life like I can walk without fucking falling over every five seconds?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Okay. Keep an eye out for that one. I kind of wish Kojima had done something different next. I don't know. You're going to get OD. You're going to get his return to stealth gameplay. He can do whatever he wants. And if he wants to spend more time in that Death Stranding world, then that's his prerogative. It just wasn't my cup of tea.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. You get a lot of shit when I come on here, so it's nice to hear somebody say something nice.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Just, you know, keep it positive and think about the stuff that we talked about today. Doom the Dark Ages, amazing Helldiver stuff, GTA 6 is coming, Switch 2 just around the corner. What a time to be a gamer. What a time to be a gamer. People complain and moan all the time, but just take... Take a step back and look at the big picture. Video gaming is better than it has ever fucking been. Yeah.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Ever. I mean, I complain about it all the time. Like every time I have to upload, I have to update my controller. I'm like, Oh, I remember when you just put a cartridge in an NES and just fucking play it. I complained about the little things all the time, but just, just remember the big picture game. Remember how we were saying like the 2023 is just the best year of gaming ever. It's sustained.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
2024 was good. And 2025 is fucking great too. Like this is a great time to be in video games.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
A little bit. I mean, I got to be honest. I have the Apple Vision Pro and I have the MetaQuest 3. And I've got a list of things. Actually, on both, I've got a list of things I really want to check them out. Like, MetaQuest 3 has, like, a Titanic. Explore the wreck of the Titanic thing. That would be really cool, right? In VR.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
There's a bunch of different games on both platforms that I want to check. And every time I put it on, I'm like, man, I should put this on more often. Like, this thing is cool. But, like, there's something about they've got to make it. I've said this before. I think it's only when it's, like, when this is the form factor. Of course. Will it truly take off. Because it's just, like, get it out.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It's cables. You know, you've got to squeeze the whole thing on your head. Like, there's too much friction. Until it's as easy as picking up a game controller or just putting on a pair of regular glasses. It's on.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
What's the rank, Gary? I mean, you can choose your rank. I mean, like, level-wise, I've been capped out for a while. Okay, okay. I don't know what I've chosen as my current rank.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I mean, what's in there? Is it predictions? Yeah, I think it's predictions of where the games industry will be.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'm going to make a prediction about the predictions. Okay. The vast majority of these predictions that they unearth are going to be way off. I love that. You know how you see those, oh, in the 1950s, this is what they thought life would be like in 2020. People walking around with a giant TV set on their heads and stuff. No, they're going to be way off. I love that.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Predicting the Future is a Muggs game.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
No. What is that?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
The one is like co-op, but it's hiding. I love that. I tried playing it. It drove me. It's fun to watch videos of it, but playing it, I found completely infuriating.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
It's like Nidhogg, except you have no control over your limbs.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Yeah, I've been good, actually. Work's been going good. I've been keeping busy. I actually just delivered a draft of a script to a studio for a big game adaptation that I'm working on and cannot talk about. But I got a nice fat check from it, and I went out and I bought myself a couple of goodies. I bought some treats for myself.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
A baker's dozen. Oh, that looked like the steam was coming out of my head. Straight out of your head, that's right. You should do that when I go on a rant. I'll try to line it up. We'll get you out of Gary ranting.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'll stay in an exact position and just add a little gizmo that makes it come out of here.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I mean, I think there's a lot to like here, right? The first season, obviously, very successful, very well liked. It's both surprising and good to see the second season coming so quick off the back of the first one because one of the complaints I see a lot in the TV news Community these days is having to wait a long time between seasons. I hate that.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
They just, they, I mean, they just announced last of our season three is not going to be until 2027. Right. So sometimes you're waiting a really long time, you know, to pick up the thread in these storylines. So for this one to come so quickly is, is refreshing. That's good. I like that. They're doing new Vegas, obviously very new Vegas, incredibly, you know, I'm in the fallout. world, right?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
New Vegas occupies a very special place. People are very fond of it. So for them to do New Vegas makes a lot of sense. Very excited about that. That's cool. And just in the grander scheme of things, I'm glad to see, both just as a fan and also as someone who works in this business on this kind of material, to see video game movies and TV adaptations finally kind of having their moment, right?
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Whether it be, you know, Fallout obviously very well, hugely successful. Last of Us obviously is probably the big, you know, standard bearer for that right now. The Sonic movies, all three of those Sonic movies, like who knew they were going to be that good, right? But they crushed it. I love those movies. They're so good. Mario Brothers movie made like, what, a billion plus dollars.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
There was one thing that I really... I've been wanting to get into... Oh. For a while. Okay, okay. I know that's the next level. I have a very nice TV in the living room. Yeah. But I've been wanting to do this for a while. Yeah. We just had our living room painted white. And so one wall has become a projector screen. I splurged a little bit. I bought a little bit too much.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
Minecraft sold the top. Absolutely crushing it. Yeah. So, And there's some other ones on the periphery that aren't burning up the way that these are. But it used to be that they were all bad. And there was a stigma. It was like, oh, what's the curse? You remember the curse of the video game movie? Of course. That's been completely reversed now. Doomed the movie back in the day.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I mean, because they were picking the wrong...
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
things it was just like oh let's adapt this because it sold a million copies rather than let's adapt this because it actually you know it has it's good source material of course and now we're finally figuring out oh maybe we should pick the good source material so i'm glad to see that because i was always a believer if you just pick that if you just pick the right games and you know execute them properly you can have a success but they just weren't doing that so i'm glad we finally seen that it's now and for me again on a personal level it's
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
created environment where it's now easy rising tide lifts all boats right yeah and it's now easier for the next video game well let's say less difficult again it used to be like oh video game adaptation you're already like starting 20 yards back now you're starting 20 yards forward when you pitch these properties to pretty good company to movie companies and tv because they oh yeah we want some of that last of us money of course we want some of that fallout money
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
So, like I said, I literally just turned in a draft on a big video game adaptation. And, you know, a few years ago, I'd be like, oh, no, it's pretty unlikely this is going to get made, you know, because of the video game. Now there's some actual optimism because people are like, give us video game stuff. We want more of that. So it's, you know, good across the board.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I'm not allowed to talk about what I'm actually doing, but yeah.
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Fallout Season 2 In December, Season 3 Confirmed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.13.25
I have to be honest, and I'm going to have to... Remember in Zoolander? Yes. When Hansel is told, who are your influences? And he goes, oh, Sting. Sting's a big influence. And we go, oh, yeah? What's some of your favorite Sting music? He goes, oh, I don't listen to it. I just appreciate that he's out there making it. So I've never been a big Fallout guy. I played the first two. Okay.
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The Last of Us Theories Become Fact - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.22.25
One of those things I look at it, in my own interpretation of this thing, is look at the state of the world. Even if they could extract a cure, how are they going to bottle it up and send it out to people? There's no infrastructure for delivery. The leaps of logic to try to get this thing out there is kind of ridiculous, and that's my spawn. That's my brood. That's my child.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I was mainly issue with the Nintendo switch Joy-Cons and it is less of an issue on the pro controller, but like they always, the, the, the thumbstick always just felt a little loose. That's a taste thing. I wish all controllers did this. I wish you could just twist the controller to rotate the thumbstick like a volume dial to dial up and dial back the resistance.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You can do that on an Elite controller. I think maybe you can do it on DualSense Elite or whatever it's called, Pro, DualSense Edge. You pull off the stick and there's a little screw underneath and you can tighten it and you can make it as tight as you want it to be. Mine are like... pretty resistant, because I just like that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
There's less margin for error when the stick's really, really resistant. I don't know. I mean, that's for another day, but, like, again, we'll see. Let's move on to the next thing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It does not compare to the other consoles. Which is why we were getting these terrible ports of Mortal Kombat. Why did they even port this? It's a mess. Now we're going to come closer to some kind of parity, I think. It looks much more impressive technically. I like the bigger size, the bigger screen. I like many of the things that they're doing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But Leah plays almost entirely handheld and has, like, fucking thousand hours in those Zelda games and probably and is now like I don't know how many hundreds of hours into goddamn Hello Kitty Island Adventure has never I don't think she's ever had an issue with stick drift we had a couple of Joy-Cons that just died and they're just no good but like died as in like they just stopped turning on
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Yeah, but I think they were shitty ones that I got sent. Remember The Croods? That movie, The Croods?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
They sent out promotional joysticks for that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I don't know what the fuck they were. They weren't any good. I know that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That's what they sent me. Fucking crudes. What is this? It was a dock and those two sticks.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And I was like, whatever. Two extra Joy-Cons if we ever need them. You know? What are we doing? Why are the Croods sending this stuff out?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Why are we even... I'm sorry I blew it up.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Obviously, there are things to nitpick at, for sure. We talked about some of it last time I was on the show, and we'll get into it again today, I'm sure. But for the most part... Can't wait. I already have my order in. I can't wait to get one. I'm excited to have it.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So did you say that these are games that we all know to have been cancelled or games that may still actually be coming out?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I'll be honest with you. It doesn't, this doesn't interest me a whole lot, especially if, if, if the games are still coming out, then maybe, you know, it's an unofficial, I mean, I don't like it when things leak. I just, you know, I don't think it's good for the game. I don't think it's good for the creators. It bums them out. You know, we see this kind of, these kinds of things all the time. Um,
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It's always the way with Nintendo. They give with one hand and they take away with the other.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
No, I... Well... There's not a simple answer to that question, because I think achievements are a complex issue. But I'm glad that Nintendo... I saw Barrett applauding as well. I'm glad he agrees with me. I don't think the system needs them. I'm glad to see Nintendo, as usual, saying, like, we don't feel the need to jump onto the same bandwagon as everyone else.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Xbox introduced this concept, right? Sony then copied it with trophies. Steam copied it with their achievements. And many, many games now have their own inbuilt achievement systems, right? Um... It's funny. It's interesting. I thought a lot about this because I actually sat a couple of years ago at a game developers conference. I sat at DICE.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You're saying all that stuff was happening as you were hands-on with the system.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I sat on a round table of other game developers and people that are into this kind of shit talking about achievements. Are they good? Are they bad? Are they a net positive? I think it's like anything else. It's how you use them. I have played games where I really wanted to get the achievements because they were structured and designed in an interesting way.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But a lot of achievements are not well designed and they just amount to kind of busy work. It's like, anytime you're going like, I don't really want to be doing this, but I want the trophy or I want the achievement, you failed, right? It should add to the fun, not just become another fucking grind, right? And so there are good ways to implement achievements and bad ways to implement achievements.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And I think Nintendo's attitude is they've looked at the balance of it and thought, you know what? No. And again, I'm glad. The games themselves... I wasn't playing games in the 80s and 90s going like, this is fun, but I feel like there's something missing. This would be more interesting if they gave me like 10 bullshit points for collecting every fucking backpack in the game or whatever.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And so there's only two other games that I've ever platinumed on PlayStation. And again, because I found the achievements fun to do. But people like Greg fucking baffle me. You know, they'll literally go out and play games that are shit.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
For some bullshit points that don't mean anything?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I was giving him shit for wasting his time playing some shitty game just because he wanted, oh, this is an easy plat. Oh, he has a child.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Oh, well, it was like the notorious one was fucking the last airbender game. On 360, where you can literally just stand in a fucking corner and just rack up achievements.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I think Greg platinumed fucking Bluey, which is a game for five-year-olds. Oh, no, but he loves Bluey. That's genuine. I love Bluey as well, but the game is not a game that grown-ups, that you're going to get a lot of satisfaction from playing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Achievements, like anything... can be good or bad. You ever see the movie Shane? Alan Ladd Jr. says a gun is only as good or as bad as the man who wears it. Wow. That's right. He made you think there. See philosophy. That's deep. Yeah, it's deep. And it applies here as well. They can be implemented in a way that is a lot of fun.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But more often than not, they just amount to busy work and having the gamer waste their time doing stuff that isn't a lot of fun just because for whatever reason they want that gamer score or they want that platinum. And it's just not, I don't get any, some people get, I guess an endorphin hit off of hitting the platinum or whatever.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
No LED. Yeah, no LED.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I really don't like the satisfaction should be in itself in the gameplay and knowing that you, that you finished the game or whatever, you beat the final boss, like getting some arbitrary number of points for, for doing like, again, just run around and find every fucking hidden thing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But what I'm hearing is that it's at least comparable. It's in the ballpark. It's not going to feel like you've taken a big step back.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That's one of the only two games I've ever platinum, and you're finding all the backpacks? I actually enjoyed doing that because it was well-designed. There were a couple that drive me crazy. Oh, sorry, three games I've done. And I'll tell you this, even as much as I liked doing the achievements, there was at least one in each one where I'm like, fuck this achievement.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But then you're like, so the sunk cost is like, shit, I've got 99 out of 100 achievements. At that point, you're like, even I'm going, fuck, I've got to get the last one. But I'm not enjoying doing it. Yeah.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I think a Mario game is probably like you're going down a rabbit hole now. No, no, no.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Microsoft, and I'm going to assume Sony as well because there are no exceptions, mandate now that your game must have achievements and must have trophies, right? And beyond that, I don't know what the rules are in terms of how they must be. I don't know if either of those companies have rules about...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You'll get your upgrade down the road.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You can't have achievement that's just this, or you can't make players do that or whatever, because we want to keep them as fun as possible. My sense is that Nintendo, which, again, I have a love-hate relationship with Nintendo. They give with one hand and take away with the other. I love them one minute, I'm pulling my hair out the next.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
One thing that I do think Nintendo cares about and is very good at is preserving the integrity of the core gameplay experience. That's why they're so fucking good. Right.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So I know you've talked about it a lot, but you haven't talked about it with me. That's the important part. The first time you pick up a new piece of hardware or try it for the first time and you actually have it, what was your immediate kind of first impression of it?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And I don't think they would allow, even if they would implement achievements, I think they would have many more guardrails and rules in terms of developer guidelines to say, you can't just have like collect a hundred stupid fucking things that are randomly hidden around the world. Like they've got to be things that are, um, built into the core. Like, for example, Koroks, right?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
In the Zelda games.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That is something that you, like, collect every Korok, you can see you get an achievement for that. Nintendo doesn't do that. They reward you in a better way, right? You collect those Korok seeds and you can trade them in to get an extra heart. So it's actually something that rewards you in a tangible way in the core gameplay experience. Not just, here's 10 extra points that don't mean anything.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Here's a fucking NFT virtual trophy. Who gives a fuck about that?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Listen, I used to play Uno on the Xbox 360. I've seen it all. You know how many fucking dicks I've seen over the years? The amount of people that are going to pull their wiener out playing Mario Party.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because in truth, a big part of my mental bandwidth for the last 30 seconds was thinking, how is... Because again, I played Uno on the Xbox 360 with the vision camera. You're going to see so many wieners on Jamboree. Again, Nintendo, very careful about this stuff. Could they use AI or some kind of other technology to detect a penis and pixelate it out or block that camera or something?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Yeah, I mean, they might have to have an army of people whose job it is just to look for penises.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Whoa, whoa, whoa, block that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
As soon as you see someone going like this, they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I mean, there is a lot of movement involved, I guess.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I have a feeling they're not going to allow cameras... just for anybody. I feel like you've got to be on the friends list or you've got to approve or whatever it might be.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That doesn't immunize me from my fucking friends who absolutely will get their cocks out on stream. What friends do you have? Just people that want to fuck with me, you know?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
This is... I mean, fuck off. Seriously. Again, talking about Nintendo taking away. This is so fucking stupid. Okay, I'll concede a couple of things. $10 is not an exorbitant amount of money, right? But this is basically the fucking instruction manual for the system. I literally just saw something say, here's how you detach the Joy-Cons. I'm paying $10 for that? Like, basic functionality?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Astro, and they said, oh, there's more to it. How much was there in Astro's Playroom? A ton of shit. I bet there was more in Astro's Playroom than there is in this fucking thing. Sony gave you that for free. And if $10 is not a lot of money, why does Nintendo fucking need it? I guarantee, I need $10 more than Nintendo does. Why are they charging me for this? It's called Welcome Tour.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Have you ever heard the words Welcome Tour used in a context that you've got to fucking pay for? Ridiculous. It's absolutely fucking absurd. I think that if Nintendo, whatever they're going to make from selling this, they're losing more in goodwill. Because this is so stupid. This is literally insulting. I'm insulted by this. And anyone who is should be.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because it's so fucking clearly in the category of something that should be given away for free with the system. Astro's Playroom did way more than this. There was real gameplay in there. And a celebration of Sony history and all this fucking great stuff. And they gave it to you for free. And Sony's one of the more avaricious companies out there. What the fuck is this? No. I think if Nintendo...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You don't get the feel of like when something magnetizes, you feel it when it demagnetizes, you don't.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
The problem is, I think there is a chance, it's a trivial chance, that they will come down off of this and say, you know what, fine, it's free in the store. Because they can flip that switch anytime they want, digital only. They can just make it free in the store. Or at least for a limited time. For the first 90 days, early adopters get it for free. Then it's $10 or whatever.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But no, out of the gate, $10 for a fucking interactive instruction manual and user guide for the system? Absolutely disgraceful. Fuck you, Nintendo, for this. I love the Nintendo Switch. I love Nintendo. I'm going to buy a Switch 2, but fuck Nintendo for this, because this is bullshit.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But so much better than those fiddly rails that we used to have. Right. Yes. I used to really have to, like, pull. There were times when it would feel like it would get stuck, and you're like, and you have to, like, pull. Am I going to break this thing? That, to me, is, like, that alone is a big.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
The annoying thing is I'm still going to fucking buy it. And I'm angry at myself. I'm still going to pay the $10. You're playing. No, you're not.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You cannot just go on that diatribe and tell Nintendo to fuck off and then still buy it. Everyone's saying, like, fuck you, Nintendo, for making me do this. Because they know I'm going to.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I'm not the only one. They're going to sell a lot of these to people that go, you know what? fuck you, Nintendo, but I'm going to buy it anyway.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because I'm going to get a fucking code from someone.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I'm going to tell you who my fucking, my dealer is.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I got my Nintendo guys. All right.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You know, I'm open to being bullied into not buying it. I'll get a code. I'll go back. You were right. Unlike some people who say stupid things and then everyone says that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard and say, well, fuck you. You're doing it anyway. I will. I will happily back down off of this and say, you know what? I will not pay $10 for this. That's right. You've got to walk the talk.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
We've got to stand tall. I'm just saying, I want to play it. There's a lot of cool stuff in here.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It's mental.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because also with the Switch, you're constantly, because in my house, at least, you do switch back and forth between the use cases a lot, right? Like, sometimes it's docked.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I mean, just the fact that it's called Welcome Tour. Just immediately goes, okay, well, that's free, right? Oh, no. Oh, no.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Yeah.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
If there's someone saying there's more to this than we've shown, then you're marketing people fucked up. I agree with that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
They've got two months. Maybe they will.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
This is why Nintendo drives me crazy because they get so much stuff right. But when they get stuff wrong, they really get it wrong.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Sometimes you want to take the, like, we play a lot of, you know, party games with the family in the house, and you all want your Joy-Cons, so you have to snap them off the control, off the base unit, and that is sometimes a hassle. But this, that magnetizing thing.
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It's dumb. What the fuck are you doing, Nintendo?
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And we're back. I've got a better name. You already said there's got to be a better name than Welcome Tour. Remember 1-2-Switch? Yep. They should just call this one Fuck You Switch. Jesus Christ. Fuck You Pay Me, Nintendo.
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Well, long before him. I mean, when you got fucking Super Mario Brothers, when you bought NES.
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Wii Sports being packed in with the Wii was a massive reason why it exploded the way that it did.
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No, even if it was packed in for free, it wouldn't be. But that's beside the point.
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It should be preloaded on the fucking system. Unbelievable. I'm going to get more and more angry the more I think about it. I do want to give a shout out to two people in the chat. Yep. One person earlier on, I don't remember the names, said Nintendo sucks. I want to thank you for that comment. You've given me a lot to think about. I'm going to spend the rest of the day unpacking that.
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And then someone else said about Welcome Tour, call it gay because that's what it is. I'm not going to do that because I'm not a fucking asshole.
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Yeah. That was the price. That was the pre-tariff price. There's a decent chance it's going to go up by a significant amount.
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And then the fucking Asmongolds and quarterings and all those fucking assholes, when the rubber hits the road and they realize this shit is real and shit's going to get demonstrably, noticeably, significantly more expensive if they don't back off of this stupid shit, then they're going to see. then they'll have a fucking cold dose of reality. So let me tell you something.
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I have an uncle who works at Nintendo.
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Wow. Ever since I was a kid, I've had an uncle that works at Nintendo. How old is he?
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Go on. My uncle who works at Nintendo... is a code name for someone. I don't know anything. You know a guy who knows a guy. I don't know anything, but I know people who know things. And you know what they say, it's not what you know, it's who you know. And I know a lot of people. And one of the people that I know, my uncle who works at Nintendo, mentioned they know a lot about this shit.
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And I was talking to them recently and I said, what do you think about this tariff thing in terms of how it might affect the pricing? He said, well, if the... My uncle doesn't think that the tariffs are going to stick around. It's so catastrophically bad, and it's so galactically stupid, and so...
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detrimental and damaging to the global economy and the world trading order that's been around for almost 100 years. If it's allowed to stick around, you're going to end up with a fucking global economic collapse. So it has to be stopped. Whether it's Congress or the courts, it has to stop. It cannot stick around. These tariffs will not be around in six months. This is what my friend is saying.
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Probably in a few weeks, one way or another, because it just cannot be allowed to happen. It's going to destroy the fucking world. So, The question is, when is that going to happen?
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And Nintendo is right in the barrel for this because they have a major product that relies on a global supply chain and the prices are all baked into parts coming in from different parts of the world in the next couple of months, right? And Nintendo's fucked because they don't know what to do right now.
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It's like, well, are we going to have to... If the tariffs stick around, they are going to have to put the price on.
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So, but, you know, but right now, I guarantee you it's a five-alarm fire at Nintendo as they try to figure out how to navigate this. These tariffs might be gone in a week. They might be gone in a month. They're going to be gone, but the problem is that Nintendo doesn't have that kind of time. So... Nintendo has about two weeks to figure out what to lock in the retail pricing for this thing.
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If they're going to change it, they have about two weeks to do it, right? Because they have retailers. They have to put up stickers and all this. They can't just decide at the last minute, oh, it's an extra $100. Like, oh, launch day's come around. It's launch day minus one. The tariffs are still here. We need to jack up the price. They don't have that luxury.
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The decision has to be made a lot earlier than that, right? Nintendo's unit price... what it costs them to make a Nintendo Switch 2, if you factor in the tariffs, goes up about $100. $90 to $100. And they can't eat that cost. Otherwise they're selling these systems basically at cost or out of cost, which they obviously can't do.
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So if in the next two weeks these tariffs have not been resolved, you're going to be paying $550 for a Nintendo Switch 2. Just something to think about.
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And $600 if you want Mario Kart World.
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All the fucking right wing. Like, I mean, these people are literally saying, why do you, why do you even need money? It's just all made up. Like, that's how fucking desperate they are at this point to like justify this absolutely idiotic bullshit. The stupidest shit I've ever seen.
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But I guarantee when their consoles start becoming significantly more expensive, and Nintendo knows if it goes up by $100, they're going to sell less of them. Because at some point, you price people out. They go, $450, fine, I'll do it. But $550, no, come on. And people are going to know, right? Because most people watch the news, and they know what's going on.
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Oh, Nintendo just avariciously stuck an extra $100 on this. They're going to know that this is because of the tariffs. And so who do you blame? You don't blame Nintendo. Nintendo's just protecting its profit margin. I'm telling you. You know who to blame. Of course you do. You don't need to say it. Of course you know who to blame.
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I don't think it's that. I mean, it wasn't like I was around beforehand going, oh, this is going to be bigger than you think. It was a huge number. But I don't think it's necessarily that surprising. I didn't look at the number this week and go, fucking hell. I was like, yeah, I mean, why not? Minecraft is, by many metrics, the biggest game in the fucking world.
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And its audience is primarily children. And children, if they want to go to the movies, they're going to the fucking movies, and you're taking them. Trust me, I know. I've got two kids, right? So pester power is a big deal. Will you take them at Splashmore? Will you take them at Splashmore? Will you take them at Splashmore? It's the same thing with the Minecraft movie.
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Eventually, you've got to fucking take them, right? And the thing about kids' movies is, for kids under a certain age, you don't just sell one movie ticket, you sell three or four, because the parents have got to go too, right? And so you go there as a thing. So it isn't terribly surprising to me. The biggest video game in the world, that's primarily aimed at kids, Yes. I'm not totally surprised.
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Obviously, now we're going to see a lot more Minecraft. There's going to be a Minecraft 2 got greenlit at some point on Saturday night, right?
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Good for Jared Hess, who directed two of my favorite movies, Napoleon Dynamite, and particularly, I fucking love Nacho Libre. I fucking love Nacho Libre.
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Yes. Oh, good for them.
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Napoleon Dynamite, he made for $400,000.
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Napoleon Dynamite, he made for $400,000 and now he's got a $150 million movie.
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Good for him. Good for him. Obviously very good for the careers of Jack Black and Jason Momoa. You could have put me in that fucking movie and it would have made $150 million. Kids don't give a shit about that. I don't know, man.
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Jack Black, though. Jack Black has been making moves. I mean, I'm sure it was additive, but it's not the reason why the movie did what it did. Movie stars generally aren't the reason. It's why Robert Downey Jr., when he plays Iron Man, everyone goes nuts. When he plays a lawyer or whatever, nobody gives a fuck. Because they care more about the character than they do.
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Obviously, when the actor and the character come together...
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right yeah and it's a good combination as it was in the case of iron man brilliant choice to play that character and he did it brilliantly then you get it but it's not like again harrison ford when he plays indiana well even not not so much or han solo whatever people show up when he plays just some dude people are like who cares right because it's not necessarily the style we haven't had a star driven system in hollywood for a long time it's ip amen zendaya's getting there right so yeah fair enough she's getting there no she's great um
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I think the movie stars still can still move the needle. They certainly still mean a lot when you're trying to get movies set up. Believe me, I know it's, you know, who are we going to, I'm literally about to go out with a, with a movie project sooner. Like the first thing is like, who are we going to, you can't just send out a script anymore. You have to package it.
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You have to add an actor who's additive, who moves the needle, who does the spreadsheet say yes to, right? All that. You got to do all that bullshit. What do they do foreign? Are they a big international appeal? It's all a spreadsheet. But a couple of things I thought were interesting, side stories out of the Minecraft movie.
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One I thought was the police having to be called to kick unruly kids out of a bunch of theaters. Kids are apparently going fucking wild at this movie. Good for them. These are kids that might not otherwise ever go to a movie, right? They're going just because they love Minecraft, right? I've seen the footage, the camera phone footage.
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They're throwing shit at the screen and fucking climbing over the seats and going feral. It's like every showing in this movie is like a Rocky Horror midnight show.
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Again, I had a kid who had to do remote schooling during the pandemic, and there's no question that it's had a lasting effect on kids socially, environmentally, in terms of their confidence, insecurity issues. All kinds of... I mean, we're going to be unpacking that scientifically in studies for decades.
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This is a bit more excusable because you're talking about kids under 10 years old, right?
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Like, the police had to come and take these kids out.
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And also, it's good for those of us who believe in that video games can make good movies. I don't know if the Minecraft movie is good or not. I haven't seen it. But the fact that it made a lot of money is much more important than whether or not it was any good. Yeah.
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If it had been a great fucking movie but made no money, it would have been very bad for people like me that are currently working on the next video game movie that we want to see in theaters or whatever. But it made a ton of money, and so it just helps the next one. This plus Super Mario Bros., Last of Us being very successful, they've all helped. Rising tide lifts all boats, right?
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And so this makes it a little bit easier for the next one.
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And I think Minecraft is a really tricky one because, again, the primary audience for it, and I know there are older, you know, young adults and people of all ages that play Minecraft. I get that. But the primary audience, let's not kid ourselves, is children. Yeah. Right? For Minecraft.
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In this case, it didn't really matter if the movie was any good or not. Let me tell you again. Kids are not discerning. They're not cineasts. They just want to see the shit that they want to see. They want to see Minecraft brought to life on a big screen. And whether it's cinematically any good is irrelevant. They're going to fucking show up. It seems like maybe it is pretty good.
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I like Jared Hess. Are you looking to go, yeah, that's kind of what you'd... That's Minecraft. It's a Minecraft movie.
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Yeah. The Fortnite... Again, my uncle who works at Epic, don't get me started into what's going on there, but... The Fortnite movie just got, not that it was going to be a big, a hard sell anyway, just got a lot easier to make. Oh, yeah. Because Fortnite and Minecraft are essentially in the same category.
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From the studio point of view, it's a question of whether or not Epic would actually want to do it, because they really hold the keys.
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You lost about 50 grand in the last week. 50 grand?
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What is this farewell tour business about? What is that?
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I love the aesthetic of this game. It doesn't look like anything else that's out there. You know, maybe like Mirror's Edge or something, but this is like more colorful. It has this really cool kind of futuristic... vibe to it. So many games these days kind of look the same. They have these muddy color palettes, or it's this very generic version of the futuristic aesthetic.
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This, to me, looks really fresh. I love the palette, the colors.
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They know how to make something pop. This looks terrific to me. It looks really original. The fact that it's a PvP shooter means I'm probably not going to be able to play it to a great extent because I suck at them. I wish they were like a PvE aspect or whatever. But this looks really good. This is high on my watch list based on just looking at it.
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Because the whole thing is they want to make the Kool-Aid movie, right?
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It's an interesting, it's been an interesting watch for me as someone who has worked in that business for 20 years at, you know, often at that level, like big IP franchise type movies. And yeah, There's a lot of stuff that some of this, some of it kind of infuriates me, but there's a lot of stuff they get right.
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And just the general idea of like what it's actually like to be in those rooms when you know, you're, you're, you're looking at something that has no fucking creative reason to exist at all. It's like purely because they can make money. Yeah. It's so fucking depressing. And that part of it, they do. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You'd go to our last story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.
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Blueprints, right? I mean, we knew it was coming, but the reactions I'm seeing this morning is like, holy shit, Paris is saying Game of the Year, Rebecca Valentine was... Very effusive about it. You're saying this is suddenly like a contender.
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Who's shortcoming?
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That sounds like it makes sense, right? To put those things together?
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Yeah, in the market, yeah.
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Yeah, I could see that one as well. Yeah. Different audience, but yeah, huge audience.
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I don't know if this is like... Again, I don't think Stardew Valley is necessarily a game that a lot of kids play. Again, what combines or what connects the ones that have made the mega money recently? Super Mario Brothers, Minecraft, and again, let's just assume Fortnite.
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What could that possibly stand for?
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Is Super Chat prices going to go up with the tariffs?
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Yeah, just use the same bullshit formula that they use. Just pull some fucking Greek letters out of your asshole and come up with a made-up number. And then charge that to a bunch of fucking penguins.
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Let's see here. Did you see – by the way, I just got to say just one thing. Did you see what they did with the tariffs where they came up with this formula that looked like this very complicated equation with Greek – you know, alphanumeric characters, like algebraic... No, I heard... This is the extremely complex formula through which we came up with the tarot. So this is all solid.
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Good math here. And economists looked at it and said, well, all you've done is take this and divide it by that.
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No, I heard about this on my news podcast this morning. It's more complicated than that, because look at this letter and this letter. And they figured out that the extra letters they added to this very simple, stupid formula basically just cancelled each other out. There it is. So one of those... multiplies the equation by four, and the other one divides it by four.
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So they basically cancel each other out. They literally just put extra Greek letters in there to make it look more complicated than it is. But you can take the Greek letters out, and mathematically, it's the same fucking formula. How fucking stupid do they think we are?
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I'm always happy to be here.
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I love about games, right? When they first showed this as part of like, I think they showed it as part of a showcase of other games, right? It was just, it was just one of the other games that was in there. It wasn't necessarily one that stood out as like, Ooh, that looks special.
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So I'm sure some people did, but it wasn't like a game that was generating a lot of buzz out of that showcase. Now people have got their hands on it. It's like, you never know where the next like amazing games coming from. Right.
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I'm excited about it. And it's out this week, right? Game Pass. Yeah, we're going to have to try it.
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is very well done for someone... So you didn't encounter any puzzles where you felt frustrated or, you know, fuck this?
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At just any time. Like I said, who saw this coming? Who was predicting, like, oh, this is going to be a game with a new container?
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I feel good about it. We've waited for it for a long time. They feel like, come on, Nintendo, where's the Switch 2? We're finally there. It's going to be out in a couple of months. You've played it. It's real. It exists. We now know almost everything we need to know about it. There's still some things out there, but we've got a clear sense of what it is now and what the proposition is.
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I know a little bit about it. I have a Hall Effect stick. I bought an 8-bit dough Hall Effect stick recently, and part of the reason why I got one is, like, Hall Effect, it's very buzzy right now. It's so hot right now, Hall Effect. Everyone's talking about Hall Effect. So, yeah, I should try it out and see what the deal is. The thing with Hall Effect, as far as I can tell, is it's not...
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that you're going to pick it up immediately and go, oh, this is so much more responsive. It's that they're much less likely to shit the bed a year from now, which has been a problem with Joy-Cons. It's been a problem with PlayStation controllers. Yeah, even the DualSense. The DualSense has got the drift.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But particularly on the Joy-Con side, Nintendo had to implement a system for you to have them replaced and fixed, and it was a problem. So obviously, we don't know yet what...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
proprietary or whatever solution nintendo have come up with for the new ones but they obviously know it's something that they don't want they don't want this to happen again right and so time will tell and you won't know right away if there if there are issues with these sticks these are stories they're going to be hearing about you know three months six months a year from now right because again it's not going to be an instant thing so i you know i'd be interested to know why they didn't choose it feels like
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
like I said, Hall Effect is so buzzy for them to be able to like, oh, and Hall Effect sticks. Like a lot of people that don't necessarily know what that is just go like, oh, I've heard of that. Those are good, right? Like it's just another selling point, but I can either, it's too expensive.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I don't know how much, I mean, the 8-bit dough controller I got had Hall Effect sticks wasn't any more expensive than a regular controller. So I don't necessarily think they're more expensive. Um, But Nintendo, you know, Nintendo going to Nintendo. That's the thing, it's the weird Nintendo decisions. We talk about this all the time.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It may well be that the solution they've come up with is better than the Hall Effect, or as good as. We don't know yet. We're going to take a minute. All we know right now is that, hey, Hall Effect sticks are having a moment, right? It's a buzzy term.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Even if you don't understand necessarily what it is, you just know that they're good, and people like them, and they have advantages over other sticks in terms of durability over the long term. which is an issue for Switch. So a lot of people might have said, hmm, durability solution. Nintendo had a durability problem. Why not bring those two things together?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And they've chosen not to do that as they often choose not to do many things that would seem to make common sense to the rest of us. We'll find out whether or not it was a good or bad decision in time.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
The Joy-Cons were notorious for stick drift. Also on DualSense, but much more noticeable on the Joy-Cons.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And for me, it's everything I wanted it to be. It's just a better Nintendo Switch, right? Some people say, oh, Nintendo's lost the innovation. But when you hit on something that is a proven, brilliant, fucking winning formula, why reinvent the wheel? Just give us a better one of those. The biggest issue that we had with it was, certainly for me, was the performance issues.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I don't know if this is going to be an issue, but if you think about a DualSense controller or an Xbox Series controller and then compare it to a Joy-Con, Joy-Con is tiny, right? The actual controller unit that snaps off is very, very small, right?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So it stands to reason that they're not able, they're probably not able to like engineer it or put as many parts into that controller that might, you know, mitigate those issues. Simply the fact that the new controller is bigger might mean that there's more room in there for them to engineer it a bit more, right? I don't know.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Right now, it's something for us to talk about, but again, no one's going to know. Like, no one's going to know day one, right? Unless they fucked up these sticks so badly they start drifting on day one, which seems very unlikely. We'll see whether or not we start hearing stories about this down the road.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But maybe that's the thing, right? I mean, in the hand, you know what it feels like to wiggle a Joy-Con thumbstick under your thumb. Does it basically feel the same?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So when you're playing a Switch 2, you already obviously have a lot of experience of using a Joy-Con, the thumb stick, how it feels under the thumb when you're moving it. Does it basically feel the same?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Just laughing at all the step bro jokes in chat. They're loving it. Oh, man. Let me tell you. They totally get it. They know what Kevin's been busted for.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Yeah, I think it's amazing that that's something they were even able to do. Usually console games are pretty locked down when you can't do that kind of hacking, right? But this guy figured out a way to do it. Yeah. Really interesting.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I mean, I kind of get it. They're completely within their rights to do it. Um... But at the same time, you know, it's not a good look for them either way. It's like, you guys can't get it running 60 frames a second, but this fucking dude can. The fucking guy with the hot pockets, he can figure it out. You know, that is not a good look.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
And it's not a good look taking it down, because obviously it's something that, you know, unless it's something not deliberately malicious, you know, something that could be like, you know, if it's going to wreck the game, or it's obviously not been through their approval process. So I understand, legally, they can't have it out there. I get it. But ship your own patch now, right?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
That would be the next move. Clearly it's shown that it can be done. You've now, again, within your rights, taken it away from players. I feel like the least you could do is ship your own version of it. Copy this guy's homework. and put an official version out.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Right. And they can't do anything without him being like hands on with it.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Yeah, no, but he's not going to be the one doing the coding, right? Just go to Miyazaki and say, look, we've got a team that can do this. Obviously, you'll see it at the end and sign off on it. They'll have approvals, but just let us get on with it and show it to you when it's done. I don't know why it's so hard.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
You know, like half of the 17-year-old computer hackers that they find end up working for the fucking NSA. Right? Yeah. Because it's like, we'd rather have you, as we say in England, we'd rather have you inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. So they should hire this guy and let him piss out of their tent at Sony. It's a very big tent at Sony. I mean, yeah. Give him a job.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I mean, again, if some guy, if it's been shown that it can be done, right, it is, I think, then kind of on you to do it. And Bloodborne is a very popular game, right? People would love this. Oh, yeah. You would breathe a new Lisa life into the game.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I showed up early, and let's do the nice version. You and I can do our grievances off camera. I showed up early, so you shuffled me onto Games Daily, so here I am.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
This definitely feels like...
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
No, we still have to. People expect this. You have to do the small talk.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I'm here for two shows today. I'm here for the X-Cast reunion. And then I'm doing a part of Game Showdown after that. But I got my times mixed up. Fair enough. I went back on it, and Greg did say an hour later. I got here early. And then Mike said, well, why don't you just come on Games Daily with me and bless? You're only going to be sitting around. And then you kiboshed.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I don't understand why you might be a little bit wary around the word skeet right now, Kevin, but fucking hell.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
So, like, they can do an entire online Elden Ring spinoff without him, but they can't... They can't put Bloodborne in 60 frames?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I don't know. Oh, yeah. Bloodborne 2. What is the most exciting thing that Miyazaki could announce next? Other than some unknown thing. Exciting in a realistic way or exciting in the dream way?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Or something completely new.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Well, I was going to say, clearly, I mean, you know, Miyazaki clearly has no issue with sequels, right? Because Demon's Souls and Dark Souls both had several sequels, right?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
You were like, I'm not feeling that.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
The commercial case for doing it was undeniable.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Does that move someone like Miyazaki, though? Do you think? Like, Miyazaki seems very much like his own man, an auteur, an artist. He's primarily concerned with the creative integrity more than the money. That's my sense. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's my feeling, that he would just say, I don't care about that.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I was like, I don't know. I don't know if I'm feeling eerie. Because you don't trust me to be able to just, like, Get on with it. I don't know if I'm feeling here today.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I'm just going to do what I want to do, and I'm Miyazaki, so you can't tell me what to do.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Right, but like... If they said to him, we really want you to do Elden Ring 2 and here's the financial case for it. Look at these numbers. He's like, yeah, that's great. But I just really, I just have no interest in it. I really don't want to do it. They're not going to say, well, fuck it, you're doing it.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
No, I see that.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I mean, has this industry ever had a completely banger, million, like, multi-million seller, commercial slam dunk mega hit that didn't then spawn a sequel?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
That's not meant to have a sequel, necessarily. Yeah.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
There was always going to be a Spider-Man 2. There was always going to be a Halo 2. There was always going to be a God of War 2, right? Those games don't, you know... They can't be allowed to just, once you've found some success and you've created a hit and a brand that people know, at that point, you could argue it's financially, commercially negligent to not continue to pursue that, right?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Yeah, I view Minecraft as an ongoing thing. And guess what?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
They made a Telltale story mode game. And they're constantly adding stuff to it all the time.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
There's already been a massive DLC, which is essentially a sequel. Now there's, you know, they're already exploiting the fuck out of it.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
It's like...
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
having a metal detector right and you know there's treasure buried under the sand right and you're going and there's something and it's like oh shit you fucking dig you know what i mean like when you when you hit pay dirt when you find when you strike gold you don't move on oh let's see we can find gold somewhere no fucking gold here dig dig dig and that's how you get all these different iterations of the game yeah it's fun seeing chat names that name things right because somebody says bloodborne twitch to that i'd say
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
There is a Tetris 2. Days Gone, I would argue, wasn't a big enough hit to justify a sequel, even though it's one of those games that's gone on to be more well-liked over time. Yeah. I don't think that's increased the commercial case for it. There probably won't be a Baldur's Gate 4, but again, it's too early to say. Nobody really knows what's going to happen.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
It's like Nintendo with the Switch 2. When they announced the Switch 2, people were like, oh, Nintendo's lost it. Why is it just the Switch 2? Why haven't they reinvented the wheel again? And it's like they reinvented the wheel every single time, right? The fucking N64 and then the GameCube and then the Wii and the Wii U. Every time it was like, here's something a bit different, right?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
This is not just the next version of the previous console. And they had arguably middling success with that, right? GameCube was kind of a... You know, good games, but it wasn't a massive hit for them. Wii obviously sold a lot of copies, but by the end of its life cycle, it was considered kind of like a dead console, right? Like, the whole Wiimote thing, nobody really got into that. It was a mess.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Wii U obviously was kind of a mess as well, because they tried to reinvent it again. And now they find the Switch 2, this form factor that everybody loves, and like, just... yeah, let's do more of that. We finally struck like the, the fucking, the formula that people really, really like. And it remains different than anything else on the market, right?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
There isn't anything else like a switch on the market unless you go into like PC handhelds and stuff. Um, And so, yeah, of course they're going to iterate on that.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Well, Valve is Valve. Valve is in a unique position. They never have to ship a game ever.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
People love this. You're the enemy of fun. You're like the Dean in one of those college movies. He's like coming and saying, you guys are all, you cannot, you must not have fun. Have you seen community?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Valve is one of the few companies left that still has a Bluetooth. In the 90s on PC Gamer, it was like Blizzard, Valve, Westwood Studios. Some of those brands don't even exist anymore. Blizzard obviously fell off badly. Valve is one of the few companies left. They're like, oh yeah, everything's just Valve. They're Valve. They're the best.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Valve is never going to ship a game that they think is not Valve-worthy. Of course, Half-Life 3 has been in development at Valve for fucking years. You're foolish if you don't think it has been. And I suspect that they've got to many points where they've had something, you know, that's coming together like, no, back to square one or, you know, this isn't working.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Like, they're not going to ship Half-Life 3 or anything until they're like, yeah, banger. Yeah. And so, you know, they make so much money on Steam, you know, there's no pressure to do it. So Valve is a unique situation. Yeah.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Well, that's what I'm doing. I'm coming in with shenanigans, but then you are telling me not to shenanigan. You know what? You're right. I apologize, Gary. It's fine. Look, I don't want you to get in trouble with your superiors or have this show up on your next performance review because I know how seriously we take this. It's fair.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
We were saying during the break when we were looking at this story that it does seem like there's been a lot of these big, high-profile I guess... I don't know if... I mean, Bullyverse has ran for a bit. I guess, ultimately, you do have to call it a failure if it couldn't sustain itself. Oh, 1,000%. There's been a lot of these, right? Concord. You know, Rumbleverse went down not long ago.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
It's fucking... Knockout City, I think, went down. Knockout City. That was literally the one that was on the tip of my tongue. Knockout City. Now this... still far more failures in this live service space than successes, right? You can point to Helldivers and Destiny and the games that continue to tick along seemingly somewhat healthily.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
And these ones, even with major corporations and so much IP, it's almost silly behind them, right? And a couple of things. Yes, it's sad to see it. It's always sad to see a game fail, right? We'd much rather see games be good and succeed. Multiverse is one that I kind of like... I don't know.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
When I first saw it, I was like, first of all, it's a little bit disgraceful, the extent to which you've ripped off Smash Bros. Do you say Smash Bros. or Smash Bros.?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I think Smash Bros. is cooler. Yeah, Smash Bros. is quicker. So let's go with Smash Bros. I mean, the degree to which you ripped off Smash Bros. is almost insulting, but then like... Mashing together. It's just the thing, right? It's all IP. People love IP. Look at Space Jam 2. Everybody wants to see all these IP characters. Like, apparently not.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
So, like, I get it in Smash Bros where it all comes from, like, a very specific kind of subculture of video games. Like, I get why Star Fox is fighting Luigi, right? I get why Richter Belmont is fighting Sephiroth.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Right. And this is a celebration of classic video games. And look at Marvel Rivals. Marvel Rivals is the same, right? Absolutely. The extent to which that is a ripoff of Overwatch is staggering. Yeah. Right? But they've obviously executed on it very well. And it makes, those are all characters from the Marvel universe. So like Rocket Raccoon fighting Blackwell.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
We talk about video games for a living and that is something that must be taken with the utmost seriousness. We gotta take that seriously. Even on a network called Kinda Funny. For a chance to be a part of the show. I'm trying to make it kind of funny. I didn't realize it was kind of on time, kind of punctual. Sorry. Fuck me, I guess.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I mean, they already did this in Civil War. These Marvel characters, they're meant to fight each other. That's the whole fucking point, right? So that makes sense. But like, just grabbing together, oh, we own that. Oh, we own Jake from State Farm. Let's fucking throw him in there. Have him fight fucking Deputy Dogg.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
And, like, her left special being she has drugs. Don't think for a second that he wouldn't have done it. Yeah.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Right. And again, it makes sense, at least, that they would all be together. It makes sense that they would all be together. When it's like Nintendo in the world of video games, or Marvel, which is obviously its own self-contained universe already, or like I said, even the world of Nickelodeon, right, where it at least feels like there's a commonality between them. There's a commonality, yeah.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
But when the only thing that is bringing them together is your fucking mergers and acquisitions over the years have created such a multi-Hydra-headed company that you just own all this shit, and you think you can just throw it all into one thing and that will have any kind of coherence. Yeah.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
It's why I've never, and I'm sure there are some out there that I would have enjoyed if I played, it's why I've never bothered to even try and play another kart racer. I'm like, why would I play this when I could just be playing Mario Kart? 1,000%.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Well, hopefully the developers will end up in a good place, and I don't know if there are layoffs involved in this or whatever. Again, it's always sad to see this happen, but in this particular case, it's not...
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
may it's maybe not difficult to understand why it happened it's another case of like corporations just not understanding what people want and like throwing something at them that they think makes sense to them but like doesn't make sense to you know to players to fans well we'll see what happens with the reported playstation smash moba that they're working on over there oh are they working on one there was like a there was an article about something coming back uh
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
That was their version of doing it. Yeah, that was their version.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
We'll see. We'll see. This is an industry that is not... Much like my industry, it's not an industry that is particularly good at taking the correct lessons from both success and failure. Story number four.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I've got two kids.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Well, it's interesting that this should come up today because last night I took an edible and I was watching YouTube videos. And I was like, oh, I should watch, because I hadn't got around to watching any of the developer direct stuff. So I went on to the Xbox YouTube channel. I was watching a bunch of trailers. And this one caught my eye. I actually ended up watching the whole thing.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
It was like a four-minute trailer. I watched the whole thing thinking, this is really interesting. It's a big original universe, right? It's a big swing. You said it's an independent game, but it looks kind of AAA to me, right? At least AA. It looks like they spent money on it. Big cinematics, big story. The combat looks really interesting.
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I like how when they actually get into the combat, you'll see it at some point, I imagine, like the numbers are popping off, like in a, almost like in a turn-based. You know, your damage numbers are popping off.
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This looks kind of cool, right? It looks super cool. I would play this. Oh. This went from like a game I'd never even heard of to like, shit, maybe I should check. It's going to be on Game Pass.
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Everybody's looking forward to this. It has that kind of like, where'd this come from kind of vibe, you know? I think this game could be good. Do you think this movie could be good? Like an adaptation? I mean, it's too early to say. I don't know anything about it. I know the Story Kitchen people. They're good people. And they do this a lot. They snatch up
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games, sometimes even before they're released and say, we're going to have plans to make this into a movie or whatever. Whether it actually will come to pass, who knows? Right now, I'm just talking about the game. I think this looks like a cool game.
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I,
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The game isn't even out yet. A couple of things. I'm coming at this from my day job point of view now. On the one hand, and again, I like the Story Kitchen people. Their hearts are in the right place. They really want to make good things. They all have good backgrounds. They know what they're doing. They're not a bunch of amateurs. They've done good stuff already.
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I mean, at some point, I would just stop playing Jedi Power Battles and go feed my dogs.
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I would say the fact that they've taken an interest in this before there's even any commercial... story to tell. Oh, this game is a massive hit, right? Because it's not out yet. Tells you that it's at least a combination of creatively this is a good foundation for a movie. They've obviously seen more of the game that we have, right? Having been able to make a deal on it.
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And they at least think it has the potential to be commercially successful. But I tell you right now, if the game comes out and flops, the movie ain't going to happen either. Right? So, you know, I don't think they're necessarily... I don't know why you necessarily announce it this early. I don't know. That's above my pay grade. But...
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I mean, right now, I'm still on, like, I didn't even know this game existed 24 hours ago. And I was catching up on those Xbox Directs, and there were two that popped out at me. One was this game called Roadcraft. Did you see that, where you're, like, operating, like, construction equipment and stuff? No, I didn't see that one. Just incredibly involved.
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I was like, how the fuck have they even made this? Because I was stoned. I'm like, man, how the fuck are they making this into a game? Like, it's so involved. And then this one, I was like, the more I was watching the trailer, the more I was like, man, this looks really interesting. It was increasingly getting in by then. I was like, man, I got to get that fucking game.
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So I don't know. I mean, I don't know if it's going to be any good, but the trailer totally sold me. And here's Roadcraft. Well done, Kevin. You're basically driving heavy construction equipment in disaster zones where cities and bridges and things need to be rebuilt. You go in and reconstruct, and it's like you run this whole construction company, and you're operating these heavy machines.
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Not just trucks, but major big fucking digging machines. I don't know. This just seems kind of cool.
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Look at this.
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I think this has elements of a lot of those simulator kind of games and there's like snow, all terrain, you know, driving big trucks in the snow type games. And those are really cool. But like, this has got like a business. The more this trailer goes on, this is another one was like, what really this as well? Like, You run the business and logistics and supply chain. It's fucking mad.
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I'm fascinated to know how they've made all of this work within a coherent game design. This looks really interesting to me. Look at this shit. This actually looks pretty cool. This big fucking tree thing. The fuck is that? Big digger? I love this. Look at this. Pushing big rocks around. This looks fucking awesome. Right?
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Are we just going to pretend like this is our first time doing it and nothing happened?
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And I just discovered this last night just because I was going through the Xbox trailers. Hell yeah. Anyway. Get on the stream with Mike. Play this. This is an Expedition 33 with the two trailers that popped off for me when I was watching them last night.
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We complain all the time about how there aren't enough original, like, big swings out there. This is an original big swing. 1,000%. So let's root for it.
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Yeah, and maybe one in 20 of them will actually come to pass.
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I can see the appeal. From a game design, I mean, look at all this stuff. Like, you plot your routes. It's like, like I said, supply chain, logistics. Look at all this. It's like, how is all this in one game? Do you know what it is for me? And it's all presumably playable on a controller, right?
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Right? But to a lot of people, that's really appealing. They love that. Yeah. And let's think, job simulators are everywhere.
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Would you play this?
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I feel like this would be a good one to stream when it comes out.
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Yeah, let's do it.
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There's no way there isn't one. Go on Steam right now. There's got to be like 10 of them.
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I played a game on Steam last year that was running a pizza parlor. It was fucking great. That seems fun. I think it was called Pretty Good Pizza or something like that.
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There was a really interesting piece in Reuters this week about how cozy games have now been shown through various studies to have a markedly positive effect on your mood, calmness, mental state. So I need to play some more fucking cozy games.
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I'm going to get into fucking Hello Kitty Island Adventure this weekend because I desperately, I don't know if you've noticed, but my mood and my mental state is fucking trash. I desperately need some cozy games to give me a lift.
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Good pizza, great pizza. That's what the pizza game is called on Steam. I need to play some more cozy games. That's good then. I just wishlisted one on Steam the other day called Tiny Garden where you're just like watering tiny little plants. That is like therapy for me.
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I want to play that one that Mike showed me. Was it called The Headliners? Were you like your news crew just covering disasters and stuff? Maybe not cozy because that's like, you know, people burning to death and stuff.
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Yeah, this is good pizza. Great pizza. Let's talk about a little pizza parlor. People coming.
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You want like GTA 6 level world?
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They should have done at least one mission in... The Spider-Man games where Peter Parker has to deliver pizzas as Peter Parker, but like the only way he's going to do it on time is if he uses his spider powers and like swing around the city delivering pizzas. Dude, I guarantee you. Like have that be like a whole separate, you know, the submissions, you know?
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I think that, I mean, you're describing Spider-Man 2. Does he deliver pizzas in Spider-Man 2?
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Oh, okay. Yeah, I didn't play the older ones.
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A little to the left. I mean, does this cozy sub-genre do anything for you, Blessing? This kind of game where it's simple puzzles, living in a little town, watering your plants.
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Because now more than ever, you know, obviously reality is such an absolute shit show that when I'm at home, the last thing I want to do is watch like a taut political thriller or a fucking, you know, body horror movie or something. I just want to watch nice people being nice to each other and friendly. That's what I need.
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Yeah, but I mean, there was a clear inflection point at which point there was no turning back, right? But like, I'll tell you the truth. 10 years ago when I was into PUBG and I started watching Twitch because I was really into, I was so into PUBG I wanted to watch PUBG streams. I never really got into streaming before. I used to watch a lot of Dr. Disrespect.
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So I'm going back to like more than 10 years ago when he was on Twitch and I remember thinking, man, this guy is really interesting. No one else is doing what he's doing in terms of production values and the green screen stuff and committing to a character. It was just a really interesting approach, and I understood why he was often funny, and I understand why he was so successful.
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But then there was always a vibe of, I don't know, is there something off about this guy? Every now and again, there's something a little bit toxic that slips in, and it got worse over time.
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Yeah, and then it got worse and worse, and after I stopped watching, it got worse and worse, and then obviously the revelations
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came out I still I've seen it a couple of times it's a very popular TikTok now like the clip from his stream where he gets the text that tells him like it's fucking over dude like they got you stone cold busted you know talking to a minor inappropriately in your twitch whispers and from that point you know you don't come back from that
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nor should you right i mean and at that point at that point this from that moment this announcement has just been you know a countdown to this but do you know what pisses me off is that you do come back from that like because it's not him that's suffering from this like he already split from the studio where is he now though i think he's still on is he still on youtube i'm pretty sure to kick
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Why is Jedi Power Battles back in the frame? Did they remaster it or something?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
All I'll say is, Kevin, you cannot... expect to give your full attention to the stream and have those kind of tabs open at the same time yeah i don't care what you think your mental constitution is you are going to get distracted capture card all week and like now i have you attacking me
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He's on Rumble. So they remonetized him. He went to Rumble. He went to Rumble, which is the fucking. I don't know what Rumble is. So there's like Twitch and YouTube. Yeah. Right. And then when you get kicked off of those, you go to kick. And then when you get kicked off a kick, you go to Rumble.
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I got an email the other day from someone at Rumble, like a partnership person, saying, hey, do you want to come stream on Rumble? And I wrote him back a long email saying no, and here's why.
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So this is from yesterday, just yesterday.
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So six months after being exposed for having wildly inappropriate conversations with an underage person, you basically do six months in social media jail, but then you're back making money.
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I don't remember that being a game that had enough fondness around it where they were like, oh yeah, we should redo that one.
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I don't know if that's been the case.
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I mean, he has paid a lot of sponsorships and things like that. And, like, he's never going to be invited to, you know, like, the big event. Like, there's never going to be, like, a stage at, like, TwitchCon or whatever ever again. Like, that stuff's, you know, just never. It's like, ugh, because it's ick factor, right?
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But again, next time he streams on YouTube or whatever, go look at his numbers. I'm sure his numbers are still pretty good because there's always going to be enough people that just don't care.
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And sponsorships in general will probably be harder to come by. Sponsorships might be harder to come by. But straight ad revenue...
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Yeah, because what they discovered was so heinous that they decided that we just got to pay the money and get him off. So I think there was a certain... If you break your contract, then there's usually some kind of penalty you got to pay, right?
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Yeah. Because it was like years of him... And the problem is there's no accountability, right? Like, who is the person at YouTube... who decided, yeah, let's remonetize him. Six months is long enough. He had deeply inappropriate conversations online with a minor. Yeah, about six months. Where is that person? What is their name?
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And why don't they have to answer any questions about why this decision was made? There's no accountability.
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Everybody's throwing DEI out the window. Don't even get me started yet, but we are just generally clearly moving into it. Everybody's like,
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
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There were so many games that came out of that prequel era, because I remember, because I was editor of Piece of Game at the time, I remember there was like so many, there was an episode one official game.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Trump's president. I don't want to get down a Trump rabbit hole. Everyone's heard enough about that recently, and rightly so, because it is a disgrace. But I read an article yesterday, and you can apply this to anything now, because we do live in a post-accountability world where Trump's basic legal strategy now is just, well, what are you going to do about it? Yeah. Right? Yeah. That's it.
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1,000%. That's what I thought. Yeah, exactly. So now everyone gets to say that. What are you going to do about it? Yeah. And give a fucking Nazi salute. What are you going to do about it? Nothing. What consequences has there been? A bunch of subreddits banned him.
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The higher you go on the ladder, the less you have to worry about accountability.
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All the other people that get caught up in it.
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Same with Trump, same with all of them.
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I played a bunch of them. I don't remember, because there were so many, but I only remember there being like one banger that came out of the prequel era, and that was the pod racing game. That was fucking great.
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I mean, I think the last time we heard, no. I mean, they make so much money just selling those Sims 4 packs, right? I mean, there's another one. It's like, just keep doing what you do.
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That's probably before your time. Yeah, I don't see anything here. Were you born when The Sims came out? When did it come out? It would have been around 97, 98? Oh, yeah, I was born.
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Racer is so good, man. Star Wars Racer is the top three Star Wars games. We used to have cash money races in the PC Gamer office. Cash money? Yeah, we used to race for like real doubloons.
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I existed.
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Ridge Racer!
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Did Donkey Kong Returns not do anything for you, Barrett?
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I don't get it.
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I don't get it.
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um yeah you're muted kevin or you're muted gary uh michael stevenson says bless please tell please tell gary tesco club card is a joke i don't know what that means it's it's like a tesco is a popular supermarket chain in the uk and it's like a loyalty card you know you get rewards and get free i don't know why that was worth spending money on but you know it's free country barely
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Holy shit. Wait, the Sims came out in 2000? Yeah. That doesn't make sense because I reviewed the Sims for PC Gamer, but I was off PC Gamer by... Is that right? It must have been at the very, very end of my tenure on PC Gamer.
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Listen, I'm telling you, gambling is, you know, there's a lot of conversation about this in the gaming space right now because of, you know, stake.com and Twitch streamers and kick streamers, you know, doing gambling streams and stuff.
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No, the original, the Sims. I gave it like a massive score. I was obsessed with that game. February 4th, 2000. I must have reviewed it because I was on PC Gamer up until the... Yeah, okay. Wow, that must have been one of the very last games I ever reviewed at PC Gamer.
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Another company that would have not been an impediment to making and shipping a game. Yeah, I mean... Valve, they're like, well, if we can't solve that problem, we're just not going to do it.
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You would have 1,000% got Half-Life 3.
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To where? Like there?
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That's the end of the show. We went over, but that was because Kevin fucked it up at the start.
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Oh, no, Stepbro. The lights have gone out. Oh, no. Now what are we going to do?
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There?
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That's completely off center for me.
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Oh, look how I nailed you.
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That's good. You finally got something right. I have to angle mine like this sometimes. I was thinking, because I love to gamble. I love to go to Vegas. I have a very addictive personality when it comes to gambling. I've taken some big losses over the years. I didn't know this about you. Oh, my God.
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Ask me another time about the time I lost $144,000 on one hand, a Caribbean stud poker in Las Vegas. Oh, yeah. No way. Yeah.
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Neither have I. Do you have people hunting you right now? It's all good. There's a couple of casinos I'm not welcome in, but for the most part, I'm fine. Just have to stay at the bottom end of the strip. Um... It's a serious thing. I actually went on stake.com the other day.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Oh, yeah.
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In the UK where you just walk into a place on the high street and gamble, I used to, yeah. And then when I'm in Vegas, I like going to the sports book. Sometimes it's nice to sit in the sports book where they have all the massive screens. It's like being in Mission Control. You know, have a couple of bets.
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You know what you should do? You should have me be your official odds maker. I could be the official bookmaker of kind of funny. I like that.
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I even know a guy that will come and have a conversation with your kneecaps if you don't pay up.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
We're running late. Keep that shit at home, Kevin. I mean, it's not that difficult. Do it on your own time. I don't mind what you're into. I just don't want it coming into my place of work, my place of business.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Last of Us, remember, was all kinds of jankty, jankty, jankty out of the gate. Like, you know, like, messed up Ubisoft levels of jank. Isn't it weird that I can say, like, when I want to, like...
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
shorthand serious jank i just say ubisoft everyone goes oh we're that bad they were like damn um yeah that was a mess uh horizon was a mess at launch as i recall they eventually do get there yeah they fix them with patches are you somebody who play or do you check out these games on pc no because i if that's the game i want to play i would have played it on playstation like spider-man i played on playstation yeah first came out
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At least put it in incognito.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
For people that don't have a PlayStation, they're waiting for this PC version. This is why I always say it's folly to buy games at launch because they're never ready anymore. There's always hot fixes and things, and sometimes they're in really bad shape. And I get it with PCs. PCs are trickier than consoles.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I get it because you know with Xbox, there's two SKUs you're shipping for, and they're locked down. You know what they are. With PlayStation, there's two SKUs you're shipping for. You know you're locked down. You know what they are. With PC, infinite diversity and infinite variations, right? No two PCs are exactly the same.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Everyone's got their different motherboard, GPU, RAM, whatever software they've got running in the background. You can't catch every configuration. But when the problems are this widespread, it sounds like something that should have been caught in testing.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
No, you see, it's clearly widespread. It's clearly widespread. There's only two explanations. Either they didn't catch it in testing, in which case their testing is broken and needs to be fixed, or they caught it and said, well, we'll ship it anyway. I don't think that's any more acceptable.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
And it's a PC port of Spider-Man in January. Yeah. It's not like, oh, we've got to hit that holiday window and shareholders will freak out if we don't ship it this quarter. Like, if you know it's got serious issues, hold it a little bit. Mm-hmm. Do you think... It feels like we have this conversation so often.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
I don't think it's... I mean, Sony is a company with major resources, right? Yeah. Even if it's a third-party developer doing it, you would think that Sony would have their own in-house. Maybe they do. They have their own in-house testing where they say, look, this is going out with our name on it. We're going to look at it as well. I'm not going to take your word for it that it's ready to ship.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
But I know something's gone wrong. And again, this is at least the third time that it's happened. Because The Last of Us and Horizon, I think both shipped with similar stories. It'll get fixed. It'll get there. But why should we have to go... Do that first. Get it there. Then ship it. I get the impression that
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Yeah. It's roughly half of PlayStation, of Helldivers games were sold to PC users. So it should be as much of a priority.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Right?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
At some point you are grown. I think they look at it as, look, we might as well, PC's not a competing platform. We don't want our games on Xbox, but we'll put it on PC. We'll make it with extra money. The game already exists. You just need to port it. Like, it's just, I just think they think, ah, whatever. Like, you know, but it doesn't seem like,
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
It's clearly not something they've prioritized assets towards in terms of testing and QA. Otherwise, the game wouldn't be shipping in this state. For a major company, Sony is one of the biggest consumer electronics companies in the world and arguably the biggest gaming brand in the world right now, PlayStation. And this is Spider-Man. This is not like some little game. Let me ask you this.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
If this is shipped on PlayStation in this state,
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Like, that's something you want to talk about a lot. The disc model of the original fatty PS5 has got to be the biggest one. I can't think what would be bigger.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Like, go through the history. They were always pretty small, right? NES.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
So this is being done by weight, though?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I didn't hate the aesthetic of the PS3. The slim version they came out with was better.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Oh. But again, I think weight to me is less interesting because once you've set it down somewhere, weight's irrelevant, right? It's not like you're carrying it around like a handheld. I'm talking about how much space, I think for a lot of people.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I bet you a lot of people when they got their PlayStation 5 are like, fuck, where am I going to put this? Because usually you'd slot it into a little thing in your cabinet. It wouldn't fit into a lot of those slots. Yeah. Certainly not with enough ventilation around it, right? You also allow for some room around it for the thermal shit.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Well, it depends which model. There were various. 3DO was like an openly licensed technology that any manufacturer could make.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
No, it's related to something we were talking about recently. And by the way, I have to give Leah credit. She rapped this, because I can't rap for shit.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yeah, I don't know how anything seriously challenges it.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yeah, it's the original disc chubby. I'm going to keep saying chubby now that I know it annoys Barrett. He's back.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I agree. It's like a nice cake that you don't want to cut into. Oh, my God. No way. Holy shit. Gary. You said you wanted one, right? Gary. You were curious about getting one. Gary, thank you so much.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Too many good games. It's one of those things that like, well, that shouldn't have been nominated. This should have been nominated. But then you're like, okay, but what do you take out to make room for it? You know, it's like everything's so good.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yes. It's very capitalist when you think about it, isn't it? It's like, you know, the elite 1% making, accounting for 90% of the decision making.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I said to you before the show, as we were talking about, I said, what won the overall Game of the Year? And you said Black Myth Wukong. I was like, oh, is it really that good? And you, without hesitation, just said no.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Good enough to be nominated but not to win?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And Helldivers. Don't give it its flowers.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Bellatro, yep.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Okay, I'm not going to ask you what you think is the best game of the year or what should win. Of the games that are... in the mix, and it always ends up being like the same five, six, seven games, with a minor deviation between one awards ceremony and another, which overall winner do you think would cause the least controversy? Where people would just go, yeah, fair enough.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Because it's just a fucking video game.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
This is why I generally keep my mouth shut around awards season because I very rarely... I've only played like... Of the five or six games that are nominated, I've only played a couple. So I can't say this does or doesn't deserve it because I haven't played the game. It's the same with everyone.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
It's by far, I think, the best box that you can plug into your TV for Netflix and whatnot. And the Apple Arcade stuff with games is really good. I know you said you were curious, but you were not sure about getting one.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
has places where i can ding it here and there right i'm not in love with the with the blacksmith wukong uh uh combat what do you think would be the most controversial do you think it would be velutro because of the lo-fi no no nature of it no i know what the most controversial is what would it be at least for the game awards what would it be elden ring shadow of the earth oh right because of the dlc yeah yeah yeah
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
A lot of people were up in arms just about the nomination of that, right? Golden Joystick's put it in its own category, right?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
When I was a kid growing up in the UK and it was all, like, Spectrum and Commodore 64, Ultimate Play the Game were... I guess kind of like the Rare of... Remember Rare's Golden Age? They were the guys. I mean, they made all the best games.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
We don't. Because a lot of people don't know their history. I think it's only when the Rare Classics Arcade compilation came out, and I was very glad to see they did include all of the old Ultimate 60... All the old Ultimate player games. Saberwolf, Nightlaw, Underworld, Jetpack, Attic Attack. Um, Lunar Jetman.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I don't want to turn you into an Apple junkie. I don't think this is necessarily a gateway drug. It's just a really good little box. I think you'll enjoy having that connected to your TV.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
They've been at this for so long.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yeah, I mean, they were, like, the insomniac of the Nintendo for that era, right? Or Naughty Dog. They were, like, the... the biggest third-party developer.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Best console game as well. Which I was glad to see. Oh, on a personal note, guess what? Is that my Helldivers news? I'm going to hit the level cap today.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I don't know how long it takes other people. It took me almost a thousand hours. I had 980 something hours played in that game. So I was going to play... I actually briefly came out of streaming retirement early this week to play some of it because I could see I was going to hit the level cap. I should do it on stream just for fun. I haven't streamed in ages. So I put my stream back together.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And last night I was playing off stream and I was like, I'm at level 149 right now and I can tell there's a little sliver of XP left, but the next mission is gonna ping me. And so, after I get home later today I might stream some this afternoon and we'll hit the level cap.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I play mostly on PC. Sometimes I play upstairs in the living room, but until they add cross-progression for the PlayStation 5, I'll run it via Steam Link, and it runs beautifully.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
No, I really don't care about trophies or achievements. They don't mean anything to me.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I've got the same vibe. I didn't want to bring it up because I don't want to open that door. But it does feel like a lot of the people who love Black Myth Wukong are the same people that downvote other games for being too woke or whatever. You know what I mean? I feel like there's a bit of an overlap. Are we touching on dangerous territory here?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
This is such a big step up from a Fire Stick. It's not even funny. Yeah. You can pair a dual sensor and Xbox controller to that and play your...
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And you see that with the Star Wars fandom, you see it with all over, right? A few rotten apples in the barrel can really stink up the whole band.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
They just want to play an action game. Even in the chat right now, I can see that some people are throwing their toys out of the pram already. They've been triggered because we've dared say this. You've proven my point right now. Yeah.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
uh play the apple arcade games on it or you can get the steam link app and you can run you can steam link games from your pc um and you can also run emulators on it you can put retro arc on it and run emulated games you can do all kinds of stuff that's all you need to hear yeah oh my god thank you so much for this you're very welcome man you're very welcome once you get it connected let me know how uh how it works out for you will do now i want to talk about these handhelds because i'm looking at them and i i love the aesthetic of these right that one on the left right
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
These are people who are more politically engaged, right? A lot of mainstream people aren't voting. They like games. They're not like, I must support this game. I must go out on a limb to do everything to tell people how great this game is. But the people that love
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Like black myth or you know stellar blade or like games like this where there's like a very very die-hard fan base Those guys go out and they go out and vote right there like yeah. Yeah, I almost always made a mega Comparison, but like I mean you definitely don't want to open that fucking door Crowd that you're talking about.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yeah, you're right. I already know I'm not looking at the YouTube comments for this episode because we have definitely triggered all the right people.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And also, I'm not trying to take anything away from Black Myth. It is, by all accounts, a very, well, you said no, but, like, it is supposedly a very good game. If you're into, like, Soulsborne games, it's a good example of that.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I said, one game of the year. I was like, is it really that good? And you said no. So not good enough to be game of the year.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Sekiro Shadows Die Twice I guess games made by From Software like there's a tier of action game that I'm like oh this is a 10 out of 10 and Black Mith Wukong just wasn't that for me but it does do really cool things the backlash to Erdtree has been interesting to me as a neutral observer because I never really got into Elden Ring but like the year that it won it pretty much ran the table right like it was unopposed pretty much it just absolutely destroyed
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
So yeah, we were, we were talking about retro emulation and you know how it's been a hobby of mine recently. And I've got a couple of these, there's, there's more, but these are just a couple of the cheapest ones. This is from a company called Anbernic. And you can just buy these on Amazon.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And it was like, there was no controversy about Elden Ring winning all these awards. Everyone agreed that it was one of the best games.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Well, yeah, because that was the other one at the time. And yet to go from that, where there was so much goodwill and so much overwhelming consensus, to now the DLC, which I understand is very, very, very, very good as well.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
right yeah now but to see that get nominated everyone goes swings hard the other way oh that's outrageous how dare you nominate that it's just because it's dlc i don't know where i stand on this it was interesting to see the pendulum swing back so hard the other way i'm somebody who i think before this whole conversation i was i've always been very much of the mind of like yeah dlc should be nominated for game of the year it's you know especially if it's substantial if it's impactful if it's legitimately as good as standalone games yeah why not
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Right, Golden Joysticks puts DLC in its own category. They have a different set of rules and that's fine.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
So the question is, is Erdtree as legitimately as good as, if not better than, all the other standalone games And I would say, yeah.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
This one is very much like a, I mean, if you look at that, it was almost exactly the form factor of a game boy, right?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
But Barrett, you said Erdtree would be the one that would upset the most people if it won, right?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
That's another fantastic deal.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
This year is stacked as well.
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And in fact, they sell one that is exactly the Game Boy colors. Like, you have to look closely to know it's not a Game Boy.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
If they had released God of War Ragnarok as a DLC that required the first game to play but was the same game, would you view it differently?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And then this one is more the kind of horizontal format where the controls are on either side. Do you prefer handhelds with the controls on the bottom of the screen or on either side of the screen? I'll say, like, probably on the sides.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
We can't just keep doing it this way. Let me go into Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park mode, if I may. I'll tell you the problem with the system that you have here. Uh-huh. And all awards have this. And I think games, for some reason, it's particularly thorny, but film, television, you name it, all kinds of awards can have this issue.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
It forces you to categorize games into boxes in an art form in which many games defy that kind of easy characterization. And it's also true of film and television. Remember the Golden Globes when the Martian won for Best Musical or Comedy? the fuck is that? Yeah. It's weird, right?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yeah, and that's a weird delineation as well.
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But like, you know, we are in this position now where like, again, we're arguing over the fact, had Tears of the Kingdom been, or God of War Ragnarok been released as is, but as DLC, where you needed the original game to play, or if Erdtree had been released as Elden Ring 2, or Elden Ring 1.5, or whatever it could be, as a standalone release, that somehow means we have to view it differently.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I don't understand how the manner of delivery It affects our critical appraisal of it.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Okay, so we'll stick with this one for right now.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
It looks like a mini Switch. Yeah, this will emulate up to a PS1, I think. Some of the fancier, more expensive handhelds will go all the way up to a Switch, basically, and emulate everything. Can I hold it? Yeah, absolutely. What he was going to say, pick a game, like a classic arcade game or an old Genesis game or something.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Whether it's released as DLC or a sequel or a standalone thing, you should evaluate it on its merits the same way, right?
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I mean, I would have put DLC in its own category, I think. But again, this is why I don't want to run an awards show. Because it's hard, right? No matter what you do when you put together an awards show and collate and curate nominations and define categories, someone's going to say, well, that's wrong. That's not the way you should do it, right? No one's going to agree on this stuff.
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It's not, but it's like, you know, it is one of those things where...
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I think you would agree that, like, okay, so you could play The Last of Us Part 2, you can just jump in and play it, right? And never have played the first one. But wouldn't you agree, like, if someone asked me for my advice, should I play the first one first? I would say absolutely yes, because you'll get so much more out of the second one. Right? Yeah.
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Like, when the big thing that happens in the first act of The Last of Us Part 2 happens, the reason why it carries so much weight is because you're bringing all of the first game with you, right? And the feelings you develop for that character.
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That's a technicality, though. That doesn't carry much weight with me.
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Okay.
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I understand where you're coming from. I'm not taking a position on it because I agree it is. Why am I doing Trump hands? What the fuck is that? I don't know, right? I'm just admitting that this is a thorny... It's tough to categorize this. This shit is hard.
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Yeah, just anything that comes to mind.
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Shaq Fu?
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That's a good choice.
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On what platform? Genesis. Okay, let's see if we can find it real quick.
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Okay, let's see. Where's the Genesis on here?
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That's cool. The DLC sounds... I mean, obviously, Black Myth has been so tremendously successful, right, from a sales and a critical standpoint, that I think an Erdtree-level... DLC feels nailed on, and a sequel as well, right? We aren't going to be surprised when these are announced.
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I'm pretty sure it's on here, dude. Let's see. I'm just trying to find the correct platform.
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And what are the issues surrounding an Xbox release? Is it something that Sony has locked down?
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unless there is a tinfoil hat sony thing then we might see it i mean i mean sony are very protective with their exclusives much like xbox seems to be adopting a very kumbaya like well you know we're not even ruling out you know halo and forza on playstation like and it's all up for grabs and they are bringing some of their big games that they own and could make exclusives if they want to to playstation yeah right um but playstation seems to be much more like no these are my toys and no one else gets to play with
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I will say... Again, that's a valid business strategy as well.
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Oh, that might be a good one, actually. Hold on, let's see. I'm just trying to find it. Sometimes this has got weird names, like GBC, that's the Game Boy, PC Engine. There's a lot of stuff on there.
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It pretty much... At Parody, right? A Series X and... Maybe it's a Series S issue?
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If a game runs on PlayStation 5, you can make it run on the Series X, right? There isn't... I think the Series S is the problem. Well, again, that's the thing. And they had that whole Baldur's Gate issue, right?
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I think this came up with Baldur's Gate as well when this was an issue. And I asked the same question at the time. Do you think if... If the Black Myth developers went to Xbox and said, look, we've got it running great on the Series X, but we've tried it every which way.
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It is just not going to work on Series S. So you can have it, but it's going to have to be the first game you've ever released where it says, like, X only. No. You think they would rather not have Black Myth Wukong on their platform if it meant drawing that line in the sand.
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But that's not a great look either. One of the nice things about the S is, because I watch all these Digital Foundry breakdowns and they're really interesting, is the S usually isn't that big a step down. It's a step down, but it's not like the Switch version of Mortal Kombat or something. It's like, this is just shit. Generally, they're not as good, but they're still viable.
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And I just wonder if there's... It's not a good look for the Series S if a game would have come out and it's like, they shouldn't have released this version.
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When it's a game that big, and you can argue that Black Myth is... I don't know if...
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Black myth on Xbox. It'll come. Yeah. I think so.
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Oh, are you a Wicked person you're excited about?
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Yeah. Like it'll be, it's just taking them longer to figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. because again you're right I think what Phil would actually say is yeah like I will send all of my top fucking people to try to work with you we will make this work yeah I think for sure but we're not going to draw that line series X only 1000% okay got it story number three
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So this is another Stellar Blade Devil May Cry trailer.
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You know what looks really good? Because I was watching a YouTube review of it last night. What's that? East 10 Nordics. I have no idea what that is. So you know the Ys series of games?
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Yeah, so I wasn't even looking at it closely because I thought, well, I don't know anything about that series, but it turns out it's like Final Fantasy. Each game is just its own thing, and you don't need to bring over any of the lore from the previous ones because they kind of reboot everything. And I was watching the combat, and it actually looks really fucking good.
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I might have to play Ys X Nordic.
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I didn't even know. I thought it was like a weird RPG, but it's got like Assassin's Creed Black Flag style pirate ship battles. It's got, you know, that ship is like your base, and it's got really cool. So the two characters are kind of like magically kind of chained together. They can't leave each other. Oh. But you can team up and fight together.
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You're controlling both characters at the same time. And they can do all kinds of cool... I'm a big sucker for the pirate techniques of those kind of battles where it's all kinds of weird... In metaphor or whatever, all kinds of weird shit's popping off when you're doing your combos and stuff. And this game feels like it has that vibe to it.
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But that's the thing. That's exactly why I wasn't looking at it. But this review made a point saying, if you're worried about this because, like, oh, Ys X, I haven't played the other nine, you don't have to.
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I appreciate you slow rolling this to give me a chance.
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You'd go to our last story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.
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Shout out to Carter Harrell, who is a kind of funny best friend who does all of our in-review intro music. You understood the assignment. You did what you were supposed to do. But it ain't the fucking Wii Shop music. And I understand why everyone's afraid of Nintendo right now. I get it. We're all terrified of Nintendo.
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Like you look at Nintendo the wrong way and they'll fucking sue you into oblivion. Oh, yeah. I have an Alamo alarm clock. I didn't get up within the first couple of minutes of my Alamo going, am I going to get like a legal threat from Nintendo to get out of bed?
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Two Japanese guys in suits show up at your door. We would like to sue you.
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I only know Tecmo as like a legacy name from back in the day.
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I hear it's very janky.
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Should I wait for a couple of patches maybe? Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
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You know what else I think got short shrift at the game? Maybe because they have that weird cutoff, right? So Indiana Jones is going to come out this year, and it sounds like it might be very good, but it's not nominated because it came out. It's not the calendar year. It's like October to October or whatever it is that they do, so they can do their show over the holidays.
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I don't know what else got maybe next year, but I don't think so because there's a weird bias against this genre. Have you seen some of the videos of Flight Simulator 2024? That game is fucking off the hook. Insane.
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Yeah, it's out with VR support and all this niche. It's probably the most amazing looking flight game I've ever seen in my fucking life. It's absolutely bananas. This is very important. Flight Simulator 2024 Open Critic. Now, I have a 4090.
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at home with a super ultra wide display and a and a and a vi headset like i feel like i have to play this game because it looks incredible all right it has a 92 on open critic which honestly there was a isn't enough for me there was a video of like somebody flying over las vegas at night and they flew over the sphere uh-huh and it was a it was the sphere and it was running all the animations the sphere really yeah it was nuts
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Oh, 100%. Remember when he did those shady backdoor deals with me?
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You know what you should do to get back at him? What's that? You should fucking go unbox that PlayStation 30th anniversary that's sitting out there. Dude, actually... So I said before the show... We were talking about the PlayStation. First of all, what PlayStation 30th anniversary?
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I don't know what 30th anniversary is.
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How can it be? I'm going to tell you what happened. So I said, do you guys have a 30th anniversary yet? And they said, well, we think it might be that box sitting over there. And there's a big box sitting next to Greg's desk. He's not here today. And it's like, how the fuck have you not opened that yet? Like, Greg's not here.
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I think we should open it up after the show.
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I bet you we could unbox it, get it out, play with it, and put everything back the way it was, and he would never even know. Like, put all the twist ties back on and everything.
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We should go rogue. We should unbox it. I'm going to post some pictures with it. I wish you were here, Greg.
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He can't sack me. I'll take the fall. Just tell him Gary went rogue. We couldn't control him.
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Yeah, was it sent by the U.S. Mail? I don't know, actually. Because if it was sent by the U.S.
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I open my wife's packages all the time. She gives me shit for it, though, so.
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He has the day off. You know how he always calls me live on the show? Leave the man alone. Hold on. No, no, no, no, no.
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Oh, he says he's on a plane. Okay. Okay. Can we... Yeah, he's off. He's out. Okay. Can we unbox... The answer is going to be no. There's no way the answer is going to be yes. Anniversary PlayStation.
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Yeah, I mean, I think I got enough for like 60, 70 bucks. It's ridiculously, they're ridiculously cheap. And there are like more, there are fancier ones available. Like my big project right now is I bought a Mac Mini and I'm using that as like a really powerful emulation station. So that runs everything from like Atari 2600 to like, I've got Super Mario Galaxy running. Yeah.
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Barret's worried that- Barret, I'm giving you the power as the director of the show. He's the ranking officer on the scene. He's worried that he's going to take the fall for this.
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You love it, Barret.
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So it will run pretty much, uh, these emulators will run pretty much everything. It's just, it's, it's, it's a lot of digging around and has to like get everything set up and work in the way that you want it. But once you've got it, guess what I got running on the, on the Mac mini yesterday. What's that? NBA street volume two.
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Do we still do this? You're wrong. I thought we retired that.
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It could be a Crash Bandicoot mini fridge or some bullshit that we don't want.
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You know what? I bet you it's in here. I bet you this is the full Monty. I bet there's a portal in there, a DualSense edge, fucking all of the PlayStation 30 goodies are in here.
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Yep. Fully playable. Oh my God. Perfectly emulated. Oh my God. And it looks great too. Yeah. Right.
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It's looking good.
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Is this the retail box, do you think?
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I think it is. They went all out on this thing, didn't they? Holy shit. Whoa! Yo! Did you see that?
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Beautiful.
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I don't know if the camera picks up the screen at all.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yes. Hold on. It says 30th anniversary on that side. It's on the fin, right? The number? Chad, do these have those?
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It just says 30th anniversary. I don't see like what the model.
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Yeah, Mike's here. Yeah, the box is really cool. The box is really nice. Yeah, so let's see.
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I feel like there's more in here.
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Let's see.
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Let's see.
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This is... Can you put this somewhere? What is this? Figure out what that is. Oh, yeah. Look, I mean, this is a DualSense Edge. They've included all of it. Everything's in here. Hold on. Hold on. This is like a poster, I think. We talked about how we just got one of these, right?
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Mine comes Monday. Look at that. I'm not even like a PlayStation historian type guy, but that's a beautiful... What I really need and what they got me with is they brought back the original colors for the symbols. And this... This is not just the case, I can tell. No, that's going to be the edge. That's the edge. Oh my god.
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That is Shaq Fu.
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Holy fuck.
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This is hot as shit. I've got a fucking chubby right now. Like that, Barrett? I brought back the chubby joke there. I'm taking all this stuff off set right now.
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Try and stop me. That's beautiful. Very similar to the Xbox Elite controller, right? You get your paddles and your... Yeah, all that stuff there.
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Yeah, this is incredible. I mean, basically what's happened is technology has advanced over the last couple of decades so quickly that these major... Even arcade machines...
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These are going to be just cables. I have a feeling... What else is in here? Is there a portal in here?
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That's for the disk drive, if you want to add on the disk drive. That's the vertical stand, right? That's going to be just cables or whatever. It's in here. Oh, no, these are all your stickers. Oh, I love that. So, do we have all the major stuff then? This is like an influencer bundle, right? Because it includes a controller and an edge.
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When you buy the Pro 30th, you get the edge as well as the regular controller? Is that why it was like $1,000 or something? I think so. That makes more sense. Oh, and... Because I have one of these at home, just the regular type. This is the... The stand. Oh, your controller stand.
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And then you put these here and they charge. Look at that. Beautiful. Beautiful. This is so good.
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The only thing that's not in here is the portal, which is also very nice.
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I just didn't know if this was like a special influencer box.
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This is actually what you get when you buy at retail.
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You get... You get the edge and a regular controller. What is that? Oh, you get a poster?
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Oh, that was actually one. I'm glad somebody mentioned the cables because that is actually something I wanted to look at.
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Oh, that's beautiful.
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So this is something that I really... Wait, where is it? Okay, that's HDMI. Yeah, get that. Power supply, that's for the charger stand.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
that were once deemed like beyond our reach you know remember how like the home like the nes port of like again an arcade game wouldn't be as good right because the hardware wasn't as good now it's better arcades are basically extinct now because you can everything they could do you can now do on a machine that is crazy to think about the fact that we had to have these boxes in our living rooms or like right next to our tv to run these eight bit games and now like straight up it's just on this little pad
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Isn't it supposed to come with something when it plugs into the front, it looks like the old controller plug?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
That's the horizontal stand.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
This is manuals. No, I don't think it's in here.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Right here.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Oh, yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Are you sure this is it? Yeah, because I think it'll... Oh, yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Oh, that's so fun. You just run it through there, and there's a little dongle that makes it look like an old-school PlayStation connector. That's cute. Wow. There you have it. All right, so who's going to help me get this all into my car?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
This was fun. One of the better ones, I think.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Started strong.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
We had surprise unboxings.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
You gave me a fantastic gift over here.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I'll help you clean up all this mess. We made a big mess here.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Let me show you one of my... You can take it anywhere. It doesn't even waste the battery that much. Let me see if I can show you one of my favorite things. Um, real quick. This might not be the most interesting thing for people that are listening on audio, right?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yeah, good. This is my third time doing this in relatively short succession. This is good. I know.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
You should do the Apple hearing test with the AirPods because it will test your hearing now and tell you if your hearing's fucked up.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
This is the thing I wanted to show you. This is one of my all-time favorite arcade games. This is Outrun. This is the arcade version. Oh, that's awesome. This is the fucking arcade game. Holy cow. I used to put quarters in when I was, you know, 10p pieces or 50p pieces when I was a kid, or what you could call quarters here, I guess.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
You should just make this a regular thing. Let's just say it's a regular thing.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And, like, all these arcade games, I was like, oh, man, I wish I could have them in my home. Like, I want to reach back in time to, like, the 12-year-old me and say, one day, my son...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
padawan you will walk around with all of these games in your fucking pocket you're gonna like look and i'll be like what that's nutty like your child's gonna how can that be real and yet your kids will be playing the playstation 6 and you're gonna look at them and be like yo this in 30 years you're gonna be playing this on the smallest handheld it's kind of war imagine what we're going to be doing in another 20 years i do imagine i do think that like oh we're gonna be losing all our job screen panels will be will go away there'll be some kind of
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
You know, like the headsets that we have now, I'm a big believer in VR, but the technology is not really there yet. It's still too clunky and heavy and annoying in many ways, but it will eventually come down to like a pair of glasses like this or even contact lenses where you're just like, fuck, holodeck time. We'll get there.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Well, I think we'll get there. I mean, again, a lot of things that seem very quaint to us now from like the 80s and 90s, the things that we now consider cutting edge are going to seem very quaint to the next generation. Fair.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I've got a little bit of show and tell for you today. Yeah, what's up with all this? Because you said it was a slow news day, so... I mean, do you want to just do it now? Yeah, let's do it now. So I brought... You know we were talking about retro emulation and handhelds and things like that. I actually brought a couple of the handhelds in, because I know you were curious about them. Yes.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
In that version, you look like Andy from Alien Romulus because you've got the same...
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
style of hair oh yeah i'm not saying i'm not saying any rob or alien romulus he's he's the best thing in it um so what was interesting was everybody and i remember tim getty's going oh that's gonna look so sick in my living room in my in my you know my game room or whatever everyone reacted was there anyone at the time he was going hold on though isn't actually a bit silly because my first reaction and of many people when they first saw it was they've gone too far this is this is silly
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
The Slim was a massive, massive improvement, particularly the all-digital version of it, and then the Pro with the fins, the stripes on the side, I think looks really good. So when we bought a PS5 Pro recently, so the original launch fatty disk drive model, which I didn't want the disk drive model, but it was the only one I could get at the time, Do you remember?
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
They were hard to find for a long time, PlayStation 5s. We finally took that and I moved it into the bedroom so we could have a console back there. But Leah, my wife, she hates the look of it so much. When we first got it, she was like, look, if you want to have that in the room, fine, but we're going to get a new AV cabinet where you can hide it behind something because that thing is so offensive.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
to my aesthetic sensibilities and so we like we hid it away and now that it's in the bedroom I went out and bought some of those replacement plates I got just like the black plates for it because we have like a black like TV cabinet thing in the bedroom and I just I made it like super like now it just like kind of disappears and it's less offensive but looking at it now having seen
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
So we can... We'll take a very quick look at those if you're interested. But first, I wanted to wish you...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
And I guess it's true with a lot of consoles when they do, like, the slimmer version. You go back and look at the original and go, man, that was a chubby.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Yeah, and it is. The PlayStation 5 is still crazy chunky.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I mean, the Xbox Series X is chunky, but it doesn't bother me because it's just very inoffensive in its design. It's just a cuboid, right? That's all it is.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
Honestly, I think I prefer that to the try-hard, you know, fins and everything. We're going to over-design this. I mean, really, what was interesting about the aesthetic is that they went in, like, completely diametrically opposite directions, right? Xbox was, like, as simple as possible.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
What is the biggest... Here's one for you. What is the biggest console by mass, by volume? Oh, that's a good question. Neo Geo? Maybe the PlayStation 5.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
They were huge. Oh, shit. Because it was the same ROM. It was the same board that was in the arcade version. It was literally... You could actually play the arcade game at home.
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Black Myth: Wukong is 2024’s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24
I think the 5 is bigger. I think the 5 is... Someone needs to look it up. Like, whatever the kind of the 3D... Like, not by weight, but like actual size, volume, mass, whatever you want to call it.