Tim Gettys
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
You need the community. You need as many people playing as possible to have a player base that's actually playing the game for these type of multiplayer only experiences, which leads me to it's multiplayer only. And it's like, man, I look at that and I know that I am just a specific type of gamer, but there are many of me and I want to play a single player bungee marathon game that looks like that.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Cool, I'm not getting that, but it's still a paid title. That to me kind of reads a little bit weird. Games cost money. There has to be a price. I also think Marathon's caught right now in a very terrible time for product announcements because of state of the world and tariffs and everything where why do we not know the price?
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Why was there already misinformation this weekend of it's going to be a full-priced game? Oh, wait, no, it's not. No, it's not full-priced. We're going to talk more in the summer about the pricing. Why is that? Is it because they don't know yet? Are they just trying to figure it out? Or are they hedging their bets and trying to wait for all that?
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
The married one at Tim Getty's. You've been gone a week. I've thought about you every day, oftentimes multiple times a day, thinking about how you're going to crush this show on Thursday. So excited for you. I see footage of the show come out. You walk out with the briefcase, and then I'm reminded. I'm reminded what...
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Either way, not good news for a game that I think is already an uphill battle to win people over. So I think that's just kind of where we're at is in the time and place that we're in, this doesn't seem like a great move.
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I mean, dude, that's really the conversation, right? It's like, I feel like we're just at a point that it almost doesn't matter if the game is good or not. Like, we look at this and like, yeah, it's Bungie. Like, their gunplay feels impeccable, right? You expect it's going to. We'll hear from Paris later about actually how it feels and like, is it a good game or not?
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
type of person you actually are and then this morning you walk in you know we didn't get as much time to catch up or talk at all that i would like but you did walk over to me and you're like oh yeah you didn't get much hate mail but you got this and you leave one note a nice note a very very very nice note on my desk that somebody left and and you're like yeah there wasn't much much hate mail no no what i said you see i just said it too fast i slurred my words together i'm very excited to be back all right what i said is it wasn't all hate mail okay so people did okay
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
But remember, like, Concord, like, a lot of people here are kind of funny, like, enjoyed the game. But that is just not enough in this day and age with where we're at and how much competition's out there. paid free or otherwise.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
At the time, we always talk about being a big thing, but I feel like you talking about the Concorde and like, oh, it felt derivative because of Guardians of the Galaxy, which it's not just like, oh, we've seen this thing before. It's more about a vibe and a culture of like Guardians has permeated so many things for so long.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
over a decade at this point that like it kind of just feels like been there done that already whereas like this I feel is kind of stuck in this awkward place where despite it looking I think awesome again I really like the direction of the art of this game the problem is
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
It's almost the opposite of the Guardian situation, where this kind of just feels like we've seen a lot of this for games that haven't necessarily even come out yet. But when they do come out, they're just kind of like, oh, yeah, the finals. I just feel like we've seen trailers that look like this of a ton of games coming out, and we're already exhausted by it.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
man, yeah, God, it's so complicated. I want it to be very clear that I know that I sound just very doomy on all of this stuff, and it feels very like, oh, we've been here before, and that our conversation sounds like, guys, we get it, move on. But why aren't they moving on? Why are they continuing to do this over and over?
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I feel like when we look at Concord specifically, they committed to a lot of things. They committed to, hey, there's going to be weekly story drops and all this stuff, and we're like, wow, y'all believe in this game. We've made cut scenes for an entire year. I can't believe that that's going to happen. How is that going to happen? But, like, y'all are committing to this, and that didn't work out.
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And you look here with, like, how they're committing, and it's like, I just, I don't know. It feels like a false sense of bravado if you're going to be like, yeah, this is the plan. We've seen it before. Avengers, right? The fucking Avengers trying to go for this live service thing with a, honestly, foolproof plan of we're going to have all your favorite heroes month after month just be dropping.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Oh, yeah.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Sounds impossible. The Marvel Rivals did and is fucking crushing it and continues to dominate the media cycle.
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Every single time they put something out, it's like... The whole day is dedicated to fan art of Emma Frost. You know what I mean? Anyways, it's like I totally lost the point I was making. It was good, I promise.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Yeah, okay. Thank you. That actually sparked what I was saying. Remember, and we don't know who the people are specifically, but the conversation was PlayStation bought Bungie. Bungie is now kind of talking to the rest of their teams for their clear live service initiative of, hey, there's some structure.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
There's some DNA here that we know stuff because of Destiny 2 that we're going to educate the PlayStation. Yeah, we've done this before. To some extent, right? And now you look at it here and it's like, cool. Well, this is the example of that. Seems a little scary and upsetting in the wake of something like Concord. Having said that, Helldrivers 2, major freaking success.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And to give Marathon its props and not just completely write it off, they did the one thing that we all wanted Concord to do, which was just let people... After we saw the first initial preview or reveal of it, we're all like, why didn't they just let people play? and let that speak for itself.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And that's what happened with Apex Legends, and that became a huge hit because it had this, like, unique marketing strategy that's not just like, oh, shadow reveal, shadow drop. It's when the entire conversation is, yo, this game's good. I played it. It's good. That goes so far. And so, hey, at least they let people play the game here. But...
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We're now at a point that you need to couple that with all the right answers. And a lot of the stuff they're saying here simply aren't the right answers when it comes to price slash not actually having a price, but knowing that it's going to have a price. Yeah. That is like this nebulous thing that gives people. Own it. Yeah, own it. And I know why they don't want to own it.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Again, tear stuff aside. Even besides that, it's like because of Concord.
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Their IP, which includes Marathon. Why are they doing Marathon? Because they own that IP. So it's like, you don't get another swing at the bat at Marathon.
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I mean, I feel like that would just be it, right? Then it would just become, hey, Destiny 3, that's what you're doing.
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Amen.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I mean, I think so.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I get it. I get it, man.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Yeah, yeah. Child's a high moon. Let's make that happen.
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I don't know, but I think that despite the diminishing returns and all that stuff, I do think that despite anything they may or may not have said in the past, hey, it's Destiny 3, I do think that that's going to get that. If we're just talking about success, it might not be bigger than Destiny 1 or 2, but I do think that it'll hit where they need it to. Is that necessarily the right move?
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I don't know. But I don't think that this tank's Bungie.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I'm good. How are you? I missed you. You got some sun. I did get some sun. Were you Pokemoning? I was at an 11-year-old's birthday party in Golden Gate Park. We were Pokemon going. Hell yeah, you were. A lot. Hell yeah, you were.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Yeah. I mean, you know, we talk about this a bazillion times with Activision, with Vicarious Visions, and all the other teams. But, like, yeah, you're making Overwatch maps now. You're making, you know, Call of Duty maps now. Like, that's what you're doing. So, yeah, maybe. But at that point, what are they doing? Because it's like... I mean, what do they do?
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PlayStation, I mean, like, what are they doing with live services? Yeah. This wasn't the way to go. Again, though, I said this earlier, but this being on Xbox, too, I do think gives it a little bit extra of, like, there's some potential here. Yeah. I don't think that it's over for... Marathon yet.
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Oh, yeah. It was a very complicated situation. this child, a relative of Gia's, went to Hawaii recently and caught a Comfey. Comfey, exclusive to Hawaii. I do not have one. It is one of the three Pokemon I do not have currently in Pokemon Go.
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100%.
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But that is an outlier.
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period and like that to me is like thank god there are outliers thank god there is potential for this to be fought back against but you there needs to be so much love care and luck involved in that whereas you look at some of these things it's like there are just too many successful free-to-play games and when you design a game that walks like a duck talks like a duck and all that stuff and it's very expensive duck it's
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Yeah. Yeah, and that's the thing where it's like... Guys, I lost it, all right? You know what I'm saying, but I lost where exactly I was going. You lost the duck? I lost the duck. Where's the duck, everybody?
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That number to start? Is it like where it needs to be? There's no coming back. at this point, you know, I think gone are the days of the rainbow six sieges and things like that. I'm just like, Oh, we can like, we can fix this. We can get this because I think that so many of those were bolstered by other titles in the library, in the portfolios of these publishers.
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And I think that one by one, we're seeing different verticals of these type of games get wiped out, not have enough success. And like,
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um and so it was a big deal she was excited to catch this one to come back and trade it with me and um the reason i was invited to her 11 year old her 11th birthday was to trade this pokemon with me we get there and uh she pulled the most 11 year old move possible she looks at me she's like i don't want to trade you that one i want to trade you this shiny ponyta and i'm like but i have a shiny ponyta she goes i want you to have it
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studios get closed and it is kind of a condensing on okay we're losing we're not making enough money here let's pivot to more of these like free to play live service games or whatever and then it's like well what if the live service wasn't free to play what if we also charge what if we tried to make even more money from it and that's where we're at now
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I mean, the sheer fact of the matter is Tarkov, for as popular as it is, is not going to get the backing ever that a PlayStation-backed Bungie with the game multi-platform, like with the NIP marathon. It's like, that's going to get so much push that, yeah, people are going to be interested. But what's the question? Is it going to be as good as Tarkov?
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
That's the problem. I feel like comparing a game, and I know that Tarkov also is a different level of game, so maybe in some ways Marathon will be better, but it will not be as feature complete as Tarkov, I don't think, and I think that is going to definitely make people look at me like, why the fuck would I pay for this when I could do this?
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Yeah. I mean, I again, don't know. I haven't seen any real thoughts on hands on for this and later he'll from Paris, but I imagine it feels great.
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Yeah, but her parents are right there. You know what I mean? This is a lesson the parents need to learn, too. She is right there. It was a whole thing, Greg.
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Who the hell knows? When's it going to come and then go away the next day and then come back worse the day after that? We're just in such tumultuous times that it almost feels silly to speculate and even give any thoughts on this. This sucks. This is not like it was even the last time this happened. Because it happened last time, Greg.
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We're at a point now that in a console generation, we're not getting price cuts. We're getting price increases. That was scary when it first happened. When we see games just get more and more and more expensive and just get standardized in that way. Mario Kart fucking World is $80. That is nuts, man. I hate this. And there's just no getting away from it.
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Yeah, kindness?
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And again, it's like, it's just the scariest part is just feeling like there's no resolution coming. Like at any moment, all of this could just be like, guys, we fixed it. Or more likely, hey, it is worse than you could ever imagine. Or more accurately, you'll never know. We're never going to hit a, this is the new normal. The new normal is where we're in right now, which is utter fucking chaos.
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You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. If I went a different direction.
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Yeah.
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The reality is, this is a make or break moment for this company. Like, this is their next generation system that they are going to be supporting for the next probably 10 years. Sure, the Switch 3 or whatever it is might also come out. They're still going to be supporting the Switch 2 after the Switch 3 comes out. You've got to imagine.
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That's how these things used to, like, have been working, and now I think more so than ever because of just how ecosystems work. Yeah. And we see Nintendo adopting that with the Nintendo Switch Online profiles and accounts, like, actually, like, following you and all of that. Like...
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Yeah, like if they are not positioned for a maximum install base at the jump, it's going to be very, very bad for them when they're trying to sell games and they have a limited install base. Like we've seen it happen so many times before. But even look at Xbox right now.
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How many times have we talked about stories of games not selling well on Xbox because the install base just isn't there and all of that. And we're talking about big numbers here. right? Like, it's just scary if that's Nintendo, and, like, they need that.
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We're talking about a company that has the most insane attach rate ever, and, like, you need systems out there to be able to attach the software to, and I do think that no matter what happens here, well, that's going too far, because good lord, anything can happen, but, like, I believe it is
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As close to a guarantee as you can get that no matter how many units Nintendo has been able to make, and they say that this is by far the most they've been able to for a launch, they're going to sell out. I think that is a guarantee. But what happens next?
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I don't think so. I think no matter... And again... There's a reality here where things are just so bad that why are we even talking about video games?
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But, like, I think that no matter what happens, the Switch sells out. Like, in any, I think, realistic next couple months of how things can shake.
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There's also the side of, does Nintendo pull the plug and be like, we're not releasing it this year? I don't see that happening because they need to make money. They need to, like, get the games out and the software and all this stuff. It's like, this sucks. This could potentially ruin so many companies, no matter how big and powerful they are.
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Yeah, that is good. That is good. Eleven is a little older than the three-year-old. You know what I mean? So there's some...
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A hundred percent. Oh, so you're just asking like only in America if they delay it, but they release it everywhere else. I just, I don't see them doing that. America's too important and powerful when it comes to the voice of video games and like the, all that stuff. Like that's, we just see how sales of games work and all that.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Like they, I think that that is, that would be a very, very bad strategy for them. And I don't see them doing that. Do they delay worldwide? I think that's way more likely. I think at this point, any hypothesis I could have is pulling out of my ass. Totally.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
i think she's playing mind games with me you know what i mean she's trying to pull it over she wants to let me know she's the pokemon master which i guess i kind of appreciate i did try obviously i didn't like take this one without trying to swing you know what i mean i was just like i asked i was like i don't know we're talking about this one and you know i asked once i asked twice it was that third time when she was insistent and i'm like it's your birthday you can
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
If you ask me right now, do I think the Switch 2 is going to get delayed? No. But you could see it. Oh, a thousand percent. I could see it. I wouldn't bet anything that it won't, but like, I think that they have a plan. They, again, these things need to be sold or else the company is in trouble. Like there's an entire plan with like a lineup of software that they need to get out there.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Like, and sure they can like take the hit for a while, but I do think it gets to a point that it's like, there's just too, too much money at stake that needs to be in play. But like, there's bigger, more important things out there. And, there's factors that are getting involved that could, again, just could tank the entire industries surrounding this if the wrong moves are made. 100%.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Yeah, so the new version of the finale is coming out sometime this week. I'm incredibly bummed about this news. I loved this show. It was not always perfect. I think season two overall was... Not good enough. I don't want to say it was bad, but I think that season two kind of put them in a place that they lost a lot of people that were kind of watching week to week. Who were rocking for it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And then I think that season three and four got into a much better spot of realizing, like, we now just have an amazing cast of characters that just putting them in situations and letting them be the way they are is fun. It reminds me a lot of Community or The Office and things like that, where you were like, just at a certain point, It's not about the plot. You're here for the characters.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And, God, they got there. Like, season four was awesome because of everything I just said. Like, amazing characters and amazing choices for them. The two leads, Ian and Poppy, were awesome. The dynamics they had, the amount of situations they put them in and took them out of and back and forth and back and forth. It's a sitcom workplace comedy, right? Sure.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
We've seen a lot of this stuff before, but we haven't seen it in the video game space. And the amount of times, if you've watched the show every freaking day, you've heard us say this a lot, but the amount of times that Bless and I, who are two of the people I know that watch the show, have brought up This show clearly is written by people that watch games daily. Like, it is jokes for us.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And they're smart. It's very, very, very smart. Very fun. Like, it's a show that should not have been nearly as good as it was. I mean, I remember this getting announced, right? Oh, Ubisoft's doing a show with Apple. And it was at Ubisoft's E3 show. And we're like, what the fuck is this? Yeah. so wrong.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And again, I'm not trying to say it's the best thing ever, but I will say that it is a incredibly good comedy. Like I think that they've gotten to a point that they like, I I'm watching this and I, I put it up there. I think hacks is the best, but in terms of the contemporary kind of comedies, like it's this hacks. Like I, um, like I like this a lot more than sex lives of college girls.
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Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And I loved that show. Another one that just got canceled. But at the same time, I can't believe the show made it to four seasons in the spinoff. Yeah. What's the spinoff? It's called SideQuest. It just came out. It's like technically the last, I guess, besides a little bit that they're adding here. It's the latest thing that they did. It was four episodes.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Show ran by Ashley Burch, who is a lead in the show, in the main show. And she also wrote and directed a couple of the episodes in SideQuest. And side quest was mythic quest. One of the best things about it was every season they would do at least one episode that was just completely not part of the main story. And they would just follow one characters like backstory.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
No, no, no. It was her birthday. I was literally invited to his birthday for this reason. Anyway, that's a whole thing, man.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And it would always add some very interesting and usually the best episode of the season.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
side quest was kind of like let's just do that for a whole show gotcha and like one of them was about and it's always like relating to mythic quest that is this video game and the amount of video game culture that they were able to fit in the show and treat authentically is something that really needs to be commended and i'm saying all this because y'all should watch this show even if it's over the time that's there it's worth your time and it's really cool they get to do an ending it is and i'm very interested in what's that going to be i don't think it could possibly be great like just with where all laid off
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I mean, real talk, I think that's going to be what it is. Like, that's the type of show that this is. But it's crazy that the side quests, like, one of the episodes was about the comic book based on the game. Okay. And it takes place in a comic book store. Nice. The day that that comic shows up and the people that are coming to get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Awesome concept.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
And they just do a really good job with it. Another one is about the violinist in... Or maybe not violinist. Whatever. Some instrument in a video game orchestra concert for Mythic Quest. And just following her journey. It's very, very, very... smart video game culture stuff. So yeah, I'm very sad that this happened, that it was canceled this way. And like, I get it though. I totally get it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
But shout out to them for four and four seasons in a spinoff that I thought were excellent. I would recommend everybody watch it. Apple TV continues to be the unsung hero of the streaming game. They need to fucking promote their stuff better. And this is what happens. They don't do that. They just let their shows happen. And people that are watching them are like, these are so freaking good.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
But unless you're Severance, it's like, you never hear about it. You don't break out.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I mean, plot-wise, yes. I entirely agree.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
this has been rumored for a while so it's not one of those announcements that's kind of like i feel like would have been very exciting to talk about but oh yeah we knew this we talked about this already it's everything that we have seen and heard cool though i mean i think that uh it's it's great that these turn-based tactics games like seem to have an audience and seem to kind of be well fed in the last yeah for sure five years or so so
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
uh hopefully this is a another win for for respawn and uh bit reactor can't pull what they've worked on off the top of my head but i know i should be able to because i know it too but their site ain't that great their site ain't that great they make video games oh they're x-com vets the chat saying great i mean yeah that's awesome all right like
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
We talk about it all the time, of like, what IP and what developer would you want to see make this type of game? Yeah, cool. They're doing this here, and I think Respawn, at the very least, have proven that they have really smart takes on the world of Star Wars, and they care in the right ways. So hopefully they can apply that to this as well.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
That was horrible. I just want to let you know. Me and Bless bust our fucking ass every day and try a couple of good segues. You come back from Chicago with that. That was great. It's big news. No, you said it's great. It's big. No, get the hell out of here. You go to our last story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items that you need to know about.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Hmm.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Shouts to Victoria Kennedy, who had the most fun writing that. Like, they added every detail possible.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
God, this must be an old article. It's gotten so much worse. Has it? Oh, the fireworks? Oh, man, yeah. Don't do this. Don't be stupid.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
uh brand cakes says hey tim check out the game dusk fade i think it might be your cup of tea it's coming in 2026 yeah we uh watched the trailer for this friday from the triple i initiative and oh yeah it looks like if ratchet and clank had sex with kingdom hearts made a baby that baby grew up i hate that i got to play it i hate the way you said you love playing babies no growing up
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Chris Rojas says, Tim, you got to give us a recap on the Prodigy concert you're going to. They stopped touring for a while after one of their vocalists died, and they just rarely play in the U.S. to begin with. Yeah, I'm going to see the Prodigy tonight. Me and G. Okay.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Of course. Of course. But I am incredibly excited. But this is definitely the most out of my and definitely Gia's comfort zone concert. So why are you going to it? I saw an Instagram ad for it. I'm like, this looks awesome as fuck. And I have to do this. And also like, I love prodigies music.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I just never thought, oh, I'm going to go to a concert of like the music they play during street races and fast. Yeah. But then I'm also like, wouldn't I do that? Fair enough. Yeah. So, I mean, they just did Coachella this weekend. Every clip I saw, I'm like, oh, I made a good decision buying tickets to this. Okay. So I'll keep you all updated.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
man first off congrats on the job so proud of you he's been updating on all this stuff so it wasn't even that great last week so hell yeah that's awesome Mean Green Vegas probably not gonna happen this Vegas trip is very it's pretty in and out and I'm with a friend group that I'm not normally with so it's like you know I don't think I'm gonna have time to but if you see me say something yeah
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Day one, I'm wearing a dope as fuck gold WrestleMania 41 jacket. Remember the Vanessa Hudgens? Oh, yeah. Hot girls love pro wrestling. Gia got that. I have a custom made hot boys with a Z love pro wrestling. I'm wearing that underneath the dope ass gold jacket. And day two, I'm going full John Cena. Jorts, wristbands, hat. I can't wait for photos of this. I've known Gia for 10 years.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
She's allowed me to do so many things. This is where she almost drew the line. Legitimately, she walked into the room and I was fully decked out in the outfit. She looked at me, and she was pissed. She was actually mad. And she's like, no, no. And I'm like, it's just, dude. I was like, I know. I'm embarrassed, too. She's like, no, no, no. Oh, God.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
She was like, no, no, no. And she's like, I want to let you know, I'm not fucking you ever again. And I was like, that is so aggressive. And then, I'm not kidding, she literally starts going... And I'm like, get the fuck away from me. What are we doing here? Yeah. She was joking to the point that she then almost started throwing up. Jesus Christ.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I love that. Is that the speech that Squidward gives in infinity? It sounds very similar.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
That is so cool. Also, shout out to Ben Starr, the coolest dude in the freaking world. Today, Entertainment Weekly put out a piece about Expedition 33. Oh, nice. And it's like, you know, Charlie Cox, Andy Serkis, Ben Starr. Yeah. Hell yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Very cool.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
that's good that was good and i see some people in the chat uh saying that she should have caught multiple of these things in hawaii so she had one trade with me she did she had multiple huh you know and now to be positive on this she wanted me to have that shiny pony top you know what i mean so i appreciate that she for some reason was like tim i want you to have this it means something to me it now will stay with you where does the 11 year old live san francisco
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
100%.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
It doesn't allow you to take three. No, that's true.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
But there's just so much mail. It's late to the games cast.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Can you imagine if we showed up at a... Well, I don't even know what it is.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I want my coffee. I don't even know. I think I might even be getting it wrong. It's the Hawaiian ones. It's the freaking keychain. No, no, no. It's the lei. It doesn't matter. Keep going, Greg. Okay, no problem.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Yes, I can't wait to talk about this.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Oh, great. You know, you walked in, Greg. I haven't seen you in a week. I'm sorry. This is still the cold open. You don't talk during the cold open, right? God damn it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Imperial.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Yeah, I knew I was getting cute with the spelling EMP. All right.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I do appreciate the coloring of the goodbye bracelet matching the Stars of the Bank briefcase.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
We'll put that in front of you. I'm going to firmly put that in the not hate category, which is nice.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
Yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I mean, here's the thing, right? I legitimately feel like you can take our conversations around Concord last year and just replay that episode of Games Daily, and it's going to be the exact same thing. I just think the problem there is it's even worse now because that's happened and we saw how it ended, so I just think it's a little more rough for this to be coming out now.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
What's up everybody? There's so many timers on your phone.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I will say looking at it, I personally think it looks really cool. I don't think that this looks like just another one of these things. I think there is a nice visual style to this that is fun and colorful in ways that I appreciate. Having said that, It's not Marathon. This is definitely a departure from what Marathon was.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
I don't know that that's necessarily the biggest factor, but if you're going to bring back Marathon, why do it then, right? It might as well just be a new IP if it's a new IP. Sure. So that to me just is a little bit weird because Marathon's a lot grimier, and maybe they play into that. Again, I understand the argument that it doesn't matter, but then why use the brand?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Marathon Launches September, Isn't Free-To-Play - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.25
On top of that, hearing that this wasn't free-to-play was definitely a shock to me.