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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What new details did Neil Druckmann reveal about Intergalactic?
How much did you pay Tim for this Novocaine promotion? Because this kid's putting this movie over big time, okay?
Oh, man, Tim, what was it? Like a couple grand at least, right?
Yeah, totally worth it, though. Congratulations on Novocaine. They all love it. They said it was great.
Oh, thank you so much, dude. No, I'm really proud of it. I went to the premiere last night, and just a lot of people laughing and wincing and groaning and screaming in terror. It was wonderful.
Yeah, we saw it in 40X. The screener we went to was 40X, and so we felt your pain as well, and it was incredible.
I sat in one of those chairs, not for the premiere, but they put me in one just to like experience actually the trailer in 40X. And it was the craziest thing I've ever done in my life. I can't believe anyone does that. And they like can actually keep track of their popcorn because mine was flying everywhere.
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Chapter 2: How is Sony experimenting with AI in gaming?
Oh, yeah. It goes everywhere. Andy lost all of his last time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, that's the experience.
In the live chat right now. Oh, by the way, you're live on the show. In the live chat.
Oh, hello, hello.
Rocket Guardian says, tell Jack he was great in Companion 2. You were great in Companion 2.
Aw, thanks, man. Thanks, guys. Thank you. What was his name? Rocket... Guardian. Rocket Raccoon? Rocket Guardian. Well, that makes sense. That's all in the same universe.
Rocket Guardian.
Incredible. Rocket Guardian, thank you so much. Thanks, dude. No, it's been a cool... It's been a cool year, and... I don't know. I'm just really happy that cool people like yourself can reach out to me and we can have a conversation.
Yeah. When I get in big time, I see on all the late night talk shows, you're talking to the real host now. So it's only a matter of time.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Lego bringing game development in-house?
No, I can be like, let me get Jack on the phone. But no, the fact that I have kind of funny support is everything. So you guys are incredible.
We love you, Jack. We'll talk to you soon.
Okay.
Come visit. Come back. Invite us to a premiere once or twice. I don't know what the problem is. You know what I mean? We've done so much for you.
It's going to fucking happen. It needs to happen.
Yeah, okay. All right, well.
No, no, no. This needs to happen. Anytime that I do anything, especially if it's in 40X. I just, I mean.
Please. All right, that's the deal. When the premiere's in 40X, you invite Tim. All right, we like that.
We live our lives in 40X. All right, great.
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Chapter 4: What is the plot of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet?
We love you, Jack. Take care. Bye.
I love you guys. Thanks for seeing the movie. Anytime.
Bye.
Too late. He's a Rocket Guardian.
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Chapter 5: How does the new game compare to previous Naughty Dog releases?
You've got to know when to pull up.
Kevin wants to play. I'll play. Let's play. We're an 11-person small business all about live talk shows. Of course, you're right now with us live for Kind of Funny Games Daily.
After this, you're going to get the Kind of Funny Games cast where we thought we were going to talk about hidden gems and things that have gone, oh, we forgot about this from a show and did this thing, but we also didn't get to do the Marvel Games conversation yesterday. Maybe we do that. Maybe we do something else. We're keeping you and us on our toes. So stay tuned for that.
Then the stream is going to be the continuation of the one and only Pokemon, Nick Locke. Hell yeah. Kevin, what is the update from the Nick Locke studio?
No one's dead yet.
But it was close, I heard. It was very close.
Oh, my God. There were a couple of moments. We've got two badges. We're working on a third. Everyone's like, oh, three's scary. So we're scared.
Yeah. Okay, great. You think you're going to get there today?
I mean, I think we're ready. The thing is, we just got a machoke? Machop. Machop. We got a machop, and we're grinding him a little bit.
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Chapter 6: What are the unique gameplay mechanics in Intergalactic?
Yeah, and I appreciate that. Now, I'm never going to... You're going to say Intergalactic. I'm going to be like, wait, Intergalactic, The Beastie Boys, or ITHP? I think about Interstellar all the time. Me too. I talked about that yesterday too. Yeah, of course.
Did anyone watch the movie Heretic?
Yeah.
Was it good? I...
Who's in it again? Like, this is definitely one I remember watching. It's that British guy from Notting Hill. Oh, no, I didn't. Fuck, sorry. This is on my Amazon watch list. Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant. Traps the Jehovah's Witnesses or whoever is at his door. I like this a lot, and I've watched the trailer several times.
It's on Amazon or something now.
Yeah, well, that's the thing, because I'm always down to pay for it.
No, I mean, I am too, but now it's exciting that it's free.
Yeah, now you feel like you saved money. I almost did. You feel like you saved money. Like when you link your Amazon account to your Twitch account and give us the free sub that doesn't auto-renew, right? Grandma, thank you all the time. You took me to the lake. But real quick, what's your Amazon password? Nana, what's your Amazon password? And she goes, I can see the angels.
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Chapter 7: Will Intergalactic have multiplayer or is it a single-player experience?
Let's do something people won't care as much about. Let's make a game about faith and religion, end quote.
Get him, Neil. Interesting stuff. A lot to break down here. I feel like overall, very exciting. I could not be more excited for this game. Everything we saw from that trailer, everything we know from this team, I'm here for. Kevin, can you just play that beautiful trailer in the background while we talk? I love that goddamn thing so much.
The idea of the timeline deviating in the 80s, and we already see in that trailer there is things left over that maybe they're advanced, but it's still very 80s tech. Of course, yeah. Very cool. Love that aesthetic.
Retro future.
Yeah. Awesome. But the one thing that I'm like, I was saying before the show that I'm a little bit like trepidatious about is the you're alone. You're a bounty hunter alone. The very Samus Aran type take on this. And they even say there that the previous games Uncharted and Last of Us are you have an ally.
And to me, that's where the writing of Naughty Dog and the quality of it really shines through the most previously. Obviously, that can change. I'm here for whatever they can do. And again, I'm a creature of habit. I like the things I like. Um, but I hearing this, it doesn't get me excited. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Because like, I just feel like so much of the, the joy I get from playing Naughty Dog games is Elena making a comment to you. You know what I mean? Like all that stuff. Right. Yeah. Um, or just like Allie, like talk, you have just having that constant chatter and like, maybe they find ways to do it. Uh, but. That's my gut reaction to that little bit.
Interesting. I'm not worried about it. I like the idea of the one person against the world kind of thing dropped in. We're going to be as lost as she is in terms of what's going on in this unit, this planet, where we are in this universe, what's going on. I think even you see, you know, in this trailer, eventually Halle Gross is going to pop up and give you the mission.
I think you're going to get stuff like that. I think even saying this eventually in act two, right? You're going to be introduced to someone who you're at odds with, but you don't know. And then by act, the end of the game, you're friends with, you've done something with you. You can't have a game that is nobody with you, right? You have to have somebody come through and do it.
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Chapter 8: What are the expectations for the release of Intergalactic?
I mean, I don't know. Everything I see here, this is so fucking my shit, right? I want to play this game so badly and see what this is. And I hope they're able to make a generational game here. Because it looks so fucking good.
I just honestly feel like for the people that rock with Naughty Dog, I feel like they're going to deliver. I think that there is obviously a rising trend of people that don't like video games, period, that I do think might hinder this having the level of effect that Last of Us did when it first came out. But I think that there's a...
separate amount of people that just enjoy these type of games no matter what. And I think that Last of Us being on HBO also has opened up a whole new group of gamers for the first time. And I think that, hey, from the creators of
amazing series like crash bandicoot uh and jack last of us right it's like all right cool i want to check out naughty dogs next what when we see that and we see your jump off the rock and do the slash do you think this is going to be a big departure from naughty dogs previous gameplay is this going to be fast and fluid and we're like like dashing rolling slash slash slash all around is it going to feel more like a thing i feel like
we really don't give Naughty Dog's combat enough credit for how much it's evolved since Uncharted 1.
I do.
I feel like a lot of people kind of act like, oh man, but the combat in this game sucks. And it's like, well, if you look at it as comparing it to modern games and how they feel to Uncharted 1 and how the kind of monster closet shooting felt, it's like, yeah, sure. Games today feel better, right? But I do think Last of Us 2...
in many ways, is only rivaled by, like, Phantom Pain to me in terms of how a character controls and the moveset for the type of game it was trying to be.
All I mean is that Uncharted through Last of Us, and I agree with you how far it's come, evolved, and done everything else, and I think, yes, Last of Us Part II's stealth gameplay is fucking insanely awesome. I love it. You know that. I mean that that's always felt more, I hate to say it, grounded, weighted.
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