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Report: God Of War Side-Story Releasing This Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.24.25
Mon, 24 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What stories are being discussed today?
Today's stories include a God of War side story project is reportedly coming this year, Indiana Jones gets a PS5 release date with a fun trailer, and Tony Hawk put his foot down about a character coming to the game. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, March 24th, 2025.
I'm one of your hosts, Blessing Adeoye Jr. Joining me is the LaCroix Poppy, Tim, Ma, Wayne, Geddes.
Bless, it is so good to see you alive. You're okay, ferret. You've made it. We all did it. Roger's out there. No one else is here. So I don't know if anyone else made it. But last week was so much. And it was awesome. A perfect example of, like, refilling my cup with, like, oh, this is why I love what I do. This is why I love video games. This is why I love all the people in this industry.
And then taking that cup and throw it into a fucking gutter as a bum pisses on it. Because we're out in the streets of San Francisco partying. You know what I mean? Jesus Christ.
I mean, listen, we were on the streets.
We were on the streets. I'm pretty sure it was wrong and pissing, but.
Yeah. But yeah, dude, it was such a fun week. But also, yeah, such an exhausting week where I remember on last Sunday, it was, we're at the mix and there were people that are like, oh yeah, okay, we got to do this on this day. And then what are you doing on Friday? We'll hang out on Friday. And I was on Sunday. So I was like, oh yeah, let's go.
By the time Thursday came around, I was looking at my friends. I was like, guys, you guys got to go home. Fly to where you're from.
Go home. Go home. Go back to LA.
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Chapter 2: What are the details of the new God of War side story?
Real quick, I messed up. I forgot to put this in the housekeeping. I have more to say about the Nvidia thing. This is a pretty sick-ass thing that we're doing here. For the stream, it's going to be Nick and Andy jumping into play what we all agree could be the Game of the Year contender. 2004. It's Half-Life 2, all right?
It's actually Half-Life 2 RTX, a new community mod that uses the power of NVIDIA GPUs to show off how good Valve's classic continues to be over two decades later with the most advanced graphics you can find on any video game anywhere. This is a just-released demo of the still unpublished full game, but we'll be showing off every ray-traced headcrab we can find. Come join us. I'm telling you.
This thing is one of the most gorgeous. It was one of the most gorgeous video games in 2004. With the modern tech, y'all need to see this stream. This is about to be mind-blowing. Also, Nick loves Half-Life, so there's going to be a fun one where Nick's going to be playing and Andy's going to be talking through all the tech stuff.
I never knew that about Nick.
Oh, yeah.
That's a Nick game right there. When I think of the games that Nick likes. I just don't think of video games when I think of Nick. No, that's fair.
But yeah, this is one I'm telling y'all. Get ready. Strap in. Sorry. I love that. Story number one.
Story number one. A new God of War side story project set in Greece is coming this year. It is claimed. I'm pulling from Jordan Midler at Video Games Chronicle. A new God of War project set in Greece is coming this year, it's claimed. Rumors have circulated for some time about a remastered collection of God of War titles set for this year, timed for the franchise's 20th anniversary.
Now, Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb has claimed that a new God of War side story project set in Greece is coming this year. The first several entries in the series were set in Greece and focused on Greek mythology, before moving to Norse mythology with 2018's God of War reboot.
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Chapter 3: How does the new God of War project connect to Greek mythology?
What form would you be looking forward to it in? Because I think the choice of words here is very interesting. Nowhere in this article do they mention game. They only refer to it as a news side story project. Comic book.
Oh, that is interesting. Yeah.
Now, here's the thing. Jeff Grubb making a deal about it makes me think that maybe it's more than a comic book, but also nothing here implies video game. Which makes me think deeper about it.
No, you're right. You're bringing up good points there. So what's also interesting here is there was the state of play that happened earlier this year that nothing happened, God of War. And then there was the anniversary a couple weeks ago that there was conversation. I remember all of the remastered conversations started around there. And it was like, all right, cool.
If they're going to do it, that's the best place to. And they went out of their way to say, at this anniversary, we're not announcing new projects. It's just going to be fun merch and stuff and celebration. But we're not announcing new things. So It is a bit weird. If it is March and we are getting a video game later this year, why not announce it at that event?
In the same breath, if it's not a video game, if it is just a comic book, for reals, for reals, why not just announce it at that anniversary event? Which to me makes me think it's a video game.
I mean... I would love if it's a video game. If we're talking about this being a video game, I think then it gets really fascinating of what does Kratos, or I guess the God of War world going back to Greek mythology look like? Are we talking about a new third-person action game? Are we talking about maybe a 2D action game? Something that is more of like a...
Scaled back isn't the right term because not that 2D is any less than 3D, right? But I guess something that feels a bit more, oh, this is a sidestep. This is not what you know the God of War franchise as, right? This is something that truly is a side thing.
Like a Prince of Persia Lost Crown type thing? I mean, that... I mean, listen, come on, real talk like that type of thing for a god of war in Greece. That's that's actually very compelling. Yeah, I don't see that happening. I do think, again, going back to what I was saying about Valhalla, I feel like that proved that they can use the engine and design philosophies of.
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Chapter 4: What are the expectations for the upcoming Indiana Jones game?
Due to issues related to substance abuse, he was fired from Jackass Forever, after which he was issued with a restraining order from Jackass director Jeff Tremaine. Tremaine had previously fought for years to include Margera in the reunion film. It was believed that this was the likely reason Margera was seemingly missing from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Plus 4 remake announcement.
But shortly after the game's announcement, an image was then posted online showing Bam Margera reuniting with Hawk at his skate park, giving fans a slight hope that he may be in there after all.
Oh, man. I can't believe that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 is real. It's real. And also that we just keep getting information in the most bizarre out of left field ways. In addition to just the way that Activision markets their games. Activision markets their non-Call of Duty or Overwatch games or Blizzard games in such a unique way.
There is a vibe to Activision trailers that no other company has. Like they have somebody going in there playing with the camera and like just going nuts and adding sound effects and like the crash game, Spyro games, Tony Hawk games. They all have this vibe to them. And then they'll just like make announcements and rollout plans that are like very much speaking to the fans.
Like,
they've been putting out the the waves of soundtrack where it's like they didn't just put out the entire soundtrack in one thing and here's the new story it's like they're putting out drops of like here's some of the songs here's some of the songs and i'm like i'm here for this man it's because it's because like you know activision is call of duty and then like a few other just random ass things and you can't apply the call of duty marketing machine yeah to those other games whatsoever so they have to like have those teams be like hey you know the game
Figure out a unique marketing rollout for this thing.
And if you don't understand what I'm saying about how unique Activision trailers are, watch the Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled announcement trailer. The vibe of that trailer is just like, it's so unique. And I bet I could watch an Activision announced trailer without knowing it's Activision and be like,
it's activision even if even if like the whoever the guy that edited the person that edited that video those videos if they were to make a commercial for a different video game i would know you know um but anyways uh this news is uh very funny that it's coming out this way it's also one that i'm gonna chalk up and i've been saying this time and time and time and time again and so far or now i'd be an idiot to to stand by what i'm about to say but i'm gonna say it anyways i don't believe this until i see it and i believe it's in the game
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Chapter 5: What insights do the hosts share about game development?
I like that game. I also love Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. I cannot wait for that to come out. I never actually played 4. 3 was the one that was, like, my childhood, and then eventually I got Bug 2, and I was like, oh, I can run around. I can, like, hop off my board. This is cool. I can spin around on a fire hydrant. Yeah. I can attach to a car, and it'll drive around real fast. Skitchin', baby.
That was 4.
that was four that was four it's funny playing because um like i played i remember i remember playing thug one for the first time at a church as a kid which is a wild experience for all of us it was um and then recently a few years ago um you know played it on the deck uh and it is always like fun to realize what mechanics came in where because yeah i was sketching i was like oh shit all right this has been here oh shit okay cool this is fucking cool
um shout out to tony hawk's pro skater i can't wait last thing i'll say about tony hawk thug 2 like to me will always be the one that uh didn't add any useful gameplay mechanics that was when they ran out of ideas uh and ran out of like actual they added a bunch of shit yeah but like spinning on the freaking um fire hydrants and then that stuff it was it was not good so and then we got to american wasteland which added you know like no loading
I was on TikTok the other day, and I saw people playing American Wasteland in the live feed, and I was like, should I finally play American Wasteland? Is it time to pick Tony Hawk back up? It's fun. Here's the thing. I like American Wasteland.
I mean, I like it too, but I love that y'all gave me the space to talk this much about Tony Hawk. Oh, yeah. But American Wasteland, great game, obviously great game, has many flaws. Its biggest flaw is its career mode. The entire thing is just a tutorial of how to play Tony Hawk. So if you know how to play Tony Hawk,
And it'll lock moves until you learn them in the story, which is... Mind-numbing.
Literally, you're getting towards the end of the game, and they're teaching you Flatland tricks. And it's like, what are we talking about? But anyway, if you haven't played Tony Hawk in a long time, right now might be the best time to play American Wasteland right before 3 and 4. So when you're playing 3 and 4, you're going to be with the best of them.
Be warmed up. Yep. Story number four, Nintendo files patent for a graphical presentation similar to HD 2D. This is from Go Nintendo. Please be real. Score Annex struck gold during the Switch era with a visual style that has really resonated with players the world over. The company came up with HD2D visuals, which takes retro-pixelated characters and drops them into detailed 3D environments.
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Chapter 6: How do smaller gaming projects fit into the industry?
Mr. Straightfire says, I second him. There needs to be a shift to smaller games. Piscatella said 40% of the time spent is on top 10 live service games. Smaller AAA games is key to fight for gamers play time.
I think we all agree with that. We all agree. It's just like, I think the thing that we need to bring up is it's not going to just work. There has to be a strategy in place and a refocus. And it can't just be, oh, Sony puts out a smaller God of War title. It has to be everyone kind of is like aligned of like, like South of Midnight's about to come out in a couple of weeks.
We need to treat if it's good. I hope it's good. I pray it's fucking good. We need to treat that game like it matters. Not like it's lesser than because it's 12 hours. Yeah. You know, if it's good.
uh and then we got one more from nightlife that writes in and says xbox wants to clump uh then they can advertise quote don't want to pay for both games full price come to game pass uh they will repeat this what was the shoe what was the shoe thing you did just then um matthew lewis says i wonder what tim's number one shoe colorway is the military force these the ones i'm wearing are happening my favorite shoes of all time and yeah obviously this colorway the most tim shit ever
Hell yeah.
Um, sure. I can see. I mean, Xbox, Mr. Klump, they can advertise. Don't want to pay for both games. We'll price come to.
That's the thing is I, I, I, Don't see Xbox... And we'll see if I'm wrong about this. I don't see them marketing Game Pass anti-PS5. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. And the fact that this commercial exists is like they're leaning in to selling $70 games on PlayStation.
Yeah, I don't think you put your games on PlayStation to then tell those people, hey... Now, get these games on Game Pass. Don't buy this game here. No, you're putting it on PlayStation so you can get people to pay full price for it and get that money in.
Yeah.
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