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STALKER 2 Studio Promises To Fix Game - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.21.24
Thu, 21 Nov 2024
Stalker 2 launches big on Steam and is getting big fixes, Steam has made a big update to its Season Pass policy, and Metaphor: ReFantazio is huge for Atlus & Sega. Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping Today after, KFGD, you’ll get: GAMESCAST - Our Avowed preview Coming up later today, Mike and Nick will be heading into the beautiful, apocalyptic, and extremely muddy wilderness of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 to face off against mutated beasts and bounty hunters. And in order to experience this game’s best performance possible on PC, we’re teaming up with our friends at NVIDIA GeForce. We’ll be going “RTX On” with Kinda Funny’s GeForce 40-series GPUs, which gives us super-boosted performance with NVIDIA’s AI-powered DLSS technology. This is the best way to enjoy the game and yes, you – Kinda Funny viewers – get to reap the benefits! Don’t miss it! If you’re a Kinda Funny Member: You can get today’s Gregway And you can get Gladiator in Review this afternoon, and tomorrow on YouTube and Podcast services. The Roper Report - - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Launches Big on Steam as Dev Promises Fixes for ‘Rough Edges’ - Ad - Steam’s Season Pass policy has been updated, warning developers must be "ready to clearly communicate" DLC content - “Atlus is one of our most successful acquisition deals to date” Sega reports strong sales of Metaphor: ReFantazio - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth won't have DLC so team can get Part 3 out 'as soon as possible' - Wee News! - SuperChats - You‘re Wrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?
Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 launches big on Steam and is getting big fixes. Steam has made a big update to its season pass policy, and I swear to God, Mike, if the third one is another Steam story. Metaphor refantasio is huge for Atlus and Sega. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.
what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for thursday november 21st 2024 i'm one of your hosts greg miller alongside the master of hype snow bike mike good morning greg i will tell you you cleared your throat and you brought it right there i'm fucking ready to go i haven't hosted daily i feel like in quite some time which probably just means not this week Or not since Monday.
But I don't think at all this week. I think it's been a crazy schedule of streams. People moving. You were playing Magic yesterday. A lot of people talked about you. Oh, I was playing some fucking Magic. Playing it on my phone. Playing it on my phone when I got home, too. Of course, Ben distracted me. I only played one thing. And then I was like, I'm going to go downstairs.
I'm going to finish that Starfield quest. I was talking about the Vale on Gamescast. Then play some magic. And then I finished the Vale quest. I was like, well, why don't I? And then an hour and a half later, I was like, it's bedtime. I've played too much Starfield.
A lot of Starfield. That's so great. I love that you're jumping in. Your now progression of Starfield is into the user-created content, which is always exciting.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've been there since the day one when they launched the creator stuff.
Now the creators are putting out quest lines.
That's when it's like, okay, now we're getting to some real cool stuff.
I've always wanted to do that with Skyrim, but I've never have. Why not? I'm not a big download mods and try that stuff. Again, I can't speak to any other game.
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Chapter 2: What fixes are promised for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?
Yeah, Greg, I think you can definitely see that with Steam charting still at 109,000 people currently playing this. So, yeah, I think the numbers prove to you that people are excited about this game and want to do that. And when you talk about reviews, I think people are going to their favorite content creators.
We see it in our comments of, hey, I liked kind of funny's review, but you should go check out X, Y, and Z. Go read what they wrote. Go watch this person stream. We're in today's age where you're going to go to your favorite content creator. You're going to go to your favorite personality, and you're going to hear and listen to their thoughts. You're going to watch them play.
I watched Bruce Green stream this for 12 hours last night on his stream.
Sometimes you think about Bruce Green and all the decisions he's made. He's like, I'll have the kid. I'll just never see it because I'll play Chernobyl for 12 hours. Bruce Green, look yourself in the mirror. You know what I mean? Look yourself in the mirror. Think about what you're doing out there. Hard at Chernobyl for 12 hours. Change a diaper for 12 hours. You're sick of me. I miss you, Bruce.
Back to you, Mike.
But yeah, I mean, we talked about it at its core. There is a good game inside of this. There is a game that I personally want to play. It was just really weighed down by a lot of bugs. And of course, you see with the team over here at GSC Game World that they are committed to fixing that. And of course, I would expect that. They went through a lot to get this game to the finish line.
They're not going to stop with this game after day one. And so, yeah, I'm glad that they're committed to the fix. I expected them to do that. This is their largest game to date. Of course, this is a massive open-world game, so there is going to be rough edges, as they've said. But it sounds like they're committed, and I knew they would be.
I think the player base also knows that they're going to iron this out within the days, weeks, months after this.
I thought the other interesting thing you're talking about, part of it, was the blowback. Not to the kind of funny review. It was there, though, I guess. But in general, yesterday, the amount of people I saw saying, like, it was unfair of reviewers to review this, and you should have waited, and you should have done this. And I find that such an interesting argument, where it is that
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Chapter 3: How has Steam updated its Season Pass policy?
So it then discredited my whole review because one of my things was like... It took shots at my review because then it was like... I guess gave them... Free bullets for my review. Of course. Of me being like, this thing... There's a whole bunch of stuff they didn't include, including this major thing. They're like, well, they had that thing. So then what does that do to your score?
It's like, ah, fuck. You can only review the experience you have with a game. And so I think, again, I understand... does this game... Do the reviews of this game then work for the audience? Do they actually get anything done?
Like, our goal of reviewing a video game, right, is to share our experience with a game and say, hey, this is what it is, so that they can make educated choices on what they want. And so I think... For the majority of the reviews I saw yesterday, I think the biggest problem here is, as always, people getting hung up on scores.
I think if you read through the reviews, you listen to the conversations, you hear everybody saying, for the most part, hey, buggy as shit. I think it was Haim and maybe IGN being like, Haim at IGN, this is the most buggy game I've ever reviewed. But maybe that was Jordan. Somebody said something to that, right? And it's that idea of once you put that out there,
As the reviewer, and then you critique the experience of the game, I think then as a player, you can look at it and be like, well, they put out a day one patch, and I'm seeing people not complain about that. So I can ignore that part of the review and enjoy this part of the criticism of what the open world feels like. It isn't an RPG. It isn't a Fallout.
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Chapter 4: What are the sales numbers for Metaphor: ReFantazio?
Go from there and make a choice on, do I want to be one of these 120,000 people who are playing it on Steam? And I feel like that works. However... The problem is that that's a very nuanced, calculated argument for people who like games criticism, where I feel like you have a whole bunch of people who just want to see numbers go up.
They've said Stalker 2 is going to be the best game of all time or the best Stalker of all time, so then for the Metacritic to be fucked up by these things, that pisses them off and that's a different conversation, blah, blah, blah. But even this argument is the same argument I was participating in at...
IGN, and you've seen since then with all the big sites, us included, of like, well, you review Fallout 76 at launch and shit on it. You review Fortnite and say it's basic at launch. How do you update that when a game is being updated at this level? Ladies, gentlemen, and Envy. He's the best voice in the business. It's Paris Lilly. Hello, Paris. I'm so happy you're here. I didn't talk any shit.
Also, Paris, you're muted.
He can't even use a microphone! Look through the lines! Read through the lines, people!
Hey, you know, I had to make myself the center of attention to come on here. So I purposely do it in the chat. I heard what you said, Barry. You got damn right. I see it in the chat. I want the people who want me to come on.
I'm not just going to. People are always going to want you to come on. Just slack me. Just slack me.
Paris is such a professional wrestler. Like he goes out into the audience with the mustache on. He's like, what do we chant for Paris? And then they start chanting.
He runs backstage to come out. Hey, Paris, we love you. How you doing? No, no, good. I just wanted to chime in on the Stalker 2 stuff because I've been playing the day one patch this morning. It fixed a lot. It really did. I'm not seeing as much pop in anymore. I'm not seeing like these the controls aren't as janky as they were previously. So it's done a lot.
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Chapter 5: What are the key features of the new Call of Duty ranked mode?
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