# [[MFP09 - “My Sweet, Sweet Baby Nintendo” with Logan Moore]] Transcript This transcription was completed on March 4, 2026 with the application MacWhisper on macOS. This was done automatically, without human input during the transcription process. The transcription used the Parakeet v3 model. My hope is that by offering this transcription – however accurate it may be done by a machine learning/AI – will help you, the listener. I’d love to offer full, proper transcription some day, but that is not feasible at this time. Thank you for listening and reading. I hope you enjoy the show and that this document was helpful. Enjoy. --- Hey everybody, welcome to the Max Frequency Podcast, episode 9. *00:00* So I'm still looking for that first person like in my tight knit circle of friends to have a child. *00:00* I feel like we have to like you and I have already been back and forth passing ideas on what we want to do for season two, and I think that stuff's is more ten times more exciting to us because we just have this daunting like *00:00* Now it is more like, okay, now you're doing this and you feel like an actual professional and you feel more I feel more self-confident about what I do in some sense *00:00* And if I can just make a decent living doing it, then I'm fine. *00:00* And it's like every time that stuff would pop up, I'm like, I don't care. *00:00* Like pretty much nothing in that game really did it for me, uh, in terms of writing and story. *00:00* And then it narrows it down to one specific thing again. *00:00* Because there's like no items or anything in that game that you really need to often, like it's not like, oh, I need a hookshot for this area. *00:00* They allow you to jump around and you know, oh you I unlocked this, so now I can fast travel back here, here, and here or whatever. *00:00* Yeah, you wouldn't. *00:00* Yo, Sony Santa Monica, just fire off a tweet, say, hey, yes, the next P G God of War game is also coming to PlayStation 4. *00:00* And that's the thing that people Why not just cut it? *00:00* So like I've always been of the mind that like well yeah Halo is obviously gonna come to both platforms. *00:00* Like you'll get on the elevator and it'll start going up and the two characters will talk and a prompt will appear on screen say, Oh, like if you don't want to hear this conversation, you could just press A to skip and we'll let you get off the elevator. *00:00* But ever since like a lot of key shakeups happened within Sony, they've clearly decided that they just want to operate the company uh from a PR perspective in a much different manner, which is *00:00* You just flipped his like what is going on And I know that wasn't their fault, but everybody was screaming at them all the same about it. *00:00* Uh because they hit they hit Doc Ock. *00:00* They're gonna have to show that off. *00:00* Yeah, I kinda disagree. *00:00* It's like, okay, we want our games to still be a thing, but we're not making them anymore. *00:00* I think it'll be this summer, maybe like July, August. *00:00* Um, I do think they should show campaign stuff though, a little bit, because especially if they have a better vertical slice ready to go that could like win people back over compared to the one they showed off last year, but maybe multiplayer just kind of *00:00* I don't know if anybody even thinks it's gonna be the next great thing. *00:00* I don't know, probably not. *00:00* I think they'll give us a name too. *00:00* I think million. *00:00* They've been saying this since January of last year. *00:00* It's really weird that you've been married for almost four I think one of my friends has almost been married for six now? *00:00* It that discussion is so interesting. *00:00* And so I won't say I have not played the second iteration on handhelds, and I have not played the final version that came out. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* I think season two might feel a bit more cohesive with our conversation at least for you and me for sure. *00:00* like that. *00:00* Um this is also hard for me to speak to because I don't do a lot of like the PR outreach. *00:00* For me it had to be more about me actually getting the job and turning it into a full job. *00:00* them so you know like oh the water temple the forest temple the fire temple like there's like different avenues like that in Zelda same sort of thing in Dark Souls where there's different areas that are built around different *00:00* Uh GameMaker's Toolkit has a really good video on this. *00:00* Then it funnels you into Ann Orlando. *00:00* And then Dark Souls. *00:00* who people say like, oh well it gets great after you know like first twenty hours. *00:00* Well that's kinda, you know, like get the bad news out before E3. *00:00* Those games are both pre S5 uh sully and look what they've been able to like show off that they can do with those. *00:00* Here's Death Straining, here's Spider Man, here's Jay Z. *00:00* They had just done Spider-Man and they also opened with Spider-Man Miles Morales and we're like, oh my gosh, Insomniac's doing two games. *00:00* them because I feel like they could have gone for more. *00:00* No, no, no. *00:00* Um the Symbiote is the one thing they can show off though that I think is gonna have to be very face forward with that game because you would assume it you'll have totally new powers, totally new way to get around and things abilities and things like that. *00:00* Um okay that would be a good idea. *00:00* Okay. *00:00* Sonya our Xbox slash Bethesda predictions all merged into one. *00:00* Trust me, trust me, trust me. *00:00* So it could automatically go out to certain subscribers or people that are in that Halo club or whatever. *00:00* Because it's how they get beta testing for Master Chief collection anytime they do that. *00:00* I think the internet's just kind of latching onto every rumor that comes about nowadays and like some p some of them if you're not going to be able to do that. *00:00* So we'll see it for sure. *00:00* On Game Pass. *00:00* What is it? *00:00* Well, Breath of Wild 2 will be shown. *00:00* We told you we'd finally show more of it. *00:00* Where Ananuma shows up, goes, I know you want to see more of Breath of the Wild. *00:00* Grand Theft Auto. *00:00* The fact that Platinum keeps telling people like, Yeah, don't worry, don't worry, like we know you wanna see it, we're gonna show it soon. *00:00* The Max Frequency Podcast, folks, uh the Alex O'Neill episode. *00:00* I made like a moderate upgrade. *00:00* We did a season zero, which was The Last of Us. *00:00* seasons and things like that. *00:00* moving forward. *00:00* least. *00:00* I I'm not feeling this. *00:00* We've been kind of listening back to some of the stuff we've been doing in Paper Mario. *00:00* Um so yeah, we'll we'll I don't know. *00:00* First thing I want to talk to you about, you kind of actually hinted on earlier, you're at a what I would call a big publication now. *00:00* Where you could go and sign up and make an account and immediately just start writing whatever you want on the site. *00:00* At that site now, I know there is like a larger editorial process, so I don't know if they've like changed how that all works or whatever, but *00:00* But that's what I've known since you were I've known you since you were doing that specifically in the work. *00:00* So it's only by s you're I mean you are at a b I would say a big publication now. *00:00* Like I've been I've been kind of throwing money around a little bit more than I should right now and I'm very aware that I shouldn't be doing that, but I think it's the byproduct of he me having to live *00:00* Um, so for me to finally end up at comicbook. *00:00* OMG, I work in the video game industry full time now. *00:00* Dual shockers. *00:00* uh mean it's one by CBS. *00:00* And comic book is synonymous with a lot of other things. *00:00* I don't think they did them anyway. *00:00* Okay, if that doesn't work out, it has just basically become in its most essential boil-down point, my dream has just become, please just let me make a good living doing the video game writing stuff. *00:00* I don't know, maybe if I I would I still would if they came to my front door and wanted me for some reason. *00:00* Like I don't I dun I like I the things I wanted a few years ago are things I actively do not think I want anymore. *00:00* sort of moment. *00:00* Obviously I've never run one of these sites or handled their finances or know what moving all of that gear and people cost to like go to one of these events. *00:00* Well, if the pandemic did anything to us, I I know we have an office of some sort. *00:00* It's still weird to ex it's still weird to like explain to like IRL friends like what exactly I do. *00:00* That I have to like tell what I'm doing too? *00:00* Blah blah blah blah. *00:00* Like everybody who comes out the other side is like, yes, that let me pre- I am now preaching the gospel alongside everybody else. *00:00* I almost said tryptophan, that's the thing in turkeys. *00:00* The release of happy chemicals in my brain anytime you beat a boss in any of those games is so satisfying. *00:00* And you learn how to properly build a character in those games, I feel like I get like halfway in or three-fourths of the way in, and I can beat a lot of the bosses on the first try because my character just becomes really, really strong. *00:00* g gameplay mechanics and when you pop off it feels incredible. *00:00* Um anything with too much talking or like cutting things like and I and I like a game with a good story, you know, and cutscenes and all that stuff. *00:00* Yeah, and I I mean I've got I don't need to rain about that game specifically, but I mean that's just one decent example of it where it's like a a story that I think is middling or characters that I don't really care uh care about um and it throws that stuff at you quite a bit. *00:00* Or else you're gonna lose or whatever. *00:00* I do feel like just like anecdotally, Bloodborne is the one I hear people trying the most, and then it really clicks with them. *00:00* I think it like playing it, it makes so much sense why it blew up the way it did. *00:00* And then it opens up and then it's like, hey, now you have to go do this, but there you it d these three or four objectives, but you can do them in any order you want *00:00* But because narrative is kind of on the back burner with Dark Souls, you can they're like, oh, yep, go go off, have fun, go kill whoever you want in who in whichever order. *00:00* So you can kind of go about it in any way that you want. *00:00* Um because the thing about that game that I was saying is uh like you've likely seen it in the other games or whatever. *00:00* I was gonna say the name mean that name meant nothing, but understanding that they put fast travel far back on the city. *00:00* out of any from software game, which says a lot because that's kind of Double Monkey. *00:00* I drill into that 'cause you're one of the more recent converts that I know personally. *00:00* from that point. *00:00* God of War and Grand Treason as well. *00:00* If all you're gonna say is like what Herman said today is just like, oh yeah, by the way, they're cross-gen, why not just say that? *00:00* To me this felt like set expectations for E3. *00:00* For the We believe in generation. *00:00* PS4. *00:00* It's just that naturally makes sense. *00:00* And God of Wars kind of felt primed for that. *00:00* Oh, I have a PS5 and I want exclusives. *00:00* You're telling me it's gonna run the same thing, but then also that like automatically puts a ceiling on where the PS5 version can go if you want version parity. *00:00* They're saying that games that are in the second year of the system's release are also cross-gen, and that's when it's getting a little bit more puzzling to me where *00:00* Just plast people around all over the place. *00:00* In a lot of ways. *00:00* I can't help but think, what if? *00:00* And it makes me think that um like when I was crafting my PlayStation predictions, that was the hardest thing is like, should I predict this further down the line? *00:00* that they are like refuse to sit. *00:00* And it is like a twenty twenty-one mentality to take if you were a video game company. *00:00* Actually, no we're not. *00:00* That's a great point, but also look at the uh the PS3 and the Vita stores. *00:00* Like Jim Ryan, like, we don't see this man like talking ever like even Herman Holston. *00:00* There's just suppos such a separation of personality and like um engagement with PlayStation right now. *00:00* I just feel like I'm a little lost in the woods with them. *00:00* We knew what was cooking. *00:00* Horizon Sequel duh. *00:00* Just for the heck of it. *00:00* But it's called the one of the greatest buys ever. *00:00* Yeah, I don't know. *00:00* Not that that was in front of a stage, that was Mark Cerner. *00:00* Or Sean Leyden or or Reggie or even I feel like I've seen more of Doug Bowser. *00:00* And like the thought of PlayStation trying to do anything like that that now, like, I don't even know who they put in front of the camera. *00:00* Because they said Gotta War can't comes out in twenty twenty-two, uh, which was my prediction. *00:00* We've got five apiece. *00:00* There's if there's three games we knew a thousand percent were gonna be coming for PS5, Horizon Sequel, God War Sequel, Spider-Man Sequel. *00:00* And they don't even have to show a lot. *00:00* Um 'cause I think four years between those two makes pretty good sense. *00:00* stuff. *00:00* reset. *00:00* to launch, but where's Bioshak Vita? *00:00* like Ghostwire and Deathloop. *00:00* at this point. *00:00* Naughty Dogs already said they're not doing Jack, so you wrote basically Jack. *00:00* Uh no new Horizon Forbidden West footage. *00:00* Just talk about that's and coming. *00:00* And it is coming. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* What probably twenty twenty-three at the earliest, I would say, like absolute earliest. *00:00* And they've said that it I can't remember exactly what they've said, but there's been like hints dropped that they've partnered with other studios and they're looking to give the *00:00* Um to other companies and stu and Sony obviously. *00:00* to look with second or third party companies in this capacity to make exclusive games where they can't outside of their they can't afford to buy companies on a studio by studio basis like like uh Xbox can. *00:00* Or how about we do X, Y, and Z? *00:00* Except that was different because Sucker Punch obviously owns the Sly IP, where it's like, hey, Sony owns the IP, but they own Sucker Punch, yeah. *00:00* Yeah, Sucker Punch was the Sly studio, PlayStation owns Sly, they look for any is that sort of thing, except the rights are a little bit more mishmash between different parties and things like that. *00:00* I don't know what it was. *00:00* I hate writing that name. *00:00* Uh 16's gonna show up, I think, and uh get a substantial. *00:00* uh every year I I have a color coordinated calendar to put it in so I can visually see who's going at what time and I had m Microsoft and Bethesda calendars and now I guess they're both green the same green now. *00:00* with the you know, country roads take me home. *00:00* And that's just I mean that's kind of the the potential I feel with Naughty Dog, you know, really w I want them to branch out. *00:00* When you say new IP, that's exciting. *00:00* I can't remember. *00:00* Um obviously that's a pretty good idea. *00:00* I I kind of wanted them to be like the naughty dog of Xbox where they're like, Alright guys, let's make something new and instead they're like, hey, what if we did Perfect Dark? *00:00* And I'm like, uh I know Perfect Dark excites a lot of people, but it's just I'm not one of those. *00:00* Especially after Microsoft went on a shopping spree. *00:00* Between modern warfare and war zones, like Call of Duty is like somehow yeah, somehow they're dominating more than ever before, which is nuts because it's Call of Duty and it's been a juggernaut for the past ten or fifteen years. *00:00* Not really, I don't know. *00:00* Mecha Hitler time, baby. *00:00* Like it wasn't that it wasn't that bad. *00:00* So maybe maybe same sort of vein, you know. *00:00* An exclusive from a prominent Japanese developer. *00:00* I'm wondering if we see that man pretty soon. *00:00* So Yeah. *00:00* And then I think it's all software during E3 talking about why the Switch Pro is like a good thing. *00:00* as well. *00:00* on Amazon. *00:00* Uh they've never used the word pro. *00:00* Original Breath of the Wild, they did the gameplay reveal at Game Awards. *00:00* It was an off-screen demo with Miyamoto and Amiyama. *00:00* Why Bowser's there, I have no idea what he's promoting, but Bowser and Bowser are gonna be together. *00:00* get to stop working like it's surely gotta be less development struggle for him to just work on creating characters and maps and stages um compared to you know *00:00* People would double dip. *00:00* What do you think? *00:00* But they'll do nothing else related to it. *00:00* The only three D Donkey Kong we've had to be. *00:00* Currently the latest event is Tuesday the fifteenth for Nintendo's Direct. *00:00* It is a time honored tradition for the two of us. *00:00* And your work. *00:00* get this. *00:00* You can follow all of our E3 coverage. *00:00* We we've been friends since we were children. *00:00* uh millennial gaming speak the other night. *00:00* Happy and content with where I'm at now. *00:00* and listening back to that from a couple years ago, I was like, oh, things were actually kind of worse a few years ago and things are things are doing better now in some ways. *00:00* Dead end job that I hate. *00:00* Our new podcast that we're doing together regularly, which is Chapter Select. *00:00* kids yet. *00:00* Just because I stopped podcasting weekly with you didn't mean I stopped coming up with ideas. *00:00* Um and we bounce back and forth between its entries to explore their uh design, legacy, and and evolution. *00:00* we could talk about the show. *00:00* Uh in a general sense. *00:00* It does I mean like the other day, like like I'm in the midst of playing Color Splash right now and I booted it up the other day and I played it for like an hour and I'm like *00:00* Maybe those will be really good. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* If only there were other consoles that did that. *00:00* To where it's like not only are the games we're playing some in this series like not the best, but they're not the best of games that drag on for 30 hours. *00:00* Who knows? *00:00* What do you think about that? *00:00* So with the thing you sent me earlier. *00:00* the world last year was the summer summer games festing. *00:00* season two is very much on our mind. *00:00* WordPress. *00:00* I just, you know, had to not pay my tax I I I paid my taxes eventually, but I had to not pay them on the schedule that the government would have preferred me to pay them. *00:00* I guess working like at that dead end job I used to have, honestly, would maybe be the thing. *00:00* You know, writing jobs or like marketing jobs, like things I felt like I could pivot to pretty easily or like was like a couple steps away from what I was already doing. *00:00* It's just a website. *00:00* That's really hard. *00:00* I feel like prod people every now and then s to where we are like, hey, yes, we are a gaming website, and yes, we have a very large audience, and yes *00:00* uh you FaceTimed me and did like a tour through. *00:00* You were the guy next to the chick hydrobot. *00:00* basically my grind to get where I am now. *00:00* And the in the in the ho the pandemic's really like opened a lot of eyes, I think too, that like you don't need to be entrenched in certain places to do this. *00:00* go back to an office setting where I do what I do now just in an office setting. *00:00* I feel like when you take what you would be saving by not paying rent in San Francisco, you'd end up ahead. *00:00* So that's, you know, way more affordable. *00:00* I help people beat video games and it pays at the time well, you know, for a college kid. *00:00* I it's really cool that you're doing all this, and I'm always super proud of you, and I always tell people, I have a friend who does this. *00:00* Oh Securo. *00:00* F fundamentally, besides, you know, they're hard, get good, like why do these games demand so much fervor? *00:00* goes through all the same feelings as somebody on your in your shoes where it's like, I don't get it. *00:00* Just the general combat mechanics themselves feel good and there's timing windows when you have to know, okay, I can strike here, but I can't it's so timing it it demands your attention in a way that combat from other games don't at all. *00:00* Um so it is very it's very much an experience that demands your focus and your attention. *00:00* Release of uh what's the thing that makes you happy or whatever in the chemicals? *00:00* And that feels even better because you were getting your face caved in in the early hours and now all of a sudden you feel like you're just destroying everything that the game throws at you. *00:00* But yeah, th like those are the kind of things I default to doing a lot, I feel like, because I have a monkey brain that can't focus on one thing for a long period of time unless it is something that is really like, No, you need a hundred year p percent of your attention on this thing. *00:00* Which is an interesting dynamic because I've played You've played none of them, I've played all of them. *00:00* I think Dark Souls 1 is like utterly phenomenal. *00:00* up again and it really uh it allows you to play it in your own way uh which is nice and novel I like I like I always like games that allow you to do that um *00:00* Ori in the Will of the Wisp. *00:00* Um there's so many good moments in that game with the boss fights. *00:00* Demon Souls is a good starter as well though, I will say that. *00:00* And then ending on Dark Souls 3. *00:00* Dude, I got so fired up today. *00:00* And we're I'm going through and the man's specifically calls out Ben and goes, they're working on a new IP that they're very, very passionate about. *00:00* This means everything Jason Schreier talked about. *00:00* Surrounding God of War specifically, like, is this PS4? *00:00* But another thing I saw today, Ratchet is the only PS5 exclusive first party game. *00:00* Eighteen months probably for sure. *00:00* Ever since thing ever since I feel like the Leyden stepped out, Ryan stepped in, Hulse stepped in. *00:00* But a little bit more upfront with us. *00:00* Both the Jim Ryan earlier in May and then today in Hermann Holson interview. *00:00* is as well. *00:00* Like the reason why Xbox is so popular right now is just because they are just very blatantly upfront like their their whole turnaround a couple months ago with their like we're increasing gold *00:00* And 'cause we don't you don't see that side from Sony very much. *00:00* Sony is starting to feel like a large corporation that wants to sell you video games at the end of the day and they don't really care about anything else. *00:00* Like those look like the kind of improvements I wanted out of the sequel for Horizon. *00:00* But right now, I got it's like a mystery. *00:00* Wow. *00:00* But and what if they done I mean qu real quick aside, what have they done since he's been appointed? *00:00* It was a state of play or some sort of showcase or something, but did they do some proper showcase? *00:00* I don't know if they're going to be able to do that. *00:00* Out up front talking a lot. *00:00* Everyone, everyone now, whenever Phil's on camera, they're looking behind his desk like what's he got on the shelves and stuff. *00:00* between the two on like the levels of people's names we wouldn't know about on the dev teams. *00:00* hyped and that would be the thing to get people hyped to see Spider-Man decked out as well. *00:00* The thing. *00:00* That would get me so hyped. *00:00* We have this really great game, but it was stuck at the launch of a console that wasn't doing so hot. *00:00* 2019, I think they confirmed they were working on that. *00:00* Through like that. *00:00* Well, Crash just had Crash 4. *00:00* But yes, a mascot character returns. *00:00* I think that's a good killer app for them to get sort of. *00:00* If if we're going off of how they acted last time around, they might just show their hand and reveal a lot of things they've got coming up way down the road of why you should own a PlayStation 5. *00:00* anymore. *00:00* They just want to sell their IP out, like rent their IP out. *00:00* So it makes sense for Sony to go to these companies that they know want to do things in this sort of capacity like Konami said they are looking to do and be like, hey, okay, you're not doing touching Castlevania, how about you work with us and we'll do something there? *00:00* There is a strong relationship there, so I definitely could see them I don't know. *00:00* But are they gonna go really balls to the wall with Final Fantasy and also show off part two of remake in some capacity? *00:00* That's like on the short list of titles. *00:00* No, Kingdom Hearts is Kingdom Hearts is the worst by far. *00:00* But I think it would be very surprising for them to do a closed beta test and say it starts today when they've had no sign-ups beforehand, if that makes sense. *00:00* All with like different armor sets, which is AK multiplayer. *00:00* the visuals people were mad about. *00:00* Very long about these new things that they've got. *00:00* It is a trailer. *00:00* That is one of the most interesting games out there for me right now because Bethesda Game Studios has not done another IP, another new IP in the last 15 years or so. *00:00* Are excited about but one of the most prominent in a new Bethesda. *00:00* A new bancho game will finally be announced and it's being worked on by a second party company. *00:00* They're finally gonna be like we gotta do it the fans want it he's in Smash somebody make this video game who do we call sinzari games what are you doing *00:00* And release window announced. *00:00* think so. *00:00* there to run the studio and being the ones working on the game. *00:00* I think EA realizes they really, really need to get back in. *00:00* Yeah, that would be great. *00:00* Um, well, I I guess now technically it is because they own it all now. *00:00* Uncharted Tomb Raider E, even though that makes the most sense. *00:00* So I thought I think it'll just be like one of those quick world exclusive and then they'll play purely CGI trailer, bam, Wolfenstein 3, BJ Blaskowitz voiceover or something. *00:00* They are leaning into exclusives and getting those on Game Pass. *00:00* Like the trailers were the things he liked to make more than the game itself. *00:00* And they were talking about gee, I was like, that game seems cool, but I couldn't play it. *00:00* air quotes own it outside of Game Pass, I believe. *00:00* And then they're gonna go into E3 hopefully with a bunch of really good and cool games that can show off, hey, maybe this is why you want to upgrade or you want to buy the Switch Pro. *00:00* That's the digital founders job. *00:00* I just hate it. *00:00* Pro. *00:00* else. *00:00* But they're gonna reveal two Smash characters. *00:00* The next Smash game would just be everyone again. *00:00* I mean not that this is indicative of like, uh, it's been so long, you have to make a new game. *00:00* Give us a new Mario Kart. *00:00* All I have to Because switches are out there. *00:00* You're gonna have your rainbow roads showing up again. *00:00* Uh my Metroid theme prediction, new Metroid games do not make an appearance in the d at the direct. *00:00* Is this year the 30th or 35th? *00:00* Seven years ago or whenever that was. *00:00* I just I'm jade at this point. *00:00* If they've got anything else, like can you think of anything else? *00:00* you know, a few months ago and it's coming out at the end of the day. *00:00* No. *00:00* Because it's the 20th anniversary of the GameCube. *00:00* Remember when they they did the uh the switch announcement? *00:00* You know, blah blah blah blah blah. *00:00* This is the time. *00:00* Silk songs coming up pretty often now too nowadays too. *00:00* That was rare. *00:00* Yeah, this is the one I want to believe because Odyssey is like one of my favorite games of the past five years and the idea of a new Donkey Kong game sounds really, really cool. *00:00* I'm excited. *00:00* good things worth tuning in for? *00:00* I'm on the media side of this. *00:00* Pretty long here. *00:00* I'm not I'm not verified now they turned me down on that one. *00:00* So we'll look forward to that, I guess. *00:00* We've got quite a few shows now. *00:00* uh with paper Mario. *00:00* If you'd like to learn about the history of Naughty Dog during the PS4 era, you can check out Chasing the Stick. *00:00* My waveforms showing up kind of smaller than I felt like they should be in Audacity. *00:00* At that point in time. *00:00* Logan and I have we've been friends uh essentially our whole lives. *00:00* shows when I've listened back. *00:00* Uh we're actually still playing those games. *00:00* 60 hours of like bad to mediocre Paper Mario games ahead of us that were like, oh, we know these games aren't gonna be good. *00:00* Like two months at this rate. *00:00* I don't know. *00:00* The choices? *00:00* At least they feel like with Paper Mario, and maybe Super and Sticker Star, which are the two remaining ones for us *00:00* um lined up. *00:00* A day or two. *00:00* before we dive into our E3 predictions, which is a time honored tradition not only for for gaming podcasts, but you and me. *00:00* I want to see how you would treat me as one of your guests with all these interviews. *00:00* subjects. *00:00* I'm excited for everything to hopefully be hearing. *00:00* I've known you since you reach out to me and you were writing at what was that site you were writing? *00:00* Yeah, um I don't know, it's weird. *00:00* Pardon me, like I had no other plans to do anything else. *00:00* And part of that in the video game industry is you gotta earn companies attention and respect and *00:00* So if anything, like I just feel more validation being where I'm at, if that makes sense. *00:00* almost a year. *00:00* You know, it was started my understanding is it started by three friends or uh you know three guys wanting to go to E3 and it was a site and then it turned into more of a thing, a little bit more than a hobby, and it was very bootstraps. *00:00* But over at comic book I assume relationships like that are better. *00:00* I'm trying to think about how much I can talk about this, and I'm sure it's not a big deal. *00:00* So that's not to say that we don't. *00:00* The past year s honest obviously has been rough for a lot of people, but like I am moving on to year *00:00* three of working from home. *00:00* In San Francisco. *00:00* games coverage does not have to be West Coast only. *00:00* Porter. *00:00* on this journey over the past five years with me realizing that this is what I want to do. *00:00* Like if you just ingrain yourself, I I feel like I I don't know anybody who's not like totally like been like alright I'm gonna do it I'm gonna just gonna play these games and we're I'm gonna see what happens *00:00* They don't fully pull you in with the ki with the mechanics alone. *00:00* Kinda. *00:00* It it's like it's good to see that studio get the recognition, and I think that game mechanically is so um incredible. *00:00* Yeah, so like those games I like I get it and like this is the thing that you have to tell everybody like because anybody who's like a Dark Souls stan or a Bloodborne stan or whatever like they have to anybody who first tries *00:00* But yeah, I I don't know man, like anything that can fully grab my attention to where I am not focused on anything else going on around me is something that I like nowadays quite a bit in a video game. *00:00* Sit down, shut up, stare at the screen, and you're gonna be playing a video game and doing absolutely zero else in this time. *00:00* So I have I have no real context for anything and you've played so like obviously that show dictates the order we would play them in. *00:00* A little bit different than all the others, so it's not one-to-one with like the the soul the proper Soul series in a lot of ways. *00:00* just continue to linger in my brain and me continue to just think very, very highly of as time has gone on. *00:00* cohesive in its world design and it is just it's utterly masterclass with how they design that game. *00:00* other than when it does kind of reel you back in and say, okay, now you have to, you know, go do this one thing, kill this one boss, and then after you do that, then it opens back. *00:00* is the last place you can go. *00:00* halfway or two-thirds of the way through the game, and then you can start, you know, bouncing around to different uh fire uh different fires that you've unlocked. *00:00* I don't know, fifteen, twenty hours or so. *00:00* Because I feel like that's the one that really hooks people. *00:00* Just go in knowing yes, I will get my face kicked in and yes, this is not gonna feel great at the first it start. *00:00* We'll see, but I know you like that uh those games very very much. *00:00* You know, this felt like a direct response to that. *00:00* I I don't understand what they're doing lately. *00:00* uh I think like late last year he did an interview and somebody asked him about that. *00:00* Odd PlayStation blog interview just to like answer lingering questions that people have had today. *00:00* Cycle. *00:00* Stopped being the case until next year. *00:00* This is a popular comparison, but like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, like using the same assets but telling another story. *00:00* on time fall twenty two. *00:00* But getting into year two is where I expect those things to kind of start falling away by the wayside. *00:00* But with the first parties I expect them to take a little bit of a different approach and yeah, like okay, but s time to leave the old console in the past, but *00:00* opens up completely new design potential. *00:00* And the fact that they were just they could have told us. *00:00* Um, as of this recording, they haven't announced a day in time yet. *00:00* It this Sony does not feel like the Sony we got at the beginning of the PS4 generation where they're just like, hey, we're gonna tell you guys everything we have in the pipeline over like the next five years, over the next like two events, and we're just *00:00* of what they were doing and when it was all cut. *00:00* Fine, I guess, because I mean they're game I mean let's be honest like Horizon's gonna be really good God of War is gonna be good Ratchet looks really good like *00:00* There are all these things going on with Sony, and I don't think anybody's doubting the quality of the games that they're gonna have coming up. *00:00* First party games. *00:00* Oh, we've partnered with Jade Raymond and her new studio to make a game. *00:00* But it's behind this veil of mystery. *00:00* Never do something like that in response. *00:00* Like Nintendo does directs and they at least like put people on camera a lot of times like they have personality. *00:00* I love PlayStation 5. *00:00* Like uh Lost Legacy style game. *00:00* Oh wait, one's um one's PS5, one's uh PS uh four and five, and oh, and by the way, Sony bought us for two hundred million dollars, and it's like one of the best deals ever. *00:00* What if Insomniac's making a VR game for PSVR2? *00:00* I I just feel like we've not seen it. *00:00* overseas teams around the entire world. *00:00* I I I don't know. *00:00* then reflects back on the company in a positive light. *00:00* Mine's pretty out there. *00:00* Design team. *00:00* Uh in what, 2018? *00:00* Uh, which means it's probably about time to get some confirmation that I mean everybody knows it's coming. *00:00* twelve million copies within three three weeks or whatever. *00:00* Yeah, like just bring it over. *00:00* Sh people would probably double dip to buy or play again too if they have already before. *00:00* Alrighty. *00:00* A mascot character returns. *00:00* Half-Life Alex is going to be one of them. *00:00* There's really no reason for them to hide it necessarily other than the fact that it's going to be further out. *00:00* This game coming and it's the sequel to the game that you liked on the PlayStation 4. *00:00* A thousand percent happening. *00:00* Tease it, get people excited, boom. *00:00* And or Solid Snake appear in PlayStation Showcase. *00:00* in-house within the past few years from any of their big like Silent Hill's been on hold, Metal Gear since Survive has done nothing, Castlevania's doing nothing, like they've just got all these like mega popular IPs sitting in on a shelf *00:00* Where you were getting there were Castlevania references and Metal Gear references, you know, with all the little little robots. *00:00* Silent Hills, everybody's freaking out about. *00:00* Like a vertical slice. *00:00* I think there's a lot of I think there's a lot of heat for Final Fantasy. *00:00* So it it it only really makes sense to show up at Sony sh showcase. *00:00* Maybe this is low-hanging fruit. *00:00* But I had Halo Infinite Multiplayer will be the thing they primarily highlight. *00:00* We both are in agreement that infinite is gonna be there and it's a little bit more than a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of *00:00* make it blatantly clear, but if you look at the teaser image they revealed too, they revealed the Halo stuff in that is not like Master Chief or whatever. *00:00* It's gonna be packed. *00:00* You gotta tighten this up. *00:00* Mm, the visuals, it is not it is you do not see a HUD, you do not see gameplay. *00:00* You know, so that's really exciting to see. *00:00* And start praying. *00:00* All right, um bouncing off of that in the vein of banjo and rare in old rare games, perfect dark. *00:00* was not their favorite, so I think a good way to do that is just be like, hey, try it out if you got Game Pass *00:00* Yeah, I forgot they're doing that. *00:00* But I am personally very excited for Indiana Jones. *00:00* I think I kind of need to be like won over by what they're doing with Fat Game first. *00:00* It's coming. *00:00* We just spent seven billion dollars. *00:00* gets me so excited to predict what they're gonna do. *00:00* When they so today, the day we're recording June 2nd, Nintendo announced their direct date, June 15th, uh noon Eastern Standard Time. *00:00* And to me, that said hardware is being revealed before E3. *00:00* During that state of play, they they showed off uh the the game running totally on PS5. *00:00* About it tomorrow. *00:00* Because Super was the designation when they made a generational jump. *00:00* My job does not depend on this. *00:00* Cause you even wrote it down your end. *00:00* Part three, the others Master Chief. *00:00* twenty five to thirty dollars for these new character packs. *00:00* Super Switch, trying to will it into existence for you. *00:00* Mario Kart Wii was one of the best selling games of all time not too long ago. *00:00* their AR game for Switch, which is kind of why it's the only real Mario Kart game on Switch. *00:00* Till the day I die. *00:00* Everyone is here. *00:00* The original graphics of each other. *00:00* Uh I I think there are more pros for a new Mario Kart game than just letting eight keep going and eventually hit a plateau. *00:00* About it. *00:00* Rumors are that there's like another 2D one, so that's like the hot. *00:00* Because they haven't yet. *00:00* I I just gestured to the camera. *00:00* What is it? *00:00* But you know what? *00:00* I I think they'll acknowledge the GameCube in some way. *00:00* Before this. *00:00* Uh Nintendo Directs are kind of slow it's slowly become the four horsemen. *00:00* Yeah, I just love I love the idea that Reggie has one of those. *00:00* Add jungle beat again at no game and then the Wii U just oh and then you know returns and stuff and then Wii U is Tropical Freeze and Switch is Tropical Freeze. *00:00* Um this means I'm gonna get my heart broken. *00:00* Yeah, so many questions. *00:00* It is um it's gonna be an exciting time, I hope, and uh really looking forward to E3 as always, and part of that is the prediction. *00:00* Um I'll be reviewing Ratchet and Clank, the new one, whenever that comes out, whenever this publishes. *00:00* You can follow me on Twitter at Max Roberts143. *00:00* Couple of weeks. *00:00* I've only been married almost four years and w we essentially stopped the show right a few months after I was married. *00:00* We just had some of our our close friends just had a baby last night. *00:00* I'll tell I'll I'll come back to that. *00:00* the rest, but it um I'm so excited just uh for a change of pace. *00:00* This has been a really doing Paper Mario first has been a really good insight into how we should pick the seasons we do *00:00* I don't think I played those two. *00:00* Bad. *00:00* Sure. *00:00* Like it was uh it was paycheck to paycheck there for the most part. *00:00* Um honestly the biggest thing has just been the I mean to be blunt, the like the increase in pay has been like like my entire quality of living. *00:00* Uh as for the like whole, you know, you work at a actually do the video game thing now. *00:00* existential crisis where I kept trying to apply to other industries and I'm like, no one knows what dual shockers is. *00:00* you know, you've you've made it, you've done the thing, but uh from a work perspective, I feel like now at comic book I know, and you were *00:00* You were essentially I mean you were second in command over at dual shockers. *00:00* Not um the editor-in-chief, but you were the the the other thing. *00:00* day by day basis for the most part, 'cause I was the person around all the time. *00:00* to to cover video games. *00:00* I I wouldn't even have a room the size of my office right here, like to live like it'd be just be I don't know how people know how people make it work. *00:00* phenomenal in those games and they and they don't feel good at first, but seeing how much variation there is and seeing how many different style builds you can do and how many different weapons there are and *00:00* Slowly progressing from a person in those games. *00:00* And Zelda 1's hard. *00:00* Oh, I've seen the videos where everyone beats them with like rock band drums or DK bongos. *00:00* You want to go to Gaussian PS3 and play that was three is hooked up. *00:00* But also they're at the same time I they're they're definitely disincentivizing people to go buy one by telling them that the games are still gonna be on *00:00* m hundreds of millions of dollars on the table. *00:00* staunchly opposed to that reasoning. *00:00* Like with the series X, like to me, I was like, well yeah, that yeah, that just makes sense, guys. *00:00* They get access to the dev kits first. *00:00* Camera, one single shot, no loadings loading screens. *00:00* That's not a thing that would have to be done on the PS5. *00:00* And then you don't have this negativity going into E3 or Summer Games Fest or whatever, where presumably Sony is going to have some sort of showcase. *00:00* And it's coming out in ten days. *00:00* I don't know what they wanna do anymore. *00:00* Giraun, who blew the horn? *00:00* Currently telling us, like, oh, you're gonna get this game and that game, and here's this, and here's Naughty Dog's new IP, and blah blah blah blah, and we won't see that for four years or whatever. *00:00* Feels like they're stringing everybody along in some senses and just saying what they think people want to hear rather than just, you know, being like totally up front and like *00:00* kind of pivot and return to the good graces of like just cons like to the community. *00:00* The head of one of their best studios is now the head of all of their studios. *00:00* You mean like events? *00:00* What did they do during E three the year before twenty nineteen? *00:00* I can't remember what they did in the summer to be totally honest. *00:00* He hasn't really he hasn't been out like a Shuhei Yoshida or a Phil Spencer. *00:00* Like I said, it just feels like a total 180 compared to where they were at at the start of the PS4 generation, where they did have all these like prominent figureheads within the company, and we did see them *00:00* Okay, I don't think we'll have very many in common here, but I will steal the one that I feel like might be on both of ours up front. *00:00* When do you think this game's coming, roughly? *00:00* Um, so I would've said next year, and I guess I will still say next year, but uh but yeah, COVID COVID's ruined release *00:00* Sure surely surely not. *00:00* Games of last gen. *00:00* Easy peasy. *00:00* Uh some person said that he's heard that PlayStation is looking to score the next Bioshock as an exclusive timed similar to what they've been doing in Myth. *00:00* A ki a masc, like a PlayStation mascot character. *00:00* So someone's coming back from the the d the c could be Sir Daniel again, you know? *00:00* Metal Gear Solid and or Snake appears in the showcase *00:00* Um because I think Sony could snag the exclusivity, but I don't think an in-house Sony team is gonna be the one making it. *00:00* uh was delayed uh obviously and um is launching later this year is the current plan. *00:00* And typically when Bethesda shows new games, like the what they did with Fallout 4 or Fallout 76, they'd go *00:00* Forever. *00:00* And they've been making Elder Scrolls and Fallout and publishing Doom and Wolfenstein's like, let's shake it up a bit. *00:00* flip out if Banjo came back. *00:00* I'm my fingers are really crossed that they are producing great stuff. *00:00* Um, as far as my predictions that I came up with. *00:00* Konami or someone else that I'm totally missed square. *00:00* About as good as a 10-year-old MMORPG could do. *00:00* So maybe we should do it together. *00:00* Switch Pro is not appearing at E3. *00:00* The day we're recording this. *00:00* So I think they're gonna do that kind of combo. *00:00* Yeah, it'll be great. *00:00* Oh my gosh. *00:00* Okay, that is very much a Logan Moore style prediction predicting something about the stream itself rather than what is announced. *00:00* Creating a whole nother video game. *00:00* It'll be the new Mario Kart 8. *00:00* everywhere. *00:00* um connection there with the audience and a ton of casual gamers are buying the Switch and I think they would buy another Mario Kart game. *00:00* And it's not like Mario Kart 8 goes away. *00:00* So you're saying if they remake Metroid 2 for the 50th time, then it doesn't count. *00:00* But you're right, it makes too much sense on paper to where it won't happen. *00:00* An appearance. *00:00* I I just think it has to show up. *00:00* But it's like the biggest thing they are working on right now is this game and I think it totally this just feels right. *00:00* Yeah, it it's interesting. *00:00* Hi, hello. *00:00* Three years? *00:00* Now he's a father. *00:00* season because we haven't played so many of those games. *00:00* So I mean so anyone over there who hears that and listens to this show, season two is PlayStation focused. *00:00* on the chasing the stick feed because our numbers are off the charts there so I was like here you go chasing the stick people throw your little tease all I said is we were we are returning to the world of PlayStation *00:00* So at least that one's a little shorter. *00:00* drastically beneficial to my way of life this year. *00:00* so so so tightly for like the last two and a half years that it's just kind of now coming out of me and I know I need to get that under under wraps. *00:00* what I would have done otherwise. *00:00* I feel like it validates me a little bit more as well. *00:00* Uh we feel like we do have to remind people that we are a gaming site because the name does not really reflect that. *00:00* And I just I remember thinking you've made it. *00:00* Like the the dream has gone from being, oh I want to work at this site and do this. *00:00* Like it matters. *00:00* You know, 2020 aside, like really how many events do you have to go to that are on site in a different place? *00:00* not that great. *00:00* Theoretic this is this is a an idea for us on Chapter Select. *00:00* like the world and exploring it and actually being a quote unquote adventure. *00:00* Rather than you know having to go in the set order. *00:00* As the only one. *00:00* They put out an interview today with Herman Holst, head of PlayStation Studios. *00:00* Like to anything, like to any sort of announcement. *00:00* And in a lot of ways I just don't understand why they just didn't say some of this stuff like blatantly. *00:00* Their their PR has been so strange lately, and I I don't know what they're doing. *00:00* That game uh actually I saw Colin More already tweet today that that game did start as PS4 only. *00:00* A got God of War 2018 ran 1080 with an uncapped thirty, I think, on base PS4. *00:00* Like like yeah, fur first year after release, I totally expect it. *00:00* one to series X, Series S, and then and four to five. *00:00* This is again, this is not like a selfish, ah, I just want new PS5 games. *00:00* I'm excited for those games, but am I gonna see them this year? *00:00* Sure. *00:00* Yeah, uh so real quick, just uh we've got five predictions a pop. *00:00* Miss uh yes, very confident, so much so that you had a face tattoo on the line for it. *00:00* Comes to PS5 in some capacity, whether that's a remake or sequel, the Sunset Overdrive franchise comes to PS5. *00:00* three could make sense as far as like a release date, but uh they gotta have something to show, I would think, unless they're not wanting to show anything until it's closer. *00:00* Um all right, so my next prediction. *00:00* And I think a lot of Konami IP are associated with PlayStation. *00:00* So I I I think sixteen gets a little bit of time. *00:00* Probably. *00:00* Alrighty, going on to Xbox and Bethesda? *00:00* I uh obviously with that becomes a beta and I think that they just say the beta is today. *00:00* is able to do all of that for them. *00:00* But what's in the trailer? *00:00* So Starfield trailer, no good. *00:00* Um and that was 2007 or 8, I believe. *00:00* Alright, I'm gonna do this one before you steal it. *00:00* Which is my type of speed. *00:00* So I'm I'm hoping we see Indiana Jones and I'm hoping it's gameplay. *00:00* The rhombus of rune? *00:00* Like you don't want to show gameplay that was captured on like it was the s same thing like with a PS like with Horizon Zero Dawn last week. *00:00* Bowser and Bowser will be united on screen. *00:00* Check that we'll be there a thousand percent certain. *00:00* So just keep supporting Smash in perpetuity with new DLC. *00:00* Eight sells well for two reasons. *00:00* It's fine. *00:00* I know, but you know, that people have nostalgia for 64 and DS and and all that stuff. *00:00* They what's a Metroid? *00:00* We will see that game. *00:00* is making a 3D Donkey Kong game. *00:00* But I don't want to get too excited. *00:00* What? *00:00* We've played every game? *00:00* I think possibly. *00:00* That's sort of like internal validation when I made the jump and quit the aforementioned crummy job I used to have and I went to start working at dual shockers full-time. *00:00* The m I it was so tough on me financially to keep working there that I did uh start applying to a bunch of places around town, around where I live, like similar *00:00* You should probably want to work with us based on based on our reach that we have. *00:00* It wasn't that long ago. *00:00* See? *00:00* It's way cheaper. *00:00* Boston and Texas. *00:00* So I have like and I don't know I I have this is nothing I've like talked to my boss about and I don't even know how this would work. *00:00* analog I have to that, I think, is games like Hotline Miami or Yeah. *00:00* Very, very nice. *00:00* Honestly, this is like a lot of the things I'm saying here is the same reason why I like leak. *00:00* There are three Dark Souls games. *00:00* Is it just a soft spot for Bloodborne because that's the first one he played or well I would say yeah there is that for me. *00:00* Happy go lucky kind of adventure, not necessarily. *00:00* So so what you're saying is it's a Metroidvania? *00:00* Everyone know. *00:00* I'm of two minds, but I want to know how you feel about this. *00:00* Like God of War was pretty ambitious to announce for this year in the midst of a pandemic. *00:00* I think we didn't necessarily have this with PS3 to PS4, 360 to 1, but we're we're definitely have a more technological leap with *00:00* Like it's almost like the elevator in Mass Effect where the elevator ride. *00:00* Is really crippling the design of potential of these games and where they can go. *00:00* million you know, over a hundred million people could go out and buy the new God of War game and play it right away. *00:00* I don't know what version of Sony we're going to get. *00:00* Like the core mechanics of that game is what I feel like would have been so hard to do. *00:00* They own it now. *00:00* So very similar to like the teaser original trailer that they did for Infinite. *00:00* I would genuinely I would consider Astro a mascot. *00:00* But before that, you're number four, sir. *00:00* Mmm, no, because of integrade. *00:00* That's the part I think is uh questionable. *00:00* Yeah, they uh they need to show off the multiplayer that is a essential to a a Halo game, and *00:00* Uh okay, so normally I would have we have pretty similar ones here, but I'll just do mine because I I didn't come with the sixth to maybe swap out or whatever. *00:00* Really? *00:00* Okay. *00:00* Bottom line, I think it's launching on Game Pass on day one. *00:00* I'll do. *00:00* It's so good. *00:00* Anymore, I don't think. *00:00* If they did call a Switch Pro. *00:00* But no that's I've I've got a second that's my exact prediction is they'll show it, they'll finally talk about it, they'll be like, hey, here it is. *00:00* All I will say about Mario Kart 9 is that just bring back the soundtrack team from 8, and I'll be happy. *00:00* Like a hundred million more copies of Mario Kart is better than another fifteen million or twenty-five. *00:00* So I just think we don't know. *00:00* They they come out with this stuff and I buy in and then it's not gonna be a thing and I'm gonna be It's Star Fox uh racing all over again. *00:00* Uh I just love this rumor so much. *00:00* Well, that wraps it up. *00:00* And we we talked about that game four days after it came out. *00:00* Maybe a week or two ago. *00:00* It is lonely and gets old and like like dude I would kill to go back to an aud *00:00* But anyway, yeah, comic book's located out of, I don't even say the name of the site properly, but whatever. *00:00* Hmm. *00:00* But one of the big differences between you and me is your love of Dark Souls and Bloodborne. *00:00* So I've heard analogies specifically about Dark Souls comparing it to the original Legend of Zelda. *00:00* And then the game opens up a little bit more from there. *00:00* Sekiro is like its own thing, but that game is utterly fantastic and just there's so many good moments in that game. *00:00* And they're saying, oh, well, it's a good business decis decision for us to bring them to PS4 as well. *00:00* Supporting the older system with the same games for this long afterward *00:00* Oh wow. *00:00* PlayStation needs more personality in the their messaging and executive presence. *00:00* Okay. *00:00* That's the cool fact. *00:00* So it's so hard to predict anymore. *00:00* I feel like I don't talk too much about the original Spider-Man and how I like like it was really I want to replay it to be honest, but I like Black Suit. *00:00* Bioshock 4 is revealed for the first time. *00:00* Alright. *00:00* But I've I'm I'm uh reining in the specificity uh uh le leaving room for disappointment, you know, Metal Gear Survive 2 or something. *00:00* A Konami IP of some sort appears in his PlayStation exclusive. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* From uh what is it, the initiative? *00:00* And I think they need to I think they realize that they need to win people back over now more than ever before because Modern Warfare was such a big deal. *00:00* Alright. *00:00* Alright, I'm gonna take low-hanging fruit up front, because I'm worried you might snatch it. *00:00* I don't know why everybody I don't know why that became the name of this stock, but it's everything is pro or plus or premium or whatever. *00:00* They'll show off gameplay and they'll be like, hey, and it's gonna run great on Super Switch, so make sure you get it. *00:00* Not that I don't think any of those things could happen. *00:00* It is bundled with practically every switch. *00:00* So their their direct or I'm sorry, the direct announcement today was all software and most are coming out in 2021. *00:00* People will finally not scream after the direct, well, where's Ben out of three? *00:00* Borderline meme. *00:00* Yeah, the GameCube only had Jungle Beat and uh the Congo like the Bongo rhythm games. *00:00* Like season two is locked and loaded and we know what we want to do and we both think it's a good idea and I think we'll do totally fine with that one. *00:00* Which in my advanced age of twenty-six years old, that's a long video game for me nowadays. *00:00* Bad decisions, but there are parts that I'm enjoying in Color Splash. *00:00* You would think, right? *00:00* So I feel like that is the one that you would want to play if you are looking to actually be hooked on why you should play all of them. *00:00* It's not like you are starting over from scratch and you are like lost in the dark. *00:00* I'm still excited about the future. *00:00* So like whatever. *00:00* That's like a franchise for them that they are not going to put to bed anytime soon. *00:00* Snake and Metal Gear Solid will be present in some capacity. *00:00* I think they've said it's 90 minutes, which feels like a very short amount of time for the things they have to talk about, I guess. *00:00* Oh, interesting. *00:00* Okay. *00:00* But that felt too predictable to me. *00:00* Why August 20th? *00:00* This is a I call this a Logan Moore style prediction. *00:00* Late July is EA's thing, but EA's also doing battlefield soon, so it's uh it's interesting, but it just it does feel more tight, at least close together than it would definitely was last year. *00:00* I had I had a great time, but Dual Shockers was very bootstraps. *00:00* More industry like internal industry respect and just acknowledgement that you even exist and are willing to work with. *00:00* Oh, like I oh yeah, you guys are a really big gaming website. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* But I think I but I felt I felt like I had to I feel like you kind of got that way after you got married, if I'm correct. *00:00* Where like they know it's understanding. *00:00* Like, oh we want to create craft experiences that'll only be available on PlayStation and nowhere else. *00:00* Which is yeah, it just makes them feel very monolithic. *00:00* Yeah, don't worry, it'll be announced as PS5 and then seven months later it'll be like, oh yeah, it's coming to PS4 too. *00:00* Um this could be a release window, but a uh a time frame is associated with the new time. *00:00* That's it. *00:00* I forget the third reason. *00:00* Or the Switch Lite. *00:00* Sorry, I'm saying the potential switch potential consumers to buy. *00:00* Alright, well hand in hand, similar ish in an alternate universe to your Breath of the Wild pick *00:00* Um yeah, that's old, ain't it? *00:00* And I'm I bought in a whole hog just ready to I want this. *00:00* Yeah, I don't know. *00:00* If you like it, uh I don't know. *00:00* At least none of my like close friends. *00:00* I guess depends on what circle of the internet you bring that game up within. *00:00* It's I it just seems cool. *00:00* I wanna understand it more than oh this is hard and satisfying to like beat. *00:00* That's that would be allowed. *00:00* And it's not gonna be anything that obviously, you know, hurts them. *00:00* Do like character interactions on the elevators as well, so there there's like at least something going on. *00:00* But I guess really p uh we'll we'll we'll go to our E3 predictions here in just a sec, but I *00:00* They just did a 15-minute save play that Screams E3. *00:00* Sweet. *00:00* They're bought by Facebook making VR ridiculous. *00:00* My next prediction, so I did come with six, so I'm kind of like toying between my remaining three here. *00:00* But yes. *00:00* I guess tech technology. *00:00* Mario Kart 9 is announced. *00:00* I'll steal something from you, which I'm sure is bound to show up. *00:00* Same way they did a couple months ago with Zelda, where they were like, hey, you might probably want to hear about Breath of the Wild 2, don't you? *00:00* Maybe I'll cut this out, but I was thinking, you know, so we have guests for pretty much the rest of season one here. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* That's kind of um a part of what I was thinking about. *00:00* They did initially, but then something changed. *00:00* like certain certain uh emails or opportunities won't come our way and then when we end up following up with people it's just because they're like *00:00* I guess the South you would call it. *00:00* And they can't do that with these cross-generational games. *00:00* Talk about how impressive Insomniac is. *00:00* Um Half-Life Alex is announced for PSVR 2. *00:00* And I think there'll be a teaser trailer for it, similar to like what they did with God of War last year. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* I I think that would be a bad choice. *00:00* Didn't they also explicitly say that that game's really early on in development in like a blog last year? *00:00* If you announce Mario Kart 9 holiday, and let's say they throw it in, it's a bundle with the Super Switch. *00:00* They just see no reason to do it. *00:00* I don't know how you'd make that super fresh because they, you know, did re recording. *00:00* 3D Donkey Khan returns. *00:00* Yeah, I mean, uh, these days you can find me over on Twitter at Moreman12. *00:00* Definitely part of it. *00:01* And they're like, well, what what do you do? *00:01* Possibly. *00:01* Make an eleven minute trailer and then a few months later another six minute one and they perfectly overlap in time together and then. *00:01* It's on Game Pass, sir. *00:01* And the Switch is everywhere. *00:01* They gotta do something. *00:01* No, I'll I'll we'll count the Metroids kind of together like we did with Breath of the Wild. *00:01* Every week I'm like, uh, there's no way we can go longer than the last one. *00:01* Millennial Gamespeak was three years? *00:01* Oh yeah. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* Returnal, great game. *00:01* I don't know how they did that. *00:01* Yeah, I don't know, man. *00:01* Alright, I'm gonna take my more exciting prediction here for my last Xbox One. *00:01* Because you and I talked about that the other day, and I just don't think it makes any sense for them to necessarily stop charging people *00:01* And I have said very boisterously and loudly, like, 100%, 100, 100,000 percent it's banana three time, folks. *00:01* A few days, yeah. *00:01* Oh yeah. *00:01* We made a bad decision here. *00:01* Before they were bought, Insomniac was making all sorts of games all over the place. *00:01* Again, very similar to Lost Legacy. *00:01* Um gosh, that would be crazy. *00:01* Because when you think about Bethesda now being rolled in, I don't know. *00:01* I d I don't know, man. *00:01* It is a cinematically styled trailer. *00:01* Yes, it is uh a part of Summer Games Fest. *00:01* I love my little cube. *00:01* The choices we're making, yeah. *00:01* Oh no, wait, they did the one after where it was just the people sitting on the couches and that no one liked. *00:01* You were there though for the uh you know the reveal of The Last of Us Part Two. *00:01* Maybe we could save it for the Bloodborne. *00:01* I mean, that's really was the a huge strength of the PS4 was first party exclusive and second party exclusive titles. *00:01* That'll be that as a lot of potential. *00:01* So now let's predict what these companies are doing. *00:01* We've been on the PlayStation Beat. *00:01* I the no Spider Man 2 stuff at all for me. *00:01* So I mean that would be really cool. *00:01* So you're thinking they're going balls to the wall with Final Fantasy and then this rumored origin game that is a thing that is like the Dark Souls E fight. *00:01* Right. *00:01* I'm mostly making this prediction because the internet is so upset at Starfield to possibly be not till twenty two. *00:01* So I think there a lot of people are misconstruing that like the hype kind of what you're saying, because I've seen more people say what you're saying. *00:01* They teased it in the image. *00:01* Because it's Xbox building a brand new studio from the ground up, investing a ton of money and time into that. *00:01* Alright, what's your number three? *00:01* I it's it's another it it's another p d game that I've just always wanted to. *00:01* I was never a fan of PS4 Pro bad name. *00:01* This is not a virtual console. *00:01* I'm a reporter. *00:01* And I'm curious how that game would have been if it would have allowed you to go in any order, but also I don't think it would have worked for narrative reasons. *00:01* A little bit and if if the kitchen took if we knew the kitchen took a little longer, then we'd be fine because the meal still came out great. *00:01* It just makes it more personable. *00:01* Well uh it was I the kind of show remember was into that Final Fantasy like styley trailer. *00:01* Yeah, so you know who who knows, but um that's honestly one of the biggest Xbox exclusives that I personally am excited about. *00:01* It's not at the forefront of my mind. *00:01* Whether that is Kojima Productions, like a lot of people are speculating, um, or just something big. *00:01* Like I most people not or I don't know about most, but they would a lot they would sell a lot of copies of it. *00:01* Mario Kart 9. *00:01* But I think that's it. *00:01* I don't know. *00:01* Real actually only sticker star is the one we haven't reached out about yet. *00:01* And I and I enjoyed my time there. *00:01* And one thing at d at dual stroker in particular, uh, you want to maybe guess it by the name, but like PlayStation did not play ball with *00:01* I've played it. *00:01* Let's just do it round Robin. *00:01* But I have to it's not a real Xbox prediction list from me for E3 unless I throw this one out there. *00:01* And then we saw that what thing heard that thing yesterday that some retail store has in their system pre-orders scheduled to go live Friday, I think. *00:01* I mean every the the the the current standing is it's called new Nintendo Switch Pro That was a debunked listing I'm pretty sure *00:01* But Mario Kart 8 came out in 2014. *00:01* This is the time. *00:01* So it would be like a totally whole new venture for them to make a 3D Donkey Kong platformer when they've really never done that before. *00:01* I'm so pumped. *00:01* Like I'm excited in general about the future of the show. *00:01* I think we should try. *00:01* Yeah, what have they done like any in-person events to where he could even stand on stage and be like, hello, I'm Herman Holst, I'm head of first party studios or whatever. *00:01* That would get people hype. *00:01* Spider-Man, God of War Horizon, goes to Tsushima. *00:01* That would be a really good deal both for Xbox and EA. *00:01* Do anything. *00:01* I g I want to go play something else right now, and then I will come back to this. *00:01* You're not really one of my subjects. *00:01* Uh how I think it was Bloodborne, but like how did this happen in why why *00:01* Well I may not have a choice when it comes down to it. *00:01* Just again, we know this black suit stuff is coming. *00:01* Alright, you're number two for Sony. *00:01* I dislike when anybody does. *00:01* But I think they could but I think they could be like, hey, we've got the headset coming. *00:01* But especially because of how they roll these things out, they usually don't do open beta format. *00:01* Again, Starfield nothing but Indiana Jones gameplay *00:01* Mecca Hitler. *00:01* Skysturns very good. *00:01* I have a new microphone and I'm excited to test run it on a show that is not my own. *00:01* Like I like the format a lot. *00:01* Um but it's a combination but we do we need length. *00:01* Securo. *00:01* And then they go, oh, and by the way, um Horizon's aiming for this holiday, we don't know yet, and uh God of War is pushed to 22. *00:01* Is that when that came out? *00:01* I this is one of the it's the first one of the first games I picked up for my Xbox One. *00:01* Imagine me typing that name. *00:01* So actually not really. *00:01* Yeah, probably. *00:01* Alright. *00:01* I think I just think it would sell incredibly well and it would be a good quick surprise and be a great holiday game. *00:01* And the only thing they pulled from the GameCube was the fact it had a handle making it portable. *00:01* As a business. *00:01* I don't think it's gonna I don't think the audio quality is gonna be drastically better, but at least it won't have feedback noises and problems with uh *00:01* So we you know, I killed Millennial Gaming Speak. *00:01* I'm excited to play super actually. *00:01* WordPress thing. *00:01* But I think there is I think we ha we are still trying to overcome the hurdle every now and then we come across things where *00:01* Which then requires people to live in San Francisco. *00:01* So it would definitely be more expensive than probably where I'm living now. *00:01* And they're like, My uh my grandfather never understood my grandfather never understood what I was doing with like with the guide stuff. *00:01* Um I I don't know. *00:01* So anything that's super narrative heavy um that is not pulling me in, like Ghost of Tsushima's a good example of that last year. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* Like the whole Yeah, the whole used game dunk on Xbox doesn't work unless we are pretty familiar with like who Adam Boyce and Shuhei Yoshida are to show up in that in that video. *00:01* Like that is the one comic book run I have from the start to the end. *00:01* Okie dokie smokey. *00:01* Cause I don't think it's gonna be Breath of the Wild 2. *00:01* PlayStation doesn't announce their thing, obviously, like we talked about. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* I just want to kind of promote it and talk about it. *00:01* Yeah, cut a week. *00:01* Like the questions that fans have are not really complex. *00:01* It's almost like they're resting on their their laurels of the PS4. *00:01* Ratchet, I think people expected to come back as well, but it wasn't really confirmed. *00:01* They've had the longest relationship with them for sure. *00:01* I don't think Crash. *00:01* Uh Kodima showing up would be cool. *00:01* I I really states a foregone conclusion that we get it. *00:01* Here it is. *00:01* I don't believe in Metroid anymore. *00:01* It just that blows my mind. *00:01* I'll put a pin in that. *00:01* We have a bit of a slog ahead of us, and I think I've been sending you stuff ideas for season two the past couple of days because I'm just so jazzed to get to that series. *00:01* We'll find out. *00:01* I mean, I I will be honest. *00:01* Like you have to go to the dunes last and it funnels you back down and then it opens back up again before funneling you to the final boss. *00:01* The box art could be black with the white top that's the PS5. *00:01* Uh my next one, uh in ranking of just simplicity, I think I'll phrase this a little bit more than what I have written down, but *00:01* It could be. *00:01* I feel like a good way to do that would be to package it all in one big thing where they're like, oh, as you may know, this is the 30th anniversary of not just Zelda, but also Metroid this year. *00:01* There's a there's still so many questions that I have about everything that's going on. *00:01* And it's a kind of if you haven't done that, I would encourage you to. *00:02* Um perhaps I do like that I I because I know we've talked about this before and that's this is just kind of what I brought up about ha opening and closing each season with just ourselves. *00:02* Yeah it's a larger website by all accounts compared to DualShockers. *00:02* Yeah, I don't know if anybody goes up. *00:02* Maybe even longer. *00:02* We need to see him more in this role. *00:02* Wow. *00:02* Alright, I'll take that. *00:02* So they show off some gameplay. *00:02* Um, I would love it though for the kicks and giggles, uh, if they did the same thing they did with the last direct. *00:02* Considering how good 8 looks, I don't think I need to shift back to the old ones, if I'm being honest. *00:02* I There's no doubt in my mind that this is the time. *00:02* Again, I don't know what to expect on that front because I'm still so confused with how this is all going down in some senses. *00:02* Yeah, because I wasn't doing like video game writing stuff full time and I was talking about that on the show a little bit. *00:02* I did others. *00:02* If you could see my text messages to Logan the past two days, it's been uh uh to season two is definitely on the forefront of my mind. *00:02* Five, six years ago. *00:02* And apparently that's not the case as far as major news sites are concerned, which is super unfortunate because *00:02* So stepping outside of work. *00:02* I just if this feels very millennial gaming speak. *00:02* That's the thing people have been bringing up for a really long time is like, oh well it holds back these other games. *00:02* They already did it with Miles Morales. *00:02* There are rumors it's coming. *00:02* I like it. *00:02* I'm somebody who missed the boat on Perfect Dark back in the day, so I can't everything about the initiative excites me so much. *00:02* Like they just they incentivize you to get people will double dip. *00:02* Not that I hate what I do by any means, but like uh I don't know. *00:02* Or at least one or two? *00:02* So Yeah. *00:02* I told you, hey, you should come on in the show after we do we launch chapter select so we can talk about it. *00:02* Like starry-eyed Logan five years ago would have at the drop of a hat, like, r run out to San Francisco to go work for, you know, your IGNs or your game spots or something like that. *00:02* I think next month it'll be three years of me working from home doing this games writing stuff full time. *00:02* I really thought that the, you know, last year everyone working from home would kind of be the moment that the industry realized you don't have to be in San Francisco. *00:02* And Nashville's getting a little bit more expensive. *00:02* God of War 2018. *00:02* Like there's nothing there's nothing like that. *00:02* Switch? *00:02* I don't know. *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* I don't know how they're gonna squeeze all this in there. *00:02* Maybe we can't buy a studio right now. *00:02* Yeah, I don't know. *00:02* And I get Mario Kart 8 is still selling well, but I think you could get everyone to double dip. *00:02* I'll just go that straightforward. *00:02* They'll just be like, yeah, it's it's still a thing. *00:02* Uh so like I alluded to those things and it just kinda took me back to like that point in like it it it put some things in perspective for me. *00:02* Mm-hmm. *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* It's like, okay, now go do this and then it opens up again and it's now it's like now go do these four things and you can do them in any order you want. *00:02* You have to clear Anne Orlando before it allows you to do that. *00:02* What if they were designing this solely for the PS5? *00:02* They're gonna be excited about it for years. *00:02* I don't think the only time I can think of them really kind of admitting they screwed up was with uh when the PS5 pre-orders went live and everybody's like Sony. *00:02* They no one knew Doc Ok was in the game until you start up the game. *00:02* But sure next next year we'll say is when I think it might show up. *00:02* Uh it's even why Sony is touting these 25 games, and over half of them are new IP. *00:02* Your number four. *00:02* Well, it is. *00:02* I think we could see it tomorrow. *00:02* Like the it's getting to the point where if Nintendo has a Switch Pro or a Super Switch, we need to start calling it the Super Switch. *00:02* There's gonna be no release window given at all. *00:02* Oh well I do I'll I'll spice it up a bit more. *00:02* You had me up until Chief. *00:02* There's no reason for them like ultimate will just live forever. *00:02* Honestly, something like that could work. *00:02* It's just new on this podcast feed. *00:02* The second episode is launching here on June 16th, middle of June, and that is going to focus on Paper Mario the origami king. *00:02* Um well there's one. *00:02* Um because before I got this job, dual dual shockers got to a point when I was working there that um *00:02* I'm an editor. *00:02* You have to do all of that and you can't leave until you you can't leave Ann Orlando because you you take a one way trip there, and then the only way you can leave afterwards is unlocking the ability to then teleport around to all the different food *00:02* That is if Elden rains out. *00:02* That quote is gonna haunt them for at least the next 18 months, I would imagine. *00:02* It's crazy. *00:02* That was in front of a fake audience. *00:02* Spider-Man 2 is revealed. *00:02* Uh I think uh like this is this'll be far away, but I think they are going to just confirm that Ghost of Tsushima 2 is a thing. *00:02* Switches are gonna be hot this Christmas and whether that's a super switch, a light, or a regular switch, every switch under a Christmas tree is gonna get a Mario Kart game. *00:02* Breath of the Wild 2, we've already seen more of than we've seen of Metroid. *00:02* I love speaking of Mother Three. *00:02* So thank you all for listening and uh we'll catch you next time. *00:02* Like I have like some people I have I have some friends friends and people from high school and stuff like that that have kids now, but it's not anybody that I see with or talk to with a ton of regularity. *00:02* There's a Demon Souls game, there's Bloodborne, and there's Sekiro, and then Elden Ring, which we don't actually know anything about. *00:02* Zelda 1 is hard. *00:02* Where that game is narrow in the beginning and then it opens up to like three or four hub areas, but actually one of them *00:02* And so like that was like a design, they were able to create a game design pillar around what the PS5 is able to do. *00:02* Like I don't know where PlayStation's heading officially. *00:02* There were some surprises last year. *00:02* That would get people hyped about the game without also having to, you know, like get them excited by showing a villain or showing something that they might want to keep a little closer to the chest. *00:02* I it that is Sunset Overdrive is one of the coolest, like most wacky fun *00:02* Like it wasn't amazing either. *00:02* PlayStation is the only company, right? *00:02* Um Logan found me on Twitter, was like, your name sounds familiar, and reached out. *00:02* Time is a flat circle i in the moment and it feels like that was forever ago. *00:02* Because what I was leading into is should we try to have a guest every episode for season two? *00:02* Fingers crossed that PlayStation, I mean we'll get into all that soon, but I really hope PlayStation says something soon other than what they're doing. *00:02* I mean, you were gift by Wario64. *00:02* And so few games do that. *00:02* And so maybe, maybe that was the original plan all along. *00:02* This isn't an Xbox One situation where everyone was like, oh no. *00:02* Maybe it's too soon. *00:02* Um is kinda to carry both. *00:02* I mean if it's out later this summer, what else have we got to play besides three paper Mario three more paper Mario theories? *00:02* Give me that big blue skin. *00:02* They don't know. *00:02* They they kind of stealth not stealth. *00:02* It feels like a proper E3. *00:02* How is E3 there it's weird how many questions I have though. *00:02* I don't understand how any of this works. *00:02* Yeah, it's like so you can just kind of sign up for an account and just start making articles and throwing them up there. *00:02* You may have actually even watched this video. *00:02* I mean it's on track. *00:02* Like I don't want I don't want to praise them for that situation because that was a stupid call in the first place and they should not have moved forward on that. *00:02* Yeah, basically like hey, almost like Disney does with Marvel games. *00:02* Silent Hill's the big one that's been rumored for a long time, but Castlevania's also possible. *00:02* Is it worse than Final Fantasy one point five plus two point five HD remix? *00:02* I don't think it's I don't think it's today. *00:02* Well, I want you to know Banjo was not on my list. *00:02* I think you get that, you put that on Game Pass. *00:02* Yeah, I just you know, just seemed like a good date to me. *00:02* I think that'd be fun. *00:02* Yeah, that's my thing. *00:02* You would probably want to do that. *00:02* Let's just hypothetical. *00:02* Let's let's start with them, then do Xbox, and then save uh my sweet sweet baby Nintendo for last. *00:02* I don't hear anybody hyping Starfield up like, I can't wait, it's gonna be the best game ever. *00:02* I mean Phil has been to the studio and seen the game running. *00:02* Um like how do you go up from Alta? *00:02* I have two of them. *00:02* Platinum's been saying for like 18 months now, like, yeah, you guys, like, we're gonna show you some banana 3 stuff soon. *00:02* Oh, it's weird. *00:02* I just I I I was thinking about that today, um, looking for it in season one and then obviously *00:02* I'm like, I'm like, re write a reporter is basically just what I say to make it's a good default. *00:02* Um I'm an idiot. *00:02* And it really lends itself then in turn to uh exploration, which is really cool. *00:02* Um because I mean one it makes good business sense, but two, I don't think the games are held back that much. *00:02* They have access to tech before everyone else. *00:02* Like we said, it just feels like whiplash compared to where we were at. *00:02* When you you go, I go, we'll bounce back and forth. *00:02* It's um I don't think they show off 7 part 2. *00:02* Or at least on the version of E Game Pass where there's like crossover between them and EA play. *00:02* That teaser that teaser said to me, oh, this game's like 2024. *00:02* 35th. *00:02* Is that was that I just four years ago now? *00:02* Yeah, like like we always do with banjo and all kinds of other things. *00:02* I usually I have it in front of me, but I that was the one thing I didn't bring to the show today. *00:02* And then we started season one today, which is all about Paper Mario. *00:02* Com coming into that and it was so hot off of the game for both of us. *00:02* Sort of. *00:02* I remember um I don't remember which E3 this was. *00:02* I don't care where it's at. *00:02* Probably back to twenty nineteen when they started doing the Remember when they were revealing the PS5 details exclusively in Water? *00:02* Um it was just like holy smokes, these pe they're cranking two PS5 games out. *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* Bioshock the internet would go nuts. *00:02* Do you think of Bioshock as an Xbox series? *00:02* Yeah, a little bit, yeah. *00:02* Um, okay, I th another one pretty straightforward and we were talking before about like how l how long are the how far down the road are they gonna talk about things and what are they gonna confirm and are is there anything they're gonna *00:02* I just think it's a good marriage for the two of them because Sony is a company that has been looking to work with parties and *00:02* Like aye everybody, we're gonna tell talk to you about for the next 45 minutes about Fallout 4. *00:02* So it's coming. *00:02* I think he said he's played. *00:02* I know one of them you're not gonna predict, so that feels like a safe kind of back pocket one. *00:02* I did remember when I was putting together my list, but it's kinda like one of those things to decide that you're like *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* Seems He's working on something with Death Straining he likes to show you what he's doing so he can create some fancy pants trailers for four years and *00:02* Or they scrubbed it or something. *00:02* Fingers crossed. *00:02* Okay, cool. *00:02* But anyway, I thought we could talk about that. *00:02* And now it's like, oh, I need a couple, I need to set aside a fair amount of time here. *00:02* Because seriously, this is the other team I think I stress to people with these games. *00:02* I mean I'm just reigning about things I like about Dark Souls at the end. *00:02* Dark Souls 1, I feel like is the really the best game, if I'm being totally honest. *00:02* Like they're they're not gonna put out a big happy like PlayStation Like clearly they tried to bury this stuff in the midst of an *00:02* I get that. *00:02* Especially on the PS5. *00:02* And Xbox has been very face forward and is like, no, like we hear you guys like Xbox feels entrenched in these gaming communities and like Xbox feels like they get it *00:02* They might not have done anything, but I feel like that's wrong. *00:02* So yeah, because that was my game of the year. *00:02* And also Toys for Bob is now working on Call of Duty. *00:02* Thanks, Valve. *00:02* Didn't know if that one would be Tate. *00:02* Just cinematics? *00:02* But I just um I'm kind of leaning into the other side of Starfield right now, just kind of for the fun of it, uh, and say it's a trailer with no gameplay. *00:02* It is on Game Pass. *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* So Yeah. *00:02* To me, this is about game design and what these these developers can do. *00:02* Big fan of Herman, I guess. *00:02* I like it. *00:02* I'll take that T that you set up there. *00:02* Not because it could be an uncharted light game. *00:02* It happens before the events of Psychonauts 2. *00:02* Yeah, I mean if they've got a Switch Pro planned to come out later this year, like people are starting to say, like you're getting they're getting to the point where they're gonna want to show their software running on that thing. *00:02* Yeah, I think I think we see it's like that's sorry I didn't come with another one to swap out for that, but *00:02* Michael, oh, is this the Pro controller? *00:02* But I think they will also confirm part four, which I didn't write down. *00:02* We recorded that last year, right before and after part two came out, which *00:03* So this this month is actually five years for me. *00:03* Yeah. *00:03* Bioshock was in their and that Bioshock was in their um crosshairs is one that they wanted to snag for that and that it was possible or likely to go *00:03* So and that showed gameplay environments and like people running around, but from what I remember that trailer was not, here's what 76 is actually like. *00:03* I think they're gonna try and get some Japanese GameStop. *00:03* Like I could do it, but I just I've never sat down with it. *00:03* And uh at least not as a reveal. *00:03* This is not specific. *00:03* They got too many anniversaries going. *00:03* Because so it has a good mix of one are the games too long, two, are there any like really like standout like bad entries that are gonna be a slog to get through in this? *00:03* I I think that's something maybe we just see how it naturally evolves over time and see how we feel about it. *00:03* This is so cool. *00:03* And I've I've mentioned it on this show in the past. *00:03* Sort of. *00:03* Like, what are you guys doing? *00:03* Well and this is as of this recording. *00:03* Um yeah, I don't think anybody who play pays really close attention to the video game industry would disagree that they've had a messaging problem over the past *00:03* Like I said, it r it it makes it feel less corporate and reminds you that there are actual people behind this company working on these things for you. *00:03* And I think they're still kind of staffing up heavily to work on it. *00:03* Yeah. *00:03* Anytime I have to write Final Fantasy VII Remake Integrate. *00:03* So but yeah, Halo. *00:03* It's kinda nice to think of them as also taking their billions of dollars and investing that, you know, just a few millions of that into building a new studio. *00:03* Uh, we'll do this. *00:03* Wolf Sign 3 is announced. *00:03* That's all we know. *00:03* Alright. *00:03* Which often leads to disappointment sometimes. *00:03* Say, you know, then retailers may be selling Mario Kart 8 cheaper. *00:03* Why can't Metroid crawl? *00:03* I'm starting to have better ideas on things we can do in the future, how to improve on the format of each episode and the format of a season. *00:03* We we taught we touch back on some of the things we've done in the previous episodes, but not a lot. *00:03* Like, think of it like that. *00:03* When you think about it, that's really not a lot of time and you've come really far. *00:03* They know. *00:03* I I assume Ratchet's gonna be real I'm really excited about Ratchet. *00:03* Um, you know, God War is gonna be great. *00:03* I don't think uh a whole lot of the core team from because Miles Morales had like a totally different director and pr uh *00:03* They let different people head that product. *00:03* No gameplay is shown, but the trailer at the very least reveals the location of where it's going to be *00:03* Uh in a shallow grave somewhere. *00:03* It's not hard to show a sword in the ground with some wings. *00:03* Well I think Yeah, and I wrote an article about this the other day. *00:03* You think people will double dip? *00:03* I would love for your prediction to be right. *00:03* Like it they they've been very clear that it's still in development, that's still coming. *00:03* The only three D Donkey Kong we've had has just been sixty-four, right? *00:03* It still feels weird. *00:03* So yes, while people are willing to play ball with us, um more than at dual shockers in some instances, I guess. *00:03* Cause good god, they're busy. *00:03* I just I'm excited for Indiana Jones to get a game, just like I'm excited for James Bond to get a game from IO Interactive. *00:03* One of my predictions is like really terrible, and I wish I would have come up with another one. *00:03* Excited for the head game. *00:03* That's already happened, so they're coming back together, is what you're saying. *00:03* A new Metroid game is announced. *00:03* Yeah, yeah, dictate the bookends of of the of the seasons, just ourselves. *00:03* It's uh very much looking forward to the future of chapter select. *00:03* This is I think far more casual than behind the pixel, but I've honored your request. *00:03* See, then the well depend if Elden Ring's out, then it would be Elden Ring. *00:03* This is my this is my knee-jerk. *00:03* I'll do mine here. *00:03* Super Switch is rumored for like a September-ish release. *00:03* So I don't think Metroid shows up. *00:03* To that end, here's a new game. *00:03* Like they revealed the switch and they're like, look at how all of our console's legacies like belt to the switch. *00:03* Um E3 sounds like it's gonna be kind of stretched out over the month of June, unless Sony announces something sooner here, but *00:03* This show, the Max Frequency Podcast, Logan and I's new seasonal podcast, Chapter Select. *00:03* It like those like similar things are going on in both Dark Souls and League of Legends for me, which is why I like both. *00:03* Well they've been dodgy about it forever too because Jim Ryan, like they the questions surrounding God of War specifically got way more hot, like *00:03* Like they were pretty their messaging was totally straightforward the with the PlayStation 4. *00:03* Yeah. *00:03* I promise the rest of my PlayStation predictions are slightly more exciting or controversial, but *00:03* I hope I hope that's the case. *00:03* So I have no Starfield prediction. *00:03* Um right *00:03* Like that's sadly something they do every two or three months now, somehow. *00:03* Yes, I uh for for the record, tomorrow is June 3rd. *00:03* It's the same as Zelda. *00:03* And then COVID kinda like ruined everything. *00:03* I guess just so you know, a little behind the scenes here, I did tease slightly, ever so slightly. *00:03* Like at Dual Shockers, I was doing like all of it. *00:03* But really it's I feel like in the end that's a prob I *00:03* Um who knows. *00:03* But if they if they do a similar mechanic, that has to be faked on PS5. *00:03* This had to be decided from day one. *00:03* It's confusing. *00:03* This is probably the most vague and boring. *00:03* So my next one, this is really a pipe dream, if we really want to boil it down. *00:03* I think no because anything, there's a tease at the end of integrade or integrade whatever. *00:03* Yeah. *00:03* Okay. *00:03* Your team can live and your office can be in a different place. *00:03* And then they go on and say, by the way, God of War and Grand Turismo 7, cross generation. *00:03* Like, hey you said it's for PS5, but also you're doing more PS4 games. *00:03* It's on track. *00:03* It automatically cuts them off at the knees. *00:03* Like Miles Morales was a real like no one expected that. *00:03* They've been one of like the most impressive developers in the industry over like the last five years. *00:03* Like people want to engage with that stuff. *00:03* So reveal both characters. *00:03* I don't know how you redo those in a new Mario Kart Ultimate. *00:03* I would love that. *00:03* So yeah. *00:03* I think that's why we rag on you a lot about having a kid because none of my friends a lot of them have started getting married, but none of them have. *00:03* I mean we we haven't done a project since Millennial Gaming Speak at Model Citizens. *00:03* I'm I'm really excited to see where it goes and I you know *00:03* So if it wasn't this, I don't really know what I would be doing. *00:03* Uh I burn out a lot nowadays. *00:03* I don't really care what's going on here, what's going on on my phone, let me check my Twitters, how much how many much money have I made on my stocks? *00:03* The other thing too is that the other thing that's really smart about Dark Souls 1 is that it *00:03* I think Resident Evil Village is a good example of a game that gives you the pretense that you can kind of do whatever you want in the game, but it very much doesn't, and it funnels you down in a direct path. *00:03* Probably not. *00:03* This is not a prediction. *00:03* So I think that I think that's all clear. *00:03* Alright, we'll do this. *00:03* It could be Twisted Metal, it could be um Parappa the Rappa, could be uh who knows. *00:03* Modern. *00:03* Remember that? *00:03* And the fact that they're gonna bring out Super Switch at some point, like that game's just gonna keep living on in perpetuity *00:03* I'm actually I'm actually really glad they did because as soon as I kind of applied for that I was like I kinda hope I don't get *00:03* I'm very active over there. *00:03* I think so, yeah. *00:03* Like I kinda had those feelings run their course a couple years ago when I jumped to doing dual shockers. *00:03* Um Yeah. *00:03* I'm like, well I don't want to play this game then. *00:03* They're rolling around in the PS4. *00:03* I am stoked to play that game. *00:03* That's the Spider-Man cross-gen game. *00:03* Gotta be easy to port. *00:03* But anytime I have to write about prologue plus point zero point two. *00:03* But I didn't I didn't think it was prediction worthy. *00:03* But you know, I um I've joked that this will be the first Bethesda game I actually buy, even though this is machine games, it's not Bethesda Bethesda. *00:03* I hope you're just happy seeing a little bit of it. *00:03* So I d I I just think I personally think they could get *00:03* I would love more. *00:03* Anyway. *00:03* You're you're walking around the tree while the game is actually secretly loading in the background. *00:03* Yeah, yeah, yeah. *00:03* I like that too. *00:03* Did they end up they did ended up doing something? *00:03* Um I say they drop it. *00:03* But uh I think they're gonna do that. *00:03* I think EA really really wants to get back in the fold hard with Battlefield. *00:03* It doesn't mat it's a it's a lot. *00:03* I played I played maybe a third of it with my dad. *00:03* Because that's like half the c it's like half the cost of the game. *00:03* Alright, is it my last one or is it yours? *00:03* And that sounds absolutely perfect. *00:03* It's kind of this two-sided thing. *00:03* They probably are. *00:03* Yeah, to me that reads hey, we're showing multiplayer. *00:03* Like that they have a really good team in place to make that game. *00:03* Um Okay. *00:03* They're working on it. *00:03* Uh oh man, scale down. *00:03* Um no. *00:03* That's that weirds me out. *00:04* com and CBS and stuff like that, like I I really had not like I'm glad that I ended up there because *00:04* So Yeah. *00:04* I'm not I'm not knocking the office space, but just the having that office be *00:04* It's got like elements of it, but you don't need it doesn't To me that actually that honestly, to to not uh make it an entire joke, actually sounds a lot like *00:04* What it was the monk headless monkey from Donkey? *00:04* I like I don't think they even probably say that unless *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* People killed play that. *00:04* Like good for them. *00:04* Well it doesn't no d Naughty Dogs don't have Digital Jack. *00:04* A thousand percent we're getting sequels to all of those. *00:04* It's a weird thing though because I don't know how it would I don't know how it would work. *00:04* So it's close to 15 years since. *00:04* Yeah, so like there's th this game is in some fashion out there, whether it is quote unquote E3 ready or not. *00:04* Um and Death Stranding good game. *00:04* Three reasons. *00:04* They did the same thing with Link's Awakening a few years ago. *00:04* I've bought in. *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* So I'm still unverified over there. *00:04* Yeah, I do need to get back to my roots of playing games while I like watch baseball. *00:04* Um like you've seen how much junk I have bought this year. *00:04* Um, yeah, comic book is different, you know, because it is a larger *00:04* I don't care how many people read me or listen to me or whatever. *00:04* It's not right, yeah, yeah. *00:04* Cause like they showed their hand really, really early on in the PS4 generation *00:04* Phil walked in to Todd Howard's office and said *00:04* So no gameplay for Starfield. *00:04* They need to pull people away from Call of Duty and pull them, pull maligned Battlefield 5 players back in, even though that that game. *00:04* And they're like, here it is, we're gonna finally show it to you. *00:04* Alright. *00:04* After last year going on forever, I'm stoked to just have a more tightly focused week celebrating video games and new projects and stuff. *00:04* Like that game is one that has stewed in my brain the if there's one that has really had like *00:04* Um so yeah, ha absolutely play those would be the three I would suggest. *00:04* I mean holy smokes the thing's lightning. *00:04* But I mean I get getting the negativity out in front and it's good for them. *00:04* My final PlayStation prediction. *00:04* So not to add this as like a potential uh wrinkle to your predictions. *00:04* We'll find out. *00:04* No one knows what the game is. *00:04* Um so I've always wanted to play Psychonauts. *00:04* Nintendo, always my favorite every year. *00:04* I think I think they'll do something similar to what they'll show off gameplay, but they're not gonna like commit to anything. *00:04* Yeah, I like that idea. *00:04* This is a whole deeper discussion though, but like what do they have this fall if not something like that coming out of left field? *00:04* Just the GameCube is mentioned or appears in some capacity. *00:04* Like I don't like I signed up for Press's E3 Press the other day, and like I don't even know what that means. *00:04* Mm-hmm. *00:04* Like I had done it as well sort of with dual shockers, and I I feel like I had that sort of um *00:04* They're like, okay. *00:04* I feel like it's kind of one of the bigger cities in the Midwest. *00:04* League, Doom, Dark Souls, like those are the games I feel like I've been preaching the most about over the past couple of years, and that's probably why I like those. *00:04* I mean, why would you not want to play a flashy new PS5 game? *00:04* And and then and then I'll be jumping right into Sakuraw. *00:04* Like, just say that? *00:04* To me this felt more like let's answer all the lingering questions PlayStation fans have had for the last six months. *00:04* Like Call of Duty and Battlefield and all the big release Madden this year, they're all gonna be cross-gen as well. *00:04* So um I so yeah, before I said there were sequels we a thousand percent knew. *00:04* Maybe I'm can set something up here for you. *00:04* But I remember Psychonauts fondly because it was on G4 TV on like this cheat show that they had. *00:04* So I it's uh it's probably pretty safe. *00:04* Those are always the four that everybody's like, where where is it, Nintendo? *00:04* And then somehow I do. *00:04* And so I I think I think the name is um is just yeah, that's the only thing that would potentially hinder us there. *00:04* And that was the year. *00:04* I mean, I'll just be blunt. *00:04* It's outperforming PS4 at the at its launch. *00:04* I don't know if I want that, if I'm being honest. *00:04* Like they've kind of hinted at this for a while now that they are partnering with other people to make their game. *00:04* Now will it hit that date? *00:04* So that's kind of where I was at. *00:04* Psychonauts 2. *00:04* Give people a second kick to look. *00:04* Yeah, no, back to me. *00:04* Yeah, it's a pretty old game. *00:04* Um I would love you know me, I would love it. *00:04* I love the idea that Reggie like has an official English card of it. *00:04* I mean you've been you went to PSX twice, uh you've been to E3. *00:04* I've played the first boss of Bloodborne and uh a buddy back when I worked at a Kmart got me to try the very beginning of Dark Souls and I was like, I don't get this. *00:04* Kind of a deal. *00:04* I like I like Herman I like Herman Holst a lot, but I feel like he we've just not seen *00:04* Yes, that was good. *00:04* We see a clip from Gabe gives the thumbs up. *00:04* So that would make sense. *00:04* Okay. *00:04* It's coming. *00:04* There we go. *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* And then for myself, you can find my writing over at maxfrequency. *00:04* I used my new microphone, so you gotta hear it there. *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* But also God of War narratively kind of felt like it was almost a *00:04* Um especially when the first game they I mean the first game they just had to nail so many things that are so hard to nail, like the web swinging and the *00:04* Well, there was also, did you see those rumors the other day? *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* Also, Metroid Prime 4. *00:04* It is. *00:04* It's like an open source website to where you can just it's basically like an open source um *00:04* But even that after I quit that, there was no going back there. *00:04* And you flipped out. *00:04* That puts you to sleep, apparently. *00:04* Where the design of that game is it starts s narrow in scope, like hey, go do this one thing. *00:04* My last topic before we dive into E3 predictions uh is courtesy of Sony today. *00:04* By 2018, if the PS5 is launching in 2020, they're in pre-production for this sequel. *00:04* The h the SSD in both of those, just alone *00:04* Maybe that's kind of giving us a little bit of whipple. *00:04* But that's why people keep getting upset with that stuff, these hardcore fans, is because *00:04* Um he was around a lot for the press tours for Zero Dawn. *00:04* What was twenty nineteen? *00:04* They did like previews and released gameplay and stuff like that and released some like interviews with the other. *00:04* I don't think I think Astro's next game is a PSVR 2 game, and that will be when that gets shown off, and that's not going to be this year. *00:04* Your last one, which you say quote unquote is terrible. *00:04* My final prediction was rumored a few weeks ago. *00:04* Well, I'm I'm whole, I'm all in, so *00:04* I think twenty years, because I was actually listening to all those old episodes the other night. *00:04* It I it's blowing my mind. *00:04* I feel like you'll do that with Sticker Star. *00:04* So this brings back to the one, I guess, thing with all this that I want to mention is like and this should be a good segue into the their announcements is *00:04* Like just very simple consumer questions that people want answers to *00:04* We've partnered with Firewalk to make a new multiplayer game that looks incre you know. *00:04* We'll stick in line with very much Logan Moore style video games. *00:04* If they could get Half-Life Alex, oh my gosh. *00:04* The my next two are uh the ones I'm most excited about for PlayStation. *00:04* Okay, I'll stick. *00:04* That game 1000% exists. *00:04* I think that's the studio name. *00:04* I heard Platinum Games has got a really good idea for a game like that involves a dragon. *00:04* Anyway, Psychonauts 2 release date announced, and I will get very specific. *00:04* It was like I mean I a super switch would be a great callback to the supermakes, I think, is why they would. *00:04* It's gonna happen. *00:04* I mean, can you really go any higher than that? *00:04* So I like it. *00:04* They did actually hear the outcry and pivot. *00:04* Black suit Spider-Man confirmed in the debut trailer. *00:04* That's gonna be the hook of the game. *00:04* Almost almost kind of reminds me of like Nintendo with all the Wii U to Switch ports. *00:04* Remember when they brought him back? *00:04* Okay. *00:04* Um I'll start it off since you start off PlayStation. *00:04* Because really it was the visuals that got chewed and if multiplayer looks good then. *00:04* The thing I wanted to bring up about this presentation is um *00:04* So I did. *00:04* They did honestly the Nintendo thing lately, the Bethesda thing as well. *00:04* They can't acknowledge all of them. *00:04* It's a common way. *00:04* And I'm so I think that discussion uh w we haven't I don't think in our list of ideas for future seasons do we have anything that's truly *00:04* Is that f a fair way to termized that you were *00:04* The dream has slowly diminished over time to just from I wanna be here and I want to do this and I w or okay, if that doesn't work out, then how about here and I'll do this? *00:04* Like I know it's not gone away completely, but I don't know if it's the same one we had before or what the deal is. *00:04* Um That game is interconnected in a way that few games are and it is so *00:04* So yeah. *00:04* They had some Microsoft exclusives, they did VR games for Oculus and stuff. *00:04* I have it on Switch. *00:04* That's totally what Sucker Punch is doing next. *00:04* Battlefield 6 shows up, so Battlefield 6 is getting revealed next week, I think on June 9th. *00:04* So Battlefield 6 is gonna show up and they are going to confirm way ahead of time that it's launching day and date on Game Pass. *00:04* Literally anything else you want with that game, just please bring back that soundtrack team and do something in that style again. *00:04* So it's 35 with Zelda and then Donkey Khan, I believe, is 40. *00:04* I really, really, really, really, really want it. *00:04* There was a rumor that the Odyssey team, aka Nintendo's like a Primo Mario team. *00:04* Because we have work, you know, we we do this together so often. *00:04* I'm su I I'm sure I will eventually get to them someday, chapter select or not, so *00:04* What could they do and push it forward from a game design perspective? *00:04* We're not asking Jim Ryan to tell us how Atreus being Loki is gonna fit into the narrative of the next God of War game. *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* Again, second party exclusives in some capacity. *00:04* They're not gonna say a date. *00:04* I think it's gonna be legends, it'll have a different subtitle. *00:04* Pro on the z console side, yes. *00:04* Is this the controller that comes with the Switch Pro? *00:04* We'll go a three-parter. *00:04* Like they're still playing around with it, but *00:04* We heard this is a 30th anniversary of some franchise we have? *00:04* There's one game in there that I think may ta w it definitely will take longer than *00:04* Seventeen months of gaming. *00:04* And what does that feel like? *00:04* I've like that's kind of the part that I was really talking about. *00:04* Oh my gosh. *00:04* Like that makes sense. *00:04* Of course that's gonna happen. *00:04* I hope it does come out this holiday so I can have this big open world PS5 game to play. *00:04* I wanna I'm gonna mention this now *00:04* Everyone everyone knows black suit slash venom. *00:04* Really get the internet up to the show. *00:04* Yeah, one of the most prominent developers in the industry is finally breaking the mold that they've had for two decades at this point and is like, hey, we're gonna do something new. *00:04* So hope I'm hopefully that comes to fruition. *00:04* Thousand percent. *00:04* Don't worry, it's coming sometime. *00:04* So I'll I'll I'll pull out my sixth one, which um is the GameCube makes an appearance. *00:04* Yeah. *00:05* I so I also you you roped me into dual shockers for *00:05* Uh PAX East, we had a great with Mike and I've talked about it with Alex on those episodes. *00:05* I just I th you've done really well and kinda what you're saying at the top there. *00:05* Um but yeah like new people I meet with they're like I don't know whenever you meet new people common question oh so what do you do? *00:05* Yeah, I'd say if you can just leave your reservations at the door that it's hard and there is a learning curve. *00:05* Uh so f good job getting that done. *00:05* But Inhar has been working on Spider-Man 2 since that game ended. *00:05* Wow. *00:05* They've announced today they're aiming for holiday. *00:05* Um Yeah, they're joined at the hip now. *00:05* Like that'll be probably the sole thing they show. *00:05* Before I let my excitement get too ahead of me. *00:05* Holiday 2020. *00:05* I'm gonna guess that's your reason. *00:05* Every track is here. *00:05* I don't even know if they will. *00:05* Um you and I we pick a series of games *00:05* And now you're over at comicbook. *00:05* Like this whole thing felt like *00:05* Like this year's E3 or press conference or like whatever the heck they're doing this year when they're gonna assumably make more announcements about what they're doing in the future. *00:05* Do you just want to start with PlayStation? *00:05* So probably not Crash Duty. *00:05* Not just for Metal Gear in my prediction, but just *00:05* I'm I'm excited. *00:05* Um, I think they're just gonna show a logo and that's it though. *00:05* So they probably won't call it Super Switch, but it'll probably be new Nintendo Switch. *00:05* I think it's finally gonna have I because the last fighter has to be. *00:05* Doug Bowser and Bowser the Koopa King appear on screen together. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* Uh I say it shows up in some capacity *00:05* To really just make you feel like, oh my gosh. *00:05* And I think that lends itself to that discussion pretty well. *00:05* And I got by and I did fine and um *00:05* And I think the latter portion of my twenties, my final years here, need to be defined by me figuring out what on earth I want to do next because it's been such a *00:05* Getting in the industry and then realizing And then realizing, oh wait, I don't actually want this. *00:05* But also, yeah, like it's not San Francisco. *00:05* Like it's hard. *00:05* That game's really smart with how it's designed though. *00:05* Not to mention, this is such a terrible look on them for everything Jim Ryan said pre-PS5 releasing where *00:05* Uh, we've got 25 games in development at PlayStation Studios, and over half of them are new IP. *00:05* There are rumors out the wazoo. *00:05* Because they've left E3 entirely. *00:05* And uh we'll start with you, sir, PlayStation, number one prediction. *00:05* And uh we already know it's a PS5 exclusive upfront. *00:05* Maybe, maybe in the vein of the the most recent trailer I can really think of from Bethesda is Fallout 76. *00:05* You know, there's a ton of potential and I hope it just pans out. *00:05* I want it. *00:05* And uh you'll definitely see some uh E3 tweets while that's going on over the next *00:05* The man I'm looking at, he's stretching right now, he's getting ready for a nice long podcast. *00:05* Right. *00:05* If anyone listening. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* You just sent a Doom article the other day from it or something. *00:05* Um I think the thing we run into though with uh our gaming team is that um and yeah we have great relationships with a lot of PR firms and publishers and stuff like that. *00:05* Like Ratchet, it's like, oh well we can switch environments at the drop of a hat because we can, you know, there's no loading really that's needed anymore. *00:05* Like they consistently in the PS4 generation put out excellent *00:05* They just did the horizon state of play. *00:05* They had to build this rock solid foundation. *00:05* Easy way to get 60 bucks out of people, you know. *00:05* It's just a it's a hoot. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* Uh Halo Infinite Beta today. *00:05* And part two, Nintendo will comment on the development of Metroid Prime 4. *00:05* Like they do at the end of every other one. *00:05* It's Metroid Prime 4, Breath of the Wild 2, Bayonetta 3, and uh Hul and uh *00:05* And one of the we finally put into action one of my ideas here. *00:05* It definitely went a little hard with RPGs. *00:05* I wanna what is how's that feel what's that like? *00:05* Something I I I I'm not even sure. *00:05* That was twenty seventeen, I think. *00:05* It's an up and coming city in the Midwest South region here. *00:05* You were like, yeah. *00:05* Those are good. *00:05* I feel like they probably had a good idea. *00:05* Maybe less so with your Maddens and your Call of Duties. *00:05* And it just kind of bums me out in that sense. *00:05* A lot of this has just been, you know, because of COVID and things like that, but like *00:05* They've got a lot of stuff cooking. *00:05* That would be dumb. *00:05* I would say I would say there's a good 90% chance no, but I guess we'll see. *00:05* Who that is, I don't know. *00:05* If you want to know what games we got coming, you know, we're not gonna talk about all of them right now. *00:05* Starfield only gets a trailer. *00:05* Remember when they made a co-op Wolfenstein game? *00:05* That'd be good. *00:05* So that they can control the conversation going into E3. *00:05* I don't know. *00:05* Oh my goodness, it was four years ago. *00:05* Like I I had like a sort of *00:05* I like it for that. *00:05* Yeah, the real the endorphins that hit your brain decide. *00:05* So And that's why people like Anne Orlando. *00:05* It just makes sense. *00:05* Look at think of God of War um with the you know, so God of War 2018 *00:05* I just want to see what these developers like I want to see what next gen really can be, and I feel like *00:05* Yeah, it makes me think that they like just wanted to be acquired kind of in a general sense and wanted PlayStation to be the one acquiring. *00:05* Herm I mean, yeah, Herman. *00:05* I think so so so here's the th- I think uh I think next year would have been the year, but I'm wondering if COVID ruined it *00:05* So there you go. *00:05* I t it's totally fine. *00:05* I was gonna say if they announce the Prime trilogy for Switch, I've that would that would *00:05* Adios *00:05* I I talked about this a few episodes ago, that's why they call me a podcast killer. *00:05* And that just like whoa. *00:05* I personally speak I mean I'll be totally honest. *00:05* I think these games are mediocre would probably be the word I use instead of bad. *00:05* Um think New York Times, but video games. *00:05* Like if I'm being totally, totally honest with you. *00:05* Like it is just get through your first one and all the others will make a little bit more sense outside of maybe second row. *00:05* That was a good time. *00:05* Phil. *00:05* So in Hars team, which I'm sure again, there's surely a lot of crossover. *00:05* Um, because they're going all in on that. *00:05* Uh I actually hope it's not really *00:05* Let's go Super Switch, folks. *00:05* Like the is a very popular bundle. *00:05* I should have said this next time. *00:05* It's a very interesting look into where our lives were at. *00:05* Yeah, like my my parents totally get it at this point and cause they've been, you know *00:05* I uh you know, you're just you're one of the I have quite a few friends who are hyper passionate about these games, and I thought I'd *00:05* Like all of this stuff that they said today could have been said so long ago. *00:05* I don't know. *00:05* Yeah, instead of like disembodied robot voice lady on from state of play. *00:05* It just feels cold. *00:05* You have to show people outside of purely just going space, like why they should be excited about it. *00:05* Good. *00:05* That doesn't mean it is in a presentable state *00:05* They paid a lot of money for all this talent. *00:05* Disappointment. *00:05* Part one. *00:05* And so to now go back to the pin, I re-listened to the Last of Us Part 2 episode. *00:05* Not to not to go into color splash specifically, but *00:05* Yeah, because we'll because we'll be probably banging these out much more quickly. *00:05* And it's not a game where you're like, oh I'm gonna pick up my phone here, do this, but like I feel like there are so many games now where *00:05* Well, yes, but why is that? *00:05* It's been funny going back to the legendary collection because they used to pat out the loading on the elevators, but they would like *00:05* So twenty nineteen They bailed on E three and uh *00:05* Um yeah. *00:05* It can match the PS5 console itself. *00:05* Silent Hill and Metal Gear specifically. *00:05* No, but they're gonna put a date to it. *00:05* So if they did that. *00:05* I'm I'm just I I'm just so interested in the new IP, or not new IP, I'm sorry, the new studio side of things. *00:05* That would be cool. *00:05* I m I do need to show my Series X some love, so maybe I'll I think I'm gonna replay it before the second one comes out. *00:05* Mario Kart 8 sells well, but there's by the time this holiday, there will be a hundred million switches out there. *00:05* It was a pretty fancy PNG we saw *00:05* You can read that history over at MaxFrequency dot net or listen to it as an audiobook podcast. *00:05* All behind the scenes making it. *00:05* News story broke. *00:05* Maybe that's just because I follow him on Twitter but and he actually tweets, but *00:05* So I I I fixed that, but I didn't know. *00:05* Like that game is probably not gonna be *00:05* Like that's take that to the bank, but uh I'll go with August 20th on the date. *00:05* I'm speaking it into existence. *00:05* So like uh what acknowledge our franchise's anniversary? *00:05* And throughout the next month of June, we're gonna be rolling out the first three episodes. *00:05* You know, Elden Ring, the hype for it is off the charts and you are I remember what was it? *00:05* Yeah, that's like a really So that is that is the one section of the game that after you do all the things early on that it wants you to do *00:05* They can't they can't keep these things in stock. *00:05* In legendary edition, like the loading happens so fast, especially because I'm playing on Series X. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* Look at Phil Spencer. *00:05* There's no talk about a game they don't need to hide. *00:05* So this is really the Sansari game situation. *00:05* I actually I had zero Smash predictions. *00:05* It's the only real Mario Kart game on Switch. *00:05* I would love it, but I think they gotta I think they've gotta comment on it. *00:05* Don't worry, it's coming, it's coming, just be patient, like *00:05* So thank you so much for joining me, Logan. *00:05* The PS4 is gonna be nine years old. *00:05* It's especially since Halo is supposed to launch last year. *00:05* There's you don't go, we're gonna make a PS5 game. *00:05* Is it a cross gen game? *00:05* Let's bring it to our most successful, you know. *00:05* I get that. *00:05* Uh that's actually a really good one for what I've got. *00:05* I'm very excited to see it. *00:05* So instead, Microsoft announces an exclusive from a prominent Japanese developer. *00:05* No date. *00:05* We will show you more at a later date. *00:05* We are where you want it. *00:05* It just feels right *00:05* I want this too. *00:05* So thank you so much. *00:05* Since we ran diapers? *00:06* I haven't played uh not I know we haven't disclosed what we're doing yet. *00:06* It uh comic book I don't do much, if any, uh to be honest. *00:06* Yep. *00:06* Um but also living in San Francisco sounds miserable, and that sounds Yep *00:06* So You you and me have very similar opinions about Ghost of Tsushima. *00:06* Because like there's literally been six or seven six or seven months worth of questions. *00:06* Like it's there's character and charm and personality there. *00:06* You know, just something some PlayStation characters come coming back to life. *00:06* Kind of like my own spin on it 'cause they didn't really s *00:06* And Fallout and Fallout wasn't even a new IP per se, because it was just they had reinvented what Fallout was. *00:06* Okay. *00:06* I think they're gonna confirm Fighters Pass Three is coming as well. *00:06* Like it's been a long time since a new Mario Kart game, not counting tour on phones and then home circuit live. *00:06* Have have fun following me. *00:06* Yeah. *00:06* It is hands down the original of Dark Souls. *00:06* But we are getting into Weird Nebulous territory now, though, where *00:06* I mean just look at what they've been doing with like Ratchet and like how they designed it. *00:06* And then they're like, oh yeah, by the way, we're bringing Untried for to PC. *00:06* Or Sean Leyden. *00:06* I think that game is very much *00:06* It starts today in some capacity. *00:06* They have like the Halo Insider is what I think it's called. *00:06* Yeah, I get what you're saying. *00:06* It just based on when that game was shown, how long it has been since we've seen everything *00:06* Like is Jeff Keeley's Summer, please watch my sponsored Doritos stream? *00:06* Well the game the game comes out uh June eleventh. *00:06* Five or six I think five or six. *00:06* Praise the sun. *00:06* And it's the it's the the progression as well. *00:06* Is yeah, you're gonna feel like you're getting your face caved in early on in that game, but it comes to a point where if you built properly *00:06* That was the one I started with, and that was what won me over and made me want to play all of them. *00:06* Uh I I w once you get past the learning curve of your first souls game though, then all the others are more accessible *00:06* Like a public facing that Bend is very happy with what they're doing now. *00:06* So what's Bioshock? *00:06* You The end before they even show off the headset. *00:06* Okay, so a classic anti prediction. *00:06* I hate typing that. *00:06* And that's because the Wii was *00:06* Let's make it happen. *00:06* Um I'm the I was the same way. *00:06* And I'm reading through these excerpts because the podcast wasn't up yet, so I couldn't listen to it. *00:06* Um *00:06* And I've always been like pretty *00:06* Huge surprise. *00:06* Was it just state of plays? *00:06* They would have done some ghost stuff. *00:06* So we're moving on a full three years since that game came out. *00:06* Um, so that would be the only reason I can't see them announcing it right now. *00:06* They need to be only multiplayer. *00:06* That could really possibly help in Japan. *00:06* So that's my uh final Xbox prediction. *00:06* I need to, I've told you this before. *00:06* I like how we're thinking the same though. *00:06* They do it's it's insane. *00:06* Like, how is E3 actually working? *00:06* Maybe they'll go in July instead. *00:06* People I used to drive this guy to school every day senior year. *00:06* I assume you're this familiar with the Souls games, but like *00:06* It's like we have all these PS4s and we should sell to them. *00:06* It's just it's weird. *00:06* Um Yeah, they did something. *00:06* Yeah, well it's just I think if this was how Sony always operated or PlayStation always operated, then we would be fine with it. *00:06* Yeah. *00:06* Um yeah, I agree. *00:06* That's usually closed to some reports. *00:06* Like they're not gonna show it on PS base PS4 running or something like that *00:06* Um well I really only got two more left since one of mine is actually already taken. *00:06* This is one of those things that I like want to believe, but *00:06* In an exciting way for them, but just *00:06* I don't know. *00:06* So because because yeah, Dual Shockers was synonymous with, you know, gaming and gaming only. *00:06* You don't unlock fast travel in Dark Souls 1 until about *00:06* I I just would have to go buy it. *00:06* So I think the surprising thing about Ratchet was because they did *00:06* I was gonna say I have no Starfield predictions, so I'll chime in a response to this. *00:06* Like after they announced it. *00:06* I would like them. *00:06* It was and it's running on a small TV in front of us. *00:06* Or am I forgetting something? *00:06* It's just I'm having a lot of fun with it. *00:06* Well it was uh I flipped out over that because it was good to see uh *00:06* Yeah. *00:06* But yeah. *00:06* Halo clearly is *00:06* I just haven't gotten to it. *00:06* Yes, like they th they're gonna keep leaning into this. *00:06* Part two. *00:06* com, which is owned by CBS? *00:06* Um You've been to the Game Awards, you are the Shtick Hydro. *00:06* The uh the one thing this may tie back into chapter select, we'll see someday. *00:06* Why there's 125 million PS4s out there? *00:06* Not that they're like bad at running the company. *00:06* So I think that I think that is because I think them simply showing off a trailer and being like, Spider-Man 2, here's Peter Parker swinging around the city. *00:06* Pull a Starfield or Elder Scrolls and just basically confirm it's a thing and that people don't even have to question whether or not it is. *00:06* Like, oh, Insomniac, you can make this, and Crystal, you can make that. *00:06* So I would *00:06* So I hope so. *00:06* Uh gameplay *00:06* They already did well they did like re recordings for all the old ones too in that style. *00:06* Um *00:06* No one knows what I'm doing. *00:06* Just to maybe have more of um *00:06* I don't even know if we still have the office space because I I don't know *00:06* Combat doesn't feel great. *00:06* Yes. *00:06* Like, I I don't I don't understand. *00:06* Like as soon as they saw people starting to question, like, oh is God a war PS4? *00:06* Um I I honestly I think that'll stick with them the whole PS5. *00:06* Like they're not that you need like these *00:06* Uh one of my predictions was ruined today. *00:06* So it might be a little bit like I'm not expecting it to be out next year. *00:06* They gave other people Jack before. *00:06* So you think they're going balls to the wall here. *00:06* Like I'm thinking like a chunk *00:06* So and yeah, they haven't yet, they have to, they've talked about multiplayer, but they haven't shown it *00:06* It's actually pretty good too. *00:06* I hope they keep doing it. *00:06* What if m this is pipe dreaming now, but what if they did like the Master Chief collection did where you could push a button and it changes the graphics to *00:06* And now things I for the most part have cooled off with that game. *00:06* And I I still think Paper Mario is a great first *00:06* Probably. *00:06* Because I kind of got the whole, you know *00:06* Not to like my friends from like high school and stuff like that, but they're they're like people like that I go to at church. *00:06* Yeah. *00:06* Well if we do it, no promises, but if we do it, uh we would start with the demon souls. *00:06* And I know that is a terrible way to sell somebody on a video game because I'm one of those people who somebody's like *00:06* But to just be so dodgy about it and not answer just is really frustrating. *00:06* Like no one expected that. *00:06* Um no, they really haven't. *00:06* And then you're like, oh shoot. *00:06* I'm ex- I'm um very excited for that game. *00:06* Do I really think they're gonna do that? *00:06* Not being dir Death Stranding. *00:06* Yes. *00:06* I would double dip. *00:06* Uh and that's fine. *00:06* That's maybe the best choice. *00:06* This is just like they have made miss you know, it's one step forward, two steps back almost. *00:06* Naughty Dog's working on three games apparently. *00:06* Just show it. *00:06* Oh yeah. *00:06* Like you are not walk they are not walking in the environment, like doing things. *00:06* I think everybody is just like like kind of where I'm coming from for this, where it's like *00:06* Should have should have no Metroid game is announced. *00:06* It's easy to get bogged down with your situation, I think, at certain times. *00:06* Uh the site was pulled up by its bootstraps. *00:06* Oh. *00:06* Help me understand. *00:06* Can you tell us if that's for PS4 as well? *00:06* That's great as someone who loves God of War. *00:06* It's just what do they want to do? *00:06* And that was before we knew Miles Morales was a smaller *00:06* That's crazy *00:06* It's Tony Hawk and Insomniac's crazy wacky weapons. *00:06* I would be down for that. *00:06* Yeah, like I *00:06* You're making this prediction to protect yourself this time around, I see. *00:06* I mean my twenti my twenties have absolutely been defined by *00:06* Comic book is not is located out of Nashville. *00:06* It's great. *00:06* The just *00:06* So that'll be a good *00:06* And then Dark Souls, then Sekiro, then Dark Souls 2, then Bloodborne. *00:06* I just have to talk about it with you. *00:06* And *00:06* That's your moment. *00:06* They're making a sequel to that game. *00:06* Because there's been so much talk for like two, two and a half years about how Konami *00:06* I would like to play Halo in two weeks' time, trust me *00:06* I don't know why they are. *00:06* They haven't made a new game since two thousand seven. *00:06* That's always okay. *00:06* I think it could be fun. *00:06* Ignore that whole situation. *00:06* And then we've been pot we podcasted for *00:07* But after that we've kicked around some other ideas and I think we'll just need to be way more cognizant of *00:07* And um you were like, don't show me the show notes. *00:07* And I don't know how exactly that works. *00:07* The uh *00:07* Which one is like *00:07* And then, you know *00:07* It's just giving people it it feels like they're talking out of both sides of their mouth in in certain instances. *00:07* Obviously, COVID ruined everything last year and everybody went digital last year. *00:07* Everyone loves Phil. *00:07* Just get it out there, tell us it's coming. *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* I just I think that would be I *00:07* I I the Xbox Ones are the ones I'm least hyped about. *00:07* Don't get excited, is how I interpreted that teaser. *00:07* Okay. *00:07* I'll um *00:07* And so they can continue doing this. *00:07* That was it. *00:07* It's always the three horsemen of *00:07* I've almost got the pitch memorized that I've written, but that's kind of the gist right there. *00:07* It's a way to be *00:07* Which feels weirder to say about Dark Souls 'cause it's more grim. *00:07* When they said Spider-Man Miles Morales and Horizon were PS4 games, why not just say *00:07* Like that's not surprising at all that Horizon Forbidden West started on PS4 and then was brought to PS5. *00:07* It's more just like why not just like *00:07* That's awesome. *00:07* I'm not saying sly. *00:07* Um *00:07* That that Final Fantasy origin game 1,000% exists. *00:07* They they're joined together. *00:07* But we know they're probably gonna show Starfield as well. *00:07* They could do a but an exclusive from Capcom or um *00:07* Okay, that's l no date. *00:07* Nintendo won't, but you know. *00:07* Well I will say I think that the best thing we've learned from the show so far, at least to me, is just *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* Maybe you you'll probably remember you have a better memory than me. *00:07* They have a whole segment of their company that was like dedicated to That would be I totally forgot that they did that. *00:07* I I do like that *00:07* But um *00:07* Um *00:07* I think Square would want to save that for their own thing later. *00:07* But I tried to get like I tried to get like I tried to really hone in on some. *00:07* Um but I they announce *00:07* Let's get Super Switch be out there into the ether. *00:07* Like they can they can sell Mario Kart 8. *00:07* But um *00:07* Blah blah blah blah blah. *00:07* Oh my last one's terrible. *00:07* I'm willing this one into existence. *00:07* It could do some awesome stuff with with Donkey Kong as the central platformer character. *00:07* We we both have new microphones. *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* Um *00:07* So I just remember that E3 in particular thinking *00:07* Headless Monkey from Donkey. *00:07* We just wanted to let you know. *00:07* And a couple years ago they didn't feel like that because they would have things like PSX and they would have these *00:07* Because obviously they're super successful. *00:07* So I feel like they could have been sold for more, but *00:07* Or uh *00:07* Yeah, and the foundation is there. *00:07* What a game. *00:07* I'm gonna take Bethesda shows off Indiana Jones gameplay. *00:07* There it is. *00:07* Take that feel about it. *00:07* I plan on doing that. *00:07* So I I don't really know *00:07* It was the first year. *00:07* Um like it it has been *00:07* Like it PS5 is doing extremely well. *00:07* May as well. *00:07* But Konami itself also isn't gonna make it. *00:07* Narration. *00:07* Um It'll be fun. *00:07* I do. *00:07* I spoke banjo into existence. *00:07* I don't know what else they have coming out this year. *00:07* So bad. *00:07* But really *00:07* So kind of uh you you asked me *00:07* So to answer your question way earlier, Bloodborne, yes, I'd probably say do Bloodborne first. *00:07* I really hope they can *00:07* I'm not saying that the guy's gotta go on every podcast and like be buddy-buddy with everyone. *00:07* I think we gotta see that soon. *00:07* Somebody said that this is what got my brain thinking on this. *00:07* They're making a movie of Ghost of Tsushima now. *00:07* Here's everything that's in it. *00:07* Okay, I was gonna I was getting all susp at the end here. *00:07* One is Waluigi. *00:07* Hey, that game still 8 still sells too well. *00:07* Paper Mario is another good one, yeah. *00:07* Like that's that is *00:07* I really hope not. *00:07* That's really good. *00:07* Um it is just *00:07* I'm curious what ko Kojima's like the big well I think we can say this because we're past the PlayStation Xbox stuff and that's the only place he'd appear. *00:07* If you play Psychonauts, then you can play the VR game for PlayStation VR as well, which is like a one point *00:07* So how about you kick off Nintendo? *00:07* Mario Kart Eight to me though is like Nintendo's Grand Theft Auto is why I don't think they're gonna *00:07* Well, it's not terrible, it's just something you and I talked about off camera. *00:07* Pretty much. *00:07* I feel bogged down with where we're at right now. *00:07* Um yeah, thank God that's looks to be over. *00:07* Like I have to ex every time I would get to the interview round people are like, what is this? *00:07* You know what I'm trying to say? *00:07* And so like we have to kind of *00:07* And I it for me Abby changed my life. *00:07* So I'm I'm talking out of my butt here, but *00:07* It's it's a mix of a lot of different things. *00:07* Like I bet 2022 Call of Duty is still gonna be cross-gen as well. *00:07* Cannot wait. *00:07* I always think that's a good idea. *00:07* The only way I'd want that is if Blue Point was remote you know if Metal Gear Solid won't be getting another remake. *00:07* Like those just are almost synonymous with the PlayStation brand. *00:07* So um *00:07* I wanted to say Microsoft announces another studio purchase. *00:07* And they said their direct was exclusively software. *00:07* Breath of the Wild sequel is shown off. *00:07* No, they're just Or does it only work with the Switch Pro? *00:07* The attach rate on Switch in general is incredibly high. *00:07* 8 looks so good. *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* Why? *00:07* Revolutionary. *00:07* Yep. *00:07* That's where I've always been. *00:07* Where else? *00:07* Um at the same time, each episode is pretty wholly different from itself. *00:07* I've got a couple of topics here. *00:07* With that I I mean shoes. *00:07* California expensive. *00:07* I love it. *00:07* Demands your full attention, entirely centered around *00:07* And was that it? *00:07* I thought that game was like not that bad and I like really ev everybody hated it and I didn't *00:07* I liked it. *00:07* Um there's there's multiple rumors and leaks. *00:07* Here is Skyward Speaker. *00:07* Platinum has really nothing else going on on their plate right actually that's not true. *00:07* And then Mother Three, but we can't really count that because that's like *00:07* So there was no 3D there. *00:07* It's a combination of mediocrity and game length. *00:07* No one no one is. *00:07* That's it. *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* And that was a very, very rare thing. *00:07* Just show Spider-Man decked out in the symbiote. *00:07* It'd be really slick. *00:07* I don't think they show off anything new for Horizon. *00:07* I don't think we're getting anything else. *00:07* So that was that was uh Game Skinny. *00:07* I mean really nowadays how many events are actually *00:07* They're like, okay, I get it now. *00:07* Um *00:07* So that's totally fine. *00:07* And I don't think that's gonna *00:07* I reviewed it on Switch for Dual Shockers back in the day. *00:07* Final Fantasy 16 gameplay and release date announced. *00:07* I do genuinely like that we're thinking the same way with the stuff. *00:07* They should keep playing that bit up. *00:07* It would dominate. *00:07* I never heard of that one *00:07* Two bad suckers! *00:07* I feel it. *00:07* But Logan decided to upgrade. *00:07* Um so like I used to I used to be able to bang out games like that, you know, and *00:07* I I don't know. *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* Maybe. *00:07* I never have. *00:07* Oh my god. *00:07* Um that was rare. *00:07* If uh why don't you plug away, my friend? *00:07* Because I know we talked about maybe *00:08* I really don't. *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* Yeah, I can I'll come back when I have the hookshot. *00:08* And they almost feel like they're resting on it. *00:08* That looks like a proper *00:08* Yeah, you and me both. *00:08* Um *00:08* It's every *00:08* That's just a crazy pipe dream feature, but *00:08* It kinda is in a weird way, except sounds way better than just Star Fox racing. *00:08* Like, E3 I know to a lot of people at home has always just been like, you know, oh I just watched the conferences and that's it. *00:08* I think that'll wrap it up. *00:08* All good podcasts. *00:08* Anyway *00:08* And then they never did it again. *00:08* Um *00:08* They're being so cagey now about every little every little thing. *00:08* Uh speaking of insomniac, I'll jump down my list. *00:08* But Perfect Dark its gameplay. *00:08* Fine. *00:08* I've been getting on people lately to stop using Switch Pro terminology because that's garbage terminology. *00:08* There was a a a few years in the middle there where I had moved and we weren't connected, but we've been *00:08* So *00:08* To make to really make me feel like wow, I gotta I gotta do s something in my life. *00:08* It's almost been a full year now? *00:08* You're like, I want to see what it's like to be one of your *00:08* Like *00:08* Um *00:08* You're telling me that a base PS4 is gonna run *00:08* It's the same issue with Halo Infinite. *00:08* I don't know. *00:08* I mean it'd be good for them. *00:08* I just said beta. *00:08* We were gonna see us some other time. *00:08* I think they are if I was gonna make a more *00:08* Jeez. *00:08* Gotcha, yeah, yeah, I know where you're gonna be. *00:08* That sound whenever Raymond and Rabbids was there because they had the giant Donkey Khan rabbit. *00:08* Thanks everybody for your excitement. *00:08* They it feels like they're keeping their audience at an arm's length. *00:08* Ottawactivus is in this game. *00:08* What a game. *00:08* I'm just saying *00:08* And I think the alpha slash beta date will be revealed. *00:08* Um *00:08* That's exactly my point. *00:08* All right. *00:08* He was like, you do what? *00:08* But personally, what's the best one? *00:08* The by the time God of War comes out, let's say it comes out, *00:08* That is currently in the told about, yeah. *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* Remastered on PS5. *00:08* Not being derivative about it being a walking simulator. *00:08* No matter how much they hurt me, disappoint me. *00:08* Like for Bidden West. *00:08* People will double dip, and if it's holiday 2021, so the switch *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* It's like the NES had two controllers in the *00:08* It's a gut-feeling thing that we see this game actually show up. *00:08* Oh, comicbook. *00:08* I thought maybe *00:08* And it'll be fun to play a series that we're intimately familiar with. *00:08* But you know what? *00:08* The Paxes? *00:08* At the same time, the mechanics in Bloodborne are. *00:08* The name of the the *00:08* Like, it's not like they're building anything. *00:08* I'm I'm very happy that *00:08* No gameplay. *00:08* Like people are way too excited about Starfield. *00:08* That's 13 games at least. *00:08* I don't recall *00:08* Yeah, it just felt a little too obvious to the degree that *00:08* I think that I think the things they will show *00:08* Like I I think that makes *00:08* I can't dedicate a hundred percent of my attention to that game because based based on what I've heard, I c I probably shouldn't do that at least. *00:08* It's kind of clunky. *00:08* Like pound for pound, I think though that game has the best boss fights easily. *00:08* And they have Ratchet coming out right before, which I think will kind of swing the pendulum back. *00:08* If I had the PTO, I'd be taken next Friday off. *00:08* It just, you know what, I think Sony should cash in on sunset and just bring it over. *00:08* They announced that we're back in *00:08* Maybe they would just skirt their own audience. *00:08* Sure. *00:08* Speaking of Mario Kart *00:08* Early July seems pretty empty. *00:08* Like if I can just, you know, live comfortably, like that is the thing I have realized. *00:08* I think that game is so masterfully crafted. *00:08* And so you really there is no predetermined way to go about beating that game in some senses. *00:08* And he's like, oh we'll have more to say on that later. *00:08* I'm pulling that out. *00:08* Yeah, I was gonna bring that up specifically. *00:08* So I have for my fifth one *00:08* Oh, that action game? *00:08* Some balance problems for sure though *00:08* And now I technically ha I think I actually bought it or it was with games with gold at one point. *00:08* They've switched pro controller. *00:08* They just announced the Mario Supergolf tour, I forget what it's called. *00:08* Um *00:08* I forget what it's called. *00:08* Not boring. *00:08* Like who would be Yeah, I don't know who would be making it *00:08* It's kind of a gimme. *00:08* No, 8's one in a 100%. *00:08* I believe it. *00:08* If you've heard me on Max's shows before, still there. *00:08* Um But yeah, I will be there. *00:08* People know what that is. *00:08* No one expected. *00:08* Like *00:08* Um *00:08* I never played Psychonauts 1. *00:08* I'm I'm excited for that. *00:08* Donkey Kong in 3D returning. *00:08* So go check that out. *00:08* I mean, it really kind of puts it all in perspective. *00:08* Like there's no oversight about it, but I know there is *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* So my company is located out of Nashville. *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* It's I don't know. *00:08* I have it as well. *00:08* Oh wait, pivot. *00:08* But like But they made the right response. *00:08* Like PlayStation's not *00:08* So may as well just confirm it. *00:08* So they and they encourage people to sign up for that all the time. *00:08* Everyone's hyped on new switch, because switch is the hotness. *00:08* And I know the memes are out there with even Sakurai being like, oh I'll never get tired *00:08* And then you're, you know, people are still buying Mario Kart 8 or they buy Mario Kart 9. *00:08* The Wii *00:08* I think that's episode six. *00:08* Like *00:08* Yeah, so I feel yeah, sure. *00:08* I'm not a scientist, don't quote me. *00:08* Sure. *00:08* And I was like, oh that's kind of interesting that he just straight up mentions Ben. *00:08* They're on PS4 as well. *00:08* And I think that m *00:08* It's like three or four five nondescript Spartans. *00:08* Isn't that how they finally isn't that what they did with *00:08* I mean you you've essentially done it, you know, d quote air quotes done it, you've done the thing that you've been trying to do. *00:08* I don't even know if Dark Souls ever like *00:08* It's it's very clever, very cool. *00:08* Like are they do they wanna talk about things that are, you know, four or five years down the line at this point? *00:08* And the the the difference is last year we knew what was in the oven. *00:08* No Tokyo Game Show, no *00:08* Real nice. *00:08* Terrible. *00:08* Uh so for this whole presentation to only be 90 minutes *00:08* That's literally my exact prediction. *00:08* Um *00:08* And I think that's because we've been recording the Paper Mario episodes so far apart. *00:09* No one knows. *00:09* There's Tennessee, the Midwest, or the South. *00:09* I'm not gonna be living in a like *00:09* Oh my gosh. *00:09* And it just *00:09* So I think four years between first one and second one makes a whole lot of sense *00:09* When I was entering in the like showcase times and stuff into my calendar, I *00:09* I will now speak John Spartan appearing in Smash into existence. *00:09* I've I'm jaded at this point. *00:09* I just *00:09* We've been going *00:09* Was it PSX one time? *00:09* I had the same *00:09* And that is *00:09* Like please everybody. *00:09* It could be a closed beta. *00:09* Same sort of thinking. *00:09* Not that those games are bad or don't even have a future, but like *00:09* Like the idea of them establishing a new team and be uh getting like established triple A people *00:09* Black Ops Cold War not so much, but Warzone's have been huge. *00:09* Show me why I should be excited about an Indiana Jones game. *00:09* I agree. *00:09* But if not, all of these games still run on the Switch and are Switch light. *00:09* Finally. *00:09* Part one. *00:09* And *00:09* Like that this is definitely their thing. *00:09* So thank you for doing this with me. *00:09* Yes. *00:09* But even when I was at dual shockers, I was not making anything. *00:09* Bloodborne's probably the best one to start with. *00:09* They're talking about stuff. *00:09* But I feel like that was September, October. *00:09* It's like *00:09* Uh *00:09* I'm not saying crash. *00:09* Because we've got *00:09* I for the record, we already saw gameplay of sixteen, didn't we? *00:09* I don't think it's being developed in-house, but I think *00:09* I wanna say though, I my prediction specifically says new Metroid game. *00:09* Well it's not terrible, it's just *00:09* The Wii U, the Wii U makes it possible to play and do other stuff. *00:09* There's a shoe over the behind my head that is an expensive sneaker. *00:09* Um *00:09* Like I I understand that fundamentally. *00:09* Like that was a shock to everybody when that blog post went live. *00:09* Like *00:09* And then that's it. *00:09* Hello. *00:09* And a Mario golf game and skyward sword. *00:09* Do it. *00:09* Yes. *00:09* And I just never heard back from any of the places for the most part. *00:09* I'm like *00:09* I think 2020 *00:09* It would be exciting if it's who I hope it is, but I'm this is all the prediction is. *00:09* So *00:09* Yeah, Paxes are, you know, Seattle and Boston. *00:09* I mean Demon Souls we knew about. *00:09* I mean Shuhei Yoshida had said that he was playing Ghost of Tsushima like four years before that game came out. *00:09* It's just too easy not to do it. *00:09* Well, I'm thinking thirty or forty. *00:09* Oh, I know what this is, yeah *00:09* com. *00:09* At this point in time, I am not really *00:09* We'll just say that because I needed the money up front. *00:09* So um *00:09* And they're completely different games. *00:09* Uh yeah, pound for pound I think that game has the best boss fights easily *00:09* Because *00:09* And I expect that for year one. *00:09* Like which is fine. *00:09* I played it though and it was like super impressive. *00:09* I like Black Suit. *00:09* So like *00:09* Yeah, that action game. *00:09* I've circled August 20th on the calendar. *00:09* I'm not an SEO boy. *00:09* I think that Mario Kart 8 is Nintendo's *00:09* Or NBC. *00:09* But I will say that I think most video game narratives and writing are *00:09* If anything, I should be the one who plays the original since I've played the remake now. *00:09* Yeah. *00:09* Astrobot, do you consider that a mascot at this point? *00:09* Oh I mean I think they'll show off I think they'll talk about it to some degree. *00:09* We'll talk more specifics down the road, but *00:09* The four big ones *00:09* Um *00:09* Yeah. *00:09* Season one has just started. *00:09* I'm like, yeah, man, I've been kind of depressed lately because I'm looking at this *00:09* Yeah, I mean I really like what we are doing with the show. *00:09* I'm just *00:09* Um so like *00:09* Um but the game doesn't do that for the first *00:09* Yeah, and that's it's gonna work on an Xbox One and an Xbox Series X. *00:09* So it's been a very long time. *00:09* So wholly agree. *00:09* Yeah, the fourth, which is Friday. *00:09* You can follow me over there *00:09* Job security. *00:09* Um *00:09* Um *00:09* I would kind of help wrangle our team around on a *00:09* Like that's how fast it is now. *00:09* And they're almost so they're not *00:09* But also *00:09* No, that he wasn't even at he wasn't a part of the GDC thing *00:09* Lean into it more. *00:09* So *00:09* Uh *00:09* Well we both had that same good idea. *00:09* I mean, hypothesized LI people like Dark Souls? *00:09* I want to play all of them. *00:09* Ratchet and Returnal. *00:09* Or Grain Trees Most Seven. *00:09* Rumors were floating around that it might be June 25th. *00:09* So like *00:09* Um but Metal Gear solid. *00:09* So it would be very much like a sort of Senzaru situation where it's like *00:09* And it seems to be a single-player narrative-driven game. *00:09* Um our five predictions here. *00:09* Do you think it's gonna be do you think we're gonna see it before? *00:09* I feel like they have to acknowledge the 35th anniversary of Metroid in some way *00:09* This is this is where Nintendo rumors get me. *00:09* I've upgraded. *00:09* Time is a flat circle again in our time. *00:09* I think the mechanics are really just *00:09* So the Doc Ok video game *00:09* Um outside of your prediction *00:09* Um *00:09* Yeah, they're they're they're gonna be like, hey, here it is. *00:09* net. *00:09* Like that's all it takes. *00:10* I don't know how they did that. *00:10* Do you *00:10* But again *00:10* Probably Pro *00:10* I mean, I feel like that's the one thing we can really *00:10* And to that end *00:10* Yeah, they've really not made anything *00:10* Too many people are saying it exists. *00:10* It doesn't make any sense. *00:10* Tell the people where they can find you. *00:10* If folks aren't familiar *00:10* But so like that *00:10* But one year, I don't know, this may have been the last day or the day before *00:10* I don't understand. *00:10* They know. *00:10* Just don't give me long titles and I'll I'll be I'll like your video game *00:10* I didn't have an Xbox. *00:10* Yeah. *00:10* So look forward to that. *00:10* We've been working on it for a year, I thought at the top of the show here we could talk about *00:10* Um *00:10* So Game Skinny is a website. *00:10* Now we have to make it for both. *00:10* They could, they could be only to certain I could see them saying sign ups are available now. *00:10* Uh new smash reveal *00:10* Like *00:10* I actually didn't listen to the final like twenty or thirty minutes of *00:10* And it's *00:10* Yes. *00:10* Like *00:10* So yeah. *00:10* Boom. *00:10* Uh that definitely will get a lot of pomp and circumstance. *00:10* I don't know if people are excited about Starfield. *00:10* I think they have to say no something *00:10* CBS. *00:10* But uh *00:10* Like there's nothing specific like that in Dark Souls really *00:10* Is God a war PS4? *00:10* Oh my gosh. *00:10* Rookie mistake. *00:10* So perfect dark gameplay and a release. *00:10* I think they know they screwed things up with five. *00:10* No, well yeah. *00:10* Yes, job security and just increased pay has been *00:10* Yeah, I don't I think I went to the last one. *00:10* Like, come on. *00:10* I don't know what's going on. *00:10* It's you know, we've done this before in the past, so it's not new to us, but *00:10* You can follow that, and then I guess. *00:10* Like *00:10* So um but yeah, based on what I've just been told like sometimes um *00:10* Maybe I want this instead. *00:10* I'm like, ah *00:10* Do some sort of trailer. *00:10* Possibly. *00:10* So I'll be our I'll be our reviewer on that one *00:10* And I think A little bit. *00:10* I think their PC initiative stuff is totally makes sense. *00:10* But I think Konami would be open to it. *00:10* It isn't they're not playing the game. *00:10* Um *00:10* Like, okay, I should be a little bit more like *00:10* It feels like it was so long ago, but really it was only *00:10* It's like on the weird. *00:10* Yeah, imagine Sony ever doing anything like that in response. *00:10* Like that is like *00:10* I I think that's it. *00:10* Look at Astrobot. *00:10* I don't think they can afford to delay again *00:10* It's just when you get a studio with that much talent *00:10* Um *00:10* Um, it's Logan Moore. *00:10* And think about it. *00:10* God of War Sequel, duh *00:10* I'm *00:10* That seems kind of bizarre though. *00:10* I didn't come with a six, so sorry. *00:10* So I guess doing that same style again when you know like *00:10* Everything should sound silky smooth. *00:10* And I'm like, oh I work for a website and *00:10* Um *00:10* That can't be understated. *00:10* Yeah Ratchet and Returnal are really good examples. *00:10* That was close to the day. *00:10* Um *00:10* There's just super solid. *00:10* Like when I say adventure, my head thinks to more like *00:10* And would we start with the PS5 version? *00:10* Outside of the date stuff. *00:10* Uh *00:10* Sold. *00:10* Yeah. *00:11* It's I it's I think that's just super fun *00:11* I do think *00:11* So they've got some stuff coming this fall. *00:11* Yeah, just print it. *00:11* Okay. *00:11* I'll do that one last. *00:11* And if there's a new one out, it's gonna be Mario Kart 9. *00:11* Like what are you doing exactly? *00:11* Like where *00:11* I'm *00:11* That's what I feel like I've heard you say on other *00:11* So I'm down fifty dollars. *00:11* Like I really I'm I'm personally happy about that. *00:11* Like, I'm pumped for it. *00:11* I I can't see them calling a Switch Pro. *00:11* It's because they're the most like *00:11* I played it at like a demo of it. *00:11* Um, okay, I'll do a straightforward one at least. *00:11* I think we see it tomorrow. *00:11* So I think could be smart and allow us to *00:11* Um was it twenty nineteen game of the year? *00:11* It's like well *00:11* Like I don't understand why they just didn't give clearance to be like *00:11* Right? *00:11* No, I think that makes sense. *00:11* They have not done anything new since Fallout 3 *00:11* That trainer really *00:11* That y one could argue that that's almost a little bit confusing then. *00:11* I don't know if they still allow it. *00:11* Rookie mistake. *00:11* They have a lot going on. *00:11* Um *00:11* And instead it's just been like *00:11* Like that was up front. *00:11* Um *00:11* We *00:11* Sunset Overdrive *00:11* It's a bayonet of three. *00:11* Um that's why I like Doom a lot as well. *00:11* That's *00:11* The man has a very important job and *00:11* Missed that one. *00:11* What do you got? *00:11* Like, is that actually gonna have *00:11* And *00:11* Sekiro is its own thing in a lot of ways. *00:11* Dude *00:11* And it just *00:11* My logic *00:11* Just search Chapter Select wherever you listen to podcasts. *00:11* I think we're gonna bank season two out and like *00:11* Okay. *00:11* Um *00:11* We were in in line in that situation. *00:11* Yeah, that was like later on in the year *00:11* You own it. *00:11* Specifically for Xbox and PC. *00:11* Um *00:11* Right. *00:12* And this isn't about *00:12* They're both green now. *00:12* It is their first wholly new IP in *00:12* Let's stick with machine games. *00:12* Horizon Zero Dawn came out in twenty seventeen. *00:12* So we can just *00:12* I just *00:12* And heck *00:12* So *00:12* I was paid as a contractor, so *00:12* I guess this *00:12* There's just something about Nintendo that always *00:12* Um people want these things. *00:12* So *00:12* I think *00:12* I think people just *00:12* Yeah, I think we could see it tomorrow. *00:12* I'll just throw that out there now. *00:12* And I don't mind playing bad games and getting through them. *00:12* Like, wow, they actually listened. *00:12* It's been gone for long enough that like *00:12* I agree with you. *00:12* Don't play Skyward Sword *00:12* Um *00:12* So yeah. *00:12* Same thing with Miles Morales. *00:12* Like why not just tell us? *00:12* And it's it doesn't make sense to me. *00:12* So *00:12* This I mean I I wasn't *00:12* Um *00:12* Like it wasn't like *00:12* Uh *00:12* Game Skinny was a is a site *00:12* And I'm like *00:12* And then, you know *00:12* They gotta show something that's gonna get people *00:12* I guess I'm just saying like *00:12* So *00:12* Well *00:12* Like *00:12* Um *00:12* Like *00:12* Like *00:13* It would have been twenty seventeen, yeah. *00:13* I just *00:13* But *00:13* Yeah, I mean I *00:13* Like, oh *00:13* But *00:13* And *00:13* Um *00:13* Um *00:13* Um *00:13* Here's my next one. *00:13* But like *00:13* But I just *00:13* Like they would *00:13* So like I *00:13* Yeah, probably. *00:13* Yeah. *00:13* Um *00:13* I think that's *00:13* Yes. *00:14* Like *00:14*