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--> 00:00:47,502 Okay, with me today is Hi Tech. 10 00:00:47,502 --> 00:00:48,339 Yes, hello. 11 00:00:48,339 --> 00:00:50,098 So, Hi Tech, what have you been doing this week? 12 00:00:50,098 --> 00:00:51,347 What have you been playing? 13 00:00:51,804 --> 00:00:54,504 So, I've been playing a bunch of Next Fest demos. 14 00:00:54,504 --> 00:00:59,904 There are quite a few, and I think it's best if we save that topic for later. 15 00:01:00,564 --> 00:01:06,084 Aside from that though, I've been playing Mario Kart 8, I mean not 8, Mario Kart World. 16 00:01:06,444 --> 00:01:14,944 I mean, it's a pretty good game, but I don't know if I'd say it's a $80 pretty good game. 17 00:01:16,704 --> 00:01:19,936 It's $79.99, so it's $80. 18 00:01:19,936 --> 00:01:20,597 I'm sorry. 19 00:01:20,597 --> 00:01:22,078 Like, here's the thing. 20 00:01:22,078 --> 00:01:24,729 Mario games are like Nintendo games are fun. 21 00:01:24,729 --> 00:01:26,460 Like first party like Mario and all that. 22 00:01:26,460 --> 00:01:33,525 Like the only game I'd probably be willing to pay that much money for is Luigi's Mansion 4. 23 00:01:33,525 --> 00:01:35,806 If it's truly good enough. 24 00:01:35,806 --> 00:01:38,267 Like Luigi's Mansion 3 was awesome. 25 00:01:38,328 --> 00:01:39,158 But 26 00:01:39,228 --> 00:01:39,829 Mansion 4. 27 00:01:39,829 --> 00:01:43,998 Honestly, man, I've only ever played the first one. 28 00:01:44,592 --> 00:01:47,873 Three is really fun and it's something I'd really have a lot of fun with. 29 00:01:47,873 --> 00:01:49,424 my my wife, Suzy loves it. 30 00:01:49,424 --> 00:01:51,997 My kids like it like it's a fun game. 31 00:01:51,997 --> 00:01:58,631 I really like the spookiness to it, but I'm not here for the seventy nine dollar price for those types of games like for Nintendo games. 32 00:01:58,631 --> 00:01:59,336 So. 33 00:01:59,336 --> 00:02:02,202 just Nintendo games, all AAA games in the future. 34 00:02:02,202 --> 00:02:07,563 Have you seen the price for The Outer Worlds 2? 35 00:02:07,870 --> 00:02:09,579 No I didn't so is it that? 36 00:02:09,579 --> 00:02:10,011 Is it? 37 00:02:10,011 --> 00:02:10,545 bucks. 38 00:02:10,545 --> 00:02:13,125 I mean, I'd probably buy it. 39 00:02:13,125 --> 00:02:14,065 It's the same thing. 40 00:02:14,065 --> 00:02:18,945 Like if I was a big Grand Theft Auto fan and it was $100, I'd pay $100 for it. 41 00:02:19,865 --> 00:02:27,765 I've just had this stage in my life where I'll buy the games I really want and I'll just buy less of the other games I'm just not sure about. 42 00:02:27,845 --> 00:02:31,865 It kind of sucks for, think, I don't know. 43 00:02:31,885 --> 00:02:33,865 Inflation's a thing, we've talked about that. 44 00:02:33,865 --> 00:02:38,685 $80 makes sense with inflation, but it is starting to edge into that. 45 00:02:39,445 --> 00:02:40,593 There's other games. 46 00:02:40,593 --> 00:02:50,813 that like Cyberpunk 2077, that's gonna be what $60 I think on, that's $60 on Switch 2, but it's also a four year old game. 47 00:02:51,053 --> 00:02:51,683 But is a true. 48 00:02:51,683 --> 00:02:52,043 Oh! 49 00:02:52,043 --> 00:02:55,217 Let's say it, Cyberpunk Switch. 50 00:02:55,217 --> 00:02:56,900 80, at least when I went to GameStop. 51 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:59,860 I know it's not 80, but I thought it was like 70 on Switch. 52 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:00,420 it's 70. 53 00:03:00,420 --> 00:03:12,568 It's $10, $20 less, which, okay, it is a, you know, it's a three, four, five, whatever year old game, but it has so much content in it. 54 00:03:12,942 --> 00:03:17,462 it's $70 on Switch, but it also comes with, you know, the DLC, so... 55 00:03:17,462 --> 00:03:20,022 I mean, could kind of excuse it almost. 56 00:03:20,302 --> 00:03:22,162 $10 being $10 more. 57 00:03:22,176 --> 00:03:29,636 Yeah, I mean, there's a license fee that they also have to pay if they didn't have that then and then maybe they would have dropped it, but to down to 60. 58 00:03:29,636 --> 00:03:33,416 But I don't know. 59 00:03:33,756 --> 00:03:39,976 I go back and forth on this whole like, oh, games costing so much. 60 00:03:40,036 --> 00:03:40,287 So. 61 00:03:40,287 --> 00:03:41,767 You got to give me the value. 62 00:03:41,767 --> 00:03:42,967 think that's what it comes down to. 63 00:03:42,967 --> 00:03:44,714 You got to give me the value and I'll pay for it. 64 00:03:44,714 --> 00:03:45,269 So. 65 00:03:45,269 --> 00:03:50,030 Yeah, I'm not looking forward to the $80 gaming reality. 66 00:03:50,690 --> 00:03:52,830 So, yeah. 67 00:03:52,870 --> 00:03:53,776 So ga- 68 00:03:53,776 --> 00:03:58,776 leaning it more, I think, into like, trying to review games so I can get them for free. 69 00:03:58,823 --> 00:04:00,726 Yeah, so here's a real question though. 70 00:04:00,726 --> 00:04:09,504 So I think I think GTA 6 is guaranteed to be $80 But do think they're gonna try to bump the price up to $100? 71 00:04:10,184 --> 00:04:20,024 No, what I think they'll do is they'll do like the bare bones $80 and then they'll do some special edition or like the edition that probably everyone's going to want at 100. 72 00:04:20,568 --> 00:04:26,044 Mmm, and then like a collector's edition at like 300 Like I don't 73 00:04:26,044 --> 00:04:32,844 they could probably do a gold plated like desert eagle like a real one for thousand and people would buy that. 74 00:04:33,384 --> 00:04:34,326 That does sound pretty cool. 75 00:04:34,326 --> 00:04:37,725 ah 76 00:04:37,725 --> 00:04:38,387 I guess. 77 00:04:38,387 --> 00:04:43,793 Desert Eagles have a big impact though, meaning like they're, they're. 78 00:04:43,793 --> 00:04:46,399 one, because I'm pretty sure desert eagles are more expensive than that. 79 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:47,821 Like, an actual functional one. 80 00:04:47,821 --> 00:04:49,612 But it's but they made so much money off this. 81 00:04:49,612 --> 00:04:51,203 It doesn't matter, does it? 82 00:04:51,243 --> 00:04:58,109 They could they could make like a hundred of those special editions and just like charge a thousand. 83 00:04:58,109 --> 00:05:06,937 a hundred of those and like scalpers get 99 of them and content creators get like get like one as well all the content all the big gta content creators whoever they are 84 00:05:07,796 --> 00:05:12,025 I don't know, handing out real weapons like that doesn't sound like good idea. 85 00:05:12,025 --> 00:05:13,845 They're not gonna hand- Come on, dude. 86 00:05:13,845 --> 00:05:14,954 They're not gonna hand out real- 87 00:05:14,954 --> 00:05:16,167 going to, but you never know. 88 00:05:16,167 --> 00:05:18,263 They like their spicy marketing, so... 89 00:05:18,263 --> 00:05:28,034 Yeah, they'll probably hand out a realistic one that's made out of metal and shit but it's non-functional and it has that orange prerequisite tip where the barrel would go. 90 00:05:28,034 --> 00:05:31,748 Like you kinda have to have on like airsoft and stuff. 91 00:05:31,835 --> 00:05:37,997 Yeah, but what the way America is going like we're loosening up a lot of gun laws, so we'll see. 92 00:05:38,858 --> 00:05:39,699 We'll see. 93 00:05:39,699 --> 00:05:42,521 Speaking of loosening up, OK, I didn't. 94 00:05:42,521 --> 00:05:43,302 There's no segue. 95 00:05:43,302 --> 00:05:47,782 But what I've been doing this week is been playing Half Life Alex and Expedition 33. 96 00:05:47,782 --> 00:05:52,390 I'm slowly getting through all of it while I'm working on my projects and Half Life Alex is so good. 97 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:55,491 There's so many people that just did not. 98 00:05:56,135 --> 00:05:57,964 get to play that because it's VR. 99 00:05:58,124 --> 00:05:58,925 Yeah, like me. 100 00:05:58,925 --> 00:06:01,649 Yeah, I know is so good. 101 00:06:01,649 --> 00:06:02,364 It visually. 102 00:06:02,364 --> 00:06:08,522 It's just that the Valve knows what they're doing when they make a video game like that and they need to make more of them. 103 00:06:09,304 --> 00:06:10,086 That. 104 00:06:10,086 --> 00:06:14,184 Valve is very much an innovate, that they want to be an innovator in the games industry. 105 00:06:14,184 --> 00:06:16,849 Otherwise we get shit like, remember Artifact? 106 00:06:16,941 --> 00:06:18,582 Yeah, they are an innovator. 107 00:06:18,582 --> 00:06:29,884 Like almost every game they come out with with a couple of duds is an innovative game in what and Half-Life Alex is one of those and I think the next Half-Life game will be too. 108 00:06:29,884 --> 00:06:33,547 is that Valve is trying to figure out what that innovation is. 109 00:06:33,914 --> 00:06:35,075 They're scared of success. 110 00:06:35,075 --> 00:06:39,597 think Half-Life Alex helped with the success, meaning they didn't do a Gordon Freeman. 111 00:06:39,597 --> 00:06:42,958 They did the Alex and I think it helped them like, okay, we can we can do this. 112 00:06:42,958 --> 00:06:52,074 Gave them some confidence back because I read reports years ago that they've tried multiple times to do Half-Life 3 and people just got scared of the project and kind of 113 00:06:52,074 --> 00:06:58,948 just and how Valve works is you kind of almost work on the project you want to work on and just not enough people want to work on that. 114 00:06:59,322 --> 00:07:02,522 Yeah, if this were like a standard... 115 00:07:02,522 --> 00:07:10,662 Yeah, if it were just like a standard gaming company where you had deadlines and shit, we'd probably be like to Half-Life 20 or some bullshit like that, right? 116 00:07:10,882 --> 00:07:15,873 Half-Life 1 re- Half-Life 1 remake. 117 00:07:15,873 --> 00:07:17,872 We do have a Half-Life 1 remake. 118 00:07:17,872 --> 00:07:19,498 Half-Life 2 Remake. 119 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:23,588 I bet we'll have a Half-Life 2 remake by the next few years. 120 00:07:23,588 --> 00:07:31,611 I'm kind of hoping the studio that did um Black Mesa, because they were acquired by Valve actually. 121 00:07:31,611 --> 00:07:42,907 um I'm pretty sure they're, towards the end of their development, I think Valve just ended up either they're paying them like just full time as like a third party or I'm pretty sure 122 00:07:42,907 --> 00:07:44,797 they acquired them, but they tend to do that right. 123 00:07:45,441 --> 00:07:50,127 Yeah, but the problem is that lot of the guys they acquire just end up working on Dota. 124 00:07:50,127 --> 00:07:50,627 Or CS. 125 00:07:50,627 --> 00:07:55,082 think in this case, I think these are huge Half-Life fanboys and I bet you some of them are working. 126 00:07:55,082 --> 00:07:58,964 Like, if they didn't acquire them, they'd probably grab some of them to work on Half-Life. 127 00:07:58,964 --> 00:08:01,786 We know that there's a Half-Life X, so. 128 00:08:02,152 --> 00:08:04,612 Dude, Half-Life X is such a cool name. 129 00:08:04,892 --> 00:08:08,712 Do you think they're gonna actually call it that or is that just like an internal thing? 130 00:08:08,955 --> 00:08:13,014 It could be internal because they just... 131 00:08:13,014 --> 00:08:20,155 the number three has a lot of weight behind it. 132 00:08:20,155 --> 00:08:24,235 If you see anything three, Valve mentioned anything. 133 00:08:24,415 --> 00:08:26,215 Like, we're going to release this on the third week. 134 00:08:26,215 --> 00:08:29,695 People will just freak out like, well, that's Half-Life 3 confirmed. 135 00:08:30,475 --> 00:08:31,767 So they... 136 00:08:31,767 --> 00:08:33,631 X would be a pretty sick name. 137 00:08:33,631 --> 00:08:40,051 Add an X to anything like Mega Man X or like Malcolm X, it's just better. 138 00:08:40,656 --> 00:08:43,754 Okay, Xbox Series X it is then. 139 00:08:43,754 --> 00:08:45,292 I agree with you. 140 00:08:46,096 --> 00:08:47,106 Alright, nevermind. 141 00:08:47,106 --> 00:08:47,627 Nevermind. 142 00:08:47,627 --> 00:08:49,511 You got me there. 143 00:08:49,562 --> 00:09:01,042 I'm not no I'm not against it like Half-Life X sounds cool, but it should be something different than like you're playing as like a Vortigaunt or something, but okay Yeah, I've 144 00:09:01,042 --> 00:09:13,322 been playing Half-Life Alex Expedition 33 still is amazing game, and I've just got done with the act one so act two is whole there's a lot that happens between those two and I'm 145 00:09:13,322 --> 00:09:15,562 just taking my time on that game. 146 00:09:15,562 --> 00:09:17,210 It's probably gonna take me 147 00:09:17,210 --> 00:09:23,370 I'm probably going I don't know if I'm going to 100 % it but I'm probably going to spend like the you know, I don't know. 148 00:09:23,370 --> 00:09:27,610 I think it what is it like a normally like a 20 30 hour game and probably end up 50 60. 149 00:09:27,610 --> 00:09:28,553 So what I 150 00:09:28,553 --> 00:09:38,682 some very interesting discussions about the parrying and dodging system, and then some people on Twitter were like, some big accounts on Twitter that typically don't talk about 151 00:09:38,682 --> 00:09:45,427 JRPGs, they typically talk about shit like Rockstar games, like, this should be the standard moving forward for JRPGs, do you think that should be the case? 152 00:09:45,427 --> 00:09:50,598 Do you think Persona 6 should have a dodging and parrying mechanic similar to E33? 153 00:09:50,598 --> 00:09:52,859 I don't think there should be a standard in that way. 154 00:09:52,859 --> 00:09:54,981 think that's stupid to have a standard. 155 00:09:54,981 --> 00:10:06,568 The pairing system is, there needs to be some type of interactivity or some extra like, days of playing turn-based where it's very simple, where you strategize and just like, 156 00:10:06,568 --> 00:10:11,110 okay, I know in a couple of turns I need to make sure I heal. 157 00:10:11,110 --> 00:10:14,953 Strategizing like that is still here, but there needs to be some. 158 00:10:14,953 --> 00:10:19,284 extra ways to either strategize or add game fun gameplay. 159 00:10:19,284 --> 00:10:20,858 And I think expedition do a good job. 160 00:10:20,858 --> 00:10:23,139 I don't think it should be the standard because it does. 161 00:10:23,139 --> 00:10:30,966 I'll be honest, it gets a little annoying sometimes because with these types of games I like to especially if I'm just grinding, I'll watch something while I grind. 162 00:10:30,966 --> 00:10:34,369 And if I have to parry, then that kind of kills that for me. 163 00:10:34,369 --> 00:10:40,113 And it makes the gameplay after a while a little still if you keep on going after the same enemy. 164 00:10:40,113 --> 00:10:40,863 So. 165 00:10:41,113 --> 00:10:42,977 Makes sense, sense. 166 00:10:42,977 --> 00:10:46,307 Yeah, so what's our first topic of the day, James? 167 00:10:46,747 --> 00:10:51,281 Our first topic is something that I was right about kind of. 168 00:10:51,281 --> 00:11:00,316 Xbox handheld, aka the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X is coming out. 169 00:11:00,957 --> 00:11:04,188 let me just say that is a horrible name for a product. 170 00:11:04,188 --> 00:11:05,528 What the fuck? 171 00:11:05,629 --> 00:11:14,692 The if it's a fake if you read the whole thing out for the ally X it's Asus ROG Xbox Ally X What the fuck? 172 00:11:15,492 --> 00:11:17,093 it's okay. 173 00:11:17,694 --> 00:11:21,796 I think it's fine, because you can just call it the Xbox Ally or the Xbox Ally X. 174 00:11:21,796 --> 00:11:24,137 You don't need even say ROG anymore. 175 00:11:24,998 --> 00:11:26,442 But it is frustrating. 176 00:11:26,442 --> 00:11:30,546 So like with the Xbox Series X, that's worse, I think. 177 00:11:30,546 --> 00:11:34,568 But I guess it tracks Xbox Ally X, okay. 178 00:11:34,949 --> 00:11:38,745 It tracks with the naming convention that the Xbox does. 179 00:11:38,745 --> 00:11:44,249 But yeah, so Microsoft and Asus have teamed up to attempt to take on the SteamOS hegemony. 180 00:11:44,249 --> 00:11:53,806 with both a new, more powerful handheld and updates to Windows that promises to be better for gaming handhelds, the Fox, Retro Games Corps and then Linus Tech Tips and others have 181 00:11:53,806 --> 00:11:59,159 had true hands-on experience with the device, but not us naturally because we are less than. 182 00:11:59,169 --> 00:12:00,001 Wow. 183 00:12:00,001 --> 00:12:09,002 believe you wrote that out that were less than, but yeah, I watched Linus play with it and it looks honestly, it looks interesting. 184 00:12:09,403 --> 00:12:20,132 Yeah, I've seen the Fox's video as well as Retro Game Corps' video and it's a super interesting prospect seeing what appears to be a more optimized version of Windows because 185 00:12:20,132 --> 00:12:26,728 as we all know Windows' greatest flaw is just how shit the interface is for controller use. 186 00:12:26,728 --> 00:12:27,289 Yeah 187 00:12:27,289 --> 00:12:33,864 It is, I don't know, I know that you and, like we saw leaks of this a few weeks ago, right? 188 00:12:33,864 --> 00:12:36,307 And you and Gardner did not like the design at all. 189 00:12:36,307 --> 00:12:47,635 I didn't mind it and I'm still here for it because it's I don't think it's gonna feel much different than a regular like even Steam Deck, but my biggest disappointment is that it's 190 00:12:47,635 --> 00:12:50,036 a seven inch screen and not like an eight inch. 191 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:52,878 it looked like it should be a bigger screen. 192 00:12:52,878 --> 00:12:55,538 Okay, like... 193 00:12:55,538 --> 00:12:58,138 My issue with the design is that it's just ugly. 194 00:12:58,138 --> 00:12:59,138 Like, I get it. 195 00:12:59,138 --> 00:13:01,398 It probably looks more comfortable. 196 00:13:01,398 --> 00:13:03,538 It probably is more comfortable. 197 00:13:03,918 --> 00:13:06,818 I just don't like the handlebars on the side, okay? 198 00:13:07,438 --> 00:13:12,932 I- that's all- It's also- it's also just like the, uh... 199 00:13:12,932 --> 00:13:13,692 PlayStation Portal. 200 00:13:13,692 --> 00:13:17,472 I don't like the design of that either, even though the handlebars are literally just like... 201 00:13:17,472 --> 00:13:19,332 a dual-sense controller. 202 00:13:20,312 --> 00:13:21,606 It just looks weird. 203 00:13:21,606 --> 00:13:22,471 for a handheld. 204 00:13:22,471 --> 00:13:23,052 weird. 205 00:13:23,052 --> 00:13:27,376 I think it's partially because we're conditioned with different ideas of what a handheld looks like. 206 00:13:27,376 --> 00:13:33,100 I think this is gonna be more comfortable than the ROG Alley, just the regular one. 207 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:35,222 It looks like it's gonna be like holding the Xbox. 208 00:13:35,222 --> 00:13:43,166 I think you and Gardner, I don't know about Gardner, but I think you might get used to the way this looks in the future and it might not be as bad. 209 00:13:43,487 --> 00:13:45,479 I think it's because it's just a weird new design. 210 00:13:45,479 --> 00:13:49,711 but it looks more comfortable, I will say, than the ROG Alley. 211 00:13:50,589 --> 00:13:52,114 The ROG Alley's comfortable. 212 00:13:52,114 --> 00:13:55,216 It's not that, like this looks like you're just holding a controller. 213 00:13:55,216 --> 00:14:07,175 And that's the plus of the PlayStation and this is that it's great to feel like you're at home with a, like if you're used to playing those devices, it's good to make sure that the 214 00:14:07,175 --> 00:14:10,909 people that are gonna buy it are gonna feel at home with that Xbox controller style. 215 00:14:10,909 --> 00:14:12,139 Steam Deck. 216 00:14:12,393 --> 00:14:24,637 is pretty close to having it be like an Xbox controller, it has their own, like it feels great nonetheless, but like these look more ergonomic than Steam Deck even. 217 00:14:24,637 --> 00:14:27,198 Yeah, the RG Ally X2... 218 00:14:27,198 --> 00:14:29,803 I'm just gonna call it the Ally 2. 219 00:14:29,803 --> 00:14:30,764 It's just something that way. 220 00:14:30,764 --> 00:14:31,664 Yeah. 221 00:14:32,905 --> 00:14:34,426 Yes, you probably should. 222 00:14:34,507 --> 00:14:37,390 But do you have a screen of the specs? 223 00:14:37,390 --> 00:14:40,263 Because I do want to talk about the specs of the two devices... 224 00:14:40,263 --> 00:14:43,235 the two variants. 225 00:14:43,735 --> 00:14:44,253 Yes. 226 00:14:44,253 --> 00:14:46,408 are awesome. 227 00:14:46,408 --> 00:14:46,839 see here. 228 00:14:46,839 --> 00:14:48,264 I'm just going to make sure I get this. 229 00:14:48,264 --> 00:14:53,826 have the ROG Xbox Allie X and ROG Xbox Allie. 230 00:14:54,246 --> 00:15:04,679 A lot of the major spec differences come down to the processor, the memory, the included storage, which isn't super relevant, and uh some I.O. 231 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:08,010 ports, as well as the battery capacity. 232 00:15:09,691 --> 00:15:13,011 they're calling it the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme? 233 00:15:13,492 --> 00:15:15,032 Come on. 234 00:15:15,190 --> 00:15:16,211 Come on! 235 00:15:16,211 --> 00:15:17,578 You had such a good thing! 236 00:15:17,578 --> 00:15:28,528 really got to simplify all this shit because it like for us we can track it a little bit better and even I get a little mix like what's the Z2A what is this 237 00:15:28,663 --> 00:15:38,328 So if you recall the leaks, they mentioned that the white one would have something similar to the Aerith, the Steam Deck APU. 238 00:15:38,328 --> 00:15:48,313 So the speculation is that that one's going to be kind of similar to the Steam Deck, like maybe a little more performant probably, but similar to the Steam Deck in terms of like 239 00:15:48,313 --> 00:15:52,046 performance or like layout, because it's RDNA2 based. 240 00:15:52,046 --> 00:15:55,359 Yeah, don't get going. 241 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,812 I know what this one's going to be though. 242 00:15:56,812 --> 00:16:03,290 We all know that the and it's the white one, which, know, if you like white, you're going to get a downgraded version. 243 00:16:03,290 --> 00:16:07,456 ah This is going to be a streaming device. 244 00:16:07,456 --> 00:16:10,399 The ROG Xbox Ally, just the regular one. 245 00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:11,248 It's going to be. 246 00:16:11,248 --> 00:16:13,307 A streaming in the... 247 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:15,692 Yeah. 248 00:16:17,455 --> 00:16:23,881 If you have a Steam deck, you definitely wouldn't want to get this one, in my opinion, unless you really want to stream Xbox. 249 00:16:23,881 --> 00:16:32,328 Because if you have an Xbox game pass, you can stream their uh their game pass um titles that they have. 250 00:16:33,690 --> 00:16:40,756 Yeah, and so this is I think that what it's geared towards is, but the ally X. 251 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:50,552 has that Z2 Extreme, so it's gonna be as powerful as the Legion Go 2 and any device that's gonna have that Z2 Extreme. 252 00:16:50,552 --> 00:16:57,731 um Do you think adding that AI to this Z2 is they're adding more AI cores to it or something? 253 00:16:57,731 --> 00:16:59,908 I'm really confused by that. 254 00:16:59,908 --> 00:17:04,522 It might just be a branding thing, because as we know, yeah. 255 00:17:04,522 --> 00:17:06,080 I mean, don't think they're going to add AI. 256 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,426 I mean, realistically, what AI thing are going to do besides? 257 00:17:09,937 --> 00:17:17,608 So adding AI cores to any device is pretty common nowadays, partially because there's gonna be more more use for it, you'll see. 258 00:17:17,608 --> 00:17:19,932 But, yeah. 259 00:17:19,932 --> 00:17:23,728 game that makes use of the NPUs I've seen in current processors. 260 00:17:23,728 --> 00:17:24,489 uh 261 00:17:24,592 --> 00:17:29,847 well, the future is that you could potentially do dialogue generation and some other stuff like it. 262 00:17:29,847 --> 00:17:47,892 They're very good at doing uh tasks that would require something like, let's say you wanted to do, uh because we've seen it, like chat GPT do people like integrate that into 263 00:17:47,892 --> 00:17:51,211 ground to thought, and you can talk to NPCs in a very 264 00:17:51,211 --> 00:17:59,961 more like you can ask them different things and they'll answer in a more realistic way as much as AI can, they could integrate something like that um internally. 265 00:17:59,961 --> 00:18:02,483 Don't know if that's actually what they're going for, but they could. 266 00:18:02,765 --> 00:18:03,846 I I understand that. 267 00:18:03,846 --> 00:18:13,723 I'm just saying that from what I understand right now, a lot of modern games, a lot of current games that would do that, they just rely on the CPU, like the standard CPU cores 268 00:18:13,723 --> 00:18:16,355 as it is, instead of specific MPUs. 269 00:18:16,355 --> 00:18:19,207 But of course, I'm sure things can change, but still. 270 00:18:19,207 --> 00:18:21,730 also, it's baked in, that's how they're doing it. 271 00:18:21,730 --> 00:18:29,577 um It's probably cheaper to just go this route because they're just gonna, their MPUs are the standard for any APU nowadays. 272 00:18:29,858 --> 00:18:34,662 And it has been, honestly, I think it's been a shadow standard for a few years now. 273 00:18:34,683 --> 00:18:39,827 if you bought, I wouldn't be surprised if the Z1 had some MPUs on it. 274 00:18:39,827 --> 00:18:43,614 um It's the standard nowadays. 275 00:18:43,614 --> 00:18:54,964 yeah, I mean, I think the Z1 Extreme was based on an AMD APU that has NPUs, but I think the NPUs were stripped out of the Z1 Extreme. 276 00:18:54,964 --> 00:18:56,621 uh 277 00:18:56,621 --> 00:19:06,636 going straight into the, because the MPUs are becoming more, like, operating systems are starting to actually utilize MPUs, so I could see it being useful in games eventually. 278 00:19:06,816 --> 00:19:13,733 What I'm saying is, I would rather see them there than not, as long as it doesn't hinder anything else, so. 279 00:19:13,733 --> 00:19:21,318 Yeah, so also you can see here there's more memory in the Blackheap model and it's faster memory as well. 280 00:19:22,084 --> 00:19:24,384 Yeah, the faster, like that makes sense though. 281 00:19:24,384 --> 00:19:28,104 You don't need to pair really fast memory with the Z2A processor. 282 00:19:28,104 --> 00:19:30,524 I just don't think it's going to benefit. 283 00:19:30,524 --> 00:19:40,355 You're gonna be bottlenecked in other places, but this is the new standard for at least bare minimum, I think for any flagship devices from here on out is gonna be 24 to 32 gigs. 284 00:19:40,355 --> 00:19:41,475 Which I like to see. 285 00:19:41,475 --> 00:19:46,306 Honestly, that's a really good, yeah, it's a really good sign. 286 00:19:46,306 --> 00:19:54,174 to give you eight gigs of VRAM and then allocate 16 gigs to just regular system memory as well. 287 00:19:54,174 --> 00:20:08,178 Which begs the question, why do we still keep getting low-end eight gigabyte graphics cards when these APUs, these devices are coming with enough RAM to give us eight gigs of 288 00:20:08,178 --> 00:20:09,068 VRAM? 289 00:20:09,068 --> 00:20:18,957 the beautiful thing about unified memory is that it allows you to have more memory depending on what game. 290 00:20:18,957 --> 00:20:31,137 Some games are more uh system memory oriented and some games are more uh like texture based or game or like, you know, VRAM hungry. 291 00:20:31,137 --> 00:20:31,498 Right. 292 00:20:31,498 --> 00:20:33,069 And so with the textures. 293 00:20:33,069 --> 00:20:35,811 So it just really depends on. 294 00:20:36,467 --> 00:20:38,048 And I think unified does help with this. 295 00:20:38,048 --> 00:20:41,089 So some games could benefit more from 12 gigs. 296 00:20:41,350 --> 00:20:48,954 And that is, think what I like about unified has its own problems, but I think they're slowly being erased. 297 00:20:48,954 --> 00:20:58,799 um One of the problems being you can't replace, you know, if you have an APU, you can't replace the graphics card at that point. 298 00:20:58,839 --> 00:21:06,473 But you have the benefit of not having to worry about if you have enough memory, because I just don't think 299 00:21:06,476 --> 00:21:09,921 Nvidia is releasing the cards with enough memory. 300 00:21:09,921 --> 00:21:14,100 I think they're really trying to shoot for that DLSS and save money. 301 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:17,148 man screw those guys anyways 302 00:21:19,210 --> 00:21:22,454 I think DLSS is okay, like I'm honestly not against it. 303 00:21:22,454 --> 00:21:25,387 think the Switch 2 heavily uses it. 304 00:21:25,387 --> 00:21:25,682 uh 305 00:21:25,682 --> 00:21:29,917 not saying I dislike DLSS, I'm saying screw those guys who run cheap on memory. 306 00:21:29,917 --> 00:21:35,213 I think 16 gigs should be the standard moving forward for VRAM and RAM. 307 00:21:38,037 --> 00:21:45,285 even Apple has moved to 16 gigs minimum now for like a lot of their newer devices that aren't iPhones. 308 00:21:45,379 --> 00:21:48,219 No, I mean they have they need to move to 32. 309 00:21:48,219 --> 00:21:51,402 They're a little behind but I mean 310 00:21:51,402 --> 00:21:54,793 if Apple's doing it then why the fuck is Nvidia doing it? 311 00:21:55,187 --> 00:22:00,217 I know I have I have 96 gigs of unified memory on my Mac studio. 312 00:22:00,217 --> 00:22:01,138 I love it. 313 00:22:03,163 --> 00:22:04,285 Just need games to run it. 314 00:22:04,285 --> 00:22:05,384 uh 315 00:22:05,384 --> 00:22:08,576 with one terabyte default compared to 512 gigs. 316 00:22:08,576 --> 00:22:10,247 I mean, you can just replace it yourself. 317 00:22:10,247 --> 00:22:11,917 It's an easier upgrade. 318 00:22:13,578 --> 00:22:22,201 So the, so the screen for both models, it's the exact same and it's the same screen we have on our existing RG allies. 319 00:22:23,782 --> 00:22:31,055 That's, I mean, that's, it reads the same because it's the same resolution, same like, 320 00:22:31,055 --> 00:22:35,311 Rated nits, same aspect ratio, same refresh rate. 321 00:22:35,452 --> 00:22:37,015 It's got v-sync as well. 322 00:22:37,015 --> 00:22:41,121 uh I can't think of anything new that they've added to the screen. 323 00:22:41,303 --> 00:22:42,845 The screen's not bad, honestly. 324 00:22:42,845 --> 00:22:46,549 um The screen's great. 325 00:22:46,730 --> 00:22:53,598 Maybe they this route to try to make the device cheaper, because they already have it in production, so they don't have to do anything else to ramp up costs. 326 00:22:53,598 --> 00:22:55,219 I can see them doing that. 327 00:22:56,021 --> 00:22:57,957 Still would have liked an eight inch, but you know. 328 00:22:57,957 --> 00:22:58,789 Warn OLED. 329 00:22:58,789 --> 00:22:59,695 Yeah. 330 00:23:00,022 --> 00:23:03,825 OLED man, I don't know, I was wrong about the Steam Deck. 331 00:23:03,825 --> 00:23:14,943 I think the Steam Deck OLED really does help visually, I still like, there's some games have been playing, I'm just like, I just wish I, like Expedition, I've been playing that 332 00:23:14,943 --> 00:23:21,588 on the um Ally and it's just, I don't like it as much as on the big screen because there's certain things I just can't see as well detail wise. 333 00:23:21,588 --> 00:23:25,981 And I think having that extra one inch alone would really help with it. 334 00:23:26,137 --> 00:23:32,648 You know what device is gonna have very refresh rate OLED and a bigger screen. 335 00:23:33,505 --> 00:23:35,340 The, RG Alley? 336 00:23:35,593 --> 00:23:36,526 not the R. 337 00:23:36,526 --> 00:23:37,407 The... 338 00:23:37,429 --> 00:23:38,493 Legion Go? 339 00:23:38,493 --> 00:23:39,494 Damn. 340 00:23:39,557 --> 00:23:40,315 I'm going crazy. 341 00:23:40,315 --> 00:23:46,009 mean, reading the specs on that, it makes it seem like that's gonna be like THE device to get. 342 00:23:46,210 --> 00:23:48,071 And it's, yeah, that's a Legion Go. 343 00:23:48,131 --> 00:23:50,161 And it looks more, anyways, back... 344 00:23:50,161 --> 00:23:52,094 like the software of the Legion Go 1. 345 00:23:52,094 --> 00:24:01,691 I hear that they're making it better, but with Xbox mode coming out, as long as it comes to the Legion Go, I think that's my go-to device in the future. 346 00:24:01,691 --> 00:24:02,191 that's... 347 00:24:02,191 --> 00:24:06,984 yeah, I mean, I probably wouldn't use Legion software either, except for like the side panels. 348 00:24:06,984 --> 00:24:10,611 I mean, that works out pretty well, in my opinion, but everything else is just not great. 349 00:24:10,611 --> 00:24:26,542 I didn't when I had it I everything about it was so clunky I was shocked but it sounds like every they watched my review on it and they must have fixed it because of me I doubt 350 00:24:26,542 --> 00:24:28,273 they saw anything on that 351 00:24:29,389 --> 00:24:31,718 It's probably a common complaint though, to be honest. 352 00:24:32,506 --> 00:24:33,148 Alright. 353 00:24:33,148 --> 00:24:34,410 messing, I'm not that important. 354 00:24:34,410 --> 00:24:37,293 uh It's making me happy. 355 00:24:37,293 --> 00:24:40,286 But, uh Wi-Fi 6E is interesting. 356 00:24:40,286 --> 00:24:45,777 When the Wi-Fi 7's out, they must be using the same chip as the uh current 357 00:24:45,777 --> 00:24:48,657 Yeah, I mean, I don't think a lot of people have Wi-Fi 7. 358 00:24:48,657 --> 00:24:51,044 I certainly don't have Wi-Fi 7. 359 00:24:51,044 --> 00:24:58,044 No, but it's always nice to be a little bit ahead of the curve if you want these devices to last long. 360 00:24:58,044 --> 00:25:02,295 because, especially the Ally will benefit greatly from Wi-Fi 7. 361 00:25:02,295 --> 00:25:07,855 The bandwidth on it is much more consistent. 362 00:25:07,855 --> 00:25:10,915 And that's really important when streaming games is that consistency. 363 00:25:12,035 --> 00:25:12,460 So. 364 00:25:12,460 --> 00:25:15,400 go back to the IO because there's a difference in the IO. 365 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:17,400 So... 366 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:17,885 Yeah, yeah. 367 00:25:17,885 --> 00:25:19,227 back, that took me. 368 00:25:19,227 --> 00:25:21,060 There is a big difference, actually. 369 00:25:21,060 --> 00:25:31,907 Yeah, so both have two USB type C ports, but the Allie X, one of them is a USB 4 port, which means you can plug in like an external GPU. 370 00:25:31,907 --> 00:25:33,699 It's Thunderbolt 4 as well, actually. 371 00:25:33,699 --> 00:25:41,842 Yeah, is, that was what was shocking is that it's Thunderbolt 4 compatible, which means, you know, eGPU, right? 372 00:25:41,842 --> 00:25:47,085 um And that is also a bare minimum for me. 373 00:25:47,085 --> 00:25:59,450 So this or the Legion Go 2 are kind of like in my realm of what I'll probably buy, because I'm gonna be replacing my whole setup with um this device and an eGPU, so I can play it 374 00:25:59,450 --> 00:26:00,810 throughout the house much easier. 375 00:26:00,810 --> 00:26:02,451 um 376 00:26:03,183 --> 00:26:04,794 This is how I want to do it now. 377 00:26:04,794 --> 00:26:08,725 Like it just seems so much fun to have like a gaming device. 378 00:26:08,725 --> 00:26:12,807 And then I have my Mac for, you know, work. 379 00:26:12,947 --> 00:26:21,630 So and that Thunderbolt 4 does is in my opinion, think Thunderbolt is better than USB 4, just like on its own. 380 00:26:21,631 --> 00:26:28,693 You get a little bit better consistency, but it is interesting that they're paying that tax to Intel because it does cost money. 381 00:26:28,693 --> 00:26:32,835 It's trademarked and it's a it's a technology that Intel owns. 382 00:26:33,307 --> 00:26:34,007 Yes. 383 00:26:34,007 --> 00:26:39,115 they didn't go with Thunderbolt 5 though, but that must be like a AMD limitation. 384 00:26:39,793 --> 00:26:41,014 It makes sense. 385 00:26:41,094 --> 00:26:50,861 Also, the micro SD card slots, UHS-II, which it's like, okay, so you have an RLG Ally, right? 386 00:26:51,522 --> 00:26:55,815 Have you ever used a UHS-II micro SD card? 387 00:26:56,439 --> 00:26:57,220 No. 388 00:26:57,664 --> 00:27:02,359 Does it have UHS-II on the current, just ally? 389 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,921 Yeah, the current ally has... 390 00:27:03,921 --> 00:27:05,512 The current ally, Adlegion, goes. 391 00:27:05,512 --> 00:27:07,904 They both have UHS-II microSD cards. 392 00:27:07,904 --> 00:27:08,595 But we've never... 393 00:27:08,595 --> 00:27:10,006 But I've never used one either. 394 00:27:10,006 --> 00:27:13,109 em And Nintendo just, you know... 395 00:27:13,109 --> 00:27:21,436 Nintendo decided to make everything microSD express, and so I think that might have benefited them here as well. 396 00:27:21,436 --> 00:27:22,416 I mean... 397 00:27:23,458 --> 00:27:27,020 I think they really should have gone with microSD express. 398 00:27:27,237 --> 00:27:29,928 Yeah, would like these companies, man. 399 00:27:29,928 --> 00:27:32,269 I'd really like to see things standardized more. 400 00:27:32,269 --> 00:27:44,984 that's the beautiful thing about USB type C, even though you have USB 3, 4, and Thunderbolt kind of variants, it's still nice to, like, it's getting closer to being 401 00:27:44,984 --> 00:27:52,207 unified, but the micro SD card stuff, like I've had to do multiple videos because it really matters. 402 00:27:52,207 --> 00:27:56,427 If you're gonna be playing a game off of it, it really matters if you don't cheap out. 403 00:27:56,983 --> 00:28:02,808 UHS, the UHS too, like those are like all those are really expensive, aren't they? 404 00:28:02,971 --> 00:28:13,960 Yeah, I think they're more expensive than Micro SD Expresses, and not to mention Micro SD Express is faster than UHS-II and UHS-I for that matter. 405 00:28:14,823 --> 00:28:15,856 Yeah, so... 406 00:28:15,856 --> 00:28:16,307 expensive. 407 00:28:16,307 --> 00:28:20,250 They're typically, think, for video recording and stuff. 408 00:28:21,152 --> 00:28:25,526 yeah, it's good, though. 409 00:28:25,526 --> 00:28:28,719 At least we're moving on to something better, I guess. 410 00:28:28,807 --> 00:28:33,306 Yeah, hopefully the Steam Deck 2 when that comes out uses MicroSD Express. 411 00:28:34,267 --> 00:28:38,527 Yeah, Juz is one of them, and then it's backwards compatible, of course. 412 00:28:38,961 --> 00:28:39,861 Mm-hmm. 413 00:28:39,861 --> 00:28:41,161 Let's see, the battery. 414 00:28:41,161 --> 00:28:47,701 Let's see, so the dimensions, it weighs a little more, the Alley X, and that's presumably because of the battery. 415 00:28:48,481 --> 00:28:49,761 Look at that battery difference. 416 00:28:49,761 --> 00:28:52,481 20 watt-hour difference between the two models. 417 00:28:53,323 --> 00:28:54,384 I mean, that's good. 418 00:28:54,384 --> 00:29:00,951 You're like that ally if it does have all the specs that we're thinking will last a very long time with 60 watts. 419 00:29:01,553 --> 00:29:07,790 The ally X 80 watts will probably get like with the way how power hungry it is and everything. 420 00:29:07,790 --> 00:29:10,883 It will probably be similar to like what the steam deck gets. 421 00:29:11,003 --> 00:29:19,716 The Allie X has pretty good battery life, but I don't know how much more power hungry the Z2 Extreme is compared to the Z1 Extreme. 422 00:29:20,537 --> 00:29:26,412 It's got like it's got I would still say the Ali X has OK battery life. 423 00:29:26,412 --> 00:29:29,414 The ally has a horrible, but. 424 00:29:30,387 --> 00:29:31,717 It is what it is. 425 00:29:31,717 --> 00:29:36,491 I'm not usually doesn't bother me that much because I'm usually near a battery bank or outlet, so. 426 00:29:36,491 --> 00:29:38,886 Yeah. 427 00:29:38,886 --> 00:29:48,909 yeah, I mean the specs are cool, but I think the most interesting prospect of course is the change to Windows because you know, everyone's been complaining that Windows and it 428 00:29:48,909 --> 00:29:53,374 looks like Microsoft's finally realized that Windows sucks for handhelds. 429 00:29:54,209 --> 00:29:58,941 I don't think they realize I think they're ignoring it because they're doing such a big AI play on it ah 430 00:29:58,941 --> 00:30:00,715 scroll down, scroll down real quick. 431 00:30:00,715 --> 00:30:02,336 Look, it's Silksong. 432 00:30:02,438 --> 00:30:04,982 Dude, the trailer... 433 00:30:04,982 --> 00:30:06,204 That is insane. 434 00:30:06,204 --> 00:30:10,230 Like, we got brand new Silksong footage for the Ally trailer. 435 00:30:10,230 --> 00:30:11,152 What the fuck? 436 00:30:11,152 --> 00:30:12,413 I think that's so funny. 437 00:30:12,413 --> 00:30:13,714 They paired it. 438 00:30:13,714 --> 00:30:18,518 And the thing is, this game will look better on the Steam Deck OLED. 439 00:30:19,238 --> 00:30:21,221 It's not gonna run any better on this. 440 00:30:21,221 --> 00:30:25,104 And there are even, this right here is stream with Xbox Cloud Gaming. 441 00:30:25,104 --> 00:30:26,945 Why would you stream this game? 442 00:30:28,747 --> 00:30:33,030 This game is not gonna be that demanding to you where you need to stream it. 443 00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:37,084 So marketing wise, like if you're technical, doesn't make sense. 444 00:30:37,084 --> 00:30:39,056 If you're the average person, I don't think it matters that much. 445 00:30:39,056 --> 00:30:39,906 But. 446 00:30:40,782 --> 00:30:42,402 What a weird way to pair that all up. 447 00:30:42,402 --> 00:30:43,913 Bet you're getting Silksong. 448 00:30:43,913 --> 00:30:45,077 There you go, man. 449 00:30:45,755 --> 00:30:53,366 the SoSong community is gonna be like they're gonna cancel the RRG Ally X in September and then we'll never get SoSong 450 00:30:54,156 --> 00:30:57,312 I don't I don't I don't think they're gonna be tied together like that. 451 00:30:57,312 --> 00:30:58,237 They just 452 00:30:58,237 --> 00:31:02,423 yeah, they say it's not tied together, but they're coping. 453 00:31:02,423 --> 00:31:04,184 Especially at that Deadpool... 454 00:31:04,225 --> 00:31:07,008 the Deadpool stunt. 455 00:31:07,008 --> 00:31:09,151 It sent R slash Silksong into a frenzy. 456 00:31:09,151 --> 00:31:10,362 It's insane. 457 00:31:10,698 --> 00:31:11,779 Why? 458 00:31:12,060 --> 00:31:19,866 Because some people were genuinely pissed off that Deadpool skipped the Silksong trailer or some bullshit like that. 459 00:31:21,067 --> 00:31:25,491 And a lot of people took it as it was, a joke. 460 00:31:25,491 --> 00:31:28,553 But some crazies on the internet... 461 00:31:29,434 --> 00:31:32,106 Those are always crazies on the internet, but like... 462 00:31:32,106 --> 00:31:32,799 Every fanbase. 463 00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:34,478 Fanbases can be very toxic. 464 00:31:34,478 --> 00:31:40,077 Yep, there are death threats to Team Cherry, and also Ryan Reynolds. 465 00:31:40,118 --> 00:31:41,620 It was insane. 466 00:31:41,620 --> 00:31:45,247 I'm sorry, but if you have to death threat, man, you need to go out and touch grass. 467 00:31:45,247 --> 00:31:48,532 Like there should be almost nothing you should be death threatting about. 468 00:31:49,672 --> 00:31:58,252 Yeah, I mean really there's nothing I can think of but hey silk song I'll probably play on my ally act. 469 00:31:58,252 --> 00:32:05,769 I mean my my steam deck and maybe I'll play it on my ROG Xbox ally X 470 00:32:07,703 --> 00:32:09,664 just handheld Xbox for me. 471 00:32:09,664 --> 00:32:13,666 And the only one that really matters is the black one because it's the ally X. 472 00:32:14,067 --> 00:32:16,688 I don't care about, it's like the same thing with the ally. 473 00:32:16,688 --> 00:32:24,192 I don't think the original ally with the trimmed down version, I don't think it did as well. 474 00:32:24,212 --> 00:32:31,907 I always saw it on sell and they were trying to get rid of it because the Z1, the Xenon Xtreme is the one to get. 475 00:32:31,907 --> 00:32:36,619 Because with the Z1, not just get a Steam Deck? 476 00:32:36,619 --> 00:32:37,149 at that point. 477 00:32:37,149 --> 00:32:46,992 It's not like it's going to be play any of the games that you want to play on Windows that are DRM or that not not DRM, but you know, like Call of Duty and stuff like that. 478 00:32:46,992 --> 00:32:50,944 Yes, so I do find the addition of the Xbox button. 479 00:32:50,944 --> 00:32:57,328 I am a little concerned though because like, what if I accidentally press that while I'm moving my stick to the top right? 480 00:32:58,189 --> 00:32:58,680 Like... 481 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:04,452 I don't think you're going to, but you might you might play fighting games a little different because I don't know. 482 00:33:04,452 --> 00:33:05,818 I'm not too worried about it, 483 00:33:05,818 --> 00:33:07,595 the analog stick with fighting games. 484 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:08,855 I use the D-pad. 485 00:33:08,855 --> 00:33:10,856 That's right. 486 00:33:11,998 --> 00:33:13,058 I'm sure they test this. 487 00:33:13,058 --> 00:33:14,479 I'm sure it's gonna be fine. 488 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:24,229 That'd be funny blunder if it was very easily pressed while playing games with the left joystick. 489 00:33:24,229 --> 00:33:26,390 Yeah, that would be bullshit if that happened. 490 00:33:26,470 --> 00:33:27,851 That's, yeah. 491 00:33:27,851 --> 00:33:37,207 But let's talk about the Xbox button because technically speaking, no current handheld has an Xbox button that functions like an Xbox button. 492 00:33:37,207 --> 00:33:44,271 Like the IA Neo has a button like that, but it's actually just the Windows G shortcut, which is not the same by the way. 493 00:33:44,586 --> 00:33:45,547 Right. 494 00:33:46,229 --> 00:33:47,392 You could map it though. 495 00:33:47,392 --> 00:33:54,535 yeah, you can map it, but it's not the same as having a true hardware Xbox button, which no handheld has for some reason. 496 00:33:54,535 --> 00:33:59,393 Um, it's probably branding like they couldn't just put an xbox on their uh thing unless 497 00:33:59,393 --> 00:34:09,324 couldn't put the Xbox symbol on there, but I'm sure they could have put an actual Xbox button instead of just making a Windows G, you know what saying? 498 00:34:09,324 --> 00:34:15,237 Yeah, I have no clue what the limit like Windows is bizarre with the way that they integrate gaming into it. 499 00:34:15,237 --> 00:34:19,450 But it sounds like we're going to be getting a lot of like good integrations into it. 500 00:34:19,450 --> 00:34:23,712 So I think this is a good start. 501 00:34:23,712 --> 00:34:31,237 Maybe we'll see more handhelds have the Xbox or a similar uh button mapped to it. 502 00:34:31,237 --> 00:34:37,460 Or you can I'm hoping with Legion go to that I'll be able to map um 503 00:34:38,086 --> 00:34:43,738 this type of the functionality of this Xbox button to one of their built-in buttons that they have. 504 00:34:44,041 --> 00:34:45,953 I guess we'll find out soon enough. 505 00:34:45,954 --> 00:34:49,500 I think, Yeah, so... 506 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:51,862 In addition to this, though, I mean... 507 00:34:52,171 --> 00:34:55,860 I think another major handheld released very recently. 508 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:57,943 Can any guess as to what it is? 509 00:34:58,488 --> 00:35:01,538 It's the PlayStation handheld. 510 00:35:01,538 --> 00:35:02,799 Wrong answer! 511 00:35:04,143 --> 00:35:05,436 It's the switch... 512 00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:06,807 no switch to... 513 00:35:07,270 --> 00:35:08,751 Yes, yes, yes. 514 00:35:08,953 --> 00:35:10,458 So I actually got one of these. 515 00:35:10,458 --> 00:35:11,709 A viewer sent it over. 516 00:35:11,709 --> 00:35:14,409 sent one over with the Mario Kart bundle and uh... 517 00:35:14,409 --> 00:35:16,049 it's a lot of fun! 518 00:35:16,349 --> 00:35:21,960 The Switch 1 was a lot of fun for a while but then the Steam Deck came out and I never touched one again. 519 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:27,516 I, there's even some games that play on my Switch, or on my Steam Deck that are Switch related, right? 520 00:35:27,516 --> 00:35:38,868 uh Over, you know, certain means, but I own the games, but the one that I wanted to play on the Steam Deck the most doesn't play well, and that's Luigi's Mansion 3. 521 00:35:38,868 --> 00:35:40,750 It does not play well on the Steam Deck. 522 00:35:41,068 --> 00:35:43,026 Hey, if you get a Switch 2 it'll probably play well. 523 00:35:43,026 --> 00:35:43,419 So, I... 524 00:35:43,419 --> 00:35:45,355 well on my switch right now. 525 00:35:46,107 --> 00:35:57,590 So I am super curious, so I am super interested in, so funny story, I published a post on my YouTube channel showing off the new Switch 2 inbox. 526 00:35:57,731 --> 00:35:59,623 I lost like five subscribers. 527 00:36:02,144 --> 00:36:11,345 yeah, I bet you if I posted on YouTube, I'd lose a couple too, but like there's some spicy people that do not like the Switch that are in the Steam Deck community. 528 00:36:11,345 --> 00:36:16,021 Yeah, well, first and foremost, fuck fanboys among both sides. 529 00:36:16,084 --> 00:36:17,748 On all sides, actually. 530 00:36:18,799 --> 00:36:22,927 gatekeeping fanboyism is just like, you can have the Switch. 531 00:36:22,927 --> 00:36:28,502 The Steam Deck fanboys and Switch fanboys are just the same people. 532 00:36:28,823 --> 00:36:30,324 They're just rooting for a different side. 533 00:36:30,324 --> 00:36:31,815 It's bullshit. 534 00:36:31,887 --> 00:36:36,845 I've dealt with Switch fanboys more than I have uh Steam Deck, but yeah. 535 00:36:36,845 --> 00:36:40,380 Yeah, definitely, because there's way more Switch fanboys. 536 00:36:41,904 --> 00:36:42,686 Yeah. 537 00:36:42,686 --> 00:36:49,970 But, uh, anyways, regardless, I also made a Switch 2 accessory video, and I also lost five subs because of that, too! 538 00:36:49,970 --> 00:36:53,720 It's because they think you're becoming a switch content creator. 539 00:36:53,723 --> 00:36:56,269 I can't believe you're portraying as high-tech 540 00:36:57,151 --> 00:36:58,512 I can believe it. 541 00:36:58,851 --> 00:37:02,076 I don't have loyalty to any of these companies. 542 00:37:02,377 --> 00:37:04,071 I don't love Nintendo. 543 00:37:04,071 --> 00:37:06,661 I don't even love Valve. 544 00:37:06,942 --> 00:37:08,394 I this is gonna sound like blasphemy. 545 00:37:08,394 --> 00:37:12,518 It's not gonna like blasphemy to you. 546 00:37:12,518 --> 00:37:13,670 like, are no... 547 00:37:13,670 --> 00:37:19,135 But like, loyalty to a brand is just a big mistake. 548 00:37:19,191 --> 00:37:20,802 Loyalty to a brand is a mistake. 549 00:37:20,802 --> 00:37:31,547 They will almost always disappoint even valve is disappointed a little bit, but I have a lot of copium with it So it's fine if they disappoint me a little bit. 550 00:37:31,547 --> 00:37:35,865 It's not like I get disappointed by everyone else including myself in my life, so 551 00:37:35,865 --> 00:37:38,067 man, as long as you get Half-Life 3, it's okay, right? 552 00:37:38,067 --> 00:37:38,719 Yeah, maybe. 553 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,496 I'm not going to jinx it right now. 554 00:37:41,538 --> 00:37:45,087 But yes, I've jinxed it enough in the past. 555 00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:58,263 So, the only Switch 2 specific game I own, I didn't buy any the upgrade packs for the Zelda games yet, because my brother has all of those Switch games, because I don't really 556 00:37:58,263 --> 00:38:06,046 touch my Switch anymore, but the only Switch 2 game I have is Mario Kart World, and it's a fun game. 557 00:38:06,307 --> 00:38:10,989 It's a fun Mario Kart, and it might actually be the best Mario Kart. 558 00:38:11,801 --> 00:38:14,104 But I don't know if it's $80 fun. 559 00:38:14,104 --> 00:38:22,555 I don't really like the open world-likeness of it, because, like, the open world-ness of the, like, free roam area, but that's because I'm not really, because, like, racing is 560 00:38:22,555 --> 00:38:26,760 about racing other people, not just driving around the places, in my opinion. 561 00:38:27,128 --> 00:38:28,579 uh I'm actually like that. 562 00:38:28,579 --> 00:38:38,613 I like the need for speeds when they do open world you have to drive to an area to then race I like the need for speed opener uh openness and also burnout was open open world, 563 00:38:38,734 --> 00:38:49,666 but yeah, which I love but I Don't yeah, I'm curious to see if they can make it interesting in Mario Kart 564 00:38:49,666 --> 00:38:52,348 have your standard Grand Prix. 565 00:38:52,849 --> 00:38:53,900 What I do like is that... 566 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:59,234 Alright so the first course is just your regular course, right? 567 00:38:59,234 --> 00:39:08,332 But then the second course starts off with like you transitioning from the first course to the second course and then you're coursing and it's all considered one race. 568 00:39:08,332 --> 00:39:09,735 Oh, interesting. 569 00:39:09,735 --> 00:39:16,389 And then after you finish that second course, you go on to the third course and then it transitions and then, yeah, so on and so forth. 570 00:39:16,389 --> 00:39:21,711 I can see that being really fun, but also it's kind of nice to sometimes take a break between the courses. 571 00:39:22,077 --> 00:39:24,729 Well, it's not a break, it's all part of the race. 572 00:39:25,050 --> 00:39:29,849 So if you're falling behind on the way to the second course, you're just falling behind in the race period. 573 00:39:29,849 --> 00:39:31,423 That's what I'm kind of saying. 574 00:39:31,423 --> 00:39:34,039 Like I want to take a break. 575 00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:34,941 the, yeah. 576 00:39:34,941 --> 00:39:35,922 Okay. 577 00:39:35,943 --> 00:39:37,004 Interesting. 578 00:39:37,756 --> 00:39:40,878 also a knockout pre, which I haven't tried out yet. 579 00:39:41,839 --> 00:39:45,241 But it sounds like it's lot of fun. 580 00:39:45,241 --> 00:39:46,851 I don't have Nintendo Switch online. 581 00:39:46,851 --> 00:39:49,563 Let's see. 582 00:39:49,915 --> 00:39:54,852 You're not going to pay for the online to play with people that I don't know. 583 00:39:54,852 --> 00:39:55,572 I. 584 00:39:55,871 --> 00:39:58,371 I have never paid for an Nintendo Switch online. 585 00:39:58,415 --> 00:39:59,746 I've paid for it. 586 00:40:00,589 --> 00:40:02,432 Maybe once because I wanted to try it. 587 00:40:02,432 --> 00:40:03,774 I don't know. 588 00:40:03,774 --> 00:40:05,998 Maybe it was like a free promo or something. 589 00:40:05,998 --> 00:40:10,715 I paid for it once and it just didn't benefit enough at all. 590 00:40:10,715 --> 00:40:20,921 If I had to pay for a Nintendo Switch online, I would probably split it with my brother and our cousin and my other brother who has kids with a Nintendo Switch and then it would 591 00:40:20,921 --> 00:40:22,432 be lot cheaper that way. 592 00:40:23,395 --> 00:40:24,545 But I don't feel like doing it. 593 00:40:24,545 --> 00:40:25,760 that expensive. 594 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,786 You're paying like a dollar a year at that point. 595 00:40:27,786 --> 00:40:31,467 um I actually don't. 596 00:40:31,979 --> 00:40:33,601 use the Switch enough to... 597 00:40:33,601 --> 00:40:36,666 I didn't use the original Switch enough to really justify that. 598 00:40:36,666 --> 00:40:40,891 Not to mention, I didn't really play lot of, like, online multiplayer games. 599 00:40:41,007 --> 00:40:45,602 I don't like Mario Kart is a couch co-op for me. 600 00:40:45,602 --> 00:40:50,287 I am playing with my kids, friends or something like that in person, not online. 601 00:40:50,287 --> 00:40:51,970 uh 602 00:40:51,970 --> 00:40:55,226 don't want to play against the Sweatlords from Japan. 603 00:40:55,683 --> 00:40:56,513 No. 604 00:40:57,394 --> 00:40:58,555 No, I don't. 605 00:40:59,136 --> 00:41:00,446 I don't want to play it online. 606 00:41:00,446 --> 00:41:02,017 just don't have any. 607 00:41:02,778 --> 00:41:04,419 I just don't have any. 608 00:41:04,419 --> 00:41:04,730 don't know. 609 00:41:04,730 --> 00:41:07,942 Mario Kart alone, I've already gotten tired of a little bit. 610 00:41:07,942 --> 00:41:17,369 So this one does look interesting and I do want to play it one day, but I'm already burnt out on the franchise. 611 00:41:17,369 --> 00:41:22,743 But I am curious because they had to do something to help make it fresh because if they kept on releasing. 612 00:41:22,743 --> 00:41:23,447 you 613 00:41:23,513 --> 00:41:27,103 Mario Kart, so it just looks similar every year, it just wouldn't do very well. 614 00:41:27,103 --> 00:41:29,839 So I am curious about the changes. 615 00:41:30,132 --> 00:41:36,377 I mean, it is a pretty different feeling Mario Kart, because you can also like ride on walls. 616 00:41:37,218 --> 00:41:38,479 You see in. 617 00:41:38,641 --> 00:41:40,461 I think you can do that in the last one. 618 00:41:40,575 --> 00:41:44,896 Alright, no, the last one that was like anti-gra- it was like a specific part of the course was anti-gravity. 619 00:41:44,896 --> 00:41:51,478 No, this one you have the ability to like freely jump onto walls and also grind on rails. 620 00:41:51,478 --> 00:41:53,677 And it changes the game like substantially. 621 00:41:53,677 --> 00:41:58,680 are like clips of people doing- It's crazy shit, man. 622 00:41:59,515 --> 00:42:03,295 I don't know if it's actually- I still don't know if it's worth $80. 623 00:42:04,582 --> 00:42:08,103 But I can see this being a solid $70 game. 624 00:42:09,745 --> 00:42:11,123 if it were $70 it is. 625 00:42:11,123 --> 00:42:12,489 Or, you know, $50! 626 00:42:12,489 --> 00:42:15,838 they've got you now wanting $70 games that worked. 627 00:42:16,332 --> 00:42:22,577 I've had no issues with $70 video games as long as it was substantially worth it. 628 00:42:22,918 --> 00:42:32,628 The problem is that a lot of the $70 video games that were made available, they weren't that much more substantially better. 629 00:42:32,628 --> 00:42:35,721 Not to mention microtransactions and shit. 630 00:42:35,721 --> 00:42:37,251 They were all still there too. 631 00:42:38,513 --> 00:42:39,653 At least with my... 632 00:42:39,653 --> 00:42:40,661 Yeah, sorry, go ahead. 633 00:42:40,661 --> 00:42:41,681 Oh no, sorry. 634 00:42:41,681 --> 00:42:45,781 If you're going to release a 70, $80 game, it's gotta be AAA. 635 00:42:45,781 --> 00:42:51,521 It's gotta be like, it's because you spent so much budget on this thing that that's why you have to release it for that much. 636 00:42:51,521 --> 00:42:53,241 I get it. 637 00:42:53,241 --> 00:43:01,521 But there's a lot of games and companies that really try to just release garbage games for the same amount. 638 00:43:01,581 --> 00:43:02,827 It's crazy. 639 00:43:02,827 --> 00:43:05,248 like let's like here, here's my thing. 640 00:43:06,009 --> 00:43:09,610 Like Mario Kart World, it's $80, yes. 641 00:43:09,610 --> 00:43:14,132 It'll probably have a DLC later down the line because that's just kind of how it is. 642 00:43:14,852 --> 00:43:20,074 But like, like look at GTA VI, that's gonna release. 643 00:43:20,135 --> 00:43:22,235 It's definitely gonna be $80. 644 00:43:22,235 --> 00:43:24,976 There's no way it's not gonna be $80 at least. 645 00:43:25,437 --> 00:43:28,598 And they're still gonna sell a shitload of, you know, shark cards. 646 00:43:29,098 --> 00:43:31,319 There's gonna be a bunch of shark cards being sold. 647 00:43:32,097 --> 00:43:33,364 It's bullshit. 648 00:43:33,763 --> 00:43:36,351 it is bullshit, but... 649 00:43:36,351 --> 00:43:39,610 that GTA is probably gonna be like the most expensive game ever made. 650 00:43:40,535 --> 00:43:42,098 But it's bullshit. 651 00:43:42,462 --> 00:43:43,121 Yeah. 652 00:43:43,121 --> 00:43:44,392 is the most expensive game. 653 00:43:44,392 --> 00:43:45,652 Yeah, I agree. 654 00:43:45,652 --> 00:43:49,812 I really don't like the like if you're going to charge a lot like. 655 00:43:50,292 --> 00:43:55,112 If they said it's going to be $100, no microtransactions and all DLC in the future is free. 656 00:43:55,112 --> 00:43:55,652 Awesome. 657 00:43:55,652 --> 00:43:58,552 But because they have ground the thought online, that makes them so much money. 658 00:43:58,552 --> 00:43:59,592 I just don't think they're going to do that. 659 00:43:59,592 --> 00:44:08,712 I think they they are a little they lean too much into that whole like gambling and 660 00:44:08,964 --> 00:44:11,742 money, needing to get money mentality. 661 00:44:12,530 --> 00:44:13,171 Yeah 662 00:44:13,171 --> 00:44:16,717 They're a little bit like their Grand Theft Auto game. 663 00:44:17,199 --> 00:44:18,701 They want to rob us. 664 00:44:19,023 --> 00:44:20,967 don't know. 665 00:44:20,967 --> 00:44:22,008 Heisting, there you go. 666 00:44:22,008 --> 00:44:22,780 That's it. 667 00:44:22,780 --> 00:44:25,765 The biggest heist ever, Grand Theft Auto Online. 668 00:44:26,411 --> 00:44:28,519 Grand Theft Auto Online 2. 669 00:44:29,319 --> 00:44:31,724 Yeah. 670 00:44:31,724 --> 00:44:37,615 So, uh, grab that little six is going to be coming out for switches, isn't it? 671 00:44:37,615 --> 00:44:38,818 Not that I've heard. 672 00:44:39,266 --> 00:44:40,138 Hmm. 673 00:44:40,503 --> 00:44:42,652 I thought it was, but maybe I'm wrong. 674 00:44:43,268 --> 00:44:48,466 I don't, I can't imagine it coming out to Switch anytime soon. 675 00:44:48,982 --> 00:44:52,124 Well, yeah, it's not going come out for PC anyways, day one. 676 00:44:52,124 --> 00:44:55,470 It's going to be uh Xbox and PlayStation, right? 677 00:44:55,470 --> 00:44:57,797 Yep, it's Xbox and PlayStation. 678 00:44:58,434 --> 00:45:02,854 exclusive, which is, they're always kind of weird with that, but. 679 00:45:02,854 --> 00:45:04,892 Well, because they know people will just double dip. 680 00:45:04,892 --> 00:45:07,710 yeah, nobody I know it is such a like for them. 681 00:45:07,710 --> 00:45:10,387 the another PC that's I got 682 00:45:10,581 --> 00:45:19,813 CD Projekt Red, they screwed up, but they still do right by their customers, by the gamers. 683 00:45:19,813 --> 00:45:24,104 I feel like Rockstar is just not quite like 684 00:45:24,104 --> 00:45:26,336 Well, mean, Rockstar knows what's up with GTA. 685 00:45:26,336 --> 00:45:33,732 They know that PC gamers will buy it because of FOMO, and then they'll buy it again because it's on PC. 686 00:45:35,474 --> 00:45:46,142 And, yeah, they would rather play GTA VI at like 4K 60fps instead of playing it on a PS5 where it's 1080p upscaled at 30fps. 687 00:45:47,022 --> 00:45:49,175 I don't think that's why they're getting it for PC. 688 00:45:49,175 --> 00:45:50,831 They're getting it for the mods. 689 00:45:51,371 --> 00:45:51,946 and the monster. 690 00:45:51,946 --> 00:45:54,402 That's also another big selling point too. 691 00:45:54,423 --> 00:45:59,870 The mods they they got to have their not safe for work mods. 692 00:46:00,111 --> 00:46:01,872 They got to have their boobies 693 00:46:03,410 --> 00:46:07,685 Yeah, we'll talk about a very moddable game later on in video, but uh... 694 00:46:07,685 --> 00:46:08,735 Yes. 695 00:46:12,056 --> 00:46:13,897 Wait, is it very much okay, we're gonna talk about that. 696 00:46:13,897 --> 00:46:14,867 I have questions for that one. 697 00:46:14,867 --> 00:46:18,808 Because that one's also very much like it's very successful, partially because of boobies. 698 00:46:18,808 --> 00:46:24,739 Yeah, yeah, let's, let's move on to the summer games fest. 699 00:46:24,739 --> 00:46:25,860 Let's talk about that. 700 00:46:25,860 --> 00:46:28,740 um Let me just switch this on over. 701 00:46:28,740 --> 00:46:32,021 ah We have more like we streamed it last week. 702 00:46:32,021 --> 00:46:32,901 It was great. 703 00:46:32,901 --> 00:46:35,262 uh Honestly. 704 00:46:35,286 --> 00:46:42,640 I think it well it was great for I like there was a couple of games that came out of it I liked it was a little mid with some of the game releases but you know what if you can come 705 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:51,663 away walk away with a couple of games that you plan on buying in the future I think that's a win so um what about you I decked with the summer game fest 706 00:46:51,860 --> 00:46:54,705 Well, there were a of games that looked super duper interesting. 707 00:46:54,705 --> 00:47:00,195 m But let's start with you first, since I'm sure you have some thoughts on some games on here. 708 00:47:00,292 --> 00:47:02,582 Oh, Outer Worlds 2. 709 00:47:03,306 --> 00:47:05,539 I have not watched the trailer for it yet. 710 00:47:05,539 --> 00:47:11,587 I've read some stuff on it, but I am super excited for Outer Worlds 2, but it's going to be an 80 dollar game, isn't it? 711 00:47:11,587 --> 00:47:12,597 And so 712 00:47:13,152 --> 00:47:14,872 Yep, it's an $80 video game. 713 00:47:14,872 --> 00:47:19,132 It's Xbox's, to my knowledge, Xbox's first $80 video game. 714 00:47:19,538 --> 00:47:23,238 It will honestly will probably be one of the first games I buy that's $80. 715 00:47:23,238 --> 00:47:28,278 I don't I just don't see myself buying anything else until that comes out. 716 00:47:28,278 --> 00:47:29,108 That's for 80. 717 00:47:29,108 --> 00:47:31,928 let's go over like highlights from each show in particular. 718 00:47:31,928 --> 00:47:34,868 I know we probably didn't watch most of the shows, let's go back up. 719 00:47:34,946 --> 00:47:36,998 are there highlights somewhere in here somewhere? 720 00:47:36,998 --> 00:47:40,185 Well, no, highlights, but I just want a list of like the shows there were. 721 00:47:40,185 --> 00:47:41,931 Oh, up here. 722 00:47:41,931 --> 00:47:44,871 also the recap website that I also linked as well. 723 00:47:44,871 --> 00:47:48,491 That shows you every game that was announced and all the, like, things. 724 00:47:49,711 --> 00:47:51,902 So I guess we'll work in reverse order. 725 00:47:51,902 --> 00:47:52,462 So... 726 00:47:52,462 --> 00:47:59,244 There's Tsukunami, they had Silent Hill stuff, they had Tsukuden, had Metal Gear Solid Delta. 727 00:47:59,244 --> 00:48:00,344 And then... 728 00:48:00,344 --> 00:48:01,567 a Silent Hill remake, aren't they? 729 00:48:01,567 --> 00:48:02,949 Like the original? 730 00:48:03,251 --> 00:48:04,810 Wasn't that the big announcement? 731 00:48:04,810 --> 00:48:08,775 Well, the big announcement was a brand new Silent Hill game, Silent Hill F. 732 00:48:10,318 --> 00:48:12,410 And so there were a of things. 733 00:48:12,410 --> 00:48:14,363 There were also other shows I didn't watch. 734 00:48:14,363 --> 00:48:15,155 uh 735 00:48:15,155 --> 00:48:20,606 A lot of these other shows were just talking about games that were already announced or released. 736 00:48:20,606 --> 00:48:22,570 think South of Midnight's already released, right? 737 00:48:22,570 --> 00:48:25,515 Yeah, that's an interesting one that they show. 738 00:48:25,515 --> 00:48:26,597 Maybe it's just not selling. 739 00:48:26,597 --> 00:48:31,286 I don't think it's selling very well, but it is an interesting game. 740 00:48:31,286 --> 00:48:32,418 It's just it's on Game Pass. 741 00:48:32,418 --> 00:48:33,720 I'm I plan on playing it on there. 742 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:34,901 It's just yeah. 743 00:48:34,901 --> 00:48:40,604 Yeah, well, you know, art house games don't tend to sell that well, and also it's on Game Pass too, that's another major thing too. 744 00:48:40,604 --> 00:48:42,004 uh 745 00:48:42,004 --> 00:48:45,474 very much hurts and we're going to talk about that I guess later too. 746 00:48:45,474 --> 00:48:46,612 It hurts the developer. 747 00:48:46,612 --> 00:48:52,495 the first major show, uh well we're working in reverse order, was the PC gaming show. 748 00:48:52,495 --> 00:48:59,879 We got to see a bunch of new stuff like Mugenics, I think that's Edmund McCullen, whatever his name is. 749 00:48:59,879 --> 00:49:07,503 The guy uh that made the Super Meat Boy and also The Binding of Isaac, that's his new game. 750 00:49:10,285 --> 00:49:13,887 Ultra Kill got a new trailer for layer eight. 751 00:49:13,929 --> 00:49:15,883 And Ultra Kill, have you played Ultra Kill? 752 00:49:15,883 --> 00:49:18,516 I feel like I have, but I haven't played it enough. 753 00:49:18,516 --> 00:49:26,545 I've seen a lot of people play it, shouldn't say a lot, but I've seen gameplay and lot of stuff on it. 754 00:49:27,147 --> 00:49:30,880 It really is that good, It's awesome, man. 755 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:35,034 It's like my favorite boomer shooter right now probably because it's... 756 00:49:35,354 --> 00:49:37,877 because there's so much skill expression involved as well. 757 00:49:37,877 --> 00:49:38,897 And it's... 758 00:49:39,178 --> 00:49:45,498 I wouldn't say it's super duper hard, but it's super hard to master and really get those P-Ranks. 759 00:49:45,498 --> 00:49:46,839 Let's see... 760 00:49:47,540 --> 00:49:51,233 I played Batsu, the demo for Batsu during the next Fest. 761 00:49:51,233 --> 00:49:52,564 It was pretty fun. 762 00:49:53,045 --> 00:49:54,646 It's kind of like... 763 00:49:54,677 --> 00:49:58,719 gang beasts or party animals in a way but with robots instead. 764 00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:08,203 um But aside from that though, there was some interesting stuff but I think those were the most interesting stuff for me during that show. 765 00:50:08,203 --> 00:50:10,504 Did you watch the PC gaming show? 766 00:50:10,942 --> 00:50:12,844 Honestly, I forgot about it. 767 00:50:12,844 --> 00:50:13,958 I did not. 768 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,074 Yeah, I didn't really watch it either, to be honest. 769 00:50:17,736 --> 00:50:21,629 I actually, in the past, it's one I'm usually watching. 770 00:50:21,710 --> 00:50:30,929 Usually it's hosted by Day 9, meaning PC Gamer, but then I think Day 9's the one that doesn't. 771 00:50:30,929 --> 00:50:34,192 I've watched him for years, but I don't know if he did it this year or not. 772 00:50:34,826 --> 00:50:36,658 Alright, yeah. 773 00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:43,887 So, the next up is the Xbox showcase, and uh there were a bunch of big announcements. 774 00:50:44,068 --> 00:50:45,720 There were a bunch of big announcements. 775 00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:50,956 Naturally, of course, they announced the RG Ally device here as well. 776 00:50:51,220 --> 00:50:53,635 Where's the Xbox stuff? 777 00:50:56,130 --> 00:50:57,203 is there a page two? 778 00:50:57,203 --> 00:50:58,234 There's multiple pages. 779 00:50:58,234 --> 00:50:59,045 Scroll down all the way. 780 00:50:59,045 --> 00:51:01,328 Look at the bottom of the page. 781 00:51:01,566 --> 00:51:03,787 I'm at the bottom of the Oh, maybe my... 782 00:51:03,787 --> 00:51:04,360 Hold up. 783 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:05,760 You don't see page 2? 784 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,068 You don't see the little bar that says page 1 through 2? 785 00:51:09,068 --> 00:51:09,509 it now. 786 00:51:09,509 --> 00:51:10,490 I really hate that. 787 00:51:10,490 --> 00:51:17,559 um My Mac bar, like my back studio bar was over it. 788 00:51:19,382 --> 00:51:20,003 Yeah. 789 00:51:20,003 --> 00:51:22,406 Wow, there's so many games. 790 00:51:22,406 --> 00:51:23,186 uh 791 00:51:32,056 --> 00:51:33,226 Naturally. 792 00:51:46,149 --> 00:51:49,932 Someone described it as a near-like, but I think it looks more like Sekiro, almost. 793 00:51:49,932 --> 00:51:50,924 Mixed with, like... 794 00:51:50,924 --> 00:51:52,786 Princess Mononoke vibes, you know what saying? 795 00:51:52,786 --> 00:51:55,447 Have you seen the trailer for Beast of Reincarnation? 796 00:51:56,469 --> 00:51:58,270 It actually looks pretty cool. 797 00:51:58,270 --> 00:51:59,431 And you wouldn't... 798 00:51:59,431 --> 00:52:02,093 It's a Game Freak game, too, so it's being... 799 00:52:02,534 --> 00:52:07,949 People were surprised that Game Freak were making games that weren't Pokemon. 800 00:52:07,949 --> 00:52:09,894 Yeah, that is so bizarre. 801 00:52:09,894 --> 00:52:11,028 um 802 00:52:11,028 --> 00:52:11,652 What, that? 803 00:52:11,652 --> 00:52:12,710 Wait, what? 804 00:52:13,008 --> 00:52:15,399 It's bizarre that they're making a game like this. 805 00:52:15,742 --> 00:52:17,430 Yeah, it's like 806 00:52:17,430 --> 00:52:20,031 They gotta get away from Pokemon. 807 00:52:20,418 --> 00:52:22,202 Yeah, it's crazy too. 808 00:52:22,202 --> 00:52:24,938 It's crazy that they showcased this at Xbox too. 809 00:52:24,938 --> 00:52:27,525 That's probably another wild thing as well. 810 00:52:27,525 --> 00:52:28,699 Yeah. 811 00:52:28,718 --> 00:52:29,082 wow. 812 00:52:29,082 --> 00:52:30,174 drops, yes. 813 00:52:30,174 --> 00:52:32,156 That's Game Freak. 814 00:52:32,318 --> 00:52:36,325 But it also doesn't look like an N64 game, to be honest. 815 00:52:37,794 --> 00:52:42,482 Well, I mean, game the frame rate dropping is a good sign that it's a real demo. 816 00:52:45,830 --> 00:52:47,011 It looks fun. 817 00:52:47,224 --> 00:52:49,095 Yeah, that was pretty fun. 818 00:52:49,095 --> 00:52:50,255 I wanna get it. 819 00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:51,876 Let's see... 820 00:52:52,296 --> 00:52:57,458 There's also Grounded 2, Ophelia... 821 00:52:58,279 --> 00:53:01,090 They also announced Persona 4 Revival. 822 00:53:01,090 --> 00:53:03,561 They're remaking Persona 4. 823 00:53:03,561 --> 00:53:06,622 And I think we talked about the voice acting drama. 824 00:53:07,023 --> 00:53:08,583 But it's a really shitty... 825 00:53:08,583 --> 00:53:11,384 It's a terrible trailer, though. 826 00:53:11,384 --> 00:53:15,580 It's like five seconds of uh the main character walking and that's it. 827 00:53:16,087 --> 00:53:16,891 Uhhh... 828 00:53:16,891 --> 00:53:17,583 Yeah, why? 829 00:53:17,583 --> 00:53:18,555 When they have- 830 00:53:19,053 --> 00:53:31,363 and also they also announced final fantasy come to xbox can you imagine yeah the final fantasy seven remake games as well as final fantasy sixteen come next box they're also 831 00:53:31,363 --> 00:53:43,164 making them they make an invincible tag team fighter as well and they also had a one more they all they also made a one more announcement style announcement guess what game was 832 00:53:43,687 --> 00:53:44,669 what game? 833 00:53:45,234 --> 00:53:47,558 I-I- What? 834 00:53:47,558 --> 00:53:58,773 Call of Duty Black Ops 7 I saw the trailer, didn't look like Call of Duty, it looked like fucking Control or like not Control, sorry, looked like fucking Quantum Break, it looked 835 00:53:58,773 --> 00:54:12,148 like not a Call of Duty game but it was but no no, it was Call of Duty is what I'm saying yeah it's on there, it's at the top go back up, this is in reverse order by the way 836 00:54:12,256 --> 00:54:13,075 Yeah. 837 00:54:13,100 --> 00:54:15,982 So Call of Duty, it's right next to Trash Goblin. 838 00:54:16,463 --> 00:54:21,226 It's on the second, it's the second, it's the second row, fourth column. 839 00:54:21,226 --> 00:54:21,808 look like it. 840 00:54:21,808 --> 00:54:23,362 Okay, that threw me off a little bit. 841 00:54:23,362 --> 00:54:28,158 The trailer doesn't look like a Call of Duty game, but maybe I'm just... 842 00:54:28,158 --> 00:54:29,611 maybe I'm just stupid. 843 00:54:30,122 --> 00:54:31,209 I mean, it's futuristic. 844 00:54:31,209 --> 00:54:32,802 love futuristic stuff. 845 00:54:32,802 --> 00:54:34,534 Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, I like it too. 846 00:54:34,534 --> 00:54:42,271 But like, the second half of the trailer had some really trippy shit too, which made me think that it wasn't Call of Duty, but it was Call of Duty. 847 00:54:42,271 --> 00:54:44,399 Yeah, I like Quantum Break. 848 00:54:44,399 --> 00:54:45,842 Have you played Quantum Break? 849 00:54:46,275 --> 00:54:47,787 I played a little bit of it. 850 00:54:47,923 --> 00:54:50,846 It didn't get the best ratings, but it was, it was pretty fun. 851 00:54:51,521 --> 00:54:52,264 It was pretty fun. 852 00:54:52,264 --> 00:54:55,725 Alright, but enough about... 853 00:54:56,351 --> 00:54:57,814 Yeah, enough about... 854 00:54:57,963 --> 00:55:01,688 Wow, at least they're putting some of that money into the visuals. 855 00:55:02,061 --> 00:55:03,656 Yeah, they- I mean... 856 00:55:04,002 --> 00:55:05,989 There's one thing I can't fault. 857 00:55:06,093 --> 00:55:06,575 It's- 858 00:55:06,575 --> 00:55:08,136 that is really trippy. 859 00:55:08,136 --> 00:55:11,956 Yeah, look, this doesn't look like a Call of Duty game, does it? 860 00:55:12,596 --> 00:55:15,258 At least this wouldn't indicate that it's a Call Duty game, right? 861 00:55:15,258 --> 00:55:17,052 He's just on LSD, that's it. 862 00:55:18,748 --> 00:55:21,141 Like this is like a horror game, almost. 863 00:55:21,141 --> 00:55:23,047 Like the vibes here, at least. 864 00:55:23,672 --> 00:55:29,138 Well, eh it better not be $80, because this might actually be the first quality I buy in a while. 865 00:55:29,138 --> 00:55:32,218 Come on, dude, it's guaranteed to be $80, man. 866 00:55:32,218 --> 00:55:34,202 gonna be on Game Pass, so nevermind. 867 00:55:34,744 --> 00:55:39,933 I'm pretty, you know, tuned in on Game Pass these days. 868 00:55:40,016 --> 00:55:42,872 Yeah, alright, so... 869 00:55:42,947 --> 00:55:44,250 Honestly, I'm here for that. 870 00:55:44,250 --> 00:55:48,157 That's actually great that they're deviating a little bit from the typical. 871 00:55:48,698 --> 00:55:49,871 I mean, are they though? 872 00:55:49,871 --> 00:55:52,106 Or is it just a bunch of cool visuals? 873 00:55:52,106 --> 00:55:58,073 Maybe that's all I want in a game like Call of Duty is cool visuals and an interesting setting. 874 00:55:58,073 --> 00:55:59,658 I don't play the multiplayer. 875 00:55:59,658 --> 00:56:05,131 And then, We can skip a lot of these other shows, to be honest. 876 00:56:05,131 --> 00:56:09,652 And we also did watch the uh main games fest live. 877 00:56:10,292 --> 00:56:12,332 Yeah, so we don't have to worry about that either. 878 00:56:14,033 --> 00:56:19,815 The PlayStation Showcase had some pretty cool games, uh Probably the coolest one. 879 00:56:20,655 --> 00:56:22,888 Wait, are they not showing the PlayStation Showcase here? 880 00:56:22,888 --> 00:56:24,116 That's weird. 881 00:56:24,424 --> 00:56:25,981 one right here. 882 00:56:25,981 --> 00:56:26,483 there it is. 883 00:56:26,483 --> 00:56:27,914 It's on page 7. 884 00:56:28,581 --> 00:56:29,387 geez. 885 00:56:29,387 --> 00:56:32,807 So, I mean, there were a bunch of cool games that they showcased. 886 00:56:32,807 --> 00:56:35,327 For example, um... 887 00:56:35,327 --> 00:56:37,907 Ninja Gaiden Final Fantasy Tactics. 888 00:56:38,447 --> 00:56:40,547 They're re-releasing Final Fantasy Tactics. 889 00:56:40,547 --> 00:56:41,507 It's a good game. 890 00:56:41,507 --> 00:56:43,427 You should play it. 891 00:56:43,827 --> 00:56:45,547 Ninja Ga... 892 00:56:45,547 --> 00:56:48,047 Ninja Gaiden Ragebound. 893 00:56:48,827 --> 00:56:49,407 Pretty cool as well. 894 00:56:49,407 --> 00:56:52,478 There's a demo on there for the next Fest, which we will be talking about next. 895 00:56:52,478 --> 00:56:52,878 Um... 896 00:56:52,878 --> 00:56:54,718 I mean, there's a lot of cool shit. 897 00:56:54,798 --> 00:56:55,783 That's lot of cool stuff. 898 00:56:55,783 --> 00:56:57,471 Silent Hill F. 899 00:56:57,486 --> 00:56:59,495 Oh yeah, Marvel Toukan. 900 00:57:00,470 --> 00:57:01,324 dude, Marvel Toukan. 901 00:57:01,324 --> 00:57:02,136 I'm gonna play that. 902 00:57:02,136 --> 00:57:15,556 And the James Bond game looks pretty cool, but at the same time though, given a recent disaster that just happened, I'm not super excited about it anymore. 903 00:57:15,677 --> 00:57:17,491 We'll talk about that disaster later on though. 904 00:57:17,491 --> 00:57:22,204 there's a bunch of other showcases that happened that we didn't know about, like this mixed summer showcase. 905 00:57:22,204 --> 00:57:23,276 What the hell is this all about? 906 00:57:23,276 --> 00:57:26,466 Oh man, there are so many games. 907 00:57:26,890 --> 00:57:28,064 I wish Gardner were here. 908 00:57:28,064 --> 00:57:29,239 He could tell us what's up. 909 00:57:29,239 --> 00:57:30,415 I hope you didn't forget about us. 910 00:57:30,415 --> 00:57:34,598 know if anyone can... 911 00:57:34,598 --> 00:57:37,532 Tell us what's up about all these games, there's just so many. 912 00:57:37,532 --> 00:57:41,014 Yeah, no, I don't think no one person could keep up with all of these games. 913 00:57:41,014 --> 00:57:48,145 the nice thing about us, like the three of us, is that we all have different genres we care about, and so we can all at least talk on them. 914 00:57:48,145 --> 00:57:56,445 Like fighting, Garner loves his arcade-y like RTS. 915 00:57:57,245 --> 00:58:01,865 I like RTSs too, but like I'm a StarCraft kind of RTS person. 916 00:58:01,865 --> 00:58:03,625 Like, come in and conquer is great. 917 00:58:03,625 --> 00:58:05,005 If they come out with a new one, I'll buy it. 918 00:58:05,005 --> 00:58:06,705 But like StarCraft's my jam. 919 00:58:07,105 --> 00:58:09,945 But first person shooters and horror and all that, like that's my jam. 920 00:58:10,291 --> 00:58:13,322 Yeah, you always seem like more of a 4X kinda guy, right? 921 00:58:14,281 --> 00:58:15,301 Yeah. 922 00:58:15,961 --> 00:58:16,689 Yeah. 923 00:58:16,689 --> 00:58:17,209 Okay. 924 00:58:17,209 --> 00:58:21,349 Do we want to be done with this and move on to like the spicy stuff that's going on with the game pass? 925 00:58:21,349 --> 00:58:30,429 Because I think we could spend all the this this podcast episode on this because there's so many different games. 926 00:58:30,454 --> 00:58:33,096 but real quick though, I want to give a shout out to The Next Fest. 927 00:58:33,777 --> 00:58:37,660 If you like demos, try out The Next Fest before it's too late. 928 00:58:37,660 --> 00:58:42,746 uh Given our typical release schedule, you'll probably only have a day to try out demos. 929 00:58:42,746 --> 00:58:45,228 I have a video on The Next Fest demos I liked. 930 00:58:45,228 --> 00:58:48,971 uh James, have you played any Next Fest demos? 931 00:58:49,026 --> 00:58:54,569 No, but I have one that I potentially want to try out and that's the regex game. 932 00:58:59,132 --> 00:59:01,312 No, it's so stupid. 933 00:59:01,933 --> 00:59:06,315 This is coming into the whole Nex Fest is becoming a little bit of a slop show. 934 00:59:06,315 --> 00:59:13,039 um Once again, like don't get me wrong, like this is fun and all in the sense of if you did this, this is a web browser game. 935 00:59:13,039 --> 00:59:14,310 This is probably web browser. 936 00:59:14,310 --> 00:59:17,021 They probably built this all on the web, which is fine. 937 00:59:17,021 --> 00:59:25,535 I'm not saying that's a bad thing, you can't release a game like this, but it feels so like you're just learning how to do regex, which if you don't know what regex is, it's 938 00:59:25,535 --> 00:59:28,826 just a fancy way of doing text parsing. 939 00:59:28,826 --> 00:59:35,045 like, hey, I want all the letter D removed from this big line of text. 940 00:59:35,045 --> 00:59:37,630 It's just a fancy way doing that in programming. 941 00:59:40,352 --> 00:59:42,773 So there you go, there's a demo for that. 942 00:59:44,093 --> 00:59:45,873 You got lucky club scratches. 943 00:59:45,873 --> 00:59:52,477 So if you like scratching, if you like doing scratchers, they're not really winning anything that you can do that. 944 00:59:52,477 --> 00:59:55,405 Is this based on your preferences in games? 945 00:59:55,958 --> 01:00:00,319 I don't know because I would not play well, I would play Jaws of Hell but 946 01:00:00,319 --> 01:00:02,282 Are you signed on to Steam right now? 947 01:00:02,617 --> 01:00:03,810 No, I don't think I am. 948 01:00:03,810 --> 01:00:05,805 is just no, I'm not. 949 01:00:05,915 --> 01:00:07,338 Sign on to Steam. 950 01:00:07,338 --> 01:00:08,400 Open your Steam. 951 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:09,341 Sign on to Steam right now. 952 01:00:09,341 --> 01:00:14,610 I want to see what games they would recommend to you, because mine doesn't look like that at all. 953 01:00:15,232 --> 01:00:17,215 Mine looks very different. 954 01:00:18,109 --> 01:00:20,536 I'm gonna to do a bunch of junk to get signed 955 01:00:20,536 --> 01:00:22,137 Give me a second. 956 01:00:22,137 --> 01:00:23,697 No one else scanned this. 957 01:00:24,157 --> 01:00:25,413 mean, it's just not gonna... 958 01:00:25,931 --> 01:00:35,059 No one else can it dude that means you have access to their account I would hope no one scans this Of course you can always just blur it out and post right 959 01:00:35,059 --> 01:00:37,362 it doesn't matter, it's a timed. 960 01:00:37,364 --> 01:00:40,911 By the time any of this will go out, that's why I was just messing. 961 01:00:40,911 --> 01:00:42,447 ah 962 01:00:42,447 --> 01:00:44,591 Let's see what yours looks like James. 963 01:00:45,154 --> 01:00:47,338 I'll show you mine if you show me yours. 964 01:00:48,769 --> 01:00:50,331 Dead as Disco. 965 01:00:50,331 --> 01:00:52,463 That looks interesting, or sounds interesting. 966 01:00:52,463 --> 01:00:53,303 that. 967 01:00:54,104 --> 01:00:55,044 Wait. 968 01:00:55,265 --> 01:00:56,336 Unbeatable's up there. 969 01:00:56,336 --> 01:00:58,007 Unbeatable's pretty sick. 970 01:00:58,488 --> 01:00:59,888 It's a rhythm game. 971 01:01:00,730 --> 01:01:01,290 There's a- 972 01:01:01,290 --> 01:01:02,026 rhythm games. 973 01:01:02,026 --> 01:01:03,887 wait, what's that middle one down there? 974 01:01:03,887 --> 01:01:06,048 I heard about that middle one here. 975 01:01:06,908 --> 01:01:10,850 It's a weird one where you have to crush notes with your thighs. 976 01:01:10,850 --> 01:01:13,031 It's insane. 977 01:01:15,553 --> 01:01:19,084 Okay, we gotta scroll down though. 978 01:01:19,084 --> 01:01:19,645 Let's see what... 979 01:01:19,645 --> 01:01:22,756 Let's see, Jump Ship. 980 01:01:22,756 --> 01:01:23,636 I've played that. 981 01:01:23,636 --> 01:01:24,877 Looks pretty cool. 982 01:01:25,087 --> 01:01:25,571 You played it? 983 01:01:25,571 --> 01:01:26,628 Did you like it? 984 01:01:26,825 --> 01:01:31,069 Yeah, it's a lot of fun, but you need to have multiple players to really enjoy it. 985 01:01:31,069 --> 01:01:32,708 Hmm, it's up to four. 986 01:01:32,708 --> 01:01:33,171 Okay. 987 01:01:33,171 --> 01:01:33,872 I. 988 01:01:34,313 --> 01:01:37,833 like FTL mixed with an FPS as well. 989 01:01:38,081 --> 01:01:39,841 GTFO maybe. 990 01:01:39,841 --> 01:01:43,043 uh Yeah, yeah, I'll, I mean, sort of, kind of. 991 01:01:43,984 --> 01:01:45,444 I've never played it. 992 01:01:46,385 --> 01:01:48,186 Gardner messaged us. 993 01:01:48,327 --> 01:01:49,908 It seems like he might not be joining us. 994 01:01:49,908 --> 01:01:51,308 uh Maybe. 995 01:01:51,308 --> 01:01:51,940 We'll see. 996 01:01:51,940 --> 01:01:52,645 Okay, so. 997 01:01:52,645 --> 01:01:55,135 uh 998 01:01:55,135 --> 01:01:57,064 Furiosis? 999 01:01:57,064 --> 01:01:58,266 Furiosis? 1000 01:01:59,032 --> 01:01:59,785 Interesting. 1001 01:01:59,785 --> 01:02:03,381 Um, well, let's see if you want... 1002 01:02:03,671 --> 01:02:06,344 While you're doing that, I'm going be looking at some of this stuff. 1003 01:02:06,565 --> 01:02:08,707 You guys want a dinosaur game? 1004 01:02:08,929 --> 01:02:10,930 Actually, it looks like Turok a little bit. 1005 01:02:11,412 --> 01:02:12,314 Furiosus. 1006 01:02:12,314 --> 01:02:18,283 I mean, is definitely like, it looks like an indie game, but I think I'd play this. 1007 01:02:18,790 --> 01:02:24,666 Yeah, here, so I guess now's a good time to show you my NextFest uh query. 1008 01:02:24,666 --> 01:02:25,768 It looks very different. 1009 01:02:25,768 --> 01:02:28,390 Oh, God. 1010 01:02:28,740 --> 01:02:32,515 All right, so what's gonna happen if we share multiple screens? 1011 01:02:32,515 --> 01:02:36,779 I'm gonna take over, let's see. 1012 01:02:36,921 --> 01:02:37,429 do it. 1013 01:02:37,429 --> 01:02:39,717 This is what mine looks like. 1014 01:02:39,817 --> 01:02:40,942 I need to. 1015 01:02:41,129 --> 01:02:43,020 Look, have you played Patapon? 1016 01:02:43,020 --> 01:02:48,043 You should try Ratatan, it's awesome. 1017 01:02:48,043 --> 01:02:50,394 It's another like rhythm game. 1018 01:02:50,394 --> 01:02:57,619 It's like Pikmin, but you have to control them by issuing commands to them via rhythm. 1019 01:02:57,619 --> 01:03:00,020 Like, buttons, it's crazy. 1020 01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:02,461 Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is pretty cool. 1021 01:03:02,542 --> 01:03:04,642 I tried Hotel Barcelona. 1022 01:03:04,989 --> 01:03:07,005 I didn't really jive with it be honest. 1023 01:03:07,005 --> 01:03:11,114 Look, game recommendations are totally different. 1024 01:03:11,114 --> 01:03:12,139 It knows what I like. 1025 01:03:12,139 --> 01:03:14,035 It knows you like the slop. 1026 01:03:14,051 --> 01:03:15,413 It knows I like the slap. 1027 01:03:15,413 --> 01:03:18,136 This one's really good though, Absalom. 1028 01:03:18,136 --> 01:03:20,158 But that's if you're into beat ups. 1029 01:03:20,739 --> 01:03:22,620 The trolley solution. 1030 01:03:22,791 --> 01:03:24,163 What the hell is that? 1031 01:03:24,648 --> 01:03:25,817 how many people can you kill? 1032 01:03:25,817 --> 01:03:29,357 See, a trolley is approaching five people, what do you do? 1033 01:03:30,337 --> 01:03:32,257 Do I kill one person? 1034 01:03:32,257 --> 01:03:35,737 Do I act- Huh. 1035 01:03:36,517 --> 01:03:37,548 The fuck is this? 1036 01:03:37,548 --> 01:03:39,276 What the? 1037 01:03:39,276 --> 01:03:43,029 I don't think so. 1038 01:03:43,589 --> 01:03:45,632 Well, he hit someone on purpose, 1039 01:03:45,861 --> 01:03:47,053 Dude, that... 1040 01:03:47,075 --> 01:03:48,357 What is this? 1041 01:03:48,685 --> 01:03:54,432 Or maybe it's like, it's so complicated you have to find the way just to only kill the one person and not everyone else. 1042 01:03:54,432 --> 01:03:55,964 They killed the least amount of people. 1043 01:03:55,964 --> 01:03:58,393 Yeah, it looks interesting. 1044 01:03:58,393 --> 01:03:59,488 does look interesting, yes. 1045 01:03:59,488 --> 01:04:00,654 Let's see. 1046 01:04:00,654 --> 01:04:03,486 There a lot of Probably too many demos. 1047 01:04:03,542 --> 01:04:13,284 There's too much, like, I don't know, it's really hard, because I want more and game devs to come out, but at the same time, I'm overwhelmed. 1048 01:04:13,550 --> 01:04:16,594 think Valve should ju- I mean, I don't know, man. 1049 01:04:16,789 --> 01:04:20,412 my gosh, the date everyone game is coming out still. 1050 01:04:20,492 --> 01:04:21,755 I forgot about that. 1051 01:04:21,755 --> 01:04:22,635 It came. 1052 01:04:22,635 --> 01:04:24,236 It comes out in three days. 1053 01:04:24,637 --> 01:04:26,569 It's the day everything did you see? 1054 01:04:26,569 --> 01:04:31,495 I swear we watched something on it a couple of months ago on live stream and it's where you can. 1055 01:04:31,495 --> 01:04:33,977 I think you can date a refrigerator. 1056 01:04:33,977 --> 01:04:34,819 I think on this. 1057 01:04:34,819 --> 01:04:36,148 It's a dating sim though. 1058 01:04:36,884 --> 01:04:38,565 Speaking of dating sims... 1059 01:04:39,267 --> 01:04:40,458 Wait, why is this down here again? 1060 01:04:40,458 --> 01:04:41,529 What the fuck? 1061 01:04:41,620 --> 01:04:42,401 wait, no. 1062 01:04:42,401 --> 01:04:44,043 No, wait, no, we were looking at your screen. 1063 01:04:44,043 --> 01:04:44,825 We're looking at mine. 1064 01:04:44,825 --> 01:04:50,530 Oh gosh, who's at the door is terrifying. 1065 01:04:50,530 --> 01:04:51,417 Who's at the door? 1066 01:04:51,417 --> 01:04:52,891 Sorry, it's not on yours. 1067 01:04:52,891 --> 01:04:53,981 I'm looking online still. 1068 01:04:53,981 --> 01:04:55,674 Yeah, let's see. 1069 01:04:55,674 --> 01:04:56,372 I'll show you. 1070 01:04:56,372 --> 01:04:58,712 see, let's see what the top chart- oh yeah yeah, you share yours. 1071 01:04:58,712 --> 01:04:59,807 I wanna look at the top charts. 1072 01:04:59,807 --> 01:05:03,899 go ahead, look at the top charts and then I'll show you what I'm looking at. 1073 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:10,932 So the most popular, the top demos is Wildgate. 1074 01:05:10,932 --> 01:05:11,823 the is this? 1075 01:05:11,823 --> 01:05:12,783 Oh. 1076 01:05:13,796 --> 01:05:16,363 think Wallegate's been in the works for a while. 1077 01:05:16,363 --> 01:05:19,163 See Vindictus Defying Fate. 1078 01:05:19,463 --> 01:05:22,363 I played the original MMO like 10 years ago. 1079 01:05:22,703 --> 01:05:24,623 I don't know what this is about though. 1080 01:05:24,623 --> 01:05:30,803 Jump Ship, Dead As Disco, Mimesys, Solo Leveling. 1081 01:05:30,803 --> 01:05:32,837 Gosh, have you seen Solo Leveling? 1082 01:05:32,837 --> 01:05:34,509 It's such a good anime. 1083 01:05:34,509 --> 01:05:39,704 Here's the thing, even if you don't like anime, I have friends that don't really care for animes, they love that show. 1084 01:05:39,704 --> 01:05:40,955 It's so good. 1085 01:05:41,289 --> 01:05:45,801 Dude, it's so funny, people are saying he's aura farming. 1086 01:05:48,422 --> 01:05:51,113 He has to look cool all the time, it's crazy. 1087 01:05:51,113 --> 01:05:54,361 Yeah, let's see... 1088 01:05:54,361 --> 01:05:56,405 Escape from Duckov? 1089 01:05:57,046 --> 01:05:57,926 What? 1090 01:05:58,717 --> 01:06:06,024 It's supposed to be a take on escape from dark turk of what is so it's like a fun play on it. 1091 01:06:06,024 --> 01:06:07,300 That's that's funny. 1092 01:06:07,300 --> 01:06:10,140 X-Pit, I haven't played that. 1093 01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,100 Pioneer, it's an MMO FPS. 1094 01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:17,560 I don't know how much fun that would be, but... 1095 01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,620 See, No I'm Not a Human. 1096 01:06:19,620 --> 01:06:22,580 Oh, this is one of those weird, like, horror games. 1097 01:06:22,580 --> 01:06:25,500 I gotta try it out before the next Fest ends. 1098 01:06:25,980 --> 01:06:27,280 See, UFL. 1099 01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,040 Hey look, that our good friend, Ronaldo? 1100 01:06:31,300 --> 01:06:32,780 That neither... 1101 01:06:32,780 --> 01:06:33,350 that... 1102 01:06:33,350 --> 01:06:35,916 He's not who we thought he was. 1103 01:06:35,916 --> 01:06:38,336 Yeah, he's not who you thought he was. 1104 01:06:38,656 --> 01:06:44,407 See, there's a Starlight Revolver, Clover Pit, Ratatan. 1105 01:06:44,407 --> 01:06:45,347 I don't know. 1106 01:06:46,127 --> 01:06:50,851 It's not a bad idea to go through the main top charts to see what's going on. 1107 01:06:50,851 --> 01:06:54,326 I think that's like, especially if you're overwhelmed, it's a good way to do it. 1108 01:06:54,326 --> 01:06:57,067 But I feel like you'd miss some good gems doing that still. 1109 01:06:57,067 --> 01:07:03,082 Yeah, you would, but honestly, finding good gems requires you to understand the filter system. 1110 01:07:03,082 --> 01:07:05,464 And really knowing what you like. 1111 01:07:05,464 --> 01:07:06,004 Like, let's... 1112 01:07:06,004 --> 01:07:07,391 uh 1113 01:07:07,391 --> 01:07:08,133 I'm gonna show you a gem. 1114 01:07:08,133 --> 01:07:09,095 I'm taking over now. 1115 01:07:09,095 --> 01:07:10,406 This is the gem. 1116 01:07:10,949 --> 01:07:12,191 Who's at the door? 1117 01:07:12,665 --> 01:07:14,365 What the fuck is that? 1118 01:07:15,325 --> 01:07:15,845 That's... 1119 01:07:15,845 --> 01:07:16,285 Whore. 1120 01:07:16,285 --> 01:07:16,985 Holy shit. 1121 01:07:16,985 --> 01:07:18,021 What the fuck? 1122 01:07:18,021 --> 01:07:27,268 I don't know if it's like they purposely made it this bad or they're just really not good at modeling, but like that is horrifying. 1123 01:07:27,848 --> 01:07:29,369 That's what I wanted to show you. 1124 01:07:30,710 --> 01:07:34,713 Should we move on to the next topic? 1125 01:07:35,494 --> 01:07:39,777 Okay, let's do that. 1126 01:07:39,777 --> 01:07:43,689 Honestly, this was a topic we kind of added in. 1127 01:07:43,860 --> 01:07:44,781 Last minute anyways. 1128 01:07:44,781 --> 01:07:52,167 oh so, uh a developer who launched a game into Game Pass warns against it. 1129 01:07:52,167 --> 01:07:53,898 So, I mean, this is no shock, right? 1130 01:07:53,898 --> 01:08:02,995 Like, Revenge of the Savage Planet launched on Game Pass, but studio head Alex Hutchinson claims it devalues games. 1131 01:08:02,995 --> 01:08:09,240 His thoughts was that being on Game Pass would encourage the sell of DLC or potentially word of mouth sells. 1132 01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:10,951 But that turned out to not be the case. 1133 01:08:10,951 --> 01:08:13,143 He hopes that the industry as a whole 1134 01:08:13,225 --> 01:08:20,363 should only embrace subscription services much like the current film industry does exclusively in theaters first and DVD, Blu-ray, later on. 1135 01:08:21,243 --> 01:08:23,387 That's never, like, they'll never be able to do it. 1136 01:08:23,387 --> 01:08:31,025 Like, that's a really weird way to take it, is to do like the film industry because you just can't, I don't think you can do a game like that. 1137 01:08:31,927 --> 01:08:37,257 Well, I don't mean like lit- well, I don't think he meant like literally. 1138 01:08:37,257 --> 01:08:41,567 I think he meant like it should be like where you release your game first. 1139 01:08:42,248 --> 01:08:46,648 You know, release it for $60 or whatever and then later on like a few years later. 1140 01:08:46,648 --> 01:08:49,080 the comparison doesn't just fall apart. 1141 01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:50,511 Sorry, I'm getting caught up on it. 1142 01:08:50,511 --> 01:08:54,674 ah Yeah, I agree with that. 1143 01:08:54,674 --> 01:08:59,677 Release it first and then have it go to the Game Pass like a year later or something like that. 1144 01:08:59,677 --> 01:09:00,897 But a lot of people are just gonna wait. 1145 01:09:00,897 --> 01:09:02,959 I don't know if it will change enough. 1146 01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:10,745 For me, if I'm gonna play a game on Game Pass, it's because I don't wanna buy it anytime soon. 1147 01:09:10,745 --> 01:09:12,726 So I'm waiting no matter what. 1148 01:09:14,347 --> 01:09:15,747 I don't know. 1149 01:09:16,188 --> 01:09:17,088 I get it though. 1150 01:09:17,088 --> 01:09:19,307 I wonder how much money they're making. 1151 01:09:19,307 --> 01:09:24,710 I think some people also overvalue what their game is worth. 1152 01:09:25,507 --> 01:09:32,792 I think they'd make a lot more money if they would have sold it, but because of like, I never heard of Savage Planet. 1153 01:09:32,792 --> 01:09:39,214 I don't know, maybe they didn't make a whole lot, but usually with those types of deals, you get like an upfront amount and then you get revenue. 1154 01:09:40,054 --> 01:09:44,265 But if your game's unknown and you don't have a good marketing plan, 1155 01:09:44,779 --> 01:09:46,522 8 might not make anything. 1156 01:09:47,547 --> 01:09:49,631 So you gotta be careful, it's a double edged 1157 01:09:49,738 --> 01:09:52,457 I honestly man, I'm starting to believe that maybe... 1158 01:09:52,457 --> 01:10:02,925 Alright, so if you're not like a Microsoft game, if you're releasing on Game Pass like simultaneously, it feels like it's almost like a epic game store style black hole of 1159 01:10:02,925 --> 01:10:03,596 marketing. 1160 01:10:03,596 --> 01:10:08,036 There's a lot of people that are on Xbox Game Pass, a lot of people. 1161 01:10:08,156 --> 01:10:20,076 I would not come, I wouldn't fully put it into like the into Epic, but I do think it's a problem still. 1162 01:10:20,076 --> 01:10:24,116 And I definitely want game developers to make money. 1163 01:10:24,436 --> 01:10:28,176 But if you haven't noticed, look at how many games we just saw in Next Fest. 1164 01:10:28,176 --> 01:10:32,376 I think the market's getting fractured and I just don't know. 1165 01:10:33,029 --> 01:10:40,603 if there's It's not even enough money if there's enough time for people to be aware of everything. 1166 01:10:41,523 --> 01:10:48,507 And play games that the let alone find the game to play to have the time to play all these different games. 1167 01:10:48,558 --> 01:10:52,687 Yeah, yeah, I mean... 1168 01:10:52,687 --> 01:11:05,264 too, because like, if I was a game developer, I don't think I'd release on Game Pass, but at the same time, I would be working with a marketing firm. 1169 01:11:05,264 --> 01:11:12,368 Like when I release my game and whenever, I will probably work with a marketing firm or do a big marketing plan myself. 1170 01:11:12,448 --> 01:11:19,742 If you don't have, like a lot of game developers don't understand the business side of things, and if you don't, and you don't have a good marketing plan, 1171 01:11:20,206 --> 01:11:21,792 your game's most likely going to fail. 1172 01:11:21,792 --> 01:11:25,725 So it's better to at least risk it on Xbox. 1173 01:11:25,725 --> 01:11:26,829 Game Pass, I'd say. 1174 01:11:26,829 --> 01:11:27,860 It's just... 1175 01:11:28,221 --> 01:11:31,343 the business side of things is really hard when it to video games. 1176 01:11:31,464 --> 01:11:32,465 couldn't begin... 1177 01:11:32,465 --> 01:11:33,957 like, we all act... 1178 01:11:33,957 --> 01:11:42,996 like, a lot of content creators, sometimes us, we all act like we're experts in this field, but realistically, we can't even predict... 1179 01:11:42,996 --> 01:11:45,579 we can't even predict successes, to be honest. 1180 01:11:45,772 --> 01:11:47,173 No, no one in the books. 1181 01:11:47,173 --> 01:11:47,613 Here's the thing. 1182 01:11:47,613 --> 01:11:48,203 I've been in the. 1183 01:11:48,203 --> 01:11:52,825 uh So as a software developer and I've worked with a lot of startups, I've had to wear a lot of hats. 1184 01:11:52,825 --> 01:11:54,485 I've had to do marketing content. 1185 01:11:54,485 --> 01:11:56,646 I've had to do a lot of business stuff. 1186 01:11:56,646 --> 01:12:05,449 And so um you can't like even like really good business people have a hard time predicting things. 1187 01:12:05,489 --> 01:12:14,172 I mean, Apple is how many trillion dollar company and they the Apple Vision Pro just is Apple Vision Pro or Apple Vision, whatever it is. 1188 01:12:16,419 --> 01:12:17,529 Did okay. 1189 01:12:17,730 --> 01:12:26,493 Like they might not have done the marketing right on that or had a good market feel for, or maybe they expected it to release not very well in the beginning and eventually adapt. 1190 01:12:26,493 --> 01:12:41,139 It takes a lot of work and not even big companies get it right, but indie developers especially who are not versed in any type of business, acronym, uh are not gonna, they 1191 01:12:41,139 --> 01:12:41,929 have to figure it out. 1192 01:12:41,929 --> 01:12:44,300 They either have to partner with someone or they have to. 1193 01:12:44,300 --> 01:12:45,963 ah 1194 01:12:45,963 --> 01:12:48,782 find a way to get it viral and virality is hard. 1195 01:12:48,782 --> 01:12:58,987 I don't know man, it's, I mean, game developers, should do whatever you feel is best for your game, honestly, but, I mean, take it from him. 1196 01:12:58,987 --> 01:13:02,368 your game, but if you want to make money, that's... 1197 01:13:02,969 --> 01:13:05,971 Do you want it to release and not worry about... 1198 01:13:05,971 --> 01:13:08,632 You want it to be out to as many people as possible? 1199 01:13:09,012 --> 01:13:11,904 Like, release it on Steam and don't worry about Game Pass, I guess. 1200 01:13:11,904 --> 01:13:15,496 But if you want to make some money, they'll hopefully make another game. 1201 01:13:15,596 --> 01:13:16,936 It does matter. 1202 01:13:17,797 --> 01:13:19,446 Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. 1203 01:13:19,446 --> 01:13:20,666 it's all good, man. 1204 01:13:20,666 --> 01:13:28,551 I'm not super worried about this topic, I just thought it was interesting to talk about since, you know, I think developers are starting to be more wary about Game Pass as a 1205 01:13:28,551 --> 01:13:29,371 whole. 1206 01:13:30,019 --> 01:13:36,146 And I think rightfully so, definitely think if you, like you can neuter your game if you're not careful. 1207 01:13:36,187 --> 01:13:44,136 But I think some people see some success on here and then regret not doing it another way and that's fine. 1208 01:13:44,318 --> 01:13:47,773 But don't think that the other way was gonna be successful too. 1209 01:13:47,773 --> 01:13:48,767 Yeah. 1210 01:13:49,563 --> 01:13:50,623 Yeah. 1211 01:13:50,728 --> 01:13:51,808 Be careful what you wish for. 1212 01:13:51,808 --> 01:13:58,274 um I definitely think Game Pass is great deal for gamers. 1213 01:13:58,735 --> 01:14:01,977 Tends to be not as good of a deal for a lot of developers, so. 1214 01:14:02,039 --> 01:14:06,024 And, honesty man, developers talk. 1215 01:14:06,105 --> 01:14:13,414 So if one had a bad experience with Game Pass, there's a good chance that others made it just avoid it just from hearing about stuff like this. 1216 01:14:13,905 --> 01:14:21,601 Yeah, but what's gonna happen if their game's just not successful because they just don't have the market or the platform. 1217 01:14:21,601 --> 01:14:27,916 So it's gonna be interesting to see how this all goes and see what ends up being like the successful route. 1218 01:14:27,916 --> 01:14:39,411 um I'd love to start, I would like to start like highlighting on my channel more Indies, especially games that I think are worthwhile, but yeah. 1219 01:14:39,411 --> 01:14:39,849 tell. 1220 01:14:39,849 --> 01:14:45,589 Okay, it's not an indie, but speaking of time will only tell. 1221 01:14:45,589 --> 01:14:52,169 This looked interesting six months ago when I saw it during the Game Awards. 1222 01:14:52,169 --> 01:14:54,589 I think they did a video on this. 1223 01:14:54,589 --> 01:14:59,400 Mind's Eye, is it gonna be the worst game of 2025, high tech? 1224 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:04,600 Well, chances are likely yes, it looks like it's going to be the worst released game of 2025. 1225 01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:09,880 And it's broken in ways that only Cyberpunk 1.0 were broken. 1226 01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:13,480 And Sony actually started issuing refunds to people who bought this game. 1227 01:15:13,480 --> 01:15:14,860 Much like Cyberpunk 1.0. 1228 01:15:14,860 --> 01:15:16,900 Much like Cyberpunk 1.0! 1229 01:15:17,486 --> 01:15:19,600 Yeah, but cyberpunk became successful. 1230 01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:21,041 It became successful. 1231 01:15:22,844 --> 01:15:29,953 But people are saying that the underlying bones of this game itself isn't that great to begin with anyways. 1232 01:15:31,278 --> 01:15:33,417 Like not great or that are really bad. 1233 01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:36,512 Like, it's broken, very broken. 1234 01:15:36,512 --> 01:15:39,293 I think that's what most of the issue is. 1235 01:15:39,293 --> 01:15:41,574 I didn't expect the game to be absolutely dreadful to play. 1236 01:15:41,574 --> 01:15:42,995 Here's what happened in two hours. 1237 01:15:42,995 --> 01:15:44,846 Shader compilation took 10 minutes. 1238 01:15:44,846 --> 01:15:46,837 Okay, I don't know why he added that. 1239 01:15:46,837 --> 01:15:47,868 That's stupid. 1240 01:15:47,868 --> 01:15:49,538 Unskippable 10 minutes cut scene. 1241 01:15:49,538 --> 01:15:54,131 Okay, once again, game ran at 10 frames per second, so I messed around in menus. 1242 01:15:54,131 --> 01:15:55,511 Okay, that's bad. 1243 01:15:55,952 --> 01:15:59,533 Opened builder mode out of curiosity. 1244 01:16:01,114 --> 01:16:04,266 When exiting built, this is the stupidest. 1245 01:16:04,266 --> 01:16:05,036 Okay, I'm sorry. 1246 01:16:05,036 --> 01:16:08,278 Like guys, write better reviews. 1247 01:16:09,114 --> 01:16:14,179 Just because a game took 10 minutes for a shader compilation like that's not that long. 1248 01:16:15,626 --> 01:16:22,683 Character has PTSD about being caught Black Ops 7 alien Illuminati with Elon Brainship every 30 minutes. 1249 01:16:22,683 --> 01:16:23,694 Every 30 seconds. 1250 01:16:23,694 --> 01:16:25,416 I can see that being annoying. 1251 01:16:25,416 --> 01:16:27,317 If it's every 30 seconds. 1252 01:16:27,455 --> 01:16:30,838 I honestly think this person is just crazy that wrote it. 1253 01:16:30,838 --> 01:16:33,045 think they're crazier than the people that built the game. 1254 01:16:33,045 --> 01:16:34,607 uh 1255 01:16:34,621 --> 01:16:34,687 hours. 1256 01:16:34,687 --> 01:16:35,544 Alright, scroll down. 1257 01:16:35,544 --> 01:16:36,681 Let's see the next review. 1258 01:16:36,681 --> 01:16:39,575 Yeah, it has great cut scenes. 1259 01:16:39,575 --> 01:16:41,217 They spent all the budget on the cut scenes. 1260 01:16:41,217 --> 01:16:43,020 No money left to hire play testers. 1261 01:16:43,020 --> 01:16:48,958 I actually when I was watching the trailers, I'm like, yeah, they probably went way too high into the into the cut scene budget. 1262 01:16:48,958 --> 01:16:51,150 So I agree with this. 1263 01:16:51,391 --> 01:16:54,486 If there's uh if the gameplay and everything else is not that great. 1264 01:16:54,486 --> 01:16:58,509 See, mind's eye, our expectations were low for me, but holy shit. 1265 01:16:58,509 --> 01:16:59,210 C. 1266 01:16:59,210 --> 01:16:59,691 A. 1267 01:16:59,691 --> 01:17:02,273 Overanalyze by video essays B. 1268 01:17:02,273 --> 01:17:06,387 Sot by trophy hunters in the $5 bargain bin C. 1269 01:17:06,387 --> 01:17:09,281 If the D-list becomes the next ride to hell 1270 01:17:09,445 --> 01:17:11,317 here's where this game will stand in five years. 1271 01:17:11,317 --> 01:17:12,643 That's funny. 1272 01:17:12,643 --> 01:17:15,283 I mean, this is a this is a better review than the first one. 1273 01:17:15,283 --> 01:17:24,465 I don't mean to like review shame, but that was that was just like normal Internet people just not understanding like whatever. 1274 01:17:24,465 --> 01:17:25,641 um 1275 01:17:25,641 --> 01:17:28,761 Let's look at some critical reviews from like IGN and whatnot. 1276 01:17:29,721 --> 01:17:32,484 I didn't link any of this, so you'll have to like... 1277 01:17:32,484 --> 01:17:33,865 It's a 4 out of 10. 1278 01:17:33,865 --> 01:17:38,802 IGN doesn't typically give anything below like a 6 at least. 1279 01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,805 They do this, but yeah, it's not very often, right? 1280 01:17:42,827 --> 01:17:43,990 That's bad. 1281 01:17:43,990 --> 01:17:46,776 So if it's like a four, think of it more like a two. 1282 01:17:48,289 --> 01:17:50,301 IGN is very generous with their scores. 1283 01:17:50,301 --> 01:17:52,009 m 1284 01:17:52,451 --> 01:17:54,853 Let's see reviews. 1285 01:17:55,294 --> 01:17:57,056 Wait, what are these different? 1286 01:17:57,056 --> 01:17:59,858 Are these just not our user reviews? 1287 01:17:59,858 --> 01:18:00,389 that's interesting. 1288 01:18:00,389 --> 01:18:01,780 They opened up for user. 1289 01:18:01,780 --> 01:18:03,772 Where's their review? 1290 01:18:03,772 --> 01:18:04,653 Read review. 1291 01:18:04,653 --> 01:18:07,139 at my Metacritic, like after this. 1292 01:18:07,139 --> 01:18:10,179 I just want to see... 1293 01:18:10,179 --> 01:18:11,199 Ah, that's right. 1294 01:18:12,095 --> 01:18:20,920 When its performance is stable and you're explosively blasting your way through robots, Mind's Eye can masquerade as a serviceable action shooter for a few minutes at a time. 1295 01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:24,661 Its near-future setting and driving feel also impress. 1296 01:18:24,661 --> 01:18:30,384 However, its flashy graphics and cinematics can otherwise hide its distinct lack of substance. 1297 01:18:30,384 --> 01:18:41,609 High on ambition, but low on original ideas, Mind's Eye's rigid mission design renders its open world largely pointless and is consistently undermined by a vanilla combat janky. 1298 01:18:41,609 --> 01:18:53,678 AI enemies and it's sloppy framerate and bugs throw in its Insultingly unfinished free roaming components and it's clear it was simply not released to be ready to be released if 1299 01:18:53,678 --> 01:19:06,225 you had your sights set on mines I think again, I did have my my My I did I did I actually was kind of excited for it and now I'm not 1300 01:19:06,225 --> 01:19:14,544 You have to be terrible to get an IGN 4, because Cyberpunk 1.0 got a 9 on IGN when it was first released. 1301 01:19:14,544 --> 01:19:19,885 the thing, if you played Cyberpunk 1 on a good PC, it was great. 1302 01:19:21,006 --> 01:19:25,877 To hell anyone else says I played it day one, well, okay, I didn't play it day one. 1303 01:19:25,877 --> 01:19:36,819 I played it like a week or two later because I just, I didn't buy it right off the bat, but like I played it with a timeframe that everyone didn't like it and it was, I thought 1304 01:19:36,819 --> 01:19:37,790 it was an amazing game then. 1305 01:19:37,790 --> 01:19:43,851 It's a game for me though, so I think it's fair to give it, I would have given it a nine actually. 1306 01:19:43,989 --> 01:19:54,846 even though I would have put the emphasis on if I did a review or if I did a video on it, I would have been like, I give it a nine, but if you have a crappy, I shouldn't say 1307 01:19:54,846 --> 01:20:01,091 crappy, if you just don't have a good computer or if you're on the PlayStation 4, do not buy, it's a no buy. 1308 01:20:01,091 --> 01:20:01,801 would have. 1309 01:20:01,801 --> 01:20:03,561 how computers have progressed. 1310 01:20:03,561 --> 01:20:06,101 The Steam Deck can run Cyberpunk at like 30 FPS. 1311 01:20:06,101 --> 01:20:09,741 The Switch 2 can run at like 40 FPS. 1312 01:20:10,711 --> 01:20:13,252 the Steam Deck can run Cyberpunk at what? 1313 01:20:15,994 --> 01:20:20,396 Man, you load it up somewhere else though, towards the end, it doesn't play very well. 1314 01:20:22,177 --> 01:20:25,018 I'm not overly happy about that, okay. 1315 01:20:25,018 --> 01:20:26,213 uh 1316 01:20:26,213 --> 01:20:27,574 like, you have to be really bad. 1317 01:20:27,574 --> 01:20:31,849 Like, mine's just, I guess, didn't have anything going for it. 1318 01:20:31,849 --> 01:20:34,837 You have to be really bad if you get an IGN 4. 1319 01:20:35,813 --> 01:20:38,555 I mean, that's what looks like everyone's kind of giving it is around a four. 1320 01:20:38,555 --> 01:20:41,411 The highest rating being a 50 maybe. 1321 01:20:41,411 --> 01:20:42,012 don't know. 1322 01:20:42,012 --> 01:20:48,635 Let's There's no positive reviews, critic reviews. 1323 01:20:48,875 --> 01:20:50,289 Wait, go to the mixed reviews though. 1324 01:20:50,289 --> 01:20:51,032 Go to the mixed reviews. 1325 01:20:51,032 --> 01:20:51,815 What do they say? 1326 01:20:51,815 --> 01:20:53,097 There's only two. 1327 01:20:53,787 --> 01:20:57,298 third person shooter with neat looking story sequences, but not much more. 1328 01:20:57,298 --> 01:21:02,379 Mind's Eye is an excellent example of style over substance, game that falls apart the moment you start playing. 1329 01:21:02,819 --> 01:21:04,379 Why did they release it? 1330 01:21:05,580 --> 01:21:11,161 I think anyone could have told you, go and reconstruct it and add more to it. 1331 01:21:11,161 --> 01:21:17,423 Another year in the oven on this probably could have saved it from a four and could have been maybe a seven and they could have made some money off of it. 1332 01:21:17,423 --> 01:21:21,066 Now they'll probably make no money and it'll be a huge, who made this? 1333 01:21:21,066 --> 01:21:24,297 Well, you know, Sony refunded everyone that bought the game, right? 1334 01:21:24,297 --> 01:21:26,160 No, no, Sony didn't make it. 1335 01:21:26,432 --> 01:21:28,841 yeah but Sony uh yeah 1336 01:21:28,841 --> 01:21:29,853 They didn't publish it either. 1337 01:21:29,853 --> 01:21:31,314 IOI published it. 1338 01:21:31,936 --> 01:21:33,658 The guys that made Hitman. 1339 01:21:34,300 --> 01:21:38,246 And the guys that are making the new 007 game. 1340 01:21:38,848 --> 01:21:42,545 It's not being developed by them though, it's being developed by a couple of ex-Rockstar devs. 1341 01:21:42,545 --> 01:21:43,249 Interesting. 1342 01:21:43,249 --> 01:21:48,852 I don't know man, it's a weird game now because it sucks. 1343 01:21:49,057 --> 01:21:52,354 I have a feeling that there's going to be worse game that comes out this year, but we'll see. 1344 01:21:52,354 --> 01:21:55,739 Like for a AAA title though, it might end up taking the 1345 01:21:55,771 --> 01:21:59,176 Okay, like, okay, like, we're not counting shovelware. 1346 01:21:59,176 --> 01:22:00,417 Like, literal shovelware. 1347 01:22:00,417 --> 01:22:03,163 I'm thinking like triple or double A and triple A. 1348 01:22:03,163 --> 01:22:05,507 Like there's still some good like. 1349 01:22:05,809 --> 01:22:07,442 Yeah, like silk song. 1350 01:22:07,442 --> 01:22:09,175 What if it comes out and it's horrible? 1351 01:22:09,417 --> 01:22:11,917 Dude, what if Silk Sun comes out and horrible? 1352 01:22:11,917 --> 01:22:17,477 What if Half-Life 3 comes out and it's horrible? 1353 01:22:18,477 --> 01:22:20,577 What if it's worse than Mind's Eye? 1354 01:22:20,627 --> 01:22:22,527 I'd still play it. 1355 01:22:22,787 --> 01:22:27,366 I'd cry through the whole thing, but I'd play it and give it a 10 out of 10. 1356 01:22:27,366 --> 01:22:28,468 Okay. 1357 01:22:29,373 --> 01:22:32,320 Unbiased gaming journalism at its finest. 1358 01:22:32,596 --> 01:22:38,428 Well, here's the thing, no one's unbiased, especially in this type of entertainment industry. 1359 01:22:38,428 --> 01:22:41,845 ah If you say you're unbiased, you're an idiot. 1360 01:22:42,555 --> 01:22:45,611 Yeah, no one can be unbiased, it's just human nature. 1361 01:22:45,611 --> 01:22:53,651 news, news can be a little bit less, but still it's gonna have some bias to, uh you're still gonna be biased a little bit. 1362 01:22:53,651 --> 01:22:54,611 Okay. 1363 01:22:56,134 --> 01:23:01,940 So with all that being said, does this bode well for the future of games? 1364 01:23:03,203 --> 01:23:04,023 What do 1365 01:23:04,162 --> 01:23:08,756 not for the future of whoever developed it developed mind's eye that's for sure 1366 01:23:09,376 --> 01:23:14,427 Well GameStop thinks that the company's future isn't in games. 1367 01:23:15,546 --> 01:23:17,228 not video games. 1368 01:23:17,349 --> 01:23:23,057 They've been shifting towards trading cards, things like Pokemon cards which they've made a shitload of money from. 1369 01:23:23,728 --> 01:23:26,050 Really, I didn't realize they made so much money from it. 1370 01:23:26,050 --> 01:23:27,928 I went to GameStop the other day. 1371 01:23:27,928 --> 01:23:35,066 I'd only so it's been a month or two since I've been to GameStop because my son you know, my son's getting to the age where he wants to go look and I'm like, dude, awesome. 1372 01:23:35,066 --> 01:23:35,816 This is great. 1373 01:23:35,816 --> 01:23:38,177 Let's go look at some games in person. 1374 01:23:38,518 --> 01:23:43,481 And um just in like a couple of months, it changed greatly. 1375 01:23:43,481 --> 01:23:51,967 There's a whole section where you can go look through um match the gathering cards, you can you know, Pokemon cards and stuff like that, which I'm actually 1376 01:23:52,559 --> 01:23:55,866 I'm kind of here for GameStop being like an all around game store. 1377 01:23:55,866 --> 01:24:00,014 So I'm hoping they don't get away from video games and used stuff. 1378 01:24:00,195 --> 01:24:04,323 But I'm here for like all the different varieties that GameStop has. 1379 01:24:04,973 --> 01:24:12,659 I mean, I wouldn't imagine them going completely away from video games, but it's always a worry. 1380 01:24:13,499 --> 01:24:18,839 I think if they go, I think diversifying is good, especially for GameStop. 1381 01:24:19,179 --> 01:24:26,319 I think if they go all in on just card games, I think they'll end up failing just to get on it in a different way. 1382 01:24:26,319 --> 01:24:29,485 they definitely, I think it's smart to diversify. 1383 01:24:29,485 --> 01:24:41,235 also been getting into gaming paraphernalia, like gaming related merch as well, like not accessories for consoles and stuff, but like gaming t-shirts and like Funko Pops. 1384 01:24:41,235 --> 01:24:43,787 By the way, Funko Pops are ugly as sin. 1385 01:24:43,888 --> 01:24:45,220 Don't buy Funko Pops. 1386 01:24:45,220 --> 01:24:49,352 Don't tell me, me and Kerrigan about that, my Starcraft Funko Pop. 1387 01:24:49,352 --> 01:24:52,824 Oh no, you have a fart! 1388 01:24:53,336 --> 01:24:54,647 I have a couple. 1389 01:24:54,828 --> 01:24:58,754 I don't get them very often, but if it's something very specific, I'll get it. 1390 01:24:58,754 --> 01:24:59,835 I have a couple. 1391 01:24:59,835 --> 01:25:01,898 I'm not saying that they're the best. 1392 01:25:01,898 --> 01:25:06,804 I definitely wouldn't have like hundreds of them, but to each their own for collecting. 1393 01:25:06,804 --> 01:25:08,466 oh 1394 01:25:09,029 --> 01:25:12,153 But like having a bunch of them, like no, why, dude? 1395 01:25:12,214 --> 01:25:18,182 You could buy nendoroids, which are way better quality, but they don't make like every brand. 1396 01:25:18,443 --> 01:25:21,699 Like I don't think they have a Starcraft nendoroid, but who knows? 1397 01:25:21,699 --> 01:25:28,783 I gotta get my, uh I gotta get the merch and the, and something to decorate my backdrop with. 1398 01:25:30,284 --> 01:25:31,725 Funko pops it is. 1399 01:25:31,725 --> 01:25:32,556 It's interesting though. 1400 01:25:32,556 --> 01:25:35,267 GameStop is an interesting company. 1401 01:25:35,768 --> 01:25:39,400 And I know a lot of gamers have hated the way that they do trade-ins and stuff like that. 1402 01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:42,351 But at the end of the day, like there's not a whole lot left. 1403 01:25:42,351 --> 01:25:48,815 If you don't want any in-person stores to go, cause I think Walmart's getting rid of their game section. 1404 01:25:48,977 --> 01:26:00,281 target I don't think is going to, but they're slimming it down a little like we're on the verge of not being able to go into a store and look at anything video games, so. 1405 01:26:00,659 --> 01:26:03,532 That's true, especially if companies go all digital. 1406 01:26:03,532 --> 01:26:12,792 mean, they're gonna cut GameStop off completely, honestly, they may not even, you know, they may not even have a choice in regards to staying in the video games industry, except 1407 01:26:12,792 --> 01:26:16,048 for like maybe selling consoles and accessories and old games. 1408 01:26:16,048 --> 01:26:27,297 Well, and they're starting um to become like those uh independent game stores where they have collectibles and stuff like that. 1409 01:26:27,297 --> 01:26:29,949 They are selling collectible game stuff now. 1410 01:26:29,949 --> 01:26:32,441 If it's an old enough game, they have it behind glass. 1411 01:26:32,602 --> 01:26:35,443 I saw Mario 64 in there. 1412 01:26:36,084 --> 01:26:37,865 I'm here for that. 1413 01:26:38,166 --> 01:26:40,528 If I need to go get my classics, sure. 1414 01:26:40,528 --> 01:26:44,413 um But I'm curious how long that would last though. 1415 01:26:44,413 --> 01:26:45,414 Dude. 1416 01:26:45,955 --> 01:26:49,238 So like, here's my thing too. 1417 01:26:50,261 --> 01:26:54,776 GameStop is also known for screwing people, especially with poorly trained employees. 1418 01:26:54,776 --> 01:26:57,349 Like, did you hear about the recent thing with the Switch 2? 1419 01:26:57,349 --> 01:26:57,785 No. 1420 01:26:57,785 --> 01:27:03,338 So there was a game stop in New York, or I think, somewhere up in the Northeast area. 1421 01:27:03,719 --> 01:27:10,534 They were stapling the receipts to the Switch boxes, and that in turn was damaging the Switch 2 screens. 1422 01:27:10,534 --> 01:27:13,426 Okay, I'm gonna put a little blame on both sides. 1423 01:27:14,027 --> 01:27:21,052 If a staple that's like half an inch can damage, that's how close your screen is to the box, like outside the box. 1424 01:27:21,773 --> 01:27:22,773 Okay. 1425 01:27:23,074 --> 01:27:25,335 Like they should have put a little bit more padding in there. 1426 01:27:25,335 --> 01:27:29,429 But yeah, that's why staples the receipt to the. 1427 01:27:29,429 --> 01:27:30,169 don't understand. 1428 01:27:30,169 --> 01:27:31,790 Like, why staple at all? 1429 01:27:31,790 --> 01:27:34,810 Also, another thing too, I have personal story. 1430 01:27:34,810 --> 01:27:49,610 One of my old college friends, he pre-ordered a Monster Hunter Nintendo Switch, I mean not Nintendo Switch, a Monster Hunter Nintendo 3DS back in the day, with Monster Hunter 4, and 1431 01:27:49,610 --> 01:27:52,730 they screwed him out of the pre-order for the... 1432 01:27:52,730 --> 01:27:54,121 He gave them money too! 1433 01:27:54,121 --> 01:28:00,295 They screwed him out of the Pro Hero for the, like, special edition Nintendo 3DS, and so he had to get a red one. 1434 01:28:00,436 --> 01:28:03,117 And he was super duper pissed about that. 1435 01:28:03,558 --> 01:28:05,417 I saw, like, red in his eyes. 1436 01:28:05,417 --> 01:28:08,137 issues with pre-orders in the past. 1437 01:28:08,377 --> 01:28:10,657 Not having enough, not conveying. 1438 01:28:10,657 --> 01:28:17,517 I would say that's more leadership issues than like when you're talking about just a regular employee, like that doesn't get paid anything. 1439 01:28:17,517 --> 01:28:18,771 I don't know. 1440 01:28:18,771 --> 01:28:21,324 Yeah, clerical issues is bullshit too, 1441 01:28:22,109 --> 01:28:24,049 Yeah, I don't know. 1442 01:28:24,049 --> 01:28:29,109 I just don't know where else you go for some of this besides Target. 1443 01:28:30,369 --> 01:28:31,329 Best Buy. 1444 01:28:31,729 --> 01:28:38,488 just, that's my worry is that we're like, I like to go and browse in person every once in a while, especially if it's console based stuff. 1445 01:28:38,488 --> 01:28:41,549 I games I don't care about, but I would love to try games. 1446 01:28:41,729 --> 01:28:49,840 So I'd like game companies and hardware companies to team up more with Best Buy and GameStop so I go try stuff out in person. 1447 01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:56,440 I mean, honestly man, they've been downsizing the physical games like sections of like the big stores outside of Best Buy. 1448 01:28:56,440 --> 01:29:00,760 Like Walmart, they've been like downsizing the games like section. 1449 01:29:00,820 --> 01:29:03,023 I, yeah, they're basically, yeah. 1450 01:29:03,023 --> 01:29:05,403 they're getting rid of the game section. 1451 01:29:05,703 --> 01:29:15,743 I don't know if they're gonna get rid of like consoles or like PCs, but like hardware wise, they might still keep it, but games they're getting rid of. 1452 01:29:15,743 --> 01:29:19,543 Best Buy, from my understanding, they're downsizing that too actually. 1453 01:29:19,543 --> 01:29:21,823 So they could get rid of it too. 1454 01:29:22,106 --> 01:29:31,204 Yeah, like, I remember there used to be huge kiosks where you could demo the latest games on Xbox, like, on a controller. 1455 01:29:31,204 --> 01:29:32,304 Yeah. 1456 01:29:33,132 --> 01:29:44,820 you can still kind of, like my Best Buy has like, I don't think it had the Steam Deck, obviously, but it had the Ally, and it's had a couple other handhelds and consoles, but 1457 01:29:44,820 --> 01:29:48,952 yeah, sometimes they have newer games on it, but yeah. 1458 01:29:48,952 --> 01:29:54,294 Yeah man, I mean, it's just sad seeing what's happening to the state of brick and mortar games. 1459 01:29:54,474 --> 01:29:59,316 Cause I don't think I have any decent mom and pop shops near me that sell video games. 1460 01:29:59,396 --> 01:30:05,879 So, I know some people like to support those, you probably should if you have one nearby that you can support. 1461 01:30:06,239 --> 01:30:07,339 I don't. 1462 01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:09,100 I don't. 1463 01:30:09,100 --> 01:30:11,031 a few and I should support it more. 1464 01:30:11,031 --> 01:30:14,303 It's just, uh I don't know what it is. 1465 01:30:14,303 --> 01:30:16,384 I worked at GameStop, so it's like my go-to. 1466 01:30:16,384 --> 01:30:21,086 ah Not that I should have, you know, fealty to it. 1467 01:30:21,086 --> 01:30:25,188 ah But I should. 1468 01:30:25,629 --> 01:30:35,604 Sometimes, I don't know, sometimes the vibe in some of those game stores can be a little off, but whatever. 1469 01:30:36,002 --> 01:30:52,519 Um, yeah, it will be interesting to see how GameStop goes and if they'll have another ah GameStop like trading event because what saved them was the whole I think a big part of it 1470 01:30:52,519 --> 01:30:54,461 saved GameStop was the whole um 1471 01:30:54,461 --> 01:30:56,043 What is that called again? 1472 01:30:56,225 --> 01:30:59,189 The with the stock market, right? 1473 01:31:00,212 --> 01:31:00,775 The 1474 01:31:00,775 --> 01:31:02,596 about, uh, Wall Street Bets? 1475 01:31:03,440 --> 01:31:04,390 Yes. 1476 01:31:04,972 --> 01:31:09,756 I think that's one of things that kind of said was that again, overvalid like people pumped a ton of money into it. 1477 01:31:10,217 --> 01:31:11,288 Just to screw everyone over. 1478 01:31:11,288 --> 01:31:16,002 And I think they least walked away with some ah that some things that helped them. 1479 01:31:16,323 --> 01:31:19,305 Because they've been on the verge of bankruptcy for years now. 1480 01:31:19,423 --> 01:31:31,759 yeah i don't know GameStop is just i don't know what to say anymore about them they'll hopefully they'll figure things out if not then i don't what we're gonna do 1481 01:31:32,353 --> 01:31:35,305 Then I guess we'll just have mom and pop shops and hopefully they stick around. 1482 01:31:35,305 --> 01:31:37,166 mean, they don't usually do that well. 1483 01:31:37,166 --> 01:31:38,016 So. 1484 01:31:40,497 --> 01:31:45,360 It was just as gamers, we like a good deal and we also like to do things online more and more. 1485 01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:47,421 So we don't like to leave our house. 1486 01:31:47,977 --> 01:31:49,193 That is true. 1487 01:31:49,641 --> 01:31:53,481 And we're not gonna be leaving our house a lot more because this game just came out. 1488 01:31:53,481 --> 01:31:59,852 If you're a PC gamer, you're gonna be wanting some alone time with Stellar Blade, I guess. 1489 01:31:59,852 --> 01:32:09,992 Stellar Blade, man, as per Steam's own concurrent player accounts, Stellar Blade has peaked at over 180,000 concurrent players, with the previous record being Ghost of 1490 01:32:09,992 --> 01:32:13,792 Tsushima at 77,000, which is crazy. 1491 01:32:14,176 --> 01:32:17,046 amount of difference there, uh concurrent players. 1492 01:32:17,046 --> 01:32:20,214 Any guesses as to why this could be the case, high tech? 1493 01:32:20,610 --> 01:32:27,075 Well, my guess is of course that, A, it's Stellar Blade. 1494 01:32:27,075 --> 01:32:35,622 It's a game that like, I don't know, people want on PC for a very, dare I say, specific reason. 1495 01:32:35,622 --> 01:32:36,313 Yes. 1496 01:32:36,313 --> 01:32:45,220 Like, Ghost of Tsushima is a good game, but there's no real incentive to mod it, whereas Stellar Blade apparently does. 1497 01:32:46,460 --> 01:32:52,029 So, Stellar Blade is one of those ones where, from my understanding, it looks fun. 1498 01:32:52,029 --> 01:32:54,383 I think I'm gonna buy it uh one day. 1499 01:32:54,383 --> 01:32:59,812 uh We'll see, I have a bunch of other games, it's a type of style of game that I'd play anyways. 1500 01:32:59,812 --> 01:33:01,314 um 1501 01:33:01,975 --> 01:33:04,315 It apparently runs well on Steam Deck too, 60 FPS. 1502 01:33:04,315 --> 01:33:06,199 I tried the demo on Steam Deck. 1503 01:33:06,423 --> 01:33:06,878 Yeah! 1504 01:33:06,878 --> 01:33:10,898 there's no other reason to support it I do like it when games run well in the Steam Deck. 1505 01:33:10,898 --> 01:33:16,418 Because I think we could all get a game like I think every developer could get their game to run well if they just optimize. 1506 01:33:17,158 --> 01:33:32,218 But it's, it's a little controversial because a lot of people gamers think especially American or Western game developers don't make pretty characters in games anymore, which 1507 01:33:32,218 --> 01:33:33,576 is not necessarily true. 1508 01:33:33,576 --> 01:33:40,654 And so it was also a controversial thing where I think a lot of people bought this just out of spite of like, well, it's a pretty character, so I'm gonna buy it because of that. 1509 01:33:40,995 --> 01:33:46,291 And so it's interesting that, it, like, how well did it do on PS5? 1510 01:33:46,291 --> 01:33:48,606 I thought it did decent, but I don't know. 1511 01:33:48,606 --> 01:33:53,926 sounds like it might be doing better on PC. 1512 01:33:54,910 --> 01:34:00,587 It's hard to know for certain, to be honest, but what matters is there were a ton of people. 1513 01:34:00,587 --> 01:34:01,681 Pull up the Steam charts. 1514 01:34:01,681 --> 01:34:02,925 Maybe it's gone up again. 1515 01:34:02,925 --> 01:34:05,935 Nah, it's almost 190,000. 1516 01:34:05,935 --> 01:34:06,596 Shit. 1517 01:34:06,596 --> 01:34:08,028 Yeah, all time peak. 1518 01:34:08,028 --> 01:34:12,895 We'll see if it ends up getting to like after the first week or two, it usually won't. 1519 01:34:12,895 --> 01:34:14,978 But interesting. 1520 01:34:15,538 --> 01:34:19,250 Yeah man, basically, so I mean, Stellar Blade is fun. 1521 01:34:19,250 --> 01:34:26,823 There was also a demo as part of the next fest, but it doesn't show up as part of the next fest anymore because the game's out, which I didn't know that was a thing. 1522 01:34:26,823 --> 01:34:36,398 But yeah, Stellar Blade's been doing quite well, and coinciding with Stellar Blade doing quite well is the fact that Sony lifted their stupid region lock. 1523 01:34:36,398 --> 01:34:41,800 So for those who don't know, Sony has been banning their games and has been... 1524 01:34:41,890 --> 01:34:47,166 not selling their games in regions where you can't get PSN on PC. 1525 01:34:47,527 --> 01:34:55,516 But now you can buy games in regions that PlayStation doesn't operate in again on Steam. 1526 01:34:55,786 --> 01:35:00,716 Yeah, that's, I mean, that's good that they're lifting that. 1527 01:35:00,716 --> 01:35:02,559 hold on, hold I have an idea. 1528 01:35:02,559 --> 01:35:05,875 You should go on Nexus mods and see what stellar blade mods there are. 1529 01:35:05,875 --> 01:35:07,429 That's dangerous. 1530 01:35:07,896 --> 01:35:09,779 Come on, dude. 1531 01:35:09,779 --> 01:35:14,368 Nexus mods can't super explicit game like mods. 1532 01:35:14,368 --> 01:35:15,079 I don't think. 1533 01:35:15,079 --> 01:35:16,551 I you to be signed in. 1534 01:35:16,773 --> 01:35:19,199 Actually, I can't remember if they do host them or not. 1535 01:35:19,199 --> 01:35:20,557 um 1536 01:35:20,557 --> 01:35:21,278 So they have... 1537 01:35:21,278 --> 01:35:27,420 hold on, sort by top, like, most downloaded, like, sort by most downloaded or update or whatever. 1538 01:35:27,420 --> 01:35:28,254 popular. 1539 01:35:28,254 --> 01:35:28,785 popular. 1540 01:35:28,785 --> 01:35:33,084 Stellarblade facial beautification mod? 1541 01:35:33,306 --> 01:35:36,162 Did Stellarblade really need a quote beautification mod? 1542 01:35:36,162 --> 01:35:37,094 That seems a little... 1543 01:35:37,094 --> 01:35:38,148 That's so bizarre. 1544 01:35:38,148 --> 01:35:39,366 What a bizarre thing. 1545 01:35:39,366 --> 01:35:42,652 like yeah, I don't think I don't think she looks better with blue eyes. 1546 01:35:42,652 --> 01:35:43,885 That's kind of weird 1547 01:35:44,257 --> 01:35:45,587 don't say like, yeah, that's the thing. 1548 01:35:45,587 --> 01:35:51,939 Like, don't say it just be like, if you want to modify it, modify it, but like, she's already extremely attractive. 1549 01:35:51,939 --> 01:35:53,552 So okay. 1550 01:35:53,552 --> 01:35:54,153 you do you. 1551 01:35:54,153 --> 01:35:55,846 Let's see. 1552 01:35:55,846 --> 01:35:58,752 there's a couple of different outfits. 1553 01:35:58,752 --> 01:36:00,854 you're gonna get a lot of outfits in this. 1554 01:36:00,854 --> 01:36:04,058 There's gonna be a lot, Yep, yep. 1555 01:36:04,058 --> 01:36:05,689 We're getting into a lot of things. 1556 01:36:05,689 --> 01:36:09,283 Like it is thirsty, they're thirsty for this. 1557 01:36:09,283 --> 01:36:15,260 Like you know there's gonna be, probably some of the thirstiest mods ever created are gonna be created for this game, so. 1558 01:36:15,260 --> 01:36:17,054 what the gamers want, man. 1559 01:36:17,054 --> 01:36:18,637 This is what they want. 1560 01:36:18,637 --> 01:36:20,772 And they put their money where their mouth were. 1561 01:36:20,772 --> 01:36:21,672 were or what. 1562 01:36:21,672 --> 01:36:23,013 So here's the thing. 1563 01:36:23,614 --> 01:36:26,235 You're good. 1564 01:36:27,116 --> 01:36:29,037 I think gamers want a lot of different things. 1565 01:36:29,037 --> 01:36:36,342 I like it can be very immersion breaking when you put a character like this in let's say Fallout where you're like, how are they gonna look like that? 1566 01:36:36,801 --> 01:36:39,024 But for stellar blade, it works. 1567 01:36:39,024 --> 01:36:41,465 Okay, like I'm fine with them doing that. 1568 01:36:41,465 --> 01:36:47,029 But certain games, I don't need my character to be super attractive. 1569 01:36:47,029 --> 01:36:48,850 If they're attractive, that's fine. 1570 01:36:48,850 --> 01:36:50,731 I just don't need to be super attractive. 1571 01:36:51,043 --> 01:36:53,654 What matters is that they look super duper badass. 1572 01:36:53,654 --> 01:36:55,439 Which I think is our next topic. 1573 01:36:56,669 --> 01:36:58,144 yeah, let's see here. 1574 01:36:58,144 --> 01:36:58,907 Is it this one? 1575 01:36:58,907 --> 01:36:59,562 Wait, which. 1576 01:36:59,562 --> 01:37:00,742 Yeah, it's Halo. 1577 01:37:00,742 --> 01:37:02,577 I think you skipped the other one. 1578 01:37:02,577 --> 01:37:04,309 That's super controversial. 1579 01:37:04,651 --> 01:37:07,216 But it might be worth it might be best to skip that. 1580 01:37:07,216 --> 01:37:09,612 Okay, I just don't know if I headed my line up. 1581 01:37:09,612 --> 01:37:10,274 thought I did. 1582 01:37:10,274 --> 01:37:22,481 See, so Halo is getting a bunch of features back like Griffball and a bunch of other stuff that's listed in here as well, but they're bringing back the old Hayabusa armor set. 1583 01:37:22,481 --> 01:37:24,282 You've played Halo 3, right? 1584 01:37:24,983 --> 01:37:25,781 Yes. 1585 01:37:26,094 --> 01:37:32,524 You remember the, like, the one that looks like Ryu Hayabusa's helmet in, like, armor, right? 1586 01:37:34,228 --> 01:37:37,584 Scroll back up, I think. 1587 01:37:37,584 --> 01:37:38,419 You'll see it. 1588 01:37:38,419 --> 01:37:41,063 You'll know when you see it. 1589 01:37:43,838 --> 01:37:44,399 yeah. 1590 01:37:44,399 --> 01:37:45,340 That's... 1591 01:37:45,442 --> 01:37:46,344 Dude, they're bringing it back. 1592 01:37:46,344 --> 01:37:46,925 It's awesome. 1593 01:37:46,925 --> 01:37:48,589 And it's free too! 1594 01:37:49,356 --> 01:37:49,790 free. 1595 01:37:49,790 --> 01:37:51,981 They're not charging us. 1596 01:37:51,981 --> 01:37:54,128 Like, you can earn it for free. 1597 01:37:54,128 --> 01:37:54,690 That's cool. 1598 01:37:54,690 --> 01:37:56,324 I like earnables like that. 1599 01:37:56,324 --> 01:37:57,245 Okay. 1600 01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:00,612 Let's see, and there's Griffball, there's a bunch of other cool stuff. 1601 01:38:00,612 --> 01:38:04,724 I just wanted to talk about it because it's awesome. 1602 01:38:04,724 --> 01:38:11,628 It's crazy that they had to wait for Ninja Gaiden 4 to release to get a new Hayabusa armor set, but yeah. 1603 01:38:11,650 --> 01:38:12,453 Yeah 1604 01:38:13,568 --> 01:38:15,277 It is what it is. 1605 01:38:15,592 --> 01:38:21,820 It's good that they're given a lot, like it just doesn't feel like Halo though sometimes. 1606 01:38:21,820 --> 01:38:25,214 Like some of this doesn't feel like Halo to me, I don't know why. 1607 01:38:26,296 --> 01:38:30,973 Yeah, some of the armor, but then again, know, unlockables and stuff, I get it. 1608 01:38:30,973 --> 01:38:32,793 Yeah, it is what it is, man. 1609 01:38:32,793 --> 01:38:36,193 Everything's got to be kind of Fortnite now. 1610 01:38:36,404 --> 01:38:37,244 It's kind of what they get. 1611 01:38:37,244 --> 01:38:38,766 It's like you said, it's what the gamers want. 1612 01:38:38,766 --> 01:38:39,706 They want unlockables. 1613 01:38:39,706 --> 01:38:41,197 They want to be able to customize. 1614 01:38:41,197 --> 01:38:43,877 They want to be able to be badass in their own ways. 1615 01:38:43,877 --> 01:38:46,950 And so it's good that Halo is returning to some of their roots, I guess. 1616 01:38:46,950 --> 01:38:49,682 But um I don't know. 1617 01:38:49,682 --> 01:38:53,413 Halo is one of those franchises where I think it's just going to eventually die off. 1618 01:38:54,194 --> 01:38:57,940 I think obviously they're still building stuff for us. 1619 01:38:57,940 --> 01:38:59,277 It's still making them enough money. 1620 01:38:59,277 --> 01:39:01,778 But I think they're going to have to plan. 1621 01:39:01,778 --> 01:39:05,408 They're probably going to have to what they're going to have to do is just like 1622 01:39:05,408 --> 01:39:16,466 let this kind of die off, then they're going to have to reboot the whole series in like five years, completely reboot it if they want to keep the IP going because uh right now 1623 01:39:16,466 --> 01:39:17,938 they're just killing it. 1624 01:39:17,938 --> 01:39:21,438 Yeah, there's not a whole lot of faith right now with the 343. 1625 01:39:21,438 --> 01:39:23,370 I think, I mean, they're... 1626 01:39:23,596 --> 01:39:33,377 even if the og devs themselves were here, there are like, anything that touches halo, I feel like all the studios are just not doing well. 1627 01:39:33,377 --> 01:39:36,034 Yeah, I mean, the guys behind Halo, they all left... 1628 01:39:36,034 --> 01:39:38,669 They all left Bungie, so even modern Bungie. 1629 01:39:38,669 --> 01:39:41,007 Yeah, I don't know where they are now, though, to be honest. 1630 01:39:41,007 --> 01:39:43,770 Um, but it- 1631 01:39:43,886 --> 01:39:45,526 retired on the beach. 1632 01:39:45,927 --> 01:39:48,108 Everyone's dream. 1633 01:39:48,809 --> 01:39:50,069 Game developers are special. 1634 01:39:50,069 --> 01:39:51,270 They want to make video games. 1635 01:39:51,270 --> 01:39:53,161 So usually they'll retire until later. 1636 01:39:53,161 --> 01:39:55,272 Yeah. 1637 01:39:55,436 --> 01:39:57,678 so I mean Halo is out. 1638 01:39:58,259 --> 01:39:59,980 Halo's fun. 1639 01:40:00,201 --> 01:40:02,242 But you know what the gamers really want? 1640 01:40:02,783 --> 01:40:04,644 Final Fantasy Tactics. 1641 01:40:05,225 --> 01:40:07,137 Fake Final Fantasy Tactics quotes. 1642 01:40:07,137 --> 01:40:19,741 Final Fantasy Tactics has a lot of interesting dialogue in regards to inequality between classes and whatnot, because it's very much based on The War of the Roses. 1643 01:40:19,741 --> 01:40:23,271 which has a lot of that too, if you're not familiar with it. 1644 01:40:23,273 --> 01:40:26,260 It sorts of bot, it's under your current tab. 1645 01:40:27,889 --> 01:40:28,842 I just didn't understand. 1646 01:40:28,842 --> 01:40:29,713 Okay. 1647 01:40:29,957 --> 01:40:30,777 Cool. 1648 01:40:31,004 --> 01:40:39,731 So, there is one quote that sounds like it came from Final Fantasy Tactics, but it's actually not a real quote from the game. 1649 01:40:39,731 --> 01:40:45,647 uh 1650 01:40:45,647 --> 01:40:46,797 Interesting. 1651 01:40:46,797 --> 01:40:47,751 So. 1652 01:40:48,177 --> 01:40:51,236 There are a lot of lines that like read kind of like that. 1653 01:40:51,236 --> 01:40:55,000 Like that's actually in the game, that one, that picture. 1654 01:40:55,292 --> 01:41:00,551 Yeah, what purpose do laws serve when even those who would enforce them choose not to pay them? 1655 01:41:00,551 --> 01:41:01,122 Heed. 1656 01:41:01,122 --> 01:41:03,233 It's also written in almost like... 1657 01:41:04,195 --> 01:41:06,056 olde English, almost like... 1658 01:41:06,777 --> 01:41:08,477 dialogue is like reach... 1659 01:41:08,938 --> 01:41:10,639 Yeah, that was the purpose of it. 1660 01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:11,729 Yeah, scroll that... 1661 01:41:11,729 --> 01:41:15,881 But yeah, I mean, I thought it was really funny, and they're bringing a lot of attention to this because... 1662 01:41:15,881 --> 01:41:19,995 Oh, that's one of the original writers of the game. 1663 01:41:20,613 --> 01:41:21,533 Oh, weird. 1664 01:41:21,533 --> 01:41:26,319 If the penalty for a crime is uh fine, then the law only exists for the lower class. 1665 01:41:26,319 --> 01:41:31,983 mean, does that so that doesn't exist or it does exist? 1666 01:41:31,983 --> 01:41:32,896 It does not exist. 1667 01:41:32,896 --> 01:41:34,950 It's not an actual line in the game. 1668 01:41:35,092 --> 01:41:35,885 But it's... 1669 01:41:35,885 --> 01:41:41,743 I mean it's true, if it's a fine then it's only for the lower class. 1670 01:41:41,743 --> 01:41:43,343 would have written in the game. 1671 01:41:43,343 --> 01:41:49,328 It sounds like something he would have written in the game because the game has a lot of, like, social commentary in regards to classism. 1672 01:41:49,328 --> 01:42:00,133 I just thought it was a really funny uh thing to talk about since Tactics is uh re-releasing pretty soon and I'm gonna get it on my Steam Deck. 1673 01:42:00,234 --> 01:42:00,735 Or Switch 2. 1674 01:42:00,735 --> 01:42:02,879 I don't... 1675 01:42:02,879 --> 01:42:04,891 You better get it for the Steam Deck. 1676 01:42:05,413 --> 01:42:09,741 Or else you're gonna lose more followers or subscribers. 1677 01:42:09,741 --> 01:42:14,456 I might lose all 16,000 of my subscribers because of this. 1678 01:42:15,990 --> 01:42:19,050 All because you chose the Nintendo Switch 2. 1679 01:42:19,210 --> 01:42:21,001 No, you'll be good. 1680 01:42:21,001 --> 01:42:23,177 It's a shame that Lion's not in there. 1681 01:42:23,177 --> 01:42:29,857 I feel like there's a lot of Lions I've quoted that aren't in movies and stuff I've watched. 1682 01:42:29,937 --> 01:42:34,816 Like you know, like in Star Wars people say the line is, Luke, I am your father. 1683 01:42:34,816 --> 01:42:36,329 But that's not actually what he says. 1684 01:42:36,329 --> 01:42:38,227 That's not actually what he says. 1685 01:42:38,227 --> 01:42:40,579 I know. 1686 01:42:40,579 --> 01:42:41,200 sounds too good. 1687 01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:42,401 I'm going to say it. 1688 01:42:43,544 --> 01:42:46,869 Also, my son's name is Luke, so I say to him all the time. 1689 01:42:47,007 --> 01:43:04,415 uh Luke I am your father dude that's let's see we're just spitballing here man we're not really talking about the topic 1690 01:43:04,561 --> 01:43:06,041 No, we're not. 1691 01:43:06,041 --> 01:43:07,201 You can talk about some more. 1692 01:43:07,201 --> 01:43:12,733 It's a topic that I don't know a lot because I haven't played Final Fantasy Tactics. 1693 01:43:12,733 --> 01:43:16,624 Well, I mean, there isn't a whole lot to say, Besides, was really funny. 1694 01:43:16,624 --> 01:43:25,087 ah There is, I think there is one other topic right after that is more near and dear to our hearts, because we're all YouTubers. 1695 01:43:25,468 --> 01:43:27,548 And honestly, it sucks. 1696 01:43:28,449 --> 01:43:35,151 So, how do you feel about YouTube introducing more unskippable ads? 1697 01:43:35,697 --> 01:43:36,651 I feel good about it. 1698 01:43:36,651 --> 01:43:37,865 I like ads. 1699 01:43:38,290 --> 01:43:40,206 How else do I know what to buy? 1700 01:43:40,257 --> 01:43:42,959 By watching your favorite content creators, of course. 1701 01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:44,380 Like us. 1702 01:43:44,441 --> 01:43:46,022 Like and subscribe. 1703 01:43:47,083 --> 01:43:48,404 Listen, man. 1704 01:43:48,805 --> 01:43:50,466 Ads are ridiculous. 1705 01:43:50,787 --> 01:43:52,468 I do not like ads. 1706 01:43:52,468 --> 01:43:53,869 It's no secret. 1707 01:43:54,130 --> 01:43:55,610 Ads are horrible. 1708 01:43:56,151 --> 01:43:57,352 Ads suck. 1709 01:43:57,453 --> 01:44:01,716 I bet you could save a lot of time if you just had less ads, in general. 1710 01:44:01,908 --> 01:44:07,721 So yeah, but that's how we pay for our, like YouTube is a free service. 1711 01:44:07,781 --> 01:44:09,352 They pay for it somehow. 1712 01:44:09,352 --> 01:44:24,171 so, content creators get paid through ads and premium services, uh premium, it's not YouTube, YouTube premium, whatever it is, but there's a balancing act. 1713 01:44:24,171 --> 01:44:29,698 And YouTube is gonna be learning this soon is you've got to balance what the. 1714 01:44:29,698 --> 01:44:36,824 uh user of your website, this very one on one business and like developer kind of stuff. 1715 01:44:37,305 --> 01:44:40,368 You got to balance what the user is willing to put up with. 1716 01:44:40,368 --> 01:44:44,771 And when you start doing more and more unskippable ads, you're just going to lose them. 1717 01:44:44,771 --> 01:44:57,332 You're going to also need to uh change the way you do ads, you probably are going to have to require like smaller ads like 520 second, but we cannot have these 1718 01:44:57,792 --> 01:45:05,480 hour long ads sometimes which I don't I think there was a little bug with that where I think some people got unskippable like hour long stuff but 1719 01:45:06,286 --> 01:45:09,539 I would just stop using YouTube if that happened to me multiple times. 1720 01:45:09,539 --> 01:45:10,801 Like legitimately. 1721 01:45:10,801 --> 01:45:12,823 You couldn't watch anything! 1722 01:45:12,823 --> 01:45:14,594 You couldn't watch the thing you wanted. 1723 01:45:14,631 --> 01:45:15,282 You can watch it. 1724 01:45:15,282 --> 01:45:16,875 It'll just take you an hour to get there. 1725 01:45:16,875 --> 01:45:17,707 No. 1726 01:45:17,707 --> 01:45:18,096 No. 1727 01:45:18,096 --> 01:45:27,016 here's how those hour long ones, people can promote their own videos and that's where those long, they're not technically ads, they're just videos people are promoting and you 1728 01:45:27,016 --> 01:45:27,527 get it. 1729 01:45:27,527 --> 01:45:39,127 I could, like as long as you make a big enough stink about this, I do think, like don't say I don't want no ads and stop using ad blockers, because this is just gonna, like they 1730 01:45:39,127 --> 01:45:40,887 have to make the money up somehow. 1731 01:45:40,887 --> 01:45:44,267 It's gonna make them continue to do even more stuff. 1732 01:45:44,267 --> 01:45:46,321 But we can complain about. 1733 01:45:46,321 --> 01:45:54,666 you know, one uh ad out of like three, damn it, do one ad or make it so I can have a preference. 1734 01:45:54,666 --> 01:45:57,097 I can have multiple ads throughout my video. 1735 01:45:57,097 --> 01:46:01,219 I can have like three ads at the beginning to pay for it. 1736 01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:02,440 That's fine. 1737 01:46:02,761 --> 01:46:09,724 But like, let's figure this out in a reasonable way that works for both sides, because you're not going to get away from ads unless you pay for it. 1738 01:46:10,285 --> 01:46:11,466 Unless you pay for light. 1739 01:46:11,466 --> 01:46:13,997 And it sounds like ads are coming to light. 1740 01:46:14,205 --> 01:46:16,046 Man, YouTube... 1741 01:46:16,046 --> 01:46:17,506 Okay, listen, man. 1742 01:46:17,567 --> 01:46:28,833 I get the purpose of Netflix Lite, because you can't access Netflix for free anyways, but like, I don't understand the purpose of YouTube Premium Lite when YouTube is a free 1743 01:46:28,833 --> 01:46:34,816 service in and of itself, because they say you're getting less ads, but what does that really... 1744 01:46:34,816 --> 01:46:36,797 Can they really quantify that? 1745 01:46:36,822 --> 01:46:38,145 it's not a free service. 1746 01:46:38,145 --> 01:46:39,218 You are the product. 1747 01:46:39,218 --> 01:46:41,079 It's free in that I don't have to pay money. 1748 01:46:41,079 --> 01:46:43,079 But yeah, you are the product. 1749 01:46:43,480 --> 01:46:45,230 It costs a bunch of... 1750 01:46:45,230 --> 01:46:48,601 it costs something, whether it's your time or your data. 1751 01:46:48,782 --> 01:46:56,784 But it's not reasonable to say people should just stop using Adblock because, I mean, the internet is nigh unusable without Adblock. 1752 01:46:56,784 --> 01:46:59,886 The FBI recommends you have Adblock. 1753 01:46:59,886 --> 01:47:01,346 That's how bad it is. 1754 01:47:01,720 --> 01:47:17,799 sure but here's the problem is that any if you're consuming content that has ad block and you like it it's gonna go away and is that in my in my opinion it's theft that being said 1755 01:47:17,799 --> 01:47:27,768 if it's so bad that you have to use ad block I kind of get it but we should be doing a more ethical way of doing that and just 1756 01:47:28,069 --> 01:47:34,733 either not consuming that or trying to find a way to consume the content we like without having to go the ad block route. 1757 01:47:34,733 --> 01:47:36,454 I get some websites though. 1758 01:47:36,454 --> 01:47:39,349 I'm using it right now because we're streaming. 1759 01:47:39,349 --> 01:47:45,328 I do have ad block because I just don't wanna have advertisements on our stream, but that's on this. 1760 01:47:45,328 --> 01:47:51,801 On my other account, I have ads enabled typically for most things unless the website's unusable, then I enable it. 1761 01:47:51,822 --> 01:47:56,364 So you could disable it for YouTube, but I don't know. 1762 01:47:57,030 --> 01:47:58,616 Here's my thing though. 1763 01:47:58,720 --> 01:47:59,242 Like... 1764 01:47:59,242 --> 01:48:01,883 we don't really get a choice in whether or we monetize. 1765 01:48:01,883 --> 01:48:13,326 Like some people will say, it's our fault for over-monetizing content, but like YouTube's pushing out a new policy where even content that's being published by non-partners, that's 1766 01:48:13,326 --> 01:48:15,766 being, that's getting advertisements. 1767 01:48:15,787 --> 01:48:21,188 Even like really short, like 30 second funny clips are getting a bunch of advertisements too. 1768 01:48:21,328 --> 01:48:25,391 Like not like shorts, but like their YouTube videos in and of itself. 1769 01:48:25,391 --> 01:48:27,061 Those are still getting ads too. 1770 01:48:27,581 --> 01:48:32,515 Here's the problem though, hosting and all that still cost money. 1771 01:48:33,056 --> 01:48:40,753 Now, YouTube is probably gonna make a lot more money off that than, you know, than what's being spent on infrastructure. 1772 01:48:40,753 --> 01:48:43,505 So they definitely gotta fine tune that or else it looks bad. 1773 01:48:43,505 --> 01:48:49,490 And that's the stuff that's, I'm fine with this like raging against certain things like that. 1774 01:48:49,490 --> 01:48:55,305 But we've got to have this balance of understanding like, you've got to pay for the service that you're using. 1775 01:48:55,507 --> 01:48:59,502 in some form or fashion because it costs money to run. 1776 01:49:00,427 --> 01:49:01,088 Okay. 1777 01:49:01,088 --> 01:49:07,672 But also, YouTube has the means, like Google has the means to research how to bypass ad blocks. 1778 01:49:07,973 --> 01:49:10,974 And they certainly have done so in the past as well. 1779 01:49:11,855 --> 01:49:16,288 And people won't, and so Google can certainly do so. 1780 01:49:16,288 --> 01:49:22,613 And not to mention they run, not to mention they control like browsing as a whole. 1781 01:49:22,613 --> 01:49:26,561 Like they have like 90 % share, like whether it's you Google. 1782 01:49:26,561 --> 01:49:28,106 sold off, but yeah. 1783 01:49:28,302 --> 01:49:36,825 But yeah, mean, Manifest V3, if you recall, that basically makes uBlock Origin not work as well as it should. 1784 01:49:37,806 --> 01:49:45,669 And as a result, mean, uh they can feasibly prevent adblock from working. 1785 01:49:46,050 --> 01:49:46,554 And they... 1786 01:49:46,554 --> 01:49:56,838 don't, I don't know where you find a happy medium because ah it's not, it's like if they had full reign of ad block on YouTube and everyone ran ad block on YouTube, who's paying 1787 01:49:56,838 --> 01:49:57,398 for YouTube? 1788 01:49:57,398 --> 01:49:59,030 YouTube will just collapse. 1789 01:49:59,867 --> 01:50:07,409 The ideal solution would be to subscribe to your favorite content creators through Patreon. 1790 01:50:07,409 --> 01:50:09,542 Support them more directly. 1791 01:50:11,847 --> 01:50:13,919 People won't do that, I understand. 1792 01:50:13,919 --> 01:50:14,839 for the platform? 1793 01:50:14,839 --> 01:50:25,306 YouTube, we host our podcast and even with our numbers, it eats up tons of resources. 1794 01:50:25,507 --> 01:50:31,351 YouTube is a billion dollars to run YouTube, multi-billion dollars. 1795 01:50:31,351 --> 01:50:31,691 So. 1796 01:50:31,691 --> 01:50:33,872 uh 1797 01:50:34,130 --> 01:50:37,693 But they also still get our data too, and data is where it's at. 1798 01:50:37,934 --> 01:50:42,317 Data is where, I would argue that's probably where most of the money is at to be honest. 1799 01:50:42,478 --> 01:50:45,961 Like Microsoft sees it that way, they don't care if you pirate Windows. 1800 01:50:46,642 --> 01:50:51,367 As long as you're using Windows and you get all their sweet sweet data, I don't think they really care. 1801 01:50:51,367 --> 01:50:54,419 a lot of other services that go along with it. 1802 01:50:54,419 --> 01:50:56,680 They had Windows Free forever. 1803 01:50:56,881 --> 01:51:00,603 They just, yeah, they don't care because they make their money off a lot of other things. 1804 01:51:00,603 --> 01:51:08,208 YouTube though, I agree, data is king, but it's not as king anymore in the business world. 1805 01:51:08,208 --> 01:51:11,050 Data is just so, it's so saturated now. 1806 01:51:11,050 --> 01:51:14,192 ah I still don't know. 1807 01:51:14,192 --> 01:51:18,556 think there's a, this is a balancing act. 1808 01:51:18,556 --> 01:51:19,716 think if we, 1809 01:51:20,469 --> 01:51:27,625 are gonna be up in arms too much about the ads, then um you'll kill off YouTube if you don't. 1810 01:51:27,625 --> 01:51:30,067 But then again, you need to be just angry about certain ones. 1811 01:51:30,067 --> 01:51:32,399 Sorry, I'm going on this whole tangent. 1812 01:51:32,619 --> 01:51:44,469 think uh there needs to be, know, there ads, premium, premium light, of course, should not include the uh music and everything. 1813 01:51:44,717 --> 01:51:47,521 But even the premium has been going up every year by like five dollars. 1814 01:51:47,521 --> 01:51:49,003 That's where I'm kind of complaining too. 1815 01:51:49,003 --> 01:51:51,627 It's like every year I feel like premium goes up by like five to $10. 1816 01:51:51,627 --> 01:51:52,087 And so, ugh. 1817 01:51:52,087 --> 01:51:55,573 ah 1818 01:51:55,573 --> 01:52:00,637 an ethical way to show ads, but I think unskippable ads is not the way to do it. 1819 01:52:00,637 --> 01:52:01,842 Cause let's think about it. 1820 01:52:01,842 --> 01:52:02,848 Let's think about it. 1821 01:52:02,929 --> 01:52:08,612 If you like long unskippable ads, should say, if it's like five seconds, I don't really care. 1822 01:52:09,814 --> 01:52:14,017 But like if it's a long, like 30 second unskippable ad, then no, that's not the way to do it. 1823 01:52:14,017 --> 01:52:21,022 They should always be skippable because you know, like we said, like data may not still, may not be. 1824 01:52:21,216 --> 01:52:23,147 as big of a deal, but it's still a big deal. 1825 01:52:23,147 --> 01:52:32,322 they can record you pressing that skip ad button, and that means you're engaging with the ad, even if it's not in the way that they want you to engage with it, which is like, click 1826 01:52:32,322 --> 01:52:33,832 on the link, right? 1827 01:52:33,933 --> 01:52:38,815 So that still shows that you're actively paying attention to the ad to skip it. 1828 01:52:39,495 --> 01:52:40,896 So like, yeah. 1829 01:52:41,376 --> 01:52:44,849 I think unskippable ads does no one any favors. 1830 01:52:44,849 --> 01:52:54,744 Ads work, mean, when I get an ad and it's with it, like as long as you can convey in five, 10 seconds kind of what it is, and I look at it and I can skip it, I have bought stuff 1831 01:52:54,744 --> 01:53:06,511 because of ads, but we gotta get back into, like you said, like we just, five seconds, mean, 30 seconds isn't too bad depending on how long the video is. 1832 01:53:06,551 --> 01:53:10,973 As long as there's only one ad in the whole video and it's 30 seconds, I can deal with that at the beginning. 1833 01:53:10,973 --> 01:53:14,115 um Kind of like this. 1834 01:53:14,131 --> 01:53:16,895 video has been paid for by this ad in 30 seconds. 1835 01:53:16,895 --> 01:53:21,681 The problem is, that I feel like there's always tons of ads. 1836 01:53:22,242 --> 01:53:22,963 I don't know. 1837 01:53:22,963 --> 01:53:24,355 Like it's just, it's interesting. 1838 01:53:24,355 --> 01:53:28,881 mean, I've put sponsorships in my videos though, but they're skippable. 1839 01:53:29,419 --> 01:53:37,931 I mean, sponsorships are also a different thing entirely as they're not like, because some creators like do a pretty good job of integrating the sponsorships. 1840 01:53:37,931 --> 01:53:47,664 Like they make it part of the content and you know, and depending on how the sponsorship deal works, I mean, sometimes the entire video is one big sponsorship because they use 1841 01:53:47,664 --> 01:53:49,825 that product in the entire video, right? 1842 01:53:49,825 --> 01:53:57,297 Like that's a totally, yeah, mean, people don't like it too, but sometimes it can be. 1843 01:53:57,838 --> 01:53:58,830 it's interesting. 1844 01:53:58,830 --> 01:53:59,381 Sorry. 1845 01:53:59,381 --> 01:54:02,903 at Linus Tech Tips AMD Extreme Tech upgrades. 1846 01:54:02,903 --> 01:54:05,564 Like, the entire video is sponsored by AMD. 1847 01:54:05,564 --> 01:54:14,848 And they give $5,000 to whatever Linus Tech Tips employee is featured that week, and they get to use it to buy shit. 1848 01:54:14,848 --> 01:54:21,642 And the entire thing, basically, think the stipulation is it has to be an AMD system if they're upgrading their PC. 1849 01:54:21,642 --> 01:54:24,083 But, like, people don't hate that. 1850 01:54:24,259 --> 01:54:27,300 I think it's just a lack of creativity when it comes to like... 1851 01:54:28,200 --> 01:54:30,561 Or maybe just being blatant shills. 1852 01:54:30,801 --> 01:54:38,603 I mean, it's hard to review a product that you get for free and people not call you a shill because people just think you're biased because, well here's the thing though. 1853 01:54:38,943 --> 01:54:40,743 They didn't give me money for it. 1854 01:54:40,824 --> 01:54:44,085 They gave me a product to evaluate and tell the truth, right? 1855 01:54:44,085 --> 01:54:47,345 I mean, that's the best we can do. 1856 01:54:47,345 --> 01:54:50,246 Like, if they sponsor a video... 1857 01:54:50,246 --> 01:54:53,339 If a video is sponsored, then... 1858 01:54:53,339 --> 01:55:05,199 the most good content creators like fan the deck and like you know the rest of us I would imagine they would explicitly mention that it's a sponsored video and that this is not a 1859 01:55:05,199 --> 01:55:07,659 review like they wouldn't frame it as a review 1860 01:55:07,871 --> 01:55:10,122 Yeah, I hear you on that. 1861 01:55:10,122 --> 01:55:18,448 If I like it enough, I don't know, I do try to preface that, but if I like it enough, I definitely like to promote stuff, whether it's sponsored or not. 1862 01:55:18,448 --> 01:55:27,614 I prefer to not have to pay for things to make it so that it's easier on me, especially like micro content creators like ourselves where we're smaller tend to need that one up at 1863 01:55:27,614 --> 01:55:30,936 times uh in order to actually make it. 1864 01:55:33,578 --> 01:55:37,901 Okay, it's such a dilemma because honestly, like, 1865 01:55:38,560 --> 01:55:46,336 I love YouTube, I don't mind ads, but I also pay for premiums, so I don't use, I don't like the ads, obviously. 1866 01:55:46,350 --> 01:55:51,200 As long as there's a way for everyone to kinda get what they need and want. 1867 01:55:51,200 --> 01:55:55,824 But YouTube's a business, they're gonna always be trying to push for it, making more money every year. 1868 01:55:55,824 --> 01:56:00,007 ah It's a little unethical too, on that side. 1869 01:56:00,007 --> 01:56:08,193 like, people that uh have ad blockers and kinda steal the content, I think it's unethical, but I also think YouTube and 1870 01:56:08,311 --> 01:56:13,978 corporations are a little unethical to so it's kind of the person that kind of gets screwed is the content creator. 1871 01:56:13,978 --> 01:56:25,384 I real issue though is that there isn't really a decent alternative except for fucking TikTok I guess for video content creation but like who the fuck is gonna watch a podcast 1872 01:56:25,384 --> 01:56:26,534 on TikTok? 1873 01:56:27,756 --> 01:56:30,746 Well, I mean there's a lot of podcasting stuff. 1874 01:56:31,312 --> 01:56:32,854 do think... 1875 01:56:32,854 --> 01:56:36,427 could upload clips, but, I mean, we barely made clips to begin with. 1876 01:56:36,427 --> 01:56:41,510 And we definitely couldn't fit a full episode of Off the Console on TikTok. 1877 01:56:41,510 --> 01:56:43,754 I think there's a, like, 10-minute limit. 1878 01:56:43,754 --> 01:56:56,730 I do I do think YouTube is playing a dangerous game and we could because it's getting easier and easier to publish to multiple platforms and if I can publish like go to a 1879 01:56:56,730 --> 01:57:08,184 service like I'm going to try to implement myself to release a video on two or three platforms then cool like I'll as the consumer as long as the content creators are on the 1880 01:57:08,184 --> 01:57:10,225 platform I want I'll go there. 1881 01:57:11,862 --> 01:57:12,683 but we'll see. 1882 01:57:12,683 --> 01:57:19,128 I think it's something that we're gonna, see how it really affects. 1883 01:57:19,128 --> 01:57:23,311 I know that people have talked about YouTube killers in the past, like services. 1884 01:57:23,311 --> 01:57:27,946 just, there's, there's always the chance that YouTube could be killed off, but we'll see. 1885 01:57:29,067 --> 01:57:32,590 I also don't believe it fully, but there's a chance. 1886 01:57:34,952 --> 01:57:38,556 the last thing though, I didn't think it was ever going to happen. 1887 01:57:38,556 --> 01:57:49,845 But we're getting a space balls to and kind of just ending the podcast on a fun notes fun uh Mel Brooks is 98 years old. 1888 01:57:49,906 --> 01:57:51,330 That's crazy. 1889 01:57:52,317 --> 01:58:00,957 He's 98 years old and I'm sure he's one of if I remember correctly, he's one of the Make-A-Spaceball 2s for a while. 1890 01:58:01,037 --> 01:58:08,168 And so it is, as long as he can make it to 2027, he'll be like 100, 101 when it releases. 1891 01:58:08,168 --> 01:58:10,208 That is crazy. 1892 01:58:10,728 --> 01:58:11,568 What a legacy. 1893 01:58:11,568 --> 01:58:17,908 I just want like, I don't know about you, Hi-Tech, I liked Spaceballs growing up quite a bit. 1894 01:58:17,908 --> 01:58:19,688 Super cheesy, whatever. 1895 01:58:19,688 --> 01:58:23,448 I'm hoping for another cheesy, fun run in Spaceballs too. 1896 01:58:23,888 --> 01:58:33,148 But just seeing Mel Brooks at the end of the trailer talking about it, I was like, wow, he's a pretty spry 98 year old. 1897 01:58:33,148 --> 01:58:34,159 And it's just shocking. 1898 01:58:34,159 --> 01:58:48,775 that 40 years old years later which was already old in spaceballs one I mean 60 I guess not that kind of old but still crazy 1899 01:58:48,930 --> 01:58:50,557 Have you seen Spaceballs? 1900 01:58:52,107 --> 01:58:54,528 I did when I was a little kid so I don't remember too much. 1901 01:58:54,528 --> 01:58:57,074 I do know it's a Star Wars parody. 1902 01:58:57,074 --> 01:58:58,835 It's a Star Wars parody. 1903 01:58:59,956 --> 01:59:00,856 Yeah. 1904 01:59:00,857 --> 01:59:03,738 And it's super cheesy, but it's fun. 1905 01:59:04,819 --> 01:59:05,720 It's really fun. 1906 01:59:05,720 --> 01:59:07,751 And they throw a lot of shade in that trailer. 1907 01:59:07,751 --> 01:59:15,156 Cause it's like finally after all these things and after the rebukes, these reboots and the throw a little shade at Star Wars. 1908 01:59:15,156 --> 01:59:15,892 It's just like. 1909 01:59:15,892 --> 01:59:24,111 wonder how they're going to parody eh the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy since I know Spaceballs predates either of those. 1910 01:59:24,702 --> 01:59:25,753 they're going to parody it. 1911 01:59:25,753 --> 01:59:30,852 That's what I think will happen is that we're going to see some type of probably melding of both into it. 1912 01:59:30,852 --> 01:59:40,226 So I'm I'm I can't promise it's going to be a good movie, but it looks like it will be a fun movie. 1913 01:59:40,952 --> 01:59:42,312 I mean, I'm done for fun. 1914 01:59:42,312 --> 01:59:44,773 matters is that it's authentic 1915 01:59:44,773 --> 01:59:45,977 I gotta get going though. 1916 01:59:45,977 --> 01:59:46,767 Okay, awesome. 1917 01:59:46,767 --> 01:59:47,737 Thanks guys for watching. 1918 01:59:47,737 --> 01:59:49,538 Make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube. 1919 01:59:49,538 --> 01:59:56,900 Make sure to uh also uh go to uh some links in there for podcasts. 1920 01:59:56,900 --> 02:00:06,673 uh If you want to subscribe to us on other podcasting platforms and listen to us somewhere else like Apple podcasts or Spotify, please do so. 1921 02:00:06,673 --> 02:00:10,344 Thank you guys for watching, listening and being who you guys are. 1922 02:00:10,344 --> 02:00:13,304 Amazing, amazing listeners and watchers. 1923 02:00:13,325 --> 02:00:15,010 So thanks again. 1924 02:00:15,010 --> 02:00:18,020 Hi tech, anything else you want to end with? 1925 02:00:18,295 --> 02:00:20,946 Nothing in particular, but just have a good day. 1926 02:00:21,439 --> 02:00:22,132 Okay. 1927 02:00:22,132 --> 02:00:23,699 Yes, I agree with that. 1928 02:00:23,699 --> 02:00:24,642 Have a good day guys. 1929 02:00:24,642 --> 02:00:25,796 Peace out later. 1930 02:00:25,796 --> 02:00:28,796 later alright bye bye