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What's up everybody?

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Welcome to kind of

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2024. I'm

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going to have your host Greg Miller, alongside Forbes

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leftover poppy blessing Eddie Oye

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Jr. Had another soccer

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game last night. I'm just go. It was a loss, but

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shocking. I'm shocked everybody. But after the game, somebody

0:37

that was playing in the game afterwards came up

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to me and they're like, Hey, like I'm a

0:42

listener. I look at the podcast. That's cool. Yeah.

0:44

It was really cool. And it was like in

0:46

front of like my teammates who I had never

0:48

spoken about what I do. So

0:51

they're like, Oh, what's that? Like, this person's a fan

0:53

of you. And I'm like, Oh yeah, do a podcast.

0:55

And then like afterwards went and got drinks.

0:57

It was a fun time. Nice. Yeah. With the, cause now

0:59

the, now the teammates thought you were cool or with the

1:01

listener with the teammates. And it was the thing where like

1:03

it just naturally, I think it was, you

1:05

know, we've taken many a loss this season. Lots

1:07

of them. Have you had a win yet? No,

1:10

it's actually, it's pretty many weeks into the season.

1:13

This was our fifth game. Our first

1:15

game was a tie. Fair enough. Fair

1:17

enough. And honestly, we should have won

1:19

the thing that's been keeping

1:22

me positive about it though, is that when you look at the

1:24

rankings, we're actually not last in the season. The team that's last,

1:26

they didn't have the time is the team that got it to

1:28

tie with. Yeah.

1:30

And I think they played one more game that then

1:33

we have. And so like they have, they're essentially on

1:35

the same trajectory where they're losing every week. And so

1:37

it's like, cool. There's at least somebody else here, like

1:39

another team here that is on our level, but also

1:42

the thing that like is bolstering

1:44

my confidence with soccer and also like, you

1:46

know, still allowing me to have fun and enjoy it is

1:48

that I think the problem that we have with our team

1:51

is that we just don't get warmed up quick enough on

1:53

the field because it is always our

1:55

first half where we're getting scored on. Especially like

1:57

early on in the first half. Just

2:00

stop you already. Yeah, is it possible that the first

2:02

team is just so tired from scoring on you in

2:04

the first half? The second like I'm like during halftime.

2:06

They're like we should calm down That's

2:10

entirely possible discuss podcast. Can we please?

2:15

But no in the second half the way that we always come

2:17

down the second half because last week it was that we The

2:20

way I put it we won the second half last week where

2:22

the first half they scored on us like four Four

2:24

times like four zero second half we scored on

2:27

them once they didn't get a score a goal

2:29

on us Okay this time around they it was

2:31

like one zero in the second half like they

2:33

had scored on us one goal But we were

2:35

killing them for most of that second half in

2:37

terms of chances in church are like our chemistry

2:39

was on point Like I had good ball movement

2:41

all this stuff And yeah,

2:44

like I think we're getting there. We have good players

2:46

We have a pretty pretty good squad and you know,

2:48

I'm getting be getting beers last night cool

2:50

dudes, you know cool group of people We did like we

2:52

went to a bar that had trivia, but like we

2:54

got there only during the last round Like fuck it like

2:56

grab a thing. Let's do it Let's do the last round

2:59

of trivia and we got most of the questions, right?

3:01

It was like a good like I'll fuck you can't win

3:03

it thing. Yeah. Yeah. We got a little drunk It was

3:05

like yeah, let's fucking go So it's a good time you

3:07

talk about most your team doesn't know what you do

3:09

is Mike part of this is Cori part of this Anymore

3:11

what's happening there? Mike's part of it cool. Greg hops in

3:14

sometimes Okay, I've not been there for the second half

3:16

of this even because we've just had too many people and

3:18

he didn't pay And so it's been the way

3:20

it's been the thing. We're early on we're like, oh, yeah

3:22

come through you'll be a sub Whatever. Yeah, it's just been

3:24

we've had a problem with not getting enough subs in gotcha

3:26

But yeah, Mike's there and like Mike will introduce himself and

3:28

like, you know talk about her or whatever But like not

3:31

that much, you know, like I think was it it's for me. It's

3:33

an escape from work for me It's like I didn't mean it like

3:35

you guys should be bragging. I feel like Michael's left out of this

3:37

story I was like, was he there? It's

3:41

Mike. It's like Mike's there and then he's not

3:43

there sometimes. Yeah, last week. We did a game

3:45

where like our First half he

3:47

played as a goalkeeper in second half. I'll say yeah, let

3:49

me take over I got this and The

3:52

rest of the game I didn't see Mike and then the

3:54

game finishes I'm like, where's Mike you went and played with

3:56

another team like halfway through just leaves

3:58

our game plays another game With another team

4:00

do they need somebody real bad or I guess okay? But

4:02

it's also like we have a game like we're in the

4:04

middle of a game like why are you going and playing

4:06

with? These people and so I'm sure

4:08

he had a reason no You

4:12

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reaching at you for no reason I thought you were there you

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were helping me Yeah, I like his reaction though is to pull

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away Everybody's

5:10

if Greg's gonna get me gonna come to do something he's gonna

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would I guess would David Hader know the movies that are

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Oscar Isaac it's Oscar I guess that in it but I

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would imagine like if you're key I

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think if anybody would know he'd be in that and not

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remember David Hader a Hollywood guy too I guess that is

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road X-Men 2 you know you know stuff you know I

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mean so he's got like he's in the scene yeah he

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knows what's going on we were talking about this the other

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day on the show oh wait what's the status of that

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as much as he worked with the Legacy Collection

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with Konami right he was he did videos with

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I'm happy to be here and finally for

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you life is good I appreciate y'all we

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appreciate you we appreciate you doing

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your civic duty and then them not needing I like the

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I tweeted it there's a big tweet about all the

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thank you yeah you know I mean it's a basically we

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So yeah, you could get PS I love

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right, are you too? I'm kind of I

8:21

know I won't spoil our topspin review But

8:24

it seemed okay like the way that Mike

8:26

described I was like, okay, this seems like a fine

8:28

game But also I'm very much looking forward to this

8:30

challenges movie with then day. Oh my god So I'm

8:32

like I'm kind of in the mood for tennis So

8:34

now I'm like do I pick up topspin

8:36

or do I just do I play weird? I

8:38

would I think if somebody's playing topspin. Mm-hmm. I

8:42

think you can pick up topspin I agree

8:44

with Mike's review that it's like a hardcore

8:46

tennis sim, right? It

8:48

did make me play and go man. I could go

8:50

for a hot shots tennis I wish clap hands was making another

8:52

hot shots tennis right now. Yeah, you know what I mean? I

8:54

would like that approach ability of it, but

8:56

it's there and it's fun And it's tennis and I think

8:58

you can get in and scratch the surface enough to enjoy

9:01

it I just think that if you wanted to

9:03

really like get competitive with it and go like a back to

9:05

like I talked about On the show, right you

9:07

mm-hmm fucking God class gamer. I mean, I mean that's

9:09

the first year I don't think you can drop into

9:11

WWE and I'll still beat that shit out of you,

9:14

but you know Give

9:17

me a run, you know, I'm gonna win in the

9:19

end. I'll whoop your ass anytime you want. Don't worry

9:21

about it This one

9:23

that couldn't happen if you jumped in to somebody who

9:25

knew tops fit really well, yeah Yeah, he's not gonna

9:27

do it. I'm like, that's my thing is I I

9:29

don't know if I'm in the space where I'm like

9:31

I want to learn a more complex tennis game. I

9:33

think I just want simple tennis Check,

9:35

let me know if you have any recommendations. I could go back

9:38

to playing some Mario tennis aces because I did Yeah,

9:40

let's go back to Mario tennis plus but it was

9:43

like that came and went so fast Like I got

9:45

bored of that game. We could bring it back though.

9:47

It was fun for maybe a solid Fix

9:50

the balancing with Bowser jr. That's the thing

9:52

Bowser jr. That's too broken Bullshit,

9:56

let me say CCA 5 tennis. No, I did.

9:58

I remember playing that with friend one night

10:01

and we're like this is Garbo. Like

10:03

this is it is jank. It

10:05

gets the job done but not done

10:07

enough to where I'm like it's not it's

10:09

not gonna fulfill my challengers need. I need

10:11

tennis. I need. What

10:14

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10:16

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10:33

Rope Report. Time

10:35

for some news.

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Five items on the Rope Report. The

10:41

Baker's Dozen.

10:45

We begin with the Stellar Blade Review Round

10:47

Up. Of course as I have said PS

10:50

I Love You XOXO is the one the

10:52

only blessing out of Yoye Jr. Joining me

10:54

and Andy Cortez to give his review of

10:56

Stellar Blade gave it a four out of

10:58

five. Yep. Very good score. A great

11:00

score some would say. Yeah. Let's see if the critics

11:02

agree. Right now I'm metacritic. Why

11:05

am I jumping to cricket every time now? Because

11:07

it was a great bit. You miss

11:09

him. I do miss him. You can come back. Metacritic.

11:13

It has an 82. Open critic.

11:15

It has an 84. Over at ign.com

11:17

Mitchell Saltzman says it's a seven out

11:19

of ten. Stellar Blade stands

11:21

out as a gorgeous and well crafted

11:23

action game with very impressive strengths and

11:25

very clear weaknesses. Both

11:28

its story and characters lack substance and

11:30

some of its RPG elements are poorly

11:32

implemented like dull side quests that very

11:34

often require you to retrace your steps

11:36

through previous levels with very little gun

11:39

to make the return return trip feel

11:41

unique or rewarding. But its

11:43

action picks up most of that slack

11:45

thanks to the rock solid fundamentals of

11:48

its Sekiro inspired combat system. A deep

11:50

well of hideous monstrosities to sharpen your

11:52

sword against and plenty of hidden goodies

11:54

that do a great job of incentivizing

11:56

exploration throughout. The

11:59

one. The only. Humor. On the.com

12:01

and over again Spots gave it an eight

12:03

out. Attended said there is a nagging question

12:05

though that sticks in the back of my

12:07

mind. Does. This game rise

12:09

to the heights. It's it's Inspiron

12:11

achieved. The conclusion i came to

12:13

his know but then it attempts so without

12:16

falling on it's face is remarkable enough. That.

12:19

He managed to be a great game in

12:21

that pursuit is a true testament to the

12:23

power of being galvanize by those that came

12:25

before. And seven mil that destruct.

12:27

oh it's also gave me how to say the

12:29

wrote. Overall, so late as

12:31

a journey worth experiencing. I

12:33

feel like with some improvements in

12:35

certain areas, Stellar Blade to be

12:37

a legendary landmark experience like those

12:40

Aclu draws inspiration from, but even

12:42

in it's current form, Celebrate offers

12:44

a fast paced action, combat systems

12:46

in a unique world with a

12:48

rewarding narrative. It's not quite stellar,

12:50

but it's certainly solid. Solid.

12:54

Have good right about them about a brave

12:56

and and I logged Let's say I was

12:58

a really saw a good job but we

13:00

are there. I have this video the rioters

13:02

are cowards for not do on a fucking

13:04

coward I would say the years but I'm

13:06

rank on. Its.

13:09

Course Good reviews. Are they are. You

13:11

have to. The. I mean I

13:13

mean these I announcing these all line up with

13:15

where I'm at right leg either my me to

13:17

give me a seven I family I'm I'm totally

13:19

there and like the volume the a science. Depending.

13:22

On what review skill you want to put

13:24

a berber like go out or I can see

13:26

a seven point five for for this game.

13:28

Yeah it's great. Yeah I think. In

13:30

ah, our review the we record yes

13:32

Alone of this Morning right? Like. Is

13:35

this Ill from use the funding of posts used. As

13:37

said, sometimes I get pulsar view parity. Oh sure yeah,

13:39

we're I When I when I go back and I'm

13:42

like man I wish I talked about this like I

13:44

wish though like like to clarify this more because I

13:46

find that. He. Dome. In.

13:48

Our of you. Sometimes I am like almost

13:50

trying to defend the for out of five

13:52

and I'm giving inevitably absurd ryan on my

13:55

i didn't vote for celebrate I think a

13:57

lot of the. Conversation is

13:59

almost like more critique Ford it's almost more like

14:01

yeah, Bellingham it does is like the stories over

14:03

bland like the side started that doesn't really hate

14:06

that yet. Like there's this long list of things

14:08

that I think the reason why that is is

14:10

because so much of it is so good. They

14:12

are like a pipe that aren't great. Same that

14:15

that much more. yeah like you to see that

14:17

that much more you do eat. He do do

14:19

like the. Make backseat.

14:22

Game developer know like ah but if he did this

14:24

this this he got a masterpiece on it. Doesn't

14:26

want to jump into some this in Poland. What you

14:28

said mps? I'll have you porn some this stuff and

14:31

of course. folks. Watching live on

14:33

you tube go to be to see which athletic know your

14:35

questions about. So it was so we get him in here

14:37

for a blessing and area Jr who has beaten into what

14:39

Twenty nine hours when he seven hours when he seven or.

14:42

So. Impressive! I remembered how free goes in. A

14:44

moment and if you don't reflect back

14:47

on Scott. Forty Five. August

14:49

or think I'm. One

14:52

of the things Iran put same rights is

14:54

does this game rice the heights it inspires

14:56

achieved. This is something you talk a lot

14:58

about in your review is that there's clearly

15:00

be influenced right? Have to be here. didn't

15:02

see or she's all over this thing. She's

15:04

touch to this right? Yes, I. Have

15:08

you know yet? is that near Tom It is very

15:10

like have lead in this of course and then what

15:12

else would you say for people who did care center

15:14

have been pulled from laid out sailed seco shadows died

15:16

twice and I'll say this implies a p in about

15:19

or I don't know that eighty was big on that

15:21

and he was pushed now I get it just happens

15:23

to be have to feel lot like lies the people

15:25

I guys the only came out yeah on thing as

15:27

i don't think there are like looking at that game

15:29

have least ah were eggs and other soul stuff as

15:32

well or a hug you feel like such a happy

15:34

medium between near in terms of. Vibe

15:36

and. Like World

15:38

and that narrative set up and character design

15:40

but then sold in terms of like. Bosses,

15:43

And difficulty of combat evenly. How the peace out the

15:45

camps where it is or if we die or gone

15:47

all the back to the camp in south Make sure

15:49

that you're right it's I could go about it this

15:52

way to win like heels. The stuff like that all

15:54

the field soldiers fired so. I think you

15:56

talk about that inspires in in Iran. Ask the

15:58

question is a rise in doesn't respect. You

16:00

know hype that the other ones did he says now

16:02

you say now right? Yeah and then I think it's

16:04

an interesting one from Stephen of like I feel some

16:06

improvements a certain areas to be legendary. One.

16:08

Of the things we touchdown yesterday been moved away

16:10

from it is. Do you think there's

16:13

a seller way to do You think Shift Up

16:15

gets another shot at this. I. Think so.

16:17

I think both on a. Story.

16:19

In rural level they leave room for okay we

16:21

could tell more story. In this role you want

16:23

to tell more story in this world rally. I

16:25

could easily see the following up with more I

16:27

think on the. Reception level and

16:30

will people what more. I. Seek

16:32

is it is. I. Think it

16:34

is on the side of yes I use any

16:36

google Play seller Blade City Celebrating Gulf. I'd.

16:38

Go for more This and I think that's where I

16:40

get really excited as. Or I. I

16:43

think we're We leave off with the story by time

16:46

we get to the end. End. Up

16:48

getting way more interesting than what most of the game

16:50

was. Okay for me that the first. Sixty.

16:52

To seventy percent of the game story where

16:54

I'm like. I do not care.

16:56

So how have you been going on here? I

16:59

like the world I guess like I I I

17:01

think it's interesting but in the same way that

17:03

I might cause I like near atomic as world

17:05

right I got it is so much of that

17:07

in that last thirty percent we get somewhere that

17:09

is okay like I couldn't Kind of where you're

17:12

going with here like you had a sigh here

17:14

with the story and like I can see I

17:16

see the vision out the you fully.beer in the

17:18

end. in terms of. Making an

17:20

eight all and let encompassing great story, great narrative

17:22

world I'm fully invested in. yeah but there's something

17:25

here I can we get to the and that

17:27

I thought was rude was pretty interesting since I

17:29

think you to make solidly to you get to

17:31

start from that place in in both in there

17:33

and I can easily see Celebrate to being a

17:35

game that is taking all learning from the first

17:37

game going or if we got something here in

17:39

combat let's level this up more or less refined

17:42

this now. What do people want from the story

17:44

of stellar of Celebrate? What do people want from

17:46

this world? How to recreate. I. met

17:48

in review that there are some open world areas the

17:50

have in the game how do we make those more

17:52

interesting how to make a psychotic more and thing again

17:54

so we backed image or i do like dot sight

17:56

across very ah survivor your retrace your steps civil war

17:58

yeah i think there's I think I'm not as gaming

18:01

on the side quest but I do see where Mitchell's coming

18:03

from there and I do think that there's so Much better

18:05

you can do with the side quests and so I could

18:07

see them going for all right What are the side quests

18:09

that worked those the one that I thought that I talked

18:11

about during the review where it is like You're helping out

18:13

a little robot fella Little robot

18:15

fella and in that you're like Solving

18:18

these little like puzzle pieces in the area and like

18:20

unlocking all this shit so you can like, you know

18:22

Get him get him free Cool.

18:25

How do we double down on what makes that kind of

18:27

gameplay interesting? And how can we make this like, you

18:29

know, how do we make this the best of all

18:31

worlds? I think the place where the game kind of

18:34

falters in the place where the game loses itself Is

18:36

that it is trying to be a jack-of-all-trades master of

18:38

none. And so you have the combat that is Action

18:41

that is like action II right? It's

18:43

a bit fast-paced but also very obviously

18:46

has its soul sakura influence there Cool.

18:48

Let's do that. Let's also do open-world side quests. Let's

18:50

also have this narrative that feels like it's doing near

18:52

It's also have like art design and

18:55

art direction and almost feels a bit more devil McRiley

18:57

There's so much going on here and it does and

18:59

I think it pulls it Spreads

19:02

them a bit thin in terms of where they're able

19:04

to really go off I think combat is probably the

19:06

best part but even there I'm like, yeah So blade

19:08

2 I could easily see where you take this in

19:10

terms of making the con like dialing in the combat

19:13

Giving us more dope boss battles are more reminiscent of

19:15

like the last again 40%

19:17

of what we got out of the game as opposed to a lot

19:19

of like the stuff that for me

19:22

Stuff that felt like I was easing into it as

19:24

opposed to like really enjoying it. Interesting. Okay Question

19:27

from a dog Nick 96 in the YouTube super

19:29

chat says how well does the game run? It

19:33

runs phenomenally. It's a very pretty looking game.

19:35

There are moments where I

19:38

love when games do the thing where they they're like, hey

19:40

look at this view and like you go and you look

19:42

at it You're like as pretty good looking view. So late

19:44

has some of those moments where I'm looking around like Pretty

19:47

good-looking game. Like I really like the environment I think that

19:49

is one thing that actually stuck out to me in this

19:51

game versus something like lies a pee where I Coming

19:54

off of a game like Eldrin ring a couple years

19:56

ago, which feels crazy. That's already been two years since

19:58

Aldrin They're coming on of a game like

20:00

Elden Ring, right? Like that is a game

20:02

where there are so many Vistas, there's so

20:04

much detail, there's so much like incredible art

20:06

direction and art design that if you play

20:08

any souls like a game that's like not

20:11

from software after that, it's so hard for

20:13

me not to compare that, right? So like

20:15

in Liza P, I am looking at a

20:17

view and I'm like, it's

20:19

fine. Like it's not hitting the way that the

20:21

Elden Ring views are hitting though. The Stellar Blade

20:23

has some, I'm not gonna say it's Elden Ring

20:25

level, but I like, I

20:28

was taking it back. I was like, yo, this is

20:30

a very good looking game in environments. I think the

20:32

character design is where I could see them pushing it

20:34

further. Like the character design is very interesting because I

20:37

think the characters themselves look

20:40

sort of like bland, like

20:43

anime, like anime is not even the right word for

20:45

it, right? Cause there's a lot of great anime shit,

20:47

but like there's something about it that is

20:49

lacking in personality and just the characters, but

20:52

then you have their style which makes up

20:54

for it. Like their clothing style, like the

20:56

way they're dressed, like the way, like the

20:59

cool way that Eve, the

21:01

main characters sword is like kind of this piece that's

21:03

in her hair. And so when you bust out your

21:05

sword, you're essentially like grabbing this thing out your hair

21:07

and like fucking busting out the sword. It's cool stuff

21:10

like that I think works, but then there's just

21:12

like a character design aspect, like the character models

21:15

don't stick out to me in that way.

21:17

Sure. So yeah, I could, I could see them going

21:19

a bit further with that in terms of visuals, but

21:21

yeah, like it runs great. I played on performance mode.

21:23

It runs very smooth. Like I don't, I didn't really

21:25

have many issues with that. This

21:27

is one of those crazy ones for you.

21:30

All right. This is just navel gazing before we

21:32

go to the next story. But since we're talking

21:34

about in the reviews are talking about, Hey, this is

21:36

what it missed. This is where it could have been

21:38

legendary. Hopefully another shot at it kind of thing. Do

21:41

you think that an

21:43

82 on Metacritic open critic of 84 is

21:47

what PlayStation expected? Do

21:49

you think this will sell as they expected? And do you think

21:51

they would do sell it away too is exclusive or do you

21:53

think this is something you'd see everywhere? I

21:56

think 82 to 84 I think is what place. I

22:01

think coming from a third-party developer

22:03

like I know it's a first-party game technically,

22:05

but Yeah,

22:07

like I I think coming from a different studio that is

22:09

probably around what they expect and honestly I think this is

22:11

pretty good for solid But I could have seen this coming

22:14

in at it like a three out of five or coming

22:16

in at like a 70 something, right? I think it was

22:18

a stroke of one like good

22:20

eye for a developer that before this

22:22

was working on Like a

22:24

mobile like a mobile title that was very popular I

22:26

like hey, we're gonna make our first big

22:29

triple-a console game a good

22:31

eye for that and like identifying This is like

22:33

a thing that is actually quality, but you

22:35

know, I think on top of that there

22:38

is a Market for

22:40

this kind of game that I think a lot of people

22:42

are still trying to tap We've been seeing a lot of

22:44

these in seeing lies of pee, right? We've been seeing Lords

22:46

of the Fallen came out last year There

22:48

was that game mortal shell that came out quite a few years

22:50

ago right like a lot of people are trying to adapt

22:53

with the way from software kind of like

22:56

Fucking change things in terms of what people expect out of

22:58

an action game and I One

23:00

of the things I had written down. I know so I didn't mention

23:03

yesterday is that stellar

23:05

blade We've gotten so many

23:07

souls likes right in the last however many years so

23:09

stellar blade is Like

23:12

I would call it more of a souls light in

23:14

a way, right? Like it very much is Its

23:17

own thing in terms of the kind of action

23:19

it is Like I would never compare this to

23:21

Dark Souls as directly but there are those things

23:23

that very heavily influence it that are Dark Souls

23:25

like in nature and It

23:28

is really like I think it is such a happy medium

23:30

between those two things that I want to see more people

23:32

Explore we've gotten games like Jedi survivor

23:34

We've gotten games like God of War

23:36

like the modern ones for example that

23:39

Again have that kind of pace have that kind

23:42

of methodical nature to the combat to them but

23:44

stellar blade coming out as a new IP that

23:46

is More of a

23:48

character action, but still is honing in on the

23:50

soul stuff I think is an interesting place for

23:52

it to place itself, and I think it works

23:54

really well, and I think there's so much more

23:58

That you can do in that specific space. And.

24:01

He could easily see this game being

24:03

super successful because people vibe with that

24:05

specifically. ah my you're getting that hype

24:07

hype nests that choreography that like accent

24:09

of a devil may Cry right? like

24:11

that dennistoun attitude. With. The satisfaction

24:13

of the boss eyes, whistles, they and

24:15

freebies as my perfect video game spray

24:17

like that is a way that I

24:19

want to see more. The studios try

24:22

and emulate. And yet like ice

24:24

I think with that. One. I think they

24:26

keep chasing this because I do think they see success

24:28

with that arm but then also I think places and

24:30

sees the value in that you know I think that

24:32

for the place in audience is the Canadiens that really

24:34

sucks of this guy game just coming off of again

24:36

a god of war like. The. Play

24:38

and play a game that are the third

24:40

person action like near to gate and games

24:42

that we talk about. I think this

24:45

almost fits the vibe of. You're. Getting

24:47

that but also Islam accuracy. Japan Studio Publishing

24:49

like you're kind of fits in that liars

24:51

your shirt I simply seasons the Playstation Audience

24:53

has been wanting more of an has been

24:55

lacking little business. Japan City host. Was.

24:59

Move on A saw an opportunity you

25:01

talking about seller blade but not positive

25:03

news put kind of positive would not

25:05

positive. sign number to Sony says celebrate

25:07

aren't referencing racist language was unintentional. It

25:09

will be passed out. This cat me

25:11

realize you.com. Sony

25:14

says it will remove celebrate our

25:16

that appears the reference racial slurs

25:18

claiming the phrases inclusion was Cuoco.

25:20

Unintentional. Be. Art, which appears to

25:23

combine to visual elements into a single

25:25

phrase was discovered during the review process.

25:28

In. Seller Blade be our shop or

25:30

references Roxanne who is one of the

25:32

games information brokers. A hard graffiti meanwhile

25:35

can be found in numerous area throughout

25:37

the game. In a statement released Id

25:39

and Playstation said the developer Shift Up

25:41

had no intention of creating offensive artwork,

25:44

promising to remove it as part of

25:46

so it was Day One patch. Quote.

25:50

The placement of to graphics

25:52

near each other inseparably resulting

25:54

in an unintentional objectionable phrase

25:56

Playstation Statement red. Shift.

25:58

up had no intention of creating a of artwork

26:00

and will be replacing a graffiti for the day

26:02

one patch end quote. While

26:05

shift up is Stellar Blade's developer, Sony

26:07

Interactive Entertainment is serving as its publisher.

26:10

IGN has asked Sony if there are any

26:12

plans to remove the art from the disc

26:14

as well and PlayStation's representative repeated that it

26:16

should be removed for all users in the

26:19

day one update end quote. Bear

26:21

it up there if you're an audio listener and

26:23

if that was at all hard to follow, basically

26:25

there's this graffiti that says hard and then there's

26:27

an R-Shop sign. They are put together at one

26:30

point to say hard R. Yeah. This

26:32

is one that I think there are so many talking

26:35

points here and like different ways you can go with

26:37

it. When they say- Can I

26:39

say my favorite one from today? Yeah. Because

26:41

we talked about some PSL of you as well. Andy brought up the fact

26:43

that there's this one booby sign or whatever which made us all go like

26:45

what? My favorite take on

26:47

this today, I saw that hard R was trending

26:50

and it was Arthur Geist or guys from a

26:52

wild wire cutter and Arthur Geist, am I? It's

26:54

Geist, right? Well, I always read it Arthur Geist.

26:56

It is Geist, thank you. I'm like I worked

26:59

with Arthur for how many years? Why am I

27:01

blanking? I'm going to say the last name. Arthur

27:03

Geist, sorry Arthur, from Wirecutter. And his

27:05

thing was like, do I think Stellar Blade

27:07

was intentionally racist? No.

27:10

Do I think that this is what

27:12

Sony wanted trending on Stellar Blade's review day?

27:15

No. That's it. And I

27:17

think for me that's like the first thing where I'm like, how

27:19

does this get to the end of the product? Like, you

27:21

know, I understand the idea that shipped

27:23

up Korean developer culturally, like are they aware of

27:26

this? Like was it first of all? Like,

27:28

I don't think there's somebody that's sitting at shift up office

27:30

that's like rubbing their hands like doing the evil green, like,

27:32

yeah, we fucking got them. But this is

27:35

a game that gets localized, right? Like

27:37

this is a game that is a

27:39

PlayStation published thing. People at PlayStation played

27:41

this game, right? Like PlayStation has, what

27:43

do they call it? When they had to play

27:45

a game. Quality, quality, QA, but then there's testers.

27:48

There's like a lot, like when people submit a game, they

27:50

submit it to get like certified. Yeah, there's

27:53

certifications. Yeah, stuff like that, right? There's so

27:55

many checks and balances in place to make

27:57

sure Something like this gets caught because

27:59

guess what?? in I met this well we're last year.

28:02

on into the black hair for your ice. This cube

28:04

deems. So many games and made in

28:06

Japan. I am so many games are made internationalists. Our

28:08

video games come out everybody here. I liked them.

28:11

but Shift Up isn't making this game to only

28:13

come out in Korea and have only creamy latest

28:15

game either. The game is. Being. May for

28:17

an audience worldwide as being published by Place

28:19

a Some Real Lives as you that have

28:21

sex for localization or whatever to make sure

28:23

that hey like. We. Have this asset

28:25

next. other asset is make it as like

28:27

very offensive think ah shit like okay cool.

28:29

let's make sure that we're able to catch

28:31

this in whatever together as. I didn't

28:34

even with all that stuff. Being. Miss right?

28:36

Like I think. These. Things happen, it's

28:38

not that hard are is that interesting one because

28:40

if I can pull over the shoulder for one

28:42

second yeah to argue. Be sacked confused on this

28:44

is wealth. Hard. Are. Has

28:46

been. Misconstrued a few different

28:49

times publicly I think, maybe even in the

28:51

old days of kind of funny by us.

28:53

Right where art are in modern setting is

28:55

the Edward. Iraq

28:57

like This sub is the version of the

28:59

had and were of the heart are I?

29:01

that's what that's like. common usage I see

29:03

people try to you use it for film

29:05

ratings so it's like yep yeah really I

29:07

me I am you I think are you

29:09

see I mean you mentioned a video game

29:11

person who got in trouble for this. I

29:13

don't grub Gothic I don't remember that I

29:15

that I remember it happening. I remember way

29:17

back in the day out podcast I want

29:19

to say probably used it once. The saying

29:21

hard are and I'm ancestors thy god. If.

29:24

If you are thrown around his rocker Tory for

29:26

being mentally handicapped. However, You and

29:28

I think way back is used to

29:30

mean that, but I think somewhere and

29:32

the generational shift it became no, no,

29:35

no, there's. Sauce and

29:37

like either. Side.

29:41

Smoother the I think that keeping their

29:43

around of things like yom. Like.

29:47

oh this is an american thing or a like the

29:49

thing of the things like that of all this is

29:51

such an isolated his youth and one of the thing

29:53

i'll say to the american thing is i am but

29:55

my responses me to leave by is an american being

29:57

or is a a black thing and like you don't

30:00

understand because you're not black and you're not in that

30:02

culture. Because I see that get mistreated all the time

30:04

with these types of issues. But then, also

30:07

on top of that, it's like, all right,

30:09

cool. It's an easy fix.

30:11

I think Hard R is a weird one because we

30:13

talk about, the thing I've

30:16

been referencing is the Deck 9 issue that we

30:18

had a couple weeks ago where there was

30:20

a story about Deck 9 and all these

30:22

issues within the Deck 9 studio. And one

30:24

of the issues being that there were people

30:26

that were putting in these inappropriate art assets

30:28

in the game that were these racist dog

30:30

whistles, right, references to Nazi type shit. And

30:33

people in the studio were disturbed by that. And that is a known

30:35

thing. That is the thing that they knew and they had arguments

30:38

about within the studio. These are things that

30:40

happened. Bad

30:42

art assets make it into final builds.

30:45

I don't think Hard R is

30:47

one of those ones that is so

30:49

specific and kind of non-offensive in

30:51

a way. It's offensive if you meant to do

30:54

something there. But it's like, at that point, just

30:56

put in the N word. Just go all

30:58

the way. Hard R is a weird thing that I don't

31:00

think somebody would use in that way, especially when it is

31:03

not like hidden. It is

31:05

a fucking display out in the

31:07

mainline path of the game thing,

31:11

right? You're going to the R shop.

31:13

You're going to the Rock Stand shop to buy things

31:15

and get the requests and stuff. So

31:17

it's just a weird one. I

31:20

think I'm happy they're patching it out. I'm having to

31:22

figure it out. It sucks that the game's already gone gold and so

31:24

they probably can't take it out to this. It's

31:28

messy all around in a way that

31:31

I like my main thing here is,

31:33

how did this happen? Is it really

31:35

unintentional? Was there one guy who

31:37

was either on localization or on the team or whatever that

31:39

thought that this was a joke or they try to mean

31:41

something else and they try to make some kind of reference

31:43

to a different thing and they didn't mean what Hard R

31:45

meant? I think there are so many different ways that this

31:47

could have happened that aren't

31:50

unintentional and people just didn't catch it.

31:53

But this is one that I don't know if we'll

31:55

ever get the answer to the actual story or how

31:57

this made it into the final game. I think best

31:59

intentions. right if you're gonna give them you know

32:02

benefit of the doubt right is exactly

32:04

that that it is as you

32:07

said it the hard art is tossed up throughout

32:09

the thing so it's tossed up all right the

32:13

hard the word hard is all throughout the game so

32:15

it's one of those things that I can see it

32:17

being tossed up on a million different places and number

32:20

one it becomes white noise to whoever's doing it number

32:22

two yeah you're doing it you don't know that this

32:24

is a term for in America or whatever number

32:26

three you put it in there and other

32:28

people are playing and it even as a player it becomes white

32:30

noise because again I think it's not having

32:33

the experience or not having the lens that you have right

32:35

that this is something for you in your culture right what

32:37

it's like you're looking for it where if I was playing

32:39

what I've caught it what I've been like oh wait a

32:41

second you know what I mean you definitely would have like

32:43

anybody everybody during review like there comes a point you get

32:46

to that place and you drop it in like a group

32:48

general like what the fuck like I it was

32:51

fun or not fun it was interesting I

32:55

want to see people react like seeing people in real

32:57

time get to it and be like y'all seen

32:59

this it's like yeah we've seen it like it

33:01

is so very blatant and obvious but to what

33:03

you're you're saying and one thing I wanted to

33:05

mention I was forgetting as I was talking is

33:07

that there's another argument for why you want to

33:10

have diversity in the studio especially if it is

33:12

like I again I understand shift up it's a

33:14

Korean studio even on the localization

33:16

side right you want to have people that the people

33:18

are doing the translating the people that are making sure

33:20

that this is gonna be good for all territories you

33:22

want to have diversity in those rooms right like you

33:24

want to this is like the strongest argument for something

33:26

like the AI right like you want to have people

33:29

that are there making sure that oh not only is

33:31

this translated well but culturally this makes sense for the

33:33

territories that it's coming out in and that it's not

33:35

a people groups that are in those areas that is part of the

33:38

job you don't get a pass for that just because you

33:40

you're this game is being developed in a silo in

33:42

a country that like doesn't understand that this

33:44

is a thing that's offensive over here it's like no

33:47

but this is a triple-a thing it's coming from PlayStation

33:49

yeah you need to have those checks and balances to

33:51

make sure that this is gonna be good for

33:53

everybody and again you know you double back to this

33:55

response right this response seems totally reasonable and I think this

33:57

is where you get into you know if you You

34:00

really want to change the tide of this conversation and

34:02

go crazy or whatever, but when people talk about all

34:04

cancel culture Oh my god, blah blah blah right like

34:07

Cancel culture only exists when you want to put your feet

34:09

down to be an asshole When you don't want

34:11

to listen to somebody else you don't want to understand

34:13

somebody else's side, right? You're just gonna plant your feet

34:15

and say no, I'm right So the fact that PlayStation

34:17

you assume shift up was like again best intentions or

34:19

you know giving them benefit of the doubt Oh, sorry,

34:22

we fucked up. It'll be patched on day one.

34:24

No big deal, right? This won't be a story in three

34:26

months because shift up is not like no, no, no, no The

34:29

freedom of speech we're doing the thing we said the thing and this

34:31

is what it's supposed to yeah Of course, like you know, I there's

34:34

nobody on the internet. No, but no like

34:36

no no reviewer I've seen online that's like

34:38

shift up needs to close because Like

34:41

nobody's like oh shit. I should never make

34:43

another game people were just like what the

34:45

fuck now this happened And yeah, like people

34:47

reached out IGN that seemingly reached out to

34:49

PlayStation. We're like, hey Can

34:52

we get a comment on this like what's up with this and PlayStation goes? Oh,

34:54

snap We didn't know that was in the game. They go to shift up and

34:56

they're like, hey, what's up? My bad

34:58

patches out it's all solved right? Right. That's

35:00

the thing But yeah, like for the

35:02

conversations are probably gonna spawn from this of people getting

35:04

mad that oh man The hard order feed is gone.

35:06

It's like did you really need the hard? I feel

35:09

like that's the thing that's gonna like fucking ruin the

35:11

video game for you I street shadow gives this a

35:13

super chat and says some of this may not come

35:15

up in certification unless it was a frequent thing That

35:17

happened Yes example

35:20

if the store name was hard are

35:22

I work in game publishing Yeah, sir. It's always

35:25

a bit of a black hole to me of where

35:27

I think Personally sometimes

35:30

the gaming press gives cert too much credit for what

35:32

they're doing where I think really like does the game

35:34

work Is it broken? Is it not this but then

35:36

other times it is that I know a game will

35:38

fail because of something happened way down I don't know

35:40

I mean we get like stories all the time of

35:42

like all this game had nudity or this game like

35:44

there are things that just don't align with what the

35:47

Either like the rating is or what's appropriate for

35:49

the place in store. Yeah, but like again,

35:52

this isn't a hidden thing It's like a mainline

35:54

thing that you see I would think that somebody

35:56

in that level somebody in that room would go

36:00

Like, is this a thing we should be worried about? This scene

36:02

is very inappropriate and the, like, action would be taken from there.

36:04

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because I'll fucking move on without him I don't care all right I

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39:11

For now though. See I got more coughs for

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you. Um. Bear

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has something to talk about. Oh right sorry. Oh

39:20

it's good. Ladies and gentlemen Metacritic

39:22

in his bag. Gentlemen um.

39:24

Blah blah blah blah. It's hard right? Yeah it is

39:26

kind of way harder than you think it was

39:29

for you. Coward

39:33

cricket calm, solidly good. What

39:36

I want. I want to hear what that's saying.

39:38

I don't know if the I don't know if

39:40

the cricket got a code for celebrate. Yeah yeah

39:42

yeah yeah. Crickets waiting to see how this graffiti

39:44

controversy. You know what I mean? Yeah maybe the

39:46

cricket won't touch that one. He's very opinionated. Speaking

39:50

of reviews number three on the

39:52

Roper report we have your review

39:54

roundup for another Crabs treasure. As

39:57

of this writing Metacritic. says

40:01

it's good. Metacritic says 79, Open

40:03

Critic says 80, Travis Northup at ign.com

40:06

says 8 out of 10 and goes

40:08

on to say Another

40:10

Crab's Treasure is one of my favorite souls liking

40:12

quite some time. It

40:14

borrows a lot from

40:16

the usual genre playbook,

40:18

but adds a colorful,

40:21

irresistibly charming and wholly unique

40:23

veneer that makes it all feel

40:25

brand spanking new. The story

40:27

is well written and filled with memorable

40:29

moments and characters, the shell swapping mechanic

40:31

is unique and adorable as heck, and

40:33

the unrelenting cheerful mood is like finding

40:36

land after years of drift in an

40:38

angsty sea of blood-borne imitators. Its

40:40

combat is in the deepest ocean around,

40:42

and it has a bit of jank

40:45

here and there, but Another Crab's Treasure

40:47

is so clever and wonderfully ridiculous that

40:49

it's absolutely worth your time. Steven

40:51

Talby over at Push Square gave it a 7 out of 10 and

40:53

wrote, Another Crab's Treasure is a

40:55

refreshingly different take on the souls-like action

40:58

RPG. It's more

41:00

lighthearted presentation, stronger emphasis on story, and

41:02

sense of humor doesn't take away from

41:04

the genre's core, however. This is equally

41:06

a stern, challenging adventure with fun combat

41:09

to master and lots of secrets to

41:11

discover. Unfortunately, it's let

41:13

down by some frustrating technical troubles

41:15

and occasionally janky moments. Despite

41:18

its flaws, though, we came away having quite

41:20

enjoyed the adventure. We can

41:22

already feel the carcin-

41:24

what? Carcinization. What is that? It's

41:26

a process that happens with- I'm just kidding, I

41:28

don't know. I have no idea. It's

41:31

definitely- oh, carcinization or something to do with

41:33

the ocean, I don't know, setting in. Can

41:38

we get a look up- Google search on carcinization?

41:42

While you do that, Baron. Even though we

41:44

could easily do it. We will tell you, of course. Not

41:46

a real word. Not a real word! Oh my god, you hate to see

41:48

it. We, of course,

41:50

reviewed this over on the Kind of Funny Gamescast. Andy

41:52

has pumped 20 hours into it. He

41:55

gave it a 4 out of 5 as well, I do believe, correct? Carcinization

41:58

consists essentially in a- of

42:00

the abdomen of a macru-roosh-

42:03

macru-us? macru- god

42:06

how do you say that word? oh you're gonna

42:08

ask Greg Miller? a reduction of the...

42:11

macuris? macruis? crustacean ooh, an R

42:13

after the C macruis

42:15

Steven Talby you're too fucking smart crustacean alright?

42:17

together with a- stop trying to elevate games reviews

42:20

bring it down like Greg used to uh,

42:22

together with a depression and broadening issue with therapy

42:24

of its... cephalothor-

42:27

god cephalothorax cephaloth

42:30

so that the animal assumes the general

42:32

body of a crab I

42:34

think it means when it gets a shell gotcha

42:37

thank you that's my- that's my translation yeah Andy beat it

42:39

at 20 hours and gave it a 4 out of 5

42:42

to answer your question Greg thank you uh

42:45

Andy has nothing but- well he had negative things to

42:47

say too but obviously mostly positive to say on the

42:49

games cast um you can get

42:51

some questions in if you want I've played a bit of it

42:53

and I will play more of it which I think is

42:55

something you never hear me say about souls like, right? I

42:58

go on in the review to talk about it you know what I mean? of like

43:01

it is what I

43:04

would want out of a souls like in terms of

43:06

what I've always said, right? it's not the challenge of

43:08

a souls like that kills me it's usually the dreary,

43:11

dark you know like art I

43:14

hate art yeah I hate when it's all fucking rubbery

43:16

and wet all the time that's- that seems what you

43:18

fucks all along it is very wet and bloodborne yeah

43:20

I think it's unnecessarily wet and so getting

43:23

into a necessary wet environment that is

43:26

packed with humor and color and again like the individual

43:28

small battles on my way to the big boss battle

43:30

feel so good and I feel like I'm learning

43:32

like I really do enjoy that I'm excited to see

43:34

how it pans out Amy was very positive on

43:36

the shells having you know there's so many shells to

43:39

pick up it plays different than he was saying

43:41

most souls like in terms of like it's more about

43:43

blocking they want you to block rather than parry even

43:45

though you can't parry eventually but it is there

43:47

you know it's littered with shells you should be doing

43:49

that you should be playing it this way I

43:51

think I

43:54

need to wrap my head around that seeing as how

43:56

I'm such a casual souls

43:58

player even though those have

44:00

infiltrated so many different genres or whatever. I'm

44:02

excited to get back to it. And for

44:04

me, as I put a very, you know,

44:06

playing lean clearly in the review, like I'm

44:09

excited to learn how to

44:11

play better and be better at these kinds

44:13

of games. And then also when I am

44:15

frustrated, have a bunch of outs because on

44:17

top of the, you know, several difficulties they

44:19

have, they have accessibility options. You can, in

44:22

the difficulty you've chosen, go in and bump

44:24

around to when I was frustrated with not

44:27

even the difficulty of

44:29

the boss battle I was on, the

44:32

bullshit kitten caboodle stuff I had to do to get back into the

44:34

boss battle. When I died, that was what was killing me. I dropped

44:36

back down, pick up my thing, pick up a shell, walk in, go

44:38

through the cut scene, skip the cut scene. That, on the seventh attempt,

44:40

I was like, all right, I don't want to do this anymore. And

44:42

so the fact that I could just put a gun on my back

44:45

and shoot the boss and move on, I was like, thank you. I

44:47

appreciate this. Oh yeah, yeah, that's cool. Are

44:49

you going to play this one? It's interesting that

44:51

as a Souls fan, right? I haven't heard you

44:53

talk more about this one. It

44:56

never grabbed me, even from

44:58

the previews. I think we did the Summer Game

45:00

Fest preview

45:03

gameplay of this game. Not Summer Game Fest.

45:05

Was it Summer Game Fest? We did. GDC,

45:08

that was GDC last year. Yeah, it was the

45:10

GDC game showcase. And we had them here and

45:12

played a bit of the game. It never felt

45:15

like my kind of aesthetic. And I can't put my finger

45:17

on why. I think it's the thing

45:19

of it gives the vibes of almost a double

45:21

APS II game, even though I know it's not

45:23

like, I don't want to call it like tack

45:27

of the power of juju or shit like that, right? Like I know

45:29

it's not that, but just when I look at it, I

45:32

almost get like battle from bikini bottom vibes in a

45:34

way that I like, I know if I get my

45:36

hands on it and actually play it, it's going to play

45:38

more soulsy. But yeah, something

45:40

about this world just doesn't appeal to me in

45:42

that way. And so I've never been drawn to

45:44

it. I think Krill is just such a cute,

45:47

fun character. And I like his

45:49

journey. I like the humor of the world that I

45:51

just want to see that through. And I feel like,

45:53

again, I'm not even, and I am throwing, I'm not

45:55

throwing shade. This isn't doing the character. This is just

45:57

talking about why. I feel like I'm not drawn to

45:59

soulsy. thing never having that unless

46:02

you really want to dig and watch a Vati video and

46:04

do this you know I like here's the narrative of what's

46:06

happening I'm like okay cool yeah I do want to go

46:08

do this and I do want to yeah it's also the

46:10

thing of you coming off stellar blade as well I'm kind

46:12

of sold out yeah you don't have somebody else yeah like

46:14

I need a break you know I feel like I got

46:17

one in me every quarter or two

46:19

yeah so yeah Liza P was my last one

46:21

before this cool I got done with stellar blade

46:23

next one it's probably gonna be Elden ring for

46:25

me the DLC was coming out and so yeah

46:28

I'm gonna quick coming up quick June

46:30

yeah yeah two months I'm almost

46:32

prepped bless I was hitting my head

46:34

against the wall last night

46:37

of the Elden beast yeah yeah

46:40

I'm gonna try to gonna try to

46:42

go to millennia after that but

46:44

yeah I'm in a similar boat I didn't I didn't

46:46

chime in for another crab's treasure yesterday but I played

46:49

a couple hours I

46:51

dropped off there's something about the gameplay that just

46:53

didn't feel right to me and that's kind of

46:55

what kicked off my well now I'm gonna go

46:57

play a game that does feel right with your

46:59

own ring but I will say everything outside of

47:02

the combat like I really dug the writing the

47:04

world just the overall

47:06

vibe was really really good and it's

47:08

surprisingly like way funnier than I was

47:11

expecting it especially like right off the

47:13

bat I was like okay this is this is gonna be

47:15

a fun journey there's a chat from

47:17

OMG themselves that said let's go play a puzzle

47:19

game and I think that's where I'm at right

47:21

now where I'm like I'm I might

47:24

be putting myself on video game sabbatical for

47:26

a bit you know like I find myself coming off powering

47:28

down yeah I find myself being like looking at my PlayStation

47:31

console and I'm like do I want to play anything right

47:33

now like am I in the mood to even play video

47:35

games I feel like I played so many video games in

47:37

the first three months of this year

47:39

that maybe I should take a little bit of a

47:41

break I'm looking at the super fun game release calendar

47:43

oh yeah you can find on Twitter twitter.com

47:46

slash blessing junior and you know like

47:49

dude April's got some games and May's got some games

47:51

right like I like this month is

47:53

kind of closing out with another crab treasure sand land and fellow

47:55

blade but then also the Sea of Thieves coming to PlayStation but

47:57

Sea of Thieves is not my thing sure but then in May

48:00

It is animal well, which looks really cool

48:03

And paper trail which also looks pretty cool and then

48:05

soon. It was saga hellblade, too I'm

48:08

like, yeah, I can see myself maybe playing

48:10

one or two of those and kind of

48:12

like you feet up Yeah, like, you know, maybe maybe

48:14

I'll watch some TV, you know, listen to an

48:16

album go to the movies watch this challenge I

48:18

think I can't wait for challenge. Oh,

48:20

yeah, like I'm I I I feel like I'm

48:23

kind of like over game myself I mean I

48:25

didn't need a different genre or something I

48:28

think that's part of why I'm like another crab treasure. I'm not

48:31

jumping out my feet to go play it sure understandable Yeah,

48:33

it's interesting. I want to play more but then for me

48:35

The problem is I look at it and I hear Andy

48:37

say 20 hours in the hair a

48:39

long time Yeah, I've been kicking around one. I

48:41

want to do a hellblade replay before or full

48:43

play I want to do I keep thinking of

48:45

fallout the patch comes out right at the next

48:47

gen patch It's like do I want to do

48:49

New Vegas instead? Like there's so many things going

48:51

that I feel like another another cab I'll come

48:53

back to you But hopefully I play it tonight

48:55

and it gets its claws back in me And

48:59

I and I find out that I have a

49:01

car cinnagine on my back. Oh Number

49:06

four on the rope or afford to K

49:08

faces community backlash after banning leading

49:10

WWE 2k24 creator This

49:13

is the one the only Jordan

49:16

Midler of VGC 2k

49:19

is facing a community backlash following its

49:21

decision to ban a popular WWE 2k24

49:23

creator April 22nd,

49:25

what's the status a creator known for

49:27

uploading content that is usually inaccessible to

49:30

players took to X I

49:32

hate that don't do that Jordan Twitter to announce

49:34

that all of his uploads which amounted to dozens

49:36

of wrestlers and other content Have been removed from

49:39

the game without warning The

49:41

following day he claimed he'd been

49:43

permanently banned from playing the game online Thus

49:45

losing all access to its community creation features

49:47

with no option to appeal Quote

49:52

We were recently alerted that this account has been

49:55

associated with inappropriate content read a message allegedly

49:57

displayed to what's the status when he logged

49:59

into the game This is

50:01

a violation of our end-user license agreement,

50:03

which every player accepts prior to accessing

50:06

WWE 2K24 online features." As

50:09

per clarification on the ban, a 2K spokesperson told

50:11

VGC, "...the player in question

50:13

has received an indefinite ban due to violation

50:15

of terms. Mods, which negatively

50:17

impact the game experience for other players,

50:19

violate our terms. Our primary concern is

50:22

a positive WWE 2K24 experience

50:24

for all players." It's

50:26

not clear exactly which content was deemed

50:28

to have violated two case terms, but

50:30

what's the status is known for uploading

50:32

content that is usually inaccessible to players,

50:34

such as hidden models of certain wrestlers,

50:37

or characters that appear in the game

50:39

but aren't playable, such as

50:41

in-game commentators. Notably, in

50:43

WWE 2K24, he uploaded versions of

50:45

every female wrestler in the game,

50:47

enabling them to wrestle against male

50:49

wrestlers, something the standard game doesn't

50:52

allow. Due to his reputation

50:54

for uploading content, what's

50:56

the status? Developed a large following in the

50:58

WWE Games community, following his ban many players

51:00

have expressed anger at 2K. cracking

52:00

down on something. What is the idea here it goes. I

52:02

follow a creator named Jenna

52:05

underscore sting. They

52:08

do a bunch of creations that I loved in

52:10

23 and yada yada yada. They're showcasing

52:12

Marty M who I don't know any

52:14

about but it says it's

52:16

a sad day y'all. Unfortunately my creations have now

52:18

been taken down by WWE games as well. I'm

52:20

not sure what to do at this point. Doing

52:23

this for y'all is my escape and helps a

52:25

lot with my mental health and I just don't

52:27

understand what they get for doing this. So

52:30

clearly WWE 2k are cracking

52:32

something down. I'm so I'm still curious

52:34

on the full story because like I think on

52:36

the from the outside looking in it looks bad

52:39

on 2k's perspective right. Like it's like why are

52:41

you banning people that put out a lot of

52:43

great creations that a lot of people do and

52:45

use and stuff. But like I

52:47

feel like for anybody that's been a mod or

52:50

has had like some kind of community management role

52:52

like you've always you everybody has

52:54

hit the scenario where you ban somebody that

52:56

a lot of people like. But

52:58

like when you know the full story it's like but they

53:00

did some fucked up shit or like they broke the rules

53:02

and they knew they shouldn't they see my again. I know

53:05

shit about all this. My outside

53:08

looking in thing on just Jordan's reporting right would be

53:10

like I don't think they did fucked up shit on

53:12

their upload them here as a cat. I think it's

53:14

more of like you're I don't

53:17

understand PC players here I

53:19

understand hacking but you're going

53:21

in and getting these things that weren't

53:23

meant to be put in the game for a

53:25

specific reason of the female wrestlers or the commentators

53:27

or whatever which must there must be some in

53:30

the EULA don't go into our source

53:32

files or what I don't you know what I mean I'd

53:34

imagine that's what it is I would imagine it's that thing

53:36

I'm just like it could be like some copyright copyright stuff

53:38

I doubt it's copyright as much as like yo stop going

53:40

through our shit like I if somebody made a joke over

53:42

there. You

53:45

know hey is all party next like

53:47

all party makes a bunch of great creations so does lighter

53:49

obviously there's a million people making amazing kind of funny

53:51

creations in their own creations in WWE but I think if

53:53

you're just creating from scratch you're fine I think it's the

53:56

going in and stealing thing or modding or whatever

53:58

the term is that's actually accurate. Stay

54:01

safe out there. Stay safe out there. I'll have far to get

54:03

lighter. Alright, we can't lose you guys. But

54:06

you know what I can lose? All these big

54:08

stories. I'm thinking of big news. So big. I

54:10

wanted the littlest news. Say the tiniest news I

54:12

need to know about. Where would I go? You'd

54:14

go to our last story, the Wii News Channel.

54:16

Recover all the small news items you need to

54:18

know about. What's your

54:20

favorite Wii? Number

54:26

5. The Wii News. From

54:28

the Verge, Apple is reportedly cutting its Vision

54:30

Pro headset shipment forecast for the rest of

54:32

the year due to cooling on demand. It's

54:35

cooling on demand? Due

54:38

to cooling demand. I mean, it

54:40

works the other way too. It sounds funny

54:42

because you're thinking like, cool it. AC. No,

54:44

I'm thinking of on demand, like TV. It

54:47

worked. It worked. Anyways,

54:50

you surprised? Uh, a

54:53

little bit. Just because it's like you're

54:55

charging ten million dollars for

54:57

these things. Four hundred. You're

55:00

charging a lot of money for these things. Of course you're not

55:02

going to sell. Surely you're making these. Surely

55:04

you're under-producing these, right? I don't think that

55:06

they're already not producing enough to sell

55:09

them. But

55:11

yeah, that seems fine. I'm curious, by the time

55:13

we get around to it and they can look

55:16

back and assess what the overall success

55:18

is, do we get a Vision Pro 2? Yeah,

55:20

that was the other thing from The Verge's

55:22

thing. They're also rethinking what happens from here.

55:25

And that's more interesting. I think some

55:27

of you are like, yeah, no shit. Somebody tweets this

55:29

and they're like, yeah, no shit. I expect this from

55:31

Google. I expect this from PlayStation.

55:33

Apple, I thought, was like, we understand what market

55:36

we're launching into. We understand this is going to

55:38

be an uphill battle. We are going to make

55:40

these things less. We're

55:42

going to make fewer of them, sell them, and

55:44

then wave two, wave three, wave four will be

55:46

the ones that are people actually flocking to buy.

55:48

Yeah. That's surprising me. As

55:52

soon as they get... I mean, not as soon

55:54

as. When they get down to being glasses, I

55:56

mean, and that's what I want. Yeah. Have you

55:58

seen Gary Wooda's, like, meta glasses? I haven't seen

56:00

him in person, but I've seen his Ray-Bans. Yeah,

56:02

he was on the show with me when we

56:05

were talking about it. I'm like, dude, this sounds

56:07

kind of cool. I kind of want to. Yeah.

56:09

From VGC, Blizzard is currently recruiting a dozen members

56:11

of the staff to work on an unannounced game.

56:13

The open positions include six director roles, including creative

56:15

director and narrative director. We

56:18

got a Sandland mini review roundup for you.

56:20

This, of course, is also reviewed and talked

56:22

about with me and Barret on the kind

56:24

of funny games cast today. But Metacritic has

56:26

it at 72. Open Critic has it

56:28

at 75. Michael Haim over at

56:30

IGN gave a six out of 10 and says, Sandland's

56:33

vehicular focus shows potential, but devolves into

56:35

a by the numbers open world action

56:37

game with storytelling that only occasionally manages

56:40

to live up to the joys of

56:42

the original work. Bear. Sounds

56:44

spot on with me and Barret. We're on games

56:46

cast. Yeah. A charming little game. And because we're

56:48

not familiar with either the manga or anime, I

56:50

feel like we're a bit slightly higher

56:52

on it, but completely fair. Then

56:55

your other one here, a million people played

56:57

Fallout 76 in one day. Fallout tweets. Thank

56:59

you to the over one million of you

57:02

who had ventured with us in Fallout 76

57:04

in a single day. Whoa. We're missing out,

57:06

man. A million people being disappointed. That's crazy.

57:08

I'm sorry. That's mean. You got it. That's

57:10

mean. You got it. Half one out there.

57:13

Gory Cuddly Cartage launches August

57:15

29 on Xbox One,

57:17

Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and

57:19

PC. And then this cable thread. Gory?

57:22

Gory, yeah. Can I see a trailer for Gory? You're playing

57:24

like a cat on a skateboard. Sick.

57:26

And then Iggy's Wrecking Balls and

57:28

Extreme G for N64 is

57:30

out today on Switch Online. Have you ever heard of

57:32

Iggy's Wrecking Balls? No. I thought I knew every N64

57:35

game. And

57:37

then they've just gone to the point with N64

57:39

online that they're inventing games, the way that they

57:41

invent them for NES and SNL. They're inventing games

57:43

before they put more relevant games on there. Iggy's

57:45

Wrecking Balls? Where is Dorky Cart 64? I

57:48

was looking at the gameplay for Iggy's Wrecking Balls, and I was like,

57:50

game's who's kind of rad? I might have to

57:52

check out Iggy's. Iggy's

57:54

game looks cool. And also Extreme

57:56

G fucking rocks. Here's fucking Gory

57:58

Cuddly-Carnace. Oh,

58:01

I wasn't expecting to look like this. Yeah,

58:04

like a stylized action game. You're like

58:06

a cat on a hoverboard that's doing spins

58:09

and taking out enemies. Wow.

58:11

Yeah. Okay. I've

58:14

been looking forward to this game for a solid five

58:16

months so far. Why, damn. But you're

58:18

a cat. Yeah, you're like riding around. You're like, why do you

58:20

want it, dude? Hey,

58:22

look at this little guy. He's just doing the

58:24

damn thing. Can you shit up? This is what I wanted from Stray.

58:28

You know? I want skate. I

58:30

want skate. I want skate. Where is

58:32

skate? It's been in... SGF maybe?

58:35

It has been in like a public alpha for like

58:38

five years. Let's put out the final game. Let

58:40

me play it. Let's close out some

58:42

super chats before we end the show for you.

58:44

CJ Spitzom wrote in and said, it's interesting that

58:46

Ghost of Tsushima and Cellar Blade have the same

58:48

score on Metacritic. This

58:51

feels like a game. This feels like

58:53

a game like Ghost

58:55

of Tsushima and Lies of P that audience will like more

58:57

than critics. I see what you're saying. He's

59:00

saying, Stellar Blade is going to be more popular with people than

59:02

it is with the audience. Why do people

59:04

feel like 82 is like blow? I feel like 82 is

59:06

a really good score. It is. And

59:08

I feel like when you ask the audience, when they tell me you will get... If

59:11

you were to pull people accurately, I feel like people would

59:13

come down on the same kind of thing of, yeah, like

59:16

82 percent of people fucking love

59:18

this game. Or like however you want to quantify

59:20

it. I don't sound like that. But we're

59:22

just raised in a thing where it's like seven

59:25

is the start of like,

59:27

this game is even worth you reading the fucking review. And

59:29

then eight is like, this is the start where you have to

59:31

put... Seven is still spit in the face though. Eight is like,

59:34

if you're a fan of the genre, you should play it. And

59:36

then it's like, now I'm like, you gotta fucking buy this. Yeah.

59:39

Who needs to spoil so many great games with? Yeah. I

59:41

think Stellar Blade, but I do, I think there's something there,

59:43

right? The review of

59:45

Stellar Blade for me was interesting because for

59:47

me when I'm reviewing a game, I almost have multiple reviews

59:49

going on in my head where I'm like, all

59:52

right, how does this stand up as a game? Then

59:54

there's also how does this stand up as a story?

59:56

And then there's also how does this stand up as

59:58

a work of art? Like they're

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so like I just stand up as a piece

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all these things Yeah, I think balancing all

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differently from I don't know Joe Joe

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something that's gonna be fun and they pick up so I play

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you come off from that and that's how you feel about

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it It's the way that I think back to jet what

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