Life After Crimson Desert (Your Voicemails) - Kinda Funny Gamescast

0:00Your candy stash just got an upgrade with fruity rainbow five hour energy shots grab the shot dive into that sweet boost for your sweet tooth order now at five hour energy dot com or Amazon What's up everybody welcome to the kind of funny games cash for for a ride a March 20 if 2026 I'm one of your host Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 a K a new your game wars nominated a K a Byset poppy. It's blessing out of you. Yeah, Julia. Good day Greg. Good day. How are you new? How are you doing good? We already have it. We just had this. We did we did we just haven't seen I gave the only how bad it might be back with you because I saw people in chat pointing out like always plastic is plastic and I was sick. It's not bad It's just clearly you're going through. It's it's not bless. You know, I feel the same way as I'm dealing with allergies right now Now granted allergies are on the back of me coughing for a month. So it's like yeah, I have heard you cough in a

1:04Well, actually no you cough. Yeah, but it's the allergies now, right? So it's like a whole thing, but yeah, I'm not doing the horrible. We's I went to the you know I got the fucking inhaler. That's all done. Oh, we're done with that thank goodness. So we're fine with that now We just get to hang out all day long. It is that's in the song. I feel like it's been that year Because January we all got like January to February. We all got sick one at a time starting with Fran That's the last time we left we left Fran into the office I think I was hanging out with you guys on your anniversary. I was like, all right, I don't know Like I don't know if it's us that did it to him or if him that did it to us, but like whatever happened to Fran He was never the same again. He was never the same again. He was in the hospital He was wearing a cast on his arm for some reason. He didn't do that But like I just imagine him looking like Bear you saw the episode of SpongeBob where they were delivering chocolates and you had the the woman chocolate Yeah, you say chocolates or no, I'm thinking of um I mean, yeah, those are the characters, but there was another character in that same episode That was like my bones are made of glass every day. I wake up. Oh, yeah That's the same episode where cuz he's like swindling them into like buying

2:06More chocolate from him. Yeah, cuz he's faking a medical thing to like pay for bills That's how I picture Fran Merbella this last year anyway Where he was Well, that too, but more and more so he just you know, they're very sickly man that month Let's talk about Fran for a second there cuz you know, we love to do it I've known Fran a long long time Uh as many of you know Fran used to be on kind of funny a lot at the old studio comic book studio And then he has streaming stuff our schedule us getting more employees It's kind of you know calm down and I we don't use Fran. It's much anymore, right? But we still love Fran The other night and to be clear I don't text Fran a lot all right the so like The before this text on Sunday night I texted him uh previously of like do you want to be on the marathon review? Which he did right and then double checking that he's on the marathon review because we hadn't talked in forever And then it's a few you know you start going back and pretty quickly. We're like There's one in December one time I texted him in November Before then it was September like we're not like texting a lot right yeah

3:09So Sunday Mike says in the thing I'm sick. I'm gonna be down. You say hey, I'm gonna be down. Andy says hey, I'm gonna be down At 817 on Sunday night. I text Fran you want to do kind of funny games daily tomorrow And Fran responds hey man probably shun it a few things are piling up after GDC unless it's urgent in which case I'm always there to help out and I started drafting. I'm like Fran how often do I text you Sunday night at 817 and I'm like, you know what? I just thumbs up the message and I was like I'll do the I'll do games daily. I'll do games daily That's funny. It's on my side. Everyone's dropped unless it's urgent free. Why would I be texting you? And he's winning on a fucking Sunday if it wasn't urgent It was a fridge though. The more I learned about Fran the more the more I hang out with Fran the more I'm like I get it now I get you get all these stories. Yeah these years and years of IGN stories. God I'm excited for this games cast blessing. Yeah, so I'm excited too. I talked about it on a Gregway today, of course, which you can get with your your kind of funny membership patreon youtube apple spotify

4:12Uh, that I think we've been doing uh There was an energy to that review for crimson desert. It's 3 p.m. We're alive. We're Election night in America everything's coming in and then since then now using both Games daily obviously the continued coverage of the launch of crimson desert the obviously the games cast plays Andy's amazing stream last night great job Andy and then games casts of all right cool. This is a controversial review middle or come in. Let's talk about other controversial video game reviews today When we got when friday's gamescast got moved to monday because of all the sicknesses where we're gonna check in on pacopia two weeks later There was this conversation of what is this one become and you were like well, we can do a voicemail one And I was like oh interesting and then it the idea bubbles of course what what if it was We asked the audience to voicemail in with What's our most anticipated game after crimson desert Uh, what's an anticipated game that broke your heart? What was an anticipated game that critics didn't love but you loved it It was like oh man I want to applaud you audience who answered the call you all had a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot of great voicemails

5:17The work cited to dive into right now on the kind of funny games cast because we're here each every week day a live talk show about video games We cover reviews previews and just things we need to talk about If you want to be part of this show, maybe you missed the phone call voicemail segment You can super chat youtube.com slash kind of funny games tell me what you're anticipating after crimson desert Tell me about the time and anticipated game broke your heart Tell me about the time you didn't agree with the critics about a review We'll try to pepper them in as we go through some fantastic voicemails do it all on youtube.com slash kind of funny games with your super chats Of course We could have make this show happen in this company happen without our patreon producers on patreon.com slash kind of funny So thank you Carl Jacobs omega buster and Delaney the song lining For now let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show Crimson desert is here for some A game of the year contenders what they were trying to build this has some still saying it is their game the other Paul tassie fair enough fair enough fair enough

6:19I'm sure many of the audience will at one point be there too However, now that we're there and of course it's been a interesting week of it like I said most anticipated after crimson desert The anticipated title that broke your heart and again in a game critics hated that you did I put these questions out on the voicemail so many of you wrote in but I feel like it would be unfair To not start with crimson desert and talk a little bit about that Can I get the first voicemail from the 903 Now that crimson desert is out My most anticipated game is crimson desert because I'm still installing the plethora update on my base ps5 Damn hate to see it your base ps5. How's that going to be running blessed? Yeah, I might look blurry But there's a lot of articles that are going to help you with the blurriness of that game I it was funny because I think I had the same thing during the Review cycle where like the initial install is fine. Yeah, actually have you told We told the story about I mentioned it briefly on the review, but didn't go into the weeds

7:22So yeah, so we get the codes and day one of the codes. It's like all right Let's go because we got it on it like we got it like eight afternoon on a Tuesday Yeah, and then was it later that night where we got it was that next morning was the next morning night So yeah, we get crimson desert We know it's going to be a big game and I mean like large in terms of hours and things to do yeah So yeah, ran home Kiss Jen on the cheek got Ben to sleep and I went downstairs and I played through the intro well into the world I thought enough to come in and have opinions the next day Yeah, and luckily I only played like 45 minutes But when I woke up I opened slacking what did I find was yeah, I knew so I was in the the discord for the reviewers And there was an announcement on the discord that hey, we're going to push an update Soon later today that is essentially going to require you to restart your save if you're not going to be able to To take the progress you've made in the game so far into the new patch still playing accordingly But we're like oh that sucks And then it got worse and I want to make sure to be clear

8:25This is not me. I somebody said definitely off on the wrong foot Annoying for sure. Yeah, none of us held this against this is something you can hold against it And again, what I want to what I'm about to say we'll also not sound great But this is this is the job and it's not Pearl this is faulted all by stress and imagination I don't want anybody getting better to shape them Hey, you're gonna get you a patch is going to do the thing. Okay, cool The patch will be here hopefully by the end of the day whatever and today rolls around It's going to be maybe by midnight. I mean that rolls around It's going to be tomorrow morning and it's the next morning it was so it was already big day embargo would have been like just I think a solid two weeks maybe two weeks in a day if everything worked But suddenly now you're in your past that two weeks in and it's like damn you got to go so if you have A Paul Tassie if you have a blue thunder a tiktok or we love over here like These people who are like I put a hundred some hours into it You need to know they know life to the shit out of it. Oh, yeah, where that's all they did Which is have is a lot in our job, but I think also then to have this

9:28Problem after problem in promise rama is any right right like again No company owes us a review code and then to get it out and then hey, we're still fixing the game and doing stuff That's it's an opening stumble, you know, I mean like when like the bullet goes and it's like all right You got to you're running and you take that opening stumble and it's like oh man You know, it's so hard to get back up, but you do it right because it's part of the job And yeah, like I'm I'm sure the people that are talking about hundreds of hours I'm sure that first day they probably put in a lot of hours And like how to restart and that's frustrating Well, that was the thing of the discord too. There are the conversations of people who are remain nameless And aren't if they did it, but they were like well technically I guess I could turn off automatic updates and just keep playing like you know I don't know what it was fixing But you would have had a completely different experience. That thing is you can't review that Yeah, you know like the the amount of updates are pushing because then the other one was midway through getting an update Where I was like all right, you're gonna download 30 gigs or something like that And me being like ah shit and then like steam being like you do not have the space And then having to go into my computer be like all right, what do I have to delete? But honestly those are blessing disguise because then I learned I've had suburbunk 2077 downloaded on god galaxy

10:29Oh wow, like forever apparently so I got to get rid of that and free up to the face of my in my thing Well, it's funny that you keep bringing this up We're talking about updates. Yeah, I'm giving bear a little bit. I was I was gonna I was gonna go as long as I needed to for you to run because our next Yeah, voicemail will take us into this can we go to the 737 Hi, this is Paul. I've been Watching I'll show for a couple years now. Thank you Paul. Just the can't you started funding. Uh, thank you Paul I didn't even know what this phone was, but I just download crimson desert and Of course there's a 35 gigabyte Uh Day one patch, so I still haven't been able to play and I've been hearing about Kind of mid reviews and it's kind of just of setting me out. I'm just kind of figuring out what's up with all these day one patches Why they so long? I would have found the country so take a long time for a 35 gigabyte patch to go in You know half a day Bye never would have guessed you're out of the country Paul the Paul

11:30It that first time like a slim shady skit. Oh, you know the fall skids of la Hayes Paul. Yeah. Yeah, that's what that sound like From Connecticut Great question Paul and also I should shout out if you missed the whole phone number thing yesterday I didn't tell what people they were calling it in for I did just put out the number and then I just BS did equipped it whatever put out the phone number and then let people call so a lot of people were like Oh, okay, I explained it in my voicemail thing whatever great question Paul a great way jumping into it And again, bless. Yeah, this is modern video games, right? Yeah, I mean the man the game went gold Fucking forever ago So go and we were like oh snap it's ready. I'll snap it's ready. It's like no You can nowadays you can make a game gold whenever you want because they won patches are a thing right? Yeah, like you continue to work on the game after you've pressed it to disc and so like That's what happens nowadays and like I think the big day one patches can be kind of annoying But you come to expect them I My I get more annoyed when I haven't played a game in a couple months and I come back to it and like just on a whim of like

12:31Yeah, let's I want to boot up this thing real quick and I boot it up and it's like download and I'm like fuck dude The amount of times I turn on steam and it's something I forgot to install and it's getting a pen I'm like oh our uninstall. I should say and it's getting enough to go shit fuck cancel that I'm never going back to that on a stall I can only get it out of there Yeah, and I wish they were faster like I think part of that is with the hardware I remember I feel like ps4 for some reason had really long Download times for things and I think they got yeah, it's her internal internal Modem or what it ran us out with probably the right word, but you know what I mean Yeah, whatever the your Wi-Fi slash ethernet connection Yeah, they had a problem on how they could process all that jazz exactly So some pieces of hardware better than other is but This I think leads again in the conversation we're having though about crimson desert day one patches in video gamer reviews Barrett because you got the first BS that's a blue sky Tim I put in here from Brendan Graber Of course Brendan does amazing work over at IGN. He's a senior guides editor But yesterday he be asked loose guy Tim man I cannot tell you how stressful and shitty it feels to put a ton of work Figuring out how to best guide players on an upcoming game and then a surprise day one patch invalidates a giant chunk of that help

13:36Time well spent happy for the players who don't have to deal with it, but dot dot dot damn If you needed more I put in a chain that bra this is how I originally saw this happening Brendan responding to will bourger quote to it or quote B. S.ing Mitchell Saltsman from IGN Mitchell said they had at a fast travel point in town with the day one patch LOL oh my god The game you all the game you all are playing is not the one we did pre-release man will saying I'm gonna become the Joker bro are you kidding me? Then Mitchell on his own response was like good. I'm glad. This is a good addition that removes a big pain point for the game But also why wasn't it there from the start and then you see more conversation here Brendan found out I found this on immediately after publishing a tips page on early stuff like we're not lucky first fast travel point But will says Brendan I generally would have lost it Brendan even better they added a fast travel spot to the gray main camp 30 feet from the one you have to spend 50 hours Progressing to learn how to unlock at that point a step away from the computer to stare the sun for a while

14:37I know exactly what they're talking about yep Because in the gray main camp, which is a big deal. I unlocked it I went away from it and then I was like how do I get fucking I gotta I get back to it and then I was running around I found what will be the fast travel point I assume 50 hours in covered in ivy and stuff But you couldn't use your bow and arrow there to burn the ivy because I guess it's gonna be something like I was so like what the fuck is going on here like I'm not even worried about the camp that I'm out of here Yeah, this is like one of those ones where like obviously You know, we're on the internet. We're on social media. We see people complain about game reviews game journalism all this stuff Right and most of those complaints are like all people are just mad to be mad kind of kind of stuff Yeah, this is one of those things where I think it's a genuine Conundrum of how to tackle and like I don't think there is any right solution as far as like how video how much video games Changed from the review copy to the consumer copy right the day of a week after a month after where like this goes back to me for To cyberpunk 2077 of reviewing that game and like it being a similar in situation

15:42Here's a PC copy. I'm playing the PC copy It's actually honestly a worse situation because cyberpunk was so buggy on PC and me being like well They have told me they're going to put out a day one patch So what does my review of this game look like when I know I am playing the most broken version of this and there's a chance that like As I'm talking about this game during my review the people that play this game aren't gonna see half the bugs And I'm seeing like is that gonna happen and then I don't want to say thankfully But it didn't end up that way right people end up seeing still seeing a bunch of bugs because that game was broken regardless um That continues to be a thing especially of games of this scale games that go for it like this right like there's Be there becomes a bigger risk of more things going wrong But you have the hype you have an audience that's that's bought in like it. It's a weird thing you could go Well, let's not review it until End of week one But then who are you serving with that when the games for sale and there's nothing It's it's a weird thing It's an and it's been a problem my it's not my entire career But as the internet and day one patches and everything else have Come along to change how we get games and review games right where

16:46There isn't a right answer right you're serving your your audience and your community And the experience you're having with your time with it is it But yeah to get it out and be like well, this is dramatically changed from what it is and again This might not sound like a dramatic change is you okay a fast travel point got added to camp It was annoying. It wasn't and I the way I circumvented all this if you want a crimson desert pro tip of course Is that this game is inspired by several other games and just like breath. Oh, I'm sorry tears in the kingdom There's the sky islands above you right they call it the abyss And so when I could didn't have a fast travel point for where I wanted to get to I would go to the abyss Jump off the side and I'd put all my points so far into flying So I'd fall down fly out run out of stamina fall Stamina regents fall you know fly fly fly as far as I could need as close as I could to what I wanted to do Now what a fast travel point been better yes When I was exploring the world as I'm looking for those yes like that was a big part of me trying to go out there and do it but These quality of life features that are getting added in do then go in and negate this thing and as

17:48Critics and pundits and video game press or whatever you want to call all of us The problem is that we have our experience and move on and then yes the players have their own experience that then Crystalizes and again changes over time. We sit there. We have to binge games, right? So we can get it for the review embargo or just for the conversation Whereas somebody who even bought crimson desert yesterday at launch is now going to play that for seven months You know what I mean? So like in three weeks They're going to be playing a different game than they are right now But they won't even know because they haven't gotten to that part yet so on and so forth But I think it leads to an interesting conversation that we kind of started having on games daily and we'll continue here with a call from the 801 Hey, this is Travis. I just want to thinking about Days gone seem to fall this exact same cycle right where Days gone everyone's super hyped and then comes out reviewers of Greg in particular Didn't like it. I have people blasted Greg thinking all Greg just hates open-world games Even mentioned open-world fatigue and then I was like he doesn't get it

18:50He doesn't understand it and it comes out and just kind of fizzles and And that was heartbreaking for me. I was I was one of those super excited for for days gone And I just see this exact same cycle crimson desert. It's just exactly the same thing. Anyway, that's all I want to say. Love you guys I'm gonna be fascinated to see What the audience Reception is for crimson dawn like we were talking on games daily Thank you so much at the end of the year It was no I was saying that was Roger. That was the Roger Mike Crimson desert at the end of the year right when we get there and it is the people who have been playing at the entire year Have seen the updates or are just are doing things the mix right now. We're at a 50 whatever 53% mixed review on steam When those swing back because of updates if this the other how it's running on PlayStation Papa, if it's going to have this Is the audience with it the way they were with it with days gone where days gone is a notorious one that did not review well for the most part

19:50I know like there's people who love it. There's always people love it But for the bigger sites right and then there was then this undercurrent to it of like they don't get it We get it. Yeah, but isn't that all art? Yeah, I mean like doesn't all are even for the people that that um Would say you name slake this thing sucks There's still those people that are like you don't get it like Greg for me This is gonna be something that's tough to admit for me, right? There's a there's a rapper name chance the rapper. I'm pretty familiar. I've got an album called the big day This album is like a historically bad rap album, right? Everybody talks about how this album is the worst in the fantano I think gave it as first zero out of ten oh wow when I tell you I really like the big day I think it's a great album and I don't think people got it and guess what like I'm like I can't say it here and see let like you know that the world like guess what the world decided that they don't like this thing That's just on me. Maybe I like a bad thing. That's okay that I like a bad thing, right? Like and I'm not tall in krisman desert No, no, no, no, I don't think so but it's it's the thing of like hey like

20:50Fuck consensus. Fuck the 78 Metacritic or whatever if you fuck with it you fuck with it If you think people are wrong you think people are wrong I think the world's wrong about so many things but it's okay We'll get through this together, but yeah, I think like I to your point right towards the end of the year I think we are going to probably be in that days gone Situation to like a greater extent. I think this is going to be like a a crazier discrepancy where People are really really going to fuck with crimson desert and be like yo Critics for a while or whatever, but I think that group of people is not going to be The vast majority by any means. Yeah, I think most people that play crimson desert are probably going to be like It's fine. It's okay. I forget who it was Yes, you're just yesterday we reviewed this note two days ago when all this was happening and they were out there and on BS That's a blue sky too and being like I love this. I love seeing this 7877 whatever it was at the time on metacritic and being like this means that Pearl Abyss took a swing. They didn't make a boring safe game

21:51They did something that is going to resonate with some and alienate others and I am 100% in that camp And it goes back to what I was talking with Jordan about you hear me on these shows all the time of like how blessed we are to have This plethora of voices talking about video games So it really is that like when I say I don't like it because of xy and z But you know what I like usually you can then compare it to somebody who you align more with less with whatever and see why they like to me like Oh, this will speak to me in a way didn't speak to Greg and vice versa and so on like I love the idea that people are making art And it is that thing of like like I Oh jeez man I forget what episode of what we were doing or getting ready for and I asked for reader comments and stuff And it didn't make the show but it was me maybe it was just a live chat or whatever It was me talking about how much I love story and video games right it's someone and I'm way out of school on this one Because I'm not familiar with the quote but the person writing it was like Damon Hatfield says video games don't even need to have story or he doesn't like story in games I don't remember what it was and it's like both opinions are totally valid

22:51Yeah, it's like okay. Yeah, I I need that to anchor myself in a game right yeah I Greg would I I think what I appreciate and I saw this a lot yesterday with people talking about it right what I appreciate is So many being like Hey, that person is wrong. This thing's actually great and here's why I appreciate that what I don't appreciate is people being like Hey, that person doesn't know what they're talking about sure. Hey that person 100% they have bad Opinions. Oh that person like they liked x thing So I'm not gonna care about them saying Talking about why thing I think when I can't trust them because they rushed through it and I they didn't lie Yeah, like combat. They don't like combat that's where I roam my eyes and I'm like dude fuck that right like Art is allowed to hit people in in in different ways and it's okay to think other people are Wrong, but I don't think it's okay to to go they're invalid like there like they you know they don't know like that When you get into those personal attacks, that's where it's like oh, we're talking about video games here You're being a baby like let's let's grow up grow up a little bit here It's okay for us to have different tastes than what we're looking for here. I agree 100% with you and luckily

23:54I've never been wrong. I've never been out the odd man looking out. And so let's just go to Let's move on to games people are still anticipating this year. There's so many great games still to come this year Take me bear it to the 479 Hey kind of funny crew My dad and I were both really excited for Crimson Desert this year, but after the reviews I'll probably just wait till it goes on fail So right now my most anticipated game coming up is Starkfield for ps5 My first ever RPG was oblivion when I played a year's old I played every but that's a game sin. I've just kind of been waiting and as a no man I think Taking a few years to improve your game. I'm excited Jump into Starkfield and see what they've done with it How many people do you think are like the 479 out there? I'm so curious I'm so fascinated by how much uh, starfield sells yeah, because we've seen Xbox games come to PlayStation We've seen how wall of fortune horizon does when that comes to PlayStation

24:57Do you think starfield has the same sort of juice to blow up Yes, and no I keep seeing it on the subreddits and stuff of What are the most popular pre-orders and whatever and like starfield was Right behind the two versions of crimson desert and now that they're out right now on the PlayStation store Dot com it's starfield premium edition for 70 bucks followed by Lego Batman followed by 007 followed by starfield vanilla edition so it's like Always hard to say like what does that actually shake out to but like it's been so Crazy for me this week as a starfield sicko that suddenly everybody's excited about starfield They're positive about starfield. They're talking about starfield. I talked about this in Gregway today too the fucking Starfield subreddit that was so toxic. I had a star I just started going to no sodium starfield where I'm like I just want to enjoy what I enjoy The starfield subreddit is positive and like you got it Bethesda

25:59You know, I'm proud of you but I'm like what the fuck is going on? I'm like suddenly this happened areas. I will tell you I if I'm comparing starfield and crimson desert in my time reviewing both because I think I both of them I would give around the same score even though starfield actually finished I enjoyed starfield anymore than I enjoyed my time with crimson desert. So Take that for what it's worth Not everyone agrees with you. Can I get the 916 here talking about I anticipate a game that broke their heart Give it just a second here. I'll give you all the seconds you need. Don't worry about it I like you shot not the area you could stew because I've been looking them up. Oh, yeah, yeah I should have done that ahead of time. A couple of okay. Oh, I forget the name of the person from the 801 That's Salt Lake City, Utah. So So the one of the games that came out recently Was highly anticipating that kind of broke my heart was starfield now I did enjoy the game, but I will say still broke my heart with how

27:00Uninspired I'll compare to the previous releases from the Bethesda. Thank you very much. Love you guys. We love you 916. Thanks for running in that's the question For starfield ps5. Is that if you Were a PlayStation player or just a lucky Lou who could have gotten on PC and Xbox but never did and you've just seen this thing Dragged out into the streets and beaten and just wailed on for years and years and years your expectations have to be so low Oh, yeah, go back to where 916 was talking about right it broke still broke my heart how uninspired like compare it like I always go to it. Remember Mike was like Starfield has to be a game of the generation like that was the fucking hype and intention and need for the Xbox platform for starfield Yeah, so yeah, no wonder like it just collapsed under the weight of all that stuff Yeah, I'm so fascinating because I'm When we look at that the pre-orders for it being at the top of the charts, right? Like

28:01To your point you have to know like people have to understand what starfield is by now And I think for those people they might be very pleasantly surprised because I think when you go into starfield with Barry measured expectations You still have enough of the Bethesda isms where you can get through and enjoy it right like for me Starfield was a game that I wanted to love as much as I love a fallout But I just don't think it's nearly as good as a fallout and so I was very disappointed. Yeah, however like There's still that There's still like, you know, it walks like a duck enough to air. I'm doing the quests. I'm getting into the combat I'm doing enough things where I'm like Yeah, this is giving enough of the gameplay loop even though I want more of an traditional open world And I didn't like flying around space Some of the maps stuff I just didn't buy with me I didn't like how like the procedurally generated like worlds that they're Like this procedural generation design of the planets when you land on them and kind of like have not as many P.O.I.s. P.O.I.s Like man that stuff didn't buy with me But if I knew that going in like I if I knew what I was getting going about it though

29:05This is literally what we're talking about with crimson desert. Yeah, is that they fixed so much of that or our promising to fix stuff with this April 7th thing Okay, so it's the thing of I think people will jump in and I I remember what when uh They launched escape, which was one of the creations that Bethesda put up on the creation shop I was telling you about him like dude like this is what you and I were looking for at launch and now having finished All the tracker bounties and they just put out or whatever like dude those five are all like Your back your back Bethesda of like really cool. It's not just running this place shoot everybody to death and grab them a goffin It is a choice. It is a swerve. It is we're taking away all your stuff And now you've got to fight from zero. It's like damn You really understand what I think so many people expected out of vanilla starfield and even before a shattered space and before the creations Right like they were doing the updates of the 60 frames and they were doing the updates of all right, you know You don't have to be incumbent anymore. You can really tailor your experience where it's like

30:05Obviously, I've loved starfields from the jump, but I Told you at the time when I reviewed it and I think I gave it a seven or whatever Maybe I ate it. We're even doing scores then. I don't fucking remember But like it had plenty of room to grow and it's grown so much that I really do feel like You come in with the expectations for the reviews you heard at launch I think you're gonna be not blown away But I think there's gonna be a lot of the Why was everybody complaining and like not understanding like no This wasn't what the experience was okay. Yeah, so I'm Fascinating to see what it does Numbers-wise sure, but you think this is either no man's guy moment the resurgence This is another one that keeps coming up on Greg ways of people being like you know They've said that this isn't 2.0 But it really feels like a 2.0 and I think again Like that was a measured choice by Todd to come on our show and say that because I think it was Let's knock that expectation down So you don't your expectations again are low And then you see free lanes and you see the Terran Armada and you go oh wait a second what the fuck like

31:06I it's what I had been predicting even though they say they're not stopping that it's Here's the complete edition of Starfield like I think this is like The this is our vision for what this game always was and because the back to it of like I'm right there with you of like Landing on it Same recycled POIs same recycled. Oh, I know what I look at this building that the Crimson Raiders are in I know already with the layout of the building is because I've done it 17 times or whatever yeah, and they in our The presentation they gave you know Tim lamb was very much like We've gone in and tweaked all that so that they aren't appearing as much and that there's more of them now So like you know the POIs are going to be more randomized and it's going to feel like no you're not getting the same shit all the time Okay, well wait and see if they can do that But right now playing it. I'm having so much fun. I can't wait for April 7th to get all this extra content and get in there What it will deduce you know sales wise on PlayStation Well, but it's you know, we're coming off games daily with the Serkana charts where it's you know at the top was Resident Evil Requiem And then a bunch of old-ass games until you got to like what was it 11 Mario fever like there's still so many

32:11a new game Is easier to break in if it's got some juice behind it so I expect starfield to do well on that front But I don't know if it'll be like you know the first horizon five was on there too. Yeah, I'm hopeful. We'll see Ah, I want to stick with heartbreaking things and especially Blessing breaking people's hearts. Oh, no, but first I'll tell you about the patreon slash kind of funny slash YouTube slash apples The subscription that keeps us going remember if you like us hanging out and talking games We couldn't do without your support pick up a kind of funny membership patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games Apple Spotify you give us $10 a month we give you more than 80 episodes of ad free content Your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a 15 to 20-minute podcast called Gregway each and every day And of course good karma for supporting 11 person 11-year-old small business But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors This episode is brought to you by five-hour energy indulge your sweet tooth with a fruity rainbow extra strength Five-hour energy shot. It's basically a candy store in a bottle

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38:30It's built to help you find and own a home with agents who close twice as many deals when you find the one You've got a real shot at getting it get started at redfin.com own the dream And we're back a couple super chats before we pivot any further Kaiju Corey wrote in the said my star field game save on xbox is nine days And I can't wait to play in PlayStation 5 Well nine days nine days. Yeah, I thought I was pushing something with six, but yeah, nine's insane And I know there's 216 out crazier numbers than that out there the starfield sickos are out there and we play like crazy You think so yeah, yeah, I refuse. I mean don't be wrong. Do what you got to do But I can't leave my starfield is Becky Lynch. That's the story. You know what I mean? So I can never I can't walk away from that now and start fresh and go in there Um, bam says Greg. Uh, do you think Greg do you think our reviews are used the same way they were used before compared to day like they are

39:31Now glad I'm not crazy when I read these things because I'm struggling. I understand the boxes small There's a bunch of different things. Sorry video game reviews being used the same way today as they were back then Oh, I think so I think it's more of the fact that I mean gen talk about this all the time of like me We don't need to know everyone's opinion. That's that's the thing right now, right? Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, BS That's a blue sky team, etc It's the fire hose of just Everyone puts out their opinion on everything. So then it becomes a well, what do we do? I don't Who do you want to trust? What do you want to believe? What do you want to read? Who do you know? What do you think is a better driver for sales? Critic reviews are user reviews Oh man I think it was You know what the weird one I'll tell you the honest answer. Uh-huh. I don't think I'm I can tell you Okay, I think you know there was a conversation with you in a rod dried of like but are we

40:33Distance from are we do we have do we have objective site on this? I think is somebody who writes the reviews and then does not use user reviews that way I couldn't give you the honest answer and I think there's a big difference between You want to get it in the first week. We'll say right because obviously day one. There's only critic reviews versus You want to get it a year from now because I think that's where that that's you know what that's a good point The steam aggregate what means way more to our point of view and what you said a year ago when the game was Whatever it is. That's a really good point actually. Yeah, because I think that day one I would say it would be the critic reviews right because like that is the I think that's the Core of where from where the hype generates from yeah, but yeah a year later like there have been so many steam games That I buy that are older steam games that I see and I'm like Oh, this looks cool and then I immediately go to the steam page and look at the user reviews and be like All right, people it's mostly positive. Yeah, let's check this thing out. Yeah. Yeah Uh, let's take blessing to task unknown. Can we go to the five seven four One moment no proper. Where is that? Oh, here we go seven

41:35Here we go Hey games cast. Uh, this is fast watch only This one is an in particular director a little bit at blessing because when you guys are doing the Nintendo 64 list I said Glover and I haven't let that go Glover is a good game when you were a little kid and you were like whoa dude I'm playing guys basically Mario's gloves. That was the sickest shit ever you go back to it You know, okay, sure that's the best game of all time, but it is iconic There's only one Glover there was supposed to be a second and we were robbed of that Okay, but to to write it off no way man. That's a solid game one of a kind The fact that you knew there was supposed to be a second Glover. I didn't even know that The Glover fan right there. It's a real Glover fan. That entity. I'm like typing in like gave where you play as Mario's glove So this must have been a shit list And like I don't remember doing an entity four list. It must have been I'm let's say it was top 25. Okay. Let's say it was top 25 I'll tell you right now Glover's not a top 25 Like I don't know what else to tell you like an awkward read exists smash exists

42:39You know what I mean like name them 23 others. Yeah, I was gonna say Marbury the bench a that deep though Marius did you for all the Mario all the wrestling's all the Mario All the wrestling's all the Mario parties all the Mario spin-offs that at least is 20 games right there Pokemon stadiums both one and two which I was looking at the Wikipedia for yesterday because that's what I do here Yeah, and like I learned like Pokemon stadium two has lower reviews than you would have thought at least that Then I would have thought okay, but like Pokemon stadium two fantastic video game Need I go on Donkey Kong 64 Yeah, I mean uh there wasn't a Metroid the earthbound got canceled Um, man Joe. Oh, Banger. Oh, all the rare literally every rare game. Yeah, no, sorry Glover. Yeah, I close up. When you're a platformer competition includes Mario Banger in the dog from Jeff voice Gemini. It's like no, you're not gonna make it. I'm sorry conquer No, no, let's move on Back to some anticipated title star me off with the 704

43:41What's up winners first off congrats on earning the iron of the internet by telling them Cribson desert and Cliff aka Caspar milk toast wasn't in fact the second coming of Christ. I like this guy So here we are Cribson desert and what being in my absolutely Jonesing for um We've certainly got a lot to pick from Soros to Wolverine to GTA to 007 first Just kidding Deal game of the year exactly Save Microsoft a game that's left us doubting its existence Only to come out years after it's announced with the most impressive show. I've seen in a long time and that game of course is A series. I grew up. I like the topic of fact in 2004 and the reason showing was so impressive With the reinvented systems Um, if they aren't pulling a Peter monoloo on us

44:42This could truly be something special. Anyway, uh, I'm running out of time But uh, we need to see under the hood. We need to see the magic systems the weapons and all that but It looks like it could be something that pulls Microsoft back from the prank. Anyway, that's it don't call me I like this guy. We should have it on episode You need a full episode. It's weird. What up? Listen, but I did love the don't get this for 007 standing there's got Okay, I have a few points here one. I like that guy. He's from South Bend. Shout out. Not to talk to you too. I have North Carolina Well, that's the five seven four seven oh four Oh, maybe I missed road arrow five seven four. We those the previous guy. Either way cool guy Yeah, five seven four is the lover who you hate you're gonna go. Oh, that's right. That was lover man. Yeah, mm-hmm South Bend Secondly, I don't like this double seven shade because I stand by it. I am interactive. I'm not counted I'm not counting them out until they're out. All right. I got to get my hands on the game First before I'm like no this ain't doing it thirdly fable A fable I would say is probably like a top three most anticipated game for me this year. Okay, after they're showing at the

45:47Sure for sure. I was really convinced. I was really blown away by by what they had to show But now that we're post crimson desert and we've been brought down to earth They mean you like what does that do for your anticipation for a fable? It doesn't affect fable. Okay. I look at fable and I I mean Crimson desert. I felt was so out of the blue I'm just like pearl the black desert online guys. I've I've heard of that game I've never actually seen it like what do you know what I mean like could you possibly get all of this in the game? And have a compelling story and have an open world that runs and all this different stuff like Fable as long as that's just stated as good as we know playground games is even though they're usually known for forks Those rather than you know our open world RPGs That demo them coming out be like nope everything's handcrafted none of those people are AI You can go follow them all because we did it. It's you really get into oh, oh fuck this I hope this is as special as it looks my thing about it is I can't wait for fable fable is at the top of my most anticipated game most probably

46:49But I don't believe fables this year. Oh And and I think a lot of that is just me setting my own expectations So I'm not always caught up in the hype of fable. Yeah, but I can easily see that being a game that they're not going to get out this year I hope I'm wrong. I hope they get it out. I can't fucking wait for honestly. I'm okay with it Like it's already such a big year that if it gets kicked out of the same year of that GTA is coming out right Even though you leave that It's the a coming out this year is another question. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like at a place where Honestly Delay all your games. It's been a year. I have so many things to play I think this is only going to continue as far as there being so many games Coming out and me not having the bandwidth to try all the different games. I want to play I wanted to play way more marathon than I actually got a chance to yeah in the last couple of weeks like Hey, everybody delete your games. I don't care. I'll get to them when they come out take your time. Yeah, that's where I'm at Fair enough. I'm okay with fable Delay and but I'm really looking forward to that game. I feel like again to like I I want fable to be as good as it looked I think that's like that is a game of the generation what we saw in a very brief presentation. Yeah, but if you nail that

47:54I mean come the fuck on like oh, yeah, to the point when it bring Xbox back from the brink. No No, nothing I the fables not gonna sell enough to bring Xbox back from the brink of wherever they're about to hurtle off into But it'd be awesome to see and I'd love to see it. It just seems like too nerdy of an RPG You know, I mean it seems like too nerdy of a video game to be like the one like I think Mike nailed it when it when it was talking about it Having be starfield the starfield is but that's the big RPG right mainstream appeal like that is going to sell well Even if it's not that great it's gonna sell well, right? That was a generation defining thing I think that's a this can hold this can carry a console on its back sort of thing Babel I think is going to be a prediction is gonna be a darling right? It's gonna be one where we're like yo It did XYZ thing or reminds me a little bit of like Indiana Jones even on a on a bigger scale though, right? Where Indiana Jones comes out and it does things that like nerdy video game reviewers really like because it Has systems and it has it like asks you to solve things yourself and explore and do all these things and it really invokes what it Feels like to be Indiana Jones There's something about that type of game design and I think resonates with a lot of people that are that are critics in the

48:58New game world And I think Fable's gonna have a lot of that stuff too Hopefully Let's stay with the anticipated games we're gonna move on to the 252 What up kind of funny um, so I think the most anticipated game this year is definitely gonna be Control resonant followed closely by Wolverine But control resonant definitely edges it out. Sorry for the bell. I'm out of school. I work here Um, I control resonant just looks absolutely insane. I love the first control But I would I love more are hack and slash style games games make you feel like a monster like prototype or infamous And this game is definitely taking some influence from it. I think Looking awesome can't wait The game that bummed me out by the reviews was definitely anthem I really thought anthem was gonna be destiny, but more of an iron man simulator And it ended up being more of a crap man simulator. That's a bad joke But either way the game was wildly disappointing Oh, yeah Thank you for letting me be involved if you'll even hear this call who knows

50:00Nobody does I know great day you too. Imagine like You're in seventh grade. You walk into your teachers claddle over like on a phone like a game's podcast It's always found a phone number on the internet and so I just styled it He's like listen, you know, do as I say not as I do Control resonant Whereas your anticipation level for that. Oh very high very very high I think all of us here to love control and I even the people are playing control for the first time coming very late to it Yeah, they to it still like adore it right I think it being so different is the thing that has me like oh interesting I love somebody the aspects of the first control right being in the fbc Reading the notes in like the weird shit that goes on in the fbc was so cool And so it being such a dynamically different game I think is really interesting for it and I want that to are you scared by that oh little fire break was a radically different game Right. Yeah, I'm a little bit scared, but they're Pivoting to things that I like a lot because I like melee combat Yeah, and I like an open world melee combat action game that feels like a prototype or an infamous or aspiring kind of thing

51:03So that seems cool the last big gameplay thing they showed was like Showing off like fighting a boss and how um the different kind of like polls of gravity work when you're jumping between things And it's a really cool presenting game. I just want that to translate into Like when I'm playing this game for hours, right like being engaged and being like all right And you know, I need to do this now. I need to fucking dodge and period and it's still of the kind of same track of their other big releases Right. Yep. Uh, whereas what was the fbc fire break? I just threw that in there for the conversation Yeah, it's like such a big weird pivot where yeah, I'm interested to see like what they What they do to make this feel different from both Like obviously the gameplay of Alan Wake, but even furthering control of all the weird shit you can do. Yeah Yeah, I can't wait like you know remedy is a day one You know front of line for me every time where I want to see what they're up to and uh Have it be back here in that control universe Yeah, and be getting weird with it and giving that superhero sci-fi fantasy part of it and shake it up from what control was like

52:07Yeah, hell yeah, let's see what's up. I think I'm partly curious on if this splits the audience at all right Because I think I could see myself as bearity even brings up the the gameplay here I look at this and I'm like there's a good chance that all like this more than control one But I'm curious to see if there's people that are like oh no, this is too different Like I actually like the gameplay of control one more because of the telekinesis and the flying and all this shit right like It's just such a different game which is balsy. Yeah, I like for sure. Yeah, Remy keeps doing weird shit Which is both awesome and then terrifying. Yeah, but then you're in the place where it's like I think for so many video game sequels The sequels are automatically better because you're learning from the first game and go like all right Take this upgrade this take this make this better like we know the places that we can improve when you're making a sequel That is so different from the previous game you like you run the thing of like hey no now it's not just about making everything better It is about Re-exploring what makes this compelling and that's what again balsy. That's a big challenge hundred and I love that they do Well, let's talk about being balsy. Let's talk about a different channel. And let's take a call from the 585

53:09Hey, what's going on? My most anticipated game is honestly a game that hasn't even been Officially announced yet, which is the untitled Corey Barlog game um You know, I can't wait for that no matter what it is Because I love you know everything is done, but You know after the recent leaks about the stay video game. Um, I honestly That's just all I want right now. I think it's gonna recontextualize the north games and I think it'll be amazing Um, and the game that came out that I mean cut this part back. We don't need to do that part. I want to focus on the Corey Barlog part I don't care about the rest of what yet Why do you know people ask her all the questions at once? That's great But for this part, I just need the Corey Barlog part. How much do you believe the fade game thing where there's smokes There's fire right like I mean, I feel like that's the common occurrence in our land where you know Okay, we know something's happening and it's something like that happens and it seems like it's got enough juice and people behind There you go. Okay, that's what's gonna happen

54:11On the other side of it The rumor to the Metroidvania got a war game was rumored to be an atreas video game from the longest time that ended up being like a weird Game of telephone. I feel like yep. I don't remember the trace thing Yeah, that was like the an aspect of it. It was like a trace going to like Grease or something was like a part of the rumour mill for interesting. Yeah, see I I feel like that's one of those ones where people will conflate like Um What I let's say is Jeff Robb saying it right? She's talking about what Jeff is saying and that he heard versus what he's speculating Because I remember I remember that coming up I think maybe casually in conversation in terms of throwing what it could be Yeah, but like I remember the hard for the and maybe this is me. Here's the thing I heard from my sources stew that that game existed for a very long time and so like For me, it was very straightforward of like 2d metrovania god of war. Yeah Greek game And I'm like all right sick like we got exactly what What that was you heard. Yeah, what what I heard about at least So then how are you thinking about this korea bar like this?

55:11I think the fake game thing is really interesting. I just got to see it. I don't for some reason. I'm not Like totally in on the idea But I think that's just because I'm not seeing the trailer once you show me the trailer I'm probably gonna be like damn that looks fucking awesome. Yeah Maybe I just got to go back to god of Iraq and rock and like rewatch the the face stuff I just never pet her as a character that I'm like, oh that's who I want a full game around But maybe that's what makes it exciting I think when we see her as a giant doing whatever she's doing combat wise gameplay wise I think that could be super fun especially with Shryer talking about like It's not a new IP, but it's gonna be made to feel like a new IP like I do wonder even like Bless you going back and looking at the face segments of rag and rock or even like looking back at what they're doing in rag rock I do wonder how much of a pivot it is even like gameplay and design was like a top-down Diablo like game. Oh, yeah Let's go Let's stay in the PlayStation ecosystem. Give me the three oh nine Damn she fun Wait, the sorry, oh three oh nine. That's West Central Illinois. That was confusing because there's the three oh nine time as well

56:17Hold on Three or nine is that that's like Bloomington. Yeah, this is my cousin is my cousin calling him or maybe sadison Yeah, I'd say my most anticipated game of the year is Wolverine. I mean insomniac rarely misses But second place if it actually comes out this year as a star wars galactic racer. Oh always need good star wars games That aren't you know Jedi you are just gonna rock me in a Jedi I call this one out for Wolverine and I should call out of course 90% of them all started like well my most anticipated game. I'd be boring is GTA But everybody everyone knows everyone wants GTA. It's interesting to see the second places that are fun feeling in there But you owed the star wars part of it. Well, yeah, because I've been very much looking forward to star wars galactic racer Yeah, I got a hot take that I can't share right now All right, it's an embargo. Yeah, have you played it? No But like either other games that like Play when it comes to galactic racer for me where I'm like it's gonna be interesting here man Yeah, I'm excited for this year of racing games

57:17Yeah, this is one that you know, I'm not the biggest star wars guy even though I do a little good star wars video game And I'm not the biggest racing guy. So this is when I I think the I think rare times I get to really sit on the bench and watch you guys have hype for something that I look at and go neat But I will play it. Yeah, I'm do we know Anything of like when this game is coming. I know they said 2026 Yeah, I don't think we have a specific day for this See, that's what I needed know I need like What is the right window for a star wars galactic racer? Yeah, that's a good question. That's a good question Is this like a summer can I expect a summer turnaround? Is this summer seems good summer. Yeah, good spot to drop it, right? Where did we hear about this? Was it game awards? Game Awards was when it was officially announced and then I think the other trailers have just been from like them randomly dropping maybe like one of the recent State of play this or something like that, but yeah, there's been here and there. Yeah, yeah, this is looking right This is me while Wolverine. I feel like he's in that GTA conversation

58:19Another superhero from insomnia. Fuck yeah. Cool. That's gonna be great Good to great whatever. Yeah, I'm suit. I can't wait for it. It's like it's almost so much of a given of what we that what that game is going to be that is boring Yeah, you know, I mean like I'm like I played all the insomnia expiring man games You know, I know what a Wolverine game is supposed to look and feel like I'm sure that game is going to look and feel like an insomnia Wolverine game which will be fun to play for 15 hours and probably get to platinum. Yeah, I'm I'm juiced to see more, but I do feel like that's a I know if that's gonna be what I want This is my Extra credit assignment for insomnia Make that story fucking hit. Yeah, I know the story's gonna be good Like I don't expect y'all to make a bad story like all the Spider-Man games have good stories, but like Make the story one of the ones where it's like yo Y'all are y'all are ready for this shit like that's what I want to say coming out of the review I want to go into the review review and be like yo y'all are ready for what they do with Wolverine Like I that's the feeling that they need to invoke for me. Okay Sticking with superheroes. Let's move on to a heartbreaking superhero story. Uh, this one's from the 7-8-1

59:24Hello Greg and kind of funny crew Uh Video games. I was super excited. Cooper broke my heart upon review and bother when we think Spiderman's Charter Dimension was my world for nine months leading up to it and That came out the kind of middling reviews. I still loved it when it came out just to get Spiderman as my life Um, and also Assassin's Creed 3 of course I was looking forward to that game watching the trailer every single day waiting for that October 30th release and uh Yeah, so that's my take thanks From the suburbs of Massachusetts. It's a good take. I would have told you and expected Shattered dimensions to have a great metacritic. I love shattered dimensions I remember really liking and I think you know you go back now a Hillary over at IGN review to back in the day Which I remembered he gave it an eight metacritic right now for 360 is 76 and it's like oh Yeah, I guess that makes sense because you start conflating it the story of course for shattered dimensions was

1:00:26It was Binox making a spider-man game and getting to make their own it wasn't tied to a movie It wasn't some licensed bullshit So it like expectations were so low at that time for superhero games that shattered dimensions and jumping in and being four different spider-men Like it was awesome, but yeah, I guess it wasn't eight awesome You know what I mean? I don't know it was eight awesome in in my heart as well because you know doing the Um, it was the black and white like detective spider-man wild spider-man war Yeah, spider-man noir like getting introduced to like different versions of spider-man I think that were not in the mainstream at that time growing up was like really fucking cool And then having different gameplay styles. I just I one of my point is it's crazy not crazy I wouldn't expect this to be like it broke my heart at the review embargo Yeah, cuz like I remember expectations being so low that when Hillary was like no, this is great I'm like oh fucking I want to be played it versus I wasn't expecting a 10 I guess I wasn't expecting enough right right right AC3 Oh, AC3 for sure you're coming to America. That's gonna be awesome. Oh parkouring on all this new geometry

1:01:29We've added into this game is not good. Man nothing is tall here. Oh nothing is tall at all Why how long's it taking me to get into being the assassin? Oh shit this sucks Why am I feeling the great villain? Uh, Haython Kenway, honestly number one villain in the series Let's give Grand Theft Auto its due and get through all the questions in one from the six one nine Hey, boy you got six one nine Ray Mysterio All right, I'm back figure it out the most anticipated game is obviously grant the photo six I just feel like Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing and this is rock stars return With you know one of the most famous IPs in Video game history probably and then again that really made me depressed Assassin's Creed Unity. I was so hyped for that. It was the next generation of Assassin's Creed

1:02:29And even though I got shitty reviews, I still kind of like it name my friends Played it online multiplayer and that shit was amazing and Defines Still think it's one of the better satisfactory games as far as movement goes and combat But yeah, I miss those ones Thanks. Bye buddy Assassin's Creed Unity is interesting because I feel like I for me as the person who doesn't really like Assassin's Creed that much Yeah, Assassin's Creed Unity When that was shown off The ps4 and Xbox one still had like the new console smell So I remember seeing the trailers and being like, oh, hey, that seems kind of dope. Oh in this co-op like Again, not really caring about Assassin's Creed, but like the power of the new generation Yeah, I'm like, oh, that seems kind of cool and then had probably that one of the most memafied Like launch cycles. I remember as far as like the the faceless The floater eyeballs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, crazy. That was the iconic when I remember Still to the say were that review embargo

1:03:33Was the morning of the game coming out so technically reviews came out after the game was available to buy Oh, I still want to that game stop and bought it Yeah, you did yeah, you did yeah, yeah, fucking did GTA Yep, we talk about it in these kind of conversations all the time But I feel like that's the one where it's like Yeah, of course can't wait to play it, but I don't Jones for it. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah And I think it's maybe it's been maybe it's just been so long since GTA five that we've come out of the other side of just like Not even like being not even Jonesing for it anymore just being in the place of like it'll happen This like when we when it comes out we'll play and that's when we'll get hyped for it, but like You know after being after it being so long. Yeah last GTA. I'm kind of just like It's that thing I've lived life now without GTA. I feel so interest It's I'm so more and granted there's gdc behind this two degree, but I feel like it's all the Smaller indie stuff. I'm way more stoked about I'm like that taste they gave us of mouse PI for hire And that's like imminent. I'm like yeah, let's go fucking do that. Yeah, I mean, I really want

1:04:36Mean of the hollower. Yeah, I can only I want to jump into that obviously Starfield updates, which doesn't go to think but I mean like to show that there's bigger games Saros. Yeah, Saros around the corner. Yeah, there's like so much where it's like we're on the precipice and I can see them Where I don't think about a grant. I thought I don't think about a fable and maybe yeah, I'm just getting closer even at Wolverine Like yeah, I'm excited for September right? That's what it is like when we get there. I'll be there. I'll be ready for it But I think I have a weird thing to wear Well, I think there's a few things right They said the marketing cycle will start this summer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and maybe I think once we see the next trailer That's when it'll like be ignited. Okay. Okay. I think though. There's something to that But also I think a personal thing for me is that I'm just way more of a San Andreas person than I give my city And so I'm excited for GTA 6, but like if this was Like if you go back to the GTA 5 marketing cycle like I was fucking I was like, oh man, we're back. We're so bad like I was obsessed with the idea of GTA 5 and now GTA 6 I'm like I'm still hidden, but you know when we get to when you get to GTA 7 and we're back to San Andreas

1:05:39You're gonna see another side of me where I'm like, I'm Turning up the two-pock in the radio. I'm like fucking, you know, I'm wearing a bandana. I'm doing So excited We got two more before we get out of here Let's go to the 207 specifically for one the critics loved, but you are I'm sorry the one the critics didn't love and you did love Hey stuff y'all. Okay, so I'll hate you with a quick two for number one I was gutted that Yakuza Kewami 3 does not have the juice. I love the original Yakuza 3 I strongly recommend that to anybody It's the shame that they really blew it on that one What else? So Lost records Blooming Ridge It's actually a really touching wonderful game and it just did not get Yeah, good reviews, but yeah, I know for your consideration. All right. Have a good one. I will have a good one Yeah, Yakuza or Yakuza Good for you. Yeah, and I understand that for me it was the lost records one. Yeah, that was the one of I did the preview

1:06:41I thought it looked cool and then I Forget what else I was reviewing when Joey and Roger tackled the actor. Maybe you may have tackled part one And then it was part two was months later Part two dropped. It was no fanfare. It was like a month later a month later It was like such a bad rollout. I and you guys were so Lou Horm on the first one. It's like I think about lost records a lot of like I should I should get that on my my Raga ally and have it so that when I have that down to go play so that has a 74 on On metacritic so it's like firmly in the yellow. Yeah And yeah, the tough thing is when you give a two-parter and it's a month between yeah, and we're not blown away by the first part It's impossible to ask us to pick up that second part Especially when it's like it wasn't a code situation, right at that point for part two you have to wait for it to be out for everybody Yeah, so it's like the question of well, we don't have time to review it because We're getting it at the same time as everybody else So like if we get to review it people aren't gonna click through to the review So it's like we're gonna play it. It'll be for the love of the game. Yeah, and I don't really have love for this game

1:07:44Yeah, I mean, I was such a tough one because I know from even just part one like I'm sure I believe the caller fully as far as It probably being a touching story especially for you, right? But like Man, I think you needed a bit more to get me to that touching part of the story especially if it's like that towards the end One day I'll get back. I'm sure Maybe see what not our final call is our final most anticipated game of the year Take me to the 970 So for me the most anticipated video game at the moment is sorrows from housemark It's going to be good. I hope besides it's all that return home and housemark is really well known for the gameplay So that's that's the one for me Sorrows is another one That I I can't wait for but I'm not Obsessed with like Rahul awesome. We love him obviously friend of the show and then housemark a studio whose games I've loved for so long back to podcast beyond to be here with it

1:08:46I just look at it. It's like okay cool. So it's return with Rahul and I need to be told slash shown What is why it's more than that? I think to be like oh, I can't wait to get my hands on it because I'm looking forward to playing it for sure Yeah, I mean if you remember the year eternal came out when I say that was 2021 Returnal was my game of the year that year. So like if we're using The like transitive property of game. Yeah, like sorrows. It's probably a front runner for what could be my game of the year 2026 um And like I think I'm kind of with you as far as like I look at it and I see returnal again Which excites me because like that means I'm really really gonna love this. Yeah But I think There's a level of okay. Is there something for me to discover? Is there something for me to learn to be like Oh shit, that's how this works. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm I'm like 80% sure that that will be here And so I'm excited for it for that But it's another one where like I don't think I'm gonna really think about it too hard until we're like it shows up When it's when it's the point of like when we should have review code for that. Why don't we agree that that's when I think that's when I think That's what I'm gonna be like as soon as you hit my DM be like here is the game. Yeah

1:09:50I think that's what we'd be like everything stop I'm just playing Saras now like nobody make any plans to be anymore Hell yeah Everybody great job with these voicemails. I enjoyed this episode quite a bit Blessing is a really fun one. It was a fun one. It was again sometimes. We will do it And I wonder maybe we can keep this phone number because they I didn't use the old one enough and they close up without Everybody let us know your most anticipated game the game that you are at suspending that broke your heart and the game that you think critics Got wrong in the comments below remember to like subscribe share But most importantly pick up a kind of funny membership. We of course are a business all about live talk shows right after this You are getting a party mode for plate up. It's gonna be super fun and exciting If you're watching or listening later pick it up youtube.com slash kind of funny games more importantly pick up the membership patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games apple and Spotify to get all of our shows at free You get your daily dose of me and of course get good karma for supporting a small business for now It's time for party mode. So until next time it's been our pleasure to serve you

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