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28:27But from everything I remember you and blessing and just the world playing, I don't remember it being that negative. But, of course, sales are tough, right? The question is, were the expectations correctly set? Were they met? What are the sales numbers? I've been looking it up. I haven't found anything concrete. When I go to Censor Towers, censortower.com, They have it currently at 690 ,000 sold. I go to another website, Game Analytic, and they have it sold at 547 ,000. So it's like. Is that Steam only? Because I could have sworn that they said it was around like 1.5 mil or something. That's why I don't have a number here when I search for it.

29:11So I don't know where it ended on all of this. Did it surpass a million copies sold? I don't know. I feel like I would have saw an image pop up right away when I type in that. Usually those are like the first ones. Yeah, that's a massive bummer. I think the game is, I think it's a very solid action RPG. Like, I think it's a lot of fun. It has kind of everything you'd want from one of these sort of action RPG or Souls-likes or whatever you want to call them. I think it was severely lacking in what it was trying to do story. yeah wise and that's why i i've always been of the i've i've always been of the mind that if you don't got what it takes narrative wise then just give us like the most sort of vague storytelling possible give us like just give us like almost no dialogue just have a cool boss walk in and just say some shit yeah and i i would enjoy that more than talking to npcs for while and just not really caring about what you're saying or the writing or the dialogue and all that stuff um but that being like that aside i think the action in this game is amazing and the combat weapons feel great the you have three a choice of three different weapons it did kind of give you it did it did kind of do what uh what the team ninja games do um or you know uh platinum games or whatever when i talk about neo and rise of the ronin it it has that sort of loot slop where you're getting just a shit ton of stuff that you're constantly having to change out and infuse gems into this and break down and then like there's a lot of that in the gameplay and that was kind of annoying um but once you get back into the action i thought the boss fights were super fucking awesome so it's the boss fights what carry right we talk about lies yes we were talking about like being compared to right you're like Liza P has that sweet counter mechanic right and like breaking down the enemy's weapon is always exhilarating and exciting right what is Liza P's x fact or first first berserker kazan's x factor that takes it over the top to say hey you should be playing this I mean you're there for the combat the combat's amazing but the art style is also really damn good I love that it's this sort of anime art style cell shaded sort of look that when if you don't have the skills or the studio or the budget to try to go for a super realistic visual look and you do something else stylistically that looks awesome as hell then hell yeah like i will always applaud that i will always applaud that as opposed to like you know having a semi-realistic look with just really bad art direction this game kicked ass art direction wise um yeah it's a bummer that it hopefully at the end of this article it mentions that they are hoping to release in china and i hope that that does happen and maybe boost the sales but it's not great that the whole team kind of gets told all right we're breaking this team up we're not making another one go on go off into other spaces in nexon and that yeah that is kind of a bummer okay that's sad to hear but you know what isn't sad to hear the fact that our amazing sponsors continue to help fund this company.

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35:20You can save when you bundle or book as you go and still save. So what are you waiting for? Expedia, the one place you go to go places. Members only savings vary. We have a very generous super chat here from David Flores who says, Mikey, loving your Zelda streams. Please at least play up to Twilight Princess after. I recommend reading the Ocarina, Majora, and Twilight Princess manga. They are pretty fun and flesh out things. Andy, I turn to you because you're my gamer guy. You've played them all. You've seen them all. Are you talking about the Zelda games? I'm talking about games in general, really.

35:56You're my gamer guy. My number one. Okay. My 1.1, my best friend. I mean, you don't act like it. Andy Cortez, what should I do after this, right? I am having so much fun with Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, right? There was conversation. They were playing games on the SNES and the NES, you know what I mean? What do you mean? There was like a 2D Zelda way before the games that I'm playing. You know what I mean? You're saying like legend speaks of.

36:30apparently people would write letters to each other back in the day. Painted this in games from Zelda. So do I go back in time and play the originals? Do I check out some 2Ds? Do I do this Twilight Princess? People would be typing in Wind Waker. I don't really know where to go after this Zelda craze. Okay, so. Yeah, I don't know. So my pass with Zelda is definitely more spotty. as well like i have a pretty spotty pass adult that where did you start tell me the nes one was like my first one that was like oh shit this is like fucking crazy and then link to the past was really the one that like oh my god i love this video game i love this world i love this character it's what got me into like wanting to make video games as early as i was where i was like i would look at the hyrule map and i would draw my own map and make my own little pois and be like oh I could do this and I'll have a little ice zone up here.

37:26And then Ocarina of Time came around and I was like, holy shit, this is the most mind blowing thing ever. Okay. And with the way my brain works though, I have memory wiped so much of it that like, I know all I could, I could sing along to every goddamn song. I just, I don't remember a whole lot of what happened to the game, but I know that it made me feel great and amazing. Well, there's a lot of them, right? And then we get into the dead period. We get into the period where I just wasn't gaming like that. I didn't have those consoles. So Wind Waker was a game that I watched my aunt play a couple times, and I never played it.

38:00But then Twilight Princess, I think I rented that at one point. That one's got a cat with a mask. It's got a little cat with a mask, I believe so. Kind of floats around maybe. And then Skyward Sword didn't play it. So I don't know about any of those. Okay. I know that people love the dungeons in Twilight Princess, Mike. People say that the dungeons in Twilight Princess, and you can ask Barrett Courtney this, who is like the aficionado, who says like the dungeons in Twilight Princess are the most goaded shit ever. It's just the rest of the game doesn't necessarily live up to the dungeons, which is like if you could deal with that, I think you should be fine.

38:40I mean, the dungeons are a big deal of Zelda. Yeah. But outside the dungeons, that's where the lore is told. That's where the lore is told, Mike. what you know about tingle tingle tingle man he's just trying to make his dad happy because he wants to be a forest fairy and at the age of 35 or 41 he thought that the fairies would come to him and make him a forest fairy but it turns out he might not got it like that and his dad's like you got to get a job and so he's selling his dad's maps to help his business and help his family while being like hey grow up but he doesn't want to grow up it's almost like me I was about to say yeah no prospects What are you doing in life?

39:17I mean, you're making people smile is what you're doing. I'm trying my best. What do you know about that Bolero of Fire? What do you know about that? Bolero of Fire, is that what Chapel Rhone gave me, the power of magic? I believe so, yeah. I mean, well, that's the name of the fire song. Yeah. She got my magic bar up.

39:35We'll talk more Zelda, I promise, tomorrow. And we'll talk about what's next for Snowbike Mike. Lucid Dream writes in with a super chat and says, I just need to know is what is preventing Mike from ordering a new phone online in like two minutes from Verizon site? They'll mail it to him. Lucid dream. One, I didn't know they did that. Two. God. Two. God. I come from a day and age where you had to go to the Verizon store. He would have to plug the phone into the machine to download all your photos and videos. Then he would take your new phone, plug it in the machine, upload all of them. Lucid dream.

40:08Thank you for the super chat. You have to understand that when me, Blessing, and Mike are going to L.A. to play the late game, rest in peace, High Guard. We're in an Uber heading to L.A., heading to the airport at SFO. Blessing is in the front seat. Mike is looking at Blessing use his phone. And Bless is texting somebody. And Bless is doing this. And Mike goes, look at Blessing. he's drawing on his keyboard and like typing shit out what the hell is he doing how are you doing that and i was like what do you mean yeah he's like drawing he's tracing letters on his keyboard i said mike that's like swipe texting he's yeah what's that so that that's first off that's honest to god still my mind is still blown intimidated by all hell to that i don't think i'll ever do that So swipe texting, Mike, when I worked at Best Buy is when it was a first thing.

41:09Swipe texting was like a separate keyboard app that you downloaded. And we're talking about when I worked at Best Buy for six years. This must have been, I would say, like 2010. 2010? Yeah. So around 2010, yeah. And then anyway, so we discovered Mike learned what swipe texting is. And then later on that night when we were in L.A. with one Christopher Anka, we go get Froyo. And Mike goes, never had Froyo before. I'm a little scared, a little intimidated. It's a new thing. I'm opening up. I'm trying new things. It's interesting because you say 2010. It's like, was I still rocking a chocolate? The LG chocolate?

41:49I don't even remember when I got my first iPhone. I feel like I might have, because all through high school I had the chocolate. That was when touchscreens, Mike, were pressure sensitive. When you had to push hard on them, and it wasn't just fingerprint capacitive touch. It was a pressure. Those are the worst. Andy, it's crazy that to me, when you talk about cell phone texting, it is either the T9 where you press the button a bunch of times to get to the letter, or it's the new keyboard here. Now they got voice texting, too, where I can just read it. I can talk to it. Now, yeah, they just introduced it.

42:20That's huge to me. But it still misses a couple of words. Every now and then. Now I got to type on this. Or maybe it's getting words right that you didn't know existed. That you didn't know existed. Remember T9, though? I was the best, though, at T9 texting while driving. You were T9 texting while driving? Because I wouldn't have to look at my phone. I would be driving one hand on the wheel, full concentration there, under my— I don't know if you can be admitted to that. Hand down here might just go, and I wouldn't have to look at my phone once. I was a master at it, dude. How do we get phones out of people's hands while driving?

42:54There I was last night driving home guy in front of me. He's got his seat all the way cranked forward. It's like, okay, dude, that's uncomfortable looking. And he's got his phone like this up in his mouth. And he's going 10 miles an hour underneath the speed limit about to enter a highway. It's like, homie, what do I need to do to you? How can I help you get this phone out of your face? Put two hands on the wheel. I always think about Mike. That's a great point. You bring up. This is a great episode of games daily, by the way. I always think about, Mike, about how much traffic has been affected and how people are more and more delayed to get where they need to go.

43:32And I would love to see studies and charts because of the amount of times that somebody is looking at their phone at a red light. Yeah. And just if you were to like cumulatively add all of that up, the amount of time of like, you know, somebody was looking at the phone for five seconds and that adds up to the person's three cars behind them looking at their phone for four seconds before they hit the gas button. I wonder like just how much that adds up. This is a great episode of Games Daily, by the way, guys. Let's get to the next story, everybody. Story number three. Xbox achievements are getting an update.

44:05This comes from Xbox Wire. Starting today, select Xbox Insiders can begin testing improvements to achievements that make it easier to celebrate your accomplishments and curate how they appear on your profile. These features will roll out to more Insiders over time, with broader availability coming to all players. We're excited to hear what you think, and we'll keep bringing you more of these features you've been asking for. We refresh achievement notifications with a new look and feel, including updated icons and animations when you unlock classic or rare achievements. Notifications will also match your custom color, making each unlock feel more personal.

44:45Happy achievement hunting! Coming later this month, you'll be able to hide any game from your achievement history on your profile, giving you more control over how your accomplishments are presented. when you've earned all available gamer score for a title. You'll now see it highlighted in your achievements list. So your hard work is easy to spot. This gives you a quick at a glance way to celebrate full completion. We've also added new filter options to this view, making it easier to find your fully completed games alongside any titles you chosen to hide. Mike, does this excite you at all? And do you remember the last time we got an update to update to achievements?

45:21No, this is a pretty big deal. If you are a hardcore Achievement Hunter or if you're in the Achievement Hunter Let's play, Ray. We love Ray. Is that what he yelled? Yeah, that was the thing he would yell before Let's Play. Can you show me some of the videos that they made? I never watched them. You never watched Achievement Hunter? You finally learned about the Game Grumps. And I've heard you yell at Ray to yell Let's Play, but I didn't know what was happening. You just laughed along and nodded. Here we go. We'll look into it. Yes, for the Achievement Hunters the diehard Xbox fans who are really in tune with the achievement community.

45:57This is something they've wanted. They continue to say, hey, achievements matter. We want you to do this. The problem is, one, it doesn't make money, so it's not high on the priority list. It isn't all that flashy to the common fan, right? But there is something about being rewarded for the time that you put into games. If you listen to how we would fix Xbox, I had a whole achievement section of like, hey, we got to give back to the fans. We got to tell them you spending your time and effort in this. We got to somehow reward you. Right. And the achievements is an easy, free way to do that. Right.

46:28Oh, a little dopamine hit. Something pops up on the screen. You do that. Right. And I really like what they did. Right. I like the refreshed look of what's going on here. I really dig the hundred percent now being highlighted with a nice colorway on your list of achievements. Right. I do think you've got to find a way to pop that out. And I bet you in the future, we'll find a better way of like highlighting that. I think filtering is cool, but maybe allowing me to build my own list and have that list go how I want it to transcend down would be really nice of like, hey, these are my games that matter to me.

47:00We've talked about it before with Xbox profiles now getting kind of these badges and new looks that maybe in the future would be really great to like what I would do. Maybe if you 100%, let's say Gears of War reloaded, which is on my screen right now, we make a special little custom badge for you that only the 100 % people get. and then you can put that on your profile of your Xbox with the badge that people could see and know. But this is for the diehards. This is something that they've been clamoring and asking for for a long time. It's like, hey, somebody in there has to be tasked on this team to do something.

47:32Let's start making that work. And it seems like, hey, they want to do that. They want to hear that and make it better for you. Do I expect major changes? No. It doesn't make money, right? So it's not like a, hey, we got to change this tomorrow. But it's nice to see that they're taking small strides. If I could weigh the magical game development wand, Mike, that I stole from the magical game development wizard, I would look at Microsoft and Xbox and say, hey, don't do whatever you guys are making. Set aside like, I don't know, five billion dollars for the thing that I want to sort of like push forward.

48:06Yeah. I want to. I want avatars to be brought back in a serious way. Okay. because i every time i play an old xbox game with ray let's play whenever i play a new or an old game you have to bring up the old virtual sort of xbox 360 launcher right that's very cool and i see my old avatar with my mass effect suit on that i unlocked because i played mass effect or whatever and i it's the same sort of ownership you love about seeing like your little nintendo me or whatever and i wish that there was a directive at all xbox first party studios that hey whatever game you're working on whatever game you're doing set aside a little place to to have a your your xbox avatar find a way to include it i like that i just i i love the idea of that sort of ownership it's the same reason why i love street pass even though i didn't play my 3ds as much as i would liked i just like having my little dude interact with other characters out there with other people that we're finding in the world and customizing and all that stuff it just it it makes it feel like home it makes it feel like i'm like playstation home you know what i mean that's good there's there's something there man we got to bring back like the fun i think that is the conversation andy of like what are some small ways of rewarding players right and an xbox avatar was special back in the 360 days.

49:32Buying that and or earning those different items were always fun to put on and design and kind of put it at the forefront of your profile, right? We don't have the Xbox avatar. So when I go to the Nitro Rifles profile, I don't see your Xbox avatar dancing around and doing the cool stuff like they used to in the 360. Yeah. That's kind of gone. And it goes back to just rewarding players. We've seen some really fun ways to reward players. I always think of Destiny when they had that special raid. And if you completed the raid, you could get the special jacket IRL. I thought that was one of the coolest ways to give back to your players and be like, hey, if you achieve one of the coolest feats that we have in our game, we want to make sure you have that.

50:10Sure, the player had to buy it, but I'll never forget being at work and knowing one of the kids who was at the ticket window and he had the jacket. He brought it into work and was like, yo, look at this jacket. And that goes back, just like I said, how do you reward players for their time? How do you make them feel like, hey, you spending time in our ecosystem, Most importantly for Xbox, who is trying to get you to stay right now, not even to jump ship. They're just trying to get you to stay right now. It's like these are the small things. I'll circle back again on the Gamescast. It's like I said, you should start doing coupons, discounts, whatever it is of like, hey, if Andy gets 10 ,000 or 100 % achievement score on whatever five games, he gets a$10 discount for this next purchase or something.

50:55You've got to find ways to reward the players. And yeah, the Xbox Avatar is a great one, Andy, right? That is free. You don't have to give them money, but mind you, we do have to pay 10 people to create Xbox Avatars again, work with each studio to do that, right? I thought they were coming back in a big way when the Xbox One came out, Mike. There was a moment. There was a moment where I was like, oh, we're continuing this. I love this. I want to see new hairstyles. I want to see the new, you know, and I don't know. There was always something so cool about taking your me into a game that already existed or and the i always just kind of wanted more integration of that you know i would love if if there was a way to get me way more back into the xbox ecosystem of here's my avatar and i have my xbox app on my phone and that's like the new street pass thing and we you know i say hello at a convention to i digitally say hello to at a convention and my little dude's like hey i'm from you know i just love seeing i still have like a screen grab of the first time I met everybody from kind of funny at RTX 2016.

52:00And I had the screen grab of when I went to the kind of funny panel and it was, I was able to get Greg street pass and he was like, I'm Greggy from California. I was like, this is so fucking cool. Like I just, I just, there's something so neat about that. And I wish that there was a way to bring that back without, you know, every, every dev or not just developer every executive going that doesn't make money for us we don't give a shit that's the problem is when i turn to you i'll go to you and be like that doesn't make money it's not a seller and that's the problem that we're having right now with this but like there is something to be said about that profile i'm trying to bring mine up really quick crown prince a great one right here right real quick but as you pull that up crown prince in the youtube chat says imagine if you saw your xbox avatar in the drive avatar for forza games that would be so cool like That was just like just a silly little dude, like out of place or what I would just love.

52:52That's a neat way to kind of implement things like that. Because right now it's like when you go to your profile, it has friends, but also followers. Right. And it almost became like they, there was a moment for Xbox and all of gaming where like Xbox was, or like your profile is about to become a social media page. Right. We were doing a lot of game capture and sharing. We were putting things up to our profile. Like now all of a sudden Xbox started calling people who wanted to be your friend, but you didn't accept their friend requests followers. Right. And there was like, there was a moment there where I was like, Oh, are we going to make this like my own little mini Twitter, TikTok where I am encouraged to post on here, whether it be a blurb of what I'm playing, whether it be a cool achievement that I have unlocked, whether it be a game for a cool game capture.

53:38That's what now when you're getting to it, Andy, if you could rewind time or say, Hey, let's try this. It should be your profile with your avatar photo. It should be your avatar next to it. You should have all the badges. Like for me, as someone who's been playing since the start of Xbox Live, right, I want my 15-year, 20-year Xbox Live badge next to my name, right? They've started with these badges, but they don't go further enough. But like there's some fun ideas here that you could do. Yeah, I don't know. I think it'd be really neat. But at the end of the day, it doesn't make any money. And it is such a small Subsect of people that care about this That like at the end All of it, it's like none of this matters But like, hey, diehards I love that you're all about this I love that they're trying And if me and Andy were in charge We clearly would do more for you But yeah, business up top says None of this matters at all Mike, I'd love for you to go ahead and check your Slack right now If you can Okay It would make me really happy Assets?

54:37Yeah, I tagged you in a Slack Okay, yeah, yeah. All right. Because that was a really, really big slack that I just sent you, Mike. All right? But I'm so tired of all of that big stuff and big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go? Andy, I'd take you to the We News channel where we cover all the small news you need to know about. Thank you, Mike. We News. Now converted to We News. Split Fiction has sold. the split fiction studio hazelite has sold 50 million games so far this comes from eddie at game spot um developer hazelite announced massive milestone for the three games so far in the 12 years since the company was founded in 2014 a way out it takes two and split fiction have all combined to sell more than 50 million copies split fiction is uh at 7 million copies sold so far since last year which is amazing a way out sold 13 million copies and it takes two is at 30 million copies i love this massive i love this announcement i love this tweet because yesterday i showed blessing the tweet uh from game spot that says split fiction which had double the budget of it takes two has sold one third of the copies so far and i looked at blessing i was like this is crazy news but then when like you put out from the studio's perspective like hey we've hit a massive milestone.

55:58It's like, oh yeah, like this team is doing very well. Maybe Split Fiction hasn't sold as many as it should right now, or it will continue to grow, but like,$50 million for these three games? $50 million is crazy. On a co-op adventure game genre? It's crazy. Yeah, I think the actual facts that came out were, you know, there was a couple of people trying to downplay the sales and downplay the success of Split Fiction, which, when you look at the numbers, you know, you're kind of just box score looking at the box score, but if you didn't watch the basketball game, you wouldn't know the defensive impact that Victor Wembenyama has, Depoy, Defensive Player of the Year.

56:34So, Split Fiction Mike's got to the 7 million mark I think it was three months quicker than It Takes Two did. Wow. Which is like still awesome, and It Takes Two also had the benefit of the pandemic and the play with a friend for free and all of that stuff, and all the awards. Game of the Year nominations, like that was reading up on it, it's like, yeah, It Takes Two got a lot of love, and like also has had a longer lifespan than split fiction. Oh, yeah. Let's give that some time to go up. But when you look at the numbers here, this is amazing. Good for them. Congratulations. And as I'm playing Mario Galaxy 2, Mike, I'm just like, dude, give me a Mario haze-like.

57:12Co-op. Give me a Mario and Luigi split-screen co-op experience. Oh, my God. It would be amazing. What? You should make that phone call. I mean, that's what I'm saying. That would produce. And then Daniel Z, you know, popular chatter. you know awesome community member was like no fuck with you i want to play his peach and i was like oh my god a divorce story like it takes two marion and peach they get they're getting divorced they got to stay together for toad or like the movie we found out that the uh the toads are canonically latino well i learned that really yeah i like that really really cool a lot of puerto riqueños and cubanos um 1000 time resist developer proves uh reveal sorry let me start over i'm just having a stroke right there 1000 times resist developer reveals prove you're human a new first person adventure that asks you to convince an ai she's not human uh this comes from wccf tech uh their brand new game was revealed and it's called prove you're human a first person narrative adventure where an ai called mesa believes she's human it's sunset visitor second project after the award-winning 1000 times resist this looks horrifying but awesome and weird and it's the first project to be published by black tabby publishing publishing the brand new publishing arm of the indie developer black tabby games the studios behind games like slay the princess and scarlet hollow this looks wild this looks cool and weird oh yeah i love i mean sunset visitor they've proven that they got the juice when it comes to storytelling 1000 times this was an amazing experience and this looks to be equally as weird so shout out to them this is one that yeah we'll all be kind of waiting for rhythm heaven comes to switch on july 2nd from kotaku the gunzilla video game developer and publisher best known for its nft filled third person battle royale game off the grid i forgot this existed by the way but uh they've been accused by multiple current and former employees of not paying the staff for months and ghosting people trying to get the money they are owed which is very concerning mike yikes because gunzilla also bought game informer oh shit no way so i hope that everything's going okay there.

59:19I hope that this is just a isolated thing, but yes, I forgot this game studio and video game existed. This is, I believe it's

59:33District 9. I'm playing. Yeah, Neil Blomkamp. Yeah, there we go. The visionary director, Neil Blomkamp. Yeah, I believe that this came out less than a year ago. This released July 17th, 2025, so it has barely hit a year. Yeesh. Wargaming has announced, Mike, that World of Tanks Heat, its new standalone free-to-play tactical vehicle shooter, will enter closed beta from April 16th through April 20th across PC Steam Deck, PS5, Xbox Series, and GeForce Now. This is the hero-driven tank game. So when I've been doing my investigating, and I've been clicking on all the buttons to learn about the games, this is going to be the hero tank beta game.

1:00:13Oh, that's right. We saw this. I remember. So this is like you have the healer tank. You have the fast, quick tank. I did my aura. You got the tank tank. Yeah. And I will say, these games, World of Tanks and World of Warships, surprisingly fun. Okay, wow. Surprisingly fun. All right, Mike's been doing a lot of investigating. Check out all of the videos over, all the streams over on YouTube and on Twitch. Karen's Free. I said Karen. Karen's Free on the Trail DLC has been announced. Shout out to Karen. I need to get back to this one. What's the deal with this, Andy? Would you ever jump back into this?

1:00:47I need to because I really enjoyed what I was playing and just other stuff came around. But I was really digging the story and I was really digging the mechanics. It's way more than I would say that a lot of people compare this to like, oh, this is like the Death Stranding of climbing. Yes. I would say it's way more akin to the baby steps of climbing. It's way more precise. You feel the tension, man. Like when you start to, you feel the shit start to rumble and then you see her arms and legs start to tremble and she starts making noise. It's like, oh, fuck. And it's like, oh, my God, I'm so scared for her right now.

1:01:27I think it does a great job of making it, you know, getting that tension across. I haven't played this one at all, so maybe I should put this. I did a lot of Just Nut. Just Nut, right. Remember Just Nut. Hello, Yoshi is out and free to download. I downloaded it. I don't really know what it is still. You have to get to the bottom of it. Mortal Kombat 1 has sold over 8 million copies. And if I wanted to play a fighting game with a cool story campaign, who has the best campaign? Mortal Kombat. And I've played all the Mortal Kombat campaigns. I guess who has the best campaign story that's not Mortal Kombat?

1:02:04Well, you would say, I mean, Blessing would tell you Tekken 8, the most recent one. Tekken 8? Yeah, Tim and Blessing loved the Tekken 8 campaign. Okay, good enough. I haven't played it, but people are like, that's the one. I would like to play a fighting game campaign that's got like a cool story. So you played all the NKs already. Oh, yeah. I play all. Mortal Kombat is my fighting game. The old school DC one versus Mortal Kombat? Yeah, I played those. Okay, okay. I mean, I don't remember any of it, so maybe I could go back to those. Yeah. Maybe Tekken 8. I would say Tekken 8 probably. And that is for Weenies, everybody.

1:02:34Let's get to some Super Chats and your wrongs, and then we'll get the heck out of here and get ready for the Gamescast, which is going to be us going over our pizza bed. We're having a pizza party. Yeah. I'm excited. We should have filmed this one outside. I'm trying to push Roger to have a whole day of filming outside. That would be neat. It is a little cloudy today, but like one day. It's definitely misty. We do games daily. We'll put the pop-up tent outside. We'll get a desk. Oh, that would be amazing. Yeah, we'll all sit outside. It's so nice lately. That would be amazing. We've got some super chats and some kindoffunny.com.

1:03:08forward slash your wrongs or you could write in what we got wrong. Super chat here from Clawmaster. $10 super chat. It says 2XKO announced their roadmap for season one and it's looking like they are nowhere near in danger of closing down. Stages, cosmetics, new fuse, and another character coming. Did you see this? No. I saw this and I was like, oh snap. I thought this game was in trouble. Like we saw them lay off or like move part of the team and I was like, oh, I thought this was having a much worse situation. When I saw this roadmap, I was like, that's a pretty solid roadmap. High guard had a roadmap as well.

1:03:44Damn, Andy. They had a full year of roadmap. That's too soon. It's tough. Terry Huffman with a$5 super chat says, birthday tax. Love you guys. And been enjoying y 'all since October, 2024. Nice. Nice. Well, thanks for joining us recently and becoming a fan. What I would love for everybody to do right now, go to the comments and just type in month and year when you started listening to Kind of Funny? Maybe the piece of content. A lot of people will notice. A lot of people will write down like, oh, when Greg was doing Starfield shit or whatever. There's a lot of really cool stuff. It's always one piece of information I love finding out.

1:04:23Terry Huffman says, y 'all got me back into gaming. I'm going to colonoscopy prep. Get it locked in. Get checked. A lot of colonoscopies in my life lately. Nick? Like Roger was prepping for one? Was that real though? Maybe I should prep for one Do you know what you have to do? I don't know but I know next week I see the doctor Whoa First time since 18 years old Holy shit First time since 18 Are you going to be honest with them? Are you going to be like hey I've been having trouble breathing There's this weird lump in my chest and sometimes my leg Yeah I'll give them the rundown You can't lie to them I have to go with you to keep you honest Because you will just lie to them You'll say everything's fine Remember when I came out of the eye doctor She said light prescription You're good You're solid I've seen the way you react to having good vision And it's like when kids Use the colorblind glasses And they're like oh my god And they cry and shit Get ready next week big deal We need someone to go with you Because you won't lie to them You're going to say everything's fine It's like when you used to smoke pot Way back in the day You're smoking And you're like, no, I'm not smoking.

1:05:35Not smoking. Never smoked in my life. Nah, I've never smoked at all. John Van Pelt says, I miss my Xbox avatar driving around a little Massivek Mako. Yeah, dude. It was so cute. Yeah, I was riding a unicorn. It was pretty sick. John Warner says, imagine using your Xbox avatar as a VTuber avatar when you stream on Twitch. That'd be awesome. Let's do more of that. That's a lot of fun. I like that a lot. Nightlife with a$5 super chat says, shockwave traffic is the term used for describing small slowdowns resulting in traffic. Research was done by Japan. If you see people talking honk. If you see people, oh.

1:06:12If you see people talking, comma, honk. See, I worry about that. I thought he was saying, like, if you see people talking honk, you know. Because if I honk at that guy, I'm going to shake his life up and he might bang into something, you know what I mean? You think so? He's already barely getting by in his nice Tesla. How do you know that? I've been looking at it. I was on his ass. I've been stalking him for the past two weeks. Can we get going? Let's get to somekindoffunny.com forward slash your wrongs, and then we'll get the heck out of here. Blanket Fort says, today is April 9th. Andy said March.

1:06:50Did I say that again? I said it incorrectly last time because that's how it was written. April 9th. Oh, it's written incorrectly here. Blessing. yeah it is April you're right let's see here the missed we used from kebabs this is a good one I do like this that IGN Tom Phillips at IGN reports that Pokemon Champions shipped with a bug that prevents the game from outputting in 4k on Switch 2 unless you undock and redock the console so if you dock it it's going to look really crappy and you have to like undock and redock in order to like fix the thing and it outputs in the higher resolution. Andy, I've updated templates so now it says April.

1:07:36Man, you're the guy. Son Lee Boy says, hey Andy and Mike, I had heard that you had referenced Deadlock would become sooner rather than later with the official Twitter being attained. A lot of content creators in the community are looking at 2027 to even 2028 for at least. Fuck. 2027, 2028? That's a long time! That's way too long. It was Mike's game of the year in 2024. Exactly, just so you know. Two years ago. We've already spent a lot of time in this game. I don't know. I can't wait for release in 2028. That's crazy. That's a long ways away, Mike. I am at 177 hours in deadlock. Wow, that's a lot.

1:08:16Is there a ranked system yet in that? That's what I'm really looking for, is I want to grind ranked with you and the guys. I don't know. Is there a ranked system? Because when we jump in, it still feels like there's only one play. Now, mind you, they added the other game mode, but I'm not seeing a, hey, this is ranked, and there's a logo next to your name to show you what's ranked. Android Sleep says no, it's releasing soon. But then I have seen people saying, like, I'm ranked or whatever. Deadlock is only ranked. Every Deadlock game is ranked. Go to your character. Oh, you have to go to your stats to see.

1:08:50I'm going to open up Deadlock right now. You read some more Super Chats. I want to see what my rank is. A lot of you super chatted away about the Zelda experience. And yes, I'm going to save those super chats for tomorrow. We will be talking about Zelda Ocarina of Time as a group. My first experience with it. And then we'll be talking about like what's next is, of course, as I play Majora's Mask right now. People say I'm tearing this up. I'm doing one dungeon a night. Essentially is where I'm at. I don't know how much I have in this game, but I'm ripping it up. I'm having a blast. Majora's Mask is much shorter, if I remember correctly.

1:09:22Yeah, I think they said it's much shorter, but there's a lot of side content that you can do. So they're encouraging me to spend some time doing some side content. I got to become a mailman. The mayor's son and his wife, the mayor and his wife, their son went missing maybe 30 days ago. He was supposed to have a wedding. And now they want me to go find him and find out what's going on. And so I'm looking for him. I'm looking around town for him. And then I've got two of him so far. Well, get this. I think he's rocking the Zelda Ocarina of Time like a coyote mask because I saw him with his purple hair.

1:09:55He's got stunning purple hair. And he walked up to a mailbox, shoved a letter in. And I was going to commit a federal crime and shove my hand in there, but I couldn't. It's a lot harder to track back in the day. In Hyrule or fake Hyrule? It takes place like in 1700s or something. Then I was like, oh, snap. I'm going to talk to the mailman, see if I can get the key. He's having an existential crisis because the moon's about to crash. he doesn't want to be here anymore doing his job but the mayor says you got to do your job and he's like I just want to run away and hide like the rest of the townsfolk and so I'm going to try to take his job and then therefore become the mailman get this letter read the letter and figure out what's going on because I'll tell you this my other hint the dancers they know about this kid and they said oh I think he got cold feet didn't want to get married chat what's alchemist 5 that's what my core skill rating is I don't know what that means Alchemist 5 is my rank.

1:10:49That's your core skill ranking. Okay. I don't know what that means. I'm not good, though. If that's bad, pretend I didn't say anything. Everybody, this has been kind of Funny Games Daily. Thank you for supporting us. Thank you for using your super chat. Thank you for subscribing. Remember, if you have Amazon Prime, you have Twitch Prime. It's one higher than four. Thank you. Thank you, Bardell. You can stick around because after this, we got Gamescast. Gamescast, followed by just another bevy of content. You said you're Alchemist? Yeah. So it goes from 0 to 11. 11 being the highest ranking. Alchemist is 3.

1:11:29So you are technically 4 up right now. 0, 1, 2, 3. That's where Alchemist is. After that, you'll become an Arcanist, a Ritualist, an Emissary. Then you'll get up to Oracle, Phantom, Ascendant. and Eternus. That's the third lowest rank? I don't trust that. I think I'm probably better than that. Fourth. Because there's a zero. I don't trust that. More time. I gotta put in more time. I gotta figure out what these new items are doing, everybody. This has been Kind of Funny Games Daily. We'll be live with more Gamescast after this, everybody. But until then, it's been our pleasure to serve you. Eat some pizza.