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26:26Give me a new planet. Give me new people. Give me new enemies. What am I doing? What are the choices? Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, I mean, this is a team that has been built on over decades now and have added things to their games, like you've seen with, of course, he brings it all the way back to Oblivion, the first one in Morrowind of, you're just a dude walking around, and then you're fighting some monsters. Then all of a sudden we added shooting and Fallout, right? And then we added base building and Fallout 76, and we just kept building upon that to now here's Starfield, the amalgamation of all four of those titles that we've just jammed together to hopefully be good enough, but as you say, didn't quite land with everything being perfect, Greg.

27:04Yeah, and so it'll be interesting to see what these additions are, what the changes are. Story DLC, again, is what sparks for me. Them talking about getting in there and changing space or making it better to fly in space or making it better to shoot in space, however he phrased it here. Okay. Space gameplay, again, like, I think one of my least interesting things in Starfield. I love the emergent, I warp out, I come out, somebody hails me it's grandma it's people are attacking me like that idea is cool then you get into the dog fighting in starfield which i think is so clunky and boring like so poorly done of just like well this isn't even enjoyable right so if they can make that better great but it's not what's gonna pull me into it they tweak everything they put it all together in one package 2026 whatever year it is it'll be 2026 on playstation 5 still big no top 10 for the month yeah for the month sure because i think you know well i mean you're all this is gta month or whatever right but you put a new game out like you're going to get people but like i don't know i'll be interested to see yeah and here's the other thing we're talking with is we're still talking with all the baggage of starfield what if the new dlc is amazing and it's the best dlc we've ever seen what if this space thing makes everything better and yeah maybe that is enough to make people go okay but starfield has been the punching bag forever since launch because as you said and i you were i think people read it as a i give you a hard time about it as a fanboy comment when it was the reality of like you said this need to be game of the generation for what they were doing here what they spent on the studio and what xbox reputation was and it clearly wasn't and it clearly never was going to be it had that level of expectation on it it fell under those conditions and as somebody who has played the dlc plays the creator the verified creator updates has done the quality of life updates yet.

28:56They're not changing the bones of Starfield in a way that I know we have Newman, no man, Newman, no man's sky news coming up. Right. I know we talk all the time about, Hey, fall at 76 really turned it around. Starfield is never going to have that story as is, especially as it seems like what we're the signposting. They're giving us, they're getting to, we're going to make space travel better. We're going to give you another DLC. There'll be a few quality of life things. There'll be cool creations. I don't think we're ever going to have that moment where somebody like, you know, if you, if you hated Starfield, if you were let down by Starfield, I don't think you're going to have that moment of like, man, Starfield really came around it had a cyberpunk moment Starfield is Starfield because it's a Bethesda game.

29:34Starfield is Starfield Bethesda is Bethesda, you know what you're getting and again, I think they tried to lift a bit too much to satisfy everybody here. Rather than do what we've talked so much about, when we talk about Hollow Knight, when we talk about Claire Obscure when we talk about all these games that resonate with people and audiences and fans. You're talking about a game that people came in and said, this is our vision. We have a vision for this game and we are going to scope it to this section and we are going to make a 10 out of 10. We're going to make it work. We're going to crush on this and make our vision perfect.

30:07And I think Bethesda came in with we're making four games and I don't think I even as a Fallout fan. I don't like base building like I'm not happy. They put that into my Fallout game so it's like to then go. All right, we're going to put in two other systems that are not the most clunky you know they're kind of clunky they're kind like i know so many audience members andy who spent so much time in the shipbuilder right not me i got my razor leaf great i went through the unity i got this awesome ship great i'm i do not want to go create so like for me personally that's a system and time that was wasted on a game that i would have rather seen been written for dialogue make camera angles better yeah but But again, it's still a Bethesda game, which I fucking love.

30:50So, of course, I can see through it and go, whatever. But I get why so many people are let down. I don't think Starfield ever has that moment. So to answer your question with a long-winded Greg answer, by the time we get to the PlayStation five and apparently the rumor in the recent month switch to versions of Starfield, I think you have the looky loose who are like, all right, I've liked the fallout before and I want to try it. But I think more than anything, you have the baggage of this game that never lived up to the hype. Okay. Do you think I'm wrong? No, I think I agree with you completely on everything you just said there.

31:22But yeah, just the new game, the Bethesda RPG that you didn't get is finally here. But it's been years past. It's tough to jump in. But we're seeing Xbox games sell so well there. But yeah, what's the whole year look like compared to a month? It'll get its pop for a month. It'll get its excitement for one to two months on the top 10. And then it will die off. Yeah. yeah i just don't see it setting the world on fire and i think again it's you know an rpg that again what do you want out of a bethesda game right oblivion remaster drops and everyone's so happy with it because it's just i'm making the choices i'm with this faction i did this thing and like that's in this game but so is the three other systems we're talking about that aren't that great necessarily or what you want and again we're talking about it in 30 minutes outer worlds 2 is about to be here and outer worlds too i think is still on on track to be a fucking kick-ass open world space rpg where you are making choices and having great gunplay and i think that's what a lot of people want now of course that releasing october does that hurt starfield in march january no but it's yet another game we're talking about the playstation audience and being like well this one two years ago people didn't think lived up to expectations and now this one's being over here like what are we doing interesting stuff there greg a lot it'll be interesting to see how they reform repackage and put it all together at the end of the day and what players think about it uh we have a couple super chats about this thank you so much uh ed reed fan 20 super chance it says greg have you seen the star wars full conversion mod of starfield really impressive stuff yes i've seen all the starfield stuff that mods and whatnot oh there's they i mean there's this simple stuff of put the mandalorian and do this kind of thing but then there's the ones that have like reskin the game to be star wars and do this kind of stuff awesome great for them i like that a lot uh machine xp says greg is starfield similar to our beloved batman v superman i love both but in a lot of ways can be seen as bad games and movies i guess like i think again remember my batman versus superman is a good movie line comes from everyone when they were like this is as bad as batman and robin where i was like you're fucking crazy you don't remember batman and robin like this is not a great movie but it's not a bad movie like that I still think Starfield is a good game I think what last time we reviewed it I put an 8 on it like I still think I again obviously love Starfield and have gone through the unity a bunch of times and think about it and the DLC and that and the other I'm to the point where I'm satiated with it where I'm not as drawn to go get it but I did get a Razer laptop yesterday you bet your ass I downloaded Starfield again so it's ready that when I'm ready to go it's there but I digress.

34:03And the final one says flying penguins. Starfield is going to run at five frames per second on switch to probably probably unless you're Tim Geddes. Now he's looking for third party performance on this goddamn thing. We'll see what that's all about. Mike, I'm ready to move on and talk about silent Hill, but first I'm ready to tell you about the kind of funny membership. Of course you can pick up your kind of funny membership on youtube.com slash kind of funny games, patreon.com slash kind of funny apple and spotify to get all of our shows ad free get your daily dose of me greg miller in a podcast series called gregway and of course get good karma for supporting an 11 person small business but right now you're not using your benefits so here's a word from our sponsors this episode's brought to you by xreal as of august 25th xreal one pro is finally available on amazon and bestbuy.com plus it's back in stock now on xreal.com a few months ago my life changed forever when I brought a pair of Xreal One Pro AR glasses on an incredibly long flight to New York City.

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38:40Adaptation. Return to Silent Hill dropped yesterday and once again the community is divided by what they've seen. While we've previously been treated to some BTS screenshots this is the first time we've had a proper look at Christopher Gans. Did I say that right? Gans? Second Silent Hill movie. The film's plot will feel familiar to anyone who played the original silent hill 2 or the 2024 bluebird remake it follows james jeremy irvine a man uh broken after being separated from his one true love hannah emily anderson when a mysterious letter calls him back to silent hill to search for her he finds a once recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil quote don't forget that it's an adaptation suggests one fan on reddit first off as someone who really likes the first silent hill movie despite the obvious plot issues and departure of the game.

39:30I think it's important to remember that Return to Silent Hill is an adaptation, not a direct copy. And really, who actually wants a one-to-one copy of a game? Well, some people want that carbon copy of the game, it seems, quoting another user. I would love a good director to do a carbon copy of the game. Yes, that's what they said. That's what they wrote. Oh my God, everybody. We're split right down the middle, Greg. We're watching the teaser. So why are people all Ben, can I see it from the top bear? Sorry. I haven't, I have not had the chance to actually see the entire teaser. We're mad that it's not like, we're mad that it's not one to one.

40:02Can we just get a good movie? Was the first silent hill movie good? It could have been good. I never heard about it. Little B horror movie. Yeah, exactly. Scared me. That's for sure. That's all you need. You just need a scary thing. It just, it just doesn't like, this looks like Silent Hill to me. It's got the nurses, right? Yeah. It's got the fog. It's got the sign. He's there. Doesn't look like good fog, but it's fog. Okay. Jumps 004, who I always trust for a movie review, says it's good. 6.5 out of 10. There's Pyramid Head? What are you talking about? What are you talking about, fans? Let's just get a good movie is what we should all say.

40:38Can we just get a good movie? That's the first thing we say. Can we just get a good movie? And then we can figure out the rest after that. Let's just nail that first. Does this do anything for you? Silent Hill? No. It's not. Silent Hill, as much as I love horror, has never been a game IP that's connected with me. Okay. And so then that movie trailer, yeah, it doesn't look great, but it doesn't. I understand being bent out of shape looking at it because it doesn't look like The Last of Us. It doesn't look like quality wise, the Mario move. You know what I mean? Like video game adaptations have come so far, but with all due respect, I never expect a Konami one to be the one.

41:14Like they're crushing it. They're right on the money. You know what I mean? For all the fucking movies I've seen, I'm never like, yeah, Konami, they're going to figure this one out. They're going to have the perfect ones for it. I couldn't even tell you a Silent Hill movie had already come out. How long ago was the Silent Hill movie? 2006. I had to look it up. That's fair. I thought this was a recent thing they were making a sequel to. Okay. Yeah, I mean, as the newbie Silent Hill fan who got on with the Silent Hill remake and is excited for Silent Hill F, who has seen the movie way back in the day, yeah, at this point in 2025, I'm just looking for good.

41:47So let's just try to nail good first before we pick a side on, you know, does this have to be great or not? Adaptation or one-to-one carbon copy on that one for me. Mary, can I watch the trailer for the original for Silent Hill 2006? It's wild. It's a wild movie. This girl has no mouth? Yeah, it's a whole thing. What the fuck? And it was the same guy. Christoph Gans. And now they're making another, he's coming back. Yeah. Huh. Huh. Okay. Is it the same actor too? Was the actor in it before?

42:28Here's the trailer. Oh, that girl. Remember when she was in a lot of stuff? Yeah. Oh, wow. They didn't want to do the sign practical. Wow. Wow. Wow. Oh, hey. No. Yeah. Sean Bean was in this? What was once an ordinary town. I wonder what happens to him in this movie. Has been transformed by evil. Girl, come here. They had the Terminator.

43:05What? She's doing the video game run too. That was nice. See, they put the allusions to the game in here. Sean Bean was in this. Secrets without explanation. this trailer keeps going fear without end it's like another minute nothing interesting is happening yeah we're going to save the really scary parts for the very end of the trailer this thing is melting they did do that too didn't they here you go this spring man they really did the video game run gotta give them credit for that

43:45once you enter this world there you go stay away from them there is no turning back

43:58did Sean Bean ever make it to Silent Hill or did they film him on one day you're in his office you gotta yell on the phone then you gotta go talk to a cop out here then you'll be killed you know what run the other trailer they look the same

44:14yeah i forgot about that movie i didn't remember that movie whatsoever the the cg effects look better in this movie than the modern one i'm more fascinated so like 20 years later the director's back yeah had he been gestating on this project was going to bed every night thinking about it how could i do that better that's just insane what could I have done? Why? I have so many questions. What jump started it to do this? Why now? Well, because Silent Hill's back. Silent Hill is hot right now. Silent Hill 2. But it's definitely one of those things of like Silent Hill friendship. Wouldn't you have come?

44:57I don't know. I don't know. I got no answers for you on this one. Huh? I'm not mad about the trailer for Return to Silent Hill. I'm actually kind of impressed they're returning to Silent Hill 20 years later. That's impressive. I can't believe they're doing it. Yeah. I'll only watch it if I have to do Silent Hill in review, I guess. There you go. You probably will. Tim will write that one down. Yeah, he's always threatening video game movies in review, but he never does it. It's like all the threats I give to Ben to make him behave. Like when I start getting out of line, that's what he does. If we're going to do video game movies, I'll be good.

45:26I'll be good. I'll stop. I'll stop. Number four on the Roper Report. Number four on the Roper Report. I need more coffee. Nintendo stars is the name of Nintendo's freshly resurrected division now dedicated to movies. This is Tom Phillips at IGN. Nintendo has resurrected and rebranded a division that is now dedicated to developing films featuring the company's characters, such as Mario and Zelda now titled Nintendo stars. The subsidiary is tasked with quote, implementing and licensing various ancillary uses in films and quote of Nintendo and intellectual properties. The company announced today in order to quote, familiarize people around the world with Nintendo IP and provide new ways to experience an end quote.

46:07Nintendo stars was previously known as warp star and was originally a joint. It was originally a joint venture between Nintendo and Kirby developer. How laboratory the former home of Super Smash Brothers series boss Sakurai founded in 2001. Its initial purpose was to manage the Kirby franchise as it expanded beyond games into anime beginning with the Kirby right back at you series that ran for 100 episodes. Now with the successful release of Super Mario Brothers movie, under its belt, Nintendo is keen to build on its big screen output. Nintendo brought out HAL Laboratories, half of Nintendo stars earlier, oh, bought out their half earlier this year, making it a wholly owned subsidiary, and it looks to have bigger plans for the division going forward.

46:50Of course. Yes. Yeah, yeah, sure. We're going to see a lot of this. I think the more fun one for me, Greg, is, let's say 20 years from now, I know that's a long time, how many nintendo products do we see tv movie wise i mean a lot of hand i mean like what you figure what mario is do you count mario eventually in 20 years you're gonna have a mario show there'll be another mario show somewhere yeah sure but i'm just mario will be going zelda will be going yeah kirby already is going i guess i guess i don't know fucking somebody likes this guy pokemon of course we're tossing on that if you count him but i'm kind of tossing him in there You want to say They're going to try with Metroid, it won't work It won't work Star Fox, do they try one?

47:35No They could Animal Crossing I feel like you get more juice with Star Fox Than Animal Crossing How do you adapt Animal Crossing into a story? I mean What they would just do with Pokemon Concierge Do that shit, there you go Little town folks have fun adventures Make it dark and horror You know what I mean? Some kid washes up on the shore. Now you got to pay off his goddamn Tanuki. He's got you over a barrel. You want to get off this island? Pay me in bells. You paid off your bells and pay more. It becomes like a depiction of capitalism. Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. I mean, this just seems par for the course.

48:13Right. We've seen great success. We've seen a lot of video games looking to get on the adaptation train over to movies and TV. And we're seeing a lot of good. We're seeing some bad. But right now there's a little more good than bad. So that's a positive. Unless you're a Silent Hill fan. So you see a dollar size. They needed Silent Hill stars. That's what they needed. Somebody out there watching that, you know? Konami stars. Remember when there was going to be a Metal Gear movie? Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Oscar Isaac. Remember that? They were like all gung-ho on that. There was a lot of time. You can make your faces.

48:45That's how Hollywood works. But I mean, like, they had an Oscar. He's talking about it. They're talking. They're doing things. A lot of talking in Hollywood, you know? A lot of talking in Hollywood. This is the equivalent of Vaporware of Hollywood. A lot of wheeling and dealing in Hollywood. A lot of names, a lot of IPs being thrown around. Sure. Number five. Speaking of IPs, Atari has acquired five Ubisoft games, including Child of Eden and Grow Home, and will re-release and evolve them. This is Chris Sculling at VGC. Atari has announced that it has acquired the IP rights to five previously released Ubisoft games.

49:15The publisher aims to re-release the games on modern platforms and look at ways to expand each IP with new content. The five games that are now owned by Atari are, and the years they came out. Cold Fear from 2005. Child of Eden 2011. I Am Alive. Holy shit. From 2012. Bear, bring on my I Am Alive IGN review. Grow Home from 2015. Grow Up from 2016. According to a statement, Atari plans to quote, re-release these titles under their publishing label and explore opportunities to expand their reach through updated formats, new content, and extended distribution channels. Atari CEO and Chairman Wade Rosen said quote, Ubisoft and Atari both have a legacy of crafting worlds that players can fall in love with games that resonate with generations of players and I'm sorry not just for how they played but how they made us feel we're excited to reintroduce these titles while also exploring ways to expand and evolve these franchises end quote this is I am alive the video review holy shit that's not real no this is what we did here's the story about I am alive you're buying a bunch of weird ass IP great I am alive is 2012 remember I start my career at IG in 2007 I am alive is I would say the most jarring I had ever been with a review and this is saying something because I gave layer you know a 4.9 this uh a 4.5 uh factor 4.5 right yeah that's a joke anyways most jarring I had ever Ben in terms of being outside of the consensus.

50:51And it's because I am alive. The review I, what I, at the end, I give it like a four or something. I don't remember. Uh, what's it say? Uh, 4.5, 4.5. And it was, I'll never forget it. Mike, I was going into the muni tunnel as the embargo lifted and it went live. And I was like, all right, cool. It's live. And we came out of the muni tunnel. You know, you need, you know, it takes like 15 minutes, 20 minutes, depending on how bad traffic is or, you know, everything else we came out and then I could open it up and look at other and other people were giving it like an eight like game and i'm speaking out of school but like game spot like big sites like we're giving it like great scores and i was this like super far outlier at the world's biggest website and so the comments were all like you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and i was like yo this game fucking sucks i have no idea what people are either you can look at it right now granted it's you know what 20 years later we're talking about it but like no that's all right 10 years later we're talking about it yeah but like i remember being so bewildered that i was like how am i this far out of the what are these people seeing in this game that I am not seeing because this game sucks ass.

51:51Oh, and this game sucked ass. I urge you, Atari re-release this shit. Re-release this dog shit so everyone can say Greg was right about it. Greg, that's an amazing story. It's wild to hear. Of course, everyone in the games industry has that moment where you're like, am I just lost or is everybody else wrong here? Yeah, they were wrong. That's a fun one. They were definitely wrong. Atari, I don't know about this. I look at this list. I had to look them all up. Child of Eden. beloved game okay i saw that on my xbox 360 back in the day never played it uh grow home grow up i guess you double down on bud the little mascot you know what i mean would be my move but cold fear and i am alive i've never heard of these two games ever my entire life but i'll tell you what i'll try cold fear it looks pretty dope it's like i don't i don't know man like we don't understand i shouldn't even say that we understand the video game industry we actually understand the video game industry so when you see stuff like this happen it's always so like scratch your head we're coming back and we're naming our company thq what they went out of business nobody liked the usual tablet killed them and then here it is like i don't even know what how does the conversation like this where does this come are we at atari and we're like yo we need games we need more properties we have the atari library but like people are over them we want so we should look at other classic games to bring back and do it and then you're like well ubisoft is on the ropes yeah i i hear the gmail family's having a garage sale down there let's see what you pick up out of the dollar bin i wonder if it's the opposite like less of atari looking for shit from ubisoft and ubisoft you know like you know they they need to pay legal funds and figure out like they're knocking on people's doors yeah they're like row home and yeah and they're they like did like a 10 out of 10 pitch for all five of these games to be sold you know like this reminds me of too this is probably some kind of weird bundle deal see that's what my mind went we'd love to get Charlie Veed and grow home well you gotta take I'm alive and cold fuck alright well whatever I looked at it as you buy these five games and when we go under under you get first bid on the San Francisco I'll give you first bid they're doing anything to stay afloat but wild Greg what is going on in this room who is nodding their head going let's make a move on this this is our this is our moment yeah that's crazy i don't know man make up your own stuff uh alex j sandoval has the joke of it's like why would anyone bring back a claim and it's like yeah we're you know jeff is at the top of the show here again like a claim is going to be interesting and like for the record and i'm sure you've all picked up on it you know kayfabe break of course like i hate jeff and he hates me but like i just like jeff and hanging out and doing stupid stuff with jeff like this isn't a sponsorship thing or anything like that I'm not hosting the acclaim.

54:39It's just, just like, can I come fuck around? Like, yeah, come fuck around. So it's like for them to come back in September and they talk about, you know, Oh, Jesus says a claim had some classic games. Like, yeah. So what are they doing with that on September 10th? Is it, here's what's old is new again. And new versions reclaims. Here's the people we've were publishing games of from, I'm always more excited. If it was going to be, Hey, we are, we're bringing back this old label that, you know, whatever we think there's juice in. and what we're going to do with it is sure, we're going to go to your Bithels of the world, your Mike Bithels.

55:13We're going to go to other people. Have them reinvent our old IP while also using the money we're making to publish new games. I love that. And again, let's do it the right way of, hey, we're going to start small. You're going to get a bunch of indie quality, indie games that are under our label that we're doing until we get enough money to make a double-A game that we would want to make. Let's just not rush out and try to make something happen. whereas I am looking at you Atari and I am saying are you motherfuckers trying to say here's I am alive again pay for it and then you're going to make an I am alive TV show and then you're going to make an I am alive 2027 come on now come on now I had to look it up will we get the cool Iguana back can we get the acclaimed studios Iguana from Iguana entertainment well that was the yeah I was going to say that was when they were doing the Iguana entertainment games it wasn't always the acclaimed I just remember seeing the iguanas like we're going to bring that guy back too I can call Jeff and you can ask he won't be nice if he talks to me hold on you gotta make this thing they got this cool iguana that's spinning a basketball on its finger can we bring that back for the presentation I'm gonna leave it all to you to explain why is he not popping up there

56:30remind him immediately he's on the air remember how that works listen up hey double j double j i told slap nuts to get lost it's just you and i snow bike mike your boy you're live on the air how are you double j good how we doing guys you know what i'm so good i miss you all the time i've been working on my strut you know that jeff j you taught me well and i've been strutting all around the office okay i got a question for you we're really excited for the 10th big time return a big time presentation right huge huge it's gonna be bigger than the day that I laid Greg's ass out in studio. I still think about it.

57:07I can still feel the wind coming off of his forehead as the guitar smashed through his head. It was a special moment. It was a red leather day for all involved. So cool, so cool. Double J, I have a question for you, though. I don't know if you can tease this out or we can break some rules, but all I want to know is, Jeff, is there an iguana on September 10th, when we get to this, is there an iguana somewhere in this presentation? Well, just between me and you and a couple of friends, there's several reptiles that will be revealed. Whoa! That's my guy. That's you. He got some news out of him. Thanks, Double J.

57:45That's my man, bro. You guys are the best. You're the best, Double J. Hey, good health. Keep kicking ass. Thanks for the love. We're going to see you on the 10th. That's my guy. You got it, guys. You got it.

58:00Karen's in the background. Now she's getting mad at me. All of a sudden, she's taking Greg's side. Karen, Karen, chew through your ropes. Get out of the house. You can still run for help. Call 911.

58:13What a nice man. The iguana lives. Well, several reptiles live. We don't know what we're getting.

58:22Ridiculous. Mike, several reptiles need part of a claimed showcase on September 10th is huge news. But if I wanted something smaller, say what came to the mom and drop shops, where do I go? Let's get small. Let's take you to our last story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

58:44We News, number six, from IGN, No Man's Sky, Voyagers update ads, Corvette ship class, multiplayer crew, and tech that will be shared with Hello Games' Light No Fire. uh also i saw yeah and something yeah i think the corvette ship class is like a giant starliner i was looking at the playstation uh roxy and lucas lee revealed as playable characters and scott pilgrim ex nice stoked for this one this is the same team that's uh doing marvel cosmic invasion and did tmnt and it's like a spiritual successor to the uh other scott pilgrim game yeah fucking stoked this is an interesting one for me xbox cloud gaming is coming to xbox game pass core and standard for insiders today.

59:27Testing it out a little bit. I like that. Let's get that to everybody. That's awesome. From VGC, the composer of Deus Ex Mankind Divided Soundtrack has released a collection of unused music from the game. That's cool. Cool. Wario64 says, Square Enix confirms that Final Fantasy VII Remake integrates Switch 2 runs at a stable, I'm sorry, at a quote, stable 30 frames per second, offering smooth performance and crisp visuals. Let's get it. Believe it when I see it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. One of those. The PlayStation Plus Essential Games for September 2025 have been announced. There's Psychonauts 2.

1:00:00I thought Barrett would pop that one. Stardew Valley and Viewfinder. An Infinity Nikki Cross Stardew Valley collaboration has been announced. And then Train Sim World 6 launches September 30th on Xbox One Series X, PlayStation 4, 5, and PC. You ever get into Train Sim World, Mike? No. But we're definitely getting down with that truck sim. Can't wait. The long road. I got to figure out what the overall plot of the corporate entities that's doing it. We need to get deep into that. Let us jump to the one, the only super chats, where, of course, you can write in to be part of the show. We start with Kebabs, who says, loving the Starfield ship update to No Man's Sky.

1:00:38Again, that's what I was talking about, these big-ass ships. Alex G3B says, Greg and Mike, the Pokebros. What do we do here? That's us. Who's your favorite Pokemon? My favorite Pokemon right now is Wingle. Oh, okay. Seagull. I like him a lot. Yeah, he's just kind of my dude right now in this place. Sure, sure, sure. I'm running with him. Is he a Pokemon you fell in love with? He came to help you? That's with me and Altaria. Altaria? Altaria from the game where I needed whatever, flying type, and he came in. Yeah, yeah. That's how life goes. That's how it goes. JB Super Chats says, Greg, have you tried the Luminous Demo?

1:01:16It's such a vibe. He didn't. I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at me not being pronouncing anything today. I did not. The demo is out, obviously, for the new Luminous game. I highly recommend you all do it. I had done the demo right before Gamescom and talked about it on one of the shows real briefly. So I am just ready for the full release November. Can we talk about this really quick? Sure. 87 above? 90? Oh, for Luminous? Yeah, I need to know. Oh, shit. It's a big deal, Greg. Did anybody pick it up? Did you pick it up? I don't think anyone's picked it up. I think it's open. Blessing has that. Fuck, that's a really good pickup.

1:01:49Damn. I filled my team and kind of was like forgot all about it. I'm still playing the game. And I'm playing it. I got one spot open. I'm looking to secure the bag. I need 87 or above. I think you get 87 or above on that for sure. That was a great pickup by Blutz. Good for him. I like that a lot. Still playing the game, y 'all. ZekeSpeakSuperChats says, Yesterday's interview with Erica was fire. Would love to see y 'all collab more with gamer dropout regulars like Ify, Erica, BDG, Brennan for a kind of funny slash dropout gaming stream. That would do numbers. it's a great idea we're always open to that zeke speak i know nothing about dropout but i like them from who i know which is a few of them oh you might like game changers i fell in love with game changers okay blessing put me on i gave i was a butterfinger game changer remember when they gave us those things you were yeah god that was awesome yeah more candy please

1:02:47uh langley in the chat still bent out of shape of course and that's hard for him to be bent out of shape because he's so goddamn big he's always bent out of shape when he's hiding in the kid's closet should def i'm sorry uh it was great mine is greg skipping my super chat langley we had already done enough references and this was that was a reference too deep in the bag for me to be able to help you with too deep it was one of those you're combining kind of funny references i don't think erica's gonna get and you're combining references from worlds beyond that i don't know the general audience is gonna get and they weren't direct enough like the other ones so langley that's on you all right go terrify a child leave me alone the portland kevin super chat says kind Kind of Funny meetup at PAX West in Seattle, Saturday, August 30th, 3 p.m.

1:03:24at Elephant and Castle. If you're at PAX, come meet some fellow Kind of Funny best friends and say hi. Yesterday during the Kind of Funny hangout, Portland Kevin came in. Blessing busy, but got Andy interested. He's a little busy during that time. Andy's not coming. He might show up late. You never know. Andy ain't coming. You never know. If you see him, though, remind Andy that he has to buy me merch. Fair enough. What's he trying to buy you? Just anything I told him. Oh, okay. that's a good way to do it because you know when you request something specific they buy something else exactly yeah well we learned the hard ways kebab super chats this is a what do we want for a follow-up to clear obscure kebab says in n64 jackson pollock themed expedition game i like that morris chatted with a super chat but no message thank you so much for your support uh alex fraser super chats and says theories theory spoilers for bad movies the og silent hill movie was terrible Well, because it's the only Sean Bean movie I've ever seen where he doesn't die.

1:04:19There you go. Oh. Danny in the middle super chat says, off topic, but I had an itch to play The Evil Within, only to find out that it was delisted from the PlayStation Store about a year ago. What's up with that? Well, that was a Tango Gameworks game, right? So I bet when they got sold and then closed and all that jazz, and then who just bought them or whatever? Crafton. Crafton. Did they buy them or did they just buy the rights to what's-its-face? the game yeah I can't remember it no I thought they got tangled game okay then it's probably somewhere tied up in that kind of licensing thing it'll be back probably at$80 in some kind of bundle the evil within and ghost fire Tokyo rights remained at Microsoft there you go ooh yeah then who knows maybe they're I don't know I'll figure it out we won't actually you will Calvin Perez says I wrote a detective noir based on Animal Crossing as a bit detective Tom Nook investigating missing children and a dream invader named Isabel whoa sounds cool people are creative yeah uh dj kento says greg where is the meg why isn't it in every shot uh if we want to go to the faraway shot over there you can see the meg is on and lit always ready always waiting yeah i like bringing the meg on to interrupt other people shows okay so i'm bringing it on and then when kevin got the lights working and plugged in i was like it looks so good lit up i kind of just like it's in there i just will remind you you're the king of halloween thank you very much i appreciate that that's why home depot sent that to us DJ Kento then came back with another super chat do you all remember that modular retro console the Polymega Atari has partnered with them and they're doing great work in retro gaming and preservation I don't remember the Polymega at all and that's good to hear I appreciate that and then Anel Werple says hi how can I take part in the game showdown questions if you follow kind of funny on the social media platforms they usually put up a hey here's a new thing for game showdown come and do the survey and then you can answer the survey and usually answer questions incorrectly that then screw me over in the end.

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1:06:34Dakins back to say it's been 12 days now and the games cast from August 15th still isn't posted on patreon no this is all from yesterday greg i read through this i i'm not seeing anything updated this is all yesterday a perfect game a perfect game for mike and greg you love to see it you love to have it um that's it everybody another kind of funny games daily is done i'm sorry you had to listen to jeff jarrett twice uh of course from here we go to the kind of funny games cast talk about the new kirby game for switch 2 and of course talk about the outer worlds 2 and our hands-on impressions after that is some streaming of rainbow six and then after that, everybody take a nap.

1:07:10Okay. You know what I mean? Go back and watch the Mario Party stream. What a great stream. You're not taking afternoon naps, right? No, I have so much to play. I have so much to play. No afternoon naps. Last night I was so tired too. Jen's like, alright, time for bed. I'm like, I gotta play. I'm like, I'll lay next to you playing at the portal, which is always dangerous because I don't get as much time. You start getting tired when you're laying down. Of course. Feet up, kick back. Any Alien Earth? No, episode one. I liked it a lot. But come on now. I gotta go home and watch fucking Pray tonight.

1:07:37Great movie, but I've seen it but I gotta recap it because Nick's gone like you know what I mean yeah Nick's gone you got a lot going on you got a lot on your shoulders I do what it's like to be the number one in the company that's right that's you everybody this has been another episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily we couldn't do without your support if you love us please like, subscribe, share tell a friend, leave a review of course use your Amazon Prime to give us your Twitch Prime but most importantly head over to get a Kinda Funny membership youtube.com slash kinda funny games patreon.com slash kinda funny apple or spotify you can get all of our shows ad free you can get your daily dose of me and Gregway Of course, you could just get good karma by coming in, taking none of those benefits, just watching wherever you listen, wherever you do and supporting us and saying, I appreciate the work you do.

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