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27:06Yeah. But I don't know, man. I don't really care about the size. What I care about is what you can do with the size. Let me tell you, the motion of the ocean. And GTA VI also features hurricanes and tropical storms, which is also how I describe how I do it. This is from Andy Robinson at Video Games Chronicle. Grant the Toto 6's map is twice the size of GTA 5's and will feature advanced weather systems like tropical storms and hurricanes. Tropical storms is wild. Come on. We're so back, baby. That's according to a new preview featured in the latest issue of Game Informer, which shares new details on, among other things, GTA 6's weather systems, which it says will, quote, achieve a sense of skill we haven't felt before, end quote, which also might be a line that I might use every now and then.

27:54I might be on my hinge.

27:59According to Rockstar, GTA 6 will feature a more dynamic and localized weather system in Leonida, the game's fictional version of Florida, allowing different areas on the map to experience dramatically different conditions at the same time. Players may be able to stand beneath clear skies in one part of Leonida while watching heavy rainfall just a short distance away, it claims. The system is said to be designed to reflect the unpredictable weather commonly experienced in Florida, where intense rain showers can occur alongside bright sunshine. Quote, we have re-engineered our weather system to make sure everything is much more localized and persistent, and really wanted the world to feel dynamically solid and achieve a sense of skill we haven't felt before.

28:40Owen Shepard, Vice President of Art for Lighting and Rendering at Rockstar, told Game Informer. I want to read that title one more time. The Vice President of Art for Lighting and Rendering at Rockstar, which means there is a president of art for lighting and rendering and a team for art for lighting and rendering, which for GTA 6 there should be. I don't know that that necessarily implies that but that is fair even the fact that has a team that goes all the way that up to the top is very very impressive I thought you were going to go a different route and just shout out Game Informer I don't know if we've already had this conversation but like how freaking cool is it that Game Informer got a GTA 6 cover story and like I know that people might be like Tim it's Game Informer Game Informer now is like 11 people they're just like us for wheels.

29:35Like, they pulled off something incredible here, and they just do this shit every month, or every other month, or whatever it is. I think it's 10 times a year, I think. I don't know. I think. I believe you. They're kicking ass. It's awesome. I love to see this. The world features new, fully dynamic cloudscapes that roll across the map. These give us a broad spectrum of weather from the clear blue skies of Miami winter to the vertiginous cumulonimbus clouds. with sporadic lighting that you see most afternoons in the Floridian summer and autumn. Rockstar has not revealed how frequently these major weather events will occur or how they may influence gameplay.

30:17According to the preview, during severe storms, players can expect water pouring from rooftops and lampposts while thunder and lightning illuminate the surrounding clouds. According to Rockstar Games' head of development slash co-studio head Aaron Garbutt, Leonida is the biggest map Rockstar has ever created by some degree, describing it as twice as large as GTA V with more detail. With more detail, god damn. Quote, this new world is different. We obsessed about every part, the rooftops, the alleys, the internals, and everything in between to the point we hit critical mass with the numbers of our interiors.

30:50And you start to feel the buildings are more real inside and out. This world is a cohesive whole with the density of content and a handcrafted quality to every bit. GTA 6's fictional state of Leonida will be divided into six main regions, Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grass Rivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Calaga National Park, each offering a distinct setting inspired by different parts of Florida. According to Rockstar, GTA 6 will feature over 170 animal species, including 60 types of birds, 30 land mammals, and sea creatures such as sharks, whales, and jellyfish. In terms of activities, the game will include base jumping, billiards, gyms, kayaking, mini golf, scuba diving, street and off-road racing, zoos, air boating, and jet skiing.

31:37And Tim, I want to start this off talking about the zoos. Wild. I mean, yeah. I mean, after Red Dead, right? It's like they have the skill set and they're like, hey, we can make these animals real dope. Yeah. It was so dope that we're going to have an area in the game where you just walk around and look at them. Yeah. Which I guess like, you know, Pokemon does it sometimes when you get to the Safari zone. Yeah. That front yard of the Safari zone, you usually a zone or usually a zoo. But imagine it now with handcrafted quality to every bit with density of content. The way they're talking, there's a level of confidence that they have.

32:09Every time we've heard anyone working on this game talk about this game, it's like really, really hype. And I understand, oh, Tim, it's GTA 6, and people are over it. I don't give a fuck, man. Y 'all are crazy. If you're hearing this stuff and you're not just like, we're about to get a generational product. I'm not saying it's going to be the best video game ever, but this is going to be a generational product. I'm starting to lose sight of caring about the video game part. I get it. I just want to walk around and look at shit now. Like, I'm at that point. Let's just go to the zoo. At that point, yeah.

32:43I'm going to the, oh, I'm for sure going to the zoo. I'm scared of, actually, I'm, how do you handle that as GTA 6? Do you let people fucking whip out an AK? Or do you go, no, just like walk around the zoo? Wow, you just went straight there. Because it's GTA. Yeah, man. You're right. Harambe. Oh, God. You went there. That's fucked up. that's real fucked up I'm excited though I'm excited I for one am not I'm putting away anything at the zoo I'm walking around the zoo and I'm legitimately looking at the animals I would hope so well what we've heard about GTA 6 is that it is going to be a bit more realistic where if you pull out a gun people are going to react you think the animals are going to react?

33:25no there's people at the zoo the people will react I don't think the fucking goddamn prairie dog

33:36Harambe's like, I've seen this before. Get down. Get down, everybody.

33:43Oh, my God. I'm sorry. Can you imagine the memes that are going to come out of GTA 6? Oh, my God, yeah. It's going to be insane. It's going to be off the chain. Does the weather do anything for you? It's a level of detail where I'm kind of like, dog, at least in the single player mode, I don't know if I need the weather to be different elsewhere. I guess if I'm changing characters. Oh, yeah, that is interesting. I like what they're saying here about, like, you could be in one place and out in the distance you see the weather's different. I like that just from a visual standpoint. Like, we saw the clip of Lucia jumping off of the building with the parachute, right?

34:24Yeah. And, like, you're seeing, like, way far out into the vista. I like the idea. Yeah, you're, like, seeing a thunderstorm cloud away from far off. Yeah, that's cool. That is pretty neat. And also, it's Florida. So it's like that is how that is, you know. I mean, even in San Francisco, driving from like out on the west side of the city, like driving up and then into Daly City, going past that. Like you see the line of fog. Oh, dude. You ever go to Pacifica? Yeah. Dude, the two times I've driven through like Pacifica, I didn't know if I was making it out. I thought I was in Silent Hill. Yeah, you're in Silent Hill.

34:55I thought I was in Turok. Like it's crazy out there. Yeah, fog of war just everywhere. so that's cool it is cool it's a level of detail I just need to be in the game to understand it to a certain point I read it and I'm like this all sounds cool am I going to notice it it sounds so deep to where I'm like damn it's overwhelming the amount of detail it sounds like they're putting into it but I appreciate about it so far from what I've seen but even something I appreciate about Red Dead Redemption 2 that I didn't play But anytime I see clips of it or anytime I watch like some of Andy's stream or whatever, it's like we all talk about the horse balls.

35:37Yeah. We all talk about them. Yeah. We're obsessed with these horse balls. Yeah. The point of the horse balls isn't the balls themselves. It's what the balls represent. It's the fact that the balls are this detailed. And that means that everything is that detailed. Yeah. So it's like you're not supposed to focus on the balls. You're supposed to just go and just take it all in. The amount of balls that are everywhere. The balls are everywhere. Yeah. The balls are the clouds. The balls are the rainstorms happening far off in the distance. So it's like, I don't know that I'm excited that the rainstorm is going to be happening in the distance.

36:09But I'm excited that that's happening, which means around me, everything's going to be that way. Yeah. You know? I'm excited. I know that somewhere, there will be a horse. In GTA? Oh, for sure, there's going to be a horse. And the balls will be growing and shrinking in that. Exactly. And let me tell you. This is what I'll say. I only need GTA 6 to do all this I don't need other games to follow suit It's strongly Oh yeah Because I know we talk about it all the time Or at least I say it And I think oftentimes people might not believe me Of like Hey Like I'm more gameplay first than anything I'm more like I don't really care for games to be this detailed I only care for GTA 6 to be this detailed Because they're going all the way with it It's the vision It's the vision of it Whereas like Hey other games It's okay We don't need to do all this I don't need the video games industry to tank because everybody's like, oh, let's be GTA 6.

36:59Just make your games fun. It's okay. Yeah. One super chat that came in, ReuterMO says, today I channeled my inner Tim Gettys and bought tickets to the Zelda concert in Stockholm. Beyond hype for it. You're going to have the best time, man. I can't even fathom going to a Zelda concert in a post Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom world. Yeah. That's insane to me. Yeah. Oh, my God. You went to the Sonic concert. Did that happen? I ended up not going. You didn't go? It's a whole thing. Whole thing, man. Whole thing. Oh, man. It's a whole thing. Wow. Oh, man. Hold on me. It's a whole thing.

37:36I'm sorry. I'm sorry to hear that. I did watch a lot of it on YouTube, though. Mm-hmm. I don't want to be a hater, but I will. Yeah. I'm really let down by this Sonic concert. Wow. Like, the Sonic Symphony was so peak, this looks like some cheap-ass bullshit. Wow. Yeah. Damn. And it's early, so maybe they'll fix it and stuff. But yeah, I got to keep it real. That shit looked bad. Man. One more super chat from Chance, who writes in and says, Hello to my favorite duo, unrelated but blessed. Don't stop repping Sonic. Speaking of Sonic, you take the words out of my mouth every time. Hell yeah. I appreciate it.

38:17I'm going to try my best. Sometimes I get scared to rep Sonic too hard because I don't know if I'm annoying about it or not. No, you're not. And like, I don't know what this says about me, Bless. Yeah. But everyone assumes that Sonic fans are just one thing. Yeah, that we're a monolith. But we're not. No. We're proof that Sonic fans can be multiple things. And I'm proud to be the type of fans we are. Come on. Which is still too far. Yeah, yeah. But we're not in the creepy way. I know what you're talking about. You know? You know, we're not in the unbathed way. I think they're in the unbathed way.

38:55It's crazy, but you're right, though. And I think that's true for many of video game fandom. Yes. Whether it be Sonic, whether it be Souls, whether it be Nier, whether it be— I'm not going to name all of them. There was one, and I was like, if you named it, I was going to call you out. Undertale? No. No, it rhymes with ingdom farts. Oh, yeah. Don't get me started on them. I was going to go into, like, fighting game community and stuff, right? Well, they're stinky. Out of all these different fandoms, there's, I'll venture to say even a majority of cool people in these fandoms. You can't let the Szechuan sauce, I'm going to get up on a table in McDonald's person, ruin the rest of the fandom for you.

39:36That's true. You know what I mean? But we should all use deodorant. We should all use deodorant, though. Please. Dear God, use deodorant and be chill. You know, go to the barber every now and then. And yeah, come on. Let's be cool. Let's be cool. Let's be cool. One more from Aaron Lime who says, Zelda concert tickets today, Castlevania concert tickets tomorrow. What's next? What concert would you guys want? They announced a Castlevania concert for next year for the 40th anniversary. And plus, Castlevania and Mega Man, they're two of those franchises where I'm like, I don't care if you haven't played a single goddamn game.

40:07The music is so, so, so good. Hell yeah. Yeah, I haven't seen where they're doing Castlevania. I think it's only like three stops, but I think one's LA. I would travel for Castlevania. Yeah? Oh, yeah. Me and Mike, we were talking about Castlevania the other day on KFGD. Neither of us have played through a Castlevania, but we're both excited for Belmont's Curse. Yeah, I think that's a good place for you to be. Hell, yeah. One day I'll go back and play Symphony of the Night. I got on my Vita, so maybe that'll be the way I do it. Symphony of the Night is a perfect example of a game that doesn't need a remake, but I think a remake would really serve it in terms of this generation of people that, like, didn't play it, but, like, want to and wouldn't love it.

40:44Need a reason to play it, probably. Story number three Halo's former creative director urges Activision to hire laid off Bungie slash Halo Studios devs This is Andy Robinson at Video Games Chronicle Halo's former creative director has urged Activision to hire former Bungie and Halo Studios staff to build the next game in the series which he says should maintain the shooter's sandbox DNA The Halo franchise was put under the Call of Duty publisher's control as part of widespread changes that Xbox announced earlier this month. Activision will take control of the Halo franchise going forwards with, quote, a new purpose-built Halo team that is separate from ongoing development and plans for Call of Duty.

41:26Former developer Halo Studios, meanwhile, will be downsized to a small team to support existing games. Frank O 'Connor, who worked on the Halo series for nearly 20 years as a writer and later franchise creative director, shared his thoughts on the future of the franchise in a LinkedIn post this weekend. O 'Connor ended the post by sharing some pro tips for Halo's new custodians. Quote, do not tie it to hardware slash services launch cycles. Do not try to force it into a shape or aging platform that it can't fit. And do not abandon sandbox, he wrote. Secondly, he urged Activision to hire Bungie slash Halo Studios and other laid off folk who are bursting with talent and ideas that got nerfed or shut down over the years.

42:09End quote. I'm a Frank O 'Connor stan. Love this dude. He's been around forever. He's one of those front-facing community guys for a franchise that matters a lot like Halo at a time that was so important. Halo 2 coming out, the multiplayer, the online, the leaderboards, the matchmaking. I forget what the website was called, but you can track all your leveling and stuff. Frank was putting out these weekly blogs. He was the face of Halo in a burgeoning online space with video games. And he knows Halo very, very, very well. So what he's saying here, I'm just like, yeah, I trust that he understands what Halo is.

42:48And him dropping sandbox. Do not abandon sandbox. You just played Halo Combat Evolved for the first time, Campaign Evolved for the first time. And you got to really experience that sandbox that Halo offers that differentiates it from Call of Duty or other. From linear shooters. Yeah, and it's like, yeah, that is so, so important for it. And I love the don't tie it to hardware and service launch cycles. Don't try to force it. It's like, yeah, man, that is, I think, a big reason why we've seen a lot of Halo failures in the last generation. And that it was an attempt to hit these things. They didn't even hit them.

43:20Halo Infinite was not a launch title for Xbox. Tough. Yeah, I want to see Halo be good. I want to see Halo come back. And I like that point of, you know, hire those folks who are laid off that are talented from Halo Studios and from Bungie and people that might have great ideas for the future of the platform. You know, like we want to see those people land in a good place. Story number four, Grasshopper splits from NetEase. This is from Sal Romano at Gamatsu. Grasshopper manufacturer has split from now former parent company NetEase Games. The company has announced NetEase Games acquired the developer from previous parent company Gung Ho Online Entertainment in 2021.

43:58here's a message from the studio and from Suda, quote this past February, Grasshopper Manufacture released its latest title, Romeo is a Dead Man, and celebrated its 28th anniversary in March thanks to the support of players worldwide Romeo is a Dead Man received high acclaim and great reviews did it? somebody look up the look up the Metacritic for that one from you real quick. Our whole studio would like to extend our sincerest thanks to everyone who enjoyed the game and everyone who worked tirelessly towards making its release possible. And to be fair, I reviewed Romeo's a Dead Man. I want to say I gave it a 5 out of 10.

44:43I will also say I enjoyed the game. I mean, just the quick Google thing, ratings on Steam, which is, you know, and actually, no, fuck these. The Steam user reviews? No, no, no, no, no. Where's, where's? Hold on. High acclaim. 72 on Metacritic says Eldane, which is higher than I would have expected actually. Yeah, 72. Okay, you know what? I'll give that to you. I'll say those are... What was the phrasing here? High acclaim and... Oh, here we go. High acclaim and great reviews. Because I don't know if they thought they were going to get a 72 on Metacritic. I mean, Game Informer gave it an 83. I don't know, dog.

45:23Hey, we all have our own opinions. We all, you know, we all, games hit us all different. That's what a review is. And so even if I didn't like it that much or if I didn't think it should score that high, I could see somebody else thinking. IGN gave it a seven. Okay, I could see that. Enjoyable game is what I'll say, despite many issues I had with it. Having finally completed this all-hands project, as we reflected on the next stage. I won't stop. I need to say this. Not to just dwell on this too much, but no. High acclaim and great reviews. there's no website that a 72 is great. I mean. Everyone that associates numbers, great's an eight.

46:02It's in the rhyme. 72, it's yellow. It's not red. That's good. It's not great. 72, I mean, if. Not great reviews. If 50 is like an average. It did receive some great reviews. I guess that is true. If 50 is average. You got a couple 95s. You get to 60, which is like, oh, it's good. And then for some people, like Suda, 70 could be great. No, it's not great. It's not great. This decision was reached after thorough discussions with NetEase and with their generous cooperation. We continue to cherish the amazing relationship our companies have built and look forward to further collaboration when the opportunity arises.

46:40Having improved our own self-publishing know-how, we now have a broad range of options available to us. And regardless of how our games may be published, we remain committed to creating unique titles featuring the no game, no life gaming experience expected of grasshopper manufacturer with our own signature flavor and further enhanced quality. I'm going to stop there and say, I'm such a fan of Suda and grasshopper. I played multiple, multiple of their games. I've never once heard of no game, no life. It's the way they describe their gaming experiences. I love them so much. I know that they close out saying, We hope you will continue to watch over Grasshopper as we make this next leap forward and move on to our upcoming 30th anniversary and beyond.

47:24We sincerely hope for and deeply appreciate your ongoing support for our studio and the titles we will create in the future. Hell yeah. Suda making games is a good thing. Oh yeah. And the continuing to is a great thing. Yes. I want him to never stop. Suda 51 is such, just like the reviews is good. Suda 51 is such a creative spirit. He has an identity and a signature style to the point where when that other game got announced that is releasing in like the next month that I can't remember the name of. The slightly musical one. The slightly musical one. I think it has dead in the title. Oh, it's going to haunt me.

48:03But like I look at that game and I go, oh, y 'all trying to make stupid never dies. Stupid never dies. Stupid never dies. I look at that game and I'm like, y 'all motherfuckers trying to make a Suda51 game. Like, that's the kind of identity that Suda51 has that comes through naturally in the games that he creates. It's the attitude. It's the style. It's the cussing. It's the fucking blood splurting everywhere. You know what a Suda51 game is, and I'll forever be a fan of those games, even when they're bad. And that's how you know that you got it as a creator, is that even when you're putting out bad shit, I'm going to still play that shit.

48:38No, I love that. That is so true. Yep. Tim? Mm-hmm. Suda continuing to make games is big for me. It is. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go? You go to our last story, the Wii News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Story number five, Wii News. Xbox has rolled out its physical disc to digital game feature that we talked about weeks ago when this first hit the scene. from steam's blog in early 2027 we were planning changes to how some promotions work on steam as we look to move away from a manual calendar based approach and into something more dynamic and personalized for each customer our goal with steam's discovery features is to show the right game to the right customer so we spent the last few months experimenting with replacing some curated spots with dynamic and personalized recommendations so that's so interesting because it sounds like a good thing and it probably is yeah but recently there was that playstation story about different people getting different prices for games and it's like it is a little concerning to think that like at a certain point ai is just going to be giving us stuff at a price with a deal with a sale or whatever that entices us to be like yes i'm gonna buy that thing yeah and like i don't know i i i'm I'm surprised they're communicating this.

49:59It's like, why not just change it? Like, see, in a weird way, I'm kind of like, why is this my business?

50:07Don't tell me you're looking into my window. Yeah. Just look into my window. It's one of those things for any other store. It's just like you log in one day, and then it's algorithm-based, and I don't really think much about it because I feel like so many stores are – everything's algorithm anyway at this point, right? Some of it's AI. But, like, I imagine that this is just going to be algorithmic. Oh, you play action games? we're going to feed you more action games for recommendations, which makes sense, and I don't think there's anything to make a hubbub about. The only interesting thing I find about this is how that changes things on the Steam side of making deals with devs to have their games appear on the front page.

50:42That seems like it'd be a revenue source for them, and I think it's interesting that they would cut that off to make it more of an algorithmic thing, which maybe says to them they can get more sales that way, which outweighs the amount of money that a party would give them. It's not going to be 100 % of it. And then at that point, the fewer spaces they have are worth even more. Yeah. But then at that point, why not just do a redesign of the front page and just drop it on us one day and have us get mad for a day? This will give them a lot of money, man. This shit works. I guess. I mean, it just does.

51:17I just think communicating it is like, not that communication is bad, because, yeah, communicate it to me. Cool. Yeah. But why? And why are you telling me this this early unless I'm missing something? I mean, it's not that far away. 2027? Early 2027? Yeah, I guess you're right. We're in 2026, right? Yeah. Damn. Yeah, I guess you're right. Starfox's free update is now available on Switch 2. It adds split screen and three new battle stages. October's PS Plus Essential free games are going to be F125 for PS5, Hunt Showdown 1896 for PS5, and Earth Defense Force World Brothers 2 for PS5 and PS4. Grave Seasons launches March 9th on Xbox and Game Pass, PS5, Switch, and PC.

52:01Anton Blast is coming to PS4 and PS5 on October 1st. Anton Blast is awesome. If you like the Wario Land games, you should definitely check this out. And if you haven't played a Wario Land game and you just like 2D platformers, if you like Nintendo games, but if you also like things that are a little bit weird, Anton Blast is a blast. I woke up to this, so I'd have to double check it to, like, reconfirm how serious he is. But I'm pretty sure when I first woke up this morning and opened my phone, I saw the developer tweet that he's making Anton Blast 2 and that he's yellow this time. He did tweet that, Tony Grayson.

52:34I don't know if he's serious or not, but that is one of those things where it could be because he was red in this one. Is yellow just him leaning more into the Wario land thing? No, no. I love Tony. I don't understand fully Tony, but I love Tony. But he grew up on Crash Bandicoot in a way that I could never understand. I respect the hell out of it. Like, he just, everything has a reason. Uh-huh. Like, every color and every, there's just, there's a lot of wacky in there. Okay. You know? Okay. So, I don't know. But I'm excited it's happening. You don't have any theories on what the yellow can mean?

53:09I do not. It's like a lantern situation where each color holds a different power source. Crimson Desert DLC Charting the Unknown has been delayed to October 29th. We got one from Noble. Valve's Deadlock got a new major update including a new night map update, six new heroes, accessibility features, and more. And then, a game about digging a hole sequel, a game about digging a hole together has been announced for Xbox, Game Pass, PS5, Switch 2, and PC. And that is it for Wii News. Now, we hop back into Super Chats where I think we actually, for the first time on a Blessing hosted show I've cleared the Super Chats.

53:52I've gotten through all the Super Chats. That's great. And so y 'all have a couple minutes because I'll hop over to You're Wrong. If you want to Super Chat in, we'll have a discussion about what you got in there. I'll look at chat and see if anybody has anything to talk about. Sick. Sick. I can't get into You're Wrong actually because I'm not locked in on the computer because I'm on Mike's account. I don't have his password. I can. I mean, Grezek says, heads up. Control Resonant had an update this morning, and now my save file won't load. Damn, I'm sorry for that, Grezek. That sucks. I don't know.

54:23That might be a you problem. You might need to figure that out. I've not seen anybody else mention that, but I guess that's a good heads up. Yeah. Stay safe out there. You don't like to hear that. I'm sorry that happened to you, Grezek. Hope you weren't that far into the game. But also that means you get to replay Control Resonant, and that's not the worst thing. Think of it that way. hey, it's a real good game and now you get to re-experience so much of that good game. Maybe you try out other builds. Maybe you get the hammer. Maybe you get the whip. There's a whip in that game. That's cool. I love whips, man.

54:51Yeah, that is frustrating though. Any interesting chats that stick out to you? None that don't piss me off, you know what I mean? Shout out D-Town Sandwich who wrote in with a super chat. Didn't say anything but just wrote in with a super chat. Luke Dawson says, I'm having the same tech issues blessed was happening with witcher 3 remastered also playing on ps5 maybe it's a known issue thank god it's not just me because i it really was one of those things where when you review a game and you get certain bugs and certain like weird uh performance things there's always the thought of like am i the only one i know and i tried to check around i couldn't find anybody else in the review period that was playing on ps5 like i was and so i'm like i'm gonna say on the review that these are the things that are happening to me and then just like let it linger there and It was my experience.

55:37But, yeah, it's good confirmation for me that somebody else is experiencing those things. I imagine they'll get fixed. Foxy Steve says, I'm considering playing Onimusha and Phantom Blade Zero back-to-back. I don't know if that's going to be a great idea or the worst idea. Because I will say that playing Wolverine right after Onimusha 100 % lessened my experience of Wolverine. They're both just such L1 to parry-ass action games. And Animusha just brought it, and Wolverine didn't for me. And that comparison definitely hindered my enjoyment of the combat of Wolverine, which is a big portion of that game.

56:22And so yeah, Phantom Blade Zero, I imagine, is going to be very similar to Animusha in terms of back-to-paste action. I imagine Phantom Blade Zero is probably also going to be a long game in the way that Onimusha. How long is Onimusha? Like 30 hours, I want to say? Maybe it took me 20 hours. Yeah, I think it's closer to the 20. It took me 20. But even still, it's like those games back to back. Phantom Blade, I expect that to kind of be a shorter, linear. Everything we've heard about it is kind of like it feels like hallway to boss, hallway to boss, hallway to boss. I'm going to say it's probably going to be 20 hours.

57:00but that's me building in how many times I'm going to die yeah exactly yeah I don't know man I think on the upper end I could see it being 30 to 40 like these games are always tough to tell like you never know how long nowadays a game is going to be because I feel like one of the tough things about this fall is that every new single player game is averaging out at 30 hours in a way where I'm like dog Control Resonant I thought maybe 15 30 hours later. I'm having a great time. I'm not complaining about it. Have you beat it yet? Yeah, I beat Control Resonant. Did you review it? 9. 9 out of 10. Wow, that's awesome.

57:39But also, the reasons why I gave it a 9 out of 10 and not a 9.5 or even a 10... Could have went even higher. They pushed updates for quite a few of my complaints. And so I feel like if I re-experienced the game now, I wonder if that would have balanced out. Interesting. That's great. Yeah, it's probably my game of the year currently. Oh, shit. Yeah, it's between that and 007 First Light still. Every day I go back and forth on which one, but Control has the highest highs. 007, man. 007's so good, and I feel like people don't give it the flowers it deserves. I think we will when it all comes down to it.

58:14Yeah. Kind of funny, I think we'll. Yeah, you're right. You're right. The Portland Kevin says, looking for big walk players, DM me on Discord. DTownSandwich says, we need more AYN Thor content. What front end are you using? I'm using Cocoon. You don't have an AYN Thor. I don't. No, I have a Retroid Pocket 5. Oh, hell yeah. We should do something with Wolfden someday. Oh, anytime. I love those. I want to get him on Games Daily. I feel like a lot of times when we want to collaborate with people, it's like Games Daily is the easiest place to just put somebody because we do it every day and it's just covering game news.

58:54but then you realize it's actually harder to cover game news than we give it credit for because we cover it every day. So we're up to date on stuff. We're in the conversations. We know the chat. We know what's going on. To drop some people in, it's just like, oh, y 'all have something to say about some of this and you just have nothing to say about certain things. But like Bob is in. When I hear him on podcasts or any clip or just YouTube videos, it's like, oh, this dude knows what's up and keeps up in a way that I'm like, oh, he'd fit right in with us. Dude, very briefly, Bob was in kind of like the OK Beast circles before.

59:30This is before I got hired at Kind of Funny and before Wolf Den became what Wolf Den is today, where they have so many subscribers. Us and then another channel named Fanatics 4, we were hanging out at PAX's and shit. That's awesome. I didn't know that. Yeah, we were trying to figure out how to synergize our channels with cross-collaboration type stuff. I forget the – there was like a word for it of when you have multiple channels that all kind of work together. Yeah. A normal boot situation from back in the day. I don't know if you remember that. Yes, I remember normal. Yeah, kind of like that.

59:58We were trying to figure out how to do all that, and I think we all just kind of blew up in our own separate ways. Yeah. So that didn't – That's rad, man. So cool. I remember getting dinner with him one time. He was more friends with Alex Van Aken than – I didn't know Bob that well. Alex Van Aken knew him pretty well. Yeah. But seemed like a pretty cool dude. I watch Wolton videos all the time. Like that's definitely one of my, anytime I have just free time and I'm like, I'm just going to put on some TV. Yeah. You know, I throw on. Throw on some Wolf Den. Yeah. People are saying cross-pollination synergy.

1:00:25No, I know. I'm talking about like, there's like a specific YouTube term. Network. I mean, it's like a network. MCN, but it's not really. It's like there's. Yeah. Yeah. Network would probably be the easiest way to describe it. Cozy Bear says maple syrup or Mrs. Butterworth. Mrs. Buttersworth. I thought Mrs. Buttersworth was maple syrup. Yeah. Am I crazy? Either way, the answer is Mrs. Buttersworth. I love it.

1:00:55I love these Mrs. Buttersworth. Oh, bless. Oh, bless. Oh, man. It's been a minute since I had some Mrs. Buttersworth, too. I'm going to warm up some waffles when I get home. Put it on my eye. Try to fucking warm conference and shit. random drinker says heat up a needle and poke your stye please on stream zoom zoomed in with nick nick on commentary that's such a gross way to describe nick nick loves the dr pimple popper bullshit oh does he he's really into that stuff um i don't think you're supposed to do that for a stye whatsoever because i pop my actual pimples whenever i get them all the time i love popping a pitbull.

1:01:34Popping a sty seems like it would be very painful and very anti-intuitive. Dude, that's not the way to go about a sty. Some game critic writes in, now we're getting the super chats in, as the review season ramps, how do y 'all juggle all the games you want to play? It's something I'm trying to manage. Thanks for all you do. You don't. You just kind of accept that you don't. And just find joy in whatever it is. And that means find joy in the games you're playing, but also find joy in the games you're not playing. Because at the moment it becomes a job, I know for us it is a job, but it's like, let's just be real.

1:02:05You play what you want to play. And don't play what you don't want to play. And even if you're wanting to play something, sometimes you're doing something else and your life's busy. You're like, I can't play right now. And sometimes you're like, my life's so busy. I need to play right now. Use games as a tool. A helpful tool. Yeah. I felt a sense of freedom earlier this month, maybe late last month, when I decided I'm gonna choose games for me and not just choose games for content because oh everybody's playing wolverine that means i should play wolverine i very much made the conscious decision to not play wolverine so i could play star wars zero company because i was just more in the mood for star wars zero company and i think picking games based off of what i want to play um has been beneficial to me actually like getting through the games and wanting to actually commit the time uh to them granted i know not everybody has that has that luxury because oftentimes you're assigned things but game choice definitely can affect things.

1:03:01And also, finding different types of games that aren't going to make it feel repetitive. Because I play Dude with Sword games all the time. An L1 to Perry Ass game, I'm playing those multiple times a year. And so when I played Onomusha, I kind of did have this sense of like, oh man, okay, I've been here, done that a little bit. But going from that to then ZCOM to then other games that I'm not going to talk about right here, it's been a nice flow of finding different things to not make it feel like I'm grinding the same kind of game over and over again. Okay, let's knock out these last two and then get out of here.

1:03:33Oh, I forgot to answer the what front end are you using. Cocoon to D-Town Sandwich. I'm using Cocoon for my EY and Thor. Afire Outside says, Anyone at KF playing slash reviewing RuneScape Dragon Wilds? Super addicting. I don't believe so. I was going to play it, but Mike wouldn't let me play it on stream. So everybody go blame Mike. Go blame Mike. That's a joke. I could play it if I wanted to. Yeah, of course. I just don't have the time. ZekeSpeak writes in and says, anyone have both AY and Thor and Steam Deck? Pros slash cons? I have both. Steam Deck is more powerful. If you want to play actual, like, AAA, sometimes, Steam games, get the Steam Deck for that stuff.

1:04:12If you're looking primarily for emulation, I think the AY and Thor is way better because it's more portable. Put it in your pocket. I like taking it when I'm taking the train to, like, Oakland or something. It's way easier to transport the EY and Thor, but yeah, you're using it more for emulation in really small-scale games like Bellacho or something like that, as opposed to the Steam Deck, which can run way more, but it is more bulkier. It's real bulky. Like, the Steam Deck is a decision to travel with. Yes. Tim, that wraps up today's episode of KFGD. I'm refreshing your wrong to make sure we're good, but it looks like we're good.

1:04:47We're getting there. Right after this is a shit list, but not with you. it's with me and Greg yeah I hate when I'm not on these I mean do you want to just join no it's okay you got things to do but I also I like listening to them when I'm not on it and also this is a fun category for you guys to get into because we're talking about the top 25 PlayStation 5 games of all time and so you're going to want to tune in for that it's a PSLWXOXO reunion episode so stay tuned and then after that we have more content coming at you but until next time Game Daily