Ghost of Yotei: PlayStation's Biggest Launch Since Spider-Man 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 10.15.25

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0:17Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, October 15th, 2025. I want your host, Blessing, Adio Yejr. Joining me is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez. good morning blessing adioye jr good morning andy cortez getting my drink on right now well not alcohol but you know what i mean just like kind of getting ready for the day yeah really pumped up i'm stoked about today i'm stoked that like i look at the calendar it's like i got some cool shows to be on and then just gaming oh gaming getting my gaming on for the rest of the afternoon uh because you know review season it's it is review season but in the air but you can you're sort of seeing the pollen kind of rising you're like oh it's almost over yeah you know what i mean you can kind of see through it a little bit but it is really really the storm though yeah right now where i think i am balancing what's going on with my laptop everything's opening yeah it looks like somebody's controlling it fucking spotify remote accessing you um i yeah i'm like reviewing slash trying to juggle maybe the most games i have tried to at once in my maybe my life right now where i got four games now that i'm reviewing i got a fifth one in hades 2 that i'm just playing i really just want to see the credits in hades 2 and also i just don't want to stop playing it so i keep going back to it but the more i play hades 2 the less i'm able to play other games i i had a magical moment yesterday where i beat one of the games i was reviewing oh and all of a sudden things started to get clear oh where i'm like i can see i can see the path to me actually beating these other games now it feels great I'm going to need you to slack me what the heck you beat.

1:52I'm excited about that. Oh, yeah. That's very cool. What you been playing? What are the names? Let's say the names. Breaking Bargo. Coward. Bitch. Well, it's not even the reviewed games, Buzz. It's like, you know, it's also Steam Next Fest. It is Steam Next Fest. And the lines have been huge, and it's been really hot out there, but everybody's hydrating. Everybody's super sweaty out there. Dancing in the Steam Next Fest. But my goodness, Valor Mortis. Phenomenal. How's that? That's the first person. Don't tell me what they made before. They made. You know what I mean. They made. Oh, you know. Valor Mortis.

2:29Not Witchfire. Not Mellow Hulsinger. What'd they make? Valor Mortis. Because that's the first person Souls-like game. It sure is, bless. Oh, tell me. You know. Ghostrunner. Ghostrunner. That's what it was. They made Ghostrunner. I was close. And I got to play the demo last week, which is up on steam right now steam next fest and it's awesome it is so cool it is freaky in the best ways and experience the first sort of major boss fight and it i saw the vision of oh okay if every boss is gonna kind of feel like this then this is gonna be a great experience because it was the telegraphed attacks it was you having to dodge the right moment the they do a really awesome thing where whenever an enemy is attacking you whenever it's like an unparable attack they do an awesome job of making it really easy to read where you as the player go oh shit that's like really really red or that's looks a certain way that i know i can't i gotta you know i gotta get the hell out of the way or i can't just block this i have to perfect period just really done a lot of cool stuff with like readability but the the boss fight had awesome telegraphed attacks and uh very freaky there was an enemy bless where the i was telling you and barrett last week where it's like a it's like a human that kind of just like walking around you're like oh it looks like a weird zombie dude and then it walks on all fours but backwards yeah like when you're doing that bridge stretch yeah when you're doing that bridge it walks like that and the back of its head is like the open mouth i haven't done one of those in a minute i need to try that felt really really good i need like a good stretch honestly horrifying this thing like would just chase you running like a human or running like a dog like on all fours but in the awful like i didn't if i did that right now would you be scared probably because it you i mentioned you specifically i said when blessing had his realization that he you know when hands were freaking him out and with elden ring oh yeah and was like whoa this awakened something in me this awakened something in me that I didn't like.

4:40I was like, I am kind of inconsolable right now with how much I hate the way this thing is running at me. But anyway, yeah. Valor Mortis, first person roguelite, or not roguelite, sorry. First person soulslike. And then last night I got to play Moonlighter 2. Wait, that's on Next Fest? Well, you can request access to an early playtest. They've been throwing out a lot of playtest invites recently. I think it was a lot more limited maybe last week, but I submitted a request i think yeah yesterday and got the invite yesterday um that i'll tell you what yeah moonlighter 2 everybody keep forgetting that's this year it's not it's not no wait early access right yeah you're right i was i was mistaken yesterday because here's the thing for some reason i looked on the fantasy critic thing and it said that moonlighter 2 was pushed to 2026 but maybe i'm just i think that's the final release okay maybe kind of funny.com slash sure wrong but i'm pretty sure early access is this year which i guess that then begs the question of do i want to hop in on early access i think early access is like november or something like do i want to hop in during 1.0 um but i will say that yeah november 19th is still the the listed date on steam okay um maybe i'll wait on that then dude it feels great to play the the combat feels awesome already has a super cool um i don't know if you could look it up kevin i'm trying to log into my i accidentally hit sign out which is like the worst thing you could possibly do because if you don't know on fucking google because like there goes all of my shit it's just gone and i'm not able to sign you out of everything i'm not able to ever get back in like apparently at this rate um but if you look up um on my youtube channel kevin of me playing moonlighter last night i i decided to pick the spear weapon and when you're stabbing dudes at the spear you start dropping like little arrowheads like little spear tips in the ground and you see him but you keep on like attacking the dudes and then you hit the y button and it sucks them all towards you and if enemies are in the way that they're getting hit by them so like if you could just fast forward like maybe a third of the way into it kevin maybe near the end even uh i love the r styles uh a third yeah a third of the way into it you'll see some of the oh and oh my gosh the biggest thing that we discovered last night shout out to lanny bird in the youtube or in the twitch chat who was like holy shit this is christopher larkin silksong oh of silksong and hollow night fame they're the main track in this world bless it sounds like like timbaland fucking time traveled no like no it is it's it's so damn good i cannot believe how good the fucking music is from a different timeline where he's like i'm gonna get into video game soundtracks instead of ai i'm not Yeah, the soundtrack so far kicks a lot of ass.

7:32The way that you sell stuff, because you're going out on these runs and you are getting treasures, and the way that you rarefy these treasures and make things worth more to be able to sell whenever you go back home is really kind of creative. I was really screwing it up at the beginning, but man, this is one that's like, all right, get this one on the list. Get this one on the list. I'm looking forward to this one. Maybe Greg will trade this to me and my fantasy critic. Well, are enough people going to review? I never know what the vibe is Are we reviewing this early access thing or not? Not for us, but just for the industry I think it's like a A popularity thing If you got the name You might do it Like Hades 2 will get reviewed in early access Absolume got reviewed in early access That's early access?

8:18Yeah Did Hyper Lightbreaker get reviewed? No It did, but only a couple I didn't give it like a 5 So it didn't have enough scores I don't know if I believe here's here's where I'm at because this is slow news day I'll be honest guys and so Scotty I'm sorry we're just chatting get in your uh you know super chats we're hanging out if I'm gonna give a take let me hear early access I feel like that shouldn't warrant like a review I feel like impressions is where that should stop because like it's not you're not doing this isn't the actual thing right you're building toward the actual thing I guess the I guess the counter argument is that people can buy it but I feel like that's not, I feel like it's just weird.

9:02Cause five out of, of course something's not going to do well in early access because half the shit's not finished. Right. Well, I mean, that's what we thought about Hades. Like, yeah, but even Hades, like Haiti, the reason I kept Hades out of like my game of the year shit and like why I didn't like consider it seriously for a game of the year stuff when in early access was because like, well, I'm playing this and obviously assets aren't here and I know this game isn't finished. And so if I'm playing any completed game and they were missing an ending or they were missing character models or whatever, I'd be like, well, no, this is unacceptable in a finished game.

9:37It's a live by the sword, die by the sword situation for these devs. It may not help your review scores because you are being vulnerable. You're putting yourself out there. You're putting out a game that you know isn't finished and you're hoping for feedback. and sometimes if you have too much hype or if you're a developer with a lot of uh you know notoriety that can bite you in the ass because then people go oh man the sequel to that game is now in early access and what a what a letdown this is so far or on the flip side it could maybe you're on the right track with the game and it reviews well in early access and then you get feedback to help make it better it's such a it is such a gamble you are putting yourself out there for the world to see but that's why i feel like it's okay for impressions like i should be able to judge your early access thing and especially in the context of giving feedback but i feel like a preview an impressions piece uh like even like an early access everything i want out of the final version of this game article but i feel like a review a review for me speaks as this is final like this is the final stamp on how i feel about this thing okay but maybe that's just my old school brain even though i'm not i'm not an old school person i mean you get what i mean i i'm i'm of the mind that i would be totally okay with these things not getting scores and us not voting them in on certain lists or whatever yeah and i would totally see the justification for that and then on the flip side it's like well i mean i put 80 hours into it how am i not gonna put it and i enjoyed my time with it i loved it you know and i can't wait for more I think it's just more of like a if a foot gets put down and you know the gaming president says no review scores for early access and absolutely no game of the year voting.

11:30We do need a reviews president. That's what we need. A video game reviews president. I think I could do it. Was Hades 2 in our game of the year top 10? It was last year. Can I tell you a secret? Hades 2 might be my game of the year this year. i i've hit a point where because it's between that and blueprints and i'm still not i'm trying not to let go of like blueprints wow i'm trying not to let go of blueprints hades 2 is so fucking good i it's crazy how good this fucking video game is hades 2 was a game for me last year where i said i'm not going to put it in my top 10 it's not out it's early access yeah that's thing is it doing it and then tim was like oh i'm putting it in mine i was like oh i don't want to put it i don't want it to go out there and die you know like because what if the game just you know like i don't know what my thought process was but i was like well if you're the only one voting for it it's not going to make the top 10 i gotta help it out and put it in mine so i put it at like number five or four on mine now waffle on the run says have you seen the ending of hades 2 yet bless no and this is what's funny so i don't have spoilers for you but what's funny is after i beat you know i had beaten chronos a while ago and i had beaten the other guy um and after i beat the other guy i looked at him and i was like so like how much more do i have to play this like how many times I had to beat these bosses to beat the game and Tim like I don't even think Tim knew for sure I forget if he is even like beating the game fully but he was like oh probably like I don't know like 10 times or whatever and I was like each I have to beat each of these guys 10 times which I don't know if it's accurate or not I don't think it's accurate but he said that I was like that's fucking crazy flash forward to now like I'm beating Kronos's ass daily oh yeah Kronos is getting these hands daily I'm gonna see that ending soon I'm making the mistake of I just got to beat the damn game i kept trying to do the big dick swinging contest of like all right i'm gonna let me put the 16 heat or whatever it's called yeah it was called heating the first one i always mess up curse maybe yeah the big stone that's in front of the thing yeah i'm like why am i doing it beat the game first and then you could do this other shit because like i've been losing in my runs because the enemies that have more health and are doing more damage and they're it's like what am i doing just beat the game turn that shit off what am i doing yeah because now Now, it's funny because I've hit the point now where it's like, it's more likely that I whoop Cronus' fucking ass than I don't.

13:40You know what I mean? I'm putting up the whatever it's called, like, a little bit. I'm trying to get some of that resources and whatever. And I'm trying to train up for the other guy up top. But man, oh man. I'm going to see that ending. And also, man, Hades 2 is special. It's a good game. That'll be a top three for me, most likely. Yeah. But enough about that. Let's talk about today's news. Because remember, this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. each and every week they run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube and now spotify and apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show some of your thoughts and opinions as youtube super chats as we go housekeeping for you we're an 11 person business all about live talk shows so today after khd you're gonna get gamescast which is our ROG Xbox Ally X review.

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16:06Starting, I never even finished the point I was making earlier of like, Hades 2 is going to be in our top 10 twice. Yeah. Which is kind of nuts. And I don't have a thought on this as far as like, is that right? Is that wrong? uncharted territory it's it's yeah new territory there might have to be new legislation made because that's kind of crazy as the world changes you know we got to make sure that people aren't getting you know ai naked versions of themselves out there you know what i mean it's one of those things the world is changing okay yeah we have to like put yeah we have to make new rules it's when you gave the example i was like wait well you know like you know it's like putting out naked people making like naked versions of like people in real life and they're like hey what the fuck like yeah that's awful i mean that's terrible yeah and then they like made it illegal yeah wait did they make it illegal yeah oh thank god and i was shocked i was like this administration well i think because they started doing it at taylor swift and that's where they draw the line oh as soon as you start talking with taylor swift the right and the left ready the nukes yeah they're like whoa whoa whoa whoa not taylor yeah story number one ghost of yote is the biggest first party launch for sony in europe since spider-man 2 this is chris for drink at the game business ghost of yote debuts at number two in the gsd european charts with opening sales in line with its predecessor 2020s ps4 hit ghost of tsushima uh that's digital and physical ghost of tsushima was a surprise hit for sony back in 2020 and i don't know if i'll just say it's a surprise hit but i'll digress uh and launch we saw that coming from a mile away and launched during the covid 19 lockdown year which drove record numbers for video game sales.

17:41It's the biggest first-party PlayStation launch since Spider-Man 2 in October 2023. The PS5 exclusive narrowly missed out on number one with EA Sports FC 26 holding on for a third week at the top. The football game's standard edition had only launched the week before, and sales are down 62 % week on week. New at number three is the Super Mario Galaxy plus Super Mario Galaxy 2 double pack for Switch. It's a relatively soft launch for a Mario game, selling around a quarter of what the Super Mario 3D All-Stars Collection managed back in 2020, TGB estimates. They're washed. However, this is purely based on physical sales, Nintendo doesn't share digital data, and it's worth noting that both games were available to buy separately from the Nintendo eShop.

18:26What's more, the first Galaxy game had already been featured in that aforementioned 3D All-Stars Collection, whereas Galaxy 2 did not. So it may be that Switch players chose to go digital with this release instead. other new titles in the top 10 include digimon story time stranger at number four and final fantasy tactics the evil east chronicles at number 10 the top 10 this week is full of games including included in the steam autumn sale uh doom eternal number five was reduced to three pounds and 49

19:03this is a no dumb questions territory is it pence like mike pence Is it pence? Fuck. I don't know. Pounds and pence. Pence, I got it. I got it. Nice. Hell yeah. Wow. Way to go. Three pounds and 49 pence. And then Far Cry Primal at number six had dropped to two pounds and 49 pence. And South Park, The Fractured But Whole was also on sale for two and a half pounds. As a result, new games such as Silent Hill F and Sonic Racing Cross Worlds have fallen out of the top 20 in terms of units. However, in terms of revenue, they can still be found at number 7 for Silent Hill F and number 11 for Sonic Racing Cross Worlds.

19:42Andy, do any of those numbers speak to you? I'm surprised at the volume of sales for Yote because we're in a very different landscape than we were in 2020. we uh i think you look back at that pandemic period where game sales were just going bonkers everybody was buying everything because nobody had shit to do and that you know led to not only birthing more gamers and people going like oh shit maybe i'm kind of into this hobby um but i think i feel like that's kind of like the highest uh you know that's like the the period where the most games may have sold the most in terms of just pure volume.

20:28And I'm pretty surprised that Yote coming out, matching with Spider-Man 2, like... That's nuts. That's pretty wild to me. This isn't a massive IPO. I mean, well, it is now, right? But when I think of Spider-Man, I think of just, that's in a different league. I think I put Spider-Man with all of the other sort of large titles, because whenever he gets a game awards season and there is a Spider-Man video game that exists, it's always i always feel like it's the 2k and the call of duty fans they go what the fuck spider-man got robbed yeah you always kind of feel you know because that's the more commercial uh you know the most the more commercial of all the video games but for something like yote to be selling that well to be on pace with the prior version um and to have company like spider-man 2 i think it's really awesome when they say since spider-man 2 are they saying that it's keeping company or are they saying that like it's the best-selling thing that's come after spider-man 2 because that actually that would shock me if we're talking about ghost of yote actually really keeping pace but i wouldn't be surprised if we're talking about like anything since spider man 2 because what the the competition would then be death stranding 2 which ghost of yote i think is a bit more approachable and digestible than death stranding 2 death stranding 2 is for kojima sickos like me and you it is but it like you're you're definitely not not wrong there and And I'm not shocked that it will sell better than Death Stranding 2.

21:51But there's still so much of that Kojima appeal that I'm surprised this can still go punch for punch and beat it in a lot of ways. I'm very surprised by that because I saw somebody in the chat saying, I've only seen commercials for Ghost of Yote. I think they put Ghost of Tsushima 2. I think they put GOT2. but um you know i wonder what the marketing budget is for this and i haven't really seen a whole lot of commercials for this video game and i feel like maybe it's just a lot of word of mouth and it's a lot of sushima fans who ended up buying sushima many years after and rediscovered love for sushima much like i did where i kind of fell back in love with it uh many years after it came out or i guess the year after it came out um but yes you're definitely right so sorry for interjecting but yeah that is very very true because we're also i mean if we're going back further right like you're talking about doing better than astrobot you're talking about doing better than rise of the ronin but even more notably you're talking about doing better than um you said you said rise of the ronin i thought you i just thought of rise son of rome you're doing better than rise son of rome um but also held at risk 2 would be in that conversation which makes me really wonder like when we break down these numbers how does this look like of Of course, we're talking about European sales data.

23:07And so is there something about that specific group? Are we talking about in-store sales along with European digital sales? Are you able to even count European digital sales exclusively? I guess they include that here, so I imagine you do. But I feel like there's more. There's story to these numbers. There's got to be story to these numbers. Yeah, I mean, so you can't count Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. You can't count... Can you count Helldivers? For, I mean, Helldivers, I would say, was a first-party launch. Yeah, I guess it was. But it wasn't exclusive. I don't know. I mean, it wasn't exclusive, which would mean that it sells more.

23:49Yeah. Especially given how viral Helldivers 2 was. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Christopher Drink, I need you to explain more. Help us out, Christopher Drink. Please help us out. But still, this is awesome news. I think especially with, you know, it's hard to ignore backlash on the internet. It's hard to not see when people are unhappy. And it's always a certain crowd that's unhappy about things. But, you know, I think this is fantastic news. I hope it continues to sell gangbusters. I think it deserves it. Like, this game is really awesome and super fun so far. I can't wait to see the rest of my way through it.

24:23And, yeah, to be up there with, we're talking about EA Sports FC. Like, that's massive, you know. now does this do anything for your thought process on do we get a third ghost game here like me and mike were talking about this yesterday as far as uh sucker punch talking about how you know they're they haven't chosen their next game yet but like you know they kind of take everything into consideration whether it's like looking at the games in the past looking at ghosts and like i'm trying to figure out what your next game looks like there's a lot that goes into that as far as all right if we're moving on to another game that means we're moving on from these actors that means where we might be moving on from some of the staff who might have specialty or might have you know an interest into working in a historical setting etc etc me and mike were both like i don't see a ghost three but if this if you're talking if we're going back to the original thing of hey is this doing spider-man numbers then yes i do see a ghost three yeah i mean it you know it all depends on you know first of all i think there is such an appetite and and a thirst for you know samurai era japan i think that's like i think that that in of itself in addition to the game being beautiful and playing well and being a great game there's like i think games like that will always do well if they are of high quality and if they get good reviews at first i would have said probably not we won't get another ghost but i think i think you just changed my decision i think that when especially right now with sony wanting to be as risk-free as possible yeah i mean that's a really good point like so i think sony's in a spot right now where a lot of money has been lost on a lot of bad decisions and a lot of bad gambles and you cannot gamble the sure thing that you have yeah i think another thing on top of the you're talking about that samurai setting i think even in general there is something to be said about how well you can realize a historical setting and really immersing somebody into that that people really value and i would say that for ghost of tsushima and yote i'll say that for red dead redemption 2 i'll say that for kingdom come deliverance 2 right like there are these games that do such a good job of pulling you into a different setting and i think that really resonates with people even on a sales level i think people want to evangelize that people want to show other people that of like yo this game let me you know ride around the horse in an open world and like get into sword fights and people challenge me whatever like when you can really live out that that very specific fantasy i think there's something very powerful about that and i think ghost of yote gives that to people so i wouldn't be surprised to see them it's on the safety side right like if this is really doing sales like that i wouldn't be surprised to see them go oh well we want to continue that because we know that this is kind of a safe bet for us even though i personally would want to see them do something new but like get your bag not only it being a safe bet but you know when we're talking about how expensive these games are to make these days and ghost of yote being reported to have a similar budget that tsushima had around 60 to 70 million like that is such a gigantic win for a studio that is not spending you know in the 200 million or in the 150 million era area when you're able to keep your costs that low and still able to have a success like this i think they i could also see you know on on one on one side i i go back to our the argument that we had about super giant will they make Hades too?

28:04Super Giant seems too artsy for that. We don't do sequels. We move on to another thing because we're just awesome and we could make whatever the next thing is just as great as the last thing we did. I think we were all sort of surprised by that sequel coming out. But with something like Ghost of Yote and with it being the follow up to Ghost of Tsushima I could see people at Sucker Punch going how can we do ourselves in that genre again? Like not only, of course, I think parts of them may have had ideas and lots, there's been tons of pitches probably for new IP and new projects. But I do think there's also a point of pride in them that says, how can we make this next one if we are going to do a follow up to Ghost of Yote?

28:45How are we going to make the next one even better? How can we outdo ourselves? Yeah. I think creative people love that challenge. Andy, I want to talk to you about a controller. Yes. I've been messing around with. But before I do, I want to talk to the audience about patreon.com slash kindoffunny and youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames where you can go and get the Kind of Funny membership, which allows you to get shows ad-free. Speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors. There's just one month left until the launch of Solo Leveling Arise Overdrive, the action RPG based on the popular Solo Leveling franchise.

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31:35Looking, or sorry, playing Hades 2, and holy shit, it's great. lock in for my trip to WWWY. WWWY. Worldwide. Worldwide web. Wrestling. WWWY. WWWY. They say they're locking for my trip to that this weekend and hoping to get further. When we were young. Oh, yeah. It's like a emo rock pop punk sort of fest. with all the old headbands. And here's the thing. I was going to make a joke of like, yo, you can't be putting in acronyms that will definitely have no idea. I understand, though, that there's a space limit. And so you got to do what you got to do. You got to do what you got to do. Red Hudson.

32:21182. Freaking headline. Panic of the Disco. Oh. I jumped in with the average of people in my heart. Red Hudson 8 says Stomach Mike freaked that ad read. Stomach Mike was also in the Twitch chat talking about how they should Sucker Punch should go back and make an infamous. Which is why I need the emote, Andy. I need the Mike pandering emote. Because that emote, Mike, have you played infamous? Get out of here, Dallas. Have you played infamous? He's still based. He's still based. Oh, man. Mike's the man of the people. Tristan. Oh, there he is. Oh, man. That man ran out with speed. You're going to tear something, big dog.

32:56See that? That's called super speed, bless. I could be a superhero in the next infamous video game. Blessing. Sucker Punch should return to the world of superheroes. compliment Insomniac while they're gone, right? Because we're going to get hit with Wolverine. It's going to be lit. But then you're going to be saying, Mike, Mike, Mike, I want more superheroes in my world. I'm riding the high of Marvel and DC, finally hitting their second peak. I want a new world. And I want unique characters like Gen V, Second Son. You played Second Son? Yeah, I will be back. So now I'm saying, like, let's create a world like that again.

33:31Like, bring us back to something completely new and different, right? We don't need the IPs, the Marvels and the DCs. Give me something fresh. Give me something new. Or return to like infamous proper. You know what I mean? Okay. Gen V the video game. You just say you don't want IPs. Yeah, but I really like the new season of Gen V. We haven't talked about it. The new season of Gen V, a lot of fun. Andy, you been watching it? No, no. I haven't had a chance. I haven't had a chance. They're back, bro. They're so bad. I've been watching them. You can talk to me for a while. You've been watching them?

34:00What do you think? We talk about it all the time. Oh, my God. You, me, and Nick need to sit down and talk about it. Oh, dude, I'll be so down. I need you to watch your heart rate, please. Yeah. I mean, he ran so fast. Oh, he's coming back. He's coming back. This is a solid 132. Oh, my God. Mike would be such a great politician. Mike would be something if Mike runs for mayor or even president. We're all fucked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it couldn't get any more worse, though. Let's see here. Let's see here. Let's see here. Tristan writes in and says, R.I.P. D 'Angelo. He and Dilla changed rhythm forever.

34:32Agreed. Uh, Mellowfellow says, blessed, now's the perfect time to hop into Digimon. I guarantee you it's not. Oh, you're not playing Digimon? No. That's not one of the five games I'm chuckling right now. Damn. Uh, Mike was playing Digimon. Yeah, he did. Yeah. He was. Oh my God, he's coming back. Oh, he's running real fast. Man, we can't, we... We got a band running in the room. Yeah, no running, guys. Play Digimon. It's really, really good. Yeah? Okay. Whoa. You guys should put Digimon on your list to play. Yeah? It's a lot of fun. You still playing it? I got Fatmon. i got aguman okay i got all the mons bro this shit's lit yeah yeah yeah that's a no uh let's see openness prime says when's the games cast where we list out games officially define what a remake slash remaster is thanks to the morning discussion bless uh openness prime is referring to i got on reddit again oh as i were replying to things on reddit again oh man openness i think it was you that made the post of like i disagree with blessing about yada yada and like usually i wouldn't respond usually in fact usually i try not to look at reddit posts but i was there i had the time this morning i didn't have the time this morning i was prepping kpd but i got in there and we had a good discussion it was good debate what pisses me off though is that people keep telling me that blue point doesn't remake games i saw somebody referred to shadow colossus remake as a deluxe remaster and i can't have this conversation anymore i you know what what fucked it all up Final Fantasy 7.

35:57Thank you. Yes. I was going to make this point. Final Fantasy 7 fucked it all up. Now it got in everybody's heads thinking that you have to change the game style. Resident Evil 2 remake as well. That you have to change the way the game plays for it to be a remake. Yes. To me, when we were, you know, back in the day before we had a Resident Evil 2 remake or a Final Fantasy 7 remake or whatever, it was anything that was a remaster was they were unlocking the textures to be full res they were putting it in 1080p they were getting widescreen treatment it was it was looking sharper and it was running better and running smoother that's what a remaster red faction gorilla remastered the fucking yes um oh it's dark siders didn't they have a remaster yeah i believe so I believe so.

36:45We doubled her out on it. Yeah. It had a cute name to it or whatever. But it's usually you are, somebody in the Reddit described it as like you're like rubbing off the Vaseline, right? Yes. You're taking what is and making it clear. Make that game that was 480p back in the day. Make it look 1080p now. Make it 1440p or 4K now. Yeah. And the textures that were all smudgy because you had to compress them and you were looking at them at like the lowest res possible. Now we unlock it. it's like oh these textures were actually really sharp now that i'm running on better hardware that's what a remaster to me if art if like to not call demon souls a remake you like or shadow the colossus you're doing a massive disservice to every 3d art asset being recreated yes from scratch like i don't care if you're using the still the same source code or whatever like oh but it's the same game just with like a new engine on top of it but for every 3d asset to get recreated you're not just hitting a button that says make the models look sharper and better you are recreating everything from start you are remaking all those assets that to me is a remake and i know there's somebody else in the thread i need to stop reading reddit but there was somebody else in the thread say they're like oh that's a waste of creativity that's a waste of what no that is creativity like that is an art in of in and of itself right if you're able to go and look at what was once there with demon souls or what was once there was shadow colossus or what was once there with that original thing and go all right how do i take this and turn it into something that feels brand new right like how can i put my own artistic vision on like making this something that is brand new i think that is worthwhile and that is art right like i can't do that shit right mostly you need an artist to go and do that shit um i think if i think the people that that feel that way are probably the same ones going you know uh uh fucking cgi sucks and it's like no you think cgi sucks now because budgets are so shitty and people can't don't have time to make shit or whatever yeah but like you know it's it's like when there was like the the anti-cg art movement or whatever it's like yes i love physical shit too in in movies i love real world props but you know don't shit talk cg because that cg team had to rush the shit out of this because of you know needing to get the movie out or whatever it's like it's you are totally like downplaying a full you're downplaying a full talent which is recreating these things trying to keep it traditional while you know making it their own or making it new or just recreating it like Like, hey, this 3D asset was made on PS1.

39:24How would that look now in 2025 or 2021 or whatever? And that to me is like, that deserves like the remake thing. Remasters to me will always be just like when people say, I want a Bloodborne remaster. To me, in my mind, I go, oh, they want. They want to play it in 60 FPS. They want to just like put in that Lance McDonald code to give it 60 frames per second. It's 4K now. It's sharper. it doesn't have all the jaggies from the anti from the anti-aliasing or aliasing uh and it just looks better and runs better that's up to me a remaster now if you said i want blue point to remake bloodborne then we're looking the demon souls uh way where it's like let's put our new engine over the havoc engine of what you know they originally made bloodborne in and let's remake every asset remake every weapon everything's going to be made from scratch that to me is remake yeah I think you're right as far as the Final Fantasy 7 remake aspect of it because that was the same thought I had between that and the Resident Evil 2 or Resident Evil 2 remake, right?

40:23Like, which is less additive than Final Fantasy 7 remake, but still you're taking that original game and recontextualizing it and like giving it a different point of view or whatever, even though so much of it is based off of... You're changing the whole game style. You're changing the whole game style, essentially. It's a third-person shooter now. Like, I understand what it comes down to. It's like there's not a clean way to title that other than just calling it Resident Evil 2 or just calling it Final Fantasy VII Remake. But really, it's like, for me, those are more than remakes. For me, those are like reimagining.

40:52For me, that's like, Final Fantasy VII Remake and like Rebirth are damn near sequels to the original Final Fantasy VII. But yeah, I think that's moved the needle to where now like remakes are a bigger spectrum. I mean, I think that's okay, but I don't think the solution is to then go, ah, everything's a remaster unless it's Final Fantasy VII Remake. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. That's not the way we were calling them before Final Fantasy VII Remake. When we were talking about Metroid Prime Remastered, somebody was like, yeah, but that's just a remaster. I was like, well, it's a new lighting engine with every new art asset recreated.