Ghost of Yotei State of Play Coming THIS WEEK - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.08.25

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2:36yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for tuesday july 8th 2025 i'm one of your hosts blessing at aoy jr joining me is wwe legend reg miller hello blessing how are you i'm doing well how are you doing i'm excellent it's good to see you good to see you too what i love about this jacket this tekken jacket is that for some reason every time i see you in i guess it's because the way I come through the front door, but even at the fridge a second ago, what I catch first is your right shoulder, which has the crown on it, which looks like your logo from when we did the wall. And so I'm always thinking this is a custom blessing jacket for a hot second.

3:12I mean, listen, we can make a custom blessing jacket. There's nothing I'll love more. Would you audience buy a custom blessing jacket? At least five people, I feel like. I think, no, I mean, if we did it like in a low key, if it's the crown, if it was just a cool bomber jacket with the crown logo there, maybe a smiley over this. Listen, if you want to make crown logos my thing. Your giant face on the back. We keep away my giant face on the thing. We just put a crown there. I think a lot of people would show up for a crown bomber jacket. I for sure would. And also, I'm down to make the crown my logo.

3:38I never really thought about it that way. But I feel like since the prom king. And then, yeah, it being my thing when we first launched the studio and my walkout icon. I feel like there's something there. There is something there. Yeah, yeah. Think about it. I'll think about it. Okay, good. How are you feeling? You're wearing the Superman shirt. I am going to. You watch Superman. We can't talk about it yet. Yeah, what's up with that, Kevin? I say this to Kevin, not Kevin make change it. But Kevin is of course the guy who is our movies are, he hits us all up on the screeners. Hey, do you want to go to the, this is the thing you've got to press screening here, there, there embargo for us noon before we can say anything about it.

4:12Like today at noon, today at noon. Oh, hell yeah. I have a podcast. I listened to her. I'm waiting for them to post their review, but like I opened Instagram today and they've got a whole bunch of pull quotes from variety and deadlines. I'm guessing real.com's are the reviews up. Do they have numbers? Is there a rotten tomatoes? I'm going to IGN.com. That'll be my bellwether here. Does Superman have a Rotten Tomatoes? Oh, yeah. Okay, you know what? There's nothing on IGN.com, so maybe I stand down. Yeah, because, like, my question is, well, I don't want to break anything. I assume this isn't a thing I can't talk about.

4:40Because, like, they give us, like, the little note thing to write on. Is that not what they pull from? Oh, I can't imagine that. No, no, no, no, no. What's the whole point? Kevin, are you allowed to explain that? Or is that something we should just keep between us? I don't really know. No one's ever explained it to me. the way i understand what happens there we go to these press screeners yeah they're also sometimes not all the time sometimes they have audience you know you got a radio competition i don't know how the audience gets in normally yeah but yeah we get little comic cards that we give to people and they also take photos i think that's just them reporting back to the studio or whatever their pr mothership is of what is what early word is but no because they're always way too well worded well that's like i don't again i'm not a movie guy i mean i don't mean like a watcher i watch movies here and there but like i i know video game reviews i don't understand movie reviews so when it's always like oh we're embargoed but then i saw people from other dot coms tweeting impressions last night and then saying review tomorrow and embargo i'm like well you're saying you like the movie that's the review isn't it because i think yeah i think it's the thing of like your formal written scored thing is embargoed but i see this every single time where like the premiere was yesterday last night.

5:50They're not stopping anybody from talking about like, oh man, I love the movie. If I said, I could save my feelings right now. I won't. I'm being careful. We will abide by our embargo. That's all that matters. Can I tell you? I'm seeing it again tonight in IMAX. Are you excited? Sound sucked last night. It did. Also, Kabuki... I hate is a strong word. Kabuki, when you're finite, you're going to the Kabuki. yeah you know it used to be dope because the balcony kevin you remember this too it used to be dope because kabuki was the first theater in sf where you could book your seat i remember that being a huge fucking deal like what we don't have to wait in line we don't have to worry about being front row you can that was when it was cool but then everybody else got hip to the game uh not to switch topics real hardly but like i gotta talk about rematch oh yeah you do because even plus i've i've already talked about it quite a bit since it's come out but like this is one of those games where I feel like I'm experiencing in real time, oh, this is going to be one of my favorite games ever.

6:49And it's funny because it's like the thing where I still I think I gave it a scored review. I probably gave it an 8 out of 10 chat. Correct me if I'm misremembering, right? I still stand by. Like, this is not it's far from a perfect game. Like, very far from a perfect game. I think there's so much you can do to make this thing better. And there's so much I think they will do to make it better. I think it's going to have a lot of, like, time to improve and, like, upgrade and, like, figure out a lot of, like, weird just like connection stuff and laggy stuff and like network stuff that I think over time you can like pay money and figure out how to fix but I was playing this game last night it was me it was Gary Witta it was Adam Vision it was Snowbike Mike and it was Andy Cortez we had a full five stack and we were playing on ranked and I'm just having the time of my life playing this game like it's kind of crazy where I'm getting the best of both worlds from what I love about playing FIFA and then also what I love about playing Rocket League but then also like Andy and Mike who are people that I don't think I could ever get to actually play FIFA proper with me.

7:44They're so into it too. And we are strategizing like we would in just a traditional soccer match. But it doesn't have the randomness of Rocket League. There's a level of like, oh man, I should have executed on that pass. Anytime there's a mistake, I know it's my fault. You just pissed off so many Rocket League fans. The randomness? Well, if you're the highest level of Rocket League, sure. But for the casual level of Rocket League, it is randomness. Like Gary Wooden, Mike Young. Exactly. right but for us it's like you're playing on the casual level right it's us playing but every play it's like oh man it wasn't it's not that like i fucked up or it is that i fucked up it's not that like the game fucked up on me even though it happened every now and then it's not that like i just couldn't do it most of the time it really is like i could have aimed that pass better oh i should have done you know a lob pass as opposed to trying to hit it off the wall oh like we could have communicated better and i don't know i'm just having the i'm just having the time of my life playing this game so i want to give a quick shout out to rematch because i think this is gonna be one that lasts for me i'm excited about that excited about that for you thank you thank you uh greg it's a contender i think for sure yeah it's gonna be a pass you're like oh my game of the yeah okay well for sure for sure enough about that remember this is kind of funny games daily each and every weekday we 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 and funding membership on Patreon, YouTube, and now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad-free.

9:08Watch 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 is YouTube Super Chats as we go. Housekeeping for you, we're an 11-person business, all about live talk shows. So today, after KFTD, you're going to get Gamescast, which is my Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze review about a decade late, but coming at you right before you get Donkey Kong Bonanza next week. Is that coming out next week? Yeah. Isn't that right? Yeah. Lord. And then after games cast. So I don't want you to spoil your review, but was there any concern going in?

9:41Have you get called out? Like being, being this one right before the next Kong drop. So typically I'm not the biggest fan of playing like a, a prequel right before a sequel, like playing the last game in a series right before the new one comes out because I usually I will get tired out. Yeah. But it's such a different game. It being a 2d platformer and it being like a Wii U era 2d Don't Kong platform like I don't think there's any chance of getting Kong down on this one and then after games cast never have too much call is is it are you playing Death Stranding 2 on stream after games cast it seems like there's an interesting one today because it's both you and Andy on the thing right we're filming something else that's embargoed so me and Andy are doing like switch hitting so when he's out here filming I'll be out there playing and back and forth back and forth uh and so yeah my plan was I'm gonna do run more Death Stranding stuff tomorrow of course our spoiler cast for Death Stranding 2 on the beach and so I figured why not hype the audience by doing some missions little side missions then if you're a kind of funny member today's gregway is greg's 21 minute review of james gunn's superman okay there you go yeah yeah i assume that's not going out to embargo yeah i'll go out at noon putting a number score to it no well yeah i do i guess i did i i was i mean it was literally like i we had the one sentence conversations as we were all leaving the theater and i got in the car and plugged in the mic and went so i i'm like i withhold the right to change any of this you know to marinate on this and stuff But this morning, I don't feel like anything I said is off base.

11:02We'll see you again when I see you tonight. This is what I'm really excited to see how people in general feel about it. Just because I think I was sitting next to Nick, and I was like, I think I got to sit with it. I think this is one where my feelings might evolve over time. I think people's feelings are going to evolve over time, so I can't wait to talk about it later. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney, the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Shady Rays, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the rope report.

11:36It's time for some news. We have five stories today. Oh, Baker's does it. Chat, throw up your gold stars for Kevin Coelho, who was adjusting the microphone and realized he had to go. He got back in. They didn't have to run. Gave a little quick jog. I try to slow it down. I love seeing it happen. I love seeing everybody click into place. We got a team out here, everybody. Let's start out with story. Number one is from the PlayStation blog. Watch the ghost of Yote state of play gameplay deep dive on July 10th. That's in two days is written by Andrew Goldfarb. And as I get into it, I do got a super chat question for y 'all.

12:17What are your predictions for the state of play? Obviously this goes to Yote, but let us know what features you might think we see, you know, what's your hype level for the state of play, any prediction you might have for it. we are less than 100 days away from the launch of ghost of yote on ps5 on october 2nd this week we can't wait to give you your best look yet at what to expect with a state of play gameplay deep dive streaming on july 10th at 2 p.m pacific time our state of play features nearly 20 minutes of ghost of yote gameplay hosted by sucker punches creative directors jason connell and nate fox oh beyond sharing more about atsu's quest for vengeance we're excited to show off her new weapons new ways to personalize your journey at the edge of japan new special modes and much more let's fucking go you hype for this greg blessing adio yay jr i am yeah of course you know how much i loved uh sucker punch in general my uh love of infamous is incredibly well known on the internet and of course i loved ghost of susamo joel so to be here on the heels no on the precipice of yote very excited excited to get into a deep dive on it i think this is a game that I want to see more of.

13:23We've seen so little of. And I really like for me, you know, weapons, sure, but the new ways to personalize your journey, that stands out. You know, I think so far the messaging on Ghost has been Sucker Punch knows what worked in the first one and knows what Warthin in the second. What Warthin. They know what worked and they know what Warthin. So like, how does that apply to the second one, right? You know, as much as I loved Platinum and Ghost of Tsushima coming into Ghost of Yotei, it is that idea of like, they've said so much about like, well, we know that we did a lot of rinse and repeat side activities, right?

13:54They said they're not doing that here. So what does that look like? How does that change? Is personalization as simple? When they call it out this way, we're excited to show new ways to personalize your journey at the edge of Japan. That sparks an interest in me as somebody who loves to play dress up in these games. And the fact that they're saying it like that, I think speaks that they're going bigger than just change your outfit, which you could do in Ghost of Tsushima. Yeah, right. So like - Bigger in what ways? i don't know i mean your ride your horse are we making flags that we're putting banners we're putting down somewhere is uh some kind of thing we're doing in the world and some kind of choice we're making then influencing how the world looks like that is what i start to get question marks and read into and i think it'd be really cool see i read i read new ways to personalize your journey at the edge of japan being more so like maybe skill tree stat stuff like maybe this will be one where you really do have to choose what place i would jump into exactly i think and if you're choosing play style then and again i'm this isn't even dreaming too big i don't think but I wouldn't be think it's beyond the realm of possibility that you're making choices in game as well oh what are we doing in terms of you know as you know rpg light right in terms of like we're all going to get to the same end obviously but how are we coloring the story or are we choosing making choices that then give us different kinds of companions versus how it was before where we all have the same companions I love that I've so I've been um going back to mass effect 2 because if you remember when the legendary edition came out I played through mass effect 1 loved it started Mass Effect 2 I was mass affected out and then I dropped off of it been slowly getting back into it and one of the things I have been loving about it is doing the the specific quests for the characters loyalty missions yeah the loyalty missions Jacob Jack yeah and like the choice of all right I'm gonna hang out with Garrison Jack or I'm gonna hang out with you know Rex and this character right and like having that more personalized this is this is how I view my crew this is how I view my journey through my the choices that I'm making as I'm going out on each mission i think that could be really cool right like they give you that that squad of friends in ghost of tsushima but i don't think they really went i think as far with it as they maybe could have yeah um and like i'm talking about that personalized thing right like i think one of the conversations i remember having about tsushima that i don't think they did in the end was what if this is a thing of you're choosing whether you want to be the honorable samurai or whether you want to be the dishonorable like ghost and do it all and like that ended up just being no there's a story here like jinsakai this is about him even if you played as honorable as a samurai as possible they gave you like one thing you had to do stealthy and everybody would bitch about it yeah because they had to make your life and being honorable so it's like yeah if they were able to break that away and go yeah and again from what we've seen there's so many games right now i i am not at the height of my powers in terms of what we're getting into with yote i know it's this revenge story i know these different things i know it's happening in historical period I don't know how much this character Atsu's decisions and choices and things like that are going to affect the historical narrative we're inside of.

16:48And I think with Ghost of Tsushima, that was a big part of it, right? We were talking about this Mongol invasion of Tsushima. We had to stay true to where we were going. Whereas here, if we're using it more as Yote's the backdrop and what's happening in it is historical and accurate. But we have a character that we can then go and like, all right, cool. Which way are you going to take your character on this path? how are you going to shake that as far as i understand like yote is many times bigger than what tsushima was not talking about the game but i think talking about like just the area in general so i wonder if you can have the thing where as a player you have way more leeway as far as like how you affect maybe like the specific areas you're in as opposed to like rewriting the story of you know what happened historically exactly yeah i think there's ways around that it'll be pretty creative and cool i do want to bring in uh some super chats here cd splits and writes in and says super hyped to see the new legends mode here's the thing right they do talk about new special modes i have no hope that that's legends even though legends was my one of my if not maybe my favorite thing about ghost of tsushima yeah um so new special modes i imagine we'd be we'd be leaning more back into and ghost uh one i'm gonna start calling that yeah uh you had that black and white uh kurosawa mode yeah right where i and i imagine that be you're leaning into that a bit more maybe doing black and white kurosawa 70s like you know not exploitation film but like that pop in the grain filter and like maybe the colors are popping in a different way kind of thing leading to more samurai stuff that i don't even know about somebody in chat does say co-op if it's not a new legends mode right like could you get some kind of co-op thing i think if i think one of the things that legends proved worked about ghost of tsushima is that you can have a multiplayer element to it and have it be fun and have it function yeah i'd say no because i think if that if there if this game was a co-op mode game i think you would have teased that already you would have already had shots of atsu working with someone else and they're attacking and doing all these different things fair enough also legends

18:46what what is your reap because legends was popular with you for sure and other people definitely played it as well but do you think they're going to come back and do this i mean like again this is a weird one where we've seen the playstation live service push fail and get flogged however this is a game that's actually crossing the finish line that's actually been working and doing well and we're talking about a company that already did online stuff well so it's that one thing where i feel like i i'm there's a multiplayer component to ghosts in some regard and i but i don't know if here's where you reveal it or if it is going to be like how it was with sushima where the game comes out it does what it does we everybody enjoys it popularity crest falls down and then guess what there's a free mode of multiplayer to jump in and do i mean i'm legends was a hit for me i think for the people that checked out legends like i've only heard good things i've not heard anybody be like oh this mode was whack oh why'd you do this oh i tried and super fell off right but i also think it's the tough thing where they obviously put a lot of work behind it like that is a mode that's not just a throwaway hey let's just put this in the game like that i got if i played 40 hours of single player in ghost of tsushima i also played 40 hours of ghost of tsushima legends like it was a hefty thing it had a raid at the end of it that they added in a post update and they had quite a few updates for it i do think though that that is something that shouldn't have been dropped as a mode within ghost of tsushima i think maybe you should have dropped that as a standalone thing and like did they ever end up doing that i remember there was rumors i can't remember chat uh obviously eventually did they spin that out and put legends up on its own i can't remember anymore yeah i can't recall either but like with that they did thank you kebabs there you go and kebabs you can tell me how much did they charge for that because i i think if you were to redo it if you could remarket legends i would almost do it the way that elden ring did night rain and like night rain you look at that and that's a huge success for them obviously elden ring different thing than ghost of sushima if you put elden ring on anything it's going to pop it's going to be successful yeah it's what i've realized and learned right but i think there's something there as far as like how hefty that is as an option and if you're able to put that out as a standalone 30 dollar thing and like you don't even you can do the elmary night rain thing of don't even treat it as a live service just have the updates you want to have and then have a definitive hey we're not putting anything out for this past a year past six months or whatever the timeline is for it and just have it exist as a thing i think that is what the successful version of legends looks like if you want to do that um i don't think that's going to be the a big money maker i don't think that then goes on to sell the the the same amount of units as like a core ghost of tsushima does but if you wanted to do it at sucker punch i think that's the way to do it see i like the idea of i i think legends 2 should exist there's you and there's hardcore audience that liked it right i think having it in bundled with the game makes sense in that gta online way not that you'll find that level of success obviously but more in the way that like i think yote is going to be bigger than sushima was just you know it's a sequel people know people are hungry for a playstation studios first party banger right you assume that's what we're about to get so if you were to do it i'd want it bundled in and then And I do think that like, I know we hate live service.

22:09People say that. Yeah. And they play it all the time. And they hate battle passes. But I do think you really could find a financial runway for this that is. All right. I didn't love Legends. It wasn't my kind of thing. It's not what I wanted. But you played up to a boss, right? Wasn't that the deal? You played through missions to then fight a boss, if I remember or no? Man, it's like fogging my brain. But I remember there being like a certain handful of missions. and then every few missions you had like a tougher one. It might have been a boss situation. I feel like dropping, you know, over every three months or even more if you could, but putting in an uncharted, cool uniform, like celebrating PlayStation with these outfits that you're getting that you could...

22:48I mean, they did that with the first one. I know, but I think like the first one, God bless them. The first one really does feel like Sucker Punch wanted to do it. They did it and PlayStation didn't believe it. And then so nobody really had their messaging lined up. I feel like Honestly, I guess, you know, I was pushing back about, I think you got to talk about legends here. If you're going to do legends too. And I think here's where you establish that every three months or whatever, we're going to put out a cool outfit, whether you charge for it, which you do or don't whatever. Cause I think the cool thing to do the way I would lean into it.

23:20And this is now just trying to make, make money off video games to keep video games coming. Right. Yeah. Bundle it for free inside of legends. Right. And, or, uh, and Yote. then when you play if you buy Yote and you play the game you get all these little DLC outfits for free and then if not put the Legends 2 mode out free to play as well but then charge for those outfits there and try to do something like that see I think now I'm getting way into the weeds of what I'm sure Sucker Bunch doesn't want to fucking do but it was the idea they just did it right like kind of what you're saying we're doing this for a year here's what you're getting every so often which again they would never say they would never do again I'm now try to make playstation do what i would do which the thing is i think you run the risk of muddying the whole message of ghostly yote too much where it is like all right we have the core thing that we know everybody's excited for but then we have legends and it's going to be bundled in but then also you can buy it separately and also you can earn the things it's a go player but then you can buy like i think the more you get into that conversation the more you start to distract and the more you start to take away from well see that's where it's interesting of what you would do here is i i would say like it's 20 minutes we know right is what they're saying for the state of play.

24:26By the way, we are live reacting to it. Your Thursday will be dramatically different now. It's going to be games daily, followed by Superman in review, the James Gunn version. Then we'll do a little pre-show into the live reaction. Then we'll do a post-show games cast after it. So that's Thursday for you. Anyways, end that 20 minutes or even in the three-fourths of the way through, do a tease that is like, and we know how many people like Legends and they have just a silhouette of a 10-second teaser trailer or whatever. We'll talk about that later, but rest assured it's bundled with you know what i mean like something like that i think would yeah that would work because i think though as into the weeds as i'm getting to try to make money which i know jim ryan would have told these motherfuckers they need to make off this thing and bungie would have apparently come in like if that got in there i feel like that is its own state of play of like here's what legends is and why yeah but and i think you could do that of like launch it and do the gta online thing where it is like a month later you're going to put out legends which is kind of what they did with the last one right yeah they came out like maybe two months later was it okay uh but in between then do like a explainer video a blog thing i think here's my thing okay i don't think a legends live service is worth it i think you you treat legends the way you you treat an outriders or the way you treat a like even a rematch might not be the best example because i think that might turn into a live service but like there are those games i guess night rain would be the example right i think there are those games that come out and it is hey this is a fun thing this is a thing that's meant to not be an everlasting gobstopper yep this is a jawbreaker that runs out yeah you this is a thing that has there's nothing wrong with that yes and i and i just don't think you have the juice to really demand much money in the post launch content unless the post launch content is like banger and i think to do that you're then talking about a different amount of like effort in a different amount of production required to make that a thing that's worthwhile and exciting and like you have to have more story you have to have bigger quests you have to like have bigger systems to you know upgrade and do all this shit right i think you got to make it as simple as possible and charge 20 to 30 dollars and just be like hey you know what this is it is morocos and tsushima but now you can play with friends we're doing the night rain thing what i love is trying to put aside what i want try to get into the head of playstation try to get in the head of playstation years ago yeah understand how much sucker punch could have fought back against any of this because for it to be a hey 20 30 dollars standalone or whatever.

26:50If I'm PlayStation like just don't do that. Like we're not going to make enough money to make that worth your time. And so is that what they chose? Is that the lane they picked? Like sucker punch? Just focus on making Yote an amazing single player campaign. We love that we did here. It didn't do gone zone numbers then. We don't think it would do gone zone number now as a standalone outriders kind of thing. Don't bother doing it. Or did they get in there and go you had a great idea there. How can we monetize it even if it is for a limited time or whatever so you don't think playstation would see the value in just being being like hey let's just sell this as a standalone thing without without super monetizing the post launch content just making it one and done drop because i think elmring night ring is proving that wrong as far as but again i hear you on that one i think that's a different audience though i think so many people are drawn to playstation games and ghost sushima for that narrative for that story for that samurai film whereas the multiplayer thing is similar but not so even me a huge sushima fan never wanted to jump deep into legends right just didn't click for me and i imagine for all the hullabaloo you give it to it as you should yeah and you enjoyed it it just doesn't sound like legends broke through in this major way that i would see playstation say do what you did before again here because a normal company that was just hey at the top is herman or jim or whoever who are like oh we're gonna make little profit off of that go for it but play playstation wants big profit and that's what's fucked them here with concord marathon etc right all these live service the things that just did not fair games right all this shit is because they were like in the board we're like we need to double quadruple blah blah blah graph go up yeah i just don't think they would look at do legends again the same way as graph go up enough sure i i think the place where I split is like, this is Sucker Punch.

28:47And I know Sucker Punch we look at as the PlayStation Studio alongside Narita and all that stuff, right? They're a smaller studio than a lot of these big PlayStation first party things. I think if you can, I think the standalone thing automatically makes more money than what you did as far as bundling it in with Prime Ghost of Tsushima. Right? Because then it's like, you're not hidden behind another thing that you had to buy in order to get into this thing. You just buy it straight up right and that already is like that's gonna make more money than what okay so then what i would jump in then and argue again so you're saying not free at all not bundle at all with yote it's gonna be you would have it just i'd say i would have it be a standalone 20 my problem there is that again they are a small team yeah like they've been working so hard on yote i doubt they had a second team also go or the same team going on a full-blown legends standalone like that's how they got around legends one right being a bit content thinner whatever was like let's add it in here and it's this additive thing and it's free and you get to play it and you enjoy it it wasn't like originally we're trying to sell you i guess eventually they did i was still arguing i don't think it was that content then right like if i'm putting in 40 hours into elven ring night i put in 40 hours into ghost of the tsushima legends like i think as that was you could have and they did actually like end up putting it out as a standalone thing do you think though expectations are different now if you put out a i think if you put out ghost of the ot first and go hey like everybody's happy with this now let's let's announce the multiplayer thing but it's like it's at a$20$30 price I think people have their expectations in check interesting yeah I think I I think right now you're you're in a place and this is what we talk about PlayStation all the time as far as playing with the scope and scale of the things that you put out where you go what do people want out of our studio how do we give it to them at a in a place that's manageable right you talk about like Sucker Punch doesn't have that bandwidth to like have another team I'm saying you do the same exact thing you did last time but this time just put it out like separately.

30:41I want to bring in Phylaw95 who just super chatted just like you can to be part of the show and he did with RSD. I don't know I'm not familiar with that currency. Legends is coming several months after maybe at the same time as the anime and will be free. Sony loves doing free DLC that are also marketing beats. You are not wrong but what I would say is do they wait and do Legends when it comes to PC? Ghost of Yote is coming to PC in the complete edition and it's getting this multiplayer mode that has cross play. If you have PlayStation 5 already you're going to get this free update as well there.

31:15Siberian Diner. Diner. Yeah, I think that's a good call too. I think bundling it in with a PC thing makes sense. Yeah, I don't know. It's exciting and interesting. We're just talking about it. We'll see what's up. I want to bring in another Super Chat coming from um dianesta who writes in and says how much are we betting that there's a legends vote and go cote also really want to to see more unique side content uh in this game do you have any predictions as far as that right like one of the things reading uh that we're going to get this state of play in a couple of days right like for me i keep thinking back to this game being presented as kind of a non-linear thing you being able to choose as otzu like what order you want to tackle like your targets for as far as like being on this revenge quest i'm really excited to see how do you structure that i think it was andy or somebody who i was having this conversation with as far as like yo i would love to see some sort of like mega man situation where you go and you take out a target and then you get their weapon and like that weapon might work better against like a certain other target that you can go take out on the east side of yote or whatever it is um i'd love to see i'd love to see them like dig into that and what that looks like and how you can kind of determine that pace of play for yourself yeah that'd be incredible and i think that's what it's going to be right is that it is going after all these people who have wronged you so i assume it's going to be they're all in different districts you and i would assume it is megaman that you can choose and go off and attack them and that would actually play really interestingly into this blog post right of talking about the new weapons is it literally going to be megaman where you kill these people and then get their weapon and go off and use it against the other people i would fucking love that would fucking be really cool yeah and we've already seen like multiple, what, Atsu can rock dual blades.

32:58I think there was some enemy that had, I don't know what the weapons call, but it was like a stick connected to a chain and a ball type thing. Kevin has breaking news here, everybody. If you Google Superman, Crypto's paw comes in and leaves paw prints all over it. I love that they're making Crypto such a big part of this one. Fucking awesome. I can't wait to talk more about it in about an hour and a half. I'm looking around activities. I remember there being an interview. Kusari Gama, thank you. lucid dream chat the super main music is that on google too it is i like that okay i like that a lot as you as you're looking into that kebabs writes in and says uh photo mode how can they top changing the weather oh for sure we're gonna see we're gonna there might be five minutes of photo mode content in this state of play like they're for sure gonna show that off because i think for ghost of tsushima that was for me one of the premier aspects of that game that is the most I've spent in a photo mode in a video game is in Ghost of Tsushima.

33:56We'll never see Jack Quaid again. Oh yeah, I think for sure you're going to show off so many more of the effects and stuff that you have for that. Let me bring this in. Okay, sorry. It took me a long time to get there, but I got there, everybody. This is WCCF Tech. This is guys, I'm joking about the five minutes, by the way. Alessio Palumbo, who has an article, says Ghost of Yote will feature a less repetitive open world. Then they do it really. Thankfully, developer Sucker Punch shared a few tidbits about the sequel. In a New York Times interview, creative director Jason Connell said that one of the changes compared to Ghost of Tsushima will be a less repetitive open world.

34:30One challenge that comes with making an open world game is the repetitive nature of doing the same thing over and over again. We wanted to balance against that and find unique experiences. That's all there is. But it's back to the point of what I'm driving at of what do I expect out of that open world and what do I want to be doing. I mean, I do have an excerpt here that's from, I believe this is the original PlayStation blog when they announced Ghost of Yotei. where they said but we've only scratched the surface and goes to yote we built upon and evolved the way you explore the open world offering even more freedom and variety than in ghost of tsushima you'll choose which leads to follow as you pick which yote 6 member you want to hunt down first which i love and like even the idea of there being leads right very assassin's creed you know what i mean that's one of the things that i know people have openly worried about uh that assassin's creed uh for what all the open world rpg games so far has had the question marks you get the thing you kill the guy you find out who that is you kill that guy who gives the next guy does it then you get to the big guy and reveal the one you have the grudge against then go knock that one of the six out to go and like that's a fun gameplay mechanic i think assassin's creed it became a little bit too mechanical uh so having it be here and how they're going to present it will be interesting yeah and even if it is like because i i one of the things i love in video games is games that do that where you do the first prologue mission and then you finish it and then it is all right big main quest objective pops up and now four sub objectives that are gonna get you to like do that main objective right it's one of the reasons i love a breath of the wild and one of the reasons why like i'm going back to mass effect 2 and i'm like i'm like this is so refreshing i just pick the one mission i want to do and like it's all building into this bigger thing yeah i'm yeah i'm very excited about that and the leads part of it i'm like all right so those i imagine those have to be structured like quest chains as far as like all right yeah talk to this guy go to this camp beat these people all right that's gonna get you this clue to then end up at this boss and then beat it and then do that five more times yep um any final words about ghost of yote can't wait excited for thursday you know uh see what they have up their sleeves it's about time we got a deep dive see what this game's all about uh you know october feels far away but i know it'll be here before you know it yeah so that's it uh we'll be there and ready to go but yeah like i said we'll be live reacting on thursday so come watch with us it's a kind of funny games cast this is one of those weird ones for me where like of course i'm gonna be there to live react but you don't want to be i don't want to be yeah like this is one of those uh state of plays where if i didn't work here i don't think i'd watch it yeah i don't want to see any more i've been sold on this game since they announced it yeah so i'm like the less i see of this game the better but i'm sure whatever we see on thursday is gonna be fucking great and so it better be gold farb we're gonna talk about story number two but before we do want to talk to you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games 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 This episode's brought to you by Shady Rays.

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41:09It was no small feat to bring The Last of Us Part 2's story chronologically together, given that Part 2's story is so meticulously put together. We're grateful to the developers, both at Naughty Dog and our partners at Nixus, to make the chronological mode as smooth as possible. And while we, of course, recommend players still new to the game to play through part two story as was originally developed, the team's hard work has paid off with a fascinating new way to enjoy this chapter. And we also wanted to reward players for jumping into this new, transformative approach to our story. In addition to new trophies tied to completing the narrative experience in chronological order, doing so will also unlock two new, perhaps surprisingly familiar skins.

41:50Kevin we have this linked at the bottom of the story to the PlayStation blog where they show off the skins basically you're getting Nathan Drake I don't like it no? no like the look of Joel as Drake is so not I can't deal with it it does look wrong it looks so wrong because when I saw it like you know blurry eyed I saw it in Slack today I was like oh okay and then when I clicked on the image I was like oh I thought it was going to just be a Nate skin like I'd be playing as Nate see that's what I thought too instead it's them dressed like Sam and Drake and I'm like nah Sam and Nate I'm like no no I can't I can't deal with this this feels like yeah alternate universe situation where it's like oh man Joel's doing like all the climbing and all that shit yeah exactly and they both look uncomfortable they look like they someone just threw them in those outfits like what the fuck is going on I can't deal with it I don't like that I don't like that Greg you're saying you don't like this I saw quite a bit of people online on like on Blue Sky and on social media BS we call it BS as they say in the streets saying that they actually don't really like the idea of this mode which surprised me chronological yeah like I think I saw more negativity around it than I saw more positive interesting I don't have a problem with it I think we're talking about a game that's how many years old now this is 2020 right so a five year old game that I doubt if I was if I roll over tomorrow I've never played a video game I finished last of a season two and I go man I'm going to buy PlayStation five and I'm going to buy last of us part two and I turn it on and it pops up.