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34:04It doesn't, I think it'll keep shrinking that way, but I don't think they're going to cut it out altogether. It's still too big of an industry for that, but we will see how much the boxes cost and where we go and all that jazz. But we're a ways away. I feel from a Walmart a Target being like we're no we're not doing this anymore

34:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:especially because Playstation still sell now when we get to the next generation if you see that dip in console sales maybe there's something there as far as being like just buy this shit from Playstation directly because we're losing more money now from Playstation than we were making before but that's a thing we'll have to tackle in the future once we get there speaking of the future we're going to talk about story number two in the future but for now I 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 and speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors this week we're sponsored by patreon.com slash kind of funny because it's patreon pledge month if you enjoyed the crazy amount of sgf coverage we put out in june consider tossing us a few bucks this month with a patreon membership or upgraded pledge for july patreon members receive perks like ad free audio and video versions of every show access to quips a twitter-like equivalent with posts from Greg and a daily exclusive episode of Gregway.

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35:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back. With story number two, EA removes microtransactions from EA Sports College Football 27 following backlash. This is Sophie McAvoy at gamesindustry.biz. Electronic Arts has removed microtransactions from EA Sports College Football 27 in response to feedback from players and content creators. The developer acknowledged it had missed the mark with the introduction of paid progression options in its Road to Glory and Dynasty single-player modes. Previous titles allowed players to use experience modifiers to level up faster. These were replaced with microtransactions ranging from$10 to$150.

36:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:According to IGN, content creators stated that microtransactions were not disclosed before launch and were absent from previews. Quote, This was added independent of deeper mode progression, with the aim to give players more choice, but what you've said is that they're not adding the value we intended, said EA. They continued, quote, Our goal for live service plans in College Football 28 and beyond will be deliver valuable features and content with greater transparency and communication, end quote. It's not yet clear if refunds will be provided to those who have already purchased in-game currency.

36:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:EA noted that an unfortunate side effect of removing the paid regression content means that players that have college point balances in their wallets will now not be able to apply the balances in Road to Glory or Dynasty. End quote. Greg? Yeah. Was this something that was in your world as somebody who plays college football? Oh yeah. I mean it was on Games Daily last week too where yeah you know the outcry about this was loud and fast in terms of the audience being like we're going to review bomb this shit and we're not going to stand for it. Which is back to what we're talking about obviously with PlayStation disc stuff but something we see all the time with EA of course we can bring them into it and I'm a little murky I know people hate ultimate team and yada yada but I'd go obviously way back to NBA 2k and then of course WWE 2k as they have you know taken those 2k monetization or the NBA 2k monetization that everybody hates but Mike still buys and everybody apparently buys and then started applying that to WWE where there's been similar outcry should have happened but for them to do it with EA college football and the college football fans be like fuck you and then to back down like it's crazy where it's you know my neighbor is a doctor an actual adult you know what i mean and years ago we were talking he's like oh man i used to love you know playing games and i play college football and so when but we came back two years ago right yeah two years ago two three games ago now i gave him a playstation i gave that i had bumming around and i gave him the disc and he's like oh or the code you know uh and so then i you know for this one around i got it for him again and i was like here you go you know what i mean he's like how is it I'm like I've played it and I me and Ben did a game together it's great you know the visuals the sound it's you know as always improving on each other but I'm like everybody hates there's this monetization city's like oh fuck he's like I hope I don't have to spend money I'm like well you don't have to blah blah especially for how you're gonna play it you don't even very casually yeah and then I sent him this fucking here's the screenshot of them taking it all down don't worry about it you're fine get in there right he's like oh great so he's super excited that it happened hell yeah but yeah it made it made the rounds it did the thing and again it's like, it's great to see again.

38:59Like, let's go back to what we're talking about with like, how did the developers feel about this? Nobody making this game set off to be like, we want to put in these modifiers and make them be paid. And we're, we're going to make it grindy on this front. So like they did that because of course EA was like, where's the money,

39:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:make the money live service. It needs to have money. And so they went, fuck. All right, let's do it this way. Well, so like, I'm sure there were several meetings where they were like, this is a bad idea, but this is how we'll do it. We shouldn't do this and like make the money. And so for them to get, Hey motherfuckers, see how stupid this was. We have a passionate audience for this game that has been, they waited more than a decade for it. Now we're back to doing it annually. They're buying it and loving it. Don't make us fuck with it this way. Yeah. We've been so back for the last couple of years.

39:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. This is going to be the thing that fucks up our reputation. Yeah. And sure enough, you end up getting there. Thank God you take, you take it out. Do you think when we get to, cause what's been, I guess I was going to ask what the game awards conversation usually is for college football but i feel like it's not included because it's such a u.s based thing and yeah i think the jury is so international for game awards that yeah you know college football doesn't really get the yeah that year one i remember i i mean correct me if i'm wrong year one i think it didn't make the cut and you like were very miffed about it but everybody was like well it's only u.s i'm like i get that maybe it doesn't matter anyway but like do you think in the long run we're in a good place with college football as far as what the conversation is around it like do you think people are going to remember this game for the microtransaction stuff or do you think this this fixes i mean i think they'll remember it for this moment that they did it and then they walked it back which i think is that you know again like in this industry plagued by capitalism and suits and shareholders and stuff like this is a win for player first decisions developers getting to make the game they want to make now does that resonate when we do college football 28 you know what i mean no they're like take it out and then redefine it for next year how can we do it how can we get money from them next year and saudi arabia is going to come and to be like what's college football uh so who knows what the longevity of it is but i think again to what we're talking about like they are feeding a very specific diehard dedicated audience that is selling units like you know what i mean even last year when it was annualized and it was back it's still sold incredibly well and so you imagine this one's selling incredibly well too and so the fact they're able to step up and make this decision to make them back down make ea go okay fine fuck take it out hell yeah story number three it software plays down impact of layoffs insists it still has enough staff to make games in tech this is andy robinson at video games chronicle its software has played down the impact of this week's layoffs at the studio claiming that it still has the crew we need to build the games in tech we're known for in its first public response since news broke that around 100 workers have lost their jobs the doom and quake developer claimed that its remaining team is about the size as when it shipped doom 2016 well thank you for all the support this week while our studio was impacted those changes were spread across teams we still have the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for.

41:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The team today is about the same size we were when making Doom 2016. We have always had a flat studio where everyone is a maker, and we will remain true to that philosophy moving forward. The statement continues, We are focused on supporting each other and the team members impacted. We're going to keep building the great games and tech that have defined us for the past 35 years, and we're looking forward to seeing you at QuakeCon this August." According to The Verge reporter Tom Warren, id is now in the early stages of developing a new game, which fits with Xbox's mandate of focusing on its biggest franchises.

42:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:id's public response follows claims from a laid-off developer that it had been nuked into the dirt and relegated to support studio size following this week's sweeping Xbox layoffs. Derek Best, a former VFX artist at id, who has worked on all three modern Doom games, published a lengthy post on LinkedIn saying, He was, quote, in shock at how brutal the layoff cuts were. Quote, collectively decades of knowledge was wiped out of the studio, he claimed. The VFX team was eliminated down to one single artist with no lead or producer. The engine programmer responsible for the massive gains and VFX pipeline improvements, like all the particle editor work, was let go as well.

43:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He added, great job, Microsoft. nothing says business success like nuking a team into the dirt and relegating them to support studio size while also throwing out massive technological achievements and quote we talked a little bit about this uh at the end of games daily on friday of course barrett is always spoiling the fucking punchline because this is if you missed it then barrett had this great bs that's a blue sky tim of xbox watching it write this and it's them when louise uh susan sarandon with the rape gun to the rapist said you know what i mean of like you have to back to everything we've said here right where it's like nobody i'm sure they're wanting to write this it's it's a little push and pull because you want to obviously be like we're not fucked thank you all for asking it's not the end of the world this still sucks but to then end it with like the we're looking forward to seeing you at quake cone this august it's like okay you're not a human you're not that's like how can i tell and this isn't let's use like positive let's use ai like the terminator ai not like a like that's how i'd be like well you're a cyborg no human being would be like it's a been a really rough week all of our friends have been laid off but we can still make the game and i can't wait to but have you have you bought your quake con ticket yeah it's very much the equivalent of like if i walked into work it's like my eyes are red and i had tears coming down you're like bless you good and i'm like i'm great why do you like you don't look so good i'm like no nothing no no I tripped on the way here.

44:34Yeah, exactly. So it's like such a bummer. It was, I think, not. It was a tone deaf way to respond to everything that's going on. There is a way to draft a human response. I'll be like, we are sorry to see so many of our friends go. I'm spitballing here. I would be like perfect response right now. Go. Yeah, you know, we're sorry to see all of our friends go. This has been an incredibly rough week. Like, rest assured that the reports of the severity of layoffs or the team size are inaccurate. We're still going to be able to make video games the way we want to make video games, which I wouldn't believe either.

45:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But yeah, the part of we want to make. I think this feels like something you write because you want to reassure your audience to some extent of, hey, we're still going to make more Doom games. No, but yeah, you read it. And like, it's kind of like there's too much corpo speak in there. So much corpo speak. And then also just within I almost would have preferred no response of like, yeah, or just wait longer. 100%. No response. I think it would have been a better way to go about. Yeah, but I hope they're good. Like, I hope, I hope what they're saying is true. I hope we're able to get great Doom games and all this stuff.

45:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I obviously I've been out for, um, for most of last week. So I don't know where at when the conversation anymore, but like, you know, there's the, the, um, reports of the Doom or of the id software and other studios, uh, I guess I talked about it with Andy and we went off about it, but one thing I was thinking about while I was on my trip, which I wish I wasn't thinking about this stuff, but you know, we're always thinking about the industry and the video games and all this shit. right but like when you lay off that much of id software and also just a lot of these other studios that you're keeping and having them work on these bigger ips so much of it to me feels like you're not laying them off so that they can make quality games obviously but then if then it's like why are you gutting these teams like this and it feels to me like you're getting ready to sell the whole thing yeah we're making these numbers go up so we can just sell this thing and go hey you have doom it doesn't it's it doesn't cost as much to operate now but then like what does that doom look like yeah it doesn't matter to xbox or it doesn't matter microsoft i should say it'll matter whoever owns xbox down the road yeah yeah no you're 100 correct corrective like when you go through and you do this right you are cleaving these people to make the bottom line look better to make the shareholders go okay great they're riding the ship you know number goes up microsoft stock goes up after bad weeks and bad or bad months and bad years and bad returns and what this actually equates out to with a game who knows and what the scope is and again i think the thing that has rung true through so much of the reporting and the behind the scenes conversations here are these xbox studios really being in the fucking wind and being at the whim of all right cool we need you to make game pass award winners oh you're not selling enough well i was in the fucking you know what i I mean, like internally, whatever's happening, I hope the message from Xbox, which of course is the message from Microsoft is what, but it's clear.

47:23We need you to be making games that are shorter in cell, have, you know, shorter production cycles that can be manipulated into IP powerhouse. I don't know what they're saying, but I want there to be one fucking message that these studios are getting so that they have the right way to march. We're back to the theme of this episode of like, I don't think, you know, whether it's a live service thing or make a game quicker and faster, like when you come in with that, you can get excited about that, but that isn't the game you wanted to make. And now we're back to the conversations I was having all last week of like, you know, you go to these places, kind of have your dream put on hold, if not die.

48:01Whereas you're not going to any of these Xbox studios with your idea for like, I have the next great IP. You're going there now to be in the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom. you are in this pipeline and you can make really cool shit there but you're not going to rock the boat we're not going to we're not going to redefine what any of these franchises mean you're going to make more of the same and hopefully feed that hunger that exists for those ip if it's there

48:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah to go chase it i just don't know how you even make a doom though like that's the that's the tough thing is you're right but also i don't you don't get another doom out of this out of this version of its software i guess you could get a doom but it's not going to be the follow-up to doom the dark ages it's not going to look the same so look better let's get radical with it right where it's like do you think a follow-up to doom the dark ages would be the right call and now we're very much of like i guess the right call in the current xbox ecosystem the current microsoft in the asha sharma reign yeah um would it be the right call i mean yeah i think doom does consistent like doom is a consistent franchise yeah the dooms are usually quality games out of all the xboxes um i guess ips and games they put out in the last few years doom seems like one of the ones that are actually on the side of no everybody likes this yeah i would say yes but then also i think the question isn't like whether or not they're going to do that because i think we it's pretty much i won't say confirmed but based off of all the reporting and us knowing what they're focusing on on here they're making no regardless of if it's the right decision or not they're gonna work on another doom yeah but here but i just don't know if you're gonna get there I think by that time You're talking about an Xbox That's owned by Elon Musk Or something like that Fucking shit I think that's I don't think that's gonna I think there's a chance That's gonna happen Don't even fucking put that out there Because they'll hear that And they'll just do it to spite us That's the kind of shit Yo, yeah Fucking, you know That's how he got me With this X bullshit Yeah Here's what I think You know It's hard to find numbers And do this stuff Especially live as we're going Right But I got This Doom The Dark Ages reportedly Sold less than a million copies Or whatever Is that true?

50:00You know Out of 3 million players Bragged about last week 2.2 are said to be playing on xbox this is from may 2025 here's what i would say if i'm asha and i'm looking at this in whatever i think that you've had if we're including the dlc right but you've had three cracks at it right oh no you have it doom doom eternal and doom dark ages right i think you've had three cracks at making doom be a powerhouse pillar of xbox everybody loves at IP, right? A lot of people like Doom. Doom is an incredibly quality game. I'm not at all doing that. It's not a game I care about, and that's not me. And I think there's a lot of people like me where it's appealing to a very specific audience, right?

50:41And I don't think it's reaping the reward of getting all this money. So you cut this team down. You say, now we need Dooms quicker and smaller. What I would tell them to do, and I'm sure people will hate this, but I would say, go make me a retro style Doom. Go give me a first-person shooter Doom that looks like the game you i i think of when i played doom and doom 2 on my pc my parents pc not as pixelated high quality h2d hd 2d but like you've done the three big triple a dooms and we've seen what the return on investment has been and it has not been that numbers have gone up even game pass i don't now i'm really outside i don't have stats in front of me or whatever right yeah but it doesn't feel like doom the sequels in the sequel have set the world and xbox on fire right so let's throw that away now and give me something that will look fresh bring in old doom heads bring in lapsed gamers who remember old doom bring in the people who like the dooms you've already had and know it software has the shit together yeah and make it quick i don't know about that i i think there's

51:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:more people that are i think the sales potential is also always remember too like i'm never saying on making the right decision sure sure i'll show xbox current but i think even on the financial side i just think there's more buy-in from the people that are into the modern doom iterations as opposed to going back to the well and like trying to revive old doom because modern doom it's funny to say this modern doom is more modernized than old doom i'm saying bringing all the modern you know the sure quality of life i just don't i i don't i don't know if that that's enough of a difference because i think the people who like old doom also like new doom and then also new doom brings in new people like i wasn't a doom head until doom 2016 and i was like oh this fantastic game right remember that um and i just don't think there's any i don't think there is any doom that gets us to i guess what you're talking about which is why you're saying make it smaller but like and i i two things i don't think there's any way to make doom into like a what a fallout is or what a call of duty is or any of that shit like i don't think that's even an option i think on the other option of making it smaller and making more of a throwback thing i don't think that's big enough either.

52:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think Asha will look at that and go, ah, that's Penny's. We're making Call of Duty here. See, so the wrinkle that I left out of my conversation here is I don't think they're keeping Doom because they love the Doom game. I think they're keeping Doom because they love the Doom IP. Yeah. And they know it sells shirts and statues, mainly just to Rahul, but it does all these different things and there is plenty of, okay, we could get an animated Netflix show. We could do a live action movie again with The Rock, first person killer. Like you could do all these different things with it, but I think you also then need to be feeding the gamers and I think my thought would be if we're making a smaller you know more retro style doom that you can get out in two years i think the drop we'll see from people who bought these numbers you're still getting money you're still getting it out in the ip you're hopefully being mainstream to then partner with the decision and announcement of a movie done by honestly whatever i don't know i'm not mad at that at all because doom 2016 i still have such a love for that game yeah right doom eternal doom the dark ages especially they ramped that shit up graphics look insane all that shit yeah i would in theory be down for something that feels a bit more honed into like the doom 2016 scale yeah but i just don't i i i think you're right but i think asha is more so looking at it as like a hey we're we're leaning this chick this this meet up we're selling this shit like we're making this thing for sure desirable to saudi arabia or elon musk or whoever is going to be ready to buy xbox when like this is the most i believed in i forget who the creator was at the beginning of the year that I was talking about.

54:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It seems like Asha's being hired to sunset this shit, right? Right into the sun. I've never believed that more than now. After seeing these layoffs for the teams that they're saying they want to focus in on their IP. It's like, well, if you want to focus in on Doom, I just don't, I don't think you do it with this small of a team because I also just don't think they're thinking the way you're thinking of, let's make this in a way that's really going to maximize this brand and make the game smaller, but also make them sell other. I just don't, I don't think they're on that level. We'll see. We shall see.

54:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Story number four. Also, where is this shirt from? I don't know. I got it. This is an eight-year-old shirt, nine-year-old shirt, maybe even more than that. I didn't know you love freedom this much. I think I got it. This ball of legal is going to fuck this shit up. July, you know what I mean? July 4th. Represent USA. Are we still in the World Cup? No? Oh, damn. Let me tell you about the World Cup. Dude, listen to you and Andy do games daily when you kept getting the updates on that team losing. I was fucking dying. Any team I root for has lost, like, immediately. as soon as they start rooting for a team they immediately lose again you should have known you're a bears fan this is how our lives are this is what happens so now i'm not even a bears fan i'm just from illinois i mean that's all it takes you heard that bears might be moving to oh yeah indiana yeah i'm well aware i didn't know this not indiana it's like sorry not indiana gary indiana yeah right across the thing there crazy yeah what are we doing um they're like well it's in the loop i'm like all right you know it's a loop adjacent i'm like all right i hate that shit So now that I know I have this curse, this is what I'm going to say.

55:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Go England. Let's bring it home. Yeah, bring it home, England. Let's bring it home. And let's go Spain, you know? Here's the thing, though. It's like there's nobody I can – like the teams that are left, I believe, are England, Spain, Argentina, and France. Yeah. So, like, I guess I'll root for – if I'm really rooting for somebody, maybe France because I like Mbappe. Okay. Maybe Argentina because I like Messi. But really, I don't have a horse in this race. so somebody's getting fucked go england sounds about right go england story number four ariel knight has announced a new game ariel knight's mr freezy of course shout out to ariel knight that's the homie right there play as a woman who's an axe wielding serial killer in this light-hearted puzzle game about decapitating men yep in new detroit authorities are hunting a serial killer they call mr freezy after hundreds of severed heads are discovered in hidden inside freezers across the city.

56:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Behind the murders is a mysterious woman kidnapping men and locking them away in her basement workshop. You don't play as the victims, you help prepare them. Move, swap, and line up heads perfectly so they can all be taken off in a single slice. Every move matters as you try to collect the most heads possible in the fewest number of turns. But the deeper you go, the stranger things become. I want to shout this out for a few reasons. Again, one, because I like Ariel Knight a lot. He's the homie. But then also, this man just be putting out games. I feel like we didn't talk enough about drop shot drop shot every go check that out on steam and i think it's everywhere too but i was i liked what i had seen on that one but yes ariel knight is putting out games all the time and fuck yeah he should be that he's making great stuff i can't wait for this one this one sounds awesome that's the thing is this one sounds i think go waste on steam right now this sounds more up my alley than even drop shot did like i of course i love a puzzle game uh but i think seeing his art style with the kind of weird uh story that we're tackling here with the puzzly gameplay it does something for me that i really like and so i'm looking forward to this also what a brilliant move in a industry we that we have right that's so chock full of video games and things and blah blah the fact that all of his games are ariel knights yeah in the title like you know what i mean so you just search his name a e r i a l uh knight uh k n i g h t and like you see boom there they are you know what i mean like you're all you're following his games for him i think as much you're the voice actor in what never we never yield we never yield the sequel to never real yeah uh this is coming out september 1st by the way i forget i think i missed out on the release date but it's not a great day yeah i understand but it's like what is a great day at this point you know what if i was ariel knight go for gta yeah honestly do it do it honestly that would have been a move right there um one more for a game getting a release date soon story number five agent 64 spies never die launches august 11th this is a game i've been waiting for for years I played I want to say it might have been a Steam Next Fest demo for this in like 2024 maybe even 2023.

58:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:So this has been on my radar for a while. The description reads a retro spy FPS inspired by the N64 era. Go guns blazing in action packed shootouts. Steal secret plans and accomplish objectives while foiling evildoers schemes as a secret agent in a solo or co-op campaign. Fight friends in both local split screen multiplayer and online with up to eight opponents. If you're not watching the video, it's basically Goldeneye. Yeah, it looks like Goldeneye. It's basically Goldeneye. We got to do a party mode of this. Yeah, 100%. Oh, for sure. I was surprised when I saw this in my email because I thought this game had just disappeared.

59:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But when I played the demo, I really liked it. I thought this played really well. It feels like a modernized version of a Goldeneye. Or if you're me, the world is not enough 007. So shout out to this one. Hell yeah. Okay. Yeah. August 11th, you said? August 11th, Agent 64, Spies Never Die is the name of the game. coming out on PC. I don't know if there's other platforms. I can double check with this other platform. Oh, you're fine. It says on Steam. That's the trailer right there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, out on PC. That's August 11th. Greg? Yeah? If we make that party mode happen, I think it'll be a big episode.

59:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go? You'd go to our last news story, the Wii News channel, where we run you through all the small news items you need to know about. Story number six, Wii News. Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resync has sold 2 million copies. You played that? I played a couple hours. And I was like, yeah, okay. Assassin's Creed. Black Flag's great. Barrett reviewed it, though. What did Barrett give it? An 8. Oh, nice. That's about what I'd expect. From GameDeveloper, The Alters and Frostpunk developer 11-Bit Studios is laying off 20 employees.

1:00:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:hate to hear this every single time especially from um frost from 11-bit studios because people here love the alters i think specifically andy but i played i played a few hours of it really inspired video game really cool so hate to hear this news and then octopath traveler and octopath traveler 2 will be launching on switch to on october 1st 2026 and that is it for we news come switch to editions why not why not let's hop into super chat see what y 'all are talking about uh david flores writes in and says what if id software does a fallout brotherhood of steel game that plays like doom you play as a paladin fighting wasteland creatures at my opinion at just that point just make a doom i don't play fallout so i can have doom like gameplay i play doom so i can have doom like gameplay if i'm playing xbox makes fallout to make money but i they've seen it there's no money in doom there's not there's not enough money in doom there's not enough money in doom i just don't think unless it's like really really good oh i don't think it's the right decision yeah i can totally see it happening i just think that yeah i think that'd be a bad i don't know if that game would do as well as a traditional fall oh well no no no i wouldn't do here but you're thinking and i don't even here's what i'll say i don't think it does better than a doom see i think it does no i i think stick with me stick with me i think there's fallout's ip cache has risen so much that i think it's what we always talk about with all these other things of like oh man it's somniac you make sunset overdrive and nobody plays it that sucks you get spider-man you get an ip people care about let's go i think so many people myself included probably write doom off like i've never been a doom guy yeah i don't want to be doom i don't want to do my so you're like all right cool they're making a fallout game and it's the mechanics of doom and oh i think there would be an audience like oh man i never cared about going to hell and being that guy but being in fallout universe and doing it yeah i just think it's a what are you coming to fallout for i'm coming to fallout for rpg mechanics and story and all these things my brother you know you're you're a fallout is just a different game like yeah i got a lot of war do i want to play god of war kart racer yes but like that's not so like first off again this is xbox slash microsoft saying how can we make as much money as possible yeah so none of this is going to be like what you're coming for but they they someone in that boardroom would also argue if you were in that room of like cool but I wasn't coming to sim you know life sim stuff until Fallout Shelter like Fallout Shelter wasn't a Fallout game sure I just think it's different when it's a $60$70 product I'm with you I'm not saying you're wrong I'm not saying you're wrong at all and again they would say all this and I would look at it and go okay cool I'm not going to play that that's not what I want out of a Fallout that's just Doom again and I'm not a big Doom guy but I also think a lot of people would have that feeling I think a lot of people would just be like this isn't this isn't Fallout I think it wouldn't even do great in terms of reception okay so I love this conversation you make good conversations around here thank you I there's plenty of people like you and me who would be like I play Fallout for the RPG thank you very much goodbye there'd be so many other people who go I love the Fallout show and I want to be Maximus I've tried the games the games are way too slow I don't care about talking to people I just want to shoot shit in my the armor that I can't remember the name of right now I want to be in the power suit power armor power armor right and I just want to run around I just want to kill monsters I think there would be a lot of people do it there was a um i'm going to talk about this in gregway today but there's a podcast called second breakfast that talks about art that they're playing right and on uh their fallout four episode it was a conversation of like the guy had been like i wanted this game for so long i've seen all the trailers and all the videos and he was a kid younger got it and sat down like what the fuck is this this isn't a shooter he thought it was going to be like halo like he was running around doing all the shooting that's what the trailers looked like and then got there it was like an RPG.

1:04:05He's like, ah, that's not what I'm going to do.

1:04:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That was literally me when I first bought Fallout 3. Like, I got Fallout 3 from the pre-owned thing at GameStop, brought it home, thought it was going to be a shooter, and then played it and was like, oh shit, this is one of the coolest stories I've ever experienced. And I think, but I think there's so many people that aren't like us that do just want to turn on the game and go fucking kill stuff and make it go boom. I got a game for you. It's called Doom. Just play Doom. But they're really in the church. They don't like, they don't like, they don't like Satan. They don't like hell. They like ghouls?

1:04:28Yeah. Robo and Goggins will be there. They like the weird centaur things with three heads that look fucking weird. Deathclaw?

1:04:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:No. Centaur from Fallout 3. That thing freaked me out when I first saw it. Yeah. I mean, I think when you contextualize it as like Maximus and you're mowing things down in power armor, you start to sell me a bit. But I don't know. I feel like we're underrating Doom as far as like what Doom does. I think at that point. But they're not in it to make art. They're in it to make money. but I think dude makes money I think clearly it doesn't make them enough money and I think there's also a conversation of that they have weakened the brand by the game pass stuff where people think they don't need to go do it I mean what were the sales like on Playstation I'll try to find out while you keep talking yeah cause you'll start to buy it on Playstation bringing in more super chats I'm just a Billy writes in and says catching up but did I hear Walt Williams the Spec Ops writer you did riding the Wolverine game yeah he's on that here you go um aaron lime says for doing the dark ages did not sell well period so that's that's what i'm getting flooded with right now it's sold less it reportedly sold less than a million copies uh and that's including whatever but they were bragging about three million players uh ai scraping a youtube video and it's saying playstation sales were between 200 000 and 500 000 somebody says uh i missed it in chat but there was somebody in chat that said blessed people love buying popular IPs and I'm very obviously obviously yes like I know exactly what Greg is pitching I just think that doesn't work when you are doing things with a popular IP that people end up not liking and I'm not automatically sold sold on the idea that id software would make a fallout game that would be well received as a fallout game I part of it for me is story and narrative where like i i love doom games i don't i do not care about those stories i do not like the stories are not sticky with me i'm not sure that that they and this is me i i don't want to talk shit about it it's offered especially right now but i don't know if they have the chops for me of like oh you're making a fallout game that resonates with me on that narrative story level that i'm looking for out of fallout yeah i don't know if they'd be able to do that for me fair enough and like i don't know if i want to go open up a boot up a fallout thing just so I can mow down things.

1:06:47But maybe you can convince me.

1:06:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Maybe you put out a version of that that does make me go, oh man, okay. I mean, it's back to the same thing of like, I think, let's talk about Musou games, right? And it's like, okay, here's a Zelda Musou. And a little bit, Dynasty Warriors did fine by itself, so I'm not acting like this saved the franchise. But it is like, there is a, hey, taking your chocolate and your peanut butter and putting it together. And I do think if it was like, we're doing this thing, it's going to be, you're out there in the Brotherhood of Steel thing. And like, Maximus from the show is giving you missions or what and I blame a ship you know what I mean he's involved in the story he's actually there we have some tie in with Lucy yeah there's going to be a Walton Goggins ghoul thing like we really are giving you the version of the show and there's something there again it doesn't get me stoked I'd be like oh that's really nice I'm good but that is there for you maybe Aaron Lyme says for Kingdom Hearts Echoes D23 we'll have a panel this year called Deep Dive into Kingdom Hearts on the 15th of August there's a chance for news inhale the hopium there you go uh let's bring in one from d noseworthy who says birthday tax 48 today on vacation and watching my first live show i've been watching greg since early beyond days i love you all thanks for the entertainment and for standing up for marginalized communities you guys rock thank you so much thank you for watching for being live and hanging out and watching me forever that's great and then i'll do exactly two more oh my god just two science dog says birthday tax for me my son i'm 35 today and my son is three on wednesday happy birthday uh and then cletus hamwater says black jaw you're cool bless i live in charleston grew up in danville and have always been an illini fan hell yeah what do you think the basketball team's ceiling is this season oh i do not pay attention espn has them at a too early preseason number three i don't pay attention at all to illini sports just to college sports in general even though i know the line i was doing really well this last season um i'm rooting for them i have no idea how they're gonna do but i'm rooting for them if they get far i'll start to pay attention this time that is it for super chats let's hop into you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe nick cheek writes in and says greg mentioned jean gray and jesse faden are the same actress jesse from control is played by courtney we hope.

1:09:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Jean Grey is the new Wolverine or in the new Wolverine is played by Trezia Biles. The two different actresses.

1:09:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I've never... The star... You've always said this and I didn't... I've never caught the confirmation of this so I just assumed that you've been right about this. No way! I mean, we joked about it when they showed her in the Wolverine trailer. They look the same but I think we might have just assumed. Oh! Oh, very interesting. Wow. I didn't know that. I, I, I didn't remember it being a joke. I remember somebody saying it and me looking at it and be like, oh yeah, that, that's Jesse from control. That's fucking crazy. That was a very bad, like, does the actress, I'm going to get to Googling. If the actress doesn't look anything like that, what the fuck are you doing?

1:09:56Insomniac?

1:09:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They like, they played control and they're like, we like this. Let's take it. Let's just do it. That's it for your wrong. I'm gonna let Greg look that up real quick before we get out of here Yeah, just say hi to everybody Jeff says Greg Miller thinks all women look the same I was gonna make that joke I was gonna say Greg thinks all white women look the same No, she I mean Does she look like her? This woman looks nothing like the Jessie actress Now I gotta fucking see Who plays Freya in God of War? I forget her name TV actress than Jean Grey who was in Parks and Rec for a little bit Grey God of War actress because the picture Greg just showed me no that's not her oh Danielle Basuti I knew that what do you find in there fucking that's fucking insane I can't believe they made her look so much like control I can't believe you thought it was the same actress that's so fucking funny because they look exactly the fucking same look at that they do they look the same but so much so and i'm talking about the characters in the game i think so much so that zia does not look anything like no jesus this is so bizarre but yeah jesse faden and jean gray look so similar that if they were the same actress i think insomniac would make them look more different like they look like the same character in a way that i think they just did not think about it they didn't connect the two i mean yeah Look over here on the right, just above me in the picture in picture.

1:11:31Look at them side by side or on top of each other. That's what I've pulled up over here. And then let me send you.

1:11:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But is it that they look the same or they both just have the same hairstyle and wear jackets? They're both just redheads. Yeah. They control things with their eyes. I mean, I think the bridge of their nose looks incredible. I mean, I think for again, remember what we're running off of when we're live. We're live reacting to a fucking thing. You show me this girl who looks exactly like Jesse, who was already in the fucking direct. Computer, zoom into the bridge of the nose.

1:12:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's a tiktok thing oh sorry it's okay it's okay

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