GTA 6 Extended Look Pre-Show - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.27.26

26:37Having loved Red Dead Redemption and loved Undead Nightmare getting there and finding a much different game and I was like oh I think that hurt Whereas now Andy was, you know, just did his play through on Twitch again and yet again. And I'm always like, that does sound good. Maybe if I got it on PC and I went and did my thing there.

26:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Embarrassed brought up, Nikki Jakey did put up a video called returning to red dead redemption. It's a, it's a really fascinating one. You should, you should check it out if you haven't. That's Avenger. Okay. I'll definitely, I'll definitely watch it at some point. Actually, I forgot he put this up. But so what I was gonna say is that like, I, I agree with like a lot of how you feel about it. Oh man, you just down that cold brew. I'm ready to go. GTA. but to nikki jakey's point about like some of the dated aspects of rockstar's game design i think because of the slower pace of red dead redemption 2 that made some of those things get highlighted more for me whereas gta because what you're saying not only is it faster paced with driving and action and all these things it's also such a parody of itself and i think i'm i personally just have more buy-in for a world like that right i'm i also don't have the old west fantasy desire in me you know you know like crime though i want to commit a crime i want to i want to pull a heist pull off heist i want to rob a bank i want to hold people at gunpoint like in the gta online you want to rip a fucking sports car down the main thoroughfare off a ramp and it's like that's so much different than riding your horse i want to get into gang battles in san andreas right like in the gta online trailer is the dumbest thing but i remember them talking about it and me doing it is they uh Showed off how you can go into stores in the online lobby and point your gun at the shop clerk and they'll be like, oh, and like you can rob them.

28:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But if you like yell into your DualShock 3 controller, it'll make them like scared or more scared and they'll give you more money. That for me is such a dumb mechanic that spoke to me so much and still speaks to me when I think about it. Yeah, that sounds like a fun role play thing that I want to do in my video games. So again, with GTA being on ice for so long, and here we come, you know, years after GTA 5, years after Red Dead Redemption 2, are you worried about it? Like, in terms of Red Dead Redemption 2 influencing this? And then also to, I just burped in the microphone, Nakey Chakey's argument, right, that they're dated and the points, you know, gameplay design's dated and it shines through in this.

28:57Are you expecting that to still be here in GTA 6 or do you expect Rockstar to have learned and done all these different things and be in a different spot? that's a really good because there is also this not question or specter but like this is a very interesting game like dan hauser is no longer at rockstar and dan hauser granted definitely had his hand on the wheel for some of this development of gta 6 you know i mean for as long as he had been there and what he done but not all of it so he's gone so it really is like what were the things and i have no idea that he thought had to be in a game and that now that he's not there people like maybe this doesn't have to be in the game maybe we don't need to do this yeah that's a really good

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30:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and we're back greg you asked me about how i felt about the idea of red dead 2 maybe feeding into gta 6 if i have fears about that and then also do i think gta 6 will a radical yeah will be a step up from gta previous rockstar games as far as what their game design is the ways in which they've maybe felt dated in the past i want to reread the last couple of paragraphs from the story uh here where they talked about some of the mechanics they they brought in right specifically this quote from rob nelson co-studio headed rockstar he says quote we look back at our previous games with a critical eye and see where we want to evolve based on what we didn't do as well as what we would have liked to either because we didn't have the time resources or technological capabilities or in some cases things we just didn't do as well or consider as fully as we could have um a lot of what we do is very iterative we adjust a lot of things by feel based on what is working and what isn't i think already where they're talking about maybe this relationship pull and uh push and pull between jason and lucia is ignited i said oh i think when i read that part because that's something that i haven't really heard of before when you're talking about an open world game where you're playing these two back and forth protagonists they're going up and down already that's a that's something right there that i go oh that feels like that feels like a creative mechanic in a way that isn't just all right i'm in an open world game i go to point a to point b to accept mission now my mission is to drive over here now i'm in a shootout not drive over here now i'm in a shootout right like it comes down to yeah like how does the relationship play out is it that it's dialogue choices and then you're pissing each other off or whatever is it how you handle a heist a job and i would love for that i think my biggest thing is i in an open world video game where you know i think the idea for me the one of the core things the core one of the core pillars of an open world video game is that the player playing it needs to have some level of choice whether it's the choice to i'm going to go over here and do this thing before i do these other things or whether it's elden ring and breath of water games i love because they literally go hey we have a full world for you to explore and complete but you can choose any direction on how you want to do it for me that's how an open world game should be and obviously that's not the kind of game that gta 6 is but i want some kind of choice and i think if there's moments in story missions that are all right now you can diverge paths you want to draw like you just got this um you just finish this cut scene and i'll do the dark knight thing right you can go save two-face over here or harvey dent at the time or you can save this other character but that's going to affect how this character feels about you and their emotional meter for me that's cool a thousand percent that's the kind of thing that i want and that i hope is here will that be here that's my thing is where i start i think we're dreaming too big and i that sucks to say about gta 6 the biggest game of all time the biggest launch of all time but it's like that's a radical departure from how gta has been in the past right and like but it is 2026 and it is the brand new installment so it's like that would be amazing that'd be so cool but will that be what we have and i i think at what point like are we be is g are we wanting gta to be an rpg you know what i mean and it's like i know they took that rpg team they bought or whatever right from the gta online crew they bought the role playing literally yeah the role playing yeah so like was we all assumed that was going into online wasn't being influenced at all here i'm yeah i got so many questions for it i think the thing i'll also say to the question is that i think i am more forgiving of gta versus red dead because of the pace of gta and so like if it's just GTA 5 again but spruced up which is my expectations actually like my expectation is that this is just a way better looking GTA 5 um and if it's just that I'll be cool with it yeah all right cool that's I love GTA GTA 5 is one of my favorite games of all time so yeah I'll play a GTA a better looking GTA 5 in Miami but my dream would be for me to have those moments in the game where I have to like press pause and think about what I'm gonna do because there's something or there's some way of approaching solving an issue or some way of approaching my path to this destination that's going to actually affect the way that um this situation pans out greg yes what i told you there's even more to talk about in regards to i would believe it because it's gta six day before we get there let me take a look at super chats because i know y 'all been yapping in there like flavorless pork disc in chat who says uh or in the super chats who says took a day off for my birthday hit 30 my knees used to pop in the mornings but now they're popping like Mike Mambo number five damn Jesus Christ Matt Sanders 2207 says I'm gonna hate the slow animation movement of GTA characters in the year of our lord 2026 I understand that I am more forgiving of it but I definitely understand that feeling um openness prime says John Marston is who he is because of Arthur Morgan Greg yeah great cool I don't give a shit you know what I mean John Marston starts from a much more hey I like where I'm starting with this character Red Dead Redemption whereas Arthur Morgan starts to replace Red Dead Redemption 2 where I'm like I don't like this and classically a person who's no longer a rock star told me at the time like Greg he has it's called Red Dead Redemption he needs to redeem himself and I'm like I get that and that's a great point and I'm glad people are all but I'd rather watch that movie than I'd rather play that game Lucid Dream says would Arthur Morgan use a doomsday device listen Arthur Morgan would do whatever he had to to make people stop fucking with them.

36:29All right? It was very clear what I said on that show. Don't make me do this to him. And what did he do? He made me do it.

36:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Christopher 21 says, Lucia, not Lucia. I'm going to try my best to adjust that. Lucia. Lucia. Lucia. It'll come naturally the more we actually hear it. Exactly. Once we actually hear it. Lucia. Also, start a podcast and talk for four hours a day and try to get all those words perfect. All right? No, I'm coming at you. Who's this again? Christopher. It's a homie in chat. Don't turn on. I'm a commercial.

37:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Bam writes in and says GTA six saved the industry or is in another black hole. Probably a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. I mean, it's not going to. I mean. Here's the thing. The industry doesn't need saving and the things that need to be fixed can't be fixed by one game. So it's like GTA six is going to be a big fucking bright spot. make sure you're watching Matt Piscitella over on BS that's a blue sky Tim for all the Circona reports and the crazy numbers and yada yada yada and the inevitable units PlayStation consoles this is going to drive for sales and stuff like that but then be prepared for that just to be the thing for the next few months not like that's going to happen and then everybody's going to run out and buy Wolverine like that's just not how it's going to go right I think it's going to be worse when online comes out and now i have a reason to stay in gta another forever game yeah because gta 6 single player i'll probably i don't know how many hours of it let's say i'll put in 50 hours to 80 hours or something just going around the open world doing all these different things at some point i'll probably put it down right at some point i'll probably maybe i'll come back every now and then to missions or platinum but i'll give myself a month or two before it's like all right cool now i'm gonna play god of war lave or whatever's coming out in february sure sure sure gta online though yeah that's gonna be that's gonna be the black hole that's the one i'm even i'm worried about yeah of like if it's competent in terms of its online build and functionality and easy to use and like feel like it's one connected experience like that's what i've always wanted out of a gta online and i'd be fucking down to fuck with that yeah uh the king of stiga says got my staples taken out yesterday and so far my bicep tendon reattachment is healing nicely congratulations yoinked that sucker straight off the bone back in late July Jesus no pain but it was very loud oh my god stay safe and thanks for being dope um and then this is a membership a kind of funny membership um messages they say late to the party but can you stream the reveal or do we need to watch side by side to get your reactions as it happens so we have been instructed by top men top men and top women that we can stream the Netflix thing so we are going to do that it's always this really weird uh thing where they're like no no you can do it it's like sure but youtube streaming often works different than youtube a video so we're going to do it we're gonna risk it we're gonna roll the dice if the youtube stream gets claimed and shut down it'll be up on twitch and then if you wanted the again these burps today this on demand version it would then be re-uploaded over on youtube eventually and i'd also imagine our post show would probably just start we'd redo with a live stream and put it up over there so we will be live reacting we will if you don't have netflix we will be watching netflix so we'll see what happens yeah well it's really up to the youtube gods exactly we don't i i have i i we have been told repeatedly that we will be fine on youtube i don't believe it because youtube is such a fucking hydra i don't care what head these people cut down and talk to there's another head over there that doesn't know what's going on so we'll find out but it will be there and we will be going and i assure you you want to watch what's the lmfao song that got real big they'll probably have that one in the trailer party rock party rocking and thank you yeah that's gonna play and then we're gonna be like all right you were in the meeting yesterday we had a long conversation it's a whole thing yeah like weird like music like won't get us taken down while we're live it'll demonetize us bless but like from our experience in the past movie trailers they will detect and shut us down and so just because this is a Netflix thing.

40:40That's the worry. We'll see, y 'all.

40:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We'll see. Again, they better not fuck us. J. Blaze says, is this the biggest day in gaming history? No. If we're ranking five biggest days in gaming history, I think maybe launch day. Yeah, launch day. And again, what are we defining as the biggest day? That's all subjective. Exactly. Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard. Wow! That's top five. That's some nerd shit. that's a top five biggest gaming day oh i don't know what else what else is sora and smash that was a big day that was a big that might be top 10 sora and smash actually that might be top five somebody says um animal crossing plus doom day that was a that was a big day yeah i mean was it monumental no it was a big day this is the problem where it's like you're we get into the weed sonic front this is a very like i'll be interested i don't know e3 shuts down oh yeah i i see for me it's driven by numbers and so like what are the numbers on the live stream knock on plexi last week don't get shut down today what are they going to be yeah like at post show what are we going with like are we hitting the highest of highs of playstation e3s in the old days or like is it the usual kind of funny best friends plus a few thousand like where are we going i mean right now on youtube for kind of funny games daily the pre-show to the pre-show yeah we have 3 000 uh watching on youtube already man so less than a normal episode of games daily chat i'm really curious on what your answers are super chat don't tell the sponsors don't tell the sponsors five hour edit everybody super chat in with what you think is like the top three biggest days in video game history because i'm curious on what other people's answers are morris wine says bless on the subject of hygiene how do you think gta 6 will handle bathing and hygiene compared to red redemption 2 do you think that's too much for a game or does it teach gamers good habits um i think the gamers could learn good habits i don't think gta i don't think gta 6 benefits off of the good hygiene as much as red dead redemption 2 does because like red redemption 2 i think it's cool to see your beard grow and like having to shave and cleaning your horse and stuff because i think that world that world invites that kind of role play more than i GTA world does.

42:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because these are two hot people. Yeah. And it's also there used to be are hot. I think my GTA role play is I guess affecting their weight which is a weird thing but also customizing cars. That's the kind of role play I want to do. Okay. Yeah. There also used to be diseases back then and famously there are no more big diseases. Thank you RFK. Yeah. It's like what diseases happened during the development of this game. Ultra Connors writes in and says hey bless love the show. I live just north of danville growing up oh well what do you what you know about that oakwood truck stop diner i don't know anything about the oakwood truck stop diner um i do know about danville and i know about decatur man decatur i do know about decatur yeah you're cw used to play that go and do shows there no i never made it i think i stopped there but i never really did anything my mom worked in decatur for a while and i hated going there uh no offense decatur it's just sometimes there's a smell in hater sure yeah it's a yeah it's a factory there also that i don't know what it produces might be dog food but it's a very strong smell got it got it got it uh i want you to know that i sent uh someone names redacted here for private i said you better not shut down the youtube channel today you know what i mean i don't want to be have to hold anybody legally alive and she just responds top woman says we won't and it's crazy that people that are that important in our world whether it be youtube wherever are watching this shit um ghost town inc says greg are you going to be running through metal gear solid peace walker on switch all over again uh no i'll be running through it on my rog ally thank you very much and then the ratchet fella says happy zcom launch day everyone to all commanders taking the initial the infinite coil today may the force be with you um fun fact i hit download on star wars star wars zero company today on both my steam deck which i have no idea if it's gonna work on my steam deck uh yeah reports from yesterday bless uh that's a no-go on no yeah let's deck with that rock they should have it away well roger said it doesn't run that well on the rock either he's got the older version though does he i think so yeah oh yeah i guess he does he has my rock that i had so yeah he does have the older one um so yeah i have it also downloaded on my laptop at my desk and i will download on my pc i plan to play Star Wars Zero Company.

45:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I do too. Again, I'm bummed with the way the chips fell. That's the first September, I know it's not September, but the September bloodbath we're in. That's the first victim for me. It's like, oh man, if I wasn't on Redacted and Redacted and then I have a Wolverine code I haven't even started yet, I would fucking be tearing that up. I sent you a message this morning where I was like, hey, I think I'm going to skip Wolverine, mainly because I want to play Star Wars Zero Company and there are other games that I realized like, how much do I want to play wolverine i want to play it but i think i am i don't want to do the thing where i'm only playing the big games in service of talking about them on content and then missing out on experiences that i think could be really special experiences well this is the conversation you and i have had in our meetings and i try to have in the big meeting too where like when we talk about who's on the review and not even lead coverage but who's on the review that's just so that people don't need to feel like they need to play everything yeah i assure you enough people have wolverine that you can totally play something else and as a content uh you know manager here looking across the sheet like i'd rather you do that because i'd much like next week spoilers you're doing a big walk review so far right it's like we've missed that in the thing because there's so much going on i'm glad we're doubling back to that i want your opinion on that and the same same thing with like mike's preview of zero company was so positive i want more coverage on that it's just that i can't force anybody to do anything and we are all on so many redacteds that yeah for you to be like hey i'm to finish this redacted and i'm going to move on to that that's great and for me it's like even less from you and it's the internal thing of i want to play the popular games you want to be part of the conversation i want to be part of the conversation and i know people might be curious to hear what i have to say about whatever most popular game is coming out um but coming off of the therapy episode with andy right like i think a lot of people were being like blessing you're burnt out or whatever and like i think there's some of that that's definitely true i've talked about that on like uh your show gregway uh and whatever and like i think part of that is because i keep choosing games because of the audience and not choosing games because of me.

47:07It's freeing when you do. Again, I was playing that Bloodlines too, doubling back to things. I want to play Midnight Suns on this last end of my vacation where it's like there was definitely more current games I could have played, more embargoed things I could have played, but if the heart wants what the heart wants, you need to chase that because that content or enjoyment will be better. If you're enjoying yourself, it's going to lead to better content. 100 % hey I forced myself to play this game and I hated it because I wasn't in a good place to begin with let alone that I don't like the game

47:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah and then I'll do I'll do you a favor just to take it off your shoulders now we won't put you on the GTA review no no no and this is not the Pokemon guy now wind and waves I got that for you don't worry about it I will be in the mood for GTA 6 when that comes out the Aragos writes in and says Championnat de France dual commander is a dual commander event in France for MTG get your ass there bless also I want omega versus bless in tekken i don't know who omega is omega oh kenny omega is super into tekken yeah man i see he does like a lot of video game stuff good for him i'm down i'm down to face him in tekken um a commander imagine the gathering event in france i don't know man that might smell smell kind of crazy jesus christ it's gonna smell like cologne and must i don't know man i don't know about it let's move on to story number three rockstar games doubled in size for gta 6 hired real world professionals for fashion vehicles and more this is from kade onder at ign rockstar games doubled its employees employee headcount for gta 6 and hired real world professionals for the game's vehicles fashion and more as part of a cover story for dazed rockstar games shared a boatload of information about gta 6 in the piece it was confirmed that Rockstar doubled in size following the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 in order to bring GTA 6 to life, with a new Los Angeles-based office being almost solely dedicated to working on nothing but the game's NPCs.

49:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Wow. Goddamn. For context, Rockstar had around 2 ,000 employees in 2018. That would put them around 4 ,000 now. The studio has expanded a lot over the last decade by acquiring new studios in Australia, India, and the aforementioned LA office. Rockstar's expansion doesn't exclusively encompass game developers. The company brought on other real-world professionals, such as Miami-based stylist Jillian Carr, who was hired to help create a fashion ecosystem that can capture the diversity in style, culture, and class necessary to give Vice City's people their distinct character. Quote, Vice City is built around vanity, Carr said to the magazine.

49:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Between social media, celebrity culture, and a constant flow of tourists, appearances carry significant weight, and trend cycles turn over quickly, end quote. rockstar also hired race car drivers to help with vehicle handling and 50 real street artists to design murals around the game's map very cool while consultants are hardly unique to this project car and others are full-time employees at rockstar and have been for years that's really wild uh car was specifically hired in 2023 and appears to be as much of the team's regular or to appears to be i read that right appears to be as much of the team's regular operations as anyone else i don't know if they wrote that right but i get what they mean that's really cool yeah i mean across the board yeah i have multiple ways to tackle it you talk about doubling the size right and then go back to this conversation we had of like well how big can we dream of what gta 6 is actually going to be right that's where you like is it possible for today and this game to live up to the hype and justify this many people and yada yada yada one question there then my much different question is they're talking about styles and fashions you know do you think it's going to be we are clothing going to have attributes is going to be are we going to be that level of rpg where it's like wait we're going to go do a heist i'm going to put on my outfit that gives me cloaking okay no i think not cloaking that's bad you know i mean plus two stealth i don't mean yes actually well not plus two stealth but cloaking was a bad one where i could easily see i break into some facility i buy secrets i grab i guarantee you 100 there will be certain outfits for certain missions like gt online already has had this where it is all right you're doing a heist now one of the missions will be getting a specific kind of outfit.

51:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, and that's why it's a bad example. I mean, stat boost. Yeah, we were talking about stat boost. Plus two stamina. I don't think it'll be that, though. No, because I think that takes away from the experience. I do, too. Yeah. But what I do think is actually, I don't know. I'm trying to think of, will you have branded stuff? Like, will I be able to buy an actual Louis Witton? Yeah, no, fuck Nike. I'm talking about, like, fucking, yeah, stuff that I can wear to the Met Gala. No. I don't think you will. I think that's a hard no, right? Because they've always been so, like, you know, instead of Apple phones, it was pair phones, right?

51:53Oh, sure. I think they have their own in-universe. We've established all this shit. And I think also the way Rockstar works, they wouldn't want to, like, oh, can we see how it's going to be used in the game? Or fuck off. Yeah, they're like, we don't want to.

52:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, because we're going to have a lot of dick jokes. We're going to be joking about a lot of dick jokes. Yeah, it's going to be Louis Vuillier, not Louis Vuitton kind of thing. nailed it um but yeah this all sounds cool can't wait for the gta stuff let's move away from the gta stuff for a second before we do our post an hour away pretty much from gta 6 honestly seen for the first time i think before this episode i was like all right it's gonna be more gta can't wait to watch more gta i guess now i'm kind of like really excited after talking about i'm like oh no i'm really looking forward to this game now i'm pumped hopefully i'm wowed story number four Speaking of being wild, Xbox releases an extended 18-minute Fable gameplay demonstration.

52:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is Dave Aubrey at Video Games Chronicle. Xbox has revealed 18 minutes of Fable gameplay footage via the ongoing Gamescom event. The demonstration video features Playground Games art director, Connor Cross, narrating the new gameplay. We see the game's hero exploring the capital of Bowerstone, visiting an owned house where their spouse and child live, and much more. The video reveals a lot of new information. For example, 400 NPCs live in Bowerstone, and they all have their own homes, hobbies, traits, personalities, and are fully voiced. You'll be able to talk and interact with all of them.

53:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The demonstration also shows us The Last of the Greats, an in-game quest featuring Humphrey the Golden. Xbox Wire has also elaborated on Fable's combat mechanics. The strength, skill, and will system returns from the original games in a new form, meaning players will still use familiar melee, magic, and ranged attack types. they've also revealed a list of spells they were able to test fireball lightning blade lift rush push and be foul uh greg you reacted to the 18 minute trailer andy and i did this for yesterday's greg way so if you're kind of funny member you can check that out at patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games apple and spotify where yeah we sat down and watched the entire thing talked over what do you think awesome i mean i can't wait fable is another when you talk about gta today right like mainly it was us looking at this world as we look at it right now and just marveling at how good this looks how much personality this town has and then you extrapolate that out of like everything they've said of their living world a thousand npcs where nothing's you know ai generated nothing repeats it's them their own lives and you can follow any one of these people befriend them marry them yada yada yada like as you extrapolate out of this town that gets impressive you know i think the one thing we've done a lot of is talk about how amazing it is the things that stood out to me that like weren't like okay cool this is a video game i didn't think the lip sync was that great in it um the powers we're using obviously it's early on in the game they looked cool but they didn't have that visual flair i think you put this next to warlock which we saw you know at uh the show the case this week and that has such like powerful bombastic effects that was cool but more than anything funny as fuck dude like i know that's their whole shtick here of like hey we're you know doing a fable game and it's going to be funny and it's going to be this.

55:01When you meet, what was it, Humphrey, right? It's very office-like, where your character's having the conversation with him, and then they're doing the cutaways to him talking to a camera about it. That was really fun. We liked that. Then even the conversations, these little barbs you're throwing out here, the choices and the dialogue you're having of being an asshole, not being an asshole. It's what I want out of this Fable game. I'm very, very excited to get my hands on it come February and really, really get deep into it and see what I can do. And it's interesting for me, you know, especially at the start of this episode where we were talking about red dead and I didn't want to be a cowboy or bad cowboy.

55:36Be like, Greg only wants superhero games. Right. It's like looking at this one, it's immediately, I am like, well, I like that choice. They didn't pick, right? Like if you're going to be a dick, so then I'm like, all right, cool. Am I, am I going to be the anti-hero in this where I am like, fuck you kid. Cause there was like a kid comes up to talk to you at one point in it. And there's funny dialogue already. But then there were a few things like, you know what I mean? I'm like, get the hell out of here. What are you talking about? Would you tell this kid off? And then what does that do to your reputation there in the town, the person you're building?

56:05Again, I want the game to react, piggybacking off all this GTA stuff, and really be customized to who I am and what I am so that I get a different outcome than you do, have a different experience, a different conversation. And so that's what Fable's promising, and I'm very excited for that.

56:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Hell yeah. Yeah, I still need to check out this trailer. I'm really looking forward to it. One thing I realized as I'm talking to you is, you know, I make fun of the British a lot, mainly for the beans on toast thing. Even fish and chips amazing, though. I like British humor a lot. Oh, yeah. I think the British humor is like top top five humors. I'm ranking the humor. Sure. Yeah. Well, it's top. It's like probably two. Probably two. We're number one because we always take the British stuff and make it better. Exactly. Take the office. Make it better. Yeah. Story number five. After rave reviews, Zero Company devs says it would love to make more Star Wars games.

56:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is Andy Robinson at VGC. Developer Bit Reactor says it would love to continue working on Star Wars games after this week's Zero Company received the franchise's strongest reviews for two decades. Press reviews went live for the XCOM-inspired strategy game earlier this week, and at the time of publishing, Zero Company has a Metacritic score of 86, which puts it above or on par with every Star Wars game to date. bar only 2002's jedi knight 2 which has an 89 2001's uh rogue leader with a 90 and 1997's jedi knight with a 91 and 03's knights of the old republic of course with a 94 of course speaking of vgc on the game's release date bit reactor founder and game director forge uh called zero company's critical reception a surreal moment four years after he quit for access to start fresh quote it's surreal when you start making a game you aim to make a game of the year not a strategy game of the year but a game of the year that's why you do it but to see the reviews come in and kind of validate that feels good so yeah it's an amazing feeling he said forged said he'd receive a lot of nice messages from lucasfilm public and publisher electronic arts and confirmed that he intends to work on another licensed game next potentially more star Wars.

58:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, when I started the company, I actually wanted a license, he said. The whole thing I was doing was looking for IP when we stumbled into Star Wars. Starting a company, man, stumbling into Star Wars is crazy. Starting a company and making your own IP just felt too risky. It's just another thing to solve. And everything we've ever done in our careers has kind of felt like not original IP anyway. Whether it was Civ or XCOM or Pirates or whatever, all those games I always approached as existing IP that I was curating and responsible for. So we're pretty conditioned for that at least i feel like i am end quote he then continued quote and i think for the next game maybe too i think we'll be looking to do an existing ip and we've loved working with lucasfilm it's been an absolute joy and such a good experience so we'd love to keep making star wars potentially but yeah i think the next game we're doing is probably going to be an existing ip good for bit reactor that's really awesome to hear fantastic news yeah i love that they had a plan and they were like we want to do an existing ip and that they were able to stumble into star Wars and make a game that is doing really well on the critical side.

59:09Hey, John Drake, it's Greg Miller. I'm live on kind of funny games daily. I know, of course, you are the GM of 20th century games and VP business dev, Disney, Pixar, Lucas, all this. I know you make the games. All right. I don't know if you're watching live, but we just read an article developer bit reactor would love to make more Star Wars games. So if you could make that happen, that would be fantastic. and all we'd ask for is in the credits a thank you for bringing this business opportunity to you.

59:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Small Watto. We'd like Small Watto in it as well, thank you. I love a good Siri text. You know what I mean? Who knows how it's going to shake out? It's not going to say anything you just said. It's a little garbled, it looks like. It's a hella typo. He's going to look at it and he's like, oh, Greg's drunk again. Oh man, last time I did that, it's a shitty poll. On Friday, I sent him one and I said, give Tim Schafer the rights to Full Throttle 2 or else. And I did that on the show. And then he responded. He goes, spell his name right if you want to take it seriously, dummy. And then I was like, CEOs let Siri do her thang.

1:00:11Her thang. I said thang. Yeah. And so there I was, you know, he knows that I'm too busy. I'm making the deals over here. Don't suck a long text. I just saw it on your thing. What? You saw me narrate it. You saw me narrate it.

1:00:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You hit send on it without even going back and fixing the spelling errors. CEOs, man. You know what I mean? That's how it's got to be. story number six trump might bring back tariffs this is ethan gotch at kotaku we might be in for a sequel to one of the trump administration's most unpopular policies tech tariffs the president is reportedly eyeing a new round of import taxes on hardware that would include things like video game consoles the news comes even as video game makers like nintendo are being sued over not refunding consumers for the last round of tariffs that were ultimately deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

1:00:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Well, one tariff approach under consideration would dramatically expand the number of tech products subject to the duties, hitting not just chips, but potentially, are you laughing at duties? Jesus. Hitting not just chips, but potentially many of the goods made with them, such as laptops, gaming consoles, or the servers that fill data centers, reports Politico. All right, we're going to be okay. Oh, yeah. All the bad guys are building the data centers. Trump's not going to tax the fellow bad guys. so we'll escape by. We'll be okay. He's taxing the gaming consoles and Jared Kushner has just entered the gaming business.

1:01:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He doesn't care. That's why it won't be for long. He doesn't care. For long. Eventually he's going to go, Daddy, please stop. You know what I mean? Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. I don't know how Jared Kushner sounds. Like a South Park character. The administration is apparently looking at how new tariffs could be used as bargaining leverage for pressuring companies to invest in building chips for data centers in the U.S. While AI companies panic about the potential for even higher costs, video game makers could potentially get caught in the crossfire. Using an incentive structure akin to a mob-style protection money racket also sounds way dumber than just putting an industrial policy in place that would guarantee the creation of semiconductor factories in the U.S.

1:02:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:A controversial regime of reciprocal tariffs was struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year, with a 6-3 ruling declaring that the president is not authorized to unilaterally impose import taxes on other nations without legislation from congress this led to huge refunds for all the companies that had paid the taxes including console makers like sony and nintendo those companies raised prices to pass the higher costs onto the consumers some of whom are now suing the companies for a chunk of the refunds yeah because they got to they got to double everything essentially you know we should be the ones refunded i mean if only there was one company doing that story number seven playdate maker panic is refunding tariff fees to customers this is nicole carpenter and diego arguello at game developer crank driven handheld playdate maker panic emailed customers this week to spread some good news the company received tariff refunds from the united states government and is passing that along to consume to customers people who purchased a playdate from panic during the period in which the tariffs were charged will get the refunds.

1:03:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, there was a specific window of time this year where we charge tariffs to customers, Panic co-founder Cabell Saucer explained in an email to game developer confirming the news. Quote, we tried absorbing the cost for a while, but that was financially difficult for a small company like ours. We made the tariff a very obvious and clearly labeled line item on checkout for any customer affected, end quote. Panic also set up a website to explain the 19 % tariff surcharge. Well, it's just not our money to keep. And it felt really good to give it back, Sasser said. That's an easy way to know you made the right decision.

1:03:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He continued, quote, still, it took a lot of work for us to file all the paperwork to get the refund from the government. And it took work to build a little system to process the refund. A little system to give everybody's money back. and sometimes it felt like wait why are we seemingly doing more work than even gigantic companies are on this issue that felt weird but i guess it makes sense in a way because our small size means we're far more directly affected by something like a tariff and end quote sasu said he hopes panic never has to talk about tariffs again i'm sorry panic i'm so sorry quote from start to finish on this whole tariff whim all i could think about is all the cool stuff we could be working on instead he said what a one-two punch of news stories you know you know i choose to go with the good side of it right of how cool cable is you know what i mean the cable's just like no let's give the money back that's how you know panic made too much fucking money on fucking untitled goose game there's like there's like ah what are we getting now big walk right i was like ah whatever yeah we're the publisher of these mega successful things we decided to make a handheld with a crank for no reason and that's a fucking weird thing and we're trying to pass the savings back to the people who supported this device like yeah why aren't big companies doing that that's a great question cable why aren't we doing so much work to do this yeah how come we're shocking that everybody else is sitting on the fucking money now nintendo in place and sony aren't doing this that's crazy uh greg yeah they did make a game called uh big walk published sorry published a game called big walk and i've been playing it let me tell you those walks are so big but if i wanted something smaller that was fucking good Thank you.

1:05:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That was good. Say the tiniest news I needed to know about. Where would I go? You'd go to our last news story before our GTA 6 preview, where we cover all the tiny little news needed to know about. It's called Wii News. Story number eight, Wii News. 1047 Games is ending active development on Splitgate Arena Reloaded and Impulse. What a journey. Tough. What a journey. I previewed that at Summer Game Fest. Which one? This year, Impulse. Yeah, that was their Titanfall-looking game. Okay. do they have a game that they're working where are they? I think these were the games so what are they doing now?

1:06:06I don't know we're doing this now they're not doing it I have no idea man what a crazy we're a bunch of kids in college and we made split gate and now it's humongous and now we're doing this thing next news beat we're wearing a make shooters great again and we are fucked we have fucked everything into the ground I was thinking about that was that the thing that fucked it up for them? I mean like like if they never

1:06:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:on top of just if he never wore that hat no I think we'd still be in the same position yeah I think it's because I think you'd put out Splitgate 2 and remember again I'm way this is not my genre I just talk about the news and I talk about a lot of news yeah it was that they put out Splitgate and charge 2 and it was too early so then they refunded it and put it into bait it was like the whole thing of like oh fuck we fucked up and now it was like yeah I think they would have made the same mistakes as missteps missteps you know what I mean in a industry fought with frosh trouble i think they would have had more support if it wasn't for that moment though it's like i when they they posted online a full statement and i was looking at the replies and all the replies were the memeing the make yes games great again hat and i think splitgate one was such a fun game i love splitgate one um we did a like a like a beta demo or alpha demo of splitgate 2 yeah um before the game came out and that game was fun as well i previewed impulse like i mentioned at summer game fest i think that game's pretty fun now do these games have the stuff to survive and all that that's a separate conversation but i think before pre-hat wearing people like the studio like people it seemed like a success story well we were in college and now we made this thing and it's humongous and i think they could have maybe made a push for like hey at the very least maybe our fans can can bully us maybe our fans can hold us up and yeah they're getting dunked on um on the games industry that biz article about all this uh down at the bottom founders uh said the studio's focus is now changing after a decade built around live service shooters and that whatever it builds next quote may look very different from what people expect from 1047 games we shall see from vgc the highly anticipated the wolf among us remastered is launching october 29th of 2026 a new trailer was released for the release date announcement in which we see a new noir mode made to evoke classic era detective movies from gamatsu glow made has announced rogue fortune a fast-paced roguelite action game quote where greed meets relentless combat demanding ever more powerful builds and even greater sacrifice it will launch for ps5 xbox switch 2 and pc via steam in 2027 barrett's pulled up a trailer if you're watching the video version i like the description yeah i'll read the full steam description fast-paced action roguelite where greed meets relentless combat, demanding ever stronger builds and sacrifices.

1:08:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Cut through hordes of monsters, arrange relics into devastating arcane synergies, and gamble your newfound fortune for the strength to escape a temple determined to take it all back. I'm wishlist, and I like this. I want to follow what's happening. It looks cool. The art style reminds me a little bit of... Bastion. A little bit of Bastion. I was also going to say Moonlighter 2. Yes, exactly. 1.0 today? No. No way, really? I mean, it's imminent. Oh, maybe September 1st? Yes, it's September. It's a September game because we pre-recorded all the games coming out in September. But it's imminent is what I'm saying about Moonlighter.

1:09:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The Seance of Blake Manor is coming to PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2 on October 27th. That's a game that someday... Well, I want to say... That's a game that I want to play. Oh, you would fuck with it. I can't promise that I'll someday play it, but it's a game that I would... It's on my short list. You can't say you'll try, but you'll try to try. I'll try to try. That's a game for when I retire. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make a retirement backlog whenever I quit this industry. I don't have to keep up with new games and I'm just playing old games. I'm just going to... Yeah. Sam's a Blake Manor should be your number one.

1:09:51When I'm 65 years old. Do not feel bad. Take the rest of the year off for new games. No Wolverine, no GTA. No Zelda.

1:09:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's easy. Fuck, Zelda's still this year? Why are we doing that? But seriously, if you want to play as a sad Irish detective who's on a kind of hunt for a missing person in a big creepy hotel place. It's a great fucking game. And then, was that Blueprints last year? Yes. No shock. I think that's one of the reasons why maybe it got overshadowed in end of year shit. Blueprints was such a bomb when that dropped, man. I love Blueprints. I had never heard of it until reviews had dropped and it was one of the best reviewed games of last year it's in the same conversation for me as oh the root trees are dead but like the one the one from that dev that came on in july that's like that's just like the root trees are dead yeah that i can't remember the name of that mike got in his famous critic because i mentioned it michael do that freaking mike cassette beasts 2002 launches in march 2027

1:10:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:neon abyss 2 launches this fall on our xbox series game pass ps5 and switch and then finally armadist launches january 7th 2027 and that is it for we news that's it incident at galley house is the game i was thinking of um we're gonna wrap up here in a second but before we do let's speed through some super chats here super chats i don't know what this is a response to but science dog official says ben couldn't have been any clear i forget what we were talking about at the moment that they super chatted don't make my daddy hurt you yes uh yes yes thank you thank you golden spider 666 says i know it's 99 not going to happen but i hope the controls are more modern i hate the rockstar control scheme so much why we tap an x to run in 2026 interesting i think that could happen i can think that could happen for sure can i be honest yeah you know i hope i think it could happen i hope it doesn't you like where we're at i like where we're at with the gta controls i like tapping x to spray and square to jump with triangle to enter a car if you change it i'm gonna have such a tough time like muscle memory like i don't know what i'm doing at the very least give me a classic control scheme because like even for when they released gta 5 on ps3 and then i jumped over to ps4 they changed the bumpers and triggers because of course ps3 everything was like you press l1 name r1 to shoot because they're all weirdos during that era but that's how i learned gta 5 yeah and switching that over for gta on um ps4 yeah i couldn't do it oh wow yeah so if they change it i'm gonna have trouble but at least give me a classic control scheme if you do i'm sure they will um ty wilkins says not gta related but you mentioned star stand star sand island a couple of days back and i can finally announce that i voiced lauren to the cozy kind of funny games community i hope you enjoy Hell yeah It's really cool Star Sand Island Star Sand Island Kenny Penn says Love you bless What's the appeal of Greg Miller?

1:12:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh thank you No he says What's the appeal of Yeah but I like being the topic of conversation Yeah yeah yeah I like a question about me What do you think the answer is? Star Sand Island Tired of the city grind? Escape to Star Sand Island Embrace the simple joys of country life Live alongside capybaras Cats and dogs Reel in a big catch And explore The enchanting moonlit forest Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise. They ask you what's the charm of me. I'm not... They ask you what's the charm of me. I'm not answering my own question. Well, that right there is the charm of Greg Miller.

1:13:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know, the fact that he... I listen. He hears about an indie game that a kind of funny best friend is working on or is a voice in, and he wants to highlight it. We promote it. And give him a shine. That's the charm of Greg Miller. Or that's the appeal of Greg Miller. He cares. Ignacio Rojas, 3208, says, Remember IGN's GTA V at 5? Bring it back, Greg. That's a whole poll. I don't know what that is. If memory serves, because I'm dated on it, I believe me, this is like the infancy of streaming at IGN. Me and Justin Davis would go live at five and play GTA V for an hour. Oh, that's fun. We did a whole thing once where we walked across the entire map.

1:13:59That was just why you didn't see what would happen and yada, yada, yada. I like that. I kind of forget if that's the entire,

1:14:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:was that the entire thrust? That would be cool. Like the week after GTA V comes out, we do our daily streams is like weird, different goals. GTA 6. We still, I know, I asked Roger after Skyrim ended and he almost cried because he just finished the Skyrim marathon, but I was like, what is the plan for GTA? And he has a loose plan and I wonder, I want to know what it is because I really feel like there's a lot of things we could do, including we all just are playing. We're all playing our own games and then, you know, Kev or Bear is just switching over to see who's doing the most interesting thing.

1:14:32Kind of like the NFL red zone of like what's going on.

1:14:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:JBC says, Keanu introducing Cyberpunk 2077 is top five. Top five moment. Or top five day. I forget what the question was You said Biggest days Biggest days in video games Top five biggest games in video games I mean Top five biggest days I mean you have to put in the PlayStation E3 conference Where they dunked on Xbox Oh This is how you share a game You know what I mean Like we do We believe in used games And we believe in everything Not always online That's the day I think about a lot Yeah I remember that day a lot Jack Trenton Jackie T Because that changed everything That was the Harambe of video games Where when That was our canon event That was our canon event like if that never happened i don't think xbox acquires activision wow like legit yeah that's a good point like the dominoes the dominoes yeah dominoes building up to the jack if xbox never fucked up that badly in 2013 yeah i think we're talking about a dynamically different looking i'm sorry what's the harambe like harambe death small domino what's the big domino at the end of that one uh the collapse of everything yeah okay collapse of western civilization trump getting elected yeah yeah okay all the bad stuff we're in right now the social media what am i thinking of It's not canon.

1:15:41In Marvel now, there's anchor. Anchor beings, right? Anchor people. You think Harambe was an anchor being? That's the theory. That is the theory.

1:15:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oscar Navarro writes in and says, five biggest days in video game history. Sounds like a future Gamescast to me. I think that could be a fun competition. I'm doing it. Yeah, write it down. Cletus Hamwell. I feel like Tim would be really good on that one. Because Tim has that kind of name. Just a sigh of Tim. it's just too good at everything i do i mean you'd be good at that too oh i'm gonna have to do a lot of research i feel like that'll be me sitting back and like listening to you guys talk okay right now i'm gonna put it on for september 8th cletus hamwater says it'll keep but we'll try a negative but still historic day top five was the playstation outage in 2011 that was that's a really good one we hadn't seen it before and we haven't seen it on that level since here's my thing with that is i would honestly say see it's not a top five day is when it came back not for the celebration but we actually knew how long it was yeah remember the day of it was like oh the psn's down that happens and the next day and the next day and then we're like what the fuck is going on you know what i mean man could you imagine that happening now i could not um banner ascent says number one is blessings first day hosting khd come on nice thank you so much i I love that.

1:17:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Meta318 says, PS4 E3 2013 top five moment. Of course, we talked about that. Loyal Freak says, the biggest day in gaming history... Hold on, I need to get rid of this thing. The biggest day in gaming history is when Mike and Roger became the first people ever to beat Skyrim. Damn, good point. Halo 3... This is from Alvin. Halo 3 launch day in the 2016 Sony E3 conference have to be in the top five. Was Sony 2016... Was that God of War... Yeah, that must have been God of War 2018 getting announced. It also might have been Spider-Man reveal as well. Which one was the one with... It was the return of the last Guardian, and it was Shenmue 3 and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

1:17:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That was a PSX, right? No, that was E3. I can never keep straight. I watch that Easy Allies clip all the time. That might have been 2016. 2015 is what you were saying. Bob Shigiri says, If GTA 6 is just prettier than GTA 5, how would that rank on the kind of funny scale? and would it need to be a 10 i mean i don't think anything needs to be a 10 you know what i mean just because it made a prettier i can make a prettier um crash bandicoot right right now and it's like it's still it's still a three out of ten wow yeah i said it if i'd be better um but no i think like i i think i would i would disconnect score from it because score i think is a there's so many factors that goes into what makes the game a masterpiece and all that shit right i think it's more so what is going to meet your expectations of what it is and i think a prettier gta 5 kind of meets my expectations that i have going in but i don't think that's a 10 for what the showcase or for the game coming out i guess that's hard to say this isn't how i think i review games i don't think it's how any of us review games right where it's like even now like i don't know is that it's like you're playing is gta 5 a 10 yeah exactly and it's like i think for me the answer is yes yeah but it's like honestly i'm so far removed from that game that i had have to you know go back and read slash watch what i said back in the day about it and for me it goes back to the conversation of rock stars game design being dated is like what a 10 is in 2013 is different from what a 10 is in 2026 like big games have come out that have changed the game and that's the big thing i'm curious to see is like in a world post witcher 3 and elden ring and breath of the wild and fucking even i'll throw even spider-man in there not that it's like a fucking not that spider-man changed everything but the fact of like i played so many other open world game games now that are all cyberpunk i'll throw in there that have all like added in these cool ideas into the pot of what open world video games are and is is the stew of gta 6 stew that i drink gonna taste like a stew that came before all these things or are they gonna put in the potatoes we're back to the conversation we always talked about with uh starfield no well yeah but another one too there was another but like by the time which are what am i thinking what came out what were bunkers elder scrolls there used to be an example i would give of like you know how witcher came out and changed everything and then read the redemption i don't remember anymore but you understand i'm saying like bethesda games feel like bethesda games are they learning from the industry at large are they working so hard on their bethesda game that when you go like balder's gate and starfield that was the connection oh yeah those coming out when you were at bethesda saw that drop you know three weeks before your game you're like shit dude ballers top five it doesn't fit actually i can't make it fit but like you tried though i saw you spin those wheels ballers gate 3 and starfield coming out at the same time that's some sort of canon event because like that's a crazy happens top five video game dunks yeah because yeah i remember the they moved up ballers gate to get away from it and be like because like that's one of those things where like the most anticipated rpg in years came out alongside the best rpg in years like that's crazy yeah um okay we got to get out of here and so i'm gonna go to your wrong uh where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we get it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe kabobs wrote in with uh breaking news that we actually covered so kabobs get out of here you know what to do learn how to fucking watch the show um no we don't really have your wrongs is proton wrote in saying try not to be annoying but it's lucia not lucia so lucia lucia lucia to be fair to kebabs they said they uh wrote that in yesterday uh so whoever was hosting the show yesterday didn't clear the cookies i put my cookies in the mail we're about to start our actual pre-show to the gta 6 extended look premiering on netflix that we're going to live react to and so stay tuned for that of course this has been kind of funny games daily if you love what we do support us to the kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show enjoy everything happening after this but until next time game daily