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38:54For that person who's like, I'm going to pre-order the day before the fuck you are. You're not going to miss out on free Vice City content, are you? Take two has also confirmed the standard edition of the game will cost$79.99. The Ultimate Edition will cost$99.99. Bless you have the details.

39:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, they have a full list of content included in the Ultimate Edition. I'm still reading from Video Games Chronicles, so you have a vehicle, the 95 Grotichita, signature mid-90s sports car and owed to Shore Drive. They go on and talk about it. They have weapons, Hawk and Little Morgan revolvers, his and hers versions of this powerful revolver with classic Vice City styling swords from Versetti Estate, including palm tree etched grips, engraved detailing in high performance scope. You also got more weapons, personalized variants, personalized sidearms with detailed engravings for Jason's Garrardy ES9 pistol and lucia's close k17 pistol you got looks by city specific style looks uh more vehicles jason's safe safe house vehicles you got a mod kit the ganado retro build inject some muscle and classic stylings into jason's well-worn vapid ganado low riding pickup with exclusive mods you have the mod shop ride out customs um you have a hair salon get his jacket hair salon sarah's unisex salon you got a watercraft shih tzu squallow you got a clothing school clothing store a stock 305 um another vehicle in garage the 67 dominator buggy it seems like it's just a lot of exclusive locations like yeah store garage shop stuff like that you have a tattoo shop here uh another mod shop another look shop uh gang compound and then you have a special commission the classic car collection track down a variety of abandoned classics and work in progress project cars and revitalize them to their former glory in the special commission from a centric collector and local fixer wyman i don't like it i don't like it there's a lot of content for it for to pay the hundred dollar version for yeah like in-game content but like well they showed a tattoo shop they're talking about a tattoo shop right so it's like that's gotta be there's gotta be lots of tattoo shops right yeah but like do you get no tattoos but think about it when you're playing GTA and it's like, okay, cool.

41:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I want to go to the tattoo shop. You don't have a thing that's like locked because you didn't pre-order it. Is it just grayed out? I'm with you. Then if it's grayed out or I walk up to the tattoo shop and be like, you didn't pay enough to get the fuck out of here. You didn't pay the$100, bitch. That sounds outrageous and stupid which is why I can't imagine like when you're the weapons, sure, whatever. The stupid cars, sure, whatever. or whatever it's like the that i want to see how it's implemented because that seems like it's when i read it it just seems bad for how i think of the way i played grand theft auto and how i don't want my i don't want any gaming experience interrupted by you didn't buy the pre-order right out yeah mod shop right out customs transform vanilla vehicles into magnificent works of art with detailed interiors exquisite rims and donk stylings only open for business with the ultimate an addition.

41:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's weird. That's weird.

42:00Nick Scarpino:So it's just, it'll still be there. It won't be grayed out. It's it will be a door that won't be able to open. It would say closed. Yeah, probably.

42:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Closed because you didn't pre-order. Get your money on. Closed because you're a broke-ass bitch. It's not like broken here. That's what they say when you walk in the shop. Get out. That'd be better if they chased us out. Get out of here. Get the fuck out of here. With a golf club. Golden gun that kills you when you hit. That's weird. I don't like that at all. I don't like that either. they're the only open for business i don't like at all no no no that seems really bad honestly i don't like that that doesn't sit right i want yeah i wonder if there's an option maybe there's i mean i wonder if you walk up to the shops and like you can pay 199 right now to open this like in-game currency maybe they're real money real money to open this i was gonna say like maybe these are tied you know how in gta you oftentimes can own businesses and like you'll make money or whatever.

42:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Maybe these are tied to like, oh, you pay in real, in game, in real, you pay in game money to then open that business. Now you can attend it and then also you own this tattoo shop. And this is also the classic. That's really hopeful, I know. This is also the classic marketing shit of like, all right, so standard edition's$80. Oh, well, the ultimate edition's just$99. Yeah. I'll round it up the dollar and round it down the dollar. like it's basically 10 15 bucks like it's not that big of a deal i've already i've already come this far i've waited for this game for so and again you're talking about this audience that again i think is going to buy playstations tvs xboxes for this sure i've already waited this long what don't i want the fucking tattoo shop this weird ass vice city shirt that's just bad 80 for the cut edition 100 for the full edition think about that yeah i just hope i mean we're talking about a lot of precedents being set right$80 all this stuff i hope this isn't a precedent where other companies are like yeah we can lock our content behind paywalls i know we already live in that world yeah but in an open world game where you want you want to be immersed you don't want to be interrupted by 100 your own wallet your physical wallet ah that that doesn't that doesn't feel good just give me costumes like any other game you know this only comes around maybe every third generation.

44:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:So at this point, they're like, fuck it. You'll swipe the card, Mike. Let me play as Tommy Versetti. People will pay for that. That doesn't interrupt my experience. Exactly. Cars, weapons. But it's an interesting argument because outsider Greg, looking at this, when it's just weapon skins, car skins, commemorative t-shirts, I don't care. I'm like, who gives a shit? But when it is like businesses, is that's when I think like you do get to this point like yeah it's only 20 more dollars I've come this far what are you gonna do that's not me yeah I'd still pay the 80 version I'd just be pissed the entire time playing I'm cheap like that I'm like I'm not paying you the 20 extra dollars I'm gonna be mad while I play this game this is what I was thinking about last night too with like the whole uh steam machine Jeremy tracks would stick with me where I was like you know we have one in the office Roger's streaming it today of course they're doing their steam machine review so far Greg way about it's gonna be great content and I've been you know like I'm like, I don't need it.

45:15All the stuff in the box. And then I remembered the 20th edition ROG ally, you know, with the OLED screen and the collide buttons as I was in bed last night. And Jen's like, I'm going to lay in your arm while you play. I'm like, all right. And I wrapped a wrap. She's like laying here. And I go click. Like, oh, God, it's the clicky one. I'm like, I'm sorry. And I was like, oh, I was like, all of a sudden I was like, oh, the 20th edition ROG is a must buy. Like, and it's bundled with X reels. I don't know a price tag. But I was like, the money I would even think about putting into the steam machine, I'm going to put in this thing instead.

45:45So I can shut the fuck up. Yeah, there you go. I digress. Let's see what the chat is saying over here.

45:55I mean, Exigent Midnight says exactly what Barrett was saying. 90 % of a game for$80, 100 % for the full 100%.

46:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. $100 for the 100%. Yeah, back to that conversation again of how much would you charge for this game? Where would you go? Interesting. On the positive side, they uploaded a bunch of new screenshots on their website. This game looks real good. It looks unreal. Have we seen any gameplay yet? Have we seen any gameplay yet? The first two trailers. I mean, in-engine, I guess.

46:24Nick Scarpino:Have we seen gameplay of this game that people are going to be pre-ordering for$80 to$100 tomorrow?

46:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I mean, are you worried about the gameplay? I don't know. It's just weird. This is GTA. It's just weird. i mean i would i would say the first two trailers with like the in-engine stuff kind of tell you it's also here's what i'll jump this is like a thing i've never heard of before that i'm with you but it's gta i can you know what the gameplay is going to be we have a whole day planned obviously of content tomorrow because that's what we do here do we think there's not going to be a trailer a something tomorrow for this i mean i would think that you would have dropped this today with all this news coming out today yeah you didn't drop the trailer today i feel like the news they're dropping today is the honestly the bad news you have to give people hey it's 80 bucks there's no fucking game in the box hey you're gonna spend a hundred dollars to get the full game okay i think you do all that and then it's like again i this sounds stupid but stick with me they give us the bad news because that's the news the beat for us they give the trailer with gameplay or the gameplay deep dive or whatever at midnight or in the morning tomorrow because that is for poe that is for usa today that is for hey everybody you can go pre-order the game right now go get the game right now you can go do it right now yeah you need that action item like we already know you already know right now if you're buying gta 6 or not probably the question is if you are what version you're buying right like tomorrow you want just all the bells and whistles that it's there i think they're you're going to get something tomorrow now will the gameplay again or just another stylized trailer who the fuck knows i think the only thing that goes against it is all of the screenshots they put like they posted so many screenshots and i don't think these would go up alongside a trailer but like you're right i always caught one of the conversations me and tim had is which is hey if you're putting up pre-order a pre-order page then like put that up and have it set up for the most success possible and the way you do that is by releasing a trailer alongside it trailer for gta is going to gain all the attention possible so i think there's still room for that to happen tomorrow i think you're right like damn this game looks good yeah but to Barry's point we're not playing it we don't know what it looks like are these just cut scenes not they're not using the same model same lightings etc but the game does look fantastic him in that knockoff the manatees jersey like the knockoff of the dolphins jersey I think my thing is I've played GTA 5 and I played I mean I played a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2 you and me are both on the same page I know what the game is going to look like and play like and feel like would like to see it would like to see it but also i don't know i'm somebody who like i kind of i like suspense uh i'll wait but will you pre-order tomorrow no okay that was mainly my point oh gotcha i mean i don't pre-order i mean i get

49:09Nick Scarpino:code so i'm not the right person i know but that's that that it it's not just one siloed with the other that the whole thing was you know barely seeing anything but asking for pre-orders tomorrow

49:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i don't know if i'd say we i disagree that we've barely seen anything we've had two whole trailers in the last two years we have all these two whole trailers in the last two years for gta all right like we know what gta is like i'd agree it'd be nice to have a gameplay trailer it'd be nice to see more but like i think as rockstar putting out gta 6 and having two trailers already and having all these screenshots and all these details it's like yeah pre-order up it's on you it's on the audience that they want to pre-order and then get disappointed if the game doesn't end up being what they want to do and i'm i'm of the mind of like don't pre-order like yeah of course you don't have nobody's forcing you to pre-order but as rockstar i think you have the right to be like yo you've seen our marketing material pre-order the game it's gta 6 you know that you want gta 6 yeah i'm with bus i think if i was on the outside and i wasn't expecting review codes for it i would pre-order because again i think it's a foregone conclusion that i'm going to play this game and again i've already forgot what because it's just a fucking goddamn flow chart of information but whatever the thing you get something by pre-ordering before whatever time before the 12th or whatever so it's like i mainly i my thing with pre-ordering it and being digital and night before whatever is whenever it's available for preload i just wanted to preload yeah be ready to go because i'm sure this thing's gonna be fucking a gajillion gigabytes i digress though let's leave gta land which is a game who knows if it'll be good or bad and move to hideo kojima land where the games are always great.

50:47Number two, Hideo Kojima teases new game system for OD. This is once again, Wesley in pool over at IGN. Hideo Kojima has announced, I'm sorry, has teased his upcoming Xbox horror game OD, revealing it includes a special system designed for people who are too scared to keep playing. Andy. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kojima stopped short of explaining exactly how the new system works, saying doing so would get him in trouble. Quote, I wanted to go beyond the limit of the scariness that other games had reached, he said. It's a single-player game, and I wanted to make it as scary as possible.

51:20But for those that might stop playing when it gets too scary, I have thought of a system that will allow them to keep going. I can't say much more because it'll give too much of a hint on the system, and I could get in trouble for saying too much. OD, published by Xbox Game Studios in collaboration with Get Out director Jordan Peele, is still shrouded in mystery, but we do know something of what to expect. The original plan was for the game to feature three main actors uh sophia lillis hunter schaefer and the late udo kerr udo udo udo udo kerr kerr died in november aged 81 and while kojima productions has completed a scan of a legendary actor it didn't manage a shoot in time ew said kojima wouldn't discuss kerr's involvement with od or say if he's been recast but did confirm filming has now properly begun with the game's various actors.

52:12Quote, I wanted to do something new. I wanted to do something different. I had this OD concept since I was working on Death Stranding 1 and I was working on it just by myself. I can't reveal much detail, but it's something that no one has ever seen before. A new game system. I pitched to many people, to the big companies and also to the up and coming companies. All of them said the same thing. Kojima continued, they said that I'm crazy and that they really don't understand the concept. that they will not be able to do it end quote former xbox boss phil spencer did understand the concept however and signed the game spencer was replaced at the top of microsoft's gaming business earlier this year by asha sharma who told ew she's just as keen on it quote i've got great artists and creators that can pick a great game better than i can and so i want to give it space but most importantly i think it just represents another kind of game charma said there's also a new screenshot of the game here's what i'm gonna ask you and i know you're gonna inhale to say something yeah you're fine but just you and me playstation annapurna name it yeah kojima comes in pitches you i'm glad we're on the same wavelength pitches you fucking anything yes

53:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:gone resign let's go now my question is because i was thinking the same exact thing do you think kojima has more cachet or less cachet um after putting out death training one and two

53:38oh which i know od was pitched way before i know i know i know i think less i don't and i don't think by much but i think the fact that death training one and death training two weren't 10 out of 10 universally acclaimed everybody loves this you can sit there and be a bean counter and go this is a game he's i think honestly if he's pitching this the thing that probably scared most people away would be the money that it would need to get these actors in these roles yeah i want hollywood a-listers i want talent i want people who are at the top of the industry right now you're like that's like that seems sticky i don't know if we'll get the return on that and maybe you don't work with jordan peele etc blah blah it's like i get it but also fucking kojima but again we're back to being...

54:24We're making... You and me, at the B-hole and G-Spot game company, we're making art. So we're not as worried about the business, I'm sure. But when you're making... Here's the thing, right? Phil Spencer's flying off flares.

54:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because Kojima is in that weird place of like, hey, we're making art, but also, Kojima's art is the most expensive art. Yeah. You know? You're talking about all the hired actors and all this stuff. I'm trying... I don't have like a clear thing for how much Death Stranding sold, but what I'm seeing is like a track around five to six million copies. Although this is saying, I fucking hate AI overviews. I wish they would just go back to just tell me verbatim what these articles said. Never. I'm clicking into the Wikipedia link. Click into the Wikipedia link. Let's get in there. Go effing. Sorry, this is going to take me slightly longer because I'm trying to do due diligence, which I know Wikipedia isn't due diligence.

55:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:All my teachers told me not to use Wikipedia, but guess what? I'm here. They say by April 2025, Death Stranding had reached over 20 million players worldwide. That saying reach those players doesn't necessarily say sales. And so I'm sure PS Plus, whatever promotions, I forget if Epic had it, but... Anyway, what I'm saying is Kojima post Metal Gear Solid 5 on top of the world. Hey, PlayStation approaches them immediately and goes, we'll throw whatever money at you. Please make a game exclusive to our platform. Yeah. Kojima post Death Stranding. Maybe you see a little bit more of like the, all right, Metal Gear Solid, that kind of success isn't easy to replicate, especially when you're on your weird Kojima shit.

55:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and so do we want a green light a game that's going to star hunter shaffer and all these different people when we think it's going to sell 5 million i mean again it's such an interesting thing on the other side of uh everything we know the fallout from xbox phil spencer leaving you know the idea that he was phil spencer was buying people and people buying studios and saying make things for game pass we need great art for game or we need things for game pass to play and so yeah i could see it being there of course like again it's you and me he comes in he's like yo i never got to make pt pt how good was pt i want to make some here's the fucking screenshot of a hallway you're like yep go here's your check here's your blank check the first thing i ask honestly is how much does it cost yeah and are we going to make that money back yeah yeah and i know that's the whole thing of where it all shakes out and i actually i'm actually surprised asha isn't like no we got to cut this in the same way that you're looking at double fine in all these studios and being like these were game pass booms but like that's not relevant to what our strategy is anymore get rid of those kojima especially being a third party partnership not even a first party thing like we've seen them cut their third party publishing agreements asha and xbox need goodwill and i know we can sit here and be like but ninja theory but double fun i understand all that none of those studios are Hideo Kojima.

57:09And so if you were to say to Hideo Kojima, we are killing your baby in the crib right now, the shit storm, it would stir up of him on Instagram, not being like petty about it, but being like, it's over. And I'm now I'm looking for partnerships. That's when PlayStation swoops in is like, let's fucking do something else. That's when he's on fucking Jeff Keighley stage, getting a standing ovation of like this thing he was going to do. This art was going to happen. It didn't going to happen. And again, I think it's important as Mike was next to me earlier this week, wearing his Xbox film and TV sweatshirt.

57:40Like they want to be bigger than games. And Kojima is the guy who's at the film festivals and hanging out with Robert De Niro now. And Timothy Chalamet is hanging. You know what I mean? Like there is a cache aid of him. That's bigger than games now. And so like, that's all in the mix where if I'm Ashton, like we got to cut some stuff, you're looking at double fine and keeper. And it's like, listen, we got one investment here with Kojima to get this game out. We got Jordan peeling it. It's going to look, we get through, like kill all these studios that aren't making the kind of games we want, get this out the door and then worry about what we do with it from there.

58:14Fair enough. Speaking of killing studios, number three, Mio memories in orbit developer. Oof. Do's Dixmes. Shutting down. That was not, how would you do it? I don't know the French pronunciation. Dixiem. I think that's an X, accent that's not an aegu the opposite yeah but i'm more of that i don't know how you do an x in in a digzm do they digzm is shut down this is mike strott insider gaming i'm never going to say the developer names again i'm sorry another independent game studio shutting down according to a new report from french outlet le figaro uh mio memories and orbit developer do they uh is closing its doors the news comes just five months after the studio released mio memories in orbit the studio released mio in january and while it received positive reviews critically the game failed to meet expectations on a commercial level after the game's launch publisher focus interactive ended its relationship with the developer leaving the small studio looking for uh towards what comes next according to a french journalist the co-founders uh brought bought back the shares from focus this allowed them to shut down the studio and lay off staff on their own terms rather than buy a studio which is one way to do it i mean it's sad either way

59:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah this is i mean i feel could be the next big indie oof i've yeah duh tough i said i meant tough tough yeah um yeah i feel two ways of it right where this is one that i think seemed really cool just from the trailers of it but upon the game coming out didn't seem to light the world on fire so like it kind of having that kind of like muted um presence since since then you know doesn't surprise me but i think the other side of that coin is it sucks that right now the state of the industry is so that you can't have something that's not the big biggest success and then continue existing as a studio yeah you know like that's not the way things should should be you should at least be able to have something that does moderately well or something that like is like okay cool we tried there and not immediately like two months later i have to go shut everything down.

1:00:20This is a conversation we've had a little bit on the shows and I keep having with developers, publishers, PR people when I'm talking about the industry at large is I'm going to be interested in the next five years of games because I feel like in many respects we've had this golden age of indies, of smaller teams, whatever, being able to say we've always dreamed of making this game and because of an Xbox Game Pass deal, PlayStation Plus deal, because of Outer Sloth, whatever, we're able to make it. And I feel like so many of those games are coming out now and failing to find an audience and being met with the real business realities.

1:00:59So even if you don't close your studio, right? Unfortunate for these folks. Do you now look at, okay, we got to make our next game. Cool, live this dream. No dream projects. Yeah. What is your dream project? Okay, great. Rather than do that, let's put a white male protagonist in the role you were talking about. let's do this let's let's make it appealing to every the the general audience a broader audience right of like how do we make something that's palatable and how much you know there was a question it might have been in the super chats that have come through so much thank you so much of like do you think gta 6's success is going to lead to more gta clones right probably right because i do see not on that scale but i do see it could easily be that like hey let's try to make games that are going to reach more people than us making our dream which we know would speak to a specific audience but we need to enlarge what the audiences are yeah i think the tough thing is

1:01:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:if you're an indie studio what does that look like as far as creating something that we think is going to hit for people because then we're back to like what is it the definition of a hit yeah like you know how do i mean because like this is a metroidvania yeah you know you can't get a you can't get more this is well-worn territory like and even like a positive way of we know what a metroidvania is we know that people like metroidvanias they made a metroidvania yeah does that

1:02:17Nick Scarpino:A cartoony Metroidvania that came out months after Silksong.

1:02:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Sure. But does that mean that, like, hey, we just got to make Friendslop? Does that mean, hey, we got to make, like, the cheap games that we're seeing just, you know, funnel on to Steam? Does that just become the norm? Because, like, I know we're talking about a Metroidvania that came out after Silksong. But also, like, I don't think this will be that much better if it would be a 2D platformer or, like, I don't know, a Zelda-style game. I think that's just the tough thing of there are so many games that even when you make something that is in a genre that is defined and we know what it is and you know what a good one of those looks like.

1:02:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:There's a million of those. And so, yeah, I don't envy anybody who's in the space trying to make something special. Everybody's trying to crack something. Yeah, because you're not a guaranteed success unless you are a Silksong or a Hades or even a Claire Obscure. That's not a guarantee.

1:03:09Nick Scarpino:And even Hades wasn't a guarantee before Hades came out. What do you think about this? What if there was a way, not a way, that's a stupid thing to say. But we talk about like, okay, let's talk about peak, right? We're talking about aggro crab. We're talking about people who made another crab's treasure and then going under, right? The roguelite that I liked a lot where you were in a shitty startup, right? And stick with me because it's going to sound insulting. Those first two games that I'm talking about were quote unquote real games, not friend slop, not we did a game jam and here's the thing where you climb a mountain.

1:03:38Everybody's like, I love that. It's like, I wonder if there's a future or a business model that is, hey, we made a turn-based RPG that is two hours. We game jammed on it. It's five bucks. It's the same thing, peak cost. For me, as a gamer who's always short on time, as a gamer who wants story and single-player experiences, I feel like I would snap those up. And I'm not saying this is a solution at all, But I wonder, again, as we talk about smaller teams, we talk about what is your metric for success. I would love it to be that we are giving you, here are these three$5 games that are 90 minutes.

1:04:19You know what I mean? We game jammed on it. It just, we wanted to tell a touching story and we did it. Like, because it's like, what is the puppy game where you're dead? The Corgi where you're the dead puppy. My puppy friend, my little puppy, I don't know what it is. The lost puppy. I started that on the flight down to get Chip, right? So I'm just sobbing while I'm playing this thing about a dog who smells his owner in heaven and then goes to chase him, right? I had a great flight with that game. That game is like seven to nine hours. No. No. No. You didn't. I personally don't believe you needed that much time to tell.

1:04:52I should have had one thing, found the owner, or not found the owner, or whatever. And I'm sure the game's great. There's a whole bunch of different stuff going on in there. That's fantastic. You know what I mean? Great. But, like, how long did it take you to make that game? if we would have scaled it back and you would and i don't even is it selling for 20 bucks probably on steam i'm not 100 sure like put that out for 2.99 for it yeah i know i'm i'm talking i have no skin in the game i'm just talking shit right now who knows if it would actually work but i do feel like in the same way you sit down and you want to rent a movie like give me that kind of experience

1:05:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:that fast yeah i think a tough thing is like you're talking about yeah a movie right like you're talking about something that is a more contained experience for an hour and a half maybe you're to sell it for five dollars instead but yeah what is the i think they then have the conversation of what is the audience for an hour long uh dead dog game right yeah versus what if he just made mecha chameleon and sold sure millions and millions of copies and was one of the most successful games of the year which is also five dollars i think that's the thing probably something less effort than that you know barrett put in the twitch chat right of just like going for a wider audience also isn't a guaranteed success right in terms of what and so i think it's like i still think there's what i'm saying like let's take our specialized idea you know and broaden it i i don't know if that leads to success number one but i also don't mean go completely like it has no personality has no vision or whatever i just think of like if you have a special idea put it out in a way that people are actually going to consume i i think and i think especially right now if you are a video game developer listening and you like making stories in smaller games right like i do think that if you were like hey we game jammed on this thing and in six months made this two hour long game or one an hour long game and we're selling it for 399 i do think that would get headlines and i do think you would then have the the thing of so many people playing it and getting through it and i know there's all how you can quickly return a game on steam i don't know how that works yeah yeah oh sure there's i know there's problems to my own plan but if you're doing that with like because what you're describing is a game like and roger for example and people talking about roger florence which we loved and i don't know if i would say that's a game jam thing right like that is a lot of no no and i'm not and i know it's not what you're saying right but um but i bring that to say like if you did that with and roger where you played it in the return on steam you're a bad person yeah yeah yeah exactly but again i think the actual audience that would be buying that folks like us yeah you the listener viewer like we wouldn't do that right yeah right just so you wouldn't steal a greg way oh my god uh let's jump into story number four Marathon is getting a separate PvE mode, an FPS roguelike.

1:07:21This is Paul Tassi at Forbes. Marathon is struggling to attract and retain players. Who could have predicted it? Its hardcore extraction nature either isn't appealing enough for casuals or causing some amount of burnout among its current player base. While Marathon has tried a number of more casual, friendly modes for two seasons now, it's about to run its biggest experiment yet, a full-on PvE mode, almost entirely separate from the rest of the game. Bungie laid out the idea for the upcoming experimental mode coming out July 21st called Vault Breaker. There's a whole bunch of details on what it actually is.

1:07:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, it's just a, it's a game, it's a mode that you can play solos, duos, or three-player PVE. Essentially, it's a roguelike is what they describe where you go in, you fight bosses, you level up and have that kind of progression. Does it do anything for you? Yes. Oh, wow, okay. I mean, I like Marathon. You like Marathon, period. I like Marathon, period, and I like roguelikes and what they're describing. I'm like, that sounds fun for me. Is it going to save the game? I have no idea. Probably not, but I would play this. this would bring me back oh wow yeah okay it'll be interesting to see obviously shire reporting on layoffs eventually at bungee uh what's marathon doing how does that net out i don't see anything going positively do you think this is enough to bring a lot of people in not even bring people back bring people in it would need the word of mouth like i think probably i feel like part of the problem with marathon is that this is not marketed as strongly enough like if when you're doing cool shit like i know we had marathon in the state of play where they talked about free-to-play weekend or week or whatever it was we need to like push that out even more i need that on the front page of playstation i need y 'all to like treat marathon like it's a premiere thing if you want if you want to make it into a success because i feel like these updates happen but they're speaking to specifically to the marathon fan base i don't think they're speaking to a wider amount of people that might have interest interest in marathon but don't know that they're doing this shit okay well blessing millions upon millions of people playing marathon will be big news huge news some would say but if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news items i need to know about where would i go you'd go to our last news story the we news channel where you cover all the small news items you need to know about number five we news lords of the fallen two has been delayed from fall 2026 to early 2027 i saw that come through and i'm like man lords of the fallen two is one of those titles that i would have told you came out six months ago oh yeah we got a problem with names and key art where I just look at that.

1:09:46I'm like, I think I don't even know from IGN. Amazon has revealed its latest Luna exclusive in AI powered party game in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays all four roles. Courtroom chaos starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is the followup to the first in the series that launched in October, 2025 and featured legendary Raptor rapper Snoop Dogg. And remember that one? I remember announcing it and never hearing anyone ever talk about it. Fucking again. I think Roger played it. Of course he did. fucking tells you everything you want to play the arnold version ai powered party game i would bet not uh here's everything announced during sonic the hedgehog's 35th birthday blessing take it away

1:10:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:oh yeah there was a whole bunch of stuff that happened sonic frontiers game definitive edition for switch 2 that got shadow dropped actually oh wow uh sonic racing crossroads is getting a patch update plus three characters uh sonic racing crossroad championships happening in 2026 sonic pico park showed new gameplay new characters you're getting shadow the hedgehog and sonic pico cat which is actually really exciting. We love Pico Park. We're excited for Sonic. And I did realize there's going to be more characters outside of the core four. So there's a chance that if they announce more, you can have a full squad of eight playing.

1:10:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We got to get cream. We got to get cream in there. Classic Sonic collection is happening. Modern Sonic collection is happening. Sonic Hedgehog 1 and 2 Legacy cartridge collection is happening. Sonic Steam franchise sale is happening. Sonic Forces working title will be available on NEX Playground consoles later this year. I have so many questions about that. You gotta go fast. You gotta go fast, but why is it a working title if it's just Sonic Forces? That's first of all. They're not committing to anything yet. That's why. It's a game that exists already. It has existed since 2017. I will bring my NEX Playground for you to play.

1:11:25Oh, thank you. No problem. I mean, I've already beat Sonic Forces. You have to beat it like this, where your body's the controller.

1:11:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's right. It will be motions. Yeah. Oh, so they're probably going to call it Sonic Forces Move Your Body Edition. Probably, yeah. Or probably just Sonic Forces colon NX Playground Edition. Oh, sure. Maybe that, too. Sonic Forces also coming to mobile. And then there's more concerts being added for the Sonic live in concert thing. 30 more shows are happening. If that wasn't enough Sonic news for you on June 23rd, Jersey Jack Pinball and Sega will launch Sonic the Hedgehog Pinball in celebration of Sonic the Hedgehog's 35th anniversary. The table comes with a 27-inch LCD screen featuring art animation from Sonic Generations with iconic levels like Green Hill Zone and Chemical Plant.

1:12:08There's songs, there's stuff. We watched the video of it a couple weeks ago. Yeah. Looked pretty cool. Fellowship just announced its biggest update ever. The new season just started and it's 40 % off on Steam. The game is all about just blasting dungeons with your friends. Blizzard Entertainment announced Diablo 4 Season 14, Season of Death Awakening, and a free trial for the new Warlock class will arrive on June 30th. Capcom announced a Capcom Spotlight showcase for June 25th at 2 p.m. Pacific. and THQ Nordic Digital Showcase returns August 7th, 2026. Which do you think is going to be worse? We've been burned down the Capcom spotlights.

1:12:43Sometimes they are good. Most of the time they're not. So we're passing on that. THQ Nordic doing a digital showcase. I think it's going to be so bad. I'm like, we got a lot.

1:12:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, no, I got Capcom's even worse. You think so? Because THQ, I think they've also been doing their digital showcases, but we see THQ Nordic and then we immediately tap out. I will say, I think the worst showcase we ever watched was, I want to say. Koch Media, Koch Media. Koch Media, which I think was involved. I forget the whole relationship. So they are in the lead, but Capcom has been so consistently bad that like, I don't know, man. We might be underrating Capcom's stank when it comes to the showcase. The head-to-head. I'm just going to read you the press release, okay? THQ Nordic's digital showcase is just around the corner, and this year's event is set to deliver a packed lineup of fresh updates and news across a wide range of our core IPs.

1:13:35From long-awaited reveals, release dates, to exciting new looks at fan-favorite franchises, there's plenty to look forward to for everyone following the THQ Nordic Universe. Expect this showcase to shine a spotlight on titles such as Titan Quest 2, Wreckfest 2, The Guild Europa 1410, Fatekeeper, Expedition Samurai, The Eternal Life of Goldman, and Way of the Hunter 2, with more to come as we count down to showtime. You gotta move Eternal Life up in that sentence. or close with it.

1:14:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Like, you can't just throw that in the middle of those games. Back to the other game that I didn't even know was out. Like, some of these are just like randomized, randomized, randomized title, randomized title. There's a chance we could get a Darksiders 3 trailer. Does that do anything for me or you? Probably not. I fucking hate Darksiders so fucking much. They made fucking two, two, I live to hear about Darksiders 2 one more time. Hate? How many times can you remaster, remake, republish that fucking game? You don't hate Darksiders. And that's the end. You just, you have apathy. That's the fucking end of we knew nobody hates darksiders you either like it or you didn't play it i played it oh you did zelda zelda mark hamill's the guy on my plan oh never mind then i take it back this ain't it man uh let me try to get you some super chats that aren't just people freaking out about gta still uh the one who knocked says mia was the game i played while sitting next to my father's death bed it meant a lot to me and the story really helped me with accepting his death wow well one i'm sorry to hear about your father but i'm glad that game was there to get you through it of course go send some love to those developers obviously as they close their studios that's a rough one um the action pat says as an example untitled goose game devs house mark are making big walk from a unique single player game to a friend's slop game again yeah this is we have bristle at friend slot where it's like seems like friend quality yeah but even peak i don't think slop like you know what i mean like sure slop does imply it's when i'm like oh open world game i want to go do that shit you know what i mean like i don't care only up feels like yeah yeah okay where it's janky and where you're like i'll just do the assets in there and like made a fun thing with it again i don't want to make friends stop to seem like a negative thing you know i know slop is a negative word well yeah yeah yeah uh kales 94 says birthday tax happy birthday thank you guys for all the laughs over the years you get me through the long days at the office and in the tractor hope to see you in sf for the top 100 miz zou kales happy birthday i'm drowning in super chats here.

1:15:57I'm just trying to get to ones that are not about this. Suffering from success.

1:16:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's crazy.

1:16:05Yeah, okay. I'm going to scroll all the way to the top. That's just people steal this. Hater John says, I'm just here for a blessings cut. It is a good haircut.

1:16:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Appreciate it. We had a wedding this weekend, so gotta look good. Is it a family or a friend? Friend one. Okay, let me know if they ask about me. Tatliano's final chat of the day goes, on my way to the World Cup Seattle. Thanks for keeping me company on the drive up from Portland. Love you guys. We love you. Have a good time at the World Cup. Everybody, that's another episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily in the bag. But remember, we are far from done because we're all about live talk shows on twitch.tv slash kind of funny games, youtube.com slash kind of funny games, podcast services around the globe.

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