Insomniac’s Wolverine Reportedly Next Year, Venom Spin-Off After - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.15.25

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2:19Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, September 15th, 2025. I'm your host, Blessing, Adio Ye Jr. Joining me is WWE legend, Greg Miller. Hello, Blessing. How are you? I'm doing well, Greg. How are you doing? I'm excellent. You know what I mean? The sun is shining. It's a brand new week of video game content. I did have that thought on my way to work. I was like, it feels extra bright today. It's going to be hot today. Yeah, it's going to be like 80 today. Oh, God. I don't like that. It sucks. Might just stay in the office the whole day then. All weekend it was also warm but also muggy because of how wet it was too.

2:52It was a weird weekend. Yeah. Weird wild weekend. Great. How was your weekend? It was great. You know what I mean? I didn't get to see much of Ben. Or Jen for that matter. Or her sister who was visiting. Because I was in the lab. All right? I shut everything down. You know what I did? I just sat there 12 hours a day reading old EGMs, reading old IGN.coms. Because if you didn't know, ladies and gentlemen, not only did I win, The Nick Scarpino season of game showdown. I did lead team blue to their third consecutive championship in game showed an unprecedented run from an unprecedented manager. And now it all leads to this Friday, a brand new season of kind of funny game showdown.

3:37How excited are you? I'm so excited. And what I'm doing right now is begging, if not pleading with God and or Satan to please bring me a world worthy challenger Andy Tim. How long can it go on like this team blue just destroying undefeated in kind of funny game showdown. How long must I carry this strap on my shoulder? How many little Nick statues do I need to win? All right, because I'm winning too many of them apparently, and I don't want the views to fall. You know what I mean? You've done such a great job on the show. I want you to know before we get there, before Roger comes in with some bad opinion that screws me over, I want you to know you've earned this.

4:21All right. Oh, I want you to take the outback state. I want you to take the outback state. And this isn't a bra. Wow. I'm not saying you should remember on Friday that I gave you this free twenty five dollars. I feel like there's an implication. There is. There's no strings attached in it. All you fucking accept. It should not come up on Friday. Blessing. I'm the only competitor here. Congratulating you. Thanking you for this amazing show you've given us. that you've birthed. Roger tries to screw up every week. I'm just saying, bless. If you do accept it, there might be a call for your resignation.

4:52Yeah. I'm just going to leave it in the middle of this table. You just find it on the floor and a blooming onion falls in your mouth. If I, if I happen to walk out and like, you know, I'm clean, I'm cleaning up the desk. I'm a way out. I might just pick it up. Listen, if there can be as much collusion, deception, I won't go as far as bigotry, but we'll get there in, in our fantasy critic. Oh, thanks to Mike and Roger you can take the gift card it'll be fine it's fucked up what's going on the fantasy critic because I saw a reddit post from Friday talking about how what game were they asking about Roger was trying to make the argument that Mario Galaxy 1 plus 2 was a partial remake because they added storybook yeah yeah I saw the screenshots from the fantasy critic discord of they're desperate but then also I here's the thing I don't mind them going behind our backs and like go to the discord and trying to figure things out because at the end of the day the rules are the rules and the fanic critic rules are the ones that i go by it's when i'm at my desk and i'm doing my work and then i hear snickering from the other side of the office and it's roger and mike at mike's desk talking about they'll never stop us like whispering to each other as if i can't hear them yeah you know it's the taunting yeah that gets me we gotta do something about these two we should i think we should keep game showdown clean and that just means that friends can give each other things and it's fine.

6:15Someone should show up to challenge me for this title. It's embarrassing again to have to keep clowning these people out. Well, what if I told you that Team Purple is returning on Friday with a new captain? I would ask you, what's Team Purple? We have a Purple team? Team Purple is Andy's team, yes. Oh, oh, a new captain. Andy got his wish. He's off. Yeah, Andy's been saying that he doesn't want to be the captain of Team Purple anymore, and so this Friday you're going to have some changes. That's all I'm going to say. Okay, cool. that's all i'm gonna say what was carl jacobs he's terrible at this game you could imagine a full season with carl jacobs i mean you'd see historical i guess you can't game over dumb asses you can't get worse at how andy did last season but i feel like he would he would challenge it for sure but he would bring the entertainment which is what we want he'd be entertaining for sure yeah he also won news because remember this is kind of funny games daily each and every week that we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube spotify and apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show some of your thoughts and opinions as youtube super chats as we go some housekeeping for you like we just talked about this friday after gamescast tell everyone that you know that game showdown returns we got greg returning uh the returning champ repping team blue we got tim repping team orange and Team Purple returns with a mystery captain taking the helm.

7:41You have to tune in this Friday to find out who. Now, that's interesting. I just went like this and gesturing like, ah, what's going on? But it kind of looked like I was introducing you as Team Purple. Are you stepping down as host and are you the new purple? Look at that prediction right there. It's not a prediction. It's a question. I'm not saying anything. Okay. I can't reveal anything. It's not going to be Roger, is it? I'm not saying anything. Is it Gary? Gary was really scary in that movie thing, but I still beat him. I still got my little... Well, that was movies. This is video games. Yeah, I know, right?

8:07You'll have to find out later in the week. I'll tell you what, Gary Wood is an interesting guy. He is. We don't talk enough about Gary Wood, okay? He's on the Slack and all that stuff, and so he occasionally still, I put out the thing for video game codes and he'll hit me up for it. And then just like, I don't talk to the man for, I feel like, weeks. And then I'm just driving to the beach with my family, and I get a Gary Wood text, and I open it up, and it's just him criticizing some game. We got him a code for him. I'm like, oh, okay. No, he's actually using this thing. Just decided to come out and talk about this today on a Saturday morning.

8:33I like that. I love Gary Wood. because yeah when Gary Wood is also somebody who out of sight out of mind right where it's like he'll be doing his thing he's taking care of his kids being a family man or whatever but then a rematch will come out or a Dune Awakening will come out and all of a sudden we're best friends yeah all of a sudden I have so much Gary in my life and then we move on to the next game well yeah you're aware that he's like insane about Dune now yes okay okay because I don't know how much we've talked about this he we should get him in for a game sketch where he talks about it because in the same way he went just insane for Animal Crossing and Hell Divers now Dune he Apparently, Nick and Nick on a one-on-one for Dune.

9:07Yeah, exactly. Incredible stuff. We're an 11-person business, all about live talk shows. So today, after KFGD, you're going to get a Gamescast, which is about what we do if there are no new games for one year, which I'm really excited about. That was one inspired by a Reddit post that went up as a Gamescast topic suggestion, and we're actually taking this one. Thank you, top of the cloppers. Then after Gamescast, this is a kind of funny podcast. And listener, this is one that you don't want to miss. they're going to learn what Tim was doing over in Paris. What about Mexico? Yeah, Mexico's what we really got to know about.

9:38Maybe he'll reveal that too. Then the stream is Silksong with Andy. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Gregway won't be recorded until after the KF podcast because KFP's that big of a deal. Thank you to our Patreon producers. Is Tim stepping down? Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, Angelini, the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Shaggy Rays and Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is, and forever will be, the rover report it's time for some news we have six stories today

10:15starting with our number one insomniac's wolverine is reportedly coming next year followed by a venom spinoff this is from jordan we're back on that rumor train all right insomniac's missing in action wolverine game is reportedly slated for a 2026 release followed by a long rumored venom spinoff game the wolverine game was announced way back in september 2021 as was insomniac's recently released spider-man 2 at which point it was claimed that the former was in very early development while it takes place in the same universe as the studio spider-man games wolverine is billed as a standalone title since it was first announced nothing has been officially shown from the game however speculation around the title intensified following the devastating insomniac hack which saw playable builds of the game spread online and hundreds of documents about the game's release date leaked according to mp first which has a history of reporting accurate information about unreleased video games wolverine is currently scheduled for next year in the same report it's claimed that a spinoff game focused on venom is planned to follow Wolverine's release.

11:21Greg, we're back here. How do you feel? I mean, how do I feel? I won't believe anything until I see it. I am anxious for Wolverine, as you'd expect from somebody who loves superhero games and loves insomniac superhero games and loves Wolverine. It's been, no, you can keep it. It's been, you know, not disheartening. I think there's always, there's a much to do about nothing a lot of times in video games where we get to that point. Like, wait, why haven't we heard about this? the leak stuff was horrible obviously to see everything come out and get brought to broad daylight like that and then since then insomniac and playstation being so quiet about it it's led to so many rumors and speculations that is it is still happening it's been canceled that's this nobody really knows anything the idea that we're back here awesome do we take this rumor with anything more than a grain of salt yes no again like you said mp first usually on the money but it's also like if we were to listen to all the games dailies or maybe we just did them once a day once a week it would be like we're going to be right about a lot of our predictions too because eventually these games have to surface they have to happen again too big to fail isn't what I'm saying here but even if Wolverine gameplay had leaked and all the stuff had leaked and people were like this sucks you would have gone back to the drawing board on that as Marvel and Insomniac and PlayStation to make something right yeah so eventually you're going to see a Wolverine game somewhere from them so that's exciting I want to see this game I'm anxious for this game you know know we never got the tim gettis gettis prophesized wave two of playstation 5 yeah so you imagine wave two of playstation 5 is happening behind the scenes right so with ghost finally coming out here uh imminently in october that then opens up well what's playstation's next big first party game i don't think it's intergalactic i think that's probably still quite a ways away so then you'd be you'd look at wolverine go okay is it you yeah i mean wolverine and sorrows i feel like that paints a pretty good 2026 if that's what we're looking at it as for me it's the thing where like when we talk about upcoming games and we talk about our predictions or what games do you think are going to come out this fall i think there's a such thing as like gut feeling based off of just like just tea leaves right if you would ask me when do i think wolverine is coming out i would have told you at any point oh next year next year just any year you ask but like if you asked me last year i don't think i would have said 2025 unless you find a clip of me on games day there's something saying oh maybe 2025 but genuine like genuinely i forget when the leak happened what did we what was the original release day leak oh i forget but i i remember there let me know there was when that leak happened there was a list of planned games that all had like years attached to them yeah but those were all like we were already off yeah we're already off right it's kind of similar to when the xbox had the leak from the court documents when we look at them and we're like all right doom it wasn't even called the dark ages it was like doom medieval times or whatever the fuck it was called it was like okay well we already missed the the deadline on this okay we already missed like half these deadlines yeah i feel like the insomniac leak had a similar thing where you look at it and it's like okay well obviously these are conversations conversations can be anything right as far as what you're planning and what the actual reality if you think games that you know the release date for get delayed a lot talk to somebody who hasn't announced their release date about when their game's coming out and see how much that fucking moves yeah and i the insomniac leak stuff was so like i think unreliable as a source of this thing is actually happening to the point where i could have sworn i forget where i got this information i wish i remembered i could have sworn i talked to somebody who would know that was like oh yeah the the venom game that was in the leak is not happening yeah right i free i that was like i guess that was like very close to after the leak happened but since then i've been like okay cool i just won't expect that thing that to me is the news here where it's like oh that resurfacing as a thing that people are saying is happening yeah oh interesting like i got more questions about that than wolverine wolverine i always expected was coming out next year yeah yeah yeah the the venom resurfacing here is an interesting one it's also been interesting when you blessing clear your mind clearing it and you think about spider-man 2 from insomniac yeah what do you what's your temperature check um i thought that game was great but like nothing nothing that i i don't look at that as like a all-timer playstation game by any means right For me, it kind of came and went a little bit.

15:35But I think I felt like that at the time. I think of gliding, and that's all I can really remember. I remember the bad Miles Morales outfit. Yeah. I think about that. I think about how I didn't like certain arcs in the story, like how they handled certain characters. Of course, Peter and Venom is always a weird thing to balance, but I didn't really love some of what they did with the Venom stuff with Peter. The gameplay, it's great. Stellar. Gameplay is stellar because it's Insomniac Spider-Man. What about you? What do you think? I remember, I mean, enjoying the game. I do think it was, this is the problem when we talk about any sequel, especially a big budget PlayStation one where it's so hard to move that needle again in the same way.

16:16I mean, and I say that we think about Last of Us 2, which maybe moved it for the wrong reasons, right? But even I would toss Ragnarok in there, not as a disappointment, but it was more God of War. That's great. And like there was twists and turns and great game. I'm not saying that. But Spider-Man 2, yeah, I remember we played, you know, as we always did, we devoured it. We all platinumed it. we did it in like a weekend each one of us for the review or whatever reviewed and did it but i i am positive about spider-man 2 i really enjoyed spider-man 2 i want more spider-man games but i've just been interested you know i me and nick had a kind of funny podcast last week that was a banger uh but we talked about reddits in there and one of the things i'm subscribed to both i think the spider-man reddit and the insomnia whatever a whole bunch of video game reddits and there's been an uptick lately of people just shitting on spider-man 2 and i've seen this on twitter huh that's i know i was the safest video game sequel of all time like all right well remember i complained spider-man one was a pretty safe video game too so it's just i don't know it's just it's interesting to see public perception on it or not even public perception the loud perception of it right now because i do think that is a bubble i think you ask most people who played spider-man 2 they're probably moved on loved it yeah it was a great game right i think it's like a specific internet gamer crowd that might have more to say about it but i my thing is and I think this will lead to a deeper conversation right I view Marvel the Marvel Spider-Man games in terms of video games the same way that I would view like a Spider-Man movie in terms of movies where it's like I wouldn't give us give this best picture but I had a blast playing that's a great way to put it you know I mean like it's something that like if it went up against a I mean you bring up God of War Ragnarok right like if I'm gonna nominate something it probably lean more towards Ragnarok performances right yeah turns but like trace trace and Kratos in the tent I was thinking about that last night.

17:55That's that good shit, right? Or in Elden Ring or like other games. But I still look at Insomniac Spider-Man as a man. Does Insomniac fit this IP so well? They got it. Because they give me something that has great gameplay, great movement, you know, great fun action, fun story. And that's what's interesting, I think, about both Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 1 is that it is one of those not... Let me feel this thought out and we'll see if I'm wrong. it's one of those rare exceptions for a triple a game where I think of it and what I think of is gameplay it may be rare exception for a sony first party game where I think of it and I immediately think of gameplay last of us I'm thinking of Joel I'm thinking of Ellie I'm thinking of Troy I'm thinking of Ashley like bam I'm locked in uncharted I'm thinking of fucking goddamn Nolan North out there fuck you know I mean like a story beat here that about and the gameplay is mixed in or whatever but spider-man I am gliding swinging you know what I mean like I'm in I'm in between buildings in a gorgeous new york city that's what i'm thinking of yeah i think spider-man is best when you kind of turn off your brain and just let yourself have the most fun sure let me just swing around yeah like get into big old marvel movie do like the different open world tasks right and let yourself get lost to it and that's why i'm excited for insomniac to be working on wolverine and to potentially be working on this venom game because i guess light spoilers for spider-man 2 the way that venom controls in that game where he's like destructive and he's like a tank kind of thing feels different than spider-man feels different from spider-man and i think there's a lot of potential there as far as what you can do with that if you expanded that out into a full game you're back to god what was i playing recently don kong bonanza come on come on this fucking guy come on g spot and b ho we're back at it uh yeah where it was like why the fuck do you you're young do you remember incredible or a hulk ultimate direction i never played it but i remember it yeah give me another game like that And so, yeah, if Venom's going to be feeling like that, fuck yeah, let's go.

19:46Dude, Venom, yeah. God, thinking about DK Bonanza in regards to Venom and how you can, yeah, make a really great game about somebody who's a tank. Or Hulk. Or Hulk. Or Hulk. Or Hulk. Or Hulk. I think that's a really good point. It makes me want that game to have destruction in it. Slipcrit says, I just really don't need a 15-hour game of running around as Venom. We don't know shit? I doubt that's what you'd get. I hope it's not that long. How long was Miles Morales? Miles Morales, like, five seconds long. It was like three or four hours? I feel like five, six hours for story. And then obviously like open world stuff, probably two hours.

20:18I think you could crank through the Venom story and probably eight hours. Give me a seven to eight hour Venom game. And then if you want to go Venom it up all over the place. Put it out to that like$40 to$50. Don't even make it a full price thing. That's a whole other conversation that like, do you think that they would do that again? I hope so. I think if they do, as always, words matter. and so like I know this is the rumor but to talk about a Venom spin-off reminds me of a Miles Morales spin-off which means yes you can't be charging 80 bucks for this yeah IMO but does that said based on two words here does it feel weird that it's been when what year did Spider-Man 2 come out was that 2020 that was 2023 I was just looking at okay maybe it's not been that long in my brain it's been longer but I guess that's still soon enough say you did Wolverine next year you didn't have Venom the year after.

21:07I do, I don't know if this is what you were just driving at a second, I do agree that like, oh, we're still fucking fucking around with Venom. You know what I mean? Like it feels like that would have been, like a year after Spiderman 2. A year and a half later, we're doing it. Even the two years later, it's out. A year and a half later, or a year, we're doing it, mentioning it at Game Awards. Yes. It does feel weird that it's like gonna be that far out. Yeah. Like even Miles, like take out the Spidey DLC, right? Like the Spidey one was 2018, right? Does that sound right? it yeah one was 2018 then miles was two years later so yeah like yeah yeah that's an interesting one uh i want to bring in some super chats of course you guys are riding in with your thoughts you can't see this belt enough when i wear it i gotta figure out a better way to barrett look around for some kind of belt display thing that i can bring and then charge it to nick's card deshawn fortune writes in and says prototype is basically a venom game and i hope insomniac's Venom is similar in gameplay.

22:03I never played Prototype. I remember seeing the commercials. Played them both. Reviewed number one. Check my IGN for that. Maybe I reviewed two as well. I don't remember. I played them both. The problem was that, while you're not wrong, because that was Radical, who are the people who made Ultimate Destruction, it came out right around Infamous, and they weren't exactly the same, but they were very similar, and Infamous ate its fucking lunch because it was a better game. You reviewed Prototype 2. Okay, cool. Seven out of ten. Yeah, exactly. again that was a fun game to run around smash i think they would have taken their foot off the gas and just done a hulk thing you're a fucking monster man running around you know what i mean uh omega buster writes in and says if turning off your brain is what spider-man 2 needs the internet should love it that's funny uh ty wilkins vo writes in and says blessing and greg what would be your best prefer to use both of us please use our preferred names g spot behold thank you i will be your best professional contact to reach you at about a possible game showdown idea involving video game voice acting.

23:01Bless, I think you would love it and would very much fit the show. Here's the thing. I get so many Game Showdown suggestions. I ignore most of them. You can email me if you want, but I try not to... It's like when people send an unsolicited book to a publisher, like, we can't even look at this. If we look at this now and we ever do something like this, we're fucked. Yeah, and it's like, well, now I owe you a million dollars. Yeah, exactly. That's how much we make. Again, maybe since we're not making a million dollars off every show yet. You should just accept this card. Not from one of your competitors in your show, but one of your friends.

23:33You know what I mean? Who took care of you this whole holiday season last year. I had to come over to my house with my family. Make sure you weren't alone. I played magic with you. Barrett just came through and stole the Outback gift card. It's to protect you. Thank you. I appreciate it. That's fucked up because I gave Barrett a BTS toy today for his wife. He should say, he owes me too. Why is no one fucking paying it forward to Greg? Jimbo685 says, best first party PS5 game Returnal or God of War Ragnarok or Horizon Forbidden West. Oh, I mean, it's such a they're saying best. If I'm saying favorite, I'm saying Returnal.

24:07Which games? Well, they're saying they're listing Returnal best first party. And they say Returnal God of War Ragnarok or Horizon Forbidden West. So here's Returnal guy. Here's what I would say. It's going to get me in trouble. Here's what I would say in this thing. I and you know me. You've listened to me for years. Whenever I whenever hypothetical comes up, I overthink it. I think this is a vacuum between these three games and you don't worry about anything else. And that's why I clear my head. I'm saying Returnal. The other two are sequels and they're based on great games. And those great games still exist in a, the other, you know, Schrodinger's box of three games being put up against them.

24:40They don't mention Astro Bot, which I think should be in the conversation. But no, but I mean, that's no, you're overthinking the thing. It's not. It's like, Hey, here are three things, which is the best. Not, Hey, think of the pantheon of games. We're saying just these three. Can I say my favorites Returnal and the best is Ragnarok? I'll say that. That's accurate. My favorite is Returnal. The best is Ragnarok. Honestly, I think it works better as a marry, fuck, kill. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. If we're doing that marry, fuck, kill, I'm... Ooh. I'm marrying Ragnarok. I'm fucking Returnal.

25:06I'm killing Horizon. And you're a great game. Horizon Forbidden West, you're a great game. It's just... You didn't push it forward. I'm marrying Returnal. I'm fucking Ragnarok. And yeah, I'm killing Forbidden West. You know, I love... Yeah, that's the thing. We both love Forbidden West. We both love Horizon. But like, come on. competition. I remember the last third of that game, though. Replace Forbidden West with Astrobot and do it again. Best game? I mean, both of my Astrobot. So, okay, yeah, then I'm marrying Astrobot, I'm fucking Returnal, and I'm killing... Oh, wow. That happened real quick.

25:36I think I would kill Astrobot. I respect it. And keep the other two. I might kill Ragnar. I didn't mean to, but again, I'm back to the thing of, like, God of War 2018 still exists. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah. It's still... It's an incomplete story, though. boy Wolverine we're seeing it next year I hope so I yeah I mean it's been just sitting long enough they have to show something talk about it eventually do you what do you think about the fact that they revealed this game in 2021 and it's 2025 you're not seeing one people that I think we're back to wanting our cake and eating it too like you know if they would have done three other games alongside Wolverine and been like this is the future of the PlayStation 5 would we be happier right that we talk about this wave thing we want or expecting and didn't get so I don't think you can sit here and be mad and like having it so hot on the heels of spider-man 2 i think we also understood like okay it's gonna be a bit it's gonna be a while yeah yeah i think it was a nice thing to get out there to get people excited for it it definitely worked i also don't think it hasn't hurt playstation having out there and i don't think it's it has been their one carrot on the stick where it's like i'm tim you talk about like unicorn games yeah and playstation i think they've been doing a generally decent job this generation although i might be wrong about this as i said i'll out they i think they've been doing a decent job not teasing games that are too far out that it's like oh okay cool i'll see that never yeah i think i feel like wolverine is the one game where it's 2021 you announce this thing and we go all right i guess we'll see this but then i think because it's insomniac we have that light hope that it's like oh maybe we'll see it in 2023 all right maybe 2024 and then the leak happens i feel like i don't know if the leak threw them off or like made it take longer or whatever but i feel like that was definitely a some turbulence in the in the ride there yeah let's move on to story number two rainy pitchford goes on the offensive as borderlands for pc performance row intensifies this is wesley yinpool at ign rainy pitchford is on the offensive when it comes to borderlands for pc performance responding directly to complaints on social media to clap track the clap trap back at the scrundled fans was that always there did you add that or was that part of the article i don't know i didn't write anything in i i swear to god i read this article before i didn't read the clap trap back line there wesley he's doing things he's an artist journalism fresh from his confusing comments about the reason why the console version of borderlands 4 lacks an fov slider and his declaration that it would have been impossible to break the borderlands 4 servers through sheer weight of player numbers alone at launch the outspoken gearbox chief spent this this spent time this weekend addressing the complaints about borderlands 4 performance on pc at various points on social media pitchford told people to quote quote your own engine and show us how it's done please and declared borderlands 4 quote a premium game made for premium gamers end quote he also suggested people put their irrational distrust of video game graphics tech such as dlss aside and use it if available to them there's plenty to dig into here but ultimately what pitchford is saying is that pc gamers should manage their expectations when it comes to the performance of Borderlands 4 in the context of their own rigs.

28:40Quote, every PC gamer must accept the reality of the relationship between their hardware and what the software they are running is doing. Wait, what's this we're looking at? Readers added, we're looking at the tweet, but then the readers added context. They thought people might want to know. The publisher of a game is responsible of providing accurate recommend and minimal specs since the consumer has absolutely no way to check how the game is going to run in the hardware before release. Oh my God. He kicked off a thread clearly designed to address the performance issues that have sparked so much early discourse around Borderlands 4.

29:13Quote, we've made an amazing and fun and huge looter shooter campaign game. The game is pretty damn optimal, which means that the software is doing what we want without wasteful cycles on bad processes. I wouldn't say that. Pitchford went on to insist that PC gamers have tools that help them balance their preferences between FPS, resolution, and rendering features, and they should make use of them. Quote, if you aren't happy with the balance between these things you're experiencing, please tune to your preferences using the tools available to you, he said. Then, in typical Randy Pitchford on the front foot fashion, quote, it is a mistake to believe or expect that PCs between minimum specification and recommended specification can achieve all of extremely high frame rate, maximum slash ultra features and extremely high resolution.

30:00If that last post makes you have a negative reaction, I bet you have emotions and expectations that you feel aren't sufficiently attended to. I'm sorry. Dude. But please accept that the game is doing a lot and running pretty optimally, and that you may have to either accept some trade-offs between FPS features and resolution as a preference, or you will continue to be disappointed. End quote. There's more to the article. You can go to IGN if you want to read more from Wesley Yenpool, but that's where I'm going to cut it off. Really quick, we have pretty solid beefy rigs here, right? And as y 'all saw on, what was it, Friday, I think, or maybe Thursday, Mike and Roger were going to stream Borderlands on launch day.

30:44And we had to cut it short. Granted, we have some tech issues on our side on a different computer. but the main reason is because these PCs can't stream and play the game at the same time because the game is using like 90 cpu usage it is not well optimized well the great news is barry if you can go to assets the great news is it is running flawlessly on consoles all right is it really no it's no i said i sent in this thing i saw today it's uh over on the borderland subreddit ps5 peak performance for one frame a second oh my god and then the comments of course are people drastically trying to bend over backwards to blame the user so i saw a post yesterday where harlow skills can use a runaway effect to infinite status procs it just happens that you've activated your skills so that's what i'm assuming is killing your frames per second redo your build and just avoid the demon core augment that the universal generator class mod you have literally a post showcasing this was just posted aka your build is too busted for the game to handle your build is too busted yourself just a little for the sake of your frames now my question is user error because barrett's barrett's over here talking about oh you know we try to stream the game and play the game at the same time what graphics cards do we have in those things right are they 2020s like what are 50 fucking 90s man oh shit that's like and they're barely being utilized because the game is cpu heavy damn 50 90s are really good 90s are those the latest one it's like it was looking at the game run it was like seven percent of the gpu was being used and 90 of the cpu what are we doing here man damn uh some good news though looks like an fov slider could be coming this comes from a tweet from at borderlands vault hunters we have heard your feedback on fov sliders on console the team is currently exploring how to bring these sliders to both xbox and ps5 versions we'll continue to read your feedback and prioritize game updates with your experience in mind.

32:41There you go. There you go. Fixed. What was, I missed the whole conversation about Borderlands 4 because I went on vacation and then people kept talking about it and I just decided not to tune in because I had other things to do. I was playing Ghost of Yota. What was the temperature, what's the temperature check on like, I guess, are people enjoying this game? Is the main issue optimization? For the industry or kind of funny review? For both. Kind of funny, we're fine with it. It's a fun game. It's whatever. Mike's higher than me on it but I think even that Barrett correct me if I think he said seven five is where he ended up on his review after 50 some hours and just getting to end game I'm lower than that but not like drastically I just don't I didn't connect with anybody in the world or story so it's like sorry what was the question Mike's score on Borderlands I want to say you said seven five yeah he was in like that he says yeah seven five he said that six to seven range and then playing by the end of it yeah seven five or whatever I appreciate what Mike's been doing lately where he'll say like that's a seven eight and then not give a concrete score.

33:36No, no, he did. He did. He did. He did give a concrete score. So yeah, it's a fine thing. And then the reaction to the world, Metacritic was higher than us on a lot of different places. GameSpot, I was in line with Jordan's review of a seven. Gotcha. But yeah, it's doing what a Borderlands game would do as you would expect or whatever. It seems like. Okay. And then the subreddits are all people mad about performance and PC and it's getting review bombed and, you know, because it's not running on people's machines or whatever. Well, hopefully that gets fixed. But it's definitely, I think it's a Borderlands game where it's gonna that people who want to go play and have friends with their friends are having fun with their friends but not setting the world on fire in terms of like oh man this is something you've never seen before fair enough we're gonna move on to story number three but before we do I want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors this episode is brought to you by Shady Race you know that moment The one when you realized you left your favorite sunglasses at the beach or on the roof of your car or in that gas station miles away.

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