Marathon Finally Has a Release Date - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.19.26

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0:32yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for monday january 19th 2026 i'm one host blessing adio jr joining me is the nitro rifle andy cortez what a tease with that rock star story you know i story number three you would think that that rock star exploding would make it a story number one but it's a small explosion okay they figured it out you start you show that before an episode and then you hit with like the intro song of the episode of the tv show and you're like whoa i'm here yeah it's like well i gotta i gotta tune in for this hour what happened yeah that was a boiler room apparently gotcha it happens have you ever like experienced an explosion like in your vicinity or heard one and go uh no when me and mike were riding lime scooters in la after summer game fest and people were popping fireworks but it we thought we were being bombed we thought la was under attack like it was that loud with how much the sound reverberated around the tall buildings and it was legitimately horrifying yeah uh and then it turned and then we saw like people running from the scene and we're like what is going on it was very scary there's nothing scarier than the sound of like a legit explosion it was a deep rumble this wasn't like a pap pap pap like a high treble hype it was like a base like one of those things when i was when i lived in seattle maybe the first month or two of living in seattle there was an a gas leak explosion that happened down the street from me like in a restaurant down the street from me um at like two or three a.m in the morning it was one of those ones where like it woke me up i heard it was like when i wake up and like i can kind of like feel the house like rumble a little bit i was like what was that at first i was like was that was that lightning like did something get struck or something and then i was like maybe it was a car accident because i started hearing uh police sirens come through i'm like what the fuck is happening and then like i opened up twitter and people that were neighborhoods like miles away were like yo did y 'all y 'all hear that like what happened i didn't know until the morning app pops up like i came into work the next morning they're like y 'all hear about the restaurant that exploded i was like did i hear about it y 'all motherfuckers i heard it that shit was crazy i experienced quite the explosion of emotions over the weekend i've beaten your automata ending b oh this game is so much better and it was already hyped up than more than i could have imagined yeah this game is so much better than what the hype was like there's a reason why i ride or die for near automata like and there was people in the chat that were like finally somebody a kind of funny yokotara pill then i was like no no no no blessing loves near automata yeah like i get shamed though for loving near automata because y 'all think i like it because the titties and i'm like no no no no there's a story likes it for the booty yeah no i like it for one i like it for the gameplay but then like the fucking stories i texted tim more than i've ever texted in my life about this video game it's like i told you to delay things a couple weeks or whatever we need you to like you will love your automata this video game oh my god man i cannot believe it tim will love it i knew you would love it barrett would love this game yeah barrett would absolutely adore i've started it so many times i just need i need to get past that like first three hours again yeah just get it i'll so good andy was hyping this up to me yesterday after his come down from ending b and i told i was like hey i'll i'll put it next on the list because right now over the weekend i started control hell yeah hell yeah listen we all play near automata and then we all just we we all play near replicant as well let's all play near replicant this shit's gonna be top 20 easy in all time on my list really yeah oh you love it that much dude i am i can't wait for you to finished it so fucking enamored with this video game it is so impressive and creative do you know what i'm enamored with final fantasy 10 oh i've been playing that and somebody in chat mentioned it sounds like i'm brewing on a cold i'm coming off of a cold i had a cold late last week that was that's why i wasn't in on thursday and friday that's why you weren't here for pico park i know and i'm still pissed off y 'all played pico park without me because at the meeting everybody was like what happens if tim's gone what happens if tim's gone ah we'll delay pico park for tim all of a sudden I get sick y 'all still play Pico Park 2?

4:39I was with you I was like damn like we're still missing we talked about like we only play Pico Park when we're all here and then what Bless doesn't count in that? Yeah it's like what I'm crazy First of all me and Tim I feel like bring equal things to Pico Park 2 you know what I mean? Like if Mike was gone or if Roger was gone then yeah let's delay Pico Park 2 I feel like me and Tim bring like the same amount of effort and content to Pico Park 2 so why do we delay for Tim and don't delay for Blessing? It is pretty fucked up It is pretty fucked up but anyway I've gotten over it was good stuff though it was good stuff I'm glad you got Joey in because actually that sounds like good content yeah it was a great time it was a great final fantasy 10 oh my god here's the thing right I'm told I'm so sold on this game I've just finished for people who are watching listening I got past uh Luca the Luca chapter and so like I'm at the very start of the next chapter I haven't touched the next chapter but in this game they introduced this thing called Blitzball Andy and when I tell you I know Bob Blitzball is some fucking bullshit I can't believe they would interrupt such a magnificent video game with such a fucking horseshit mode.

5:40And it's not even, here's the thing, people are going to get mad. This is the hottest of takes. People are going to get mad because genuinely, I fucking hate Blitzball. Now, did I read the tutorial? The answer is no. Were you on your phone during the tutorial? No, it wasn't even that on my phone. It's that they interrupt this game that is going real well. stories fucking being delivered to you at such a brisk pace there's so much happening the combat's fun i love the characters oh lulu salute to lulu and then all of a sudden they're like all right we're gonna play some blitzball here's a glossary ah click there's like 10 menu items once you click in the first menu item here's a two-minute tutorial on how to swim around all right you finish that all right now here's the next one on how to pass and i'm like brother i am i'm it i'm playing a grpg right now i'm not gonna sit down and read your fucking encyclopedia right now i'm on vacation i'm not like why are you forcing me to play cricket right now i don't know how to play here's the thing right blitzball could be a 10 out of 10 fucking game but like imagine you're playing near automata and all of a sudden the game stops they're like now learn how to play starcraft yeah and it's like no i'm not gonna play starcraft right now i'm playing near automata i'm playing mario 64 why are you interrupting me so i can learn how to play pokemon puzzle league it doesn't fucking make sense did you feel the momentum like severely drops off because of that well here's the thing yes but to their credit right like literally like right after the bliss ball segment all these motherfuckers lock it happens okay they fucking lock in all the dopest shit happens man i fucking love the segments of this game after bliss ball it's so fucking good i can't wait to get back i can't wait i also can't wait to talk about video game news because remember this is kind of funny games daily if you're watching live you can be a part of this show by super chatting in over on youtube.com slash kind of funny games just like a few people have already done kofi super chatted in and then retracted the message oh good so i don't know what they said but shout out to you kofi i hope everything's okay i hope you're good and then mr nice guy rye writes in it says in my mind gta 6 is delayed another five years because the office next to the boiler room had the whole game on one floppy floppy disk i am broken listen i had that thought i was like what's the craziest thing that could happen with an explosion at rock this shit's got to be backed up in 20 different places the cloud exists they have a copy of this thing like you know where they where they hid uh magneto in x-men you know like way deep underground they got a copy of gta 6 down there yeah exactly you had nothing to worry about uh we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny so thank you to carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the psalm twining thank you for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have six stories today

8:38starting with our number one marathon releases march 5th this is from uh the marathon dev team over at Bungie.net. We're excited to share some big news from Marathon. Marathon releases on March 5th, 2026 on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X slash S. Pre-orders are available now. Our latest gameplay trailer introduces one of the many characters you'll meet on Tau Setti Gantry, the Mida faction agent. Factions and their agents are one of the ways you'll experience the story and world of Marathon. As you complete contracts for each of the six factions, you'll learn more about their identities, motivations, and rivalries as he worked together to uncover the mysteries of Tal Setti's fate.

9:19I think Gantry's the name of the person. Oh. It felt like you were going city-state. I thought it was like the whole thing. Yeah, I thought Gantry was like the neighborhood or something. What part of Gantry are you from? Oh, Tal Setti. Oh, nice. Yeah, I live in the Mission. I thought it was like one of them ones. Yeah, okay. You're meeting Gantry, the might of the magnification agent. Combining role design, gameplay, and discoverable narrative to build a rich living world to discover is key to Marathon's DNA. Completing contracts, finding narrative items, and other achievements will unlock entries in your codex, which you can view outside of your runs.

9:53As you collect the colony's lost audio and text logs, stumble across cryptic graffiti, dig into abandoned colony systems, and aid factions in pursuit of their various goals. You'll begin a journey into the unknown that is only just beginning. Today we're also excited to announce the English language voice cast of Marathon. At launch, Marathon will feature the voices of... They list a bunch of voices. I just want to shout out a handful that are close to my heart. You got Samantha Bayard. You got Roger Clark, Jennifer English, which means it's going to be a game of the UK. Dave Fennoy, Erica Lindbeck, Neil Newbin, the homie Ben Starr, and Elias Tufexes.

10:28I actually don't know how to pronounce the last name. Tufexes, thank you. Who's my guy from Deus Ex. Pre-ordering Marathon grants you access to additional rewards, including weapon cosmetics, emblem, and background for Marathon at launch. plus rewards for destiny 2 linked to your bungie.net account the standard edition of the game will be 39.99 40 that sounds about right yeah that's what i think we were all kind of assuming that seems like kind of the standard for playstation multiplayer thing but then also extraction shooter i feel like that is kind of that sweet spot yeah once our i think once our greatest sort of you know kind of created the mold for that price point also Jennifer English kind of likes Zoe Saldana like wherever she is it's just that game's gonna make money like I think this game will sell not anywhere near the the amount of arc raiders but I think the success of arc raiders has really kind of opened up a neat little lane here for for marathon what are your hype levels is somebody who checked out the marathon what alpha what do they call it yeah I forget what they called it you checked you've played a little bit of this game back in the in spring the unfinished version what are where are your hype levels now for it so i was already excited to just play this new game when it came out just because it's a new bungee game and i already played it back in the day but it wasn't until this weekend when before i hopped on marvel rivals and this is all take this with a grain of salt because this is all coming from a a standpoint of i don't really fuck with the expansion shoot with the extraction shooters in the long term it's a game that i will play for maybe a week or two and then i will likely fall off much like what happened with arc creators where it's like i i enjoyed for a while and then the luster kind of wears off and i was like already kind of you know we'll see what happens when this game comes out but then it wasn't until that runner shells video that uh somebody in the twitch chat was like oh can you you got to watch this and so i was like all right i'll give it a watch and it it got me really pumped it looked the game looks awesome the different variety types of the different runners they've been introducing seem really cool and i'm i i just i love the world and the design and the style of everything and uh some of the weapons that were being shown off seemed really really neat and again all of that is sort of wrapped in this larger thing of like yeah i still don't love extraction shooters but i will play it for a bit and then probably fall off and what don't you love about extraction shooters i just don't think it's the style of game for me like i i love a pure pvp game or a pure or a pure pve game i don't it's the mix of it i now that being said i was mentioning on one of the gamescast recently i think when we were talking about you know our hype levels for duskbloods i think it was friday's games cast maybe and talked about how you know uh i i like getting invaded in something like dark souls or or uh or elden ring or even when we were playing i am blanking on arcane death loop death loop oh yeah like i i like that as a feature where it's kind of a randomized thing that doesn't happen all the time but i think just the core pve vp thing is not quite my jam i'd prefer just 100 of the you know of your work in one way or 100 in the other i don't really feel like mixing things works out too great because then i start to see where the maybe lack of resources weren't put into the pve stuff you know what i mean and that that does kind of bum me out because i still see this world and i've said it a million times but anytime i see a video from this i go man this is just a a cool single player game it's so funny because the art style because here's the thing right arc raiders i enjoyed arc raiders even though i fell off of arc raiders hard um but i really enjoyed my time with it yeah i think there's something about hopping into this world and it feeling like all right if i see like another crew or whatever like maybe we can make friends with them like we're all we're we're not at odds with each other necessarily but we could be at odds with each other i think there's something about that gameplay style that is that feels exciting and fresh and it kind of invokes a little bit of battle royale to me but even in battle royale it's like that's pvp like at the end of the day we're gonna kill those people we're gonna want to kill those people eventually um but there's something about the makeup of arc raiders that works for me but i think the art style and the world of arc raiders also contributes to that to where okay this is a post-apocalyptic world okay there are evil robots out there there's something when i look at marathon where i it's not that right but i so want it to be an arena shooter and i know that's not what it is and it doesn't want to be like i shouldn't want that out of it out of this marathon game but the art style doesn't give me what i got from our creators where it is all right i know what this is this is it's not the last one but it's kind of the last one you know what i mean it's like all right you gotta be aware of other scavengers marathon i feel like it'll take my brain some adjusting for it with the art style but it might be the first person shooter aspect of it also yeah there might be that too yeah what was that game that you loved from last year that was a roguelite first person shooter with also kind of like a vibrant void breaker void breaker like i look at marathon and i think about void break a little bit um that said though like i'm excited to give this a shot the thing that gives me more pause and like this is something that might just be inherent to the style of game that it is is like when they talk about you know collecting your colonies lost audio and text logs and stumble across cryptic graffiti it feels like they're doing a lot of environmental uh storytelling like storytelling through discovering things and picking up things and reading things which works for so many games and i love that of so many games but i i think i'm i'm having the a little bit of what you're having as far as preference i guess right of like if i'm playing this multiplayer thing i don't know if i'm gonna be locked in into paying attention to some of the stuff that they're using like the do i want to listen to an audio log when i'm listening to my homie yap about the latest episode right or something you know like it's hard for me to kind of like mold those two things together it works in the best case scenario of an e3 summer game fest presentation yeah where you and your homies are walking around but and but you're so locked into the story and you could show that in a video and make it go like wow that could be me and my friends but that's not going to be the case you know even in something like destiny when the cutscene is playing you know you're usually just fucking around and like making jokes or whatever and i i think i got kind of pumped up for hearing about what the the end game of this is where they you know there will be moments where there are there is some puzzle solving and there is some raid feeling some sort of raid mechanics but not quite there i would say more like you know i'm not trying to say expect the destiny raid but i i love the idea of them getting more creative with the world and kind of making the most out of it because i don't i at the end of the day it's still like all right i'm gonna get you know third partied by some random squad and i'm gonna get annoyed and then that one robot that i was fighting is gonna be shooting me too and i'm gonna be like fuck this like it the frustration sets in there and um yeah so this is something i i want to try out and i will be playing i just don't think i'll be playing it for that much because it's just do you think the world's gonna play do you think this is a game that's going to hit for the general audience um i i think that i think arc raiders has really opened up people to the idea of this being a genre that's here to stay i think that the timing's also pretty decent i think arc rate is still hot but you may if you release a month after Ark Raiders releases, and it's the hottest thing on the planet.

18:26Awful idea. I think if I'm looking at this from the optimist perspective, you've had some time where, you know, Ark Raiders is still coming out with content, but there may still be things that the community goes, man, they never fixed this, or this is still broken. What the hell, you know? Like, there may be some frustration there, and that's me looking at it from the most optimistic standpoint, because I still think Ark Raiders will dominate this game in terms of numbers. Ark Raiders feels like the number one. feels like it's it's not even close yeah but it feels like it's not an option for even this to try and come through and take that spot like i don't yeah me if i'm looking at it as like a hierarchy right like arc raiders i guess is prime pub g and this might come through and be apex legends like i think that might be kind of the comparison there and like honestly that's fucking fantastic if this game ends up being that that's me being generous to marathon it's battlefield to war zone where i think when call of duty black ops 7 is struggling and battlefield comes out and it's this breath of fresh air and everybody goes oh my god yes this is what we wanted and we're catching call of duty at their weak point at their weakest right now this is the you know one of the weakest entries they've done a lot of people are unhappy with it people are doing graphics comparison saying man black ops 2 looks just as good you know there's like a lot of negativity on COD and then eventually things start going back to COD anyway and you know you see the player count drop off of Battlefield 6 a bit more and then more people are playing arc creators in Battlefield 6 which is you know really really surprising on platforms like Steam and stuff like that but I do think that there will be the hardcore dedicated Bungie audience that will play this and I think someone like Bungie is the only one who could even try to you know get a i'm thinking of the backstreet boys documentary where they're like you know backstreet's back if somebody's gonna make the second backstreet boys you want it to be you so the same person made in sync like you don't want pepsi to come along and sort of take shit from you why not you be the competitor sort of thing yeah and i feel like uh at this moment you could kind of get the close you could be the pepsi to what um our creators yeah our creators you know coca-cola um i want to bring in some super chats for you we got one from marcus daniels who says ben star out here gunning for kevin conroy's throne i feel like ben star is out here gunning for nolan north in in troy baker's throne this man's everywhere shout out everywhere can't avoid him can't avoid him um i'm trying to see if there's any more marathon related things now we got some birthday taxes though shout out to ace boogie games who writes in and says birthday tax turned 40 boys had a good run damn happy birthday happy birthday listen it's not over here i mean it's over soon for you but it's not over now you know you got a couple years left um oh we got one that just came in from claw master who says i would argue that thanks to arc raiders that people are open to play games like marathon and other shooters of the ilk a rising tide lifts all ships and i agree with that right that's the point you're making andy and i i totally agree that i think arc raiders has made people made extraction shooter not as bad of a word it hasn't made it this weird niche game genre anymore this this thing that is unfamiliar to everybody uh shout out to micah parsons formerly the cowboys now and the packers who tweeted out recently like man it kind of sucks that you can't just um go into the arc radio store and like buy stuff like like the way you could buy like 2k coins or whatever you know what i mean like he was just trying to you know let me just pay to win i don't got a whole lot of time to play i just want to get in there and be competitive yeah but yeah i think that it's it's the game that has finally made the genre like this i wouldn't say household name but it's getting there like it's in the same it's like the same way where i think when we announce i say we is that i'm out here announcing games but when a new game's announced and it's a multiplayer either free to play or it has one of the buzzwords right extraction or like whatever words they use to describe high guard people automatically want to hate the thing asymmetrical people like want to jump to hate um and like i understand parts of that right because we associate that with being money grubbing right we associate that with microtransactions and all this stuff that we absolutely hate and i totally understand that but i will say like i think to the extraction thing it is very much everybody will put whatever game is in the same bucket or at least pre-arc raiders it was if you announce an extraction shooter for some reason i won't even say for some reason people will just say hey this thing is gonna work out it's gonna fail it's gonna suck we don't want this take it back stomp it on the ground fucking tear it into a million pieces and make uncharted or something yeah i think arc raiders is one of those surprises like hell divers 2 where yeah when we previewed hell divers 2 it was like hey this is kind of cool but it feels like another one of these so far and it wasn't until the game came out and exploded you're like oh shit this is a big deal and it isn't just aliens uh rogue incursion or whatever the fuck i get you know whenever one of these sort of co-op shooters comes out and it's just another one of those and hell divers ends up breaking the mold and like hey we're a new game that's kind of here to stay i would have predicted that our creators would not have like succeeded because of 40 bucks genre that isn't you know crazy popular right now this isn't something people are used to that might turn people off and the free-to-play market is still so dominant you know yeah i hope yeah my thing is i hope marathon is i hope it's great i hope like i'm hoping for like the over of it comes out and it does enough of what it needs to do i think i don't think there's any way that it does everything it needs to do both because of the kind of game that it is but then also it's bungie and i feel like bungie always has to like stumble a little bit at launch and then get their shit together through updates and figuring things out and so i think that's gonna that's gonna happen with marathon but i hope they're able to get to a place where it's like all right this is good enough that we can get to the place to get to the taking king of whatever marathon is you know what i mean um and i hope the same for high guard i hope high guard comes out in surprises that game's out like next week i think it's like 10 days or something i want that game to be good people have been hating on high guard like crazy and again i get it there was that fake tweet which was a person who put out a tweet with a high guard in their library and said oh game sucks ass and it looked like It was a Steam library screenshot, and it said hours played 6.7 or something.

25:02Yeah. And everybody believed this tweet for about a week. Who was he playing with? Testing, who knows? Yeah. But people believed this tweet for a while. And then the guy was like, fuck you. The game sucks, whatever. And then it ended up being like, well, people found out that's not the icon in the Steam back end. Like, you're using the wrong icon. Shit's fake. You know, it's just kind of a fake tweet for clout or whatever. And yeah, shit like that sucks. You know, the Internet is in real life and a lot of people don't even use Twitter anyway. So who cares? But it's little things like that that I'm like, oh, man, they could have used without that.

25:41Yeah. Yeah. Now, here's my wish. Here's my wish. Give me your wish, Andy. Magical genie. I'm the magical game genie. I'm here to make your magical gaming wishes come true. Don't fuck me. Don't fuck me. Don't fuck me. That's always wish number one. Yeah. Wish number two. wish number two i want marathon to be so successful that they pull a titanfall you know titanfall 2 comes out they're like hey let's give you a campaign now yeah at first marathon to be so successful that it's like we're working on something marathon it's not pvp we're working on something in the background stay tuned and i want this to be a couple years from now or whatever i just want a single player like game in this universe this set in this world i mean i like the art i want to create my own whoever made this art style but pay them some money you know what i mean they did pay them some money i think they made this art style oh they locked in you know what i mean that person should be getting jobs and getting paid i i think there was a they did come to a there was an agreement conclusion whoever made this art that was up to their satisfaction whoever worked at bungee and cooked this art style from scratch wow keep them on the team they're watching this on a private jet right now man i love the marathon art style let's move on to story number two or actually before we get to story number two i got one more shout out for story number one a related thing a limited edition marathon ps5 dual sense controller and pool uh pulse elite headset are coming uh i have a link yeah there we go barrett um i like the idea of these custom ps5 dual sense controllers i feel like usually they look good i don't like how this one looks and i think it's honestly i think it's just the marathon logo on the touchpad oh it was there yeah because i was about to say i just hate whenever the logo was on the thing yeah yeah on the touch oh okay yeah yeah i think that's the only thing i really don't like but i I think that that logo is like now, now I don't love that, but I want that style more and more.

27:42I don't want a fucking image of Mario on my thing. I don't want an image of like solid snake or, you know, whatever the guy from, cause you know, there's going to be a freaking limited edition thing for fizzing. Right. Yeah. Whenever that happens by, by Kojima productions in like six years or whatever, I don't want a picture of fucking Robert Pattinson or whatever his name was. Oh, Robert Pattinson. Whatever the actor was that we thought was going to be in the game. Remember? The Fizzant sort of like trailer. Or not the trailer, but the image. I think you're thinking of 007. No, I'm thinking of Fizzant.

28:19When Kojima showed off Fizzant and it was that, it was like a little key art. Oh, the key art, yeah. We thought it looked like Eddie, what's his face? I'm blanking on the dude's name. But when the, I don't want an image of that. I don't want an image of a character. I want it to look like it exists in the world somehow. And I like that shit more. And at least it doesn't say marathon. Like, I'm sure that logo is like. Still looks like something that could be in the world. Yeah, I'll take that. You know what I mean? You got to do. Eddie Redmayne. That's Eddie Redmayne. This wouldn't be a clickable episode of Gamescast, but I want to do a Gamescast where we each bring in our ugliest controllers.

28:56That's good. We each bring in like two of our ugliest controllers and try to rank them on ugliness. That's good social content. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there's something there. If I bring in my skate controller that I always use, my Outriders controller, I have an Outriders Xbox controller. You'd really be having controllers like that. What about that Ultros one? I didn't like that Ultros. I don't know what I did with that one. I feel like I might have tossed them to the street. I throw a lot of controllers away. I'm not going to lie to you. You throw controllers away? I can put them in my closet.

29:26Or I give them to my friends. I did a big cleaning this uh in my room where i was like mainly rearranging stuff but it was like there's a lot of stuff it's like and i would come across like an old 8-bit dough that i bought like seven years ago and i'm just looking at it and then i look at like the trash bag that i have hanging i'm like can i be can i be honest i don't know if i should confess it's wasteful it's bad i don't know if i should confess this i mean it's not as bad as being wasteful i think but around christmas time i usually do a white elephant gift exchange where i bring in all the gifts and they're all from pr packages i do like a pr package like some bullshit that they send and i'm like man i don't want i don't want these fucking socks and like i make it range too where and one of them it will be like a fucking controller yeah everybody's excited for the controller even if it looks ugly or it'll be like some random like oh here's an art book for a game that you never played or whatever but it's a hit yeah it's a holiday season and it's not as wasteful i'm not throwing it away guys a lot of them can be cool for sure i just want to shout out any uh and bless you talking about the controller design emmet uh walkins jr the homie and uh cameron kennedy the other homie were going back and forth on like controller design yeah and cameron like mocked these up see which like this is what i'm talking about when i say that sometimes these control controllers do look good like i love these colors that they released what this last week yeah yeah so like these are based off of the um the different hyper pop collection but they were theorizing like maybe this was a part of the marathon thing at one point because it has a very like marathon coded like feeling to it but they just didn't commit to it yeah i like these i like these way better yeah the white one's just not the white one just doesn't work with the marathon aesthetic bungee you like stealing art not steal this from cameron then we'll get cameron in contact with sony so he can be satisfied with his uh with his uh pay there god listen we got to figure out how to meet in the middle here right i like what cameron kennedy is doing um we also got to figure out how to move on to story number two which we're about to do right now except we're not going to do that right now because i got to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad-free.

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32:57From the co-writer of Rogue One comes See You in Hell, a new Hollywood satire, I kind of like the studio, except you'd never get away with this on television. Starring Shannon Woodward. You seriously need to see a shrink or something before you get arrested for dicky waving. Thomas Sadarsky. I don't have imposter syndrome. You should. John Cryer. You think I don't know bullshit when I hear it? I represent Sean Hannity. And John Boyega. I was in Star Wars and Pacific Rim. The second one. Where was? See You in Hell, wherever you get your podcasts and at seeyouinhell.tv. Hey, you! Join us in person for our live in review of Howard the Duck.

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34:35We're back with Sturgeon. Story number two, Resident Evil Code Veronica remake reportedly planned for announced later this year. This is Tom Phillips at IGN. Capcom is expected to reveal its all new Resident Evil Code Veronica remake this year, according to a fresh report. Previous reporting had pinned the still unannounced Code Veronica remake for a 2027 release following next month's launch of Resident Evil Requiem. Now, noted Resident Evil leaker Dusk Golem has said fans should expect a first look at the Code Veronica remake later in 2026. ijan has previously verified that a new version of the game is indeed in development while mp1st has claimed that the game currently sits with a q1 2027 launch window quote no there is not a resident evil 5 remake that's going to be announced this year dusk golem wrote in a post on social media quote instead later this year a re remake that starts with c and ends with old veronica is going to be announced i promise you end quote you think that's a summer announcement summer game fest that seems like a perfect kind of capcom summer game fest thing yeah but is that too soon after resident evil requiem because code for the smaller thing right i think it's three months four five months after seven eight nine i'm gonna say i'm gonna say september state of play oh okay okay i just i just really think of capcom and summer game fest is always kind of having some shit going on like i think of cap when i think of summer i think of capcom You know what?

36:05Thank you. They do be hanging out in the summer. Yeah. We got fucking... What was the dinosaur? I can never remember the name of this fucking dinosaur. XO Primal. XO Primal came out in the summer. Along with... What was the strategy game? That was also an action game. Strategy game that was also an action game. You know the one. It came out a couple years ago. It was like... Kunitsugami Path of the Goddess. Yeah, Kunitsugami Path of the Goddess. That was a summer game. It's weird because I think of Sega for the summer. Street Fighter VI came out in the summer. No, Sega loves the winter time. Well, not even.

36:39I'm just talking about vibes. Oh, I think it's just presentation. Because of Crazy Taxi. And Sonic. I think of Sonic. Sonic Summers. This is what I want from chat. Top five summer video game things. Another terrible headline for Gamescast, but we should do like, what is the company that represents each season? Yeah, match the seasons to the publisher. But like the vibe, not the game releases or the schedules or anything. Yeah. Chad, I want top five summer vibes from a game company. Because, yeah, Capcom and Sega, for sure summer. Insomniac gives me summer vibes. Even though I know they always release in the fall, something about Insomniac says summer to me.

37:20Sunset Overdrive, you know. Sunset Overdrive, the sun being out in Spider-Man. After you do that, Chad, then go back and watch the Kind of Funny podcast. which which planets are these boy band members I vaguely remember this topic Saturn was Justin Timberlake the ring very popular you know but like who's Earth then I think Earth was maybe maybe Nick Carter no shot one of them got left off I think it was Howie Howie did make wait are we doing NSYNC members specifically in sync and backstreet boys oh okay i was gonna because i was starting to think modern because i'm like i feel like no it was just those two it was just those bands who's pluto jc shizé uh that may have been chris kropatrick possibly yeah maybe kevin federline okay that's a fun topic um what are we talking about oh yes resident evil what's the scope of code veronica i don't know shit about code veronica i dude i know so little about code veronica for much of my youth I thought Code Veronica was like a fan mod thing at one point.

38:30Like, I just, I never quite knew what it was. It feels like it's always on the lower list of priority in terms of what Resident Evil fans want or talk about. Yeah. Because it's not one of the core entries. But it has one of those cult followings for sure. I mean, people in chat are saying fan favorite. The Tundra Boy 22 says it's the true RE3. Code Veronica's mainline. i mean if all this is true and you know i can always trust chat on everything um that's exciting right like i want here's my thing right i feel like resident evil remakes have become such a staple and whenever they run out of them i'm gonna be very sad it's like pokemon remakes where it's like you always got to just keep remaking yeah there's nothing about a remake from these series where it's like this is just a new main series now this is just a new staple now um why honestly I even went, give me Resident Evil 1 remake, remake, remake the remake.

39:25I mean, we're, that's going to happen. This is where I'm at now. Yeah. I mean, well, I think mainly from the aspect of, you know, that, that game got remade too early. It was like, you know, it's before they really locked in on remakes. I'm too, too young to see the stars and I'm too old to see the dinosaurs or whatever. You know what I mean? One of those sayings, you know, but yeah, it's like that game got remade. ages ago when i was in middle school like that yeah so i i think that that one seems most likely to get a more modernized you know behind the back third person it is all the re engine stuff that you would uh expect you know when you guys when you guys did your little games cast on friday that i wasn't at all jealous that i was this little cute one you did your little cute games cast that i really wanted to be a part of but i was sick when you're predicting top 10 games that were going to be on the kind of funny list did you guys what did you guys put resident will requiem um i think mike was kind of hey that could be number one and everybody was like that's kind of crazy that's kind of insane but i think we all were like yeah i think that's a safe bet of being on the list right i i think i think we're all gonna play that game i'm not gonna play that game oh baby you don't be playing resident evils no not like that Resident Evil in the last 7 years Has turned into like such a Special franchise to me Which is funny because pre RE2 remake I couldn't give less of a fuck About Resident Evil But like between that What started it?

41:02What turned you onto it? I think it was just RE2 remake I played that and I was like This is one of the best video games I've ever played And then from there like they all Kept consistent where like Except for RE3 but like I didn't really care about that Right like RE3 was more of that but it was like fucking two hours long of a video game yeah i mean but that's kind of i mean that's the game well like re7 when we streamed that that was such a good fucking game then resume village was cool there hasn't been a fall off there hasn't been i've not played a bad resident evil game i think that you can ask audiences and they might have their nitpicks or you know yeah the end of the village just becomes a first person shooter call of duty style and you know like i residential village is like um it's lower on my list if i'm gonna rank the resident evils that i have played I like Resident Evil Village but still impressive but still impressive yeah I really really dig Resident Evil nowadays it's weird that Roger and Mike don't make Barrett play Resident Evil oh I don't make it a part of my personality that I don't fuck with those games yeah Barrett if you want to play I mean we have a slot open I can step down no it's okay I'm really busy Andy can step down do you like whiskey?

42:05do I like whiskey? I'm not a huge whiskey guy we can pour some whiskey up for you and play some Resident Evil no like YouTube have got it like it's already scheduled I think I've got something going on that day what do you have what are you doing it's my birthday month you know so month it's just you know it's a lot going on i don't think half the audience knows that me and blessing even played the other that was pandemic era yeah god that was such a good like series people don't even remember here's what i'll say because i played about 20 to 30 minutes of resident evil requiem um at capcom last year when i tell you that shit is fucking scary me and you're gonna have a time playing that that shit is terrifying okay so i mean i'm look i'm excited to take the the leon kennedy portions i'm excited to get in the first person shooting mouse and keyboard then you'll be playing oh i figured we swap off oh okay i mean i like that interesting but i would have to go to the desk and keyboard mouse it yeah because i ideally like they want us to be on the couch right ideally or yes maybe they put some a couple of like gross pillows with pus and blood all over them and like try to you know make us dress up or whatever like why do you get to do leon kennedy i feel like you should do the other character you know what's her name grace sure you know i feel like you should be doing i'm such a shooter though that's like it's yeah i've been playing a lot of overwatch recently oh my god dude i've never lost i i think what it has to happen is that you have to do the same amount of, like, sections for each character, but then you guys have to, like, do a coin toss to figure out who plays Grace first.

43:43No, I don't like you just suggesting, so it's stupid. I'm going to schedule a meeting with Roger. Use a controller, Andy. Don't be a coward. Hey, Andy, ride a bike to work. Why would you drive a car? Don't be a coward. No, I'm going to go with... Great point. I'm going to be better. Why would I not be better? Just for the record, we're playing this game in third person, by the way. Absolutely. I feel like the great sections are really designed for first person. Why does the producer talk so much? Yeah, hold on. It's fucking crazy. The Reddit comments? Pull out a chair and get out here, Baron. You know what I mean?

44:13God damn. I'm really excited for you two to stream this entire game. It's been a really fun stream. Something not so fun. Rockstar blew up. Story number three. GTA 6 developer Rockstar North is open and operational after a fire crew's rush to explosion. This is Tom Phillips at IGN. Fire services attended the offices of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar North this morning following a reported boiler explosion. Seven vehicles were mobilized to attend the main Rockstar North building in Edinburgh, Scotland, at 5.02 a.m. local time. That's scary. I thought you were going to say seven vehicles were damaged.

44:50I was going to go, whoa, this is way bigger than I thought. Seven vehicles were dispatched. just after midnight eastern following an incident that local news outlet edinburgh live described as an explosion in a boiler room crews remained on site for over four hours but have now left the scene scottish newspaper the herald has reported rockstar games has told ign that studio opened today following the incident attended by emergency services in the early hours of this morning quote early early monday morning there was a malfunction in one of the heating boilers at rockstar north A Rockstar Games spokesperson confirmed to IJN in a statement.

45:26Many thanks to those that reached out with concern and also to the police and fire crews who were on scene quickly to assess the situation. Please know that everyone is well and our studio remains open and operational, end quote. Earlier reports from emergency services, sorry, emergency service personnel made mention of securing structural damage to the building through Rockstar's statement appears to suggest this was minimal. Wild. i mean that that's a scary thing that something just randomly like that i often think about just like the random stuff that's out of your control what happened with this boiler why it just fucking it just did that but like it's crazy that that shit could just happen i and like it's it's it's such it's such a crazy thing it is crazy how much like we as humans just need to accept that shit can just happen that shit can just happen yeah my in 20 fuck what year 2008 i want to say either 2008 2009 my house caught on fire when i was a kid uh and i was like home alone and this is one of those ones where for some reason our heater system in our home wasn't working my mom didn't want to fix it she wanted to save money it was a whole thing i was using i was using a space heater in my room did the space heater cause the fire no it did not but as a kid i was home alone fire happened and immediately i was like oh shit i fucking caused a fire with the space heat oh yeah it wasn't that it was just that like in my sister's room that nobody was in because my sisters at all like either moved out or gone to college there was like a random cable that had caught under the carpet and like got cut by one of the needles it just fucking caused the fire it's crazy and nobody could have done anything about that right like nobody could have caught that that's life like shit fucking just happens and that's terrifying but as humans we just keep going i mean like keep going i think it's so wild that this is all that it was like this could have been so much worse yeah when we think about it and obviously great that nobody was there um but very very terrifying either way like that's a terrifying situation terrifying glad it sounds like people are okay they didn't report any injuries or anything like that i mean it was like in the middle of the night right yeah yeah but they'd be crunching yeah yeah they do somebody is like fuck i gotta make sure like this character's knees look perfect for the final game all of a sudden this guy's nostrils are not flaring like in the horse's balls don't fucking shrink and grow depending on the temperature well how does a fungus look on that uh toenails it's still like a man there's a lot of crunch there's a player that will notice if the fungus isn't perfect on that toenail stir number four former bioware exec hits out of suggestions that it should never have made anthem in the first place This is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle.

48:08A former Bioware executive has criticized player suggestions that the studio should never have made Anthem in the first place. Last week, as Anthem servers were shut down seven years after the game's release, Anthem executive producer Mark Dura released a video post-mortem lasting nearly four hours. Following this, in a 40-minute interview with YouTuber Destin Laguerre, Mark Dura discussed the game's development further and defended the decision to make the game in the first place. As the interview concluded, Dura was asked if there was anything he wanted to clarify about Anthem and its history.

48:41He replied by questioning anyone who said Bioware should never have made Anthem in the first place because it should have stuck to single-player RPG games. Dura pointed out that since its foundation in 1994, Bioware had tried numerous new ideas and that Anthem was simply another evolution in another of its numerous attempts to try something different. Quote, I'm sure there are probably things where I feel like the record needs to be set straight, but I think it's easy to blame EA, and certainly they deserve a bunch of blame for Anthem, but it's not all their fault, he explained. Quote, But my feeling is that BioWare has always been changing.

49:14I mean, by that argument, we should never have made Neverwinter Nights because we were a 2D RPG maker. We should never have made Mass Effect because we were a tactical RPG maker, not an action RPG maker. So I don't know that that argument holds a lot of weight for me. To me, it's like, yeah, your studios evolve and they try new things and was anthem too big of a reach yeah sure or yeah for sure but could you tell at the time could you tell but could you tell at the time i don't know uh i don't know that you could end quote i fuck with it yeah i mean it definitely was a lot a massive reach for them and they were also kind of hot off the heels of what a failure was with Mass Effect Andromeda and maybe there was already some low morale at that point.

50:03It just really, really sucks after playing it back in December where me, Chris Anka, and Kevin Asex hopped into it, played about five or six hours. And it's just so tragic. Because there is such a good core there. The combat is so fun. It's really satisfying. I it's such a bummer that the that the pieces just did not come together in the way that they needed to and in a you know the mad the magical gaming uh I'm the magical gaming wizard blessing I'm gonna make this a single-player RPG is what I would do well you forgot your first wish and so don't fuck it up yeah your single-player RPG is gonna be fucking online only online only the riding is gonna suck so no romance dude it's it's such a bummer man they're like it is still such a wildly impressive game and such a high budget game with the amount of times that the cut scenes where well well first off i will say that it has some of the best procedural like ai generated animations where where it's not facial capture where it's just like the procedural animation stuff making the mouth do the flapping according to the sounds that it's making it that shit is like so impressive for how old the game is but then every cut scene where characters are just looking at you it's like man this is rendered so everything looks so impressive right now and it's just yeah not everything came together and it's really really sad because i think that i think if they would have stuck to anthem next after you know looking at all the mistakes that were made and all the lessons learned i think there could have been something really cool with anthem next and it just didn't see the light of day you know the meme where it's like society if xyz thing happened i feel like the society of anthem was good yeah we'd have flying cars like you know everybody would have water clean water we'd be living in a utopia it was so sick man like there's a lot of really cool impressive stuff in that game and yeah after going offline fully and permanently uh hopefully modders do something about it hopefully modders can figure out a way to resuscitate it and get that shit you know in an online state of some sort but yeah it's a bummer story number five nintendo was unhappy at sega's mascot's foot during mario and sonic at the olympic games development this is tom phillips at igan this honestly doesn't even need to be in the roper report but i couldn't i we had to talk about this i'm on the show nintendo allegedly expressed dissatisfaction at sega during the development of mario and sonic at the olympic games after seeing sonic's foot placed ahead of mario's the incident has come to light in an arcade attack retro gaming network interview with sega veteran rioichi hasagawa who worked on the wii and nintendo ds sports minigame classic ahead of its release back in 2007 according to hasagawa nintendo insisted that sega change artwork set to be used for the game's cover that depicted mario's foot placed behind that of Sonic's.

53:11Quote, There was one funny story, Hazegawa recalled, of the game's development. There was artwork of Mario and Sonic and, you know, other characters standing on the field. And those artworks were used for the package, the instruction manual cover, and the cartridge label and things like that. There was one small error and Sonic's foot was in front of Mario's foot, he continued, and Nintendo demanded us to change the priority. End quote. Asked if Sonic, or asked if Sega agreed to the change as a guy always said the games developers of course made the change for nintendo we were like oh my god we have to change it he concluded or there will be no deal this is a deal breaker we had to do something this is hysterical i love it i mean it reminds me a lot of you know the rock having in his contract that he can't die in a movie or whatever so like or he can't lose a fight so he just always ties with vin diesel whatever it's always a stalemate you know i feel like if i could pitch since mythic quest is gone if i could pitch a new video game sitcom i'd want a sitcom that's like that takes place within the offices of sega and nintendo during like that era of console wars as it turns into like this where like shit it says it's like it would have to be in sega like mostly it would have to base or be based around like sega launching the fucking um genesis saturn then dreamcast right and then getting out of the console business because everything's going to shit because that'd be the most interesting content but i'd i'd love this episode of it where they're like it would be awesome if they were sharing a cafeteria in a building yeah and there were moments where like you know the walking by with the trays and like and like all the nintendo people are like very dressed up yeah like proper or whatever and the second people are just like walking around with chili dogs the second characters would for sure be like the cast from it's always sunny in philadelphia yeah where they never have their shit together like they're kind of awful like that would have to be not saying that second people are awful i'm just saying in this sitcom they would be the cast from it's always sunny in philadelphia because this episode is fucking hilarious it's like ah shit somebody comes in and they're like i don't think it's further it is dude yeah check it out look bust out the ruler everybody's like measuring everything there's like a very uptight character that comes in the room they're like who made this asset they're like fucking bob and they're like you put sonic's foot in front of mario's fucking fucking ghost face it oh i didn't know mario honestly what a diva mario oh huge diva would be so controlling and of his image but honestly like let's be real though as much as i love sega as much as i was saying as much as old sonic saying you shouldn't be putting sonic's foot in front of mario's i should know but i hate this because like mario you're not a fast guy you're a jumper he's mario but also i i in my brain his foot was just ahead not because he's faster doesn't he just kind of have maybe like longer legs yeah this is what indy is somebody who watches sports you know i mean like netflix they're putting out a documentary about the last 15 years of the NBA and on the cover of the documentary they're going to put Steph Curry and LeBron James.

56:14Who's in front of the other in that art? You have to have LeBron James. It has to be LeBron James. Listen, this is me calling Sonic the Hedgehog Steph Curry. Sonic the Hedgehog. It's still a great compliment. Sonic the Hedgehog will clutch up when he needs Sonic the Hedgehog. Best three-point shooter of all time. Best three-point shooter of all time. I'm Sonic the motherfucking Maurice Hedgehog. You know what I mean? But Mario's LeBron James. You're right. You got to show him respect. He's right, Jen. He's right. Andy, big news that we had to end it with here, right? Fucking Sonic and Mario beefing once again.

56:45But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the We News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Story number six, We News. let's start off with one from at the game verse star wars jedi 3 is being revealed and released this year according to insider tim gettys of course i heard about this recently yeah oh it looks like there's been a there's been a note tim gettys has stated he did not confirm this information and does not know anything regarding this per his own tweet i think if you watch the show he said i've heard things i've heard whispers Which show was this?

57:26It was Gamescast. It was the end of Gamescast. He was like, this would be a crazy prediction. Oh, was it like your guys' cute little... Yeah, it was our cute little Gamescast. Your little baby Gamescast. And we were like, no, that would be crazy. And then he just went, I've heard things. Wait, did you buy this? Yeah. Oh. I just wanted to show you my cool card. Look at that one. Audio listeners, Mike has magic cards. Look at this one. Look at that one. I had to miss out on the pre-release because I was sick. Chronicle of Victory. Chronicle of Victory. Look at this. Wow, that's a Shadow Urchin holographic.

57:54Oh, yeah, bro. What brand is it? Or what is it? Was it fun? This is Lorwyn Eclipsed. I went for the pre-release party on Friday night. I went one and two. I went 0-2 at the beginning. Got real down on myself. Got slapped, Andy. You get 45 minutes to play a best of three. First two matches were done in like 15 minutes. So there I was twiddling my thumbs, looking at the wall, hating life. And then I slapped this jabroni around. So I'm on the up. And then I was so into it, bless. that unfortunately sold out. It was so popular it sold out. I couldn't partake in Saturday or Sunday, so I went to Game Landia and I bought myself some packs because I needed it.