Metal Gear Solid Movie is Finally Happening - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.10.26

22:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:we hope to transcend the barriers between video this project and we will fully support you with The latest innovation Sony has to offer. More details to come. Okay, so pause that. So, yeah, he doesn't say it's going to be a... He says they're hoping to transcend... Wait, go back to the sub-time. I need to see the exact wording. We hope to transcend the barriers between film and video games.

22:53Tim Gettys:What does that mean? What does that mean? Clearly a collaboration with Columbia and Sony. So, there is some connective tissue there. All I'm saying is it is interesting that Sony's publishing a Metal Gear movie and also working on Fizzin which has some film element in it and then on top of that Sony is now over here trying to figure out video game movies and trying to jump on that trend so this is just the beginning right? Everybody jumping on the trend Everybody jumping way too late We've been saying this for years that this was going to happen Now Metal Gear Great call, sure, go forward Fucking Astro Bot, Astro Bot's the next one No it's not I think you get You have Sony Animated Yeah, but I feel like there's IP that works better for a TV.

23:37And I think they're doing it. Because, like, they're doing Gravity Rush, dude. Like, they're just doing whatever. That's not happening.

23:41Tim Gettys:There's no way. I mean. There's no way they're making it. It has been a very long time since they announced it. They did that and Patapon, which is the worst. Did they say Patapon also? Yeah, they said Patapon as well. What are they doing? Like, that was an insane situation. What are you guys doing? Everything has to be IP now. But why are you choosing those IPs? You have your PlayStation. If it exists, we're making it. Why are you shooting yourself on the foot? You have one all. we can't make an original thing that would do great everything's crashing everything we can't put money into an original idea so as long as an IP that has sold at least five units in the past we'll make something out of it yeah I mean we'll sell a Patapon movie they've been talking about Ghost of Tsushima they've been talking about you know Horizon right but like I think this is just the beginning well yeah Uncharted I forgot about that are they even making an Uncharted 2 movie yes apparently allegedly also Avi Arad but also Avi Arad is a part of good movies too so it doesn't really matter yeah um but yeah i don't know this is the beginning of something and i would say in the next within this year you're gonna get like two to three more playstation video game sony announcements for movie adaptations like hooper no it's not like hooper i if i were to get honestly i think ashore bot i think ashore bot is a is a slam dunk of like if you do an animated version of it it gets the kids it gets it in front of the kids of all these playstation characters it's easy it's a fun little robot that's saving the day he comes out of a place in you they go they show the trailer shows a playstation kids playing places animated kids and it goes inside my problem with this boom is that we here's i we should be in an alternate universe where the mario movies were made by like a different studio and illumination makes astrobot because illumination and astrobot astrobot would be such the perfect marriage yeah they're just minions yeah but also it's like it's all the references without the substance which is what astrobot is in terms of story not in terms of gameplay a lot of substance in the gameplay but you get what i mean like yeah that's minions right there sure but then you also have the sony animated studio which isn't killing it like absolutely destroying it like their that their team over there is doing some amazing stuff and that's who should be making the mario movie i mean yes we should switch spots if we can switch spots like hey we'll give you give us mario i think that's an easy trade that makes sense right five million dollars for one billion dollars looking at me like what the fuck are you talking about no we're not giving you mario yeah yeah Yeah, we're going to see a lot more of this, and I'm, I don't know, lukewarm on this announcement.

26:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Well, let's move on to story number two. Amazon Luna has stopped offering individual games and subscriptions from third-party stores. This is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle. Amazon has announced that it has stopped offering individual game and subscription purchases through its Luna streaming service. At the moment, Luna, formerly known as Amazon Prime Gaming, offers two subscription services, Luna Standard and Luna Premium. Until today, players could also link their Luna account to their accounts on the EA, Ubisoft, or GOG stores and buy games on those stores. These games would then also be playable on Luna's cloud streaming service, allowing players to play them without installing them to their PC.

26:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:However, in an email being sent to some subscribers, Amazon has announced that this feature has been stopped as of today as it focuses on the Luna standard and Luna premium services. Starting today, April 10th, Amazon Luna no longer offers, quote, game stores, individual game purchases, or third-party subscriptions, and has removed the EA, Ubisoft, and GOG stores. Players who previously purchased titles through Luna can continue to play them until June 10th, at which point Luna will no longer support them. They'll be playable through EA, Ubisoft, and GOG stores they were redeemed on. Games that were also carried over through the Bring Your Own Library feature, where purchases made directly from EA, Ubisoft, or GOG, could be brought to Luna for streaming will also no longer be supported from June 10th.

27:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Luna is also no longer selling subs to Ubisoft Plus and Jackbox Games. Players who subbed to these through Luna will have their active subscriptions canceled at their next billing cycle, meaning they'll have to resubscribe elsewhere. Some players will be eligible for a free membership to Luna Premium. Amazon will be contacting these players on or after June 10th with details on how to claim the offer. Quote, What's staying and getting even better? We're doubling down on a broad range of gaming experiences, including strong third-party titles delivered in ways that make great games more accessible, as well as new and unique gaming experiences like Game Night, Amazon wrote.

28:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, we appreciate you being a part of our journey, and we're excited to continue delivering great games and gaming experiences through Luna Standard and Luna Premium, like Judge Snoop Dogg. End quote.

28:13Tim Gettys:No, I didn't say the Judge Snoop Dogg part. I added that part. Come on. I have insight into this blessing I have a lot of insight into this Because last weekend I booted up Luna And I played it with a group of friends For Leanne's birthday I needed some type of Game night situation So I was like okay maybe Jackbox Maybe I want one of these fucking board games What are the digital board games you set up on your phone And I was like Oh Amazon Luna exists And oh I have Amazon Prime So let's look into this and it was kind of impressive when it comes to like the game night offerings that they had it was exactly what i wanted it is a disaster when it comes to the way that they've structured this because you have no idea what you it's part of the prime subscription and what's not so honestly this is probably the smartest thing for them to do because when you go on the service it works very well for the most part there's one one of us uh couldn't like use the fucking we would connect and would disconnect our phone all the time for some reason but other than that it was a pretty like seamless experience but when you go to the actual service itself it has all of these games you click on them and like oh this is not included in the thing oh i thought this game was included no you have to pay six dollars for the jackbox membership oh one of the jack jackbox games are included in the luna standard and it just got very confusing very fast so it makes a lot of sense that they're like hey we're cutting all the third-party stuff because unlike i think that they were trying to make this like their uh amazon prime video subscription where they have prime and then they have the store where people can buy things and then they can you know basically use it as a rental subscription place uh or just a rental uh video platform but video games are so much more expensive you know i mean like the the server cost of it all it doesn't make sense for the amount of people clearly the chat is looking at it they're the people that would be using this they're like we're not using this no one's using this so cutting it all makes sense sorry to the 16 users that are playing it and actively playing control on there or whatever but when it comes to the actual what this is and what luna is supposed to be it is for my purposes of hey i have a bunch of people over we want a game night we don't want to buy the jackbox games or we want just the the basic offerings of you know we want to draw something on the tv and guess what we each draw that's what this is and it worked really well and also i will say i did try out the stoop dog game yeah what's the verdict the verdict ding ding ding it's pretty funny it was it was very like complex of course it's ai it that sucks oh i forgot about that part that side of it sucks right but wait what's ai about it a lot so you go in there you have you have ai voice right but then you talk just new deal double g literally a robot yeah exactly and then the whole idea is that one person's a defendant one person's a plaintiff right so then i want the defendant has to say into the microphone on your phone what is like they're suing the other person for so you just say like a general thing like i my thing was like i was going up against lianza and i said oh lianza gave it said that this weed was going to be mid but it was fucking really loud and it was you know it made me really paranoid and i was just fucked up from it i was trying to do a weed based thing right i wanted to see the limit really loud it's crazy uh so i said all that and then it figured it out it knew exactly what i was saying and it like rephrases like okay so you're selling, you're suing Leanza for a hundred million dollars because you wanted some fucking mid ass weed.

31:34Tim Gettys:And she gave you that shit that got you paranoid. And it's like, and then when she lands, it has to go then and then rebuttal. And then it's just literally, you're just talking to Snoop Dogg. It's like, Hey, you're deflecting right now. I'm no, I'm not going to go with that niece. And then he goes over to me and then gives me thing. It's stupid. It's like not worth the fucking, you know, leaders of water. That might be like the first good argument for Jenna. I'm not going to lie. That sounds pretty hilarious. It was awful, but it was also very, it was also very funny but other than that we played you know the drawing games we played with some of the jackbox stuff the jackbox stuff was actually a pretty good deal it was like six bucks for all the jackbox games for like really like once a month yeah exactly like it's like a subscription service so that was actually a pretty good value of like hey if you have a bunch of friends how many times you're actually playing jackbox you know i mean spend the six bucks rent it essentially play all the jackbox games you want then just let it lapse but so that sucks that that's going other than that i think this is probably a good move to kind of streamline what this platform is so when judge snoop dog talks back to you is he does he sound like snoop dog yes wow yeah does he curse no he gets pretty close to him he's talking about weed he's talking about like explicit stuff but he was not cursing and everything he called lands a niece a lot he would say niece oh yeah because he calls everybody yeah yeah nephew and niece i thought they were his real nephews for a while like he was on an episode a while now and i think i think he called nick cannon his nephew like wow and i was like i didn't know nick cannon and snoop dog were like really related but nick the crazy thing is that snoop dog does have actual family because sasha banks is like related to snoop dog actually right and when somebody told me that i was like oh but like in the snoop dog niece nephew way right no they're like no that's actually his cousin or whatever i was like oh oh wow yeah it's not just the niece and nephew situation yeah shout out

33:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:everybody we got more stuff to talk about roger actually before we talk about anything else let you bring in a couple of super chats here because i've been not looking at them like i should um marco's writes in and says late to the party any kind of funny friends make it to the takanaka concert last night awesome stuff i didn't know that was happening no that's cool um alvaro says never forget the guy who lost 6 000 hours in red dead redemption 2 because stadia closed tough it's real you should have known that yeah you should know that was gonna happen i feel like when if you're closing a service i feel like we should have the technology where you can take your save file and convert it to a different platform yeah i know that's probably like there's probably weird hurdles isn't that just cross save yeah i guess so yeah yeah you're right it should be a law we should make it happen more um miles says kojima and george miller should co-direct the mgs film kojima no kojima's too busy man and also i don't know

34:12Tim Gettys:he couldn't be uh sequestered to two and a half hours of a film that movie would be way too long it would be a disaster i know i'm i don't want to sound like the guy who just watched lord of the first time but because you are because i am but let me tell you the kojima extended cut of the milling your solid movie i'd be there for it you'd be there just sitting there for 30 minutes during a codec call did you watch the extended version of lord of the ring absolutely not no i mean now i might go back and watch it oh wow really that was a good movie hell yeah have you heard this lord of the rings guy pretty good walking the hobbit pretty good it's pretty good this guy frodo baggins real short real short real short uh silver j hawkins says sony is just wasting

34:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:money until they make knack 3 uh multi steven says bless uh denis velneuve also did the recent well i know he did dune and blade runner oh blade runner would have actually been a good touchstone but i said sicario because sicario in my mind is kind of what i'd want the metal gear solid to like almost feel like in a way but yeah i know he did do it i love the dune movies um demon hacker says metal gear one would be a better movie than metal gear solid i could see it i feel like there's more that you can pull from there i don't know nothing about that i'm going to be honest when i say more you can pull from i guess i mean more you can be inspired from without having to make it one for one yeah because there's so much content in metal gear solid that i think a movie would feel lesser than whereas if you make a metal gear movie i think then it's like okay we take what's here and we turn it into something that feels cinematic.

35:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Not Calvin Perez says Jordan Peele, Alex Garland, or the Wachowskis would be my picks. The Wachowskis would be crazy. Wachowskis. Wachowskis, sorry. JBC says, that's why I prefer games be adapted into TV shows rather than movies. TV shows have the time to fully adapt stories. Ooh, and Apple TV. Those are solid. See, Apple would be the ones I would trust with it because they've been on such a good run lately. They've got so much money.

36:01Tim Gettys:They'll spend it all. They don't give a shit.

36:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:For sure. peaceful warhead says someone said psycho mantis is going to start reading off your letterbox reviews that's pretty sick actually that's really funny uh aaron line says wild that kojima gave i i feel like i mispronounced his name you said avi arid is that how you pronounce yeah that's what i said yeah avi arid the rights to the movie way back don't like don't like arid but we got keifer and meliga solid 5 from it so it's a bit of a trade oh okay that makes sense i mean avi

36:30Tim Gettys:Aaron, again, has a lot of stinkers, but his name is attached to so many good movies. It's like, we can really pick and choose. I mean, he did his number on a lot of the Spider-Man stuff, so I understand why people don't like him for a lot of reasons.

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36:54Tim Gettys:I got two of the funniest guys. They're going to make you laugh.

36:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Might make you cry later in the show. You don't know. and then uh zero writes in and says i did a i did invite a friend recently what's up lyle what up lyle come on come on lucid dream says money to teach roger elite speak from 2001 do you know about elite speak i mean a little bit what's your favorite elite word i don't know

37:15Tim Gettys:let's give me an example i don't know i don't think about this i don't it's been a while since i was like on the elite speak side of the internet i used to i used to read a web comic called mega Tokyo and they'll do a lot of Elite Speak in that. Pretty sick. But I haven't even thought about Elite Speak in a decade. That's crazy. Money to teach. I was taught it. I don't remember it anymore. Don't be a noob. See, Elite Speak strikes me as one of those things that's probably been co-opted by bad people on the internet by now. Pwned, pwned, pwned. I was saying pwned a lot, yeah. Noob. Oh, of course I know Mega.

37:48Yeah, Neo Aoshi. Is that really? And everyone's acting like, oh, this is the, Roger gotta know pwned? You don't know pwned? I know pwned. I was in Modern Warfare 2 lobbies getting called slurs. Of course I know Pwned. I don't know if you know Pwned, though. You weren't there. I was there. I was there. You know where you could be? Patreon.com slash kindoffunny and YouTube.com slash kindoffunnygames where you can get the Kind of Funny membership, which allows you to get shows ad-free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors. This episode's brought to you by Factor. Let's be real.

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41:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Participate in McDonald's while supplies last. And we're back with story number three. Marathon reportedly had a budget of over$200 million. This is Wesley Yenpool at IGN. A new report has claimed Marathon's budget is over$200 million, and while player numbers have fallen significantly since launch, Bungie's extraction shooter is allegedly not facing an imminent shutdown. Forbes reported that the Marathon budget is likely more than$250 million. It's worth noting that this spend allegedly does not include ongoing costs for the live service game, nor the development of post-launch content. last month one analyst said quote marathon hasn't exactly made the splash sony and bungee wanted estimating sales at around 1.2 million copies that alinea analytics said amounted to gross revenues of around 55 million dollars across pc via steam ps5 and xbox on steam marathon hit a peak concurrent player count of 88 337 at launch but that number has fallen steadily over the past month with the latest 24-hour peak hitting 25 ,392 players.

43:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Of course, Marathon is also out on PS5 and Xbox, but neither Sony nor Microsoft make player numbers available for public. Still, PC is clearly the dominant platform for Marathon with an estimated 70 % of the sales, so those Steam concurrence give us a decent idea of how it's tracking. Bungie is under pressure to deliver for Sony after recent and very public financial failings. In November, Sony said Bungie had failed to meet its sales and user engagement expectations, recording a 31.5 billion yen, that's approximately$204 million, impairment charge as a result of Destiny 2's underperformance. That was significantly enough to drag down profits at Sony's Game and Network Services segment, which includes Sony Interactive Entertainment.

43:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:According to Forbes, Bungie developers are working hard on new content and there is no danger of an imminent shutdown but after what happened to sony's own concord and more recently high guard everything surrounding marathon feels a little on edge roger does that number astound

44:06Tim Gettys:you 200 million dollars you get the sticker shock at first and then you start doing the math and you start thinking about it i mean i i think if i was pitched from the people that made destiny and destiny 2 and halo and said hey we got a brand new franchise or we're bringing back an old franchise that's a new franchise now uh that's gonna be our next big thing we really care about it's a new emerging genre you know we want to put our team on it make something that's visually cool and interesting i'd be like yeah here's 200 million dollars because destiny one looking at it sold 500 million dollars worth of units in the first you know month right like of course you're going to give them the money and also the how big that team is and what they're working towards and how big triple a is like everything's 200 million dollars everything that's the thing we're talking about what was it the square enix game not square enix uh the crystal dynamic no it was oh oh it was montreal montreal yeah that's like you know over a hundred million dollars that's a random you know what i mean like this is how triple eight game development is it is extraordinarily expensive so to me seeing the new game from the creators of destiny you know that's 200 million dollars that doesn't really shock me i mean should this game have been way cheaper probably with the amount of with how big the audience is right it's such a it's such a weird one because to your point this is kind of where in the last few years with leaks and internal documents coming to light and all this shit it feels like this is becoming more of the standard at that high as a top level of triple a you know what i mean if you say sony first party is putting out a game it's probably gonna be around this range which is a crazy number but we're talking we've been saying for years video video games are becoming more expensive to make what do we think that means when we say that sentence they're getting like yeah this is what we mean the games are getting uh more expensive to make they're taking longer to make which in turn makes them more expensive you know what i mean like this i think is par for the course but also this lines up with everything that we're

46:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:we've been talking about as far as the precarious place that video games industry is yes where we're talking about a matured medium that is struggling to continue to grow in the way that shareholders the people that invest money want to see that line go up it's like no the line is has evened out and so when you're putting in more and more money and the line isn't going up up up yeah like disaster is disaster is going to happen so i'm looking at this and i'm like damn dude i'm scared for bungie you know and i like i like marathon i'm i surprisingly like marathon but to your point as far as should that much money have gone into marathon i think about it from the from the idea of the kind of game that marathon is and what bungie is doing with it and the price of trying to do something fresh because i think marathon works on a lot of really cool levels but not on any of the levels that would make it a mainstream video game yeah you know what i mean like if you wanted to make something the arc raiders way not in the not in the arc raiders way or even like not in the destiny way i guess is what i'm thinking right i think there are genres of games or types of video games that are proven and that are safe you know and so like for bungie if you wanted to make something that was going to be a sales hit you would just make like a destiny

47:23Tim Gettys:three you know what i mean you would make a make another halo make another halo or something that's like a halo like obviously because they couldn't make a halo but you're making an a an extraction shooter that takes place in the marathon universe i know it's like a reboot or whatever but you have a lot of weird cool sci-fi shit going on and as i'm playing this i'm like damn this is really fresh this is working for me this is doing a lot of really cool things and no at no point do i look at marathon as i'm playing it and go this is gonna be the most popular game everybody i know to play this yeah there's a lot of friction in that game and there's a lot of unfriendliness to new players that i think is just inherent to what they're trying to do here i admire the game but i guess what i'm saying is that of course it's not it yeah and like i don't know what that means as far as bungie working on a brand new triple a 200 million dollar product yeah was it the wrong move to make marathon i guess probably on the financial sense but on the same i guess for me is like the passionate video game player right part of me is also like dude the fact that they're doing something this weird and different and it has a 200 million dollar budget and it has a 20 million it reminds me of death straining yeah where i'm like death straining is such a weird fucking game and i can't believe it was made on triple a scale and i fuck with it for that yeah and i i guess i feel the same way about marathon but death straining has a lot of shit that marathon doesn't as far as ways to get in front of people and ways to sell that to the audience again like we were split between two sides of it right as the commentators talking about the business side of it right should they have done this should they not and then also just the people that enjoy cool weird video games right so then you have to kind of look at this and be like oh i don't give a fuck like i don't give a fuck about the business side of it i hope it stays around because it is a multiplayer game right so it's not like one of those of like death straining where yeah if nobody buys death straining at least i can still play it exactly there's a chance where you can never play marathon again or in a way that is official like this time next year yeah yeah i might not be able to play marathon anymore but we have to look at this and be like oh like i'm happy that this happened i'm happy that somehow the the you know all of the administration changes and all the weirdness that happened with playstation 200 million dollar marathon slipped through right but yeah i mean i'm sure they're looking back and playstation looking back at this and saying hindsight 2020 this would have been a smaller project this would have been a quarter of the budget but with ballooning we would have we would have went hey let's incubate like a part of bungie to be the marathon team and then now the rest of you go work on destiny 3 is that what they're not doing i assume marathon is a is their is their game yeah yeah that's tough yeah yeah i kind of always thought about it maybe just not looking at the news just literally looking at what marathon was i always assumed it was the smaller project in the team and then everyone else is working on something else so yeah this that's that's that's the surprise i mean chat correct me if i'm wrong about that i assume marathon is yeah the all hands on deck this is destiny's or not destiny sorry this is bungie's big game yeah and then who knows what they're going to work on next that's tough yeah good game though hey marathon's pretty sick marathon's pretty good um but i'm looking in chat to see if anybody's giving nobody's really giving me anything according to leaks yeah this is the big one it looks like there's some disagreement in

50:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:chat but i guess this might all just be speculation from chat so let's move on to story number four pokemon champions developer sincerely apologizes for launch issues details list of bugs to be fixed This is Tom Phillips at IGN. Following a rocky launch, the maker of Pokemon Champions has apologized for the game's various technical issues and released a list of bugs it's currently planning to fix. Champions, billed as the Pokemon franchise's new competitive battle platform, launched this week on Switch and Switch 2, but has received a mixed reaction from fans. There have been complaints of technical issues, some of which are now in the process of being fixed, but also wider criticism of the game's lack of features, limited graphical polish, and reduced Pokemon roster.

51:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm going to jump forward to the article where they quote a note from the developer saying, Thank you for enjoying Pokemon Champions. We have confirmed that the following issues are currently occurring. They then list a bunch of bullet points, which I saw when I logged into the game last night. Basically, they're fixing the there's a lot of errors in the games. Like some of them that they list, the description of leech seed state is incorrect. Under certain conditions, when both Pokemon mega evolve simultaneously, the order may be unintended. The gender of some Pokemon in the tutorial is incorrect.

51:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The gender of some Pokemon in the release coordinated teams is incorrect. When in the encore state, the ability lightning rod may not activate correctly. There's more. They then go on to say, quote, the above bugs are scheduled to be fixed and feature data updates or maintenance. The note continues, we'll continue to investigate other issues not mentioned above. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you for your continued support of Pokemon Champions, end quote. An earlier issue surrounding the transfer of Pokemon from the cloud-based Pokemon home service has already been fixed.

52:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's reported. This is such an interesting, weird one. Yeah. As far as what Pokemon Champions is, how bad this launch is, how much I'm still enjoying the game.

52:30Tim Gettys:Yeah, that's all that matters. that's all that matters yeah which so you've been playing it i've been playing it i was playing more last night i'm pretty much playing it like if i put on a show or whatever i might do a battle in the background yeah i'm like are you getting your ass beat you're learning um i was killing it at first yeah and then now i'm starting to run into people where it's like oh okay you know what you're doing and the more i run into these people the more i'm realizing how sick the pokemon vgc people are. Yeah. Where it's like, why do y 'all know? A lot of Jake Deckers out there.

53:00A lot of Jake Deckers out there. A lot of Jake Deckers. Where, why do y 'all know all these hidden numbers and mechanics? Like, why do y 'all... There's four buttons here. How do you know what's going on here? How are you figuring this out? Pokemon is a kid's game. Why are y 'all so sweaty in this thing?

53:15Tim Gettys:They're freaking out. Y 'all are sickos, man. Are you learning, though? Are you figuring out, like... Barely. Okay. It's crazy. You're just getting mollywopped. I'm getting mollywopped in ways where I'm like, I didn't know that move did that. Yeah. I didn't know that you're not even learning anything because you're so fucking flustered yeah it's like I'm not learning anything because it's also just the thing of like it's when it's over it's over yeah I don't know it's over until I get hit with a move and it takes out 100 % my HP and I'm like okay oh okay so you lowered my okay oh I didn't realize that that's what that did well I'm stuck yeah I'm stuck yeah and so um I say let's say that I don't know how long I'm gonna play Pokemon champions I'm enjoying it on the casual level but man tough man they're pwning me they're pwning you bro shout out to Price in Chat who said they're pwning you I'm glad they're changing things we'll see I hope this game gets to a place where enough people are happy with it everybody's not that's very nice though I want to sit down by most games I hope that this game gets to a place where most people are happy with it there will never be a place where everybody's happy with it there's not one game where everybody's happy but can we get enough people happy enough people enough people i mean i think after enough updates hopefully right you'll get the you know non-evolution versions of a lot of these characters you start to have that goodwill they just need to have the roadmap did they release a roadmap do they have one of these going on there to say hey we're gonna be next month doing this next month i think they're i think they're drawing the map as they go that's tough i think they're kind of this needs a roadmap i think we can't give the slack to pokemon company of like you guys need to figure your shit out and have a roadmap but you can't be acting like you're better than anybody else figure it out tell us what's going on it genuinely feels like they i think the biggest problem this game it feels like they released it way too early yeah it feels like this needed way more time it seems like after our conversation it feels like they're beta testing this so then by august they have a solid base for the actual competitive yeah for pokemon yes that's what this is this is the beta right now and then eventually they're gonna by august probably have the you know mobile version or

55:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:whatever going on there and can make it happen yeah we'll see hopefully they get there story number five gunzilla ceo says haters are building the narrative that it doesn't pay his contractors

55:22Tim Gettys:and apologizes anyway this is chris scullion at video i love i love when ceos say haters bro like it's like my favorite shit in the world that and what was it the the mind's eye people right yeah he was a haters bro i loved it the mind's eye one we gotta start talking about haters bro there's so many haters can i tell you because the mind's eye story is probably my favorite story in the last week. This feels like part two to the Monzi story. Yes, it does. It's a different story, but the energy of it is such a similar thing. We gotta stop the haters. Did you get the part one to this yesterday? Yes, the guy was saying that, hey, I haven't been paid for a while.

55:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's read the story. The CEO of blockchain game development studio Godzilla Games has posted a lengthy and defiant response to claims that the studio doesn't pay its contractors. I'm going to pause there and remind y 'all that But, Gunzilla, that's the company that, I believe, owns Game Informer as well. Yes, they do.

56:16Tim Gettys:They're the reason Game Informer's back.

56:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. So, not that that has relevance here, but kind of scary. Something else, yeah. Another detail to think about. Gunzilla Games is the creator of NFT Battle Royale game Off the Grid and blockchain platform Guns. With a Z. With a Z. The studio has the backing of Hollywood director Blomkamp of District 9 and Chappie, who is credited as co-founder and chief creative officer on the company's website earlier this week paul creamer a vfx cinematic and gameplay animator who worked for gunzilla for a year posted a message on his linkedin page claiming that he hadn't been paid by the company for months and that he wasn't the only one this had happened to vgc contacted gunzilla for comment on the accusations but instead gunzilla ceo vlad korolev has taken to x aka twitter to address the situation claiming that haters are trying to paint a narrative to make the studio look bad sick korolev conceded that the company's payments were made at a time that suited the company and not those being paid then stated a quote full-time full-time official employees were paid on time many of the claims were made by contractors not employees yeah the real employees were paid even

57:34Tim Gettys:though all these people did work on it no we cared about the real one don't worry about them they're just contractors like this is they don't have lie they don't need to get paid i feel like this is the third story we've had in the last couple of weeks where it very much is people calling people out on their shitty behavior and going all the haters coming after us we did do those shitty things but it's the haters that are not coming after us haters is it a or is it these haters can't pay their rent they're broke boys is it what like what is it what are we doing

58:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:quote off the grid today is not just part of web 3 gaming it defines it whether some people like it or not he claimed quote being named web 3 game of the year two years in a row

58:19are you game of the year two years in a row that's not how that works it's only one game it's only one year it's a year what year did you come out um being named web 3

58:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:game of the year two years in a row today there's a new narrative from haters that gunzilla incorrectly laid off contractors or paid them with delays yes we are optimizing costs like every company in gaming crypto and tech is doing right now we've been doing this for over a year and yes to not disrupt company operations some paychecks may be scheduled in a way that works for the company's cash flow not always for everyone individually that's the reality of the world we live in.

58:58Tim Gettys:What?

58:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But to protect the interests of our players and our full-time official employees whose salaries over six years have never been delayed by more than a week. Okay. That's crazy.

59:10Tim Gettys:There's a lot of admitting going on. Yeah, exactly. We have never missed a payment. More than a week. More than a week. More than a week. Brother, a lot of this is going to be brought in court. Some people are late on their rent. Don't worry about it. It's only a week. God. Just talk to the landlord.

59:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He continues, we operate at a pace that ensures the company continues moving forward and of course we honor every obligation end quote despite seemingly defending the company's payment setup koralev then added quote we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused may have caused it's also worth noting that one of the loudest voices a contractor who finished working with us just a week ago was repaid immediately he said off the grid has been live for over 1.5 years and we're still here despite how much some people would love to see otherwise sorry sorry we won't be giving you that privilege okay end quote well

1:00:01Tim Gettys:yeah there's you know the way my bank account works i gotta check in i gotta check in savings yeah i gotta look out for me first yeah kevin harpit right yeah you're a contractor hey my main employees my full-time employees i pay them on time half the time yeah exactly you know i pay them 100 of the time my main shakes they get paid they get paid you know sometimes it might be a week late but they get paid don't worry about it incredible stuff what and people someone said in the chat there's an ai response it is not this is this is it's too dumb to be an ai response so fucking dumb they do have a lot of those dashes a lot of the end they do have the dashes so someone wrote a very unhinged thing into chat gpt and then chat gpt went and then just formatted it with like correct spelling and like didn't even change like this is just such a bad pr message for so many reasons right yeah he again did not need to say that he's basically admitting that he is uh skipped payment for a week uh occasionally for some of their full-time employees didn't need to say any of that could have just said hey we're figuring out some things in the back end well you know yada yada yada we apologize for any inconvenience that's what this could have been but no just completely just told on himself because he's so mad about everything incredible stuff damn i didn't realize there was it web three game of the year for two years in a row that's impressive though That's really impressive.

1:01:18I don't even think Elden Ring can manage that.

1:01:19Tim Gettys:No, it can't. That's crazy. Because that's not Web3. Yeah. Damn. That's awesome. Off the grid. That's incredible. Where do you think it was the Web3 Game of the Year awards? IGN. Probably not IGN. Probably not IGN. Jeff Keighley is doing a whole different thing. Yeah, pray for all the employees because they're bragging about being open for 1.5 years. That's not too long. It's long in the industry, but it's clearly with the way things are going on right now, if they're moving around, they're not paying certain people. that's that's not a great sign and also of course pray for game that's the thing i care about the

1:01:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:most is game informer you know game informer is a company that we all love here and that has it just came back just came back has a storied legacy does great work um i you know my heart goes out to employees that work for the studio for the game studio as well yes but i don't really care about your web 3 games you know even if it was game of the year nfp game of the year Web 3.

1:02:10Tim Gettys:Web 3. Web 3. Web 3.

1:02:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Two years in a row, huh? That's really big. That's huge. But, Roger, if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about. Where would I go?

1:02:20Tim Gettys:You go to our last story. The Wii News channel will recover all the small news items you need to know about.

1:02:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Story number six is Wii News. Crimson Dev-er. Crimson Dev-er? Crimson Desert Dev. Crimson Desert Dev confirms boss rematches, hard difficulty, enemy territory recapture, and a whole lot more is coming to the game soon. if you want to read about that go over to Wesley and Poole at IGN who has a whole article breaking it down they also have a dev diary or press release actually is what it is if you want to look into that as well more Wii news for you from Wario64 Serenity Forge has posted a notice that Doki Doki Literature Club on Google Play was removed due to content that violates their terms and services in its depiction of sensitive themes.

1:03:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The game is still available on other platforms. The team will try to reinstate on Google Play and explore other options valor mortis is launching this fall that's really exciting that's the game from i believe they did ghost runner oh shit yeah these guys yes and he's pretty high for this one um it looks really cool looks really really cool speaking of really really cool dead is disco launches may 5th

1:03:25Tim Gettys:on steam early access do you know this one yes i do know this one is like a colorful or something like that or yeah day of the devs yeah yeah colorful beat-em-up game that is like a rhythm beat-em-up game yes think like if you're playing seafood to the beat yeah i was talking to one of the devs that uh day of the devs this game looks really cool um super battle golf is coming to

1:03:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:xbox ps5 and switch 2 this summer this is the one we played at party mode right yeah i saw it sold

1:03:45Tim Gettys:a million copies that's good for them for them so shout out to them because very wood has been

1:03:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:playing it definitely from gamatsu via noble level 5 updated the platform of some of its upcoming games okay inazuma 11 re adds switch 2 and drops ps4 deka police adds switch 2 and drops

1:04:02Tim Gettys:ps4 and switch which is kind of crazy deka police everybody it's alive is that on your fantasy critic it was like two years ago the level of you know where we're at right now but maybe it's back maybe i've drafted i got one slot left let's see wow thickest thieves launches may

1:04:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:20th on pc rift of the necrodancer undertale music pack is now available that almost got me to re-download rift of the necrodancer and then building relationships has been delayed to later

1:04:28Tim Gettys:this oh shout out to this yeah this was at uh the mix uh two years ago last year uh with me and mike and we played it with the dev and that was really really fun it's like a building game right like there's a game that has building yeah it's a building and your other buildings it was very very explicit yeah it was awesome like the buildings are banging yes yes yes it was uh like you play as a house that's rolling like almost like like demasi like and then like you walk up to another building and like you guys have a picnic and then you put like the picnic like table into the other like no like mouth and no it's very explicit it was very funny too this you guys should follow him on blue sky like i forget his uh you can look up building relationships on blue sky but like very very funny dev stuff great stuff and that is it for we news let's hop

1:05:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:into super chats see what y 'all are talking about here um yelsing says ai shill roger the taste faker what peck horny my shill shill i booted up i booted up a game for five no no you were talking to snoop dog no no snoop dog she said the weed wasn't loud enough or whatever it was dumb is this fucking thing um let's see here dth says birthday tax celebrating my birthday tomorrow turning 47 yes i know hashtag old but i wanted to check in while i'm at work keep up the great job everyone happy birthday almost as old as nick scarpino that's really cool aaron lime says games oh sorry the scroll did a thing somebody else wrote it with the super chat bumped out of the way uh games spend too long getting tampered with by x by execs and restarting development smaller teams harder deadlines no exec meddling boom lower costs aaron line figured it out figure it out everybody put it on a poster i think it's a bit more complex than that but i feel where you're coming from aaron um faye writes in and says bless play people of note i think you'll like it here's the thing because quite a few people have told me to play people of note and i played the demo people of note is the turn-based grpg inspired rhythm game okay um i played the demo guys i didn't like the demo i keep having to say this because people keep running i didn't like i didn't like the demo i mean maybe i'll give it another chance but i don't know if i'll like people of note but i'll maybe i'll give it another chance a lot of people are saying it yeah foxy steve writes in and says just a bit of fun we news there's a mod out that lets you make custom characters in crimson desert ijan has the video oh you make cliff mcduff finally you can finally make cliff mcduff um yeah i saw that one pop up uh the other day i shared it with kevin because kevin's playing a lot of crimson desert but he's playing on playstation and so unfortunately i don't think he'll be able to mod that no and then last one comes from shloon who says bungie is risking it all for marathon they should have made destiny 3 sony gets their money rotate teams in for marathon as their part-time project yeah i mean i think what i should have you gotta try something different though yeah i i don't want to we ask all the time for new games we ask all the time for new ideas and new ip so i don't want to be the person that's like oh just make the same thing you did last time but again yeah because usually i get bored by that exactly and that's part of why i really like marathon i'm playing marathon i'm like damn this feels so fresh you know i mean like i really like the arc raiders i like this one for a lot of similar reasons but even what they bring in for the world building and like these weird ass corporations that are hiring you for these jobs and all this shit it's really really cool but the sucky thing is it's a risk whenever you do a new idea it's a risk and like you know it's the thing of we can't have our cake and eat it too i love that they took a risk but i hate that it might not be panning out for them it's kind of where i land i i like this over destiny 3 but their pockets would probably like a destiny 3 over this yeah so take it for what you will that is it for super chats let's hop into you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcasters around the globe um chappell it's not a you're wrong um this is a fun one or this is a good one nick nitro says just for some context marathon was in development before bungie got acquired by playstation there There is still a team for Destiny 2 and a separate team for Marathon.

1:08:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Destiny 2 was supposed to get a roadmap and an update earlier this year, but both got delayed.

1:08:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Kebabs writes in with the missed Wii news. The Ghostly Yotei Legends raid is now live. I'm not ready. Dude, I'm not.

1:08:57Tim Gettys:I haven't played it since the one time we played it on GameSkos plays. I know, it saddens me. We need to look at Roger. Or not Roger, sorry. We need to look at Mike, because I look at you guys as the same person. You guys are two abs of the same brain. That's fair. and go, let's just schedule a full week. We're playing Yotei Legends every single day.

1:09:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Go see Yotei Legends. We're grinding Yotei Legends. Riding that legend. That is it. Perfect show. Yeah, that is it for Wii News. Perfect show. Roger, it's been good doing the show with you. Great way to end the week, Blessing. Yeah. But not our content day. Not our content day. We got a lot of stuff. Because right after this, you guys asked for it, and we're going to deliver. Mike is going to review the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. for the first time. The Macarena of time.

1:09:40Tim Gettys:I'm sure that's a thing, right? Yeah, he calls it the Macarena. Oh, he calls it that? And then afterwards, we got a party mode. With Lego Party. And the one and only Joey Noel. It's going to be a really fun time. We're going to torture Joey. I'm not going to be there. You're not going to be there.

1:09:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I got to review a game. I was going to make you do it, but no. I appreciate that. That's been it for Kind of Funny Games Daily. If you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad-free and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the Gamescast next and the stream after, but until next time, game daily. I like that.