In short
Kind of Funny Games Daily (Oct 8, 2025) covers Nintendo’s new Pikmin-related teaser video, major updates for Claire Obscura, a survey about how often Americans buy games, and anniversary news for Metaphor: ReFantazio.
Guests
Host Blessing at EOA Jr. and co-host Andy Cortez (Nitro Rifle). No other named guests appear as interviewees.
Key claims
- Nintendo uploaded a second “Close to You” video where Pikmin are visible in the animation; earlier Pikmin were “invisible to the human eye” in the first clip.
- Claire Obscura Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies and its soundtrack hit 333M streams; a new update is coming with a new environment, late-game boss battles, new costumes, and added UI/text localizations (to 19 languages total).
- A survey says 63% of U.S. players buy two games or fewer per year; the 14% who buy more drive full-price sales.
Notable examples
- Discussion of Pikmin franchise expansion beyond games (movies/merch/store sections, possibly AR like Pikmin Bloom).
- Metaphor: ReFantazio one-year anniversary livestream Oct 10 (Atlas West/Steam/YouTube), plus a sold-out fan event in Burbank.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOHost Banter and Energy Drinks
1:10 to 6:56
Hosts discuss their morning routines, energy drinks, and movie snacks.
Movie Theater Etiquette
6:56 to 7:39
Discussion on the ethics of sneaking food into theaters and personal experiences.
“Because remember, this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.”
Theatrical Security Concerns
7:39 to 9:27
Debate on movie theater security and bringing large items inside.
“You can't bring a duffel bag into a movie.”
Nintendo's Close to You Video
9:27 to 14:00
Analysis of Nintendo's latest teaser video featuring Pikmin.
“Starting with our number one, a second close to you video has hit the internet.”
Pikmin Tease and Analysis
14:00 to 19:12
Discussion on the recent Pikmin video tease and its implications.
LeBron James Retirement Rumors
19:12 to 19:53
Hosts discuss the fake news surrounding LeBron James' retirement announcement.
“Everybody jumped up into the air, landed on him foul to free.”
Chat Interactions and Comments
19:53 to 22:50
Hosts read and respond to various comments from the audience, including birthdays and personal milestones.
“I saw I started seeing headlines that were like LeBron James announces retirement.”
Claire Obscura Game Updates
22:50 to 25:59
Updates on the game Claire Obscura and its success, including new content and community appreciation.
“to you let's talk about story number two big updates are coming to claire obscure this is from the website for the game.”
Game Sales and Industry Insights
25:59 to 28:01
Discussion on game sales figures and the impact of Game Pass on the gaming industry.
“No, but for real, to see a game being made at that scale still to hit this level of success, to resonate with so many people.”
Sales Discussion: A New Perspective
28:01 to 29:05
Explore the surprising sales figures and context behind game sales.
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Sales Discussion: A New Perspective
29:10 to 30:12
Explore the surprising sales figures and context behind game sales.
“much going on, so much stuff to do, shorter days, busier routines, back to school.”
Gaming Consumer Trends and Insights
30:12 to 39:16
A deep dive into gaming purchase behaviors and market dynamics.
“Well, like, these aren't, they can't be that bad for you.”
Metaphor Game Anniversary and Celebrations
39:16 to 42:00
Details about the anniversary live stream and awards for Metaphor.
Metaphor's Success and Awards
42:00 to 42:55
Discover the accolades and celebration plans for the game Metaphor.
“It won multiple awards, including Best Role Playing Game, Best Narrative, and Best Art Direction at the Game Awards in 2024, and the Grand Award from the Japan Game Awards just last month.”
Discussion on Game Events and Personal Plans
42:55 to 45:30
Hosts share their thoughts on upcoming events and personal schedules in Burbank.
“The sold-out fan event will feature special gifts, voice actor meet-and-greet, photo ops, and more.”
Reflecting on Metaphor Gameplay
45:30 to 46:44
A deep dive into personal experiences and gameplay memories related to Metaphor.
Future Gaming Plans and Recommendations
46:44 to 48:19
Hosts discuss upcoming game releases and personal gaming aspirations for the coming years.
Pico Park's Accidental Free Release
48:19 to 51:20
Learn about the unexpected permanent free release of Pico Park and its implications.
“I'll finally get to Final Fantasy E-Release Chronicles.”
Debate Over Lego Party vs. Mario Party
51:20 to 53:52
A lively discussion ensues about the merits of Lego Party compared to Mario Party.
“I'm thinking of updating Classic Edition for the first time in nine years.”
New Xbox Design Lab Controllers and Game Pass Updates
53:52 to 56:07
Exploration of new Xbox controller designs and upcoming Game Pass offerings.
“A lot of that had to do with the mini games.”
Game Pass Updates and Upcoming Releases
56:07 to 58:02
Learn about the latest games coming to Xbox Game Pass this October.
Horror Movie Icons in Gaming
58:02 to 59:33
Explore the crossover between iconic horror movie characters and video games.
Fundraiser Stream for Medical Aid
59:33 to 1:00:11
Find out about a fundraising stream supporting humanitarian efforts.
“This week, I'm going to raise money for at medicalaidpal.bluesky.social to help Palestinians in need.”
Super Chats and Viewer Interactions
1:00:11 to 1:05:22
Engage with viewers through super chats and discussions on gaming topics.
“Me and my dad and my brother are looking at those pre-orders.”
End of Show and Final Thoughts
1:05:22 to 1:08:24
Wrap up the episode with final thoughts and upcoming content previews.
“But then it makes the rest of my day brighter because it can't get worse than that.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Legally, we can't say drinking Storm makes you smarter and more focused. But with zero sugar, 200 milligrams of caffeine, and immunity support, you're smarter and more focused for drinking Storm. Storm. Good energy in, good energy out. Energy for life. This summer, Prime Video takes you back before Legally Blonde, before law school, and into the world of Elle Woods in high school. Set in 1995, this Gemini vegetarian knows exactly who she is. until her family moves from Bel Air to Seattle. Packed with iconic fashion, 90s nostalgia, and a throwback soundtrack, Elle proves one thing. Law school was hard.
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0:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Today's stories include a second Close to You video has been uploaded by Nintendo. Claire Obscura is getting some new updates, and Metaphor is getting an anniversary stream. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of funny games daily
1:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for wednesday october 8th 2025 i'm your host blessing at eoa jr joining me is the nitro rifle andy cortez good morning bus morning andy how's it going i'm doing great i just got the brand new mountain dew trolley cherry lemon flavored zero sugar dew oh my god um at 10 a.m in the morning oh trolling trolley yeah trolley oh my god little worms i love those little worms do you think there's some worms inside there whoa i was like a little surprise now here's the thing i wouldn't like if i i wouldn't try to you know get you to taste test this because this is the zero sugar one yeah so it i mean i'd be down it's like unfair as a first try yeah you're getting the lesser version you're on a curve you know bring out a shot glass he wants a shot glass he wants a shot glass let's get those little plastic shot glasses oh i didn't know they were making those yeah neither did i i saw it i saw it this morning i was like all right i gotta i gotta check that out where did you see it this morning corner store okay like that one not this one oh okay that one you hit the corner store before you come into work uh yeah when i'm out of liquid ivy you know what this fair yeah you got to get that nourishment you got to get those electrolytes oh here goes a little shot glass from barrett because i just need a little taste i don't need your own i'm not trying to take oh well hold on big news right here from melosius we're having a losis we're having massive kind of uh exclusive news here says that flavor only has a zero version oh wow interesting choice here we go here goes a poor little taste here goes that poor man that looks that looks toxic yeah you gave me like a big taste here i just want a little no yeah i mean it'll get you for the rest of the show also bless i need you to recognize that you're like oh 10 a.m for this this is his coffee you know he doesn't drink coffee yeah but i feel like that's i mean not that coffee is the healthiest thing but i feel like mountain dew that can't be the move right there's no way that's the better option it's the only move i know bless it's the only move i I know.
3:11That's fair. And one day I will eventually find out a good concoction to get 70 % water. Maybe I add like 15 % Mountain Dew Zero with 15 % Monster Energy Drink. Yeah. Jesus Christ. We'll try to figure out the math. You're going to die before you find the perfect solution there. I like doing a lot of little concoctions. I like percentages. Yeah. I went to the movie the other day to watch Tron Aries for in review that we'll be reviewing tomorrow. I saw a scathing TikTok about it. Scathing. shout out jay stoobes she's a very popular tiktok movie reviewer and she had all the bad things to say about this movie can't wait to talk about it for sure can't wait to talk about it okay okay um but i will say that you know you go to that little coke freestyle machine 50 coke zero oh you're doing that the freestyle coke no man yeah because the freestyle machine is already doing it for you no but coke and coke zero is what i'm doing so what you're balancing out the sugar yeah okay Because I want to save during the movie.
4:11Okay. I mean, I understand that. When you're on the grid, you need to be full of sugar. I understand that. I understand that. I need sugar and the adrenaline so that when I see Jared Leto, I'm like, this fucking freak. I will say, I was definitely afraid that I would have fallen asleep during one battle after another. Because I never know. When I go to a 7 p.m. showing of any movie, it could be the hypest movie ever. It's a dice roll. It really is a dice roll. I'm like, am I going to fall asleep or am I going to be able to make it through? I committed a crime. i ordered uh a small small popcorn and a small drink for some reason they don't have a small combo get it together movie theaters i get it you want me to spend a million dollars just give me a fucking small combo i'll pay the dollar less i don't care um but i got a small drink uh a small popcorn and then i went to where this is at metreon so i went to where like the drink machines are and i looked at the freestyle machine and then i looked at the fucking slushy and i was like i'm getting myself a phanta slurpee and i did that and let me tell you i went back for a second like halfway through the movie i was like i need a refill i committed a crime twice i'm sorry nice i had some salt and lime tortilla chips in a ziploc bag that i had in my jacket okay uh before the movie okay so i ate some peanut m &ms and you know i was tim and he's like what the fuck offered to nick and nick was like oh nice i'll never feel more guilt because i still think about it oh no it was it was the it was my theater experience of sicario i bring it up often right i saw sicario in theater with my sister it sticks out to me as um as an experience because we sat in the front row because we got the tickets late uh and so like i'm watching sicario like this the entire time which is so uncomfortable especially for that movie that has very high intensity um massive josh brolin chin he's in that movie right josh brolin i believe so yeah um it's been a while but my sister who god bless her heart like she she's also a troublemaker well she's more of a troublemaker than i am and so she's like yeah what if we got some burgers and brought them into the theater and we were in the front row of sicario eating i when i tell you the scent of this burger must have felt like we're eating our burgers in the front row of sicario and I felt so much guilt.
6:30I looked at my sister and I was like, we can't do this ever again. I can't do this ever again. Stinky food in an airplane number one and number two has got to be movie theater. Yeah. Yeah. Don't bust out. I didn't feel good about that. I apologize. To this day, I still apologize, guys. Please don't hold it over my head. He's apologetic. He's learned. I've learned. I've never done that ever again. I will steal Fanta, though. Fanta Slurpees. We'll do that.
6:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But enough about that. Let's talk about video game news. Because remember, this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. each and every week they run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube spotify and apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show some of your thoughts and opinions as youtube super chats as hold on hold go an actual sad taco in the YouTube chat says, a friend of mine usually brings in a rotisserie chicken.
7:28There's no way. There is no, you have to call the cops. Are you also friends with Yusuf? Where are you hiding the rotisserie chicken? You gotta call the cops. Like, you put in the whole rotisserie in the purse? Like, you got a backpack? They're not allowed with that. You can't bring a duffel bag into a movie. Where are you putting the rotisserie chicken? That they're not stopping you. You can bring in a backpack, though. But like, I don't feel like you should. Yeah, I feel like that shouldn't be allowed. A backpack? Backpack makes me think there's a shooter. Yes. In America, no, we can't do backpacks in movie theaters.
7:58I don't like it. I get it. But most of the times if I'm going to the theater, I'm usually coming from here where I have my backpack. Where am I putting my backpack? Are they checking your backpack? What? Are they checking your backpack? They should. They should. They really should. But I'm just saying, there are plenty of opportunities to bring in. With a backpack and a trench coat on. I'm like, check that man.
8:24security get him i'm not trying to stereotype that next time i come to the theater and if i get tackled and i look over and bless it's just like yeah finally and not just bear anybody like if i see you in the theater and like with a backpack on and you don't look smiley i'm thinking twice i'm not concentrating on the movie i'm thinking yeah i'm looking over here i'm like i don't know about that i don't know we just know his back like oh god he pulls out a rotissi i'm like oh shit it's even worse i was gonna stink up
8:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:oh how she was a gun housekeeping for you we're an 11 person business all about live talk show so today after kftd you're gonna get gamescast which is our skate review greg has been playing the hell out of this game mike's been playing the hell out of this game and now they're finally going to give you their review thoughts after gamescast is mike playing some kingdom come deliverance too if you're a kind of funny member you can get today's greg way thank you to our patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney, the song Twining. Today we're brought to you by Factor, but we'll tell you about that later.
9:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.: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.
9:40A Baker's Dozen!
9:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Starting with our number one, a second close to you video has hit the internet. This is from Brian at Nintendo Everything. Nintendo has now come out with a second Close to You video, and this time around, we can clearly see Pikmin included in the animation. Yesterday, the Big N set the internet ablaze. I don't like calling them the Big N. Me either. Set the internet ablaze with speculation after releasing its first Close to You clip. It seemed pretty random at the time, and it came without any sort of explanation. Some thought it could be related to the Super Mario Galaxy movie, but others were convinced that it was Pikmin related.
10:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:as it turns out the latter guess it was correct we're still not entirely sure what this is but we're a step closer to finding out if you missed the show yesterday and you missed some of the social media hubbub yesterday yeah nintendo uploaded this video of a baby chasing after their pacifier and the pacifier was like running around the room um the pikmin that you're seeing if you're watching the video version weren't visible because they're invisible to the human eye which is what i learned yesterday oh i didn't know that yeah you can't see i thought they were just microscopic no they're they're not because that's that was my thing at first i was like how small are pikmin but no they're just invisible to the human eye uh and so people were wondering all right what is this what's going on here we had a lot of speculation on the show but now we know for sure that it's pikmin pikmin related beyond that still have no idea what the fuck is going on here game anniversary date are we you know is it are we do they feel like you know Nintendo loves anniversaries.
11:11I don't know of anybody, I don't know anybody that loves anniversaries more than Nintendo. Except for the Zelda. Except for the Zelda one. Yeah. But like, are we reaching a, you know, to the Pikmin was in 2001. October next year would be the 15 year anniversary.
11:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Okay. Are we just talking about a remake of something? Are we talking about just a brand new Pikmin five? 15. Yeah. 15 year anniversary to a 20. Oh my God. We're in the year 2025. Yeah, dude, sorry. I don't know if you know this, but... Kill me. There's this thing called COVID. Fuck. The older we get, the faster time goes. That sucks. It's not bad. Yeah. That's 25 years. We're closer to living on Mars than we were to the Dick Van Dyke show or some stupid fucking fact. You know those facts you see on the internet? Yeah, no, I get rid of this. Let me be closer to that. That sucks. That was just...
12:02Wow. That really hurt my soul. That really hurt my soul. That said, 25 is a big year. 25 is way bigger than 50 years. I mean, that is. Yeah. That's half of a 50. But that's still a year away. Are you saying that this is a tease for something to come up next year? I think it would be weird to do this. I feel like if we were getting this video at the end of December or an early January, maybe. But it feels kind of weird timing to do this. If we were talking a 25-year anniversary, whatever the hell they're going to do. Yeah. Is it something to do with Nintendo World? is, you know, it's bizarre that we're getting this at all.
12:40Like, this is like a weird Nintendo decision to me. I have, like, so many, I guess, ideas and thoughts on, like, what they could be doing here. I think one of them is, you know, spawning conversation around Pikmin. You know, I think if this is something as simple as, hey, no, we're just putting up a mysterious video with a thing, with a fun thing to get people speculating and just talking about Pikmin because Pikmin is an important franchise to us. We don't have any ultimate... product or ultimate thing that we're going that we're putting out the youtube video itself is the product i could see that being the case i could also see there being a case for i talked about this a lot yesterday and i think my speculate all my speculation from yesterday still stands of i could see this being a play of how do we get pikmin um into a different demographic of audience like can we fit pikmin into the toddler parents with very very very young children can we aim pikmin at them to create a more a bigger demographic for what this is that way we can continue to expand and make movies and make merch and meet and create new sections of the nintendo store is there do they sell pikminions pikminions are they are like oh is this their kind of like push to we need here's gonna be our weird little guys we got chris pratt and jack black over there who are gonna be the weird little guys that we could show to people to have a young girl being this character that can only see these little maybe she's the only one that could see them and it's a movie about a young girl growing up and they're these little little guys just kind of running around i don't know if that's the sound they make i played pikmin one and two but i haven't played in a while somebody in chat says no bless that's not what pikmin's are and you're missing my point my point is that they're trying to make pikmin pikmin what are they changing what are
14:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:they what are they trying wait what are they trying to spawn pikmin into because i look at this video you look at this video and say oh this is what pikmans are like i i'm with you my whole my whole interpretation of pikmin my whole idea of pikmin i got no sleep last night by the way um give me your deep analysis my deep analysis is that yeah they're cute guys that hang out with olimar and fucking you're playing a strategy game right like you're picking these guys up i played the pikmin game that i played the most is tinykin which i thought oh really i mean tinykin was cool but like I've I consider it a gaming sin of mine as somebody who when I when I talk about how in the past I only owned a GameCube that I bought from the pawn shop for Double Dash and Smash Bros Melee and that's not true because I was also playing Pikmin on the machine like it was always like the other third game that I really enjoyed and I love the look of it and I love the style and I kind of really enjoy the vibes of it all I think it's like a gaming sin of mine that I never played pikmin 4 because i know how highly regarded and and how much how much the people that play that game actually love it i i'm hoping that this could become some push from nintendo to for this to become more than what it is i think now having nintendo put out these videos they're getting more recognition pikmin are are on you know on more of a grand stage now more than ever that i feel like even when pikmin 4 came out i feel like nobody's talking about pikmin more than they are right now i think the big thing is that we're in a new generation of nintendo and so when whenever we hit that new generation nintendo looks at all their big franchises and go all right everybody's getting a new entry and i think for nintendo they're probably looking at pikmin and going all right how do we make this bigger better what are the things where do we want to take pikmin like i think they're in a period of assessment and trying to figure out all right what's the next step and not that pikmin's going to change not that like there's going to be an inherent inherent like oh it's a different genre or anything like that right but i think we're sitting on something really cool here that a lot of people could be more into yeah and we're also talking about nintendo that is focused around things that aren't just video games right it is the movies it is the you know the store it is the museum it is the nintendo world right like there's so much that goes on and so if this is even a thing of hey we want to we just want to find a new section in the nintendo store to aim at younger kids and like maybe find a weird way to tie Pikmin into that.
16:48It could be as simple as that. By the way, I like this. This seems cool. This seems fun. I have it on good authority, Bless, that the final meeting that Doug Bowser was in, he was like, I don't want this video to go live. Don't you dare push this. And all the shareholders are like, you're out. You're out. We need to push Pikmin. A part of me also thinks like, randomly, we get these little CG videos that are really high quality. These seem like, you know, these weren't easy little animations to make. These take a lot of time and a lot of animators time and money and budget to make these little shorts.
17:24Even even being how short they are, this was not a cheap thing to produce. And I think it has to lead to something bigger. I don't really see Nintendo as a type to do something like this for no real reason. And part of me also thinks of like, what is there a Pikmin augmented reality game? Pikmin Bloom? There's Pikmin Bloom. Like, I feel like maybe this is a way to re-energize that IP. Because, like, if you told me Pikmin Bloom didn't exist, I'd believe you.
17:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Was that the Pokemon Go one? Yeah. Okay. I'm pretty sure. It just feels like... I remember Jonathan Dornbush walking around all over the city collecting all of his Pikmin. Just feels like there's a push to do something here. Yeah. And it could just be a movie bus. I don't know. maybe it is just a could be a series of animated shorts as well maybe this is the i mean it's not exactly a one for one to one thing but maybe it's the the ryan reynolds leaking not that this is a leak but yeah maybe this is a way to just a pilot to just check out public's reception to it hey people are really positive on this thing that's super cute let's actually green light that thing and go forward with it or maybe it's a way to get people to use the nintendo app more I just opened that up yeah yeah I maybe that is it because honestly I did re-download the Nintendo app like logged in had to figure out a whole thing to it took me like five minutes to finally get into this app yeah because one when you open the app they have this whole intro where Mario's running and doing all this shit and I'm like just get me into the news I just want to see the news and then they're like oh you got to link this thing and then do this thing right I'm like oh whatever and then finally I got into the Nintendo app and I was like damn it they got me all it took was a was a video of a baby chasing after a pacifier and me being like is this Pikmin I don't know for me to finally download this thing but i digress let's move on to story number two i would say let us know in the comments down below what you think this is actually going to turn what do you think this is leading into i mean i'm sure we have people in the super chats let's see lebron james writes in and says i need to hear mike rainbow about this again please here's the thing mike needs to figure out you know why are you out here announcing big announcements where people think it's your retirement lebron james and then it ends up being a henny's commercial god we i knew it was going to be some pump fake yeah i knew he was going to pump fake the hell out of the Like that was a that was a late career Dwayne Wade pump fake where everybody bit on it.
19:47Yeah. Everybody jumped up into the air, landed on him foul to free. I started seeing fake news around it, too. I saw I started seeing headlines that were like LeBron James announces retirement. Dude, I saw FanDuel's tweet. Yeah. LeBron. I was like, whoa, what do you got? Like, you're an official outlet. This isn't this isn't ball sack sports or like all the other NBA centel, which is the one that always trolls everybody. and people always fall for their fake tweets like you're a real ass out what are you doing yeah
20:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:fucking tmz's about to make fake news um the steak sticks animation uh says they also make mountain dew trolley gummies they're gross as fuck oh those i want to try i don't know if i i don't think i'm fucking with this but i think it's mostly because of the zero sugar part i think you just gotta take i think you gotta just down it bear do we have any sugar back there Can I put sugar in this? No I remember as a kid I used to think I learned what the word sodium Was like salt I remember just trying to impress my cousins And I would have a soda And I'd pour salt into it I'm adding more sodium Take a shot Let me put some more glucose in there I need you to just down it
21:01That's spicy That does go down smooth
21:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:um let's see here aaron made us laugh right then it says new video shows the pikmin to us the viewer the pikmin are invisible to humans the baby is reacting to the pacifier moving both videos side by side so why can we see the pikmin are we not human i mean we see the pikmin when we're playing the video game we also saw the pikmin now i wonder because yesterday when we were doing the slowdown in the frame by frame you did see the background what looked like a red pikmin running so i wonder if that was on purpose or if that was like an editing mistake where that was supposed to be a part of v2 i think that had to have been on purpose but initially i did think that somebody just edited a fake thing in there because now that we know it no and i'm kind of like well is that breaking the immersion you know i mean if we're not supposed to see it but then you see one in the background now i'm asking questions of am I a Pikmin?
21:58What if we are the Pikmin?
22:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Liminal Faces says hair's looking good today Andy Big Dog. Thank you. I'm just still growing it out. Can't wait to cut it. I'll cut it when I'm done doing my Verso Halloween costume. Oh you're doing Verso? Yeah. Nice. I'm doing Verso. Ben Star. What if I do Gustav? Or Luna? Somebody made a great point that Greg should be SKA. Big guy. big shirtless sqa um let's see here let's see here let's see here dolphin corn says i finally started hrt yesterday let's fucking go let's fucking go congratulations dolphin corn uh and then one more from mom's basement tv who says birthday tax 39 years old and wouldn't want to start my birthday late morning any other way happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday to you let's talk about story number two big updates are coming to claire obscure this is from the website for the game.
22:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:In April, we released Claire Obscura Expedition 33. Five months later, we've sold 5 million copies worldwide. On top of that, the Claire Obscura Expedition 33 original soundtrack composed by Lorien Testard has now reached over 333 million track streams since its release. We've been completely blown away by the constant support from so many of you. Your artwork, your stories, your cosplays, and your endless creativity has been loved and appreciated by all of us. We could not be more grateful from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you. To celebrate this milestone, we're working on a game update for all platforms that includes several additions and updates as a thank you.
23:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:A new playable environment, taking the characters of expedition 33 to a brand new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover challenging new boss battles for late game players to overcome new costumes for each member of the expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure, new text and ui game localizations into zhek ukrainian latin american spanish turkish vietnamese thai and indonesian bringing the total number of supported languages to 19 and more to come we spent years working on our dream project and to know it has resonated with fans around the world in such a powerful ways both wonderful and overwhelming now we're really looking forward to bringing you more of what we're working on exciting stuff really really damn cool bless and i do wonder first off i'm surprised that whatever this is is not going to be part of like a larger dlc drop that would be maybe priced or something this is awesome as hell free stuff i love free stuff free stuff in what most people are saying could be like a game of the year winner this is amazing i can't wait to see exactly what these new surprises are I'm also stoked to see the small little changes being made to just quality of life stuff.
24:52Things that they've heard feedback from through comments, through videos, through essays, through reviews, whatever it may be to go. You know what? Yeah, we probably should change that. We probably should make that menu a bit easier to decipher. Like, I'm super stoked to see exactly what they've been cooking over there.
25:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Somebody in chat says, who said free? Did I read free? I'm going to control F the word free. I thought it was free. I mean, I think when you say update, they say update, not DLC, so I'd assume free. Updates as a thank you. Like, you said as a, like... Dude, that'd be crazy to be like, we're updating this as a thank you. It's$30. You only get the thank you if you pay us 15 bucks. Thank you so much, guys. Yeah, thank you, guys. This is$19.99. From the bottom of my heart, I appreciate it. From the bottom of my heart, just enter your PayPal right there. Golly. Really, really damn cool, though. I'm stoked to see kind of more from that world.
25:47And what an awesome achievement for, again, a team of two people. Yeah, a team of three. A team of three and a contractor. Yeah, it's amazing stuff. No, but for real, to see a game being made at that scale still to hit this level of success, to resonate with so many people. Again, thinking back to PAX, Blessing, when you and I were at PAX, 90 of the cosplays were the baguette costumes oh everybody was in the little red beret with the striped shirts like it was insane the amount of cosplayers that were just giving love to expedition 33 and then i saw the cool people in their full like yeah verso or uh lunay cosplays um this game was a juggernaut of 2025 and i i really think that this game is encapsulates like 2025 is like that's that's the one that i remember from this year yeah this is the one that was the biggest surprise the one that had a lot of hype and then lived up to those expectations and i would say surpass those expectations and a lot of conversation just as far as what like how much you can charge for a game like how a small team of three people and a contractor yeah two and a half you gotta you gotta not stop being that they cut a dude in half yeah nobody thinks three people
27:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and a contractor means yeah um people in chat were shouting out a blue sky from imron i was debating on pulling it up just because you know there might still be some people who are playing it and it's definitely like end spoiler theme type of stuff so like I wanted to stay away from it but Imran does make a good point so if you're interested in his take you can follow him on BS that's Blue Sky Tim that's Blue Sky Tim the other thing I'm interested to see when this comes out because someone in the chat pointed out like this is a really smart play as well if this comes out in the next month of like a good game of the year reminder of like uh you know with uh the keelys coming up and people starting to work on their own game of the years for their own outlets and stuff like that so it's a smart little like hey remember our game was pretty good yeah i'll be honest i don't think people need a reminder for clarips here i think people know i i see some people in the youtube chat arguing that five million sales is kind of low that's crazy don't like that's totally not true five five million in the first year or not even the first year the first 10 yeah nine months or whatever yeah that's insane that's a massive amount yeah i think we've been conditioned to think about the biggest of biggest games right and also i think a thing to a factor to keep in mind is that this game came out on game pass yes as well and so 100 sales is actually a very big figure here um that they're sharing right i'm sure if they said players you would have a way larger number but um even so right like five million sales for a team of two people it was honestly like if we did i think if we did the math it was like 35 employees with about 90 contractors or 100 like yeah there was like 100 people outside of the main team i believe something like that uh let's move on to story number three but before we do let me tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of Funny membership, which allows you to get shows ad-free.
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30:36Yeah. I was like, we got to stop. Yeah.
30:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Well, like, these aren't, they can't be that bad for you. How many calories are you? There's 45 calories. So, like, four of these, it's almost 200. If I can on my treadmill for a little bit, you know. You know, I could look at you and go, you know, why are you judging me for the Mountain Dew Zero? Eating gummy candies in the morning. I mean, but it's a good source of vitamins A, C, and E. It's also gluten-free. Oh, nice. Take that. Yeah. How much sodium is this? Don't let it. 10 milligrams. This reminds me of when I was drinking the, like, the Odwalla or the naked smoothie juices or whatever. Oh, dude, I used to fucking, I used to destroy the naked juice.
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31:20Kevin Coelho one time was like okay Annie but like how much sugar is in there I was like Kevin chill out I looked at the back of the bottle I was like don't worry about it I was like easy
31:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:don't quit ask me personal questions like that story number three more than 60 percent of U.S. game players only buy two games or fewer per year a survey finds this is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle and that's why five million sales for Express 33 yeah crazy exactly the majority of video game players in the U.S. only buy one or two games a year, a survey has found. Market research company Circona's senior director, Matt Piscitella, shared data from its Q3 2025 Future of Video Game Survey, specifically its data on purchasing frequency among players in the U.S. According to the data, 18 % of players in the U.S.
32:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:buy a new video game about once every six months, while 12 % buy one about once a year. The survey also found that 33 % of players buy a new game less often than once per year, meaning a combined 63 % of players buy two games or fewer every year. On the other end of the scale, 22 % of players buy a new game around once every three months, with 10 % saying they buy one roughly every month. Just 4 % said they buy more than one game a month. Commenting on the findings, Piscitella suggested that those 14 % of players who buy one game or more per month are mainly responsible for the continued trajectory of full-price video games.
32:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:quote hyper enthusiast price insensitive players are really keeping things going especially in the non-free-to-play gaming space he noted piscatella also pointed out that if these numbers seem unusual it's likely because anyone who follows them already falls into that 14 bracket of players who buy a game or more per month i'm going to pause there and say if you're listening to this podcast you also very likely fall in that category getting back into it and therefore may not be aware of the bigger picture in a separate post related to his point on quote hyper enthusiast price insensitive insensitive players piscatella suggested that the reason game prices are rising and deluxe editions are becoming more commonplace is because that 14 of players are less likely to worry about the cost of games meaning most pricing is focused on them and that's why we need everybody to we need every investor every ceo every you know high level person in a top corner office of these buildings that wouldn't touch a video game with a 10-foot pole that are making all of these massive decisions we need them to really really absorb and consume this information because the decisions being made need to be based on this 14 % of people that are the market.
34:07Because I've always used the example. It's like if Taylor Swift moved into the block where me and Barrett lived and they said, oh, the average person here makes$90 million a year. Well, it's because she's a fucking multi-billionaire. You know what I mean? And that's the free-to-play market. That's where they go. We have a million gajillion players every month. Yeah. And fucking 78 or 82 % of them are playing the free to play games. Yeah. And not much else. So let's continue to focus on the area where people like you and I and people in the chat, like you mentioned earlier, the people listening to this podcast are part of that 14%.
34:49We are the ones buying multiple games per year. Man, you get a lot of games for free. no i buy a fuckload of games and we are part of that market so let's continue to focus on that because if you keep on making massive decisions based on the million gajillion players every month on on xbox and playstation and pc yeah well 80 percent of them are playing one free-to-play game or two free-to-play games or old games you know i mean yeah it comes back to this i mean yeah old games it was like yeah combine combine this with the stat of there being the six games that dominate playtime whether it be fortnite roblox yeah minecraft call of duty right like i forget what the other two maybe fifa or something right but like there's those handful of games that have been around forever that are essentially black holes right they fucking suck everything up they fucking suck up the attention and all this shit right and so when you have that as your catalog and it comes to buying new games in a year you might be somebody who's like oh yeah i have a playstation or i have a switch but i'm here to buy either 2k or cod or maybe there's a hogwarts legacy that comes out in here or maybe i hear the buzz around clear obscure and i buy that as my one game right maybe i hear the buzz around came to come deliverance 2 and i like medieval stuff and so oh man i'm gonna make that my one purchase a year and i should to know right that's very normal behavior if i not to say that if i didn't have this job i wouldn't you know be super into the gaming ecosystem because i would but if i had like other hobbies that were my priority like i could easily see myself being like yeah i'm gonna play one or two video games like beat one or two video games in a year because i have all these other things that i'm doing that i'm balancing or whatever right like if you're listening to this if you're watching this if you're on the show right like video games are so our passion and we drive so much of that paid section of users and so that is to your point andy of like for those who are in the business of making video games you kind of should take that into consideration as far as what like the way that you're creating the video games how you're making these financial decisions around monetization and like the genres and like you know if you're putting a video game out as a boxed title or as a premium title like what is the game plan because you have to understand who the people that are playing these games are and more it worries me more and more every day just the the amount of good quality stuff that's coming out and just thinking that 14 of people buy multiple games that's not enough players to buy and support all of these amazing titles yeah like we don't we don't have enough gamers to play all these games yeah and it sounds like a such a weird thing to say but i i think more and more about you know hoping that these that a lot of these smaller devs are making games that aren't completely killing their budgets and everything making small these smaller experiences like peak with aggro crab yep and just any other smaller title to hopefully sustain them to sell a ten dollar title that will sustain them for the next video game that they make that doesn't require 50 or 70 hours of your time because there's just not enough time and not enough gamers to go around for the amount of quality out there think about even for us who we do this as our job we get access to free games all the time via codes right for uh review and still don't have the bandwidth to play everything we want yeah i'm still just like well i'm still i'm playing hades 2 right now you know i mean like i have to pick and choose my battles and so what that means is that i look at games like digimon or uh little nightmares 3 that just had reviews go up right and i'm and i'm like in an ideal world i'd like to check out these games because they seem neat they seem cool they seem like they'd be up my alley but dog i got i got all these other things i also want to play and got to play at the same time um so yeah there's not really that much love to go around which saddens me but also like it's it is an embarrassment of riches it truly is it really is an embarrassment like somebody sat in chat says blessed 2x ko i booted up 2x ko for two seconds yesterday just look at the main menu and feel something yeah but i didn't have time to play it oh wow i had shit to do there's a merch giveaway happening right now in the twitch chat and if you're in the youtube chat sorry you have to go to the twitch chat to enter but when you get to the twitch chat type in exclamation point enter to try to win the merch shout out to the gifter shout out but uh yeah youtube got to go to twitch to do it so type in exclamation point as you try to win the merch um anyway i say all this to say that mike you gotta put me on more streams so i can catch up on my video video game catalog because i gotta i want to play more games but i this stuff is yeah a game like megabonk and ball x pit yeah and all of these other titles that are like having amazing steam next fest demos coming out yeah like all of these demos that are out right now there's too much good shit out there i know those are i know these are great games that you're listening but like when you say a game like mega bonk yeah and ball x pit yeah it sounds like internet interdimensional video game they sound like fake games those don't sound real and they they're just taking away time from the other things you know like i i was playing megabonk for too long and then was like man is this really what's gonna is this gonna kill my ghost of yote momentum and then i hopped back into ghost of yote i was like oh thank god it didn't because yeah this game slaps so hard and i want to keep on going with it dude i mean hades is killing games for you too here's the thing roguelites one of my favorite genres of video games but also they're fucking shit up for me because i just keep playing them they just they're fucking like they take up all the time and so now and i know that's point i'm 50 hours into hades 2 and i'm like i've beaten like i've beaten runs but this game wants me to beat multiple runs and so now i'm kind of like ah you know i want to play i want to play other things but also i just want to play hades 2 it's such a good game uh some more super chats
40:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:for you just jurston seven writes in and says i'm behind on khed today but i usually get stoned and take in three soft tacos from taco bell every time i go to the movies very nice that's cool oh that's another good one um the void breaker demo is on ps5 now oh which is a void breaker is also like early access on xbox game pass i believe and uh i hopped back in yesterday into a run that i hadn't finished and i continue with my run beat the second boss it was amazing i was like god this game is so good i can't wait to see what it eventually becomes and then i lost to the third boss no i just lost in the third level but what a great game void breaker is another amazing roguelite that is going to suck up a lot of time adam two time says eat or drink whatever you want it's 6 p.m somewhere nice thank you adam thank you chris geo for a first time subscriber give me a beer a first time sub no fair enough rfc raptor face says birthday tax for my wife happy birthday uh cheebs happy birthday cheebs happy birthday um let's see let's see i think that's it for super chats for now as we move on to story number four metaphor is getting an anniversary live stream this comes from a press release today atlas announced that they will be hosting a one-year anniversary live stream on friday october 10th at 9 p.m to mark the milestone of critically acclaimed rpg metaphor re fantasia the broadcast will be streamed on the atlas excuse me atlas west youtube channel and steam and will feature a special message special message special message
42:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:metaphor refentazio launched last october to rave reviews and sold 1 million units on launch day making it atlas's fastest selling game ever i didn't realize that it's cool metaphor has also won multiple awards oh i guess the other i guess personas were always exclusive so that does make sense because metaphor is everywhere everywhere right barrett yeah and then persona 3 reload was everywhere so i think persona 3 reload had like hit that mark early last year, like February 2024, and then Metaphor. That makes sense. It won multiple awards, including Best Role Playing Game, Best Narrative, and Best Art Direction at the Game Awards in 2024, and the Grand Award from the Japan Game Awards just last month.
42:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:A public celebration will be held in California on October 10th at the Round 1 Burbank Town Center. The sold-out fan event will feature special gifts, voice actor meet-and-greet, photo ops, and more. Bear, are you going? Where are you looking at your non-existent watch yeah i do that a lot oh i didn't know that i don't know that was a barrettism no that's like one of his like most famous really yeah it's like that and then he wears hats wearing hats not wearing a hat today though not wearing a hat today it's fucked up if i had like you know thought about this because you know i'm never in burbank ever never but i'm in Burbank on October 10th.
43:30Yeah. I had no idea that this was happening, but it's already sold out, so now I'm sad. I mean, you're still good for... Here's the thing. Oh, fucking shit. Well, because maybe I can do both. Here's the thing. What time is the concert? What time is the concert? Assume prime time. What does that mean? Six? Six, seven. Prime time evening? Six, seven. Nobody? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just not, you know,
43:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:18 so i'm not gonna i still don't understand i still don't understand the joke is it six seven or is it seven eight i digger it's six seven it's six seven i'm only know because my wife is a teacher and she has to deal with it all the time here's the thing i said 18 i should have said this is tough this is tough blessed because the thing we're going to on saturday Is that five Fuck I can do both You just gotta understand that it's like I'm here for a really big thing And you gotta understand And be okay with that big thing I don't need to do the other side thing Oh I see what you're saying You see I will say I'm not missing the big thing You know The first event the description does say No pressure to attend yeah but i like being social no pressure no pressure no pressure i can do both i'll figure it out anyways this event's happening on friday and i'm going to be literally in town literally blocks away and uh yeah i can't go it makes me sad alana's also coming oh really maybe i'll go she said rahul may be able to go all the cool kids are going cool all the cool kids are going anyways uh for what this means for metaphor to pre-effect that uh amron says uh it definitely feels like they could announce an enhanced edition if they do i pray they don't try to shoehorn a romance into it but knowing atlas dot dot dot which i thought was funny the only thing i would really want from this is a switch to version announced because that would be sick man what a game metaphor was that was a game gody oh i that feels like a fever dream playing that game because i i had dedicated a month and a half to just playing metaphor and that's a 90 hour video game and like now whenever i think of metaphor i don't think about metaphor often but when i do i'm like damn that was a that was a fucking time dude oh man what a video game i already have to get out of the uh sandworms asshole yeah dude that's early in the game if i could if i could clone myself right now uh-huh i would and you know and then we share brains at the end of the night oh we hang brain together hot the clone i would have him play kingdom come deliverance too but then i would have the clone make another clone and that clone it's like a lesser version of the first clone like the brains are getting like more yeah yeah and i would have him play metaphor because you don't got to be like that smart to do turn-based stuff oh yeah like you don't have to a bunch of fucking idiots uh no no but for real i would like i wish i had time to have played more metaphor last year because i did enjoy myself but also listening to the besties podcast with co-worker russ freshnick um listening to this to the evil east chronicles like i know it's an old ass game yeah but like god damn it just gets like i want to experience this story yeah yeah final fan i want to experience this like just super super anti all of the anti the man video game here's the thing really quick andy remind me later to tell you a story about um you know an interaction between our co-worker russ and uh one snowbike mike howard oh god do i say a lot of stuff never listen to fraud do i put down oh what were we talking about the other day with mike where he was like oh yeah this game yeah and i was like fire emblem oh my god he likes to pander the to the audience i almost made because today mike is streaming kingdom come oh dude and i almost titled the stream mike panders to the audience we gotta get the mike painter you'd be too good of a politician now speaking of um painter do i put away kingdom come deliverance 2 and just play final fancy tactics the evil east chronicles no because this is the year that you can talk about kingdom come deliverance 2 and you'll never get back to it yeah that's a great point you know what i mean like the evil east chronicles is still technically a remake and i know it came out a long time ago but still like this is the year for kingdom come deliverance 2 that's fair and you know what 2026 we're calling it tactical 2026.
48:20Oh, I love that. We're playing tactics games in 2026. Fire Emblem comes out. I'll finally get to Final Fantasy E-Release Chronicles. And we're starting January 6th for tactical 2026. Nice. Nice. I'll tell you what about XCOM. Already looking at the rest of the year. I'm like, where am I going to fit in certain games? And I know I made a promise to everybody that I will play through Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. And I probably made that promise way too early in the year before I looked at how the rest of the year was going to shake out but i'm not going home for thanksgiving whoa that's big i plan on doing just like a no life be here for 48 hours 56 like oh i'm only gonna be playing kingdom come i said 48 but i meant uh four days yeah 48's two days i'm gonna do more days 48 times two guys 96 it's been 15 years since 2001 um i think i'm gonna just do a no life kingdom come deliverance too because i I don't really see any other point in the calendar that I could fit that time in.
49:20Is there any other game that you could also be playing going back and forth on to make up? Is there any like the other big misses that you've had this year? I see. Death Stranding 2. Oh. So like Mike said, that was a miss though. Or like a skip. What? You didn't hear about this? What? After their whole huge fucking, like after their whole marathon stream and them finishing the game, Mike falling asleep to the most insane cutscenes in the last hour they walk out of the stream room and Andy's like yeah so like what do you think and Mike was like it's a skip don't listen to Mike play fucking Death Stranding 2 it's a skip Andy Death Stranding 2 is fucking incredible what do you mean it's a skip or play Dead Take I mean Dead Take will be one stream for you it's four hours we did it in one stream I'll tell you what I need to get back to I forgot it was a new show despelote dude i also am like halfway through despelote i'm like i'm one sit down away from beating that game i should just get through it it won too many awards to ignore it this is what i still have the pitch of catch-up week it kind of funny where all the streams are just us playing catch-up on games we want to do game of the year for i like that catch-up week it could be catch-up two weeks and then could we all wear like big catch-up bottle costumes while we stream the games sure about it i'll allow it i'll like it story number five critically acclaimed 10 player
50:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:co-op platformer pico park is accidentally made permanently free on steam this is chris scolian at video games chronicle the developer of critically acclaimed co-op platformer pico park says they've accidentally made the game permanently free pico park now known as pico park classic edition was originally released in 2016 and as a co-op puzzle platformer for up to 10 players While Classic Edition has been temporarily free on Steam for a while, its developer, Tico Park, decided to update it recently and add new features, including online multiplayer support. Notifying users about the update in August, Tico Park wrote, quote, I'm thinking of updating Classic Edition for the first time in nine years.
51:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I kept Classic Edition because it's Steam exclusive and supports 10 players. Since I'm doing it anyway, I'll update it with online support. I might charge a small fee for it. I recommend installing it while it's still free, end quote. The update was then added in mid-September with the promised online multiplayer for 2-10 players, as well as updated graphics to match more recent PicoPark titles, Steam input support, and support for monitors running at 60Hz or higher. Tico Park told players they would, quote, keep it free for about a week, end quote, before starting to charge for it. But they then realized this wasn't actually possible because Steam limits how many times developers can make games free, then change them back to paid titles.
52:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, I was planning to switch to a paid plan after updating the online support, but I forgot that once you switched from paid to free, I could never go back to paid, Tico Park wrote, declaring that Pico Park Classic Edition is now permanently free on steam if you enjoy playing this free version uh be sure to try the series pico park pico park 2 also uh says the developer that's a weird one yeah why do you think steam limits that um i gotta assume it's either a way to avoid any like wrongdoings i don't really know what could be done there like nefariously but it seems like a way to kind of limit some sort of system i really am yeah i really don't know i have no idea yeah but great news for everybody yeah everybody you can go play pico park for free if you've not watched our pico park streams oh my gosh because they they're excellent pico park i think at this point with how much we've enjoyed it we've certainly haven't seen a whole lot that the game has to offer yeah because it's like there's a lot to do there and it can be tough the more players you have but i think you put it up there with mario parties now with lego party with you know tower fall with with those games that you want to play in a group at home with people like it hog nit hog yes like i think pego park is one of those super creative fun video games that needs to be played on more couches with more groups of people during parties and stuff like that man fuck lego party you know what i mean fuck that game and if you worked on that game go to hell go to hell i was gonna say something polite because i don't want to do personal attacks but you know what go to hell lego party's a good ass game dude fuck that game so and that's like i totally agreed with dan reicher it's blue sky uh bs the other day that's blue sky tim where he said lego party's better than mario party i don't disagree i legitimately think that what we experience at Lego Party is more fun than what I've had with Mario Party.
54:09A lot of that had to do with the mini games. I agree. That was a lot of fun. That said, fuck Lego Party. I got my ass whooped. We gotta play Lego Party again so I can have my redemption. When we do, can we play on a higher fidelity system? That was bothering me the whole stream. I'm not gonna lie. I was like, where are you playing this on Switch? I know this game's on PS5 or Xbox or something.
54:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But Andy, if you ever get back to Lego Party, that'll be big news. Huge, huge news. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the Wii News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Story number six is Wii News. Xbox announced two Outer Worlds 2 controllers for Xbox Design Lab. And here they are. Can I ask a question? And this is going to be my Xbox ignorance because I hate Microsoft and all that shit, right? When they say announced for Design Lab, why is it announced for Design Lab and not just announced?
55:02is it that I can design around these templates? I think you can have the controller template and then add different color buttons is what I'm assuming. Okay. That's neat. I still, my number one wish Xbox if you're listening is to just add back paddles not even paddles, back buttons a la 8-bit dough or scuff or game sir like all these controls that i've been buying and really enjoying add just normal back buttons to the xbox one standard controller and that will be a main for me okay you don't want the elite no i hate the rubber handles don't like the way it feels i never loved the way it feels i just always thought it was like whatever but then i've had two different elite controllers not only have the bumper issues which a lot of people run into but the plastic grip like peeling off oh yeah and i think it's maybe like the humidity in the i have no idea what it could be but the the little rubber things kind of start to peel off and it's so annoying that's that's been happening with my dual sense edge and it's been it's really annoying yeah like the back part there's like a large part that's peeling off where i'm like maybe get some
56:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:super glue i don't know yeah coming to xbox game pass for ultimate you're getting ball x pit you're getting keeper and you're getting ninja gaiden 4 uh those are all happening in october and keepers already that close keepers the 17th wow we uh for premium you're getting supermarket simulator that's out today the casting of frank stone the grinch christmas adventures eternal strands he is coming ninja gaiden 2 black and evil west for pc you're getting baldur's gate 1 and 2 ee and packs a day e extended edition channel me know maybe he is coming is a game that i really wanted to get into maybe i'll give it more of a shot it's a like reminds me a lot of loop hero roguelite kind of auto battler okay has a very similar art style that a lot of indie devs have been going for with not only just lo-fi looking visuals very like 8-bit uh everything sort of pixelated but color scheme wise doing a lot with making i don't know it just has a very very it has a very indie look to it and i love the the vibes of it i just want to actually get more into the style of gameplay but it seems cool it reminds you a lot of loop hero enhanced edition chat thank you so much fallout day 2025 broadcast is set for october 23rd vampire survivors online co-op launches this autumn chucky jason vorhees and predator are coming to call of duty black ops 6 and war zone which one is jason vorhees in andy it's your game showdown question right here because what was it the state of play where i kind of realized that that friday the 13th wasn't the other one that halloween wasn't friday the 13th oh yeah yeah like we see jason walk around people are like this is just friday the 13th and i was like yeah it's just i was like oh no that's a different yeah one of okay jason vorhees is in do you remember what he wears ask yeah okay he a hockey mask is probably the 13th yes you know that halloween is michael myer halloween yeah crushed it and michael myer is still wearing a mask right michael myer a mask of somebody's face yeah ah yeah i remember now i remember now and then you know it used to be a was it a a mask of Ronald Reagan or some president that was like the OG mask that was used in the movie who was it it was a president right oh that's a human face I never even oh William Shatner it was a William Shatner mask that they put on I thought it was a president but I'm thinking of fucking the keanu reeves movie i'm thinking of uh uh matrix no i'm thinking of the surfing you know uh action movie point break oh yeah nick would have gotten there yeah william shatner was the mask that he like wore in that movie and it obviously fucked it up and made it look all worn and shit yeah um we got one more for you for we news the fun one uh tamor hussein friend of the show over from GameSpot.
59:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He is doing a fundraiser stream. He blue skied out yesterday. This week, I'm going to raise money for at medicalaidpal.bluesky.social to help Palestinians in need. On Friday, I'll start and finish Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2. On Saturday, Delta on Sunday. It'll be 9 a.m. Pacific time each day on twitch.tv slash TamoreH. Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. You will be seated. Yeah. And so go support Tamore. go support palestinians they need what'd you just drop a bottle cap okay um and that is it for we news uh before we get out of here let's take a look at super chats see what y 'all are talking about colin barry says really hope really hoping you guys talk about battle suit aces i have that downloaded i booted it up yesterday i have no idea what it is it's from the same people i believe is battle chef brigade it's a new card like roguelite style game like a card battle roguelite game um with like space gundam style mech battles um i only played like the tutorial to get a feel top down right um i mean you're looking like a card space oh okay never mind like a card playing space and then there's like it seemingly it feels like virtual or not virtual visual novel stuff in between all that stuff which wasn't necessarily my jam while i was playing it which is why i was like i'm gonna play hades 2 actually um but from the one thing i played of it seems really cool seems really really cool yeah barrett has it pulled up here oh i like the it has like our style similar to battle chef brigade hot men yeah cool beards cool beards cool style and then cards lebron james with the five dollars super chat says those xbox elite trolls are great but they aren't built to last i've gone through two total already both have had the rubber and bumpers ruined yeah yeah it stinks also battle suit aces not to be confused with battle aces yeah which got me a lot in the email i was like why are you i thought battle aces was over i thought we canceled it yeah so battle suit aces different game than battle aces five dollars super chat from napoleon blown apart with a five dollar super chat says not gaming related andy thoughts on rush announcing a new tour anika is an amazingly talented drummer and will honor Neil well.
1:01:50We're stoked. Me and my dad and my brother are looking at those pre-orders. You're going to go? I want to go to either the Dallas one or the LA one. Wow. Yeah.
1:02:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Goldie Live writes in and says, Back in the 90s slash 2000s, we used a Burger King as a shortcut to an AMC theater in the Bronx. We ate full meals watching classic action movies. No regrets. That sounds awesome. um william wolfgang says a real birthday tax my daughter was born today and wanted to pay my tax things kind of funny for 10 10 good years happy birthday lily and ben and ben hell yeah happy birthday happy birthday lily and ben miller and then sol herrera says double birthday tax this week 31 a day just finished new game plus of stellar blade uh what do i play next that's i already i already say i already say own sekiro returnal and elden ring which do i play next lies of p lies of p it's better than stellar blade it's better than stellar he's saying he already owns sekiro returnal and then elden ring yeah i mean i i co-sign lies of p i mean if you haven't played sekiro sekiro you gotta play sekiro but if you're also like if you want to take a break from that style of combat like returnal is a good sorry i misunderstood the thing i thought they're saying like yeah i already own them i played them already yeah no he just they're saying of these of this list what do i play next i think he's saying he i mean i think he's asking for any suggestion but he's just saying he already owns those i would say i mean if you haven't played returnal definitely use that to break up the combat returnal is a nice power cleanser you're gonna play another combat game and it's you're you're only gonna be able to compare it to it use returnal as the little break in between what a good fucking game returnal is yeah god i love returnal um actually i don't know if i can talk about that i will say what i'll say for no particular reason i booted up black myth wukong yesterday to test out a piece of technology okay yeah i don't know which i don't know if we can talk about yet we're changing the world everybody um but i booted up black myth wukong and just did a boss fight you play in your dreams you play it while unconscious um and it makes the combat great finally um but i could see maybe i could see you trying out black myth if you played seller blade and you and you played new game plus and love it that much i could i could see you being in the black myth wukong market but i'll say liza p is so much better though don't i mean liza p is better liza p came out with the best dlc of the year this year and if you don't play it i'm gonna come after you uh denessa writes in with another birthday tax they say happy birthday to my birthday twin ben miller i'm gonna see 21 pilots on concert today to celebrate to ben party hard play hard have a heck of a fourth birthday but drink beer um my favorite cool greg story wore a stone cold steve austin fuck fear drink beer shirt in elementary school got kicked out i got sent home favorite favorite cool greg story gerardo's cool says buenos dias y 'all uh anyone going to twitch con next week thanks and stay mad sexy son no no i will not be going to twitch i wish i was but no not this time um you've been before no oh i want to go i've been wanting to go for years but it just keeps not happening kz jay-z's brother says uh birthday tax uh thanks for the entertainment during my job search you're welcome hope you get a job and then let's see i think that's it because we wrote we read this one from jristen about taco bell yeah yeah so we did it we did it y 'all uh super just says getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this kind of fight.com slash you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so incorrect if those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe uh jetbo 1437 says blessing i thought you said 2026 was going to be the year of yakuza i did not say that i think andy might have said that what didn't you weren't you the one that said you're gonna play yakuza no this was definitely conversation you had bless well i definitely didn't say i said um my yakuza thing was find the clips and there were no if there were no new games for a year i would play the yakuza series like going back to our gamescast conversation what would you do with your year of time and i said i would use uh no new games for a year thing to play the yakuza franchise i definitely do remember when we were talking when i first brought up tactical 2026 there were people it was the first time i ever heard you say that oh yeah no i brought it that there's been a thing before oh okay yeah tactical 2026 okay okay yeah we're gonna play tactical games it's gonna be fun but when i brought that up i think there were people in chat that were like make it yakuza 2026 oh and i did say no so maybe that's what you're thinking but no i played too much yakuza i've tried too much yakuza i cannot go back find the clip chat find the clip um Lucid Dream says, just to set the record straight, black coffee is one of the healthiest things you can drink.
1:06:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's cream and sugar that ruin it. That's great. I only drink black coffee. I don't put any cream or sugar in it. It just tastes like oil. It's just so good, though. But then it makes the rest of my day brighter because it can't get worse than that. Ah. Yeah. I do like that. It was like I hit the lowest part of my day. I drink black coffee. It can only go up from here. It's only up from here. Um. Da da da. Kebab says, missed Wii news. According to Piscitella's data, Mario Kart 8 sold more in the U.S. during August than Mario Kart World. Mario Kart 8 landed at number 7. Mario Kart World wasn't in the top.
1:07:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Dropping from number 4 last week, Mario Kart World wasn't in the top 10. How the mighty have fallen. I mean, we're talking about Lego Party better than Mario Party. And we're talking Sonic Cross World is better than Mario Kart World. And then, yeah. Big year. People also mentioned that you can take off the, or you can replace the DualSense rubber grip. which i am too lazy to do yes i'll let that thing wear out i'll also say that i'm uh i got my hands on a cool new controller that i can't wait to review and talk about oh oh yeah yeah yeah that brings us to the end of kind of funny games daily where each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show enjoy the games cast next which is gonna be our skate review and the stream after which is gonna be mike pander i mean mike playing kingdom come deliverance too but until next time game daily
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