Pokemon Pokopia's Success SURGES Nintendo's Share Price - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.26

14:40Greg Miller:you're gonna have leaf green but i think there's also something in me i was hoping to get leaf green yeah because i was a pokemon blue kid yeah okay me too and so i yeah i just look at it as like okay well this is just pokemon blue even though i don't know if that's true i forget the i just look at fire red and i'm like oh that's red so the other one is gonna be closer to what i played close enough yeah totally but i'm glad is on switch too i feel like that probably feels pretty nice to have on that handheld oh yeah good it's dangerous honestly yeah because i forget how easily i get roped into playing like that specific pokemon game yeah where i want to play pocopia but i boot up my switch too and i see the leaf green icon i'm like well let me play a little bit of that yeah and now i'm you know i just i just evolved my uh magikarp into a gyarados congratulations yeah that's huge i just caught an abra which i'm really excited about and so

15:23Tim Gettys:things are going pretty good i'm on the ss and yeah pretty good right now it makes me want to go back because i'm a big uh somebody said it to me like it was like a bad word they called me a gen one-er dude yeah they called me that too and i was like fine whatever i guess it's like being called a boomer yeah it's like i'm like it's fine it was cool i love the original pokemon stuff it's great and now i want to get back into this but it's like you also have pocopia installed right You said it's like two completely different flavors, right? It's like vibe out or make them kill each other.

15:53Greg Miller:Yes, and I've opted for the kill each other aspect of it. But enough about all that. Of course, we've got video game news to talk about. So remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. Just like Zeke Speak did, who says, it's Jake Baldino, my third favorite member of FPS.

16:11Tim Gettys:That's crazy.

16:13Greg Miller:Not Calvin Perez writes in. It says, Jake, been a fan since PM. Come on KF more often.

16:19Tim Gettys:Oh, PMI.

16:20Greg Miller:Pretty much it. What is that?

16:21Tim Gettys:So that was the first thing I started doing with Eric Striffler back in the day. He's like an original, like a real old head YouTuber. He had a YouTube channel. We kind of played around towards the end of high school, and then we started doing it. He had already had this channel established, and he invited me on, and we kind of did this kind of essentially like a news show like this, but we would talk movies and video games and stuff like that, and I was essentially the video game guy. uh and it was great it was like early youtube so it was fun we were like figuring it out but when i did that i realized like oh i can do this for like a job like i can actually do this and like for a living yeah and it took a long time to actually get there to pay my bills but um that's yeah pretty much it is where i started i'm grateful you know i assume that everybody

17:04Greg Miller:who's watching and listening knows who jake baldino is but i should probably do like a we should probably do a more proper who is jake baldino i don't even know uh who am i i i consider myself uh i consider myself a teacher i don't know i'm a teacher of video games i see it no uh

17:22Tim Gettys:i am a reviewer producer video game talker guy um i help run and i help co-found the game ranks youtube channel uh so i'm the before you buy guy i'm like the thumbnail of those like spam videos but uh that channel has grown way bigger than me i'm just like a part of it now but um i i do that I also run my own YouTube channel called Jake Baldino, and I just talk about whatever I want to talk about. And then the Friends Per Second podcast. That's, you know, Friends Per Second podcast is like my new favorite thing to do because even though Game Ranks, we are a team, you know, we're very siphoned off.

17:57Tim Gettys:We all work remotely, so we're all kind of in our own little bubbles. But Friends Per Second is kind of this thing I get to do where I'm like with highly engaged, highly intelligent people that are operating at a higher level than me. like lucy james is goaded yeah ralph skill up is like crazy so i view you guys as three goats

18:14Greg Miller:thank you like friends per second podcast is legit like damn yeah y 'all gathered like a mini

18:19Tim Gettys:avengers team to talk about video games it was fun to kind of like yeah like be like all right we're all gonna get together and do this like i it's funny i'm wearing the same shirt but uh yeah it's it's it's been interesting too because it kind of comes back to where i started with pretty much it where we were kind of like jokey goofy like old youtube guys um with this podcast like my main like yeah i have like video game opinions and interviews but i like to try and make them laugh yeah and that's what i try and do the most and i have the most fun doing that that's awesome so it's been it's been cool to expand into podcasting yeah so long it's cool i i want to

18:51Greg Miller:shout out because i think the way in which you approach content and like the when i listen to or when i watch i guess i'm listening oftentimes because i'll put i'll play a video of yours and put it put my phone in my pocket and just wash your dishes yeah dude i'm washing so many dishes while listening to you talk about video games but i love hearing you talk about video games i think you all your thoughts uh feel very thoughtful feel very well you know well laid out and like you can tell that that you are somebody who thinks through and like wants to have a measured opinion on things yeah right i can tell that you're somebody who's like all right what is what is the true takeaway i can have here and how do i communicate that in a way that's going to resonate

19:28Tim Gettys:it's just be normal that's like what it's like especially like watching the internet grow and people get crazy about video games i was like oh we could like be normal so that's what i try and do i kind of i do kind of lean into the stuff that excites me so you'll notice like my flavor is a little different when it's like a game i really like yeah like that's where that's my bread and butter like i love talking about shit i just love and i kind of got that like that's why i wanted to do this was kind of like the positivity angle that can be toxic to a point like we have to call out shit rightfully so but um i kind of started doing this because i had jobs I was always that guy at the retail job that wanted to talk about video games, but had nobody else to talk to.

20:06Tim Gettys:Or, like, there'd be one guy, you know, I worked at a grocery store. So there'd be one other guy who worked in the produce department that was like, yeah, I bought that new Call of Duty. And I'm like, oh, isn't it crazy? And then, like, I overwhelmed people. So I needed a place to, like, get that out. So that's why I started yapping about games online.

20:22Greg Miller:Hell yeah. I want to shout out, there's another super chat we just got in from Alexander, who writes in and says, Jake is awesome. Thank you for everything you do.

20:29Tim Gettys:That's very kind. Thank you. Your community is very, very nice. Oh, yeah. As I'm looking at the chat, chat loves you. Chat's very excited to see you. I am eternally grateful for that. Yes.

20:39Greg Miller:Speaking of our community, of course, we couldn't do this without our producers over on Patreon.com. Slash kind of funny. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney, the Psalm, Twining. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today. a baker's dozen starting with our number one nintendo's share price climbs 15 in two days following the success of pokemon pacoopia this is from chris scolian at video games chronicle nintendo's share price has seen a turnaround in fortune this week following the release of pokemon pacoopia the switches or the switch companies share price has consistently been dropping since November from a high point of 14 ,105 yen, that is$89.09 per share on November 6th, down to a low point of just$52.74 on February 13th, a drop of more than 40%.

21:39Greg Miller:However, as reported by Bloomberg, Nintendo's share price saw a surge this week, jumping from$57.60 on Tuesday to as much as$63.65 today, a 10.4 % increase before finally closing at$62.74. Given that the share price was just$54.37 on Monday, that means since this week started, the share price has increased by around 15%. The bump is being attributed to the early success of Pokemon Pocopia, which appears to be experiencing widespread shortages of its physical version, with major retailers worldwide claiming to be sold out. In the U.S., Bacopia, which is currently the highest-rated Pokemon game ever on Metacritic, is currently sold out at Walmart, GameStop, Target, and even Nintendo's official store.

22:31Greg Miller:It's a similar situation in other regions, including the U.K., Australia, and others, where major retailers are already sold out. Quote, the Pokemon game was a dark horse, Toyo Security's senior analyst Hideki Yasuda told Bloomberg. Quote, it was totally off people's radars making its popularity a positive development and whoa jake are you at all

22:52Tim Gettys:surprised by pacopia's success here i'm i'm never surprised by the strength of like that vibe type of game that like chill game like we've seen the success of things like animal crossing and this is like a perfect storm combo it feels like to a point but uh damn also can i just say what a killer job reading a bunch of insane numbers back to back like you were just like boom boom boom thank you i appreciate it i was like just watching in awe let me tell you six years of reading news

23:16Greg Miller:articles on this show well you'll you'll gain a skill or two you're hitting yen conversions

23:21Tim Gettys:your share price yeah appreciate it i um the energy is definitely there i was in a best buy the other day and i was stuck waiting online for a long time because i had an issue with what i ordered and multiple people kept coming up to the counter just off the street and asking about it and being turned away like i felt that energy i was like oh it's one of these yeah you know and that's that's something that i i didn't totally expect honestly like pokemon go like once it started to build up you could immediately be like oh i get why that's popping off but like i guess yeah it's just people like the cozy cozy vibes with classic you know classic pokemon characters a little dragon build dragon quest builders action it's a good combo yeah i i think

23:59Greg Miller:the thing that i have to get reminded about whenever this happens is that you can't count out Pokemon to have a viral success. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, the last big mainline Pokemon game, if I'm not counting Pokemon ZA, if I remember correctly, I think the numbers for that one in three days was like 10 million units, which made it the fastest selling first party game of all time or something like that, right? And that's for a game that, underwhelmed by the way, that's for a game that came out buggy and broken and I loved it for a lot of reasons, right? But like, That game was so broken, and that game also broke records.

24:38Greg Miller:That's the power of Pokemon.

24:40Tim Gettys:Really. Even, like, to this day, Pokemon as a brand, an entire franchise surprises me. Like, growing up playing Pokemon Blue, like, did I ever imagine, like, billionaire YouTubers buying Pokemon cards and making it, like, this hype thing? But then also just the resurgence of collecting coming back with the cards and, you know, the game still being just all right. Yeah. Like, no offense, no offense. but like you know they still haven't done that big crazy transition like that some people want but like a big triple a type pokemon thing like but yeah the fact that it's there the fact that that appetite is still there is crazy but this specifically is cool because again it's a nice mix-up of genres that i think maybe some casual pokemon fans that are picking this up may not have previously been exposed to like you know like a dragon quest builders type thing and like that's a very addictive loop so it's cool that people are are getting into it but yeah pokemon like why didn't they make more copies?

25:31Tim Gettys:It's Nintendo. It's Nintendo, and it's also

25:34Greg Miller:a weird thing that you can't predict. Somebody mentioned that spinoffs usually don't sell this much.

25:39Tim Gettys:Is it Koei Tecmo that worked with them? Who was it?

25:41Greg Miller:The same people that made Dragon Quest Builders. Okay, yeah. Which I'm not sure. Off the top of my head, it's like a Square. Somebody in chat mentioned, I guess I would imagine the studio under Square, maybe it's a studio they partnered with. Omega Force. Omega Force.

25:53Tim Gettys:Yeah, so maybe they were like, oh, different team. you know like they outsourced a little bit well let's see how it goes and then it popped off

26:00Greg Miller:then it popped off yeah and like i you know to the chat that mentioned right like spinoffs usually don't sell this much where again we're talking about pokemon right like one of the biggest moments of being we might get close to world peace was 2016 when pokemon go dropped

26:15Tim Gettys:oh straight up you know what i mean like the amount of stories from that like the amount of

26:19Greg Miller:stories i remember i had uh just moved to seattle uh the beginning of 2016 and then by the by the time summer came around i went back home to illinois uh to visit family and while i was there there was a group of friends of mine that were like yo pokemon go just came out we're gonna go to the park and catch some pokemon you want to come with and i was like yeah let's go yeah and we get to the park and this is a park that i've been to like countless times it was the park that was down the street from my high school we would go there for lunch all the time i've never seen this park full of people before yeah but when pokemon go came out it was as if like the president and showing up in town.

26:53Greg Miller:Everybody was outside. Everybody was trying to catch Vaporeon or whatever Pokemon was available at that time. It felt like a movement. And I think Pokemon is one of the only IPs

27:03Tim Gettys:that can do that to people. And it can stick around. People are still playing Pokemon Go like crazy, but also Pokemon Go, it's still like a hotspot thing completely. Shout out to Port Jefferson, New York, a town that I live near. Every weekend you go, anyone you look at on the sidewalk, you see them looking at their phone, you glance over, it's always Pokemon Go.

27:22Greg Miller:Yeah.

27:22Tim Gettys:It's just like, there's still these bubbles of places and people that are just so down with it. And it's awesome.

27:28Greg Miller:Yeah. Now you mentioned people are still waiting for like that triple A Pokemon.

27:33Tim Gettys:I think so, yeah.

27:34Greg Miller:Do you think we'll ever get it?

27:35Tim Gettys:No, because they're making that other game. They're making wins and wins. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, they're making, Game Freak is making that. Oh, Beast of Reincarnation. Yeah. Yeah. Excuse me. Yeah, which I don't know. But I do think that there is, and this might be like a, you know kind of tourist opinion or like a very surface level opinion but i really do feel like the resurgence of pokemon especially with like 30 plus year olds that you know at least have some expendable income and want to buy this stuff they can strike with like this big massive crazy pokemon game that's like the original pokemon again but imagine it's in like 4k oh like pikachu has pores now oh dude if pikachu had pores you're oh oh that was like let me let me tell you but there's something there like there's totally like a slam dunk there i like how they're doing it like they're still just doing it they do what they know but uh i'd be curious it'd be it'd be crazy to see like a big ass pokemon thing that like blue like essentially like how how harry potter fans got their hogwarts legacy type thing where it's just like here's this thing it's everything you've ever wanted you imagined a harry potter world video game like give some 30 year old pokemon fans that that are you know and again the hardcore fans they're down with these games but i know there's a massive casual audience that would buy into some big crazy thing like they go out and

28:47Greg Miller:buy a console for it yeah i think now as a as a gen one-er like how much do you keep up with

28:52Tim Gettys:new pokemon things uh it's hard but i i dive into roughly every mainline new release still um none of them have really clicked with me recently but winds and waves does look promising like that reveal i was like oh i think i think this one might get me yeah it's cool i like the starter pokemon i like the vibe i like the you know like a delphino island type vibe to it like

29:14Greg Miller:i'm yeah yeah though like yeah everything's water like going underwater hanging out yeah there's something about this and maybe it is i think it's just pokemon is a feeling you know a bit right like there's that nostalgia factor there's the when we're getting into this trailer and the music swells and like there's something magical to happen yeah like there's a nintendo magic a disney magic i think pokemon has its own unique magic as well it's a good way to describe it that that pops up and it's like damn i can't wait to play this game even though i'm looking at it and i'm like it looks fine like it's still a pokemon game yeah but i think it's prettier than the last pokemon game so far from just a just a trailer also just a trailer but it does feel like they

29:50Tim Gettys:stepped the music up a lot because the music immediately grabbed me i was like hello what do we got going on here just felt like so epic and sweeping and i i'm a sucker for for that

29:58Greg Miller:1000 but yeah i'm looking forward to this but yeah i hope i hope one day we get what you're talking about yeah one day we get pg2 with pores we get ray trace shadows hdr onyx like you know yeah i want yeah i want onyx to look the way that onyx looked in the detective pikachu movie

30:13Tim Gettys:yeah right i want everything to have crazy ass like realistic definitely but there's a world for both like i mean the fact that like this type of game this weird pokemon offshoot pocopia popped off anything can happen 1000 that's that's the magic of pokemon like you said

30:26Greg Miller:before we move on i want to read a few more super chats from 8-bit 2 now uh writes in and says huge shout out to jake hashtag bcvg gang gang what's bcvg podcast i did uh with andrew gebbia

30:38Tim Gettys:shout out to the ogs out there hell yeah video games uh and then zeke speak writes in and says

30:43Greg Miller:jake the worst part of watching fps is that you're all really you're all really indifferently hot have y 'all thought about a glow down to appeal to the modern gamer a what a glow down you know low down yeah glow down that can happen um don't trust me it can happen they should catch me on a random day like at a bad angle yeah catch me outside at the at the safeway yeah catch me

31:05Tim Gettys:outside at the gas station getting coffee like have you ever thought about that because like

31:08Greg Miller:like i'm not getting all dressed up to go like to go to you know do groceries or go to do laundry yeah you ever thought about like oh what if i run into somebody here um they see me yeah it hasn't

31:18Tim Gettys:happened but i have thought about that it's a weird thing to even think about i know um but yeah like here i am it's me i'm always just wearing like a resident evil t-shirt it's like i look like a monster you know what i mean um jbc writes in and says pokemon should really get back

31:33Greg Miller:into the movie business given the mario movie success they could get three billion dollar uh they can get three billion dollar movie easy is what they're right absolutely i mean the original

31:42Tim Gettys:pokemon movie was essentially like what if what if mewtwo was frieza like it was just so sick it was like a dragon ball c movie just do that again yeah i mean don't have they stopped like i'm not

31:53Greg Miller:i don't keep up with the anime but i don't know what the vibe is as far as pokemon movies barrett

31:58Jake Baldino:well they did remake Mewtwo Strikes Back as like the like cool 3D CG animation I never checked it out but like at least the trailers was like fuck this is really sick to see Mewtwo like in 3D not with pores but you know

32:14Greg Miller:Mewtwo with pores would be cool though I mean we saw him in Detective Pikachu I'm pretty sure he had pores Mewtwo with abs like dripping abs and like crazy biceps yeah definitely and like actually never mind we're gonna go into the glutes I was gonna talk about the glutes he's all glutes I mean, B2's thighs are insane. And then we'll bring in one more before we move on from Ryan O 'Hay, who writes in and says, Been watching KF since 2018. Thanks to my little bro. Shout out to him and his indie team, Galactic Bicycle, showing off their game Wilds of Realm Walker at GDC. Hell yeah, shout out. Wilds of Realm Walker.

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36:03Greg Miller:kyle shandler because we got a super chat from samson xp who says i thought we got kyle shandler

36:07Tim Gettys:on the show that is probably the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me i wish that's our new hal jordan i hope i hope that show's good look at him look at that mug i'm not he's the new hal lantern show a lanterns show what's the vibe on that i was not really into it but when they cast aaron pierre i think he's awesome yeah i've only seen him in one movie that rebel ridge movie but i was like hell yeah as a um john stewart yeah uh and then when kyle chandler was hal jordan and they were like doing a detective buddy cop like on the ground thing i was like i don't know but then when i saw the trailer i was like that's a good trailer i'm in oh yeah i'm i'm somebody who

36:44Greg Miller:loved the what they call it the arrowverse show oh nice yeah i was super into those and agents of shield like those are like my two touch you're one of those guys oh yeah agents of shield agents of field is so good yeah like i forget what i think it was season four whenever they introduced the like clone shit so so good um but yeah i have like a weird soft spot for a lot of superhero tv but it's been a while since i i dove in i think the marvel disney plus stuff yeah kind of like broke my it kind of broke me on try wonder man i like wonder man yeah wonder man was cool

37:14Tim Gettys:wonder man was totally different energy like yeah completely different but it was cool that brought

37:18Greg Miller:me back a bit yeah um and also i like daredevil i love the netflix stuff and i like what they're

37:22Tim Gettys:doing currently with daredevil i think season two is going to be i'm hoping season two is a step up because it's going to be like they got their shit together yeah because the first season was them trying to like do their own thing but then they were like no we need more of the old team back so it's kind of like a mishmash yeah apparently season two is going to be way more like cohesive

37:36Greg Miller:consistent and i'm excited i hope so because season one even knowing that like they had kind of that weird stuff it was still still pretty good entertaining yeah um actually you know what i'm looking forward to though punisher i love punisher on netflix yeah i feel like that one wasn't one that got as much like praise as the other stuff yeah i'm curious i hope they bring

37:52Tim Gettys:back uh jigsaw i like that actor oh yeah and i thought they kind of like did him dirty in season two so i would love to see them like continue to do that that's how i feel about is his name

38:01Greg Miller:boomerang the guy who throws things in daredevil oh uh bullseye bullseye yes they brought him back yeah i don't want to get into spoilers you know this is episode one but they bring him back and I feel like we kind of moved past him pretty quickly. And I'm like, I like this character.

38:12Tim Gettys:Yeah. And he was so great in season three. He was crazy. And nobody watched season three. And I was like, season three was the best. It's the best season of that. Yes, exactly.

38:20Jake Baldino:Him and Kingpin fucking kill it. So good.

38:23Greg Miller:I might be the only person that watched both Jessica Jones all three seasons and Iron Fist season two. Oh, nice. And let me tell you, y 'all didn't give Iron Fist season two a shot. And I understand it. Season one was terrible. I get it. Season two, I'm not saying it was that good, but it was getting better. That's all I'm going to say.

38:41Jake Baldino:You're telling me there were three seasons of Jessica Jones? There were three seasons of Jessica Jones.

38:46Greg Miller:And I watched it all. The only one of those I didn't get around to, and I probably still could, is Luke Cage season two. I think that might have been the last one. I forgot they made a season two. I liked season one. I loved season one, but season two came out and I think that was around the time where everybody had already given up on it and I was like, okay, well, I'm not going to waste my time watching a season of TV that I'm not going to get anything out of.

39:07Tim Gettys:But they're all coming back, maybe. the rumors are saying that like danny rand's gonna show up in daredevil so why not oh really

39:12Greg Miller:yeah interesting yeah why i don't know that's hilarious good for them um and then i'll bring in a couple more super chats right jigglypuff tutorials writes in and says is the dark souls review still happening blessed listen that's a good question it's been like we're in march i beat that game early january i don't know if i could act i don't know if i could give you a good review of Dark Souls right now, but I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you the best I can in the next 10 seconds. All right, here we go. Dark Souls is a fantastic video game. That's my review. Put it on the box. Put it on the box.

39:45Greg Miller:That's it. Quote it. Relevant. I'm sure we'll do an episode because we have a lot. We have the top 100 coming up later this year. I feel like Dark Souls will be a topic of conversation, so stay tuned for that. And then one more from JBC who says, Nintendo Orchestra tonight at Grace Cathedral for GDC. Really exciting.

40:03Tim Gettys:Oh, I didn't even, I wasn't even aware of that. That's cool. I love video game music in person.

40:07Greg Miller:What's your, oh, in person? Yeah, it's so great. What, do you have like a favorite concert that you've been to? Metal Gear. There was a Metal Gear concert? Oh yeah, Metal Gear in concert. Incredible. That's awesome. Incredible. That's fucking cool. My favorite one, and this is going to be very stereotypical to me, Sonic the Hedgehog. It was a Sonic the Hedgehog. That wasn't too long ago, right? No, it was maybe like, maybe like two years ago. Okay, yeah. I remember you, that was a big deal for you. It was a big deal. So me, Roger, and Tim went together. Yeah. Oh, my God. Some of the most fun I've had with them.

40:34Greg Miller:That's great. Fantastic time.

40:35Tim Gettys:Expedition 33, they have a European tour that is sold out. And they just added, like, two more in Europe. Sold out instantly. I am waiting for them to announce something for the U.S. They got to. Because I'm going to do, like, the Ticketmaster, like, day one, like, locked in. Like, I'm buying sneakers. Like, I'm getting it right away. Front row. I'm going to be there.

40:53Greg Miller:1 ,000%. But also, I bet you the Claire of Skir concert in France probably goes crazy. It probably hits. That probably is, like, they're probably mosh-pitting in there. you're probably going crazy let's move on to story number two pocket pair suggests a decade of continuous massive updates is probably not on the cards but teases it wouldn't rule out a power world 2 uh this is from vicky blake at ign power 2.0 i should say they say a 0.0 which is important power developer pocket pair has revealed that while it accepts the survival games most devoted fans may want a decade of continuous massive updates there's only so many times you can add in new levels and content before the game gets bloated.

41:30Greg Miller:And that's a quote. Quote, a lot of our hardcore fans and players would love for Power World to be this No Man's Sky situation where it's like a decade of continuous massive updates. But realistically, that's probably not on the cards for Power World, not only because of engine limitations, but also it's a survival crafting game. It's publishing head John Buckley. He told GamesRadar Plus, quote, I think there's only so many times you can add five levels, add 10 levels until it gets to this massive bloat point. Even World of Warcraft had that stat squish years ago. He added, Power World is linear progression.

42:03Greg Miller:I think if Power World didn't have that progression, you could do it forever like No Man's Sky, but it's going to have to stop at some point, and then we can think about what comes after, and that's exciting for us. He also stressed that with the long-awaited 1.0 release on the way, quote, greatly expanding the content at some point, it could feel like a chore to play, especially for newer or more casual players. Quote, how much more can you stretch that until it gets to the point where more casual players feel like it's a chore? That's where it gets tricky with 2.0. And we get into the big debate of do you continue to expand Power World and find a way to mitigate those problems?

42:37Greg Miller:Or do you start thinking about, I won't say the word because I don't want to speak it into existence, something beyond Power World? End quote. Buckley did, however, tease that he wouldn't rule out a Power World 2.0. Quote, I wouldn't rule out a Power World 2.0. It really depends on what we can do with the game at the moment. how we can expand it without it feeling boring not only boring but how we can expand it while also being approachable we still have to start thinking about what comes next eventually and

43:04Tim Gettys:whoa there you go i appreciate the transparency like i'm glad that they're being kind of up front with it because i do feel like they're at a crossroads now where they could go either the kind of like an arc survival evolved where it's just like the game existed for or rust you know just existed forever and they kept adding to it they can do that even though they're saying like stat squish and stuff i think they can really squeeze a lot of juice and length out of this one yeah or they go the complete opposite other way and i've gotten the sense from pocket pair just like from hearing about them and like i think they're starting to uh dive into publishing yeah uh so i feel like they do want more so i wouldn't be like this makes sense if they want to eventually piggyback up from pal world also you probably kind of want to like you got your success now you kind of want to unshackle yourself from nintendo wanting to kill you and try and make something else with all the money you made.

43:53Greg Miller:It does make me think about Power World 2.0 and what that is. Do you double down? Do you keep making pals that look exactly like Pokemon? Do you try to change the art style a little bit? The double down would be funny. Double down would be hilarious. Didn't they do another thing that was basically Animal Crossing? I might have to look into it.

44:13Tim Gettys:Or just add more guns and more Pokemon animal slavery. like yeah that's what that game after a while you're like wait are we just like putting these things to work this is kind of oh yeah but oh yeah but people people like the game and like the all the like weird shit you can do in it so they could totally keep tripling and doubling down

44:30Greg Miller:and yeah at 2.0 could be pretty sick you know pocket pair is a is a weird company to me because like i very much like the the fact that the the pal designs look so close to pokemon to me yeah To the point where I look at that and I'm like, that's just Lucario. You can call it Anubis or whatever you call it now. But that's Lucario. Yeah. Right? It's ridiculous. There's a lot of stuff in there that very much toes the line of this is basically plagiarism. Yeah. And I've always given them the side eye for that. But outside of that, they seem like a really cool company. Yeah. You know? Like, you talk about them publishing games.

45:06Greg Miller:And if you go to their page on Wikipedia for, like, the games published by Pocket Pair, like, they published Dead Take.

45:13Tim Gettys:Yeah.

45:13Greg Miller:That was a really cool game. It came from the homie Abu.

45:16Tim Gettys:Yeah. That's an industry game, essentially. You're not into that unless you're a nerd paying attention in this field. Yes. They have that passion, clearly, if they're publishing something like that.

45:28Greg Miller:That, Cassette Boy, as well. And they have a handful of other smaller games that they're publishing. Them talking here about their ethos around this, I think they're 100 % right. How many games have I played where GTA Online will be my example, even though it's an infinitely successful game but GTA Online is my example of a game that I was so into GTA Online I was logging in daily I was doing the heist I was locked in forever and nowadays I log back into GTA Online I'm like I don't know what I'm doing yeah there's so much bloat here and like that works for them because they have a built-in install base of players that are going to keep coming back and they know how to extract money from that thing yeah but when you're playing this live service game yeah after a while there will be bloat that does alienate certain categories of players.

46:08Greg Miller:So I think it is a smart thing to go, hey, before we get there, let's put out a Power World 2 or theoretically maybe put out a Power World 2 and not try to, you know, try to make this thing last longer than it needs to last. We're not going to milk this thing.

46:20Tim Gettys:Yeah, and it's also like a, you know, walking the tightrope of goodwill because you don't want to lose people. You know, you have the people, like a GTA Online is a perfect example where you still have people, like I know people that have been playing that for 10 years straight. And then you have people like you who played it a lot, you fell out, you come back, you're like, what is this? so it's like how do you still keep both of those people as customers so to speak so that's a tricky tightrope but i'm glad that they're just being upfront about it yeah that's that's big like transparency in this industry and just like even just like this is what we're kind of thinking like that that still goes a long way like when fans hear just something like that just a vague inkling

46:56Greg Miller:of what they're thinking that helps let's move on to story number three acclaimed rpg chained echoes creator is suing its publisher because its physical edition still isn't here two years later I'm pulling from Chris Gullion at Video Games Chronicle. The creator of critically acclaimed RPG Chained Echoes says he's suing the company that was supposed to release the physical edition of the game. The 16-bit inspired RPG's Kickstarter campaign was launched in February 2019 and easily surpassed its funding goal, with more than 4 ,500 backers pledging€130 ,409 to fund the game's release. The digital edition of the game was released in December 2022, with a physical edition set to be released later by First Press Games.

47:35Greg Miller:In an update posted in June 2024, the game's creator, Matthias Linda, told backers that the physical version of the game was approved by Sony and Nintendo at the end of 2023, and that the physical editions would eventually be released later in 2024. However, in a new update posted today, Linda informed backers that he has still only received the standard PS4 edition, and that none of the other 13 products, including regular, retro, and collector's editions across PS4, Switch, and PC, as well as a Japanese-themed Switch version and CD soundtrack, have been released. Well, it's been a bit over two years since the physical versions were supposed to be released by First Press Games, and so far in 2026, nothing has arrived except the regular PS4 edition, Linda wrote to his backers.

48:20Greg Miller:Quote, because of that, I had to make a decision. I am terminating my business relationship with FPG and I am preparing a lawsuit. This decision wasn't easy and came after careful consideration. Please understand that for legal reasons, I cannot go into further details, end quote. Linda says Kickstarter backers have two options. They can either keep their pledge and wait for him to produce a new physical edition with a different publisher or they can get a refund. Crazy story here.

48:47Tim Gettys:It's a shame. It's a shame for most people involved, for the backers who purchased something, they were promised something, they want something. And then also this developer who thought they got into a good business deal, and at least from how it seems like it's shaking out, they were taken advantage of, kicked around, and that's a shame because, you know, you only have some, when you're a small developer, you only have so many shots, and this could have been his biggest shot. And it was partially squandered because of this physical deal. Like, that's such a shame.

49:17Greg Miller:For a game that's very highly regarded. Yeah, I don't know too much about it. I only booted it up for a little bit just to check it out because I remember when it launched, it felt like this was a possible Game of the Year contender situation, at least for the JRPG fans or people who like the classics. Is it a retro style JRPG? It's a retro style JRPG, great art style, and I know people who loved Chained Echoes. And so when you got something that's like, this is catching fire, you don't want something like the physical additions to, you know, to fumble. Like, you know, you want to get this game into people's hands.

49:48Tim Gettys:Especially when it's good enough. Like, there's demand where people want the cool additions. Like, they want a physical, but they want, like, all these fun versions of this game because they like the game enough. The game is that good. Yeah. To squander that sucks ass.

49:59Greg Miller:100%.

50:00Tim Gettys:For lack of a better word.

50:01Greg Miller:So, hope you figure this out. You know, good luck to the developer. And let's close out with story number four. A LEGO PlayStation is reportedly coming later this year. This is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle. A LEGO recreation of the original Sony PlayStation is reportedly on the way. That's according to Instagram user LEGO Minecraft Goat, who has a lengthy track record of leaking upcoming LEGO sets and their pricing. According to the Insider, the LEGO PS1 will be released in December, and it will be aimed at adult collectors, much like LEGO's other console-themed sets. The cell will reportedly cost$159.99 and will consist of 1 ,911 pieces, including at least the console and one controller.

50:41Greg Miller:That isn't as many as the LEGO Atari 2600, which was 2 ,532 pieces, or the LEGO NES, which was 2 ,646 pieces, though the former did include three other models based on classic Atari games, and the latter included a television playing Super Mario Brothers, so it's likely that the PS1 will at least be similar in size to the base consoles in those sets. Are you a Lego person? Pack it up.

51:06Tim Gettys:Wrap it up. That's it. I'm in. I'm like day one pre-order. Yeah, I did the Game Boy, the original Game Boy one recently. Yeah. Loved it. Really? I got my friend the NES one for Christmas. It was awesome to see that come together. I'm like a casual Lego guy, like only here and there, because I only have so much space. Lego are expensive and then also when you're finished with it like if you don't have room for it what do you do? What do you do with this? But like I very tactically choose like which ones I'm going to do and PlayStation that's easy. I would love to see accessories though because again not the most pieces and then it's also you know it's a square console it's pretty like pretty straightforward.

51:40Tim Gettys:What's your go-to accessory

51:41Greg Miller:that you would choose for this?

51:42Tim Gettys:Multitap. Oh that's good. That would be cool. Multitap, memory card like it'd be fun if they had like a like you know like the off-brand ones like the clear plastic blue memory card. something like that that would be good i love just little little extras like that but i'm curious to see if they do the thing that they did with like uh uh the nintendo stuff where they have like a game what game would they include that's the big question like if there was a lego playstation one like they're suggesting what would be the game i mean if like because they would probably pack in two games right crash oh are we talking about licensing crash bandicoot yeah it does of course

52:15Greg Miller:yeah because like if we're if we're throwing out licensing yeah there are three options i think Final Fantasy 7, Crash Bandicoot, or Metal Gear Solid. But if we're talking, if it has to be a Sony thing, because they're partnering with Sony on this. Ape Escape. I was going to say Ape Escape.

52:32Tim Gettys:Ape Escape would bang. Do weird shit. Do like Jet Moto. Jet Moto 2.

52:38Greg Miller:Give me Brave Fancy Musashi.

52:40Tim Gettys:There you go. Yeah, exactly.

52:42Greg Miller:People are like, what is this? I don't remember this game.

52:44Tim Gettys:That would be awesome. That would be good. I would be in.

52:46Greg Miller:I want the PS2. That's my thing. is like i'm i actually i'm not i'm not a lego person at all i don't hate legos except for like when they do lego characters i think they look weird yeah like they do like the nintendo like oh here's donkey kong but like the curves are in the wrong place i don't i don't like how they look but you don't trust them i don't trust them so that's the only time where i'm like okay i'm anti lego here other than that i don't really care uh that said i love a ps2 yeah and so like if you were to give me a like that plus see now we're getting into what game because then i'm like Give me Shadow of the Colossus.

53:19Greg Miller:Yeah, that's my first thought, Shadow of the Colossus. But then at that point, it's like, also give me a buildable Colossus. That's what I started to get to. And make it a Bionicle.

53:27Tim Gettys:Like, let's just go all the way. From the island of Mata Nui itself. Exactly. That's great. Yeah, I'm excited for this. So put me in, coach. I'll take one. I love that. One please, definitely.

53:38Greg Miller:Well, Jake, you really wanted to get your hands on this Lego set. That's big news. Yes. That's huge news. Yes. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

53:48Tim Gettys:You'd go to our last story, the Wii News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Absolutely nailed it. Proud of you.

53:55Greg Miller:Story number five is Wii News. Fortnite Save the World is going free to play on April 16th. Crazy. PlayStation Plus Premium slash Extra Games for March 2026 have been announced. For Extra, you're getting Warhammer 40K, Space Marine 2. Good. You're getting Madden NFL 26. Mid. You're getting proof. Damn, really? I just don't like football. I was like, was it this specific matter or is it just matter in general? Persona 5 Royal. Mid. No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

54:22Jake Baldino:I'm kidding. Both Blessing and I were about to jump you right there.

54:25Greg Miller:Remember what I explained to you before that I was going to do the handshake so don't get scared if I like. Now you're going to actually come get me. If you were going to stain on that, then I would have actually leaped it. You would have had to actually be scared. Blasphemous 2. Hell yeah. No opinion. Do I keep it going? Yeah, just keep it going. Great. Metal Eden. What? Metal Eden. You don't know about that one? No. I think that's a first-person Doom-like game, but it's like futuristic. Oh, hell yeah. Maybe like a little bit Cyberpunk vibes.

54:51Tim Gettys:Boomer shooter? Yeah.

54:53Greg Miller:Lord of the Rings Return to Moria. 100%. And then what kind of game is that?

54:57Tim Gettys:It's like the mining one.

54:59Greg Miller:Yeah, it's good. And then Astroneer. I don't know about this one. I think that's like a No Man's Sky type game if it's the one I'm thinking of.

55:07Jake Baldino:This is Metal Eden, by the way.

55:10Greg Miller:Oh. Yeah, so this is a cutscene. if we get into gameplay it's oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean this game always looked cool to me but it came and went a little bit yeah so i never got a chance to try it out but it looks really cool totally powerful and then for premium you're getting tekken dark resurrection which for me i'll put that as a thumbs up it's good right there definitely more news for you ncsoft has acquired a 70 stake in germany based mobile developer just play temtem project down below has been announced and moon ladder 2's greed and glory update is now available and that is it for we news let's hop back into super chats see what people are saying uh jet 244 says quick shout out to skate season 3 dropping yesterday it replaced spider-man as my go-to chill podcast time locomotion gameplay uh this month there you go did you ever pick up skate a little bit yeah

55:59Tim Gettys:uh it was hard for me to get into the new one unfortunately yeah but i've been hearing good things about season three so maybe it'll be the time hell yeah finally hopefully they they bring

56:08Greg Miller:it back uh zeke zeke speak writes in and says blessing don't forget you're gonna play all the bionicle games on stream remember and read aloud some steamy ao3 bionicle fanfic you promised first of all zeke speak i never promised that secondly i didn't even know that ao3 bionicle fanfic existed that's you know you learn something what does that consist of they're just putting their parts together like you don't want to know like how does that even i don't gotta ask them i can't even imagine what that looks like um big kurz md says the first game the first press games lawsuit is a good step but anyone who bought direct uh not kickstarter are left out in the cold and get no compensation that is in uh regards to the lawsuit we were talking about earlier that's no way now chained echoes yeah um oscar navarro says you guys should look into pickmon it was just announced and seems to be ripping off both Pokemon and Power World, if you can believe it.

57:03Greg Miller:Not Pikmin? If you can look up Pikmon, it's P-I-C-K-M-O-N. I'm curious on what this looks like. Yeah, definitely.

57:11Tim Gettys:I want to know what's going on with that, because why not?

57:14Greg Miller:Yeah, you know, just a chain of plagiarism. Yeah. I love it.

57:18Jake Baldino:The developer is called Pocket Game.

57:20Greg Miller:Oh, my God. That's really good. Yeah, this just looks like Power World.

57:26Tim Gettys:And that's Link. Is that Pikachu? That's just straight up Link. the fact that it's pocket game the developer too that's like a quadruple piss take like it's just that looks like a that looks not like a pokemon that looks like a pal world pokemon y 'all are gonna make nintendo crash out yeah this is this is like nintendo you're gonna push them

57:46Greg Miller:to the edge and they're gonna like they're gonna go buck wild and all between yeah between this and

57:50Tim Gettys:then just like ai ripoffs like they're just gonna go crazy like they've already started

57:54Greg Miller:doing the government like it's yeah it's crazy don't yeah we got one more from google monster truck who says shout out jake and that's pretty much it fun i like that pretty much it i like that thank you um that's so funny we got a separate one actually from ejr rpg g e j rpg who writes in and says if you think pals are copies wait until you see pikmon which we just saw yeah um scorpion brew says jake you're awesome i've been watching game ranks since 2018 i love your content

58:22Tim Gettys:Thank you. Wow. What took you so long? We've been around for longer than... No, I'm kidding. No, thank you. 2018? That's great. I'm glad we can help. Honestly, that's it.

58:29Greg Miller:Allday Wong10 says, Big shout out to Jake on KF and Pokemon first-geners. Love the bless slash Jake combo and Barrett behind the scenes. Made by day. Love me some video games. Pizza on me. See ya.

58:41Tim Gettys:This is good. Your sign off, right? Yep. Pizza on me.

58:45Greg Miller:And then I think that might be it for Super Chats. I'm doing one more scroll. Oh, we got one at the very beginning of the show. uh this one is from goldfish boy who says last year i set i set my remind let me say again last year i set a reminder on my phone for today to remind bless to get his badge for gdc you're welcome bless i've done my duty here's the thing goldfish boy you're too late uh next year i need you to look at like what the gdc dates are in fact they're already out i think it's march 1st hit me up like the last day of february because i thought i had i thought i had requested a gdc badge i don't think i did and so i looked at my emails as the week was coming up and i was like all right let's see if i'm gonna what i'm gonna do for gdc maybe i'll go to the wars or something yeah just nothing in my emails wow and so i definitely forgot to tell greg or something yeah because i looked at roger i was like roger like did greg forget to do our thing and roger's like no i have a gdc badge and so i'm like oh well you're blessing just walk in and be like i am the mayor of video games you would think yeah but last year last year i tried to go to the gdc awards and they're like who are you and like because i had i think i had like requested as media or whatever like they had like a media section yeah i was like oh yeah okay i'll do that turns out you still need a badge no matter what you still need a gdc badge and so like i'm wait really yeah oh oh not i guess oh no jake did i make the same mistake as you oh no

1:00:09Jake Baldino:all right it's quick to point out this is very much a snow bike mic move by the way less for you to just like kind of show up and just assume like i'm good right and then you're not i

1:00:17Greg Miller:need to double check because greg will usually put up a thing like months ago or whatever it is like all right who wants a gdc badge and so we reply to greg and then greg will reach out and then we'll make it happen right um i need to go back and see if i replied to greg because in my head i thought i did but the fact that i don't have an email i don't think greg's greg usually doesn't slip up like that yeah and so it's probably a me thing but i want to double check because there's a small chance you know i can shift blame here it's a great all i'm saying is i don't remember uh being

1:00:44Jake Baldino:reached out to you for a gdc uh badge as well i feel like it's usually like a slack thing like a general slack well if you guys are uh you know uh catch me literally outside gdc because they

1:00:55Greg Miller:won't let me that's so funny because yeah literally like it was me talking to the guy being like well i'm in media like here's the email yeah they're like that's what i have yeah and they're like well we need a badge or whatever because like it's like a security measure okay you can't just let anybody and i'm like well here's the email and then um it was so funny because it was it got to the point where they started calling other people they're like oh well you know let's call our manager over here like it kept escalating and i'm there for probably like 20 minutes and you're just like to the point where i'm like it's not that serious i can go somewhere else but they're already getting the people and other people are walking in like josh sawyer the the man who made

1:01:29Tim Gettys:fallout new vegas yeah legend yeah hey what's up man anyway i'm going in i'll see you inside He walks back and says, hey, what's up?

1:01:35Greg Miller:And I was like, oh, what's up, man? He's like, you coming inside? And I was like, yeah. We'll see, Josh Sawyer. Famous Josh Sawyer. It was a whole thing. That's going to happen to me now. Yeah, that might be you this year. All right. Jake, we're going to close out the show with kindoffunny.com slash you're wrong. That's where people write in. They 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 podcast services around the globe. Kabal strikes in with a missed wee news. This is a good one. I almost put this in yesterday, but I was waiting for a little bit more to come out.

1:02:05Greg Miller:SAG-AFTRA has ordered a do not work order on the upcoming Mega Man dual override game announced at Game Awards. I saw this and I was like, what's the context? There was no context when I first saw this put up, get put out. I then saw a follow up from the person who was going to voice act in this game say that they're no longer going to voice act because Capcom or the team that's doing Mega Man, dual override, wanted him to work under the condition of not having the protections of a union contract. That's brutal. Super brutal.

1:02:36Tim Gettys:For twofold, because number one, you have like a gig of a lifetime and you're so excited. And then also like, yeah, Japan and like, a lot of them are like, they don't fuck with the union thing. Yeah. And it's, yeah. Man. Hopefully that voice actor can find another cool gig though. Yeah. You know? hopefully this gets settled in some way yeah definitely like i'll it'd be cool if they were to reverse this but yeah i don't know how i don't know how flexible companies are yeah in regards to this i mean at the very least like hopefully it doesn't delay megaman forever like hopefully they can get this all figured out yeah and we'll see we shall see and then we have one more from

1:03:14Greg Miller:kebabs who says uh there hasn't been a new pokemon movie since 2020's secrets of the jungle which is the third movie in an alternate universe trilogy where ash goes on a completely different journey after spotting ho-o on his first day there were 19 movies in the original anime continuity before that and four tv specials but i thought the remake of pokemon the first movie was like after 2020

1:03:34Tim Gettys:i guess that doesn't count because it's not new it's not canon i mean if we're doing alternate universes now in metaverse like what if ash had a gun i mean that's basically power world yeah

1:03:44Greg Miller:and it's great yeah people love it so just more of that nintendo well like i can imagine the squint in nintendo's eye when they announced power world the first movie and then follow up with power world 2000 and they're like it's not even 2000 like like you guys are copying us so much there's an evil mewtwo in power world the first movie that's like making all the pokemon fight each other or the pals he's all biceps though not thighs exactly all by all up it's like bro you got it you cannot skip leg day bro you got you cannot skip leg day jake thank you so much for joining me on this episode of kfcd it's been so wonderful to finally like i have a one-on-one it was great piece of content with you just vibing this is good let's do it again sometime yeah and

1:04:20Tim Gettys:and barrett everybody involved like it's great thank you for the opportunity thank you to your community for even humoring me being on here yep i this is this is awesome what's a piece of content that people should check out if they're watching or listening to this oh uh right now uh youtube.com slash game ranks tv we just put out the before you buy for toxic commando nice i'm proud of that one i spent a lot of time on that one uh and then also on my channel youtube.com slash jake baldino today i'm putting up a video i still haven't done a spoiler video for resident evil 9 i'm cooking on that but i'm doing a video that's just yapping about the future of resident evil like it sold five million copies the dlc like what's next for the franchise so check that

1:04:55Greg Miller:out on my channel that's awesome also somebody asked in in chat jordan in chat says uh did roger finally get to meet jake it was great i got to witness it my heart like dropped like i was like Oh, there he is. Can you tell the quick story behind Roger and Jake Baldino?

1:05:11Tim Gettys:Roger, we knew Roger through pretty much it. Yeah. Yeah, he watched pretty much it. And he was an OG fan and he was out there. And he was great. And then I kind of ended up becoming like a fan of him. He would do his own content. He dabbled in a bunch of different things over the years. But I always just kind of liked what he did. I liked his vibe. I liked his mindset, his approach to content. And then he ended up here. He had a long journey here too. But he ended up here. And yeah, we've always like almost met up and it's always been like my biggest regret of my life. And now we are finally united.

1:05:41Tim Gettys:Yeah. And he is great in real life.

1:05:43Jake Baldino:And if you want to see stuff with both Roger and Jake, you could always check out the kind of funny screencast Better Call Saul review.

1:05:51Tim Gettys:Yeah, that's right. That was my that was the first kind of funny collab, I think. Which is crazy. Which is awesome.

1:05:57Jake Baldino:Like I feel bad that like I was a part of your first kind of funny collaboration.

1:06:01Tim Gettys:No, not at all. No, it was great. You guys are great. i wouldn't have any like greg tim overrated this is this is hell yeah this is the group i'm talking

1:06:09Greg Miller:about is the real kind of funny right here um and yeah shout out roger roger i think is an example of somebody who was like destined to make it you know what i mean like you talk about you being a fan of him kind of funny i know was a fan of roger from like his video he's just got a good like

1:06:24Tim Gettys:like creative eye yeah like he's got a good mind good creative good creative mind for sure and i

1:06:28Greg Miller:remember watching his video essays uh back in the day too yeah like you would do like like like rap albums and stuff too yeah it was incredible super creative dude shout out roger and also shout out jake balde you know thank you again for joining us on kind of funny games daily of course if you love what we do support us with a kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show we got a bigger games cast coming up after this because me and mike are doing a march madness bracket we're deciding the best video game sequel of all time oh that's fun have you seen the bracket no bracket's insane i'm gonna show you

1:07:00Jake Baldino:after this i mean i think to just tease it for the live audience i think i can bring it up

1:07:07Greg Miller:so oh i put i put out a poll to the audience asking them what the best video game sequel was i compiled a lot of the most popular answers uh and then me and mike decided on some of the um later entries where there was no consensus i then seeded it by uh metacritic score and divided the four regions into modern games hd games memory card and then the classics just based off of years released yeah and uh we got some crazy matchups we got red dead redemption 2 versus near automata we got um allen way 2 versus hades 2 is gonna be a fun one the entire hd section

1:07:43Jake Baldino:all of it yeah god i'm looking at kingdom hearts 2 versus halo 2 in the first round like did you

1:07:49Greg Miller:do that just to fuck with mike no that's metacritic that was all this is all the metacritic uh seating soul caliber 2 versus smash melee is going to be tough soul caliber soul caliber 2

1:07:58Tim Gettys:is incredible also silent hill 2 resident evil 2 that's crazy that's not that's hard for me personally it's resident evil 2 yeah and i'm not mentioning metal gear solid 2 because i think the first one is better but damn that's that's fine i'm also i mean that's not crazy so no it's not

1:08:13Greg Miller:crazy yeah i mean any metal gear is one of those ones where any metal gear could be your favorite metal gear and it's like yeah let me yeah let's do a whole podcast about that let's do it come back Literally fly back. We'll do that podcast. Lock it in. Well, until next time, Game Daily. Great episode.

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